1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:06,320 In Luke 11/1, this is one of the many places where Jesus is 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,160 described as praying. He goes off and he prays and as 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,880 soon as he's finished it records. 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,240 Luke records. The disciples come to him and 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,240 they ask, Lord, teach us how to pray. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,320 And the passage that follows his teaching his lesson to them has 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,800 become legendary. He says to them, Go into your 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,680 room and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,800 He says, And then you pray then like this, and you can pray it 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,680 with me. He says, Our Father, who art in 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,200 heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, Thy will be 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,000 done on earth as it is in heaven. 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,680 Give us this day, Our Daily Bread, and forgive us our 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,960 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,760 us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 16 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,320 For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever and 17 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,480 ever, Amen. So my own devotional life, I've 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,040 been impressed with the words, Give us this day, Our Daily 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,160 Bread. Give us this day, Our Daily 20 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,080 Bread. And learning in my own life, in 21 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,040 my own ministry, as you are learning in yours, that daily 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,280 bread means so much more than your food. 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,280 We pray for our food for this day, but we also need everything 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,360 that we have to face in this day. 25 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,600 Lord, give it to us. We don't have the strength and 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,600 the energy to do a 10th of what we are called to do in a day. 27 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,640 And so we have to say, you know, Lord, tomorrow has enough 28 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,880 trouble for itself. Help us to focus on today and 29 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,080 give us the energy for today. Give us grace and compassion for 30 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,240 today. Give us courage for today, joy 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,200 and peace for today. And then with it, the literal 32 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,920 words, yes, we need food and water and nourishment and the 33 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,040 things that are necessary for this vessel, this body for 34 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,880 today. And it was often said of Martin 35 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,920 Luther and his life and his ministry that there were only 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,240 two days on his calendar today and that day. 37 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,000 And what I want you to do this morning is to follow in the 38 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,800 footsteps of Jesus in ripping out every day out of your 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,720 calendar except for today and that day. 40 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,640 And I want you to open up to the book of Isaiah, chapter 63, 41 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,920 where Isaiah is going to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and 42 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,520 we're going to follow shortly after Him of taking every day 43 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:26,200 out of our consideration off of our calendar, focusing on today 44 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,080 and that day. Those are the two days He wants 45 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,200 to talk about. And when he's talking about that 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,360 day, he's talking about the day of the Lord, His coming 47 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,040 judgment, the manifestation of His righteousness, the day where 48 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,920 He will conquer all of my enemies, all of your enemies, 49 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,320 most importantly, all of His enemies. 50 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:43,560 He will reign and rule and righteousness. 51 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,040 There will be sin no more. He will consummate His Kingdom. 52 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,360 And when we consider that day, we realize that there's a dark 53 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,000 side to praying the Lord's Prayer that we just prayed. 54 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,080 There's a dark side to confessing the words Your 55 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,480 Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 56 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,480 And so with the coming Kingdom comes final salvation. 57 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,600 And there can never be final salvation without final 58 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,960 judgment. And when you see it over and 59 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,040 over again, there is no salvation without judgment. 60 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,960 The salvation of one group is always the judgment of another 61 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,520 group. And we're finishing Isaiah, 62 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:19,960 we're coming into the final chapters. 63 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,400 We'll finish the book next week with chapter 66. 64 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,360 And as we as we end it, I want to take you back to the 65 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,800 beginning Isaiah, one that introduces all of these 66 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,760 wonderful themes, all of these wonderful promises. 67 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,840 Remember Isaiah in these, this beautiful language of Isaiah 1, 68 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,080 where he says, wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove 69 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,080 the evil of your deeds from before my eyes, cease to do 70 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,280 evil, learn to do good. What does that mean? 71 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,480 Seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the 72 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,600 fatherless, plead the widow's cause and the Commission. 73 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,800 Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. 74 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,200 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as 75 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,840 snow. Though they are red like 76 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,200 Crimson, they shall become like wool. 77 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,200 And then he adds to it this conditional sentence. 78 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,520 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the 79 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,560 land. But if you refuse and rebel, you 80 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,079 shall be eaten by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has 81 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:18,200 spoken. If you remember, we we saw you 82 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,760 will eat the good of the land, you will eat your fruit of the 83 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,520 promises, or you will be eaten by the sword on the last day. 84 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:26,960 The mouth of the Lord has spoken. 85 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,360 This is that last day. That's what's pictured in Isaiah 86 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,440 63. And and this scene, verses 1 to 87 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,400 to 6 is incredible. It Isaiah sets the scene like a 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,760 movie. It's like the introduction to a 89 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,000 movie. And Jesus has just fulfilled 90 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,320 this verse. You will be eaten by the sword. 91 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,760 He's just fulfilled Revelation 19 when Jesus comes riding on 92 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,400 the White Horse and he's smitten the nations with the sword of 93 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,680 his mouth. And you get to see vividly 94 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,040 exactly what that means. Read with me Isaiah 63 one to 14 95 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,320 and hear the story. Who is this? 96 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,080 Who comes from Edom in Crimson garments from Basra? 97 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,280 He who was splendid in his apparel, marching in the 98 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:15,480 greatness of his strength. It is I, speaking in 99 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,400 righteousness, mighty to save. Why is your apparel red in your 100 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,840 garments like his who treads in the wine press? 101 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,800 I've trodden the wine press alone and from the peoples. 102 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,640 No one was with me. I trod them in my anger and 103 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,880 trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood spattered on my 104 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,920 garments and stained all my apparel. 105 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,960 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of 106 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,040 redemption had come. I looked, but there was no one 107 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,880 to help. I was appalled, but there was no 108 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,280 one to uphold. So my own arm brought me 109 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:45,000 salvation and my wrath upheld me. 110 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,640 I trampled down the peoples in my anger, I made them drunk in 111 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,320 my wrath. I poured out their lifeblood on 112 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,880 the earth. I will recount the steadfast 113 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,760 love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord according to all that 114 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,480 the Lord has granted us, in the great goodness to the House of 115 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,760 Israel that He has granted to them according to His 116 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,960 compassion, according to the abundance of His steadfast love. 117 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,440 For He said, Surely they are my people, children, who will not 118 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,600 deal falsely. And He became their Savior and 119 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,960 all their affliction. He was afflicted, and the Angel 120 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,280 of His presence saved them. In His love and in His pity He 121 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:18,800 redeemed them. And He lifted them up and 122 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,640 carried them all the days of old, But they rebelled and 123 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,880 grieved His Holy Spirit. Therefore He turned to be their 124 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,000 enemy, and Himself fought against them. 125 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,440 Then He remembered the days of old, of Moses and His people. 126 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,080 Where? Where is He who brought them? 127 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,960 Up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock, Whereas 128 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,920 he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit, who caused his 129 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,880 glorious arm to go at his right hand of Moses, who divided the 130 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,560 waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name, who 131 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,320 led them through the depths like a horse in the desert. 132 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,920 They did not stumble like livestock that go down into the 133 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,880 valley. The Spirit of the Lord gave them 134 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,160 rest. So you LED your people to make 135 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:01,800 for yourself a glorious name. So this passage and these 14 136 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,680 verses give us 2 images of Jesus Christ, 2 metaphors. 137 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,520 And I want you to see these are character traits that are 138 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,600 showing the same glorious Savior. 139 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,160 On the one hand, he's the humble, meek, mild shepherd. 140 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,560 It's like he says out of his own mouth that he's gentle and lowly 141 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,040 in heart. And it's the same Savior who's 142 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,280 also the avenging sword wielder, the righteous judge. 143 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,720 And so the two images are he's depicted in Scripture. 144 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,840 Jesus is depicted in Scripture as a lion, the image being a 145 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,720 symbol of strength and kingship and victory. 146 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,120 He's kingly and majestic and powerful. 147 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,680 And he's also depicted in Scripture as a lamb, which is an 148 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,120 image of sacrifice and innocence and mercy. 149 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,040 He is meek and gentle and lowly and humble, and we combine 150 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,480 those. What does it mean to be powerful 151 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,280 and humble, to be a leader and a servant? 152 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,200 Those kind of all get summed up in this one word. 153 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,640 He's meek, he's powerful, and yet a servant. 154 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:01,960 And these are complimentary images. 155 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,840 That's why when you read Revelation 5, you remember he's 156 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,680 in heaven. John is in heaven, and he sees, 157 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,520 or he hears rather a lion that's worthy to open the scroll. 158 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,280 And then he turns around and what does he see? 159 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,800 A lamb standing in the midst of heaven. 160 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,680 He's bringing these two images together and he's saying these 161 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,080 are complimentary pictures of who Jesus is, powerful and 162 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,520 gentle. They're the same person. 163 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,480 And you have to make room in your theology for Jesus, not 164 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,560 only as a lamb expressing his love and go humbly, going to the 165 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,240 cross and dealing gently. And you have to add to it the 166 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,120 theology that he is a lion and he is a king, and he is a 167 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,000 conquering king, and he will slaughter his enemies so that 168 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,720 there can be peace and righteousness in the world. 169 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,600 He's the Lamb slain and he's a roaring lion. 170 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,600 He's a humble servant and a holy executioner. 171 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,240 He's a compassionate healer and a consuming fire. 172 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,760 And when you look at these first 6 verses of Isaiah 63, it's him 173 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,520 as the lion of the tribe of Judah. 174 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,000 He is a roaring lion. And you see in verses 7 to 14 He 175 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,560 is, we appeal to him not as a consuming fire, but as the Lamb 176 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,960 of God who takes away the sins of the world one to six. 177 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,400 He's the lion, 7 to 14. He's the lamb. 178 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,480 And we'll begin here in verses one to six. 179 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,720 And what's happening here with this image? 180 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,800 There's this mysterious warrior who's who's walking up to 181 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,240 Jerusalem. It is a there's this repeating 182 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,760 theme, this recapitulation. It's happening over and over 183 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,360 again. This is the same warrior of 184 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,760 Isaiah 59. We've already seen it. 185 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,520 He's wrapped in a cloak like zeal. 186 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,000 And if he is your Lord and you are his servant, I want 187 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,360 Christians in my church that are like this. 188 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,760 I want Christians. And so do you fellow brothers 189 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,600 and sisters who wrap themselves. They're eager to do the things 190 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,560 of God. They're wrapped in cloak like a 191 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:51,320 zeal. They're wearing righteousness as 192 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,560 a breastplate. Your good works go before you. 193 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,600 Your light is shining before the world wielding the two edged 194 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,240 sword of the word of God. And then there's this garment 195 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,600 that Isaiah 59 puts forward that we would never wear. 196 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,120 We're we're forbidden to wear it said back there that he puts on 197 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,680 garments of vengeance for clothing. 198 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,480 And listen to what comes after He wears this, it says, bringing 199 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,520 wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies. 200 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,440 He will come like a rushing stream. 201 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,480 We looked at that metaphor. This means it's, it's this wild, 202 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,360 uncontrollable thing for for the Lord. 203 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,600 It's a calculated judgment. But you can't take a river home. 204 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,520 You can't control it. It's powerful. 205 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,240 It's it's out of reach for us. It's a flowing river, a mighty 206 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,240 river. This is the Lord as he comes in 207 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,120 vengeance to repay his adversaries. 208 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,480 The immediate context of our passage is Isaiah 6211. 209 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,240 The church is instructed to behold because our salvation is 210 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,360 coming. And you look at verse one of our 211 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,720 text, it's 2 verses later, you get the privileged position of 212 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,960 being with the Watchmen standing on the wall of Jerusalem. 213 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,880 As this warrior approaches, it's Jesus Christ. 214 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,080 He has just slaughtered the wicked. 215 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,360 And here he comes marching into his holy city. 216 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:07,520 You're you're with the the watchman. 217 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,600 You're watching him approach. He dialogues the people dialogue 218 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,600 with this mysterious warrior. And there's reservation as this 219 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,960 man comes up to Jerusalem because they, as we see and as 220 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,000 we begin to to notice, it looks like he's been working in the 221 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,720 vineyards and he's been trampling grapes. 222 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,560 He looks as if he's been working. 223 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:28,480 And as they approach, they realize there's a little bit of 224 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,200 apprehension because it's blood. It's blood on his garments. 225 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,160 And then this figure proclaims the execution of vengeance and 226 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,440 redemption and salvation. And that vengeance is to be met 227 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,880 in the church by you and by me and by all the Saints with a 228 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:51,160 resounding Hallelujah. That's the response to say 229 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,320 Hallelujah. God be praised. 230 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,640 This is what's going to happen in Revelation 19 when God says 231 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:59,960 he finally executes this judgment. 232 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,960 The people respond with three hallelujahs. 233 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,040 It happened with Goliath. Was anybody excited in the 234 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,600 church? When David slayed Goliath? 235 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,440 He cut off his head and the people it says, raised with a 236 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,880 shout, right. It was a beautiful day. 237 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,960 The judgment of Him was the salvation of Israel. 238 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,040 It was met in Revelation 19, one to 8 judgments met with 239 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,800 hallelujahs, it says. After this I heard what sound, 240 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,760 what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude in heaven crying 241 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,960 out Hallelujah. Salvation and glory and power 242 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,640 belong to our God, for His judgments are true and just. 243 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,560 He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the 244 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,880 earth with her immorality, and He has avenged on her the blood 245 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,520 of His servant. Jesus is an avenger. 246 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,600 We are not Avengers. The Lord alone is the avenger. 247 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:52,160 And Revelation describes the same event of Isaiah 63 when it 248 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,120 says these famous words. John records, I saw heaven 249 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,640 opened and behold, a White Horse. 250 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,600 And the one sitting on it is called faithful and true. 251 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,920 And in righteousness he judges and makes war. 252 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,800 That's our passage. It says He speaks in 253 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,480 righteousness. His eyes are like a flame of 254 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,360 fire, and on his head are many diadems. 255 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,160 He's clothed in a robe dipped in blood. 256 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,840 He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of the 257 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,680 Almighty God. The beast and the false prophet 258 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:22,400 are thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 259 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,720 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth 260 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,160 of him who was sitting on the horse. 261 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,800 And all the birds were gorged with their flesh. 262 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:36,240 And Isaiah 63 picks up from that moment he walks into his holy 263 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,320 city. He approaches his holy city and 264 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,440 the the Watchmen on the tower call out questioning him in 265 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,040 verse one. Who are you? 266 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,280 His response begins with a singular word in the original 267 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,520 Ani. It is I, it is I, it is Jesus 268 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,680 Christ. He says, speaking in 269 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,040 righteousness. I am mighty to save. 270 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,680 It's powerful. And then they ask of him, Why is 271 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,240 your apparel read? Why are your garments like his? 272 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,080 Who treads the wine press? And this is where Jesus kind of 273 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,200 picks up on their their imagery. He says, why, why do you look 274 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,840 like you've been trampling out grapes? 275 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,280 And he basically says, because I have been trampling out grapes. 276 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:19,840 And he says, I spilled literally the juice out onto the land. 277 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,520 And he picks up on the grape image in this vineyard. 278 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,240 And he builds this metaphor read with me. 279 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,520 He says I've trodden the wine press alone and from the peoples 280 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,320 there was no one with me. I trod them in my anger and I 281 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,880 trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood spattered on my 282 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,880 garments and stained all my apparel. 283 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,280 For the day of vengeance was in my heart and my year of 284 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,040 redemption had come. Verse six. 285 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,000 I trampled down the peoples in my anger. 286 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,560 I made them drunk in my wrath. I poured out their lifeblood on 287 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,080 the earth. And this is where we have to 288 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,840 stop as a as a church and confess. 289 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,280 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God 290 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,680 is utterly terrifying. Jesus is the lamb. 291 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:06,320 Jesus is also the lion in John 1930, the final words that Jesus 292 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,720 speaks on the cross before he breathes his last, it says he 293 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,160 speaks. It is finished to Telestai. 294 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,200 It's finished and only that moment after confessing that you 295 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,440 can't confess it after you're dead. 296 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,760 So he confesses it as he's breathing his last that the work 297 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,600 is done. One of my favorite verses, Luke 298 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:26,240 2253, he says he gave himself to the cross because this is the 299 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,760 hour and the power of darkness. And he's saying that this is all 300 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,440 the the darkness that the world can muster the the earth and all 301 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,240 of the demonic forces. This is the worst they can do is 302 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,960 the cross. And it's a disgusting images, 303 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,080 but it, it teaches us the words of John 15 that the light shines 304 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,880 in the darkness and the darkness will not, cannot, does not 305 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,440 overcome it. And so he says it is finished. 306 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,080 And this is what he's saying in Isaiah 63. 307 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,360 The work of salvation was finished, but now the work of 308 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,440 judgment is finished. And the world's going to learn 309 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,520 this the hard way on that day that there was an hour appointed 310 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,200 for the IT was the hour and the power of darkness. 311 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,040 But there will likewise likewise be a day coming when it will be 312 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,760 the hour and the power of light, and Jesus is going to display 313 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,320 that the darkness cannot overcome the light. 314 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,920 And it's all personified on that day when he comes riding a White 315 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,920 Horse and he'll be in the resplendence of his glory, and 316 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:25,200 his white garments will will shine and be stained with blood. 317 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,640 And the day that Isaiah 63 is picturing is that day. 318 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,680 And you have to make room and your theology for this Jesus 319 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,520 Christ. This is the God of the Bible. 320 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,640 This is your Savior, This is Him and His glory. 321 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,320 He comes in his anger and in his wrath and in his vengeance and 322 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,640 in his fury. He comes to judge the wicked. 323 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,280 And he has to do this so that righteousness can reign 324 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,280 forevermore. We cannot be truly blessed and 325 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,920 truly at peace while there are enemies of God in the world and 326 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,920 He deals with them and you see that it is first coming. 327 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,120 Jesus was the humble Lamb who was slain. 328 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,000 He's covered in his own blood. And when he comes at his second 329 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,240 coming, he is the lion and he is covered in the blood of the 330 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,920 wicked. A few questions that the text 331 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,960 answers for us. The first one is where is he 332 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:14,960 coming from? Look at the very beginning of 333 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,680 verse one. The men ask him, who is this? 334 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,920 Who comes from Edom? From Basra, Edom was the 335 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,040 ceaseless, tireless enemy of Israel. 336 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,200 If you remember all the way back to Jacob, the patriarch Jacob, 337 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,880 he had a brother Esau, He said before they were born, though 338 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,840 they had done nothing good or bad Jacob have I loved Esau have 339 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,560 I hated the descendants of Esau were called the Edomites and 340 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,920 they were the perpetual enemies of Israel and so they they come 341 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,280 from there. He said, why did, why does he 342 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,320 pick up on Edom to represent all of the nations? 343 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:51,160 It, it could be because they are typical in the Bible of they're 344 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,920 just a standard typical enemy of God. 345 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,280 And so they are a good representation of all of the 346 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,480 wicked nations. It could be because of the word 347 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,480 play between Edom and Adam, meaning man or mankind. 348 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,280 It's the same three Hebrew consonants with different 349 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,000 vowels. There's a lot of word play. 350 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,120 There's three different words in Obadiah, the book of Obadiah. 351 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,800 They have the same word play. There's Edom and Edom and Adam. 352 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,960 It could be that Edom is representing all of us and it 353 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,880 could have been because Edom literally means red. 354 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,720 That name keeps appearing in Esau's narrative. 355 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,680 And so his people literally become the Edomites. 356 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,280 It's it's they are red. They dwell in the, the red Hill 357 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:34,040 Country and Basra is the capital city of, of Edom. 358 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,080 It literally means vintage. So he might be using it because 359 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,720 Edom means red playing on this wine theme and vintage is the 360 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,760 word for Basra playing again on this winepress theme. 361 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,000 Or maybe it's some combination of all of them. 362 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,960 But Psalm 137 says the attitude of Edom as the enemy of God. 363 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,680 They say against Jerusalem, lay it bare, lay it bare, take it 364 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,760 down to its foundations and you have the response of God, the 365 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,560 ultimate response of God in Isaiah 63, where he says I will 366 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,160 lay you bare, and he takes Edom down to its foundations. 367 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,960 Jesus is coming from Edom and from Basra where he stained his 368 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,120 robes in slaughter. And you can know this. 369 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,080 This represents all of God's enemies. 370 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,400 Another question, where is he coming from? 371 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,720 But what is he like? It draws your attention to four 372 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,360 things as it shows you what this warrior figure wearing this 373 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,720 armor of God, what's he like? The first thing the text draws 374 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,640 your attention to is his vivid garments. 375 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,400 First one, ESV says that they're Crimson garments. 376 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,040 They're they're glowing. They're shining. 377 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,520 The NASB says they're garments of glowing colors, and some of 378 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,120 our translations add Crimson because of all of this red 379 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:46,040 imagery and this red theme. But however he is, he's, he's 380 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,240 glowing. The second thing it wants to 381 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,000 draw your attention to is his splendor. 382 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,880 He's not disheveled. He's not disheveled from war. 383 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,600 He's he's glowing. He's splendid. 384 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,400 Third thing it wants you to see is his gait. 385 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:04,920 He's striving forward in the greatness of his strength. 386 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,160 That's a confident, energetic March. 387 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,720 The word in the, in the original is that he's, he's, he's 388 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,120 stooping. He's, he's leaning in to his 389 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:14,360 March. He's, he's moving up the 390 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:17,120 mountain of Jerusalem and he's not tired. 391 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,760 He's like a marathon runner. If you watch the Paris Olympics, 392 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,320 at the end of the, at the end of the marathon, there's a massive 393 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,560 hill and you see these, these people, these, these marathon 394 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,280 runners leaning into it. They're confident, confident, 395 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,560 energetic March. His gait is one of strength and 396 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,280 confidence. He's wrapped, Isaiah 59 says, in 397 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,320 zeal as a cloak. And the fourth thing I want you 398 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,960 to see is His strength, the greatness of his strength, 399 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,880 literally the abundance of his strength in the original. 400 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,720 And this is because this is God himself. 401 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,560 This is what Ephesians says, where we were to be strong in 402 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,760 the Lord and then the strength of the strength of him. 403 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,920 It's 3 words and Ephesians and in the Greek language that all 404 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,880 are representing God. We are to be strong in His 405 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,960 strength, the strength of the strength of Him. 406 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:03,560 All this communicating to you that the work of wrath and fury 407 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:08,400 is done and God is not tired. He's confident moving into His 408 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,480 holy city. And I want to take you back. 409 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Chris preached last week wonderfully on Isaiah 61 and he 410 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,960 takes you back to when, when Jesus opens up his very first 411 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,720 sermon in the book of Luke, the very first sermon he ever 412 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,320 preaches, he opens up to Isaiah. He opens the scroll of Isaiah to 413 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,560 chapter 61 and he reads it and Luke, the entire book of Luke, 414 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,400 the program, the, the theme, the, the way he writes that book 415 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,640 is based on that one verse. And you see Isaiah 4 at the at 416 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,920 the premiere event of his ministry, he opens up the scroll 417 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,120 and he declares the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. 418 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:47,440 Do you remember? And if you look at the context 419 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,440 in Luke 4, that's just happened. The Spirit of God has just 420 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,280 descended on Jesus like a dove and he's been empowered for for 421 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,600 ministry. And he says I came to proclaim 422 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760 liberty to the captives. That was fulfilled literally in 423 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,320 that chapter, verses 31 to 37, as he casts out the demons and 424 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,000 the people say, what is this word? 425 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,800 Who is this that he casts out demons and that the demons are 426 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,800 subjected to him. And he says, I came to preach 427 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:14,680 good news to the poor. That is the the the purpose of 428 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,040 the book of Luke. Blessed are the poor, blessed 429 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,160 are those who are hungry for they shall be satisfied. 430 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,560 He came to recover sight to the blind. 431 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,440 You see it over and over Chapter 7, verse 21. 432 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,520 He says go and tell John what you've seen and heard. 433 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,120 How does he prove that he is the Messiah to him? 434 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:34,080 He says go, tell him the blind received their sight. 435 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,800 It's exactly as Isaiah prophesied Isaiah or excuse me, 436 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,120 Luke 1841 to 43. Jesus says recover your sight, 437 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,600 your faith has made you well and immediately he received his 438 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,520 sight and followed him, glorifying God. 439 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,280 I say all that because Jesus reads this verse, he reads half 440 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,880 a verse. He stops in the middle of a 441 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,880 sentence. He says I came to proclaim the 442 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,000 year of the Lord's favor, but he stopped short of saying and the 443 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,920 day of vengeance of my God, of our God. 444 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,360 He leaves off that half of a verse because that was not the 445 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,120 purpose of his first coming. He came as the Lamb of God to 446 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,280 pour out his blood. That was his first coming, 447 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,880 proclaiming salvation and peace. And when the time for that has 448 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,120 ended, he will come again, riding on a White Horse, his 449 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,360 sword drawn. And he this time he will carry 450 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,840 his sword and he will bring the vengeance of God. 451 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,520 And the sword is not ceremonial. He's not carrying it as a prop. 452 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,160 I'll never forget being at Buckingham Palace and we're 453 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,040 watching the King's Guard come in and there's a group of guys 454 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,960 next to us that are making fun of the King's Guard with their 455 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,720 red uniform and their fuzzy Black Hat. 456 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:46,320 And I won't forget that this guide looked at the group and 457 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,640 kind of shut him up because he said, don't forget those guns 458 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,360 are loaded and they have been given all authority to use them. 459 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,960 And again, once they said that, I got the the group piped down. 460 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,120 They were in earshot of the guards. 461 00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:58,360 That it's the same with our Lord. 462 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,800 People make fun of Jesus and he's coming with a sword, and 463 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,600 the sword is not a prop, it's not ceremonial, it's not for 464 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,080 show. Remember back to Hezekiah's 465 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,320 narrative where an Angel hacked 185,000 men to death with a 466 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:18,120 sword and a night. That is a picture, a foretaste 467 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,560 of what Jesus will do on the last day. 468 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,520 And we have to ask as a church, what do we do with with that? 469 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,880 What are we supposed to do with with statements like this about 470 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,680 God's final judgment? And is this gruesome image of 471 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,200 blood being spattered? I think the first thing is that 472 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,760 we need to take seriously the teaching of the New Testament 473 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,120 that says we don't take vengeance on ourselves. 474 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,000 We don't seek to go out and bring wrath on others on God's 475 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,720 behalf. Vengeance is the Lord's and he 476 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,720 will repay. And I want to remember, remind 477 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,920 you what we already read in John, that all judgment has been 478 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,440 given to the Son and we confess and He is capable of it. 479 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,400 Isaiah 63, three, you can look it with me again, Jesus's words. 480 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,600 I have trodden the winepress alone, and he says it again, 481 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,920 lest you miss it. And from the peoples, no one was 482 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,520 with me. And remember, back to the cross 483 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,200 the work of salvation. Jesus did alone. 484 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,880 Nobody was with Him. All of his disciples fled, even 485 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,320 the naked guy at the end of Mark. 486 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,520 Why is he there? To show you Nobody was with 487 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,600 Jesus. He went and He did it alone. 488 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,400 This pictured in Leviticus when the high priest went into the 489 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,880 temple, all of the sacrifices that day he did. 490 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,480 What did you do? What did the people do? 491 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:38,880 They sat on the outskirts of that temple or of that camp, and 492 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,720 they put sackcloth on, they put on ashes, and they wept and 493 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,760 mourned over their sin. That's what you contributed to 494 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,600 the work of your own salvation, the sin. 495 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,080 And you weep and you mourn because the work that he did, he 496 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,840 did alone. And the same is true of the work 497 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,240 of vengeance and of judgment. Jesus doesn't need your help. 498 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,760 He doesn't need you out as a vigilante pouring out wrath on 499 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,680 his behalf. He is capable. 500 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,720 He will do it alone. He's the lion. 501 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:06,120 What's your role? You are sheep to be slaughtered. 502 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,160 You are considered a sheep to be slaughtered, not to avenge 503 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,720 yourself. Romans 12 and 18 and following 504 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,040 so far as it depends on you. Live peaceably with all. 505 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,400 Here's your instructions, beloved. 506 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,600 Never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, 507 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,720 for it is it is written, vengeance is mine. 508 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,360 I will repay, says the Lord. To the contrary. 509 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,000 If your enemy is hungry, what do you do with your enemy? 510 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,160 If he's hungry, do you take advantage of his vulnerability? 511 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,760 Do you let him starve? If your enemy is hungry, feed 512 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,080 him. If your enemy is thirsty, give 513 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,880 him something to drink, for by so doing you will keep burning 514 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,080 coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but 515 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,400 overcome evil with good. Those are your instructions. 516 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,040 What else? How else do we take passages 517 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,440 like this? I think as you look to, to new 518 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,760 application, more application, it takes us from Jesus as the 519 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,040 lamb to or as the lion to Jesus as the Lamb. 520 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,960 Verses 7 to 14. We see Jesus as this, we appeal 521 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,960 to him as a tender, merciful Lamb of God. 522 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,880 And how else do we respond? The people of God model for us 523 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,480 what we're supposed to do. They pray. 524 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,040 We seek God in prayer. This is the last act of the 525 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,120 church that's recorded in the Bible after Revelation 19. 526 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,280 And after all the judgment is done, the people pray. 527 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,720 He says I'm coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, 528 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,760 quoting Isaiah 6211 to repay each one for what he's done. 529 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,600 I am the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the 530 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,800 first and the last. And then what do the people do? 531 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,800 They respond and prayer. Come quickly, Lord Jesus, Amen. 532 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,960 Come Lord Jesus. Chapter 63, seven all the way to 533 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,360 6412 is the response in prayer. It's all prayer. 534 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,240 Verse 7, remembering his goodness and his unfailing love. 535 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,720 Verses 8 to 9, remembering his commitment to his people. 536 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,440 Verses 10 to 14, remembering his past patience with those 537 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,520 foundational acts of deliverance that came in at the Exodus. 538 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,280 Verses 15 to 19 is a prayer for mercy. 539 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,200 And then there's language in this prayer that has become our 540 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,040 vocabulary is a church. Remember when he says that all 541 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,600 of our righteousness is like a polluted garment, literally rags 542 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,400 of menstruation, minstrel rags is what your righteousness is 543 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,480 before the Lord without Jesus Christ. 544 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,200 It comes in this prayer, Isaiah 64, eight, this wonderful 545 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,440 declaration of God's sovereignty that Paul will pick up in Romans 546 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,320 9. This has to be the prayer of 547 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,760 your heart. How do what do we pray in light 548 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,880 of this? We say you are our Father, you 549 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,480 are the Potter, we are the clay. And that's saying, Lord, 550 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,360 whatever you would have to do with this vessel, with this 551 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,280 body, do it. I'm in perfect submission to 552 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,360 you. You want me to have more kids, 553 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,280 Lord? I'll have more kids. 554 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,160 You want me to stop having kids, Lord, I'll stop having kids. 555 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,000 You want me to move to the far side of the world, Lord? 556 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,840 I will move there. My will, in my opinion, doesn't 557 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,400 matter. I am the clay. 558 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,040 You are the Potter, Lord. Do with me what you will. 559 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,440 I am water in your hands, Lord. That's what they're praying and 560 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,440 you can see that the God of or the Christ of Isaiah 63 one to 561 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,840 six is the Christ of verse 7 and immediately following that it's 562 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,520 it's more emphatic. In the original, we have some 563 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,960 words leading up to the word love. 564 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,240 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord in the original 565 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,320 verse 7 begins and ends with the word hesed. 566 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,040 It's the steadfast love of God. He's the God of steadfast love. 567 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,600 Verse 7, the God of great goodness. 568 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,120 Verse 8, a God that identifies with his people. 569 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,200 Verse 8, again, a God that hopes the best for his people, the God 570 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,880 that lives among them, that commits to them in saving 571 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,280 action. And look at how Scripture 572 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,800 portrays God as you move on from verse 7, He says, I will recount 573 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,600 steadfast love and praises. This is literally I will recount 574 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,240 all of the things that God has done in my life that are that 575 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,520 are worthy of giving him praise. I'm going to meditate on those 576 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,080 things. And verse 8, you see this, this 577 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,000 wonderful disposition of God, where though you are weak and 578 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,200 sin sick, he extends trust to you. 579 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,520 He he gives you a measure of ministry to do. 580 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,360 In verse 9, he brings the Lamb metaphor himself. 581 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,960 He says he's present with their with his people and their 582 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,240 affliction. He was afflicted. 583 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,720 This is Isaiah 53. He was afflicted with our 584 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,160 affliction. He became the curse for us. 585 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,640 He was the Lamb of God that was slave before the foundation of 586 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,680 the world. He's the tender shepherd. 587 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,280 Verses 11 to 14 of his people. He pictures Moses and Aaron as 588 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,920 leading the people out like shepherds. 589 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,600 He he takes them down into the valley so that their feet don't 590 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,560 stumble and that the image is literally of a shepherd with his 591 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,080 sheep where he says he feeds them, He allows them to graze 592 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,280 into the pasture and he sets their bellies on the warm grass 593 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,000 to rest. That's the image of God with 594 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,040 you. And verse 10 is the connecting 595 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,640 point between contemporary Israel and ancient Israel. 596 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,560 In verse 10 is the connecting point from ancient Israel, 597 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:59,360 contemporary Israel, and us, His church, or you the Christian. 598 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,280 And it reads this way. But they rebelled and grieved 599 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,400 his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned to be their 600 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,880 enemy, and himself fought against him. 601 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,720 So he's saying He was their God, they were his people, but they 602 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,360 rebelled and sinned, and they grieved his Holy Spirit. 603 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,440 And you can confess the same thing as Paul teaches in 604 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,280 Ephesians 5. He is our God, we are His 605 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:27,040 people, and yet we continually rebel and grieve his Holy 606 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,160 Spirit. Paul says in Ephesians, do not 607 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,920 grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the 608 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,600 day of redemption. This, the Holy Spirit, is the 609 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,480 seal of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the 610 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,240 praise of His glorious grace. He is the guarantee of our 611 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,440 inheritance. He gives us His Spirit, and we 612 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,640 sin, and we grieve the very God who dwells with us. 613 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,640 I want you to see that the title Holy Spirit is interested to 614 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,960 learn this week only shows up in 2 contexts in the Old Testament. 615 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,240 Here twice the word Holy Spirit is used and the only other time 616 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,240 is David when he is utterly broken in Psalm 51. 617 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,760 And he says, Lord, do not cast me away. 618 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,120 Cast me not away from your presence and do not take your 619 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,960 Holy Spirit from me. And I want to stop for just a 620 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,600 minute as the connecting point as this connecting verse. 621 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,640 What does it mean in verse 10 that we grieve the Holy Spirit 622 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,120 of God? Four quick points of theology to 623 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,040 understand because it's so critical to grieve the Holy 624 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,000 Spirit of God first is to degree to offend a person. 625 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,800 You're defending a you're offending a divine person. 626 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,520 You can't offend a impersonal force. 627 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,560 It's saying here that the Holy Spirit is a person, the same as 628 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,240 acts. You lie to a person. 629 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,680 And so this is not an impersonal force, but a divine person. 630 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480 John Owen says you can only grieve someone who's capable of 631 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,120 relationship, presence and affection. 632 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,720 To grieve is to receive an affront from someone we love. 633 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,880 Grief is a trouble of mind arising from an unkind and 634 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,000 ungrateful return from one we have obliged with kindness. 635 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,160 And what is it? It's it's willing sin. 636 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,640 It's one thing if your child does something they're not 637 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,200 supposed to do. It's another when they look you 638 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,240 in the eye while they mark on the wall with a permanent 639 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,280 marker. Grieving the Holy Spirit is you 640 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,040 as that child, and we are all that child. 641 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,800 This is this is the kind of sin he's talking about. 642 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,360 These, it's sins that are against our conscience. 643 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,720 They're deliberate. They're repeated against the 644 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,880 Spirit's wisdom and against his prompting. 645 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,000 And they are an offense to the one who dwells within you. 646 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,480 Which brings us to the second point of theology here. 647 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,040 Grieving the Spirit is something that we as Christians do. 648 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,840 You are given the Spirit of God who dwells covenantly with you. 649 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,560 He dwells in your heart through faith. 650 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,480 And Christians, when we do these willful, disobedient actions, it 651 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,640 says that we grieve the one who has been given as a guarantee of 652 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,360 our inheritance. It says in 6310 that Israel 653 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,920 grieved God in the wilderness and not Paul says and you still 654 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,720 do it today. The Third Point is, is critical 655 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,960 to understand this is not a change in the status of your 656 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,480 relationship with God the Father, but a change in the way 657 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,800 that you perceive that relationship with God the 658 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,920 Father. You would never remove his 659 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,239 spirit from you. It's impossible. 660 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,440 He's the promise. But he says here that you can 661 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,920 have a decay in your spiritual strength. 662 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,239 And, and when you sin, there's an exposure to, to more sin and 663 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,520 there's a darkness and a confusion in your prayer and 664 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,480 there's a removal of your, your inner peace and your comfort and 665 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,719 the assurance of your salvation. And we know, you know, that God 666 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,560 does not move mightily in the heart of somebody who's trapped 667 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,480 in patterns of sin. You're, you're quenching the 668 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,239 Spirit, you're grieving the Spirit. 669 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,600 And there's a final point, though. 670 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,440 The end result of grieving the Spirit is always restoration. 671 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,880 It's never a full cutting off. And so when you grieve the Holy 672 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,280 Spirit of God through repentance and restoration by God the 673 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,720 Father, you will be brought again into the full fellowship 674 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,640 and communion with God. That is what I want you to 675 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,040 understand about grieving the Spirit. 676 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,200 And helpful to see what that means is to show its opposite. 677 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,880 How would you describe someone? How would you describe to 678 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,920 somebody the opposite? What's the opposite of grieving 679 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,320 the Spirit? Paul has the answer to that as 680 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,080 well. He says in Galatians 516 instead 681 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,280 walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the 682 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,840 flesh. The opposite of grieving the 683 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,800 Spirit is to walk with Him. Or how about this metaphor in 684 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,560 Ephesians 518 Be filled with the Spirit. 685 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,360 What a beautiful picture that is, and it's passive. 686 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,480 Anybody who studied Ephesians know it's passive be being 687 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,920 filled with the Spirit. It means to continually yield to 688 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,000 His control and influence over your life. 689 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,880 Submit to Him as He guides you into all truth and worthy to 690 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,960 note in verses 9 to 10, you have every member of the Trinity 691 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,400 here, you have the Angel of God's presence, you have him who 692 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,080 is Yahweh and three times he talks about his Holy Spirit. 693 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,600 This is the fullness of the Trinity of God. 694 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:03,240 Each person here, even in the Old Testament and despite his 695 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,320 vengeance and despite his righteous judgments and despite 696 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,480 his wrath, I want you to see that the people appeal to Jesus 697 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,120 Christ in this context. Look, look ahead to verse 16, a 698 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,240 verse we're not going to cover thoroughly, but look what they 699 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:19,560 call Him. He is our Father, He's our 700 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,360 shepherd, He's the Lamb of God. Verse 16, they appeal to him as 701 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,920 Father. It does not get any warmer then 702 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,280 the image of adoption. Actually in the Holy Spirit's 703 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,520 chapter in Romans 8, that's the pinnacle of our communion with 704 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,800 God the Father. He says you are orphans now, you 705 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,200 are children. You have all the fullness of 706 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,080 His, of his Kingdom. He's preparing a place for you. 707 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,360 You will be with Him where he is. 708 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,000 He's like Mueller, He bakes his home with his people. 709 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,920 He loves us. This is the image. 710 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,800 This is how they appeal to him. That's the metaphor. 711 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,640 They've been adopted. They appeal to Him as a tender, 712 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,800 gentle, lowly shepherd. Who would leave the 99 to come 713 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,280 after the One? And they appeal to him in prayer 714 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,560 as the Lamb. Verses 11 to 14. 715 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,480 He's the one who brought them out of Egypt and through the Red 716 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,160 Sea. He's the one who put His Holy 717 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,360 Spirit in their midst. He led them through the depths. 718 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:05,840 You can read with me like a horse. 719 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,800 They didn't stumble. He led them into the valley and 720 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,720 gave them rest by the Spirit of the Lord. 721 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,560 And they have eternal peace. And this is important because 722 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:19,240 Jesus is not just your prophet who proclaims the the will of 723 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,280 God to you and makes known God's will for your life. 724 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,160 That's what prophets do. That's what Christ did. 725 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,560 But he's more than that. He's also your priest, 726 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,200 interceding for you all the time, going to the cross as your 727 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,400 sacrifice. But he's more than that. 728 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,640 He's your King. And in your world and in your 729 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,000 worldview with yourself at the center, the first person that 730 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,640 God subdues to himself is you. You have to bow your knee to God 731 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,560 the Father, and he will be your King. 732 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,360 And so I want to say if you've never done this before, if 733 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,080 you've never said Lord, I am Clay and you are the Potter, I 734 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,520 submit my control of my life over to you. 735 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,800 I want to remind you there are two days on your calendar that 736 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,520 are important today and that day, and it's been said that we 737 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,800 need to live as if Jesus died yesterday, was raised today and 738 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,240 is coming back tomorrow. And so with that, we say you 739 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,520 need to bow the knee to Him today because there's two days 740 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,160 that are important today and that day and that day is coming 741 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:21,480 and will soon be here. And He will roll over you, He 742 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,120 will defend you, and He will conquer all of His and all of 743 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,040 your enemies. Verse 14 says he does all of 744 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,720 this. Look at this final verse and how 745 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:32,280 He ends our passage. He does all of this to make a 746 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,520 glorious name for Himself. And so we're reminded in our 747 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,640 passage today that God is a holy God. 748 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,520 And that doesn't mean that he's just a cut above and utterly 749 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,200 distinct from us. It does mean that. 750 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,560 But His Holiness is also a holiness that moves in 751 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:51,400 tenderness and in mercy and in grace to elect a holy people to 752 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,080 himself. And he sanctifies you, which 753 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,280 means literally he makes you holy. 754 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,440 And the passage teaches us that the world is rebellious and that 755 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,360 God's judgment is coming. And verse 10 says we too are 756 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,160 rebellious and that judgment ought to have been for us. 757 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,880 But you have been spared from wrath by the Lamb of God who 758 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:15,240 took away the sin of the world. We've been spared from all of 759 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,560 his wrath which remains as a body. 760 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,960 This is so important to remember that we are at every point, that 761 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,880 every one of us, we are at every point creatures of grace and 762 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,000 mercy. Because you see this passage, 763 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,600 you see what happens in verses one to six. 764 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,240 And you say that was meant for me. 765 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,920 That was our end were it not because of Jesus as the Lamb of 766 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,440 God and the lion. It's wonderful. 767 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,560 We did not set ourselves apart for salvation. 768 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,920 We did not earn it. Our position is not self 769 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,560 generated. It began with the election of 770 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,880 God the Father of His church and it ends with verse 16, our 771 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,440 adoption into His family. Look at verse 7, He set His love 772 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,840 on you. Look at verse 8, He became your 773 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,480 Savior. Look at verse 11, He sealed you 774 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,200 with His Holy Spirit. Look at verse 16. 775 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,280 He's adopted you. And promise to never leave you 776 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,920 or forsake you. And so when you sin, you don't 777 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,240 have to appeal to God as a consuming fire. 778 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,800 You can appeal to him as your lamb, as your shepherd, and as 779 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,640 your father. And I want to pray alongside 780 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,800 John Piper and his prayer. He wrote a poem about our 781 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,400 response to grieving the Spirit. And I want you to to end by 782 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,280 hearing this. This poem is called Doubly 783 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,760 relieved. He says, My patient comforter, 784 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,400 my God, my life, my breath, my holy zeal, my soul is doubly 785 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,520 sorrowful that I sin still against your seal, and sinning 786 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,360 caused my sovereign grief. I know it is your holy way to 787 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,040 make your grief serve perfect joy. 788 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,520 But I still pray, O bring the day when in the twinkling of an 789 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,440 eye my soul will doubly be relieved. 790 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,880 I will never sin again, and you will never more be grieved. 791 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,720 Let's pray that that day would come. 792 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,960 Lord, we confess, come, come quickly. 793 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,120 When the the church in Revelation heard about your 794 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,120 judgments, they said Hallelujah, come quickly. 795 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,720 Lord, may it be that day where we have no sin, there's no 796 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:08,600 presence of sin, there's no penalty of sin, there's no power 797 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,880 of sin, we have no enemies. Lord, we can rule and reign with 798 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,560 you in righteousness. We say, God, bring your Kingdom, 799 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,960 bring it quickly, relieve us. God help us so far as we are 800 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,480 able, with the help of your Spirit, to never grieve your 801 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,640 spirit. Lord, we confess we're, we're so 802 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,560 sorry for the times that we do. Give us the strength and the 803 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,720 power and the strength of the strength of you got to live 804 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:33,040 righteous life to be wrapped in zeal, like a cloak to come with 805 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,480 our breastplate of righteousness, showing your 806 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,400 light to the world. We, we confess, we want that to 807 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,600 be us. Give us your strength and have 808 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,640 mercy on us when we fail. We are at every point, Lord, a 809 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,920 creatures of mercy and grace. We love you. 810 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,520 We thank you for the work of the cross. 811 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,040 We thank you for Jesus Christ and whose name we pray. 812 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:50,600 Amen.