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Isaiah chapter 33. Isaiah chapter
33. I'm titling this message, The King
is Coming. On my Bible here, I have a verse
that's written down here, you know, how they stamp it in. And
it's Isaiah 33, 17, which says, Thine eyes shall see the king
and his beauty. They should behold the land that is very far off.
That's a verse that has just, it's spoken to me over the years
many, many times, and when I wrote a couple of books in the last
couple years, and you do your self-publishing thing, and I
titled the publishing company The King and His Beauty Books,
which comes from Isaiah chapter 33, verse number 17. So turn
with me there, and then we're gonna look at this entire chapter,
but I just wanna show you here this verse, then we'll have a
word of prayer. Isaiah 33 17 thine eyes shall see the king
and his beauty they shall behold the land that is very far off
let's pray Lord God we thank you for this night that you've
given to us and we continue to pray for a pastor and his wife
for healing and strength recovery Lord be gracious to them today
thank you that we could gather together in your name thank you
for my brothers and sisters who came out tonight and And thank
you for Alicia coming to lead us in song to praise to you,
our living God, our Savior. And now I pray, Lord God, that
you'd be with us. Teach us through your word something tonight that
we could grab a hold of. Give every one of us something,
Lord, that we could leave here tonight with, whether an encouragement,
an instruction, a rebuke, whatever it may be. Lord, we just pray
we invite you here tonight to be with us, to continue to be
with us through your Word as we open it up and look at it.
I thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. I'm going to go through
this text here one time very quick. Then we're gonna slow
down a little bit, go through it again, and then we're gonna
go through it one more time. I'm not gonna read it through
each time, but we're going to look at this account here in
Isaiah chapter 33. We're gonna look at it historically.
The king is coming, that's the title of the message. And we'll
see historically, they were praying for the king to come and the
king came and he rescued them, as we'll see. And prophetically,
The King is coming. There's a future doctrinal application
to this chapter that says that the Lord is going to come when
the Jews are praying during the tribulation, and he's going to
come, the King is going to come. And there's a third application
to that, a personal or spiritual application. The King, the Lord
Jesus Christ, comes to rescue people today and deliver people
from this dark and dying world, as he's done to many, if not,
I hope, all of you, rescued us. So the king is coming and we
want to take a look at it. So I'm going to read here. So
bear with me as we read through it. Follow along. We're going
to read this chapter. Then I'm going to go back and kind of
talk again. Historical, doctrinal and personal. So it starts off,
it says, Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled, and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
thee. When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled.
And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall
deal treacherously with thee. O Lord, be gracious unto us.
We have waited for thee. Be thou their arm every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble. At the noise of the
tumult, the people fled. At the lifting up of thyself,
the nations were scattered. And your spoil shall be gathered
like the gathering of the caterpillar as the running to and fro of
locusts, and shall he run upon them. The Lord is exalted, for
he dwelleth on high. He hath filled Zion with judgment
and righteousness, and wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability
of thy times. And strength of salvation, the
fear of the Lord, is his treasure. Behold, their valiant ones shall
cry without. The ambassadors of peace shall
weep bitterly. The highways lie waste. The wayfaring
man seeth. He hath broken the covenant.
He hath despised the cities. He regardeth no man. The earth
mourneth and languisheth. Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down.
Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off
their fruits. Now will I rise, saith the Lord. Now will I be exalted. Now will
I lift up myself. Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble, your breath as fire shall devour you. And
the people shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut up shall
they be burned in the fire. Hear ye that are far off, and
what have I done? And ye that are near, acknowledge
my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid.
Fearfulness hath surpassed the hypocrites. Who among us shall
dwell with a devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously and
speaketh uprightly. He that despiseth the gain of
oppressors, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes,
that stoopeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes
from seeing evil. He shall dwell on high. His place
of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Bread shall be given
Him. His waters shall be sure. Thine
eyes shall see the king and his beauty. They shall behold the
land that is very far off. Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? Where is
the receiver? Where is he that counted the
towers? Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech
than thou canst perceive, of a stammering tongue that thou
canst not understand. Look upon Zion, the city of our
solemnities. Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem,
a quiet habitation. tabernacle that shall not be
taken down. Not one of the stakes thereof
shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof
be broken." But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place
of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For the Lord is
our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King. He will
save us. Thy tacklings are loosed. They
could not well strengthen their mast. They could not spread the
sail. Then is the prey of a great spoil
divided. The lame take the prey, and the
inhabitants shall not say, I am sick. The people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity." Big chapter, a lot to it. Isaiah
is a big book. As you know, if you've studied
your Bible at all, read your Bible, the human author of this
book is Amos. We read that in Isaiah 1, verse
1, right? The prophet... I'm sorry. There
was a prophet, Isaiah, who was the son of Amos in Isaiah 1,
verse 1. He was a contemporary with a
couple other prophets, Hosea and Micah. And historically,
which is what we're going to talk about briefly first, historically,
he wrote to Judah in Jerusalem. So these were historical events
taking place. I want to talk a little bit about
that. We know the approximate timing because he wrote, as it
says at the beginning, to King Uzziah, who would have been around
790 BC, and then King Jotham and King Ahaz, and King Hezekiah,
715 BC. So we know that's about the time
this took place, this historical event. And again, he's speaking
to Judah in Jerusalem about the Assyrian attack that's going
to take place. And this is who he's talking
to. If you remember, The history of Israel, there was a united
kingdom, remember? Solomon, you had, well, before
Solomon, you had Saul, David, and then Solomon. And then after
the death of Solomon, the kingdom split. Ten went to the north,
two went to the south. Those two of the south were called
Judah in your Bible. And it was Solomon's son, Rehoboam. This happened around 900 or so
BC. it was split and you can read about these things when
you're reading Kings you know when you're reading the prophets
you know there many times they're prophesying to those Kings to
the people that you know are in charge of the nation of Israel
whether it's the northern tribes Israel or the southern tribes
Judah or to the whole of Israel the twelve tribes also called
Israel So the account of chapter 33 here pronounces a woe upon
the spoiler. It says, woe to thee that spoilest. Historically, this woe is pronounced
against the Assyrian king by the name of Sennacherib. And
you can read about that in Isaiah chapter 36 and chapter 37. There
was a real king from Assyria, and you read about this also
in 2 Kings, and I'm going to read for you here just to give
you, again, a little bit of the historical before we look on. In 2 Kings
18, verses 13 to 15, that last king I mentioned, Hezekiah, we
learn of his unbelief and he struggles a little bit. And when
Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, sends his man, Hezekiah kind
of falters in his faith a little bit. And so I read from 2 Kings
18, verse 13 to you, it says this, now in the 14th year of
King Hezekiah did Sennacherib, king of Assyria, come up against
all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king
of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I
have offended. Return from me that which thou
puttest, return from me, in other words, leave, that which thou
puttest on me I will bear. So in other words, whatever you
want, Sennacherib, I'll give it to you in terms of tribute.
He says, And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king
of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents
of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found
in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's
house. Now we see in Isaiah chapter 33 that there was a small remnant
though who were faithful. who were trusting that God would
do what he said he was going to do, and that was that he was
going to come and deliver them. And look at Isaiah 33, verse
2. It says, Oh, Lord, be gracious
unto us. We have waited for thee. But
we know that the king himself, Hezekiah, did not wait. He gave
over these things to Sennacherib the Assyrian. But some waited.
Some, it says in verse 2, be thou their arm every morning,
our salvation also in time of trouble. See, God had promised
them that he would deliver them. But again, the king lost his
faith a little bit, but there were some that held out. There
were some that were holding on. Look at Isaiah chapter 30 right
over there to the left a little bit. Verse number 18. He told
them, wait for me. And these few here in Isaiah
33 too were waiting for Him. They were faithful. It says in
Isaiah 30, verse number 18, and therefore will the Lord wait
that He may be gracious unto you and therefore will He be
exalted that He may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God
of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for Him for the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem thou
shall weep no more he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee and
these over here in Isaiah chapter 33 verse 2 they were waiting
patiently on the Lord they were waiting for him Now the Lord
does indeed deliver them. The King, Jesus, the King, the
Lord, shows up, and he does indeed destroy the Assyrians. You probably
know the story. Look over at, well, verse 5 of
this chapter. Right here we can look at it.
The Lord is exalted, right there. But look over at Isaiah 37. We're
coming right back to where we are. Isaiah 37, the end of the
chapter, verse 36. And you can also read about this
in 2 Kings. Again, these things go together,
they're not separate. So let's see, 37, 36, Isaiah
37. Then the angel of the Lord went
forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 104 score and 5,000. And then go down to 37. So Sennacherib,
the Assyrian, the king that they were worried about, he that spoilest,
okay, that's who we're talking about, King of Assyria departed
and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh and it came to pass
as he was worshiping in the house of Nisrach his god that Adramalek
and Sherezar his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped
into the land of Armenia and Esarhaddon his son reigned in
his stead. So the king showed up historically
and he took care of the Assyrians. They needed to wait, but again,
they had some issues there, but the Lord showed up just the same.
But there's a bigger picture here, and we get a little idea
from, look at some of the words that show up here. And those
of you who read your Bible, especially in the book of Daniel, will recognize
a few words. Look at verse number two, right
at the end of that. See that, time of trouble? Look
at verse number four. You see, this will be from Joel,
the caterpillar? the book of Joel. And you see
in also verse 4, running to and fro of the locusts, that's Joel
and that's Daniel. So we're getting the idea there's
something bigger going on than just a historical account. Look
at verse 8. He hath broken the covenant. That's Daniel chapter 9. We'll
talk a little bit about that as we go on. So what you have
here that the Lord layered in, in addition to telling us historically
what was going on with the kings and with Judah at the time, he
said, I wanna show you something doctrinally, something prophetic
that's gonna take place. So now let's take a look here
at that one more time this way, looking at it prophetically to
the time when the king is gonna show up during the tribulation
to rescue his people. So the king will come, those
days that are just ahead of us, not that far ahead of us. Looking
at everyone out here, if the Lord, you know, wills, we'll
all see the day of the rapture of the Lord, and we'll be out
of here, and this day will begin, this day that he's talking about
here. Now, so let's take a look here. It says here in verse number
one, woe to thee that spoilest. So he's the Assyrian. And we
know that there is one coming in the future, the Antichrist,
who is a, this man, the Assyrian, is a type of the Antichrist.
And he's coming and he's going to rule the Gentile worlds. He's
gonna rule the kingdoms of the world. We learn about that in
Revelation chapter 17, Daniel chapter 2. Remember, there's
gonna be 10 toes. Revelation says 10 kings. It's
a confederation of nations, a confederation of kingdoms that are gonna come
about pretty soon. And you can see the beginnings
of it, you know, the Great Reset. That's the beginning of this
stuff happening, leading us to the New World Order that you've
heard talked about now for many years, actually decades now,
that's been thrown out. Perhaps it'll be a technocracy,
which is what they're really trying to establish now with
all of this business, with all of their fancy devices to track
people and stuff. That's a technocracy. They've
been trying to establish that for control purposes. But this
man, the Assyrian, the Antichrist, is gonna come and rule over all
of this. He will be the one that's going to come to spoil. And what
you have then in verse two, Looking at it now prophetically, it describes
the prayer of the Jewish remnant during the tribulation. There
are many places in the Bible where you will find that, including
like Revelation 6, when they're praying under the altar, how
long, O Lord, that type of thing. But you'll find that they will
be praying for the Lord to return during the tribulation. This
is gonna be a time like never before, the book of Joel says,
never happened before in the nation of Israel. What happened
under Hitler was just, little warm-up to it so this is what's
coming here it's the so verse 2 that would describe the prayer
of the Jewish remnant during the tribulation praying for the
salvation during the time of trouble as it says in verse number
2 and then if you look at verses 3 to 6 now prophetically what
you see here is in verse number 3 the nations will be scattered
During the tribulation and at the battle of Armageddon, God's
going to scatter all the nations. He is going to disperse the invading
army that's going to armies that are going to come against Israel.
And that's what we have pictured here for us. And in verse number
four, if you look at that and your spoil. He's going to spoil
or plunder the Antichrist and his army, that confederation,
that ten-toed monstrosity that's coming. And in verse number five,
he promises, he says, the Lord is exalted. So what he's promising
here is that he's going to be exalted. In other words, he's
going to not only is he gonna come and spoil the spoiler, he's
gonna set up a kingdom, a millennial kingdom. And that's the picture
you're getting here when it says, the Lord is exalted, for he dwelleth
on high. He hath filled Zion with judgment
and righteousness. That happens when he sets himself
up as king. The king is coming. He's coming
in the future, He came for the Israelites, and He's coming again
for the Jews. Verses 7 to 9, as you look at
that again prophetically, it describes the condition of the
nation of Israel during the time of the Gentile invasion, during
the time when the Antichrist, now in the future, is going to
come against Israel. If you look at verse 7, It says,
the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. In other words,
there won't be any peace. Peace, peace, but there will
be no peace, because that's what's gonna happen during that seven-year
tribulation. And if you look at verse number
eight, it's gonna be so bad, it says, the highways lie waste.
In other words, the travel is gonna become unsafe for the people
of Israel to even go about traveling. It says, the highways and the
wayfaring man sees it. All the travel's gonna stop.
during this time when the Antichrist is coming against Israel. And if you look at verse number
nine, the earth mourneth and languisheth. That's the destruction
of the land that takes place really, I think, when verse number
eight happens. What's that? When he, the Antichrist,
has broken the covenant. remember in Daniel chapter 9
verse 27 he confirms the covenant with many it says that he in
the context of Daniel chapter 9 is the Antichrist the prince
of the people that shall come it says and he will break the
covenant and here he has broken the covenant And all this terror
breaks out upon the people of Israel as he breaks his covenant.
That's what Daniel chapter 20 or Matthew chapter 24 says, such
shall be a time shall never, never been before. Joel says
the same thing. It's never been like this before.
when the abomination of desolation is established, when Antichrist
sets himself up as God in the temple of God, being worshipped
as God. That takes place during the middle
of that tribulation. That's what's taking place here
in verse number 8 and verse number 9. But in verse number 10 to
12, the Lord comes to save his people in the future. In verse
number 10, the enemies of the Lord and of Israel shall be destroyed. Look at it. Now will I rise,
saith the Lord. Now will I be exalted. Now will
I lift up myself. Ye shall conceive chaff. In other
words, you're gonna reap, the enemies of God's people are gonna
reap what they've sown. Ye shall conceive chaff. Ye shall
bring forth stubble. Your breath as fire shall devour
you. This'll take place. Verse number 12. They shall be
burned in destruction. And the people shall be as the
burning of lime, as thorns cut up, shall they be burned in the
fire." Never forget, the Bible says that our God is a consuming
what? fire. His eyes are as a flame of fire. Revelation chapter 1 verse 14
says the Lord sitting, the king sitting on his throne is going
to scatter people with his eyes and the sword of his mouth and
the fire that comes out. He's going to literally burn
these things up. Now we know eventually he's going
to burn up the whole earth and he's going to start all over.
All the heavens are not clean in his sight it says. And in
verse 13 to 16 it describes the state of the people at the time
of the invasion. Look at it, verse 13 to 14. It
says, here are ye that are far off. And it goes on, verse number
14, the sinners in Zion are afraid. They're fearful. So some have
put their trust in the invaders. Some have put their trust in
the Assyrians. And those are the ones that are
fearful. Those are the ones that are not waiting on the Lord.
They're the ones that will be fearful during the tribulation.
Remember, the Lord is going to save all of Israel, but it's
gonna come by faith in Jesus Christ as the gospel goes out
during that tribulation period. And the indication from the book
of Zechariah is that two-thirds will be burned and only one-third
are going to make it. And that, when you read in Romans
chapter 11, that all Israel shall be saved. Yes, that third that
come by faith to the Lord Jesus Christ, they will be saved. All
of Israel will be saved. But you're reading about this.
But now in verses 15 and 16, there was a faithful remnant.
Who? He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly. He, in
verse 16, he shall dwell on high. His place of defense of the munitions
shall be the munitions of rocks. and bread shall be given him,
his water shall be sure." So what that is a picture of in
the future in the tribulation are the faithful remnant of the
Jews and God brings them into the wilderness and it's called
here the munitions of rocks. Now we know from Micah chapter
2 verse 12 that that place is called, well you know what I've
got I'll read it to you. I will surely assemble, O Jacob,
all of thee. I will surely gather the remnant
of Israel. That's what you're reading about
here, the munitions of rocks. I will put them together as the
sheep of Basra, as the flock in the midst of their fold. They
shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. This
place is known as today Basra as Petra, Selah Petra, Selah
Petra. And when you read in the Psalms
and you run into that word Selah, Now, I know that I've heard that
it's a musical thing. It means pause, reflect, that
type of thing. But if you look a verse or two before or a verse
or two afterwards, you're gonna find something prophetic. Selah
gives you a picture that there's something about the latter days
that's taking place in those Psalms. And so what you've got
here is you've got the Lord taking His people, Israel, into the
wilderness. That's Revelation chapter 12,
where He will nourish them. It says here that He will give
them bread. See it? Bread shall be given
him. Remember how the Lord rained
down bread before in Exodus for His people as they wandered?
I think the Lord is probably going to rain down manna again
for them. I don't know that for sure, but
I think perhaps he will. Where's that verse? Is it in
Job, which is a picture of the, I know, Job, your pastor's probably
taught you, Job, 42 chapters, is a picture of the Jew in the
last half, the 42 months of the Great Tribulation, this period
of time we're talking about here, and it says, hast thou entered
into the treasures of the snow? the snow, the manna, which rains
down from God. God is going to bring forth,
I believe, manna. He's going to hide them in this,
in the munitions of the rocks, while He deals with the things
on the outside, when He deals with the Antichrist and his people. Now, verse 17 and 19 speaks of
the people of the restoration that will take place after the
tribulation. And that's what's going on when it says, Thine
eyes shall see the King and His beauty. Who? those that waited
upon the Lord. The remnant shall see the King
in His beauty." When He comes and He rescues His people, they
will see the King in His beauty. And we'll talk about that in
a little bit. They will now enter into the promised land, verses
18 and verses 19, that kind of thing going on right there. And
in verses 20 to 24, we see the state of Israel during the restoration
in the millennial kingdom of Christ, fulfilling his office
as king of kings and Lord of lords, the king sitting upon
the throne of David. In verse number 20, It talks
about solemnities, which means is it will be a place of appointed
feasts, of solemn feasts. It's going to be the Lord resurrecting
his feast days again. In verse number 21, it will be
a place of confidence in the Lord. They will be resting in
the Lord finally. And in verse number 22, we see
the state of the government. Look at it. That's government.
For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The
Lord is our king. He will save us. You know, once
upon a time in this country, we had a U.S. Constitution, and
it was based on this right here, right? Lawgiver, king, king being
the presidential, okay, what's it called? Executive, thank you,
that was what I was looking for, the executive branch, and then
the lawgiver being our court system, and then, I'm sorry,
the judge being our court system, the lawgiver being the Congresses,
the House of Congress. So this is what the Lord's gonna
be. The Lord is our king. He will save us. Now I wanna
take one more swing at one verse. That verse, which, as I said
earlier, I have written here on my Bible, Isaiah chapter 33,
verse 17. And it's right there in the middle.
I want to look at that thing spiritually and make application.
Thine eyes shall see the king and his beauty. They shall behold
the land that is very far off. Now, for whatever reason, I don't
really know why, that verse got a hold of me many years ago. It's just been dear to my heart
for years. And I think about it often. I
come back to it often. And I want to talk a little bit
about it this evening. So let's take a look. Let's break
it down a little bit. It says, Thine eyes shall see the King
and His beauty. Thine eyes. You know, everything
about your salvation is personal. I can't get saved for you. You
can't get saved for your grandchild. Everybody's got to do it on their
own. Thine eyes, it says. It's a personal step of faith. No one can get saved for another
person. It is a step of faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
He said, Marvel not that I said indeed, ye must be born again.
So, thine eyes salvation is personal. Everything about our salvation
is personal. Everything about our Savior is
personal. He is a personal God who longs to have personal relationship
with you. At work sometimes somebody would
come up to me and say, I hear you're a religious man. You know,
what do you do with that kind of thing? Well, you try to explain.
Once in a while, somebody would come up and say, I hear you're
a man of faith. I go, okay, what's going on? And so they'd come
into my office and we'd talk for a while. A personal relationship,
not a religion. Religion will just condemn you.
Religion condemns. But a personal relationship with
the Lord Jesus Christ through his gospel will save. He's always
been a personal God. Remember how he walked in the
cool of the garden with Adam? He's always been a personal God.
He calls and He speaks, and He speaks to us through this Word
that we have right here. God speaks. He comes to us through
this Word, and we have a Holy Spirit within us. He speaks to
us through His Word. He longs in a personal way to
hear us call Him, Abba, Father. So as we think about this verse
in the context of something personal, nobody answered here, but let
me ask you. How is your walk of faith tonight? How is your
relationship going with the one that loved you and died for you?
See, everything about this is personal. Thine eyes, my eyes,
your eyes. Shall see the king. He is coming.
We shall see him. How's it going now? How's your
fellowship with him? Is it still sweet? I know what
life can do. I know what, you know, busyness
and work and problems and health, and I know what they can do.
But do you still have fellowship with the Lord through His Word?
Is it fresh? Is it new? You know, His mercies
are new every day. Is it new to you or do you need
a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit in your life? You know,
the Lord will give it to you if you ask Him. Don't fear. Don't hold back. If you're struggling in that
area, ask Him. Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty. Our
Savior is a personal God. When He returns at the rapture,
does anyone know where you find that? The Lord returning at the
rapture? Give me a verse. What is it?
Yeah. Very good. 1 Thessalonians. That's
what we're looking for. 1 Thessalonians 4. It says, For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven. Who's going to descend? The Lord. He's a personal God. He's not
going to leave this to anybody else. You know, we just read
about an angel that killed 185,000 Assyrians. Pretty powerful, right? He could have sent the angels,
but he's not. He's coming himself. For the
Lord Himself shall descend because He's a personal God. He's a personal
Savior. He knows every one of our names,
every one of your names, He knows. Every one of your struggles,
He knows. Every one of those things that you think no one
else, gee, I just did this, no one knows what I just did. Well,
yeah, the Lord knows. He will reward you for what you
do for Him. I love how Job puts it. He says
this, Job 19, For I know that my Redeemer liveth, no doubt
in that man's heart was there. I know that my Redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and
though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall
I see God, he says. whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins
be consumed within me." Job was looking to see the king and his
beauty. Thine eyes shall see the king
and his beauty. Though, as Job says, though worms destroy my
flesh, Though my reigns be consumed within me, mine eyes shall see
the King." Don't you want to see Him? Don't you want to see
Him? I know some Christians who, yeah,
you know, maybe, you know. I'm serious. I know some Christians
like, well, things are going okay, so I don't need to see
Him. I want to see Him. I want to
see Him. Go ahead, brother. Treasures of the snow. Hast thou
entered into the treasures of the snow? Is that what it says?
Pretty close? How close? Oh, that's all right. Never mind. I don't want to know.
I think it's right. I think it's correct. I don't
know. The memory isn't what it used to be. Thine eyes shall
see the king in his beauty. These eyes want to see him. You
know, I know how it will be when I see him. It'll be just like
the Apostle John. Remember Revelation chapter 1?
He fell at his feet, he's dead, till the Lord lifted him up. And he said, fear not to him.
But I want to see him. I've been talking about him for
a long time. I've been reading about him for a long time. I've
been praying to Him for a long time. I've been singing to Him
for a long time. I've been telling others about
Him for a long time, and I want to see Him. See, I got saved
a long time ago, and I want to see Him. And we will see Him,
the King in His beauty. Now, our text says, take a look
at it one more time with me. Thine eyes shall see, and it
says, the King in His beauty. You know, there's a book of Isaiah. Take a look at Isaiah 53 for
a second. Just take a look at Isaiah 53. Remember what we just
read, the king and his beauty. Look at Isaiah 53 and we'll come
back to where we were. Isaiah 53 and verse number two. Now you know this is the great
chapter on the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says, for he shall grow
up before him as a tender plant, as is a root out of dry ground.
He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him there
is no beauty that we should desire him. But the Bible just said
in Isaiah 33, the king and his beauty. Here it says there's
no beauty. It's not a contradiction. Right? So what is it? The king
in his beauty, no beauty. See, when the Lord came the first
time, okay, no beauty. In other words, he came just
like you or me. No particular beauty. When he's
coming back again, it's gonna be the king in his beauty. So there's no contradiction.
One is talking about the first advent, the other's talking about
the second advent, or the first coming and the second coming.
The Bible says in Isaiah 4 too, in that day shall the branch
of the Lord be beautiful and glorious. That's the second advent.
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them
that are escaped of Israel. Now, it says also, thine eye
shall see the king and his beauty. And it goes beyond just looking
at the first coming and the second coming. Because back in Isaiah
53, it says that he was rejected of men. In other words, that's
why they saw no beauty in Him, because they rejected Him. You
see, that's a difference between what's in my heart and what isn't
in my heart. If I've got the Lord Jesus Christ
in my heart with expectation of Him coming back to get me,
He's beautiful in my eyes. If I don't have Him in my heart,
like the world, there's no beauty in Him. You talk to people, there's
no beauty in Him. If they even know who He is,
there's no beauty in Him. Until He's your Savior, you look
at Him just like anybody else. So it's, thine eyes shall see
the King and His beauty. It's the difference between,
again, what's in my heart or what's not in my heart. So how's
your heart? Brothers and sisters, how's your
heart? Is He beautiful in your eyes? Can you see the beautiful King
in the Word of God? Do you see Him? Remember, Jesus
said, low in the volume of the book it is written to me. He
said, search the Scriptures, and then you think you have eternal
life. Then they are they which testify of me. Find the Lord
Jesus Christ. Find your Savior. Find your King. He's there in the Word. So is
He beautiful in your eyes tonight? When you consider the thorns
that were placed upon His head or His back that was marred for
our sins or the side that was pierced, the whips that plowed
over his back, those wounds that he carried into heaven. Remember
in Revelation, he was seen as a lamb as it were slain. There
was something about him that still had those wounds. Look
upon him in his word, see the beauty of your king tonight.
There's a third aspect to this thing, to this king in his beauty. It's beauty on that which is
on the inside and not the outside. Right? Look at Psalm 29 for a
second. Psalm 29. It's not far away. It's back over to the left a
little bit. Psalm 29. The king and his beauty. Psalm
29 verse 2. It says, give unto the Lord the
glory due unto His name. Worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness. Psalm 96, verse number nine.
Turn there with me for a second. We'll see the theme. Psalm 96,
verse number nine. Same thing essentially that we
just read in 29. It says, Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness. Fear before Him all the earth. There is a beauty of holiness. You know, when the Lord looks
upon us, he looks not on the outward man, but on the inward
man. And the Lord is beautiful in his holiness. The Lord is
beautiful on his inside, if you will. So whatever was on the
outside, he looked like another Jewish man. On the inside, there
was the beauty of holiness. And that's what the Lord would
like for us today. He would like to see the beauty
of holiness in each one of us. What do I mean? Holy, consecrated
lives. The beauty of holiness in service
and worship to him. the beauty of holiness you know
doesn't the bible say that how beautiful are the feet of them
that preach the gospel of peace the beauty of holiness on our
feet the gospel of the lord jesus christ that's what the lord wants
to see in us he doesn't care what we look like on the outside
he wants to see the beauty of holiness on the inside thine
eyes shall see the king in his beauty they shall behold the
land that is very far off." It says there's a land that's very
far off. Heavenly now, not earthly. They were talking earthly then,
now we're talking heavenly. In some respects, it's not very
far off at all. A few years, a year, a month,
a day, a moment. I don't know how long I have.
That land, in some respects, is not very far off. None of
us know the hour of our passing. But our passing is but a promotion. When we leave this body, we get
promoted into glory, waiting for the redemption of our bodies
according to Romans chapter 8. So even though that heavenly
land seems so far off, some days I can see it. Some days I can
see it pretty good. You know, there's a hymn, we
didn't sing it tonight, it was written by Sanford Bennett, who
was born in Eden, New York, by the way, and music by Joseph
Webster, and it's called, let's see, where is it? In the Sweet
By and By. And it says there is a land that
is fairer than day. That's it. That's what we're
talking about. And by faith, we can see it afar. That's from this here. For the
Father waits over the way to prepare us a dwelling place there. It is through the eyes of faith
that we get to behold that land now. All those people that you
read about in Hebrews chapter 11, They desired, it says, a
better country. That is a heavenly one. And it
says that he had prepared it for them, and it was by faith
that they could see it already. And the same thing with us today.
We can see that land by faith, and that's the only way you can
see it today. There are no portals that open up. You can see it
through the Word of God. You can see that land by faith.
And by the way, that's the only way anyone will ever see it.
ever, even physically one day in our new bodies. The only way
is by faith. The Bible says, for we are all
children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. That's the only way. There
is no other way. So many people confuse the gospel
in so many ways. It's not a confusing thing. It's
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the gospel of Jesus Christ
according to the scriptures. That's the gospel and nothing
else is, nothing else ever will be. There are so many people
trusting so many things, but without that faith, they will
never see this land, which is very far off in some respects.
Some Christians barely ever see it because they lack faith. Some Christians have forgotten
that they've seen it because they're caught up in the cares
of this world and it chokes out our faith. And yet some Christians
seem like they see it all the time, don't they? Haven't you
ever met those kind of people? It just seems like they see it
all the time and you go, wow, let me have some of that stuff
rub off on me. The King is coming. What does
He want from us? Well, He wants us to live victorious.
He wants us to live productive. He wants us to live fruitful. He wants us to be able to give
account of what it is that He gave to us. He did not necessarily
give everybody equal anything, but He gave us what we needed
to please Him. And that's all really that we
need, is that which He gave to please Him. Remember, He called
the ten servants and delivered unto them ten pounds, and He
said unto them, Occupy till I come. Occupy doesn't mean, some of
us think it means occupy the couch. Right? Some days it's
okay. It feels good to occupy the couch.
I might do that later on when I get home tonight. I'm trying
to wind down a little bit. Occupy the couch. But that's
not what he's talking about. It's not lying down. Occupy is
to be active. Occupy is to be working for the
Lord. Occupy is like, I've said it
before, but it's, you know, occupying enemy territory. That's what
we're doing. We're occupying enemy territory.
You see, this world here has a God, little G-O-D, Satan. He's the God of this world. He
blinds the minds of people lest they should believe the glorious
gospel, the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But our job
is to occupy. Maybe we take a little space,
maybe we just hold that which we have, but contend for the
faith once delivered unto the saints. Be good soldiers of the
Lord. That's what he wants. Find your
place in the field of battle and occupy. I don't know what
that is for each of you. Listen, we're all called to preach
the gospel. That's not it. The will of God
is the same for me as it is for you. but He may give us different
places to occupy, different places in the battle, but His will is
still the same for us to be productive and to occupy. See, occupy isn't
just for me or for your pastor, it's for each one of us to occupy. Fight against the forces of evil
through the Word of God, through the Holy Spirit of God, through
that Word which is sharp and powerful. The Bible says, Nay,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that
loved us. Let's live like we're on the
winning side, because we are on the winning side. With the
gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word of God, I say it often,
but you are far more powerful than you may realize. Not you,
Christ living in you and Christ coming out from you. Very powerful. And remember, thine eyes shall
see the King in his beauty. They shall behold the land that
is very far off. Let's pray. Lord God, we thank
you for this time together. Thank you for my brothers and
sisters. Lord, I pray that you would empower them to occupy
that space which you've given, whether it's a little space or
a broad space. Lord, I pray help them to occupy
for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Lord, lift each one of them up
in their families, in their workplaces and in their friendships, to
be a candle in the midst of darkness. Lord, we bless Your name, we
praise You, and indeed, You are our King, and we can see You
now through the eye of faith, and Lord, You're beautiful to
behold. But we look forward to that day when we see You face
to face, and we can bow down and fall at Your feet, our King
in His beauty. Even so, come Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen.
The King is Coming
| Sermon ID | 61523132592765 |
| Duration | 46:13 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Language | English |
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