What Have You Done With Jesus? – Part 3
Isaiah 50:1-11 (10)
May 26, 2024
I know it has been a couple of weeks since we were in Isaiah 50,
So allow me to draw this great chapter back to the forefront of our minds.
It is one of 4 suffering servant passages.
(50:4-6) “The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient Nor did I turn back. I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.”
• This great chapter prophesied of
• The incarnation,
• The obedience of Christ,
• The submission and suffering of Christ,
• And the vindication which God poured upon Him through His resurrection and ascension.
We also said that chapter 50-66 is very PROPHETIC
And I believe speaks to our very day.
It is the segment of Scripture which addresses Israel.
• Having rejected their Messiah
• Having crucified Him
• Having been broken off as a result
• The gospel now being preached to Gentiles
This segment reveals the call of the Lord Jesus to Israel
That they would repent and return to Him.
Chapter 50 is a great chapter to begin that segment.
WE SEE HERE
• That when Christ came,
• No one responded,
• As a result they were divorced and sent away.
AND AS WE HAVE STUDIED THIS PASSAGE
We are examining the ramifications of how a person responds to Jesus.
Scripture is clear, you can’t stay neutral with Jesus.
Jesus Himself said:
Luke 11:23 “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.”
God has made Jesus “both Lord and Christ”.
All nations will bow to Him
All kings will bow to Him
All of His enemies will be crushed under His feet
THERE IS NO NEUTRAL THIRD PARTY.
God says that Jesus is King.
You are either a servant or a rebel.
That is the point that is being made to the Jews who rejected Jesus here.
We have said that in this chapter we have 4 responses to Jesus.
If you have heard of Jesus, then you fit into one of these 4 camps.
We saw the first two already:
#1 THE REBEL
Isaiah 50:1-3
We remember Christ asking
• What was the reason given for the divorce of Israel?
• What was the reason for them being sold into slavery?
And the answer was clear.
(1b) “Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.”
You weren’t broken off because I failed.
You weren’t sold because of My debts.
It was your fault.
What was this great sin?
(2) “Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer?”
Jesus came and offered salvation, they had no interest in it.
They rebelled against Him
As a result they were sold and sent away.
It does not pay to be a rebel against the call of Jesus.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of all before his judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
IT WILL NOT GO WELL FOR REBELS.
If you have rebelled against His call for repentance and faith
Then repent of that rebellion and submit your life to Christ.
BUT HE SAVES REBELS WHO REPENT.
Well then we saw the second group:
#2 THE RIVAL
Isaiah 50:4-9
You might describe this group as A MILITANT REBEL.
• Certainly they have rejected the gospel call of salvation.
• Certainly they have rejected the call to repentance and faith.
But rejection for them was not enough.
Their goal is to totally discredit and destroy Christ.
Their goal is to see to it that no one else trusts either.
• They war against Him.
• They battle against Him.
• They stir up the crowds to ask for Barabbas and for Jesus to be crucified.
They are eager to see Him struck.
They are joyous to see Him attacked.
They aren’t just skeptics, they are antagonists.
The conviction Christ has laid upon their hearts has not relented They must either kill their sin or kill Christ and they choose Christ.
(8) “Who will contend with Me?”
(8) “Who has a case against Me?”
(9) “Who is he who condemns Me?”
AND WE SEE THIS TYPE IN OUR WORLD.
They don’t just rebel against Jesus, they war against Him.
But again, that is A FOOLISH DECISION.
(7) “For the Lord GOD helps Me, Therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set My face like flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.”
As for all those who stubbornly war anyway:
(9b) “Behold, they will all wear out like a garment; The moth will eat them.”
A certain death.
When you chop at the tree that is Jesus,
You will chop your whole life and never fell that tree.
You’ll wear out 1,000 axe heads before you ever make a dent.
He cannot be defeated.
God has already exalted Him.
Psalms 2:1-6 “Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!” He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying, “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
As God’s exalted King no rival will be left standing.
If you have found yourself to be a rival, always warring against Christ,
Let me invite you once again to repent.
CHRIST SAVES RIVALS TOO.
Saul of Tarsus wasn’t just a rebel, he was a rival.
Acts 26:9-11 “So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. “And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them. “And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.”
He was out to destroy everything that Jesus did.
And Jesus Christ saved him.
You can see then how this is such a pertinent message
• Not only to Israel who have rejected Christ to this day,
• But to all who are His rivals.
Rebels are cast aside.
Rivals are destroyed as a moth destroys a garment.
But if you repent, He will forgive you and He will save you.
Well, those are the first two groups that we saw two weeks ago.
THIS MORNING, let’s examine this third group.
#3 THE REMNANT
Isaiah 50:10
You know that the REMNANT is a favorite group of Isaiahs.
God revealed them to him on the day that God called him into ministry.
• When God sent him to those who had ears but couldn’t hear and eyes but couldn’t see.
• And Isaiah asked how long?
• And God said until everyone is destroyed.
BUT
Isaiah 6:13 “Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump.”
While most will be exposed and crushed by the preaching of the gospel,
THERE WILL BE A REMNANT.
“There will be a tenth portion”
They are “the holy seed”
THAT IS THE REMNANT.
• It is that few who believed on Christ when He came.
• It is that few who believe Him still.
• It is that few who repented of their sins and trusted in Christ.
So it is obvious now that of the 4 options given to us here in Isaiah 50,
WE ALL STRIVE TO BE THIS ONE.
Here in verse 10, their description is clear.
“Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant..?”
Instead of being rebels, they gave reverence and fear to Christ.
Instead of being rivals, they submitted to obey Christ.
• These are the genuine converts.
• These are the redeemed Isaiah has spoken of.
• These are the remnant.
Jesus said of them:
Matthew 13:16-17 “But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. “For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
THEIR LIVES ARE MARKED WITH FEAR AND OBEDIENCE.
“fears” is the Hebrew word YAH-RAY
It is NOT faith, but it IS A FRUIT of saving faith.
Abraham believed God in Genesis 15
And “God reckoned it to him as righteousness”.
All Abraham brought was faith.
But in chapter 22 we see what genuine saving faith looks like.
Remember the chapter?
Genesis 22:1-2 “Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
And you know the story.
• How Abraham bound the boy
• How Abraham raised the knife
• How the angel stopped Abraham
And then we read this from God:
Genesis 22:11-12 “But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Notice God didn’t say, “now I know that you trust Me”
He said, “now I know that you fear” Me.
Same word Isaiah uses here.
• It is a fruit of genuine faith.
• It is what is produced in a heart that truly trusts God.
AND it is a fear or reverence that is revealed through obedience.
This is how you know someone has genuine saving faith.
It is through their fear and obedience.
James 2:18-20 “But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?”
To which James goes on to say:
James 2:19-24 “You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.”
What is James’ point?
That a man can’t be saved by faith alone?
NO, THAT IS NOT WHAT JAMES IS SAYING.
James is saying that you can’t be saved by a faith that is alone.
Faith alone is all God requires for justifying sinners.
But if that faith is not accompanied by fear and obedience
Then it is not the kind of faith that God accepts.
We heard that from Jesus didn’t we?
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’”
SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE POINT.
We are not just talking about the profession of faith,
But the possession of faith.
We are talking about true saving faith.
And a person knows if they have true saving faith
Because of the presence of fear and obedience.
John 8:31 “So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;”
NOW, I POINT THAT OUT TO YOU
Because I want you to know that the people being referenced in verse 10
ARE TRULY REDEEMED PEOPLE.
• These are people who are genuinely saved.
• Their faith is real and we know it is real because of their fear and obedience.
“Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant..?”
THESE ARE THE TRUE REMNANT.
And it is important that you understand that
Because the second half of this verse might call us to question that.
Why?
Because we see their current predicament.
We see their current condition.
“That walks in darkness and has no light…”
The reason that’s confusing is because that sounds like a lost man.
We remember that passage back in Isaiah 9 where Isaiah prophesied of the coming Christ who would bring light to those in darkness.
Matthew actually saw Jesus and quoted that passage:
Matthew 4:15-16 “THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES— “THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED.”
Jesus is referred to often as “the Light of the world”
And we see that as a call of salvation to those who are lost.
BUT HERE, it is used to describe genuine believers.
Here Jesus addresses those who have true faith
And yet who “walk in darkness and have no light”
Is that even possible?
ABSOLUTELY!
What we are speaking of here is frustration, fatigue, hopelessness, confusion, bewilderment, despair, etc.
It is the struggle that genuine believers are prone to experience
As they live in a world of rebels and rivals.
The apostle Paul certainly understood this.
Colossians 1:24 “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.”
• Paul WASN’T SAYING that somehow the suffering of Christ was incomplete and that he was finishing it for Him.
• No, what Paul WAS SAYING is that the world isn’t finished beating Christ, but since Christ isn’t here the world takes out their hostilities on the church.
And Paul says that he has received his fair share of those sufferings.
Galatians 6:17 “From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand-marks of Jesus.”
1 Corinthians 4:9, 11-13 “For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men…To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless; and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.”
And the effect of such a reality
Can certainly lead to despair and frustration.
Paul himself testified:
2 Corinthians 1:8 “For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;”
That is exactly the person Jesus is addressing here in Isaiah 50:10.
A true believer who has hit a wall
And who is frustrated and growing hopeless.
YOU SEE THEM THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURES.
Asaph:
Psalms 73:13-14 “Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence; For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning.”
Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 15:10 “Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.”
Jeremiah 15:16-17 “Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.”
Jeremiah 20:7-8 “O LORD, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me. For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the LORD has resulted In reproach and derision all day long.”
Job, Moses, Elijah, and Jonah all asked the LORD to take their life.
Living as a follower of Christ in a sin-saturated world
That is filled with rebels and rivals to Christ
Can be a difficult and frustrating thing.
AND THIS IS OUR THIRD GROUP.
They are the remnant.
• They believe God.
• They fear God.
• They obey God.
• But they are disillusioned and afraid.
• They are filled with anxiety and their hope is weak.
There just doesn’t appear to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
And the message to them is clear:
“Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.”
We asked the Rebel and the Rival – “What have you done with Jesus?”
But here we ask the Remnant, “What are you doing with Jesus?”
The call to trust Christ is NOT a one-time call.
It’s NOT something you do just to get saved
And then you take it from there.
AND I MUST SAY:
Christianity is a cold and difficult religion if all you have is fear and submission but no trust and reliance.
Christian service is a hard place to be if Christ is nothing more to you than a boss and a master.
Listen, He is also your Savior and Redeemer and Friend.
He is not simply someone to fear and obey,
He is someone that you can count on.
Two verbs here in the last line of this verse.
“trust” and “rely”
They are obviously synonyms
But there is value in looking at them separately as well.
“trust” is the Hebrew word BU-TACK
It means “to confide in one; to set one’s confidence upon one.”
Isn’t that great!
Do you do that?
• Do you confide in Christ?
• Do you set your confidence upon Christ?
Here we are called to “trust in the name of the LORD”
The “name” represents the fullness of His character.
We are called to be confident in who He is.
• Is He Savior?
• Is He Redeemer?
• Is He Provider?
• Is He Healer?
• Is He Shepherd?
• Is He Peace?
Well then count on Him!
Confide in Him and count on Him!
“rely” translates SHAW-AN
“to lean upon, to rest upon”
When Abraham welcomed the angelic messengers:
Genesis 18:4 “Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;”
When Sampson sought revenge on the Philistines:
Judges 16:26 “Then Samson said to the boy who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”
Do you rest on Him?
Do you rest in Him?
Are you able to take your burdens and your fears and your worries and your cares and lay them on His back?
Did He not say:
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
And specifically the remnant is called to “rely upon his God.”
• Is He God?
• Is He omnipotent?
• Is He omniscient?
• Is He sovereign?
• Is He unchanging?
Then can you lean upon Him?
Can you let Him carry the load?
This is the call.
To “trust” and to “rely”
So you understand the call here to the remnant.
THEY ARE TRULY REDEEMED, BUT
• Life has frustrated them and perhaps even terrified them,
• Because of their circumstances they can see no light at the end of the tunnel.
• They “walk in darkness and have no light”
And Jesus is asking them to throw their burdens on His back.
• Confide in Me!
• Set your confidence upon Me!
• Lean on Me!
As I began to think about this reality this week,
The NUMBER OF EXAMPLES are easily too many to use.
You can go through the entire book of Hebrews
• And find believing Jews who are being kicked out of the temple and cut off
from the altar and their property has been seized and some are in jail.
And what is the message of the book of Hebrews?
• Christ is your great High Priest!
• He came in human form, He knows how to help!
Hebrews 2:18 “For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.”
Hebrews 4:14-16 “Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
The call was to
• Let go of the old covenant.
• Let go of the temple service.
• Let go of that symbolic altar.
• And put it all on Christ.
And that is the MAIN POINT we’ve seen in THIS CHAPTER.
We saw in verse 4 of this chapter that
This was part of the purpose behind His incarnation.
Isaiah 50:4 “The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.”
He knows how to sustain!
He does it with His word!
Remember Asaph’s lament a moment ago?
• He thought he had kept himself pure in vain.
• He was frustrated and hopeless.
Look at how God responded:
Psalms 73:15-24 “If I had said, “I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children. When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end. Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form. When my heart was embittered And I was pierced within, Then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand. With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me to glory.”
It was God’s counsel (word)
That set Asaph’s heart straight and rekindled his hope.
Remember Jeremiah’s lament in chapter 15 how he was a man of strife that sat alone and he was in despair?
Look at how God responded:
Jeremiah 15:19-21 “Therefore, thus says the LORD, “If you return, then I will restore you— Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, But as for you, you must not turn to them. “Then I will make you to this people A fortified wall of bronze; And though they fight against you, They will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you,” declares the LORD. “So I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.”
God restored him with the promise of His word.
In fact, God reiterated the very promise that He gave him
Back in chapter 1 when He initially called him.
Remember Jeremiah’s complaint in chapter 20, how God’s word had only been reproach and derision for him?
God responded there too:
Jeremiah 20:10-11 “For I have heard the whispering of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!” All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: “Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him.” But the LORD is with me like a dread champion; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed, With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.”
Remember how Paul said that he had the sentence of death within himself?
Well the text continues:
2 Corinthians 1:9-11 “indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.”
And at the end of Paul’s life he wrote:
2 Timothy 4:16-18 “At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.”
DO YOU SEE IT?
These are men of God who found the Christian race to be a difficult race.
• They faced things that frustrated them, just as you do.
• They faced things that scared them, just as you do.
• They faced things that brought them grief and despair, just as you do.
But do you see what they learned?
They learned to run to Jesus, to confide in Him, and to lean upon Him.
One of my favorite passages here:
1 Peter 5:6-11 “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
Remember that Peter wrote to persecuted Christians.
• They had confessed Christ and as a result they were on the run.
• Life was incredibly hard and dangerous for them.
• It would have been easy to fall into hopeless despair.
What did Peter tell them to do?
“cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you”
Take it to Him!
Put your burdens on Him!
Lean on Him!
Because as we learned in verse 4 of Isaiah 50,
He knows “how to sustain the weary one with a word”.
The word “sustain” is OOTH
It’s only used In Isaiah 50:4.
It means “to hasten to, to help, to succor”
When you draw near to Him, He draws near to you.
And you see that promise in what Peter said:
“After you have suffered or a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”
He won’t send someone else to do it.
He will do it Himself!
Palms 37:39-40 “But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their strength in time of trouble. The LORD helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.”
Psalms 109:30-31 “With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD; And in the midst of many I will praise Him. For He stands at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.”
And this is exactly what He has promised His remnant!
Isaiah 41:10 ‘‘Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’”
Isaiah 41:14 “Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you,” declares the LORD, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 43:1-2 “But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.”
You understand it.
So believer, what is it that causes you fear?
What is it that brings you anxiety?
What is it that steals your hope?
Well, what are you doing with Jesus?
Are you simply letting Him save you from hell
While you try to handle the rest?
THAT WOULD BE FOOLISH.
Don’t run to Him for salvation and then seek to handle life on your own.
• If you are weary and heavy-laden RUN TO HIM AGAIN!
• If you are tired and afraid RUN TO HIM AGAIN!
• If you are anxious and without hope RUN TO HIM AGAIN!
He knows how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He knows how to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
Trust Him
Rely on Him
He will come through for you!
HE IS YOUR SAVIOR!
