priesthood of Christ to those
Old Testament priests and he says in verse 24, but this man
Speaking of Christ because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable
priesthood That's the hope that we have of our salvation is that
our God changes not He's the same yesterday today and forever
he the only The only thing or person that
can be said is immutable is God. Everything else mutates, everything
else changes. Our God's the same. And he said,
that's why you sons of Jacob are not consumed. Wherefore,
because he's immutable, he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him seeing that he ever liveth
to make intercession for them. He's ascended into glory, seated
at the right hand of God, and he's alive, and he makes intercession,
presenting us acceptable before God. We're going to open with
a hymn on the back of your bulletin. Joy, so good to have you back
with us. I think we should just hogtie
her in Delphi and make them stay. We have several visitors with
us. As soon as I start trying to recognize all of them, I'll
forget somebody. But Dennis is here with us. And next Sunday morning, Dennis
will be bringing the first message. He's going to be here all week.
He'll be bringing the first message. And Robert Horton, who you all
know from Sarasota, will be bringing the second message next Sunday.
I'll be in Great Falls, Montana, preaching for the church out
there that's been without a pastor now for a couple of years, and
they just called a man to be their pastor. So he's going to
come this summer. But I'm going to go out and preach
for them next weekend. And Dennis and Robert will be preaching
here. So you remember to pray for them. And Cody Hinson is
going to be bringing a message next Sunday night over in Sarasota. So I'm so thankful for these
young men. Appreciate them. Appreciate them
coming. I think I can remember everybody.
Evan is with us from Lexington. And Sarah is with us from Cottageville. All right. Tom, you come, please. Lead us
in the hymn. Let's all stand. O Thou from whom all goodness
flows, I lift my heart to Thee. In all my sorrows, conflicts,
woes, Dear Lord, remember me. Dear Lord, remember me. When groaning on my burdened
heart, my sins lie heavily. My pardons speak, new peace impart,
in love remember me, in love remember me. Temptations soar,
obstruct my way, and ills I cannot flee. O give me strength, Lord,
as my day, for good remember me, for good remember me. Distressed with pain, disease,
and grief This feeble body see Grant patience, rest, and kind
relief Here and remember me Here and remember me If on my face
for thy dear name, shame and reproaches be, all hail reproach
and welcome shame, if thou remember me, if thou remember me. The hour is near, consigned to
death. I own the just decree. Savior, with my last parting
breath, I'll cry, remember me. I'll cry, remember me. Please be seated. That's what the thief on the
cross cried, didn't he? Remember me? And me too. Let's, for our scripture reading,
let's turn to Psalm 27. And I pray the Lord and the Spirit
would keep light in my life because that's what it is, Psalm 27. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies
and my foes, come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled
and fell. Though an host should encamp
against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise
against me, in this will I be confident. And this is my desire
as well as all of us, all of our believers. One thing have
I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold
the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. And is the Lord beautiful to
you? He's altogether lovely. To have mercy on something like
us. For in time of trouble, he shall
hide me in his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle shall
he hide me. He shall set me upon a rock. That's where I desire to be,
upon that rock. And now shall mine head be lifted
up above mine enemies round about me. Therefore, will I offer in
his tabernacles sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will
sing praises unto the Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry with
my voice. Have mercy also upon me and answer
me. When thou saidest, seek ye my
face, my heart said unto thee, thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face from me, and put not thy servants away
in anger. Thou hast been my help. Leave
me, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father
and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. And
I knew a brother, and many of you would know him also, he's
with the Lord now, who was thrown out on the doorstep and his mother
and father, his earthly mother and father actually forsook him.
And you know what? The Lord took him up. Dear preacher. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and
lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies. Deliver me not
over unto the will of mine enemies, nor false witnesses which are
risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted unless I had believed
to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. And
you know, we were talking at the break, you know, that how
we walk through this world and it's just a cemetery of dead
people. But when we come here, this is
the land of the living. This is the land of the living.
Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. May the Lord give us grace to
wait upon him. Holy and gracious Father, we
come before you and we've heard things that is wonderful. We've seen how our old man in
opposition will never give in, cannot and will not. And yet
this old man drives the new man to the Lord Jesus Christ. And
may it be so now, Father, that you would be pleased again to honor and glorify the Lord Jesus
Christ in whom you've caused all this to be and all this to
happen. For it's in his name we ask these things. Amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing hymn number 168 in the hardback tenor, number 168. Lord, I hear of showers of blessing,
Thou art scattering full and free. Showers the thirsty land
refreshing, Let some drops now fall on me. Even me, even me,
Let Thy blessing fall on me. Pass me not, O tender Savior,
let me love and cling to Thee. I am longing for Thy favor, whilst
Thou art calling, O call me. Even me, even be, let Thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not, O mighty Spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see. Witnesser of Jesus' merit,
Speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, Let Thy blessing
fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and boundless,
magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not thy lost one bringing,
bind my heart, O Lord, to thee. While the streams of life are
springing, blessing others, O bless me, even me, even me. Let thy blessing fall on me. Please be seated. When the self-righteous religionist
hears the gospel, he says, that's not fair. When the child of God hears the
gospel, he says, even me? Even me? Is it possible that
the Lord would have mercy upon a sinner like me? I've titled this message, Beautiful
Feet Upon the Mountains. Beautiful Feet Upon the Mountains. And my text is Isaiah chapter
52, if you'd like to turn with me there. Other than Mount Dora, we don't
know much about mountains in Central Florida. That's a joke for those of you
that aren't from around here. Whoever might be watching, Mount
Dor is not really a mountain, it's just the name of a town. Sarah knows something about mountains.
I've been up there where she lives. The scripture is filled with
references to mountains. Mountains. And I've just selected
a few of them. And I hope that the Lord will
enable us to see the fulfillment of this prophecy that Isaiah
made about the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ being beautiful
upon the mountains. When Paul quotes from Isaiah
chapter 52 and Romans chapter 10, He, under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, of course, leaves out the word mountain.
He says, a beautiful are the feet of them that bring good
tidings and preach good news. But Isaiah, when he makes this
quote in Isaiah chapter 52, says in verse seven, how beautiful
upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings
and publisheth peace. Now Paul's talking about gospel
preachers in Romans chapter 10, and the only thing beautiful
about the feat of gospel preachers is that they get the preacher
to the place to where they can preach the gospel. We run with
the gospel on our feet. But like your feet, there's hardly
not a part of my body that's uglier or dirtier than my feet. So we're not talking about the
beautiful feet of the gospel preacher apart from his work
of carrying the gospel. We're talking about those feet
that were like fine brass as if they had been burned in a
furnace that John saw in Revelation chapter 2. It's his feet that
we're looking for. We have feet of clay. Even the
seraphim, when they hover over the throne of Christ and cry,
holy, holy, holy, have to take two of their wings to cover their
feet. Why? Because our feet is a picture
of our creatureness, our frailty. Not so with the feet of the Lord
Jesus Christ. When he walks upon the mountains,
he walks with feet of brass. Feet that have been tried in
the fire of God's wrath and that have come out pure, clean, perfect. And if he's pleased to show us
how He has how the father has in fact put everything under
his feet. Everything is under the feet
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Solomon said it like this in
the song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 8. The voice of my beloved behold
he cometh leaping upon the mountains and skipping upon the hills. Now, that's my hope this morning
is that we will hear the voice of our beloved and we will see
his feet leaping upon the mountains and skipping upon the hills. Now, as I said, there are many,
many references to mountains in the word of God. There's no
way we could even mention all of them. But I have picked a
few that I think will be encouraging to you. And we're not going to
necessarily even go to all these passages. You know the mountains
when I mention them. And the first mountain I'm thinking
about is Mount Ararat. That highest of all mountains. And in Isaiah chapter 2, matter
of fact turn with me there, in Isaiah chapter two, verse two. And it shall come
to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house
shall be established in the top of the mountains. Now Mount Ararat
obviously was the first mountain exposed when the waters of God's
judgment began to recede. And here Isaiah says that the
church is like that mountain, that is the top of all mountains. Now often, most of the time when
we think about Noah's flood, We think about God executing
his judgment against the unbelievers of this world, and certainly
he was. But the word errat actually means
the curse reversed. The curse reversed is what errat
means. And I want you to think of the
flood of Noah, not so much as God cursing and destroying the
world, but rather think of it as a gospel picture of what the
Lord Jesus Christ was doing on Calvary's cross when he established
his church on the top of the mountains. And the windows of
heaven were opened, and the flood of God's wrath rained down on
the sinner's substitute as he hung on Calvary's cross. And
the floods of the deep were opened up, and the powers of hell were
exercised there against Christ and against his church. And yet
the Lord Jesus Christ, like that ark, like that ark, floated above
the waters, for the purpose of the safety of those who were
in the ark. What a picture. There's Ararat. The curse has been reversed. How beautiful are the feet of
him that walks upon the mountains and brings good tidings. The
good tiding is that the judgment of God has been reversed. That hell has been defeated.
That death has been put away. that the wrath of God has fallen
from heaven upon that ark. But the ark floated in safety
to the mountain that reversed the curse of God and gave to
those who were in the ark a new life, a new start, a new beginning. What a glorious picture. of what
the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished for us on another mountain, Mount
Calvary. But before we get to Mount Calvary,
let us go to Mount Sinai. His feet are leaping upon the
mountains and skipping upon the hills, his feet which were like
fine brass tried in a fire, his feet which walked upon the mountains
and brought good tidings, good tidings, good news, the gospel
of God's grace in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
What did he do on Mount Sinai? Mount Sinai is the picture of
the law of God. It's the mountain that quaked
and was on fire. It was the mountain that was
engulfed with the smoke of God's justice. It was the mountain
that God told Moses and Aaron, you warn the people, no one is
to touch this mountain. If an animal accidentally touches
this mountain, kill it. Why? Because no one can touch
the law of God and live. Except, except for the one who
fulfilled all the demands of God's holy law. He skipped on
Mount Sinai. He didn't fear the law of God.
He didn't have anything to be threatened by the law of God
like you and I do. He is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth. What did Paul say
in the book of Galatians? Tell me, you that desire to be
under the law, do you not hear the law? That's the religious
man. He wants to prove his salvation
by his law keeping. He wants to put himself under
the law. He wants to monitor his salvation by law keeping.
He wants to measure his progress among the other religious people
by how well he's keeping the law. And Paul says, you that
want to be under the law, do you not hear what the law says? The law says die. The law says judgment. The Lord
Jesus Christ with his feet of brass, the only one that was
able to keep the law, there's but two covenants. There's the
covenant of Hagar, which gendereth unto Sinai. And then there's
the covenant of the promise, which is the Calvary, the mountain
of Calvary. There's a covenant of works,
there's a covenant of grace. Say, what about, what about faith? What about faith? Here's what
Paul said in Romans chapter one, verse 17. He said that the righteousness
of God is revealed from faith to faith. The righteousness, listen to
this, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith, from
the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ Not for faith, but
to faith. Faith is not the cause of the
righteousness of God. Faith is simply the hand that
receives the righteousness of God. God doesn't look to see
if you're going to believe. and say, okay, you believe now,
I'll show you the righteousness of God. He doesn't make your
faith the condition of your salvation. Faith is not the cause of our
salvation, it's the evidence of it. The righteousness of God
is revealed from faith, not for faith, but to faith. And that
is of God that no man should boast. For by grace are you saved
through faith and that not of yourselves. So even our faith
is not by the law. It's all of grace. It's all of
grace. Mount Nebo. Mount Nebo. Translated, it means to prophesy. It's the mountain upon which
Moses died. It's also the mountain upon which
God took Moses to view from the east side of the Jordan, the
entire promised land. Now I've not been on Mount Nebo,
but from what I understand, it is absolutely physically impossible
to stand on Mount Nebo and see what Moses saw. which tells me
that what Moses saw was a miracle of grace. No question he saw
it. God said he saw it. And he saw
it from the east side of the Jordan. And he saw it from Mount
Nebo, which is the prophecy of God. And so the miracle of grace
is for us. The law has to be killed. The law has to kill us. Moses couldn't bring the children
of Israel into the promised land. Joshua had to do that. Joshua
is a picture of grace. Joshua is a picture of Christ.
But until the law dies, until we die to the law, until we're
put to death by the law, slayed by the law, we'll not see. We'll
not see the promised land. Mount Moriah. Noah, you read about that this
morning in the study. Mount Moriah, that place where
Abraham took Isaac and in obedience to God was going to make him
a sacrifice. And Isaac said to his father
Abraham, he said, father, here's the fire and here's the wood.
Where is the lamb? Where's the sacrifice? And what
did Abraham say? God will provide himself a sacrifice. God will do the providing. God
will provide himself as the sacrifice, and God will provide the sacrifice
to himself. God will provide himself a sacrifice. Abraham believed God. It was
counted to him for righteousness. He raised the knife to slay his
son, and about that time, God stopped him. And what did he
find? He found a ram caught in a thicket. What a picture of
Christ. What a picture of substitution.
This all happened on Mount Moriah. It's the same mountain that Solomon
later built the temple on. It's the same mountain that is
now, physically speaking, cursed by God. What greater curse could
there be by God than for the Lord to cause the Muslims to
build the Dome of the Rock right on the top of Mount Moriah. The
most law-mongering religion of the world. And it's built right
there on Mount Moriah. What's God saying? We're not
talking about a physical mountain. We're not talking about a physical
mountain. We're talking about a spiritual truth. Moriah translated
means chosen by Jehovah. Chosen of God. His feet skipping
upon the mountain. What a glorious mountain that
was. Where the temple was built. Where
Abraham offered up Isaac. where God chose a people. Mount Gerizim, his feet are skipping
upon, you could just look up all the mountains in the scriptures. The first revelation that God
made to Abraham was at Mount Gerizim, where God spoke to Abraham
and established a covenant of grace with him. And he told him
that he would bless his seed. And then that covenant was all
about the fulfilling of all righteousness in the person of Christ, the
satisfying of divine justice through the sacrifice of the
Lord Jesus Christ. That's what that covenant was
about. And God established that covenant there with Abraham. Later on, the Lord commanded
Moses And Joshua did it. When Joshua brought the children
of Israel into the promised land, God told Moses, he said, you
have Joshua pronounce the blessings of God for Israel from the top
of Mount Gerizim. And that's exactly what he did.
And then of course, who can remember, who can forget what God did in
John chapter four. when the Lord Jesus Christ said,
I must, needs, go through Samaria. There's a sinner there. The blessings
of God are to be had on that mountain. My feet, just like
my feet walked on that mountain when I revealed myself to the
father of the faithful, just like my feet walked on that mountain
when Joshua stood there and pronounced the blessings of God to Israel,
so my feet, which have been tried by fire, are going to walk upon
that mountain. Why? Because one of my lost sheep's
there, and I'm going to tell her about the water of life,
and she's going to believe. And oh, how she did. If thou
knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee, give
me to drink, thou would ask him. And the Lord was pleased to make
himself known to that Samaritan woman right there on that same
mountain, the mountain that his beautiful feet walked upon. The Mount of Olives. the Mount
of Olives, all the Olivet discourse and the high priestly prayer
of the Lord Jesus Christ interceding on behalf of his people and teaching
his disciples all took place there on the Mount of Olives. When the Lord Jesus Christ went
into the Garden of Gethsemane and began his suffering, his
passion, when he began to take on the sins of his people and
sweat great drops of blood and said, Father, if there be any
way this cup can pass from me, let it be nevertheless not my
will, but thy will be done. That happened on Mount of Olives.
There wasn't any way for God's people to be saved without the
Lord Jesus Christ drinking from the bitter dregs of the cup of
God's wrath. There was no way for it to happen.
Peter and John, they didn't know what was going on. They just
fell asleep, didn't they? They fell asleep. Isn't that
the way we are? Here are the beautiful feet of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And then the last mountain that
our Lord's physical feet, resurrected feet, touched before ascending
back into glory was the Mount of Olives. When he met there
with the disciples and he was caught up into glory and the
disciples were gazing into heaven and the angels came and said,
men of Israel, why stand you here gazing up into heaven? For
this same Jesus which has been taken up from you will come again
in like manner. Is it possible that those feet,
tried with the fire of God's wrath, brazen, brass, will, when
he returns, will return right there in the same exact spot
where he ascended into glory? his feet walk upon the mountains. These mountains are glorious
pictures of the gospel of his free grace and the accomplished
work of his redemption on behalf of his people. The Mount of Transfiguration
where Peter, James, and John were brought privately up to
this place where the veil of our Lord's humanity was taken
away for just a moment and the radiance of his deity shined
forth brighter than the noonday sun so that Peter, James, and
John were forced to their face on the dirt. And when they looked
up, Well, the Lord met there with Moses and Elijah, the law
and the prophets, and discussed with them those things that would
be accomplished at his death, the scripture says. What was
he going to accomplish? The fulfillment of all prophecy,
the fulfillment of all the promises of God, and the satisfying of
God's law. That's what he was going to fulfill.
And Peter, in his impetuous way, said, well, Lord, let us build
three tabernacles here on this mountain, one for you and one
for Moses and one for Elijah. And when he looked up, he saw
none but Jesus. Oh, and if the Lord reveals to
us the glory of his deity, if he pulls back the veil of his
humanity, that's all the natural man can see. They honor him with
their lips. They say that he's God, but they
deny the very essence of deity when they say that he can't save
without your cooperation. They're basically saying the
same thing that they said, we know him. He's a son of Joseph. We know his brothers and his
sisters. He's one of us. Oh, that the Lord's beautiful
feet would take you and I on the Mount of Transfiguration.
And that he would pull back the veil of his humanity and show
us his sovereign deity. What we'll come to conclude is
he can't fail. He can't fail. He's God and there
is no another. And what he came to do, he finished. the Mount of Transfiguration. We'll find ourselves worshiping
him as God. We won't be just honoring him
with our lips. We'll be worshiping him in spirit
and in truth from our hearts. When the Lord Jesus Christ came
out of the waters of Jordan after being baptized by John, the scripture
says, and immediately he was caught up by the spirit and taken
into the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights to be tempted of
the devil. And the scripture says, and the
devil took him up on an exceeding high mountain. the mountain of
the temptations of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what was he tempted
there? He said, if thou be the Son of
God, take these stones and make them into bread. The Lord said,
thou shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God. I'll not be tempted by you
to gratify the desires of my flesh. Well, let me take you
up on the pinnacle of the temple and cast you down. The angels
will catch you and your heel will not be bruised. And everybody
will see that you've got to be the Messiah. And the Lord said,
thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. I'm not here to win
a popularity contest. And so the Lord, so Satan took
him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the
nations of the world and told him, bow down and worship me
and I'll give you all these. Thou shalt worship the Lord God
and him only shalt thou serve. But he answered Satan's temptations
with the word of God and defeated Satan. He did for us on that
exceeding high mountain what we could not do for ourselves.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life. Eve saw that the fruit
was good to the taste. satisfying the desires of the
flesh, pleasing to the eye, popularity, and able to make one wise, give
one power. The Lord Jesus Christ stood up
against Satan and defeated him on every one of those areas,
where? At an exceeding high mountain.
You and I can't do that. Only in the person of Christ.
only as His feet walk for us. How beautiful are the feet of
Him that walketh upon the mountains and bringeth good tidings. Good tidings. Here's the good
tidings. Satan's been defeated. Pride,
popularity, and power. He wasn't influenced by it. He's
not like you. He's not like me. He conquered
Satan. And he sat down on an exceeding
high mountain. Matthew chapter 5, 6, and 7,
we have the recording of what we call the Sermon on the Mount. where the prophet of God, who
himself is the word of God, expounded unto the people of God, what?
What was the theme of the Sermon on the Mount? The kingdom of
God, that was the theme. And our Lord concluded that whole
message that took place on a mountain by saying, if anyone hears these
words, hears these words, he's like a man who builds his house
upon a rock. And when the storms come, when
the wrath and the judgment of God comes, His house will stand. Do not hear these words. Do not
be on this mountain with me. And to see the beauty of my feet
walking upon these mountains and expounding unto you the kingdom
of God, the rule and reign of the Lord Jesus Christ over all
the affairs of men, and particularly over the salvation of His people.
That's what it's about. To not believe that is to build
your house on shifting sand. Don't you love the story in 1
Kings chapter 18 where Elijah as a picture again of he that
has beautiful feet walking upon the mountains went up on Mount
Carmel and stood up against those 800 prophets of Baal and mocked
the prophets of Baal. He mocked them. I know it's not
politically correct in our society to mock another man's religion.
But I'm not too concerned about what's politically correct because
man-made religion needs to be mocked. It needs to be exposed
for what it is. And Elijah said to those prophets
of Baal, maybe you just need to cry louder. Maybe he's gone
on a journey. And at one point Elijah said,
maybe he's gone to the bathroom. You know, just call out a little
louder. Cut yourself some more. The fire of God didn't fall,
did it? not until Elijah cut up the sacrifice,
poured the water on the altar, prayed to God, and the fire of
God rained down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice, the altar,
and the water, and at the end, the fire itself was quenched.
What beautiful feet the Lord Jesus Christ had as he not only
pictures the prophet Elijah defeating the religions of this world,
but as he pictures that sacrifice consuming the fire of God's wrath
and quenching it so that we'd have nothing to fear. How beautiful
are the feet of him that walketh upon the mountains and bringeth
good tidings. We can't think about the mountains
and the scriptures and this is just a sampling without thinking
about Mount Calvary. Mount Calvary, where the Lord
Jesus Christ willingly laid down his life for the sheep, where
he took in his body all the sins of all of God's people, Cursed
is he that hangeth upon a tree. He laid down his life for his
sheep. He took our sins. He suffered the wrath of God's
judgment. And he cried from that cross
on Mount Calvary, It is finished. It's finished. There's nothing
more for you to do. It's accomplished. And he bowed
his mighty head and he cried, Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit. Faithfully believing in God to
the last breath of his life there on Mount Calvary. Satisfying
the demands of faithfulness. You're not faithful, I'm not
faithful, but he was. Why? Because that's where his
feet became fine brass. That's where they were tried
in a furnace. That's where his feet became
beautiful. That's where the good news was
accomplished on Calvary's cross. And I conclude with Mount Zion. Because that's where we are right
now. That's where we are right now. Mount Zion. Our risen Savior rules in heaven
and in earth, but he's only acknowledged, he's only worshipped, he's only
believed in on Mount Zion. For everything he did was for
his church. It was for his bride. He is the head of the body. The fullness of him is Mount
Zion. He's the one who filleth all
and is in all. Zachariah put it like this, thus
saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion. Oh, has his feet been skipping
on the mountains for you this morning? Has he been showing
you his work? Has he been giving you hope?
He said, I have returned to Mount Zion and will dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth and
the mountain of God. Here's where the truth of God's
grace is preached. In Mount Zion, behold, I lay
in Zion a foundation, a stone, a tried stone. This stone has been tried by
the pressure of God's wrath, it's been tried by Satan, it's
been tried by the contradiction of sinners, and it's been proven
precious. A precious stone, a priceless
stone, a cornerstone. He that believeth on him should
not be confounded. Unto you, therefore, which believe
he is. Peter uses the word precious,
but he doesn't use it in the same sense that we use it. When
Peter talks about the stone that Mount Zion is built on, he's
not talking about a precious little child. The word there
actually means priceless. Priceless. It means they can't
put a value on it. We call things priceless, but
generally speaking, everything in this world's got a price.
But he doesn't. He doesn't have a price. You
can't buy him. You can't offer enough to sway
him. If he's going to have mercy upon
your soul, he's going to do it by his free and sovereign grace. He is priceless. Priceless. And if he does that
for you, he'll be priceless to you. He'll be the pearl of great
price. You will have sold everything
for him. For you'll know that it all counts
on him. To the unbeliever, the stone
which the builders disallowed, God has made the head of the
corner, the stone of stumbling, the rock of offense. Where is this rock? It's in Zion. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
2. Verse two, and it came to pass
in the last days, it shall come to pass in the last days, it
has come to pass in the last days. For we are in those days
now. That the mountain of the Lord's
house shall be established. That means firmly established. can't be toppled. In the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and
all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and
say, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways. And we will walk in his paths,
for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem, the city of peace. The voice of my beloved, behold,
he cometh. leaping upon the mountains and
skipping upon the hills. We've only looked at a few of
the mountains in the scriptures. There's many, many more. But
I'm sure that if we investigated every single one of them, it
would reveal the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
you For the revelation of truth that you've given to us in your
word, we thank you for eyes to see. And we ask, Lord, that you
would show us how beautiful are the feet of him that walketh
upon the mountains. Those feet of fine brass, tried
in the furnace of thy wrath, bringing to us the good news
of Thy free grace, for we ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Come we that love the Lord, and
let our joys be known. Join in a song with sweet accord. Join in a song with sweet accord. And thus surround the throne. And thus surround the throne. We're marching to Zion. Beautiful, beautiful Zion, we're
marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God. Let those refuse to sing who
never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King, But children
of the heavenly King, May speak their joys abroad, May speak
their joys abroad. We're marching to Zion, beautiful,
beautiful Zion. We're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God. The hill of Zion yields a thousand
sacred streets Before we reach the heavenly fields Before we
reach the heavenly fields Or walk the streets Or walk the
golden streets We're marching to Zion Beautiful, beautiful
Zion, we're marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God. Then let our songs abound and
every tear be dry We're marching through Emmanuel's ground We're
marching through Emmanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high To fairer
worlds on high We're marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful
Zion. We're marching upward to Zion,
the beautiful city of God. I have my own. Yeah, this is
like right there. I have my apartment.