Our new series, I hope I get to work through it pretty well, will be Isaiah. And there is a whole lot in Isaiah, and I will never in my life ever be able to exhaust all the nuggets that come from Isaiah. If there is one prophet in the Old Testament that can clearly be seen as an evangelist and one who preaches the gospel, it is Isaiah. If anybody is familiar with J. Vernon McGee, love listening to that old radio fella. He kind of broke it down saying that the first 37 or 39 books or chapters of Isaiah can mimic the Old Testament, and then the last 27 can be seen as a mirror of the New Testament. Yes and no. I think you can. Isaiah 53 and others are certainly seen as Messiah passages, and we certainly see the Gospel there. Isaiah chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are just introductory. passages. Chapter six is where the prophecy really begins. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple in almost the same glory that Moses saw when he went to the temple and also on Mount Sinai. We see that Isaiah sees as well. But Isaiah is just such a mountain to work through. And it's a great blessing. We see that In the Old Testament, we always hear that God is always war, war, war, vengeance, wrath in the Old Testament. And then we get grace in the New. Well, there's as much grace in the Old Testament as there was in the New. But we get to really see Jesus in the New Testament clearly. Though Isaiah foretells Christ from the very beginning. And if we really could get our minds around one thing that Reverend Andrews has taught me from school is that if I would get my mind around that this whole book is about Jesus, then my theology will become clear, and it will be a whole lot easier to preach, teach, counsel, and that should be our purpose of preaching, is not just to turn sinners to God, but to get to the heart of man, because that's where the problem is. And we can see here in just a few verses, when you get into verse 5 of chapter 1, you can mirror Romans 3. We've got a problem here, we've got a problem here, and in the body. So I'll read the first chapter of Isaiah, and then we'll kind of work as far as we can through it. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, give ear, O earth, for Yahweh has spoken. I have nourished up and I have brought up children. They have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner. The donkey knows its master's script. But Israel does not know. My people do not consider, nor do they understand. Alas, you sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corruptors. They have forsaken Yahweh. They have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You'll just continue to revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. The whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness in it at all. But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores that have not been closed or bound up or soothed, cleaned with ointment. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land and your presence. And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom. We would have become like Gomorrah. Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? Says Yahweh, I've had enough of your burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed cattle I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of the lamb or goats. When you come to appear before me, who has required this from your hand to trample my courts? Bring no more futile sacrifices. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, the Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feast, my soul hates. I am weary of bearing. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Put away the evil from your doings before my eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Rebuke the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead for the widow. Come now. Let's reason together, says Yahweh. Though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they'll be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat good of the land. But if you refuse and you rebel, you will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken. How the faithful city has become a harlot. It was full of justice, righteousness, lost in it, but now murderous. Your silver has become dross. Your mixed wine with water, you've watered it down. Your princes are rebellious and companion of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe. and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. Therefore, says Yahweh, Yahweh of hosts, the mighty one of Israel, I will rid myself of my adversaries and take vengeance on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you and thoroughly purge away your dross, and I will take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward, you'll be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion will be redeemed with justice, and her penitence with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and of sinners will be together, and those who forsake the Lord will be consumed. For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens that you have chosen. For you shall be as a terebinth tree whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. The strong will be as tender, and the work of it as a spark. Those will burn together and no one will question. Shall we pray? Lord, we love you. We thank you for the word that you've given us. And I pray that you will bless it to our hearts and that we will be able to apply it. And I pray that you forgive me of my sins, for they are many. And I pray for the unction of the Spirit and just to speak truth, Lord. And I pray that we will hear from heaven indeed. And I thank you that you have spoken and you continue to speak to us through your word. And we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Chapter one is pretty harsh. And doesn't it seem like what we hear on the news, how our culture has become? Solomon himself said that there is nothing new under the sun. What's happened before is going to happen again. And what's happening now, we've already seen before. Isaiah, his name means salvation is of the Lord. And I think that's a very reminiscent passage from Jonah when he spoke to Nineveh. Salvation is of the Lord. or Yahweh has saved. And that's why I read in the King James and New King James, L-O-R-D capitalized is God's covenant name, Yahweh. And that's what we see from Exodus. Who shall I tell them sends me, Lord. And Jehovah answers saying, I am. I am that I am. I am what I was, I am what I am now, and I will continue to be what I am and what I was. Which is kind of hard for my little he-brain to wrap myself around. But he is the verb to be. I am. That's my covenant name with you. I am and I will protect you. The hero heavens when he answers or calls out in the beginning here in verse 2, you can see that in Deuteronomy 32, Numbers 12 and Jeremiah 2. He calls all of creation to bear witness and to bring an account to God's people. He is bringing his attorneys to draw a case, an accusation against us, God's people, because we have transgressed the law. And this is something that really gets a hold of me. They have rebelled against me even though I've brought them up as children. The ox knows its owner and the donkey knows its master's crib. These dumb brutes that Israel, who has a chosen spot in God's heart, does not consider. You sinful nation of people laden with iniquity. You brood of vipers. Not what Jesus called the Hebrews, the Pharisees, and also John the Baptist. You brood of vipers who called you out to know repentance. Children who are corruptors. Don't we see that today? Children who do not obey their parents. Children who do not give heed to authority. Children who are unruly. They have forsaken Yahweh, they have provoked anger. The Holy One of Israel, is that not our culture in decline? Same thing is going on right here in Isaiah's day. Prior to 586 BC, when Nebuchadnezzar comes in and levels Jerusalem, we've got first the Assyrian, which is coming in, I think, in 740. 740 BC is when Assyria comes in and levels Jerusalem. And Isaiah predicts both of them. If you don't repent and turn around, this is what's going to happen. And Jeremiah is mentioning the same thing. If you'll notice through all the prophets and all the minor prophets, the message is the same. If you don't repent, God's wrath is going to come down. The cup of mercy does have limits. If it doesn't have limits and God loves us unconditionally, there is no point to that right there. And I'm really getting tired of hearing that God's love is unconditional. It's not. It's not at all. If it was, then we wouldn't have a cross. There'd be no reason for Jesus to come and die for our sins if God's love is unconditional. That means we don't have any strikes against us at all. And that's basically antinomianism, which means there's no reason for the law. That we can go do, we can be hedonists and do whatever feels good to us, and that's okay. And that's what we see in philosophy today. That's where our culture is. And Isaiah is speaking to this in the, what, 7th century BC? And we're seeing the same thing in 2014. A.D. We've got a problem. They have turned away backwards, and Jesus says to them, this is also you can see in Jeremiah, chapter five, verse three. Why should I stricken you again? Why should I chastise you even more? Because you're just going to keep doing the things that you're doing. The whole head is sick. The whole heart thinks from the soul of the foot, even to the head. There is no soundness in it. There's verse five. And we mentioned Romans to read Romans chapter three and see where that came from. Chapter three, verse nine. What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jew and Greek that they are all under sin, as it is written. There is none righteous. No, not one. There is none who understands. There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside. They have altogether become unprofitable. They're worthless. There is no one who does good. Not one. We've got a problem in the head. The whole head is sick. We've got a problem in thought. Verses 13 and 14 are in our words, and then 15, 16, 17, and 18 is indeed. Their throat is an open sepulcher, an open tomb. With their tongues they have practiced deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips. whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. And here's their deeds. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes. Proverbs 1.7, the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. We have a problem in thought, word, and deed. Paul knew what Isaiah said in chapter 1, verse 5. The whole head is sick. The whole heart faints. There is no soundness. There is no backbone. There is no way that anybody can stand to speak truth in this culture because we have all turned away backwards and gone after whatever we want to go after. And that's where we are today. But we are not. We, as the people of God, are not there. We have been called out of that light or out of that darkness into his light to shed light on those things, to call to repentance the world. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is standing in front of your faces. It's here right now. The wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, they've not been closed up. This is your spiritual hardness of heart. Pharaoh, you will not let my people go because I'm going to harden your heart. But you're still responsible for this. Your heart is hardened. Heart is hardened. Deuteronomy 28. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence. Anybody think that this immigration thing is a problem? Strangers will devour your land? Did we not in 1776 declare independence? I mean, we talked about this from 2 Chronicles 10. Should God's people go to war? In certain cases, I think so. This country was indeed founded on Christian principle. Everything, all of our laws are mimicked from Leviticus. If you want to see our case law, just read your law books. It's the word of God. And when you go to the rotunda in the Capitol building, what do you see? You see preachers. Statues of preachers. Stonewall Jackson was a Presbyterian deacon. They don't tell us that in school. What about Robert Lee? Wasn't he a Presbyterian ruling elder? Hmm. Scottish League and Covenant? Scotland wanted a covenant with God. And they founded it on the Bible. Of course, we see what happens with sinners. Keep going down. What happened to Nineveh? Under Jonah's preaching, even the king repented, put on sap cloth and ashes. But then a hundred years later, they're back to what they're doing again. Sin makes us do stupid stuff. And we can see that in our own culture today. Where were we 50 years ago? Where we could leave our, of course I still do it, leave my keys in my ignition and leave my door unlocked, but could we not go for weeks at a time? I remember my grandmother telling me stories that they could go off for weeks at a time and leave the door unlocked. and come back and find nothing to miss. And they would be able to take hitchhikers in. They'd be able to bring folks that would travel up Holson Valley area. My grandmother and grandfather lived out in Wooly Boom on Carolina Avenue. And they would house folks that were going out 421. Those that needed a place to stay, had no idea who they were. Mom would wake up and didn't know who this guy was, but there he was in the house. Crime was down. But you see the difference in morality. And as I've mentioned before, how many folks come through Bristol Caverns saying, boy, y'all got a lot of churches around here. That's a good thing. Sad thing is we're not all the way full. But it speaks volumes to our culture here. Because we are the last vestige of hope for our country. Look at New England, where Jonathan Edwards was. And now it's just about as pagan as Europe is right now. Look at the West Coast. What do we see in modern entertainment? And here they've twisted Noah, which, you know, you can look at that as kind of a two-edged sword. The Jesus movie, the Son of God, the History Channel thing and all that stuff, at least, good thing they are bringing Pocus back to the Bible. People are reading it again. Whether they got it right or wrong, that's another argument. But at least somebody's thinking about the flood story of Noah. Somebody's thinking about total destruction. About somebody who is in control of this universe. At least they're looking at Jesus as he was a real man. Not just he is some myth and he's just my best buddy. He is the judge of the universe. At least that's what we're doing in Hollywood. And I think, would it not be just like God to bring revival to this country through Hollywood? Be something to think about. Where has the most reach? Something like that? Our technology? iPads or televisions. And I think maybe the church, instead of trying to get this stuff and doing all these new techniques, why don't we repent and go back to doing things God's way. The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint. Let us go back to Jesus. The country is desolate. Cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land and your present. It's desolate. It's overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard. That comes from Lamentations chapter 2. As a hut in a garden of cucumbers. Now, I like cucumbers. But when the Bible talks about cucumbers, it's something of judgment and something of... not good. If I can say that. I know that's not proper grammar, but it's something that's not as pleasing. as it should be, something of worklessness. As a besieged city, unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom. We would have become like Gomorrah. That's utter destruction. You all are the remnant here. If it weren't for the remnant here that we can physically see, this area would be like Sodom and Gomorrah. So let's think about the cars that we continue to see, though it's sad there's not enough, but look how many there still are. We can look at it in a positive light. There's still people going to church today. There's still people going to hear the preaching of the word, to go in the presence of God and understand who he is. So we are in a sad situation, but Jesus wins. And I think that the more that I study eschatology, the more optimistic I become, because I know who wins. And if Jesus is seated on his throne right now, that means that I have no enemies that can overtake me. And that means that the gospel will, as we see later on in Isaiah, that the knowledge of God will cover the earth as waters cover the sea. And that's the thing that's kind of hard for me to figure out. Because when I flew to Africa, looking down at the pond, the Atlantic Ocean, that's a lot of water. And that's just the top of it. So as water covers the sea, the knowledge of God will once again cover the face of the earth. And that's our job. To speak it. It's our job to live it. That's our job to think in it. Romans 12 says, be not conformed to this world, but transform by the renewing of your mind. Thought. Let no corrupt word, Ephesians 4 29, proceed out of your mouth. Word. And then walk as children of light. Deed. We saw that in Romans 3. And there you go with chapter 1 verse 5. Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of America. Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Western civilization, says Yahweh, I have had enough of your playing church, of you coming on Sundays and just pretending like you're coming to church and you want to be seen with this political or this social gathering, bringing me a check and all this fun stuff. I've had enough of it. I've had enough of your burnt offerings, of your rams, of your fed cattle. I don't delight in the blood of bulls. or the lambs and goats. I did not delight in the blood of my son, but he went to the cross for you. I wanted to redeem you to myself. But yet it did please him to send him for us. I don't delight in the blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Hebrews. When you come to appear before me, who required this from your hand to trample in my courts? Stop bringing futile sacrifices. That incense is abomination to me. Your new moons, your Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. And as you read Ezekiel and some of the other prophets, you'll find just what was going on behind closed doors within the churches. And the media loves a good scandal. Well, the same thing that we see going on today was going on during the Levitical priesthood. And Ezekiel is told to peep through the hole to see what exactly is going on with the priests. He found harlotry. He found all kinds of idolatry in the holiest of holies. So we come and we worship God. We come and we bring sacrifices to the altar. But yet, when we get done at church from 11 to 12, We go and we, I guess, bow down to the altar of NFL or whatever we can relate it to now. What is your religion? They go and they sacrifice to the asterisks. And later on here in chapter one, he talks about the terrible trees. Those are the sacred groves where we worship trees, tree huggers. But we worship all these other things, the rocks, the sand, the sun, Egyptian sun god Ra. Hmm. And this is just chapter 1. But it gets better. Though God hammers us and hammers His judgment, and His wrath is just continual, continual, there is blessing. There is salvation. You have to repent. So we'll move on up to verse 16. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Put away the evil from your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil and learn to do good. Seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, and plead for the widow. What are our sanctions in America doing today? They're this new healthcare system. How hard is it for us when we get older to get insurance? What's ripped from us? Children are not taken care of. Elderly are not taken care of. We've got a problem. We see this minute or mirror right here. But here's the question. Wash your hands and make yourselves clean. How do we wash ourselves when I can't pull myself up by my bootstraps? Ezekiel 37 is the dry bones. Preachers speak to these dry bones. And Ezekiel is asked of God, Ezekiel, can these bones live? Lord, you know. I've seen you do amazing things. I can't make them live. Behold, you speak to them. And the Word will cause them to be alive. And then Ezekiel hears the rattling of the bones. I need my bones rattled every day. And that comes from Christ. That comes from the Word. I've got to have my bones rattled. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. If you want to know why we Presbyterians don't, it's not because we don't want to get wet. But as we sprinkle, we take the baptismal font and we pour. Aaron was anointed by Moses. He took the jar and he poured out the oil all over him. And you see this through Psalms 120 to 134, your Psalms of sin. And also 113 to 118, the great hallel. That the oil represents the Holy Spirit, saturates him. The washing of the water by the word we saw in Ephesians 5 with me being the husband and having to wash my wife with the water of the word. We clean, we cleanse, we purge with hyssop. The Old Testament system is you take the hyssop, kind of like the yellow stuff there, and you dip it in the blood, take it out, and it's splattered upon the altar, sprayed upon the altar. And you see the same thing in the Passover in Exodus, where He takes the lentils, or takes the hyssop, and then paints the lentils, doorposts, and that with hyssop. Purge me with it. That's what we see in Psalm 51. Purge me with hyssop. Make me clean. When you make me clean, I will be as white as snow. Well, here it comes again in Isaiah chapter 1. Come now, says Jesus. Let us be right together. Let's reason. Let's reason together. Though your sins are blood, though your sins are blood, they will be white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be as wool. How? The blood of Christ. Now here's the condition. If you are willing and you are obedient, you will eat and go to the land. Deuteronomy 27, 28, and 29. Do this and be blessed. Do this not and be cursed. And that list of blessings is pretty short. But the list of cursings gets exponentially greater. And as we talked about doing things in the bounds of the law, doing fencings, the blessings are within a little box. I think I want to stay in the box. Not putting God in a box by any means. But when you stay within the bounds of the law, we are free to do as we choose. Under God's thinking. Under God's boundaries. When we step outside of that, then we have a problem. Man's problem is, which we see in the garden, did God really say that you'll die? Nah, sure you won't die. Because in the day you eat thereof, you're going to know you'll be God. You'll be like Him. You can choose for yourself what's right and wrong. Do you want to do it? Yeah, go ahead. It's alright. No. Though your sins are as scarlet, I will cleanse you. I will do the work. I will send my son to the cross. If you are willing, if you believe in him, sirs, what must we do to be saved? Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus. 1 Timothy 1.15, this is a trustworthy and faithful saying. Jesus came to die for sinners, of whom I am chief. I can identify with Paul. I am chief of sinners because I know what goes on up here. I know who I am. Let's be right together. If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat good of the land. But if you refuse and you rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken. You know the hallelujah chorus. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. Hallelujah. How the faithful city has become a harlot. That's pretty harsh, that God is calling His church a harlot. But look at how we have changed or exchanged the truth for a lie, as we see in Romans 1. Instead of coming to the Word, to feast, the heavenly manna that comes down, to rightly administer the sacraments, to properly administer church discipline, and to have the proper preaching of the Word, we have gone to televisions, donuts, coffee, whatever the world looks like, we want to mimic. What happened to be in the world but not of it? I have called you out of that. We look different. I will put enmity between you and her. The seed of the woman, the seed of the serpent. Never will the twain meet. Ever. But in Jesus, we who were of the seed of serpent are of the seed of the woman. We have been brought in. We see that in Galatians chapter 3. There is no distinction between Jew and Gentile. We are the seed of Abraham. And Isaiah continues to hammer this out for 66 chapters. And we see what God thinks about Sabbath. What does He think about Sundays? How are we to come to view Sunday afternoon? How should we come to Sunday? And as our brother prayed this morning, yes, every day is of the Lord. But Sunday is when we come to give Him the firstfruits of our inquiries. When we come to seek the bread of life, to feast on that heavenly manna, to come to be spiritually recharged, to get our spirits fed, To hear from heaven. To be in God's presence. To be in the communion of the saints. We are different from the world. We ought to look as such. We are the salt and the light. We need to be that. Therefore, Jehovah says, because your silver has become dross, righteousness lodges in your city. Used to, but now murderers are there. It's corrupt and it's watered down. Your wine is mixed with water. No more do we come with the purity. Your princes are rebellious. You've got corruption of political leaders. Everyone loves a bribe. Hmm. How does Washington work? Everyone loves a bribe. Political leaders. They all follow after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. There is no justice. And now someone who breaks into someone's house and gets hurt can sue the homeowner. Is that justice? If I have a dog and I have a son and he's a guard dog, beware of guard dog. No trespassing. Someone trespasses. My dog does his job. I'm in trouble. because he broke into my property. But now the laws protect the criminal instead of the righteous. And it's not the law to protect the righteous that we don't see this in Ephesians and in Romans 13, because the authority exists to protect the righteous. If you are not doing righteous, you ought to be fearful. But now our criminals are more well treated than Us. And I happen to be a criminal, but a former criminal. And I've seen the inside of it. To see just how somebody in jail is treated compared to somebody outside. My parents were treated worse than I was when they came to see me. That's kind of tough to deal with. When the administration of the jails and the prisons are treating the families of the prisoners worse, and as bad as, Those that are in the jail that did the crime. We've got a problem. Our job is to call it out. Repent of your sins. Believe the gospel. Come back to where we need to be. And this is just the introduction in chapter 1. Your silver has become drossed. It is corrupt. They do not defend the fatherless. They do not Consider the cause of the widow. Therefore, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, the mighty one of Israel, I will rid myself of my adversaries. He is issuing total warfare on sin. I hope that we don't have to see the fullness of that in our lifetime. Really, it took place on the cross that we don't have to stand in judgment of our sin. But we are going to see it dealt with physically in this world. I hope that we don't have to see a complete total warfare on sin because of where we have gone. And I pray that we will have revival in our country. Let it begin right here in my own heart. If it doesn't start with me, how in the world can I spark revival anywhere else? How can I bring anyone to the knowledge of God and speak it and live it and act it and try to be a Christian if I don't have it here? If not, I'm just a Pharisee like they were. It does me no good. I will rid myself of my adversaries. I will take vengeance upon my enemies. I will turn my hand against you. I will thoroughly purge away your draughts and take away your alloy. And this is comforting. I will restore your judges as at the first. Your counselors as at the beginning. And once you've gone through all of this, you'll be called the city of righteousness. You'll be a faithful city. Zion, the church, will be redeemed with justice and her penitence with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and sinners will be altogether. Those who forsake Yahweh will be consumed. So they'll be ashamed of the terrible truth. They'll be ashamed of their sacred groves and their idols and these worthless things that they've sought after. And then, as Jesus talks about the pearl of great price, That's what they'll seek after. And I hope that's what we do. David, you'll be embarrassed because of the sacred gardens which you have chosen instead of my sanctuary. For you will be as that terebinth tree whose leaf fades and as a garden has no water and dries up. The strong, the mighty ones, those who are in political authority who are wicked will be as tender. And the work of it as a spark, both will burn together and none will quench them. We ought to go preaching to these people and save them from that, because if it weren't for God's grace, there go we. There go we. But the good news is we have Jesus. And though God's judgment continues to be hammered out, We have the assurance of pardon. We have the assurance of Christ. And that gives us hope. And as Jude and Peter both say, now we have a reason. Give defense of that reason for the hope that we have within us. Because we know when we die and we leave this life here, we have something better coming. And that on the other end, the heavens will be restored. There will be a new earth. Yahweh will reign. Yahweh will reign. Jesus sits on His throne. And we ought to preach of the coming judgment. Because right now, there's no consequences for anything. So our philosophy says. But there is a real God who has really spoken. There is a real hell. There is a real heaven. And I'm glad when I'm done, I will see Jesus. And I can only say that because, as Isaiah's name means, salvation is of the Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen. Shall we pray? Our Father and our God, we are thankful for Isaiah, though it tears us down, Lord, because we see so much of your wrath, your judgment. But there's hope, Lord, because we see grace, we see salvation in you, who tell us to wash ourselves and make us clean. You give us the ability, through the Holy Spirit, to come to Christ. when you regenerate us. And that work only comes through Christ because I will not come in myself, of myself, because I've got a problem. My heart, my head, mouth, the whole head is sick. We've got a problem. I've got a whole issue. And I need a whole solution. And I thank you, Lord, that Jesus is that solution. And I thank you for the word of Isaiah, the gospel, and the Old Testament. And it gives us hope, Lord. And I pray that you will recharge us and that we will be ready and zealous for your truth and that we'll be ready to hit the ground running tomorrow with whatever may face us and whatever stupid things we do. I pray that you will forgive us of those because you know, I do a lot of stupid stuff. But thank you for Jesus and for all the things, Lord, that you pour out to us in this life. And as Paul says, Lord, nothing can be counted to what's coming. And Lord, we just praise you and thank you. And I pray that you will bless our congregation and that you will raise it up and glorify it and that we will bring glory to your name. And all we do is say we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Yes.