Good morning. Let's all stand together. We'll sing hymn number 52. Hymn number 52. His brow, His head, No mortal can Him compare among the sons of men. Fairer is He than all the fair who fill the heavenly train, who fill the heavenly train. ♪ And flew to my relief ♪ ♪ For being before the shameful cross ♪ ♪ And carried all my grief ♪ ♪ And carried all my grief ♪ Be seated. We'll sing hymn number 17. Number 17. Come thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy praise. Teach me some melodious song and I'll sing along. Raised by an Ebeneezer, Hither by thy help I'm come, And I hope by thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. Jesus saw me with a stranger, Wand'ring of God. Oh, to rescue me from danger, interpose this precious blood. Oh, to grace I'll pay the debtor, daily I'm constrained to be. Let my good Here's my heart, take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above. I'll read this morning from Galatians chapter 6. And very grateful to be here this morning and not have to preach. Get to hear somebody get set and relax. I always enjoy that. I'm just going to read very few verses. Started Galatians 6, 14. Really, let's start in verse 12. Let me just make a comment on these as I go. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross. That would be like a soul winner wanting to make a name for himself and to make everybody think he's winning lots of souls and make himself look really good. But these people here, these Jews, would talk folks into being circumcised, get them to be a Jew, and they done it because they didn't want to suffer persecution, because they know that the cross done away with circumcision, the cross done away with any ceremony, any ritual, but they wanted people to look at what they had accomplished. Well, look at all these people we've saved and brought into the, and got them into Jesus, you know. For neither then, this is the key to it, for neither they themselves who are circumcised, those who are trying to get everybody to be their way, for they neither themselves are circumcised keep the law. But they desire to have you circumcised that they may say, boy, look how many I want. I got all these folks converted, got them all converted. But now look what Paul says, but God forbid, God forbid, that I should glory, not in my flesh, not in anybody that I've won to the Lord, should glory save in the cross, only in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in the Lord Jesus Christ neither circumcision nor availeth anything, neither uncircumcision, living right or not living right, being under the law or not being under the law, has nothing to do with it. As many as walk according to this rule, glorying in the cross, peace be on them and mercy upon the Israel of God. Our Father, in the blessed name, glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, O God and Father of our Lord Jesus, thank you and bless you and praise you for your great and abundant mercies given to us this morning, that you woke us up, clothed in a right mind, with the will and desire to worship the Lord God of heaven, worship his blessed Son, to come hear the gospel preached, to come and rest our souls in the Lord Jesus and rest our souls in the salvation that he accomplished for us. And Lord, we bring nothing to the table, bring nothing at all but the merit, the worth, the righteousness of thy blessed son. We have nothing in ourselves to bring. But oh Lord, we bring his holy name, we bring his precious blood, we bring his merit, we stand in his righteousness. So Lord, that's why we come. And we're not coming to nothing but a throne of grace, not coming to a throne of nothing but grace, not a throne of works, not a throne of doing the best we can, but to a throne of grace. Thank you for allowing us to do that. God bless this dear preacher when he comes today. We love him, appreciate him. Thank you for the ministry you've given. Please use him today to our good and your glory. Thank you for these dear saints and their faithfulness to one another and faithful to love one another. And Lord, bring glory to yourself today in this service. Have mercy upon our lost loved ones. We ask these things in our Lord Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen. We'll stand together as we sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. ♪ That loved the souls of men ♪ ♪ And washed us in his blood ♪ ♪ Till royal honors raised us again ♪ to every heart All grateful honors paid on earth, and all her songs of love. The last time sinners all will be. Almighty God, who was and is, ♪ Evermore shall be ♪ Be seated. Thanks for being a part of our show. me. Cody don't need no introduction. He's been here many times and I hope by the grace of God he'll continue coming. Today's their anniversary. Seven years. Wait till it's 30. And that won't take that long. It won't. But I love you and appreciate you. You come bring the Lord's message. Good morning. It doesn't feel like seven years to me. I won't speak for her. It's good to be with you again, and I pray our Lord might be pleased to meet with us today. If you will turn with me in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 52. For our message this morning, I want to consider one amazing, glorious verse of scripture. This verse really captivated me, and I pray it will likewise captivate you, too. It's here in Isaiah chapter 52, verse 7. Read it with me. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings. that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth. My prayer for us right now is that our God might enable us to look upon the mountains. Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. There is a man who's upon the mountains. Scriptures call this mountain the mountain of his holiness. I wanna go there today, I really do. Pray the Lord will show us something. And this is what I want us to see, all right? You're gonna hear my voice. You're all looking at me. But like John the Baptist said, I'm just a voice, just a voice, all right? I pray that we might get a glimpse of our Lord's feet. We just sang, my joy is complete when I sit at his feet. I pray that we might get a glimpse of his beautiful, beautiful feet, all right? That's my prayer for us today. If God enables us to see his feet, We will be greatly blessed. I really believe that. I pray he might allow us to do that today. Verse seven again, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him. Now do we have to wonder who this is talking about? Of course not. I love the fact that it says him. Not to give away tonight's message, but it'll be a very similar verse that says them, if the Lord is willing. But this morning I want to consider this, the beautiful feet of Him. Our God, brothers and sisters, has feet. I wrote that down and just saying those words, there's something about it. Acknowledging the fact that our God God who created this world has feet. I want you to look at this with me. Turn over, we'll come back here, turn over to Nahum chapter one. God who spoke this world into existence walked on this very earth with feet. Look here in Nahum chapter one. If your Bible's like mine in the Old Testament, page 1158, If you can find Jonah and Micah, it's after that. Nahum chapter 1, and if you can't find it, just listen. Nahum 1 verse 2 says, God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The very next verse says, the Lord is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked, the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. Who is God? He's jealous, he's furious, yet he's slow to anger. Great in power, holy and just, He has his way. You know, a lot of people don't realize that about God. God has his way. He always has, he always will. And I love so much what the end of verse three says, the clouds are the dust of his feet. I love that so much. Now, if we know where he is, We have no problem understanding that. Look right here at verse 15. Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. If we're going to see the Lord Jesus Christ, if we're going to see his feet, this is where we're gonna see him. Upon the mountains. Turn back to our text. That's what it says in Isaiah 52 7, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him. You know, everybody, everybody in religion there, they're looking to the mountains. I'm going to mention a few here. Everybody's looking to the mountains, but they're missing Christ. And it breaks my heart to acknowledge it. I know it. It's a fact. We're going to see it. But I pray that not only will God let us look upon the mountains, and I thought of this too. I live in the beautiful mountains of East Tennessee. Every day when I'm driving to work, I get to look at these beautiful, beautiful mountains. People drive here in the fall, drive long ways just to look at the leaves falling on our beautiful mountains. I don't want us to just see the mountains. There's a man on the mountains. Have you ever looked at a mountain, seen somebody, and thought how beautiful are their feet? But I haven't. Not a physical mountain. His ways aren't ours, are they? We're gonna glory in the mountain, aren't we? Let's glory in the Christ of the mountain. Let's look for his feet. Let's consider a few mountains here. Mount Sinai. When we look to Mount Sinai, what do we see? We see God's holiness, don't we? We better. But seeing God's holiness, seeing God's holy law, his holy demands. What do we really see when we see that? Do we? Do we see our ability to keep him? Or do we see Christ who kept them for us? Do we see our ability to keep any of them in the? In the lightest? I don't. By the grace of God, I see myself having broken every single one, every single day, but I see Christ who came and he kept every single one, every single day. Fulfilled it all. We offended in one point, we better understand, we're guilty of all. We need someone who kept it all, who honored it all, who fulfilled it all in our place. That's exactly what Christ did. That's exactly what he did. What about the Mount of Olives? Do you remember a mount called the Mount of Olives? That's where I believe our Lord often went there. And when he was taking Peter, James, and John, when he was taking them into the Garden of Gethsemane when he was going to pray, that's where he was. He was at the Mount of Olives. Maybe you're familiar with that account. I hope some of you are. But when we see Christ on the Mount of Olives, do we see a weak Savior who's having second thoughts? When he prayed, oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. I can't help but tremble saying such a thing because God has taught me better. Of course not. When we see Christ on the Mount of Olives, I pray this is what we see, God manifest in the flesh. I pray we see Him taking the agony, the guilt, the weight of our sin upon Himself as He prayed that prayer, as His soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death, as He sweat as it were great drops of blood, I pray we see the strength of God when we see him on that mount. And you remember he told the disciples, stay awake, watch, watch, lest you enter into temptation. And they just kept falling asleep. You remember that? What, can you not stay awake with me for one hour? Our Lord's prayers weren't like ours. He prayed long prayers from the heart. But I love this tune. They kept falling asleep, and then finally he said, sleep on now. You just take your rest. Do we see our Savior doing all the work for us? What it took to save us? Do we look to Him and rest in Him? Is that who we see when we see Him on this mount? What about where He went right after this? Mount Calvary. What do we see when we see Mount Calvary? I pray we see everything. I pray we see all our hope. You know, a lot of people look to Mount Calvary and they see God's offer. They see God's sacrifice that He's waiting on us to do something with. That is not what I see. That's not what I see. That's not what God has revealed. God has revealed salvation accomplished. Our Lord cried from that mount, it is finished. And we saw him miraculously save one of those right beside him as he died. Is it nothing to us as we pass by this mountain? Oh, I pray it's everything to us. I pray we see our Savior. One more mountain I want to consider. The mountain of transfiguration. You remember that mountain? When our Lord appeared with Moses and Elijah, you know, the disciples, they, They saw Moses and Elijah. They started to glory in Moses and Elijah. But our Lord God, the Father, spoke from heaven. They fell down. They were so afraid. And you know what they saw when they stood up? No man, save Jesus only. This is what I pray we might see right now. Nothing and no man save the Lord Jesus Christ and him only. He's high above the mountains. I said he's upon the mountains. He's high above the mountains. He's high above everyone and everything. Nothing and no one compares to him. Nothing. He's seated in the heavens. Turn with me to Psalm 99. I want to show you something here. acknowledging where he is, seeing where he is. Let's consider this question, where are you and I? Where do we fall in this equation? Where is our rightful place before such a God, before such a Lord? Look here, Psalm 99, verse one. Psalm 99, one, the Lord reigneth. Let the people tremble. He sitteth between the cherubims. Let the earth be moved. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy. Look down at verse five. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy. Look at verse nine. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy." There is one rightful place for fallen sons and daughters of Adam. That's at his footstool, at his beautiful feet. He is holy. We just read it. We're simple. He's to be exalted and worshiped. We're to be humbled and abased. We need to know our place. God's able to put us in our place. I pray he will. I want to mention a couple dear brethren in the scriptures here. You remember Mary? There were multiple Marys, but Mary, the sister of Lazarus and Martha, you remember her? You remember where she sat? You know, Martha was comforted about with much serving. And it's a good thing to serve. Let's make sure we understand that. But there's just one thing needful. And that's to sit at our Lord's feet. She sat there hearing his word. You remember a fellow named, if this isn't how you pronounce it, bear with me, but I call him J. Iris. You remember him? He came to the Lord Jesus with a need. And when he came to him, do you know what he did? He fell down at the Lord's feet. That's the place for sinners. That's the only place I want to be. At his feet. At his feet. I thought about this. We came here, some of us yesterday, to worship God for calling our dear brother home, Brother Bill. You know where he's at right now? He's beholding some beautiful feet. The beautiful feet. Where I pray we too shall soon be. He's upon the mountains. Back in our text, Isaiah 52.7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings. Does anybody here need good tidings? It means good news. Anybody here interested in that? Our God, listen to this, our God who is seated in the heavens, he's upon the mountains, he came down here and became a man to bring good tidings. Our text goes on to say, good tidings of good. When I read that, I thought, well, man, that sounds redundant. Not at all. I love it. Here's what that means. Good tidings of good. Good tidings of welfare. Good tidings of prosperity. Good tidings of happiness. You interested in these things? That's what everybody wants, right? It's what we're all looking for. You know, everybody by nature, we all think the world can give us these things. Temporarily maybe, but temporarily at best. That's it. No matter what we think we have in this world, we brought nothing in and it's certain we can carry nothing out. We brought our sin into this world and that's what we need to be concerned about. We have a soul. At the funeral yesterday, I looked at our brother's body and I thought, you're not there. You're here with our Lord at His feet. You're in Him. You're with Him. You see Him. You've awoken in His likeness. You're just like Him. What do you look like? Conform to His image. This is the body the Lord has put my soul in for a time. If we're interested in welfare, prosperity, and happiness, Look to Christ. Our brother did. Now he knows even as he was known. Faith has turned to sight. The world can't give us these things. But Christ is and provides for us more than we ever could have imagined, more than we ever could have wanted. Oh, may we have him. That's what our Lord came to this world and accomplished for us, everlasting happiness, everlasting welfare, everlasting prosperity. That's what he's given Zion, Israel, his people. Gospel means good news. Christ came, he brought the good news. He is the good news. Imagine how Mary and Joseph thought, imagine how they felt, rather, when the angel came and told them what the Lord was doing through Mary. When they came, when he came, the angel came and told them, he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest. Imagine what they must have thought. We know what Mary thought. We read about it. Oh, she rejoiced. Oh, she rejoiced. And those shepherds, when the angel came to those shepherds and said, unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, Christ the Lord. Imagine how happy they must have been. Imagine what good news that was to them. Is it good news to us? Our Lord's beautiful feet, they brought good news. Everywhere our Lord went, every single day he walked this earth, he went about doing good. He went about doing good. I mentioned Mary. When Lazarus was sick and about to die, Martha and Mary, of course, rightfully so, they were afraid. They were heartbroken. But you remember what our Lord told her? He said, Mary, whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Is that good news? I'll tell you who that's good news to. That's good news to a dying sinner. When Mary sat at his feet and heard his word, our Lord said this, Mary hath chosen that good part which shall never be taken away from her. What was that good part? Christ. You mean to tell me Christ, my savior, will never be taken away from me? Never heard such good news in my life. I am his and he is mine? Are you serious? It is written. Mention Jairus. He came to the Lord and he asked him to come heal his dying daughter. If you read the text, Jairus came to the Lord, the Lord left with him, and they start walking. Do you know what happened on their way to his daughter? There was a woman with an issue of blood. Did the Lord do anything for her? Well, I'm busy. I'm going to go heal this daughter. He stopped and healed her on his way. He went about doing good. He brought good tidings. And then he healed that woman. And then he went to that man's daughter. And by that time, she had died. Well, it's too late. No, just mention Lazarus. Wasn't a problem then, was it? Come forth. He that was dead came forth. He took her by the hand and he said, arise. She arose and she walked immediately. Is that good news to you? Our Lord brought life. You know, that daughter and Lazarus, they died again, physically. But I pray they didn't die spiritually. I pray they had life. That's what Christ has brought his people, eternal life. with him. Verse 7 again, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace. All my life I'm thankful to have been raised under the gospel. I really am. I can't tell you how thankful I am for that. But I've still been out in the world and I've heard the things people say. And this is something I've heard people say all my life. You need to make your peace with God. I'm going to give you an example that should show us just how ridiculous that is. All right, listen to this. We're the ones who've committed the sin. It's not up to us to make the peace. We're the ones who are in the wrong. Listen, if a country bombed our country, did great damage, killed many, and then they decide to make peace with us, How ridiculous does that sound? They bomb us, they kill us, and then they say, well, we're going to make peace with you. No. If there's going to be peace, it's up to us, right? We're the ones that they bomb. Do you understand that? God is the one we've sinned against. If there's going to be peace with God for us, it's not up to us to make it. It's up to Him. It's up to Him. Christ, he publisheth peace. That's what he does, that's what he's done. You remember when his death was foretold in, I think it was the verse, Isaiah 9, 6, I think. He had several names in that one verse, but one of them was this, the Prince of Peace. Who's coming into this world? The Prince of Peace. What's he gonna do? He's gonna come accomplish peace for somebody. You know, there's a text where he said, think not that I'm come to send peace on earth. Come not to send peace, but a sword. What he's talking about is dividing households, dividing mother against daughter, son against father. He'll take one and leave the other. That's what our Lord has done. That's what election does. He takes one and leaves the other. He'll save whom he will. those whom he chose to save. But it's not up to us to save ourselves. It's not up to us to make peace with God, all right? Colossians 1.20 says, having made peace through the blood of his cross, he made peace. He made it. We can't add to it. We can't take from it. It's forever. It's done. Our Lord, this could be a message in and of itself, but his beautiful feet, were pierced. You want to get to the heart of the message of His beautiful feet, there you go. But why were His beautiful feet pierced? Why were His beautiful hands pierced? Why was His beautiful side pierced? Why was His beautiful head crowned with thorns on it? To make peace for His people. That's why. Not to make it possible. to purchase it, secure it, and he did. Praise his name, he did. Turn with me to Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians 2 verse 11. Wherefore, remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands." Now look right here, this is our state as we are in this flesh, okay? State before God. Verse 12, that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. that unless God have mercy on us, that's where we are, and that's how we'll die. All right? Look at the next verse, verse 13. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for he is our peace. He is our peace. I was gonna read on, but I can tell I'm going long. We'll just move on, but He is our peace. We don't have to go looking for peace. Look to Christ, who is our peace. Back in our text. Isaiah 52.7, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation. Do we realize that's what his beautiful feet wrought for us? Salvation. Salvation from not just the sins we commit, but the sin that we are. the sinful thoughts we think, the sinful motives behind the things we do. I'll tell you this, the sinful motives behind the things we do and take pride in. I'm so guilty of that. You do something that supposedly is a good deed, and yet we did it for all the wrong reasons. If we did it to be seen, we did it for the wrong reason. I want to read you a couple verses. If you will, turn with me to Revelation chapter 1. This is so good. Revelation 1 verse 12. I love what it says here about our Lord's feet. Revelation 1 verse 12. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me, and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, worn like unto the son of man, clothed with the garment down to the foot, and gird about the paps with a golden girdle, 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 unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. Every time I read this, I cannot help but think of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Here's one in glory whose feet look like they burned in a furnace. You remember who it says was in the fiery furnace with them? The Son of God. Now, again, in the context there, those men, those were sinful men just like us. They were thrown into that furnace for disobeying their king. The furnace of God's wrath awaits us for disobeying our king. But thank God, the king became the servant and jumped into that furnace for us. The one we wronged, the one we sinned against, he bore our sin for us. Is that not amazing to you? that our substitute is the one we sinned against, that our substitute is the judge. He's the judge. All judgment has been committed unto the Son, and yet it's the Son that came to die the judgment we deserve, to face the judgment that was ours. Oh, amazing. Amazing love, how can it be? How can it be? How can it be that God should love a soul like me? Oh, how beautiful are his feet. We can walk through the valley of the shadow of death, like David said, fearing no evil, because our Lord walked through it for us, and he's with us. Whatever we go through, he's already been through it times infinity. And whatever we go through, he's with us. He said, I'm with you always. I'll never leave you, never forsake you. Thought about that time when our Lord washed his disciples' feet. You know what happened when he did that? Their feet were filthy. He took their filth upon himself. Peter, Peter spoke up and said what I probably would have said. Oh, Lord, you don't wash my feet. You have no business washing my feet. And I really think I understand what Peter's saying. I should be washing your feet. Is that not? Doesn't that sound right? But here's the thing. The Lord told Peter, gave him a hard rebuke. He said, Peter, if I wash you not, you have no part with me. Who needs to be washed? It's not him. It's us. His feet are beautiful. Our feet are ugly and cracking and spiritually our feet are disgusting. Everything about us spiritually before God is filthy and we need to be washed. Christ came and he washed his people completely. Back in our text one more time. Isaiah 52.7, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, and I love the way this verse ends, that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth. I think it said the same thing when we turn to Psalm 99, thy God reigneth. Let's make no mistake about it. Though as the end of verse five right here says, look at it, my name continually every day is blasphemed, that's true. Though our God's name continually day after day after day is blasphemed, It doesn't change the fact that He reigneth. He reigneth. Though the heathen rage, the people imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against His anointing, He shall have them in derision. He shall laugh. Oh, how foolish we would be to blaspheme His name, to mock Him, to glory in ourselves rather than glory in Him. He shall have us in derision. I pray he'll bring us to his feet right now. He shall reign forever and ever. I said earlier I've never heard better news. Well, I've never heard better news than this. He shall reign forever. Of his kingdom there shall be no end. None. Thy God, my God, reigneth. Is he your God? Pray he'd reveal to you that he is, and that that's who he is, the God who reigns. Well, I won't have this man to reign over you. Well, he reigns anyway. The Lord God omnipotent, that's his name, and he reigneth. He reigneth. He always has, and he always will. How do we see this in light of his feet? Remember where he is, high above us, seated in the heaven, seated on his throne. I'll show you a couple more verses and I'll close. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15. I'll close with this final thought about his feet. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 24. First Corinthians 15.24 says, Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. Is that good news to you? He must reign. You know, we just entered an election year, right? We're all torn up about who's going to be in control. We don't have to wonder. He shall reign. He must reign. He reigneth. Is that enough for us? I'm going to get out to vote. I promise you I'm going to care who wins. But at the end of the day, I'm hoping in this right here, The Lord Jesus Christ, who reigneth. There's no rival to him. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. He raiseth up kings and he puts them down. Moves them in, moves them out. Next. He alone reigns. He's God. He's God. He alone has all strength, all dominion, all authority, and all power. He alone. I love to tell you that. I love to know that. Look right here, verse 26. This is good news too. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. You know, we all fear death, don't we? We don't have to. Paul said, for me to live is Christ, to die is gain. Death isn't gonna hurt us, not if we're in Christ, not if we already died in Christ. Because if we died in Christ, we live in Christ. And that'll never be taken away. Verse 27 says, for he hath put all things under his feet. Brethren, all things are under his feet. His beautiful, beautiful feet. I pray we've gotten a glimpse of His feet today. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Jesus Christ our Lord. May He bless these words to our hearts. Amen. Amen.