Alright, if you will turn back
to John 19. I forgot to warn you last hour. We're gonna turn
quite a bit. So, I'll probably be brief. I want us to look at
the scripture. John nineteen. Look at verse twenty-eight. John nineteen twenty-eight. And this, after this, Jesus,
knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture
might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was said a vessel full
of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon
hyssop and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received
the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And he bowed his head and he
gave up the ghost. What is finished? I'm going to
take a thimble out of the ocean. I can't go scratch the surface,
but it's my job to give it all I've got. What's finished? We don't just marvel at what
the Savior's done. We preach Christ and him crucified. And this is good news. But we
don't marvel at just that something was finished. We marvel at the
one that finished the work. You get that? I ain't splitting
hairs. This is vital. eternally vital. We don't just marvel at what
was done, we marvel at the one that did it. People were just
amazed that I was able to preach and they said, I can't believe
it, that's in the Old Testament. I said, don't marvel at what
I can preach, marvel at the one that's being preached. Don't
marvel at the function, marvel at the one that's performing
this. Remember what the one that's revealed in this scripture. I
don't matter. Thankfully, someday somebody will forget my name.
I'll be just some old preachers forgotten. That's good. I want
you to remember him. What did he finish? Well, this
earth is cursed. If you ever go try to grow something,
thorns and thistles come up. I don't walk around in Southern
California barefoot. I didn't walk around Florida
barefoot either. I did one time, and I learned
my lesson. Thorns and thistles are all inside of my feet. This
earth is cursed. Everybody's wanting to reform
it, make it better. And we ought to take good care
of it. We shouldn't go dump nuclear waste in the ocean. We ought
to have a little bit of common sense. But this earth is for our using
and it's cursed though. It's cursed. Look back in Genesis
3. I guess to see what's finished,
we need to see what needs done. Some work that needs done. Genesis
3 verse 6. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise. That's a couple different
things that's good, isn't it? She thought. She took of the
fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with
her And he did eat. He did eat. Eve was beguiled. She was tricked. We need to get
this. Adam wouldn't. That first Adam willingly ate
of the fruit of that tree. That's important too. You know
why? That second Adam willingly became sin for us. Who knew no
sin? And the eyes of them both were
open, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fid
leaves together and made themselves aprons. First thing that happened,
backpedaling, covering a sin. You did wrong. Oh, it's somebody
else's fault. Why'd you do that, Adam? It's
that woman you gave me. She came from your side, didn't
she? That's the first thing we do.
Oh, Brother Mahan said that one time. It's a work of God, but
it takes a very, Peculiar person for Like David Nathan come David
said you're the man and David took it on the chin So that's
right. I'm the man I thought that takes
a very Lord has to do that to show us. It's us not somebody
else. It's me I'm the problem But it
also takes the Lord to give Nathan the strength to go to a king
and say, you're the problem. You're the man. It takes both. The Lord's working. But they
covered themselves, blamed on somebody else. Look down at verse
17. The Lord spoke to them. And unto Adam he said, because
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten
of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying thou shalt not eat
of it. Cursed is the ground for thy sake. Cursed is the ground. This earth is cursed. In sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and
thistles shalt bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread till thou return to the ground. How long you gonna
have to work out hard to get food until you die? You go back
to that cursed earth. For out of it thou wast taken,
and for dust thou art, and until dust thou shalt return. This,
this, this earth is cursed. This air above us is cursed.
And it ain't, it's cause of sin. You know why this? I saw pictures
of me from four years ago. We got here four years today,
December 31st, four years ago. And I saw a picture of me. It's
like in presidents. I got gray headed. You ain't
got much gray. Look, four years ago, I got some
wrinkles. Why? Sin. Why is your body breaking
down? Sin. Why does that brand new
black top driveway out there? Landlords paid a whole lot of
money for that and I looked yes, that's look at right top. Well,
it's just tore up hitting it seeing This earth is cursed. So what's gonna have to be finished?
Well, we're gonna have to have a new one This one ain't it's
just fit for burning and turn over Revelation 21 It was way
back in Genesis now. It's turned way ahead into Revelation
21 Look here in verse 1 Revelation
21 verse 1 John wrote in here and he says,
and I saw a new heaven and a new earth, new ones. The first heaven
and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea.
And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them.
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away." That cursed earth and that pain that
we have and the tears that we have and all this trouble and
trials and tribulation and the sea of torment and us being unstable
as water, just like Reuben, that's put away. There's a new one,
a new one. It says in verse 5, He that sat
upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he
said unto me, write, for these words are true and faithful.
You write this down. And he said unto me, it's done.
It's finished. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give unto him that is
a thirst of the fountain of water of life freely. Freely. This is all done. There's to
be a new heaven and a new earth. It's going to come down. That's
where God's going to dwell with his people. And he says, it's done. This
is finished. This is finished. Is that so? I wrote down red letter Bible.
I don't know if some people have red letter Bibles. I do. I use one. It helps me quite a bit. I'd
recommend you get you one. And I know some people don't
like them, because every word in here is a word of God, isn't
it? It's his word. But I need all the help I can
get. Somebody made fun of me one time. I got tabs on my Bible.
And they said, that's cheating. And I said, I know how to use
a muzzle loader. But if I go to war, I'm gonna
take an M16, it shoots a whole lot quicker. I might be at war
and have to say, look here what the book says. That's what it
says, isn't it? Look at there, that's what it says. I'm gonna
have to get there quick. Let's see if that's so. It says, behold,
that's all in red, I make new things. That's the one that sat
on the throne, that's Christ speaking. He's on his throne, making this new
heaven and this new earth for us, that we can dwell in it.
Is that so? Look back at John 14. Is that a work that he finished?
Is it done? John 14, verse one. This is comforting. We're troubled so much, ain't
we? Troubled about many things. He says in John 14, one, let
not your heart be troubled. John 14, one, let not your heart
be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not
so, I would have told you. He says, I go to prepare a place. We gotta be somewhere. I go to
prepare a place for you, for you. And if I go to prepare a
place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that
where I am, there you may be also. This new heaven and this
new earth, it's finished. And what is that? Remember us
looking at that in John 14, he goes, I'll go prepare a place.
What's that place he prepared? A place of reconciliation. Because
this former things ain't worth nothing. We ain't going to make
us a better place. It's got to be done away with.
It's got to burn. And even the elements. And he went to go make
a new place. And in that place is reconciliation.
There's atonement. There's at-one-ment. There's
going to be a people that sinned against the holy God, and they
can be there with him. He's going to dwell among them. You know, this is about where
he is. Everybody wants to go to heaven. Not too many people
know that heaven's a person. I don't want to tell them. Don't you want to tell them? I go to prepare a place. That
work's finished. What? Do you have to prepare? Do you
have to get yourself right for heaven? Do you have to go get
you a hammer and try to build heaven? A new heaven and a new
earth? No, it's done. He bought it. He said, I've done
it. It's done. There's a place. There's a place. We don't have to do it. It's
finished, he said. The old Greek writer said, say
an ocean of thought and a thimble of words. Now that's something we can marvel
at. Greek people, huh? Let's marvel at God. He said,
it's finished. Can we exhaust that? It's done. It's done. What? Well, we're
going to have to have a new heaven, new earth. Just go make your
list of all things that are going to have to change. It's done.
It's done. It's finished. Second. First
thing, it's finished. New heaven and new earth. Second,
well in that new heaven and new earth is going to be some people.
Ain't that right? This is real important. Stay
with me now, okay? Physically, we were not created.
Did you know that? You were not created. Physically. Adam was. Adam was created. The
Lord took him out of the dirt, didn't he? We came from Adam.
We're his offspring. We got his DNA. That's important. Why? We're a product of our seminal
head. We're just like him. And we're
fools to think when we ain't. I thought about this this morning.
I'm going to apply this to me. You can apply it to you if you
receive it. On a scale of 1 to 10, 0 being
nothing and 10 being 100%, what's the likelihood that you could
be wrong? Just in any situation, what's
the likelihood you could be wrong? What's the likelihood I could
be wrong? What's the likelihood of problems with me? I'm just like my daddy Adam,
and so is everybody around me. That's why Christ was born of
a virgin. Biologically, I got kicked out of biology class in
college for that, because of mitochondrial DNA that's only
passed down, traced back to one woman. They said, why do you
think there's mitochondrial DNA? I said, that way Christ can be fully
man and fully God. Ha, that proves it. My eyes were red with his
blood, and my teeth were saying white things with milk in them.
That's him. I said, you quit talking like that, we'll kick
you out of here. We're not, we were not created, Adam was created,
we're his offspring of the first Adam. And we have to be born
again by that second Adam. We have to be his offspring if
we're going to have life. We're housed, that new life is
housed in this body of death that's sin and dying and turning
gray and getting wrinkles and falling apart. But we have a
new creation in us, just as he created a new heaven and new
earth. There's new life in us. That's what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians.
He said, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
There's something new, the life that wasn't there. It's new.
Old things are passed away. Behold, all things have become
new. If the Lord would give us life. Hits new. I want to read this to you. It's
just too good. This is encouragement to me. Here's what Brother Henry
wrote. I'll tell you who wrote it ahead of time, but we can
hear it in his voice. He said, we see so little true commitment
and so much indifference and so few dedicated people in today's
religious world that we may be prone to accept this attitude
as normal. But it's not so. David wrote
in Psalm 147, he said, he sent out his word and melted them.
Paul said in Romans eight, to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded, we have a new creation in us.
That's life and peace and peace and not tore up over every little
thing and peace. We're going to grieve. Yeah.
You're going to be real sad and cry. You're going to shave your
head and rinse your clothes. Of course you will. Peace. Peace. That's spiritually minded. Whenever
that happens, if the Lord comes to somebody in grace, unto a
person, and the very life of Christ is formed in him, unbelief's
driven out by God-given faith. Indifference departs at the revelation
of the glory of Christ. People say, well, I mean, that's
nice. I like it down there. Not if God's worked in your heart,
you'll have to have it. You won't be indifferent. Ignorance vanishes
as Christ is revealed in his work of redemption as the just
and justifier. Self-pride disappears. Self-righteousness
ain't got a claim of anything because we see his obedience.
It would be impossible for a true child of God of his great invincible
grace to be indifferent or uncommitted after the melting of his word
and the revelation of his love. It's impossible. It's impossible. Well, that's just the way it
is these days. No, it ain't. God don't change, and them sons of
Jacob don't change. We're a product to Adam. I know
I'm a sinner, and if he's worked in me, I'm gonna praise him,
and I'm gonna give it all I got, because there's a new creation.
It's brand new. It ain't like that old stuff. Oh, that's what
we've always done. Well, quit doing it that way.
Bow to God. That's something new. Submit to the Lamb, that Lion
of the tribe of Judah, and serve him. I want to, I want to. And there's a creation in me
that does, that just against all odds, like any logic at all,
swings for the fences and gives it all I got every chance I get.
And then I'm exhausted after and I think, I ain't never doing
that again. And it comes back. That happens all over too, that's
consistent. Through Jeremiah and all them
prophets old, and then my friend up north there says, I quit three
times last week. There's a new man in us. There's
a body of death still there, but there's a new man in us.
That's a new creation. Paul said, to whom God would
make known what are the riches of the glory of his mysteries
among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you. What is that creation? Christ in you. The hope of glory.
The hope of glory. There's a new heaven and a new
earth, and there's a new creation that's in us, and that's finished.
That's done. It can't be undone. We can't
stop it. We can't make it go away. That Nicodemus came to
him. He knew a lot, didn't he? He
was probably the Sadducees and way up high and religious fellow. And he came to Jesus by night
because he didn't want nobody knowing him. And he said, Rabbi, we know
that thou art a teacher come from God. He said, we. He didn't
say I. That goes back to the problem.
This individual. Did God send me here? Now let's
back up. Am I, do I preach the gospel
and did God send me to you? I don't care about anybody. I
don't care about California. I don't care about, I want, I would all men be saved.
But individually, I need to ask that. Is that my watchman? My
pastor told me some stuff. Do I believe God? And is that
said in him? Is that him speaking the truth to me? If it is, it's
Christ in you. It ain't, there ain't nothing.
Paul said though, I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory
in. Necessity's laid on me, I have to, I can't keep from it. And
I must tell the truth. Nicodemus told the truth, he
said, we don't, we think you're the son of God. He didn't say
I, it wasn't individual. Just like that sin. Well, mankind's
sinners. I'm the problem, it's me. I,
you get that? And the Lord said, verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except the man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God. And then Nicodemus tried to use
manly reason. I have to go in my mother's womb again? What
are you talking about? I have to do the work, Nicodemus.
Not you. I've got to. You can't. You're
with that old stuff, that old creation, that old heaven, that
old earth, right? You can't do it. I gotta do it.
Look here in John 12. Back a few pages if you're still
there. John 12, verse 23. This had to happen. John 12 23 and Jesus answering
them saying the hour is come that the son of man should be
glorified Verily verily I say unto you except a corn of wheat
Fall into the ground and die it abideth alone But if it died
bring it forth much fruit He that loveth his life shall lose
it the Lord loved us and gave his life for us and You see that? That hit me like I've never seen
it in my life. Yesterday morning. That's brand
new. I love my life. I'm like, I'll
give a kidney. We are pressed to give both.
He gave his life for us. So we would have life. So we
would be that new creation. Peter said, being born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed. We'd be
his offspring. By the word of God, which liveth
and abideth forever. Do we make a new heaven and a
new earth? Do we clean this one up? No, that's ridiculous. It's
finished. Lord did that. Do we make a new
creation in ourselves? Can you make a new creation in
somebody else? No, that's ridiculous. It's finished. It's finished. What's that new creation like?
Turn over to Ephesians one. Ephesians chapter one. People get mad over stuff just
out of context. A guy was real angry years ago, about 10 years
ago. He said, you believe in predestination. I said, I sure
do. Don't you? And he said, no. He said, I know
it's in the Bible somewhere. I said, it is? Do you even know
what it means? And he said, well, I think. And I said, why are
you mad about something you don't even know about? It's like him
atheists. They're awful mad at somebody
they say they don't believe in. Romans 8 we read, for whom he
did foreknow, the ones that the Lord loved, he also did predestinate
to be. What's that destination? Conform
to the image of his Son. You want to be made like Christ?
That's what predestination is. That new creation, you want to
have a new creation in you? You want to have life? I hope I have the comfort to
interact with everyone I can interact with as if they're a
child of God. And I hope I have the boldness to preach to everybody
like they're lost and they need Christ. Because we do. We need
Him every hour. Right? I want to be made like Him. That's
what that new creation is like. just like him. Did you want to
know what he's like? Ephesians 1, here's what he did. This is
where it all wrapped up. Ephesians 1 verse 3. Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in one place,
Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him for the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children. He made a son of God by Jesus
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made
us accepted. How? In the beloved. In whom? We have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace, wherein He hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and
prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according
to His good pleasure, which He hath purposed in Himself. that
in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together
in one all things in Christ, which are both in heaven and
which are on earth, even in him, in whom we have attained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will, that we should
be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ,
in whom ye also trusted, That's all the stuff that took place
in Him. And this new heaven and new earth and this new creation,
He's all done and it's all finished. And the Lord in wisdom abounds
towards us in the Holy Ghost and teaches us these things.
And He says, in whom you've also trusted. The Father trusted Christ
to go do it. We trust in the same one. You've
trusted in Him. After that, you heard the word
of truth. You didn't trust in him before you heard the preaching.
You trusted him after you heard the preaching. You didn't know
God back then underneath the lie. You knew him after you heard
the word of truth. The gospel of your salvation.
Good news to that person. In whom? What's our gospel? In
whom? In a person. Also, after you
believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession unto the praise of his glory. Lord's gonna be glorified
in all this. And we have this new creation in us, that's Christ
that dwells in us. And he's abound towards us and
taught us a little bit, and we're little children, but we know
some things. And he's done that, and that's just the earnest.
That's the down payment. until we enter that new creation,
that new heaven and new earth, until we see Him face to face.
Isn't that kind? People say, well, the Lord saved
somebody, they don't have to hear the preaching, and they'll
just wake up one day and be in glory. This is kinder. I think so. Instead of living
for yourself, that's also what the Word says, they shall be
taught of God. That's generous, isn't it? New
heaven and new earth in God's presence. That's where he's going
to dwell. A new creation that's fit to be in his presence, that
cannot sin. There's no, Adam was morally
innocent. He had the potential to sin and he did. The Lord sustained
him until he took his hand off of it. That new creation is just
like Christ. It can't sin. And I'm tickled
to death by that. Ain't you? You ever think about,
you ever just sit around the house sometimes like, what's
it going to be like not have sin? We'd have to invent words to
describe what that'd be like. And the words would probably
be simple. But they wouldn't be for us, would they? That new
creation is just like Christ. Where is that new creation? Turn
over Ephesians 2, there in verse 4. It's on the same page. Is that new creation, that new
life that we're born again, is that in us? Yes. And right now,
is that new creation with Christ in glory on his throne? Yes. How? How can I be here and be
there with him at the same time? Worldly, heathens and heretics,
When you ask preachers questions, the worst thing they can say
is, I don't know. They don't do that. They come up with something.
They're like politicians, and they talk around things, right?
I say, I don't know. I heard a faithful man of God
say, he says he's in me right now, and he is. And he says I'm
with him right now in glory, and that's true. How could it
be both? I don't know, but he said it, and so I'll figure it
out later, if he's pleased to teach me. When I'm with him,
I'll tell you all about it. Look here in Ephesians 2, verse
4. But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith
he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ. He's made us alive with him.
By grace are you saved, and hath raised us up together. After that finished work, how
do we know it's finished? He's on his throne of glory. We have
an empty tomb. That propitiation was accepted by the Father. He
was risen. He hath raised us up together
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ." Old Brother
Greg said that one time. He said, we're going to wake
up in glory and realize we've been there the whole time. Now what am I worried about tomorrow
for? I'm already there. And he gave me inheritance to
know it. that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace and his kindness towards us through Christ. Throughout
all eternity, we're gonna be learning, like this is just amazing,
it gets more amazing every day. For by grace are you saved through
facing that not of yourself, it's the gift of God, not of
works lest any man should boast. This ain't our doing. He's the
one that finished it. It's done. Now we have to wait
for some things to happen. We have to wait for some things
to come to pass. The work's done, and I can't
mess it up. Okay. How was it that all that
happened? Verse 10. For we are His workmanship
created, and cross Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them. Walk in them. There's a new creation in us,
created. that walks upright before God, that serves him, that forgives,
that's merciful, that's wise, that trusts him when there's
no unbelief in. God ordained it and it's finished,
it's done. Look at Hebrews 10 verse 12. Hebrews 10 verse 12. He did that by giving himself
when he finished it. that hour he was coming to when
he was forsaken of God for us. Because God was for us, he was
against Christ. Hebrews 10 verse 12. But this
man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat
down on the right hand of God. Why'd he sit down? Work's done.
It's finished. From henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool. Till that prey we looked at last
hour be in his hand. Death's the last one, right?
Well, he's just expecting. That's hope. That's an expected
end. He's just waiting for the fullness
of time. Just waiting. Henceforth, this
is all language so we can understand it. Time's not a thing to the
Lord, but he's putting us so we can understand it. From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one
offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that he had
said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts
and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities
I'll remember no more. Now, where the remission of these
is, there's no more offerings for sin. I don't have this wrote
down, but I got to touch on it. To tell, to believe everything
we believe, and to be aligned with the doctrines of grace,
plural, and then say, we believe all those things. Now, we gotta
grow. We got some things to do. We
gotta be baptized or sanctify yourself or something. You're
adding to the work that's already finished, and that's heretical. And if that's the case, then
Christ died in vain, is what Paul said. I don't know any other
strong way to put it than what's been put. I don't know what more
to say than what's been said. It's finished. Where the remission
of sin is, there's no more offering for sin. He offered himself once,
and he said, I know it. I believe it from top to bottom
because he said it. It's finished. It's finished. You are free. You don't do nothing. You have liberty. Now with that
liberty, what are we going to do? Get after it. That's what
I want to do. I want to serve him. I want to
thank him, and I want to tell somebody else about it. That
fullness of time is coming to pass. We can go home. That's
what I want to do. Paul said, the last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death. What we do till then? Twiddle
our thumbs. We go set up on a cave somewhere and say, well, Lord,
save me. Oh, how lucky I am to just hide and don't ever talk
to nobody. We give a commission. We, we, not just me. I happen to be the mouthpiece.
Paul said, we preach Christ and Him crucified collectively. Lord commanded us, he said, go
ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
What about them heathens? I mean, dogs? No. Go into them
ones that we despise and we think there ain't no sense in me going
down there. Go preach to them too. I want that new creation in me
and Christ in me to come out and not nothing else. Get me
out the way. I don't want to have any interaction with anybody
that at the end of it and they say, all right, now we've had
this interaction. If whether it's a guy checking receipts
at Costco or somebody at the grocery store or whatever, gas
station or my neighbor. Now we've had an interaction.
Now come here, Christ glorified. I'm going down there with you.
I don't want that to happen. I've done it before and I don't
want to do it again. God keep you from it. Go ye in all the
world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth
and is baptized. shall be saved, but he that believeth
not shall be damned." What are we going to preach? It's finished. You've got to do nothing. It's
done. Christ did it all, and he gets all the glory for it.
He gets all the glory for it. We need that. That's part of
the preaching. Behold your God. So I said before,
it ain't all cake, ice cream, and dessert, is it? Look what
the Lord did. This is amazing, isn't it? We
need that because all flesh is grass. We gotta warn somebody. Turn back to Isaiah 40 and I'll
let you go. Isaiah 40. Verse six. And 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. That's this whole creation, the
heavens, the earth, the stuff above you, and the stuff below
you, and the stuff in you ain't worth nothing. It's grass. Worthy
to be burned. Verse 9, ozone that bringest
good tidings. That's good news. What's good
tidings? That's the gospel. Get thee up into the high mountain,
O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings. Lift up thy voice with
strength, lift up, be not afraid, and say unto the cities of Judah.
Remember what Judah was? Praise, looked at last time?
Behold your God. You're grass, you can't do nothing.
It's finished. Behold your God. That's the person
and the work of Him. Look at Him. Be in awe of Him. Behold Him. Take time with it.
And don't let it get old hat. I pray he'd make us do that. Just like Judah. Make us bow
to him, praise him, and that sepulcher won't depart from us
even though we think he's hid his face from us and it has to
be gone. He'd remind us it's finished. It's done. It can't
be undone. That's good news.