Baptist Church. It's great to have you here on a Wednesday night. If you can take your
hymn books and turn to song number 66, song number 66 in your hymn books, song number 66 at Calvary.
There was training, grace was free, Harden there was multiply to me,
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
By God's word at last my sin eyes burned, Then I trampled at the law eyes burned,
to me. There my burdens sold my liberty at Calvary. Oh, the love that through
salvation's plan. Oh, the grace that brought it down to hand. Oh, the mighty hope that God
And so found liberty at Calvary.
Now I give to Jesus everything.
Now I gladly own him as my King.
Now our after-soke and only sing of Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free.
We pray for the service, Lord, I think for giving us the opportunity to be here tonight.
I thank you for just the safety with our travels.
I pray that you can just bless the service, bless the preaching, bless the singing, and
bless all those who went to the Fire Breathing Conference, just help them get there safely.
And I pray all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Alright, go ahead and turn to song number 349 in your hymn book, song number 349.
The Comforter has come, song number 349.
The Comforter has come, the Comforter has come, the Comforter has come, the Holy Ghost
the dreadful wail and fury of the blasts, as o'er the golden hills, the day advances past,
the Comforter has come. The Comforter has come, the Comforter has come, the Holy Ghost
Oh spread the tiniest round, wherever men is found, the Converter has come.
Oh, the great King of Kings, revealing in his wings to every captive soul.
The song of triumph reigns, the comforter has come.
The comforter has come, the comforter has come.
The Holy Ghost for men, the Father's promised gift.
Oh, spread the tiny crown.
The comforter has come, the holy ghost from him, the father's promise give, oh spread the tithing's round, where, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tithing's round, oh spread the tith
We'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside, we have our service times.
Sunday mornings at 10.30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six.
Wednesday nights at seven is our Bible study.
This week we'll be in Psalm 89.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below,
as well as salvation and baptisms.
Across the page is the note
about the don't go back to school party.
That is this coming Monday at 4 p.m.
just a half mile from here, south of here at Svald Park.
Same place we always have it, four o'clock.
This is for all families with school-aged children.
That means five years old to senior in high school.
And we'll have water balloon fights, ice cream, et cetera.
Of course, we got the missions trips over here to my right.
talk to Mrs. Amanda Wright or Mrs. Sarah Ventura.
If you want to help out with the meal train
for any of the expecting ladies,
the list of expectant ladies is on the back of the bulletin.
Be sure to be praying for them.
Looks like we got 12 of them on there
that they'll all have a safe and healthy pregnancy
and delivery.
And then upcoming events, of course,
the fire breathing Baptist Fellowship is in full swing
over in Cedar Hill, Texas.
I think we have at least about 30 or so people from our church that are already out there.
And so I'm going to be out there myself on Friday.
I was going to be preaching Saturday night.
I've been moved to Friday night.
So I'm preaching this Friday night in Cedar Hill, Texas, Dead Fast Baptist Church.
If you know anybody in that area, let them know about the conference and let them know
that I'll be preaching Friday night if you can.
in Indianapolis, it's your foundation.
And then the next Friday night after that,
in Boise, Idaho, a lot of people have asked us
which church in Boise?
We're actually just renting some kind of an event center
or something, I don't have that information, Pastor.
Thompson has the details on that.
So if you need any details on that.
then let me know, and I can get you those.
I know we have at least like three, four people
from our church that are going out there to Boise
and I appreciate it, I always appreciate it
when people come and support me at these things.
And so if you need any details,
or if somebody else needs details, reach out to us
and we'll point you to Pastor Thompson
to give you those details.
Or maybe the staff has the details.
Don't ask me, man, I only work here.
So let's go ahead and just add up the salvations
from the past few days going back to Monday.
Anything from Monday?
Okay, got it.
Anything else?
Say again?
Okay.
All right, gotcha.
Gotcha.
Okay, anything else from Monday? How about Tuesday anything from Tuesday? Okay, got it
Okay
Anything else from Tuesday? All right, and then how about today Wednesday? So that's three for the church van
Okay, and then we've got another two there. Is that a three?
Two, okay. I'm seeing double
So all right got it
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning with that.
Let's sing our next song.
Come lead us.
In your song books,
turn to song number 30, song number 30.
Nothing but the blood, song number 30.
And wash away my sin.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow
No other found I know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. For my heart in this I see. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing this my clean. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow.
That makes me white as snow.
No other mount I know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing can force it atone.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Not of good that I have done.
Oh, precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow, no other fount I know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my hope and peace.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
O precious is the flow back.
White as snow, no other found I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
we'll sing one last song before the service one last song which would be song number 325 song number 325
trust and obey song number 325
still and with all who will trust and obey. Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies, but his mouth wickly drives it away.
Not a doubt or a fear, not a sign or a tear, and a Bible we trust and obey.
Trust and obey for there's no other way.
To be happy in Jesus was to trust and obey, not a learned repair, not a sorrow we share, but are totally not richly repaired.
If we trust and obey, trust and obey. For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus.
But you trust and obey, but we never can prove.
He shows and the joy He bestows are for them who will trust and obey, trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus.
But to trust and obey, then in fellowship sweet, we will sit at his feet, or we'll walk by his side in the way.
But he says we will do, where he says we will go, never fear only trust and obey.
to trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
Alright this time we'll pass our offering plates as the plates go around.
Let's turn our Bibles to Psalm 89.
Psalm 89, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter, beginning in verse number one.
Follow along silently with Brother Dan as he reads,
Psalm 89, beginning in verse number one.
When the waves thereof arise thou stillest them, thou hast broken Rahab and pieces, as
one that is slain, thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine.
As for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them.
The north and the south thou hast created them.
Now ask the mighty arm, strong as thy hand and high as thy right hand.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy faith.
Face, blessed is the people that know the joyful sound.
They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
For thou art the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and sayest,
I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people,
I have found David my servant, with my holy oil have I anointed him,
with whom my hand shall be established, mine arm also shall strengthen him.
The enemy shall not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him,
and I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate them.
But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers.
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make to endure forever, and is thrown as the days of heaven.
If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes
and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with a rod and their
iniquity with stripes.
Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David, his seed shall endure forever,
It shall be established forever as the moon, and is a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah.
Thou hast cast off and abhorred. Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant.
Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken down all his hedges.
Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. All that pass by the way, spoil him.
He is a reproach to his neighbors. Thou hast set up the right hand of the adversaries. Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and it's not made him to stand in the battle.
Thou hast made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground.
The days of his youth hast thou shortened. Thou hast covered him with shame, Silah.
How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Remember how short my time is. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave, Silah?
Lord, where are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou has swarest unto David in thy truth?
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of
all the mighty people.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps
of thine anointed?
Blessed be the Lord forevermore.
Amen and amen.
Dear Lord, thank you for Faith Word Baptist Church.
Thank you for everybody that's come to church tonight.
Lord, I pray that you keep us all safe
on our way home after the service.
And Lord, I pray that you'd feel
a little pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit
and give us all ears to hear the message
and help us to be better Christians
and to love you more and to love one another more
in Jesus and our pray men.
Men, Psalm 89 is actually the final book in book three of Psalms.
If you remember, the book of Psalms is broken into five.
books and they're sort of different thematically, they tend to focus on different authors,
but it's organized into these five books and this is the final chapter of book three and in many
ways it's sort of the magnum opus of book three. It's really in many ways one of the most famous
Psalms in book three and it's obviously pretty long and it's very powerful as it really talks a lot
But then, figuratively, that's all going to apply to Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ is the Son of David,
and so a lot of these statements about David are actually prophetically pointing us to Jesus.
Really, the entire Old Testament should be read that way.
We should always be reading Jesus into every page, because the Bible says to him,
give all the prophets witness that, through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive the remission of sins.
And so this chapter though is one that is especially good with that regard and it also is a great passage for showing us the eternal security of the believer.
Even though, you know, it's in the book of Psalms you wouldn't necessarily expect to find a great proof text for eternal security in the book of Psalms
But it's there and it's very powerful in what it teaches. So starting at the beginning here with Psalm 89
It says in verse 1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever with my mouth will I make known
thy faithfulness to all generations.
Of course, this is a song that we sing all the time.
It's almost hard to read the verse without the song
popping into your head.
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever.
But sometimes when we're really familiar with something
and we've heard it a lot and we've sung it a lot,
sometimes we don't necessarily stop.
to dwell upon the truth of that verse because it's just kind of a song lyric that we've just
sung over and over again. But if you really think about what he's saying here, the author of the
Psalm, you know, it's labeled as being a guy named Ethan, the Ezra height. But when he says,
I will sing of the mercy of the Lord forever, remember that this is a Psalm that's intended to
And then it says with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Now there are a couple different ways to look at this. Obviously,
Ethan the Ezra height, he's a saved, born again, child of God.
He's going to go to heaven and he's going to keep on, you know, singing praises to God
up there forever and ever. Okay, but what about that second part where it says
with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations?
You see, this is exactly what
Ethan the Ezraite literally did because he is still making God's faithfulness known even in 2025
because we're still singing the song. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
And so, you know, again, just like I said, you know, maybe it's an unlikely place for a proof text
for eternal security of the believer, what we're going to see later.
But what about a proof text for the preservation of God's word?
You know, the Bible here is claiming that it is going to be sung in all generations.
And there are all kinds of claims like this made throughout the Bible about how God's
Word is going to endure forever, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall
not pass away.
And it's funny because the people who reject the preservation of God's Word, they will
quibble over the meaning of Psalm 12, 6, and 7.
Right, Psalm 12, 6, and 7, the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace of earth
Purified seven times thou shalt keep them, O Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever
They will quibble with whether that is actually a verse about the preservation of God's word
They're wrong anyway because it is a verse about the preservation of God's word
But as if that were the only verse
Right? Because we've got lots of other verses that talk about how God's word is going to be preserved forever.
Another great one is Isaiah 59-21, where God promises Isaiah that the prophecy that he's preaching is going to be in his mouth and in the mouth of his seed.
And in the mouth of his seed, seed forever, people are going to be speaking those words found in the book of Isaiah.
And we're still reciting those words.
Those words are being read every day by millions of people all over the world.
They're being preached by thousands of preachers all over the world
every single day constantly
because God's word has been preserved under all generations.
So, Ethan, he really was.
singing of the mercy of the Lord forever, he's singing an eternal song.
And so with his mouth, by composing this song, he actually made God's faithfulness known to all generations.
Meaning that if you're living in the 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, all the way up to today,
you are learning about God's faithfulness from Ethan the Ezraite.
because he's saying this song forever, God's word is preserved.
And you know what?
You can't even really say that you believe in the preservation of God's word
unless you're King James only, or Textus receptus only,
received text only, Masoretic Hebrew text only.
Because if you believe in these modern versions,
then what you're basically saying is that God's word was lost and rediscovered.
That is what the people who put those Bibles together believe.
They believe that God's Word was corrupted and that it's their job to restore it.
Oh man, I'm so glad that they came along to restore unto us God's Word that was lost for so long
until a bunch of archaeologists dug it up in the 1800s.
That's nonsense, that's madness, but more importantly, it goes directly against the doctrine of the preservation of God's Word.
God's word is preserved unto all generations.
And there are many verses that teach that.
It's not just Psalm 12, 6, and 7.
It's this verse.
It's Isaiah 59, 21.
It's Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21.
Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
It's easier for heaven and earth to pass
than for one jot or one tittle to pass from the law
until all be fulfilled, right?
on the preservation of God's word and we could go on and on there are many,
many more great verses on that subject. God's word is preserved. What we have today
is the same word of God that the Holy Spirit originally inspired. It's been copied,
it's been translated, it's been passed down, but it still says the same thing that it said when
It has been faithfully preserved.
What's funny is that a lot of the modern version crowd,
a lot of the people who push the hardest for the ESV,
which I like to call the extremely stupid version.
You know, the ones who are pushing for the ESV
and the new American standard
and all these guys who make all the videos
and push all this stuff are typically
of the reformed persuasion.
They're typically Calvinists who really claim
that they believe in
the Westminster Confession of Faith or the London Baptist Confession.
Now look, we're not Calvinists, we're not reform,
we're not claiming to go by these confessions and we don't go by any of that stuff.
We just go by the Bible, we're Baptist, we're not Presbyterian, whatever.
And the London Baptist Confession is really just plagiarized from the Presbyterian Confession.
You know, they pretty much just copied and pasted 90-some percent of it.
But here's the change in baptism and church polity and whatever.
But the bottom line is that these people don't even believe their own confession because
the chapter of the confession on the Word of God, which is chapter one.
Presumably, because they thought it was the most important thing or the basis for everything,
they put it as chapter one.
And in chapter one, it specifically states that God's word has been providentially preserved
and kept pure in all ages, and it spells out, we're talking the Hebrew Old Testament and
the Greek New Testament has been providentially preserved and kept pure in all ages.
How do you believe it's been kept pure in all ages if you're an ESV reader?
The ESV does not translate the Old Testament 100% from the original Hebrew
because they believe the Hebrew is corrupt in certain places,
so they translate from Septuagint.
And in the New Testament, they translate from manuscripts
that are more newly discovered.
So how is that kept pure in all ages?
We are more confessional than the Reformed.
We're more confessional than the Calvinists and we're not even Calvinist
because at least we believe chapter 1.
And we're good on chapter two as well.
But then they start getting into all their stupid, you know, Calvinistic predestination mumbo-jumbo.
But anyway, I will sing of the mercy of the Lord forever.
Hopefully you think about that when you sing this song with my mouth,
will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations, how the very lyrics of that song will exist forever.
And I don't know what the world's going to look like 500 years from now, or a thousand years from now,
but if Christ has not returned, or even if he has returned, no matter what happens,
a thousand years from now, we'll still be singing that song.
Maybe it'll have a new updated tune, I don't know.
But we'll still be singing that song. That song will be sung forever.
That's what the Bible says.
It says in verse number two,
Now again, let's talk about the word faithfulness,
because he says,
Well, in our modern vernacular,
we wouldn't talk about someone being faithful
unless we're in a church setting,
but out there in the world,
What are some synonyms that we would use
if we wanted to talk about a faithful person,
a faithful man, a faithful copy, a faithful employee?
What are some words that we would use?
Loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
Those are all good.
Okay, so we heard loyal, reliable, trustworthy, right?
Those are great.
And in this context, when we're talking about the Lord's faithfulness,
we're talking about the fact that we can trust Him.
He is reliable, he is not going to let us down,
meaning that God's promises that he has made to us,
he will fulfill, he will do what he has said he would do.
The Bible says, in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie
promised before the world began. So God promised us before the world even began,
he promised eternal life to all who believe, because God's Word is eternal.
God's Word has always existed and always will exist and so he promised us eternal life and he is
faithful. He is reliable. And what's so great about this verse number one, he says,
with my mouth while I make no lie, faithfulness to all generations is that this chapter is about
God's faithfulness, okay? Because it specifically, as I said, is going to go into the subject of
eternal security and I don't know about you, but from where I'm standing as a Christian in 2025,
You know, I want God to be faithful to me and if there's one area that I really want to be faithful more than anything, it's in the matter of salvation.
because no matter how messed up my life got, and even if I went through life saying,
oh man, God let me down, and I thought my life was going to turn out better,
and God allowed all these bad things to happen to me, and where's God when I need him, and blah, blah, blah.
Even if I felt super let down throughout life, you know, at least when I die, I'm going to heaven,
and it's like, okay, well, God was faithful.
because this life is just a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
The most important thing is our eternal destination.
And so if there's one area where we must have a faithful God,
where we must have a faithful word and a faithful promise,
it's with respect to salvation,
because we want to know that we have eternal life.
And the Bible says these things are written
unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God
that you may know that you have eternal life.
And that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.
So the Bible says that his faithfulness will be established in the very heavens.
You know, the Bible says, forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven, right?
So even no matter what happens on earth, right, it's preserved, it's settled in heaven, God's
word exists, and God makes sure that on this earth it also will not pass away and that
So the Bible says in verse 3, I've made a covenant with my chosen, I've sworn unto David my servant.
Now this term chosen is important because when people think of the chosen,
typically what they think of is God's chosen people,
and they're typically thinking of the Old Testament nation of Israel.
as the chosen ones, God's chosen people.
And truly, in the Old Testament, the physical nation of Israel
was God's chosen people. Okay? That's true.
But what you have to understand is that there are other elections and other
choosings throughout the Bible.
It's not just the Old Testament nation of Israel because David was also chosen in a special way.
Obviously there are lots of Israelites, but then David is specially chosen.
Because he's chosen to be the king of Israel.
After the kingdom is taken from Saul, God chooses to replace him with David.
and he specifically tells David that his kingdom is going to be an everlasting kingdom.
His kingdom is going to last forever.
So, God makes these different covenants and promises with different groups of people.
He chooses someone like he chose Abraham, made a covenant with Abraham.
He chose Isaac, made a covenant with Isaac.
He chose Jacob, made a covenant with Jacob.
So he makes these deals with certain people and he chooses that person.
They're going to be special.
and David is one of those. Now here's the thing about these deals or covenants or packs that he makes
is that some of them are conditional, some of them are unconditional. Some of them are permanent
and some of them are temporary. It's just a fact, right? So the promise that God made to Abraham and
to his seed is actually a permanent, one-sided, unconditional covenant that he made with the
However, when the children of Israel come out of the land of Egypt and God makes a covenant
with them, He makes that covenant with them at what place?
Where does he met at Mount Sinai that covenant that he makes with the children of Israel Mount Sinai is not one-sided
It is not permanent. It is not unconditional
It's packed with terms and conditions pages and pages to scroll through and initial and keep
Initialing and turning the page initial. I mean, it's like it'd be like worse than buying a house
You know, being in that Old Testament nation of Israel, how many terms and conditions you
got to amen, and you have to abide by, because there were lots of terms and conditions.
And of course, you know, one of the most important parts of that is the Ten Commandments.
But you've got all kinds of other things where God says, look, if you do X, Y, and Z, you
will be a chosen people.
If you don't, then I'm going to destroy you, wipe you out.
Does everybody remember that? God's literally saying to Moses like the first day,
hey Moses, why don't I just wipe them all out and start over with you.
Now, oh, they have this unconditional, really?
So unconditional that God's ready to wad it up and throw it in the trash the first day and start over with a different person.
Okay, so it shouldn't really shock us that Israel has been replaced in the New Testament?
If God was already ready to replace them with Moses, and in the New Testament, he has replaced
them with Christians.
And so, as we think about these different covenants, the Mosaic covenant has a lot of
terms and conditions and whatever.
Now, the covenant that God makes with David, though, is actually something that is an eternal
unconditional type covenant where he basically just says,
David is going to be the king forever.
David's going to reign forever, his descendants are going to reign forever.
Okay, because of the fact that that is fulfilled through Jesus Christ
and so there's nothing that can be a condition
or anything that could negate that or change that
because God made this promise to David
And so it says, I made a covenant with my chosen.
I've sworn in to David, my servant.
So the chosen in this case is David.
But then Jesus Christ is also called the chosen.
I think there's a whole TV show called that.
I haven't even watched five seconds of it.
I don't want to.
But there's a TV show even called that.
I'm pretty sure that's because they're calling Jesus the chosen one because that's what he is that is a biblical term
He is the elect. So here's the thing we as Christians are elect as well because we're in Christ Christ is elect
We're in Christ that makes us the elect. That's why in the New Testament. We're the chosen people not the Jews
Jews have been rejected cut off discarded
They will go to hell when they die unless they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ their Savior which they don't
But any one of them can get saved whenever they want and become a Christian then they will be the chosen people as soon as they are in Christ.
Until then, they are done.
See, the old covenant is the covenant made on Mount Sinai.
Now it's right there in the name, old.
Old covenant.
What does that mean, old covenant?
Does that sound like something that is actually in force right now?
It sounds like something that's obsolete because it is obsolete and the Bible clearly states
that the New Testament replaces the Old Testament.
The New Covenant replaces the Old Covenant.
We're not talking about the text of Scripture.
The text of Scripture is eternal.
God's Word is never going to go away.
But the covenant, the pact, the testament that he made with them at Mount Sinai is old and it's been replaced by the new.
And the Bible even spells this out in Hebrews 8.13 in that he said,
if the new covenant he had made the first old, now that which decaeth and waxeth old, is ready to vanish away.
It's gone, it's done, it's over.
Whereas the new covenant will never go away.
The New Testament is never being rescinded.
Now there's a false doctrine out there called dispensationalism.
And the way dispensationalism works, if you actually study it out and listen to what they're saying,
is that basically the old covenant was there, and then now we're in the new covenant,
but that basically we're going to go back to the old covenant.
And these dispensational bozos believe that Israel is again going to be God's chosen people,
so we're going backwards to the Old Covenant, and then they also believe, and you can't even fathom how bizarre this is,
they believe we're going to go back to doing animal sacrifices in the future.
It's stupid, it's madness, to think that God's program is going to go backwards after
Jesus Christ, the once-per-all, perfect sacrifice, why would we go back to an animal sacrifice,
why would we go back to the meats, drinks, and divers, washings, and carnal ordinances
of the Old Covenant, why would we go back to having Ark of the Covenant, Holy of Holies,
physical temple with the Holy Holies, Ark of the Covenant, the veil.
Folks, the veil was torn in half at the crucifixion of Christ
and God's not up in heaven, sowing it back together again
so that we can go back to the old covenant.
But this is what dispensationalism teaches.
Basically, that we go like to the new covenant
and then we kind of go back to Israel,
back to animal sacrifices and kosher and Haachflem and all that.
You know, it's unbiblical. It's wrong.
Why? Because the covenant made with Jesus Christ is eternal covenant.
The covenant made in Jesus' blood and broken body will never be replaced.
So we don't need seven dispensations, we need two testaments.
Old Testament, New Testament, New Testament supersedes the Old Testament.
So sometimes you'll hear this fancy theological word, supersessionism.
Right, and it's just one of those words. That's kind of just totally unnecessary
But people like to use this kind of nomenclature in order to lock people out and make them feel like they don't know
What you're talking about so you use a lot of fancy words like
Homo tell you Tom and stuff like that, you know instead of just speaking in plain English and so, you know
Supercessionism
because it supersedes, because the New Testament supersedes the Old Testament.
And yes it does, that is true, that is what the Bible teaches.
And look, anybody who has Hebrews 8.13 in front of them
and, you know, has their glasses on
and has the Holy Spirit living, how do you read Hebrews 8.13
and think that the Old Covenant is still in force?
It's just a denial of God's word,
just a denial of what the Bible teaches.
And the whole book of Hebrews is explaining
how we're done with animal sacrifices.
So why would we go back to that?
It's just their false wrong reading of prophecy.
But anyway, let's get back to what we're reading here.
I've made a covenant with my chosen.
I've sworn unto David my servant,
thy seed will I establish forever.
and build up thy throne to all generations."
Silah, now if you were reading this at the time
or singing this at the time,
you're thinking, oh, David's physical posterity,
his descendants are always gonna sit
on the physical throne in physical Israel.
You know, you might think of it that way,
but the reality is that the seed
that will be established forever is Jesus.
Okay, Jesus is going to be established forever.
And his throne will be to all generations because Jesus Christ will reign forever and ever, the Bible says in Daniel chapter seven, for example.
So, the Bible says here,
the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord,
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
And what is the congregation of the saints?
Well, you're sitting in it because the word congregation
is synonymous with church.
Church is just a modern word for congregation.
These words are used totally 100% interchangeably in the Bible.
So it's a prophecy of God's faithfulness being praised in the church of the saved, of the saints.
Now, for sake of time, it's a long chapter.
We read the whole thing, but let's just kind of jump down to the best part right now, just for sake of time.
And let's jump down to verse 20, and then we're going to jump again.
But it says, I found David my servant, with my holy oil have I anointed him.
with whom my hand shall be established,
my arm also shall strengthen him."
Now, of course, this is about the literal King David,
but more importantly, it's foreshadowing Jesus, okay?
So now let's jump to verse 26.
He shall cry unto me, thou art my Father, my God,
and the rock of my salvation.
Again, literally about David, right?
Also, I will make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth.
You can see how easy it is to see this prophetic of Jesus Christ.
Obviously, Jesus is called in the New Testament the firstborn among many brethren, the first
begotten of the dead.
And so he says, I will make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth because
Now, this term king of kings and lord of lords, what that actually means is it's not actually
necessarily saying like, oh, it's a king who reigns over other kings.
I mean, obviously that's true too, but that's not really what that term means.
This construction in the Old Testament where you have something of something like king
Lord of lords, this is a construction that is just a superlative, meaning he's the ultimate king.
Okay? Now, let me give you some other examples of this, okay?
For example, in Song of Solomon, what's the first verse of Song of Solomon?
It says, the song of songs.
which is Solomon's, okay?
And in many Bibles or other languages
and things sometimes it'll just be called song of songs.
I've even seen old King James Bibles
where it was labeled song of songs
instead of song of Solomon.
So you have to ask yourself this question.
Is song of Solomon a song of songs?
Is it a bunch of songs that have been
sewed together into one song?
Or is it just the superlative song?
Is it the par excellence song?
Is it just the ultimate song?
That is what song of songs actually means.
The song of songs, which is Solomon's, means the ultimate song, which is Solomon's.
So the king of kings is the ultimate king, the greatest kings, right?
The Lord of lords is the ultimate lord, and so forth.
So the idea here is that, let me find my place here.
Where were we?
Verse number... where?
Verse number 27, also I will make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth, because
of course the kings of the earth they have a limited realm, limited scope, limited timeframe,
limited power.
Jesus Christ is the ultimate king.
He is the king of kings and Lord of lords.
He is higher than all the kings of the earth.
So it says in verse 28, my mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall
And this is a great verse.
His seed also will I make to endure forever
and is thrown as the days of heaven.
So again, you could look at it as, oh, that's, you know,
Solomon, Reboem, Abijah, Joram, Jospaphat,
you know, all these different kings of Judah that reigned.
But more importantly, it's the seed of Jesus Christ
that's going to, or it's Jesus Christ himself
that's going to rule forever, exist forever.
David represents Jesus, so in many ways, the seed of David could be seen as the seed of Jesus, meaning
Jesus's seed, as it were. Okay, and I'm going to show you why that's important.
It says, his seed also will I make to endure forever and is thrown as the days of heaven.
So David's throne is going to reign forever, and then his seed is going to
Endure forever, live forever, have eternal life, okay?
So Jesus is David, right?
Jesus is the son of David, that king represented by David.
And then if we have been saved,
if we have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ,
well then now we are his seed.
Now you say, well, I don't know because, you know,
there's God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
Is that really true?
Let's go to Isaiah 53.
This is another one of the most famous
passages of the Old Testament.
Isaiah chapter number 53, one of the best prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament.
While you're turning there, I'll read for you the most famous verse, but he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
Okay, that's the most famous, but the whole chapter is really just a two-day force from
start to finish.
But look what the Bible says in verse number 10,
yet it, please the Lord to bruise him,
he hath put him to grief, when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed.
So notice, when Jesus' soul is made an offering for sin,
Jesus will see his seed.
So does Jesus have seed?
Yes, he does.
He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.
By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquity."
So the people that are justified by the Lord Jesus Christ are his seed.
We are children of God and that includes being the children of Jesus.
We are his seed in that sense and so if you back up in the chapter
it says in verse number eight
He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation
For he was cut off out of the land of living and the idea here is that he didn't have a physical
Progeny he didn't have physical children because of the fact that he died
before he produced any children.
You know, who's going to declare his generation?
You know, Jesus begat so-and-so, so-and-so, begat so-and-so.
You know, he's cut off from the land of living.
He died without having a physical child.
But yet, even though he died,
obviously without being married,
without having a physical child,
even though he died with no physical children,
he's still going to see his seed.
when He is crucified for them and justifies them,
and now they are His seed, we are His seed.
And so go back to Psalm 89 with that in mind.
And the idea here is that His seed will endure forever
and His throne as the days of heaven.
Now here's the best part,
here's the part that's really good
on eternal security of the believer.
Look at verse number 30, it says,
if His children, who is that?
Who are the children?
It's us, right?
If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments,
if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments,
then will I visit their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with stripes." So look, if we break God's commandments,
God's going to give us a weapon.
He's going to visit our iniquity with stripes and with the rod, and God uses this illustration
over and over again that whom the Lord loveth, he chasteth, even as a son, even as a father
of the son, and whom he delighteth.
So, the father who loves his children is going to discipline them.
He's going to beat them, he's going to whip them, he's going to spank them.
The Bible says, withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the
rod, he shall not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shall deliver his soul from hell.
Of course, we have these idiot X and IFB bozos that have even got, some of them have even
Oh, God doesn't even chastise His children.
Another guy who used to be known as Pastor Who, now he's ex-Pastor Who.
This guy said that, you know, oh, when the Bible says, you know, scourge doesn't really
mean scourge, stripe doesn't really mean stripe, you know.
He just pulls out the Webster's 1828 dictionary, just finds a different definition for scourge
and says like, oh, it's this, it's like a figurative.
It just means discipline or something.
But here's, here's the problem with that.
The problem with that is that like,
it's already a metaphor.
It's just like a metaphor within a metaphor?
Because it's like, he's saying like,
the Lord chasens people sort of like a dad.
Spanx is kids, or scourges, or chasens, or whips, or beats his kids.
You know, that's how God punishes his children.
So you're like, oh no, no, no, the weapon's metaphor.
No, no, no. The parent displaying their child is not metaphorical. That's literal.
The metaphor is that God is not literally coming to us with a paddle.
and literally beating us, right?
So God has never in all my, and look,
I'm saved and I've broken rules at times,
but God never showed up bodily with a paddle and whipped me.
God never showed up and took his belt off
and gave me a spanking.
You know, he's gird about the path with a golden girdle.
It's probably gonna hurt.
You know, a metal belt is going to hurt, it's made out of gold, right?
So you know, God never took off the gold belt and spanked me with it, but my dad did.
His was not made of solid gold, but his was made of leather.
And I got spanked with a leather belt from Dad, literally, which taught me about God's figurative punishment
that is just like my dad spanked me when I was bad, just like my mom spanked me when I was bad.
So God will spank us when we're bad. That's not literal, that's figurative.
But to say it's like a metaphor of a metaphor, then there's nothing, there's no meat on the bone.
You can't use a metaphor of something that isn't real.
You know, the whole point of a metaphor, or a parable, or a simile, is that you take something that's literal, tangible, easy to understand that we have literal, real experience with, and then you use that earthly truth to illustrate a heavenly truth.
That's what we're talking about. Okay, so you know these goofballs just because they're you know goal is just to preach against
Whatever I say and do because that's what the X and I of B is like
Basically their thing was like oh, well, I'll show Pastor Anderson all just become super anti-discipline
I'm going to show Pastor Anderson, I'm going to preach that wives can separate from their husbands.
I'll show him.
Folks, you're not showing me, you're showing the world what you are, a phony,
who doesn't care what the Bible says, and you're a liberal and a compromiser
and you suck, and other than that, you're a great person.
All right, Psalm 89, it says,
If my, if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments,
if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments,
then I will visit their transgressions with the rod
and their iniquity with stripes.
Is he going to do that literally?
No.
But does dad do that literally?
Absolutely.
Okay?
Unless your dad is delinquent
because the Bible says he that spareeth his rod
hated his son.
But he the love of them chasing the betimes and by the way the ex and IP didn't come up with this jazz
This jive talk about discipline because it was already out there because guess what I've heard this my whole life
They said oh when the Bible says rod, it's actually that cane with the hook on the end and it's not about
you know, spanking them, it's just about, you know, gently kind of giving them a little nudge.
Well, here's the thing, I don't care which tool it is or what it's shaped like,
the Bible literally says, beat him with a rod. So, you know, if he's beating us with that thing,
with the hook on the end, I don't really see what the difference, it might just, you know,
leave a weird shape mark every once in a while.
But this is the kind of junk people do when they just, they don't like what the Bible says.
They don't agree with what the Bible says, or they've just decided that the Bible is
not popular in 2025, it's not on vogue, or it doesn't comply with local regulations
or whatever.
At the end of the day, the Bible is eternal and its truths are eternal and I don't care.
And I'm not going to sit here and do a bunch of mental gymnastics to try to find a way
to explain away the clear teaching of God's Word on corporal punishment.
The Bible says, if his children forsake my law, I'll visit their transgression with the
rod.
They're iniquity with the strikes.
But here's the important part.
Verse 33, nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer
my faithfulness to fail.
Now utterly means completely.
It's basically from the same root as like outer, outerly, right?
Outer would be like the edge, the fringe, the border, the outer.
So we could go to the most basically, you know, outside, extreme, right?
And that would be what? In the case of the planet here, right?
If we go to the edge of the dry land...
So if we were to go to like way up in Alaska to some frozen tundra Eskimo place or to go like
all the way down to the tip of South America, Tierra del Fuego, that would be called going to the
uttermost part of the earth. The outermost part of the, you know, the innermost part is Nebraska.
The outermost part is going to be one of these like extreme edges. Does everybody understand that?
And so when he says, I'm not going to utterly take away my loving-kindness from him,
what he's saying is, I'm not going to completely take it away, right?
I'm not just going to completely, utterly, like, all the way to the edge, it's all gone.
No, no, no, I'm not going to completely take away my loving-kindness from him.
Now, here's the thing, it sounds to me, though, that God's loving-kindness may be a little bit dampened.
may be a little bit lessened,
may be not quite as passionate or warm as it should be,
or could be, or would be.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
These people kind of have this attitude
that God just sort of just feels
exactly the same about everybody.
So you could just be the most backslidden Christian
just out there sinning up a storm.
Or you could just be just totally dedicated, pushing yourself,
winning souls to Christ, faithful to church, living a good, clean life,
and that God just sort of feels the same about you. That is not true.
It's all part of God's unconditional love, or in this case they'll talk about
the unconditional chesed of God.
The unconditional agape of God and His
chesed. But here's the thing about that
Look, God is always going to love us as his children.
He will always love his children.
He's not going to utterly take away his loving kindness from us.
But guess what?
There are people that he feels more strongly about than others.
There are people that he loves more than others.
There are people that he likes more than others.
It's so horrible!
God loves everybody the same!
Really?
Because I've got a big stack of verses that says the opposite of that.
You know I could show you all kinds of verses where the Bible says hey if you keep God's commandments
You know then he's gonna love you and then you know now obviously God does have a baseline of love for all of us
But then well how about this did he love the disciples?
Yeah, but what about the one that's called the disciple whom Jesus loved I remember hearing preachers say like oh well, you know
He actually loved them all the same
And that was just John kind of felt like he was special
Last time I checked, there were a lot of times when God only took like three people and John was one of them.
It's like, all right, Peter, James and John, let's go.
Only the inner circle, only the inner three.
And last time I checked, there were only two seats next to Jesus.
I saw the picture.
No, I'm just kidding, the picture's not real.
Picture's not real because Jesus needs a haircut in that picture.
But, you know, last time I checked, there's pretty much two seats next to Jesus.
And John's in one of them, John is leaning on Jesus, leaning on his breast at the last supper.
He's the disciple whom Jesus loved.
Okay?
So is he a little bit of a favorite?
Are the three special?
Are they a higher echelon, a higher tier?
Absolutely.
Why does that bother you so much?
It shouldn't, okay?
Because here's the thing.
You can be in the VIP lounge in heaven if you want.
You can be in the upper echelons if you want, right?
Because God rewards the faithful of His servants more.
And He's coming and His reward is with them
to give every man according as his work shall be.
And here's the thing, David's brethren,
they weren't unsaved.
They weren't horrible people.
But you know what, David's brethren,
the Bible says out of them,
David said, God liked me, right?
God liked him better than he liked.
The oldest, right? What was the name, Eliab and Shemua and you know, whatever their names are. Sorry. I'm having a senior moment here
But the point is just kidding. I'm not that old
Don't let these glasses fool you
So I'm actually totally blind. I'm just quoting all this from memory, you know, when I actually need to read something
I'm gonna lie. Yeah, verse number
26
So anyway, I'm kidding, but it is all a little bit blurry. I'm not gonna lie
That's why these are here in case my memory starts to fail me a little bit or if I stand back here. I can read it
So here's the thing about that is that
God's not gonna utterly take away his loving-kindness, but you know what his loving-kindness is
Gonna be more when we're doing the right stuff and less when we're doing the wrong stuff
I mean think about this. What about our own physical children in our house if we have children in our house and
They're being bad
You know, we're not gonna be as warm and affectionate with them necessarily as the one who's being good
And again, that's probably politically incorrect to say that and, oh, we're so bad and whatever.
And, you know, everybody gives Jacob such a bad time for giving Joseph that coat of many colors.
Like, oh, he's playing favorites, he gives him the coat of many colors.
And maybe there's some truth in that, but at the same time, did you notice that Joseph was also the only one of those 12 kids who was even a good kid?
The rest of the kids are all being bad.
I mean, should we really give a coat of mini-colors to Reuben when he's sleeping with the dad's
concubine?
Gross!
Don't give him the coat of mini-colors.
I mean, should we give the coat of mini-colors to Simeon and Levi when they killed a whole
town?
Should we give the coat of mini-colors to Judah when Judah is out there and committing, you
I mean, now, but I bet that was like the only time he ever went to a prostitute ever.
Who thinks that that was probably the only time he ever, I mean, it's like bad luck Brian over here
goes to a prostitute one time in his life, turns out to be his daughter-in-law in disguise.
Bad luck Judah.
The meme, right?
is that, you know, the sons of the concubines,
should they get the Codemini colors?
Cause last time I checked,
Joseph brought their evil report to dad.
Right?
Izzacar, Zibulin, you know, Dan, NAFTA,
or sorry, I got that wrong.
Gad Asher, Dan Naftali, should they get the Codemini colors?
Now Izzacar and Zibulin, maybe they're in the clear.
You know, we don't, I don't have any dirt on them.
But there but I just listed eight of them that there's for sure some serious dirt on
So I can kind of see why God's given or excuse me
Jacob is giving the code of many calls to Joseph because let's face it
Joseph is the one who ends up saving everybody and
Being a great guy and being super helpful not saying he's a perfect person
But he did a lot of great things. He ended up being godly. He ended up being righteous
He ended up getting the double portion of the inheritance
You know, is that Jacob just playing favorites?
Well, you know, I happen to think that God's up in heaven and I don't think he's playing
favorites in the sense of, because here, let's stop and talk about this.
Let's not just blow by this.
Let's talk about this.
This is a good subject.
Let's talk about this for one moment.
Jacob, for showing favoritism toward Joseph,
it was only if he was showing favoritism to Joseph
due to the fact that Joseph was the son of his favored wife.
Right?
Because then it's not fair to the other kids.
It's not their fault that their mama's
a little bit ugly or whatever.
Right?
If their mom's a little ugly, that's not their fault.
Maybe they're a little ugly too.
I don't know.
But the point is that's not their fault. So that would be a bad reason to play favorites of sitting there and saying oh
Well, you know because you're just the son of Rachel
I'm gonna show favoritism toward you and you know what? I'm sure there was a little bit of that too and
Obviously, Jacob's a human, he's not perfect, but to sit there and just say that favoritism
is always wrong, well, I happen to think that God shows favoritism to us.
Not because we're red, yellow, black, or white, that'd be kind of messed up, right?
The kind of messed up is like, oh, I'd love to bless you and do great things with you,
but you're black.
You can't do it, you know.
That'd be kind of messed up.
Oh, you're Chinese.
You know, now I just need to go find a white guy who's doing the same thing.
No, wrong. God doesn't care about that when the Bible says God's not a
respecter of persons.
He doesn't care if you're rich, poor, red, yellow, black, white, whether you're
American, different nationality,
whatever, your economics, that's the kind of stuff that doesn't matter.
But I will say this, God's gonna bless you more if you're obeying
than the guy who's not obeying.
Is that God showing favoritism toward his children?
I think it is, but you can call it whatever you want.
But look, if I have a kid that's a punk,
he's not going to get the same blessings as the kid who's being good.
It's not like well, you're being a brat throwing yourself on the ground in the store and and making a snow angel and
Screaming and yelling on the ground in the grocery store. It's other kids doing the right things
You both get an otterpop you both get an ice cream that doesn't make any sense
It's like no you're getting the ice cream for being good and you don't get the ice cream because you were bad
Right or does everybody just get a participation ice cream cone?
No, that's not the way life works. That's not the way parenting works.
And so, you know, you've got people who come up with these things and they say these things, you know,
oh, what I do for one, I have to do for the other.
Not necessarily, because here's the thing. Is that Jacob, you know, when he's doling out blessings and stuff even under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost?
He's doling out those blessings under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Are the blessings equal?
No.
Because some of the kids did really bad stuff and I mean Ruben just doesn't get a black. I mean he's just
It's like you're unstable
You defiled your father's couch. You're gross and so yeah next kid
You guys murdered people cursed be your anger
Divide you up split you guys up
Split you guys up. You're too evil when you're together
And so, you know, I, anyway, I felt like it was good to dwell on that point because, you know, you hear these things but you have to wonder like, wait a minute, is that really biblical though?
Is God really treating us all the same or does he kind of scale back his loving kindness towards some of us?
He's not going to take it away utterly.
We're always going to be his children and his faithfulness is not going to fail, meaning that he's not going to break his promise to us of getting us to heaven.
He's reliable in that.
Let's keep going. We've got to hurry for sake of time.
David, but we know it's really prophetic of the seed of Jesus Christ.
I'm not going to break my promise. They will endure forever.
They will be like the stars of heaven. They will be eternal.
He says I'm not going to take away my loving kindness. What if they break the rules?
What if they sin? What if they commit a huge sin?
What if we as Christians commit a huge sin? Is God going to take away our salvation?
Are we not gonna live forever anymore? Does he take away our eternal life?
Is he gonna utterly take away his loving kindness from us? No, he will not. We will still be saved
But we might get extra spankings
Reduced blessings and he's not going to be as warm toward us as he would have could have should have been had we done the right thing
So everybody understand this?
Just like if your child is a brat
They're gonna get punished and they're not gonna get treated as well as the child that's doing right and being good
We live in this weird society that just wants everything to be equal and everything to be fair
You know what I'm for I'm for equal opportunity not equal outcome
So that's what I'm saying. I think God gives us all equal opportunity.
I don't think that God just picks and choose. I'm gonna bless this guy
and I'm just not gonna bless this guy. This guy's gonna be a successful pastor.
This guy's gonna be known as Pastor Who and crash and burn and fail.
I don't think God's up in heaven just deciding that one man succeeds and one man fails.
No, I think God's up in heaven looking down and blessing the people who do right
and cursing the people who do wrong. That's what I think is going on.
And I think he's going to spank you more, the more crimes you commit.
And the less crimes you commit, the more rewards you're going to get, and the less spankings you're going to get.
I mean, to me, this is kind of common sense. It's also biblical.
You know, the Bible teaches this.
And so, he's not going to break the promise, or save no matter what.
He's not going to utterly take away the love and kindness.
Well, where do unsaved people go ultimately?
The first word of a two-word, this is a crossword puzzle.
Two words, ends in darkness,
five letters, second letters are you.
Outer darkness, right?
Outer darkness.
You know when you go to outer darkness,
let me tell you something.
When unsaved people go to outer darkness,
he has taken his loving kindness utterly away from them.
You understand God's not like well, I'm still kind of you know got a little loving kindness for you while you're roasting in hell
No, when you're roasting in hell
You're done
You are utterly removed from God's loving kindness and guess what none of us is going to hell
Because we believe in Jesus, we're saved, and He has promised, and He will not break
His promise.
I mean, how many times do you say in this chapter, I'm not going to break my promise, I will
not lie, I swore that I will not lie, I will not break this promise.
They will endure forever, they will live forever, okay?
In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began.
He is not going to utterly take His loving-kindness from us, which means we would never go to
We're always going to be in the light of God's love all the time.
Whether the light is dim or bright, we will be in the light.
We will be saved.
God loves us and God will never stop loving his children.
And we will go to heaven no matter what because we're saved.
That's what the Bible teaches.
Of course, it's very clear in the New Testament,
but it's kind of cool to go to an Old Testament passage
and see this already being laid out,
maybe a little more cryptically,
a little bit more obliquely in a prophetic way in Psalms,
but it's still there, isn't it?
You can see clear biblical principles right here in this chapter.
Now, I've just only got a couple minutes left,
so I just want to just summarize this last part of the psalm
because this last part of the psalm is really interesting.
38 through 52 he just finished saying like God has just made a super duper big promise
that he can never break and he can't lie or whatever, okay?
But then, strangely, the next verse,
Silah is like a musical punctuation.
And then the next verse says,
But thou hast cast off and abhorred,
thou hast been wroth with thine anointed,
thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant,
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground,
thou hast broken down all his hedges,
thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin,
all the, now how can this be?
Now, obviously you could go with like a literal back then interpretation of just that's how it feels at the time
because David's going through some things.
Because remember, God made these promises to David that his throne was going to endure forever.
But didn't he have to go on the run at one point when Absalom took over and he's literally fleeing?
And he's on the run and he's camped out in the wilderness and someone else has taken
over his kingdom and usurped his authority.
But here's the thing about that though, is that what this actually is better understood
as is prophetic of Jesus Christ.
So, God has made this ultimate covenant with Jesus Christ, but yet God does what?
He has cast off and been angry with Jesus.
Why would God the Father be angry with Jesus when Jesus did everything perfectly all the
time?
Because the Bible says He Himself bear our sins in His own body on the tree.
that we might be made the righteousness of God and Him.
And if you think about when Jesus Christ was on the cross, darkness covered the earth,
and Jesus cried out,
my God, my God, why is that forsaken me?
You know, why?
Because there's a separation there
between Father and Son caused by sin.
Because of the fact that Jesus took upon Him the sins of the whole world,
now fellowship is broken.
Just like sin breaks fellowship between us and God when Jesus took that penalty upon him
Then fellowship between father and son is broken
And so this is a great prophecy of that
And, you know, we don't have time necessarily to go through it all point-by-point.
But there's some literal application for back then, you know, just about warfare and fighting.
And, you know, the king is struggling and he's asking for God to jump in and step in
because it feels like God is forsaking him.
But then there's the literal Jesus being forsaken on the cross.
So there's like a shadow fulfillment and a literal fulfillment, as always.
In verse number 44,
Thou hast made his glory to cease
and cast down his throne down to the ground.
The days of his youth has thou shortened,
thou hast covered him with shame."
See, of course, Jesus Christ was covered with shame, right?
He despised the shame when he was on the cross
that he had to endure.
And then it says,
Where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I do bear in my bosom
the reproach of all the mighty people, wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord,
wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine annoyed. Notice,
Jesus, right? He bore all those reproaches.
He bore all the sin. He bore all the shame, and so he fulfills this perfectly.
So yeah, we could obviously sit here and break it down verse by verse about David back then,
and I'm sure many preachers have done that, and that's a legitimate interpretation,
but the much more rewarding way to read this is to read it through the Christological lens to think about Jesus.
bearing our reproaches and feeling the wrath of God,
that punishment for the sin,
as he bear in his own body our sins and became sin for us
so that we could become the righteousness of God and him.
But then, of course, he ends on this high note,
blessed be the Lord forevermore.
You know, he says, he says, you know,
God's not gonna break his promise.
Even when things are bad though, you know,
blessed be the Lord.
The Lord gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
And so there's still trust and faith that, of course, he's going to be restored.
And again, if we had the time, we could even see foreshadowings of that in that
passage about the resurrection, because of course, yeah, Jesus Christ died for all
our sins. He bore all our sins. He became sin for us. But then, of course, he went
down to hell for three days and three nights. And having conquered death and
hell, he rose again victorious from the grave. And of course, he was restored to
right now at the father's own right hand.
And then we have this amen and amen,
which is probably the amen that we might expect
at the end of a song like this,
but the amen and amen,
because it's also the end of book three of Psalms.
So it's like a very much end,
because it's the end of the Psalm
and it's the end of the whole section.
Let's bards and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for this great passage, Lord.
And, Lord God, I pray that we would always strive to be the best children that we can
be.
We're so thankful and so glad that you will never leave or forsake us.
But Lord, help us to be the best children that we can be so that we can get as much
of your loving kindness as possible and as little of your punishment as possible.
And Lord, even when it comes to marriage, Lord, thank you for those who understand the
That their that their wife will never leave them or forsake them or their husband will never leave them or forsake them
That's a beautiful assurance for us to have as married couples
But Lord help us to strive to in spite of that be the best spouses that we can possibly be
Help us to be the best children to our parents that we can possibly be even though we will always be their children and Lord
Even though we will always be your children help us all to strive to be the best children that we could possibly be and in Jesus
Name we pray amen
All right, we'll sing one last song before we dismiss.
Song number 75 on Jordan's Stormy Banks, song number 75.
I am out for the promised land, I am out for the promised land.
Oh, who will come and go with me? I am out for the promised land.
There God, the Son, forever reigns and scatters night away.
I am bound for the promised land. I am bound for the promised land.
Oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land, oh, whoo!
I am bound for the promised land.
When shall I reach that happy place
and be forever blessed?
When shall I see my father's face
and in his bosom rest?
I am bound for the promised land.
Oh, who will come and go with me?
I am bound for the promised land.