Psalm 92 this evening, and I'm
taking the title for the message from the good news we read in
verse 4. The good news in verse 4, and
it's the good news of the gospel. The Lord has given us the victory.
For thy Lord has made me glad. We're glad through thy work,
not our work, his work. You've made me glad through thy
work. And because of your work, talking
about his work of redemption, he redeemed us with his own blood,
talking about his work as the high priest representing us,
the mediator, because of all that he has done for us, believers
in Christ, they do triumph. We have the victory in the Lord
Jesus Christ, as we read in that song just a minute ago, talked
about the victory over sin, death, hell, and the grave. And we will
triumph through the work of thy hands, his hands, not ours, his
hands. His hands are strong. His hands
are powerful. His hand, everything he puts
his hand to shall prosper. The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in His hand. Isaiah 53. So, the title of the
message, Victorious in Christ. We're talking about believers. No one can say that we have the
victory over sin or the victory over death apart from the Lord
Jesus Christ because the enemies, it talks about here, the enemies
they'll be destroyed, but the Lord, he remains forever. Indeed,
believers in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, we read in
Roman chapter eight, there are more than conquerors through
him that loved us. We are more than conquerors through
him that loved us. I'm persuaded that nothing can
separate us from the love of God, which is in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Remember when we studied through
the revelation and I told you When we got to chapter six, when
it describes the Lord Jesus Christ on that white horse going forth
to conquer and to conquer, I think that's the key verse in that
whole revelation. It's all about the conquering
lamb who is the lion of the tribe of Judah who cannot fail. Remember
he said, I am he that liveth and was dead. Behold, I'm alive
forevermore, and I have the keys. He had the keys of hell and death.
He has all authority and power to save, all authority and power
to condemn. It's his to do so. He went forth
conquering and to conquer. The Lord Jesus Christ had never
lost a battle, never lost a battle. Defeated Satan, defeated death,
satisfied the law of God, and because the Lord Jesus Christ
is victorious, We're victorious in Him. That's why Paul writes
there, thanks being to God, who has given us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. There's one other scripture that
I meant to turn to and read. Let me just read it to you over
there from 1 Corinthians 15. But in 2 Corinthians 2, verse
14, Now thanks be unto God who always
causes us to triumph in Christ. He always causes us to triumph
in Christ and make manifest the savor of his knowledge in every
place. He always causes his believers
to triumph. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who
is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, yea
rather is risen again. He was even at the right hand
of God. The Lord Jesus Christ put death
away. He died our death. Delivered for our offenses and
raised again for our justification. The Lord Jesus Christ has removed
our sin from us as far as the east is from the west. That's
a victory, isn't it? We can't do anything about putting
away our sin. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
the one who is accuser of the brethren, Satan, the devil. The
Lord's crushed his dominion, crushed his power. Now what a
glorious psalm of good news we see here in Psalm 92. And indeed,
this psalm is called the Psalm for the Sabbath day. As you see
there in the title, a psalm or a song for the Sabbath day. Evidently,
this psalm was reserved for a special occasion on the Sabbath day to
be sung about the victories believers have in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, we don't observe a Sabbath day, and Sunday is not a Christian
Sabbath. It's the Lord's day that we've
set aside to worship, and I'm thankful that we have that day
set aside to worship, but to the believer, every day is a
day of worship. But the Sabbath day here is a
picture of Christ who is our Sabbath. Remember on that Sabbath
day they were to rest, remember? Do no work at all. They were
to rest. Well, we know the Lord Jesus Christ is our Sabbath. He's our rest. He said, coming
to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you
rest. He's rest for the weary, isn't
He? You remember we studied about that in Hebrew chapter four.
He said, let us therefore labor to enter into that rest. Let
us strive to enter into that rest, that rest, that remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God. And we know the Lord
Jesus Christ, he is our Sabbath. He is our rest. We rest in him. So let us cease from seeking
salvation by our works or going about to establish a righteousness
of our own And may God give us grace to rest in Christ who is
our salvation. To rest in Christ who is our
righteousness before God. He's called the Lord our righteousness. He's made us righteousness. Paul
writes in Romans chapter four, blessed is the man to whom the
Lord imputeth righteousness without works. No works. on our part, no work required
from our hands. Now look at verse one. It's a
good thing. It is good. It is always good to give thanks
unto the Lord. It's a good thing. It's a right
thing to give thanks unto the Lord. We have so much to be thankful
for, don't we? so much to be thankful for. He's
blessed us with all spiritual blessings and heavenlies in Christ
Jesus. We have so much to be thankful
for. If there's one thing that should be, should be, think of
the word I want to use here, should be common among all of
God's people is that they have a thankful heart. They have a
thankful heart. We give thanks unto the Lord.
To the Lord our God. For the Lord is good. We give
thanks. We give thanks. Paul writes about
it in 1 Thessalonians. In everything give thanks for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. In everything
give thanks. That's what he says. Have a thankful
heart. in everything give thanks, for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." So believers
are thankful. Oh, we give thanks to the Lord.
He's blessed us with so many, so many blessings. We are a thankful
people. And then because we are thankful,
we want to sing praises unto his name. We want to sing praises
of worship and adoration and reverence unto His name. Now
His name, God has given Him a name, the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember
Philippians 2? God given Him a name above every
name, that at that name every knee will bow, every tongue shall
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. And then I think about
His name, no other name under heaven, given among men, whereby
we must be saved. than that name of our Lord Jesus
Christ? Then I think of that scripture
in Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter
9 verse 6. His name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor, the Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
His name. We sing praises to His name.
His name declares who He is. He's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's Lord Lord, King of Kings,
He's the Christ, the Anointed of God, and He's Jesus, call
His name Jesus. What does that mean? Savior.
He's a Savior who really saves His people from their sin. So
we praise His name, and we give thanks unto His name, and we
worship who He is, the Lord our God, and I like this description
here, that he says in the last part of verse one, oh, most high. How high is God? He's high above
the heavens. He's the most high God. That means there's none higher
than him. That means that he's the most
high in sovereignty, he's the most high in power, he's the
most high reverent God over all things, he is the most high for
how long? Psalm 92, look at verse 8. For
thy Lord art most high forever, forever and ever. How long is
ever and ever? Look across the page, Psalm 90
verse 2. Look right across the page here.
You see it? Psalm 90 verse 2, Before the mountains were brought
forth, wherever thou hast formed the earth and the world, from
everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. He's God our Savior. He's God our Savior. Isaiah 45
declares, He said, I am God. Beside me there is no other.
The only just God and Savior. Now he says, look to me. Look
to me and be ye saved. He's the most high God forevermore. How long has he been the most
high God? Forever. He has no beginning and he has
no end. He is the most high God and we
sing praises unto him. He's the most high, none higher,
none higher than our God. He's worthy of our thanks. He's worthy of our worship, worthy
of our praises. Now look at verse two, Psalm
92 verse two, show forth Thy loving kindness in the morning
and thy faithfulness every night. Show forth. And then right across
the column, look at verse 15, to show that the Lord is upright. Show forth that the Lord is upright.
He is my rock. There's no unrighteousness in
him. God is holy. There's no unrighteousness
in him. Whatever he does is right. Whatever
he does is holy and just and good. The Lord is good. Believers are thankful and they
delight to worship and praise the Lord and to show forth means
to demonstrate and to boldly stand fast and to manifest in
the morning and in the evening to stand fast and show forth
and talk about His loving kindness. His loving-kindness. To talk
about His faithfulness. Verse 15, to talk about His uprightness. To talk about the foundation
we have in Christ. He is my rock, my light, and
my salvation. Verse 15, and there's no one
righteous than Him. We stand fast to show forth who
He is and declare who He is, don't we? Look at those four
things there. His loving-kindness. His loving-kindness. Isn't it a wonderful thing to
talk about his loving-kindness? His loving-kindness, his pity,
his long-suffering? I think of that word loving-kindness
in Psalm 51 where David talks about God's mercy to him. Have mercy upon me, O God, according
to thy loving-kindness. According to the multitude of
thy tender mercy, blot out my transgression. We have salvation
according to his loving kindness, his pity toward us. His loving
kindness is his mercy. And then we love to talk about
and show forth and stand fast for not only his loving kindness,
his loving kindness really, his love actually saves us. God commended
his love toward us. while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. We love to talk about the loving
kindness of the Lord. And then we love to talk about
in the morning and in the evening, and anytime you wanna talk about
the loving kindness of our great God, I'm ready to talk about
it. And then he says, and thy faithfulness, God's faithfulness. Now, I appreciate the faithfulness.
of God's people, but our faithfulness is not our salvation. Our salvation
is based upon His faithfulness, not ours. Now, turn just one
page over here to Psalm 89, Psalm 89, and that is mentioned several
times here, Psalm 89. Look at verse 2. For I have said,
mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish
in the very heavens. His faithfulness God shall establish. In the same Psalm, Psalm 89,
look at verse 5. And the heavens shall praise
thy wonders, O Lord, thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the
saints. Same Psalm, Psalm 89, look at
verse 8, O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto
thee, or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Our God is
faithful. Great, we sing that song often
times, don't we? Great is thy faithfulness. God
is faithful to his covenant promise. God is faithful to his word.
Not one covenant promise, not one word of God, not one promise
of God shall fail. Can't fail, because he's a God
who cannot fail. Abraham was persuaded, remember?
All that God promised, he's able to perform. All the promises
of God in Christ are yes, and in him, amen. And to the glory
of God, through Christ Jesus. Now I want to pick up two more
things there. In verse 15, that he talks about,
the Lord is upright. The Lord is upright. He's just
and he's holy. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. There is no unrighteousness in
him. The Lord is upright. There's
no unrighteousness in him. Whatever he does shall not the
judge of all the earth do right? Yes, he will. And everything
he does is right. Everything he does is right.
And then the fourth thing he mentions there in verse 15, He
talks about my rock, my rock. Now the Lord Jesus Christ is
that rock. He's that foundation that God
has laid, that tridestone, you remember? That precious cornerstone.
Isaiah writes about Isaiah 28, 16, behold, I lay in Zion for
a stone, a tridestone, a precious cornerstone. Those who rest upon
that foundation will never be forced off. You remember that
Psalm 62 we had not too long ago? He only is my rock. You
remember the only Psalm? Psalm 62. He only is my rock. He only is my refuge. He only
is my hope. He's the rock that never fails.
Christ said, upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail. Now we praise our God, and we
give thanks to our God, and we show forth his loving kindness,
and we do it as we worship. And even Old Testament believers
in David, David was a magician. He used instruments. Upon an
instrument of 10 strings, upon a psaltery with a harp with a
solemn sound. Now, I'm not opposed to using
musical instruments in the worship service. We have a guitar, we
have a piano. A piano has, how many strings
are in the piano? If you look in that piano, there's
strings everywhere. There's more than 10 strings. There's probably 100 strings
in there. But as long as instruments are used in a reverential way,
as part of the worship service and singing. I wish we had a
piano player. We had one for a while. And we
are thankful for the years that Bob and Carol was here with us
until they moved down to Virginia. But I pray often that the Lord
would send us a piano player. The Lord would raise up or send
us a piano player that we can, it adds so much to our singing.
Now, we can sing without instruments, but it's so much better to sing
with instruments and have accompaniment together. And to do it in a way
that's honoring to God. To do it in a way making melody
in our hearts unto the Lord. Now, I don't have anything against
people who want to sing with no instruments. If they want
to do that, that's fine. But I enjoy the instruments as
long as they're used in a reverential way. I'm opposed to bringing
in that rock and roll beat music and adding some lyrics to it
that are religious, and I'm not interested in that. If
you've ever watched the program, Brother Mahan comes on WPRG at
8 o'clock. on a local cable TV, and at 8.30
there's a church that follows our program, and as soon as it
comes on, but it's the drum, the bass, I mean it's a rock
and roll, it's a rock and roll fest. And there's no worship
there, no reverence there. Now, let's move on to verse four. So we use it too much in a way
that's honoring to the Lord in our worship service and praising
Him. Nothing wrong with that. Now look at verse 4. For thou,
Lord, hast made me glad. We're blessed. Remember that
word blessed is happy, happy, happy. Blessed is the man whom
the Lord imputeth not iniquity, whose sin is covered. That's
a blessed man. That's a happy man. For thou,
Lord, hast made me glad. through thy work, I will triumph
in the work of your hands. O Lord, how great are thy works
and thy thoughts to us." Oh, they're very deep. The deep,
deep thoughts, the deep, deep thoughts of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, one old preacher had this
outline, this four-point outline on verse four. He said, my state,
the state of a believer is glad. That's our state, we're glad. Rejoice in the Lord always. And
again, I say rejoice. And then how does a believer
arrive at being glad? Thou hast made me glad. Thou
hast made me to rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. Then what's
the ground of that? Rejoicing through thy work. through thy work he has made
me glad. It's the work of the Lord. And
it's talking about, we've been all through the book of Hebrews,
and we see all through the book of Hebrews the priestly work
of the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf. And we must have a great
high priest, we must have a great high priest who has somewhat
to offer, to offer unto God's holy justice. And what did he
offer? What did he bring? He brought his own blood, didn't
he? He obtained for us, you remember that verse? Was it chapter nine,
verse 12? He obtained for us eternal redemption
with his own blood. So this is what he has done for
us. And then we ascribe to God all
the glory. I will triumph, I will triumph
in the work of his hand, the work of his hand, his priestly
work. We ascribe it all unto our Lord,
don't we? And it's the triumph of faith.
Because the Lord has made me glad, made me to rejoice through
that work, through that redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ,
we are thankful and ready to praise and honor our great God. As David said in Psalm 103, bless
the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his
holy name. We do honor and bless Him. Our
salvation is complete in Him, and we enjoy complete justification
in Him. We have complete righteousness
established and given to us in Him, and it's totally by the
work of His faithful hand. It's totally by the doing and
dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, totally by His faithfulness alone.
Thanks being to God who always causes us to triumph in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Isn't that a good verse? For
thy Lord hath made me glad through thy work. For by grace are ye
saved through faith and that not of yourself. It's a gift
of God, not of work, lest any man should boast. We will triumph
have the victory through his doing, his dying, his exaltation,
I will triumph in the work of thy hand. Thanks be to God who
has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. His faithful obedience, not ours. His obedience, not ours. You
see, our salvation is based upon his doing, his work for us. His work for us. Turn just a
couple pages over here to Psalm 98 verse 1. Psalm 98 verse 1. Sing unto the Lord a new song,
for He hath done marvelous things. His right hand and His holy arm
hath gotten Him the victory. We have the victory through His
marvelous doing, His right hand that He has done for us. Remember, the Lord Jesus Christ, even as
a 12-year-old boy left there in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph
went back. and they left him behind. And
then after several days of journeying, they started missing him. Where is that 12-year-old boy? Well, they went back and found
him in the temple, teaching the doctors and the lawyers there
in the temple. And they were upset And then
he said, don't you know I must be about my father's business?
Even at a 12-year-old child, he was about the father's business.
And then later on, 30 years old or so, when he was about doing
the will of the father, accomplishing our salvation, he said to his
apostle, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and
to finish his work. Our salvation is based upon his
finished work, isn't it? And then he prayed in John 17,
Father, I thank Thee. I've given me power over all
flesh. I've finished the work You gave me to do. And now, O
Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self, with the glory
which I had with Thee before the world was. Remember what
he said upon Calvary's tree, as he dies for our sin, as our
substitute, it is finished. It's finished. We are, as believers, now, I
want you to listen carefully to what I'm going to say. A lot
of people in religion say, well, I'm trusting the finished work
of Christ. That's really not a good statement.
I'm trusting the Lord Jesus Christ who finished the work for me.
So I'm trusting him who finished salvation for us. Now, look at
verse five. Oh Lord, how great are thy works. Everything the Lord does is great.
And thy thoughts, Thy thoughts are very deep. Now hold your
place there. I want you to look at this one.
Turn over here to Psalm 40. Psalm 40. Psalm 40. Talking about his thoughts,
his works. Psalm 40 verse 5. Psalm 40 verse
5. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which
are to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in
order unto thee. If I would declare and speak
of them, they are more than can be numbered. Oh, how many wonderful
works the Lord has done for us. And his thoughts are to usward. Remember that one verse over
in 2 Peter 3, 9? The Lord is longsuffering to
usward, not willing that any should perish, that all should
come to repentance. So how great are thy works and
his thoughts. His thoughts are his decrees,
his counsel, his eternal counsel and decree for his people. Known
unto God are all of his works from the beginning. He worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will. The very salvation
that we enjoy is by his decrees. of which in time the Lord Jesus
Christ came to fulfill. He was a lamb slain, you remember,
from the foundation of the world. In the fullness of time, He came
and purchased us with His own blood. In the fullness of time,
God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law
to redeem them that were under the law. Here we have a description of
the believers giving thanks and praising the Lord and showing
forth His marvelous kindness and rejoicing in the work of
His hand and how wonderful are His works to His people. And
then here's a contrast. Verse 6, verse 7, verse 8, verse
11. Here's a contrast. A brutish
man doesn't know Neither doth a fool understand. They're ignorant
of the works, the wonderful redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The brutish man is the carnal man. The brutish man is the foolish
man. The fool has said in his heart,
there is no God. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. The brutish man doesn't know
anything about the wonderful works of God. God has to make
that known unto us. And then he says, verse 7, when
the wicked spring, as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity
do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever. Thou,
O Lord, art most high forevermore. Verse 9, for lo, thine enemies,
O Lord, for lo, thine enemies shall perish, and all the workers
of iniquity shall be scattered. We read that verse in Hebrews,
excuse me, Matthew chapter 7. where he said, depart from me,
all ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you. And they were bragging
about what they did for the Lord. Thine enemies, O Lord, all thine
enemies, they'll perish. The wicked shall perish. And
all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. In the Lord Jesus
Christ, there is no condemnation, but outside of him, God is a
consuming fire. My enemies, verse 11, and we'll
come back to verse 10. My enemies also shall see my
desire, my eyes also shall see my desire on my enemies, and
my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that do rise up
against the Lord. Vengeance belongs to the Lord,
and he will repay in due time. In due time, in God's own good
time. David talks about the wicked
in Psalm 73. He talks about them as being
prosperous, having no pain and no trouble and no heartache and
no end. Then David said, have I cleaned
my heart in vain? Then he went into the sanctuary
and then he understood their end. He does set them in slippery
places and they shall perish. Psalm 73 verse 12 down through
verse 19. You can read it. Let's go back
and look at verse 8 for just a moment. But thou, O Lord, art
most high forevermore. The Lord our God does not change
in His purpose, in His character, in His resolve to glorify the
Lord Jesus Christ and to destroy righteously so all those that
oppose Him. The wages of sin Death. The gift of God's eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Lord, He's the Most High
Lord forevermore. Forevermore. We're going to study
in Hebrews 13, Lord willing, Sunday morning. We talk about
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forevermore. He said, I'm the Lord, I change
not. Remember? Therefore ye sons of Jacob shall
not be consumed. Now look at verse 10 for a moment.
David is rejoicing in the power of his salvation that's been
given to him. But my horn shalt thou exalt
like the horn of a unicorn, and I shall be anointed. I shall
be anointed with fresh oil. He's talking here about that
word horn there is symbolic of power. And we know that the gospel
of Christ is the power of God unto salvation. And that's what
we need. We need a powerful salvation
to save us from all our sin. And that's what we have in Christ.
And because Christ, our Head, has been exalted, we're exalted
in Him. And the Lord Jesus Christ has
given us, He's made us new creatures in Christ, He's given us a new
birth, He's raised us from the dead, and that's the work of
God the Holy Spirit, the anointing of God the Holy Spirit, making
us new creatures in Christ, taking the things of Christ and revealing
them unto us. Now that gets us down to verse
12. The righteous shall flourish. The wicked shall perish. The
righteous shall flourish. Now, what a contrast. What a
contrast. Now, who are these righteous
people that shall flourish, that shall not perish? Well, we know
this, there is none righteous, no, not one. None of us are righteous
in ourselves. And certainly, we would say that
our morality is not our righteousness. You could abstain from all kind
of this and that and everything else. Our best deeds are filthy
rags in God's sight. There's none righteous in and
of themselves. We're only righteous in Christ. He's the Lord our righteousness. The righteous shall flourish.
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, and he shall
grow, he shall flourish, we're made righteous in Christ, and
we shall flourish because he flourishes, and then he mentions
the palm tree, And then he mentions about believers growing in grace
and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He shall grow like
a cedar, a cedar tree in Lebanon, that country of Lebanon. I don't
know if it's that way today, but back in David's day, when
they needed a cedar wood to build the temple, they went to Lebanon
and got these cedar trees. And they're known for their quality
and for their soundness. And that's what we have in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Unbelievers are pictured as the
grass that spring up quickly and will soon be cut off. All
flesh is grass. But the believer made righteous
in Christ is as a tree planted by the river of life in Him. Hold your place there. Do you
remember Psalm 1? Can you turn over there for a
minute? And let's read about it. Psalm 1. Talking about the
righteous, being trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. Psalm
number 1, verse 1, blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth
in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law
of the Lord. In his law does he meditate day
and night. He shall be like a tree. planted
by the rivers of water that bring forth fruit in his season, his
leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so. Believers
are trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." We're
trees, like a palm tree. Now, what I've read about palm
trees, a palm tree will grow slowly, steadily and thrive where
nothing else will. Now those palm trees are marvelous. The wind, those hurricanes will
bend those trees over and then they'll come right back up. They
bend them over and they come right back up. And that's the
way believers are. The trials bend us down, but
God brings us right back up. And someone said of the palm
tree, they'll grow where nothing else will grow. They grow on a, if you tried
to plant some corn in a sand bank, you would probably get
zero corn. But if you planted a palm tree
in the sand bank, it would grow and flourish. That's the way
the Lord has designed it. Believers are made to grow in
grace while they live in the desert of sin. He plants a palm
tree in the desert wasteland and it grows. We grow in Christ. We desire the sincere milk of
the Word that we might grow. And then he talks about cedar
trees. Cedar trees are durable, beautiful, and likewise a believer,
they're preserved in Christ, and they persevere in faith,
and they're made beautiful in Him. Remember, He's the true
vine, we are the branches in Christ Jesus. Verse 13, those
that be planted, Those that be planted in the house of the Lord,
they shall flourish in the course of our God. Remember, we studied
from Matthew chapter 15, every plant which my heavenly Father
hath not planted shall be rooted up. Those that be planted in
the house of the Lord, they shall flourish. They shall flourish
because of Christ, because of the gospel. They shall flourish
and grow. Verse 14, They shall still bring
forth fruit. Notice that's singular. Fruit
in old age. They shall be fat. And that has a reference to being
full. They shall be full and flourishing. Of His fullness have we all received
grace for grace. They shall still bring forth
fruit. And notice, it's fruit. And it
goes in reference to Galatians 5 verse 22. The fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance,
these things. We grow in grace, and it's the
fruit of the Spirit. They shall still bring forth
fruit. As the believer matures and ages, he loves more, he believes
stronger, He has more blessings he enjoys in Christ, and they're
fat and they're flourishing. Of His fullness have we all received
grace for grace. In Him was all the fullness of
a Godhead bodily, and we are complete in Christ. Notice that
word flourishing means green. They are full of green, flourishing
life. Christ is all in and all we have
life in him. Isn't that a good psalm?