6.1. In the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
up, and His train filled the temple. Above here stood the
seraphims, each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face,
and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and
said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth
is full of His glory. And the post of the door moved
at the voice of Him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke. Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am
a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of hosts, Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongue
from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth,
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity
is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the
Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I, send me. You know, this is Isaiah, when
you turn back over to chapter one with me. Isaiah, he prophesied in under four kings. He said here in verse one, the
vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem. This is who he prophesied to.
Judah and Jerusalem. And these are the kings that
he prophesied in those days. Uzziah, and that's who he saw
the Lord when Uzziah died. Then he preached under Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. And here's what he says
in verse two. And this is the first thing that
he says that God gave him to say. Hear, O heavens, and give
ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. He said, You listen,
heaven. You listen, earth. God's speaking. God's speaking. God tells the
heavens to listen and the earth to listen. And God has spoken. Don't you think we ought to listen
when He speaks? He tells the heavens to listen and the earth
to listen. And I'll tell you, beloved, in
Isaiah, it's quoted more times in the New Testament than any
other prophet, quoted 65 times in the New Testament alone. And
his name is mentioned more than 20 times in the New Testament.
Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah the prophet. And in fact, our Lord
Jesus, when He entered His public ministry, He's quoted from Isaiah
61, the first three verses, and says, This day, this is fulfilled
in your ears. So they knew he was talking about
innate verses out of Isaiah 53 are quoted in the New Testament,
and our Lord quoted some of them himself out of Isaiah 53. I was
numbered with the transgressions. So he quoted some of them. So
Isaiah, and some people call it the gospel of Isaiah, because
it is full of the gospel. It is full of Christ. And we
know that the Scriptures are not in chronological order other
than the first five books. They're not in chronological
order. And we're going into the prophetic books now, and they've
got the major prophets and the minor prophets. And the only
reason they call them the major is because they've got lots of
chapters in them. And the only reason they call
them minor prophets is because they're just short books. They're
not minor in their message, they're minor in the the amount of information
that's in them. Isaiah has sixty-six chapters
in it. And as there's thirty-seven books
in the Old Testament, thirty-nine in the Old Testament, twenty-seven
in the New, sixty-six books. And Isaiah is split that way. First thirty-seven chapters,
and then the last chapter deals particularly with the Lord's
people. But holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost, and they wrote this blessed book. And all these fellows that
wrote these prophecies, these prophets, they wrote over a space
of 500 years, and yet they all had the same message, and most
of them never knew one another. And Isaiah's name mentions, his
name means, salvations of the Lord, or the Lord will save. And I guess that there's two
or three things that if I say the main message of it is, is,
you know, he shall not fail or be discouraged. Comfort ye, comfort
ye my people. Who is this that cometh up from
Edom with his garments dyed in red? The Spirit of the Lord hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. So you got Christ
mentioned in this book an incredible amount of times. And that's why
he's called Jehovah's righteous servant. That's what he's called,
Jehovah's righteous servant. And he won't fail. He will fully
accomplish, and he did accomplish, everything God gave him to do.
He said in John 17, I finished the work that you gave me to
do. Now glorify me with the glory that I had with you before the
world was. And he said, he told, Isaiah said, well, he's not going
to fail. When he comes, he ain't going to fail. He's going to
accomplish. He's going to accomplish salvation. He's going to save
his people from their sins. And beloved of the prophet, a
prophet. He's called a prophet. A prophet
is a man who God gives him a message. And he said, here Isaiah had
a vision. And you go over in chapter, I think it's 29 through
31 or 35, 22 through 30, where he says to Moab and Damascus
and Egypt. And he had all these birds and
all that God's going to do to them. So he had these different
visions at different times. But this is where he started
out his prophet. And the prophet's message was
to God's people in the day he lived in. I mean, he was dealing
with God's people. He stood up and told people things
that they didn't want to hear. Pronounced woe on them, pronounced
judgment on them, and then gave them Isaiah. It's called the
Gospel of Isaiah because he, more than anybody, gave great
comfort and encouragement to the Lord's people. When you get
to Jeremiah, it's just a message of judgment over and over and
over again. And then not only was the prophets
of the Old Testament, they declared what they told and what they
declared were infallibly true. They were infallible. God told
them things that would happen in time, and they always came
to pass. You take Isaiah 53. If nothing
else in the Bible, if men says the Bible is mixed up, the Bible
as you know faith don't come to pass. If nothing but Isaiah
53. and the fulfillment of that in our Lord Jesus Christ's life,
and death, and resurrection, and salvation, I mean if nothing
else, that that being fulfilled to such a great degree in the
New Testament by the very words that were used, that ought to
convince people that the Bible is an infallible book, told 600
years before Christ came. And then the prophet's message
is intended for God's people in this day. Isaiah has much
to say to us in this day, and all the prophets do. And I done
gave you this, I read it to you, Isaiah's vision. And he explained
here his own experience of grace. And when he done that, that's
our own experience of grace. I mean, when he saw the Lord,
and that's what happens. You see the Lord. People don't
start seeing their sin and start seeking the Lord. No, no, they
see the Lord. And when they see the Lord, that's
when they see their sin. That's why Simon Peter was out
there questioning the Lord. And he says, you know, cast the
man down on the right side. He said, Lord, we fished all
night. But when he did, that's why he said, depart from me,
Lord, I'm a sinful man. To question you. To talk back
to you. And stand up to you, question
one who with all power and grace. And here's Isaiah, he saw the
Lord how He lifted up, saw how holy He was, how righteous He
was, and saw His glory, and saw His power, and saw Him on His
throne. And then he says, then when he saw the Lord, he says,
Woe is me! That's when you see Him, you
see your sinfulness, you see your inability, you see your
loneliness. And when that happens, beloved,
then that Holy Spirit comes and takes the gospel of the sin-atoning
blood of Christ and applies it to the heart, applies it to the
soul, and washes away that sin, take away that guilt. And then,
who shall say, here I am? But his experience is about everybody's
experience in this business of salvation by grace. You've got
to see the Lord. And that's why we need people. We want people to come hear the
gospel. And that's why it's so imperative that we continually
and constantly preach Christ, set his form, his person. And
I tell you, there's no way in the world we can deal with everything
that's in this. But let's start here in chapter
1 and just go through a few things. You keep your Bible handy. But
chapter 1 shows us just how desperately we need salvation, how we need
to be made whole and acceptable to God. Look down here in verse
5. Chapter 1, verse 5. Why should
you be stricken anymore? You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. From the sole
of the foot, even under the head, there's no soundness in it. But
wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, they have not been closed. They've not been bound up. Nobody's
put any ointment on them. That's the condition of us as
individuals. And that's what he says. But
look what he says down in verse 9 now. Except the Lord of Hosts
hath left us a very small remnant, we'd have been as sodden and
like unto the Lord. God's remnant according to the
election of grace. And then look what God tells
us to do down in verse 18. Come now. Come now. Let us reason together, saith
the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. So you see, beloved, here we
are. We need this salvation. We need this redemption. And
God has an elect people in that. And look down at verse 25. Look
what our Lord Jesus Christ says about Him. Talking about bringing
us to Him and how certain our salvation is in Him. And I will
turn my hand upon thee. and purely purge away thy dross,
and take away all thy tins. I will restore thy judges as
at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward
thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful
God. Thine shall be redeemed with
judgment, and her converts with righteousness." Stand over here,
whole head sick, wounded, bruised, crucified, and full of sorrows.
God has already come to reason together, and the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Redeemed of Zion, will come in righteousness. And
chapter two shows us this, that everything, the Church and God's
kingdom will be established exactly according to His blessed purpose
and power and grace. Here's Isaiah, chapter 2, verse
1. The word that Isaiah, the son
of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come
to pass in the last days, now this last days is the days of
Christ, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established
in the top of the mountains. Mountains in the scriptures always,
always speak of a kingdom. strong, and shall be exalted
above the hills. And all nations, Jews and Gentiles,
blind and free, will flow unto it. And many people shall say,
Come, let's go up to the mountain of the Lord. Let's go up to where
we can worship God. Go up to where Christ is, to
the house of Jacob. And He'll teach us of His ways.
And what's this? And we'll walk in His paths.
We'll walk in them. You know, God's going to establish
His work, and we're going to walk in it. And then look at
this blessed word of assurance found over here in chapter 3
and verse 10. Chapter 3 and verse 10. Look at this. Oh, what a
wonderful verse here. Say ye to the righteous, say
ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they
shall eat the fruit of their doings. Tell the righteous, everything
is alright. It's going to be well with them.
Things are going to be good. And they'll eat the fruit of
their doings. And oh, and in beloved chapter 4, look at that
with me just a moment. And all the things that happens
that our Lord Jesus Christ, He'll bring you everlasting perfection
and righteousness and be exalted as He calls God's elect. Look
what it said here in verse 2. talking about our Lord Jesus
Christ. And that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent
and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And this shall
come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, he that remaineth
in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even among the ones that
is written among the living in Jerusalem. When the Lord shall
have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion. Shall
I purge the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof with the
spirit of judgment and of burning? Oh my, what a salvation we've
got to look forward to in our Lord. And I tell you, I'm just
going to quote a few of these. You don't have to turn with me.
But you remember in Isaiah chapter 7. We went through chapter 6. But Isaiah chapter 7, that's
where it says, Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
You want a sign? I'm going to give you a sign.
A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and she will bring forth
a son. And then in Isaiah 9 and 6, it
talks about a virgin. A larger picture of that is in
Isaiah 9 and 6, which says, Under us a child is born, under us
a son is given. Thou shalt call his name Wonderful,
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace. And upon his shoulders shall
the government be, and of his reign there shall be no end."
And then I tell you in Isaiah 8, and of course I can quote
this to you too, you don't have to look at it, but I tell you
it talked about how our Lord Jesus Christ was made a stone
of stumbling and a rock of offense. And this is mentioned so many
times, two or three times by our Lord Himself in the New Testament.
And He says in verse 14, and He shall be for a sanctuary for
His people. but for a stone of stumbling
and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, Judah
and Israel, for a gin and a snag to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and snagged
and be taken up." And how many people have stumbled over Christ? Stumble over Him. Stumble over
His righteousness. Stumble over His person. Stumble
over His sacrifice. Stumble over His work. And I tell you, then he's also
called the light of the world. You know, God said this in Isaiah
49. He says, You know, I'll give
thee to be a light to the Gentiles. And I'll make thee to... Those
that sat in great darkness saw a great light. And that was fulfilled
when our Lord Jesus come. He said this as it was written
in Isaiah. They that sat in darkness saw
a great light. And that's what happened to us.
We're sitting in darkness. And we saw a great light. And
I still see a light. I still see the light. The light
of the world is like you preached on. God is light. No darkness
in Him at all. And then I want you to see this
in a letter. We'll just take a minute here. I'll tell you, this has got so
much in it. I'll tell you, you ought to take
this in the next few days and go through Isaiah with this little
outline here, I believe it would be a great blessing to you. But
in chapter 11, our Lord hears the root and branch of David.
Look what it says in verse 1 and 2. And there shall come forth
a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch, our Lord has called
a branch three different times, shall grow out of his roots,
and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Look down at
verse 10. It's going to be an instant for
us. Now watch this. And in that day,
that Christ day, shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for
an instant to his people. An instant is a sign. It's a
flag. Mary and I was out in I guess it was Arizona at the
Royal Gorge, and all the way across that bridge, they had
a flag of every state going across there. Mary and I, first thing
we did, we went out there to see where the state flag of Tennessee
was. We got on that flag and had somebody take our picture.
Because, see, that's our instant for this state. And Christ is
our instant for all the people gathered around Him. He's the
sign. He's the person we go to and gather around Him. And to
Him the Gentiles shall seek, and His rest shall be glorious. Huh? Look down at verse 12. And he shall set up an instance
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather
together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. Oh my, He's going to gather His people. We're going to gather
around the Lord Jesus Christ from every place on this earth.
And then in chapters 31, 13 through 31, Our Lord Jesus Christ, when you
go through there, He calls about Babylon, and how I'm going to
break Babylon, how I'm going to destroy Babylon. Then He talks
about, in chapter 14, He said to Lucifer, the son of the morning,
God cast him down. He was Satan. He was Lucifer,
son of the morning. I will rise, I will make myself,
I will ascend above the throne. I will make myself above God.
And God cast him down. Our Lord is the Lord over the
Lucifer. He's the one who destroyed Moab
and showed that Moab has not got any power, and Damascus,
and Egypt, and even the Watchmen was there. God said, I'll deal
with every single one of you. Every single one of you. And
then look in Isaiah 22. Oh, what a blessing here. Isaiah
22. I've preached on this a couple
of times, may preach on it again. I hope I do anyway. Look what it says. Verse 22,
talking about our Lord Jesus Christ. And the key of the house of David
will I weigh upon his shoulder. 22. Isaiah 22, 22. And the key of the house of David
will I lay upon his shoulders, so he shall open and none shall
shut, and he shall shut and none shall open. And listen to this,
and I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. I'll put him as a nail in a sure
place. But oh, beloved, listen, and
he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. And listen
now, and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, the offspring, and the ishes, and all vessels of small
quantity from the vessels of cup even to the vessels of flake.
Every vessel, no matter what you are. God said, I hang it
all on him. All my glory I put on him. Oh,
bless his holy name. And then we see in Isaiah 28,
our Lord Jesus Christ, He's the one who's called the foundation.
You know this, you've read this and quoted this so many times.
He is called the beautiful one. Beautiful one. He's called here
the glorious one. The blessed one. But also at
the same time, in 28 verse 5, look what it says about Him.
In that day, shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory,
and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue, or the rest, of
his people." And meant there what we're saying, bring forth
the royal diadem, and he's going to make us to be his diadem.
And then in down in verse 16, excuse me, I think it's, no,
chapter 14. Isaiah 28. No, let's look at 16. Excuse
me. I'm sorry. Verse 16. But therefore, thus saith the
Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation of stone, of
tritestone, of precious corn of stone. And he that believeth
in him shall not make haste. Judgment I'm going to lay to
the line. Righteousness to the plummet,
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the water
shall overflow the hiding place. But not for them, that's only
foundation. Not for them whom Christ is the
foundation for. And did I tell you he's a tribe
foundation? And also in Isaiah 32, it says,
Behold a man. A man should be a covert. A man
should be for Christ. A man should be a covert from
the storm. He should be a hiding place from the storm. A man should
be that way. And it's talking about our Lord
Jesus Christ, that man to whom be a shadow and a great covert
for a hiding place, rivers of water and a dry land. And then
in 35, in chapter 35, you'll have Christ is the giver of all grace,
all grace, and His elect people will see
and experience His glory. Look what it said here. You know,
this is what happens. When you read Isaiah 35, what
you see is what happens when the gospel comes. The wilderness
blossoms as a rose. But listen to what he says here
in chapter 35, verse 4. Say to them that are of a fearful
heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with
vengeance, even God with a recompense. He will come and save you. Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap
as a harp, and the tongue of the deaf sang. For in the wilderness
shall waters break out, and streams in the desert." And look down here in verse 8.
You know, I've heard fellows preach from this in Isaiah 11,
and they both put this in the Millennial Kingdom. They put
this in the Millennial Kingdom. This is going to happen in the
Millennial Kingdom. But you go in the Gospel Age, I'm telling
you, the lame man leaps as a harp. That's exactly what happened
at the Gate Beautiful when Simon Peter said, silver and gold have
I won. For such as I give of it, that lame man went to leap
it. But then, how many people did
our Lord loosen the tongues and they spoke? If we got to wait
until we get into a thousand-year reign before any of this stuff
ever happened, what in the world does the gospel have to do with
giving us mouths to speak, ears to hear, and eyes to see? And
people who have no ability to walk in the ways of God now start
walking in the ways of God and weeping for joy and thanksgiving. And then look what he says in
verse 8, and I love this. I really like this right here.
And a highway shall be there. in this gospel age, in this gospel
way. And the highway shall be there
in a way. And it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean
won't go over that road. It won't get on that road. But
it shall be for those wayfaring men, strangers and pilgrims. And he says a fool won't ever
stumble into this thing. You don't just be walking along
and all of a sudden stumble into this way. A fool won't get into
it. And then look what he says, No
lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon.
It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk therein,
and the ransomed of the Lord shall return. come to Zion with
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and they shall obtain
joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." And then Isaiah 40 says this. I hope I'm not weird you're looking
at these, but these are just the high spots. I mean, this
is really You see why it's called the Gospel according to Isaiah.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. God said, I want
you comfort. Isaiah got untold, and people
was worried, and they was troubled, and they was heartbroken, and
things were troubled, and things were bad. I got a letter from
a missionary today, and he was describing what a sad condition
the country's in, and how people are unemployed, and the finances,
and how false religion is, and how nobody's interested in it,
and Roman Catholicism running rampant. And I'll tell you, all
you've got to do is change that and say, in Cumberland County,
Tennessee, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, New York, you
name it, right here, right here it's working. And I, you know, you're not that
way by God's blessed grace, but I tell you, beloved, and that's
why he says that all this stuff's going on. Comfort my people!
Comfort them! Speak ye comfort to Jerusalem,
crown her, that her warfare is accomplished. Warfare of what? The war with sin, the war with
self-righteousness, the war with the flesh, the war with self-confidence. The war with false religion,
the war with our idols, war with our tradition. Oh, it's been
accomplished. We've been whipped. And her iniquity's
pardoned. She's received of the Lord double
for all her sins. Look down at verse 11. Oh, listen now. He shall feed
his flock like a shepherd. See this? The good shepherd.
And he touts this nation as drops in the bucket. 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 leave
those that are with God." And this is, do you know what it
says in the next verse? He who measured the water in
the hollow of his hands, Count the nations as a drop in the
bucket. That's who says, comfort my people. That's who says he's
going to be our shepherd. That's who says he's going to
take the wheat and carry us along. That's who it is. I mean, it's
not just anybody. And then look in Isaiah 41. 41,
14, Our Lord Jesus Christ is our
blessed, blessed Redeemer. Look what He says here about
Jacob. And how many times have we quoted
this? Fear not thou worm, Jacob. Fear not thou worm, Jacob, and
you men of Israel. I'll help you, saith the Lord,
and thou Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I'm going to do it. You may be a worm. No strength. No ability, no worth, but I redeemed
you. I'm going to help you. And here's
one of those favorites we've quoted just so many times, Isaiah
42, talking about he shall not fail. He shall not fail. Behold my servant, Jehovah's
servant. Isaiah 52, 13, he's called Jehovah's
Righteous, behold my servant whom I have called, mine elect. And listen, everybody, he was
Christ's, Christ was God's first elect, and we were chosen in
him. And whom my soul delighteth,
I put my spirit upon him. He's going to bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. Listen to it. He shall not cry,
nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. He's
not going to go out and brag about himself. He's going to
go out and glorify his father. He's going to talk about his
father, and his father's word, and his father's power, and his
father's glory, and his father's work. A bruised ring shall he
not break, and the smoking crack shall he not quench. Oh, that
reed's going to break. It's going to break. Sure as
the world. No, no. It ain't going to break. I'm
going to see to it. You think you're a bruised reed. You think
you're just going to break one of these times. You're just going
to break. Just break. He said, no, you won't break.
And then you're just like a smoking flash. You don't even know at
first any fire about you, any life about you. He said it's
a smoking flash. I will not quench it. Nah. And listen to it. He shall not
fail nor be discouraged. That don't hardly sound like
the Jesus that this world generation call it on folks to trust, does
it? Oh, if you'll just trust Him,
He'll sure, you know, if He wants to save you, if you'll let Him.
There it says, you know, He ain't going to fail. He ain't going
to be discouraged. You know, you look at Him, He endured a
contradiction of sinners against Himself. He went to save sinners,
and sinners contradicted Him all the time. Ridicule him, make
fun of him, even at the cross. And even there, his last words
were, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. And then
he said, it's finished. Discouraged, Simon Peter denied
him three times, he'll not fail nor be discouraged. John will
run and flee from him, he shall not fail nor be discouraged.
Judas will betray him and sell him for thirty pieces of silver,
he shall not fail nor be discouraged. He talks and teaches His disciples
for three long years, and they still don't understand what He's
talking about. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged. And then
look at me and you, and the way we are, a portion of the time, He shall
not fail, nor be discouraged. Huh? Oh, bless His name. All right.
And then in Isaiah 43, and this is some of Ed's favorite verses,
wasn't it? This is something that Ed looked
at and read a lot when he got sick. And I think Brother Henry
May had wrote him a letter and quoted these verses to him here.
He said in Isaiah 43, But now thus saith the Lord, that created
thee, O Jacob, He that formeth thee, O Israel, fear not, for
I have redeemed thee." Listen to this now. I called by name. You're mine. When you pass through
the waters, I'll be with you. And when you go through the rivers,
they'll not overflow. And when you walk through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the
Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia, Sabaphus, he gave the world for his people. Destroyed
nations to save his people. Since thou was precious in my
sight, thou hast been honorable, I have loved you, therefore I
give men for thee and people for thy life." Oh, he's going
to protect us, he's going to keep us, see to it that we come
safely. And then in Isaiah 45, you don't
have to look at it, but he says, look unto me. Look unto Me and
be ye saved. All the ends of the earth, for
I'm a just God, a just God and a Savior. Look unto Me, be ye saved. Why, I'm a just God and I'm a
Savior, and if you ever find out how a just God can be a Savior,
then you'll understand the gospel. How at the same time, He can
be absolutely just, punish you for your sins, send you to death,
send you to suffer for your sins, send you to death, and at the
same time, save you from your sin. And the only way that can
be done is for Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, to come and say, I'll become
them, and you make them be mine. And not God in justice, and justly
condemned His Son, judged His Son, put our sin on His son,
and punish Him in our room and place, and then God in sovereign
mercy comes and saves us because of what Christ did. But you're going to have to trust
Him. He's the one who did it. Oh,
my. And then I tell you what. And
then I said, fifty-three, what can you say about that? With
His stripes we're healed. wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities. There, beloved, we see our substitute,
our great, great sacrifice, our sin-atoning Savior, when God
shall make His soul an offering for sin, when He pleased the
Lord to bruise Him, and He saw the travail of His soul, and
He said, I'm satisfied. Christ was satisfied with the
travail of His soul. God was satisfied with the pain
of His soul. Lord was satisfied with the travail
of His soul. Justice was satisfied with the
travail of His soul. And that's how God can save us,
because Christ satisfied, God satisfied, the Lord satisfied.
And, oh, Isaiah 53. And then let me close with this
in Isaiah 65. Oh, what a... Oh, Christ is in
there so much. But now, you know, And our Lord
Jesus Christ is one of these days, He makes us new creatures,
but He's going to soon make all things new. Look at Isaiah 65
and verse 17. Soon He's going to make all things
new. For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come
into mind. But be ye glad and rejoiced forever. For the old I create, Jerusalem
rejoicing, and her people a-joying. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no
more heard in earth, nor the voice of crying. There shall
be no more an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not
filled his day." And look what I tell you, and you know what
our Lord Jesus Christ said? He says, You know, behold, I
make a new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
This earth here shall melt with a fervent heat. The heavens will
be consumed. And then Isaiah says this, I
saw a new heaven and new earth for the first heaven and first
earth were passed away. No more sea. I saw that new Jerusalem,
that heavenly city, holy city coming down. I heard a voice
saying, the tabernacle of God's with men. God's come down to
be with men. And he'll dwell with them. That's
our Lord Jesus. And they shall be his people.
God himself shall be with them and be their God. Listen now.
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. No more dead. No more graveyards. No more caskets. No more tears. No more Stones
to be put over a grave was somebody's day of birth and day of passing. No sorrow, no crying, no more
pain. All things, the former things,
are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write, for
these things are true and faithful. And he said, Unto me is done. It's done. It's done. Oh, what a gospel. What a gospel. What a blessed
Savior. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Hallelujah,
what a Savior. I pray that was a blessing to
you.