Isaiah 55, last week we had verse
one, down to verse three, where God gives us some very, very
excellent, excellent instruction. Two things that ring out in my
mind when I read these first three verses is one, the Lord
says, come to me, come to me. Why would he tell us to come
unto him? Because all salvation in him,
everything God has for any vile sinner, like you, like me, is
in Christ. So the Lord, our God, instructs
his people to come to him. AND THEN THE SECOND THING THAT
STANDS OUT IN MY MEMORY FROM VERSE ONE, TWO, AND THREE, THE
LORD SAYS, INCLINE YOUR EAR. SEE VERSE THREE? INCLINE YOUR
EAR. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? LEND ME
YOUR EAR. REMEMBER IN THE BOOK OF JAMES,
GOD SAID, BE SWIFT TO HEAR. SWIFT TO HEAR WHAT? HIM. HIM. INCLINE YOUR EAR AND HEAR. and your soul shall live. To
have a word spoken in power to your heart. And then God said,
I'll make this everlasting covenant with you. This covenant here
we know is a covenant of grace that's ordered in all things
and is most sure. Sure mercies. I like things that
are sure, don't you? things that are sure. We can count on it, rest on it,
as the old saying used to go, you can take that to the bank.
THAT CHECK THAT I JUST WROTE YOU, YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BANK.
IT'S SURE. IT'S SURE IT'LL CLEAR THE BANK.
IT WILL NOT BOUNCE. AND EVERY PROMISE GOD GIVES UNTO
US IS CERTAIN AND SURE. YOU CAN COUNT ON IT. WE ARE PERSUADED
THAT OF ALL THAT GOD HAS PROMISED, HE'S ABLE TO PERFORM. EVERY PROMISE HE GIVES A PARDON,
REDEMPTION, SALVATION IS CERTAIN, AND SURE, IS IT NOT? WELL, THE
TITLE OF THE MESSAGE THIS EVENING IS TAKEN FROM VERSE 6, SEEK YE
THE LORD. SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY
BE FOUND. CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR. NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD NEVER
TELLS SINNERS NOT TO SEEK THE LORD. NEVER SAYS THAT. GOD REPEATEDLY IN HIS WORD TELLS
US TO SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. WE READ IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 6 WHERE THE LORD SAYS, SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF
GOD. AND SEEK HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT IS THAT? THAT'S CHRIST,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. SO SEEK YE THE LORD, SEEK WHILE
HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL UPON HIM. AND THE PROMISE OF GOD IS THIS,
ASKING IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU, SEEKING YOU SHALL FIND, KNOCKING
IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU, FOR EVERYONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH,
AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH, AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL
BE OPENED. IT'S A GOOD THING FOR GOD'S PEOPLE
TO SEEK THE LORD, TO SEEK THE LORD. AND WE ONLY DO SO BECAUSE
GOD'S GIVEN US GRACE AND UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM TO SEEK HIM. NOW,
THE WORD SEEK MEANS TO PURSUE THE LORD, THAT IS, TO INQUIRE
OF HIM AND TO FOLLOW AFTER THE LORD. remember the lord said
of his sheep they they do incline their ear and they do follow
me this is the believer's heart's desire of the lord's people to
seek after him to seek him that is why we're gathered here in
his name TO PREACH HIS GOSPEL, TO STUDY HIS WORD, AND TO SEEK
THE LORD IN WORSHIP. HE SEEKETH SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM
IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. NOW, THERE'S ANOTHER PROMISE
GIVEN TO US OVER IN HEBREWS, CHAPTER 11. DON'T TURN. LET ME JUST READ IT TO YOU. FOR
IT SAYS, WITHOUT FAITH, REMEMBER, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM. FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST
BELIEVE THAT HE IS, AND THAT HE IS THE REWARDER OF THEM THAT
DILIGENTLY, DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM. NOW, I WANT TO SEEK HIM. I DON'T WANT TO SEEK THE BLESSINGS. I WANT TO SEEK HIM, BECAUSE THE
BLESSINGS ARE FOUND IN HIM. OUR LORD INSTRUCTS US TO COME
UNTO HIM, TO HEAR HIM, TO LEARN OF HIM, AND THEN HE SAYS, AND
YOU SHALL FIND REST, REST UNTO YOUR SOUL. REMEMBER, COME UNTO
ME, ALL YOU THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, I'LL GIVE YOU REST.
TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN OF ME, for I am meek and lowly
in heart, and you shall find rest unto your soul, unto your
soul. Now, let's take a look at verse
four. I love this word, behold, behold. It reminds me of another time
the Lord uses this. Turn back to Isaiah 42, Isaiah
42, verse one. Behold, I've given him for a witness
that is the Lord Jesus Christ. I've given him, I've given him. What a gift God has given unto
his people. God gave himself. Isaiah 42 verse
one, behold my servant, mine elect, my servant who I uphold,
mine elect, WHOM MY SOUL DELIGHTETH, I PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, HE
SHALL BRING FORTH JUDGEMENT TO THE GENTILES. VERSE 4, ISAIAH
42, 4, HE SHALL NOT FAIL, NOR BE DISCOURAGED, TILL HE HAS SET
JUDGEMENT OR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH, AND THE ISLE SHALL
WAIT FOR HIS WORD AND HIS LAW. NOW, BEHOLD HIM, Verse four,
Isaiah 55, I've given him. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ is
the gift of God's love. God said, this is my beloved
son in whom I'm well pleased. God so loved his own that he
gave the Lord Jesus. In a fullness of time, God sent
forth his son made of a woman, made under the law to redeem
them. But notice what it says, three
things about the Lord Jesus Christ, the greater David, THE ONE WHO
HAS THE EVERLASTING COVENANT, THE ONE WHO IS THE EVERLASTING
COVENANT. I'VE GIVEN HIM FOR A WITNESS. I'VE GIVEN HIM FOR A LEADER.
I'VE GIVEN HIM FOR A COMMANDER. NOW, WE NEED ALL THREE. WE NEED
A WITNESS. A witness, that is a true, a
true prophet, sent of God, a true prophet sent of God to tell us
how God saved sinners. The Lord says that he is the
witness. Remember, let me read this to
you. Pilate said unto him, this is
John 18, 37. Art thou a king then? And here's
the Lord's answer. Thou sayest that I am a king?
To this end was I born. For this cause came I into the
world that I should bear witness. UNDER THE TRUTH. EVERYONE THAT
IS OF THE TRUTH HEARETH MY VOICE. I'VE GIVEN HIM FOR A WHAT? A
WITNESS. A WITNESS IS ONE WHO TELLS WHAT
HE KNOWS. AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, REMEMBER
HE SAID THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU, THEY'RE NOT MINE. as
the man Christ Jesus, but he said, I speak for my father's
words. A true witness is the one God
who has sent the Lord Jesus Christ to be our prophet, priest, and
king. Christ is a true witness unto
us to reveal unto us the way of salvation. Remember the promise
God gave to Moses, I'll raise up a prophet from among the brethren,
and he'll speak my word, he'll be my witness, my prophet, and
those who will not hear him, God said, I'll require it at
your hand. You better hear him. So he is the prophet of God,
he is the witness of God. who bears witness with our spirit
that we are heirs of God and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then he's given him a witness
to the people, definite article, the people are the elect of God.
The Lord called his name Jesus. He shall save his people from
their sin. That's who he's a witness unto
the people, the elect of God. And then it says, secondly, he's
the leader. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
good shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep. He's our
leader. HE NEVER LEADS US ASTRAY. HE IS A GOOD SHEPHERD WHO LEADS
US IN PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE. HE LEADS
US OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT. AND THEN THE LORD, IT
SAYS THERE, HE'S NOT ONLY THE ONE THAT'S GIVEN OF GOD. HE'S
OUR WITNESS. HE'S OUR LEADER. DO YOU NEED
A LEADER? A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T THINK THEY
NEED A LEADER. THEY WANT TO BE THE CAPTAIN OF
THEIR OWN SHIP. MASTER OF THEIR OWN FATE, THEY
SAY. BUT HE'S OUR COMMANDER, TOO. HE'S OUR COMMANDER. HE'S A COMMANDER. HE'S A COMMANDER
IN CHIEF. HE IS LORD. GOD HAD MADE THAT
SAME JESUS WHOM YOU CRUCIFIED, GOD HAD MADE HIM BOTH LORD AND
CHRIST. HE'S A COMMANDER OF ALL THINGS. HE'S THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION,
WHO COMMANDS SALVATION FOR US. HE IS THE LORD OF SALVATION.
HE'S THE COMMANDER THAT'S ALL POWERFUL, WISE, AND VICTORIOUS. HE'S NEVER LOST A FIGHT. WOULDN'T
YOU LIKE A COMMANDER LIKE THAT WHO'S WON EVERY BATTLE AND HE'S
DONE THAT FOR US? THANKS BE TO GOD WHO HAS GIVEN
US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE IS A LEADER. HE IS A COMMANDER. AND HE IS
OUR SAVIOR. HE IS OUR REDEEMER. NOW LOOK
AT VERSE 5, BEHOLD, THOU SHALT CALL A NATION THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING OF, AND
NATIONS THAT KNEW NOT THEE SHALL RUN. ONE TIME WE WERE RUNNING
AWAY FROM GOD, NOW WE'RE RUNNING TO HIM BECAUSE HE DRAWS US. NOW WE RUN UNTO HIM GOD BECAUSE HE'S THE HOLY ONE
OF ISRAEL. WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT AGAIN
IN ACTS CHAPTER 3 WHERE PETER SAID, YOU KILLED THE HOLY ONE,
THE JUST ONE, FOR HE HATH GLORIFIED THE FATHER FOR US. THE LORD WILL CALL OUT HIS OWN
PEOPLE. OUR LORD HAS AN INTIMATE AND
ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIS PEOPLE, FOR HE HAS LOVED THEM WITH AN
EVERLASTING LOVE, THE FOUNDATION OF GOD STANDING SURE, HAVING
THIS SEAL, THE LORD KNOWETH THEM THAT ARE HIS, RIGHT? NOW HOW
CAN IT BE SAID THAT THOU SHALT CALL A NATION THAT THOU KNOWEST
NOT, THAT IS, A FOREIGN PEOPLE, REFERRING TO THE LORD DELECT
AMONG THE GENTILES, And he's saying that, Isaiah, you have
no knowledge of them, but I've known them from everlasting.
They are my people, and I will call them out. And nations that
never knew the Lord, those Gentiles who were uncircumcised, without
God, without Christ, and without hope, that is, every sinner,
because of our fallen and sinful nature, we dwell in darkness.
LOVING TO HAVE IT SO, WITH NO TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIVING
GOD, AND THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE LORD SAID,
I WILL CALL THEM OUT, AND THEY SHALL RUN TO ME. REMEMBER THE
LORD SAID, NO MAN CAN COME TO ME, EXCEPT THE FATHER WHICH SENT
ME. AND I'LL RAISE HIM UP AT THE
LAST DAY. THE GOOD SHEPHERD WILL CROSS THE PATH OF HIS ELECT WITH
THE GOSPEL AND CALL THEM OUT OF DARKNESS, AND THEY SHALL RUN
UNTO HIM. THY PEOPLE SHALL BE WILLING.
REMEMBER, PSALM 110, IN THE DAY OF HIS POWER. NOW, THREE THINGS
HE SAYS RIGHT HERE. THEY SHALL RUN, NATIONS THAT
KNEW NOT THEE, HE SAID, OTHER SHEEP I HAVE, WHICH ARE NOT OF
THIS FOLD, THEM I MUST BRING. THE LORD HAS A PEOPLE OUT OF
EVERY TRIBE, KINDRED, NATION, AND TONGUE UNDER HEAVEN, AND
THEY SHALL COME TO THE LORD, THEY SHALL RUN UNTO THEE. BECAUSE
OF THE LORD THY GOD, BECAUSE OF THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE
HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE." NOW, THREE VALID REASONS. THIS CALL HERE IS NOT THAT GENERAL
CALL. It's that irresistible and effectual
call of grace that is always effectual to the hearts of God's
people. It is a personal call, it is
a powerful call, and it is a perpetual call. The Lord always calls and
calls and calls, and He never stops calling. Now, because of
the Lord thy God, He is always, we shall run unto him and embrace
him in saving faith because of the Lord thy God. He is always
the first cause of salvation. What is the second cause? He's
the second cause of salvation. What's the third cause? He's
the third cause of salvation. He's the alpha and omega, the
first and the last. He's the author and finisher
of our faith and he is the object of faith, the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of the Lord thy God,
that's the only reason that we run after Him. That's the only
reason we seek after the Lord. He's always the first cause of
our salvation. It's His love to us, not ours. It's His will toward us, not
ours. He will have mercy on whom He
will. It's His grace toward us. It's His choice of us. He said,
you didn't choose me, I've chosen you. It's because of his ordination
and predestination, it's because of his power we believe the gospel,
and his gospel is the power of God and the salvation. BECAUSE
WE RUN UNTO THE LORD, NOT BECAUSE WE'RE SMART, NOT BECAUSE WE'RE
EDUCATED, NOT BECAUSE WE'VE FIGURED THIS THING OUT. THE GOSPEL IS
A MYSTERY THAT MUST BE REVEALED. AND HE REVEALS US UNTO HIS PEOPLE
BECAUSE HE IS THE LORD, THY GOD. HE'S THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION. NOW, HE'S THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE
ONLY ONE THAT CAN MAKE US RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY IN GOD'S SIGHT. HE IS
THE LORD OUR GOD AND HE IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. PETER CALLED
HIM THE HOLY ONE AND THE JUST ONE REFERRING TO THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST WHOM YOU DENIED AND DELIVERED HIM UP BEFORE PILATE. AND YOU
HAVE KILLED THE PRINCE OF LIFE. WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THAT IN
ACTS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 14. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE
ONLY ONE THAT CAN MAKE SINNERS RIGHTEOUS IN HIS SIGHT. NOW YOU
THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT'S SAYING A WHOLE LOT. HOW
CAN A VILE, GUILTY SINNER BE MADE RIGHTEOUS AND JUSTIFIED
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD? THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. HE IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. HE IS THE LORD BY GOD. AND THEN WATCH THIS. THE LAST
PART OF VERSE 5, FOR HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE. HE HATH GLORIFIED
THEE. NOW, ISN'T THAT THE BOTTOM LINE
IN ALL OF SALVATION? TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF
HIS GRACE CHAPTER ONE, HE CHOSE US, HE REDEEMED US, AND HE REGENERATED
US ALL TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE. THAT'S THE BOTTOM
LINE IN SALVATION, IS IT NOT? HIS GLORY. OUR LORD PRAYED IN
JOHN 17, FATHER, I'VE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH. I've glorified
thee on the earth, for I finished the work you gave me to do."
Now, as he satisfied God and glorified both every precept
of the law and the penalty of the law, and satisfied God's
law and justice perfectly for his covenant people, now we are
glorified in him. And it's not just as if we were
glorified in Him. It's not just as if we were seated
in the heavenlies in Christ. We are. That's what it says in
Ephesians 2. EXALTED AND SEATED IN THE HEAVENLY
IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE HAS GLORIFIED THE FATHER AND
WE ARE GLORIFIED IN HIM. AND THAT GIVES, WHO DOES THAT
GIVE ALL THE HONOR AND GLORY UNTO? CERTAINLY NOT THE SINNER,
DOES IT? ABSOLUTELY NOT. YOU SEE, THAT'S
ONE DISTINGUISHING FEATURE BETWEEN THAT WHICH IS TRUE AND THAT WHICH
IS FALSE. A false hope gives all the glory
to the creature. A good hope through grace gives
all the glory to the Lord Jesus Christ alone. And God's jealous
of his glory. Now, verse six. Seek ye the Lord. Now, it would
be a good thing to seek the Lord. Seek the Lord where he is. Seek
the Lord for who he is. Seek ye the Lord, notice, capital
L-O-R-D, Jehovah, the eternal, everlasting God, while he may
be found. While you have breath and life,
seek the Lord and call upon him while he is near. Because of this holy, heavenly,
and high calling, Believers are delighted to seek after the Lord
God, to call upon Him while He is near. This is the believer's
lifelong pursuit, aim, and desire, as Paul said, to win Christ and
be found in Him. To count all else done, that
I may win Christ and be found in Him. HE IS ALTOGETHER LOVELY, TO YOU
WHO BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS. NOTICE IT SAYS SEEK THE LORD. IT DOESN'T SAY SEEK THE BLESSINGS,
DOES IT? SEEK THE LORD. YOU SEE, ALL SPIRITUAL
BLESSINGS ARE FOUND IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. We say with the
apostle, we bless God who had blessed us with all spiritual
blessing in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Seek the Lord. All spiritual blessings are found
in Christ. Seek him. We are to seek him
first. Seek ye first the kingdom of
God. And all these other issues will
take care of themselves. SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF
GOD. SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD. I JOTTED THIS SCRIPTURE
DOWN. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE IT DOWN,
WE WON'T TURN AND READ IT, BUT I'LL READ WHAT I'VE JOTTED DOWN.
JEREMIAH 29, 13, THE LORD SAYS THIS, YOU SHALL SEEK ME AND FIND
ME WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME That's the promise of God. He
says, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened
unto you. We are to seek him, to call upon
him while he is, or while and where he is to be found. Where
is the Lord to be found? Well, I know this, he's found
in his word. HE FOUND IN HIS WORD. SEEK THE
LORD BY READING AND STUDYING AND MEDITATING UPON THE WORD
OF THE LORD. TO HIM GIVE ALL THE PROPHETS
WITNESS. OUR LORD SAID TO THOSE PARISHES,
YOU ARE THEY, JUSTIFY YOURSELF. YOU DO SEEK, YOU DO READ AND
STUDY THE SCRIPTURES, BUT THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.
THEY HAD THE WORD OF GOD, BUT THEY DIDN'T SEE CHRIST IN THE
WORD. THEY WERE NOT SEEKING THE TRUTH
FROM THE WORD BECAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE WORD REVEALED UNTO US
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. SO WHERE IS HE TO BE FOUND IN
HIS WORD? SEEK HIM IN HIS WORD. WHERE IS
HE TO BE FOUND? IN THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.
SEEK OUT THAT MAN WHO'S PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND AS MY PASTOR USED
TO SAY, CAMP RIGHT THERE AND LISTEN TO HIS MESSAGE. AND THEN
SEEK THE LORD AMONG HIS PEOPLE. HE SAID WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE
GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, I'M IN THEIR MIDST. THE LORD
IS WITH US THIS EVENING. I'M SURE THERE'S TWO OR THREE
HERE THAT ARE GATHERED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
He's among us. Yeah, well, I don't feel his
presence. He didn't ask you to feel his presence. He told you
to believe my word, my promise. I'll never leave you. I'll never,
I'll never forsake you. I've never read in scripture
where the Lord turned away a sinner that sincerely came to him as
a mercy beggar. The leper did. Full of leprosy. WORSHIPED THE LORD AND SAID,
LORD, IF YOU WILL, IF YOU WILL, YOU CAN MAKE ME CLEAN. THE LORD
SAID, I WILL, BE THOU CLEAN. THE LORD TELLS US TO COME BOLDLY
UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY. FIND GRACE
TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED. SO SEEK YOU THE LORD. WHILE HE
MAY BE FOUND, AND WHERE HE IS FOUND, AND THEN CALL UPON HIM. YOU REMEMBER OUR SCRIPTURE FROM
ACTS, CHAPTER 2, AND FROM ROMANS, CHAPTER 10, WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL
UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. I'M GOING TO CALL.
BY HIS GRACE, I'M GOING TO CALL UPON THE LORD, WHO HAS ALL SALVATION. NOW, LET'S CLOSE WITH VERSE 7. forsake his way. Now there's
nothing more wicked. Now when we think of wickedness,
we often think of evil deeds that people do. And that is wicked,
that is wrong. But there's something much more
wicked than that. And that is to seek salvation
from God apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. That's wicked.
So let the wicked forsake his way of salvation by the deeds
of the law or by the morality of the flesh. And let the wicked
man, the unrighteous man, forsake his thoughts, the unrighteous
man, his thoughts. Remember what the Lord says down
here. in the next verse, verse eight, for my thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. So let us forsake our wicked
way and let us seek the true way of salvation in Christ. And
let us let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts. You remember
that scripture, there's a way that seemeth right, and the end
of that way is death. So forsake your wicked way. Notice it doesn't say ways, way. And seek Christ who is the way. And the unrighteous man, his
thoughts. By nature we think too highly
of ourselves and we think too low of God. ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS
ABOUT GOD LEFT TO OURSELVES ARE TOTALLY WRONG. OUR LORD SAID,
YOU THOUGHT I WAS ALTOGETHER SUCH A ONE AS YOURSELF. GOD IS
NOT WHO WE THINK HE IS. GOD IS WHO HE IS AS HE'S REVEALED
IN THE WORD OF THE LORD. LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY,
THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS AND LET HIM TURN UNTO THE LORD. NOW, WHAT IS THIS? IT SAYS RETURN,
BUT TURNING TO THE LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? THAT'S REPENTANCE.
THAT'S A CHANGE. YOU WERE GOING THIS WAY, RUNNING
AWAY FROM THE LORD, NOW SEEK HIM, CALL UPON HIM, AND TURN
TO HIM. TURN TO HIM FOR WHAT? ALL OF
SALVATION. I WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOU. I WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOU, AND
TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY, ABUNDANTLY PARDON US. LET US FORSAKE AND ABANDON OUR
WRONG AND EVIL DEEDS, AND THOUGHTS IN A WRONG AND EVIL WAY, AND
LET US TURN TO THE LORD IN REPENTANCE. REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD AND FAITH
IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND THE FRUIT AND BLESSING OF
THAT, WE KNOW THAT FAITH AND REPENTANCE ARE BOTH GIFTS OF
GOD, RIGHT? THEY BOTH ACKNOWLEDGE A WAY OF
SALVATION IN CHRIST. And the man who has truly and
is repenting and is believing, God will have mercy upon him. And God will abundantly, I love
that word abundantly. Notice the marginal reference,
multiply to pardon. He will abundantly forgive and
pardon most of our sin. NO, THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST,
GOD'S SON, CLEANSES US FROM ALL OUR SIN. HE'S PLENTEOUS IN REDEMPTION. ANOTHER REFERENCE IN JEREMIAH
50, VERSE 20, WHERE THE LORD SAYS, THE INIQUITY OF ISRAEL
SHALL BE SOUGHT FOR, AND THERE SHALL BE NONE, AND THE SINS OF
JUDAH, AND THEY SHALL NOT BE FOUND, FOR I WILL PARDON THEM
WHOM I RESERVE. GOD HAS A RESERVATION FOR THOSE
TO WHOM HE'S PARDONED. AND HE SAID, I'LL REMEMBER THEIR
SINS NO MORE. HE IS PLENTEOUS, PLENTEOUS IN
REDEMPTION. THINKING OF ONE OTHER VERSE HERE,
IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF
SINS ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE, EPHESIANS 1, VERSE
7.