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Behold, Your God

Isaiah 40:6-11
Jim Byrd February, 7 2016 Video & Audio
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Jim Byrd
Jim Byrd February, 7 2016

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Thank you, Brother James. Let's
go to the book of Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. Our subject this evening is Behold
Your God. And I'll begin at verse 6, get
right into the text here. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 6, and
the voice said, cry. The voice of God said, cry or
preach. And the question raised by the
preacher is this, what shall I cry? That is, what shall I
preach? And in the next few verses, God
gives to his preachers that which must be proclaimed. We're not
left to decide for ourselves what the message is to be. We're
not left to make the decision as to what our subject is going
to be. God has told his servants not
only what to preach, but also who to preach. If I may say at the very beginning
of this message, as I listen to preachers today, I find there's so much missing
in religion and it greatly troubles me And I know it troubles you. We hear messages on the television,
messages on the radio. If you get on the internet, you
can hear messages on the internet. We are absolutely covered over
with preachers. But the messages that they deliver
give evidence that the messages are not from God. They say some things about sin, but they don't really set forth
man's sinfulness, man's depravity, the spiritual deadness of all
men. Instead of putting the sinner
down, most preachers today, not God's preachers of course, But
most preachers of the world, they lift men up. They exalt
the creature. Instead of lifting up the Lord
Jesus, they bring Him down. You see, it's always a fact,
and it always works out this way. If you lift man up, you've
got to bring God down. And if you bring God down, you've
got to lift man up. You see, either God is everything,
over all, blessed forever, and man is nothing, or else man is
something and then God's not everything. You follow me? And that's absolutely the truth.
Either God is everything in the Trinity of His persons and man
is nothing, or else man is something And God's not everything. Men
preach about sin, they preach about Jesus Christ, they lead
you to feel sorry for Jesus Christ. You listen to their preaching,
they lead you to absolutely pity Him. I pity the Savior who wants
to save but can't save. I pity the God who wants to do
good for people, but people won't let Him. I pity the Spirit the
spirit that is knocking on hearts doors, the spirit that begs for
an entrance on behalf of the Son of God. But men won't open
the door. I pity that spirit. That's a
false spirit. That's a false God. It's a false
son and a false spirit. It's a false Holy Spirit as well.
We set forth man as he is. And this is what it says, this
is what the writer says here to Isaiah. The voice said, preach,
and he said, what shall I preach? He said, you preach this, all
flesh is grass. And all the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of the field. What happens to the grass? The
grass withereth. What happens to the flower? It
fadeth. Why is that? It's because the
Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it and surely the people is grass. The grass withereth and the flower
fadeth. We've got a message to deliver
and the message that we deliver is threefold. And according to
the Word of God, this message is the sinfulness of man, man's
absolute depravity. It is the business of the gospel
preacher. It is the business of every gospel
preacher to absolutely destroy all hope of self-salvation. That's our business. It's our business to destroy
all hope of self-righteousness. And we do that by going to the
scriptures and absolutely showing the utter inability and the depravity
of man. And I know we live in a day when
folks are offended if you call them a sinner. And some people
won't even come back. Well, that preacher said we're
sinners. That's all he ever talks about. He talks about our sinfulness.
He's always putting us down. And by the grace of God, we always
will. We always will put man down.
We always put the creature in the dust. This salvation is not
of you, it's of God. The reason we need saving is
because we can't save ourselves. We're utterly, absolutely hopeless
and without help in and of ourselves. The Bible says every man at his
best state is altogether vanity. You look through the Scriptures.
You notice how the inspired writers wrote of not only other people's
depravity, but their own depravity. And you know when they did that?
They wrote about their own depravity when they saw the glory of God. It's in the light of God's glory,
it's in the light of God's holiness, it's in the light of God's righteousness,
it's in the light of God's justice that we see our own sinfulness,
we see our own depravity, that we see our own rottenness, that
we see our own corruption, that there's none good, no, not one. I know as we, you know, compare
ourselves to each other, we say, well, you're a good person, she's
a nice lady, a good lady, he's a good man. And in comparison
to the scum of society, maybe you can say that, but compared
with God. There's none good, no, not one. And that's the real comparison.
It doesn't matter how you stack up with me. Well, I'm better
than you, preacher. Well, whoop-dee-doo. That's no
big deal. There are a lot of people better
than I am, but here's the issue. How do you compare with God? You see, your righteousness has
got to equal out to the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ or you're
going to perish in your sins. The issue at the judgment is
righteousness. And the only way you can be righteous
before God is to have God's righteousness. That's freely imputed to sinners. And we don't have any righteousness
at all. Why, we all fade as a leaf. Listen
to the writers of Scripture, at least some of them. Job. Job. He had a lot of things to
say. His three so-called friends,
they had a lot of things to say. And then God spoke. And then Job said, this is a
different man now. I mean, God's done something
for him. And he says in the last chapter
of Job, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but
now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I hate myself and repent in dust
and ashes. When he got a glimpse of God's
glory, When he got a glimpse, when he began to have some understanding
as God instructed him of the greatness of God, of the majesty
of God, of the authority of God, of the power of God, Job said,
I abhor myself now. He saw the Lord. Isaiah saw himself
in the light of God's glory, in the light of God's holiness.
He said, woe is me. I'm undone. I'm cut off. That's
what that word undone means. I'm ready to perish. He said,
I'm a man of unclean lips. Well, what caused Isaiah to say
that? He said, for mine eyes have seen
the king. The Lord of hosts. And if you
ever see the King, you'll fall down in utter humility before
Him. You see, here's the issue today.
Here's the problem today. Preachers are not preaching who
God is, that He is the King. They're not magnifying God in
all of His greatness, in all of His power, in all of His attributes. They lead people to feel sorry
for God and to pity God. And nobody who pities God or
feels sorry for God is going to be a worshipper of God or
fall down before that God and sue for mercy. But once God shows
us who He is, once He takes the book, And He reveals to us by
His Spirit the absolute glory of our God in His greatness.
That's when we fall down before Him like old Isaiah and say,
woe is me, I'm ready to be cut off. David, David he found out
about his sinfulness. And he acknowledged the justice
of God in condemning the sinfulness. He said, Against thee, thee only,
have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou
mightest be justified when thou speakest, and cleared when thou
judgest. Simon Peter, get into the New
Testament. He saw the absolute authority
of King Jesus. his other fisherman buddies.
They had been fishing. They didn't catch anything. Peter
said to the Lord, well, we've been fishing all night. We hadn't
caught a thing. The Lord said, well, throw your
nets on the other side of the boat. Well, I tell you, the Lord
had been fishing all night. We're experienced fishermen.
We know our business. But nevertheless, if they weren't,
I like that, don't you? Nevertheless, at thy word, we'll
do what you say." They cast their nets on the other side of the
ship. And I tell you, they started catching fish. And Peter said,
hey, you guys on that boat over there, come over here and help.
Bring your boat over here. And they caught so many fish,
it took two boats to handle all the fish. The Scripture says,
When Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying,
Depart from me, for I am a sinful man. For he was astonished. Get that last part. He was astonished. But as you listen to preachers
today, that Jesus that they preach about, there is nothing astonishing
about Him. There is nothing astonishing
about Him. Oh, but when God's servant takes
the Word of God and begins to proclaim the all-glorious Christ,
that One whom heaven and earth obeys, the Christ who saves whom
He will, That Christ whose death was successful to the salvation
of His elect. That Christ that governs all
things in the world. That's when we'll see people
fall down before Him and beg for mercy. People will do like
the leper who met the Savior at the bottom of the mountain.
That poor old leper, he couldn't cleanse himself. Here's the Lord
of glory, comes back down from the hill, and he fell down before
Him and said, If you will, if you will, you can show me mercy. Gone will be the days when sinners
bargain with God. Oh God, if you'll save me, I'll
do this, that and something else for you. Those days will be gone
and the beggar, in his arrogance, or instead of his arrogance,
he'll be brought low before the Lord. If you will. You don't
have to. You don't owe me anything. But
if you will, if you will, you can show me mercy. John, he saw the glorified Christ. He heard his voice. He wrote
about it. He said his voice is like a trumpet. He said it's
like the sound of many waters. He said he had on a golden robe.
That's a kingly garment. He said, I saw his head and his
hair was white as snow. He's the Ancient of Days. John
said, His eyes were as a flame of fire, burning their way deep
into my soul. Eyes that saw and observed everything,
because all things are naked and open before the eyes of Him
with whom we have to do. He said, his feet is of fine
brass. And John said, out of his mouth
went a two-edged sword. And he said, his countenance,
he said, oh my, brighter than the noonday sun. And John wrote,
when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. I fell
at his feet like a dead man. He didn't see a co-pilot. He
didn't see a health insurance policy called Jesus. He didn't
see a helpless, frustrated, defeated, wannabe Savior. He saw the Lord
of Glory. That's who he saw. He saw the
Sovereign Christ. And then the Sovereign Christ
laid his hand on John and said, fear not. Fear not. I'm the first and the last. I'm
he that liveth and was dead and behold I'm alive forevermore. Amen and have the keys of hell
and death. But you see today men have no
concept of the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ because preachers
in their preaching today lead men to this conclusion. Jesus
can do nothing unless I let him. I'm the one that holds all the
cards. He did all he could. Now it's
up to me. If that's the message you believe,
now listen to me, if that's the Savior you rest in, He can't
save you. That's a false Jesus. You have
embraced a false gospel. And if God doesn't intervene,
if God doesn't show you who Christ Jesus is and what He did on the
cross and why He did it, if God doesn't do something for you,
you're going to perish in your sins. You see, the Word of God
never leads us to feel sorry for Jesus. It leads us to worship
Him and to honor Him and adore Him and bow down before Him and
say, Thou art the King. Like the thief on the cross,
Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Like Saul
of Tarsus, Lord, what will you have me to do? If God does something
like that for a sinner, gone will be the days when he pities
Jesus of Nazareth and he'll say, Oh God of glory, show me pity
for Jesus' sake. Show me pity. What's our message? Man's depravity. I don't care how much we preach
man's depravity, it's never enough. It's never enough. And we can't
put it forth as bad as it is. Boy, preacher, you've said some
awful things about us. Like Solomon's wisdom, the half
has not been told. The half has not been told. We're
worse than we imagine ourselves to be. We're all as an unclean
thing. And all of our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags. And we all do fade as a leaf.
And our wickedness, our iniquities like the wind have just taken
us away. We're an awful people. And you
know yourself, even the people of God who are here. And most
of us profess to know the gospel of God's grace, to be saved by
the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ, washed in His blood and robed
in His righteousness. But you know yourself, because
you're honest, you know a little bit of how rotten you still are,
don't you? You know how I know you're rotten? Because I'm rotten
too. I know what you're like. Don't
give me that holier-than-thou attitude. Don't play the part
of a Pharisee with me. I know better. I know better. I've been in churches before.
I preached in a church years ago. Oh my, this is back in the
early 70s. And I went in. Nobody was saying
a word. Absolute quiet. Well, the service
hadn't started. And I came in and I went to speak. How are you today? I said, what's wrong? We don't
talk in church. And then I listened to the message.
They have no gospel in church either. Who are we fooling? You know, we're fooling ourselves. Are we going through an act?
We know what we are by the grace of God, and we know who we need. So here is the first part of
the message, man is deprived. The second part of the message,
the Word of God shall stand forever. What shall I preach? Preach!
What shall I preach? Well, tell man how bad he is. And then the last statement of
verse 8, but the Word of our God shall stand forever. You
preach my Word and declare the Word of God without compromise.
Here is the need of the hour to get back to the Scriptures.
That's the need of the hour. I know there's an organization
that passes out Bibles, and I'm sure they've done a good work
down through the years, but you know what I find? I find most
people have got two, three, four Bibles sitting around the house. They use it to keep, you know,
the marriage records and death records and not too long ago
I visited somebody and I said, I want to read you, I want you
to see the obituary of my granddaddy. And I went to a family Bible
and opened it up and it was all yellowed and everything. He said,
look at this, that's what we use Bibles for. My goodness,
it's not a place to put your treasures. It is the treasure. It is. Break open the treasure
chest. And if we'd read the Word of
God and if preachers would preach the Word of God, if our messages
were saturated with the Scriptures, oh, how much better off we'd
be! We wouldn't be in the midst of such a religiously ignorant
generation. They're people that don't know
anything about God. They don't know anything about
man. They don't know anything about Jesus Christ. They don't
know anything about election. They don't know anything about
predestination. They don't know anything about redemption. They
don't know anything about justification. You mention the term justification,
you've spoken in a foreign language. Well, what's the reason for that?
Because the man behind the pulpit is not preaching the Word of
God. I was talking to somebody, I
believe it was yesterday, and said they went to a church service
and they took their Bible in and the only one had a Bible.
Only one had a Bible. Yep, that's the problem. That's
the problem. Oh, the Word of God. The Word
of God that stands forever, we've got to open it again. We've got
to see all the decrees and the purposes and the promises of
God that cannot be frustrated, cannot be altered and cannot
be hindered. We need to find out from the
Word of God who God is and what we are and the only way of salvation
through the doing and the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. And here's the thing about God's
Word. It will always accomplish God's purpose. I love that passage
in Isaiah chapter 55. Look at it. Look at Isaiah 55.
Let me just read a couple of verses to you. Isaiah chapter
55 verse 8. Isaiah chapter 55 verse 8. God says, For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth
the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give
seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall my word be
that goeth forth out of my mouth. And that is both the written
word and the incarnate word. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For you shall go out
with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands, and instead of the
thorn shall come up the fir tree. and instead of the briar shall
come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." God's
Word is always successful, both the written Word and the incarnate
Word. It will accomplish God's purpose.
Whatever God's purpose is in having you here tonight to hear
the Word of God, whatever God's purpose is in having you get
on the internet tonight and watch the message or listen to this
CD or watch this DVD, I know this, that purpose is going to
be fulfilled. And I know that our Savior, the
Word of God who came from heaven, I know He didn't fail. He didn't
fail. That which He did absolutely
prospered. God's eternal purpose of salvation,
it prospered in the hands of King Jesus. And He accomplished
the salvation of His people. So we declare the depravity of
man, we declare the Word of God, and here's what we declare to
man. And thirdly, behold your God. Go back to the text in Isaiah
chapter 40 and verse 9. Isaiah 48 and verse 9, O Zion,
O church that bringeth good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem that bringeth good
tidings, lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up, don't be
afraid, and say unto the cities of Judah, behold your God. We have good tidings to proclaim,
so we're to get up on a mountain. We're to set forth the gospel
in a very public way. You see, ours is a message of
good news, and it's the only message of good news. The only
good news there is, is the salvation that is absolutely holy of God. That's the only good news there
is. Any message that makes salvation
conditioned upon the sinner, upon your decision, upon your
act, upon your walking the aisle, upon you being baptized, dependent
upon you obeying some commandments, any message like that is a false
message. That's not good news. If salvation
is dependent upon something you must do, I have no good news
for you whatsoever. Because we've already established
man's utter depravity. But here's the good news. God
did something. God did something. It's a message we declare with
strength. It's a message of good tidings.
Good tidings of great joy. It's a message of good news. You know, I'll tell you what
distresses me, at least one of the things. I guess there are
several things that distress me, but this distresses me maybe
more than anything. I read an article by somebody
who supposedly knows the gospel, and they write about good tidings,
they write about the gospel, and yet they don't set forth
the gospel. That just irritates me to no
end. Sometimes I wonder just how many
people know what the gospel is. I wonder how many people know
who the gospel is. What is the gospel? Well, you
say, well, it's good news. Yes, it is. But what is the good
news? What is the good news? It's the
good news of the Lord Jesus came into this world. He died. for sinners that God
might be just and the justifier of all who believe on the Lord
Jesus. What is the good news? What is the good tidings? Let's
go up on a high mountain and announce good tidings. What is
the good tidings? It's the good tidings of blood
shed for the remission of sins. It's the good tidings of righteousness
established freely imputed to all of God's people. That's good
news. That's the gospel. And unless
we get into that, you say, well, the gospel is the death, burial,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, hold on just a second. If
you read in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the apostle Paul talks about
the gospel. He says, in fact, let's just
look at it. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter
15. And look at verse 1. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 1. Moreover,
brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, which I preached
unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand,
by which also ye have received, If you keep in memory what I
preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I
delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
and that He was buried, and that He arose again the third day
according to the Scriptures." And you say, see there preacher,
that's the gospel, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
Christ. But wait, you left out a word,
it's how He died. It's how He died. How did He
die? He died as the sin offering.
That's how He died. He died as the sacrifice. He
died as a propitiation for our sins. You know that verse of
Scripture in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21? One of the oldest
commentators I've got on that verse is John Calvin. For He hath made Him to be sin
for us. Here's what Brother Calvin says,
He made Him to be the sin offering. The sin offering. That's what
people have believed for 500 years. God made Him to be the
sin offering. How did He die? He died as the
sin offering. You see, God can't be just and
holy and righteous and save us unless His law is satisfied.
There's no good tidings unless we get into this. We can say
some good thing, but we haven't said the good thing. And if we
don't say the good thing, we might as well have said nothing.
We've got to preach the gospel. How did He die? He died as the
sin offering. He died as the substitute. He
died as the sacrifice. He died as the Savior. He died
as the Sovereign. It isn't just He died, but who
died and why He died. Unless we tell men why He died,
we haven't preached the Gospel. I heard Brother Mahan preach
this years ago. I was in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina in 1973. And he came and preached for
us at Rosemont Baptist Church. And he talked to us, he said,
we've got to declare who he is and what he did and why he did
it and where he is now. And I got out my pen and I wrote
that down and God wrote it on my heart. Unless we do that,
we haven't declared the gospel. Well, my preacher says some mighty
good things. Does he say the good thing? Well,
no, he doesn't preach it quite like you do. I tell you, if he
doesn't set forth this gospel, he's not a gospel preacher. And
I've had people say, why doesn't my preacher preach that? Because
he can't tell what he don't know. And Brother Mahan also said,
just the same as you can't come back from somewhere you ain't
been. They can't tell what they don't know. Why don't men preach
the gospel? They haven't learned the gospel. God hasn't taught
them the gospel. But God's preachers preach the
truth. And here's what we say, go back
to our text. We say, behold your God. We say,
behold your God. Not the God of your church, not
the God of your denomination, not the God of your grandparents,
but behold the God of the Bible. Behold your God, not defeated,
but victorious. Not trying to do His will, but
behold Him accomplishing His will. He said, I will do all
My pleasure. Isaiah 46 says that. He says
in Psalm 135, Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did He in
heaven, earth, and the seas, and in all deep places. Behold
your God! And this is speaking of the Lord
Jesus. Behold your God. Behold the servant. Behold the
man. Behold the king. Behold your
God. Behold Him as the eternal surety
of His people. Back in old eternity in the covenant
of grace when He stood for us and the Father gave Him a people
as you read in John 17 tonight. Our Lord Jesus in His high priestly
prayer, He kept referring to those whom thou hast given Me.
When were we given to Him? Before the world was made. We
were given to Him in love, in grace. We were given to Him for
safekeeping. Behold your God as our surety. Behold His incarnation. Behold
Him obeying every jot and tittle of the law. Behold Him, the mighty
Savior in His death. whereby He obtained eternal redemption
for His people. Behold Him putting our sins away. Behold Him establishing a perfect
righteousness with which God can't find a fault. And in that
righteousness alone we are accepted. Behold your God establishing
that righteousness. Behold your God triumphant over
death. Behold your God as the mighty
intercessor. Behold your God as the sovereign
governor of the nations. Behold your God the friend of
sinners. Behold your God the great prophet,
priest, and king. Behold your God! And I'll tell
you, He had to be God. For if He wasn't God, His blood
would not be be of value to anybody. If He was just a mere man, His
blood couldn't put our sins away. It wouldn't have any redemptive
power. Behold your God. He's the mighty
God. Look at verse number 10. He's the effectual Savior. Behold,
the Lord God will come with strong hand. And He did. and His arms
shall rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him. He comes and the reward is the
salvation of His people, the life of His people, and His work
was laid out before Him. He knew the work that he had
to do because he appointed himself to do the work and volunteered
to do the work in the covenant of grace. His work was before
him. Behold your God, the effectual
Savior. And behold your God, the tender
shepherd of the sheep. Look at verse 11. He shall feed
his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with
his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those
that are with young. This one who is our God is the
tender shepherd. He has a flock. It's a flock
of men and women, a distinct and peculiar people. His flock
is one. He's the shepherd of the flock.
He came into this world the good shepherd to lay down his life
for the sheep. He's the great shepherd who rules
the world for his sheep. He's the chief shepherd under
whom all shepherds who preach, all the pastors who preach, we
serve at his command. He's the chief shepherd who shall
come again and receive us unto himself. And he is such a compassionate. and faithful and careful shepherd. He provides for His flock. He
protects His flock. He makes certain that none of
His flock is lost. He seeks us in our lost condition. He finds us. He brings us back
to the fold. He binds us up when we're broken.
He heals us when we're sick. His blood has put away all of
our sins. And by His Spirit, He sends forth
the gospel and He gathers the lands with His arm. He cares
them in His bosom. He leads these, His sheep, His
flock. He leads them into the green
pastures of rest and to salvation. He leads them beside the still
waters of communion and fellowship with God. He leads them into
the truths of the gospel. He leads us through the valley
of the shadow of death. He leads us all the way to glory. Our shepherd does. Behold your
God. Now let me give you one more
thing. Let me sum up all that we've covered, these four points
anyway, in these messages. I'll give them to you in this
order. Behold thy King, Zechariah 9, verse 9. God says, Behold
my servant, Isaiah 42, verse 1. God says, Behold the man,
Zechariah 6, verse 12. God says, Behold your God, Isaiah
40, verse 9. And then that's the message of
the prophets. And the message of the prophets
is amplified in the New Testament. Because you know what Matthew
is about? Behold your king. You know what Mark's about? Behold God's servant. You know
what Luke is about? Behold the man. You know what
John's about? Behold your God. See, all the
scriptures, they set forth Jesus Christ the Lord. Oh, bless His
holy name. God help us to worship Him. God
help us to adore Him. God help us to trust Him, to
believe Him, to just rest in Him. Just give up. Just give
up your struggling and your trying. I know when I went to Almona,
dear lady, came up to me and she said, I've been seeking the
Lord for all these many years. And I said, well, the Lord said,
seek me, you'll find me when you search for him with all your
heart. She said, I just don't have any
peace. I just don't have any peace.
And I kept just preaching the gospel. And one day the Lord
dealt with her in mercy. And she came up to me after the
service. See, after all the struggling
and all the crying and all the anxiety, she came up to me and
she said, I'm resting now. I'm resting now. That's it. That's it. You see, He's our
Sabbath. He's our Sabbath. And you know
what the law of the Sabbath was? Cease from your labor. And rest. Don't do any work. Don't do any
work. Just rest in Christ Jesus. And
God help us to see that the work of salvation, He finished it. It's done. It's done. He sets on the throne the victorious
King. He wasn't defeated. You know,
the cross, it wasn't his defeat. That's his victory. That's his
victory on the cross. He said it's finished. And if
he said it's finished, I don't care what men of this world,
I don't care what preachers say. If it's finished, it's finished. He finished the work himself.
It's done as God would have it to be done. Well, let's sing
a closing song. What about 75? Abide with me. Number 75, abide
with me. God bless you as you go home
this evening. Hope you have a good week and
remember the service for Brother Jim Eccles.
Jim Byrd
About Jim Byrd
Jim Byrd serves as a teacher and pastor of 13th Street Baptist Church in Ashland Kentucky, USA.

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