As we get into the wonderful word of God, I want to send out our prayers out to all of our church family at Bethel Crossroads where the death angel has come. Also, our first lady at our church has been sick. We want to lift her up tonight as well. Amy Dempsey, Pastor Keith's wife. And also, I want to send out a prayer of healing and for the grieving of those in our family, the Yarbrough family. Tonight as we celebrate the life of our uncle, Clinton Yarbrough. who was born March the 5th 1950 and passed away July the 30th 2023 this past Sunday and he was a twin and he was just a man that was a hard worker from sharecroppers that were taught the value of working hard to earn and provide for your family. And he'll really be missed by his wife, Barbara, and his son, Lamar, and Michelle, daughter Michelle, and all of their families over in Dallas, all of our families out in Alabama. as out of 15 now with our youngest Jimmy Ray Yarber, Shirley, Shirley Ann, and I'm going to tell you Oso Bedjean, the three of our 15 that remain. that are dear to our heart. We send out love to each and every one of them. And so tonight we want to talk to you about the sunsets of God. It was just a few days ago that Brother, I'll tell you what, Uncle Clinton saw the last sunset here on this earth. But he began to open his eyes up and see the sunset of God himself. We'll be taking our thought and message out of Psalms 50 verses 1 through 6. We're going to be speaking about three different sunsets in the Bible. We're going to reference a lot of scripture of sunsets in the Bible. And so here tonight, as we look at the sunsets of God out of Psalms 50 verses 1 through 6, here as I look at all of the different sunsets of scripture, this psalm warns us about two areas in which we're going to be evaluated. Our worship and our obedience to God's commands. And so, the sunsets of God. Lord, you give us creation itself, and Father, I pray, God, that, Lord, that you would give us tonight a message, Lord, Father, that we send out, especially as we think of our Uncle Clinton Yarber and all of his family, and, Lord, knowing, God, that we send our prayers and love out to our own church, Lord, I think as our head deacon, Rufus Cantrells, I heard his oldest brother had passed away. And I send down, Lord, a healing, Lord, a restoration of the grace of God, Lord, that you would touch those hearts that are heavy. Lift them up, Father, and give them the strength that only you can provide. Lord, we know, God, that this place, Lord, is not the place that we're gonna spend the rest of our lives, but it's here and now. We're just strangers passing through. One of these days, we'll see Clinton Yarborough again, and, Lord, in your city, in the presence of our Lord, and with the family of God, as he rode into the welcome center of heaven the other day, Father. Lord, I pray, God, tonight, that you'll just watch over his family, watch over our First Lady, Amy Dipsy. Lord, strengthen her, heal her with her ailments that she's been faced with. Lord, I pray for their children's twins that were just recently born, that they'll be strong and healthy. and give the parents plenty of strength, Lord, as they take care of a double portion of their love that's represented there, Father. And so tonight, God, I take this time, Lord, to look to you tonight for the sunsets of God. In Jesus' marvelous mighty name, amen. You know, tonight, as we look and we begin to realize that God, many a times that in the military, that I would go and look at the skies every night and every morning when the sun would set. Seven months out of 12 out in the field doing, supporting the infantry and especially with being an engineer, we stayed out there. Man, I began to go to sleep under the stars for several years and looking out across that sky. I remember out at Fort Carson and being under the skies of the Colorado skies and I'd look up at the stars and begin to see all the creation of God and begin to wake up to the sunsets of God each and every day, knowing how blessed that we are. But one of these days, every one of us are going to see our last sunset forever. And we're going to wake up in a better place or we're going to wake up in a terrible place. It's according to where you make your decisions today. And so I'm glad God is, first of all, a God when he's made everything that's been made. Amen. The stars glowing on white pearls lying on a bed of blue velvet. Like the flowers that have been hand-painted by God's glory, amen. Like the streams that are crystal clear, jutting their way across the sea. Like the heavens that declare the glory of God, so forth His handiworks, amen. Through it all, God seems to be saying that God is, and thou art, and I'm the Lord, and I'm God. I'm glad that what we're talking about as creation, there's no creation without a creator. Who could concur of such a thing, amen? There can't be a here without a there. There can't be a before without an after, amen? There can't be an upper without a lower. There can't be a right without a wrong. And there can't be a love without a lover. And so there cannot be a creation without a creator. There can be no thought without a thinker, amen? No action without an actor. I tell you, there could be no book without an author. And so no watch without a watchmaker. No design without a designer. God is, as Colonel Jackson said years ago when he began to write these down, amen, that when he made everything, when he stopped and looked around, that we must conclude that God is and that God has created the sunsets of God. Amen. It was God that stood behind the purple hill of eternity and mapped out the plans of the world. Amen. He stepped up on nothing, reached with nothing back through nowhere until we got somewhere. Then my God grabbed a hold of something, brought something back through nowhere all the way back through somewhere. and then he hung something on nothing. Yeah, the sunsets of God, amen. It was God that did it all. It was God who wrapped the drapes of the rainbow around the shoulders of the stars and calmed a peaceful day, amen. It was God who looked out into space and caused the worlds to turn every planet to take its perspective place. It was God, I tell you. And I tell you, it took that little diamond stick pen called stars and he put them up into the blue. And it was God that crowned the silver queen of the night, the moon, and made her move unmolested across the enchanted vastness of the night. It was God that put the sun to shine, the king of the day. He put the sun where it was supposed to be and always will be until he gets ready to move the sun. It was God that spoke to Mother Nature, and Mother Nature, dressed up in a green garment, rode its old colossal ball into space, baptized it with a liquid mist. It was God that carpeted the ground of the green with grass, decorated the daffodils, the hollyhocks, the lilies, the snapdragons, the roses, and the trees. He ordered a variety of blooming flowers, making it a wonderful attraction. Amen. It was God that took his little index finger, scooped out the rivers and the streams to flow. He, like unbridled steeds, it was God that guided the course of the zigzag lightning. that made the lightning stick stabbed upon the naked bosom of space, hallelujah. The sunsets of God that we see. And so, here, he delivers the law unto the priest. And Moses wrote this law and he delivered unto the priest the sons of Levi, which bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord and unto all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, saying, at the end of every seven years in the solemnity of the year of release in the feast of the time of Aquinas, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall choose. Thou shalt read this law before all Israel, and in the hearing, gather the people together, men and women and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that may hear, and that they may learn and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words, listen, of this law, that their children, which have not known anything, may hear and learn the fear of the Lord your God as long as you live in the land, whether you go overjoyed to possess it. Here in Psalms 50. It talked about in Deuteronomy about how that they were to read these during the times of the Feast of the Passover. And I'm glad that every seventh year during the Feast of the Tabernacle, the priests were obligated to read the law to the people and explain its meaning, Deuteronomy 33, amen, 913. And this psalm may have been written for such an occasion, Psalms 50. here that we look at. And so I'm glad I took this picture when I was in Israel in 2008 with John Hagee. That morning I was out over looking across the Sea of Galilee, looking out over and began to see the sun when it first broke through. as I took this shot, amen, the sunsets of God. The sun will always set in the west, but the exact location of where it sets can change depending on the time of the year. This is due to the tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun. During the summer months, the sun will set farther to the northwest, while during the winter months, it'll set farther to the southwest. The exact number of degrees can vary depending on your location and the specific day, but on the average, it can change by about 23.5 degrees, known as the equality of the ecliptic. And so, every day, the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west. And so, who was Aesop in the Bible that began to write Psalms 58, man? He was a member of the tribe of Levites, singled out by God to serve as the priest, the musician in the temple. The Levites, like Aesop, were known as The Levites and Aesop was a descendant of Gershon, who was Levi's son, according to 1 Chronicles 6, verse 31 and verse 32. Aesop, known as a Levite, Heman and Jehuadun, Aesop's brothers were also Levite musicians who worked alongside him at the temple. They were Aesop's colleagues, and Aesop is referenced for the first time in the Bible during the reign of King David. During that time, King David gave Aesop the responsibility of leading the singing in the temple. I'm glad that it's about our worship that means everything, amen. And so I'm glad that when we look and we begin to realize that out of the Psalms, of the scripture, amen. The musical vocal talents of Aesop were highly appreciated and was responsible for instructing the other Levite musicians to play in the temple in 1 Chronicles chapter 25, amen. And so, Aesop's name that means collector or one who gathers, hallelujah. And so, the sonsets of God. As we look at Psalms 50 verses 1 through 6, we hear God summons to the whole earth to prepare for the great judgment to come. Amen. Here, as we look at them sunsets, the scriptures that we talk about all of the sunsets that are in the Bible that always say, man, from the rising of the sun to the setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. Amen. Just skipping around. Genesis 15-12, Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. And Genesis 15-17, It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch, which passed between these pieces, amen. I'm glad that it was God, amen, that tapped the thunder dogs. and made them bark made the thunder roll like a thousand chariot wheels rumbling on the distant battlefields amen god that tapped the little dipper of the seven stars lifted them up and uh uh into the mystic continent decorating the heavens praise god he shot the comets on the birthday of time that has been still shooting above our heads today It was God that made it all. When he made everything that has been made, there was nothing that big banged. There was nothing that just evolved. There was nothing that just happened. God created it all and God spoke it into existence. And so this world of ours is nothing but an autographed album that is a picture with a mountain ranges, vast oceans, trees, lakes, forests, mountain ranges, breaded hills, molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, with fields and starry skies that you can take a microscope and see worlds in a drop of water. Take a telescope and see lines of millions of miles away. Take a spectrograph and look at the golden in the sun, copper in the Mars, iron in the moons of Jupiter. All of it bears the signature of Almighty God. And like John said, everything that was made was made by Him, and without Him there was nothing that was made. And so God is when He's made everything that was made. when he shows that he is the God of all, just as how order is in this world right now. God brought it to where it is. It didn't just bang and it didn't just show up the way that it is. Amen. And so in Psalms 50, the mighty God, I'm glad that he's the mighty God. Even the Lord has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof." Boy, I'm glad every one of us, as we notice the names of God that Aesop introduced here as a supreme judge, the mighty God Elohim, a name that places a double emphasis on God's power and His authority, amen. El means strong, mighty, and powerful. Elohim is the all-powerful God. Lord, Yahweh, Jehovah, God's personal covenant name through which He reveals Himself, He relates to His people, praise God. And so, We get in verses 1 through 4 of Psalms 50, his warning that he gives to us as the sunsets of God. Jeremiah prays, she hath borne seven languages, she hath given up the ghost, her son is gone down while it was yet day. She hath been ashamed and confounded, and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord." In Jeremiah 15 verse 9, amen. God made order, and everything that is in order, that the way that he created, that the earth always moves around the sun, It makes her journey of 558 billion miles, traveling at a speed of 68,000 miles per hour. The earth is being warmed by a sun that's almost 100 million miles away. Wrapped around this earth of ours is a either a sub-zero degree still, our Earth swirls on its axis at 19 miles per second. God is a God of order. He's not a God of confusion, but He's a God of order. And for spring always follows winter, summer always follows spring, and fall and autumn always follows summer. The Earth always rotates every 24 hours. and the earth moves around the sun in a complete revolution every 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, every 8,760 hours, and every 525,600 minutes, because my God is a God of order. And so you still If you're not convinced that, listen, God is a God of order. He's the one that sets the sun because they're the sunsets of God. Amen. And so the first thing that we see out of Jeremiah is the sunset of waywardness. Every one of us. every one of us as we hang on the western wall of God's sky in one of the most beautiful miracles that's ever been, that God takes the air that we breathe along with the dust particles and a little vapor and puts it all together and he paints the most beautiful picture ever displayed as the sun goes down in the evening. The sunsets of God, hallelujah. And so, with that background, we look and we realize the different sunsets that are in scripture. The sunset of waywardness, amen. Sometimes Jeremiah was discouraged. He experienced periods of depression. And at times he was filled with feelings of desperation and even doom. But Jeremiah was transparent about all of these feelings. and the several chapters he exposed the dark depths of his soul where doubt and dread resided. Scholars sometimes refer to those personal speeches as the confessions of Jeremiah, but I'm glad that as we look at him We're no doubt, as we see one of the most powerful things in scripture, the sunset of waywardness, amen. As every one of us go through all of our days, that some of us have a waywardness about us, amen. There's some things that we can snap out of. There's some things that we can change, amen. But I'm going to tell you something, when we're dealing with sin that reigns free in our life, We can't yield to lust. We can't yield to anger. We can't yield to bitterness and hostility and jealousy and greed and laziness and all the other ugly sins. Boy, that we can, listen, there's some things that you can snap out of, but there's some things you got to repent of. And so the sunset of a wayward city, It spiritually pictures the child of God backsliding on the Lord, and Jeremiah gives us a vivid picture of a backslidden city, and her son went down in verse 9, desperate past blessings and glory, and her son went down while it was yet day. Here was a nation that God had continually blessed, but now their son had sinned. And so we see that sunset of a waywardness that is there. Every one of us, 12 of the Psalms in the book of Psalms are said to have been written by Aesop, Psalm 50 and Psalm 73 all the way to Psalms 83. Here, in Genesis, that the Bible says that he came a certain place, spent the night there because the sun had set, and he took one of the stones of the place, and he put it under his head, and he laid it down in that place. Here are more scriptures of the sunsets in the Bible, amen. Deuteronomy 24, 13, when the sun goes down, you shall surely return the pledge to him that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you, and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God. Out of Zion, we see the perfection of beauty, God. half shine in verse 2 hallelujah and so we see that as we read the warnings that he's telling to many across America here tonight but we got to be careful because as the sun sets of God tells us that God summons to the whole earth that we've got to prepare for a great judgment to come amen and so when we see the scriptures as Leviticus 22 7 but when the sun sets he will be clean, and afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts for it is food." Skip down to 1 Kings 22, 36. Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset saying, every man to his city and every man to his country. All of these are all the scriptures of sunset in the Bible that I'm sharing with you, praise God. As I talk about Psalms 50 and relay through three different sunsets that's in the Bible at the same time, praise God. Here is a place out of Hawaii, a sunset, amen. How beautiful it is as I got up and began to look out across Diamond Head and begin to see the sunset when I was over in Hawaii and begin to take in the beauty, not only the beauty of the island, but the creation of God himself of all the beauty that he's created. Aesop in his contemporary Christian worship influence goes much even today in the Bible as the Christians worship and praise today is influenced by Aesop's psalms and hymns have inspired a lot of modern worship songs and emphasis on God's sovereignty and faithfulness that speaks to the people today in America. Several Christian musicians and artists have put Aesop's Psalms to music. The Christian band Sela put out an album called Hiding Place in 2004. It has some of Aesop's Psalms set to modern music and the album was well liked by a lot of people and it sold well. And so in the third, Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. Boy, I'm glad that some folks in the children of Israel thought that if God didn't say something, that he approved of what they were doing, but he doesn't. A fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempest around about him. And so, here I'm glad that every one of us, when we begin to look at the scripture, how good God is that He will not keep silent with the sin that's in America today. The sunsets of God as He summons the whole earth to prepare for the great judgment to come. In the coming days, it's getting closer and closer. Nobody knows the day, the time, and the hour, not the angels in heaven, only our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But all the sunsets in the Bible again, all the way from Job 24-15, the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, no eye will see me. And he disguises his face. God sees every bit of it. God will bring judgment upon this nation and every single person in the world because judgment is coming before much longer. And everyone will give an account of what they've done in this body. And so, Jeremiah 6, 4, prepare war against her, arise, let her attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening lethal. Here, he says in verse 4, he shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his people. Remember, judgment is coming. And so, here's the warning out of these four verses that he gives us, amen. As the sun sets over Jerusalem, hallelujah, Esau began to give the worship of obedience to the nation and in the temple for King David and also for King Solomon in the time of the singing and leading the music of worship, hallelujah. And so, I'm glad we see the second sunset of the sunsets of God, the sunset of anger, amen. we begin to look and he tells us in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 26 be angry and say not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the devil in Psalms chapter 4 verses 26 and 27 amen boy i'm glad listen husband and wife should never ever go to bed angry. I'm glad the old great philosopher Phyllis Diller said, never go to bed, man. Stay up and fight. Well, actually, she was half right. You shouldn't go to bed mad. But on the other hand, you shouldn't stay up and fight. You should stay up and get right. and then go to bed. I'll tell you something about anger. Anger is a God-given emotion. It's like a fire, and when fire is used correctly, it can warm you. It can heat your home. It can cook your food. But if you leave it to itself, Everything in its path, like fire, anger, can be good or bad. It all depends on the situation. It's not always a sin to be angry, but if it was always a sin to be angry, then Jesus was a sinner because he got angry in three different places in the Bible, amen? In Mark chapter three, verses one through five, Jesus got angry because the Pharisees wanted to harm someone The Pharisees didn't care about anyone or about anybody's healing or withered hands, but Jesus did, amen. Also, in Mark chapter 10, verses 13 through 16, was a second place of anger for Jesus. In Mark chapter 11, verses 15 through 18, as we see that third place of all the things of the stories of Jesus' anger in the Bible, amen. Well, I thank God, the psalmist in Psalms 97-10 says, you who love the Lord hate evil. But I submit to you that we ought to be angry over all of the things that are horrible and evil in this world, amen. We ought to be angry over the sex-crazed profanity movies industry that's polluting the minds of our young and old alike. We ought to be angry over all the gutless politicians who do what is politically expedient instead of what is morally right. We ought to be angry over all the liquor industry that is killing more people, wrecking more homes, and ruining more lives than anything else in America. The great R.G. Lee said, how many degrees do you have? Dr. Lee said, it all depends on what I'm preaching about. If it's whiskey, it's 104 in the shade. Henry Ward Beecher said, a man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. And a man that does not know how to be shaken to his heart's core with indignation over things evil is either a fungus or a wicked man. And so if you feel that yourself getting angry, don't try to hide it. Don't try to excuse it. Confess it, amen. First of all, to the Lord, just admit it to him. Lord, I'm getting angry. Help me to make sure that I get this sunset of anger that's trying to set up in my life because of all your beauty, Lord, that we're reminded that there ain't many sunsets that we gonna see before these eyes close or before the church is raptured out. And so, Lord, we confess it, we confront it, and we confide it, praise God. Oh, well, Roger said one time, he who flees into a range never makes a good landing. And so have you ever noticed that a fire department never fights fire with fire? They fight fire with water. Amen. I tell you, every one of us, the greatest way to control your temple, the Bible says out of the wisdom of Proverbs chapter 15, verse one, a soft answer turns away wrath. but a harsh word stirs up anger and so every one of us as we look and realize that all of us can do a great blessing if we'll just turn everything over. Don't let the sun go down upon your wrath as Paul was urging believers to keep their anger under control to refuse to allow it to linger and to let it dominate their lives, amen. Boy, I thank God each and every one of us, Paul told the Christians that they ought to take a lesson from that. And so as we look and we begin to realize of the sunset of anger, he says in Psalms 50 verse 5, gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice, because it is by sacrifice that covenant was made, amen. His purpose to gather and to judge His people all who made a covenant promise with Him, hallelujah. And so, He tells us the third sunset, not only the sunset of waywardness out of Jeremiah 15, 9, the sunset of anger out of Ephesians 4, 26, but lastly and closing, the sunset of wonder in Matthew chapter 27, verse 45, amen. Here as this third sunset. The first sunset was a sunset of a wayward city from Jeremiah. The second sunset was a sunset of anger, but this third sunset of all sunsets is the sunset of wonder that he tells us in Matthew chapter 27 verse 45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land under the ninth hour and about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, That is to say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Because when that sunset of wonder, instead of letting the star of Jesus shine through you, let God draw in the light of the word. And I'm glad that every one of us, this reminds me every time that I see the sunset, I'm reminded of Calvary. and what took place on the sunset of wonder. When I look at it and I begin to realize that what God wants to do in all of our lives. Remember, Christ had been acquitted by the highest court of appeal, but he's still subjected to the cruelest of punishment. Amen. After pilots washing in his hands of the matter, Jesus was seized by a calloused Roman soldiers, led through the streets of Jerusalem, known today as the Villa Della Rosa, taken out of the Damascus gate to the public place of Roman execution. Amen. there beside the heavily-traveled road that headed north out of Jerusalem. In full view of all the city dwellers, as well as those who traveled down the highway from Damascus, the death squad, who were the pros of Roman crucifixion, rudely stripped Jesus, harshly pushed Christ's already-bloodied and torn body onto a rough and filthy wooden beam. Then those reused, filthy iron spikes were pounded through Christ's wrists and ankles as mankind murdered their Maker with carpenters' tools. After they cruelly pierced Him, they raised Him aloft and hung Him up to be seen by all. There Jesus was nailed to a tree. A tree that He had created became an instrument of horror and torture for the Creator. The soldiers wiped off their hands collected their tools, took their stations around the crosses to guard them until death came to those other condemned criminals that were around. But in the midst of all of that, there's a stir. The prisoner on the middle cross, held by spikes, crowned by thorns, covered by bleeding wounds, is about to speak to his cruel tormors. His lips began to move, and He spoke from the cross the words that hold and take heart to every one of us. He spoke in pain. He spoke to us, and He spoke exactly seven times from the cross. The first word He offers forgiveness out of Luke chapter 23, verse 34. The second word, He promises everlasting life out of Luke chapter 23, verse 43, as the sunset of wonder. Amen. The third word, He offers the compassion of John chapter 19, verse 26. The fourth word, He took our place according to Mark chapter 15, verses 33 and 34. The fifth word, he fills our weaknesses and our pain of the sunset of wonder of John chapter 19, verse 28. And the sixth word, he accomplished salvation for you and I on the sunset of wonder, I tell you, of John 19, verse 30. And lastly, that seventh word, he shows us how to die peacefully in Luke chapter 23, verse 49. Christ's last words assume that he has the power to get us safely home, to be with him forever and ever. Every time I look up and see the sun setting, I think of what He did of all of these things on the cross of Calvary, the sunset of wonder, hallelujah. And so He spoke of forgiveness so that we can know that we're forgiven. He spoke of assurance so that we can know that we're heaven bound. He spoke of compassion so that we can know that we're not going alone, amen. He spoke of substitution so that we can know that He took our place. He spoke of agony so that we can know that He felt our weakness and our pain. He spoke of triumph, hallelujah, so that we can know that our salvation is secured and finished, praise God. He spoke of confidence, amen, so that we can know that we're heaven-bound, praise God. And so, God appeals to every sinner tonight, just as He appealed to the false worshipers and the hypocrites of Israel. He offers every unbeliever the opportunity to repent and to be forgiven. The choice, however, belongs to us. And so, as we look and we begin to realize that everything that God wants to do, just as the Israelites has chosen whether or not to repent. Every person must choose whether to turn to Christ or to continue in their sin. And so, and the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge, himself, sealer. Hear the sunset of the wonder of the cross, that the cross stands for the love of God, the humility, the humiliation, the redemption, the healing, the foolishness of the devil, and the defeat of the devil. Praise God. so that we see the standard of judgment, the righteousness that He calls upon for us to have, that we truly grasp that what will occur at the judgment seat of Christ will walk in holiness, resist the temptation, obey in God's commands, give to the Lord first place in our lives above the temporary things of this world, offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to Him, pursuing and following His will rather than our own. Practice discipline and self-control so that we might be qualified to be used by the Lord, hallelujah. And patiently and faithfully endure trials, temptations, and tribulations as you look at all the references that I give for the sake of time that we bypass. Labor to bring others to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, hallelujah. And last but not least, we look for the return of Christ, 2 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 8. Oh, the sunsets of God, how beautiful they are. Here, as the writer of Psalms, he left behind a legacy that's inspired believers for hundreds of years. Aesop's focus on God's power and faithfulness still speaks to believers today. His Psalms have given comfort, hope, and inspiration to all the huge number of people as we think about Aesop's life and what he left behind. May we be moved to sing songs of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord that he served so well, praise God. Here, as we look and we begin to realize of all the scriptures that he talks to us about about judgment, But why doest thou judge thy brother? Or why doest thou set a knot at thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Powerful scripture. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Boy, I'm going to tell you, we see fixing our attention on the Lord Jesus caused the sunset of waywardness, the sunset of anger, the sunset of wonder that reminds me Jesus lives. As I said earlier, every time I look up and see that sunset, man, I know the tomb is empty. Death is defeated. The grave is open. God's in control. The devil is, the word, his word is true. The devil is destroyed. Death and the grave are powerless. And God won. Yes, I'll see Clinton Yarbrough again one of these days. Hallelujah. As individuals living on this side of the cross, we don't need to offer, we do not need to offer any sacrifices in order to be saved. That was the old law. But Christ is once and for all sacrificed on the cross, fully paid for our sins. Our part is to turn to Christ in repentance and faith, calling upon him for salvation. And when we genuinely believe in him, His sacrifice is applied or credited us washing away our sins and gifts. I'm out of time here. I'm glad that it is you who decides whether you will be forgiven or face God's wrath. It is you who decides whether you will spend eternity because God offers you the opportunity to repent and be saved. But the choice is really yours. Father, we thank you tonight as the sunsets of God touch this world as we send it out to someone, Father, that needs to make a choice soon before it's too late, as all of us are gonna stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account of all that we've done according to Psalms as we look at the sunsets of God in Jesus's marvelous mighty name. Amen.