and I know you're going to be
hard on yourself, but you think about the verse that that happened
on, the last verse of that song where it said, in that day we'll
sing a sweeter, more nobler song. That was appropriate. That was
absolutely appropriate. I preached from Isaiah 46. We're
out in California. I preached verses 1 through 4,
and I encourage you to listen to that message. mainly on the
subject here in Isaiah 1-4, verses 1-4. And if you have heard it,
you'll hear a few things in review. But I want to go all the way
down to verse 13. But we'll begin here in verse
1, and I'll say a few things as we go. He begins and he says,
Bell boweth down, and Nebo stoopeth. These were two idol gods in Babylon,
Bell and Nebo. Bale boweth down, Nebo stoopeth.
Their idols were upon the beasts and upon the cattle. Their carriages
were heavy laden, their burden to the weary beast. They stoop,
they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden,
but themselves were going into captivity. These idol gods were
not only not able to deliver their worshipers, But they were
taken down when Cyrus went in to deliver the children of Israel.
He took the idols down for the gold and the silver they were
made out of. And they were so heavy the beasts couldn't carry
them. Rather them carrying the beasts
or the worshipers, the beasts couldn't even hardly bear up
under them because they had to be carried. And so both the idols
and the worshipers were carried into captivity. They both carried
to captivity. Now listen to God's word. He
says, verse 3, hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the house of Israel. This is God's elect. God's elect. We're Jacobs in ourselves, but
we're God's elect remnant. And as God's elect, we're Israel
in Christ. This is for you who are his.
He says, you listen to me. You hearken to me. He says, you're
born by me from the belly. You carried from the womb. And
even to your old age I am He. And even to gray hairs will I
carry you. I've made, and I will bear, even
I will carry, and will deliver you. This is God's word to His
saints from the youngest to the oldest. He says, you're born by me from
the belly. You're carried by me from the
womb. That's when we were lost and didn't know Him. That's when
we had no idea who God is and didn't want to know who God is.
Yet we were conceived in our mother's womb by the Lord. and
been carried from the womb. He told Jeremiah, before I formed
thee in the belly, I knew thee. Before I formed thee in the belly,
I knew thee. And before you came forth out
of the womb, I sanctified thee. God said, I did the sanctifying.
I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet. I knew you before,
I formed you in the belly, I sanctified you to me beforehand, and I ordained
what you'd be. Now that's God. That's God. And God's carried us from our
mother's womb. He carried us from our mother's
womb. Our Lord Jesus ruled everything to make us be born the first
time, and He carried us when we didn't know Him. And then
He brought us under the gospel and caused us to be born again.
He did that. The Lord did that. Our great
Savior says here, not only has He carried us, He said, I'll
carry you the whole way. Verse 4, even to your old age,
I am He. And even the gray hairs will
I carry you. I've made, and I will bear, even
I will carry and will deliver you. God changes not. There is no variableness. There
is no shadow of turning with Him. God does not change. He
said in verse 4, even to your old age, I'm He. Now you just
think about it. Think of how much you've changed
from the time you were conceived in the womb until now. Think
how much you've changed. Think how much the world has
changed. You've seen some changes, haven't you? You've gone through
some changes. We change constantly the whole
way. God has not changed that whole time. I get tired of every
so often we get new updates on computers and everything you
learn changes. That bugs me. I don't like it.
But there's something we have that does not change. It's God
and His word and His gospel does not change. Look at Psalm 102.
I do want you to read this. This is such a blessed word right
here. Psalm 102. He said, I'm he. He said, I don't
change. I am he. Even to your old age, I'm he.
That's what he's saying. I don't change. Look here. Psalm
102. And look down at verse 24. I
said, oh my God. I wrote it down. Let me see.
Hold on one second. Let me see if it's Psalm 122.
I hate it when I do this. Psalm 122. Nope. Well let me read it to you. I
wanted you to lay eyes on it. When you get the notes you be
sure to look at the notes because I have the right scripture and
I want you to read it. Listen to this though. Thy years
are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation
of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They
shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yea, all of them shall
wax old like a garment. As a vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy
years shall have no end. The children of thy servants
shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
No change with God. The world's changed a lot since
He made it. But God hasn't changed. One day
He's going to change the world. He's going to fold it up like
you fold up your pants when you take them off. But He never changes the whole
way. So God says here back in our text in Isaiah 46, He says,
Even to your old and your gray-headed will I carry you. There's a waist-howling
wilderness from being conceived in the womb to entering into
glory. How are you going to get from there to there? Christ said,
I'll carry you. The Lord said, I'll carry you.
Even to your gray hairs will I carry you. Now, an aged believer
may not be able to do as much physically. I think that they're
not as needful in the church or in the kingdom of God, but
you are. Because you've been carried a
lot longer than the younger saints. And you can tell the younger
saints that God's word is so I want He's carried and I can
tell you this is true. And that's needful. I get sideways
and all shook up and I'll call one of God's saints that have
been in His faith a long time. And they're just so comforting
and consoling and calm and just point you to Christ because they've
already been through it and they've been carried and carried and
carried and carried and they can reassure you the Lord's going
to carry you. Now that's needful for younger
believers. So you that are aged or you're
older than somebody else, comfort the younger with that. Comfort
them with that. God promises He'll carry us and
deliver us because He made us. Verse 4, I have made and I will
bear, even I will carry and will deliver you. Now you think about
what the Lord's saying here. This is what distinguishes God,
the true and living God, from all other gods. He does it all. He does it all. There's nothing
left out right there. I've made you. He said physically
I made you and spiritually He makes you. And He said I will
bear you, even I will carry and will deliver you. God does all
the saving. All the saving. Now, God here
is going to contrast Himself with idols. He's going to show
us the difference between the true God and idols. Look what
He says in verse 5. To whom will you liken me and
make me equal and compare me that we may be like? It's foolish
for men to try to make an image like unto God and compare Him
with something else because there's nothing else you can compare
God to. Nothing. God said, I make my people. I make my people. Well, here's
the contrast. Wheel worshipers make their gods.
Look at verse 6. They lavish gold out of the bag. They don't just use a little
gold. They spare no expense for their
idols. Look at some of the church buildings
in religion. They spare no expense in what
they're building. They lavish gold out of the bag,
and waste silver in the barrels, and they hire a goldsmith, and
he maketh it a god, and then they fall down. Yay, they worship.
God said, I make my people. But he said, we're worshipers.
They have to make their god. They had to make their god. You
know image, an image, a golden image, a silver image, that word
image comes from imagination. It's an image, it's from the
imagination. And a man doesn't have to make
an image, a physical image, to imagine a vain God. We all do
by nature. We all came forth with an imagination
of how we thought God is. But whether a man makes a golden
image or a silver image, or whether it's just in his imagination,
man makes his God. He don't get it out of this book.
He may take some bits and pieces here, like you take gold and
silver and put them together and make a God, but he don't
go verse by verse and read this book and understand the true
God. He's making a God out of his
imagination. There's the first contract. God
said, I make my people. That's what separates God. He
made us in regeneration. He made us in natural generation,
and then he makes us in regeneration. He makes us. Man has to make
his God. They'll tell you they did something
to be born again. ABC, How to Be Born Again. Billy Graham wrote a book called
How to Be Born Again. They make their God. God makes
his people. The one true God gives another
contrast. He said, I carry my people from
the womb to glory. But God says, He said, I will
bear, even I will carry. But man has to carry his God.
Man has to carry his God. He said in verse 7, They bear
him upon the shoulder, they carry him, they set him in his place,
and he standeth. From his place shall he not remove.
I've heard this statement made. False preachers will say, God
is sovereign. God can do whatever He will. And God has a wonderful
plan for your life if you'll let Him. That's not a sovereign
God. Sovereign God don't have permission.
Sovereign God does what He will. You see, they're carrying their
God. They're setting their God in His place. He can't do anything
but what they let Him do. The God most preachers are preaching
has no power but man's power. The majority of preaching going
on in this world today, and I'm not bashful to say that because
it's so, the majority of preaching going on in this world today
has to wait on man to choose them, to choose their God. Their God has to wait on man
to choose him. They set him in his place, put
him in his place. Their God has to wait on man
for man to make himself be born again. He has to wait on man
for man to make himself sanctified, separate himself. He has to wait
on man for man to make himself righteous. They put their God in his place,
and he standeth, and from his place he cannot move. He can't
move unless God lets him move, unless the man lets him move.
The one true God, He delivers His people. He makes His people,
He carries His people, and He delivers His people. He said
in verse 4, and I will deliver you. But the real worshiper's
God can't deliver anybody. Look here in verse 7. He said
the second part, yea, one shall cry unto him, yet he cannot answer,
nor save him out of his trouble. The true God saves His people
out of our trouble, out of all our trouble, out of every trouble.
He's the only Savior. He does all the saving out of
all our troubles. He saved us from the curse of
the law by the Lord Jesus Christ coming down and being made a
curse in our room instead. He satisfied His own justice.
That's trouble. He saved us from that trouble.
We have a sin nature, daring sins, and we can't make ourselves
be born again. We can't deliver ourselves from
this sin nature. He came in the power of the Lord
Jesus, gave you a new heart, a new spirit, a new will, faith,
repentance, all things that pertain to life and godliness. He gave
it to you, and He didn't ask you if He could. He did it, made
you willing to bow down and thank Him that He did. That's the true
God. He saved us from us and He keeps
saving us from us. He keeps keeping us sanctified
into Christ all our days. But the will-worshippers, God,
can do none of those things unless man does it himself. That's the
difference. And this is not just, I'm telling
you, Reverend, you got all these religions in the world. You got
different kinds of religions, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, so-called
Christianity, all of it. And then in the middle of it,
you got a bunch of different factions all in each one of them,
where you can take all that out of the way. And all you got in
this world is Cain and Abel. That's the only two religions
there is. Cain worshipped the work of his hands. Abel came
through faith in the blood of a lamb. That's the only two religions
there are in the world. Grace, true religion is the religion
of grace, by God's grace beginning to end, all worked out by God,
all done by God, all given freely to those he saved. That's grace,
that's true religion, by the one true and living God. The
other religion, man has to, he made their God, he carries his
God, he puts him in his place, his God can't do anything but
what he lets him do. He can't deliver. That's the
only two religions there are in the world. I want you to be
sure to get this now, and I want you to hear what I'm about to
say. It is not the doctrine of election that men hate. That's
not what men hate. Men hate the God of election. It's not the doctrine of particular
redemption that men hate. It's Christ who came and accomplished
the redemption of his particular people. It's not the doctrine
that the Spirit of God must give us life and regenerate us and
get all the glory. It is God the Holy Spirit men
hate. Don't ever try to convince anybody
of doctrine. Tell them about the true and
living God. This verse right here would be a good place to
start. Tell them about the true and living God. It's not the
doctrine they hate. It's the God they hate. The carnal
mind is enmity against God. If they ever meet Christ, they'll
love the doctrine, and they'll believe the doctrine. But Christ
got to reveal Himself in the heart, and only He can do it.
Only He can do it. And as God says here, He says,
remember this, verse 8, show yourselves men. Bring it again
to mind, O ye transgressors. What does it mean to show myself
a man? Oh, does that mean I'll show how strong I am? No, it's
in the second part right there. Bring this to mind, O ye transgressors. Show yourself a man. Come before
God and confess, I'm nothing but a transgressor. Now let's
hear God. Let's hear the one true God declare
himself. Let's hear him declare who he
is. Verse 9, remember the former things of old for I am God and
there is none else. I am God and there is none like
me. Declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done saying
my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. The one true God declares in
Hebrews 4.3, this is the word of God, this is what He says.
He declares the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
You know what Christ is called in Colossians? He's called the
beginning. He's the beginning. And it was
all finished in the beginning. In Christ the beginning. Ephesians
3.11 says, He saved us according to the
eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. I'm not going to make you to
be an offender if you say God has a plan. I'm just going to
chalk that up to you just misspoke. But God don't plan. This book
don't talk about God planning. God purposes. A purpose, a plan
takes the edge off that a little bit. A plan might work out and
things might not work out. No, God purposed it. He purposed
it. He saved us and called us with
a holy calling not according to our words but according to
His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began. The one true God says here, now
watch, my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. No maybes, no maybes. God's the only God and He's the
only God who can purpose what He's going to do and His counsel
will stand. He will do all His pleasure.
What's His pleasure? What's God pleased to do? What's
he pleased to do? Well, we can look up the word
pleasure in the scripture, or pleased, different forms of that
word, and we can find out what God's pleasure is. Go to Colossians
1.18. I'm going to show you God's pleasure. Colossians 1.18. Here it is right here. It tells us here that Christ,
the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature,
because He created everything. It's all created by Him, for
Him. He's before all things. That includes things you see,
things you can't see. Thrones, dominions, powers, principalities. He's before all things. By Him,
all things consist. But look here at verse 18. Here's
God's pleasure. And He's the head of the body,
the church, who is the beginning. the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things He might have the preeminence, for it pleased
the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell. It pleased
God to give His Son all preeminence in the salvation of a chosen
people, and it pleased God that all the fullness we need for
every aspect of that salvation be in Christ and by Christ alone,
that He get all the glory, the preeminence. So if we're going
to take any glory for anything, we're stealing preeminence from
Christ. We're trying to give ourselves part of that preeminence.
That pleased God. He said, I will do all my pleasure. He's going to have all the preeminence.
He spoke from heaven. He said, this is my beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased. All my pleasures in Him. Well,
Isaiah 53.10 tells us this. Isaiah 53.10 tells us, Who brings
to pass the pleasure of the Lord? Look just at the last phrase
for now. I'm going to read this verse again here in a moment.
But look at the last phrase for now. Speaking of Christ, in verse
10 it says, The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in Christ's
hand. You see, the Lord chose Christ and He trusted Christ
to do all this good pleasure of God. That's how He chose to
give Him preeminence. Christ does it all. And Colossians,
the Lord said He created everything. He's the one that spoke and there
was light. He's the one that created the heaven and the earth
and spoke and there was light. He's the one that gave the commandment
to Adam. He's the one that came and saved
Adam after he fell. It's Christ the mediator who's
been dealing with sinners from the beginning. It's Christ who's
done it all. He's ruling providence. He's
working all things. The Father trusted it into His
hand. Trusted it into His hand. and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand." Well, 1 Samuel 12, 22, this is what
the Lord said. Here's what pleased Him to do.
Now, we haven't even left eternity yet. We're still in eternity,
in Christ the beginning. Here's what it pleased the Lord
to do. It says in verse 22, the Lord
will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because
it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people. The Lord chose
a people in eternity. He elected a people to save.
He's going to give Christ His glory by Christ coming and saving
a people who can't save themselves. That pleased the Lord. He did
it by grace. He chose His people by grace.
Well, Christ came, Isaiah 53. Now let's go back there to verse
10. Christ came. How are these people going to
be saved from their sins? How are they going to be just
before the law of God? Who's going to make satisfaction?
He said the blood of bulls and goats never made satisfaction.
Who's going to make satisfaction? Please God. Verse 10. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see seed, he
shall prolong days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in
his hand. Look at Isaiah 42.21. Here's what it said, please the
Lord. He begins that chapter, Isaiah 42.21, saying, Look to
Christ my servant, whom I elect to uphold. And here's what he
says about him in Isaiah 42.21. Isaiah 42, 21, he says, the Lord
is well pleased for His righteousness sake. He will magnify the law
and make it honorable. That's what Christ did because
it pleased the Lord. Pleased God for Him to come and
make the law honorable and satisfied and be bruised in the place of
His people to make satisfaction to divine justice. That's what
Christ did. The pleasure of the Lord prospered
in His hand. But God's people are dead in sins. How are we
going to be saved? You don't have to turn here.
I'll just give it to you. How are we going to be saved?
We're dead in sins. We can't hear. We can't live.
1 Corinthians 1.21 said, After that, in the wisdom of God, the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God to save by the
foolishness of preaching. By the foolishness of preaching,
it pleased God to save them that believe. We're doing this because
this is what pleased God. Nowadays, this is the generation
of sharing. You share. Everybody gets to
share their truth. You go around the room and everybody
takes turns sharing what this means to me. It don't matter
what it means to you. What matters is what God says
it means. And that's to be declared. That's
to be proclaimed. That's to be preached. That's
not to be shared. It pleased God. You know why? I just told somebody this the
other day. I told him, I said, I would have called you and talked
to you. I said, but I'm just going to
write this to you and send it to you. And I said, because if
I had called you and talked to you, I said, the whole time I'm
talking, you're going to be thinking about what you're going to say
next. And you're not going to hear anything I said. Why preach
the Word? Why is the Word written down
for us to read it? Because you just have to hear
it. You have to take it like it is. And He's pleased Him to
say it this way. All the power belongs to Christ
our wisdom. Well, but that's not enough because
we hear the Gospel. Go with me to Galatians 1. We
hear the Gospel. But if we're dead in sins and
we can't do anything, we can't muster up faith in us, how are
we going to believe it? Galatians 1.15, here's the pleasure
of the Lord. Galatians 1.15, Paul said, When
it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and
called me by His grace to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach
Him among the heathen, I conferred not with flesh and blood. I tell
you, You might listen to men, you might hear you heed their
counsel, and you might let one sway you this way, and then another
come along and he'll sway you that way, and that's just confirmed
with flesh and blood. But when it pleases God to reveal
Christ in you, You ain't going to confer with flesh and blood.
That's all over with. Now you believe Christ. And was
this according to His purpose? Listen, Ephesians 1.5 says, God
predestinated us unto the adoption of children. That's what that
is. God predestinated Paul to that time on the Damascus road
when the Lord would come and was pleased to reveal Christ
in him. And He said, He predestinated us to the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will. He said in Ephesians 1 and 9,
Having made known unto us the mystery of His will according
to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself. He said,
My counsellors, man, I'll do all my pleasure. A little man,
a little Little, ignorant, vain, weak man that depends on this
God to give him breath. Is he going to try to hinder
this God? Does he think he's going to be successful in hindering
this God from working His will and His good pleasure? Absolutely
not. Absolutely not. I tell you what,
those Pharisees, they thought they were working their will.
They would have told you after they crucified Christ, they would
have told you, don't tell us we don't have a free will. Look
what we did. We did just what we wanted to
do. And God didn't stop us from doing what we wanted to do. And
God said, you did just what I willed and purposed for you to do. You
did my pleasure. The willed worshiper puts God
in his place. Look at 1 Corinthians 12. The
well-worshipper puts his God in His place and He can't move. He just has to be there in His
place where He puts Him. That's not the true God. Let
me tell you what the true God does to His people. He not only
makes you worship Him, He puts you where He'd have you to be
put. Look here, 1 Corinthians 12.18. Now hath God set the members
Talk about His people in His church. He set the members, every
one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him. Why are you
here today? Why are you in this local assembly
and not in another one? Christ is the head. And every
member is a member of His body. And God sets the members in the
body right where it pleases Him to set them. plant some, set
some there. And you know, this body right
here in every local assembly, I've had brethren that were here
and asked, where should I worship? Should I stay here? Should I
go there? Whatever. And I don't have any problem
at all. If Lauren married Adam, and I
didn't have a problem at all saying, Lauren, you should go
where Adam is. You should go to Florida. When the Lord was
calling Brother Eric to preach the gospel, I didn't have a problem
at all saying, go. Go. Same with Kevin, go. And we should never, ever, ever,
never, ever, this body or any other local assembly, ever doubt
this truth right here. Every assembly that Christ has
established, every assembly, is prospering exactly as it should. Exactly. And here's why. Because
it is Christ who adds to the church daily such as should be
saved. He sets the members in the body
as it pleases Him. That's so. If He moves somebody
and plants them in another body, it's because it pleased Him to
do it. I'm content with that. Are you?
I'm fine with that. That's what I want. I want to
see the Lord work His pleasure. God takes pleasure in His people
who fear Him. Now get this, all this we've
been looking at is God's good pleasure. God takes pleasure
in His people who fear Him. And here's what you do when you
fear Him. You hope in His mercy. You want to be saved by mercy.
And your hope is that God will have mercy on me. And it's a
good hope. You see it in Christ. You know
He's our hope. You hope God will have mercy.
Listen to this now from Psalm 147, 10. He delighteth not in
the strength of the horse. This is it. This is fearing God
and hoping in His mercy is contrasted with your strength of your hand
or strength of trust in anything else that we deem to be strong. He delighteth not in the strength
of the horse. He taketh no pleasure in the
legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. You know what
that tells you? If a man boasting about his strength
in any regard, because that scripture said God don't take any delight
in him. Contrary to that, opposite to that, is a man who fears the
Lord so that his hope is Lord's mercy. That's all his hope is,
the Lord's mercy. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear Him, and those that hope in His mercy. What about our works? Go with
me to Hebrews chapter 13. What about our works? It's not that God's people don't
do good works, it's that the corner of religion don't recognize
them. That's the problem. Look here, but if you do good
works, when you do good works, as all God's people do, how do
you do that? Hebrews 13, 20. Now the God of
peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, was
he able to work that work? That great shepherd of the sheep,
he brought him back through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
May that God make you perfect in every good work to do His
will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight
through Jesus Christ. And who gets the glory? To whom
be glory forever and ever. Amen. That's what Paul said.
We saw it Philippians 2.13. He said, it's God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. That's
what pleases Him. See, who did He say is going
to work His pleasure? He said Christ. The pleasure
of the Lord will prosper in Christ's hand. Who did He say right there
is going to work this? It's through Jesus Christ. He's
going to work in you that which is pleasing in God's sight. And
Christ will get all the glory. Now go with me back to Ephesians
1. I want to show you this. There's going to come a day.
I just love this, I tried to preach on this one time, how
that sin separated us from God and ever since sin just been
separating people, separating people, separating people, separating
people. But in the end, here's God's pleasure, He's going to
gather all His people together in one. And here it is, this
is his pleasure. Ephesians 1.9, having made known
to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure
which he had purposed in himself, here it is, that in the dispensation
of the fullness of time He might gather together in one all things
in Christ, those already in heaven and those on the earth, even
in Christ, in whom also we've obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all
things after the counsel of His own will, that we should be to
the praise of His glory who first trusted in Christ. God's done
all this and He's going to bring us all together in one and Christ
is going to present us to the Father and say, Father, I and
the brethren whom thou gave unto me and every one of His saints
are going to fall down and praise God for trusting that whole work
to Christ. That's His purpose. That's His
pleasure. But there's one other thing I
want you to see in Luke 12. Luke chapter 12. Our Lord Jesus
said in that last day, He's going to gather up all men, gather
them all up, and He's going to say to them on His left hand,
depart from Me, I never knew you. But all His sheep, He said,
He's going to tell them something totally different. And here's
what He tells you and me right here. You get fearful, you get
afraid, listen to this good pleasure of the Lord. Luke 12, 32. Fear
not, little flock, for it's your Father's good pleasure to give
you the kingdom. That's His pleasure. See, He
didn't put it in our hand. It's all in Christ's hand. and
it's His pleasure. At the end, Christ is going to
say to them on the right hand, enter into the kingdom prepared
for you by my Father from the foundation of the world. How
is it prepared from the foundation of the world when by the Father
trusts in the whole work to Christ's hand? The pleasure of the Lord
prospers in Christ's hand. The Lord taketh pleasure in His
people. He will beautify the meek with
salvation. He takes pleasure in his people,
for Christ's sake. So, back in our text, this is
what God said. Isaiah 46. He says this to you,
child of God. He says, remember me, hearken
to me. I made you, I will carry you. He said, I'm gonna carry you
all the way to old age, do your gray hairs, and I'll deliver
you. Don't forget that. I'm working my counsel. I'm bringing
my good pleasure to pass. And to the well-worshipper, he
says the same thing, hearken to me. Look at verse 10. My counsel
shall stand, I will do all my pleasure, calling the ravenous
bird from the east, the man that executed my counsel for a country. Yeah, I've spoken it. I will
also bring it to pass. I've purposed it, I will also
do it. Hearken unto me, you stout-hearted
that are far from righteousness. I bring near my righteousness,
it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry,
and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel, my glory. He talked about the wheel-worshipper
doing the placing, placing their God where God said, I'm placing
salvation in Zion. I'm doing it. I'm doing it for
Israel, my glory. So you cast your care on the
Lord, and you trust the Lord, and you just know He's carrying
His people, and He will carry us. Let them shout for joy and
be glad that favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continually,
let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity
of His servant. That's our God. That's the true
God, brethren. I pray he give us faith to believe
it. All right, Brother Adam.