This evening we want to take
a look at Psalm 61. Notice it's the Psalm of David.
You see that in the introduction there. The Psalm of David. The Psalm of David. David was
a man that was chosen of God. David was a man that was the
anointed king of Israel. David was a man who was called
of God and God said of him, he's a man after my own heart. DAVID
HAD A SINCERE HEART. DAVID CONFESSES THAT HE WAS A
SINNER SAVED BY THE GRACE OF GOD. HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD,
ACCORDING TO THY LOVINGKINDNESS, AND THY TRUTHS AGAINST THEE,
AND THEE ONLY HAVE I SINNED AND DONE EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT. DAVID'S
HOPE OF SALVATION WASN'T IN THE FACT HE WAS A KING. HIS HOPE
OF SALVATION WAS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF LORDS. THE PSALM OF DAVID. MESSAGE FROM
THE WORDS FOUND IN VERSE SEVEN. THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAUGHT
MY ATTENTION. OH, PREPARE MERCY AND TRUTH,
AND MERCY, AND BY HIS MERCY AND TRUTH WE'RE PRESERVED. WE'RE
PRESERVED. PREPARE MERCY AND TRUTH. WHEN WAS MERCY PREPARED? WHEN
WAS TRUTH PREPARED FOR OUR SALVATION IN GOD'S ETERNAL PURPOSE? MERCY
WAS PURPOSED AND TRUTH WAS SET FORTH. PRESERVED BY MERCY AND
TRUTH. WE READ IN PROVERBS 16, VERSE
6, BY MERCY AND TRUTH, INIQUITY IS PURGED BY THE FEAR OF THE
LORD. DEPART FROM EVIL. BY MERCY AND
TRUTH, INIQUITY IS PURGED. AND THEN YOU REMEMBER FROM PSALM
85, WE'VE READ SO MANY TIMES, MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER,
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER. WHERE DID
THAT HAPPEN? AT THE CROSS. AT THE CROSS OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD WAS IN CHRIST RECONCILING
US UNTO HIMSELF. This psalm is just eight verses. It's short, but it's sweet, sweet,
full of God's blessed promises. It's sweet with the blessedness
of the gospel and all the promises we have of the gospel in the
Lord Jesus Christ. You remember from our study in
2 Corinthians chapter one, verse 20, all the promises of God in
him are yes, AND IN HIM AND AMEN AND ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD GIVE
GOD ALL THE HONOR AND GLORY FOR THE SALVATION THIS OF THE LORD. NOW MOST THINK THIS PSALM WAS
GIVEN UNTO DAVID. YOU REMEMBER ALL SCRIPTURES GOD
GIVEN. MOST THINK THIS PSALM WAS GIVEN
UNTO DAVID WHEN HE WAS EXILED FROM JERUSALEM AND FORCED TO
FLEE FOR HIS LIFE WHEN HIS OWN SON ABSALOM LED A REBELLION AGAINST
DAVID. Now you can imagine your own
son running you out of town, and that's what happened when
Absalom led a revolt against David. And it overwhelmed his
heart with sorrow, overwhelmed his heart with grief, which led
him to cry unto God for help and for deliverance. David had
nowhere else to turn but unto God. I thought about this, trouble
from the hand of the Lord IS A BLESSED THING WHEN HE TROUBLES
THE HEARTS OF HIS PEOPLE TO CAUSE THEM TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF
THE LORD AND WHEN IT DRIVES US TO OUR GOD TO CRY FOR HELP IN
TIME OF NEED. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP
US IN OUR TIME OF NEED. AND WE'VE READ SO MANY TIMES
IN THE PSALMS WHERE DAVID WITH A BROKEN HEART, SORROW AND TROUBLE,
HE CRIES UNTO THE LORD IN TIME OF HIS TROUBLE. HE SAYS IN PSALM
46, LET ME JUST READ IT TO YOU, GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH,
A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE. TROUBLE IS A BLESSED THING WHEN
IT COMES FROM THE HANDS OF THE LORD, BECAUSE WHOM THE LORD LOVETH,
HE CHASTENETH AND SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES. TROUBLE
FROM THE HANDS OF THE LORD DOESN'T DRIVE US AWAY FROM THE LORD,
IT DRIVES US TO. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S
A BLESSED THING. GOD CORRECTS HIS CHILDREN, NOT
OUT OF ANGER, OUT OF LOVE. OUT OF LOVE. SOME CALL THIS PSALM
THE PRAYER OF AN EXILED KING ON HIS WAY BACK TO THE THRONE. AND THAT'S WHAT DAVID DOES HERE.
LOOK AT VERSE 1 NOW. HEAR MY CRY, HEAR MY CRY, O GOD. attend unto my prayer." Now,
David doesn't cry unto men for help in this particular time. They couldn't help David. And
he doesn't cry or pray out publicly to be seen of men. He doesn't
pray unto men. He doesn't pray to be seen of
men. Hear my cry, O God. Does God hear the cry of his
people? I was looking at this the other
day, Psalm 66. Turn over there and look at this.
I think I've got this coming up in the bulletin. In Psalm
66, verse 19, But verily God hath heard me, he hath attended
to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God which MY PRAYER, NOR HIS MERCY FROM
ME." DOES GOD HEAR OUR PRAYER? ABSOLUTELY. BECAUSE HE IS A LIVING
GOD, HE CAN HEAR OUR PRAYER. BECAUSE HE IS A COVENANT GOD,
HE IS BOUND BY COVENANT MERCY TO HEAR THE CRY OF HIS PEOPLE. HEAR MY PRAYER, O GOD. DAVID WAS A MAN OF PRAYER, AND
SO WAS EVERY BELIEVER. EVERY BELIEVER IS A MAN OF PRAYER. WE'VE SEEN SIMILAR STATEMENTS
DAVID HAD MADE BEFORE. IF YOU WANT TO TURN WITH ME,
YOU CAN. I'LL READ THEM TO YOU. IN PSALM 54, VERSE 2, PSALM 54,
VERSE 2, HEAR MY PRAYER, O GOD, GIVE HEAR TO THE WORDS OF MY
MOUTH. HEAR MY PRAYER, HEAR MY CRY. Notice in Psalm 55 verse
1, give ear to my prayer, O God, hide not thyself from my supplication. And then in Psalm 57. LOOK AT
VERSE TWO, I'LL CRY UNTO GOD MOST HIGH, UNTO GOD THAT PERFORMETH
ALL THINGS FOR ME. SO IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO CALL
UPON GOD IN PRAYER. WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE
NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. HEAR MY CRY, O GOD. and attend to the cry of my heart. Our gracious Lord is not hardened
against the cries of his children. Our prayers are never spent in
vain. When we cry unto him for grace
to help in a time of need, he said, come unto me. ALL YOU THAT
ARE LABORING AND HEAVY-LADEN, I'LL GIVE YOU REST. COME BOLDLY
UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT YOU MAY OBTAIN MERCY, FIND GRACE
TO HELP IN OUR TIME OF NEED." COME BOLDLY. WHY? WE HAVE A GREAT
HIGH PRIEST. COME TO HIM. CRY UNTO HIM. LOOK
UNTO HIM. WHERE ELSE AND TO WHOM ELSE CAN
A BELIEVER GO BUT TO THE LORD TO FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME
OF NEED? WHERE ELSE COULD YOU GO? WE COME
BEFORE HIM AS MERCY BEGGARS, DON'T WE? WHERE ELSE CAN A SINNER
CRY BUT UNTO THE LORD WHO IS ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST? CRY UNTO HIM. HE'S THE ONE WHO'S
ABLE TO SAVE SINNERS. CRY UNTO HIM. THE APOSTLE GIVES
US INSTRUCTIONS IN THE WORD OF GOD. PRAY WITHOUT CEASING AND
IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD AND CHRIST
JESUS CONCERNING YOU. AND THEN PAUL WRITES TO THE PHILIPPINES,
HE SAYS THIS, REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS, AND AGAIN I SAY
REJOICE, AND THEN HE SAYS, LET YOUR REQUEST BE MADE KNOWN UNTO
GOD. YOU HAVE A NEED, CRY UNTO HIM.
YOU NEED HELP, CRY UNTO HIM. YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, LOOK TO HIM.
HE'S THE REMEDY. HE'S THE SOLUTION. NOW LOOK AT
VERSE 2, FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH or from wherever I am in
the earth, east, west, north, south, from the end of the earth
or until the end of the earth, all my life, all my day, what
will I do? I'll cry unto thee. Oh God, hear
my prayer. I will cry unto thee. When my
heart is overwhelmed, you ever been there? FULL OF GRIEF, HEARTACHE, AND
SORROW, WHEN MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED, OVER MY HEAD, I'M IN OVER MY
HEAD, WHEN MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED, LEAD ME. GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE
US OR FORSAKE US. HE WILL LEAD US. YOU KNOW WHY?
HE'S THE GOOD SHEPHERD. HE CARES FOR THE SHEEP. WHEN
MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED, LEAD ME TO THE ROCK. LEAD ME TO THAT SOLID ROCK, ROCK
OF AGES, CLEFT FOR ME, LET ME HIDE MYSELF IN THEE. LEAD ME
TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER, HIGHER THAN ANYTHING, THE ROCK OF AGES.
THE LORD SAID, I'LL BUILD MY CHURCH UPON THAT ROCK, AND THE
GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST MY CHURCH. FASTEN AND
SET IT ON THAT ROCK, He is the rock of our salvation. Look, just one page, Psalm 62. He only is my rock, my salvation. He is my defense, I shall not
be moved. And God is my salvation, my glory.
The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God. Trust Him at all times, you people.
Pour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us. You see
what he's saying there? Lead me to the rock when I'm
overwhelmed, and even when I'm not, Lord, lead me. Where does the Lord lead his
sheep unto? He doesn't lead us back to the
law. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified.
He doesn't lead us to our feelings, our emotion, our tradition, or
our ceremony. Even he doesn't lead us to ordinances
the Lord has given to his church. LEAD ME TO THE ROCK. WHO IS THAT? THIS ROCK IS A PERSON. THIS ROCK
IS A PERSON. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND HE
IS THE MOST HIGH GOD. THERE'S NONE HIGHER THAN OUR
GOD. YOU REMEMBER IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
HOW MANY TIMES THE LORD SAYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN I AM THE
LORD? Beside me there is none else. I'm the only just God and
Savior. Now look unto me, all ye ends
of the earth, for I am God. From the ends of the earth I'll
cry unto thee. When my heart is overwhelmed,
lead me to that rock. Notice it's not a rock, T-H-E,
definite article, the rock, and that rock is Christ. He's the
most high God. How high is he? There's none
higher. There's none higher than him.
He's the most high God. David, when he was cast out of
Jerusalem because of the rebellion of his son, Absalom, he was cast
out of the city, but he wasn't cast away from the presence of
God, was he? There is no place so remote No distance too great, but that
we have ready access to the mercy seat of God in Christ, for our
God is everywhere present. He's everywhere present. You
don't need to be in the house of the Lord to call upon the
name of the Lord. He's everywhere present. Our
God is everywhere present. John, the apostle, when he was
cast out on the Isle of Patmos, He wasn't cast away from the
presence of God, was he? He cried unto the Lord, have
mercy upon me. Now let me just read this to
you. We've studied this not too long
ago in Psalm 139. Remember, if I sin, David asked
this question, whither shall I go? GOD IS EVERYWHERE PRESENT. WHEN YOU'RE ON THE JOB DURING
THE DAY, WHEN YOU'RE AT HOME AT NIGHT, wherever you may be there's no
any in the remote wilderness of the mountains or wherever
you may be in the foreign country the Lord's everywhere lead me
to the rock that is higher than I and he is the most high God lead me to that rock. When my
heart is overwhelmed with a sense of sin and burdened with guilt,
lead me to Christ who is my pardon and my redemption from all sin.
When my heart is overwhelmed with afflictions, lead me to Christ who is our
comfort in a time of storm. When my heart is overwhelmed
with pride and unbelief, Lead me to Christ, my faithful great
high priest, whoever lives to intercede for us. You got the
idea of what he's saying here? When my heart is overwhelmed,
Lord, lead me, lead me to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what
God the Holy Spirit always does. He leads us to the Lord who is
all our righteousness alone. TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE
HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT LEAD US TO CHRIST FOR JUSTIFICATION AND
THEN BACK TO THE LAW FOR SANCTIFICATION. CHRIST IS OUR SANCTIFICATION
AND CHRIST IS OUR JUSTIFICATION. LOOK AT VERSE 3, FOR OR BECAUSE
THOU HAST BEEN A SHELTER FOR ME. DAVID HAD EXPERIENCE OF BEING
HIDDEN IN THE LORD. LET ME JUST READ THIS TO YOU.
YOU KNOW THIS SCRIPTURE WELL. WELL, IN A TIME OF TROUBLE HE
SHALL HIDE ME IN HIS PAVILION. IN THE SECRET OF HIS TABERNACLE
SHALL HE HIDE ME. OH, AND HE SHALL SET ME UPON
THE ROCK. PSALM 27, VERSE 5. IN A TIME OF TROUBLE HE HIDES
ME. HIDDEN IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
THOU HAST BEEN A SHELTER AND A STRONG TOWER FROM THE ENEMY. Thou hast been my shelter and
my strong, strong tower. Turn and read this one with me.
Turn back to Psalm 18. Christ is our refuge. Christ
is our hiding place. Psalm 18, verse one. I will love
the Lord. I will love thee, O Lord, my
strength. The Lord is, well, there's this
rock again. The Lord is my rock. He's my
foundation upon which I build. He's my fortress. He's my deliverer. He's my God. He's my strength
in whom I'll trust. He's my buckler, my shield, the
horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I'll call upon the
Lord, who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies. Oh, he's everything to the believer.
He's my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my strength, my buckler. He's my salvation, everything. Everything God has for us is
in Christ. He is everything in salvation. The name of the Lord is a strong
tower. AND BELIEVERS RUN INTO THAT STRONG
TOWER AND THEY'RE SAFE. GOD SAID, BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION
FOR A FOUNDATION OF STONE, A TRITE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER STONE. HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL
NOT MAKE HASTE, NEVER BE FORCED OUT, NEVER BE REMOVED FROM THAT
FOUNDATION. that solid rock, the Lord Jesus
Christ. The Lord has been our shelter
and strong tower and will continue to be so, for he never changes.
I'm the Lord, he says, I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed. He's our shelter in the time
of storm. Thou has been a shelter for me,
for me. shelter from God's wrath, a shelter
from God's holy law as it's honored in the Lord Jesus Christ. Do
we make void the law of God's true faith? God forbid we read
Romans 3. We establish the law as it's
honored in the hands of Christ by the faithful obedience of
Christ. Look at verse 4, I will abide therefore, I will abide. Now if Christ is a strong rock,
CHRIST IS A SHELTER, HE'S A STRONG TOWER FROM THE ENEMY. WOULDN'T
IT BE WISE TO ABIDE THERE? TO ABIDE IN THAT SHELTER THAT
HE'S PROVIDED FOR US? TO ABIDE IN THY TABERNACLE, THE
PLACE OF HIS HABITATION FOREVER? AND WE DO IN CHRIST FOREVER.
I WILL TRUST IN HIS COVERING THE COVERING OF HIS WINGS, THE
COVERING THAT HE'S PROVIDED FOR US. WHAT IS THAT COVERING? BABY
CHICKS RUN UNDER THE WINGS OF THE MOTHER HAND, DON'T THEY?
THAT'S THEIR COVERING. WHERE DO SINNERS RUN? THEY RUN
TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO'S A CITY OF REFUGE. AND WE ABIDE
IN THE TABERNACLE HE'S PROVIDED FOR US FOREVER AND EVER, AND
I WILL TRUST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOT MINE. His faithfulness, not
mine. His grace, not my goodness. His mercy, not my works. I will
abide in thy tabernacle forever and ever. God will never cast
us out. Never, no, never. He will never
leave us nor forsake us now or forever. I WILL TRUST. NOTICE ON THE WORD, MARGINAL
REFERENCE ON THE WORD TRUST ON VERSE FOUR. SEE THE MARGINAL
REFERENCE? MY REFUGE. HE'S MY REFUGE. HE'S MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE'S MY
REFUGE. HE'S MY REDEMPTION. HE'S MY RECONCILIATION. HE IS
MY RESURRECTION TOO, ISN'T HE? SHEILA. SEE THAT WORD IN VERSE
FOUR? SHEILA? THAT'S NOT SHEILA NOW. That means to pause and think
and meditate upon what He has said. I will abide forever with
the Lord. Verse 5, for thou, for thou,
O God, you heard my cry. You've heard my prayer. You've
heard my vow. WHAT'S THE VOW THAT THE BELIEVER
HAS VOWED UNTO THE LORD? I WILL PRAISE THE LORD. BLESS
THE LORD, O MY SOUL, AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME. BLESS HIS
HOLY NAME, FOR THOU, O GOD, HAS HEARD MY CRY AND HAS GIVEN ME You've given me the heritage
of those that fear thy name. Those that fear thy name are
those that believe God. Those that fear his name are
those that worship the true and living God. They fear him because
they believe him. Let's work on this for just a
minute here about thou hast given me the heritage. What great mercy
THE LORD'S PART TO TAKE ANY NOTICE OF SUCH FAITHLESS SINFUL CREATURES
AS WE ARE IN COVENANT LOVE, AND YET HE DOES. THOUGH THE LORD
BE HIGH, YET HE HATH RESPECTED TO THE LOWLY. O GOD, THOU HAS
HEARD MY VOW." Well, who are you? I'm a nobody. Who are you? I'm an ungodly sinner. And yet he hears the cry of his
covenant children. And he's given us, he's given
them, everything we have in the realm of salvation is by his
free grace, the gift of God. Everything we have is the gift
of God, is it not? Faith is a gift of God. Salvation
is a gift of God. His love to us is a gift of God. But he says here specifically,
he's given me the heritage of those that fear him, those that
fear him, love him. This heritage here that's given
to us is an inheritance. It's an inheritance that we have
in Christ. You remember we read in Romans
8, WE ARE HEIRS OF GOD AND JOINT
HEIRS WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WE'RE HEIRS OF GOD AND JOINT
HEIRS WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE
FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED SONS
OF GOD. THE HERITAGE IS THE BLESSEDNESS AND THE INHERITANCE IS THE BLESSEDNESS
OF A COVENANT BLESSING FREELY AND SOVEREIGNLY BESTOWED UPON
HIS ELECT. He blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in the heavenlies in the Lord Jesus Christ. I want
you to turn and read these two scriptures with me. I was thinking
about this earlier. I was actually listening to someone preach from this text,
and it got a hold of me right strongly. In Colossians chapter
one, turn there first of all, Colossians chapter one, Look
at verse 12. I think we read this recently.
Colossians 1 verse 12, giving thanks unto the Father which
hath made us or who hath made us meet or fit or qualified to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Christ
is our inheritance who has delivered us from the power of darkness
TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON, IN WHOM WE HAVE
REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN ACCORDING
TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE. NOW TURN BACK TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER
1. I THINK WE READ THIS ON SUNDAY. LOOK AT VERSE 11, EPHESIANS 1
VERSE 11, IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. HOW DID WE OBTAIN THIS INHERITANCE?
I MEAN THIS INHERITANCE WE HAVE Includes all spiritual blessing
in the heavenlies in Christ in whom we have an obtained and
inherited being predestinated That's a glorious word WE'RE
PREDESTINATED TO BE HEIRS OF GOD AND JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST,
BEING PREDESTINATED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH
ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL, THAT WE SHOULD
BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. NOW DON'T TURN. LET ME JUST READ
THIS ONE TO YOU OVER IN I PETER. THESE ARE ALL VERY FAMILIAR SCRIPTURES
TALKING ABOUT THIS INHERITANCE THAT WE HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS. FOR THOU HAST GIVEN ME THE HERITAGE
OF THOSE THAT WORSHIP THE LORD. NOW HERE'S THIS INHERITANCE.
HERE'S A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF IT. 1st Peter 1 verse 3 blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according
to his abundant mercy Hath begotten us into a living lively hope
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance. Oh We have an inheritance Incorruptible
undefiled faith on a way RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU. THIS IS THE
INHERITANCE WE HAVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. IT'S A GLORIOUS
INHERITANCE OF GRACE. This inheritance is a gift of
God their Father to his children. Come to them through the death
of Christ, the testator. It's not of law, not of works,
not acquired nor purchased by anything we do, but owing to
the free grace of God, to the predestinating grace as the source
of it, to justifying grace through the righteousness of Christ,
AS UNTO RIGHT AND TITLE, AND TO THE REGENERATING, SANCTIFYING
GRACE OF GOD GIVEN TO THEM." I like those old writers. Look
back at the text now in verse 6. Thou wilt prolong the king's
life. The marginal reference says thou
shalt add days TO THE KING, DAYS TO THE DAYS OF THE KING. YOU
KNOW, DAVID DID COME BACK TO THE THRONE. YOU REMEMBER ABSALON
WAS KILLED IN THAT BATTLE AGAINST DAVID, AND DAVID WEPT SORE FOR
HIM, SAID, OH, ABSALON, MY SON, WOULDN'T GOD, I WOULD DIE FOR
THEE. GOD DID PRESERVE THE KING, AND DAVID CAME BACK TO JERUSALEM,
AND HE REIGNED 40 YEARS, 40 YEARS. THAT WILL PROLONG THE KING'S
LIFE AND HIS YEARS AS MANY GENERATIONS, OR A GENERATION TO GENERATION.
IT WAS TRUE OF DAVID. GOD PRESERVED HIS THRONE, PRESERVED
HIS KINGDOM FOR THOSE 40 YEARS. BUT THIS MORE SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS
ABOUT THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT WILL
PROLONG THE KING'S LIFE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HAVING TAKEN OUR
HUMANITY TO HIMSELF, GOD INCARNATE, DYING UPON CALVARY'S TREE AS
THE GOD-MAN MEDIATOR TO PUT AWAY THE SIN OF GOD'S PEOPLE, BUT
NOW HE EVER LIVES TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US. WHEN HE BY HIMSELF PURGED
OUR SIN, HE SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD FOR
HOW MANY GENERATIONS? FOR EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING
THOU ART GOD. HE SHALL ABIDE BEFORE GOD FOREVER. BECAUSE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
SITS ON THE THRONE OF GOD FOREVER, WHAT ABOUT HIS PEOPLE? HIS PEOPLE
ARE ALREADY SEATED IN THE HEAVENLIES IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. FOR
HOW LONG? FOREVER. HE SHALL ABIDE FOREVER
BEFORE GOD. HE SHALL ABIDE BEFORE GOD FOREVER. WE ARE PRESERVED IN THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. PREPARE MERCY AND TRUTH. OH,
PREPARE MERCY AND TRUTH. YOU SEE, IT'S OF THE LORD'S MERCIES
THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED. AND HE SAID, YOU SHALL KNOW THE
TRUTH. THE LORD SAID, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. YOU
SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. AND
THIS MERCY AND THIS TRUTH, IT PRESERVES US. WE'RE KEPT BY THE
POWER OF GOD. So, verse 8, so, well, it's not so-so. It's so, all that being so, Christ
is our leader, our shepherd. Christ is our rock, our shelter. We abide in his tabernacle forever. HE'S HEARD OUR PRAYERS. HE'S
GIVEN US AN INHERITANCE. WE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM FOREVER.
HE'S PREPARED FOR US TRUTH AND MERCY. HE'S PREPARED FOR US SALVATION
IN CHRIST. HE PRESERVES US. SO THEN, WHAT? I'LL SING. I'LL SING UNTO THY
NAME FOREVER AND EVER. WE SING UNTO HIS NAME NOW, DON'T
WE? BUT WE WILL FOREVER AND EVER.
WHAT IS THAT SONG? unto him who loved us, and washed
us from our sin in his own blood, and made us kings and priests
unto our God forever. I will sing unto thy name forever
and ever, and I will daily right now perform my vow. That is, declaring that salvation
is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Not unto us, O Lord. You remember
Psalm 115? Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name. Not unto us, not unto us, O Lord,
but unto thy name. Give glory for thy mercy and
for thy truth's sake. Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other in our blessed
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.