God's Sovereign Salvation: A Personal and Universal Promise

In a very broad sense, this chapter that we are reading from today, chapter 25, is about God's sovereign plan of providing a way of salvation for his people. And it's about God's sovereign plan of providing a way of salvation for his people. For those who believe in him in a very broad sense, in a very, in a very narrow sense, this chapter is a, is a poem, if you will, or a hymn of, of Thanksgiving that celebrates God and his salvation, God's destruction, if you will, of the sinful earth. [00:16:03] (28 seconds)



That encourages me where, where, where Isaiah says, you are my God. It's personal. This whole relationship that we have with God, it is a personal thing. God will save those who will truth, truthfully proclaim that he is their God based on their personal relationship with him through his son, Jesus Christ. Amen. [00:17:14] (26 seconds)



Salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone. Pastor, where'd you get that from? Well, I believe that, that Jesus said it himself in John chapter 14, verse number six, when he said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father. He says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father. He says, except through me. [00:17:53] (23 seconds)



And to elevate that point just a little bit further, the songwriters over the years have written about this foundation of Jesus Christ. You know the old hymn where it says that my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but holy lean, he says, on Jesus' name, on Christ, thus solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. [00:18:56] (37 seconds)



And personal knowledge of God is the characteristic of those who will be saved. Here, the prophet Isaiah, he was declaring that God was his God. Not a God. Not some God. Not some God that he read about, but he was declaring that Yahweh is my God. I have a personal relationship with him, Isaiah. He was saying, can you say that on this morning? Can you say that you have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ? [00:19:43] (38 seconds)



God is in perfect control and he methodically and he faithfully carries out his purposes. He's in perfect control. Well, I know sometimes it may not look like it in the current moment. But give God time. And watch his plans and his purposes unfold for you individually and for the world collectively. God is in perfect control. [00:26:23] (34 seconds)



Human wickedness operates on its own self -sufficient sufficiency and believes and advances the notion that humans can save. Themselves. The city has concluded that it does not need God. And if you look a little further in this verse number two that we're in, it talks about a fortified city and a palace of foreigners. The word fortified speaks to the notion of being a fortress, which defends its own way of life. [00:29:54] (41 seconds)



And Isaiah was declaring here that these who once were the staunch enemies of God will become a part of the saved people. How do you know that, Pastor Ed? Remember Abraham? Remember when God called Abraham? God revealed his plan of salvation in advance to Abraham when he said all nations, how many nations? All nations will be blessed through you. That meant that the gospel would be shared with the Gentiles as well as with the children of Israel. [00:34:52] (38 seconds)



God continues to show himself strong on behalf of the weak as he reduces and nullifies the impact and the influence of the aliens. He goes on by further saying that he will silence their song, the song of the terrible one. These are these folks that have this, this arrogant, self -will and this self -assurance in their own power and that they have no need for God. But over and over and over again, God shows up in powerful ways showing that he indeed is the blessed controller of all things. [00:40:55] (36 seconds)



And in this mountain. The Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice, pieces, a feast of wines on the leaves of fat things, full of moral, of well refined wines on the leaves, and he will destroy on this mountain, the surface of the covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all the nations. He will swallow up death forever and the Lord will wipe away tears from their faces. [00:45:40] (34 seconds)