Isaiah chapter 35. A couple weeks
ago, I wrote an article for you in our bulletin titled, Worth
the Wait. The text for that article was
Romans 8, 25. But if we hope for that and we
see not, then do we with patience wait for it? It's worth waiting
for. It's worth waiting for. And I
concluded that article with these words and with this verse in
Isaiah 35 verse 10, but the article concluded this way. So my dear
brothers and sisters in Christ, remember that though you may
weep through the night, there's a morning soon to come. It's
coming. It's coming. And oh, what a morning. And the ransomed, here's the
text, Isaiah 35 verse 10. And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy,
everlasting joy upon their heads. Oh my soul, there won't be any
pain, any sorrow, any trials to cloud their minds anymore. No, just joy upon their heads. They shall obtain. I like those
shells, don't you? I don't see any ifs about that,
any buts, any perchances in that, do you? They shall obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. The ransomed. God's ransomed. The ransomed of the Lord. That
means something. That means something. That means
everything, doesn't it? If I'm one of his ransom, that
means I've been bought with a price. That means I'm not my own. That
means he bought me. He redeemed me with his own precious
blood. That must mean something. I can't imagine, like I heard
all my life and would hear today if I would give a ear to it,
but I won't. I won't. But I can't imagine how anyone
could be called ransomed that don't end up in glory. What were they ransomed from?
And yet that other gospel, that other gospel that Paul speaks
of in Galatians 1, that all those who preach should be accursed,
that other gospel says Christ ransomed people that end up in
hell. If you can find, if anybody can find any comfort in that,
it is beyond me how. Notice These are God's people. Zion. The Church. The Bride of Christ. His body. That's who He ransomed. And that
means something. That's worth something, isn't
it? Look, if you will, just flip over a couple of pages here in
Isaiah. Here's another blessed promise
of the ransom, to the ransom. Isaiah 43, I love this passage,
don't you? Verse 1, but now, but now, regardless
of what preceded this, but now, no matter how dark the clouds
might be, no matter how fierce the wind is blowing, no matter
how high the waves might seem, but now, it doesn't touch this. It doesn't change this, but now
thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob. That's his church
again, Jacob. And he that formed thee, O Israel,
fear not. Why not? For I have redeemed
thee. Well, that means something, doesn't
it? That's worth something. Fear
not, I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name.
Thou art mine. You're mine. My soul. I think I could just pitch tent
right there. I didn't intend to do it. Didn't
think about it when I read this earlier. Oh, but it's such a
blessing to me right now. I have called thee by thy name.
Thou art mine. Oh my soul. Can that be true? Is that almost too good to be
true? Are there a people in this world of whom the Lord Jesus
Christ said, you belong to me? I've called you. I've not called
everybody, but I've called you. I've called my sheep. I revealed
myself to you and the reason I did, because I bought you,
I redeemed you, I ransomed you. You belong to me. Wow, I like
that. I like that. I believe, Bobby,
I can lay down the night and if God is pleased to Just calm
me down and bring this back to my heart. I belong to Him. I belong to Him. I'm His and
He's mine. Look in verse 2. When you pass
through the waters, not if you pass through, you will pass through.
We all know that. Passing through it at the moment.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with you. I
will be with you. And through the rivers, they
shall not overflow you. He's the master of the sea. He's the captain of our salvation.
I'll be with you. When thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
the ransom of the Lord, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Thou was precious
in my sight. Peter, I think in his second
chapter of his first epistle, says, unto you that believe,
speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, unto you that believe on him,
he is precious. Yes, he is. Where would you be
without him? But we just read there, not only
is he precious to us, and I don't have any problem understanding
that, of course. I just regret that I don't consider
him more precious. But I just read that I'm precious
to him. Wow. Let's drive down another
stake and pitch tent there. Ransomed! Redeemed! Oh indeed,
that does mean something, doesn't it? Today I want us to look at
that verse that we just read. We're going to keep going back
to it. Verse 10 of Isaiah 35. Someone sent me an email last
night. Said, only our Lord knows what
lies ahead. Only our Lord knows what lies
ahead. Indeed, that's true. And this is one of the things
He knows. He knows. He knows who His ransomed are. He knows whose sins He bore away
in His own body on the tree. He knows who his sheep are. He
told the Pharisees, you're not my sheep. You don't believe what
I'm saying here because you're not my sheep. You're goats. I'm not talking to you. My sheep
hear my voice. They hear my voice. I know my
sheep, but my sheep know me. And they follow me. And I give
them eternal life. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking
to the ransomed. When with the ransomed in glory,
his face we shall at last shall see, Yes, only the Lord knows
what's ahead. But look at this. This is ahead. Verse 8 speaks of that highway
of holiness. The way that the righteous walk
on. The way to God. Jesus Christ himself being that
way. And that way leads the ransom
up to glory. where He is, we shall be with
Him forever because He bought us, we belong to Him and He's
going to have everything He paid for, especially at such a price.
My, what a price. The name Isaiah means salvation
of Jehovah. Did you know that? Isaiah means
salvation of Jehovah or salvation of the Lord. Some have referred
to the prophecy of Isaiah as the fifth evangelist. along with
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the reason they say that
is because Isaiah gives such a clear, clear picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ, does he not? Brother Henry Mahan, his three
commentaries on the Scriptures in Volume 1, he calls this, with
New Testament eyes, pictures of Christ in the Old Testament.
And in his commentary on this book of Isaiah, He calls it the
Gospel according to Isaiah. Such clear, clear pictures. Robert
Hawker, one of my favorite commentators, in his Poor Man's Concordance
and Dictionary, the descriptors under this entry in that book
for Isaiah, he wrote this. Who can read the prophecy of
Isaiah without the most profound admiration? It is not only unequaled
in point of language, But it contains so much of Christ that
it looks more like a history than a prophecy. It is more like
the writings of a person who was present at Pilate's hall
and Herod's judgment seat. And when describing the sufferings
of Jesus, then of one who wrote, when describing the sufferings
of Jesus, that he wrote about 700 years before our Lord came,
It seems like he's standing there as a witness to it himself. And
it does, doesn't it? Read Isaiah 53. My, so Isaiah
53, you won't find a better description of the death, the travail of
the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and the fruit of that travail
in any other Gospels. It's as clear as could be to
those who have eyes to see. Mr. Hawker went on to write,
but how truly blessed are the predictions of Isaiah to the
believer who had lived to see the whole field in the Lord Jesus
Christ, and by the Holy Ghost is led to discover not only the
correspondence between them, but his own personal interest
therein. Oh, am I included in this? The
ransomed? The ransomed? That God who cannot
lie? promises me shall return to Zion
with songs. Oh, weeping endures through the
night. Oh, my soul, it sure does. It sure does. Oh, but joy's coming
in the morning. And we will ascend up to Zion,
to glory, to see our great God and Savior sitting upon his throne
of sovereign power and majesty with joy on our heads. And sorrow
and sighing and tears are going to flee away. There you go. There
you go! Good riddance! He'll wipe away
all tears. What a blessed, blessed description. What a blessed place to be. Ransomed. Ransomed. You remember in Acts
chapter 8 when Philip, the evangelist, was commanded by God to leave
where he was and to go in search of this eunuch? In verse 26 of
Acts 8, listen to this. And the angel of the Lord spake
unto the Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto
the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is
desert. And he arose and went, and behold,
a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace,
queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure,
and had come to Jerusalem for to worship. And I would imagine
that this poor Ethiopian would fit in with that woman at the
well when our Lord told her, you worship, you know not what.
Verse 28, he was returning and setting in his chariot, reading
Isaiah the prophet, this book right here. He had a scroll,
he was reading it as he sat in his chariot. Then the Spirit
said unto Philip, go near and join yourself to his chariot.
And Philip ran to him. and heard him read the prophet
Isaiah and said, understand is that what you're reading? Do
you know what you're reading? Do you have a clue what you're
reading there? And this man said, how can I
except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that
he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture
which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the
slaughter. That's from Isaiah 53. And like
a lamb done before his shearer, so opened not his mouth. In his
humiliation, his judgment was taken away. And who shall declare
his generation? Speaking of the redeemer, for
his life is taken from the earth. Those verses that we read in
Acts 8 are taken from Isaiah 53, verses 7 and 8. He went on
to read, this is the Ethiopian, and Philip, He was oppressed
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He has
brought us a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers
is done, so he opened us, not his mouth. He was taken from
precedent, from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression
of my people was he stricken." And the eunuch asked Philip,
can you tell me who they're talking about there? Who is this man
led as a sheep to the slaughter? Is the prophet talking about
himself? Is Isaiah talking about himself? Or is he talking about
some other man? And you know the verse. Then
Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached
unto him Jesus. Anybody that can't preach from
Isaiah 53 can't preach. Just can't preach. Who else would
Philip tell him about? Who else could it be other than
that one of whom all the prophets, as our Lord Himself said when
He appeared on Mount Olivet with His disciples, and He told them,
these are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with
you, that all things, all things, God let that sink down into our
hearts, all things, not some things, not most things, but
all things, must be fulfilled which were written in the law
of Moses, the first five books, all the prophets, and the Psalms
concerning me." The whole New Testament. Old Testament, I'm
sorry. Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the
scriptures. He gave them the key. He gave them the key to
unlock the scriptures. He said, here's the key. It's
Jesus Christ. It's all about him. It's all
about me. Before that, they were clueless,
even the disciples. It almost boggles our mind until
we realize they're flesh just like we were. All the time, those
three and a half years that they lived with Jesus Christ, communed
with Jesus Christ, saw the miracles He did. They were there when
He raised the dead. They were there when He opened
blind eyes. They heard those messages. They had those private
precious discourses between Christ and themselves. And yet, the
whole time, they were clueless as to why He came to this earth.
That's exactly right. When He began to talk, as the
time drew near, that He should go up to Jerusalem, to lay down
His life for His sheep, and He began to talk about it, what
did they... We read that this was hid from them. They didn't
understand it. Because their minds was clouded like every
other Jew, that the mission of the Messiah would be to bring
them out from under the authority of Rome, break that yoke, and
establish an earthly kingdom here on earth, and give them
a prominent place in it. That's what they were looking
for. And our Lord told Pilate, my kingdom's not of this world.
That's not what I came to do. I came to set the captives free. I came on a greater mission than
setting up an earthly kingdom. I've come to lay down my life
for my sheep. I've come to trod the winepress
alone. I've come, as our text tells
us, to ransom my redeemed with my own precious blood. Christ's
sacrifice. My dear pastor, I was reading
this a week or two ago and remembered it. A transcript of a message
he preached from Colossians 3 and 11, Christ is all. Christ's sacrifice
and death for sinners and Christ's kingdom and future glory are
the light we must bring to bear on any book of Scripture. Christ's cross and crown are
the clue we must hold fast if we would find our way through
Scripture difficulty. Christ is the only key that will
unlock many of the dark places of the Word. Some people complain
that they do not understand the Bible And the reason is very
simple, they're not using the key. That's it. I can't tell you, and this is
true of you too, in conversation usually with religious folks,
they're more of a pain than about anybody else, but they want to
talk about signs of the times, earthly kingdoms, gifts, tongues,
and never talk about the wonder that the Word was made flesh.
Tell them about that. Wait a minute. Just be quiet
a minute. Let's talk about God Almighty
that was in the beginning with God and was God, robed Himself
in the form of a man, Wrote himself in flesh and came to this earth
and tabernacle amongst us. What about that? Oh Don't have a key don't have
the key that's that's why they don't have a clue again in Luke
24 Our Lord said to them thus it is written and thus it behooved
it was necessary that for Christ to suffer and to rise from the
dead the third day, and that remittance and remission of sins
should be preached in His name. Not the preacher's name, not
the Baptist's name, not the Calvinist's name, not the Pope's name, but
the forgiveness of sins is preached in His name. If anybody wants
grace, if anybody really desires salvation, if anybody wants to
taste, experience this great salvation, this salvation of
Jehovah that Isaiah is telling us about, they've got to come
to Christ. They've got to do business with
Christ. Oh, for a desperate sinner. Kay,
I appreciate what you told me about the book, and that's encouraging,
about the article. Man, God saves great sinners,
doesn't He? Desperate cases. And I made this
statement in that article, and I've made it to you before. I
can't tell you I would have to sit down and think hard. I mean,
I would have to look back and scratch through my memory bank,
which is not that reliable anymore, to try to remember the last time
I talked to a needy, helpless, hungry, hell-bent, damned, doomed
sinner. Can't find one. Can't find one. Everybody's made their decision
for Jesus. Everybody's walked the aisle.
Everybody's got baptized. Everybody thinks Jesus Christ
is their far escape out of hell. But find me a real needy sinner,
and I've got some good news for them. Anybody thirsty? Anybody really want to know God?
Anybody just fed up with just bare, dead, dry doctrine and
want to know the Son of God? Anybody? If you find one, send
them my way. Send them down the 2013 Talladega
Highway. I've got good news for them.
Jesus Christ said, if any man thirsts, let him come to me.
Come to me. Not the altar, not the water,
not the doctrine. Come to me. Look unto me and
be ye saved. I'm God. There's none else. I'm
the only Savior. Look unto me. And every sinner,
every sinner that does, finds Christ out there. Every sinner
that does, every sinner that truly looks to Jesus Christ,
because he's opened their blinded eyes. And they can say, like
that poor man that was excommunicated. It's in John 9, isn't it? The Lord healed him. He was blind
from birth. The Sanhedrin, you know, they got wind of that.
They said, well, he'll have to talk to us about this. He didn't
get our permission. This Jesus of Nazareth, who is this guy?
And they talked to him, and they got not satisfied, so they called
his parents. Still not satisfied, they called him back. You remember
what he said. Well, there's a lot I don't know. You fellas are
smart. Y'all claim to know it all. But
one thing I do know, one thing I do know, I was blind. And now I see. I know that. I know that. And Jesus Christ
heard they had booted him out, and he found them and said, do
you believe on the Son of God? He said, who is it? He said,
it's me, it's me that's talking to you right now. And he bowed
down and worshipped him. Worshipped him. Oh yes, I once
was lost, and now I'm found. I was blind, and now I see. You know why? Because God Almighty
sent his Son to ransom my soul. And God himself says, looking
upon the sacrifice of His Son, looking upon the price of our
redemption, the cost it was for Him to ransom us. God looks at
that, looking at His Son. This is what He says. This is
what He says. He looks upon the sacrifice of
Christ, the only thing that could satisfy His justice, the only
thing that would enable Him to be just when He justifies a guilty
sinner, The only grounds on which he, a holy God, and a guilty
sinner can meet in peace, looking at that sacrifice that does all
that, God says, God says this, deliver his soul. He points to
all the redeemed. Everyone Jesus Christ laid down
his life for and God said, deliver his soul from going down to the
pit. I've found a ransom. He'll never
go to hell. My son died for him. My son shed
his blood for him. He belongs to me. He belongs
to me. Oh, the ransom. The ransom. Isn't that a blessed and glorious
thought? You remember when Gabriel appeared
to Mary in Luke 1? telling what Isaiah had prophesied
700 years before, a virgin shall conceive and be with child. And
Gabriel came to Mary to that virgin and said, Mary, you've
been highly favored. You know what that means? God's
graced you. You've been graced. God's bestowed grace on you.
You're going to have a son. The Holy Spirit shall come upon
you, overshadow you, and you're going to have a son. Mary said,
I'm not married. I don't know a man. I'm virgin.
He said, God's got that taken care of. And you'll have a son. And he
called his name Jesus. He shall be great. Oh, didn't
he? Mary, Jesus shall be great. Oh, how great thou art. He shall
reign over the house of Jacob forever. Again, this is from
Isaiah. And of his kingdom there shall
be no end. Jesus, Savior, the salvation
of the Lord. He shall be great. The scripture
says Christ is our great God and Savior. He's great. In what way? In every way. You
view Him from any angle you want to. As God, He's great. As the God-man, He's great. As
the Prince of Peace, oh, He's great. As the Savior of His people,
oh, how great. As that one who bore our sins
in His own body on the tree, oh, He's great. He's great in
everything he put his hand to, in everything he did, in everything
he accomplished. The prophecy of Gabriel was correct. He shall be great. And he's never
ceased to be great. He's great now. He's our great
God ruling and overruling everything and everybody and every circumstance
and every trial and every heartache. He's ruling it for our good and
his eternal glory. And that, one day soon, He's
going to bring us all, as our text says, we're going to return
to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon our heads. And all this
stuff, it's going to appear as nothing. Let the world have the
world. Let them have it. This is the
best they're ever going to have. Brothers and sisters, this is
all the hell we'll ever have. This is the worst it'll ever
be. And it's soon going to end. and we're going to ascend to
Zion with songs of everlasting joy upon our heads and obtain
joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. There'll
be no place for them there. Your Savior is great because
he saves great sinners by his great grace and will bring them
to great glory to be with him forever. His greatness shall
fill his people with everlasting joy and his foes, his foes, with
never-ending woe. There is such a thing as hell. There is such a thing as a great
white throne judgment. There's a day appointed when
God's going to judge this world in absolute righteousness. And
everyone that's not in his son will hear these words forever.
It will echo in their ears throughout eternity. Depart from me, I never
knew you, my soul. Woo, I would that people would
get serious about that. They're playing church. They're
trusting a false hope. They're building on sand. And
God's going to say, it won't work. It won't work. All but
to those multitudes. John said, multitudes I couldn't
number, I couldn't begin to count them. They stand before the throne
and before the Lamb and they sing unto Him that loved us.
As they waved the palm leaf of victory, clothed in the perfect
white righteousness of Jesus Christ, they sing unto Him that
loved us and washed us from our sins by His own blood. He ransomed
us, He redeemed us. Worthy is the Lamb forever, forever. Isaiah 61 and 1, we read this. Is this a history or a prophecy?
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord had
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He has sent me
to bind up the brokenhearted. Remember, this is the very scripture
that our Lord read when he came back to Nazareth where he'd been
brought up. He went into the city of God. and they handed
him the scroll of Isaiah. He unrolled it and found this
place. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the present
to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
and the day of vengeance of our God, to conquer all that more. all that mourn, to appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord. The Lord planted them, that He,
that is the Lord, might be glorified. As I said, that's the very scripture
our Lord read when He came to Nazareth after His temptation,
after those 40 days in the wilderness. in Luke chapter 4. We read there,
and he closed the book after reading that prophecy. He closed
the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down. And
the eyes of all then that were in the synagogue were fastened
on him. And he began to say, this day,
right now, this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. Remember
what they wanted? They tried to kill him. They
understood what he was saying. He's saying, that's about me.
That prophecy is about me. Today, this scripture is revealed
in your ears. Oh, my prayer is and has been
and yet will be, as God enables me, for you, for those we have
been made aware of, stand in need of our prayer, our intercessions
on their behalf. I pray that the Lord Jesus will
visit them today in us and do exactly what he said he did to
them. Heal our broken hearts. break
the chain of our captivity, our troubled minds and hearts, and
grant us a fresh enjoyment of that liberty with which the sons
of God have been set free. Oh, great captain of our salvation,
would you be pleased to do that? Would you be pleased to do that?
I need it. Your pastor needs it. I need
it bad. And thank God. He's able to get
it. He's able to get it. He can make
my cup run over. He can lift me above, above all
this, and refix my eyes upon Jesus Christ, reminding me this
is what it's about. This is not what it's about.
What's happening out here, what's happening in here, what may happen
or may not happen, It's not what it's about. It's about this.
I'm going to bring you to glory. I've ransomed you. I've redeemed
you. You belong to me. Turn over,
if you will. We'll wrap this up. Turn over
a few pages, Isaiah chapter 51. Here you have almost identical
words in verse 11 of Isaiah 51, except instead of the word ransomed,
you have redeemed. Well, we were redeemed because
Christ paid our ransom. You remember when he, that night
before he was betrayed and went to the garden, when he instituted
the Lord's Supper, remember what he said? He took that wine and
said, here, drink from it all of you, because this is the blood
of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission
of sins. It wasn't for a baby. He didn't
try to ransom us. He ransomed us. He didn't partly
redeem us. He redeemed us with his own precious
blood. The ransom was paid, and by that
ransom, redemption was obtained. When he went into the holy place
one time, with the ransom of his own body, his own glorious
person, his perfection, by that sacrifice, he obtained eternal
redemption for us. And God says, the ransom's paid.
I'm satisfied. Let my people go. I'm satisfied. Look here at verse 11 of Isaiah
51. Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return, the ransomed,
the redeemed, one and the same, not one without the other. Therefore,
the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing
on the Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head,
and they shall obtain Just as surely as he obtained their eternal
redemption, the redeemed shall obtain gladness and joy, and
sorrow and mourning shall flee away. In chapter 12 of Isaiah,
it speaks of, verse 3, the wells of salvation, drink from them. Chapter 25, verse 9, it speaks
of the joy of salvation. Chapter 26 and verse 1, the walls
of salvation. Chapter 45, verse 17, everlasting
salvation. Chapter 49, verse 8, the day
of salvation. Chapter 52, verse 10, the success
of salvation. Chapter 59, verse 16, the arm
of salvation. 59 again, verse 17, the helmet
of salvation. And verse 61, verse 10, or rather
chapter 61, verse 10, the garments of salvation. He's clothed me
in the garments of salvation, the prophet says, concerning
his God. And what is that? It's the perfect righteousness
of Jesus Christ. How about that? I'm accepted in to be loved.
I'll never be unaccepted. I've been redeemed by the precious
brother of Christ. I can never be unredeemed. He
paid the ransom for me, Bobby, and God accepted it, and he's
never going to change his mind. He's the Lord, and he changes
not. Plenty, I'll have to come back
to this another time. This is a plenteous redemption.
Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy,
and with him is plenteous redemption. whatever, as much as it takes.
We read that in Psalm 130, didn't we? It's an effectual redemption. You've not been redeemed with
silver and gold, Peter wrote, but with the precious blood of
Jesus Christ. Wow, what a price. What a price. What a sacrifice. How valuable
is that? What's that worth? What's that
worth to us and to God? I told you I believe about the
old deacon back in West Virginia when I tried to pastor that little
church for a while. Maybe I shouldn't have been,
but I was trying. We'd had the Lord's Supper and
I would call up on Waldo. Waldo Arthur was his name. One
day I was borrowing something from him, I can't remember what
it was, it was in the trunk of his car and after service we
drove down, we walked down Because there were several steps, the
church said, on the little hill. We walked down to the parking
lot, and he opened his trunk, and there was an artificial leg
laying there. I didn't even know he had an
artificial leg. But I said, Waldo, what you got there? He said,
that's my spare. That's my spare. Spare tire and a spare leg. That's
not what I was borrowing. But I said, Brother Waldo, would
you pray for us when we would be observing the Lord's Supper?
And he would say, Lord, we thank you. Thank you for the sacrifice
of your son, for the precious blood that cleanses us from all
our sin. We feast on it, and you feast
on it, and we're both satisfied. Both satisfied. I thought that
was good. In Hebrews chapter 9, let me
wrap this up. Hebrews chapter 9, we'll read
a few scriptures and then we'll be done. Hebrews 9. Verse 24. Hebrews 9 and 24. For Christ
is not entered into the holy places made with hands, that
is, down here, which are the figures, the types, the shadows
of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us. My soul, we're well represented,
aren't we? Nor yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest entered into the holy place every
year with the blood of others, for then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared to put away sin, to put away sin, by
the sacrifice of himself. That's what he came to do, and
that's what he did, and he said he did it when he cried, It is
finished. As it is appointed unto men,
once to die, but after this the judgment, it's final, it's complete,
it won't be done over, Even so, Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many, and He did. He gave His life a ransom for
many. And unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second
time without sin unto salvation. The Savior lives no more to die.
He lives the Lord enthroned on high. He lives triumphant o'er
the grave. He lives eternally to save. He
lives to calm His people's fears. He lives to wipe away their tears.
He lives to soothe their troubled heart. He lives all blessings
to impart. He lives all glory to His name.
He lives eternally the same. He lives their mansions to prepare.
He lives to bring them safely there. I would forever speak
His name. I would forever praise the Lamb.
I would to all His grace make known and worship at His holy
throne. Hebrews 13 closes like this. Now the God of peace, now the
God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will,
working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Amen. God bless you.