The message I want to bring to
you this evening is the Lord will provide. Jehovah Jireh. There are seven names of Jehovah
given in the Word of God. Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will
provide. Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that
heals. Jehovah Shema, the Lord is there. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is peace. Jehovah Nissi, the Lord, my banner. Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord, our
righteousness. Jehovah Rea, the Lord, my shepherd. My message was just going to
study on Jehovah Jireh the Lord will provide, but the Lord provides
all these names, everything here. the LORD provides. Then it went
to Jehovah Sidcanu, the LORD our righteousness, and then it
moved into Jehovah Nissi, the LORD my banner. But I just want
to briefly show you where these other names are in the Word of
God. Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that heals. In Exodus 15, the
Lord said, if thou will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord,
thy God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will
give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statues, I will
put none of these diseases upon you, which I brought up to the
Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth. Psalm 103. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities,
who healeth all thy diseases, who redeemeth thy life from destruction,
who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.
In Psalm 47, he says, he healeth the broken in heart and he bindeth
up their wounds. And that is talking about he
heals that broken heart over sin. Not over anything else. He binds up your wounds that
sin has assaulted you with and just destroyed you. In Leviticus,
it tells us about that. You know, you heard that old
saying, beauty is skin deep, but ugly is clean to the bone.
Well, that's exactly what sin is. It's clean to the bone. And
when you went in front of that priest and he looked at you and
you were covered in sin, covered in leprosy, he said, clean. You're
clean. When you figure out that's all
you are is sin, When the Lord teaches you that, that's when
He's going to bind up your wounds and heal you. But until then,
if you think you can bring something to God for your acceptance, woe
on you. You're running back to Egypt.
You're running back into bondage. Jehovah Shema, the Lord is there. God is everywhere. In Ezekiel
48, The book of Ezekiel describes the new Jerusalem, and in chapter
48, the Lord is going to give the seven tribes, He's gonna
cut out it into portions. And in verse 35, and the name
of the city from that day shall be the Lord is there, Jehovah
Shema. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is peace. Judges 6.24, you remember this
passage, I know when I tell you about it. The Midianites would
come into the land and steal Israel's food. They had taken
everything they could find and they would raid their camps.
The Lord appeared to Gideon, threshing wheat by the winepress,
to hide it from the Midianites. The Lord said, the Lord is with
thee, speaking to Gideon, thou mighty man of valor. Now Gideon
was a poor farmer. He was the least in all his daddy's
house. And God said, you mighty man
of valor. The Lord had delivered Israel
into the hands of the Midianites for the evil which they had done.
And it came to pass when the children of Israel cried out
unto the Lord, He was going to deliver them. When the Lord afflicts
us and we cry out over our sin, He's going to heal us. Then was
Gideon, and you know, he was a farmer and he was poor. Gideon
prepared a kid for the angel of the Lord. The angel of the
Lord put forth his staff and fire rose up out of the rock
and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Gideon knew
it was an angel of the Lord. The Lord said to Gideon, Peace
be unto you. Fear not, for thou shalt not
die. In Psalm 85, mercy and truth
are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
He is the Lord our peace. He's made peace between God and
man. In the epistles and letters to the churches, Paul says, grace
unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
peace and that peace is only found in Christ. Christ made
peace between God and man. Jehovah read. The Lord is my
shepherd. Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth
me in the paths of righteousness. For whose sake? For his name's
sake. All these names of the Lord shows
us that Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. The Lord will see
to it. I love that, the Lord will see
to it. I remember we used to ask Rupert something and he said,
I'll see to it. I'll see to it. He's gonna provide everything
for his people. Now in our text, in Genesis 22,
Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb, a burnt
offering. So they went, both of them together.
That ram that was caught in the thicket, in the brush, don't
you know that Abraham rejoiced to see that ram? In John 8, the
Lord's talking to the Jews and he tells them, Your father rejoiced
to see my day, Abraham, and he saw it and he was glad. Don't
you know when Abraham saw that ram, he saw Christ. The Lord
had provided a substitute for his son, Isaac. That's what Christ
is for his people. He's our substitute. Abraham
was probably in the deepest waters he had ever been in his life.
In his heart, he had already offered up Isaac. He had already
slain that boy. He knew the Lord was going to
raise him up. But that was the son that he had given, Sarah
and him, in his old age. Abraham said to the Lord, he
said, you know, when he told him he was going to give him
a son, and he said, well, Eleazar was born, I think that's how
you pronounce it, in Abraham's house. He was a servant. The
Lord said, no, he's not going to be your heir. The Lord brought
Abraham out and said, look toward heaven and tell the stars if
you be able to number them, and so shall thy seed be. Abraham
believed the Lord, and the Lord countered it for righteousness.
Remember, the Lord said unto Abraham, he provided everything
for Abraham. He told him to get out of his
country from his kindred and from his father's house unto
a land that he would show him. He said, I will make you a great
nation, and I will bless you, and I will make thy name great.
and thou shalt be a blessing. I will bless thee that bless
you, and I will curse them that curse you. And in thee shall
all the earth be blessed." The Lord provided everything for
Abraham. The Lord provided that ram, a
substitute for Isaac. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ
is for his people. He's our substitute. He is the
only one that can say, deliver him from going down to the pit,
for I have found a ransom, and that ransom is the Lord Jesus
Christ. When Abraham was on that three-day
journey to where he was going to offer his son up, don't you
know Abraham was in agony and his heart was breaking, thinking
that he was going to slay his son? How would he tell Sarah
when he came home covered in blood, I've killed your son,
the Lord gave us? What would he do? Don't you know all the
religious people said, just like they do about us, I thought they
loved the Lord. They watch you like hawks, everything you do
wrong. It's the first thing they say. Yep. God the Father put His Son to
death, the Lord Jesus Christ, at Calvary. Abraham was going
to plunge that knife into His Son and watch the lifeblood pour
out of Him. God plunged that spear in His
Son's side and out poured the water and the redeeming blood,
that living water and redeeming blood. Isaac was bound and laid
on that altar. Christ was bound and taken from
the Garden of Gethsemane. Isaac went willingly. Christ
went willingly. Christ was nailed and bound to
that cross. God's fiery wrath and God's judgment
for the sins of his elect poured down on Christ. God's justice
was satisfied. Christ was our perfect substitute. The angels of the Lord said to
Abraham, lay not a hand on that boy. God hath provided a substitute,
and that's what Christ is for a sinner. He's his substitute.
His five bleeding wounds plead for me. The law says I'm guilty. Christ is my substitute. He is
my ransom. The Lord provides everything.
Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. Jehovah Jireh provided the Lord our righteousness. The Lord provides all things.
He provides a perfect righteousness for His elect saints. All that
the Father gave the Son, He will lose none. The Lord God provided
God the Son, the great I Am, who paid the penalty for their
sin and fully accomplished salvation. Done. Nothing can be added. It's
perfect. And His shedding blood covered
all the sins of His people. In our text, in Genesis 22, 14,
the Lord will provide. Abraham was about to plunge that
knife in Isaac, and the angel said, lay not a hand on the lad.
There was a ram caught in that thicket, a ransom. That's what
the law says about us, guilty. But the blood of Christ says
he's mine. I have paid his sin debt. My name is written on his
hands and his bleeding side. Christ is my ransom. The Lord
will provide. The Lord is our righteousness.
Philippians 4.19 says, but my God shall supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. In Jeremiah
23, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto
David a righteous branch. A king shall reign and prosper
and shall execute justice and judgment in the earth. In his
day shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And
this name, whereby he shall be called Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord
our righteousness." The Lord Jesus Christ, God the Father,
provided Himself what we could not, and produced a perfect righteousness. We could not produce anything. And the banner over God's people
is love. Jehovah Nissi, the Lord is our
banner. This comes from Exodus 17. When
Israel went out to fight Amalek, when Moses held up his hand with
the rod in his hand, Israel prevailed. When Moses' arms grew weary and
they fell down, Alemalek prevailed. Aaron and Hur put a stone under
Moses, and they stayed his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, Write
this in a book for memorial, and rehearse it with Joshua.
Moses built an altar and called it Jehovah Nissi. The Lord is
my banner." Right here's the book. Right here's where it's
written. Right here needs to be read and talked about and
talked to our children. More than anything, it needs
to be talked to our children. In Psalm 60, Verse four, thou
hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed
of the truth. The flag, the banner, was in
wars to call all troops together. Christ is the banner over his
elect. All God's elect meet at Christ's feet and praise and
glorify and magnify him. That banner is the gospel, the
truth. The banner is Christ, Jehovah
God provided in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul gave us our direction. He said, let us run with patience
and race, set before us, looking unto Jesus, Jehovah Nisi, our
banner, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God. The banner is
always the chief point of attack. Christ Jesus, the gospel, has
always been the object of the attack, the truth has." Spurgeon
wrote, there are five tares in that banner. When divine justice
came forth against Christ at Calvary, it made five tears in
that great banner. Five bleeding wounds are the
symbol of our victory. There are no more wounds to be
endured in the person of the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it tells, a bone of him shall not be broken. The gospel is unwounded, it still
stands strong, and it always will. Men have been trying for
years to attack the gospel, and it still stands unharmed and
unwounded and unchanged. The banner is an emblem of victory. When the fighting is over, what
does the soldier bring home, all bloodied and beaten? He brings
that flag home. That's what we do. We bring that
banner. We raise that banner up and say,
this is the truth. God's saints are always bloody
and beaten, but still that banner flies. Look at all of God's saints
in the Bible, all going to battle. Elijah killed 450 prophets of
Baal. Samuel killed Agag after Saul
went to battle with the Amicalites. God told Saul to kill him, but
he didn't. Samuel did. God's prophet did. Paul was beaten three times,
39 lashes, not 40, because 40 would probably have killed him.
He was chained and prisoned, and he was eventually beheaded.
Still, he held the gospel banner high, even unto death. In Acts 21-13, Paul says, What
mean you to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not to
be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem. For what? For the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the truth. In Philippians 121,
Paul said, For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Peter
was crucified upside down. Stephen stoned to death. John
the Baptist beheaded. Christ said to Paul, I will show
him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. Everybody
in this world suffers a little bit, but the key to this right
here is for my name's sake. All of these men suffered and
bled and died carrying the gospel banner held high. That's what
the gospel pastors do. They're God's chosen preachers.
They guard the flocks. We know that Christ is our shepherd,
Jehovah Rea, the Lord our shepherd. They slay the wolves and the
lions with the preaching of the gospel. They tear down the high
places and the groves where men keep trying to return to their
self-righteousness and idolatry. What did Israel do? They kept
wanting to return back to Egypt, back to bondage. The Lord had
provided all for them, everything Israel had He provided. He said
in Deuteronomy 6, And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall
have brought thee into the land, which He sware unto your fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly
cities, which you didn't build, houses full of all good things,
which you didn't fill, wells digged, which you dug not, vineyard
and olive trees, which you planted not. When thou shalt have eaten
and be full, then beware, lest thou forget the Lord, which brought
forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of Egypt." But
they had to fight for it. They had to fight for it. And
from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven
suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. In Galatians,
Paul warns us about fleeing back into bondage, knowing that a
man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith of Christ
Jesus. Even when we have believed in
Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ
and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall
no man be justified. Stand fast in the liberty where
Christ has made you free and don't be entangled again with
that yoke of bondage. Why would we ever want to run
back to the law? Why? Back to Egypt. The law was
our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we might be justified
by faith. But after faith has come, we
are no longer under a schoolmaster. Paul said, what shall we say
then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but
by the law and Christ fulfilled it all. Men say they keep the
law as works religion. The Lord told the rich young
euler, what must he do to inherit eternal life? The Lord gives
him the 10 commandments, the law. And what did he say? Oh,
I've done all those. That's what you have to do. You
have to keep them perfectly in heart, in mind, in thought. Nothing. You can't do it. If
you do it, you have transgressed the law. And the two commandments
that are all tied in is to love the Lord thy God with all your
heart and love thy neighbor as thyself. Anyone that says he
can and always has is a liar and calls God a liar. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the only man to ever fulfill the law. No one
loves God with all their heart, and no one loves their neighbor
as themselves. Henry Mahan told a story standing
in his pulpit probably 40 years ago. And I want to tell it to
you. There was a woman. She had one
son. Jason probably heard this. She was in the bed. She got a
knock on the door. She gets up and gathers herself.
And she goes to the door. It's the police. And the police
tell her. We need you to come down to the
hospital and identify a body. We think it's your son. She's
all to pieces. You know she is. Everybody would
be. She gets in her car, and she
makes that journey to the hospital alone. And she's praying the
whole time, oh, Lord, don't let that be my son. Please, God,
don't let that be my son. She gets to the hospital. She's
fixing to get out of the car. She's weeping. She's upset. And
the Lord teaches her something. You know what she says to herself?
She said, oh, Lord, if it's not mine, it's somebody else's. If
it's not my child, it's somebody else's. Is that loving your neighbor
as yourself? How many of you could say, oh,
God, take my son and not hers? Not one. So do you love your
neighbor as yourself? I think not. I know that I don't. And I can't, but Christ fulfilled
the law and He did. He did it all. There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made me free from the law
of sin and death. For what the law could not do,
in that it was weak through the flesh, weak through our flesh,
we cannot keep it. God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Many years ago, the Lord convicted
me of my sin, and I knew that I surely was going to die. I
would lay in my bed at night for months, terrified that God
was going to kill me. I was running wild. I would come
home late at night, run around all night, lay in my bed and
tremble, knowing I was going to die. And I knew what I deserved. I would say to myself, I'm going
to fix this. I'm not going to do this anymore. I'm going to
fix myself. Next night, same thing. It wasn't the things I
was doing. It was what I was. I was a rebel. I hated authority, and I hated
God. The Lord taught me these things. He sent a pastor. He
sent Rupert Reibenbach preaching the gospel banner strong and
he would not back down from preaching the truth to me. He wouldn't
do it. And the things I wasn't going
to do anymore, I would be doing the same thing day in and day
out. I couldn't stop what I was doing.
My flesh loved it. I listened to the preachers on
TV, prayed what they said. Still, no change. I drank sin
like water. God's law condemned me every
day and every night, and I knew I could keep none of His laws.
There's no need for me to speak of the things I've done. I do
not glory in my shame. I don't glory in it. I glory
in the fact that God provided a substitute for me, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and He put away my sin. That's my glory, not
my sin. And I despise to hear a man with
a smile on his face saying, ah, the Lord can save me and save
anyone. That man glories in his shame.
And Luke 18, the publican stood afar off, wouldn't even lift
up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, said, God be merciful
to me, a sinner. That's how a sinner comes to
Christ, begging, not bragging. Every sinner God saved at Calvary
thinks himself to be the chiefest of sinners, but he doesn't brag
about it. Like Nathan said to David, God
has put away your sin, you shall not die. Now if David's sin had
been put away, how? Christ hadn't even been born.
How was his sin put away? Chosen by the Father, purchased
by the Son. Christ slain before the foundation
of the world. David and all God's chosen saints
are under the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were all taught
of God. The Lord will provide. Christ
provides everything for his people. Now in the Old Testament, Moses
came down from Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai quaked and burned
like a furnace. And when the Lord descended on
it, when the Lord told Moses to tell the people not to come
near Mount Sinai, if man or beast touched it, they were surely
gonna die. The people said unto Moses, Speak
thou with us, and we will hear. But let not God speak with us,
lest we die. You don't want to meet God outside
of Christ, because it's eternal damnation and death. Moses was
a beautiful picture of Christ. He was the mediator between God
and Israel. For there is one God and one
mediator between God and man, the man, Christ Jesus. When Moses
came down from Mount Sinai, when God gave the Ten Commandments
to Moses, when Moses spoke to the people after speaking with
the Lord, the people said, All that the Lord said, We will do. No, we won't. Christ did. We
won't. We can't. God provided Israel
with everything they needed. Manna from heaven, water from
the rock, which is Christ, the living water, it flowed from
it. The shoes never wore out, neither did their clothes, yet
they murmured. They loathed that manna from
heaven. They said, we loathed this light bread. It was coriander
seed and tasted like honey, but they didn't like it. They were
tired of it. He sent the quail into the camp.
They didn't have to hunt it. All they had to do was catch
it. Still they murmured. Christ supplied all they needed.
And what did they say? They wished and said, we had
never left Egypt. We wished we could go right back
into bondage. The sect says the Lord will provide.
He will see to it. No one could have ever provided
a ransom for sinners other than God Himself. Sending God, who
took a body, came to this earth, kept all of God's law and fulfilled
it, bled and died, and was raised from the dead. Not all the blood
of bulls and goats that were slain in the Old Testament could
ever take away sin. But this man, the God-man, the
Lord Jesus Christ, after he had offered up one sacrifice for
sin forever, sat down on the right hand of God. It was finished.
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. Where is redemption found? A
ransom can only be found in God, and he could only find it in
himself. In the Lord Jesus Christ, only God could say, deliver him
from going down to pit, I have found a ransom. How God could
punish God for what I've done for my sins is absolutely behind
me. I can't explain it, but I sure
love it. The Lord Jesus Christ is God's
elect surety. The very God that I transgressed
against and sinned against and broke all his law, paid the penalty
for my sin in his life, his death, and his resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He conquered death for all his
people. The very God that I sinned against came and paid my sin
debt at Calvary. No man sufficient to explain
this, but by faith I see it, I believe it, I bow at His feet
and I kiss His feet. Oh, the love that drew salvation's
plan. Oh, the love that brought it
down to man. Christ fixed that great gulf
that was between God and man in and through the person of
the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is nothing for the sinner
to do, nothing. God provided Himself for His
elect, a substitute. God preserves us and God keeps
us. but man still thinks there's
something he can do and he has some part in it. Paul said, if
I preach circumcision, there would be no problem. If I gave
man one thing to do, all the offense of the cross is gone.
Oh, but it's still God's glory. It's still in God's glory. The
pride of sinful man thinks there's something good in him. Nothing
can be added to what God has done. Christ must increase and
I must decrease. When Moses asked God to show
him his glory, God hid Moses in the cleft of the rock. He
hid Moses in Christ. Nothing can take away God's glory,
especially sinful man, thinking what he can do can add to what
Jehovah God has provided, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is none
that doeth good, no, not one. There is none that seeketh God.
Salvation is God's glory, and he will not share it with another.
Election keeps no one from Christ, it ensures somebody's going to
come. That's what it does. And if you know what you are,
you'll love that and you'll embrace it. Thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sin. Now in closing,
Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. The Lord provides everything
for His people. He heals us from our sins. Jehovah
Rapha. The Lord is always there. He
is a shelter in the time of storm. Jehovah Shema. The Lord is our
peace. Peace is only found in Christ.
Christ made peace between God and man by the shedding of His
precious blood. Jehovah Shalom. The Lord our
banner and the banner over us is love. outside of Christ is
justice. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
righteousness. He is all my righteousness, I
stand in complete in what he did, Jehovah Sidkenu. The Lord
my shepherd, he protects and keeps us, our great shepherd,
Jehovah Rea. Thank you.