Is that live? Okay. We're gonna begin. And I'm gonna be reading from Isaiah
chapter 39. We're just gonna read the whole
chapter. That'll be our text this evening.
Isaiah 39. And we read, at that time, Merodach
Baladon, the son of Baladon, king of Babylon, sent letters
and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been
sick and was recovered. And Hezekiah was glad of them
and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and
all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures.
There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah showed them not. Then came Isaiah the prophet
unto King Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men,
and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said
he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,
All that is in mine house have they seen. There is nothing among
my treasures that I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah
to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts. The days come
that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have
laid up in store until this day shall be carried to Babylon,
nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. And of thy sons that
shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they
take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the
king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. He said,
moreover, for there shall be peace and truth in my days. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Our gracious Lord, we thank you, Father, for this day. We thank you, Lord, for gathering
your people together to hear your word. Lord, we ask that
you would pour out your Spirit upon us, that though we be separated
by distance, Lord, due to not having a facility to meet in,
Lord, that you would indeed put your Spirit upon us and bless
us as those who are indeed united together of one mind in our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ. and Father concerning a building,
we do pray, Lord. We ask that you would have mercy,
that you would guide us and give us wisdom. Lord, that you would
lead us and show us where you would have us to be, that you
would open a door and that we would see your hand in it, and
that you would bless us to meet in a new place where we may freely
come together and not be not be kept away, Lord, by the rules
that are necessary for others, Lord. But Father, we pray that
you would indeed bless this people, that you would bless this work,
that you would bless this people that have sought
your will, Lord, in establishing a body here. Lord, who look to
you and trust you that you have done this and that you, Lord,
have put us together for the purpose of feeding and nourishing
your flock, teaching them the gospel, comforting them in Christ. And Lord, we pray that your word
would continue to go forth. We hear of others that are hearing
your word, that are hearing the gospel, others that are comforted
and encouraged in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We pray that
you would bless your people here and call them out of darkness.
Bless our study this night, Lord, that you would bless the word,
that you would send forth the gospel into the hearts of your
people and deliver them from darkness. that they would see
Jesus Christ, the hope of salvation for sinners, and that they would
be given faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that
they would know Him, who alone is salvation for His people.
We pray this in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord,
amen. All right, brethren, our text
is Isaiah 39, verses one through eight. Isaiah 39 verses 1 through 8. Now, tonight, we have what's
the last recorded history of Hezekiah, which Isaiah recorded. Now, after all the mighty works
that God had done for Hezekiah and for Judah, we hear that he
received emissaries, visitors from Babylon, which was very
far away. And Hezekiah was excited that
these people from this kingdom, so far away that they had an
interest, and so he was excited for them to come and he brought
them in. And we're told that he showed them all the riches
of his kingdom. all this silver and gold and
jewels and his armory, everything that was in his kingdom, even
his dominion, he showed them and then sent them on their way.
And knowing this prompted Isaiah to come to him. And Isaiah let
Hezekiah know that what he had done was great folly, it was
sin, because Babylon would return back to Judah in the future,
and when they returned, another would pay the price for Hezekiah's
sin, for his transgression. Now this chapter, as we go through
it, it reminds us that we, like Hezekiah, are a people of folly,
that we are sinners in constant need of the grace and mercy of
God. Paul would say in Romans 7.21,
I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with
me. And so we see here that Hezekiah's
sin was pride. He always seemed that pride was
rising up in Hezekiah and it was a continual sin in his life. And yet the Lord never forsook
Hezekiah. He never forsook Hezekiah because
the Lord had promised Hezekiah peace in his days. He promised
him peace. And we are promised peace of
the Lord in the Lord Jesus Christ. So that we have the comfort and
the assurance to know that our God will never forsake us. He'll
never leave us, though we be sinners. And that's because the
Lord has made a covenant of grace with us in the Lord Jesus Christ
so that Christ has fulfilled all aspects of the covenant on
our behalf. He is our righteousness and in
him we are righteous. I've titled this Peace and Truth
in My Days. Peace and Truth in My Days. And first we're going to look
at this visit of pride which came upon Hezekiah. And then
we'll see what Isaiah says when he makes the issue known to Hezekiah
what he's done. And then we'll see the promise
of peace. All right, so the account begins
in verse one, Isaiah 39, verse one. And we read that at that
time, Merodach, Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah. for he had heard that
he had been sick and was recovered." So this is like a get well card
being sent to Hezekiah with people of renown coming from Babylon
far, far away. But these are worshipers of Baal. These are worshipers of the false
god Baal, because that's what Baladan means. His name says,
Baal is my Lord. That's what he's saying there.
And so they're worshipers of Baal. And Babylon, just historically,
had been at one point, some point in the past, subjected to Assyria. Whoever was, when they were founded
or when a leader came there, they had come from Assyria at
some point, and they were subjected to Assyria. And so now this great
power, this superpower of Assyria has been laid low by the Lord
God of heaven and earth. And so all the peoples around
there were set free of the repression and oppression of Assyria. And so many esteemed Hezekiah
highly for what the Lord had done for him in the land of Judah. And Hezekiah and the people of
Judah had experienced many severe and difficult trials at that
time. There was a stretch of some years
there where they experienced many severe trials, many things
that tried and proved who they were, what they were, what they
believed, who they believed. And they also had the experience
to witness the amazing and extraordinary deliverances by God for them. They would be used by God to
show forth the praises of God, to show forth what God does for
those whom he loves. And we know this because Assyria's
army had come out over their banks, flowed over their land
outward, over their banks like a river overflowing, and went
into Judah. right up to the neck of Judah
with surrounding the head, which was Jerusalem, surrounding the
head coming up to the neck with their army to take it. And the
Lord slew 185,000 of the army. And then we know that Sennacherib,
the king of Assyria, went back to his land in shame, and he
was eventually slain by two of his oldest sons. And so, Hezekiah
was receiving recognition for the work that the Lord God of
heaven and earth had done for them in the land of Judah. And
we know that Hezekiah struggled with and began to be lifted up
with pride because of all the attention and the renown that
he was receiving from the other nations because they were very
impressed with what had been done there. Turn over to 2 Chronicles
32 and just put a mark. We'll look at a few verses now
and we'll come back in a little bit to the same chapter, 2 Chronicles
32. And we looked at this a bit last
week, but verse 23, It confirms here what I've been
saying to you, that many brought gifts unto the Lord to Jerusalem
and presents to Hezekiah, king of Judah, so that he was magnified
in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. And then we're told
that Hezekiah came down with a sickness unto death. There
was pride rising up in his heart and he became sick. The Lord
laid him low with the sickness and the Lord healed him. And
we're told in verse 25 that Hezekiah rendered not again according
to the benefit done unto him, for his heart was lifted up.
Therefore there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. All right, so the Lord was angry
with their pride of heart because they were lifted up. And so the
Lord, however, in love, he didn't destroy them, but in love, he
chastened them. And so they were brought through
trials to bring them to seek the Lord and to see their need
of the true and living God, that he's the one who does these things
for them. And then in verse 26 there of 2 Chronicles 32, verse
26, notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride
of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so
that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah. And this here is where we see
the grace of our God shown to Hezekiah. And just like Hezekiah,
this is our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is our hope
that God will be merciful and compassionate to us. for his
great grace to us in the Lord Jesus Christ, so that by the
death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, we too
are delivered from the wrath of God, which is to come upon
the inhabitants of the earth. Paul would tell the Thessalonian
church, for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's this grace, this grace
of God, which humbled Hezekiah's heart. This is why Hezekiah's
heart was humbled. So that through every trial,
which we see his sin in it. In every trial he went through,
we also see how that the Lord was merciful to him and gracious
to make known to him what he had done and to forgive him,
to establish peace in his heart continually so that God continued
to deliver his child, Hezekiah, from wrath. He delivered him
from the wrath of the Lord. Now, all are sinners, right? Just like Hezekiah, we are sinners
and all are sinners, but not all have the grace of God. Not
all are shown mercy and grace from the Lord, but many remain
in a hardened state. They remain hardened to the light
that the Lord shows his people in the face of Jesus Christ through
the gospel. You think of the Jews who heard,
hundreds and thousands of Jews heard the gospel, some even witnessing
Christ, others witnessing and hearing the apostles and seeing
the miracles that were done by the Lord in Christ and in the
apostles as the church was being established. But Paul tells us,
after thy hardness and impenitent heart, right, to the Jews who
heard and did not believe Christ, he says, thy hardness and impenitent
heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath
and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. And so we see
that there's a people who hear the word, and by the Lord's power
and grace, their hearts are humbled, and they believe Christ. They're brought low by the power
and the glory of God, witnessed in the repentance and the faith
which he reveals in his people, and then there's others who have
a hardened heart that isn't humble. And we know that's the grace
That's the grace of God. So, Hezekiah was delivered from
the wrath of God because he's a child of God. And God was revealing
to Hezekiah, as well as us who are reading this word here, he
was revealing to us as church, the praises of God in this. He's
showing us the glory of God and the will of God who does according
to His good purpose as He pleases to show grace, mercy, compassion
to whom He will in the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1 Peter 2.9, He describes
us who are the Lord's people, that
ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation,
a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." So
I'm emphasizing this, that the wrath of the Lord came not upon
them in the days of Hezekiah, as we read back there in 2 Chronicles,
because the Lord is showing us is that the mercy, the humbling
of the heart of Hezekiah and the mercy shown to him had nothing
to do with any merit of Hezekiah. It wasn't because he worked righteousness. It wasn't because he was such
a good man and so perfect before the Lord. But the wrath wasn't
shown to Hezekiah because of the grace that God had for Hezekiah. And it is grace to his church
in Christ that we too who hope in Christ are delivered from
the wrath to come. It's the same for us. The same
hope that Hezekiah had, being shown grace, is the same hope
we have, that our God is merciful and gracious to us, just as he
promised all those who believe in Christ. All right, and so
with every deliverance, In Hezekiah, we see him stumbling again and
again over the same sin of pride. And we see in verse 2, in Isaiah
39-2, we read that Hezekiah was glad of them. that is, the emissaries that
came from Babylon. And he showed them the house
of his precious things, the silver and the gold and the spices and
the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all
that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house
nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah showed them not. Now,
doesn't that smell of pride to you? Doesn't that look like and
feel like pride? He was so happy that he was so
impressed that someone from so far would come to him that he
decided that he should impress them with everything that he
has as well. And the foolish thing about this,
the reason why it was so foolish for Hezekiah Perhaps he thought,
well, because they're so far away, I don't have to worry about
it. But as Babylon would grow, as their influence was increasing,
as their scholars and doctors and magicians and astrologers
and all these guys, as they were studying things and increasing
in knowledge, they saw, well, if we want to increase our dominion,
and bring in others, right, to create a nice diversity so we
have all this learning and knowledge from these other peoples as well,
we now know that if we push our way down to Jerusalem, that there's
an abundance of riches there. And so our expedition will be
worth it because it'll pay for itself and then some. well. And so that's why it was a foolish
thing to think that just because they're so far away that they
wouldn't be interested in what they had. Plus he was glorying
in the things that he had and not glorying in the Lord. Now
turn back there to 2nd Chronicles 32 and we'll just look at two
verses while we're here. In verse 27 2 Chronicles 32 27 and Hezekiah
had exceeding much riches and honor and he made himself treasuries
for silver and for gold and for precious stones and for spices
and for shields and for all manner of pleasant jewels." And so this
spoil that he had because you're wondering, well, where did he
get all these things? I thought he emptied out his treasuries and
and gave it to Assyria to turn them away, which didn't work.
But you figure when the Lord slew 185,000 of the army, there
was a great spoil left there, left behind of them. We don't
even know if the spoil, or rather the gold and silver that Hezekiah
sent, it maybe didn't even make it out of the army. of those
men surrounding Jerusalem, so maybe he got that back as well.
Plus there was all the presents that were being given to them
for what the Lord had done for them. So he increased, plus the
Lord was blessing him, so he increased in riches there. But look at verse 31, 2 Chronicles
32, 31. How be it in the business of
the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him
to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left
him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart. And we understand that what the
Lord is doing here is he's making known to Hezekiah as well as
to us what is in the heart of man. He's letting us know, just
as he was letting Hezekiah know, that left to ourselves We're
not righteous, we're not holy, we're not within ourselves. We
don't have this power and this goodness to do that which is
right and pleasing to the Lord. We're ever dependent on the Lord
Jesus Christ. We're righteous in him and in
him we believe unto righteousness. In Him, we are led of the Lord,
and we do that which is pleasing to the Lord, because Christ,
His blood is a sweet savor, which makes us acceptable to the Lord. All right? And so it's not for
because we ourselves are great or so lovely in our persons and
so wonderful in our thoughts and in our hearts and in our
deeds, not at all. There's nothing special about
us that God should have mercy upon us, yet he set his love
upon us in Christ. He's gracious and merciful to
us in his son. All right, now this brings us
to the issue being made known. So right after the emissaries
leave, we're told in verse, in Isaiah 39 and three, you can
let go of 2 Chronicles. Isaiah 39, three, then came Isaiah
the prophet unto King Hezekiah and said unto him, what said
these men? And from whence came they unto
thee? And Hezekiah said, they are come from a far country unto
me, even from Babylon. Then said he, what have they
seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, all that
is in mine house have they seen? There is nothing among my treasures
that I have not showed them. It's as if Hezekiah here still
doesn't get it, right? He doesn't understand that there's
a problem here, but Hezekiah's questioning is certainly leading
him to realize there's a reason why Isaiah's here telling me
this, because I didn't call for him, and yet here he's been sent
and he's asking me these questions. So I'm sure he's realizing this
was a foolish thing for me to do. And so Isaiah says in verse
five now, we'll read down to verse seven together. Then said
Isaiah to Hezekiah, hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Behold,
the days come that all that is in thine house and that which
thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried
to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, saith
the Lord. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou
shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon." So great trouble was
brought upon the people of Judah who were yet in Hezekiah's loins. They hadn't even been born yet
because Hezekiah had no sons or daughters. They were all in
his loins so that the sin of Hezekiah would come upon them. Look at verse seven again. Of
thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall
they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the
king of Babylon. Now, doesn't that remind you
of our fall in Adam while as yet we were in his loins, right? When his seed yet remained in
him, Adam sinned and rebelled against God in the garden and
we sinned too in Adam. Romans 5, 12, as by one man,
sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed
upon all men for that all have sinned. And Romans 5 18, therefore
as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men unto condemnation,
to condemnation. And so we've got to hear this. We've got to know the issue is
with us, that we are sinners. We've rebelled against God and
our hearts and minds are not right with the Lord. He's not
pleased with our works and the way that we think God is pleased. He's not impressed with our works
of righteousness that we do to try and earn his forgiveness. that we think gain us merit with
the Lord and cause Him to accept us before Him on His throne in
judgment? Not at all. So that the Lord
declares to us the truth in Christ. He's not washing it, He's not
trying to water it down to make us feel better about ourselves
at all. We've got to know that the sentence of death is found
in us Paul would say this way to the Lord's people, he's writing
now, not to all those out in the world who don't care and
have no knowledge or thoughts of the Lord, but he says in Ephesians
2, verse two, that we walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air. Who's
that? That's the spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience. We were under his power, his
rule, and dominion, among whom also we all had our conversation,
our walk, in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others." Even as others that
self-righteous people condemned, they're just condemning themselves.
because we're all children of wrath, naturally come from Adam. And so if we've got to hear this,
we've got to know what we are, we've got to know that we ourselves
have sinned against God, that he's not pleased with our works,
in order that we might hear and know the riches of God toward
us. in his son, Jesus Christ, which
he freely gives to whom he will, apart from any works of righteousness
that they've done or tried to do or haven't done. So that we
must ask, well, what makes the difference? Why is it that the
Lord is merciful to one and not to another? Or why is it that
one is saved, I should say? And Paul tells us, but God, it's
God. And we've got to hear that it's
God that makes the difference. He's the one that creates humility
in the heart. He's the one that humbles that
heart. Less being left to ourselves,
we would have that hard, obstinate heart, that heart that refuses
to bow, that refuses to hear what the Lord is telling us we
need to hear, right? But God who is rich in mercy
for his great love wherewith he loved us. Even when we were
dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace
ye are saved." All right, so the Lord is making known in us
His grace, right, that we should show forth the praises of Him
who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. You see that the Lord's calling
us. He's showing us, allowing us
to see, to know what we are in ourselves, that we might show
forth the praises of our God who calls us out of this darkness,
out of the filth and the slime of our sin. Where we are, like
Paul was saying, we are those vessels of mercy which God had
aforeprepared unto glory, as opposed to those vessels fitted
for wrath and destruction. Now Hezekiah had been shown great
mercy repeatedly by God. For all the pride that Hezekiah
had, God gave him a tender heart because he was a redeemed child
of the Most High God. Even though we see this man's
a sinner, he sinned, he's lifted up with pride, he's forgetting
what the Lord had done and his dependence upon God. And so it's
not that Hezekiah was made indifferent to his sin. It's not as though
his sin doesn't matter. And we understand that. We're not declared, we don't
have this gospel declared to us that we should be indifferent
to sin, or to come away thinking that our sin doesn't matter what
we do. Because we know that our sins
were laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and that he paid the
price for the sins of all his people, each of the sins for
his people. But God promised Hezekiah life
and peace. And because God had promised
him life and peace, God would cleanse him of his sin. And when
he sinned, God would heal him of his sin. The effects the corruption
of sin, God would heal him of that sin, and he would lead him
out from destruction through the gospel of peace in Christ. And hearing that gospel, Hezekiah
was made to rest in the promise of God. You see that? He rested
in the promise of God, and that brings us to our final point
where we see this peace which God had given to Hezekiah. Look
at verse eight, Isaiah 39, eight. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. He said,
moreover, for there shall be peace and truth in my days. Now, this may not sound like
a very gracious response. It may sound odd to our ear,
but understand that Isaiah preached the gospel to Hezekiah, and Hezekiah
was resting in the peace that God had promised him. If you
remember there in verse seven, what Isaiah said, he said, he
told Hezekiah, thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou
shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in
the palace of the king of Babylon." And what Isaiah was saying to
Hezekiah is, your sin, Hezekiah, is going to be laid upon another
who will bear the sin in your place. It's going to fall on
another so that the punishment which fell on his sons pictures
our punishment being laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ who himself
committed no sin and did no iniquity. Him being perfect and righteous,
and who pleased his father well in all things. Now, like Hezekiah,
Christ would issue from the lineage of David, and Christ is the promised
Lord, our righteousness. He is the promised righteousness
of the people of God, promised to us from the foundation of
the world. We're told in Revelation 13 8
that he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And so the reason for Hezekiah's
peace, the reason why Hezekiah had peace, was for Christ's sake. It was because of the promise
of he was given of God in Christ. And this is why, because of Christ,
this is why God was gracious to Hezekiah all his life. And this is why God is justified,
both just and the justifier of Hezekiah, that He might have,
that Hezekiah would have everlasting life with the God of heaven and
earth, that he might be forgiven and shown this mercy. It's because
of Christ. That's why God is just to forgive
him. That's why God is just to forgive any of us. All right? Now, if you look over there,
hold your place in Isaiah 39, right at verse seven there, and
go with me to Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, and look at verse
six. Now, like Hezekiah, like Hezekiah,
all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way, and the Lord hath laid on him, the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lamb of God, he hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. all those whom God chose for
himself in eternity past. And Isaiah told Hezekiah, there
holding your place in Isaiah 53, he told Hezekiah back in
Isaiah 39, seven, that of thy sons that shall issue from thee,
which thou shalt beget, they shall they take away. They're gonna take away your
sons, Hezekiah, Now Christ, the son of God, would bear the punishment
for the sins of his people. And we're told in Isaiah 53,
seven, that he, Christ, was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shears his dumbs, so he openeth
not his mouth. So we see with Hezekiah's sons,
they would be taken away, Well, that's a picture of Christ, our
Savior, who was led away to the slaughter for our sins, to put
them away. And then Hezekiah told, or then
Isaiah told Hezekiah that your sons shall be eunuchs, they shall
be eunuchs. And that's what he tells us in
verse eight of Isaiah 53, eight. He says, he was taken from prison
and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the
land of the living. For the transgression of my people
was he stricken." So that Christ who would have lived long on
the earth, he would never have died because he was perfect and
holy and just and righteous before the Lord in all his ways. He
could have had many children, but that's not why he came forth
in the flesh, not to have children of his flesh, but to have spiritual
children, to save many. from all the tongues, tribes,
and nations of the earth, so that he was cut off early, not
for his own sins, but for the sins of his people. And so he
had no family of the flesh, just as Hezekiah's sons had no family
of the flesh. They were made eunuchs for Hezekiah's
sin. And so this, we're told, would
all take place in the palace of the king of Babylon, And so
we read in Isaiah 53 9, that Christ made his grave with the
wicked, just as those sons of Hezekiah went to the grave there
in the palace of Babylon, and with the rich in his death, because
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. So for the sin of Hezekiah, his
children and all of Judah that would come later on, they would
be led astray into captivity. And so it is true of us that
in Adam, because of Adam's sin and transgression against God,
all his children were led astray into captivity. And we cannot
save ourselves. We can't keep the law of God.
perfectly so that we could make ourselves righteous. We come
short of the glory of God. We're all sinners. And so we're
never going to earn the favor of God by our works, by our most
religious works, by the things that we do. That's not our hope. That's not the believers hope,
that they now turn their life around and become perfect in
all their works from this day forward. It wasn't so of Hezekiah. He continued to stumble, and
yet God continued to be gracious and merciful to him for his promise
to him in Christ, that he should have peace all his days. All
right, and so Isaiah 53, 10 and 11 tells us, yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities."
And so, brethren, this is why God can be gracious to Hezekiah. This is why God may be gracious
to all his people. Now those whose works are righteous
in their own eyes, they shall perish along with all the wicked
of the earth, because they're going to bear their own punishment
for their works which they trusted in. but those who love God, just
like Hezekiah loved God, they shall know peace in their days,
right? And they shall say with Hezekiah,
good is the word of the Lord, which he has spoken. And this word, which God has
spoken, is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. This is the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ who accomplished our salvation fully and completely
in himself by himself and our spiritual birth into his kingdom
is by his seed his spiritual seed so that his inheritance
is our inheritance he is our inheritance and we shall be with
Him forever so that, like Hezekiah, we too are made satisfied with
the word that God has spoken to us concerning the hope of
our salvation in Jesus Christ. Why? For there shall be peace
and truth in my days. All who believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ shall receive remission of sins, and they shall be They
are forgiven and they have life with God. That is our promise
of God in his son, Jesus Christ. So look to the Savior. Have no
hope in your works and in yourself. Don't think it's because of your
goodness. It's by the goodness and grace of God in his son,
Jesus Christ, who accomplished our redemption all by himself. I pray the Lord will bless that
word to your hearts. Amen. All right, let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for this word. We thank you for the hope of
your gospel that we may see even in the history of your saints
and the church in the wilderness, Lord, how you have declared your
gospel of grace to them and to us by it. And Lord, we thank
you for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. who has accomplished
our salvation fully and completely in himself. And Lord, how you
turn our hearts from wickedness and you turn them again unto
the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray, Lord, that you would
ever do this, that there might be peace and truth in our days
as we look for the Savior, as we look and await your return
to redeem your people from the earth. We pray this in the name
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.