Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
35. Isaiah chapter 35. I want to talk to you this morning
about the highway. The highway to Zion. Earthly Zion was where the city
of Jerusalem was. That's where the tabernacle was.
It was the place where the one altar and the one mercy seat
were. That was the one place in all
the earth where God in manifest glory, visible glory, communed
with his covenant people. Therefore, access to that earth
design was more important than anything else to a believer in
Judah. Well, because of Israel's sin
and Judah's sin, God delivered Judah over into Babylonian captivity. But even when he did that, God
had a chosen remnant among the children of Judah. And the true
believers that were in that captivity, they longed for a highway. They longed for deliverance and
for a way back to Zion, back to the tabernacle, back to the
place where God's presence was felt, where they had communion
with God. Well, in time, the Lord raised
up a king, and that king delivered the children of Judah out of
Babylon. And God provided, as He promised,
a highway for them, and they returned to Zion with great rejoicing,
where they could again enter into the presence Well, the good
news of the gospel is this. God has put his children on a
highway that leads to a better place than an earthly Zion. It leads to a heavenly Zion,
to the heavenly Jerusalem, into the very presence of God, into
the holiest of all. When sin entered the world, and
death by sin, We were cut off. We were separated from God, just
like those children in Judah were carried into captivity.
But God sent forth His Son, the King, who raised, who delivered
His children from captivity, who built the King's highway,
and who is the highway Himself. And by His grace and what He's
accomplished, believers are called out by the Holy Spirit of God
and put into this way. And we're on our way, making
a pilgrimage. We're sojourning through this
wilderness of life on our way to Heaven's Zion. That's what
we see here in our text. The Lord says, Isaiah 35, verse
8, And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called
the way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over
it. A highway, as in a raised causeway,
visible, unmistakably visible, clearly seen. I think of the
Pennsylvania Turnpike. Whenever we travel, we usually
go that route. And that road traverses over
through the wilderness and it makes the deep ravines as if
they were level with the earth, with the bridges that cross them.
It makes the high mountains come down because it tunnels right
through the middle of the It makes the places that would be
curvy and some little by-path, it makes some big, large, straight
ways that you can drive on. It makes a plain path. There's
no mistaking when you're on that way. Turn over to Isaiah chapter
40, verse 3. This is what the Lord said when
He sent for John the Baptist. He told him to say this, Isaiah
40 verse 3, The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed. And all flesh, Jew and Gentile,
all over this world shall see it together for the mouth of
the Lord has spoken it this way is Christ Christ is the highway
visibly unmistakably the highway the way the only way to come
to God the Lord said all flesh shall see it Jew and Gentile
his people shall be made to behold his glory in the face of Christ
Jesus this thing wasn't done in a corner It wasn't done secretly
by our Lord, it's been done visibly out in the open so that the whole
world, the whole world before Christ came was looking towards
that day and now we have all our calendars dated from that
day, from the day of our Lord. There's no peace with God, no
direction, nothing for you in this life outside of Christ. You'll aim, you'll wander along
aimlessly with no direction whatsoever. The only way, the way into God's
presence, the way into communion with God, the way which ends
in eternal glory and everlasting life with God is Christ Jesus,
the high way. Now he's called here a high way,
the way of holiness. Now this way was designed in
high eternity. in old eternity. Its foundations
were laid in divine providence. Christ is the way of holiness. If we're going to enter into
God's presence, it has to be clean. It has to be perfect. It has to be holy to be accepted
of God. He says right here in this text,
the unclean shall not pass over it. Now, this way the way of
holiness. It shall be called the way of
holiness. The literal translation here is and the quote way of
holiness shall be called into it. There is a highway. The way is Christ and the way
of holiness is called into it. This word, this phrase way of
holiness is a name given to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the name of God's people,
the way of holiness. You remember whenever Saul of
Tarsus, Paul said, when I was in my religion, he said, I was
seeking letters to go to Damascus that I might persecute any of
this way. This is the way of holiness.
Look back with me in Isaiah chapter 4, verse 3. This is the name from eternity
that was given to Christ's people, the way, the way of holiness.
Look here at Isaiah 4.3. And it shall come to pass that
he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the
living in Jerusalem, when the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion. You see that? Washed away. made
them clean, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the
midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of
burning. In Isaiah 62, they shall call them the holy people, the
redeemed of the Lord. And thou shalt be called sought
out, a city not forsaken. You see the picture here of Judah. All Judah did was sin. have themselves carried away
into captivity with no way to free themselves whatsoever. God
raised up the king, God built the highway, God delivered them
out, and God brought them back to Zion. And God said, and I
call them, by virtue of what I've done, the holy people. They are the way of holiness
because of what God did. I want to talk to you a little
bit about that. The Church of God, turn to Ephesians
1. The Church of God was given this
name, the Way of Holiness, when each individual child was sanctified
by God the Father in Christ the Holy One in eternity. Ephesians
chapter 1, verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be, this is when he called, this is when he made his people the
way of holiness. When he chose us in Christ, put
us in Christ before the world began, he made us holy and without
blame, before him in love. having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of
His grace. And all of this, having done this, wherein, in Christ,
and having done all this, blessing us with spiritual blessings,
He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. This is when every chosen
child of God had their names written to life. had their names
written in the Book of the Lamb slain before the foundation of
the world. It's not that our names are written
there when we believe on Jesus. The names of God's children are
written there by God Himself before the world ever began. It's called the Book of the Lamb
slain from before the foundation of the world. It's a covenant
of grace that He entered into. In fact, This is why when Adam
sinned in the garden, the world wasn't destroyed. This is why
when God's elect Remnant and Judah sinned against God, He
didn't just completely, totally eradicate them right then and
there. This is why He sent forth an
earthly king and delivered them out and brought them back. Everything
He did was to show us a picture of what He's doing in Christ
Jesus the Lord. And because He put a people in
Christ and they were the way of holiness before Him, holy
before Him in the love of God in Christ Jesus, accepted in
Christ Jesus. Therefore, when we sin, we were
already sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus
Christ and called. That's what Jude says. Jude 1.
God knows the end from the beginning because He made the end from
the beginning. The end began with God. That's
why He knows the end from the beginning. Truthfully, this word
here says, a highway hath been there. You see, when Judah went
into captivity, the highway was there. The highway was there. And when we went into captivity
in sin, in Adam, the highway was already there. The highway
was there. And we were preserved in Him,
in Christ. Well, secondly, I want you to
look now over to Ephesians chapter 5. God's elect were made holy
in the fullness of time when Christ came in the flesh. Ephesians
chapter 5. No man has ever hated his own
flesh. We love it, we cherish it, we
take care of our own flesh and so did the Lord the Church. He
did that to the church. We're members of His body, of
His flesh, and of His bones, just like a husband and a wife. And it's for that reason that
He left His Father, and the Son of God came down, and He made
Himself one flesh with His bride, that He might make each elect
child of God one with the Father, one with Him. Look here in Ephesians
5.26. This is why He came in human
flesh. that he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word. Who's doing it?
He's doing it. That he might present it to himself
a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing
but that it should be holy and without blemish. You know Paul
said this is the believers sanctification This is our constraint. This
is what moves us and motivates us to flee from fornication. For this is our sanctification.
We are members of Christ's body. He that is joined to the Lord
is one spirit. One. Intimately one. Consummated
as one flesh. What Christ did in the perfection
of holiness. What He did in His flesh in the
perfection of holiness by His nature and by His life. I am
and I did by virtue of it being imputed to me. That's right. And imparted to me. Being born
of incorruptible seed. That new nature is made, created
in righteousness and true holiness. You say, well, I don't feel like
I'm holy. I don't either. And everything we do is mixed
with sin because we're yet in this old flesh. But this This
old man does not believe God and love God any more than the
new man doesn't believe Him. The one that believes Him is
the new man. The one that causes error and
rebellion is the old man. One is the old man, one is the
Spirit of Christ. Isn't it? And everything He did,
we did. Now look at Hebrews 2. Why did
He do this? Why was it that he came lower
than the angels and did what he did? Hebrews 2 verse 10. For it became
him. It was becoming to his holiness.
He's holy. Our God is holy. Holy God. These are the holy scriptures.
We're called with a holy calling. Our God will by no means receive
anybody that is not as good as He is Himself, as holy as He
is. You have got to be a saint to
enter into heaven. You've got to be sanctified and
made absolutely holy by another. It became Him, for whom are all
things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make the captain of their salvation, perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctified and
they who are sanctified are all of one, all of one flesh, for
which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Look over
at verse 14. For as much sin as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil. and deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. You see, the children of Judah were in bondage. They
couldn't get themselves free, and that's where you and I were.
And Christ came and was made flesh to deliver His children
out of bondage, that He might present them holy and without
blame, faultless to Himself. He's God, and He's going to present
this church to Himself spotless and holy by His own holiness. Alright, look over at Hebrews
5 verse 7. It says there He's the captain
of our salvation. You know over in Hebrews 10,
I mean Hebrews 12, when it says, Run this race set before you. If you've been put in this way,
in this way of holiness, run this race looking to Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith. It means He is the author, the
pioneer, the one who blazed the trail of faith, who laid the
highway of faith, the one who is the perfect, absolute, holy
faithfulness to God Almighty is Christ and He's the finisher
of faith. That means He wrote the book
on it. That means you and I need to
rest in Him for all righteousness, for all holiness. Verse 7, How
did He do this? He did this when He was put upon
the cross. Obedience even unto death. Obedience even unto death. In
Christ being made sin on the cross, and in Christ bearing
the wrath of His people, that He might declare God just and
the justifier. That God might be just when He
justifies a sinner who deserves hell. Right there in the midst
of that, at the same time we see perfect, holy obedience to
God. Obedience that you and I, we
just can't muster in ourselves. Look, verse 7, Hebrews 5, 7.
Who in the days of His flesh, you see, we do glory in flesh,
but not ours. We glory in His. Who in the days
of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save
Him from death, He was heard in that He feared. That's holiness. That's holiness. Loving God,
fearing God, reverencing God with a holy reference, without
any sin whatsoever. Though He were a Son, the Son
of God Himself, as a man in the days of His flesh, yet learned
He obedience by the things which He suffered, and being made perfect
being absolutely consecrated, inaugurated as the perfect, holy
author and finisher of faith. He became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey Him. Now He obeyed the Father. He did what no sinner on this
earth can do, what no sinner on this earth has ever done.
He obeyed God in absolute holiness, in perfect righteousness. He
said, people say, well he didn't, Christ inauguration, when Christ
came in this gospel age, he didn't lower the standard of holiness.
He sure didn't. He is holiness. He said, except
your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes
and the pharisees, you can't enter into the kingdom of God.
The scribes and the pharisees were the most righteous, holy
people walking the face of the earth. And he said, it's got
to be better than that. And he said, don't think that
I came to destroy the Law and the Prophets. I came to fulfill
them. And he is the righteousness and
the holiness of everything God requires of every child that
God will save. That's right. Listen, that means the holy obedience
that God requires of me, the holy obedience God requires of
you, is yours. by believing on Christ. He became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey Him. Our holiness is perfect
because He obeyed the Father. Now He says to you, believe on
Me. Believe on Me. That's a light
and easy yoke. Believe on Him. That's the way
of holiness. Believe on Him. Look at Hebrews
10. Verse 5, Why did He come in the
flesh? Why did He come and do this in
the flesh? Wherefore, when He cometh into
the world, He said, Sacrifice an offering thou wouldst not,
but a body hast thou prepared me. A body, a man, flesh and
bone, just like me and you are, with blood, just like we have
pumping through our veins. Why? Because God wasn't pleased
with any sacrifice and offering in any other regard. He came
and He said this. He said, Thy will. Thy will. I came to do Thy will, O God.
I delight to do Thy will. He said, Thy law is in my heart. Look at verse 10. Look at verse
10. By the witch will. By the witch
will. By that will. By His willingness
to completely fulfill all righteousness and all holiness before God. By the which will we are sanctified. That means made completely, totally
holy. Sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once. One offering. Verse 14, For by
one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. You know all the ordinances.
Hold your place here in Hebrews 10. We'll come right back there.
Look over to Ephesians 2. You know all the ordinances that
were contained in the Old Testament under the Mosaic Law. All those
ordinances. You know what those ordinances
pictured? All the different washings with blood and with the ashes
of a heifer and all the law of the what was clean and unclean
to eat. You know what? All of those ordinances
that God gave, you know what they were all declaring? They
were all signs and pictures and types of purity, of being purified,
of being sanctified, of being washed, of being made absolutely,
completely holy to enter into God's presence. That's what they
were pictures and types of. You know what Christ is? The
fulfillment of every one of them. Look at Ephesians to verse 15. Those ordinances kept the Jews
in Israel separated from the Gentiles. But look at what the
Scripture says, verse 15. It says, having abolished. Let me
see, I may have the wrong text here for you. Let me find it. I'm in the wrong book, no wonder.
One second, I'll be over there. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 15. Having abolished in his flesh
the enmity, what's he talking about? Even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances. He abolished them in his flesh.
What does that mean? It means he fulfilled them. He's
what they pictured and shouted. All those For to make in himself
of two, of Jew and Gentile, of his people, he came to save one
new man, so making peace, that he might reconcile both in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. And he came
and preached peace to you that which were far off, and to them
that were nigh. For through him we both, what does a highway
do? What does the highway do? It's
a pass. It's the way you have access.
What does this say, verse 18? For through Him we both, Jew
or Gentile, have access by one Spirit unto the Father. You know
what He did? He fulfilled all those commandments,
all those ordinances which typified purification, which typified
washing, which typified holiness. He is the fulfillment of them.
Look at Colossians 1.21. I just want you to put all these
together and I want you to notice in all these that He says He
did this in His flesh. Men want to glory in their flesh. Men want you to see them doing
something. I'm not glorying in your flesh
and you're not glorying in mine. We know no man after the flesh
now that we're born of God. We've known Christ after the
flesh, but we don't know Him after the flesh now. We don't
see Him in the flesh anymore, but we see Him by faith. But
when He was here in the flesh, this is what He did. Colossians
1 verse 21. And you that were sometimes alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and
unblameable and unprovable in his sight. Who is doing this
presenting? Who did the work and who is going
to do the presenting? He did the work and made His
people holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight. And
He's going to do the presenting of His people to Himself, holy
and unreprovable in His sight. I'm trying to make the point
to you, brethren, that Christ Jesus is our holiness by what
He accomplished in the body of His flesh, not by what we accomplish
in the body of our flesh. Not at all. How are you going
to be brought to behold this? How are you going to be brought
to rejoice in this? The Judaizers didn't rejoice
in it. They came down where Paul was and they told the believers
there, they said, now, it's okay for you to believe on Christ,
but except you do something in your flesh, you can't enter into
heaven. And Paul went up to Jerusalem
and he said, did you send these fellows down here saying this?
And Peter stood up before everybody, before Jew and Gentile, Peter
stood up and he said, The Lord called me and He showed me a
picture of these clean and these unclean animals. And He said,
Arise, kill and eat, Peter. And I said, Not so, Lord. I've
never eaten anything unclean. And the Lord said, What I've
cleansed, don't you call clean. Don't you call unclean. And that's
what He was teaching in the law of the clean and the unclean.
Christ came and what He's done is cleansed every one of His
people and made them holy. And He said, now Peter, you go
down, there's a Gentile down there, and I want you to go down
there and preach the Gospel to him. And Peter went down there
and he preached the Gospel to him. And the Holy Spirit came
upon him and many others in his household and they were called
on the Lord in faith and they were baptized. Peter stood up
that day there at Jerusalem and before Jew and Gentile, and he
said, I saw that with my own eyes. And he said, and I'm here
to testify and tell you that you who are Jews, you who have
the law and the prophets, you who think that there's something
that you have to do to make yourself holy and accepted of God in the
flesh, I'm here to tell you, we're going to be saved, Peter
said, just like those Gentiles are going to be saved. Just like
they have been saved. They never had the law. They
never had anything that Israel had. They were saved by Christ
Jesus through the preaching of the gospel, and they were called
by faith in Christ and washed and made holy in Him. And Peter
said, that's how we're going to be saved. That's what God's
been teaching us all along about all these ceremonies and ordinances
of washing and purification and laws of clean and unclean. That's
what He's been teaching us. Christ is our holiness. Well,
how are you going to be brought into that? Into that understanding
and rejoicing in it? Look at 1 Corinthians 6. 1 Corinthians
6. And while you're turning there,
let me read this to you. Paul said to Titus, it's not
by works of righteousness which we've done. That's not how. But
according to His mercy He saved us. By the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior. You see, until you're born of
the Spirit of God and made a new creature in Christ, made righteous
and holy, and made a partaker of the divine nature, until then,
everything I'm telling you, you hear me talking to you. But what
you hear me saying, you're trying to hang on every word to find
life by something you can do, in what I'm telling you. That's
the case of every man that hasn't believed on Christ. But when
the Spirit of God comes, when the Spirit of God comes, He does
this. 1 Corinthians 6, look at verse
9. Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither
fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God." That's exactly what we are in our flesh. That's exactly what you are in
your flesh. That's what I am. That's what
you are in your flesh. That's right. The heart of the
matter. The heart that's in you. Be it
not what you've done, what you are by nature. But, here's what
Paul said had been done to them. And such were some of you, but
ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. They were
born anew. And in that new man, they were
none of those things. as holy and harmless and undefiled
as Christ Jesus who is holy and harmless and undefiled. That's
when the believer is going to glory in Christ that He loved
us and He washed us from our sins in His own blood. Now then, follow after peace
and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. If you
turn from this way, and go back to the law of Mount Sinai and
think that by some kind of obedience that you do something you abstain
from or something that you do that you find written in this
book and you think that by that you have made yourself holy you've
turned out of this way you've turned from one little foal of
red earth like Esau, and despised the glory that goes to the firstborn
son, Christ Jesus the Lord, despised the birthright. Stay in this
way. Lay aside every weight and the
sin which doth so easily beset you, and run the race set before
you, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith, who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down because everything is finished. It's done. He's set down. When
he had by himself purged our sins, when he had by himself
washed his people, purified his people, fulfilled all the law
of God for his people. He sat down. The work is done. Stay in that way. That's the
way of holiness. That's what the way of holiness
believe. That's who the way of holiness
believe. The way of holiness is not just
a mode or a way. It is a people. That's who they
are, the way of holiness. And that's what we believe. Now,
Hebrews 10, back there and we'll close with this. I can't think
of anything to end this with, any better exhortation to you
than that which is written. And this is what he says. Having
been made holy by God's grace in Christ, he says this. Remember now, this is the way
of holiness. No unclean, the unclean shall
not pass over it. And they never have. They were
made holy when they were put in Christ. Christ came in the
flesh and made them holy. And they're washed in the blood
of Christ by the Spirit of regeneration and given faith to be put in
this way by God. And listen now, it's got to be
perfect. He said in Zion, there won't
be anything in her that's going to defile it. There's no lie,
no abomination. Anything of that sort that's
going to enter it. But only those that are written in the Lamb's
Book of Life are going to enter it. Here's what he says about
that. Verse Hebrews 10, 19. Having
therefore brethren... Are you a brethren? Do you believe?
This is the way. Having therefore brethren boldness,
liberty, access, unhindered, right now. to enter into the
holiest. The holiest. That's where God
is. You've got to be the holiest
to enter into the holiest. You've got to be as holy as the
holiest. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus Christ by a new and living way. That's this highway we're talking
about. By a new and living way which
He hath newly made for us through the veil, right into God's presence,
that is to say, His flesh, His flesh, not ours. And having a
high priest over the house of God, let us draw near, let us
draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that promised.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good
works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the
manner of some is, but exhorting one another." And that's the
good work we're provoking one another to do. Continue in this
way. Don't turn out of this way. For
if we sin willfully, verse 26, That's turning out of this way.
Sinning willfully. Have you ever had something that
you knew was sinful, and you knew you shouldn't do it, and
your conscience was telling you you shouldn't do it, and you
did it anyway? Have you? I have. Everybody in this room has. That's
not what he's talking about right here. Sinning willfully is turning
out of this way and trying now to go and add something to God's
work, to Christ's work, and saying by that, that you no longer have
any sin, but that you're making yourself perfect in the flesh.
If that's the case, you don't have Christ in you and you don't
know God. That's sinning willfully. That's
counting the blood of Christ an unholy thing. Have you ever been lost? Ever
been lost? I grew up on about over 4,000
acres behind my father's house. And it was timber companies owned
it. And as a young boy, I could just
roam and roam and roam on that property. And I've been lost
in those woods before. And that's a horrible feeling.
Some of us, we've been lost on highways, on roads and stuff.
It's a terrible feeling to be lost. I know where you're going. We've seen movies where men wandered
in the desert, you know, and they'll show, they'll pan down
with a camera from some real high view and a guy will just
be a little speck in just a giant, giant ocean of desert. And no
road, no path, nothing around him for anywhere to be seen and
him out there just wandering aimlessly until finally he just
gives up and just falls down in his tracks and dies. If you don't come to Christ and
believe on Him, that's what you are in this world. Wandering
aimlessly, lost in a desert, dry wilderness in circles and
you will eventually come to the end and just fall down and die
and go to hell. Christ is the way. Christ is
the only way. Christ is. He told Thomas, where
I go, you know the way. Thomas said, we don't know where
you're going. How do we know the way? And he said, Thomas,
I am the way. I am the truth. That's what I've
been telling you here this morning. He's the way. He's the truth.
He's the life. And no man comes to the Father
but by Him. But you know what? I know this
for a fact. I know this for a fact. When
Christ came in to Babylon, this is the picture of it. He said,
go through the gates, lift up the gates, go through the gates,
lift up the stones out of the way, go through it. That's a
picture of going from the inside of Babylon lifting breaking the
gates that held you captive opening them up and walking out and Clearing
out the path of every stone and obstacle and leading the people
right out that's what he did when he did that that day in
Judah and Opened up that highway for them to go back to their
land back to Zion back to Jerusalem Do you think they had to be begged
to leave? Not those that were longing,
not those that had a heart's desire to be where God is. They took off, hot-footing it
back, and couldn't wait to get there. You know what'll happen? If God's made you to behold your
own bondage, and He's come and opened up the gates and said,
now you're free, you know what'll happen? You'll fly out of there,
fly out of Christ, and get in Christ's way, and start heading
to Zion with the rest of us. That's so. That's so. Jude said, Now to Him that's
able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless
before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only
wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power,
both now and forever. Amen.