Verse 24, this is the day which
the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in
it. Many today are celebrating Mother's
Day. As a child, I attended a Baptist
church here in Houston that celebrated this day by giving roses to mothers
in different categories. There was one rose who the oldest
mother in attendance received. There was one rose who went to
the mother who had the most children in attendance. There was one
rose that went to the youngest. And there were several other
categories. Now, God's people love, honor,
and respect their mothers. But this is the Lord's Day. This is the Lord's Day, and we
gather together today to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. And this
morning, I want to mention seven days, seven days which the Lord
hath made, and all of them are days in which to rejoice and
be glad. The first day is the day of creation,
was a day in which to rejoice and be glad. If you turn back
a few pages in your Bibles to Job chapter 38, the day of creation was a day in
which to rejoice and be glad. In Job chapter 38,
God is speaking. And the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind and said, who is this that darkeneth counsel
by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a
man, for I will demand of thee and answer thou me. Where was
thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou
hast understanding, who hath laid the measures thereof? If
thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are
the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof? When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy. When we read here of
the foundations of the Earth, I'm sure all of us have seen
pictures of a galaxy in which our Earth looks like just a small
speck. Among all the stars and various
planets and suns, the Earth is just a small speck. And it looks
like a ball just out there hanging on nothing. But that's not so. The earth hath foundations. Who
laid the foundations? God did. And God here demands
of Job, where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
What are the foundations? What is the earth founded upon
but the will and power of God? And in the scripture says, through
faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear. Now when we read through faith,
we understand none of us were there. No scientist, I don't
care how many degrees they have behind their name and all of
that, none of them were there to observe as God said, where
were you? Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Of course, they didn't exist.
And yet they would tell us, and doesn't it amaze you sometimes
when they're so specific about how many millions of years something
took place? They could be off a year or two,
you know. 500 million years ago when blah,
blah, blah. Where no one was there. Now through
faith we understand the worlds were made of things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear. But we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God. Now, when we read that text in
Hebrews, many of us, I'm sure we think, well, God spoke the
world into existence. By his word, he created the world. That's true, but who is the word
of God? In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And without
Him was not anything made that was made. Who is the Word of
God? The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal
Son of God. In Colossians, we read, by Him
were all things created. By Him were all things created. that are in heaven and that are
in earth, visible and invisible, thrones, dominions, principalities,
and powers, all things were created by Him. And listen, this is so
important. A lot of religious people will
say, yeah, everything was made by Him, but they won't go on
and for Him. Huh? Everything was created by
Him and for Him. In other words, for His glory. That's the reason creation was
created, for His glory. And on the day of creation, there
was rejoicing. You notice that in verse 7 here.
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted
for joy. This is the day which the Lord
hath made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it. You say, well,
who are these? Who are these morning stars?
Who are these sons of God which shouted? They are the thrones,
the dominions, the principalities, the powers, the angels, the spirit
beings that God created. The Lord Jesus Christ, eternal
word of God created. And on that day, a day of creation,
they rejoiced and they gave glory to God. They gave glory to the creator. That's a day in which to rejoice,
isn't it? Aren't you thankful that God
created? You would have no being apart
from his creation. You thankful? You rejoice? Are you glad? Well, here's a
second day, the day of Jubilee year, in which it was a day in
which to rejoice. I want you to look back to Leviticus
with me. Leviticus chapter 25. Leviticus chapter 25 and beginning
with verse 8. And of course, this is part of
the law that was given. Thou shalt number seven Sabbaths
of years unto thee. Now, you know, the Sabbath day
was part of the law, the seventh day, but there was a Sabbath
year. Every seven years was a Sabbath
year. And no one could work, no one
could plant or anything in that year under the law. The law,
it was a covenant that was given to the nation of Israel. But
they were to count seven times seven years, 49th year was the
Sabbath year, 49 years thou shalt Then shalt thou cause the trumpet
of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement shall
you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Now remember,
this was the only day, the day of atonement. 365 days, I suppose they had
in their calendar like we do. But out of all of those days,
only one day did the high priest go in to the most holy place. Now the priests were in the holy
place daily, ministering unto the Lord. But on that seventh
day, in the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was in
the mercy seat, and where God's presence was manifested in the
Shekinah glory, The high priest only went in there once a year,
and the writer of Hebrews is quick to point out, not without
blood. Not without blood. Now the Day
of Atonement was a special day, but in this 49th year on the
Day of Atonement, they blew the trumpet, and this announced the
50th year, which was the year of Jubilee. Why would people
rejoice on this day? Well, if a person was in debt,
his debts were forgiven. If he had mortgaged his property,
his property was returned to him. Yes, and even if he had
been an indentured slave for seven years, Remember, a Hebrew
could only serve a Hebrew for seven years and then he was to
go out free. But at the end of that seven
years, if he had a wife and children who were born to him during those
seven years, he could tell his master, I love my master, I love
my wife, I love my children, and they would bore a hole in
his ear and he would be a slave until the jubilee year. Now it says forever, but in the
jubilee year, he would be set free. Now, this was a day of
rejoicing for those in debt, those who had mortgaged their
property or themselves. It was a day of rejoicing, a
day in which to be glad. Now, all of that was just a beautiful
picture. That's all it was. He said, well,
I've never paid much attention to that. Well, it was one way
that God preached the gospel in the Old Testament. God foretold
in those types, those shadows, of the work of the Lord Jesus
Christ, exactly what he was going to come and to do, that he was
going to open up the way into the most holy place, into the
presence of God. And he was going to open that
way up by his blood, by shedding his blood. We sang that hymn
just a moment ago when I surveyed the wondrous cross on which the
Prince of Glory died. Oh, what a hymn, right? What
a truth is in that hymn that we sang. See from his head, his
hands, his feet, love and sorrow flow mingled down. What a Savior,
what a Savior. And he was pictured. And this
was a day of rejoicing. Now the apostle in the New Testament,
he explains this, this type here in Leviticus of the Jubilee year. And he tells us this in Hebrews
9, by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place.
Having, now listen, Having obtained, now when you obtain something,
it's real, it's yours. Having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Obtained eternal redemption. The Lord Jesus Christ, when he
died upon the cross, he redeemed each and every one of his chosen
people. Every one of his sheep who were
given to him in that everlasting covenant. He didn't try, he obtained
eternal redemption for us. Just like that high priest, he
didn't try to go in behind that veil. He went behind the veil
and sprinkled the blood on the mercy seat and before the mercy
seat. So the Lord Jesus Christ, that
was just a picture. This law was just a picture.
Now, who would rejoice that day? Well, obviously, if you were
in debt, you would rejoice, wouldn't you? Some of you here today. You have a debt, probably. Maybe
you owe on your automobile, maybe on your house you have a mortgage. Wouldn't it be a happy day? Oh,
happy day! If someone came along today and
said, you're clear! That debt's gone! It's gone! Well, the Lord Jesus Christ,
that's what he says about our sin debt. It's gone! How? By Him obtaining eternal
redemption for each and everyone who trusts in Him, who believes
in Him as their Lord and Savior. Well, here's the third day. The
day of Jesus' birth is a day in which to rejoice. If you look
in Luke chapter 2, Luke chapter 2, beginning with verse 8. And they were in the same country,
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock
by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about
them. And they were so afraid. The
angel said unto them, fear not. For behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you
is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ
the Lord. This day was a day which the
Lord made and a day in which to rejoice. Good news, it says,
good news. The angel spoke to the shepherds.
I bring you good tidings or good news of great joy. What was this good news of great
joy? Unto you is born this day in
the city of David, a savior. In Matthew chapter one, where
we have the birth of Christ recorded, we're told that it fulfilled
a prophecy. I shall call his name Jesus. It fulfilled a prophecy of him
being Emmanuel, God with us. God with us as a man. Now God
is everywhere. He's omnipresent, isn't he? He's
everywhere present at the same time, we know that. But now,
he has come into this world on that particular day, the day
of his birth as a man. In our nature, he was a man just
like all other men except no sin. No sin. But otherwise, he
was just like every other man. He took our nature into union
with his deity. And when you think about it,
when they brought those, that day that he saw the multitudes
and he was moved with compassion on them because they were starving,
I guess. They hadn't eaten in a day or
two. He took those loaves of bread, and think about it, with
the hands of a man, he broke the bread. But as a son of God,
he multiplied or created that bread to where it just kept on,
to where it fed 5,000 men on one occasion. But absolutely
man, as well as God. He became a man that he might
bleed. He became a man that he might
die. That was a curse. In the day that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die. That was a curse that God pronounced
upon man for his disobedience. It was death. And we know that
in that day that Adam disobeyed God, he died spiritually. And he began to die physically.
And he was subject then to eternal death. What is death? It's separation,
isn't it? In physical death, the soul,
the spirit is separated from the body. In spiritual death,
man is separated from God. He can't see the things of God.
He's dead in trespasses and sins. That's the way all of us are
when we're born in this world. And what is eternal death? It
is separation from God, both body and soul, in hell forever
and ever. As a man, he was able to bleed
and able to die to purchase his bride, his church. Well, here's
the fourth day. The day of Jesus' resurrection
was a day in which to rejoice. If you look in Matthew's gospel,
chapter 28, we love to read these passages that
speak to us of the resurrection of our Lord. In the end of the
Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene, and the other married to the sepulchre.
And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of
the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the
stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like
lightning and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him,
the keepers did shake and became as dead men. And the angel answered
and said unto the women, fear not ye, For I know that you seek
Jesus, which was crucified. He's not here, for he is risen,
as he said. Come, see the place where the
Lord lay. What a day to rejoice was that,
the day of his resurrection. He was crucified. And you know
the apostle Peter tells us, and Acts chapter 2 on the day of
Pentecost, he was crucified by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God. In other words, his death was
predetermined from before the foundation of the world. As a
lamb slain, the scripture says, as a lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. Man, by wicked hands, Peter said,
you've taken and you've crucified him. But this all happened according
to God's plan. And that's our verse where we
began in Psalm 118. That's what that text is telling
us, that the builders rejected the stone, the headstone, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and brought about his death. And that's the
day in which we are to rejoice and be glad because it was in
that day that he paid our sin debt. He paid our sin debt. We owed a debt we couldn't pay,
and he paid a debt he didn't owe. And his resurrection, when
the angel said, here you seek the living among the dead, he's
not here. He's not here. And what does
his resurrection say to you and I? It testifies, first of all,
to his deity. He's God. No question about it. He is God. Great is the mystery
of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. In Romans chapter one, he's declared
by his resurrection to be God. But more than that, Along with
that, also, his resurrection testifies that he finished the
work that God gave him to do. Now, he prayed that the night
before his crucifixion, didn't he? Father, I finished the work
which thou gave me to do. You see, the work that our father
Adam failed to do, what was it? He failed to honor God. He disobeyed
God. But the Lord Jesus Christ, the
second Adam, he finished the work which the Father gave him
to do. He honored God. He honored God's law perfectly
in every way. Yes, what a day in which to rejoice
the day of his resurrection testifies to his deity. He is God and it
testifies to the fact that that blood offering And he died as
a sacrifice. The scripture is very clear that
he died as a sacrifice, as a sin offering, an atonement for sin.
You say, well, he died as an example. He is our example, but
his death was not an example. His death was a sacrifice, a
sacrifice. And that sacrifice put away the
sins of his people. Put away your sins today. If
you're one of his, if you trust in him, your sins are gone. They're
gone. And search may be made for them,
they'll never be found. But that's a blessing, that's
something to rejoice about, isn't it? The sixth, the day of hearing
the gospel is a day in which to rejoice. The psalmist said,
I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house
of the Lord. Now, when I say the day of hearing
the gospel is a day in which to rejoice, I'm speaking about
the day. You don't need to know the date.
I know there's some circles where people think you're not saved
if you don't know the month and the date and when supposedly
the Lord saves you. I'm not talking about that. You
may be like me. You may have sat in churches
from your, I was in the cradle role. You may have sat in churches
and heard preaching and maybe you even were under the gospel. I don't know. You don't know
either because you were dead, spiritually dead. But then one
day you heard the gospel as gospel. You see what I'm saying? There
came a day when you may have heard this message hundreds of
times before, but one day you heard it as good news. Yes, this is good news. He died in our stead and in our
place. And salvation is of the Lord. It's not me trying to live to
a certain standard. It's not me trying to please
anyone else or anything that I can do, no. The good news is he accomplished
everything for us in our place and in our stead. Look unto me, the scripture says
in Isaiah chapter 45, look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends
of the earth. Several years ago at one of our
meetings, Brother Joe Terrell was here preaching. He preached
from this text. I've never forgot what he said
here. Look unto me all and be you saved
all ye ends of the earth. All ye, is there anyone here
today who is not included in all ye ends of the earth? Is
there? Is there anyone in this world
who is not included in that statement? Of course not. Look unto me and
be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth, for I am God, and there
is no other. Look unto me, look unto Christ
and be saved. You say, well, I don't know if
I have enough conviction or I don't know if I, doesn't say anything
about that, does it? All I'm reading here is, all
ye ends of the earth, look, look unto me, unto Christ, unto the
only Savior, the only Redeemer that has ever come or ever shall
come into this world. Look unto me and be ye saved. There's life for a look in the
crucified one. That's what the hymn writer said.
Amen. Look unto the Lamb of God. Look
and be saved. And my last day that I wanted
to mention, the seventh day, is the day of eternity. The day
of eternity is a day in which to rejoice. Now it's an eternal
day. A day with no night. Some people live in the northern
part of our country and they have a certain time of the year
they have mainly darkness, mainly another part of the year mainly
light. Can you imagine a place where there is no night? That's
this eternal day. There's no tomorrow. It's always today. It's always
today, and it is a place where there is no pain. Some of you
today are suffering, I know, and pain. Bodies sometimes get
sick and wear out, don't they? Pain. Can you imagine that day
without, that eternal day? No more pain and sorrow and no
misunderstandings. Have you ever had a misunderstanding
with someone that you love? Maybe another brother or sister
in Christ, and it actually causes a division. There'll be no more misunderstandings
in heaven. It is an eternal day, a day that
God's made. A day of rejoicing, a day in
which we shall be glad forever and ever. A day to be forever
with the Lord, who loved us and washed us from our sins with
his own blood. A day to be not only with the
Lord, but to be like the Lord. It doth not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be
like him. What a day of rejoicing it will
be. This is the day which the Lord
hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in
it. When I was in Bible school, we
had a teacher, a music teacher. I can still remember him, Brother
Seal Jackson, Sr. And you know, we have some stormy
days in Houston. No matter how bad it looked,
raining, clouds, wind blowing, we'd come into his class and
he'd always say the same thing. This is the day which the Lord
hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in
it. And that should be true of us
every day. Every day is a day that he hath made. And let us
learn to rejoice. Paul said rejoice. Again, I say
rejoice, not in our circumstances, but rejoice in him. Rejoice in
him. You see, if you rejoice in Christ,
you always have cause to rejoice because he's the same today as
he was yesterday and shall be tomorrow. He doesn't change. Well, I pray the Lord would bless
His word to us here this morning.