All Flesh Is Grass

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: straight: or, a straight place plain: or, a plain place And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! O Zion...: or, O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion O Jerusalem...: or, O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem - Isaiah 40:3-9

    The two-fold message of evangelism is "All flesh is grass!" and "Behold your God!" This is the message which strips man of all his glory, as Job was when he said, "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head" (Job 19:9).

    It is also the message which gives all the glory for all things to the One to whom all glory belongs; our Lord Jesus Christ! The results of preaching man's inability and God's sovereignty will be a sense of the awful presence of God breaking the proud hearts of guilty men and women and bringing them to the feet of Christ for mercy.

    Gone will be the voice of the proud sinner who stands in the church and debates whether or not he will patronize the Lord of Glory; whether or not he will accept Jesus; whether or not he will let God have his way; instead, we will hear men and women cry:

“Depths of mercy! Can there be
Mercy still reserved for me?
Can my God His wrath forbear,
Me, the chief of sinner’s spare?”