We trust not in princes and men, and certainly not in the republican party

The King Over All the Earth and Our True Citizenship

Changing quickly, you may have noticed that, and I would have nothing to say about that except what Scripture says, and I would just remind you that this world is not our home, we are citizens in heaven, that is where our citizenship is.

We wait for a kingdom that is not of this world, a city whose maker and builder is God. And one day, all of the nations of this world will be the nations, the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. That's what we wait for.

That's what we anticipate. And until then, we will be faithful until He comes, and I would just remind you of what Scripture says concerning those things, because that is where our hope is. It is not in this world, we trust not in princes or in men, and certainly not in the Republican Party for anything.

Psalm 47 and Psalm 48: God Reigns Over the Nations

So turn in your Bibles to the book of Psalms, we're going to look at Psalm 47, we're going to read Psalm 47 and Psalm 48, and read these two Psalms, Psalm 47 and 48, they describe God as the King over all the earth.

We'll read these together and then I'll ask you to stand with me as we pray. Psalm 47, for the choir director, a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Oh, clap your hands, all peoples, shout to God with a voice of joy, for the Lord most high is to be feared, a great King over all the earth.

He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet. He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom He loves. God has ascended with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth, sing praises with a skillful psalm. God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne. The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham, for the shields of the earth belong to God, He is highly exalted.

Psalm 48, a song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion in the far north, the city of the great King.

God in her palaces has made Himself known as a stronghold. For lo, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. They saw it, then they were amazed. They were terrified, they fled in alarm, panic seized them there, anguish as of a woman in childbirth with the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord our host, in the city of our God, God will establish her forever. We have thought on your loving kindness, O God, in the midst of your temple.

As is your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. Let Mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. Walk about Zion and go around her, count her towers, consider her ramparts, go through her palaces that you may tell it to the next generation.

For such is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us until death. Will you stand with me as we pray? Let's bow our heads. Our Father, You are the great King over all the earth. There is no purpose of Yours which can be thwarted.

It is good to gather together and to worship with the saints, those who trust in You and wait for You and look forward to the coming of Your kingdom, the establishment of that righteousness. That is what we long for.

We set and fix our hearts and our minds and our hopes upon heavenly things, trusting not in the things of this world nor in the establishment of worldly princes or worldly powers, but only in Your sovereign grace and the accomplishment of Your purposes.

We thank You that You have loved us even before the foundation of the world, that You have chosen us even before the foundation of the world and that You sent Your Son to bear our punishment to die in our stead so that we may have eternal life and eventually that we may inherit the kingdom of our God and of His Christ.

That is what our attention is on, that is where our hope is fixed and that is the case for all those who belong to You. For our citizenship is not here, it is in heaven from which we wait for and long for a Savior who will conform us to His image and transform the body of our lowly estate into conformity to the body of His glory.

Hasten that day, we pray, and may we in all this time that we have here be faithful to occupy until He comes to preach the gospel. We pray that You would attend that with Your power and with Your Word and the power of Your Spirit so that the lost may be converted and we may rescue many from this world and prepare them for the world to come.

Be honored and glorified through us, Your saints, as we praise You and worship You this morning. Be magnified here in our song and in the affections of our hearts, we pray in Christ's name.

Amen.