24th Psalm reads as follows. Psalm 24, a Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. For
he have founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy
place? He that have clean hands, and
a pure heart, who have not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing from the Lord and
righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation
of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors. and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The
Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The
Lord of hosts. He is the King of Glory. Say
La. Who is this King of Glory? This is a psalm which opens with
a wonderful declaration of the sovereignty of God and His rule
over all His creation. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. For
He hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods. This is God's world, God's creation
and it demonstrates His almighty power and His sovereign rule. There
is none who dwell in this world who are not His creation. There
are none who dwell in this world who are not His subjects. There
are none who dwell in this world who should not be mindful of
who rules over them, and before whom one day they must stand,
before whom one day they must answer. The earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. We are not our own. We are created. We have a Creator before whom
we stand. And this world and all that He
has given us in this world is not ours. It is His. And we are answerable for what
we do with this world and answerable for what we do in this world.
He hath given it unto us in which to dwell and we must answer unto
Him for how we use it. He hath founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the floods. He spake in the beginning and
it was. He spake and it came to be. His
speech brings forth life. He is the life giver of all things. He is the One who dwells in light
inaccessible, the One who is light, the One from whom light
comes forth. There is no light except God
is there. Outside of Him all is darkness. But in the darkness before time
was brought about, when there was nothing, God said, let there
be light. and there was light. God spake
and light shone forth. God spake and the world was created. God spake and man came forth. God spake and He breathed life
into man. And it's because of His speech
that we are here. It is because of His speech that
we continue to be here. And it's because of His speech
that we will remain or we will be damned. We are wholly, entirely
dependent upon God for all of our existence. Except he spake
in the beginning, we would not be here. And except he speaks
and sustains the life that is in this world, we would not remain
here. And the foolishness of man is
to think that he dwells and he lives and he sustains in isolation. that he can live on his own without
regard to God. The foolishness of man is to
think that because he cannot see God with the physical eyes,
and because he cannot hear the speech of God with the physical
ears, that he is in reality on his own, and he can live and
do as though God is not there, and that all will be well. and
that he is master over his own realm and he can seek his own
glory and feather his own nest. But this is true folly because
the very beating of his own heart is caused by the power and the
speech of God. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. If God
at this hour says to you, no more, you will drop down dead
in an instant. Your heart beats because God
says beat. And your heart will cease to
beat when God says stop. There is air for you to breathe
because God puts it there and you will suffocate to your death
if God removes it. You live because there is food
which He provides. You live because He causes the
sun to shine and the rain to fall. Your life is entirely absolutely
dependent upon the good favour of God that he keeps you living
and yet by nature you and I and all men have taken all that God
has given us and used it to rebel against him. We've shut him out
of our thoughts, we've shut him out of our affections, we've
shut him out of our plans, we've turned against him, we hate him,
we despise him, we mock him, we take his word in the scriptures
and we put it to one side and we trample it underfoot. We hate
God even though he has brought us into being, even though he
sustains us. Yet the psalmist reminds us.
and reminds all this world of what is true. Because though
man in his foolishness and folly may turn to science falsely so
called and try to reason away the Creator, this world is God's,
He made it, He sustains it, all life within it is His and all
life within it is answerable under Him. He have founded it
upon the seas and established it upon the floods. And the seas
and the floods in this world remind us of the separation of
the land from the sea, of light from darkness, of good from evil. They remind us of the seas of
iniquity which man has brought in upon this earth. and the floods
of God's judgment at which at one time he sent upon the wicked
in this world at the time of Noah. The seas and the floods
remind us not just that this is God's earth, but this is an
earth in which there is a separation. There is a separation of light
from darkness, of the dry land from the sea, of good from evil,
of the precious from the vile, of God's people, the sheep from
the goats. It is a constant reminder of
judgment and of righteousness. A reminder that the God who has
made us and the God who sustains us is the God unto whom we are
answerable. The God before whom we must one
day stand and give an answer for all that we have done, fought
and said. One day we must stand before
Him and say why we have not bowed down and worshipped Him and His
Son, Jesus Christ. Why we have not used all that
He has given us under His glory. Why we have not brought forth
praise under His name every hour of every day. Which is why the
psalmist goes on to ask this question. Who shall ascend into
the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy
place? Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place? O ye dwellers
upon the earth, O man, woman, children, will you ascend into
the hill of the Lord? Can you stand in His holy place? By nature, no. Because you and
I are full of sin. And sin will not stand in the
holy place of God. Its judgment will pour forth.
The fires of God's wrath will consume it. You cannot stand. You cannot ascend the hill of
the Lord. You cannot stand in His holy
place. Because you and I do not have
clean hands and a pure heart. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath
clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul
unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. That man can ascend into the
hill of the Lord. That man can stand in his holy
place and none other. Then show me one man with clean
hands. One man with a pure heart. Show
me your clean hands, O sinner. Show me your pure heart. O religious
man or woman. Show me your clean hands and
your pure heart. You say you've got clean hands. You say you've got a pure heart. You say you're upright and moral. But God says otherwise. The spirit
of God's discernment is not as you discern. He looks within. He looks beyond the appearance
that you put on in the eyes of others. He looks beyond merely
outward. He looks beyond your attendance
at meetings or your prayer or your Bible reading. He looks
beyond the merely outward moral conduct where you've refrained
from the worst of sins and where you'd have others see the good
that you do and not the wicked thoughts that you think in private.
He looks beyond the outward veneer and the whiting of the sepulcher
of your filthy dark heart. He looks within. He looks into
the heart and he sees the darkness and the corruption and the iniquity
and the vileness and the lies and the deceit and the motives
behind all you do. and his judgement pours forth.
Because for all that you may strive to live a moral life,
for all that you may strive to walk in obedience, even to the
commandments of God you find in the scriptures, for all that
you may strive to be upright, a good citizen, a worshipper
of God, religious, All the time the sin which is within your
heart is there, bubbling up, bringing forth iniquitous thoughts,
causing you to act in a way which brings glory unto South. People's
religion in which they seek to live a moral life ultimately
has a motive of self-glory. It doesn't lay down all that
they are before the altar of God. It's not done despite all
that they say of wanting to worship God. It's not done to worship
God. It's done to further your own
glory. It's done to further their own
glory. It's done to make them feel like
they are righteous before Him. Like they are deserving of His
good pleasure. It's done to bring forth His
praise of them. It's done to earn their own salvation. And it never does. Because the
sin is always there. And the more they do which is
right, the more the pride which accompanies it pulls them right
back down to hell again. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy place? Not one sinner. Not you, nor I by nature. Only he that have clean hands. One that can say that I have
never done anything amiss ever in all the years of my life. I've clean hands. I never put
my hand to any wrong. I never harmed my neighbor. I never harmed God. I never failed
to worship God. I never failed to walk perfectly. I've clean hands. and a pure
heart, there's no iniquity within. There's nothing deep within that
is hidden of which I might be ashamed. Who have not lifted
up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive
the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of
his salvation. Who is this? Who shall ascend
into the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? Who has clean hands and a pure
heart? Who has not lifted up his soul
under vanity nor sworn deceitfully? Who shall receive the blessing
from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation?
One man and one man only, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The only man who ever lived,
who never fell into sin, who was never born in sin, who never
fought, did or said a sinful thing, who was pure in all his
being. The only man who had clean hands
and a pure heart. He's the one that can ascend
into the hill of the Lord. He can stand in his holy place
and none other than if you or I are to ascend into the same
place, it must be through him. As with all of these psalms,
the writer in here, David, takes us straight to Christ. Straight
to Christ, yes. He meets man where he is. Yes,
he finds us all in this creation. Yes, he reminds us of the God
before whom we must stand. Yes, he reminds us of eternity
to come. But he takes us to the one in
whom we can stand. The only one who has clean hands
and a pure heart. The only one who can save us.
the only one who can stand in our place, the only one who can
receive a blessing from the Lord for us, the only one who can
receive righteousness from the God of His salvation. He stood
and He stands because He's perfect, He's God. He's God who came into
the darkness of this world and took upon Him the seed of David,
took upon Him human flesh, born of a virgin, born of Mary, conceived
of the Holy Ghost, a man, a pure man, a true man, and yet without
sin. He was very man and very God,
a divine person, with human nature, just like us. He had a body like
us. He knows what we feel. He knows
what it's like to walk upon this earth. He knows what it's like
to be tired. He knows the heat of the day.
He knows what it is to hunger. He knows what it is to thirst.
He knows what it is to suffer. He knows what it is to feel pain,
yet without sin. Never because of his own doing,
never because he deserved it. But he felt the pain that others
inflicted upon him. He felt the pain that our own
iniquity brought to pass. He felt the pain that the sin
of sinners around him brought forth. Yeah, he himself was always
without blame. Always perfect. His heart was
pure. He walked before his God as a
man, in faith, in communion with the Father each and every day.
He had clean hands. He never did any wrong thing. He never put his hand to any
iniquitous way. He never struck out at anyone.
He never used the body which God had given him to any end
other than to serve and to worship his God and to serve his people. He served others, he loved his
brethren and he loved his God and worshipped his God. His heart,
his pure heart longed to be with his father. His pure heart was
taken up with the things of his father. He was always about the
work of his father. He was always communing with
his father. His thoughts were on his father's
ways and his father's glory. And on the declaration of the
glory of God unto his people. He came into this world from
the Father to bring the knowledge of the Father and the knowledge
of salvation and the knowledge of the righteousness of God unto
those who dwelt in the darkness. He came from that light inaccessible
to bring the light of God and the love of God unto those who
dwelt in darkness, corruption, evil and hatred. He came loving
His own, loving them as He had loved them from before the creation
of the world from eternity past and loving them as He will love
them until the end. He came enduring all because
He loved the people and He would come for their salvation and
come bringing the knowledge of that salvation unto them. He
came with clean hands and a pure heart to make known unto those
who have filthy hands and a corrupt heart that He had come to deliver
them and to cleanse them and to wash them and to make their
hands through Him clean also to make their hearts in Him to
be pure to lift up their souls out of vanity and bring forth
a blessing from the Lord for them and to bring the righteousness
of God down from heaven unto them who were but full of sin
and to judge that sin and take that sin away and make that righteousness
to be theirs unto their salvation He came for His own because He
loved His own and when He came unto them they received Him not. They turned their backs on Him.
They deserted Him when He needed them most. They said, away with
this man. Crucify Him, crucify Him. You said and you say by nature
in your heart, away with Him, I don't want to hear of Him,
I don't care of Him. I don't want to hear the gospel. I don't want this religion. I
don't want Christ. I want my way, my things, my
pleasure, my glory. And you want it all to your destruction. But despite all that you are
and all that you say and all your hatred of him, he set his
love upon his own. and despite their rejection he
came to where they were and he suffered their abuse he suffered
their hatred he suffered their disinterest and he said I will
go unto a place of execution for you I will lay down my life
for you because I love you and I will cleanse you and I will
make your hands clean and I will put within you a new heart A
pure heart. And despite the fact that they
hated him, despite the fact that they took him and pierced him,
despite the fact that they in their own hearts put him to death.
And despite the fact that I put him to death, and perhaps you
believers put him to death, he still loved us unto the end. And he gave himself for us. He suffered under our hatred. He suffered under the judgment
of God against our hatred. He paid the price to the uttermost. And in so doing, he received
the blessing from the Lord. The blessing of salvation. The
blessing of righteousness from the God of His salvation. That
righteousness was brought in for that people. And despite
the fact that they didn't deserve it and didn't want it and even
caused His death, He brought it in for them. That death which
they caused brought them life. Because He died, they live. Because of their sin, He brought
in righteousness. Because of their hatred of Him,
He brought in for them the love of God. Because they were so
small and so weak and so foolish, He brought in for them the wisdom
of God and made them to be priests and kings with Him and led them
forth with Him from the battlefields of the cross into glory. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory
shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory
shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The
Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Christ came in. This King of Glory came in, He
entered. The Lord strong and mighty, the
Lord mighty in battle. He came into this world. He came
to the battlefield. He came to the cross. And He
laid down His own life in death for His people. He laid it down. He faced their enemies. He faced
all their foes for them. He led them through the battlefield. And He led them away from the
battlefield to the other side. rising again from the grave,
rising the other side of death. Alive forevermore, He led them
forth. They were slain with Him. All
their iniquity was destroyed. All their sins were washed away. They were all with Him, as it
were, laid down dead in the battlefield. But when their enemy thought
that He had destroyed their God, and all of them in him, when
he thought that Christ was dead and the people of God were dead
and conquered, they all with him rose up. They rose up and
they destroyed all the enemies and they marched forth from that
battlefield victorious in Christ and went forth and are led by
him into eternal glory. Who is this King of Glory? The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. He who has
clean hands and a pure heart. He who has received the blessing
from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
He who leads his people into the hill of the Lord and causes
them with him to stand in his holy place. What a wondrous thing
that sinners in Christ can ascend into the head of the Lord and
can stand with Him in the holy place of God. That place which
by nature they are not fit to enter. That place which by nature
should they walk in they'd be struck down dead in a moment.
In Him they enter the holy place, stepping on blood-sprinkled ground,
following their great High Priest unto the mercy seat, unto the
Father, unto salvation, unto glory forevermore. Who is this King of Glory? Jesus Christ, Almighty God. He is the King of Glory. the
king of glory why glory? because he came from glory and
he leads his people to glory and his glory is seen in that
battle he fought for them that battle this weekend in this nation
The people remember battles and wars that this nation has entered
into in former day. They remember the First World
War and the Second World War and the great victories which
have been wrought and the sacrifice of many, many, many men that
were laid down for the sake of the nation and the peace which
was brought in. And they remember the goodness
of God. in bringing that peace and we
should remember the goodness of God because it was God that
delivered this nation and others with it from the tyranny which
was brought upon it. It is God that delivered us,
not man, not men, not the might of man, but God delivered us.
But such deliverances and such sacrifice of men, such laying
down, such bloodshed is just a reminder of that great battle
which the King of Glory wrought upon the cross. There was no
life which was laid down like under his life. Many good men
have laid down their lives for their friends. As we said earlier,
this man, the son of God, laid down his life for his enemies. He came unto those who hated
him, he came unto those who despised him and he set his love upon
his enemies and laid down his life for his enemies. And his
victory is all the more greater because of those whom he wrought
it for. He wrought it for his enemies,
the ungodly, you and I. We're ungodly. We're enemies
of God by nature. We're at enmity with Him. We
don't want Him. And yet He wrought this battle.
He shed His blood. He loved those who did not love
Him. Who is this King of Glory? There's
His glory. There's His glory that He should
lay down His life for His enemies, for His people. that He should
lay it down, that He should redeem them and set them free from all
that bound them, that He should offer Himself up as a ransom,
that He should bring in righteousness for them, that He should justify
them and separate them unto God, that He should sanctify them.
that he should propitiate the wrath of God, that he should
quench the wrath of God in their place, that he should take the
fires of God's wrath upon himself, that he should take the cup of
God's wrath and drink it. There's his glory and he leads
his people to the place of that glory and says in his Gospel,
Behold! Behold the battle which is won. Who is this King of Glory? Thomas goes on in verse 6 to
say, This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek
Thy face, O Jacob, Selah. This is the generation of them
that seek Him, that seek Thy face, O Jacob, Selah. Now we
speak of the word generation as in a generation. a number
of people that lived at a certain time, this generation, the previous
generation, the next generation. But the word generation comes
from the fact that they are generated, they're brought forth, they're
born. And what brings forth a people
that seek God and seek his face and seek the face of Jacob, his
people? in him what brings forth a people
that seek god is christ and his death the salvation which he
wrought upon the cross, by which life is brought unto those who
are dead, by which the Holy Spirit can take from the death of Christ
and the life which poured forth, and come unto them in the darkness
in which they live, and the deadness of their own souls, and by the
gospel quicken them unto life. Taking these things, these truths,
this Gospel, this message of the King of Glory, the Holy Spirit
comes unto sinners in the deadness of their iniquity and sin and
brings them to life. He generates them. And the consequence
of their being brought to life, their being generated, they're
being born again by God on high is that they seek Him and they
seek His face when once they didn't throughout all time from
by nature man seeks anything but God and His face he seeks
to hide from Him he seeks to go another way As we read in
Romans, which quotes from the Psalms, there is none that have
sought Him. There's none that have done good.
There is none righteous. No one has sought Him. Then how
is there a people, a generation that seeks Him, when it says
elsewhere that there is none that have sought Him? Because
none have sought Him by nature. But when God comes in His gospel
and power and quickens them to life, He puts a new heart and
a new desire in them to seek the Lord. You won't seek Him
until God comes unto you and puts a desire in your heart to
seek Him. The reason that by nature you
are so apathetic to these things, that you are so, as it were,
bored by the gospel and by the truth regarding Jesus Christ,
that you just endure the message of Christ when you're forced
to hear it, is because your heart is dead and it does not seek
God and it cares not for God. But there is a generation of
them that seek Him. There is a people who despite
their natural disinterest, who despite the fact that naturally
they never sought Him, at some point in time they are brought
to seek Him because God seeks them first. God comes to seek
and to save the lost sheep of Israel. As Christ said, I have
not come but to seek and to save the lost sheep. he's looking
for his sheep and when he finds them he brings the gospel to
them and he brings them to life he generates them, he regenerates
them, he brings them to life this is where we have the term
regeneration from the new birth of the Holy Spirit ye must be
born again the Spirit of God must come unto you in the gospel
and cause you to live and cause you to seek and when he does
you will see You will seek. You will seek God. You will seek
this Saviour. You will seek this King of Glory.
You will seek His face and you won't be satisfied until you've
found Him. Until you've seen Him. Until
you've seen Him looking unto you. Until you've heard His voice. Until you've heard His forgiveness.
Until you know Him. Have you sought the Lord? Have
you sought His face? His face. Child of God won't
be satisfied with just finding the Lord, with just being where
he is, with just seeing his back as it were. When God met with
Moses, Moses had to cover his face. Moses, the glory of God
was so great that Moses could not bear to see him. And God passed before him and
Moses saw the back parts of God as it were. But if he'd seen
his face, the glory he'd have seen would have been too great
to withstand. But the child of God wants to
know his glory. He wants to know the King of
glory. And when God makes known his
glory, he will do so in a way that they can behold and they
will not crumble. Because when they see it, they
will be in Christ. They will have a pure heart.
They will have clean hands. By nature, if they saw Him in
His glory, if they saw His face, it would destroy them. It would
destroy us because we cannot stand before Him. His eyes would
look right through us. They would pierce us. They would
see all the iniquity within. We'd be exposed before Him. We'd
be crushed. We'd fall to the ground as dust. But when we're regenerated, when
God comes in the Gospel by His Spirit and quickens us to life,
then we can stand before Him. Then we have clean hands, a pure
heart. We can stand and we long for Him. We long to seek Him.
We long to seek His face. His face. Oh what a face the
Son of God has. Read in Matthew when he was transfigured. And he was transfigured before
them. And his face did shine as the
sun. And his raiment was white as
the light. Oh what a face. What a face. How bright. The light of God shines through
the face of Jesus Christ. Oh, what a face. Matron Matthew
Christ says, Take heed that ye despise not one of these, my
little ones. For I say unto you that in heaven
their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is
in heaven. God's little ones, his people,
those who seek him, have angels in heaven who are beholding the
face of the Father on their behalf and one day they will be where
those angels are one day their desire to behold God will be
fulfilled in entirety, they'll be with Him oh what a face what
man has done to that face by nature we hate it, we turn from
it, we despise it, we want to get rid of it And when they crucified the Son
of God, when they crucified Christ, when they crucified the Son of
Man, what they did to Him, oh if they only knew truly who they
were doing this to, what they did to Him, we read in Matthew
26, 67, then did they spit in His face. on that face which had been transfigured
before the disciples that face which shone as the sun that face
of the King of Glory these men spat upon him we in our hearts
in our sin and rebellion spat in his face and buffeted him
and others smote him with the palms of their hands as echoed
in Mark's Gospel, and some began to spit on him, and to cover
his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, prophesy,
and the servants did strike him with the palm of their hands.
They spat on his face. They took that which spewed out
of their own mouths, those iniquitous hearts. It came from their heart,
out of their mouths, with all their evil speech, and they covered
his glorious face with it. And that's what man does with
the things of God. That's what man does with Christ's
gospel. They take his word, they take
his glory, and they try to cover it with the evil, iniquitous
thoughts and words that come from their own hearts. with their
own spit, their own water that comes from in their iniquitous
hearts, figurative of those waters that cover the sea, those waters
of wrath and judgment. They spat on his face. Oh what a face to have done this
to Oh the rebellion which is within us But the believer longs
to see that face For now we see through a glass darkly But there
comes a time when we will see face to face now i know in part
but then shall i know even as also i am known one day paul
says i will see him paul in second corinthians reminds us that god
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness have shined in
our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Who is this
King of glory? He in whom the glory of God is
made known. God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness have shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This is the face that this generation
of God's people seek. They seek the face of Jesus Christ. They seek to know the knowledge
of His glory, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And they come to find it when God, who shined the light out
of darkness, shines in their hearts through His gospel. Has He shone in your heart? Have you sought the Lord? Have
you found Him? Have you seen His face? Seen His face. Or do you not
care? Are you still seeking everything
but? Everything but. Then beware,
for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears
are open unto their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against
them that do evil. The face of the Lord is against
them that do evil. You might not seek Him. And you
might not seek His face. And you may see no glory in that
face. And you in your heart as those
that crucify Christ may spit upon that face. But that face,
the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And one day
if that's what you do to Him you'll feel the eyes on that
face staring at you and you'll know His judgment. The face of
the Lord is against them that do evil. Have you sought his
face, this King of Glory? Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord, strong and mighty. The Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the
King of Glory, the Son of God. The one whose face shone as the
sun. The one who comes from the battlefield. The Lord strong and mighty. Oh what a testimony this psalm
is to the divinity of Christ. To the fact that the Son of God
is God. He is the Lord strong and mighty. Yet he is the King of glory.
everywhere testifies to Christ and His glory and the glory of
God being seen in Christ and in His face then He is God and
He shall enter in through the everlasting doors He shall come
in through them He shall enter in through the everlasting doors
and He shall lead His people forth into glory Where is the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God seen? It is seen
in the face of Jesus Christ, the King of Glory. And if you ever see it, it will
be because the God who created this earth the God who says that
the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and the world
and they that dwell in it is because the Creator who spake
in the beginning and who shone light in the darkness who said
let there be light and there was light is because the very
same Creator that brought forth life in the darkness has said
unto you if you see it He has said unto you through His Gospel
let there be light and He has shone light in the darkness of
your soul. For God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness have shined in our heart. Has he shone in your heart to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ? Has he shone? Have you seen? Have you sought? Have you found
and beheld? the face of Jesus Christ, the
King of Glory. In Revelation 22, John reads
these wondrous words. And he showed me a pure river
of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of
it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of
life, which bared twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit
every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations. And there shall be no more curse,
but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and
His servants shall serve Him, and they shall see His face,
and His name shall be in their foreheads, They shall see His
face, and His name shall be in their foreheads, and there shall
be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the
sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign
forever and ever. they shall reign forever and
ever because they have entered in to the hill of the Lord to
stand in this holy place with clean hands and a pure heart
because their King of glory has led them forth from the battlefield
covered in blood through everlasting doors into an everlasting city
and an everlasting kingdom and an everlasting glory, where they
will dwell with Him forevermore in glorious light. There shall
be no night there, they need no candle, neither light of the
sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign
forever and ever. Amen.