Psalm 49 opens as follows. The chief musician, a psalm for
the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people. Give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together. My mouth
shall speak of wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall
be of understanding. I will incline my knee to a parable. I will open my dark sayings upon
the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the
days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me
about? they that trust in their wealth
and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches none of them
can by any means redeem his brother nor give to god a ransom for
him for the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceases
forever that he should still live forever and not see corruption
hear this all ye people Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
world, both low and high, rich and poor, together. Hear this. In the two psalms before this,
we saw, as it were, a contrast between the cities of this world
and the cities of men's hearts and how fleeting they are. And however strong they may seem
to be, like Jericho of old, however thick the walls, however tall
the towers, however mighty, however mighty men may be, when God sends
forth his gospel, they are nothing before him. And we saw the contrast
with the cities of this world and the city of God, Zion. The one city which will stand
forever. That city is eternal. That city
is everlasting. That city will never be destroyed. How mortal is that which is below. How immortal is that which is
from above. How fleeting is that which is
of man. However lasting and eternal is
that which comes from God. And in the 49th psalm the attention
of the psalmist moves to the riches of this world in contrast
with the riches which are above. one of the things that captivates
men in this world and which they seek after and which they trust
in and which leads to the building of their cities and the glory
and the honor that they have. One of the things that is so
insatiable in man is his hunger and his thirst after the riches
and the wealth and the pleasures of this world. All that he can
attain in this world however you define riches whether it
is monetary riches or whether it is having a name to be someone
or having glory and honor from other people bestowed upon you
or having perhaps land or having the things that you like whatever
you seek after for there are some that are content with little
and some that are content with much many seek different things
but whatever the riches that you seek after if they're here
below They are fleeting. They will perish with you when
you enter the grave. You cannot take them beyond time
and into eternity. They are nothing. They are nothing. Your life is but a vapour. And yet people's lives are spent
with an insatiable seeking after and gathering and increase in
all that they can get here below. Even though by the time they've
gathered it in, they breathe their last breath and they're
gone. They can't help themselves. And yet the psalmist would point
our attention to the fact that we have a soul.
and that that soul goes beyond the grave. The 70 or so brief
years that you might be given to live in this world may be
less, may be more, but the fleeting time that you spend here below
is nothing compared to the extent of eternity that awaits. And
people will look after their bodies which perish they will
gather riches and build up houses and build up land and build up
a name and an honour for themselves and get all that they can for
everything which is but for a moment and yet they neglect the one
thing they have which will carry on into eternity they think not
about their soul They do not spend any of their time or their
energy in seeking what will protect their soul. They will not redeem
it. They cannot redeem it. But they
don't even think about it. They think every day, what will
I eat and drink tomorrow? Where will I go? What will I
buy? Where will I live? How will I
work? How will I prosper? Where will
I be in five years time? Where will I be in ten years
time? What will I gain from that? How can I increase this? How
can I increase that? And in a moment it's all gone.
And their soul that they neglected remains dead in sin. And in a moment they come to
stand before eternal God with a soul which perishes. they stand guilty before eternal
God as sinners and they've never considered the state of their
soul so the psalmist calls your attention
he calls all people's attention hear this all ye people Give
here all ye inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich
and poor, together. He's not simply addressing the
rich. He's not simply addressing those
who have obtained for a brief moment before they go and stand
before God. but he's also addressing those
who haven't obtained, or those who are yet poor who hope to
be rich, or those who are young who have great plans. He's addressing
all because it affects them all. They are all bound by a nature,
by the sin within. by a force that they cannot control,
that causes them to insatiably seek after everything they can
find and gather to themselves in this world, even though they
cannot take it past the grave. This is a commentary, as it were,
on the mortality of riches. They do nothing for the soul.
They cannot save. We cannot keep them. True riches
lie within the redemptive work of Christ, in Him alone. Then hear this, all ye people,
give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, both low and high,
rich and poor, young and old, together. My mouth shall speak
of wisdom. rich and poor together for it
isn't the riches themselves which are evil you need to hear this
message whether you are rich or whether you are poor if you're
poor don't look at the rich man and say well i'm not like he
is Well he's got riches, I mean he's evidently sought after those
things but I don't have those things. I haven't gone the way
he's gone. It's not the riches themselves
which are evil. It's the love and the desire
for them. And the poor can love riches. The poor can love the pleasures
of this world. The poor can love the acclaim
and the praise of others. The poor can love everything
that feeds and satisfies their flesh, their body as much as
any rich man. For the love of money is the
root of all evil, Paul says in Timothy. And while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows. They have a love of money. They
have a love of pleasure. They have a love of the praise
of men. They have a love of everything that's here below. and their
love causes them to seek after these things and the effect of
it is it pierces themselves through with many sorrows it doesn't
bring them pleasure it doesn't bring them peace because it doesn't
address the great need of their soul there are many poor in this
world who don't have great riches but they seek after every pleasure
they can get so they drink to make themselves drunk because
they find a pleasure therein. They take drugs to give themselves
a pleasure because they can't afford the riches, they haven't
got the riches that the rich man has. But they can use what
money they've got to bring themselves what pleasure they can. Insatiably,
and they can't control themselves, they become addicted. The drunkard
becomes addicted to the alcohol, The drug addict addicted to the
drugs. The gambler to the thrill of
gambling. The sportsman to the thrill of
sports. The showman to the thrill of
the acclaim and the praise of others. The investor to the thrill
of seeing his investment increase. All moved along by their love
of money, and their love of riches, and their love of pleasure, and
their love of sensory entertainment, their love of self, which ultimately
pierces themselves through with many sorrows, for it does. You
see the drunkard, he's happy for a moment, he's miserable
the next day. You see the drug addict, they're
happy until the money runs out and they're desperate to get
the money to get the next drugs. And they bring themselves into
great tragedy and death. You see those who seek after
riches, who have this thing fail and that thing fail. And when
they've got the riches, they become paranoid about others
trying to take them off them. Oh how the rich men when they
near their old age, how many complain about the attitude of
the children and the relatives who are looking for their dying
day in order to inherit and take what they can and pick up the
pieces like scavengers. Oh what sorrow
comes with so many things. They pierce themselves through
with many sorrows. This is addressed to all. Low
and high, rich and poor, together. My mouth shall speak of wisdom
and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear to a
parable. I will open my dark saying upon
the heart. Simon here then goes on to speak
of this subject and he speaks of it as it were as a parable. He's not so much addressing the
surface and the surface of riches although that's there. But he's
using this as a message for something far deeper. He's using this as
a message to point you to the fact that you have a soul. and
your soul has a great need and you use much energy and effort
to provide for your flesh and to seek after the riches and
the pleasures of this world but you neglect your soul what does
it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own
soul that's his message I'll incline my knee into a parable,
I'll open my dark saying upon the harp. That's his message,
you've got a soul and none of these things that you seek after
and that you multiply can redeem your soul. That's the one thing
you've got that will go the other side of death into eternity and
it's the thing that you don't think about, you don't care. You use all your energy for that
that's perishing and none for your soul. You shut your ears
to everything that could help your soul. God sends his gospel,
God sends his truth, God has left his word written down in
the scriptures. to address the great need of
man's soul and men shut their ears. They never open the book,
they never read it, they won't listen, they look around, they
don't want to listen, they don't care. Because they have an insatiable
desire for all that feeds the flesh. and an uncontrollable apathy
for that which feeds the soul. But the psalmist will open his
dark saying upon the harp. He'll use a parable. He'll try
to draw your attention to the need of your soul by speaking
to those things that you can understand. You understand riches. You understand honour one from
another. You live in this world where
that takes up your thoughts and your attentions. You understand
those things. So you'll begin with the heart,
so you listen. But he has a message. Your need
is not the honour that comes from men. Your need is not the
riches that you may have or may want, rich or poor. Your need
is the redemption of your soul. Wherefore should I fear in the
days of evil when the iniquity of my heel shall compass me about,
he says. Here's one that's come to know
something different. He knows that when the days of
evil come, when his sins are brought against him, he knows
they won't condemn him because he has been redeemed. He's come to know of riches beyond
comprehension. He's come to know of a God that
has delivered him from his sin. the psalmist has come to see
the poverty in the riches here below. He's come to see how poor
these things are. How empty and barren they are. He's come to look upon the rich
in this world and the mighty in this world and see how empty
they are. He's had his eyes opened. He's
seen light shining in the darkness. Oh you might go around in this
world and you might encounter those who have many things. You
might see them driving around in their great chariots and acting
like they are something. But if you're given understanding
like the psalmist, you'll see they've got nothing. They have
got nothing. It's all empty. It's all perishing. and all their gratitude all their
grand strutting about and looking down upon others is a sad reflection
of their blindness that they don't see that these things are
nothing and they've got nothing and even the honor they may receive
from others is fleeting and will be gone in a moment. They don't
see how poor they are. They think they're rich when
they are, of all men, most poor. Because the one thing they've
got that lasts their soul, they've got nothing for it. They've got
no riches for their soul. If you consider time and eternity,
and think of it as words in a book, and think of the first page in
the book and read the first word. That's time. Move on to the second
word and the second chapter and the third chapter and you're
into eternity. Well that's time. So consider
yourself in time. Consider the first words. I'm
rich here and then it's gone. And then it says I'm poor and
without nothing. And then eternity begins and the rest of the story
carries on. That's reality. That's how brief
men's lives are. for a blink. They are something,
they have something, they're considered to be something but
then it's all gone and the reality comes about and they stand before
God naked and bare with a soul full of sin and nothing for it.
No redemption, no cleansing, no salvation, no forgiveness. They've got nothing. Nothing
but the wrath and the judgment of God to come. Nothing but the
fires and the torments of hell. they are as a rich man in hell
calling out to Lazarus give me a drop of water to cool me but
it's too late and the rich man would have somebody go back into
this world to warn his children but it's too late he didn't hear
and they won't hear And yet there's a psalm that
was addressed to him, and there's a psalm that's addressed to them,
and there's a psalm that's addressed to you, which if God opens your
ears, you may hear that begins, hear this, all ye people, hear. This psalmist knew how barren
this world is. He knew how poor the rich of
this world are. He knew how foolish they are.
He knew how foolish he was. He knew how poor he was. He knew how barren he was. But he knew that God had redeemed
him. and in Christ and in his blood
he'd given him riches beyond all splendor he knew he had everything
in Christ his soul had been ransomed wherefore should I fear in the
days of evil when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me
about I won't because God's got me he's delivered me whereas
these you perhaps who haven't, who haven't heard God's grace,
who haven't heard his message, who haven't heard this, hear
this, those who haven't heard, who trust in their wealth, will
perish. He goes on to say, they that
trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of
their riches, none of them can by any means redeem his brother
nor give to God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their
soul is precious and it ceases forever. That he should still
live forever and not see corruption. They can't do anything. They
trust in their wealth. They boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches. But none of them can redeem their
brother. They can't redeem themselves.
They can't redeem their brother. They can't give to God a ransom
for him. So there is Lazarus as it were. And he's saved. And there's the
rich man. And he's in hell. And he couldn't
redeem himself. and he can't redeem his brothers
or his sons or his daughters no matter how rich he was no
matter how powerful he may be the most powerful man in this
world the most powerful woman the most powerful people the
richest The greatest, the ones that have all the honour and
the praise of men can't do anything for their souls. And you see
this, you see this time and time again. You can see the praise
of men that's heaped upon others. Oh how they like to talk about
this one and that one. This great leader of this great
company. but they can't do anything to
redeem their souls. When ill health comes, when they're
struck down by cancer, all the riches that they multiplied have
no effect. And the reality of life comes
to bear. For he see, if that wise men die, Likewise the fool
and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. Doesn't matter whether you're
smart or clever, doesn't matter whether you're foolish, doesn't
matter whether you're rich or doesn't matter whether you're
poor, we all perish, we all die, we've all sinned and all that
we have is passed to others. Their inward thought is that
their houses shall continue forever, and they dwell in places to all
generations. They call their lands after their
own names. Nevertheless, man being in honour,
abide if not. He's like the beasts that perish. This their way is their folly,
yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. You see our thought,
our inward thought, is that we will, as it were, continue forever. We think, as it were, that our
bodies will continue forever. We think our houses, our mortal
house, will continue forever. But we also think that our name
will be left in this world in the history books, as though
that matters. People have land and property
and they leave it to their children and they leave it to their children.
Farmers have farmland that gets passed on generation after generation. But it doesn't last forever.
And several generations down it's gone. And however many generations
it may be passed to, when they go they're gone. doesn't matter
how much they're honored doesn't matter what you've done in your
life what great name you've made for yourself doesn't matter if
you're a great scientist or a great physician or a great political
leader or some person known in the media or the entertainment
world doesn't matter how famous you may be you perish You can
name the names from the history books, Julius Caesar, Henry VIII,
whoever they may be, their names, but where are they? They've perished. This their way is their folly,
yet their posterity approved their sayings. Every generation
comes along and speaks well of those that are dead. and well
of what they did without thinking about where they are. They've
perished. What did they do regarding their
soul? Men always repeat the same foolish
ways. Generation after generation after
generation, each new generation comes along, each new group of
young people live their lives and they all make the same foolish
mistakes that their forefathers did. They all seek after the
same things, they all seek to make a name for themselves, they
all seek to make themselves wealthier, they all seek after the same
pleasures and none of them have any wisdom to learn and to look
back and say whatever that great man did in the end was for nothing,
he perished. Now you can look back, if you
were to read anything that some of these great people in history
have written, you might learn something if you learnt from
their latter end. Winston Churchill is one of the
greatest respected names in Britain. He led the country through the
war years. He brought unity when the country
needed it. The speeches, the gifts he was
given with his speeches to bring hope in the darkest of hours
was greatly used. He brought us through the war
years and he did many things to help bring peace in Europe
afterwards. But in his dying days, When he
was an old man he looked back and he said I've lived many years
and done many things to achieve many things and in the end I've
achieved nothing. In the end all that he did comes
to nothing. Oh his name might be revered. Many people might speak much
about him but he's but a man with a soul. And where he stood
before God is the only thing that matters. Where do you stand
before a holy God? Where is your soul? Man being
in honour, abide if not. Many seek immortality by hoping
to achieve something by which others will remember them. They
speak of this. They say, oh, that one's immortal. He immortalized his name. He's gone down in history. They're
in the history books. And many seek to make a name
for themselves, that they'll be remembered long after their
death. But what good does that do them? They are dead in the grave. They've
been judged. Either they've been washed by
the blood of Christ despite all that they did and they're with
him in glory or they're in hellfire. Paying for their rebellion. Paying
for their apathy. Paying for their hatred of God
and love of self. What good has a name that lasts
in the history books done them? What good is it to have your
name in a history book? What good is it to have a road
named after you? Or some house named after you?
Or some land named after you? What good will that do you when
you're the other side of death? That's not immortality. It is folly. It's folly to try
to seek to extend your name somehow when you don't do anything for
your soul. When you don't consider the state
of your soul, when you don't cry out to God to have mercy
upon you. That is just what all men do
insatiably, generation after generation. Their posterity approve
their sayings. They all say, yes this is great,
this is what we need to do. Wasn't that a wonderful man?
Won't I be remembered if I do this or I do that? Their way is their folly and
yet their posterity approve their sayings. They don't listen. They don't learn. And yet there's
a message that cries out through all time, to every generation,
to all people in all the world, there's a message that carries
forth from God, through time, from eternity into time, it carries
forth, it goes to every generation, every person in the world, every
country, every corner of the world, and it says unto them,
hear this, all ye people give ear all ye inhabitants of the
world both low and high rich and poor together these things
won't save your soul you've no excuse every single person in
the world who hears this cannot stand before God on that day
and say I didn't know When your day comes and your last breath
has gone and you stand before God, He will say to you, when
you heard from this psalm, hear this, about riches, and you spent
your life seeking all that is here below, and you never considered
the state of your soul, what were you thinking? What is your
answer? What is your excuse? You are
without excuse. As Paul says in Romans, we are
all without excuse. Hear this, all ye people. Their posterity approve their
sayings. Says in the Gospels, Mark 10,
24, and the disciples were astonished at Christ's words. But Jesus
answereth again and saith unto them children, how hard it is
for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of
God. You trust in all that's here below. You seek after it. You must have it. Yet it does
nothing to save you. Like sheep they are laid in the
grave. Death shall feed upon them. and
the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And
their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for he
shall receive me. Selah. All these like sheep go
the same way. And we're all like them. We all
follow, all go in the same way, the same way. Running away from
God. Running after this world. Running
after making a name for ourselves. We all go the same way. And all
the sheep die. And all the sheep are laid in
the grave. And death feeds upon it. We waste
away, the body's gone, it rots. the upright shall have dominion
over them in the morning and their beauty shall consume in
the grave from their dwelling however grand you were however
beautiful you were however handsome you were however great you appeared
before men you rot away to nothing and all you've got is a soul
and does that soul perish? or has it been redeemed? the
Sami's hope was in God God will redeem my soul from the power
of the grave for he shall receive me what faith and hope he had
he'd been given an understanding of riches from another source
riches that will never perish riches which will never rust
riches which will never be taken away riches beyond imagination
he'd been given a sight of his saviour. He'd been given a sight
of a redeemer. He'd been given a sight of salvation. He'd been given a glimpse into
the light of God and the glory to come. He'd been given a glimpse
into that heavenly city Zion. He'd seen the walls of Jericho
fall down flat. He'd seen the city below burned
with fire. He'd felt his own heart fall
down flat and the hardness of his own heart be burnt up and
consumed and he felt the work of God within taking him and
then making him a part of that Zion to come. He saw the light,
the light shone in the darkness and he knew that there was one
who would lay down his life for him. He knew there was one who
was redeeming him. He knew there was one who ransomed
him. He knew there was one who was
saving him, who had saved him and who would save him in the
end. God will redeem myself from the
power of the grave. God will. He will redeem my soul
from the power of the grave. God in Christ will redeem his
brother. and give himself a ransom for
him. None of them can by any means
redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him. None of
the rich in this world can do anything for their brother but
Christ has redeemed his brother and he has given a ransom for
him. His love looked down through
eternity, through time, to this psalmist, to this one, to this
sinner. And it paid a price for him,
to redeem him. It said, what's the ransom price?
And it paid it. And it paid it with blood. Christ,
the Son of God, gave his all that he should deliver his people
from their sins he gave his all he left the glory of heaven above
he left the glory he had with his father and he came into this
world made to be nothing made poor made barren, spat upon,
rejected, hated, despised, even by those whom he loved, that
he should deliver them. 2 Corinthians 8 verse 9 Paul writes,
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though
he was rich, for your sakes he became poor. that ye through
his poverty might be rich. He was rich with true riches. He was God's, God's son, the
son of God, a prince, a king. He was rich. Yet for the sake
of his people, for your sakes Paul writes, he became poor. he gave it all up he became a
man a rejected man, a hated man, a despised man that he might
through his poverty make that people rich did he do that for
you? did he give up all for you? that he should make you rich
not with the riches in this world that perish but with those that
are everlasting. Where are you looking for riches? Here below or in the blood of
Christ. Be not thou afraid when one is
made rich, when the glory of his house is increased, for when
he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend
after him. Though while he lived he blessed
his soul, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to
thyself. He shall go to the generation
of his fathers, they shall never see light. Man that is in honour,
and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. O has God given you understanding? There are those who are poor
in this world who long to be rich and understand not the riches
of God in Jesus Christ. There are those who are rich
in this world who understand that these things perish and
know that their true riches are found in Christ alone. but there
are those also rich or poor who have no understanding and they
think that all that they can have is in the things that they
can take now and in the honour that they receive now they understand
not and when they perish they are like the beasts that perish
they're no better than beasts they're just flesh they grab,
grab, grab They breathe their last breath and they die and
they're gone. Where is their understanding? Oh the foolishness of men. Is the measure of a man based
on how much he has? How do you judge? How do you
measure men and women in this world? Who are great in your
eyes? Do you measure them by what they
have? Do you measure them by the riches
they have? Do you measure them by the houses
and the land they have? Do you measure them by the physique
they have or the beauty they have or the looks they have?
Do you measure them by the talents they have the abilities they
have? Oh look at that one he can sing
isn't he wonderful Oh look at that person, look how good they
are, look how fast they can run, aren't they amazing? Oh look at the mind of that man,
how wonderfully he can discern things. Oh look at the words
of that one, how they write. Do you measure somebody by what
they have? Whether it's physical goods,
money or talents or looks. Or the acclaim and the praise
of others. Oh how popular they are. Oh I'd
love to be as popular as them. I'd love to have friends like
they've got friends. Here's the measure of a man based
on how much he has. Is he more if he has more in
your eyes? Do you esteem the rich man greater
than the poor man? Do you esteem the handsome better
than the ugly? Do you esteem the talented better
than those who struggle? Do you measure a man on how much
they have? Is he more if he has more? Is
he less if he has less? Is that sort of thinking, that
sort of praise, that sort of honor, is that really the height
to which men's hearts can attain. Is that as high as their thinking
gets them? Is that as high as your thinking
gets you? Do you really judge one another
in that way? To measure each other based on
their wealth and material things or their looks or their talents?
Is that how you judge one another? Is that how base you are? How
beast-like you are? By nature it is. That's the depth
to which sin goes. That's the heights to which we
attain. We approve the folly of one another. We praise men
based upon that which is nothing. That which is nothing. That which
they're given. We see nothing more. Where is
man's understanding? Man that is in honour, and understand
if not, is like the beasts that perish, no better than a beast. What do you understand? What
do you see? They, when they're laid in the
grave, shall go to the generation of their fathers, they shall
never see light. What do you see? Are you in the
darkness yet? When you die will you be laid
in the grave in the darkness? Is all that you've ever known
darkness? The darkness of this world and
the sin of this world prevents these from ever seeing light.
Is it preventing you from ever seeing light? Is your sin so
great you cannot hear? Is your sin so great you cannot
see? Is it all just darkness? Or has God, as with this psalmist,
come unto you by grace in his gospel and shown you the poverty
of this world? Shown you the poverty of men's
hearts? Shown you the poverty of your
heart? Has he shone some light into
the darkness of your heart? However rich and great and talented
and praised you might be, you might be the most great in this
world. Has he shown you how poor you
are? How you've got nothing? How you
are nothing? Men speak well of you but you
know, by God's grace, that before God you're nothing. Has he shown
you that you're nothing? If he has, it's because in grace
he shone some light by his gospel into your dark heart. He said
unto you, hear this. He said it one day, and you didn't
hear. He said it another day, and you
didn't hear. He said it another day louder
and you turned away and ran. He said it louder again and you
prospered in this world and you went your way and you would not
listen. He said again, hear this all ye people. Low and high,
rich and poor together, He said unto you and you would not listen.
and you went your way, and you spent your money, and you bought
your things, and you fervored your own glory. He said unto
you, hear this, and you would not. And he sent an east wind,
and he took what you had away. And like Job, he brought you
to nothing, and he said, hear this, and you would not. And he said, hear this again,
and you began to wonder. and he stripped you bare and
he opened your eyes and he said, this is what you are and you
heard and he said, you're nothing and you said, yes, I'm nothing
and he said, you've got nothing and you said, yes, I've got nothing
and he said, you'll take nothing and you said, yes, I'll take
nothing and he said, you have a need and you said, yes, I'm
needy I'm needy he said, you're a sinner and you said, I know
You heard, you began to hear. Have you heard? Have you heard? Has he shown you your need? Has
he shown you how barren and empty you are? Has he shown you the
riches of his grace in Jesus Christ? Has he shown you his
son? Has he shown you the one who
was rich who for your sakes became poor? that by his poverty he
might make you rich? Has he shown you his blood? Has
he shown you his son crucified in your place? Has he shown you
the Saviour dying and bearing the sins of his people? Has he
said unto you, here is love, here is my love? that I gave
my Son that he should deliver his people from their sins. And did you see yourself slain
with Christ? Did you see your sin blotted
out? Did you see salvation in the
blood of Christ? Did you see in Him riches beyond
all splendour? The psalmist did. Paul did. All Christ's sheep have done.
Paul said, unto me, who am the least of all saints, is this
grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ. that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, that I should go to
them with the message of this psalm. Hear this, all ye people. Give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the world, both low and high, rich and poor, together. Hear
of the unsearchable riches of Christ. here this.