If you take your Bibles down,
turn with me to Isaiah chapter 49. Isaiah chapter 49. Look at verse 24. And 25 will be our tech, we may
get to 26, but it's not as important, I think, as the first two here.
Isaiah 49 verse 24 says, Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? Or the lawful captive delivered
entitled, The message this morning is the rescue of the prey, the
rescue of the weak, the rescue of the defenseless. That's what
a prey is. The rescue of the prey and deliverance
of the guilty. That's what a lawful captive
is, isn't it? Somebody who's lawfully put in prison, that's
somebody who's guilty. And the Lord's asking a question.
Shall the prey be delivered from the mighty? Or the lawful captives,
the guilty, be delivered from the just sentence of the law? Listen to his answer, ìThus saith
the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him that
contended with thee, and I will save thy children.î Now the first
question we must ask ourselves is who is this prey? Who are the prey? And who are
the lawful captives? In this text we know this literally
to be the nation of Judah, the nation of Judah. This nation
of Israel was dependent upon God for its protection from its
conception. You remember it was God who delivered
them from Egypt. It was God who delivered them
the land of Canaan into their hands. It was God who destroyed
their enemies, the Jebusites, the Perisites, the Hittites and
the Philistines, God destroyed their enemies. And during Isaiah's
time it was the Assyrians, you remember the Assyrian army had
destroyed the ten tribes of the north. Those people were gone
seemingly forever. And God spared the nation of
Judah, the tribe of Judah and Benjamin. But there here God prophesied
that God will one day bring the nation of Judah into captivity. He will bring them again into
captivity. Why? Because they had forsaken
the Lord their God. As their sister Israel had done,
the ten tribes of the north had forsaken God, so did Judah forsake
God. And God says, I'm going to give
them over. I'm going to give them over as prey to the Babylonians. They were weak. Judah was as
a prey, a defenseless creature. When God ceases to defend them,
they were totally defenseless. They were weak. And once they were slaves to
their enemies, they must be reminded of God's judgment against them
that they were not only prey, but they were lawful captives. They deserved to be taken. God must show them that they
were lawful captives. He commanded them to obey His
law. And what was His law? It was
Christ. He was pointing them by the law
to Christ. And they forsook Christ. And
He gave them to their captors. They rebelled after this, after
they heard this they even rebelled more and more. So truly we see
this that Judah was a prey and Judah was a lawful captive. But what good does that do you
and me? Just learning a history lesson
about what happened to Judah and Israel doesn't do us any
good. These people are here in holy writ for a purpose because
they represent the true Israel of God. the spiritual Israel
of God. We should be constantly reminded
this as we read the Old Testament Scriptures. When you read of
Israel, you're reading of God's people. God's true elect people. And so then this morning I wanted
to see this, that all the elect of God recognize these two things. We are weak as prey. And we by nature were lawful
captives. We were both prey. And the lawful
captives, when Adam was created of God, he was perfect and upright. He fully trusted and depended
on God. Listen, Adam communed with God.
We can't even fathom this, that he had no fear. He had no shame. When God came in the cool of
the day, he would commune with him as man to man. Astounding thing. And as long as he obeyed God's
command, he had this blessing. But the moment Adam sinned, he
became a prey to both sin and death. He was a prey to both
sin and death. He lost all ability to commune
with God. All righteousness. He died spiritually
and became outwardly and inwardly corrupt. Consider this. Could Adam resist sin? After
he had fallen, how weak was he? So weak that he thought leaves
would hide his sin. He could not resist sin. He could
not deliver himself from the power of physical death or spiritual
death. He had no power. You understand
that he had no power. This is why we are pictured as
spiritually dead, because the dead have no power. No power. They are a prey. From the sole of his foot to
the head of the crown of his head, he was totally corrupt.
And He became a prey to all wicked thoughts, evil dreams. He became
a prey to Satan, whose heart only longs for our destruction. He became a prey to sickness.
He became a prey to sorrow and grief. We don't often think about
it, but can you imagine the grief that His Son Cane, slew, able? Can you imagine the grief? The
sorrow that they felt? Could He stop the sorrow? Can
you stop the sorrow that you feel? Can you stop the sickness
from invading your body? Can you stop the sin from corrupting
your mind and heart? No, friends, because Adam's Sickness,
Adam's death, it was not confined to him. Wherefore, as by one
man's sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed
upon all men, and we were a prey to it. We were weak. We could not overcome it. The
next thing is, he became a lawful captive. He became a lawful captive. Not only a prey for sin and death
and Satan and sorrows, he was a lawful captive and subject
to the law of God, subject to the judgment of God. Listen,
I want you to realize Adam is not a man to be pitied. You understand
that? Because Eve, on one hand, she
was deceived. When Adam sinned, he was not
deceived. He is the greatest mass murderer
in the history of humankind. He murdered his whole race and
did it willingly. He rebelled against God and robbed
God of his glory. He broke the law of God and the
just sentence of God fell upon him in the day thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die. And see then that this this this
death, this weakness is now come upon all of his race. By the offense of one judgment
came upon all to condemnation. Paul concludes this then that
all men are without excuse. Every man is born with the law
of God written on his heart. And yet we willingly defile it
hate it. But can you stop doing it. Is
there any power in man to stop sinning? God said this one time. You cannot
not sin. What have you done that has not
been mixed with sin? Name one thing. You see how much a prey you are? And because this, there is none
righteous, no, not one. We are full of sin. There's none
that understand it. We are all ignorant. Can you,
by learning, find out God? Can you, by learning, know God?
No, you're ignorant. You're a prey to ignorance. Therefore,
you go about to establish your own right. Did we all go about
to establish our own righteousness? That's nothing but ignorance.
We were a prey to ignorance. There's none that seeketh after
God. Isn't that a bold statement? Well, Paul, I'm seeking after
God. Nope. No man by nature seeks after
God. Got that? What? I don't care. Doesn't matter. Well, I did. You're a liar. I'm gonna trust God's word and
call you out on it. I didn't. I didn't seek after
God. I sought after religion. I sought after my own righteousness.
I sought to come to God in my own way. Yeah. I didn't seek
God. Jesus said no man can come unto
me except the father which has sent me draw him. Now if God
draw you that I know you did. You came because God drawed you.
Not because you had any power in yourself. So then there is
none that doeth good, no, not one. We are all an easy prey
to sin, to temptations of the flesh, to the attacks of Satan. We are all vulnerable and weak.
We are by nature defenseless, by nature unable to save ourselves
or keep ourselves from anything. Sin, sorrow, sickness. You remember when Peter was told
by the Lord, he said, you'll deny me. Peter was bold, he said,
I'll never deny you, I'll die with you. He said, look, what
a rooster crows, you're gonna deny me three times. And he said
this, behold, Satan hath desire to sift thee as wheat. I'm not a farmer, I don't really
know exactly what that is. I just know this, they take the
wheat and they just pounce it up and down like this, and the
chaff just kind of blows away. That's how easy it is. Little child could do it. Little
child could sift wheat. He said, that's how easy it is
for Satan to get to you. Peter thought he was strong. What did Peter learn? It's weak. You who believe on Christ, I
know you know this about yourself. You are an easy target. You are
a prey. You are a prey. What made the
difference? But I have prayed for thing. I've often considered Judith
denied the Lord once. Peter did it three times. What was the difference? I have prayed for the that that
faith fail not. is easy. We are all as a prey
before our enemies. They are mighty. Let me be clear,
God is just and right. What if God left every man to
himself? Would he be just to do so? He
would. God is just and holy and will
punish sin. Us, all of us are born under
this, the condemnation of God, born weak and unable to save
ourselves. Unable to free ourselves from
the justice of God's sentence. I'll tell you this. The only
hope for a sinner is that he realizes this. If you don't know
this is you. Then there's no hope of salvation.
But we who are saved understand this is me. I am the prey. By nature I am
the prey. By nature, I am the lawful captive. If God would let us see our utter
ruin of our nature, that in our flesh dwelleth no good thing,
that we are perfect weakness. Have you seen this? Have you
seen your need then of being delivered from the mighty? from sin, from death, from hell,
from Satan, from the justice of God? Have you seen your need
of that? Do you see your weakness and inability to deliver yourself?
Well, how then shall He be rescued? How shall He rescue the prey?
How shall He deliver the guilty? Notice the Lord gives a definite
response to this. Look at this. Look at this. Here's
the question. Now it's just the question I
just asked you. Look at verse 24 again. This is the question. Shall the prey be taken from
the mighty? Is there hope of rescue? Or the lawful captive be delivered? Listen. Here's an emphatic divine
statement. Thus saith the Lord. Even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered. The answer is yes. Yes! See, it's good news for one group
of people. The prey and the captive. They're just both the same. It's good news for them. He said,
Yes, the captives of the mighty shall be taken away. Yes, the
prey of the terrible shall be delivered. Notice how God deals
with this in reverse. The question began, shall the
prey be delivered and the lawful captives shall the prey be? Well. shall the prey be taken
from the mighty. And the second was a law of lawful
captive delivered. But God reverses the order. He
deals with the lawful captives first. Why? Because in order
to deliver the prey, the law of God must be satisfied. The guilt must be removed in
order for God to show mercy to the prey. So God deals with this
first, the captives. Those who are bound lawfully,
condemned by the law of God, are stated first because sin
must be dealt with. Behold, the mighty here is the
justice of God, from whom none can escape, but all must be judged
by righteous judgment. This lost, rebellious world desires
a God to forgive sin without justice. They don't care if he's
just. Matter of fact, they would love
for him to be unjust like themselves. But listen, God will never have
mercy. Now listen to this carefully.
God will never have mercy at the expense of his justice. He will never do it. Why? Because
God is holy. God is holy. And he removes all
doubt of this. Go to Exodus 34. Look at what God says about himself
because he deals with both of these things, mercy and judgment. Look at this in verse six, and
the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, the Lord, the
Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in
goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgression of sin. Oh, that's wonderful, isn't that
great? Mercy. God is a God of full of
mercy full of pardon but notice his mercy is never at the expense
of his justice look what he says that will by no means clear the
guilty you see God says I'm going to
be merciful but not merciful at the expense of my justice
I will never clear The guilty. God will never show mercy or
pardon at the expense of his justice. So how will the lawful
captives, the guilty, those who are condemned by a just sentence
ever be freed? The answer to this is that the
justice of God must be satisfied by another. You're a prey. You're guilty. How can you ever satisfy God's
justice? You can't. You're too weak. Paul says about the law that
the law is holy and just. It was weak through the flesh.
That was the problem with the law. Not the law, but us. We could not obey it. We could
not honor it. How shall he satisfy justice
by another, by a substitute, by Jesus Christ, his son? This is the message of hope.
That Jesus Christ, the mighty, should satisfy the justice of
God in our stead. It was by the sin of one man,
judgment came. Even so by the righteousness
of one, is justice to ever be satisfied. So behold, one man had to come
to fulfill the law of God as a representative man. One man
has come to forever satisfy the justice of God. It is the Word. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word
was made flesh. The Word was made flesh. It was to Christ that the Father
gave all the seed of spiritual Israel. All of His elect and
the Son of God from eternity in a covenant of grace swore
to represent them, to be the surety of Israel. Now this question and this answer
comes at the end of the chapter because God has really dealt
with the answer of this from the beginning of this chapter.
He's answering their question. This is the question they were
going they were asking. This is Judah was going to be
brought so low that they had no strength in themselves and
they're asking, Lord, are you going to deliver the prey? Are
you going to deliver this lawful captive? And he gives the answer.
But he started at the beginning to answer the question as to
how he does this. Yes, they will. Yes, I will deliver
the lawful captives. But how? Look at verse one. Forty nine, listen, all you eyes
and hear me and hearken, you people from far. The Lord has
called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother, hath
he made mention of my name? And he has made my mouth like
a sharp sword. In the shadow of his hand, hath
he hit me and he made me a polished shaft in his quiver, he had hit
me. And said unto me, Thou art my
servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Friends, Christ
was from the womb of eternity called to be the Savior of his
people. This here is speaking of Christ.
Listen, the Lord hath called me from the womb. He is called Christ He said in
42 verse 1 Behold my servant in whom my soul delighteth mine
elect my chosen one and Christ here is speaking He said I'm
the chosen one I was called from the womb from the bowels of my
mother from when He was made flesh from the virgin's womb
He was called of God Jesus was the instrument in the
hand of God. That's what he talks about in
verse 2, this sharp sword, this polished shaft, this arrow. That's
what I am. I am the instrument of God. And notice His name, Thou art
my servant, O Israel. He gives Christ the name of His
people. You see he's a representative
man. He represented Israel so much that he was himself Israel. He was the representative of
all his people for this purpose. Look, in whom I will be glorified. In whom my law will be satisfied. Righteousness shall be accomplished.
Redemption shall be purchased. I will be glorified. You see,
God's mercy and God's justice meet together only in this one
man. How can God be just and justify
the ungodly? Only by the representative man,
Jesus Christ. The instrument in his hand to
save his people. over in Isaiah, 42, he says this
about Christ as well. Listen, he said in. Forty two
in verse. Twenty one, he said, The Lord
is well pleased for his righteousness sake. How is that possible? He will
magnify the law and make it honorable. You see what Christ came in the
world to do in order to set the captives free. He had to magnify
the law. He had to honor it. He had to
obey it in the stead of His people. In the stead of His people. He
fulfilled that law of God and obtained for His people the righteousness
of God. He fulfilled all righteousness. And not only this, He fulfilled
all redemption. Remember, sin has a price. In
order for the guilty to go free, a price had to be paid. And this is what Christ came
to do. He came to offer himself a sacrifice. A priest had to have a sacrifice.
Christ came into the world, a high priest, to offer himself a sacrifice. And He paid the penalty for our
sins to redeem us from the curse of the law. He was made a curse
for us. Behold Him. How shall you the
guilty be set free? Only by the obedience and the
death of Jesus Christ can guilty people be made free. Look what Christ said in verse
4. Then said I, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength
for naught and in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord
and my work with my God. Look at the work of Christ when
He was here upon the earth. Did it seem victorious? Did it appear victorious? He said, I have chosen you twelve
and one of you is a devil. He came unto His own, and His
own received Him not. Isaiah tells us that we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. A man of sorrows,
acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from
Him. He was a man of sorrows. He was
full of affliction. But listen, He said this, I trust. in the judgment of God. You see
what Christ did. He was not looking at what was
seen. Everything appeared to be vain, but it wasn't. His trust
was in God. He trusted God's judgment and
God's work. He offered himself before the
judgment of God as the spotless offering. The sinless offering
upon the cross to deliver the captives and see that God willing
to deliver the captives lawfully made Christ to be sin for us. So that he might bear the full
weight of the justice of God. That's what happened at the cross.
That is exactly what happened at the cross in an act of holy
justice. God took my sin and made them. To be Christ. who knew no sin and when God
made him to be sin you realize he felt no sin he thought no
sin he did no sin he was sinless yet he was made sin what a transaction that I being
an unjust man cannot fully bear I don't understand I just know
it so and by that one act by that one offering He hath made
us the righteousness of God in Him. So when the law could demand
no more, when Christ said it is finished, it is finished,
what did He mean by that? He shall see of the travail of
his soul and be satisfied. What could the law demand of
Christ anymore. Nothing. When they put him in
the tomb and he rose again from the dead, that proved that all
the sin he paid for was gone. It was gone. Are you a captive to the justice
of God? Behold, the only one who opens
the doors of the prison is Jesus Christ, and he does it lawfully.
He does it because he paid the debt for our sins. He paid the
debt for our sins. And so what does the law then
say to you and me who are believers in Christ? Listen, there is therefore
now. No condemnation. No condemnation. And listen,
there is therefore. Now. No condemnation. And listen, there is therefore
now no condemnation. God says, I will set the lawful
captives free. If you believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ, I want you understand this, you are free from the law
of sin and death forever. free from the law, O happy condition. Jesus has bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law and bruised
by the fall, Christ hath redeemed us once for all. Once for all. Secondly, the prey
being delivered. Seeing now that the law is satisfied,
God then is free to show mercy to the prey. He's free to show
mercy to the prey. The terrible ones here in the
text are all those who would harm and devour us. Consider
this our own sin nature. The worst enemy we have is right
here. The worst enemy we have is is
our sin nature, because our sin nature is weakness, utter weakness. The elect, the chosen, redeemed,
from the curse of the law. Listen, I want you to realize
that you were redeemed even before you knew it. Isn't that right? Weren't you redeemed before you
knew it? I knew nothing of this freedom from the law when I came
into this world. I knew nothing of Christ and
His offering before we had ever made to see our need of it. We
were born as prey and captives by nature. This is our experience.
We were weak and defenseless to defend ourselves, yet God
purposed us not only to be free, which he accomplished before
our birth. He also promised deliverance. The experience of what he has
done for us. This is what it means by deliverance
of the prey from the terrible. Look at verse five and six of
Chapter 49. He says now. Thus saith the LORD
that formed thee from the womb, to be his servant, to bring Jacob
again unto him. Though Israel be not gathered,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God
shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing
that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel. also give thee for
a light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation to
the ends of the earth. Christ came to the world. He
said, Look, though they not yet be gathered, I know this. I'm
a winner. I'm going to be victorious. Because God purposed by him to
gather Jacob, he said, It's a light thing for you to gather your
people. You see how easily now it is
for God to gather his people, seeing that our sins are gone?
Is it not just just and right to gather the righteous? It is. Though we were not yet gathered,
God purposed that we should be, that he should show his strength
by Christ. who stood who should restore
the elect, both Jew and Gentile in verses eight through eleven.
He read this. Look at that. Thus saith the
Lord in an acceptable time. I have heard they in the day
of salvation. I have helped they. I will preserve
they and give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the
earth, to cause it to inherit the desolate heritages that thou
mayest say to the prisoners. Go forth. To them that are in darkness,
show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways of
their pastures, shall they shall be in all high places. They shall
not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun smite
them. For he that hath mercy on them
shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
And I will make all my mountains away, my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from
far and low. These from the north and from
the west and these from the land of Sinai. See God here at the
acceptable time, what is that? That's the death of Christ. That
was the acceptable time. God held his hand in the day
of salvation. He helped him. He preserved Him,
He gave Him a covenant to establish in the earth. Why? That He may say to prisoners,
go forth. There is an acceptable time also
in the day of our salvation when He comes. You see, we were in
darkness. We were in prison. We were a
prey. We could not help ourselves.
We could not deliver ourselves. But this was the determination
of God that he should go forth and say to prisoners, go free. Be free. He said, I'm going to feed you.
You're not going to hunger or thirst. What does this mean for
righteousness? You're not going to have any
need, any lack of it. Do you not see that God gives
us His righteousness? Do you not see that Christ's
blood has fully paid for our sins? And notice this, He said,
I'm going to make the way, the mountains a way and the highways
shall be exalted. In other words, He's going to
make the path plain. Isn't the gospel plain? The gospel
removes all mountains of objections. Sinner, why should you not come
to Christ? Do you have a need? What objections
do you have? You don't know my sin. No, you don't know the power
of his blood. He removed the mountains of my
sin. He elevates the way, all of the
pitfalls, all that would, obstacles that would keep us from coming
to Christ. This is the gospel, believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Is that not simple
enough for you? Need any deep theology for that?
No, do you? We were saying about that thief,
do you think he knew a lot of deep theology? No, he knew that
man was God. He looked at that cross next
to him and said, I believe you're God. And when you get to your
kingdom, remember me, have mercy on me. Now what he's saying,
have mercy on me. Tell that other thief, we deserve
what we got. He knew what he deserved. He was a prisoner to
the justice of God. And only that man right next
to him could save him. That what you know? Do you know
him? Let me ask you, are you helpless
to save yourself? God swears. I'm here to save
those who cannot save themselves. Now, if you can save yourself. I was not talking to you. You
got some hope in your religion. God's not talking to you. He's
talking to pray. Any prey? Any lawful captives? Christ came to save them. He came to lead them, he came
to guide them. Let me ask you this, you that
are delivered, rescued, you that find Christ to be a sufficient
refuge, and satisfaction for the justice of God. Let me ask
you this. Are all your troubles gone? Do you no longer feel like your
prey? You stand strong now, you stand
firm. Do you trust in your strength
to keep you from seeing anybody trust in their own strength,
keep them from seeing if you do, how's that going for you? Maybe it's just me, it's not
going well for me. I still feel afraid to sin. That's because that old man's
still there. He's still afraid for sin. Look what Israel says. Look at
verse 14. After they heard all this wonderful
thing, God says in chapter, verse 13 says, sing! That's what God
commands His people. You that are prisoners have been
set free. You that are the prey that have been delivered. Listen,
sing, rejoice, be comforted. The Lord hath comforted His people
and will have mercy upon the afflicted. But what does Zion
say? The Lord hath forsaken me. My
Lord hath forgotten. Our Lord told us in this world
you shall have tribulation. Maybe I just don't believe it.
Maybe that's why I experience so much confusion and pain, just
not believing what he said. You shall suffer persecution. And often times God's people
say to the Lord, and I'm just being honest, have you forsaken me? Have you
left me? God answers that in verse 15,
no. No. Can a woman forsake her sucking
child? That she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? Yes, she can. Seen it happen. Yes, she can. They may forget. Yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon
the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before
me. What walls of protection aren't
they? Who is our wall? Who is our refuge? On whose hands
are our names written? He said, I'm not going to forsake
you because my mind and my heart is never off of my son. Your
wall. And on whose hands you are written. This is why he could say, confess
your sin. Confess your sins for he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and he says this when you see
John says in chapter 2 not if that word if is better translated
win when you see We have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ
the righteous his hands Constantly plead your cause Are you a prey? Are you subject to every temptation
and sin? If any man think he stand, take
heed lest he what? Fall. So my hope then is this. Jesus Christ has delivered this
guilty captive. Send his word to my heart and
said go for free made free by the offering and righteousness
of Christ I am by nature of prey to every
sin and temptation what that is my hope that I'm going to
finish this race what's my hope that I'm going to endure to the
end because Christ will always rescue
the prey. He will keep me. He will sustain
me. You that have been believing
for so long, why is it you still believe? Why are you still here? Don't you still feel your need
of rescue? Constant, perpetual rescue? Deliverance strength to keep
from sin. You need that. I do. And I always find him to be faithful.
Notice what he does. I'm going to I'm going to close.
Look at this in verse 26. Notice he does with all those
who are against us. You got do you have anything against you?
You have anything against you? The flesh is always against you,
the world, Satan, those who would seek to overthrow us. Look what
he says. He said, I will. I will contend
with them that continue with me and I will save that children. I will feed them that oppress
thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their
own blood. As sweet with sweet wine and
all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy savior and thy
redeemer, the mighty one. of Jacob. Consider all that are
opposed to us. They believe they are feasting
on your flesh. When in actuality they're feasting
on their own. It's like, he's a good picture,
the Lord's got a picture of a man just chewing on his own flesh
and enjoying it. That's what wicked men do. They
heap up for themselves destruction. They're destroying themselves.
They think they're destroying you. All that oppress you think
they're hurting you. But what are they really doing
to you? What can they do to you? Nothing. Remember how the Lord
said that in Psalm 23? He said, Thou prepares the table before
me, where? In the presence of mine enemies. Consider this, God who takes
his people who are nothing but a prey, sheep, and he leads them
into a lion's den, and he says to them, rest, eat, sing, rejoice. Isn't that how we are right now? Surrounded by enemies? It's as though Christ dares them
to try to take us. Can they? Can they remove us
from Him? I am persuaded that neither life
nor death nor angels nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature in case I miss one. Aliens. I don't know who, whoever. Can
anyone separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus?
He said none. None. Why? Because He rescues the prey and
He delivers the calf. My salvation, friends, is 100%
resting on Jesus Christ. None of myself. Says the prey and the captive. The one he rescued and delivered. I pray that he has done that
for you. And he will do it for others. He said, I'm going to
gather them. They're out there, aren't they? Aren't they out
there? We're not all there is. Right. I'm so thankful for that. There are more. May God even
use this message to call them. And comfort them, let's