Alright, let's open our Bibles
again to where I read, Brother Dale read, and from which I'll
be speaking now. In all three of these Psalms, you note it says they're a Psalm
of David. Psalm 22 is a Psalm of David. Psalm 23 is the psalm of David, and Psalm 24 is the psalm of
David. And another thing I'm sure you
noted without doubt, that all three are messianic psalms of
Christ. Psalm 22, which I read a few
moments ago, can only be the words of Christ. No question. You're certain of that, I know.
David, inspired of the Holy Spirit, wrote those words regarding our
Lord's suffering on the cross. Then Psalm 23, which Brother
Dale read, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not walk. It's talking
about our Lord Jesus. Now, Psalm 24 is the song of
the ascension of Christ. Cross, the comfort of the shepherd,
and here the ascension of our Lord to the crown. The crown. Now let's look at it, Psalm 24.
He begins, the earth is the Lord's. The earth is the Lord's. Now
men live on this earth, and they divide it into nations. I don't
know how many nations there are, but there are a lot of nations
and a lot of countries. And all of these people who divide
the earth into nations, they make themselves a flag which
represents their nation. And they elect rulers. And like
the American people, they sing, this land my land. Well, David
disagrees with that. He said the earth is the Lord's.
It's not your land, it's not my land, it's his land. Earth
is the Lord's. And men divide these nations
into states and territories and counties. And they talk with
pride about what they have in their part of the country that
folks don't have in another part of the country. That they're
better than other parts of the country. My land's better than
your land. Well, it's not our land. It's his land. David said
the earth is the Lord's. And then men, we're guilty. Bring
this on down to our experience. Men divide these counties and
towns into ranches and farms and estates. And out on the mailbox,
they put their names. They even name the property after
themselves, and they carry a deed that says it's my land. It's
my state. It's my property. Keep off my
property. guard our property every foot.
Get in a fight over five inches if a fence is too close to your
property and my farm. But this verse denies all of
that. David says the earth is the Lord's. We are but tenants, sharecroppers. We live for a little while on
God's earth and while here we eat his food, all provided by
him. We wear his clothes, all provided. We breathe his air. We drink
his water. And we're subject to eviction
on a moment's notice. On a moment's notice. And our
Lord said to that young man who bragged about his lands and his
barns and his success, he said, I'm going to tear down these
barns over here and build me some new barns. And I'm going
to say to my soul, eat, drink, and be happy because, you know,
you got everything you need. And the Lord said, Thou fool,
this night shall thy soul be required of thee. And then he
asked this question, Then who shall these things be which thou
hast provided? They'll be his to whom they belong
to start with. The earth is the Lord's. Oh,
I could stay on that a long time with all of us. The earth is
the Lord's. But let's go to the next statement. The earth is
the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. The fullness thereof. God made the earth, and when
he made it, he made it full. It was completely turned to Genesis
1. Let's see if that's not true.
Genesis chapter 1. Before God made Adam, before
he made a man, and put him on this earth, he made this earth
complete and full. Absolutely complete and full.
Look at Genesis 1 verse 29. And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of
the earth. It's all that. And every tree,
they're all that. In the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed to you, it shall be for me. And every
beast, all that. Every beast of the earth, and
every fire, all that. And everything that creepeth
upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green
herb for meat and its soap. And God saw everything he had
made. Behold, it was very good. And the evening and morning were
the six days. He made it full. The earth is the Lord, and the
fullness. And the seas and the lakes and
the rivers were full then, and they're full now. They remain
full despite all the water that's been defiled, that has evaporated,
that has been used up. They're all still full, just
like he made them. And the waters remain filled
with fish. The rivers and the lakes and
the ocean is full of fish. despite the fact that how many
billions and billions and billions and billions of fish have been
caught, have died, and have been eaten. But let me tell you something,
it hadn't run out yet and it never will because earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof. And the air is full of oxygen. They can talk about all they
want to about us running out of oxygen, we're going to run
out when he burns it up, that's right. But the air is full of
oxygen, despite all the lungs that have breathed it. Lungs
of bugs, and mosquitoes, and flies, and beasts, and birds,
and men, who all breathe this air. How much air is taken in
every day by all these lungs and the poison put out. But it
remains full. It's the Lord's air. The earth's
the Lord's, and the fullness of air. It's still full of life, though
billions of crops and farms and plants and trees and flowers
and vegetables have sucked the life out of it, we think, but
it's still full. Plant your tree, it'll come up.
Plant your garden, it'll come up. There's the Lord, miraculous
in the fullness thereof. The earth is full of minerals,
though men have dug into its surface for centuries, but it's
still full. Turn to Psalm 50 and listen to
David over here. Psalm 50. The earth is the Lord
and the fullness thereof. Psalm 50 verse 9. You'll want to turn there. I
will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your
foals, for every beast of the forest is mine. The cattle upon
a thousand hills is mine. I know all the fowls of the mountains. Yesterday I was over in a part
of Ashton and I saw a hawk swoop down. Oh, he's beautiful. He's
God's hawk. He's not yours. He's God's hawk.
That's right. And the wild beasts of the field
are mine. And if I was hungry, I wouldn't
tell you, for the world is mine. And the what? And the fullness,
they're Now, let's go on a little farther.
The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof the world,
and they that dwell therein. John Gill says the old Jews used
to have a saying, the holy land is the Lord's, and Israel is
his only people. The holy land is the Lord's,
and Israel is his only people. This says the world is the Lord's.
and every human being that dwells therein. They may be sheep or
goats, but to his sheep they are his goats. He says, The earth is the Lord's,
the fulness of the world, and all they that dwell therein.
They may be sons and they may be rebels, but they are his sons
and his rebels. The Lord has made all things
for himself, even the wicked, for the day of evil. He said,
Pharaoh, you're my Pharaoh. I've raised you up to show my
power in you. You belong to me. Our Lord prayed,
Father, you've given me power over all flesh, that I should
give eternal life to as many as thou hast given me. The world
and they that dwell therein, they may be vessels of mercy,
and they may be vessels of wrath, but to his vessels. That's true. to his vessels. I can't stress
that enough. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world, they that dwell therein. And
we are just passing through like every generation that's gone
before. Just a number of generations.
And for some of us, our generation's almost over and we're leaving
here and we come forth like a shadow. A shadow has no substance. None
at all. Just put your hand in a shadow.
Nothing there. A shadow is just there for a
moment, as long as there's light, then it's gone. Shut the light
off, the shadow's gone. And it leaves no mark where it
was. A footprint, but not a shadow. The place thereof shall know
it no more. We're moving on. But this earth is the Lord's.
and the fulness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein.
Fire, and here's the reason, here's the chief reason why it's
here. He founded it. Now I know one of the evolutionists
doesn't like that first verse because he doesn't like that
second verse. He created it. It's his because
he made it. That's the chief reason. He created
it. Let's look at a couple of scriptures. I quoted that proverb that says
that God made all things for himself, even the wicked, for
the day of evil. But let's look at Psalm 102. Psalm 102, verses
24 through 27. Psalm 102, listen to this. Psalm 102, verses 24
through 27. The scripture says here, Psalm
102, verse 24 through 27. I said,
O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years
are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation
of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. The
earth and the heavens, they shall perish, but thou shalt endure.
All of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the
same. Thy years have no end." It's
His by creation. In the beginning was the Word,
the Word was with God, the Word was God, and all things were
made by Him. Without Him was not anything
made that was made. They're His. It's His by decree. Our Lord Jesus said, All authority
is given me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore and preach the
gospel. Father, you've given me all power over all flesh.
It's his by creation, it's his by decree, and it's his by death. This earth, this world, and all
therein is his because he purchased it. Now, let me show you that
in Romans 14. It belongs to our Lord. Romans chapter 14, it's
his by death. I know, I know that the Lord
Jesus, this is Romans 14 verse 9, I know that the Lord Jesus
purchased his people, put away their sins. He bought all in
the covenant of grace. But I'll tell you something else,
he bought the crown rights to do with this whole world what
he will. He's the King. That's right.
Lord of all. Every knee will bow. Every tongue
will confess he's Lord. He bought that right. Now listen
to this verse. For to this end, for this reason, to this goal,
Christ both died, rose, and revived, that he might be what? The Lord
of the dead and the living. He's the Lord of the dead and
the living. The earth is the Lord. the fullness
of the world and all they that dwell there, and he made it.
It's his by decree, the Father gave all things into the hands
of the Son. And it's his by purchase, when
he died on that cross, he bought everything in heaven and earth. It became his. We see all things,
we see not now all things under his feet, but they were put there
under his feet. That's what Scripture says, all
under his feet. And it's his by administration. Isaiah 9,
6. Turn over there. Isaiah 9, 6. It's his by administration. Now
listen to this. In Isaiah 9, 6. Under us, a child
is born. Under us, a son is given. And the government will be on
his shoulders. What government? The Baptist
church? of the religious people, of Jerusalem,
the government of the entire universe. Everything is held
together by his words, by his permission. That's right. Christ. It's his. Let me read you one
other verse over here in Hebrews 2. I'll just read it. Hebrews 2, verse 8. Our throne, O God, this rule,
this reign is forever and forever. Now what's this next line in
Psalm 24? It's a magnificent psalm. Glory
to our Christ Jesus, our Lord. It's quoted, it says, our Lord
Jesus Christ. I like that. Psalm 24, verse
2. For he hath founded it upon the
seas, and established it upon the floods. And I thought when
I was studying this, now don't get hung up there and miss all
this other good stuff, but now this is something to think about.
He founded it upon the seas and upon the waters. Let's just take
a moment and read Genesis 1. Let's look over here a minute.
Genesis chapter 1. This is very interesting here.
Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form,
and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, called the
waters or the flood. And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light. And God saw the light, and it
was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And
God called the light day, and the darkness he called night,
and the evening and morning were the first day. And God said,
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters. What are we looking at
here now? We said he established it upon
the seas and upon the floods, the waters. And God made the
firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament
And the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so.
And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the
morning was the second day. And God said, let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together in one place, and let
the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called
the dry land earth. And the gathering together of
the waters called sea. God saw it was good. He founded
it. What are the foundations of the
earth? He founded it upon the floods, upon the sea. Let me
show you two or three other verses here. Turn to Job chapter 26. Job and his friends talked about
that over here in Job 26. The foundations of the earth
known only to God. In Job 26 verse 7 and 8, he stretched
out the north over the empty place, and hangeth earth upon
nothing, hangeth earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his
thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent unto them." Now Job
38, the Lord questioning Job here, this is interesting. Job
38 verse 4 through 6. The Lord says to Job in verse
3, Job 38, "'Gird up your loins now, like a man. I have demanded
thee, and you answer me. Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if you know? Who hath stretched
the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations
thereof fastened? And who laid the cornerstone
thereof? Do you know? No, I don't. No,
I don't. But Psalm 136 is a reference
to this. Very interesting, Psalm 136. He founded it upon the seas and
upon the waters. Psalm 136, verse 6. All of these people are giving
thanks to the Lord. Verse 1, give thanks to the Lord,
he's good, his mercy. Give thanks to the God of gods,
his mercy endureth. Thanks to the Lord of lords,
his mercy endureth. To him who alone doeth wonders,
his mercy endureth. To him that by wisdom made the
heavens, for his mercy forever. To him that stretched out the
earth above the waters. Now, that'll give you something
to look at in a private study. He founded it upon the seas and
established it upon the waters. Now, here comes the all-important
question. That's what I call this message,
Ronnie, the all-important question. Now, who shall ascend from this
earth to the hill of the Lord? Who shall ascend unto the hill
of the Lord? Well, what is the hill of the Lord? He said, I
have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. The hill of the
Lord is none other than heaven itself, paradise. It's what Isaiah
saw in chapter 6 when he said, in the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. His train filled the
temple. And here David is asking, now
who shall ascend? into the hill of the Lord, and
who shall stand? Who will be able not only to
ascend, but to stand, to continue there? Who is he whose eyes can
see the King in his holiness, in his power, in his majesty,
in his beauty, in his greatness, and stay there? Who can do it? Well, here comes the answer.
He that hath clean hands, that is perfect outward holiness.
That's who can. Perfect outward holiness, clean
hands. He that hath a pure heart, perfect
inward holiness. He that has never lifted up his
soul to vanity, who's only known and desired the perfect will
of God in his heart and the perfect work of God. Who has never sworn deceitfully. Who has been perfect in word
and in speech? Well, what's the answer to this
all-important question? Who shall ascend into the paradise
of God, into the heavens, into the hill of the Lord? Well, if
these are the requirements, nobody. Nobody. None. Spurgeon said,
there's no one qualified on this earth to ascend to the hill of
the Lord, to stand in his holy presence. If it requires clean
hands, we are omitted, for dust is our
matter. If it requires a pure heart,
we are omitted because our nature is defiled. If it requires a
perfect soul, the vanity of our soul, we are lighter than vanity.
And when we weighed in the balances, we found wanting. But there is
one who can. In John chapter 3, turn over
there to John chapter 3, there is one who is able. There is
one in whom all these things are fulfilled. There is one,
John chapter 3 verse 13. It says here in John 3 verse
13. And no man, this is our Lord
Jesus speaking, no man ascendeth up to heaven. And that's what
the question asks one, who shall ascend? Who shall ascend to the hill
of the Lord? Who shall stand and continue
to stand in his, this presence of him about whom we're reading?
No one. But there is one. No man has ascended to heaven
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is
in heaven. Well, what gives him the right
to ascend and stand there? Because he's fulfilled all of
these four things. All of them. And I'll give you
his credentials in one verse. In Mark chapter 12. Turn to Mark
chapter 12. He fulfilled this perfect law,
listen to the perfect law, in Mark 12, verse 30. Our Lord Jesus Christ said in
verse 29, he answered them and Jesus answered him in Mark 12,
verse 29, the first of all commandments is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord
our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart. Now, what was the requirement?
A pure heart. That's what he had, a pure heart. Love God with all your heart.
And with all your soul. What was that other requirement?
Never hath not lifted up his soul to vanity. Love God with
all his soul. Love God, what does it say here?
With all your mind. What was the very first thing
it says here, the last thing? Never sworn deceitfully. Not
one time did his mind ever think anything except the perfect will
of God. Never one time in his mind, his heart was pure, his
soul was pure, and his mind was pure. And listen to this, love
God with all your strength. Number one, clean hands. Hands that went about doing good.
Hands that ministered to the needs and wants of people. Hands
that were stretched forth and received the nails to die for
the sins of his people. He loved God. Who shall ascend
unto the hill of the Lord? Nobody. Except one. Because he had clean hands, all
his strength. He had a pure heart. He loved
God with all his heart. Love God with all his soul and
love God with all his mind. And he, look at verse 5 of Psalm
24, he's the one that's going to receive the blessing from
the Lord. Nobody else. Now, I know we've
got a lot of religious workers and a lot of self-sacrificing
people in this world that serve other people and do all these
things. And a lot of folks got professions of religion. But
this question, we're just talking about who God is now. And this
question says, who's going to ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Who's going to ascend? Stand that. Stay that. Only the
person has clean hands and a pure heart and a pure soul and who's
never sworn to secretly. And there's just one. And he's
the one that descended. And He's the one that ascended,
just one, our Savior. And it says He's going to receive
the blessing from the Lord. He's going to receive righteousness
from the God of salvation. He is. I want you to read, I
want you to look at Psalm 21. We'll go back to another precious
Psalm, about Messianic Psalms. Psalm 21, the first six verses,
talking about Him. Psalm 21, The King shall joy
in thy strength, O Lord, and in thy salvation, how greatly
shall he rejoice. Thou hast given him his heart's
desire, thou hast not withholden the request of his lips, for
thou prevented him with the blessings of goodness, sent your blessings
to meet him. The word prevent is before, precede,
preceded, before. For thou preceded him with the
blessings of goodness, and thou sentest a crown of pure gold
on his head." Talking about our Lord. He asked life of thee,
and thou gavest it to him, even length of days, forever and ever.
His glory is great in thy salvation. Honor and majesty hast thou laid
upon him, for thou hast made him most blessed forever. Thou hast made him exceedingly
glad with thy countenance." That's him. Who shall receive the blessings
of the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation?
Our Lord Jesus Christ. And verse 6, and this blessing
is ours. Turn to Ephesians 1. This blessing
is ours in him. Every believer. Turn to Ephesians
1. Let's look at this. You read
it a hundred times, but let's read it again. These blessings
are ours in him. Blessed, verse 3, Ephesians 1,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, who hath blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ.
Who is going to send and stand those requirements? He fulfilled
it, and he receives the blessing, and we have it in him. That's
right, read on. According as he chose us in Christ
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy.
We have a holy heart now, and a holy mind, and a holy soul
in him, and without blame before him in love, having predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according
to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of
his grace, wherein He made us accepted in the Beloved. And that's why David says in
verse 6, this is the generation of them that seek him, that seek
thy face, O God of Jacob. Now this is an important verse.
Listen. This is the regeneration. This
is the people of regeneration. This is the generation. This
is a line of grace from Abel There's a line of grace of believers,
of people who believe Christ, who believe His Word, who find
their hope in Him, their righteousness in Him, their forgiveness in
Him. It's a line. It's a line of grace. It comes
to this person right here. It's a generation of them. There's
a generation of them. This is a generation of them
that seek God. They're a generation of seekers.
They're a generation of finders. that seek the face of the God
of Jacob. God is called in the scriptures
the God of Jacob. He's the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. He's the God of Jacob, and we're
called the sons of Jacob. Why? If you look at Jacob, you'll
find out why. If you read his story, he was
a rascal, but God loved him. God loved Jacob. He said, Jacob
have a love. He loved him because he would.
He loved him because he's God. He loved him because he would.
He said, I love Jacob. And God chose him. God chose
his mother before he was ever born. So he's going to get the
blessing. The blessing belongs to his older
brother, but his older brother's not going to get it. He's going
to get it. The elder's going to serve the younger. That's contrary
to man, and that is characteristic of God. Sovereign grace. God loved him, God chose him,
and God called him. He was running away from home,
and God stopped him out there in the wilderness. Jacob had
built him a place to lie down and put some rocks out there
for a pillar. I don't know why he chose rocks
for a pillar. I believe I would have found something a little
softer in there, some moss or something. But he says he put
his head on some rocks. He may have built some kind of
altar, I don't know. But anyway, he was out there, and God appeared
to him. He saw the Lord. There was a
ladder reaching the throne of God down to him, and the angels
of God were going back and forth. Well, there's a ladder between
us and God, and it's Christ. We go to God through Christ,
and God comes to us through Christ. That's what Jacob saw. And Jacob
knew something was happening here, and he woke up, and he
said, this is the house of God. I'm going to call this place
Bethel, the house of God. I've seen the Lord. And God spoke
to him, and he said, Jacob, you're mine now, and I'm going to bless
you all the days of your life. And he did. And old Jacob wandered
around, he went here and there and yondered, and God always
brought him back. God said to him one time, God, Jacob, get
back to Bethel. And he did. And that's us. God loved us and he chose us
and he called us and he revealed Christ to us and he blessed us
and he brought us back home every time. Some of our young people that
straight away have come back home. I'm always glad to see
Jacob come home. Back to where the gospel is.
Back to where Christ is preached. Back to where God's worshiped.
Back to where God's honored. They'll come back if they're
his. Now don't worry about them. They may wander, but they'll
be back. The sheep, it's like they'll all come back, won't
they? To the shepherd. They'll hear his voice and they'll
come running. They'll be back. Because this is the regeneration,
this is the generation of them that seek God. And finally, this
is the generation that seeks the face of the God of Gods. The God of Abraham, the God of
Jacob, the God of Isaac, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, not this peanut God, impotent God, this lesser God
that's trying to do something and folks won't let him. That's
not the God. These people seek God, the God of Jacob, and they
find him. This is a generation, one writer
said, of seekers, finders, believers, possessors, and rejoicers, who will only be satisfied when
they wake with his likeness. All right, here's the last part
now. So up yonder in glory, lift up your heads, O ye gates. And
be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, the King of Glory is coming
in. What was the question? Who's going to ascend to the
hill of the Lord? From here. Who born of woman? And he was. Who living on this
earth? And he did. Who dying on this
earth and buried and rose? He did. Who is going to ascend
into the hill of the Lord, into the heavens, into the paradise
of God? He had clean hands and a pure
heart, who never lifted up his soul to vanity, never sworn deceitfully,
he fulfilled it. Now he's going home. Now he's
going home. And those gates up there have
been closed a long, long time. A long time. We see him rising
from that mist of that little group of people. Let's read about
it over here in Luke 24. I want you to read about this.
Luke 24, the cross is over. The shame, the humiliation, the
debt's been paid. And verse 36 of Luke 24. And as they thus spake, Jesus
himself stood in the midst of them. Peter, James, John, Matthew,
all these fellows. He stood in the midst of them
out there on Mount Olivet. And he said, Peace be unto you.
And they were terrified and affrighted. Suppose they'd seen a spirit.
He said to them, Why are you troubled? Why do thoughts fill
your hearts? Behold, my hands and my feet
shine myself. All right, down here now in verse
49, he is bidding them farewell. And he says here to them in verse
49, Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. But now
you tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you be renewed with power
from on high. And he led them out as far as
Bethany. And he lifted up his hands and
blessed them. And he came to Paris while he blessed them.
He was parted from them and carried up into the heavens. That's what
we're talking about here now in Psalm 24, verse 7. So the
voice says, lift up your head, O ye gates! Arise awake, gatekeeper! Open those everlasting doors! The King of Glory shall come
in. There's been some folks here that tried to do that. Lucifer
said in Isaiah 14, I'll be like God. I'll ascend unto the hill
of the Lord. I'll put my throne above the
stars of God. I will. I will. I will. But he didn't. He was cast down
to hell. Adam said that. Eve said, this
man, this serpent said if we eat this fruit, we'll be like
God. He said, well, I'll just take it then. But he wasn't. He fell to hell. The builders
of the tower of Babel. Let's read that a moment in Genesis
11. They tried this. They tried to get to heaven by
their own building. Look at Genesis 11. You'll be
interested in this. Genesis 11, verse 1. The whole earth was one language,
one speech. It came to pass as they journeyed
from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they
dwelt there. And they said one to another,
Go to now, let's make brick and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar. And they
said, Go to now, let's build a city, let's build a tower that
whose top may reach where? Into heaven. And let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
which the children of men built into heaven. And the Lord said,
The people is one. They all have one language, and
this they begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language. They may not understand one another's
speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left
off building the city. And it was called Babel, the
Tower of Babel. But this man, he fulfilled it
all. And the voice says, lift up your
heads, O ye gates, be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and
the King of Glory shall come in. And the voice says, Who is
this King of Glory? Who is this King of Glory? It's
coming into the presence of God. It's coming into heaven, to occupy,
But I'll tell you who he is. Number one, he's the Lord strong
and mighty. Almighty God, who's able to do
all that he promised. Wonderful counselor, mighty God. Abraham said he's able to do
all he promised. He's able to save to the uttermost.
He's able to do all that he promised. He's able to keep us from falling.
He's able to present us holy. He's the Lord strong. Strong
and mighty. Secondly, he's the Lord mighty
in battle. I've got to turn to this now.
Isaiah 63. Isaiah 63. He's bloody. He's
bloody. Listen. Who is this that comes
from Edom with dark garments from Bozah? This that is glorious
in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength,
I do speak in righteousness, mighty to say. Wherefore art
thou rude in thine apparel and thy garments, like him that treadeth
in the wine-vats? I've trodden the winepress alone.
I've trodden the winepress alone. That's him. He's the Lord, mighty
in battle. He's come, the battle's over.
The victory's won. Satan's defeated. He met the
law and kept it. He met justice and satisfied
it. He met Satan and destroyed him. Who is this King of Glory? He's the Lord strong and mighty.
He's the Lord mighty in battle, who's engaged the forces of evil,
Satan, sin, death, and won the victory. Who is this? Look here. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. And they asked again, Who is this King of Glory?
He said, He's the Lord of hosts. Do you know what that word host
means? Many. There's a big train following
him. He's coming to send him to the
hill of the Lord and to occupy and to stay there. And he's bringing
with him all of his sheep, all of his brethren, all of his church. He's the Lord of hosts. Why should
we let him in? Fourth reason, he's the king
of glory. He's the king of glory. Glory
for our son. that thy son may glorify thee.
And he said, And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given
them.