Brethren, it's so good to be
here with you. I'm very thankful to be here.
And thankful to you, Darwin. And I love you and I appreciate
you very much. Thankful the Lord sent you a
faithful wife. And thankful that he provided
them for you all that are members of this congregation. It's a
dear gift the Lord's given you. And I'm thankful for that. I
pray today the Lord be pleased to really teach us and make us
hear in our heart. That's the only way we're going
to hear. And I pray that's what He'll do. Let's turn in our Bibles
to Psalm 132. Psalm 132. Now in the first half
of this Psalm, Solomon is dedicating the temple to God and he's praying. And in the first half of this
psalm, he asks God to remember the covenant that he made with
David. So that's the setting. Solomon's
dedicating the temple he built, praying to God, and he asks God
to remember David, particularly the covenant he made to David. And here's God's answer in the
latter half of this psalm. Verse 11. The Lord hath sworn
in truth unto David. He will not turn from it. God
cannot lie. He will not lie. He swore in
truth to David. He will not turn from it. Of
the fruit of thy body will I sit upon thy throne. But God gave
a condition. Now listen. God gave a condition.
Verse 12. If thy children will keep my
covenant and my testimony. If thy children will keep my
covenant and my testimony, that I shall teach them, their children
shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore. And we're going
to come back to verse 12 and focus on this a little bit. Let's
read the rest. He said, Because the Lord hath
chosen Zion, he hath desired it for his habitation. This is
my rest forever. Here will I dwell for I have
desired it. Solomon asked God to enter into
his rest and God said, this is my habitation. This is my rest
forever. Here will I dwell for I have
desired it. Solomon asked God to clothe her
priests and make us shout with joy. God promised to do it, but
He added two things. Look here at verse 15. I will
abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with
bread. I will also clothe her priests
with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There
will I make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp
for mine anointing. His enemies will I clothe with
shame, but upon himself shall his crown flourish. I preached
from this psalm Wednesday night and Thursday morning on the way
to the airport. Brother Adam said to me, he said,
when you preached from that last night, he said, I was very, very
eager to hear what you had to say on that condition God made. I wanted to hear what you had
to say on verse 12. And that got me to thinking maybe
I should focus a little more on that verse. Look there in
verse 12. If thy children will keep my
covenant and my testimony, my covenant and my testimony that
I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
forevermore. You know, several places in Scripture,
God speaks about God's covenant and God's testimony. You're familiar
with Isaiah 8, 20. Speaking of preachers, it says,
to the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. To the law,
that's the covenant. To the law and to the testimony. God's covenant is his law. That's the covenant, God's law.
That law God gave at Sinai is a covenant. That's God's law. And God's testimony is God's
witness. It's God's record. It's what
God teaches concerning what that law says. He said there, if thy
children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall
teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore.
So I want to speak on this subject of God's testimony and God's
covenant. I'm sorry, God's covenant and
God's testimony. God's covenant and God's testimony. When God gave the covenant at
Sinai, God gave this same conditional promise. He said, if you will
obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then ye shall be
a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. He said, and you
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. And all the people answered together.
And they said, all that the Lord has spoken, we will do. All that God has spoken is law,
we will do. Around 20 years ago, it became
popular to hear men and religion refer to themselves as promise
keepers. That became very popular. And
most people, when they were saying that, what they were saying was,
all that the Lord had spoken in his law, we will do. Or that we have done. That's
what they were saying. The carnal mind only minds the
carnal. The carnal mind only minds the
carnal. Only sees with these eyes, hears
with these eyes, these ears, feels with this flesh, and only
understands the law in the letter. Only understand the law in the
letter. Whenever they saw God raise up
Solomon, knowing what God had promised, the carnal children
of Israel thought, God's doing this for us because we've kept
His law. And every time God would give a king, and do something
good for us where they think God's doing this for us because
we kept His law. And if they were chastened by
God, their thought was, well, we just need to do the law and
we'll fix that. We'll correct that. We'll just
do the law. The other day, one of my brethren came up and he
said, he was talking to some folks in the denomination that
the Lord saved him out of. And the guy said, the law, the
purpose of God's law, the Ten Commandments, is to sanctify
us. And he said, it's by this law
that we make ourselves to differ from other people in this world.
That's what shows us to be different. That's exactly what Paul said.
the natural Jews were doing. In Ephesians 2, he said the uncircumcision
or the circumcision in the flesh, the natural Jew was using the
law and it stirred up enmity in their heart against those
Gentile dogs. And they said, we're not like
them. We're better than them because we keep the law. Now,
that's exactly what carnal men think. That's what I thought.
That's what you thought. That's what the carnal man thinks.
God must teach his child in spirit. God must teach us in spirit. God must bear witness. He must bear testimony and he
must do it in the heart. That's the only way we're going
to have the counsel and understanding to understand God's covenant. That's the only way. That's the
only way we hear the law and have counsel and understanding.
There are no wise and prudent in Christ's church. There are
none. Now there may be some come and
go. And they want to debate and argue doctrine, but there are
no wise and prudent in Christ's church. This is what Paul said
in 1 Corinthians 1. God said, I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise. I will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent. That's what he did for you that
he's taught. That's what he's done for me. I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise and the understanding of the proof. Where's the wise?
Where's the scribe? Where's the disputer, the debater?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? After that,
in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased
God to say, by the foolishness of preaching. Why? So that God
might be the teacher. God has to bear witness. He has
to give the testimony and teach his people in the heart or we
never understand what this book says. And that's what God has
promised to do. I want to show you three things.
I want to show you here what God testifies in the heart of
his child concerning us before the law. I want to declare to
you what God testifies in the heart concerning Christ and that
law. And I want to declare to you
what God testifies in the heart concerning his sure and precious
promises in and by Christ. First of all, God creates a new
spirit and God becomes the teacher in the heart. He begins to teach
us in spirit. He becomes he begins to bear
witness and testify in our heart. And this is what he's going to
declare to us. This is what he declared to you
and me. This is what Brother Larry was talking about last
night. He declares to you. You have broken the entire law
of God. Before that, we were like the
Apostle Paul. He said, I was alive without
the law once. He thought he was keeping the
law. He said, when I was a Pharisee as touching the law, I was blameless.
And he said, when the commandment came, when the Lord Jesus met
him on the road to Damascus and the commandment came, Christ
spoke into his heart and said, Saul, Saul, why art thou persecuting
me? When he said that, and Paul was
made to behold the Lord Jesus Christ, he said, I died. Everything
I thought was good, I saw was nothing but sin. Just painted
up, vile, dirty sins is all they were. All my law keeping. You
know, when Moses came from that Mount Sinai with the law, those
very ones that said all that the Lord said we will do, they
were already worshiping an idol. But the fact is, long before
that, in the garden they already broke the law, and so did you,
and so did I. And God has to teach us. He has to testify in our hearts,
declaring, you have broken the law in Adam. And here's something
else God's going to have to teach us, and He never stops teaching
His child this. After He calls you to faith in
Christ, you have not obeyed the law of God yourself. If you break
one law, you break them all. And of ourselves, we have never
ever kept the law of God. You want, I want, and no sinner
born of Adam ever will. Not one. Every child of Adam
has broken the law, and we broke it in Adam. Therefore, by the
deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. That's why God gave it, to give
us a knowledge of our sin. But God has to teach us and He
has to testify in our heart before we'll hear Him. Wouldn't it be
wonderful today if the Lord testified in the heart of some lost sinner
today for the first time and made them know, you need Christ. That's why we're here, brethren.
I pray, I have and I do, I pray the Lord would call out one of
His lost sheep, make you know You need Christ. You've broken
the whole law. Secondly, God must testify in
our hearts that the whole volume of the book, the whole law declares
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the righteousness of God.
He is righteousness. We're not preaching righteousness
as just a doctrine. Christ is righteousness. He is the perfection of the law. That's who he is. And he is the
righteousness God provided for his people and the only righteousness
God will accept. You can't be accepted of God
anywhere but in the Lord Jesus. appearing out of Psalm 132, 11. The Lord has sworn in truth unto
David. He will not turn from it. Of
the fruit of thy body will I sit upon thy throne. Long before
God gave the Lord Sinai, Long before God even saved Abraham,
long before God created this world, God chose His Son, the
Lord Jesus, to be the Lord in Christ. He chose Him. He anointed
Him to be both Lord in Christ, to save His people from our sin. And when God made that promise
to David, He was declaring, Christ is coming through your lineage,
David. It's why God didn't destroy Judah.
because the line of the tribe of Judah was coming through that
tribe. It's why God preserved David's house, because Christ
was coming through his lineage. And David knew this. If you look
over to Acts chapter 2, David knew this. Peter stood up on
the day of Pentecost, and this is exactly what he declared. Acts 2 and verse 30. He said, Let's look at verse 29. Men and
brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David.
He's both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto
this day. Therefore, being a prophet and
knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit
of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ
to sit on his throne. He, seeing this before, spake
of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in
hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God
raised up, whereof we're all witnesses. Verse 36, he says,
let all the house of Israel know assuredly. I say here this morning,
let everyone here know assuredly. God has made that same Jesus
whom you have crucified, the one you've been rejecting, the
one you've been denying, you that trust in your own works.
God's made that Christ, made that Jesus, both Lord and Christ.
He's not little Jesus. He's the Lord. He's the King
of Kings. And He is the Christ, the Savior,
the Messiah, the only salvation there is. Like God chose David to be king
over temporal Israel in eternity, He chose His Son. Like as He
sent Solomon through David in time, God sent the Lord Jesus
Christ, His Son, through David's lineage. And like Solomon built
that more permanent temple, Christ came forth and He builds God's
house, God's habitation. God promised, verse 12, He said,
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony, that
I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
forevermore. You see, when God teaches you
and me that we couldn't keep that law, that we've broken it,
that's when for the first time we realize There was a need why
God sent His Son. God said, I will raise up my
Christ through you, David, and this is how my people are going
to keep my covenant. They're going to do it by my
Son coming and doing for them what they cannot do for themselves.
But see, this is God's testimony concerning His law that He has
to teach you and me in the heart. Go with me. He says there, He
says, If they keep My covenant and My testimony, I shall teach
them, and their children also shall sit upon Thy throne forevermore.
Christ said that those that overcome will sit with Him in His throne.
He overcame and He sat in the Father's throne. He said, Those
that overcome will sit with Me in My throne. And He tells us
how we overcome. Go with me to Revelation 12.
Revelation 12. Here's what the Lord's going
to teach us right here. Revelation 12. This is how we overcome. Verse 10, and I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven, now he's going to speak, you're going
to hear a loud voice too, and you're going to hear it in the
heart. He said, the Lord said, my people shall know my name,
they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak, behold
it's I. When he bears testimony in the
heart, you're going to know it's him speaking. And he says, now has come salvation
and strength and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ. For the accuser of our brethren
is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him. Now catch these three things
right here. We're going to look at these three. They overcame
him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their lives
unto death. They overcame the accuser by
the blood of the Lamb. God bears witness. He bears testimony
in our hearts what He purposed from eternity. He shows us and
teaches us and makes us know that all the lambs throughout
the law pictured God's Son, the Lamb of God. The Lamb of God. Christ said, Sacrifice an offering
thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt
offering and sin offering thou hast not required. Then said
I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it's written of me.
I delight to do thy will, O God. Yea, thy law is within my heart. When God bears witness in the
heart, he begins to teach you what Christ has done. You behold
the Lord Jesus come and you hear Christ say, Behold, thy law is
in my heart. And God makes you know that arc
of the covenant. You know where the unbroken law
of God was? It was in the arc of the covenant.
When God wrote the law the second time and He gave it to Moses,
He said, now you put that in the ark. And that unbroken law
was in the ark. That ark is Christ. And when
the Lord bears testimony, He makes you know. Christ said,
thy law is in my heart. I came to do thy will, O God.
I came to fulfill all the law. And He came to fulfill it for
His people. Our Lord Jesus is the Lamb of
God. He's the ark. He walked this
earth holy, perfect in heart, holy. Holiness has to do with
the heart. He is sanctification. He is holiness. Holy in His heart,
without sin. Perfect motive in everything
He did. And He obeyed the Father in perfect
righteousness. He didn't have to strive to do
it. It's who He is. And then in perfect obedience
to the Father, the spotless Lamb of God went before the Father
And He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. And therefore God
justly, justly, it's all about manifesting His righteousness,
God justly poured out justice on His Son, made Him a curse
in the room instead of His people. He's the Lamb of God. They overcame
by the blood of the Lamb. The Lord Jesus laid down His
life for His people and He paid the debt in full for everybody
for whom He died. It's finished. Nothing else is
owed to the law. The law says satisfied. God says
satisfied toward all His people. Then God bears testimony in our
heart that Christ is the High Priest of His people, pictured
in the law. He's the Lamb, He's the Arch, He's the High Priest.
God has to teach us what this law meant. Brother Darwin read it. I'm so glad he read that scripture.
This is the sum of what we're preaching. We have a High Priest
sit on the right hand of God. He didn't enter in with the blood
of bulls and goats. He entered in one time and He
entered in with His own blood, having already obtained eternal
redemption for us. He's there in the presence of
God for us, for His people, for those He died for. He's ever
living to make intercession for us. It's appointed unto men once
to die. There's one time to die, and
after this, there's one judgment we have to face. And the Lord
Jesus Christ came forth and bore that one judgment for His people,
and He died the eternal death His people owe to justice, and
He satisfied that justice, and He's risen, and He's right there
at the right hand of God. But the Lord has to teach us
that. And when He teaches you this, He makes you see the importance
of knowing He's the ark, He's the one in whom the unbroken
law is fulfilled. It's because when they carried
that high priest, carried that blood of that lamb in there,
He sprinkled that blood on the mercy seat. And God said, that's
the one place I'll meet with you. is over that mercy seat.
Christ is that mercy seat whom God has set forth to be a propitiation,
a mercy seat through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness
for the remission of sin. That's the purpose of this thing.
This thing's more than about just you getting saved. This
thing is about God manifesting His holy, holy, holy God. It's about God manifesting His
righteousness for His people. Everything He does is right and
just. We don't even know a thing about God until God begins to
teach us and bear testimony in our heart and teach us this.
And when He makes you to know this, Hebrews 10, 9 said, He
taketh away the first, takes away that law that was against
us, that He may establish the second, the everlasting covenant
of grace. And it says, by him coming and
having said, I delight to do thy will, and by him doing the
will of God and fulfilling that law, by the which will we are
sanctified one time. By his one off. Perfected forever. Oh, if God really sanctifies
a man and gives him a holy heart and bears testimony in his heart,
he's going to stop boasting that he sanctified himself. Because
that glory goes to the sanctifier, the Lord Jesus Christ alone. And I'll tell you, I was between
two passages, and one of them you preached last night, Brother
Larry, and I'm glad you did. That picture of Peter looking
to the Lord, who constrained him to get in that ship and leave
that multitude? Christ did. When he heard the voice of the
Lord, he looked to the Lord in faith, and he said, let me come
to you, Lord. The Lord said, come on. And he was walking on
the water because he heard the word of the Lord. He was constrained
in his heart by the Lord, and he could walk by faith. But when
he saw what he saw alive, that wind, boisterous and those waves,
doubt entered in and he started to sink. And he cried, Lord. And the Lord reached out and
pulled him up and He brought him in fellowship with Him in
the waves and the wind, seas. That's the entire life of a believer. That's sanctification. He constrains
you from the multitude and sends the multitude away. He speaks
into your heart and gives you faith to behold Him. And you
can walk by faith and then you start looking at the waves and
sea. And you cry and He pulls you back into fellowship with
Him and you walk by faith a little longer. And He just can keep
doing this the rest of your day. That's really sanctification. And it says there in verse 11,
still in Revelation 12, look at verse 11. And they overcame
by the word of their testimony. When God testifies in your new
heart and He makes you to understand, true understanding of what the
law says about you and what the law says about God, your testimony
is going to be in perfect harmony with God's testimony. You're
going to say, God says, you are the sinner and you're going to
confess, I am the sinner. God declares, My Son is wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. All salvation. And you're going to confess,
He's my wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification, and my redemption.
All my salvation. Now catch this last thing. Verse
11, And they loved not their lives unto the death. When God
bears witness in the heart, He's going to make you forsake every
work and every vain refuge that you thought was life. and cast
all your care on Christ and follow Him. Christ said, whosoever will
save his life shall lose it. You still got a little something
you're trying to hold on to? You still got a little goodness
in you? You still got a few works that you've done that you think
is going to commend you to God? You try to hold on to that life,
you're going to lose it. You're going to lose everything.
He said, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake in
the Gospels, the same shall save it. We have to lose it all. That's salvation. Lose it all
for Christ and for the gospel sake. Our testimony, our witness,
our confession is one with God's testimony. And here's the truth
of it. This is too simple for a self-made
religious man. But this is the truth of it.
With the heart, man believeth unto righteousness. And with
the mouth, confession. Testimony is made unto salvation. That's the result of God bearing
witness in our heart. John said, He that believeth
on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He has the testimony
in himself. He that believeth not God hath
made him a liar because he believes not the record. He doesn't believe
the testimony that God gave of his Son. And this is the record
that God hath given given to us eternal life. This life's
in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. That's the record. And I'll tell you, everybody
that God chose, everybody Christ redeemed, they're going to have
that witness in their heart before it's over with, because Scripture
said they shall be all taught of God. He's going to teach everyone. He's going to testify in the
heart of every one of His people. Now, lastly, When God gives faith
in Christ, God testifies of His precious promises to us. His
precious promises to us. I remember Brother Rupert Ravenbart
used to say this, when God gives you faith to trust Christ, the
whole law becomes promises. It all becomes promises. Before,
God said, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,
then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people,
and you shall be unto me a kingdom of God, a kingdom of priests,
and a holy nation. By grace, being taught of God
in Christ, God makes you to know you have obeyed, and you are
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of
peculiar people. What before was a commandment
that you thought you had to measure up to to obtain the promise. God makes you know, no, my son
did it all freely. You have done it and you are
what I've promised. When God's brought us into Zion.
Children of God, he's brought you into his holy habitation. He said there in verse 13, this
is why he did it. The Lord had chosen Zion. He
hath desired it for his habitation. I'm sorry, I'm in Psalm 132,
13. For the Lord hath chosen Zion. He hath desired it for
his habitation. This is my rest forever. Here
will I dwell, for I have desired it. You're not coming to Mount
Sinai, you're coming to Mount Zion. You come to Mount Sinai,
to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an
innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church
of the firstborn which are written in heaven, to God the judge of
all, to the spirits of just men made perfect. That's not just
men that are already in glory with God. The spirits of just
men made perfect. Every believer sitting right
here has a new spirit in your a spiritual man, justified and
made perfect in Christ. That's who you've come to when
you've come into the church of God. And you've come to Jesus,
the mediator of the new covenant, the blood of sprinkling that
speaks better things than I am able. You are lively stones,
brethren, built up a spiritual house. Solomon only built the
earthly temple. Christ has built you up as living
stones, a spiritual house. He's made you a holy priesthood
to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
We just sang praises to Him. That's a spiritual sacrifice.
Only acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. You're built upon a foundation
of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He said the buildings fitly framed
together in Christ. And it grows. Every time He calls
one in, it grows. And it's growing into a holy
temple of the Lord in whom you're building together for a habitation
of God through the Spirit. A habitation of God through the
Spirit. Like Solomon laid those stones in that temple. Christ
quickens us and He unites us with God in Him and with our
brethren in Him. Inseparably united in Him. And
we are the house. in whom God dwells and we dwell
in Him. This is a spiritual dwelling
that can't be severed, ever severed. The truth of the matter is, we
should really stop saying our brethren passed away. They don't
pass away. All this passes away from them.
They enter into the promise. Never, never severed. And then
God promises this, full provision of bread. He said, verse 15,
I'll abundantly, surely bless her provision. I'll satisfy her
poor with bread. Who's the poor? That's you. That's
me, who He saved. We're the poor. He said, I'm
going to satisfy her poor with bread. Again, when He teaches
you and makes you hear the law. You know how many laws God gave
concerning the poor? He said, if you lend to a poor
man, do not exact usury. Don't you try to take interest
off a poor man. God says, I give you salvation. And it's free. It's all by my
grace. I'm not exacting anything of
you. I'm giving it all to you free. What? Who's first giving
to Him? It'll be recompensed to Him again.
Of Him and through Him and to Him are all things. God's giving
it all to us. All things are of God. The law
said, you shall not countenance a poor man in his cause, nor
arrest judgment from a poor man. You don't, you don't, if he's
guilty, you don't declare him innocent because he's poor. And
if he's innocent, you don't declare him guilty because he's poor.
God's no respecter of person. His poverty has nothing to do
with it. God would not free you simply because you were a poor
sinner. God sent his son and his son made us to righteousness
of God in him. That's the bread, brethren. And
God says, I'll give you the bread. And from Christ, all our nourishment
is ministered. He said, I'll give you pastors
after my own heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. God, Christ, our prophet himself,
preaching through his preacher and nourishing us, all nourishment
is ministered from the head. And he said, and you leave the
fields every seventh year so that the poor people can feed
and they can rest, Christ is our bread from heaven. In Him,
He's our rest. And in Him, brethren, we have
eternal life. That's the problem. So if He's
done that for you by giving His only Son, brethren, don't worry
and murmur and worry about the lesser stuff. Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God, and Christ Jesus, His righteousness, and whatever
He tells you is right, seek that first. These are the things that
be added to you. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with Him freely
give us all things? David said, I've been young and
old. I've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging
bread. And God promises, I'll also clothe her priests with
salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. He's already
made us the righteousness of God. And He comes and He gives
you faith to trust Him. And He clothes you in Christ's
righteousness. And He's going to do this for
every one of His people. And this is what makes us shout
aloud for joy. And He's teaching His people
effectually. This same God who was able to
call you and have mercy on you and show you this mercy and do
it effectually, trust your brethren to Him. You don't have to try
to force your brethren to do something. You have to force
your pastor to do something. Trust the Lord to teach your
people. How did he teach you this? He
did it through the gospel of God's grace. So if you can speak
something, speak the gospel to them and pray to the Lord to
bless them. Pray to him instead of talking
about them. And wait on him. And that same God who revealed
himself to you will bear witness in their heart and he'll correct
them. If Brother Darwin goes off his rocker and y'all think
he's made an error in judgment, do that for him. Pray for him
and watch. This is what some pastors told
me one time. You pray for your pastor, you submit to your pastor,
you trust the Lord to your pastor, trust your pastor to the Lord,
and the Lord will teach your pastor, correct your pastor,
and He'll teach you in the process. And that's what He'll do. And
that's the same for all our brethren. Because God promises here, Christ won't
lose one. He said, verse 17, I'll make
the horn of David the bud. I've ordained a lamp for my anointed. That horn of David the bud, that
means the kingdom's going to increase. The government's on
Christ's shoulder. It ain't on my shoulder. It ain't
on any man's shoulder. It's on Christ's shoulder. And
the Lord said of the increase of his governing peace, there
should be no end. upon the throne of David and
upon his kingdom to order it, establish it with judgment, justice
from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this. He'll do it. And he's going to
be the light of his people from forever. I've ordained a lamp
for my anointing. And by Christ, God promises us
complete victory. He said in verse 18, His enemies
will I clothe with shame, but upon Himself shall His crown
flourish. Now, you remember God's promise.
Listen to this. Verse 12, If thy children will
keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their
children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore. Go with
me to Revelation chapter 3. We've seen here The only way
you're going to keep the law. Do we make void the law through
faith? God forbid. The only way we keep the law
is through faith in Christ. Trust in Christ who kept it for
us. Just like Abraham did. Don't stop at the end of Romans
3. Keep reading Romans 4. Paul says we don't make void
of the law through faith. No, we establish the law. And
you can add through faith, just like Abraham did 430 years before
God gave the law at Sinai. Establish it one way through
faith in Christ. That's how you keep his covenant.
Christ faithfully served the father in perfection that we
never could. And he just calls you and says,
now, believe me, trust me. And He even sustains your faith
and keeps your trust in Him. And here's what He said. That's
how He overcame. That's how you're going to overcome.
Watch. Verse 21. He said, And to him that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame
and am set down with my Father in His throne. That's what God
promised in the covenant. Those that keep my covenant,
they'll sit in my throne. And Christ said, I'm going to
make you overcome and you're going to sit in my throne. You're
going to sit in my throne. How do I know these promises
are going to be sure to me? Because God said all the promises
of God in Christ are yes. And in Christ, amen unto the
glory of God. That's how you know. Preach, you got to give me something
more practical. If you got to have something more practical
than that. Believe on Christ. Look to Christ and don't stop
looking to Christ. That's the only thing I know
to tell you. Amen.