Who Is This #2

Q: What does the Bible say about Christ's first and second coming?

The Bible reveals that both the first and second comings of Christ are essential for fulfilling God's redemptive plan. Scripture indicates that the first coming of Christ was to redeem His people through His sacrificial death, while His second coming will bring the complete fulfillment of salvation and judgment against His enemies. In Isaiah 63, we see a prophetic picture that encompasses both comings, depicting Christ's glorious work of redemption as well as His eventual judgment of the wicked. This duality highlights the continuity of God's redemptive purpose throughout history.

Q: How do we know that Christ's sacrifice was necessary for salvation?

Christ's sacrifice was necessary to satisfy God's justice and secure redemption for His people. The necessity of Christ's sacrifice is underscored in the Scriptures, where it states that He bore the wrath of God on behalf of sinners. Isaiah 63 speaks of Him treading the winepress of God's wrath alone, signifying that no one else could bear the weight of sin and judgment. Christ's sacrifice fulfills God's plan of redemption by addressing both the requirement of justice and the need for atonement, demonstrating that salvation is achieved solely through His blood.

Q: Why is understanding God's sovereignty important for Christians?

Understanding God's sovereignty reassures Christians that He controls all things for His glory and the good of His people. The sovereignty of God is foundational to Christian faith as it provides comfort in times of trouble and assurance that everything occurs according to His divine purpose. As Isaiah 63 illustrates, God's plan encompasses both the suffering and salvation of His people, implying that even our afflictions serve a greater purpose within His sovereign will. Acknowledging God's sovereignty enables believers to trust that He works all things together for good, strengthening their faith and dependence on Him.

Q: What does the Bible teach about the wrath of God?

The Bible teaches that God's wrath is a response to sin and injustice and is fully expressed in Christ's second coming. God's wrath is a biblical reality reflecting His perfect justice against sin and rebellion. In Isaiah 63, we see the imagery of Christ treading the winepress, symbolizing His impending judgment against the wicked. This portrayal not only stresses the seriousness of sin but also emphasizes that God's wrath was poured out on Christ during His first coming, allowing Him to become our substitute. Ultimately, this justice will culminate in His second coming, when He will judge the world righteously.

turn with me, if you will, to Isaiah 66. I knew I was going to say that one right there. Isaiah 63. I just got through looking at Isaiah 66. Isaiah 63. Now, you probably have wondered why it's been two or three weeks since we finished Isaiah 62 before we got to this 63rd chapter, and the reason is this.

I felt that it was necessary to have a clear understanding of the chapter, that we look at the whole chapter together. And frankly, I just didn't have the pieces of the puzzle together in my own mind comfortably. And I see comfortably and clearly how to present the message to you this evening.

So we'll look at Isaiah 63, verses 1 through 19 together. There are commentaries, the conservative good commentaries. I'm not talking about the others. But the commentators are just about equally divided in their interpretation of Isaiah 63. Some of them tell us that this is talking about our Lord's first advent, in which he would come to redeem and save his people by the sacrifice of himself. And their arguments are pretty good.

The defense of that position cannot be denied. And then there are others who are just as conservative, or just as orthodox in their doctrine, who would tell us that this chapter is talking about our Lord's second advent. when he comes to judge his enemies and to destroy the wicked with everlasting destruction. A parallel passage, clearly, is Revelation chapter 19. Next Sunday, the Lord willing, Lindsay will be teaching from that chapter on the battle of Armageddon and Christ's coming and judgment, final destruction of the wicked. And clearly, their arguments in favor of that position cannot be denied.

And you may look at it and say, well, how on this earth can both of them be right? because frequently in the Old Testament scriptures, the second coming of Christ and his first coming are looked at by the prophets as being one thing and spoken of as being one thing.

Hold your hands here in Isaiah 63 and turn back a few chapters to Isaiah chapter 11. I'll show you one example of this. Isaiah chapter 11. There are others that are given. You can find them in Psalm 22, Ezekiel 37. But here in Isaiah chapter 11, There is clearly a prophecy of our Lord's coming which is both his first coming and his second coming considered as one.

Because his second coming, now be sure you understand this, it will help you in understanding the scriptures. Our Lord's second coming is but the consummation of that which he came to accomplish in his first coming. He came here to suffer and die for our sins by the sacrifice of himself to put away our sins, and he is coming again to bring us into the glorious consummation of our everlasting salvation. So his work as our mediator is not finished until he comes the second time without sin unto salvation.

Here in Isaiah 11 and verse 10, in that day there shall be a root out of Jesse, which shall stand for an instant of the people, to it shall the Gentiles speak, and his rest shall be glorious." Clearly that's talking about this present day. Our Lord has entered into his rest. His rest is glorious. The Gentiles speak to his name.

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time and recover the remnant of the people which shall be left from Assyria and from Egypt and from and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Sinai, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nation, and shall assemble the outcast of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. And he will at last have gathered all his elect under his own banner, and all things shall be glorious for them and for him from everlasting to everlasting."

Now Isaiah 66, then, is a prophecy, both of our Lord's first and his second advent. It is a prophecy of Christ coming to complete the salvation of his people and to bring about the utter destruction of his enemies and ours. Tonight, we will look at these 19 verses, just a few verses at a time, and I want you to see them in the whole context and pray that God, the Holy Spirit, will be our teacher. First, in verses 1 through 6, We're given a prophetic picture of Christ coming to save his people. Clearly, these first six verses give us the clear interpretation of the whole chapter. These first six verses are the major part of the chapter.

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bezra? Now, Edom simply represents the most despicable of the Lord's enemies. It represents the most implacable of rebels against Christ. The Edomites constantly represent that which is evil and that which is opposed to God, that which is vile and wicked, and that which is of the utmost, utmost wickedness before God. Basra was the chief city of Edom, the capital city of Edom.

And so when it speaks of this, it's simply saying, who is this that comes out from among his enemies? Who is this that comes up from the field of battle where his enemies have opposed him, with his garments dying? This that is glorious in his apparel. He comes up out of Edom, out from the battle with his enemies, but his apparel is glorious, traveling in the greatness of his strength. I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth the wine vat.

I have faddened the winepress of old, and of the people there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help, and I wondered that there was none to uphold. my own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me.

Now that clearly speaks of our Lord's first advent, the accomplishment of redemption for his people. In verse 6, however, he speaks of his second coming. I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. In verse one, we read of our saviors coming up out of this earth, mighty to save. The Lord Jesus comes triumphantly out of Edom, triumphantly out from among his enemies, and he comes as one mighty to save, whose name is righteousness, and he speaks in righteousness as one mighty to save.

His garments were dyed in Edom when he was among his enemies. There his garments are spattered with his own blood. His garments are dyed with his own blood as he suffers and dies as our representative and our savior. Remember, even when our Lord comes in judgment, hold your hands here and turn to Revelation 19 for a second. Even when our Lord comes in judgment, we read in verse 11, I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. And he that sat on him was called faithful and true, in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as flames of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but himself.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." Now notice, he comes to judgment clothed in a vesture dipped in blood. Not he comes and has his vesture dipped. So he comes as our Savior, whose garments are stained with his own blood, the blood of atonement, and that's the basis of his judgment. Here he comes up out of Edom with his garments dyed, dyed in his own blood.

I read a couple of commentaries that said there's not a word here about the blood of expiation. I beg to differ. That's exactly what it's talking about. His garments were dyed with his blood by which the sins of his people were put away when he sacrificed himself in this world on our behalf.

And yet his apparel is glorious. Our Lord Jesus Christ is clothed in righteousness And he is clothed in glory. He's come forth from the battle victorious and mighty to save. He's now seated upon the right hand of the majesty on high. And he is gang robed with that glory which he had with the father before the world was made. His strength is great. His strength is such that no man can resist him. None can resist his will. All the powers of heaven, earth, and hell bow to him. He speaks in righteousness, for he is the holy, righteous Lord God, Jehovah, our righteousness, and he is able to save, able to save to the uttermost all them that come unto God by him.

Now in verses two and three, our Lord Jesus stained his garments in the winepress of the wrath of God Almighty when he died as our substitute. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel? And thy garments like him that treadeth the wine vat. And the Lord answers himself, I've frodden the wine-grass alone. And of the people there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

And so our Lord Jesus comes now, he who is our Redeemer, whose blood was himself spattered upon his garments as he tread the winepress of God's wrath for us, and now he will come in judgment against all those who oppose him, and he will again destroy the wicked, and he will cause their blood to be staining his garments as well, and he will do so in absolute justice under the wrath of God Almighty, and what he's telling us is this, as he has endured the wrath of God for us, He will come again to judge the world and to judge the wicked according to that same righteous justice, that same righteous wrath with which he himself was punished as our substitute. So that if you refuse to bow to him, if you refuse to believe him, those who continue to rebel against him will themselves be executed by his hands in wrath and in judgment. You see, he who is our is that one to whom God the Father has given all power for judgment and for the execution of his wrath.

And then in verse four, we see that this was all done at God's appointed time. At God's appointed time, he came forth to satisfy the justice of the Almighty, to redeem his chosen by the sacrifice of himself. It was appointed day and a day of appointed vengeance that was in his heart. whereby he would satisfy and establish the justice of God for the redemption of his people. He says, the year of my redeemed has come in the fullness of time, at the appointed time, at the precise hour ordained of God, the year of the redeemed, the day when the vengeance of God would be fully satisfied in his execution upon the Son of God. The Lord Jesus has come to save. In the fullness of time, God sent forth his son, made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law. The Lord Jesus Christ in due time, that is at God's appointed time, died for the ungodly.

All that was done was done according to God's purpose. Everything done according to God's schedule. Everything done according to God's plan for this work of redemption. is that work for which the world was made, that work to which all things in the Old Testament pointed, that work for which all things have come to pass and all things must be seen and understood in the light of that great work. Now look at verse 5. In fury against sin and in zeal for his people, the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished the salvation of his elect by the sacrifice of himself.

I looked, there was none to help. He looked out and Peter was gone, James and John, the apostles, his disciples, those who had benefited from his miraculous works. He looks up to heaven and not even the angels of God come to assist him. His father has forsaken him. There was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore, mine own arm brought salvation unto me. And my fury, my fury against sin, my fury against Satan, my fury against the powers of darkness, it upheld me.

And then he speaks in verse 6 of his coming the second time in judgment. Our salvation will be complete when the Lord Jesus Christ comes the second time and at last destroys his enemies and ours. Now the Lord willing, we will look at that in some more detail in the weeks to come. But secondly, I want you to understand this as well.

In verses 7 through 10, God the Holy Spirit teaches us by his prophet Isaiah that we ought to constantly and thankfully acknowledge God's goodness to us and our unworthiness of his goodness. In the light of the fact that we have been redeemed by God's dear in light of the fact that he has endured the wrath of God and satisfied the wrath of God for us. In light of the fact that he has grown himself into the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God Almighty and he has himself satisfied justice by sacrificing himself on our behalf. Let us ever be mindful of his goodness and our unworthiness of his goodness. Let us acknowledge His grace and greatness with gratitude and with humility.

All right? Look at the passage with me in verse 7. I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He hath bestowed on them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. Now, I don't have to tell you that the goodness of God on the house of Israel is the goodness of God on us, God's Israel, the spiritual Israel, not the natural physical descendants of Abraham, but rather us who are the church of God and the Israel of God. God's free lovingkindness is the cause of his goodness to us. I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord.

Everything God has done for us is doing for us and shall hereafter do. Everything that God allows, everything that God brings to pass is according to his loving kindness. I know every one of us, we've got it here. We've got it firmly established in our head. We understand the right doctrine. God teach us in our hearts to understand that everything he does is according to his loving-kindnesses.

His loving-kindnesses for his elect. His loving-kindnesses for his chosen. His loving-kindnesses for his redeemed. In love, he predestinated us. In love, he predestinated all things that come to pass. In love, he brings them to pass. His goodness toward us is great. Great in its antiquity.

God's goodness is without beginning and God's goodness is without end. It's great in all the blessings of his goodness and it's great in his immutability. For God's goodness never ceases. God's goodness is never up and down. God's goodness is never variable. God's goodness never changes. He's constantly good to us. And His goodness is measured to us by His immeasurable electing love.

We read here how He has chosen us. He says in verse 8, For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie. So He was their Savior. And when you read that, understand that Christ became our Savior because he chose us to be his people. And when the passage here speaks of him saying, these are children that will not lie, he's not by any means suggesting that the basis of God's election, as he looked out, he saw that we'd be good folks. There are two things wrong with that suggestion. Number one is contrary to scripture. Number two, it's contrary to experience. We're all deceptive people. We are all less than sincere. We're all less than honest, strictly honest before God.

So what he's saying to us is that he chose us, choosing us, he became our Savior, and he became our Savior since he has become our Savior. We ought to respond to him in this way. We ought to walk before him with sincerity, uprightness, honesty, and righteousness. We ought to walk before God with hearts of devotion and consecration, never deviating from him in the least. But that's never the experience of believers in this world. The objects of such love and grace ought always to honor the Lord as people who mention his praise and people who will not lie.

But like Israel of old, you and I have proven ourselves over and over and over again unworthy of God's great goodness to us. And we often Imagine that since we have been so shifting, since we have been so unstable, since we have been so sinful, so unfaithful, then God will forsake us and cast us off.

Turn to passage that Mark read earlier in 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 2. I'm sorry, I think it's 2 Samuel, isn't it? I'll find it in a minute. What was it, Mark? 12. Yeah, 1 Samuel chapter 12. Look at this. 1 Samuel chapter 12, verse 22.

The Lord will not forsake his people for his great namesake. because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people. He will not forsake us. But notice what the prophet said earlier. In verse 20, Samuel said to the people, fear not. Ye have done all this wickedness, yet in spite of your wickedness, Turn not aside from following the Lord. Don't in the realization of your wickedness cease to follow him, but serve the Lord with all your heart. And here's the reason the Lord won't forsake you. He will not forsake you.

We ought to recognize constantly that we are unworthy of the least of God's blessings and yet walk before him with humility and gratitude and praise. Look in verse 9. How good God has been to us. In all their afflictions, he was afflicted. That's just almost more than I can get hold of. Nothing touches God. Neither our goodness nor our sins reach to the most high. Can't be. God's infinite beyond us. But the God-man having from eternity assumed all responsibility for us.

No, he did not come until the appointed hour into human flesh, yet even back before he came into the world, he assumed his place as our mediator. And in all our afflictions, he's afflicted. And the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity, he redeemed them. He bared them and carried them all the days of old. And what He has done for Israel of old, He has done for us this day who are the Israel of God. He was afflicted with that which afflicts us. He redeemed us. He carried us. He upholds us. Look at verse 10 now.

But they rebelled and vexed His Holy Spirit. grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed into the day of redemption." Israel did, they vexed his Holy Spirit. Therefore, he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Now, obviously the text does not imply that God had changed. though it appeared that he had. And that's exactly what the prophet's telling us.

Israel rebelled against him, they vexed his spirit, therefore in chastisement he brought them into this captivity and into that captivity and he turned to fight against them as an enemy because he would correct their sin and he would bring them again to repentance even as he brought them out of Babylon after he had scourged them for a while.

And did you and I grieve his spirit? We invite his chastisement. We invite the rod of his displeasure. We invite upon ourselves pain and sorrow indescribable. So we are urged, the apostle, to grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Not that he will withdraw his grace. No. No grace once bestowed he will never take away. Mercy once given he will never remove. Love and lovingkindness he has bestowed on us from everlasting that will never vanish. But a loving father graciously chastens his children. And we invite the chastisement of God when we rebel against him. Now then, look at verses 11 through 14. As God was faithful to Israel, So he has been and shall forever be faithful to us.

Then he remembered the days of old. After he turned to fight against them as an enemy, he remembered Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea? With the shepherd of his flock, where is he that put his Holy Spirit within them? that led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting name. Now notice how he brings himself back to his people. He says, I brought them up out of Egypt. I led them through the Red Sea. I gave them Moses. I upheld them. I delivered them to make myself an everlasting name. That led them through the deep as a horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble. As a beast that goeth into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord calls him to rest. So didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious name."

And what he's doing is the Lord God is arguing with himself as to why he should be merciful and gracious to us. The Lord God has given us his reasons for his grace and mercy, and that is he's determined, according to his purpose of grace, to save us for his glory. to make himself an everlasting and a glorious name. And so everything that comes to pass, he brings to pass so that he will save his people and glorify himself forever and ever.

The first chapter of Ephesians makes that crystal clear. Three times over the apostle tells us that everything God has in his covenant of grace, in his work of redemption, and in his dispensations of providence, is to the praise of the glory of his grace. God is faithful. Oh, God is faithful to his word, to his covenant, and to his people. Because he's faithful to this purpose, he will make himself glorious. Turn to 2 Timothy for a minute. 2 Timothy chapter 2.

Verse 11, it is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful. He cannot deny himself. Though we believe not, God is faithful. Though we are up and down, though we are so terribly unfaithful, he abides faithful. He cannot deny himself.

And this is certainly what the apostle is referring to. Look at verse 19. Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure. Having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity, God's faithful. Now, back here in Isaiah 66 again. The chapter closes with an earnest, humble prayer for mercy, by which the Holy Spirit teaches us how to wrestle with God in prayer.

I don't know any other word to use to describe that. I don't much like the idea of presenting wrestling match between God and his people, that's not the picture. But in the Old Testament, you'll remember how that Jacob was a man whom the angel of the Lord wrestled with him. And Jacob said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

That's the picture I'm talking about. It's earnestness in prayer. This is how you call upon God. If you need him, this is how you plead with God and prevail with God. First, plead his attributes. Look in verse 15. look down from heaven. Behold, from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory, where is thy zeal and thy strength and the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me?

Are they restrained?" The prophet calls on God and The Church of God calls on God as Isaiah speaks for us representatively. And it says, Lord, consider your holiness, your glory, your zeal, your strength, your mercies, your loving kindness toward me. Are these things now restrained? You've given all these things for my salvation, and now are they restrained from me?

Plead then your special relationship with the Lord. It is a relationship of adopted children and redeeming grace. Doubtless thou art our Father. Though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not, thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer, thy name is everlasting.

God, hear my prayer. I am a worthless sinner. I am as shifting as sand. I am as unstable as water. But you've adopted me. You're my father. You've redeemed me. You've bought me. So hear my prayer. Surely you didn't adopt me to ignore me. No, sometimes it appears as though all heaven is against me. Surely you didn't make me your child in order just to ignore me. Surely you didn't redeem me to bring me to nothing. hear me then, because of your work of grace on my behalf, and then plead your need of him.

And for thy servant's sakes, the tribes of thine inheritance return." Now, I see three things in that verse. An acknowledgment of sin, we have erred from thy ways and hardened our I speak for myself and for you. God, we've heard from your ways and we've hardened our hearts. There's no question, no question. But secondly, there is an acknowledgement of God's total sovereignty.

Oh Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? and hardened our hearts. We do not seek or take refuge in God's sovereignty as an excuse for our sins. We do not seek or take refuge in God's sovereignty as a cloak for our iniquity. We do not attempt to justify our wickedness by ascribing God's sovereignty and saying the Lord calls us to sin.

Oh no, no, no, a thousand times no. But we do recognize our God that these things haven't taken you by surprise. And we recognize that even in our hardness and in our sin, your will is accomplished and your purpose is being performed. And we recognize that you are accomplishing that which is good for your people. And we ascribe all things, even our desperate condition, to your sovereign grace and your sovereign purpose.

And then thirdly, there is here a plea for the return of God's grace and goodness, that is, of his manifest goodness, a return of our souls to his favor, a return, a manifest return of our souls to him. Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Return us to our former joy. Return us to our former glory. Return us to our former happiness, to our former communion and blessedness with you. Another plea is a plea concerning the insolence of God's enemies and ours.

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little, just a little while. We possessed the inheritance you gave us just a little while. The children of Israel went into Canaan and took possession of it, and no sooner did they take possession of it than somebody came along and took possession of them. And then they'd go back and they'd possess it a little while, and no sooner did they take possession of it than somebody came and took possession of them again.

And they were experiencing continual ups and downs of this matter of being first brought to repentance and faith and devotion to God. And as they walked with Him in uprightness, the Lord upheld them and maintained them. And when they departed from Him, the Lord sent His enemies and their enemies in to prevail against them and took them into captivity.

And all of this is a picture, a sad but true picture of our present state in this world. We possess the blessedness of God's manifest glory and sweet communion and happy union with Christ. the blessedness of the manifest outpouring of his grace and goodness upon us, but little in this world.

We seem like we have little times of reviving. The little times when our hearts are just stirred to renew dedication and commitment to him, and then something happens. I don't know why. Something happens so quick. And the fires that were so hot just cooled down the embers that you hardly know were there. And so we acknowledge, we acknowledge the insolence of our enemy who comes so quickly and would destroy us. But then we plead for God's goodness, for the glory of his name. We are thine.

Thou never barest rule over them. They are not called by your name. Now, here's my prayer. God come. Oh, Lord God come. Make your face to shine upon us. Make us to know again the blessedness and the joy of your salvation. Make us, make us to see your face. Make us to know your goodness. Come and make yourself known because we're yours. We're your people. You bought us. You redeemed us. You called us. You adopted us.

You're our father. So come, come to us in the manifest, manifest glorious grace of our God. You're our ruler. Lord, we're unworthy of the least of your favors, but we're yours. We're yours, so do us good. We're called by your name. We are a people on whom God Almighty has penned his name. for his glory. Now, Lord, for the glory of your name, visit us with your grace.

Now, I hope you understand what I'm talking about. When I talk about revival and reviving grace and God coming and visiting us, I'm not talking about the silly, emotional nonsense that men talk about revival. I'm asking God that he might be pleased to visit us in this place with these two things, the fresh revelations, the fresh manifestation of his glory and grace in Christ, drawing our hearts to him. in renewed commitment, devotion, consecration, so that we give ourselves to him, devote ourselves to him who trod the winepress of the wrath of God on us. Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us. Consider and behold our reproach. The crown has fallen off our head. Woe unto us that we have sinned. For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim because of the mountains of Zion which is desolate and the foxes walk upon it.

Thou, O Lord, remainest forever. thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long a time? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned, renew our days as of old. Amen. I'm going to ask the deacons if they will come serve the Lord's table, and then we'll sing a hymn after that. Diane, if you will, just come up here and play something for us while they prepare and serve the Lord's table. Now, if you're a believer, this is for you. This is for you. This Lord's table is spread for you. It's set for you. And as you receive the bread and wine in memory of our Savior, and you celebrate redemption. Pray for God to give you grace again to consecrate yourself to Him, to walk with Him in the nearness of life.

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What does the Bible teach about the wrath of God?

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