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Hey man, isn't it true that His word is a lamp unto our feet and
a light unto our paths? And I am thankful for that as I
know many of you are thankful of that as well.
I pray as we have been studying just that for the last several
months and looking at Psalm 119 in a series entitled Living Life
in the Light of God's Word. I pray that you are earnestly
and intentionally doing that, living your life in light of the
scriptures, in light of what the Word of God does truly proclaim
and declare. Ji Packer said this.
He said life must be seen and lived in the light of God's
Word. This and nothing less is true
religion. This and nothing less is true
religion meaning this if we are not living.
Our life. In light of God's Word, we are
not in reality living what the Christian life is intended for
us to live. So Ji Packer making that known.
So as we continue learning from Psalm 119 about what it means to
live life in light of God's Word, let us turn there in our
Bibles. But let us turn there with our
hearts and let us really see what the psalmist is going to
teach us today. Under the 12th letter of the
Hebrew alphabet, lamed. And that is the 12th letter.
And we know that there's going to be a corresponding 8 verses
as we have seen this pattern all throughout the 119th Psalm.
What He's going to be teaching us today and what He's going to
draw our attention to is the eternal Word of God, but more
accurately put the eternality of the Word of God.
And it's important that we understand that the Word of God
is eternal because God himself is eternal.
He's eternal in all of His facets.
He has no beginning, He has no end, He always has been.
That's why he can confidently declare in Revelation one verse
8, I am the alpha and the Omega says the Lord God who is and who
was and who is to come the Almighty.
He can declare that about himself that he is the one who
was, who is and who is to come that in eternity past he always
existed. Even now he exists and he will
exist for all eternity future. Now in knowing that we must also
learn that his word is eternal just the same.
And in seeing that we're going to see great benefits and and
great rewards that we reap from the eternality of the word of
God. Because I know you have to ask
yourself, why is this so important?
Why is it so important that we know that God's word is eternal?
Let me make this real clear for you today.
There are many things that you could hold in your hand.
You can hold a family member in your hand.
You can hold a young child in your hand.
You you could hold lots of money in your hand.
You can hold lots of gold in your hand.
You can hold your career in your hand.
You can hold many things in your hand.
And all of the things that you can hold in your hand are all
temporal and fleeting except for the very eternal Word of God.
And if we're going to really walk in the light of God's Word,
we're going to have have to understand the eternal nature of
the Word of God because it is in seeing that nature that we are
drawn to what God is truly going to teach us in His eternal Word.
And so let's read that together. Psalm 119, Psalm 119, and verse
89. And it says this.
Your word, O Lord, is eternal. It stands firm in the heavens.
Your faithfulness continues through all generations.
You establish the earth, and it endures.
Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished
in my affliction. I will never forget your
precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.
Save me, for I am yours. I have sought out your precepts.
The wicked are waiting to destroy me, but I will ponder
your statutes to all perfection. I see a limit, but your commands
are boundless. Let's pray together.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you now.
We thank You for Your eternal Word, but I know that many of us
have never given one thought to the eternality of the Word of
God. We've never given one meditation
to what that means to understand that.
Lord, I pray that You would change that now in this time
together, that we would see how important it is to understand
the eternal nature and essence of Your Word, to really and
truly appreciate and to understand that this Word that
we have in our hands was spoken from our eternal God in eternity
past and it will endure forever. Lord, thank You for the hope
that You give us in Your Word. Thank You for the encouragement
that we will receive today from just simply realizing and
knowing Your Word is everlasting.
It is eternal and it will endure no matter what comes along in
this world. Lord, we give you praise for it.
We pray for the unbeliever who's here today who does not know
you. God is your eternal word goes
forth. May you declare to them your
eternal promises to save sinners who call upon you.
Lord, may you by your Spirit regenerate them to new life and
faith today that they would do just that, repent of their sin
and to call on Jesus. The only hope that there is for
true salvation, for forgiveness and eternal life.
God, we pray that your will would be done.
Teach us, Holy Spirit now as we yield to you and we pray these
things in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
So the Psalmist here giving great emphasis to the eternality
of God's holy Word. Again, to many of you you say
what does difference does? That make for me I will tell you
this when we began to understand that this is not just another
book that this is not just a bunch of black letters on white
pages that was written as any other book would be.
But when we really begin to understand the eternal nature of
the word of God and what it is that we truly do hold in our
hands every time we open it and we read it.
We really do bear with our eyes truth that God has spoken and
truth that is eternal because the very nature of God is
eternal. Therefore the very word of God
is eternal. And if it is eternal, I'm going
to get it out. We will then realize the
promises that it is His enduring word.
If it is eternal, it will always endure.
The psalmist understanding that today, as he says, your Word, oh
Lord, is eternal. It stands firm in the heavens.
Nothing is going to shake the Word of God.
It will endure. He says your faithfulness
continues through all generations.
You establish the earth and it endures.
He's using that as an example. How did the Lord establish the
earth? By His Word and it endures.
Why? Because His Word is eternal and
His word endures. He says your laws endure to this
day, for all things serve you. Now watch this.
The laws endured to the day of the psalmist.
Did you know this? Thousands of years later,
they're still enduring. Why?
Because an eternal God spoke his eternal word and it will endure
forever. So the psalmist understands this
and I, I pray that we would understand this as well, that
his word is enduring. And it is enduring because it is
eternal in essence, just as we know God is eternal in His
essence. And when we look at the Word of
God, it endures because first, write it down.
It is eternally spoken, spoken from an eternal God who was not
like us and is not like us. He doesn't have a point in time
where He began and a point in time where He will end.
He's not like anything in all of His creation.
He always has been, always will be.
And so when He speaks, He speaks eternally and when He speaks, He
speaks from His mouth that cannot and does not lie
according to the word of God. His word is eternally spoken
because it is eternal in its very nature.
In fact, Matthew 24 verse 35, this is Jesus comments on it.
He says heaven and earth will pass away.
Why? They're temporal.
He says heaven and earth as you know it are going to pass away,
but my words will never pass away.
Spoken from the very mouth of God.
Eternal words spoken from spoken from an eternal God, from his
eternal mouth. Jesus revealing to us that the
word of God is. Eternally spoken, therefore it
will endure the test of time. Scriptures are simply God's
eternal declarations, words and thoughts from His very mouth,
the very mouth of God Almighty, omnipotent, all powerful.
In fact, Second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 and Speaking of the
scripture, Paul says this all scripture is God breathed and is
useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training and
righteousness. Oh, please pay attention to that
phrase. God breathes because it's
impossible for you to hold your breath and at the same time
talk. And so when God spoke, he spoke
with his breath, that pneuma, the Spirit, and he spoke, and as
he spoke, he breathed his eternal word forth.
And the one true and eternal God breathed all of scripture into
existence. And this is so much more than
just being inspired by God. And yes, you're right if you say
that Scripture is inspired by God, but it's so much bigger
than that. And I want you to try to wrap
your small human minds around that.
That Scripture is not only just inspired by God, it's it's
grander than that. It is breathed out by God,
therefore it is eternally. Breathed from an eternal God.
So when we read the word of God, we read the very commands,
precepts, principles, instructions that the Eternal
God Almighty Creator of all. Things the Lord of all has
spoken forth. These are not books full of
suggestions from a well meaning person.
These are eternal words from an eternal God.
Therefore, they endure forever. That's why Jesus could
confidently say heaven and earth is going to pass away, but not
my words. My words will endure forever.
Or may we contemplate that when we read our Bible, when we study
the text, when we learn from it, well, may we contemplate that
today that you're not hearing the words of Kirk Hall this
morning as I read Scripture. You are hearing eternal words
from the throne of our eternal God.
And This is why God's Word should be treated with the
utmost seriousness and respect and reverence, because this
eternally spoken word is spoken from the very God who sought to
redeem you by the precious blood of His only begotten Son.
We ought to approach it with seriousness and reverence.
And I know many think this of me.
You're just a little too serious, right?
Because they want clowns at pub tables instead of preachers and
pulpits. They want people to entertain
them and to tell them funny stories and things that don't
matter. We have to approach the Word of
God with the seriousness and the reverence that it calls for.
If we really understand the eternality, the very nature of
the Scriptures, we're not going to clown around with them.
We're not going to play with them.
We're not going to mold them and transition them to fit our
lives. We're going to then.
Fit our lives to match the scriptures because an eternal
God has spoken on the matter, but far too often in our
society. Many who don't take the Word of
God seriously enough are leading people down paths of
destruction. Paul tells Timothy just this in
Second Timothy chapter 2 in regard to the eternal Word of
God, how we are to approach it. He says this in 215 a second
Timothy. Do your best to resent yourself
to God as one approved a worker who does not need to be ashamed
and who correctly handles the word of truth.
And I believe this 100%. To correctly handle the word of
truth is to see that it is truly the enduring eternal Word of
God. And that is where we must start
on this journey. Because if we don't start there
on this journey, we don't have the proper respect and reverence
that we need to have for the Word of God.
I can promise each of you this morning, I am not up here with
the serious demeanor because I take myself very seriously.
If you know me outside of the pulpit, I'm not that guy.
But I do take the Word of God very seriously.
I do approach it with reverence because I know exactly where it
came from. I know that it is eternally
spoken. I know that when I open the
pages of Scripture and I read those words, I read words
directly from my Lord and my God, and I respect that.
And I don't want to be ashamed, as Paul told Timothy, of someone
who doesn't handle the magnitude of that in a proper way or who
handles it too lightly. And so when we understand the
nature of God's Word, we'll approach it with the proper fear
that we ought to have for God. Desiring to be an approved
Workman, approaching the enduring Word of God.
Knowing this, that if I mishandle the Word of God, there
are promises in Scripture that discipline and judgment will
come upon me because I have mishandled the Word of God.
His Word will endure. And so we see it isn't the
enduring Word of God because it is eternally spoken.
Let us understand the nature. Of the scriptures, but not only
is the enduring word of God enduring because it's eternally
spoken, God has spoken it forth and there is no mistake in that
and it can't be taken back. The Word of God is eternally
standing because it is eternally spoken.
It is eternally standing, therefore it endures forever,
standing firm in the perfection of not this earth that is
imperfect because of sin, but standing in the perfection of
heaven. Look what the.
Psalmist says Your word, O Lord, is eternal.
It stands firm in the heaven. It's there in the heavens where
the word is declared, where it stands not standing in the
fallenness and the imperfection of man with standing in the
heavens. And we can all poll one another
today and we would all come to the conclusion, do you believe
that heaven is a place of perfection?
We would all have to say yes. Do you believe it is a place of
holiness? Yes.
Do you believe it's a place of reverence?
Yes. You believe it's a place where?
All creatures there fear the Lord.
Yes, we would all agree to that, because Scripture declares that.
And so when He says that your word is eternal, it stands firm
in the heavens. It stands perfect in the
heavens, untwarted by any sinful influence, unlike anything else
that we can see, touch, or taste in this world that has been
thwarted by sinful influence. The Psalm is having great
confidence of that in the fact that the Lord's word will endure
forever because it stands firm in the heavens.
He didn't say it stands firm in my confession.
He didn't say say it stands firm my denomination.
He didn't say it stands firm in my belief system.
It stands firm in the heavens. Why?
Where God supersedes over His own Word, His sovereign power
holds it up no matter what. It will endure forever.
Why? Because God will endure forever.
Because God's Word, like God himself, is just.
Write it down. Infinite.
Psalm 90, verse 2.
This is before the mountains were born.
You brought forth the whole or you or you brought forth the
whole world from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
He's talking about the infinite nature of God.
And when we begin to understand the infinite nature of God, we
will begin to understand the infinite and inexhaustible
nature of the Word of God. What I am blown away most about
the Scriptures is this. I can study them day in and day
out. And when I get through after
several days of studying the Word of God day in and day out,
I am reminded that I know nothing about the enduring
eternal infinite Word of God. That I have only but just
scratched the surface. Because as God is infinite, His
Word is also infinite. It is infinitely spoken from the
mouth of an infinite God. Therefore, it will endure when
all other things pass away. Not only is it infinite in its
nature because God in himself is infinite in his nature, it's
also immutable. Malachi chapter 3 verse 6.
Malachi under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, I, the
Lord, do not change, so the descendants of Jacob are not
destroyed. Malachi penning the.
Voice of God, the words of God there, the Lord himself
declaring about himself. I don't change.
I'm thankful for an immutable God.
I am also thankful for his immutable word, because his word
endures for the same reason that God the Father will endure
forever. Because the word of God, just
like God himself, is immutable. That means this He cannot
change. Therefore, his word cannot and
will not change. Now, why is this important?
It's important to our culture. I can assure you of this.
It's important to the the the church culture in in the age
that we live in because many people are constantly trying to
change the word of God, aren't they?
They are constantly trying to mold and to fit and to morph the
word of God into what it is that they want to believe, into what
it is that they want to think into what it is and what manner
is that they desire to live. And God has immutably spoken His
word. Now, what I mean by that is
this. If God said to Moses that a man
is not to lie with a man as he does with a woman, he's talking
about homosexuality. No one wants to go to the Old
Testament to learn those things. It is very clear what he is
saying. He is saying homosexuality is a
sin and you can't find any room in Scripture to declare it as
something else because God is immutable and His word is
immutable. If it was wrong in the days of
Moses for a man to lie with a man in a homosexual
relationship, it is still wrong today.
Now, I know in our crazy culture, there are many people
even professing Christians, and I use that word lightly
professing because that's about all you have.
If you can take this stand, who are going to get angry with me
because I simply quote to you the immutable, unchanging word
of God. We know this.
He reiterates it in the New Testament.
Such will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Let's don't just talk about that.
Let's talk about other types of sexual immorality.
Those who think it's OK to test drive a spouse these days,
right? To just live with them for
several years to make sure that everything's going to be OK
because I don't want to get into a relationship and it not be OK.
Can I help all of you? If you are going to marry a
woman, you are a man and you marry a woman or you're a woman
and you're going to marry a man, everything's not going to be OK.
You're 2 sinners trying to coexist.
You're going to have to learn how to depend on God much.
But isn't that the mindset we've changed the scriptures to, where
we just join in some kind of cohabitation and justify our
sexual immorality? It shouldn't be so.
Many people trying to change the immutable Word of God when it
comes to meeting together on the Lord's Day and worshiping him,
joining together with other believers, doing what we will do
in just a moment, observing the Lord's Supper, observing
communion together, remembering Christ.
Oh, and it's not about those things, though the Scriptures
say it should be about those things.
It's not about your thought needs or how you can live your
best life now or a better life on this world that is fleeting
and temporal. God's immutable Word has not,
will not, and cannot ever change.
He's spoken on these things. It's sad that many denominations
are divided over issues such as women and pastoral.
Leadership. It's pretty easy for me.
I don't even have to get into the debates.
In fact, I will not debate you on this.
I will simply say to you that a woman is not the teacher to have
authority over a man. He was speaking about leadership
in the church. I will also quote to you that
the woman is the weaker vessel and it is the man who is the
leader of his home and he should be the prophet and priest and
king of his home. I will not apologize to anyone
for that. Why?
Because the immutable word of God has spoken and has not
changed. God has not changed His mind on
these issues. Now the world has changed their
mind on these issues, but God is not wavering in His mind as we
are. He does not change, therefore
His Word does not change. And when He has spoken, He has
spoken and He has said what He said, and He meant what He
meant, and we need to take that to the bank.
These issues are so clear in Scripture, but yet in the
society that hates God and hates His word, even in the so-called
church, we're having debates over this.
You know what we want? We want God's Word to fit our
lives instead of desiring that our lives fit God's Word.
That's what we really don't want.
That's what's at the root of it. And you know what?
A wicked person desires that a wicked person desires to justify
their sin. I remember what it was like
before I was redeemed, constantly justifying my sin as
if it was right, and Scripture said full well that it was
wrong. God does not change.
He's immutable. That's why His word is eternally
standing. It's infinite.
It's immutable, it's indestructible.
That's what Peter says when he quotes from Isaiah 40.
Peter says this. He says, for you have been born
again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable through the
living and enduring Word of God. Be thankful of that.
It's the living and enduring Word of God that brought forth
salvation in your life. Aren't you glad that the Word of
God didn't cease before you heard the gospel and were saved?
And it will not cease, He goes on and he says this.
For all people are like grass, and all their glory is like the
flowers of the field. The grass Withers and the
flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.
And he says, and this is the word that was preached to you.
He says this is the word that was preached to you, that
everything in this world, the grass, the flowers, even
humanity, it will fall and it will fade.
But the word of God, it will endure forever because it is
the. Eternal, infinite, immutable,
indestructible Word of God. Everything throughout history
that has come against the Word of God, the burnings, the laws
that were passed making it illegal illegal, the efforts
that tried to keep the Word of God from being printed in
English so that we can have a copy in our hand, All of those
things. Failed.
Why? Because God's word is eternal.
The grass Withers and the flowers fall, but the word of
God endures forever. Oh, be thankful for the enduring
Word of God. Psalmist encouraging us with
this. We know though at times the word
might not be settled in our heart, might not be settled in
our mind, but it's forever settled in heaven.
Let that bring us confidence. Let that bring us confidence
when we pray. Why?
Because Jesus taught us to pray like this.
Not our will, but your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. Oh, do you think for a second
that in heaven the will of God that has been revealed in the
scriptures is not being done right now?
I can take you to passages that will show you it is.
It's worship 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365.
Days a year and it will be like that and it's no longer measured
by time where it's just measured in the expanse, vastness of
eternity. And we approach the Word of God
knowing that it is the enduring word of God.
Secondly, I want you to see this from the psalmist.
God's eternal word is encouraging.
Oh, it's so encouraging. I pray this morning that you
would be encouraged by His Word. Verse 92 says this.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished
in my affliction. Wasn't that the testimony of all
Christians if they were to get honest?
He goes on. And he says, I will never forget
your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.
Well make no mistake, it's by His word that your life.
Was preserved. It's by His word that you are in
Christ. Be thankful that His word went
forth and you heard the truth of the gospel according to the
scriptures. And in that God used the word of
God to draw you unto himself for salvation, to birth faith in
you, to regenerate you to new life.
It's exactly what Scripture, by nature and by design, is
designed to do. He says I'll never forget your
precepts, for by them you've preserved my life.
He says in 94, Save me, for I am yours.
Look at the surrender there. Save me, for I am yours.
I know that because I belong to you, I have the hope of
salvation. And how do I know that I've
sought out your precepts? Your word declares that I've
sought out your precepts, and your precepts have proven that.
But there are those days when maybe I don't feel safe.
But your word says that I am saved.
Aren't you glad that salvation is not a feeling?
It's a truth. It's solid and it stands firm
because God's Word is eternal. He says the wicked are waiting
to destroy me, but I will ponder your statutes.
He says people are trying to take my life.
I'm not going to worry about that because I have promises of
eternal life. I have promises of security, I
have promises of your protection.
And so the word of God is, is not only blessing us because
it's everlasting and enduring, but also because of how
encouraging it is to the believer.
God's word, write it down, promises salvation.
Anyone here thankful for the promised salvation that we have
according to the word of God, the eternal word of God provides
eternal salvation. Psalm 6820 Our God is a God who
saves from the sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
The psalmist there riding that with great confidence, knowing
that our God is a God who? Saves and who rescues his people
from death? How does he know this?
He didn't know this because he got some apparition, because he
dreamed some dream or had some vision.
How does the psalmist know the things that he knows?
He says if your law had not been my delight, I would have
perished in my affliction. I know what I know about life
and death because of the Word of God.
I know what I know about salvation because of the Word of
God and what the Word of God promises.
And He gives great promises concerning salvation, doesn't
he, to the believer, because it's only the true believer
who's saved. In fact, John chapter 6, verse
40, Jesus says this from my Father's will is that everyone
who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have
eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
What? A promise, eternal life, a
future resurrection, a future glorification, all contained
there, and the enduring eternal promises of Scripture straight
from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, giving
the promise of salvation to all who will believe and trust in
Him for eternal life. This happens, as we know,
through faith in Christ and faith in Christ alone.
Or may we be reminded of that once again.
May we be reminded of that daily.
I would encourage everyone preach faith in Christ alone to
yourselves every day. Some of my greatest sermons on
faith alone and trusting on faith alone have been preached
only to me, where I went back to the scriptures and I realized
that this has nothing to do with Kirk Hall, that I have nothing
to offer a holy God who is in need of nothing, but yet that he
offered everything for me, that I would be saved, that I could
experience true salvation, true forgiveness of sin, true eternal
life. And I preached to myself
constantly through grace alone, through faith alone in Christ
alone. Why?
So that I don't have the tendency to boast in what I've
done because I've done nothing, only thing that I've ever done.
It's proved that I am a scoundrel and a rotten Sinner.
God has proved that He's faithful to His promises and His
Word over and over and over to the Sinner who will believe and
trust in Him. Is that not what John tells us?
John chapter 3 verse 16, it says for God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
He says in 17 for God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
He didn't have to come to the world to condemn us.
We were already condemned, lost in our sin, cut off and
alienated from a holy God. He says in 18, whoever believes
in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because they have not believed in the name of
God's one and only son. What is he talking about that
here? He's talking about belief, faith
to sue O in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.
He's he's talking about trusting in Jesus Christ for forgiveness
of sin. He's trusting about, He's
talking about trusting in Christ for the condemnation that was
upon you to be lifted, to be washed.
What does he say about it? This for all those who by faith
trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Oh, may we return to the scriptures over and over and
over again cling to the fact that I do by faith trust in
Jesus Christ and his finished work at Calvary, his death, his
burial, his resurrection and that and that alone do I trust
for forgiveness and eternal life.
Well, the scriptures give us great encouragement because of
the promises salvation John Chapter 10.
Mercedes says all who have come before me are thieves and
robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.
He says I am the gate, whoever enters through me will be saved.
They will come in and go out and find Pastor, whoever enters.
Through Christ will be saved. What a promise.
Have you entered through Christ? Are you trying to enter into
another way? There is no other gate.
There is no other door. It is Christ, and it is Christ
alone, and faith in Him the Scripture does so promise.
And those who enter in through Christ will be saved.
John 17 verse 2 says for you granted him authority over all
people that he might give eternal life to all those you
have given him. Speaking of Christ Now this is
eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom you have sent the Father granting authority to
the Son, the Son coming, promising and offering eternal
life to all who. Believe.
And to those who know him and to know the only true God whom he
has sent the Lord Jesus Christ, he says you'll be saved, you'll
be rewarded with eternal life. What promise, what encouragement
that we have from that? Not only do we have that
promise, salvation in the future through Jesus Christ, we have it
now promise. Salvation from all suffering,
affliction and death. But you know that we can cling
to that, that our sufferings, our afflictions.
We sing the psalmist and his share of sufferings and
afflictions. Through this journey in the
119th Psalm, we can cling that God is going to bring salvation
for our suffering, our affliction.
And even death. Second Timothy chapter 4 verse
18, it says the Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and
will bring me safely to his heavenly Kingdom, to him be
glory forever and ever. Amen.
That's the apostle Paul giving encouragement to Timothy and
those. Believers there who?
Were under Timothy's care, he says.
The Lord's going to rescue me from every evil attack that this
world and Satan might bring against me, and he'll bring me
safely into his heavenly Kingdom.
What promise of salvation? That promise stands.
Why? Because God's Word is eternal.
And if God's Word wasn't eternal, we'd be in trouble,
wouldn't we? That's the reason that many
people don't want to believe in the doctrine of eternal
security, because they don't believe in the doctrine of the
eternal Word of God. God has.
Spoken it, it is so let us just go back and review for a second
John 316. What did he say?
He tells us right there that if we will in John 316, believe and
we will trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
That we will never perish but have eternal life.
Now God couldn't promise eternal life and then take it back from
you because His eternal word is already dubbed at eternal.
And therefore God's word when He says to promise to save those
who believe in Christ, when you believe in Christ truly.
Surrendering to Him as your Lord and Savior, you are forever
sealed. In fact, Scripture says you're
sealed to the day of redemption and the Holy Spirit seals you,
just as God sealed the door of the ark when Noah and his family
were ushered in by. The will of God and the power of
God. We too in Christ have received
promise salvation. I'm all suffering affliction and
even death. It's for all those who call on
the Lord and surrendered. Look at the psalmist here
calling on the Lord and surrender.
Verse 94 He says save me for I am yours.
He is surrendering himself completely to the Lord, knowing
what His word. Says I have sought out your
precepts, and you know what his precepts said.
Fear the Lord, surrender to the Lord, have faith in the Lord,
honor the Lord, give everything to the Lord, and hear the
psalmist doing exactly that. Save me for I am yours.
He's doing what Paul instructs the church to do in Romans 1013,
where he says for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved. On your hour of desperation,
your time of reckoning, where God brings your attention to the
fact that you are a Sinner and you are deserving of the wrath
of God and deserving of hell. Call on Jesus for His mercy.
Why?
Because whosoever calls upon him will be saved.
Psalm 86, five says this. Yet you, Lord, are forgiving and
good, abounding in love to all who call to you.
Or perhaps today is that day where you see your need
according to the Scriptures, and you will call unto Him, and He
will, according to His promises that we see in His Word, save
you, just as He has eternally promised to do for all who
called Him. Would you call to Him today and
be saved? Would you trust in Him and Him
alone? Why?
Because it's been revealed to you in His Word.
That those who believe and trust in Him will be saved.
And that is eternal. It has not changed.
It is not who trust in Him to be saved.
And they attend church and, and they, they, they are baptized
and they, they observe communion and they.
Are are are really really good in attendance.
They even become full-fledged church members.
He didn't say that one must begin with trusting Him for the
salvation that He has promised, believing that that is an
eternal promise for all. You trust in Him, Oh my God,
open your eyes to show you that today, because in showing you
that what He will do then as He will draw you to the only hope
that you have, which is Christ, We see that His word promises
salvation. How encouraging that is to each
of us. How encouraging that is in those
dark times. And we have to trust in nothing
but the word of God, because we have nothing to trust in but.
The word of. God to know that all of His
promises concerning salvation are true.
He also promises security, eternal word that provides
eternal security to God's children, eternal security in
regard to salvation, but security in the fact that He is
carrying us and He is protecting us and He is holding us
constantly by His word. Proverbs 30, verse 5, Every word
of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take
refuge in Him. Are you taking refuge in Him?
Are you taking refuge in the Lord?
If you're taking refuge in the Lord, according to his word,
he's a shield. He is a protective from you, for
you. And what does He protect you
from? Write it down.
He protects you from wickedness and the influence of wickedness.
Let's all ask the question, is there an influence of wickedness
around us constantly in this world?
Of course there is the Prince and the power of the heirs,
influencing the entire world with wickedness the Lord will
protect. Us through His eternal word, as
we look to it, in the midst of that influence, He will protect
us by His Word. Psalm 3740.
The Lord helps them and delivers them.
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they take
refuge in Him. And how do we know?
We're taking refuge in Him? We're taking refuge in His Word.
We are standing on the firm foundation of the promises of
Scripture. Oh, you go back and you see
Jesus teaching about the homes 1 built on a sand, the sand one
built on a firm foundation. That firm foundation being the
word of God. That fleeting foundation being
the sinking sand of this wicked world.
And you can seek refuge and you can found find foundation in
either or, but won't last and 1 won't.
And the wise man is going to build his house on Christ and
build his house. From the promises of the words
of Christ found in Scripture is His eternal word that gives us
the promised security that we all have access to in Christ,
shielding us from wickedness. The influence of wickedness.
The intentions of the wicked. Don't you know that the wicked
have intentions? Their intentions are just as
their name declares, wicked. The psalmist here experiencing
that the wicked are waiting to destroy me.
They want to take his life. You know what he does?
He doesn't fear in what the wicked can do to him.
What does he do? He meditates on the word of God.
He said the wicked are waiting to destroy me, but I will ponder
your statutes. Why would he be pondering the
Lord's statues when the wicked want to destroy him?
Because he knew that the Lord would shield him from the wicked
attacks, that the Lord would even shield him from death.
Psalm 138, verse 7. He says, though I walk in the
midst of trouble, you preserve my life.
You stretched out your hand against the anger of my foes.
With your right hand you save me.
Where do we find that? We find that in the Word of God.
Where did he find that? He found that in the Word of
God. He knew how God had preserved
His people throughout the ages and that God would continue to
preserve His people according to His Word.
He has made us that promise. That he will shield us.
The influence of the wicked from the intentions of the wicked,
but also from the world. Anyone here thankful that God
Shields us from the world? Oh, if we were not shielded from
the world right now. You think the world is wicked
and evil now? Oh please know this, that God is
shielding us from just how. Wicked it would be if man was
just simply turned over to themselves.
He Shields us from the world, from the deception of the world
constantly coming at us. Bossians 113.
It says this. For he, Speaking of Christ, has
rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the
Kingdom of the Son he loves. We don't have to walk Into
Darkness. He's rescued us from the
dominion of darkness, the deception of this world we can
now walk in. Truth.
You know what's interesting about that?
Where do we find truth? We find truth in the eternal
Word of God that He has spoken. You want light in your darkness?
You want truth in a mixed up world.
You find truth in the 66 books of Scripture.
Can you find no truth anywhere else that is absolute and that
is eternal? That's what the psalmist desires
that we understand here. We have promises from God's
Word, promises salvation, promises of security from
wickedness from the world, the deception of the world, the
destruction of the world. Did you know the world will face
utter destruction? It says in second Peter chapter
3 verse 10. But the day of the Lord will
come like a thief, the heavens will disappear with the roar,
the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and
everything done and it will be laid bare.
He said there's going to come upon the earth's destruction.
You know what the eternal Word of God promises those who are in
Christ? Security from the coming
destruction well I can't think help but think about my good
friend Christian in the Pilgrim's Progress where
evangelist warned him about the destruction that was coming that
he should flee the city of destruction and he left his
family behind and he fled the city of destruction headed to
the Celestial City according to the word and the will of God
Church be thankful if you have fleed the.
Destruction that is to come and you are safe and secure in the
arc of Christ. Rejoice that God has brought you
there and He brought you there through His eternal Word.
Don't forget that. Destruction is coming upon the
world, just as the Scriptures declare that God promises
security to those who trust in His Word.
Just as the psalmist is saying here, the wicked are waiting to
destroy me. But I will ponder your statutes.
I'll delight in Your Word because if it were not for Your
Word, I would have already perished.
You can see the promised security that His Word brings
from wickedness and from the world, the destruction and
deception of the world. Oh, but there's one more that we
have to speak of. That's not a very popular topic.
God's Word promises us security from wickedness, from the world,
but also from the wrath of God. I understand that it's not a
topic that everyone wants to talk about.
In fact, it's one that many don't talk about at all.
But please know this, according to scripture, when God saves us,
we are saved from someone and something many.
People, if you were to ask them, unfortunately in the modern
church age, what are you saved from?
When they tell you that they're saved because someone has taught
them that they're saved but never has taught them what they
have been saved from. And you were to say, what are
you saved from? And they would respond, so I can
go to heaven. No, you're not saved from.
So anything. You're saved from something.
And people are afraid to say this for fear that it would
somehow paint God in a bad image.
No, His wrath is just. His wrath is holy.
His wrath is pure. And when you are saved,
according to scripture, you are secured from the wrath of God
that is to come upon all unbelieving mankind.
Please make note of this. You're saved from the wrath that
you deserve. Because you're a Sinner, God and
His mercy and His love for you in Christ poured His wrath upon
His only begotten Son so that you could go free.
He who knew no sin became sin, so that we might become the
righteousness of God. God has by His word promised to
secure the righteous, and to remove his wrath from them.
Now watch how he did this. He offered himself on a cross,
and the wrath of the Father was poured out upon Him, He who knew
no sin. And he bore the wrath that I
deserved, and I. Bear the righteousness that is
rightfully his. Therefore I stand before God.
Not as someone deserving of the wrath of God, though I'd be
deserving of the wrath of God. I stand before God, clothed in
the righteousness of Jesus Christ, the wrath of God being
removed not just in this life, but for all eternity, never to
face the wrath of God again. Romans 58 and 9 says this, but
God demonstrates His own love for us in this.
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Watch what He says in nine so many times.
We read 8 by itself, but don't forget nine since we have now
been justified by His blood. How much more shall we be saved
from God's wrath through him? How much more will we be saved
from God's wrath through him? Or what promises that we have,
encouraging promises from Scripture that we are secure
from the wrath of God that will come upon this earth, that will
come upon the unbelieving and the wicked sinners.
In fact, First Thessalonians chapter 5, Paul says this, he
says for God did not appoint us. Who's the US, the believer?
God did not point us to suffer, appoint us to suffer wrath, but
to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, I'm so thankful that God appointed me to receive
salvation through my Lord Jesus Christ.
And He has promised me in His Word that because I have
surrendered to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, as I was
appointed to do before the foundations of the earth, He
promises that the wrath of God will never come upon me.
Well, I know what you think, Kirk.
You deserve the wrath of God. Yes, I do.
I'm so thankful that in his grace and His mercy, He didn't
give me what I deserved. And he continues to give me so
much more than I could ever begin to deserve.
Oh, he promises US security. What encouragement?
Be secure, believer. Today, God's eternal Word offers
eternal encouragement and offers internal and eternal
encouragement for all who trust in Jesus Christ according to the
Scriptures. So God's eternal Word, we've
seen it is enduring, it's encouraging.
Let's not miss this. It's excellent.
It's excellent, and I say it because it's excellent beyond
compare. Look what the psalmist says to
all perfection. I see a limit, but your commands
are boundless. The psalmist notates that total
perfection is found in God's Word and that when we lay the
Word of God beside everything else that we would dove with our
human minds perfect. For instance, a newborn baby.
Your baby's born. You look at your baby's eyes,
you make eye contact for the first time, and many times you
hear the words he or she is perfect until you take them home
that first night. You realize they are not perfect
at all. They're little sinners.
Oh, we would look at the driven snow and we would say, oh, look
how beautiful and how perfect it is until you take a walk in the
driven snow and you see that it has been tainted by animals or
humans. And so it seemed perfect at
first glance. It's not as perfect as you
thought it would be, or until it begins to melt and it mixes with
dirt and it becomes mud. You've all been in those towns
where that happens. Oh, it seemed perfect, but it
wasn't perfect. Well, what about the perfect
sunrise, perfect sunset that you witnessed?
Well, just the other night as we witnessed a beautiful sunset.
I knew that it wasn't a perfect sunset because this world has
been corrupted by sin, and I long for the beauty of the
things that are eternal, the beauty of the word of God.
That's what the psalmist is saying.
You say I'm laying the word of God next to the most beautiful
sunset that I have ever. Seen and I see a limit in that,
but your word is boundless. It's perfect.
It's perfect in all aspects. I'll write this down.
It's perfect in composition. Please understand this about the
Word of God In a generation where people do not want to
believe this. The Word of God is inerrant.
There are no errors from Genesis all the way to Revelation.
The Word of God is pure and inerrant.
If you want to debate someone on that topic, don't come to me.
I will not debate it with you. I will simply quote to you what
I just read in Psalm 1/19/96 to to all perfection.
I see a limit, but Your commands are boundless.
Your word is infinitely perfect. The excellence of God's word is
confirmed to us by it's perfect composition.
The Bible's not some invention of man.
Man didn't sit down and say, you know what?
I think I'm going to write law for myself.
He's no sinful man would have ever done that.
And if we were to do that, there would be liberty and not law.
We would do whatever it is that our sinful inclinations wanted
us to do. But God has in his Word written
to us His perfect and boundless inerrant commands.
And they're perfect in their composition.
Not the invention of man, not the inscription of humans, but
the inscription of a perfect, complete.
Holy, flawless God spoken by God himself.
Well, Please remember that, believer, when you read one
verse, when you read 10 verses, when you read an entire chapter,
when you read an entire book, all of it spoken and breathed by
a perfect God, Therefore it is perfect in its composition, was
spoken by God and his perfection.
But what's this? It was also.
Superintended by God himself. Many people forget this.
Many people forget the fact and they say stupid things like
this. Yeah, but when man got involved,
it all got messed up. No, it didn't, because it was
God's will that man got involved.
But can I tell you, this scripture is very clear.
Second Peter, chapter one, verse 19, he says we also have the
prophetic message as something completely reliable, perfect,
and you will do well to pay attention to it as to a light
shining in a dark place, a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto
our path, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in
your hearts. Above all, he says, you must
understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the
prophet's own interpretation of things.
If you continue to read what you will see, these were men of God
who were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Now, I know that a lot of people want to reduce the Holy Spirit
to secondary. He is not.
He is the third person of the Triune Godhead.
He is as equally and eternally God as the Father, and God as
the Son and God. The Holy Spirit superintended
every single aspect of Scripture.
He guided the hands of man before they ever dipped the
feather into the quill. He guided them, they dipped that
quill into that ink. He superintended every single
aspect so that the word of God is perfect in His composition.
He carried them along. He carried them along into
perfection, and so we can have great confidence that His Word
is excellent, perfect in composition, superintended by
God Himself, spoken by God Himself, but also secured by God
Himself. Psalm 138.
Two, Psalm 138 two says this. I will bow down toward your holy
temple, and we'll praise your name for your unfailing love and
your faithfulness. For you have you have so exalted
your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame?
He said. Lord, you have exalted your word
so high that it surpasses your own fame.
I want you to stop and think about that for a second.
That God values His Word so much that He allowed the eternal word
of Himself to surpass His fame. Oh, it's not a coincidence that
this is the all time bestseller. It will always be the all time
bestseller. It is the Word of God that He
Himself has exalted, the perfect Word of God, and the Word
declares that, and it's perfect. In its composition he vouchsaves
his own word by his own name. Numbers 2319.
The word of God declares this God is not human that he should
lie, not a human being that he should change his mind.
Does he speak? And then not act.
Does he promise and not fulfill? No.
Everything that he says in his word is a promise, and it is
true. He will fulfill all of that
according to His name. He has exalted His word above
even His very name. First Samuel 15 verse 29 says
this. He who is the glory of Israel
does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a human being that
He should change his mind. God hasn't changed his mind.
He does not lie. His word is perfect.
His promises are perfect. Everything that He set forth for
it to do, it will do. It's perfect in composition, but
it's also perfect in character. We talked about it being
inerrant. There is no fault.
There is no error. It's also perfect in character.
Why? Because God's character is
perfect. The infallible character of God
assures the infallible nature of his eternal word.
So just as the characteristics and attributes of God are
infallible, how many of you say? Yes, I believe that.
Then every word spoken from his mouth that cannot and does not
lie is infallible as well. We'll see the excellence of
God's Word when we think about that.
It's perfect in character because it articulates the
perfect one who spoke it. And that's how we learn about
God, isn't it, through his word, the articulation of his word,
Deuteronomy 32 four, it says He's the rock, His works are
perfect and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
He's a rock, His works are perfect and all his ways are
just and faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is
He. He's a rock, His works are
perfect, and all his ways are just and faithful.
God who does no wrong, upright and just.
Is he? And if he is infallible there,
therefore his word will be found infallible.
Psalm 1830. It says, As for God, His way is
perfect, Lord's word is. Flawless.
He Shields all who take refuge in him because God is perfect.
His Word is flawless and perfect as well.
What great hope we have from the eternal Word of God when we look
at the excellence of what it really.
Is how He articulate articulates the perfect one who spoke it,
but who in His word also accomplishes exactly what it was
spoken to do. Not only does He articulate who
He is, revealing that to us. His perfection, His Majesty, His
glory, all seen in His. Word.
He accomplishes exactly what he has spoken to do.
Aren't you glad that God's just not a God of talk?
He's a God of power. In fact, Isaiah 55, in a verse
that you all know and often misquote it, says this.
So is my word that goes out from my mouth.
It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I
desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
What is God saying about His perfect character being revealed
in His perfect and excellent word?
He's saying this that my Word accomplishes exactly what I
desire for it to accomplish. You know what God's Word doesn't
accomplish? Exactly what you want it to
accomplish. Oh, I've had to rest in this as
a preacher of the gospel because when I preach the Word, you know
what I wanted to accomplish? The souls of everyone who hears
it to be saved. The unfortunate truth is this,
not everyone will be saved. Sometimes when the Word goes
forth, it is to accomplish the fact that God is going to give
some over to their very sin. You don't believe me?
Read Romans chapter 1 where in seven verses he gives man sinful
man over six different times. God gave them over, God gave
them over, God gave them over. And sometimes when we preach the
word of God, the Word of God goes out, the promises of
Scripture go out, and men believe and women believe.
And sometimes when the Word of God goes out, men resist and
they refuse, and they remain in that state of refusion and
condemnation that we're all in before God graciously saves us.
And so know that God accomplishes His Word and the
things that are projected in His Word perfectly.
I say that so you'll know this. There are going to be those who
were saved through the preaching of the gospel according to the
will of God and the Word of God. But there will also be those who
refuse the gospel who will perish for all eternity.
Please know that. And God's will through His Word
will be accomplished both in heaven and hell for all
eternity. Let that wake you up.
Let that cause. You to see the.
Excellence of the Word of God. Because it is the Word of God,
the same word that can set you free from your sin this morning,
but it's the same word that you could reject and walk out of
here and lose your life and be condemned for all eternity and
remain in the state that you walked in in.
See that His Word accomplishes exactly what is spoken He
desires to do, and that His Word abolishes any possibility of
flaws or failings. It's perfect in character
because again, God remains perfect in character.
Psalm 12 verse 6 and the words of the Lord are flawless like
silver purified and a Crucible like gold refined 7 times human
being that he should change. Oh excuse me, that I needed to
end at times it says that the words of the Lord are flawless
like silver purified and a Crucible like gold refined 7
times. So see that the word of God is
flawless. I probably should have went to
these for that. And but the word of God is
flawless and perfect, abolishing any possibility of any failings,
because it is the very word of God.
Psalm 1830. As for God, his ways, they're
perfect. The Lord's word is flawless, and
he Shields all those who take refuge in him.
Always Sums it all up there, doesn't he?
The psalmist here, finding again security in God's word.
And why is he finding security in God's word this time?
Because God's word is eternal. So how should we respond to
this? How should we as professing
believers respond to the fact that God's word is eternal?
Here's how we should respond. We should see the value of God's
word that in seeing that it brings us hope beyond this
fleeting and passing and cruel and wicked sinful world.
Is that what you're doing believer?
Are you viewing God's eternal word as the psalmist has in this
passage? Well, look how he has viewed his
word. He says were not for your Word,
I would have perished to my affliction.
Are you thankful for the word of God that He has used not only to
bring forth new life in you, but to bring forth new life in all
who believe and trust in Him, according to His Word to the
unbeliever? Please pay attention to this
message this morning and contemplate this if you would
contemplate what the psalmist has said, that the Word of God
is enduring and encouraging and it's excellent.
Consider those things. Consider all the truths that we
have seen that surround those things.
Consider the. Truth regarding unrepentant and
unbelieving sinners. I want you to think about that
for a second. If God's Word is true regarding
unrepentant and unbelieving sinners, if you remain in a
state of unbelief and unrepentance, you will perish
under the wrath of God for all eternity.
Did you contemplate these things in light of God's Word?
Did you contemplate the truth regarding true faith in Jesus
Christ is the only manner in which a Sinner will ever be
saved? Oh, know this.
And unless you repent of your sin, and unless you turn to
Christ, you will perish in that sin.
You'll perish for all eternity according to the Word of God.
That's not just something that I'm saying to you because I want
to sound mean. That is something the Bible
declares because God is just and you can face the justice of God
for all eternity, or you can enjoy the mercy of God for all
eternity. And it all comes down to
surrendering to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the truth
that God promises to forgive and redeem all who call on Jesus to
save them from their sin. Would you contemplate that this
morning? Would you call on Jesus to save
you today? It's the only hope that you
have. I mean desperately call upon Him
because He is your only hope. Oh, you contemplate the truth
that God does in His love grant eternal life to all who
surrender to Jesus as Lord and Savior according to His word.
And would you surrender to the Lord Jesus as your Savior today,
leaving your life of sin, forsaking the things of this
world, and running to the feet of Jesus where you will find
mercy, forgiveness for sin? Oh unbeliever, would you
consider the eternal Scriptures today, my prayers that God would
use them as he does to draw you to salvation and forgiveness in
eternal life today? Let's pray together.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you, thanking you for
Your Word, thanking you for the time that we've had and the
opportunity that we've had today to spend in Your Word.
Would I pray for those who give no regard to the magnitude of
your eternal Word? God, would you change them
today? Would you change their hearts?
I pray for the lost soul who's here today who does not know
Christ. Would you save them according to
Your promises? Would you open their eyes,
regenerate them the new spiritual life as you've
promised to do? Would you give them faith to
believe and strength to repent that is required, but that you
provide? Would you save them today as
they cry out in desperation? Show them how desperate they are
without Christ and then show them how faithful you are to
your eternal word. We'll give you all the praise
for it in Jesus name, Amen. You've been listening to Key
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