We're going to begin our second
service. Let's all stand and sing 106. Tell me the story of
Jesus 106. Tell me the story of Jesus, write
on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious,
sweetest that ever was heard. Tell how the angels in chorus
sang as they welcomed his birth. Glory to God in the highest. Peace and good tidings to earth. Tell me the story of Jesus. Write on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious,
sweetest that ever was heard. Passing alone in the desert,
Tell of the days that are past, How for sins he was tempted,
Yet was triumphant at last. Tell of the years of his labor,
Tell of the sorrow he bore, He was despised and afflicted, homeless,
rejected, and poor. Tell me the story of Jesus. Write on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious,
sweetest that ever was heard. Tell of the cross where they
nailed him, writhing in anguish and pain. Tell of the grave where
they laid him. Tell how he liveth again. Love in that story so tender,
clearer than ever I see. Stay, let me weep while you whisper,
love paid the ransom for me. Tell me the story of Jesus, write
on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious,
sweetest that ever was heard. All right, turn with me, eventually, to 2 Thessalonians chapter 1. 2 Thessalonians 1. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus,
unto the church of the Thessalonians, and God our Father, and the Lord
Jesus Christ. Grace unto you, and peace from
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to
thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your
faith is groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one
of you all toward each other aboundeth. so that we ourselves
glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and
faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,
which is manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which
ye also suffer. Seeing it as a righteous thing
with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and
to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. in flaming
fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey
not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified
in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, because
our testimony among you was believed in that day. Wherefore also we
pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of
this calling, Fulfill all the good pleasure of a goodness and
the work of faith with power That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified in you And ye in him according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ Let's pray Father,
we come to you again this morning, thankful for our time together
to hear the gospel, Lord, and for the opportunity to come spend
time with brethren. And Lord, we ask that you open
our eyes this morning in our ears to hear the message. And
Father, we ask that you open our hearts, make the message
effectual to us. And Father, we come again thankful
that you've given us this place to come and to hear the gospel
and for our pastor that you've sent us. Lord, we continue to
ask that you support him and watch over him in his studies.
And Lord, we just ask that you watch over and care for this
body in Christ's name. Let us sing 282, hiding in the
282. Who's safe to the rock that is
higher than high? My soul in its conflicts and
sorrows would fly. So sinful, so weary, thine, thine
would I be. Thou blessed rock of ages, I'm
hiding in thee. Hiding in thee, hiding in thee,
thou blessed rock of ages, I'm hiding in thee. In the calm of the noontide,
in sorrow's lone hour, in times when temptation casts o'er me
its power, In the tempest of life, on its wide-heaving sea,
Thou blest rock of ages, I'm hiding in Thee, hiding in Thee. I'm hiding in thee. Thou blessed rock of ages, I'm
hiding in thee. How often the conflict when pressed
by the foe, I have fled to my refuge and breathed out my woe. How often when trials like sea
pillows roll, Have I hidden in thee, O thou rock of my soul? Hiding in thee, I'm hiding in
thee. Thou blessed rock of ages, I'm
hiding in thee. Thank you. Good morning. We're going to be in Isaiah 59 this
morning. Isaiah 59. Now, so far in this
chapter, our Lord has sent his word to expose the sin and the
iniquity of his people. And he did this for the purpose
to show his people their need of Christ. When the Lord shows
a sinner their sin, it's to show them their need of Christ. And then, as we get a little
further in, verse 9, we see that the people are awakened by the
grace of God so that they see what the Lord has declared about
them. They see, I am the sinner. I am not righteous. I can't work
righteousness for myself. What the Lord says about me is
true. It's just. He's right. I am condemned. I am a filthy
sinner. I have nothing to boast of in
my works and in myself. Now in our text today, picking
up in verse 16 to the end, The Lord reveals salvation by grace. He shows the sinner his salvation
by the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we behold my salvation. My acceptance with God is through
his Son, Jesus Christ, and the Son is glorified in our hearts. The Son is glorified in our minds. He's glorified in our confession.
Lord, save me. Help me, Lord. I'm the sinner. Save me, Lord. I've titled the
message, Taught of Christ by Christ. So the first verse in
our text, it begins with the Lord taking man into account
for his ways. He takes man to account for his
ways. And it reads, verse 16, and God
saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him, and his righteousness it sustained him. So the Lord's
been calling out and showing us our wicked ways, our false
ways, our incompetent, impotent ways with God. The Lord's teaching
his people that all have sinned and come short of the glory of
God. He says there's no man. There's no man. And it describes
God in a way that is used of man, of us, saying, God wondered
that there was no intercessor. Now, one of the meanings of that
word wondered means to be astonished, astonished. And that's true of
us as men and women. We can be astonished. We could
be taken back and taken off guard. when we see something that we
weren't expecting. But we know that the Lord, the
true and living God, he's not astonished in that way. He's
not taken back. He uses that language to help
us, to bring us to see the severity of our condition, to see that
I am the sinner. What God has said of me is true
and just and right. I'm undone. I'm undone. Lord, what can I do? How can
a man be just with God? It's to show us our awful, ruined
condition. It's to show us our need of salvation
by God. That word, wondered, also means
to lay waste. It means to make desolate. so that when we take this chapter
in its whole, everything the Lord's been showing to us about
my sin, about my transgression and iniquities. He's shown me
in this chapter that when I open my mouth and say, well, I think
God, he shows me that I'm speaking with poison. My words are poisonous. They're not truth. I don't know
about God by this nature. I don't know what I'm talking
about. He shows me that my works, which I'm doing to make a covering
for myself, to make me accepted by God because of my good works. He says, no, no, no. You're weaving
a spider's web. You're not making a covering
for yourself. You're just as naked as you were before. You're
more naked. You've now gone into it. You're
trapped in the spider's web. and you're about to be destroyed. He shows me that I'm in darkness. My thoughts of God are darkness.
My ways before God are darkness. I'm walking about blind to the
things of God. Look at verse 10, Isaiah 59 10. He brings us to see we grope
for the wall like the blind. And we grope as if we had no
eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the
night. We are in desolate places as
dead men. We're desolate. We're empty.
We're ruined. We're a wasteland. And really
that word desolate there in this verse is describing a fat field. We've fallen down in a fat field
as dead men. We're surrounded by the glory
of God. We have his word here. We had
the beacon of his gospel gone forth into the world and yet
left to ourselves, we are dead people in a fat field, a field
of richness, a field of abundance in our God because we don't see
it. We're blind. We're blind by nature. So let
me say it again. The word wondered means to lay
waste, to make desolate. We're being brought to see we're
in desolate places as dead men. We've got nothing to boast of
with God. So our sovereign God, is working
according to His purpose of grace toward us in the Lord Jesus Christ. God will be gracious to a people. He shall be gracious to a people
of His choosing in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he strips us down,
makes us to see that I'm the sinner. I need his salvation. I can't save myself. That we
should hear the calling of our Savior, who calls not the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. Is there a sinner? Is there a
sinner among us? Because that's whom the Father
sent the Son to save. Sinners. To save sinners. He's making us to know that my
works, my ways, my thoughts produce a desolate waste so that I have
no hope in what I do, in the works I do, in the things I say,
in the clothing I try to make for myself as Adam and Eve, which
is nothing more than fig leaves. They're not a covering. They're
not sufficient for us in that day. Turn over to Revelation
chapter 5. Revelation chapter 5. When you
get there, hold your place. We're going to read four verses,
but we'll be back shortly. Revelation 5, verses 1 through
4. This is the Apostle John. He's
describing what he sees of the Lord. He said, I saw in the right
hand of him, of God, the Lord, that sat on the throne. A book
written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals. You know, I was thinking about
that and John understands that's a book. There's something inside
of it. There's words inside of it and he can see that there's
words written on the back, on the outside of the book, but
it's sealed. He doesn't understand it. He
doesn't know what it says. There's no one to reveal it to
him and to help him to look upon it with understanding and knowledge. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming
with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose
the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, no man. Nor on earth, neither under the
earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And
I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read
the book, neither to look thereon. This is where the Lord brings
the proud sinner in himself to bring us to brokenness, to sorrow
for our sin, to see that I've offended holy God. I've sinned
against no one but thee, and thee only, Lord. I've trespassed
against thee. I'm the sinner. I'm the sinner,
Lord. He brings us to see our inability,
that we're not worthy in ourselves to look upon the Word of God
with any understanding. Now, again, holding your place
in Revelation 5, remember that back in Isaiah 59 verse 2, The
Lord said to us, your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he
will not hear. When you cry out to God and you
call out to him, he will not hear your calls and your cries. The Lord is making his people
to know our need. He's making us to know this truth
that I'm the sinner. He's speaking to me. I can't
hide. I can't get away from what he's
saying. I'm the sinner. I've offended God. I've come
short of his holy law. I can't work a righteousness
for myself. And so man being desolate to
save himself, unable to save himself, and man is about to
see he's done nothing to merit God's salvation. He's done nothing
that God should say, you know what? I'll take it easy on you.
I'll be gracious to you. No, we didn't do anything to
earn God's favor. All we've done is continue to
sin and trespass against him in his face, just flaunt it in
his face and just do what we want to do. So we've done nothing
to curry his favor. Instead, we're brought to see
that God when he is gracious to a sinner, it's because God
will be gracious to that sinner according to his own choosing,
according to his own mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ, revealing
faith and hope in the Lord. Because they see, I can't save
myself. I can't get it right. I can't
do anything right before God. But he's provided salvation in
his son. Lord, wash me in his blood. Forgive
me for Christ's sake. I have no goodness. I have no
righteousness. I can't just turn it around.
I need mercy, Lord. Be gracious to me and that one
whom you sent to save your people. Wash me in his blood, Lord. Look at verse 16, the second
half. Isaiah 59, 16, it says, therefore, His arm brought salvation unto
Him and His righteousness, it sustained Him. Because we can't
save ourselves and God will be gracious to His people whom He
chose in eternity past and gave to Christ because He will be
gracious to us. He arose and He wrought salvation
for His people. Turn back now to Revelation 5
and we'll pick up in verse 5. And one of the elders saith unto
me, weep not. Behold, the line of the tribe
of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book
and to loose the seven seals thereof. It's perfectly sealed. It's perfectly We're perfectly
cut off from it and of ourselves, because it's got seven seals,
perfect, complete seal to us. And I beheld, and lo, in the
midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst
of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain. the bloody
sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ who was slain to put away the
sins of his people, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are
the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Now those seven horns, a horn
describes power, and he has seven horns. complete power and all
authority. That word seven means perfection
and completion. It's just as our Lord, the risen
Christ said, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. It's complete power that our
savior has. And it says that he has seven
eyes, which are the seven spirits of God. So the sense is, we are
to hear him. He is the wisdom and the revelation
of God to his people. John the Baptist said at the
end of John chapter 3 in verse 33 and 35, He said, for he whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God. He's not speaking of
himself. He's speaking exactly what the
Father gave him to say to the people. And he came to do exactly
what the Father sent him to do, to obtain eternal righteousness
for you, his people, who cannot save themselves. For God, listen,
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. He's the
seven spirits. Perfection, completeness, all
the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it's saying here.
The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His
hand. Alright, now back in Revelation
5-7. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of
him that sat upon the throne. So that Christ is our savior. And he's prophet, he's priest,
and he's king. And he's the one that interprets
the word. He's the one that opens the seals.
Not only performing and doing the will of God in heaven and
in earth, but he's the one that opens up to us our understanding. so that we, being born of his
seed, given spiritual life by the Lord Jesus Christ, now know
and understand the things of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. In our understanding of Christ
as prophet, priest, and king, you might ask, well, how does
Christ reveal this to me? It's you that behold Christ in
all the scriptures, seeing him on every page. We don't just
read this book and find, oh, that's a good moral story. Oh,
that taught me a good lesson. That helped me today. I mean,
there are things like that that teach us, but we behold Christ.
This is speaking of him. Our Lord said to the Jews, search
the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life.
You think this is telling you how to get yourself saved. But
they are they which testify of me. It's all speaking of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And you that behold him on every
page and every account that's recorded for us here in the scripture,
every law, every ordinance, every ceremony, it all pictures and
speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he has done and accomplished
for his people so that beholding him You understand the mystery
of God kept hidden from the beginning of the earth, hidden from man,
fallen in sin. You now know the mystery of God.
It's Christ. Christ. Christ is all. He is our salvation. He's our
deliverer. We're being made to know, to
see Him and to find all our hope. all our righteousness, all I
need in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so the Lamb of God has prevailed
and he's overcome all our enemies by delivering us from the power
and dominion of our enemies who ruled cruelly over us. and punished us and brought us
to desolation in doing their works, the work of the flesh,
the walk of the flesh, just doing what we would do in ourselves. And instead, he takes us from
death and darkness and brings us into the light of Christ and
gives us life by him. Romans 3, 24 and 25. being justified freely. Not because we worked for it,
we're justified freely, declared righteous by God freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Redemption
meaning we're purchased. We've been bought with the price,
the blood of Christ, who gave his life, who submitted to death
in our place, so that we would not die under the penalty of
our sins, as we rightly deserved. But instead, we've been purchased
because he paid that price in full, delivering us from the
death that we had earned for ourselves by our own sins. and iniquities whom God hath
set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. He's given us confidence and
hope and trust that the blood of Christ is sufficient to wash
me of all my sins, to clothe me in perfect righteousness,
to stand before holy God faultless before his throne. That word
propitiation signifies the means of our forgiveness because Christ
came and said, don't pour out your wrath on them, put it on
me. I'm paying the price. I'm their
shorty. I've come to pay their debt.
Let my lambs, let my sheep go free. I'll pay the price. I'll
pay the price. I die in their place. So that
he's righteous in all his ways. Nothing can condemn him, and
nothing can condemn or come against you that stand in the Lord Jesus
Christ, who have been given hope and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. No enemy can come against you.
They've all been silenced. They've all been put away. The
accuser has nothing to accuse you with. You're delivered. You're
free in Christ. And we know this because you
hope in Him. That's the gift of the Spirit, to give you hope
and faith in Him. His righteousness, it sustained
Him. And all you who are members of
His body, Revealed by faith given to you which hopes in the Lord
Jesus Christ alone for all your righteousness And now you follow
him and walk after him trusting him Because he's faithful and
true and righteous, and did this for you. Romans 8, 33 and 34,
who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is
God that justifies. He's the one that says, I'm righteous.
Who's going to come against the word of God? Who is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died, yea, rather,
that is risen again. who is even at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for us." The accuser opens his
mouth, silence. You've got nothing to say, nothing
to say. No one can come against Christ,
because he's the one who says, no, no, I put that sin away.
I put that away. So Christ is the man of war here
in our text. He's sent of God to destroy the
captor. And you know what he does when
he defeats the captor? He sets the captives free. He sets the
captives free. So that Christ came into the
strong man's house, that one who was stronger than we, that
we couldn't defeat or overcome, he defeated him. And he carries
out all the precious things, all the precious things. He takes
them away. They're His spoil. They're His
now. He left behind the ashtrays. He left behind the wastebaskets
and the things that are of no value to Him. And He took away
that which is precious to Him. You, the chosen people of the
living God. God chose you and put you in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we see this language
in our text Isaiah 59 verses 17 and 18. For he put on righteousness as
a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head. And
he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with
zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds, accordingly
he will repay fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies, to
the islands he will repay recompense. Now this description of Christ's
armor is familiar to us because we also see that these are the
things that are given to us in the new man, born of the seed
of Christ. But these here describe our Lord
as the man of war who came against our enemies and defeated them,
put them to shame, put them to flight, overcame them who were
trying to destroy us. He faced the fierceness of our
enemies, but he prevailed over all of them. So none can speak
against him, and none can speak against you that are in Christ,
that are his people. Turn over to Isaiah 63. Just a few chapters over, Isaiah
63. The first six verses give a good
description here. Who is this that cometh from
Edom with thy garments from Basra, this that is glorious in his
apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? Do you see the
man of war? Do you see the mighty man, our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ? He says, I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. Wherefore, and then we ask, wherefore
art thou, or why art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the wine fat? Well, because I have
trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none
with me. There was no man. No man was
found except the Lord Jesus Christ himself. For I will tread them
in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall
be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in
mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked,
and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was
none to uphold. Therefore, mine own arm brought
salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me. And I will tread
down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth." How thankful we
are that Christ accomplished this deliverance and salvation
for us. We are washed in his blood. Now,
these final verses, 19, 20, and 21, we're given these to see
the results of the battle fought and won by our Lord. It says
in verse 19, so shall they fear the name of the Lord from the
west and his glory from the rising of the sun, or the east. When
the enemy shall come in like a flood, when the enemy comes
in to overwhelm and to conquer, the spirit of the Lord shall
lift up a standard against him to turn back the enemy's tide,
to say, no, no, you're not coming in here. This is my people. This is my land. This is my kingdom. and you're not coming in here.
You have no authority, no power, no ability, so that our God gains
the victory for us by the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything that might
be demanded of us has all been paid for, all been provided for
by our shorty, our substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. He died
in our place and put away our sin forever. As the mighty man
who took that lamb away on whom the sins were laid, he brought
that lamb out into the wilderness, so our Savior. went for us in
our place and he carries away our sin into the wilderness forever. Never, ever, ever to be seen
again. Through the death of Christ,
I am dead to the law that I might live unto God. We live by the
Lord Jesus Christ. So Christ is the standard lifted
up for our salvation. Look over at John chapter 3.
John 3 verse 14 and 15. Our Lord is speaking here to
Nicodemus. John 3. Now the Lord has said
he lifts up the standard. And he turns back the tide, the
rushing tide of the enemy. He turns it back, raising the
standard. And he says in John 3.14, as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth on him,
that those believing and trusting him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. We are given faith in Christ. We're given faith in Christ because
of His life. And you that believe on Christ
are assured and confident because Christ put away our sins by the
death of Himself. This gospel is good news to believers,
to those who hear this good news and say, that's it. Salvation
is by the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all of him. Our Lord shows
us Christ, who was lifted up to put away our sins. He's the
promised refuge for the sinner. Flee to him. Flee to Christ.
Cry out, Lord, save me. Don't pass me by, Lord. Wash
me in your blood. Cleanse me. Robe me in your righteousness. He's the ensign. or the banner,
the flag, the standard upon whom the people of God are rallied
around. Isaiah spoke of him in Isaiah
11 verse 12. And he shall set up an ensign
for the nations, a flag, a banner, a standard to say here is salvation. Here's my light, here's my glory
in the Lord Jesus Christ and shall assemble the outcasts of
Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth. And so Christ is the one whom
God has set up and he draws all his people to himself. John 12,
32, and I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me. We're brought to behold Christ,
to see him. And by him, he looses the seals. He opens the seals and says,
this I am the mystery of God, hidden in ages past, but now
made known to you, who trust in him, who look to him and believe
in him. When Christ came into the world
in this flesh, he offered himself up to the Father to make an atonement. a covering for our sins. And
he succeeded in destroying all our enemies and saving his people
from death and darkness, that dingy, dank, horrible, deadly
prison. And he brought us out. He opened
the gates and said, come, come to me. Come into my light. And
as light showed us, I'm the sinner. Yes, Lord, you're just and right.
I am the sinner. I have committed many things
worthy of eternal separation and death from you. And the Lord
says, you understand because I've shown you these things.
And he gave us a hope in him to cry out to him, Lord, save
me. Have mercy on me, the sinner.
Forgive me, Lord, for Christ's sake, save me. So that he won
the total victory. And He's ruling and reigning
even now for His people, doing the will of God in heaven and
in earth. And having won the victory, He
brings this good news of salvation to you, into your hearts and
your minds, to see that He is the salvation of God. Look at
verse 20, Isaiah 59, verse 20. And the Redeemer shall come to
Zion. And unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob saith the Lord. So that this is our
rejoicing. It's in Christ. That's why we
speak of him. That's why I keep repeating Christ. Christ. He is the standard of
God's people. We glory in him. We thank God
for his wisdom. We thank him because I couldn't
save myself. He must be born again. And Christ
is the one who accomplishes our being born again, our regeneration
by the seed of Christ. He gives us his spirit, the down
payment of our inheritance, which is eternal life in him, with
him forever. He gives us that second birth
by Christ's seed. And this is the work of Christ's
doing. It's His work. Isaiah 44, verse
23. Look at Isaiah 44, verse 23.
Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it. The Lord hath done it. Shout,
ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing ye mountains,
O forest, and every tree therein. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob
and glorified himself in Israel. This is his promise, which is
established for you in the covenant of grace ratified by the blood
of Jesus Christ. Turn over to Jeremiah 31. Jeremiah
31, and we'll pick up in verse 31. Jeremiah 31, 31. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah. Drop down to verse 33. But this
shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel,
after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, know
the Lord. For they shall all know me. From the least of them
unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. So that you who know Jesus Christ,
whether you're rich or poor, educated, uneducated, male or
female, or whatever you are, whatever your background, whatever
race, whatever you come from, whatever filth pond you've climbed
out of, you that have Christ have all things. You have everything. You understand
the mystery of God, which is revealed in Christ. And so this
covenant has been made for us, established for us in the blood
of Christ, where our God blesses us and gives us everything necessary
and cares for us and keeps us and provides for us through Christ,
our mighty God and King and Savior. Our Lord says in verse 21, Isaiah
59 verse 21, As for me, this is my covenant
with them, saith the Lord. My spirit that is upon thee and
my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out
of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth
and forever. So these words, they reveal that
the promise of God to us, that which is in his covenant, wherein
he teaches us his laws, He's putting His law in our hearts
and minds. In other words, He's teaching
us salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ, that law by which we
are dead to the law, that we might live unto God. He's showing
us Christ, how that He has wrought salvation for His people by the
blood of His Son, and He speaks that gospel. into our hearts,
sowing it there by the Spirit, whereby we know in glory in the
Savior. And his church, which is his
seed, speaks of the things of God. And all those whom he brings
to the church, the seed's seed, they speak of the things of Christ. We glory in him. who is the revelation
of the mystery of God to us, the salvation of God, his righteousness,
in whom we boast and trust and believe him till our God comes
again to pick up that which he has purchased. So Christ is all
and he's all our hope. I pray he bless that word to
your hearts. and make you to rejoice in Him and sing the praises
of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who died and did this
for His people. And all you that believe on Him,
thank God for it, because only those who trust Him and have
no other confidence or hope in their righteousness but His alone,
that's wrought in us by the work of the Spirit of God to deliver
us from death and damnation. and to give us life, light and
liberty in the face of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for your grace and mercy to us and your son, Jesus Christ. We
thank you, Lord, for stripping us down, showing us our sins
to show us our need of Christ. Lord, you say blessed are those
who are not offended in you. And all those who come to you,
come as a sinner. All those who come to you, come
as needy sinners. There's no one that comes perfect,
holy and righteous in themselves. They have no part in Christ.
But Lord, you came to save sinners. Thank you. Lord, help us to hear,
help us to see, to see Jesus, to see the Savior of God. to see the Christ, the surety
of his people. Help us to behold him. For them,
Lord, we understand all mysteries, and we know all things, because
Christ is all. Lord, fill our hearts with your
spirit. Dwell in us. Keep us ever looking
to Christ. It's in his name we pray and
give thanks. Amen. All right, brother. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn, 488. I will sing of my Redeemer 488. I will sing of my Redeemer and
His wondrous love to me. On the cruel cross He suffered,
from the curse to set me free. Sing, oh sing of my Redeemer. With His blood He purchased me. On the cross he sealed my pardon,
paid the debt, and made me free. I will tell the wondrous story
of my lost estate to save. In his boundless love and mercy,
he the ransom freely gave. Sing, oh sing of my Redeemer. With His blood He purchased me. On the cross He sealed my pardon,
paid the debt, and made me free. I will praise my dear Redeemer,
His triumphant power I'll tell, How the victory He giveth over
sin and death and hell. of my Redeemer. With His blood He purchased me. On the cross He sealed my pardon,
paid the debt, and made me free. I will sing of my Redeemer, and
His heavenly love to me. He from death to life hath brought
me, Son of God, with Him to be. Sing, O sing of my Redeemer,
With His blood, He purchased me. On the cross, He sealed my
pardon, paid the debt, and made me free. Thank you. Good way to end that
sermon.