Isaiah chapter 25, if you'll
turn there with me. Brethren, do you ever imagine
one day closing your eyes in this body of death and then opening
your eyes in glory with a perfect sight of your beloved Redeemer? Do you ever think about that?
no sin to distract you, no tears to cloud your eyes, nothing but
perfect conformity and perfect communion to the Lord Jesus Christ. That day shall be a perpetual,
continual, eternal day of rejoicing for the Lord's people. It'll
be an unending day. And that final eternal day is a day which every elect, predestinated,
redeemed, regenerate child of God shall have a foretaste of
in this life many times over. In that day of conversion when
the Holy Spirit shall draw each of those that He's chosen, that
He's bought with His own blood, it'll be a day of rejoicing. And that day of deliverance from
the trial that you're in, whatever it is, it's that day of beholding
Him, seeing Him. It's a taste of that final day,
that lasting day. When He restores you after you've
fallen, When He restores you in the Spirit and causes you
to lift up your eyes and behold Him. When He brings seasons of
reviving to your soul and causes you to see Him as He is. It's
called the Lord's day. That's what it is. It's the Lord's
day. The day of His grace and there's a most sure word, a sure
certain word that this effectual grace is going to put on the
lips of every saint, every hour that He causes us to see Him.
We find it here in verse 9, Isaiah 25, 9. And it shall be said, When the Lord says, it shall
be, you can bank on it. Whatever He says, it shall be.
Whatever's coming next is good news for the saints. It's good
news for those that put their trust in Him. And it shall be
said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him
and He will save us. This is the Lord. We have waited
for him. We will be glad and rejoice in
his salvation. For in this mountain shall the
hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him,
even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim. And he shall bring down
their pride together with the spoils of their hands. I want
to show you, first of all, what shall be said. And second of
all, where it's going to be said, why it's going to be said, and
how it's going to be said. First of all, what shall be said?
Verse 9. Lo, this is our God. This is
the Lord. This passage is speaking of Christ
Jesus the Lord. We've seen that before. It's
speaking of the Lord Jehovah, Jehovah Jesus. Our God manifests
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The feast that's spoken
of in this chapter is the feast he prepares in his person and
by his finished work. It's the feast of the gospel
that he prepares. and by his accomplished protection
and preservation of his people. He is removing the covering of
sin, the veil that's on the heart through the Holy Spirit and causing
his people to rejoice in him. through the Holy Spirit, through
His gospel. That's what the whole chapter
is about. And the day of the Lord Jesus Christ, it's not a
single day, brethren. We think when we hear in that
day, we think of a particular day. But the day of our Lord
is eternal. Our Lord, every day that's been
on this earth has been our Lord's day. It's been His day. A thousand
years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and
as a watch in the night. Every day is His day. We see
it illustrated here in the fact that Isaiah, the Lord hadn't
come to the earth yet, the Lord Jesus Christ hadn't come yet.
But He had already put this song on Isaiah's lips and made him
to break forth into this song when as yet He had not even come
and accomplished the work in time as of yet. Why? Because
it's eternal. This work of our Lord and this
comforting of His people, it began... before eternity, before
time in eternity, but then from the first day. The works have
been finished from the beginning. The Father rested in His Son
from the beginning. He's the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. He's been reigning from that
day forward and all through time. He came to this earth and accomplished
that redemption, and went to the Father, and now it's manifest
to the whole world. This is Him. This is who our
God is. This is He. And He's going to
make every particular sinner that was given to Him by God
the Father to know that He has swallowed up death in victory.
He swallowed up death in victory. And He's going to comfort our
hearts in this mountain continually. Continually. Turn back over there
to Isaiah 61. Isaiah 61. Do you know how helpless
we are as sheep in this world? We sing about it, we read about
it, we listen to it preached, but do we really know just how
helpless we are in this world? Believers are helpless in this
world. If we were left to ourselves,
just the wind blows, and just the trials that come upon us,
and the heaviness that they create. If He'd left us alone, we would
wilt, we would fold, we would perish under the weight of it.
But listen to what He says, this sure word of promise. Isaiah
61, look there in verse 3. He says, this is what He came
to do, to appoint He was appointed to appoint. That's what He said,
I was appointed, I was anointed, and He was anointed to come and
appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, in His church, amongst
His people, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness. that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be
glorified. He gives the beauties of holiness,
the beauties of His holiness in the place of this unholy thing,
this unholy ash called our flesh. That's what He does. He gives
the Holy Spirit the comforter who refreshes our hearts with
joy of complete salvation in Christ. He gives the garment
of His righteousness, of Christ, and replaces the spirit of heaviness
within His children. That's what He does. And He does
this for two reasons, brethren. He does it for two reasons. He
knows we're dust. He knows we are but dust. We
are but ashes. And He does this that we might
be immovable trees. Immovable trees planted by our
husbandmen, by the Lord Himself. And He does it secondly, that
He might be glorified. That He might be glorified. If
He didn't do it, Neither of those two things would happen. We wouldn't
stand as trees and He wouldn't be glorified. That's why He does
it. He'll save us. Look, when He
says that He might be glorified, our text says in Isaiah 25 9,
and it shall be said in that day. When? When He does this. It shall be said in that day,
lo, this is our God. This is our God. We have waited
for Him. We've been waiting for Him. And
He will save us. He will save us. This is the
Lord we're talking about. We have waited for Him. we will be glad and rejoice in
His salvation. He's going to save us from the
penalty of sin. He saves us from the power of
sin. And He saves us from the consequences
of sin in this world, in this life. We have it on record in
the Word of God that this prophecy has come to pass for some so
that we can rejoice and know it shall come to pass for us.
It has and does. Turn over to Luke chapter 2.
Told you to place there in Isaiah 25. Look over at Luke chapter
2. In Luke chapter 2, Simeon, there
was a man named Simeon. Look at verse 25. Behold, there
was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. He's in that
mountain. He's in that literal mountain.
He was in Jerusalem. in the place where the Lord promised
to meet with His people. His name was Simeon, and the
same was just and devout, waiting." There he is, waiting. He said,
what we're going to say, we're waiting for Him. He was waiting
for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was upon him,
and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost. That's how
this promise is going to be made in your heart. That's how this
joy is going to come about in the heart, by the Holy Ghost.
And it was manifested unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should
not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came
by the Spirit unto the temple. That's where the Lord told him
to go. That's where the Lord said, I'm going to show you this.
And when the parents brought in the child, Jesus, to do for
him after the custom of the law, then Simeon took him up in his
arms, and he blessed God, and he said, Lord, now let us, thy
servant, depart in peace according to thy word. For mine eyes have
seen thy salvation." I've seen him. It's a person. It's a person. which thou hast prepared before
the face of all people, a light to lighten the Gentiles, and
the glory of thy people Israel." John the Baptist. He said, I
didn't know him. I didn't know him just with my
understanding. I didn't know him. I didn't know
who the Messiah was. It was his cousin. He said, I
didn't know who he was. And he said, but the one that
sent me to baptize with water said, you're going to see the
Spirit descend upon him and remain upon him. And that's the one
who's going to baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire, with
power. He's going to effectually baptize
his people. And he said, I saw him and I
bear record, this is the Son of God. And you know what he
said when he saw him? You know what he said? Behold
the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." Here
He is. This is Him. I waited for Him
and I've seen Him. Here He is. Andrew ran to his
brother Peter and he said, We found the Messiah. We found Him
which is being interpreted the Christ. We found the Christ.
We have found Him. We've waited for Him and He's
come. This is our Lord. This is our God. We'll rejoice
in His salvation. Philip ran to Nathanael, he said,
we found him, of whom the law and the prophets have written,
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Nathanael said, can any
good thing come out of Nazareth? And Philip said, come see, come
see for yourself. We found, we've waited on him
and he's come. That centurion, look over at
Matthew 27, Matthew 27. That's centurion, the veil. Our
Lord shouted with a great shout. He gave up the ghost and the
veil of the temple was rent right down from top to bottom, right
in two. And the earth quaked and graves
were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose
and came out of the graves after His resurrection and went into
the holy city and appeared unto many. And verse 54 says, Now when the centurion and they
that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake and
those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying,
truly, this was the Son of God. This is Him. That's what He said,
brethren, in our text. Peter stood up there on the day
of Pentecost and he said, let all the house of Israel know
assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, that man, Jesus
of Nazareth, whom you crucified, He's made Him Lord and Christ. We've waited on Him and He's
come. Now we've got these witnesses
that show us they waited on Him and God made good on His Word.
They saw Him. He came and they saw Him. Verse
9 in our text says, And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this
is our God. We've waited for Him. He shall
save us. This is the Lord. We've waited
for Him. We'll be glad and we'll rejoice in His salvation. We've
got these witnesses, don't we? He fulfilled this Word. Well,
here's the second thing. Where is this Word going to be
fulfilled? Why is it going to be fulfilled?
How is it going to be fulfilled? Look at verse 10. For in this
mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for
the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his
hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth
his hands to swim. And he shall bring down their
pride together with the spoils of their hand. The first question
is where? Where is this going to happen?
It's going to happen in this mountain. We saw last time, I
wanted to cover it in detail last time about how this mountain
in Jerusalem, that literal mountain in Jerusalem, is symbolic, brethren,
of the church of His people, actually His people, and of the
house of the Lord, of His courts, where the Lord has promised to
meet. The mountain is where God said, that mountain of the Lord
in Jerusalem, that's where God said he promised to meet with
his people. That's where Simeon was when
he saw him. That's where John the Baptist
was. That's where the prophets were. That's where Peter stood up at
the day of Pentecost and preached. That's where this was. That's
where he accomplished the redemption of his people. But it's typical. It pictured His people and it
pictured His church. The mountain of the Lord. Mount
Zion. Now he's everywhere, God is everywhere, and he's able
to commune in the hearts of his people, whether they're at the
house of the Lord, at the courts of the Lord or not. He did so
with David. David was in a cave, hiding out
from his enemies, hiding out from those that would kill him,
and the Lord communed with David there. refreshed his heart and in that
day, right there, in that place, in that mountain, in that cave,
in his son David, the Lord caused him to say this. The Lord caused
David to say, this is my God. I've waited on him. I'll rejoice
in him. But you know what it made David want to do? It made
him crave the courts of the Lord. It made him desire to be in the
house of the Lord. It made him desire to be where
the Lord's gospel is preached. I know that when I was growing
up, I loved to hunt and fish. Nobody loved it more than I loved
to hunt and fish. It's what I talked about all
the time. There was fishing season and
there was hunting season. That's the only seasons there
was when I was growing up. And I used to tell my grandfather,
I could go out there and I could sit on my deer stand and it's
quiet and nature's all around me and I can commune with the
Lord there. I can think on Him out there. And he said, the world says it's
foolishness that he's going to meet with his people in his house.
through the preaching of the Gospel. But he said, after that,
the world, after that in the wisdom of God, the world by its
own wisdom didn't know God. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. In the first hour, in
every hour, in every hour. When David was in that cave and
he communed with David, he caused him to say that to see the Lord.
And David said, oh, I want to be in the courts of the Lord.
I want to be where He is. I want to be where His people
are. I want to be where His gospel is preached. That's where He's
going to do it. How's He going to do this? Look
at verse 6. And in this mountain shall the
Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things. That's the gospel right there.
That's the gospel of the complete, perfect, full, accomplished redemption
of our all-victorious Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we crave
to hear. That's what we desire to hear.
That's where He increases this understanding, increases us to
know His wisdom, the wisdom that He is, the power that He is,
the salvation that He is. That's where He turns this mourning
into joy. That's where He turns these ashes
into the beauties of holiness. That's where he does this work,
in the heart. Verse 10, he says, For in this mountain shall the
hand of the Lord rest. You know, that's how he's going
to give this word of rejoicing, by resting his hand in this mountain. You know, we've seen in the book,
look back at Isaiah 9. When his hand is stretched out,
You know, we like to say, thinking worldly-wise, you know, reach
out a hand to somebody. That means you're helping them.
When the Lord, Scripture says, His hand is stretched out, that
means judgment. That means judgment. Watch it
now. Isaiah 9.12. And there's other
places throughout Isaiah, I'm just going to give you, there's
three places right here in this one chapter. Verse 12, the Syrian,
he said, I'm going to bring the Syrians before and the Philistines
behind and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all
this, his anger is not turned away, it's not satisfied, justice
is not satisfied, but his hand is stretched out still. Look
down at verse 17, Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their
young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and
widows. For everyone is a hypocrite, an evildoer, every mouth speaketh
folly. And for all this judgment He
brought upon them, He said, His anger is not turned away, but
His hand is stretched out still. Look down at verse Verse 21,
he said, I'm gonna cause Manasseh and Ephraim and Ephraim to devour
Manasseh. They together shall be against
Judah. And for all this, his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still. But when the Lord rests his hand,
it means judgment's over. Judgment is over. He said, in
this mountain, I'm gonna rest my hand. My hand's gonna rest
in this mountain. The very feast that He refreshes
us with, the very feast that He protects us with, the very
feast that He strengthens us with, is the glorious proclamation
that He's rested His hand. His hand's rested. God was in
Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, Jew and Gentile.
not imputing their trespasses unto them. But what about His
holiness? What about His justice? None
of it could be satisfied when He poured out judgment in Israel. What about His justice? What
about His judgment? He hath made Him, His Son, sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. That's where His justice went.
That's where His judgment went. It went on His Son. that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. Look over at Hebrews
chapter 10, verse 12. This man, in Scriptures, Peter
said, Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that He might bring us to God. that He might do it, being put
to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. Look at verse
12. Now this man, Christ Jesus the Lord, after He had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of
God from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His
footstool. For by one offering He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. Now, in this mountain, The Lord's
hand rests. That's why it rests. Because
from the beginning, He rested His hand in His Son, the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. When He came in time,
He rested His hand of judgment, stretched it out upon His Son,
and slew His Son in the place of His people. And in time, He
comes and He makes His gospel effectual in the hearts of His
people and He causes us to know that His hand of judgment rests
towards us. He's perfected us and He rests. And now, this hand that rests
upon us, you hear the Scriptures speak of His hand. He held the
waters in the hollow of His hand. That's the hand, he says, that
rests in this mountain. It rests to preserve. It rests
to protect His people. This hand of the Lord rests upon
His people, not in judgment, in preservation and protection
for His people in this mountain. Oh, do you think about that?
The Lord's going to protect me? The Lord's going to provide for
me? The Lord is going to preserve me? Keep me? The Lord is going
to, His hand is resting right here. You sit down by your son
and your daughter and they're mourning, they're crying. What's
the first thing you do? Put your arm around them. Put
your hand on them. Why do you do that? Why do you
do that? Because that's where comfort
comes from for a child who's crying, a child who's in sorrow,
a child who's desperately in need of knowing all is well. And he says in this mountain,
I'm going to rest my hand upon my children. I'm going to keep
them comfortable, protect them. He gives this word on our lips
by bringing down all our enemies. Look at verse 10. He says, not
only will his hand rest here, but this is what he's going to
do by resting his hand here. Moab shall be, that's an important
word, Moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden
down for the dunghill. Moab represents the curse. Moab
was a cursed people. Moab represents the curse and
the enemy of God. Christ has won the victory over
our enemies. He's put away sin. He's took
away death. He's satisfied the law. He's
reconciled us to God. He's brought in an everlasting
righteousness. He's clothed us in that righteousness.
He's sanctified us perfectly before our God. In our hearts
He's created us in newness, in righteousness and true holiness.
He's going to resurrect these bodies in perfection. He's going
to create a new heavens and a new earth in righteousness. Our God
will try it down. He has and He is and He shall
protect us and conquer and prevail over all our enemies. Is it going to be hard for Him
to do it? He says, I'm going to pull down the strongholds
of Satan. I'm going to pull down all his strongholds. Let me read
something to you. Let me turn over here real quick.
Let me read this to you. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds." He said, I'm going to trot them
down. Casting down imaginations, ours and our enemies. And every
high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God,
Well, I think we ought to do it this way. He's able to bring
that down. He's able to bring that back
in line with true wisdom. His wisdom. His way. Bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You
see, Christ is our weapon. His obedience is our weapon. His faithfulness is our weapon.
His sure word that He will trot down all our enemies under Him,
that's the weapon of our warfare. It's the gospel of that glorious
good news that conquers our fears. It's through the gospel of that
good news that He conquers and quickens and keeps and preserves
and edifies and grows the new man in the heart. It's through
that blood of His one sacrifice that He imparts His righteousness
to His people. Makes us one with Him in heart,
in newness of life, to know Him and rest in Him. That's conquering. That's a conquering right there.
To bring us into subjection to His obedience, to trust His obedience,
to look to Him for obedience, to trust His faithfulness for
us. That's a conquering. You ever think about that? If
he conquered me personally, that ought to let me know he surely
can conquer the rest of my enemies. Because I was the worst one of
the lot. Still am. And he still keeps me safe from
myself. He can conquer everything else.
You know, when we need comforting the most, when we need it the
most, brethren, usually we have enemies within us. in our own
ideas, in our own reasonings, in our own logic. We have enemies within us, we
have enemies without, around us, that keep us from the one
thing needful. We get cumbered about, and there's
one thing needful. And these enemies keep us from
that one thing needful. That one thing we need is Christ,
brethren. But He's able. That's what He's
telling us here. He's able, wherever we are, if
we're in a cave somewhere, if we're in the midst of our enemies,
if we're Martha and we're just serving and we're mad because
Mary won't come help us, whatever it is, He's able to speak a word
into the heart and to bring us to this mountain. He calls us
to delight and see, I want to be in this mountain. I want to
be where his people are. I want to be where his word is.
I want to be where he's exalted. I want to be where he has promised
me that he's going to appoint me the joy of his salvation in
my heart. That's where I want to be. You
wouldn't miss an appointment that you'd scheduled with somebody
you respected. What about this appointment?
This is His appointment. But He's able, that's what I'm
saying. This is why we don't, this is why, of all things, most
important. If the one thing that I would
say, brethren, make it your utmost goal is to be where the Lord's
Gospel is preached, every time it's preached. But even this,
I don't take the law, and say, now this is the Sabbath, and
I'm going to constrain you. If you're not here, you better
have a good excuse. Why do I want to do that? Because I know, brethren,
I know that the God I'm talking about, the Lord Jesus Christ
who's bought His people with His own blood, He's able to bring
His people from the East and from the West and to bring them
into His house in His time, in His way, so that their only rejoicing
and their only desire is to say, this is our God. We've waited
for Him. We've desired Him and He's brought
us to Him. And He'll make you to see, brethren,
that one of the greatest ways that He makes us to bear witness
of Him, to bear testimony of Him to our friends and our brethren
is by coming to this mountain. I want to show you something.
Turn to Psalm 116. I was so blessed by this today. At the end of studying this afternoon,
or maybe it was around lunchtime, I called Brother Hyman. I was
telling him how we were praying for them. And he told me, he
said, you know, he said, I've heard so many people this week,
quote, And this is an example of what I'm talking about, of
how the Lord can do this in His people. He said, I've heard this
week, folks, quote, precious in the sight of the Lord is the
death of His saints. I've heard it preached hundreds
of times at funerals. I've heard it said, you know,
anytime a loved one dies, precious in the sight of the Lord is the
death of His saints. And he said, I just went and
I wanted to look at the scripture and I opened the scripture up
and I read it. And he said, have you read that psalm? And I said,
I'd have to go back and read it. He said, the whole psalm
is speaking about how he separates us from that which would separate
us from him. And it's a dying of the old man.
and that's precious in the sight of the Lord. It's talking about
why we still remain here on this earth. Listen to Psalm 116 verse
1. I love the Lord because He hath
heard my voice and my supplications, because He hath inclined His
ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live. That's
what makes me to rejoice. He's heard me, He's forgiven
me, He's done these things for me. Look, the sorrows of death
compassed me. Death was all around me. Death
compassed me. Within and without. My fears,
my flesh, all the enemies that would prevail against me. Death
compassed me. And the pains of hell got hold
of me. I found trouble and sorrow. Then
I called upon the name of the Lord. That's when you will. That's
when you will. Oh Lord, I beseech thee, deliver
my soul. And look what he found out. Gracious
is the Lord and righteous, yea, our God is merciful. Now look
down with me. He said in verse 11, I said in
my haste, all men are liars. I was, he was hasty in his sorrow
and his day was railing and angry. What shall I render unto the
Lord for all his benefits toward me? He was gracious to me in
spite of me. I'll take the cup of salvation. I'll drink this cup and call
upon the name of the Lord. I'll pay my vows unto the Lord
now in the presence of all his people." This is what he learned.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. When they're perishing, when
they're weakest. Isn't that what Paul said? When
I got no strength, then he's my strength. And that's precious
in the sight of the Lord, to bring you to the place where
you've got no strength and then you call upon the Lord. That's
precious in the sight of the Lord. But look what it made him
do. Verse 16, O Lord, truly I am
thy servant, I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid, thou
hast loosed my bonds. That's what he's saying in our
passage, in our text tonight. He said, I'm going to cause them
to say, this is our God. I'm gonna loose their bonds and
their trials and their afflictions and I'm gonna cause them in every
trial and every reviving and every day of rejoicing. It shall
be said in that day, lo, this is our God. I am your servant,
Lord. You will keep me. And he says,
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call
upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord
now in the presence of all his people. Where did it make him
wanna go? in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of
thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. That's what
he's saying to us in our text. In that day, brethren, in the
day of his grace, every day of his grace, he's going to continually
make his people to say this. Well, here's the fourth thing
I want you to see right here under this heading of how he'll do
this and why he'll do this and what he'll do. Is it gonna be
hard for him to do this? Is it gonna be difficult for
him to do this? John, I've watched you out in
the water when we're down the coast and those waves are coming
in. I'm not used to all that stuff. You know, I can't swim
all that well when the water's like glass, but John can just
go right through the water. He just swim right through the
water, no problem at all. Look like a fish out there swimming
through the water. It's not any difficulty. You
know how to do it. You're good at it. You're a master
at it. You know how to do it. Gonna be any difficulty for him
to do this work? Look at verse 11. He shall spread
forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim. And he shall bring down
their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Just that
easy. Just that easy. Like swimming. Just like swimming. Whether it's
in the trial or good times. Whether it's in famine or plenty.
Whether it's our flesh that's the enemy. Whether it's Satan
who's the enemy. Whether it's those without that
oppose us and our Lord. the ease of a swimmer through
water. The Spirit of our Lord swims
in the midst of his people, making you his regenerated child to
know this. He makes you to know I was made
a curse for you. He makes the believer to know
I perfected you in my righteousness. He makes you to know, I've satisfied
holy justice for you. He makes you to know, I've made
you beautiful in holiness. He makes you to know, you were
the enemies of God. You were the enemy of God in
your mind by wicked works. And I came to where you are and
through this gospel, I washed you. in regeneration and renewed
you. And now I'm washing you. I'm going to continually wash
that defiling, ignorant thought of the flesh from your heart,
from your mind, from your fleshly understanding that you behold
who I am and know who I am. He brings down the pride of our
enemies, whether it's our flesh, us, our enemies without. Just
with the ease of a swimmer in the water, He brings down that
pride. And He takes the spoils out of their hands, whether it's
the enemies without or it's the enemy of our flesh. He takes
that which we would cling to, that would separate us from Him,
out of our hands. And He takes hold of us. He says,
now come, child. Come on. Come, child. And He
keeps us that way. And this is the sweet peace He
gives when He does it. The Lord's hand rests in sovereign,
irresistible protection over you and He will only do you good. That's what He said in Isaiah
61. That's what He says right here. Why? That He might be glorified. By who? I knew that He does this
for us. And in this mountain, whether
it's in conversion in that day, whether it's in deliverance from
the trial in that day, whether it's in the refreshing of our
souls in that day, verse 9, it shall be said, it shall be said. I'm so glad He don't even leave
it to me, up to me, to in myself somehow muster up the power to
praise Him and rejoice in Him. If He did, He could say, it shall
be said. He's going to do it. He's going
to make it. He's going to put the words in my heart and the
words on my tongue and the words on my lips. It shall be said
in that day, oh, this is our God. We have waited for Him. I've
been waiting for Him through this whole trial. I've been waiting
for Him. I've been so cold and I've just
been waiting on Him to just give me, open up the heavens to me. I've been waiting on Him. He will save us. This is the
Lord. That's what we're going to say
when He opens them up and drops down this word. That's what we're
going to say. This is the Lord. We have waited
for Him. We will be glad. We will be. He says we will be. It shall
be said, we will be glad. We will be glad. And here's what
else we will do. We will rejoice in His salvation. That's called letting Him be
glorified. But He said, I did it that He might be glorified. And then that day, we're going
to open our eyes the way I started with you. We're going to close
our eyes in this body of death one day. And throughout the whole
time of our lives, He's shown us over and over and over, giving
us a foretaste of heaven divine, glory divine. And we're going
to close our eyes in this body of death and open them. No sin, no tears, no burden. Perfect, uninterrupted, unchanging,
everlasting, eternal communion and conformity to our Lord. And
then we're going to say it. Then we're going to say it without
even the sin that's in our thoughts right now as we try to say it.
Then we're going to say it. This is our God. This is the
Lord. We'll be glad and rejoice in
his salvation. It shall be said. It shall be. Amen.