A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation, they will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has done this.  

Psalm 22:30-31 

‘Salvation is of the LORD.’ Jonah said it. The rest of the Scripture demonstrates it. We are not our own saviors. Another human cannot save us. No one else but God can save us. He does save us according to His Own explanation. Paul explains it concisely when he says, ‘For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.’ Thus we see that salvation is, from start to finish, the work of God. As our text puts it, ‘He has done this.’ The whole of the psalm has described the intense sufferings of Christ. We have beheld Him hanging on the cross and heard the agonized cries from His lips. We have seen His humiliation and heard from Him how He felt as He suffered. He has related to us in graphic terms what excruciating pain He has endured to purchase our redemption. We read this psalm with the increasing knowledge that God has done the most extensive, intensive, superlative work to redeem us from sin, death, and hell. Therefore we say, ‘To God be the glory, great things He has done.’ We want no credit for any part of salvation. He has done all the work and deserves all the glory. From now through eternity our song shall be, ‘Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see.’ 

Our Glorious Saving God, 
we rejoice in Your grand redemption. 
We praise You that You deserve the glory for it, 
from beginning to end. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation, they will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has done this.  

Psalm 22:30-31 

God has ordained the means for preaching Christ. Throughout history He has given His message to His people. They have pointed to Christ from ancient days. Peter said, ‘to Him give all the prophets witness.’ When the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples on the Day of Pentecost He kindled a fire in them to empower them to turn the world upside down by preaching Christ. Paul determined to place all his emphasis on preaching Christ and Him crucified. These people and all who have followed in their train have declare God’s righteousness by pointing people to Christ. As the Scripture declares, ‘great was the company of those who published it.’ In every generation God has put the message of Christ into the mouths of those who are not ashamed to confess Him before all. In formal and informal contexts they make much of Christ. They will declare Christ in the assembly of the church and in the marketplace. They may be common laboring folk, middle-class entrepreneurs, preachers, teachers, male or female. Aside from anything else they do, they consistently declare His righteousness by making much of Christ. This is a high privilege and a holy calling.  

High King of Heaven, 
we rejoice that we have the privilege to proclaim You to all the world. 
We praise You that this message will continue, 
over the whole earth, until Your return. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the LORDS’s, and He rules over the nations. 

Psalm 22:27-28 

The message of Christ shall go to the ends of the earth. Christ gave the Great Commission to the disciples, telling them to take the gospel message everywhere. He said the end of the world would not come before the gospel message went out over the whole of it, ‘and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.’ According to our text, the effect will be widespread conversion. We see just how successful the gospel will be when we look at who are saved and from whence they come. ‘After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.’ Christ saves many. He said as much when He instituted the communion feast. He said He was shedding His blood ‘for many.’ We have a glimpse into the scope of His redemptive plan. He knows the whole of it and speaks of many people being saved. Therefore we have confidence in preaching Christ. He has guaranteed the success of the gospel. As our text puts it, ‘all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD.’ It is encouraging to know that Christ will perform all He has promised by gathering all His sheep into His fold that there may be one flock and One Shepherd. We call upon you who hear this message to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.  

Our Glorious, Saving God, 
we rejoice that You have planned a great redemption. 
We praise You that You will complete it by redeeming many. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, and fear Him, all you offspring of Israel! For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from Him; but when He cried to Him, He heard. 

Psalm 22:23-24 

God hears Christ. The first half of the psalm from which our text derives details for us the depths of the sufferings of Christ on the cross. They serve to give us a clear picture of all He was willing to endure to purchase our redemption. The turning point of the psalm comes at verses 19 through 21, where He sets His prayer before God, His Father. From verse 22 onward the tone of the psalm changes to one of rising victory. Our text declares the success of Christ’s prayer. Whereas the beginning of the psalm articulated the estrangement between Christ and His Father, while Christ was made to be sin for us Who knew no sin, our text shows the beginnings of the joy that was set before Christ at the completion of His suffering. Christ prevailed in every way. He cried ‘It is finished’ when He gave up the ghost in death. He continued under the power of death for a time. God raised Him from the dead as proof He accepted His sacrifice for sins. He heard Him. Christ now lives to make intercession for His redeemed. He sits at the right hand of His Father holding up, by His presence, the great objective plea of His blood. He is the foundation of our acceptance with God. Because God accepts Christ, He accepts all who are in Christ. He receives the Head and receives the Body with Him. Jesus never fails.  

Great God of Wonders, 
we rejoice that You are the Holy Trinity. 
We praise You that You work together 
to complete our redemption. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning