Every promise of God in Holy
Scripture. Every promise. Every covenant
God reveals in Scripture concerning men. Every blessing described
in the Scripture is made to one race of people. Just one. Every prophecy in this book concerns
the welfare of one nation. just one nation. All others are
excluded. Everything in this book is set
before us concerning that one race and that one nation. And I assure you that there are
few in this world who have the slightest clue who that race
and nation might be. I said this the other night.
And I'll repeat it. It may come as a shock to many.
Indeed, I know it will. Won't to you, but it will to
others. And it needs to be shouted from the housetops. God is not
a Jew. He's not an American. He's not
a Democrat. He's not even a Republican. There's
only one nation in which the God of glory is interested at
all. Only one. Only one nation whose
interest are his interest. Just one. And that is not the
United States of America. And that is not the nation of
Israel. It is the Israel of God. The church which he hath purchased
with his own blood. Read 1 Peter chapter 1 with me,
beginning at verse 9. I'm sorry, chapter 2, beginning
at verse 9. and see how God the Holy Spirit identifies that one
and only nation, that one and only race with which God Almighty
is concerned. 1 Peter 2 verse 9. You are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, and holy nation. A peculiar people. The word peculiar there doesn't
mean odd. The Lord Jesus loved us and gave
himself for us, his church, that he might purchase to himself
a peculiar people, zealous of good works. A people who are
peculiarly his. All are his. All of his, you
belong to God and I do too, lock, stock and barrel, like it or
not. But there are some people who
are peculiarly, distinctly, especially his, a peculiar people, that
you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out
of darkness into his marvelous light. Now look what it says,
which in time past, were not a people, but are now the people
of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
mercy. Now let's look at our text in
Exodus chapter 3. Exodus chapter 3. For the sake
of time, I want to read just the 18th verse. Exodus chapter
3. The Lord God is sending Moses
to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians and out
of the hands of Pharaoh. He has identified himself as
the great I am, his name, which is his memorial forever. And
it says in verse 18 to Moses, they shall hearken unto thy voice
and thou shalt come and thou and the elders of Israel unto
the king of Egypt. And ye shall say to him, The
Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go. We beseech thee, three days journey
into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our
God. Hear the Lord God Almighty, our
Lord Jesus Christ, the angel of the covenant, who is speaking
to Moses. declares himself Jehovah, God
of the Hebrews. Jehovah, God of the Hebrews. Peculiarly, God of the Hebrews. Distinctly, God of the Hebrews. But isn't he the God of the Egyptians
too? Oh yes, yeah. He's their God, though they didn't
acknowledge Him. Their God, though they didn't
know Him. Their God, though they are made by him, vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction. Their God, though they are worshippers
of idols whom he is determined to destroy, yet he's their God. That is to say, he absolutely
owns them and rules them as he does all creation. But he describes
himself as Jehovah. God of the Hebrews, only the
Hebrews, distinctly the Hebrews, peculiarly the Hebrews. Now, in the light of that, I
want to know who those people are, don't you? I want to be
numbered among those people, don't you? Who are the Hebrews? That's the title of my message
tonight. That's the question I want to answer in this message
from the Scriptures. And it's not just a matter of
theological speculation. I want you to come to understand
this particular point of sound doctrine. Sitting here, just a minute ago,
I prayed, God, don't let me so play with immortal souls. That's
not my purpose. I want you to know who the Hebrews
are. and worship the God of the Hebrews. Adore him for his grace. This question, however, is a
matter of great importance because everything in the Word of God
is connected with the fact that the God of glory is the Lord
God of the Hebrews. And until we know who the Hebrews
are, it is impossible to understand God's promises to them, God's
covenants concerning them, and God's works of providence for
them. The question is also important
because it is relevant, relevant to our day, both politically
and religiously. There's a huge effort in this
day, and it's been going on for a long time. But it is particularly
huge in the United States, to a lesser degree in England, to
convince people that the political state of Israel somehow has a
divine right to that little piece of land that people commonly
and idolatrously refer to as the Holy Land at the end of the
Mediterranean Sea. This obsession with Israel's
supposed right to the Holy Land has its roots in the heresies. And I took a good while before
I decided to make that statement. It has its roots in the heresies
of dispensational theology made common and well known and established
by the Schofield Reference Bible. Some of you have had them. Some
of you may still have them. Be that as it may, it is an absolutely
heretical teaching. This is the one place, this idea
that Israel, the nation of Israel, has a divine right to possess
that land. This is the one place where political
liberals and political conservatives and often religious liberals
and religious conservatives are in complete agreement. They fight
about everything else, but they're in agreement about this for the
most part, for the most part. Now, before I go further, let
me state clearly, state clearly, I don't suggest nor do I in any
way imply that somehow we ought to be anti-Semitic or opposed
to the Jews as a people or as individuals or as a nation. I'm
not suggesting that at all. I don't believe that at all,
no more than we would be opposed to any other people, race, or
nation, not at all. But I am saying that that is
not the teaching of Scripture. There is no such thing as a divine
right to any physical nation, Israel, the United States, or
any other. Let me give you an example of
what I'm talking about. Back in October 1994, President
Bill Clinton gave a speech before the Israeli Knesset. Listen to
what he said, exact what he said. It is God's will Imagine that
man knowing God's will. It is God's will that Israel,
the biblical home of the people of Israel, continue forever and
ever. He concluded his speech with
a statement. Your journey is our journey, and America will
stand with you now and always. Now, before he made the speech,
he prefaced it by giving the Knesset the words that his pastor,
in a time of desperate sickness, spoke to him. His pastor back
in Arkansas told him, if you abandon Israel, God will never
forgive you. What is that? Now, we here know
better, and we kind of smile at such a thing. Well, that's
silly. but the whole world around us fully believes it. And we
are far too much affected by such a notion. I don't think
anyone would accuse Mr. Clinton of being a conservative
or of being terribly concerned about anything the Bible has
to say. Yet his political notions regarding the state of Israel
are exactly the same as those promoted by Jerry Falwell, Benny
Hinn, Paul Crouch, and almost the entire conservative fundamentalist
religious world. The religious leaders and the
political leaders of this day, who are at odds about most everything,
believe that the Jewish nation is somehow the centerpiece of
God's purpose. Somehow that physical nation,
that political state of Israel is the apple of God's eye, and
you better treat them accordingly. The Jewish nation is no more
the apple of God's eye or the centerpiece of God's purpose
than Saudi Arabia or Baghdad, Iraq, no more so and no less. You understand that? Multitudes
read the Bible with this idea that somehow the Jews are God's
special people, God's anointed people, and you better deal well
with the Jews or God will judge you for it. I recall hearing
all kinds of things when I was in Bible college, both the schools
I went to taught such nonsense. They actually believe, these
folks who are, they talk about being evangelizing the world,
sending missionaries everywhere. They actually believe Jews are
going to be saved whether they believe on Christ or not. Actually, they're
going to be saved because they're God's special covenant people.
Matter of fact, God's going to, God just has the church. This
is, I'm not lying to you now, I can show it to you in multitudes
of places. They believe the church is a
parenthesis. You know what a parenthesis is? If you're making a statement,
writing something out, and thought comes to you as you're writing
this thing out, you want to explain the statement you just made.
You put in a parenthetical statement. Now you can lift the parenthetical
statement out, and it makes no change in the sentence at all.
That's exactly how this, what folks call the church age, is
described in theological literature with regard to the purpose of
God. God's purpose was that the Jews accept Jesus as their king,
and because they wouldn't accept him as their king, God had plan
B, and he developed this parenthetical age called the church age. so
that he sends salvation to the Gentiles, but he hadn't changed
his purpose. He's going to lift the parenthesis out of the sentence,
and one day return to the Jews, and return to Jewish religion
and Jewish customs, and the Jews shall all be saved. What utter
nonsense. People read the scriptures with
that idea or some sort of it, ignorantly presuming that the
promises and prophecies of the scriptures must have reference
to the Jewish state. So I want you to carefully follow
me through the scriptures as I try to show you the answer
to this one question. Who are the Hebrews? Listen now. Paul raises these questions in
Romans 9. You don't need to turn there.
Just listen. Who are Israelites? To whom pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving
of the law, and the services of God, and the promises? Whose
are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came, who is over all, God blessed forever? When we hear the Spirit
of God declare in Romans 2.28, He is not a Jew which is one
outwardly. Neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh. He states it plainly. He who
is a Jew outwardly, that is, he is a physical descendant of
Abraham. He who has been circumcised in
the flesh is not a Jew and has not been circumcised. You mean
Paul is suggesting that if a fella is, he can trace his lineage
back to Abraham, he really isn't a Jew? That's exactly what he's
saying. Not in the biblical sense of the word. You mean he's saying
that if a fella has been circumcised, doctor, the day he was born,
took him and circumcised him in the hospital, you mean that
boy's not circumcised? That's exactly what he's saying in the
biblical sense of the word. Physical things have nothing
to do with spiritual things. Spiritual things may have much
to do with physical things, but physical things have nothing
to do with spiritual things. The Apostle tells us in Romans
9, they are not all Israel, which are of Israel. Those two statements
alone, given by divine inspiration, ought to cause us immediately
to presume that when God speaks of himself as the Lord God, Jehovah,
God of the Hebrews, he is not talking about a physical nation,
or a physical people, or a physical seed of any kind. He's not talking
about the physical, literal descendants of Abraham. Now, turn back to
Genesis chapter 14. Genesis 14 and verse 13. Abraham is going to deliver Lot.
And here for the first time in Genesis chapter 14 verse 13,
we read that Abraham is called the Hebrew. You see that? Abraham,
Abram, the Hebrew. Abram, the Hebrew. First time
the word's used. After that, the Egyptians used it to describe
the Jews, the Philistines used it to describe the Jews, and
the Jews themselves used it to describe themselves, to distinguish
themselves from all other people. When these people of the plain
spoke of Abram, they said, this is the Hebrew. He's different
from everybody else. When the Egyptians spoke of Abraham's
descendants, they said, these are the Hebrews. They're different
from everybody else. When the Philistines spoke of
them, they said, these are the Hebrews. They're different from
everybody else. And when the Hebrews spoke of
themselves, they said, you're right. We're the Hebrews. We're
different from everybody else. We're different from everybody
else. Now, the word Hebrew is synonymously used with Israel
and Jew throughout the scriptures. But I can't find anyone who can
give a clear, concrete definition of the word that back here in
Genesis 14 is translated Hebrew. Lots of speculation, lots of
theory. And I think there's a clear reason why they can't give a
specific definition. God doesn't intend that one be
given. But the word conveys these ideas. When they said these are
Hebrews, these are people who are from beyond. That's what
the word means. These are people who are passing
over. These are people who live beyond. Now, probably that name was given
to Abraham back there in Genesis 14 because he came from beyond
the land, came from across the river and were going back there.
Whatever the case be, that's a good description of God's people
in this world. They are from beyond and they
are passing over and they're going over beyond. That's a good description. God
says, I am Jehovah, God of the people from beyond who are passing
over and going beyond. I am their God. If you read the
scriptures with honesty, you simply cannot question the fact
that Abraham's physical descendants are not now and never have been
the centerpiece of God's purpose and the apple of his eye. When
the Lord Jesus declares himself distinctly and peculiarly Jehovah,
God of the Hebrews, he's talking about Abraham's spiritual descendants,
not his physical descendants. The word of God states this fact
clearly in Galatians chapter three. The best New Testament
commentary, or best commentary you can find on the Old Testament
is the New Testament. And tonight I want us to look
at two passages, Galatians chapter 3 and Isaiah 45. And I want you
to stay right here in Galatians 3 for the bulk of our time. The
Word of God states clearly that Abraham's children are God's
children, God's elect. Those people scattered through
all the earth, Both Jew and Gentile, whom the Lord God speaks of when
He says, I am Jehovah, God of the Hebrews. They are the people
God is determined to save. Those to whom He gives the blessings
of Abraham, the gift of life and faith in Christ by His grace.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 7. Know ye therefore that they which
are of faith, they who believe on the Son of God, No way of
knowing you're one of these people until you believe on the Son
of God. And no way of confusing it if you believe on the Son
of God. They which are of faith, the same are the children of
Abraham. That means Esau wasn't one of
Abraham's children. Well, he was born of his loins,
but he wasn't one of his children. That means Ishmael wasn't one
of Abraham's children, but he was born of his loins, he wasn't
one of his children. No, sir. No, no. Not at all. Not at all.
Physically so, but not spiritually so. They which are of faith the
same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture foreseeing
that God would justify the heathen, that's another word for you and
me, the Gentiles, through faith, preached before the gospel unto
Abraham. Well, now what on earth has the
fact that God preached the gospel to Abraham got to do with the
scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through
faith. He's telling Abraham that he's got a people scattered amongst
all the nations of the earth who must and shall be saved by
the blessing of his grace. Read on. So then, he said, in
thee shall all nations be blessed. Wow. You mean Abraham knew that? Back in the book of Genesis,
read the book and see, that's exactly what it says here. God
preached the gospel of Abraham saying, in you shall all nations,
people out of every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue, shall be blessed,
blessed with God's salvation. Not all the people of the nations,
but some people in all the nations. Read on. So then, this is the
conclusion of the matter. They which be of faith, they
which believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are blessed, saved with
faithful Abraham. Abraham's physical descendants
do not trust Christ by nature, none of them. And those who do
not trust Christ, our Lord Jesus tells us in John chapter 8, have
the devil, not Abraham for their father. They which are of faith,
No one else. The same with the children of
Abraham. And these the Holy Spirit calls in Galatians 6.16, the
Israel of God. These really are Israel. The true Israel of God are not
Abraham's natural descendants, but his spiritual descendants.
Abraham was the father of the nation from whom Christ came,
who is the author and finisher of our faith. And all God's children
are children of faith. That makes Abraham the father
of them that believe. This is how Paul puts it as he
writes by the Holy Spirit in Philippians 3. We are the circumcision. We are the circumcision. Until
recent years, no Gentile baby was ever circumcised unless the
family was proselyte Jews. Never circumcised until recent
years. Today it's performed as a matter of medical hygiene,
nothing more. But when he talks about circumcision
in the scripture, that's talking about an outward seal of a covenant
promise of God's covenant faithfulness to his covenant people. Now Paul
says, we are the circumcision, which worship God in here, in
the spirit. We have a circumcision made not
with hands, but made by the Spirit of God. Who worship God in spirit,
and rejoice, believe in, trust in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence, do not in any way trust in the flesh. The Word
of God shows us this with unmistakable clarity. The natural seed of
Abraham Jews, Israelites after the flesh, are not the people
of God by right of physical birth. It is true. Yes, it is true. God made covenants with that
physical seed, with that physical nation, and all the covenants
made with that physical nation were conditional covenants conditioned
upon obedience. Yet, God fulfilled every promise
that he made to Abraham in the days of Joshua. In Joshua chapters
21 and 23, Joshua said this day God has performed everything
he said he's going to perform. He gave them the land of Canaan,
gave them to be possessors of the land of Canaan, but Israel
did not keep the condition of the covenant. The land was given
to them perpetually if they obeyed and walked with God. And they
didn't do so for very long. In fact, they never did so truly. Israel, after the flesh then,
in the fullness of time, denied Christ, rejected Him, nailed
Him to the cursed tree. And as our Lord spoke in the
parable, God sent His armies. You mean the armies of that pagan
Roman Empire? The armies ruled by Titus? Those idol-worshipping, filthy,
vile, godless, reprobate men? They're God's armies? Yes, sir.
As are all the armies of the earth. He sent them to Jerusalem
and destroyed the city and covered their faces with darkness so
that now a veil is over the nation and they can't see. Blindness
in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles
be brought in. The physical seed has been cut
off in judgment and blinded and cut off in judgment and blinded
forever until the fullness of the Gentiles be brought in. That
is to say, when the fullness of the Gentiles are brought in,
when all of God's Israel scattered in all the earth has been saved,
then comes the end. Seed, however, these Hebrews
of whom Jehovah is the God, he makes promises continually throughout
the Old Testament, throughout the Old Testament, as he speaks
of gathering his elect, gathering them from the north and the south
and the east and the west, calling his sons from afar over and over
again. We've seen it many times going
through the book of Zechariah in recent months. He says, I'll
gather you to your land. I'm going to bring you back into
your land. Oh, he's talking about a day when he's going to bring
all the Jews back into their land. No, he's not. He's talking about
a better day than that. He's talking about the complete
reconciliation and salvation of his elect, inheriting everything
promised them in covenant mercy in Christ before the world was,
which things were symbolized when Joshua said this day. God's
fulfilled everything he said. He brought them into possession
of Canaan. Moses couldn't do it through his law. But Joshua,
whose name means Jesus, Jehovah says today God's done everything
he said he'd do. The word typically is exactly
what our Savior said when he cried from the cross, it is finished. Now Paul clearly asserts this,
that Israel after the flesh is not true Israel. God cut off
the natural seed to bring in the greater spiritual seed, the
Israel of God. That holy nation, that royal
priesthood of saint sinners who live by the rule of the gospel,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Now here
in Galatians chapter three, God the Holy Spirit calls Abraham
the father of all them that believe. And he uses Abraham to set before
us clear identifying marks by which God's Israel is known in
this world. Two of them are given in verses
six and seven. First Paul asserts that Abraham
was justified by faith apart from any works of his own. Abraham believed God and it was
accounted imputed to him for righteousness. This was done
before he was circumcised, before he had done anything. This was
done because he believed God. The object of his faith was Jesus
Christ, just as he is the object of our faith. His faith in Christ
did not justify him, but his believing on Christ who was to
come, through whom salvation would come to him and to all
the nations of the earth, his trust in Christ alone as his
Redeemer and Savior, that justified him and he received that justification
without doing a thing. Believing God, that's how all
God's Israel come to him. on the ground of Christ's finished
work, trusting God's darling Son in His perfect obedience,
and trusting Him, receiving all the blessings of free salvation
and grace by faith in Him. Faith is not the means of justification. Faith is the channel through
which we receive justification. Faith is the hand that embraces
justification. Faith takes from God this gift
with joy, believing Him, now I am justified. And then the
Apostle declares in verse 7, Know ye therefore that they which
are of faith, those who believe Christ, the same, are the children
of Abraham. You mean physical lineage guarantees
no spiritual blessing to the Jews? None at all. None at all. They've been given greater light.
They've been given greater opportunity, greater privilege than any people
in the earth. And they had those things for
2,000 years and had them alone and despised them. But being
the physical descendants of Abraham was of absolutely no spiritual
benefit and it still isn't. You remember when the Jews, the
Sadducees and the Pharisees came to be baptized to John in Matthew
chapter 3? John said to them, think not
to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father, for
God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Being the physical descendants
of Abraham, was no guarantee of anything to the Jews. And
being the physical descendants of godly, believing parents is
no guarantee of anything to anyone. Our Lord tells us, as many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on his name, which were born not of blood, nor the will of
the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God. And you saw Michelle
sitting out here a few minutes ago. You've got that darling
two children God's given you. You and your husband believe
God. Mama and daddy's mama and daddy believe God. That doesn't
guarantee anything to those children. Nothing. Nothing. Well, I had
a preacher claiming to believe grace one time. I went to school
with him, know him well. He said to me, I believe my children
have a better chance if they've got one foot up toward God. I
said, what on earth do you think you're saying? Somehow, coming
from your loins, that gives them an advantage with God? Man, I
know what's in your loins, that's what's in mine. No. But what hope do we have for
our children? The same as we have for the newborn baby in
the deepest, darkest, groveling hut born this hour in New Guinea. The same hope. What is it? Mercy. Free, sovereign mercy. What do we do with our children?
We commit them to our God. Knowing that the judge of all
the earth must do right. And whatever he does with our
children is right. Whether he deals with them in
judgment because they deserve it, or in mercy because of his
goodness. It is right. So I can't live
with that. If you ever meet God, you'll
find out that's the only way you can live. The only way you
can live. Spiritual blessings, all of them,
are in Christ. Nowhere else. The gospel preached
to Abraham, we're told in verses 8 and 9, that gospel that Abraham
believed, is that Jesus Christ, that one who is the woman seed,
God promised Adam back in Genesis 3.15, who would crush the serpent's
head, he's coming and he's coming through my physical loins into
this world and he's going to save his people out of all the
nations of the earth. Abraham said, I believe that.
I believe that. Christ was revealed to Abraham.
No, he didn't have all the fullness of the revelation of Holy Scripture,
otherwise there wouldn't be the need for the full revelation
of Scripture. But he knew Christ. Abraham rejoiced to see my day
and was glad. When he took his son Isaac up
to Mount Moriah, do you know what that man was doing? How
could he possibly? Take his son, his only son. He had another one. No, he didn't.
I've already told you. Ishmael wasn't his. Ishmael wasn't a
child of promise. Ishmael was a child of flesh.
He took his only son, whom he dearly loved. That son, in whom
he knew, by whom he knew, Christ, the Redeemer, must come into
this world. God said, sacrifice him. Take
him up there and kill him. How could he do that? If I sacrifice
that boy, that's going to thwart everything. That's going to destroy
God's purpose. That's going to destroy the possibility
of redemption. That's going to destroy the possibility
of God's promise being fulfilled. Abraham believed God, he didn't
doubt Him. And he went up to Moriah, believing
God. and sacrificed his son to him,
being fully persuaded that he who made the promise could and
would raise his son from the dead, that he himself might come
a lamb for sacrifice to make atonement for sin. Verse nine,
so then they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
God's people are a people who believe Him. And all who believe
Him are chosen in Him. They were redeemed in Him. They
are clothed with His righteousness. They are His sheep. He is their
shepherd. They belong to one fold. They
are one people blessed with faithful Abraham. And look at verse 10.
Paul says, for as many as are the works of the law are under
the curse. For it is written, Cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified
by the works of the law in the sight of God is evident. For
the just shall live by faith. Now don't forget the next word.
And the law is not a faith. You mean you can't mix law and
faith at all? You got it. That didn't take
much explanation, did it? The law is not a faith. No, no. The man that doeth them shall
live by them. Believers do not live by the
rule of law, but by the rule of faith. Would to God I can halfway believe
what I'm telling you and act like it. We all want to revert to law
when we don't see things going our way. Folks aren't coming
to church like they should. Well, if your Savior would, that's
law. That's law. Folks aren't giving
like they should. Well, if your Savior would, get
the Lord, whip him, and they'll start giving good. I don't care
if you take the law and beat them to death until they're willing
to sacrifice and give everything they have right down to the socks
off their feet. They haven't given anything.
Because law obedience is no obedience. No obedience. You want to worship
God? Come worship Him. Because you
want to. You want to give a little something?
Come give what you can because you want to. You want to do something
for Christ? Do so because you want to. But
you're not going to find the whip of the law here. God's children
don't live by law. They live by faith. Now, look
at verse 13. These same children have this
blessing from Abraham because they've been redeemed. Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. For it is written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Oh, what a blessed,
clear statement of particular effectual redemption. Christ's
object in redemption is us. It is that he redeemed us for
this purpose, that he might give us the blessing of Abraham. Look at verse 14. He was made a curse for us, for
it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. That,
for this purpose, that the blessing of Abraham, what's that? The
promise of the Spirit, what's that? Salvation, faith in Christ,
life eternal. That eternal life might come
on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ our Lord. Now, turn quickly
to Isaiah 45, and I'll wrap this up. I'll wrap this up. But Brother Don, aren't there
others who are yet to be saved? Oh yeah, yeah. There is still
a remnant according to the election of grace. God declares a remnant
shall be saved, scattered in all the earth. I started preparing this message
last week and various times through the week when other thoughts
haven't interrupted my mind, I keep thinking about the access
God's given us to the ear of people around the world. I told
you many times years ago, God sent folks to the moon, just
so somebody would develop a little cassette tape and we'd send the
gospel around the world for 45 cents. He sent folks to the moon so
we'd have something like the internet and preach the gospel
to the whole world. To the whole world. Imagine that,
how come? Because somewhere over in Baghdad,
there's somebody risking his life to hear the message you're
hearing tonight. Because somewhere in Tehran,
there's somebody who regularly risks his life to hear the message
you're hearing tonight. Somewhere in China, somewhere
in the United Arab Emirates, all of us, so that you hear the
free grace of God. How come? Because all Israel
shall be saved. Scattered in all the corners
of the earth, north, south, east, and west. And the only reason
those nations exist, as with all other nations, is because
God has a people of whom he says I am the God the Lord God Jehovah
God of the Hebrews and Pharaoh is not only going to let them
go he's going to provide them with everything they need to
go along the way they shall spoil the Egyptians
according to God's word now look at what he says Isaiah 45 17 Those other folks, they'll perish
because their worship is vital as it says in verse 16. But,
but, oh thank God for that word that speaks of sovereign intervening
grace. Israel! The Hebrews, those people
who come from over yonder, those people who are just passing over
this chasm called time. Those people who are going over
yonder. Israel shall be saved. That sounds like an absolute
declaration, doesn't it? Israel shall be saved. How? In
the Lord. Saved in Christ. How? with an everlasting salvation. My soul! What a word of grace! His salvation is everlasting
salvation. How come? Because it doesn't
depend on anybody or anything except Jehovah, God of the Hebrews. Now listen to what it says to
you, Hebrews. Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, never be put
to shame, never be brought to confusion. What's your hope?
Jehovah, God of the Hebrews. How do you hope to make it? Jehovah,
God of the Hebrews. How do you expect this thing
to endure forever? Jehovah, God of the Hebrews. You shall never
be ashamed nor confounded, world without end. My soul. What a sweet, blessed,
soul-cheering promise. What an encouraging word to us
with regard to all God's elect for whom we labor and preach
the gospel. Brother Don, I sure would like
to find my place among them. Would you? Would you? Look at
verse 22. Jehovah God of the Hebrews says
look unto me quit looking around you and quit
looking in you be you saved all the ends of
the earth for I am God and there is none else Happy art thou, O Israel, who
is likened to thee, O people saved of the Lord. You may meet
with many troubles on your way to glory, but you'll survive
them. You may be tossed about in the
tippest of many waters, but you'll not be harmed by them. You may
suffer the loss of all earthly comfort, but God's word will
not be broken. You may fall countless times,
but God's mercy is sure. This is God's word. Israel shall
be saved in the Lord with everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed
nor confounded, world without end. Why? Because the Lord God
himself declares, I am the Lord. Jehovah. God of the Hebrews. God of the Hebrews. And nobody
else is God, but I'm yours. Little while we'll send you away
to where God only knows with comfort. Cause he's the God of
the Hebrews. He's the God of the Hebrews.
He's the God of the Hebrews. He's by God. Amen. Let's sing Fade, Fade, Eternal
Joy. 266.