Still have your Bibles open there.
Open them to look at Isaiah 63, the passage of brother Dan just
read for us. I've titled the message this morning. Who is
this in apparel dyed red? In this chapter, the church meets
a great warrior returning from the battle and they ask, who
is this? Isaiah in this chapter describes
the one returning from the battle. is Christ our Savior. And he
describes five characteristics that he sees in Christ the Lord
as he sees him returning from this battle. And the first thing
Isaiah sees is that the Lord Jesus Christ is glorious. Verse one, he says, who is this
that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bezra? This that
is glorious in his apparel. Isaiah says he's glorious in
his apparel, in his dress. You know, I thought about generals,
you know, when they return from a war, they've been victorious
and how they ride in a parade, you know, ticker tape parade,
we throw for them. Those generals are all dressed
up in their dress blues or whites or whatever they have, you know,
and all their ribbons and medals across their chest, you know.
Everything they've received, medals they've received for victories
that they've won. And they dress that way so everybody
knows, I'm somebody special. I've accomplished something,
you know. Well, Christ, the captain of our salvation, is glorious
in his apparel. Our Savior's glorious apparel,
what he has clothed himself in, is human flesh. It is so glorious
to think that the Son of God clothed himself in human flesh,
yet without sin. And why did he do it? So he could
be our representative. so he could be the sacrifice
for sinful men and women like we are. That's glorious, that
someone as high and lofty as he is would come down to our
level. But what Isaiah is talking about
here is not the first coming of our Savior when he clothed
himself in flesh. He's talking about his second
coming. Isaiah is already writing here of the second coming of
the Savior when he appears in glorified flesh. You know, right
now, just for a minute, there's a man seated on the throne of
heaven. There's a man there in flesh
and bones. The Lord Jesus Christ is clothed
in flesh that's holy and righteous. And his flesh, the glory of that
flesh, shines forth just like it did on the Mount of Transfiguration
when he pulled that veil back just a little bit so the disciples
could see his glory. and his glory is breathtaking. One of the, I don't know if the
word is frustrating or not, but one of the things about preaching
is we try to talk about the glory of Christ, don't we, Eric? And
you just, you can't do it. I mean, you just can't even start
to scratch the surface. He's so glorious. The glory of
his love for sinners. the glory of His sacrifice for
sinners, the glory of His power that He uses to call and keep
and preserve His people. His great glory is seen in what
He does for the lowest of the low. It's just so glorious we
can't even, we just can't even get started on it. But you know
that glory, seeing something of that glory, hearing something
of that glory, that gives me such confidence to trust Him.
He's so glorious, why wouldn't I trust Him? Why wouldn't you
trust Him? To see Christ as He is, one day
to see Him, I mean see Him as He is, that will be glory for
me, won't you? Christ the Savior, He's in flesh,
but you know what else He's clothed in? Scarred flesh. That man sitting on the right
hand of the Father right now, he's got scars in his hands,
his feet and his scalp and his side. All those things that were
done to him, the scars from his sacrifice. That glorious flesh,
those scars show he is the successful savior of his people. He was
brutally sacrificed and he died. He actually died. But three days
later, he rose from the dead because his sacrifice had put
away the sin of his people. He rose from the dead, but those
scars were still in his flesh as evidence that he had been
crucified, but now he lives. The one at the right hand of
the father, whoever lives to make intercession for his people.
And when he makes intercession for his people, all he's got
to do is show those scars. That one seated at the father's
right hand, you know why he's seated at the father's right
hand? The father accepted him. The father glorified him and
put him there because his sacrifice pleased the father. Now thinking
of that, that gives me such total, complete confidence to trust
him. The father's already accepted his sacrifice. That gives me
confidence to trust him, doesn't it? Look at Revelation chapter
19. I'll show you this is the way
Christ is seen in heaven. Revelation chapter 19. beginning in verse 11. John says, And I saw heaven open,
and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True. And in righteousness he doth
judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns. And he had a name written that
no man knew but he himself, and he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood. and his name is called the Word
of God. Now there's no doubt that he's
talking here about the Lord Jesus Christ. John saw him in glory.
He says he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. Now the Savior's
not wearing a bloody garment dripping in actual blood. What
John sees is the flesh of the Lord Jesus. A lamb as it had
been slain, he's seeing those scars in his body that are evidence
his sacrifice was successful. and his apparel is so glorious,
his name is written on it. Verse 14, and the armies which
were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean. That's the righteousness of the
saints. The Lord's army, all of his people, they're clothed
in his glorious righteousness. And verse 16, or 15, out of his
mouth went a sharp sword, and that width that with it he should
smite the nations and shall rule them with a rod of iron. And
he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty
God. And he hath on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. Now I know we can't think of
anything more glorious than the name of Christ. And that name
is on his apparel That name tells us who He is. That makes Him
so glorious. You know, our Savior is glorious
in everything that He's done. You talk about from eternity
to eternity. Everything He's done is glorious.
But His chief glory is how that He shows mercy to sinners by
His sacrifice. That He was sacrificed for them
So the father will not pour out his wrath upon his people. Christ
was sacrificed to make it right for the father to show mercy
to his people. That's the most glorious story
you'll ever hear. And that's the glory of Christ.
All right, back in our text, the second thing that Isaiah
sees, he sees Christ in his great strength. He says here, he's
glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength. Everywhere the Savior goes, everywhere
he goes, everything he does, he goes in his strength. He never
goes anywhere in weakness. It's always in strength. Now Isaiah sees the Savior returning
from this great battle. He's won the battle, he's fought
the battle, but you know, he's not limping away from the battle.
He's not walking, you know, real slow because he's exhausted from
the battle. No, he's leaving the battle and
he's traveling in the greatness of his strength. His strength
is unabated. It's not been decreased any by
fighting this battle. He won the battle and he's just
not tired at all because he travels in the greatness of his strength.
In his strength, he has crushed every enemy. He's crushed them
like a grave. Easy peasy, Janet says, easy
peasy, no problem. In his strength, there's no enemy
that can even begin to stand up to him. And you know, even
when the Son of God humbled himself to appear in the weakness of
human flesh, and he limited himself to human flesh, didn't he? But
even then, he always traveled in the greatness of his strength.
The Son of God became a baby. who was completely dependent
on his mother to feed him, and clothe him, and take care of
him, you know. Yet, she was always dependent
on that baby to give her the milk to feed him, to give her
the wisdom and the strength to take care of him. He was dependent
on her, just like we were babies, dependent on our mother, but
she was always dependent on him. Even as a baby, he came in the
greatness of his strength. And when it became time for him
to begin his public ministry, he traveled everywhere he went
in the greatness of his strength. He went to the wilderness to
meet Satan. And in the point where the human
body would be the weakest after 40 days without food or water,
he crushed Satan. Satan had nothing for him, could
find nothing in him. In the greatness of his strength,
he sent Satan scurrying away with his tail between his legs.
Everywhere he went preaching, he traveled in the greatness
of his strength. This is a man who walked on water. He healed the sick, sometimes
with a touch, sometimes with just a word. He raised the dead
back to life. He preached and dead sinners
heard and believed. Now that's strength. Even his
enemies, when they heard him preach, you know what they had
to say? Every man speak like this man. No, this man speaks
as one having authority, power, not as the scribes and the Pharisees.
His enemies could never take him because his hour was not
yet come. And when his hour came, the only
reason they could take him was he gave himself to them. And then he went to the cross.
And when our savior went to the cross, he went in the greatness
of his strength. At that time, as he hung upon
the cross, you know he had to appear to be weak to men who
watched him. Don't you think? He had to appear
weak. He's nailed to a cross. He's not moving. You know, the
scribes and Pharisees are taunting him, saying, come down from the
cross and we'll believe you. And boy, they thought, well,
if he comes down from the cross, that's power. But there he stayed. There he stayed. But he didn't
stay there in weakness. He didn't stay there and die
in weakness. No, he didn't die because his
body finally lost the power to stay alive. He died because he
gave up the ghost. And you know the only reason
he gave up the ghost? It's because as he hung there on that cross,
in the greatness of his strength, he had put all the sin of all
of his people away forever. He satisfied the father. The
transaction was done. and he gave up the ghost. Then,
three days later, he arose from the grave in the greatness of
his strength. He raised his own self from the
dead and walked out of the tomb. And about 40 days later, he ascended
back to the father in the greatness of his strength. He ascended
into glory and sat down on the throne. Now that's a greatness
of his strength. And there he sits on that throne
to this day, making intercession for his people, ruling and reigning
over everything that happens in his creation. And he's going
to sit there until the time appointed for him to return and gather
his people to himself and to destroy his enemies. And when
he comes, he's going to come again in the greatness of his
strength. so that all eyes will see him
at once. How can you do that in a circular,
on a global circular planet? I have no idea, but that's what
scripture says is going to happen. We're all going to see him at
once because he travels in the greatness of his strength. And
do you know the Lord is still traveling amongst his people
in the greatness of his strength. The gospels preached, And the
Lord comes and gives life, gives spiritual life that wasn't there
before. And somebody hears and believes. How'd that happen? I mean, you're
not hearing a different message than you ever heard before. You
know, the thing about preaching the gospel is we preach the same
message over and over and over again from a different text every
week. You're not hearing something different than you ever heard
before. Why'd you hear this time? Why'd you believe this time?
Why were you blessed this time? Why do you see this time where
I never saw before? It's because the Lord traveled
in the greatness of his strength. And he gave life to one of his
people. He gives them a new nature. Suddenly
you find yourself willing to believe on Christ. Suddenly you
find yourself willing to come to him. Well, that old preacher,
he's kept telling me, come to Christ, come to Christ, come
to Christ. And suddenly he tells me, I want to, here I come. You
can't keep me away from him. Our Lord has moved in the greatness
of his strength, made his people willing to believe Christ, willing
to trust Christ, willing to not trust their works anymore and
trust Christ alone, willing to love Christ, willing to lay at
his feet until he's pleased to move in power. That's the Savior I want to trust
my soul to, don't you? I don't want to trust in my power.
I want to trust in Him who has all power. All right, here's
the third thing Isaiah sees. He sees the Lord Jesus Christ
is our righteousness. At the end of verse one, he says,
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Isaiah says,
who is this that's coming? And the Savior answered, I that
speak in righteousness, it's me. Righteousness personified. Christ our Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
righteousness. He doesn't just tell us about
righteousness so that you have a legal righteousness before
God. He is our righteousness. Righteousness is a person. Righteousness
is not a thing. Righteousness is not a state
of being. Righteousness is a person. And our Savior says, it's me
who speaks in righteousness. But you know, more than just
speaking in righteousness, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of righteousness. He's the one that tells us how
can a sinner be just with God? That's the age old question.
How can a sinner be righteous? How's that possible? Christ tells
us how it is sinners are made righteous. He tells us we cannot
be made righteous by anything we do. The natural man is spiritually
dead, dead. And since we're dead, we can't
do anything spiritual. We can't understand anything
spiritual. We can't feel anything spiritual. We can't sense anything
spiritual. I know people at the funeral
home, I know it's part of the grieving process, People feel
like they want to talk to that body of their loved one. And
that makes you feel better, do it. But now listen, that dead
body, they can't feel anything emotional that you tell them.
They can't sense that you're there. They can't sense what
you're saying. They can't sense what's going around them because
they're dead. The same thing is true of us
spiritually. We can't even sense anything spiritual going on around
us. We don't know by nature what
the truth is, even though it's staring us in the face. We don't
know because we're spiritually dead and we've been dead a long
time. We've been dead since Adam fell
in the garden over 6,000 years ago. And one of the great evidences
that we are spiritually dead is this. All mankind operates
under the delusion that we can obey God's law well enough to
make God happy with us. Every human being operates under
that delusion. We think I can do well enough
to satisfy God. If I do better than somebody
else, God will be more happy with me than he is them, you
know. And that just shows you how spiritually dead that we
we are that we think that. But then Christ comes. Speaking
in righteousness, speaking of righteousness, he comes telling
us and how sinners are made righteous so that we understand Now I can
tell you from the scripture how sinners are made righteous. But
if Christ speaks to your heart, you'll believe it. You'll see. Sinners are only made righteous
in Christ. It's by him obeying the law for
us. It's by him being our righteousness. Let me show you that in Romans
chapter three. You don't have to take my word for it. Let's
see what does the word say. Romans chapter three. beginning in verse 19. Now we know, that what things
whoever the law saith, saith to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become
guilty before God. See, God didn't give the law
so we could keep it. God gave the law to show us our
guilt. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh
be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of
sin. But now, the righteousness of
God without the law, without your obedience to the law, is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even
the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
all and upon all them that believe. For there's no difference for
all of sin to come short of the glory of God, being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus,
whom God has set forth to be a propitiation. through faith
in his blood. By trusting his blood is enough
to put my sin away. To declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God. To declare, I say at this time,
his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus. You see, the Savior speaks of
how he is the righteousness of his people. He's the one that
makes his people righteous. He makes them righteous. He doesn't
just talk about righteousness. He makes his people righteous.
And it's by his obedience for them. Sinners are made righteous
by simply trusting Christ. By trusting he's all it takes
to make me righteous and I don't have to add my sinful works to
it to make it better. That's what faith is. Faith is
not that complicated. It's just trusting Christ. is
believing he is all it takes. Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man, on whom God imputeth righteousness
without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. Now, how is it that the Lord
cannot impute sin to a sinner like you and me? It's because
he charged it and imputed it to his son. He made his son guilty
at Calvary and he imputed that sin to him. Well, how can we
be made righteous? is by the Father, imputing the
righteousness, the obedience of Christ, and saying it's ours. Because we were in Him when He
did it. This is how sinners are made
righteous, and that's what Christ speaks of. He speaks of His righteousness. He speaks how He is the righteousness
of His people. Now that righteousness is perfect.
It's perfect. I can't think of a better reason
to trust Him than that, can you? God demands a perfect righteousness,
and Christ is that righteousness. You know, this victorious warrior
returning from the battle, he had been pleased to reveal himself
as the righteousness of his people. And that's what I want for you
and me. I want nothing more than Christ to reveal himself to us
as our righteousness. And this is such an encouragement.
God's pleased to reveal himself that way to his people. He's
pleased to. In my Christ, Lord, reveal yourself
to me. Reveal yourself to me. All right, then here's the fourth
thing Isaiah sees. He sees Christ as mighty to save. The Lord tells him that. He says,
I'm mighty to save. Now the church asks, who is this
that's coming from Edom in these garments dyed red from Basra?
Who is this traveling in the greatness of his strength? The
Lord answers, it's me. I speak in righteousness, it's
me who's mighty to save. And hearing our Savior describe
himself as the one who's mighty to save, that just makes my heart
jump in my chest. You know why? Because a great
sinner loves to hear of a Savior who's mighty to save. Christ
our Savior is mighty to save because of who He is, because
of everything that we've seen here already. He's mighty to
save because of His glorious righteousness. His glorious holiness. He's got the glory of God. That
makes Him mighty to save. He's mighty to save because He's
great in strength. He's got the strength of God.
No job's too hard for Him. And He's mighty to save because
He's got the righteousness to save. He earned a perfect righteousness
as a man under the law. That makes him mighty to save.
But here's something that's so glorious about our Savior. Now
here he is coming from this battle. He's mighty to save because of
his death as the sacrifice for his people. You know, most conquerors,
they had the victory because they were not killed in battle,
right? Our Savior showed his might to
save by his death on Calvary's tree. And in his death, our Savior
was so mighty that in his death, he saved all of his people from
all of their sin. A number no man can number. By
his one death, he saved them all. Christ put their sin away
so that it does not exist anymore. The Father says, I don't see
it. Now if the father doesn't see
it, do you know why he doesn't see it? It's because it's not there. If you don't think that that
was a mighty act, that by his death on the tree, Christ put
sin away. If you don't think that's a mighty
act, I've got a challenge for you. Try to put one of yours
away. Just one. We can't do it, can we? Our savior
is so mighty, he was able to put all of the sins all of his
people away forever. He's so mighty, he was able to
take the sin of his people away from them, and he was able to
bear the burden of it all. That would crush you and me,
it didn't crush him. He's so mighty, he bore that burden,
and he bore it until his blood put it all away. When the father made his son
sin for his people, the father poured out the fury of His justice,
the fury of His holiness against sin. And He poured that fury
out until all that sin was gone. See, Christ our Savior is so
mighty to save that He suffered until the fury and wrath of His
Father was gone. Gone. That wrath was gone because
sin was gone. The blood of Christ put it away.
And you know why the wrath of the Father stopped? There's no
more sin to fuel it. There's no more sin for him to
be angry about. Christ put it all away, all of
it. Now that might to say, oh, that
makes me mighty glad to trust him, doesn't you? He is able
to save to the uttermost. No believer has to ever worry
about drinking a cup, the cup of God's fury. No believer has
to worry about being destroyed or condemned by God's justice
because our substitute was already condemned for us. Our substitute
already turned that cup up and drank the dregs of it dry. And
now, all that's left for God's people is mercy and grace and
life and peace. Because of what our substitute,
our mighty substitute accomplished in his death. He trod that winepress
alone, didn't he? He suffered alone. As he suffered,
there was none to help him. Even the father deserted him.
The old Peter swore he'd die with him. Peter's nowhere to
be found. The other 10, they're nowhere to be found. All of his
friends, they're nowhere to be found. And he was left to do
the job of redemption all by himself. And that's okay. because he was there in the greatness
of his strength. He didn't need any help, did
he? No, his own arm brought salvation to his people. His zeal for his
people caused him to endure all that suffering and all the shame
of the cross so that his people would be made righteous. And
since he's there in the greatness of his strength, that's what
he did. He put their sin away and made his people righteous. Don't you ever buy into this
lie that Christ is trying to save somebody or that he died
trying to save somebody. No, sir. In the greatness of
his strength, he saved completely everybody that the Father gave
him to save. That's his power. He's so powerful
that his death was the death of death. He's so powerful, his
death was the death of sin. and it brought life to all of
God's elect, because he's mighty to save. Well, here's the last
thing Isaiah sees. He sees Christ coming again as
the judge. In verse two, he says, wherefore
art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the wine fat? Now I know we all commonly refer
to these verses, I just did, as telling of Christ suffering
alone for his people and accomplishing their redemption all by himself.
And there certainly is some reference to that. But mostly, primarily,
these verses are talking about the second coming of Christ,
when he comes as the judge of the earth. You see, if this was
referring to Christ suffering for his people, he would be the
grape who is being crushed. But here he's the one crushing
the grapes. Those grapes are his enemies
that he's crushing in his wrath. And that's what he'll do when
he comes again as a judge. He's gonna crush his enemies
in his wrath and put them away forever. Plus Isaiah says here,
Christ got garments. They're not covered in his blood.
They're covered in the blood of his enemies. This is not the
blood of his sacrifice. It's the blood of his enemies
that he's crushed. Let me show you that in Revelation
chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14. Beginning in verse 18. And another
angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire, and
cried with a loud voice, to him that had the sharp sickle, saying,
Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine,
gather those grapes of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.
This now is the time to deal with him. And the angel thrust
in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the
earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden
without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even under
the horse bridles. by the space of 1,600 furlongs. See, this is coming, this is
talking about the second coming of the Lord when those with the
wicked of the earth are gathered together, and where are they
put? In the winepress of God's judgment. And Christ will go
and destroy every one of them there. He's gonna do it by himself. I don't know if they still do
it this way, but I know in the old days, if they're gonna make
wine, they put all the grapes in this wine press and somebody
goes in there barefoot and steps on them, you know, and crushes
them all. Now somebody that does that for a while, they're gonna
have grape juice splattered up on their clothes, aren't they?
So the church asks, why is the Savior covered in blood? Like
he's been treading grapes all day. What have you been doing
in this wine press? Well, verse three tells us. Here's
why his clothes are dyed red. I've trodden the winepress 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.
Now you see, this primarily refers to Christ the judge. When he
comes back, treading down his enemies and destroying them in
his fierce wrath. It's their blood that covers
his garments. See, Christ is coming in the
picture here of him who crushes his enemies, those who refused
to believe on him. Now, that's what Isaiah is prophesying
here. Throughout the gospel of Isaiah,
he's prophesied of the Lord's first coming. He's prophesied
of his sacrifice, but he's also prophesying here of his second
coming. See, the Savior's coming from
Edom. Edom is where Esau lived. That's
where the enemies of Israel lived, Edom. They rejected the birthright. They rejected salvation by grace.
So Christ went to destroy them. And that's exactly what he did.
And the judgment of unbelievers. You know, it's something I don't
like to even think about it. I mean, it's horrible. I don't
like to think about it. I don't ever wanna fall into
a trap thinking, uh-huh, yeah, God's gonna get you someday.
I just can't wait to see God get you. The judgment of unbelievers,
it's a horrifying thing to think about. But that will not be something
God does half-heartedly. The Lord says he trampled his
enemies here in his fury against their unbelief. Look at verse
six. He said, 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. This fury is gonna
be the fury of Christ the judge. He comes and speaks in righteousness,
and this is gonna be the day of vengeance. And when he comes,
this judge, now he's still speaking in righteousness as the judge.
He's gonna give everyone exactly what they deserve. No more and
no less. And the cup of God's fury is
gonna destroy him. And when that day comes, the
Lord's gonna do the work all by himself. Look what he says
in verse five. And I looked and 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, it upheld
me. And he says here, I wondered
that there was none to help. Well, really it's no wonder that
there was none to help, is there? First of all, none of us are
able to help God do anything. What an absurd thought that we
can help God do something. There ain't anybody who can help
God. Now we may be instruments that he uses to accomplish his
purpose, but we can't do anything to help God. But second, it's
no wonder there was none to help, because God doesn't need any
help. He doesn't need any help. He will do this work of judgment
all by himself. He's the almighty, and he's got
the power to do it. And when he finishes the work
of destroying his enemies in that winepress, he won't even
be tired. He'll still be traveling in the
greatness of his strength, isn't he? Well, that's kind of a depressing
note to end on, so let's not end there. The Lord's coming. He's coming again, and he will
destroy. He'll judge his enemies and destroy
them when he comes, But now he's coming from Basra. Why isn't
he coming to destroy Israel too? Why isn't he coming to destroy
spiritual Israel? Remember, Edom, that's the place
where Esau's descendants lived. Israel, that's where the descendants
of Jacob lived. Well, there's no difference between
the two of them. By nature, they're conceived by the same father
and mother. They grew up in the same house, there's no difference
between them. They have the same flesh, they have the same nature,
they have the same sin, they're both equally dead in Adam. What
made the difference between Jacob and Esau? Why did the Lord go
destroy one and come and reveal his glory to the other? It's
God's electing love. Jacob have I loved, and Esau
have I hated. That's the only difference. And
since God loved Jacob, Since God loved his people, he's the
God of Jacob. That's what he calls himself,
the God of Jacob, the savior of a bunch of Jacobs who are
no count. Since God loved Jacob, God sent
a redeemer for Jacob. He sent one to pay for Jacob's
sin and to pay his debt with his own blood. Since God loved
Jacob, he sent a substitute for Jacob to die in Jacob's place
so Jacob could live. And God's elect, All believers,
they won't be destroyed when Christ returns for the very same
reason. God sent a redeemer. He sent a righteousness for his
people. He's already satisfied justice for his people. Well,
what's left for the believer to do in that day? Admire our savior. Admire the
one that suffered and died for us and praise him forever. I can't wait, can you? I can't
wait. All right, hope the Lord bless
that to you. Let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for this glorious passage that so clearly reveals Christ our
Savior. Father, I pray that you would
enable us to see him as he is, that you give us eyes to faith
to see him, and that you give all of us here this morning a
heart of faith to believe. fall down at his feet, and beg
him for mercy. How we thank you for a successful,
mighty, victorious Savior. Father, reveal his glory to us,
we pray. It's in Christ's name, for his
sake and his glory, we pray. Amen. All right, now remember,
there'll be no service here Wednesday night, and some of you men would
set up the three tables for us there in the vestibule, we can
be prepared for all the goodies that our ladies will have for
us to eat after the services this weekend.