Johnny, hold up on that. Let's begin in the beginning. Genesis, chapter 22. Now, before we actually begin,
we need to we need the Lord's help, like always, and most especially
on these blessed, blessed names of Christ. May we pray. Lord, thank you for the privilege
of gathering in this place this morning. We've been here so long, seems
like home. But Lord, we come to a subject
that is so far beyond our natural understanding that even people
with giant intellects cannot enter in to what is said in these
seven words concerning our precious Lord Jesus Christ. But Lord,
if we are to know them, to understand them, and to love them, it must
and can only be if you've performed a work of grace in our souls
and raised us from spiritual death to spiritual life in Christ. Christ is our life. Lord, we beg for your mercy,
for your help, for your grace. In an attempt of this kind, one
wonders if he can succeed at all. But if there is to be any certain accomplishment, any certain
understanding of these things and putting them in language
that remains in our souls as we contemplate them at other
times after this hour has passed. We beg for your help, and we
ask it in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings and
Lord of lords. Amen. In Genesis chapter 22, Abraham
is taking his only son, Isaac, and going to a certain place
where the Lord sent him. And in verse 2, Abraham says,
I'm sorry, verse 1, Abraham said unto him, God tempted Abraham and said
unto him, Abraham. And he said, behold, here I am. And he said, take now thy son,
your only son, Isaac, whom you love and set you into the hand,
into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which
I will tell you of. And Abraham rose up early in
the morning, saddled his donkey, took two of his young men and
Isaac, his son. They split the wood that was
necessary to burn a sacrifice in offering for the burnt offering
and rose up and went into the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes and saw the place of far off and Abraham
said unto his young men, abide you here with the donkey and
I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to
you. And Abraham took the wood of
the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son and took the
fire in his hand and a knife And they went both of them together
and Isaac spoke to Abraham and his father and said, my father. And he said, here am I, my son.
And, and, and, uh, Isaac said, behold the fire and the wood,
but where's the lamb for a burnt offering. And Abraham perhaps with great difficulty
says to his son, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. Abraham understands that God
is requiring him to offer Isaac on this altar. He proceeds to
put everything in order. He takes the knife. In verse
10, to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord came
upon him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, here am I. And he said, lay not your hand
upon the lad, neither do you anything unto him. For now I
know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son,
your only son, Isaac, from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes
and looked And behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket
by his horns. And Abraham went and took the
ram and offered him up for burnt offerings in the stead of his
son. Now listen carefully. And Abraham
called the name of that place, Jehovah Jireh. It, as it is said to this day,
In the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen. And that glorious
representation is a representation of Christ and him crucified.
And the father did not, did not save him from that death because
it is a substitutionary death. It is the only way by which any
of the human race of any generation can possibly be converted and
saved is in the blood and sacrifice and resurrection of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Now this place called Mount Moriah, you can see if you look at it
in the right light, you can see that Mount Moriah is typifying
Mount Calvary, where Christ was crucified. Alright, we come now
to Exodus. Chapter 17, I don't know if I
can wait for you and all the, it's tough to turn when you got
to do it in a hurry. And I, I don't want to say too
much without you listening. So if you just want to, you know,
just sit there, I'll, I'll, uh, I'll try it that way. This next word. to which we find
in the chronological order of the Old Testament is Jehovah
Nissi, N-I-S-S-I. And you find this statement in
Exodus 17, 15, and it is the Lord my banner. Christ is our life. He's our
victory. He's the one we worship. He's
our banner. A poor example of this is to
be a citizen of the United States, and there's plenty of them that
won't even look at the flag, let alone salute it. But that ain't nothing compared
to this one. That has to do with politics
a little, well, more than a little bit, a whole lot, or persons
having a grudge against our country or for whatever reason they just
refuse to acknowledge any good coming to them thereby. Now I'm
going to read you this statement and then I'll tell you where
it is. We will rejoice in your salvation and in the name of
our God we will set up our banners. The Lord fulfilled all your portions. Therefore, Exodus 17, 15 says,
the Lord, my banner. It is a war, a war with sin, and we cannot handle it no matter
how many we are. Sin is not what we can remove. We cannot even promise forgiveness. But the slogan nowadays is, have
a blessed day. That statement won't give you
a blessed day. I try not to say anything, but
sometimes I just can't help it. But it is a war with death. We're all headed that way unless
Christ comes back first. I have no knowledge of when he
is or when he won't, but he's coming. He's definitely coming. There is such a place as hell,
and without Christ, that's where we'll live for all eternity,
if you could call it living. Not only sin, death, and hell,
but also the grave. The grave itself. My, my, what
a time that is. What a time. Now we go to Jeremiah. I'm going to wait for you this
time. Jeremiah, chapter 23, In Jeremiah 23 and verse 6, we
have another one of those Old Testament names for our Lord
Jesus Christ. You're familiar with this. We
sing a song to this. Jehovah Sid spelled T S I D. The T is silent. Sid Canoe. And it is in Jeremiah 23 and
verse 6. Let's find that verse, 23, six. In his days, Jonah shall be,
Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And this
is the name whereby he shall be called all capital letters,
the Lord, our righteousness. But what about my righteousness?
We ain't got any, that's how come. It's worthless. My soul, that's what we have
to repent over, thinking we've done something that, you know,
that God's pleased with. You and I can't hold a candle
to what is before us when our Lord Jesus Christ is named the
Lord our righteousness. Now I'll read you another scripture.
I forgot to tell you that other one under Jehovah Nissi. It's
Psalm 20, verse 5. Here we are in Jeremiah 23, 6. And I'll try to quote you this
one. Of God are we in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. Here's another one, 2 Corinthians
5, verse 21. God has made Christ sin for us that we might, how does it go,
that we might, huh? Yes, Christ who knew no sin,
that we might have, might what? Oh yeah. Lord, I messed that
up, Doug. Lord, have mercy. I'm going to
read it where I can see it. And if I can find where it is,
let's see. Right here in front of my face.
Christ shall be called the Lord our righteousness. The Lord our righteousness. Here's
that statement I couldn't get all of it Doug. For God has made
Christ sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him. The Lord our righteousness. Now I want to point out one little
thing It says in that Corinthian passage,
1 Corinthians 1.30 that I quoted for you, of him are you in Christ
Jesus. So this person that we're talking
about is a him and not a her. You understand that? That's important. Very, very important. Who of
God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption. Now here's why that's important.
In this first setting forth of this word, Sid Canoe, Jehovah
hyphen Sid Canoe, we have, he shall be called the Lord, our
righteousness. Now, there's another word identical
to this in the 33rd chapter of Jeremiah. Since it's that close,
let's just turn to it. Jeremiah 33, verse 16. Jeremiah 23, 16. Here is a statement. Now look carefully at the words.
Jeremiah 33, 16. In those days shall Judah be
saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name
wherewith she, not he, she shall be called the Lord, our righteousness. Now I want to make a point and
I hope you characters that are younger will listen and remember
this. until you're too old for it to do you any good. When a
man and a woman marry, and the woman keeps her maiden name and
hyphenates it with his, and some won't even go that far, that's
not marriage. God has no recognition of that. And here's why. When it is speaking
about Christ, it is the Lord, our righteousness, But when it's
speaking about Christ's bride, she shall be called Mrs. the Lord, our righteousness. So far I've not had to decide
this question, but if somebody ever asked me to marry them,
that's one of the first thing I'm going to ask to know. I'd
assume not marry anybody, if that's all right with y'all,
but it's just I like what Shakespeare said about it, much ado about
nothing. Bunch of money spent, but I tell you it ain't worth
it. It's got nothing to do how long you'll stay together either. The Lord, our righteousness,
she shall be called. Hey, I got another verse for
you. It's in the book of Psalms. I'll give you the reference after
I finish reading it. Therefore, I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way. Now, you can't love Christ as
your Redeemer and your Savior and give anybody else anywhere
at any time any credit. that you're stealing and robbing
from Christ. That's in Psalm 119 and the verse
is 128. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts
concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way. My, my, my. Let's try another one. Judges,
624. I still think that comes right
after the book of Joshua. Well, I can't get my pages to
turn. Judges, chapter 6, verse 24. Boy, if I had my old Bible, these
things are marked. You couldn't miss them if you
were about half blind. Judges. Lord, I'm still not there yet.
6, verse 24. Then Gideon built an altar there
unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom. Jehovah Shalom. That means the Lord send peace
or the Lord is our peace. Unto this day it is yet in Ophrah
of the Abiezrites and this man making this animal
sacrifice gives it that hyphenated name that puts it in line for
this very subject that we're talking about this morning. Number five. No, that was five. Number six. What was Shalom,
the Lord send peace? We come in the sixth place to
Jehovah Shammah in Ezekiel chapter 48 and verse 35. Ezekiel 48,
35. Let's see if we can find it.
No, that's not right. Well, I can't
seem to find it. Yes, I did. Ezekiel 48. Oh, I should have done this, Craig.
I should have got up another hour earlier this morning so
I could write, at least find the places in my Bible. Ezekiel 48, verse 35. This is Jehovah hyphen Shammah,
S-H-A-M-M-A-H. And it means the Lord is there.
And it's the last verse in the prophecy of Ezekiel, chapter
48, verse 35. It was round about 18,000 measures. And the name of the city from
that day be the Lord is there. A lot of people think the Lord
can be found in this building, but not out in the yard or in
the parking lot. or see any place else. No, if
that's your take, I've had people come to that door, I can't count
how many times, wanting to be able to come in here to pray
because they believe that God will hear them from in here,
but not out there. And I said, well, I'm sorry,
I wish I could do it, but I can't because I'd be lying on God.
If you can't find him out there, you ain't going to find him in
here. This place is special when the Lord's people are meeting
for worship, such as this very hour. But when we're all out,
it's all over. It's just all over. The Lord is there. The Lord is
there. Then we come, now there are more
of these, but I just put seven. Psalm 23, one. The Lord is my shepherd, or the Lord my
shepherd. It is Jehovah Raah, R-A-A-H,
Psalm 23, verse 1. All right, that takes care of
the first page. Joshua himself is a type of Christ
and Amalek that he fights, described in the book by his name, is a
type of the devil. This war that is found in many
of these references that we've run this morning, it is definitely
a battle. This is a war cry. This is a banner for that purpose.
And if the Lord is my banner, it is to him that we offer our
worship, make our prayers and intercede for others. There's
no neutrality in this war whatsoever. Not at all. Let me read you a
reference out of Matthew chapter. I better not tell you the chapter. Well, I can't believe it's jumped off
my page because I can't find it. There it is, hiding from me. Alright, Matthew 12 verse 30. Matthew 12, verse 30. This simply put description means
that there's no neutrality in this war. If we're on our own
God's side, We've had it. And if Christ is not all in all. You ready? Matthew 12 30. He that is not with me is against
me. He that gathers not with me scatters
abroad. Now those are just simple words
that fell from our Savior's lips. And yet they have a tremendous
application and meaning to the professing Christians in churches
that you couldn't call what they're doing worship a bit more than
a man in the moon. Now we go to Romans chapter eight. Romans chapter 8, 37 through 39. Romans 8, 37 through
39. Now know In all these things, we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature
or created thing shall be able to separate us from the love
of God. And where is that love? Which
is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, our Lord. Wow. Christ is our banner for triumph. His name. The Lord Jesus Christ. God in human flesh. The person. The precious person
of our Lord Jesus Christ. The work. He said it's finished. The righteousness. We've already
talked about that righteousness. 2 Corinthians 5.21 as well as
several other references. And the finished salvation. Now if we finish something, somebody
might have to come right behind us and fix what we missed or
messed up. But that ain't so with him, my
soul. He speaks and it's done. All right, one more shot here. referring back in our minds to
Jeremiah 23, 6, the Lord our righteousness, who is the being
that is described there? It is the Lord Jesus in all of
his glory, in all of his power, in all of his love, all of his
righteousness, everything about him. There are generally said
to exist in regard to the honors and glory of Christ that there
are basically three categories in which this glory is to be
found. The first one is Christ essential
glory. Essential, that means you can't
do without it and in this case it means that he is essentially
God. And you can't quit being God. It's not possible. His second glory is the glory
of his person. Those are called his incarnate
glories. Then the third one his relative, his relative glories,
who he is to and for his people, his offices, prophet, priest,
and king, his righteousness, our righteousness. Who calls
him the Lord our righteousness? Some of those same people that
we met in Jeremiah 23.6 and 33.16, his name shall be called the
Lord our righteousness and she shall be called Mrs. the Lord our righteousness. Poor
sinners have no righteousness of their own. No matter how much
money they've given to charitable causes, can be billions of dollars
and not have any bearing at all on their soul. No righteousness
of their own. I'll tell you what I want you
to do and then I'll be finished. I want you to turn to Philippians
just over to your right a little ways. right after Ephesians and right
before Colossians. Philippians chapter 3. These are the words of Paul the
Apostle writing to the church at Philippi
in regard to their future and how they can prevent someone
from coming in and removing Christ altogether. All right? Philippians
chapter 3 verse 1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. To write the same things to you,
to me, indeed, is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware
of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware
of the concision. Now these are not animals that
he's talking about, but people, religious people. In that third
verse, we are the circumcision. Wait a minute, I missed a verse.
Verse two, beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the
concision, for we are the circumcision. Here is the truly circumcised
in heart and soul. They are people who worship God
in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit enables us to
worship Him. Not only worship God in the Spirit,
but rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh,
none whatsoever. Though I might also have confidence
in the flesh, if any other man thinks that he has whereof he
might trust in the flesh, I more circumcise the eighth day of
the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, as touching the
law of Pharisee, concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching
the righteousness, which is in the law, blameless. Yeah. If that's righteousness, it's,
it's not, it's nothing but absolute sin that is here called blameless,
but what things listen carefully, verse seven, what things were
gained to me. those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all
things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus,
my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things and do
count them but manure that I may win Christ and be found in him,
not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which
is of God by faith, that I may know him, and the
power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might
attain unto the resurrection of the dead." All right. Johnny, I didn't turn this thing
on.