Brother Bill, when we lose those
we love and we suffer, that's what God keeps us knowing.
Of Him, through Him, to Him are all things. To Him be the glory
now and forever. We're going to see in our text
how the Lord keeps us knowing that and how He keeps us confessing
that. In Isaiah 43, God declared why
the children of Israel were being chastened of the Lord. The Lord
had declared beforehand He was giving them over to Babylon,
the whole nation. The whole nation. But He declared beforehand some
good news to His people. And he declares why they'd been
chastened by the Lord. It was chastening for His true
people. It was reprobation for those that didn't really believe
Him. But it was chastening to teach His true people. Now here's
the reason He said He was turning them over. Verse 27, He said,
Thy first father hath sinned. Adam's our first father. He sinned
and we all sinned in Him. All God's elect people sinned
in Adam. So when Adam sinned, we became
guilty. That's the first reason God gives
for chastening His elect, right here, your first father sinned.
He's saying to them, so you're sinned. In your flesh you're
sinned still. But the second reason is this,
verse 27, He said, and thy teachers have transgressed against Me.
Your preachers. He said, therefore I have profaned
the princes of the sanctuary and have given Jacob to the curse
and Israel to reproaches. The false preachers transgressed
in Isaiah's day by teaching sinners they could come to God by the
works of the law. They didn't teach them what the
law was given to teach us. The law was given to show us
guilty. And it's given to show us in all the sacrifices that
Christ is the only way to God. They weren't teaching that. They
were teaching that by obeying the commandments and by offering
those sacrifices, the act of doing those things, they could
be accepted of God. The Lord established worship
in Jerusalem. Right in Jerusalem. He chose
the priest through whom all the children of Israel had to come
through that high priest. They couldn't come any other
way before God. He chose that they would come through the blood
of a slain lamb that made atonement for them ceremonially. And He
said, and there would be the ark of the covenant and on the
mercy seat the blood would be sprinkled. That law of God was
in that ark. Christ came and He said, Thy
law is in my heart. He's the ark. He's the propitiation,
the mercy seat. And it's His blood. And He's
the high priest. And God said, and over that mercy
seat, that's where I'll meet with you. In other words, the
only way we can come to God is to come through His high priest,
Christ Jesus, to come through God's Lamb, Christ Jesus, to
come through the mercy seat, the propitiation for our sins,
Christ Jesus. So God says, it's in Christ only
that I'll meet with you. But the teachers, the false teachers,
when the ten and a half tribes split off from Judah, and rebelled
against Judah, the false teachers told the children of Israel,
you don't have to go to Jerusalem. They made another place to worship.
And they said, you don't have to go all the way up here, that's
inconvenient for you. You might have to bow and actually
confess you're a sinner to go and meet God's way, but here's
what you can do instead. And they created another place
for worship. And so Israel quit going to Jerusalem. They quit.
That's like a sinner deciding, I'm going to be probably saved
by my works. I don't have to come in Christ
alone. That's what they were basically teaching. That's what
false teachers teach in our day. The law reaches to the heart,
brethren. The law declares we're guilty
in our nature. You don't have to do anything
to be guilty. You're guilty. You are the guilt. And I am the guilt. Christ said
in His Sermon on the Mount, except your righteousness exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and pharisees, you'll no case
enter the kingdom of heaven. And He turned around and told
them, it's an impossibility for you and me. Because He said,
they're teaching you that whosoever kills shall be in danger of the
judgment. And He said, I'm telling you, if you're angry in your
heart, You don't even invent it. You don't even manifest it
to anybody. It's just in your heart that you're bitter. You're
guilty. See, that's what the law truly
teaches us. But the false preacher takes
the Sermon on the Mount and teaches you this is how you can come
to God. You have to do these things, Christ said. Christ in
that Sermon on the Mount shut us up entirely to Him only. That's
what He's doing. He's shutting you up to Him.
He said at the end, only those that do the will of the Father
be accepted. What's the will of the Father? This is my Son
in whom I'm well pleased. Hear Him. This is the work of
God. You believe on Him whom He has
sent. That's what every word Christ
teaches in the Sermon on the Mount is going to leave you confessing,
I must be saved in Christ alone. A true believer in Judah, sitting
there, he sees the nation being chastened. They are being taken
into captivity. He sees all this trouble coming,
all this sorrow coming. He hears God say, it is because
your father sinned, it is because your false teacher sinned. And
they might say, well, why then is God chastening me? Why is
He chastening me? I am talking about God's true
child now. It's their fault. It's not my fault. It's the preacher's
fault. It's not my fault. It's Adam's
fault. It's not my fault. Back up in
Isaiah 43, 22. This is what the Lord is going
to tell His true child. Verse 22, But thou hast not called
upon Me, O Jacob, but thou hast been weary of Me, O Israel. You see, God's going to chasten
His true children in love to make us see it's not somebody
else's fault. It's our own. He's going to make
each of us individually. This is what true chastening
involves. He makes us stop looking at everybody
else and blaming everybody else. He makes us look at ourselves
and say, I'm the sinner. That's all I am. I've been weary
of God. I haven't called on God. He's
going to bring you where David was brought. Against thee and
thee only have I sinned. That's where He brings us. But
when He brings you there, it's for a reason. It's for a reason
for His child. As soon as He brings you there,
He's going to remind you this as well. Verse 1, Isaiah 44,
verse 1. Yet now hear, O Jacob, my servant,
and Israel whom I've chosen. Thus saith the Lord that made
thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee. Fear
not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I've chosen.
Fear not. That's where the Lord's, you
see, repentance in faith, repentance toward God, is being brought
to say, I am the sinner, it's my fault. And faith toward God
is hearing Him say, fear not, I've chosen you, I'll help you.
That's how faith is restored in us. That's how it's restored. Now I want to show you some things
here, why we can be sure this is what God will work in His
children. And only God can work it in His
children. But this is what he will work when he chastens. And
you know, we're looking at a whole nation being chastened here.
God can chasten his individual local assembly, or he can chasten
a family, or he can chasten an individual. But in every case,
each individual chosen child of God is going to be brought
by God to say, I'm the one that sinned. I haven't called on God. If you say, well, I've called
on Him, you ain't called on Him like you should. You ain't called
on Him in faith, perfect faith. God said, you've been weary of
me, been weary of me. He gonna bring us to say that's
true. I have not served Him as I ought. See, we've got to be
brought there before we can get the rest of this because only
when we're brought to see nothing good in us will we hear what
God says here concerning how He saves and have Him work this
in our heart. But He will work. He's going
to bring His child, His true child. Oh, we'll do everything. Listen, Brother Bill asked me
this the other day. Something about, I didn't know
God's people would act and do the things they do. Listen, God's
saints will do anything any other sinner will do. We're sinners. We'll do anything anybody else
will do. Moses was a murderer. David, a murderer, an adulterer. We'll do anything anybody else
will do. But God's going to keep His child confessing that about
Himself, knowing, I can't trust me. I can't trust me. And we're seeing here in this
text how God brings His child to see He's our only salvation. Alright, first of all, here's
how we can be sure God will work this, because God's made His
people His covenant people by His grace. He's made us His by
covenant grace. And that covenant won't be broken.
Look here, verse 1. Yet now here, O Jacob, my servant,
and Israel whom I've chosen, He'll say it, the Lord that made
thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee. Fear
not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou gesturin, whom I've chosen."
Everything in this verse is speaking to the fact that God is a covenant
God who saves only by His everlasting covenant of grace. We're sinners
in our sin nature. That's why He calls us Jacob
right here. He says, Thou Jacob. But God
makes his regenerated people to be his servant. And so he
says, O Jacob, my servant. God's Israel is his people chosen
by God's grace. That's who Israel is. It's God's
people chosen by God's grace. He said, Israel whom I have chosen.
God made us and formed us. He said, Thus saith the Lord
that made thee and formed thee from the womb. These are things
God's going to renew in our heart when He corrects us affectionately. These are things He makes us
remember. I made thee and formed thee from
the womb. The womb of the morning. That's
back there before time. And even when you were formed
in your mother's womb, the reason you were conceived in your mother's
womb, and were born is because you that are His, it's because
God made you and formed you and would save you and teach you
this gospel. And because this is all the covenant of God's
grace, He chose us freely by grace, and His covenant is between
the triune God alone, He will accomplish it. And because that's
the case, He'll never cast away one He chose in Christ. He says
there, I made you, I formed you from the womb, I will help thee.
Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou jeshurun, whom I have
chosen. That word jeshurun means upright
one. He calls you an upright one,
whom I have chosen. But this name is only used four
times in Scripture. It's used three times in Deuteronomy
and one time right here in our text. And when it's used, though
the word means upright one, Listen to how the first mention of this
name is used. In Deuteronomy 32.15 it says,
But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. They waxed fat, they thought
they were self-sufficient, and they kicked against God. Thou
art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with
fatness. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed
the rock of his salvation. Can a true child of God do that? I hope that's a rhetorical question
to you. Yes. Yes. We prove it every day. But God, in His chastening right
here in our text, in verse 2, Thus saith the Lord that made
thee and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee. Fear
not, O Jacob, my servant, and thou, Joshua, whom I have chosen.
There's what makes the difference. You're gesturing. You waxed fat.
You forsook your rock. But I chose you. That's what
makes the difference. God chose his people. Believers
don't want to sin. And we really do endeavor not
to sin in this world. You avoid sin. You try to avoid
it. Think known sin that you know
is wrong. Your conscience won't let you
do it. But we do sin. We do sin. But even when we have sin, God
chastens, God corrects. He's going to keep you partaking
of Christ, your holiness. And God says, Fear not, O Jacob,
My servant. I'll help you. You're Jeshua
and whom I've chosen. Fear not. He's going to come
to His child and say, I've put away your sin. Fear not. I chose
you. Fear not. I'm your God. Fear
not. I will help you. Fear not. That's
the only thing that's going to remove our fear is God speaking
and telling us what He will do for us. Now, so the first thing here,
brethren, is this trouble is for our good because it's keeping
us knowing the only difference between us and anybody else is
the electing grace, the sovereign covenant of God, His everlasting
covenant that will not change. And secondly, at all times, the
reason that God is going to work this for His child is, if we
have God's covenant promise that He alone is able to do these
things for us and bless us, and we have His covenant promise
that He shall. He alone is able and He promised you He shall.
Look here at verse 3. Here's why he says, fear not,
for I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon
the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy
seed and my blessing upon thine offspring, and they shall spring
up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. Is anybody
here thirsty? I mean, you see your sin so much,
That you are just thirsting for God to make you know you're accepted
in Christ. That you have His righteousness.
That's what true thirst is. You want Christ and you want
to know that you're in Christ. You want to know God receives
you in Christ. That's what true thirst is. If you have that thirst,
you didn't give it to yourself. Neither did I. God did. And God promises, I will pour
water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground.
We're dry ground. That's all we are, brethren.
You know when we're the driest? When we start thinking that we're
standing on our own and we're doing things by our power and
we're really pleasing God by what we're doing and those other
folks aren't doing it like they should be doing it. But boy,
we really aren't. We are so very dry and parched
at that point. It's going to take God to come
and pour water upon us, the living water. And God promises not only
to pour out His Spirit, He promises to do so on those you that He's
already called. He says here, I will pour My
Spirit and My blessing You see, it's His Spirit, it's His blessing.
And He not only promises to do it for you, He's already called,
He promises to do it for those that shall be called through
us preaching. Your offspring, we've seen this
before. Thy seed, that offspring, that's who He's going to call
through His church preaching the Gospel. And here's the effect
when He does it, when He pours out the water, the life, the
Spirit, His blessing, His Spirit into our new man. Here's the
effect. Don't you love God's I will and
they shall? That's the effect. Christ shall
not fail. He works affectionately. And
he says here, verse three, I will pour my spirit upon thy seed,
verse four, and they shall spring up as among the grass as well
as by the water courses. Christ justified his people on
the cross, brethren. That's our guarantee. That's
our guarantee. Why do we preach? Why do we keep
preaching particular redemption and setting it forth every time
we stand in the pulpit? Well, number one, it's what God
told His preacher to preach. Comfort you, comfort you. Ye,
my people, saith your Lord. Cry unto her heart. Don't preach
to her head. Don't preach doctrine and just
try to impress her with your knowledge and intellect. Preach
to her heart. Put it in shoe leather. Preach
to where my people are, in the dust, and be right there in the
dust with them. And declare this to them. Her
warfare is accomplished. I've rewarded her double for
all her sin. So one, we preach it because that's what God tells
us to preach. But two, we preach Christ's particular
redemption and his accomplished redemption because this is the
message through which God pours the living water upon us and
the blessing upon us. You just think if you're a dry
ground and you're like a, you become like a plant that hadn't
been watered and you're all wilted and you're just drying up and
this water of life comes. He said, you're going to spring
up like willows. Like you see a beautiful willow by the water,
by a creek. They're beautiful. They're floral
and green. He said, you're going to spring
up like willows by the water courses when I do this. What
does that? It's being turned to Christ to
see He's already satisfied God for us. And we're accepted of
God in Him and we're there with Him at His right hand. And He's
worked this for us now and brought us through this trouble and He's
showing us what He's done for us to show us He's our salvation,
not anything in us. That's what's going to make you
spring up. When you hear him say, I, even I, what does he
say? Look back at verse 25. This is all what the Lord's telling
them as He delivered the whole nation over into Babylonian captivity. This is what He's telling His
true people. He first told them, you've sinned against Me. And
then He said, but I'll pour out this blessing. And He reminds
them, I, verse 25, I, even I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions
for My own sake and will not remember thy sins. That's what
makes you spring up. That's the living water. And
He promised you, I'll never cast away one of you that's been born
of My Spirit and made to trust My Son. He said then, Isaiah
43, 21, this people that I formed for Myself, they shall show forth
My praises. There's no maybes in our text.
I will pour out My blessing on them, My Spirit upon them, and
they shall spring up. That's His promise. And he said,
and your seed, this is going to happen to your seed. There's
people in this world, there may be some in this community, they
may come from afar, but there's some people, the Lord has promised
that He's going to call out through our preaching. He's promised
He'll call out. And just like He's going to create
this fruit of faith in you, those that He calls out, they're our
fruit. I'm convinced that's what our
Lord was saying when He said, He said, you've not chosen me
but I've chosen you and ordained you that you should go forth
and bring forth fruit and your fruit should remain. I think
He's talking about those He's going to call out through His
apostles preaching. It includes fruit he's going
to produce in you, but it also includes fruit he's going to
call out. And he's saying right here in our text, I'm going to
pour out my spirit, and I'm going to pour out my blessing, and
your offspring are going to spring up. And he's going to keep them. What does this bring us to say?
After the Lord worked all that for Jeshurun in Deuteronomy 33,
another place that name's used, in Deuteronomy 33, 26, they said,
there's none like unto the God of Jeshurun. The God of Jeshurun. Jeshurun is people who waxed
fat and kicked against God and forsook their rock. No, there's
none like the God of Jeshurun. Who rideth upon the heaven in
thy help, and in his excellency on the sky, the eternal God is
thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He shall
thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy
them, and Israel then shall dwell in safety alone. That's what
God does for his Jeshuruns. See, I'm trying to show you here,
brethren, that this is the promise we have from God of why He'll
keep chastening and keeping you. It's because, number one, it's
His covenant grace. I chose you. I chose you. I formed you, He said. Number
two, it's because all the blessing is of Him. He promised it. I
will bless you, and they shall. They shall spring up. And number
three, we're going to see the fruit he produces. Now when he's
done this, you get the picture here, you just take you as an
example. Here you are, you see all this
trouble come about and you see, you know, well, father's sin,
Adam's sin, the preachers have sinned, it's everybody's fault. Everybody else's fault. And then
God brings you to see, no, thou has not called on me, brought
you down. And then he showed you, but I
chose you. You're mine. I'm not gonna let you go. And
then he says, I pour my blessing upon you and my spirit upon you,
and I'll make you spring up. I will, and you shall. And now,
what's gonna be the fruit when he works this in the heart? What
is truly the fruit he's gonna produce when he works this in
the heart? Here it is. Verse five, he said, one shall
say, I am the Lord's. Now he says here, one shall say
this, another shall say... What he's showing is, this is
what... You're going to say all these things about yourself.
He's just showing here, this is what each of my people are
going to say. But each one is going to say all of these things.
One shall say, I am the Lord's. In the first hour He calls you,
He brought you here. And every time He chases you,
He brings you here. The end is our Lord brings us
to commit all to Him, trusting Him and confessing, I am the
Lord's. When do you see that? When do
you learn that? You learn it when you see that
There's no difference in you and your first father. There's no difference in you
and the false teachers. There's no difference in you
and those that God doesn't change and turn back to Himself. There's
no difference in you. But God worked it in you. And
that's when you know, I'm really the Lord's. He didn't let me
go. Do you see why the trouble is
necessary? God's left us in this body of sin to keep us knowing
and confessing this too. He's going to bring you to confess
what your fleshly name is. He said, another shall call himself
by the name of Jacob. That's our name in our flesh. He's going to bring you to say,
I am the sinner. I am the trickster, I am the
fraud, I am the vile, conniving, sinful Jacob. That's what I am. Not somebody else, that's what
I am. And he's going to bring you to
lift your hand to God. in the heart of faith and confess
to God that in Christ, the Prince who had power with God and has
prevailed in Israel, Christ our Israel, in Him, I'm Israel. Look, and another shall call
himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with
his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
These three things are what God's going to bring to all His children
to know. And this is the fruit of His
chastening love. Right here, I'm Jacob in myself. I'm the sinner. I'm the supplanter.
I've done nothing good to be kept by God, much less called
in the first place. Oh, but in Christ, I'm Israel. That's what it means. As a prince
thou has power with God and has prevailed. That's Christ's name. And he brings you to see in Christ
your name is Israel. This is the name wherewith he
shall be called the Lord our righteousness. This is the name
wherewith she shall be called the Lord our righteousness. His
name is our name. And he brings you in all this
to see I'm the Lord's. He purchased me. He bought me. If it had been up to me, I would
have just went away and forsook my rock forever. But I'm a chosen
Jeshurun. I'm a redeemed Jeshurun. I'm
the Lord's. I'm His purchased possession.
That's what He's going to make you see. He does all this through
the Gospel now. Watch him here. He says, Thus
saith the Lord. He does this through His Word,
through His Gospel. He makes you believe there's
no other God, no other Savior, but our triune God in Christ. He's saying here, these are the
things He's going to bring you to say to praise Him in true
faith when He's brought this. Verse 6, Thus saith the Lord,
the King of Israel. That's where He brings you to
see. By His Word, He renews your faith and He brings you to see,
this one who saved me is sovereign. He's my King. He's my King. The King of Israel. And by His
Word, He's going to give you faith to believe Christ is the
Lord of hosts and He's ruled everything. He's been ruling
everything that's happened in your life because it needed to
happen just like it happened. And He's going to make you see
that One who did it is your Redeemer. Look, and His Redeemer, the Lord
of Hosts. He's your King, the King of Israel,
and He's your Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts. The Lord of Hosts means
everything that came to pass, He ruled it, just like it should
have been done. And the One who did it is Christ
Jesus who laid down His life for His people on the cross.
All power and everything on earth is His. He's ruling all things
to teach His people. By His Word, He makes us believe
He's the eternal God and there is no other. He said, I'm the
first and I'm the last and beside me there is no God. See, He tells
you to run the race looking to Christ Jesus who's what? He's
the author and the finisher of our faith. He's the first and
the last. That means He's all of our salvation. And He's going to bring you to
confess it to Him that He's the first and the last and beside
Him there is no God. By His gospel He gives us faith
and He keeps renewing our faith that He alone called us from
eternity. Verse 7, Who is I? shall call and shall declare
it." He makes you know He's the one that called you from eternity.
He's the one that called you in time. He's the one that when
you were running straight away from Him right now, He's the
one that called you back and declared this gospel in your
heart. He makes you know He did it.
He makes you know who but Him could do it. That's what it means.
Who is I shall? None but Him could do it. And He makes you know and renews
you again to know that He brought all this to pass to set everything
in order for you. He said, who is I shall set it
in order for me since I appointed the ancient people and things
that are coming and shall come. Let them show unto them. For one, He's saying to you,
child of God, you're the ancient people. How ancient? You're the oldest people there
ever has been in existence. That's true because you were
formed in eternity in Christ before anybody else was formed.
That's the ancient people. And He makes you to know, I called
you at that time, I declared I was going to save you, and
I have set in order everything that has come to pass in this
world to call you to Myself. And when you are in the trial,
He makes you know, I did everything here to set it in order, to set
you in order. When did you set in order? When
you sat at Christ's feet looking to Him only, just like Mary was. The one thing needful. That's
when you've been set in order. And that's when you'll confess,
God did this. God did this. This is the fruit he produces
through this chastening work, brethren. So we're brought here.
We ain't come to the end of the trial yet. By His Word, by His Gospel, He's
going to settle you in faith so you trust Him. He's going
to renew true worship in the heart by speaking affectionately
unto our new man through this very means we're doing right
now, the preaching of the Gospel. He keeps saying, thus saith the
Lord. He sent Isaiah. All Isaiah is doing is just preaching,
here's what the Lord said. All I'm trying to preach to you
is, here's what the Lord said. I'm just trying to go phrase
by phrase and show you, here's what the Lord said He's doing.
Verse 8, this is how he does it. He says, Fear ye not, neither
be afraid. Have not I told thee from that
time, and have declared it? You are even my witnesses. Is
there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God, I know
not any. See, this is what he has been showing us from the
beginning. From the hour he called you, every trial, every trouble
you have gone through, this is what he is teaching you. I told
you from that time. Isn't that how you, when from
that time, you think about the earliest time you ever heard
the gospel, and what you heard, if you really believe the gospel,
is you heard that God is sovereign, He's working His will to save
everybody He chose for eternity, to bring us to rest in Christ,
who is our only wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
and that He's keeping us, and shall keep us, and shall not
lose one. He declared it from the beginning,
and now through every one of these trials, brethren, He says,
and I have declared it. He just keeps declaring it. And
that's how He makes you His witness. I want you to think about this.
How are we going to be made to bear witness of only Him and
only His works? How are you going to be made
to truly speak only of Christ? A witness only tells what he
knows. He only can tell what he saw and what he's heard and
what he experienced. Well, how are you going to be
made to do that? By God calling you and continuing
to work in you through every trouble you go through. He's
working this very work He's showing right here. He's working this
in our hearts. You become weary and you start
looking at others and it's everybody else's fault and you're not calling
on God. You're not even looking to God.
And He comes and He does this through the Word again and renews
you. to make you His witness that
He did it. All these things we're looking
at here, this is what David prayed for, for God to do for him when
he was in this awful state. Listen to this from Psalm 51.7.
He said, Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Wash me
and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness. Have you heard joy and gladness
in this message? I'm trying to show you the joy
and gladness that He makes us hear. to all of him, that the
bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from
my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean
heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not
away from thy presence. Take not thy Holy Spirit from
me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Uphold me with
thy free spirit." These are all the things in our text that God
said, I will do these things in you. And the result was, you're
going to give me all the glory. You're going to be my witnesses.
And David said, and when you've done all this for me, then I
will teach transgressors thy ways. Thy ways. I'll be your
witness, Lord. I'll tell sinners of your ways.
And sinners will be converted to you. That's how he makes us
his witness. He works these things in our
heart by the Gospel, by His Word, thus saith the Lord. He said,
who is I? I shall set it in order for me.
He's the only one that can do it. That's how we're made to
be His witness. That's how you're brought to
say what He says He'll make His people say here. That He's my
King. He's the Lord of Hosts who worked
all this. He's my Redeemer who redeemed
me. He's the one that poured out
His blessing and His Spirit upon me. He's ruling it all. He's bringing
His purpose to pass. In other words, you're not going
to talk about you. You're not a witness if you're
telling sinners, speaking about your works, or their works, or
man's works. We're not being a witness of
Christ and His works if we're talking about us. But He's going to keep you committing
it all to Him, knowing, I am the Lord's. By all this work,
He's going to keep you knowing, I am the Lord's. Have you heard
Him speak this morning? This is how He's going to do
it. That's when we've been brought
to the end purpose for which God gave the trouble. When we're brought to say, I
am the Lord's. He did everything for me. I really
am. And I tell you what, when each
one's brought there, that's how Christ is our peace. Because
when we're all speaking of Him to one another, and all reminding
each other of great things He's done for us, that's peace. That's peace. I pray God will
bless that.