David was a man who knew what
it was to have enemies and he knew what it was to have enemies
who sought him dead the worst of enemies the most hateful of
enemies not just those who disliked him not just those who avoided
him not just those who spake evil of him But those who spake
so evil of him that they sought him dead. It says in Psalm 41
verse 5, Mine enemies speak evil of me, when shall he die? And his name perish. So great was their hatred for
this man of God. So great was their hatred for
all that he was and all that he said and all that he believed
that they wanted both he and his name dead and blotted out. And as such David stands before
us as a great figure and type of Christ For his enemy's hatred
of David was not because of David himself. It's because he was
a man of God. It's because he loved God and
his ways. It's because he was set before
us as a figure of Christ himself. Man's hatred is of God. Men hate the Lord Jesus Christ
and they hate his gospel and if you follow Christ, if you
know Christ, if you know anything of his gospel, of his grace,
of his love, of his salvation, You will meet something of the
same reaction that David met and you will know something of
the reaction that Christ himself met, met within this world. You will know something of how
Christ felt when he came unto his own, the Jews, and the Jews
rejected him. You will know something of how
Christ felt when he came into this world and all men railed
against him. You'll know something of how
Christ felt when he walked amongst those who should have received
him, those who should have loved him, those who should have honoured
him. The Jews, the religious, those who said they served God
and yet they were moved against him and they sought to stone
him and in the end they betrayed him and took him before the Romans. and accused him and had him crucified. When shall he die and his name
perish was the cry of their hearts and their souls against him.
and if you know Him and if you identify with Him and if you
walk with Him and if you speak of Him and His grace and His
salvation boldly and plainly to others in this world you will
meet with the same reaction. whether they express it verbally
or whether they just feel it in their heart men will see you
men will see in you Christ and their reaction to Christ of whom
you speak and of whose grace you've tasted will be to both
him and to you when shall he die and his name perish When
shall he die and his name perish? Mankind does not want God. Does not want to bow down the
knee to the Son of God. Does not want to worship the
Creator and their God. And wants to live as though he's
not there. And yet he is there. He is their
Creator. He is their God and one day they
will answer to Him. David opens his psalm like this,
Blessed is he that considereth the poor. The Lord will deliver
him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and
keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth. and thou
wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord
will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing. Thou wilt
make all his bed in his sickness. I said, Lord, be merciful unto
me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned
against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me.
When shall he die and his name perish? And if he come to see
me, he speaketh vanity. His heart gathereth iniquity
to itself. When he goeth abroad, he telleth
it. All that hate me whisper together
against me. Against me do they devise my
hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth
fast under him. And now that he lieth, he shall
rise up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend,
in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, have lifted
up his heel against me. But thou, O Lord, be merciful
unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this I
know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph
over me. And as for me, thou upholdest
me in mine integrity and settest me before thy face forever. Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen. What a psalm this
is. What a psalm of comfort for all
those who know what it is to be alone in this world, cast
out by the world because of their love for Christ and his gospel. A child of God believer, if you
feel at times when you look around at events in this world, when
you journey through this world, when you face your day-to-day
circumstances, if you feel at times like you're alone and the
world around you despises and hates you, and despises and hates
the truth that you know and love and has no time for it. It's
got no time for your gospel, got no time for your Lord, got
no time for Christianity. It has no time for anything.
it despises all that you are and all that you say and you
feel cast out and you feel alone and you feel like the armies
are as it were gathered around you massed around you on the
hilltops and there you are in the valley below on your own
defenceless and they're about to come down and rip you to pieces
if you feel like you cannot stand before them and you're alone
you have no strength You have no great riches, you have no
great power, you're poor and you're weak and you're helpless
and everyone around you is so strong and so mighty and so hateful. If that's how you feel, here
is a psalm where you will see how David felt in such circumstances
and how he found all his help in God, his Saviour. Yes, his
enemies spake evil of him. Yes, they wanted him dead. Yes, they thought they'd blot
him out and blot out the truth if they destroyed him. Yes, they
thought they'd triumph but ultimately they never did and David knew
that they never could. Ultimately David's strength,
David's salvation was in his God and men could do what they
liked to him and he would rise up again. Men could slay him
and God would lift him up. Men could blot him out and God
would bring him forth again. Men could take his name away
and God would take that name and write it in letters large
and proclaim it. Nothing that man could do unto
David or unto his Saviour would last. And child of God this world
may lie in darkness and you will see that darkness all around
you today you will see it in current events This past week
we've seen a major event, the election of the President of
the United States and all the words that are spoken and all
the unrest that comes and all the opposition and all the sayings
and all the evil and all the concern but whatever happens
Whatever has happened, whatever happens in the future, there's
nothing to fear if you know God. Men may turn with mighty power
and mighty movements and a great public opinion. with their views
that they wish to bring about and their worldview and how they're
striving to make the world like this or like that and it might
seem like you can't stand against it it might seem like these views
will prevail and God's ways will be trampled underfoot it might
seem like the wicked will prosper but even if the wicked come unto
you and put you to death If you are God's, God will lift you
up again. If you are God's, God will lift
you up and cause you to rise in Christ victorious. And if
the words that you speak are the truth of the gospel, the
truth concerning Jesus Christ, man might do everything he can
to blot it out, he might silence you. he might cast you out from
his presence he might cast you out from the churches he might
silence every avenue and every channel you might have to speak
he might shut you up but that word will just go forth again
in more power because there is a God who is on the throne there
is a God who is on the throne of this world He rules. And there is no leader, there
is no power, there is no country, there is no force, there is no
people who can stand against Him. His word is truth. He created this world. He put
man upon this world. man rebelled and fell and God
sent his son into this world to deliver his people from their
sins and from the sin and the death which entered when man
fell and he is saving and delivering that people with an almighty
and an everlasting salvation and one day he will separate
that people from the wicked in this world he will destroy this
world with fire and he will bring in a new heavens and a new earth
wherein righteousness reigns and his son will rule and that
people will reign with him and that's the ultimate end of all
history and everything that happens in this world is subservient
to that end then we have nothing to fear mine enemies speak evil
of me when shall he die and his name perish? If in Christ you
may die, and your name may be blotted out by men, but in Christ
you will rise again, and your name in him will be preserved
forever. They sought to kill Christ, and
God rose him up again. They sought to blot his name
out, and his name is the one name in time and eternity the
one name which will remain and be honoured forever and forever
there are many mighty names in history many names of many men
which have lasted many years but they all pale into insignificance
compared to the name of the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings then if you're in Him if you're
in Christ your enemies can do nothing to you they cannot triumph
they will be conquered you will be saved in the end however poor
you feel to be because you have a God and you have a Savior who
considers the poor consider first Blessed is he that considereth
the poor. The Lord will deliver him in
time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and
keep him alive. And he shall be blessed upon
the earth. And thou wilt not deliver him
unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in
his sickness. Now are you poor? Do you have
times of trouble? Do you have enemies who hate
you? Have you ever lied in a bed of
sickness? Do you feel your weakness, your
poverty? Do you feel like it's hard to
stand in such a world and in such company where there is hatred
and opposition to both you and what you believe every day? Do
you feel poor? Do you feel the poverty in your
soul of a lack of righteousness before a holy God? Not only can
you not stand amongst men, but in the presence of God you're
aware, you know that you're just like all men. That you're a sinner,
that you're wicked like all these others. that by nature you're
a sinner and you're poor in spirit? Do you know that you have no
righteousness? Nothing in you in which God could
find any pleasure. Do you come before God feeling
alone and cast out from men but alone and cast out by God? Do you feel like how could you
possibly be saved? How could you possibly be helped? How could you possibly be delivered
from your enemies when even God should be against you? Because
most of all you've offended Him. all the days of your life you've
gone astray, you've been apathetic to him, you've despised his word,
you've sought your own things and your own glory, you've trampled
his word underfoot and now all men are against you and how,
where are you going to run to help? Why should God have any
concern for you? You have no righteousness, you
have no goodness, nothing that you've done would merit anything
from his hands. All you deserve is hell. All
you deserve is his wrath and his judgment. Have you ever been
in that place? Are you in that place? Because
that's a place, my friend, of poverty. That's a place when
you know you're poor. When you know that you've got
nothing. Not just poor in that, oh I've
got a small little house and I've got a few pounds in the
bank and I've got a few bits of bread and I mean poor you've
got nothing. You're on the street, you're
in the gutter, you've got no food, no water. You've got no
righteousness. You've got no good works. You've
got no reason for God to look upon you favourably. you're utterly
bankrupt before him the world hates you and as far as you're
concerned God should hate you too and rightly so have you ever
been that poor? are you that poor? do you know
that you're there? are you in a time of trouble?
well here's your hope if that's where you are and if you want
to be delivered from it if you want to know the mercy of God
if that's where you are and you come before God crying out Lord
help me deliver me Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have
sinned against thee if you can say with David those words then
you will come to know and discover the blessing of that God who
considers the poor, the poor and needy, the poor in spirit,
those who have no righteousness and know it, those who are undeserving,
those who can only cast themselves upon His grace and His mercy. Are you in trouble? The Lord
will deliver His people, the poor, in time of trouble. Are
you poor? Blessed is he, the Lord, who
considers the poor. He considers them. He's looking
for those who are poor. He's looking for those who've
come to know they've got nothing. He teaches them that they've
got nothing. He's brought them to that place.
Once they thought they were rich. Once you thought you were rich.
Once you thought you were something. Once you thought you were something
before God. Once you thought, oh, I'm pretty
moral. I've done this, I've done that.
God will favor me. Once you thought you were religious,
perhaps. Once you thought you prayed and
you went to the meetings and God would be pleased with you,
you weren't like these other men. But now that's all gone. Now that's all been stripped
away. Now God's done a work in you and made you poor. And now
you cry out with David, Lord be merciful unto me, heal my
soul for I have sinned against thee. not just against men, but
against God. And when you're brought there,
you will find that this God is a God who's looking for souls
like you. He's looking for the poor. And
he receives the poor. And when they come unto him with
that cry, he blesses the poor that he considers. He delivers
them from their time of trouble. He preserves them and keeps them
alive. they're ebbing away, you're dying,
you're falling, you're slipping and you know you're slipping
and all you can see before you is death and hell after death.
All you can see is the wrath and the judgment to come of God
against your sin and you know you deserve it and you're slipping
and you're in trouble and God comes in his gospel and he points
you to the Savior who was in the same place you were poor
and cast out by men He points you to a saviour who bore the
sins of his people and he says unto you if you're his, look
there's your sin. Yes you sinned against me but
I've taken your sin and I've placed it upon my son. I've placed
it upon my son and he's gone to a place of execution in your
stead. look what he's done there he
is in your place I will consider you I will deliver you I will
cause you that deserve to die to live because I've slain him
in your place because of what you did yes you sinned but I've
paid the price he's paid the price I've judged it I've delivered
you and when you come there and you see that and you know that
you'll fall upon your knees before this God and you'll know that
salvation is of the Lord entirely of the Lord and you'll know that
all your hope and all your glory is to be found in Him you'll
know that man has done nothing for you You'll know that in your
time of trouble, you found man, all men to be wanting. No one
could help you. No one could come to your aid.
No one understood. No one cared. No one understood
what you were going through. In your soul, inside, oh you
could walk around. before men and people would think
that you're getting on with life. You were going to work, you were
getting up in the morning, things were going on, everybody thought
everything was fine, but inside you were in turmoil, in times
of trouble. You knew before God that you
were under a sentence, and you knew that death awaited, and
if you tried to speak to anyone about it, no one understood.
So you found man, even religious men, even the churches you went
to had no answer. You went to this place and to
that place and you told them the state you were in and no
one had an answer. They just tried to say all is
well. They just tried to say oh just believe in Jesus, just
do this, just do that. And you knew that you didn't
know Jesus, you knew that his blood hadn't washed you clean,
you knew that you were facing death. And they just tried to
say peace, peace, when there was no peace. So you found man
to be wanting and no help to be found in man. You knew you
were poor. But here in Christ, here in the
gospel, here in God, you found an answer. when God heard your
cries for mercy, when God came unto you and pointed you to the
Saviour upon the cross, when he put faith in your heart to
look and to believe and to see the Saviour crucified for you,
when he took the Saviour's blood. and sprinkled it upon your heart
and you felt the blood applied and you felt the forgiveness
of sins and you felt the burden roll from your back and you felt
yourself led into the presence of God and you felt Him saying
unto you son thy sins are forgiven thee peace be unto you when you
felt His love cast abroad in your heart when you felt the
forgiveness of sins when you felt the father speak unto you
through his son thou art mine then you knew that all your help
was in God and not in man and then when your enemies spake
evil of you and said when shall he die and his name perish you
could stand because you were in Christ and you knew the God
who bless the poor you knew the God who considers the poor you
knew the God you know the God who delivers the poor in times
of trouble and it prepares you for those days when your enemies
speak evil of you and when they say when shall he die and his
name perish it prepares you for those days I said, Lord, be merciful
unto me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned
against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me.
When shall he die and his name perish? And if he come to see
me, he speaketh vanity. His heart gathereth iniquity
to itself. When he goeth abroad, he telleth
it. All that hate me whisper together
against me. Against me do they devise my
hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth
fast unto him and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. How this world is blind to the
things of God and the work of God. How greatly do they misunderstand
When someone under the work of God stands before them and comes
unto them, they don't understand what's going on and they speak
evil of them. Oh, he's a fool. Oh, he's so
inward. Oh, he's always searching. Oh,
what a fool. What does he know? Oh, he's so
down. He should just be happy. He should
just worship and praise with the rest of us. How the religious
world misunderstands, because for all its words and all its
claims, it doesn't know the God whose name it takes. The Jews
took God's name and they didn't know Christ, the Son of God,
when God sent his own Son unto them. and Christendom takes Christ's
name and when children of God are born again and walk in their
midst and come in their presence and speak of the conviction of
sin and speak of their depravity and speak of their need of righteousness
and speak of the Savior and speak of how that Savior brought in
righteousness for them. and speak of his electing grace,
how they never chose him, but he chose them. And they know
he must have chosen them, because they never chose him, and yet
he brought these circumstances to pass, and he came after them
with the gospel, and he called unto them, and he saved them.
And they know they never sought him, so they know that he must
have chosen them, and they know that the truth of election is
true. And when they speak of these things to the religious
world, the religious world says, nonsense. and cast them out and
says of them that an evil disease cleaves unto them and when they
die they'll not rise up again oh how they whisper about the
children of God behind their back oh how they hate the truth
of the gospel and how they say in their hearts and perhaps to
the child of God's face When shall he die and his name perish? And they say it of them because
they said it of Christ himself. When Christ came, they said,
when shall he die and his name perish? The Jews moved against
him because of the truth that he spake of a sovereign God and
a God who saves his own. A God who saves, not man. That salvation is of God, not
of man. That you will be saved not because
you're religious, not because you made the right decision when
others didn't, not because you're more holy than anyone else, not
because you go to church, not because you've got the right
parents, not because you've got the right Bible, not because
you're in the right meeting, not because of anything you do.
that you won't be saved because of your works but you'll be saved
because of God and His choice and His grace. If that's the
gospel you speak of then the reaction you will have is hatred
and that's the gospel that Christ came speaking unto men he spake
of God and the sovereignty of God and that he had come into
this world to save his people from their sins and all this
cut across all the works and the glory in himself of the religious
world into which he came all the Jews the Pharisees, the scribes
were seeking to get to heaven seeking salvation through their
own zealous works they felt that because they were Jews and not
Gentiles that God favoured them they felt that because they had
the right birth that God would favour them they felt that because
they went to the temple and sacrificed and followed the teachings in
the law that God would favour them they felt that anything
that they did would merit God's salvation and Christ came unto
them and said it's not what you do it's God who saves and their
reaction was stone him, silence him, take his name away when
shall he die and his name perish? well there was a day when Christ
should die there was a day when Christ would die and the day
in which he died was not a day in which they could rejoice they
did at the time but soon afterwards they discovered that his death,
far from causing his name to perish, far from silencing and
ending the gospel, far from taking Christ away, actually magnified
and glorified both his name, his person and his message. The day Christ died he delivered
his people from their sins. The day Christ died he fulfilled
all that he promised regarding them. The day Christ died he
overcame all his enemies including those Jews that put him to death. On the third day he rose again
from the dead. Raise me up that I may requite
them. they said now that he lieth he
shall rise up no more well he did rise up they put him to death
they thought they'd finished him yet he rose he came in the
fullness of time when shall he die? in the fullness of time
not when men determined but when God determined nothing will happen
when you decide it should happen But it will happen when God says
now. Now. Now is the hour. Now is
the day of salvation. Now mine hour has come, Christ
said. Now. When God says now is the
hour, then the hour has come. When you say, I will be saved,
I will do this, I will do that. Nothing. Because you're not God. When shall he die and his name
perish in the fullness of time? Galatians 4. When the fullness
of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons. When God says now, He
sent His Son, He was born, He lived, He grew, He preached the
gospel, men rejected him, men took him and Christ said now
mine hour is come and they crucified him because God moved them and
said now you can take him they tried to stone him, they tried
to put him to death multiple times and they could not touch
him he slipped out of their grasp because his time had not come
but when God said now I will deliver my people from their
sins now all is fulfilled Now is the hour. Then he died. When shall he die? When men say
or when God says? When God sent his son, when God
purposed, he offered him up as a sacrifice for sin upon the
tree. When shall he die? In the fullness
of time and when his hour had come. John 12, 23 And Jesus answered
him, saying, The hour is come that the Son of Man should be
glorified. The hour is come, he said, at
the Lord's command, but not until John 7 30 earlier says then they
sought to take him but no man laid hands on him because his
hour was not yet come. They couldn't touch him. They
are powerless and you are powerless to do anything to Christ or anything
to any of his children except God put the power in your hands.
Oh you enemies of the gospel. O you in the darkness, O you
progressive liberals today, O you who hate the truth, any of you
who hate the truth of the gospel and what those that follow Christ
say unto you, all you who think you can do anything to God and
his people, learn this fact, you can do nothing until God
says, all right, take him, crucify him and in so doing you bring
a sentence down upon your own head which will never be removed.
If you take one hand and lay it upon one of God's children
you will answer for it. If you say one word against one
of God's people you will answer for it. If you mock Christ and
his gospel there is a price to be paid. You cannot do one thing
against God except he gives you the freedom to do it and if he
gives you the freedom to do it you'd better wish he never had.
Better that God thwarts all your plans and brings you to nothing
and brings you and breaks you and brings you to the sound of
the truth than that he gives you the freedom to further your
own iniquitous ways and your own opposition and your own hatred
of the gospel. if your heart is stirred against
what you heard today if you say oh be quiet I don't want to know
if you say of me when shall he die and his name perish if you
say of this gospel take it away and you do and work and endeavor
to silence the gospel and silence the truth and prevent the gospel
being preached and prevent the children of God declaring unto
you truth. If you try to marginalize this
truth and dismiss it and dismiss it as hate speech or any names
you want to call it in order to silence it, if you want to
put the truth to one side you'll find you cannot. And you'll find
that if you prosper in any way in doing so, it's because God
gave you the freedom and God will cause you to answer for
it one day. They could not take Christ because
his hour was not yet come. and yet John 17 1 these words
spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said father
the hour is come glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify
thee and at that hour God allowed wicked men to take his son and
to crucify him and if he allows you as a wicked man to take his
son or to take his people in his son and as it were crucify
them in him if he gives you the freedom you'll know what it is
to have his wrath poured down upon you Oh how men hate Christ, hate
his people and hate his name. When shall he die and his name
perish? They don't want to hear it because
that name Jesus Christ is so powerful. is so powerful and
brings an echo in the heart of truth. People know that he's
the Son of God. You know he's the Son of God
and you don't want to know him because he convicts you. Just
knowing of Christ, just knowing his name, just knowing he's the
Son of God, just hearing his name can bring conviction. People don't want to know it. and yet you can't silence it
because God will honour him and honour his name and the more
you try to kill him the more you try to block that name out
the more he will rise up before you and the more his name will
be glorified and you will not escape it there was one in Jesus'
company who turned against him, who betrayed him As David speaks
of here in verse 9, Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom
I trusted, which did eat of my bread, have lifted up his heel
against me. David knew what it was to have
his friends, friends that he trusted, reject him and betray
him. And in so doing he spake in prophecy
of Judas to come. that friend of Christ, that disciple,
that one that walked in his company with the other disciples who
ultimately, when the hour came, betrayed him. He had all the
words and all the profession. He walked with him. To the world
around, he looked like he was one of those identified with
him and yet he betrayed him. Matthew 26 speaks of this. We see his betrayal. and how
sobering it is because it warns us that we can know so much of
the truth and so much of the gospel and still not know Christ. As they did eat, verse 21, Jesus
said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray
me. And they were exceeding sorrowful
and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? And he answered and said, He
that dipeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray
me. The Son of Man goeth as it is
written of him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man
is betrayed. It had been good for that man
if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him,
answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou
hast said. Oh will you take this word home? There were those who walked with
Christ, there were those who came to the meeting, there were
those who knew the gospel, there were those who heard the word,
there were those who appeared religious, who turned against
him in the end. And it were better for them that
they had not been born. Betrayed. My own familiar friend. had him put to death. Betrayed
him to the Jews. They cried out, crucify him.
The Romans took him. They had a mock trial. They put
him to death. And they had their desire fulfilled. When shall he die, they said.
And his name perished. Here it is. It came. The hour
had come. Oh, victory they fought. His
enemies thought they'd conquered. Here's our hour. We've got him. We've slain him. That's the last
we'll see of him. That's the last we'll see of
this troubler in Israel. He's dead. Oh how victorious
they were and how victorious we see people in this world.
We see them as the days and the ages go by, as we see the political
movements, as we see how the evil multiplies, how those who
hate God and his ways, how they hate the truth, how they hate
his morals, how they hate the truth of righteousness, how mankind
thinks he's making progress. How we hear the world speak of
how they're going to make this world progress. And by this they
mean progress down the path they want to go, of taking the shackles
of God and pulling them aside, of breaking His bands asunder. Oh how they've progressed, oh
how they've taken the burden of Jesus Christ and His Gospel
and they've slain Him. and they've trampled his name
underfoot. Oh the progress they're making
towards getting rid of him and his people and this troublesome
religion. But as they slay him, So he rises
again. That hour that they thought was
their victory was his. And the hour in which you think
that you've made a victory over Christ and his gospel will be
the hour in which it conquers you. But thou, O Lord, be merciful
unto me and raise me up. And he did raise him up. Because
fifthly, He was favoured of God. By this I know that thou favourest
me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. Christ was favoured
of God and David in Christ was favoured of God and you, child
of God, however poor you might be, however alone you might be,
however many enemies you might be surrounded by, if you're God's,
if you're Christ's, you are favoured of God and your enemies will
not triumph. They might have a temporary moment.
The Jews for a while thought they'd conquered, thought they'd
killed Christ, thought he was out of the way and then on the
third day he rose again. And then his disciples, his apostles
came into Jerusalem preaching the gospel and the people believed. And the Jews couldn't comprehend
it. They got rid of Christ. And here's
even more trouble in their midst. There's multiple people going
around now. Not just this one man, but there's
these disciples. There's more than one of them.
And they're going around preaching of him, and they're saying he's
risen again, and the people believe it. far from taking this trouble
and concealing it and silencing it it's multiplying because he
was favoured of God and his enemies could not triumph and he was
favoured of God because he was righteous And God, when he slew
his son, raised him up in righteousness. He bore the sins of his people,
but he took those sins away and took them away to the uttermost,
and he rose up righteous and victorious. As for me, thou upholdest
me in mine integrity and settest me before thy faith forever. Well God can only set Christ
before His face forever if there's no sin in Him. Then all the sin
of His people was judged and His salvation was perfect. And
they in Him are righteous in Him. And if you're in Christ
you are righteous as Christ is righteous. And you are favoured
of God as Christ is favoured of God. You're one with Him.
You're loved of God. And man can do nothing to you. and He set His you with His Son
before His face forever. Oh to be held before the face
of God the Father. Oh for God to look upon us favourably. What a wonderful blessing. What
a wonderful hope. What a wonderful salvation. And
how everlasting is this. Seventhly and finally, David
says, blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and
to everlasting. Amen and amen. This God who kept
his son, this God who took his son when men slew him, when he
laid down his life in the fullness of time, when his hour had come,
this God who took his son raised him up. and he favoured him and
he blessed him and he magnified the righteousness of God in him
and he set him before this world forever as that eternal everlasting
Son of God who is from everlasting and is true everlasting. The
eternal God set before us his eternal Son and his eternal salvation. Have you seen him? Have you seen
him? Has God opened your eyes to see
this saviour? This everlasting eternal saviour? Have you seen his righteousness? Are you so poor that you hunger
for it? Or are you left amongst those
who just want to go away? Who just want to shut your ears? Who just say of Christ when should
he die and his name perish? For if you are, one day you will
stand before Him. One day the Son of God that you
with wicked hands have slain, that you in your heart have put
to death, whose name you have trodden underfoot, one day with
all men you shall bow the knee unto this Saviour. all men shall
bow the knee and you shall know that his name is above every
name it's above every name and the one you despise is eternal
he was there before the worlds were made he was there when the
world was created he was there throughout all history he was
there at every event he was there when you were born he was there
when you lived he was there when you died and he's there the other
side of death the other side of the grave when you've lived
your life blotting his name out there he will be and you will
bow the knee to he whose name lives and reigns forever and
then you will know that yes there was a day that he died but he
rose again as the scriptures recorded and oh how you should
have looked Oh, how you should have known. Oh, how you should
have heard. Oh, how you should have bowed
the knee, the other side of the grave. Oh, may God have mercy
upon us. to open our eyes to see the truth
to open our ears to hear the truth and to open our hearts
to believe the truth in this day in this day of grace in this
hour in these days upon which we walk upon the face of this
earth when the gospel comes When you hear the Gospel, when you
hear this message, God give you grace not to reject, not to trample,
not to turn away, not to say in your heart, when shall he
die and his name perish, but God give you grace to be made
poor, to confess your poverty, to confess your unrighteousness,
to cry out, Lord be merciful unto me, heal my soul. for I have sinned against thee
O may God in mercy put you where he put David and cause you to
say Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned
against thee and may he bring you in the end to say blessed
be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting. For though I hated Him, He loved
me, and He gave His Son for me. He suffered and He died for me
a guilty wretch. When I died, He lifted me up,
and in Him I live forever. O blessed be the Lord God of
Israel! from everlasting and to everlasting
amen and amen