Double Honor

Q: What does the Bible say about double honor?

The Bible teaches that believers will receive double honor as a reward for their shame, signifying God's grace and restoration. In Isaiah 61:7, God promises His people that for their shame, they shall receive double honor. This concept represents a restoration from the grief and dishonor that God's people have borne due to their sin and trials. It highlights God's incredible grace and the blessings He bestows upon His people, making them participants in His glory and honor. This is not just an external recognition, but it reflects the internal transformation that takes place when God works in the hearts of His people, calling them out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of election is true?

The doctrine of election is affirmed through scripture, as God chooses individuals based on His sovereign will and purpose. Election is a foundational doctrine in Reformed theology, supported by numerous biblical references that highlight God's sovereign choice. In Isaiah 61, God speaks through the prophet, declaring that He will call and redeem His elect. Ephesians 1:4-5 reaffirms this doctrine, stating that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. This election is not based on any foreseen merit or action on our part but is solely rooted in God's grace and purposeful will. The assurance of this doctrine gives believers comfort in knowing that their salvation is secured by God's unchanging purpose.

Q: Why is the gospel important for Christians?

The gospel is crucial for Christians because it is the means through which they are saved and called to share God's grace with others. The gospel is the cornerstone of the Christian faith, representing the good news of Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection for the salvation of His people. According to Romans 1:16, the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. It is through the gospel that individuals are called out of darkness, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and equipped to become witnesses of God's grace to the world. In sharing the gospel, Christians fulfill Christ's command to spread His message, allowing others to experience the transformative grace that they themselves have received. This underscores the importance of living out the implications of the gospel in everyday life.

Q: What does it mean to be a minister of God?

Being a minister of God means serving as a witness to the truth of the gospel and leading others to Christ. In Isaiah 61:6, the Bible declares that God's people will be called priests and ministers of the Lord. This calling embodies the believer's role in reflecting Christ's character and sharing the gospel with others. It signifies serving not just as an individual fulfilling a role, but as part of the body of Christ. Each believer is equipped to minister by sharing their testimony and proclaiming the truth of God's Word, supporting and encouraging one another. The honor comes not from personal achievement but from participating in God's redemptive work by heralding the message of salvation and inviting others into the fellowship of believers.

go as far as I can in the time we have. I may not get through this. And I want to go slow because I want you to see it. It's really, really a blessing. And I like to tell you the context because it's so important. We know through Isaiah 60, it's the Lord speaking. Christ is speaking. And he said, He was speaking to his elect amongst the Jews, who he called out when he first came. He came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. He said, arise and shine, thy light has come.

And he gave all these promises, all through Isaiah 60, of what he would do in them, to them, and with them, using them to preach, and how he would call out Gentiles. Then in Isaiah 61, in the first three verses, we saw how that He said, he's the preacher. Christ is the preacher. And he was sent to bind up the broken hearted, and he gives the oil of the spirit, he brings us to believe on him, comforts us through the gospel, what he's done for us. Now tonight, we're gonna pick up in verse four, and he's speaking particularly to the elect he called out amongst the Jews. He's speaking to Peter and Paul and James and John and declaring once he had done all that work, he said there in those first three verses, binding up their broken heart, proclaiming liberty to the captives, opened the prison, gave them faith in Christ.

And then he declares through their preaching, he's going to call out some Gentiles. and here's what they're gonna do. He said in verse four, and they shall build the old wastes, and they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

And then he says, and strangers, us Gentiles, shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien. This is the, you had the first Gentile believers, then their sons that believed, and their sons that believed. This is all the way down to us. He said, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the priests of the Lord. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

For your shame you shall have double." He means you've been bearing shame, now I'm going to give you something doubly better than the shame you've had. I'm going to give you double in place of your shame, something far better. He said, and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion, in their inheritance. Therefore, in their land they shall possess the double.

Everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I, the Lord, love judgment. I hate robbery for burnt offering. And I will direct their work in truth. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. and their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. We'll read a little further when we get down there, but I wanna just stop right there for now.

Now, the Lord gives us double. He gives us better, better, better than where he found us. He saves us and gives us everlasting joy. And he gives us the privilege of being witnesses by which he saves others. He gives us the privilege of knowing him and being saved by him and all the blessings that go with that. And on top of that, it gives you the privilege of being used of him to be witnesses of him through which he saves others.

But I didn't tell Ben what my message was. He just read that scripture. But that's a good scripture to go with this. The Lord said, go into the world and preach the gospel. And here he's declaring what he's doing through the gospel. We're going to see how he used builders to build us. And then he uses us as builders to build others. He used plowmen to plow us. And then he made us plowmen. He planted others. And then we're gonna see the double honor and the way that men are gonna know we're the Lord's.

Now, first of all, through the gospel, Christ builds us and makes us builders. He made Paul and James and John and Peter, he made them builders. He did all that work in those first three verses, called them out of darkness, gave them faith, regenerated them, gave them faith, made them know him. and they went forth and preached the gospel, and he called out Gentiles, and it said, verse four, and they shall build the old wastes, and they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Now the temporal fulfillment where he pictured this, the earthy illustration, the Lord called Israel out of bondage, out of Babylonian bondage, and they went back to Jerusalem, and they built the city of Jerusalem and all the waste places that had lain destroyed by the enemy. That was the carnal illustration, the carnal picture. But the spiritual fulfillment is the Lord came and himself redeemed his people by laying down his life for us. He delivered us at the cross by laying down his life for his people. And then he used the apostles to start preaching the gospel and he started calling out Gentiles and building the waste places.

The old waste places and the desolations, that's us. You and me and all God's people who he saves, we're the desolated, ruined, destroyed places. It's a great analogy of us because in Adam, we sinned and we became wasted, desolated, ravaged, ruined, totally useless.

That's what we became. In Adam all died, guilty before the law, spiritually dead by nature, wasted, desolated by sin, ruined by sin. But in Christ all his people shall be made alive. All his people should be made, everything that we have to be, to be accepted of holy God by Christ and what he does. Now, you've seen pictures of cities where they've been bombed and it's just been, they've been desolated and there's nothing but rubble, just broken down, ruined rubble is all that's left. You've seen that, pictures of that.

Can a desolated city build itself back? Can a ravaged, ruined, destroyed building build itself back up? You say, Clay, that's absurd. Of course they can't. Dead stones can't build themselves back up. A ruined city can't build itself back up. It's more absurd for a false preacher to tell ruined sinners they can build themselves back up by doing something. It's more absurd.

If I stood up here and told you Gaza's gonna build itself back, those buildings are gonna build themselves back up, you'd say, Clay, you're crazy. And men sit and listen to false preachers tell dead, ruined, desolated sinners they can do something to build themselves back up. That's more absurd than if I said a building somebody knocked down could build itself back. This is how the Lord promised we would know, how the world would know, how men and women would know that we're different from all other religions. This is how he says they would know.

We give glory where glory is due. We give all the praise and glory to God alone, to Christ alone. It's by God's grace, he built us up. I was gonna read Isaiah 36, I hope you'll go home and read it tonight. The Lord gives the same message as here. But he said, when he's done all the work that he's gonna do here, he said, then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places. and plant that that was desolate. I the Lord have spoken it, I will do it. That's the point. That's what he's teaching us here. I build the ruined places. He saves sinners, not us. A building has to have a foundation. If a building doesn't have a foundation, it will not stand. The Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation. He's the foundation.

You remember when we looked at the tabernacle? The foundation of the tabernacle was made by redemption silver. They took the shekel of the sanctuary that they brought to redeem their firstborn. God said he commanded them, bring the shekel, pure shekel, for your firstborn to redeem your firstborn, signifying that the Lord redeemed his people out of Israel, picturing how Christ redeemed us. They took that silver and they melted it down and they made these giant silver sockets and all those boards in that tabernacle fit in those giant triangular-shaped sockets, and the tension held that tabernacle up. So when the priest went in there, every bit of the work they did that the Lord gave them to do, they didn't add to that foundation.

That foundation was already laid, that silver foundation. Well, brethren, Christ is the foundation. He came and redeemed his people from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. He justified us, he made us righteous. There's nothing else that can be done to satisfy the law of God. He gave it all and he is the foundation. Nothing we do is gonna add to that foundation.

Peter stood up and he preached and he said, this is the stone which you builders rejected. And he said, each become the head of the corner. Peter told them, you fulfilled that scripture God gave way back there. You are the ones who rejected the chief cornerstone. You rejected Christ the foundation, but God raised him up. And there's no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved.

He is the one way. He's the one way. Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. To build a building, the stones have to be built up on that foundation. You're built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the cheap cornerstone. He was their foundation, they preached him as the foundation, and you're built on their foundation, Christ Jesus. in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you're built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." God's in his people and in his church. Christ took us old dead stones and built us up, framed us together. We saw not long ago, he's ours arrivable.

He saved the first sinner the same way he's gonna save the last sinner and everyone in between. Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord." It's a spiritual work, a spiritual work. He shall bring forth the headstone thereof, the last stone he puts in the building. He's going to bring it forth just like he brought the very first one, crying, grace, grace unto it, and fitly frame it in the building. And that's how he saves every single person he saves. He comes and says, grace, grace.

He saved us by grace. And he said, he said, the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands also shall finish it. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you. This is how the people are gonna know where he is. We're gonna declare this message. He did it all.

So he used builders, to build us, now we're going forth preaching, and he's using us to build others, he's calling others. All right, then he said, he used shepherds, under shepherds to save us, and then when he saved us, he makes us under shepherds, and he saves more of his sheep. Look here, verse five.

He said, and strangers, Gentiles, shall stand and feed your flocks. Now he's speaking to his, Jewish saints that he's called out, and he said, strangers shall stand and feed your flocks. Can you imagine how they, those that had the spiritual discernment in Isaiah's day, don't you know this was an amazing message to them, to hear they're gonna have Gentile brethren? And he said, why does he call us strangers? And he calls us an alien.

Because you know, Ephesians 2.12 says we were without Christ. We were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. We were strangers from the covenants of promise. We had no hope. We were without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were sometimes afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

He is our peace who's made both one. That's the message he's declaring in Isaiah 61. He's telling his saints that he saved among the Jews, I'm making you one house and one flock with your Gentile brothers and sisters. And he's telling us he's doing all the work.

Christ is the shepherd and he makes us his under shepherds and he calls his sheep. and he uses his sheep to be witnesses. You don't have to be a preacher to be a witness. We're all witnesses of the Lord. We're all sending this gospel forth, and he's using us as his witnesses.

Go with me to John 10. The text we're preaching, we're looking at tonight, Peter and James and John, Andrew they all heard Christ declare this message right there in front of them one day right here John 10 and verse 14 In our part in our text he said strangers shall stand and feed your flocks He said right here. I am the Good Shepherd John 10 14 I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine and As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this Jewish fold, them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

Why was it a must that he call us Gentiles? Why was that a must? He said, them I must call, because he justified us. That's the first thing, he justified. He justified every sinner for whom he laid down his life. He said, I know my sheep, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And his blood justified everybody he died for. Don't ever let anybody say, tell you, that he just made it possible to be justified. He justified his people. His blood washed away the sins of his people. He saved his people. He redeemed his people. When he said it is finished, that's exactly what he was declaring.

And that's why he must call us Gentiles and others, wherever his people are. It really doesn't matter what nation they're in or who they are. If He died for them, He justified them, and for that reason He must call them, because God will not pour out justice a second time. He will not punish those He's already poured out His wrath on in Christ crucified. The work's finished.

They must be called to faith in Christ. And the second reason is, He promised the Father He would bring us all to the Father. That's why right after that, he said, when I call them, they will follow me, and they will no longer hear the voice of a stranger, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand. He has to bring them to the Father. He promised it. He gave his word. His very character demands it. He will do it. He will do it. But you see there, he makes us one fold. Jew and Gentile, one fold. We have one shepherd. And so right now, we're doing what he said we would do. We're standing, and we're feeding their flocks. You are the flock of Peter, James, and John. It started with them, and it came to us. And you are their children, you are their flocks, and we're feeding their flock.

We're sending the gospel forth, and other sheep are hearing it and being blessed by it. were doing what he said he would do, and it's all by his grace. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and gently lead those that are with him, and he'll never lose one.

And then he said he used plowmen to plant us, and he made us plowmen, and he's gonna bless the word, and we're gonna plant others. Verse five, the second part, and the sons of the alien, this is the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren, the sons of the Gentile that I first called, he said, shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. Several times in scripture, the Lord describes his church as a vineyard.

He planted it with the choice seed, he said. Christ is that seed. Christ the seed came down. The Son of God, the only begotten seed of God came down. And he said, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it shall bring forth much fruit. You got some seed. You can keep it. You can cook it and just have one mess of corn or peas or whatever you got, or you can plant it and it'll grow, and it'll make a whole bunch more, and you can have a whole bunch more than just one meal. Christ went to the cross, and he laid down his life, and he bore the justice of God, and he died for his people, and satisfied justice, and then he arose.

And when he came out of that ground, he was the vine coming out of the ground, out of that broken seed. And he said, I'm the vine, you're the branches. When he calls us, he grafts us into the vine and makes us partakers of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Everything, every blessing we have, life, faith, repentance, every gift, every bit of understanding, everything we have comes from our being inseparably united to our Lord Jesus, the vine, the olive tree.

And now, this. We're preaching. We're plowman. The hard, hard in centers has got to be broken. Just like you can't just go out and scatter seed on the ground. Some might grow, but most likely it won't because it's hard ground. The hard heart in centers has got to be broke. You've got to be tealed. It's got to be plowed up.

But brethren, we can't do that. We can't break a man's heart. You can't make another person do anything spiritually. You can't give them a new heart, and you can't make them do anything spiritual. Only the Lord can do that, and He does it only through the gospel. No preacher can do that in any center. We don't ever want to pressure anybody. Don't ever pressure anybody. Never. Woe to the man that does that. That's the mark of a Pharisee. compelling folks to do what they think they ought to do. That's what Pharisees do. Squeezing them, making them feel guilty if they don't do what they command them to do.

God's people don't operate like that, because we've experienced the power of God, and we know we don't have to. We want to sow to the spirit, not the flesh. When you start trying to force people to do what you'd have them to do, that's sowing to the flesh, and we'll reap what we sow. Sowing to the spirit is preaching the gospel of Christ, praying to Christ to bless it, and waiting on Christ to bless it. And sometimes you have to wait a long time. I've never tried to force anybody to do anything that I've preached to. I preach to you, I pray for you, I wait on the Lord to bless it.

And that's hard work because our nature is to try to make people do what we think they ought to do. That's our sinful lusts. That's the pharisaical lust of our flesh to try to make people do what we think they should do. We've seen all through Isaiah 60, the Lord said he does the work.

We saw in Isaiah 61, one through three, he said, I bless the word. He said, there'll be the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified. Paul said, who is Paul? Who is Apollos? We're ministers by whom you believe the gospel. even as the Lord gave to every man. The Lord gives the preacher, the Lord gives the message, the Lord gives it in the heart of his people. He said, I've planted, a pile is watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.

And we're not in competition. He said, all his ministers are one. And he said, we are laborers together with God, but you're God's husbandry, you're God's building. He's the builder and he's the husbandman taking care of the vineyard. Pharisees claim they want to honor God. That's what they're claiming. They want to obey God, trust and obey, trust and obey. Oh, they preach that love, that song, trust and obey, and they really want to emphasize the obey part.

And so if somebody doesn't outwardly look like they think they look, they're going to cut them. They're going to cut them off, cut them down, cut them with a tongue, cut them with discipline, cut them, cut them, cut them. That's why Paul called them the circumcision. He said they're the concisions what they are. He said I wish they'd cut themselves off.

He said we're the circumcision who worship God in spirit. rejoice in Christ the Lord and have no confidence in our flesh. But the person that's doing that, they try to separate the wheat and the tares, they're not obeying the Lord. The Lord said, love one another like I've loved you.

That means you're going to have to be merciful and forgive their unrighteousness, believing that Christ really put their sin away. Because he said he really did put the sin of his people away. He said he will remember our sin no more. God said, for his sake, I'll be merciful to your unrighteousness. You want to obey the Lord? Be merciful to your brother's unrighteousness. Restore them with the gospel. Preach Christ to them. Pray to Christ to bless it. Wait on Christ to bless it. That's loving your brethren. And that's believing Christ, because he's the only one that can work the Word. But taking matters into our own hands, that's not obeying the Lord at all. He said, you do not try to separate the wheat from the tares. You can't tell. You can't tell. You'll pull up the wheat and leave the tares. No, I'll make them plowmen, and they're going to preach me, and they're going to pray to me and wait on me, and I'll bless their words.

That's what he's declaring here. That's how you gonna tell my people that I've blessed from the rest of this world, this false religious world. Next, he says, he gives double honor. This is what I titled it, double honor, and I'll be brief right here. He gives us honor from sinners who he saves that are grateful that we preached Christ and trusted Christ to work And now we're partaking of the same riches together. Look here, verse six.

He said, after he said all this, he said, but you shall be named a priest of the Lord. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. For your shame, you shall have double. He said, I'm gonna take away your shame. And he said, and this is gonna be the honor I'm gonna give you.

What a blessing, brother, what a privilege. First of all, Christ makes all his people kings and priests unto God. He did that by his blood. He said in Revelation 1-5, unto Christ that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen. We don't want the honor, we want him to have it. And yet Christ promised right here, he's gonna give honor where honor's due.

What amazing grace. He does all the work in his ministers to make us be his faithful witnesses. When you speak a word in season, and he's opened that door for you to do it when you're out and about or whatever, and when we send this gospel forth, when I'm able to preach, anything we do, he worked it in us, And then he turned around and said, and I'm gonna give you honor for doing it. He did it all.

Talk about grace. He honored his apostles. He said, because you preached me, when I save my people, they're gonna call you my witnesses. You shall be named the priests of the Lord, and men shall call you the ministers of God. Before those sinners shamed them, he's saying, He's saying, these are folks that called you names.

These are people that thought the apostles were simple, uneducated, unlearned, because they weren't brought up in the school of Gamaliel. And they were fishermen, and they were nobodies. And they weren't Main Street religion. They weren't in the big temple in Jerusalem. These were outcasts. forsaken folks that modern-day religion looked down on.

He said, but when I've called my people out from among them, they're gonna call you priests of the Lord and ministers of God. That's how God's gonna make you know you're truly called of God. We simply preach Christ. That's it. Now go with me over to 1 Peter 2. We're gonna close with this. This is exactly what Peter's saying. It almost sounds like Peter was preaching from our text.

I'm going to paraphrase a little bit of this, but in 1 Peter 2, 1 Peter 2, he had told them, he said, you were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. He said, it's by Christ that you were called, that you've been given a new heart. You've been born of this incorruptible seed. He's telling them, it's all Christ, Christ did it all. So in those first few verses, he said, stop fussing and fighting, put it away from you, and desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. And he said, and here's your motive for doing it, verse four.

He says, to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious. You also, as lively stones, have built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

So it's contained in the scripture, behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. He's gonna say that in our text. Unto you, therefore, which believe he's precious, But unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereinto also they were appointed.

But you're a chosen generation. You're a royal priesthood. You're kings and priests of God. You're a holy nation of peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who had called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, which in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God. You were aliens, but now you've obtained mercy. You were not, you had not, now you have.

So how will sinners know we're truly the Lord's witnesses? This is a stretch, now get this. How will people know you're a witness of the Lord? Now this is a brain twister. You're going to bear witness of the Lord. You're going to just speak about Him.

Look, dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul." The fleshly lust to do all those things in those first few verses. He said, put away. To fuss and fight and wrangle and try to make folks do what you want them to do and make them believe and make them make professions and make them obey what you tell them to obey. He said, that's lust of the flesh that war against the soul. Have your conduct, your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

They did this to Peter and they did this to the Apostle Paul. Paul said, they called me an evildoer. They didn't call him that when he was a Pharisee trying to command them and force them to do things. They called him that when he started preaching Christ and waiting on the Lord to work. Then they said he's against the law, and he's against this holy place, they said, and they had him put in prison.

But when he called them out, then they realized, you're a true priest of God. You're a true minister of God, because you did for us what none of these other religious hucksters have done. You simply preached Christ to us, and you didn't try to force us to do anything. You trusted the Lord to give us the new spirit. When he visits them, they're gonna glorify God for what he worked in you.

That's what Christ is saying in our text. They used to shame you, now they're gonna say, they're gonna give you the double honor of saying, you're a priest of God, you're a minister of God. And look, back in our text, and you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles. What are the riches of the Gentiles? the unsearchable riches of Christ. He's saying, you're gonna partake with them in the same gospel.

Tonight, you go home and you can read Ephesians 3.5. Paul said, we've been made holy apostles and prophets by the Holy Spirit, that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs with us, partaking of the unsearchable riches of Christ. He's talking about this very subject right here. He made me a minister by the gift of his grace, effectually working in me, that I should preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to them. And he said, he goes on to say, now endeavor, brethren, to keep the unity of the Spirit. We're one. We got one Father and one Lord and one faith and one baptism and born of one Spirit. We're one now. We're partaking of the same riches.

The only way you can eat riches is if your riches are Christ the bread. You can eat, and that we're partaking of the same riches that Paul and Peter and James and John are in glory right now, partaking of the same riches that we're partaking of right now, Christ the Lord.

Christ the Lord. And he said there, and in their glory show you boast yourself. We got one glory, Christ. They're glorying in Christ, we're glorying in Christ. We're gonna glory in the same Lord and the same Savior. Well, I've stopped there, but this is what he's saying. Your shame, you shall have double. And for confusion, instead of that, you're gonna rejoice in your portion, Christ the Lord. We'll pick up there and look at the rest of it. It's all because the Lord directs the word. Let's just read the rest of it. Look at verse seven.

For your shame, you shall have double, and confusion, For confusion they shall rejoice in their portion, Christ the Lord. Therefore in their land they shall possess the double. Everlasting joy shall be unto them, for I the Lord love judgment. I hate robbery for burnt offering. That means false, fake, phony religion. That's what he's talking about. I will direct their work in truth, in spirit and in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. and their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All that see them shall acknowledge them, that they're the seed which the Lord had blessed." How? Because here's what we're going to say. Here's our witness. This is us speaking, verse 10.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God. For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, like a bride groomed next himself, and a bride adorns herself. And at the end, Christ says, and I'll tell you why this is sure, as the earth brings forth her bud, and the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord God would cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nation. He never has a crop failure. He said, I'm going to make Christ my righteousness spring up, and he's going to make his people spring up, and they're going to all praise my son. That's how you're going to know my people. That's how you're going to know my people. He said, all right, Brother Adam.

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Double Honor

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What does the Bible say about double honor?

How do we know the doctrine of election is true?

Why is the gospel important for Christians?

What does it mean to be a minister of God?

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