If you still have your place in Isaiah chapter 12, I want to look at these two verses of scripture this morning. Isaiah 12. In that day, thou shalt say, O Lord, I'll praise thee. Though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me in that day.

This phrase is used a number of times in scripture, and it indicates a particular time. in that day, a day of divine visitation, a time when the Lord is pleased to reveal himself to his people in Christ, in grace, and in mercy.

Several days mentioned in God's word. Listen to just a few of these.

One is a day of conviction. Isaiah wrote of this, in Isaiah 2 it says, enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for the fear of the Lord and for his glory and his majesty. The lofty looks of man are gonna be humbled. The haughtiness of man bowed down. And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

We read of a day of revelation, a day in which Christ is revealed. Remember Simeon, there he was in the temple. I wonder sometimes how long he had been in the temple, how many days he had been in that temple. And over there in Luke 2, it says that he came on this particular day by the Spirit. into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him after the manner of the law, he took him up in his arms. Can you just picture that? He took him up in his arms, and he blessed God. And he said, Lord, Master, Savior, Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." Christ revealed to him, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The day in which the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed to one of his chosen saints. Wouldn't we rejoice if today was that day when God's pleased and mercy to open the eyes of a blind sinner and cause them to see the Lord Jesus Christ? For a believer to cry that out, mine eyes have seen thy salvation.

We read of a day of assurance. In, turn to Isaiah 26, just turn over a few pages. Look at beginning with verse one. Verse one of Isaiah 26, it says, in that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord, Forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

A day when rest and peace and joy settles upon the heart and upon the mind. A day when we're able to look to Him with complete confidence, not to ourselves, but to him, to Christ and Christ alone. A day when the gospel is revealed, the day of the Lord Jesus Christ, the day of salvation, the day when he puts a new song in our mouth and joy in the hearts of his people.

In Luke 19, our Lord, he entered in, passed through Jericho. And you all remember that story. There was a man there named Zacchaeus. And on that day, that particular day, when the Lord was passing through, Zacchaeus, sought to see him. That's what scripture says. Zacchaeus sought to see Jesus, who he was. I don't know if it was just a natural curiosity. I don't know what it was that brought him there that day. Actually, we do know, don't we? The Lord crossed his path. The Lord drew him to himself. He sought to see Jesus, but he was little of stature. Wasn't he fortunate that there was a sycamore tree there, right in the way? And he climbed up in that tree and he waited. He climbed up in that tree to see Him. And in Luke 19.5, God's Word declares, when the Lord Jesus Christ came to the place. This is no accident, is it? The place. That place determined from before the foundation of the world. He came to the place. He wasn't surprised when he looked up and saw Zacchaeus, was he? Zacchaeus was probably surprised that the Lord would take notice of him. The Lord knew where he was and the Lord looked up and he saw him. And he said to him, Zacchaeus, make haste. Don't linger. Don't put this off any longer. Make haste and come down, for today I must abide at your house. He didn't invite him, did he? That's a command, isn't it? Make haste. Come down. Today I must abide in thy house."

And what did Zacchaeus do? He made haste, didn't he? He made haste and he came down and he received him joyfully. Everybody else, when they saw it, they murmured. They found fault. They said this. They said, this man is going to be guest with a man that's a sinner. Does that cause you to rejoice that he would be guest to a sinner? I tell you, if we know anything of ourselves, we rejoice, don't we? That he would make haste and come down to come to us.

And Zacchaeus, he He stood. Apparently, when he came down, he must have fell at the Lord's feet, didn't he? Here we read, he stood, and he said, this fellow's a changed man. He's a new man. Christ now dwells in his heart. And he said, half my goods I give to the poor. And if I've taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore to him fourfold. Listen, this is a day of divine visitation, isn't it? The Lord said to him, this day, this day is salvation come to thy house. For as much as he also is a son of Abraham, for the son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Turn with me to 2 Corinthians. Second Corinthians, chapter six. Look at verse two. For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I Succored thee, behold, now. When? Now. Now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Our text we read in that day. In that day. Today. Today, if you would hear his voice, harden not your heart as in the provocation. Now is the accepted time. It's the time of God's mercy and grace to men in Christ Jesus. Now, now is the day of salvation.

Listen, the work of salvation, it's done. It's complete. It's finished. Righteousness, by the work of Christ, righteousness has been brought in. God is reconciled. All that He purposed, all that He promised, all that He's pictured throughout the Word of God, it's all fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. In that day. Thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise Thee. He is worthy, worthy of all praise, worthy of all adoration.

Well, let's read on in our text here again in Isaiah 12, verse 1. He says, though thou wast angry with me. The prophet said you were angry with me. There was a time when you were angry with me. Now that may sound strange to some that God could be angry with a man. The religion of this world goes around and says things like God loves everybody. But according to the word of God, not what man says, but what God's word says. David wrote this in Psalm 7 verse 11. He said, God judgeth the righteous. And God is angry with the wicked every day. His anger is kindled against sin. Paul writing to the Ephesians, he says, wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, and the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past. In the lust of the flesh, in fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

From conception. Children of wrath. God's wrath. Our flesh is corrupt. Our affection is corrupt. Our understanding, corrupt. Our will, corrupt. Every bit of us. From the sole of the foot to the top of the head. Scripture says that we love darkness rather than light. And God is angry. He's angry with the wicked. That's what the Word says. He hates all the workers of iniquity. And the wrath and judgment of God has been upon man ever since Adam fell. And for just one reason. Sin. Our sin.

And that's difficult to, the Lord's anger is difficult to explain. We have difficulty understanding that. Especially given like the scripture says that he has loved us with an everlasting love. He declared this, he said, Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. Scripture says we're all the children of wrath, even as others. Scripture also says this, it says, wherefore remember that being in times past, Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision of the flesh made by hands, that at that time, at that time, you were without Christ. Aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel. Strangers from the covenant of promise. Having no hope. And without God in this world.

Angry with the wicked. And that's all of us by nature. God must and God will punish Sin. He's not going to wink at it. He's not going to say, well, that's... I kind of like that person a little bit better than some... God's holy. Do you still have Isaiah 12? In that day, I'll praise thee, though thou wast angry, and with every right to be angry. But then look what he says. Thine anger is turned away. God's anger is turned away. His anger, His wrath, turned away.

Turn over to 2 Corinthians 5. 2 Corinthians 5. Verse 17, God's anger turned away. Verse 17, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself." How? By Jesus Christ. And he hath given to us. He's reconciled to us and he's given us the ministry of reconciliation. To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." God was in Christ reconciling us to himself.

That word reconcile is mentioned a few times there, isn't it? In just those few verses. What does it mean to be reconciled? It means to be forgiven. To be reconciled is to be pardoned, to be justified from all sin. It's to change something from enmity to friendship, to receive one into favor. He's received us into His favor. Scripture says this, blessed, happy is the man to whom the Lord will not impute, will not charge sin.

I tell you, we don't have to think too long, do we? Think of our past. Think of your present, hmm? Our sin, our evil thoughts, our evil imagination, our evil attitude, our evil spirit, our evil world. And all of these, they might have been directed toward someone in particular, maybe a group. But all of these are sins against God. That's what David said. Remember that he said against thee. David had sinned against a number of people, hadn't he? But he said against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight.

And yet he's reconciled his people. He's pardoned us from our sin. He's forgiven us. He's justified us. He's removed the enmity, that which separated us, He has removed. And God's not angry anymore. His justice, His judgment, and His wrath, removed. And done so in a way that's consistent with His holy.

He doesn't cease to be holy. Enmity. Enmity. That which separated is removed and we've been reconciled to God. What does that bring? You ever been in enmity with somebody? And when that's removed, what do you have then? Peace, right? You have peace. Peace with God.

Listen, if I'm left in my sin, if I'm without Christ, I don't have peace with God. God's angry with the wicked. He that believeth not on the Son, the wrath of God abideth on him.

To be outside of Christ. Think just for a minute. Back there in the days of Noah, When that ark was built and God brought Noah and his family in the ark and he closed that door behind them, and the great fountains of the deep opened up and the rain began to fall, think what it was like outside of that ark. Judgment. Condemnation. We've seen the results of just a small little rain, you know, five or six inches of rain fall around here and makes a mess, right? Uproots trees and homes. Think what it was like outside that ark. It was nothing but death and destruction.

But inside the ark, inside the ark was peace. Inside that ark was safety. Inside that ark was hope, it was deliverance, right? To be reconciled is to have peace with God. To have peace in our hearts, to have God's peace upon us and in us. All by His work. All by His obedience. His perfect obedience. When He suffered and died, God's law was honored. God's, as He hung there on the cross, God's justice, God's wrath, it's satisfied. And now, there's peace. Peace between God and His elect.

He's reconciled us to Himself. He's the offended party. It's his law that was broken, and we're the ones that broke it. And his justice demands satisfaction. And yet we read, his anger is turned away. God's reconciled us to himself by the Lord Jesus Christ. Not by the law, not by religion, not by ordinances, not by ceremony, not by your morality, but by Christ. The work of Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Christ, we read it in Christ's stead. for Christ's sake, because of His substitutionary work. And if we read on in 2 Corinthians 5, there in verse 21, we're familiar with this passage, For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. In that one verse of Scripture, the gospel is declared. And men have went to great length to explain that verse of Scripture, to describe that verse of Scripture. I wished I could explain it. I can't explain to you any more than I can explain to you how God was made a man. But I know this. He was, right? The God of heaven was made a man. I believe that. I believe that. And I give thanks for it.

God was angry with me. My sin. And yet I read that his anger is turned away because my sin was laid on his son. God hath made him to be sin for us. He that knew no sin. Christ our Lord had no sin. He knew no sin. He did no sin. He was perfect before the law of God. But sin must be punished. That debt must be paid. Isaiah wrote this. He said, he was wounded. Why was he wounded? For my transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes. All that he endured, with his stripes, we are healed.

In 1 Peter 2, 24, God's word says, who his own self bear our sins. in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes we're healed. Christ bore our sins in his body on the cross that we might be justified, that we might be pardoned. that he might redeem us to himself. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Clothed in the very righteousness of his son.

I wish men would quit looking for things to debate. Quit looking for ways to convince another man they know something else that somebody else doesn't know, and just simply declare what God's Word says. Paul wrote this in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 17. He said, Christ sent me not to baptize, but for this one reason, to preach the gospel. to preach the word. Not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ be made of none effect. We take off chasing rabbits, we're gonna lose sight of what this word is all about. It's about him, it's about Christ.

The preaching of the cross is to them that perish Foolishness. But unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. The word. The gospel. He that hath what? The son hath life. And he that hath not the son. hath not life.

" Well, quickly back to our text, Isaiah 12, verse 2. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord Jehovah is my strength, my song, and he also has become my salvation.

Behold. Behold. We behold something, we put it up there for everybody to see, right? Just look. Behold. God is my salvation. He's my Savior. Christ, who is God, is my Savior. He is a just God and a Savior. He was appointed by the Father. He's that one provided in the covenant, that one promised in the Word, that one who was sent in the fullness of time. the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is the author of salvation. By his obedience, by his death, by his exaltation, he says, I'll trust. I will trust and not be afraid. I don't like being afraid. I'll not be afraid. I'll not be afraid for the Lord. The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. I'll trust in Him. What's he say here? I'll trust in Him. I'll trust in Him for all things. Everything that's required. Wisdom, He's wisdom. Righteousness, He's righteousness. Sanctification, He's sanctification. Redemption, He's redemption. He is all things, all in Christ. I'll rest confidently in Him. and believe that I am, listen, secure. Secure from wrath, secure from condemnation. I'll not be afraid. I'll not be afraid of sin. I'll not be afraid of Satan, of death, of hell, or the wrath to come. Because He, He has become my salvation. And He saved His people. saved us from the guilt of sin, saved us from the power of sin, saved us from the dominion of sin, saved us from the power of sin, the penalty of sin.

In light of my weakness, in light of my failure, in light of this flesh that we drag around, how can we have such confidence? How can we have such assurance? Because He, He is my salvation. He's my strength. He's my song. He is all. Behold, behold, God is my salvation. I'll trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength. in my song, and he also has become my salvation.

Oh, that he calls us to look, continually look to him.

All right. Mike, come lead us in a closing