Take our Bibles and turn to Psalm 93 and you'll notice that this psalm is only five verses long. I've known, one of the things that I've known as I have gone through this is that we were going to come to some psalms that were going to be shorter psalms and since my goal is to preach each psalm in one message, I've thought about how am I going to handle a short psalm and how am I going to handle Psalm 119. Because again, how many verses does Psalm 119 have in it? It has, let's see, 176. So that's going to be a lot of preaching to get in 176 verses in one message. But I'm going to take the large passages, the large psalms and preach them in one message. I'm going to take the small psalms and preach them in one message. So here we are in Psalm 93. And so there's some interesting things. Remember as we've gone through this study looking at verse by verse by verse, there's some things we look at like the circumstances that was in the psalmist's life that might have caused him to write the psalm. And we also want to understand this. The psalms we know are the inspired word of God. So we think about that and when we get into this Psalter, the book of Psalms, we know that even though it's just a few verses long that this Psalm is a Psalm that was ordained of God. And so the Psalter was given to the Hebrews to help them in their worship of Jehovah, their worship of God. And so God has a design behind each of these psalms. And so when we look at this psalm, this psalm is actually known as what's, remember we've been giving you the type of psalm that it is. This is what's known as a Torah psalm. So it's a teaching psalm. There's something in this psalm that God wanted to teach His people. that was necessary for them that as they would sing the song in their worship service, there was something there that God wanted them to know. And so this psalm written to instruct the Hebrews. And so as we read this psalm, I want you to think about what's in this psalm that God wanted His children to know. Psalm 93 and verse number 1 goes, The Lord reigneth. He is clothed with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old. Thou art 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, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever. So as we read that psalm, what do you think it is that God wanted to instruct His people in? What lesson was there for them? What could they learn from that psalm? And of course, we find that in the very first few words. The Lord reigneth. This is a psalm that teaches the Hebrews something about God himself. So we want to remember the big picture of scripture is this. God created the world. This world rebelled against him. But even though it rebelled against him, ultimately he will reign in this world forever and ever and ever. He created the world in six literal 24-hour days. He had the power to bring light. He had the power to create life. All things are held together by the Word of His power, the Bible tells us today. And on this earth now, we don't see the physical, literal reign of God. Even though we know the scripture says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, even though we know that this earth is His, we don't recognize Him as Lord of heaven and earth today. But there's coming a day when we will recognize Him as the Lord of heaven and earth. There's coming a day when Jesus will literally set upon the throne and He will reign from the throne of God. So the children of Israel were learning in this Psalm that the Lord is the one that reigns. We should keep that in mind, by the way, Jesus is Lord whether we recognize it or not. God is in control of this world whether we recognize it or not. Our lives are God's whether we recognize it or not. He is in control of our lives whether we want to admit it or not. We may want to feel like that we're living our lives according to our own ways and our own plans. And I want to be my own man. How many of us ever said that when we got to be about 18 years old? I want to be my own man and do my own things and make my own decisions. We are never our own. We are always the Lord's. He is always in control of our lives whether we recognize it or not. And so in this Psalm the lesson that the Hebrews are learning is that the Lord reigns. And so we understand that He has a spiritual reign but we also want to understand that He has a physical reign. And so the big picture is God showing us that He will reign over the earth. And so this psalm causes us to consider the kingdom of God. It causes us to consider the kingdom that God promised to David and the promise that God made to David that one of his descendants would sit upon his throne forever. And so we also want to remember this when thinking about that kingdom, the kingdom that was promised to David. Remember when Jesus walked on the earth The kingdom of heaven is at hand The kingdom of God is at hand the kingdom of God was present So we want to understand that The Lord does reign Notice how it says that the Lord reigneth now that is the word Jehovah. I The word Jehovah, it is the covenant-keeping God. Hopefully you'll begin to understand some of these words as we go. The covenant-keeping God, the God that made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The promises that He made to them. The one that made the promises with the children of Israel that He would lead them out of Egyptian bondage and He would take them to the promised land. That's the Lord Jehovah. So He is the covenant-keeping God. I want you to notice this also. It's not a statement of what God should do. It's not a statement of what God might do. It's a statement of fact. The Lord reigneth. It doesn't say that he will reign in the future. He does reign. It's not he should reign in your life. The Lord Reigns we we want to recognize that and of course, this is the goal of God's creation a Time when God will reign on the earth and his people will be perfectly obedient That's coming yet in the future So the the kingdom of God is really being being unfolded on this earth, but the Lord reigns It's a good thing for the children of Israel to teach their children that the Lord reigns and that they need to be obedient to Him. They need to be in subjection to Him because He does reign. That's another good thing for us to learn in our own lives is that the Lord reigns, that there is authority in our lives. There are people that we are, there are people that we are accountable to. We are accountable to God. That's one of the problems with our society today is people think they're not accountable to anyone. But the Lord reigns and folks are accountable to Him. So, these next few Psalms, Psalm 93 through Psalm 99 are going to teach us different aspects of the reign of God in His creation. So, God reigns. The Lord reigns. Jehovah reigns. And because of that, because the Lord reigns, and when you see that the Lord reigneth, when you see that ETH ending, you understand that's not something that has a limited time on it. It's something that continues on. I've always heard that's called the perfect present tense, but anyway. It's something that is being accomplished now and it's something that's going to be accomplished forever. And so, the Lord reigns. And because of that, think about, when I think about someone reigning, I think about a king. And when I think about a king, what do I think about when I think about a king? Well, do you think about a king walking around in, you know, in the clothes of a pauper? Or when you think about a king, do you think about a king with a crown? And you think about a king with a robe and it's probably some, you know, precious material. Either, you know, it's probably going to be purple and it's going to have like some leopard skin or something around the outside of it. You know, some king in this beautiful robe. Here it says, He is clothed with majesty. When I think about a king, I think about a majestic king. And because God is the Lord and He reigns, we understand that He is clothed with majesty. You know, when a king shows up, most of the time there's no doubt that a king is appearing. Now we've not experienced that really here, the only. really experience we have with a king is what we see going on in London, you know, and you see the king over there and the queen especially. And then when they're coming on the scene, you know, they'll have a motorcade and maybe at certain times they'll have horse-drawn carriages but they'll appear and they'll have music and trumpets and the king is now approaching and maybe if you watch it on movies you'll see the trumpeteers blowing and announcing the king's approaching. Majesty is associated with the king. And here this king that we're looking at is the king of kings and lord of lords. And so the children of Israel are learning that our king, the king of heaven and earth, he has all of the majesty that is in the world. He has glorious in majesty. Webster's defines majesty as greatness of appearance. So the psalmist is describing for the children of Israel the majesty of the king. The majesty of the king of kings and he's explaining to them the majesty of his apparel. How is, what is the apparel of the king? Well it says, the Lord is clothed with strength. So the majesty of our king, the majesty of the king of kings is that he's clothed with strength. That word strength there means boldness, loud, might, power, and strength getting ready for a battle. And so, you know, this is no peep-squeak. This is no little spindly guy walking up and down the street. No, this is the Lord God omnipotent who reigns. He's clothed in majesty. You look at Him and He is the picture of strength. You don't have to be afraid about what's around because you're looking at our King. And our King is clothed with strength. Boldness. Might and power. You see, the world that he reigns over, that he is king of, it's established. And so we understand he's clothed with strength. And he's, wherewith he hath girded himself. And so girded means in battle in the ancient days when they wore the long robes and you hear about the word gird, gird themselves. What they did was there was a way that they could tie their robes. They would pull the front of the robe up around the back and then they would wrap it around their waist and they would tie it off and that give them the ability to run and it give them the ability to fight in battle. And so where he has girded himself with that strength, it means that he is prepared to go to battle. He's the king, he's the Lord, and he's ready to go to battle. It says the world is also established that it cannot be moved. So His world is established. Remember we said the New Testament tells us He holds all things together by the word of His power and by Him all things consist. And so this world is held together by the word of the power of our King. His kingdom is established and it cannot be moved. This is a mighty King. The Lord God Jehovah is a mighty king. We may not recognize him as a mighty king. The world may not recognize him as a mighty king, but he is a mighty king. One little side note about that last phrase of verse number one, the world also established that it cannot be moved. In the old days, before they knew anything about the universe and before they had telescopes so that they could look out into the far reaches of space, There was the thought that the earth was the center of the universe and that everything else, you know, orbited around it. This was the verse that they would use to say, well, there it is. The world is established that it cannot be moved. It doesn't move. It's the center of everything. Well, as time has gone by and as we have learned and grown, we understand that that verse was not talking about that the earth doesn't move. It means that it's established and that it does not, you know, that it can't be overthrown. It has ongoing order. The underlying principles of it faithful and sure and guaranteed by God because it is what he has set in order. There is an ongoing order in this world. That's what that verse means. So the psalmist begins again as this is a Torah psalm and they're instructing the Hebrews. The Lord reigns establishing that he is Jehovah. He made a covenant with us and he is a mighty king clothed in majesty and strength. Verse number 2, Thy throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting. So again, the lesson being taught is that the throne of God is established. The throne. Think about the throne room of God. We get a picture of that, right? We get a picture of Isaiah. entering into the throne room of God. And in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. And he gets a picture of the throne room of God. Well, let's just turn there. I believe that's Isaiah chapter number 6. And I know that many of you have heard this passage of Scripture many times, but can you imagine what it was like for Isaiah to get this vision, the place where God dwells. Isaiah 6, 1 says, In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. And His train filled the temple, His glory filled the temple. Above it stood six seraphims, each one had six wings, with twenty covered his face, and with twenty covered his feet, and with twenty did fly. One cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. The glory of the throne of God. If you go to the book of Revelation, which we studied, there's also a picture of the throne there. But again, that's the throne in heaven. But then as you get over to the end of the book of Revelation, you begin to see that Jesus comes and he sets upon the throne of David. And it is in that new heaven and new earth where Jesus will reign forever. And so we see that Jesus is setting upon The throne of God. God's throne. It has glory. It has majesty. The throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting. So what they're being taught is the throne of God was established of old. Before God spoke this world into existence, the Bible tells us in the beginning, in the beginning, created the heavens and the earth. What was there before God created? There was God. God's throne was established before He brought this world into existence. John 1, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. So Jesus was in the beginning with His Father when there was nothing but God. That throne, that Rule of God was established of old. Not only was it established of old, but it's from everlasting. It's looking forward to eternity, to the kingdom of God which shall have no end. These are the lessons that the children of Israel are learning. And it's a lesson that we need to learn. The Lord God omnipotent reigns. He has a throne. He has established His throne. And His throne will not cease. His throne is established forever. And so the Hebrews are learning that lesson that he is the Lord God and omnipotent who reigns. And we need to learn the lesson too. They know that God has authority over his creation and we need to understand the same lesson. God has authority. His authority will last forever. In verses 3 and 4, now the psalmist begins to look at the floods. The floods have lifted up. Oh Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice and the floods lift up their waves. In this particular verse, this is where you see poetry in motion. You see the poetry of parallelism and what's happening in this verse is you have an initial thought that's built upon with the next thought and then It's built upon again. And one of the authors says, you get a picture of a wave in this verse of Scripture. It says, the floods have lifted up. Oh, Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. And so you see out in the distance, you're standing on the beach. Have you ever been to the beach? And you can look out and you see a swell coming up on the surf. And it begins just as a swell. You see it begin to grow a little bit. So you have the Lord, the floods have lifted up. You see the beginning of the swell. Then you see the floods have lifted up their voice as that wave begins to grow. And then it says the floods lift up their waves. That wave grows and then it crashes. That poetry helps us understand. the point that God is trying to get across to us in describing for us his majesty. The reason that God uses in this psalm the floods and the waters and him being mightier than the sea is think about what it was like for a mariner during those days. There were times during those days that when men got in ships that those ships never returned. The reason those ships never returned was sometimes they would get lost at sea. Their ships were not like the ships that we have today. They were built out of wood and other materials. And we have seen some of the storms that are on the seas that how terrible those storms are. The strength of those storms, people were afraid of the seas. Think about how strong the storm is. Remember the picture we all saw on the news and everything of a little while back of that cruise ship? being, they had to abandon the cruise ship because I think the motor had went out or something and there you just have this big cruise ship out on the ocean and seeing the waves of the sea attacking that cruise ship. Now, I've never been on a cruise ship. I don't know how big they are. Ask Matthew and Andrew. They'll fill you in on all the details on how big a cruise ship is. But I think they're pretty large. And even our greatest seagoing vessels at times The sea gets the best of our greatest seagoing vessels. So, think what it was like. Knowing where we're at in our modern history, how we've seen pictures of around the world and we have all of the modern navigation equipment and still yet, I'm not too excited about going out on the sea. I told somebody one time I went deep sea fishing and the times that I've been when I could see the seashore, when I could still see the shore, I was fairly confident. When I got out so far that I couldn't see the shore, I had no idea where I was going and I was really pretty scared because I thought if something would happen, I can't swim. If I can't see it, I can't swim to get there. So can you imagine what it was like knowing all the modern technology we have still the seas have more power than our modern technology. Think of what it was like for the ancient mariner as he's going out to sea. And maybe they've heard stories of the awfulness of the storms. Listen, listen, you look in the Bible and it talks about them just being on the Sea of Galilee which was just the lake of Genesaret. I mean it's not the open ocean. It was just the sea and how horrible those storms were. What the psalmist is getting us to is for us to understand and what they were to understand is the Lord, look verse 4, the Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters. The thing that was the most fearful for the ancients, God is more powerful than that. He is stronger than that. He is mightier. The thing that gives you the most fear, God is mightier than that. He's more powerful than that. The waves of the sea, the floods of the earth, no matter how they might show their strength, God is mightier than those waves. What the psalmist is doing, he's building the case for the Lord reigning because of his mind, because of his power, because of his strength. He's more mighty, he's more powerful, he's stronger than that which might bring the greatest fear into our hearts. And that's true for us today. Folks, the Lord reigns today. And whatever it is that brings you the greatest fear, He's mightier than that. He's stronger than that. He reigns over that. Whatever it is, He reigns over it. And so it builds our hope. It builds our confidence. It builds our trust because we know the Lord reigns over it all. He's greater than all our problems. He's higher than the sky. lead me to that rock, lead me to that rock, lead me to that rock that is higher than I. That's what we get in this psalm, the Lord reigns. And then the psalmist goes on to share with us many things about that. The psalmist concludes with verse 5, thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever. The testimonies or decrees or statutes of the Lord are sure. The words of God, the truths we know in God's Word, God is able to back up every word that he promises. You know, when you think about, he that believes in me will never perish but have everlasting life. You see, that's a promise that God made And that's a promise that God can keep. Why? Because He's the Lord God Omnipotent who reigns. Christ Jesus came not into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Why did He not come into the world to condemn the world? Because the one that doesn't believe, the Bible says, is condemned already. That's a promise God can keep. I give eternal life to my people, the chafe, those who are non-believers, they'll be gathered up and cast into the fire. That's a promise God made, and that's a promise God can keep. The psalmist said, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. That's a promise God made. And that's a promise God can keep. The testimonies of the Lord are sure. We get into the Word and we understand. Whatever God promises in His Word, He's the Lord who reigns and He can keep His promises. That's the lesson that the children of Israel learn. His testimonies are so sure. It says, Holiness becometh thine house. What is it when something we would consider to be not trustworthy? Someone that's not trustworthy is someone that gives you your word and then they don't keep their word. That would be not trustworthy, right? Would you call someone who wasn't trustworthy, would you call them holy? Because you remember holy means pure, without spot. The answer to that is you wouldn't call someone who's not trustworthy holy because you can't trust their word. But the Lord God omnipotent who reigns, his testimony are very sure and holiness becomes his house because you take every promise and it's true. No one can contradict his word. No one can say that he promised this and was not able to fulfill So when you look into his word you find that his promises are true and because of that he is seen as perfectly holy. So we understand the faithfulness of God, the holiness of God and the faithfulness of God and the holiness of God is how we see his glory. One of the greatest things that I ever learned was when you look at the Old Testament prophecies and see how those Old Testament prophecies are fulfilled even in pagan kings like the pagan king Cyrus. God promises in His Word and so therefore He is holy and His holiness displays for us His glory. He is above reproach. He cannot be proven to be anything less than perfect. He cannot be questioned because He is faithful in every word that He says. And so, the Lord reigns. The Lord reigneth. He will reign unquestioned forever. What a promise to us to know and believe. We learn this promise and our faith is built up because we understand the Lord and who He is and how He reigns and He's worthy to be praised. He's worthy to be trusted and so it builds our faith. It was a lesson for the Hebrews to learn. It's a lesson for us to learn. The Lord reigns. I pray that He reigns in your life. because you've trusted in your son, Jesus, and you now have eternal life. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for your Word, the opportunity to share your Word tonight. And I pray that you will bless those that are listening, both in our audience, those who are watching live on Facebook, and Lord, those who will listen on Sermon Audio. We pray your blessings upon them. Thank you for the truths we find in your Word. It is in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.