Psalm 65 this evening. I'm entitling
the message from the words found in verse 4. Blessed is a man
whom thou choosest. Now, the title of the message
is Blessings by God's Choice. Blessings by God's Choice. Now you think about it. That
man that has been chosen of God. God from all eternity. elected
a people unto salvation, gave them to the Lord Jesus Christ,
made Christ their surety, their Savior, their righteousness.
Now that's a blessed man. Whatever else he may or may not
have in his life, if he has the Lord Jesus Christ and found in
him, he has everything that God had determined to give a sinner
if he's found in Christ. He has everything. has everything. Blessing by God's choice. Now
the bountiful and eternal blessing that every believer enjoys comes
from the sovereign hand of our blessed God and Savior. It says
in one of the Psalms, I can't remember which one, when God
opens His hand He satisfies the desire of every living creature
when He opens His hand. His hands are not empty. His
hands are not stingy. His hands are plentiful, full
of bounty, full of grace, full of blessing. The bountiful blessings
that every believer enjoys come from the hand of our sovereign,
blessed God and Savior. God who spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also
freely, freely give us all things? Who has made you to differ from
another? What do you have that you didn't
receive of God? All blessings come from the sovereign
hand of our blessed Savior. Think of it, blessings by His
sovereign choice. They're also given unto us freely
by His grace, not because we're deserving, but rather because
our great Lord is abundantly gracious. He's gracious unto
His own people. You know, a loving father and
mother, they delight to give the best they can to their children
because, why do they do that? They love them. They love them.
They wish to bestow the best they can upon the object of their
affection. They desire to do so. God Almighty
has made His covenant people the object of His affection,
and He will abundantly bless them for Christ's sake. They
are blessings of God, are freely by His grace given unto us, not
because we're deserving, but because the Lord is gracious.
He's gracious unto His own chosen people. We're called in Psalm
95, the sheep of His hand and the people of His pasture. God's
gonna bless His people. He is the Good Shepherd. The
Good Shepherd. Because the Lord is our Shepherd,
we have no want He provides all things for us. Now, let's take
a look at verse 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Just look at these first five
verses of this psalm. Every believer's desire. Praise,
it says, and that's the same as worship. Worship. Waiteth
for thee. Worship. is silently reverent
unto thee, O God, in Zion. That's the gospel Zion, that's
the church. And unto thee, unto thee, O God,
unto thee. Now who's due all honor, worship,
and glory? Unto thee, O God, shall the vow
be performed. Now every believer's desire,
this is the desire of every believer, every believer, Desire is to
quietly Wait with reverence upon the Lord and give unto the Lord
the glory that's due unto his name We bless and honor God who
had blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in
Christ Jesus That's David says in another Psalm turn over here
to Psalm 115. We're studying Psalm 65 this evening Psalm 115 Now here's what every believer
desires in his heart. To be still, our God said, be
still and know that I am God. He said in Psalm 46. Not unto
us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name do we give glory. For your mercy and for your truth's
sake. Not unto us, but unto him we
desire to honor and glorify God in all things. praise or worship
waits upon God, which means, this word here, waiteth, means
stillness. We worship God in stillness of
heart, not the activity of the body, but in the stillness and
reverence of our heart. This word here means stillness,
this word here means only, and this word here also means to
be silent. To God alone is due all honor
and glory, trusting Him with reverential stillness in the
heart. Now, a lot of times in religious
circles you see a lot of activity, physical activity going on. And
I dare say that there's not much worship there going on at all.
There's just probably no worship at all. It's just the exercise
of the flesh. But reverential worship is in
the heart. God seeketh such that worship
him in spirit and in truth. We trust the Lord with reverential
stillness, only looking to him to perform all things for us
as he has promised. And I'm of that same persuasion
as Abraham of old, that of all God has promised, not one word
will fail. You know, those are also the
last words of Joshua, Joshua on his deathbed, in Joshua 23,
told the people, all that God has promised, not one word has
failed. Now I found another place here,
if I can find it, I haven't written this down as an exact reference,
but find 1 Kings, I think it's 1 Kings chapter 8, I may be wrong,
and if I am, well we'll just just have to say that the preacher
made a mistake or something like that. But find 1st Kings 8, this
1st Kings 8 56. This is it. Solomon's prayer
and dedication at the temple. In 1st Kings 8 56 you want to
mark this in your Bible. Blessed be the Lord that had
given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he has
promised, not There hath not failed one word of all his good
promises which he had promised by the hand of Moses his servant."
Now you think of all that God has promised. He's promised a
whole lot. He's promised a whole lot. But
we can be confident that all that He has promised, not one
word shall fail. He's promised to save sinners
for Christ's sake. He's promised to forgive us for
Christ's sake. He's promised to redeem us by
His blood. You see, all that He has promised,
all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him, amen, unto
the glory of God. It says that in 2 Corinthians
1 20. All the promises of God in Him are yes, and not one promise
of God can fail. Not one word of God can fail. And I'll tell you why. I'll tell
you why. Because He's God. When He speaks,
it's done. When He commands, it stands fast.
It's not like for us to speak a word, you know, maybe we'll
do that or maybe we'll go here. God doesn't speak like that.
He doesn't act like that. He speaks and it's done. He commands
and it stands fast. Of all that He has promised,
not one word shall fall. Not at all. And here's why. Because
He's God. And here's why also. It says
in Isaiah 42 verse 4, one of my favorite verses in all of
God's Word, He shall not fail. Because He cannot fail, His promise
cannot fail. because his promise can't fail,
his word can't fail, therefore his gospel cannot fail. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
a failure. Of all that can be said of him,
His work is not an effort. It's not a down payment. Of all
that can be said of the Lord Jesus Christ, His work is successful. His work is effectual. His work
is eternal. His work is finished. Now listen
to me carefully. And it's not that the believer
is trusting the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
you hear that in religious circles all the time. Well trust, I'm
trusting the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
really not a good saying. Really what we should say and
what we really want to say is we're trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ who finished the work for us. It's like saying well
I'm trusting the sovereignty of God. Well that's not a good
statement either. I'm trusting God who is sovereign.
You see, of all that He has promised, not one jot or tittle of God's
Word can pass away. Therefore, do you know what that
causes in the heart? It causes spontaneous, automatic,
and delightful worship unto the Lord. You know, worship to the
Lord Jesus Christ is not a burden. It's not a burden. It's a delight. It's an honor. It's a privilege
that God has given to us to praise Him, to worship Him, to honor
Him in the stillness of our heart. God looks on the heart. He doesn't
pay attention to all this. It's in the heart. God does business.
You see salvation as a heart work. God looks on the heart,
not on the outward countenance. God looks on the heart. That's
what he told Samuel when he went down to Jesse's house to know
the King. And Samuel brought, or Jesse
had, Samuel look at all the seven sons of Jesse and of Abe from
the eldest on down. Samuel looked at that first one
there, Eliab, I believe his name was, and he was tall, dark, and
handsome, just looked like, boy, he's the king. And God told Samuel,
said, you're looking on the outside, I'm looking on the heart, he's
not my king. Looked at all those seven boys,
and Samuel said, God rejected all these, you got any left?
I got one little runt, oh, he's just a runt, he's out there,
and he's just the youngest, and he's a runt? We didn't even bother
to invite him. He couldn't be a candidate for
God's mercy. Certainly he wouldn't be the
king of Israel. Samuel said, go get him. We're not going to
sit down and eat until you go get him. You know who they fetched? David. David, the sweet psalmist
of Israel. A man, he said, a man after God's
own heart. You know, that's true of every
believer. every believer had been given a new heart that loves
the Lord Jesus Christ loves him therefore we honor and worship
him a believing heart is a worshiping heart God honoring heart unto
thee it says shall the vow be performed you see that last part
of 65 verse 1 Psalm 65 verse 1 every believer has vowed in
his heart to worship and honor the true
and living God Every believer has vowed in his heart to stand
firm for the gospel of God's sovereign saving grace in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Every believer has vowed in his
heart to contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints,
to worship the true and living God as Jonah did from the belly
of the great fish that swallowed him up. Remember what Jonah said
in Jonah 2 verse 9, but I will sacrifice unto thee with a voice
of thanksgiving I will pay that I Have vowed What are the next
word salvations of the Lord that's worship that's honoring God Salvation
is of the Lord of the Lord Now to worship him in spirit and
in truth, silently waiting upon the Lord with reverential stillness
in the heart. God said, be still and know that
I am God, beside me there is no other. This is the privilege
and delight of every believer. David said in another Psalm,
Psalm 1, 122 I believe it is 122 I was glad
when they said unto me. Oh, let us go into the house
of the Lord I was glad when they said let us do that now look
at verse 2 psalm 65 verse 2. Oh thou Thou that hearest prayer
Unto thee shall all flesh come now. Here's a proper and fitting
name for the Lord our God Thou that hearest prayers God is no
dumb idol. He's a living God. Therefore,
He's able to hear the cry of a sinner's heart. O thou that
hearest prayers! The Lord Jesus Christ said the
same thing at the grave of Lazarus just before he raised him from
the dead. In John chapter 11, the Lord
Jesus Christ stood in front of that tomb of that man who had
been dead four days and said, I thank the old father that you
hear my prayer. And then he said, Lazarus, come
forth, and he that was dead came forth." Aren't you glad that
God hears prayer? Aren't you glad that the Lord
Jesus Christ intercedes for us? That He intercedes for us, that
He does quicken us according to His own delight? purpose aren't
you glad that God the Father hears the cry of God the Son
in saving us in saving mercy now here's the proof of our all-sufficient
God he hears our prayers and our cries and supplies our every
need he supplies our every need because it says here he always
encourages and unto thee shall all flesh come now let's look
at a couple things here he hears our prayer and our cry and supplies
the need of his people he is Jehovah Jireh the Lord will provide
and he provides not all of our wants but he supplies all our
need and it says in Philippians 4.19 my God my God not another
now, my God who is God shall supply all your need singular
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus supplies all
our need and he always encourages sinners to come boldly unto him
our Lord is long-suffering and compassionate towards sinners
he's long-suffering He's long-suffering. It says over there in 2 Peter,
the Lord is long-suffering to usward his elect, not willing
that any should perish, but all should come unto repentance.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is a tender, compassionate Savior. A bruised
reed shall he not break, a smoking flax shall he not quench. Isaiah
42. He said, all you who are heavy
and heavy laden, laboring and heavy laden, He said, come unto
Me, and I'll give you rest. For my yoke is easy, my burden
is light. Come unto Him, look to Christ. He says in Hebrews chapter 4,
that we are to come boldly into the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, find grace to help in time of need. O thou
that hearest prayers, unto thee all flesh shall come. Now, if any sinner needs mercy,
if any sinner approaches God, as one old-timer said, you don't
want anything to do with a thrice holy God. You don't want anything
to do with an absolute God, apart from the intercessory work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And all flesh, all flesh shall
come unto God and enter unto God, but all believers in the
Lord Jesus Christ come to God savingly because of His blood
and His righteousness alone. Now look at verse 3. Here's a
humble confession and reassuring confidence. A humble confession
and reassuring confidence. Iniquities prevail. Iniquities. Iniquities prevail against me. That's our confession, isn't
it? Iniquities prevail. They are stronger, our sin, our
iniquity, our transgression, they are stronger and mightier
than the flesh. For all flesh is grass, and the
glory of man withers away. They're too many, our iniquities,
they're too mighty, and more than that, they're against God. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned. Isn't that our confession? We're
sinners. We're sinners. By birth, by practice,
and by choice, we're sinners. We're sinners. We have original
sin, and Adam all died. We have actual sin, we've all
sinned and come short of the glory of God. We have sin of
omission, the things we should have done and didn't. We have
sin of commission, the things we shouldn't have done and did.
Oh, wretched man that I am, Paul said. Isn't that our confession? Our iniquities prevail against
us. But now here's the reassuring
confidence. We have in our great God, the Lord Jesus Christ, our
God and Savior, as for our transgressions, oh, there are many, thou shalt
purge them away. And thou shalt purge them away. Now make sure you understand
this. As someone always says, let me
be clear about this. We cannot purge our sin. We cannot put away our sin. We cannot make atonement for
our sin. We are absolutely helpless to
do anything about our sin condition, our sin nature. We cannot purge
our sin. By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified. Not by the blood of bulls and
goats. Not going to put away sin. We're not redeemed with
corruptible things, are we? Silver and gold. Vain conversation.
We cannot purge away our sin. And we have a sin problem. Our
iniquities, our transgressions, our sins prevail against us,
but we're helpless to do anything about it. You know what our sins
have done? Turn over here to Isaiah. Isaiah 59. I was reading someone's bulletin.
I believe it was this morning, maybe yesterday. One of my preacher
friends, we all, all the preachers, grace preachers, not all of them,
but most of them exchange bulletins. We steal each other's articles
and put bulletins together. Borrow is a better word. I give
credit to their name. I put their name on the article.
But I read one bulletin by a friend of mine. He had an article in
there written by me, and I'd forgotten I'd written it. I'd
written several. I didn't even know when I had
wrote it. But look what it says here in
Isaiah 59, verse 2, "...your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that
He will not hear." Our sin has separated us from God. In Adam,
all have died. But now here's the good news,
and here's what this article said. In Adam, our sin separated
us from God. But in the Lord Jesus Christ,
our sin had been separated from us. Isn't that a good thought?
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now turn to another scripture,
turn to Isaiah 38. Isaiah 38, I'm doing a study
through the gospel according to Isaiah. And I had Isaiah 42
verse 1 today. But look at Isaiah 38, 17. Hezekiah
the king was Sick unto death and God gave
him God gave him mercy God gave him 15 more years to live and
he says in Isaiah 38 17 Isaiah 38 17 for behold he said verse
17 behold for peace I had great bitterness, but thou hast in
love to my soul Delivered it from the pit of corruption for
thou has cast all my sin behind the back of God Now turn over
to Psalm 103. Psalm 103. You see the point
I'm making? Thou shalt purge away our sin. If sin to be purged, God must
do it. God must put away sin. And that's
the greatness of God's mercy. God against whom we've sinned
hath put away our sin by the sacrifice of Christ. Psalm 103,
look at verse 10. Psalm 103 verse 10. He hath not
dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above
the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As
far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgression
from us. I turn over to Hebrews now. Hebrews
1. This is a familiar verse. You
see, sin can only be put away by God in Christ. That's the only way it's going
to be put away. And that's the blessedness and the glory of
the gospel that the God-man mediator against and God against whom
we have sinned, God in Christ, has put away our sin. He has
purged away our sin, the sin of God's people. Hebrews 1. Hebrews
1, Hebrews 1 verse 3, Who being
in the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person,
upholding all things by the word of His power, when He by Himself
purged our sin. Now who did it? who being the
brightness of his glory, the express image of his person,
God bought the church with his own blood. When he had by himself
purged our sin, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high." Now who purged him? Who put him away? Christ put
him away. Now did he put away all the sins
of all men? No. He put away all the sin of
some men. all the sin of some men. You
remember old John Owen was an old English preacher. Lived way
back 15-16 hundreds. But he made this statement. He
died for all of the sins of all men, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
a multiple choice question. See if you can answer it. Choice
number A. Did he die for all the sins of
all men? If he did, then all men must
be saved without exception. B, did he die for some of the
sin of all men? Well, if that's the case, none
will be saved. Or C, he died, or did he die for all of the
sin of some men? His elect, his chosen. Now, you
know the answer, don't you? C, that's Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ put away
all our sin. And he did it completely to the
delight and satisfaction of God. Matter of fact, on over in the
book of Hebrews, it talks about the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews
9, 26 talks about the Lord Jesus Christ. He has appeared once
in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of
Himself. Not with the blood of bulls and
goats, but with His own blood. He entered in and He obtained
eternal redemption for us with His own blood. and then it says
in Hebrews 10 17 that he said our sin and our iniquity
this is what God says our sin and our iniquity he remembers
no more you see the blood atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ not
something that's weak and anemic powerless It carries weight and
power, so much so that God said the blood atonement of Christ
puts away all the sin of God's covenant people, all the elect,
and they don't even exist. It says over in Malachi and Micah,
I can't remember which one, but they're cast into the depths
of the sea. It says over there in Isaiah 44 that they're blotted
out as a thick cloud. He has separated us from our
sin. Now back to Psalm 65. You see the blessedness of that
statement? Our confession and our confidence. Our confession
is, yes, we own our sin, don't we? Our transgression. You know,
I've never read in scripture any sinner ever praying, Lord,
forgive me for Adam's sin. Now, in Adam, we're sinners.
But how have you done it on your own? I've sinned against God. We ask
God to forgive our... He taught us to pray that way. Forgive us our sins. forgive
our sins. And we've all sinned against
God. David has not changed or moved
one inch away from his hope of forgiveness. You remember back
in Psalm 32? Turn over there. Psalm 32. Psalm
32. Psalm 32. Here's that blessed man again. Psalm 32 verse 1, blessed is
he whose transgression is forgiven. You see he was wounded for our
transgression. Blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven, whose sin is covered. The Lord was made sin for us.
Blessed is a man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Now our iniquities were imputed
to somebody. They were imputed to Christ.
in whose spirit there is no God. That's a blessed man. That's
a blessed, blessed man. Now look at verse 4. Verse 4. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Now let's look
at verse 4 for a moment. This is a very familiar verse,
especially with those who are familiar with the grace of God
as it's taught in Holy Scripture. We often quote and refer to this
verse, and it's loaded with the good news of the gospel of Christ.
Who is a happy, blessed man? Those who are found in Christ
Jesus. The world of unbelievers has a totally different idea
as to who the blessed man is. They think the blessed man is
a man with a good education, a fine job, much wealth, and
a healthy family. My friend, those things are nice
and may be pleasant to the flesh, and they are. But apart from
the Lord Jesus Christ, it's vanity. It's vanity, vanity, vanity. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
He's everything to the believer. He's not just something. He's
everything. He's not just the most important
thing in our life either. He is our life. He's our very
being. In Him, we live and move and
have our being. Now, the world of unbelievers
have a totally different idea as to who the blessed man is. You know, they would just say,
well, you know, I was lucky. You know, that's one word we
ought not ever use. is luck. I was lucky. Just strike it out of your vocabulary.
We don't believe in luck, chance, or fate. Luck, chance, or fate. Not at all. We believe in grace,
the God of all grace. So blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causes to approach unto thee. That's the blessed
man. Now we see several things, and I'll give you these four
things, and I'll have to quit with these four things. The first
thing we see is God's sovereign election. God's sovereign election. Now who chooses who? Blessed
is a man that's made a decision for Jesus. Blessed is a man whom God has
chosen. Now there's a big difference.
The difference is life and death. The difference is salvation or
refuge of lives. Blessed is a man whom thou choosest.
Remember our Lord said over in John 15, He said to His disciples,
you didn't choose me, I chose you. You know, they were out
there fishing. And the Lord walked up to them
one day and said, Hey, fetish! Come and follow me. I'm going
to make you fishers of men. And they left their nets and
their father and their family and followed the Lord Jesus Christ.
You see, He chooses us. We're chosen in God according
to His good pleasure, the good pleasure of His will. And this
alone is blessedness. We are bound to thank God for
you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the
beginning chosen you into salvation through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our
gospel." Sovereign election, chosen of God. You know the first
time that word elect is ever used in Scripture? Isaiah 42.1. God said, Behold my servant,
my elect, my elect, and whom my soul delights." You see, we're
accepted in the Beloved. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
elect. We're chosen in Him. You see,
everything is relative to Him. He is the elect. He said, our
Lord said in John 6, 37, All that the Father hath given to
me, they will come to me, and I will no wise cast them out.
How is election known? Paul, when he writes to Thessalonians
said, Brethren, we thank God for you, beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning, that's not the scripture I want.
Our gospel came unto you, 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. Our gospel came not
unto you in word only, Brethren, I'll get it right in a minute.
Knowing, brethren, your election of God. Well, how do you know
that? For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also
in power. How is election known? By our
calling. Make your calling and election
sure. Sometimes my mind gets a little confused. It's what
the old timers used to call a senior moment. And it seems like I'm
having more of those senior moments as I get along in age. But here we see God's sovereign
electing grace. God has chosen a people unto
salvation. Now to deny this is to deny that
God chose a people unto salvation is to deny that God is God. Now when you married You elected
and chose that woman to be your bride. Did anybody complain about
that? That's a choice that you made.
You made that choice. No one was twisting your arm.
You made that choice. I don't know why people kick
against God's sovereign election. Well, I do know why. They're
rebels against God. Doesn't he have the right to
choose to marry whom he will? He chose his bride in eternity.
He came in time and redeemed her and married her. He loved
the church and gave himself for it. You see, there's sovereign
election. We can go on and on and on about
God's electing love, His electing sovereign choice. The second
thing we see is this, God's sovereign, irresistible, effectual call.
causes to approach unto Him. Now what's the cause of us loving
Christ? What's the cause of us coming
to the Lord Jesus Christ? It's not something found in our
flesh. It's not something special in
our flesh that has made us to differ. The reason that we come
to Christ and look to Christ for all of salvation and approach
unto Him is because of the cause that's found not in us but in
Him. Blessed is the man whom thou
causest to approach unto the true and living God. Now remember
what our Lord said in John chapter 6, no man can come to me, except
the Father which sent me draw him. And he draws us to himself
with the irresistible affectual love. He draws us to Himself
savingly. He works in us graciously and
attracts us powerfully. He makes Himself altogether lovely. He subdues our unwillingness,
thy people shall be willing in a day of God's power, and makes
us willingly and lovingly bow to the sovereign Lord God Almighty. You know, He causes us to fall
in love with Him. He causes us to fall in love with Him. He
removes our inability. We have no more ability, now
listen to this, we have no more ability in our flesh to obey
the gospel than we do to obey the law. That's right. We don't have any ability in
our flesh to obey the law, faith to obey the law or to believe
the gospel. Faith is a gift of God. We believe
according, it says in Ephesians 119, we believe according to
the working of His mighty power. We do believe the gospel, but
it's only because He has made us to believe it by His grace.
He removes our inability, and by His almighty working and His
transforming grace, He makes us new creatures in Christ Jesus.
The believer that's born again cannot but believe the gospel
of God's grace in Christ Jesus. You see, this is no slight blessedness. This is great blessedness. Blessed is a man that's chosen
of God, and that man that has been caused by the purpose, eternal
purpose of God, to approach unto God in Christ Jesus. Now here's
something else, we see sovereign adoption and sonship in verse
4. That he may dwell in thy presence. Sovereign adoption. We dwell
in His courts. You know, He's made us members
of His family. He's adopted us into His house,
into His family, and He calls us now, He calls us now, Behold
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called sons of God. Paul describes us what we are
by nature, children of wrath, even as others, but then it says,
but God, but God who is rich in mercy for his great love were
with he loved us, even when we were dead in sin, hath quickened
us together with Christ Jesus, for by grace are you saved. Sovereign
adoption. He causes us to dwell in his
presence. forever now all grace now and
all glory forever forever we by his divine drawings are made
nigh by the blood of Christ adopted into his family by the grace
of God brought near by his spirit into an intimate relationship
so that we have access with boldness and liberty unto his throne boldness
and liberty We come unto Him through Christ Jesus. And lastly,
let me quit with this. Our time is gone. We shall be
satisfied. You see that verse 4? We shall
be satisfied with the goodness of thy house. What's the goodness
of His house? Christ. Even thy holy temple. We shall be satisfied. We shall
be... What a blessedness to be satisfied
with His goodness. You see, believers are content
in Him. The believer is satisfied with Christ. Now listen to me
carefully, I'll quit with this. The believer is satisfied with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that's a blessed thing, to
be satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ. But more importantly,
God is satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ. More importantly,
remember over here in Isaiah 53, turn over there. Isaiah 53,
God is satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ. The pleasure of
the Lord shall prosper in his hand, Isaiah 53 10. Christ is satisfied with the
covenant purchase. with the purchase of his blood,
Christ is satisfied with his church. Verse 11, Isaiah 53,
he shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. Satisfied. By his knowledge shall
my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. The believer is satisfied with
the goodness of his house, but more importantly, God is satisfied
with the blood atonement and the blessed obedience of the
Lord Jesus Christ, that righteousness which he imputes unto all his
people, all his covenant people. Well, may the Lord bless that
truth.