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Turn in your copy of God's word to Psalm 93.

Psalm 93.

Hear the word of Our Lord.

The Lord Reigns.

He is clothed with Majesty.

The Lord is closed.

He has girded himself with strength.

Surely the world is established so that it cannot be moved.

Your throne is established from of old, you are from Everlasting.

The floods have lifted up O Lord the floods have lifted up their voice the floods lift up their waves.

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many Waters than the mighty waves of the sea.

Your testimonies are very sure Holiness, adorns, your house o'lord forever.

So when's the reading of God's word, may he bless?

The reading and now the preaching to our hearts.

This song.

Kicks off.

What, what is often called by commentators and Scholars in Throne meant Psalms.

It is one.

In the Salter that pictures a shift in emphasis for the next six or so.

Psalms.

Where there is a specific and explicit emphasis on the Lord as king.

On the Lord Seated.

On his throne.

I said, we are going to take this up.

Because as the church we are citizens under the Lord's rule.

We are citizens of his kingdom and we find ourselves and we exist in this world and in the world to come.

As Citizens under this great king.

That's what we're going to look at the Lord's rain.

We're going to look at three aspects of his Reign first as seen in verses 1 and 2 that the Lord reigns with Sovereign acceded.

I'll Define a society when we get, when we get to it, To that the Lord reigns with exalted might.

And then finally, the Lord Reigns by his word

So, let's start with the first point, the Lord reigns with Sovereign a society.

Notice how the song begins it begins by making this very short yet.

Very clear statement.

The Lord Reigns This tells us a couple things right out the gate first.

It tells us who it is, that is on the throne.

Who is the king, who is raining, it is not you and it is not our presidents.

It is not any other world leader.

It is not any theological system or ideological system.

It is the Lord, the Lord himself, the Lord Reigns, And what does it mean?

When it says that the Lord Reigns will quite simply as I am sure, you have already gathered.

It means that the Lord is King.

He is the ruler.

He is the one who governs this world and the universe in which we live.

He reigns And this rain is described.

As.

First, he is clothed with Majesty.

Clothes with Majesty or that is that he is exalted.

He is transcendent.

He is above all the world, all the created world, the universe and everything in it.

He is, by his very nature.

Exalted above his creation, He is outside of his creation.

He is majestic.

He's closed with Majesty.

We're also told that the Lord is clothed with strength.

He is clothed with strength so that anything that he needs to do anything that ought to be done in the ruling of the governing of the world over which he rules.

He has the strength and the ability to do he is not lacking.

He has no need to go outside of himself.

Looking for anything.

The Lord Is girded with strength.

I don't want you to notice.

Who it is, who clothes the Lord with majesty and who it is?

Who clothes him with strength?

We are told that he has girded himself.

And we can take that and we can extend it to.

What was previously said about clothing with Majesty that the Lord has closed himself and this gets to the idea of a society which is that God has all that he needs within himself, all that he is, he is perfectly within himself, it is his self existence and part of that self-existence means he has no need for anything.

Or anyone, he has nothing or no one who can add to his strength, who can add to his majesty, because he has strengths and he has Majesty in fullness within himself.

Now, think about this by comparison for just a moment in order for you and I to be exalted, we have to be esteemed by others.

We have to be lifted up in a certain sense by others in order for us to grow in strength, we have to take active steps to grow in strength because our strength as it is, is not a perfect strength and there is always room for more strength, right?

But God, the Lord has no one who could add Majesty to himself because he is perfectly Majestic in and of himself.

He has no one or nothing that could add to his strength because he is perfectly strong in and of himself.

And we see one display of this strength in the foundation and establishment of the world.

The psalmist goes on.

Surely the world is established so that it cannot be moved.

Who was it, who established the world and who fixed it on this Firm Foundation such that it can't be moved.

It was the Lord himself.

That is a display of his great strength.

and the reason that he can go and establish the world such that it cannot be moved, is because his throne Has always existed.

He has always been and will always be the ruler.

the governor, the king over the world, his throne is, as the psalmist says, from of old and his throne is from of old, because he is from Everlasting, There is not a single square inch of this world that is outside of God's Sovereign Rule, and his Sovereign control.

And that is why we refer to this rain in this first point as a sovereign, a city.

Because God is Sovereign over all of the world.

He reigns over all of the world and he does so based upon who he is in himself, he needs nothing outside of himself, in order to accomplish that rain and that rule

One implication of this.

Is that God doesn't need us.

Now, this can be, I think both.

Comforting.

And humbling at the same time you see in in ancient mythology the gods needed their subjects in order to have their power in order to have their Majesty such that.

If you look at Greek and Roman mythology, they would lose strength and they would lose majesty and the ability to govern if they're people did not worship and pray to them.

So this is where it gets comforting.

God does not lose strength.

Because we do not worship or because we do not pray, he has all that he needs within himself.

But then it's also humbling because wild God does not need us.

God does not need us for the advancement of his kingdom here on Earth.

He does not need us for the Dominion being exercised over the world, but God has chosen to include the people that he created.

Into his plans for this universe.

Not because not because we have any special gifted.

All the gifting that we have, God gives to us.

God chooses, to let us have a roll out of his abundant love and kindness and his desire to show us his majesty to show us his strength to show us his creative.

I and ultimately to show us of his great salvation.