Well, as I said earlier, about
18 months ago, we finished a series on the first half of Psalm 119,
and I want to take that up again today, beginning at verse 89.
Psalm 119, I presume it was written by David, it doesn't say specifically,
but he is called in Scripture the sweet psalmist of Israel,
so it's fair if it doesn't say anybody else, it should be written
by him. And it's basically, there are
22 sections, and they're named after the letters, the 22 letters
of the Hebrew alphabet. And the one we come to today
is Lamed, beginning at verse 89. So there are 22 of these
8 verse letters. components, which makes 176 verses
in total, by far the longest psalm, as you will know. But
it's based on the Hebrew alphabet, presumably as an aid to memory,
to remember. Ah, right, A, B, C, D... Lamed
we come to this week. And what's it all about? Well,
in a way, it's the same as all Scripture. It's about the sinner
communing with God, God communing with the sinner. It's about delighting
in salvation, salvation revealed in Christ, out of this fallen
world, in contrast to this fallen world. The sinner comforted in
eternal certainties. You see, There are things that
you cannot find out. You can find out a lot in nature
just by observing creation. You know that there's a God,
but you cannot find the truth and the comfort of salvation,
of eternal hope, of a hope of heaven, of what happens to this
body when it dies, how frail we are. you know, we hear of
people, true believers, taken in a moment, so quickly, you
know, our hearts go out to those who are so bereaved in that experience,
but nevertheless, unlike the rest of humanity, we grieve not
as those who have no hope. The believer has a true hope
of heaven, and these words all confirm that hope, and reinforce
it, and lay it down, layer by layer, precept upon precept,
truth upon truth. This, as all the Psalms, is the
experience of David. All of them are. You can say
they're the experience of the writer of the Psalm. They're
also, prophetically, the experience of Christ, who is God, become
man. The man, Christ Jesus, accomplishing
the redemption of his people by his doing and dying on the
cursed tree, on the cross. But in Him, because all of His
people are united with Him in eternal union, chosen in Him,
united with Him from before the foundation of the world, whether
we know it or not, the salvation of God's people was sealed in
eternity by the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
as Revelation 13.8 says. It's Christ accomplishing redemption,
but also it's of His saints, His set-apart ones, the people
He loved with an everlasting love. in Him, united with Him. This is what these portions of
God's Word speak of, until He comes again. Jesus, in his high
priestly prayer in John 17, in verse 17 of that chapter, he
prays this to his father, sanctify, sanctify, make holy, make holy,
make separate, separate from the world. The Holy Bible is
the separate book, it's the different book, it's the altogether, because
it's not of human origin. It's of divine origin. Well,
sanctify is what God does in making a difference. He makes
a difference in people. He makes some of the whole of
the human race, He makes them His saints, His set-apart ones,
His separated ones. So, Jesus prays, sanctify, make
separate them, His people, through thy truth. How does God make
his people separate from all people, from the rest of the
world? How does he do that? Through his truth. Through his
truth. Oh, you ask, what is his truth? What is truth? What is
truth? Pilate, Pontius Pilate asked that question. What is
truth? Jesus says, thy word is truth. It is this book that is
the truth of God. In this world, which is the kingdom
of Satan, The two beasts, read Revelation 13, the beast from
the sea and the beast from the earth, they picture this world
that we live in today. In this world there is nothing
but falsehood. In the two beasts of Satan's
world there is nothing but falsehood. You say, oh there's a lot of
criminal scamming going on, people always trying to get your money,
trying to defraud you, trying to cheat you. It's not just criminals
scamming us, it's the whole world, it's politics, it's business,
it's health, it's religion. The one solid, dependable source
of unchanging, absolute truth is the Word of God. That's what
it is, the Word of God. Most of all, not just because
it's words on the pages of a book, most of all, because that Word
is Christ. That Word is Christ. In the beginning, says John in
the first verse of his Gospel, in the beginning was the Word,
the expression of the divine being. In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things
were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made that was
made. This Word is Christ. The Word is God incarnate. God incarnate accomplishing,
completing, finishing the redemption of his people from the curse
of sin and of the broken law. God's righteousness is perfect
and good and holy, but we all, all of us, have broken it. We
all of us deserve condemnation. But this word speaks of God incarnate,
our Lord Jesus Christ, accomplishing finishing, completing redemption
from the curse of sin and God's broken law. And this is all encapsulated
in this section, verse 89 to 96, called Lamed. I've got three
points this morning. I want to note a powerful contrast. I want to note the revelation
of God in His Word. And then I want to talk about
grasping salvation, because what's the point of knowing any of those
things if it doesn't mean that you have grasped the salvation
of God and you have a confident hope of eternity, that you are
a beneficiary of all that Christ has done, of all that is declared
here. So those three points. Firstly, a powerful contrast,
and I want to begin at the end of the section in verse 96. Just
follow this with me. I have seen an end of all perfection,
but thy commandment is exceeding broad. I have seen an end of
all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad." Wow, that's
complicated, isn't it? What do you make of that? Do
you know these words are probably about 3,000 years old? Think
of that. It's about 3,000 years old. Anything that's worth knowing
has been invented in the last 15 years, hasn't it, according
to this society in which we live? No, no, this is 3,000 years old. I have seen an end of all perfection,
but thy commandment is exceeding broad. What on earth can that
mean? The Syriac version of the Scripture, John Gild tells us
this, says, I have seen an end of a limit, or a border, to every
country, as there is to every kingdom and state, and to the
whole world. I have seen an end, a limit,
a border, to every country, as there is to every kingdom and
state, and to the... I have seen an end of the whole
world, is what that's talking about. The translation confuses
you. I've seen an end of all perfection.
I've seen an end of this world, is basically what he's saying.
But thy commandment is exceeding broad. What has he seen an end
of? What has the psalmist by God's revelation seen an end
of? He's seen an end of the wisdom
of this world. Yes, there's wisdom in this world,
but it's very limited. He's seen an end of the riches
of this world. Do you want to know how that's
going to look? Read Revelation 18. Look at the world that we
know it today, the merchants, the traders, the riches, everything
that people covet, the things that they want, the millions
and millions of pounds of dwellings, and oh, if only I could have
that, if I could win the lottery and have that, how much fulfilled
I would be and how great it would be for me. Read in Revelation
18 and see the day when all of that comes to an end. And the
merchants are wailing for their loss. And the owners of riches
are wailing because everything has come to an end. Because Babylon,
Babylon, this world is fallen. Its power is wound up and is
worthless. It's very border. It's very border. You see it all as finite and
limited. I have seen an end, a limit,
a border to this whole world and everything that's in it.
While young, learn to know your limitations. You say, oh well
that's alright for you to think about as you get older. No, while
you're young, think about these things. Know your limitations
in physical things. It's the opposite of the world's
philosophy. The world's philosophy is that the great liberation
that's happened in the last 30 or 40 years is that we've all
discovered the liberty of not believing in God. How futile
that is. Have you not seen its end? Peter
says this in his epistle, 1 Peter 4 verse 7, And it applies today. The end of all things is at hand. You say, well it hasn't happened
for 2,000 years. Yeah, Peter talked about that.
People say, where is the sign of his coming? You know, things
just carry on as they've always done. But don't you know 1,000
years is as a day in the sight of the Lord, and a day is 1,000
years? No, don't fool yourself by thinking, no, it's going to
carry on. The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer. Be ready, for it's coming to
an end. Look at God's commandment. In verse 96, he says, I've seen
an end of everything the world has got to offer, but Lord, thy
commandment. The revelation of God in His
Word is exceeding broad. The revelation of God in His
Word, thy commandment, is exceeding broad. I put John Gill, I don't,
John Gill can often be very, very hard to read for most modern
readers, because he seems to trip over himself, constantly
telling us what a certain phrase in the Scripture doesn't mean,
and by the time you've read about twenty things it doesn't mean.
completely lost track of where you were going. It's all good
stuff, but it's hard work. But I thought what he wrote on
this was exceedingly good. So I've put it in the bulletin
in the first article, but I just want to read it out to you now.
Thy commandment is exceeding broad. The Word of God is a large
field to walk and meditate in. It is sufficient to instruct
all men in all ages, both with respect to doctrine and duty,
and to make every man of God perfect. It has such a height
and depth of doctrine and mysteries in it as can never be fully reached
and fathomed, and such a breadth as is not to be measured. The
fullness of the Scripture can never be exhausted. The promises
of it reach to this life and to that which is to come, and
the precepts of it are so large that no works of righteousness
done by men are adequate and proportionate to them. No righteousness
but the righteousness of Christ. is as large and as broad as those
commandments. I'll read that again. No righteousness
done by men, no works of righteousness done by men, are adequate and
proportionate to the requirements of God's law. No righteousness,
but the righteousness of Christ is as large and as broad as those
commandments. Wherefore, no perfection of righteousness
is to be found in men, only in Christ, who is the perfect, fulfilling
end, of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. Is
that not what Romans 10 verse 4 says? For Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. It's
only the righteousness of Christ that matches the breadth of God's
commandment. I have seen the end of all perfection,
the limit of this world, but thy commandment, O Lord, is exceeding
broad. Only the righteousness of Christ
matches the breadth of that, for He is the end of the law. He is the encompassing of the
law, we might put it, for righteousness to everyone that believeth. He
is the Word of God. How do I know that? Revelation
19 and verse 13, there's a vision that John has of the glorified
Christ on His white stallion, and there's His name written
upon His thigh, and that name is the Word of God. He is the Word of God. He. He is broader. and wider, because
He encompasses the commandment of God. He is broader and wider
and deeper and more enduring, eternal, than anything in this
world. Anything that this world can
put forward, He is broader and greater and wider and deeper.
Oh, as Hebrews 12 verse 3 says, Consider Him. Consider Him. Do you consider Him? Consider
the Lord Jesus Christ, for in Him is the fullness of the Godhead,
bodily revealed to His people. Consider Him. Consider Him. You say, is this not something
new you're telling me? No, this is old wisdom. This
is the wisdom of Solomon. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter
12. You know, I said earlier, don't
just think that this is for older people, realizing their mortality
and getting towards the end of their life. No, it's for all,
down to the very youngest. You young people, think on this.
Remember now, thy Creator, in the days of thy youth. Remember
your triune God, is what that says there, in the day. Remember
Him while you are young. Don't think you're going to be
losing out. You're not going to be losing out. You're going
to be grasping the riches that are there to see, if only God
will reveal them to you. Remember now thy Creator, in
the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not. What evil days? I can tell you
a little bit about them. some older than me can tell you
more about them. The days of growing older and
the body becoming, you read that chapter, it's about the eyesight
failing, it's about the hair going white, it's about the bones
creaking, it's about disease coming upon us, it's about the
teeth not working as they used to do, and all of these things
Old age is not a pleasant thing. Remember your Creator in the
days of your youth. Consider Him who is our Lord
Jesus Christ. You see, this world's wisdom,
as Peter read to us earlier, is very limited. From verse 19
of 1 Corinthians 1, it is written, I will destroy, this is God said,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the one who thinks
he's wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent, the one in the flesh who thinks he's prudent. Where
is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the disputer, the debater of this world with his powerful
arguments? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom, its wisdom, knew not God. It
thought it was so clever, but it couldn't work out God. Who
can fathom God? The unfathomable God. The infinite,
unknowable God. Who can fathom God? He's too
big and broad and wide. Only Christ can reveal Him. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. The Jews require a sign,
the Greeks seek after wisdom. They were always debating at
the Aeropagus in Athens. They were always debating, Paul
went and debated there with them, seeking after the world's wisdom
and its philosophy. says Paul, we preach Christ crucified. To the Jews that's a stumbling
block, you don't get right with God by another being crucified
in your place. And to the Greeks that's foolishness,
oh let's talk about philosophy, not about that. But unto them
that are called, and there are Jews and Greeks who are called,
from all tribes and tongues and kindreds, it is Christ. We preach Christ crucified. Christ,
the Christ of God, the Messiah of God, the substituting seed
of the woman for the sins of his people. Christ, the power
of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God,
he's not saying God is foolish, he's saying The wisdom of men
is so much less than the wisdom of God. And he's not saying that
God is weak, the weakness of God. He's saying that man in
his strongest is so much weaker than God. For you see your calling,
brethren, not many wise, not many mighty, sorry, not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God has chosen the foolish things, what the world
thinks foolish. to confound the wise, and the
weak things to confound the things which are mighty, and the base
things, and the things which are despised hath God chosen. So then, Not wisdom for its own sake. This is the point. Yes, there's
a powerful contrast between the limitations of this world and
its wisdom, and the wisdom of God and the revelation of Christ
in his word. But it's not just for its own
sake that you might know that when others don't. This is the
reason for it. 2 Timothy 3.15. Paul says to
Timothy, from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures. Oh,
it's such a rare thing in these days to be a child brought up
in a family where you are taught the truth of God in the Scriptures.
What an absolute blessing. The world in blindness wanders
and fumbles around, and yet to be brought up in an environment
where you are taught the Scriptures. The Scriptures, listen, which
are able to make thee wise unto salvation. through faith which
is in Christ Jesus. Oh, what wisdom that is. To get
that wisdom, not the wisdom of this world, but that which is
from God, to make thee wise unto salvation. Because salvation
is the thing. It's not just wisdom for its
own sake, it's wisdom, it's wisdom unto salvation. The being right
with God, the being made citizens of his kingdom. So then, there's
a powerful contrast portrayed for us here between the limitations
of this world and its wisdom, and the wisdom of God, and it's
in the Word of God revealed. Verse 89, the revelation of God
in His Word. This Word of God, This Word of
God, His commandment of verse 96, is settled in heaven. Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is
settled in heaven. It is fixed there, in eternity,
outside of the world's grasp. It is there in heaven, fixed
there, eternal. It is so special. Psalm 138 verse
2. Psalm 138 verse 2. I will worship toward thy holy
temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy
truth. Now listen to this. For thou hast magnified thy word
above all thy name. What respect we must have for
this word, this 3,000 year old word that we're reading this
morning. He has magnified this word above all his name. His Word is His Son, isn't it? The Word of God is His Name.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. This is His Son, the Word of
God. He's the One who was in the beginning.
He's magnified His Word above all His Name. He says in Philippians
2 verse 9, quoting the Old Testament, you've given him a name, the
Lord Jesus Christ, who was despised and lowly and humble, but yet
he's been exalted, and he's given him a name which is above every
name. In Hebrews, the opening verses,
two or three verses, talk about God, who at sundry times and
in diverse manners, spake unto the fathers by the prophets,
has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has
made an heir of all things, whom is the express image of His person,
of the unseeable God. He is the express image of it.
Philip, have I been with you so long and you have not known
me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. No man has seen God
at any time, says John 1.18. The only begotten Son who is
in the bosom of the Father, the Word became flesh, him, he has
declared God. He has declared God. The Word
proclaims the eternity of God. Verse 89, thy Word is settled
in heaven. Because what it really says,
that first three or four verses says, you are forever, O Lord. It doesn't just say forever thy
Word is settled in heaven, O Lord, as if you're telling God something.
No, you are forever, O Lord. God is eternal. God is infinite
in his eternity. You are forever, O Lord. Thy
word is settled in heaven. Unlike this limited world and
its limited border, which exists and continues only at God's decree,
look at verse 90. Thy faithfulness is unto all
generations. Thou hast established the earth,
and it abideth. God's made it, God's created
it, and how long will it go on? As long as God decrees it shall
go on. It abides only while He continues. As it says going on in Hebrews
chapter 1 and verse 3, talking about the Son who is the express
image of His person, it says He upholds all things. This world in which we stand,
and live, and move, and have our being, and interact, and
touch things, and they're solid things, and they hold us up.
He says it's all held together by the power of the Word of the
Son of God. If this is true, why wouldn't
it be? In a world of lies, when you
can't believe a thing, you can believe this. This is the truth. Thy Word is truth. Has it hit
you? the power that resides in the
Son of God, the power that resides in He who is the express image
of the Person of God to His creation, over which He exercises supreme
power, in whom we live and move and have our being, Just go back
to Psalm 2 with me, just for a moment. Psalm 2. Again, I don't
want to get distracted because I'll take too long. But, you
know, this is about this world raging against God, furious about
God. And yet, verse 6, I have set
my king upon my holy hill of Zion. This is the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Christ of God. God in flesh incarnate, ruling
over his kingdom. And so it goes on, he says, the
sun is the instrument of his judgment. Thou shalt break them
with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. Be wise now, therefore, O ye
kings, you who think you're powerful, be instructed, ye judges of the
earth, serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. You
young folk, consider Him. Remember your Creator in the
days of your youth. Verse 12, kiss the Son, the Son
of God, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Kiss the Son. Oh,
show allegiance to Him, lest He be angry, and you perish from
the way. When His wrath is kindled but
a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. That's where to be, with your
trust in Him. What is it that makes him angry? He's angry, lest he be angry.
What is it that makes him angry? Psalm 7, verse 11 says he's angry
with the wicked every day. What makes them wicked? I'll
tell you what makes them wicked, not what most people think is
wickedness. Unbelief is wickedness. John 6, 29, what must we do to
do the works of God? This is the work of God that
you believe on him whom he has sent. All sins will be forgiven,
said Jesus, but one. The only one that can't be forgiven
is the sin against the Holy Spirit. What is the sin against the Holy
Spirit? It is refusing to believe the revelation that He gives
you of the Lord Jesus Christ and His saving grace. Creation
stands as a testimony to the being of God. Verse 91, they
continue this day according to thine ordinances for they're
all your servants. The things that we see in creation
around us are all the servants of God. They all serve God and
they all testify to the reality of God. As Romans 1 tells us,
Romans 1 verse 18 says this, For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
hold the truth, they know it, they know the truth, but they
hold it in unrighteousness, they don't believe it. Because that
which may be known of God is manifest in them. patently obvious. For God has showed it to them.
For the invisible things of Him, God, from the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that
are made. Open your eyes and look around, even His eternal
power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because of
that, when they knew God, They glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise. Oh, don't
they! They became fools, and changed
the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto
corruptible man, and to birds, and to four-footed beasts, and
creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them
up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts. See
that's it, that's unbelief, that's unbelief. Are you blind to the
truth of God revealed in Christ? Why do some see it and some not
see it? Luke 18, just let me bring this
before you, just briefly. Two blind men. Or was it one
blind man? No, it was one blind man. A certain
blind man sat by the wayside begging. And he cries out because
God's revealed it to him that the Messiah's here. Thou son
of David have mercy on me. And Jesus said to him in verse
41, what wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, this
blind man said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. I'm blind,
I know I'm blind, I don't see things as I should. And you have
the power, for you are God, to make me see. And Jesus said unto
him, Receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved thee. And immediately
he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And they
gave praise to God for this. Can you see these things? Well,
it's the same. Christ, who is there today in
heaven, Lord, what is it you want from me, he says to you,
that I might receive my spiritual sight to believe these things,
to trust in his word? Ask him, and he will, he says,
ask and you shall receive. Knock and the door shall be opened.
Revealed in the heart, giving the sight of the soul. And that
gives life for eternity. Verse 93, I will never forget
thy precepts, for with them thou hast quickened me, thou hast
made me alive. His precepts, his word. John
6, 63 says this, it is the spirit that quickeneth. It's the spirit
that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The
words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
These precepts, this Word of God from Christ, with them, He
makes His people live. But we have to grasp that salvation
of God, and I'll hurry on. The precepts of God's Word revealed
in the heart the righteous requirements of the law of God, and the affliction
of my state, look at that in verse 92, unless thy law had
been my delights, unless the perfect righteousness of God
that is encompassed only in Christ had been my delights, I should
then have perished in mine affliction. I should then have perished justly
because of my sins. Unless the perfect righteousness
of God, which is only encompassed in Christ, for He alone is the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes, Unless
thy law had been my delights, without it I would have perished
in mine affliction, my in afflicted state, as a sinner justly condemned,
deserving banishment from God's presence. Then should I have
perished. that the law has been made this
sinner's delight. How has it been made this sinner's
delight? Its precepts have made this sinner
alive, have shown salvation. Verse 94, I am thine, save me,
for I have sought thy precepts. salvation from condemnation.
How is this? How can the condemning law, how
can the merciless, strictly just law be the sinner's delight?
What a harsh regime to have to live under, isn't it? The law,
unless the law had been my delight, how can it be? Listen to what
Galatians 3 verse 10 says, for as many as are of the works of
the law are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them. Is that not you and me?
Are we not condemned by that law? How can that be my delight?
How can that be my delight and save me from perishing in my
afflicted state of sinnehood? Read three and four verses later
on in Galatians 3, verse 13 and 14. For Christ has redeemed us,
paid the price, from the curse of the law. How? By being made
a curse for us. Substitution, that's it. He was
the substitute for us. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. You see, the law demands that
the soul that sins, it shall die. It shall shed, it shall
pour out its life, and the life is in the blood. It shall pour
out its lifeblood. The law demands the death, the
bloodshedding of the sinner. Without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sin. But He who is Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of the law by hanging on that cursed tree
and His lifeblood pouring out to pay the price to the offended
justice of God. It says, Cursed is everyone that
hangeth on a tree, that the blessing He did that that the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, people like you and
me, through Jesus Christ. That we might receive the promise
of the Spirit. How do we receive it? Through
faith. Where do we get that faith? It is not of yourselves, it's
the gift of God, that none of us should boast. It is Christ
that is made unto us all that we need to be right with God.
Wisdom from God, and righteousness. and sanctification and redemption,
things of which this world knows nothing. He is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believes. The Jews thought
they would pursue righteousness, but they didn't, they couldn't
attain to it. They didn't see the righteousness of God and
how that Christ is the end of that law, the encompassing, the
fulfilling of the law of God, the end of all perfection, but
thy commandment is exceeding broad. but not as broad as Christ,
for He encompasses it all. He fulfills it all, the law of
God. He honored it. He kept it perfectly. He paid its requirements for
the multitude He loved. You know, don't get the idea
that when, you know, The Apostles, when they had the Council of
Jerusalem, Peter said, you know, stop putting a burden on these
Gentiles that they ought to obey the law of Moses, as if there's
something wrong with the law of Moses, you know. You know, it's a bad, it's a
condemning thing. Well, it is as a sinner, it is,
but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that it is God's law.
It is God's righteousness. It is majestic and beautiful
in its concept of perfection. The problem with it is our flesh,
in that it's weak through the flesh, because we cannot keep
it through the flesh. But Christ has encompassed it. He is the end of it for righteousness
to everyone that believes it. He is the one who makes it honorable.
Do we make the law void through faith, asks Paul at the end of
Romans 3? No, rather through faith, We
establish the law, we establish, we lift up, we honor the righteousness
of God. The righteousness of God, the
holy law of God is honored in Christ Jesus, who is the encompassing
of the whole of God's righteous requirements. So, there's so
much more we could find here. Time is just about gone, and
I don't want to overburden. We've got the experience of the
man, Christ Jesus, accomplishing redemption. There's so much more
to dig into. Him doing that for us in the
face of Satan's kingdom. But let's leave it here. In a
world so limited, the truth of God and the God of Truth are
infinitely vast. Thy commandment is exceedingly
broad, infinitely soul-satisfying, infinitely dependable. Don't
bury your head in the futile distractions of this world. If
you're young or if you're older, remember now thy triune creator
in the days of your youth, especially in the days of your youth. There
is so much here for which we can praise him and thank him
and rejoice. Amen.