Hudson had surgery yesterday
and she's going to be in incapacitated for several weeks
and Cindy is lining up some meals for her and John and you know
her dad lives with them so if you'd like to help out with that
you can see Cindy. All right let's let's open our
Bibles to Jeremiah chapter 32 Jeremiah chapter 32 Verse 37, Behold, all take special notice
of this blessing. I will gather them out of all
countries, whether I have driven them in mine anger and in my
fury and my great wrath, and I will bring them again unto
this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. What a promise. That's what I
need. I need a place of safety. And
I know that if that's going to happen, the Lord's going to have
to cause it. Tom, let's sing. Number 22. Oh. We were ruined by the fall. Adam's sin defiles us all. By our deeds as by our birth,
we deserve the law's great curse. Helpless, hopeless sinners we,
never can our souls retrieve. But the blessed Son of God Came
as plan in flesh and blood He fulfilled the law's demands And
in death stretched out his hands On the cross of Calvary Christ
redeemed and set us free In the time which God had said, the
Spirit came for His elect to regenerate and call from the
ruin of the fall. By His power and by His grace,
we were born for God's own praise. ? Now your purpose we fulfill
? ? Saved according to your will ? ? Sing the song of joyful praise
? ? For the glory of your grace ? ? Blessed Holy Triune God ?
? Hear our praise through Christ our Lord ? Please be seated. Let's read some more from that
same passage in Jeremiah 32. Verse 36 is oftentimes how we
see ourselves. And now therefore thus saith
the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof
you say it shall be delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence,
Behold, it's not like you say, it's not like how you see it.
Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, whether
I have driven them in mine anger and in my fury and in my great
wrath, and I will bring them again into this place and I will
cause them to dwell safely and they shall be my people and I
will be their God. I will give them one heart and
one way that they may fear me forever for the good of them
and their children after them and I will notice how many I
wills are in this passage and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good
but I will put my fear in their hearts and they shall not depart
from me yea I will Rejoice over them to do them good and I will
plant them in this land Assuredly with my whole heart and with
my whole soul For thus saith the Lord like as I have brought
this great evil upon this people. So will I Bring upon them all
the good that I have promised them Sometimes all we see is
the bad Faith believes that God has brought
these things into our lives in order to show us His faithfulness
in delivering us. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, Oh, how we pray for your Holy Spirit to come now and to
increase our faith, to enable us to believe you, Lord. Forgive
us for not believing you as we ought. Forgive us for the unbelief
that so causes us to doubt and fear you. fear our circumstances. Lord, we pray that you would
put your fear in our hearts and give us that place of rest and
that place of safety in thy dear son. We thank you for his finished
work. We pray, Lord, that you would
enable us now in this hour to see him in your word and to rest
in Him. For it's in His name we ask it.
Amen. Tell me the old, old story of
unseen things above, of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His
love. Tell me the story simply as to
a little child For I am weak and weary and helpless and defiled
Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and His love. ? Tell me the story slowly that
I may take it in ? ? That wonderful redemption, God's remedy for
sin ? ? Tell me the story often, for I forget so soon ? The early
dew of morning has passed away at noon. Tell me the old, old
story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and His love. Tell me the story softly with
earnest tones and pray. Remember I'm the sinner whom
Jesus came to save. Tell me the story always If you
would really be In any time of trouble A comforter to me Tell
me the old, old story Tell me the old, old story Tell me the
old, old story of Jesus and his love. Tell me the same old story When
you have cause to fear That this world's empty glory Is costing
me too dear Yes, and when that world's glory is dawning on my
soul, tell me the old, old story, Christ Jesus makes the whole. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and His love. Please be seated. Open your Bibles with me to Isaiah
chapter 27, please. Isaiah chapter 27. How I hope
and pray that the Spirit of God will speak to our hearts tonight
and tell us about the love of God. Herein is love, not that
we love God, but that He loved us and gave His Son as a propitiation
for our sin. That means that what Christ suffered
on Calvary's cross, satisfied the demands of God's holy justice
so that there's no wrath, no judgment. I've titled this message, Jacob
I Have Loved and Esau I Have Hated. Not that that text is
in this passage, but that's the message of this passage. There
is no in between. Our God loves His children with
a perfect, holy, everlasting love that can never be changed,
and that's their hope. And the same God hates the reprobate
with a holy wrath and will cause them separation and suffering
from Him for all eternity. There's no in-between. There's
no neutral ground. He's not indifferent toward anyone. Now, if we look at our lives
here in this world compared to the life of an unbeliever, there's
not a whole lot of difference. We are born We live, we get married,
we have children, we have jobs, we have problems, we have sickness,
we have conflicts. You don't walk through this world
with a halo over your head. The world doesn't see you any
different from everybody else. And in fact, there's not a whole
lot of difference. except except his love for us. Who maketh thee to differ from
another? What do you have that you have
not received? And if you received it, Why do
you glory in it as if you received it not? What is it that we receive? We receive the gift of God's
love, His grace, His mercy. That's the only thing that makes
us to differ. Now, I hope our lives will in
some degree reflect our love to Christ, but, you know, the
more honest we are about ourselves and the more the Lord reveals
to us our own sin, the more we see, you know, we're just, we're
not a whole lot different, except the difference that He has made.
And in this passage of Scripture, the Lord is clear as to what
he thinks and feels towards his children and what he thinks and
feels towards the reprobate. And they are extremes of love
and hatred. Now it's a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of an angry God. I don't want to know anything
about his hatred. I want to glory in the gift of
His grace. I want to know His love. Don't
you? If we're going to know that, we're going to find it in Christ. Let's look, let's look at this.
We concluded with verse one Sunday morning. In that day, the Lord
with his sore and great strong sword shall punish Leviathan,
the piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he
shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. And he's done that. The Lord
has destroyed the works of the devil. We were in bondage to
the wiles of the devil. We couldn't see, we couldn't
believe. We were obedient servants of Satan. And the Lord says,
I've come. to lead captivity captive and
to deliver you from the bondage of the devil. In that day, sing
ye unto her a vineyard of red wine. Now the Lord often likens
His church to a vineyard. In the early chapters of Isaiah,
He speaks of the church as a vineyard. Turn with me, I think it's in
chapter 5. Yes, chapter 5 verse 1, now will
I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard
in a very fruitful hill. And he fenced it, and gathered
out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and
built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress
therein. And he looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." He's talking
about his church. And that tower is the watchtower,
that's a symbol of the preaching of the gospel. And that wine
press is a picture of the cross, where the wrath of God's fury
was pressed out in the sacrifice that Christ made of himself on
Calvary's cross. And he says, I took out the stones,
I planted a vineyard, I did everything that that vineyard needed for
it. to be fruitful, and all it was
able to do was bring forth wild grapes. That's us, isn't it? We just
bring forth wild grapes. And the only good grapes are
the ones that He brings forth. The work that He does for us
and the work that He does in us. Go back with me to our text. In that day, sing ye unto her.
Rejoice in the work that he has done in planting a vineyard It's
the only hope we have And it's the only thing that distinguishes
us from the rest of the world that the Lord has put us in his
vineyard I Look at verse 3. I the Lord do keep it He's committed
to his vineyard. He's committed to his church,
to his children, to his people. He said, I, the Lord, do keep
it. I'm going to keep it. If you're
part of his church, you will be kept. You won't be able to
depart from him. If you fall away, John makes
it clear. They went out from us because they were never of
us. Had they been of us, they would have remained. And the
Lord says, I'm going to keep her and I'm going to present
her faultless before the throne of God with great joy. And how
we need to be kept. All we can bring forth is wild
grapes. Lord, keep me. When I look at
what you've done in putting me into your vineyard and I see
the fruit that I bring forth, Lord, I need to be kept. I need
you to keep me in Christ. I need you to keep pointing me
to Him. I, the Lord, do keep it. I do. Not I will. Not I might. Not I'll work on it. I do. I do keep it. If you're kept,
it's because the Lord kept you. And if you're not kept, it's
because you weren't His. Because He keeps every one of
His children. Every single one of them. You
can't keep yourself any more than you can save yourself. But
if you're His, here's His promise. I, the Lord, Jehovah, the God of all creation, the
God of all glory, do keep the vineyard. I will water it. Every moment,
not only will I fence it in and keep it from the evil one, but
I will water it. I'm going to supply it with what
it needs in order for it to be fruitful. And it will be fruitful. The church will produce fruit. It'll be the fruit of her lips,
first and foremost. Matthew chapter 12 says that
a good tree cannot produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce
good fruit. You tell a tree by its fruit.
And then, well let's turn there just a moment, Matthew chapter
12. I have to be very careful not to do
too much fruit inspection in terms of your works. you'll find
yourself very discouraged. But look what he says here. Either
make the tree good, verse 33, I'm sorry, Matthew chapter 12,
verse 33. Either make the tree good and
its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit
corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit. O generation of
vipers, how can you being evil speak good things for out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh a good man out
of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and
an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things what
say ye of Christ see that's the fruit that's the fruit isn't
it A good tree will bring forth good fruit. It will speak good
things about the Lord Jesus Christ. It will give all glory to Him.
It will give all praise to Him. Here's the fruit bearing. of a good fruit. And here's the
fruit bearing of the vineyard. God's vineyard is kept and watered
so that it brings forth fruit. And in another place the Lord
makes it clear that the vine that's fruit bearing, the good
tree, it's pruned, isn't it? The husbandman prunes it that
it might bring forth more fruit. You know what that pruning is
all about, don't you? You know what it means to experience the
chastising hand of a loving father who makes things so impossible
for you that you can't find any way out. You can't find any way
out except Christ. That's his work of grace. He's
shutting you up to Christ. And that's a good thing, isn't
it? Alright look at verse 3. I the
Lord do keep it. I will water it every moment
lest any hurt it. I will keep it Night and day
I'm gonna keep my church She's gonna be pruned. She's gonna
have problems. She's gonna be a lot of ways just be like the
rest of the world But I'm gonna keep her and I'm a waterer with
the water of my word I'm gonna wash her with the washing of
the water of the word. I'm gonna I'm gonna water her
with the gospel and with the word of my power with grace and
she's gonna drink of that fountain and out of her belly will grow
will flow rivers of living water uh... we're we're and that what
the lord told the woman at the well you drink of this water
you'll thirst again and that's the way it is isn't it we drink
of the water of the world and we just thirst for more but we
go to the well everlasting life, the well of Christ, and drink
of him. We're not thirsty for anything
else. Lord, you're enough. You're enough. You can't drink
from the waters of the world without thirsting for more of
the world. That's just the way it is, isn't
it? This next phrase deserves a whole
message. Verse four, look at it. Isaiah
chapter 27. You remember that billboard that
used to be out here on Interstate 4 in Longwood, God is not angry? Psalm 711 says that he is angry
with the wicked every day. Every day. You can't make a blanket
statement and say God's not angry. God's holy. Men want to. Men want to sacrifice the justice
and the holiness of God on the altar of grace. They say, well,
God's just a gracious God. He's a God of grace. He's not
angry. And they disregard His holiness and disregard His demand
for justice. The only reason that we can say,
fury is not in me, The only reason that you and
I have any reason to hope that we're not going to be the subjects
of the wrath of God is that the Lord Jesus Christ absorbed all
the fury of his wrath and satisfied his holy justice once and for
all. That's why looking to Christ,
looking to Christ, Because God's holiness is going to be upheld,
and His justice is going to be satisfied. And it'll be either
satisfied in the fury of His wrath that fell upon our sin-bearer,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Or, as He goes on to tell us,
the fury of God's wrath will never be quenched. Fury is not in me. I'm so thankful
for that. I'm so thankful that there is
a wine press in this vineyard and that the Lord Jesus Christ
was pressed out in that wine press and that he drank the bitter
dregs of the wrath of God from Calvary's cross. That's what
he prayed for in the garden. Father, if there be any way this
cup can pass from me, as horrifying as crucifixion was. There were
two men on his right and left that basically experienced pretty
much the same thing he did physically. Physically speaking. Now the horrors of the cross.
Go so much beyond the physical suffering that our Lord took.
It goes into something that we can't even understand. We can't
enter into it. We're so accustomed to sin. We're
so used to it. We're so anesthetized by it.
We, we, we, we can go, we can go hours or days without having
any fellowship with God and suffer very little pains of conscience.
And yet the Lord Jesus Christ for all eternity had a perfect
fellowship with the Father. And he knew, he knew that when
he went to the cross, that God the Father was going to forsake
him and that God would make him sin for us, that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him. It's the fury of God's
wrath for our sin is seen at Calvary's cross. And here's the
greatest demonstration of his love for us. He says, fury's
not in me. Fury's not in me. All my wrath
has been satisfied. The fire's out. There's no anger. Justice has been fulfilled. My
holiness has been protected. It's been upheld. You don't have to worry about
the fury and wrath of God if you're looking to Christ. If
you're not looking to Christ, there's a fury that it's oh so
much worse than we can ever possibly imagine. Never satisfied for
all eternity. Separated from a holy God. Fury
is not in me. Now the Lord says, who will set
the briars and thorns against me in battle? Who's going to
put up a barrier to keep me from protecting my church? And it'd
be like making a wall out of tumbleweeds. How easy is that
going to be to burn through? You're not going to keep me from
my church. This is my bride. This is my vineyard. I'm gonna
keep her. I'm gonna water her. She's going
to be fruitful. Look what he says. Fury is not
in me. Who will set briars and thorns
against me in battle? I will go through them. I'll
burn them together. You stand between Christ and
his church. There's no more dangerous place
to be. There's no more dangerous place
to be than to be standing between God and his vineyard, his people,
his church, his beloved, his well-beloved. He's going to protect
his children. Where's the worst place to be
in relationship to one of the black bears that we have around
here? Where would be the worst position to be in, in relationship
to one of those bears? right between you, right between
it and its cub. That's one place you don't want
to be. That bear will stop at nothing to protect its cub, won't
it? That doesn't even compare, does it? Where's the worst place
for somebody in your life to be? Between you and your children,
isn't it? Between you and your children,
what will you do to protect your own children? doesn't compare. If you being evil know how to
give good gifts unto your children, how much more, how much more
will your heavenly father give good gifts to them that ask him? Oh, his children are protected,
aren't they? Put up your briars and thorns.
That's all they are. See if you can hold me back.
The fool has said in his heart, no, to God. He's foolish because
he thinks he's going to withstand God. He's going to hold God off. No. I will burn them together or
let him take hold of my strength. Now, verse 5 can be understood
in two senses. The Father speaking to Christ,
and the Father speaking to us, and the Lord speaking to us.
Look what he says. Let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with
me. So the Father speaking to the Lord Jesus Christ said, let
him take hold of my strength. Everything the Lord Jesus Christ
did was in the power of God. And He will make peace with me.
You and I need to have peace with God. How are we going to
make peace with God? How are we going to escape the
fury of His wrath? How are we going to escape the
judgment that it is to come? How are we going to escape hell? Our lives in this world, they
are what they are. They're not going to be a whole
lot different. We're going to struggle in this life and in
this world just like everybody else. When the wrath that is to come,
the only difference that we're going to have is for us to be
able to rest in Christ and to know the peace of God that passes
understanding. But you can't have the peace
of God unless you've got peace with God. And say it again, you cannot
have the peace of God unless you have peace with God. And
here the father says, my son's going to take my power and he's
going to make peace with me. The Lord Jesus Christ came in
order to do business with God. That was his first and foremost
purpose for dying on the cross. It wasn't first and foremost
for us, it was first and foremost to satisfy the demands of God's
holiness, God's justice, and he made peace with God, and he
shall make peace with me. And now the Lord's saying, you
take hold of his power. In my weakness, his strength
is made perfect. I have no strength outside of
Christ. How am I gonna make peace with God? Take hold of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is the right hand of God.
He's the only way to have peace with God. And you will have peace
with me. He shall cause them that come
to Jacob to take root. They're going to grow. They're
going to flourish. They're going to have peace with
God. And they're going to experience the peace of God in all their
trials and troubles in this life. And they're going to have the
firm assurance that He has gone and prepared a place for them.
And that He will come again and receive them unto Himself. That
as the Word of God, He did not return unto God void. He took
with him the names of those for whom he lived and died. And he
ever lives to make intercession for us. What a glorious Savior
we have. These are his promises. He's
taken my peace, he's taken my strength, and he's made peace
with God. And you'll have peace with God in him. He shall cause
them that come of Jacob. The only ones that are gonna
come are those of Jacob. Jacob I've loved. You sons of Jacob,
Esau I've hated. Jacob and Esau were born of the
same woman, of the same time, of the same womb. Why did God
choose one over the other? I will have mercy upon whom I
will have mercy and whom I will harden. It was God's sovereign
choice. Michael, we were talking about
this Sunday morning, you know, that people have a hard time with
God hating, hating Jacob, hating Esau. How can God hate someone? God, God loves everybody. If
the Lord ever reveals himself to you and makes you to hear
the gospel, you won't have a problem with that at all. The only problem
you'll have is why would God love Jacob and why would he love
me? That's my dilemma. Look what he says. He shall cause
them to come. Who's he going to cause to come?
Those who are of Jacob. If you haven't come to Christ,
you've got to fear whether or not you're of Jacob. And if you're
not of Jacob, you're of Esau. And if you're of Esau, you have
nothing but the wrath and judgment of God. Lord, cause me to come. Show
me that I'm of Jacob by causing me to put my hope in Christ. Root me, Lord, in Christ. Turn
with me to Ephesians chapter 3. Verse 12, in whom the Lord Jesus Christ,
we have boldness, we have confidence to come before the throne of
grace and access with confidence by the faith of Him. There's my confidence. My confidence
is that the Lord Jesus Christ was faithful to the Father. He
came in the strength of the Spirit of God. He came as the Anointed
One. He came as the Messiah. He could
not fail. He satisfied what the Father
sent Him to do. All the purpose of God. Well,
look at verse 11. According to the eternal purpose
which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. He fulfilled the purpose
for which He was sent. He saved his people. He accomplished
their salvation. He didn't leave anything left
undone. He quenched the fire of God's
wrath so that God can say to his people, there's no fury in
me. I got nothing for you but love. Nothing for you but good. Say, well, Lord, I don't feel
your love. Faith believes what God says.
Feelings come and feelings go. The feelings are deceiving. My
only warrant is the word of God. None else is worth believing.
What are you going to believe? You're going to believe your
feelings? Or are you going to believe what God says? Here's
what he says. Look at verse 13. Wherefore,
I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which
is your glory. For this cause, I bow my knees
unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family
in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by
his Spirit in the inner man." In the inner man. Your circumstances may not change. But here's, he said, you can
be strengthened in the inner man, in the midst of your trials, that Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith. That you being rooted and grounded
in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and the length and the depth and the height and to know
the love of Christ, which passes knowledge that you may be filled
with all the fullness of God. This is a work in the heart.
This is salvation, isn't it? Oh, Lord, I want to be caused
to come. So that I can know that I'm of
Jacob. What do you know about the love of God? His love for
you. Is there fury? Is there any wrath? Any judgment? Now unto him that is able to
do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according
to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the
church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. I'm going to keep them. I'm going to keep them. It's
my vineyard. You're not going to keep me away
from them. I'm going to protect my children. I'm going to water
them. I'm going to prune them. I'm going to make them fruitful.
Why? Because I love them. I love them. They're my children. It's my
vineyard. It's my glory. Go back with me
to Isaiah 27. Rooted and grounded in love. In Christ. Israel, the second part of verse
6, Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world
with fruit. You know we're doing that right
now. The fruit of our lips. the praise
of his glory and of his grace is going out into all the world
right now. The Lord said that they're going
to do it. They're going to testify of my glory and my grace. Look at verse 7. Hath he smitten
him as he smote those that smote him? Now, speaking of Babylon
and Israel Israel's his vineyard Israel is the church Babylon
is the enemy of God and The children of Israel were where we're thinking,
you know This is bad as it come, you know, this is awful They
were in captivity and Babylon and the Lord saying did I smite
you the way I smoked them? No No You cannot compare the
chastisement of a loving father, however painful it might be,
to the wrath of God's justice in eternal separation from him. That's what he's saying. Here's
the difference. Here's the difference. I'm going
to chastise you, because you're my children. And if you're not
chastised, it's because you're not my children. If you're able
to get away with it, and you're able to go on and be content
in this world apart from me, then it's just only evidence
that you're not of Jacob. But the wrath that's going to
come against them cannot be compared. And here's what the Lord's saying
in verse 7. This life for the children of God is as bad as
it's ever going to be. This life for the reprobate is
the only good that they'll ever know anything about. Now where do you stand? You're
going to invest your life in this world? Enjoy the fruit of this world
for a season? Oh, how foolish that is. Or trust God. Wait for the blessing that he
has to give to his vineyard. Look what he says. Verse 8, in measure, when it
shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it. He stayed his rough
wind in the day of the east wind. Now what that means is that as
difficult as the east wind is, he stayed it. He held it back
for his children. He didn't pour out the fullness
of his fury. Why? Because there's no fury
in him. He's already done that. That's
already been taken care of. The rough wind has been stayed.
The east wind's hard. And the seas can be difficult.
But the way of the Lord is through the sea. And when we get to the
book of Revelation, what do we see? And there is no sea. No
separation, no turbulence, no trials, no troubles, no tears,
no sorrow anymore. But I'm sorry, verse nine by
this, therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. By what? By distinguishing the
difference between the chastisement of a loving Heavenly Father and
the wrath that is to come against those who refuse His grace. The reprobate. There's no comparison. He loves one with a holy, perfect
love, and he hates the other with a holy, perfect hatred. And this is all the fruit to
take away sin. Take away his sin when he maketh
all the stones of the altar as chalk stones and are beaten in
Sunder the groves and the images shall not stand up. All of his
false gods are going to be are going to be put to death You're
not gonna find you're not gonna be able to trust anything Other
than Christ you can be shut up to Christ. This is this is her
salvation This is why I'm allowing her to suffer in this world. I to shut her up to Christ, to
save her. And I'm going to see to it. She's
going to be saved. Yet the defense city, now he's
talking about Jerusalem after the exile. So the believers are
taken into captivity. Daniel's taken into captivity.
Ezekiel's taken into captivity. The people of God are taken into
captivity. And what happens in Jerusalem
when they're taken out of captivity? When they're taken into captivity,
Jerusalem's turned over to the reprobate. And when Ezra and
Nehemiah come back 70 years later, what do they find? They find
nothing in the city of Jerusalem but unbelievers. And that's the
description here. Yet the defense city shall be
desolate and the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness and
there shall the calf feed and there shall he lie down and consume
the branches thereof. And when the bows thereof are
withered, they should be broken off. The women come and set them
on fire for it is a people of no understanding. Now that can't be said of the
child of God. He's talking about the reprobate.
He's talking about the wrath that's gonna come against them.
He said there are people of no understanding. They think that
I'm all together as themselves. They believe that God loves everybody
and Christ died for everybody and God wants everybody to be
saved and he's doing his best and he needs your contribution. He needs your participation.
They have no understanding. They have no fear of God. They
walk according to the course of this world. They're not blessed
of God to walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor to stand
in the way of sinners, nor to sit in the seat of the scornful.
They follow after the pattern of this world. They have no understanding. Turn with me to Job chapter 28,
verse 28. Job 28, 28. You remember what we read in
Jeremiah chapter 32 at the beginning of the service, I will put my
fear in their heart and they shall not depart from me. I'm going to put my fear in their
heart and they won't depart from me. If you're able to part from
Christ, if you stand between Christ and his church, you, you,
then you have nothing, no reason to hope. Look at 28, 28. And unto man, he said, behold,
the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. And to depart from evil
is understanding. To fear God is wisdom. And to
depart from evil is understanding. Proverbs 16 verse 6, by mercy
and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord,
men depart from evil. By the fear of the Lord, men
depart from evil. To trust Christ is the only thing
that causes us. to run to Him and to be kept
and depart from the evil of this world and to not walk after the
counsel of this world and to have no understanding when it
comes to the gospel, that's the evil. That's the evil. Go back
with me to Isaiah 27. halfway through verse 11. Therefore,
he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed
them will show them no favor, no grace, no mercy, no hope. Those who have no fear of God
Those who have not been taught to depart from the false gospel
and from the evil of unbelief and the evil of this world, they
have no reason to believe that God's going to be favorable to
them. And it shall come to pass in
that day, verse 12, that the Lord shall beat off from the
channel of the river into the streams of Egypt, and you shall
be gathered one by one. Now I want to close with this,
one by one you shall be gathered. This matter of salvation is done
one person at a time. One person at a time. David sent Ziba to Lodabar to
fetch Mephibosheth, one man, didn't he? The Lord sent Philip
from a great revival in Antioch, where hundreds were being saved,
down to the backside of the desert in Gaza to fetch one poor Ethiopian
going back to Ethiopia without any hope of salvation. Preached
to him the gospel. The loving father had mercy upon
that one son that was lost, and now he has been found. The Lord didn't allow Ruth and
Naomi to remain in Moab. He brought them to Bethlehem,
the house of bread. One by one, I will bring my people,
my vineyard, my church, And they're all going to be saved. I'm not
going to lose one. I'm not going to lose one. Why? Because I love them. I love them. My holiness has been upheld.
My justice has been satisfied. There's no more fury. The wrath
of God has been spent against their sin. And God's satisfied. Jacob I've loved. Esau hated. There's no in between. God's
not indifferent towards anybody. He's not. He loves his people
with a perfect, holy, everlasting love that commits him. What did
we read in Jeremiah chapter 32? that he will save them with his
whole heart. I love that. With his whole heart,
he's gonna save them. And when God says he's gonna
do something with his whole heart, you can be sure it's gonna get done,
can't you? And with his whole heart, he
will pour out his wrath against all unbelief. Lord, cause me to come. that I could know I am of Jacob. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
for your word and how we hope that you would minister grace
to each one of our hearts, one by one. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. What's the time? Forty-six. Thirty-six. Number
thirty-six in the spiral hymnal. Let's stand. ? Behold my soul, the love of God
? ? Behold the grace flows free ? ? Before all worlds his purpose
stood ? ? His heart was fixed on me ? Elected by eternal love,
the covenant firm and sure, the triune God, agreed in love, salvation
to secure. My soul was given to the Son,
He promised to redeem. By blood and righteousness His
own, He would my soul reclaim. In the due time, Emmanuel came
to live and die for me. He lives today and bears my name. Christ is my surety. In love He sent His Spirit down,
Who gave me life and grace. He drew me and I followed on,
My Savior to embrace. Now I rejoice in covenant love,
amazing grace I sing. I now am conquered by His love,
my Savior is my King. Okay.