Good evening. All right, let's
be in Isaiah 10. Isaiah chapter 10, and we're
going to not look at every verse, but cover verses 1 through 23. Isaiah 10, 1 through 23. Now
we saw in chapter 9, as we went through that, that man rejects
God. He rejects the truth of God.
He rejects the salvation that God has provided. He rejects
the one that the Father delights in. But God is good, and He's
our Creator, and He knows what is for our good, and He knows
what is for our blessing. So we ought to hear Him. We ought to look at what He says
and hear his word and look to the salvation which he's provided
in his son. In Titus 2, Paul wrote to Titus
in verses 11 and 12, he said, For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly, righteously,
and godly in this present world. So the Lord, he sent his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and he provided him for our healing,
for our good, for our righteousness. And this was because in the fall
of Adam, we sinned, we all sinned. We lost everything, and when
we sinned in Adam, we fell, we rebelled against God, and we
had no hope, because there was nothing we could do to turn things
around. There was no way for us to reconcile
ourselves to God, and the fact of the matter is, we didn't want
to. We ran from God. We hid from
Him. We had no desire whatsoever to reconcile to God. And so man
continues to show the truth of this. He shows the reality and
the truth of this in his hatred for God, in his hatred for the
righteousness of God, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, and for
the hatred of his wisdom. He doesn't want to know what
God says. He doesn't want to hear what the Lord says. And
the reason is because man loves darkness. He loves darkness.
They don't want to see what God says. They don't want to hear
his word. They don't want to consider what he's saying, and they certainly
don't want to consider the fact that they're the ones that are
the cause of evil. All that is evil, all that is
corrupt in this world, it's from man's heart. It's his wickedness. It's his desires that continue
this sin and rebellion and the hatred and the hurting and the
killing and the death and the stealing and everything that's
going on, it all rises out of the heart of man. So man is the
one... who does wickedly, and even when
he thinks to do good, even when you look in the world and you
say, you know, wow, that actually seems pretty good. It's not.
It's usually, it ends up being wicked. It's someone's agenda.
It's always something that is not profitable or good for man,
and it's a rebellion against God. And in Titus 3, 5, and 6,
Paul also said, and this is a rub against the religious, this is
a rub against those who who delight in and want to stand in their
own righteousness and their own works. He said it's not by works
of righteousness, which we have done, that God has had mercy
on us, but it's according to his mercy he saved us by the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed
on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. So it's not
our works that saves us. It's not because we are good.
It's not because we're good Christians, because we're good religious
people that God has mercy and saves us. It's his grace and
his mercy. The reality is we are corrupt.
We are sinners against God. And Paul wrote this in Titus
3, chapter 3, verse 3. He says, for we ourselves also
were sometimes. Now he's writing to believers,
but this is true of all men and women outside of Christ. This is where we were when Christ
found us and delivered us from this darkness, and this is where
all men and women continue to tread and continue to walk in
this right here. We ourselves also were sometimes
foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures,
living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. And we
know that that malice and that envy and that hating and that
rivalry, those are all works of the flesh. That's how the
flesh operates and jockeys for its own benefits and to improve
itself. And Paul also wrote to the Romans
in Romans 8, in the beginning of verse 6, he said that to be
carnally minded, and that's what we all are by nature, to be carnally
minded is death. Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God, he says, for it's not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be. It's never going to be subject
to God's law. So then, they that are in the
flesh cannot please God. Now, I emphasize this, I review
these, because as they say, if you're wrong on the fall, then
you're wrong on it all. You're going to be wrong on everything. If you don't understand that
man is totally dead and corrupt in sin, in his rebellion, that
he died in the fall and that he can't serve and worship God
and know Him spiritually, if you don't understand that, then
when you're speaking to people and you're preaching to them,
you're going to say things in a way that puts salvation in
their hands. And you're going to speak to
them as though there's something man or woman can do to save themselves
and to reconcile themselves to God. And then they're not looking
to Christ. They're looking to their own
works and their own righteousness. You just whitewashed it with
the name of Jesus and put that over the truth of things. Now,
remember also, in Isaiah 8, 6, we saw where the Lord said, for
as much as this people refuse it, the waters of Shiloah that
go softly. And so, in that text, as we've
been looking in chapters 8 and 9 and now 10, we're seeing the
rejection of man, the rejection of the salvation that God has
provided for his people in his Son, Jesus Christ. And the Lord's
revealing this to us. He's making it known, this is
the heart of man. Don't look to your homeworks
of righteousness, don't look back there, because this is the
heart of man, always in rebellion, never satisfied with the righteousness
that God has provided in his Son, Jesus Christ. You look at
the King of Judah, Ahaz, and he knows he's in trouble. He
knows he's going to get whooped and he's glorying. through fear. He's glorying in these men in
Israel and in Syria. He's glorying in them because
he's giving them reverence by fearing them rather than fearing
the Lord and what the Lord is able to do for him. So the Lord
sends Isaiah to him and Isaiah reveals the Lord's going to save
you. He's going to save you and this people. He's not going to
let you be destroyed by Israel and Syria. But Ahaz doesn't believe
it, and he's got a plan, and he's already thinking through
what he's going to do, and what he's going to do is he's going
to turn to the god he doesn't believe, the things that are
in the Lord's house, all the treasures there, the gold and
the silver, he's going to take those things and give them to
the king of Assyria and say, why don't you come and help me
out and take care of my enemies for me? The Lord had no problem
using Assyria. He was going to use Assyria anyway.
But Ahaz, trusting in his own wisdom, goes and gives all his
riches to Assyria. And then the Lord promises him,
they're going to trouble you in the end. It says in Isaiah
8, 7, Therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria,
in all his glory. And he shall come up over all
his channels, and go over all his banks. And so he's going
to deal with Judah for their rebellion. He's going to deal
with Israel and Syria and wipe them out. He'll destroy them
and take them into captivity. And then, because of the pride
and the haughtiness of Assyria, he's going to destroy them as
well. And he's going to bring them down because they think
that they're something when they're nothing. Our title is The Remnant
Not Ashamed. The Remnant Not Ashamed. Alright,
so let's get into this. Look at Isaiah 10, verse 1. And the Lord here, he addresses
the sin that's going on in Judah. It says, verse 1, Woe unto them
that decree unrighteous decrees and that right grievousness which
they have prescribed. Now, this is this woe is being
directed towards those decrees that are being drawn up and written
and made into law for the people there in Judah. Verse 2 says,
It is to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away
the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
prey, and that they may rob the followless. So it's the head
of the people that are doing this, the magistrates, the civil
magistrates, the governors, the ones who are supposed to be writing
laws for the good of the people, they're actually putting in place
corrupt laws that are actually harming the people. And worst
of all, the people that need justice, the people who don't
have a voice, the people that aren't powerful and influential
and persuasive. and have any means of making
friends with people in high places, they're the ones being hurt by
this and trampled upon. And the Lord asks them in verses
3 and 4, he says, He's saying, what are you going to do when
I visit your sins upon you for your wickedness.
And he goes on, and in the desolation which shall come from far, to
whom will ye flee for help, and where will you leave your glory? That is, where are you going
to leave all that substance that you've acquired through wicked
means Who are you gonna leave that to? All your glory, all
that you're trusting in and rejoicing in, who's that gonna be left
to when you come to your end? He says, verse four, without
me, they shall bow down under the prisoners and they shall
fall under the slain. And if you want to understand
what does that mean, that they'll bow down under the prisoners
and fall under the slain, well in Revelation 13, 10, he words
it this way, he that leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity. And he that killeth with the
sword must be killed with the sword. So those, they're going
to bow down with all those other prisoners, those that lead into
captivity are going to also go into captivity, and those that
we're killing, they're going to fall, with all the slain,
they're going to fall under their bodies and be dead as well. And
the Lord goes on saying, here is the patience and the faith
of the saints. And so we who see these things
going on ourselves, when we see this, the Lord says, be patient.
I'm going to visit upon them their sins upon them. I'll deal
with it. You don't deal with it. You don't
have to worry about it. I'm going to deal with them in
that day." And he goes on saying, for all this, his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. And that's
still going on to this day. It's only in Christ is the anger
of God turned away from a people. Only in Christ are we delivered
from the anger and the wrath of God. But those outside of
Christ, this is still true. His hand is still stretched out
against this world, and it's not turned away. So they're still
going to have to face the Lord in anger, who's angry with them. But the Lord's always going to
defend the just. He's always going to to prepare
and reserve his people to himself. It says in Psalm 37, verses 12
and 13, the wicked plotted against the just and gnashed upon him
with his teeth. Just like we saw, they make wicked
laws that are unjust to those that are needy and the widows
and the fatherless. They make wicked works for them. But the Lord, it says, verse
13, shall laugh at him, for he seeth that his day is coming. So here's the patience and the
faith of the saints. Wait upon the Lord. His day is
coming. Whether it comes in this life
or it comes And that day when they stand before the throne
of God, their day is coming. And it refers to, the Lord's
asking them, what are you going to do when your sins are visited
upon you and in the desolation which shall come from far? And
we see how that refers to Assyria, that was true of Assyria, that
was going to plague and trouble Judah for trusting in them. We
see that in Babylon, they came from far. and they took them
away into captivity. You see it in Rome, when Rome
destroyed Jerusalem, they came from far and they destroyed the
city and destroyed those people who rejected and didn't believe
the Lord. And we'll see it again, and we've
seen it throughout history, but we'll see it again in the end
of the world. The Lord will bring that, he'll
visit them and bring their sin upon their head. If you look
over in Isaiah 24, verse 5, you see this again. The Lord is addressing
them. This chapter deals with the end
of the world, Isaiah 24, and it's one of the more bleak chapters
because it's just utter destruction of things, but he says in verse
5, "...the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof,
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant." And the Lord is revealing, there's
There's a lot there. We broke the covenant in Adam. We refuse to hear what he says
concerning his salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. And man who
will not bow to the Lord and to His salvation and doesn't
look to Christ, he'll stand before God in his own works and in his
own wisdom, and he's defiled. all that God has created and
what the Lord has done. And when you consider how much
our adversary hates God and how much he hates God's creation
and men, and you look at what man is doing, man is on just
a mad dash to destroy himself. And it's always been that way.
When you look at Adam, you see how Adam He took that fruit and
destroyed himself and all his posterity in him. And you can
see that throughout history where man constantly is trying to,
he's always rushing to his destruction. You look at the Tower of Babel
and that's a mercy. That's a mercy what the Lord
did there in scattering those people because they were pushing
the bounds and trying to build a temple up to God in unity and
the Lord destroyed it and made nations and broke them apart
and scattered them and create all these different languages
to break that unity and to create that constant friction between
man. But as man unites and comes together,
he's always trying to do that. And what does he do? But he creates
things that destroy him, that just wipe wipe them out, and
there's always these seeds of near destruction, and the Lord
always, He always preserves and delivers it, and you can see
that truth where it says, the Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any
should perish. So that's why the Lord came down
in the Tower of Babel, because He was going to bring salvation
through His Son first. So He couldn't allow them to
go on in their destruction. He scattered them to slow everything
down. And it's been throughout history
where things happen and slow things down because the Lord
is going to bring in His sheep. He said, other sheep I have,
them also I must And so you can be sure that the end shall not
be until the Lord has brought in every one of his sheep. And when he's gathered in his
last sheep, and he's brought forth from them that fruit which
he has ordained, then to walk in and to bear, then comes the
end. There's no more need for him
to delay or to stop the mad rush of man and his pushing of the
boundaries and changing the ordinances and seeking to change times and
the way things work. The Lord will bring it to an
end when it's time to bring it to an end, but until then, he'll
frustrate it and prevent it and keep it from happening, lest
he have to destroy the people for it. And the Lord says, who
are you going to turn to in that final day? It says in Psalm 2,
2 and 3, these are men who think themselves to be so wise. It
says, the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers
take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed,
saying, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords
from us. And that's the rebellion of man.
O vain man, you're going to have to stand before God and He's
going to deal with those sins and He's going to visit them
upon the people. As it says in Psalm 2, 4, and 5, He that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision,
then shall He speak unto them in His wrath and vex them in
His sore displeasure. All right, so now back in our
text, the Lord is saying, I'm going to raise up Assyria. I'm
going to use Assyria to destroy Israel and Syria. I'm going to
then use them to chasten the people of Judah. And it says
in verses 5 and 6, we see that Assyria is the rod. He says,
they're the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is
mine indignation. and I will send him against an
hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will I
give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and
to tread them down like the mire of the streets. He uses them
to destroy them and to take that people captive. But remember
what the Lord said concerning Judah in Isaiah 8.8, because
Ahaz was trusting in Assyria, the Lord would chasten them,
and it says in 8.8, it says, He shall pass through Judah he
shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck,
and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth
of thy land, O Emmanuel." So where was it where the Lord met
with Ahaz, or where the Lord sent Isaiah to meet Ahaz. Well,
if you look over now in Isaiah 7, verse 3, we see that it says,
And this is the place where he was to meet him, at the end of
the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's
field. And so, Isaiah was sent there
to tell him, look, the Lord's going to deliver you, trust him.
But he has, we know, turned to Assyria, and Assyria was then
going to trouble Judah as a result of it. And we see that come to
pass, finally, if you look over in Isaiah 36. Isaiah 36, verses
1 and 2. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth
year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against
all the defense cities of Judah and took them. And now he's standing
right outside Jerusalem, he's right up to the neck of Judah,
right there. And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great
army and he stood but by the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field. That's right where the Lord sent
Isaiah and now here comes this guy to talk to to Hezekiah at
the same place where the Lord sent Isaiah to speak to Ahaz. And Hezekiah came right after
Ahaz. He's the son of Ahaz. So you can see the patience there
that the Lord said this is what's going to come to pass. He's going
to come up to the neck. And this is the 14th year of
Hezekiah. So sometime after Ahaz finished his rule and then Hezekiah. So you can see why the Lord says,
be patient. Don't look to this world and
doubt me. I will bring my word to pass
as it pleases him. Because he's working all things
out according to his will and for the good of his people. And Isaiah had told Ahaz, he
said, take heed and be quiet, fear not, neither be faint hearted. But what did Ahaz say in reply
to him? He said, I will not. I'm not going to do that. When
he said, ask me a sign and I'll give you a sign, whether you
want it in the earth, you want it up in the sky, what do you want to
see? And I'll prove it to you that my word will come to pass. And he said, I'm not going to
give you, I'm not going to say anything. I will not. He had no will, no heart to trust
the Lord God. And that's what he's revealing. And the Lord Jesus Christ said
that too. Of the Pharisees, you see that as well when he said,
but ye will not come to me that ye might have life. And that's
what we keep seeing here in Isaiah. It's just constantly coming up
where man left to himself has no heart, no desire, no interest
in the Lord and in his salvation. But there's a people that he
loves, that he's merciful to, that he reveals himself to and
gives them a heart and he says, you be patient. I'm going to
deal with the wicked of this world and I'm going to bring
them, I'm going to visit their sin upon their heads and they're
going to come to the end. You be patient and you wait on
me and you look to me and I'll provide for you. I'll keep you
safe and I'll protect you. And the reason why man doesn't
believe the Lord, it's what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2, 9 and
10, he said, Just aren't you thankful? When
you look at Ahaz, aren't you thankful that the Lord didn't
leave you to yourself? Because we see what we are in
our sin, in our nature. We will not, we don't trust God. We will not ask him if his word
is true. We won't seek him. We won't bow
down before him. We'll trust any and everything
but the Lord God. And you who hope in Him and look
to the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, you've been shown that
you have no righteousness of your own, nothing you can do
to reconcile yourself to God, aren't you thankful for the Lord
Jesus Christ and that He gives you His spirit and has revealed
these things to you? and you know that you're not
worthy, that you're not deserving, that the truth of it is, but
God. But God made the difference between
you and all the rest of the world, not because there's anything
special, not because you're greatest or most wonderful or anything,
but as you said to Israel, but you were the least of all people.
You were the least of all people, and yet I revealed myself to
you. And that's what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for you,
and He's revealed Christ to you and shown you your need of Him,
shown you that you're sinners, and that Christ and Christ alone
is sufficient to save to the uttermost, that all who hope
in Him and look to Him will not be ashamed. You're not giving
up anything. By passing up the things of this
world and all the things that this world pursues and does and
heaps to themselves and their treasures, even though you see
it over and over again, they're being stolen, they're breaking
down, you're coming into ruins so you have to sell things off
just to make ends meet, things aren't working out the way you
thought. That's what happens in this world. But the Lord says,
don't put your treasure here. I'm your treasure. You look to
me. where moth and rust can't destroy those things, thief can't
break in and steal those things, nothing's going to take away
your treasure, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now aren't you
thankful for that? Especially when you see the wickedness of
man here as pictured in Ahaz. So we give the Lord glory for
this because otherwise we'd be in that deadness as well. Alright,
so everything God said would come to pass, did come to pass.
We see that in the scriptures, and we see it repeated over and
over again, and yet man is so content, and so cocky, and so
resistant to hearing the truth, because he's in darkness, he
has no heart for it, he has no desire for these things. And
so he refuses it, even though you can see it right there in
the scriptures, how the Lord reveals our heart, and we see
the reality of that, he reveals to us beforehand, all these things
that would happen, and they always come to pass, as the Lord says. Now, additionally in our text,
we see that the wicked who were used to work the judgment of
God in the earth and bring certain things to pass and for the Lord
to adjust and set certain things right, because they had to be
set right, they'll be destroyed because they get lifted up in
pride as well. Look at verses 15 and 16. Isaiah
10, verses 15 and 16. The Lord asks, shall the axe
boast itself against him that heweth therewith, or shall the
saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it, as if the rod
should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
staff should lift up itself as if it were no Therefore shall
the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness,
and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning
of a fire. Look at verses 18 and 19. And
shall consume the glory of his forest, that's all his men, and
of his fruitful field, both soul and body, and they shall be as
when a standard bearer fainteth, All the people will be sent into
derision and confusion because the flag goes down and they don't
know where the headquarters is. And the rest of the trees of
his forest shall be few that a child may write then. In other
words, so few of Assyrius' men, who thinks he's done all this
wonderful conquering in the world, and Assyria did, he did a lot
of conquering, but he He attributed it to himself. It wasn't in his
heart that he was being directed by the Lord God of heaven and
earth to do this work that he sent him to do. He was trusting
in his own works, in his own self. And so he was lifted up
in pride and the Lord says, I'm going to destroy his army and
bring him to nothing. There's going to be so few men
returning. that a child will be able to count them. A child
who is not good at math will be able to count them and number
them or take their names down who returns. And what do we see?
Look at Isaiah 37. Isaiah 37 verses 36 to 37. When that man was there at the
conduit, he began to blaspheme the Lord and say, all the other
idol gods, they weren't able to save the people out of my
hand. We're going to destroy you. Don't
listen to Hezekiah. Don't trust in God. He's going
to destroy you, and you're going to be ruled by us. So you're
better off just submitting to us now, and you bring a reward
in your hand and come over to us. and will let you live rather
than die with them. But this is what happened. Isaiah
turned to the Lord in prayer. He laid the blasphemous words
before the Lord, and the Lord sent word by Isaiah that the
Lord's going to deliver you. And here's how he delivered him
in verse 36. Then the angel of the Lord went forth and smote
in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. That four score is 80,000. four
score is 20, so 185,000. And when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib,
king of Assyria, departed and went and returned and dwelt at
Nineveh. And then two of his sons killed
him as he was worshiping his idol god, and they fled. And
then the third son ruled in his place. But they became nothing
after that. They didn't prosper. or grow
any stronger after that, but begin to decay and fall apart. So, here's what I want us to
focus on now. Look back in our text, Isaiah
10, verse 20. We saw how the Lord brings everything
that He says to pass. And it says, And it shall come
to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as
are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon
him that smote them, but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy
One of Israel in truth. And we know that in history,
Israel came back and Judah, when they were taken captive by Babylon,
they returned. And the Lord brought them, there
arose other sects and teachings with the Pharisees, but the people
came back together and they were there then when Christ came. When Christ came into the world
in the flesh, it was the perfect time. It was the time when he
would come and reveal himself to the people and declare truth
and speak truth to them, because he is the light of God, so that
he revealed to them the truth, what they needed to hear. And
there was a remnant, a remnant of those people. Many rejected
him and many refused him and wouldn't hear Christ, but there
was a remnant of people, a few small fishermen and a few men
of various mean disciplines. believed the Lord Jesus Christ
and followed him and walked with him. And so that's the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ that he's referring to there. And
Paul speaks of this time in that great chapter that we know so
well in Romans 9. And it's a picture of all the
Lord's chosen elect children whom he saves in mercy and in
grace through his son Jesus Christ. And we see there in this text
in Isaiah 10 that the wickedness of man, we see how in spite of
all his rebellions, in spite of all his pride, how easy it
is for the Lord to bring upon a people judgment. It's no difficult
thing for the Lord to bring judgment. He can turn men's hearts. He
can do all kinds of things. The Lord's able to work his will
in the world. We saw with Assyria, Babylon,
Rome, many nations have come and gone, many kings have risen
up and nearly conquered the world and then been put down and it
all gets changed. Don't set your heart even on
the things that you see about you, and our nation and the powers
that be that are here today can be gone tomorrow, and it's really
that simple for the Lord to do. But the beautiful thing is that
the Lord never, in all the kingdoms that come and go, the Lord never
destroys his remnant. He never destroys the gospel
so that the people always have it. There will be people that
lay down their lives and spill their blood, and they'll be given
grace to do that because they know, they see the will of the
Lord in it, and they trust him, and it furthers. We have what
we have because of the blood of the saints, because of the
grace of God who filled their hearts and made them willing
to lay down their lives And we have this very truth. It pleases
the Lord to do it this way, but it's never destroyed. Look at
verses 21 through 23. The remnant shall return, even
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people,
Israel, be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall
return. The consumption, the consuming
of the wicked, decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption even determined
in the midst of all the land. So the wicked are going to be
destroyed, but the righteous are going to shine forth in the
righteousness of the Lord. And so there was many in Judah
that didn't believe the salvation that God had promised. They didn't
trust the Lord. And when Christ came, many rejected
Christ and didn't believe Him because they were seeking salvation
by their own works. But Paul records it in Romans
9.33, and I'll just read it. He says, That's our hope, that we ourselves
are sinners. We see that we have no righteousness,
but that's why Christ came. He is the righteousness of his
people. And it's not Christ plus our
works to sanctify ourselves or to add anything to Christ, but
we trust him and trust the Lord Jesus Christ. alone, knowing
that we have no works of righteousness ourselves. Our hope and our confidence
is in Him that when we stand before God, we stand in the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And all those others who looked
to their own works, who weren't satisfied with the Lord, who
worked and labored to get as much treasure as they could here
on the earth, as the Lord said, who are you going to leave your
glory to? When that day comes, whose are
those things going to be? Our treasure is in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Us knowing that and having that
and having that hope, it's because of his work. It's because he
has regenerated us. He's given us his seed and by
him we are alive and washed in the blood of Christ, sanctified,
set apart for the Lord's use to know him, to worship him,
to bow down before him and to believe him. We glorify Him with
the calves of our lips, worshiping Him, sacrificing His lips to
praise Him, to give Him the glory for what He's done for us. The
assurance of our faith is that whosoever believeth on Him shall
not be ashamed. And the assurance is that He's
given us this faith. We believe Him. We don't reject
Him. And it's not of the flesh. That's
of His work. It's of His Spirit. And so we
keep looking to Him and trust Him. And I pray the Lord will
bless that to our hearts. So, Brother, why don't you come
and close us in that last hymn and then