Isaiah 63 this evening, and I'm entitling the message from a question that is asked in verse 1 and the second question in verse 2, and the question is asked in verse 1 of Isaiah 63, who is this? Who is this one that's coming? Who is this one that's traveling in the greatness of his strength?

And the answer comes back, I that speak in righteousness, I'm the mighty, almighty God and Savior. Now, Isaiah is not asking this question out of ignorance, but rather out of utter and overwhelming amazement that our great and glorious Lord and God and Savior would undertake such a glorious, redeeming work on our behalf. In Isaiah 62, verse 11 and 12, behold, thy salvation cometh. Behold, his reward is with him. His work is before him. And they shall call them a holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. And thou shalt be called sought out.

A city not forsaken, the Lord has sought us out, made us new creatures in Christ. One of the old commentators, the old preachers that I read after Robert Hawker, middle 1800s, London, England, said of these verses, here's what he said, never was there a more glorious description of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ that is given here to the church in the language of prophecy So many years before the coming of the Lord to actually accomplish our salvation for us. These verses were given, 700, this prophecy was given about the coming of the Lord and suffering for our sin 700 years before He came. And yet, everything that God says will come to pass. Nothing will not be fulfilled that is written of Him.

We studied this verse in Acts chapter 10 verse 43, where it says, to him, give all the prophets witness. To him, to the Lord Jesus Christ. Give all the prophets witness. No matter if you start in Moses, Genesis, all the way through the Old Testament, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, and others, tell us about the salvation that is of the Lord. who he is and what he's done for us. Our Lord said to those Jews, he said, you search the scriptures and in them you think you have eternal life. They are they which testify of me and you will not come to me that you might have life. Had you believed Moses, you would have believed me because he said Moses wrote about the Lord Jesus Christ.

This whole book, Old Testament News, is all about who he is, all about what he's done for us. The declaration of the gospel of Jesus Christ is not what we must do for him, as if salvation depended upon us, but rather the declaration of the gospel is this, what Christ has done for us.

He's done everything for us. He put away our sin. He established righteousness for us. He saved us by His grace. He has done everything for us. That's why we often say that salvation is of the Lord. That is, our salvation depends entirely and completely upon the Lord Jesus Christ, accomplished by Him and applied by Him.

As it says in verse 7 of Isaiah 63, I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us. You see, it's what He's done for us. God who has begun a good work in you, He will perform it. You remember Philippians 1 verse 6, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which He has bestowed upon them according to His mercies. according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

It's all according to what he's done for us, not our salvation. God's not waiting upon us. He came to us. We were lost sheep going astray and the Lord found us, sought us out. Now I want to consider Isaiah's amazing questions and then answer them as the Lord gives these words, and then let us pray that the Lord will bless his word to our understanding that we might rest in the Lord Jesus Christ for all of our salvation. We have no other hope, do we, than Jesus Christ and him crucified.

I mean, he's not some of our hope, part of our hope, he's all of our hope. As Paul writes to the Colossians, Christ is all, and in all. In Him dwells all the fullness of a Godhead bodily and we are complete in Him. Nothing need to be added. Everything that God demands of a sinner, the Lord Jesus Christ provided for us. Everything. He's our wisdom. He's our righteousness. He's our sanctification. He's our redemption. He's our all and in all. That's our hope. That's our hope. Christ is all and in all. Now, verse 1, who is this? Now, we know right away because the gospel of Isaiah is all about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But it asks this question, who is this that cometh from Edom? Edom were those who were sworn enemies to Israel. The Edomites hated, hated the God of Israel. Who is this that cometh from Edom? The Lord Jesus Christ came from among enemies, didn't he? He came into his own, his own received him not. When Pilate brought him forth and said, behold, your king, what did they say? What did his own kinfolk and people say? Away with him. Crucify him. We have no king but Caesar.

Who is this that cometh from the camp of the enemy? with dyed garments, dyed garments from Basra. That's the chief city of the Edomites. That is glorious, glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness, the greatness of his strength. I that speak in righteousness, Aren't you glad that He's mighty to save, that He's the Almighty God, our Savior?

Who is this One who returns from the battlefield with glorious victory? Glorious victory! The answer is obvious to those taught of the Lord. It's none other than the blessed Redeemer, who is the Captain of our salvation. He's a mighty conqueror, isn't He? You remember when we studied through the Revelation, Revelation chapter 6 verse 2, And when I said this, when we studied that, I said this, Revelation 6 verse 2 was one of the key verses.

And it says, he went forth conquering and to conquer. But notice, this mighty one that comes, the one who cannot fail, is victorious. He's never lost a battle. But he comes from the battlefield not worn out nor weak. or tired, but traveling in the greatness of His glory, the greatness of His resurrection glory, where God raised Him from the dead, and not only that, being ascended back to the Father, and He's seated on the throne of God. You see, the Lord came and accomplished our salvation, but He's not a weak, defeated, frustrated, He's a mighty conquering king who defeated all his enemies. He comes from the battlefield not worn out, nor weak, nor tired, nor weary, but traveling in the greatness of his strength. How great is his strength? He said, I'm God. Beside me, there is no other. He has almighty power, almighty strength. Who is this one?

The Lord inspires Isaiah to ask the question. the Lord gives us an answer as he describes himself. I love reading the scripture where the Lord asks a question and then he gives us the answer. It's good to know the question, but it's better to know the answer to the question. And the Lord describes this one who comes from Edom with dyed bloody garments.

He says, I that speak, Traveling in the greatness of his strength not defeated but victorious I that speak in righteousness Mighty to say I love those two things First he speaks in righteousness Can the Lord Jesus Christ do otherwise? To speak in absolute truth. He said I am the truth Can he? It's impossible for God to lie. I would speak in righteousness. Can the Lord Jesus Christ do otherwise? Seeing he is righteous and holy in all his ways and all his doings, seeing he is called the Lord, our righteousness. He speaks in righteousness. His word is without deceit, without defect, without error.

It never returned to him void. You remember Isaiah? 55 verse 11, I think it is. He said, my word will not return unto me void, but it will prosper in the thing whereunto I send it. He prospers in all that he does. It's impossible, impossible for God to lie. Take your Bible there and turn to Isaiah 45, 19. Isaiah 45, 19. Isaiah 45, verse 19. Isaiah 45, 19. I've not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob. Seek ye me in vain.

I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. Turn. Let's stay right here in Isaiah. 45 look at verse 23 surely shall one say in the Lord. I have righteousness Isaiah 45 24 Surely shall one say in the Lord I have righteousness and strength even to him shall men come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed and In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. So he speaks in righteousness. He speaks in righteousness, and he speaks of righteousness.

He speaks of our lack of it. Look just across the page, Isaiah 64, verse 6. We'll look at this next week, Lord willing. But we're all as an unclean thing, verse 6. And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags, and we do fade as a leaf. Our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. He speaks of righteousness, our lack of it, and our need of it. You remember Matthew 5, verse 20, except your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall no wise enter in.

He is the revealer of righteousness, isn't he? The righteousness of God revealed in the gospel. Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believe it, to the Jew and also the Gentile, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed. In the gospel, how God can be just and justify the ungodly. That's why the Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3, I count all things but lost, dung, and ruined.

They may win Christ and be found in him who is all my righteousness before God. Blessed is that man to whom the Lord imputed righteousness without works. You see, I speak in righteousness, he speaks in righteousness, of righteousness, and he reveals himself to us who is all our righteousness before God.

Think about that now. Here, this poor and needy, guilty sinner has a blessed, blessed righteousness charged to my account. The Lord Jesus Christ is all the believer's righteousness before God. Is that enough? If that's all you got, you got everything. Christ is everything in salvation.

So he said, I speak in righteousness, traveling in the greatness of my strength. He's no weak-kneed, pitiful savior. He's almighty God, able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him. I that speak in righteousness. Now watch this. Second part, he said, I'm mighty to save.

Now, what does a dead, guilty, vile sinner need? He needs a mighty Savior. What does a great sinner need? A great, almighty Savior. That's what we have in Christ. He is the almighty Savior. Verse 5, He says He has all power. Look at verse 5. I looked, and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to help. Therefore, my own arm.

And we know that word there, arm, is a symbol of power. to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, Isaiah 53.1, the power of the Lord revealed. I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to help or uphold. Therefore, my own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury, my zeal, my love, it upheld me.

He's mighty to save. He has all power to save. You remember the Lord prayed in John 17, remember? Father, you've given me power over all flesh that I should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given to me. And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. He says in verse eight, he said, I'm their savior. I'm their Savior, for He said, surely thou art my people, children that will not lie. Now, what are we by nature? We're liars. But in the Lord Jesus Christ, we will not lie. We cannot lie.

So He was their Savior. What do sinners need? A Savior. He was their Savior. Call His name Jesus. Why? What does that mean, Jesus? Savior. For he shall save his people from their sin. He is almighty to save. The scripture is written that the virgin shall conceive and bring forth a child. This one who is called Jesus is Emmanuel, which is what? God with us. So he's our Savior and he's God. What does that mean, he's God our Savior?

That means that he is Mighty to save, right? I'm thankful he's mighty, mighty to save. There is salvation in no other. Peter and John declared before that council in Acts chapter four, neither is there salvation in any other, nor the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. He is the angel of the Lord presence that saves us. He is a savior that saves us. This word mighty in verse one is power.

It is also the meaning of an abundance. The Lord is abundant in mercy. He bestows that he bestows upon his people. The last part of verse seven, let's read verse seven again. I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that he bestowed on us. and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses." Multitudes of mercy.

He's abundant in mercy. You can't exhaust the storehouse of his mercy. They're new every morning. New every morning. He is our deliverer who has delivered us. He is God, our Savior, and there is no other Savior. Again, this is plenty declaring unto us one more time that what? Salvation's of the Lord. Salvation's of the Lord.

He purposed it. You remember he's a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He accomplished it. We sang just a moment ago, what did he cry? It is finished was his cry. He accomplished it, he purposed it, and you know what he does? He applies it. He applies it. He doesn't wait for our permission to apply it. He makes us willing in a day of his power. He makes us willing in a day of his power. God who has begun a good work in you, he'll finish it. You'll finish it. Now, here's the second question in verse 2. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat? Now you get the picture.

I guess years ago when they would make wine They would take a big barrel of some kind of wine fat or maybe something out of concrete, I'm not sure, but they would fill it up with grapes and they would get someone in there to stomp the grapes. You've probably seen pictures of that. Well, by the end of the day, what would they look like? I mean, they'd just be covered with grape juice. They would just be dripping, dripping with red grape juice.

And that's exactly, and that's a picture of Christ redeeming blood for us. Christ redeeming blood. He asked another question, for he sees the Lord of glory not only clothed in majesty and power and the greatness of his strength as a mighty God, but he also sees the Lord dressed in his humanity, for he is the God-man meteor. Isaiah sees him clothed in garments as a servant, red in his apparel. That's why I read over here in Philippians chapter 2. Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. of men and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Yes, he is the almighty God, and yet he is a God-man mediator coming here to suffer as a man for our sin. Remember Isaiah 53, a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief.

His garments in the transfiguration, remember when he was transfigured before the apostles with Moses and Elijah? His garments at his transfiguration were white, whiter than snow, whiter than a fuller on earth could be whited them. His robe of righteousness is fine linen, clean and white.

But red here is the color of man, man. The word Adam means red man of the earth. Although white and holy in his deity, he took to his deity and married our humanity apart from sin. He was a real man. That's how he came and suffered as a man of sorrows. The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. So red is the color of man. The word Adam means red man of the earth. Red is also the color of sin or a redemption from sin by his blood. We are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. His blood, the blood of God's Son cleanses us from all our sin.

He not only took our humanity to himself, but he took our sin to himself. He bare our sin in his own body on the tree. God made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. The winepress that the Lord endured was the winepress of His wrath, the wrath of God that He endured for His people as a substitute Christ suffered once for our sin. The just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God in the only way that he's gonna bring us to God being justified as to his blood. That's what's going on at Calvary. He's treading the winepress of the wrath of God alone.

When we see the Lord Jesus Christ immersed in the wrath of God for our sin that's laid against him, you see, it pleased the Lord to bruise him in our room and in our stead as our substitute, as our substitute, wounded for our transgression, bruised for our iniquity, The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes, we're healed.

We're healed. We have these old wretched bodies that are falling apart. We were talking about that earlier. We've all got health issues of one kind or another, because this body is just getting weak and decaying, and really, the essence of it, this body is dying, back to the dust. But in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are healed. We're made new in him. We're new creatures in Christ.

Those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will never die. You know that? That's what he said in John chapter 11. He that believeth in me, though he are dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. We're going to put this body in the ground, but you're not going to put me in the ground. Because to be at the body is to be present with the Lord. That's what happens when a believer dies.

What did the Lord tell that dying thief? Today, we're going to paradise. We're going to paradise right now. We're going to die pretty soon, and we're going to paradise. Because the Lord endured this for us, putting away our sin, making complete atonement for them, Now there's no condemnation to those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember our study from Romans 8 where it says, He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that has died. yea rather, risen from the dead and seated at the right hand of God. There's no wrath and no condemnation to those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Several times the Lord calls this to our attention.

He endured this alone, as it says in verse 3, I've trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with me. I'll tread them in my anger and trample them in my fury, talking about our sin, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garment, and I'll stain my raiment. Look at verse 5. I looked, and there was none to help. I wondered that there was none to help and uphold.

Therefore, my own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury upheld it. He accomplished salvation for us. There was none to help, none to uphold Him. Not among men, but it says in Isaiah 50, I have laid help upon one that was mighty. What a wonder that He Himself accomplished salvation with Himself, by Himself. When He by Himself purged our sin, He sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. The salvation that the Lord accomplished for us was His doing alone. Christ wins the victory for us in saving His people by His blood, through His blood, by His grace.

Turn back to Isaiah 44. You remember this scripture? Isaiah 44, 21. Isaiah 44, 21. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee. Thou art my servant, O Israel. Thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgression and the cloud thy sins. Return unto me, for I have redeemed thee.

Sing, O heavens, for the Lord hath done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forests, and every tree. Therein for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel. The Lord had done it. And he freely gives us the victory. Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ over sin, over death, over hell.

He said, I'm he that liveth and was dead. Behold, I'm alive forevermore. And because he lives, we live in him. One last thing. Verse 4 and then verse 6. The day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. Verse 6. I will tread down the people in mine anger, make them drunk in my fury. I'll bring down their strength to the earth. Consider this thought in closing.

While the Lord Jesus Christ redeems His people, He also judges and defeats all our enemies sin, Satan, death, hell, and the grave. Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them himself. The Lord takes vengeance upon our sin, upon our enemies, and saves us from the wrath to come. He will bring down the strength of all enemies and deliver us.

What a glorious Lord, God, and Savior we have. And we give thanks to the Lord. Who is this? Who is this one that comes to meet Him? He's the Lord Jesus Christ, traveling in the greatness of His strength. I that speak in righteousness, the mighty Savior. He's the one we need. He's the one that's sent of God.