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Bible preaching from the pulpit of Choice Hills Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina
Alright, Psalm 46, what we're gonna do tonight is,
is we'll read the Psalm,
and we're gonna do something a little bit different
than probably what we normally do
in the Psalms that we've covered.
We're gonna spend a lot of time turning different verses.
I say a lot of time,
we're just gonna turn to different verses and say less,
but I wanna show you some things
because of the nature of this particular Psalm.
And so let's read it to begin.
Verse number one, the subtitle reads,
To the chief musician for the sons of Korah,
a song upon Alamoth.
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea,
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Say la.
There is a river,
the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high.
God is in the midst of her.
She shall not be moved.
God shall help her and that right early.
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved.
He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Say la.
Come, behold the works of the Lord.
What desolations he hath made in the earth.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth.
He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder.
He burneth the chariot in the fire.
Be still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the heathen.
I will be exalted in the earth.
The Lord of hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Would you pray with me tonight?
Our Lord, thank you for this Psalm.
The reminders, Lord, that we have here to be still
and know that you are God and to trust you
and to rely upon your great power.
And Lord, help us as we look through this Psalm,
especially this particular viewpoint of it.
We pray that you'd give us understanding and wisdom
and broaden our perspectives on your word
because Lord, we know that your word
has so many layers of truth
and we could spend all of our time
just digging through them and recognizing them.
And so Lord, help us tonight in our study.
We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
Now, as I said, we're gonna do something
a little bit different.
Normally when you come to this Psalm,
most often what you would do is you would look
at verse number one primarily
and you would look at verse number 10
because those are kind of the go-to verses
and they're good.
They're good verses for us to remember
to trust in God and not fret, right?
To be still.
And there are absolutely times
that we just need to stop trying to do things.
And as they say, let go and let God
and that has its limits.
But the idea being that there are absolutely times
when the Lord doesn't want us to do anything
but to trust him to do something, right?
And that's kind of what's being described here,
especially in, you'll know once we get through it,
you'll see the context especially is true
of that principle.
And then of course in verse one,
we see that God is our refuge and strength,
the very present help in trouble.
And the best example, recent example of that
is when Peter was sinking in the water.
Jesus was present, he was not only present,
he was very present.
And when trouble came and he started to sink,
the Lord Jesus was there to help him.
And you gotta remember that even in the midst of trouble,
that it's not a matter of timing.
Like you're in trouble and you're calling out to God,
there's not a time delay when the Lord sends help,
help's already on the way before you start asking.
And there's scripture for that in Daniel in particular.
Excuse me.
But that's not what I wanna look at tonight
because what those things are,
are actually applications of verse one and verse 10.
Those are actually applications.
Like we do with all scripture verses,
we look at it and to apply a verse means that we use it.
We use it in a practical way.
And so we take a verse, we take a truth
understood in this particular context
and we use it for ourselves to encourage ourselves
to understand some truth about the Lord
even though that's not directly what it's written about.
For instance, as an example,
you take something as simple as Noah's Ark.
The story of Noah's Ark was not about us,
it was about Noah, obviously.
But you take the truths in Noah's Ark,
they can be related to judgment,
they can be related to salvation,
they can be related to God's deliverance,
all kinds of different truths
and you can apply them to yourself.
That's the difference between interpreting the Bible,
knowing what its meaning, intended meaning is
from the author in its context and using it.
Because you can use the Bible in all kinds of ways
as long as you're faithful to the truth of scripture.
What we often do with this psalm though
is we use the application of it
and we never really understand the interpretation of it.
What I wanna look at tonight is the interpretation of it.
What I think this psalm means.
Now, as I was reading a commentary
that I sometimes read with the psalms,
what I noticed is there's a strong tendency
and a strong pull to just not mention,
not ask what is this talking about?
It talks about there is a river, what river?
What river are we talking about?
How many of you have read this psalm
and thought what river is this talking about?
Yeah, exactly.
I know when different times you read parts of the Bible
and you just kinda keep reading
because you don't even know where to begin to look.
It's just, you don't know what the interpretation
is exactly talking about.
So what do you do?
You get what you can and you just keep moving.
And that's okay, that's okay.
But I wanna look at the interpretation of it.
This psalm is divided into three parts.
Verses one to three, verses four to seven,
and verses eight to 11,
each of which ends with the pausing word, say la.
Verse one to three say this,
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Who is the speaker?
The our, God is our refuge and strength.
Now I know when you read it, right?
I know when you read it as a Christian,
and this is perfectly fine,
you read it and you see our and you think me, right?
And that's good.
That's a devotional view of the Bible.
And it's okay to do that so long as you don't go off,
you know, over the edge in some unscriptural thing,
which happens sometimes.
But the our in this case is not referring to me and you.
In context, it's referring to Israel, right?
Because first of all, it's because it's a psalm,
but there's several indicators through this.
He talks about the tabernacles, the Lord of hosts,
the God of Jacob indicating
that this is all talking about Israel.
All right, with that in mind, let's keep reading.
But what I'm trying to present to you
is I think this psalm is prophetic in nature.
I think it's prophetic.
Let's read verses one through three,
and I'll show you what I mean.
God is our refuge and strength,
the very presence of help and trouble.
Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed
and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea,
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Now those are quite the event.
Now we can look, I'll be honest with you,
we can look at verses two and three
and the mountains being removed
and the earth trembling and shaking
and the waters swelling and all of these things.
We can look at that and we can say,
devotionally as a Christian,
we can say, when there's trouble in my life.
Okay, and that's okay.
But it's also kind of weak if you consider what it's saying.
Because what it's saying is very, very much more significant
than we got a flat tire at work or on the way to work
or we have a financial need or we're sick
or something like that.
We're talking about the earth trembling,
waves of the ocean, right?
I mean, those are extreme examples,
but they're not examples, they're real things.
Turn if you would to Zechariah chapter 12
that we're gonna be going to the white pages now.
Zechariah chapter 12,
how many of you know what the white pages are?
That's the, not the phone book,
that's the pages of the Bible you never turn to.
Zechariah chapter 12 verse eight.
The first verse in Psalm 46 says,
"'God is our refuge and strength,
"'a very present help in trouble.'"
And then we see this earth being removed,
the mountains being carried in the midst of the sea.
What I believe this is referring to
is I think this is referring to the period of time
in Israel's history yet future
in which Israel will be in serious, serious trouble
and God will come to deliver them.
God will come to deliver them.
Zechariah chapter 12 describes it in this prophecy,
verse number eight, look at what it says
and we'll revert back to Zechariah and Daniel and Isaiah,
these prophetic books a few times.
Chapter 12 verse eight, the Bible says this,
"'In that day shall the Lord defend
"'the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
"'and he that is feeble among them at that day
"'shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God
"'as the angel of the Lord before them,
"'and it shall come to pass in that day
"'that I will seek to destroy all the nations
"'that come against Jerusalem.'"
Now understand, there's one time this has happened
in history since Zechariah was written
and that was the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
But God did not deliver them, no.
So this is referring to a future time
when Jerusalem and the people of Israel
will be surrounded by their enemies
and God will deliver them.
Keep reading verse 10.
"'And I will pour upon the house of David
"'and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
"'the spirit of grace and of supplications,
"'and they shall look upon me,' this is Jehovah,
"'whom they have pierced,' but that's Jesus,
"'so it's Jesus as Jehovah.'"
Right, you see that?
"'And they shall mourn for him,
"'as one mourneth for his only son
"'and shall be in bitterness for him
"'as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.'
In that day, well, let's just pause there.
So this is referring to a future day
when Israel will be surrounded by their enemies,
the Lord Jesus will appear because they look at him
whom they have pierced.
And that's actually cited in John 19
when Jesus was pierced on the cross,
John 19 37.
And so Israel in the moment of their distress
when they need a savior, he will appear,
Matthew 24 describes the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.
When he appears for all to see,
and Israel will see him and will look upon him
whom they have pierced and will mourn.
And at long last, Israel will finally understand
what they did to their savior and to their Messiah.
And all at once at that moment,
they will believe the one that they have rejected
for so long and all at once, he will save them.
The Lord is a very present help in trouble.
Look at Daniel 11,
Daniel 11,
verse 45.
The same truth is seen as well.
Daniel 11, 45 says this,
and he shall plant the tabernacles
of his palace between the seas
and the glorious holy mountain.
This is referring to the Antichrist.
I don't have time to go through all the details,
but it's a reference to the Antichrist.
Yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him.
And at that time shall Michael stand up,
the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people,
and there shall be a time of trouble.
Notice that the reference in Psalm 46,
very present help in trouble.
There shall be a time of trouble,
such as never was since there was a nation
even to that same time.
And at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book.
You see this?
God promises a great deliverance to Israel.
Just like the Psalm says,
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
The next couple of verses,
therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea,
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
This is a description of what we would call
tectonic activity, is basically what's being described here.
Look if you would at a few other verses.
Look at Isaiah chapter two,
Isaiah two.
Isaiah two, verse number 19.
Isaiah two, 19 says this.
Again, this is referring to the day of the Lord.
When, of course, in the New Testament,
we understand that's referring when Jesus returns
in power and great glory.
Verse number 19 says,
And they, that's the enemies of God,
shall go into the holes of the rocks
and into the caves of the earth
for fear of the Lord and for the glory of His majesty,
when He ariseth to the earth,
and ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Right, look at chapter 13.
Isaiah 13.
Isaiah 13, verse 13.
Therefore, I will shake the heavens, God says,
and the earth shall remove out of her place.
That's actually what the psalm says.
I'll peek at it again just to remind you.
It says, though the earth be removed.
Here it says, and the earth shall remove out of her place.
So it's talking about an earthquake.
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
and in the day of His fierce anger.
Look at Luke chapter 21.
Luke 21.
Luke 21 is also referring to the coming of Christ.
It says in verse number 25, Luke 21, 25.
And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon
and in the stars and upon the earth,
distress of nations with perplexity,
the sea and the waves roaring.
Men's heart, now let's just stop here a second
before we get to the next verse.
Right before the Lord returns
in this period of great tribulation
leading up to the advent of Christ,
you're talking about earthquakes that we hear about
where 5,000 die or 800 die, and that's terrible, of course.
But most of that happens
because people are in developing nations,
they don't have standards in the way they build buildings.
But when the Lord comes to shake the earth,
He says, He promises He's gonna shake
not only the earth but also the heavens.
That's what the Bible tells us.
And when He comes to do that,
when He comes to do that,
you're talking about fear to the point
that people die for fear, their hearts stop for fear.
That's what the next verse says.
Men's hearts failing them for fear
and for looking after those things
which are coming upon the earth.
Imagine if you saw events in the heavens
that have never happened before,
earthquakes that have never happened before.
You know what happens in Psalm 46,
it mentions the waves and the sea as well,
because what often comes along with earthquakes?
Tsunamis, waves, mass, mass destruction.
You know, most of the population of the earth
lives on the coast, you know that?
Most of the population of the earth lives next to water,
to the ocean.
And imagine the damage and destruction
before Christ comes when He unleashes
these kinds of earthquakes.
Verse number 27, then shall they see the Son of Man coming
in a cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up and lift up your heads
for your redemption draweth nigh.
Now if you would look at one more book,
look at Revelation chapter six,
Revelation chapter six.
Verse 12.
It says this, and I beheld when He had opened
the sixth seal and lo, there was a great earthquake
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair
and the moon became His blood.
And the stars of heaven fell into the earth
and even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs
when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll
when it is rolled together and every mountain,
look at what it says, every mountain
and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth, that's and the great men
and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men
and every bond man and every free man hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains
and said to the mountains and to the rocks fall on us
and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne
and from the wrath of the lamb for great is the day
when the day of His wrath is come
and who shall be able to stand.
The level of fear, I mean, I just, I can't even do it any,
not even a fraction of justice, the level of fear
that will take place and yet Israel says,
though all of those things happen, Psalm 46,
though the earth be removed and it will,
though the sea will roar and it will.
Men's hearts will fail them and it will,
but not for believing Israel.
They will be calm for their God
is a very present help in trouble.
Go back to the Psalm 46, look at verse number four.
If it's not clear yet, it'll get clear in just a minute
that this is referencing a future time with Israel.
Verse four, there is a river and the streams whereof
shall make glad the city of God the holy place
of the tabernacles of the most high.
There is no river in Jerusalem to speak of.
There never has been, but there is a river
in scripture prophesied, do you know that?
Related to Jerusalem, look if you would
at Zechariah chapter 14, I told you we're gonna be
going back and forth a little bit, Zechariah 14
and Ezekiel 47, we can go to both places.
Are y'all able to do two things at once?
Zechariah 14 and Ezekiel 47.
Zechariah 14, verse eight, and Ezekiel 47.
Zechariah 14, verse eight, the Bible says this,
and it shall be in that day, this is again,
talking about after the day of the Lord.
I don't have time to go into the context.
If you're interested, you can read the context and see.
Jesus' feet stand on the Mount of Olives
in his coming in verse four.
Verse eight, and it shall be in that day
that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem,
half of them toward the former sea
and half of them toward the hinders sea.
In summer and in winter shall it be,
and the Lord shall be king over all the earth.
In that day there shall be one Lord in his name one.
So you see these rivers coming out of Jerusalem.
This is not the only place that the Bible says it,
prophetically.
Ezekiel 37, look at verse one.
47 rather, Ezekiel 47, verse one.
Says this, afterward he brought me again
unto the door of the house.
Now let me pause for a second.
This section, this last section, say 10 chapters of Ezekiel,
there is great detail that is given about this temple.
There's dimensions, there's practices,
there's all these different features about this temple,
but this temple is not one that has ever existed.
The dimensions are not right.
It doesn't match Solomon's temple.
It doesn't match Herod's temple.
It doesn't match anything.
So this then must be future.
And when you keep reading you understand that it is.
Notice in this future temple,
this is the temple of the millennium.
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house
and behold, waters issued out
from under the threshold of the house eastward.
For the forefront of the house stood toward the east
and the waters came down from under the right side
of the house at the south side of the altar.
Then he brought me out of the way of the gate northward
and led me about the way unto,
without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward
and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
And when the man that had the line in his hand
went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits
and he brought me through the waters,
the waters were to the ankles.
Again he measured a thousand
and brought me through the waters,
the waters were to the knees.
Again he measured a thousand
and brought me through the waters,
brought me through the waters to the loins.
Afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river
that I could not pass over for the waters who were risen,
waters to swim in.
A river that could not be passed over.
And he said unto me, son of man hast thou seen this?
Verse 7, now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees
on one side and on the other.
And then said he unto me, these waters issue out toward the east country, and go down to
the desert, and go into the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the water shall
be healed.
This is a reference to the Dead Sea, to the east of Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the
river shall come, shall live.
And there shall be very great multitude of fishes, because these waters shall come thither,
for they shall be healed.
And everything shall live whither the river cometh.
And it shall come to pass that their fisher shall stand.
Let's just skip down to verse number 12.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side shall grow all
trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed.
It shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued
out of the sanctuary, and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for
medicine.
So when the Bible says in Psalm 46, let me get back there here, when the Bible says there
is a river, whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles
of the Most High?
I think it's referencing this prophetic river that's coming out.
Remember and in the big picture this song matches, because what have, in the first three
verses what have they been talking about?
Their deliverance after God judged the earth and came to rescue them from their enemies
who had surrounded them.
God did all these terrible things to judge the world for its iniquity.
That's what Isaiah says.
And then he rescues Israel, and now they're going into the kingdom in which the city of
God has a temple, and in the temple there's a river that issues out from the temple and
goes out toward the Dead Sea.
That has never happened.
This is all future.
This is all future.
Verse 5 says God is in the midst of her.
God is in the midst of her.
Look at Ezekiel 48.
I love Ezekiel 48.
At the very last verse of the book actually, the very last verse of the book you have ten
chapters of the description of this temple.
You have ten chapters of all these dimensions of the city, of the allotments of Israel,
all these different things.
And then you go to verse 35 of the last chapter it says this, it was round about 18,000 measures
and the name of the city from that day shall be the Lord is there.
You know what's different between Jerusalem now and Jerusalem then?
Is that God's not at Jerusalem now.
God's not there.
Because they don't believe.
He's definitely not in the Dome of the Rock, I can tell you that for sure.
But in that day He will be there.
He absolutely will be there.
Look at Jeremiah chapter 3.
Jeremiah chapter 3.
Jeremiah 3 verse number 16 says this,
And it shall come to pass when ye be multiplied and increased in the land in those days,
saith the Lord, they shall know more, they shall say no more the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, neither shall it come to mind, neither shall they remember it, neither shall
they visit it, neither shall that be done anymore.
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord.
To Jerusalem, I'm sorry, the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered
unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk anymore after the
imagination of their evil heart.
Jerusalem will be the throne of the Lord.
Now I know we could look at this and we could spiritualize it and we'd be okay.
Should the heart of the Christian be the throne of the Lord?
Well of course, of course, He's the King, He's our King.
But this is not just talking about spiritually in an allegorical sense.
This is talking in very literal sense that His throne will be there physically on earth.
This city of God.
And the Bible says in Psalm 46 that God is in the midst of her in a very real sense.
But then you get to verse number six, in Psalm 46 He says, the heathen raged, the kingdoms
were moved.
He uttered His voice, the earth melted, the heathen raged.
Another reference, future reference to the heathen who surround the Lord Jesus.
So here, let me kind of give you a picture, kind of make a composite of all the different
verses.
When the Lord Jesus comes, He'll come in the clouds, when He comes in power and great glory,
He'll be visible, every eye shall see Him.
The Jews will see Him whom they pierced.
There will be a sign of the Son of Man in heaven.
One day we'll have to study all this, but right now we just have to summarize it.
So He will appear for a period of time.
It won't just be a flash.
He will appear for a period of time and the earth will see Him and the heathen will rage
and they'll gather together in the valley of Megiddo, which is also called Armageddon,
that's where that comes from, to fight against the Lamb who is coming.
And that's what it's in verse 6, the heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved, He uttered
His voice and they're gone.
He destroys them in a moment by His power.
The Bible describes it as a sword that comes out of His mouth, just a word and they're
melted away.
And then we go to the last section here as we wrap it up, verse 8, come behold the works
of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth.
And actually in the millennium there's actually scripture, we won't go there, but there's
scripture that indicates that there will be memorials of destruction, of judgment that
will remain in the millennium.
There's verses that indicate that, but we'll have to look at that another day.
Verse 9, He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth.
He breaketh the bow and cut at the spear in thunder, He burneth the chariot in the fire.
What is a bow?
What is a spear?
What is a chariot?
They are weapons of war.
And the Bible says in this verse, in poetry it says God's going to break those, they will
not be any longer.
Look at Micah chapter 4, Micah, that's before Zechariah, but it's right after Jonah.
Micah chapter 4 verse 1, Micah 4 verse 1.
The Bible says this, but in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of
the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall
be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow into it.
And many nations shall come and say, come, let us go up to that mountain of the Lord
and to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways, and we will
walk in His paths.
For the law shall go forth of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and He shall
judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off.
Notice, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nations shall not lift up sword, a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
That certainly hasn't happened in history.
That certainly hasn't happened, but it will.
And that's what Psalm 46 says, the Lord will make wars cease unto the end of the earth.
There'll be no use for weapons of war anymore.
That's future.
Humanity has no hope of accomplishing that.
The only way that that's going to be accomplished is if an absolute dictator who is also absolutely
righteous comes to enforce His law.
And He's going to do that.
He's going to do that.
Are we in favor of absolute dictatorships?
Only one kind.
Only one kind.
Only one kind.
All right, the last thing I want to show you is verse 10.
Be still and know that I am God.
I love this.
I will be exalted among the heathen.
I will be exalted in the earth.
Look at two places and we'll be finished.
Zechariah chapter 9 and Isaiah 2.
Zechariah chapter 9.
I mean you can take that, that I will be exalted among the heathen.
I will be exalted in the earth.
And you can apply that to a number of things.
You send missionaries out into the field and they witness and people get saved in heathen,
right?
Exalt the Lord.
And that's true and that's good and there's a parallel there, but this is talking about
something even bigger than that.
This is talking about when all of the heathen exalt the Lord.
Everyone the whole world over.
I'm looking forward to that day.
I'm about sick of the junk that we have to deal with down here, aren't you?
In Zechariah 9 verse 10.
9 verse 10 is not what I was looking at.
Look at chapter 14 rather.
14 verse 9.
Some of these we read earlier, but verse 9 says this, and the Lord shall be king over
all the earth.
Now in one sense he is king over all the earth.
Would you agree?
In one sense he is, because he's the creator and he rules and if he decides to do something
nobody can stop him, right?
That's what sovereign means.
He's at the top.
But in one sense he's not in as much as he is not recognized to be so, right?
But in this, the interpretation of this verse is a reference to a period when he is not
only that but he is recognized to be that.
He will be king over all the earth.
In that day shall there be one Lord and his name one.
Look if you would at Isaiah chapter 2.
Isaiah 2.
Verse number 2.
And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall
be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all
nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, come ye, this sounds familiar, right?
And let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob.
We just read that a minute ago, didn't we?
Yeah we did.
Look at chapter 11.
This will be our final passage.
Chapter 11 verse 9.
There's so many references here, we're getting mixed up.
Chapter 11 verse 9.
Notice this.
Of course you have the famous passage of the wolf lying down with the lamb and the leopard
with the kid and the calf with the young lion.
In verse 6, verse 7, the cow and the bear shall feed.
And then we go to verse 9.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth, listen now, shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for an incense of the people.
To it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious.
His rest shall be glorious.
In Psalm 46, one of the last things the psalmist says is, he says, be still and know that I'm
God.
I will be exalted among the heathen.
I will be exalted in the earth.
And there will be a day when he is.
And all the world will recognize his place and will worship him and honor him.
Let's pray together.