Psalm 146, Psalm 146 this evening. I enjoy when we went several
years ago, 10 years ago or so I guess, when we went through
all the Psalms and going back now and picking up a few here
and there and we'll continue on that course for a while. Psalm
146, I'm entitling the message from this Psalm what he says
down there in the second part of verse one, praise the Lord,
oh my soul. Praise the Lord, oh my soul. Now, this is similar to what
David says over in Psalm 103, where it says, bless the Lord,
oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. That is the heart desire of every
believer to praise the Lord. And that means to worship him,
to honor him, to extol him. Now, this psalm begins with praise
ye the Lord, and it ends with praise ye the Lord. Would the God he give us grace
to start each day that way praising the Lord in the morning Most the time when we roll up
roll out of bed in the morning My bone just don't go like that
used to and then when we go to bed in the evening and Praise
ye the Lord, bless the Lord, O my soul. But really, this ought
to be our attitude during the whole day, is always mindful
of and being aware that we, as believers, do honor the Lord
in our heart. Now, this phrase, praise ye the
Lord, has been widely used and abused by most of this religious
world. So much so that it has been reduced
to a mere meaningless religious slogan, phrase, or catch word. We almost might say that it's
used as a religious slang word with no true substance. Oftentimes
when I leave here on Sunday morning, after I come over early and study
and head back home to get a bite of breakfast before coming back,
there is someone who follows me on the radio program and I
don't know how he says anything meaningful at all because he'll
say a few words and then he'll say, Bless the Lord, praise the
Lord, hallelujah. And then he'll say a few more
things. I mean, it's just constantly. It just, and it's really, it's
rhetoric that is irreverent, really is. It's rhetoric that
is irreverent to the point of using the name of the Lord in
vain, to the point of contempt. WE
OUGHT TO USE GREAT CARE IN USING THE NAME OF THE LORD, LEST WE
BE GUILTY OF TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD IN VAIN. ANOTHER
PSALM WE READ, PSALM 111, WHERE IT SAYS HOLY AND REVEREND
IS HIS NAME. NOW, DON'T EVER CALL ME REVEREND. YOU'LL PROBABLY GET A SHARP REBUKE.
because no man is Reverend John or Reverend Tom or anybody else. His name is Holy and Reverend. Just call me Tom or Tom-Tom or
Brother Tom or anything, but don't call me Reverend. Call
me preacher or something, pastor or something. Holy and Reverend
is his name. Now, yet, even though many just carelessly
use the name of the Lord. It is the desire of every believer
to do what David does here in verse one, praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. This is every believer desire,
to honor, to exalt, and to worship the Lord, not just with lip service, but with
a sincere heart full of gratitude and full of love. You know, the
Lord said in John, for the father seeketh such to worship him in
spirit and in truth. Again, the Lord complained to
those Pharisees. He said, you honor me with your
lips. but your heart is far from me. In vain, he said, you do worship
me. You say, Lord, Lord, with your
mouth, but your heart's far from me. You know, as a matter of
real fact, we can truly worship and praise the Lord and not utter
a word. Not utter a word. You know why? God looks on the heart. And what
the Lord said to Samuel, considering the sons of Jesse, God looks
on the heart. So be still and know that I am
God. You remember the way Hannah went
to the temple of the Lord to pray and Eli the priest was watching
her and she came with a sorrowful heart looking to the Lord and
her mouth was moving. But she did not utter a word,
and Eli watched her, marked her mouth, and accused her of being
drunk. Woman, you're drunk. She said,
no, I'm not drunk. I'm crying out. I'm pouring out
my soul before the Lord. And that's what she was doing.
So we can worship and honor the Lord and not utter a word. HE LOOKS ON THE HEART. LOOK AT VERSE 2. WHILE I LIVE,
WILL I PRAISE THE LORD? IT'S ALMOST A QUESTION, ISN'T
IT? WHILE I LIVE, WILL I PRAISE THE
LORD? I WILL. I WILL. I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO
MY GOD WHILE I HAVE ANY BEING EVERY BELIEVER IS HIGHLY MOTIVATED
TO WORSHIP THE LORD, AND WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO DO SO, BECAUSE
WHILE I LIVE, I WILL PRAISE THE LORD. WE HAVE LIFE, NOT ONLY
PHYSICAL AND FLESHLY LIFE, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE SPIRITUAL
LIFE. BY THE SOVEREIGN WILL AND ETERNAL
PURPOSE OF GOD, HE'S GIVEN US A HEART To praise the Lord of
his own will, begat he us with the word of truth. Thy people
shall be willing in the day of his power. I will sing praises
unto my God. My God, he is God in heaven and
earth. David said in another psalm,
my God does whatever he wills in heaven, earth, sea, and all
deep places. Whatsoever the Lord please, that's
what he does in heaven and earth and everywhere. So this is a
God that we love to sing of, that we love to worship, and
he is my God. While I have any being, I'm going
to honor him and worship him. He's given me life in the Lord
Jesus Christ according to his good pleasure. Now, verse three,
put not your trust in princes. We trust the Lord. But not your
trust in princes, nor in the son of man, or any son of Adam,
is what he's saying there, in whom there is no help, and the
word there is rendered marginally, in the margin, reference, in
whom there is no salvation. There's no salvation through
a mere man. Believers desire to worship THE
LORD, THEREFORE, TO BELIEVE AND TRUST HIM. THEREFORE, WE'LL PUT
NO CONFIDENCE OR FAITH IN THE FLESH." WE DARE NOT TRUST OUR
FLESH, DO WE? WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY? THE OLD
WICKED NATURE IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED. WE DARE NOT TRUST OR HAVE NO
CONFIDENCE In the flesh, we dare not trust the flesh or feelings,
or feelings. We do not place our faith in
our feelings, do we? What was it Martin Luther said?
Feelings come, feelings go. Feelings are deceiving. My warrant
is a word of God. Nothing else is worth believing. That's true, is it not? So we
don't trust our feelings. Cursed is a man that trusted
flesh. Oh, but blessed is a man that
trusts the Lord. Now, he says the reason being,
there's no help. There's no salvation in a mere
man. There's no help, no salvation
in any earthly prince. THERE IS SALVATION IN THE PRINCE
OF PEACE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THERE IS SALVATION IN THE GOD-MAN
MEDIATOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. YOU SEE, HE MADE PEACE FOR US
WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. THERE IS HELP AND SALVATION IN
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. BUT THERE IS NO SALVATION WROUGHT
BY ANY MAN, ANY MERMAN, ANY SON OF ADAM. Now there is hope and
help in the Lord Jesus Christ. He told us to come to the throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in a time
of our need. So we don't look to any son of
Adam for salvation. We don't look to ourselves nor
to any other man. FOR SALVATION WE DO LOOK, BY
FAITH, TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE IS OUR HELP, HE IS ALL OF
OUR SALVATION. WE ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT AND
TOTALLY RELY UPON HIM. SALVATION IS ALL OF HIS GRACE. NOW VERSE 4, BUT NOT YOUR TRUST
IN PRINCES, NOR IN ANY MAN, OR THE BEST OF MAN, THERE IS NO
HELP THERE, We know there is salvation in Christ. He is the
way, the truth, and the life. The reason being that we're not
to trust any mere man or praise any mere man or worship any mere
man. His breath goeth forth. He returns
to his earth. In that very day, his thoughts
perish. He cannot help you eternally.
He's just a mere man like you. Now, we can help one another
in things carnal and physical. We help one another, don't we?
But as far as salvation goes, we're totally shut up to the
mercy of God, the grace of God. A man in his best state is altogether
vanity. When God takes his breath, he's
going back to the dust. Now, how many breaths do you
take a day? We breathe a lot, don't we? And God gives us breath. One day, he'll stop that breath.
In that very day, the spirit will go back to God who gave
it, and his flesh will go back to the dust from which it came.
In that very day, his thoughts, his plans, and ambition, everything
he schemed and plotted to do in this life, that done. That's done. I like what one
person said at the funeral of a very wealthy man. And if someone
asks, what did that man leave? He left everything. What did he leave to his heirs?
He left it all. Naked we came into this world
and naked we shall return. In that very day his thoughts,
his plans, ambitions, they do perish. All flesh is grass. Man in his best state is altogether
vanity. Someone said to trust vanity
is the height of insanity. That's pretty good. To trust
vanity is the height of insanity. So saving faith doesn't trust
the flesh or feelings. Saving faith always looks to
Christ. Now, verse five, happy. Happy
is that man. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. Three words there, happy, help
and hope. We're happy because we have help
and we have hope in the Lord our God. Now here is the happy
and blessed man whose hope is in the Lord his God, but notice
what he says here, the God of Jacob. Did you see that? The God of Jacob. Now, it's a
significant phrase. The God, the God of Jacob. He's twice happy. Look down across
the page at Psalm 144 verse 15, just across the page. Happy is
that people, that is such a case, a happy people. is that people
whose the Lord, whose God is the Lord. That's a happy man. Now, this phrase here, the God
of Jacob, is used 26 times. More than any other name, God
refers to himself as the God of Jacob. FEAR NOT THY WORM,
JACOB. I WILL HELP THEE, SAITH THE LORD.
I AM THY REDEEMER, THE HOLY ONE. HE IS THE GOD OF JACOB. JACOB
HAVE I LOVED, ESAU HAVE I HATED. I TALKED TO MY NEIGHBOR OUT HERE
THE OTHER DAY. HE WAS STANDING OUT HERE WATCHING
THEM CUT THESE TREES DOWN OVER HERE. HE HAD TWO OF HIS GRANDSONS
STANDING WITH HIM. And I said, well, what's the
name of your grandson? He said, this is Jacob, and this
is something else. I can't remember the other boy's
name. And I said to his grandpa, I said, well, the scripture says,
Jacob have I loved. And then the scripture also,
I said, I'm glad your name's not Esau to the other boy, but
it said Esau have I hated. He looked at me a little bit
strange, but anyhow, that's what the scriptures teach. Jacob have
I loved." If you're a true Jacob, God is the God of Jacob. God took that Jacob and made
him a prince of God. The God of Jacob is the God of
covenant mercies. Remember, I'll give you the sure
mercies of David. The God of Jacob is the God of
covenant love. I've loved thee with an everlasting
love. The God of Jacob is the God of
covenant revelation. He said, I will have mercy upon
whom I will have mercy. He hid these things from the
wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. The God of Jacob
is a God of covenant salvation. He's a covenant God, this God
of Jacob. God has made with me an everlasting
covenant order in all things and is sure this is all of my
salvation. So the God of Jacob, the God
of Jacob, He's all our help, past, present,
and future. Before we knew the Lord, before
we knew Him in saving mercy, He was our help back then. He
preserved us all the way long until He crossed our path with
the gospel. He is our help, past, present,
and future. He is all our help. Turn back to Psalm 121. I will
lift up my eyes unto the hill from whence cometh my help. My
help cometh from the Lord. He's our help. He's our help
in the very time of trouble, every time of need. God is our refuge and strength
of every present help in trouble. God is our help. Happy is that
man who has the God of Jacob for his help and for his hope. He is our hope. We have a good
hope through grace. Christ in you is a hope of glory
at the blessed man, the God of Jacob. The God of Jacob is a
covenant God who is able to save to the uttermost all that come
to God by him. Happy is he to have the God of
Jacob for his help. whose hope, good hope, through
grace, in the Lord his God. Now, verse six, down through
verse 10, the God of Jacob describes himself. Now, I love the way
God describes himself in scripture. The Lord God, long-suffering,
merciful. But here, David, AS GOD DESCRIBES HIMSELF, THE
GOD OF JACOB, WHO IS OUR HELP AND HOPE AND ALL OF OUR SALVATION,
VERSE 6, WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEAS AND ALL THAT
THEREIN IS, WHO KEEPS TRUTH FOREVER. FROM VERSE 6 DOWN THROUGH VERSE
10, THERE'S 12 THINGS. I'VE GOT 12 MORE POINTS. Twelve more points. Brother Mahan used to tell us,
don't tell the folks how many points you got. They'll get discouraged. Just go ahead and preach them.
Don't tell them you got twelve points. But I'll go through these
things in relative short time. WE SEE THAT EVERYTHING GOD IS,
HE IS BY HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE FOR HIS GLORY AND THE GOOD OF
HIS PEOPLE. WE SEE AGAIN THAT SALVATION IS
OF THE LORD. NOW YOU CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE IN
THESE NEXT ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE VERSES WHERE THE CREATURE
HAS ANY MERIT OR RIGHTEOUSNESS AT ALL. God, who is our God,
is the God of salvation, who is the creator of all things. He made heaven, he made earth,
he made the sea, and all that is in them. God created all things
by the word of the Lord, by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus
Christ is our creator, not only the heavens and the earth, but
in this new creation that he has created in us. If any man
be in Christ, he is a new creature. He has made us. Turn back to
Psalm 100. Every time I read this Psalm,
Psalm 100, I think of my friend John Chapman because he preaches
from this Psalm 100 oftentimes. Only God in Christ can make us
fit for heaven. He created not only the heavens
and the earth, but he created us anew in Christ Jesus. Psalm
100, verse three. Know ye that the Lord, he is
God, it is he that made us, not we ourselves. We are his people
and the sheep of his pasture. He made us. If any man be in
Christ, he's made new. We are his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good work. So the Lord our God, he hath
made us. I am what I am by his grace. The second thing he says there,
the Lord, our God, the God of Jacob, keepeth truth forever. Now, the thing I love about truth,
it's like that North Star, never changes. Never changes. Truth never need updated. The truth is the truth. Truth
never changes. Truth can be trusted. The Lord
Jesus Christ, He is truth. Heaven and earth will pass away.
His truth will never, never pass away. His word is forever settled
in heaven. HE KEEPS TRUTH FOREVER. I AM
THE LORD, I DO NOT CHANGE. HE'S THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY,
AND FOREVER. WHAT WAS TRUE TEN THOUSAND YEARS
AGO OR TEN MILLION YEARS AGO, STILL TRUE TODAY. TRUTH NEVER
CHANGES. LIES ALWAYS CHANGE. TRUTH NEVER
CHANGES. HERE'S THE THIRD THING, VERSE
7, THE LORD EXECUTETH JUDGMENT FOR THE OPPRESSED. The Lord,
the God of Jacob, giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth
the prisoners. The Lord executes judgment and
justice for those who are oppressed. His covenant people are oppressed
with sin, their sin against God. He judged our sin in himself. What a marvel of grace. He is
a God of judgment and justice. He judged our sin, burying our
sin in his own body on the tree. He judged our sin in himself,
put away our sin by the sacrifice of himself and gives us his righteousness. Now that's grace, is it not?
He takes our sin to himself and he gives us his righteousness. That's the gospel. THAT'S THE
FREE GRACE OF GOD. I AM WHAT I AM BY THE GRACE OF
GOD. EVERYTHING I HAVE, EVERYTHING
I KNOW, EVERYTHING I WILL BE IS BY HIS GRACE. BLESSED IS THAT
MAN TO WHOM GOD IMPUTES RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORKS. THE LORD, SAYS
IN VERSE 7, THE LORD GIVETH FOOD TO THE HUNGRY. THE LORD GIVETH. HE GIVETH. HE GIVETH. You cannot
give him. The Lord giveth. His storehouse
of mercy is always full. He gives, he gives, he gives
food to those who are hungry. Look right across the page. It's
Psalm 145, verse 16. Thou openest thy hand and satisfies
the desire of every living creature. His hands are always opened.
He's not a tight-fisted God. His hands are generous hands,
loving hands. He opens his hand and gives us
his food. The Lord give us food to the
hungry. The Lord, who is a good shepherd, the chief shepherd,
the great shepherd, the Lord does feed his sheep. And the
Lord does water. HIS SHEEP. HE FEEDS THEM AND
HE WATERS THEM. THE LORD GIVETH, GIVETH FOOD. HE IS THE WATER OF LIFE. HE SAID,
IF ANY MAN THIRST, LET HIM COME UNTO ME AND DRINK. THE LORD IS
A BREAD FROM HEAVEN. HE'S A BREAD OF LIFE. COME TO
ME, NEVER HUNGER, NEVER THIRST AGAIN. THE LORD IS THE MILK OF
THE WORD. WE FEED UPON HIM. WE DRINK HIS
WORD UP. WE DESIRE THE SINCERE MILK OF
THE WORD. AND THE MEAT OF HIS WORD. WE
FEED UPON THE MEAT OF HIS WORD. THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL
NOT WANT. HE'S FOOD TO THE HUNGRY. ANYBODY
HUNGRY? HE SATISFIES OUR HUNGER ABUNDANTLY. THE LAST PART OF VERSE 7 OF THE
LORD LOOSETH THE PRISONERS. Now what keeps us in prison?
What keeps a criminal in prison? His guilt. His guilt. What about if his guilt has been
pardoned? What happens to the prisoner
if his guilt has been pardoned? Set free. That's exactly what
the Lord has done for us. He's taken guilty sinners and
justified them by his grace, and he looses them out. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ has set us free. Set them free from the bondage
of their sin, from the penalty and the captivity of sin. That's
exactly why the Lord Jesus Christ came, and this is what he does. We read that a moment ago in
Isaiah 61. To proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. You shall
know the truth and the truth will set you free. We set free
in Christ. He opens the prison door and
sets us free. He executes judgment He justified
us by his grace, judged our sin in himself. He gives us the bread
of heaven, food to the hungry. The Lord looses the prisoner,
sets them free. Go back to verse eight. The Lord opens the eyes of the
blind. He's enlightened our understanding.
He opened the eyes of the blind. How does he do that? He commands
the light of the gospel to shine in our heart. He shines the light
of life in our heart. And he commands us to see, and
what do we see? We see Christ. We see salvation
all in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord opened the eyes of those
who are blind. And by nature, we're blind. We're
so blind, that we think so much of ourselves and think nothing
of God. That's how blind we are, dead
in sin. But the Lord opened the blinded
eyes that we might see him. And when we see him, he said,
look, look to me and be saved. I'm God and there is none other. He opened the blinded eyes. And then he says, The Lord raises
them that are bowed down. You see verse eight. The Lord
raises them that are bowed down. The Lord raises the beggar from
the dunghill. Look back at Psalm 113. Psalm
113 for a moment. Psalm 113. Look at verse seven. Psalm 113 verse seven. He raises up the poor out of
the dust. He lifts the needy out of the
dunghill that he may set him with princes, even the princes
of his people. He does this. He raises us up
and makes us kings and priests unto our God. He raises the beggar
from a dunghill to make him a prince unto the Lord. Look at verse eight. The last part, the Lord loveth
the righteous. The Lord loveth the righteous. You remember that one psalm which
says, God dangle thee with the wicked every day. God hateth
all the workers of iniquity. You remember those psalms? It
says here, the Lord loveth the righteous. Can he do anything
less than that? God is holy. God loves the righteous. Now, who are these righteous
people? in Christ. Nothing can separate us from
the love of God which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord loveth
the righteous. God loves us in Christ with an
everlasting love. You see, he's made unto us. When
he says the Lord loves the righteous, he's talking about loving himself. We are righteous in him. God
loves us in Christ. APART FROM CHRIST, GOD IS WHAT?
A CONSUMING FIRE. NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM
THAT LOVE OF GOD WHICH IS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE LORD LOVETH HIS PEOPLE, AND
IT IS A TRUE LOVE, AN EVERLASTING LOVE, SOVEREIGN LOVE TOO. LOOK
AT VERSE 9, THE LORD PRESERVETH THE STRANGERS, HE RELIEVETH THE
FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOWS, THE WAY OF THE WICKED, THE LORD,
THE GOD OF JACOB, HE TURNS UPSIDE DOWN. VERSE 9, THE LORD PRESERVES
THE STRANGERS. WE ARE BY NATURE ALIENS AND STRANGERS
TO THE COVENANTS OF GRACE, BUT WE ARE STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
HERE We're just passing through, looking for a city whose builder
and maker is God. We've been made nigh unto God
by the blood of Christ. Those who the Lord is pleased
to save are saved with an everlasting salvation. He preserves those
people who were at one time strangers to the covenants of grace. Now
they're made nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
preserves us. We're kept. BY THE POWER OF GOD,
THROUGH FAITH, UNTO SALVATION THAT'S REVEALED IN THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST. HE PRESERVES US. HE SAID, I WILL
AND THEY SHALL. REMEMBER? I WILL AND THEY SHALL.
THE LORD PRESERVES US. WE'RE KEPT BY HIS POWER. AND
THEN IT SAYS, THE LORD, VERSE 9, HE RELIEVETH THOSE IN NEED,
THOSE WHO ARE DESTITUTE, THE FATHERLESS, THE WIDOW, You remember
that commercial years ago about Rolaids? You remember? How do
you spell relief? Remember? I'll tell you how you
spell relief. C-H-R-I-S-T, Christ. That's how you spare relief.
The Lord preserves us, and then he relieves us. He meets our
every need according to his riches in glory through the Lord Jesus
Christ. I am indeed poor and needy, yet
the Lord thinketh upon us, David said in another place. To the
widow, Christ is our husband. For thy father is thy maker,
the Lord of hosts is his name, the Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called. Christ
is our husband who loved us and gave himself for us. To the orphan, Christ is our
father. He's our heavenly father. Behold
what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we
should be called sons of God. He's made unto us all that I
need. Here's number 11. The Lord preserveth the stranger,
relieveth the fatherless, those who are in need, the widow, but
the way of the wicked. He turns upside down. He destroys
the way of the wicked. He turns them upside down. Any
way that's contrary to the way of salvation in Christ, which
can be certain, it will not stand and it must be and will be justly
destroyed. The way of the wicked, those
who go about to establish their righteousness by their own doing,
the way of the wicked, God will destroy. Nothing more wicked
than to say, I don't need Christ. Would you charge God with folly
in the death of his Son? He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. Any way
contrary to the way of salvation in Christ will not stand. Number 12 is this. The Lord shall reign forever,
even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. The Lord shall reign.
The Lord, our God, is God. From everlasting to everlasting,
thou art God. The Lord, our God, shall reign.
That means he's sovereign. While the unbelievers say, well,
that's not fair, that's not right. will not have him, this man to
reign over us. The believer rejoices that his
Lord is God and King of all the earth. One of the great truths
in scripture that comforts the weary heart is to know that God
is God in all things. creation, providence, and in
salvation. Now, let me quit with this. In
Revelation 19, the four and 20 elders and the four beasts fell
down and worshiped God that sat on the throne, saying, amen,
hallelujah, praise the Lord. And a voice came out of the throne
saying, praise our God, all ye servant, ye that fear him both
small and great, praise ye the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude and
the voice of many waters, as the voice of mighty thundering,
saying, hallelujah, saying, praise ye the Lord, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth. He reigns over all things. You remember the scripture, Romans
5, sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. I met
a preacher in the store sometime back, and I've known this man
for a good while. He pastors this church right
down the street here, and we've had some conversations, and always
try to emphasize the sovereignty of God over all things, and the
sovereignty of God in salvation. I ran into him one day at Walmart,
and he challenged me. He said, preacher, he said, he
said, I can't read any scripture where it says sovereign grace. Well, I thought about that for
a minute. You know, the word sovereign
is not in the Bible. The word reign is by thought
of this scripture, grace reigns through righteousness. There
it is. That's sovereign grace, is it
not? Grace reigns through righteousness until eternal life by Jesus Christ,
our Lord. So sovereign grace is the only
grace there is. Sovereign grace, grace alone,
grace always.