Psalm 95 is our text for our sermon today. A call to bow down before the Lord, or as you might subtitle this sermon today, entering God's presence, entering God's rest. In the Psalms, as we've been going through them, we've been learning the liturgy of life. with God, what it means to live life with God, seeking first His kingdom and His righteousness. And now we come to a psalm which has both an exuberant call to worship and a very sober warning. I want to begin today with the final word of the psalm, actually. If you'll take your Bibles and look down to the very final line of the psalm in verse 11, you will see God's statement there. They shall not enter my rest. Rest, God's rest, is what this psalm closes on. And we need to begin with that concept in order to, I believe, understand exactly what this psalm is driving at and why it has both the extremes, it seems, of a call to worship and a very sober warning. We all know what a wonderful thing rest is. Our lives consist of work and rest and work and rest and work and rest. But this is a deep theme in the Bible because it is something that is a gift of God. I think that's even implied in what God says here at the end here, my rest. The rest that I have, the rest that I give, my rest. From the very beginning, we were designed to come into God's rest. That's how God created us and created this world to work. And on the seventh day, Genesis 2 says, God finished his work that he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it, God rested from all his work that God had done in creation. And so, down through the ages, as God works out His mighty plan of redemption, He brings man to find rest in Him. When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt and brought them to the Promised Land, it was so that they would find rest in Him. In fact, we have this beautiful example of this, when Moses begged God to show him His glory in Exodus 33, when he said to God, now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, Please show me your ways that I may know you and find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people." And God replied to him, my presence will go with you and I will give you rest. That's what's going to happen. That's what I'm doing here. God was going to give the people that he had called for his namesake, a place where they could dwell with him and have access to him. and worship him, where he could give them life. And that's what the promised land was. There they would have access to God's temple. There they would have a place to worship him. And thus King David desired to build a temple. But the Lord promised him that he would have a son who would do it. Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies, for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days." So, when Solomon, David's son, completed building the temple, he blessed the Lord in these exact words from 1 Kings 8, verse 56. Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel. according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses, his servant. We just read from the book of Ezra earlier in our scripture reading this morning. All those people coming back, listed out there even by their descendants, even by their families, coming back to the land, what were they seeking? Why did they want to come back from Babylon? They wanted rest. In fact, I can just imagine the 200 male and female singers that Ezra talks about coming back singing Psalm 95, among many other Psalms, as they came back to the land. This was a call to come and to worship their God. Rest, you see, as we enter into the scripture here, rest is not merely getting out of work. Oh good, I don't have to work today, I can rest. The Bible has a whole theme about rest, and it's much more than that. Rest is the gift of fulfilled and peaceful life in God's presence. And that is the rest, and that is the hope that every human soul truly desires. That's why we come across this very term actually in Psalm 23, the beautiful Psalm 23 that everybody loves to quote, right? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. I won't lack anything. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside, and I'll give you a literal translation here, waters of rest. Waters of rest. He's the one who gives rest to my soul. And so it's in this historical context that we encounter Psalm 95. Let's read it together here this morning. Oh, come, let us sing to the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise. For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth. The heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it and his hands formed the dry land. Oh, come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, they are a people who go astray in their heart and they have not known my ways. Therefore, I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest." And the psalm ends on that note. What does God want us to hear when we sing this psalm? I think, first of all, God wants us to hear a call to enter God's presence. This is a call to true worship, enter God's presence. In verses one through seven, the beginning of verse seven, we have an invitation into God's rest. Come, come, the psalm says. Pardon me, folks, and he means that. This is not just, let me say this for a while, let me just sing a song for a while. He's saying to you, to us, to all of you who hear this psalm, come, you need to come. You are invited, you are commanded, you are in every way possible, come. Life is a procession to the presence of God. And in both verses one through five, and then again in verses six and seven, they give us both a call to worship, first of all, and then a cause for worship. Verses one through five, We hear, first of all, this call to worship, a joyful invitation to join in a triumphal procession, marching to God's throne room, to God's dwelling place. The call is repeated emphatically here four times. Did you notice that? Come, let us, let us, let us, let us. This is something that is important here. Let us shout for joy to the Lord, Yahweh, our covenant God. Let us give, it says here, a joyful noise. We could even call that a battle cry, a triumph shout. We've come across this term before in the Psalms several times. In fact, it's used prior to the Psalms in the sense of a battle cry. You remember when Joshua had the people of Israel march around the city of Jericho? And then they were to blow the trumpet before they gave a shout. That blowing of the trumpet is called by this term. Elsewhere in the Psalms, In fact, David prays that God would not allow his enemies to be able to do this over him. That they would not be able to shout in triumph over me. This is a triumph shout. This is what happens when we enter into battle and when we win. That's what we're called upon here to give to the Lord. Let us give to Him this battle cry, this triumph shout to the rock of our salvation. Let us meet His face with thanksgiving. What we're thinking about here is we're joining in a procession and we're going to meet with God. And so we're going to come before Him and we're going to see His face with thanksgiving because of the salvation that He has accomplished. Let us then again give this joyful noise, this battle cry, this triumph shout to Him with songs of praise. This worship that God's people give, and here's the scene that set forth in Psalm 95, the worship that God's people give to Him is the true battle cry of freedom. I thought of this just as I was writing out, thinking about this sermon. I glanced over at a bookshelf and my eyes happened to fall upon James McPherson's great history of the Civil War called The Battle Cry of Freedom. And I thought, this is exactly what Psalm 95 is talking about. This is the battle cry of freedom, that God's people shout out, that they sing to the Lord. It says this in the plainest terms possible here in this Psalm. We are going to meet our God because he triumphs over his and all our enemies. He is the rock of our salvation. We are going to meet our God because he provides life for us. And this is what we as humans do. Whenever we taste the sweet fruits of a hard-won victory, what do we do? We shout it out. We even do this in our games. We play a game and we win the game. We shout it out, right? This is what we are called upon to do for the Lord. That's the call here. Say it, declare it, shout it out, make it known. This is no just in your heart kind of religion. This is a welling up from the deepest parts of our soul, yes, but it is a call for all the world to recognize who our God is. Now the cause for this triumphal procession, the reason that it gives us this call to worship is found in verses three through five. It's that the Lord is a great king, a great God, a great king above all gods. He created, He sustains everything in the wide world. And the psalmist uses these opposites to picture everything. The depths. These are the unexplored places. The places beyond even that we can see. The depths of the earth contrasted with the heights of the mountains. They all belong to Him. It's all in His hand. The sea and the dry land. He made all of that. He fashioned everything that we see. I sing the mighty power of God, as we sang, right? There's not a plant or flower below but makes thy glories known and clouds arise and tempests blow by order from thy throne. This is exactly what the psalmist is saying. Everything that you see, everything you experience is something that comes from the hand of our great king, the ruler, the creator and guider of all the earth. Everything is under his rule. And then in verses six and seven, We have another call to worship. But now, we are no longer in the procession to God's throne room. We have arrived there. We now, in the very presence of His Majesty, do the appropriate response, and that is to be low. Come, let us Let us prostrate ourselves and go on our knees. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. That's the appropriate response when we come into the presence of God. It is to give him public acts of homage by making ourselves low before him. In fact, again, sometimes just by our English translations, we don't get the very bodily picture here. When we say worship, the term for worship is going down on your face. In fact, the very first time we come across this term in the Bible, in Genesis chapter 18, verse 2, we see Abraham, when the messengers come, the angels from the Lord, what does he do? He bows down with his face to the ground. And then we see it again in chapter 19, when these messengers go to Lot, and Lot bows down with his face to the ground. That's exactly the picture of this word. It's not just saying that you honor somebody, it's saying you get low before Him. And of course it emphasizes that then with, let us fall on our knees. You might think this psalm is being a little bit redundant, but it's emphasizing the point, fall on your knees and kneel. This is what you have to do in the presence of this great King. before the face of the Lord our Maker. That's the right order of things. You see, He is great, we are small. He is strong, we are weak. This is the way we approach Him. And yet, even as we do that, we are doing so in a relationship of love with Him as the cause for this worship, this call to worship makes clear. Oh come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker for He is our God. He's not just a God out there somewhere. He's not just a massive deity that we can't really know. He's actually our God, the one in relationship to us. And so we've advanced now beyond just worshiping God for creation, for His power displayed and His wisdom displayed in all of creation. We're advancing now to a covenant loyalty, a love, a relationship with Him. In fact, I think that's even implied when it says, the Lord, our maker. He doesn't seem this almost doesn't simply have in mind. God's making us as in the sense of like he fashioned Adam out of dust and breathe into his nostrils, the breath of life. No, he hasn't got mind here. God making us his people. He's made us into a people. He's made us what we could never be apart from him, calling us to himself and entering into covenant with us. delivering us to himself so that he is our God and we are his people. And so it says in this very verse here, in verse seven, we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. That's the picture that's now being evoked here. He is our God. God has committed himself to his own people. He's made them his prized possession. Why? Because they were great. because they deserved it, because they were so wonderful? No, because He is loving, because He is merciful and gracious. And so when God's people bow down low before Him, they're not doing it like defeated enemies. They're doing it like adoring and grateful sons. This is the God who has called us to Himself, to give us life with Him, And so when we sing Psalm 95, God wants us to hear a call to enter into his presence, true worship. And also when we sing Psalm 95, God wants us to hear a call to enter into God's rest, which is a call to have tender and true hearts as he goes on here in the rest of the Psalm. The tone, as you notice, of this psalm changes drastically in verses 7, the end of verse 7 through verse 11. It's a warning now. It's a prophetic oracle. It's God himself entering into the scene to speak words to us, but they are words of warning. We hear a sober warning against failing to enter into God's rest. He teaches us here that life with God requires belief. and obedience flowing out of that belief. Today, he says, today. He's arresting your attention right now. This is the day that you're supposed to listen. This is the day of opportunity. While God's voice is speaking, if you are hearing his voice, then he is giving you opportunity. He is approaching you with an opportunity. What is that? He says, if you hear his voice, you remember even the great pledge of allegiance in Israel's history, hear, oh Israel, right? Hear, listen, listen to what God has to say. And so God approaches now and says, hear, hear my voice, believe and receive his words so as to do them. And here is the warning in verse eight. Do not harden your hearts. Do not harden your hearts. That, of course, pictures your hearts becoming impervious to God's words, just like rocks become impervious to rain. You don't take them in. You don't receive them. And that's exactly what happened to the generation of Israel that came out of the land of Egypt, which is what the Psalm now draws on to teach us from. at Meribah. Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, which means strife or contention. If some of you are reading from the King James this morning, in fact, you will see they leaving it, instead of leaving it as a place name, they translated the meaning of the name, right? The place name of Meribah means strife or contention. Why? Because the people complained that God had brought them out of Egypt into the wilderness to kill them. That's what they did at that point. They said, we're thirsty. We don't have water to drink. God just brought us out here to kill us. And what did God do in Exodus 17? He brought water out of the rock to sustain them. In fact, they come back to this place again, as talked about in Numbers chapter 20. Massah, which means testing or trying, was another name given to this place. And think about this generation. They had personally witnessed the plagues that God sent to deliver them from Egypt. They had seen God, in effect, take on the mightiest empire of the world of their day and crush it in defeat. They had seen God open the Red Sea. They had walked across the Red Sea on dry land, and they had seen God crush their enemies in the sea. These were the people that God had brought to Mount Sinai and entered into a covenant there, revealing His glory in thunder and lightning on the mountain, giving them His laws. These were the people that had God's presence, guiding them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. These were the people that gleaned the manna that God sent miraculously day by day. These were the people whose clothes didn't wear out, whose shoes didn't wear out while they're wandering through the wilderness. They had seen God's work, as the psalmist says, but they did not believe. And hence they did not obey. They did not hear what God had to say. And therefore God says in verse 10 here, that he loathed them. It's a word for disgust. They were disgusting to him. They were detestable to him. They were not true in their hearts. He said, there are people who go astray in their hearts. They could never be faithful. They were fickle people. They could never be faithful to him. And they did not know his ways. So what did God do? Verse 11, he swore. He swore. This means that God committed himself to a course of action from which there would be no changing. And that commitment was, they shall not enter into my rest. These unbelieving Israelites shall not enter my rest. Though they had so many blessings from God, they would not ultimately enjoy his blessing. They would not experience the fulfillment of life, the fulfillment of God's promises in the land. They would not have life with God in the land. Their carcasses fell in the wilderness. So how does the reality of entering into God's presence and entering into God's rest work out in our lives today? Thankfully, we actually have an entire passage in the New Testament that takes this text and applies it to us. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3. And here we have this call, which I think is the application of Psalm 95 for you today. Enter God's rest in Christ. As the author of Hebrews has extolled the superiority of Jesus Christ. And especially in chapter three now, he has extolled the superiority of Jesus Christ to Moses. He's even greater than Moses. Moses was a servant in God's house, yes. But this one is a son. That means he inherits everything. That means it all belongs to him, right? He's the son. And we are his house, says in verse six of chapter three. If indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope, who is that confidence in? It's in Jesus Christ, and it's exactly what he's going to apply to us. He says, therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, and he quotes Psalm 95, verses seven through 11. And by the way, don't miss that attribution. Who does the author of Hebrews say said Psalm 95? The Holy Spirit, right? Yes, there was a psalmist writing this, but this was the Holy Spirit's voice. And as such, it applies very much to us. Today, if you hear God's voice, do not harden your hearts, right? So he quotes it all down through verse 11 of chapter three. And he goes on to say then, Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. Remember, we have to hold fast our confidence. Verse six, okay, so don't fall away from the living God, but exhort one another every day, as long as it is called today, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, for we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion. And so he says to begin verse chapter four, therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them because they were not united by faith with those who listened. Folks, he's saying here that today of Psalm 95 is still available. It's still here. You can hear God's voice too. Now you should beware because other people heard God's voice in that time in the past. And what happened to them? They didn't receive the blessing. They didn't enter into God's rest. Why? Because they didn't believe. They had an evil heart of unbelief. They weren't united by faith with what they heard. They didn't hold fast to that confidence in God that they should have had. They didn't believe Him, and thus they didn't obey Him. They didn't listen to what He had to say. That promise of rest is still available. And He's saying something amazing here, folks. That promise of rest is available to you in Jesus Christ. That promise of rest is available to you in Jesus Christ. God was calling His people back then to enter into life with Him, communion with Him. Peace with him. And now that is available to you in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our access to God's presence. Jesus Christ is our place of rest. Jesus Christ himself said when he was here on this earth, come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I will give you everything God has promised. You will find it in me. Do you believe me? And so this challenge applies to you in this congregation today as you hear God's word. And I would like to just press it home in two points. First of all, take care, brothers. I say to you today, take care. You say, how so? Take care against an evil heart of unbelief. You say, but I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in Jesus. If your response is like that today, I would submit to you that you don't understand the nature of the danger. The danger that he puts forward here is being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Right? Being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin so your heart no longer receives God's word. So you no longer listen to what he has to say. So you go your own way. Take any sin. Take anger, for example. What happens in your life when you don't apply Jesus Christ, the good news of Jesus Christ, to anger in your life? You no longer see the events, the scenario that you're engaging in in light of Jesus Christ. You no longer see what's good and true in your life in terms of Jesus Christ and God's promises and what he's accomplishing and his goodness in bringing you through the very situation you're in. You no longer see that God is working out your salvation through this situation. You begin to see it only in terms of what I want right now. And that's an unbelieving response. That's saying Jesus Christ doesn't really matter to my situation right now. Jesus Christ isn't really in control of this situation. What Jesus died and rose to achieve doesn't really conquer in this situation. Jesus' intercession at the right hand of the Father doesn't really mean anything to me right now in my situation. No, my anger is what's going to control this situation. You start playing that out, that unbelief. What does that begin to reveal about your heart? You play that out time and time and time again in your life. Pretty soon bitterness has set in there like a rock. Pretty soon you really don't trust Jesus. You don't believe he's relevant to your life. You go looking elsewhere for security, for meaning, for purpose, for direction in life. You try to find safety somewhere else. As soon as something seems hard about following Jesus, well, I'll go find something else. Someone else, some other philosophy, some other medication, something, someone, some relationship. I'll find that and that will give me my security and give me true life. Do you realize what you've just done? You've rejected Jesus Christ. You said He doesn't really matter. And that, by the way, folks, that does show in people's lives. We see people drift away from Jesus Christ. You see people who profess Him with their mouth at some point. Maybe they join a church. Maybe they come to church for a while. Maybe they're baptized and confess Jesus Christ's name. But they go on through life, and they start responding to life with a heart of unbelief. And it begins to show. And it won't be long in those kinds of lives where you'll see them drift away from the things of God because they no longer find any rest or hope there. You'll see them drift away from things like, oh, come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. Public acts of homage to God. Why would I do that? You know, I mean, hey, yeah, that's all good and fine, but I've got more important things to do in life. I've got to take care of myself here. Why should I take time to go in procession and meet with God and publicly proclaim His name and show that He's Lord? That doesn't really matter anymore. You see that start to show up in people's lives. They drift away from the things of God. They drift away from listening to His word. learning it, applying it, wrestling out its applications in their lives, obeying what God has to say, finding out new avenues of obedience, they drift away from that because that no longer really matters to them. And pretty soon, they're living, although at one time they professed Jesus Christ as Lord, they're living as those who never knew him. Folks, that is a very dangerous place to be. a very dangerous place to be. Good news, of course, is that if you are truly God's child, he will chasten. He will break you and bring you back to himself. But one of the worst things that could happen to you is that God would just let you go in your rebellion. And at the end, you will not enter into his rest. That's the warning. You need to take care. You've been blessed by God. Just you sitting here today, you've been blessed by God with the opportunity to hear his voice. You've been blessed by God with his word so freely available to you. You've been blessed by God with the ability to come to church and hear his word proclaimed and read and taught and to understand life from his perspective. You've been blessed by God with the opportunity to follow Christ to his eternal rest, even by being a part of our worship here this morning. Come, let us bow down. Don't let an evil heart of unbelief bring you to ruin. You take care by, as it says in Hebrews 3, exhorting one another every day while the opportunity remains. Exhort one another every day as long as it is called today. that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. I would urge you, watch out for the pride in your life. And here's another way that sin works its way in. Watch out for the pride in your life that says, I don't need other Christians. I don't need them. I'm good the way I am, or I can do this on my own. No, exhort one another every day. Again, that's one of the reasons why people who start drifting into unbelief drift away from the church. because they don't really believe that they need other believers. They think they're okay. They think they're strong. Maybe they think they're even better. Those other Christians out there are just compromisers. They don't do what's right. I do the Word of God right. I don't need them. How many people are out there today saying they don't go to church? They won't be a member of a church because Christians are hypocrites. Christians have problems. Christians have sinned. Yeah, they have. But one of the reasons Christians are in church is because they know they're sinners, and they know they need exhortation. And somebody who's proud, thinking, I don't need that, watch out. You're in a very bad position, spiritually. You're asking to be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Those who refuse the community of Christ have no idea what danger they're putting themselves in. In fact, just to play this out in the book of Hebrews, I know I can't take a lot of time on this today, but as he finishes his exposition, the author of Hebrews, of Psalm 95, when he gets down to chapter 4, verse 13, he begins a whole middle section of his epistle. It's kind of as an inclusio where He says, since then, in verse 14, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our confession. And he's going to develop that all through chapter 5 and 6 and 7. This great high priest, who Jesus is, the mediator of the new covenants, all that he brings about through his once for all sacrifice, he's going to develop this all the way through chapter 10. and then he's gonna round this section off and he's gonna come back to where he was, that same thought he was with. So go to chapter 10, verse 19. Therefore, brothers. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, this is Psalm 95, right? Come, let us enter in, let us bow down. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is through his flesh. And since we have a great high priest, great priest over the house of God, let us draw near. I mean, if you've been singing the Psalms, if you've been singing Psalm 95, you're hearing that song in your mind as the author of Hebrews is saying this, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. You have seen his works. You know what he did in Jesus Christ. Why would you let go of that? Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promises faithful and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near. You see what he's saying? This is Psalm 95 in action. Not neglecting to meet together, exhorting one another. We need this. By the way, folks, we have false teachers in our very day, false shepherds, maybe I could call them, or at least, at the very least, shepherds who are speaking falsely, saying things like, the church doesn't have to meet. The New Testament doesn't require the church to meet. Because after all, people could get sick. So we just, the church doesn't have to meet in our day. There are big name mega church pastors saying that in our day. That's not required by the New Testament. Folks, I would submit to them and to you today, how can you read the New Testament and believe that? It's not just if there's a specific command that says thou shalt meet every Sunday morning at this time. I mean, we went through our whole ethics seminar to show that's not how we approach the word of God. It's understanding the very nature of what it means to have a relationship with God. Oh, come, right? This is part of what it means to know God. This is how we hold fast to Him. We glorify Him. We even guard our own hearts against drifting away by coming and worshiping Him. Folks, this is what God has given to us. So, take care, brothers. Take care. Don't be hardened. Let your heart be hardened with the deceitfulness of sin. A second exhortation I would give to you today in the application of Psalm 95 is this, also from Hebrews. Chapter four, verse 11. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Strive to enter God's rest. That's my challenge to you. Strive to enter God's rest. Now, does that sound funny to you? Work hard to rest. Strive to rest. Well, if we understand what rest is, we can see exactly where he's coming from. Rest is not merely not doing anything. Rest is participating in God's life. To say this a different way, really, is to say, listen to Jesus, trust him, believe what he says, and then live in it. That's striving to enter into God's rest, right? We just listen as a church to Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount as a church. And so I would ask you today in light of Psalm 95, do you believe Him? Do you believe Him when you're anxious and He says, be anxious for nothing? Do you believe Him? Are you going to listen to Him? You know, trust Him based on His finished work and do what He says? He tells you not to go after that kind of righteousness that men can see, like the Pharisees did, but seek the kind of righteousness that your Father sees in heaven. Okay, are you going to listen to Him? Are you going to believe Him? Are you going to do what He says? This is exactly what we're called to do here. Look to Jesus Christ. Look at what God has revealed in Him. Look at God's work revealed in Jesus Christ. If nothing else should convince you of all of God's mighty works throughout history, if nothing else should convince you that you have to trust God and Him alone, it should be the work that He's accomplished in Jesus Christ. God became flesh. The Word became flesh. He showed us who He truly is. He accomplished all the work to bring us to Him. We can repent of our sins and put our trust in him and find true refuge in him. He is the rock of our salvation because of Jesus Christ. He's risen from the dead. Who else are you gonna turn to that can do that? He has ascended on high. He's been vindicated by God through his ascension to his own right hand. And he even now prays for his people. Who else are you gonna trust to do that? To whom else are you gonna go that has the words of life? This is following Jesus, believing Him and obeying Him. Folks, just to close today, I would just ask you, do you want rest? Does your soul long for rest in a world that often seems like chaos? Or maybe sometimes even in our own souls that feel that chaos of this world? Psalm 95 says, come. Jesus says, come. The spirit and the bride say, come, come. And so I appeal to you today to engage in true worship with tender and true hearts. Our worship in Christ by his spirit right now today is a coming to the Lord to share in his rest. anticipating the final rest that we enjoy with him forever. And thus our worship calls for true and tender hearts of faith and obedience. True worship both glorifies God and guards us against hard hearts. So let us enter God's presence in Christ. Let us enter God's rest in Christ. If you would respond to his invitation to come today with confessing your faith that Jesus is Lord, all together as a congregation. Jesus is Lord. Amen.