Okay this evening I want to try
to do a study here in Isaiah 63. A lot of the old timers call
the prophecy of Isaiah the gospel according to Isaiah and it sure
is full of gospel writings but all of the prophets of old THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. ISAIAH 63, I'M ENTITLING THE
MESSAGE IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION THAT IS ASKED IN VERSE 1 WHERE
IT SAYS, WHO IS THIS? Who is this one who comes from
the land of the enemies, the land of Edom or Esau and Basra
in the south? Who is this with dyed garments,
this that is glorious in its apparel? Now, without question,
that is a fit description of our blessed Savior. Isaiah is
not asking this question out of ignorance, but rather out
of utter and overwhelming amazement. that our great and glorious Lord
God and Savior would undertake such a glorious redeeming work
on the behalf of vile, wretched, ungodly sinners who deserve nothing
but judgment for the wages of sin is death but. The gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Now, one of my favorite writers
that I love to read after, Robert Hawker, made this comment on this chapter.
NEVER WAS THERE A MORE GLORIOUS DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON AND
WORK OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THAN IS GIVEN HERE TO THE CHURCH
IN LANGUAGE OF PROPHECY SO MANY YEARS BEFORE THE COMING OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH ALL OUR SALVATION. ISAIAH WRITES 700 YEARS before
the Lord Jesus Christ was manifest in the flesh. But he writes with
such clarity. He writes with such definite
words to describe the person and work of our blessed Lord
Jesus Christ. Beginning at Moses and all the
prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the major and minor prophets,
all the prophets give witness to the person and work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. They tell about the salvation
that's of the Lord. I love that statement. The salvation
that is of the Lord. It's all of him, who he is and
what he's done for his covenant people. The gospel message is
not what we must do for him. THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS WHAT HE'S
DONE FOR US. THE DECLARATION OF THE GOSPEL
IS WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED FOR US. SALVATION DEPENDS TOTALLY
UPON HIM AND HIM ALONE. OUR SALVATION IS OF THE LORD,
ACCOMPLISHED BY HIM, APPLIED BY HIM, PURPOSED BY HIM, AND
SUSTAINED AND KEPT BY HIM. ALL OF GRACE. ALL OF GRACE. YOU CAN'T PREACH THAT TOO MUCH,
TOO OFTEN, TOO LONG, TOO LOUD, TOO HIGH. ALL OF GRACE. ALL OF
GRACE. ALL OF GRACE. NOW, CONSIDER ISAIAH'S
AMAZING QUESTION HERE FOR A MINUTE. AND THEN HE ANSWERS AS THE LORD
GIVES HIM THE WORDS, AND LET US PRAY THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS
WORD TO OUR UNDERSTANDING, THAT WE MIGHT REST IN THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST." AGAIN, HE'S NOT ASKING THIS QUESTION OUT OF IGNORANCE,
BUT RATHER THAT WE MIGHT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR, READ,
AND MEDITATE UPON HIS ANSWER. WHO IS THIS? VERSE 1, BUT COMETH,
COMETH, BEHOLD THE LORD COMETH, THE LORD COMETH. whole Old Testament
says someone's coming, and that someone is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The gospel declared that he is here, and the epistles declared
that he's coming back. Who is this that cometh? He cometh
from Edom, and he comes with dyed garments. He comes from
Basra. These are cities that are south
of Jerusalem. CONSIDERED THE TERRITORY OF THE
ENEMY. HE'S BEEN AMONG THE ENEMY, DEFEATING
THEM, AND HE'S GLORIOUS IN HIS APPAREL, TRAVELING IN THE GREATNESS
OF HIS STRENGTH. I THAT SPEAK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,
MIGHTY, MIGHTY TO SAVE. NOW, WHO IS THIS GLORIOUS ONE
WHO RETURNED FROM THE BATTLEFIELD IN GLORIOUS VICTORY? WELL, THE
ANSWER IS OBVIOUS, IS IT NOT? TO THOSE WHO ARE TAUGHT OF THE
LORD, IT IS NONE OTHER THEN OUR BLESSED REDEEMER, GOD OUR SAVIOR,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE'S CALLED THE CAPTAIN OF OUR
SALVATION. HE'S THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION
WHO'S BRINGING MANY SONS UNTO GLORY. HE IS A MIGHTY CONQUEROR. YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE STUDIED
THROUGH THE REVELATION I TOLD YOU REVELATION 6 VERSE 2 IS THE
KEY VERSE. HE WENT FORTH CONQUERING AND
TO CONQUER. HE'S NEVER LOST A BATTLE. HE'S
A VICTORIOUS LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE'S A MIGHTY ONE WHO CANNOT
FAIL. HE'S A VICTORIOUS ONE WHO HAS
NEVER LOST THE BATTLE. ISAIAH 42-4. I GUESS THAT'S MY
FAVORITE VERSE IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH. HE SHALL NOT FAIL. HE CAN'T BECAUSE GOD IS NOT A
FAILURE. ABSOLUTE SUCCESSFUL IN EVERYTHING
HE UNDERTAKES FOR HIS COVENANT PEOPLE AS A SURETY, THE SAVIOR,
THE SACRIFICE, THE MEDIATOR, THE ADVOCATE, THE INTERCESSOR,
SUCCESSFUL. successful in all that he does. He's a mighty one who cannot
fail, the victorious one who's conquered all of his enemies.
He comes from the battlefield not worn out, not weak, not tired,
nor weary, but traveling in the greatness of his strength as
the mighty God. When he ascended to heaven, he
ascended after having put away our sin by the sacrifice of himself. And when he ascended to heaven,
he ascended as the mighty conquering God, seated and sitting on the
throne of God. Who is this one? The Lord inspires
Isaiah to ask the question and then gives us the answer. THE
LORD HERE DESCRIBES HIMSELF. NOTICE, I THAT SPEAK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,
THE LAST PART OF VERSE 1, I THAT SPEAK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE
MIGHTY ONE. NOW, CAN THE LORD SPEAK OTHERWISE?
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME THINGS THE SCRIPTURES TEACH THAT GOD
CANNOT DO. DID YOU KNOW THAT? GOD CANNOT
CHANGE. GOD CANNOT LIE. He cannot speak
but in righteousness, and everything he speaks is right, seeing he
is the righteous one, holy in all of his ways, holy in all
of his doings, seeing that he is the Lord, our righteousness,
and he deals with us on a just way, as our just God and Savior,
giving us his righteousness. Notice it says here, he speaks
in righteousness, RIGHTEOUSNESS. HIS WORD IS WITHOUT DECEIT, WITHOUT
DEFECT, AND WITHOUT ERROR. EVERYTHING HE SPEAKS IS RIGHT,
IS TRUE, ABSOLUTE TRUTH. TURN OVER HERE TO ISAIAH 45,
19. ISAIAH 45, 19. I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET IN A DARK PLACE OF
THE EARTH, Isaiah 45, 19. I said, not under
the seat of Jacob, seeking me in vain. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. Everything he speaks is absolute,
undiluted, perfect, eternal truth. He speaks in righteousness, his
word is without error. The psalmist put it this way
in Psalm 33, the word of the Lord is right and all his work
are done in truth. ALL SCRIPTURES GOD-INSPIRED,
ALL SCRIPTURES GOD-GIVEN. HE SPEAKS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND
THEN HE SPEAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE SPEAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. NOW,
TWO THINGS HERE. HE SPEAKS OF OUR LACK OF IT. LOOK RIGHT ACROSS THE PAGE IN
ISAIAH 64, VERSE 6. Isaiah 64 verse 6, our lack of it, but
we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are
as filthy rags, and we do all, we all do fade as a leaf. Our
iniquities like the wind hath taken us away, and there is none
that calls upon thy name that stirreth up himself. TO TAKE
HOLD OF THEE, FOR THOU HAST HID HIS FACE FROM US, THOU HAST CONSUMED
US BECAUSE OF OUR INIQUITY. THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO,
NOT ONE. HE SPEAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
DECLARES OUR LACK OF IT, AND THEN HE SPEAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
DECLARING OUR NEED OF IT. OUR LORD SAID THIS TO THOSE PHARISEES,
EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEED THAT AS DESCRIBED IN PHARISEES. YOU CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM
OF GOD. WE NEED AN EXCEEDING RIGHTEOUSNESS
TO STAND BEFORE GOD. HOW RIGHTEOUS MUST I BE TO STAND
BEFORE GOD? AS RIGHTEOUS AS GOD. HOW CAN
THAT BE? ONLY IN THE BLESSED SAVIOR, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. THEREFORE, WE'RE NO LONGER GOING
ABOUT TO ESTABLISH A RIGHTEOUSNESS BY OUR DEEDS, AREN'T WE? Christ
is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. He speaks in righteousness, he
speaks of righteousness, and he is the revealer of righteousness. Now remember when we studied
through the book of Romans, I pointed out the fact how many times it
speaks of the righteousness that's of God, remember? Romans 1 16,
let's see if I can quote it. HE SAID I'M NOT ASHAMED OF THE
GOSPEL OF CHRIST. IT'S THE POWER OF GOD AND THE
SALVATION TO EVERYONE THAT BELIEVETH. THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF GOD REVEALED. IT'S THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
THAT'S REVEALED. BLESSED IS THAT MAN WHOM THE
LORD IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORK. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? BELIEVERS
STAND BEFORE GOD WITH AN EXCEEDING RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT JUSTIFIES
US BEFORE GOD. BLESSED IS THAT MAN WHOM THE
LORD IMPUTETH, IMPUTETH, IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORK. LET
ME SHOW YOU ANOTHER SCRIPTURE BACK, TURN BACK TO ISAIAH 45
ONE MORE TIME. VERSE 24, ISAIAH 45, 24. you get a hold of it. Surely
shall one say in the Lord I have righteousness. strength even
to him shall men come and all their incense again against him
shall be ashamed in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel
be justified and they shall glory where glory in the Lord as Paul
said God forbid actually glory save in the cross of the Lord
Jesus Christ now the second part of that he speaks in righteousness
but notice also he says the Lord Jesus Christ is mighty and to
save. He's mighty to justify. Mighty
to justify. Aren't you glad he's almighty? How much of a savior does it
take to raise up a dead, vile, dying, rotten, guilty, vile sinner? Takes an almighty God. Just like
when the Lord stood before the tomb of Lazarus, who had been
dead four days, his flesh is rotting. There's no way Lazarus
is gonna walk out of that grave. in the strength of Lazarus. The
command of God must come. He commands with absolute authority
and all power, Lazarus, come out! And he that was dead, he
that was dead Aren't you glad that he's the Almighty Savior?
Our Lord said in John 17, all power, all power is given unto
me in heaven and earth, and I should give eternal life to as many
as the Father hath given to me. He's able to save them to the
uttermost, all that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth
to make intercession. He's mighty to save. He doesn't
need our help. THERE'S NO MAN STIRS UP HIMSELF
TO SEEK THE LORD. SCRIPTURES TEACH US TO SEEK THE
LORD, BUT IT'S ONLY BY HIS GRACE THAT WE DO. BUT HE SPEAKS, HE
THAT SPEAKS AND HE THAT SAVES IS ALMIGHTY, MIGHTY TO SAVE. LOOK DOWN IN VERSE 5 WHERE IT
SAYS, THERE WAS NONE TO UPHOLD, THEREFORE MY OWN ARM BROUGHT
salvation unto me and my fury my zeal is upheld me his arm
here is his power that's what the word means power his power
brought salvation to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed
remember Isaiah 53 1 to whom is a power of the Lord revealed
HE SAID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT, AND REVEALED
THEM UNDEBAID. AND LOOK AT VERSE 8, HE IS A
MIGHTY, THE MIGHTY SAVIOR. VERSE 8, HE SAID, SURELY THEY
ARE MY PEOPLE, CHILDREN THAT WILL NOT LIE. SO HE WAS THEIR
SAVIOR. THEY CONFESSED. HE IS OUR SAVIOR. CALL HIS NAME JESUS. HE SHALL
SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN. I LOVE THE WAY PAUL IN I AND
II TIMOTHY AND THE BOOK OF TITUS ESPECIALLY HE CALLS THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST GOD OUR SAVIOR. HE'S MIGHTY TO SAVE BECAUSE HE'S
ALMIGHTY GOD. HE IS AND HE IS OUR SAVIOR. HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN OUR SAVIOR?
I WAS BORN. HE SAVED ME AND JUSTIFIED ME
IN CHRIST. BEFORE HE CALLED ME HE SAVED
ME IN CHRIST IN HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE AND DECREE. HE IS OUR SAVIOR. AND THEN VERSE 9 SAYS HE'S THE
ANGEL OF THE LORD'S PRESENCE THAT SAVES US. HE IS A SAVIOR
WHO SAVES. THE ANGEL OF HIS PRESENCE SAVED
THEM, AND THAT'S A MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST HIMSELF. HE IS A SAVIOR WHO SAVES HIS
PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN. HE DOESN'T ATTEMPT TO SAVE. HE
DOESN'T PUT THEM IN A SAVABLE STATE. HE DOESN'T MAKE SALVATION
A POSSIBILITY IF THEY MEET CERTAIN CONDITIONS. WHAT A HORRIBLE REFLECTION
ON THE CHARACTER OF GOD TO THINK HE DESIGNED SUCH A SALVATION
THAT DEPENDS UPON SOMEBODY ELSE BESIDES HIMSELF. SALVATION DEPENDED
UPON HIM, DEPENDENT, DETERMINED, AND ACCOMPLISHED BY GOD ALMIGHTY.
WHERE DOES THE SINNER'S WILL COME IN? IT DOESN'T. IT DOESN'T
AT ALL. THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING IN
THE DAY OF HIS POWER. This word mighty, power, but
it's also the word mighty power has a meaning of abundance power,
abundance of power. The Lord is abundant in his power. You know what? He's also abundant
in his mercy. Turn over to Isaiah 55. So verse six, here we talk about
seeking the Lord. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found, call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake
his way, the unrighteous man is taught. Let him return to
the Lord and he will have mercy upon him. To our God for he will
abundantly, abundantly pardon. The Lord never turned away a
mercy beggar. Have you saken mercy in the Lord?
It's because He gave you a heart, mind, and will to do so, made
you willing in the day of His power. He is God, our Savior. I love what Peter said there
to that council recorded in Acts chapter 4, remember? Neither
is there salvation in any other, for there's no other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Again, he's
plainly declaring unto us one more time the salvations of the
Lord. He purposed it from all eternity. Before there was a sinner, the
Savior stood. Before Adam fell, the Savior
stood as a surety of the everlasting covenant, the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world. Salvation is purpose of the Lord,
it's accomplished by the Lord. He said, my meat is to do the
will of him that sent me and to finish it. He cried on Calvary's
tree, it done, it's finished, it's over. And then he applies
it. He applies his salvation. The
Apostle Paul said, being confident of this very thing, Philippians
1.6, being confident of this very thing, he who has begun
a good work in you, he will finish the job. I don't know about you,
but sometimes I start a project and don't finish it. He never
does that. Everything that he sets his heart
and affection on any center that he's determined to say he gets
the job done. Salvation of the Lord and His
purpose, His planning, His accomplishment, His application, His sustaining
power were kept by the power of God. Aren't you glad you have
a mighty Savior? He speaks in righteousness. He's
traveling in the greatness of His strength. He said, I am God
beside me, there is no other. He travels in the greatness of
his strength and he's mighty, mighty to save, and then he speaks
in righteousness. Now look at verse two. Isaiah
asked another good question. Verse two, wherefore art thou
red in thy apparel? and in thy garments, like him
that treadeth the wine fat alone." Now, I don't imagine they do
this anymore, but years ago when they would make wine and they
would gather all those grapes up and they'd put them in a wine
vat and then somebody would jump in there and start chomping on
those grapes. He imagined what his clothes
looked like at the end of his shift. I mean, he was dripping,
dripping in grape juice. And this is a picture here of
the Lord Jesus Christ suffering for our sin and pouring out his
blood. Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garment like unto him that just soaked in
the grape juice of a man who'd been trampling on the grapes
all day long. The answer comes back, I've trodden
the winepress, it's the winepress of God's wrath, and of the people
there was none with me, I'll tread them in mine anger, in
my fury, and trample them talking about trampling out our sin in
the fury of his holy anger and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my garments and I'll stain all my remnant for the day of
vengeance is in my heart. The year of my redeemed is come. I love that song. Sing, oh, sing
of my Redeemer, of His wondrous love to me. Isaiah sees the Lord
of glory not enclosed in majesty and power and the greatness of
His strength as a mighty God, but also sees the Lord dressed
in His real humanity, for He is a God-man mediator. Isaiah
sees Him clothed in the garments as a servant trampling out the
grapes, red in His apparel. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS A MIGHTY
GOD, BUT ISAIAH ALSO CALLS HIM, GOD SAYS, THROUGH ISAIAH THE
PROPHET, BEHOLD MY SERVANT, MY ELECT, AND WHOM MY SOUL DELIGHTED. DO YOU REMEMBER FROM THE PHILIPPIAN
CHAPTER TWO, WHERE IT SAYS, HE THOUGHT THAT NOT ROBBERY WOULD
BE EQUAL WITH GOD, BUT MADE HIMSELF IN THE FORM OF A SERVANT, AND
BECAME LIKE UNTO OUR FLESH, Mighty to save and yet he's a real man
God man mediator his garments at his Transfiguration were white
as snow Whiter than any fuller on the earth remember Whiter than any fuller on earth
could whiten them his robes of righteousness fine linen clean
and white but here his garments are red and Red is the color
of man. The word Adam means red or ruddy. A red man of the earth, that's
Adam. The Lord Jesus Christ was a real
man, although white and holy by nature, yet he took our humanity
to himself. He's called the second Adam.
The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Red is also not only
the color of man, red is also the color of sin. REDEMPTION
FROM SIN BY HIS RED BLOOD." HIS RED BLOOD. WHEN YOU CUT YOURSELF,
WHEN THAT BLOOD FLOWS OUT, IT'S RED, IS IT NOT? YOU TAKE A WHITE
HANKY. I DO THIS SOMETIMES WHEN I CUT
MYSELF. I ALWAYS CARRY ME A HANKY. I'M
OLD SCHOOL. People laughed at old, you remember
old George Bush, the elder, always taking out that hanky. I don't
know where I got that from. I guess my mom and dad told me
to carry a hanky, I don't know. But whenever I cut myself, I
always reach for my hanky, whether it's clean or not. Red, red, blood is red. And our Lord Jesus Christ, his
blood, although the scripture says God bought it with his own
blood, it was real blood. He shed real human blood as the
God-man mediator. He redeemed us from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us, for we are not redeemed
with corruptible things, silver and gold, but with the precious
blood Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. He shed his blood unto
death for sin demand death. It's just not that he suffered.
He had become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
He took not only our humanity to himself, but he also took
our sin to himself, didn't he? God made him to be sin for us
who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. We have to quote that verse every
time we bring a gospel message, don't we? God made him to be
sin for us. No one else could do that. Pilate
couldn't do it. The whole Roman army couldn't
do that. The Roman government couldn't do that. God did that.
God laid on him the iniquity of us all. God made him to be
sin for us. He bare our sin in his own body
on the tree. Even though as a holy God man
mediator, he had no sin, knew no sin, and did no sin, yet he
was made sin for us. Not just merely in a legal way,
but in an actual way, guilty for our sin. Had he not been
guilty, God would have been unjust to punish him for our sin. Had
he not been guilty for our sin, The Lord again answers his own
question, verse 3, 4, 5, and 6, in a full and satisfying,
glorious way. Verse 3, I've trodden the winepress
alone. The winepress that the Lord Jesus
Christ endured is the winepress of the wrath of God. He endured
that for his people as their substitute, the just one dying
for the unjust that he might bring us unto God. That's what's
going on at Calvary. We see the Lord Jesus Christ
immersed in the wrath of God against our sin that was laid
on him. It pleased God to bruise him
in our room and in our stead. No one ever suffered like that
man suffered. HE SUFFERED NOT ONLY AT THE HANDS
OF WICKED MEN, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF HIS
HOLY FATHER. IT PLEASED GOD TO BRUISE HIM
IN OUR STED, IN OUR ROOM. LOOK AT VERSE 9, IN ALL THEIR
AFFLICTION, IN ALL THEIR AFFLICTION, HE WAS AFFLICTED. Wounded for
our transgression bruised for our iniquity and all their affliction. He was afflicted Because the
Lord endured this for us Putting away our sin making complete
atonement for our sin now to us Because he took all of God's
wrath and all God's condemnation do our sin Now what's left for
us? There is therefore now in Christ
Jesus no condemnation to those who are in him, who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect. It is God who justifies,
who is he that condemns. It is Christ who's already died,
yea rather, is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also makes intercession for us. That's good news. HE SO FULLY AND COMPLETELY PUT
AWAY THE SIN OF GOD'S PEOPLE, GOD SAID, THEIR SIN AND THEIR
INIQUITY, I DON'T REMEMBER THEM NO MORE, AND THEY DON'T, THEY
DO NOT EXIST. SEVERAL TIMES THE LORD CALLS
THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. IN VERSE 3, HE ENDURED THIS ALONE. I'VE TRODDEN THE WINEPRESS ALONE. AND THEN HE SAID, THERE WAS,
OF THE PEOPLE THERE WAS NONE, THERE WAS NONE WITH ME. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS
HE ACCOMPLISHED ALL OF OUR SALVATION BY HIMSELF. VERSE 5 SAYS THERE
WAS NONE TO HELP. THERE WAS NONE TO HELP, NONE
TO UPHOLD. NOT AMONG MEN. OH, THE LORD LAID HELP UPON ONE
THAT IS MIGHTY. TURN OVER TO ISAIAH 50. ISAIAH 50, VERSE 7. ISAIAH 50,
VERSE 7, FOR THE LORD GOD WILL HELP ME. Therefore shall I not
be confounded. Therefore have I set my face
like a flint. I know I shall not be ashamed. Isaiah 50 verse 8. He is near
that justifieth me. Who will condemneth me? Let us
stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him
come near. Behold, the Lord God will help
me. Who is he that shall condemn? Lo, they shall all wax old as
a garment, and a moth as a moth shall eat them up. HE ACCOMPLISHED
OUR SALVATION WITH HIMSELF, BY HIMSELF. WHEN HE HAD PURGED OUR
SIN BY HIMSELF, HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, HAVING ACCOMPLISHED OUR
SALVATION FOR US. THE SALVATION THE LORD ACCOMPLISHED
FOR US WAS HIS DOING. CHRIST WINS THE VICTORY OF SALVATION
BY HIMSELF, THEREFORE HE RIGHTLY GETS ALL THE HONOR AND GLORY,
TURN TO ISAIAH 44. Isaiah 44, you see why this is
called the gospel according to Isaiah? Isaiah 44, 21. Remember these things, O Jacob
and Israel, for thou art my servant, I have formed thee. Thou art
my servant, O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have
blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgression, and as a cloud
thy sins, return it to me, for I have redeemed thee. Verse 23,
sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it. Shout you over
parts of the earth break forth in the singing you mountains
o'er forth and every tree therein for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob
and glorified himself. Why do you redeem Jacob? Jacob
have I loved. Esau have I hated. Mine own arm
he said brought salvation unto me. My fury, my zeal upheld me. The zeal of the Lord's house
THE LORD'S PURPOSE TOTALLY CONSUMED HIM ABOUT DOING THE FATHER'S
BUSINESS. HE SAID, I CAME NOT TO DO MY
OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, THAT I MIGHT GLORIFY
HIM. ONE LAST THING, VERSE 4 AND 5
AND 6, FOR THE DAY OF VENGEANCE IS IN MY HEART, THE YEAR OF MY
REDEEMED IS COME. LOOKED AND THERE WAS NONE TO
HELP I WONDERED THAT THERE WAS NONE TO HELP THEREFORE MY OWN
ARM BROUGHT SALVATION UNTO ME AND MY FURY UPHELD AT BIRTH SIX
I WILL TREAD DOWN MY PEOPLE IN MINE ANGER THE PEOPLE RATHER
I WILL TREAD DOWN THE PEOPLE IN MY ANGER AND MAKE THEM DRUNK
IN MY FURY I WILL BRING DOWN THEIR STRENGTH TO THE EARTH GOD'S
GONNA SAVE HIS PEOPLE AND THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT GOD'S GONNA
JUDGE THOSE WHO REFUSED TO BOW, JUDGE IN CONDEMNATION. NOW, CONSIDER
THIS GLORIOUS THOUGHT. WHILE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST REDEEMS
US, REDEEMS HIS PEOPLE, HE ALSO JUDGES AND DEFEATS ALL OF HIS
ENEMIES, PUT AWAY SIN, CRUSHED SATAN'S DOMINION, HE CONQUERED
DEATH, HELL AND THE GRAVE. HE SAID, I'M HE THAT LIVETH AND
WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD, I'M ALIVE FOREVERMORE. AND BECAUSE HE LIVES,
YOU KNOW WHAT? WE LIVE IN HIM. In Him we live
and move and have our being. Colossians 2, he spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them. The Lord takes vengeance upon
our sin and upon our enemy, saves us from the wrath to come, delivers
us from all opposition, and he will bring down the strength
of all our enemies. Thanks be unto God, who has given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. May God help us
to believe him, love him, adore him, and worship him, and do
it in spirit and in truth." Who is this one that comes from Edom? Who is this one that's red in
his apparel? The victorious Lord Jesus Christ.