Welcome to the Word of the Lord Endures Forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

It has never sufficed to know God's precepts, his commandments, the promises of his word and such.

They are to be kept and kept diligently. He wants us not merely to recite, honor your father and such, they are to be kept and kept diligently.

He wants us not merely to recite, honor your father and mother, but much rather that we do so,

and in the assurance that this is his will for us.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church, past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the Book of Psalms, 107 through 150.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God. Well, our previous study wrapped up Psalm 118. It seemed to carry us to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday as the command rang out to open up the gates, but we thought

also of how Jesus enter Jerusalem to be the gate through which we may come home to

the Heavenly Father. And only those who enter by Him are righteous or justified. The psalmist then

thanked the Lord for answering his cry and becoming his salvation. How did he become our salvation?

By being the stone that the builders rejected.

Jesus was explicit in identifying himself that way, and the Apostle stressed it too.

The crazy thing is that when the builders rejected Jesus as the

chief cornerstone, when they turned him over to be crucified by the Romans, that was all the Lord's

doing. And it was a marvel to behold. He took the most evil thing that could be conceived,

you know, killing the creator of all,

and turned it into the act by which he saved the entire world.

So we are called to rejoice on Good Friday.

And on Good Friday's vindication at Easter, we're summoned to be glad in the great deliverance Jesus affected.

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