Turning in our Bible now to Psalm
146. I love reading the Psalms. I love reading the Psalms. Because
it's all about Him. The Lord Jesus Christ. It's all
about Christ. To Him give all the prophets
witness. David rejoiced in the Lord Jesus
Christ. David's hope of salvation was
none other than the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Christ in Him crucified. Notice this psalm begins with,
Praise, praise the Lord. And that's where we get the phrase,
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And then it ends with the same
phrase, Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord. Now, often in
religious circles, And in religious services, this phrase has become
a meaningless thing among most religious people. They use it
in a very loose way, in a very meaningless way, and they use
it as a slang word or as a slogan or as a mere religious byword
in irreverent ways. You've seen some of those clowns,
and that's just exactly what they are. I don't even like to
watch what they call, I even hate to say this, but God TV
or religious Hollywood evangelism. But when I do occasionally flip
through there, they're always using this phrase in such a meaningless,
demeaning way. It just becomes just a mere byword. And it's really using the name
of the Lord in vain. It really is. But true believers,
true believers in their heart, it is their very heart's desire
to honor and worship and esteem Him who is our all and in all. And we can, as believers, really
praise and magnify the Lord and not speak a word. For worship
is heart worship. God looks upon not the outward
countenance, but God looks on the heart. And that's why we
don't carry on the way people do in religious circles with
this exercise of an outward going on. Worship is heart worship. When Hannah went to the temple
and prayed, remember, asking God for a son, she was in prayer
and honor and worshiping her God, but yet her mouth moved,
but she didn't speak a word. But she was honoring the God
of the Scriptures, and that's what believers desire to do.
We desire to honor His name. Turn back to Psalm 111. Psalm
111. To you who believe, He is precious. To you who believe, He is all
and in all. Psalm 111, verse 9. He sent redemption,
redemption unto His people. He hath commanded His covenant
forever. Holy and reverent is His name. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. A good understanding have all
they that do His commandments. His praise, His glory endureth
forever. Holy and reverent is His name.
Now we ought never address any fellow sinful creature as Reverend
Jones or Reverend Smith. Call me preacher, or call me
pastor, or call me sinner, but don't call me reverend. Call
me friend, but call me anything but Reverend Tom. Holy and reverend
is His name. His name. But it is our heart's
desire as believers to gather in His name and to honor and
worship and praise the Lord. And this is what he says there,
praise the Lord. Now who are we to praise? Who
are we to worship? in honor and esteem and exalt
Him as all and in all? It's the Lord. The Lord. The
Lord of lords and King of kings, our Almighty and Absolute Sovereign
in all things, we are to worship Him who is God. God our Savior,
God over all things. Peter put it this way, God had
made that same Jesus whom you crucified, God had made Him both
Lord and Christ. We honor the Lord Jesus as God
and we worship Him as such. For He is the Sovereign over
all things, of Him, through Him, and to Him, for all things to
whom be glory both now and forever." It is our heart's desire to worship
and honor and to extol our great Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Who are we to worship? Well,
who else is worthy? None but Him. None but our blessed
Lord. How are we to worship Him? How
are we to exalt Him? Look what it says, praise the
Lord, O my soul, Oh my soul, in the heart, in the heart. True praise is not in lip service,
but in heart worship. Turn over to Psalm 103. Remember
our Lord said of those Pharisees, they draw nigh unto me with their
mouth and their lip, but their heart, oh their heart, their
heart is far from me. Now you can play games with a
preacher. And you can, to some extent, and to a large extent,
you can deceive him and convince him maybe that you are a true
believer, and you can play the hypocrite for a while, maybe
many years, but you'll never fool God because He looks on
the heart. He knows the heart. And we desire
to worship Him in our heart. Look at Psalm 103. Bless the
Lord. Bless the Lord, verse 1. Oh my
soul, and all that is within me, This is our desire, isn't
it? All that is within me, bless
His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all of His blessings, who forgiveth all thine iniquity,
who healeth all thy diseases. Circle those two words, all thine
iniquities, all thy diseases. We have complete forgiveness
in Christ Jesus. That's why we worship Him. That's
why we honor Him. And that's the believer's desire,
is to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. The Father seeketh such
to worship Him in spirit and in truth. And I learned this
lesson a long time ago. There is no such thing as spiritual
worship apart from truth. I don't care how much you yell
and scream, if you do not have the truth of who God is and what
Christ accomplished and who He is, you have no worship. Not
at all. Worship in spirit and in truth. In truth. And we desire to do
that. That's why we've met here today.
That's what this is all about. If we're just looking for some
religious exercise to go through, there's a thousand churches within
20 or 30 miles of here, is there not? What are we doing here?
Well, we seek to worship God in spirit and in truth and to
praise Him and to honor Him in the preaching of His Word and
the preaching of His Gospel. Look at verse 2 now in Psalm
146. While I live, while I live. Now, how do I live? How do I
live? I live by His command. I live
by His decree. While I live, I will praise the
Lord. I will. You see, I have physical
life and I have spiritual life by the command and the decree
of God. While I live, I'll praise the
Lord. I will sing praises unto my God while I have any, any
being at all. Believers have good and valid
reasons to honor the Lord. We live and move and have our
being from Him, by Him, by His sovereign will, of His own will. begat he us with the word of
truth. It's not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth. It's God that shows mercy. So we live by His decree, by
His command. We have life and all spiritual
blessings in Him. Now listen to me, and this is,
you can write this down. You can take this to the bank.
Salvation is always determined by Him, dependent upon Him, and
accomplished by Him. One hundred percent. to the exclusion
of any creature, addition or merit whatsoever. You are a little
leavener at the whole lump. And you introduce human merit
into the scheme of salvation and you have no salvation. You
just ruined it. God's salvation is always determined,
dependent and accomplished upon Him. That's why we say salvation
is of the Lord in its origination. in its execution, in its application,
its sustaining power, and its ultimate perfection, salvation
is all of the Lord. Now, let's move on. While I have
any being, I will sing praises. I will sing praises unto my God.
And here's a psalm I thought of. Psalm 40, turn over there. Psalm 40. I will sing praises
while I have any being. Those who are alive, Those who
are alive, and alive by the command of God, who are blessed with
all blessings, spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus, God put a song
in their heart. Praise unto our God. Psalm 40,
look at verse 1, I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined unto
me, and He heard my cry. He brought me up also out of
a horrible pit, that's a pit of sin, out of the miry clay. He set my feet upon the rock,
and established my goings. So He brought me up, He set me
up, He established me, and then He tuned me up. Look at verse
3. He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praising to our
God. Many shall see it and fear and
shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the Lord. Blessed
is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. And respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn aside the lies. He put a new song in
my mouth. It's the song of redemption.
The song of the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
receive all honor, glory, and blessing. Now look at verse 3,
back to Psalm 146, verse 3. Put not your trust, put not your
trust in princes, in preachers, in presidents, Put not your trust
in princes nor any son of Adam, none whatsoever, and certainly
don't trust yourself. Don't trust yourself. The heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. The true
Israel are those who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have how much confidence in flesh? None. None. So put not your trust in nor
in any son of Adam. And the reason why is this, in
whom there is no salvation." There's no salvation found on
the conditions of any sinner. There is no salvation based upon
what the creature does, none at all. It's not by works, it's
by grace alone, in whom there is no salvation. I can't accomplish
salvation. Salvation is of the Lord. Now
here's some more valid reasons not to trust the flesh, yours
or anyone else. We're all fallen sons of Adam
in need of mercy, in need of salvation, and we look not to
a fellow creature. What's one worm looking, I'm
a worm, a maggot? And I need someone to make me
a prince. I'm not going to look to another
maggot and say, maggot, help me. I'm going to look to God
who is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him.
Look what he says, furthermore, reasons not to trust yourself,
reasons not to trust the flesh. The breath goes forth and he
returns to the earth. I tell you what, you take a man's
breath away. I tell you, if you can't breathe,
well, you're in trouble. You're in big trouble. And when
God takes the breath, we return to the dust. The end of this
flesh is dust. God said it was made out of the
dust, and it's going to return to the dust. You wouldn't trust
dust, would you? What is that old song? That old
rock and roll song, all we are is dust in the wind. That's it. All flesh is grass. Will you
hear me? That's true. All flesh is grass. He goes forth back to the dust. You wouldn't trust dust, would
you? In that very day, all of his plans, all of his schemes,
all of his doing, his plotting, his planning, his scheming, Nothing. Zero. Zero. More valid reasons
not to trust the flesh. Man at his best state. At his
best state. I mean at his best day. In the
best moment of that day. The best day you ever had. God
said away with it. It's vanity. Vanity, vanity. It counts for nothing. It does
not recommend us to God. Not in any way. All of our best
deeds are but sin. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. He knoweth our frame. He knows
that we're but dust. All of our righteousness are
as filthy rags. It would be the height... Now,
listen to me. It would be the height of insanity
to trust that which God calls vanity. Zero. Isn't that the height of insanity?
To trust dust? And not only dust, but sinful
dust. Wicked dust. Oh, I tell you,
that's the height of insanity. But thank God, He doesn't leave
His people there. He teaches them that salvation's
not in them, but in Christ alone. And that's why He says here in
verse 5, this is why He says, this man here, look at verse
5, here's a happy man. Here's a happy man. This is the
same word that's used in another psalm that said, blessed is the
man. Blessed is that man that trusteth
in the Lord. That man's a happy man. He's
a happy man. He's a blessed man. Happy is
he that has the God of Jacob for his salvation, whose hope
is in the Lord his God. Happy and blessed is that sinner
who finds all of his help, hope, His salvation totally wrapped
up in Christ crucified, His redemption, His righteousness that comes
from the God of Jacob. Righteousness that I need to
stand before God's justified is not at my hands. The righteousness
I need that God will accept is the righteousness that's of God. It's from Him. He gives that
to His people freely. Blessed is that man. Here's a
blessed man. Turn to Psalm 32. David quotes
that from Psalm 32 over in Romans 4. But here's this blessed man.
Blessed is that man to whom God would impute righteousness without
your contribution, without your works. Psalm 32. Here's a blessed
happy man. Blessed is he, verse 1, whose
transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed, happy
is that man unto whom the Lord will not, cannot, will never,
will not imputeth iniquity, in whose spirit there is no hypocrisy
in him." That's a blessed man. Blessed and happy is that man
whom the Lord will not charge sin. To those who are in Christ
Jesus, there is no condemnation. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God the elect? It is God that justifies. Who
is He that condemneth? It's Christ who died. Yea, rather,
is risen again. Who is even the right hand of
God? Who also makes intercession for
us? Now, who can separate us from
the love of God which is in Christ Jesus? You see what he's saying
here? Psalm 146, happy. Happy. Oh, happy. I tell you,
I've met some miserable religious folks in my day, and they're
mean as a snake. They're miserable as can be because
they're always going about to establish a righteousness of
their own. They're always agitated. They're
always ugly in their attitude and their spirit. They're always
working and working and working, and it's never enough, and they're
never happy. God's people are a happy people. They're resting in the Lord Jesus
Christ, knowing full well that He has accomplished all our salvation. Happy is that man who has the
God of Jacob, the God of Jacob, for His help. Now, you remember
the story about Jacob. Jacob was a rascal. But God set his love on this
rascal named Jacob. And he met him. God encountered
Jacob and wrestled with Jacob. And God changed. God asked him,
what's your name? And he said, Jacob, sub-planet,
cheater, snake. And he was. God said, I'm going
to make you a new creature in Christ. I'm going to call you
Israel, blessed with God, favored with God. This is the God whom
we worship. The God who can take a dead,
vile, wretched, guilty sinner and make us a king and priest
and our God. That's the God of Jacob. He's
our help. Happy is that man. The half of
God of Jacob. The God of Jacob. Covenant God. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. Covenant God. Covenant mercy.
Whose hope is in the Lord. He is God. Oh, we've got a good
hope. It's a good hope. It's Christ
who is our hope. And it's a good hope based upon
a good hope through grace and grace alone. That's what the
Scriptures teach, grace and grace alone. Now, notice, if you will,
He describes this one who is the Almighty God of Jacob. He said, I'm the Lord, I change
not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob, you're not consumed. Our God
does not change and He will have mercy on those sons of Jacob
He loved and those whom He has chosen in that covenant of grace. He describes those for whom the
Lord is our God and our Savior. Notice, and here's a description
of the God of Jacob beginning in verse 6. Who made heaven? Now who made heaven? Now listen
to me. Have you ever, on a dark night,
out in the countryside, looked at the heavens and just stand
in awe of God's marvelous creation? And the psalmist said He knows
all His stars by name. He spoke them all into existence. This One who created heaven is
the almighty, powerful God who is God my Savior. And the One
who created all heaven is the only One who can make this sinner
fit for His presence. Turn over here to Colossians
chapter 1. Look what he says over here in Colossians 1. Who
can make this sinner fit for heaven? The One who created the
heavens is the only One who can make this sinner fit for His
presence. Look what He says over here in
Colossians chapter 1, verse 12, "...giving thanks unto the Father
who hath made us fit." That word there, M-E-E-T, is the word fit. Who made us fit for His presence?
We give thanks unto our Father, who hath made us fit to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light, in Christ, who delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have redemption through His
blood, even the forgiveness of sin." You see what he's saying
here? This God of Jacob, in whom is our hope, in whom is all our
help, in whom is our salvation, is the very Creator of all things.
He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He is the Creator
of our faith and the Creator of our salvation. And He who
made heaven is the only One who can make us fit for His presence. He who made the sea, look what
it says there, who made the sea, He made the sea. One time, they
were out on a boat, the Lord of glory and those disciples. And waves started coming in the
boat. And the boat started to go down. And the disciples were very upset
and said, Lord, don't you care that we're perishing here? And
He stood forth and spoke. And the waves laid down peace. Peace be unto them. Peace be
still. And the waves stopped. And there
was a great calm. And they said, what manner of
man is it that even the wind, the seas obey him? He is God. He who made the sea can calm
the stormy sea. He who made the sea can keep
us on the stormy sea of life and calm all our troubles. Our
Lord said, in this life, you shall have tribulation. But be
of good cheer, I have overcome this world." He can keep us on
the stormy sea of life. He's a controller of all things.
Our great God, read on, look what it says there. He made heaven, He made the earth,
He made the sea, and all that therein is, He keeps truth forever. He's the keeper. He's the keeper. I give my sheep eternal life,
and they shall never perish." He's a keeper of truth. He's
a revealer of truth. His Word, He is true to His Word. He's a keeper of truth. He's
true to His Word, true to His promise, and true to His people.
Everything He says, of all that He has said, of all that He has
promised, He is able to perform. He's able to do. You see, He's
a keeper of truth. His Word, can be counted on. His Word is faithful. The dying
words of a man, they tell me, and I don't know this, but this
is what I've heard, they tell me the dying words of a man are
considered in court to be valid testimony, very valid testimony. The last words of a man, his
dying words, they are regarded by the courts of men to be true
words. David on his deathbed, his last
words were this, ìThough it be not so with my house, God hath
made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and is
sure, this is all my hope and all my salvation.î Those are
his dying words. Joshua, when Joshua was dying,
he said this, his last dying words were this, ìOf all that
God had promised, not one word hath failed.î And the point I'm
getting at, God is true to His Word. He's a keeper of truth.
If He says it, it is so. And it will be done. He said,
I've spoken it, I'll bring it to pass, I've purposed it. And
you know what? He said, I'll do it. Cannot fail. You see, He's a keeper of truth.
We can believe His Word. We can count on His promise.
We can trust Him without any reservation whatsoever. You see, He's the Keeper of Truth.
He's true to His Word. He's true to His promise. He's
true to His people. He said, I'm the Lord, I do not
change. He made heaven and earth. He
made the sea therein, and He's the Keeper of Truth. How long?
How long can He keep truth? How long is truth sustained?
How long is His promise good for? Forever! From everlasting to
everlasting, He says, I am God. Look at verse 7, He describes
this One who is the God of Jacob, who is our salvation, who is
our hope. Verse 7, He executeth judgment,
judgment for the oppressed. He does exercise right justice. Shall not the God of all the
earth do right? He exercises right justice for
His people who are oppressed with sin. He executed judgment
for the oppressed. He does execute and He does right
for those for whom Christ died. And He exercises right justice
for those who are oppressed with sin. He is our atonement. He is our propitiation. He is
our victory. Thanks be to God who has given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. You see, He executeth
judgment for those who are pressed with sin. He's my advocate. He ever lives to intercede for
me. Read on, look what it says there.
Who giveth food? Who giveth food to those who
are what? Thirsty. To those who are hungry. The Lord does give food to the
hungry. He does abundantly feed His people. A good picture of that is those
40 years that Israel wandered in the wilderness, God rained
bread 6 days a week, and He gave them a double portion on that
6th day, so they would have bread plenty on the 7th day. And the
Lord does abundantly feed us with the milk and meat of His
Word, with the bread of life, who is the Lord Jesus Himself. He does, look what it says, He
giveth, He giveth, He giveth. He has an abundant storehouse
of mercy that can never be exhausted. He giveth and He giveth and He
giveth. And He gives to those who are
hungry. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Ah, you are
a blessed man if you hunger. Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. They shall be filled. Oh, He
gives food to the hungry. He ever giveth, giveth and giveth. He executeth and executeth. He
ever lives to intercede for us. And then it says there, the Lord
looseth the prisoner. This is the one in whom is our
salvation. In whom, I hope, the Lord does
looseth the prisoner. He just set us free from sin's
penalty. from sin's power. Sin shall not
have dominion over you. You are not under the law, but
under grace. He hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us. The Lord doth
looseth the prisoner." He sets us free. Free from the law. Oh, happy condition. Jesus had
died and there is remission. The law says this, the law says,
run, run, the law demands, but gives me neither feet nor hands.
The gospel bids a sweeter song, it bids me fly and gives me wings. That's the gospel. He sets the
prisoner free. He's the only one that has the
right to set us free, to give us liberty, freedom in Christ
Jesus. He's lucid, the prisoner. If
you would jot down Luke 4, verse 18, it tells us about our Lord,
the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. The Lord had blessed me to
heal the brokenhearted, to set the captive free and to do these
things by His marvelous grace, to give eyes to the sight, eyes
to those who are blind, to give sight to the blind. The Lord
doth looseth the prisoner. Aren't you glad He sets you free?
Aren't you glad He is able to come? There's nothing that can
prevent him from crossing the path of his people and to set
them free. Luke 4.18 is a reference there
on the Lord looseth the prisoner. Look at verse 8. Now, notice
how many times here it says what the Lord does. The Lord looseth
the prisoner. The Lord opens the eyes of the
blind. The Lord does this. The Lord
does this. He opens the eyes of the blind,
the blinded eye. God who 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 in the face of Christ
Jesus. He gives us eyes of faith to
behold Him who is altogether lovely. The Lord opened the eyes
of the blind. You hath He quickened who were
dead. You see, it takes Almighty God
to open blind eyes to raise the dead, as it says there next.
Look, the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down. The Lord does
this. Turn back over here to Psalm
113. The Lord does raise up those who are bowed down. Those who are stripped, He does
close. Look at what it says over here
in Psalm 113. Psalm 113, verse 3, "...From the rising of the
sun until the going down of the same, the Lord, the Lord's name
is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations
and His glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the Lord our
God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth Himself to behold the
things that are evident in the earth? He raises up the poor
out of the dust and lifted up the needy out of the dunghill,
that He may set them with princes, even the princes of His people."
The Lord does raise up the poor out of the dust, and He does
lift the needy from the dunghill. And that's me, dwelling in the
dust, in the dunghill, at the manure pile. You country folk,
at the manure pile. And He raises me. We used to
have a manure pile when my dad had a small farm. That's how
we put that stuff on the garden in the springtime, from the manure
pile. But He raises up those that dwell
in the dust on the manure pile, and He raises them up and makes
them kings and priests unto our God. The Lord does raise them
up that are bowed down, and it takes the Lord to do that. The
Lord loveth the righteous, it says there next. The Lord loveth
the righteous. The Lord loveth the righteous.
Now, who are these whom the Lord loves? The righteous. The righteous. Now, I know, and you're saying,
well, we're not righteous in ourselves. You're right. There's
none righteous, no, not one. But what he's saying here, the
Lord does love those in Christ. He is the righteous one. Nothing
can separate us from the love of God which is in the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's where the love of God
is manifested. The Lord loveth the righteous. He hates, he says
in Psalm 5, He hates all the workers of iniquity. The Lord
loveth His people in Christ Jesus. He's loved them with an everlasting
love and with loving kindness. With loving kindness, He draws
them to Himself. And he said, none can come to
me except my Father which sent me. Draw him. The Lord loveth
the righteous. Look at verse 9. The Lord preserveth. He preserveth the stranger. The
Lord is the preserver of His people. He preserveth the stranger. And that's me by nature. The
stranger from the covenant of promise. aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel, without God and without hope, and yet He has a people
among these strangers whom He's going to preserve. He said, My
sheep, they hear My voice, and I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish. Neither can any man pluck them
out of My hand. My Father which gave them Me is greater than
all, and no one can pluck them out of My Father's hand. I am
the Father of one. The Lord preserveth His people.
We're kept by the power of God. You ladies know something about
canon. won't be long, we'll be doing some canning here for long.
And you can those beans or whatever you're going to can and you put
them in there and you put them in that hot bath or steam them
and you set them out to cool and you listen. You listen and
you wait for that thing to pop. And when you pop, you know it's
sealed. And when it's sealed, you know it's preserved, right? And that's us in Christ Jesus. We're sealed with the Holy Spirit
of promise. And we're preserved in Christ
Jesus. And we'll never spoil. He preserveth
His people forever. He's the keeper of His people.
He preserves us by His grace. The preacher is not the keeper.
I'm glad I'm not the keeper. The preacher can't keep the people.
I know that's what they try to do in false religion. And that's
why false religion has all these programs, all these social programs,
the financial club, and this club, and the young people's
club, and the old folk club, and all these other clubs. You
know what they're doing? They're trying to entertain folks.
They're trying to keep folks interested. They're trying to
be the preserver. My friend, I don't worry about
preserving God's people. I preach the gospel and He'll
keep them. And you can't run the sheep of
Christ off. You can't do it. No way. And those who do leave, John
said, they went out from us because they're not of us. If they'd
been one with us, they would have continued with us. They
would have continued with us. You see, the Lord preserveth. Ongoing. He preserveth His people. And then it says, He relieveth.
He relieveth. The Lord is our relief. How do
you spell relief? You remember that commercial
years ago about Rolaid? How do you spell relief? Here's
how I spell relief. Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's my relief. He's my Redeemer
from all my sin. He is my righteousness before
God that justifies me before a holy God. How do you spell
relief? Christ in Him crucified. He's my Redeemer, my righteousness,
my redemption, my propitiation. The Lord is our relief. He's
adopted us into His family. He has chosen us. He's made us
one with Christ Jesus. He is our Father. Look what it
says there. He relieveth the fatherless. The fatherless. That's the orphan. That's the
orphan. He's adopted those children,
He's adopted those orphaned children into His family and He's made
us sons of God by His sovereign grace. He relieveth the fatherless,
the orphan. He's adopted us into the family
and the widow, the widow woman. You see, He is our husband. He
is our husband. He loved the church and gave
Himself for it. Husband, love your wives even
as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He
might present it to Himself a spotless church without any spot or wrinkle
or any such thing, blameless before His presence. But, now
notice all the things the Lord does for His people. He gives
judgment. He's judged their sin in Christ.
He gives food to the hungry. He looses the prisoner. He opens
the blind eye. He raises up them that are bound
down. He loveth His people in Christ Jesus. He preserves them.
He relieves them. Oh, what a blessing we have in
Christ. But, the way of the wicked, He will turn upside down. What does that mean? That means
He'll destroy the way of the wicked. There's a way that seems
right unto men, but the end of that way is death. Death. Death. Any way that's contrary to the
Gospel of God in Christ, that does not give Him all the honor
and glory, He will destroy. He will say in that day, put
the sheep on the right hand and the goats on the left, and He'll
say to them on the right hand, come be blessed to My Father
and inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you before the
foundation of the world. And He'll say to the goats on
the left hand, depart from Me. I never I knew you. I never knew you. The way of
the wicked. The way of the wicked. He'll
turn upside down. Verse 10. The Lord. Our Lord
shall reign, shall reign and rule and reign forever and ever
even thy God, O Zion. That's His people. That's His
church unto all, all generations. The Lord shall reign. And here's
their psalm, recorded in Revelation 19, 6. Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
forever and ever. And they say, the saints say,
Amen. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.