Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayerful attention to Isaiah chapter 62 and reading
from our text, verse 11. Thy salvation cometh. The text reads, Behold, the Lord
hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter
of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh, Behold, his reward is
with him, and his work before him. Isaiah 62 and verse 11 three
times in this verse we have the word behold to look carefully
to take note of what is set before us in this verse very very important
verse very important message a message about a message and
may we be clear of what is being set before us here. Salvation,
what is that? Salvation is deliverance from
sin and its consequences. You read in the Garden of Eden,
in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. the consequences
of sin, sin entered into the world and death by sin. And so the salvation of God must
address sin. It must address death, the consequences
of sin. It must overcome that for those
for whom that salvation is to be effectual. and is to be of
any benefit at all. It must have a triumph over the
grave. We think of what is a proclamation,
a clear declaration of something, but even more than that, a public
or official proclamation of something of great importance and dealing
with very urgent matters. That is a proclamation, that
is what we have here, proclaimed unto the end of the world, Behold
thy salvation cometh. Well, I want to look this evening
at four points. The first one is who hath proclaimed. Our text is very clear. The Lord,
Jehovah, hath proclaimed. Secondly, the time of the proclamation's
authority, which in our text says unto the end of the world. And then thirdly, to whom the
proclamation is made, say ye, to the daughter of Zion. That's who the proclamation is
made to. And then lastly, the proclamation
itself. What is said of that? And there
are three things that are set forth about the proclamation,
Thy salvation cometh, His reward is with Him, His work before
Him. So I want to look at this word
firstly, at who hath proclaimed. It is vital for us to have with
any important proclamation, any declaration, that it has the
authority of heaven, that it has the authority of the One
that first passed sentence upon fallen man. If it does not have
that, then it is of no use whatsoever. If we had the courts of this
land decree that a person spend some time in jail and then someone
quite independent of that court decided that they would get that
person out unless it had the authority of that first court,
unless that first court recognized what was done to release that
person further further transgression, further offences would be committed
and the person wouldn't truly be freed at all. And so it is
vital that we are very clear as to who hath proclaimed. Now, a text says that it is the
Lord, Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In a way, we have
three beholds in this verse, and often through Scripture we
have a reminder of a triune God, thrice holy God, a God that will
set before us again and again, in the way of the Trinity, the
same truths. And may we always realize this,
when the word here is the Lord Jehovah, that means this proclamation
has the same agreement, same authority, of the Father, of
the Son, of the Holy Ghost. All three are a complete one
with this proclamation. When our Lord was upon earth,
the scribes and the Pharisees, they said to Him, Who gave Thee
this authority, and by what authority doest Thou these things? The Lord didn't answer them directly. The Lord asked them, questions. He asked them concerning John,
John the Baptist. Was his message from heaven? Was John from heaven or of man? And the scribes and the Pharisees,
they realized that they were in a difficult position. If they
said it was from heaven, then the Lord would turn and say to
them, then why did not you believe Him, hear Him? If they said not,
then they feared the people, because the people all took Him
as a prophet. So they said, we cannot answer.
So the Lord said, neither indeed do I tell you by what authority
I do these things, but we know Our Lord said that the Father
which sent me, He gave me what to speak and what to say. The
miracles that I do, they testify of Him, for He doeth them. They bear witness of me. The
Lord Jesus Christ truly has the authority that the Father gave
Him. It hath pleased the Father that
in Him should all fullness dwell. And He was given the Spirit without
measure to be upon Him. When He rose from the dead, we
read in Scripture, the Father that raiseth the dead. We read
our Lord saying, I have power to lay my life down, I have power
to take it again. This commandment have I received
of my Father. And we read of the Holy Spirit
that quickeneth the dead, a triune God. Now, I want to look further
from that to consider who hath proclaimed it, but he uses means. We don't often see it today but
sometimes you might have a town crier and he comes and he makes
a proclamation on the town hall steps or something like that.
Well, he's not making that of his own making. He's not the author of it at
all. There is someone else who has
given the authority and he is only the messenger. He is only
the one proclaiming it. But He has been given that authority
to do it. The Lord said of His servants,
Whoso receiveth you receiveth Me, he that receiveth Me receiveth
the Father that sent Me. They are linked together, and
it is very important for us to realise that. The Word that is
proclaimed and the authority then must come to the Word of
God. There is no authority on earth
and no authority given to any minister, to any person, to speak
anything in the name of Jehovah apart from what is written in
this book. The Word of God is the only authority
and only one that we can quote, we can speak authoritatively. A minister once was asked, what
authority do you have over your congregation? He said, none.
He said, I only have the authority that is in the Word of God. That is all. I must speak according to the
Word. Our commission is, Preach the
Word. And the Word of God is set before
us as the inspired and infallible Word of God. Holy men of old
spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. Every Word of God
is pure, and we must not add or subtract from it. And it's
very important to realize that. There's been some very sad occasions
in the Church of God, where the Lord's servants have spoken the
Word of the Lord, and those that have heard it, they have attacked
the messenger, they've derided them. Throughout the Word of
God, we have those of the prophets that were put to death for the
Word that they speak, and they feared for their lives, men thinking
that they can destroy the message by destroying the messenger,
you cannot. But the saddest thing is when
there are those even in our churches, when a minister may reprove or
may direct in what is the right way to walk, and the answer is,
I would rather obey God than men. the idea that God could
give them some extra revelation and tell them something extra
that is over and above what the minister brings from the word
of God what they say the Lord has given them cannot be tested
or overthrown by the word of God because they say they've
had it direct from heaven and so we must be very clear who
hath proclaimed It must be the authority of the Word of God,
the Word of a triune God. And it is proclaimed through,
in the Old Testament, the prophets, those that spoke in the name
of the Lord. And in the New Testament, the
ministers of the Gospel go into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised
shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned. the Lord hath proclaimed. May we view afresh the authority
of the Word of God and the proclamation of an urgent, pressing message,
a message that must not be ignored, must not be undermined but be
heard as it deserves to be heard, as from the true and living God,
and as concerning our souls and our eternal destiny. There is
no other important message than this. We might hear many things,
young people might at work or at school and studies, and none
of them can be of the same importance as what is to be proclaimed here. The second point that I desire
to bring before you is this, the time of the Proclamation
Authority. You know, we can have things
that we read on the internet, or read in the books, or decrees
that have been made, laws that have been made, and they only
bear authority for a certain time then they are either overridden
or it is just for a certain time and after that time it lapses
and whereas when it was first given then there was authority
and it applied but later on a few years later or so then it didn't
apply so It is important for us to think of this message proclaimed
unto the end of the world. Now let us think a little bit
about what is still applicable. We have the whole Word of God
from Genesis through to Revelation. But in that account, we have
the account of the history of the children of Israel, and the
children of Israel were given laws that were their national
laws as to how they should conduct themselves as a nation. Those laws only apply for a certain
time, and they applied to that nation. Then we have the ceremonial
law that was given to the children of Israel through the wilderness,
journey, and then observed in the promised land, and that was
the gospel in their day. In the sacrifices, the types,
and the shadows, those things are done away in Christ. So that part of the message as
to how they should sacrifice, where they should sacrifice,
that has now ceased. What about the moral law? The moral law still stands. Heaven and earth shall pass away,
my word shall not pass away I came not to destroy the law, but to
fulfil. For all that are outside of Christ,
the law has one purpose, that all the world might be brought
in guilty before God. The Apostle Paul says the law
was a schoolmaster unto Christ. So what he means is that through
the knowledge of the law is the knowledge of sin, the knowledge
of our need of salvation, the knowledge of our condemnation. But after that Christ has come,
we are not under the law, but we are under grace. And that
is specifically seen in the beautiful time of Melchizedek, our great
high priest, a change of high priesthood, not the Levitical,
but after the order of Melchizedek, means there must be a change
of law as well. So, yes, in our congregations
we preach the law of God. All that are outside of Christ,
all that are not believers, are under that law, under its curse,
under its sentence, and shall be punished in the least transgression
of it. The law is not made for a righteous
man, but for sinners and transgressors, those that are under grace. It should be the principle of
love and willingness to walk in all that is set forth in that
law, but not slavishly, but because it is the revealed will of God
as the way that we are to walk to please Him. We do not do it
to earn heaven, but we do it out of gratitude and out of love
and a fruit of the work God has wrought in us. So when we think
of when it is to be proclaimed, You might say, well, you said
the law to Israel passes away, and the ceremonial law passes
away, and the mosaic law as well in Christ, but what is this proclamation
unto the end of the world? Well, it all centers in Christ,
right from the very First promise of the seed of the woman that
should bruise the serpent's head through all of these types, all
of these shadows, is Christ. And it's Him that is lifted up
and it is He that is preached. And yes, the coming of our Lord
is foretold and proclaimed throughout the Scripture, but I believe
especially the context here is the proclamation in the Gospel
in what is achieved and what is done in the coming of the
Lord. We think of verse 6, I have set
watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their
peace, day nor night, he that make mention of the Lord keep
not silence. And the main aim, now that Christ
has come, died, risen again, is the proclamation of this Gospel
under the commission that the Lord Himself has proclaimed. And He said that, Lo, I am with
you all way, even unto the end of the world. And it's good for
us to remember that this message of the Gospel is never to wear
out while the earth remains. We have the rainbow while the
earth remains summer winter colder heat the lord's promise of a
harvest and we told concerning the end of the world like as
it was in noah's day men bought they sold they married they gave
in marriage until the flood came and took took them all away so
shall it be in the end of the world and the lord shall again
come in a sudden way. And the message here, while there
is life, there is hope. While the earth remains, while
the Lord has his servants, there is hope. Dear friends, may you
remember that. If the Satan ever tempting any
of you is past you by, you are not the Lord's. The day of salvation
is past. There is no blessing. There's
no hope for you. No, the message is still to be
proclaimed unto the end of the world. And it's good for us in
the ministry, it's good for us when we see our chapels, the
attendance is low and we think of today and just do not want
the things of God. Yes, there are many worldly churches,
there are some full good churches, but for the most part, the Church
of God has brought the world in. And it's propped up what
seems to be the church with the world. And the proclamation has
been watered down. If the work of God does not make
us strangers and pilgrims in the earth, then we have no witness,
as in Hebrews 11, that we are saying plainly we seek a city
yet to come. The Lord has said, This is not
your rest. it is polluted. And yet in this
world, in this world of sin, in this world when Satan attacks,
in this world when we have infirmities and weaknesses and we are not
what we would be and we groan under a body of death, this message
still is to be proclaimed with the authority of heaven and with
the hope that where it is proclaimed, the Lord will bless it, He will
own it, and that people shall receive the benefit and blessing
of it. Well, on to come to our third
point, to whom the proclamation is made. Our text says, Say ye
to the daughter of Zion. Now you might say, well, didn't
the Lord say to go and preach the Gospel to every creature? Yes, He did. And we must be very
clear on that. When we preach the Gospel, we
do not preach to the elect. We do not have to know whether
one is elect to set the Gospel before that. We preach it indiscriminately
to any, to everyone. Many have heard it when they've
been enemies to God, very physically outwardly, drunkards, full of
all manner of evil. And people of God would say,
oh, no hope for that person. They can't be saved. But the
John Newtons, and the Poles and the Philippine jailers, they
all will say, yes, there is hope. And so we proclaim it indiscriminately
to all. But what do we proclaim? Do we
say God loves everybody? Do we offer the gospel to everybody? No. We proclaim the Gospel, that
is what preaching is, the authoritative declaration of the good news
of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, which we'll come
to in a moment. But what is very clear, and is
clear by when the Lord told the parables, and He told the parables
in the hearing of all, thousands were around Him, and then He
finished them with this word, He that hath an ear, let him
hear. Afterwards his disciples came
and asked him the meaning of those parables. They asked him, why do you speak
in parables? He says, because hearing they
shall not hear, seeing they shall not see. It is given, given by God. That's why we read at the end
of the seven letters to the churches in Asia, He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. If a
message is going to get through, it not only needs a proclaimer,
it needs a hearer. And It is the Lord that opens the
ear, that gives spiritual life, that causes that Word to be heard. And so, I want to put it the
other way round. How do we know the daughters
of Zion, or the Church of God, the young converts of the Church
of God, the people of God, how do we know them? Because the
Word is proclaimed to them and they hear it. He that hath an
ear, let him hear. If the Lord has given you and
given me a hearing ear, He is saying to us, you are a daughter
of Zion. You are those that this message
was intended for. And that's a great thing to realize
that. We can speak things to people,
and they might not realize the import of what we're saying.
The proclamation here is important, is an urgent, is a vital matter
of our souls in eternity. But unless the Lord quickens
us, we just say, well, that was interesting, or you can believe
what you like, and I'll believe what I like, and Many times I
speak to someone about these things and some will say, stop,
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to know it. I'd
rather be ignorant. And others that contradict or
undermine, deride the message. Never overlook what we have here. Say ye to the daughter of Zion. not that we are choosing out. In one sense it is so, because
if we look at the New Testament, the letters to the churches,
those letters are to believers, they are to churches. And where
we preach, where we proclaim, is in that sense. But for every
individual hearer that hears, that has that spiritual ear given,
we may know that that word is proclaimed. But if your heart is burned as
the two on the way to Emmaus did, and if it's just what you
want, and if it is good news to you, a lot of people won't
see it as good news. They see it as bad news, because
if one is truly saved, then it means repentance. And it means
following. And they don't want to change.
And they don't want to repent. And they don't want to follow.
They have an aim to live, but they don't want new lives, a
new creature in Christ? No. But if we are willing, and
if we are hearing what the Gospel sets before us, then we may know
that we are of the daughters of Zion. A hearing ear has been
given. 4 Say ye to the daughter of Zion,
How thankful we should be that the ministers of the gospel are
not to make up what they say, They are given what they are
to say, and specifically in this verse. And the first thing is,
Behold, thy salvation cometh. Now, let's think of this in two
ways. When the first promises of the
Lord Jesus Christ were given, the seed of the woman, This is
the message especially concerning His birth, His coming, that which
we remember at this time of the year. The Church of God must
have thought over all of those 4,000 years, was He really coming? You think how many times through
that period this message Thy salvation cometh, of course,
Isaiah 750 years before our Lord. Beautiful prophecies, aren't
they? You think of Isaiah 7. And the Lord, speaking to Ahaz,
asked their sign of the Lord thy God. Ask it either in the
depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask,
neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said, Hear ye now, O house
of David, is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will
ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord Himself shall
give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Blessed thing,
how fully brought to pass in the Lord Jesus Christ, being
born of Mary, overshadowed by the Holy Ghost, that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. I know, says Job, that my Redeemer
liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.'
He knew that. By faith he knew it. Solomon. Will God in very deed dwell upon
the earth? In the Lord Jesus Christ we view
God in very deed dwelling upon the earth. He says the heaven
of heaven cannot contain thee how much less this house that
I have built it. When the second house was built
and those that saw it they mourned because it did not look anything
like the grandeur of the first one. So the prophets come and
they say the glory of this latter house shall be greater than the
former. Why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself should walk in it. He should come. He should speak
in it. That's why. Veiled in flesh,
the Godhead see. And this is the message then,
that the Church had through all those years, He will come, the
promise will be fulfilled. And we can look back in these
Gospel days, we have this privilege to look back at all what happened
that seemed to threaten it, seemed to make it, those that were walking
in those days must have thought it would never happen. And yet
there were all those, as recorded in Hebrews 11, the cloud of witnesses
that died in faith that He would come, that He did come. And in
the Gospel day we know He did come, how He came, what He did,
how He accomplished salvation, we know that. Now I want to look
at this from another side. In the Day of Grace, speaking
to a soul that is concerned for their soul, those that feel their
sinnership, feel their need of a Saviour, that still feel under
condemnation. Remember the word in Romans 8
verse 1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus. But those that are not, those
that are not yet, those that do not yet know that, there is
that condemnation. And we need to be set free. If
the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. And what a message, what a gospel
message to be told to a poor sinner in need, that thy salvation
cometh. A set time to favour Zion is
yet to come. They that wait for the Lord!
How many promises there are in the Word to encourage to wait
upon the Lord! Not in a careless, prayerless,
fatalistic way. If you and I are truly convicted
of our and truly feel our need of the Saviour, it will be a
hard thing to wait. But what a promise is this, that
He that should come will come. And what a reminder of the Old
Testament saints waiting. What about the years that we
had no concern at all? And now we have a concern. Are
we to quarrel with the Lord if He chose that we should wait
for that time of deliverance, of liberty, of being set free,
of blessing. The time of love will come when
He will show not only that He shed His blood, but for me. So this is a message for poor
sinners under the Gospel. It is a message to the daughters
of Zion that have heard this message. They've heard the law
set forth. They've heard the one name given
among men whereby we must be saved. And that message is wait
His appointed time. Wait upon Him. Seek that that
work of God might be wrought in you, he which hath begun a
good work in you, will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ.'
Well, what is the second message then, or part of this message? His reward is with Him. Often think of that word in 1
John chapter 1, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We might think, well, if we confess
our sins, but then next minute we'll do the same. We've got
the same bad heart, the same evil heart. But the promise is
the Lord will deal. He will cleanse us. We look to
the Lord to do it. Our own thought is, I must cleanse
my heart first and then I'll come and ask for forgiveness.
I'll confess my sins only when I can assure the Lord I won't
ever sin again. But the Lord says, no, you come
just as you are. You come as a sinner. The promise
was, His name shall we call Jesus, for He shall save His people
from their sins. They shall not save themselves
from their sins, from the power, the dominion of it, from the
love of sin, from eternal death due to sin, from the eternal
condemnation due to sin. No, He will save them. His reward
is with them. And so when our Lord Jesus Christ
came, what He did upon earth in His perfect life and obedience
as truly God and truly man was to work out a salvation, a robe
of righteousness to give to his people, to give to believers,
so that they do not appear naked before God, not in their own
righteousnesses, which are as filthy rags, but that they should
appear spotless. There is no spot in thee, thou
art all pure, my love, and those before the throne are arrayed
in white robes. And then the Lord, what He was
to do, was to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. For
this cause came I into this world, that I may bear witness to the
truth. He was to lay down His life for
ransom. He was to take it again. He was
to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. That precious blood
that was shed, the Church is never to forget it, or to be
remembered in the Lord's Supper. This doing remembrance of me,
and we should always look to what was with the Lord. He shall
bring salvation. He shall bring it to pass. He
is not only the Priest, but He is the Lamb. My son said, Abraham,
God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. Those priests
they had to have somewhat to offer, the Lord had to have somewhat
to offer, but He offered up Himself without spot to God. And so in
the Lord's coming, He came with His offering. He came with a
perfect offering in His whole life here below, showed that
this was a lamb without spot and without blemish. This was
the provision of God. His reward is with Him. And so you think, in a gospel
sense as well, the blessing of the Lord it maketh rich. and addeth no sorrow with it.
When the Lord comes and blesses a poor sinner, and visits a poor
sinner, then he will bless them with forgiveness, with pardon,
with a good hope through grace, a hope beyond the grave, with
everything that they require. It hath pleased the Father that
in him should all fullness dwell, everything that a poor sinner
needs, is in the Lord Jesus Christ. There's nothing lacking. Everything
is with Him. His reward is with Him. The provision is with Him. We think of it in another way.
The reward that the Lord was given was His people. Thine they
were. Thou gavest them And behold,
I and the children whom thou hast given me, he shall see of
the travail of his soul, and be satisfied. That reward is
with him. We are his inheritance, he is
our inheritance. When the Lord came, He came for
His people. When He comes again, He shall
come with His people and for His people, and they shall be
with Him forever in heaven. Now there's a third part of this
message to be proclaimed, and that is this, His work before
Him. His reward is with Him, and His
work before Him. And it is a similar word in Isaiah
40, the 40th chapter, verse 10. Behold, the Lord God will come
with strong hand, and His arms shall rule for Him. Behold, His
reward is with Him, and His work before Him. John Baptist was sent as a forerunner
and to point out the Lord. The message of John Baptist was
repentance. And the Lord's work doesn't just
begin when a child of God has joy and liberty and assurance. It doesn't begin there. We read
of a clear beginning, He which hath begun a good work in you. His work comes before Him, it
makes a way for Him. The preparation in the heart
of man, the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. You think of perhaps some characters
in the New Testament that were brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. You think of the woman at the
well of Samaria, the Samaritan woman. The Lord must needs go through
Samaria. That woman must go to that well
at that time. She had her whole life, the Lord
knew about it. There was a lot that happened
before ever He said to her, I that speak unto thee am He. She says,
I know that when Messiah's come, He shall tell us all things. You will mark whenever a child
of God is brought to liberty, there has been things going on
before. In with the Apostle Paul it was
said, It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. When
the Lord begins, He gives life, He gives spiritual life, that
is the new birth. That when He gives the new birth,
then the ear is opened and then the soul is instructed and taught
Then the soul hears the law, he hears the truth, he hears
about himself, he hears about the Saviour, he hears about the
way of salvation. Every one shall be taught of
God. Great shall be the peace of thy
children. And that teaching takes time,
line upon line, here a little and there a little. Thy teachers
shall not be removed into a corner any more. Thine eyes shall see
thy teachers." And there's a looking back and thinking, it is not
anyone's work. His work before Him. God's work. Not man. God's work goes before Him. Before He'll crown that work.
with blessing and joy and comfort, his work goes before him. We think of those that are brought
before him in heaven. He has a prepared people for
a prepared place. He shall give grace and glory. No good thing shall he withhold
from them that walk uprightly. The Lord's work from beginning
to end is His, not just at that time when the soul is blessed
and says, I'm forever blessed, my rags are gone, that I am saved,
I am the Lord's. Before that happens, the Lord's
work is still there. So may that be an encouragement
for those of you that wait for that time of blessing, time of
liberty and rejoicing, that where the Lord has opened the ear and
where you might have like with Mary those things that she pondered
in her heart you know she had to ponder them for 33 years before
she really found out and knew what was bound up in those things
that were being said and done you think of Anna that pointed
unto that little babe to all that look for redemption in Jerusalem
But thirty-three years later, and even the disciples on the
way to Emmaus we trusted, it should have been he that should
have redeemed or brought redemption to Israel. They could not see
that what they had witnessed was redemption being wrought
out, setting free by payment of a price. And you might be
like that, have many things that you ponder, things that you go
over, things that you hope are the Lord's work. and those of
us that know the Lord and have been set at liberty to look back
even in times of unregeneracy and when we are tempted and tried
now and troubled it can be a great comfort to look back and we're
told we're to remember all the way that the Lord thy God hath
led us these 40 years in the wilderness to try thee, to prove
thee, to know what was in thine heart May we not have a narrow
view of the blessing, the coming of the Lord? They shall look
on him whom they have pierced, yes, but before that time there's
many a teaching, many a leading, many a instruction, many a fault
before they rise. This child is set for the fall
and rising again of many in Israel, the thoughts of many hearts.
might be revealed. A proclamation. Do we hear it? Do we listen? Is it good news
to us that our salvation cometh? Is it good news to us that His
reward is with Him? He is not looking for anything
of us. We might be invited to go to
a meal somewhere and their host says, no, don't bring anything.
Everything is here. Or we might have someone come
to us and they say, don't prepare anything, I'll bring everything. I'll bring the food, I'll bring
the plates, I'll bring everything. And in that sense, the Lord says,
I'll bring everything. Everything that is needed. Everything
for a poor sinner. His work before him. The Lord will come again. And
that part of the proclamation is still, for the Church of God,
thy salvation cometh. When we see the signs in the
heavens, in the moon, the stars, the wicked, they calling upon
the rocks to hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne. But for the people of God, look
up, for your redemption draweth nigh. The Lord will come. And the church, like the Thessalonian
church, when they're called, they're called to wait for His
Son from heaven. Do you wait? Am I waiting for
His Son from heaven? Whether it be at the day of our
death or whether it be when the Lord comes again to hear this
word that still has the same authority, still has the same
power, is not worn out. The Lord will come. end of the
world will come and the Lord will gather his people and bring
them safe to be with him shall we be amongst them may that be
real concern with us to be found amongst the people of God to
be found the people of God and to look up and know that one
that comes is the one that has blessed us and favoured us many
times here below, the one who shed his precious blood on Calvary's
tree and brought us to trust and to shelter beneath that blood
like they did in the Passover night, when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. May the Lord bless this word
to us. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed
unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold,
thy salvation cometh, behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him. Amen.