now Psalm 29 this evening Psalm
29 this evening obvious what the title of this message is
going to be sometimes I struggle with trying to find a title to
the message but I didn't struggle here because this Psalm tells
us so much about the voice of the Lord so that's the title
of this message the voice of the Lord or his word, the word
of the Lord. This is another gospel psalm.
All 150 psalms are gospel psalms. All 66 books in the Bible are
gospel books. They have but one single solitary
message and that is the Lord Jesus Christ is everything in
salvation. All the way from the seat of
a woman Cleared to the revelation, even so come Lord Jesus. It's all about Christ. To him
give all the prophets witness. So this is another gospel psalm
about the voice or the word of the Lord. In another way we could
say this, in another way saying that the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The word of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is powerful.
But also we can say the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the
power, dynamite, thunder, and lightning of God unto salvation. And that's exactly what the Apostle
Paul said in Romans 1.16. You remember he said, I'm not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God, the
explosion of God, the atom bomb of God, the power of God and
the salvation to everyone who believes God's gospel concerning
the Lord Jesus. Now in verses 1 and 2 of Psalm
29, it says, Give, O give unto the Lord. ye mighty, sons of the mighty,
give unto the Lord glory and strength, give unto the Lord
the glory, the glory, the honor that's due him, due unto him,
unto his name, nor the name under heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved. Worship the Lord, worship the
Lord. in the beauty of holiness. Now three times in these two
verses we are told to give unto the Lord. Give unto the Lord. What could we possibly give unto
Him? Neither men nor angels can add
anything unto God Almighty who is all-sufficient, who is almighty,
who is everywhere present, the eternal Jehovah, In Psalm 50
and other places, he said, the earth is mine. He said, if I
were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. The cattle on a thousand
hills, they're all mine. The fullness of the earth is
mine. It's all mine by creation and right and power. So what
could we possibly add unto the Lord? Well, what's David saying
here then? Well, he's saying this when he
says this, give unto the Lord. He's saying, and this word can
be rendered, ascribe unto the Lord or acknowledge the Lord. Ascribe and attribute unto the
Lord. Celebrate who he is. Ascribe
glory, honor, strength, and power and worship Him. You know the
only place where real worship takes place is at the throne
of the sovereign God. That's where worship takes place.
And we ascribe unto Him glory and honor. Turn to Deuteronomy
32. Here's another place where this
is mentioned here in Deuteronomy 32. Deuteronomy 32, verse 1. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak. Hear, O earth, the words of my
mouth, for my doctrine shall drop as rain. Deuteronomy 32,
verse 2. My speech shall be still as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, as the showers upon
the grass, because I will publish the name of the Lord. Ascribe,
there it is, give, ascribe greatness unto our God, for He is the Rock. Notice how that's written. He
is the Rock. This is the Rock personified.
He is the Rock. His work is perfect, for all
His ways are judgment. A God of truth, without iniquity,
just and right is He. What a good description of our
God. Give unto the Lord glory that's
due unto His name. And then it's directed at this,
O ye mighty, or ye sons of the mighty, We have, by His sovereign
adopting grace, He has made us of the household of faith, and
by His grace He has made us sons of God. We are the sons of the
mighty God by His sovereign grace. I like what John writes in 1
John 3, Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called sons of God. I tell you, you
talk about the manner of love. Behold, he said, what manner
of love is this that we who are nothing, nobody, sinful, that
we who are deserving of all judgment and wrath, that we should be
called sons of God, children of God, adopted into His family. And all men All men should honor
the Lord, but sadly, they don't. But I tell you, who does? All
the sons of God do. They do honor the Lord. Believers
readily, quickly, give all honor, glory, and blessing unto His
matchless name. Unto His sovereign mercy, sovereign
grace, sovereign love. You remember the old song, Hail
Sovereign Love that first began a scheme to rescue fallen man. Hail matchless free eternal grace
that gave my soul a hiding place. In Christ Jesus we do glory in
Him. The Apostle Paul writing to the
Galatians said, God forbid that we should glory except in Christ
and Him crucified. And as we read earlier, Peter
said, be ready always to give an answer to every man that would
ask you the reason of the hope that is in you with meekness
and fear. The reason of our hope is Christ. He is all our hope. Sanctify the Lord God in your
heart. That is, set Him apart and regard
Him as God, holy and reverent is His name. We don't ever address
any sinner as Reverend Jones, Reverend Smith, for holy and
reverend is His name. You just call me old Tom, or
old Tom Tom, or preacher Tom, or something else, but don't
call me reverend. Don't call me reverend. Believers do desire, above all,
to worship Him. To worship Him as our Lord said
the Father seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and in truth. I want to worship Him in spirit. by the power of the Holy Spirit. And I want to worship Him around
the truth of the gospel. I know this, there is no true
spiritual worship apart from God's gospel truth as it's revealed
in the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be going through emotional
exercises in the flesh. But I tell you, if the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ is not declared in a plain, simple,
bold fashion, there's no worship going on. There's just fleshly
exercise profiteth very little in this matter of worship because
God looks on the heart. He looks on the heart. We worship
Him. Oh, I want to desire. Don't you
in your heart just to give unto the Lord all glory and strength
and to fall on your face before His sovereign throne and worship
Him and ascribe unto Him all power, greatness, glory, and
majesty both now and forever? You know, that will be our eternal
occupation in glory worthy as a lamb that was slain, to receive
all honor, power, blessing, and glory, both now and forever."
Forever. And they all fell down and said,
Amen. Amen. To worship Him, not cumbered
with ceremony. the ceremony of men, not to worship
Him, not cumbered with the trappings of men, the traditions of men.
Our Lord said to the Pharisees in His day, He said, in vain
you do worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of
men. That's vain worship, and that's
worthless worship, isn't it? In Acts 17, when Paul stood on
Mars Hill declaring the unknown God, who is the true and living
God, he declared that God is not worshipped with men's hands,
saying that He needs anything from us. God, but in the heart,
not with the hand, with the heart. God looks on the heart. You remember
the words of God to Samuel as he went down to Jesse's house,
the anointed king, and he looked at Jesse, thought, well, you
know, surely it's the firstborn. Eliab, was that his name? He
looked tall and dark and handsome. No doubt he was strong. No doubt
Jesse thought the world of him. And so did Samuel. God said,
no, you're looking on the outside, son. I'm looking on his heart. I've rejected him." And they
went to all those seven boys, and God said, no, that's not
my anointed. No, that one's not. And finally,
in desperation, Samuel said to Jesse, you know, we're not going
to sit down and eat until you bring that little runt you told
me about, David, out in the field, that little ruddy boy. You know,
he's not much. You bring him. We'll not sit
down and eat until you bring it." And he said, he agreed finally.
Brought in David. And God spoke to Samuel's heart
and said, that's my anointed. Arise, anoint him. That's my
man. That's my servant. You see, God
looks on the heart. But worship him, it says here
in the text, in the beauty of holiness. Worship him in the
beauty of holiness. Now, when you think of the beauty
of holiness, I think of the beauty of holiness personified. I think
of the beauty of holiness in Christ Jesus. Turn over here
to Psalm 110. Psalm 110. The beauty of holiness
as it's seen in Christ Jesus. For there is no approach unto
God Apart from the Lord Jesus Christ that he said I am the
way I'm the truth. I'm the life. I'm the door I'm
everything and no man come to the father, but by and through
me. I'm the door But look what it says here in Psalm 110 verse
3 that people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the
beauty of holiness in the womb of the morning thou hast to do
of thy youth. We worship God in Christ Jesus
in the beauty of holiness. His holiness. There is only true
beauty in perfect holiness. and perfect righteousness. There
is no approach unto God, no true worship apart from the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is the beauty of holiness. He is the beauty of righteousness. He is called the Lord, our righteousness. God who has commanded the light
to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give
us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God that shined
in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the beauty of holiness. He is that beautiful one. Personified
he's I like what? We've been studying the song
of Solomon that blessed love story between Christ and his
church and the last verse there in that fifth chapter Where she
describes all the glorious? Attributes of the Lord Jesus
Christ his head his hair his cheeks his legs his arms his
hands And then she just comes to the bottom line and says well,
you know he's all together lovely This is my beloved and this is
my friend. He is the beauty of holiness. Those who see him are in love
with him. We love him because he first
loved us. Now in verses 3 down through
verses 9 in this Psalm various descriptions are given of the
voice of the Lord and the almighty and powerful effect upon its
target not only in the kingdom of nature but most certainly
in the kingdom of grace in raising dead sinners to life in Christ
Jesus I recently brought a message from Psalm 33 turn over there
Psalm 33 verse 9 and Lord willing in the week to come we'll get
to Psalm 33 but look at verse 9 for he spake and it was now
the word done there's been added for he spake and it was God said
let there be light and there was light he spake and it was
he commanded and it stood fast every word of God accomplishes
God's purpose. In the kingdom of nature, in
the kingdom of grace, raising dead sinners to life. He speaks
and it is done. Our Lord said in John 5, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is when the
dead shall hear the voice. Same one. the voice of the Son
of God, and they that are given ears to hear, they that hear
shall live." As our Lord said in front of the grave of Lazarus. Lazarus. He didn't invite Lazarus
to come out, did he? It wasn't an invitation. He didn't
tell the choir to sing 14 verses of Just As I Am and beg sinners
to come down the aisle and let God do something for them. He
said, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth. That's the voice of the Lord.
That's the voice of the Lord that thunders. the voice of the Lord that speaks
in majesty now let's look at verse 3 and consider this in
nature in the kingdom of nature and in the kingdom of grace the
voice of the Lord is upon the waters the God of glory thunders
storms rain thunder and lightning are sent controlled by the sovereign
God He's a God of all nature. It's not mother nature. It's
not mother nature. It's God who controls all things
by the word of His power. You see, He sends the storm and
the calm. both the fair weather and the
foul weather. This all speaks of His sovereign
majesty. He sends the floods. The voice
of the Lord is upon the great waters. It says that in Psalm
107 verse 25 down to verse 31. We won't read that, but God sends
the flood and He also tells this flood to stop, to go no further. Oh, and then he talks about the
marvelous, glorious wonders of His matchless name. The flood
in Noah's day and the flood in our day. Our God sends the rain
on the just and the unjust. That is true in the kingdom of
nature. All things are controlled by
God. You read those last closing chapters
in the book of Job, Job 38 and following where it talks about
God, who is God, who controls all things, who speaks to the
lightnings and they answer, well here I am. Go there and they
go at his bidding. It's also true in the kingdom
of grace. God Almighty sends a storm of
His mercy to His people, the water of His word unto His church,
the lightning of His grace, the thunder of the gospel, where,
when, and to whom. He pleases. He works all things
after the counsel of God's own will. Have you ever noticed sometimes
when it rains that maybe over here in this part of town it
will rain, maybe an inch, and over here on the other end of
the county, well it won't rain a drop. Who controls that? God does in His mercy, God does
in His sovereign purpose, in His sovereign grace. Likewise,
in the kingdom of heaven and in the kingdom of grace, sometimes
God is pleased to rain down and shower His mercy on a group of
sinners, maybe over here in another part of the state, and God will
be pleased to bless His word and raise up a congregation and
bless them, and in another part of the state, there'll be a famine
and a drought. No gospel preaching. Nothing
happening. Who makes the difference? God Almighty controls all these
things. The voice of the Lord is in the
water of His Word. The Word of God is quick and
powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. The voice of the Lord
is in the thunder of the gospel, that's the power of God unto
salvation. The God of glory thunders in
the gospel of God's grace, for it is a blessed gospel of the
glory of God. When Paul writes to those Thessalonians,
he says, I know your God's elect. How'd he know that? It wasn't
written on their jacket, or it wasn't stamped in their hand,
or on their forehead. How did he know that they were
the elect of God? He said, because our gospel came
unto you, not in word only, but in power. In power. And you were convicted, and you
became a believer and a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. You
see, the gospel of God is a power of God. to the saving of his
people. So the voice of the Lord, oh
the God of glory thunders. Verse 4, the voice of the Lord
is powerful. Powerful. I tell you, you can
take that just as far as you want to go with it. The voice
of the Lord, the word of the Lord. You see, this is the Lord. This is not a peanut God. This is God who is God. The voice
of the Lord. What the voice of the Lord is
like the Lord Himself. Now my word doesn't carry any
power. His word does. This is the voice of God who
is God. The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord, the Word
of the Lord, the Gospel of the Lord is full of majesty. His living Word, His written
Word, His preached Word, for you cannot divide it. It's all
one and the same. The voice of the Lord is powerful.
In Ecclesiastes 8 verse 4, These words are recorded, the word,
where the word of the king is, there's power. And who may say
unto him, what doest thou? Our king speaks with absolute
power. This is true in the kingdom of
nature, isn't it? It's kind of amazing and kind of interesting
that whenever there is a devastating earthquake, even in the insurance
industry, they will say, it was the act of God. Now, the insurance
industry recognizes that, but in religious circles, they say,
well, the devil did that. Isn't that amazing that people
in the insurance business have more sense than those who are
in religion? It's the act of God. This is
true in the kingdom of nature. The power of the tornado. Oh,
it's mighty, isn't it? God's in the whirlwind. The hurricanes. God opens up His door. He has a treasury full of wind
and sometimes He opens up His door and it blows. The earthquakes. I marvel that the God of glory
can shake the earth. Who can accurately gauge and
measure His power? God who can shape the earth and
break it apart. How much more true? That is true
in the kingdom of nature, isn't it? How much more true in the
kingdom of grace? For who can accurately describe
and measure the infinite, limitless, sovereign power of Almighty God? In creation, He created all things
by the word of His power. for by him were all things created
in heaven. and in earth, and in that new
creation. If any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature. We are His workmanship created
in Christ Jesus. In God's creating work and in
His sovereign providence, the unfolding of events in time are
merely the eternal decrees of God being revealed for known
unto God of all His works from the beginning. it says in Romans
11 36 of him and through him and to him are all things to
whom be glory both now and forever and then the last word in that
scripture is this amen amen so be it it's so it's so whether
we believe it or not. Our believing it has no bearing
on it whether it be so or not. God says it and it is so. It is true. in creation, in providence,
and in salvation. It's no accident that you ran
into the gospel. God saves whom He wisely saves
on purpose. God's purpose and grace He calls
us with the gospel. In salvation, the Lord Jesus
Christ has all power to convict of sin, of judgment and of righteousness,
of sin, what I am, righteousness, what I need, my sin being judged
in Christ and put away. In salvation the Lord has all
power to convict of sin, to reveal His salvation unto the heart,
for He's hid these things from the wise and prudent and has
revealed them unto His babes, and to make known unto us the
majesty of His glorious wisdom in being both a just God and
Savior. one who is both just and the
justifier of those who believe the gospel. So the voice of the
Lord, go back to verse 4, the voice of the Lord, the word of
the Lord, the gospel of the Lord, oh, it's power. It's power, limitless. infinite eternal power and it
is full of majesty. Verse 5 said the voice of the
Lord breaks the cedars even those fine cedar trees of Lebanon. The cedar trees in Lebanon were
well known for their lofty proud majesty. I recently watched a
show on the redwood trees Have you ever seen those redwood trees?
I know most of you have seen pictures of them, but those redwood
trees are just awesome to look at, to stand
at the foot of those trees and look up 300 feet and see a 300
foot tree. I mean, I'm amazed to look at
a big oak tree. There are two particular oak
trees that we look at every week we come down here. They're in
someone's yard. I can't remember where it is.
It's somewhere on 23 North or South. But we look at those two
big oak trees every time we come down. We look at those two big
oak trees. But there's no tree that cannot
be whittled down to mere kindling by the powerful strike of God
in his lightning power. Be it oak, pine, cedar, redwood,
it doesn't matter. Even more so spiritually. There
is no center too big. too proud, too arrogant, too
self-righteous, that the voice of the Lord can't whittle down
in the dust of repentance and cause that proud sinner to cry
out, God have mercy on me, the sinner. Like the man in the parable
found in Luke 18, where he said, God be merciful to me, the sinner. Like old Saul of Tarsus. Boy,
he was a pretty proud fellow, wasn't he? Oh, he was so full
of himself. He was exceeding zealous of all
of his religious baggage, his tradition, his education. But
I tell you, when God got done with him, God unhorsed him, put
him in the dust, and he said, Lord, what would you have me
to do? I'm your servant. What would you have me do? Where
would you have me go? When the Lord sends his word
and power, it breaks far stouter than any cedar tree or whatever. No heart too hard for God to
break. It says right across the page
over here, I believe it's Psalm 34 verse 18, the Lord is nigh
unto them of a broken heart. He saves such as be of a contrite
spirit. God can break the proud heart.
He said every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that
he's Lord to the glory of God the Father. Look at verse 6 in
our text. He maketh also to skip He maketh
them also to skip like a calf." And here he's talking about the
mountains of Lebanon. He mentions one there, Sirion,
like an ox, like a young ox, like a calf. This refers to those strong mountains
that surround Lebanon, Hermon, others. The Lord not only has
his way with the trees, but also with the mountains. Now, you
would give me this, wouldn't you? That a mountain is a little
bit more stronger than a tree. Now, we might go out and cut
a tree down. I've done a lot of that. But
I'm not going to go out and move and dig up a mountain. But our
God has his way not only with a tree, but God has his way with
a mountain. Melt them down to nothing. Now we've recently seen this,
haven't we? Mount St. Helens in this country
not too long ago, the whole top of that mountain exploded, remember? 10, 15 years ago, maybe it's
been longer than that. And recently this volcano in,
was it Iceland? That erupted and shut down the,
it spewed out so much black soot and ash and volcano ash that
it shut down all the airline traffic. God just blew the whole
top of that mountain off. Don't tell me the Lord can't
move mountains. Oh, He can move them. But even more so in the
gospel spiritually. The gospel is the dynamite of
God, the nitroglycerin of God to level the mountains of pride,
self-glory. The dying voice of the Lord from
Calvary caused the rocks to rent and the graves to open when he
said, it is finished. The voice of the living Lord
still works powerful wonders in the hearts of his people to
break them. and to cause them to bow before
his sovereign majesty. Look at verse 7. The voice of
the Lord divideth, divideth the flame, the fire. You know the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ divides. Your enemies may be
of your own household. Our Lord said, I didn't come
to send peace but a sword. To divide father and son, mother
and daughter. The gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ, it unites the sheep together, it draws the sheep together,
but I tell you, it divides between the sheep and the goat. The gospel
does. God's grace. The Lord divideth
and cutteth, or cutteth, with flames of fire. Lightning flashes
across the sky with tremendous, tremendous energy and crushing
power, like the flames of fire. generating lightning. I heard
this recently and I question whether it's so, but I think
it is. You know, lightning is 5,000 times hotter than the sun. The heat generated in the lightning
is powerful. The energy in that lightning,
it's the voltage of that lightning is, they can't even measure.
It's beyond measure. If that's so in nature and in
creation, even much more in the kingdom of grace. For the flames
of fire attend the voice of the gospel, illuminating and melting
stony hearts of men. You remember at Pentecost, the
Holy Spirit was upon the disciples like as a fire, lightning from
heaven fell upon them. which caused them to give great
boldness in their day, and testified before those that would hear
the gospel. And Peter said, God hath made
that same Jesus whom you crucified, God hath made him both Lord and
Christ. Now bow to him. Bow to him. The voice of Christ in the gospel
is a flame of fire upon the hearts of his elect. the hearts of God's
people, enlightening the elect to their saddest state by nature,
and showing us our real need of Christ. Warming our hearts
with His love, causing us to know that God committeth His
love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. I like what those two men on
the road to Emmaus said when the Lord drew near and expounded
unto them all the scriptures concerning Himself. And they
said one to another, didn't our heart burn within us while he
talked with us by the way and while he opened the scripture
unto us? You see, the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ kindles a sacred love for Christ in our heart,
causing us to set our affection on things above, causing our
heart to burn with passion toward the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel's
a flame of fire in the hearts. It warms our cold, dead heart. And it causes us to burn with
passion toward the Lord Jesus. Now look at verse 8. The Lord,
the voice of the Lord, the word of the Lord, the gospel of the
Lord, shaketh the wilderness. The Lord shaketh the wilderness
in Kadesh. The voice of the Lord in the
desert and the desolate places of the world, He sends His mighty
voice. The heavens declare the glory
of God. He causes a storm to ride upon the wasteland where
no voice of man is heard, but the voice of God thunders and
shakes the wilderness and the inhabitants thereof. Even so,
in this desolate wilderness of the sinner's heart, the Lord
does send His mighty voice through the preaching of the gospel and
shakes our mind, our heart, convicting us of sin, breaking our stubborn
will, and turning us from the wilderness of sin and turning
us into the fruitful garden of His grace. You read the Song
of Solomon. It talks about the Lord Jesus
Christ. coming down into His garden.
It's His garden, and it's a fruitful garden. It's His garden by His
choice. He selected out the plot to plant
the garden, the seed of the Word of Life, and He fertilizes it
by the water of the Word, and He sends forth His gospel by
the power of His grace, and it does germinate, and it does bring
forth life of His own will, but yet He, with the Word of truth,
the seed of life, that He sends in power to the hearts of His
people. Oh, they will hear. He said, My sheep, they will
hear My voice, and I will know them. I do know them, and they
will follow Me. He sends His voice, and He shakes
the wilderness, and He reveals Christ unto our heart. Verse
9, the voice of the Lord makes the deer The voice of the Lord
makes the deer. Now this is interesting. The
voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calf, and strips the
forest, and in his temple doth every one give his glory. In
the kingdom of nature, the mighty roar of the thunder even causes
the deer to give up their young. It brings on an early birth cycle. The deer and the sheep and other
animals, this is a documented fact. Not that we needed any,
because God said it so. In the kingdom of nature, the
mighty roar of the thunder causes the deer, the sheep, and other
animals to cast forth their offspring, the fawns and the lambs. And
in the kingdom of grace, we are regenerated and born from above
by the mighty voice of the Lord. the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ being born again not of corruptible seed but of an incorruptible
incorruptible incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth
and abideth forever verse 9 again The middle part of verse 9, strips,
that word discovereth, strips the forest, strips us down. He strips the mighty trees. This
is the effect the gospel has upon God's elect, the sinner
that has heard his voice, stripping us down as mere mercy beggars
at his sovereign throne, stripping us of self-righteousness, self-dependent,
and causing us to trust Christ for all of salvation. And in
his temple, verse 9, And in His temple, those who
are stripped, those who are clothed, those who are wounded and healed,
in His temple does everyone speak of His glory. It's all about
Him. This ministry is not about me.
This ministry is not about you. This ministry is about Him. Him.
Everyone in His temple does speak of His glory. Those who have
heard His voice in the Word and in the Gospel, those who have
had this soul shaking, Christ shaking, experience of grace
in their heart, this wrenching conviction of sin, this glorious
revelation of Christ, they do speak of His glory. It says in
John 12, 31, when Isaiah saw Him, He spake of Christ. We preach His glorious person,
who He is. We preach His glorious, successful,
victorious work. Christ is not a failure. And
we preach Christ glorified enthroned as the only way of salvation
in Christ Jesus. We speak of His glory. Turn back
to Psalm 26. Look at verse 8. Lord, I have loved the
habitation of thy house. It's a place where your honor
dwells. The honor dwells. His honor dwells where the gospel
is declared. And in his temple, those who
are believers, they do speak of his glory. The glory of his
person, the glory of his redeeming work, and the glory of his coming
again. Verse 10 in closing, the Lord
sitteth upon the flood, Yea, the Lord sitteth king. He sitteth
king forever and forever. He's not going to be king someday. He's always been king. You know,
he was king before he got here. The wise men, God said they were
wise men, because they came when God inhabited a body, God prepared
a body, and God Almighty incarnated in human flesh, when the Lord
Jesus Christ, God the Son, was manifest in this body of flesh,
Just as an infant, as a day old, the wise men came and said, where
is he that is born king? Not where is he that will be
king some day. No, he's king when he got here. He's been king
from eternity, from everlasting to everlasting. Thou art God. He's always been king. You know
why? Because he's God. Because he's God. No flood can
disturb or diminish or undermine his throne. No one's going to
kick him off the throne. He's seated on the throne. From
everlasting to everlasting, and whatsoever the Lord please, that
did He in heaven, earth, seas, and all deep places. King of
kings and Lord of lords. He's king in salvation, He's
king of peace, and He's king of righteousness. Verse 11, the
Lord will give strength unto His people. The Lord will bless
His people with peace. He will give salvation and strength
unto His people. The Lord will bless His people
with peace. Our Lord said, These things have
I spoken unto you. There's that word again. The
voice of the Lord. These things have I spoken unto
you, that in me you might have peace. Oh, in this world, he
said, you're going to have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome. I've overcome. He made peace
for us with his own blood. The Lord will bless his people
with peace being justified by faith. We have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, I pray the Lord will bless
his word to your heart.