1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:03,800 Our scripture reading this morning is rather lengthy. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,300 I think it will go a little well for us if I just sort of scope 3 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:10,400 will be reading before we read it. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,600 So, if you have your bulletin there, just kind of glance down, 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:19,300 don't stay. And yet, we're not reading It 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,200 begins in Isaiah chapter 10 verse 33. 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,500 And course as you might suspect it picks up right in the middle 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,100 of a very long discourse. Some of it Pros, most of it 9 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:35,600 poetry and the scene is in verses 33 and 34 is that the 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,700 Lord God is a Forester. He's going through the woods 11 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:42,900 through the forest and chopping down all the trees. 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,700 The trees in scriptures. We saw in the Book of Daniel 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:48,800 last year represent, quite often great nation. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,700 Ins and the Lord has lopping off all of these nations. 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,400 He's sawing them. Chopping them down. 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,600 The the spare though is one particular treats chopped down 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:08,000 to be sure but out of that one tree the stump that's left there 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,900 comes forth a little Branch, a little shoot coming up out of 19 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:15,100 the stump that is left remaining. 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,700 This is a theme of the two parts. 21 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:22,000 We look at this morning. Is the theme of the shoot, the 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,700 little Branch that's left out of the Dead stump. 23 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:28,900 And the other is the remnant, that is the remains are the 24 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:33,600 residue of the people, massive amounts of people in humanity. 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,300 But there is a Remnant, there's a group of survivors. 26 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:40,900 There are a group of escapees and the scripture speaks of 27 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,600 them. And these are the two Old 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,900 Testament motifs that we want to look too. 29 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:47,700 Just like last time, we looked at the kind of the scope of the 30 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:49,700 first and second coming. Of Christ. 31 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:53,000 We're looking at things that sort of shape up in frame, our 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 understanding of the Advent, the season of the coming of Christ. 33 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:00,600 And we have it here, we have both Christ's first Advent. 34 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,800 And his second Advent that are sort of Blended together all the 35 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,200 way through to the Eternal state. 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,900 In fact there in chapter 11 and verse 1, we find out that Little 37 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:15,300 Chute, of course, who is Christ, he comes and then it describes 38 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:18,000 the things about him. The spirit of the Lord, shall 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,900 rest on him. Cetera and then get down a few 40 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:25,700 more verses. We get down to around verses 3 41 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,300 and 4 and he talks about him being the judge. 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,900 He comes not only as a savior and as a teacher and a guide and 43 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,900 all the things of counselor, all the things that are mentioned in 44 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:40,800 verse 2. But he but he is a judge and 45 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,800 he's also an executioner. He comes to execute 46 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:48,200 righteousness and so we read about what he will strike the 47 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,100 Earth with the rod. Out of his mouth in the breath 48 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:53,300 of his lips. He shall kill the wicked awful 49 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:55,500 sobering, and this is righteousness in faithless. 50 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,600 Then in verse 6, immediately begins to talk about the beauty 51 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,700 of the restored Earth, the restored creation. 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,900 Special references made to the animals, both the wild animals 53 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:10,100 and the domestic animals, the wolf, and the leopard in the 54 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:13,700 calf, and the lion, and all of this beautiful picture. 55 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,100 But the, but the heart of it is verse 9, they shall not hurt, 56 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:20,700 nor destroy in all. In all my Holy Mountain for the 57 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:22,600 Earth. Be full of the knowledge of the 58 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,200 Lord as the waters, cover the sea, then Verse 10 talks about 59 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,300 that day. That's coming that coming day 60 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:37,600 which we see begins with Christ in Bethlehem and we'll end with 61 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,900 Christ coming in the Clouds Of Glory to receive his own. 62 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:45,400 The root of Jesse still stand as a signal and all the nations 63 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:48,700 shall be looking to him. In that day, he will extend his 64 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:52,000 hand yet a second time. It was, there's another phase. 65 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,200 There's a second coming in the coming of Christ to recover. 66 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,500 The Remnant, the remains of the people, he will raise a signal 67 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:02,300 for the nation's. He will assemble and so forth 68 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,300 and so that takes us down through verse 12. 69 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:09,600 Now, let's stand and read it. You thought I was reading at 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,800 that time, didn't you? Here. 71 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,000 Now the word of the Lord behold. The Lord God of hosts will Lop 72 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 the bowels from terrifying power. 73 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 The great in height will be hewn down, the lofty will be brought 74 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,700 low. He will cut down the thickets of 75 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:27,600 the forest with an axe and Lebanon will fall by The 76 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,100 Majestic. One, there shall come forth, a 77 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:34,900 shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from The Roots. 78 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:38,600 Shall bear fruit, and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, 79 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,500 the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of 80 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:44,800 counsel and might The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,200 Lord in his Delight, shall be, in the fear of the Lord. 82 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,500 He shall not judge by what his eyes, see, or decide decide to 83 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,900 Spirits, by what his ears here. But with righteousness, he shall 84 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:58,700 judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the 85 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:00,900 earth. He shall strike the Earth with 86 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:03,300 the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips, he shall 87 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:07,400 kill the wicked righteousness. Shall be the belt of his waist 88 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,200 and faithfulness. The belt of his loins. 89 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,300 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb. 90 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,600 Lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat and the 91 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,100 calf and the lion in The fetid calf together. 92 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,300 And a little child, shall lead them. 93 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:22,900 The cow and the bear shall graze. 94 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,100 Their young shall lie down together in the lion shall eat 95 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:29,200 straw. Like the ox, the nursing child 96 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,000 shall play over the whole of the Cobra and the weaned child shall 97 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,400 put his hand on the adders Den. They shall not hurt, nor destroy 98 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,700 in all my Holy Mountain, for the Earth, shall be full of the 99 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:45,200 knowledge of the Lord, as the waters, cover the sea. 100 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:48,800 In that day. The root of Jesse who shall 101 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,900 stand as a signal for the peoples of him, shall the 102 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:56,100 nation's inquiry in his resting place shall be glorious in that 103 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:57,800 day. The Lord will extend his hand 104 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,100 yet a second. Time to recover. 105 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:04,400 The Remnant that remains of the people from Assyria, from Egypt, 106 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,200 from path, Ross from Kush. From elim, from shinar from 107 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,600 Hamas, and the cokes Lanes of the sea, he will raise a signal 108 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,100 for the Nations will earn assemble, the banished of the 109 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,400 Israel, and gather, the dispersed of Judah, from the 110 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:24,100 four quarters of the Earth, the word of the Lord, you may be 111 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:38,300 seated. The coming of Christ is very 112 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:42,400 beautifully, symbolized here in this kind of interesting 113 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,000 picture. It's a picture out there in a 114 00:06:45,008 --> 00:06:48,500 wood that has been completely hewn down. 115 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:52,100 And there's a stump, a stump Still Standing. 116 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:55,500 Perhaps you've seen this in the country and on walks where you 117 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:00,900 see an old tree stump out there dried and withered but yet 118 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:05,500 there's a fresh Branch, a little Oh shoot. 119 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:09,500 It's called a rod. It's like a little switch, a 120 00:07:09,508 --> 00:07:14,000 little Branch. It comes up out of that old dead 121 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,200 stump and we'll talk a bit about the stuff for just a moment. 122 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,600 The stump is called the stump of Jesse who in the world is Jesse 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,000 will. Jesse was King, David's father. 124 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,600 Jesse was also the grandson of Boaz and Ruth in the Old 125 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,800 Testament. So in that stump what we have 126 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,400 and they were Tribe of Judah and lived in the land of Judea there 127 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,400 in the old days, in the land of Judah, in the actually, the 128 00:07:41,407 --> 00:07:44,700 little town of Bethlehem and those fields that had the 129 00:07:44,707 --> 00:07:47,500 shepherd's, where they were watching their flock By Night. 130 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,300 Those were the same fields in which Little David took care of 131 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:55,500 his fathers flocks. And so this is the historical 132 00:07:55,900 --> 00:08:00,600 pardon the expression, the extorter, call routing of Christ 133 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,800 in humanity. Because in that stump, we have 134 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,200 got only Jesse, Tyler. We have Ruth and Boaz, but we go 135 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,900 back to Judah, not only go back to Judah, but we go back to, to 136 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:15,700 Jacob and to Isaac and then to Abraham and we go back to Noah. 137 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:20,200 And we go back finally, all the way back to Adam in that route. 138 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,200 We have in that stomp, it with this root system coming down 139 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,000 from the stump. We have all of the grounding and 140 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,400 the routing of humanity. That's why you will find in the 141 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,799 scripture gospels, both in, Luke it in Matthew before, the 142 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,299 stories of the birth of Christ you'll find genealogies because 143 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:44,700 it is important to you to know, as in the case of Matthew's 144 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:49,100 genealogy that he traces this little shoot, this little 145 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:53,100 Branch, this little Rod that comes up out of the stump this 146 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:57,400 little live Vine that begins to emerge from the stump, it's 147 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:03,600 rooted entirely in, in the book. Matthew in the Seed of Abraham, 148 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,600 he is the true descendants. All the others have been lopped 149 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,000 off. There's one true. 150 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,400 Little Chute. Jesus himself called it when he 151 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,800 was / teaching. He said I am the True Vine, it's 152 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,100 the true tree trunk. It's the coming up of the real 153 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:25,100 one from now on every person in humanity is going to be 154 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:30,300 identified by how they relate to that little shoot coming up out 155 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,100 of that. Ed stump of Jesse. 156 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,100 Jesus said, I am the vine. Ye are the branches and he 157 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:41,500 speaks of fruit bearing. Paul will use that same analogy 158 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,100 in the Book of Romans where he will. 159 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:47,400 Teach that. That there is a True Vine that 160 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:53,400 grows up out of Abraham and out of out of David and comes up and 161 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,800 it is the true Israel of God. And while the natural branches, 162 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,700 that is the physical ethnic descendants of Abraham had been 163 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:05,000 lopped off. Off due to their unbelief. 164 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,100 There's been wild branches while tree branches from all over the 165 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:13,500 woods, Gentiles of all ethnic groups. 166 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:17,100 All kinds of people named here in the scriptures using some of 167 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:22,100 the ancient lands have been grafted into that tree trunk. 168 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,600 Not only that, he holds hope that even some of the natural 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,400 branches that have been lopped off. 170 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,700 Are grafted back in. And so now we have a whole new 171 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:37,800 tree trunk and a whole new tree. In fact, just as I mentioned 172 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,700 earlier, that trees represent Nations. 173 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:44,400 This is the Israel of God. This is the true nation. 174 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,900 Jesus Christ. Is that true vine? 175 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,400 And he is that little Branch. It's interesting, it may be a 176 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,800 coincidence. I'm having ska Scholars have a 177 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,800 hard time. Sometimes connecting these dots 178 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,800 and trying to stand on good solid. 179 00:10:57,900 --> 00:10:59,800 Ground when they do it. But I don't need a whole lot of 180 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,300 solid ground. When I see something in 181 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,400 Scripture that Thrills my soul. I just take it at face, value to 182 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,200 go with it. The root word for the name of 183 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,500 the town, Jesus grew up, and his Hebrew is not sir, and that's 184 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:13,400 what's here. The word Branch. 185 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,100 Y'all some fuser go something in the room. 186 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,700 Remember the the ordeal down around Waco with the group that 187 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,000 were called, the Branch Davidians well. 188 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,100 That's what they were. They gave their name it when 189 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,100 Adventist Really messed up and so much of their Theology and 190 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:35,000 came to a sad sad end, is you all remember but nevertheless 191 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,500 that was the thing. They were clean to. 192 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,600 They were going back to something that was fundamentally 193 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,100 clear in the word of God. And that is that there is a, 194 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:52,500 there is a Radix, a root and it is found in a new route that is 195 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,000 come up as the shook, all the other root system below. 196 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,300 Connects to humanity, And connects to Abraham, but it is 197 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:06,600 that true. Branch that True Vine. 198 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:13,700 That is the one to whom we all, shall place our faith, and then 199 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:21,700 the other particular Motif that's used in this Section of 200 00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:24,200 scripture and was selected by Mark as part of our sermon 201 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:29,300 today, is this idea of the remnant, the root? 202 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:33,900 And now, the remnant, The Remnant is, who all shall be 203 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:36,200 saved. Who are The Remnant? 204 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,800 Well, they are the ones that have survived. 205 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:41,700 That have survived the tribulations that Came Upon 206 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:44,400 God's people all the way from the earliest days. 207 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,600 Through the Assyrian assault, through the Babylonian 208 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:53,400 captivity, through the days of Kiss epiphanies through the days 209 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,400 of the coming of Christ. And then through the days of the 210 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,200 destruction of the nation of Israel, in time under Titus, the 211 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,800 Roman officer in 70 AD, all of these ordeals, they have God's 212 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,000 people have come through and those that survive those that 213 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,600 are the believing Remnant. When we come to the Christmas 214 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,200 story, we see a handful of these believing remnants, the people 215 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,800 left in Israel, that was still Resting in the true God believed 216 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,600 in him was looking to his salvation and not to their own 217 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,600 works. We find these people think of a 218 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,500 couple of them. Well, one of them was Zacharias, 219 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,000 his wife, Elizabeth Of the Priestly family. 220 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,700 Descendants of Levi, descendants of Aaron. 221 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:49,100 They were faithful. They brought forth their son, 222 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,700 John who was the Forerunner, the voice in the wilderness, crying 223 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:59,500 prepare the way of the Lord. When Jesus was born, we found 224 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:05,600 some Shepherds. Who heard the Herald Angels Sing 225 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,700 and Came To Worship the newborn king. 226 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,500 There were the Magi. There were people in the temple, 227 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:22,100 an old band Simeon who had lived long, long time and was 228 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:25,300 wondering why he was hanging around so long and but the Lord 229 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:28,100 had given him a promise that he would not see death, until he 230 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:33,500 had seen the hope of Israel. You know, an older lady 231 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,800 wonderful old Widow that had served in ministered in the 232 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,200 environments of the temple, her whole life and she was in the 233 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,400 temple. When Jesus was brought there by 234 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,800 his mother and father to do those ceremonies that are 235 00:14:47,808 --> 00:14:50,500 necessary in the early days of a child's life. 236 00:14:53,900 --> 00:15:01,300 Remnant survivors Believers. Those who have come through the 237 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:06,100 great tribulations, those who have come through all of the 238 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:10,100 sifting, those who have passed through the judgments, not 239 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:13,200 because of their own. But because God sovereignly and 240 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,900 wonderfully had saved them and preserved them, and that's 241 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:18,600 really the doctrine of the remnant. 242 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:23,000 The Lord is coming back to receive his Remnant. 243 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,100 It's why You read the book of Revelation. 244 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:28,400 There's a lot of talk in the Book of Revelation about 245 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,800 perseverance and hanging in there and being, and being 246 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,600 faithful to the end being faithful. 247 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,600 Even to martyrdom, those whose land whose garments have been 248 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,000 washed in the blood. Were those who were beheaded for 249 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 the testimony of Jesus. I'm here to tell you, if I don't 250 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,500 get to preach too much more in my lifetime, this is what I'm 251 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:53,300 going to say. We are living on the precipice. 252 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,900 Of a time of Great Tribulation great persecution for 253 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:02,100 Christians. There's a beast out there, 254 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:07,400 there's false prophet out there, there's a great Harlot out 255 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,600 there. There's an antichrist out there 256 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,000 and the spirit of all these things Works diligently. 257 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,800 And it says here that the Tyranny is the is what takes 258 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:25,800 over. The world Satan is a tyrant. 259 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,300 In fact, when he talks about the remnant, let me give you. 260 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,100 Where the remnant theme is all through the Old Testament, but 261 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:33,600 just earlier there in chapter 10, I told you were picking up 262 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,000 in the middle of the story with our text, but here's some 263 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,200 background to that anniversary in that day. 264 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,600 The remnant of Israel in the survivors of the House of Jacob 265 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,500 will no more lean on him who struck them, but they will lean 266 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:52,800 on the Lord. If I was a preacher, I'd stop 267 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,900 and preach right here. Leaning on the Lord, you know, 268 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:01,600 we seen that old song leaning on the Everlasting Arms Bible says, 269 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,700 underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 270 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,000 Strip it bare, get it down to the Radix, get it down to the 271 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,599 root. Get it down to the fundamentals. 272 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,400 Boil it down to the real deal. The only thing that matters in 273 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,500 my life in your life, for our lifetime, as how we relate to 274 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,700 the Lord Jesus Christ. Do we know him? 275 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:22,400 Does he know us? Has he called us? 276 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,000 Have we answered. Are we trusting? 277 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,599 Are we believing? Are we leaning? 278 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:28,500 Why does love that word? They lean on the Lord. 279 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:32,500 That's the word for absolute dependence and Trust who lean on 280 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:35,100 the Lord. The Holy One of Israel in truth. 281 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,600 A Remnant will return the remnant of Jacob to the Mighty 282 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,700 God for though, your People Israel be as the sand of the 283 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:45,000 sea? Only a Remnant will return. 284 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,700 Destruction is decreed That's the bad news. 285 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:55,600 Destruction is decreed, this is God, speaking about his coming 286 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,100 for his people, but the rest of the phrase, says overflowing 287 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,700 with righteousness. If I preached on, stop right 288 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:08,300 here and preach about that. To destruction is decreed and 289 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:11,000 the destruction is overflowing with righteousness. 290 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,800 What does that mean? That means that the just God Of 291 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,300 Heaven and Earth, the god, that will make no mistakes with 292 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:20,900 respect to Justice and fairness. All Justice or any other kind of 293 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:23,500 Justice. He'll be the one that will sort 294 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:25,700 it out. He will judge according to 295 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:28,700 righteousness and faithfulness. Our Tech said, he will not just 296 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:30,900 look at the appearance of the eye, but he will judge the 297 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:32,600 thoughts and intents of the heart. 298 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,800 And when there's a need for punishment, he will meet it out. 299 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:41,500 Expertly, and fairly, and righteously and overflowing in. 300 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,600 All of that is righteousness. The judge of all the Earth does, 301 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,000 right? God, has committed all judgment 302 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 to the son. Jesus said, when they were, Poor 303 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,400 meaning Jesus and and persecuting him during his day 304 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,700 and all that he said don't you know I'm the judge you know how 305 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:02,900 smart is it to insult and to Mock and Tudor ride into curse 306 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:07,300 in to kill the judge. And Jesus Christ is that one for 307 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:15,900 the Lord God of hosts will make a full end Fu LL e ND a full end 308 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:18,100 it was he's going to wrap it up, he's going to sum it up. 309 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:19,500 That's the only thing that gives me any. 310 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,600 He kind of Peace in this world in which we live. 311 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,000 I read my YouTube every day and watch it all the news and 312 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,800 listen, there's so much Injustice, so much corruption so 313 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:34,900 much sin, so much violence so much crookedness so much lying 314 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:38,000 in this Society it's making me sick to my stomach. 315 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,400 Do you have any righteousness in your soul at all? 316 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,200 Your like toll ancient lot. It talked about where his soul 317 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,000 was vexed. My soul is vexed and vexed by 318 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,800 the some of the same things that vexed. 319 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,600 Ol lot back there in Sodom. The vexing of the soul, but the 320 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:05,800 Lord will make a full end as to decreed in all the midst of the 321 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,300 Earth. Now says the Lord O, my people 322 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:13,200 who dwell in Zion and by the way, when you read your Old 323 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,500 Testament, you read about Zion, it's Zions Hill, there's a whole 324 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:18,500 history to it. It was the place where David set 325 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,600 up a tabernacle to worship God, which wasn't that, like the 326 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,800 temple that was in Jerusalem, which he was yet to build her 327 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,300 Solomon, his son would build. But there was a different kind 328 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:29,500 of worship that was very ordered and structured and very 329 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,500 liturgical in the temple. But over in the Tabernacle, 330 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:38,500 there wasn't anything, but the ark, and David there was nobody 331 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:45,200 in the worship center, but Jesus and David And that's the way it 332 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,000 ought to be in a true worship said, I don't care how many 333 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,400 stained glass windows have, what kind of organ and what kind of 334 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,500 choir and what kind of Elder board or anything else you have, 335 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,600 when you get right down to it, there's got to be the Ark of the 336 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,800 Covenant, which is the presence of God, in the Throne of God and 337 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,200 his humble people. And that's worship right there. 338 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,400 And that's what the Lord is coming to install. 339 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,700 Is that kind of worship center? It's Zion, it's a mountain. 340 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:14,500 It's the Holy Mountain of the Lord. 341 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,900 My people who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians. 342 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:21,000 And then he goes, an immediate prophecy about how the Assyrians 343 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,400 will not will, not overthrow you, but instead, the Lord will 344 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,200 overcome them. Now this this particular theme 345 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,500 of The Remnant is carried forward in the New Testament and 346 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:38,900 that's where we can do just a little spot of gospel preaching. 347 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,000 Before we're done. It's that passage in your text. 348 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,500 That I did not read. I'm going to read the larger 349 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:51,100 context for you. Romans chapter 15 beginning in 350 00:21:51,108 --> 00:21:55,800 verse 8, for I tell you that Christ became a servant to the 351 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,200 circumcised, that's to the Jews to the to the people of the 352 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,900 stump. To show God's truthfulness in 353 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:07,400 order to confirm the promises made to the Patriarchs and it 354 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,200 was God, didn't start over with a brand-new tree. 355 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,500 He worked out of that. Same old, stump that contained, 356 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,400 the Patriarchs, the father's In the root system. 357 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:22,900 But coming out of that he took care of all Of the prune to 358 00:22:22,908 --> 00:22:27,200 fruit eliminating and bringing about a new trunk. 359 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:29,700 And that's what that's what God has done. 360 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:34,000 And in order that the Gentiles, that's the nation's that's the 361 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,200 ethnic groups. That's the non-jews, that's the 362 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,700 uncircumcised. In order that the Gentiles might 363 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:44,300 glorify God for his mercy. And that's what we do on Zions 364 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:46,600 Hill. When We Gather and Worship the 365 00:22:46,608 --> 00:22:50,200 Lord and He quotes Paul quotes. Several of them I'll call he 366 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,000 quote, Psalm 18, therefore I Praise You among the Gentiles 367 00:22:54,300 --> 00:23:00,000 and we'll sing to your name, Rejoice, O Gentiles with his 368 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,500 people. Jews and Gentiles together in 369 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:08,300 one tree. Being brought together infusions 370 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:11,300 to Paul explains how that middle wall of partition has been 371 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:13,800 broken down. And now there's one people of 372 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,000 God, Jews. True Jews, truly circumcised 373 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,400 circumcised in the heart, not the flesh Rejoice O Gentiles 374 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,800 with his people 117th, Psalm and again praise the Lord. 375 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,200 All you Gentiles let all the peoples extol him. 376 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:35,800 The Christian faith is an Our national faith, it is for all 377 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,800 ethnic groups, All Peoples everywhere. 378 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,500 Every time the Christian faith gets too bogged down in culture, 379 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:47,300 it begins to distort itself. It's time for us to think in 380 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,200 terms of God's kingdom God's culture and thinking worry, and 381 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,100 and give our our time and attention to the building up of 382 00:23:55,100 --> 00:24:01,400 God's Cultus God's culture. Not just ethnic cultures because 383 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:07,100 all the ethnic groups subside and reside and fall apart and 384 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:10,800 are really rendered very little. There's all tongues and all 385 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,100 tribes, and all kindred's are in the household of God. 386 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,600 And then finally, in verse 12, he says, and again, Isaiah says, 387 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:23,000 the root of Jesse will come. Here's that Old Testament Motif 388 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,400 brought forward by Paul in his gospel preaching. 389 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:32,300 The root of Jesse will come even who Rises to rule the Gentiles. 390 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:35,200 I thought he was the king of the Jews. 391 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:40,000 Yes, he is. But he's the king of the 392 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,300 Gentiles because the Gentiles have been brought nigh. 393 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:46,100 They've been brought together in with the, in, with the Jews into 394 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:50,000 the same tree trunk and into the same route and into the same 395 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,700 tree for even he who arises will rule the Gentiles in him with 396 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,300 the Gentiles. Hope when that word, hope comes 397 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:59,200 up. Now we have gospel preaching and 398 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,400 that's what Paul does over and over. 399 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,900 In the Book of Romans here in verse 13, May the god of Hope 400 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:08,400 fill you with all joy and peace. Nice. 401 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,200 What else do we symbol? What would we celebrate here at 402 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,100 Christmas time? Then Joy Joy to the World. 403 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:18,500 Peace on Earth Goodwill. May the god of hope there is 404 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:20,900 hope for the Sun and there's hope for the Lost Gentile. 405 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,300 There's Hope for those who've been cut off by the Judgment of 406 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:29,100 God to be restored with Mercy that God gives us in Christ in 407 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:31,600 believing. That's faith. 408 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:35,400 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 409 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:41,200 You the just shall live by faith that's leaning on the Lord as in 410 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,200 as it was described in the Old Testament in believing, so that 411 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,400 by the power of the Holy Spirit, It, you may abound in hope this 412 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,000 is that trinitarian. We've got the god of Hope. 413 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:58,300 We've got the rod of Jesse who's the son, and we have the Holy 414 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:05,000 Spirit, all of the Triune God at work for our salvation. 415 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,400 In sending his son, Jesus Christ. 416 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:13,300 To be our savior whosoever believeth in him. 417 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:16,700 Shall not perish. Not perish in all those 418 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:21,800 judgments we talked about but have everlasting life.