I couldn't see Kyle and Annie
back. I just looked back there and seen them. Open with me to Matthew 22 for
our scripture reading this morning. I'm not going to preach from
here, but I want it for our scripture reading. I had a really, really good meeting
up in Ashland and two other preachers, Greg Amquist, and I don't know,
I thought Marvin was supposed to preach with me, but I never
did see Marvin. I don't know who else is going to do it, but
oh, what a good meeting. All right, I'm going to read
down through verse 10. And Jesus answered and spake
unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven
is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son,
and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidding to
the wedding, and they would not come. Again he sent forth other
servants to tell them which are bidden, which are told to come.
Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlings are killed,
and all things are ready, come unto the marriage. But they made
light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his
merchandise, and the remnant took his servants, and entreated
them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof,
he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those
murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith his to his servants,
The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find
bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into
the highways and gathered together, all as many as they found, both
bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with guests. All
right, I want you to look with me in Isaiah chapter 25. Isaiah
chapter 25. And look with me in verse six.
Isaiah 25, 6. I'm going to read three or four
verses here and hope that God will bless me to preach from
it. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the leaves,
of fat things full of mara, 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 God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and
the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the
earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. 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. You notice there says that in
verse six in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make a unto
all people a feast a feast and I won't talk about the feast
a feast Not only is it a feast, it's a great feast. If God makes
a feast for someone, it's got to be great, got to be full of
everything that we need. And these verses that I read
to you, these are some of the verses that Peter says that the
prophets inquired diligently into by the Spirit of God of
the things that should come. Because these verses that I read
this morning have no meaning apart from the gospel of the
grace of God, have no meaning apart from that. And I pray that
the Holy Spirit would enable me today and help you to see
the gospel here and enjoy the gospel. Enjoy the gospel that's
set before our eyes. May he give us sight to see.
But look at the place where God sets his feast. In the first
six verse, he said, in this mountain. And when you find mountain in
the scriptures, it's talking about a kingdom. It's a kingdom. And God calls the church Mount
Zion. And He dwells in Mount Zion.
He has His throne in Mount Zion. And you know He's on the mountain
where the law was given. He's on a mountain where our
Lord Jesus Christ was crucified on Mount Calvary. And God appoints
this feast and the place. He appoints the feast and He
appoints the place where it's going to be. And it says that
He is the Lord of hosts. Now that means that He's the
Lord of all the hosts of heaven, all the hosts of angels, all
the hosts of His elect. He's the Lord of hosts. He's
the sovereign, and He's appointed the place, Mount Zion, where
He's gonna have this great feast. It's Mount Zion, the church,
it's Mount Zion and Mount Calvary, where our Lord Jesus Christ revealed
His glory. You see, when He talks about
a mountain, He appointed the place where our Lord Jesus Christ
would prepare a feast for us, shed His blood for us, dying
for us, bearing our sins away. making us acceptable to God,
reconciling us to God. And all this is the place on
Calvary, on the cross where our Lord Jesus Christ, He revealed
His glory in Mount Zion. And here in the Mount Calvary,
He reveals His grace on Mount Calvary and that place called
Calvary. So He made the place, the mountain. It's where I'm going to set my
place. It's where I'm going to have His feast on a mountain. It was on Mount Moriah where
He let Moses look into the promised land. It was on the mountain
where that burning bush was. It was on a mountain where Christ
died. It was on a mountain where Abraham
took his son Isaac. and received Him from life again.
So everything God's done, He's done it on a mountain. And He
appointed His mountain, Mount Calvary. And there's where, beloved,
He made a feast for us that'll set us, that's made it for us
not only here, but for all eternity to sit at the marriage supper
of the Lamb and enjoy our Lord Jesus Christ forever. And then
look what this feast that our Lord Jesus Christ, our God, makes
for us. He says, and in this mountain
shall the Lord of hosts make a feast, and look what it says,
unto all people. The Lord just makes this feast
for all people. Now, you know I read in Luke
14, Matthew 22, you talk about these feasts, these great suppers
that's been made. And this feast is made for all
people. And what that means is, is not
for all people all over, it means for all classes of people, all
kinds of people, every character of people, out of every nation
on the face of this earth. He's made it for all people that
will come, all people that hears the gospel. I was talking this
morning, I heard about a man that died and I've been around
him pretty good bit. and how many people go out into
this world that's never was told about a feast. And when they
was told about it, they didn't care about it. God made a great
feast for his son and he made this great feast and he made
it for all people. And then he told men to go out
and tell them about this wonderful feast, this great feast that
God has prepared. and then as he hears that and
they hear that and he said it's forever you know when god said
god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth him should not perish but have everlasting
life now when he talked about the world there he was talking
about the world that whom christ died for and what does that mean
not ever soul in the world not ever person in the world because
if he died for everybody there ain't nobody that's going to
ever be lost christ death christ blood god's Our Lord's death,
His blood is so effectual, His death is so effectual, His power
is so effectual, that who He died for, He's going to have
them. And so when it says He made this for all people, He
made it for people like me. Ain't got since enough to get
in and out of the rain. He made it for people like you
who are sinners. He made it for people of every
nation, every tribe, every kindred, every people on the face of this
earth. And so many people go out into
eternity that never even heard of a feast. And you see, here's
the thing, that God is no respect of persons. And that's what it
means all people. He's no respect of persons. People
in this world, they respect persons. And for us to respect persons
is a sin. You know what that means is when
he says to all people he's not a respected person, that means
that he is not moved. He doesn't respect who you are.
He doesn't respect what you've accomplished. He doesn't respect
what you've done in this world. He doesn't respect the fact that
you got your name in some book somewhere. He doesn't respect
who you know. He doesn't respect what you possess. He doesn't respect what you know. He has no respect of persons.
So when He says all people, and if He respected persons, He sure
wouldn't have nothing to do with me. And he wouldn't have nothing
to do with you either, would he? But we like to, we like to
respect people. Oh, that guy there, boy, he's
somebody. That fellow over there, you wouldn't believe how much
money he's got. Oh, my goodness, look at that. Oh, my. And God's
not like that. He don't look at us and say,
I'm going to do something for him because he's so powerful.
I'm going to do something for him because he's such a fine
fellow. I'm going to do something for him because he's got such
a good education. No, that's not the way God does
things. Ain't you glad that he's that way? Now look at the feast. He's the one that picked the
place. And he's the one that gives the feast. And look what
the feast is, what it's provided for all people. And it's like
God himself. It's full, it's rich, it's plenteous,
and everything is the best. Look what he says. He says, in
this mountain, verse 6, shall the Lord of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things. Oh my, everybody likes things,
fat things, you know. I like, you know, that's why
you put ham and beans, you know, and bacon and, you know, you
like them fat things, you know. And that's what he's talking
about. And he's talking about the gospel here. Full of fat
things. Fat things to satisfy us perfectly. And what are some of the fat
things that satisfy? Grace. He talked about the riches
of grace. How full and how fat is the grace
of God? You know how fat it is and how
full it is and how free it is? That it gives you everything
you need in this world. Grace does it all. Oh, what about
redemption? What about redemption? Did redemption
put away all your sin? Did Christ, when He paid for
your sin, did He pay for all of them? And not only did He
pay for your sins and put them all away and wash all your sins
away by His blood, but in that same blood, He satisfied God
and made you accepted of God by the same blood perfectly. in the sight of God perfected.
And oh my, what about regeneration? Who in the world ever heard of
anybody giving themselves birth? But that's what God does for
us. Do you know how much life he gives us in regeneration? He calls this the life of God.
He calls this the life of Christ. He calls it Christ in you, the
hope of glory. He calls it made partakers of
the divine nature. He calls it a new birth. He calls
it a new heart. He calls it a new spirit. He
calls it a new mind. He calls it a created person
in righteousness and true holiness. That's bad, ain't it? And oh, justification. Justification? That God Himself looks at you
and looks at me and says, I justify them? The law says they're condemned. God said, no, they ain't. I justify
them. Devil comes along saying, Lord,
they sinned. No, they didn't. I justified
them. Devil comes along saying, oh, you wouldn't believe what
goes through their mind, what they think in their heart. I
justified them. I don't see nothing wrong with
them. I justified them. They ain't got no condemnation.
They ain't got no guilt. They ain't got no sin. In my
sight, they're justified. Don't dare bring a charge against
them. Who's going to charge anything
to God's elect? This Christ that died for him
is God that justified him. Said, don't bring no accusation
against my children. That's pretty fat, ain't it? And all the eternal things, all
the eternal things that God's give us, blessings, these blessings
that feed us, these blessings that encourage us, these blessings
that cheer us, these blessings that forgive us, these blessings
that inspire us, And I'll tell you something, and this is what
the gospel does for us. There's no reason for us to have
leanness of soul with so much to eat. And the table set every
service. Oh, the table was set so good
up there in that meeting. Election! Bruce preached on election. Use one verse of scripture, preached
on election. Oh, I was so full after he preached
on, I was just so full. Oh, I was so fat, so rich, and
it just filled me up. And then I got up the next morning,
I was hungry again. Oh, Don got up. And then Todd
got up. Oh, I got so fat. And look what it says here. It
says, feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lease. And listen
to this, a fat things full of Mara. You know what fat things
full of Mara means? That means that you take it and
you rub it with grease. He said, you rub this thing with
grease. You make it rich. It's like taking the fattening
calf. And you know when you cook it, you just cover that thing
with grease and make it rich and make it taste so good. And
that's what he said. He said, God takes this thing
of ours and then he just makes it so full and makes it so rich
and makes it taste so good. So good. And oh my, food that's
so rich. And then he says of wine, a feast
of wines on the lees, well refined. And what that wine on the lees,
and oh my, the best, when he says this, that's the best, the
strongest bodied wines. And I don't know anything about
wines, but it's kept long on the lees. That means it's aged,
aged. That means it's clean. That means
it's fine. It has no sediment in it. It's
pure. It's pure. And you know what,
wine, I'm gonna show you some things here. You look with me
over here and gospel makes our heart glad like wine does. But
look over in Proverbs 31. Here's what God says about wine.
Proverbs 31. And you know God, and you know
when our Lord Jesus Christ turned the water into wine, they was
at a marriage feast. First miracle our Lord performed.
They was at a marriage, and they had lots and lots of wine there.
And our Lord, they had six great big pots there. I think they
called, I think there's 30 gallons apiece. And they said, our Lord
turned that water into wine. And that fellow that had the
feast on for his daughter or son, whoever was getting married,
They went and gave him some of that wine, and you know what
he said? He said, they keep the worst wine for the last because
everybody's well drunk, and so they can give him some sorry
wine and they won't know the difference. He said, this fella,
this man has kept the best wine till the last. God can't do nothing
but the best. This wine's the best wine you'll
ever have. You know what, I'll tell you
something else, it won't make you drunk. but it'll sure make you
feel joyful. It'll make you feel happy. It'll
make your eyes twinkle. It'll make your eyes shine. Look
what he said here in Proverbs 31, six and seven. Give strong
drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those
that be of heavy hearts. Don't God do that for us with
our heavy hearts? Let him drink and forget his
poverty and remember his misery no more. Got a heavy heart, you
come in here with a heavy heart. You come in here with misery.
You come in here with grief. You come in here with sorrow.
You come in here with heaviness. And what does the gospel do?
It lifts that weight. It takes away that misery. It
takes away that burden of them that's ready to perish. And it
puts joy in the heart. It makes you happy, it makes
you free. And oh, look what it says over
in Psalm 104 about this. Look what it says over here in
Psalm 104 in verses 14 and 15. Oh, it's a feast, a feast of
fat things, wines on the leaves, the best wine, the full-bodied
wine, clean, pure, pure wine. And he says here in verse 14,
he causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service
of man, that he may bring forth fruit out of the earth. And listen
to this, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man. Oh, that's
what the gospel does. Boy, it'll make you for the heart
of man. And all, he gives us the Holy
Spirit and makes our face to shine. And he gives us the bread
of heaven, Christ, which strengthens our hearts. Oh my, what a gospel. What a gospel, what a feast the
Lord set for us. Now look back over here at Isaiah
25 and look in verse seven with me. Look in verse seven with
me. Oh my, listen to this. And now here's what else is a
full salvation. Oh my, look what he says here.
And he will destroy in this mountain. Well, he's going to have this
great feast now. This great feast of fat things, wine. And he'll
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over
all people in the veil that is spread over all nations. And
it says he's going to destroy it. And what does he mean the
face of the covering? That means the veil that's over
our minds, the veil that's over our hearts, the veil that keeps
our eyes from seeing. And he said, I'm going to destroy
that veil. I'm going to absolutely destroy
the veil that covers a man's mind. I'm going to destroy the
veil. And that's what you know, he
says, when Moses came down off the mountain, you know why he
had a veil on his face? Because he had been in God's
presence, and it caused his face to shine so bright that they
couldn't have looked on him. And if that's what the law did,
then he was in the presence of God. They put a veil over his
face until that glory faded away. But he says under the gospel,
he said the veil's taken from him, but he said he takes the
veil from the heart. And oh, if that glory of the
law had to put a veil over his face, and then imagine what the
gospel will do to take the veil off of your face and the glory
that's in the gospel, the glory that takes the veil off of your
heart. And that's what God said, I'm going to destroy that veil.
I'm going to destroy it. And he does. Oh, my goodness.
He says the darkness is past and the day star rises. all you know you hear about people
in the you ever heard that that thing called hoodwinked hoodwinked
somebody deceiving you hoodwinking you that's what they mean they
they deceive you to the place that they they hide hide from
you what's really happening and that's what God does he takes
away that veil where you can really see where you can really
and not only does he take it away but he destroys it it ain't
coming back there ain't gonna be no veil put back over our
hearts ain't gonna be no veil put back over our eyes that's
not gonna happen and look what else does not only does he just
take the face of the covering off of all people again it's
the same people at the feast now and then look what he says
and he'll swallow up death in victory Yes, and that's what he said
he'll swallow it up he'll swallow up death in victory You eat on
that for a while Swallow up death. Oh death where is thy sting? And I'll tell you what beloved.
He said he swallowed up death and Our Lord Jesus Christ has
the keys of death and hell. He has the keys of death. He's
the one that saves you from death. And he's the only one people
say, well, you know, you send yourself to hell. No, no, that's
not right. God said that he cast them into
outer darkness. He cast them into that place
where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. And
he's the one that's got the key. He's the only one that can open
it up for you to get there. And he's the only one that's
got the power over death. He's got the key over death.
And Beloved, when He uses that key, He opens and there ain't
nobody can shut. When He opens that heart, when
He opens that mind, when He opened it, He destroys death. Death
ain't coming back. Death ain't going to destroy
you. He swallowed it up. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ
When our Lord died, when our Lord Jesus Christ died, He destroyed
death. You say, well, you're going to
die. Yes, but that's not death. The body's going to die, but
we're not going to die. To be absent from the body is
to be where? Present with the Lord. Everyone
that's a believer. Yes, he leaves his body. Yes,
we take a body and we take it to the graveyard But we don't
take that person to the graveyard that person's with Christ That's
why I said you have a life. I give unto them life They have
life We're not going to enter into eternal life. We've got
it right now. That's why He destroyed death
and He destroyed the power over death. And you know what the
power over death is? Sin. You know what the sting
of death is? Sin. And He destroyed both of
them in His death on the cross. He destroyed sin, so it's death. I don't have to worry about sin
when I leave this world. And if I know you and how you've
trusted Christ, you won't have to worry about it. When you close
your eyes the last time, I'll never think, well, they have
to face their sin now. No, you won't. Christ done faced
it for you. And I tell you what, death won't
have a sting. You're just getting promoted,
that's all it amounts to. You're just changing. This place
here for a glorious place in glory. This old corruption is
going to put on incorruption. This mortal is going to put on
immortality. Now that will fatten your soul
up. You know, I tell you what, you
take that satisfaction of Christ and you lay that down as you
pill at night and go to bed and sleep on that satisfaction of
what Christ done. And when you understand what
Christ has done for you, as a man told me the other night, and
I was preaching and he come up to me and was talking about wanting
to go home. Every once in a while we get
to wanting to go home. We really want to go home. And I tell you
what, if you got a home, you want to go to it. You know, and
some days we really, really wanna go, but a fella come to me the
other night and he was crying. He says, you know, he said, I
didn't know anybody else ever felt that way, but sometimes
he said, I just wanna go so bad I can't, you know. And oh, listen,
one of these days it's gonna happen. And it says here, death
is, who swallowed it up? I did. Oh, death, where is you
staying? Oh, grave, where is you? Oh my,
and then look at the comfort at this feast. In verse eight,
verse seven, eight of me, excuse me, he swallowed up death in
victory. How in the world you have victory
over death? I'll tell you how. There's an
old, old story. Of a Christ who came from glory. Oh, he said, you know, Martha
said, oh, Lord, if he had been here, he had to die. He had to
die. He said, listen, he's dead. His body's dead, but he's not.
He said, oh, Lord, if he had been here, he said, you could
have kept me from dying. He says, Martha, Martha, I'm
the resurrection. I am. It's in me you're resurrected
from the dead. It's from me you have your life.
And just to show you that I am and that I do, Lazarus, come
out of there. And that's what he's gonna do,
that trumpet's gonna sound more these days than all the dead
out here in these graveyards in Christ all over the world,
as long as Christ has ever saved a soul. That trumpet's gonna
sound, and all them dead in Christ are gonna rise, and all of us
which are alive and remain, we're gonna be changed in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, and we're gonna meet Him in the air,
and we're gonna ever be with the Lord, and comfort ye one
another with these words. Oh boy, come on Lord Jesus, come
quickly, amen. And then look what else it says
about it. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all
faces. Oh my. Oh boy. This is what the gospel
does for us. You know where sorrow and suffering
show? It shows in our faces, shows
in our faces. Shows in our eyes, shows in our
faces. And when it says here, when He'll
wipe away all tears from all faces, it's just a wonderful
thing. He's gonna take away all reasons for our tears, gonna
take away every one of them. Look in Revelations 21. The only
sorrow and the only tears we shed will be here. That's why
our Lord said, blessed be they that mourn, they shall be comforted.
they shall be comforted. Look what he said. Well, look
in verse three. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with man.
And that tabernacle of God is the Lord Jesus Christ. And he
will dwell with them and they shall be his people. And God
himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes And listen to what he says. There
shall be no more death. There'll be no more sorrow. There'll
be no more crying. Neither shall there be any more
pain. Why? The former things have passed
away. That's what the gospel says. What a blessed promise we have
in the gospel. How fair is that promise? That promise, that promise
right there makes your soul so full and makes your hope so full
and makes your future so rich. Some of y'all lived in some pretty,
when you was growing up, you lived in some pretty rough houses,
lived in some pretty tough places. When I first come down here,
some of the places they lived, you know, they'd just have a
cabin, they'd build them a porch on and after a while, put boards
around it, put some tar paper around it and try to heat it.
And they always had a little house out back of the bigger
house. Wind would blow through them,
freeze to death in the winter. Now listen, that's what this
old body is here. It's just full, the wind blows
through it, got old tar paper around it. you know if you lived in one
of them and somebody says listen you get you can just get out
of this old house here where the wind blows through it and
the snow blows through it you freeze to death in it and this
old old house sticks to crumble down the leaks in the winter
and then it rains the water comes through he said if you could
leave that and go over here to this wonderful wonderful Ridge, would you feel bad about
leaving that place over there and going over here? Well, that's
what he's talking about. When this earthly tabernacle
be dissolved, we have a building made of God. Oh, listen, it gonna take away
all tears from our faces. And I'll tell you what, I'm gonna
tell you something, and I've said this before, you laugh every
chance you get, You rejoice every chance you get, and you enjoy
every day God gives you. Because I don't care how long
you live, you're going to have enough tears to cry, enough sorrows
to bring, enough burdens to bear. So you enjoy it because just
as sure as you live, you're going to end up weeping, you're going
to end up sorrowing, you're going to end up crying. And one of
these days, God said, all that's going to stop. All that's going
to stop. And then look what he says here. And not only that,
but in verse eight, he says, take away all tears from off
their faces. And then he's going to take away
the rebuke of his people. He'll take away from off all
the earth. He said, devil will take away their rebuke. What
does he mean by rebuke? Two full rebuke here. He'll not rebuke us because he
has no reason to rebuke us. He's taking away our reproach.
And you know what it means that all the people that do not believe. A fella told me here recently,
he says, you know, he's seen me with the Bible and he says,
you know, that's good for you. I'm glad you do that. That's
good for you. But it's not for me. Not for me. And then there's
people say, God don't exist. Christ don't exist. So this is
for weak people. And he's right about that. He's
for people that are so weak, they can't do nothing for themselves.
God's got to do it all. Next time somebody tells you
you're weak, say, you're exactly right. God's got to do everything
for me. And I tell you, one of these
days, he's gonna vindicate all of his people, all the rebuke,
all the lies, all the things that the world's held against
us and accused us as hypocrites, called us cultish. A preacher
told another fellow here a while back, said, you know, Donny Bell,
he's the head of nothing but a cult. That he's just got a
bunch of folks that's in a cult over there. And that's just here
recently. That's just too recently. And
so God's going to vindicate all his people. A fella told Todd
one time, said, you know, there's not enough people believe what
you do to fill a phone booth. No, he's not right about that.
Oh, no, no. Listen, God's going to, these
days, he's going to let the whole world know. These are mine. These are mine anointed. These
are my beloved. These are my vessels of honor.
These are my vessels of glory. And everything you said about
them was a lie. Everything you accused them of
was not so. And you know why it is? Because
I died for them, I put away all their sin, I justified them,
I forgive them of everything they ever done. And so everything
you said about them, you said it against me, and you charge
me for something that they're not guilty of. And then what
did they do? They didn't do nothing but believe
me and trust me. You mean they didn't do no works?
No, I did it all for them. You mean they're not the best
people on the earth? No, every one of them was sinners
and they know it when they come to me and they know it when they
leave the world. Oh, you mean they're righteous?
Yes, with my righteousness. That's what I'm talking about.
God's going to take away all rebuke. and then he's gonna turn
around and let us judge the whole world. How are we gonna judge
him? By just standing there, like Abraham did, and like Noah
did. He condemned the world when he
prepared that ark. Abraham condemned the world by
his righteousness that God gave him. Oh, listen, now you're talking
about a fat gospel. That's so much grease on that
right there. Oh, it just don't get no richer
than that, does it? And then look what it says here.
And it shall take away the reproach of all the earth. And look at
the last words that he said. The Lord hath spoken it. God said it. That's all we need. The Lord spoke. The Lord has
spoken it. And then look what else he says
here. Oh my. verse 9, look what it says here,
And this shall be said in that day, and that day when God, we
come to this feast, and He brings us to this feast, and we rejoice
in this feast when we hear the gospel, and God brings us the
gospel, and takes away that veil, and gives us this great feast,
and fills our heart with joy, and takes away the cover, It
makes us understand that we have life in Christ. And this shall
be said in that day, lo, this is our God. This is my God. He acts like
God. He does things like God does.
You notice here he didn't say anything that anybody done in
this. Nobody helped him set the table.
Nobody helped him get the feast together. Nobody helped him wipe
away tears. Everything he says here is what
God did. And this shall be said in that day. This is our God. Oh my, He saves like God. He
feeds like God. He provides like God. And we
say this is our God. We only speak what we know. We
have waited for Him and He will save us. Oh my, we're waiting. Oh, we've waited patiently for
the Lord. And oh my, I'll tell you some folks who's waited for
Him. Simeon waited on him and when he saw that infant took
him up in his arms He said Lord now let thy servant depart in
peace. Why I saw your salvation Abraham waited Noah waited And
bless his name He is our God and now he is going to always
be and we have waited for him and look what it says He will
save us. This is the Lord Salvation is
of the Lord And look what it says, we have waited for him.
And listen to this, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. His salvation. Oh my goodness. I can't rejoice
in me. I can't, oh no, I can't rejoice. He said rejoice in the Lord.
Again, I say rejoice in the Lord. And that's who we rejoice in.
Look in chapter 26 in verse four, and I'll quit. Look what he says
here. Trust in the Lord forever, for
in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Amen. Huh? Pretty good eating, ain't it? Oh, what a feast. What a feast. What a gospel. Oh Father, our God in heaven,
oh precious Heavenly Father, blessed Heavenly Father, Lord
and our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for the gospel. Thank you
for the glorious gospel of grace, a salvation full, free, and rich. Thank you for feeding us, encouraging
us, inspiring us, and upholding us. Blessed be your name for
giving us such a glorious and blessed hope. We thank you for
it. Praise your holy name. God save
your people in this place. Send in your sheep. Reach out
and speak to your sheep. I know you will. We ask these
things in Christ's name. Amen.