[0:00] Psalm 22 from verse 27 Last week we looked at Psalm 22 and verses 22 to 26 Seeing that very much as the results of the suffering of Christ in verses 1 to 21 There were results, there are results that follow from the sufferings of Christ
[1:06] These results are not accidental, they are things that were planned Christ when he was on the cross was in no doubt whatsoever That there would be great things achieved by his suffering Those who believe in what's called Arminian doctrine At least in this department of theology They would say that when Christ was suffering on the cross All he did was he made the salvation of people possible That he didn't actually achieve the salvation of even one person But that he made salvation possible for everyone But achieved it for no one Now Calvinism against that says no But when Christ was on the cross He was there for his people He had his people in mind when he suffered and died
[2:09] And went through hell for them And each one of those people Whose names were engraved on his palms Will each one be saved They will come Every single one of them Now who will come?
[2:29] Well that's what we will hook at tonight in verses 27 to 31 First of all in verse 27 and 28 You find that they will come from worldwide Then secondly in verse 29 They will come both high and low And then in verse 30 and 31 They shall come for all time And the generations to come So first of all spatially worldwide Then they shall come of all classes high and low And then they shall come for all time And generations to come Let's look at these three things For a short while tonight First of all they will come worldwide In verse 27 All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn unto the Lord All the kindreds or all the families of the nations Shall worship before them They are going to come
[3:30] They are going to come Not just from one part of the globe But they are going to come From all ends of the earth When Christ was on the cross suffering He didn't just have the Jews in mind He had the Gentiles in mind as well He had all the nations in mind People would come because of his suffering From all ends of the earth East and West and North and South Black and white and red and yellow All ends of the earth It's good to remember that At any point when we feel That this part of the world Is the centre of the Christian church It's not The cross is the centre And every other part of the world Will focus on to that cross All families of the nations Worldwide And what shall they do Well they'll do three things
[4:32] First of all They will remember It's not a strange word All ends of the world Shall remember Remember what Well do you imagine That the cross is forgettable Do you imagine for a moment That what Christ suffered Is forgettable You see those who are touched by the Lord By his spirit and by his power You know what they're brought to remember They're brought to remember What Jesus did on the cross They're brought to remember The reward that Jesus received For his suffering The resurrection They're brought to remember All so many things that Christ did That the spirit will not allow us to forget When the Holy Spirit comes
[5:33] He will bring to our minds The things of Christ So that we will not forget What are we doing here tonight If we haven't remembered But we haven't That's what Christians are People who remember The cross Is unforgettable And you know this friend The world could never make us remember Nor could our own hearts Make us remember It is the work of God's spirit To bring us to see The importance Of what Jesus has done For us on the cross It is God's Holy Spirit Who alone Can bring us to see What God did to Jesus What God did for Jesus And why it happened That he was there Suffering
[6:33] To save us From our sins God made us remember So that's the first thing They will do From all ends of the world They shall remember Secondly They will turn Now that's the mark Of remembering Isn't it To a point Someone's saying I remember But it doesn't affect Their direction of life If you remember You will turn You will turn You will turn And turn where?
[7:02] Just to any God? To any religion? No You will turn To the Lord Remember that that word Lord Means the covenant God The one who has promised To save The one who sent The Saviour And the one who will keep All his promises Made to Christ This is the God That we will turn to The Lord Not just any religion Not at all You know all this Ecumenical movement Just now Where even high Church officials Seem to say Well so long as people Have some faith Then they're fulfilling This promise People say They'll come From all ends Of the earth And they'll come To God Whether they're Buddhist or Hindus That's nonsense It's the Lord We're talking about
[8:03] Not just a God And there's only One Lord The one Who covenanted Jesus to us And you know My friends We needed to be turned Your direction Of life And mine Was away From the Lord You were drifting With the tide Drifting with the world Going Astray But then the Lord Turned us Back to himself How What turned you back It was remembering Remembering things Probably That you were Tored Of your mother's Knee When you first Heard of Christ The cross The blood The offer Of salvation The resurrection All these things You heard But you left behind But then a day came When you remembered
[9:04] These things And they were brought Forcibly to your mind With such force That you turned And you faced The Lord But that's only The second thing Then the third thing Was this That they shall Worship Before thee They shall be Prostrate Before thee And in submission Before thee In love Not grudge You see When you become A Christian You don't Grudge God Your worship You offer it In love It becomes The most Natural thing For someone Who has remembered And turned To the Lord Then to Worship him Sad thing is That we go Through phases When we forget And when we forget It's as if Our face Turns For seasons
[10:04] Away from Looking on the Lord And when we do That It's as if The spirit Of worship Seeks away From our life It's not true Are you in the Spirit of worship Tonight Are we We who have Come from the Ends of the world Who have remembered Are we in the Spirit Of worship Why Why will they Come from all Ends of the earth Why will they Remember Turn And worship The Lord Because the Kingdom is the Lord's And he is the Governor Among the Nations That means You see That there are Nations They have their Own kings But it's not These kings Who will bring The people To Jesus Christ It's God
[11:04] Who is Reigning And he's Gathering He's the One who is King Of all kings He is the One who is Reigning Over the Whole world And he's Working out Everything For good Gathering In To his Kingdom All those For whom Jesus died Every single One of them He is the Governor Of the Nations So let's Not imagine For example Sandra's Entire We pray That her Witness They will Be blessed We want To see People Converting You remember When Gus Was here Talking about The work In the Philippines How the Church was Growing There at Such a Mighty Week And yet In Thailand Where the Works Been Going on For so Long And so Little Fruit And we Have to Say Well That's
[12:04] Another Nation Their Culture Doesn't Match Christianity So it Cannot It Cannot Be Touched For the Lord Listen The Kingdom Is the Lord's He is The Governor Of Thailand He is The Governor Of Japan He is The Governor Of Ancient He And he Alone And that's Why you see We can be Confident They will Come From all The ends Of the Earth It's Not Satan Who is Reigning It's God Who Reigns Satan Is God's Truth He can Never Be More So they Will come Worldwide Secondly They will Come From high And low In verse 29 All They That be Fat Upon Earth Shall
[13:04] Eat And Wash The Fat Ones Of The Earth Literally These Are The People To A Prosperous They Are The People You See They They Be Fed On The Finest Of Wheat And They Really Have A Good Life They Don't Need Anyone They Are Rich They Getting On Fine Without The Gospel They Are Just Doing So Well You Know People Like That One Of My Old Friends As A Minister In A Town Further Down Down South And This Town Is Very Much A Place Where People Go To Retire But The Kind Of Houses In This Place Are Usually Well To Do Houses For Will To People And You Would Say Well These Are People Who Don't Need The Lord They Are The Fat Ones Of The Earth You Know The Kind That Seems So Arrogant The Kind That Seems So
[14:04] Haughty That Sneer Of The Gospel And You And I Sometimes Imagine Well These Ones Certainly Won't Come The Fat Ones Of The Earth Will Not Be In The Kingdom But They Will All They That Be Fat Upon Earth Shall Eat And Wash It Will Include People Who At One Time Are So Arrogant So Atheistic So Proud And So Haughty God Will Humble Them So That They Will Want To Come And Eat At The Gospel Feast And Be Satisfied What A God What A God What A God The Father Of The Earth Shall Come And Worship In Love I Heard Very Recently Over In Sky A Man Who Was A
[15:06] Nathan Is Weird And Who Did Sneer At The Gospel And He Would Say I Have No Need Of Any Such Thing And He Started Coming To Church And A Number Of Sad As I Go The Lord Touched His Heart And That Man Came Out Of The Church With Tears Screaming Down His Face And He Turned To The Lord That Is What God Is Able To Do Let's Take Heart From These Promises So The Fat Ones Of The Earth But Also Those That Go Down To The Dust Shall Bow Before Him Who Goes Down To The Dust Well I Think That's A Figure There For Those Who Are Going To Die Those Who Are Going To Die In The Lowry Day It's As If That's All That Really Was Important About Their Lives That They Died Nothing
[16:06] Else They Weren Fat They Weren Prosper Us They Weren People Or Thavers Or Anything Like That No They Were People All You Could Say About Them Was That They Were Going To Die And My Friend That's True Of Us All We're Going To Die Well Christ Came To Save People Who Were Going To Die That's The Only Future They Had They Were Going To The Dusk Their Bodies Were Going To The Grave And Their Souls Were Going To Hell That Was The Future They Had But What Has The Lord Done These These These People Will Be Thrown To Jesus And They Bow Before Heaven They Will Bow Before And Also We're Told None Can Keep Alive His Own Soul It's
[17:08] As If Those Who Are Coming Are People Who Know That They Cannot Keep Their Souls Alive As Someone Put It They're Coming To Gain A Life Which Is Not There To Command It's Not It's Not What It Means To Become A Christian It's Coming To Gain A Life Which Was Not Our To Command We Couldn't Wake Up In The Morning And Say I'm Going To Live Forever We Don't Have Choice We Die We Can Choose The Time Or The Place Aparent But We Can't Choose Whether To Live Or Die Ultimately We Die None Of Us Can Keep Our Shows Alive But Christ When He Draws The People To Them
[18:08] It's As If These People Have A Testimony And They Will Say Why We Couldn't Keep Our Souls Alive But We Come To The One Who Gives Us Eternal Life Everyone Will Die And As Life Leaves Them So The Judgment Will Find Them Are You Prepared For That As Life Leaves You So Judgment Will Find You But In Christ You Know That You Will Have Everlasting Life So High In Those Those Who Are Prosperous And Haughty And Those Who Could Say Nothing But That They Were Going To Die And Every One Of Us This Is True Of Us That We Couldn't Keep Our Shells Alive And
[19:08] Then Thirdly In All The Time To Come People Will Come To Christ Generations Says In Verse 13 31 A Seed Shall Serve It Shall Be Accounted To The Lord For A Generation They Shall Come And Shall Declare His Righteousness To A People That Shall Be Born In The Time To Come Says There's Going To Be A Seed Remember Genesis 3 15 When Man Fell And God Came In Covenant Love He Said There Will Be The Seed Of The Serpent But There Will Also Be The Seed Of The Woman There Will Be Christians And They Will Be Called A Seed Because They Are All Related One To Another Because They Are Related To Jesus Christ The
[20:08] Seed Of The World And That's True Those Of Us Who Are Christians In This Room Tonight We Are Seed We Are All Related We're Individuals Yes But We Are United Together In Christ We Are Eve's Children In Christ Jesus Are Seed And What Shall The Seed Do The Seed Shall Serve The Seed Shall Serve And That's What We Want Service It's Not Easy To Make People Servants Willing You Can Pay People To Be Servants And The More You Pay Them Perhaps The Better Their Work Will Be Servants But This Kind Of Service
[21:08] Will Be Willing Servants Freely Offered And That's What The Seed Will Do In All The Generations To Come Doesn't Matter Where They Were Born North South East Or West Doesn't Matter What Station Of Life They Held Before This Seed Whoever They Are Their Mark Will Be That They Will Serve We Will Serve With Any Opposite Of What Eve Did We Will Do We Will Serve The Lord Willingly All Heartfully Not Just With Our Lips Saying It Will Be Done But In Our Lives Going Out To Do It A Seed They Are Also Called In The Generations A Generation This
[22:10] Verse Is Difficult To Translate Some Translate It Shall Be Accounted To The Lord For A Generation Others And It Shall Be Told Of The Lord To The Next Generation If We Were To Take It In A First Sense We Are Calling The Lord's People A Generation Now That's Significant What's A Generation A Generation Of People Who Are Contemporaries But You Would Say Well The Lord's People Could Never Be Contemporaries They Have Been Born Into The Church Of Jesus Christ By The Holy Spirit Some Two Thousand Years Ago Some Four Thousand Years Ago Some Maybe Thousand Years In The Future You Could Say They Will Never Be Contemporaries Ah But Listen When Christ Offered Himself Up Through The Eternal Spirit All
[23:11] The Lord's People All The Lord's People Were In The Elect And Those For Christ Offered Himself As It Were In The Lord's Eyes With His Generation Born Again Of The Holy Spirit Entire Yes And Ordained Before The Foundation Of The One It As God Sees Us As Contemporaries As One Generation And Isn't That The Way We Will Be When The New Heaven And The New Earth Are For And The Lord's People Live On It Will Be One Generations No One Dying No One Dying No One Succeeding The Other You Could Also Take It In The Other Way And
[24:11] Say That We Shall Be Telling About The Lord To The People In The Generation To Come And That Can Be Explained Self-evidently To Your Shepherds And We Want To Tell Of The Lord To The Generations To Come That Fits Also In With The Next Praise They Shall Come And Shall Declare His Righteousness To A People That Shall Be Born You See Christ's Work Was For People Who Hadn't Yet Even Born They Hadn't Even Been Conceived You See When Christ Died For Our Sins Not Only Were We Not Born Not Even Our Great Great Great Grandfather Was Born And Yet The Lord When He Went To That Cross
[25:11] He Was Looking Ahead And He Was Thinking Of All The People Who Would Be Saved By His Work People Who Weren't Yet Born Ordained Before The Foundation Of The World The Lamb Was And So Were The People For Him Would Die Not Yet Born But Engrained On The Palms Of His Hands My Friend Before You Were Ever In This World Before Even The World Itself Was Made Your Name Was Written On God's Hand God's Never Never Have You Been Loved The Way God Loves You Never Never Will You Cease To Be Loved By God Your Name And Grave Though You Were Not Yet Born
[26:12] And What Will Those Who Are Not Yet Born What Will They Be Blessed How Will They Be Brought To Jesus Well You Find In Verse 31 They Shall Come And Shall Declare His Righteousness To Our People That Shall Be Born How Is The World Going To Turn To Jesus People From All Over The World High And Low In The Generations To Come How Will They Be Brought Only When People Go Out And Declare God's Righteousness To The People Declare God's Righteousness That's Our Message God's Justice That's What We Have To Do First Of All Declare God's Justice
[27:12] With Respect To Sinners Let's Tell Those Who Have Been Born And Begin To Tell Them Very Soon After Their Birth Tell Them Of God's Justice That He's Holy And They're Sinish And God Will Deal With Them In Perfect Exact Justice Tell Them Also About Providence That God Will Never Do Any Wrong To Them That That In Life All Of Life He Will Deal With Them In Righteousness Tell Them Also About Christ And About Christ Being The One Who Was Just And Yet The One Who Died For Those That Unjust Tell Them That God Has A Way In Which He Can Be Righteous But
[28:13] Forgive The Unrighteous Tell Them About God's Righteousness In The Judgment To Come Declare God's Righteousness Who Did You Last Declare God's Righteousness To When Anyone Hear You Last Speaking Of God's Justice God's Faithfulness That's The Message That We Are To Bring To Those Who Are Born Yes Generations To Come They Be A Seed A Generation Yet Unborn But To Them Will Be Declared The Righteousness Of God And They Shall Come They Shall Come What A Promise
[29:14] You Know You Have Heard Many Sermons From Many Ministers Down Through The Decades In This Church Some Some Some You May And Sometimes You May Feel Disheartened Because You Are Not Seeing People Convert They They They Hold Them This Promise They Shall Come They Shall Come Receive They All Come Some Of Them And I'm Sure This Applies To Your Shelves Some Of Them Will Come Having First Opposed The Gospel But Then Melted By The Love Of God Some Of Them Will Come With Fear Of Judgment Undriven By The Spirit To The Savior Others
[30:15] Will Come With Fear Others Will Come And They Feel So Unworn They Will Feel That They Are The Least Important Christian In The Whole Church They Feel That They Above All Are The Chief Of Sinners I Will Feel Adam Worthy But They Will Still Come They Will Still Come Because Their Is The Grace That Calls Them They Will Come To Cast Their Ways Why For The Lord Has Done This The Lord Has Done It All He Has Done It Because He Suffered He Will Receive The Reward He
[31:16] Shall See Of The Travel Of The Soul And Be Satisfied Christ He Traveled And He Traveled In His Soul In Particular But He Shall See Of That Traveling He Shall See Blessings And Everyone For Whom He Gave Soul To Death Every One Of Them Will Come The Lord Is Done It Is Finished He Has Accomplished It You Can Imagine The Rejoicing Of Christ The Spirit Of Christ Wrote This Psalm Can You Imagine The Rejoicing That The Angels Have In Heaven Over One Sinner That Repents There
[32:17] Must Be Magnificent Jubilation There Must Be Well I Was Reading One Lovely Commentary By A Man Called J.C.
[32:30] And I Wouldn't Agree With Everything He Said But He Was Talking About The First Christian Who Died And Went To Heaven Abel And You Say Imagine When Abel Entered Heaven Imagine The Song That Abel Singed That The Angels Themselves Would Rejoice Over Abel And Then He Says It As The Angels Would Have To Stop To Hear The Song That Abel Sings Because The Angels Have Not Been Saved From Sin That Abel Has And They Are Straining To Hear The Notes Of His Song It So Wonder Well If The Angels Rejoice Over One Sinner What Will Christ Do Over The Whole Multitude Of His People Brought To Glory
[33:31] He Died For Us He Is Tonight In Heaven Waiting For Us And Soon We Will Be There With Now My Friends He He Will Rejoice When You Rejoice He Will Rejoice With Exceeding Joy When Christ Embraces You All In Glory Along With That Multitude From All The Ends Of The Earth High And Low When He Has You All There What Rejoicing Will Fill His Heart For The Joy That Was Said Before You Are Worthy Yes We Are Worthy When We Go Into Heaven Some Of Us Will Be Weeping Because We Will Feel That This Was The One Place We Never Thought We Would Enter It And
[34:31] Then We Will See The King Of Glory We Will See The Deeds Open Wide For Us To Go In And We Will Know We Belong There And Christ Himself The King Says Come Unto My Throne Sit With Me Sit With Me This You See Is What Christ Is Doing And The Whole History Is Like A Line Fulfilling That Vision Gathering The People It Is All Going On Tonight They Shall Come Let Us Pray Lord Our God We Do Thank You Lord For That Blood That Was Shed And That Blood Was Shed In Love And Thou
[35:31] Will Gather Your People In That Same Love You Would Never Leave Your Church On Our Own To Gather The People You Gave Out Your Spirit And You Said I Will Be With You You Didn't Say That Grudgingly No Lord Jesus You Wanted To Be There As The Gospel Is Preached You Want To Be In A Heart As It Is Bowed To You You Want To Be There When The First Rays Of Grace Seek Into The Dark And Soul You Want To Be There To Embrace Them All And You Are And We Thank You That You Will Bring All Your People Home Together Forever With The Lord You Have Done It Is Finished
[36:32] Watch Over Us And Forgive Us For All Your Failure To Understand Your Work And Your Glow In Jesus Name Amen God This God God God God God Aus本当 Jesus Christ