For he's much like us, much more
than us. In spirit, faith, and peace,
in spirit, love, and peace. Oh, how much a profound lie that
is. To paraphrase Scripture is what
that is. He loved Him because He first
loved us. He said, I love because He loves me. Christ said, because
I live, you shall live on. I live because He lives. Good
Him. We've just begun to tap that
with the book. We can figure out hymns or tunes
to go with it. All right, Isaiah 25, as we go
through this wonderful book. I remember this well. All right,
let's look at it. The first five verses, fairly
quickly in the 12th, verse 58. My God is God. Our God belongs
to salvation, heaven and hell. My God. You're my God. Not my would-be God. You are my God. I will exalt thee. This is what
all of God's true people do. First and foremost, exalt God. Exalt means to raise Him up high,
lift Him high, magnify Him, set Him on high. I will praise thy
name. Don't just say it, but praise
it. You remember back in, where was
it? Chapter 12, I believe it was,
we studied. Yeah, where he said, make mention.
His name is exalted. There you go. We exalt his name. We don't bring it down. We exalt
his name. Name is God. Name is Lord. Name
is Lord. Either is or isn't. The name
Jesus means that. He shall save His people from
their sin. The name Messiah means that.
The name Christ. His name, His character, His
work, who He is, what He does, means all in His name. We make mention that His name
is His name. We fear His name. We don't use that name flippantly,
carelessly, familiarly. Now irrevocably, without fear,
we don't use it too often. We don't use it as a byword. It's not a common or a casual
thing. It's a character and glory of
our God. For Thou art a true people. It's all in His name. I'll pray about that. Read on. For Thou hast done wonderful
things. Wonderful thing. His providence
is wonderful. His providence is wonderful.
Our Lord has done wonderful things for us, and we're glad. All of
His providence from the day we were born until now, and they
will continue to the day we die. That's wonderful. What a wonderful
thing. It's all His works of salvation.
Oh, this is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Pauline, boy, that's his
name. Five councils of old, councils
being his purpose, his covenant, was the council hall of eternity,
wherein he made that covenant, ordered all things, and sure,
your councils of old, oh, Lord, they're old, are faithless, and
truth. This is the essence of His counsel,
of His purpose, of His covenant that He made. This is the essence
of it. Faithfulness. Faithful to His character, faithful
to His law, faithful to that Christ. That Christ. He's our
faithful one. He's the faithful fulfiller of
God's counsel and covenant. He's faithful to God, he's faithful
to us to come and save us. And truth. He's going to save
us in truth, according to his word, according to the gospel,
the word of truth. Verses 2 and 3 now, he talks
about God destroying the enemy. He says, He makes, thou is made
of a city, some elaborate, and the allusion here is to Babylon
and other great cities, how He makes them a peak, brings them
down. The fifth city, a ruin, a palace
of strangers, to be no city, it shall never be built again,
once torn down. Therefore shall the strong people
glorify this. The city of the terrible nations
shall fear it." We skipped over some chapters. I want you to
just look at a few verses. Chapter 2. Chapter 2 is a powerful,
powerful portion of Scripture. One of the most powerful in all
of God's grace. Isaiah chapter 2. Look at what
the Lord is determined to do. In Isaiah chapter 2, Verses 10, start at verse 10. Enter into the rock, hide thee
in the dust, for fear of the Lord, for the glory of His majesty.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled. The haughtiness of
men shall be bowed down. The Lord alone shall be exalted. The day of the Lord's host shall
be upon everyone who is proud and lofty. Everyone who is lifted
up, he shall be brought low. Verse 17, again, the loftiness
of man shall be bowed down. The haughtiness of men shall
be laid low. The Lord alone shall be exalted
in that day. The idols he shall utterly abolish. Lofty looks and haughtiness described
our day. Look back over at chapter 23. This is one of the verses I quote
quite often. Isaiah 23, which we skipped over. Verse 9 is one of the most striking
verses I know of. You might want to put a little
check mark about it. Isaiah 23, 9, the Lord of hosts
hath purposed it. This is his purpose. Whatever
God's purpose be going to be. This is his purpose, his will,
this is what he's determined to do. Look at it. To stain the
pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all that's honorable
of the earth. That's powerful. The Lord is
going to bring down these so-called strong people, so-called reigning
and ruling people, and so forth. Back to the text. But to the
poor and the needy, verse 4 says He's been a strength. Isaiah 25, verse 4, He's been
a strength to the poor. David said this poor man looked
to Him and He would say, And it's the poor, he's got a strength.
For the poor is strength to the needy. The strong don't need
the Lord, do they? The righteous don't need the
Lord to hold a 50-minute. The weak don't need the Lord
to be their strength. But the poor do. The poor in
spirit, needy. Strength to the needy in his
distress, I think. I love 1 Samuel 22. You don't
have to turn, but if you do, I promise you a blessing. 1 Samuel 22, I put a checkmark
here. This is the story of David, who
was in exile, and he went to this cave called Adam. And all
those who needed David, resorted to David in this case. And I
love this verse. Verse 2, it says, Everyone that
was in distress, everyone that was in debt, everyone
that was discontented, gathered themselves unto David, and he
became Calvary. They came to the right place
in the right place. He became their captain. Well, what happened?
To these distressed and bedded and discontented, who gathered
themselves, they, what happened? They ascended the throne. They
ascended the throne. It's crucial. And all their distress
was removed. All their death was finished.
They were discontent? Oh, no. Their assistance came. I love that. He's been a poor
man's strength, a needy man's help, a refuge for the oppressed,
a refuge from the storm. Any birds in the storm out there
tonight? lying under the shadow of his
wing, a shadow from the heat, verse 4 says, and the blast of
the terrible one that stormed against the wall. I had to describe
this word, the blast of the terrible one that stormed against the
wall. Speed, speed, speed. Verse 5
says in our text, verse 5, Thou shalt bring down the noise of
strangers, You know what all this is, these strangers to the
covenant of grace? You know what all this religion
is saying that's going on today? Those are strangers to the covenant
of grace. You know what it is? Annoyance. It's the rage of the heathen,
like Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage? It's a noise. Those are the strangers
from this cousin's grave. And what else is there? What
else is there in this book, Brother David? What else does this book
speak of except salvation by grace? And for those who are
talking about any other salvation than grace, strangers. The word
is God. Strangers. And what all goes
on is just a lump sum. It's out of tune. It's all over. It's not tuned down to six. He
ain't gonna bring it to nothing, he said. Bring it down. The heat
in a dry place, even the heat, the shadow of a cloud, the branches
of terrible ones shall be brought up. It's all but a six. All but a six. Then we get to this verse here.
Now this is where we're going to dwell for a little while. In this mountain, shall the Lord
of hosts make unto all people a feast. Make unto all people, that is,
the people from north, south, east, and west, gather them together.
The people from every tribe, kindred, nation, tongue, blood
under heaven. He's going to make the feast. This mountain, this mountain. What mountain is he talking about? This mountain is mentioned
often in the book of Isaiah and other places. Quite often Psalms
mentions a mountain. Quite often. All the way through
Scriptures for that matter. This mountain, this mountain.
What mountain is he talking about? Well, I immediately thought of
The book of Hebrews, where he said this, you're not coming
to Mount Sinai. No, you're not coming to the law. Nobody can
come near that. Not man or beast, without being
burned. Men don't know that, do they,
John? They're still trying to escape. And he said, you're
not coming to Mount that burns, that burns with fire and blackness
and darkness and tempest. You're coming to Mount Zion,
the city of the living God, heaven of Jerusalem, innumerable company
of angels. Pleasant place. The General Assembly,
the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.
It's not like a good place, but Mount Zion, it is. It's a glad
city. It's a wonderful place. It's
a wonderful mountain. Glorious view. Glorious view. What's that song we used to sing,
Henry? Sweet things we taste in this
mountain. Church now is... It does mean
that Mount Zion is a church where the Lord's people feast. It said
there, the Lord of Hosts shall make the feast. The Lord of Hosts
shall make the feast. Who served the disciples in that
upper room? Who on the side, when they toil
all night and couldn't find anything to eat, who had food already
ready for them? Just about every time, when they
had just a few loaves and fishes, you know, and they didn't have
enough to go around, who was it that spread a taint for everybody? Who? Just about every time, who
was it that disappeared? The Lord Himself. The Lord of hosts. They're all hosts. But he's the
great host in the capitol right now. He does the feeding. He
does the serving. And it even says that in that matter of fact,
it says he'll gird himself a third life. I don't rightly understand
that, but it does say that he's on a third life. And isn't it your pleasure, ladies,
isn't it your pleasure to serve rather than be served? Is it
not? Especially if you pick something good. If you love it, you want
to eat it. And the Lord Himself, in this
mountain, Mount Zion Church, is where Christ Himself feeds
His people. And the food is His. Fat things. Look, he eats the fat things
and wines on the leaves. He eats the fat things and wines
on the leaves. Now, Christ can mount Calvary. Really, is what this is talking
about. But when you visit Mount Sinai,
you'll visit Mount Calvary. You know, if you really go to
Mount Zion, if you go to where God's church is, they're going
to be worshiping at the foot of the cross every night. If you go to Mount Zion, they're
going to take you to Mount Calvary. That's where they all worship
at the foot. They feast on Christ, His body,
and they put a fat thing, wine on the leaf. Now we're going
to look at this. The gospel is a feast of fat things and wine
on the leaf. To get fat, you have to have
fat. That's just a fact. Isn't that
such a fact? If you want to be fat, eat fat. Eat fatty food, right? It's your
way to be fat. Now, fat food makes fat people. It's facts. And let me ask you
something. Now end this up, would everybody
agree in here? Fat makes fat produces fat. Fat's good spiritually. You want to be fat spiritually.
Scripture talks very much about fatness of soul. The paths of
the Lord God, fatness. Their soul will be fat and flourishing
over and over. I'm looking at too many references
to choose one. Fat. You want your soul to be
fat. And fat in your soul is that fat thing, just like your
body is. Now let me ask you this. Be honest. What tastes best? Fat-free food? or full of fat food. The more
fat, the better, right? We were eating dinner somewhere
and they served us cream of... cream of pork salad soup or something. There was something in it. Broccoli, asparagus. But I told
my mother, I told her, I said, you know, you can put anything
in a cream sauce and it'll taste good. Get your share. You can put anything in it. Poke it. Poke salad. It tastes
like it's worth $8.95. It's mixed up with real fatty
ground. I'm not talking about, you know,
fat. You know what I'm talking about, ladies. Cream sauce. Dick. Cream. What we do. You can put anything in it. That's
what tastes better. It really does. Anything that's
full of fatness. You want to be lean, go fat free. It's going to be miserable. Go
fast for a year. Right? Religion today is very
mean. For the life of me, I don't understand
what people say in religious matters. I listen to them. I listen to these doctors, these
professors, these masters of the family and all that, and
I don't hear any substance whatsoever. Do you see what I'm saying? I
don't hear any fat things. I don't taste any fatness. Leave my soul lean. What I see
is husks. The husks of the religion. No
fatness. Very lean. Very shallow. Very
shallow. No depth to it whatsoever. They
don't get down to the marrow. Does it cost a little? No. Our Lord said this one time to
those Pharisees. Now they were doctors of the
law. He said, You've omitted the weightier matter. of the law, isn't it? You've
omitted, you've taken the fat out. You've omitted away your acts
of the law. You've removed the fat, you've removed the marrow,
you've removed the substance of the gospel. Go back to Genesis
4 with me. How far back does this thing
of fat go? The Lord tells His people, you
better have the fat, you better have the fat with your sacrifice.
Genesis chapter 4, Abel, The first mention of this sacrifice
of a lamb, look what it mentions. Genesis 4-4, Abel brought for
the purging of his flock and of the fast. There it is. He did it pretty fast. What's that say, little boy,
is the whole lamb, not just select ones. It was a fattened lamb. Remember how they killed the
fattest cattle? Huh? Fattened it up. Fat thereof. The whole animal
was roasted together. Let me ask you, when you're cooking
out, when you're grilling, you cut all the fat off the fish
stuff? If you're smart, you don't. That's what gives it its true
flavor, does it not? Huh? And what's happening there
is the animal's cooking in its own juice. Makes it moist and
tender and more flavorful. From a standpoint of taste, fat
is better! All the way around. It's fun. Symbolically. Spiritually speaking. Fat is the gospel. It's a whole
character of God. You leave out any of it, you're
removing the fact. You're removing the substance
of it. People feed on that thing, don't they? The character of
God. What part of God's character would we lose that fact? What
part of God's character is missing in this matter, the matters of
the gospel? I love the justice of God. The justice of God demands my
salvation. Huh? The wrath of God? Anything. Think of something. The immutability
of God? Oh, we can change that. Holiness of God? Righteousness? Sovereignty? On and on you can
go with mercy. The whole character of God and
the whole compass of God. Paul said, I've kept back nothing
profitable from you. I have preached to the whole
council. I've even got a whole gospel, a full, complete sacrifice
that'll make you come. It's the fat of the gospel. The
gospel is marinated in it. God's own character. And all
of these things that make up the gospel, His justice, His
holiness, His wrath, His love, His mercy, His grace, on and
on you go. Fat things. We feast on them
constantly. What we take for granted is missing
in present-day Christians. And it's lame-hearted stuff that
you do. Listen to this, I did write this
one down. Psalm 92 says, Those planted
in the house of the Lord, and whatever God doesn't plan
will be uprooted. You've got to be planning. Those
planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts
of our God. They'll flourish, they'll grow
and grow in the knowledge of our Lord. They shall still bring
forth fruit in old age. You know it's really good to get fat in your old age. You
won't get cold. What are you snickering at? You better
be fat when you're alone. The pure spirit is speaking. You better. You better, your
soul better be fat. And your being, your being, your
soul, you'll be out of the cold. I'm not trying to be a kid here.
I'm not a kid at all. You should really keep you warm
in the fatness of the gospel. This stuff that people are, when
you, people are feeding on this stuff today and they get old, And it's going to be mad for
them when they go through times of loneliness and dire straits. Fat is good, spiritually speaking,
especially in old age. It really is. See, all of this is typical,
so typical. Wise and modern man has deemed
everything God made for us bad for us. Isn't that significant? Everything modern man, who's
so wise now and all this, everything God's made is now bad for us.
You've got to go fast for it. The battle will kill you. You'll die of AIDS instead.
The battle will kill you. Fast for it. Go fast for it. Now sugar is bad for us. Don't
eat any sugar. Whatever you just don't, don't
eat any sugar. Carbohydrates, now those are bad. That's bread. Don't eat fat, don't eat bread,
don't eat no milk, nothing. I say foolishness. Whatever God has made is not
to accept. Religion has deemed everything
God has said as bad for us, has it not? has deemed everything God has
said and ordained as bad for us. Sovereignty, mercy, electing
the right predestination. Bad things. Got to leave that
off. Bad for the people. Our Lord said in Isaiah 55, come
unto me. Bye. Buy it without money, without
price. Buy wine and milk and you'll
be back in a second. That's me. I don't want to misquote
that. He said, uh, hearken diligently
unto me. Eat that which is good, let your
soul delight itself in it. It's fast. It's fast. I want everybody in here fast.
Especially the older of you. I want you to call on me on your
old age, without any comfort, without any warmth of heart and
soul. So weren't you eating? You're
getting fat. We're serving up fat foods, not
fat bread. Every service, fat, fat, fat.
We don't get fat as our own fault. Yes we do. Fat things, full of
marrow. Look at the text here. Fat things,
full of marrow. That thing, full of marrow. Let me ask you meat eaters. Got any meat eaters in here?
Anybody like to taste? No, sure everybody. What's the
best, where is the best meat on that piece of steak located?
Next to the bone? That's why you pick
that bone up and chew it, isn't it? Yeah, you do, isn't it? For
all you people. Once the people die of the ribs,
don't do it. No coincidence. This is no mere
coincidence. This is no play on words here.
It's all significant. All that spirit is significant.
Marrow is bone, right? Best meat, there's bone. It most
certainly is. Best meat. There's marrow there.
Marrow. near an end, the bone itself
that cooks into that meat, that comes out of the very heart of
that bone, that's it. I'm telling the truth. Everybody
in here knows about it. And the marrow of the gospel,
the truth of the gospel is, oh my, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
amazing. In the blood, you know, what's
down in the marrow, these nurses could tell you, what's down in
the marrow is life substance. Down in the part of that bone
is the substance of life, the very marrow. When you think of
marrow, you think of the very essence of life itself. There's much there that I don't
know about, that I can't tell you about now, but I can tell
you about the marrow itself. I can tell you that. I can tell
you about the heart and soul of the gospel. It's down in the
depths and recesses of this, of the truth of the scriptures.
It's the blood. It's the blood. It's the very
heart, the marrow of redemption, the truth of Christ. Righteousness. Well, let me give you a few misnomers. Skim milk. There's no such thing. There's no such thing. It's either milk or it's
not. Skin is not milk. That's a misnomer. There's no
such thing as milk. Call it what you want. Low-fat
ice cream. There's no such thing as any
cream that doesn't contain any fat. Right? No such thing. Decaf coffee. You knew I was
going to say that, didn't you? There's no such thing. It's a
misnomer. You can't have it if it's not coffee. Instant coffee. That's what it sounds like. Do you see the difference in
the generation? There's no such thing. No such thing. Accessibility
is no such thing. Instantaneous salvation. Free
will of man. There's no such thing. I counted in Ephesians 1 four
times there are thoughts about somebody's will deciding a matter. Of his own will begat he us with
work. That's not even Ephesians 1.
It's game. But four times. His will. There's no such thing. Free will of man. So there's many misnomers out
there. And the greatest of all is, it's in religion. More, more than that. And it's him milking those big
silver bitches. Huge pictures overflowing with
him. Come on. Huh? Pregnant with anything low in
substance? Fat. Can you? The picture here
is fat things. There's a huge table spread with
everything that you'd be able to get fat. And it tastes good. That's a picture of the gospel.
That's a picture of Christ's fullness, of His fullness that
we receive. Huh? In him dwelleth all the
fullness. What do you think of that? He's
full of the body of the Son of Man. He's the fullness of the
Godhead power. In him dwelleth all the fullness.
Fullness. Fullness. Full of grace and truth. That's that. And wine on the
leaves. Wine on the leaves. It says this
twice. Why does it say just twice in
the same verse? Look at it, let's read. A feast
that the Lord shall make unto his people, a feast of fat things,
a feast of wines on the leaves. A fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the leaves. You get that? Wines on the leaves. All right, what are wines on
the leaves? Well, number one, wine, for all you homemade wine
people, if you're making cherry wine, or apple wine, or it's
not wine, that's a no. It's another one of those things. There's no such thing as wine
that's not made from bread. Go to France and start talking
about cherry wine. You will be exported. Wine is
from Greece. And that's by design. That's
by design. The Lord did that. Wine on the leave now. It's really
not wine. Scripture doesn't talk about
white wine. Wine on the leaves. The leaves
are the dregs. The leaves are the settlings.
The leaves are the husks and the pulp of the grape. All right? After you crush those grapes
and the juice comes out of those grapes, all of that pulp and
all of that is leaves. Okay? The longer you leave the
juice on the leaves, the redder it gets. And so this is not without significance,
this is a thing. Real wine's got to be deep, dark
red. Why do you think he says it's
black? Wine on the beach, my people want to drink wine on
the beach. So red it looks like dirt. There's nothing that was deeper,
darker, redder, crimson than blood. I'm sure you've looked
at a file that contained her blood. There's nothing, nothing
red, nothing darker. Wine on the leaves. It is full. It's red, deep, dark. It's been
on the leaves a long enough. It's full. It's robust. It has
character. It's flavored. Wonderful. I'm
not trying to impress you, but this is the term. It's a nuisance. Bouquet of flavor, richness of
hearty, satisfying wine. Ask the experts. They'll tell
you. Give me none of this watered-down wine. Wine on the leaves. Well
refined. That means there's been no impurities
and no foreign matters allowed, and carefully strained without
hurting the color of the body. Be careful not to hurt the color
of the body. This is all the picture we want.
All the picture of the gospel which David said is wine that
makes glad the heart of man. Wine that makes glad the heart.
And it must be wine on the leaves to be gospel. In order to be true gospel, heart
gladdening wine, the gospel, in order for it to be good news
indeed, that's what gospel means, it must stay on the leaves. All
right, what are we talking about here? What are we talking about? Well, these two things go together.
There's fat things and wine on the leaves. Fatness, you think
of the marrow, you think of the body, and wine, you think of Fatness, you think of the animal
sacrifice, the blood and wine. The body and blood of Christ,
these two go hand in hand, they go together. Their bodily joint
in making up the gospel, you can't have one without the other.
Equal importance, equal significance. Christ's flesh, the marrow, the
fatness of Christ. If life is in the flesh, it's
His righteousness. You can't have a gospel without
this perfect righteousness, this life that Christ lived as a man.
Without the Word being made flesh, a full life as a man, a glorious
life, his soul was fat, it wasn't as fat as it flourished. Thirty-three
years old, and was as mature as a human being, a man could
possibly get, spiritually. He couldn't get any better, brothers
and sisters. Thirty-three years old. Thirty-three
year old man's got a lot of learning to do. Christ, God, as a man
of thirty-three years, could not live any longer to become
more glorious and more satisfying to God, to live a fuller life
in thirty-three years' time. The great thing is Christ. The cluster is full, ready to
burst, ready to be crushed. That thing, wine on the wings, You know, we drink wine at the
Lord's table, on purpose. On purpose, that's what the scriptures
tell us. Plus it's significant, it's symbolic. You can't have wine unless you
put that juice of the grape away from the wine. It won't be wine
until you put it away, until you bury it. Until you bury it. Put it away, permanently. Christ
doesn't stay in that grave three days a week. Amen. The wine of
God's salvation, the blood of Christ. And wine on the leaves
is, you know, everything that is Christ, His blood pertains
to it. Everything that is Christ, His
blood pertains to it. He can't have, in other words,
his life without his death. Or he can't have his death without
his end of life. Everything he did, the blood, it was all pointing
to and all bringing him to the point of shedding his precious
blood. Everything he did. He was born to die, to shed his
blood. Everything in scripture lays
on the knee. That's there, I'm trying, I'm
getting to it now, I'm getting to it now. Everything in the
scripture speaks of blood, blood flowing in the leaves, or on
the leaves. Everything in here speaks of
blood. Everything. The more you study
this Bible, the more you look at it, the redder it'll get.
The more nuisances you'll get from it. The more character of
God you'll bring out, the sweeter it'll be to smell. You see what
God in His wisdom, as long as you leave the juice on the mustard,
the more fragrant it becomes? The more you study God's Word,
the more you'll see of blood and the more fragrant it'll be,
the more sweet-smelling the sanctuary will be. Am I making this clear? Wine on leaves, well-refined,
get all the impurities out of it. No foreign bodies. No foreign bodies. Together,
it's all good. Blood and body. Call it a sweet-smelling
savor of Christ. The gospel, the true gospel,
is death as a character. Say a picture's worth a thousand
words. Which looks like mine? Huh? Even to an amateur. Which looks
like it? Hmm. Smells it. Which looks
more like blood. It's not blood. It's eugenics. On the leaves. See that was on
the leaves. They took this off the leaves
as soon as it was grown. That laid on the leaves. Anyway. So the gospel is death. Now any of this white and white
religion Well, give me all this, it takes all the substance out
of it. It's totally simple. God is simple. No, He's not. God is not simple. Salvation is simply in
Christ, yes. Salvation is simply by faith,
yes. You get down to what salvation
is all about, the character of God. The work of Christ, what
did He do? What would require Him to save us? The fulfillment of the law. Simple? Simple? Leave one jot and tittle out
and you'll die. Simple? It was just God's 33
years of knowledge. He made the world in six days.
It took him thirty-three years to accomplish that. Why don't we make that a long
time, and be dark, rich, sober, thin, and bright, full of good thoughts. The gospel we preach is well
refined, well defined. Clearly defined, the gospel rightly
divided in the word of truth. You don't think I'm going to
get to verses 7 and 8, do you? I ain't. Don't worry, John. We're going to get it. Verse
7 and 8, He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
cast over all people. The veil is spread over all things.
When Christ died on that cross, it says the veil of rent on top
of the body. And in the reading of the New
Testament, of the Old Testament, that they were to move He will wipe away tears from
all faces, the rebuke of his people, the rebuke of the law, of Satan, Mary, and Sarah. The
rebuke of his people shall be, he takes away from all the world,
all the earth. Why? Because he spoke it. He said something like that.
And it shall be said in that day. Who is this? Who is that hanging on the cross?
Jesus died. Who is this, God's people? Just
who is that man? This is our God. Be the church of God, that he
said, which he shed with his own blood. The blood of God. God shed the blood of his own. This is our God we've waited
on. Only God can save us. And he will. He has. This is the
moment. We've waited for him. We'll be glad. And this wine
of His salvation, we'll be glad, we'll be made glad in the fatness
which is in Him, and rejoice in His salvation, His salvation. There is no other. There is no
other. Okay. Our Heavenly Father, thank You
for Your Word. It is so full, so full. I wish I had the capacity, I
wish we all had the capacity to receive it and try Your Spirit, Lord. Bless
you. Here it is, will it, Lord, as
You said. We thank You for it, though it's
full, it's so full we cannot comprehend it, I hope. And we
thank You for the complexity of Your Word. Every word of it
speaks of Christ and of great salvation, full of Christ, through
and through. You are, we know it or not, You
are indeed fattening our souls, not for the slaughter, We might break forth fruit in
old age. The fruit is the glory of our God. Be thankful for the
wine of Christ's blood, marrow, and truth. May we feast upon
it all the days of disability and sin. According to your purpose
and your mercy and grace, we ask these things. Amen.