be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of
glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be
termed forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed desolate. Thou shalt be called Heziba,
and thy land Beulah, for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a
young man marryeth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee, and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. I have set washmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem.
We shall never hold there peace day nor night. Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,
and give him no rest till ye establish him, till ye make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength. Surely I will no more
give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and the sons of strangers shall not drink thy wine,
for the wish thou hast laboured. But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
Lord. And they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
Go through, go through the gates, prepare ye the way the people cast up, cast up the highway,
gather out the stones, lift up a standard for the people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the
end of the world, Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh. Behold, his reward
is with him, and his work before him. Thou shalt call them the holy people, the redeemed of the
Lord. Thou shalt be called sought out, a city not forsaken. Let's pray. Father God, we thank you
dear 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 unto us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Okay, we're continuing this evening with Isaiah chapter 62, and of course we have a shorter
chapter here, but still a lot to pack in. And so let's get into verse number one says, "For Zion's
sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteousness
thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." Now throughout
the book of Isaiah, as we've noted before, we often see the prophet Isaiah making statements
that could apply to himself personally, but it also applies to the Lord. Of course we know that
he's speaking in God's stead so they can both apply one to the other, but obviously what Isaiah
is saying here is he's expressing his determination to preach the word of God to Zion and to Jerusalem.
And so Isaiah, as a faithful prophet, he's not going to hold his peace. What does that mean?
It means that he's going to continue to speak out. He's going to continue to preach. He's going to
continue to proclaim the judgments of the Lord. That's what it means when he says, "I will not
hold my peace." He's going to keep preaching God's word until when? Until righteousness is produced.
And he specifically says there, "until the righteousness thereof goeth forth as brightness
and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." Now obviously we know that this can also be applied
to the Lord himself, right? Saying that he will not hold his peace until Zion becomes a righteous
land. Now obviously the prophet Isaiah, he's preaching the word of God. He's trying to get
people saved. He's trying to turn people to righteousness. And he's determined to finish
his job, right? And he's determined to turn people to righteousness, to get people to obey God.
But ultimately we know that they're not going to until the end of the world, okay? And so how do
we know? Because we have tons of history behind us that points to the fact that Israel and Judah
essentially became wicked nations. They forsook the Lord. And so obviously this was not fulfilled
in Isaiah's day. However, it will be fulfilled in the future and what we would refer to as the
millennial reign and of course ultimately through the new heaven and the new earth. That's when it
will become a righteous land. Now what is it that makes it righteous? Well the fact that no wicked
people will dwell therein, right? And obviously we know that in the millennial reign you will have
saved Israelites inhabiting the land but then ultimately in the new heaven and new earth
the unregenerated man not just of Israel but just of all nations will be completely removed.
We know that that's when that's after the white throne judgment takes place
unregenerated unsafe people sin is taken out satan is removed from the picture
therefore the entire world at that point will become a righteous quote-unquote
lamb and so the prophet here Isaiah you know is essentially communicating here his faith
and his determination that we should also have right you know I like what he says I'm not going
to hold my peace and you know when we read it it's just like man you know Isaiah I'm glad you
have faith but you know I don't know how much of a difference you're making but let me just tell you
I'm sure he made a huge difference and obviously when we look at Israel and Judah during this time
collectively we would say that you know they still suffer the punishment of God but I guarantee you
there was individuals that returned to righteousness and we don't want to look at the insurmountable
task ahead of us and think to ourselves well because the majority of people are going to go
to hell or the majority of people are going to disobey God therefore I'm not even going to put
in the effort to try to win people to Christ no we should say I will not hold my peace right until
righteousness goes forth as brightness until the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth right
this should communicate to us the importance of us being determined to preach the gospel and get
people saved you know and we could obviously look at it in a numbers case and say well you know it's
only a drop in the bucket but you know it's a worthy drop and quite frankly you know the Bible
has already foretold us that broad is the way that leaded to destruction and many there be which go
in their act but that's not to say that millions will not be saved okay and we need to have that
same determination as the prophet Isaiah to say you know what obviously we know that hell will
be filled with more souls than heaven but I want to put in the effort to get those people to heaven
as much as I possibly can this is why we as a church week in and week out go and preach the
gospel we go and knock doors we take time out of our schedules away from our families away from
our marriages away from our jobs away from our hobbies away from our comforts to go and tell
lost and dying world about the lord Jesus Christ because we want salvation as a lamp to burn to be
found within that city within that state within that country as we mentioned during the announcements
and so we need to have that same faith and determination and you know what as a pastor
i could easily see how we can think as pastors in churches what difference are we making you know
we preach the word of God and i don't know how many people are actually going to be turned to
righteousness because of this but quite frankly we just don't know the impact that the word of God
has in the hearts of the recipient and of the listener right we have to preach in faith and
this is why the bible tells us in the new testament to preach the word be instant listen to this in
season and out of season it says to reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine
and we often focus on the fact that you know the elements of preaching which is to reprove rebuke
exhort with all long suffering and doctrine that's important but we need not neglect the first part
that says to be instant in season and out of season meaning we need to preach what the bible
says when it's popular and when it's not right we need to make sure that we expound what the
word of god says when people are obedient to the word but also when they're disobedient to the word
of god and you know we were just talking about this earlier before the service you know we're
talking about june because you know june is coming up and you know for us you know june is a special
time you know it's a special time when we preach against sodomy and reprobation and here's the
thing though it's like now if you are on the internet at all if you're on social media at all
you see the tide has been turning quite a bit on social media okay throughout the world you know
people are becoming more disgusted with sodomy with homosexuality they're becoming far more
comfortable with our radical view which to us is just the biblical view our terms what the bible
says about these things and it's almost to the point where people listen to us they're just kind
of like yeah that sounds right it's not even crazy to them anymore right because people have seen
what the world is pushing all this filth and ideology so it's almost as if our position is
becoming popular right now the temptation for someone like me is just to be like well what's
the point of even preaching against them if it's not it's popular everyone believes it everyone
understands that sodomy is disgusting it's filthy well we should preach it because the bible commands
us to be instant in season and out of season right and quite frankly you know we need to take
advantage of the fact that it's popular to dig our heels deeper into that subject in order for
future so that it permeates for future generations okay you know we want to push them so far into the
closet that they're just up against the lawn you just lock it and just never come out okay
you know we want to make sure that we promote you know the doctrines of reprobation what the bible
says about sodomy to the point where you know just your regular unsafe person recognizes how
shameful and disgusting it is and how normal this preaching should be now obviously you know I think
to myself like oh man it used to be cool to preach against this now it's just normal but you know
what instant in season and out of season and quite frankly there may be a time later on in the future
where it becomes unpopular once again and guess what at that time we need to still preach against
it right we need to make sure that we promote the word of god in all seasons no matter what is
popular no matter what is not it's important for us to have that same determination and not to hold
our peace you know another subject that came up that we're talking about and i see this a lot
is people's understanding of the jews and what the bible says about jews and look folks i mean
i i started uploading videos about this on social media and you know typically in times past if we
did something like this the dispensationalist would be just on it but now the multitudes are just 100
in agreement they're just like thank you for this i love this this is great thank you for educating
us on this asking me questions about things that we would take for granted as a church people out
there in the world are just kind of like i just found out about this and you're helping me learn
about this i'm starting to see this in the bible and so we see that the trend of replacement or
should i say the trend of dispensationalism is dying out okay and the biblical teaching
of replacement theology is once again becoming in season understand and so obviously it's easy
again to be like well why even talk about if it's just already popular well here's the thing folks
we got to be instant in season and out of season and here's the thing is that this may be because
of the fact that preachers are preaching on it so throughout the years we've just been hitting on
it preaching on it educating people on it being the minority in this world but now because the
word of god never returns back void now we are reaping a harvest of people who are finally
understand what the bible says about this and so we need to keep planting more seeds amen now
obviously when in a situation like this there's always a danger of people getting becoming extreme
about it right and we've seen this on social media where people just go so far to the opposite
extreme that they actually become unbiblical in their views but hold on a second folks even if
that's the case we still need to just need to preach what the word of god says because even
in the midst of all that there are going to be individuals who just catch it they're not going
to be extreme they're not going to be watered down they're going to be exactly at the standard
that god has and look you know the word of god is irrefutable you could do nothing against the truth
but for the truth and it's for that reason that when these principles and doctrines are put forth
regarding replacement theology it's just kind of like a no-brainer you know people are just like
that makes 100% sense point that i'm making here is that the formula to turning the tide in a nation
regarding a false ideology to adopting a correct biblical ideology is that we just need to keep
preaching we just need to keep preaching and who knows maybe in the coming years we'll see a
tie turn for once saved always saved you just never know you know and obviously the correct
gospel has never been uh mainstream popular but you just never know we might experience a season
when it is we just want to be ready for all seasons and recognize it just because the vast
majority of mainstream christians reject an ideology doesn't mean it's wrong it just means
that they're wrong okay because you know never fall a multitude to to to evil we need to make
sure we're keep preaching and we don't hold our peace look folks the reason these false doctrines
even became popular is why because preachers held their peace the reason sodomy became so accepted
and tolerated even amongst christians the reason christians are afraid to speak out against it
is because the men of god were holding their peace weren't saying anything about it and so
you know churches christians essentially get their courage from god but it's communicated to them
from the man of god behind the pulpit you understand from the shepherd the earthly shepherd
that god is instituted in the local new testament church but if that shepherd is not being bold is
not speaking out against it you know the the the congregation is not going to take a strong
stance on it and so jesus said in the new testament matthew chapter 10 verse 27 what i
tell you in darkness that's speaking in the light and what you hear in the ear that preachy upon
the housetops what is he saying be open about what you believe don't be ashamed of the word of god
proclaim it and this isn't giving us a practical way to do it it's not telling us to go to the
rooftop and just start shouting it's illustrating the fact that we should be very open and try to
spread the message as much as we possibly can so that everyone hears what the truth is all about
okay Isaiah 55 we uh read this earlier it says so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth
it shall not return it to me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper
in the thing where to I sent it so it's basically saying you know when to preach the word of God
if you don't see immediate results don't worry you will see results all right let me just take
that back actually you may not see results but the results will be there even if it's after you
even if you're long gone even if you're no longer in the picture the seeds that you sowed are going
to eventually germinate and they're going to produce what God intended for it to produce
brother Ulysses if you can turn off the the AC everyone's freezing in here and so what's the
point that I'm making here the point that I'm making is that what Isaiah is saying he's like
I cannot hold my peace and man this guy's determined I mean think about the the situation
that he's in there's no stopping the Babylonian captivity it's gonna happen it already happened
but yet in spite of it he's like I already know that judgment has been proclaimed
I know that God is going to judge Judah I know it's coming but in spite of that I'm still not
going to hold my peace I'm still going to preach the word of God you know we can we can apply this
to the United States of America in a lot of ways and say oh man America you know has gone too far
off the deep end to save but we should have the same attitude as Isaiah and say but I'm still not
going to hold my peace still going to preach the word of God I'm still going to go soul winning
and get people saved first of all because God deserves it but secondly because we should have
that determination that faith that the word of God will go forth you know what maybe when we're long
and gone you just never know what might happen in the future you know I'm sure brother Hiles never
would have imagined that his sermon clips would be circulating throughout what's known as social
media he didn't know about social media the fact that everyone's watching him on his phone you just
never know what might happen in the future you know fundamental Baptist preachers new IFB preachers
might become super popular in 10 years or something or in 50 years 60 years we're just long and gone
and they're just pulling up like look at these preachers they used to say this stuff or whatever
we need to bring this back you just never know that's how the seed works though preach the word
of God and you allow God to bring the increase look at verse number two of course this is
specifically referring to Judah it says in the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness
and all kings thy glory and thou shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall
name now the way this applies immediately is referring to the return of the Babylonian
captivity through Cyrus Cyrus the great when he allowed Judah to return back to their homeland
and of course the Babylonians or excuse me the Medo-Persian empire can be compared to those
Gentiles right that are seeing the righteousness of Judah they're seeing the glory of Judah
and we see here that he says that thou shall be called by a new name now this applies to them in
their immediate future but this is also prophetic about a future event known as the new heaven and
new earth and of course the millennial reign okay because once the millennial reign takes place
Israel actually becomes a just nation something that it is currently not I mean the lord himself
said in the book of revelation that Jerusalem is spiritual Sodom and Egypt you know he just
picked two of the worst possible places in the bible and just applied it to Jerusalem he's like
it's spiritual Sodom and spiritual Egypt basically communicating it's a place of perverseness it's a
place of wickedness it's a place of worldliness it's not the place of God right and by the way
he didn't he didn't give a time limit he didn't say you know that's until you know 1948 or something
like that and in fact he said it would become righteous at the very end now when we look at
verse number two you know the thing that should pop out to you is that latter part where it says
thou shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the lord shall name right and that's
pretty significant because when we study end times prophecy you see that believers receive a new name
okay now he of course he's specifically referring to Jerusalem inheriting a name we're going to look
at it later on that he calls them Hevzabah and Beulah okay and what this picture is essentially
the transfiguration of Jerusalem and again we see this take place in the new heaven and new earth
when the new Jerusalem descends it's a new Jerusalem it's not as the previous wicked Jerusalem
but again this promise extends to all believers we get a new nature you know we get a new man
when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ all things are made new right all things have passed
away all things are made new and according to the Bible we do receive also a new name go to
Revelation if you would Revelation chapter 2 we'll come back to Isaiah in just a bit
Revelation chapter number 2 Revelation chapter number 2 now obviously today you know a safe
person they don't necessarily have a new name because they don't have that new body yet right
in the sense of when you believe on Jesus Christ you receive a new nature but it's coupled
unfortunately or should I say it's added to this old nature there's an old nature and a new nature
combating one against one against another you know it's the flesh and the spirit these are
contrary to one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would and this is essentially
the temporal battle that we have to face day in and day out until we go home to be with the Lord
or until the Lord returns it's the battle of the flesh and the spirit and so the the main objective
for us as Christians throughout our lives is to walk in the spirit right to manifest that new man
on a daily basis to feed that new man and feed the spirit and become more Christlike to be conformed
to the image of his son you know a lot of people they get saved at the door but they never actually
walk in the new man doesn't mean they don't have a new man it just means they never walk in the new
man because they're not in church they're not growing in their knowledge of the Lord of God
and so that's why they remain carnal you know the the the objective of coming to church and reading
your Bible and praying unto the Lord is to become more godly and what does it mean to be more godly
it means that you are essentially walking in that new man you're putting off the old man according
to the deceitful lust and you're putting on the new man this is something you have to do on a
daily basis right this is what we would commonly refer to as the process of sanctification where
you are sanctifying yourselves by walking in his word repenting of your sin coming to church just
not becoming sinless but sinning less okay becoming more christ-like more godly and let me just let
you in on a little secret you don't fully win this battle until you die because the fact that
you still have this corruptible flesh this old man that is not subject to the law of god neither
indeed can be it's at enmity with god it's just the flesh it's the old man it's corrupt and in
fact it shall not inherit the kingdom of god according to the bible that's what the bible
says bible says flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of god and one thing you notice as
well as i've noticed this is the longer you're a christian the more you're in that process of
sanctification the more you just despise your flesh right we hear about we read about that
conflict that the apostle paul experiences in roman chapter seven and he says oh wretched man
that i am who shall deliver me from this body of death why because obviously he wants to do right
he wants to be righteous but then he stumbles right he slips into the old paul he slips into
that old man and the things that he hates to do he ends up doing okay and so it's just constant
war constant battle but of course one day you will die i will die if the lord tarries we will die
and our spirit that new man goes to be with the lord right body goes into the ground
he's buried into the ground the rapture takes place which is synonymous with the resurrection
and our bodies are transfigured we're given a brand new body that is glorified completely
absent of sin capable of standing before the presence of god this is a wonderful thing right
this is what the bible refers to as the redemption of our body and so you say well you know why don't
we get that new body now so we could have like a fighting chance right well because of the fact
that jesus christ is the first fruits of the resurrection and we have to wait for that
redemption of our bodies you know that doesn't take place until the resurrection that's the
that's the window of time that god has essentially selected for us to receive that new body and you
know what think about this for a minute let me chase a little rabbit here you know if we were
just completely made perfect as soon as we get saved there would be no striving to love the lord
to obey his commandments to do that which is right in the sight of god why because it would
just come naturally understand this is why this this teaching of like oh once you get saved you're
just always going to do right it's completely nonsensical because of the fact that we don't
have our resurrected bodies these people are seeking to obtain what only the resurrection
can offer they're trying to get now or claiming that they can have now but they're deceived they're
delusional they're deceived there's not a just man upon earth to do with good and sin it's not
the bible says right but when you recognize that we have two natures you know obviously that means
more to god because we have to choose to do right we have to choose to love god with all our heart
soul mind and strength every single day we have to choose to follow the voice the voice of the
shepherd we have to choose to go to church you see the inward man delights in the law of god that's
what the bible says the inward man loves the bible the inward man loves preaching he loves going to
church he loves soul winning but because it's attached to this carnal corruptible flesh you know
there's this constant battle so we have to choose to walk in the spirit not fulfill the lust of the
flesh that means a lot more to god if you think about it you know i i told my wife one day i said
you know uh i used to tell my wife you know i'll i'll love you forever i'll love you forever but
you know what that's actually not hard because when we're in eternity we will it's going to be
the new man we will only have love right the real romantic thing was is to say like i'll i will
strive to love you now right because we have that corruptible flesh that is not always loving it's
not always producing the fruit of the spirit it's carnal it's fleshly it's selfish right you know
loving someone and all of you know people are what do i am i going to know my wife am i going to know
my husband in the millennial reign the answer is of course of course you are why wouldn't you it's
like he's not going to wipe our memories clear of like i'm sorry who are you you know the difference
is we're going to have that perfect nature it would be you know a perfect love that we have for one
another right it's the battle that we have is now you know be not bitter against your wife love your
wife as christ also loved the church the love and reverence your husband these commands mean
something when you're combating the flesh to do them right and so one day we will receive that new
man we have that new man within us but i'm saying we're going to receive the new body
in that resurrection look at revelation 217 he says he that hath in here let him hear what the
spirit saith unto the churches to him that overcometh will i give to you the hidden manna
and will give him a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he
that received it that receiveth it so here it says that you know he's going to give him the
hidden manna and i believe that's possibly referring to jesus christ because he is the
man which came down from above and it says that he gives us a white stone and in that stone
a new name written well i believe that the white stone is possibly referring to it's a reference to
that new body okay you know he's like why is it white why can't it be black or brown you know
why is it gotta be so racist or whatever you know white is just you know white
white as snow you know it's just a good clean color amen it just means cleanliness holiness
i'm good with it uh this is there's nothing racist about this although i'm pretty sure i
just gave more ammo to the racist to say see if you ain't white you ain't right but he says he'll
give you a white stone and of course again i believe that's referring to that that new body
because if you think about it you know the bible tells us in first peter chapter 2 verse number
five ye also referring to believers as lively stones right are built up a spiritual house of
holy priesthood priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to god by jesus christ so
you know the bible you know describes believers in various ways and one of the ways that we see
consistently throughout the new testament is as a stone you know you think of what john the
baptist said to the pharisees god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham and he's
not referring to like the rocks although i'm sure he pointed out some rocks he's referring to the
stones referring to the gentiles which is exactly what he ends up doing in the new testament right
he raises up gentile stones to be spiritual the spiritual seed of abraham okay you know he tells
the apostle peter thou are peter and upon this rock i will build my church and of course that's
referring to the fact that he's building his church upon believers okay we are those lively stones
but there's going to come a time where we're going to receive a white stone meaning a completely
sinless body that is pleasing unto the lord absent of sin and with that according to the bible
a new name revelation 3 verse number 12 says him that overcomes will i make a pillar in the temple
of my god and he shall go no more out and i will write upon him the name of my god and the name of
the city of my god which is new jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my god and i will
write upon him my new name now you know people can argue about what that means when he says i will
write upon him my new name is it referring to his own name or the new name of the believer the answer
is it could possibly be either or right because we see in this verse that we're going to call god by
a new name there's a name that we don't know god as uh by as of yet until that new heaven new earth
just as we don't know the name that he's going to give unto us according to revelation point that
i'm making here is that he designates a specific name for all of you because it's attached to a
new nature that you don't currently have in your body as of now what's the point of saying that
the point of it is that god makes all things new you know and obviously we see this throughout the
bible foreshadowed you see jacob becoming israel though saul is his name eventually he primarily
goes by paul and we see of course new names being given to believers in the end times it's
essentially pushing forth this idea that god will one day recognize you as a different person
you know i will not be known as bruce in the new in the uh the new heaven and new earth you know
i will have a different name that is befitting to that resurrected body according to the lord
which is great and you know it could be that that's the name that is possibly written in
the book of life we don't know exactly i don't know if bruce mehia is written in the book of life
you know it might be that new name that's there and obviously that name is blotted out
if someone chooses not to be saved or if they become a reparate this side of eternity
but that name is permanently embedded within the registry once a person believes on jesus christ
and so if you're saved your name is written in that book and it's possible that it's that
new name which no man knows as of yet go back to isaiah if you wouldn't isaiah 62 so he's telling
jerusalem you're gonna get a new name now why does jerusalem need a new name because the old one is
marred it's been destroyed destroyed it's been destructed it's been corrupted it's been perverted
and so it's it's gotten to the point really where you know the old jerusalem needs to be just
completely demolished and destroyed and it is demolished and destroyed in the end times
and he needs to bring a new one from heaven right we know that that new jerusalem descends out of
heaven onto the earth and of course that's when the world is transfigured it changes look at verse
number three he says thou shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the lord and a royal diadem
in the hand of thy god i want to make a couple statements about this he's telling Jerusalem hey
one day you know you're going to be pleasing unto the lord and you're going to be a crown in a
diadem a diadem is another way of saying a crown probably like a different type of a crown maybe if
you think of like a laurel crown it kind of looks like that but at the end of the day it's simply
referring to a head ornament that communicates you know authority right and he's saying like you're
going to be a crown you're going to be a diadem unto the lord and he tells this to juda and of
course by proxy he's telling this to christians as well but what's interesting is that you know
it says that the crown of the diadem are going to be in the hand of god so this is really important
because a crown or a diadem goes on the head but god's not putting on his head because he is the
ultimate authority right so the idea here what's being foreshadowed of course is that millennial
reign and ultimately he's going to take believers as crowns and diadems into his hand and he's
going to distribute authority unto the world right that's part of the that's part of the reward that
that believers receive in that millennial reign is that we are able to rule in reign with jesus
christ for a thousand years so when it says that they're going to be a crown of glory and a royal
died them and they're both in the hand of the lord you know what's being portrayed here illustrated
is that he is giving authority to particular nations because now the nation of jerusalem is
befitting to rule right believers are now fit to rule they're going to have perfect judgment at
that time etc the bible says in revelation 226 you don't have to turn there he that overcomeeth
referring to those who are saved and keepeth my works into the end to him will i give power over
the nations another word for power in the bible is authority okay and so he's saying you know it's
not just save people to get to rule and reign with christ because it doesn't just say and he that
overcomeeth i will give power over the nations he says he that overcomeeth and keepeth my works
unto the end so it's just like you got to be in this thing as we mentioned on sunday for the long
haul you got to be in the christian life till the very end in order for god to reward you and hand
you out as a crown hand you out as a diadem over that particular part of the world to rule and reign
with christ look at verse four he says thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall the land
anymore be termed desolate thou shalt be called hevziba and thy land bulla for the lord delighteth
in thee and thy land shall be married so we saw in the first verse that he's going to call them
by a new name and this is the immediate new name that they received referring to their return from
babalon he said i'm going to call you hevziba and i'm going to call you bulla now what is this
referring to well look at verse five again this is for as a young man marryeth a virgin so shall
thy sons marry thee and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride so shall thy god rejoice over
thee so what does hevziba mean hevziba means to be a delight right to delight in so god is saying
you know there's going to come a time where now i will officially delight in you and we can say
after the return from babalon god does delight in them because they're serving god you know obviously
maybe at not the same capacity as they previously were but they're reconstructing the temple they're
building the wall there's people in the land of juda that are actually seeking after god okay
whereas before that no one is seeking after the lord right no one wants to know about god they're
all gone you know their own ways they're living wickedly and so god doesn't delight in that so
he's saying when you return you'll be hevzebub to me i'm going to delight in you and then he says
he calls him bulla bulla means to be married so essentially what is he communicating here he's
saying that israel will no longer be estranged from their god they're no longer going to be
as a whore right committing spiritual adultery with false gods god will delight in in israel god
will delight in juda and be married to her through that new covenant the bible says in zephaniah 3
17 you don't have to turn there but go to romans chapter 7 if you would roman chapter 7 hold your
place on isaiah zephaniah chapter 3 verse 17 says the lord thy god in the midst of thee is mighty
he will save he will rejoice over thee with joy he will rest in his love he will joy over thee
with singing now let me explain something here is that in the new testament when the bible
communicates salvation it illustrates it in various ways right in order to help us to understand
all the various facets that go into salvation for example part of the most popular one that we know
of is that we become children of god right you know uh but as many as receive them to them give
you power to become the sons of god even unto them that believe on his name so when you get saved
you become a child of god a son of god a daughter of god and that is obviously stated there to
communicate the regeneration of that person right they're regained you become a child of god you
become adopted of god and obviously there's a whole lot of uh other aspects that we can address
when it comes to being a child of god that reinforces eternal security and salvation but
you know another way that the bible describes salvation or should i say another illustration
that the bible uses is this matter of marriage okay as a husband and a wife you see when we
become children of god when we get saved we become part of the bride of christ okay you know the
church is the bride of christ that is a manner in which the bible would communicate the relationship
between the church our church and the lord jesus christ because of salvation right look at roman
chapter 7 and verse number one here it says no ye not brethren for i speak to them that know the
law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth for the woman which hath an
husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead
she is loose from the law of her husband so what is it saying here it's saying that when people
are married okay uh you know a husband is bound to his wife a wife is bound to her husband by the
covenant that she made by the covenant that he made before god right and it says there that the
only way you can get out of that is by dying is one of one of the two parties has to go now this
is not god promoting murder okay everyone's like that right i get what you're saying okay keep
talking you know it's not what i say at all i'm what i'm telling you here is the bible is basically
saying that the only thing that can loose you from that covenant it's kind of showing you up
how strong that covenant is because it's just like what do i do to get out of this marriage well
according to god you have to die or that person has to die that's all binding that covenant is
right look at verse three says so then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man
she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that
she is no adulteress those should be married to another man of course the practical application
here obviously compared to first corinthians chapter seven is that god is not for divorce
right it's not for the breaking of that covenant god hated putting away and it specifically says
that if one of the two parties it specifically addresses the wife but this could be applied also
to the husband you know if you go out and are married to someone else it doesn't matter if
you made a covenant with another person in god's eyes is considered adultery okay and this is of
course reinforced by the words of jesus christ as well he also taught this as well he's saying
you're an adulteress look at verse four wherefore my brethren ye also so now here's this he gives
the practical application but then he transitions to the spiritual when we preach we give the
spiritual and then we give the practical this is the other way around he says wherefore my brethren
ye also are become dead to the law by the body of christ that you should be married to another
even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto god so he's saying
you know just as a woman in order for her to be freed from the law of her husband she has to die
well basically that's what happened to you when you got saved because we were crucified with christ
right when we get when we believe on the lord jesus christ our flesh is crucified with christ
we are essentially spiritually dead to that right and now we're alive unto god now the bible god
views this as being married unto the lord right what does that refer to is referring to the fact
that we are bulla now we are married okay and of course god will never break that covenant with us
because salvation is forever it's eternal and so this is addressing that new covenant that is
established when we believe on the lord jesus christ all right and look folks it's important
to understand the doctrine of covenants in the bible a lot of different teachings on covenants
in the bible i'll probably preach on that one day but specifically when it comes to salvation
and god's people of the old and new testament there's only two covenants there's only two and
technically as of now there's only one i'm saying in existence there was only two right
you have that old covenant which is referring to that old testament which essentially was for the
nation of israel whereby he referred to them as being his chosen people through moses the mediator
of that old testament and but here's the thing folks is that you can have you cannot have two
covenants active at the same time that's very important to understand just as god does not view
a woman who gets married again right he just considers her as being an adulteress if she
gets married again why because those two covenants are non-existent only one covenant is valid before
the lord understand what i'm saying and so the old covenant from the old testament was made
null and void once the new covenant was instituted and that new covenant also referred to as the new
testament because sometimes people like they think that they're separate issues new covenant
is the same thing as new testament they're synonymous okay the new covenant is brought
forth by the death of jesus christ on the cross right so he made that old covenant null and void
through his death once he died that old covenant was expired and the new covenant was instituted
therefore any person from that old covenant who was an israelite if they believe in lord
jesus christ are essentially grandfathered into the new testament as being new covenant believers
but if there is an israelite that was part of that old covenant they were circumcised they
participated in the sacrificial offerings of the temple they you know abstained from you know the
unclean animals they participated in the purity laws they held to that old covenant but they
did not believe on the lord guess what they're not grandfathered in you know it's revoked okay
because the new covenant stipulation to be a part of that new covenant which includes being the people
of god is that you have to believe on the lord jesus christ the bible teaches you cannot have
these two covenants competing and sometimes people try to conflate the different laws of the old
covenant in order to lend veracity that the old covenant still be an institute like they'll say
oh so you're trying to say like murder is okay now because that's part of the old covenant
oh so it's okay to steal and to murder and to lie and all this stuff that the old covenant says
but what they fail to realize or they're just nefarious and they're doing this on purpose
because they're just lying what they fail to understand is the fact that these moral laws
transcend the law of moses and the old covenant because they were in existence in the book of
genesis and i don't know if you know this but the old covenant was not instituted until mount
sinai in the book of exodus right when moses went up into the mount i mean the bible specific talks
about this in the book of hebrews i believe it's chapter nine that he covers this that he went up
to the mount he sprinkled the people with the blood he brought the covenant the table of the
covenants and he sanctified the people with the blood that's when the old covenant was established
okay and let me say this is that in order for an old covenant to be done away with it requires the
death of a testator right well here's the thing is jesus christ is never going to die so therefore
that implies that this new covenant is an everlasting covenant it never ends you say
well why even mention that well because people will erroneously bring up old testament passages
and it's kind of crazy that they do this because they're not really thinking they're not really
thinking straight they're not they're just kind of throwing they're just looking googling verses
and just kind of throwing it in there to their demise they're like well the old testament says
god told israel that i'm going to make a new covenant with the house of israel with the house
of juda huh and it's just like yeah call the new covenant new testament you got it it's not like a
third covenant well what cover do you think he was talking about you know and this is quoted in hebrew
chapter 8 in context of the new covenant and he explains like the apostle paul lays it out for
everyone to understand not difficult at all he says for finding fault with them the time cometh
when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of juda and he's like
yeah but that's like a covenant with them well it actually says not according to the covenant which
i made with their fathers when i took them out of their hand out of the land of egypt my covenant
which they break although i was a husband unto them that's what he says so he's like all right
because you guys are consistently perpetually you're just these perpetual line steppers just
constantly violating the old covenant well the time will come when a new covenant will be established
and you say but yeah but it says what the house of israel with the house of juda well yeah because
he's addressing juda in his room so he's telling there's going to be a new covenant for you but
it's not just for them though because the new covenant according to the new testament is for
just everyone everyone's included in it and he specifically says in hebrew chapter 8 then i will
be to them a god and then they shall be to me a people implying get this that he's currently not
their god because if he's saying then i will be to you a god it's basically also saying i'm currently
not your god and if he's telling them then you will be my people it's implying you're currently
not my people why because in order for them to transition to be the people of god they have to
be a part of that new covenant you know what i'm saying now look let me let me just kind of go back
full circle to what we're looking at here in isaiah 62 because he's saying you're going to be bula
right and look there were old testament judites we just call them jews because they're from juda
who are bula because they didn't believe in the lord people also get this misconception that when
jesus christ came like no jew was saved they're just all unsaved now the majority of those in
israel were probably not saved okay there were you know lied to and deceived by the pharisees
the religion of the pharisees and all that but there were saved jews in that in that day prior
to jesus christ coming on the scene ana right you know there's all types of saved jews and
israelites during the time of christ there were awaiting the physical coming of the lord understand
so these people you know were bulla unto the lord okay so this prophecy was fulfilled because there
was a lot of people who did get saved but i want you to notice that he's already foretelling of this
future illustration of the new testament that when you believe on the lord jesus christ you become
married unto the lord right you participate in that new covenant and in fact the apostle paul
addresses this in second you don't have to turn to second corinthians 11 one what to god he could
bear with me a little in my folly and indeed and indeed bear with me for i am jealous over you with
the godly jealousy for i have espoused you to one husband that i may present you as a chaste virgin
to christ okay and so we see here clearly that the new testament you know illustrates that
salvation as being married unto the lord you know what the lord delights in us he delights in his
bride he is you know we are beulah unto him we are married unto him through that everlasting covenant
that will never end because of the fact that jesus christ liveth forevermore and so that's important
to note and let me just clarify is that that old covenant that is repealed in the new testament
god had already determined that it was only going to be for a window of time anyways that's why
hebrews chapter 8 or hebrews chapter 9 excuse me specifically says that that old covenant stood only
in meats drinks diverse washings carnal ordinances imposed on them and here's the key until
meaning that there is like a deadline until the time of reformation referring to the death of
jesus christ in the cross now praise god for the old testament israelites that actually read their
bibles and knew that you know when they when the hebrews who got that letter they're like yeah this
checks out we know this right like yep that's that's bible but people today who have the spirit of
god don't seem to know it you know it's very clearly laid out in the word of god and look
we're not against the old covenant because there's a lot of great teachings in the old covenant much
of it was a foreshadowing of things to come a lot of spiritual layers teachings in the old covenant
and we are thankful for it but folks let me just remind everyone we are new testament christians
we go to a new testament church we don't attend a synagogue we don't go to a temple we are the
temple of god the bible says you know we're not going to a tabernacle unless we get bombed or
something you know we're not going to whatever you know we're not participating we're not observing
the sabbath because jesus christ is our sabbath i'm not abstaining from shrimp bacon pork you know
it's not gonna i'm gonna have mixed fabric you know plain and simple because here's the thing
folks is that the majority of people who promote that type of stuff you know they're not doing it
because they think it's a better way of life i'm just telling you right now they're just undermining
the death of jesus christ that's what it is at the end of the day okay but i digress go back to isaiah
62 let me just finish off here because i i chased that rabbit we skinned it killed it and let us
move on look at verse six it says i have set a watchman upon thy walls oh jerusalem which shall
never hold their peace day nor night ye that make mention of the lord keep not silence and give him
no rest till he established until he made jerusalem a praise in the earth the immediate
application once jerusalem is established once the walls were rebuilt he was going to send watchmen
who were actually you know vigilant they weren't drunk they weren't asleep they were paying
attention they were not keeping silent but in the end times this is going to be a real thing
because of the fact that you know there will be no violence against jerusalem in the end times there
will be no enemy seeking to besiege jerusalem because all that's going to be done away with
look at verse 8 it says the lord has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength
surely i will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies and the sons of the strangers
shall not drink thy wine for the which thou hast labored but they that have gathered it shall eat
it and praise the lord and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my
holiness now what is he referring to here let me just spend the last couple of minutes of this
sermon to explain what's going on here he's basically telling them like part of the punishment
part of the judgment is that someone gets to enjoy your stuff you know it's basically they
get to enjoy the fruits of your labor you work nine to five and someone comes and just completely
takes it from you wait that does happen doesn't it it's called taxes right you know he's saying
like you're going to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor no foreign enemy the Babylonians
the Medo-Persians no one's going to come to take what you have okay why because you know part of
the gift of God part of God's blessing upon our life is that we get to enjoy that which we work
for and in fact Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 18 says this behold that which I have seen it is good
and coming for one to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh
under the sun all the days of his life which God giveth him for it is his portion every man also
to him God hath given riches and wealth and hath given him power to eat thereof and to take his
portion and to rejoice in his labor this is the gift of God you know what this means it means
that you don't have to feel guilty if you spoil yourself every once in a while especially if you
work for it right you know you got a nice car because you you know you could afford it because
that's the work of your labor amen that's God's gift to you the fact that you could even afford
it right you could afford a nice meal a ribeye steak you know whatever it is right obviously
things should be done in moderation and we should not live in excess all the time but the Bible
does teach though that we can enjoy the fruits of our labor so you know we don't want to ever have
this idea in our minds that oh man I should just feel guilty because I'm just splurging a little
bit no actually that's the gift of God that's a blessing actually because the opposite is the
judgment of God the opposite is when someone else gets to enjoy the fruits of your labor okay
and in fact Ecclesiastes 6 1 says this there is an evil which I've seen under the sun and is common
among men a man to whom God had given riches wealth and honor so that he wanted nothing for
a soul of all that he desired yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof but a stranger eateth it
this is vanity and it is an evil disease this is also known as communism which is an evil disease
part of a judgment right on a nation or on a person is when you have to put in all that work
and you don't get to enjoy any of it and this is the judgment that came upon Israel okay Deuteronomy
28 verse 30 says this you know he's referring to the fact that if they choose not to obey the Lord
they forsake God they break the covenant God says this is what's going to happen to you
thou shalt betroth the wife and another man shall lie with her oh man thou shalt build a house and
thou shalt not dwell therein thou shalt plant a vineyard and shall not gather the grapes thereof
thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes thou shall not eat thereof thine ass shall be violently
taken away before before thy face and shall not be restored to thee thy sheep shall be given into
thine enemies and thou shalt not have thou shalt have none to rescue them thy sons and thy
daughters shall be given to another people and thine eyes shall look and fail with longing for
them all the day long and there shall be no might in thy hand the fruit of thy hand and all thy
labor shall a nation which thou knoweth not eat up and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
all way so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see and he also
says there that they're going to be essentially removed from their land the land that was supposed
to be for them he's like i'm going to give it to someone else whereas in the millennial reign he
says i'm going to give you houses vineyards i'm going to bless you because that is a signal of
god's blessing let's not the practical application from as this you know don't condemn people if
they're just enjoying the fruits of their labor okay because quite frankly that is the gift of
god okay now obviously again we should not be excessive we should do things in moderation
but there are seasons when you should party a little bit if you're disciplined you work your
job you're putting in all the hours the overtime you're providing you're you're not being frivolous
with your spending you want to get yourself something a little nice hey that's good that's
okay you know get yourself a nice coffee or whatever that's great donuts from Krispy Kreme
kill a whole box by yourself all right you know you know don't tell me you we we all know that
we can kill a whole box if we want Krispy Kreme donuts this should not be our manner of life
but it is the gift of god for us to be able to enjoy such things okay i'll finish up there um
i might cover the rest of it next week but the point here is what he's telling them is that
they're going to be new things are going to change right and obviously it's really sad because you
know that change was temporary for them you know they were righteous but for a time and then it
just got worse thereafter and then of course they ended up rejecting Jesus Christ once he came
but this was obviously a foreshadowing of a greater change a greater new Jerusalem a greater new
transfiguration of the land that we collectively as believers from all throughout all history
will experience in a new heaven and new earth and in the millennial reign let's pray father we thank
you so much for isaiah 62 thank you for the the teachings thereof a lot to unpack help us as your
people to recognize these principles lord and and not to hold our peace help us to see people saved
and not to take time off from serving you lord maybe there's times we have to slow down a little
bit put into first gear but may the engine never be turned off lord and i pray that we continue to
go full throttle in the things of god to win people to christ until righteousness be spread in
our nation as much as possible within our lifetime and lord help us to recognize the blessings of god
in our life lord and and not to guilt trip people into enjoying the fruits of their labor but rejoice
with them but also help us to practice moderation and help us to realize that there are seasons of
want that we need to go through in order to appreciate the times of abundance and i pray
you bless us as we go on our way lord we love you we thank you pray this things in jesus name
amen i'm sorry give me one second here oh uh brother paul can we do 66 at calvary is that
oh i'm sorry after this song for the baptism because we're gonna have a baptism