Session 3 Sermon - Claude Ramsey

If you would, this morning, please turn to Psalm 110 and stand with us, if you would, to honor the reading of God's holy word. These are the words of the living God. The Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.

The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power and holy garment. From the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord is at your right hand. He will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses.

He will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. He will drink from the brook by the way. Therefore, he will lift up his head. If we could, let's pray one more time. Lord, as I come before you once again, I want to thank you and I want to praise you for assurance of faith and the witness of your Holy Spirit to the truth of your word.

And Lord, my desire today is nothing else but this. Show us Christ in your word. God, today only you are able to do the work that is necessary to be done. And so what I would ask you is this, Lord. As we look at your word today, draw back the veil in a sense, Lord.

Show us your glory. Let us know your holiness. How great and how awesome and how mighty that you are. And in seeing that, we will inevitably recognize how little and weak and small we are. Today, God, through the preaching of the gospel, save the lost, please, Lord.

Take hearts of stone out of the people who would hear this today and give them hearts of flesh that they can respond to you. Oh, God, that today might be the day that the lost are saved. And let today be the day, God, that the downcast, the cold, the nearly dried up would be refreshed and would be revived.

Lord, continue what you began on Thursday. Work according to your will. And to you and you alone be the glory, honor, and praise. For it's in Jesus' name that I ask you these things, Lord. Amen. Never think that you have knowledge enough or that you study the word more fully, but that God safeguards our humility by keeping us in continual dependence upon him for teaching and for revelations of himself from the word.

He never in this world brings any soul to the utmost of what is from the word to be made out and discovered. Plain language, we do not know it all. But we do know what we have been given. And thanks be unto God, Augustine said this, Just as there are shallows in scripture where a lamb may wade, so there are depths in scripture where an elephant may swim.

Depths which the most learned and the most godly have yet to plumb. All Christians, therefore, should approach the study of scripture knowing that we know but little. And we must long to learn more. And we must ever look to God himself to open unto us his word.

I am a big dummy because I asked to preach on this text. After having asked to preach on it and beginning to pray and to try to prepare, I realize that I am absolutely inadequate. Nevertheless, I'm going to do my best to glorify the Lord today and to give you the word of God.

If you're taking notes today, there will only be two parts in this sermon. It should make note-taking quite simple for you. Part one will be an exposition of the text here. And part two will be an exhortation and an encouragement for you to look unto the Lord and be saved.

Number one, beginning with our exposition of the text, let's establish this fact that this is the psalmist David that we are reading here. I say that because there are some skeptics, thank you so much, brother, there are some skeptics who would try to argue and disprove that this is David, but the scriptures teach us the very plain truth in the Old Testament that by the mouth of two or three witnesses that every word will be established.

Well, here we have David speaking God's inspired word. And in the New Testament, we have the apostle Peter affirming that it is David speaking in his inspired word when he quotes David in the great Pentecost sermon.

The great Pentecost sermon we hear David referred to as being quoted here in this text. And as a third witness, as though we need it anymore, we have the greatest of witnesses. We have it in the inscripturated word of God.

So this is David speaking here. Now what do we see in this text? Beginning in verse 1, there are a number of things that we see. First of all here, we see the Father and the Son. In this, we see the doctrine of the Trinity set forth in theological terminology.

Thus, there is another big theological term that we see, which is the doctrine of inseparable operations. So simply defined, the doctrine of inseparable operations affirms that the triune persons act as a single agent externally, while internally their operations are divided.

Again, let me break that down in plain terms. In plain terms, where one person of the Godhead is at work, they are all at work. They do not act individually, but they are all at work. So we see the Father and we see the Son.

Charles Spurgeon says this, Though David was a firm believer in the unity of the Godhead, he yet spiritually discerned the two persons, the Father and the Son. He distinguishes between them and perceives that in the second, he has a peculiar interest, for he calls him, My Lord.

The psalmist David here, in what is beautiful and what is amazing here, I think it's so very important for us here, this is almost an anticipatory exclamation by the psalmist David as he's been let in on a divine conversation, the conversation between the Father and the Son.

We have this here in the text. And it looks forward and it kind of echoes the New Testament, where in the New Testament, you remember, as John proclaimed the gospel so clearly to us last night, how Jesus died, Jesus cried, It is finished, bowed his head, gave up the ghost, was taken down from the grave, but the good part is that on the third day, he arose from the grave.

Now, the scripture tells us this. The scripture tells us that he appeared to a few of the disciples at one time, and Thomas, doubting Thomas wasn't there, the disciples told their brother about it. Thomas just shrugged them off.

He said, Unless I see him with my eyes, unless I am able to put my fingers in the scars in his hand and in the hole in his side, I will not believe. But the scripture goes on to tell us that Jesus appeared to Thomas.

Thomas was a big talker, but when he saw the Lord, the Lord said, Thomas, here are my hands and here is my side. And all Thomas could do was fall down and declare, My Lord and my God. The words that are used here in verse 1, if you'll notice in your own Bible, in your text, you'll see the first usage, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D.

When you see that in the Old or the New Testament, this is the Old Testament signification of the name of God. So when you read capital Lord, you can understand this as being Yahweh, the eternal, self-existent God.

The God who is before all things and will be when all things are said and done. He is God. In the second use, you see the Lord, Yahweh, said to my Lord, capital L, small o-r-d. This is the Hebrew term Adonai, however you want to pronounce that.

I'm with John. When you're country, nothing comes out right. But this word signifies master. So Yahweh, David is saying, Yahweh said to my Lord. David is referring to Jesus as Lord. By the way, again, as I mentioned yesterday, that's the title of the message.

These men were gracious to let me change it from the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death to Jesus is Lord. So as we continue to move through this, I love how Charles Spurgeon went on to say this, how condescending on Jehovah's part to permit a mortal ear to hear and a human pen to record his sacred converse with his co-equal son.

And Spurgeon closed and he said this, how greatly should we prize the revelation of this private and solemn discourse with the son herein which has been made public for the refreshing of his people. We read in the book of Romans in the New Testament that these things that we have in the Word of God were written before time.

For what purpose? They were written before time so that we through patience and through the comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. The Word of God is our hope. So we see the Father and the Son. We see the doctrine of the Trinity.

We see the doctrine of inseparable operations. Still in verse 1, what do we see next? We see the doctrine of God himself. The doctrine of God himself. In 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 and verse 17, the apostle Paul writes to young Timothy and he reminds Timothy what the Word of God is.

All Scripture, he says, all Scripture is breathed out by God, inspired by God and is profitable. Profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be perfect, so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto every good work.

Now when it comes to God, when it comes to the character, to the nature of God in our world, in the church world, there are those who profess to know God. There are many who say, I know who God is. God is like this.

There's a big mistake. God is not like anything. God is unlike anything that we know, can fathom, or even imagine. God is completely other. There we have another doctrine, the doctrine of the aseity of God, that God is completely other than us.

Nevertheless, there are people in our world today who profess to know God and they say this, they have the right to believe God to be a certain way and they have a right to assume that God possesses certain characteristics that are they themselves uncharacteristic of what the Bible says about God, about the character and about the nature of God.

Now there's a one-word definition for what I just told you, and that one-word definition is called idolatry. When you make a god in your own image, whether it's intentional or unintentional, it is idolatry.

And we are called not to have any other gods other than the Lord God Almighty. So, in other words, people have a god of their own making. I'm going to make a very bold statement here. I don't mind being quoted, but don't misquote me.

But what I'm going to say here is a strong statement. We do not, you nor I, we do not have the authority or the liberty to think freely about who God is. We don't have the authority or the liberty to think freely about who God is.

Now, in the Westminster Catechism, question three and four, it gives us a very good question-and-answer form. It gives us a very good pattern to shape our thoughts here. Question three in the Westminster Catechism states this.

What do the Scriptures principally teach? The answer, the Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God and what God requires of man. Question four, what is God? The answer, God is a spirit.

He is infinite. He is eternal. He is unchangeable in His being. He is wisdom. He is power. He is holiness. He is justice. He is goodness. He is truth. Who God is, His character, His nature is unchangeable.

And how He works and how He does things, He does according to the counsel of His own will, so on and so forth. So contrary to what some of the popular prosperity preachers say, God never consults them.

He'll never consult you or I. He'll never, as intelligent as Tyler is, He'll never consult Tyler. Because guess what? Tyler's knowledge is minute compared to the knowledge of God. So what we see next in this passage, still in verse 1, we see the decree of God.

The decree of God. Now what is a decree? The decrees of God are declarations or pronouncements that He has made in working out His plans in various ages. It is what God has said and determined to do. What God has said and determined to do.

Moving forward, still in verse 1, what doctrine do we see? The sovereignty of God. We see the sovereignty of God. God is described in the Scriptures as all-powerful and all-knowing. God is outside of time.

He is responsible for the creation of everything. And these divine traits set the very minimum boundary for God's sovereign control in the universe. And so that is to say this, that nothing in the universe takes place outside of God's permission.

God's sovereignty itself is a natural consequence of three of His incommunicable attributes, which are omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. Still here in verse 1, do you see what I'm saying? There's a vast mine of gold to be drilled, digged, pulled out, and you're still never going to reach the bottom of it.

And it's all who God is. Going forward. Verse 1, where the psalmist David declares the Lord, Yahweh says to my Lord, my Adonai, John Albert Bengel in the 18th century said this. He said it was a higher honor to have Christ for his son, concerning David, than to be a king.

Yet David does not say that Christ is his son, but rejoices in this, that Christ is his Lord. He is his Adonai. He is his master. And he recognizes that he himself is Christ's servant. Bengel went on to say, they who regard the Messiah only as the son of David regard the lesser part of the conception of him.

A dominion to which David himself is subject shows the heavenly majesty of the king. And when it says the king, in his commentary he's talking about the Lord. It shows the heavenly majesty of the king and the heavenly character of his kingdom.

Still here in verse 1. Notice the next phrase, until. The next phrase, until. Now this is a conjunction. This connects words and phrases. So the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.

Until. This conjunction right here, it means it can be referred to in terminology as as far as, even to, up to, or while, or as far as. So the Lord said to my Lord, sit here at my right hand until while I make your enemies your footstool.

We're talking about the fact that Jesus Christ is Lord. He's not Lord of some, but he is Lord of all. I'm going to stay within time too. Jonathan. So, verse 2. Verse 2, we see the term mighty scepter used.

The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. And he says this, rule in the midst of your enemies! Not a suggestion. It's a statement of fact. It's a reality. The Lord sends forth from Zion. I think about that old praise and worship song, right?

He came from heaven to earth to show us the way from the earth to the cross. My debt to pay from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I lift your name on high. Right? Right? This is what's taking place here.

The Lord sent Christ from Zion's holy hill. And so he says, rule, and he says send forth Zion from your mighty scepter. Now this idea of the scepter, we see it throughout the scriptures from the Old to the New Testaments.

We see this. It's a symbol of power. It's a symbol of authority. And the imagery of the scepter goes all the way back. We can go all the way back and see this to Moses. In Exodus chapter 4 verse 17, as Moses stood before the burning bush, God commanded him to go tell Pharaoh, let my people go.

And what did Moses have? He had a staff in his hand. Now staff is another word for a scepter. It's a pole. He said, take in your hand this staff with which you shall do the signs. If you jump ahead to Exodus 14, I believe it is.

Exodus 14 chapter 13 verse through 18. The scripture tells us, And Moses said to the people, Fear not, stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

For the Lord, boy this is good news, the Lord will fight for you, and you only have to be silent. The Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel just to go forward, lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.

And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them. And the Lord said, I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his hosts, his chariots and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.

Jesus is Lord. They will know that I am the Lord when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. We see this idea of the scepter, or the staff, or the rod, any of those things you want to call it, moving forward in the book of Numbers, chapter 21, verse 7 and 9.

The people came to Moses and said this, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. And they said, Moses, pray to the Lord that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses these words, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, or on a staff, or on a scepter, and raise it up.

And everyone who is bitten when he sees it, he shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent, and he would live. What does that have to do with the fact that Jesus is Lord?

Well, if you go over back to the New Testament, in John's gospel, John chapter 12, verse 28 through 32, the Lord declares, Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven and said, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.

The crowd that stood there and heard it said, that it had thundered. Others said an angel had spoke to him. Jesus answered, and he said this, Now is the judgment of this world come, and now will the ruler of this world be cast out, and I, when I am lifted up, will draw all people to myself.

It is the scepter in which he rules with. Now the question is this, what is that scepter? I humbly present to you this, the scepter in which the Lord rules with is the gospel. The gospel is that scepter.

As citizens of the kingdom of God, we do not wage war, and we do not fight like the world. Our weapon, the church's weapon, is the gospel of Jesus Christ. The scripture Paul told the church at Ephesus, Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord, in our Adonai, and in the strength of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you might be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against principalities, against powers, against the cosmic powers over this present age, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Therefore, John, therefore, take up the whole armor of God. Why? So that you will be able to stand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, just stand. And stand firm. Stand fast. Stand, therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.

And for your shoes, have your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, taking up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and all supplication, to that end, keep alert. To keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.

Again, the weapons of our warfare. Paul goes on to declare this back in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but they have divine power to destroy every stronghold, to destroy arguments, and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought into the captivity of Christ.

How will we overcome the objections that the world gives us when we proclaim the gospel to them? Good news is this. You don't have to figure out a clever way to overcome these objections. For the power of the Spirit of God is able to turn, to change, to regenerate, to make new, to convert, to born again, as the old timers say, to make new creatures out of the old.

But we have the gospel as is the scepter with which Jesus rules this world. Verse 3. The Scripture says this. Verse 2 and 3 still just a little bit. Rule in the midst of your enemies. And then verse 3 we read, Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power in holy garments from the womb of the morning the dew of your youth will be yours.

Verse 2 and 3. A 19th century theologian named Albert Barnes said this concerning this statement, Rule in the midst of your enemies. He's saying that the Word of God is saying, Set up thy power over them and reign in them.

My brothers and sisters today, we have one who is over us. We have one whom we are subject to. The church belongs to Jesus Christ. And as members of His church, we are called to serve Him, to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts, all our souls, all our minds, and all of our strength, and to give ourselves unto Him.

But Barnes went on to say this. This is a commission. This commission, as John preached to us last night, this commission to set up a kingdom in the very midst of those who were His enemies, in the hearts of those who had been, and were rebellious.

His kingdom, God's kingdom, it's important that we know this, is not set up by destroying them, but rather by subduing people. By subduing them unto Himself so that they become His willing servants. Consider yourself.

If you're born again, if you're saved today, do you remember how stubborn and rebellious you were before you came to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ? You wanted what you wanted and nothing else. The new birth took place in you.

God changed your heart and God changed your mind. And all of a sudden, you weren't kicking against the pricks as the Apostle Paul did. You were willingly submitting to the Lord Jesus Christ. Very, very important that we know this.

Barnes went on to say this. They yield to Him and He rules over them. It is not here commissioned to cut them off, but one of much more difficult execution. It was this to make them His friends and to dispose them to submit to His authority.

I'm pretty sure that John in his gospel records the words of Christ, right? You are my friends. If you do whatsoever, I have commanded you. For greater love has no man than this. I know that's out of order.

Greater love has no man than this that a man would lay down his life for his friends. That's where Jesus says, and you are my friends. So continuing in verse 3, very quickly here. Your people will offer themselves freely.

So we see here a willing volunteering and a youthful service. We see this from the womb of the morning. And the dew of your youth will be yours. And it's important that we know that as we willingly serve God, having been made new creatures in Christ, that love to God, love to God is the affection that makes souls willing to serve.

Consider it in the familial relationship. If your children love you, they will want to do what you say. But if your children are teenagers, and all teenagers probably go through this phase as I did, and if you say you didn't, I question if you're telling me the truth or not.

But you hate your parents, right? Your parents are stupid because they wear those shoes, or they dress like they do, or they go where they go, or they talk like they do. But we see here a willing and a youthful service based on, grounded and founded in a love to God.

Why would a man love God? Why would a woman love God? Why would a boy or a girl love God? Because God gave His Son for your sins. And you realize there is nothing greater in this world that will ever be done for you.

Stephen Charnock said this, Love is a commanding affection. It is a uniting grace. It draws all the faculties of the soul to one center. If you don't read the Puritans, I encourage you, get you some Puritan books and read them.

Man, they had a way with words. He said this, The soul that loves God when it has to do with Him is bound to the beloved object. It can mind nothing else during such impressions. When the affection is set to the worship of God, everything the soul has will be bestowed upon it.

How beautiful that is. So verse 5, 6, and 7, I'm just going to give you one statement as we move to exhortation. Verse 4, we see an unchanging declaration by God. The Lord has sworn. God's decree will not be changed.

And His decree was simply this, The Lord, that you are a priest, speaking of Jesus, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. In verse 5 and 6, what do we see? We see the decisive victory of Christ over His enemies.

Right? As the old hymn says, victory in Jesus. Right? My Savior forever. He sought me and He bought me with His own precious blood. He loved me ere I knew Him. And all my love is due Him. He plunged me to victory beneath that whelming flood.

We see the decisive victory of Christ in verse 7. Verse 7, we see the satisfaction of the Messiah. He will drink from the brook by the way, therefore He will lift up His head. He has drunk deep, full of the wrath of God, taken upon Him the sins of this world, bearing the weight and the curse of that wrath of God, becoming the propitiation for our sins.

And how do we know He was refreshed? Because on the cross He cried out, It is finished. It is done. It is complete. The work is done. Now, as we move into exhortation and encouragement this morning. And again, Rob, Jonathan, I'm literally not going to go over.

I have made a feeble attempt today, I recognize this. I have made a feeble attempt to preach from Psalm 110. And no doubt, any of these other men will do far better than I could have done. But I must say this, I know that any passage of Scripture that I set to expound, to preach on, that I am incapable of doing justice to any passage of Scripture, because, largely, I am an unlearned and I am an ignorant man for the most part.

But I can tell you this. I can echo to you what the Apostle Paul said when he went to the Corinthian church. He said,. And I, brethren, when I came to you, I came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

For my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but was in demonstration of the Spirit and of the power of God, so that your faith will not stand in the wisdom of men, but that your faith will be found in the wisdom of Almighty God.

So, with that being said, preaching on Psalm 110, I have done to the best of my ability today not to preach this text with an angle or a bent toward any eschatological point of view, pre-meal, post-meal, or all-meal.

My aim and my goal today was to present to you a purely Christocentric point of view on Psalm 110. Because it is Christ who is to be worshipped. It is Christ who is to be magnified. It is Christ who is to be lifted up.

It is Christ that you must look to today to be saved from your sins. So, our aim again today has been quite simply to do that and to say this, it's about Jesus. Because Jesus is Lord. Top to bottom, Jesus is Lord.

Right to left, Jesus is Lord. In the middle, Jesus is Lord. And this book, Psalm 110, says to us, Jesus is Lord. These books, the book of Psalms, Genesis, the 66th book of the canon of Scripture that we have, people, today, it's about Jesus.

I hope you believe that. I know you're saying, Amen, but I hope you believe that. I can prove it to you. In Genesis, Genesis, we see Jesus promised as the seed of the woman who would crush the serpent's head.

In Exodus, Jesus is the blood that is shed, put on the doorpost and the lentils when the death angel comes. In Leviticus, He is the sacrifices that are set in order. In Numbers, we quoted it to you, He's the remedy for those that are bitten by the serpent.

In Deuteronomy, the Lord commanded through Moses that law of God that man is perfectly unable to keep. Where is Jesus? He's the law keeper. That's where He is. In Joshua, we see the conquest of Joshua foreshadowed in the Savior's victory over our sin.

In Judges, Jesus is the judge for now His judgment come into the world. He is the judge and He is the law giver. In the book of Ruth, we see the Gentiles being grafted into the vine. How does that happen?

Jesus is Lord. In 1 and 2 Samuel, God raised David up to be a king in type. Which God made His son to be in the lineage of David. The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand. In 1 and 2 Kings, in 1 and 2 Chronicles, we see the history of the Davidic line.

Where does that point us? To Jesus. In Ezra and Nehemiah, we see the restoration of the worship and the broken down walls in Jerusalem. What does that typify? Salvation in Jesus Christ. That He will continue to reign and continue to rule forevermore.

In Esther, we see God is always present with His people. For in the New Testament, Jesus is proclaimed as Emmanuel. God with us. In Job, justice is met out according to the wisdom and the sovereignty of God.

In the Psalms, we read in Psalm 22, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Who said that? Jesus. What was taking place? He was being the propitiation for our sins. Jesus is Lord. I'll try to be as quick as possible here.

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, all that is sought out in this life. Tyler's been teaching on these over the past year. All that is sought out in this life, like wisdom and knowledge and love, are found in Jesus Christ and Him alone.

In Isaiah, by His stripes we are healed. In Jeremiah, the weeping prophet typifies and shows forth the longsuffering and the fullness of Almighty God. In Lamentations, loss and pain are restored to Israel by giving hope and prayer.

Where does that hope come from? Looking unto Jesus Christ. In Ezekiel, the Lord said, I will take the stony heart out of man and give him a heart of flesh. In Daniel, we all know the story. Three men were thrown into the fiery furnace, and there's a fourth man walking around in the fiery furnace with them.

Who was that? Jesus. Why? Because Jesus is Lord over King Nebuchadnezzar. In Hosea, God demonstrated His love to an unfaithful people. How does He do that? By sending His Son. In Joel, we see the promise of His Spirit is coming.

In the New Testament, we see the Spirit come. How did that come? By the Father, by the Son, and by the Holy Ghost. In the book of Amos, Amos' message was that the people should seek Him and live. What is the message right now?

Seek the Lord, that you may live. In the book of Zephaniah, we learn God is not distant, and God is not uninvolved in human affairs. In Haggai and Zechariah, we read the words, Holiness to the Lord, and the words, Behold, your King is coming to you.

I wonder who that's talking about. Jesus, He is Lord. In the book of Malachi, every eye shall behold Him. Be certain of this, there is coming a day when every eye will behold Him. In the New Testament, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

Jesus is Lord. In Acts, the power of the resurrected Christ is put on display. Why? Because He is Lord. In Romans, the apostle Paul said this early on, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Why?

Because it's the power of God unto salvation. It is the scepter by which He rules all things. In the book of 1 and 2 Corinthians, if any man is in Christ, that's 2 Corinthians 5 .17, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.

In Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, to make this short, there is not salvation in any other person outside of Jesus Christ. In 1 and 2 Timothy, Paul, in Endotitus, Paul writes to the preachers, Paul says this, Preach Christ and nothing else.

Spurgeon, I'll echo Spurgeon, Spurgeon said there's no Jesus in your sermon, then go home and never preach again. In the book of Philemon, Paul makes mention of his love and his faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ on the basis for sharing his love to Onesimus, his runaway slave.

Love is found in Jesus Christ. In the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 through 4, it's one of my favorite passages. Long ago and in many times, Jacob, you quoted this last night on the way home.

Long ago and in many times, and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophet, but in these last days, He has spoken unto us by His Son, whom He, whom Yahweh, whom the Father appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world.

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature and He upholds the universe by the word of His power. In the book of James, faith in Christ Jesus will inevitably produce good work.

Not everybody is sanctified at the same speed, but my friend, there is sanctification and sanctification of the Holy Spirit does produce good work in the life of the believer. In 1 and 2 Peter, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, we're reminded to arm ourselves with the same mind so that we should not live our lives in the lust of the flesh, but for the will of God.

In 1, 2, and 3 John, He is the propitiation for our sins. In the book of Jude, we hear this, to those who are the cause, those who are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord over all.

And in the book of Revelation, He's the King of kings and He is the Lord of lords. He is Jesus Christ. It's all about Jesus. Jesus is Lord. He is king today. Do you know this? Jesus is king. He's not going to be king.

He is currently, presently, and eternally king. Not only is He the capital K king of all the lower case kings, but if you can think of anybody, anybody you want to, that has ever held a high position in society, know this, be they kings, be they presidents, be they princes, whoever they be, that Jesus is better.

Unequivocally, Jesus is better. Kings and the kingdoms of this world are passing away and continue to pass away, but Jesus stands. Jesus remains. Jesus continues. The apostle Paul, in writing to Timothy, said this, to the king of the ages.

I wish we used those terms more as believers. What God do you believe in? I believe in the king of the ages. I believe in the immortal God. I believe in the invisible God. Some people, the atheists would say, an atheist asked Augustine one time, show me your God.