Okay, this evening now we're
looking together at Psalm 41. It's called there a Psalm of
David. The Psalm of David. You know, David didn't pen the
words for all of the Psalms. Many of them he did. But it doesn't
really matter who penned the word because I believe the Scriptures
are all God breathed, God given. Sometimes I think we take for
granted what we hold in our hand and what we read when we read
this book we call the Bible. It's the very testimony and will
of God Almighty. It's His love letter to His people. We treat it with respect, His
Word. We make much of the Word of God.
God's used these different men to declare the gospel, but all
of it comes from God. He's the author and giver of
all. Every good and perfect gift comes from God. comes from God,
not of man, but comes from God. Psalm of David. Now, notice,
if you will, in verse 9, it talks about a friend that betrayed a friend. So I'm calling this message the
betrayal, the betrayal of Christ. Yea, he said, my own familiar
friend in whom I've trusted wished to eat of my bread, hath lifted
up his heel, hath lifted up his heel against me." Betrayed. The Lord Jesus Christ was sold
out, wasn't he? He was betrayed. Judas betrayed
him. Now there's no mistake that this
is talking about. It's a prophecy concerning what
would happen in the Lord's time in his earthly journey. The betrayal
of a friend. One of the most hurtful things
that can happen unto us in this life is to be turned on or betrayed
by someone you thought to be your friend, your companion,
your buddy, your friend, your brother. Yet he turned out to
be your sworn enemy seeking your destruction. Seeking your demise. Have you ever been betrayed of
a friend? Someone you thought you walked
together with and he turned out to be your vicious enemy, seeking
your end, seeking your ruin, seeking your demise. That's most
hurtful, isn't it? That's the most hurtful thing.
Was he ever a true friend? No. He was just playing the hypocrite,
wasn't he? misusing you, deceiving you,
and in the end, he turned out to be a betrayer. He turned out
to be a traitor, a turncoat, turning against you. Now David,
the king of Israel, had many friends, some were true friends,
some were true friends, like I think of Joab. Joab stuck with
David through thick and thin. Others of David's family and
David's company, some of his generals turned on him, didn't
they? His own son, Absalom, turned and betrayed David. Ran him out of the kingdom. Betrayed
him. So David knew something of the
heartache the anguish of being betrayed by a friend. But this psalm, I'm sure, makes
application to David. David in his life being betrayed
by his own family. But this psalm speaks specifically
about the greater David, the Lord Jesus Christ. How he was
betrayed by one who he had chosen Now the Lord wasn't deceived
in that matter when he made Judas a disciple and even gave him
responsibility of paying the bills. It says there in the text,
and my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, the Lord trusted
him to take care of the financial dealings. But he turned out to
be a traitor, didn't he? But the Lord wasn't deceived
by those things. He knew the heart of all men.
He needed not that any should testify of men, for He knew what
was in the heart of men, the heart of man. Now this whole
psalm speaks about the Lord Jesus Christ. His many sorrows and
His enemies as a God-man mediator and His victory, His victory
over his many adversaries. We must never think of the Lord
Jesus Christ as a defeated, frustrated Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ
is an absolute victorious Savior, isn't He? He defeated all of His adversaries. He defeated all of His enemies. It says in Luke 24, these are
the words, our Lord speaking, which I have spake unto you while
I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which
are written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the
Psalms, the things that were written prophetically about the
Lord Jesus Christ. These things must happen. They must happen. And certainly
verse 9 tells us about prophetically speaking, about the Lord Jesus
Christ being sold out by one who was a supposed friend. Our Lord, in John 13, 8, quotes
from this psalm and makes application to Judas that the Scripture might
be fulfilled. One old writer that I read after
John Gill said, we may safely venture to explain the whole
psalm of Christ, the whole psalm now of Christ, which treats both
his humiliation, his betrayal, and his final exaltation and
glory. Now let's consider verse one.
Blessed is he, blessed is he that considereth the poor, the
boor man, The Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble, in
the time of trouble, in the day of evil, it says in the marginal
reference. Blessed is he that considereth
the poor, the poor. Now who is this poor man here
in this psalm? Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Who are we to think upon? Our
Lord said to his Disciples, what think ye of Christ? What think
ye of the Lord Jesus Christ? That word there, consider. Consider
Him. Consider Him in His lowly state
of humiliation. You think about it. God, who
inhabits eternity, inhabited a body of a man, specially prepared
for him the man-child, and when he was born into this world,
born into this life, inhabiting that body specially prepared
by God Almighty, there was no place for him even to be born. They took him out and he was
birthed out in the barn. That's pretty poor, isn't it? Pretty poor. He said, the foxes
have holes, the birds of the air have their nests, the son
of man hath nowhere to lay his head. Oh, his humiliation. Would you consider this poor
man? Christ in His humiliation as the man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief. Consider Him in His lowly state
of humiliation. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, the form of a servant. Thou didst not robbery to be
equal with God, but made Himself the form of a servant, and being
found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself unto death. Even
the death of the cross became obedient unto the death of the
cross. So consider him in his lowly beginnings, the king of
kings, inhabiting a body of a baby. What condescension. Consider
him in his agony in the garden and upon the cross. No one suffered
like this man. This poor man, stripped naked,
forsaken, not only of Judas, but forsaken of all of his disciples,
turned tail and ran away from the Lord Jesus Christ. And he
told them, he said, you all forsake me. You all will leave me. Consider
him in the agony in the garden when his sweat was mingled with
the blood as it oozes out of his body. That agony I know nothing
about, nothing about. When God laid on him the iniquity
of his people, when God began to make him sin for us, the one
who knew no sin. So consider him in his lowly
state of humiliation. Consider him in the agony in
the garden and upon Calvary's tree. the just one suffering
for the unjust, being baptized in the wrath of God Almighty,
for it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Consider this, this poor
man, this poor man. Consider him in all of his office
as the apostle, the apostle. It says, calls him that in Hebrews
chapter 3 verse 1. Consider the apostle, the one
sent of God. That's what the word means. Consider
him as the sent one of God. He is God's sent one. He is the
prophet, priest, and king. He is God's prophet to reveal
unto us the way of salvation. He represents God to us as the
prophet. He's not only the prophet to
reveal, but he's a priest who represents us to God. Aren't
you glad we have both? He's prophet and to reveal, he's
priest to represent us, and then he's prophet, priest, and king.
Now what does a king do? He reigns. He reigns. He reigns over all things. He's
Lord in salvation. So consider this one, the God-man
mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. It says in Hebrews 12, verse
3, for consider him, consider him that endured such contradiction
of sinners against himself. consider him. No one suffered
like this man. But look what it says there in
verse 1. Blessed is he that considereth this poor man. Blessed. Blessed is he that would consider
and think upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed is he that considers
the poor. The Lord will deliver him in
a time of trouble. Such a man. such a one who is
blessed of God to believe the gospel and to consider all that
God has done for sinners in Christ Jesus. Such a person is a happy,
blessed man, and the following things are said of him to show
us that it's so. He mentions six things there
in the following verses. Number one is this, blessed. That word there, blessed, means
happy, happy. Happy is that man who believes
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, because it says here,
the Lord, that is Jehovah, will deliver him. The Lord Jesus Christ
is our Redeemer. And you know what that word means?
It means He's our Deliverer. He's called that in Romans chapter
11. He's called the Deliverer that
will deliver all His people. I tell you, you're a blessed
person if you believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
you look to the Lord Jesus Christ alone as your Deliverer, as your
Redeemer, who delivers us from all our sin. The Lord will deliver
that man who trusts the Lord Jesus Christ for all of salvation. It says in John 5, 24, He that
heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from
death unto life. What would it be to pass from
death unto life? That'd be a blessed man, wouldn't
it? That'd be a blessed man. You know, that's what happens
when God in mercy does that work of grace in our heart. He translates
us out of the kingdom of darkness and puts us into the kingdom
of God, dear son. Or rather, he just really reveals
that unto us. He's put us in Christ from the
beginning of the world. So the Lord will deliver that
man that considers Christ. that trust the Lord Jesus Christ.
Secondly, he said he will preserve him. See verse 2? The Lord will
preserve him, preserve him. I know this, we can't keep ourselves
Can't keep ourselves. We're kept by the power of God.
We're preserved by His power. And the only reason that we persevere
in faith is because we're preserved by the power of Almighty God.
We're kept by Him. The Lord will. Now, you can't
have any better preserver than the Lord. The Lord will deliver. He is the Redeemer that really
redeems His people. He is a Savior that actually
saves us from our sin. The Lord will do it. The Lord
will preserve His people. He said, I'll never
leave you. I'll never forsake you. And then
thirdly, it says the Lord will keep him alive. Not only give
him life, but keep him alive eternally in Christ Jesus. Christ saves his people with
an everlasting salvation. He doesn't give us a temporary
amnesty. He gives us eternal life, eternal
life, eternal salvation. Our Lord said, because I live,
you shall live. Says in John 10, 27, my sheep
hear my voice. I know them and they follow me
and I give unto them. I give unto them eternal life. I'll keep him alive. It says
in Isaiah 45, 17 that he saves us with an everlasting salvation.
Oh, consider this poor man. Consider this poor man. The Lord
will deliver the believer. The Lord will preserve him. The
Lord will keep him alive. And he shall be blessed. Look
what it says. HE SHALL BE BLESSED UPON THE EARTH, THAT WILL NOT
DELIVER HIM UNTO THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES. THOU WILL AND THOU
SHALL BE BLESSED UPON THE EARTH. ALL GRACE NOW AND ALL GLORY FOREVER. HE'S BLESSED US WITH ALL SPIRITUAL
BLESSINGS AND HEAVENLY IN CHRIST JESUS. HE SHALL BE BLESSED RIGHT
NOW. RIGHT NOW. blessed with all spiritual
blessing." These are spiritual blessings such as peace, pardon,
righteousness, right and title to eternal glory and happiness.
He will be blessed in a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness, where we will dwell and be with Christ forever,
with Christ eternally. And then it says, fifthly, that I will not deliver him unto
the will of his enemies. Christ has defeated our enemies
by himself, with himself. Let's turn over here to Colossians
chapter 2 for a moment. Colossians chapter 2. Christ
has defeated our enemies. He will not deliver us over to
the will of our enemies to do us harm because Christ has defeated
our enemies. Notice if you will here Colossians
2 verse 13, and you being dead you being dead in your sins,
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together
with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, that was
contrary to us, took it out of the way and nailing it to his
cross, having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of
them openly, triumphing over them himself." Is the correct
word there. Triumphing over them in himself,
by himself, with himself, he has defeated our enemies. And
then it says in verse 3 of Psalm 41, the Lord will strengthen
him upon the bed languishing that will I will make all his
bed in his sickness the Lord will strengthen us strengthen
us now I don't think that's talking specifically about physical strength
because look over here in Ephesians chapter 3 for a moment Ephesians
chapter 3 many times in the scripture we studied this in the Psalms
And in Isaiah and other places, the Lord is called our strength.
He is our strength. He is our help. He is our salvation.
And He's not talking here about physical He's talking here about
our spiritual strength. Because when the Apostle Paul,
look what he says here in Colossians chapter 3 verse 14. When he prays
for the church, he said, For this cause I bow my knees unto
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family
in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by
his Spirit inwardly, in the inner man, in that new man. in Christ
Jesus. The old man is perishing. The inward man is renewed day
by day. We grow in grace and in the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord will strengthen him.
The Lord will strengthen him in his time of need. In his time
of need, the Lord will comfort him and his time of need the
Lord will give grace for every trial he said he said he would
he said he said my grace my grace is sufficient it's sufficient
for you in every trial every heartache his grace is sufficient
for us now consider verse 4 of Psalm 41 for just a moment verse
4 here now let's read let's read carefully I said Lord Now, this
is the Lord Jesus Christ speaking now. I said, Lord, be merciful
unto me, heal my soul, for I've sinned against thee. Now, be
careful here. How can this be applied to the
Lord Jesus Christ? With great care, but it can be
applied to the Lord Jesus Christ. This psalm speaks of Christ,
the Lord Jesus Christ. It can be applied to the Lord
Jesus Christ as he stands before God Almighty charged with my
sin. Having the guilt of God's elect
laid on him, he stands before God as that transgressor, guilty
before God. Now we know that the Lord Jesus
Christ in His humanity had no sin. Scripture says that, He
had no sin. He personally committed absolutely
no sin. He was manifested, John said
to take away our sin, and in Him is no sin. But Scripture
says of Him that Christ bear our sin in His own body on the
tree, but it also says that He did no sin. It says of him that
the Lord made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. He did no sin. He had no sin. He knew no sin. But listen, our sins were so
truly made his as the Lord laid on him the iniquity, not of all
the sins of all men, but the sins of his elect. those given
to Him in that covenant of grace, and by that glorious truth, that
glorious, marvelous act of God imputing our sin unto the Lord
Jesus Christ, He stands before God's holy justice charged with
sin and guilt before God. You remember just across the
page in Psalm 40, remember verse 12, our Lord says, for innumerable
evils have encompassed me about, mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me, so that I'm not able to look up. They're more than
the hairs in my head, therefore my heart faileth. Substitution, the Lord Jesus
Christ satisfying God's law and justice on behalf of God's covenant
people, a reality. That's what happened at the cross.
That's what's going on, that's what's going on at Calvary. It's
God Almighty laying on the Lord Jesus Christ, the sin of God's
covenant people, and it's the Lord Jesus Christ being baptized
in the wrath of Almighty God, justly so. as God makes him to
be sin for us. He is saying, as our substitute,
bearing our sin in his own body on the tree, that he stand before
God, charged as a transgressor. before God, guilty of sin. This is real substitution. It's
not just, and there is that legal, what they call forensic aspect,
the legal aspect of the gospel, how he satisfied God's justice
in a legal way. But my friend, there's so much
more. That just sounds cold and calculated to me. There's so
much more to it, and it's not It's not that he's burying our
sin as in type and shadow as a scapegoat. This is the fulfillment
of that. No longer type and shadow just
in a legal way. This is the reality of the Lord
Jesus Christ being actually made sin for us. John Gill had these comments
on this verse, and I think they're helpful. He said, for I have
sinned against thee, or unto thee, or before thee. Not that
any sin was committed by him in his own person, but having
all the sins of his people on him, which he called his own,
he was treated as a sinner and as guilty before God. So the
words may be read, for I am a sinner unto thee. I am counted as one
by thee, having the sins of my people imputed to me, and I am
bound unto thee, or under obligation to bear the punishment of that
sin." Aren't you glad we have a real substitute? in the Lord
Jesus Christ, that He actually takes my sin and dies under the
weight and judgment and guilt of my sin, and because He fully
put away the sin of God's elect, established a perfect righteousness
for us, there is therefore now in Christ no condemnation. God's justice can't twice demand,
first at my bleeding surety's hand, and then again at me, and
make Him unjust. There's no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus. Isn't that a glorious verse?
That's a glorious verse. That's a glorious truth of the
gospel. It's the mystery of the gospel, isn't it? It's a mystery
of the gospel how this one who was a holy God yet made sin,
and yet he never stopped being the holy God. That's the mystery
of the gospel. It's unexplainable. But it's
true, just as truly as a word was made flesh, the same word
was made sin. That's the glory of the gospel.
And when you try to explain the mystery of it away, you've killed
it. You've killed it. Look what it says here in verse
5. Verse 5 through 9 is a vivid foretelling and a true description
of the Lord's enemies. Verse 5 said, My enemies speak
evil against me. Boy, he had some enemies, didn't
he? My enemies speak evil of me. When shall he die? When shall
his name perish? They couldn't wait to be rid
of Jesus of Nazareth. Read the gospel account. My enemies,
they speak evil of me. Those self-righteous, self-centered
Jews, they hated him with a passion, didn't they? They were his enemies. They were enemies to his person,
enemies to his doctrine. They would not have him to reign
over them. They spoke evil of him and charged
him with being a gluttonous man, a wine-bibber. They said he had
the devil, and he's a Samaritan. They hated him, didn't they?
They counted his miracles as a diabolical influence. They branded his doctrine with
blasphemy and spoke against him saying, when shall he die? Let's gang up on him and kill
him. They sought to eagerly end his
ministry. And they sought just as eagerly
to end his life, didn't they? It says in Matthew 12, verse
14, then the Pharisees went out and held a council how they might
destroy him. Had murder in their heart. The
carnal mind is enmity against God Almighty. And they said,
oh, let his name perish. They sought in their heart to
stamp out his name, to be done with this one. Turn over here
to Psalm 45, look at verse 17 for a minute. Do you think they
can stamp out the name of the Lord Jesus Christ? They tried,
didn't they? But look what Psalm 45 verse
17 declares. God said, I'll make thy name
to be remembered in all generations. They're not gonna stamp out his
name, are they? God's gonna make it to be remembered in all generations
and throughout eternity. Worthy is the lamb that was slain
to receive all honor, blessing, glory, and power, both now and
forever. God highly exalted him. Excuse
me. They thought to stamp out his
name. They were sadly disappointed, for upon his resurrection from
the dead, His memory became precious to thousands. His gospel was
ordered to be preached in all the world, and he himself is
blessed forevermore. His name is glorious forevermore. Look at verse six. And if they
come to see me, those Pharisees, how many times a day? surround
him to trick him or to trap him or to do him in. He said, if
my enemies, they come to see me, they speak vanity. His heart just gathers iniquity
to itself. When he goeth abroad, he tells
it. He tells out his iniquity. His
enemies on many occasions came to see Him only to entangle Him,
to discredit Him, to dishonor His teaching. Our Lord said to
them, they draw nigh unto Me. He said, they're a bunch of hypocrites,
they're a bunch of snakes. They draw nigh unto Me with their
mouth. They say, Master, Lord. They say, Master and Teacher.
They draw nigh unto me with their mouth, but our Lord said, Their
heart is far from me. Our Lord said unto them, You
or they would justify yourselves before men, but God knows your
heart. That which is highly esteemed
among men is an abomination in his sight." Vanity. He speaketh vanity. Great swelling
words. His heart just gathers to iniquity. Look at verse 7. All that hate
me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my
hurt, my hurt. They devise evil to me." The
marginal reference is evil. Notice carefully our Lord's true
description of their character. He said, they hate me. They hate
me. They hate me. The carnal mind
and the sinful nature of man has not changed. No different
in this day. The natural mind is enmity against
God. Now, the religious people of
our day, they don't hate the idol that they've whittled out,
and they pray into a God of their own imagination that cannot save,
but when confronted with the true God of Scripture that's
absolutely sovereign and holy in all ways, that sinner left
to himself hates God. Hates God, the true and living
God. If you're a lover of this God
of Holy Scripture, it is only because God has given you eyes
to see Him as altogether lovely. For by nature, we don't love
God. By nature, we hate God. They spake against me. You remember
what they said back... We started way back over here.
Turn over to Psalm 2. We had another. The kings of
the earth, why do the heathen rage? Psalm 2 verse 1. And the
people imagined a vain thing. The kings of the earth set themselves
together. And the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us
break their bands asunder and cast away their cords. He that
sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them
in confusion. Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. God said,
Despite all their rage, I have set my king on my holy hill Zion. Look at verse 8 in Psalm 41.
They devise against me, evil against me. They say an evil
disease, say they cleaveth fast unto him. And now that he lieth
he shall rise up no more." No more. The further false accusations
against him, oh, they said, he's a wicked man. He has a wicked
disease and he's going to die and shall be no more. They said, ah, we're through
with this man. How wrong. How wrong. This is the very Christ
with whom we have to do. We have to do with this one.
For it says of him in Hebrews 4, 13, all things are naked and
open unto him, unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Have to do. Every enemy will face him and
bow to him and own him as Lord, God, and King. and confess that
he is Lord. Look at verse 9. He said, My
own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat my bread, hath
lifted up his heel against me. Now make no mistake, the Lord
knew that Judas was a devil. For he said in John 6 verse 70,
I've chosen you twelve and one of you is a devil. The Lord knew that Judas was
a devil, that Judas would betray him. And when he had chosen him
being the all-knowing Lord, the Lord was not taken in by Judas
or deceived. Judas was a familiar friend,
as were the other disciples. Judas was trusted with the money
to buy supplies for the disciples. Judas had fellowship with the
Lord and with others. The Lord Jesus Christ even stooped
to wash his feet. But Judas was a traitor. Judas sold the Lord for 30 pieces
of silver. That description might be fulfilled.
He identified the Lord Jesus Christ with that deceitful kiss. Hail, Master. And he kissed him. That was a sign to those for
whom he sold out the Lord. That one whom I kissed, he's
the one. You take him. You take him. His
enemies came to arrest him, and Judas identified him as the Lord. lifting up his heel. The metaphor
here is taken from an unruly horse throwing his rider, being
bucked off, and then kicking him in the teeth, lifting up
his heel. Now, I've been stepped on by
a horse before. Have you? Hurts. Can you imagine
being kicked in the face? That's what the Lord is saying
here. My friend kicked me in the teeth." How wicked. How wicked are we. You say, well, I'd never do something
like that. Yeah, you would. You'd do that and worse. I would
too, apart from God restraining grace. Look at verse 10. But thou, O
Lord, be merciful unto me. Raise me up. that I might repay them." Two
things are given to us here in verse 10. His resurrection, raise
me up, and the ruin and destruction of the enemies. We see his victorious
resurrection and we see his enemies defeated. His glorious resurrection,
delivered for our offenses, raised again for our delivered for our
offenses and raised again because He justified us. Where would
we be without Him being raised up? Paul said, if Christ be not
raised up, our preaching is vain, and you're yet in your sins,
and we're of all men most miserable. If Christ be not raised up. But
thank God, He's raised up. Raised up by the power of God,
declaring that all that He did and all that He said was accepted
of the Father. having accomplished the Father's
will and honoring God's justice, satisfying His holy law, having
put away our sin. Having put away our sin, Christ
must be raised from the dead. You remember He told those disciples,
I must go to Jerusalem, remember? In Matthew 16. I must be betrayed. I must be persecuted, I must
be sold out, I must die, and I must be raised again. It's a must. It's a must. Without
His resurrection, we have no gospel. If Christ be not raised
from the dead, He's an imposter and in hell. If He be not raised
from the dead, He's not the Messiah. But my friend, the good news
of the gospel is He's not here. He's not here. He's risen. He's
ascended to the throne. So we see here his glorious resurrection. And then secondly, we see that
righteous judgment. Christ will judge those wicked
men and justly give them what they deserve, which had its accomplishment
in part at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. He wiped
that place clean. Didn't he? At the hand of the
Romans, judgment fell on that city, that nation, that priesthood,
those Pharisees. And will more fully at the day
of judgment when they shall see him whom they pierced and made
to bow before him. Look at verse 11. By this I know,
by this I know that you have favored me. favors me, because
my enemy, my enemy does not triumph over me. The Lord Jesus Christ
has highly favored the Father. He speaks from heaven, said,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. The Father
loved the Son, and given all things unto me." That word, der
favoris, means delighted in. God Almighty delights in God
the Son. as he did both as his son and
his righteous servant in his obedience and suffering and death,
whereby his counsel and purposes were accomplished, his covenant
ratified, and the salvation of his people procured. Proverbs
8 verse 30 says, Then I was one by him, as one brought up with
him, and I was daily his delight. God delights in Christ, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Thou delightest in me, you see
that verse 11, my enemies will not triumph over me. He's defeated
all enemies. As for me, verse 12, thou upholdest
me in my integrity. Thou settest me before thy face
forever, upheld by the mighty power of God, tested and tempted
in all points like as we are yet without sin. When he put away our sin, He
ascended to glory, seated in the heavenlies on the right hand
of the throne of God. A place of power, a place of
prominence, a place of lordship. Seated in the right hand of God.
A place of love, power, and privilege. Seated! And you know what? We're seated in Him, in the heavenlies,
in Christ Jesus. thou settest me before thy face
forever." How long is he going to be on the throne? Forever. So, the conclusion is,
blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting,
thou art God. And what do people say to that?
There's a double, so be it. Amen means so be it. So be it. Amen. Who gets the glory for
such salvation? God alone. Psalm 115 declares,
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory
for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake. Blessed be the Lord God
from everlasting to everlasting, that is, throughout all ages,
world without end. In Ephesians chapter 3, it declares,
Unto him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all
ages, world without end. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting.