If you still have your Bible
open to Psalm 119, see that word law? When we hear that word,
we think about 10 commandments. We hear precepts, we think of
10 commandments. The law is the whole word of
God, but our text this morning is gonna give us three commandments.
They're not the kind of commandments the wheel worker thinks of when
he hears the word commandments. But you notice there, the Lord
said, or the writer said, verse six, I shall not be ashamed when
I have respect unto all thy commandments. We're gonna hear in our text
today, the Lord's gonna say how you're not gonna be ashamed.
And he's gonna show us how we're gonna have respect to all these
commandments. Let's go to Isaiah 54. Isaiah
54. Isaiah 53 had declared that Christ
came and kept the whole law of God for his people, went to the
cross and justified his people, made us the righteousness of
God in him. And now here's his word to his
church. Isaiah 54, 1. He gives us three
commandments. Here's the first one. Sing. Sing. Sing, O barren, thou that didst
not bear. Break forth into singing, cry
aloud, thou that didst not travail with child, for more are the
children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,
saith the Lord. Here's another command. Enlarge
the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains
of thine habitations. Spare not, lengthen thy cords
and strengthen thy stakes. Why? For thou shalt break forth
on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit
the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Here's
another command, fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed. That
Psalm said, I won't be ashamed when I have respect to all his
commandments. He said, fear not, thou shalt not be ashamed. Neither
be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame. For
thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember
the reproach of thy widowhood any more. Here's how this promise
is sure to us right here. For thy maker is thine husband,
the Lord of hosts is his name, and thy redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called. I've
titled this Christ, His Bride, and His Children. Christ, His
Bride, and His Children. God has made everything to glorify
his son. And marriages to glorify his
son, the office of a husband and wife glorifies his son, father
and children glorifies his son. What we see here in this passage
is this promise is sure because the true church is Christ's bride. Christ's bride. And we're the
mother of his children. Through the church, preaching
the gospel, Christ will produce an abundance of children. All
those that he justified shall be born, created of him. Now
that's the promise he gives us, that's why he tells us to sing,
that's why he tells us to enlarge, enlarge the space, and that's
why he tells us to fear not. Now let's begin here, and I'm
gonna kinda have to set some things up here to get to our
text, but let me just tell you plainly, the true church is the
bride of Christ. The true church. That's the people
God chose and gave to his son. God made marriage to picture
this. It says there in verse five,
thy maker is thine husband. God made a bride for Adam, Eve,
and he married them. He married Adam and Eve to picture
Christ and his bride. In eternity, here's what it was
picturing. In eternity, God chose a people,
the church, and gave them to his son to be his bride, to be
his bride. The church is his bride. And
Christ, in the covenant of grace, he betrothed us to himself. That's, troth is an old English
word. He betrothed us to himself. He
promised God the Father he would save us by his works, by what
he would do for us, honoring the law for us, justifying us,
calling us, keeping us, producing us, creating us. I mentioned
Hosea and Gomer, Hosea being a picture of Christ. In that
passage in Hosea 2.19, this is the word of Christ before the
world was made. Speaking of his bride, the church,
he said, I will betroth thee unto me forever. Yea, I will
betroth thee unto me in righteousness. He's that righteousness. I'll
betroth thee unto me in judgment. He settled the judgment of his
people. In loving kindness and in mercies, as we saw this morning,
he makes us to see his loving kindness, his mercy to us by
calling us. I will even betroth thee unto
me in faithfulness. Everything he does for us is
by his faithfulness. We're saved by the faith of Christ.
He said, and thou shalt know the Lord. He does it all, and
he says, and here be the result. You'll know the Lord. You shall
know the Lord. When he called us to faith, he espoused us to
himself. We were engaged to him. That's
what espouse means. But that's, in the scripture,
espouse is, it's more than what our engagement is. It's a done
deal when you're espoused as when Christ calls you. Paul said,
I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy for I've espoused you
to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. In the day when judgment has
been declared that Christ has saved all his people, in that
day when he brings us to glory, we'll enter the marriage supper
of the Lamb. Look at Revelation 19, 7. Revelation 19, 7. Let us be glad and rejoice and
give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his
wife has made herself ready. How so? And to her was granted. given by Christ to us. To her
was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean
and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints. It's Christ's righteousness with
which he roped us like a snow white gown. And he said to me,
write, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage
supper of the lamb. And he said to me, these are
the true sayings of God. This is why marriage exists.
God created marriage to glorify his son as the husband of his
church, his elect, the bride. This is why a bride wears white
on her wedding day. That's right where it comes from,
right here. Because the righteousness Christ gives us is the fine linen
clean and white, his righteousness. Christ is the one husband of
his one bride. He's the one husband of his one
bride. Turn with me to Ephesians 5.
Ephesians chapter 5. God made marriage between one
man and one woman to picture the marriage between Christ,
our one husband, and his one bride, the church, made up of
all those God chose to save. Verse 22, wives, Ephesians 5,
22, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, to your
one husband, as unto the Lord, for the husband's the head of
the wife. Now here's why. Even as Christ
is the head of the church, and he's the savior of the body,
Christ is, therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ,
So let the wives be to their own husbands and everything.
Husbands, love your wives. Here's why. Even as Christ also
loved the church and gave himself for it, for that one church,
his one bride, for his elect in particular, that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
that he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having
spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and
without blemish. So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself, for no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth
and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church, for where members
of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause
shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined
to his wife, and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great
mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless,
let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself,
and the wife see that she reverence her husband." So Christ's marriage
was created by God to picture Christ, the husband, married
to his one bride, the church. Isaiah 53 declared how Christ
loved the church, gave himself for it, how he justified us,
made us the righteousness of God. And that's so of every elect
child that makes up the church. Now, the illustration in the
garden was this. God put Adam in a deep sleep. He cut his side, and he brought
out a rib, and he created Eve from that rib. That pictured
Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ went to
the cross, and on the cross, he laid down his life, and from
his wounded side, pierced by the soldier, flowed out blood
and water. The blood represents the truth
that Christ is the righteousness of God. By his blood, he died
under the justice of the law. The water represents that through
the washing of the water of the word and the washing of regeneration
by the spirit of God, he washes us from our impurity and our
defilement and makes us holy, makes us clean. Christ is both
the righteousness and the holiness of his people. He's the gospel
we preach, how that he laid down his life and justified us and
made us righteous and holy, and through that message, he cleanses
us with the washing of water by the word. Remember he said
you must be born of the water and of the spirit. The message
is all of Christ, how he justified us and made us holy, and how
Then through it, He comes and actually washes us through this
water, regenerates us, makes us whole, makes us know Him,
makes us see that in Him and by Him we're holy and without
blemish. And He's going to present us to the Father one day in that
pure white garment of His righteousness, holy and white, without blemish
or any such thing. You see, there's a false church,
and when the false church, they preach that Christ died for all
without exception, They're teaching a husband to love all wives,
not just your one wife. Christ came and laid down his
life for his one wife, made up of the elect God gave him. And
they ruined the whole picture of what this picture of marriage
is to picture. Christ loved his one church,
the elect in particular. He laid down his life for his
one church. Now let's talk a minute about
headship. God made Adam a legal head and a seminal head over
his family. That means, as the legal head,
Adam, by his disobedience, he made all his children guilty.
He represented them all legally, and he made all his children
guilty. But he pictured Christ, and Christ, as the legal head
of his family, by his obedience, laying down his life, even to
the death of the cross, he made all his He made his bride righteous
and all his children righteous. And Adam was a Seminole head
through natural generation, through his wife Eve, natural generation. Being born of corrupt seed because
Adam was corrupted in his nature by his sin, his corrupt seed
produced a child with a defiled, dead, sin nature on down to you
and me. But Christ, through his bride,
through the church, through regeneration, supernatural regeneration, using
this gospel, which is preaching the word, preaching Christ and
what he's accomplished for us, that's the incorruptible seed
by which he creates a new child within his people, makes us to
be born again. And that new man is holy. and
can't be corrupted by his incorruptible seed. Everything the Lord has
done in creation is to picture Christ. You got marriage that
pictures Christ, you got the father being the legal and seminal
head of the family pictures Christ, the mother and her relationship,
the bride and her relationship to her husband, the mother and
the relationship to the father, it's all pictures Christ. Now
look here in our text. It speaks of two wives. Verse
one, sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear. Break forth into
singing and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child.
For more are the children of the desolate than the children
of the married wife, saith the Lord. The true church, Christ's
bride, is the desolate. We were the desolate, the barren
woman. We're the woman who did not bear
children, who did not travail with child. Sin desolated every
one of God's people. It desolated his true church,
his bride. The one that's called the married
wife here is of the old covenant. Those who preach works of the
old covenant. They're preaching another gospel
that's not another. They're preaching work, salvation
by man's will. Now listen, the true bride, the
true church, is in submission to Christ our husband. Because
he's the savior of the body. We need him to do everything
to save us. So we're in submission to him, depending upon his righteousness
and his holiness to make us accepted with God. So we submit to him. But the false church, the married
wife, this is her message. She says, you have to, let Christ
save you. You have to let him have his
will. She usurps authority over her husband, over her false Jesus,
and teaches people that he's in submission to you. You have
to let him do what he wants to do. You see how dishonoring that
is to Christ? And you look at the married wife,
people are all around, there's people flocking to hear that
message. Psalm 12.8 says, The wicked walk on every side when
the vilest men are exalted. You put it in a man's hand and
tell him salvation's up to him, that doesn't offend anybody.
They will walk on every side to hear that message because
you're exalting vile men. But when you preach the truth
of the gospel, it takes Christ to create life. Now, when this
Forest Church creates children. They're not children of the promise,
they're children of the flesh. They're produced by man, by man's
will, by the works of the law, using another gospel, which is
not another. The true wife preaches the word
and gives Christ all the glory, and she submits to Christ, and
she trusts Christ to produce the children in his time. We can't produce children. We
didn't prevail. We're barren by nature. We can't
make spiritual children. We're depending on Christ our
husband to make the children. Now, go with me to Galatians
4. I want to show you that I'm not
just making this up. Galatians 4, verse 21. Galatians 4, 21. Tell me, ye that desire to be
under the law, do you not hear the law? For it's written that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman,
see there's two wives here, two brides, just like our text. There's one son born from a bondmaid,
the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by God's
promise. Which things are an allegory?
You hear me say, that's a picture, that's a type, that's what he's
saying. They're an allegory, for these are the two covenants.
The old covenant of works and the new covenant of grace. For
these are the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, where
God gave the law, which gendereth to bondage. It brings men into
bondage under the yoke of the law. which is Hagar, that's who
she represents. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage
where their children. The Pharisees preached works,
they were in bondage, that's who was causing the Galatians'
problems, they come in there saying, well, it's not enough
to believe Christ, you gotta go back to the law, and except
you keep the law, you can't be saved. But, now verse 26, now
here is the desolate wife who Christ makes fertile. Look, verse
26, but Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother
of us all. Uh-oh, here's our text, for it's
written, rejoice thou barren that bearest not, break forth
and cry thou that travailest not, for the desolate hath many
more children than she which hath a husband. That's our text.
Now, we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
We were created by God. Christ produced us through the
gospel, through the mother, the church, preaching the gospel
to us. He produced us children, so we're children of promise.
But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted him
that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless,
what sayeth the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her
son, for the son of the bondwoman should not be heir with the son
of the free woman. Grace and works will never mix.
God said, there's not gonna be no children of works in the glory
with Him, just children He produced. So then, brethren, we're not
children of the bondwoman, not children of the law, not children
of the works of the flesh, but we're children of the free, of
free grace. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free. Be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage. I behold, I pause, saying to
you, if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Turn
with me to 1 Peter 1. So Christ is the husband. He
tells the church, now you sing, you're barren, but you're gonna
have some children. The church is, Christ is the
husband, the father of his children, the church is his bride, the
mother of those children that he promises to produce. And we
preach Christ, we preach the gospel, because this is the message
through which, it's the incorruptible seed through which Christ's gonna
produce his children. 1 Peter 1 verse 21. It says, verse 21 says, who by
him, who by Christ, do believe in God that raised him up from
the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might
be in God. Seeing you have purified your
souls and obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love
of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure
heart fervently, watch now, being born again, not of corruptible
seed, that's how we were born the first time by Father Adam,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God. which liveth and
abideth forever. We couldn't produce this in ourselves,
and we can't produce it in anybody else, for all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass, whether
the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth
forever, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached
unto you. See, that's why it's so dishonoring
to my Savior, whenever the false church preaches that it's up
to the sinner to let Christ save them and that they add their
works to what he's done to make themselves righteous or holy,
it's dishonoring to him. And the reason it's so dishonoring
to him, brethren, is because they're putting it all in the
sinner's hand rather than declaring it's Christ who must justify
us and make us righteous and who must make us to be born again
and must create us anew. and he does it through the mother,
the church, preaching the gospel, the incorruptible seed, he creates
his children. And so it's dishonoring to put
it in the hand of the sinner. That's why we don't preach man,
we preach Christ. He gets all the glory. He effectively
creates his children. So he says to you and me, brethren,
he says, sing, O baron. break forth into singing and
cry aloud. After Isaiah 53 declared how he justified his people,
how he made us righteous and holy by his work, how he made
intercession for us, now he comes to Isaiah 54 and he says, now
you sing, you sing, because I'm gonna produce some children through
this gospel. All that I redeemed, I'm gonna
produce through this gospel. Now verse two, the Lord commands
us to expect that the Lord shall call his people through this
gospel. He says, verse two, enlarge the place of thy tent. Let them
stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation. Spare not, lengthen
thy cords and strengthen thy stakes. Here's why, thou shalt
break forth on the right hand and on the left. And thy seed
shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited. And again, why is this gonna
happen? Verse five, because thy maker
is thine husband. The Lord of hosts is his name,
that means he rules All creation, in heaven, earth, hell, heat,
everything, the devil, good men, bad men, everybody's under his
sovereign hand and his rule. And he says, and I'm thy redeemer. I'm the one that redeemed you
from the curse of the law, being made a curse for you, made you
righteous, and I'm your holy one. I'm the one that made you
holy. The God of the whole earth shall he be called. He will have
a children, not just among the Jews, but among the Gentiles.
After Christ said it's finished, and was buried, he arose, and
then he ascended to the Father. And on the day of Pentecost,
he did what he promised to the prophet Joel he would do. He
said, I'm gonna pour out my spirit, and I'm gonna cause the men to
prophesy, to preach, and I'm gonna create children. And that's
what he did. Those apostles said, They just
saw everybody in Jerusalem turn on Him and crucify Him, and they
were ready to leave. They were ready to depart. And
they got as far as Bethel, and they're sitting there waiting,
and they don't want to go back to Jerusalem. And the Lord appeared
to them, and He said, Go back to Jerusalem. Go back to the
very place where they just saw Him crucified. He said, You go
back there. You can read all about this in
Acts 1 and 2. He told them, Go back there. They said, well,
Lord, are you gonna restore the kingdom right now? He said, it's
not for you to know what I'm gonna do. He said, you go back
there and you preach this gospel. And they went back there, and
the Lord fulfilled what he said he would do in Joel. He poured
out the Holy Spirit, and he gave the apostles the ability to preach
this gospel in languages they had never learned, because he
said in our text, These children I'm gonna birth are not gonna
be only among the Jews, they're gonna be from among the Gentiles.
And there was all kinds of nations there at Jerusalem. And those
men started preaching the gospel. They preached Christ. Peter stood
up and he said, this same Jesus whom you have crucified, God's
made him both Lord and Christ. He's done this that you see happening
right here. And they preached David, David's
not the king. David's, he's buried and his
sepulcher's with us to this day. He pictured Christ the king.
Christ is risen. He's the Lord and he's the Savior. He's the Lord of hosts ruling
all with all power to work this and call his people and gather
his people and then make this gospel effectual. And he's the
Savior who we preach, who made us righteous and who made us
holy and who comes and makes us be born again and creates
a new man in us. And he preached this. And the
Lord saved, He created 3,000 children that day. This is why
He said, enlarge your tent. He had never saved that many
at one time under the old covenant because He had children He saved
under the old covenant, children He created. Everybody that's
ever been saved has been saved by the same Lord Jesus, by His
righteousness, His holiness, by the same gospel, by the same
spirit of God. But he didn't create as many
and save as many under the old covenant as he has under the
new, because he's showing this is all by Christ, by what he's
accomplished on the cross, by this gospel. And then a little
few days later, he saved another 2,000. And he's been doing this
ever since he went back to glory. And so he tells you and me, expect
that I'm gonna save my people. Enlarge the place of your tent.
He doesn't say, wait till they come in and then enlarge it.
He said, go on and start enlarging it, because they're coming. And
so he's been adding Ephesians. I mean, Acts said they were all
together and they continued together by his grace. And it said, and
he added to the church daily, such as should be said. Not long
ago, I read to you from Isaiah 43, He said, I'm going to bring
your seed. That's what he calls our children.
I'm talking to you as the mother, the bride. He's saying, our seed,
our children. He said, I'm going to gather
them from the north, the south, the east, the west. I'm going
to say, bring them. And they're going to come. And
they're going to come in here, and they're going to hear the
gospel preached. And he's going to birth them. We were sinners
by the corrupt seed by our first birth. but this new birth has
to take place. We have to be born of incorruptible
seed and Christ gets all the glory. Look back up there in
Isaiah 53.10. Here's why he's gonna do it.
He said there in Isaiah 53.10, it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He made satisfaction a justice. He put him to grieve. Now watch,
when thou shalt make his soul and offer it for sin, he shall
see his seed. And he shall prolong days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul. That's what a woman does in childbirth. You and me
didn't travail. He did all the travailing. Christ
did all the work. He shall see of the travail of
his soul, and he shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great. He arose, and
what's Christ doing now? He'll divide the spoiled with
the strong. You and me are totally weak in ourselves, but in Christ
we're strong. He's our strength. and he's dividing
all his inheritance with his people, because he poured out
his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors,
and he bared the sin of many, and he made intercession for
the transgressors. So he says, you sing, you're gonna bear children,
and go on and enlarge your tent, because you're gonna have some
children. I'm gonna bring them. Now lastly, I want you to see
this. Back in our text, in Isaiah 54.4, He commands his church to fear
not. He says, verse four, Isaiah 54, four, fear not, for thou
shalt not be ashamed. Neither be thou confounded, for
thou shalt not be put to shame. And you're gonna forget the shame
of thy youth, and you shall not remember the reproach of thy
widowhood anymore. And the reason this'll be is
because thy maker's thine husband, the Lord of hosts is his name,
Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole
earth, shall he be called. Now listen, if you get to looking
at this world and false gospel, and you start looking at troubles
and trials and the waves, you're gonna sink like Peter did when
he was trying to walk on the sea. Listen, the unregenerate
world, and I'm talking about the false church, she's called
in this scripture the harlot. Revelation calls her the great
whore. She's not faithful. Unregenerate sinners are under
the power of the devil, just like we were, under the power
of the devil. And the devil attempts in any
way he can to destroy the foundations. That's what he's trying to do.
He makes unregenerate sinners love a false gospel. You and
me loved to glory in ourselves until Christ gave us a new heart,
created a new man in us. Until he does that, men love
a false gospel. They love the message of their
will and their works because it exalts man. And he makes an
unregenerate world. We've seen this lately where
it's just like in the past 10 years or less, it's like a spirit
just came over the world, condoning homosexuality, things like that. What's all that about? It's an
attempt to undermine Christ's glory. That's what it is. To
destroy marriage because it pictures Christ the husband of his bride.
To destroy the family because the family was made to picture
Christ our father and all the children he produces and that
he keeps and raises. Christ the father, the church
being the mother and the people being the children. You know
what? God called Jerusalem, Jerusalem
works religion, Pharisees that were trying to come to God by
the works that rejected Christ, that's what's going on in churches.
Crucifying the Lord of glory afresh, scripture says, counting
the blood of the covenant and unholy a common thing by saying
he did it for everybody but it's up to the sinner. That's calling
his blood unholy. And that's what Jerusalem was
doing, that's what the Pharisees were doing. And you know what
the Lord called them? He called him Solomon Gamara.
You know why? Because homosexuality never produced
a child. It can't. It can't. And false
religion has never produced a child of God and can't produce a child
of God. It produces a lot of self-righteous
religious people, but it can't produce a child of God. Christ
gets all the glory for doing that. Now brethren, when you
see the world, and false religion is False religion is the reason
our nation is in the shape it's in right now, and it's the reason
the world's in the shape it is. The reason men think they are
so entitled is because they've been told by false preachers
God wants to save you if you'll just let him. God's got a wonderful
plan for you. You're so great and so high and
so mighty if you'll just let God have his way with you. That's
a lie. That's exalted sinners. All men's
life for generations, they've just heard how great they are
and how God wants to save them, but it's up to them to give God
permission to have his will. And it's created a bunch of self-righteous,
entitled, judgmental, holier-than-thou, God hatin' rebels. But all that the devil's done
in all of this is a completely, totally failed attempt. He hadn't succeeded. You say,
well, what about all these people that are lost? Christ's purpose
is not out of order. Nothing has failed of anything
Christ's purpose from eternity. The devil can't wiggle his toe
but by Christ's permission. Christ said to the devil concerning
Job, have you considered Job? He said, you can take his stuff,
but you can't touch him. So he took his stuff, then the
devil comes back to him. He said, okay, you can touch
his body, but you can't kill him. You say, well, why would
Christ let him do that? He never injured Job's soul. The devil never injured Job's
soul. You'll never be separated from
the love of Christ, and Christ might permit the devil to try
you, he might permit the devil to cause you some affliction
and trouble, but it's to grow you inwardly by the grace and
spirit of our Lord to teach you Christ is ruling all, Christ
is our righteousness, Christ is our holiness, nothing shall
separate you, the real you, the new man, the creation of Christ,
Nothing shall separate you from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus. Nobody that's lost. There's some elect that are lost
that Christ is gonna, he's gonna create a new man in them through
this gospel. But there's a whole bunch of
lost people that are, they want to do what they're doing, they're
having their will, and he just let them have it. You don't want
God to give you your will. You do not want God to leave
you to your will, because your will is anti-Christ by nature. and you don't want him to leave
you until you will, but he's gonna create every one of his
children anew and he's not gonna lose one of them. Now let's read
the rest, all I'm gonna do is read it. This is why he tells
you not to fear. Verse six, for the Lord hath
called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife
of youth when thou wast refused, saith thy God, for a small moment
I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In
a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord
thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of
Noah to me, for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should
no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not
be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee. He's already poured his
wrath out on Christ in our place. He said, for the mountains shall
depart, the hills be removed, this earth's gonna be demolished
one day, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with
tempest, not comforted, behold, I'll lay thy stones with fair
colors, lay thy foundations with sapphires, I'll make thy windows
of agates and thy gates of carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant
stones. All thy children should be taught of the Lord. That's
what he meant by all of that. We're living stones. He adorns us and
makes us beautiful like those stones and makes us his house.
All your children will be taught of the Lord. Great shall be the
peace of thy children. In righteousness shall thou be
established, not our own, Christ's. And thou shalt be far from oppression,
for thou shalt not fear, and from terror, for it shall not
come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together,
but not by me. Whosoever shall gather together
against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I've created the
smith that bloweth the coals and the fire. and that bringeth
forth an instrument for his work, and I've created the waster to
destroy. No weapon that's formed against thee shall prosper, and
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn. This is your inheritance, he
said. This is the heritage of the servants
of the Lord. Their righteousness is of me,
said the Lord. That's why you don't have to
reason fear. Christ is in full control of everything going on
in this world. He's gonna give you everything
you need in this earth, every lesser thing, because He's already
laid down His life for you, and He's already come and given you
this gospel. If we're afflicted, it's gonna be far good to teach
us more of Him, but you don't have a reason to fear. Sing and
enlarge your tent. He's gonna produce all His children,
and you don't have a reason to fear. Never be ashamed for trusting
Christ. Never be put to shame. That's
the gospel. by which he's saved. That's our
Savior. He's the gospel. Amen. Brother Adam.