The God Who Is There | Part 5 | The God Who Reigns

hello my name is Don Carson you're watching the fifth in a series of 14 talks designed to introduce you to the God who is there that is to the God of the Bible today we are reflecting on the God who reigns many of you who are watching this series live in a republic so the notion of a king is a bit alien others of you live in a constitutional monarchy the United Kingdom perhaps where the Monarchs powers are strictly limited to get used to the frequency and ease with which God presents himself in the Bible as King demands that we try to understand what was expected of a king in the ancient world the entire subject becomes more important yet when we recall how often Jesus himself announced the dawning of the kingdom it is impossible to gain much of a grasp of Christianity without tracking some of what the Bible says about such notions ultimately Jesus is presented in the Bible as the king of kings and the Lord of lords the last book of the Bible tells us that the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ what kind of a takeover is this what does it mean what bearing does it have on understanding God welcome to program 5 we come now to the God who reigns what do we conjure up in our minds when we hear a word like king or monarch the last king that America had King George the third by-and-large is not in very good order we're a republic thank you a Democratic Republic and we probably don't want to go quite so far in our anti roll assessment of things as Voltaire who said that he would be satisfied when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last bishop or the last priest but still whatever Kings there are in the world whatever monarchs there are we're pretty glad they're over there or if we're in more positive mood then we might think of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second and then we concede that royal pomp has its attractions they sure know how to put on a decent royal wedding don't they with prancing horses and gold encrusted chariots and spectacular crowns and those long trumpets with such a shrill piercing sound there's something pretty nice about that isn't there mind you Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second is a constitutional monarch which is really a polite way of saying she doesn't have much power she is limited by a constitutional structure apart from whatever moral suasion she has apart from any advice she gives to her Prime Minister in fact she really only has two powers constitutionally left and if she exercises them without the sanction of her prime minister in fact it would be a general election and she wouldn't get her way in any case that's very different let's say than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia although there is some constraint from the larger family yet this is closer to an absolute Kingdom it's different again from the kingdom of Thailand the Thais love their king you really cannot speak any word against royalty in Thailand that the people wouldn't have it even though the limitations on this power there are really quite significant as well so perceptions of what we even mean in other words by King and monarch differ in different parts of the world don't they but certainly in biblical times there was no understanding of what we mean today by constitutional monarch if you're a king you reign that's what Kings do you have the authority and the fact of the matter is that God is often presented in Scripture as being the king the psalm say for example that his kingdom rules over all he does what he wants amongst us here on earth and in the armies of heaven his kingdom rules over all which is another way of saying that the exercise of his sovereignty covers absolutely every domain that was built into the very creation account that we saw yesterday wasn't it he made everything it's all his he continues to reign he's sovereign over the whole lot in that sense you're in the kingdom of God whether you like it or not you can't not be in the kingdom of God even those who disbelieve him even those who hate him even those who think that there are other gods are in this God's kingdom if he really does reign over all but the notion of the kingdom of God the reign of God is in fact very flexible in Scripture and you have to pay it mentioned to the context to make sense of what is being said in some particular passage or other in the Old Testament once God has called his people the Hebrews the Israelites to himself first with a covenant with Abraham then with the Covenant under Mosaic leadership God is still understood to be the king of his people God Himself is to be their ruler their king in that sense the Israelites constitute his nation you're only under his kingship in that sense if you belong to this covenant community but after the people eventually got into the Promised Land they went through cycles that were really depressing that two or three generations and what they remembered of God's kindness in the past of how he had spared them how he had secured them how he provided for all of their needs was forgotten and they became virtually in differential from the pagans and all around them and then eventually God sanctioned temporal judgments of various kinds they were attacked by other tribes living in the area of Midianites or others and eventually they cried to God again for mercy for forbearance for forgiveness God raises up a judge these judges lead the people in renewal and in small pitched battles against some of their oppressors and the people reestablish themselves renew their covenantal vows promised to be faithful before God and then another two or three generations everybody forgets slides down an ignominy and shame to really forms a pretty awful debauchery let alone the idolatry that underlies it then God raises up another judge and the cycle begins all over again you read the book of Judges and the cycles downward are so appalling that in the last two or three chapters it's really difficult to read them in public they're so grotesque and barbaric and as the book progresses you begin to hear a refrain in those days everyone did that which was right in their own eyes there was no king in Israel it's the way the book ends bloody mayhem in those days there was no king in Israel everyone did that which was right in their own eyes Oh God how we need a king but then as the story advances you start discovering that some people want a king not so that they can be a little more secure there so that somebody who in authority can hold them to be covenant Allah faithful or any of that sort of thing to police things when the the moral fabric is being torn apart no no some of them want a king simply so that they can be like the pagan nations around all of whom have their petty kings we would like to be them they seem to have things in civil order we we would like to have exactly the same sort of constitutional arrangement God says all right you asked for it choose the best man you can find and eventually they choose a strapping young man by the name of Saul who seems suitably humble and diffident doesn't really want the job careful he loves the Lord and within his lifetime he becomes a corrupt paranoid fearful ungodly men who unsatisfied with just being King also wants to be priests and anybody whom he sees as a threat to his authority he wants to kill it's a mess but God raises up yet another King he says now let me show you at least at least in principle what a good King would be like here is a man after my own heart his name is David so after Saul was gone David becomes King and initially he turns out to be a very good King an able administrator he secured the frontiers he United the tribes eventually he moved his capital from the little town of Hebron to Jerusalem modern Jerusalem and established himself there and brought a measure of order and peace and prosperity now we pick up the account in 2 Samuel 7 second Samuel 7 a little less than a quarter of the way through the Bible you can find it in your index at the beginning of the Bible if you don't know how the Bible is put together 2nd Samuel that is there are two books that bear the name of Samuel 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel this is 2nd Samuel chapter 7 and I'm going to take the time to read this chapter after the king that's King David was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him he said to Nathan the prophet Here I am living in a house of cedar while the Ark of God remains in a tent that's the Ark of God that we spoke of in the last session the ark this box that held certain elements in it including the Ten Commandments in the most holy place where the blood was sprinkled on the day of atonement it's still in a tent a tabernacle I'm living in a cedar Palace the place where God meets with his priests is a pretty scrappy tent by this point this is about a thousand BC now Nathan replied to the king whatever you have in mind go ahead and do it for the Lord is with you but that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying go and tell my servant David this is what the Lord says are you the one to build me a house to dwell in I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling wherever I have moved with all the Israelites that I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to Shepherd my people Israel why have you not built me a house of cedar now then tell my servant David this is what the Lord Almighty says I took you from the pasture from tending the flock and appointed you ruler over my people Israel I have been with you wherever you have gone and I have cut off all your enemies from before you now I will make your name great like the names of the greatest men on earth and I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and to no longer be disturbed wicked people will not oppress them any more as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel I will also give you rest from all your enemies the Lord declares to you that the Lord Himself will establish a house for you when your days are over and you rest with your ancestors I will raise up your offspring to have succeed you who will come from your own body I will establish his kingdom he is the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish a throne of his kingdom forever I will be his father he will be my son when he does wrong I will punish him with a rod wielded by human beings with floggings inflicted by human hands but my love will never be taken away from him as I took it away from Saul whom I removed from before you your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me your throne will be established forever Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation then King David went in and sat before the Lord and he said Who am I Sovereign Lord and what is my family that you have brought me this far and as if this were not enough in your sight Sovereign Lord you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant and this decrease Auburn Lord is for a human being what more can David say to you for you know your servant Sovereign Lord for the sake of your word and according to your will you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant how great you are Sovereign Lord there is no one like you and there is no god but you as we have heard with our own ears and who is like your people Israel the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself and to make a name for himself and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations of their gods from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt you have established your people Israel as your very own forever and you Lord have become their God and now Lord God keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house do as you promised so that your name will be great forever then people will say the Lord Almighty is God over Israel and the house of your servant David will be established in your sight Lord Almighty God of Israel you have revealed this to your servant saying I will build a house for you so your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you Sovereign Lord you are God your covenant is trustworthy and you have promised these good things to your servant now be pleased to bless the house of your servant that it may continue forever in your sight for you Sovereign Lord have spoken and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever you see the king was supposed to be God's vice-regent the under king God still remained the king the final sovereign over all the people but the king was supposed to mediate God's justice to the people to mediate God and his ways and his laws to the entire people but here we have a remarkable set of relationships first a king with religious initiatives restrained chapter 7 verses 1 to 11 King David wants to do God a favor he is now settled the very first verse says that they're enjoying rest there's this theme of rest again rest now from their enemies rest in the promised land and he looks around and he's been in the capital city long enough that he's got a fine palace for himself and still the center for corporate worship for the entire nation is this now slightly ratty tent and he remembers that indeed in the book of Deuteronomy back at the time of Moses there had been promise ultimately of a permanent center so he thinks well it's about time why not me that's what I would like to do and Nathan the Prophet says great idea God's with you go right ahead then God intervenes and says to Nathan not quite so fast this is not the way it's going to happen and he gives two or three reasons why it will not be so first verses 5 to 7 god alone takes the initiative in these turning points in the story of the Bible he alone takes the initiative haven't we seen that already think back to Abram does Abram wake up one day and in his devotion say God quite frankly this world seems to me to be sliding to hell on a teapot I think we should do something about it I think we should start some new race amongst the human race a kind of subunit I'd like to head it I'll be the great granddaddy of this entire new humanity will call them Hebrews you can be our God and we'll be your people you tell us what to do we'll obey you and we'll start off this whole new dynastic structure there's not a great idea and this new race this new covenant community will show the world what it's like to be in right relationship with you is that the way it happened no God took the initiative called Abram moved him to the land gave him a covenant even in that scene in the middle of the night where God puts himself under a kind of covenant vow to look after his people God is taking the initiative again and again God takes the initiative in chapter 22 of Genesis to provide a lamb or think of Moses when he was a young man Moses did wonder about the possibility of starting a revolution and leading the people out in fact he got caught up in a murder and not to run for his life and lived on the backside of a desert for the next decades the next half century or so and when God did take the initiative Moses wasn't too keen on going god I'm getting a bit old now and I have a speech impediment I'm no leader I'm a shepherd for goodness sake God takes the initiative and in due course uses Moses God will not share his glory with anybody else God is really not open to our suggestions about how to run the universe and that is in effect his first objection go and tell my servant David this is what the Lord says are you the one to build me a house to dwell in all along I've been living in this tabernacle wherever I have moved verse 7 with all of the Israelites that I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to Shepherd my people Israel why have you not built me a house of cedar it's not that it will not be built in fact it is going to be built in the next generation excuse me the task it is going to be built in the next generation the task is going to be assigned to David's son King Solomon but God will take the initiative but there's a second reason tell my servant David verse 8 this is what the Lord Almighty says I took you from the pasture from tending the flock and appointed you ruler over my people Israel I have been with you wherever you have gone and I have cut off all your enemies from before you now I will make your name great like the names of the greatest men on earth you see deep down David is beginning to think that he's going to do God a favor if he can build a bigger temple and the pagans around build for their gods then isn't he showing that their God is even more magnificent so David is going to magnify God's name and almost as it were do God a favor and God says it doesn't work like that I'm the one that makes your name great now you see in a certain context it is wonderful for for believers to try to magnify God's name but not ever because they begin to succumb to the feeling that they're thereby doing God a favor worshiping God magnifying his name ought to be the response of gratitude and adoration and thankfulness not somehow saying the pagans worship their gods we can out worship you because in a competition we can make your name greater than they can make their names great God says you've got this entirely wrong I make your name great you were a shepherd boy not only have I made you a king I'm about to make your name resound across the ages today there are countless tens of millions of Christians all over the world who know the name of David they've never heard of Alexander the Great they don't really know about King Tut but David's name has come down to us across 3,000 years and then in that context God gives this amazing promise the chapter begins as we've seen with a king with religious initiatives restrained but now a dynasty with unending promise disclosed a dynasty with unending promise disclosed 11b the Lord declares to you that the Lord Himself will establish a house for you there's a pun here David wanted to build a house that is a temple for God God's going to build a house that is a household and thus a dynasty for David there's a pun you want to build a house for me you can almost see God smiling I'm gonna build a house for you let me tell you what it's like when your days are over and you rest with your ancestors I will raise up your offspring to succeed you who will come from your own body I will establish his kingdom he is the one who will build a house for my name Solomon he would build a temple and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever I will be his father and he will be my son when he does wrong I will punish him with a rod wielded by human beings with floggings inflicted by human hands but my love will never be taken away from him as I took it away from Saul whom I removed from before you do you hear what is being said there are two or three things that help to clarify what the passage is saying first David is aware that his predecessor Saul started well and ended badly and in consequence all son Jonathan never got to the throne there was no dynasty ever established it was a one generation dynasty if you can speak of a dynasty in one generation there was so much wickedness by the end that God said this is not going to continue even if David remains faithful all his life and in point of fact he had his pretty horrible lapses too but even if he remains faithful all his life who guarantees what happens in the next generation and in the generation after that if you're royalty your concern to preserve the family line your preserve your concern is to preserve the dynasty the house whether the House of Windsor for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second or here the house of David and God says I'm going to build a house for you such that even if your son does something wrong even if he is really wicked I will not remove him from the throne the way I removed Saul such that Saul died and there was no successor I do that I will preserve your house your household so there may be some temporal infliction there may be some chastening some human punishment there may be nations that rise up against your nation there may be things of that sort but it will not be the final sanction that wipes out the line that's what is promised to David then the second thing to clarify is this what does verse 14 mean when God says I will be his father and he will be my son now we need to think about that just a wee bit for us sonship has to do with DNA so endless programs the various csi's on television are constantly using DNA to discover who the real father is and bound up with this our paternity suits it's all a matter of a genetic descent but the ancient world saw things a bit differently in part because there was a descent not only a familial connection but of work and identity you men now just you men for a moment how many of you are doing vocationally what your fathers did let me see your hands look around folks I see only two or three well three hands you women how many of you are doing vocationally what your mothers did look around folks but you see in the ancient world if your father was a baker you became a baker if your father was a farmer you became a farmer if your father's name was thought out of ideas then you made violins in other words in a in an agricultural tradecraft pre-industrial society then the son ended up doing in the overwhelming majority of cases what the father did and the daughter ended up doing what the mother did our notions of freedom such that we go away from home to university or to a technical college and get a job somewhere else and pursue some other course that's so common for us today it was unthinkable a bear three or four hundred years ago so as a result you became identified not only by the family name but by the family's profession that's why Jesus can be called the son of the carpenter because his putative father Joseph was a carpenter and in one place he can be called himself the carpenter apparently joseph has died and Jesus himself has taken over the family business Joseph was a carpenter what he expect Jesus to be is a carpenter and this meant that the father then in the case of the son the boy as well in later Judaism there were synagogues where kids learned reading and writing and things like that there were little village schools of some sort or another but your trade what you learned how you learned to make a living if you're a farmer when to plant the seed and when to irrigate and how to read the weather and how to build a decent fence and all of that that that was all taught by the family and because of this family identification of the son with the father and the tasks and the clan the notion of sonship has a whole lot of different rings than it does on si si out of this come a whole lot of biblical metaphors for example here and there in the Bible some one is called a son of Belial which means a son of worthlessness this is not saying that the father is mr. worthless what it is saying is that this person's character is so worthless that he must belong to the worthless family of the only it's the only thing that explains it in the time of Jesus Jesus gives us some Beatitudes where he says blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God that the idea is that God is himself the supreme peacemaker so if you make peace then in that respect at least you're acting like God so in that respect you're a son of God it's not telling you how you become a Christian it's saying that in that respect that's what God does so you're acting like God do you see elsewhere when Jesus is debating with some Jewish opponents in John chapter 8 he's claiming to be sent from God they're saying how can this be we are ourselves that the true sons of Abraham we are the true heritage here Jesus says can't be Abraham rejoiced to see my day and they reply Abraham has been dead for 2,000 years you're not yet fifty years old mean he rejoiced to see your day Jesus won't back down they up the ante and say what we're not only sons of Abraham we're sons of God and Jesus's can't be I come from God God knows me I know God if you don't recognize me then you can't be sons of God you you you you don't recognize me at all let me tell you who your real daddy is and he turns to them and he says you are of your father the devil he was a murderer from the beginning and you're trying to murder me he was a liar from the beginning and you're not telling the truth now Jesus is not denying that they really are sons of Abraham genetically they are he's not denying that they carry the Israelite heritage of genes nor is he suggesting for a moment that somehow the devil's copulated with women to produce some sort of bastard crew that's not what he's suggesting either he's saying that at the behavior of at the level of behavior they're acting like the devil that makes them sons of the devil now that's the sort of language that is going on here it's sonship language that is used especially with respect to Kings if God is the supreme King if he's the king over this people then when the human person takes on the throne when this Davidic air becomes king himself then he becomes God's son it's not it doesn't mean he's born again or anything of that sort it simply means that he is now acting as God's Son in God's place in the King family as it were that's the nature of the promise that is given here we read he is the one who will build a house for me this air of yours and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever I will be his father he will be my son he will represent me that's the nature of this kingdom when he does wrong I will punish him with a raw wielded by human beings but my love will never be taken away from him as I took it away from Saul the last thing to understand from this passage your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me your throne will be established forever in other words God is not only promising that I will endure into the next generation the generation of Solomon when the temple will be built even if Solomon turns out to be quite wicked he is saying that this dynasty will go on and on it will be established forever there only two ways that's possible one is for every generation to produce a new Davidic heir so that you go to the next heir then the next heir and the next heir and the next heir and the next heir world-without-end that's one way this promise could be fulfilled there's only one other possible way it's not even mentioned here but if you could eventually have an air in the Davidic line who himself lived forever it could be fulfilled that way there's no hint of it yet here this is about a thousand BC this promise and it leads to a number of other promises to Davidic Kings across the centuries most of us I'm sure have listened to Handel's Messiah Handel's Messiah cites Isaiah 9 writing in the eighth century in the eighth century Isaiah in his ninth chapter envisages a coming king unto us a child is given a son is born a son he shall rule on the throne of his father David in other words it will be a Davidic son who is the son of God standing in under god as god's vice regent of the increase of his kingdom there will be no end and then we're told he shall be called the wonderful counselor the mighty God the everlasting father the Prince of Peace I don't imagine that as I himself fully understood all of that meant but on the face of it it seems to be promising that somehow there would be a David I'd someone in the heritage of David who himself would rightly be addressed as none less than God himself will shortly see that there are other prophets who make similar promises then in the rest of this chapter 2 Samuel Chapter 7 we find a king with spectacular privileges humbled in verses 18 to 27 David is hushed and crushed by what has been promised him and basically his plea now is not let me build a temple for you and do something for you now it's all gratitude I don't deserve this this is wonderful all I ask dear God Sovereign Lord is that you keep your promise that's about a thousand BC there are a lot of intervening steps that go on after several centuries the Davidic Kingdom itself has become corrupted after two generations after the time of Solomon the Kingdom splits there's a northern kingdom in a southern kingdom and David's line only rules over the South two and a half more centuries go by and the northern kingdom never has established a dynasty kings come and kings go the new user fur comes in and slaughters all the children of the previous one it's a bloody mess and eventually they get carted off into into captivity under the Assyrian Empire another century and a half and the Davidic dynasty itself is so corroded and corrupted despite times of revival and renewal that at the beginning of the sixth century about 587 BC it shut down the Babylonians have taken over and the people go into exile in due course God brings some of them back first of all only about fifty thousand they rebuild a temple that had been burned down but now it's just a pathetic little affair there's still no king by this time they're living under the Persian rule all the way down to the turn of the ages from BC to AD there still is no restored king of David on the throne they're always under one authority or another and in the first century of our era they're under the power of Rome under regional governors and half-breed kings like Herod and so on then you open up the pages of the New Testament the accounts the foundation documents of our book of our Bible that begin to tell us what happens in the time of Jesus and what is the very first line of the very first book this is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David the son of Abraham that is the fulfillment of the promise of a Davidic King when Jesus comes on the scene he announces the dawning of the kingdom and he uses the word Kingdom in a variety of ways he can say this for example the kingdom is like a man who plants wheat in a field good seed in a field and then at night some robbers come by and they plant a lot of weeds and the wheat and the weeds are growing up together and the servants of the man say should we go out and try and pull out the weeds now no no let both grow until the end and there'll be a final separation at the end that's what the kingdom is like in other words here you have a picture of the kingdom that is embracing this world with both good seed growing and bad seed growing it includes some it includes a John Piper and Adolf Hitler it includes them both there are weeds and and and there is a good seed and they're both to grow till the end when there will be a final division that's one notion of kingdom but I'll swear in John 3 in a passage we'll look at next week Jesus says unless you're born again you cannot see or enter the kingdom now with that notion of kingdom not everybody's in it everybody's in the other one you're either wheat or weeds but in this notion of kingdom you now have a subset of God's reign of God's rule of God's kingdom under which there is life only those who are born again can enter or see that kingdom and further sometimes Jesus speaks of the kingdom is already having dawned it's it's already here its operating secretly as it were it's like yeast that's put into dough it's already quietly working and having its effect and another passage he passages he speaks of the kingdom as as what comes at the end when there's a new heaven and a new earth and consummate consummation tremendous transformation so the kingdom is here it's already here and it is not yet come all these notions of kingdom but they all Center on Jesus the King after World War two there was a Swiss theologian by the name of Oscar Kumaon who used one of the turning points in World War two to explain some of these notions he drew attention to what happened on d-day June the 6th 1944 by this time the Western Allies had already cleaned out North Africa and had started pushing up the boot of Italy the Russians were coming in from the steppes they had already defended Stalingrad they were pushing their way to and through Poland and other Eastern European countries and now on d-day the Western Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy and in three days they dumped 1.1 million men and tons and tons of war materiel there was a second front anybody with half a brain in his head could see that the war was over after all in terms of energy in terms of war material in terms of the numbers of soldiers in terms of the way all of these lines and trajectories were working the war was over so does that mean that Hitler said oops I goofed and sued for peace know what came next was the Battle of the Bulge where he almost made it right through the coast of France again except that he ran out of fuel and the battle for Berlin was one of the bloodiest of the entire war it wasn't over yet but a year later it finally was in Europe and there was this gap thus between d-day and VE Day Victory in Europe he says it's like that for Christians the promised King came that's our d-day the coming of Jesus and what he did on the cross and rising from the dead and in rising from the dead he says in the last verses of Matthew's Gospel all authority is given to me in heaven and on earth he's the king but does that mean that the devil says oops I goofed I think I better sue for peace does it mean that human beings say ok ok you've risen from the dead you've won ok we better bow the knee no what it means is you have some of the stiffest fighting left because Jesus has not yet defeated all of his enemies he reigns all of God's sovereignty is mediated through King Jesus the kingdom is dawn it is here and you're either in this kingdom in the new birth sense or you're not or if you conceive of Jesus total reign all authority is already is you're in this kingdom whether you like it or not the question is whether you bow the knee now cheerfully in repentance and faith and Thanksgiving or you will bend the knee in holy terror at the end because the end is coming VE Day is coming and there is no doubt who will be seen to be king on the last day so when Paul writes to Christians in the city of Corinth about the middle of the first century he describes Jesus being the king with all of God's sovereignty mediated through King Jesus and he says and he must reign in this fashion until he has put his last enemy under his feet and that last enemy to be destroyed his death itself death will die which is of course picking up exactly what happened in genesis 1 2 & 3 with this massive rebellion that tried to de God God and brought only death and decay now Christ who has himself beaten death come back from the dead will continue as God's own king in the Davidic line yet the one who was also called the mighty God the everlasting father and he will reign until he has destroyed the last enemy death itself and this is why the church stands up and sings again and again hail King Jesus we need a king one who is perfectly righteous who cannot be corrupted who is entirely good and is never any taint of evil and he transforms he saves his people and he is to be acknowledged as our sovereign hail King Jesus you

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Published: Mon Mar 24 2014