Isaiah chapter 41, let's read verses 21 through the end of
the chapter. Produce your cause, saith the
Lord. Bring forth your strong reasons,
saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring forth and show
us what shall happen. Let them show the former things
what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end
of them, or declare us things for to come. Show the things
that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods.
Yea, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold
it together. Behold, ye are of nothing, and
your works are your work of naught, and abomination is he that chooseth
you. I have raised up one from the
north, and he shall come. From the rising of the sun shall
he call upon my name, and he shall come upon princes, and
upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth the clay. Who hath declared
from the beginning that we may know, and before time that we
may say he is righteous? Yea, there is none that showeth.
Yea, there is none that declareth. Yea, there is none that heareth
your words. The first shall say to Zion,
Behold, behold them, and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth
good tidings. For I beheld, and there was no
man, even among them, and there was no counselor, that when I
asked of them could answer a word. Behold, they are all vanity,
their works are nothing, their molten images are wind and confusion. Now an idol, an idol. Properly speaking, it's an image
that's made to represent God. But idolatry is man worshiping
himself. We call the one who worships
an idol an idolater. is really man worshipping himself. Just as an image is the work
of a man's hand that's been graven, been made after the similitude
of some other object to be likened unto God, so men worship the
works of their own hand, the imagination of their own heart,
the work that they've brought forth, that which they think
makes them righteous, are accepted of their God. And that God, truly
that God, whether we worship in an image or not, that God
that's being worshipped, that one that we're calling God, that
one that we're saying is God, whether we're calling Him God,
or we're calling Him Buddha, or we're calling Him Jehovah, we're calling him Jesus
Christ, whatever we're calling him. If we're worshipping the
God of our imagination, we're worshipping ourself. Worshipping
ourself. The God of man's imagination
truly has no hands but man's hands. He truly has no feet but
man's feet, the God of man's imagination. Because the God
of man's imagination is no greater than man himself. Absolutely
no greater. Now listen to this. Be sure you
get this. No child born of Adam. No child born of Adam has power
to save themselves. The very term salvation means
that the one that's being saved has no power to save themselves. If you need to be saved, it means
I don't have any power to save myself. People that you see in floods
that are sitting on top of a rooftop and they're absolutely dependent
upon somebody to let down a raft and save them. They're not on
that rooftop and utterly dependent on that craft to come and save
them because they can save themselves. If they could save themselves,
they wouldn't need any of that. They can't save themselves. They
need salvation. They need to be saved. Well,
every child born of Adam, that's you and me and everybody else,
every child born of Adam has a need to be saved. But the utter
impossibility of us saving ourselves is manifest in the fact that
until God makes us to know we need to be saved, why we need
to be saved, we don't really even have a clue what salvation
is, or why in the world all this talk is even being said about
salvation. We have a nature to be religious.
We have a nature to worship something. We have a nature that lets us
know that when we see the sun come up in the morning, we know
something's behind that. We know when we see the sun go
down in the evening. We know when we see the seasons
change. We know when we consider the
complexities of this world. We consider the complexities
of our human body. We know something behind all
this. But one who needs to be saved,
he's entirely dependent upon another to save him. Now here's
what the Scripture said. The Word of God says this. God says this about himself.
Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is not just getting
a jump start and then we got it from here on out. Salvation
is being saved from beginning to end. And salvation is of the Lord. Now, I have a title for the message
this morning and it's what each person here needs to ask ourselves. Here's the question. Is my God
the God? Is my God the God? Now, if you're sitting there
and you're saying, well, I don't believe there is God. Well, you
just listen and maybe God will convince you there is. But here's
the question for all of you who believe God exists, who believe
that you have a hope in something. Here's the question. Is my God
the God? All right, verse 21 says, produce
your cause, saith the Lord, bring forth your strong reasons, saith
the King of Jacob. Now God is speaking here as if
He's speaking to the idol gods Himself, but He's speaking to
the people themselves as well, and this is the reason. Now listen
to this, everybody who claims to believe, everybody who claims
to trust God ought to be able to make their case and bring
forth strong reasons why their God is true God. Everybody ought
to be able to do that. That doesn't mean that salvation
is in how much you know. It doesn't mean that you have
to articulate in great depth who God is. It doesn't mean that
at all. But everyone whose God is the
God is able to answer this question right here. And this is the question.
Verse 4. Who hath wrought and done it? Who hath wrought and done it? Calling the generations from
the beginning. Everybody who knows the true
God can answer that question. Everybody who believes on the
true God can answer that question. If they're born of the Spirit
of God, they can answer that question. Who worked it and who's
done it? If anyone asks me to state my
case as to how I know that my God is the true God of salvation,
this is my one argument. Because my God hath wrought and
done all. That's how I know. My God is
all salvation from beginning to end. He is the Lord of all. That's my God. And I can assure
you, my God differs from every other God ever created in any
generation, in any period of time, by any imagination of a
man. I can assure you of that. Because
there's not one God man's ever imagined that doesn't at some
point depend upon a sinner to do something. My God doesn't. My God works it and does it all
from beginning to end. Now, is that your God? Is that
your God? Here's what I want you to see.
First of all, that God is truly the Sovereign of heaven and earth.
And secondly, I want you to see that God has saved His people,
manifested His righteousness in His Son, Christ Jesus the
Lord, who is indeed God. Alright, verse 22, 23. He said there, let them bring
forth their strong reasons, and show, He said, let them bring
forth and show us what shall happen. Let them show the former
things what they be, that we may consider them, that know
the latter end of them, or declare us things for to come. Show us
things are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are
gods. Yea, do good or do evil, that we may know, and be dismayed,
behold it together. God declares what shall be, before
it ever comes to pass. He declares what shall come to
pass. Look at Isaiah 42, 9. Isaiah
42, 9. Behold, the former things are
come to pass, and new things do I declare before they spring
forth. I tell you of them. Look at Isaiah
46, verse 9. Remember the former things of
old for I'm God and there's none else. I'm God and there's 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. Man's God
look down through time. Man's God did this. Man's God
looked down through time to see if there was any that would believe
on Him. And when He beheld some would
believe on Him, He chose them because they would believe on
Him. This God says, verse 28, Isaiah
41, 28, I beheld and there was no man. He did look, there was
no man. Even among them, and there was
no counselor that when I asked of them could answer a word.
From the beginning God said, if you're God, bring forth something,
show me something. And he said there, all sinners,
all sinners are as dumb as the idols they make. As dumb as the
idols they make. God says concerning those he
saves, look at verse 8. But thou, Israel, art my servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, thou
whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee
from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant,
I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. This is what God determined
before the world began. This is what He declared. This
is the end that He declared from the beginning. I have chosen. Chosen my son,
I have chosen a people in him. I have called you, called you
my servant when as yet I hadn't made a thing. Called you my child
when as yet I hadn't created a grain of sand. Called you my
Israel when as yet I hadn't even made an atmosphere for you to
exist in yet. This is God. and put my name
on you and my glory up on you and my saving spiritual blessings
freely up on you before I even brought you forth and made you
or made the ground you live on or made the things that you use
to worship and to bow down to and to give yourself to rather
than to me. Before I made any of those things
that you're worshiping, I put you in Christ and then I came
because you couldn't come to me. I came to you and I brought
you and I made you to behold. I saved you by my grace and I
have not cast you away when all you deserved was to be thrown
out with the garbage. This is God. Man's God was surprised
by Adam's fall. Look over at Genesis 2. God wasn't
surprised by Adam's fall. He told him he was going to fall.
Genesis 2. Verse 17. He said when He gave him, verse
16, the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of
the garden thou mayest eat freely. Verse 17, of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. Now you
watch this. He don't say if you do, when
you do, in case you do. This is what He says. And the
day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." Man's God. Look at Deuteronomy
31. Deuteronomy 31. Man's God, He called out a nation
and He named them Israel and He told them, I'm going to make
a covenant with you now and I'm going to give you all these promises
I'm going to give to you and I'm going to bring you into a
land of milk and honey in Canaan. When it didn't work out, when
everything that he told them didn't work out, he went to plan
B and he sent little Jesus to try to save his Israel. Israel's
rebellion against God didn't surprise him. He told them beforehand.
Look at Deuteronomy 31, verse 19. And God fulfilled every earthly
promise He made to them. And He told them, once I fulfilled
them all and brought you to the land, you're going to forsake
Me. Look at Deuteronomy 31, verse 19. Now therefore write ye this
song for you, and teach it the children of Israel. Put it in
their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against
the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought
them into the land, which I swear unto their fathers, that floweth
with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves
in wax and fat, Then will they turn unto other gods, and serve
them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. And it shall come
to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that
this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall
not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their
imagination, which they go about even now, before I have brought
them into the land which I swear." This God knows the end from the
beginning, doesn't He? Well, in our text, he says in verse
25, I've raised up one from the north, and he's going to come.
Well, Israel's in bondage at the time that this is being delivered,
and he's going to raise up King Cyrus, and he's going to bring
him, and King Cyrus is going to do everything the Lord says
he's going to do right here. Exactly. And he did, historically. History will bear record. He
did exactly what God said he would do before, when God said
it before he ever brought it to pass. But this scripture here
is talking about Christ and all, just as all history gives us
types and pictures and shadows and specific detail of Christ,
and we see throughout scripture. I want you to see this, Psalm
41.9. The Lord said before Christ ever came, details not only about
what Christ would do, details about not only where He would
be born and what He would accomplish, but details concerning what other
people would do towards Him. Look at Psalm 41 verse 9. He said, Yea, mine own familiar
friend, in whom I trusted with to eat of my bread, hath lifted
up his heel against me. This psalm right here is a psalm
of David. This psalm was written by a man
named David. Long, long, long, long, long,
long time before Christ Jesus ever came to this earth. And
he said, my own familiar friend is going to betray me. And Judas
went and he betrayed him just like the Lord said he would.
Look now at Look at Zechariah 11. Zechariah 11. Zechariah 11.
Look at verse 12. And I said unto them, He's given
him up. Look at verse 10 further. I took
my staff, beauty, and cut it asunder that I might break my
covenant which I made with all the people. Christ Jesus is the
covenant of the people. He's the covenant toward God
for the people, of the people. And He's the covenant from God
toward the people. So that in Christ, everything
that's required from God toward the people shall be and is fulfilled,
and everything that's required of the people toward God shall
be and is fulfilled. And when Christ died at Calvary,
and He was broken, that covenant, that earthly covenant, God not
only was stating, here's my everlasting covenant, Christ Himself, but
He was stating that earthly covenant I made is completely broken. Now, but look down, here's what
I want you to see. This is what he was saying beforehand. It was said unto them, If ye
think good, give me my price, and if not, forbear. So they
weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said
unto me, Cast it unto the potter, a goodly price that I was prized
out of them. And I took the thirty pieces
of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord."
Look at Matthew 26.15. Verse 14 says, Then one of the
twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and
said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him
unto you? And they covenanted with him
for thirty pieces of silver. Intricate details. You can read
Psalm 22. It tells you exactly how everybody
around the cross will treat the Lord Jesus Christ. And then you
just go over to Mark 15 and read, and you'll see everything that
God said would happen came to pass exactly as He said it would
happen. That's concerning His Son. That's concerning the one
that He's raised up. That's concerning the one who
is redemption. If God brought everything He
said to pass according as He said He would before, before
He ever came to pass. If He brought that all to pass
concerning His Son, do you not think everything else in this
world is in absolute sovereign under His sovereign control and
power? And not only does He declare the end from the beginning, He
brings to pass what He determined before to be done. He said there
in verse 23 of our text, You say to your God, Do good or do
evil, that we may be dismayed and behold it together. Let me
tell you something about the God of man's imagination. If
he does something that man stamps with his approval and says, that's
good, then his God did it. If it's something that he stamps
and says, no, that's evil, then he says, my God didn't have anything
to do with this. If he didn't, he's not God. If he didn't, he's not the God
of heaven and earth. If he didn't, he's a dumb idol. He's a stump, and he's as useless
as a stump if he didn't do everything. This is the God of the Bible,
Isaiah 45, 7. Look at it. Isaiah 45, 7. I form
the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil.
I, the Lord, do all these things. That means that there's absolutely
nothing. When sin entered the garden,
though it was the product of Lucifer, though it was the product
of the devil, though it was the product of Satan, though it was
him bringing it forth and causing Adam to transgress against God,
it didn't happen out of God's control. It served God's purpose
absolutely. Look at, well, I'll just give
these to you. Amos 3.6, he says, shall there
be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it? We all just
saw these, it's the worst tornado, I grew up in the South, the worst
tornado I've ever seen in my life is that tornado that just
went through Tuscaloosa. That is just devastation. He said, the Lord hath his way
in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of
his feet. I was telling the kids the other
day, if you haven't seen them, go on weather.com and you look
at the videos of those tornadoes. Some of those folks that chased
those tornadoes, they got a screw loose somewhere, but they showed
these fellas, I mean they were up close to these tornadoes. And it looked like, one of them
looked like if you took, I had a little dust broom at home and
I showed the kids, turn that dust broom over and you just
take your fingers and you just rake them across that dust broom.
And those bristles just lay down and you just run them across.
That's exactly what it looked like. It looked like the tops
of those trees just had a finger in them, just raking them right
down, right across the top of them. He said, he has his way
in the world, man. and in a storm. Here's the man
of God's imagination. Look over at Isaiah 46, 7. They bear Him up on the shoulder.
Isaiah 7 says the government's on Christ's shoulder. It says
His shoulder. And you know where it says in
the New Testament He carries His lamb? On His shoulder. Those are big shoulders. He got
the government on one and the lambs on the other. But man's God carries him, carries
God. That's not the true God. He carries
them. They carry him and set him in his place and he standeth. God carries his people. He sets
them in his holy habitation and he makes his people to stand.
From his place shall he not remove. They put Him there and that's
where He's got to stay because He can't move from there. God
does as He will in heaven and earth. He sets the bounds of
men and men don't set His bounds. Yea, one shall cry unto Him,
yet He can't answer. He can't save Him out of His
trouble. Why would you even pray to a God who's not sovereign?
Why would you even pray to God who's absolutely in control of
everything? He's not in control of everything.
Why would you even pray to Him? He can't do anything. That's
not the God of this Bible. All right, now look back at our
text. Back at our text. This is the God of the Bible.
Verse 10, He said, I will strengthen, I will help, I will uphold with
the right hand of my righteousness. Verse 16, He said, I'll make
you anew and make you rejoice in the Lord and glory in the
Holy One of Israel. Verse 18, He says, I'll open
rivers in high places, fountains in the midst of valleys, make
the wilderness a pool of water, dry land springs of water. You
see, that's what we are. We're high places, we're valleys,
we're wildernesses, we're dry lands. But He makes rivers in
the high places. He makes fountains in the valleys.
He makes a pool in the wilderness, springs in the dry land. He said,
I'll plant, verse 19. Verse 20, that they may see and
know and consider and understand together that the hand of the
Lord hath done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
I've done it. Somebody says, well, that's not
my God. That's not my God. Well, here's what the God says
about you and your God, verse 24. Behold, ye are of nothing,
and your work of nothing. That means you're worse than
nothing, and your work is a viper. An abomination is he that chooseth
you. An abomination is he that chooseth
you. Do you hear that? An abomination
is he that chooseth you. That's strong language. That's
strong language. That's finality. He's an abomination
that chooses you. That word there, worse than a
viper. When I read that, I thought about just recently I was home
and my family has a garage and at the end of it, there's a little
old drain. And it has a little grate over
the top of it, and you can see down in it and reach your hands
down in there. It's just enough to keep, you know, kids from
falling in it when they walk across it. My sister was walking
across there, and she happened to just look down, and she saw
a snake. So she called into the house,
and they came out, and they got a little garden rake and was
going to try to kill this snake. And when they saw this snake,
They decided it was like that fellow on Jaws, we're going to
need a bigger boat. They said, we're going to need a bigger
rake. They ended up going in and getting a gun. This was a
rattlesnake. And they put him on a full-size
pickup truck, laid the bed of that tailgate down, and they
had it in its head stretched from one side to the other side
of that truck. He had 15 rattlers and a button.
Now, a rattlesnake, I think this is correct. A rattlesnake grows
a rattler every three years. You can look that up if you want
to. If that's so, that rattlesnake was born before I was. Born before
I was. That snake was this, he was probably
that big around in the middle, and he was long. If that snake
would have bitten you, he would have bitten you, bitten any one
of you If he'd have been a grown man, much less a child, he'd
knock them down. Just knock them down. He's so
big. This is what God says about the
God of man's imagination, the idol God, the works of His hands. It's a viper. It's a viper. You know, if my father Just looked
at that snake, and he said, you know what? It's all right. You
kids go on playing. Maybe he won't hurt you. The
police would come and arrest him and take him to jail. I'm warning you. I'm trying to
tell you. I'm trying to declare to you, don't play with vipers. If you find a place where the
gospel is declared, Get there and you listen and you pay attention
because you're already bitten. And the venom's already been
inflicted in you. And you're dead in trespasses
and in sins. And all that a man does that
keeps looking to the God of his imagination is he keeps on playing
with a venomous viper. Here's the last thing. God has saved His people from
their sins in Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus is God. He's God. Now, like I said, Israel was
in Babylon. Cyrus was going to be raised
up and all that. But look here in verse 25. I've
raised up one from the north. We associate the north with up,
don't we? Christ came down. He's the Son
of God come down in human flesh. If I'm not mistaken, is Nazareth
north? Is it north of Jerusalem? I've raised up one from the north.
Christ the Lord. He says, and he shall come, he
shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my
name. Christ came calling on the name
of the Father from the beginning of His life, throughout His life,
from the beginning of each day, throughout each day. Always continually
about the Father's business, from the rising of the Son to
the going down thereof. But even more than that, He is
the beginning. He's the one in how God declared
the end from the beginning because He gave it all into the hands
of His Son. He first trusted Christ with all. The works were
finished from before the foundation of the world because He rested
in the Sabbath. He rested in His Son to perform
that which was necessary. And it says, And He shall come
upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth the
clay. He came into this world in the
wilderness. The devil took him up to a high
mountain, seed him high mountain. He showed him all the kingdoms
of the world over all time. He said, I'll give you these
if you'll just bow down and worship me. He didn't have any power
to give him anything. Nothing's his to give. Christ
said, I'm living on, I'm serving the Father. I'm serving God.
And he tread down that old serpent. That serpent's in here. That
serpent's in me and you by nature. That serpent is what's got to
have its head crushed in us. That's why our works are worse
than a viper until he crushes and treads it within us. He did
it for us and then he went to the garden of Gethsemane and
he sat there anticipating being made sin for his people. And
I have no doubt there that that serpent was doing everything
he could to try to weigh upon him and turn him from going and
from being made sin for His people. Because that's the only venom
that Viper had. And he cast himself upon the
Father there in the Garden of Gethsemane and God the Father's
promise came forth and He strengthened him. And then he went to the
cross and being made sin, bearing the sins of His people in His
own body on the tree, He crushed that serpent's head once and
for all. And then He comes. He comes. He comes. Because He said from
the beginning He would. And He comes to everyone that
He did this work for. Everyone that God determined
from the beginning that He would save. And He comes in His power. He comes in, the Holy Spirit
of God comes in. Some of the old timers used to
say, irresistible grace is just not strong enough. Because we
resist it, resist it, resist it. But he comes in and he's
invincible. And he creates life where there
was no life. He gives willingness where there
was no willingness. He gives newness where there
was nothing but just an old dead snake. And He crushes that viper. And
He makes you to behold who is the true God of heaven and earth.
And He makes you come to Him and bow down and say, Lord, have
mercy on me. And then He says, I've already
wiped it all away. It don't even exist. All your
sin's gone. And in every trial and every
tribulation we go through, God's in control of every single one
of them. He, remember, go back and listen to I'm trying to think
now what we're talking about. Them that wait on the Lord. He
gives all these things and He also gives the trial. He gives
the thorn. And He gives the thorn because
He knows it's needful. He knows it's what we need and
He gives it. But with every trial, with every tribulation, He makes
a way to escape. And that's what the trial's for.
is to show us that way. And that way is this one right
here. Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord. And He declared His name in righteousness. Look at the last couple of verses
there. He says, He's declared, who hath
declared from the beginning that we may know? He did. He did. God said, this is my Son in whom
I'm well pleased. Before He ever made the world,
He said, He's coming forth. And Christ said from the beginning,
I'm going forth and I'm going to save all. He did it. He declared it from the beginning.
Before time that we may say when it comes to pass, righteousness. There He is. There He is. Yea, there's none that showeth,
there's none that declareth, there's none that heareth your
words. The first shall say, here's how
you're going to hear it. The first shall say to Zion,
Behold! Behold! You notice here He says
behold and then He says behold them. You're not going to behold
them, that is your idols and your vain works and your vain
knowledge and your vain systems and all the vanity. You're not
going to behold them until you behold Him. And when you behold
Him and He says behold them. And when you behold Him, you'll
behold that they're nothing. When you behold Him who's everything,
behold, they are nothing, those other things. Behold Him. Now look, I want you to see something. He's the first. He's the head.
He's the one that brings good tidings. And He continues to
give good tidings. He gave John the Baptist, and
through John the Baptist He came into the world. He gives His
messengers, and through His messengers He comes into that dead, dry
world of wilderness called our flesh, and He creates life there.
Now watch this. When He says, Behold. I want
you to see something. Back up at verse 9. How many
places behold is here? And then we'll be done. I want
you to see this. Behold. Isaiah 40 verse 9. Now you behold what God says
to behold. Alright, let's do this again.
Everybody listen. Everybody listen. You got your
attention? I want you to behold first of
all what God says, Behold. When He says, Behold Him. And
then we're going to see what He says, Behold, when He says,
Behold them. Alright? Here's what He says when He says,
Behold Him. Verse 9, He says at the end there,
Behold your God. Behold your God. Verse 10, Behold
the Lord God. And we can put this in past tense.
He's come with strong hand and His arm has ruled for Him. Behold,
His reward is with Him and His work before Him. That means it's
His glory and His work. He's done it. Look at verse 26.
Lift up your eyes on high. Behold, who hath created these
things? Everything you see in the heavens
and in the earth. Behold, who's created these things
that bringeth out their hosts by number? He calleth them all
by names and by the greatness of His might, for that He is
strong in power, not one faileth. Look at Isaiah 41.11. Behold,
all they that were incensed against thee, all the sins of Satan,
all the sins of your own sins, the law that was against you,
all your enemies that were against you, all shall be ashamed and
confounded. They shall be as nothing, and
they that strive with thee shall perish. Look down at verse 15. Behold, I will. He hadn't said you anything.
He hadn't said you do anything. He said, I've done all this.
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having
teeth. Thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small
and shall make the hills as chaff. I will make you rejoice in me,
he's saying. I will make you declare my name. I will make
you stop trying to thresh, separate your sin from yourself by the
vain works of your flesh. I'm going to make you a new sharp
threshing instrument where you're an instrument setting forth my
glory and through you I'm going to Set forth my gospel and call
out my sheep. Look down over at Isaiah 42,
1. Behold, and this is where it's all summed up. Behold my
servant, Christ the Lord, whom I uphold, mine elect, and whom
my soul delighteth. I put my spirit upon him. He
has brought forth judgment to the Gentiles. That's why you're
hearing this gospel today, because he's done it. Now, go back with
me real quick. I want you to see what He says
when He says, Behold them. Look at Isaiah 40 verse 15. Behold, the nations are as a
drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
Behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Look
down at chapter 41 verse 24. He says, Behold, ye are of nothing,
your work of naught, and abomination is he that chooseth you. Look
down at verse 29. Behold, they are all vanity,
their works are nothing, their molten images are wind and confusion. Now turn with me to 2 Corinthians
6. Now, if you've listened at all
today, I thank you and I appreciate
you for at least having that much respect. If you didn't,
as you kids say, you can get bent. I don't really care. I don't really care. If you don't
care, I don't care. Alright, 2 Corinthians 6. Is my God the God? The answer
to that is, who's wrought it and done it? Who's wrought it
and done it? Call in the generations from
the beginning. Who did it? He said, I the Lord, the first
and with the last, I am He. I've done it, God said. So, if
He's your God, this is what He said. 2 Corinthians 6, 14. Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? What communion, what common union
hath light with darkness? What concord, what concordance
hath Christ with Belal? Or what part, what part, what
just little part hath he that believeth with an
infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God. As I said, I will
dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people. Wherefore, wherefore, come out
from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
the unclean thing. And I will receive you, and will
be a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and my daughters,
saith the Lord God Almighty. Well, if we have these promises,
and we have these promises, then we see who the God of heaven
and earth is. And we see how in control and
sovereign power He is of everything, and how that He will not share
His glory with another, but He's going to manifest it, and His
Son has. And we see that He says of us,
we're nothing. What do we say then, having these
promises, that He says, come to me and I'll be a father to
you? having these promises, let's wash our hands completely, bring
it to an end, to perfect, to maturity and say, all right,
my mind's made up, my God, I'm done with it, done with it, and
I'm following Christ from here on out. Oh, I pray He's done that for
us, hasn't He? He keeps doing that for us. He
keeps telling us that over and over and over, and He keeps bringing
us over and over and over to Him, to Him, to Him, and we just
keep coming to Him, keep coming to Him, keep coming to Him. I
pray He, if you don't know, if your God, after you heard this
today, is not the God you heard today, I pray that the God will
divinely interrupt your dash to hell and make you to know
who He is. I pray that for you. Amen.