May I then in Him be found, Rest
in His righteous blessing, On Christ the Son and in all
other ground His name be said, All other ground His name be
said. Those of you who know Isaiah
45, I hope you were looking forward to it as you saw it announced
in the Bulletin. As we read it, what a blessing
just to read it. Just like when Gabe told me what
he was going to deal with this morning, I knew the chapter,
knew the story, and looked forward to it. Look at Isaiah 45. Read with me again, verses 20
through 22. Assemble yourselves and come,
draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They
have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image,
and pray unto a God that cannot say. Tell ye, and bring them
near. Yea, let them take counsel together.
Who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that
time? Have not I the Lord? And there
is no God else beside me. A just God and a Savior. There is none beside me. Look
unto me, and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth, for
I am God. There is none else. Here we are once again, it says,
they were assembled together. It said, assemble yourselves
together. Draw near together. This is good,
what we're doing here. Together. The Lord has brought
us together. Preachers often wax ministerial
and say, dearly beloved, we're gathered together. But we have
been gathered together. It's not by accident that we're
here. Not at all. In the Lord's good
providence. And I'm so thankful that He brought
us here. In Ephesians 2, it speaks of
that quite often. Together. How He's quickened
us together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. What a gathering. That's what
congregation means. Congregated. Gathered together. And I hope we've come here to
worship, to give thanks, to hear from the Lord, to see Him. and look unto Him and be saved. I need saved. Every time I come
here, I need, like Brother James used to say, if the Lord speaks,
I get saved every time I hear the gospel, if He speaks to me.
I need to hear. I need to look unto Him. So he
says, come unto me. Assemble yourselves and come.
Assemble yourselves and come. This is a good thing. Christ
said it, didn't He? All ye that labor and are heavy
laden, come, I'll give you rest. This is a place of rest, isn't
it? A place that God has chosen to
put His name there. A house of kindness, Bethesda. A wonderful gathering place. The sheep fold. He said the sheep
will be gathered into one fold. There will be one fold and one
Savior, one Shepherd. Draw near together. Draw nigh,
He said. Draw an eye unto God, James wrote,
and he'll draw an eye unto you. Draw an eye unto God, and he'll
draw an eye unto you. He says, ye that are escaped
of the nations, come. Ye that are escaped of the nations,
escapees. That's what believers are. Refugees,
as it were. Prisoners who have been set free. Look up at verse 13, and this
is spoken of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, He will build my city. He will let go my captives. He'll leave captivity captive. Those that were in bondage to
the God of this world. That's what our Lord preached
when He first went into His hometown in Nazareth, didn't He? His supposed
hometown. It was delivered unto him the
book, and he immediately opened. He didn't need the book to read
it, but he wrote it. But he said, The Spirit of the
Lord God is upon me. He hath anointed me to preach
good tidings unto the gospel. He hath sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive. opening the prison
to them that are bound. And he said, this day is the
Scripture fulfilled in your ears. I'm here. I'm here. Ye that are
escaped of the nations, those that were once bound in darkness,
have seen a great light. Seen a great light. Those in
ignorance. All the nations of the people
are. Everyone by nature is. Aren't they? In darkness. We
were in darkness, even as others. All people by nature are in ignorance,
are in superstition, in tradition, held captive by the God of this
world at His will. Aren't they? Men think they have
a free will, but they're doing the will of the God of this world. Yes, they are. And such were
some of you. Or all of us. In verse 20, he
says they who have these idols, the nations, and they're everywhere,
even in modern America, they have no knowledge that set up
the wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that cannot
say. That describes most people, all
people by nature. They have a God of their imagination. That's what an idol, an image
is. Something you imagine and make
it up. The previous chapter, 44, the
Lord makes fun of, as it were, mocks people who cut down a tree
and with part of the wood, They build a fire to warm themselves.
Another part of the wood, they roast their meat. And the other
part, they make a statue and worship it. And he says, don't
you see what you're doing? You're worshiping a block of
wood, a block of wood. Can wise men and women and knowledgeable
and educated and civilized people fall down before idols? Yes,
and they do. They do everywhere. Everywhere.
But I'm here to tell you that the so-called God that preached
in the average pulpit in Southern Baptist religion is much an idol
as the one that the natives in the jungle bow down before. A
God that cannot save. That's what He said. A God that
cannot save. And they say things like that,
don't they? God has done all He can do. And now it's up to you. In other
words, He cannot save you unless you let Him. Why do you need
a God like that? Oh, my. They have no knowledge. But He said to His people, the
seed of Israel, the Son of God has come and has given us an
understanding that we might know Him that is true, the living
and true God and His Son. And that we are in Him that is
true. This is the true God. and eternal life. God has revealed
Himself to us, as you see. So he says in verse 21, Tell
ye and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
times, and told it from that time? Tell ye and bring them
near. Now, who he is speaking to here is not perfectly clear
to us. But if he is speaking to all
people in general, He's saying, tell them, tell them all to come,
all of them. Bring their counselors, bring
their wise men and so forth. Bring their God. Let their God
declare the end from the beginning. No, their God doesn't. He doesn't
know what's going to happen. This God that cannot say. And
these so-called wise men and spiritual leaders and all that,
they don't know what He's going to do either. He's very unstable. He doesn't know what he's going
to do. That's what these preachers say, you know, when somebody
so-called gets saved, there's a new name written down in heaven.
That's not the God of the Bible. And I don't need a God like that,
do you? That doesn't know what's going to happen from one day
to the next? If this is written to God's people, He's saying,
you bring them near, and you let them know, and you tell them,
you preachers, or you people out there that go, you tell them
that God hath declared things that are not yet done from the
beginning, that known unto God are all His works from the foundation
of the world. God says, I've spoken it, I'll
bring it to pass. I've purposed it, I'll do it.
Fact them. Bring them all here, and you
tell them, this is the God of the Bible. This is the God who
is God. The God who has purposed everything,
predestined everything, and it shall come to pass. Now that's a God you can trust.
That's a God you can get peace from believing. A God like that. Resting in Him. Oh my, have they
not heard? Have they not read? That's what
he said. Haven't they read this? Paul
said, yeah, barely. The sound's gone throughout the
earth. Barely they've read. Isaiah 6 said the reason they
have not disunderstand it is God hath blinded their mind.
He hath blinded their mind. The words of the book are as
a closed book unto them, even those that are learning can't
see it. have revealed them unto us. And
our little children, even our little children know that God's
God and not trying to be. Oh my, we're so blessed, aren't
we? Tell them. Bring them there. Who hath told
it from that time? Have not I the Lord? Oh my, I
look forward to hearing the Lord someday say to our great amazement
and wonder, I told you so. That's a good thing. People gloat
over it. They warn somebody and tell them
something's going to happen, and they gloat over it. I told
you so. Brother Stephen, it's going to be to our glory when
God says, I told you, didn't I? Everything He said will come
to pass. Has, is, and shall come to pass. And in the end, we're all going
to be so glorying. And our God who is God, who works
all things after the counsel of His will to fulfill His Word
for His glory and our good, He's going to say, I told you so.
And we're going to say, yes, you did. Thank the Lord. Have
not I declared it? Every time. Before men speak,
God says what they're going to say. Before they act, God has
purposed it. Oh, my. Especially His salvation. Thank you, Lord, for revealing
that to us. He says, Have not I the Lord,
that is, Jehovah, and there is no God else beside me? Tell them,
bring them near, that there is no God else beside me. I am a just God and a Savior. There is none beside me. Tell them. Bring them near. Tell
them, I am God. Beside me there is no other.
He says this over and over again, doesn't he? Over and over. I just went through Isaiah and
looked at all of the times, not all of them, but quite a few,
where he said, I am God. There is no other. I know of
no other. There is no God beside me. I
am God. There is none else beside me.
You know, look at verse 5. Here's the God of the Bible,
verse 5 through 7. I am the Lord, there is none
else. There is no God beside me. I
girded thee. I clothed you. I fed you. The God who created all things.
The God who sustains all things. The God who provides for all
things. The God who controls all things. That's what the word
means. That's what the name means. God.
Absolute Sovereign. Controller. Ruler. I am God,
he said, though thou hast not known me. Before you knew him,
like Samuel. Before you knew him, he was clothing
you. He was providing for you. He
was protecting you. God is the Savior of the world,
especially them that believe, meaning that all men and women,
the tender mercies of God are over all His works. In Him we
live, all of us live and move and have our being, the God in
whose hands our breath is and all our way. God has everyone
in His hands. Though they don't know Him. Though
they don't acknowledge Him. He cares for them, that is, He
provides for them, though they don't know Him. Verse 6, But
they need to know that they might know from the rising of the sun,
that is, the east, and from the west, there is none beside me.
I am the Lord, there is none else. I form the light, I create
darkness, I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these
things. All these things. Whatever it
is, it is I. The Lord said. Now, the word evil there, you
know, most of you know. I'm not talking about sin. But those things, calamities,
disasters, trials, troubles, things that men and women call
evil. Why does this evil come upon
us? Wars and this and that and the other. God is the first cause
of all things. All things work together according
to His will and purpose. We don't need to try to explain
this. We don't need to try to even
understand it, but believe it for our peace and for His glory. Because it's all working together
to fulfill His purpose for His glory. But people don't like
that, do they? They cry, this is unfair. This
is unfair for God to do this and that and the other. And this
is the reason many human beings cry, don't believe God. They've been told so long that
God is nothing but love, and that God didn't want this to
happen or that to happen. It happened anyway. And so they cry out against God.
Unfair. If God is this, then why? If
God is that, then why? But God said this, God in reply
to that, cannot I do with mine own what I will? Shall we charge
God with foolishness? Job, all the evil that came upon
Job, who brought that? God did. All the troubles that
he went through. And he went through in every
form of trouble that a human being can experience. From loss
of everything he owned, to sickness, to death, to deprivation, to
loneliness, to sorrow, to anguish, to wishing he had never been
born, till he was scraping himself with his boils as he sat on an
ash heap. Who did that? That's the oldest
book in the Bible, the oldest recorded book in the Bible, and
that's by purpose, by design, that God showed that I, the Lord,
do all these things. And he's too wise to err. He's
too good to do wrong. He says here, I'm a just God. I'm just. Just means I'm fair. Don't think of justice, the justice
of God, as merely a strict legal sense that you're going to get
what you deserve. Don't think of that. It does
mean that, that God says, this do and live, the law. This is the law, you keep it,
you live. Here's the blessing. Here I've
set before you, He said, blessings and a curse. Do this and live,
don't die. I for I, two for two. Do, live,
don't die. He's just. He'll do what He says. He's judging. He must be judging. He's holding, okay? But don't
think of this as only a legal or strict sin. Think of it as
God is right. This is how Abraham pleaded Didn't
he? When he was pleading for his
nephew Lot in Sodom, if you find ten righteous persons, will you
destroy the city? No, I will not. I will not destroy
the city, not for ten righteous persons. And Abraham said, shall
not the judge of the earth do right? Yes, he's just. He's just. Oh my. Think of this in a wonderful
sense. That what God says, He'll do
it. He's just. What he says, he'll
do it. What he promises, he'll perform. He's just. He's fair. He's right. He says, ask, you'll
receive. Seek, you'll find. Knock, it'll
be opened unto you. Come, you'll find rest. Believe,
you'll be up. He's just and a Savior. See? Just God. Look, be you saved. Look! Yeah. That's what He said.
That's what He said. Look! He's just God. Justice of God. And again, this
is more than a doctrine. Our salvation depends on how
God can be just and justifier. God is just. God will do what's
right. If Jesus Christ died for my sins,
and I'm in Jesus Christ, He's my substitute, tie, I don't have
any. God will not punish me for those
same sins that Jesus Christ died for. He's just. He cannot. He will not. He says, they're
gone. But I feel them. They're gone. Christ put him away by the sacrifice. He's a just God and a Savior. How can God be just and justify
the ungodly? In Christ. In Christ. God is holy. God is holy. Holy, holy, holy. Lord God. God is merciful. How can God
be holy and be merciful to sinners? Well, they've met together. Righteousness
and peace. have kissed each other in the
Lord Jesus Christ. I've told you this before. I
love it. One of my favorite pictures is of our children, that is,
Gabe and Hannah. It's in Mindy's bathroom. Gabe
and Hannah. Gabe's on this side. Hannah's
on this side. And they have Isabella in the
middle of them. She's only about ten months old. Something like that. And they're
both kissing. One cheek. Gabe's kissing this
side and Hannah's kissing this side. Right there. They kissed
each other. Met together. How can God be
just and justifier? In Christ. Christ. God poured out His wrath on His
Son. Okay? So there is none for His people.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Mercy and
truth have met together in Christ. God is just and a Savior. in Jesus Christ. Oh my. So he
says, and there's none beside me. Neither is there salvation
in any other. What God is speaking here? Who's
talking here? We say God. Jesus Christ. That's who speaks. Who came down
and stood with He whose delights were with the
sons of men, who rejoiced in the habitable parts of the earth."
The Lord Jesus Christ. The same One who came and stood
with Abraham, or Moses, on that mount. This is the One who is
speaking here. The One who stood in that last
day and said, come unto Me. Look unto Me. This is He. He
said, I am God. Beside Me there is none else.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God. Oh, verse 15
says, He is a God that hides Himself. God is a mystery, great is the
mystery of God. God was manifest in the flesh. They said, you can't be God,
you're Jesus. Yeah, he can be too, and he is.
But he hid himself in it. He robed himself in flesh. He
hid himself. One day he took three of his
disciples up and disrobed before them, and they saw God. whom
no man can see, but they saw him. That's what Job said. I'll
see him. I've seen him. Now, with these
eyes, with the eyes of faith, I say with Thomas, my Lord and
my God, there is none else. Jesus Christ is the only God
we'll ever see. The only God we'll ever speak
to. God. He's God. There is no other.
I know of no other. No, no. Look unto me, verse 22,
he said, look unto me and be ye saved. All the ends of the
earth, for I am God and there is none else. Look unto me. God
was manifest in the flesh. Look unto me. And you know, I
don't have time, but you know that story over in Numbers 21.
The Lord, in John chapter 3, when He was talking to Nicodemus,
that Jew, He said, In verse 14, which few people know, verse
14. Brother Barnard used to say this,
Dad, didn't he? He said the gospel is not in
John 3, 16, it's in John 3, 14. John 3, 14. Because right there
you have the sacrifice. Christ crucified, lifted up.
A clear picture of Christ lifted up, crucified. In John 3.14,
our Lord said to Nicodemus, as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
And whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal
life. And that's taken from Numbers
21, where it says, all the people were bitten by fiery serpents.
All of them were bitten. And God told Moses, take a fiery
serpent of brass, form it after the manner of that serpent that
bit the people, and put it on a pole, and hold that pole up
for everyone to see, even if they can't see it. If they're
down too far, down on the ground about to perish, if they will
look from their heart, their hearts go toward that. Okay? Whosoever looks that's bitten,
We will not perish, but we will live. And that's what it said.
Whoever did, look, was healed. And our Lord said, as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, as Christ was crucified as a
substitute, we've been dead. We're dying this awful death
from sin. And Christ was made in the likeness of sin for flesh.
Christ was made sin for flesh. And God poured out on Him, laid
on Him the iniquity of us all and poured out His wrath on Christ.
Christ crucified and God says, look. Christ said, look unto
Me and be He saved. If you've bitten all manner of
sin, it doesn't matter, everyone, whosoever looks, whosoever, look
unto Me. All the ends of the earth. Greek. Jew, old, young, male, female,
look unto me." Now this is wonderful mercy. He says, look. I can do that. Not unless He
gives me eye. But I can do that if He gives
me eye. He didn't say work, did He? He didn't say act. He didn't
say do this. He didn't say do that. He said,
look, believe, whosoever believeth. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou what? Shalt be saved. Look unto me
and be saved. That's good news. Good news. Look, in spite of all that you've
done, or have not done, look. Look. Oh boy. You want some good reading, you
look for a place to read Nehemiah 9. Go over there. It sounds just
like Psalm 106, 107. Nehemiah 9. But it goes on all the way through
there, rehearsing the sins of Israel. And he says, in spite
of all this, He saved them because He's merciful and gracious. He
delights to show mercy. Look. Just look. All your sins,
in spite of them, in spite of your transgressions, look. No
matter how far or short you've come, look. No matter how long
you've rebelled, look. No matter if you've fallen away,
backslidden, look. Look and be saved. As I said
to begin there, I need saved every time I come in here. Saved. Be saved. Look. As a sinner,
look unto me, he said. As a sinner to a Savior. As a
guilty man to an advocate. Has anybody ever stood before
a judge and heard guilty as charged? Anybody? Besides me? And don't
ask me what it is later, I'm not going to tell you. But I
have stood before a judge. And if you've ever been guilty
and you know you're guilty and you need mercy, boy, you need
mercy. You need mercy. You need a lawyer. You need someone to get you off,
don't you? Like a guilty man to his advocate. Help! If you don't get me out
of this, I'm a gone. Like a dog to his master. Like
old Abner used to look to me. Every day I'd walk outside, he's
looking at me. Looking unto me, not looking at me. There's a
difference. He's looking at him. People everywhere
in religion go sit like the people watched Christ, watched Him,
observed Him and were curious about Him and so forth. Even
when He was hanging on a tree, it says sitting down, they watched
Him there. There's a difference between
looking at Him and being merely curious and being merely religious
and looking unto Him. He says, look unto me. That is,
a helpless one to his help, a hopeless one to his hope, a sinner to
his own Savior, an unrighteous man to his righteousness, a leper,
a woman with an issue, a blind, haught and lame man to the great
position. Lord, what do you want? That
I might be healed. Be healed. You'll be saved. Look
unto me. Look. Look, you see, oh my, look. Don't look to a man, look unto
me, Christ said. Don't look to the priest, look
unto the great high priest. Don't look to the church, look
unto me, Christ said. Don't look to the law, no, no,
no. Don't look to Moses, Moses is pointing you to Christ. Look
unto me, Christ said. Don't look to yourself, oh my. When are we going to quit doing
that? Look in here, try to find some evidences that I'm a believer."
Don't look there, look unto me, he said, and be ye safe. John Newton said, when I look
within all is vain and dark and wild, how can I deem myself a
child? He said, look unto me and be
ye safe. For this cause came I into the
earth. This is a faithful Savior. And it's worthy of all acceptation.
Why? Because all men and women are
sinners. Christ came into this world to save sinners. He's a
just God and a Savior. Call His name Jesus. What does
it mean? Savior. Savior. Look! Look unto me. And be ye saved. What do we need saving from?
Sin. Oh my, the penalty of it, the power of it. Oh, our Lord
said, Mack, He said, sin shall not have dominion over you. But
Lord, I feel like it does. Look. He is saved from its power,
its presence, even its consequences. There are awful consequences.
And we're going to feel smart for our sins, aren't we? The
Lord, as a Father, will chasten His children for their sin. And
it must be so. They need to feel some of the
guilt of it. They need to experience some of the consequences of it.
They need to know that this is what you get if you do this.
But He hath not dealt with us according to our sin. He hath not. But He dealt with
Christ according to our sin. We come feeling the smart from
it, the guilt of it. He says, look, and be ye saved
from the guilt of it. There is no place to have guilt
removed except look. Look at this part. I need peace. I need peace. Christ said, I
am your peace. Peace be unto you. He kept saying
that to the disciples over and over again. Peace be unto you.
Peace be unto you. Peace be unto you. My peace I
give unto you. My peace I leave unto you. Peace. Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on thee." Who? Jehovah Christ, the
Lord. Satan. We need to be saved from
Satan. We don't know it, but if it would
open our eyes, we'd see the mountains all around us surrounding. We'd
see ourselves surrounding. The God of this world hath desired
God's people. He hath demons many. But then,
he says, look, and if God be for us, who can be against us?
Then he'll open our eyes like a licentious servant and see
that they that be with us are more than they that be against
us. Look with the eye of faith. Self. We need to save from ourselves,
don't we? Be yourself. We need to save
from our blind, deaf, dumb, and foolish self. No, we need to
save from this world. Oh, Peter's last words were,
deliver yourselves, save yourselves from this untoward generation.
How? How are we not going to be overcome by this world? How
are we not going to be taken up with this world? How are we
not going to succumb to the temptations of this world? How? How are we
not going to be taken in by all the deceitfulness, the riches,
and the lies that it all tells us? How? Look what you're doing right
now. We come in here and we have our
eyes open to Him. We come in here and have our
eyes open to see things as they really are. The things that are
seen are temporary. The things that are unseen, we
see with the eye of faith, we see their return. And we walk
out of this place, we go out of this place with a high hand,
and we go out of this place like the people, the children of Israel,
saying, we're looking for a city which hath foundations, whose
builder and maker is God. We're not going back. But we
do, though. And he has to turn us again.
Turn us again. To what? To do what? Nothing. Look, let's run this race. How? How? Look. Look. The other day, I went out for
another run. It was cold. It was raining.
It was miserable. And some of our friends in here
heard about it and they scoffed at us. Laughed at us. Mine runners, you know, laughing.
Westley, mine runners were laughing at that. That's a good illustration
that people in this world scoff. They say, you're fooled for Christ's
sake. Nevertheless, I went out for this run, you know, because
I had to do it. I wanted to do it. Makes me feel
good. Well, I put on my little MP3
player. It had a message on there by
Bruce Crabtrip. He was preaching from Ephesians
5, Colossians 3, companion verses, put off, put on. And I wanted
to hear what he had to say about it because I was going to preach
to him. And I forgot I was running. Wesleyan, I forgot I was running.
I forgot it was raining. I forgot it was cold. I forgot
I was miserable. I forgot it was foolishness.
And I just ran and ran, ran my PR. Look, look, make you forget,
the only place you can come and forget all your trouble, the
only place you can come and be saved, from all your trouble. We need saving from all our troubles,
from all our tribulations, from all our sorrows, from all our
anguish. It says in Isaiah, it says they'll look to the earth
and behold nothing but darkness and anguish and this and that
and the other. They'll be hardly bested with
all of these things. Isaiah, look unto me. Not darkness, not anguish. Light,
peace, joy. Look. I'm God. I'm God. Look unto me and say,
all the ends of the earth, all the ends of the earth. And he
says this in verse 23, I've sworn by myself. Isn't that what he said in Hebrew,
John? When he could swear by no greater. He swore. We're not supposed to. Because
we can't keep it. It doesn't matter who we swear
by. He that says, don't swear by heaven, don't swear by earth,
don't swear by anybody, don't do it, because you can't keep
it. God can and He does. He said, I swear. Who by? He doesn't have to put his hand
on the Bible. He is the Bible. Do you swear
to tell the truth? I am the truth. He can't lie. He says, I swear. Now, the first thing he says
is, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess, every single
human being is going to acknowledge that he's God. Someday, finally,
in the end, everyone's going to know that he is God. Some,
everlastingly too late. And it's not his fault, per se,
because the heavens declare his glory. The firmament showeth
his handiwork. Day under day he utters his speech. He wrote
a book to declare himself. Day in and day out, he declares
himself man. Without excuse, Romans 1 says,
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven. Jesus Christ came,
and all that he did is prove that he's God. An undeniable,
unmistaken proof that he's God. Every knee will bow. Here's great
mercy, Catherine. Here's great grace. One day,
Catherine, the Lord Jesus Christ came to you through the gospel,
called you by our gospel to behold God manifest in the flesh, and
you hit your knees. And you got in this pool, like
he says to do. And you confessed Him before
everybody. You said, this Jesus is God. My God. My Lord. I bow to Him. I worship
Him. I love Him. He's my God and my
Savior. And surely shall one say, He's
my righteousness. In the Lord have I righteousness.
I'm a sinner, yes. Christ is my righteousness. Oh,
I'm unholy, yes. He's my unholy righteousness.
I'm unworthy, yes. He's worth it. When I look here,
I don't see anything but sin. When I look yonder, I see Him
gone. Sure, but shall one? Well, here's
one. Any more? Shall one say, in the
Lord have I righteousness? That's His name. Jehovah. Sit together. In the Lord have
I righteousness. And to him shall all men come,
all that the Father giveth me, he said, shall come unto me."
Verse 24, all that are incensed against him. We don't like this.
That's too bad. We don't believe this. Oh, you
will. Not savingly, but you will know. And they'll be ashamed. But back
in verse 17 it says, Israel shall be saved. They'll not be ashamed. None of them that trust in Him.
Oh, Kelly, that's my favorite verse in all the Bible. None
of them that trust in Him shall be ashamed. I'm so ashamed of
myself. Christ said, look. Look unto Me. For the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame and
made a shame for us. that we might not be ashamed
before God someday. That's the gospel. Good news. And all the Israel, in the Lord,
I love the shalls, don't you? Don't you love the shalls? Verse
25 says, in the Lord, in the Lord Jesus Christ shall all the
seed, the elect of God, the chosen of God, the called of God, the
predestined of God be justified from all things. And what are
they going to do? Glory. Glory. What the world is ashamed of,
I glory in. What the world glories in, I
am ashamed of. Who made the difference? God made the difference. Look
under me. He's a just God. He's a just
God and a Savior. Look. Look. Oh, may He give us
eyes I'll be single to look to him.