Ex 15:18, "The Lord shall reign forever and ever." 
	This morning, we will bring our study of this Song of Moses to a conclusion. As should be highly evident by this point, this song of praise unto God is filled with far more meaning and worship and adoration to God so as to be an anthem for all of eternity unto His awesome and saving power. All heaven and earth will join in the chorus unto the Lord God Almighty: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This last sentence of our consideration is the declaration that God will reign for the vast reaches of that eternal refrain. This is what we seek to highlight today. "The Lord shall reign forever and ever."
	The greatest manner of celebrating this proclamation and reality is to rejoice in the very words that God has given us. As we read them and hear the content and the proclamation in absolute and definitive certainty, let us fill our hearts with growing adoration for the everlasting and unending majesty declared in each passage. Let our hearts join in the building and magnificent crescendo of God’s glorious tribute. 
This rising chorus of adoration is encouraged in 1 Chron 16:35+36, where we read, Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather us and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, And glory in Thy praise." Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. Then all the people said, "Amen," and praised the Lord. 
The Psalmist fills his stanzas with this declaration of the eternal kingship of the Lord God as a means of eliciting the vocal recognition that the Lord, He is God and He is the King of all forever and forever. His kingship will outlast every earthly kingdom and nationality. Ps 10:16, The Lord is King forever and ever; Nations have perished from His land. 
	In Ps 29:9-11, the magnificence of Our God is emphasized. The voice of the Lord makes the deer to calve, And strips the forests bare, And in His temple everything says, "Glory!" The Lord sat as King at the flood; Yes, the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace. 
	Again, the fact that we are to bless the Lord forever because He is so awesome is detailed in Ps 41:13. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. 
As well, please rejoice in the fullness of the instructions given to us in Ps 145:10-13. All Thy works shall give thanks to Thee, O Lord, And Thy godly ones shall bless Thee. They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom, And talk of Thy power; To make known to the sons of men Thy mighty acts, And the glory of the majesty of Thy kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And Thy dominion endures throughout all generations. 
	And as our final example from the Psalms, please turn to Ps 146:5-10, if you would follow along in your Bibles. Ps 146:5-10, How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the Lord his God; Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous; The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow; But He thwarts the way of the wicked. The Lord will reign forever, Thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord! Amen!
	We are encouraged in our periods of trial and tribulation by the fact that Our God is the Eternal King Who cares for us at all times. This is declared by the Prophet Isaiah in Isa 57:15. For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite. 
	The Prophet Daniel was shown very much about the Kingdom of God that is from everlasting to everlasting. Here was a man who witnessed some of the greatest Kings of humanity, and they were seen as nothing in the scope of the reign of the Eternal Lord God Almighty!
Dan 2:44, "And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 
	Dan 4:2+3, "It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me. "How great are His signs, And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation. 
	In declaring the Kingship of the Messiah to come, Daniel related the following in Dan 7:14, "And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed. 
	He continues in verse 27, 'Then the sovereignty, the dominion, and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.' 
What Daniel saw of the Lord created in him a heart which not only reveled at the manifested Lordship of the Christ, but the fact that those who are His chosen people will, as well, enjoy and live from age to age in the splendor of the Lord’s majesty. All those who belong to Christ will know and experience the every glorious aspect of the Kingdom of God. 
	Let us now turn to the Lord’s Prayer, recorded in Matt 6:8-13, and read together what Jesus, Himself, stated concerning the Kingdom of God. Matt 6:8-13, "Therefore do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need, before you ask Him. "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 'Give us this day our daily bread. 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.]' 
	The fact is that all the declarations of the eternalness of the Kingdom of God are completely manifested in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, the Promised Messiah. Everything held within the Lord’s Prayer is in place in our lives because He indwells and lives forth from our hearts. 
	This is testified to by God, Our Heavenly Father, as recounted in Heb 1:8-12, reiterating the testimony of the Psalms. But of the Son He says, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom. "Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee With the oil of gladness above Thy companions." And, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of Thy hands; They will perish, but Thou remainest; And they all will become old as a garment, And as a mantle Thou wilt roll them up; As a garment they will also be changed. But Thou art the same, And Thy years will not come to an end." Amen!
	The Writer to the Hebrews again glories in the supreme eternalness of Our Lord in the great benediction of Heb 13:20+21, Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 
	The Apostle Peter echoes this eternal Lordship and glory of Jesus Christ as he joins the chorus to instruct us in our service unto each other and unto Our Lord and Savoir. Jesus will be glorified in the works of His saints on earth. 1 Peter 4:10+11, As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
	This theme is carried forward in the fact that even in our sufferings on this earth, the majesty and the power and the grace of God will be evidenced. 1 Peter 5:10+11, And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
	Jude commends us in the fact that God sustains our every step on this earth which should cause us to recognize and to rejoice in and to declare God’s eternal magnificence forever. Jude 24+25, Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.   
	The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is overflowing with the supremacy and the glory and the unending and limitless Lordship of Jesus Christ. He is the Lamb Who was slain and Who is now seated at the right Hand of the Father. He is reigning now and evermore! From the first verses onward His majesty and His splendor are proclaimed! 
	Rev 1:4-6, John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne; and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
	Please revel in the truths proclaimed for all in Rev 5:11-14, And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." And the four living creatures kept saying, "Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped. 
	Again, the joyous chorus of Rev 7:9-12, After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen." 
	All the heavenly hosts are joining the refrain declaring the fact that Jesus Christ is now reigning evermore as in Rev 11:15-17. And the seventh angel sounded; and there arose loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever." And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, "We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign. 
    	Again, this Song of Moses permeates the entirety of scripture as it will for all of the ages upon ages of ages in which the manifested salvation to the glory of God will be proclaimed with joyous and unending songs of homage and adulation. Rev 15:2-4, And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God. And they sang the song of Moses the bond-servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Thy ways, Thou King of the nations. "Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? For Thou alone art holy; For all the nations will come and worship before Thee, For Thy righteous acts have been revealed." Amen!
	I hope and pray that with each passage, as we read them together, there was a growing sense of awe and wonder and worship and adoration unto God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That we become increasingly filled with the absolute need to shout from the highest peaks in a building crescendo of praise the truth that God is worthy of all glory because that will be our eternal song now and evermore. So be it!
The Lord shall reign forever and ever." Amen. 

			

This morning’s benediction is Heb 12:28+29. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. Amen.