Let's get it. So let's get back into Isaiah. And what's good for me is study and making sure that I'm doing a right job of dividing the word of truth and giving you all what I get. And I have to preach to myself first and foremost. If I can't, then I'm doing not a good job. I have to apply it to me first. If I don't, then I'm just hypocrite. So I've got to look at this and say, well, what do I need to work on in my own thinking, in my own life before I can rightly divide it for you? And as we're looking at Isaiah, chapters 1 through 5, as I mentioned, are just kind of a preview and give us almost a thesis statement for the rest of the book. Chapter 6 through 66 is really the outworking of the prophecy. And as you get into chapter 2, we can break it down into the first four verses is the future house of God, which we'll see eventually in the New Jerusalem and New Earth, and then the day of the Lord. We'll talk about that shortly, verses 5 through 22. So we will read the whole chapter and then we'll see what heaven has for us. So let us read what the Spirit says to the churches. The word that Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. All nations will flow to it. Many people shall come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways and we shall walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any longer. O House of Jacob, come let us walk in the light of Yahweh, for you have forsaken your people. The House of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern ways. They are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they are pleased with the children of foreigners. Their land is also full of silver and gold. There is no end to their treasures. Their land is also full of horses. There is no end to their chariots. Their land is also full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. People bow down, and each man humbles himself. Therefore, do not forgive them. Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from the terror of Yahweh and the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man will be humbled. The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty upon everything lifted up and it shall be brought low upon all the centers of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the Oaks of Bashan. upon all the high mountains, upon all the hills that are lifted up, upon every high tower, upon every fortified wall, upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the beautiful slopes. The loftiness of man will be bowed down and the haughtiness of men will be brought low. Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day, but the idols he will utterly abolish. They shall go into the holes of the rocks and in the caves of the earth from the terror of Yahweh. and the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. In that day, a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the crags of the rugged rocks from the terror of Yahweh and the glory of his majesty. When he arises to shake the earth mightily, sever yourselves from such a man whose breath is in his nostrils. For what account is it? Let's pray. Father, we love you. We thank you for your word. I pray that you forgive me of my sins for there are many, but I pray for the unction of the spirit and that we will hear from heaven this morning what you have to say to us. And we thank you for the vision of Isaiah and that he saw it and we get to hear it. And I pray that you will help us to apply all this to our hearts and so that we can be proper Christians. Lord, we just praise you and thank you in Jesus name. Amen. That's a pretty tough chapter. Really, when we look at it, the first four verses dealing with the future house of God, which is good for us. Now it will come to pass in the latter days. Verse two, this whole section, verses one through four, is basically borrowed from Micah. Isaiah saw what Micah was saying and then expounds it even further. You can read Micah, chapter four, and it's the very same language. Zechariah also used the same thing. But it's not that they copied one another. They saw the very same vision of God. Daniel, Ezekiel and John also saw similar things given in different times of history. But when we look at the eschatology, that's what this is talking about now. It shall come to pass in the latter days. What latter days? I assume that it was from that point on. And we're looking at the new Jerusalem and the new heaven coming. How can we live our lives in light of the resurrection and the redemption that we have? In the latter days, the mountain of Yahweh's house, and we're not just talking about temporal Jerusalem, because the church is a whole lot bigger than one little physical spot over there in the Middle East, and we see all the stuff that's going on with Jerusalem. Now, I don't want us to get too tore up about all the stuff in the news, though it is bad, and I don't want to see all this, persecution of the Christians. I think that's coming to our country. When? I don't know, but I think we're going to see it. But let's not get too tore up about geographical Israel that happened in 1948, because the church is much larger than that. This is to us. This was also to them. And the fact that Isaiah wrote this, he's got two things in history going on. You've got the Assyrian invasion and the Syrian invasion. And these are between, you see the first kings or In the first chapter, in the first verse, this is what he saw during his reign while Isaiah was preaching. During the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. And these are all the things going on in history. If we can't apply what he saw in his day to his particular time, we can't apply it to 2014. So he saw this, and this is what was getting ready to happen to Jerusalem. It will come to pass in the latter days, he's speaking to Jerusalem, the city of peace. And Salem, if you remember Melchizedek, was king of righteousness and also king of peace. Shalom, shalom. That's why we pronounce blessing and the shalom, peace be upon you. And as we look through Ephesians, some of the greatest words God has ever spoken to you, grace to you and shalom, peace from God Almighty. Jerusalem, well, it's kind of seated here in our hearts. It's not just one physical place over the Middle East. This is where God's throne should dwell is within our hearts, not only in heaven, which is far off, yet near. It has to be here among us or it does us no good. Shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. All nations will flow to it. And I hear a lot from people that there is no grace and there is no gospel in the Old Testament. What do you do with this? that the Gentiles are going to come to Jesus. All nations will flow to it. We got to do something with that. That's us. Because we're not Jews by blood. We are Jews by faith. Now in Christ, we are of the Jewish nation. We are all Jews in faith by the seed of Abraham. Many people will come and say, come, let us go to the mountain of Yahweh. You see that in Psalm 2. I have set my King on my holy hill in Zion. All nations will flow to it and we see that in Revelation. And how many centuries passed between Isaiah and the first century? You got about 500 years between Isaiah and John the Apostle. The nations have a desire for salvation. And when we look, and if you want to do some scripture reference with this, from verse 2 to verse 3 and 4, Genesis 49, Micah 4, Psalm 68 and 72, Jeremiah 31, Zechariah 8, Luke 24, and in Psalm 119 with the law. And this is not just disjoined. Now dispensation is a very good word. It's perfectly fine. That means administration of time. But we can't disjoin one part of scripture from another. We can't say that Isaiah was written to a particular people and has no reference to today, because it does. How we view eschatology, how we view the end times is going to determine how we live right now. And that's how I have to look at it when I'm working with the people at the cave, for one thing. When I'm looking and I'm talking about rocks, how do I view what happened probably 8,000 years ago with the big flood? How's that going to affect the future? Because there is a God who rules and judges. How do I look at this when I'm counseling people at the mission? And then how do I live when I'm out mowing yards and doing everything else? How do I view this and how do I view the end times in light of how I'm going to live right this moment? And that's the point that Isaiah is trying to get across and that's what we should in our own Christian lives. Because how we look to the future is determining how I live right this minute. Let us not take for granted the breadth that we have in us right now. We're not finished with our race yet. We still have a long way to go. The nations will come and flow to it. Many people will come and say, come, let us go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob. That's personalized. That's not just God's people, Israel. Jacob is an affectionate term that is one particular person, and it's very personal. Let's make this personal for us, because Isaiah truly is writing to us, though he's writing in 5th century BC. That's how we apply it. Because we see who he was writing to in the Jews in Jerusalem of that day. Assyria is coming. Repent of your sins. It's coming. We do the same thing here. Because judgment of God is going to come. He will teach us His ways and we will walk in His paths. And I kind of challenge you, look through Psalm 119 this week. Read and see how many times it says, teach us from your law, your precepts, your commandments, guide me in your ways, teach me to behold wondrous things out of your law. And this is the nation speaking. Not just America, but these are the Gentile nations coming and seeking salvation from the Lord. Because they finally are going to figure out that nothing else comes but from Jesus. Salvation cannot come from anywhere else but from Christ alone. They're going to figure that out one day. That's why we sing at the end. He is risen. Every knee will bow. Every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. There is a reason we sing that. And Isaiah is picking up on it. He will teach us His ways. We will walk in His paths. And one thing that I was reading in Keel and Dalish, the Old Testament commentators, what he's saying about nations is they were resolved to come to the Lord. But be resolved according to what you learn. and act upon it. Don't be resolved just to learn, but be resolved, as Jonathan Edwards was, to act according to what we have learned. We will repent of our sins. Now, let's live it. That's why we read in Ephesians and Colossians, walk, walk in the Lord. He will judge between nations, verse 4, for out of Zion, back to verse 3, for out of Zion shall go forth the law, we see Psalm 2, and from the word, the logos, from the city of peace. John 1, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. I am the mouthpiece, He is the Word. I am the voice, He is the Word. And that's how we should live and act and have our very being, is to understand the Word, because my words don't mean anything. Matthew 12, 33-37 says I'm either going to be judged or condemned by my words. So what am I going to speak? What words should be coming out of my mouth? They ought to be this. I saw a little plaque sometime that says, I don't remember where I was at, but it says, Have you read my bestseller, God? There will be a test at the end. So what? I mean, that's kind of cliche, but it really is true. There will be a test at the end, because this is what we will be judged with. And we see in Revelation 21, who is on the white horse? Jesus. What's coming out of his mouth? A sword. And what is that sword? Wasn't Ephesians 6 saying that the sword of the Spirit is the work? And Matthew 12, 33-37 says that I'm going to be judged by what I say. I'm either going to be judged or condemned. And that kind of sets me back on my heels because I know what comes out of my mouth a lot of times. Ephesians 429, I know we just worked through it, but let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth which is good for necessary edification that it may impart grace to the hearers. Hmm. And these are the nations coming back to say, we will speak God's words, not just God's people Jerusalem, in Jerusalem. These are the nations. And that gives us hope. Because Isaiah 55, as we'll read later on, says that my Word goes forth, and it will not return to me void, but it will produce that which I've intended it to produce. Galatians 5.22 says you've got the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Are those not His fruits? Does He not produce that? That comes from speaking the Word. That comes from the Word. Sanctify them in truth. Your Word is truth. It's all about the Word. That's why we speak it. That's why we read it. That's why we should preach it. And that's why I want to read entire chapters when we come to worship. Because I need to be speaking God's words, not mine. He will judge between nations and He will rebuke, He will chasten many people. Isn't the Proverbs said that He chastens those who He loves? And let us not despise chastening and discipline. For as a father has compassion upon his children, so the Lord has compassion upon those that fear Him. They will beat their swords into plowshares, you can get this from Joel chapter 3, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And we have a whole lot of toys for war. I'm kind of looking forward to joining the National Guard because I get to play with all kinds of big toys. But I'm not looking forward to learning war. And when I read this, and I see that I ought to be taking my sword and being out in the garden, pruning, bringing a harvest in, living a peaceful life, instead of thirsting a man through with a sword, or a bullet, or whatever the case may be. Neither will we learn war anymore, because the peace, the shalom of God will reside upon us, and all nations will be flowing to this. for their spiritual breath, for that manna that comes down from heaven. And the great and powerful day of the Lord, getting into verse 5, O house of Jacob, again, he gives the personalization here. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. Was that not Ephesians chapter 5, verse 8? Walk in the light, be children of light. You are no longer in darkness. He that brought you out of darkness has put you into his marvelous light. Therefore, walk in it. Colossians 3, if you have therefore received Christ the Lord, walk in Him, live in Him, move in Him, breathe in Him. Deuteronomy 6, 4-9, Hero Israel, the Lord our Lord is one. Teach my commandments to your children. Put them on the back of your eyelids, put them on the doorpost of your house. Teach them as you're sitting, as you're rising, as whatever you're doing. Colossians 3, 17, whatever you do in word or deed, do it all to the glory of God. And do it all in the name of Christ. Rear your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. All this from just a few verses in Isaiah chapter 2. And we see how it fits together. And that's what I really try to teach our guys at the Lighthouse, is how to read and how to apply this. Proverbs is wisdom applied. That's what it ought to look like. I can have all kinds of head knowledge, but if I don't put it here in practice, it does me absolutely no good. Because wisdom is applied knowledge. And applying that to my very life. You, Jehovah, have forsaken your people. You've turned your back on them. You've turned your house on your people because they are filled with Eastern ways. They're soothsayers like the Philistines. They're pleased with children of foreigners. Their land is also full of silver and gold. They're depending on their economy. Hmm, where we at today with the stock market? There is no end of their treasures. Look at how wealthy Israel had become under King David and even under Solomon. Jerusalem was a very wealthy little city. The Israelites were very wealthy. They were dependent on their treasuries, and of course their U.S. Mint, I guess we could put it that way. Their land is also full of horses. We can equate that to our military confidence. This is where they were sitting. There is no end to their chariots. There are no ends of day to our airplanes, our aircraft carriers, our fill in blank. They put their trust in the things that they made with their hands. on what they were doing. That's why you can see this back from the Tower of Babel. God, we don't need you. We can get to heaven our own way. We can build a heaven, we can build a little tower, and we can get there. Salvation can come from me, not from you. Well, that's a reflection of Genesis chapter 2 and chapter 3. Lord, I think I can decide what's right and wrong for me. Let me have some of that fruit. In the day you eat thereof, Adam, you will die. And we see the rest of history worked out. With that little sentence, in the day that you eat thereof, Adam, you will die. And here it's worked out. You have forsaken your people because they are filled with the Eastern ways, they are confident in their military, they are confident in leaning upon their economy. They worship the work of their own hands. Their land is full of idols, materialism, television, computers. What was it in the old centuries? Well, it was in Artemis, Diana, and Ephesians. They made little statues. They worshipped idols. As serious as it is, they could have worshipped that little podium that's a flower sitting on. Because basically that's what idolatry is, read in Isaiah 44. Behold, you will say to that piece of log, half of it you've burned and made your food and you've got warmth, and the rest of it you make a little idol and you bow down to it. The futility of idolatry. We bow down to the same thing with the Almighty God. And with our vehicles, with our houses, with all this materialism. We worship that. That which our own fingers have made, people will bow down and each man humbles himself. Therefore, forgive them not. God is speaking directly to Isaiah saying, do not forgive them of their sins. But what did God tell, or Jesus tell the apostles? Whatever you bind in earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose, on earth will be loose in heaven, whatever you forgive them. If you forgive their sins, I will forgive them. If you don't, I won't. See, it played out, New Testament, Old Testament. Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from the terror of Yahweh, Micah 4, 6 again. Also, you can see that revelation in chapter six, verse 15. And the kings of the earth, This is under the sixth seal. The kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the presidents, the rulers, the mighty men, every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb. For the great day of his wrath has come. Who is able to stand? That's the eschatology we're talking about. Praise the Lord that we are not going to be standing there. Praise the Lord that when we see heaven and we see Jesus, I want to hear, come on in, good and faithful servant. Come in, son. There's a place for you. Conversely, you see where Moses was in Exodus 33. God, I want to see your glory. May I see it? You can't see my face and live, but I'll do this for you. I will hide you in my hand and I will put you in the cleft of the rock. And I will pass by and you will see the back part of my glory. But my face you can't see. And you see the protection of God compared to the fullness of God's wrath coming upon man. Praise God for that. Because that's what gives us hope. And that's the hope that we preach. Because if we have no hope, as Paul says, we are men most miserable. Because we hope in something that's futile and vain. But you sinners, enter the hands of the rock, enter into the rock, and the hide in the dust, and the glory of his majesty. And I mentioned a few times before, I don't know if I could really stand or consider what Moses saw when he was ascending Sinai, and the thunder and the lightning and the rocks quaking and going to get into the presence of God. Hebrews says that our God is a consuming fire. I'm not so sure I want to be in that presence. This is what's coming if we don't repent of our sins. That's what Isaiah is preaching. That's what we have to preach. I know it's a hard message, but we have to understand the accountability of our sins. We are responsible for our actions. However, there is hope. And the hope is in Christ. That day of the Lord is coming. The lofty looks of man will be humbled. The haughtiness of men will be bowed down. Proverbs chapter 3, verse 34, 1 Peter 5. And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. Matthew 3, 2. For this is he who has spoken of the prophet Isaiah saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The Lord will be alone, exalted. I am will be standing there. For the day of the Lord of hosts, we just sang that in our hymn, Yahweh of hosts, Lord Sebaoth, will come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low. The cedars of Lebanon. When we look at cedars of Lebanon in the scripture, we kind of, because we live in this country, and in this hemisphere, we look at the little cedar trees that are outside, and they're not much. The cedars of Lebanon can be equated to our redwoods. the majestic, strong tree that they are. Imagine what it would take to fall one of those. That's what he's picking up here. The cedars of Lebanon need to be equated with our American redwoods. That's something that we can physically see. They're a strong tree. They're something that's going to be hard to be brought down, but the Lord will bring them down. Everything that's high and lifted up upon all the oaks of Bashan, upon all the high mountains, upon all the hills that are lifted up, upon every high tower, upon every fortified wall, all the ships of Tarshish, all your materials, things, everything, all of your cargo. And you can see this very thing reacted or spoken about in Psalm chapter 2. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing when they say, we will lose our cords and our bonds from Him? We don't need you, God. We can save ourselves. Is that not what we see in science, philosophy, American education? We will return to this one day, because all nations will indeed flow to the mountain of God. We will go back to the Word. And I was very pleased when my new executive director told me that our mission is going to be non-denominational, but we are orthodox. We are biblical. We will preach Jesus. We will be orthodox. We will teach straight truth. We will deal with the heart issues. But we'll go for the heart. And that's the point of this. We need to get to the heart. This is where the Gospel goes. Straight to the heart. Every high thing and everything exalted will be brought low. Psalm 131. Lord, I hope one day that I can sing this Psalm and mean it. Lord, my heart is not haughty and I don't even lift my eyes up. I don't concern myself with matters that I don't understand. Things are too lofty for me. Like a weaned child, I have quietened my soul within me. I can't say that because I'm not quiet. I'm not weaned. I'm arrogant and I'm proud. And I've got to repent of that daily. I know me. I don't want to be brought low by the Lord because I've already been to prison once. I don't want to do it again. If I have to do it for preaching Jesus, I'll go. But of my own stupidity, not so much. The haughtiness of men will be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted. The idols He will utterly abolish. Yesterday in class, we were kind of working through Psalms 120 to 134. That is our hymns of ascent, or our Psalms of degrees. You start in 120. You may be the only Christian in the room, wherever you are. And that's what the psalmist is crying out in Psalm 120. Though I dwell in the tents of Kadar and in the dwellings of Meshach, so far out, away out in the paganism, away from Jerusalem, when I speak for peace, they are for war. I want to be at peace with my brothers. I may be the only adult and the only Christian in the room. But Psalm 84.5 says, Blessed is the man whose heart is set on worship, whose heart is set on pilgrimage toward church, toward Christ, toward Him. And as we look through and continue to go, all the isles will be utterly abolished. We don't know what's coming tomorrow. But as you are working toward 133 and 134, Psalm 133 says how good and how pleasant it is for the brethren to dwell in unity. It is like the oil poured on Aaron as it saturates him. And we were talking about baptism. Why in the world do you think we sprinkle? I mean, it's not because we don't want to get wet. We want to pour out and signify the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon us. Because that's what we breathe. That's how we have our being. That's where our power comes from. It's being in the Holy Spirit. That we can break the power of sin in our lives. This is what we must preach and this is what Isaiah is getting at. It's to the heart of man. Because that's where the Gospel goes. It's to your heart. Repent and believe. Sirs, what must we do to be saved? John and Peter were asked. Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus and you'll be saved. Believe on the name of I am. I am who I was. I am who I'm going to be. Believe on me. You and your children will be saved. That's chapter 2. This promise is to you and your children. That makes me pretty happy because I can see that covenant of blessing upon me from my family. And that's why we go here. We must bring this exalted philosophy and exalted man's thinking because it's futile. And this new fangled way of describing time, BCE and Sikhi, before the common era and common era. Well, that's been translated now into before the Christian era and the Christian era. They tried to take Jesus out, but it didn't work. You can't do it. And Louie Giglio, minister, talks about the smallest molecule in your blood and your DNA strand is shaped like a cross. So what is it that really holds the universe and ourselves together? Everything points either to it or back to it. Old Testament, looking forward. New Testament, remembering what has happened. In light of this, you go out tomorrow and live. So what really happens tomorrow when the real world begins and the phone rings? What happens? What happens this afternoon when I get back to the mission? Am I really going to live in light of what's taught here? Everything haughty will be brought down. They will go into the holes of the rocks. We just saw this in Revelation. Into the caves of the earth. That kind of hits home to me because I work in a cave. And from the terror of Yahweh. and the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth mightily. A lot of folks come through the cave and ask me about breaking and things are going to fall down and such and I'm not the least bit concerned about stuff breaking in our cave because calcium is a pretty good glue. And the amount of rain that we get through the cave disperses our calcium. If you can look at the ceiling and kind of get a picture of it. The vents take the rain that's coming through and limestone is like a sponge so when it rains it comes through. It takes the calcium and disperses it more so throughout the cave. If we have an earthquake big enough to shake Bristol Caverns, we're in trouble outside more so than we are in. Because we're not on a fault line. And I can equate this verse to where I work. And that's the whole point of what I try to teach our guys at the Lighthouse and at the Mission. You have to be able to apply this to your very own lives and see it worked out. That's why we talk about 120 to 134 in our songs, because this is going to be your Christian life. You may be the only adult and the only Christian in the room with a whole bunch of immature people and pagans. How are you going to act and react? How am I going to act and react when I see, uh, we are going to go into the caves of the earth. Luke chapter 23 verse 30 from the terror of Yahweh, from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. I'm glad I don't live in California. They deal with, I mean, not because of some things, but they deal with earthquakes all the time. I think what was it, two years ago, we had an earthquake and it was the one that was a five or six on the Richter scale that shut down Washington monument, which was reopened a couple of years ago. Actually, myself and another tour guide were in the cave when that earthquake happened. Dad was driving a school bus, and if you all are familiar with East High School up here, he was sitting on one of the walls outside in Selma County, and he felt a little like a diesel truck with a jet brake on. Myself and Jess didn't feel anything in the cave. We were tour guides doing two separate tours, and we got back to the gift shop, and Gary said we had an earthquake. Hmm. If we have an earthquake that shakes that cave that much, we're all in trouble. And we need to understand the voice that shakes heaven, that shakes the earth, is also the still small voice that comes to us and breathes life into us. And that's where we should be. And that's how we ought to live when we're looking at the word. Then I was reading something from the Westminster Project, the divines that put together the Westminster Assembly or the Westminster Confession and the catechisms. What do we do when we come to the Bible? And it kind of struck me that, you know, that every time that we open this, we're in the presence of God. Awaiting to hear from Him. We are in the very throne room of Almighty God when we open our Bibles. When He speaks to us. Is this how we prayerfully consider coming to our Bibles? Not that I worship my Bible. But it's the God who speaks through it. Though I know that I'm in the presence of God and His creation all the time, but I am truly in His presence, awaiting to hear from Him to my heart and to my ears when I open my Bible. Is that how I really consider everything in life? Do I live and react in light of that? In that day, man will cast away his idols of silver, his idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship. In that day, those will all be gone. To the moles and the bats that go into the clefts of the rocks and the crags of the rugged rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake the earth mightily. You see how many times he repeats that little phrase. Go back to Exodus 33. Exodus 19 and Revelation chapter 4. Now here's your wisdom. Sever yourselves from such a man whose breath is in his nostrils. For what count is he? Does it not say in the Proverbs, if you see a man devoid of understanding, Passed by him. Does that mean don't preach in the gospel? No. He needs it, just like I do. But do not associate, do not be with him. And I think John tells us don't even let him come in our house. But are you not unequally yoked with unbelievers? We may be the only Bible somebody ever reads. Because some people are never going to pick the Bible up. And a lot of folks will not, absolutely will not go to church. I know several people that will not go to a church because it's full of Christians. What kind of a Christian are we really going to be? Who are we seen associated with? I wish I was as pious and as great as Jesus to be able to hang out with the sinners. Because if I go back to where I used to be, I know where I'll end up. I can't go to the bar anymore. Jesus came to hang out with sinners. That's why the Pharisees hated him. He didn't go to the religious crowd. He came to us. Now, when it says sever yourselves from such a man, don't be like him. Don't participate in the things that he does. But in a spirit of meekness, give him the word. Because that very same word that saved you and me will save them too. That's why later on when we see in Isaiah 55 that my word will accomplish its purpose. And if I be lifted up, says Jesus, I will draw all men to myself. All men. Every one of them. And I think all means all. I will draw all men to myself. I'll either bring them into condemnation or I'm either going to bring them into salvation. We don't know which one that is. But our job is to be the mouthpiece. He is the word. So let's take this and apply it to our lives. And though we understand the pounding judgment of God on sin all the time, there's still grace. There is hope. There is escape from that. And that only hope is in Jesus. And I hope that we really can celebrate communion very soon so that we can all break the bread of life together and understand why it is that we come together. So not only can we hear the word, but let us feast on it. Let us be spiritually nutrition, or whatever it is. Yeah, you know where I'm going. Refreshed and built up in Jesus. And let us build the world up, because the world is dying. It's not going to hell in a handbasket. Jesus still wins. But the field really is white for harvest. And we pray for laborers. That's why we need Princeton. That's why we need churches. That's why we need Haven of Rests. Because the world is going to spit you out and kick you while you're down. And the sad thing is when you go to a lot of churches, that's what you encounter as a Christian. And that's why a lot of Christians don't go to church. A lot of people don't go to church because it's full of hypocrites. Well, guess what? I'm probably one of the biggest hypocrites I know. But I go to church. And I hope that somebody truly will see Jesus and be fed from me and not from My own self. But be fed through the same bread of life that changed my heart. And that's the message of Isaiah. The gospel according to Isaiah. In Jesus' name. Amen. Let's pray. Lord, we do love You. We thank You for Your presence here. We thank You for Your Word. And I do pray that we will be able to apply it and live as Jesus. And that we can walk as children of light and walk in it. Lord, I do pray for the church, for this church in particular, and that you will raise it up for your own glory, Lord. Your name is at stake. And I pray that this will not just be another proverb in the Bible, but you will raise this church up to be a beacon of hope for the community. And we thank you for the faithfulness, and I pray that the word will not return unto you, Lord, but it will achieve its purposes. And we just love you and thank you for the day of worship, and I pray that our hearts will be in tune with you, and that we will never, ever not know not being in the presence of God, that we will always know and feel the presence of your Spirit among us from now until eternity. And we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.