A week from today, we'll not
have service here on Wednesday night. We'll have service Thursday
night next week. Pastor Clay Curtis is coming
through on his way to preach at the Danville Conference. He
came last year. He called and I said, well, you
come stay with us. And I said, why don't you, without
even thinking, why don't you preach for us? The man drove 10 hours
to get here to preach. And I said, well, this year,
let's make it a little easier. You come Wednesday, and we'll have
our midweek service on Thursday so you can So we'll have our
midweek service next week on Thursday. And I was talking to
you earlier about this passage in Ecclesiastes we read. When
Solomon said there's a time to refrain from embracing, he didn't
mean there's a time you ought to withhold your love. What he's
talking about is there's a time. In the course of our lives, you
have the opportunity to embrace your loved ones. When they're
here with you, you've got that time. This is the time that God's
appointed. You can embrace them. There'll
come a time when there's a time to refrain from embracing. They'll
pass away and the time of embracing will be over. So when you go
home tonight, embrace your loved ones. It's a time for embracing.
All right. And you get that for free. Isaiah
chapter 12. Now, there are several things
that we know. We know. The salvation is by
God's eternal purpose. In eternity past, God purposed
in Himself to save some of Adam's fallen race by the righteousness
and by the sacrifice of His Son. God purposed that. We know that. We know that in eternity past,
the people that God would save were set. God elected a people. He chose them by name and their
names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. God chose them. He set his love upon them, not
because they were better than anybody else, because they weren't.
God chose them just because he would. Just because it seemed
good in his sight to save some of Adam's fallen race. And we
know those people that God elected, they shall be saved. Eric, there's
not a possibility they'll perish. None. And we know that. By God's
grace, we know that. And we know that in eternity
past, There was a day in time that was set, a day that was
set for the sacrifice of Christ for the sins of his elect. An
exact day in time was set for the sacrifice of Christ for an
exact people. And we know that from reading
the scripture. And we know that in eternity past, all of our
days on earth, they were determined by God. The day of our conception
was determined. The day of our birth was appointed.
The day of our death was appointed, and every day in between was
appointed, ordained by God. But there's a day, and that's
the day I want to talk about this evening, the day of salvation,
when faith came to the heart of God's people in the new birth.
And that exact moment, that didn't happen on accident, that exact
moment was ordained of God in eternity. That day, that hour,
that moment was no accident. It was the moment, the day and
the hour of God's eternal purpose. Just like Zacchaeus, it was no
accident. Zacchaeus was up that tree the
very day the Lord passed by underneath it and said, Zacchaeus, I must
abide at your house today. It was no accident. It was no
accident that morning Lydia showed up at the riverbank and there
was the Apostle Paul preached to her and the Lord opened her
heart. It was no accident that that jailer was on duty that
night. Could have been another jailer. But it was this particular
jailer on duty that particular night when there was an earthquake
and he was going to kill himself. He was afraid the prisoners had
escaped. And Paul said, do yourself no harm. And Paul preached to
him. And the Lord saved that man and
his house. That was no accident. And it's no accident that you're
here this evening to hear the Gospel. That was no accident.
There's no accident the day that you heard the gospel and believed.
God sent you a preacher and on that day you heard. On that day
you believed Christ. You heard Him and you believed
Him because that was God's eternal purpose for that day. And here
we are tonight. It's no accident that you're
here. It was God's eternal purpose for each of us to be here this
evening. It's no accident that you're
here. It's no accident you were born to parents who faithfully
bring you to the worship service, who faithfully teach you Christ.
That's God's purpose for you. And every time they make you
get dressed and comb your hair and brush your teeth and you
come to the service, every time that happens, that's God's purpose
for you. God's ordained this, this time
for you to hear, to hear the gospel, be taught the scriptures.
Now God's got a people. He's going to save them. But
then we don't know who those people are. We don't know when
God might be pleased to reveal Himself to them. So we preach
Christ. Every service, we preach Christ
to everyone. And we pray, maybe this will
be the day. Maybe this will be the day God's
eternal purpose of salvation for one of His elect. And that
day of God's eternal purpose It comes to God's elect in different
times, in different ways. Some people are young, some people
are old. Some people have been hearing the gospel many years,
and finally they hear. Some people, the first time they
sit down and hear the gospel, they believe it. It comes at
different times in different ways. But there are several things
about this day of God's eternal purpose that are common to every
believer. And the first one is this in
verse 1 of Isaiah chapter 12. That day of God's eternal purpose
is the day of praise. Isaiah says, And that day thou
shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee. Now, we praise God, don't
we? We praise God for who He is.
I'm thankful. I praise God that He's sovereign. In my private, personal prayers,
that's something I always thank God for. I'm thankful God's sovereign. I praise Him that He's sovereign,
that He's the monarch over all things. I praise God. He's the Creator. He created
all this earth. He holds it all together. He
keeps it all running. That's a miracle. I praise God
for that. I praise Him. He's the giver
of life, the sustainer of life. He's the giver of everything
we have. I praise Him for that. And I praise Him because He's
the Savior. This is the One who has shown
mercy to sinners. Now God's worthy to be praised,
just for who He is. I'm not talking about what He's
done for us, just because of who He is. God's to be praised. Now certainly, God's blessed
us so much. He has blessed all of us here,
just beyond measure. And we do praise Him and thank
Him for it. It would be ungrateful not to do that. But you know,
if God does not do one more thing for us, not one, He's still worthy
to be praised. just because of who He is. And
in that day of salvation, that day that God has purposed for
all of eternity, we'll say so. God's worthy to be praised. And
with what I've got, with what ability I've got, with what understanding
I've got, I'm going to praise Him. God gives me a heart that
praises Him. And He'll give me a mouth that
praises Him. That day of salvation is a day of praise. Secondly,
that day of God's eternal purpose is a day of conviction of sin
and confession of sin and repentance from sin. Isaiah says, though
thou wast angry with me, that you are angry with me, and rightfully
so. God should be angry with us because
our sin's against Him. Our sin's rebellion against Him.
He ought to be angry with us. Scripture says God's angry with
the wicked every day. Now that's me. By nature, I'm
the wicked one that God's angry with. That's you by nature. By
nature, You're wicked. God's angry with the wicked.
He should be. God's given me just holy laws. He's given me laws that are for
my own good. If I'd obey them, it'd be better
off for me. God gave me laws. It's good.
He gave me His law so I'd know something about who God is. It
was for my good. The law showed me my need of
Christ. And what have I done with God's
law? Broken every one of them. Every precept of God's law I
break every day. Guilty of the whole law. I don't
love God with all my heart and soul. I don't love my neighbor
as myself. So I'm guilty. I covet what doesn't
belong to me. So I'm a thief and I'm an adulterer.
I covet. I'm guilty. I bear false witness. You know, I really, really try. This is very important to me.
To be known as an honest person. I try to be an honest person.
But you know, there are times I tell the truth, but it's in
my heart to tell a lie. Maybe I can cover this up and
not tell the truth. I'm a liar. I'm guilty. And when I see just a little
bit of myself, all it takes is seeing a little bit of ourselves,
we'll say, God should be angry with me. That's exactly what
He should. He should condemn me. Look back at Psalm 51. Isn't
that what David said? God should be angry with me.
I've sinned against Him. Psalm 51, let's begin reading
in verse 3. This day God's eternal purpose
has come to David. He says, For I acknowledge my
transgression, my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee
only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that
thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when
thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive. I am a sinner by birth, by choice,
and by practice. David confesses his sins, and
he repents of his sins. In that day of grace, in that
day of God's eternal purpose, He's going to make me see myself
for what I am. I'm a sinner. I'm full of sin. And I confess my sin. And that
day, I confess my sin. I quit trying to make excuses
for it. I quit trying to blame it on somebody else. I confess
it. It's mine. My sin. It's my rebellion. And I repent of my sin. And I
turn to Christ. Because that's God's eternal
purpose for this day. This day of grace. You see, before
mercy comes, judgment always comes. Before mercy comes, wrath
always comes. The conviction of sin. And that's
a hard, uncomfortable, painful day. That day of conviction of
sin. But it has to come before there's
any comfort. It has to. But true conviction
of sin, look back at Psalm 32. True conviction of sin, true
confession of sin, is always followed by comfort. Psalm 32,
verse 5. I acknowledge my sin unto thee,
and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said I'll confess my transgression
unto the Lord. And here's comfort. Thou forgavest
the iniquity of my sin. True confession of sin is always
followed by comfort. And that brings me to my third
point. The day of God's eternal purpose is the day of comfort. At the end of verse 1, Isaiah
says, Though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned
away, and thou comfortest me. Now we don't know how to talk
about God's anger towards His people. His anger against our
sin. Scripture says God's always loved
His people with an everlasting love. Yet, Scripture also says
God's angry with us because of our sin. Yet, God's always seen
His people in Christ. He's always been pleased with
His elect in Christ. So we can't understand this.
How God can always love His people, not see the sin of His people,
yet He's angry with our sin too. So whatever that means, this
is what we do know. God's anger toward His people
is turned away because He turned that anger against our sin on
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our substitute. And this is where
real comfort comes in. Real comfort from our sin can
only come from knowing this. Our sin has been put away by
the sacrifice of Christ. Real comfort comes knowing God's
angry with me. He ought to be angry with me
for my sin, but His angers turn from me because God turned His
anger on Christ when He was made to be sin for me. That's the
only way we can be comforted. The Lord Jesus Christ put all
of my sin away through His suffering on Calvary's tree by shedding
His blood to blot it out. So God's angers turn from me.
And his anger's been removed because Christ removed the sin
that made him angry. And we're comforted. Comforted
knowing that sin's been put away under the blood of Christ. What
a comfort to know God's not angry with me anymore. Because his
anger was exhausted upon his son. And God's reconciled. God says, I'm reconciled by the
death of my son. Now you be reconciled. Well,
there's comfort in knowing God's reconciled. And there's comfort
in being reconciled to God, too. Isn't there comfort in submitting
to Him? Just laying down your arms, stacking
your arms and submitting to Him? There's comfort in that. See,
first there's conviction. Then there's comfort. First there's
death. Then there's life. First, God
always shows us who we are. What we deserve. And then He
shows us who He is. Then He shows us who Christ is.
And He shows us in an exact time. It's a point in time. You think,
well, it's always been there. Why didn't I see that before?
It wasn't God's day of eternal purpose yet. But now it is, and
you see. And that time is a time of love. That time of comfort is a time
of love. Remember Ezekiel's baby cast
out into the open field to the loathing of its person? Ezekiel
16. There it lay. Ugly. Defiled. And the Lord said, behold, I
pass by. And thy time was a time of love. It's a time of love for you.
God's eternal day has been purposed to show His love to you. What
comfort. what comfort there is in the
love of God shed abroad in our hearts. 4. The day of God's eternal
purpose is the day when Christ is revealed to our hearts. Verse
2. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid,
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He also is become
my salvation. Now, I started out knowing this.
God showed me this. I'm a sinner and I need a Savior.
What comfort when God reveals to me that the Savior is God
Himself. HB, if God's my Savior, I'll
be saved. If God is the Savior, He can't
fail because He's God. Oh, there's such comfort in that.
My salvation can't be lost if God is my Savior. Now, if I've
got to contribute to my salvation, it'll be lost. But if God's my
salvation, it can't be lost. Now, this day is God's eternal
purpose day. It comes to God's people in different
ways at different times. But every person, without exception,
God saves. God reveals the Savior, the same
Savior to every one of His people. He reveals Christ to them, Jehovah. God with us. God my Savior. Jehovah is God with us. God the
Son became a man so He'd be with us. And He is my salvation. He has become my salvation. My
friends, salvation is not a thing. I wish we'd get this out of our
head, out of our vocabulary, talking about salvation like
it's a thing. But salvation It is a legal state
before God. Absolutely. Salvation is done
legally. So it can't be lost. The law
can never come back against it. But salvation is far more, far
more than a legal state before God. A legal state before God
is a cold, unbending thing. That's just all it is. But Isaiah
says salvation is a person. is become my salvation." Salvation
is the Son of God who loved His people enough to become a man
so He'd be with them. He came where we are, bone of
our bone and flesh of our flesh, so that He could be our representative.
So that He could bear our sin. A lamb can't be our sin bearer.
A scapegoat can't bear our sin. He doesn't have the same nature
as me. So Christ became a man. The Son of God became a man. So He could bear my sin and put
my sin away. So in His precious, holy, perfect
body, He could suffer for my sin. He could shed His blood
to put my sin away. He could die the death that I
deserve. He is my salvation. Now that's warm. That's life. That's salvation. Christ is my
Savior, by whom I'm saved. But Christ is my Savior in whom
I'm saved. And that's salvation. He is.
When God in this day of eternal purpose reveals Christ to us,
He reveals Christ. He doesn't reveal a thing. He
reveals a person. We see Him. We rest in Him. We fall in love with Him. And
every person that God saves has Christ revealed to their heart. Now what does that mean? Christ
has revealed to our heart. Well, when we see Christ, we
see that the Lord Jesus Christ is the God-man. He's our salvation. God became a man so that he could
be our representative and our sacrifice. We see that. We understand
that. And we love it. When we see Christ,
we see Christ as my righteousness. He's our righteousness. When
we see Christ, we quit laying claim to any righteousness that
comes from our own doing. He is our righteousness. When
we see Christ, we see the death of Christ is the death of the
sinner substitute, that He died my death to satisfy the law for
me. When we see Christ, we see Christ
as the risen Savior. He's risen as our life. He's
risen for our justification. And we see Christ. We see Christ
seated on the throne of glory. He's the sovereign Savior. And
as the sovereign Savior, He's seated on the throne of glory
doing what? Making intercession for His people.
He can't be lost. When we see Christ, we see Christ
who accomplished all of salvation for us. Is that the Christ you've
seen? And God saved you. And we see Christ like that.
We see Him as He is. We'll trust Him. And I mean we'll
trust Him completely. We'll put all of our eggs in
that one basket and never be afraid. We won't be afraid of
death. Why should we? Christ died for
us. Took the sting of death away.
Now, I hate my sin. I wish I wouldn't sin again.
But I'm not afraid of sin because Christ bore my sin away. He bore
the punishment. There's no condemnation. He bore
it all away. I'm not going to be afraid of
men, not if I trust Christ. Christ is in control of them.
When Christ suffered and bled and died, he bought the redemption
of his people. He bought the rest of creation,
too. It's all his. He's in control of it. I'm not
going to be afraid of it. And we won't be afraid of Satan,
not if we're trusting in Christ. Now, when I say I'm not afraid
of Satan, I'm not looking for him. Absolutely no desire to
have anything to do with Satan. Nothing. I'm not afraid of him.
Because Christ crushed his head at Calvary. Hiding in Christ,
I had no fear. Trusting in Him, I had no fear.
And we see Christ by revelation. It's not that we study hard and
we work so hard and now I see. No. We see by revelation. Isaiah says, behold. God says
you stop on this eternal day of God's purpose. He says stop.
Behold, suddenly we see Christ by God's divine revelation. He
gives us eyes to see and Christ is revealed to the heart. Fifth,
the day of God's eternal purpose is the day when faith lays hold
on Christ. We see Christ, Christ is revealed
to the heart. And then we lay hold on Christ
by faith. Look at verse 3. Therefore with
joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And you
know, just a glance at reading that verse, you know this is
speaking of Christ. Christ is the living water, the
water of life. But Isaiah speaks of wells, plural,
wells of salvation. Well, what does that mean? Well,
he means the whole Godhead. He means the Trinity, Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. Look in Jeremiah chapter 2. Here
scripture calls God the Father, the fountain of living water. Jeremiah 2 verse 12. Be astonished, O ye heavens,
at this, and be horribly afraid. Be ye very desolate, saith the
Lord, For my people have committed two evils." Now this is God the
Father speaking. They've forsaken me, the fountain
of living waters. And they've hewed out cisterns,
broken cisterns that can hold no water. They have forsaken
me, the fountain of water. God the Father is the fountain
of living water. We know from our study in John,
Christ is the water of life. He's the giver of living water.
And the Holy Spirit, and we saw this in our study of John, is
the source of the living water. All these are the wells of salvation.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They're all involved in this
day of salvation that was purposed in eternity past. And Isaiah
says, in that day, with joy, we're going to draw water out
of the wells of salvation. Now, we draw the water. We seek
the water. We come to Christ for the water.
We take the water. And we drink it. And it was old Frank that reached
out and took that water. And it was Frank that drank that
water. Frank didn't quench his thirst.
The water quenched my thirst. I only reached and took that
glass because God gave me the strength to do it. He gave me
the wherewithal to understand I'm thirsty. And He gave me the
strength to reach and take that water. He gave me the strength
not to choke to death when I drank the water. He gave me that water
to quench my thirst. That's salvation. I come to Christ. I drink of Him. I thirst after
Him. Oh, how I hunger and thirst after
Christ. But it's God that gave me the
desire to drink. It's God that gave me life to be thirsty. Dead
man's not thirsty. You can't pour water down the
throat of a dead man. He's not thirsty. He doesn't
want it. But a living man's thirsty. Wait just a little bit, he'll
be thirsty. God gave me life to be thirsty. God gave me the
strength and the desire to come to Christ. God the Holy Spirit
came and gave me life, and then He salted me. So not only would
I come to Christ, but I'd keep coming to Him. Keep coming and
drawing out of these wells of water. But nothing I did quenched
my thirst. Christ quenched my thirst. You come here in the middle of
the week, It's been a tough week, I bet. You know what you came
here to hear? You know what you came here to
feast upon? Christ. He's what satisfies you. Christ is the living water that
quenches our thirst. Now, I've never done this, but
I can understand if this is so. Drawing water from a deep well? Now that's hard work. Cody Gruger
told me in Mexico, I don't think they do this as much anymore.
I think they've got water out to most of the Pueblos. But they
still have wells and things, and some of them are deep. And
they've got these tanks behind their house, and they get the
water from their well and put it in this tank. Because, you
see, it could take them days to pull water manually from that
deep well one bucket at a time. It could take them several days
to fill that thing up. That's hard work. When Isaiah
says we're going to come draw water out of the wells of salvation,
he's not talking about any hard work. This is easy. Look in John
chapter 4. I made reference to this earlier
about Christ being the living water and the giver of the water
of life. Well, here this is. And drawing
water from the wells of salvation, that's not hard work. Because
there's a spring of living water flowing from within God's people.
Look in John chapter 4 verse 13. Jesus answered and said unto
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But
whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst. He'll always be satisfied. But
the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life. It's not hard to draw water
when it's springing up out of you. This is easy. God makes
it easy. Look in chapter 7 of John. Come
drink. It's not hard work. John chapter
7 verse 37. In the last day, that great day
of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. But this spake he of the Spirit,
which they that believe on him should receive. For the Holy
Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
See, there the Holy Ghost is the giver of the living water.
This living water is not hard to draw. It's a river flowing
from your belly. It's a spring springing up within
you. So we draw this water, it's easy.
But we don't draw this water one time and that's it. We keep
drawing this water every day. We need water for daily cleansing.
We need our thirst quenched daily. But how do you do that? How do
you draw from these wells of salvation daily? God's given
to us in His Word. By reading His Word, by attending
to preaching and prayer, you draw from those wells with joy. In that day, God's eternal purpose
And then sixth, the day of God's eternal purpose is a day of worship. Look at verse 4, Isaiah 12 on
our text. And that day, shall ye say, praise
the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the
people, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing unto the
Lord, for he hath done excellent things. This is known in all
the earth. Now these verses tell us what
worship really is. is talking about Christ. Worship
is praising Christ. He said, praise the Lord. Praise
Him for who He is. Talk about Him. That's worship.
And Isaiah says, call upon His name. And we do that, don't we? We call on the name of the Lord.
We call on His name to save. We call on His name to enable
us to worship. We call on Him to comfort us.
We call on Him to instruct us. If He doesn't teach us wrong,
But this word call, it means to proclaim His name. Now that's
worship. Proclaiming His name. Telling
folks who God is. You just tell people who Christ
is. That's worship. If you proclaim who God is, God's
people will worship. They will because He's the one
that they worship. They love to hear about Him.
You just tell them about Him. They'll worship. And worship
is declaring His doings. That's why Isaiah says, His doings.
Well, what is it that Christ did? He did it all. He did everything that's required.
He left nothing undone. Everything that required obedience,
Christ was obedient to it. His obedience is our obedience.
His righteousness is our righteousness. And God's people will worship
when they hear that. The only way they can worship
is by hearing Christ, hearing His doings, what He's done for
His people. And if you want to worship, you
just be sure the name of Christ is exalted. Say things in a way
that it's very clear. Christ gets all the glory and
we get none. Just be very clear about that.
And don't ever, please listen to me, don't ever talk flippantly
and carelessly about the Lord. That's not worship. Joking about
Him, that's not worship. If you're going to take the name
of the Almighty on your sinful lips, if you're going to take
the name of Christ, the Son of God on your lips, do it reverently. Do it reverently so that His
precious name is exalted. There is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Now take that
name reverently. There's no other name so dear
to a child of God as the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our
Savior. And if you want to ruin their
spirit of worship, just joke about it. It's impossible. Take his name reverently. So
people can worship. And Isaiah said, sing unto the
Lord. You know, an important part of worship is singing. Well,
what are we going to sing? Well, let's sing something to
get our emotions fired up. We'll all be waving around and
clapping and all this stuff, you know. No. That's not what
we're going to do. We're going to sing His name.
Sing what Christ has done. Isaiah said He's done excellent
things. Mike, we've got plenty of topics to sing about, don't
we? Because He's done so many excellent things. Everything
He does is excellent. Sing unto the Lord. Now sing
unto the Lord. Sing from the heart. Don't sing
so men will be impressed. And don't sing. Just try to be
quiet so nobody can hear you because you're afraid what people
will think. You're not singing to them. Sing to the Lord. Just sing to the Lord. You all
sing so well. People tell me this all the time.
They love visitors. They come here and say, oh, they
enjoy the song service. And this is what they say. People
are singing from the heart. Worship. Just sing from the heart.
Sing unto the Lord. Isaiah says, He hath done excellent
things. Sing unto Him. This is known
in all the earth. All of creation knows this. Isn't it a shame
all men don't? All creation knows the excellent
things our Lord's done. But men don't. You do be thankful. This is a
day of worship that God's given you. He purposed it for eternity. It's a special day of His grace.
And that brings me to my last point. The day of God's eternal
purpose is a day of assurance. Look at verse 6. Cry out and
shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of
Israel in the midst of thee. Now don't be hesitant. Don't
worry. God's purpose is going to fail.
Maybe I better pull back a little bit. No. You just shout it out. Just belt it out. Janet tells
me she's driving down the road, listening to radio. She loves
it. A certain song comes on and she says, I can belt that out.
She said, I'm driving home in the car by myself just belting
it out. Just belt this out in full assurance. Our Savior is
great. He is greatly to be praised And
there is nothing that can stop His eternal purpose because He's
too great. He's greater than all. Nothing
can stop His eternal purpose. That day that His purpose from
all of eternity will come. It will. I guarantee you it'll
come. A very, very dear friend of mine,
I was with him often, he told me, Nearly every time I was with
him, by his children. And two of his children knew
the Lord, one didn't. Oh, he just grieved himself about
this boy. Just grieved himself. Oh, it
made him sick. But he died. The Lord called
him home. I heard recently, some years after my dear friend died, The day of God's eternal purpose
came to His Son. God's safety. He never misses
a service. My friend didn't know it. I don't
know if he knows it or not now, but God's day of eternal purpose
came for that man in God's safety. That day will come. God's too
great to allow anything to alter His purpose. And that day, when
that day arrives, His purpose shall be done. He's so great,
He can ensure it. I have a lot of things I purpose
and they don't get done in a day because I'm not great enough
to make it happen. God is. Our Savior is great. He is the
Holy One of Israel. His character is so holy. He
won't go back on His promise. This is His promise, His purpose.
He's holy. He's not going to change it.
His character is holy. So the salvation that He accomplishes
for His people, is holy. There's no flaw in it. It cannot
fail. His character is holy. And He
has made His people holy. And God accepts you in Him. Now,
how are we holy? I look at myself. I don't see
anything in me but sin. Well, we're holy because Christ
is in us. Isaiah says He's in the midst
of you. Israel, spiritual Israel, He's
in the midst of And as sinful as we are, our worship is holy. Our worship is holy because Christ,
the Holy One of Israel, is in the midst of me. Two or three
have gathered together in my name. They are mine in the midst
of me. And our worship is holy. Wherever
we go, wherever God's children go, God's Spirit goes with us. He's in your midst. will be in His presence. All
because of that day that God appointed from all of eternity.
What a day. What a day. Amen.