chapter 12 in Isaiah, and begin reading here at verse 1. And in that day, thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee, though thou wast angry with me. Thy anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my music. He also is become my salvation. Now notice verse 3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. Now I want you to notice here This is speaking about God's anger. It's speaking about the anger that God had upon humanity. It is speaking here now about folks that are saying, I'm going to praise God even though he was angry with me. But his anger is turned away. I want you to notice that, and I want you to note that. that God's anger is turned away. I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He also is become my salvation. Hey, this is underlining our great and glorious salvation today. Now then, in verse 3 it says, therefore with joy Shall we draw water out of the well of salvation? Friends, I've been asked many times, Preacher, are there other means of salvation other than the Lord Jesus Christ? Are there other means of salvation other than God's Son, Jesus Christ? Well, of course there isn't. And then they will go ahead and ask me why Is this a plural here? Why didn't it just say the well of salvation, but here it says the wells of salvation. Well, my dear friends, listen. God's grace is working in our life. If you're here this morning and you're saved, God's grace has worked and is still working in your life. If you are here a sinner this morning, You've never been saved. Let me say that God's grace is working in your life. You see, the grace of God causes His grace to reign upon the just and the unjust. So as we find this morning that God's grace is working at all. Now let's notice here how the Lord was angry with me. Now when Adam chose sin, In his life, instead of good, God became angry at that sin. And you see, that was passed on unto every generation. And all mankind become sinners, and God's anger continued from generation to generation. But God's love for man himself never changed. You see, God hated the sin that was in man's life, but He loved mankind because mankind is God's wonderful creation. And then God sent Jesus. He was God's sacrifice for our sin. He took upon Himself the iniquity of us all, and when Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross of Calvary, our sins was nailed to the cross with Him. You see, not only did Jesus die, but our sins died with Him. For God accepted the sacrifice that Jesus made, and by Jesus Christ, God's anger was turned away. You may wonder, preacher, why? Is God no longer angry with me? Why does God love me? I've tried to figure this out many years of my life. Why did God choose to love such a sinner as I? My friend, it was because Jesus Christ turned God's anger away from me. When He died upon the cross, He turned God's anger away from your life because God accepted the sacrifice that Jesus made, and by Jesus Christ, God's anger was turned away. Through the sin of Adam, all mankind lost the comforts and the blessings of God, but by the righteousness of Jesus Christ, God restored all the comforts and all the blessings that man had lost. Now God is no longer angry. But God became our peace. Christ became our Savior. Isn't that marvelous today? That God replaced his anger with peace and with joy. And the Bible here says, blessed is the one who said, I will trust God as my salvation. You see, there's only one source of salvation. And that source is God. No other source in all this world. Christ won our salvation because he suffered and bled and died upon us. He paid the price. He satisfied God's anger. And God's anger was turned to peace in the hearts and the lives. Now the Bible said, I will praise him for the peace he has given my soul. My dear friends today, I believe that when we come together in the house of God, that the Spirit of God just moves right in the servant, and he bears our prayers to Yonge City, he bears our worship right up before the throne of God this morning, my friends, and that every inhabitants of heaven knows that we are here praising God upon this earth in spite of all that might have happened to us this week. We are here to praise God in spite of all the trouble that we have, in spite of all the disappointment we have, in spite of every trial that we had. We are here this morning out of praise God and I believe the angels just stand back and let our praise come on into heaven and they know that the grace of God is still working in the saints here upon this earth. I praise God for his amazing grace. Praise God for his wonderful love. There is no fear that God that I have trusted for my salvation will ever fail. Oh friends, did you know that for my salvation to fail and to quit working, God himself would have to fail. Because God is the source of every one's salvation this morning. God is the source of our strength. God is the source of our love. God is the source of our salvation. And if salvation ever fell the least in the kingdom of God, God himself would have to pay. But because it's based upon an eternal God, because it's based upon an omniscient God, because it's based upon a holy and a righteous God, how salvation is he? Eternal salvation from day one. I trust God with all my temporary concerns, you know? A lot of people spend a lot of time worrying over temporary concerns, you know? Well, when I get hungry, I'm concerned about filling my belly. When I get thirsty, I'm concerned about getting a drink of water or a cup of coffee. When I need to pay a bill, I'm concerned about getting enough money to gather to do that. My friend, when I need something, but I trust God with all my temporal, all my temporary concerns in this life, brother, He not only is the salvation of my soul, but He is the salvation of everything that we do. Because the Bible says, and one of His great promises is, He will make all work to the good for them that love the Lord and look for His appearance. Isn't that great this morning that God will do that? God can take whatever problem you may have, whatever sorrow you may have, whatever burden you may have, and He can turn that this morning, my dear friends, unto joy and peace and love in your heart. He can turn that right around. He can turn that around So it will work for you and never against you. You see, we have work to do, my friends, for God here upon this earth, and God knows that. We have temptations to resist while we're here upon this earth, and God knows that. We have temptations every day of our lives, and we have work for God in one form or another to perform every day in our lives, and God knows we wouldn't last five, minutes without His eternal grace. He knows that. You see, God knows us and He knows how far I'd get today without the grace of God. He knows how far that you're going to get in your trouble this morning without His grace and His mercy being there to help you in the time of need. Yes, oh friends, He is our strength and be sure His grace is sufficient for us. Now, brother, if you've got your salvation and your hopes built up around what you've got materially in this life, then you're in the wrong state of mind. If you've got your hopes built up on your family being secure, you're in the wrong state of mind, because that can change in a moment's notice. My friends, if you've got your hopes built up in anything or in anybody, accept God our salvation! Your life is in for a letdown. Your life is in for a loss and a disappointment in your life. We only become disappointed when we hope in anything other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what are the wells of salvation this morning, preacher? What are the wells of our Savior? It's the wells that Jesus Christ dug when he was upon the cross. It was the wells that he filled when he was upon the cross. The wells of salvation are the eternal promises of God. Brother, I'll tell you, every move we make is according to the promise of God. When we are saved, we are saved because of God's promises. Why? Because he said, it is not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come unto repentance. He said, come unto me all ye that labor, and I have laid now give you rest. And he said, whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And my dear friends, today we are saved. We draw water out of the wells of salvation by believing upon Jesus Christ. And here's the power of God. It is our duty to draw water out of the wells of salvation. The wells of salvation are the promises of God. And I'll tell you, you can find salvation in every promise that God has made. My dear friend, all Christ said, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. And that's what he said. If you're thirsty this morning, there's a promise for you. that you can come unto him and drink. By faith, we draw water out of the wells of salvation. In Romans 4 and 21, the Bible said, we must believe that God is able to perform that which he has promised. My friends, today, that's the rope that we let down into the well. That rope of faith, brethren, that well is deep. That woman spoke right, my friend, when she come to Jacob's well and said, that well is deep. But let me tell you something, that well of joy, that well of salvation, that well of eternal hope is a deep well too. And we must draw from it by faith and by faith alone. Nothing else can reach that well and that well of salvation. See, my friends, God is able. As a sinner, we must believe that. How we find that God gave us a pattern in old Abraham? What was Abraham? Why was all of this happened to Abraham? I've had people ask me, why did God put Abraham through all of this? Listen, God was setting patterns for people like you and I that if we could come along 6,000 years later and read in the Bible about these fellas and that we could draw water and know God and know how God reacts according to his promises and according to things that God has done. I thank God for the lesson. that I've learned about Abraham. He gave us a pattern. You know, Abraham and Sarah, they were 90 years old. Their body was dead physically, brother, as far as childbearing was concerned. They had no child. They had no promise. They had no hope. Why, two people 90 years old had no hope of ever having a child in this world. They had lost all hope of that. Then one day God came to Abraham, and God made him a promise, and God said, Abraham, said, Thy wife sure is going to conceive and bear thee a son, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. And you see, Abraham hung the anchor of his hopes and his life in that promise that God made him. Abraham believed God, and God counted it unto him as righteousness. Abraham, this promise caused Abraham to hope against all hope. You see, he had lost hope of ever having an heir, ever having a child in his home. But listen, Abraham no longer looked upon his weakness. Abraham no longer, he no longer looked upon his inability. Oh, listen friends, I'll tell you, if we would quit looking on our own weakness and our own inability, there wouldn't be half the excuses going around the table today of why we don't get on fire for God, why we're never willing to do anything in God's name, why we're never willing to sacrifice even a little for God. Why we run our life on how we feel and not what the Bible says and the promises of God. Oh, hallelujah, dear children. Let me say, I'm this today, how this man here, he didn't look upon his weakness, how he didn't look upon his inability, but he focused upon what God could do. Hallelujah. I would rather have Somebody, my friend, that Ray was talking about, Brother Wilson a while ago, I'd rather have somebody with both legs and one arm off, and maybe one eye. That was, that knew what God could do, as to have somebody strong and healthy, that looked like Charles Atlas, and didn't know what God could do, but depended on their own strength. See, my dear friends, today, I believe with all of my heart we get our eyes upon our own weakness. Why is 90% of the people set out on God? They've got their eye upon their own weakness. They've got their eye, my dear friend, upon their own inability. Their eyes need to be upon Him. They need to be focused upon what God can do. Paul got his eyes in the right place. Listen, brother, when Paul was called, he was called to suffer for Christ's sake. Paul, my friends, was imprisoned. Paul was cast here and yonder. He was beaten. He was... I guess if a persecutioner man could suffer, Paul the Apostle suffered that persecution. He was even sick in body, had plows upon plows in every way. But my friend, what got him through all of this? He focused his eyes upon what God could do, and every time something impossible, something, how stirring, something tempted him, how to just overlook it, quit it, lay it down and go on. What did he do, brother? He just stood up and said, I can do all things through Christ. The Lord strengthened me. Hallelujah. You see, he had his eyes focused upon the right way. and in the right thing. He saw what God could do and God was able to do. And he said, I've trusted my all to God, who is my salvation. God is my salvation. Friends, when people say I can't, I wonder who their salvation is in. When people say I won't, I wonder who they have trusted in. It's impossible for us to save ourselves. There's no way, my friends, that I can save my wicked self. No way that you can save yourself today. We must accept by faith what God has done on the cross. The shed blood of Jesus Christ. The suffering, the dying of Jesus Christ. Listen, there were storms when God came and made Abraham and Sarah this promise. There were storms just over the next year. That was waiting, just waiting my friend to come and try Abraham's faith. Just as soon as God spoke just to Abraham, thunder and lightning began off in the horizon. Here she comes. A great storm began to come. Just hovered over old Abraham. That little black cloud began to follow him around. It was a storm of doubt and a storm of fear. Then there was temptation against Abraham. And you know how Abraham and Sarah got together later on? Sarah said, Abraham said, I'm just afraid. I'm just afraid. You see, a lot of times, even though we know what God is able to do, we let fear ride in our hearts and fear ride in our lives. You see, friends, Abraham, Abraham, even though these things arose against the promise that God made to him, he anchored his faith upon one God. When he was going up the mountain to offer Isaac some sacrifice, he told the men that went with him, you all carry him with the staff. The lad and I will go yonder and return. We're coming back. We're coming back. God's going to see to that. God had already commanded him to take him up there and offer him as a sacrifice, but Abraham said, well, even if I do have to thrust a mask to his heart, God is able to raise him from the dead. You see, he had his eyes focused upon the right thing. He was looking at the right thing. He had anchored his faith upon what God could do. I talk to people this very week. Some of them have called me a preacher. I don't know if God would save me or not. My sins are so many. My weakness is so great. Oh, listen, friends, don't forget what God can do. There's power in the blood. Wonder-working power in the blood. Don't you forget what God can do, not for a moment. Don't you ever fail to remember what God is able to do. I've talked to Christians who told me, preachers, I'm just so out of heart I don't know what to do. Friends, what have you got your eyes focused upon today? Are you trying to draw strength from in here? Are you trying to draw strength from your ability or what you know or the wisdom you may have or what you can or cannot do? You'll see people say, well, I can do this. I know how to do this. Or I can do that. I know how to do that. But I don't know anything about this little body. My dear friends, listen to me today. God has never told anybody to do anything that he didn't have the way already made. When he led Israel out of Egypt, they come down, there was no way through the Red Sea. But there already was. They couldn't see it, but God knew the way. God knew that way was there. He said, I'm going to part that water. When it comes to Jordan, He said, I'm going to part that water. When it comes to Jericho, He said, I'm going to knock down the wall. The sea bream, let me tell you, God knows what a way is. And if we will follow Him, God will make a way. If we will trust Him, God will make a way. God will give us hope. He will overcome every storm that comes against the promises God has made. Center man, woman, boy, girl, today, listen, God's made you a promise. He's made you a promise that if you will believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, you shall be saved. Now that's the promise God's made. If you do not hang your hopes of eternal salvation on that throne of God. I'll tell you what you do. You believe, before we get a song ready, you get this done. You believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. If you believe that He died upon the cross, your sins and shed his blood for the remission of your sins, if you believe. And if you will walk down this aisle and make a public commitment and admit before this congregation this morning, just by coming down and praying, that you believe in God and you believe in what Jesus did, you're going to be saved. Confess with your mouth publicly. Tell the church, I have received Jesus Christ as my Christian Father. If you will believe in your heart, confess with your mouth, Christ is Lord. Thy shall be done. If you're a Christian, you're dismissed. You've got your eyes upon your circumstances. And you think, oh, I don't see how I'm going to be able to do this. I don't see how I'm going to be able to keep doing for God, and working for God, and praying to God, and laboring to God. Hear, hear this morning in Jesus' Spirit. And just open your eyes above that storm cloud. Without confusion. Up just a little now, where you can see what God Would you come? Right this minute. Would you just step out of this aisle right now and say, Preacher, I'm coming. I need to receive Christ in my life. I need to receive my full assurance in Jesus, that Jesus is mine. Just step out now on the first verse of this psalm. Would you come?