Okay, now let's go back to Psalm
96. Psalm 96, it is a profitable
thing to take time to read the Word of God, to meditate upon
the Word of God, and then when we gather together to preach
line by line, verse by verse, word by word, all scriptures
given of God We have to read it as such, hear it as such,
receive it as such, and rejoice in the treasure that we have
in the whole volume of Scripture, the Psalms, the Prophets, the
Gospels we call Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the Epistles,
John, Peter, and James, all of Paul's Epistles, the revelation
of Jesus Christ that we've been studying, all the Scriptures
given of God, We're thankful, aren't we? The Lord has preserved
and given his word unto us. Now, I'm taking the title for
the message from verse 2, what it says in verse 2, sing, oh,
sing unto the Lord. Sing this new song. It's the
song of redemption. It's not an old, old, old song. It's new. It's ever new, ever
new. A new song, a new covenant. Sing
unto the Lord, bless his name. Now, here's the title I want
to use, Show Forth His Salvation. You see that? Show Forth His
Salvation. Now, salvation is something we
certainly experience in our heart, and we can say with David, the
Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is, but it's his to
give, and we enjoy it, and we say that Christ is all of our
salvation. Show forth his salvation, that
is, proclaim it, declare it, hold nothing back. Salvation
is all of the Lord. When the Apostle Paul gathered
those elders together there in Ephesus, or from Ephesus when
he's on his way to Jerusalem, he said, I've not kept back anything
that was profitable unto you, but have showed you publicly
and house to house, privately and publicly in the temple from
house to house all the counsel of God. I shall not declare unto
you all the counsel of God from day to day. Show forth his salvation. Show forth his salvation. Turn
back a whole few places. Hold your place there and turn
it back a few pages, rather. Turn back to Psalm 70. You remember
this scripture? Psalm 70, verse 4, let those
that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee. Let such as love
thy salvation. Say continually, let God be magnified. I'm poor and I'm needy. poor
and needy creatures. Make haste unto me, O God, thou
art my help, thou art my deliverer or my redeemer. O Lord, make
no, make no tearing. Singing to the Lord, singing
to the Lord a new song. We desire as believers Every servant of the Lord our
desire and our aim and our goal is to declare the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ Take the Word of God and show forth his salvation
from day to day We preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ the
Lord Jesus Christ the Lord now look at verse verse 1 and verse
2 Saying Oh, sing. He says this many times in the
book of Psalms. Sing unto the Lord. Sing unto
the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth,
wherever believers meet together. Sing unto the Lord. Sing unto
the Lord and bless his name. Show forth his salvation. from
day to day, every day. Now, three times in these two
verses, we're told to sing praises unto the Lord. Why not two times? Why not four times? Why three
times? Father, Son, Holy Spirit, praise
ye the Lord. Sing praises unto our great God. And it's a new song of redemption.
You remember, turn one page, Psalm 98, verse one. Oh, singing
to the Lord, a new song. For he hath done marvelous things. You see that? Psalm 98, 1. He
had done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm
had gotten him the victory. The Lord hath made known his
salvation. His righteousness hath he openly
shown in the sight of the heathen. He reveals himself unto us. So
we sing the song of redemption. We declare his glorious work,
what the Lord has done for us. This new song is that same song
that we studied about in the revelation. Remember, don't turn. Let me just read it to you. And
they sung a new song saying, thou art worthy to take the book,
to open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, tongue, people
and nation and made us under our God, kings and priests and
we shall reign on the earth. What is this new song about?
It's a song of redemption, redeemed, redeemed. How I love to proclaim
it, redeemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. This new
song is about the new covenant of grace, that eternal covenant
of grace we have in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus
Christ in the book of Hebrews is called the surety of a better
testament. He's a mediator of a new covenant. Ordered in all things, and as
sure as David said, this is all my hope and this is all my desire.
It's a covenant of grace. It's a covenant of grace. We
sing unto the Father this new song. He is the one who has chosen
us unto salvation. Remember, our Lord said, you
didn't choose me. I chose you and ordained you
that you should bring forth fruit unto God. We sing this song of
redemption and praise unto our Father, our Heavenly Father,
who chose us, to the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who redeemed
us with his own blood. He paid the debt and set us free,
as we sang just a moment ago, in whom we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of
His grace, to the praise of the glory of His grace. And then
we sing praises and worship not only to the Father, the Son,
but the Holy Spirit. What does the Holy Spirit do?
Our Lord said He takes the things of Christ and reveals them unto
us. God the Holy Spirit reveals the
beauty and glory of Christ unto our heart, regenerated and sealed
by the power of God, you happy quicken who were dead. So we sing, oh, we sing unto
the Lord. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me whole. Thank you, Lord, for
giving to me thy great salvation so full and free in Christ Jesus. Show forth his salvation. Salvation
is in a person. You remember when they brought
the babe, the Lord Jesus Christ, into the temple to do according
to the custom of the law of God? The Lord Jesus Christ, even in
his infancy, obeyed the law of God. And Simeon, that old man,
picked him up in his arms and the Lord said, you won't die
until you see my salvation. And he picked the babe up, looked
right in his face, and said, Lord, I'm ready to die. I've
seen thy salvation. The Lord Jesus cried. He is salvation. Salvation is not in a profession
or a pool or a place or a feeling. Salvation is in a person. He
that hath a son hath life. That being true, when he shows
us his salvation, when he tunes us up and brings us up. I think
of another Psalm here. Turn over here, I think, let
me check this and see if I'm right here. This thought just
came into my mind here. Yeah, look at Psalm 40. Psalm
40. Declare his glory among the heathen. Look at Psalm 40, verse one. I waited patiently for the Lord.
He inclined unto me and heard my cry. Psalm 40, verse one,
you got it? He brought me up out of a horrible
pit, out of the miry clay, out of a sinful pit. He set my feet
upon a rock. He established my goings. He
put a new song in my mouth. You see that? He even prays to
our God, many shall see it in fear and shall trust the Lord.
Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. So he brought
me up. He set me up and then He tuned
me up. Do you see that? He tuned me up. He gave me a
new heart, a new song. We are new creatures in the Lord
Jesus Christ. We sing about Him who loved us,
washed us from our sin in His own blood. That being so, we
declare His glory. We declare His glory. We declare
His glory. God forbid we should glory save
in the cross to the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember that scripture
I quote all the time? What is it, 1 Corinthians 1 verse
30? Well, I don't quote that for
you. But of him are you in Christ
Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth,
let him glory only in the Lord. And that comes from Jeremiah
17, let not the rich man glory in his riches, let not the mighty
man glory in his strength, let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, but he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Declare
his glory among the heathen, his wonders, the wonders of his
redeeming work. You remember one of his names
is called what? Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty
God, the Everlasting Father. His name is Wonderful. Bless
his name. Show forth his salvation. Declare
his glory. Declare his glory. Declare his
wondrous works. For his name is called Wonderful
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. the Prince
of Peace. 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. If I would
declare and speak of them, there are more that can be numbered.
His wonderful works. You think of all the wondrous
things the Lord has done for his covenant people, his church. His wonders. Declare his wonders. The wonders of His love, can
you declare the wonders of His love? Beyond measure, aren't
they? The wonders of His grace, the
wonders of His mercy, that the Lord's mercies that were not
consumed, the wonders of His person, God Almighty manifest
in the flesh. For we have a lot to declare,
don't we? Verse 4 says, for the Lord is great, You know,
everything about the Lord is great. Everything about him is
great. But God, who is rich in mercy
for his great love, wherewith he loved us. You remember that
verse over in Hebrew chapter two, where it says, how shall
we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? You see, everything
about him is great. His person, his work, his decrees,
they're great. Everything about him is great.
and greatly to be praised. He's to be feared above all. He's to be feared above all,
all gods. I like this scripture. Turner,
let's read this one more time. Over here in Psalm 115. You remember
this? Psalm 115. Not unto us, verse
one. Psalm 115. Not unto us, O Lord,
not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, for
thy truth's sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? David said, our God's in the
heavens. He had done whatsoever he is pleased. Whatsoever the
Lord pleased, that's what he does. Their idols are silver, gold,
The work of men's hands, they have mouths, but they do not
speak. They have eyes, but they do not see. They have ears, they
can't hear, they're dead. Noses, but they can't smell. They have hands, but they handle
not. Feet, but they can't walk, neither speak. Their throat,
they that make them are like unto them. Well, that's a powerful
statement, isn't it? He's describing the idols of
the heathen. They have ears, they don't hear.
They have eyes, they can't see. They have hands that don't work,
feet that don't work. They that make them are like
unto them, so is everyone that trusteth him. An idol can't save
a flea. Our God is in the heavens. He
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Another scripture over here. Isaiah 45, just listen. Assemble
yourselves and come. Draw near together ye that are
escaped of the nation. They have no knowledge that set
up wood of their graven image, and pray unto a God that cannot
save. Now, what good would it do to
pray unto a dumb, dead idol? People who pray unto a God that
say, and they say, well, God wants to do something, but he
can't because you won't let him. That's a mere idol. Our God,
as he describes himself in his scripture, is almighty. He's
the Lord omnipotent who reigneth over all things. They pray to
a God that cannot save. Our God said, there is no God
else beside me, a just God and Savior. There is none beside
me. Now he said, look to me. Look to me, the living God, the
true God. You see, we've been turned to
God from our idols to serve the living and true God. Look unto
me and be saved all the ends of the earth. I am God and there
is none else. You see, salvation is looking
to the true and living God. The true and living God, our
Savior, Jesus Christ. For the Lord is great, back to
the text, Psalm 96. The Lord is great, greatly to
be praised. Everything about him is great. He is to be feared. Feared. This is reverential fear and
worship. Reverential fear and worship.
We reverence our God. He's the mighty God. We take
our place before him as guilty sinners, looking to him to provide
all salvation. The only place a sinner will
really truly worship is before the throne of the almighty God.
And our almighty God said, come unto me, all ye that labor heavy
laden, I'll give you rest. Seeing we have such a great high
priest that sat in the heavenlies on the throne, he said, come
boldly to the throne of grace that you may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need. Look at verse five, for
all the gods of the nations are idols. But the Lord created all
things by the word of his power. The Lord made the heavens. He made the heavens. When we
were on vacation last week, we were staying in a campground
and we had some real clear, cold nights. Got real cold, got real
clear. And when I got up very early
in the morning, 5.30, 6 o'clock, and I'd walk outside and I'd
look up that clear sky and there were just stars all over. I thought, oh, the heavens declared
the glory of God. The Lord made the heavens. How
many stars are out there? Infinite, infinite number of
stars and universes and different things. The Lord created all
things by the word of his power. He spoke them into existence.
That's the great God that we serve. The Lord made the heavens. Think about this. The Lord Jesus Christ, in due
time, God sent forth his son. Where did he send him from? From
the throne of glory, down here to inhabit a body of a man, to
accomplish our salvation, taking our sin to himself and putting
our sin away, honoring the law of God, establishing righteousness
for us. The Lord made the heavens and
the Lord made our salvation and redemption in absolute certainty. The Lord didn't come to make
salvation a possibility. The Lord came to secure our everlasting
salvation. That's what we're saying a moment
ago. Honor and majesty, verse six, are before him. Strength
and beauty are in his sanctuary. Honor, majesty, those attributes
of God. Arthur Pink got a very good book
on the attributes of God. Honor and majesty, all honor
and glory. Majesty. He is a majestic God. The majestic God about his throne. Strength and beauty. How much strength does he have?
How much power does he have? Strength is power. He's omnipotent. That means he has all power in
heaven and in earth. And he has beauty. The Lord Jesus
Christ is altogether lovely. He has all strength. He has all
beauty. We are just the opposite. Of
all four of those attributes, We have dishonor, and Adam all
died. We don't have any majesty about
us. We have guilt. We don't have any strength about
us. We have weakness. We don't have any beauty about
us. Our Lord calls our beauty filthy
rags in his sight. He called it vanity. Apostle
Paul called it dung. Our righteous is as dumb, but
he has honor, majesty, strength, beauty, and he gives that to
his people, in his sanctuary, in his church. You see, we are
one with him. We're united with him. As I've
often said, what's true of the head is true of the body. He
is righteous, and we're righteous in Him. He has all strength,
and we have all strength in Him. Now, verse 7, give. Give unto
the Lord. We freely give. Give unto the
Lord all ye kindreds, all the kindred of the people. And His
people do, out of every kindred, tribe, nation, tongue, under
heaven. They do give glory unto the Lord. They do praise the Lord. They
do acknowledge that He is Almighty God. We don't give Him strength,
we acknowledge that He is God. Give unto the Lord. Verse eight,
give unto the Lord glory, let's do His name. Bring an offering,
come unto His courts. And we come unto His courts with
thanksgiving. When David brought the Ark of God back to Jerusalem,
they offered many, many blood sacrifices unto the Lord, picturing
what their sin deserved, death, condemnation, picturing what
the Lord Jesus Christ would do, put away our sin by the sacrifice
of Himself, shedding His blood. That's what all those Old Testament
offerings are a picture of, Christ our substitute, who took our
sins, died under the judgment of God, and we come unto the
Lord now as New Testament believers, we don't come bringing a blood
offering unto the Lord, but we do come bringing an offering
of praise unto the Lord, saying that our salvation is of the
Lord, and the offering we present is Christ himself, Christ crucified. Now, verse 9, oh, worship the
Lord. Worship the Lord. And this is
the only way we can worship the Lord in beauty, the beauty of
His holiness. That's the only way we can worship
Him. That is, the Lord Jesus Christ is the way, the truth,
the life. No man come to the Father but
by Him. Worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness. He is the beauty of holiness.
Thy people shall be willing in a day of thy power. In the beauty
of holiness from the womb of the morning, thou hast to do
of thy youth. That's how we worship, and that's
how we come before God in Christ, and we do reference him. wherever
believers are in this earth, or whenever they have lived upon
the earth, and whatever century they have lived upon the earth,
they come before the Lord God Almighty in the beauty of Christ's
righteousness. Now, verse 10, say among the
heathen, say among the heathen, what do
we say? What do we say among the heathen?
I know what this religious world says. This religious world says,
smile, God loves you. This religious world says, God
loves everybody. In all the preaching in the book
of Acts, and we've studied all through the book of Acts, not
once, not twice, three times. And all the preachings of the
book of Acts, how many times did the apostle John and Peter
and the rest of the preachers, how many times did they say,
God loves everybody? None. How many times did they
say that God is love? None. How many times did they
even mention the word love? None. They did say that God reigns. God rules. So what do we say
among the heathen that is unbelievers? God is not in your hand. You're in his hand. We preach
and believe the sovereign mercy and sovereign grace of God. That
is the Lord reigns, that means he gives salvation to whom he
will. We don't deserve salvation, do we? The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life.
He said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. That the purpose
of God according to election might stand. He said, I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I'll harden whom I will. What shall we say then? Well,
God before us, who can be against us? The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Look, right down the page, Psalm
97 verse one. What does it say? The Lord reigneth. What does
it say back here in Psalm 93 verse 1? I read these verses
to you Sunday morning, didn't I? What does it say over here?
The Lord reigneth. He clothed with majesty. The
Lord clothed with strength. Now, if this book teaches anything,
it teaches that God is God. And He rules and reigns in absolute
dominion and power. He's decreed all things, all
things must come to pass. He said, I've purposed it, I've
spoken it, I'll do it. God reigns. We rejoice that God
reigns. Say, among the heathen, the Lord
reigneth. The world also shall be established. Who created it? Who establishes it? By Him all
things consist. You remember over in Colossians
chapter 1? By Him all things consist. And that word consist
means held together. Have you ever noticed the absolute
order of creation? The sun, the moon, the stars,
the seasons, the time. It's order, isn't it? Who establishes
that order? Who keeps that order? For by him are all things created
that are in heaven, that are in the earth, visible, invisible,
whether they be throne or dominion, principalities or power. All
things were created by him and for him. He's before all things
and by him all things consist. All things are held together.
That winter solace comes at a certain time. About what, December 21st? That summer solstice comes at
what time? About June 21st? It's always
on time. That earth, the whole earth tilts. The whole thing tilts. What power
does it take to tilt the earth? And he does it with exactness. You can count on it. That's because
the Lord has established all things and controls all things. Say among the heathen, the Lord
reigneth. The world also shall be established.
It shall not be moved. And not by us. He moves it. He shall judge the people righteously. Aren't you glad that Christ took
our sin and took our judgment, took our wrath, and now therefore
in Christ there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ? He
shall judge the people. Call His name Jesus. He shall
save His people from their sins. Let the heavens, verse 11, let
the heavens rejoice. Let the heavens rejoice. That's
the same thing we read in Revelation 19, isn't it? The Lord God omnipotent
reigneth, let us be glad and rejoice. Aren't you glad that
God is God? Let the heavens rejoice. The
saints in heaven, what are they doing? They're rejoicing the
Lord reigns. That's our message. Behold, the
Lord reigneth. Let the heavens rejoice. Let
the earth be glad. Saints in heaven, saints in the
earth. Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof. Who controls
even the sea? The tide, it ebbs and flows. It's right on time. Low tide,
high tide. Low tide, high tide. Who controls
that? Well, Mother Nature does. Oh no, my friend. God controls
all things by the word of his power. The sea roars. You ever heard the roaring of
the sea? That's the voice of God saying that he is God reigning. And the fullness thereof. The oceans are full of creatures,
aren't they? I mean, full of creatures. How many fish have
we pulled out of the ocean? I mean, we've pulled out millions
and millions and billions and trillions of fish. It's still
full. How does that happen? Well, it's
just we got lucky. No, no, my friend. No, not according
to this book. This book says this. The earth
is the Lord, and the fullness thereof, and the world, and they
that dwell therein. He founded it upon the seas,
and established it upon the floods. The earth is the Lord, and the
fullness thereof, is of the Lord. Verse 12, let the field be joyful, and all that is therein Then
shall the trees of the wood rejoice. The wind as it blows through
the trees. Remember why Lord when he talks
to Nicodemus about the new birth? As the wind blows through the
trees and you can hear the sound thereof, but you can't tell from
whence it comes or where it goes. You cannot control. So is everyone
that's born of the Spirit of God. We have been made trees
of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that we might glorify
him in all things, that we might honor him in all things. The
righteous shall flourish like a palm tree. He shall grow like
a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the
house of our God shall flourish in the courts of our God. Psalm 92 verse 12 and verse 13. One more verse. Verse 13. Before the Lord. Let the heaven
rejoice. Let the earth be glad. Before
the Lord. For he cometh. He's on his way. He cometh to judge the earth.
We read about that in 2 Peter chapter 3, didn't we? He's going
to make a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
He shall judge the world. with righteousness. The standard
of judgment is Christ. God's committed all judgment
to the Son. You remember Acts chapter 17
verse 31? The Lord has appointed a day
in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man. It's not how you stack up among
men and the standard of men, the standard that men make, their
standard is always too low. The standard of judgment is the
absolute righteousness of God. And we have that in Christ. We
shall come to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with
righteousness and his people in Christ with his truth in Christ. That's where our judgment took
place on Calvary. We're crucified with Christ.
Judgment's already done. took place in Christ, the Lord
Jesus Christ.