Isaiah chapter 1 verses 1 to
9 read as follows. The vision of Isaiah the son
of Amoz which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days
of Uzziah, Jopham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear,
O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his
owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know,
my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corruptors.
They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger. They are gone away backward.
Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and
more. The whole head is sick, and the
whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot, even
unto the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores. They have not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land, strangers devour it
in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left
as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had
left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as sodden
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Except the Lord of hosts had
left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. A very small remnant. This prophecy
of Isaiah, it's a wonderful prophecy. of Christ and His Gospel, full
of so many pictures of Christ, so much of the Gospel, in so
many respects. But as the opening chapter shows
us, the entrance of the Gospel is set against a world of darkness
and sin, a world of rebellion and a nation in that world with
whom God had had dealings, who themselves, though they professed
to follow Him, though they professed to be God's people, had themselves
turned against Him, and had themselves corrupted and defiled all that
they did before Him. They were full of religion, but
they turned that religion into corruption, works, sacrifices,
duties with which the Lord had no delight. Our sinful nation, he says of
them, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters. They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger. They are gone away backward.
Even though they had heard of God, even though they knew their
fathers had been led out of Egypt by the mighty hand of God, even
though God had given their ancestors the law of God and the priesthood,
the oracles of God, the scriptures through Moses, even though God
had blessed them in so many mighty ways, They turned aside. They were laden with iniquity. Children that are corrupt as
they'd forsaken the Lord and provoked the Holy One of Israel
unto anger, religious or not, laden with iniquity. Is that
you? Is that you? How do you stand before the Holy
One of Israel? How do you stand before the Lord
God? Religious or not? With a Bible
or not? Full of your prayers. What is within? What is within
the heart? Must you confess? perhaps not
before other men, before whom you're ashamed, but must you
confess in honesty before God, who searcheth the heart, sees
all within, knows our thoughts and our intentions and our motives,
must you confess before Him that you are sinful, laden with iniquity,
a seed of evildoers, Children that are corrupt us that you
have forsaken the Lord And shut your ears to his word and turned
aside This was the state in which Israel
was found this was the state in which Isaiah the prophet Was
sent to go and to stand up and to proof and to prophesy before
the a people who thought they saw when they were blind, a people
who thought they were right when they were full of sin, a people
before whom for Isaiah to go and to stand before them and
to say such things of them, not just of the world around them
but of the religious, to stand up before them and to say that
God is angry, that you have provoked the Holy
One of Israel unto anger, that you've gone away backward, that
He will not receive your worship, whatever you may call it. For
Isaiah to stand before such a people, he knew that he stood in fear
of his life, he knew what they could say and do under him, he
knew what the reaction would be. And we can have no doubt that
he would have received much of that reaction. Get away Isaiah. We won't have your message. We
don't worship your God. Our God, our Jesus, loves us. Our Jesus does not care. He wouldn't
condemn the sin. And they turned the love and
the forgiveness and the mercy of God into something which is
without justice. Into something which takes the
law and the justice of God and sets it aside as though it was
never there. They've turned aside. And the
world today and the religion in the world today has turned
aside. Like Sodom. and like Gomorrah. And yet the great hope we see
in the midst of such a terrible scene and a terrible assessment
of what mankind is like, whether religious or not, is seen in
verse 9. Except the Lord had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been a Sodom and we should
have been like unto Gomorrah we should have been as Sodom
and we should have been as Gomorrah we deserve it, we're like them
by nature and yet the Lord has spoken and he has shone a light
into the darkness of this world and he has shone that light into
the hearts of those whom he has chosen to hear. A people scattered,
a people perhaps few in number, ones and twos here and ones and
twos there, despised by all around them, laughed and jeered at,
and yet they are there, a very small remnant. A people, separated,
taken out of the darkness, chosen by God, separated unto himself,
mine. This people are mine. These people will hear. These people are washed and cleansed. and made whiter than snow. What a picture of God's grace,
that in such a scene like as of Sodom and of Gomorrah, full
of evil, with all the people having turned aside, all alike
laden with sin, that there are those amongst them whom God has
not destroyed utterly. Those amongst them, a very small
remnant perhaps, but those amongst them whom He has chosen and separated
unto Himself. A people unto whom He says, Come
now, let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. I have a sacrifice which I will
receive. Your sacrifices, your bulls,
your lambs, all the works you bring before me, your worship,
full of your own pride, is of nothing worth. But I have a sacrifice,
and this sacrifice has been shed for the sins of my remnant. And
this sacrifice will wash away your sins, though they be as
scarlet, though they be red, it shall make you white as snow. I have a sacrifice, my Son, your
Saviour. A very small remnant, chosen of
God, chosen out from the world around them. Sinners such as
they, yet separated by God's grace. We were just like them
and we would stay like them in the depravity of our sin if it
wasn't for God's grace, wouldn't we? But this God that sent Isaiah
with his prophecy, with his gospel, is not a God simply of judgment
and justice. But behind his judgment and behind
his justice is grace. He's a God who delights
in showing mercy. A God who saves, who saves to
the uttermost, who saves to the uttermost. A remnant, a remnant. Do you feel alone? Child of God,
do you feel alone? Do you feel like you are part
of a very small remnant? Do you feel few, abandoned, few
in number, small in every way, small in your own strength, weak? helpless, surrounded by armies
of giants who could slay you in a moment and you know not
how you could stand, you feel like you're nothing. Few, very
few. If that's how you feel, and it's
easy to feel like that in our day, when the true people of
God are scattered and are few, and when Evil has come into the
places of worship which once called themselves Christian and
continue to take the name of Christ but have cast out his
gospel and cast out his ways and cast out his people. In that
sort of a day in which we live, you can find yourself as the
only one who seems to say otherwise, as the only one who stands up
and says, but the word of God says this. as the only one who
finds themselves standing upon the scriptures when those in
the churches who you'd imagine would be preaching the scriptures
have cast out the word of God and have said but that passage
and that passage is without authority we can't trust that now times
change we can't follow a God like that So they've rejected
the word of God and you find yourself a lone voice standing
upon it. And you know it's true. Yet nobody
else around you seems to agree and you can feel so few, so alone. Well if that's you, you'll find
great hope. and great encouragement in Isaiah's
prophecy. Because this is written to the
few, written to the very small remnant, written to people like
you and I, child of God, who stand alone as it were in these
days. It's full of hope. You're mine
in the midst of this darkness. You're mine. For it's always
been thus throughout history. in reality. There have been a
few more at times than other times. There have been a few
hundred gathered here when today there are just five or six. But
it's always been few in comparison to the multitude around. And
God's always had his remnant throughout the ages. Despite
the numbers who profess God, despite the numbers in the organized
religion throughout the generations, God's true saints have always
been a very small remnant, always few, always scattered and always
cast out. Simply think back to the days
of the reformers, when the reformers began to discover the truths
of the word of God and of the gospel again. They stood out
as ones and twos against an organized religion who put them to death. for generations before, before
the age of the printing press which gives us the record to
our day, for generations before we know of nothing much of the
true gatherings of God's people, but in a world in which there
was religion, what we know of that is that much of it was darkness,
and yet throughout, From the time of Christ through those
ages to the Reformation and to our very day, there was always
a remnant. Always those whom God had found
in the darkness by sending forth his gospel, by sending his spirit
forth to find them, by speaking his word unto their soul, by
quickening them to life, by leading them to the cross and to that
fountain of blood. which took their sins, though
they were scarlet, and made them in Christ to be whiter than snow. A very small remnant. Cast out and rejected by men
they are, but chosen and elected by God. redeemed, ransomed, separated,
sanctified under Him. They are called a remnant here,
but they are called also elsewhere in Zion a chosen people, a holy
people. Chapter 62, they shall call them
the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. Thou shalt be called
sought out, a city, not forsaken, mine. Oh you're far off, you
were a far off, you were in the darkness, you were in the Sodom
and the Gomorrah of this world just as others, just as laden
with iniquity as others, and yet God in His Gospel sought
you out, and brought the sound of His truth, and caused you
to hear, caused you to hear. He begins with these words, With
these words, hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our
God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I am full of the burnt
offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight
not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. When you come to appear before
me, who have required this at your hand to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations,
incenses and abomination unto me. The new moons and Sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with. It is iniquity, even
the solemn meeting. Your new moons, And your appointed
feasts, my soul, hateth. They are a trouble unto me. I
am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your
hands, I will hide mine eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Oh, what words to hear! What
words to hear! What words to hear! when you've
come to a knowledge of your sin and where you stand before God
when you've come to see that there is judgement to come when
you've come to see that your life is but a vapour and passes
away in but a moment and fast approaches the day when you will
have to stand before the maker of heaven and earth and you've
sought to turn away from your sin and you've sought perhaps
to go to hear where the gospels preached and you've gone to this
church or to that church and heard what said and read the
bible and gone to the meetings and gone and prayed and tried
to reform your life and you've turned and read of the law of
God and you've tried to live accordingly and tried to live
in a way that God will be pleased with you and you think you've
made some progress and you think you're doing alright and you
think you're living better than you once did and you think that
God will be pleased And in such a state, God turns around and
says, of all that you are, that it's weariness to him, that he
hates it, that it's abomination. Because it's not good enough.
Yes, you bring sacrifices. Yes, you have your solemn assemblies. Yes, you have your meetings.
Yes, you have your religion. But it's all in your own strength. And it's all for your own glory. And it's all that in which you
take pride and think that you will earn God's favour by your
works and your will. And He says of your righteousnesses
that they are as filthy rags. He spread forth your hands, I'll
hide my face from you. I'll hide mine eyes from you.
You're full of your many prayers. But I will not hear, for your
hands are full of blood. You're as guilty in your religion,
yea, more guilty than you were in the depravity of your sin
when you just walked in Sodom and Gomorrah with the world around
you. In that day you knew nothing,
you were full of sin but you knew nothing but now you've heard
of me and you've heard of the gospel and you've heard of my
son and you come before me full of pride that you're different
from everyone else because of what you've done, because of
the church you attend, because of your prayers and your scripture
reading. but it's all your works you're
all coming before me full of sin it's all tainted with sin
I'll not have it now this breaks us down because
it strips us of everything we knew we were sinners but now
even our religion is sin And we find there's nothing we can
do to make ourselves right with God. We discover that we're not
just depraved in part. We're not just lacking in that
we never once came to church or we never read the Bible. But
we discover that we're sinful in all we do. And that even when
we are religious, even when we read the Bible, even when we
pray we're full of sin. Here, when we hear this from
God's lips, we begin to discover just how lost we are. Just how
lost. Why should ye be stricken any
more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick and the
whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even
unto the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores. They have not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your land is desolate. You're full of sin. We are depraved
before God by nature. But that depravity is total. from head to foot we are not
good our religion is not good we think we are but we aren't
there is no good in man there is no good in his religion and God won't receive it there is none that doeth good
there is none that seeketh after me they've all gone astray they've
all gone aside None good. The Lord hear when he speaks
of Sodom and Gomorrah. His words are applicable to all
of this religion in its midst. He opens the words by saying,
hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom. Ye rulers, he
addresses the rulers, the blind who lead the blind. Because they are the guiltiest
of the lot. They've come into the churches,
they've set themselves up as preachers and pastors, they take
upon themselves, their lips the name of Jesus Christ. They say
they preach the gospel and they preach a lie. A lie of the universal
love of God, a lie of easy believism, a lie of Arminian preaching,
a lie of salvation by works, a lie of salvation by your will. as though you're the God who
chooses whether to show mercy unto Jesus Christ by letting
him into your heart or not. They preach a lie and they lead
the people in darkness, blind leaders of the blind. So he addresses
them, hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers. of Sodom. The rulers have let the people
down. The leaders have led them astray. The rulers of our land have led
our land astray and away from God. The rulers in our churches
have led the religious in the land away from God. All are blind
and all lead the blind astray. Religious or not, no wonder then,
that Isaiah says in chapter 2, that God says by him, cease ye
from man, verse 22, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein
is he to be accounted of. Cease ye from man, all men. Man always speaks lies. who will only hear truth from
the lips of a man when Jesus Christ sends him forth to preach,
when the Spirit of God dwells in a child of God to speak the
truth by grace. Everything else that we say is
full of sin, full of sin. But Isaiah's message doesn't
end here. How wonderful that he doesn't
end here. He's proved our sin and he's proved the sin of our
religion. But his wonderful hope is set
before us. Verse 18 in chapter 1. Let us
reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be wool. I am going to redeem you, my
remnant, in the midst of the people. I am going to wash you
clean. You can't make yourself right. You can't save yourself. You
can't live right before me. You're full of sin. But I'm going
to take your sin away. You who hear. You who are mine. You who I will cause to hear
this word. I will take your sin away and
make you whiter than snow. Whiter than snow. I will redeem
you. you're bound fast by sin you're
trapped in the religion of this world but I will set you free
I will pay a price to redeem you like a slave is redeemed
when the price is paid to pay for their freedom Christ God
will set his people free chapter 1 verse 27 Zion shall be redeemed
with judgment and her converts with righteousness. Oh what a
redemption Isaiah sets before us here. Not a redemption like
the easy believers and the world ecumenical church would speak
of where all will be saved irregardless of their sin by a loving Father
Christmas God that has no anger against the wicked but will just
redeem all whatever they do. What a lie! But our God is a
righteous God and a holy God, and He will redeem His own, but
He will redeem them with judgment, and Her converts with righteousness. His justice is upheld in the
salvation of His people. He doesn't just look upon them
and say, I forgive your sins, you're as white as snow. But
their sins are forgiven because there is One who stood in their
place and paid the price for them. There is one who fell under
the sword of God's judgment against the sins of that remnant. There
is one who paid the price of God's righteous judgment against
sin, that that sin might be dealt with, destroyed, cancelled, paid
for, done away with, that they, having no sin, might rise up
forgiven, standing before God as righteous. Yes, God would
send a saviour, send a saviour unto Zion, send a saviour unto
his remnant, send one who would go before them, one who would
suffer for them, one who would be slain for them, that they
in him might live. One who would fall unto the judgement
of the righteousness of God, that Zion should be redeemed. Isaiah spoke before the event. We know the event has come and
gone and all is done, praise God. Christ came as he said he
would come. He came into this world to save
sinners. He was born a babe in Bethlehem. He grew into a man rejected by
all, cast out and crucified. as that sacrifice upon the cross,
the one sacrifice which was offered up once and for all for the sins
of his people, his very little remnant, his Zion, whom he would
redeem. That sacrifice which is well
pleasing and acceptable in God's sight. He had no time for the
sacrifices of men, for the worship of men in their own will and
in their own glory. But He had all the time in this
world and in eternity for the sacrifice of His own Son, that
perfect, pure, spotless Lamb of God whom He sent to the cross,
upon whom He laid the sins of all His elect people, all that
remnant, all Zion, upon whom He laid them and upon whom He
struck His sword of judgment and of justice against Him. Oh,
how Christ suffered in those hours of darkness for his people. How he suffered. How he cried
out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why me, thy
son, the one whom thou loved, the one who always lived with
thee in mind, the one who always worshipped thee, the one who
was without sin, why me? Because my son, I laid upon you
the sins of my people. You were made sin that they might
be made the righteousness of God. You were my sacrifice for
them, because you willingly laid down your life, because you loved
them and gave yourself for them. You shed your blood that they
should be washed and made clean. Verse 16. Wash you. Make you
clean. Put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do
well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed.
Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. You can't
do any of that in your own strength. You can't wash yourself, you
can't make yourself clean. Try all you might, go on, try
and be right before God. You'll be as filthy at the end
as you were at the beginning. But in Christ, because his blood
was shed to redeem Zion, you wash in his blood and you will
be whiter. whiter than snow, because his
blood took away all the sins of all his people throughout
all time, all the elect, all Zion, all his remnant. Oh what hope there is in this
gospel, what joy and salvation. What sights we see of it and
the promise of Christ coming before us in Isaiah's prophecy
in so many different ways. And what a sight we see in chapter
6 of the glory of God. The glory of God into which Christ
the Saviour takes His people. The Redeemer takes them and lifts
them and shows them His glory. This is what they're brought
into. This is what their salvation
leads them unto. This is their hope that one day
they will stand and be with Him and see this sight. In the year
that King Uzziah died, Isaiah says, I saw also the Lord sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the
temple. In the year that King Uzziah
died, when the ruler of this world was brought to an end,
as it were, and when my Saviour had conquered all, when He had
laid down His own life for His own people, and when He had risen
again and ascended into glory victorious, having slain the
adversary of His people, having destroyed the rulers of this
world because He is the King of kings, He is the Lord of Lords. In that year, as it were, Isaiah
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims.
Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face,
and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and
said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth
is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved
at the voice of him that cried. And the house was filled with
smoke. Oh, what a sight! How holy is
our God! And how can sinners such as you
and I who are laden with iniquity. Corrupt children before a holy
God, how can we ever enter in to see such glory? How can we
be one with one who is so holy? What is our reaction when we
should see such a sight? Or what was Isaiah's reaction?
Verse 5, Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because
I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of hosts. Oh, what a contrast! What a contrast
there is in this sight of God in His glory and the sin of Sodom
and Gomorrah in this world which we saw in chapter 1. What a contrast. But what a contrast there is
also between the glory of God seen here by Isaiah and what
He knew He was by nature, a man. of unclean lips who dwelt in
the midst of a people of unclean lips just like you and I dead
in trespasses and sins in the midst of a people children of
wrath with just like them by nature black with sin how unclean
Isaiah felt when he saw this how unclean we will feel when
we see something by faith of God's glory as believers how
unclean we feel ourselves to be many days when we sin and
we stumble and when we're cold in heart and doubting and unsure
and unbelieving and the sin in our flesh wars against the spirit
within how we hate it how wicked we feel And yet our hope is not
in ourselves. Our hope is not in this. But
our hope is in the sight which is presented unto us. Our hope
is in Christ by faith. And when Isaiah cried this out,
then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in
his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth.
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity
is taken away, and thy sin purged. For so I heard the voice of the
Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I, send me. He took a live coal off the altar,
and touched Isaiah's unclean lips. and told him, thine iniquity
is taken away and thy sin is purged. Yes, that's what you
are, but no more. Your flesh may remain in this
world, but I have judged it, I have taken it, I have burnt
it up in judgment upon the cross. It's a live coal He took. A live coal, speaking of the
fury and the burning of the altar of God, upon which Christ, Isaiah's
Saviour, suffered. He died for him, he burnt for
him. He felt the anger and the fury
and the burning fires of God's wrath upon him because of Isaiah's
unclean lips. And as a consequence, he took
that live coal and said unto him, thine iniquity is taken
away and thy sin is purged. What of you? Has that happened
to you? Has God by faith taken you from
that sight in chapter 1 of the evil in this world and the evil
of your own works and your profession and taken you to the cross? and
taken you by faith to look through it to an ascended Christ in glory. Has he made you feel how worthless
and nothing you are before him, how unclean your lips are? But
more so, has he flown unto you with a live coal, and placed
that live coal as it were upon your lips and said unto you by
his spirit, thy sins be forgiven thee. Your iniquity has been
taken away and your sin has been purged. Christ has died and he
has died for you and your sins in particular. You are one of
my remnant. I chose you before the world
was made. I chose you before you were born.
I chose you before those lip-spake lies every day. And I took those
sins away and purged them. Can you say that for sure that
he's done that for you? Do you know it? Well I tell you
that you will know it if a live coal touches your lips. If a
live coal touches your lips then you will know it because it burns. But the wondrous touching is
one that really doesn't burn you. The burning you feel is
but momentary because the fury of that fire was burnt out upon
Christ in your stead. And the burning you feel is nothing. the light affliction you bear
in this world, your sorrow over your sin, the persecution that
comes your way for being part of that very small remnant. All
these things, all these sorrows are nothing. But you'll know
it. You'll know it if he's taken
that coal and if he's spoken these words into your soul. You'll
know it. You'll know the life. You'll
know the redemption, you'll know the joy, you'll know the salvation. And you'll know that that salvation
came when one came unto you preaching the gospel, for this message
is not to be left on the pages of scripture, not to be left
in Isaiah's prophecy in a book, but God said unto him, Whom shall
I send? Who will go for us? And Isaiah
said, here am I, send me. And he went, and God told him
to go and to preach. And the promise is not that multitudes
will be saved. But the promise is that when
you preach, you will tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand
not. See ye indeed, but perceive not. And the people's heart will be
made fat, and their ears heavy, and their eyes shut. they'll
be condemned this gospel will be life unto life but death unto
death well what hope is there you say? why preach it if it
just brings condemnation? well it is not just death unto
death but amongst that people who hear amongst that multitude
there is a very small remnant and because there is a very small
remnant the whole has not been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah
this world has not yet been burnt up and the reason this world
has not yet been burnt up and destroyed the reason the goats
have not been separated from the sheep the reason all wicked
have not been cast yet in the hell is because in this world
of darkness there is a very small remnant who have yet to hear
the gospel and yet to be gathered in and God will preach preach
preach his gospel to the last day to the last moment when the
last of his chosen elect comes to hear and believe and is gathered
in and at that hour The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll,
and the earth will be burnt with fire, and we will all stand before
God to answer for what we are. Whether we are washed in the
blood of Jesus Christ, or whether we have raged against Him, laden
with sin and iniquity, where will you be? Where will you be? Is the Gospel life unto life
to your soul, or death unto death? It's not all death unto death. God has his people. as he says
in verse 13 of chapter 6, echoing what we read in chapter 1, but
yet in this midst of this land shall be a tenth and it shall
return and shall be eaten as a tail tree and as an oak whose
substance is in them and when they cast their leaves so the
holy seed shall be the substance thereof. There is that people
in whom Christ dwells. They're sinners, yes, but all
that they are will be burnt away at the cross in Christ, and all
that they will be is Christ. Saved for me, the righteousness
of God, pure and perfect, whiter than snow, because this remnant,
this very small remnant, of which you may be a part, I pray. Have ears to hear, and eyes to
see, and faith in the heart to believe. And they love, they
love, they love the Son of God who suffered and died for them.
That Son of God, that Saviour who loved them and gave Himself
for them. They love Him. Can you say, I
love the Lord my Saviour. Amen.