Now there's a sure and effectual
result of grace. And I mean grace working within
a sinner. There is a sure, effectual result
of grace. And that is the believer will
praise God through Christ Jesus the Lord continually. And he will praise God for Christ
Jesus the Lord. Praise is not an emotional thing
you work up. You know, I could persuade you
to cry. I could present some Jesus to you that would get you
all sentimental and fuzzy and you might think that's praise
or worship or making a confession. True praise is giving God all
the glory in salvation for what He has done, what He is doing,
and what He shall yet do. Isaiah was sent forth with the
gospel, and he was declaring that the end of national Israel
was coming. He declared that the true King
Christ Jesus, the Son of David, was coming in the flesh to take
his rightful throne. And Isaiah, as he looked toward
that day, the age, gospel age in which we live. And as He looked
toward that final glory, that day of final glory, His heart
burst forth into praise for God. And let's read what He said here
in the first five verses of Isaiah 25. O Lord, Thou art my God,
I will exalt Thee. I will praise Thy name, for Thou
hast done wonderful things. thy counsels of old are faithfulness
and truth. For thou hast made of a city
an heap, of a defenced city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no
city. It shall never be built. Therefore
shall the strong people glorify thee. The city of the terrible
nation shall fear thee, for thou hast been a strength to the poor.
a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,
a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible one
is as a storm against the wall. Thou shalt bring down the noise
of strangers as the heat in a dry place, even the heat with the
shadow of a cloud. The branch of the terrible ones
shall be brought low. The first thing I want you to
see this morning is the confession of faith. The confession of faith. Isaiah says in verse 1, O Lord,
Thou art my God. The Lord, Jehovah, that's mentioned
in this text here, is God incarnate, the Son of God, Jesus Christ
our Savior. In verse 23 of chapter 24, one
verse up there, he said, Then the moon shall be confounded
and the sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shall reign in
Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously.
We saw this last time. For the sun and the moon and
the stars, all the spiritual light given to that one nation
in Israel, the very things that once had been to them symbols
of heavenly power and favor were shaken to the very foundation
and became to them a snare and a stumbling block when Christ
came the first time. And so it shall be in the whole
earth when He returns again. Our King, the God-man, Jesus
Christ, the Son of Jesse, the Son of David, came forth just
as Isaiah said He would. And He established His spiritual
kingdom in righteousness and in judgment. And He converts
sinners in righteousness and in judgment. And He reigns from
His throne in glory over His spiritual nation right now. If you read Revelation 20 at
your leisure, We're in that age, brethren. It's not some future
time in the far off that's going to be some thousand year reign.
It's happening right now. It is right now. He reigns before
His ancients gloriously. When He died and laid down His
life and rose again, the graves were open. And those that had
been beheaded and those that had died prior to His resurrection
were raised with Him then. And they sit before Him right
now and see Him in all His glory and all His majesty. And not
only that, but those who are born of His Spirit reign right
now in this earth as kings and priests unto God. And by faith,
we see the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things
not seen, and we see Him reigning gloriously. And we're His ancients
because He loved us from eternity. Elect according to the full knowledge
of God. Look at verse 8 here. Chapter 25, verse 8. He will
swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away
tears from off all faces. He's talking about His people.
And the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all
the earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. 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. speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Jehovah, our God. And He's coming again, brethren.
And when He comes a second time, He's going to make a new heavens
and a new earth wherein dwelleth only righteousness, only that
which He's made, which He's created. Believers sanctified in body,
soul, and spirit may conform to His image in perfect righteousness,
brethren. And Isaiah says, that's who I'm,
he says verse one, oh Lord, thou art my God. Now, here's the first
thing. Faith confesses that Jesus Christ
is God. And faith confesses that Jesus
Christ is God our Savior. Faith confesses that Jesus Christ
is God. And faith confesses that Jesus
Christ is God our Savior. Jehovah of the Old Testament,
is the invisible Jehovah of the Old Testament, is Christ of the
New Testament. The express image. Christ is
the image of the invisible God. Christ is the revelation of the
true and living God. Christ is the Word of God. The man, Jesus of Nazareth, is
himself Almighty God. For in him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead in a body." Now, I want you to realize that the
Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Christ of the New Testament
is God, our Savior. That's what faith confesses when
it sees Him. Now, I hear men all the time,
brethren, say, Well, I was saved when I was in free will religion. But when I came to the doctrines
of grace, I had to change my system of doctrine. Be very,
very careful about that. Be very careful. We're fixing
a reason not with you and tradition, but from God's Word. That was
not the Apostle Paul's testimony. Paul claimed to be worshipping
Jehovah before Christ came to him in power. That's who he claimed to be worshipping.
Just like the free will man claims to be worshipping Jesus Christ,
Jehovah Christ Jesus our Saviour. But when he was truly born of
the Spirit, Paul didn't merely change his doctrine, he changed
his God. He found out who the true and
living God was. And for the first time, he worshipped
Jehovah, God the Savior, and Christ Jesus the Lord. For the
first time, he said, those things that were gained to me, I now
count them done. Before, he had a form of religion,
but he denied the power of God. Afterward, he confessed Christ,
the power and wisdom of God. That's what Christ, the power
and wisdom of God, does to sinners. Did you just hear the God we
read about in Isaiah chapter 41? That's who we're talking about.
He's sovereign in salvation. He's sovereign when He enters
the heart. Salvation is not changing from false doctrine to true.
Salvation is not changing from one denomination to another.
Salvation is a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation comes
in power, salvation comes in spirit, and salvation comes in
truth. He makes sinners repent from
our idols and believe on the true and living God. If you had power to send your
son, somebody to declare your son, the truth of your son, you
had the power to do it. You wouldn't stand for somebody
declaring a lie about your son. God has the power to send forth
those to declare the truth of his son. The Jesus who died for
all men without exception, that person, that Jesus who died for
all men without exception, is not the God of this Bible. It's
not the Jesus of this Bible. It's not Jehovah God. That's
not the God of this Bible. You will never hear the righteousness
of God preached when that Jesus is preached because to declare
the righteousness of God, you have to declare God is just. He's justified his people and
that everyone he justified got to be saved. You will never hear
that proclaimed. You can't hear that proclaimed.
And yet men perish in hell for whom he died. That is another
Jesus. That's not this Jesus. The Jesus
who's depending upon man to make himself holy is not the sanctifying
Christ Jesus Jehovah of the Bible. You'll never hear that Christ
preached where the other Jesus is preached. You'll never hear
the true Christ preached where the other Jesus is preached because
then you have to take your hand off of yoking men. You have to
take your hand off of yoking sinners. You have to say that
I don't do anything in this thing of salvation. Christ is all. The Jesus who's done all he can
but can't send forth the Holy Spirit to work effectually and
make his sheep submit to him and forsake all their idols is
not the King of heaven and earth. Sorry, I'm not sorry. It's true,
he's not. Man's idol Jesus reveals nothing
of God's holiness, his righteousness, his love, or any of the glory
of God. Now like I said to you, that
Jesus could be presented to you in such a way and make you cry
and make you feel warm and fuzzy and maybe make you come down
to the front of the church or make a decision for Him, but
that Jesus never saved anybody! That's not the Jesus of this
Bible. Somehow in this world we can walk around and we can
figure out what's a lie and what's true. We know what's black and
what's white, but when it comes to this Word, we just won't admit
it. Not till God, not till the true
Jesus comes in. Then we will. That's what happened
to Paul. Now I want to talk, let me give you this. I know
that religious men are going to say, no, that's not so. You
know, somebody from a preacher that may have been a faithful
preacher said otherwise and what have you. I want to know what
God says. I'm tired of men refuting what
God says with what men say. I want to know what God said.
God says, how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not
heard? Did He just say in Isaiah, that
chapter we read before, He said, have you not heard? He has the
power to make you hear. And He said, how shall they hear
without a preacher? Just any preacher. How shall
they preach unless they be sent? Does God send liars? I wish you
would look into the witnesses we have of every page of this
Bible and show me one sinner God saved and used to write this
Word that declared a lie. Would you find me one? He didn't use any liars, did
he? He may use a man who is a liar and not saved, but when he's
using that man, he's going to preach Christ. Paul said, some
preach for envy and strife. And he said, I'm not rejoicing
in them, but I'm rejoicing in this. While they're doing it,
they are preaching Christ. The true Christ. Preaching the
true doctrine of Christ. The doctrine that Paul believed.
If that's not the case, who are antichrists, brethren? Who are
false prophets? If a man can preach Christ who
saves universally and who died for everybody universally but
didn't save anybody, whose blood is not really effectual, who
then is the Antichrist? Would you tell me that? That
is Antichrist. If that's not Antichrist, I don't
know what is. That's not the God of this Bible
at all, brethren. But the point I'm making to you
here is Zion, God's people shall be redeemed with judgment and
his converts with righteousness. He said, I will give you pastors
after my heart. And how precious are the feet
of them that bring glad tidings, true tidings. You mix a little
poison with bread and it's poison bread. Now, I'm not saying that
a man knows everything there is to know about God, but here's
what we know about the almighty, saving Jesus Christ. We know
that He's the all-sufficient Savior. He's wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. That is all-sufficiency. That is everything you need to
be accepted with God. And that's who this Christ of
this Bible is. He's the effectual Savior. He's the God I'm declaring
to you. The Christ I'm declaring to you
is the one who said, I will call my sheep and they will hear my
voice and they will follow me and they will not follow a stranger.
That's the effectual Jesus Christ who really does call and really
does save. He said, no man's gonna pluck
them out of my hand. No man's gonna pluck them out
of my father's hand. This is the Christ. the Savior whom God
has accepted. He didn't enter into a tabernacle
made with ants. He entered into the Holy of Holies,
into the presence of God, having obtained eternal redemption. When he had by himself purged
totally taken away all the sins of His people. By Himself, by
His one offering, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty
on high, henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His
footstool. Because by that one offering,
He perfected forever them that are sanctified. And He's the
successful Savior. Listen to Isaiah 42, 4. He shall
not fail nor be discouraged till He has set judgment in the earth
and the isles shall wait for His word. If that's what... I don't know
the titles men use and they label you with or whatever, but if
that's what men call hyper-Calvinism, Call me ultra-hyper-Calvinist.
I'm as ultra-hyper-Calvinist as God is absolutely sovereign
to send forth His pastors with the word of truth and effectually
regenerate His people and bring them to the knowledge of Christ
and believe on Him. That's how ultra-hyper I am about
this, just as absolutely sovereign as God is in salvation. Alright,
that's what faith is going to confess, that Christ is God and
that He's God our Savior. Here's the second thing. Faith
confesses that Christ is my Lord and my God. That's what He said
here. O Lord, Thou art my God. You
know, the scripture says, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be
ashamed. I fear that the problem men have
with compromising this gospel and saying God saved some other
way is that they're ashamed of the true and living God, the
true and living Christ. Paul didn't have much of a problem
with that. He said it's dumb. It's dumb. Thomas said he was doubting when
the Lord ascended or when he was resurrected and he came to
him. Thomas was doubting, but when he reached forth his hand
and stuck his finger in the holes of his hand. He said, my Lord
and my God. That's who he is. I want him
to be your personal savior, but he better be your personal Lord
and your personal God. Do you realize the opposition
Isaiah faced in his day? He said, say ye not a confederacy
to whom all these people say a confederacy? The whole religious
host was saying a confederacy. Do you realize the hypocrisy
Isaiah would have been guilty of if he would have said, say
ye not a confederacy? But now I believe that confederacy
is going to save me. I made that confederacy. I'm
trusting in that confederacy. No. He said, oh, Lord, thou art
my My God. Well, that's the first thing,
the confession of faith. Here's the second thing. Faith
has a determination. Faith is determined to do one
thing only. One thing only. I'm going to
take all the things you've been taught in religion and all the
big gulf of things you need to be doing. I'm going to bring
them down now just to one thing. One thing. Here it is. Verse
1. I will exalt thee. I will praise
thy name. That's an offering right there
that is well pleasing to God and He will receive that offering.
He delights in that offering. I will exalt thee and I will
praise thy name. Religion exalts man's will, man's
intellect, man's seeking, man's work, man's worth. Religion exalts
religion, our provisions, our symbols, our prayers, our services,
and so on. True faith exalts and magnifies
and honors and praises God alone as he's revealed in the Lord
Jesus Christ. You want to know the difference?
It's not that difficult. That's the difference. By God's grace, dependent upon
God, this is what the believers determined to do. I will exalt
thee. Salvation's of the Lord. God
elected a people in Christ. He did it. It began with God. God predestinated them into the
adoption into His household. God purchased, He redeemed His
people by His own blood through the death of Christ Jesus our
Lord. He regenerates, He calls the
ones He's everlastingly loved. He preserves His people so that
we persevere unto the end. He shall perfect us in body,
soul and spirit and raise us into glory with Him. Now that's
from eternity to eternity. And He did it all. He did it
all. The believer trusts Him in all
our daily affairs too. Casting all your care upon Him,
for He cares for you. And the believer submits to His
will in all things. That's what it is to exalt Him.
To exalt Him. Salvations of the Lord. In all
my daily affairs, I'm casting my care upon Him. Whatever He's
pleased to do, I'm pleased. That's exalting Him. I will praise
thy name. Do you know His name? This is
Jehovah Jireh. I am the Lord will provide. We saw it when Abraham went up
the mountain. The Lord will provide Himself a lamb. He provided Himself. in the person of that Lamb, that
Lamb's Christ Jesus. Jehovah Jireh, I am the Lord
will provide. Jehovah Rapha, I am the Lord
that healeth thee. We don't heal ourselves. He said,
I'm the Lord that healeth thee. Jehovah Nisi, I'm the Lord your
banner. What flag are you flying when
you're going forth into this battle, into this war? What flag
are you flying? Boy, we wouldn't think much if
we saw the marines or the army going into the heat of battle
flying the enemy's flag with me. We fly the banner, Christ
the banner, the flag. Jehovah Sidkenu, I am the Lord
your righteousness. Righteousness, justification,
sanctification, everything needed to be accepted with God, that's
what He is, your righteousness. Jehovah Shalom, I am the Lord
your peace found any anywhere else found any anywhere else
Jehovah Shema, I am the Lord is there He guards his city his
church the Lord is there I Pray he's here. I think he's here.
I believe he's here. I wouldn't be here if I didn't
think he was here believe he's here Jehovah Raya, I'm the Lord your
shepherd. When you go through the valley
of the shadow of death, I'm the Lord your shepherd. And in all
these names of covenant grace, you know where they meet? They
meet in one. Jehovah Jesus. Do you know that
name's in Scripture? Go over to Isaiah 43. Isaiah
43. Isaiah 43, 3. I am the Lord thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. You know what the
New Testament version of that is? His name shall be called
Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sin. All these
names meet in one. And faith's chief desire is,
I will exalt thee and I will praise thy name. Did you realize
that everything we just talked about in those names is everything
you need? Is everything you need? Inwardly
in my heart, publicly in my words, practically in my life, continually
in my circumstances, I will exalt thee and I will praise thy name.
Lord, give me grace to do it. That's my desire. And here's
the third thing. Why? Why does the believer confess
Him? Why does the believer want to
praise and exalt Him? What's the reasons? Verse 25. I'm sorry, Isaiah 25.1. For thou
hast done wonderful things. That's why. For thou hast done
wonderful things. You know, He tells us what is
on His mind here too. We don't have to wonder about
what these wonderful things are. Look at the next line. Thy counsels
of old are faithfulness and truth. The casting off of national Israel,
that wasn't a new thing to God. He wasn't reacting because they
did something and He reacted to what they did. It's what He
determined from old to do. Isaiah was sent forth to just
tell them what He'd been telling them from the beginning. When
you rebel against me, I'm going to destroy your name and I'm
going to take you out of the earth. He determined before to be done.
The counsel of God is old as eternity. Go to Ephesians chapter
1. Ephesians chapter 1. Blessed be the God and Father.
This is God the Father. What did He do? Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's talking to brethren. He's talking to the faithful
in Christ Jesus. He said He's 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 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, wherein He hath made us accepted
in the Beloved." When were we accepted? When He chose us in
Christ, in the Beloved. Let me show you that. Turn to
2 Timothy. 2 Timothy. Begin in verse 8. Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner,
but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God. Now watch this, verse 9. Who
hath saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which
was given us when? In Christ Jesus before the world
began. When Christ entered into suretyship
for His people by His Son's agreement to redeem them, the Father looked
upon His elect as redeemed from then on. If you can say from
then on, it's eternal. And God the Holy Spirit entered
into covenant to regenerate and to call and to preserve those
elect redeemed children of God. Look at 2 Thessalonians Chapter
2 and verse 13. I want you to see these councils
of old. I heard somebody recently say
that we shouldn't disagree with our Armenian brethren because
of these matters that are not as important over matters that
are important. Well, I beg to differ. This is
the gospel. This is the gospel. And that
man's a liar who said that. He's a liar and don't know who
this God is if he believes that in his heart. This is the gospel
we preach. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 13, We
are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren, beloved
of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning, can we just
see when that was? Before the world began? God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation. through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth. The Lord determined this
would be beforehand. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit, His counsels are of old, Isaiah said. That's when this thing was settled
in eternity past. Here's another reason Isaiah
gives, back in our text there. Isaiah 25. He says, I will praise
and exalt you, not only because you made these councils of old,
but because you are able to fulfill them. Look at verse 2. For thou hast made a city of
a city and heap, and of a disfit city a ruin, a palace of strangers
to be no city. It shall never be built. Therefore
shall the strong people glorify thee. The city of the terrible
nation shall fear thee. Everything that comes to pass
in this world, Is God doing in time what He purposed to do before
He made time? Do you realize that? God's faithfulness to His people
is God fulfilling His own covenant word that He made with Himself
before the world began. That nation Israel, that's an
illustration. God created the nation Israel
to illustrate what He does for His spiritual Israel. The text
here speaks of him destroying a city. He destroyed all those
cities we've seen as we've studied through Isaiah. He destroyed
all those cities. Those city-states that were the
ruling power, he brought them to nothing. All of them. Took
away the whole staff from Judah. And then he used the king of
Assyria to do that. Then he used the king of Babylon
to punish Assyria's high looks. And then he destroyed Babylon.
And then in 70 AD, he destroyed Jerusalem. What's he doing? And eventually he's going to
destroy this whole earth right here with a fervent heat. What's
he doing? When he destroys the nations
of the world in his wrath, he's saving an elect remnant for the
glory of his name. And that's what he shows us.
Now is that God not able to save? Is he not able to send forth
the truth through his ministers? Oh, I think he is. Go back there to Isaiah 43. Patty
and I were talking about this this week. Isaiah 43, verse 3. Did you see what he said? I am
the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. Now listen
to this. Listen to this God who loves
everybody without exception. This universal God. Listen to the true and living
God. Is this the God who loves everybody without exception?
Listen, I gave Egypt for thy ransom. That's a nation full
of people. Ethiopia and Seba for thee, since
thou was precious in my sight. Thou has been honorable and I
have loved thee. Therefore will I give men for
thee and people for thy life. Look down at verse 7. Even everyone
that's called by my name, I'm going to call them from the four
corners of the earth, those that I've chosen, for I've created
him for my glory, I formed him, yea, I've made him. That's God. That's God. Some of these strong
people are going to be made to bow by grace and saving faith,
and some are going to be made to bow in the day of judgment,
but they're all going to bow. He said, I've sworn by myself
the words going out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not
return. That unto me every knee shall
bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely shall one say, in the
Lord have I righteousness and strength. Even to him shall men
come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed
in the day the Lord. All the seed of Israel shall
be justified and shall glory. He's going to save his people.
And every knee is going to bow. These are the wonderful things
for which we praise him, brethren. Now, here's the third thing,
and I'll be brief. The third reason the believer
praises God fully is because he fully provides for the believer
in this world as he's fulfilling his purpose. Isaiah 25-4. For thou hast been a strength
to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the
terrible ones is as a storm against the wall." Are you poor in spirit? Christ the Lord is strength.
Is there anybody here that's needy, that's in distress? Is
everything just perfect for you? Is anybody here needy, in distress? I mean need salvation. I mean
need God to save them. Is anybody needy? He's the Lord's
strength. Is the storm of God's wrath heavy
upon you? Is the storm of affliction, the
storm of this world, the storm of persecution, is the storm
of the fire of God's law and the heat and the hail of this
earth, is it heavy upon you? Christ Jesus the Lord is a refuge
from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the
terrible ones is a storm against the wall. Have y'all ever heard
Brother Jaime tell the story and Sister Sharon of them being
in the boat when the big storm came up? They described it to
me and it reminds me of when Gilligan's Island comes on, you
know. The little boat was tossed and
it was just tossed. The waves were just breaking
it and pushing it one side to the other and water coming over
the bow and just nothing they could do about it. But you know
what happens when that water hits a wall? It don't move it. It don't move it. That's who
Christ is. He's the refuge. He's the wall. When they blast against the wall,
they won't touch you. Just won't touch you. Not only do we praise Him because
He's a refuge to us, but here's the last thing. We praise and
exalt Him because He shall put down our enemies. He won't only
save us from our enemies as they huff and puff and try to blow
the house down, but He's gonna put them down. Look at verse
5. Thou shalt bring down the noise
of strangers as the heat in a dry place. Even the heat with the
shadow of a cloud, the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low. Strangers are those who hate
our God and hate our gospel. That's just a simple definition
of who strangers are. They're noisy. They may be religious.
They're noisy. But he says, I'm going to bring
down their noise. Our branch is Christ and the believer is
the fruit of the vine, the fruit of that branch. Their branch
is Satan, but he shall bring the branch of the terrible ones
low. This is what Paul said, the God
of peace shall brew Satan under your feet shortly. Very shortly. You know, we hear about this
God and we think, who is not the servant of God? Well, the
answer is nobody. There's not a person in this
earth that is not serving God. The hater of God, the man who
despises God, who don't have anything to do with God, is the
servant of God, whether he knows it or not, whether he likes it
or not. And when God's building a house,
His house made of living stone, when you build a house, The carpenters
come out there and they put all this scaffolding up all around
it as they're laying those one brick, fitly framing those bricks
together, putting them together, building them up, building it
all together from the foundation all the way to the top. All this
scaffolding is around it to build it. And that's what those who
hate God and despise this gospel, that's what they are. God will
use them as scaffolding. to build his church, and to build
up his people, and to edify his people, and to provide what his
people need, and to care for his people in this place right
here, this church, and in your daily lives. That's what he's
doing. And when he's finished, just like those carpenters take
all the scaffolding down, And there's nothing left but the
nice, big, beautiful house. So it will be in this world.
When He's done, He's gonna take all the scaffolding away. And
the only thing that's gonna remain is the house the Lord of Jehovah
Christ, God our Savior, has built by Himself. Now, let's bring this home to
you. Now have you confessed Christ? Are you exalting and praising
His name? Are you at peace with God? You know the answer to these
questions. Are you at peace with God? Are you resting in what
He has done, what He is doing, and what He shall do? Everything
that you've heard here today is the truth of the wonderful
Savior who's worthy to be praised. Everything that I've told you
today, there's nothing about what I've told you about this
God that's unworthy of anybody's praise. He's worthy to be praised. What was that statement we read
the other day that Robert Hawker said about, he's the only one
in whom there's not something we would change. Our dearest
loved ones, there's something about them we would change, but
not Him. There's nothing about this God
that the believer would have change. He is perfect, worthy
to be prayed. It's the God of the Bible. This
is the God of heaven and earth, the God you will face. I can say that unreservedly.
Everybody in this room will face this God. So do you believe on
Him and renounce all else? Don't. If you don't, then why? And that's a question that you
need to really think about. If not, then why? Why not? If you come before Him trusting
in you, your noise shall be brought down. It will be brought down. But if you come by faith in His
Son, He's going to give you this song that He gave Isaiah in manifold
reasons to praise Him with great joy forevermore. Isn't it amazing that you can
hear that and just say, I'm gonna go on back and go back
to this vomit. I'm gonna go on back to this
dung. I'm gonna go on robbing myself
in these filthy rags. Just hope God will receive me
when I present all this to Him. That just is insane, isn't it?
That is insane. I pray God will give you grace
and make you to behold Him as He is so that you forsake all
else for Him. It will be the greatest day of
your life, then on forever lasting.