Isaiah 42, 10. We read there,
sing unto the Lord a new song. Titled this, The New Song. It's just a new song. We saw
last time, but it bears repeating. To whom do we sing? We sing unto
the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song.
Why is this a new song? Because it's of new mercies made
new every morning. Because it's a new covenant.
Because it's the everlasting covenant that God made with himself
before the world began that he makes in the hearts of his children. Look at what we sing, verse 12. Let them give glory unto the
Lord and declare his praise. You know that's One week we attribute
all the glory and all the praise to Him, but He's sending forth
His witnesses and He's saying, go and declare. And if we're
going to glorify God, He said, give me all the glory, give me
all the praise. Everything we tell folks. And He says, and I will save
my people. Now I want you to see four things
here. This new song is new as opposed
to something that's ordinary and something that's common.
This is a new and excellent song because this is a song of God's
electing grace. Verses 10 through 12. He says,
singing to the Lord a new song and his praise from the end of
the earth. Let them that go down to the
sea and all that is therein, the isles and the inhabitants
thereof, and all these islands, go forth and declare my praise,
declare my glory, and let all them that are therein declare
my glory. And he says, let the wilderness
and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that
Kedar doth inhabit. Let the inhabitants of the rocks
sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them
give glory unto the Lord and declare His praise in the islands.
Now how do you know this is talking about God's electing grace? I
want to point out one thing to you here in this verse that just
is a word of amazing grace. The villages that Kedar doth
inhabit. You know who Kedar was? It's just talking about his descendants.
You know who Kedar was? Kedar is the second son of Ishmael. The second son of Ishmael. You
find that in Genesis 25, 13. You don't have to look there,
but that's where it is. The second son of Ishmael. You remember who Ishmael is,
don't you? That child of Abraham's, the product of Abraham and Sarah's
work, the product of their will and their effort to try to bring
forth and make good on the promise that God said He would bring
forth. God said, I'm going to give you a son. And that son's
Isaac. And he said, and in him shall
the seed be called. In Isaac came forth Christ, and
in Isaac all the elect of God are called. But God said of Ishmael,
send him and Hagar away. Send them away. But you know,
just like Paul told us in Romans 9, that not everybody that was
in Israel was of Israel. And God's declaring here, not
everybody that was of Ishmael is not left alone. There's some elect
among the children of Ishmael. You see, this is a great word
of grace to us. It's not tribal boundaries. It's not national boundaries.
It's not languages. It's not even religious creeds
and things and we just use those things to try to divide and set
ourselves up amongst one another. The salvation of God's people
is by God's grace, by His choosing. Look over at Isaiah 60 verse
7. I want you to see this. I love
this. You may look at this again when
we get to it. Isaiah 60 verse 7. He says, all
the flocks of Kedar. He's putting, you know what his
sheep are? His sheep. Sheep traveling flocks. And he's called, he's describing
his sheep. Does that mean every one of Ishmael's children? No. But it's talking about, he has
some remnant. He had a remnant. You know who,
this is, we're talking about Arab folks. We're talking about
Arabs. He said, I've got elect among
them. And he says, let all the flocks of Kedar be gathered together
unto thee, unto Christ. The rams, the sheep of Nebeoth
shall minister unto thee. They're going to come and sing
glory to you and praise you and go forth declaring your glory.
How are they going to be made righteous? How are they going
to be sanctified? They're going to come up with acceptance on
mine altar. They're gonna be accepted just
like those elect among the Jews are accepted in Christ the altar. And I'll glorify the house of
my glory. Don't you love that? I will glorify
the house of my glory. Now what does that mean? It says
sing this new song. Look over at Revelation 5 now.
Revelation 5 now. I want you to see this. Does
that mean God's, He's saying, I'm now just opening up and I'm
going to save ever. I'm saving everybody. Oh, He's
saying I'm saving my elect people. Who are His elected He saved? Romans, I mean, Revelation 5,
9. And they sung a new song. a new song. That's what he said,
a new song. And they sung a new song saying
thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof
for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood. That's who this is talking about,
those Christ's redeemed by his blood out of of people out of
every kindred and tongue and people and nation and has made
us under our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth."
Hold your place there in Revelation. We're going to come back to there.
How do I know this song is a song of God's saving grace in His
elect? Well, one, that's what makes
this song so new. That's what makes this song so
excellent. And God saves by His grace, His sovereign grace. It
makes it excellent. It's not common, it's not ordinary
as to those He's chosen. But I know this song is so. I
know it's new and it's excellent because it's the song of our
successful Savior. Look at verse 13, Isaiah 42,
13. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man He shall stir up jealousy, zeal,
like a man of war. He shall cry, yea, roar. He shall
prevail against his enemies. You see that last phrase? He
shall prevail against his enemies. At Valley Forge, our patriots
that fought when we fought the American Revolution, we didn't go forth into battle
like the soldiers did after Valley Forge. After Valley Forge, they
were taught at Valley Forge, when they go forth in the battle,
to yell, to cry out, and yell. And that's the picture we have
of a mighty man of war going forth and yelling when he goes
forth, in zeal. It's zeal that invigorates, but
it also Intimidates the enemy. And he
says he's gonna come forth. Look at verse 14. I've a long
time holding my peace. This is the Lord speaking. I've
a long time held my peace, he said. I've been still and refrained
myself. Now I will cry like a travailing
woman. Like a woman in childbirth. I'm
crying loud, he said. Loud. For a long time. He suffered the Gentile world. He gave His light right there
in this little nation Israel. And He suffered the whole Gentile
world outside of there, with the exception of a few, to walk
just in their imagination. And He says, now I'm coming for
you. And He suffered Israel, that nation Israel, to walk in
the same vain imagination using His Word and His oracles to do
it. But he said, I'm coming forth
now. I'm coming forth. And the Lord,
Paul said, the times of this ignorance God winked at, but
now He's commanded all men everywhere to repent. Because He's appointed
a day. He's going to judge the world
in righteousness by that man, Christ Jesus. And this is who
we're talking about. The Lord shall go forth. And
He's going to judge the world in righteousness by that man.
That means I'm going to have to come before God and either
be found in Christ Jesus, not having mine own righteousness,
but the righteousness which is of God in Christ. Or I'm coming
to God and He's gonna say, you got no righteousness. He's the man we gotta come in.
Now I want you to see this. He shall prevail against his
enemies. He shall not fail. This is why
this song is so excellent. because this one who went forth,
you see the Lord there in capital letters, L-O-R-D in verse 13. We're talking about God coming
forth. The Lord Jehovah coming forth. This is what makes this such
an excellent new song. It's because God has come forth. He's the one that's come forth.
He said in Isaiah 32.1, He said, Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment." There was
a lot of kings in Judah. There were a lot of kings in
all the world, but there was no king ever that ever reigned
in righteousness, no king who ever satisfied justice, no king
who ever delivered the poor and needy, no king who ever did that
which is absolutely perfect and right before God, not one king. But this one who came forth is
not like every other king. Look back at Isaiah 7, 14. Isaiah
7, 14. Behold, therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign. This is the sign. How am I going
to know? when you see the sign. And here's
the sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. The Lord said,
behold, I do a new thing in the earth. A woman shall come past
a man. There's coming forth one who
is never, never this woman, this one that's born of this virgin.
who've never seen a man. This one is born unlike any other
man. This is God come. This is God
come. And he says in Isaiah 9, look
at verse 6. He says, for unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given. This child born is the son given.
This child born is the son of God. given, God the Son come
forth, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his
name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. And of the increase
of his government, there shall be, and in peace, there shall
be no end, upon the throne of David, upon his kingdom, to order
it, to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth
even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this. He will come forth as a mighty
man, and he shall prevail against his enemies. This is what our
gospel is. Now, you had kings. You had kings. And then in a kingdom you had
servants. And great division between the
two. You know what? You know what? You had kings and servants. Kings
and servants. But you never heard of a king
taking the place of the servant and coming in the form of a servant
and saving his people from their sin. And this is what he's declaring
back in Isaiah 42, 1. Behold, my servant whom I uphold,
mine elect in whom my soul delighteth. This is the one coming forth.
Look at verse 3. He shall bring forth judgment
unto truth. He shall not, verse 4, he shall
not fail nor be discouraged to set judgment in the earth. Verse
13 says, and he shall prevail against his enemies. I want you
to turn over to Revelation 5. I love this, this right here.
Revelation 5, 5. John, you know, he was given
the revelation of Jesus Christ and when he was, when he was
in the spirit, he said, I began to weep because I didn't see
anybody that could open the book, the seals of the book that was
in God's hand. I didn't see anybody that could
open it. And he says in Revelation 5.5, he says, and one of the
elders said unto me, weep not, behold, the line of the tribe
of Judah The root of David hath prevailed to open the book, and
to loose the seven seals thereof. God promised formerly, we saw
last time, the former things hath God declared, and new things
I declare, he said, before they come to pass. These former things,
he's telling us about new things to come. And he said, he said
long time ago in the promise, the line of the tribe of Judah
shall come. He said through David the king's
coming a king. Through Judah is coming a king.
through David's coming a king. And these elders told John, that
king has prevailed. He has come. He has opened the
book thereof. And John looked up, and he looked
to behold all the glory of this great king. And look what he
saw. Look what he saw. Verse 6, And
I beheld, and low in the midst of the throne, and of the four
beasts in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb. as it had been
slain. He saw a lamb. He saw one slain. He saw one that came forth as
a servant and died in the place of his people and laid down his
life for his people who made himself the least in the kingdom
of heaven to redeem his people. Look at verse 15, what did he
accomplish by that? Look at verse 15. He said, I
will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbs
and I'll make the rivers islands and I'll dry up the pools. When
He came forth, He did set judgment on the earth. When He came forth,
He took every obstacle out of the way that separated His children
from God. This King who came forth in the
form of a servant removed all the obstacles. Look, Romans 8.3
says, For what the law couldn't do, and that it was weak through
the flesh. God sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh. He took on Him the form of a
servant, and in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
dying in the place of His people, He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteousness of God might be fulfilled in us who
walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. This mighty
man came forth and he fulfilled everything required of his people. He required all the righteousness
of the law. This mighty man shall see of
the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. This mighty man
came forth and he has fulfilled all righteousness so that when
He gives us eyes and ears to behold Him. We behold all righteousness
is established. All righteousness is fulfilled.
All the law is fulfilled. Bless God, there's nothing else
for me to do. He's done everything. I pray
this morning that He'll say to you, hear you deaf. I can't say
it, but I pray He says, hear you deaf and look you blind. Have you ever heard of such? Hear ye deaf, and look ye blind. I'm gonna use Brother Jaime.
He's a, I forget, he works on eyes. Makes people see. And went to school a long time
to do that. And Brother Jaime, have you ever
had anybody come into your office and be able to say, look and
see? And they just see. He has to
do stuff to make them see. This one right here came forth,
and he did everything that's required. And when he speaks,
he says, hear ye deaf, and they hear. And he says, look ye blind,
and they see. They see. Look, that's why this
song's everlasting, new, everlasting. It's a song of his electing grace.
It's a song of his redeeming grace. It's a song of this mighty
man. who is God our King, Christ Jesus
the Lord. And then look at it. It's the
song of Him who quickens His own and brings His people out
of darkness with His Word. Look at verse 16. And I'll bring
the blind by a way that they knew not, and I'll lead them
in paths that they have not known. I'll make darkness light before
them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them
and not forsake them. Now what he's talking about here
in verse 12 is he said, let them give glory unto the Lord and
declare his praise in the islands. And that's what we're doing this
morning. We're declaring his praise and
we're declaring his glory. And this one who is faithful
and true, this one goes forth, Revelation 19, 15 says, and out
of his mouth goeth forth a sword. Out of his mouth, he comes forth
on the white stallion. And out of his mouth goes forth
a sword. And he accomplishes this. I will
bring the blind by way that they knew not. And I'll lead them
in paths that they've not known. And I'll make darkness light
before them and crooked things straight. These things will I
do unto them and not forsake them. just as God set judgment
in the earth in Christ by what He did, by what Christ accomplished. God receives the glory for setting
this judgment in the hearts of His people. God's doing it through
this song. He's doing it through this proclamation
of Christ in Him crucified. I can't say, hear ye deaf and
hear, and see you blind and see, but oh I pray that through His
grace He says it, and when He says it, It happened. It happens. He said here, he said, I'm gonna
stir up jealousy. I'm gonna stir up zeal like a
man of war. He said, I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna
roar. When Isaiah was standing there,
you know what Isaiah was doing? Isaiah was crying, he was roaring. But you know who was doing the
crying and doing the roaring? The one who sent him, God Almighty. Prince of Peace, the Everlasting
Father, this mighty man. When Paul came forth and said,
I travail in childbirth till Christ be formed in you. You
know who was speaking? You know who was making the word
effectual? This one who goes forth to conquer, conquering
and to conquer through his gospel. I remember going and I remember
traveling around and preaching. I remember standing up and preaching
at the congregation in Franklin. But like I said this morning
about a woman not being able to explain what travail is, no
preacher was able to explain to me what this travail is like. And my hope and my confidence
and my sufficiency for the work is if the Lord's building the house. He's building it. And the Lord's
making the word effectual, and He's building it stone by stone,
brick by brick, living stone upon living stone, living, elect,
redeemed child upon living, elect, redeemed child, all founded on
this one foundation, Christ Jesus the Lord. He's doing this. And that's what happens when
He roars and He destroys every obstacle. This sword divides
the flesh and spirit. Let me ask you a question. Today is 9-11. I did set out
to preach a message about 9-11, but as I was preparing this,
this just jumped out at me. From Ishmael came twelve sons
who were 12 tribes, the religion of Islam, the religion of Islam,
who says that Ishmael was the chosen son. Ishmael was the son
of promise and who says Mohammed came through him. And from Isaac
came Jacob and 12 sons born of him, 12 tribes of Israel. And
there's, you have Judaism. You have factions in amongst
the nation of Islam divided amongst themselves and divided against
the world. And you have factions in Judaism divided against themselves
and divided against the world. Especially the children of Ishmael. And there's a host of other religions
in this world worshiping multiple gods from the imaginations of
fallen man. And from the tribe of Judah came
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And even
among those that take Christ's name, there's all these factions
and divisions amongst them. But this is the case. Every one
of us came from Adam. Now let me ask you something.
Will God leave his elect in the blindness of his heart? Will
the God of truth who gave his son to set judgment in the earth
save through a gospel that's not another gospel? Will God leave his elect in their
vain imagination? He says here, I will bring the
blind by a way they knew not. I will lead them in paths that
they have not known. I will make darkness light before
them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them
and not forsake them." If that's bigotry, then Paul
was a bigot when he said, I marvel at you children in Galatia, that
you're so soon removed from him that called you. unto another
gospel, which is not another gospel. It's the bigotry of the
loving John who said, if any man come into your house with
another doctrine, don't bid him Godspeed, you're not your partaker
of his evil deed. You see, it's the gospel that
declares. Isaiah stood here in the midst
of Israel declaring this, and Judah and Jerusalem, and the
majority didn't believe him. But a remnant did. Paul went
forth preaching this gospel into the Gentile world and not everybody
believed him. But the black sheep, the black
hearted rebels who fell in at him but were saved in Christ
Jesus by God's grace. Christ went forth through Paul
and he declared this gospel into their heart and he gave them
light and life and he brought them out of darkness into his
light. Not everybody believed Peter.
Not everybody believed James, where they preach. Not everybody
believes the Gospel today. But this is certain. God doesn't
leave His child in darkness. Because He gets the glory for
calling them out of darkness. And He said there's going to
be one fold and one shepherd. And He's bringing them all into
that fold. You remember this commercial
that was on not too long ago. It was one of the cell phone
carriers, I think. I think that's what it was, and
folks just walking along, and all of a sudden a few more fell
in behind them, and all of a sudden a few more fell in behind them,
and next thing you know, there's just this whole multitude following
behind them. Christ is the mighty man, the
forerunner who's gone forth. He's the one who goes forth through
His gospel, calling His people. And as He calls His people, they
come out of darkness into this one fold and they follow Him. They hear His voice. And when
He gets done, it's when He's done. He won't be done until
He's brought them all in and not want to be lost. Because
He's taking away the mountain of our flesh and drying up the
rivers that would divide us from Him and breaking down every crooked
way. Because here's what happens,
when a ship's sinking and it splinters into a bunch of pieces,
That's just like God revealed some truth. He came and He revealed
light. And He said, now this is a song
of judgment too. This is the last thing I'm going
to show you. Remember Jeremiah? He said, you
go forth Jeremiah and you take a bottle and you just bust it.
And that's what God did with that nation. And that's what
God's going to do with this whole world. He's just going to bust
it. He's just going to break it. But His own, He's calling out.
And just like a ship is sinking and it splinters into a bunch
of pieces, as long as a man sees one board that he thinks he can
hang on to and save himself by that board, he'll hang on to
that board and save himself, try to save himself. But this
gospel, you know what this gospel does? It makes that one way of
salvation Christ only. Christ only. How do I know I've
heard this gospel? How do I know I'm not walking
in my own will and my own works and my own way? How do I know
I'm not leaning to my own understanding? How do I know? How do I make
my calling and election sure? God makes us, by the power of
His Spirit, by the power of His regenerating grace, to stop defending
anything we've done and declare His glory and His
praise on that. He makes us to stop looking to
ourselves and to declare His glory and His praise. Did he leave Paul where he was? He brought him out majestically
in glory, didn't he? Those Gentiles that he called
to Paul, did he leave them worshiping the imaginations of their mind? He brought them out, didn't he? When's a man going to stop practicing
war? We're going to learn that the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal. The weapons of our warfare are
not jets that we fly into buildings. The weapons of our warfare are
not religious theology that we use to try to beat one another.
The weapons of our warfare is the gospel of the successful
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we just We just bust open
with it. Just like the Lord said, I've
held my peace long enough. Will we be persecuted? Was he? I was talking to a brother this
week. You don't have to even speak
anything to try to get somebody to be angry. When they hear the
Gospel, it's going to offend. Do you know one of the sad things
in this nation? I think it's a subtlety of Satan. You think those in Israel, in
Judah, thought they were all Judah and all Israel? They knew all the code words.
They knew all the slang. They knew all the terms. Paul did. Paul said I was a Pharisee
of Pharisees. Paul said it's touching the law
blameless. Paul said of the tribe of Benjamin, the Hebrew of Hebrews,
if you ask me, I tell you, I'm elect. Why? Because I know God
chose people. That ain't what makes us elect.
Knowing God chose a people. That's not what makes us an elect
child of God. It's the election of God choosing us and putting
us in Christ. That's not splitting hairs, that's
just soul. That's when we'll quit defending
a position and defend a person. Declare a person. Sing the new song, his praise. Give glory unto the Lord. Sing
in the islands. Give his, declare his praise
in the islands. I've got to show you this one
scripture. Can I show you this one scripture? Turn to Psalm
29, 9. Remember the Lord said, I'll
give them one heart and I'll put a new spirit within you.
That means there's going to be one. There's going to be one.
Are they all kinds of little things we disagree about? Oh,
yeah. As long as we're in this flesh,
we are. But this is what we agree on.
Salvation is of the Lord. His electing grace, His predestinating
grace, His redeeming grace, His regenerating grace, His preserving
grace. What do I contribute? A big fat
zero. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Does God do this in truth? Oh,
did Christ go to the cross and lay down His life? Did it require
that? I mean, we can be sure God's
gonna save through the gospel of truth. Can't we? Is he going to save through a
gospel that's not another gospel? Is he going to save through the
message of Islam? No, he's going to save through
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not that Allah and God are
the same. It's God's God. And he calls
them into one fold and makes them one people. Look here at Psalm 29.9. I love
this. The voice of the Lord maketh
the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests.
Are you a hind? Are you one of his calves? You know what his voice does?
It makes them to calve. It makes them to bring forth
life. It makes them to come forth in
life. And He speaks that no matter
where they are in the forest. He brings His voice to them.
He's able to send His gospel and discover them in the forest. And when He does, in His temple
does everyone speak of His glory. Every one of them. He gives them
one heart and one spirit. He'll prevail against His enemies.
Now the last thing is, this is God's judgment. And I'm not going
to read all of this, but I'm just going to read this verse
17. They shall be turned back. They
shall be greatly ashamed that trust engraving images that say
to the molten images, you are our God. They're going to be
turned back. Lord, didn't we do many wonderful
works? It's the works of our hands. Didn't we do something
wonderful? Depart from me, ye workers of
iniquity. I never knew you. Oh, what shame. What shame. And he says here
to us, this is a people robbed and spoiled. Don't just see Israel
robbed and spoiled. Don't just see that political
nation. It's not of one political nation. It's not of one tribe.
It's not of one kindred. It's not of one tongue that's
spoiled and robbed. It's the whole human race. Unsay
and restore. Nobody's, how do you say restore? Declare the glory of his gospel. Declare what he's done. And he
says, restore, restore. store. And he says, verse 23,
Who among you give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for
the time to come? Who gave Jacob for spoiling Israel
to the robbers? Did not the Lord, He against
whom we've sinned? Why did He do that? We've sinned
against Him. Why did He turn Israel over? For they would not walk in His
ways, neither were they obedient unto His law. And for he poured upon Israel
the fury of his anger and the strength of battle, and set him
on fire round about, yet he knew not, and it burned him, yet he
laid it not to heart." It's a song of judgment. But
you know what God's grace causes the believer to do? The believer
doesn't want to see anybody perish. That's why we spend and be spent
for the Lord. That's why we send the gospel
forth. That's why we want to see the gospel go forth into
all the earth. That's why it's not that God's
gonna use his people, he's gonna use his messengers, he's gonna
bring forth this gospel. But this gospel makes us to rejoice
in God's judgment. God's judgment's the believer's
friend. The judgment that was poured
out on Christ demands I be saved. The judgment that was poured
out on Christ demands I be called out of darkness. The judgment
that was poured out on Christ demands that the righteousness
satisfied, the perfection made by God Almighty requires that
this truth come to me. And it requires this truth come
to His people. And when it comes, this is the judgment that makes
us stop saying, well, if I believe that, then I'm going to be saying
my grandma and grandpa died and perished. It makes us take sides against
God with God against ourselves. Ourselves first in every other
relation and bear the persecution of his wrath for his glory and
his praise. And until God's brought us out
of the darkness, we'll just keep on defending everybody but God. And you know what we're doing?
Defending ourselves. Defending ourselves. That's exactly
what we're doing. But this is what he said. I can't
go without quoting this. But now, verse 43-1, Now thus
saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, He's talking about His
Jacob's among the sons of Israel, and His Jacob's among the sons
of Ishmael, and His Jacob's among all the inhabitants of the world.
I created thee, He said. I formed thee, O Israel. Jacob's
what we are in ourselves, Israel's what we are with God. As a prince
thou hast prevailed with God. Why? Because this one prevailed
against his enemies, this mighty man. Fear not, for I have redeemed
thee. I have called thee by thy name. This is the name wherewith he
shall be called the Lord our righteousness. And this is the
name shall be called with the Lord our righteousness. I've
called you by name." He said, whose name? He said, my own. My own. You're mine. You're mine. That's the new song. That's what
makes us go forward, saying, I'm busting. I can't hold it
anymore. I've held my peace long enough. I've got to tell you about it.
Let the chips fall where they may. I've got to tell you. I
trust this mighty man who's going to prevail. Do you? Do you? Can you rejoice with me? Is He
calling you in line with Him? Is He calling us out of that
darkness and bringing us in together into this one fold together,
locking arms together, held together by His grace? Bless God if it's so. He's done
it. He's done it. Amen.