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Clay Curtis

The Covenant

Isaiah 42:5-8
Clay Curtis January, 28 2024 Video & Audio
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Isaiah Series 2023

The sermon by Clay Curtis centers on the theological doctrine of the covenant as it relates to the person and work of Jesus Christ, drawing primarily from Isaiah 42:5-8. The preacher argues that God's covenant with Jesus signifies not only the promises made to His Son but also extends to all believers who are united with Christ. He expounds on how the Father’s promises of righteousness, empowerment, and faithfulness to Jesus affirm God's commitment to His elect. Specific Scripture references, including Romans 3 and Hebrews 5, illustrate how Christ fulfills the law, serves as the High Priest, and offers justification to sinners. The sermon emphasizes the practical significance of understanding Christ as the covenant, highlighting that true salvation and righteousness are solely in Him and that no human effort can contribute to one's standing before God.

Key Quotes

“Christ is the covenant. Therefore, all God's promises to His people are yes in Christ and amen in Christ.”

“The problem with the Pharisees... was they were going about to establish their own righteousness.”

“God's covenant with Christ signifies not only the promises made to His Son but also extends to all believers...”

“In everything you've heard today, who got all the glory? Did man get any glory? Did I put anything in your hand to give you something to boast and brag about that you did? Who got it all? God got it all.”

Sermon Transcript

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Alright brethren, Isaiah 42. Let's read it one more time.
This is the Lord God speaking to our Lord Jesus Christ. Speaking
to His Son. He said, Thus saith God the Lord,
He that created the heavens and stretched them out, He that spread
forth the earth and that which cometh out of it, He that giveth
breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk
therein. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, speaking
to Christ, I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will
hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, for a light of the Gentiles, to open the blind
eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that
sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord, that is
my name, And my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise
to graven images." In those first few verses, God the Father commanded
us to behold Christ His servant. Now here, God the Father speaks
to Christ His Son, and He declares here what He will do for the
Lord Jesus Christ. We're getting, right here, we're
getting to go into into the throne room of God in eternity, before
the world was made, and hear God the Father make His covenant
with His Son. That's what we're getting to
do right here this morning. This is such a happy passage.
It's going to bless the hearts of His people. He said, verse
6, I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold
thy hand and will keep thee. You think God's promises are
sure? You think they're sure? That's what He promised His Son.
We see how the Father fulfilled this promise for His Son. We
see it. We see what He did for Christ
when He walked this earth. We see He fulfilled this promise.
Well, child of God, for you that He's called because we're one
with Christ and because everything that God has promised Christ,
He promises us. This Word is for you too. This
Word is God's covenant promise to you in Christ and by Christ. I the Lord have called thee in
righteousness and will hold thy hand and will keep thee. He's
sending us forth to preach the gospel and in that sense to be
a light. And He's telling us what He will
do for us as He sends us forth. And how He will bless the Word.
He's using us who He's called to preach the Gospel. And so
all the things that He promised Christ here, that He would do
for Christ, He promises He will do for us for Christ's sake.
So as we hear this promise, as you hear God the Father's promise
to His Son, you hear God the Father's promise to us. in His
Son and by His Son and for the sake of His Son. Now first of
all, who made the promise? Is He able to do what He promised? Well, who made the promise? The
way He declares His faithfulness to fulfill this covenant promise
is He declares who He is. He says, thus saith God the Lord,
He that created the heavens. He that stretched him out, he
that spread forth the earth and that which cometh of it, he that
giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that
walk therein. That ought to settle our hearts,
brethren. The one who is promised to save his people is our Creator. He's the one who gives. He speaks
of creation so easy. He just spread it out like you'd
spread out a blanket. He gives breath to all people
and the Spirit to all people that are on this earth and walk
about. There's not a second in our life
that we're not utterly dependent on God to give us breath. The Spirit we have. That's so
of regenerate and unregenerate. Believer and unbeliever. And
here's the sad thing. Men that are taking God's name
in vain, God gave them the breath to curse His name. So we see who made the promise.
He's able to fulfill all that He promised because He's God,
He's the Creator. Now brethren, being one with
God, being one with our Lord Jesus, And behold, in how faithful
God the Father is to Christ, and how faithful Christ is to
the Father, we have assurance that our God will save us according
to His covenant promise. We see His faithfulness. We look
to Christ to learn everything, and we see in what the Father
did for Christ, what Christ did for the Father. We see faithfulness,
so we know He'll be faithful to us. Now secondly, here's the
covenant. This is the promise. We're saved
by promise. Here's the covenant. That's what
a covenant is. It's a promise. And here it is. God our Father made covenant
to Christ. And Christ entered covenant with
the Father. The covenant's not in our hands. It's in Christ's
hands. And this was God's promise to
Christ. He said, verse 6, I the Lord have called thee in righteousness
and will hold thy hand and will keep thee. I, the Lord, have called thee
in righteousness and will hold thy hand and will keep thee. I've called thee in righteousness.
God called Christ in righteousness. He called Him to fulfill our
righteousness. That's why He sent Him forth.
I said to you in the first hour, this whole thing is about God's
righteousness. He called him to fulfill righteousness,
to manifest God's righteousness, how God can be just and the justifier
of the believer. And he called him to fulfill
our righteousness and he called him to be our righteousness. God called Christ in righteousness,
first of all, for God himself. It was first of all for God Himself
to fulfill the righteousness of God, to honor His law and
magnify His law. Before God could do something
for us, He had to do something for Himself. Before He could
save His people, He had to make certain His laws upheld and His
justices honored. And God called Christ in righteousness
for God's elect. He sent forth Christ to fulfill
our righteousness for God's elect. He sent him forth to be the righteousness
God's provided for His people. We couldn't provide a righteousness
by our obedience to the law. We died in Adam. We became guilty
in Adam. We couldn't provide a righteousness
under the law. That's the first covenant. And
Christ came to redeem us and lay down His life for the remission
of sins of that first covenant. And there it is. We sinned in
Adam. We became guilty. That's it for me and you. That's
the end of the story for us. He gave the law to shut our mouths
to show us. That's the end of it for us.
We can't justify ourselves. We cannot do it. Christ came
to save sinners. Are you a sinner? He came to
seek and to save the lost. Are you a lost sinner? Most people
aren't lost. Most people aren't sinners. Most
people aren't qualified for Christ to save them. They're too righteous.
You've got to be lost before you can be found. You've got
to be a sinner to be saved by Christ. He said, I didn't come
to call the righteous. I came to call sinners to repent.
There's none righteous, no not one. Isn't that clear? There's
none righteous, no not one. There is not one man on this
earth that could obey God in the righteousness God demands.
The whole book declares Christ is the righteousness of God.
He's the righteousness of His people. That's what this whole
book declares. Romans 3 said, now the righteousness
of God is manifest without the law and the prophets, without
you keeping the law. Now the righteousness of God
is manifest without the law, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. It's what the law and the prophets
said all along. Even the righteousness of God,
which is by the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
that righteousness is given unto and is upon all them that believe. And it has to be this way. We
all have to be saved by Christ's righteousness. For all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. Does that fit? Does that describe you? Do you
need Christ to be your righteousness? The Lord declared He's the righteousness
of His people. He's the righteousness of God.
Is He your righteousness? Here's another question. Is He
your only righteousness? We can't be looking to Christ
for part of our righteousness, but then at the same time thinking
we're doing something to make ourselves righteous. Christ has
to be our only righteousness before God. The problem with
the Pharisees, Paul said, was they were going about to establish
their own righteousness. And they had not submitted themselves
to the righteousness of God, for Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believes. He's the terminating
point. He's the end point for which
God gave the law to bring His people to Christ. To be made
righteous in Christ. To be saved by Christ. To be
presented to God righteous by the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
Turn over to Hebrews chapter 5. He said, I've called you in
righteousness. I want you to see this now. The
Son of God came into this world and He filled the office of high
priest. That's what we're talking about
here. He filled this office of high priest and He came willingly. It came willingly. But listen,
no man can take this office. He has to be called by God to
this office. And that's what God's declaring.
I called him in righteousness. He is the right one to trust
because God said, I called you and it was righteous for me to
call him and trust him to do this work. And he's righteously
declaring to us that he's the high priest because God called
him. It's right. Everything about this is right.
Look here, Hebrews 5, verse 1. For every high priest taken from
among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, that's
his first job, and who can have compassion on the ignorant and
on them that are out of the way, for that he himself also is compassed
with infirmity, with weakness. He can, he walks where they walk,
he knows what they suffered, so he can have compassion on
them. And by reason hereof he ought as for the people, so also
for himself to offer for sins. And no man taketh this honor
unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not
himself to be made a high priest, but he that said to him, thou
art my son, today have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another
place, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Dear saints, I want you to hear this, and sinners sitting here,
and sinful saints sitting here, believing sinners, hear this. Christ is our One High Priest. He's the One High Priest. Christ
offered to God perfect obedience for the sins of His people. He pleased God without any sin
of His own. He bore the sins, He bore the
curse, He made satisfaction. So He represents us to God. He's the representative of His
people to God. Are you one of His people? Do
you believe Him? Do you trust Him? Do you think
He can represent you to God better than you can? That's really what
faith is, is saying, He can represent me to God. I can't do it. Well, here is another thing.
In everything you suffer, in every trouble you are in, go
to this one high priest. He has been tempted in all points
like his people yet without sin. He knows the weakness of our
flesh, the infirmity of our flesh. He knows what it is. He alone,
He alone, nobody else but Christ our High Priest is able to succor
His people, comfort you, and strengthen you in spirit, and
keep you trusting Him. Go to Him. Go to Him. Believe
on Christ and in every need, go to Christ our High Priest.
Pour out your heart to Him alone. He alone is able to save to the
uttermost. You know why? He has an unchangeable
priesthood. He ever lives to make intercession
for his people. Now look what else the Lord said
to him. Isaiah 42 verse 6. I, the Lord, will hold thy hand
and will keep thee. I will hold thy hand and keep
thee. That might seem strange when you consider that the Lord
Jesus Christ is God. I mean, He He created water, turned water
into wine. He took a few fish and some loaves
and fed a multitude, created something that wasn't there.
He spoke and made the wind and the waves be still. He's God. But as the servant, Rather than
God looking to any of His people, Christ represented all His people
as the perfect believer in God. When He walked this earth, He's
the one perfect believer in God. That's what the Lord Jesus did
in His perfect faith. That's the faith by which His
people are made righteous. That's the faith by which we're
saved. Look over Galatians 2.16. In case somebody don't know this,
I want you to see this again. This is the righteous, this is
the faith by which we're saved. Our faith is very weak and our
faith is sometimes it's almost practically non-existent. We're
just full of unbelief. But we're saved by the faith
of Christ. He's going to keep faith in your
heart, but it's not our faith that's saving us. The faith He
gives you, trust His faithfulness. We trust Him, and He's going
to be the one to save us. Look here now, Galatians 2.16,
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but
by the faith of Christ. That word of means His work,
His faithfulness. Even we have believed in Jesus
Christ, that's your faith. that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ. That's His. And not by the works
of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified. Now go to Psalm 89, and this right here is going
to bless your heart right here. God said, I'll hold your hand
in righteousness. And that's what the Lord did
for His Son. Psalm 89, 19. Now this is God's promise to
David, but listen, if you read Acts 2, this is what Peter declared
at Pentecost, David is a picture of Christ. The true David is
Christ. Everything the Lord promised
David right here is God's promise to Christ. This is just a fuller,
more detailed record of the covenant that the Father made to the Lord
Jesus. That's what this is. And listen
now, because you who believe, you're Christ's seed. You're
His. And because this is the promise
God made to Christ, this is the promise God has made to you in
Christ. Alright? Now remember that when
we read this. Psalm 89, 19. Then thou spakest
in vision to thy holy one, speaking to Christ, the true David. He
said, I've laid help upon one that's mighty. I've exalted one
chosen out of the people. I have found David my servant.
With my holy oil I have anointed him by the Spirit, with whom
my hand shall be established. Mine arm also shall strengthen
him. My hand shall be established
by him, and my arm shall also strengthen him. The enemy shall
not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And
I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that
hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy
shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. His strength is what the horn
means. And I will set his hand also
in the sea and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto
me that, and when he says I'll set his hand in the sea and his
right hand in the rivers, that means I'm gonna give him all
power over all. He shall cry unto me, Thou art
my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. He'll be faithful
to me, God said. Also I will make him my firstborn,
higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for
him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also, now here he's
talking about his elect, you that he's brought to faith. His
seed also will I make to endure forever. and His throne as the
days of heaven. If His children forsake my law
and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes and
keep not my commandments, then I will visit their transgression
with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. That's what you
and me have all done. And that's what God did at the
cross. He visited our iniquity with
the rod and with stripes, but He visited it on Christ in our
room instead, and with His stripes we are healed. And so listen,
nevertheless, verse 33, My loving kindness will I not utterly take
from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not
break, nor alter the thing that's gone out of my lips. Once I have
sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David, his seed
shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful
witness in heaven. Now you stop and think about
that. That's what Selah is. Stop and think on that. When
Peter was preaching on the day of Pentecost, he said, now brethren,
you consider David, his sepulcher is with us today, he's dead,
his body's in the grave. He said, that spoke of another
one greater than David. And he said, this same Jesus,
who you crucified, slew on a tree, God's raised up and made him
both Lord and Christ. He's the true David. And all,
listen now, That's God's covenant to the true King David, right
there, that we just read. That's His covenant. And that's
God's covenant to you who trust Christ to save you because Christ
is the covenant. That's the next thing we see
in our text. Go back there. This is why God sent Christ and
what He sent Him to be for His people, verse 6. He said the
next place, and I will give thee for a covenant of the people
for a light of the Gentiles. Men want to debate, I've heard
men debate the covenant theology. And oh boy, they just try to
show out how brilliant they are over somebody else and splice
and dice covenant doctrine and try to tell you how many covenants
there are and this and that and the other. Listen to the Word
of God. Christ is the Covenant. Christ
is the Covenant. Doesn't that simplify it? God
just simplifies it for us, doesn't He? Christ is the Covenant. We
just heard God the Father's Covenant to Christ His Son. We just heard
everything He promised Him. The promises of God to His people
are only in Christ. The promises of God to His people
are fulfilled by Christ. The covenant by which we're saved
is fulfilled by Christ. He's the covenant. Therefore,
all God's promises to His people are yes in Christ and amen in
Christ. 2 Corinthians 1. I want you to
read it. 2 Corinthians 1. And look at verse 19. The Son of God, Christ Jesus,
Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and
Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, it wasn't maybe,
but in Him was yes. For all the promises of God in
Him are yes and in Him amen unto the glory of God by us. You know
the false Jesus that men preach? He's a maybe Jesus. He's a maybe
Jesus. He may save, He may not. You
know why? Because He don't want to offend
anybody and so He leaves part of the work in your hand. And
that makes Him a maybe Jesus. They say He loves everybody and
wants to save everybody, but then when He puts you in hell,
He hates you. That makes Him changeable. That
means He's not immutable. He's a maybe Jesus. But the true
Lord Jesus He's a definite, sure, certain Savior of His people. He's the covenant. He's the covenant. Listen to this. The true Lord
Jesus, all the promises of God in Him are yes and in Him, Amen,
and to the glory of God. Look back at verse 4. Look at
Isaiah 42, 4. He shall not fail, God said. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged
till He hath set judgment in the earth, and the Gentiles shall
wait for His law. In His name the Gentiles shall
trust. That's what it means. That's
what Matthew 12, 21 says when it quotes that. He shall not
fail. He'll set judgment in the earth
and He'll set discernment in the heart of His people. Listen
to Isaiah 49.8. Thus saith the Lord, I will give
thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth, to cause
to inherit the desolate heritages. Listen to Luke 1.72. He was sent
to perform, to finish, to accomplish the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant, to fulfill everything God promised
the fathers. Romans 15.8 says Christ came
to confirm the promises made to the fathers. Establish them. Hebrews 9, 15. For this cause,
He's the mediator of the New Testament. For this cause, He's
the mediator of this new covenant, this new promise God's made.
New in the sense that it's ever new from eternity. Listen to
this. for this cause, that by means
of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under that first covenant. In other words, to redeem us
from the curse Adam brought us under. so that they which are
called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. That's
why God put it in His hand, that through death He might make the
promise sure. Listen to this. I love this right
here from Romans 4.16. In fact, go look at it. Romans
4.16. I love this. Why are we saved
through faith? Why is it that God gives you
faith to trust Christ rather than that we're saved through
the law? Why is the promise through faith? Here's why. Romans 4,
look at verse 16. Salvation is a faith that it
might be by grace to this end so that the promise might be
sure. to all the seed, so the promise
might be sure to all God's children, and not to that only which is
of the law, but that which also is of the faith of Abraham, who
is the father of us all." Abraham didn't have the law. He didn't
have the Ten Commandments. That didn't have anything to
do with how he was saved. How was he saved? God gave him
faith to trust Christ the covenant to fulfill everything for him. The covenant's the law. You know,
when God gave it, that's the old covenant, that's the law.
We broke every law in that old covenant. Christ kept every law
in that old covenant, fulfilled every law in that old covenant,
then paid our sin debt for not keeping any of them. So that
now before God, we are righteous before God. That's so of all
those that He came to save. And He gives you faith to believe
Him. And so therefore, the promise
of salvation is absolutely sure. If it was just, if it was through
the law, one, we couldn't keep the law. But if it was just through
the law, is there anybody sitting here today that is a natural
Jew? Anybody here? If there's anybody sitting here
that is a Gentile, which I think every one of us are, none of
us would be saved because God didn't give us the law. He gave
the law to Israel. He didn't give it to us. But
you see, we're of that same faith as Abraham. Before God gave the
law, He saved Abraham to show us He doesn't save by the law.
He saves by Christ who is the righteousness of the law for
His people. And that's how we're saved. So therefore, the promise,
the covenant is sure not only to His elect among the Jews,
but His elect among the Gentiles too. You get that? Oh man, that's
good. That's a blessed scripture right
there. That makes it so we can say what
David said. In 2 Samuel 23, 5, David said,
He made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things
in sure, and this is all my salvation and all my desire. Ordered in
all things in sure by Christ. That's all my salvation. That's
all my salvation. Alright, what about faith? Let's
go back now. What about faith? How are we
going to be brought to believe Christ and to keep believing
Him? We see here that this thing is all by God's covenant. Christ
is that covenant. He fulfilled everything for His
people. Let me say this before I leave
that point. If you really want to just boil it right down, this
is what He said. You had 600 plus laws under that
old covenant. That was the old one. God said
if you want to be saved by law, you got to do all those commandments,
every one of them with no sin. The new covenant, the everlasting
covenant is this, Christ Jesus. He's the righteousness that that
whole law was declared. All that big long list of laws
was declaring, here's the righteousness right here. And that's when it
says the law bears witness, that's what the law does. It points
to Christ and says, there I am. There's my righteousness right
there, Christ Jesus. And here's how God saves when
he brings you under this new covenant. Here's the law of this
new covenant. This is why his yoke's easy and
his burden is light. Believe on Him. Believe on Him. Trust Him to do it all. And you're
righteous. He imputes His righteousness
to you and says, everything that law demands, you've done it perfectly. That's a light yoke, isn't it? But we got to be given that faith
and made to believe him. And we got to be kept believing
him because if left to ourselves, not only will we not believe
him in the beginning, we won't keep believing him. We keep wanting
to go back and bring that law back in for some reason. We're
insane by nature. We keep wanting to bring that
law back in. So how are we going to be given faith and kept in
faith? Here it is. God the Father said to Christ,
verse Isaiah 42, 7, I've given you to open the blind eyes, to
bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit
in darkness out of the prison house. Oh, this is such a good
analogy. Being blind and being prisoners
bound in a prison house is such a good analogy of you and me
as we come into this world. That's what we are. We're blind,
we can't see, we can't believe, and we're bound in prison, shackled
in the prison house, in complete and total darkness. That's what
we are. Self-made religion, it's nothing for a man to take on
religion. Self-made religionists are like these prisoners you
see in documentaries sometimes. You watch a documentary and you
have these prisoners who sometimes are lifers and they've worked
out some crooked deal with the warden. So he gives them extra
stuff and they've worked out deals with the gangs so they're
protected. And you see their cell and their
cell is just all decorated and they've got more amenities than
other people have, you know. And they get all kinds of extra
perks and all that. Now, that's a self-made religious
man. He's made his crooked deal with
his warden, the devil. And the devil wants you to be
religious. He wants you to think that you're
contributing to your salvation because he got you lock, stock,
and barrel if you believe that. And he wants you to believe that.
And so a man's cleaned up his life, he's got religion, and
he's united with all the gangs of religious organizations in
this world called churches. They're all in agreement. all
protect one another. And all the while, think of how
foolish you would be for this prisoner that has all this stuff.
He can get up and do whatever he wants to do in his jail cell.
For him to be boasting that I'm free? He's in the prison house. Well, a self-made religious man,
he may look good, he may have all this, his jail cell may be
fixed up fine and look really good. He's still in prison. He's
still bound. And he's blind and can't see
it. Well, Christ has to do something
for us. And this prison is such a good
illustration of what Christ has to do to save us. Because two
things had to be done to set us free from the prison. We got
to be justified before the law and then we got to be brought
out of the prison house. That's sanctification. We got
to be justified and we got to be sanctified. Well, here we
are. We're like Barabbas. We're bound
in the prison. We're in darkness. We've got
shackles on. And we hear the shouting. He
heard, Barabbas, Barabbas, Barabbas. He didn't hear them say, which
one of these men do you want us to release, the Lord Jesus
or Barabbas? And they said, Barabbas, Barabbas,
Barabbas. They wanted to release Barabbas.
Barabbas didn't hear that. All he heard was Barabbas, Barabbas,
Barabbas. And then they said, and what
do we do with this man Jesus? all Barabbas heard was crucify
him, crucify him, crucify him. Barabbas, Barabbas, Barabbas,
crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. That's what we started hearing
by God's grace. And we think we're dead. We're
going to die. And this is what God gave Christ
to do. The Lord Jesus comes to us through the preaching of this
Gospel. And there we are in our jail
cells, shackled in the back of our cell in the darkness. And the Lord Jesus Christ comes
through this Gospel. And He says to you personally. He comes to his jail and He says,
I've loved you from eternity. I've loved you with an everlasting
love, and I enter covenant to save you." One of the shackles falls off. He says, and I came into this
world, and I lived the life you couldn't live in perfect righteousness,
and I died a death you couldn't die, and I justified you. And I've gone to the judge and
I have presented myself and he has declared, you are innocent
and no charge can be laid against you. Your record is clean, past,
present, future and will never be anything but clean. Shackle
falls off. And he says to you, now I've
come to sanctify you, make you holy in your heart, to see this,
and know this, and believe me, and follow me. Now follow me."
And all your shackles fall off, and that prison door is wide
open, and Christ, and you believe Him, and you start following
Him. That's because Christ justified
us on the cross, made us not guilty, then He came to us in
the prison and set us free in sanctification. That's what God
said He sent Him to do. God said to Christ, that thou
mayest say to the prisoners, go forth, and to them that are
in darkness, show yourselves. That's the first time when He
came to you in the darkness of your prison cell and you're hidden
there in darkness. First time He said, show yourself. That's the first time you did
truth. Christ said doing truth is coming to the light and confessing
that all your works were worked by Christ. That's doing truth. Men won't do that because they
don't want to confess that all those works that they're calling
righteousness are evil. But He brings you to believe
Him. And why does He do all this? He's going to keep you following
Him. He's going to keep you trusting Him. He's going to keep you walking
after Him because we keep wanting to go back to the jail cell.
He's going to keep revealing this to you. You're here today
because He's freeing you again. He's going to keep you following
Him. And why does He do all this? Why did He trust in all of Christ?
Verse 8, he said, I'm the Lord, that's my name, and my glory
will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Now let me ask you one question.
In everything you've heard today, who got all the glory? Did man get any glory? Did I
put anything in your hand to give you something to boast and
brag about that you did? Who got it all? God got it all. That's what God's people want.
And we're offended when we hear a message that gives the sinner
something to boast and brag about. We want Christ to have all the
glory. Do you want Christ to have all
the glory or do you want some of it? If you want some of it,
you're still in prison. You're still bound. God said,
I will get all the glory. He said, I will not share the
praises due to me. I will not share the glory due
to my name. That's why He chose His Son.
That's why His Son is the Covenant. Christ is the Covenant. Trust
Him. Trust Him. You'll be saved. You'll
be saved. Trust Him. I pray today He's
delivering you from those shackles and setting you free. And if
you're His and you've been bound because of some trouble in your
life, I pray He's setting you free again. He just keeps doing
it. Amen. Alright, Brother Greg.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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