OK, this evening we want to take
a look at Psalm 85. Psalm 85. I'm picking the title
for the message from verse 10. Verse 10. And when we read verse
10, if you can get fixed in your mind, what happened at Calvary? What did the Lord Jesus Christ
accomplish and what took place there on Calvary Hill? Mercy
and truth met together. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE HAVE
KISSED. ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD SATISFIED,
HONORED, AND GLORIFIED IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, CRUCIFIED. SO THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE WILL
BE TAKEN FROM VERSE 10, MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER. IN THE SALVATION OF SINNERS,
AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE, SINNERS. IN THE SALVATION OF SINNERS,
ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD ARE MAGNIFIED AND EXALTED IN THE
GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S WHAT MAKES ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT MAKES THE GOSPEL SO AMAZING. NOT ONLY IS MERCY
EXALTED, BUT TRUTH IS MAGNIFIED AS WELL. NOT ONLY IS RIGHTEOUSNESS
MAGNIFIED AND EXALTED, BUT THE PEACE OF GOD THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING,
THAT'S MAGNIFIED AS WELL. THE DEATH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AS A SINNER'S SUBSTITUTE DOES NOT CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF GOD,
RATHER IT MAGNIFIES THE CHARACTER OF GOD. HE SAID, I AM THE LORD. I don't change, therefore you
sons of God, sons of Jacob are not consumed. God does not change
his character, but rather in Christ crucified, all the attributes
of God are honored to enable God in his holy justice to satisfy
his own offended law. and at the same time magnify
his justice and magnify his law that he might be, as Isaiah said,
a just God and Savior. As we read in Romans chapter
three, that God might be just, holy, and justly saved sinners. That's the beauty of the gospel,
how God can be just and the justifier. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
die, So God would be merciful. He died because God is merciful. God is gracious. Now this is
another 150 psalms, and I think all 150 psalms are gospel psalms,
because the Lord Jesus Christ said that the law and the prophets
and Moses and the prophets in the psalms, they all speak about
the Lord Jesus Christ. So this psalm is another psalm
that tells us the good news of God saving mercy to undeserving
sinners. Grace for the guilty. When we
were yet without strength, the Lord Jesus Christ died for the
ungodly. The good shepherd laid down his
life for the sheep. And in time, he crosses their
path with the gospel in the hands of a gospel preacher THE POWER
OF GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT HE CROSSES THE PATH OF HIS SHEEP WITH THE
TRUE GOSPEL OF A TRUE AND LIVING GOD AND REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM
THAT IN SALVATION HE IS EVERYTHING. NOTICE VERSE 7 IN PSALM 85, SHOW
US THY MERCY O LORD and grant us thy salvation. Now we'll never see our need
of mercy unless he shows us our need of mercy. Mercy is for the
miserable, grace is for the guilty, and grant us thy salvation. Down
in verse nine it says, surely his salvation is nigh them that
fear him. Man by nature, just up above
what we read a moment ago in Romans 3, where it describes
the depravity of what we are, none righteous, no not one. Remember,
there's none that understand it, none that seek after God.
And then it said there's no fear of God before their eyes. IF
WE HAVE A REVERENTIAL FEAR AND AWE OF GOD, IT'S ONLY BECAUSE
HE HAS GIVEN US SALVATION AND HE HAS TAUGHT US THROUGH THE
WORD AND BY HIS SPIRIT. SURELY HIS SALVATION IS NIGH
THEM THAT FEAR HIM. THAT GLORY, THAT GLORY THAT CHRIST
MAY DWELL IN OUR HEART. NOW, TAKE A LOOK AT VERSE 1.
Psalm 85, the Lord, Lord, I like how it starts, Lord, Jehovah,
almighty, eternal God, thou hast been favorable, gracious, full
of loving kindness, well-pleased unto your land, your people,
and you have brought back the captivity of these sons of Jacob."
Whenever we read in scripture about the God of Jacob, that's
always referring to God's elect, God's church, God's Zion. Jacob
have I loved, Esau have I hated, and the Lord has brought us out
of captivity. NOW ISRAEL OF OLD IS USED AS
A TYPE AND PICTURE OF HOW GOD DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE BY A BLOOD
SACRIFICE. YOU REMEMBER THEY WERE IN EGYPTIAN
BONDAGE FOR 400 YEARS? THEY COULDN'T DELIVER THEMSELVES.
WHO BROUGHT THEM OUT? WELL YOU KNOW THE STORY. STAND
STILL AND SEE THE SALVATION IS OF THE LORD. SALVATION IS GOD
DOING. HE BROUGHT THEM OUT OF BONDAGE
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES FOR US BY HIS GRACE. HOW ARE WE BORN? SHAPEN IN INIQUITY, HELD CAPTIVE
BY OUR OWN WICKED WILL AND NATURE. HE MUST DELIVER US, OR WE'LL
NEVER, WE'LL NEVER BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. THOU HAST BEEN FAVORABLE
UNTO HIS PEOPLE. WHY WOULD HE BE FAVORABLE UNTO
HIS PEOPLE? BECAUSE GOD, DELIGHTED TO SHOW
MERCY, SOVEREIGN MERCY, HE SAID, I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL
HAVE MERCY. THAT LEADS US TO VERSE 2. LOOK
AT VERSE 2. THOU HAST BEEN WELL PLEASED WITH
HIS PEOPLE BECAUSE HE SEES US IN CHRIST. REMEMBER, THIS IS
MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I'M, WHOM I'M WELL PLEASED. HE SAYS THAT
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HE SAYS THAT OF EVERYONE IN THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. VERSE 2, THOU HAST BEEN, THOU
HAST FORGIVEN INIQUITY OF A CERTAIN PEOPLE. NOW THE BIBLE DOESN'T
KNOW ANYTHING OF UNIVERSAL REDEMPTION AND UNIVERSAL ATONEMENT. GOD
HAS FORGIVEN THE SIN OF ALL HIS ELECT, LAID UPON THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST WITH THE SIN OF THOSE PEOPLE. REMEMBER THE MESSENGER
FROM HEAVEN SAID TO JOSEPH AND MARY, CALL HIS NAME WHAT? JESUS. WHY? SAVIOR. THAT'S WHAT HE IS. HE SHALL SAVE
HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID. A
DEFINITE ATONEMENT, A PARTICULAR REDEMPTION, FORGIVENESS FOR HIS
PEOPLE. NOT ONLY IS OUR INIQUITY FORGIVEN,
OUR SIN IS PUT AWAY. THOU HAST COVERED ALL THEIR SIN. SIN ORIGINAL, ADAM'S SIN BY ONE
MAN DISOBEDIENCE, MANY WERE MADE SINNERS, THOU HAS COVERED ALL
OUR SIN, TRANSGRESSION AND INIQUITY HAVE BEEN PUT AWAY. SIN ORIGINAL,
ACTUAL, SIN OF OMISSION, COMMISSION, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, ALL SIN
COMPLETELY COVERED. SO MUCH SO, YOU REMEMBER FROM
HEBREWS 10, THEIR SIN AND THEIR INIQUITY WILL I REMEMBER NO MORE. EVERY BELIEVER STANDS BEFORE
GOD JUSTIFIED WITHOUT GUILT, WITHOUT SIN. WHAT DID WE READ
A MOMENT AGO? JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE
THROUGH HIS THE REDEEMING BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE DELIVERED US. WHO ARE THESE
PEOPLE? THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE BY HIS SOVEREIGN
CHOICE. HE SAID YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE ME,
I'VE CHOSEN YOU. THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE BY DIVINE
PURCHASE. HE BOUGHT US. HE BOUGHT THE CHURCH,
In Acts 20, he bought the church. God bought the church with his
own blood. Remember from our study in 1
Corinthians 6 20, we are bought with a price. Oh, what a price. We're redeemed with the precious
blood. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HIS BLOOD
WAS NOT SHED IN VAIN. EVERYONE FOR WHOM THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST REPRESENTED AS SURETY AND SUBSTITUTE, THEY ARE REDEEMED
FOREVER WITH HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD. THEY HAVE NO SIN COVERED. COVERED. PUT AWAY FOREVER BY
THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OF THE BLESSED SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. BLESSED IS HE WHOSE TRANSGRESSION
IS FORGIVEN, WHOSE SIN IS COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN UNTO WHOM
THE LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY, IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE IS NO GUILE.
CAN YOU GET AHOLD OF WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE? THAT'S A BLESSED
PERSON. IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, HE'S
PUT AWAY ALL OUR SIN. THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST TAKETH
AWAY ALL OUR SIN. ALL OF OUR SIN, THE SIN OF GOD'S
PEOPLE WAS LAID UPON CHRIST, RIGHT? God made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. The Lord Jesus Christ had one
offering for sin forever and he perfected them forever with
that one offering. He set forth to be the propitiation
for our sin. Look at verse three, and because
of that, because of that successful atonement for the sin of God's
people, because the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself. The fruit of that is his wrath,
his holy anger, and his wrath has been taken away. You know,
the psalmist says in another psalm, I believe it's Psalm 7,
isn't it? God's angry with the wicked every day. Thou hast taken
away all thine anger, all thy wrath from the fierceness of
his anger. You know, his anger is his holiness
stirred in activity against sin. YOU SEE, THE WRATH OF GOD AGAINST
OUR SIN HAS BEEN TOTALLY TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE THE WRATH OF GOD
FELL UPON OUR SUBSTITUTE. NOW THOSE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
THERE'S NO MORE ANY CONDEMNATION, NO MORE ANGER, NO MORE WRATH. WE'VE RECONCILED THE GOD IN THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. THOU HAST DONE THIS. WHO DID THE DELIVERER? WHO WAS
THE DELIVERER? WHO DELIVERED US FROM OUR SIN?
WHO HAS FORGIVEN OUR INIQUITY? WHO HAS COVERED ALL OF OUR SIN?
WHO HAS TAKEN AWAY ALL THY WRATH? TAKEN AWAY ALL THY ANGER? WHO
HAS DONE THAT? THE LORD HAS DONE THIS. YOU SEE HOW CLEAR AND PLAIN THE
MESSAGE OF THIS BOOK IS? SALVATION IS WHAT GOD HAS DONE
FOR US. Now look at verse four. He delivered us from the wrath
to come. He delivered us from the wrath
to come. I have jotted down one other reference here. God commended
his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. Much more than being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM. BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW, NOBODY'S
GONNA BE DELIVERED. BY THE WORK OF OUR HAND, BY OUR
DEEDS, NO ONE WILL BE DELIVERED. SALVATION IS ALL OF GOD, ALL
IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. LOOK AT VERSE 4, THOU HAST DONE ALL THINGS FOR
US, God is reconciled. God was in Christ reconciling
his people unto himself. Now look at verse four, now turn
us. Turn us, turn us, O God of our salvation. If you look just
across the page or two back at Psalm 80, can you find Psalm
80? He says this again in Psalm 80
verse three. Turn us again, O God, and cause
thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. You see that? Psalm
80, verse 3. Now look at Psalm 80, verse 7. Turn us again, O God, the God
of hosts, the Lord of hosts, and cause thy face to shine,
and we shall be saved. Remember that scripture in 2
Corinthians 4, verse 6, where it said, the God who commanded
the light to shine in our heart, that we might see the glory of
God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is good news, is
it not? Turn us, God is reconciled, now he said, be ye reconciled
to God. Lay down your shotgun, as my
dear pastor used to say. Turn us, O God of our salvation,
and cause thine anger toward us. Cause it to cease. Man by nature is at enmity with
God, but in regenerating grace, when the Holy Spirit is shed
abroad in our hearts, we bow and submit unto the Lordship
of Christ. No longer are we angry with Him,
and He's no longer angry with us. Look at verse five. Will
thou be angry with us forever? Nope. WILL THOU DRAW OUT THINE
ANGER TO ALL GENERATIONS? NOPE. HIS ANGER HAS BEEN SATISFIED
IN THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. VERSE 6, WILL
THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN THAT THY PEOPLE? AGAIN HE GOES BACK
TO THY PEOPLE, THY PEOPLE. THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN
THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER, WILT THOU NOT REVIVE THY PEOPLE AGAIN,
THAT THY PEOPLE MAY REJOICE IN THE LORD? NOW, IN THE FLESH WE'RE
BORN ONE TIME, RIGHT? In the flesh, we're born one
time, but as we grow and grow in this old, Adamic, sinful nature
we have, we need to be revived again and again, don't we? We
need to go to sleep, we need to get some food, we need to
rest, and that we might get, take some vacations, some R&R,
and that we might get revived. But we're just born one time.
Spiritually speaking, the children of God are begotten of God one
time. Of his own will beget he us with
the word of truth. Because we have this old sinful
nature still with us and among us and in us, a constant warfare
and battle, what do we need? Reviving. Reviving, that we might
do what? Rejoice in Him. There are many times that children
of God, because of the plague and frailty of our old sinful
nature, we need reviving, refreshing of the Holy Spirit that we may
continue to rejoice and find sweet rest in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Don't you need a reviving? That's why when we come together
and take the word of God and preach the word of God, it's
the children's bread. There's a reviving when the gospel
is preached. When you sit under the gospel
and God gives you ears to hear the word of God, there's a reviving
in your heart. There's a revival that goes on.
And what's the fruit of that? Rejoicing in the Lord. REJOICING
IN THE LORD, HAVING NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH, BUT REJOICING IN
THE LORD. NOW LOOK AT VERSE 7, AND WE CAN
LOOK AT THIS AS A PRAYER, VERSE 4, 5, 6, AND 7, TURN US, SHOW
US THY MERCY, REVIVE US AGAIN, VERSE 7, SHOW US MERCY. NOW I
DON'T WANT JUSTICE TO YOU. SOME FOOL SAYS ALL I WANT IS
JUSTICE. No, you don't. You want mercy.
You don't want God to deal with you in justice. Show us mercy. In other words, reveal unto us
your mercy. Now, I think about Moses asking
God, you remember, Lord, show me your glory. You remember what
he said? I'll be merciful. LORD, SHOW
ME YOUR GLORY, AND IN SEEING THE GLORY OF GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT
WE SEE? GOD IS MERCIFUL. HE DELIES TO SHOW MERCY. WHAT
DID THE MERCY-BEGGAR IN THE TEMPLE CRY OUT FOR? GOD, BE MERCIFUL
TO ME, THE SINNER. IF YOU EVER SEE YOURSELF TRULY
AS A GUILTY, VILE SINNER, AND GOD IS ABSOLUTELY HOLY, AND THE
JUSTICE OF GOD GOT A CLAIM ON YOU, AND WHEN THAT'S REVEALED
UNTO YOU, WHAT DO YOU CRY OUT? Lord, show me mercy. Lord, if
you will, you can make me clean. Show us thy mercy, O Lord. Isn't that David's prayer? Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to the multitude of thy tender
mercy. Blot out my iniquity. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed. Show us thy mercy, O Lord. It's sovereign mercy. He will
have mercy on whom he will. but he will have mercy. And then
he says, grant us. What is a grant? If you get a
grant from the government, you don't owe anything back. It's
a gift. He grants us salvation. Salvation
is the gift of God, just like faith and all spiritual blessing.
Grant us thy salvation. Salvation, he purposed it, he
planned it, he purchased it, he applies it. We're to sit still
and see the salvation that's of the Lord. Show us thy mercy. I think about that scripture
there in Matthew 11, where it says, He's hid these things from
the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father,
for so it seemed good in thy sight. Show us thy mercy. Show
us thy mercy. He's gotta show it to me, I'll
never see it. I'll never see my need of it
if he doesn't show it to us. You remember the scripture I
quote all the time, Hebrews 4.16, you remember? Hebrews 4.16, you
remember what it is? YOU COULD ALL QUOTE IT, RIGHT?
LET US COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN WHAT? MERCY. FIND GRACE TO HELP WHEN? TIME OF NEED. SHOW US THY MERCY,
GRANT US THY SALVATION. LOOK AT VERSE 8, I WILL HEAR,
I WILL HEAR WHAT GOD THE LORD WILL SPEAK. NOW, IT'S ONLY BECAUSE
GOD'S GIVEN YOU EARS TO HEAR I WILL HEAR WHAT GOD THE LORD
WILL SPEAK. FAITH COMES BY HEARING, HEARING
BY THE WORD OF THE LORD. WHAT WILL HE SPEAK TO HIS PEOPLE?
HE SAID, MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, I KNOW THEM, THEY FOLLOW ME.
I WILL HEAR WHAT GOD THE LORD WILL SPEAK. WHAT A BLESSING. IF GOD IS SPEAKING TO YOU RIGHT
NOW FROM HIS WORD, OH, IT'S A BLESSING. HE'S GIVING YOU EARS TO HEAR.
I WILL HEAR. THAT'S THE DESIRE OF A BELIEVER'S
HEART. I WANT TO HEAR A WORD FROM GOD. I will hear what God
the Lord will speak. When he'll speak, he will speak
peace to his people. HOW DO WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD?
ONLY THROUGH CHRIST CRUCIFIED. HE MADE PEACE FOR US WITH HIS
OWN BLOOD. BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE
HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. FOR HE WILL
SPEAK PEACE UNTO, THERE'S HIS PEOPLE AGAIN, AND TO HIS SAINTS. YOU KNOW HIS
PEOPLE ARE SINNERS BY NATURE. SINNERS. WHAT ARE THEY BY GRACE?
SAINTS. I'M A SINNER AND I'M A SAINT.
IN THE LORD JESUS' CRIME. BY THE ONE OFFERING WE HAVE BEEN
SANCTIFIED. I WILL HEAR WHAT GOD THE LORD
WILL SPEAK. OH, FOR GRACE TO HEAR A WORD FROM HIM. HE WILL
SPEAK PEACE UNTO HIS PEOPLE AND TO HIS SAINTS, THOSE WHO WERE
SANCTIFIED, SET APART. Let them not turn again to folly. Let us not turn away from the
gospel. Let us keep looking to Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith. Let us keep coming unto
the Lord. Let us keep believing on the
Lord. And let us never ever turn to
foolishness. What would be folly? THINKING
THAT SOME PART OF SALVATION DEPENDS UPON ME. MY WORKS, MY OBEDIENCE,
MY REPENTANCE, MY FAITH. SALVATION DOESN'T DEPEND UPON
ANYTHING I DO. WHAT DID WE READ RIGHT HERE?
OH GOD OF OUR SALVATION. SALVATION'S ALL HIS. BUT LET
US NOT TURN AGAIN. NOW HIS SHEEP WON'T. THEY PERSEVERE
IN THE FAITH. BECAUSE WE'RE KEPT BY THE POWER
OF GOD. THEY PERSEVERE IN THE FAITH. LET THEM NOT TURN AGAIN
TO FOLLY, FOOLISHNESS. THAT'S WHERE GOD FINDS US. HE
FINDS US IN FOOLISHNESS. BUT HE MAKES US WISE UNTO SALVATION. NOW, VERSE 9, SURELY HIS SALVATION,
SALVATION IS HIS. NOTICE, HIS SALVATION It's not
mine. It's not the church's. It's not
any denomination. It's His salvation. It's His
mercy. It's His grace. It's His redemption. Surely His salvation is nigh
unto them that fear Him. Nigh unto them that fear Him.
It just reminds me of this scripture just right now. I didn't think
of this until just right now, if I can find it. But what saith
it, the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart,
that is the word of faith which we preach, that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. The word is nigh
them that are of a broken heart. He saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit, SURELY HIS SALVATION IS NIGH
THEM, NEAR UNTO THEM, THAT FEAR HIM. WHAT IS THIS BIDNESS ABOUT
FEARING THE LORD? YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? IT'S WORSHIP. IT'S SUBMISSION
UNTO THE LORD. THAT GLORY MAY DWELL IN OUR HEARTS. And I want to read it this way.
It says land here, but when we fear him, when his salvation,
he's nigh unto them of a broken heart, save us such to be of
a contrite spirit, nigh them that fear him, that glory or
Christ may dwell in us. Christ, what in you is a hope
of what? Glory. Mercy and truth, verse
10. Mercy, mercy, and truth. God is merciful. These are the attributes. Some
people, the old writers, used to talk about the characteristics
of God. You remember Arthur Fink's book
that most of us has read, The Attributes of God. And we're
talking about the characteristics of God. God is love. God is good. God is holy. God is eternal. God is sovereign. But God is
merciful. God is everything that is true. It's impossible for God to lie. God is truth. But mercy and truth
are reconciled. righteousness and peace. God
is righteous and holy and his peace and righteousness have
met together. Now as I said to you earlier
if you can keep in mind verse 10 and think about what happened
at the cross in reconciliation. all the attributes of God honored
and satisfied, His love, His justice, His holiness, His mercy,
His grace, everything satisfied in Christ crucified, all the
divine attributes of God meet in the blessed Savior and him
crucified. And God said, this is my beloved
son in whom I am well pleased. The Lord himself is called mercy. Christ is the sure mercies of
David. The Lord himself is called truth. I am the way, the truth. The
Lord himself is called our righteousness. And the Lord himself is called
our peace. All these things we enjoy because
of the Lord Jesus Christ as our substitute satisfying divine
justice on our behalf. In the accomplishment of our
salvation, all the attributes and characteristics of God are
honored. Someone said this, mercy would
set us free. and when inclined to pardon us,
but truth stands up and says, wait a minute, justice has a
claim on them. The guilty must die, but the
peace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ satisfies the demands
of every characteristics of God to enable God to be a just God
and Savior. JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER. GOD CAN
SAVE ME NOW AND MAGNIFY ALL HIS CHARACTERISTICS, ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES
IN CHRIST CRUCIFIED. HE CAN SAVE ME JUSTLY AND NOT
COMPROMISE HIS HOLINESS. HE CAN SAVE ME JUSTLY AND MAGNIFY
HIS MERCY. THAT'S THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL. THAT'S WHY THEM OLD TIMERS, THEY
LOVE THE CAMP ON VERSE 10. MERCY AND TRUTH ARE MET TOGETHER,
RECONCILED IN HARMONY IN THE SALVATION OF HIS PEOPLE, AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOLINESS, AND PEACE, THE PEACE OF GOD THAT
PASSES UNDERSTANDING, THEY KISS EACH OTHER. LOOK AT VERSE 11,
TRUTH SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH. I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK OF THE
RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU? HE IS TRUTH PERSONIFIED
IS HE NOT? HE SAID I AM TRUTH. TRUTH SHALL
SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH. AND HE DID. HIS BODY SAW NO CORRUPTION
ON THE THIRD DAY HE CAME FORTH. He delivered far offenses and
raised again because He justified us. And righteousness shall look
down from heaven. And He did, the righteous God. This is my beloved Son. In Him,
I am well pleased. Verse 12, yea, the Lord shall
give that which is good. Everything He gives to His people
is good. You know why? God is good. EVERY
GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT COMES FROM GOD. YEA, THE LORD
SHALL GIVE. THE LORD SHALL GIVE THAT WHICH
IS GOOD. HE'S GONNA BLESS HIS PEOPLE.
HE HAS WITH ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN THE HEAVENLYS IN CHRIST. SHALL YIELD HER INCREASE." NOW
THIS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT A BUMPER CROP OF CORN OR WHEAT, IT'S TALKING
ABOUT THE INCREASE OF SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN CHRIST, BECAUSE
THE LORD IS GOOD, BECAUSE SALVATION IS OF THE LORD. VERSE 13, RIGHTEOUSNESS
SHALL GO BEFORE HIM. THINK ABOUT WHEN HE BY HIMSELF
PURGED OUR SIN, He sat down on the right hand of God. He was
raised after he died for our sins, according to scripture.
On the third day, he was raised up again, and then he lived 40
days among men, and then on that 40th day, remember in Acts chapter
one, there he goes. He ascends to heaven, and he
occupies the throne. Righteousness shall go before
him, and we go with him. He's a forerunner who was entered
in and is seated in heavenlies and we're seated in him. And
he shall give that which is good. Our land shall increase, yield
the fruit of his atoning blood and righteousness shall go before
him and shall set us. Well, maybe this will happen.
It could happen if we meet certain conditions. THAT'S SALVATION
BY WORKS. IT SAYS HERE THAT HE'S GOING
TO DO EVERYTHING. HE SHALL SPRING OUT OF THE EARTH,
HE SHALL LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HE SHALL GIVE THAT WHICH IS GOOD,
OUR LAND SHALL YIELD OR INCREASE, RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE
HIM, AND HE SHALL SET US IN THE WAY, IN THE WAY OF HIS STEPS. THE FORERUNNER HAS ENTERED IN.
WE HAVE AN ANCHOR. of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
which entereth into that within the veil where the forerunner
is for us entered even Jesus made a high priest forever. After
the order of Melchizedek, we enter in in him. Remember Psalm 24, who is the
king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the
Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your head, though you
gates, even lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the king
of glory shall come in, shall come in. Righteousness shall
go before him. Who is the king of glory? He's
the Lord of hosts. He's the King of Glory. We enter
in in Him, accepted in the Beloved. He's gonna present us faultless,
without blame, before Him.