Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church, located at 2709 Rock Springs Road in Kingsport, Tennessee, would like to invite you to listen to a message of Sovereign Grace by their pastor, Gabe Stoniker. For information and service times, visit www.ksgc.church. And now, Gabe Stoniker.

I will be speaking to you today from Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. I want to read one verse of scripture to you and then I'll tell you what our subject is. Isaiah 40 verse 8 says, the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, But the word of our God shall stand forever.

The grass withereth. All flesh is grass. All flesh is grass. And the grass is going to wither. And the flower is going to fade. But the word of our God shall stand forever. Shall. Shall. The word of our God shall stand forever.

I want us to look today at the shalls of God's word. The shalls. of God's Word. That's the title of this message. The shalls of God's Word. The things that God's Word declares shall happen. Shall.

Now years ago, this is a true story. Years ago in 1950, there was a young man who was attending a Bible conference and he was sitting on the front row He was the song leader of this particular church that he attended. And there was a guest preacher speaking in this conference.

And this guest preacher called out the young man in the middle of the message. And he said, young man, do you know Romans 8, 28? And the young man said, I think I do. And he said, well, stand up and quote it for us. And so the young man stood up and he said, And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. And he sat down.

And the preacher said, is that all? What about the rest of it? He said, can you quote the rest of it? And the young man said, I think I can. He said, well, stand up and quote the rest of it. So the young man stood up and He said, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And the moment that young man said purpose, that preacher started screaming at the top of his lungs, purpose, purpose, over and over again, just out loud, just scaring everybody. Screaming, purpose, purpose. He said, young man, If you ever come to learn something about God's purpose, you will learn something about God and you'll learn something about the gospel.

And I'm here to tell us today that if we ever learn something about the word shall, we will learn something about God and we will learn something about the gospel. And for that reason, I want us to look at the shalls of God's word together. The shalls of God's word.

I chose Isaiah 40 verse eight to be our text, but I could have gone anywhere. I could have gone almost anywhere because the word shall is in 6,061 verses of scripture in the King James Version Bible. over 6,000 verses. And in many of those verses, it's in there more than one time. It could be in this word over 10,000 times. Look how many times it's said just right here in Isaiah 40, just in these verses we're dealing with right here.

Isaiah 40, verse four, it says, every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, cry, and he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever, shall.

It goes on to say, Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young. Shall. Shall. Do we see how dogmatic that is? That's dogmatic. Did you know that the word of God is dogmatic? It's not up for debate. People like to debate the scripture. Well, it's not up for debate. It's set in stone. What God has written here is set in stone. That's the wording of scripture. That is God's word. It is ordered, it is sure, and it's set in stone.

God's word is not up for man to take it or leave it. It is not up, it's not on the table for man to take it or leave it. God's word is not dependent on man believing it. Whether man believes it or not, it's irrelevant. This is how dogmatic God's word is. If God says that's how it shall be, then that's how it shall be. People have that old saying. I know you've heard it before. God said it. I believe it. That settles it. As we say here in the South, that's hogwash. That's absolute hogwash. No, no. God said it, that settles it. Period. Period. Whatever he says shall come to pass. Shall. Shall. And the declaration of what he shall do is all over this book. It really is all over this book.

The message of false religion, I want to just take one second and bring this to our attention. The message of false religion There's a lot of false religion out there. The message of false religion, okay? The false message of false religion is this, will you? Will you? The true gospel message of God's word is, he shall. That's the difference in the truth and a lie. That's the difference in the gospel and false religion. Not will you, but he shall. He has, he is, he shall.

Over in Isaiah chapter 46, it says, I love this passage of scripture. Isaiah 46 verse nine says, remember the former things of old. For I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, calling a ravenous bird from the east, The man that executes my counsel from a far country, yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it, I will also do it. That's good, isn't it? He said, my counsel shall stand. If we ever learn something about this word shall, we'll learn something about God. We really will. We will learn something of the glory and the sovereignty and the authority and the surety of the gospel of God's salvation. And that's what I want us to see today.

The prophecy of all the scripture concerning Christ is, He shall. He shall. And the gospel announcement of good news is, He did. All the Old Testament cried, He shall. All the New Testament cries, He did.

Now, let's begin these shalls with a few shall nots, okay? Let's start with a few shall not. Over in Isaiah 42, if you have your Bible there and you would like to read this with me. 42 in my particular Bible, there's headings at the top of my pages and for Isaiah 42, it says, this is the office of Christ. This is speaking of Christ. God, the father is speaking here concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and his office. And it says in verse one, God, the father says in verse one, behold, my servant speaking of Christ, whom I uphold mine elect. God the Father said, Jesus Christ is my elect. That's who the Father chose. He chose Christ. Christ is the elect. We are only elect in him. We are only elected in him. God has an elect chosen people in Christ. Ephesians 1 says they were all elect before the foundation of the world in the Lord Jesus Christ, in Him.

So verse 1 says, Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth, I have put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. He shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail. That's one of my favorite things to declare. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged. till he have set judgment in the earth and the isles shall wait for his law."

I hear men often wrongly, falsely talk about how discouraged Christ is. He wants good for people, he's trying to purpose good for people, but the devil keeps messing it up and that's a lie. He doesn't get discouraged. None of his purposes fail. Everything he purposes come purpose hollering like that preacher crying purpose. Everything he purposes comes to pass. The father said this work that I've given God the son Emmanuel to do he shall not fail in accomplishing it.

I don't understand why, and I do understand in the sense that it takes the power and spirit of God to reveal this to a person. We're not born into this world naturally understanding this, but it's just difficult for, you know, once you see the truth, it's difficult to understand why men and women believe Christ failed so badly on the cross of Calvary. That's such a sad thing. It's so sad that so many people in this world believe that salvation was not accomplished. Jesus Christ came into the world and he went to the cross and he endured all that suffering and he endured death, the grave, resurrection, and people still believe that he didn't finish what he came to do. And they still believe that it's up to us to help him out. and go ahead and accomplish for him what he couldn't do.

God the Father sent God the Son to accomplish salvation for his people and he made the announcement before Christ ever came that he would not fail, he shall not fail. But men say he did fail and you're not saved yet and you're gonna have to accept him to finish it. Listen, that is wrong. Everyone who is going to be saved has been saved. God the Father said he shall not fail and he didn't. He cried, I finished the work you sent me to do. He said none of them are gonna be lost. They're gonna be kept by the power of God. This declaration of the gospel is an announcement of what Christ has already done. Through this announcement, sinners hear, He saved us. By grace, we're saved. It's not a call to action, it's a call to rest because He finished the work He came to do. Over in Isaiah 53, OUR LORD DECLARED THAT THIS IS WHAT CHRIST WOULD SUFFER ON THE CROSS TO PUT AWAY THE SIN OF HIS PEOPLE.

ISAIAH 53, VERSE 2, HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM AS A TENDER PLANT AND AS A ROOT OUT OF DRY GRAM. HE HATH NO FORM OR COMELINESS, AND WHEN WE SHALL SEE HIM, THERE'S NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM. HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN, A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF. AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR FACES FROM HIM. HE WAS DESPISED AND WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT.

Surely, surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all."

Who are the us all? Every soul the Father chose and gave to Christ to redeem. All of them. I love how even though this was all written before Christ came, This was written in past tense, he bore, he carried, he suffered. It was all written in past tense because if God says he shall, it's a done deal, he shall.

When it says the father laid on Christ the iniquity of all his people, he laid on Christ all the iniquity of all of his people. ALL OF IT.

VERSE 10 RIGHT HERE IN ISAIAH 53 SAYS, 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 HANDS. SHALL. CHRIST ENDURED EVERY BIT OF THAT be redeemed forever with him.

Verse 11 goes on to say he shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. God the Father shall be by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their inequities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors and he bear the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors."

Hope for God's people comes from this right here. He shall. That's where our hope comes from. Hope does not mean, oh, I just hope, I don't know. Hope means shall. Expected anticipation, that's the definition of the word hope. And that's where our hope comes from. God shall. Rest in that. Rest in that.

Over in Matthew chapter one, I want to summarize the truth of our salvation with three scriptures here, okay? Matthew 1, verse 18, this is what it says concerning the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, And thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

He shall save his people from their sins. Christ did not try to save his people from their sins. He did not try to save His people from their sins. If we ever get a hold of this, if we ever honestly get a hold of this, we will learn something about God and we will learn something about the gospel. Christ did not try to save His people from their sins. Christ did not come to put a down payment on saving His people. Christ did not come to show his people how to save themselves. Christ came into this world to save his people and that's what he did. Salvation is finished.

That may be very shocking to hear. Because it's not declared too often, but it's so. It's the truth and it's the gospel. Salvation is finished. When Christ cried from the cross, it is finished. It was finished. And there's nothing for us to do about it. There's nothing for us to do with it. You know, what will you do with Jesus? That's what people say. Oh, I'm not going to do anything with him. What did he do with me? What did he do concerning me? He finished the work. That's what he did. If I belong to him, if I was given to him, it's finished. It's not up to me to accept it. It's not up to you to accept it. It's finished. It's not in our hands to reject it. It's not in our hands to ruin it. It's not in our ability to undo it. It's finished. It's finished.

I heard a man give a speech one time. He called himself a preacher. He said it was a message, but he wasn't a preacher and it wasn't a message because it was not from God's word.

But in his speech, he was saying the two greatest things that we have going against us in salvation are number one, the devil getting in the way, and number two, us getting in our own way. That was the two points of his speech. The devil getting in the way and us getting in our own way. That's ridiculous. That's foolish. That's foolish. As the Apostle Paul worded it, that's dung. That's just dung. When you're dealing in the shalls of God's word, there's no room for that. There's no room for that kind of talk. There's no room for that kind of foolishness.

God said he shall save his people and he did. Christ saved his people. If we ever truly learn that, We will learn something about God, and we will learn something about the gospel. That's the first summary scripture, okay?

Now, over in John 6, John chapter 6, verse 37 says, our Lord Jesus Christ said, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. They shall. They shall. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And he said, I will in no wise cast out. That word will means shall. I shall not cast out. They shall, I shall not. They shall come to me, I shall not cast them out.

When it comes to every soul that Christ has saved, all of them are going to come to him. All of them will come to him. All of them will receive faith to believe on him, not themselves, but him. All of them will come begging mercy from him. We won't have to beg God's children to come to Christ. God's children come to Christ begging him. People love to close their church services begging you know people to come just begging them won't you come on somebody just come. You won't have to beg God's people. He said all of my people shall be willing in the day of my power. They're coming.

OVER IN ACTS CHAPTER ONE, VERSE NINE SAYS, WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHEN OUR LORD HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHILE THEY BEHELD, HE WAS RECEIVED UP, AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEADFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN, AS HE WENT UP, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL, WHICH ALSO SAID, YOU MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YOU GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS, WHICH HAS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, So come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven. He shall come. In this same way that he went up, this same Jesus is coming back. He's coming back to receive his people to himself. The Lord shall, and that's what I want us to get a hold of. He shall save his people and he did. They shall come to me, he said, and we will. I shall return to gather them to myself, and he shall. In the same way that every promise he has made, every purpose he has decreed has come to pass and is coming to pass, it shall come to pass. Everything concerning him is a shall. To God be the glory for that. Amen.

You have been listening to a message by Gabe Stoniker, pastor of Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church in Kingsport, Tennessee. If you would like a copy of this message, or to hear other messages of sovereign grace, you can call or write to the number and address on your screen, or visit www.ksgc.church. Tune in at this same time next week for another message of God's free and sovereign grace.