Isaiah chapter 19 and verse 20. I wanted to say some things this
evening about this book, but I was afraid I would wear you
and keep you too long. But I will say this, this book
of Isaiah has sometimes been referred to as the Gospel of
Isaiah. And I think probably That's a correct statement. He
was a prophet, but what an evangelist he was. He spoke more of the
Lord Jesus Christ than any other writer in the Old Testament,
I would imagine, apart from the Book of Psalms. He predicted
so many things of the coming of Christ. And he was so sure,
so confident in his prediction, he often spoke of them in past
tense. If you read Isaiah the 53rd chapter
sometime, you'll realize that much of what he said of the sufferings
and death of the Lord Jesus were written in past tense. He had
borne our grace. God hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all, as though it's already happened, that it was already
history. Seven hundred and seventy years
or so before the coming of the Son of God into this world, this
prophet wrote of Him as if He had already came, already lived,
already suffered, and died and rose again. And as you study
this book, as you read it, The birth of Christ is spoken of.
A virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son. The deity of Christ,
the divinity of Christ, His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
the Mighty God. His miracles, the lame shall
leap for joy, the blind shall see, the dumb shall shout. He
wrote of the miracles of our Lord Jesus, His suffering, He
made His grave with a ridge, His resurrection, that He has
defeated death. and His glorious and triumphant
kingdom, of the increase of His kingdom and peace. There will
be no end, he said in chapter 9. So this is a wonderful book
about the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. And Isaiah mentions our
Savior eight times. in this book. You and I have
looked at this before. I can't remember what we said
about it the last time, but as I looked at it again, I was sort
of refreshed by it myself. But eight times he mentions the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior, in this book. And there's two
things I want you to notice as we turn to these eight texts
of Scripture. One is, I don't want you to look
at the immediate context. If we looked at that and got
involved in the immediate context, we'd have to take eight weeks
instead of a few minutes. But as you look at each text,
look at it and consider it in the context of the whole Bible.
As he mentions the Savior, you'll understand why that's said there
in the New Testament. That's said there about Him in
the book of Genesis. The whole Bible talks about the Savior.
And the second thing I want you to notice about it as we turn
to these passages, Every passage, and we take it in order, beginning
here in chapter 19 and verse 20, every passage reveals something
new about the Savior that we're going to look at this evening.
The Savior in Isaiah. Now let's look at it. Here's
the first place that it's mentioned in this book. Chapter 19 of Isaiah,
and here in verse 20. Keep your Bibles handy this evening
and we'll turn to these passages. Here's the first place. It shall
be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord, the Lord of hosts
and the land of Egypt. For they shall cry unto the Lord,
this Lord there you notice in capitals, that means that's Jehovah,
the self-existent, the eternal God. They shall cry unto Jehovah
because of the oppressors And he shall send them a Saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them. Now there's three
things that's said here about the Saviour, and you may have
noticed them as I read it. One is that he was sent. They shall cry unto Jehovah,
the Lord of hosts, and He shall send them a Saviour. He was sent of Jehovah. Now one
of the favorite phrases our Lord Jesus used. And in the book of
John alone, He used this phrase 42 times. He sent me. The Father sent me. God sent me. I came not of myself,
but He sent me. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou
hast sent." Who was it sent Jesus Christ? It was Jehovah. Who did
Jehovah send? Jesus Christ. That's who He sent.
And the Lord often made that statement. And He said this about
it. He said this, I came down from
heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent
me. Why did the Father send Him?
Why did Jehovah send Him? Well, to deliver. That's what
He said, wasn't it? To deliver. God sent not His
Son into the world to condemn the world. But why did He send
Him? To deliver. To deliver. And here's another
statement. Here's something else we learn
about the Savior. First of all, we find that He
was indeed sent. He said, I came not of myself,
the Father sent me. And something else the Holy Spirit
says about Him here in this verse, He shall be the Great One. A
Great One. And you remember when the angel
Gabriel appeared to Mary? there in her hometown and announced
that she would conceive in her womb. You remember the first
thing Gabriel told her about the womb that she would conceive?
You would conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and he
shall be great. That's the same word here. He
shall be great. Isn't that very fitting? Notice
how the New Testament reveals the Old Testament. When the Lord
sends Him, we find out in the New Testament who He sends. When
He said He shall be great, we find out who that great One is.
He's that One that's conceived in the womb of the Virgin. And
this word great, the commentaries and those who give us definitions
and study Greek and Hebrew words, they have difficulty. defining
this word great. He shall be great. And they say
they have difficulty defining it because it has such a wide
application. It applies to rank, And who is
higher in rank? You fellas have been in the army,
clergy. You fellas know something about rank, don't you? You can
tell me the highest rank in the military. I don't know what it
is. You've got to know. But you know who holds the highest
rank in this universe? The Lord of Lords and the King
of Kings. He's great. He's great, ain't
he? He's great. They tell us this
word means not only in rank, but in age. He's great in age. Who's older than the Son of God?
His going forth is from everlasting of old, in quality, in quantity,
in volume. He's full of grace and truth.
So He's grace. And the angel said to Mary, He
shall be called the Son of the Highest, and God shall give unto
Him the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over
the house of Jacob forever. He has a throne and He's reigning. He's great ain't He? He's great.
He's not this little weak Jesus that we hear so much about today.
He's not. He's on the throne. He's a great
one. And He reigns forever and ever.
And listen to this. And of His kingdom there shall
be no end. Never be an end. Never be an
end. And the last part of this verse here tells us, really defines
who this Savior is. Defines His mission. What's He
going to do? Look at this. And He shall deliver
them. That's what a Savior is. He's
a deliverer. A deliverer. Did you ever think
of all the things the Lord Jesus has delivered us from? The scripture
tells us many of them. He's delivered us from so great
a death. Death and trespasses and sins.
What about that second death that's coming? That death from
which there is no deliverance. He delivered us from so great
a death. He delivered us from the wrath
to come. When the face of God appears
and the heavens and the earth flees away in His presence, and
His wrath comes on the unconverted, we're delivered from the wrath
to come. We'll never taste His wrath again.
This Savior has come and delivered us from the wrath to come, so
great a death, from this present evil world. This is an evil world
we live in, and He's delivered us from it. He's delivered us
from the pleasure of it, the course of it, and it's end. He's
delivered us. From the power of darkness, Colossians
chapter 1 and verse 13, and Romans 7, 6 said, He has delivered us
from the law. Now that's a blessing ain't it?
You keep the law. You keep the law. I've asked
all kinds of people that. You keep the law and most of
the time people say, no but I try. Well, do you keep it though? Do you keep it? Not the hearers
of the law, not those who attempt to keep the law, but the doers
of the law are just that. I tell you that law still condemns
us when we turn to it, doesn't it? You know, ain't it wonderful
to be delivered from the law? Free from the law, oh, happy
condition. Jesus has bled, and now there's
relief. Look here at what Luke says.
Hold Isaiah there just a minute. Look over here in Luke chapter
1. I think Luke sums up what the
Lord Jesus has delivered us from. Look here at Luke chapter 1 and
verse 68. Luke sums it up this way. Here's
what He said about the Savior coming and what He delivered
us from. He don't categorize so many things, but look what
He says about it. Luke chapter 1, look in verse 68. A Savior. Just talking about
what Isaiah said about our Savior. God sent Him, and He's great,
and He's delivering His people. Look what He said in verse 68.
Luke 1, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited
and redeemed his people. He hath raised up a horn of salvation
for us in the house of his servant David, as he spake by the mouth
of his holy prophets, which shall be since the world began, that
we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that
hate us, to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and
to remember his holy covenant." That's what we're studying about,
ain't it? A Savior. He promised us a Savior. And he sent him,
and he said, he's come to fulfill the promise. The oath which he
swore to Abraham that he would grant unto us, here it is, that
we'd be delivered out of the hand of our enemies. Sin, the
wrath to come. Savior, deliver from our sin,
the curse of the law. Might serve Him without fear
in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our
life. He's a Savior. He's a Savior.
Look at the second place Isaiah talks about. Look at chapter
43 of Isaiah. Jehovah's in him. Jehovah sent
his son. And look here what he says in
chapter 43, and look in verse 3. Here's the second thing he
mentions of the Savior. Now this is a mystery. Look at
this. Look in verse 3. Chapter 43, verse 3. I am the
Lord thy God. I am Jehovah, the self-existent,
eternal one. The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. Ain't that amazing? First place,
Isaiah said, Jehovah sent Him. And now we find here Jehovah
Himself is that Saviour. Now that's a mystery. Jehovah,
the Holy One, is our Saviour. Now, every time you find this
word, Holy One used as a noun in the Old Testament and in the
New Testament, it's speaking of Jehovah. Or is it speaking
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, without exception? Everywhere
you find it, is it speaking of Jehovah, or is it speaking of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God? Listen to what the Apostle Peter
said in Acts 3.14, when he's speaking to the Jews about killing
Christ. You denied the Holy One, and the Just One, and desired
a murderer to be granted unto you, and you killed the Prince
of Life. Now what this tells us here,
the Lord thy God, the Holy One, is thy Savior, and here it's
speaking of Jehovah, and in the New Testament, the Holy One is
speaking of Jesus of Nazareth. And what this is telling us is,
these two are the same. There's but one Savior, Jehovah,
the self-existent, eternal God, and Jesus of Nazareth. They're
one Savior. Not two, just one. They are the
same. They are the same. Not two Savior,
not two divine persons, but one. One. Look over here with me in
another place. Just right in this chapter here.
Look in verse 14. Look at this. Thus saith the
Lord, there it is again, Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Who is our Redeemer? Who is our
Redeemer? Christ is our Redeemer. You don't
find any other Redeemer. He hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law. Peter said, we're not redeemed
with corruptible things of silver and gold, but by the precious
blood of Christ. He's our Redeemer. Well, it says
here, Jehovah, the Holy One, is our Redeemer. That's Jesus.
That's Him, the Eternal God. And look at verse 50. I am the
Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Who is the King? Jesus, amen. He's the King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. That's what they put on the cross. They said, Pilate,
take that down. That's what he said, that he
was the King. Pilate said, what I said, I said. He's the King. He's the King. He's the King.
Look here now, and look here in another place, and hold, hold
Isaiah again, and look over here with me in another place, and
Titus. And Titus. Look here what Titus said about
the Savior. Paul said to Titus, in Titus chapter 2, and look
here in verse 13 and verse 14. Titus chapter 2, look in verse
13 and 14. Who is our Savior? He's Jehovah
God, the Eternal One. He's Jesus Christ, the same,
looking for that blessed hope. and the glorious superior of
the great God and our Savior." Who is He? Jesus Christ. He's
a great God and He's our Savior, Jesus Christ. And just in case
we don't know which Jesus He's speaking about in verse 14, "...who
gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity."
You know something, brothers and sisters, He's our Savior.
He's our King, He's our Redeemer. Jehovah Jesus. One God in the
Trinity of His Sacred Person. That's who He is. And it's a
mystery, and I could probably understand just a little bit
why some people get so confused if you don't believe God's Word
about it. Because when you find in one scripture that Jehovah
sent Him, And then the next scripture you find is Jehovah sending Jehovah. That's pretty confusion. And
the only way you and I can look at that is just believe it. Just
believe it. God is not like us, is He? He's eternally different than
you and I. We cannot get a hold of Him. We can't find Him now.
But when He bears witness to Himself, when He reveals Himself
in this world, we believe Him. We just believe Him. Look over
here now back to Isaiah 43 again in verse 11. Isaiah 43, verse 11. Now look
at this. Now I said to you that, you know,
the Lord, the Eternal God, and Jesus Christ is the Savior. They're
one. He's the Savior. God's our Savior.
Jesus Christ is our Savior. And look what he says now in
verse 11. I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior. There is no Savior besides Jehovah. But I thought you said Jesus
was the Savior. Well, if there's two Saviors, there's two Saviors. We've got a problem here. See,
what the Mormons tells us and what the Jehovah Witness tells
us, that really we have two Saviors. That Jehovah is the Eternal God
and He's a Savior. And Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, who is a creature, He's a Savior. So we have two Saviors. That presents a problem. And
I tell you how we solve that problem. We say, no, we have
only one Savior. Ain't that what He said? I, even
I, am God. And besides me, there is no Savior. There is no other name. Ain't
that what Peter said? There's no other name given among
men whereby we must be saved than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. There's only one Savior. Is it
God or is it Jesus? They're one and the same. See
that? Ain't that wonderful? Look over here now in chapter
45 in the fourth place. Here's the fourth place we find
this revealed. Chapter 45 and look in verse
15. I guess, probably, as we read
this verse here, we say, well, no wonder some people don't know
it. No wonder they don't profess
the truth, they don't know it. Look here at verse 15. Verily
thou art a God, that hideth thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour."
Now, what have we found out so far? We've found out that our
Saviour is one who was sent of Jehovah. He's a great one. He's
the Deliverer. Secondly, we find out that He is God. He is Jehovah. And here we find out this. There's
no other God besides Him, and He hideth Himself. He hideth
himself. He's a Savior who hideth himself. Now we know, you and I know,
that the devil hides the gospel from men. He does. If our gospel
be hid, it's hid to the Lord. Satan hath blinded their minds.
We know the gospel's hid from the wise and the foolish. We
know that. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God. We know that. But he says here,
he hides himself. He hides himself. And you know
what that tells us about him? We can't know him, apart from
Revelation. He's a Savior, and we preach
Him to men. But men cannot know Him if He
does not make Himself real to their understanding. Now we've
read this chapter, this verse so many times, where the Lord
said to Peter, who do men say that I am? They say you're Elias
or Jerob. Who do you say I am, Peter? They
are the Christ. Well, you're the Savior. Flesh
and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, which
is in Him. He hides Himself, doesn't He?
He hides Himself. Everything about the Son of God
is here. It's plain upon the pages of
this Word, this book. But you know we can't savingly
know anything about Him, apart from Revelation. Paul said, we've
not received the Spirit of the world. We receive the Spirit
from God, the Holy Spirit. Why Paul? That we might know
the things that are freely given to us of God. We have to have
the Holy Spirit in us. He must make the things of Christ
real to us. Look here in chapter 45, fifthly,
and you'll have to study these out for yourself. If I take too
long, we'll weary you. But look here in the 21st verse
of chapter 45. Here's the fifth thing that he
says about the Savior. He says here in verse 21, Tell
ye and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together,
who have declared this from ancient time, who have told it from that
time, have not I the Lord? And there is no God else beside
me, a just God and a Savior, there is none besides me. A just God and a Savior. There's
something new about our Savior. He's a just God as well as a
merciful Savior. Now this is a mystery that confounds
this world. How can God be just and justify
the undone? You know this world is confronted
with an awful dilemma. If God don't save a man strictly
out of His love, then they have no idea how He's going to save
the man. If they can't take God off of
His throne of justice and bring Him down and save a man just
simply because God loves, then they don't know how God's going
to save him. If they can't bring a man up
and present him as something he's not, that is, if they can't
say man's not as bad, as you think he is. Man is really a
good man. So here you've got a God that's
not a just God. You've got a sinner that's not
really a sinner. And that's the only way they
have any idea how God can save a man. But if God is of too pure
eyes to behold evil, and he cannot look upon sin, And if you and
I are as desperately wicked as the Bible say we are, then how
in the world is God going to be just and yet justify us? And that's the problem, ain't
it, this world is faced with. They know nothing about a just
God and a Savior. They know something about a loving
God and a Savior. They know a little bit about
a merciful God and a Savior, but they do not understand a
just God and a Savior. What's justice got to do with
being sick? A God-keeper, justice can. He
can't save anybody at the expense of his holiness. He will not
vacate his throne. Listen. Only God knows how to
be just and justify the ungodly. And only God can do it. That's why He said, there's none
else besides Me. There is no other Savior, there
is no other God that can be just and a Savior too. If our sins,
now listen to this, if our sins are taken from us, and only God
can do that. And those who deny that, deny
the gospel. And if our sins are put on Jesus
of Nazareth, which they were, and if a man denies that, he
denies the gospel. And if Jesus suffers the full
penalty for those sins, which he did, even unto death. And if he did all of this before
the just court of heaven, which he did because God saw the travail
of his soul. And if, now listen to me, if
this same God said, I'm satisfied. and raised this Jesus from the
dead and set him at his own right hand, then this tells us this
is the ground on which God can be just and justify the ungodly. Sin is punished. Justice is satisfied. Therefore, God can show mercy
and save us from our sin. See that? If you went out here
this evening and you took a survey in this neighborhood and asked
these people how God can save a sinner. If you ask a hundred
people, I bet you'd get ninety-nine different opinions. But ask those
people how God can be just and be a Savior, and they have no
idea. And you know, brothers and sisters,
the only way He can It's through the Lord Jesus Christ. Through
Calvary's treatment. That's the only way to keep it. This is the ground. I'm a just
God and a Savior. And besides me, there's none
else. There's none else. You ought to sit around sometime
and think up some ways that you'll try to save yourself. I used
to do that when I was lost. Try to think up ways. How can
I be saved? And I come up with some strange ways. Look in chapter 49, now look
at this. So we're learning something about
him. Every time we find the Savior mentioned in Isaiah, something
different is mentioned concerning him, something new. Now you're
in Isaiah chapter 49 and verse 26. And I will feed them that
oppress thee, that is my church, my flock, my little flock, my
people, my believers. I will feed them that oppress
thee with their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their
own blood as with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that
I, the Lord, am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One
of Jacob." Now why is this important? Why is it important when the
Lord said, I'm going to bring the world someday to acknowledge
that I am your Savior. I'm going to make the world know
and recognize that I've loved you and redeemed you. Now why
is that so important? Well, I'll tell you one of the
reasons it's so important. If you know anything about the Inquisition,
the Spanish Inquisition, the Inquisition in general, where
Catholicism killed literally hundreds of thousands of believers. Slaughtered them, put them in
boiling oil, and stretched them until their limbs pulled apart,
and threw them in the beast. Hundreds of thousands of them.
And Catholicism of that day thought sincerely believed that they
were right in killing those believers and they thought since they excommunicated
them and said that you're beyond any hope of salvation that God
would not have mercy upon them they said if you excommunicate
a man from the Catholic Church then he's damned You know what the Lord said about
those people? He said, I'm going to show them. I'm going to show
them. I'm going to tell them I was
your Savior. I was your Redeemer. We've got
people today, we've got Holy Nominations. The Mormon Church
and Jehovah Witness and some branches of the Church of Christ
think you and I are a cult. Do you know that? They think
we're a cult. We cleave to the Lord Jesus Christ
and His sovereign grace to be saved by Him and Him only. And you know what they say about
us? You fellows are deceived. You're a cult. And you know what the Lord is
going to tell people like that? He said, I'm going to make them
to know I was your Savior. And I was all you needed. You
know the world is going to be surprised some day. The world
looks upon religion and it thinks what's real is these big mega
churches and all these TV evangelists and all these assembly line people. They look upon that and they
have no idea who the Lord's little flock is. And here throughout
this world, you've got this little flock of afflicted people, broken
hearted people, who often weep over their sin. Weep over the
sins of others. Weep because they're on such
unprofitable service. Weep and grieve and mourn. And this world despises it. This world despises it. But there's
coming a day when the Lord Jesus said, I'm going to make them
come and worship at your feet. And I'm going to make them know
I loved you. And I redeemed you. Brothers
and sisters, you know something? The world don't like these old
dogmas. They don't like sovereign grace. And if you and I will
just stand firm on the Word of God and what we say and how we
live for His glory, we'll find out this world don't like us.
You folks think you're the only ducks in the ponds? Ain't that
what they tell us? They're like going in the way
of Corrie. All the people are God's children,
he said. All of them. This world is going to be surprised
some day. Fear not, little flock. Little
flock. Look over now at Isaiah chapter
16, verse 16. Verse 17. I'll make the world to know,
I'm going to make all flesh know that I was indeed your Savior. Look in verse 16, here's something
else. Chapter 60 verse 16, Thou shalt also set the milk of the
Gentiles and shalt suck the breast of kings, and thou shalt know
that I, the Lord, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty
One of Jacob." Well, before he said, the world's going to, all
flesh is going to know that I'm yours, but here he says, you're
going to know it. You're going to know I'm yours. I want to know, don't you? I've
got to have a Saviour. And I want to know I'm His. I want to know He's mine. This
is a point I long to know. Am I His or am I not? I want to be like those apostles.
Lord, I believe and I'm sure. That thou art the Christ. That's
the assurance I want. I want to be like Paul. I know
whom I have believed. I know him. I know him. And I
believe him. That's the assurance I want.
And he said this, brothers and sisters, these things are written
that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ. And believe and
you might have life through his name. These things have I written
unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that
you may know that you have eternal life." That's what I want. I want assurance to know. I don't
want to face death. I don't want to face eternity
without knowing. And if He says you can know,
then Lord make me to know. Make me to know. I don't want
to be presumptuous. But I do want to share with you
that I know him. I told you so many times about old John Jasper,
the old black slave. I tell you about this because
I just love that old man. He went to preach funerals and
they just let him preach like five or ten minutes because he
had to go back to work. His slave masters were very mean
to him. They wouldn't let him preach in any of the white churches,
but I tell you, he could out-preach most of them. But he always talked
about assurance, assurance. I know, he said, I always quote
him, Paul, I know whom I believe. One day they said to him, John,
they said, what if you get up to heaven and the Lord don't let you in? What's going to happen then?
You talk about this assurance, what's going to happen to you
then? He said, I think what's going to happen to me. If he don't
let me in, I'm going to perish. And I'm going to lose my soul." But
he said, I'll tell you this much, I'll suffer a great loss, but
God's going to suffer a greater loss. If I went through this
world believing what He said in His Word, putting all my trust
in Him, and then He turns me away, He's going to lose more
than I will lose. He's going to lose His honor.
He's going to lose His faithfulness. He's going to lose His trustworthiness. I tell you what, brothers and
sisters, I found out in my life, the greatest assurance you can
have is believing what God tells you to believe. You cannot honor
God any more than believe Him. Believe. If I tell you something
and you come up to me and you say, Bruce, I believe what you
said. That's the way you honor me.
And that's the way you honor God. Believe Him. And He'll never
disappoint you. Do you know that? He'll never
disappoint you. These things are written that
you might believe. And believe and you might have
life in His name. And lastly, Look here in chapter 63, verse 8. This is the last time Isaiah
mentions the Savior. This old man lived through many
reigns and many kings. A faithful servant, wrote so
much about the Savior. And he comes now to close this
book, and here's what he says about it. For he said, Surely,
here's the Lord Jesus Christ speaking, Surely they are my
people, children that will not lie. So he was their Savior. Who did Christ come to save?
Now let's be honest. Let's be honest. Who did Christ
come to save? His people. Isn't that what He
said? His name shall be called Jesus
for He shall save His people. Isn't that what Isaiah said about
Him here? Surely they are my people. Therefore He's their
Savior. That's why He came to save His
people. Now I tell you the Lord Jesus Christ saves anybody and
everybody that comes to God by Him. But who comes? His people. Aren't you glad you're one of
His? He values His people. Do you
know that? He values His people. Do you know why He values them?
Not just the love that He has for them, but their precious
gift of His Father. All that the Father hath given
to me, and giveth to me, shall come to me. And he that comes
to me, I will in no wise, for no reason, never ever will I
cast him out. Why? He's my people. They're
my people. And He's our Savior. And He says
here, they won't lie. They won't lie. Now, brothers
and sisters, let's be honest. Do you ever lie? Oh, God help
us. God help us. How often we've
lied. How often we lie. We're ashamed
of it. And we confess it to the Lord in secret. I'll tell you
one thing you ain't going to lie about. You ain't going to
lie about being His, are you? You ain't going to lie about
your Savior, are you? You may be timid, you may be
weak, and somebody may back you in a corner, like they did Peter,
and you say, I don't know Him. But He won't be long after a
night of weeping. Boy, you'll stand up and preach
Him again. He's mine. He's mine. And I'm His. God bless His Word. Father, we
do thank You. Thank You tonight for the precious
Bible that You've given us, the Word of God, the infallible Word
of God. Forgive us of even handling it. Open it up. We'd never do so
if You hadn't commanded us to do it. Give us this charge. We
ask our Father that you bless your word this evening to our
hearts, to all of us. Help us indeed to love and to
believe and to know our Savior and cleave to Him every day and
every moment, to cleave to Him and find in the Lord Jesus our
life and our living. In His name we ask. Amen.