The Sovereign Lord is Mighty to Save

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Psalm 33:16–19 NKJV
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. 18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, 19 To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Here we move beyond planning to implementation and resources, but the point is the same. No matter how great our resources, victory belongs to the Lord.
A king may have a mighty army and strong warriors; his horses may have great strength. But on the day of battle God alone decides who wins.
And God can make the stronger or the weaker win—whichever his plan determines. He has a thousand ways of making the weaker triumph over the stronger, and getting glory for his own name.
Illustrated in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth
For example, in the Shakespearean play Henry the Fifth (which was also made into a movie in 1989), King Henry comes against incredible odds on the battlefield. In one scene of the movie you see hundreds of bowmen in the back lines sending a downpour of arrows arching over their own front lines and landing on the advancing enemy. What you realize is that these arrows are launched with no particular target in mind. They are sent with a string and a prayer.
In that situation who decides if the arrow lands harmlessly in the ground or lands in the throat of an enemy soldier? The slightest wind will change the course of a thousand arrows. And one inch right or left may make the difference between no wound or lethal wound. The answer: God decides.
That’s why in the movie King Henry’s victorious little army sang, “Non nobis domine, gloria,” as they walked through the bloody field. “Not to us, O Lord, be the glory”—a quote from Psalm 115:1.
That’s the point of this psalm. We may plan, but God’s plans hold sway. We may amass resources and strength, but the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him.
He decides what plans and resources succeed. That’s the main point this morning. It is our Lord and God who is Mighty to Save.
And we are all this morning mindful of the miracle of the resurrection…we can know that it was God the Father who planned to send His son, to be born in the flesh in order to die in the flesh to save all who will come in faith to the only one who can save.
LORD’S SUPPER
1 Corinthians 11:23–26 NKJV
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
1 Corinthians 11:27–29 NKJV
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
EXAMINE YOURSELF
PRAYER
OBSERVANCE
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