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Seven Things Messiah Will Do

Isaiah 25:5-12
Jim Byrd January, 25 2015 Video & Audio
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Jim Byrd
Jim Byrd January, 25 2015

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Oh, that was sweet. Thank you,
brother. Thank God for reaching way down
for me. That's a testimony of every child
of God, isn't it? He reached down for us. He had to reach down for us.
We couldn't reach up to him. He came where we are. in His life, in His death, and
then in our conversion. He came where we are. He reached down into the miry
clay. He pulled us out. He rescued. That's what salvation is. It's
a rescue, isn't it? The Lord has rescued His people. He's delivered us. We'd love to praise His name,
don't we? Give Him the glory. Go back to
Isaiah chapter 25 this evening. Isaiah chapter 25. I want to
read beginning at verse 5 through the end of the chapter, and then
speak to you on seven things Messiah will do. Isaiah chapter 25, verse 5. And as I read down through here,
notice all the wills and the shalls of the Lord. Verse 5, Isaiah 25, Thou shalt
bring down the noise of strangers as they heat in a dry place. Even the heat with the shadow
of a cloud, the branch of the terrible ones, shall be brought
low. And in this mountain shall the
Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, rich things,
delicacies. A feast of wines on the leaves,
the best wines, the richest wines, the most expensive wines. That's
what the gospel is likening to. A fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the leaves, well refined. And he will destroy
in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people. and the veil that is spread over
all nations. He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord will wipe away tears
from off all faces. And the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off the earth. For the Lord hath spoken. And it shall be said in that
day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He
will save us. This is the Lord. We have waited
for Him. We will be glad and rejoice in
His salvation. For in this mountain shall the
hand of the Lord rest, And Moab shall be trodden down under him,
even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And the Lord
shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim. And he shall bring
down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. and
the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,
lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust." Here are seven
things Messiah will do that Isaiah speaks about. Now you say, well,
how do you know this is speaking of the Lord Jesus? How do you
know this is speaking of Messiah? Well, look again at verse 9.
It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. All doubt is removed as to who
is being spoken of here. This is our Savior. This is our
Redeemer. This is the Lord of glory. This
is the one who saved us by His blood and by His righteousness. It shall be said in that day,
Lo, this is our God. Over and over again we are driven
back to the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is who is
being spoken of in this passage. God our Savior, Emmanuel. Back in Isaiah chapter 7. Look
at chapter 7 of Isaiah and verse 14. Isaiah chapter 7 and verse
14. Here is what the prophet says,
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin
shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. And in the Gospel of Matthew
chapter 1 and verse 23, we know that Immanuel being interpreted
is God with us. And when he came into this world,
All of the people of God said, Lo, this is our God. This is
our God. Notice the word God. This is
our God. This is Elohim. This is the mighty
God. In fact, Isaiah says, look at
chapter 9 and verse 6. This is one of the names of the
Savior. Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6.
Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6. For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
the Mighty God. Lo, this is our God. The everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. This is our God. This is the
God who created all things. Without Him was nothing made
that was made. This is our God who reigns over
all things. By Him all things consist. This is our God who saved us
by His free grace. You see, the Eternal Christ is
the Eternal God. The incarnate Christ is the eternal
God. The redeeming Christ is the eternal
God. The reigning Christ is the eternal
God. The Savior who reveals Himself
to us by His Spirit in the Gospel, He is no one other than the mighty
God. This is our God. That's what
the prophet of God says. So I know this is speaking about
Messiah. Because Isaiah says, this is
our God. And Isaiah is speaking for all
the church. Notice he also says, we have
waited for Him. We have waited for Him. We've
looked for Him. We've hoped for Him. We anticipated
His coming. He's the desire of all nations. All of the saints of God in the
Old Testament desired His coming. They looked to Him. They looked
for Him, even as we look to Him for salvation. They looked ahead
to His coming. to that day when He would save
us by His substitutionary death. We look back to Him who lived
for us and died for us and arose for us. He arose because of our
justification. Just like they waited for Him
and looked for Him and looked to Him, so we look to Him. And we wait for His next coming. We wait for His second coming.
We stand on the very tiptoes of faith and we hear Him say,
Lo, I come quickly. And we say, Even so, come, Lord
Jesus. Oh, come and bring an end to
all of the sin that's in me and that's in this vile world. Come
and bring down all rebellion. Oh, Lord Jesus, come. Oh, it'd
be wonderful if He'd come tonight. I'm not a prognosticator. I'm
not a predictor of when He will come. I only know this. It's a day sooner to His coming,
isn't it? Every day that passes is another
day sooner to that day when the clouds will separate. There will
be the voice of the archangel and our God. He shall come back
again. And we will say as a church,
lo, this is our God. This is our God. We've waited
for Him. We've waited for Him. And He
shall come. Isaiah says, lo, this is our
God. I know this is Messiah. We've
waited for Him. We've looked to Him. We've looked
to Him like the Israelites bitten by the fiery serpents look to
the brazen serpent in the wilderness. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that
whosoever believeth in Him shall have eternal life. We look to
Him. We look to no other save Jesus
Christ alone. They waited for Him because they
needed Him. Because the Spirit of God made
known to them their need of Him. And so we look to Him because
the Spirit of God has made known unto us this. We need Him. We need Him. I need Him to be
my wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Don't you? I need Him. I need
everything from Him. I have nothing to contribute.
I have nothing to give Him. He has everything and He can
give it to me if He will. And if I have Him, I have everything. He is the reservoir of all of
the mercies and all of the graces and all of the blessings that
God can give to a poor sinner. He's the one. They're all in
Him. God's put all of His eggs in one basket. In Jesus Christ
the Lord. If we have Him, we have everything. This is our God. We've waited
for Him. And then notice this. He says,
He will save us. He will save us because He promised
to save us in the covenant of grace. He will save us because
God the Father gave Him the work of saving us in that eternal
counsel. He will save us because He redeemed
us. He reconciled us. He bought us. He will save us from the wages
of sin, which is death, for He died in our stead. And He will
save us from the very power and presence of sin. Someday, all
of the consequences of sin, He will save us from it. He will
save. That's His name. Jesus. He shall
save His people from their sin. And then He says this. Watch
it again. This is the Lord. This is the
Lord. Who is He? He's the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's not a hell insurance policy. He's the Lord of Glory. That's
who He is. He's the Sovereign of the Ages.
He's the Master. And we've been brought to love
His Lordship. Listen, nobody can call Jesus
Lord and mean it from the bottom of their hearts except by the
Holy Ghost. We love His Lordship. He's the
Lord. That leper met Him and worshipped
Him when the Savior came down from the mountain and He said,
Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me whole. That poor thief
on the cross who with his dying breath had been cursing the Savior
just like the other thief. The Spirit of God got a hold
of his heart. The Spirit of Christ Jesus, the
omnipotent Savior while hanging on the cross. He rescued a poor
sinner that was perishing in his sin and that sinner said,
Lord, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
And the Lord of glory said, today thou shalt be with me in paradise. That's the voice of the Lord
right there. And I tell you what, when our Lord Jesus went to glory, He took a sinner with Him. He
took a sinner saved by grace. A sinner that He redeemed. A
sinner that He bought with His blood. a sinner that he robed
in his righteousness. Right behind the blessed Savior,
here comes this thief, made whiter than the snow through the blood
of the Lord Jesus. And one by one, thieves and harlots
and poor sinners have been going to glory ever since. Solely on
the basis of the blood and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's the Lord. And we adore His
Lordship. Old Saul of Tarsus. Oh, he hated
anybody who believed in the way. Salvation by the way. And on
the road to Damascus, the Savior met him and knocked him off his
high horse of pride. And he said, Lord, what will
you have me to do? He called him Lord. I call him
Lord and love his Lordship, don't you? I adore his... I'm thankful he's the Sovereign.
He reigns over all things. He rules over all the world.
He rules over all men, over all devils, over all demons, over
all the activities of the kings and the presidents and the prime
ministers of this world. He rules over the great. He rules
over the small. He rules over every single thing
that happens in this world. He's the Lord of glory. Hallelujah. He's my Savior. He's the Lord. This is what Isaiah says. This
is the Lord. This is the Lord. And then notice this. We have
waited for Him and we'll be glad and rejoice in His salvation. We'll be glad and rejoice in
Him for that salvation which He gives us. That salvation which
is free. That salvation which is ours. This is my salvation. It's my
salvation because God gave it to me. And nobody can take it
away from me. Nobody can take it away. He saved
me and those whom God saves, He saves eternally, doesn't He?
It's His salvation. Yes, the one spoken of in this
passage is the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me show you several things
that Messiah will do. Number one, I'll give them to
you quickly. Number one, He'll be triumphant over His enemies. Look again at verse 5. Thou shalt
bring down the noise of the strangers as the heat in a dry place. Even
the heat with the shadow of a cloud. The branch of the terrible one
shall be brought low. Drop down to verse 10. Moab shall
be trodden under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill. He himself who has trodden the
winepress of the wrath of God alone, He will walk all over
His enemies. He will trample them in the dust. These are the enemies of the
gospel. This is Babylon. That's who's
specifically being spoken of here. And the Lord says, I will
bring them down. I'll bring them all down. Notice
what he says there in verse 11. He shall spread forth his hands
in the midst of them, as him that swimmeth spreadeth forth
his hands to swim. He'll bring down their pride
together with the spoils of their hands. A man who's out swimming,
he's taking both arms just like this. And the idea is if the
Lord is going to go through His enemies, and here is all He is
going to do, away with all of you. Just like a man swimming
with two arms, away with all of you. And Babylon is going
to fall. Messiah shall be triumphant over
His enemies, over the enemy of Babylon. He was triumphant over
the enemy of Satan. While our Lord Jesus, when He
died on the cross, He crushed the head of the serpent. Look
at Isaiah chapter, I'm sorry, Revelation chapter 20. Revelation chapter 20. Here's another enemy Messiah
would be triumphant over as Isaiah speaks prophetically. He'll be
triumphant over Satan. Revelation chapter 20 verse 1. And I saw an angel come down
from heaven. Here's the incarnation of our
Savior. Write that in your margin if
you haven't done it yet. This is the incarnation. Here's
the angel of the covenant. The messenger of the covenant.
And I saw, John said, an angel come down from heaven. Well,
what did he have? He had the key to the bottomless
pit. Nobody else has got it but Christ Jesus. He's got the keys. And He had a great chain in His
hand. He has come to do a work. And what did He do? Verse 2,
He laid hold on the dragon. When did He do this? On the cross. On the cross. This is when He
laid hold of the old dragon. This is the beast of ferocious
power. This is the beast who had been
breathing out the fires of persecution against all of God's people.
Christ Jesus came down here and when He died on the cross, He
took hold of the old dragon, that old serpent, that subtle
one, that one who has deadly poison, that deceiver of men. He took hold of him. Who is he? The devil? He's the liar and
the father of lies. He's Satan. He's the accuser. He's the opposer of God's people. He took hold of Him on the cross
and He bound Him. He bound Him a thousand years.
Don't let that throw you. That's the entire span of time
between the Lord's first coming and His second coming. It's a
symbolic number to indicate that sphere of time that we're in
right now. The Lord Jesus Christ has taken
hold of Satan. Listen, he's a roaring lion,
but for all of God's people, he's toothless. Because our Savior
has crushed his head. And He bound him with a chain.
That chain holds him. Follow the chain around the neck
of Satan. Follow it back to an omnipotent
hand. It's the hand of this one who
Isaiah said, Lo, this is our God. This is our God. He cast him into the bottomless
pit as far as his people are concerned. He shut him up. He
put a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations, that is
the elect of the nations no more. He is a defeated enemy. Our Lord
has defeated our enemies. Isaiah said He is going to come
and He is going to defeat His enemies. And our enemy is going
to defeat Babylon. He is going to defeat Satan.
He is going to defeat our sins. He is going to defeat the grave.
Every enemy of God's people was defeated by our Savior when He
died on the cross in our room instead. Secondly, go back to the text
in Isaiah 25. He shall be triumphant over his
enemies. Secondly, he shall spread a feast
for his people, verse 6. And in this mountain shall the
Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast. This is the feast of
the gospel. The rich provisions of the gospel
are widely spread and they are widely needed. They are widely
spread and they are widely needed. This is the feast spread by the
Lord Jesus Himself. As you look through the Old Testament,
and I enjoyed this past week studying about this, and I appreciate
you giving me the opportunity to sit in the study and prepare
these messages for you. It's a great honor to do that.
I have the most wonderful job in the world, study the Word
of God in order to preach the Gospel to people. Actually, I ought to pay you
for this opportunity. What a privilege! What a privilege
to stand before those men and women and boys and girls who
are heading out into eternity and tell them about the Lord
Jesus Christ. Tell them about God's salvation.
And to set before you this feast, this feast that our Savior has
spread. You know, the Jewish people,
like us. They took advantage of almost
every opportunity to have a meal. We like to eat. Hey, I didn't
get this way by accident. I love to eat. You've been feeding
me good since I've been here. The Jewish people, they love
feasts. They had a feast whenever they
entered into a covenant with one another. Look in Genesis
chapter 26. Look in Genesis chapter 26. In
the Old Testament, people in the Old Testament, they loved
to have feasts. And they had a feast whenever
they entered into a covenant with one another. In Genesis
chapter 26, we find Abimelech entering into a covenant with
Isaac and taking an oath that he wouldn't do any harm to Isaac
or to any of Isaac's seed. Look at Genesis 26, 26. Genesis 26, 26. And Abimelech
went to him, that is to Isaac, from Jerar, and Ahuzeth, one
of his friends, and Phicol, the chief captain of his army. And
Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing you hate
me, and you have sent me away from you? And they said, We saw
certainly that the Lord was with thee. And we said, Let there
now be an oath between us, even betwixt us and thee, and let
us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt,
as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee
nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace. Thou art
now the blessed of the Lord. And they made a feast, and they
did eat and drink. They entered into covenant. Listen,
we are not going to attack you, and you are not going to attack
us. You agree? Yes, we agree. Let's eat. Let's
eat. They entered into a covenant.
And this puts me in mind of the covenant of grace that led to
the feast. The feast of the gospel that
spread for us. This feast of fat things, of
the richest of spiritual foods, of the wine of the gospel that
spread by the Lord Himself. You trace it all the way back
to a covenant. It came from a covenant. When
God the Father, Son, and Spirit entered into this great legal
binding agreement to save a people of God's choice, and God, as
it were, made an oath, this is a covenant of peace. I'm not
going to harm these people. I'm going to spare them for the
glory of my grace. And you and I, we eat the feast
of the gospel because of that covenant God made before the
world began. I tell you something else, they
had a feast when somebody was getting married. Look at Genesis
chapter 29. Genesis chapter 29. Jacob, he loved Rachel. Rachel was beautiful and well
favored. She was very attractive. Look
at Genesis 29 and verse, well look at verse 20. And Jacob served
seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but
a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban,
Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go
in unto her. And Laban gathered together all
the men of the place, and made a feast. Laban said, Let's have
a feast. Now we know that things didn't
go as Jacob had figured. Because he didn't wind up marrying
Rachel this time, he married Liam. But, but, the picture's
the same. Here's a wedding, and here's a feast. I think about the wedding, the
spiritual wedding of God the Son, who's the bridegroom, and
we're the bride. I think about the marriage supper
of the Lamb. Over in the book of Revelation
chapter 19, in that glorious eternal day, when Babylon has
been disposed of, and all of the people of God have been gathered
together, and were robed in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord says, come in for this marriage supper of the
Lamb. A feast. And even now, we enjoy
the feast of the Gospel. The feast of the Gospel. Look
at John chapter 2. And I was mentioning this to
somebody before the service. In John chapter 2, our Lord Jesus,
His first miracle, where He changed the water into wine. John chapter 2. As you know, The Savior was in
Galilee. They needed wine. They ran out
of wine. They came to the Savior. They
went to his mother, and she went to the Lord Jesus Christ. It says in verse 6, there were
set there six water pots of stone after the manner of the purifying
of the Jews. They contained two or three firkins
apiece. And Jesus said unto them, Fill
the water pots with water, and they filled them to the brim.
And he said to them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor
of the feast, and they bear it. When the ruler of the feast had
tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it
was, but the servants which drew the water knew, The governor
of the feast he called the bridegroom, he saith unto him, every man
at the beginning doth set forth good wine. And when men have
well drunk, and their taste buds get dull, then that which is
worse. But thou hast kept the good wine
until now." Listen, by nature. We've been drinking, and all
mankind does, we've been drinking the wine of Babylon. The wine
of her fornication. And men have become drunk on
the wine of her fornication. But then the Lord gives us the
good stuff. The good wine. He gives the good
wine to his people. The best wine. The gospel feast. And we drink of this wine of
the gospel and we say, that other wine, that's cheap stuff. That's
an imitation stuff. That stuff's no good. This is
the pure wine of the blood and the righteousness of the Lord
Jesus Christ. They had a feast whenever there
was a marriage. And then they had a feast when
the Passover lamb was killed, as our brother read to us earlier.
And Christ Jesus, our Passover, has died and risen again, and
we partake of a glorious feast, provided solely by the One who
loved us and who gave Himself for us. This is what Messiah
will do. Isaiah says back here in chapter
25, He'll conquer all of His enemies, And then He'll spread
a feast for His people. And then look at number 3, what
He will do again. Look at verse 7. And He will
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over
all people and the veil that's spread over all nations. He's
going to do something about the veil. First of all, the veil
that separated us from God. He did that on the cross. He
rent the veil. The veil was rent from top to
bottom. Not from bottom to top. Man didn't
do it. Man didn't have anything to do
with it. We can enter into the very presence of God Almighty
because the Lord Jesus Christ, by His substitutionary death,
He satisfied every demand of God and therefore the veil was
rent from top to bottom. Come boldly to the throne of
grace. and find mercy and grace to help
you in your time of need. We have free access to God through
Jesus Christ the Lord. He did something about the veil.
And He did something about the veil that was pulled over our
faces that we couldn't see the beauties of Christ Jesus. We
couldn't see the glory of God. We couldn't see our own condition.
But He took away the veil. He took away the covering. And
now we see things as they really are. And when we see our neediness,
we see our wretchedness, we see our blindness, then we look to
Jesus Christ and we find in Him all that we need for time and
for eternity. Isaiah said he is going to do
something about the veil. He is going to do something about
the veil. And then fourthly, he is going to do something about
death. Look at verse 8. He will swallow up death in victory. His own death was the death of
all deaths, for it meant the death of Satan, it meant the
death of sin, and His resurrection meant the death of death itself. He arose and He conquered the
grave for Himself and for all of us. That's why there's no
death for God's people. We fall asleep in Jesus. Therefore,
we say, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law. But Christ Jesus honored the
law, and He put away our sins. And He did that to deliver them
who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage. Now there's no fear of death.
Child of God, you need not fear death. Death is a messenger from God
coming to you and saying to you, your Lord says it's time to come
home. It's time to turn loose of everything
in this world and go home to everlasting glory. And then number five, what shall
Messiah do? He'll wipe away all tears from
our eyes. That's what it says. And the
Lord God will wipe away all tears from all faces. In what way did Messiah deliver
us from sorrow, from tears? By taking away that which is
the reason for our sorrow, which is sin. That's the reason for
the sorrow. That's the reason for the tears.
All the tears that have been shed in this world, if you trace
them all back to the source, it's due to this, S-I-N. You grieve when someone dies.
and you miss them so much, and you shed the tears, why is death
in this world? It's because of sin. You weep
when there's some kind of trouble in your family. There's some
kind of animosity between two members of the same family. Why
is that? And why do you weep over it?
Why do these things happen? It's because of sin. Our Lord
Jesus did away with sin. He took our sin away. And someday,
He'll take away even the very presence of sin in us when He
takes us home to glory. He's triumphant over sorrow.
Revelation 7. Verse 17, Revelation 21, verse
4, He's going to wipe away all tears from our eyes. No tears
in heaven. No weeping in heaven. The days
of our weeping are reserved for this life. But in that fair land,
only joy and everlasting happiness. And then He'll be triumphant. over the rebuke of His people.
Look again in verse 8. The rebuke of His people, literally
that's the shame of His people, the reproach of His people, shall
He take away from off all the earth. I'm ashamed of myself because of my sinfulness. But He takes away the shame. I've heard people say that when
they stand before the Lord, when we stand before the Lord, that
we're going to be so ashamed of our life, of our failures,
of our missteps, of our sins, of our lack of good works. Let
me tell you something. There'll be no shame for God's
people in that day. There will be only joy and gladness.
Because we shall stand then, now listen to me, we shall stand
then, even as we stand before God right now, in the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have no shame. No shame. The Lord is not going to rebuke
us. He is going to say to all of
us, well done, thou good and faithful servant, because we
are in Christ Jesus. He'll take away all shame and
all the rebuke, all the reproach of the enemies of the world against
His kingdom, against His church. He's going to take it all away.
Now people mock the church of our Lord and say, well, you say
you're the only one that's got the truth? You're such a small
group of people. What about all the rest of us?
And they mock us. In that day, no more reproach. No more rebuke. Because in that
day we shall shine as stars in His crown. In that day He will
put us on display. He will say to the Father, Behold,
I am the children which Thou hast given Me. And we shall stand
before God without spot or blemish or any such thing before all
the angels, all the demons, all of the men who are unbelievers.
God will present His church. God the Son who has washed us
in His blood and robed us in His righteousness, He is going
to put us on display to the praise of the glory of His free grace
in that day. There won't be any more reproach.
He said, I'm going to take away all the rebuke. I'm going to
take away all the reproach. And then one more, and that's
again in verse 9. He will save us. He's going to deliver His church. And I know we're saved already.
If you start talking about salvation, say, Jim, when were you saved?
Well, I was saved before the world began. Weren't you? If you're saved, you were saved
before the world began. You were saved in God's covenant
of grace. I do believe in eternal justification. Accepted in the Beloved. And
you read there in Ephesians chapter 1 where it says we're accepted
in the Beloved. That's in the verse that comes
before redemption. You read it. We were already
accepted on the basis of His redemptive work at Calvary. But
we were accepted in Christ Jesus before the world began. He saved
us then. He saved us at the cross. When
by His blood He washed all of our sins away. He saved us when
He revealed Himself to us at conversion. And yet, There is coming a day when, could
I say it like this, we will be fully saved. Body and soul. Because this body, I am saved,
my soul is saved. This body, man, I tell you, it
needs to be delivered. Yours does too. It needs to be
delivered from the weakness of sin. from the frailty of age,
needs to be saved from disease and illness, all of the effects
of sin, and someday it will be saved. This body is going to
be saved. Job said, I know that my Redeemer
liveth and in my flesh, that is in this body, redeemed and
bought and reconciled and glorified by the power of His grace, in
this flesh I shall see God. We'll be with Him. We'll be like
Him. He will save. And I'll give you this as a PS,
as a final word. How do we know this is all going
to come to pass? Well, because of this. Look back
in verse 8. The last statement. For the Lord
hath spoken it. I know this is all going to come
to pass. I know Messiah did all of this, and I know everything
that He's going to do is going to come to pass. That's why He
called it those things that hadn't happened yet, as though they
already are. Because the Lord spoke in it. And you can trust Him. You can
fully rely on His Word. He's ever truthful, isn't He?
He's ever faithful to do as He has promised. And Isaiah said,
these are the things that Messiah is going to do when He comes
into the world. God help us to believe Him and
rest in Him more fully. Amen. You come lead us in a final
song, Joe.
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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