Psalms | Psalm 97

Hey everybody. My name is Alan and I am one of

Elders and pastors here at New Life Community Church.

If you're new here, the way that we operate is we have a

plurality of Elders, who have an elder team, Kyle, who you just

saw and Jasper, who was up here, playing electric guitar and

myself and then James and Stever are in training right now as

well. And so how we kind of operators,

we have a team so we don't always cause not the only one

that preaches. Luckily I'm not.

Not up here A whole lot. And so today, we are going to be

in Psalm 97 and we're going to end our Psalm series.

We've went through psalms of the last several years throughout

the summer will go through a different Psalm.

And so today, we're ending the series.

So this plane is landing. I told I think is Steven James

earlier that it is planes land in one way or another, you know.

So, we may have a smooth sailing.

We may have a rocky landing and we may crash and burn but we are

Coming to a halt with the Psalms.

All right, so, bear with me. I don't do this a whole lot, but

I do have fun when I do this. So Psalm 97 I'm getting my name

is out. We're going to read it in just a

second. Still got a got a minute to get

there. So this song, before we get into

it, this is a unique. Psalm from the ones that I've

talked about before, the usually the ones that I have got up here

have had a specific author that we know who it is, whether it

been Solomon or David or somebody this one, doesn't this

one doesn't have a any kind of author that we know of, when we

can make some assumptions. But we don't have a specific

timeframe. We can also make some

assumptions and we'll go into some of that later, but this

this is a Psalm that is packed in between a couple other songs

that they would call the enthronement songs, which really

just state that the Lord Reigns, the Lord is glorious, the Lord

rules, Over all of creation. so, before we get into Psalm 97, I

saw a really interesting point this week that I've it hit me

in. So I wanted to, I wanted to talk

about it a little bit. Has anybody ever had one of

those weeks where you go through the week?

And some good things have happened, some bad things have

happened, but at the end of it, you just go, what happened,

like, what in the world this this week?

I don't know what came out of it but I feel like I'm the same

place I was last week and then this week is going to be more of

the same. Anybody ever feel that way just

all this kind of stuff happened and you go what in In the world.

I didn't see that coming. I didn't see this coming and it

just feels like a wash and you go, I'm just going to start

over. He'll start over next week so

that I felt like we had one. We would have one of those

weeks. Did we let my wife down there?

We had one of those weeks I think this week and it got me

thinking and I heard somebody on a sermon that had talked about

this and it got me thing I thought was a really good point.

So there's worldviews that we can approach all kinds of things

from so we can we can approach the world, what's called a

secular worldview and it kind of deals with a lot of that.

And so I want to just Tell you what kind of a secular worldview

would sum up. So it would sum up that the

Universe billions of years ago. Fourteen point five billion or

something like that was just this great expanse.

We don't really know where it came from, we don't know what

happened. And then something happened,

some say, would be a big bang theory.

Some say other things in these billions of stars and planets

and all of this stuff just kind of happened just happenstance by

blind chance. These things came together.

And boom, our universe was created, which is wonderful

because we live in this universe so all this stuff just happened,

right? And then, however, long later

there's a lot of debate somehow organisms and atoms and all this

kind of stuff came together and it started producing this thing

called life and then we move forward long time and then lo

and behold, we are here and we breathe this thing called are,

which also just happens to be here and We can think and we can

do all of this stuff and it really just kind of is what it

is. There's no great explanation.

We've tried to explain it but we're just here And that seems

subtle but that's what a lot of people are taught and it does a

few things. It makes us think that that

statement. It just is what it is and it

also makes this thing saying you do you and I'll do me.

And we'll just all get along. So you do you, you do your

thing, I'll do my thing. And in society now we're seeing

that also translate into you have your truth.

I'll have my truth. And we'll get along and R-Truth

can even be fluid nowadays, which is crazy, which means your

truth can change. Which means my truth may be

different than your truth. But at some time, we can both

change truths and it's all okay. Because it's still just true.

Never heard anything like this and news.

My truth may even be wrong but it's my truth.

You have no right to tell me about my truth.

They may be different and when it relates to the Lord, a lot of

times that goes into either, well, there's a bunch of

different scenarios. I'm going to focus on a few of

them so that could be, there's just no God at all.

This is all just happenstance. Plain and simple.

It could go that we have a higher being that is so loving

that will just all be saved because how in the world could a

loving God. Not save all of mankind and so

it doesn't really matter which God you believe in or any of

this stuff, because that might be your truth.

That's fine. All the paths lead to the same

place. Or it could just be, there's a

mystery, we just don't know. So we're not even going to try

to figure it out. Or you could get to kind of how

solemn gets in an ecclesiastic in a Verge, she still points to

the Lord, but it just is what it is.

It's all meaningless, we live, we die the end.

That's somebody I've sat down with lunch before and I've had

somebody tell me that and it was just so normal for them than it

was when we when we die, we just die.

That's it. And this is a prominent way of

thinking. So if that's how we feel, if

that's our worldview than our main goal in life, is probably

just to be happy. The pursuit of happiness, and

the pursuit of happiness can lead to a lot of things.

It could lead to usually leads to wanting something new to make

us happy. Maybe it's a new job, maybe it's

a new vehicle, or maybe it's, you know, more money or maybe

it's a new spouse or maybe it's a new whatever, this will lead

us to happiness. I'm not happy now.

So in order to get happy in order to have some kind, Kind of

meaning in this life because it's all kind of just

meaningless and and a dire would be to obtain something else that

will make me happy. But at the end of the day, it's

just That's that's really depressing.

I hope you're depressed a little bit and that well that sounds

kind of mean. I hope you're not really

depressed but I kind of do because all of that teaches us

that I'm not important, you're not important and you're going

to live and die the end. And that's really sad.

No, hope in that. Who cares?

What the truth is, if that's like, it doesn't matter.

What if all of that is wrong? What if that entire thing is a

lie, I hope you think it is but maybe you don't what if you are

important. And what if there is a king?

An actual ruler of this universe.

So what if we say rather than that, there is a king and that

this place was created by a designer.

And he designed the cosmos and he designed the planets and he

designed a billions of the stars and he placed them each

individually out in the sky at. However, he decreed, because he

is The Sovereign Lord. And what if we say that he made

Earth, this unique place to inhabit his creation, that would

be us that he would make in his own image.

That would live and breathe and populate the Earth, not just by

happenstance, not by random blind chance.

But because he loved his creation and because it was part

of his story. And so what if he made two

genders a man and a woman, this was truth.

It's not fluid. It was truth because he is

uniquely designed man and woman. And he allowed them to live with

him and he allowed them to walk on the earth.

And he was their God and they were his people.

And then, if somewhere along the lines, not too far off, the

people, disobeyed and sin entered the world.

And then God said in motion his great Redemptive story of Saving

mankind because he values mankind.

Because he has created mankind. What he creates is valuable.

And so what if he leads his people?

out of captivity and he leads them through the desert and all

of these trials and tribulations and it finally gets to where he

sends his only son Jesus, To Earth for the Salvation of his

people. And Jesus, who knew?

No sin lived the perfect life. For us.

So that his father may be glorified so that he may redeem

his people through his blood. He's dead and he was buried.

He was raised, he conquered death for us.

He conquered death to glorify his father.

And he promised that one day he would return for us and lead us

to a new Heaven and a new Earth. Where we would again get to walk

and be with him and he would be our God and we would be his

people that his glory would be made known.

And that he loves you very, very much.

That you're not just a number. Of the millions of people have

her many people, there are that he actually knows your name.

He knows you, you're not just a pawn, in some grand scheme.

You're not just a vessel that, he just uses.

However, he sees fit that you are more than that to him.

It's you are a son or a daughter of the king.

He'll be in the king That You're Made In His Image to glorify

himself. But you are important to him.

For, he is your king. He's not only just your king,

he's King of Everything. The Lord Reigns.

So this is his truth, this right here.

We don't get to dictate the truth.

This is this is truth. This is his truth.

The word of the Lord. Let's read Psalm 97.

If you will, please stand with me.

Says this, the Lord Reigns. Verse 1, the Lord Reigns let the

Earth Rejoice. Let the many coastlands be glad

clouds and thick Darkness are all around him righteousness and

Justice are the foundation of his throne.

Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries adversaries

all around his Lightnings light up the world, the Earth sees and

trembles the mountains melt like Wax before the Lord, before the

Lord of all the Earth. The heavens Proclaim, his

righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

All worshippers of images are put to shame who make their

boast in worthless Idols worship Him.

Are you God's Zion? Here's and is glad and the

daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments O,

Lord For You O Lord, our most high over all the Earth you are

exalted far above all gods. Oh, you who love the Lord hate

evil. He preserves the lives of his

Saints. He delivers them from the hand

of the wicked light is sown for the righteous and the joy of the

upright and heart rejoice in the Lord.

Oh you righteous and give thanks to his holy.

Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word.

Thank you for your goodness. We acknowledge you as king.

King of Kings, as Lord of lords, this morning Lord, help us see

you Who you are help us submit Lord.

You will? We ask that you speak to us

spirit, guide us in Jesus. Christ's name.

Amen. So I propose not just what if

all of those statements are true but I propose that is the truth

and hopefully you would agree with that that this word is

truth and in that and we're going to get into this in a

minute in that means we need to stand firm on the word of the

Lord. That secular worldview that we

were talking about is there are a lot of nuances so I don't want

to act like that. It's all 100 across the board

but that is the leading view of most higher.

Ation. That kind of blanket statement

that things just happened. You know, there's a whole

scientific thing that they'll get in that that we can get into

how they think things might have happened but that it all

happened, it's happened stance. We have evolved and we have no

idea what happens after this life.

Some would say that. Yeah, there's just a higher

being someone say, you know, you'll hear on TV or you'll hear

friends that just say, well, we hope to see you on the other

side because this the Lord saves all But the truth of God's word

doesn't say any of that. But that is the the kind of the

predominant teaching on any kind of higher education in America.

It is not the truth of the Bible.

So, Psalm 97 mentioned this earlier a little bit, this is

part of what they've called some of the enthronement.

Psalms 96 97 98, I think maybe Psalm 43.

There's a couple of these and they call them that simply of

stating that this is that the Lord Reigns, The Lord sits on

the throne he is in power, he is in in control.

He is the king of all of the Earth.

But let's get into some of these verses here.

I'm going to try not to ramble or go off too many rabbit holes.

Try to stay on track as best as I can.

So verse 1, the Lord Reigns let the Earth Rejoice, let the many

Coastal lands be glad and how I like to do this at works for my

brain. Hopefully, it does for y'all is

I like to break things down into parts and then I like to just go

by on verse by verse. So we've only got 12 here.

Luckily, it's more than 3 and but luckily it's not like 37

either. So I think my brain would

explode. So there's kind of three parts.

The first six verses, which is kind of interesting I help do

music up here a lot and we, of take this approach to a lot of

the songs that we sing is we use this, Not method.

I don't know what you want to call it, but usually the first

song or so that we're seeing and we want us to sing together,

maybe about the Lord to help prepare our hearts for who he

is. And then we'll slowly try to

transition into singing more directly to the Lord saying you

are good. God, you are good and then we

may even end by again saying hallelujah.

Hey you people let's praise the Lord together.

The psalmist, kind of orchestrated like that.

So the first six verses the psalmist is going to be talking

of How how marvelous the Lord is, how great he is.

How Grandy is, how much he reigns in power?

And then we'll get into verse 9. He turns it and he says, For

You, O, Lord our most high. He speaking directly to the

father and then he ends with a proclamation to his people that

say, you who love the Lord Rejoice, so he spends a little

bit of moment saying how great he is.

Then he turns his attention to the Lord and says, father, you

are good. Good.

And then he turns back to the people and says, you also

rejoice in the Lord. So that's kind of how it's

broken now. So let's go to verse 1, the Lord

Reigns let the Earth Rejoice. Let the mini coastlands be glad

So the whole earth rejoicing, the bottom of that, it says, let

the coastlines be glad your version may say Islands or owls

or something to that effect, what it's getting at this was

this was something. They used a lot old, biblical

authors, around the Mediterranean Sea and all that.

So they're not speaking of the coastlands like Florida

necessarily, they don't really know Florida existed, but

they're speaking of all the coastlands that they knew simply

as a way to say all of the Nations everywhere.

They New be glad Rejoice Rejoice.

Let the many coastlands be glad and there's some debate on this

song as to whether this is, simply poetry, as we'll see in a

minute or if it's really more prophetic.

Speaking of his second coming, but either way, it is

proclaiming all of the earth rejoice in the Lord.

Why do we rejoice in the Lord? He Reigns and so we'll get into

some of that. So, verse 2, Clouds and thick

Darkness are all around him. Righteousness, and Justice are

the foundation of his throne. This answer is the why.

We can we can Rejoice that the Lord Reigns because

righteousness and Justice are his foundation.

So this is a god, The God Who is Almighty all-powerful, but he is

not a tyrant. This is not a domineering God

this is a loving gentle kind just.

Holy worthy, God. And because of that, we can

Rejoice that he is our King. We don't Rejoice just because we

have a king. We have a we Rejoice because he

is our King and those are his characteristics now.

The clouds and the thick darkness.

When I first read them were a little strange to me to be

honest because It says be glad and then it goes like really

dark like clouds and darkness are all around Rejoice.

Whoo. I'm like that's kind of scary

but if we go back to Exodus I think it's sexist 17.

Think it's X's 17 where 19 19 verse 17, where we're Moses on

Mount Sinai. This is right before the Ten

Commandments and we see a lot of this imagery in the Old

Testament where God is surrounded by 5.

Or will read that here in the next verse or he's surrounded by

thick his thick presence on Mount Sinai.

When Moses goes up there, there was a, you know, a thick cloud

of darkness and it ends up his glory as shown.

And we see him lead the people through a, you know, pillar by

day and Fire by night. So the imagery here is

consistent with with what they would have known back in back in

these times. It's showing his marvelousness,

it's showing that his presence rains that he is powerful clouds

and thick Darkness are all around him, it surrounds him but

his foundation of How He Reigns as a king sitting on Throne his

foundation, our righteousness and justice Verse 3, it says

fire goes before him and burns up his adversary.

I keep want to say adversaries I think that's the wrong word

adversaries. Yeah his adversaries all around

verse 4. It says his Lightnings light up

the world the Earth sees and trembles the mountains melt like

Wax before the Lord before the Lord of all the Earth as joking

with with with Kyle a couple weeks ago.

So I was gonna have like a like a science fair a demonstration

up here in build like a volcano and have it melt be like, that's

cool. The whole mountain of the thing.

These verses really just they're getting at the power, its

imagery that they're used as the power and Majesty of God, thick

clouds around him fire goes before him.

He is already won the victory. Nothing can stand in the way of

our all-powerful, God, He clears the path.

Things that we might see as unmovable.

Mountains anybody's ever been to the Grand Canyon or there's a

great Teton Mountains out in Wyoming.

We went on a honeymoon to Yellowstone.

Just gigantic mountain ranges that man can't do anything with.

These are immovable objects. Says they melt like Wax, like

nothing. His Lightnings light up the

entire world, the Earth sees and trembles at his great power and

his great Majesty. The imagery fires me up because

I don't think of the Lord this way most of the time. after

really be made to think of the Lord this way because I think of

the Lord as shaming lead to say a lot of times there's my buddy

remember when I was in Youth Group, there's a t-shirts with

Jesus as my homeboy, you know, my boy blue.

I'm a friend of God. We are his friend, but he is

also all-powerful All powerful mountains.

Don't stand a chance. The Earth doesn't stand a

chance. Great Heavens.

Don't stand a chance like the universe doesn't stand a chance

him. Nothing can stop him.

He goes before he clears the way.

Could you imagine what it would be like, if the presence of the

Lord, just burst through this room right now, like, like, like

truly what we see in the Old Testament.

Like, I think there's a reason that they would fall down and

say, as if I'm dead, they're terrified.

Like in Luke when the angel appears to them and says they

just fall down and he says no no do not be afraid.

You don't have to be afraid and even the angels even just the

presence is terrifying because of his power.

We should fear and respect the Lord because he is good.

Okay, verse 6. The heavens Proclaim, his

righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

We will see his glory and this, you know, this could simply just

be poetry. There is also some debate on if

this talking about eschatology, which is really just like a big

old word for the end of the last days.

So if this is talking about, you know, his, his final coming, But

either way, all people, all of us.

Will glorify his name. Because whether we want to admit

this truth or not, he is King. Regardless of, if you call him

He is King. That is truth. when I will go

into verse 7, It says all worshippers of images are put to

shame who make their boast in worthless Idols worship him.

All you Gods. That's a little G Gods there

too. So did you know that you're a

worshipper and something So it may be that your worship of

Lord, you may come in here and you and you might even use the

Christian language of. Yeah.

I'm a worshipper. But if you don't that you're a

worshipper of something, some kind of idol that you've got in

your life, it could be your family, these could be good

things, but we're not to be a worshipper of anything other

than the Lord could be a family. It could be for me it could be

music or got to throw it in there WWE I love that stuff.

Is so great, could be a worshipper of work.

You could be a worshipper of your kids.

Could be a worshipper of money of things.

Kind of going back to that secular worldview.

But in some regard, you are a worshipper of something and this

is good to be made known of. Because if you're not

worshipping the Lord, you are devoting yourself to something

else. So today, hopefully, this is a

call to say devote yourself to the Lord.

Why? Because his righteousness and

Justice are the foundation of his throne.

That's why we can trust him. But there's a really cool story

in Romans, not in Romans, I'm sorry, it's Paul, but it's an

Axe. And this is one of the stories

that really kind of helped unlock my brain to really want

to dive in and study the Bible and some of the historical stuff

in the Bible. So in Acts Well, the Josh

there's a there's a slide I just gave is the only slide I have

and I just gave it to Josh like three minutes before we started.

And so he's a real MVP guys. This is the Temple of Artemis.

This is in. No, I'm sorry.

This is not, this is the Parthenon in Athens.

And it was a big ol structure, just put it that way.

And then in Ephesus, somewhere else in the Bible, there's a

place, there's a thing called the Temple of Artemis, that

would have said to have been about double that size.

And I show you that because what they would do in Athens

particular back then. But in this Roman culture, that

Paul would have been in is they would build all of these kind of

statues these images and they would worship them.

And a lot of what we call Greek mythology came or was around

back then. And so they mean, they would

have a god of sun, they would have, you know, like a Moon God,

or just you name it pretty much. They found something to worship

that they didn't understand and they said we're going to, we're

going to worship this. And so when it says this worship

of images, there's a story back in Acts 17, where Paul is in.

I don't know if he's actually in this or not but he's in Athens

and he would have been around this culture and he finds he's

walking amongst them and he hears them worship and all these

things. And he finds this inscription

that says to an unknown. God Which I find fascinating

because the people there were just as silly as we are today

and they're worshiping things. They don't even understand.

They don't know how it works. They don't even know who this

God is. But they're like, you know what,

there might be another God out there that we don't know about.

So we're just going to worship this unknown.

God, we're going to devote our attention to this unknown.

God. But that story really helped me

click for understand the Bible because I'm like, oh man, I've

always heard of this app and stuff.

That's, that's right here in the Bible.

It would have been something like this.

It would have been a massive structure.

I mean, the Parthenon itself, which is what that is.

The remnants of was one of the, what we would call the 7th

Wonders of the World mean it's like upon a big hill.

I mean, that is like Stone and Marble.

It's a engineering just genius for back in the time and they

would have had even a bigger one.

Another place that they worshipped all kinds of gods in

but not the Lord. So Paul.

Believes that the Lord is powerful in Mighty and he

believes enough in that that he walks in.

And he he sees this and he's like, let me tell y'all who you

should be worshipping. Let me tell you about the one

true God. And so, when you get time, go

read acts 17 in there and he just lays it out for him.

He's like this is who Created the world.

This is who you should be worshipping.

This is God, the god, the one true God almighty.

Because all other things are going to be put to shame.

And not just our the image is going to be put to shame.

It says all worshippers of images are put to shame who make

their boast in worthless Idols things are worthless.

So then in verse 7, it says worship him, all you Gods,

little Jeep, all this other stuff worship, the one true God

verse 8 says, Zion here's and is glad that could easily be

translated like Israel is here's and is glad and the daughters of

Judah Rejoice because of Judgments of Lord, this is

representing represents Israel. What this is saying is because

of who he is, we can Rejoice that.

There is salvation coming for our people.

Again, the Lord has promised that he will be returning.

So, Zion hears and is glad. And then in verse 9, he turns

his attention to the Lord and he says For You O Lord are most

high over all the Earth. You are exalted far above all

gods. I don't wake up saying that

enough. I don't wake up saying.

Lord, you are high above. All you are exalted.

I can say that easily when I'm here.

I said it easily when I'm surrounded by believers.

But far too often when I'm not. I think I live more of the

secular View. Of a wake up.

It's another day. Got to do what I got to do.

Do my little check boxes. We're not called just to check

boxes off, we're called to wake up each day and say God you are

exalted, you are Lord, you are higher than anything else.

Verse. 10 verse 10. Hit me like a ton of bricks.

He turns back to the people. So he's just kind of told him

how powerful God is. He said mountains can melt like

Wax you know nothing stands a chance in his way then he turns

to God and he says Lord you are exalted, you are high above all

else and then he turns back to his people and he says o you who

love the Lord hate evil hate evil.

And I know for me far too often I am.

What's the word for Passive with evil?

Like the things that I might watch, don't tell people that I

hate evil. I may say, well, I don't say

that I wouldn't do that, I don't support it.

But I still watch it. I'll still be around it.

But he's saying the things it says, you who love the Lord hate

evil. So as Believers were not called

just to idly Stand By and not speak out on some of these other

truths. We are called to call it for

what it is. And hate evil.

That's one of the things I'm most thankful for here at this

church. Specifically with Kyle and

Jasper's when they get up here, there is no.

Hesitation about saying, this is who we are.

This is what we stand for. We stand for the Bible.

It may not be popular and it may not be what everybody really

wants to hear because it's not really just going to make you

feel good. What's there's a guy named Ben

Shapiro. What's he saying?

The facts don't care about your feelings, right?

So the Old feelings, kind of justify the facts.

So how we feel means, this either must be right, or it must

be wrong. The Bible doesn't do that.

The Bible lays out, the word of the Lord, and the word of the

Lord at times is very I don't know the words, I'm even trying

to say now. It's very pointed can always

just skirt around you know, some of these topics.

And so I really appreciate you doing that Cal really appreciate

you doing that Jasper. Steven.

James y'all do it to these two guys.

We see all the time. My brain will focus on.

Okay. Well that's the.

How do I say this in the right way?

And a lot of times it's like there's no right or wrong just

say it. Because the word of the Lord is

good, and if we say, we love the Lord, we should hate evil.

So things that are adamantly against the word of the lord, we

should be opposed to And I like nuances, I'm a Nuance kind of

guy, like things that go, but there's really not a lot of

nuance in the things that are evil.

Generally. I want to hate even more, says,

he preserves the lives of his Saints.

He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Only the Lord. Can preserve our souls.

Only him. There is nothing in this world.

This world can tear us down. This world can beat us up.

This world can take everything that we've got persecute us.

We can. Be completely terrible, stewards

of everything. We've got But our soul is in the

hands of the Lord. He holds it.

He keeps it, we can be secure in him because going back to verse

to hear his throne is built. His foundation is built on

righteousness and Justice. He is Holy and he's worthy.

Verse 11, it says light is sown for the righteous and the joy

and joy for the upright in heart.

Our happiness that we may be pursuing is is not from this

world. Our happiness is actually sewn

by the Lord. he goes before, says the song, I don't know I

don't think we've saying it here but it's a song I've always

liked that kind of takes from Second Kings, where Elijah wakes

up and their whole tent is surrounded by all these enemies

and all the people are scared and he wakes up and he says,

Don't Be Afraid those that are with us are more than those with

Bim and it says that the Lord opens his eyes and he sees the

God of Angel Armies surrounding watching out for from them.

That they're not alone that you're not alone in the song.

Says, I know who goes before me, I know who stands behind.

It says the God of Angel. Armies is always by my side but

it's a it's this image that the Lord has already prepared the

path. He's already cleared.

He's already made the way the victory is his.

There may be a battle but he is there, he's already done it.

He's already guarding behind you as well.

He is around you. We may not see it, we may not

always feel it but his truth doesn't rely on our feelings.

Right. Verse 12 and it kind of wraps.

The whole thing up. It says rejoice in the Lord O

you righteous and give thanks to His holy name.

So us that would call ourselves Believers can rejoice in him

because he is righteous, he is good, his foundation is firm,

this Foundation is made on Justice.

He is not a tyrant, he is a loving God.

And he contrasts the whole thing that I'm not important in,

you're not important at none of this matters with you are.

So very important to him because he has created you that he has

made a way through Christ to be with him all of our days.

And that one day, we will be with the Lord.

That is the goodness of Jesus. That is the greatness of his

majesty. So, we can rejoice.

We can rejoice and say thank you.

Lord. We're sewing your righteousness

for placing joy in my heart. And for being good. this was a

really cool song for me to for me to get into I'm going to ask

the worship team to come up. And we're going to sing a song

in a second. That just says, the goodness of

Jesus. And some of the lyrics it says,

oh the goodness of Jesus satisfied, he is all we need.

And this song points us to Christ in a few different ways.

So this is part of the Old Testament and one of the things

that we know about the Old Testament is that they knew a

messiah was coming. So there's a lot of language

that points to a messiah to Salvation coming, but Jesus had

not yet been on the earth. And so now we can look with the

lens of the New Testament and the New Testament helps us

interpret what the Old Testament was getting at what it means.

and we can say with confidence that Jesus Reigns, That he is

all in all that Christ Reigns? We can say with confidence that

Jesus will be an is exalted. High above all other names.

There is no name like his And we can confidently, say verse to

hear the righteousness and Justice are the foundation of

his throne that he will Deliver Us from the hand of the wicked.

That he preserves our lives that he saves that in Christ.

We can find Salvation that in Christ, we can have Grace and

forgiveness. That in Christ.

We can say, Lord, we submit to you.

You've made a way we can be grateful and thankful.

For who he is. so, as we sing this out the goodness of Jesus,

I want to pray first and I'm going to pray that let the Lord

help you. And me.

See his grandness and his power and his majesty. it's not just

another song just to sing a song but that we can Fervently

proclaim, the goodness of Christ because his throne is Justice

and righteousness. Lord, we love you.

You are high and exalted above all the Earth.

Lord, who are we that you are mindful of us for your

all-powerful? We are weak.

Sometimes it feels that we roam the Earth, but we know because

your word says it that you value US.

You value a so much because we are created in your image.

We thank you for being the Creator for being the designer.

We thank you for your son Jesus. The Salvation that you and you

alone have offered. Not of our works.

As we cannot boast about it. Lord, this is a view.

You are king and you are Lord help us to submit to you daily.

Christ name.