Now this evening, we're gonna take a brief look at Isaiah 32. We're just gonna look at two verses. Isaiah 32, verse one and verse two.

Isaiah 32, behold, behold. Now notice how that's written. All capital letters, big. You can read it like almost like a stop. You remember on the railroad crossing, stop, look and listen. A train's coming, a freight train's coming. Behold, stop, look, and listen. That's God's stop sign. Behold, a king shall reign. Kings reign. This king, God's king, reigns in righteousness. And God's princes shall rule in judgment or justly.

And a man, this is no ordinary man. This is the same one that's described as a king who reigns in righteousness. This king is the man who's the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. A man shall be a hiding place from the wind. What a hiding place we have. Christ is our refuge, our refuge in the time of storm, a hiding place from the wind, and a covering, a cover, a covering from the tempest.

as rivers, rivers of water, rivers of water in a dry and thirsty land as a shadow, a shadow gives us protection from the heat, doesn't it? A shadow of a great rock, a great rock. You reckon who that rock is? That rock is Christ. And this is a weary land, this land It's not going to become a weary land, it is. This is a weary land. We are weary pilgrims. But our Lord said, if you're weary, laboring, heavy legged, what does he say? Come to me, I'll give you rest. I'll give you rest. And that's not a physical move, that's in our heart by faith we come to him, don't we?

So I'm entitling the message, Christ, our hiding place. A man shall be a hiding place. The God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, our hiding place. Now, how can a man be a hiding place? How can a man be a place of safety, a refuge from a storm? It's because of who this man is. It's because of who this man is. He's no ordinary man. He's not just merely a man. but rather the man who is God, God in the flesh, God who is a man.

This text is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ who is called the God-man mediator. Remember from 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 5, there's one God, one mediator between God and men that say man or mankind. God and men, that is the man, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's God and he's man in one blessed person. So much so God that he was not man, so much man as he was not God. The old timers called him the God-man mediator. I like that. He is our mediator. We need one who is God and one who can identify with us as the man. He's called the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. As a man, he was tempted and tested at all points like as we are yet without sin.

The Lord performed a lot of miracles for people, didn't he? He fed thousands. He raised the dead. He healed the cripple, gave sight to the blind. hearing ears, cast out demons. He did all these marvelous miracles. He never did one miracle for himself to relieve his sufferings. He was tempted and tested in all points like as we are. Had to be. Had to be to be our representative. Had to be to be our mediator. So this one that we're reading about here, who's the king and the man, he's the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only one from all eternity designed to be our hiding place in the storm of this life and from the storm of God's holy wrath. He's the only place we can hide with confidence and security is in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not that God's elect are free and exempt from troubles. A lot of folks in religion say, well, come forward and make your decision for Jesus and all your troubles are gone. You'll never have any more, it'll be all blue skies and green lights. You'll have the world by the tail on a downhill pull. That's not so.

You read through the scripture and you ever heard of a man named Job? Job suffered like no other man suffered other than the blessed God, man mediator. So it's not that the elect, that is believers are free and exempt from troubles. We all know about troubles, don't we? Sorrows, heartaches in this life. We've had plenty of them. And as we get older, they don't cease. They just keep on coming.

This text talks about Believers having much, much trouble. Much trouble. You remember reading from Job 14. And Job knew something about trouble, didn't he? All of his livestock and cattle, all of his wealth was taken away. He had ten children who died in a tornado at one time. And God sent him sickness. His skin was full of boils and sores. And his wife finally said to him, Job, why don't you just curse God and die? He certainly knew something about sorrow and heartache.

But God said, he's my man. He said, have you considered? He said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job? There's none like him. And yet he suffers. He suffers. He suffered so.

How about the Apostle Paul? Boy, God's special chosen servant to the Gentiles, an apostle, son of God, blessed of God. When he was preaching in Lystra, you remember what they did? They took up stones and stoned him to death, drug him out of the city as a dead man. And you know what he did? When God raised him up, he went right back into that city preaching the gospel again. And then he writes this in Acts 14, confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith that we must, through much tribulation, enter into the kingdom of God.

That list that Paul gives about all these different things that he went through, beaten with rods, stoned, shipwrecked, whipped, beaten, jailed, shackled, This is God's special servant. He certainly knew something about hardship and sorrow. Why just didn't the Lord give him just an easy road? That's just not the way it is. All the apostles suffered death, didn't they? They were murdered for the gospel sake. And John exiled to the Alcatraz Island of his day. And no doubt, he died.

But our Lord said this to his disciples on the eve of the cross. He said, these words have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace. In this world, you're going to have trouble. Trouble's coming, boys. Trouble's coming. But he said this, be of good cheer, I've overcome. The Lord Jesus Christ himself certainly suffered as a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief.

Our God is on the throne of absolute sovereignty and bring things to pass in the life of believers for our eternal good. All things happen in the life of God's children, not by chance. not by blind fate, not by lady luck or misfortune, but rather by the eternal purpose of God. He worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory both now and forever.

I have a preacher friend, many of you know, Scott Richardson. He's been gone and with the Lord for many years now. But he made this statement, I never forgot it. He said, if you knew everything that God knows, if you knew everything that God knows, you would not change one thing in your life. If you knew everything that he knows, he wouldn't change anything. You see, the Lord works on a on a planet of infinite wisdom and power and glory and majesty. We just don't see it. We don't see things the way he does. He sees things perfectly. And he's working everything in our lives.

You know, we read that scripture and often we quote it. And we know all things work together for good to them who love God, to them who are be called. according to his purpose. I quoted that scripture one time and left out the word thee. An old-timer said, you left out a very important word. I said, what did I leave out? He said, thee called. He said, you just said the call. Call. That's thee called. According to God's purpose.

Well, I learned a lesson. That elder taught me a lesson. Our king, verse one, Isaiah 32, behold a king, and we know it, the king, the king of kings and Lord of lords, as we read in Revelation 19, but a king shall reign in righteousness. Now jot this reference right next to that verse, Isaiah 52, verse seven.

Isaiah 52, verse seven, let's turn and read that. Isaiah 52, verse seven, this is quoted In Romans chapter 10, in Isaiah 52, 7, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that bringeth, that publish peace, that bring good tidings of good, that publish salvation, that saith unto Zion, what do they say? Thy God reigneth.

God reigns. He's sovereign. He sovereignly reigns. over all things. That means God is God. That means He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of this earth and no one can stay His hand or say unto Him, Lord God Almighty, what doest thou? You remember the scripture from, turn over to Isaiah 46.

Isaiah 46. Verse nine, we looked at this not too long ago, Isaiah 46, nine, talking about our King does reign in righteousness. Isaiah 46, now I remember the former things of old, for I am God, there is none else. I am God, there is none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient times to things that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand. I'll do all my pleasure. I'll do all my counsel, my decree shall stand. I'll do all my pleasure. Whatsoever the Lord please, that's what he does in heaven, earth, sea, and all deep places.

Calling a ravenous bird from the east, The man that executed my counsel from a far country, yea, I've spoken it. I will also bring it to pass. I purposed it. Maybe it'll come to pass. I will do it. I will do it. Our king does reign, doesn't he? He reigns righteously. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Whatever our God does is right. Whatever he does is right. He's too holy. He's too holy to do anything wrong. He's too wise to make any mistakes.

May God give us eyes to behold the King, the Lord Jesus Christ, as our King of kings and Lord of lords. You remember Psalm 2, God said, I've set my King upon my holy hill, Zion. May we be blessed to see the King in his beauty. For he is all, our king is altogether lovely to you who believe he is precious.

Pilate said to that vicious, thirsty, bloodthirsty crowd, when they were going about to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, you remember he brought the Lord forth and said, behold your king, behold your king. What did they say? Away with him! Crucify him! We have no king but Caesar! The same lost religious crowd in our day has the same opinion of the true Christ of God. When the true Christ of God is set forth in His glorious person, His deity, His effectual redeeming work, This lost religious crowd says the same thing. Away with him. We don't want anything to do with the lordship, the absolute sovereign lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When faced with the fact that Christ is king and salvation, that he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, or they say, well, that's not fair. That's not right. Well, who are you? Who are you to reply against God? When faced with the fact that Christ is king in salvation, or they say, we all have that man reign over us. When faced with the fact that Christ is king in providence, of him and through him and to him are all things, what is providence? Providence is what unfolds in time, but it unfolds in time because God has decreed all things from eternity. That's what providence is, it's the unfolding of God's decrees. And when faced with the absolute sovereign God in providence, they say, away with him. We'll not have this man reign over us. When faced with the fact that Christ is king in redemption, that he by himself put away our sin, not with a... blood of bulls and goats, but with his own precious blood. I got a letter from someone from Nigeria. You know, they're going through great persecution over there in Africa. And this person wrote this letter saying, is sin put away by baptism? Is sin put away by this? Is sin put away by that? And I wrote back, salvation is of the Lord. Man has no part in it.

There's thousands and thousands of people over there in Nigeria that's being killed because they dare to name the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't hear much about it. Really, when you think about it, it's nothing new. It's been going on for thousands of years. Our blessed Lord and Savior is known by many names, but He's King in redemption. He's King in providence. He's King in salvation.

Our blessed Lord and Savior is known by many names in Scripture. He's called the Lamb of God. Behold the Lamb of God that takes away our sin. He's called the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He's called the Good Shepherd, the Chief Shepherd, the Great Shepherd. He's called the Captain of our Salvation. But one of the best-descripted titles of the Lord Jesus Christ is that of King. He is the King.

Turn back to Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 6. Remember when Isaiah got the revelation from the Lord? In Isaiah chapter 6 verse 5, look at verse 5, Isaiah 6. We'll look at this in a few weeks. Then said I, woe is me, I'm undone because I'm a man of unclean lips. Oh, he sounds like Paul. Woe is me. Woe is me, I'm a wretched man. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. There's none righteous, no not one. For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. When he saw the Lord high and lifted up, he said, woe is me, I've seen the King, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

Our blessed Savior is known as the King of all the earth. In the book of Revelation, we just read in Revelation 19, He's the King, He's the King of kings, King of kings. We read in scripture in His birth, Remember, the wise men came and said, where is he that's born king? He was king when he got here. He was king when he got here. He's born king. In his life, when he came to Jerusalem, they said, Hosanna, blessed is the king of Israel. They recognized his kingship, didn't they? And then his death. In John 19, what did they write? What did Pilate have written? in the Latin, in the Hebrew, in the Greek, in those three known languages. What did he write over the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ? This is the king. Those old Pharisees got upset. Don't say that he is the king. Say that he said he was the king. Remember what Pilate said? What I've written, I have written. He is the king. God decreed that. It couldn't be changed. He came as king, he lived as king, and he died as king.

This king reigns, it says there, in righteousness. He reigns righteously. In Jeremiah 23, we read this, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. Capital B, branch. He's the true vine. And a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. He's the king who reigns. He reigns righteously.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the one who accomplished all salvation for us. And he did it in a righteous and just way, didn't he? You remember Isaiah 45? He said, look unto me. I am God, beside me there is no other. I'm the only just God and Savior. He said, now look to me and be saved. He saves sinners in such a way that he honors and magnifies his holy character, his holiness, and his mercy. Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other at the cross. All the attributes of God are magnified in the crucifixion of our blessed Savior.

The Lord Jesus Christ, who accomplished all our salvation, did so in a just and right way. Look at Isaiah 32, verse 17. Isaiah 32, 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, in sure dwelling and in a quiet resting place. The work of righteousness is peace. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, who made peace for us with his own blood. He's the only just God and Savior. He's the only one who's just and the justifier.

And then he says, furthermore, in that verse one, Isaiah 32, princes shall rule in judgment. He is the prince of the kings of the earth, Revelation 1.5. He's not only king of righteousness, he's prince of peace. Prince of peace. Turn back to Isaiah 9.6. You don't mind turning, do you? Isaiah 9.6. He's the prince of peace. Isaiah 9.6. For unto us, a child is born. But unto us a son is given. Now that's saying two different things. The child was born. Mary did have that special child conceived of God the Holy Spirit, but that son was given. He said, this is my only well-beloved, only begotten son. And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor of the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He's the Prince of Peace. He's the Prince of Peace. He made peace for us with His own blood.

Look at verse 2. Isaiah 32 verse 2. And a man shall be a hiding place from the wind. This is the same man who is the Prince of Peace. The same man who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. A man shall be a hiding place from the wind. Covering from the tempest. of rivers of water and dry, dry place as the shadow of a great rock. He's the rock of ages in this weary land, in this weary land. This is the one God that provides for his people. You remember his name is Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will provide. This is the one God that has provided for us our salvation, our shelter, and our security. He is the God-man, both eternal God and the real man, Christ Jesus. We take great comfort in his deity, don't we? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. We take great comfort in his deity. If he's not God, he could not save us from our sin. But equally true is his real humanity. Without controversy, greatness, and mystery of godliness, God was manifest in the flesh. He had to be both. God alone cannot suffer. Man alone cannot satisfy. But the God-man, Mediator, did both, didn't he? He suffered and satisfied.

Only as a man could he establish righteousness for us. That's what he was doing. in being obedient unto the law of God. He's working out a perfect righteousness, not for himself, but for his people. He said, I didn't come to destroy the law and the prophets, I came to honor the law and the prophets. And he did that for us. His obedience was unto death, putting away our sin. Only as a man could he suffer for our sins under the wrath of God and put them away. Only as a man could he be the mediator between God and men, Only as a man could he offer that one sacrifice, his blood. God bought the church with his own blood. Think about that. God bought us. He bought us with his own blood. He obtained for us eternal redemption with his own blood.

As a substitute who made, remember Brother Henry always told us, learn two words and learn the gospel. Remember, substitution, satisfaction. Our substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ, died in our room, in our stead, and he made complete satisfaction to God's holy law and justice for us. The substitutionary man is our hiding place. He took the storm of God's wrath for us. As the ever-living interceding God, man, mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ is our hiding place. He ever lived to intercede for us. As a conquering king, the God, man, mediator, Christ is our hiding place. He's the lion of the tribe of Judah that has prevailed for us. As the judging man, all judgments committed unto the son, he's our hiding place.

We're gonna read Sunday. In Romans chapter 8 verse 1, we're going to study, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now be sure you take refuge and shelter in the only refuge that God has provided, and that's Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is not only our hiding place and our refuge from the storm, but He's also a covering from the tempest. A covering from the tempest. You see that a man shall be a hiding place from the wind and he's a covering. He's a covering from the tempest. Now what kind of covering do we need?

When Adam sinned against God, turn to Isaiah 61. When Adam sinned against God, you remember what he did? He tried to cover his nakedness, didn't he? What did he use to cover his nakedness? He used stiglies. Now, fig leaves are not going to cover our guilty nakedness before God. Not going to do it. But we need a covering. A man shall be a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the tempest. What is the covering we need? Let's read

Isaiah 61 verse 10. Isaiah 61 verse 10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with a robe of righteousness as a bride decketh himself with ornaments, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with jewels. He's covered us with the garments of salvation, with a robe of his righteousness. Now, I'd say that's pretty good covering. Only that which God provides will God accept. No longer are we going about it, believers, establishing a righteousness of our own. We're resting in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is called the Lord, our righteousness. Before God, the Lord Jesus Christ is every believer's personal righteousness.

Blessed is a man whom the Lord imputes righteousness without works. How righteous does this sinner need to be to stand before God? Accepted as perfect as God. Oh man, how can that be? We're accepted in the Beloved.

Remember? And then it says, rivers of water in a dry place. You see that? Rivers of water in a dry... You ever seen those pictures of the desert land where the ground is just so parched and so dry that it's just broken open. It's just broken open and it just seems like it's crying for water, water, water. The Lord Jesus Christ sends the water in his due time. He sends rivers of water in a dry place. And this is talking about Sinners who are dried and broken and dead. Dead and trespassers and in sin. And what does he do? He sends a river of the water of life. And he says, live, live.

Like that vision of Ezekiel of that valley of dry bones. And the Lord said, live. He spoke the word and life happened. And that's what happens in salvation. God speaks a word of life. Rivers of life in a dry, dry and thirsty, thirsty land.

Turn over here to Isaiah 55. You remember this scripture? Isaiah 55. Isaiah 55, ho everyone that's thirsty. He's rivers of water. He told that woman at the well, you drink of that natural water, you're thirst again. You drink of that water that I give you, you'll never thirst, but will be in you a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Remember what she said, Lord, give me that water.

Isaiah 55. Isaiah 55 verse one, ho everyone that's thirsty. You thirsty? Drink of him. He's the water of life. For everyone that's thirsty, come ye to the water. He that hath no money, come ye buy and eat. Yea, come buy wine, milk, and without money and without price. You thirsty? Come to Christ. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ. This sinful drought can only be removed by the Lord.

You remember he said in John 7, it's recorded, in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, he said, come to me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture had said, out of his belly shall flow rivers, rivers of living water. Isn't that what that says there? As rivers of water in a dry, dry, thirsty place.

I find myself all day long doing this, drinking water. I have a dear friend who brings me water all the time. He never lets me run out of water. He always takes water and stacks it in my office, makes sure that I have plenty of water to drink. Water is necessary to life, is it not? And it's that special spring water. It's not this water that comes from the water company that's full of chemicals and full of... We made coffee the other morning from tap water, and I took one drink of it, and I told my wife, I said, something wrong with this coffee, and she got insulted. I said, by the come conclusion, I said, it's not the coffee, it's the water. It's the water. So I went in there and made some more coffee. I made some more coffee. And I got water out of the tap, made some more coffee, and it was just as bad as the first water. We normally run water through the filter and then make coffee.

But this water that the Lord Jesus Christ gives is thirst-quenching, satisfying water, the water of life.

And we can't get enough of it. We just drink him every day, enjoy him every day. He's the bread. He's the bread of life, and he's the water of life. A man shall be a hiding place from the wind, a covering from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place. And then he says, as a shadow of a great rock. You reckon who that great rock is? Now, you know who it is, don't you? Remember we studied in Isaiah 26, 4, he's called the Rock of Ages. The Rock of Ages. He's the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

You know, on a hot day, you don't normally set out in the sun, not normally. What do you look for? You look for shade, a shade tree or rock to get some relief. The Lord Jesus Christ is our relief. How do you spell relief? Christ is our relief. In many ways, this life can be considered a weary land. It's not going to be, it is a weary land. For we endure many heartaches, sickness, heartaches, troubles, sickness of body, troubles in our mind, and then when sin is finished with this body, This body's going back to the dust. It's headed there. It's headed there quickly. Back to the dust. The spirit returns to God who gave it.

For me to live is Christ, to die is gain. To die is gain. But in the midst of our weariness, the Lord Jesus Christ is our rest. He said, come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, learn of me, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. The yoke of the law will take you down to eternal condemnation. The yoke of mercy, the yoke of grace is easy. As they say, easy peasy. Salvation in Christ, he provides everything for us. Everything we need, he provides, doesn't he? In the midst of our trouble, Christ is our peace. In the midst of our sickness, Christ is our healer. He said those who are well don't need a physician. I came to call sinners unto repentance. In the midst of death, Christ is our resurrection. Christ alone is the foundation upon which we rest. Upon which we rest. Remember Isaiah 28. 28, 16. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I lay in Zion for foundation of stone, tried stone, precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make haste. Never be forced out. Never be forced out.

Now, is the Lord Jesus Christ to God, man, your only hope of salvation? Absolutely. Only a fool would say, no, I think I've got a better way. I think I know better than God. How foolish. Those who are taught of God look to the Lord Jesus Christ for all things in salvation. All things in salvation.