The Gospel, Not Politics

Q: What does the Bible say about the importance of the gospel over politics?

The Bible emphasizes that the gospel is essential for salvation and unity, while politics cannot resolve sin or bring about true oneness among people. The sermon highlights that the gospel, proclaimed by faithful watchmen, is the means through which God creates oneness between sinners. In Isaiah 62:6-9, God has set watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem, which represents His church, to proclaim this gospel without ceasing. It is through the preaching of the gospel, and not political movements, that true solutions to the issues plaguing humanity are found. The preacher argues that trusting in politics for salvation or social justice demonstrates a lack of understanding of the gospel, as only Christ can regenerate hearts and forgive sins.

Q: How do we know the gospel is the true solution for human problems?

The gospel is seen as the true solution because it addresses the root of human issues—sin—through Christ’s redemptive work. The sermon asserts that human problems stem from sin, pride, and the love of money, which politics cannot remedy. The biblical perspective posits that the law does not make men righteous; therefore, political efforts cannot either. The preacher argues that only through the effectual preaching of the gospel can individuals be transformed and brought into true unity. Believers are to rely on Christ, who is the true source of salvation and righteousness, providing assurance that the gospel is the only effective means for addressing humanity's deepest needs, as stated in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31.

Q: Why is the preaching of the gospel essential for Christians?

Preaching the gospel is essential as it brings people to the knowledge of Christ and secures their unity in Him. The preacher expounds that the gospel's proclamation is vital for Christians because it is through this message that the Spirit works to call and edify God's people. Isaiah 62:6 indicates that God has ordained watchmen to declare His truth continuously. The preacher emphasizes that the gospel not only comforts believers but also reminds them of their total dependence on Christ for salvation and sustenance. Furthermore, by preaching Christ crucified, believers are reminded of their identity in Him, leading to genuine love, peace, and unity within the church, as emphasized in Colossians 3:10-14.

Q: What does Isaiah 62:6-9 teach us about God’s promise to His people?

Isaiah 62:6-9 teaches that God promises to establish justice and righteousness among His people through the gospel. In Isaiah 62:6-9, God assures His people that He has appointed watchmen on the walls to proclaim His salvation continuously. This passage emphasizes the guarantee of God’s involvement in establishing Jerusalem as a praise in the earth. The preacher elaborates that these promises are fulfilled in Christ and His gospel, which assures believers of their place in God's kingdom. God’s commitment to His people is evident in His ongoing work through the church, where believers partake in spiritual sustenance as outlined in the message of salvation.

Now we've been looking since Isaiah 60 at what the Lord has been working since he came. How he began with calling out his lost sheep from among the house of Israel and all the things that he's been doing through the preaching of the gospel since then. That's what Isaiah 60 is dealing with all the way up to where we are here in Isaiah 62. He's told us repeatedly that he's the prophet, he's the preacher who makes the word effectual.

Now he tells us in verse six, I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. The Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine for the which thou hast labored. But they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

My subject this morning, it may sound strange to you, is the gospel, not politics. The gospel, not politics. And here's why I'm on this subject. In the past five or six years, I've heard and seen a number of professing believers. Folks, I know a number of professing believers that have left the gospel for politics.

The charge is that the church does not address the issues. Movements change society. And the church is not stamping out injustice and oppression and all these inequalities. Only the Lord Jesus creates oneness between sinners. We've seen this several times lately. Only the Lord Jesus does it. And he does it through the preaching of the gospel. That's what Isaiah 60 is declaring, how he would make Jew and Gentile one through the preaching of the gospel.

If a person, and I'll just say this up front, if a person can leave the gospel of Christ, they only prove they were never born of God to begin with, never taught of God to begin with. I mean, if they can leave and stay gone. Those truly called through the gospel by the Spirit of God know that none of man's problems are solved by man. We can't work out our own salvation.

Politics crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. Now don't make a mistake, they did what God purposed to be done, what he determined before to be done. But Pilate turned them over to the will of the people because he was being a politician. The law of God never made a sinner righteous. The law of God never made one sinner holy. So how do we think man passing new laws is going to make people righteous and behave righteously?

It's not going to happen. The news today looks exactly like the news looked when I was seven years old. I'd pass through the living room and see what my dad was watching on TV. I'd see bombs going off in the Middle East. I'd see marching and I'd see same stuff you see today. And if the Lord lets me live to be 70 years old, it's gonna look exactly the same. How do you know that? Look with me at Matthew 24. Look at Matthew 24.

The Lord said here in verse six, you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you be not troubled. For all these things must come to pass. The Lord is working all things together for the good of them that are called, for them that love God according to his purpose. If the wrath of man shall praise God and the remainder thereof shall he restrain. He said, these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nations shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there should be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in different places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and you shall be hated of all nations for my namesake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another, And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall be abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.

All the hate over politics, and I've never seen it so divided, it's created by politics. I'm 100% convinced it's on purpose. And it's nothing but man's corrupt nature. There's two things that drives man, fallen man, two things. The love of money is the root of all evil. That leaves nothing out. The love of money is the root of all evil. And the second thing, if there's trouble between two people, only by pride cometh contention. That's God's word. That's the cause of all violence, all oppression, all injustice, the love of money, covetousness, and man's pride.

And that sums up what a fallen sinner is. That's what a fallen sinner is. For somebody to think that Our sin issue can be cured by politics, means that person's trusting in man and trusting in man's works. A person that thinks politics can cure man's sin problem and make a society get along is trusting man and man's works. That's all it is. It's no different than work salvation.

Speaking to political kings, and to the political rulers. Look at Isaiah chapter 30. Speaking to political kings and political rulers and the people that followed the political kings and the political rulers. The Lord said this in verse one, Isaiah 30 verse one.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel but not of me. and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin, that walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Now here's what's gonna happen for these folks that leave the gospel for politics. It's gonna be very sad. When they reach the end of their life, looking to presidents and congressmen and senators and political rulers to try to fix things, they get to the end of their life, it's gonna be exactly like it is today. Worse, because Christ said it would be. But then, they're gonna have to meet God in judgment without Christ. That's gonna be the whole course of their life.

So let's hear what the Lord says. Let's hear how the Lord saves. He says, first of all, now this is the king of kings. This is the one who's ruling every earthly king. Here's the one on whose shoulder the government really is. He says this to his people. This is his promise in verse 6, Isaiah 62, 6.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. Jerusalem is the church. You've not come to Mount Sinai, you've come unto Mount Zion, unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. What about earthly Jerusalem? Paul said, Jerusalem, which now he is, is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all. Christ is seated in his holy mount, in Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, which the earthly pictured, and he's sending the gospel forth, and he's drawing his, he said, all will come to my mount, they'll be drawn to me. He's got his little congregations, and he's got his preachers, but they're preaching his word, by His Spirit, by His power, and He's calling His people, and everybody's coming to Him.

The walls surrounded a city in these days of Isaiah, and they would put watchmen on a city, and the purpose of the watchmen was to sound the alarm and to warn the people and their picture of the Lord's pastors. You know, when the Lord first called out Israel, He didn't give them a king. He wasn't ruling them like the world, like the heathen nation. He gave them a preacher. He was leading them by a preacher. He still leads his holy nation by a preacher. The world wanted, the children of Israel wanted a king like the other nations had. And so they imitated it.

But the Lord's still ruling his holy nation, his people, his church, his kingdom, by Christ the Lord, who's doing it through the preaching of the gospel. And he said here, I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night.

Jeremiah 3.15, he said, I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. That's what you put on that watch you gave me.

Jeremiah 3.15, the Lord Jesus Christ provides faithful preachers. and they feed his people with knowledge and understanding.

Our wall of salvation is Christ. He said that back in Isaiah 60 verse 18. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders, but thou shall call thy wall salvation and thy gates praise. Christ is salvation. And he says in our text, I've set my watchman upon your walls.

He set us, he set the preacher on Christ. And that preacher's gonna preach Christ. Only when a sinner knows he's saved entirely by the Lord Jesus, will he preach the Lord Jesus. A man preaches what he believes. That's why I told that fellow Thursday night, we don't care about your education, or your credentials, or your statement of faith, or any of that. I wanna hear what you preach from the pulpit. Because what you preach from the pulpit is what you really believe. The knowledge and understanding we preach is Christ. We got a two-part message, and we got it from the Lord. Go back to Isaiah 40, and I'll show you what it is. Isaiah 40. This is the sum of it. I wasn't gonna read this, but start verse one.

The Lord speaks to his preacher. He says, Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished. Her iniquities pardoned, for she's received of the Lord's hand double for all her sin. Now here's what we preach. This is what the Lord said preached. The voice, Christ the voice. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. Now look down here at verse six. The voice said, cry, and he said, what shall I cry?

All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever." Every sinner that's ever been born a fallen Adam is a fallen sinner, and his flesh is grass, and it's withering away, And the very best goodliness a man can produce is like the flower of the field that just wilts and fades away. And the reason that it will not succeed is right there, the Spirit of the Lord blows upon it. The Lord's not gonna let anybody come to Him by their own works. Our flesh is grass, sin.

But here's the next part of the message in verse In verse nine, O Zion, thou that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem that bringeth good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength. Lift it up, be not afraid. Say unto the cities of Judah, behold your God. That's what we're to preach. Behold your God.

Here he is, behold the Lord God will come with strong hand and his arms shall roll for him. That means he's gonna accomplish salvation. His reward is with him and his work before him. Not only did he accomplish redemption, 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 lead those that are with young. And he goes on to say, and this Christ I'm declaring to you is sovereign God. He created everything, he rules everything, and the inhabitants of this earth are as grasshoppers before him. He says, and don't you be wearied and don't you be faint. because he gives strength to the faint.

You just look to him. You see, the oneness that Christ creates between God and his people and between brethren is accomplished through the preaching of the gospel that declares that we are nothing but sin. That's how we are. Our nature is enmity against God. And even when you're called, by God and a new spirit's given you, a new heart's created into you, you still have an old nature that's nothing but sin. So Paul, as a holy, righteous saint of God, said, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

I cannot look to my works, even as a believer, because Christ is salvation. And the only ways two sinners are going to get along is when the Lord makes both of them know you're nothing but sinful flesh. All you are is grass, and your best deeds are just like the flower of the field.

But Christ is all. You have the same righteousness in Christ, the same holiness in Christ. You've been redeemed in Christ. Christ is your wisdom. And He will not lose one. And when you know you have all your safety in Christ, He's the wall of salvation around you. He's the gate of praise by which we enter into God's presence. When two sinners know that by His Spirit, He makes them one. He makes them one.

They stop exalting themselves. What do we exalt ourselves over one another because? What do we use? Outward things we can see or hear. That's what we use. male and female, Jew and Gentile, rich and poor, educated, uneducated, circumcision, uncircumcision, religion. All the things that men outwardly look at, when he gives you a new heart, he said there's neither Jew nor Gentile, bond or free, rich or poor, male or female. Christ is all. Christ is all. That's when you have peace. That's when you have oneness.

Now, but he said here, he said, he put the watchman on his wall, on Christ the wall, and this is what we're to do. Ezekiel 33, seven. So thou, O son of man, I've set thee a watchman into the house of Israel. Now listen, therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me. we're to get our word from the Lord out of this book and we're to declare it to his people. And Christ said of his preacher in verse six, he said, they shall never hold their peace day nor night. He said earlier in Isaiah 56 that false preachers are blind, they're ignorant, they're dumb dogs, they cannot bark, they're sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. But by Christ's power, He said, the watchman I set will never hold their peace day or night.

That's his promise to his church. Now, go back to Isaiah 62. Our Savior gives a command to his preacher and to all his witnesses. It's primarily to his preacher, but I'm saying this to all of us because we're all his witnesses. We saw that in Isaiah 43.

He said, let me read it to you. I'll get back here in just a second, give you my point. But here's why I'm saying we're all witnesses. He said, everyone that's called by my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him. I have made him bring forth the blind people that have eyes, the deaf that have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together. Let them be assembled. Bring forth your witnesses. Can you do this? Can you give blind people eyes and deaf people hearing?

And he said, you're my witnesses, saith the Lord, my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I am the Lord and beside me there is no savior. And he said, I will save and who will let it? Nobody's gonna stop his hand. So we're all his witnesses if he's called you. Now here's what he says to us, verse six.

At the end, you that make mention of the Lord keep not silence. Now, in a Cambridge Bible, that margin reference that in the word, the meaning of you that make mention of the Lord is you put them in remembrance. I'm here today preaching to you what the Lord has already made you know, you that know him. I'm just putting you in remembrance of what he's already made you know.

That's what preaching is, just to put them in remembrance, And we're supposed to declare His glory. We're supposed to preach Him. He said, declare His glory and His marvelous works among the nations, for great's the Lord and greatly to be praised. Declare His works, preach Him. And Psalm 22 at the end, He said, there's gonna be a generation, a seed shall serve Him. And they're gonna declare His righteousness, that He's done this, that He's the righteousness of His people.

He says to us in Isaiah 43, 25, I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgression for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare thou that thou mayest be justified. Even when I'm saying I'm here to put you in remembrance of him, the only way you're gonna remember him is if Christ speaks in the yard and says, you remember me. I put away your sin, you remember me. That's what he declares, put them in remembrance of me. Now look here. Back up there in verse one, he said, for Zion's sake will I not hold my peace? And for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. Now how do you know that's Christ? Well, in chapter 61 in verses one through three, that's the scripture. Christ stood up in the temple and read it and told them, this day this scripture fulfilled in your ears. He's the preacher, he's the prophet.

And he said, for Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace. He said, I will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof is a lamp that burneth. He said, I will not rest till I give them the lamp of this gospel. I will not rest till I give them a new heart, a new spirit, give them faith to believe me. I will not rest till I've robed them in my righteousness. I will not rest until I have brought all of my redeemed elect children to know salvation is of the Lord. That's what he's doing.

God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Whatever God is not willing to happen is not gonna happen, because the true God is sovereign. Go back home and read Isaiah 43. I will save, and who will let it? Before the day was, I am. He created the day. You think he's gonna let anything stop him doing what his will is? He's willing to save his people. Christ paid the sin debt and justified them. They've got to be called. Justice will not be poured out on them a second time. He will call his people.

And he said, I will not hold my peace until it's done. And then in verse six, he said of his watchmen, they shall never hold their peace day or night. By his power, by his grace, there's a lot of days I don't feel like studying. There's a lot of days I don't feel like coming here. There's a lot of days I don't feel like preaching. He said, by my power, they're not gonna hold their peace day or night. He said, when they're in season and out of season, when they're opposed, when they feel good, when they don't feel good, they're not gonna hold their peace.

They're gonna preach my gospel. That's only by his power, only by his power. And since that power's of God and not of us, he commands us to call on Christ and don't let him rest. Look at verse seven. He says, and give him, speaking of Christ, give him no rest till he establish, till he make Jerusalem a praise in the air.

You see what he said? He said, I won't rest till my gospel goes forth as a lamp and I call my people. And then he said, I've set watchmen on your walls and they're not gonna rest. And he said, now, because this is all of me, Don't give him rest. You keep calling on him and asking him to do what he said he'll do. Ezekiel, I think it's 36, he told everything he was going to do. And he said, but you're going to ask me to do it for you. I will be inquired of you to do this. He's going to keep us knowing the powers not of us, the powers of him.

And so we cry to him. to establish, look, he said, give him no rest till he establish. I can't establish a center on the foundation, only Christ can do that. Call upon him to establish, call upon him to make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. That's only by Christ affectionately speaking into the heart.

Go with me to Isaiah 52, I love this. Look here in verse six. He says, my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak. Behold, it is I. And he's telling us in our text, I send the preacher. And he says here, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation, that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth.

That's what I've been preaching to you this morning. He's not asking your permission for anything. Mine either. Who are we to reply against God? Shall the thing form say to him that formed it, why have you made me thus? He has power to make one vessel into honor and another into dishonor. You know why that's offensive to man? Pride. Pride. He wants the glory. The Lord said, the man that I created, I created him for my glory. He's gonna give me all the praise and all the glory. And he says here, here's how his word's gonna be effectual.

He says, thy watchman shall lift up the voice, and as we're lifting up our voice, Christ is gonna lift up his voice. Thy watchman shall lift up the voice, with thee voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord brings again Zion.

Go with me to 2 Corinthians 4. Somebody will hear that, what I just said, and they'll say, well, I don't quite think that's speaking about Christ making the word effectual. Well, let's go over here then. 2 Corinthians 4. I can't make the word effectual because I'm just an earthen vessel. But listen to this right here.

Here's how you're made to preach Christ and stop preaching man and his works, right here. Paul said, verse five, we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. Now that word for, that next word for means because. Here's why we preach Christ and don't preach man. Because.

God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. That's when a man will start preaching Christ, when he's experienced that power right there. And so, all these troubles we face, the only way we continue persevering in faith is because the life of Christ in you keeps you doing it. Read it. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We're perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. We which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

See, everything he's saying his preachers are gonna do, everything he's saying me and you are gonna do as his witnesses, it's gonna be by the power of the Lord. We're gonna preach him because now we've experienced his power in our heart. He shined the light in our heart. We were just dead, dark, dead, damn sinners is what we were. And he spoke light and gave us faith and made us believe him.

By grace are you saved through faith and that's not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Are we that helpless? Go with me to 1 Corinthians chapter two. Paul, he began this chapter saying, I preach to you, I don't try to preach an excellency of speech or wisdom of words. I'm not trying to take the offense out and craft it just so and trick you into believing. That's what I've heard some preachers act like, they're tricking people into believing. He said, I want your faith to stand in the power of God.

But look what he says here. He said, he said in verse 10, God's revealed these things unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? I don't know what you're thinking, only you know that, and you don't know what I'm thinking, unless I speak it to you and reveal it to you. That's what he's saying. Well, watch this.

Even so, the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, been given, been poured into us, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. I've been having you turn from one scripture to another to show you these things in the word. That's what he's talking about. Here's where we were.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they're spiritually discerned. We not only would not believe God, we couldn't. Boy, that hurts the man who wants to say man has a free will. Your will's in bondage to your nature. Why does a buzzard eat roadkill and not drink milk and eat grass? Because it's not his nature. It's not our nature to believe God while we're natural. That's what he's saying. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.

They're foolishness to him. Neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned. How am I going to know him? Look here at 1 Corinthians 1. He says, this whole chapter, he said, I'm saving through the foolishness of preaching. He said, I'm going to stain the pride of men. Look, verse 19, it's written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I'll bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where's the wise? Where's the scribe? Where's the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

The Jews require a sign. That's your fundamental Baptist wheel working, Ten Commandment keeping folks. They want to show us an outward sign that you're saved. The Greeks seek after wisdom. This is your intellectual in the world. Some of us were one or the other.

But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Now look at your calling, brethren. There's not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, but God hath chosen. God's done this on purpose. He's talking about his people he's using to preach the gospel. I've chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God has chosen weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised have God chosen, and things which are nothing to bring to naught things that are, and here's why, that no flesh should glory in his presence, but of him Are you in Christ, in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and holiness and redemption, so that according as it is written, he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. Our Lord's telling us in this text, that's what his preachers are gonna do, that's what all his witnesses are gonna do, and that's what he's gonna bring his people to do. Let's go to this last thing real quick. Back in Isaiah 62, verse 8.

The Lord is sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength. In other words, he's sworn by the Lord Jesus Christ. That's who his right hand is, that's who his arm is. In other words, it's saying all the promises of God are yes in Christ and amen in Christ. All God's promises to his people are in Christ, so they're sure.

Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine for the which thou hast labored. Under the old covenant law, the children of Israel labored to try to keep the law and never could keep it. They ended up building groves to worship idols in and serving other gods, giving their children to the heathen and intermarrying so that they quit worshiping God. And God would turn them over to the Gentile nation. They would come and pillage their crops. And all of that was to show us we can't come to God by the works of the law.

But now, Christ is our corn and he's our wine. He's our corn and he's our wine. He came in labor in place of his people. He said, I'm the bread. This is a picture of my body, which is broken for you. That's the corn. He said, this wine is a picture of my blood in the New Testament, written in my blood, which is shed for you. That's the wine.

And the Lord says, I promise I'll never give your corn and your wine to another. You're going to have it and you're going to partake of it in my holy courts, he said, through the preaching of this gospel. He swore by Christ this is so, and he said, you're going to have him. You're going to have the corn and the wine.

Now turn with me to Revelation 7. He says there, all this we're going to partake of in the courts of my holiness. That's in the congregation he's assembled, where he set his watchman, where he's preaching through the message that's being preached, and he's speaking in power into the heart. And you're going to have Christ. This is what he's saying. You're going to have Christ and him crucified, ministered to you all your days.

Now, here's the ultimate perfect fulfillment of everything he's saying. But as we read this, I want you to get that you and I have this right now. Everything he's been saying, he's given us by giving us the gospel. and by giving us His Spirit and by making us behold Christ and know Christ and continue to feed us and minister to us. But this is what imperfection one day, when He brings us to glory, then we're gonna have all of this imperfection.

Look here, Revelation 7, 13. He saw all this multitude praising only the Lord. That's all anybody's gonna do in glory. Glory's not about seeing mama and daddy and old flames you loved back in high school. It's about seeing Christ and giving him the praise and the glory. That's what his assembly is here for. Look at Revelation 7, 13.

And one of the elders answered, saying to me, what are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they? These are they which came out of great tribulation, which came through this world, and we've washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Therefore, they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them, and they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. That's God's promise in our text.

You're gonna have the corn and the wine. If he's called you, he said, he that hath the son hath life. You have the spirit in you bearing record, bearing witness, and you're gonna have it. He's not gonna take it back. And one day you're gonna have it in perfection. He says, you're not gonna hunger, you're not gonna thirst anymore. Neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat. There's no danger, Christ's gonna protect us. For the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them.

And he shall lead them in the living fountains of waters. That's what I've been saying this whole time. He gives his preacher, And he's leading, he's preaching, he's doing the ministering, Christ did. And he leads you to living fountain of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

That's what he does through the gospel, not through politics. Through the gospel, he makes his people one, He makes us look to one Christ. We have unity and oneness in Christ. It's only by God. It's only by His grace. It's only by Christ being all to us. It's only through the preaching of the gospel, and it's only in spirit that He gives. That's how He makes His people one.

A man can go after politics and try to make that happen, but I'll tell you, go to Colossians 3. I want to read this, Colossians 3. Here it is. I forgot I wrote this down. Here it is. Here's the oneness. Colossians 3.10. You have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. There's a new man in you created by Christ, renewed in knowledge. Just like he said in our text.

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, there went to racism, Circumcision or uncircumcision, there went your law keeping or your whatever you want to call it, your ceremony. Barbarian, Scythian, bond or free, there went your elitism and classism and intellectualism. But Christ is all and in all. None of those things made us differ. That's all we fought and bickered about when we was dead in sins with all those things. That's what the world's fussing and fighting over.

Now you know Christ is all, and here's how you treat each other. Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, forgiving one another. What's your motive? What's gonna make you do this? If any have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness, and let the peace of God rule in your heart, to the which you're called into one body, unity, and be ye thankful. That's what he does. All right, brother. Brother Adam.

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What does Isaiah 62:6-9 teach us about God’s promise to His people?

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What does the Bible say about the importance of the gospel over politics?

How do we know the gospel is the true solution for human problems?

Why is the preaching of the gospel essential for Christians?

What does Isaiah 62:6-9 teach us about God’s promise to His people?

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