We're going to open up tonight's
service hardback number one. Number one, O Worship the King,
if you could please stand. Number one. O worship the king. Glorious above, and gratefully
sing, His power and His love, Our shield and defender, the
Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise. O tell of his might, O sing of
his grace, Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space, His
chariots of wrath the deep thunder clouds form, And dark is his
path on the wings of the storm. Thy bountiful care, What tongue
can recite? It breathes in the air, It shines
in the light, It streams from the hills, It descends to the
plain, And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. Frail children of dust, and feeble
as frail, in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail. Thy mercies, how tender, how
firm to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer and Friend. Let's open our Bibles to Psalm
28. Psalm 28 for our scripture reading
tonight. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord,
my rock. Be not silent to me, lest if
thou be silent to me I become like them that go down into the
pit. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee, when I
lift up my hands towards thy holy oracle. Draw me not away
with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, which speak
peace to their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness
of their endeavors. Give them after the work of their
hands. Render to them their dessert. Because they regard not the works
of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy
them and not build them up. Blessed be the Lord. because
he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The Lord is my
strength and my shield. My heart trusted in him and I
am helped. Therefore, my heart greatly rejoiceth
and with my song will I praise him. The Lord is their strength
and he is the saving strength of his anointed. Save thy people
and bless thine inheritance, feed them also, and lift them
up forever. Amen. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
that Your Holy Spirit has made these words to be the prayer
of our hearts. Lord, we pray that you would
forgive us. Lord, for our strength is small
and weak. We're so thankful that we have
an advocate. We have a righteous one. We have one who's perfect, one
who's holy. We ask, Lord, that you would
send your spirit and power to anoint your word to the hearts
of your people and cause us, Lord, to look to him, to find
him to be all, and find him to be in all. We ask it in his name, the name
that is above every name, the name of thy dear son, the Lord
Jesus Christ. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. This next hymn, we're going to
sing a cappella, number 232. Number 232, if you could please
stand. Number 232, When I See the Blood.
I'll try to pick the right tone. Christ our Redeemer died on the
cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due. Sprinkle your soul
with the blood of the Lamb, and I will pass over you. When I see the blood, When I
see the blood When I see the blood I will pass, I will pass
over you Chiefest of sinners, Jesus will save. All he has promised that he will
do. Wash in the fountain, open for
sin. And I will pass, will pass over
you. When I see the blood When I see
the blood When I see the blood I will pass, I will pass over
you Judgment is coming, all will be there, each one receiving
justly his due. Hide in the saving, sin-cleansing
blood, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the
blood When I see the blood When I see the blood I will pass,
I will pass over you O great compassion, O boundless love,
O loving kindness, faithful and true. Find peace and shelter
under the blood, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass
over you. I think you just stuck that hymn
in my mind for another week. I've been humming that hymn all
week. I think Tom and Cindy get home
tonight, so they should be here Sunday. Bert, we appreciate so
much, brother, you filling in. Let's open our Bibles together
to Isaiah chapter 10. Isaiah chapter 10. I want to ask you a question. If I ask the question, is Christ
all you need? I doubt there's anyone here that
would say no to that. Yes, He's all I need. He's all
I need. But here's the question. Is He
all you have? Is He all you have for everything? Is He all and is He in all? Is He all you have? You can't go anywhere else. You
can't add to Him. You can't take away from Him.
All your justification, all your righteousness, all your sanctification,
all the hope of glory that you have in your heart is all bound
up in Him. He's all I've got. The Calvinist would say, Christ
is all we need. I was talking to someone recently
who was a Calvinist and they had it all down. Christ alone,
scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, you know, they had
all the points of reform doctrine. But it was clear in my conversation
with this person that though he believed that Christ was all
he needed, Christ was not all he had. He's looking to the law. looking to His obedience
to add something to the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. You have your Bibles open to
Isaiah chapter 10, verse 20, and it shall come to
pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped
of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that
smote them." Now that's the text of the message. The remnant will
no longer Lean, that's what that word stay means, it means to
rely on, to lean on, to trust in. They will no longer trust
in the one that smote them. But, they shall stay on the Lord. They'll lean on Him. He's all
they'll have. He's all they'll have. They've
got no place else to go. But they shall stay upon the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return,
even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. And though thy
people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of
them shall return. The consumption decreed shall
overflow with righteousness, for the Lord God of hosts shall
make a consumption even determined in the midst of all the land.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian. He shall smite thee with a rod
and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of Egypt.
For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease,
and mine anger in their destruction. And the Lord of hosts shall stir
up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at
the rock of Oreb. And as his rod was upon the sea,
so shall he lift it up after the manor of Egypt. And it shall
come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away
from off his shoulder, and his yoke from off his neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." Now for the two previous chapters,
the Lord is speaking words of of correction,
judgment, and condemnation against Israel because they're putting
their trust in Syria, in Syria, in the Philistines, in Egypt,
They're in between these warring nations and rather than putting
their trust in the Lord, they're trying to make an alliance with
these other nations in hopes that they'll protect them. And
over and over again, God says, I'm not gonna protect you. You're
looking to the wrong place. You're trusting in the wrong
thing. Here's a spiritual picture here,
of course. And that is that these nations
represent our works. They represent the law. King Reason is mentioned in chapter
9, verse 11. He's the king of Damascus, and
his name translated means firm. And so is the law of God. The
law of God is firm, cannot be moved. And yet the natural man
will add their obedience to the law, to the finished work of
the Lord Jesus Christ, for some hope of their salvation. You
say, well I know we're not justified by the law, we're justified by
grace. But sanctification now, that's it. No. No. The law of God is firm. That
Judah was putting their hope in reason, And the Lord said,
he's going to turn on you and he's going to smite you. And
then the word Syria means exalted. And so the law of God is exalted. It's high and lifted up. Law
is spiritual. But I'm carnal, sold under sin.
The law is holy and just and good. God's law is perfect. It's exalted above the earth
and to the heavens. And Judah was saying, I'm going
to trust in Syria to fight against the Assyrians and to protect
me against the Egyptians. And God says, no, that one you're
trusting in is going to turn on you. And they're going to
be the very ones to destroy you. They were trusting in the Philistines
to protect them against the Syrians. And the word Philistine means
immigrant. And it's an illegal immigrant is
what it is when you put your trust in anything other than
the Lord Jesus Christ. Is Christ all you have? Not is he all you need, is he
all you've got? You've got no place else. You
can't trust in man. You can't trust in your works.
You can't trust in riches. You can't trust in government.
You can't trust in the world. You can't trust in your will
and your determination. Christ is all I've got. I've got no place else to go.
Because just like with Israel, the one that you put your trust
in is going to turn on you. And that one will become the
source of your destruction. Notice in verse 20 the definite condition of this promise. And it shall come to pass. This isn't a matter of, you know,
well, maybe I can get through. Maybe I'll slide through. Maybe there'll be an exception
for me. No, it shall come to pass. God says shall, it's gonna happen.
You shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people
from their sins. God's shalls are absolutely definite. There's no change in it. Look this word up. It means to
owe. It means to be under obligation. When God makes a decree, He owes
it to Himself. He's obligated Himself to Himself. He covenants with Himself to
make sure that all these promises come to pass. And what faith
is, believing that Abraham believed God and was persuaded that that
which he had promised he would also perform. It shall come to
pass. There's no way around it. Aren't
you glad for that? Aren't you glad that the fulfillment
of the Word of God is sure? There's no way. It's the only sure thing there
is. He shall, Isaiah 40 verse 11,
feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with
his arms. Upon this rock, what rock? Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. Upon this rock I shall build
my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Oh, I'm thankful for the shalls of God's Word. When God says
this is going to happen, it is definite. There's no exceptions. It's going to be fulfilled. And
faith just believes God. So what does the Lord say He's
going to do? And it shall come to pass, verse
20, when? When? In that day. In that day. What's the day? It's the day
of the Lord's visitation. Now we could look at this historically
and look at the Old Testament history of Israel and see when
the Assyrians came in and when they fought against reason and
the judgments that were fulfilled, but that's not the... there's
no comfort for a sinner's soul in looking at this historically.
This is a spiritual book. And it's to be understood spiritually.
It's what God's saying is, when I visit you, that's when it's
going to happen. In that day that I come and fulfill
this promise. When did the Lord come to visit
us? Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord. So He visited us in His incarnation
when God became flesh and dwelt among us. He visited us in the
consumption. Our God is a consuming fire. You remember reading here in
verse 22 and 23, for the Lord of hosts shall make a consumption? When did He do that? when the
fire of God fell from heaven and consumed the sins of God's
people, putting them away once and for all. What a visitation.
In that day, And what did Paul say? God who separated me from
my mother's womb, when it pleased Him, He made Himself known unto
me. That day, the day of regeneration,
the day of salvation. Every time the Lord visits His
people, it is that day. Turn back with me to Isaiah chapter
2. We look at verse 10, enter into
the rock, come to Christ, and hide thee in the dust for fear
of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty. What is it to
fear God? It's to fear having to stand
in the presence of a holy God without the Lord Jesus Christ
as your representative before God. How am I going to stand
in the present? Get in the rock. Look at the
next verse. The lofty looks of man shall
be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and
the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. Have you experienced
that day? Has that day come for you? Has He made low your lofty looks,
your looks of self-righteousness, your looks of free will, your
looks of thinking, well, you know, I can... No. The only hope
I've got is the consuming fire of God that fell upon Calvary's
cross. That's my... He is all I have. He's all I've got. Yes, He's
all you need. But is he all you have? Look at verse 17 in that same
chapter. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day. Has that day come for you? As the Lord visited you in grace
and in power and caused your lofty looks to be cast down and
caused you to have all your hope in Christ, all your hope. Look
at verse 20 of that same chapter. In that day a man shall cast
his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each
one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats. Has
that day come for you? Man by nature is born into this
world as an idol factory. He fashions in the darkened imagination
of his own heart things about God that aren't true. And when
the Lord's pleased to make Himself known, He just throws away all
those idols. Well, I thought that God would
take what I did into consideration. Now I know that Christ is all
I have. He's all I've got. Look at verse 22 in that same
chapter. Seize ye from man whose breath
is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of? How is man going to help you?
How are you going to help yourself? How is the law going to help
you? You see, Judah was turning to all these different things,
hoping to get some help to protect them against the enemy. And that's
exactly what we do. We turn to the law, we turn to
our good works, we turn to our morality, we turn to our good
intentions. We're looking everywhere but
to Christ. When's it going to happen? Well,
turn to me. You're there in Isaiah 2. Turn
over just a couple pages to Isaiah 4. Isaiah chapter 4. Look at verse 1. And in that
day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat
of our own bread and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called
by thy name to take away our reproach. Oh, Lord, give us your
name. Cause me to have the name of
Christ written on me. Make me to be the Lord our righteousness. In that day shall the branch
of the Lord be beautiful and glorious. Now who's the branch? Christ is. When's it going to
happen? In that day. In the day of visitation. And the Lord visited us in the
flesh 2,000 years ago. God visited us in the consumption
on Calvary's cross when by the fire of His wrath He put away
all the sins of all of His people. And God visits us now and makes
us willing in the day of His power to see Him to be beautiful
and glorious. And He's the only thing I've
got before God. I've got nothing else. I've got
no one else. And the fruit of the earth shall
be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel."
It's the day of the Lord, the Sabbath day, the day of rest. The day cometh, saith the Lord,
saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel. I'll take out their heart of
stone. I'll put in a heart of flesh. I'll write my laws upon
their heart. I'll cause them to see the glory
of my law and their inability to keep it. And they'll put their
hope and their trust in the one who's made beautiful to them.
And he will be all they've got. All they've got. All right, go
back with me to our text. How sure is this promise? Well, it shall be. It's definite. And when's it going to happen?
It's going to happen in that day. I hope you're saying with
me, Lord, make today that day. Lord, visit me. Lord, don't leave
me to myself. Lord, make Yourself known to
me. Cause me to find Christ to be everything to me. Cause Him to be all to me. Because I'll look somewhere else. I'll go everywhere everybody
else goes to try to find protection and comfort and hope and satisfaction
if you don't make Christ to be all. So it shall come to pass in that
day, who is it going to be for? The remnant. The remnant, you see that? The
remnant of Israel. Now, that word remnant, you can
look it up in the Old Testament, it's also translated residue.
Residue. Now, residue is what you wash
out of the cup and flush down the drain. That's the stuff that
sticks to the sides, the stuff that's not worth anything. And
God says, that's who this is going to be for. That's the remnant,
the residue. The root of this Old Testament
Hebrew word means to disregard. To disregard. The residue, the
remnant, are disregarded by this world. But they're not disregarded
by God. It's the residue that He saves. The remnant of Israel, they're
going to come. Turn with me to Romans chapter
11. Romans chapter 11. You feel like the residue? Look
at Romans chapter 11 at verse 4. But what saith the answer
of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven
thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the idol of Baal. Now you know this is talking
about Elijah when he was fleeing from Jezebel and he was up there
in the mountain and having a pity party thinking that he was the
only faithful one left. And the Lord said, no, I've got
a remnant. Look what he says. Even so, then,
at this present time, there also is a remnant according to the
election of grace. And if by grace, then it's no
more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be
of works, then it's no more of grace, otherwise work is no more
work. You can't mix the two. Is Christ
all you have? Or is it Christ plus your works? Though the number of the children
of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. A remnant shall be saved, for
he will finish the work. Notice what else they're called
in our text. That the remnant of Israel and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob. Oh, brethren, there hath no temptation
taken you, but such as is common to man. God is faithful. He will not suffer you to be
tempted above that which you are able. And don't stop right
there. And don't do what I've heard
a lot of folks do. God won't put more on you than
you can bear. That's what they think. If God never puts more
on you than you can bear, then Christ will never be everything
to you. What's the rest of that verse
say? But He will provide a way of escape that you might be able
to bear it. Christ is the escape. He's the
only place I've got to go. For my sin problem, He's the
only one I can go to. For my fears and depressions,
He's the only one that I can go to. For my material needs
that I've got in this world, He's the only one I can go to. He's my all and He's in all. If I have any hope of salvation,
I can't look to my obedience. I can't look to my behavior to
see whether or not I'm acting like a Christian. The accuser
of the brethren is going to make sure that, you know, that he's
going to point out all the faults there. Christ is all I've got. He's all I've got. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 3 says,
how shall we escape if we neglect such great salvation? How are we going to escape? How
are we going to escape the wrath of God if we neglect Christ,
who is the great salvation? Go back with me to Hebrews 10. How sure is it? It shall come
to pass. When? In that day, the day of
visitation. Who's it for? The remnant of
Israel, the escaped of the house of Jacob. And they shall no more
again stay upon him that smote them." Well, I know we're not
under the law, we're under grace. Isn't the law our guide? Don't
we have to go back to the law in order to figure out how we're
supposed to live? Is Christ not enough? Isn't He not enough? Do we want to obey God? Do we
want to honor Him with our lives? Do we want to avoid the breaking
out of sin and bad behavior? Sure we do. Sure we do. But the weapons of our warfare
are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds and
bringing into captivity every thought and imagination that
rears itself against God to the obedience of Christ. Christ is
my strength. He's my guide. He's my life.
He's the one I look to. He's the only one that's able
to restrain sin. We're sin abounds and sin abounds
in our hearts. Grace does much more bound. All
the laws, what were these Israelites doing? They were going to reason. What did reason's name mean?
Firm. What's the law? Firm. And you read the history of them.
What reason do they have? He turned on them. They had given
Him tribute to protect them, and He ends up turning against
them. Isn't that what we do? We think, well, I'll give to
the law some tribute. I'll make some efforts. I'll do my best. I'll make the
precepts of Scripture to be my guide. And the very thing that we look
to for the hope of our salvation turns on us and says to us, guilty,
death, death. What I was trying to say Sunday
morning about the law is, well, turn with me to Galatians, Galatians
chapter 2. Look at verse 19, for I through
the law am dead to the law that I might live unto God. What power does the law have
over a dead man? What power does the law, just
thinking not the God's law, but just thinking of civil laws,
what is the power behind the law? in this world. It's the penalty. That's the
power behind the law. People who say, well, the death
penalty doesn't restrain murder, they don't know what they're
talking about. Sure it does. Sure it does. Now, there are
certain people that are going to do things anyway, but those
laws, what is there about the speed limit that restrains your
driving? It's that $200 ticket. It's the
penalty behind the law that gives strength to the law. Without
the penalty, the law doesn't have any power. And so, the penalty
of the law has already been fulfilled. We're dead to the law. The law's
got no power over us. So why are we going about trying
to satisfy the demands of the law? The law has already been
fulfilled. The law can't say anything to
us. The law's mouth has been stopped. The consumption of the
fire of God has fallen from heaven and shut the mouth of the law
and the law cannot condemn us anymore. Now does that mean that
we become lawless? No! We have a new law. It's called the law of Christ.
It's called the law of the Spirit. It's called the law of love.
One thing I was trying to say Sunday morning as far as suicide
criminals, whether they be suicide bombers or somebody like who
shot up the nightclub here in Orlando, is that if a man has
already committed himself to die in committing a crime, There's
not a single law that's going to restrain him. Because he's
not worried about the consequences. The threat of the law doesn't
have any power over him. And that's the way it is with
a child of God. The law has no power over us. Christ has fulfilled
the law. Don't go back to the law. Read
on, read on. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless
I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the
grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ
is dead in vain. Hold your finger there, we're
gonna read some more in Galatians. Go back with me to Isaiah chapter 10. The escaped of the house of Jacob,
the remnant of Israel shall no more again stay upon him that
smote him. The child of God is not going
to lean upon the very one that smites him. but shall stay upon the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel. In truth, we're not looking to
the law for our hope, our comfort, our peace, our assurance. We're
looking only to Christ. Christ is all we have. Go back with me to Galatians.
Oh, foolish Galatians! who hath bewitched you, that
you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
has been evidently set forth and crucified among you, this
only would I learn of you, received you the Spirit by the works of
the Lord by the hearing of faith." They would say, oh no, justification
is by faith alone in Christ alone. It's a, it's a, It's a work of
God's grace to justify us. But now that we're justified,
we've got to put our two cents worth in. This only what I've learned to
you. Received you the Spirit by the works of the law or by
the hearing of faith. Are you so foolish, having begun
in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Let's turn over to chapter 4,
verse 20. I desire to be present with you
now and to change my voice, for I stand in doubt of you. These Galatians believed that
justification was by Christ alone, through faith alone, by grace
alone. The heresy of Galatia was progressive
sanctification. They thought now that now that
Christ has done his work, now I've got to get in there with
him and work out my salvation. And Paul said, I stand in doubt
of you because Christ isn't all you've got. He's not everything
to you. Tell me, ye that desire to be
under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other
by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh, but he who was of the free woman
was by promise. Which things are an allegory,
for these are the two covenants, the one of Mount Sinai, which
gendereth to bondage, and the other which is Hagar. So this
bondage of the law. And what does God say? They're
not going to stay upon the law anymore. They're not going to
lean upon their obedience. They're not going to look to
their performance to get assurance of their salvation or to get
hope of their salvation. This person I was talking to
recently, oh no, hope of salvation is in the finished work of Christ,
but my assurance comes when I see the evidence of my salvation
lived out in my works. And my only comment, I fear that
God's not made you to be a sinner, if that be the case. Because
if God's made you to be a sinner, You know the best thing you've
ever done is full of sin. How can you get
comfort from that? Christ has to be all. Stand fast,
therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free, and
be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Don't go back
to Egypt. Don't go to Reason. Don't go
to Syria. Don't go to the Philistines.
Don't look to the law. Go back with me to our text. They shall no more again lean
upon the law which smote them. That's what that verse means.
They're not going to put their trust in one who's going to turn
on them. And that's what the law will
do. You lean upon the law, It's just like the Lord said when
Israel went back to Egypt and leaned upon Egypt. He said it's
like a man leaning upon a sharp stick. All it's going to do is
pierce your hand. But they shall stay upon the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth In truth, Christ will
be all they've got. In election, He'll be all they've
got. The one who's holy and undefiled and separate from sinners will
be the only hope of their holiness before God. In truth, they'll see Him for
who He is. And they'll believe that what
He did was sufficient for all their salvation. And they'll lean upon Him every
day, casting their care upon Him, believing that He cares
for them, looking to His perfect righteousness for the only hope
of their salvation in justification and in sanctification. In truth,
they will know that He is all and in all. In truth, they will know that
the law is spiritual, but I'm carnal, a slave to sin. I'm just sold under it. It's all I can do. It's all I
can do. Yeah, I know there's people who
hear me make statements like that and they think I'm advocating
some sort of antinomian, licentious lifestyle of, you know, justifying
our sinful behavior. And if that's what you're thinking,
God's not made you to be a sinner. He's not made you to be a sinner. We don't want to live shameful
lives. We don't want to turn the members of our body over
to sinful behavior. We don't want to do that. We
hate our sin. But at the same time, God makes you to be a sinner.
You know that everything about you is sinful. And you loathe yourself. You loathe yourself. Somebody
I was talking to recently said, well, you know, the difference
between a believer and an unbeliever is that believers are convicted
when they sin. And unbelievers just live their
lives without any shame and without any conviction. And they were
talking from their own experience, because before this person became
religious, he lived a worldly life, indulging himself in all
sorts of pleasures and didn't have any thought for God. And
then he got religious. And now he has the conviction
of his conscience. And I said, well, you know, that
was my experience. First 20 years of my life, I
lived with very little, very little shame, very little guilt,
very little conviction, just went about doing what I wanted
to do. And then the second year, second 20 years of my life, I
got religion and I was convicted when I did wrong things and prayed
to God to forgive me. And I was worse the second 20
years than I was the first 20 years. And then the last 20 years,
God made me to differ by showing me that everything about me is
sinful. And that I need Aaron, my high
priest, to bear the iniquity of my holy things. because my
best efforts, my righteousnesses are as filthy rags before God. And Christ is all I've got. He's
all I've got. If my obedience, if my behavior,
if my performance, if he's gonna do a performance evaluation on
me, I'm gonna be fired. I'm going to be fired. I need Christ and His performance
to be everything for me before God. My people will no longer
stay upon that one that slew them, turned on them. judge them guilty, condemn them
to death. No, their stay will be upon the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. There's the difference. The unbeliever,
religious or irreligious, no unbeliever believes that everything
about them is wickedness and sinful before God. That's a work
of grace that God does in your heart. And when he does that,
Christ is all you've got. He's all you've got. Let's read verse 27 in closing.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden, whose
burden? My burden. The fear of wrath,
the fear of judgment, the fear of the law, In that day, his
burden shall be taken off from thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. All ye that labor and are heavy
burdened, come unto me. Learn of me. Take my yoke upon
you. It's easy. The yoke of the law? The yoke of reason? That's R-E-Z-I-M. We're talking
about the king of Damascus, whose name means firm. And the yoke
of Syria? And the yoke of the Philistines?
And the yoke of the Egyptians? Don't stay upon them. That's
a burden you can't bear. It's a burden you can't bear.
If you're resting in your performance to the law of God, that law,
like those enemies of Israel, is going to turn on you. And He'll judge you guilty. But in Christ, the burden shall
be taken away. The yoke shall be broken. Why? Because of the anointing. The
anointing. What's that? Well, you know Christ
and Messiah translated means the anointed one. The Lord Jesus
Christ came into this world in the full power and anointing
of the Spirit of God in order to accomplish all by Himself,
all the righteousness that you need, and to put away all by
Himself, all of the justice, all your sin, to justify you
before God and to be all that you need. He's the anointing. Lots of folks will say, Christ
is all I need. He's all I need. Is He all you have? All you have. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful.
We're thankful for Your Word, and we ask, Lord, that Your Holy
Spirit now would teach us and lead us to Christ. For it's in
His name we ask. Amen. Brother Byrd. 345? 235. 235. Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
hear my humble cry, While on others Thou art calling, do not
pass me by. hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling,
do not pass me by. Let me at the throne of mercy
find a sweet relief. Kneeling there in deep contrition,
help my unbelief. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by. Trusting only in Thy merit, Would
I seek Thy face. Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace. Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry, While on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by. Thou the spring of all my comfort,
morn and life, Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Whom in heaven by Thee? Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others Thou art calling,
do not pass me by