Our first text, we've got four. Not four messages, just four
texts. The first one will be from John's Gospel, chapter one.
The Lord Jesus Christ himself is the speaker. As everyone knows,
I've heard several of you already mention it this morning, yesterday
our nation celebrated the anniversary of its winning its independence. And that's worth remembering,
isn't it? That's worth celebrating. Today, I'd like for us to remember
and celebrate rejoicing the captain of our salvation, procuring the
independence, the freedom of his people from their sin. He
said, I come to set the captives free. And thank God by his mighty,
sovereign, reigning grace, he does exactly that. One hymn writer
expressed it this way. This is on page 207 of our hymn
book. Oh, Happy Day is the title of
that hymn. And the chorus is like this,
reads like this. Happy day, happy day, when Jesus
washed my sins away. What a day. I think Delilah was
playing that hymn a moment ago. What a day, glorious day that
will be. He taught me how to watch and
pray and to live rejoicing every day. Oh, happy day, happy day
when Jesus washed all my sins away. And happy day when we learned
that by experience. When the time came when he would
call us to himself, making known You're mine. You're mine. I've redeemed you. You're mine. The subject this morning is the
shepherd and his sheep. They go together. Where there's
one, there's the other. I know my sheep, we read here.
in John chapter 10. Someone years ago, I remember
hearing Brother Henry tell the story on more than one occasion,
but someone asked him, Brother Henry, do you believe that salvation
is forever? Do you believe when God saves
someone that it will be forever? And Henry very wisely answered
this way, it depends. It depends on who does the saving. If It's dependent upon man. If man has any part in it, then
no. Salvation won't be forever. It
won't last very long at all, because with man it's impossible.
Oh, but if, if, as this book teaches, if salvation is of God,
all of it, every aspect of it, then yes, it will be forever. It's an everlasting salvation.
It's a salvation that shall never end. We, I think, sometimes forget
salvation is not one isolated act. Salvation didn't begin when
I believed. Salvation didn't begin when I
came to Christ, when Christ brought me to himself. That wasn't the
beginning of salvation. In the experience of it, yes.
But salvation reaches back much further than that. Salvation
reaches back to eternity past, as we call it. I don't know what
else, how else to put it. As Paul put it in 2 Thessalonians
2, we're bound to give thanks. You know this verse. We're bound
to give thanks to God for you, brethren, because he had from
the beginning, from the beginning, before time began, he had from
the beginning chosen you to salvation. It begins with God, God's purpose
to save His people. And this He did in Christ before
the world was created. He had from the beginning chosen
you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the
truth. Mr. Spurgeon in the article in
your bulletin put it this way, in the very beginning, when this
great universe was in the mind of God, like the unborn forest
in the cup of acorns, long before the echoes walked into quiet
solitudes, before the mountains were brought forth, and long
before the light flashed through the sky, God loved His chosen."
Wow! What about that? What about that? But that's not all. Remember
Paul said, you were chosen to salvation. But that's not salvation
itself. No, you're elected to salvation,
but election itself is not salvation. It's the springboard of it. But
that's not all. Those that were chosen to salvation
required more. They must be redeemed. They must be redeemed. That's
another glorious part of God's great salvation. And we're told
in Galatians chapter 4, I love these verses. But when the fullness
of the time was come, God sent forth his son by soul, made of
a woman. He that was God from everlasting
became flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones. And Paul says,
I'll tell you what, that's a great mystery. That's a great mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness.
And why did he do so? Why did the son of God take upon
himself the form of a servant and become obedient even unto
death? Why did he do that? Joseph, the
angel said, I'll tell you why. Why you're calling his name Jesus?
Why you're giving him that name? It means the salvation of the
Lord. He shall save his people from their sins. That's why he
came. That's why he came. Boy, with
that glorious purpose. View him again when we read these
words, he came to redeem his people, to redeem them that were
under the law, not to make their redemption a possibility. I don't
find any comfort in that. People say, well, salvation is
possible for everybody, but it's not certain actually. It's not
guaranteed for anybody. Do you find any comfort in that?
A perchance, a hope so, a maybe? Oh, no, no, no, no. If the Son
of God did no more for Judas than he did for Peter, then none
of us have any hope. Oh, but he obtained eternal redemption
for us. He came forth to redeem them
that were under the law that we might receive the adoption
of sons. Oh, glorious, glorious redeeming. But that's still not all. Those
that were chosen by God the Father, those that were redeemed by God
the Son, must be called to life and faith. They must be brought
to experience this great salvation, to be made partakers of the divine
nature. Again in Galatians chapter 1,
we have another one of those blessed, blessed interjections
by God. But when it pleased God, Paul
had been talking previous to this about what he was before
God's grace, before the experience on the Damascus Road. He was
a blasphemer, zealous for the tradition of the fathers, but
that all changed, Paul said. When did it change, Paul? Did
you just kind of come to your senses one day? Did you just
decide to do about faith? Did you one day just wake up
and cast aside everything you once trusted in and come to Christ? What happened, Paul? Who made
you to differ? And Paul said, I'm glad you asked.
When it pleases God, that's when a man said. When it pleases God,
and when God is pleased to teach a man that, to get him lost,
to make him realize, to burn into his very soul the fact that
his salvation is not determined by himself, but by God who sits
upon the throne, oh, then I have hope for such an individual as
that. As long as men think, as they're told on every hand today,
that salvation is easy, oh, how derogatory to our great God.
The triune God, to speak of his salvation is easy, it's simple.
Oh no, it's great, it's sublime, it's majestic. The salvation
of any sinner is a miracle, a miracle. Every child of God is a living
miracle. The God's abounding grace, when
it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me. Oh, and Paul never got over that.
He never got over the wonder of that. He called me. He sits
in a prison cell. The last letter that he writes
to his beloved Timothy, he's still wondering, adoring, not
getting over the blessed wonder of that. Timothy, he called me. He had mercy on me, Timothy.
I was a blasphemer. And he called me by his grace. Oh, wondrous salvation. He called
him personally, personally. Those other fellas with Paul,
they just heard a voice. They couldn't make any sense
out of it. But Paul heard his name being called. Saul, I'm
talking to you. I preached one morning years
ago, and after the service, a brother, well I thought he was a brother.
He didn't act too brotherly after he cornered me before I got in
my car. And he said, I don't know who
you've been talking to. I said, brother, what's your
problem? Oh, he was mad as a hornet. I
thought he was going to punch me. He said, maybe you've been
talking to my wife. He said, I don't know who's been
telling you those things about me. I said, I don't have a clue
what you're talking about. But if the Lord has convicted
you about the message by his word, don't you expect an apology
from me? Oh, Paul heard a voice, the voice
of the Son of God speaking. And he said, Saul, I'm talking
to you. I'm not talking to these soldiers
with you. No, I'm talking to you, Saul. Oh, happy day. Oh, happy day. When he pointed
me out. And he called me as he did Saul
personally and affectionately. All we call and nothing happens.
So we can't even get our loved ones, our children, to come hear
the gospel. Nah, nah, they won't listen to
us. We don't have any power over them. Oh, but when the Son of
God calls, I talked to somebody the other day about this very
thing. And I reminded them, listen,
don't you forget. If God is pleased to bring them
down, they'll come down. Won't they, John? They'll come.
They'll be made willing in the day of God's power, and they
won't have a problem with that. Old preachers say, God won't
interfere with your will. Oh, you better hope he doesn't.
Be thankful that he does. It's not of him that willeth.
Thank God that it's not. Because Christ said, ye will
not come to me. Ye will not come to me. Oh, but
my people shall be willing in the day of my power. It was an
effectual call, Saul of Tarsus, that self-righteous Pharisee
came down. He came down, isn't that a pretty
picture? Oh, look what grace has done. There's Paul at one
moment setting up on his high horse. I thank God that I'm not
like other men. And now he's down in the dust,
bowing at the feet of the Son of God, begging, Lord, what would
you have me to do? What would you have me? Oh, amazing
grace, how sweet the sound. He called me by His grace to
reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen. Immediately, I conferred not
with flesh and blood." Marvelous calling. The life, as we read
a moment ago in Ephesians 2, you as he quickened, he made
you alive. Christ said God had committed
all power into his hands to give eternal life to as many as God
has given him. Lazarus come forth. I'm talking
to you, Lazarus. And Lazarus came forth. But that's
not all. That's not all. All those that
were chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, given life by God
the Holy Spirit, they must be brought home. We're still on the road to heaven.
We must be kept by the power of God. We must be brought to
the Father's house all the way home. Again, this is a part of
God's great salvation. This is exactly what our Lord
said to those grumbling Pharisees in Luke 15. Can you just picture
that? We're told our Lord was preaching,
teaching the sinners, and the Pharisees stood outside. They're too righteous. They're
just too holy. They can't get too close, but
they just look down their noses and they say, would you look
at that? Look at that. Brother Pharisee, do you see
that? He eats with publicans and sinners. He associates with sinners. Can
you imagine such a thing? And the Lord said, guilty, guilty. And he even enforced their accusation. When he said, what man of you,
having a hundred sheep, if he'd lose one, just one, Just one. My soul. Just one. Just one that
lost, undone, without hope. Just one. Nobody pays too much attention
to. Just one. Just one. Larry Chris, just one. He'll leave the 99 and go after
that one. Oh, I'm so glad he did. Which is lost, and he'll search
until he finds it. He won't give up searching until
he finds it. And when he finds it, not if
he finds it, oh, but when. He said, I'm the good shepherd.
I come to seek and to save the lost. And when he has found it,
what does he do? Oh pretty, please let me do something
for you. We open your heart. My hands are tied if you just
don't cooperate. Oh no, when he finds it, he reaches
down and lifts it up by his omnipotent power, puts it up on his shoulders
and takes it home, takes it home, rejoicing, rejoicing. The shepherd rejoices. And when
he cometh home, not if again, but when he cometh home, he calleth
together his friends and neighbors and said, rejoice with me, rejoice
with me. I found my sheep, which was lost. I say unto you that likewise
joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than
over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. And
until that time comes, When all the sheep are gathered into the
fold, the everlasting fold, until they're by all the way home,
all the way to the father's house, they must be kept. They must be preserved. Oh, if
not, they'll wonder. They'll be lost. They'll throw
in the towel. They'll just quit. if they're
not kept. That, too, is a part of this
great salvation. Anything less than that is not.
A salvation that doesn't bring me all the way to heaven is not
God's salvation. God's salvation, as Brother Henry
told that person, is everlasting. Oh, thank God it's eternal. It's
forever. I know, Ecclesiastes 3, the wise
man said, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it. Nothing
can be taken from it. And God doeth it that men should
fear before him. Where would be the glory? Where
would be the glory? Where would be the honor of the
great shepherd if one of his sheep should perish? My soul,
what a dishonor to him. Oh, how that reflects upon him
in a bad way. Imagine, can you imagine? Satan,
if that should ever happen, if he should lose just one that
the Father put into his hands, and Satan should snatch him out,
he could boast, I've got this one. I plucked this one out of
your hand, you couldn't keep him, I've got him. Thank God,
even Speaking of the supposition of such a thing, leaves a bad
taste in my mouth, doesn't it yours? Never, never. Oh, that soul that Jesus has
fled for repose, he will not, he will not desert to expose. That soul, though all hell should
endeavor to shake, he'll never, no never, no never, no never
forsake. Oh, thank God that he keeps his
people. We need cap, don't we? We need
the strength, the power, the wisdom, the grace of the great
shepherds. Because sheep, all of them, all
of them, they're weak, helpless, defenseless creatures. They have
no strength of their own to withstand their enemies. If they get lost,
if they wander off, just like he taught in Luke 15, they can't
find their way back. I mean, they can wander, but
they can't find their way back in their belly. They're lost.
If they get sick, they can't fight off the disease. If they're
threatened, they can't run away fast enough from the danger.
If they're attacked, they can't defend themselves. The only security
the sheep have is in their shepherd. You know how comforting it is
to the sheep when they can sing, the Lord is my shepherd. The
Lord is my shepherd. If their shepherd is wise and
good and strong, they're safe, they're secure. If the sheep
survive, if they live and flourish, the honor belongs to the shepherd.
If the sheep perish, the blame belongs to the shepherd. It is
the shepherd's responsibility to keep the sheep. Did you hear
that? It's Jesus Christ's responsibility to keep the sheep. Don't you
find that comforting? It's his job. It's his job. He's got the answer for the sheep. God doesn't look to the sheep.
He looks to the shepherd of the sheep. And thank God he is able
to keep that which we've committed unto him against that day. Listen
to the voice of the great shepherd himself here in John 10. I haven't
forgot about it. John 10 verse 27. Oh, what power, what power he
speaks with. What certainty? No room for doubt
here. My sheep hear my voice, he says,
and I know them. I know them. I know all about
them. And they follow me. And I give
them eternal life. And they shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which
gave them to me. My Father, which entrusted them
to me. Is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them
out of my father's hand There we are. He says you're in my
hand. You're in the hand of the great shepherd If that's not
enough Look at this other hand. You're in the hand of god You're
in both our hands. God the Father, God the Son.
Now who's going to pluck you out? Here's a divine distinction,
he says, my sheep. Not everybody, my sheep. He was
speaking to some people on this occasion, the Pharisees. And
he said, you don't believe me because you're not my sheep.
I'm not talking to you. He said, you're not my sheep.
Oh, here's a distinction, my sheep. Here's a divine gift. I give them eternal life. Here's
a divine promise they shall never perish. And here's divine security. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. We are preserved in the heart
of his love. And we are preserved in the hands
of his power. All thy saints are in thy hands. We are in the hands of Christ
our God and Savior. We're always in his hands. Always
in his hands. What a blessed place to be. This
is the place of security. Billy, I'm in His hands. I'm
in His hands. These are the hands that were
pierced to redeem me. These are the hands of omnipotent
power. These are the hands that hold
the reins of universal dominion. These are the hands that hold
us in life. These are the hands of God Himself. I give them eternal
life and they shall never perish. Period. No buts, no uncertainties,
no maybes, no exceptions. They shall never perish. Our
Lord here makes a blanket, unconditional promise. He takes into consideration
all times, all circumstances, all contingencies, all events,
all possibilities, and says concerning His sheep, I give them eternal
life. Because they're my sheep, I give
them eternal life, and they shall never perish. They shall never
perish, but they shall never perish. Oh, but they shall never
perish. What if they're babes in Christ
and weak in faith? He'll carry them in his bosom.
They'll never perish. What if they're young men in
Christ and their passions are strong? They shall never perish. What if they become old men and
their vision grows dim and they're weak? They still shall never
perish. I formed thee in the womb. I'll
carry you from the womb to the tomb. You're mine. You're mine.
What if they're tempted? Oh, they'll be tempted. But they'll
never perish. They may even be brought to the
place where they'll curse and say, I don't even know the man.
But they'll never perish. What if they're tried? They'll
never perish. What if all hell breaks loose
upon them and the Satan whispers in their ear in an hour of great
temptation and trial and weakness, why don't you just curse God
and die? They'll never perish. They'll
never perish. What if they sin? Well, there's
no give about it. They'll sin. They'll sin. Yes,
they'll sin. But they'll never perish. What
if they sin again? They will. There's no if about
that either. But they'll never perish. What
if they fall? What if they fall? They'll never perish. What if
they fall seven times in a day? They shall never perish. What
if they fall 70 times in a day? They shall never perish. Because,
as we read in Philippians 1 and 6, being confident. Oh God, give
us grace to honor Him with such confidence. being confident of
this very thing, that he which had begun a good work in you
will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Who begins salvation? God has from the beginning. God
does. And God will finish it as well.
Has God ever put his hand to anything that he didn't finish?
Has he ever left anything undone or half done? Oh no. And this promise is to all the
flock. They, they, just not certain
ones, but they shall never perish. Not one of Christ's sheep shall
perish. Not one. This is not the privilege
of just a select few. Oh, this is the mercy to all
the chosen flock. If you're a believer, if you
trust the Lord Jesus Christ, if you've received eternal life,
you shall never perish. Christ himself has promised it.
No, not even. You cannot even send away the
grace of God bestowed upon you in Christ Jesus. Now, as we read,
now are you in Christ Jesus. God puts you in. God puts you
in his son. Of God, Christ is made unto you
wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. God puts you in. No one can take
you out. When our Lord says eternal, he
means eternal. I hear people talk about professing
Christians. They say, oh yes, such as this
text here in John 10. Oh yes, yes, yes. No man can
pluck you out, but you can walk out yourself. Really? Really? You can walk out from
the hand of God Almighty and the Great Shepherd? You can walk
out? You can slip through His fingers? Nonsense. When our Lord says eternal, He
means eternal. How can life be eternal if it
can end? If I receive from God the gift
of eternal life, it's not possible for me by any act of mine, good
or bad, upon any grounds, lose that salvation and perish. No
angel, the hymn writer put it this way, no angel, nor a devil,
no danger, fear, nor fight, No foe, no tribulation, no throne,
no power, no might, no height, no depth, no creature that has
been or can be, can pluck me from thy bosom, can sever me
from thee. Here's the second text, Acts
chapter 20. Turn there if you will. Acts chapter 20. We'll
just read one verse. The context is Paul meeting with
the elders of the churches of Ephesus on his way to Jerusalem. He meets them there. He warns
them. He warns them. As the faithful
under shepherd, he tells them to beware. He says, I know once
I'm gone, there'll be wolves creeping, some from outside,
some from among you. He says, be on your guard, be
on your guard. But then in verse 32, he says
this, even in the light of what he just warned them about, he
yet says this, and now brethren, I commend you to God. and to
the word of His grace which is able to build you up and give
you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. If
I'm not upheld by God's reigning grace, and I'm serious as I can
be, if I'm not upheld by God's reigning grace, I have no hope
of heaven whatsoever. I'll fall. I'll fall. But grace, but grace, but God. That gives me a good hope of
obtaining that inheritance with all the rest of God's people.
Paul reminds them, I'm leaving you. You won't see my face again. We'll never meet again in this
world. They wept because of that. They loved the apostle and he
loved them. But he said, I'm not leaving you alone. I'm leaving
you in good hands. You're left in good hands. Thank
God for grace that is able. Grace that cannot fail. That's
the true grace of God. The grace as we sing that can
pardon and cleanse within. Grace that is greater than. Greater
than, more than equal to. Greater than all my sin. Oh, that's real grace for real
sinners. For sinners, I mean real sinners,
sinners who can do nothing to save themselves, who are absolutely
totally dependent upon the grace of God that brings salvation.
What a joy it gives me as your pastor. I've told you this before.
When I know something about your trials, your heartaches, your
burdens, and I often feel just helpless. as to what to do, what
to say. And I think of what Paul told
these Ephesian elders, you're in good hands. I had two occasions
just in the last week or so. Different individuals speak to
me in private. And I could just tell their heart
was breaking. They're just breaking. Burdened,
heavy, heavy. And I thought, oh, what can I
say? What can I say that's going to
make any difference? What can I do? And I'm praying
while I'm talking with them. Lord, give me a word, something
to help them. And then I think, oh, but you're
in good hands. I commend you to God and to the
Word of His grace, which is able to build you up. If salvations
of grace, all of grace, from beginning to end, if we're kept
by the power of God, I expect to see you in heaven. If you're
a child of God, if you've been redeemed, if you've been called
by grace, it's not presumption. It's just believing what God's
word says. They shall never, ever perish. Mr. Spurgeon said concerning
this verse from Psalm 31, my times are in your hands. Not
only are we ourselves in the hand of the Lord, but all that
surrounds us is as well. Our times make up a kind of atmosphere
of existence, and all this is under divine arrangement. We
dwell within the palm of God's hand. We are absolutely at His
disposal, and all our circumstances are arranged by Him in all their
details. We are comforted to have it so.
My times are in your hand. Why should I fear or doubt or
fear? My father's hand will never cause
his child a needless fear." And here's the third text. 1 Peter
chapter 1. Look at that, if you will. 1
Peter chapter 1, verse 5. And remember, these people were
going through some terrible, terrible ordeals. They were being
hounded, persecuted, driven from their homes, tortured, burned
in Nero's gardens to light his gardens, thrown to the lions,
drugged behind chariots. And Peter tells them in verse
5, you are kept. You are kept. You're kept by
the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed
in the last time. I found this brief article by
Brother Don. He said, I'm a sinner sealed
and preserved by His grace. Grace put me in the way, Don
wrote. Grace leads me in the way. Grace
keeps me in the way. I am kept in the hands of Christ,
my covenant surety, and good shepherd, kept by the seal of
God, the Holy Spirit, and kept in the hands of God, my Father,
kept in the omnipotent hands of the triune God, and none can
pluck me out. from those hands. You remember
in Genesis chapter 7 after the ark was prepared God told Noah,
commanded Noah, now come into the ark and we read in chapter
7 verse 16 these words, the Lord shut him in. The Lord shut him
in. Christ said I am the door, by
me if any man enter in he shall be saved. He'll be shut in everlasting. There's divine security. The
whole family is kept by the power of God. The members that are
yet on the road, the church militant, as it's called, ye that are yet
living, are as secure as those who have already gone before
us, that are already in heaven. That's so, if we're kept by the
power of God. When the Lord Jesus Christ brings us all to glory. Oh, it
will be His boast, His claim, His joy to say to God the Father,
all that you've given me, they're all here. There's none lost. There's none lost. Glory to His
name. There's none lost. And Peter
tells us, until that glorious day comes, we will be kept by
the power of God. What a mercy it is to have something
which the world didn't give us and the world can't take away.
Something which is independent of sickness or poverty. Something
which is forevermore the grace of God that is in Christ Jesus. Mr. Toplady wrote a hymn and
he expressed it like this. The work which his goodness began
the arm of his strength will complete, his promises yea and
amen, and never was forfeited yet. Things future, nor things
that are now, nor all things below or above, can make him
his purpose forego, or sever my soul from his love. I am his
and he is mine, forever. My name from the palms of his
hands eternity will not erase, impressed on his heart he remains
in marks of indelible grace. Yes, I to the end shall endure,
as sure as the earnest is given, more happy but not more secure,
the glorified spirits in heaven." And here's the last verse, Jude,
or rather the last text, Jude verses 24 and 25. Now unto him
that is able to keep you from falling, verse 24, and to present
you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
To the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and forever. Nothing short of omnipotent mercy
and grace can keep us. And nothing short of omnipotent
mercy and grace is what we have. No man, no angel, no church can
keep us. Friends, preachers, teachers
can do much for us, but they can't keep us from falling. He
who is our God and Savior, and he alone can keep us. Only the
arm of omnipotence can hold us up and protect us. Psalm 127,
the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He shall preserve
thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going
out. and thy coming in from this time forth even forevermore."
Judah assures us of our preservation and our presentation. He speaks
of both, doesn't he? Look what he says, and present
you false before the presence of his glory. This word present
means to set or to place like an artist after he paints a great
pulture, a masterpiece. He puts it in a prominent place
to be admired, to be seen. This is what the word means,
and this is what we read earlier, that in the ages to come, God
might show forth the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. We are His workmanship, and when
the great potter gets done, we'll be satisfied, awaking in His
likeness. Look what He has molded us to.
Look, oh my soul, look what grace has done. Behold, what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called
the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us
not, that's okay, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are
we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be. But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like
him. We shall be like him. But we
shall see Him as He is. How will He present us? Faultless
and with exceeding joy. Faultless. Faultless legally
and judiciously. Faultless internally and morally. Faultless personally. And also
with exceeding joy. Exceeding joy. The joy that David
spoke of when he said, in thy presence is fullness of joy,
at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore. They shall return
and come to Zion with songs of everlasting joy upon their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away. But Jude is talking about more
than the joy of the believer, the joy of the redeemed. He talks
about the joy, the joy of Christ himself. The joy that shall fill
the heart of Christ himself to see all those, to see of the
travail of his soul. Every one of them. And be satisfied. We'll wrap this up. This is what
Zephaniah is speaking of in chapter 3. Sing, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O Israel. Be glad and
rejoice with all your heart. O daughter of Jerusalem, the
Lord hath taken away thy judgments. have cast out thine enemy, the
king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee. Thou
shalt not see evil any more. In that day it shall be said
to Jerusalem, fear thou not, and to Zion, let not thy hands
be slack. The Lord thy God in the midst
of thee is mighty. He will save, he will rejoice
over you with joy, and he will rest. This is speaking of the
Lord. He will rest in his love. He
will joy over you with singing. And let's close the message as
Jude closed his epistle, verse 25. To the only wise God our
Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now
and forever. Amen. Amen. That is so shall
it be. So shall it be. Amen. God bless
you.