There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the

journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture. Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given

through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Thank you. prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I want you to open. I want you to open your Bible with me very quickly this morning again to the Psalms,

and I want you to find Psalm 93.

Now, yesterday we were in Psalm 23.

We're learning something each morning about God and how to know God better.

Yesterday we learned that he's our shepherd. I like that.

But today we learned that he is our king. He's not only our shepherd, he's our king. In fact,

those two themes seem to be woven through all of the Psalms. I was sitting here last night thinking about it.

This is really interesting.

Who was David?

David was a shepherd king, and the Psalms revealed to us our God as our shepherd king.

And when the Lord Jesus comes, he says, I am the good shepherd, and they called him the king of the Jews.

When you come to know God, you come to know him in his humility, in his tenderness, in his love, in his guidance, as shepherd, and then you come to know him in his sovereignty and his power and his glory and his majesty and his might as the king.

And I have to tell you that knowing God as the king makes a world of difference with the crazy

world we're living in right now. Because it's really easy to get your eyes on earthly leaders

and think, man, what are they going to do next? I don't know what they're going to do next,

but I know this. God is where he has always been. He's seated on the throne of the universe

at this moment, and he's going to be there a million years from this moment as well. Because God is

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