in Isaiah chapter 49. And the Bible reads, Listen, O isles unto me, and hark any people
from far. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath he
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, and the shadow of his hand hath he hid me,
and made me a polished shaft, and his quiver hath he hid me, and set on to me the art my
servant O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain,
yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God.
And now sayeth the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be a servant, to bring Jacob again
though Israel be gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord.
And my God shall be my strength." And he said,
It is a light thing thou shalt be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also give thee, for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Thou saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his holy one,
to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor.
To a servant of rulers, kings shall see and rise.
Princes also shall worship because of the Lord,
that is faithful and the Holy One of Israel,
and he shall choose thee.
Thou saith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee.
And in a day of salvation have I helped thee,
and I will preserve thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people to establish the earth,
to cause to inherit the desolate heritages.
Thou mayest say to the prisoners,
go forth to them that are in darkness.
show yourselves, they shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them, for heat that hath
mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all
my mountains away, and my highway shall be exalted behold. These shall come from far and low, these
Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth in the singing, O mountains, for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yea, they may forget. Yet will I not forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before me.
Thy children shall make haste, thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste shall go forth
of thee.
Lift up thine eyes round about and behold, all these gather themselves together and come
to thee.
As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament
For thy waste, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall even be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants.
And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
The children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say again in thy years.
The place is too straight for me. Give me place.
Give place to me that I may dwell then shalt thou say in thine heart who have begotten me these
Seeing I have lost my children and am desolate the captive and removing to and fro and who have brought up these
Behold I was left alone. These were had they been
They'll say the Lord God behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my standard to the people
They shall bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughter shall be cared upon their shoulders and king shall be thy nursing fathers and their
Queen's nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet
And I shall know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me
Shall the break be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive delivered
But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the
prey of the terrible shall be delivered, for I will contend with him that contended with
thee, and I will save thy children, and I will feed them that oppressed thee with their
own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood."
as with sweet wine and all flesh I'll know that I am the Lord and by Savior and
I redeemer the mighty one of Jacob. Let's pray. By the God we thank you Lord for the
King James Bible. Thank you for this wonderful church you've given us. We
thank you for our pastor dear God. Please bless him as he preaches your word. In
Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Okay, we're continuing this evening with our Bible study in the book of Isaiah. We're chapter 49 tonight and
this chapter is actually considered by many as part of what they would call the servants song the servants song and
It's one of five chapters that's referred to as the servants songs
This is a part of a group of chapters 42 chapter 50 chapter 52 and 53
that are directly prophetic of the ministry of Jesus Christ.
So obviously we know that we can find different symbolism
and pictures in the book of Isaiah,
just as in other books,
but there's certain chapters and passages
that directly deal with Jesus Christ.
They foretell of Jesus Christ, they predict of him,
and they're very specific regarding his ministry,
and so those are typically coupled together.
This is one of them.
And so tonight we're gonna look at two sections.
We're gonna look at the purpose.
of the Messiah and then we're going to look at the faithfulness of the Messiah so let's look at
this first section which is the first 13 verses the very popular passage that is referred to
as one of the servant songs we're going to see the purpose of the Messiah first and foremost is
to proclaim the word of God it says in verse one listen oh isles referring to islands of course
unto me and harkening people from far the Lord hath called me from the womb from the bowels
of my name now I do want to mention this is that as we read this chapter
It's pretty obvious that much of it is referring to Jesus Christ, but there's been some debate
whether it kind of veers off into referring to Isaiah, it could be referring to Israel itself,
and I think the majority of it is dealing with Jesus Christ, and the reason people kind of wonder
if it's addressing the nation as a whole is because of verse number three.
And a lot of the passages here is Jesus Christ prophetically saying this about himself here in
But then he refers to him.
It seems as though in verse number three is refers to himself as Israel,
but I'm going to explain why that is in verse number three in just a bit.
But the first thing we're going to look at here is the fact that he's saying
here that the Lord called him from the womb, from the bowels of his mother.
was his name mentioned now this is referring to Jesus Christ
But as we're gonna see in the later passages
It's also addressing the prophet Isaiah because a lot of what's being stated to Jesus Christ can be applied not only to Isaiah
But also to us right. I mean you think of Isaiah saying this
He could very well say and mean that the Lord called him from the womb, just as the Lord called Jeremiah from the womb, right?
Before, I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and called thee to be a prophet unto the nations.
Well, like Manor, you know, God called Isaiah to be a prophet as well.
He knew him from the womb, and he made mention of him even prior to his existence.
But of course, we know that this is prophetically referring to Jesus Christ,
the angel coming to Joseph and calling Jesus out by name.
He's saying his name shall be called Jesus, okay?
Specifically referring to the name
that he was gonna have when he was born.
We also see this in Luke chapter one.
When the angel Gabriel comes to Mary
and addresses the fact that she's gonna have a child
and that his name is going to be Jesus
and he's gonna save his people from their sins.
And so this is very much prophetic about
the birth of Jesus Christ.
This is a verse number two.
And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me
and made me a polished shaft in his quiver,
hath he hid me.
And again, when you read this,
you could apply this to Isaiah.
Because of the fact that Isaiah is a preacher, right?
He's a prophet of God.
And it could be said of the prophets of God
that they have a mouth like a sharp sword.
Why?
Because they're preaching
The word of God, the Bible says that the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword.
It pierces even to the dividing center of soul and spirit, joints in the marrow,
is a discernment of the thoughts and the intents of the heart, given those qualities of a sword.
And so when a preacher preaches the word of God, it cuts to the heart, right?
It gets to the heart of the matter, it divides, it does those things.
But here's the thing though, it's also prophetic about Jesus Christ because he is
the word of God.
Now go to Revelation chapter 19,
if you would, Revelation chapter 19.
Hold your place there in Isaiah.
Let me read you from Revelation chapter 1
and verse 14.
describing Jesus Christ in his glory the Bible says his head and his hairs were
white like wool as white as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire and his
feet like into fine brass as it as if they burned in a furnace and his voice
as the sound of many waters and he had in his right hand seven stars and listen
to this and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword and his countenance
in his strength you know it should not come as a surprise that the word of God Jesus Christ
also has a mouth like a sharp sword he is the one who spoke everything into existence
but he is also the word of God that cuts with the word of his mouth it also says in Revelation 2
12 and to the angel of the church in Pergamus right
These things say he which had the sharp sword
with two edges referring to his mouth.
Look at Revelation 19 and verse number 20.
It says, and he was clothed, referring to Jesus,
with the vesture dipped in blood
and his name is called the word of God.
Now, I love the fact that Jesus is also referred
to as the word of God, right?
He's God himself, but he's also the word of God.
And one of the reasons I love this
is because of John 1-1.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
And obviously, when we read that, and when we hear that, we automatically associate that verse with Genesis 1-1, right?
It has that very similar beginning.
But, you know, I think of the fact that on Tuesday we were out souling, and it's pretty ironic because we had the souling training.
And I don't remember who it was, but someone asked about Muslims, right?
Didn't someone ask about Muslims in the soaring training and they're like, hey, you know
How do you deal with the Muslim?
And I'm just like, you know, it's not gonna happen very often and you don't really run into but I ended up running into a Muslim
actually and he was from Egypt and
He was in Egyptian and he was very kind very gracious and you know, he let me preach the gospel to him and
When I got to the point of Jesus being God, he's like, well, isn't he a God though? I said no, he's the God
He is God
And he's like, I don't know about that.
And I said, well, don't you believe the Bible?
And he says, well, I believe in the Quran.
I say, yeah, but doesn't the Quran give credence
to the Gospels and says that it's authoritative?
And he's like, well, yeah, well, let me read to you
from the Gospels, I said.
And I quoted John 1-1, and I said, what do you think about that?
He's like, hmm, I gotta think about that, you know?
And I told him, hey, the word of God is God, right?
And that's what the Bible says, and he was very kind,
he was very gracious, and he didn't get saved, obviously.
But, you know, it's a better experience
than when I've witnessed the Jews.
Let me just say that, okay?
And so he showed a lot of respect to Christianity,
and he even gave my kids like chocolates,
boxes of chocolates and stuff.
He's very kind and gracious.
I hope he gets saved one day.
But the point that I'm making here
is that Jesus Christ is the Word of God.
It's very becoming to who he is
because his mouth is like a sharp sword, as it says here.
It says in verse 15 out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite
the nations and he shall rule them with the rod of iron and he treadeth the wine press
of the fierceness of the wrath of all mighty God.
So we see here that the word of God which is Jesus.
Has a mouth with a sharp sword and as we'll look at it in just a bit
You know this sword of the mouth of Jesus does multiple things it divides people for example, right?
You know it brings division and it's it's kind of funny when people and I'm talking about Christians namely and
Churches they often have a problem with division, right? They're just like oh you guys are just dividing and
There's so much division in Christianity,
and we shouldn't have all this division,
but folks, yes, we should have division.
If there's no division, then Jesus isn't being preached.
Why? Because Jesus has a mouth
with a sharp sword that divides.
And what does it do?
Now, let me just explain something here,
is that we need to have unity
in our local New Testament church,
but division out there.
There should be unity here, but division out there.
There should be no division here.
We should be endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit
and the bond of peace, the Bible says.
We should agree with one another.
We should obviously hold to the same doctrines,
the fundamentals of the Christian faith,
of salvation, of the deity of Jesus Christ.
And you know what, even tertiary things,
we have unity in, right?
End times Bible prophecy, replacement theology,
of various doctrines that we agree on.
We share unity in that, but hold on a second.
We don't share unity with people out there.
Why? Because doctrine divides.
That's what it does.
And not just in a doctrinal sense,
but even just being a Christian
separates you from everyone else.
And don't let anybody tell you,
oh yeah, Catholic's Christian, same thing.
No, it's not.
There's a major division between us and Catholics. There's a major division between us and Mormons
There's a major division between us and Jehovah's Witnesses and I dare say there's a major division between Christians and other Christians
Because there's people who are Christians. They have Christian on the church sign
They have Baptist on the church sign, but they hold to a complete different salvation
There's a bunch of non-denom churches out there
They claim to be Baptist and they may be right on salvation on paper, but when you actually talk to them, they're not
You know, that creates division, right?
And quite frankly, there's not only division
between churches, sometimes there's just division
between Christians and other Christians,
between Christians and their family members,
Christians and their friends, their children,
their parents, but the Bible promises us
that there will be division.
And in fact, you know, Jesus said,
I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
He's like, oh man, we should just have peace and you know, what would Jesus do?
I'll tell you what he'll do. He'll cut you in half
Because he came not to bring peace but a sword
Now here's the thing is that you know Jesus Christ offers peace and
Quite frankly, it's the most important piece that any human being can have this side of eternity
What's his reconciliation with the father?
Right because the peace that the Bible highlights is
Being reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ and only through Jesus Christ by our faith in him, right?
But even after that we have the peace of the Holy Spirit the peace the passive understanding
But you know let me just remind you is that just because Jesus came to die on across the pay for the sins of the world
Doesn't mean the whole world's gonna have peace because as we read in the previous chapter last week
There is no peace to the wicked say it's Lord
You know there is no peace to them and quite frankly when he says I came not to bring peace on earth
He's addressing them. He's like I'm not coming to bring peace to you. He's not coming to you know make peace with them
He's coming to reconcile them back to God
Right by dying for them and then at the end of the day he says I come to bring a sword
He's bringing wars when he's bringing
He says, for I am come to set a man at variance, variance meaning they're against
and they're contrary one to the other. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,
meaning that a son
will be divided and will be separated from his father because of who? Because of Jesus.
And not just because of Jesus, but because of just the Bible.
Right and obviously Jesus is the Bible and so that's included. He says the daughter
Against her mother
so there will be instances where the children will rise up against their parents as
We've seen by the way in recent times
You know rise up against the parents and mock the parents and be at enmity
With the parents and that is a fulfillment of the Bible because the Bible teaches that that's what the word of God does
It brings variants. It brings the vision. It does not bring peace with that
He says and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Now, that's not you know, you don't really need Jesus for that
Amen
Sometimes that just happens on it. That's just organic
Okay, like yeah, I know a situation like that, but they you know, they had nothing to do with Jesus. Yeah
But sometimes it does though
And it says that a man's foes, meaning enemies,
shall be they of his own household.
So, you know, we expect division between us and the world.
Duh.
We expect division between us and Mormons, for sure.
We expect division between us and other Christians
who are lukewarm, absolutely.
But you know, it hits home when there's division
between you and family members,
between you and your husband, between you and your wife,
between you and your children, between you and your parents,
between you and your cousins, between you and your sister,
between you and your brother.
That's the division that hits home.
And all of us to a certain degree has experienced that.
I mean, within the last 17 plus years that I've been a Christian,
I've experienced much division with people who are my blood relatives.
And quite frankly, I don't really keep in contact with a lot of them.
You know, I keep in contact with one periodically, weekly, and that's my mom,
because she comes to our church.
And, you know, my mom and I have grown closer over the last two years,
three years since she got saved.
You know when she was reconciled back to God through Jesus Christ, then it's just like now we have peace, right?
You know that that's where the bumper sticker actually makes sense. No peace. No, what is it? No Jesus? No peace. No, Jesus
No peace, right? And you know now my mom so I get along great with my mom, but I'll be honest with you
I have a lot of family members
Blood relatives people that I grew up with people that I spent a lot of majority of my life with that
I have no contact with and I'll tell you why because there's this huge sword that divided us. It's called the vibe
now
The sword doesn't always divide but not because it's not sharp
But because people are willing to stand for the word of God
You know, sometimes there's Christians out there that are unwilling to adhere to the Bible.
They're unwilling to back it up.
They're unwilling to proclaim it or to stand for it.
And it's for that reason that they remained reconciled to people who are against the Word of God.
You know, their relationships, their family members are far more important to them than what the Bible says.
But you know what? God expects of us 100% loyalty.
Okay, and so we see here that that's what the word of God does and you say well
Why mention this well because it's important to understand the word of God brings variance. It brings division it
It slices and dices it cuts relationships
you know maybe you had a best friend at one point and you guys did everything
together and you guys are better bbf's or whatever you call that and you guys
were homies and roe dogs and all this stuff but then Christianity came along
and just ruined all that
I mean, I remember that happened to me as well.
I had really close friends in the world,
and, you know, we did everything together.
I mean, we experienced life together.
We would take a bullet for each other.
That's what we would say.
But then Christianity came along,
and all of a sudden,
we don't really share common ground anymore.
Now all of a sudden they don't want to hang out with me anymore. Why? I'll tell you why because I'm in church on Sundays
I'm in church on Thursdays. I'm soul-winning on Saturdays. I'm reading the Bible
I'm not going to the locations that they go to. I'm not talking about the things that they talk about
We don't share the same interests and it's funny, you know, we were great friends up until Christ came along and
Created that division now. They don't want to be friends anymore
And it's just like well was all that talk about taking a bullet now you won't even come to church with me
I'll tell you what it is. It's the sword that brings that division and
So this is prophetically referring to the fact that
God has a sharp sword known as Jesus Christ who's God he's the word of God and
So it says he had made my mouth like a sharp sword
And then he says in the shadow of his hand hath he hit me and made me a polished shaft in his quiver
In his quiver hath he hit me now. Let me also say this is that you know the Bible as a sword also
distinguishes between
the right doctrine false doctrine
And that's important to note because a lot of people online,
just like, oh, we shouldn't be fighting
over these trivial things, these trivial doctrines.
Preach Christ, preach Christ.
Well, that's why there's division
because I am preaching Christ.
Because Jesus agrees with me
because I'm preaching what he said to preach.
And a lot of people don't like that type of division,
but it's just like, well, what you should be doing
instead of spewing hatred from the pulpit,
instead of talking about this, that, and the other,
why don't you preach Christ?
I'll tell you why, because of the fact
that everyone here is pretty much saved,
and everyone here already knows who Jesus Christ is.
So now it's time to move on to perfection, right?
And this will we do if God permits, amen.
And move on to mature subjects and preach the whole counsel of God. It divides people. Okay, and this is very much a real thing
especially on social media
You know, there's certain hot topics on social media that if you just hit you'll get all the fake Christians against you
And when I say fake Christians, I'm referring to people who are saved and
unsaved
Okay, there are fake Christians if they're saved because they're not willing to actually like defend the Bible
You know, I posted a video on like, you know, why I'm not a Judeo Christian should be just a complete non-controversial
topic anybody who you know knows a little bit of Bible should know that that's not a biblical concept and
Then I got this guy who has like a million followers. He's a brown-oser for Israel
And he's just like condemning me and all this nonsense
and he's just like so angry at what I said.
And he wrote this whole long paragraph or whatever.
And you know, I'm just like, man, you're such,
I didn't want to say it, but I can't say it here,
but you know, you're a brown noser to Israel.
You know, he's just kissing Israeli rear end to no end,
right?
And it's just like, and I kind of respond to him like,
so are you against Jesus?
Because all I talked about was the synagogue of Satan,
and then it seems like you have a problem
with that statement, even though it came
from the word of God himself.
It came from the two-edged sword himself.
But it's funny how these Zionists,
they play the same card that the Catholics do.
It's just like you quote Jesus,
and then they start fighting over
That particular statement is just like, hey, buddy, I'm not the one who said it. Jesus said it
But why is that I'll tell you why because the sword divides it divides the Zionist from
Christians
Okay, it divides those who you know actually believe the Bible from those who are apologetic about the Bible
And so we need to make sure that we recognize the severity of the sharpness of the sword and not be surprised when it brings division.
Okay? Very important. But he says there that his mouth is like a sharp sword.
And it says that in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me and made me appall his shaft in his quiver hath he hid me.
And again, this could be referring to Isaiah, because the implication here is that he's stating that in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me,
meaning that he's holding him, he's reserving him for a time, right, until he brings him out of the quiver.
Quiver's referring to that little case where he put the arrows in, and he's reserving him until he has to pull them out and actually use him.
And every prophet of God is like that.
Right where they're just kind of like in hiding for a while until they're ready
And then they come out and they start preaching the word of God
I mean I think of Elijah the tish bite who when he first presented himself to Israel
He just kind of came in came out of nowhere
It's just like one chapter begins and he's just like Denny Lysha the tish bite. It's like well. What do you mean Denny Lysha?
Then Elijah the tish bite he just came out of nowhere
I just like just showed up out of nowhere
But you know what John the Baptist was in the wilderness until he was showing himself to Israel and it began to preach
And you know what the same thing with Jesus Christ and so they are as a shadow in the hand that God is hiding
They're like a polished shaft referring to that the tip of the arrow
That's ready to come out of the quiver to do its job and this is very much likened unto Isaiah because that's what he's doing
He's preaching to Judas preaching to Israel
But it's also referring to Jesus Christ since he didn't begin his ministry until the age of 30
So we can say from the time that he was born up until he was 30
you know, he's in the shadow of the hand of the father and
You know, he's in that quiver until he presents himself to Israel as being God and he begins to do all his miracles
And begin his three and a half year ministry
But you know, we can also say that there comes a time in our lives where it's like time to come out of the quiver
Obviously, we don't necessarily have that same type of ministry, but there comes a point in every Christian's life where it's time to stop messing around and come out of the quiver.
God wants to use you as a polished shaft. He wants to pull you out like an arrow out of the quiver and actually shoot you into this world to go preach the gospel to every creature, to go stand for righteousness.
It's time to get out of the quiver and do so.
So Jesus was in the shadow of his father's hand until the age of 30 when he began his ministry
But the ruben you can turn that off a temporarily and then turn it back on in about 30 minutes or so everyone's freezing in here
not me
Let me let me read to you from
Psalm 64 verse 2 it says hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity
Who wet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words
They that shoot that they may shoot in secret at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not
They encourage themselves in an evil matter the commune of Lane snares privilege. They say who shall see them they search out in iniquities
They accomplish a diligent search both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep
But the Bible says God shall shoot at them listen to this with an arrow
Suddenly, shall they be wounded?
So as we see in Isaiah 49,
when he talks about the Paulist shaft,
the arrow that's gonna come out of the quiver,
this is likened to what we see in the book of Psalms
that God is gonna use an arrow.
to essentially wound the workers of iniquity, the evil people of this world.
And I believe that symbolically representing Jesus Christ.
He's the arrow that pierces through the dividing of Sunder, of soul and spirit, joints and the morrow.
Look at Isaiah 49 in verse number 3.
So continuing with this prophetic revelation of Jesus Christ.
His mouth is a sharp sword. He is that polished shaft that arrow in the quiver of God
Sent to this world from heaven to accomplish the work verse number three says and said unto me
Thou art my servant. Oh Israel in whom I will be glorified
Then I say then I said I have labored in vain
I have spent my strength for naught and in vain yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with God
Now here's some pretty
Enigmatic passages that people have a hard time interpreting who's being referred to here because
Obviously, we know that the majority of the passage is addressing Jesus Christ
And it's almost as if Jesus is saying this about himself
But here's the thing is that again the prophet Isaiah is the one who's also saying this
So you'll have this a lot in the Bible
specifically in the Psalms for example where David will speak in the first person, but it's a prophetic statement of Jesus Christ
You know that will not leave my soul in hell
You know David said that but we obviously know he's speaking from the place of Christ
Jesus Christ will also say that will not leave my soul in hell
So I believe this is the case here where he says in verse 3 and said unto me
Thou are my servant O Israel in whom I will be glorified now when he says and said unto me
I do believe that Isaiah saying that God is saying this unto him
But thou are my servant O Israel is not about Isaiah. He just saying unto him thou are my servant O Israel addressing
the children of Israel.
That's what I believe is what's taking place there.
I hope that made sense.
And in verse four, he says, then I said, Isaiah again,
I have labored in vain.
I have spent my strength for naught.
And in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord.
So what is the same?
Well, if we're to apply this to Isaiah being that prophet,
being that polished shaft preacher who's proclaiming the word of God,
you know, like any other preacher, like any other prophet,
there's going to come a time when Isaiah feels like his labor is in vain, right?
Why is that? Well, because of the fact that he's preaching but no one's being converted. No one's changing their ways
No one's getting right with God. It doesn't seem as though he's making any progress
And so even though this is a passage
Prophetically addressing Jesus Christ, I do believe this is kind of like an interval where it's mainly talking about Isaiah at this point
Because he's the one who's preaching during this particular time and he might feel like man
This is in vain and you know what there are times as a preacher and as a pastor where I can feel like this
I'm sure my pastor friends could get could attested the same
Where you put in a lot of work and then you just like man, maybe my labor's in pain
You know, I feel like I spent my strength or not for nothing
In vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord.
And why does Isaiah feel this way?
Well, because he's not seeing the results, right?
We want to see results when we preach the word of God.
We want to see people converted.
We want to see people saved.
We want to see people turn to righteousness.
So it could be a little discouraging
when you preach and that doesn't happen, right?
And we can point to various instances in the Bible,
for example, Jeremiah, where he's preaching
and he's actually making more enemies than he is converts.
More people are criticizing him than anything else.
And he's just like, I'm done.
I don't wanna preach in the name of God anymore.
He wants to quit, but then he's like,
but his word was within my heart as a burning fire
shut up in my bones and I could not stay.
So he was a real one in other words because he's like I want to quit
But you know I got this real good Bible passage in my mind
And I want to just get out and so he ends up preaching anyways
But every man of God every prophet every preacher experiences something like this, but not just pastors Christians in general
You know Christians in general can often feel or go through interval intervals
Seasons where they feel like their labor is in vain
And you say, well, how do they why do they feel that way? Well, you know, you're serving God. You're going to church
You're trying to do the best you can to be a wife, to be a husband, to provide, to win
souls.
You're reading your Bible.
You're living a life that in general is pleasing in the eyes of God, but yet problems just
keep multiplying in your life or something.
You have a health issue.
You have financial issues.
You know, you're not getting people saved.
You're going through a dry spill.
Something bad is happening to you and you may think to yourself like, man, I feel like
And, you know, you can often have this feeling of just like,
man, serving God is vain, you know?
I just don't feel like I'm getting anything in return,
not that like I'm expecting anything in return,
but you would almost think like, if I'm serving God,
you know, I thought, let's seek you first,
the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and these things shall be added unto you.
But here's the thing, these things
doesn't have a deadline though.
It's not like, it's not, you know, Amazon Prime.
You know next day shipping or something like that if you're serving God it's just a promise that it's gonna come
He just didn't tell you went and
so
People Christians who are serving God you guys just need to push through it. I need to push through it and
Realize that if you're having a bad week or a bad month. Hey join the club everyone does
Everyone goes through that. It's not a reflection upon your service of God, and it's not a reflection on God's nature either
You know going through a difficult time if you've already taken inventory of your spiritual life
And you're like I don't have sin in my life, you know, I'm tithing. I'm winning souls to Christ
Doing I'm checking all the boxes. I feel like I'm right with God, but things aren't going right then just wait
Maybe God is pruning you. Maybe Satan is attacking you
But don't allow a difficult trial a difficult time to be a reflection of the nature of God
Right, and also don't let it be a reflection upon you
Because just because nothing's going right doesn't mean you're not doing the right things
Because people can easily feel that way and say man like why even go so many you know
What's the point of even coming to church on a Thursday?
What's the point of even like encouraging people at church upon discourage or something you know?
I've spent my strength for not
Nothing's going right
But there's always a turnaround
And there's always a point where things begin to change,
life goes through seasons.
They go through cold seasons, they go through hot seasons,
they go through autumn seasons, they go through spring seasons,
and you just got to learn how to serve God through every season
and seek to prosper and succeed in the season that you're in
and not let it be a reflection of your service
or the nature of God. Now obviously,
If you're like in sin, then do get right with God.
You need to repent, and God's gonna destroy you if you don't.
And so this is why this is happening to you.
And if you don't get right with God,
then a worse thing is gonna come upon you, okay?
But I'm not really talking about the person who is in sin.
I'm talking about the person who's actually laboring.
And Isaiah is just like, man, I've labored in vain, you know?
And you know, I remember just before I was a pastor
feeling that way.
There's a time when it was just like,
I invested so much time and energy
into learning the ministry, being in the ministry,
trying to perfect my skills of preaching
and learning the Bible and investing in people
and just literally pouring my life into the ministry
just to basically have it all taken away and like,
you know, hey, you're never gonna preach again,
you're never gonna pastor again.
And you know, there's a time where I felt like, man,
That was in vain, like in Bible college, all in vain, all the money for not, the strength
for not, and you just kind of feel like, man, well, that sucks.
But there's only one thing you can do during that time, and it's what Isaiah says, and
it says, and yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God.
One of those things is just like yeah, it might be in vain humanly speaking, but at the end of the day
God is pleased with me at the end of the day
God is not unrighteous to forget my work and the work that I put in for him and you know it
So if you ever feel like
Your investment has been in vain in a person
Because maybe they go out into the world or they don't pen out for God or you know, they disappoint you in any way
You know, don't feel like it's in vain because God is not unrighteous to forget your work of love
Okay, he takes keeps track of that. He keeps all the receipts
You know he keeps track of everything that you're doing and it's not in vain, and you know what throughout the years
You know, I've had people who backslid for a long time and then all of a sudden they call me and they're just like hey
You know I want to come back to church or how come you're not at this church anymore or whatever and in fact this past week
My mother-in-law texts me and said hey
Someone came looking at the church for you
From the church plant. I'm like, oh and they're kind of shocked that you weren't here
So he ended up calling me and I called him and his it's older gentleman
He's I think he's probably in his probably late 60s or so. Maybe he's pushing 70
And this is a man that I heavily invested in.
Him and his wife, his wife went home to be with the Lord
many years ago while she was in our church.
Was a great saint of the Lord.
She loved the Lord.
She just was a wonderful Christian.
She ended up getting cancer and passing away.
And man, my wife and I just kind of poured our lives
into this family and then they just kind of like
fizzled out, you know, they just stopped coming to church.
And
He, when I called him, you know, he was reminding me
of the last conversation I had with him.
And he really felt bad, and this is like,
man, maybe like 13 years ago or something like that?
I don't know, 10, 13 years ago?
So I don't remember this.
It's probably closer to maybe 15 years ago.
I do not remember this, but he said,
hey, Pastor Bruce, I feel really bad
because you would come visit me every single week
to make sure I came to church.
And you said, you're coming to church, right?
You're coming to church.
And then one day you told me, you're like,
am I bothering you by coming?
And this is what I told you, yes you are.
And then he said, you know what?
And you never came back after that.
And I was like, well, that's a touching story,
but I don't remember that happen.
I was like, hey, no offense, man.
I don't remember.
But he's like, oh, man, I felt really bad about that,
because you came every single week
to make sure I was in church.
That me and my family were in church.
And then one day, you just stopped coming.
But he was really grateful that when
he decided to come back to church,
like he heard, brother Bruce is still in church.
You know and let me just say this one of the best reasons to just stick it out
Is because the revolving door of church will one day bring back a person that is hoping that you just
stuck around I
Know that might not mean a lot to you right now, but it will mean a lot to a person in the future
For some reason it adds stability to their perception of church and Christianity
When they could come back ten years later and brother so-and-so still in a spot
He's still serving God and he's still waiting for you
You know that means a lot to people and it gives people a reason to come back it challenges them to come back
And so he said he's gonna be coming on Sunday here. So, you know, hopefully he does
But the point that I'm making here is that your labor is not in vain in the Lord Amen
And when you feel like it's humanly vain like oh man, I just waste it all the time
No, God's keeping track and not only that sometimes people come back
You know and so keep at it just like Isaiah did have this attitude
My judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God in other words people don't appreciate my work
But I know God appreciates the work, you know God always sees the work and it does pay off in the long run
Look at verse number five
He says and now say it the Lord that formed me from the womb to be a servant to bring Jacob again to him though
Israel be not gathered yet
Shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord and my God shall be my strength and he said it is a light thing that thou
Should has be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preservative Israel
I will also give thee for a light up to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation until the end of the earth now
This is a really funny verse
Because God is telling Isaiah and of course my proxy prophetically Jesus Christ in verse 6
He says I want you to notice
It's a light thing that thou should has been my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob
in other words like
Yeah, it's not really that big of a deal for you to like preach to Israel and Jacob to bring them back
He says I will also give thee for the light of the Gentiles
So in other words, it's like reaching Israel, bringing Jacob back, that's a light thing.
Now, bringing the Gentiles in, being the lions of the Gentiles, that's big stuff right there.
That's what he's telling them.
Because he's saying it's a light thing to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel.
Now, the dispensations don't seem to understand that.
They think, you know, it's all about Israel.
It's all about Jacob.
Well, that's funny. God says, no, it's a light thing.
You know what a light thing is?
It's not that important.
That's what a light thing is.
It's lightly esteemed.
He's like, I lightly esteemed that you're bringing
the preservative of Israel back,
but I will also give thee the light of the Gentiles.
You know what that means?
It means the Gentiles are not a plan B.
It's a successful reconciliation
when the Gentiles are also brought in.
And of course, verse six is prophetic of
Not just Isaiah, but also of Jesus Christ because this is reiterated in the Gospels as Jesus Christ being the light unto
The Gentiles and in fact go to Romans if you would Roman chapter 10
Roman chapter number 10
Now why would it be a light thing to raise up and restore Israel even in the Old Testament?
I'll tell you why, because in Psalm 2, when speaking of Jesus Christ, the Lord tells the
Lord, I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, meaning that he's going to give
the Gentiles also foreign inheritance unto Jesus Christ, because he's going to be a light
unto the Gentiles.
And the Bible also says, you're in Romans 10,
I'm gonna reach you from Romans 15,
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy
as it is written for this cause,
I will confess thee among the Gentiles
and sing unto thy name.
And again, he saith, rejoice ye Gentiles with his people.
And again, praise the Lord all ye Gentiles
and laud him all ye people.
And again, Isaiah saith, there shall be a root of Jesse
and he shall rise to reign over the Gentiles.
In him shall the Gentiles trust.
Now look at Romans chapter 10 because obviously it's prophetic of Jesus Christ, but it's also prophetic of Isaiah
He's also to be a light unto the Gentiles. Isaiah is not just preaching to Israel and Judah. He's preaching to the surrounding nations as well
There are Gentile people in the Old Testament that were getting saved
They were adopting the God of Israel as their own God and in fact look at Romans 10 and verse 20
It says, but Isaiah, referring to Isaiah, is very bold and saith, I was found of them
that sought me not.
I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me, but to Israel, he saith, all day
long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gain-sane people.
And of course, this is all in context of the fact that who are the ones who believed his
report?
It's the Gentiles who believe the report, right? Whereas Israel were disobedient. They were gain-sane
Etc. The point being here is that this is applicable to Isaiah
As far as being the light into the Gentiles
It's applicable to Jesus Christ because he is the light of the Gentiles
But go to Acts chapter 13 if you wouldn't act chapter 13
May I say that we are also to be a light unto the Gentiles as well?
I mean, much is said in the New Testament about be a light unto the world, right?
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
But to prove that, look at Acts 13 verse 45, it says here,
but when the Jews saw the multitudes that they were filled with envy,
and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blasphemy,
you know, as their manner is, of course.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said,
it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you,
but seeing you put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
For so hath the Lord commanded us saying I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles
That thou shouldest be for salvation to the ends of the earth
So you see how the Apostle Paul is making the application of Isaiah 49 verse 6 to himself
Even though we obviously know the ultimate application interpretation is for Jesus Christ
The Apostle Paul says I'm to be a light into the Gentiles to be salvation to the earth
So may I say that we are also that light of the Gentiles to bring salvation?
Because even though Jesus Christ is ultimately the one who saves them we save them too
You know when we bring the gospel unto them we are the Bible the Bible tells us and some have compassion making a difference
Others save with fear pulling them out of the fire the point being we
Are the light of the Gentiles as well to be salvation unto the ends of the earth go back to Isaiah if you would
I'm gonna show you something really cool here
And just a bit look at verse number seven
Continuing on with the song of the servant,
these prophetic statements, look at verse seven,
it says,
So even in the Old Testament, it's telling us here,
that the Lord Jesus Christ will be a man who is despised
and who nations will abhor.
This is similar to what we see in John chapter 15
and verse 18 where it says,
if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me
before it hated you.
You know, we need to get away from this brand of Christianity
that doesn't want to be hated.
It's like, oh man, that doesn't sound very Christlike.
Well, you must not know who Jesus is then.
You must not know what it's like to be like Christ
because Jesus said one of the markers of being a disciple of Jesus Christ is that you will be hated and
You know if you're part of this church, you're probably hated by someone out there if
You are reading the word of God. You are faithfully serving the Lord. You're standing for the truths of God's word
someone's gonna hate you and
If you have if you're just friends with everyone and everyone speaks good of you, then you must be just a false prophet
Or, you're just a really lukewarm, compromising Christian, because the servant is not above
his master.
You know, if they call the master of the house Bielzebub, how much more shall they call
the day of his household?
So it's important for us to realize that if they are blaspheming Jesus Christ, they're
hating him, they crucified him.
You know, the same should be said of us to, maybe not to the crucifixion degree, but you
In the end times where people will be putting Christians to death because they will be public enemy number one in the New World Order
But he says that is he's despised. He's abhorred. Of course, this is very likened very much similar to Isaiah 53
Or it says that he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief look at verse number eight
This is does say the Lord in an acceptable time. Have I heard thee?
And in the day of salvation have I helped thee
and I will preserve thee and give thee
for a covenant of the people to establish the earth
and cause to inherit the desolate heritages."
So obviously we can see where this is heading.
If it's stating that Jesus Christ will be a covenant
of the people, that is very much a thing
in the New Testament, right?
He brought in that new covenant,
which according to Hebrews chapter eight
is a better covenant established upon better promises.
Now Covenant and Testament are used interchangeably in the Bible. They mean the same thing
So when your Bible our Bibles are divided into two sections you have Old Testament New Testament
It's accurate to say Old Covenant New Covenant, right? The Old Covenant having the mediator known as Moses
Whereas the new covenant having the mediator Jesus Christ who is the permanent mediator from here on out
Okay, and of course Jesus Christ is the covenant of the people
He's going to establish the earth and cause it to inherit the desolate heritage. I'm gonna skip some of these verses here
For the sake of time, but go down to verse number 14 if you wouldn't
Now let's look at the faithfulness of the Messiah
Now here is some pretty cool interesting verses here and
You know as we were reading through it as brother hike was reading through you might have just kind of breezed over it
But it holds some pretty deep truths here look at verse 14
This is but Zion said the Lord has forsaken me and my Lord has forgotten me now
Who is Zion? Well, I would probably venture to say that it's referring to those who worship the Lord
Okay, the Israelites of the Old Testament who?
still believed on the Lord and Zion collectively as a people are basically
saying they feel like the Lord has forsaken them you know they're no longer
a strong nation they're being taken into captivity they're being slain and
obviously there's some innocent people in that captivity who worship the Lord
who are suffering the consequences of the nation as a whole right and so they
feel like God has forsaken them not only that but he they feel like God has
Look at verse 15, God is addressing this, he says,
can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yay, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee?
Now, you know, dispensations will love
to know about a verse like this,
and the reason I say they will love to know about it
because they don't read the Bible,
so they probably don't know that this verse is in there.
You know, most dispensations is like,
oh yeah, that's a good one right there,
here's your little brother, you know.
But here's the thing what this is referring to is the fact that God's not going to forget the
worshipers the true worshipers of Israel the true worshipers of Zion and what people seem to forget is the fact that you know in the
Old Testament there were believing Israelites
They're believing Jews
They were believing Israelites in the Old Testament who were just as hardcore as New Testament believers
You know people are like oh you guys are so anti-semitic or whatever folks some of my greatest role models
Are Jews of the Old Testament?
I mean Elijah, Elisha
Moses
David and
Just to name a few by the way, they've said more quote-unquote
Anti-semitic things than most new IAB preachers have said, you know within the last five six years or whatever
You know those guys were hardcore when it came when it came to preaching against Israel
And so but the point that I'm making here is that there is believing Israelites in
the Old Testament
There's people who actually worship the Lord
You know in general as a whole they were a reprobate nation meaning they were rejected of God
But they were individuals within the nation who still were saved
You know Daniel being one of them, right and not just Daniel. There's tons of them. I just think about the 144,000
Who were hardcore zealous people and I can't wait to meet them in heaven and
Tell them about all my sermons that I preach using their their preaching right and say man
You know I I used you know the stuff that you said about the Jews and I preach against them too. I
Made application as well
So you know they feel like they're forsaken and you know God is telling them like I haven't forgotten you
You know and obviously we can make application and say you know sometimes we feel forsaken of God
Maybe we're going through a hard time and and the Lord is like you know think about a mom
She's not gonna for forget her baby
But it's more it's more likely that a mother would forget her baby than I would forget you is what he said
And that's pretty powerful right look at verse 16 says behold. I have graven the upon the palms of my hands
Thy walls are continually before me
Thy children shall make haste, Thy destroyers, and they that made thee way shall go forth of thee.
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold, all these gather themselves together and come to thee.
As I live sayeth the Lord, Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all,
as with an ornament, and bind thee on thee as a bride doeth.
He's basically saying, you know, I haven't forgotten you. I know who you are.
Basically what Hebrews 13 says, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee and he's trying to like let them know like I'm always going to be there for you like
These are
His people right?
He's their God and this is his people the believers. Okay
Now I want you to notice verse 19
Because what's the context here the context is they've been taken into captivity
And I'm skipping over a lot of stuff here,
but basically like a lot of people have died.
Children have passed away.
Elderly people have passed away.
Like a lot of people have died during this time.
And you think of parents who just lost their children
during this particular time.
It's a very difficult time for them, right?
They feel forsaken of the Lord.
And so he's trying to emphasize the fact that like,
I have not forgotten you.
I'm here for you.
You're engraving in my hands, you know.
He's trying to convince them of these things.
Look at verse 19,
for thy waste and thy desolate places
in the land of thy destruction
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants
and they that swallow the up shall be far away.
What is he saying?
He's like, look, look at the desolate places
that the Babylonians destroyed
and you see how just completely destroyed it is.
Even that is too small for how many inhabitants
will be there one day of Israelites
and your people and your children.
Verse 20, the children which thou shalt have after thou has lost the other
Shall say again in nine years. The place is too straight for me gift place to me that I may dwell
He's saying like the children you're gonna have even they're gonna be like hey, this room's not big enough
We there's too many kids. There's too many people. It's too straight. It's too narrow
And I want you to know is verse 21 then shout thou saying thine heart who have begotten me these
seeing I have lost my children, and I'm desolate,
a captive, and we're moving to and fro.
And who had brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone.
These, where had they been?
So he's saying like, you're gonna be here in the future
and you're gonna look how populated it is
with your children, and you're gonna be like,
who birthed these babies?
Who had these children?
It wasn't me, I lost my children in the captivity.
Like it wasn't me, you know, I'm desolate. I was taking captive. How are there so many Israelites and
inhabitants in this desolate place? How did this happen? And I love this look at verse 22
Thus saith the Lord God behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and
Set up a standard to the people listen to this and they who is they the Gentiles shall bring thy sons in their arms
And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders
And what is this referring to it's referring to the fact that you know
Israel of the Old Testament is gonna be in the new heaven the millennial reign
and they're gonna be like
Where all these people come from?
Like how did this happen? Like I thought this is all destroyed. How are there so many people here who worship God?
And you and me are gonna be like
We brought him
And you know to put it mildly, you know, we're carrying on the legacy of the Israelites of the Old Testament
Because now we're birthing spiritually speaking
These spiritual babies so to speak who are believers in the true God of Israel?
I mean I have no issue with calling God the God of Israel because that's what he is
And I worship the God of Israel just as those Old Testament Israelites did as well. I
Love the Lord my God of the Old Testament just as those Old Testament loved the Lord their God as well
And it is my job as a Gentiles a believing Gentile in your job to repopulate and be a fulfillment of this prophecy
Because he's going to surprise them.
He's going to be like, they're like,
where all these people come from?
And then all these Gentiles are going to bring the children
and be like, we birthed them.
We brought them.
We integrated them into the family of God
through the gospel, through the preaching of God's word,
through your preaching, through the words
that you said in the Old Testament,
through your example, that's what we use to bring them in.
Very powerful.
Go to Isaiah 54 if you would Isaiah 54
You know sometimes the bigger picture is what matters, but we just can't really see the bigger picture
I can't see the bigger picture because it's hard to lose things in our life
And we don't really know you know like I don't know about you, but when I go through a hard time
I always figure out like five ways
that this could be better or something
or five ways that it could be fixed.
But then there's certain times where it's like
there's absolutely nothing that can be done
to fix this situation.
There's nothing I can do.
I feel like there's nothing that God can do.
This situation is just fixed as it is.
There's no answer.
But then you read something like this
and you're like, oh God always has something
on the back burner.
Like you know people are like oh, he's two steps ahead. No. No. God is like
eternally ahead
He you know his mind our thoughts are not his thoughts his ways are not our ways and
So he's got a big huge surprise for the Old Testament Israelites in the millennial reign
They got they got a big surprise coming for them
You know because at one point there was such a powerful nation with God as their king and God was doing mighty works
And now they've just been a base and now they're they're just they've just they're just rendered to be this
Reprobating nation has just been kicked out of every country and has become a reproach unto the world
And you think of like Old Testament Israel as if they just knew what people were doing with their name
If they just knew, they'd be like, oh, this is so shameful.
Like, how can this be?
And, you know, we're supposed to be a light
into the Gentiles, but then the millennial rank comes
and they're like, where all this come from?
From me, brother, from First Works Baptist Church.
From Faith Ward Baptist Church, from Verity Baptist Church, from Baptist churches, and churches that believe the right gospel over the last 2,000 years,
we're here to repopulate spiritual Israel.
Look what it says in Isaiah 54 in verse number 1,
Enlarge the place of thy tent let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation spare not lengthen thy cords strengthen
Thy stakes for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy siege on hair at the Gentiles and make the
Desolate cities to be inhabited last passage here go to Galatians chapter 4 and we're done Galatians chapter 4
I'm not gonna finish the chapter you could read it on your own you should be studying the Bible on your own anyways
Go to Galatians chapter 4
Look at Galatians chapter 4
And verse 26, which is essentially a fulfillment of the passage we just read.
Verse 26 of Galatians 4 says,
But Jerusalem which is above is free,
Which is the mother of us all.
For it is written, Rejoice thou barren that bearest not,
Break forth and cry thou that travailest not,
For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath and husband.
And here's the verse 28.
Now we, brethren,
Now who's the we, well the apostle Paul is talking to the church of Galatia, which are Gentiles.
Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
What is it showing us? It's showing us that, you know, God does love Israel.
He just doesn't love that Israel.
God loves the Jews, he just doesn't love those.
You know, God loves his people, there's still his people who are in the grave at this moment.
whose spirits are in heaven at this moment,
those promises still apply to them.
And you know, we're part of the fulfillment of that promise.
I mean, we're gonna,
it's like they're gonna come to the millennial room,
we're gonna be like, surprise!
Gender reveal is both blue and pink,
and you know, all these believers are just gonna be there,
and we're gonna be worshiping the Lord together.
You know, and it's gonna be a wonderful ending.
The point here is the fact that really what Isaiah 49 is teaching us is that Jesus Christ
is the one who with the sword of his mouth breaks down the middle wall partition between
us and brings together graphs in both Jew and Gentile just to be Christian.
To be believers and so wonderful truths there. Let's pray Father. We thank you so much for your word
Thank you for Isaiah 49 and thank you for allowing us to serve you Lord at such a capacity
And sometimes I can think as I read through the Old Testament
What a time to be alive in the Old Testament to see all those
Visible miracles and all the wonderful exploits and to hear all those great sermons
But really now is the great time to be alive to see so many people saved and
Do such a great work Lord and be a part of a fulfillment of prophecy to be a light into the Gentiles as well
Help us as your people
to do our part
To get as many people save as possible so that we
Can fulfill Isaiah 49 where we bring the children in our arms and on our shoulders
And bring them into the kingdom of god. We love you. We thank you pray this things in jesus name. Amen