The Lord on High is Mightier than the Noise of Many Waters

Yes, than the Mighty Waves of the Sea

Chapter 1

The title comes from Psalm 93, verse 4.

Here are Psalms 93 and 94 from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version--

___Psalm 93

1 The Lord rules, he is clothed with majesty, the Lord is clothed with strength, with which he has clothed himself, the world also is established, so that it can't be moved.

2 Your throne is established of old, you are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.

4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.

5 Your testimonies are very sure, holiness is appropriate for your house, O Lord, forever.

___Psalm 94

1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs, O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth, give a repayment to the proud.

3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? And all the doers of sin boast themselves?

5 They break your people in pieces, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

6 They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

7 Yet they say, "The Lord won't see, nor shall the God of Jacob regard it."

8 Understand, you brutish among the people, and you fools, when will you be wise?

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that chastises the heathen, shall he not correct? He that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom you punish, O Lord, and teach him out of your law,

13 So that you will give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit has been dug for the wicked.

14 For the Lord won't throw away his people, nor will he forsake his inheritance.

15 But justice shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the doers of sin?

17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost lived in silence.

18 When I said, "My foot is slipping," your mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts inside me your comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of sin have fellowship with you, that frames mischief by a law?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And he shall bring on them their own sin, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness, yes, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

Chapter 2

Did you read in the book of Acts about the shipwreck of the ship that the Apostle Paul was aboard, traveling to Rome?

The violence of the waves destroyed the ship. It was fortunate that there was an island nearby that they could swim to.

But the Lord is mightier than that.

It was in the news a while back about the Tsunami that shut down the Fukushima nuclear power generating facility in Japan.

But the Lord is mightier than a Tsunami.

It was the Lord that parted the waters of the Red Sea so that the Children of Israel could go through on dry land.

When the Egyptian chariots tried to follow, the Lord took off the chariot wheels, very much slowing them down.

Horses just can't pull you as fast after your chariot has lost its wheels.

More friction, you see. Friction is of special interest to Physicists and Engineers.

I remember from College Physics that there's something called the Coefficient of Friction.

The Coefficient of Friction will come into play if God takes off your chariot wheels.

Cars are like that, too. They go slower without wheels. Not just a little bit, but a lot slower.

I don't know how many of those Egyptian charioteers had studied Physics, but those who did, and those who didn't all had a much slower chariot ride after the loss of the wheels.

Then, to add insult to injury, the Lord closed the waters on top of the Egyptians, and they drowned.

Some battles were just not meant to be fought.

Pharaoh would have been better off to just keep his army at home that day, because the mighty Lord fights for Israel. But Pharaoh was rather a stubborn fellow.

After all those plagues God sent against Egypt? (One of which killed Pharaoh's firstborn child.)

And Pharaoh still hadn't learned not to go up against God? That's what you call a learning-impaired person.

Lord, please help us to be smarter than Pharaoh. Amen.

If you ever get into a battle where Israel is one of the contenders, try to make sure you're fighting on the same side as Israel, and not against Israel, because God fights for Israel, and it's just a very bad idea to have God as your enemy, as Pharaoh was shown again at the Red Sea.

Speaking of Physics, do you know who is the greatest Physicist? Was it Albert Einstein, who gave us the Theory of Relativity? No, it's the inventor of Physics, the Lord.

It was the Lord that gave so many military victories to Israel. “The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.” (Exo 15:3)

It was the Lord that helped David defeat the giant, Goliath, making David famous in Israel.

In Genesis chapter six, the Lord's anger with the people of Earth became so hot that he decided to just kill everyone except for Noah and family.

So God had Noah build an ark. Noah and family, and the animals got aboard, and God shut the door.

It started to rain. And it rained. And it rained.

It rained for forty days and forty nights.

The water covered the tallest mountains. Everyone died except those aboard the ark. It's good that Noah had sealed it inside and outside with pitch.

A leaky ark could have been a serious problem for mankind.

But if you say, “The Lord wouldn't have let anything bad happen,” I believe you're quite right.

So now, not only has everyone on earth descended from Adam and Eve, but more recently, we've all descended from Noah.

Here's some worship from Psalm 93:5, above--

“Your testimonies are very sure, holiness is appropriate for your house, O Lord, forever.”

From Psalm 94:1,2--

“O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs, O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself. Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth, give a repayment to the proud.”

Another scripture says, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay says the Lord.”

8 Understand, you brutish among the people, and you fools, when will you be wise?

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that chastises the heathen, shall he not correct? He that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

You can't hide anything from the Lord. The Lord knows our thoughts.

22 But the Lord is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And he shall bring on them their own sin, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness, yes, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

God is our defense.

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.