And the Bible reads,
Give the king thy judgments, O God,
and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall
judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
hills by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the
people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break
in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear thee as
long as the sun and moon endure throughout all
generations. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass
as showers that water the earth. In his days
shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace
so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also
from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the
earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow down before
him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. The
kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall
bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall
offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down
before him, all nations shall serve him. For he
shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also,
and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor
and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and
precious shall their blood be in his sight.
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba. Prayer also shall be made for him continually, and daily
shall he be praised. There shall be an handful of
corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The
fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they
of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
His name shall endure forever.
His name shall be continued as long as the sun,
and men shall be blessed in him. All nations
shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God,
the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things,
and blessed be his glorious name forever,
and let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen and Amen. The prayers
of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Father in heaven, thank you for this church, and thank you for the Bible,
Lord, and thank you for our congregation, Lord. We just ask that you bless
Pastor Anderson, and open our ears to hear, and give us hearts to understand. In Jesus'
name we pray, Amen. Amen. So here we are in Psalm 72. This is actually
going to be our last psalm for a while on Wednesday nights, because the Book of
Psalms is actually broken up into five books. There are five separate
books of Psalms, and many years ago I did Book 1,
which is chapters 1 through 41, and then right now we've been doing
Book 2, which is chapter 42 through 72.
And so we're at the end of Book 2, and if you look at the last verse of
this chapter, it says the prayers of David
the son of Jesse are ended. So you don't want to be misled by that and think
to yourself, oh well anything after Psalm 72 isn't written by David.
There are still many psalms after 72 that are certainly written
by David. It's just that this is the end of a book within
a book, so that's why you have that hard ending there. Another
thing that signifies the hard ending is at the end of verse 19 it says
Amen and Amen, and several of the books in Psalms
end with that double Amen. Now where do these divisions
come from? You know, how far back does that go? Nobody knows,
but it's just the way it's always been. It seems like that the Book of Psalms
is broken into these five parts, and since 150 weeks
is a little bit long for a series, it's kind of nice to break it up that way
anyway, come back to it another time. So I'm going to be starting a new book next
Wednesday night. So Psalm 72, it says in verse number
1, Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy
righteousness unto the king's son. Now, one thing
that you want to remember when you're reading the Bible in general, but especially
when you're reading the Book of Psalms, is that there's the primary surface
meaning, and then there are lots of other deeper meanings to the Bible,
especially when it comes to finding Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.
You know, the Old Testament is constantly pointing us to Jesus Christ,
and finding Jesus on every page is really the right way
to read the Bible, okay? A lot of people say, oh, you're reading Jesus
into the Old Testament. Well, you don't have to read him in, he's already there.
There's an effort out there to Judaize the Old Testament,
to de-Christianize the Old Testament,
and this is false. This is a wrong way to understand the Bible.
You know, if you can't see Jesus all throughout the Book of Genesis, you're blind.
I mean, and that's what the Bible describes Jews as,
blind, because, you know, they have that veil over their
eyes as they read scripture, and the Bible says that when they'll turn to Jesus Christ,
then the veil will be removed. But there's so much in the
Old Testament pointing us to Jesus, and that's the right way to read the Old Testament.
And especially the Book of Psalms is heavy on prophecies about
the Lord Jesus Christ, and this psalm is no exception. So when we read
a verse like this where it says, give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness
unto the king's son, the literal interpretation,
we're talking about David and his son Solomon, right? Because right
at the end of the chapter, we know for sure it's written by David because it said the prayers of David,
the son of Jesse are ended. So this is David and Solomon,
but obviously we're talking about God
and Jesus as well, right? Because Jesus is the son of God,
God the father, and so when it says, give the king thy judgments,
O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son, the literal
meaning is he's praying, look, help me to reign and help me
to do justice and judgment and help my son to do the same.
But as we go through this, it's going to be pretty obvious that we're not talking about
David and Solomon, but we're actually talking about Christ. Because look what the Bible says in verse 2.
He shall judge the people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people
and the little hills by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people.
He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in peace as the oppressor.
Look at verse 5. They shall fear thee as
long as the sun and moon endure throughout all
generations. Okay, now that right there, you say, okay,
well, it's just saying that they're going to fear God throughout all generations as a result
of the righteous reign of David and Solomon. But look down
just a little bit further. It says in verse number 7, in his days
shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace
so long as the moon endureth.
So we're talking about a peace that's going to last forever.
And obviously that didn't actually happen in David and Solomon's time. And there are lots of
other things as you go down through this passage talking about
how it's going to go on forever, it's going to last forever, because what we're
actually talking about is Jesus Christ ruling and reigning on this
earth at his return, at his second coming. We're talking about the millennial
reign of Christ. And even beyond the millennium, obviously
the Lord continues to reign throughout all eternity in the new heaven and the new
earth. So the Bible says in verse 2, he shall
judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor
with judgment. Now let me just point out something about the word righteousness here.
It says he's going to judge them with righteousness. Well, here's what you have to understand.
The Bible uses the word righteous and the word
just interchangeably. Okay, it talks about
just thought, and it calls him a righteous man. And in fact,
in virtually every foreign language that I've studied, because I study a lot
of foreign languages, that's a hobby of mine. In virtually every language
I've ever studied, justice and righteousness are the same word.
English is actually kind of unique to have two separate words, righteous
and just. But whether you're looking at Spanish, Latin, German,
go down the list. It's the same word. Greek, you know, it's going to
be the same word. And so, uh, and you can
get that from reading the King James because of the way they're used interchangeably. You know, righteous,
just are used interchangeably. So when it talks about him judging the people with
righteousness, and when it talks about judgment, you know, one, a word
that we could use that we would probably use more in our modern vernacular would be
justice. You know, he's basically saying it's going to be a just government.
There's going to be justice in this world. And so
he's going to rule with justice. He's going to rule with righteousness.
His judgments are going to be right judgments.
And it says, the mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills
by righteousness. Now, mountains in the Bible
are often symbolic of kingdoms or rulers.
So when it talks about the mountains bringing peace
and the hills bringing judgment, this could be talking about
basically levels of rulers. You know, the mountains being the greatest rulers
and the hills being a lower level ruler. And then
look at this in verse 4. It says, he shall judge the poor of the people, he shall
save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces
the oppressor. Think about what the Bible says about Jesus Christ
when he comes back to reign. It says, he shall rule
the nations with a rod of iron. As the vessels
of a potter shall they be broken to shivers,
even as I received of my Father. So the Bible talks about Jesus
ruling with a rod of iron, breaking in pieces the oppressor, ruling with
judgment and justice. You know, people today, they long
for justice. You know, you hear a lot of talk about this. And
people just longing for a righteous government. Well, don't hold your breath.
Okay? Because Christ is going to have to bring that righteous
government. Right now we're ruled by sinful men. And so there's not going to be
justice. And the poor will continue to suffer and
oppression will continue to happen because of the fact that only
Christ is going to fix these things. You know, he's actually going to destroy the oppressor
and he's going to save the children of the needy and judge the poor of the
people and so forth. And it says in verse 5, they shall fear
thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations. He shall come
down like rain upon the mown grass as showers that water the earth.
In his days shall the righteous flourish,
an abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river
unto the ends of the earth. This is another reason that we know that we're not just talking about
David and Solomon. Because David and Solomon did not rule
an empire that stretched all the way to the ends of the earth. Even in
the nation of Israel's biggest heyday, it was still
a pretty small region that they ruled over. We're not talking about something along the lines
of the Roman Empire or the Macedonian Empire or the Persian
Empire or the British Empire. You know, it was always a small
kingdom even when it was a little bit expanded by Solomon and he
had the countries around him paying tribute. It's still a very local
region. And yet the Bible here is prophesying
that David was ruling and having dominion from sea to sea, from the river
to the ends of the earth. And so this is talking future
millennial reign of Christ when he rules over all nations.
And then it says in verse 9, they that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him
and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Now, stop and think about this. Christ's enemies
licking the dust. What does that remind you of?
Genesis chapter 3 verse 14, right? The enemies of Christ
licking the dust. Now, Genesis chapter 3
is of course the famous scripture where Adam and Eve sin in the
Garden of Eden, the serpent tempts Eve, and then Eve
gets Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit as well. And God's doling out
punishments in verses 14 and 15
to the serpent. You know, he's going to punish the man,
he's going to punish the woman, but he's also going to punish the serpent, which is the
devil. And it says in verse 14 of Genesis chapter 3,
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle,
above every beast of the field, upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat,
all the days of thy life. And nothing in the Bible is incidental,
coincidental, or accidental. So this ties in with Psalm 72
when he talks about Christ's enemies eating the dust.
And here we see the ultimate enemy, obviously, Satan himself
eating the dust. But look at verse 15, because listen, verse 15
is one of the most important verses in the Old Testament.
You know, you want to talk about seeing Christ throughout the Old Testament.
The significance of Genesis 3, 15 is that it is the first prophecy
about Jesus Christ coming and saving us.
So this is a very important verse, Genesis 3, 15.
It says, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
So he's going to put enmity between the serpent and the woman.
And between thy seed and her seed,
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
So here we have the scripture where the seed of the woman
will bruise the serpent's head, right?
And of course, this is very cryptic and vague, but as we go through the
Old Testament, obviously the revelation becomes clearer and clearer.
But this is the first verse actually alluding to the fact
that Jesus Christ is going to come, and you know, explicitly prophesying that
and telling us that Christ is going to come and bruise the serpent's head
and that he's going to be the seed of the woman.
Now, this is very important when it says,
between thy seed and her seed. Understand that Jesus Christ is the seed of the woman.
Now, remember last Wednesday night, we talked a lot about the virgin birth, right?
And we talked about the fact that Jesus Christ
is 100% God, and he's 100% man,
and how Jesus Christ was physically born of a virgin,
and the implications of that are
that not only is Jesus deity in
his soul or his spirit or something like that, but that his body
itself was deity because of the fact that half of
his DNA came from Mary, his earthly mother,
and half of his DNA came from God the Father, right? Because there's no earthly
father. Somebody's got to finish up that DNA. Somebody's
got to finish up those chromosomes, and so he wasn't just a clone of Mary, right?
Obviously not. He's male, so he had to
have a father, and we know Joseph was not the father.
God the Father is the father. Now, you know, I talked
about that, and the reason that I preached about that is because
some people get confused on these things, or they don't understand these things,
things that we might take for granted. Some people haven't
thought them through, or worse yet, there are false teachers out there
teaching all kinds of crazy doctrines like, well, you know, his body is the human
part, and, you know, his soul is the God part. That's garbage.
There's no God part or human part. He's just God, right?
And physically, he's the son of God, not just spiritually
the son of God, not adopted as the son of God. He's the physical son
of God because that's where his physical body came from. His physical body
is a result of the virgin birth, which
involved God the Father overshadowing
Mary through the power of the Holy Ghost and that pregnancy taking
place supernaturally, right, the virgin birth. Now,
somebody mentioned this week, they said, well, you know, I just always thought
to myself that Mary's,
you know, DNA had nothing to do with it, or that, you know, Mary wasn't
really involved except just, like, as a carrier. Like, basically, they thought Mary's like a
surrogate mother. Like, basically, just an embryo is just put
in there. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? Like, that she wasn't actually
his biological mother, but that actually, you know, it's
just basically God just placed the baby Jesus
in the womb. Now, look, that's 100% wrong. That is false.
And, you know, you may not understand on the surface why
these things are important, but they are important because if you get these things wrong,
it can lead you into some kind of wild and squirrely doctrines. So, what
does the Bible teach here? The Bible teaches here that it's the seed of the woman
that's going to bruise the serpent's head. Now, if the Bible calls
Jesus the seed of the woman, that means that Jesus
is her actual biological son, or else she wouldn't be called
his seed. Does everybody see that? So, Jesus
Christ is the Son of Man,
because he is biologically, physically the son of Mary.
Right? So, he is the son of man, and he is the son of God, and
he is also biologically, physically the son of God the Father. And so,
this is a supernatural thing. It's a virgin birth. Obviously, there was no
intercourse that took place. Mary was a virgin.
And this all took place just supernaturally. But, we need to
understand, though, that this is literally an egg from
Mary that went into this. Okay? Because of the fact that we need to understand
that Jesus Christ is biologically the seed of the woman.
That's what the Bible teaches. You know, that he is the son of
man, the seed of the woman. And, you know, we sing about it in the Christmas song.
Hark, the herald angels sing. Rise the woman's
conquering seed. Bruise in us
the serpent's head. Right? So, now you can
appreciate that lyric even more, understanding the importance of this doctrine
that Jesus Christ is the seed of the woman. Jesus Christ
is the son of God and the son of man. And,
again, you know, we can't emphasize these things enough because if you can
get the basic teachings of the Bible and really hammer them down and
understand who Jesus is, you're not going to be tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine. And wild doctrines out there. And if you
would go back to Psalm 72. But, you know, these doctrines such as
oneness, modalism, attacks on the Trinity,
strange teachings attacking the deity of Christ. You know, we need to
understand what scripture actually says so that we can see these things
a mile away as a fraud. Like, that's not right. We don't want to get the idea.
And, again, it's important because we don't want to get the idea that
God just basically just kind of just teleported
into Mary's womb. And, you know, this is like a, it's kind
of like a oneness teaching. You know, that God just kind
of showed up. I mean, look, why didn't he just show up as a 30 year old man if he's just
going to beam in? Okay. What we have to understand is that
Jesus Christ was actually a baby
that was developing in his mother's womb and he's actually a biological son
of Mary. And she actually naturally gave birth to him
and laid him in the manger and he grew up and lived a perfect
life because he's the God-man, right? He's divine. He is
deity and human both and it's very important to understand that.
So, that's what we have back in Genesis talking about Jesus
bruising the serpent's head and talking about the serpent eating
the dirt, eating the dust. And so that's what we have pictured here in Psalm 72
verse 9. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him
and his enemies shall lick the dust. Let me tell you something. Every knee
will bow to Jesus Christ and every tongue will confess that he is Lord
to the glory of God's Father. And so, every staunch
atheist and agnostic, every mocker who says, hey, I want to go to hell
where all my friends are, one day they will have their mouths stopped.
They will be on their knees begging for mercy,
bowing before God, praising him. And you say, well, I don't know.
Some people are pretty hardened. Look, after a little bit of time in hell,
they'll soften them up a little bit, all right? And they will
praise God. They will get on their knees. They will bow before him.
They will eat the dust. They will be having their faces planted
in the dirt. It says in verse number 10, the kings of Tarshish
and of the isles shall bring presents.
Now, Tarshish here represents an
extreme of the world at that time, right? Because the known world
or the civilized world at that time, one of the extremes would be Tarshish
because this is basically on the Iberian Peninsula where modern-day Spain and Portugal
are. That's where Tarshish is located. So, if you basically
just travel that extreme distance of Europe and get to the edge of the earth there,
you're going to run into Tarshish. So, when the Bible says here the kings of Tarshish
and of the isles shall bring presents, we're talking about
just extreme west. And then when he talks about the kings of Sheba
and Seba, again, that's a distant southern place. So, the
idea is just all nations. And he's just picking some faraway places
to represent the fact that all nations will worship God. And then, that's what
it says in the next verse, right? Verse 11, yea, all kings shall fall
down before him. All nations shall serve him. Again,
can we say that about David? Can we say that about Solomon?
No way, not even close, okay? Because not all nations
serve them by any stretch of the imagination. And sure, we have the queen of Sheba
coming to him, but we don't have all nations. You know,
Solomon's reign is a foreshadowing of the millennium. So, yea,
he had a lot of gifts coming in. He had a lot of people praising the Lord
and hearing about him and being impressed by him.
And he ruled and did well. But that was just a shadow
of the real deal that's coming one day with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it says in verse 12, for he shall deliver the needy when he crieth,
the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare
the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
the needy. And again, here we have the double meaning here, because
we would look at this as like an economic salvation, right? Like,
he's going to save the poor and the needy, put food in their mouth, put clothes on them,
put a roof over their head. And that is what this is saying. But then there's the secondary
meaning that he's going to save the poor and the needy, actually save
their soul. And it even mentions that. It says he'll save the soul of
the needy. So there's the double meaning there. And the thing is,
the Bible always emphasizes preaching the gospel to the poor.
You know, Jesus Christ gets up and reads in Luke chapter 4,
the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because he has anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor. And that's why as a church,
over the years, we have emphasized poor areas in our soul winning.
Now we don't want to only go soul winning to poor areas, because the Bible does say to preach
the gospel to every creature. And we do want to be an
Acts 542 church, daily in the temple and in every house
they cease not to teach and preach to Jesus Christ. But the poor areas near
our church, we've literally hit those seven to eight times.
So now we've been more recently knocking a lot of middle class
doors and a little bit higher income because
we have to, because we're commanded to reach everyone.
So, but historically our church has
very much emphasized reaching the poor. Which is why, you know,
areas like Guadalupe, we've knocked every door in Guadalupe over eight times.
Over eight times we've made that effort and knocked
every single door in that town. And South Phoenix, you know,
from here to Central Avenue, between like Broadway
and Bayside, I mean that, we have hit that more times than I can count.
So many times. And eventually there's a law of
diminishing returns. And you start recognizing the same
people over and over again. And it's like you've, it's like I've knocked this door
a couple times, you know, personally, let alone the rest of the church. So, you know, we want to
make sure that we knock every door. But the Bible teaches to go to the
poor first. First to the poor, then to everybody else.
Why? Because the poor are the most receptive anyway. It's easier for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be saved.
Of course with God all things are possible, but rich people are harder to get
saved because they're good, they've got it all together, they have
all the answers, they're doing fine. Whereas poor people are more receptive to
hearing God's word. The world will try to twist that and say,
oh, well, you know, it's just, it's just dumb people that are getting saved, you know, that's why,
that's why poor people are so receptive is because they're dumb.
This is what these enlightened liberals tell you. They claim to love the poor so much and they care
so much about the poor, but then they turn around and tell you, well, you know, more college educated
people voted for Biden, you know, and they're, you know, less, there's
way less college educated people that are religious and way less college educated
educated people that are conservative or... You know what I mean? You've heard
stuff like that before. I was looking at a map of
the United States and it was showing, like, what would voting be
like if everyone were
college educated or if everyone were male or if everyone were female
or if everyone were white or if everyone were Hispanic. You know, it was just all these different
scenarios of how voting would be in different places or
how politics would be. And by the way, if only men voted, there would be no abortion.
Because men are overwhelmingly against abortion.
So put that in your suffragette pipe and smoke it.
You know, the Bible teaches that men should be an authority
and when you toss the keys to the women, well, unfortunately, now
we have abortion in our country. So good job, ladies. And look, I'm not against
women, but I am against whores who want to have an
abortion. Okay. So, you know, and by the way,
if you're pro-choice, you might be a whore.
I'm serious. Because that's
wickedness. That's wicked to want to murder a baby
because you can't keep your legs closed. You whore.
Hey, the Bible calls it whoredom. Premarital
sex, going out and sleeping around with a bunch of men, that's being a whore.
It's called playing the whore. It's called whoredom. And then you're going to murder
your baby? You know. But anyway, so I was looking at these different things
and, you know, whenever it shows, you know, if everyone were, that was just a little
commercial break. It's true, though.
Hey, I'm for
godly, Christian women. I'm for women who love
their husbands and love their children, but you know what? I'm sorry, whores
should not be voting and running our country. And let me tell you something.
The suffragette movement wasn't a bunch of godly, Christian, married ladies out
there pushing for the right to vote. It's a bunch of left-wing
liberal commies, a bunch of just godless
types. It wasn't a righteous movement.
And here's the thing. You wonder why
college-educated people are so liberal. It must be because they're smarter.
No, it's because the university has a hard left
slant and they spend four years teaching you to be liberal.
That'd be like if I, it'd be like if I were running an
if I were running an educational institution where people spent four years,
people are going to come out of there thinking like me on a lot of things, right?
Whether they wanted to going in or not, they're going to go out of there thinking like me
on a lot of things because they've been listening to me for four years. Well, guess what?
Colleges and universities are known for being super liberal.
I remember my brother told me that when he was studying economics
at UC Davis, also known as the People's Republic of Davis,
he was known in his economics classes as the
Republican. Okay, and these are
big classes. He's the Republican.
Because it's, everything is a super left-wing
slant when you're on a college campus. And anybody who's been to colleges
and universities will be able to testify to that. So
hmm, I wonder why college educated people tend to
not be Christian and tend to be more liberal. It's not because
they got so much smarter by being there. It's because they
were taught against Christianity at that institution. They were taught
against things that are right.
And so the poor
being delivered, the poor being saved, it's talking
about, yes, you know, fixing their physical condition, but it's talking about getting them saved.
The poor are more receptive to the gospel. It's not because they're dumb.
It's because they're humble. And many of these
college educated types professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools. Okay, that's why it's called
professor, by the way. Because they profess
to be wise and they become fools in many cases. Obviously not all
of them, but many. And so
don't buy into that garbage that says, oh, well that's why the poor
are receptive. No, people that are poor are not
necessarily dumb. It doesn't mean
that you're smart because you have a lot of money or that you're dumb because you have a little bit of money.
Some people just have different priorities in life. Some people
just have had different challenges and different backgrounds. And it's possible to be smart and
work hard and still struggle financially and never quite make it
financially and never quite get into that fancy
neighborhood or whatever. It's more than possible. It happens all the time.
And it's also possible to be a complete idiot
and graduate from college or to
get a high paying government job or whatever and be a complete imbecile. Look at some of the
imbeciles in Congress. I mean, you remember that Congressman that was
talking about he was afraid that the island, I don't remember which island it was, he was
afraid that if they put too many people on it, it might tip over?
What's that? Yeah, they would capsize?
Remember that? Guam? Yeah, he was
concerned about putting too many people on Guam because it could capsize.
And there are all kinds of quotes from that Maxine Waters.
Have you seen those quotes from her?
Those quotes are wild.
But you know what? I'm sure she's probably what? College educated
and making lots of money because everybody in
Congress is a millionaire with all their insider trading and so forth.
But you can go to ASU a couple miles from here.
You can get a degree in queer studies.
Not a class. It's not a class. It's a degree.
And I'm not calling it that. I'm not getting up and calling it queer studies.
That's what it's called in the college catalog.
I'm not making this up. Q-U-E-E-R. I'm not calling it that.
That's what they call it.
Who thinks I'm not telling the truth right now? Who believes me? Because you know what? If you don't believe me,
I want you, I don't want you to walk away not believing in me.
I want you to, as soon as the service is over, I want you to
Google ASU Bachelor of
Arts Queer Studies. And you will see that you
can major in being a faggot at ASU.
I'm not kidding. This isn't one class.
This is your major.
So look, you're going to tell, and look,
that's why I'm not going to sit there and say, oh, well,
you're college educated. Well, you must be
smarter than these people that we're talking to in the working class area
over here, you know, because they're just electricians and plumbers
and carpenters and whatever. And here's the irony, too.
A lot of those electricians, plumbers, carpenters, they're making more money anyway.
Than a lot of these white collar jobs anyway.
And they're not going to be replaced by an artificial intelligence in the next 15 years.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. All right, so
we're getting a little bit off topic tonight. Just have to
get a few things off my chest there. But it's true.
Hey, blessed are the poor, the Bible says.
Have not God chosen the poor of this world
rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he had promised them
that love him? But you've despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress
you and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which
you're called? So you don't want to get this attitude that the world has. Rich equals
good, poor equals bad, rich equals successful,
rich equals smart, and poor means that. You know,
some people choose to make less money because they just do what they want to do in
life or they do an honest job or they follow their passion
in their career or whatever. A man's life consists not in the abundance
of things which he possesses. And look, when the Bible says poor, it's not
talking about derelicts who refuse to work. It's talking about people who go to work
and struggle financially. And you know what, like I said, you can be a
smart, hardworking person and still struggle financially.
It does not mean that you're dumb and
having the degree or the fancy job doesn't make you smart.
There are going to be dumb people on both sides and there are going to be
smart people on both sides. And so don't buy into that
false teaching. So he says here,
he'll save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence
and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
And he shall live. Now that's a profound statement there when it says
and he shall live and to him shall be given of the gold
of Sheba. Why bring that up? I mean, you know, here we are, we're talking about
the king and his greatness and he's going to help people. He's going to
save the poor and the needy. He's going to destroy the oppressor.
So why bring up the fact he shall live? It's like, well duh,
he's alive. The reason it says he shall live, this statement
has meaning or it wouldn't be there. It's because we're talking about Jesus.
And when it says he shall live, we're talking about the fact
that he's going to live and live and live and live and keep
on living is what we're talking about here. Because here's the thing, David is
not going to just live. He's going to live and then he's going to die.
Solomon's going to live and die. Jesus Christ shall
live and he lives forevermore. He shall reign, the Bible says,
forever and ever. He will, of his kingdom
there's no end. And he lives forever,
never to die again. And so that's the
significance of that phrase, he shall live. And to him shall be given of the
gold of Sheba. Prayer also shall be made for him continually
and daily shall he be praised. There shall be an handful
of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains.
The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon and they of the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
And then look at verse 17, it says, his name shall endure
forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun
and man shall be blessed in him. All nations
shall call him blessed. You know, this reminds me
a little bit of what God told Abraham when he said, and these shall all nations be blessed.
And these shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And you will be a blessing
because it's Jesus that's the blessing.
In Abraham all nations are blessed because Jesus is the seed of Abraham.
Not seeds plural, but one seed, Jesus.
And so he will endure forever
but also it says his name will endure forever. There's another
false teaching out there, you know there's so many false teachings and so many weird teachings that
people are constantly coming up with crazy things, you know,
ungodly men who just
teach garbage in order to confuse people and
they're just, they're of their father the devil and they teach lies and they sow
confusion and they just can't properly teach the Bible because
they don't have the Holy Spirit. So, you know, that's where they get confused
easily because they don't get it. So
another one of these false teachers, Sam Gipp, who
is a total heretic, I can't even understand how people could still listen
to this guy, but so many old IFB churches will still have this guy come through and preach.
And the blasphemous stuff that's come out of his mouth is unbelievable.
One of the blasphemous teachings that he taught was, he taught that the angel
actually told Mary and Joseph to name the
baby Emmanuel but then they named him Jesus.
In spite of what the angel told, that's garbage, the angel told them to name him Jesus.
It's nonsense. And he was acting like, oh, their lack of faith
led them to name him Jesus. What kind of a weirdo
would even dream up something like that? But the same heretic Sam Gipp said
that we're going to, that when we're up in heaven
and when the second coming happens, the millennium happens, that we're going to stop
calling him Jesus. We're not going to call him Jesus anymore. We're going to switch to calling him
Emmanuel at that point. Nobody, he said, nobody's going to say, hey,
let's go talk to Jesus. Nobody's going to say, hi, Jesus. It's all going to be
folks, that is garbage. The name of Jesus
will endure forever. Now,
God rolls out new names throughout scripture, right?
You know, like the name Jesus isn't revealed on page one. You know, we start out
talking about God and then we start talking about Jehovah
and then we start talking about God Almighty and we start talking about the Lord
of hosts and these different titles and names get rolled out. And then, of course,
the name of Jesus is revealed. And then the Bible teaches in Revelation
that Jesus will be called by a new name,
a new name. But here's what you have to understand about the names of
God is that they're always cumulative, meaning that
he never replaces one name with another. He adds a name.
Like when, when, when the name Jesus is revealed,
we don't stop using God or the Lord. We don't stop using Jehovah.
Well, that's obsolete. He's not Jehovah. He'll always be Jehovah.
He'll always be God Almighty. He'll always be the Lord of hosts.
And so the Bible says his name shall endure forever.
The name of Jesus will never be obsolete or replaced. And
that's, that's coming from a reprobate mind that would say these kind of weird
things like, oh, he wasn't really supposed to be named Jesus in the first place. Oh, we're
never going to call him Jesus. Hey, what's wrong with the name Jesus, buddy? You weirdo.
But this guy just can't stop teaching heresy
and teaching strange doctrines and people
who are unstable and unlearned follow this guy. And it's unbelievable
because he is a damnable heretic that teaches all kinds
of blasphemous, horrible things. Oh, and he also said that Jesus is not
his Messiah. He only came to be the Jews Messiah.
He's not my Messiah. He ain't your Messiah. That's what he said.
I mean, you know,
that was almost like you ain't black from Biden. He's like, you know, he ain't your Messiah.
Folks, let me tell you something.
Sam Gipp is right that he's not his Messiah. But he certainly is my Messiah
and your Messiah. And the Bible says that if you deny that Jesus is the Messiah, you're
an antichrist. Who is a liar but he that
deny that Jesus is the Messiah, he's antichrist.
But then people will say like, oh well, you know, it's out of context
what he said that. I posted the whole hour and a half sermon. It was totally in
context. He said Jesus is not my Messiah. He said
he wasn't supposed to be named Jesus. We're going to stop calling him
Jesus at some point. This is a reprobate mind that would produce these kind of
horrible, blasphemous, nonsensical teachings.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg with that guy. You could make an encyclopedia
of the stuff that this guy has taught that is directly contradictory
of scripture and super blasphemous and wrong. So the Bible teaches that
Christ's name will endure forever. Any name that the Lord
has revealed never goes away. It never stops. His word is eternal.
And so every name continues on and
becomes cumulative. It says blessed be the Lord God, the God
of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And what that means there is that
he's the only one who does truly
wondrous things. No one else can do what he can do.
And blessed be his glorious name
forever. And let the whole earth be filled
with his glory. Amen and amen.
The prayers of David, the son of Jesse are in it. And so as I close this passage
what's this passage about? It's about the greatness of God.
It's about praising God. It's prophesying of Christ's
second coming. And he's going to bring all the justice that everybody longs
for. And he's going to fix things with the poor.
And he's going to destroy the oppressors. He's going to rule with a rod of iron.
There's going to be justice and judgment and righteousness. It's going to be great.
There's going to be peace on earth. And it's going to
be wonderful. And so it's just praising God
for his greatness and what he has done in the past and what he's going to do
in the future. And as we go into Thanksgiving tomorrow
we want to make sure that we have the Lord in his proper place at our Thanksgiving.
Anything that we do we should do it for the glory of God.
And this includes whatever the holiday we choose to celebrate.
Okay. Now if we go to different countries and different cultures, different people celebrate
different holidays, right? You know, if we were in another country we might not be celebrating
Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is an American holiday, right?
There are a lot of people who think it's bad to celebrate holidays and we shouldn't do it.
But you know what? As long as you celebrate holidays in a way that glorifies
the Lord, these can actually be great times of year
and great traditions. You know, we don't want to throw out all tradition. We want to throw out
tradition that makes void the word of God. You know, Jesus rebuked them
when their tradition made the word of God in effect. But traditions
that actually bolster the word of God or promote the
word of God or bring us closer to God, there's nothing wrong with having traditions
and customs. There's nothing wrong with having our culture as
Americans. You know, we as Americans, we have our culture. People in Japan
have their culture. You know, people in Germany have their culture. People in Mexico have their
culture. Every country has its culture. Now some of these cultural things
would go against scripture. We don't want anything to do with those things.
But there's nothing wrong with having our culture
if it's godly. Thanksgiving is a godly holiday
because of the fact that the Bible over and over again emphasizes
this thing of being thankful and glorifying God.
And so we want to make sure that this doesn't just become
turkey day unto us, as some people call it.
It's Thanksgiving. That means that tomorrow
can be a great day for us spiritually if
we take some time to reflect on the greatness of
God, the wonderful works that he's done, and all the
good things that he's done specifically, personally
for us. We all have a lot to be thankful for, and tomorrow you need
to count your blessings, make an inventory of all the good things
God has given you, all the blessings, all the wonderful things,
and give God the glory. Make sure that you pray at that dinner table
and thank God for everything, and also in your heart by yourself
in the prayer closet that you spend some time just reflecting on the year,
being thankful. You say, oh, such a bad year. Yeah, but there were a lot of good things this year, too.
And it could have been a lot worse.
It might even get worse, but anyway. So we want to make sure that
we spend time reflecting on the Lord. And here's the thing. And then
we roll into the Christmas season, right? We all know the day after
Christmas, or excuse me, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas season
starts.
By the way, I refuse to participate in Black Friday
because to me it's kind of weird to come off of this thankful holiday
and then let's all trample each other to go get the best deal and do all
this materialistic stuff and shopping. You know, I don't like it.
And by the way, it's a modern phenomenon because it did not exist when I was a child or a teenager.
It didn't even exist in my early 20s. This is something
that's only like what? It's only been big for like the last 10 years, folks.
We take it for granted. Who remembers when there was no such thing as Black
Friday and you'd never heard that word? All of us old-timers know.
I'm only 39 years old, and for more than half of
my life, this was nothing. The first time I heard of it, I was in my mid-20s or late
20s, and I was like, Black Friday? What's that? And they said, oh, that's
a term that we use in the retail industry. It was only the retail industry used it amongst
themselves. It was just, oh, because it's a really busy day for us
so we don't like it or whatever. You know, I'm going to enjoy
not a Black Friday. I'm going to enjoy a glorious, sunny
Friday, right? I mean,
you know, as we get into the Christmas season, let's make
sure that Christmas to us doesn't just become about getting
material possessions. Like, hey, let's start off the Christmas
season on Black Friday making it all about material things.
It's about Christ. Or why even celebrate it?
What are we even celebrating? It always cracks me up when atheists celebrate Christmas.
What are you celebrating? Santa,
Rudolph, you know,
Frosty the Snowman?
There's nothing there. I mean, good night.
And you know what? I love Christmas.
I'm not one of these negative bah humbug types. I love
Christmas, but for me, Christmas needs to be about Jesus.
I love Christmas because I love thinking about the birth of Christ and talking about the birth of Christ.
And I love getting together with family and
celebrating the birth of Christ. And I like the meals. You know, I like the Thanksgiving meal.
The Christmas meal. And you know, it's biblical. The feasting
and fellowshipping and celebrating. I mean, it's all there in the Bible as far
as, you know, enjoying good meals, taking time off, taking
a break, stopping to reflect, being thankful,
birth of Christ. These are great things to celebrate. You know,
then Mariah Carey has to come along
and ruin it with the worst song ever written in the history of mankind,
All I Want For Christmas Is You, which should be banned from all radio
and I'm not even for censorship. But that's the one exception.
You know, I hate
Christmas music that's not about Jesus. But I love
Christmas music that is about Jesus. And you know what?
Even when I'm out and about like at stores in this time of year
and I'll hear like some worldly star
singing Christmas songs, but then they're singing about Jesus
and it's all this great doctrine. I'm thinking to myself, you know, hey, at least people
are hearing about Jesus. By hook or by crook.
Okay. And you know what? At least
a lot of people do think about and hear about Jesus. But we as Christians, we just want to make sure
that it doesn't just become some Santa, Rudolph, Frosty thing
to us. We want to make sure to keep Christ in his proper place.
I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating Christmas at all.
And in fact, if you're celebrating the birth of Christ and emphasizing that,
then it can be a great thing. It can be a good thing. It can be a blessed thing.
And so as we go into Thanksgiving, we want to remember, you know,
that it's God's will, according to Psalm 72 here, that the whole earth be filled with God's glory.
And we need to make sure that we glorify God in our lives,
both with our actions and by opening our mouth
to glorify God. And we need to open our mouths tomorrow
and praise God and thank God and
represent the Lord. And maybe you're getting together with family tomorrow. Maybe you're getting together with
unsaved family. Maybe you're getting together with worldly family.
But you know what? You want to be the light that shines. You want to be that
salt that would season that gathering.
And make sure that God is in his proper place,
both tomorrow and going into Christmas, and that we don't get sucked into
all the world's reasons for the season, but that we actually
think about thanking God and that we actually think about the birth of Christ and glorify
him. Because God is great and
worthy to be praised. And so that's the big takeaway from the
book of Psalms in general. Praise the Lord, for he's good because his mercy
endureth forever. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for this great chapter, and thank you most of all for your
unspeakable gift, the Lord Jesus Christ coming to this earth
and being born of a virgin, living a sinless life, and dying on the cross
for our sins, Lord. And Lord, thank you for the resurrection. Thank you that
as Psalm 72 said, that he shall live.
And Lord, we just pray that you would just bless our Thanksgiving
gatherings, help no one to get sick or pass sickness around, Lord.
Help everyone to have a good day with family,
help relationships to be strengthened,
and families to be strengthened. And Lord, please help all of us
to glorify you with our mouths, in our heart, yes,
but also with our mouths, Lord, to open our mouths and thank you tomorrow.
Both privately and publicly, Lord, to thank you
for all the things that you've done. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen. Amen, let's grab
our hymnals and sing number 439.
Number 439, very fitting
song. Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Number
439, when upon life's billows your tempest tossed.
Count your blessings.
Number 439.
When upon life's billows your tempest tossed.
When you are discouraged thinking all is lost,
count your many blessings. Name them one by one.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath
done. Count your blessings. Name them one
by one. Count your blessings. See what
God hath done. Count your blessings.
Name them one by one.
Count your many blessings. See what God hath
done. Are you ever burdened with the
load of care? Does the crossing many
are called to bear? Count your many
blessings. Every doubt will find. And you will be
sinking as the days grow by. Count
your blessings. Name them one by one.
Count your blessings. See what God hath done.
Count your blessings. Name
them one by one. Count your many
blessings. See what God hath done.
When you look at others with their lands and gold,
think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.
Count your many blessings. Money cannot
buy. Your reward in heaven though your hope
on high. Count your blessings. Name them
one by one. Count your blessings.
See what God hath done. Count your
blessings. Name them one by one.
Count your many blessings. See what God
hath done. So live a conflict whether
great or small. Do not be discouraged.
God is over all. Count your many
blessings angels will attend. Help and comfort
give you to your journey's end. Count
your blessings. Name them one by one.
Count your blessings. See what God hath done.
Count your blessings. Name
them one by one. Count your many
blessings. See what God hath done.
Thank you.
You're getting so good.
Good job.