Paul's scripture, we know, was
given by inspiration of God. Holy men of old, focused, they
were moved and driven by God. Here in Isaiah 11 this evening,
I want to bring the message from verse 1, hope to get down to
verse 10. I'm entitling the message from
what is said there in verse 1. THE BRANCH OF THE LORD. THE BRANCH
OF THE LORD. YOU REMEMBER IN JOHN CHAPTER
15 THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS CALLED THE TRUE VINE. THE TRUE VINE. AND WE ARE BRANCHES IN THAT TRUE
VINE. BUT HERE HE'S THE BRANCH. The
branch shall grow out of this house of David, out of David. He's called in Jeremiah, that
is the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's what this scripture's
about. To him give all the prophets witness. Jeremiah writes, behold
the days come, saith the Lord, Jeremiah 23, I'll just read it
to you, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. and a king shall reign and prosper
and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. His name
shall be called the Lord our righteousness. And remember when
you read over in Jeremiah 33, it says that she shall be called
the Lord our righteousness. Now, when a woman marries a man,
she takes his name. That's the way it normally works.
AND THE BRIDE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BEING MARRIED TO HIM WE
WEAR HIS NAME. HE IS THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND THAT'S OUR NAME TOO. SHE SHALL BE CALLED THE LORD
OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS MADE UNTO US
RIGHTEOUSNESS. YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. WE NOT
ONLY NEED OUR SIN COMPLETELY REMOVED AND REMITTED. THAT'S
GOOD. That's needful. But we also must
be made righteous in God's sight. And we have that fully given
to us, freely imputed to us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, verse 1 and 2, Isaiah 11, and
there shall come, There shall come, no doubts about it. This
is written at least 700 years before the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ when God was manifest in the flesh to put away our
sin. There shall come forth out of
the stem of Jesse, Jesse's David's father, King David, in a branch
shall grow out of his root, and the spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom, understanding,
the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, he is the mighty God.
The spirit of knowledge, he knows all things. And of the fear of
the Lord. Now we've seen in our study all
through the book of Isaiah. Isaiah, the prophet of the Lord,
has told us and prophesied about the coming of the Messiah. In Isaiah 7, it talks about the
virgin shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
Emmanuel, which we know means God with us. That's just over
here in Isaiah 7. And then we had a few weeks ago
in Isaiah 9, verse 6, where it talks about the child shall be
born, and the son shall be given, remember? The child born, son
of man, the son given, God the son in his name, and the government
on his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, and he is the Prince
of Peace. Here in Isaiah 11, the prophet
declares unto us, that the Lord Jesus Christ in his humanity,
if you trace his lineage back all the way back to Jesse, David
and Jesse. Dying Jacob said this when he
blessed those 12 boys. Genesis 49, he declared the Messiah
would come through the tribe of Judah. That was Jesse's tribe. The scepter shall not depart
from Judah till Shiloh come, and that's the son of peace.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the king of peace, king of righteousness. Now, there shall come forth out
of the rod a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall
grow out of his root. The Lord Jesus Christ, in his
humanity, the body that was prepared for him to use, to dwell in,
and to inhabit, to accomplish our salvation as a God-man mediator,
came through David's family. Now, you remember from our study
in Romans chapter one, that Paul said he was separated unto the
gospel of God, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, who was the
son of David, made of the house of David, but declared to be
the son of God. He's not made the son of God.
He's made from the house of David. He's declared to be the son of
God. THAT'S WHAT HE IS. IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, IN CHAPTER
2, AND CHAPTER 13, BOTH THOSE SERMONS TELL US ABOUT THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF DAVID BEING CALLED THE SON OF GOD. I LIKE THE POSITIVE LANGUAGE
OF SCRIPTURE, DON'T YOU? THERE SHALL COME. GOD SAYS, I
WILL AND YOU SHALL. THERE SHALL COME FORTH OUT OF
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. ALL THE DECREES OF GOD SHALL
COME TO PASS, GOD SHALL SEND FORTH HIS SON. YOU REMEMBER PSALM
2? GOD SAID, I'VE SET MY KING, MY
KING, KING OF KINGS, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST UPON MY HOLY HILL,
ZION. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS
HUMANITY HAD A MEAGER BEGINNING, A ROD out of a stem, which means
a twig or a sprig, a twig out of the rod, the rod out of a
stem. The Lord Jesus Christ in his
humanity was born very low, lowly servant. Both Joseph, his foster
father, and Mary, his earthly mother, were from the tribe of
Judah, house of Jesse, family of David. You can trace both
their lineages back, Joseph and Mary. The Lord Jesus Christ took
upon himself, he thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
right? But he took upon him the form
of a servant and was made in a likeness of men. MAN LIKE UNTO
US WITHOUT SIN. THAT'S WHY HE WAS VIRGIN-BORN. HE'S CALLED IN ISAIAH 53, DON'T
TURN, LET ME READ IT TO YOU, YOU'RE MOST FAMILIAR WITH IT.
HE SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM AS A TENDER PLANT and as a root,
as a dry ground. He had no form, nor comeliness. When we see him, there's no beauty
that we should desire him." Here's a baby born in a cow stable,
in a cow trough, because they had no influence to get a room.
There was no rooms in Bethlehem. And here's the one who created
all things by the word of his power. He's an infant in his
humanity, one day old. That's a miracle. That's amazing. Great is the mystery of God. God was manifest in the flesh. And then it says a branch shall
grow out of his roots. He is called a fruitful branch. Now I'll have you turn to this
one because it's close by. Back a couple pages, Isaiah four. Isaiah four verse two. In that day shall the branch
of the Lord be beautiful. HE'S A BEAUTIFUL BRANCH, AND
GLORIOUS, AND THE FRUIT OF THE EARTH SHALL BE EXCELLENT AND
COMELY FOR THEM THAT ARE ESCAPED OF ISRAEL. HE IS THE BEAUTIFUL
BRANCH, AND BECAUSE HE IS BEAUTIFUL, AND BECAUSE WE COME OUT OF HIM,
WE ARE BEAUTIFUL IN HIM, IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE IS THE
TRUE VINE. We are the branches. He is the
true vine, and we are the branches. Let me read this to you. John
15, I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in
me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. But without
me, you can do nothing. We're only fruitful because he
has all life, salvation, and nourishment comes from him. IN
HIM WAS ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GOD DEAD BODILY, AND WE'RE COMPLETE
IN HIM. HE IS THAT FRUITFUL, FRUITFUL
BRANCH. IN REVELATION 22, WHEN THE BOOK
CLOSES, I, JESUS, HAVE SENT MY ANGEL TO TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE
THINGS IN THE CHURCHES. I AM THE ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF
DAVID, THE BRIGHT AND THE MORNING STAR. THAT'S HIS REAL HUMANITY
APART FROM SIN. but he was a real man, but he
never stopped being God. When he took humanity to himself,
he never stopped being God. That's why he said, when you've
seen me, you've seen the father. I am my father, we are one. We
are one. Now, verse two and three, the
spirit of the Lord, we have a further description of the one who is
the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, the spirit of the Lord. Jehovah
God Almighty shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom, understanding,
the spirit of counsel, and might, the spirit of knowledge, and
the fear of the Lord. Verse two, and shall make him
of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. He shall not
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the
hearing of his ear, but with righteousness shall he judge
the poor. Remember what the Lord said to
Samuel, men look on the outward countenance, God looks on the
heart. He said to those Pharisees, you
honor me with your lips, but he said, I know your heart. THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST IS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO EXECUTE ALL OF HIS
COVENANT OFFICES, PROPHET, PRIEST, AND KING. HE'S THE ANOINTED OF
GOD IN ALL OF HIS OFFICES. THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL
REST OR ABIDE UPON HIM. Remember in John chapter three,
where the forerunner of the Lord Jesus Christ, John the Baptist
said, he has the spirit of God upon him without measure. Now
we have the spirit of God, but in measure, he had a limitless
amount of the anointing of the spirit of God upon him, that
is the God-man mediator. In Isaiah 61, we read, over there in Luke four, but
again, he says this in Isaiah 61, verse one, if you want to
look there. The spirit of the Lord God is
upon me because he has anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening
of the prisons to them that are bound. TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE
YEAR OF THE LORD IN THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD, TO COMFORT
ALL THEM THAT MOURN, THEY SHALL BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, VERSE 3, THAT HE MAY BE GLORIFIED. THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE IN ALL
THAT GOD DOES, HIS GLORY. NOW, LET'S LOOK AT THESE FEW
THINGS HERE. IT SAYS IN VERSE 2 AND 3, THE
SPIRIT OF WISDOM. The spirit of wisdom and understanding
shall be upon him. He has wisdom that's unlimited. He is the only wise God, our
Savior. In Him are hid all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge, Colossians 2 says. Colossians 1 also says,
in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He is
the wise and skilled Savior. who knows how to save his people.
He is a wise and skilled redeemer. He knows how to get the job done. He has all of the qualification,
education, power, wisdom, and understanding to accomplish the
redemption of God's people. Now, if you're gonna go on a
job, if you're gonna show up to a job on a job site, in a
construction site, And they have these different trades that have
to, you have to be qualified. You just don't show up and say,
well, I'm a welder. Well, you have to be qualified
for that job. And if you're qualified for that
job, you'll probably get hired and you'll probably be able to
perform your task. because you're trained in it,
you have wisdom, you have knowledge, you have skill, and you're understanding.
That pales in comparison compared to the qualifications the Lord
Jesus Christ has. He's well qualified to obtain
for us eternal redemption. He's well qualified to save all
his people from their sin. This is the one that is our Savior. He knows how to get the job done.
He said, I must be about my father's business. He said, my meat is
to do the will of him that sent me in to finish his work. And
then on Calvary 3, he said, it's done, well done. How do we know
he accomplished all God's purpose? When he by himself purged our
sin, he sat down on the right hand of God, a place of acceptance,
a place of love, a place of power. This is the one who is our Savior.
The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. He has all wisdom. He has all understanding. We
don't have any understanding, not comparatively speaking to
his understanding. He possesses all knowledge, all
understanding of all things. He has the spirit of wisdom.
He's a wise God, spirit of understanding. It says here the spirit of counsel
and might, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of understanding.
Our blessed Savior has perfect knowledge of all things. He knows
all the terms of the covenant of grace and he knows how to
perfectly execute them to provide all things for us in salvation. The spirit of counsel shall rest
upon him. We studied Isaiah 9, where it
says, he is the mighty counselor, wonderful counselor of the mighty
God. He reveals unto us as the counselor,
as the prophet, he reveals unto us the way of salvation. HE HID
THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT, AND REVEALED THEM UNTO
HIS CHILDREN, EVEN SO, FATHER, FOR SO IT SEEMS GOOD IN HIS SIGHT. HE IS THE MIGHTY COUNSELOR. HE HAS ALL WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.
YOU SHOULD SEEK COUNSEL IN HIM, IN HIS WORD, CALLING UPON THE
NAME OF THE LORD. AND THEN HE SAID THE SPIRIT OF
MIGHT the spirit of might, he is the almighty God. He said, all power is given to
me in heaven and earth. Now as God, he possesses all
power, but he's talking there about in his office work as mediator. God had given him all power over
all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as the
father had given to him. I'm thankful he's got all power
to save. because that's what it takes
to save sinners like you, like me. It takes power. How much
power does it take to raise a dead man from the grave? I'm helpless. You are too. We could put a thousand
people together, a thousand strong men. We couldn't raise a man
from the dead. We have no power. We're just
maggots, grasshoppers. He has all power. And then the
ability that we have, he gives it to us. He has all power to
save, for he's able to save to the uttermost all that come to
God by him. He has the spirit of all knowledge.
KNOWLEDGE. HE KNOWS THE HEARTS OF ALL MEN,
FOR HE'S OMNISCIENT. HE'S THE ALL-KNOWING LORD, KNOWN
UNTO GOD FOR ALL OF HIS WORKS FROM THE BEGINNING. HE KNOWS
ALL THINGS. YOU CAN'T GET ANYTHING OVER ON
HIM. DAVID SAID THIS IN ANOTHER PSALM,
IN PSALM 139, O LORD, THOU HAST SEARCHED ME AND KNOWN ME. Thou
knowest my down cities, my uprising. Thou understandest my thoughts
afar off. Thou compest my path. My lying down are acquainted
with all my ways. For there is not a word in my
tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it all together. He has all knowledge. He knows
our hearts. This is a God with whom we have
to do all things are naked and open unto the God with whom we
have to do. And then it says the spirit of
the fear of the Lord and the fear of the Lord. He has the
spirit of knowledge and the spirit of the fear of the Lord. Hmm. Jehovah his father, the spirit
of Jehovah his father shall rest upon him as a God-man mediator. The Lord Jesus Christ in his
real humanity had the highest regard and esteem for the holy
will of God. He said, Lord, not my will, but
thy will be done. Listen to scripture, he is the
only man Let me give you this first, and I'll quote this scripture
from Hebrews 5. He's the only man who worshiped
God with all of his heart. The only one. Who in a day of his flesh, when
he had offered up prayers and supplication with strong crying
and tears, and that he was able to save him from death, and he
was heard in that he feared the Lord. He's the only one who feared
the Lord perfectly. He's the only one who worshiped
God with all his soul, mind, and strength. We don't come near
close to it, not at all. That's our desire. Our worship is only acceptable
in Christ, because we're accepted in the beloved. Verse three and
four, he shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the Lord, And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek
of the earth. Blessed are the meek, they shall
inherit the kingdom of God, made humbled in his sight by his grace. He shall smite the earth with
the rod of his mouth, His word is quick and powerful, sharper
than any two-edged sword. And with his breath of his lips,
he shall slay the wicked. When he speaks, it done. When
he commands, it stands fast. He said, I've spoken it. I'll
bring it to pass. I've purposed it. I will do it.
His word will not return to him void. He should be very exact
in the administration of his government. THE EXERCISE OF HIS
POWER THAT'S COMMITTED TO HIM, ALL OF HIS ACTS OF HIS GOVERNMENT
ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALL TOGETHER. OF HIS GOVERNMENT THERE SHALL
BE NO END. IT WILL NEVER INCREASE BECAUSE
HE HAS ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND EARTH. YOU REMEMBER FROM THE
WORD OF A PAGAN KING WHO WAS TAUGHT WHO GOD IS, HE SAID ALL
THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE REPUTED AS NOTHING. and he
doeth according to his will in the army of heaven among the
habitants of his earth and none can stay his hand or none can
say to him lord god almighty what doest thou he has all power
whatsoever the lord pleased that's what he did in heaven earth see
in all deep places now that word quick understanding that means
he has a keen sense of smell notice the marginal reference
on the word quick understanding of scent or smell. He has a keen sense of smell. Here's what I get from that.
He can smell a phony. He can smell a phony. The Lord
has a sharp and discerning spirit. Remember those Pharisees, they
thought they were so pious and righteous, and the Lord said,
woe unto you Pharisees, woe unto you Pharisees. You clean the
outside of the cup, but within you're full of extortion and
excess. He said, you're like whited sepulchers. You look pretty good on the outside,
but within you're full of what? Dead man's bones. He knows all things about us. His judgments and reproving and
rebuke are with righteousness. Look at verse four. But with
righteousness shall he judge the poor. His judgments are not
by outward appearance, but with equity. And that word means impartiality
or fairness. That is, as we studied in Acts
chapter 10, Peter said to Cornelius in his house, the Lord is no
respecter of person. Jew or Gentile, there is no difference.
We've all sinned to come short of the glory of the Lord. The
Lord will justly save, now listen to this statement. The Lord will
justly save or justly condemn every sinner justly saved or
condemn every sinner justly. He's a just God and Savior, but
he's also just when he justifies the ungodly. He will justly save
or condemn every sinner. The wages of sin is death, the
gift of God is eternal life. Psalm 89 says, justice and judgment
are the habitation of his throne. THE POOR AND MEEK, THAT IS, THE
NEEDY SINNER, HE WILL JUSTLY SAVE THEM BY HIS GRACE. HE'S
NIGH THEM OF A BROKEN HEART, THE POOR AND NEEDY. DAVID SAYS
OVER AND OVER, I'M POOR AND NEEDY, YET THE LORD THINKETH UPON ME.
THE POOR AND NEEDY, HE WILL JUDGE THEM WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND
SAVE THEM BY HIS GRACE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. HE DIDN'T COME TO
CALL THE RIGHTEOUS SINNERS TO REPENTANCE. THE WILD, THE WICKED,
THE PROUD SINNER, that will not bow will be justly condemned
by his righteous justice. That's what it says there. He
shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the
breath of his lips he shall slay them and do so justly. THEY'LL GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY
DESERVE. I DON'T WANT WHAT I DESERVE.
WHAT I DESERVE IS DEATH. I DON'T WANT WHAT I DESERVE.
I BEG FOR MERCY ON THE GROUND OF CHRIST CRUCIFIED. HE SHALL
SLAY THE WICKED. VERSE 5, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL
BE THE GIRDLE OF HIS LOINS. I LOVE THESE TWO THINGS, RIGHTEOUSNESS,
shall be the girdle of his loins. He has on the breastplate of
righteousness. He's wrapped up in the Lord.
He is the Lord, our righteousness. And the faithfulness is the girdle
of his reins. Every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess he's Lord through the glory of God the
Father. His enemies will be subdued by
his power, And one day they will bow and confess his Lord to the
glory of God the Father. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? Yes, he will. He always has,
and he always will. And whatever he does is right. He doesn't ask us. Whatever he
does is right. And he does all things and works
all things after the counsel of his own will. He is the king
of kings, and we know that he is the king of righteousness
that operates in all things in absolute holiness. OF HIM, AND
THROUGH HIM, AND TO HIM ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY BOTH
NOW AND FOREVER. HE IS THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, THE
RIGHTEOUS KING. HE IS THE LORD, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
HE'S MADE UNTO US, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HE'S OUR FAITHFULNESS. HE'S
THE FAITHFUL KING. OUR SALVATION IS BASED UPON HIS
FAITHFULNESS. OUR SALVATION IS NOT BASED UPON
OUR FAITHFULNESS. Now I'm all in on faithfulness.
We ought to be as faithful as we can be. But thank God our
salvation is not based upon our faithfulness. Peter never would
have made it. Peter never would have made it.
I don't know the man. You were with him. We saw you
with him. I don't know him. You sure? Peter, remember, denied
him three times. And yet the Lord says to him,
Peter, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God,
believe also in me. I'm the faithful one. Your salvation
is based upon my faithfulness, not yours. I'm glad it's that
way. Now, verse 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10,
and I'll move through this quickly. What we have here, God's grace
sent into the lives of His people produces peace. The Spirit of
the Lord, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, meekness. Where the Prince of Peace reigns,
there is peace. Being justified by faith, we
have peace with God. WHAT A CHANGE IS EXPERIENCED
WHEN THE PRINCE OF PEACE INVADES YOUR HEART, MIND, AND AFFECTION.
THAT'S WHAT'S BEING DESCRIBED HERE WHEN GOD GIVES SALVATION
TO A SINNER. BY NATURE HE'S A WOLF. BY THE
GRACE OF GOD, HE'S MADE A LAMB. He has that old nature still,
but thank God he's had the new nature given in the new birth. And there's a warfare there.
And the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and
the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child
shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall feed
their young one, shall lie down together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox. Lions don't naturally eat straw,
do they? They eat ox. But by the grace
of God, he changes our appetite, our desire, and he causes us
to seek the green pastures of his word. And the sucking child,
those newborn babes in Christ, they are kept by the power of
God. They shall play on the hole of a snake. and a weaned child
shall put his hand to a cockless den, and they shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain." You can't destroy the purpose
of God. God said, I've purposed it, I've
spoken it, I'll do it. Whatsoever the Lord is pleased
to do, that's what he does, and nothing can be put to it, nothing
can be taken from it. God doeth it that men should
fear before him. For the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of the Lord. This is eternal life. Our Lord
said that you might know thee the only true God, Jesus Christ,
whom he has sent. He gives us the knowledge of
himself. You remember what Paul said?
He said, I know whom I have believed. I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED.
I'M PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE. HE IS ABLE. HE GIVES US THAT
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. THE GLORY OF THE GOD SHINED IN
THE FACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA. AND IN THAT DAY, VERSE 10, THERE
SHALL BE, THERE SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE WHICH SHALL STAND FOR
A SIGN an emblem, a banner of the people to which shall the
Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious. He gets all honor
and glory in all things that he does. Newborn babes in Christ
shall not be harmed nor destroyed by the wild and trickery of the
devil or by false teachers. They cannot be deceived. THE
ELECTED GOD CANNOT BE DECEIVED. WE'RE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD.
BELIEVERS DWELL IN HARMONY, IN UNITY, IN GOD'S HOLY MOUNTAIN
THAT IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND WE'RE SAFE IN HIM. THE MEANS
THE LORD USES TO SAVE AND SWEETEN AND SOFTEN HARD-HEARTED SINNERS
IS THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD BECAUSE WE KNOW HIM, BECAUSE
WE LOVE HIM, BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM, WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER. IN
THAT DAY OF GRACE, VERSE 10, SALVATION AND MERCY FROM THE
LORD, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AS THE BANNER
OF TRUTH, THE STANDARD OF TRUTH THAT HIS PEOPLE HOLD FORTH. THAT IS THE GOSPEL. AND IN THAT
DAY, ISAIAH USES THAT STATEMENT A LOT. IN THAT DAY, THE DAY OF
HIS GRACE, THE DAY OF HIS POWER, THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN
THE DAY OF HIS POWER. THERE SHALL BE THE ROOT OF JESSE,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND HE IS OUR BANNER. SINNERS SHALL
SEEK HIM BY HIS GRACE, SINNERS SHALL BE BROUGHT TO TRUST THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND SINNERS SHALL FIND GLORIOUS REST, AND
HIS REST shall be glory. We rest in him. He said, come
unto me, all ye that labor and laden, I will give you rest,
and in him shall Gentiles trust. That verse is quoted in Romans
15, 12, and Paul adds to that, Now the God of peace, the God
of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you
may abound in hope through the power of God, the Holy Spirit. Well, that's a fit description
of our blessed Savior. You can go on in chapter 12,
and in that day, thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee. In that day of salvation, behold,
God is my salvation. I will trust and be not afraid,
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength, my song. He has become my salvation. Therefore, with joy shall you
draw water out of the wells of salvation.