Isaiah 45. We're going to look at a scripture
that, once you get there, you'll recognize it. It indeed has special meaning,
maybe, to those of us with our particular theology. Sovereign Grace Baptists,
because that man, which for lack of a better way to describe it,
might be called the patron saint of Sovereign Grace Baptists,
Charles Spurgeon, was converted hearing a message from this text
of Scripture. The Lord says this, Look unto
me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God
and there is none else. Now a great deal of error concerning
the things of God as they are revealed in the scriptures. A
great deal of error has come by failing to take into account
who a particular scripture is written to. People lay hold of
a scripture and apply it to themselves and actually they have no right
to because they have given no indication that they are the
sort of person that that scripture is addressed to. If a letter
comes in your mailbox it will have a name and an address on
it. Once in a while the mailman gets it bad enough he puts it
in the wrong mailbox so it's not even the right address and
maybe you'll have to walk next door and hand it to your neighbor
and say the mailman got that wrong. But even if it's the right
address, you've got to look at the name on it, because it might
be for someone else living at your house, your spouse, or one
of your children, or something like that. And you wouldn't think
to take someone else's mail, open it up, and apply whatever
is in the letter, or in the offer, or whatever's in there, you wouldn't
apply it to yourself, because your name's not on it. We don't
have that problem with this scripture. Because it says, look unto me,
all ye ends of the earth. This is a wide open scripture.
There's not a person in all the world who cannot read this scripture
and take it to heart and act upon it. Unless you're from Mars or something
like that, this scripture is for you. If you live on earth,
this scripture is addressed to you. Now everybody here is from
earth, I'm quite confident of that. So this evening, as you
listen, you can know this scripture and the message derived from
it is for you. So we can look here and it says
look unto me and be ye saved for I am God and beside me there
is none else. Now who is it that is writing
it? When you get a letter it will be addressed to someone
and depending on the particular culture it will identify the
sender. Well the sender here is God.
He says I am God. It makes it rather clear. He
is the sender. The matter spoken of then, salvation,
is a divine matter. You know a lot of people make
it into a typical human matter because they take into their
own hands the power of salvation. They think that they have the
ability to direct it where it will go. They think that they
have the right to determine how salvation shall come to pass,
or that they have the capacity to understand how salvation comes
to pass. Men always have this tendency
to think that salvation is a human matter. It's not. It's a divine
matter. Something designed by God, something
worked by God, something applied by God, guaranteed by God, and
quite frankly it was all done for the sake of God. Someone
once said, God saves you from himself, by himself, for himself. So this thing is a divine matter.
Therefore, we dare not listen to anyone else, what they have
to say about it, unless he can show that God himself has declared
it to be. So here is God speaking on a
divine matter. He has the authority to speak.
Whatever he says, you can count on it. You can trust it. You
can act upon it with full assurance that what is said will come to
pass. But who is this God who has said, look unto me? Who has the right to claim the
title of God? Now we'll not turn to all the
scriptures because we have a limited amount of time, but I'm sure
you can trust me that I'm going to give you accurately what they
are. But if you want to look, Psalm
96 5 addresses God as Creator. It says, All the gods of the
nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens and the earth.
So the one who says to us, Look unto me and be ye saved, for
I am God, is the one who made the heavens and the earth. and
we learn from other scriptures how it is He did it. He spoke
and it was, He commanded and it stood firm. Now it's no wonder
that people don't have a regard for God these days, or what the
Bible calls the fear of the Lord. Why? Well they've been telling
that for 200 years. Scientists have been telling
us that God really didn't create the heavens and the earth as
the scriptures say He did. They tell us that the world got
here, the world as we see it, got here by natural processes. Well, I don't believe them, I
don't even think it's good scientific theory to be honest with you,
but the fact of the matter is, God says, or God said, let there
be light, and there was light. God said, let the darkness be
separated from the light, and they separated. God said, let
all the waters come together in one spot, separated the dry
ground from the waters. It happened because God said
it. In fact, God's power over this creation, not only in bringing
it into existence, But in controlling it, His power is so great in
this, that quite frankly, whatever He thinks is real, is what is
real. Now the sun comes up in the east
every day. And scientists can tell us why.
And they're right as far as they speak. But you want to know why
the sun comes up in the east? Because God thinks it does. all
it takes for it to happen. God thinks the sun rises in the
east, so it does. God thinks a day is about 24
hours long, so it is. Our reality is simply God's mind
expressed, that's all. He created this world And therefore,
this generation that's been raised on the idea that God didn't create
the world, that those opening chapters of Genesis are really
just fable or myth or something like that. It's no wonder they
got no fear for God. The Bible says His badge of divinity
is the fact that He made the heavens and the earth. Everybody
else, it's an idol. All the gods of the nations are
an idol, but Jehovah made the heavens and the earth. Well,
if He didn't make the heavens and the earth, what's that make
Him? Just another one of those idols. So, we're speaking of
the Creator has said, look unto me. Now, we don't have idols of wood
and stone, at least not many of them. in our culture. Certainly not the kind of idolatry
that was present, well, in the time when this scripture was
written, and in the time of the New Testament, when Rome had
all of its idols, which were essentially copies of the Greek
idols before them, but they had statues everywhere. And that
was their gods. But here's another thing that
we learn in the scriptures about God. It says, Why should the
heathen say, Where is your God? And the answer was, Our God is
in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he pleased. Now, the
reason the heathen would ask that of a Jew is very simple.
The heathen knew where their gods were. Down the corner of
Main and Fifth. There's a little building on
the southwest corner. You go through the door, go through
another door, there he is. they could tell you where their
God is. And they like having it that way, because that way
they can control Him. They can go to Him when they want to,
they can leave Him when they want to, and come back. They
can see Him. And so they come to Israel, where
they hear about the Jewish God, they say, where is He? There's no place you could go
and say, there's God. Even the temple, which was similar
even to the pagan temples in the way it was set up, and it
had an outer court, and it had the holy place, the most holy
place. Nonetheless, there was no likeness of God anywhere to
be found. There were symbols represented,
but no likeness of Him. Why? Because He is the invisible
God. So they said, Where's your God?
We can't see Him. And the answer is, Our God is in the heavens.
And then this thing, he has done whatever he pleased. Now you
see, if you make the heavens and the earth, you are allowed
to say what goes on there. You're allowed to determine what
it is. Now, that's only reasonable, isn't it? I mean, if we build
a house, we think we're allowed to determine what the house is
like and what colors we're gonna paint the walls. We're the one
that owns the house. We figure we have a right to
determine what happens in it. And that's just us. God spoke... I mean this... what we call reality
would not exist at all had God not brought it into existence.
It's His. The earth is the Lord's and everything
in it. That means He has the authority
to control what goes on. But He has not only the authority,
He has the power. It's one thing to have the title,
it's another thing to have the power to be able to carry out
your will. But there's another thing, and
this is where many in conservative Christianity fall short. He not
only has the authority and the power to make everything happen
according to His will, He has the will to do it. There are
some who say, well he could control everything but he chooses not
to. No! That's actually quite impossible.
But no, he doesn't choose to leave anything outside of his
control. And this is the God who says,
look unto me and be ye saved for I am God and there is no
other. Now, for whom is this message
intended? Well, we began with saying that
it was for everybody, but look over here at Acts chapter 2 verse
39, because saying a message is for everybody, sometimes that
leaves us from taking it personally. You know, it's kind of like when
you're talking about sin. And people say, well, you say,
well, do you believe you're a sinner? And they say, well, everybody's
a sinner. Well, the scripture's for everybody.
Well, let's see what that means. Acts chapter 2, verse 39, Peter's
preaching on the day of Pentecost. and he says here, for the promise
is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off,
even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Now I pastor
in a town full of Dutch Reformed people, and the Reformed denominations,
Reformed denominations from Holland and then the Presbyterians that
come from Scotland anyway, they have this view of things called
Covenant Theology. And they look at this scripture
and they say, well the promise is for our children. And they
believe that if they are faithful to raise their children, they
bring them into the covenant through that ceremony of sprinkling
them, and if they are faithful to bring them up in the covenant,
you know, that their children, well, they assume that they are
part of God's elect simply because they've been brought into the
church. And as long as they don't leave, they're in. They say,
the promise is to our children. And then it says, the promises
to all that are far off. And you could see someone that
maybe had a particular missionary zeal in their heart would say,
yes, this promise is for those that are far off. And actually
the reference there with Peter, he was talking about the Gentiles.
Because the Jews were considered near, the Gentiles far off. And so it's to those that are
far off, and then we who are sovereign grace, we like to look
at this last line and say, even as many as the Lord our God shall
call. We say, see there it is, there's
the definition of the ones for whom the promise of the gospel
is. The ones that God calls. You
know something? with the exception of the way the covenant theologians
misused that for your children. The fact of the matter is these
things are true, yes. It's for those way out. It's for whoever God calls. It's
for our children, but we're missing something here. For the promise
is unto you. you. Don't worry about who else
it's for until you've dealt with the fact that promise is for
you. You say, well, we appreciate
you saying something like that, but you do understand, don't
you, that this is a church, a little church, a Sovereign Grace Baptist.
It's a Wednesday night. You don't think there's anybody
lost here, do you? Well, frankly, I don't know. You know, you say,
well, don't you believe we're safe? I'm going to be honest
with you. Sometimes I wonder if I am. So if I can't know about
me, I certainly don't know about you. But here's also the truth. If every one of us has already
been regenerated by the Spirit of God, that doesn't mean we're
not still in need of God's salvation, still in need of looking to Him.
Have I been saved? Partly. What do you mean by that? Well, I'll tell you this, I hope
what's happened so far isn't all there is to salvation. I'm
going to be very disappointed if this is what I am forever.
The Bible says, He that began a good work in you will bring
it to perfection till the day of Christ. There are some things
about salvation which are altogether done. Election's done. It was
done before the world started. Redemption's done. There's nothing
to be added to it, nothing to be taken away from it. It's done.
The Lord said so. And if you've been called by
the Spirit of God, that's done. Sort of. You know something? The reason that believers never
quit looking to Him is because God never quits calling them. You know, there is a doctrine
there, you know, one of the five points of Calvinism, as they
call it, is the perseverance of the saints. And it's okay. I mean, it's true. The saints
persevere. Those who truly believe, believe
to the end. But I wish they would have worded
it differently. It's really the preservation
of the saints, or we might even say the perseverance of God.
He who is able to keep you from falling. What does that say?
We would fall without Him. That's what it says. So, has
God opened your heart to the gospel? Has He given you an understanding
of the gospel? That doesn't mean now that you
can quit reading Isaiah 45, 22. Say, okay, got that done. No.
You still need it. There's salvation yet for you.
You shall have it. But here's what's going to happen. You shall have it because God's
going to work in you to keep looking to Him. If you ever quit
looking to Him, it means you never did. It means you never did. Same way
with that, you know, there's that promise, who shall ever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And in the
religion I was raised, they just said, you know, there was some
time when the preacher put enough emotional pressure on you that
you raised your hand during the invitation and prayed the sinner's
prayer. I've called on the name of the Lord, therefore I shall
be saved. And they just go on however they were. Calling on
the name of the Lord is not a one-time event. We live our lives calling
upon His name. If you ever quit calling on the
name of the Lord, it means you never did. Same here, looking to Him. It's
for all, yes. And we love that this word of
promise is for all. But let us not be so busy thinking
about all that we don't say this word is for me. It's for me,
I can lay hold of this one. There may be scriptures I don't
feel confident to lay hold of, but I can lay hold of this one. Look unto me, you, and be saved. Now God says, according to this,
that you are in need of salvation. He wouldn't say look unto me
and be saved if you weren't in need of it. God is not a fool. God is not mistaken about you.
If He calls you to look to Him in order to be saved, it's because
He is operating under the impression that you are in need of salvation. There is not a person here this
evening that's not in need of salvation. Whether it be that
at present time you are merely a religious professor and you
don't even realize it, or if you truly have called upon the
name of the Lord, as we've said you're still in need of His salvation
every hour of every day. Well, what is this salvation?
Well, some say that we need to be saved from the devil. And
in a sense we do. He's troublesome. He brought
our race into sin by deceiving Eve and then using Eve to leverage
Adam into sin. And he works in us, or works
however he works with us, in order to keep us from Christ. He doesn't care how that happens.
He doesn't care whether He can keep you from Christ by having
you live a life of gross immorality and serving the flesh, or if
He can keep you from Christ by being a self-righteous religionist. It's all the same to Him. He
doesn't care. The issue is to keep you from Christ. And if
you have called upon the name of the Lord and experienced His
salvation, well, you and I may believe in the perseverance of
the saints, but the devil's not so convinced. And he keeps working
on it. He's the accuser of the brethren.
He constantly reminds us of our sins. The Lord says, Your sins
and iniquities I will remember no more. But the devil never
made such a promise. He keeps track of them, and he
reminds us of them. And if I understand the Scriptures, he tries to remind
God of them. In heaven, the accuser of the brethren is cast out.
Why? Because he's there trying to accuse the brethren. And so, yes, there's a sense
in which we need salvation from the devil, but that's not the
real problem. We could say we need salvation from ourselves.
That's getting closer. You think the devil's your enemy.
You are, literally, in salvation, you are your own worst enemy. Under the law, it says, your
sins have separated you from your God. And that's true. Under
the law, sin separates us from God. But under the gospel, it's
your righteousness keeps you separated from God. We're under
kind of a double whammy. On the one hand, our sin has
separated us from God. But our foolishness to think
that we have our own righteousness is what keeps us separated from
Him because we won't come to Him who is our righteousness. We're dead in our trespasses
and sins. We need somebody to make us alive.
We need to be saved from all the foolishness of our fleshly
way of seeing the world and God and us and salvation. Got to
be saved from that. Why? Because we don't have the
wit to save ourselves. We need to be saved from sin.
that's true. In fact it says of the Lord Jesus
Christ, you shall call His name Jesus, Joshua. Which means Jehovah
is my salvation. You shall call Him that because
He'll save His people from their sins. That's true. God will be saved from our sins.
But you know who really our greatest enemy is? God Himself. That's why I like that statement
that I heard a preacher made. God saves you from himself, by
himself, for himself. Let me ask you, when our Lord
died on the cross, who was it came after him? The devil had already been defeated.
Human race was just standing there looking. It was God came
after him. It was God the judge of all,
saw sin on this man. And the soul that sins, it must
die. Die at the hands of God. Now,
brethren, I don't know what hell is, but whatever it is, Christ
suffered it. And I do know this about hell.
It's God's hell. It's not the devil's hell. Hell
is not the devil's kingdom. Hell is the devil's place of
punishment. And he's no more king there than
anybody else that's there. But whatever it means to suffer
an eternal Hell, our Lord Jesus Christ did it. And what He suffered,
He suffered at the hands of God. What does it say in the Old Testament?
I will smite the shepherd. God says, I will smite the shepherd. And he did. The Lord laid the
sin on him, and then the Lord laid the punishment for the sin
on him. And we need, when we see what
happened to Christ, and if we have an understanding to be able
to see beyond the horrible physical suffering that he endured, and
learn a little bit of the spiritual suffering when his soul is made
an offering for sin we realize that what happened to him would
have happened to us if it hadn't happened to him and the one that
came after him was coming after us and the only reason it went
after him instead is because that same one had taken our sins
and charged them to Christ. And Christ consented to that
happening. And He became the focal point
of divine wrath on that day. And He saved us from what He
endured by virtue of His enduring it. greatest danger to our soul is
God Himself. I don't know how familiar you
are with the stories, the Chronicles of Narnia, but it's a rough allegory
of the Christian religion. And there's a lion character
in it named Aslan. And in Narnia, you know, you've
got the animals that can talk and you've got animals that can't,
and then you've got the safe animals and the animals that
aren't safe. And the children who have been transported to
Narnia, they're talking to one of these talking animals, a character
named Tumnus. And they see Aslan out there,
and they say to him, say to Tumnus, is he safe? And Tumnus says,
oh no, he's not safe, but he's good. God is not safe. all you have to do to find that
out is approach Him apart from Christ. God is not safe. God is God, holy, righteous,
just. And we need to be saved from
Him. Now the Lord God says that the
means of obtaining this salvation is looking to Him. Now behold
the mystery of the Gospel. In order to be saved, we must
look to Him who is the greatest threat to our souls. Now if you
were being chased by a lion, would you think for a minute
of turning around and looking to the lion for salvation? That's
ridiculous. You'll end up lying food. But
that's exactly what God is calling on them to do. He is the source
of their trouble. He is the one that will bring
destruction upon them. But he says the remedy for that
is this. Look to me. Now you can understand why from
the natural man's way of thinking, this seems ridiculous. Because
even when we look at it with a natural view, this just doesn't
make sense. If you need to be safe from someone,
you go to someone else who you think can handle that person.
You don't go to that person himself, but that's what God tells us
to do. Look into him. And this word actually is a combination
of two things. Sometimes it's translated turn,
other times it's translated look. Well I think in this text of
scripture what we need to do is understand that both are included. He's saying turn and look to
me. Now why would he say turn? Well, He reveals it later in
Isaiah 53. Oh, we like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned everyone to our own way. We need to turn back.
We're looking the wrong way. We need to turn and look to Him. And what we're looking to, normally
speaking, is self. Something about ourselves. Now
this is a very deceptive thing about us. It says, The heart
is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can
know it? And now what it's telling us
there is that our heart has the capacity of deceiving us. And there are many this day who
are self-deceived because they think they are looking to God
when they're not. They may be looking to their
looking. You know, they look to their decision, or they look
to their best efforts, or whatever. You know how it goes. Men have
all kinds of things that make them think that things are all
right between them and God. The heart's deceitful. We can't know our own hearts,
but there's one who does. It says the Word of God and I
were talking about this earlier today. The Word of God is Jesus
Christ, or the message about Him. The Word of God is powerful,
and living, and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to
divide even between joints and marrow, and discern the thoughts
and intents of the heart. to listen to the gospel. The
gospel will reveal your heart to you. It is the light from
which the religious hide. They love the light of the law
because the light of the law has got shadows in it and they
can hide in them and call themselves righteous. There is no darkness
in Christ or His message and it illuminates to them what they
are. But if you want to know what you are, listen to the gospel. It has not a magical power, but
a supernatural power to make known to you who and what you
are. And here's the thing. It's not
like when you hear the gospel, that the Spirit of God comes
and whispers in your ear, yeah, you're one of them. You're in,
don't worry about it. I believe it's very simply this.
You hear the gospel, it rings true. because the gospel has
been put in you. There's a rule in the science
of sound called sympathetic vibration. We could do an experiment with
a piano and I could demonstrate it to you, but if you were to
release all the strings in that piano from the damper so that
they were free to vibrate, and you were to hum one of the notes,
say middle C, that middle C string would start to vibrate. right
along with it. Now that string has no energy
of its own. It's just a string. But if you
sing its note, it'll vibrate in response. Now, sorry about
that. If the gospel is in you and a
preacher preaches it, it'll vibrate. Oh, have you ever come to church?
I often do, even as the preacher. You come in here, and you think
you're lost as lost can be. You feel like hell's about to
open up and swallow you. And you wouldn't be able to argue
with God if that's what happened. And you sit down. And the Scriptures are opened.
And from the Scriptures, the Word of God, the Gospel is preached. And it penetrates through all
the fog of your fleshly mind. And it finds that heart attuned
to the truth. And it testifies to you that
you're born of God. The Spirit of God takes that
word and makes it powerful and living. Others, they hear it,
it's just some more religion to them. Maybe a system of theology
to which they ascribe. but it's not in them. It's something
they carry around with them. Look and turn, or turn and look. Look away from self and unto
Him. Well if you do this, what will
you see? Let's look at Revelation chapter Now in Revelation chapter 1,
we see in verse 11 that there's one that says, I am the Alpha
and Omega, the first and the last. John heard that, and look what
he says in verse 12. And I turned to see. I turned and looked to see the
voice that spoke to me. And being turned, I saw seven
golden candlesticks. and in the midst of the seven
candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment
down to the foot, and gird about the chest with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow,
and his eyes were as a flame of fire. And his feet like undefined
brass, as if they burned in a furnace. And his voice was as the sound
of many waters. And he had in his right hand
the seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged
sword. And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet as dead. Now God says, turn to me and
look. But understand this, when you
turn and look, you're gonna see one that you cannot bear to look
upon. Not because he's ugly, he's too
beautiful. Not because there's something
wrong with him, but precisely because there is nothing wrong
with him. He's too glorious for us. Moses
said, show me your glory. The Lord, and I don't think he
laughed, but you almost hear the chuckle under the Lord's
breath, said Moses, no. I can't show you my glory. If
I did, he'd kill you. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
put you in a split place in the rock. I'll put my hand over there.
I'll pass by. And once I'm gone, I will remove
my hand and you can look at the glory that's left over after
I'm gone. And Moses did, and there was
enough glory from that that Moses' face shone afterwards, and it
shone so brightly the others couldn't look on him. Imagine
if Moses had seen the glory of the Lord. Well, we wouldn't have
the books of Moses, would we? It had to have been somebody
else write the first five books. But when you turn and look at
this one, it'll be the Lord Jesus, but it'll be the Lord Jesus as
the world does not understand Him to be. as one of such great
glory and power and majesty that to look upon him is to be rendered
powerless." There's no use trying to convince a man he's powerless.
We tell sinners that, you know, you don't have no power. Say,
yes I do. And they'll say that until they
see Christ. And then suddenly they'll dead man. So I do not promise to anyone
that turning and looking to Him is going to be a pleasant experience,
but it'll be a good one, a needful one. But what else will you see?
Look over now at Revelation chapter 5 verse 6. John's been told about the Lion
of the tribe of Judah, who has prevailed to open the book, the
scroll. and loose the seals. He says,
And I beheld, I looked, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and
of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb,
as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes,
which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the
earth. When you look, you'll see one
of greater majesty than you can stand. And you will see one who,
like a lamb, was offered up as a sacrifice for sin. But here's the interesting thing.
He's a sacrifice that's standing. He is a sacrifice, but he prevailed.
He is a lion, but he's a slain lamb all at the same time. And he has seven horns. What
does that mean? Absolute power. That's the kind
of Savior we need, isn't it? If we are in trouble with Him
who has absolute power, we need one of absolute power to save
us. Of course, we realize that's
all wrapped up in one person. It's the same person, isn't it? But
there He is. Now, what is your warrant for
coming? Of course, in this world, United States,
world of free will religion, they don't think you need a warrant.
They just automatically assume everyone has a right to come.
Well, you know something? I don't even have a warrant to
go visit the President of the United States. And he's nothing. He's a grain of sand in God's
hand. And if I have not, don't have a warrant, and what do I
mean by warrant? That you've been given permission, that you have authority
or the right to come. Well, what's your warrant to
come to God in order to be saved, or look to God in order to be
saved? Is it that you understand your sin? No, because you don't
understand how great your sin is. You say, well, I've been
saved, I know that. No, you don't. We never will. Thank God. He that knew no sin, in reality,
he was made to know sin. Now, we know it a little. But
to know sin as the Lord did means to experience the full penalty
of it. He knew sin to its very end. And because He did, we won't. In the Reformed Catechisms there
is a statement, you know, that it is a blessing, something like
that, you know, to know how great your sins and miseries are. You've
got to know something of them, but I guarantee you, you don't
know how great they are. If we ever saw us like the Holy
God saw us, we'd go crazy. No, our warrant isn't that we
know how sinful we are. Our warrant is not that we've
been invited, though we have been. He says, turn to me. And I suppose there is a kind
of warrant, because if God says to do it, we have a warrant to
do it. But that's not the reason God gives for it. He says, look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for I am God. That's our warrant. And I love it that our warrant
comes from something entirely outside of us. I don't know how
great my sins and miseries are. Sometimes I understand a little
bit of it, sometimes I'm completely oblivious to it. But you know
what? When I know something of my sin,
He is God. And when I'm oblivious to my
sin, He's still God. The warrant is still there. He
doesn't say, if you feel a need to come to me, then you may come.
Because, let's be honest, we don't always feel that need.
We would never say we didn't. But, you know, at least be honest
with yourself. There's time you're so consumed
with other things you aren't thinking about that. But you
know something? When you feel your need of Him, He's God. When
you don't feel your need of Him, He's God. So in other words,
the warrant never changes. The permission as it were, the
right to turn and look to Him has nothing to do with you or
your state of mind or your emotions or anything like that. It all
rests completely on this, I am God. So look, and be saved. And then there's this, I am God
and there is none else. That's the wisdom of looking
to Him. There's nowhere else to look. Nowhere else. There's no other God to call
on. He says, I'm God, there isn't another one. There is no other God at all,
but certainly there is no other God that pardons iniquity and
passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage
like this God does. The gods that men invent don't
forgive. The gods of men may offer a bargain.
They may make you pay only 10 cents on the dollar, but they're
still going to make you pay. God doesn't make you pay anything.
Say, well, you know, I've paid a lot for being a Christian.
You never paid anything to God for it. The world may exact the
price from you, God never will. Look unto me, because I'm God.
And here's another one. So now, let's sum it up. This
is for you, because you're part of the earth. God says, turn
and look unto me and be saved. And that's for you if you've
never turned and looked. It's for you if you have turned
and looked a thousand times. Why should you do it? Because
He's God, and there isn't anyone else. Well, may the Lord bless
His Word.