Psalm 135. Why is it, it seems, that so
many of the Lord's people, all of the Lord's people, are so
often, it seems, more than any other portion of God's Word,
are drawn to the Psalms? You ever wonder about that? I
think it's because one reason is that they read their own experience
there, don't God doesn't cover up the sins, not even of His
servant David, the man after God's own heart. They identify
with what they read there. They know by their own experience,
for example, what David said in Psalm 23. Is there a more
comforting psalm than that? I mean, look how it begins. When
God is pleased to remind us of that, to impress it again upon
our hearts by His Holy Spirit and we lie and find such comfort
when we say the Lord is my shepherd. Wow. I mean you could pitch tent
there without a problem. The Lord is my shepherd and everything
David says after that has for its foundation that very first
thing. The Lord's my shepherd. Therefore
I won't lack anything that I truly need. But we also know The sad
confession that we find in so many of the Psalms. Psalm 72,
for example. You ever been there? You ever
had to confess this? Lord, I was a fool before you.
I was ignorant. I was envious at the wicked.
I looked at them and falsely thought to myself, they've got
it made. I served God in vain. It was
a believer that said that. Can a believer do that? Oh, absolutely. But God, by His grace, didn't
allow him to stay there He said, oh Lord, nevertheless, don't
you love that? Nevertheless, I am continually
with thee. You have holden me by thy hand. You've held me, you won't let
me go. And every true believer knows
what David affirms here in Psalm 135. The subject is this, and
I hope that God will be pleased to bless the word to make it
a means of help to you. Psalm 135, our great God. Our great God. I need to be reminded
of that. Look at verse 5 again. Let's
read it together again. David wrote, for I know, I know
that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods. One commentator that I referred
to when I was studying to preach this message to you called this,
especially what David had to say in verse 5, he referred to
it as delicious Dogmatism. People don't like preachers to
be dogmatic, do they? They would rather a preacher
be vague and say, well, we're all going to heaven, we're just
going different avenues. The only problem with that is
it's a lie. It's not true. Christ is the
only way. Delicious dogmatism. David says,
as matter-of-factly as he could put it, I know, I know that the
Lord is great. Every now and then, when I was
a young boy, I'd want to do something, and my father said, no, you're
not going to. And I would ask him again. He said, son, I'm
putting my foot down. The answer is no. David puts his foot down
here. And he says, without a doubt,
I know that the Lord is great. What a firm foundation. We love
to hear a believer, don't we? It's encouraging. Pray that it'll
be contagious to hear a child of God speak in this calm, undoubting,
Assured confidence, whether it be of the Lord's goodness he's
speaking of or the Lord's greatness. David says, I know the truth
of both. I know that the Lord is great.
I know that he is above all in his operations in nature, in
providence, and in grace. In the very first sentence of
the Bible, we learned this. We learned it. The very first
sentence. You don't need to turn there. You know it by heart,
don't you? Genesis 1 and 1, we read, in the beginning, God tried
to create. No, no, no, no. You know better than that. No,
no, no. In the beginning, God doesn't try to do anything, does
he, Billy? I mean, you've talked about this
before. You always say your little peewee brain can't really comprehend
all that. Well, mine can't either. But
in the beginning, God didn't try. God created. God Almighty
never tries. God does all his pleasure. We
just read it here. Look at verse 6 again in Psalm
125. Whatsoever, not some things,
that takes in everything. Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
whatever He pleased to do, that did He in heaven, but not just
heaven, in earth, and in the seas, and all deep places. It does us good to consider Him,
our great God, as the infinite and eternal being. Had no beginning,
my soul, Talk about not being able to comprehend something,
think of that. God Almighty, where did he come from? He had
no starting place. He's in the beginning was God. He's eternally God, everlastingly
God. It does us good to consider his
infinite and eternal being, his glorious and incomprehensible
glory and majesty. It's pleasantly read and profitable
for us to remind ourselves of this. I know that the Lord is
great. We know that, as David said in
this psalm, and as I've already mentioned, by observing nature
and providence, but more than that, more than that, by our
own experience of His mighty grace, by our own experience, I've tasted,
I've tasted that the Lord is gracious, Peter said, by our
own conversion. Could anything other, could anything
other than a great God and Savior do the work of grace in our hearts?
Salvation is not trotting up an aisle like so many think.
That doesn't take a great God. That just takes two feet. It
doesn't take a work or an operation of God's grace to be baptized
or to learn doctrine or to act religious. Oh, but it takes the
work of God's grace to give a man a new heart. It takes none other
or none less than the great God and Savior himself, the Lord
Jesus Christ, to save the dead sinners. Live! Live! He told his disciples, the hour
is coming. And now is that they who are
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and everybody
that hears his voice shall what? They might live, they shall live,
and they'll arise in the walk in newness of life. I like what
the poet said, I've quoted it to you before. He wrote, it took
a miracle to put the stars in place. And it took a miracle
to hang the world in space. Oh, but when God saved my soul,
cleansed and made me whole, it took a miracle of his love and
of his grace. And what about our experience
of God's grace after conversion? Every child of God, every believer
is a standing miracle. A constant witness of God's reigning
grace. What other explanation could
there be than this? We are kept by the power of God. It's God that's called us. It's
God that's given us life, and it's God that keeps us. It's
God that will not let me go. It's God that's able to keep
us from falling. That's a miracle. That's a miracle. It takes nothing less than His
mighty grace to keep us from falling. And check this out. To present us faultless. Wow! Now you think your will could
do that? You think your works could do that? Present you faultless
before the throne of Almighty God. Here in this psalm, five
times in verses three and four and verse five, we find this
little word for, F-O-R. And except for one time, we could
substitute because. Because, verse three again, for
example. Look at verse three. Praise the
Lord for, because the Lord is good. Sing praises unto his name
because it is pleasant. Verse four. because the Lord
had chosen Jacob unto himself. Oh my, that deserves a song of
praise, doesn't it? We are bound to give thanks always
to God for you, brethren, because he had from the beginning chosen
you to salvation. He had chosen Jacob for himself. And then the last instance is
in verse five, our text. Praise the Lord, because I know
that the Lord is great. David was called the sweet singer,
the sweet psalmist of Israel. And he never wrote a sweeter
note than this, did he? Indeed, this was the foundation,
the spring of all of his psalms, all of his psalms of praise and
worship. It rings with this key note.
This is where David placed his foundation, or he placed himself
on this foundation. I know that the Lord is great. Oh, Lord, my God, the hymn writer
said, considering nature, seeing God in nature, in creation. Oh,
he doesn't praise God or write about a big bang. No, he writes
about a big God. Oh, Lord, my God, when I in awesome
wonder consider all the works thy hands had made, I see the
stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe
displayed. That's what the psalmist said
in Psalm 19. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
showeth forth his handiwork. But the hymn writer seems to
go from outside to inside. He seems to go from worshipping
or considering the God of nature to considering the God of all
grace. The God of all grace. That's
what Peter calls him in 1 Peter chapter 5. Oh, the God of all
grace. Jesus Christ sits upon a throne
of grace, always full of grace and truth. John said, we saw
him, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The hymn writer went on to say,
but oh, when I think, when I think that God, his son not sparing,
sent him to die, I scarce can take it in. That's above me. that on the cross, my burden
gladly bearing, he bled and died to take away my sin. Wow. For, because God had made
Jesus Christ sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, the wonder, the wonder of God's free and amazing
grace, considering that especially, the hymn writer said, then sings
my soul, Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee. How great
thou art! How great thou art! Oh, the greatness
of God's mercy! The greatness of God's grace!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span in the death of His
Son, being made sin for us. Paul, in reflecting on God's
mercy in Romans chapter 11, said this, Oh, the depth the depth
of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath
known the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counselor? Who
has he ever asked advice from? Who hath first given to him,
and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, that is
God, of him, through him, to him are all things to whom be
glory forever and ever." David affirms that the Lord Jehovah
is that God who is sovereign. When we say that God is God,
or I should say, when we say that God is sovereign, we simply
mean this, that God is God, that he's God Almighty. I like what
old A.W. Pink wrote. He said this, there
is no attribute more comforting to his children than that of
God's sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances,
in the most severe trials, they believe that the sovereignty
of God has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules those
afflictions, and that sovereignty shall bring them out of those
afflictions and sanctify them to their own good. Mr. Spurgeon,
I was reading a message by him, oh, it's been a good while back,
but he was talking about a lady in the church that on the margin
of her Bible, just about every other page were the letters T
and P. T and P, just every other page
she would have that wrote down there, T and P. And somebody
asked her, what does that mean? Why do you have that? And she
said, that means tried and proved. Tried and proved. God's promises,
there's not been, as Joshua said, when he came Came the time for
him to leave this world. He gathered the elders of Israel
around him and said, you're my witness. There's not been one
thing. There's not been one thing that
God promised us that he's not brought to pass. Not one thing. And there never will be. Whom
he foreknew, foreloved, he predestinated. Whom he predestinated, then he
also called. Whom he called, he'll justify.
Whom he justifies, he'll glorify. They'll be with Him forever,
all the way. My Savior shall lead me. David
says, Our God is above all gods. Why wouldn't He be? Our Lord
has His way. Why wouldn't He? If He's the
Lord, He must be great, and He must be above all other so-called
gods. For example, and I refer to it
again, we did at the beginning. Oh, that most comforting, perhaps,
of all the Psalms. How many of the Lord's people
I have found hope and comfort in this. Psalm 23, it begins
with verse 1. The Lord, capital letters, just
like in our text, L-O-R-D, is my shepherd. The same Lord that
is great. The same Lord that is above all
gods. He's my shepherd. My shepherd. Therefore, it naturally flows
from that, this, I shall not want. Everything that David declares
in that sweet song rests on this foundation of a sovereign God,
the Lord, the Lord. Oh, isn't that sweet? What a
lullaby for a believer. What a blessed hope to lie down
the night and before you doze off, these words to be brought
to your heart, the Lord is my shepherd. If he's my shepherd,
I shall not want. And you know the word there,
want, means like. I shall not like anything. And everything that David declared
in that sweet song rests upon that foundation. The Lord is
my shepherd. It's precisely because of this
that David says, he maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He makes me to do it. He restoreth my soul. He does
it all. He, not me. That removes any
possibility of those things not happening. You've ever heard
people say, it's among religious folks you hear this phrase, if the Lord had his way. It's really not a laughing matter,
it's sad, isn't it? That's what most religious folks
think. If the Lord had his way, I would have preachers from time
to time buttonhole me when I was a young boy and say, you know
God's done all he can. Now it's up to you. It's up to
you. You've got to take the first
step. God's done everything else. Now you've got to take the step.
You've got to make redemption successful. Christ died for nothing
if you don't make it a lecture. And it's peculiar to me why people,
multitudes of otherwise intelligent people, it just demonstrates
that the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit
of God, he just doesn't have the ability to do it. He has not the Holy Spirit, but
when you hear someone say, if God has his way, I mean, does
anybody ever stop and think, now wait a minute, now wait a
minute, let's back up there, preacher. What do you mean if
God has his way? Who's stopping God from having
His way? Huh? Who prevents God Almighty
doing what He will do? We just read there in verse 6,
God has His way. He does all of His pleasure.
Listen to this, the Lord is slow to anger and great in power and
will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way. The Lord
has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds
are but the dust of his feet. David says he will not even fear
walking through the valley of the shadow of death. Wow! Now that's no small statement,
is it? We've seen many take that last
journey, take those last steps. And David says, I won't be afraid.
When that time comes, and I'm leaving this world, I won't be
afraid. Why, David? Why? Because he's
with me. My great shepherd's with me.
He's promised he'd never leave me nor forsake me. He's going
to hold my hand. Makes you want to look forward
to it, doesn't it, child of God? He'll hold my hand. Oh, can you
imagine that glorious, glorious moment? Here I go, stepping out
of this world, stepping out of sin, stepping out of anguish,
stepping out of heartache, stepping out of tears into everlasting
joy. He'll hold my hand as over death's
river I go and safe I shall be in beautiful heaven I know. Why? Because He is with me. He's promised
to be with me. If he's not the Lord God Almighty,
then David would most certainly never have written with such
assurance and such confidence. The greatness of God, David had
an assured personal persuasion of. He says positively, I know,
I know. I find that so refreshing. That's worth knowing. He knew
by observation, he knew by inspiration, and he knew by realization. He
had experienced the greatness of God. It's the truth of our
sovereign God that gives us such confidence. Is it wrong to believe
that what God has promised He's able to perform? Can you believe
that too much? Can you trust God too much? Oh no, we run in the other direction,
don't we? We don't overdo it, we underdo
it. Our thoughts of God are just
too small, too low. We never think too much of our
God. We can never trust Him too much. As has often been said,
we don't always trust him, as he deserves to be trusted, but
all he's trustworthy. Every child of God, up to this
very moment, and it's good for the time that's brought us to
this place and what time we may have afterwards, we can say with
Joshua, we can add our witness with Joshua and say, you're exactly
right, Joshua. Nothing God has promised has
failed. Not one word. Everything that
the great shepherd promised, he's been good to. He's fulfilled. The psalmist in another place,
Psalm 121, said this, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord
which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. He that keepeth thee will not
slumber. You remember when Elijah was
on the mount with the false prophets and they were calling upon their
God, one of those little gods that David spoke of here. And
Elijah made fun of him. He said, maybe he's asleep. Maybe
you need to speak louder. Maybe he can't hear you. Maybe
he's taking a vacation. And David went on to say, behold,
our God, he never slumbers. He that keepeth Israel, his true
people, shall never slumber nor sleep." Someone said, if the
Lord is keeping watch over me, then I don't need to. If the
Lord never slumbers, then I can just lay down and sleep. It is
vain for you to rise up early and to set up late to eat the
bread of sorrows, for so he giveth his beloved sleep. The songwriter
pictured it this way. It is so sweet to trust in Jesus,
just lay down and sleep. just to take him at his word,
just to rest upon his promise, just to know, thus saith the
Lord. Oh, yes, this sweet, the trust
in Jesus, just from sin and self-decease, just from Jesus simply taking
life and rest and joy and peace, just to fall in his omnipotent
arms, just to rest there. He said, come unto me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." And
we don't need to apply that simply to the believer when he first
comes to Christ, the sinner rather, but all afterwards, all for grace,
grace just to trust him more, just to fall into his omnipotent
embrace and just rest easy. Just rest easy knowing if our
God is great, and does whatever he pleases, then it must be well
with my soul." We said to say that God is God is simply to
say or rather when we say God is sovereign, we're just simply
stating that God is God. The definition of sovereign is
within the very word itself. These words are rather this,
R-E-I-G-N. God reigns. God reigns. Everything stands on this truth
or falls and crumbles to nothing. on this truth. If God is not
sovereign, then he does not reign. And if he does not reign, then
he is not God. He is not God. Folks say that
this is a matter to be discussed just by theologians, that it
has no practical value for God's people. Oh, I beg to differ.
Oh, this is for those soldiers down in the trenches. This is
for those who are suffering as they make their journey through
a God-hating, Christ-rejecting world. Oh, this is for those
who know what it's like to cry out, oh, my God, my God, where
are you, where are you? Oh, this is the truth, the very
thing that gives us a hope, knowing that the Lord is great is the
foundation of that hope. Our hope, our hope of glory,
our hope of grace, our hope of eternal life now and everlasting
salvation afterwards rests not on some precarious foundation
like my works. No wonder people don't have peace,
unless it's a false peace that trusts in their works, trusts
in what they did. Oh no, we trust in what He did.
He obtained eternal redemption for us. And our hope rests on
no precarious grounds like our own words, or our own will, or
our own worth, but it rests upon the rock of ages. The rock of
ages. Listen to this, Psalm 61. Again,
David says, Hear my cry, oh God, and attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will
I cry unto thee. When my heart is overwhelmed,
bend there, haven't you child of God? When my heart is overwhelmed,
lead me to the rock that's higher than I. when everything seems
to be crumbling around me. Lead me to that rock that is
higher than I. Lead me to a hope greater than
myself, for thou hast been a shelter to me and a strong tower from
the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle
forever. I will trust in the covert of
thy wings. Oh, sometimes, sometimes, the
hymn writer again wrote, sometimes the shadows are deep and rough
seems the path to the goal. and sorrow sometimes how they
sweep like tempest down over the soul. That's true, that's
true, that happens. None of us are exempt, but this
is also true, oh then, on such occasions as that, oh then to
the rock let me fly, to the rock that is higher than I, oh then
to the rock let me fly, to the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ that
is higher than I. Psalm 93, again David brings
this sweet note, The Lord reigneth. The Lord reigneth. He is clothed
with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength,
wherewith he hath girded himself. The world also is established
that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of
old, and thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O
Lord. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift
up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea. You remember when people were
speculating whether John the Baptist, when he came on the
scene before Christ appeared, they were wondering, is John
the Messiah? Could John be the one that we're
looking for? Could he be the promised Messiah?
And John says, no, I'm not him. I'm not him. I'm not the Messiah.
He said, there is one among you whom you know not. There cometh
one, what did he say? Mightier than I. Mightier than
I. This is in Mark 1 and 7. There
cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes
I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Jesus Christ was
mightier than John because it was not of John that these words
were spoken. Gabriel didn't say this concerning
John. Call this name Jesus for he shall
save his people from their sins. Oh my soul, what a task. What
an undertaking. What an accomplishment. What
a mighty work of grace. He shall save. I like that, don't
you? He shall. Not that he'll try
to, or he might. No, he shall, glory to his name,
he shall save his people from their, all of his people from
all of their sin. It would take one mightier than
John to do that. It would take that one who was
the eternal word and was made flesh and dwelt among us. The
prophet asked the question, who is this that cometh up from Edom
with dyed garments from Bosworth, that is glorious in his apparel,
traveling in the greatness of his strength, And there's only
one that was able to answer, I, the speaking righteousness,
mighty to save. Tempted and tried, I need a great
Savior. Don't you? I'm a great sinner,
and I need a great Savior. I need Christ, one mightier than
John, is able to save unto the uttermost all that come unto
God by him. Jesus Christ is that rock upon
which his church is built. And when the rains descend and
the floods come and the winds blow and beat upon that house,
the reason it doesn't fall is because it's founded, it's built
upon the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He's that one,
the only one who by himself purged our sins and obtained eternal
redemption for us. He's the sovereign savior of
his people, who after being made sin by a holy God, After trotting
the winepress alone, he shouted with a voice of triumph, it is
finished. Don't you like that? It is finished. I put away the sins of all my
people. I've satisfied the justice of
a holy God. I've brought in an everlasting
righteousness. It is finished, glory to his
name. The stone which the builders
refused, David wrote in Psalm 118. Speaking of Christ, the
stone which the builders refused has become the headstone of the
corner. This is the Lord's doing. Nobody else could. This is the
Lord's doing. It's marvelous in our eyes. Oh,
then to this rock let me fly. To the rock that is higher than
I. The wonderful truth that the
Lord is great, that he's sovereign, that he reigns. Oh, yes, it has
practical value. It's a well-grounded hope, isn't
it? Is that beneficial to God's people? Is the true grace of
God beneficial? Is sin actually put away good
to know? Is trusting that He's able to
keep us until He calls us home to glory, is that worth anything?
How about the assurance that He's able to keep you from falling,
and to present you faithful before the presence of His glory? Is
that helpful? Is that comforting? Oh, yes.
To know that the Lord is my shepherd. Well, every one of those things,
every one of those blessed things, whether they succeed or whether
they fall and crumble and prove only to be a fable depend upon
this. The Lord is great. The Lord is
great. Let me share with you a brief
sentence or two by dear brother Henry Mayhem. The title of this
article is A Shore Shelter. A Shore Shelter. Henry wrote,
as we grow older. That reminds me of hearing Henry
preach a message in Danville one time. He had turned 80. And
it was the title of the message was Lessons of 80 Years. And if I remember right, the
first thing Henry said is that he had learned, that God had
taught him was that God is faithful. God is faithful. He's faithful
to his people. But in his article, Henry wrote,
as we grow older and experience the fulfillment of God's promises
in Christ Jesus, We prove the peace and rest that our Lord
truly gives and become more aware of the vanity, the emptiness,
and insecurity of religion, the flesh, and the world. We are
not swayed by the loud claims of new revelations, nor alarmed
by the rise and fall of religious professors, nor distressed by
our own failures. We look around at it all and
then flee again to our refuge, the Lord Jesus Christ. One brother
out there in California referred to the fellowship of God's people
as being fellers in the same ship. Fellers in the same ship. And that one who's responsible
for all the fellers in that ship is the captain of their salvation,
the Lord Jesus Christ, that has his way in the whirlwind. He's
the master of the sea, billows his will obey. You remember in
Mark 4? I love this passage. I just love
this passage. Mark 4. Our Lord told his disciples,
looking across the sea, he said, let us pass over into the other
side. And a storm arose. They thought
they were going to perish. But they forgot who spoke. Let
us pass over into the other side. You reckon they will? You reckon
they're going to make it? You reckon they'll get to the
other side if Jesus Christ is the Lord great? They will. In
verse 1 of the next chapter we read, and they came over unto
the other side. They crossed over. They all crossed
over. They all crossed all the way
over. And that reminds me of these
verses in Revelation 7. And one of the elders asked me
saying, John, who are these that are arrayed in white robes? And
where did they come from? And I said, sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, these are
they which came out. came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. They came out, they all came out, and they all came
plum out. Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall
feed them. and shall lead them into living fountains of waters,
and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. I know that
the Lord is great. That's what enables us to rest,
knowing that all things work together for our good because
it is God that's doing the work. He's working it out. Listen to
this. I love these verses. But now, this is Isaiah 43, but
now, thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, he that
chose thee, He that formed thee, O Israel, fear not, fear not,
I have redeemed thee. Fear not, I have redeemed thee,
I've called you by name, you're mine. When you pass through the
waters, I will be with you. And through the rivers, they
shall not overflow you. And when you walk through the
fire, you won't be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
When thou passes through the waters, deep the waves may be
in cold, But Jehovah is our refuge, and his promise is our hope.
For the Lord himself has promised, he the faithful God and true,
when thou passest through the waters, thou shalt not go down,
but through. Oh, what joy, the knowing that
we serve a great God and Savior. Let me wrap this up by reading
just another brief article by old Thomas Mann. He was one of
the old Puritans. This was several hundred years
ago. on this text, of his fullness have we all received, and grace
for grace. He wrote, for 6,000 years God
has been multiplying pardons, and yet free grace is not tired. Grace Christ rather undertook
to satisfy, and he had money enough to pay. It were folly
to think that an emperor's revenue would not pay a beggar's debt.
Mercy is an ocean, ever flowing yet ever full. The saints carry
loads of experiences with them to heaven. Free grace can show
you large accounts and a large bill counseled by the blood of
Jesus Christ. That's been tried and proved.
Listen to the eyewitness account of those who are no longer like
us looking through a glass darkroom. But see the Lamb of God face
to face. Listen to their testimony. They
speak to you and I yet here and say, I heard as it were the voice
of a great multitude. And as the voice of mighty waters
and as the voice of mighty thundering sang, hallelujah, hallelujah,
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. And blessed is that man who can
say, I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above
all gods. And Christ shall come with shout
of acclamation and take me home, oh, the joy. that shall fill
my heart. Then I shall bow in humble adoration
and there proclaim, my God, how great thou art. God bless you. Thank you for your attention.