This is the day; We will rejoice.

The speaker discusses Psalm 118 and its significance in relation to Jesus Christ. The verse "This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it" is mentioned and sung. The speaker explains that this verse refers to a specific day, which is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The psalmist also emphasizes the enduring mercy and unfailing love of God. The speaker connects mercy and grace to the concept of love and discusses the importance of faith, hope, and love in Christianity. Psalm 118, my wife was doing a devotional this week, and this verse, verse 24 of Psalm 118, this is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in the end. It was in her devotion, and she brought it to me, and we started talking about it, and then I got to looking at it today, and I said, that will be a perfect thing for tonight. How many of you have heard of this verse before? How many of you have believed the Lord made this day? Amen. How many of you believe that we should rejoice in every day? Amen. And you are absolutely correct. God did make this day, and we are commanded to rejoice in it. M571 is, this is the day, and so we are going to try the S.C. Lisa, come here. We will put you on the spot since you are up here to play the piano. We used to do the S.C. in camp, and as a youth group in rounds. Yeah, come here. And the women would sing one part, and then the men would echo it. And so that is what we are going to do tonight. I am going to try, or she is going to start us off, so that way maybe I will be close to the right key or whatever. And then us men, we will echo what they say, and so we will do this together. So you start it off. I should go over there. Okay. This is the day. This is the day. That the Lord hath made. That the Lord hath made. We will rejoice. We will rejoice. And be glad in it. And be glad in it. Everybody together. This is the day that the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day. This is the day that the Lord hath made. All right, I am going to back up and do it again. It turned out pretty good by the end of it, but we started off kind of rough. So we will have a redo here now that we know what is going on. All right, she is going up a step. This is the day. This is the day. That the Lord hath made. That the Lord hath made. We will rejoice. We will rejoice. And be glad in it. And be glad in it. This is the day that the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day. This is the day that the Lord hath made. Very good. That was good. This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Do you know that this Psalm 118 is actually referring to a certain day that we should rejoice and that we are actually nearing the celebration of this day? We hear it all the time, but we don't always think about this is the day. The day is referring to a certain day. And so what day is it referring to? Well, this famous passage actually deals with a prophecy. And so as we look at this prophecy, it's already being fulfilled. And so notice, if you will, in verse 22, the psalmist foretells of the event in Jesus' life. He says, the stone which the builders refused has become the headstone of the corner. And then he says, this is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. This verse actually is quoted by Jesus Christ in a very familiar time in the ministry of Jesus Christ because in Matthew chapter 21 and verse 42, Jesus saith unto them, Did you never read the Scriptures? The stone which the builders rejected, the same, has become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Would you go back and read the context of Matthew chapter 21? And I wanted to kind of camp out there a little bit tonight, but I want us to get to other things tonight. And so I just kind of want to do this psalm so that we can move on to something else. But Israel has rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah. He is fixing to go to the cross of Calvary when he quotes this verse. He's already had his triumphal entry. And now these same people that had crowned him are now fixing to crucify him. And so he goes back to the psalmist and he says, guess what? I am that cornerstone, but you have rejected me that is there. And so when this statement takes place, This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it, falls right between that statement that Jesus Christ mentions and then verse 25. And verse 25 says, Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. And he says in verse 26, Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. And so when we look at this, go back now to Matthew chapter 21 and we'll tie this together. It says in Matthew 21 and verse 9, And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. In this triumphal entry, every one of them quoted this psalm. And they were looking for Jesus Christ to do something. They were looking for him as the Messiah, as it says there in verse 25, Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. You think about Israel. They have been through all these years of bondage. They've been through 400 years of silence. Jesus Christ has now come onto the scene. He is now around approximately 33 years old. He's only been ministering publicly for about three years. And all of a sudden they are throwing down palm branches and everything else. And they go back and they quote this psalm because here comes our salvation. Here is the one that is going to give us prosperity. Here is the one that is coming to be the King of kings and Lord of lords. The problem is they were looking for the one that was going to establish the kingdom and sit on David's throne. They weren't looking for the Savior. And so when they crowned him and all of a sudden he didn't do what he was supposed to do, then guess what? They rejected him. And they said crucify him and release to us Barabbas because he wasn't the one that was going to deliver them. He wound up in captivity. And so then you go to verse 27 and notice what it says in verse 27. God is the Lord which hath showed us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords even under the horns of the altar. Thou art my God and I will praise thee. Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good. For his mercy endureth forever. What prompted this psalm? We've jumped to the end of it and I don't typically teach that way. But I want us to focus in because this is such a very important verse, a verse that all of us are familiar with. What's context to that is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. And so as they're looking toward the deal of Jesus Christ, what made the psalmist get to that point? Well, let's go back to the beginning of this and see what the psalmist says. He says, O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good. And notice this phrase because he's fixing to repeat it. He ended with it and now he is fixing to repeat it four times. He says, O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth forever. And then he says, Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth forever. And then he says, Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth forever. And then in verse 4 he says, Let them now that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth forever. Who did he start with? Israel. Who did he say second of all? Who are those of Aaron? What do they represent? The priesthood and the ministry. They're the ones that did all of the work in getting people to God. They're the ones that did the sacrifices. He started with Israel. He said, Come and remember that his mercy endureth forever. He said to the priests, Remember his mercy endureth forever. And then he said to everybody. And everybody at this particular time, there were actually some Gentiles that had converted over to Judaism. And so you remember because several of the ones from Egypt when they came out did what? They said, We want to go with you. Your God is a whole lot better than our God. And so they went. And what did Moses say? God told Moses on Mount Sinai that they have to be circumcised and they have to accept the covenant. So there's going to be Gentiles that are there. But he says, Let everyone that now fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth forever. Not only those Gentiles that was with them, but I also think of people like Rahab, who was a Gentile, who did what? She feared God. And she said, When God comes and destroys Jericho, do what? Remember me, right? Remember my family. And so what did she do? Her fear of God was greater than the God that was in her life. And so that is mercy endureth forever. What exactly is mercy? And I always talk about mercy is God withholding what we do deserve, right? But I got to looking, and literally right here, and I started looking up in a lot of different other translations and stuff, and what a lot of translations and what one of my Hebrew dictionaries says is this is unfailing love. Love. And it kind of sparked me because when it said, defined it as unfailing love, immediately that grace is the opposite of mercy, right? And so I began to think, what is grace? Grace is a gift. God giving us what we don't deserve, right? And mercy is his unfailing love that he continues to be with us in spite of who we are. Romans 5.8 says in that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us. For God so loved what? The world that he gave. And so mercy and grace both are rotated and focused on love. On love. And which kind of is a sermon that I'm working on that I've debated whether or not I want to preach Sunday morning or not. We were studying the other night in the men's class looking at their doctrines, and it talked about that the spiritual gifts that have not ceased from the signed gifts is faith, hope, and love. Now abideth faith, hope, and love. So Sunday, as I've been preaching, we talked about hope. What is hope? Hope is that expectation of what is to come, right? That our bodies are going to be changed. We're going to have a new body. That we're going to be resurrected. We're going to see Jesus Christ. And we're going to be rewarded for our efforts that we've done down here. That is the hope, right? And so what gets us there? What gets us there is faith. For by grace are you saved through what? Faith. Hebrews chapter 11 says by faith they all acted upon that. So if we have faith to trust God and believe God, we have the hope of Him coming and of His reward. What is love? Love is the commandment that He says you show your faith and your hope by what? The way that you love your brothers and sisters. And so He says by your love you may know them. And so there is spiritual gifts, but of all of the spiritual gifts, this is the three that every single individual has. Every one of you, if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you have faith, you have hope, and you have the ability to love. Now there are some other special gifts that He gives that are unique to individuals and stuff that He talks about in Romans chapter 8, that He talks about in 1 Peter. But when He says the greatest of these now abideth faith, hope, and love, He's talking to every single person in the church at Corinth. Every one of you have faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is what? Love. It's not who you believe in and not what you look forward to, it's how you live it. Anybody can say that they believe in God. Anybody can look forward to heaven, but what proves it is our love for each other. So I just threw that out there, so y'all kind of got a deal on that. So grace is God's giving of love. Mercy is God's withholding because of love. And think about it for just a minute. Our whole salvation rests on the unfailing love and the faithfulness of God. And at the end of this Psalm, what is happening? Here they crowned Him Lord of Lords. Then just a couple of days later they yelled, crucify Him. But what did He do? He still said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. And He cried, It is finished. Even though they rejected Him, guess what? He still loved them. And so it's only by Him that that salvation is because of His unfailing love and His faithfulness. And because of His immeasurable love, God gave His only begotten Son to redeem us. And so that's what He's referring to right here. And then notice what it says in Hebrews 8, verse 6. He says, but now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises. Have you ever thought about the differences between the two covenants? The old covenant and the new covenant? And something as I was reading this today and looking, the mediator, and I underlined it right there. What is a mediator? The go-between. Christ is the mediator. He didn't do away with the old covenant, did He? He said, I came to fulfill it. But He told His disciples at the Last Supper, before His crucifixion, He said what? He said, this do in remembrance of Me, this is My body, this is My blood that I'm going to give for you. Here is a new covenant now. And guess what? I won't do this again until I do it with you in eternity. So you have forward to look forward to Me doing this again with you. And so notice what He's saying here. He is the mediator of a better covenant and better promises. What makes the new covenant better promises? The old covenant gave them a land. The old covenant gave them a king. But guess what? The new covenant gives us eternity. The new covenant gives us the Lord and God. And so it's better promises. It's a better expectation. It's a better source that is theirs. So notice in this phrase, the psalmist, though even in all of this and thinking about this, the psalmist still had pain, right? You know, he said, I called upon the Lord in distress. Notice the psalmist was feeling this distress in verse 5. He was feeling pain. He was feeling anguish. And then notice what he says very next. He says, The Lord answered me and set me in a large place. The Lord is on my side, and I will not fear what man can do unto me. The Lord taketh my part with them that help me. Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. And the question that I have is, where is your trust? When pain and when suffering comes about, where is your trust? You know, the people trusted Pilate to decide on the innocent or the guiltiness of Jesus Christ, didn't they? They took them before Pilate. They took them before Herod, right? They took them before the princes. They were trusting them. But guess what? Pilate said, I find no fault in this guy. Right? He didn't step into that trap that was there. And so our confidence, we a lot of times put it in man. We a lot of times put it in the authority that we have that is ruling over us. But where should our confidence come? It should be in God. It should be in God. And so then look at verse 10. And so because of this trust in everything but Jesus Christ, we never experience His power. And a lot of Christians go without power because we don't trust in God. We trust in doctors. We trust in this. We trust in that. But notice what he says in verse 10. All nations compass me about, but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. They compass me about, yea, they compass me about, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. They compass me about like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. For in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall, but the Lord helped me. The power. Where did His power come from? Not Him. He was in pain. He was surrounded. He was being attacked. But what happened? He didn't look at the situation and the circumstances. Who did He look at? He looked at the Lord. When Jesus Christ went to the cross of Calvary, who did He look at? Did He look at the situations and the stuff? No. He kept His eyes on the dole. He kept His eyes on the Father, the one that He should obey. Now, because of the power of God, because power has happened in His life and the Lord has provided, notice His praise. In verse 14 He says, The Lord is my strength and song. He wrote a song about it. It was so wonderful. God came through. He said, The Lord is my strength and my song and has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord doth valiantly. The right hand of the Lord is exalted. The right hand of the Lord doth valiantly. I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. I shall not die but live. Sometimes it's not the power of God being demonstrated in our life. Sometimes it's the purging of God. You see, when you get over to Hebrews chapter 12, Hebrews chapter 12 says that we know that we are His son because God will what? Discipline us when we do wrong. And so notice that he has believed God. God has showed him His power. He has praised. But now notice what the psalmist says. The Lord has chastened me sore. He hasn't worn me out. God has worn me out to sore. But He has not given me over to death. God will purge us, but He's not going to kill us. He's going to discipline us, but He's not going to kill us. Because why? If we're dead, we can't glorify Him. And He wants to glorify us. And so He wants us to submit to the chastening. He wants us to repent. And so because of this purging, notice now the pledge of this psalmist. He says in verse 19, Open to me the gates of righteousness, and I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord. Open the gates of righteousness. What is righteousness? It's a work. None of us are righteous, right? Right in God's eyes. It has to do with something. He says open up your work. Open up your life to Me. In the model prayer, what did Jesus Christ pray? Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And so He starts with recognizing the authority and the power of God. And so open up the gates of righteousness and what? I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord. And then notice He says this gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise Thee, for Thou hast heard Me, and art become My salvation. Become My salvation. And then you go over to 27, and He picks back up. God is the Lord which has showed us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. What is the sacrifice? What is the horns of the altar? It's where the Lamb was laid. And they would take it, and they would tie it to the four corners on the brazen altar. And there they would be sacrificed. And notice what He's saying. He said God has showed us light. He was crucified. He became the sacrifice for us. That was His whole triumphal entry. And I've been studying and looking into this, and I found a discrepancy that I've been struggling with all day long, and I still haven't solved it. But three of the books, Gospels, say that Jesus Christ, immediately after His triumphal entry, went to the temple. And He is at the temple, and that's when He began to overchange the money changers. Mark says that He went to the temple, but it was evening. So He left, and He went back to Bethany, back to Mary and Martha's house, and the next day He comes back to Jerusalem where He purses the fig tree, and He goes to the temple, and then He destroys the money changers and stuff. And I don't know that it's really that important, because the main thing is that the very next thing that He did is He come into Jerusalem and He went to the temple. All these people that was there to help, and I was looking at history and looking at everything, they said that particular year, the population and everything, there would have been close to two and a half million people that were coming up to Jerusalem for Passover. John mentions that many people were coming toward the Passover. And what would happen? Just like when Jesus Christ came His first time in Bethlehem, there was no room for them in the inn, and so people would be camping in tents wherever they could on the side of the road, outside of Jerusalem. People would be flowing out everywhere. And it's these people that, when you look at John, they're saying, where is Jesus? Because what did He do? He just raised Lazarus from the dead the week before, and He kind of disappeared. Because why? They wanted to kill Him, but Passover wasn't yet. And so He kind of hid away. And so all these people are getting to Jerusalem and asking, is Jesus here? Is Jesus going to even come to Passover this year? Where's He at? And all of a sudden, He tells His disciples to go get that coat. Go get that young donkey. And He goes and gets it in, and He comes riding in on that donkey. And all the people see Jesus Christ, this man that they respected, this man that they were looking at as their Messiah. And all of a sudden, they start laying these branches down. But He's not coming to be worshipped. He's coming to die. He's coming to die. And so, look at what He's saying. He was the sacrifice that was going to be bound with cords on the horns of the altar. He said, Thou art My God, and I will praise Thee. Thou art My God, and I will exalt Thee. Notice the word, My. He's not your God. He's not a God. He's My God. The psalmist said, He was my sacrifice. I have accepted Him. Thou art My God. I will praise Thee. I will exalt Thee. O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good. And then look at how he ends this psalms. For His mercy endureth forever. And this whole psalms is this prophecy looking forward to the point that Jesus Christ is going to die for us. His mercy is unfailing. We can trust Him. We can believe in Him. And so tonight as we look in this psalms, now whenever you see this is the day that the Lord has made, hopefully it will look just a little bit different. Because no matter what the circumstance, no matter what you are going through, no matter what you are struggling with, in light of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, guess what? This day is a day that God has made. And because of His crucifixion, because of His resurrection, guess what? My life is not as bad as that. Right? And even if it gets so bad as that, and I literally, somebody kills me or takes my life, guess what? To be absent from this body is to be immediately present with God. So it's still not as bad as Jesus Christ went through. And so guess what? This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice. You know, we go out and this is what her devotion had done, and this is the part that I kind of want us to focus on for just a few minutes tonight. It's Christmas when we talk about the birth of Jesus Christ. We have all of these celebrations, all of this excitement, all of this thing that the gospel goes out and everything else. And then we come to His crucifixion and His resurrection, and we have Easter. And we have predominantly all of this about fertility and Easter eggs and bunnies and all of this kind of stuff and everything else. And it's like this is a verse that is common with everybody. And so what I thought, you know, everybody knows this verse. And so what a way to witness and to celebrate this Easter is we talk to people and we come across people in our lives. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. No matter if it's good, bad, or indifferent, it doesn't matter because we're better off because we have Jesus Christ. And He's fighting for us. He's the one that's doing the battle. And so as we think, you know, tonight I just want to give you just an opportunity because in this psalm there was three different types of people. There was the one that was praising God for all the stuff that He was doing. There was a time in the psalmist's life that he was suffering pain. He was having problems. There was also a time in the psalmist's life that he was being purged. He was under the chastening of God. All of us as individuals and as Christians go through one of these three things in stages multiple times in our lifetime. You're either praising God, you're either suffering right now, or you're being chastened. All three of these happen in the Christian life. But the predominant thing of all three of them is guess what? His enduring mercy never fails. His unfailing love never fails. And so tonight, we don't do it very often. We ask because of church services and stuff. So tonight, I want to give you an opportunity. If you want to praise God, if you want us to pray with you because you are suffering, if you are battling with something, or if God is chastening you because you're not living for God and doing what God wants, you have an opportunity to repent and we pray and bless with you. And so these three different opportunities tonight, in these three ways, I'm going to give you an opportunity to share so that we can come together as a church family and we can help each other. Because we're not here to be alone. We're here to help each other. We're here to pray with each other. And going into Easter, we need to be focusing on witnessing right now. We need to be focusing on Jesus Christ. And I know there's a lot of talk right now. You know, I think the eclipse has taken away from Easter. Everybody's talking about the eclipse this year. And nobody's talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so, you know, I want us to take the time to refocus and to get our priorities where they need to be because come Sunday, it's Palm Sunday. Sunday is the day that Christ rode in. And this is the week that He is crucified, that He has died, that we are celebrating. And then we come back next Sunday and guess what? We celebrate His resurrection. Our hope. Our hope. We have faith and we have hope, but how are we loving? How are we loving? As we go, I'm going to quit talking now. Any of you want to have a prayer request, a burden, something that you want to share, a praise that you want to give? He's whooped me sore, but I'm still not dead. Amen? There's still a chance. When I read that praise, you know, my dad whooped me sore several times. Brother Joy preached at the Defenders Conference, you know, that verse in chapter 12 where God just basically says after He chastens and beats us, He said, there comes a time that you look at them. And I can remember my daddy saying that. Okay now, son, dry off the tears and let's get at it, right? You know, there was a time, okay, I've given you time to mourn, and now if you don't keep crying, quit crying, I'm going to do what? Give you a reason to cry, right? And so it's kind of like that psalmist there with that praise and that thinking in my mind, and all of a sudden it said He chastened me sore. But guess what? I didn't die. I lived through it. And I'm a better person because of the discipline that was in my life. Christ has beat me pretty good sometimes. But I'm a better pastor, I'm a better father, I'm a better husband, I'm a better individual, I'm a better witness because of what He has done. Anybody else? She was sitting in Garland County Jail last week witnessing to everybody sitting in the jailhouse with her. We were worried about her thinking she was sitting out in the parking lot and Lisa checked on her to ask her if everything was okay. Oh yeah, I'm inside here witnessing to people. Any others? It's the heart of the Gospel. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He loves us. Anybody else? So what do you think? In that, I kind of actually, y'all have heard from me. I've worked there a little for eight years and it's great. It's awesome. But in this new place I'm working now, it's an awesome opportunity to see how living for the Lord and living for the Lord with your actions, glorifying Him with everything you do, can also impact others. Christians that are out in the walk, I'm noticing, deacons, those that aren't, you're just things that come up because you don't act like everybody else. But one of the things I also find odd, and I didn't really expect, is that with me being around as constantly as I am today now, how much of those things that they're saying, the things that they're doing, they tend to close my mind to every now and then. So with that, of course, great for me, great for endurance, that I'll go on and thrive from now on and on and on. That's what I'm here for. Anybody else? Amen. Mark Lowry said his favorite phrase in the Gospels and it came to pass. It came to pass. Tomorrow. I remember this one. As I've been studying and thinking, the main thing with Christians and when sickness and suffering and things like that happen, the main thing that we as Christians have to pray is that they don't lose faith. That's what the whole game of Hebrews has taught me, is they were willing to give up on Jesus Christ, and God promises to see us through it. And yet I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. And today we just have so many that it seems they're just walking away from Jesus Christ and they're just giving up on Jesus Christ because their faith is weak and they have no hope. They can't see what they can't see because they're not living it. I just want to thank God for everything that He's doing in this world. Yeah. He's Lord, whether we make it or not, He's still Lord. That's what reading the story today about Jesus and His triumphal entry, He told His disciples that everything that was fixing to happen, you're fixing to go find a donkey that's tied up. A man's going to come out and question you as you come and get that donkey. When he questions you, this is what I want you to say to him, and he's just going to let you walk away with this donkey. You think about all of that, and what it is is proving His deity. He's God. It wasn't no plan, and He didn't go make all this stuff up and make all these arrangements. I was reading one commentator, and no, it doesn't say that in Scripture. He is telling them, I am God. And this is what you're fixing to find, and this is just the same exact way if you remember when Peter was told to go down and catch a fish. He said, cast you on the side of the seashore and catch a fish. When you catch that fish, open up his mouth. When you open up his mouth, there's going to be a coin inside of that mouth. Take that coin and go pay your taxes. God didn't all of a sudden pray and stir up this fish and stir up this coin. No, God, He was showing Peter that He's God. Trust me. Trust me. And sometimes we forget that He is God. Anybody else? I have a follow-up. Okay, go ahead. You spoke about the changes. I think the changes is the substance of that follow-up. I don't know if you can follow me on that. I don't know who told you that, but there's three generations that started talking about the follow-up. Psalms 118 is the middle chapter of the entire Bible. Psalms 117 before Psalms 118 is the shortest chapter in the Bible. Psalms 119 after Psalms 118 is the longest chapter in the Bible. The Bible has 594 chapters before Psalms 118 and 594 chapters after Psalms 118. If you add all the chapters except Psalms 118, you get a total of 1,188 chapters. 1,188 are Psalms 118 verse 8 is the middle verse of the entire Bible. And it's usually our central verse, not the fourth. And it has an important message. It is best to trust and take refuge in the Lord. It was taught to us in that way. That's pretty cool. I should have read that before tonight. I ought to use some of that. For that to be the middle chapter of the Bible, it has to be made. It means when it comes up like that, it just proves to me there's not a human author for the Bible. Isaiah, if you ever studied Isaiah, has 66 chapters. It's split. There's 39 chapters in the Old Testament. There's 27 chapters in the New Testament. You go to chapter 39, and he's dealing with Israel and everything. You go to chapter 40, and the last 27 chapters deals with the future that is there. It's not a coincidence. It's God's providence in working. And John 3.16, if you take that verse and you break it down and you take the words and look, you know who's the very center of John 3.16? Son. Son of David. It's amazing. I know a lot of you guys are really good with the Bible. I mean, of course not everybody is. 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