Let's turn to Isaiah chapter
44. Isaiah 44 verse 21 begins with
these words, Remember these, O Jacob and Israel. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel. We sometimes think that we can
stand. And we sometimes think that, think those things for some reasons
unknown maybe to us, unclear to us. And we don't realize how
all-encompassing covetousness is. We don't realize how thoroughly
polluting it is. It is idolatry. It is the desire
to have the power and to have the sufficiency of ourselves
so that we don't have to depend on anybody else. And that is
basically the essence of all idolatry. Now Israel, at this
time, they were on their way to Babylon. God was about to
allow the nation to go into Babylonian captivity. And they had no idea
what they were about to encounter by going into Babylon, by leaving
the Lord's place where He set up His name and by going into
Babylon. They had no idea what they were
about to face. Babylon represents everything
that is false. They had strayed from God. They
had low thoughts of God and high thoughts of themselves. And God
was allowing this to take place. He was bringing this to pass,
actually. But God never casts off His chosen, His redeemed
people. He does correct us, He does preserve
us, and He does bring us back into fellowship with Himself. As they go into Babylon, God
says these words to their heart. And he says, lay these words
to your heart. Remember these. Will you lay
these words to your heart? Will you hear this message and
listen to it and listen to it again and hear it and let these
words get down in your heart? and think about everything that
the Lord God is saying here. He says, remember these. Remember these. If you're an
elect, redeemed, regenerated child of God, whose suffering, whose whatever it is, has caused
you to be absent from God's fellowship and communion. These are God's
words to you. God's words to you. Remember
these, O Jacob and Israel. Now back up in verse 8, the Lord
said, there is no God besides Me. No God besides Me. And He's going to end by reminding
us of the great things He has done. And in between, God is
preparing his people for the strong temptations that they
are about to face. Babylon is synonymous with everything
that's false. And when living amongst Babylonians,
you are going to be pressured. When you live amongst Babylonians,
you are going to be pressured to either submit to their gods
or at least say that their gods are in some way like the God
of heaven and earth. God shows what an absolute, thorough,
fatal mistake that is. Now, here's what we're going
to see. The Lord God is going to declare His utter contempt
of idolatry. And then the Lord God is going
to remind us of His mercy to those He's everlastingly loved.
Alright, here's the first thing we see. God's definition of idolatry. Verse 9. They that make a graven
image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall
not profit. Now this is the first thing God
tells us about idolatry. God declares that idolatry is
vanity and is unprofitable. They, the man who makes it, and
the image are both vanity. And the precious things that
he uses to dazzle his eye and to make his God appear more impressive
and alluring shall not profit at all. And they are their own
witnesses. They see not nor know that they
may be ashamed. Who hath formed a God or molten
a graven image that is profitable for nothing? The God, he says
there, who hath formed a God, or molten a graven image, the
God formed in man's imagination, the God formed in his imagination,
just like the images that he may make to represent that God,
is as weak and as worthless as the sinner who made it. He says
they both They both see not nor know. They are their own witnesses. They see not nor know that they
may be ashamed. They see not. Human nature hasn't
changed. He's describing here just base
pagan idolatry that you and I can easily recognize as being idolatry. He's describing that, but human
nature hasn't changed from when this world was covered in uncivilized
nations. Human nature hasn't changed at
all. Some still bow down to statues,
some still bow down to images, but idolatry has many forms,
many forms. Covetousness in all forms is
idolatry. Let me give you some examples.
The worship of money. That's trying to put something
in place of having to depend upon God to provide. That's what
it is, the worship of money. The worship of power and prestige
in this world. honors, things heaped up on us,
recognition, same thing, for the same reason. The worship
of human opinion and applause. When you go out, this is just
a small example, but when you go out and you're buying something
in the store to wear around, Isn't one of my primary thoughts
in that about what other people are going to think about you
wearing it? Some people are taken up with human praise and human
applause. It gives them that power. It
gives them that honor that belongs to God. That's not idolatry.
That's the worship of self. The worship of human merit, the
worship of human will, the worship of human works in any form. Whether you're in religion or
out of religion, whether you call it worshiping God or you
call it worshiping a stump, it does not matter. Nobody that
worships an idol says that they do not worship the true God.
They wouldn't worship it if they didn't say it was the true God.
just because a man says he's a true God. If a man is putting
confidence in his merit, that God somehow put, shined his light
on him because there's something in him, or if he's putting any
kind of confidence in his human will because he made his decision
for God or he did something for God, or he's still doing something
for God. If man puts any confidence whatsoever
in his works at all, we are diligent to give all diligence to walk
in faith along with virtue and long-suffering and temperance
and knowledge and brotherly kindness and brotherly love, and we want
to grow in those things. But we have absolutely no confidence
in those things. We do not look at those things
and determine if somebody knows God or doesn't know God. We don't
look at those things and try to determine if He's my brother
or if He's not. If I'm doing that, I need to
question whether I even know what the love of God is. This
is the love of God. Not that we love God, but that
He loved us and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our
sin, the propitiation, the atonement for our sin. That's the love
God is. That's the nature of the love
God puts in his people. Not that we loved. Not that he
had to have us loving him for him to love us. Any kind of worship
of human merit, of human will, of human works, all are vanity
and profitable for nothing. All of them have the same essence
of this very, very truth right here. You know, God is honest. God is true because God's love. The love that men have, that
men entertain, that says that you look a man and treat a man
with loving kindness who's bowing down to a log, to a stump, and
call him a brother and act like he knows the Lord. That is some
kind of twisted perversion of the deceitful heart that is called
love. If that's the love your husband
has, ladies, I'd watch out for him. If that's the love your
wife has, I'd watch out for him, husband, because there ain't
no telling what else kind of twistedness is lurking in that
heart. That is a screwed-up kind of
love. If you played in the yard with a poisonous reptile, allowed
your child to play in the yard with a poisonous reptile, and
you did not try your best to get that child away from that
poisonous reptile, the civil authorities will come and arrest
you for absolute thorough neglect. But God tells the truth, and
the love he puts in his people is to be truthful. It's the greatest
love to be as kind as you possibly can be, but to ensure anybody
who's describing a God other than the God clearly revealed
in this Bible, it's the greatest love you can do to look them
square in the face and say, that's not the God of this Bible. It's as much love to do that
for somebody who's claiming they worship Jehovah as it is for
that one who's bowing down at a stump. Why can't we get that? It's idolatry to put in, trust
in anything else, any work of man. It's idolatry. Verse 11. He says, Behold, all his fellows
shall be ashamed and the workmen, they are of men. Let them all
be gathered together, let them stand up, yet they shall fear
and they shall be ashamed together." Can you imagine the base and
utter shame? Can you imagine just utter shame
of really having everything that we are uncovered, open, before
all righteousness, so that it's revealed clearly to God, before
God and everybody, that all along we have been worshipping ourselves.
You know how ashamed we will be at that? This is what men
are, and this is what men end in, who are worshipping themselves. They will all be ashamed together.
The Lord God then says that idolatry is the worship of man. First
he said it's unprofitable. They're going to go backwards.
They're not going to profit. Then he says that idolatry is
the worship of man. Verse 12. The smith with the
tongs both worketh in the coals and fashioneth with hammers.
That smith is a man working. He's working in the coals, and
He's fashioned it with hammers, and He worketh it with the strength
of His arms. He's hungry, and His strength faileth, but He
won't even drink water. He's faint, but He won't. He's
zealous to make this thing. He's zealous for these works.
He's zealous for this work of His hand. Verse 13 says, The
carpenter stretcheth out his rule. He marketh it out with
a line. He fitteth it with planes. He
marketh it out with a compass, and maketh it after the figure
of a man. Do you see that? It's not only
the works of his hand, but if it actually comes out into an
image, he said he makes it in the image of a man. According
to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house. God
made man after his own image. The depraved heart makes his
God after the image of man. And man puts his God up on a
shelf so he doesn't interfere unless it suits the man. Here's
the third thing God says idolatry is. He says it's using the things
of God to worship man and the works of man's hand. Verse 14. He heweth him down cedars. Who
made the cedars? He taketh the cypress and the
oak. Who made those? Who gave the tree bearing seed
within itself? Which he strengtheneth for himself
among the trees of the forest. He tends to it He works at it. He makes, he planteth an ash. Where'd he get the seed to plant
that? God made that. And the rain does nourish it.
Where'd that rain come from? God gave it. Yet the man uses
the things of God to make a God for himself. That's the heart
of ideology. That's the heart of ideology.
Thomas Watson said, God made man out of the dust of the earth,
and man makes a god of the dust of the earth. Here's the next
thing he says, God shows that idolatry is absurd ignorance. Verse 15, Then shall it be for
a man to burn, for he shall take thereof and warm himself Yea,
he kindleth it, and maketh bread. Yea, he maketh of God, and worshipeth
it. He maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He
burneth part thereof in the fire. That's this tree he's cut down.
He burns part of it in the fire, and with part thereof he eateth
flesh. He roasteth roast, and is satisfied. Yea, he warmeth himself, and
saith, Aha, I'm warm, I've seen the fire. And the residue thereof
he maketh of God. even his graven image. He falleth
down unto it, and worshipeth it, and prayeth unto it, and
saith, Deliver me, for thou art my God. This is man left to himself
in sin. He feels a natural cold, he feels
a natural hunger, and he feels a natural need to bow down to
a God. Big deal. Big deal. You ever thought a
man was a believer because he got hungry? I mean for just roast,
for just bread. This is the ignorance of man
left in his sin. He uses the things of God to
feed himself so that he's satisfied. He uses the things of God to
kindle a fire and rejoices in the sparks that he's kindled.
And with the residue, whatever's left over, he makes of God so
he can soothe his conscience. Whatever's left over is time,
of his attention, of his money. He makes them of God to soothe
his conscience. puts it up on a shelf so he just
interferes with him just when he gets good and ready to. Otherwise,
it don't interfere with him. Here's the next thing. Idolatry
is defiled reasoning. It's defiled reasoning. He says,
verse 19, none considereth in his heart Neither is there knowledge
nor understanding to say I have burned part of it in the fire.
Yea, also I baked bread upon the coals thereof. I've roasted
flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue
thereof an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stalk
of a tree? We see how just ignorant that
sounds, don't we? is no less ignorant than all
these other forms of idolatry. It's no less ignorant. Do we
know what we are in our flesh? Do we know that we have less
life in our flesh than a tree? Do we know that we have less
life in ourselves than an idol? You know, the idol is not...
If you saw Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, it wouldn't
make all that big a deal to you. But when you see him on a hundred
dollar bill, it does. Benjamin Franklin looks a whole
lot prettier than Thomas Jefferson when they're on a dollar. But those things don't have any
power in them. They don't have any power in them anymore and
we don't have any power in us. Not our merit, not our works,
not our will. There's none in us. It's just
as absurd to worship any of those things and think there's security
in any of those things as it is to think there's any in ourselves. That's what the heart of this
idolatry is. And then idolatry is perverted
appetite. Look at verse 20. He feedeth
on ashes. He feedeth on ashes. Now you
consider, what are ashes? What are ashes? Ashes are all
that's left of matter that has been completely consumed. They represent utter death and
utter ruin. You just think about that. What
would you get if you just reached in after everything cooled down,
so you didn't burn your hand, you reached in and it's just
good old cold, gray, dry ashes. And you just reached in there
and you grabbed your hand and you just took a big old mouthful
of it and tried to eat it. What do you think that'd be like?
It'd dry up all the moisture in your mouth. It'd get all up
in your nose. You wouldn't be able to breathe
at all. And do you think it would fill you? Do you think it would
satisfy? Do you think it would satisfy
your hunger, your appetite? That's feeding on ashes. I don't know that any, what creature
can live on ashes? What plant can live on ashes?
Is there anything that can live in ashes? Ashes are the refuse
of everything that's good. The works of our hands, the merit
that we deem in us, everything that we are. are ashes. They're ashes. Ashes. And all the works of our hands
are incapable of giving life to us and sustaining life in
us as ashes are to fill a man and sustain a man. Just that
incapable. A life without God is empty of
all true satisfaction as the belly of a man that's feeding
on ashes. But a natural man, because he's
never known the nourishment of true bread, of true spiritual
bread, he's content to feed on ashes. Idolatry is due to the deceitful
heart. It always comes down to the little
black box, don't it? It always comes down to the little
black box. I told you way back when we started
this thing, started this study in Isaiah, that illustration.
Every time a plane crashes, the first thing they look for is
the little black box. And it tells you what all is
really going on. Well, this is the little black
box, verse 20. A deceived heart hath turned
him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul nor say, is there not
a lie in my right hand? The eyes darken, the whole nature
is perverted and he keeps feeding on that which he thinks is going
to satisfy him. Peanut, our little dog that we
got, our screen is out right in the back porch there and It's
come loose at the bottom. Peanut has figured that screen
came loose at the bottom. And the way he figured it out
was he sat there in that little screened-in porch in the middle
of the day one day. And he'd been sitting there watching
these squirrels play in the backyard. And he just stood it long as
he could stand it. And he literally just jumped
into that screen and it flopped open. And he realized now he
can just come and go out of it. So he gets out there in the middle
of the daytime now, and he sits there. And he just watches in
a screened-in porch for squirrels getting up on the deck, playing
right there. And he'll fly out of that screen
and fly out there and chase after them. And they'll go up the tree,
and he'll look up the tree. And he hadn't caught one yet,
not caught one yet. But every time one comes out
there, he flies out there and chases it. That's what sinners
are. They ain't caught up to that
end that things can satisfy them. They just keep on feeding on
the ashes. Somebody say that's the definition
of insanity? Doing the same thing over and
over and expecting a different result. That's right. Well, and here's a solemn word. Look back at verse 18. They have
not known nor understood because, here's why, God says He has shut
their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot
understand. This is the most solemn thing
we ought to consider. God gives light. He gives light. He's given this world right now
and He's given the gospel being preached in this world and He's
set up a place where you can hear it and He's given His word
And this is the most solemn word. God will only suffer for so long
with those who despise the truth of God. He'll only suffer so
long. Let me show you a verse, Mark
4.23. Mark 4.23. This is what the Savior said,
Mark 4.23. He was sitting there in the midst
of folks that had They called themselves the children of God,
called themselves worshiping God, and yet they refused to
hear Christ speak. And God had turned them over.
He blinded them. They couldn't hear God speak.
They couldn't hear Christ speak. And this is what the Lord said
in Mark 4.23, If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And
He said unto them, Take heed what you hear. And another place
he said, take heed how you hear. Those are two great things. Take
heed what you hear and take heed how you hear. And he says, with
what measure you meet, with what measure you, with what diligence
you give, with what measure you meet, it shall be measured to
you. That's a, that's a way of saying what I'm always saying
to you. If you walk in the light God's given you, he'll give you
more light. That's not works, that's just true. That's just
true. That's what the Lord is saying.
Take heed what you hear. With what measure you meet, it
shall be measured to you. And unto you that hear shall
more be given. For he that hath, to him shall
be given. And he that hath not, from him
shall be taken, even that which he hath. Even that which he hath. All right, now let's go back.
Now let's hear some good news. Here's some good news. Now that's
what God's telling His people. And they were... He had an elect
remnant in that group that were going into that Babylonian. He's
warning them now. He's telling them beforehand
what all this is. And now He says this. This is to you that
God has given ears to hear. To you who hear by His grace.
To you that He's given. And He says now, take heed how
you hear. This is His word to you. Now
listen, can you hear Him? Can you hear the Lord? Listen,
if you can, give due diligence. Listen now to what He said. Here's
the first thing He says, remember. Verse 21. Remember these, O Jacob
and Israel. Remember these. Remember these
things I've told you. Remember these, what idolatry
is. Remember these, for thou art
My servant. I have formed thee. You didn't
form me. God said, I formed you. Thou
art my servant, O Israel. Thou shalt not be forgotten of
me. You shall not be forgotten of
me. We need to know that when we're in the middle of Babylon,
don't we? Sometimes we think, we get to thinking, looking at
our circumstances and everything around us, and we think, well,
we got to take matters into our own hand. God says, I will not
forget you. That's what he says to his children.
I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and
as a cloud thy sins. Now remember, he says, remember
what you were and where you were when God found you. You know
what you were and where you were when God found you? You were
feeding on ashes. You were a pagan idolater when
God found you. As true of every one of his elect
in the middle of that nation, And that's true of everyone who
is among the Gentiles. That's true of everybody that
knows him that's sitting right here today. You say, well, I
never did bow down to an idol. You were a pagan idolater in
your heart. That's what you were. Exactly. Hearken to me, ye that follow
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. Look unto the rock whence
you were hewn and to the hole of the pit whence you were digged. That's what he said in Isaiah
51. Now he says, remember, all God's works towards you has been
works of grace. Ephesians 2.1. Say, I wasn't
an idolater. Ephesians 2.1. And you hath he quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sin. That's what we were. We were
worshipping ourselves, feeding on a stump, feeding on that which
is worthless and of no good, thinking we were worshipping
the true God, thinking we had everything figured out. Where
in time past you walked according to the course of this world,
just like everybody else, and to the prince of the power of
the air. Oh, you mean to tell me I was like the Gadarene that
the Lord came to who was possessed of the devil? Under the prince
of the power of the air. That spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich
in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when
we were dead in sin, hath quickened us together with Christ. My grace
are you saved." This is the true and living God talking. This
is the God who's sovereign in creation, the God who's sovereign
in providence, and the God who's sovereign in salvation. This
is the God who is sovereign. He's not sovereign in some of
those and not sovereign in others. He's sovereign in creation. He's
sovereign in providence. He's sovereign in salvation.
The least little leaf falling off that tree out there is doing
it by His divine consent, by His wind that blew it off and
landing right where He wants it to be for the nurture of that
tree right out there. And everything else from that
to your ultimate salvation in the end. He's in direct control
of it. From the preacher he sends, to
the gospel he causes you to hear, to the work he works in your
heart, to the redemption he's accomplished by his son, to bringing
you into the presence of him to where you fall down and say,
it was all of you, every bit of it. Sovereign in creation,
sovereign in providence, and sovereign in salvation. He made
our natural hunger, didn't He? He's filled in, hasn't He? He
made our natural hunger. He's provided us everything to
feed us our natural hunger. He's the one who creates a thirst
and a hunger after righteousness. A true hunger and a true thirst
after righteousness. And He provides Christ the Red
from heaven to satisfy. And we don't need any other.
He is the express image of the Father. My father giveth the
true bread from heaven, he said. In nature, man gets his food
through death. Even, I got news to you, vegetarians,
you're killing the plant. That's right. The only way we're
going to get life in us is through death. That's the only way. The
only way. Seed falls into the ground and
it's broken, and from that comes the fruit. And Christ is the
seed who came into the earth and laid down his life in the
earth and was broken under the justice of God, and he's risen
again, and he's the food of his children. He said, I have blotted
out as a thick cloud thy transgression and as a cloud thy sin. All Samoans
say, but you've got to eat the food. Yes, you do have to eat
the food. You've got to eat the food. You've
got to eat it. You've got to take the fork and
put it into your mouth and eat the food. That's exactly right. Exactly right. We must receive
Christ into our hearts through faith. And God creates a hunger
and a thirst after righteousness so that He gives His child such
an infinite hunger that he cannot any longer be satisfied with
finite food. It just won't satisfy him. What
are you saying? I'm saying God and His sovereign,
irresistible grace will make you reach out the fork of faith
and load up your fork with it with all the precious blood and
righteousness of Christ and eat it and eat it and eat it because
it's the only thing that will satisfy you. He's the milk and the honey.
He's the feast of fat things. And when God says, hearken diligently
unto Me and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight
itself in fatness, when He really speaks that into your heart,
you will. You will. You'll come to the
table and you'll eat the bounty He's laid out. You will. God
says to his ill-erring children, remember, thou art my servant. Remember, I have formed thee.
Remember, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. And remember, remember
what you were. Remember what you were. We can't
do anything without him. We couldn't then, we can't now.
Remember that. It's the height of idolatry to
think we can do without the shepherd of the sheep. that we can do
without the sheep of the shepherd, that we can do without the means
of the field that the shepherd has put us in, and do without
the grass that the shepherd feeds us. It's absolutely idolatry
to think we can do without it. That's thinking we can stand
our own. Pride comes before a fall. that a man take heed lest he
thinks he's something when he's nothing. This is what God says,
remember. And then he says this, return,
return. Verse 22, return unto me for
I have redeemed thee. You mean when God's child, his
believer, when you and I try to turn away, when we try to
to go after our idols and go after our false refuge and go
after these things that we think. You mean God still says, in mercy
to us, turn, return to me? You mean he'll still say that
to his sheep? Yes, he will. Yes, he will. He persuades his
child to return. It's so because He says, I've
blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud
thy sins. To him that hath, it shall be
given. Whether you understand that you
have it or not, it shall be given. And when He makes you to have
it, He's going to make you. He will not take no for an answer.
He's going to sweetly force us to return unto Him and to walk
in the means and what He's provided for us, so that we walk in His
light, and He's going to give more life. He's going to make
that happen. He's going to say, return, because He blotted these
out by the blood of His Son. He blotted these out by the power
of His grace, and we belong to Him, and He will not let us go
and be polluted to ourselves. And He says this, return to Me,
meaning He doesn't upbraid us. And his people aren't going to
upbraid you. That's right. Return unto the
Lord. There's nothing standing in your
way. Return unto the Lord. That's
what he said. Return unto me. Come back to
me. James said he doesn't upbraid. He'll receive His children. But
don't come as a double-minded man. Don't come partly trusting
Him and partly trusting yourself. Come wholly persuaded. He's able
to do what He says He is. And nobody's going to lay anything
to your charge. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's Christ to die. I'm not going
to charge Christ with anything. If you return to Him, trust in
Him, I'm not charging you with anything. I'm not going to put
you on, and none of these brethren will put anybody who's strayed
that returns to him, we won't put him on church watch. God's
watching him. God's watching him. God's his
fruit inspector, I'm not. And not only does He say, remember
what you were, not only does He say, remember whose you are,
not only does He say, return, God says, and sing. He says, come singing. Verse
23, sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it. Shout, ye
lower parts of the earth, break forth in a singing, ye mountains,
O forests, and every tree therein, for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob
and glorified himself in Israel. Scripture says in heaven, the
Lord says, I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven
over one sinner that repenteth more than over 99 just persons
who need no repentance. Joy in heaven. He said, shout,
O heaven. The Lord said, when I bring mine back, he said, shout,
heaven, O heaven, and all your brethren will rejoice. Rejoice
in who? Rejoice in Him. Because He chose
you, because He redeemed you, because He gave you life, because
He wouldn't let you go. And when God fully redeems our
bodies and brings each child to glory with Him, this whole
creation is going to rejoice in Him. Look over at Romans 8.
Romans 8. Chapter verse 19, Romans 8, 19. Verse 19, For the
earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation
of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject
to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected
the same in hope. Trees wouldn't be wouldn't be
being cut down and and worshiped if it wasn't for us. I don't
worship a tree. We cut them down and put parking
lots over them and build up malls on them so we can build our business
on them so we can sustain ourselves so we can live by the money we
make by our own hands so we can worship ourselves and set our
nest on high and live up in a fat mansion. You don't say we don't
cut down a tree and worship it. It's exactly what we do. The whole creature was made subject
to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected
the same in hope. Because the creature itself also
shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only
they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit.
Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,
that is, the redemption of our body. When that happens, you know what's
going to happen. All the new heavens and the new earth and
everything that's therein is going to be rejoicing and singing.
Singing, because He says, sing, sing. So you who are running
from God, anybody running from God, while it's today, if you
hear His voice, harden not your heart. Flee from idolatry, wash
your hands of it once and for all. If he's made you hear his
voice, I know this, you will. You will. You'll remember what
you are, return unto him singing. And we'll sing with you. And
as we come to his table right now, you who've been chosen and
redeemed and called, remember him, return unto him, and sing
unto him. What's our song? What's our song? Look there. For the Lord hath
redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel. That's what we're singing. That's
what we're remembering. That's who we're coming to. Amen.