Our Lord Reigns Supreme
Psalms 93:1-2 ESV
“The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.”
Jesus Christ, our Lord, is the King of the whole world. He
is fully sovereign and in control over all that He has made. Nothing escapes
his notice. And nothing can thwart his purposes. His purposes will stand for he
will make them stand. Although it may appear the enemy is gaining ground, God
still is King. His will and his purpose will be accomplished. Amen!
They Lift up Their Roaring
Psalms 93:3 ESV
“The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.”
Our Lord has enemies. All who are opposed to Jesus Christ
and to his Lordship over all that he has made, and who are opposed to his
gospel, in the way he taught it, are his enemies. And they are like floods which
lift up their heads against the Lord, and which raise their voices against him.
And they are roaring against the Lord and his gospel and his
messengers. They are rebelling against the Lord’s commands and his moral
standards for our lives, and thus they are altering his gospel to make it more
acceptable and agreeable to human flesh.
So, what we have now is a flood of people professing faith
in Jesus Christ who are being promised heaven as their eternal destiny who are
living no different from those who make no profession of faith in Jesus, or
even worse, because they believe their salvation frees them of the guilt of
sin.
Thus, many of them are living in sexual immorality and
idolatry while claiming that Jesus set them free. But they see their freedom as
license to continue making sin their practice. For they see their salvation as
merely forgiveness for their sins, but not as deliverance from their sinful
practices.
Thus, since they feel as though they don’t have to obey the
Lord, and that nothing is required of them, and since they believe they can
have an intimate relationship with God while they deliberately and habitually are
making sin their practice, they have no fear of God.
So, for many of them, their eyes are full of adultery. They
never stop sinning. It doesn’t mean that they are constantly committing sinful
acts, but that they never died with Christ to sin. They never let him put an
end to sin in their lives. And so, they continue sinning as a matter of course.
And some of them seduce others to sin by teaching them that
nothing is required of them – no repentance, no obedience, and no submission to
Christ as Lord. Or else they twist the Scriptures in such a way that they lead
people into sin while making them believe they are obeying God.
Since so much of today’s market-driven church has bought
into this lie, sin is running rampant in a large majority of congregations, and
especially sexually immorality is high on the list of the sins being committed regularly
because there are no checks and balances to prevent this.
And if they can’t convince us to join them in their
debauchery, they will attack us, or they will try to shame us into submission,
or they will try to shame us into backing down from sharing the truth of the
gospel, telling us that we are offending people and making them feel bad.
Mightier than the Waves
Psalms 93:4-5 ESV
“Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty!
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.”
But praise the Lord, He is mightier than all their tricks
and all their schemes to try to bring us down and to try to get us to
compromise and to give up and to give in and to join them. He is mightier than
all their threats or all their fearmongering or attempts to try to confuse us.
And he will give us all the strength that we need to stand
strong in our faith and on the word of God (in context), and on God’s standards,
and to not give into intimidation to back off or to back away from living the
life and from talking the life that God has designed for us all to live.
So, we are never to commit sexual immorality. We are never
to view porn or sexually charged movies, or to fantasize about sex with other
people. And we are not to lust after others or dream of romantic relationships
with other people. And we are not to self-gratify, either.
We are never to engage ourselves in intimate and private
conversations with others behind the backs of our spouses, either. And it goes
without saying that we are to never have sexual relationships with anyone with
whom we are not married. We are to be faithful to our spouses in all ways.
For, it is God’s will that we be sanctified. It is God’s
will that we be made holy and that we live separate (unlike, different) from
the ways of this sinful world. It is God’s will that we die with him to sin and
live to him and to his righteousness for his glory and praise.
For, if we continue living in sin deliberately, habitually,
and premeditatedly, making sin our practice, and we willfully choose not to submit
to the Lord and to obey his commands and to leave our sinful lifestyles behind
us, we will die in our sins. We will not inherit eternal life with God.
So, if you are living in sexual immorality, or any sin, and
if you are holding on to that sin, and you won’t let it go, but you are
claiming that you are a believer in Jesus Christ and that heaven is what awaits
you, please take this to heart. The Bible says you will not inherit eternal
life.
Please know that Jesus Christ gave his life up on that cross
for your freedom from your slavery (addiction) to sin. He died to set you free
so that you can now be his possession and so that you can now live for him and
for his glory and praise. You just have to yield control of your life over to
him.
The Great Redeemer
Lyrics by Francis Foster, 1915
Music by Samuel W. Beazley, 1915
How I love the great Redeemer
Who is doing so much for me;
With what joy I tell the story
Of the love that makes men free.
Till my earthly life is ended,
I will send songs above,
Then beside the crystal sea
More and more my soul shall be
Praising Jesus and His love.
He has purchased my redemption,
Rolled my burden of sin away,
And is walking on beside me,
Growing dearer day by day.
That is why I sing His praises,
That is why joy is mine,
That is why forevermore
On the everlasting shore
I shall sing of love divine.
Glory be to Him forever!
Endless praises to Christ the Lamb!
He has filled my life with sunshine,
He has made me what I am.
Oh, that everyone would know Him,
Oh, that all would adore!
Oh, that all would trust the love
Of the mighty Friend above
And be His forevermore.
He is everything to me, to me,
He is everything to me,
And everything shall always be;
I will never cease to raise
A song of gladness in His praise;
Here, and in the world above,
My soul shall sing of saving love;
Life and light and joy is He,
The precious Friend who died for me.
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