Alright brethren, Isaiah 49.
Now I do pray the Lord would speak to us this morning and
make us hear because this is the Lord's, this is how He's
going to strengthen His people in what we see in this verse
right here. Verse 7, Thus saith the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel, and His Holy One, to Him whom man despises,
to Him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, kings
shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of
the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and He
shall choose thee. This is God the Father's promise
to Christ. This is God the Father speaking
to the Lord Jesus Christ. It's declaring to us what God
the Father promised Him. That's what Christ is doing here.
He's speaking to you and me, telling us what the Father promised
Him. He began there, and He said,
Listen, O Isles unto Me. That's us Gentiles. The Father said this to Christ,
and Christ said, Now listen to Me. And he says, verse one, the
Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother,
as he made mention of my name. He made my mouth like a sharp
sword, and the shadow of His hand hath He hid me, made me
a polished shaft, and His quiver hath He hid me. Brother Bill
just read that verse that the children are like arrows in a
mighty man's quiver. Christ Jesus was the Son of God
come in the flesh. the Son of God coming to flesh,
the child born, the Son given. That's who He is. Verse 3, now
listen to this word. And He said to me, Thou art my
servant, O Israel. He's speaking to Christ. Christ
is Israel. You're my servant, O Israel,
in whom I will be glorified. In whom I will be glorified.
Now in verse 5, Christ said, Though Israel be not gathered,
He's talking about the nation there. Though not everybody in
Israel was gathered, that doesn't mean Christ was a failure. Scripture
said He shall not fail. The Lord said in Isaiah, He shall
not fail. So He set judgment in the earth.
Christ restored God's elect in that nation. Look at verse six.
God the Father said to Christ, it's a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore
the preserved of Israel. See that? He restored all those
that God the Father preserved in divine election. But the Lord
told our Savior, He said, but I will also give thee for a light
to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of
the earth. That's who Christ is. He's God's
salvation. The Lord Jesus is the salvation
God provided for His people. That's who He is. Now what does
that mean? Here's what it means. God looked
to this one man, Christ Jesus. God looked to this one man, the
Lord Jesus, to represent and save all God's elect people.
He looked to one man. God the Father looked to this
one man to honor the whole law for his people. That's why he
came. He came into this world to honor
the law for his people. That's why he was born of a virgin.
He had to be sinless. The only man other than Adam
that came into the world sinless. And the salvation of all God's
elect, now everybody God's going to save, everybody that will
be saved, everybody God chose to save, the salvation of all
God's elect is between God the Father and that one man, the
Lord Jesus. If you're saved, it's just because
you're getting in on it by God's grace. But it's between God and
that one man. It's called federal headship.
He's the head of everybody, all the children that'll be born
of Christ, by Christ, he's the head. He represented all his
people before the law of God. And God's looking to him alone
to save. This one man served in perfect submission to God
his Father. He's the righteousness of both
tables of the law. That's what, to fulfill the law
requires perfect submission to God in perfect faith with perfect
love. And Christ fulfilled both tables
of the law. He submitted to the Father in
perfect faith, in perfect love. He submitted to the Father with
a perfect faith and love to His people. Perfect faith and love
to God and perfect faith and love to His people. He did it
in perfect righteousness with no sin, in perfect obedience. And He did it from a perfectly
holy heart. the salvation of all God's elect
now and he did this. Now listen, he's also God. So
what he did is eternal and he did it so that God, holy God,
holy, holy God who won't receive any one of us because we're guilty
sinners. He won't receive us in ourselves
or by anything we've done. Christ came and did this so that
God could receive us in Christ's perfect righteousness, in Christ's
perfect holiness, and God is just to receive us. That's why
Christ came to do what He did. And so as a servant now, this
is why the Son of God took flesh and He became the servant to
serve the Father. It's just between Him and the
Father. And as the servant, as a man, It was a must, an absolute
must, that Christ look to nobody else but God the Father for everything. It's a must that you look to
Christ for everything. Well, the same way it was a must
that Christ looked to the Father for everything, but even more
so than with you. You and me, our faith is still
gonna be mixed with our belief. Our best worship of Him's gonna
be mixed with the sin of our sin nature, and our faith is
small and little at best, and we see through a glass darkly.
Christ had to do, what He did depending on the Father in perfect
faith, in perfect love, perfect coldness of heart, perfect righteousness. And He had to do so where everybody
in the world was a sinner opposed to Him. And where He's going
to have to go to the cross and lay down His life and suffer
the death of the cross and suffer the wrath of God to justify His
people. Now listen, He's looking to the
Father for everything. Now look, verse 5. Christ is
speaking, and now saith the Lord that formed me from the womb
to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him. Though Israel be
not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God shall be my strength. That's what Christ said. The
Son of God is God, and as God, He's all-powerful. He needed
nothing as the Son of God, but He took flesh and He became a
servant. And as a servant, brethren, he
experienced all the same weaknesses that you're touched with. Scripture
says he was touched with a feeling of our infirmities. That's our
weaknesses. He experienced the weakness of
our flesh as a man. And as a man, he was tempted
in all points, tried in all points, just like you are. You and I
failed the test. We failed the test. Day in and
day out, Christ was tempted in all points like we are, even
worse than we are, and yet without sin. No sin was found in him,
not one time. He had perfect faith, a perfect
holy heart, and he depended on God alone to be his strength
in perfection. You remember, look there, he
said, I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord. You remember
in Isaiah 43, God the Father says to you who believe him,
you who are his elect, he said, since thou was precious in my
sight, thou has been honorable and I have loved thee. How on
earth could God say that to you and me? Such things as we are,
how could he say that to us? Well, Here in verse 5, Christ
says, Yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord. That
word glorious right here and that word honorable over there
is the exact same word. And in God's sight, Christ is
honorable, Christ is glorious. And Christ said, Father, I've
given them the glory you gave to me, I've given them the honor
you gave to me, so that they'll be glorious in your sight and
honorable in your sight. In Christ, the Father sees us
as honorable and glorious, perfect in Christ because of what Christ
did. Now has God given you faith to believe Christ, that He's
all your salvation? I think some of you here believe
Him, by God's grace, that He's all your salvation. Has He made
Christ unto you wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption
so that Christ is all to you? If that's the case, We're going
to hear how God the Father strengthened His Son, the Lord Jesus. We're
going to hear in this one verse how God the Father strengthened
His Son, Christ Jesus. And if you believe on Christ,
as you hear God speak this to Christ, then you can hear God
speak this to you. Because when He spoke this to
Christ, He spoke it to you because you were in Christ. But not only
that, this is what Christ is going to speak to you and me
to strengthen you and me. I want you to see this now. Here
we go. First of all, God the Father strengthened the Lord
Jesus by declaring His name to Him. This is what the Father
is to Christ. This is what the Father would
do for Christ. That's how He strengthened Him,
declaring His name to Him. That's how Christ's gonna strengthen
you and me, He's gonna declare His name. His name is who He
is and what He'll do for you. That's who He is. First of all,
God strengthened Christ by declaring He's Jehovah. God the Father,
this is just between God the Father and the one believer there
is, that's Christ Jesus. And here's how God the Father
strengthened him. He said, verse seven, thus saith
the Lord. Now, I just thought this message
and this message we preached this morning went so good together,
because you remember, what was the first thing we saw about
Abraham's faith? Abraham believed the word of
the Lord. Well, that was only by Christ
being in Abraham. Well, here you have Christ himself
And how is the Lord strengthening him? He said, my God will be
my strength. My Lord will be my strength.
How is he being his strength? Listen, verse 7. Thus saith the
Lord. There's his word. He said, thus
saith the Lord. He's speaking to Christ here. The Lord means he's the existing
one. He's Jehovah. the great I Am. He's the sovereign in heaven
and earth ruling everything for His servant. That's who God the
Father is. He's God who cannot lie. He swears
by Himself because He can swear by no greater. He's God who changes
not. God who is, and who was, and
who is to come. That's who He is. The eternal,
existing, all-powerful, all-knowing God. That's why everything God
said to Christ is yea and amen. You notice there in those verses,
everything God the Father said to His servant, the Lord Jesus,
was yea and amen. Verse 3, He said, Thou art my
servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. He said in verse
5, Yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my
God shall be my strength. That's what Christ said. All
yes and amen. No maybes to it, just I will
and thou shalt. That's what the Father told to
Christ. Child of God, our Lord Jesus is the fullness of the
Godhead. That man in that body, he's the
fullness of the Godhead. There's God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit in the man, Christ Jesus. He's
the God-man. And our Savior, is the Lord. That's who He is. He's the Lord. And this is what He speaks to
you to strengthen you and remind you of His name, who He is and
what He is to you. He's Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today, and forever. He's God who cannot lie. He's
the sovereign with all power in heaven and earth, ruling all
things at all times and doing it just for you. That's who He
is. All the promises of God in Him are yes and in Him amen unto
the glory of God by us. That's who He is. And not only
that, brethren, He's a man who knows exactly what you're going
through. He's a man who himself As He served God to save us,
He had to depend on the Father. It was a must for Him to do so.
He had to depend on the Father for everything. And He knows
what it is for us to depend on Him for everything. He knows
as a man, He knows how the Father provided everything, and He knows
how to provide everything for you. Do you get this? And so when He speaks to you
to comfort you, He's going to say, Thus saith the Lord. He's Jehovah. Brother Rupert,
talking about these promises, being in Him, yes, and in Him,
amen. Brother Rupert used to say that
when God gives His child faith in Christ, the Ten Commandments
become promises. Thou shalt have no other God.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. We did it perfectly
in the Lord Jesus Christ You're not gonna do it perfectly in
you But you did it perfectly in Christ already. That's so
of everybody Christ represented So believer the next time you're
discouraged next time you're cast down This is what Christ's
gonna say this you ever be cast down and then you just have this
It's a renewing that comes about to where I'm not talking about
necessarily just a feeling or anything like that. I'm talking
about you believe the word of God, you see God's word and what
it says and you believe him and you have a peace in your heart
and you know everything's fine. How do you have that? It's that
still small voice saying, thus saith the Lord. It's the Lord
speaking. It's Christ abiding in you and
speaking, thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. He says that to you. He's Israel,
but in him, you're Israel. And he says to you, you're my
servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. You can say that, yet shall I
be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my
strength. That's what he's gonna bring
his child to say. By speaking into your heart, thus said the
Lord. It's not audible. Nothing about this is carnal. It is in spirit. And if you're
a child of God, you know what I'm talking about. It's peace
that passes understanding. You can't explain it. Well, here's the next thing.
This is how God our Father strengthened Christ. His servant, he declared
who he was to Christ and what he'd do for Christ. Verse 7,
he declared, I'm the redeemer of Israel. I'm the Redeemer of
Israel. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer
of Israel. Now Christ is Israel. Did you
know God the Father was His Redeemer? Sure He is. God was satisfied. His law was
honored. His justice was settled. And
you know what God the Father did? He did just what He promised.
He redeemed Christ from the grave. He redeemed Him from the grave.
I'll tell you this, because He set the hour when Christ would
go to the cross, you know all those times when it said they
picked up stones and would stone Him and tried to hurt Him and
it said Christ went out of their midst and no man laid hands on
Him, His hour wouldn't come? That was God the Father redeeming
Him. Delivering Him. from the hands
of wicked men. And when he went to that cross
and he accomplished our redemption, God was satisfied and God redeemed
him from the grave. Look over at Psalm 16. This was
our Savior's faith right here. Here's the strength with which
the Lord strengthened him right here. He told him in our text,
I'm your Redeemer. I'm the Redeemer of Israel. I'm
your Redeemer. And this was the strength He
strengthened Christ and this was the faith of Christ right
here. Psalm 16, 7. He said, I will bless, this is
Christ speaking, I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel.
My reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I've set the
Lord always before me, because He's at my right hand, I shall
not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad and
my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall rest in hope. for thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell, neither, that's the grave, neither wilt thou suffer,
thou holy one to seek corruption, thou wilt show me the path of
life, in thy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand
are pleasures forevermore. Remember what Peter said on the
day of Pentecost? He said in Acts 2.31, he said, David, seeing
this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was
not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. He
said, this Jesus had God raised up where we're all witnesses.
He said, he gave us this spirit to preach in his name. He said,
David's not ascending into the heavens. He said, thee Lord said
to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand to make thine enemies our
footstool. And he said, therefore let all
the house of Israel know that this same Jesus whom you crucified,
God's raised him, God's made him both Lord and Christ. He's
the redeemer of Christ our Israel. Well, how's Christ now? He's experienced all that. He's
experienced the Father's faithfulness. And now, how's he gonna comfort
you, child of God? He's gonna come to you, and the
Father's gonna come to you. And he's gonna do it through
the Spirit. This is our triune God, in Christ
our mediator, comforting you and me. He's gonna come to you
now. And he's gonna say, I'm the Lord, I'm the Redeemer of
Israel. I'm your Redeemer. God our Father
is your Redeemer. He was in Christ redeeming his
people. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5.18, All things are of God,
who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given
us the ministry of reconciliation, to which God was in Christ, reconciling
the world to himself, not imputing our trespasses to us. He redeemed
us. And the Lord Jesus, look at Galatians
4, the Lord Jesus is going to come to His child now, and this
is how He called you out in the first hour, and this is how He's
going to strengthen you as you walk through this world. Galatians
4.3. When we were children, we were
in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness
of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law.
God sent His Son forth to do this, that we might receive the
adoptions of sons. And so Christ came and He redeemed
us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us.
And not only that, He's going to redeem you from the bondage
of your sin nature. And it says, And because you
are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore, thou art no more a
servant, but a son, and of a son, than an heir of God through Christ
Jesus. He redeems you from the curse of the law. He redeems
His people from the bondage of our sin nature, purchased us,
set us free from the bondage of our nature. And as you go
through this life, there is no possibility that anything you
suffer in this world is going to separate you from the love
of God in Christ Jesus. Nothing. For one, we just saw
that Christ, God our Father, and our Lord Jesus is the Lord.
He's Jehovah. Anything that comes to pass in
your life, He's in full control of it. But also, he's gonna redeem
you out of any trouble you come into, just like we saw in Psalm
131, or Psalm 130. He's gonna redeem you out of
all trouble, redeem you from all your iniquities, in all your
trouble. And because he bought us with
his own blood, we're his possession, and he's not gonna lose us, brethren. What, know you not your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have
of God, and you're not your own? You're not your own. You're bought
with a price. He bought you with the price
of His precious blood. Therefore, glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God's. It's that good news,
it's Christ speaking in spirit, in the heart, by which He gives
you strength in your inner man to mortify your flesh. That's
how he does it. And when you face your dying
pillow, redeems you from the curse of the law, redeems you
from the bondage of your flesh, redeems you from every trial
when you would sin or when you'd be puffed up in self-righteousness.
It's him that comes and says, you're not your own. Stop acting
like you're your own. I bought you. You're mine. Glorify
me. That's what he'll say to you.
I purchased you. I redeemed you. And when you
face your dying pillar and you need grace, He's going to give
you grace. And you know what He's going
to do? He's going to come and speak and say, I'm the Redeemer of
Israel. And that's though your outward
man is perishing, though you're sitting there moments from dying,
your inner man's going to be renewed by the life, by Christ. He's going to say, I'm thy Redeemer.
You shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God. And that's what He'll
do. The moment you close your eyes,
He'll redeem you into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
That's redemption, brethren. Redeemed you from the curse of
the law. Redeemed you from the dead flesh
that we are by nature. Redeemed us from all the sins
that would have separated us from God throughout all our life.
And He's going to redeem you at last into the glorious liberty
of the children of God. That's who He is. O death, where
is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God our Father, through Jesus Christ His servant,
He's given us the victory. I redeemed you, He said. I'm
your Redeemer. That was the strength wherewith
the Father strengthened our Lord Jesus, and he learned this by
the Father, from the Father, as the servant, so that he's
the perfect teacher as a man able to teach you and me. There's
something so amazingly profound about that, how that He took
the place of His people, not only to redeem us, but to become
a man to experience everything we experience in salvation, and
be taught everything we're taught by the Lord, so that He, as the
prophet, priest, and king of His people, can teach you and
me that He is everything in salvation. As a man, He does that. Here's
the next thing in Isaiah 49, God the Father strengthens Christ
his servant by declaring that God the Father was his sanctification. Verse 7, he said, and I'm Israel's
Holy One. Israel is Christ now. He said,
I'm the Redeemer of Israel, and thus saith Israel's Holy One. God the Father strengthened the
man, Christ Jesus, declaring I chose you and separated you
to be mine and that's how you're sanctified. I'm your holy one.
Remember what he said in Isaiah 42, 1, Behold my servant whom
I uphold, mine elect and whom my soul delighteth. I put my
spirit upon him. It brings forth judgment to the
Gentiles. Now you think about this. God the Father became His
Holy One in divine election by choosing Him to be the Christ.
And God the Father became His Holy One by pouring out the Spirit
upon Him at His baptism without measure. And Isaiah 11 too said, the Spirit
of the Lord shall rest upon him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the
fear of the Lord. I don't, I can't even, I can't enter into this. The Lord Jesus grew. He grew in wisdom and stature
as a man. He's a real man in every way. He's the only man the Father
looks to who perfectly served Him. And He did it from the womb
He was holy. And He grew up before Him. And
the Spirit of the Lord was on Him. And then at His baptism,
remember, John saw the Spirit come down like a dove and light
upon Him. And look at Isaiah 61, it's right there to your
right. This is what Christ declared,
look. Christ said, the Spirit of the
Lord God's upon me because the Lord hath anointed me. This is
how God is His Holy One. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me. The Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach
good tidings to the meek. He sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison
to them that are bound. He sent me to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord. That is, He sent me to preach
the gospel, to be the gospel and to preach the gospel. And
the day of vengeance of our God. All of that happened on the cross.
He said, He sent me to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the Spirit
of heaven is, that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified. This is
the word of His power by which God our Father is going to make
Christ's sanctification unto you and me. He said to Christ,
I'm your Holy One, and by making us know it's Christ who the Father separated to be the
Savior, to redeem us, and to preach the gospel to us. It's
this word of the gospel whereby God makes Christ your sanctification. He makes you to hear Christ say
to you, I'm your Holy One. I'm the one who made you holy.
He makes you know this in the heart that God the Father sanctified
us in Christ. He chose Christ and then He chose
us in Christ and that's how He became our Holy One. Christ sanctified
us by His one offering on the cross fulfilling the will of
the Father because we couldn't fulfill the will of the Father.
And then the Spirit of the Lord comes in and creates an entirely
new man, and Christ is formed in you, and you become a partaker
of His holiness, and He makes you know, I'm your Holy One! And I tell you this, when you
and me get turned sideways, and whether it's sin or whether it's
self-righteousness, and they're equally as bad. No, actually,
self-righteousness is worse. Because the Lord told the Pharisees,
He said, Sodom and Gomorrah, He said that they'd go in before
you would. Self-righteousness is worse.
He said, if I'd have come to them, they'd have repented a
long time ago. But when you're in any one of those states, brethren,
the Lord Jesus comes through this gospel and He speaks to
your heart. He says, I'm your Holy One. I'm your holiness. and He chastens you in heart,
He convicts you in heart, and He makes you turn to Him and
fall down on your face, and He keeps you partaking of His holiness. This is how the Father strengthened
Him. Now, I want you to get here.
Did the Father strengthen our Lord Jesus with the law? No. Why? He's a righteous man. The law wasn't made for a righteous
man. How did he strengthen him? He strengthened him by declaring
who he is and what he is to the Lord Jesus. Well, how do you
think Christ is gonna strengthen you and keep you walking by faith? That's just what he did with
Abraham before Abraham gave the law. He's not gonna come and
whip you with the law. He's gonna come and declare to
you, I'm the Lord, I'm Jehovah, I'm thy redeemer, I'm thy holy
one. And that's how He's going to
keep you walking by faith, looking to Him and trusting Him. You
get that? That's what I was trying to show you this morning with
Abraham. This is the word of His power
by which God our Father makes Christ's sanctification to us.
Now, secondly, look at this. God our Father strengthened Christ
our Savior when He was rejected of men. Christ says, this is
what God, my Father, promised me. This is what Christ is speaking
now, and he says, when I was despised and rejected, this is
what he promised me. Look here in verse seven. Let's
read the whole thing. Thus saith the Lord. Now get
this, it says, God, the Father, is speaking to the one man, Christ
Jesus. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer,
let's put Christ right there so you get this. Thus saith the
Lord, the Redeemer of Christ, the Holy One of Christ, His Holy
One, to Him whom man despiseth, to Him whom the nation abhors,
to the One who made Himself a servant of rulers. He said, Kings are
going to see you, and they're going to arise, and princes also,
and they're going to come and bow down and worship you. because
of the Lord that's faithful and the Holy One, your Holy One,
and He'll choose thee. That's what the Father told Christ.
That's how He strengthened Him, right there. He promised His
righteous servant, though you've been despised and rejected of
men, though your own nation abhors you. though you made yourself
a servant of rulers because you've pleased me. There's coming a
day because you manifested my righteousness and because you
satisfied my justice and because you saved my people and I'm satisfied
and I'm well pleased. There's coming a day when kings
shall see you and princes will come and they're going to bow
down and they're going to worship you. And every knee is going
to bow and every tongue confess that you're king of kings and
lord of lords. That's what God the Father promised to Christ.
That's what He promised to Christ. And He said, I'm going to do
this because the Lord that's faithful. I'm going to do it
because I'm faithful. I'm going to do it because I'm
your holy one. He said, I'm going to do it because I chose you.
That's why I'm going to do it. because I chose you. Look at
verse 22. Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I lift up my hand
to the Gentiles, I set my standard to the people. They'll bring
thy sons in their arms, thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders,
kings shall be thy nursing fathers, queens thy nursing mothers, they'll
bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, they'll lick
up the dust of thy feet, and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Brethren, God
gave Christ the glory. God has promised Christ this,
and he's given the glory that before he brings us to pass with
men that are not his, he gave Christ the glory of sending this
gospel to those Christ redeemed. And so Christ sends this gospel
to you, and in our dead state, we despised him. And he comes
to us, and he gives us a new heart to love him. In our dead
state, we were the nation that abhorred Him. We were among all
the rest of that nation that abhorred Him when He come and
God the Father translated us into the kingdom of His dear
Son and made us His one holy nation. Christ did this. and
God the Father. We thought we were the kings
and the princes reigning without Him. Christ came to us and He
gave us a broken heart and a contrite heart and He brought us to bow
and ask mercy of Him and He showed us His love and His mercy and
His grace and He showed you, I'm your Lord, I'm your Redeemer,
I'm your Holy One and He made this covenant promise in your
heart. I'm going to raise you up to be with me and Everybody
that's despised and rejected you is going to bow down and
lick the dust of your feet. And now we submit to Christ,
and we look to Christ Jesus, and we trust He's our Lord, and
He's our Redeemer, and He's our Holy One, He's all our righteousness.
We depend on Him to be all our strength, just like He did the
Father. And by His grace, now we know He's the Lord, and we're
not ashamed to wait for Him. We're waiting by the Spirit.
We wait for the hope of righteousness through faith. We're waiting
on Him. When trouble comes, By the Spirit, we wait for the hope
of Christ to come and work righteousness through faith. We wait on Him
to come and work it out. And it's all because, verse 7,
because of the Lord that's faithful and the Holy One of Israel. It's
because of God our Father who's faithful, and it's because of
His Holy One, Christ Jesus, who saves you and me, His elect Israel. God chose His Son to be our salvation. He chose Him to be the man, Christ
Jesus, and He chose Him to be the mediator so that as a man
now, as God who accomplished our salvation and as a man, He
can come and having experienced all this Himself from the Father,
He comes and He teaches you and me, and He strengthens you and
me just as the Father did Him. Christ's perfect submission.
Christ's perfect dependence on the Father to be His strength.
Brethren, that's the righteousness of everybody that believes on
Him. He's our righteousness. What He did, what we see Him
doing, trusting the Father, and perfectly believing God, and
trusting God for everything, and serving for His people through
every cross He had to bear, and that ultimate final cross. This
is our righteousness. This is the fulfilling of both
tables of the law for us. And when He declares His name
in our hearts and He keeps us obeying Him and trusting Him
like He trusted the Father. But not nearly like Him. He did
it in perfection. But He's the perfection of our
little faith. But here's what I've been trying
to show you through the whole thing. Go to Hebrews 5.8. Here's what we see in all of
that. The Father teaching Him and Him teaching us by what He
learned from the Father. Hebrews 5.8 says, Though he were a son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered, and being made perfect, having
established perfect obedience for his people, and being made
the perfect Captain of our salvation, the perfect Savior of His people,
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey Him. Do you see that? Do you see that? There's a mediator in that verse. You see, He's a son between His
people and the Father, and though He's a son, He becomes a servant
and He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. He
trusted the Father to be His strength in everything. And having
done so, He perfected His people and perfected us forever. And now, as the God-Man who is
the Prophet, Priest, and King of His people, He's teaching
you and me and speaking those very words of comfort into our
heart. And teaching us, now you obey me. You trust me. and His
perfect righteousness, His free forgiveness saves us, even when
we don't obey Him perfectly. He obeyed perfectly for us, and
yet He saves us. That's just something beautiful
and amazing, and you never get to the bottom of that. It's so
beautiful. I know I'm stumbling around,
but I pray to the Lord to make that clear to you, and bless
it to your heart. All right, Brother Adam.