If ever we become consumed, just consumed with the glory
of Christ, our lives will be well-ruled,
well-motivated, and well-governed in all things. I want to be consumed with His
glory. And if ever a preacher becomes
consumed with the glory of Christ, God just might use him. He just
might use him. This message, I am sure, is born
in part from the fact I've been trying to prepare my heart and
mind for the meeting Saturday down in Roan Mountain. But in
the process, I believe God's given a message for you. Turn
with me, if you will, to Psalm 21 and verse 5. Psalm 21 and verse 5. The psalmist says of the King,
God's King, the Lord Jesus Christ, His glory shall be great in thy
salvation. One of the plainest things revealed
in Scripture, one of the most obvious truths of the gospel,
is the fact that the glory of God is and must be. It is and must be. It is only right that the glory
of God is the end of all things. Now, I've heard a lot of sermons
about the glory of God. I've read a lot of sermons, a
lot of literature on God's glory. I'd like to know something about
it. But let me see if I can help you a little bit with this. God's
glory is Himself, His essence, His nature, His very being. Those magnificent attributes
and perfections of his nature, which identify him and him alone
as God, are much more than mere emanations from and qualities
of his nature. Now, when we speak of a man's
attributes, a man's attributes are emanations of his nature. They're qualities of his nature.
But unlike us, God's attributes are himself. His very being is
His glory. When we think and speak of the
great, almighty, solitary God in the Trinity of His sacred
persons, we must always think of Him being in possession of
all those incommunicable attributes and perfections of His being
which distinguish Him as God. God's attributes. Those attributes
of His that no man, no creature shares in, they call them incommunicable
attributes. God's attributes are those things
which distinguish Him alone as God. This is His glory. And yet the glory of the triune
God is revealed, manifested to, and seen by us only in the person
of His dear Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, it
is true we see the glory of God reflected in and revealed in
part in creation, in providence, and in the written word. But
the glory of God His great being, His distinct character, we see
fully revealed only in the person of His dear Son. So great is
that glory that the Lord our God has prepared and appointed
a whole creation and a whole eternity, if I can use such language,
to display His glory to His creatures. In the ages to come, he will
show forth the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus. Not only shall our God show forth
to us his glory forever. Now you stop and let that roll
over a little bit. While we behold the whole glory
of God in the face of Christ, we will never behold all the
glory of God. Never. We will forever, throughout
the infinity of eternity, be growing in the knowledge of the
infinite God. For eternity, he shall make himself
known to us. And there's more. This is a matter
of peculiar, precious revelation. The revelation of God's glory
in Christ, the glory of the triune God revealed in Christ, is directly
and inseparably connected with his grace toward us in saving
our souls. Directly so. Listen to this.
God has saved us, He called us, He chose us, He predestined us,
He blessed us with all spiritual blessings, listen now, to the
praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted
in the Beloved. Somehow, I don't know how, somehow,
God's glory is intimately and inseparably connected with the
saving of our souls. Somehow the revelation of God's
being as God is intimately and inseparably connected with the
saving of our souls. The glory of the triune God,
that is to say, the glory of our all-glorious Christ, that
one designated by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
as the one in whom all fullness should dwell, and the one who
shall forever and in all things have preeminence, is seen in
the face of our crucified substitute. Now back here in Psalm 21. I
want you to hold your Bibles open there. And I want to talk
to you as best I can about the greatness of our Savior's glory.
In verse 5, the psalmist says, His glory is great in thy salvation. You remember when Moses prayed,
I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And the Lord took him over and
put him in the cleft of the rock and said, all right, stand right
here and I'll show you a little something of my glory. Larry
and I were driving up from North Wilkesboro up 421 through Boone,
North Carolina, and he was kind of griping a little bit, nicely,
but griping a little bit, because every time he goes anywhere with
me, it's at night and he can't see anything. So I was trying to
describe the scenery for him. And just a little ways over from
where we were, I said, there's Grandfather Mountain. I'll tell
you a story. I've told you before, when I was a boy, I used to drive
up there or ride up there with my folks. We'd go see my relatives. And I asked my dad several times,
I said, Dad, why do they call that Grandfather Mountain? And
he said, well, son, if you look just right, you can see the image
of an old man on that mountain. You can see the hairline, his
brow, his eye sockets, his nose, his mouth, his chin, his beard,
like he's laying down on that mountain. And I looked, and I
looked, and I looked, and I looked for years. I didn't see anything
but trees. And then one day, we were driving
up from the other side of the mountain, coming around like
I don't ever remember us coming before. And we got close to Grandfather
Mountain and saw signs that said Grandfather Mountain, and I started
looking. And I could see that old man's image just as clear
as the shining sun on top of that mountain. But the only way
you can see it is if you're standing in the right place. And the only
way a sinner will ever see the glory of God is standing in the
cleft of the rock, Christ Jesus. And there God reveals His glory. Let's look at it. His glory is
great in thy salvation. What a message. His glory is
great. But be sure you see this. His
glory is great in God's salvation. Now, let's work our way down
to verse 5 and just look briefly at what's given here in verses
1 through 5. Now, I realize that David wrote
this psalm. I realize that it has its proper
historical application to David and to the events of his life.
But David was an imminent type of our Lord Jesus Christ. David's
kingdom was an imminent type of Christ's kingdom. The deliverances
David accomplished for Israel, or the deliverances God accomplished
for Israel by David's hand, were imminent pictures of the deliverance
of our souls by the Lord Jesus Christ. The King in this psalm,
then, is Christ, our King. The salvation spoken of is Christ's
salvation. And the glory here spoken of
is Christ's glory. Look in verse 1. The King shall
joy in thy strength, O Lord, and in thy salvation how greatly
shall he rejoice. Here is a prophecy of our Savior's
great joy as the result of that salvation which he would accomplish
on our behalf. You remember the writer in Hebrews
12, verse 2, says that Christ, for the joy that was set before
Him, endured the cross, despising the shame. The joy set before Him. Not the joy of His sufferings. Not even the joy of His humiliation. Not the joy of His incarnation. Not the joy of his life of righteousness
on this earth, because there was no joy in his earthly pilgrimage. He was the man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief. But a joy was set before him
and covenant grace before the world began. The father promised
the son a seed. If he would obey his command
and his will as his servant and come here to redeem and save
his people, the father says, ask of me and I'll give you the
heathen for your inheritance. And the son of God asked, and
now he has obtained the joy set before him and he rejoices in
our salvage. He rejoices in the exercise of
mercy. He rejoices whenever one of His
sheep are brought to Him by His saving power and grace. And He
rejoices when we're brought at last home to glory. And oh, He
shall rejoice when He sees us in His glory when all things
are done. Look at verse 2. Thou hast given
Him, watch this, His heart's desire. and hast not withholden
the request of his lips. What was our Savior's heart's
desire? What was the request of his lips?
Lo, I come to do thy will, O my God, by the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of his body one time for us all. His will, his heart's desire
is expressed in these words, Father, glorify thy name. Not
my will, thy will be done. And his heart's desire, the request
of his lips has been given him. He desires the salvation of his
people. And just before he left this
world, he said, Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast
given me be with me where I am. I wonder if I can say this so
that you'll hear it. I wonder if I can say it so that
I'll hear it. Nothing is so dear to the heart
of the Son of God as our salvation. Nothing. The redemption of our
souls by His blood, giving us life by His Spirit, comforting
our hearts in time of trouble. I have a very dear friend who
came up to me Sunday morning. Her husband has melanoma. Unless
God distinctly intervenes, they're headed for a lot of heartache,
a lot of pain. And she knows it. She came up
to me. She said, Brother Don, how can I prepare for what I've
got to face? And I said, Ann, you can't. You can't. And God doesn't give
any grace until it's needed. But when it is, he'll give the
grace that's needed. Oh, he delights in the comfort
of our souls. He sent his Holy Spirit here
to be our comforter. He has given us his word to give
us the comfort of the scriptures. He delights to preserve us in
trial. He delights in bringing us to
stand before his father in perfect holiness by the imputation of
his righteousness and the gift of his grace. He delights in
our happiness forever in his presence. Now look at the next
word. Look at his next word. Selah. Try to remember when you read
that word in the Psalms, It really, I never know whether to read
the word or just pause a long time, because it is a word, but
it's a punctuation mark. It's a long, long pause. It means
stop here now and think on what you just read. Pause a minute
and think about the song you just sang. Pause and meditate
on what you just heard. These things before which we
should pause in thoughtful adoration ought to stir our hearts to praise
and faith and gratitude. It is our Savior's joy and His
heart's desire and the request of His lips that we be with Him. Nothing more delightful to Him. Linger a while. Meditate on this. Eternity will be too short to
comprehend it fully. Verse 3, For thou preventest
Him with the blessings of goodness. Thou sentest a crown of pure
gold on His head. That word prevents. or preventist,
means to precede, to go before. We use the word in our modern
context of language, we use it to mean to hinder or stop. But
the word really means to precede or to go before. The meaning
in this verse is that our Lord God bestowed all the baptiful
blessings of His goodness and grace upon us in Christ even
before Christ came. Indeed, He blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And still,
there is more. God's goodness toward His elect
goes out to us even before Christ comes to us. In the secret workings
of His providence, God is good. What the old writers used to
call prevenient grace. Oh, that's a blessed, blessed,
blessed thing. Long before we knew Him, He knew
us. And long before we set our hearts
on Him, long before He set our hearts on Him, He had set His
heart on us. And long before we sought to
honor Him, He honored us with His salvation. And throughout
the days of time, He had done us good, bringing us to the time
of love and the place of mercy, and He continues to do so. Goodness
and mercy precede Christ's coming. Goodness and mercy comes with
Christ, and goodness and mercy follows Christ. In other words,
He's always been good and always been merciful, specifically to
Bobby Estes. Always. Goodness and mercy prevent
him, go before him, and certainly follow him. And then the Lord has put a crown
of gold, pure gold, everlasting, precious, indescribably glorious
on his head as the reward of his obedience. He set him at
his own right hand, made him to be king over all things. And when he comes in his goodness
and mercy, and sets up His throne in your heart, the Lord God puts
that crown of pure gold on His head in your soul, so that you're
delighted for Him to be King. Verse 4, He asked life of thee,
and thou gavest it Him even length of days, forever and ever. This is talking about Christ
Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ asked the life of the Father,
length of days forever and ever as the reward of his obedience.
It's talking about his resurrection. Hold your hands here and come
back to Psalm 16. Psalm 16. You remember our Lord's prayer
in John 17. He says, Now, Father, give me the glory
which I had with you before the world was. He said, you've given
me power over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as you
have given me. Here in Psalm 16 verse 8, this
is exactly the psalm that Paul quotes in Ephesians 4, speaking
of the resurrection and ascension of Christ and his royal gifts
to his church. He says in verse 8, Psalm 16,
8, I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my
right hand. I shall not be moved. Therefore,
my heart is glad and my glory rejoiceth. My flesh shall also
rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell. Thou wilt not leave my soul in
the grave. Neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of
life. In thy presence is fullness of
joy at thy right hand. There are pleasures for evermore.
Now, look at verse 5. His glory is great in thy salvation. Let me just point out some highlights. They're easy to follow. I trust
it'll be a blessing to your soul to meditate upon them. This speaks
of our Lord Jesus Christ and far wider range of his person
and work than I can possibly give you in the next few minutes.
But this certainly speaks of him as the Son, the Son of God,
our Savior, and the Son of Man, our Savior. Christ's glory is
great in Jehovah's salvation personally as the Son. The text speaks of this. These
opening words of the first line of verse 5 show us plainly that
salvation, the salvation revealed here and spoken of in Holy Scripture,
the salvation we enjoy, the salvation that brings to us all the benefits
and blessings of grace and of everlasting glory, the salvation
which Christ obtained for us is God's salvation. Everything
spoken of in the book of God relating to salvation tells us
that salvation is of God, by God, and belongs to God. That means He can give it to
whom He will. It's His. Nothing relating to
salvation is of man. Nothing relating to salvation
depends upon man. Nothing relating to salvation
hinges upon man. There's much talk in our day
about man's will, his free will. Everybody's scared to death they're
going to rob a man of his free will. You can't rob a fellow
of what he ain't got. And a man don't have any real
freedom. No man. No man. I can do what
I want to. Can you now? Climb up on top of the Empire
State Building sometime and sprout your wings and take a flight.
Just do it. Well, I can if I want to. Can
you? I don't care what you've been
smoking. You better not get up there and try to fly. You're
not going to do it because you don't have the ability. And man's
will in all his nature is limited by his ability, both morally
and physically and spiritually. And man's will is bound by his
nature, which is sinful, corrupt, dead, depraved. He has no ability
to bring himself to God. No desire and no ability if he
had the desire. Man's will has never done anything
except ruin it. Any man left to himself will
always choose that which is evil and never that which is good.
He will always do that which is evil and never that which
is good left to himself. So I know people who do good
things. I said any man left to himself. You take a lion, put him in a
cage, And you can persuade that lion with enough force and enough
pain and enough discipline to let a fellow get in the cage
with him and feed him, but leave him alone. Turn him loose and
see who wants to stand beside him. God Almighty has never left
any man utterly to himself. Not on this earth. Not on this
earth. No man. But a man left to himself
will always do that which is evil. Always choose that which
is evil. God binds him and hedges him
up and won't let him do what's within him. Salvation is God's
work, according to God's will and God's purpose. The universal
testimony of Scripture is salvation is of the Lord. Psalmist says
in Psalm 37, the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord,
and declares this is God's salvation. And every believer, speaking
of salvation, ascribes it entirely to God and to God alone. We delight
to confess with Jonah, salvation is of the Lord. We cry, turn
us, O God, and we shall be turned. Draw us, and we shall run after
Thee, because we fully understand that except He turn us, we will
never turn to Him. Except He draw us, we will never
run after Him. Man by nature cannot and will
not come to God by faith in Christ. When it's all finished, When
every one who ever shall be called has been called, when every one
of the Lord's elect has been regenerated, justified, sanctified,
and glorified, when the whole of the blood-washed family shall
surround the throne above, all the glory shall be given to God. There won't be one jarring note
of free will or works in heaven's palace or in heaven's choir.
It won't happen. But unto what? Unto Thee, O Lord.
Be glory and honor, for thou hast redeemed us and called us
and made us kings and priests unto God. Secondly here, this
salvation, which is God's, is for His glory. Let us never lose
sight of this. It is His glory, not ours, which
is great in salvation. We receive everything as empty-handed
beggars at the door of God's sovereign mercy. Robert Hawker
put it this way, God's glory is the first object proposed
by salvation. God is more concerned for the
promotion of his glory than any of his people can be for their
happiness. God's going to get glory to himself.
And you're going to do it by saving us. Now, listen to me. If salvation is God's, if it
is God's work, if salvation is for the glory of God, if we cannot
and must not contribute anything to it, then God's salvation is
a salvation that exactly suits the needs of the most helpless,
desperate, needy sinner there is on this earth. What does God require of you?
Nothing. Nothing. Oh, but preacher, God
requires faith. I'm talking about what does God
require of you that you can give. He requires righteousness too.
He requires satisfaction too. He requires love too. He requires
love too. What does God require of you
that you can give? Nothing! Salvation is God's gift. He gives life and He gives faith
and He gives obedience. He gives righteousness. He gives
satisfaction. He gives atonement. He gives
forgiveness. If God doesn't require anything,
if He doesn't require anything from
me for my salvation, then I qualify. I qualify. Here I am. I've got nothing to brag. This
is salvation suited for me. It's all found in His Son. Now
get this, Christ's glory as God the Son, is great in Jehovah's
salvation. Now, we are Trinitarians. We
recognize that God is one in three glorious persons, yet one
glorious being, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But all the
Father's purpose and the Son's purpose and the Spirit's purpose
is that Christ, the incarnate God, receive all the glory in
God's salvation. All the fullness of the Godhead
is in Him. All the fullness of salvation
and grace is in Him. All the fullness of the glory
of God is in the incarnate God, Jesus Christ, our Savior. Now,
I love to meditate upon Read about, hear about, sing about,
preach about Christ's glory. I'm like a dying saint. I read
about a long, long time ago. Someone was in this old lady's
room. He began to speak to her about the greatness and grace
and glory of Christ. Somebody tried to get him to
be quiet and let the woman rest. As they did, she said, Oh, speak,
speak some more. Let me hear more. Don't stop
telling me His praise. I long to see Him soon, but I
want to hear about Him now. His glory, His glory is great. Surely, I can't say too much
about Him. On this blessed subject, no man
can overstate the case. No man can be given to hyperbole. Had I the tongues of men and
angels, I could never fully set forth Christ. His loveliness,
His beauty, His greatness, His grace, and His glory. Can I speak
too much of Him? Can you hear too much of Him?
Now, look at this next thing. His
glory is great. Certainly that speaks of Him
as the Son, God our Savior. But I must do more than make
a passive mention of this next thing. His glory in salvation
is great as a surety. How can I speak in biblical terms
properly of Christ as the surety? He's the surety of a better covenant,
Hebrews 7.22 declares. He redeemed us by the blood of
the everlasting covenant, and He is the surety of that everlasting
covenant. What kind of surety is it? Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, is an absolute surety. An absolute surety. We don't really understand the
term surety in our society commonly. The nearest thing we get to,
it's a cosigner. A cosigner, you all know what that is. You
go to the bank, you don't have good credit, or you've got too
much of it, and it's not any good because you've got too much.
You've got to get somebody to help you out. And so you go to the
bank, and they say, well, who's going to cosign this note? And
when somebody comes and cosigns for you, that means, by law,
the bank can get you and him both. They can get you and him
both. What they can't get from you,
they'll get from the cosigner. That's not really a surety. A
surety is one who assumes total, absolute responsibility for another. Can you get a hold of that? Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, from old eternity, assumed total,
absolute responsibility for our souls before our Father. Total, absolute responsibility. So that from the time that the
Lord God looked on Him as the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world, He looked upon Him as our surety, He struck
hands with the surety, and He never looked to us for anything
again. That's suretyship. He's an absolute
surety. An eternal surety. And blessed
be God, He is a successful surety. Trust them to me. Give them to
me. Give me your sheep. And I'll
go, I'll become one of them. And I'll live like they can't
live in perfect righteousness for them. And I'll bring in the
law, and I'll magnify the law, make it honorable, and I'll establish
righteousness. And I'll make an end to their
transgressions by taking their transgressions on myself. And I'll pay their debt. And
I'll send my spirit. And I'll gather them from the
four corners of the earth. And I will present them at last
and say, lo, I and the children which the Father gave me. And
the father said, all right, I'll trust my glory to you. And he
did, in whom he also trusted after that you heard the word
of truth. And the Lord Jesus, being God's son, our surety,
shows his great glory as Jehovah's servant. Turn to Isaiah 42. Hold
your hands here, Psalm 21. He is not Jehovah's Servant because
He couldn't help it. He's not Jehovah's Servant because
He's less than Jehovah. He is Jehovah's Servant because
He volunteered to be Jehovah's Servant. And as a voluntary bond
slave, willingly became subject to the will of the Father as
our substitute to work out salvation for us. And here's what the Lord
God says about our Lord Jesus, His Servant. Isaiah 42, Behold
My Servant. whom I uphold." Here, the Lord
Jesus comes into the world so really and truly a man. So really and truly a man. He
never ceases to be God, but so really and truly a man that He
is upheld by omnipotence as Jehovah's servant. my delect. Christ being my first delect,
He said, then chose us in our blessed head, in whom my soul
delighteth. My servant. In whom. In whom my soul constantly, unceasingly,
perpetually, immutably, forever delights. I put my state upon
Him. And He shall bring forth judgment,
righteousness to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause His voice to be heard in the streets. He's not going
to whine and whimper. He's not going to bellyache and
gripe. He's not going to be disturbed. He's not going to be confused.
He's not going to cry out for somebody to come help Him. He's
come here on purpose. A bruised reed shall He not break. A bruised reed. Have you ever seen anything any
weaker? Take a bruised reed and just
try to stand it up. A bruised reed. That which is
utterly useless, utterly without strength, good for nothing. He won't break it. and smoking
flax, he'll not quench it. He shall bring forth judgment,
justice to truth. He shall not fail. Whatever he put his hand to,
he'll do it. As he come to save his people from their sins, save
them he shall. Nor be discouraged till he has
set judgment in the earth. And the Isles, the Gentiles,
shall wait for his law. Alright, here's the fourth thing.
Christ's glory is great in salvation as our substitute. Let me show
you a little bit one more time from 2 Corinthians 5. Turn over
there for me. The greatness of Christ's glory
as our substitute is seen in the objects of His love and the
purpose of His death and the efficacy of His atonement. The
Apostle says in verse 17 of 2 Corinthians 5, therefore, if any man be in
Christ, he's a new creature. Let me paraphrase it now. God
took away all the sin and gave him perfect righteousness. Old
things are passed away and behold, all things have become new. And
all things are of God. Don't ever imagine you've got
to put your finger in this thing. You put your finger in this pie
and you've ruined the whole pie. This is God's work. All things
are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ
and hath given to us the word, the ministry of reconciliation.
He doesn't say who wants to reconcile us. He says he has reconciled
us to himself. When Christ died, all calls of
anger in God has ceased. and has given to us the word
of reconciliation. We come preaching to sinners
that the warfare is over, redemption is done, sin has been put away,
salvation has been obtained, look yonder at Him in glory and
rest in that One who did it all. Read on. To wit, that God was
in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Oh, what's that talking about?
Just exactly what you think it's talking about if you read it
anywhere else. Reconciling men and women out of every nation,
kindred, tribe, and tongue all over the world to Himself. Reconciling
the world of His elect to Himself. Obviously He ain't talking about
everybody, because not everybody reconciled to Him. How did He
do that? Not imputing their trespasses
unto them. David said, Blessed is the man
to whom the Lord will not impute iniquity. Well, how can God not
impute our trespasses to us? He's committed to us the word
of reconciliation, and now this is what we declare. We are ambassadors
for Christ as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you
in Christ's name be reconciled to God, for He hath made Him
to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him. He did not impute our trespasses
to us. but to His Son. And now He imputes
righteousness to us because of His Son. Christ's glory is great
in salvation. Fifthly, as our sovereign King,
the psalmist declares the next line, honor and majesty hast
thou laid on Him. To the Son, He saith, thy throne,
O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of thy kingdom. The psalmist said in Psalm 2,
God's put all things under his feet. And Paul refers to that
in the book of Hebrews. He said, we don't see yet all
things put under his feet. I don't see that. I don't see
that. Man, we see ungodliness, rebellion
all around us. We don't see everything put under
his feet. But we see Jesus. who was made a little lower than
the angels, and now is crowned with glory and honor. He's sitting
yonder on the throne. And whether I can see it or not,
everything is put under His feet. Everything. Everything. The Lord Jesus Christ's glory
is great in salvation. Look at this again. As the Savior
of His people, He sets King on the throne. the universal dominion,
a throne of absolute sovereignty. He sits on his throne. He sits. Did you ever see a big dog with a little wooden
yapping around it? I mean, big dog. I used to have
a big old German shepherd. And she'd lay up on the bank
or up on the porch. Little old dog come by and yack,
yack, yack, yack, yack, yack, yack, yack, yack, just yapping.
Just yapping. You'd think they was going to eat her up. I kept
another fellow's dog one time, this big old black and tan coonhound. He would eat anything up he got
a chance to. Not her. She'd just lay right there. Sometimes
turn her head. Never even get up. How come? Because she wasn't disturbed
at all. How come? I can handle that. I can handle that. Listen to
me. Our God and Savior sits upon
the throne in the serenity of absolute sovereignty. And His
throne is the throne of grace. And He bids sinners come to His
throne because He is the Savior. How can these weak, sinful, stammering
lips begin to describe the great glory of Christ in salvation
as our Savior? Can't do it any better than the
angel did. Thou shalt call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. We see something of His glory
when we see the kind of folks He saves. Not the mighty, not the noble, but us. And He saves us in such a way that His people are forever indestructibly attached to Him. He sets Himself in our hearts. His glory is great. It's selfish. Amen.