From the Womb — G.W. North

God's Ways Beyond His Acts

What a wonderful thing it is to belong to the Lord, isn't it? And know the wonder of God's great grace and provision for us. All the true children of God can find their heritage written in the book. The ways of God do not really vary.

You know, he told Moses, the Lord did, or at least it's written in the scripture, that he made known his acts to the children of Israel, but his ways unto Moses. And there's a vast difference between people knowing the acts of God and the ways of God.

For instance, you may read the acts of the apostles. I wonder if you know the way of the apostles. You may read the acts of Jesus Christ, compended for us in the Gospels. But to know him as the way is an entirely different matter.

We considered that within a little compass last evening toward the end of our service together. But you and I may know that what is true of the ways and principles and workings of God in one generation or in one age are exactly the same as they are now and will ever be.

Entering the Old Testament Truths

I want tonight, contrary to my usual custom, in that I believe that God has raised up the church to be a New Testament people. I want to go into the Old Testament, breaking a reference to, occasionally, here and there, New Testament contexts of the same truth.

Perhaps I'd like to start reading in the Psalm 139. I hope we all know this glorious Psalm. And to know also that God has comprehended our life completely. If you are a true child of God, the things that we are going to look at tonight are true of you.

And you may know them and glory in them. And I hope your joy expands and grows throughout all eternity. In this great Psalm, the Psalmist says, O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising.

Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways, for it is not a word in my tongue. But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain unto it. And it's a marvellous thing, isn't it? And yet, as you go on reading this Psalm, you will find that not only does the Psalmist contemplate these marvellous things of his own conscious experience.

That since he has known himself as a man, he has found that God has searched him and known him. And the great lesson of his life was to discover himself as God knew him and not as he thought he was. This is a great discovery for each one of us.

This man had come to mature thought and understanding of himself as God knew him and says, Oh, you've searched me. You've known me. And he contemplates the whole sort of sphere of conscious experience.

But then, that is a wonderful thing for a man to discover. After he has discovered it, he goes back. And this is what he says. Listen. Verse 13. For thou hast possessed my reins. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise thee. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works. And that my soul knoweth right well. Now you see he has gone from conscious life and existence into his mother's womb.

He is really going back now. Talking about God comprehending his life. And then he goes back further beyond this into the great mystery of creation. Linking it with his own coming into the world by the natural process of procreation.

My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect. And in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.

Oh, how precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God. He's gone right back now linking his own birth with what God did in the lower parts of the earth before he brought it up through the waters in the first breathings of creation.

And now he's gone right back into the thoughts of God. Into the precious will of God where he was begotten before God made the earth and before Adam was formed of dust and before Jesse, his father, took his mother to wife.

He's gone right back and he sees that he is a great projection from the heart, the will, the mind and the desires of God. Oh, God. He was an expression of the precious thought of God. He's not pretending to understand it and I don't know whether you do or whether you think like some people think about me that I'm a bit of a mystic to ever get this out of Psalm 139.

But you see, beloved, you don't understand until God has taught you. And these are the great things that you and I have to come into. It isn't just that God has searched me and known me now that I am born.

It is that he knew me before I was born and before my mother and father were born or joined in marriage. Before the world was as it is. Before he started out in creation. He thought David. Now whatever your name is, put it there.

If you're a child of God, He thought you. I really think I might have said enough for tonight. And yet I've got a lot more I want to say and we might take supper at eleven. Well, how can you handle these subjects in five minutes?

If I'm going to finish, here's the place to finish. And let you do the rest of it by the same spirit. And this is how the Bible is understood. And it's never understood just, I was going to say, read over, sometimes milled over, precious gems gathered from it.

But oh, to understand the great ways of God and how things are. You know, David was not alone in this. Let's take a verse, say, that we'll discover in the book of Jeremiah. Perhaps you'll already be thinking what verse it is to which I am turning.

Jeremiah Formed and Called Before Birth

It's in chapter one of Jeremiah. Jeremiah, you read in verse one, was the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came. And verse three, it came also, praise the name of the Lord.

Verse four, then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

And then God had a little trouble with Jeremiah. He started to make all the usual complaints that men make. He says, Oh, well, Lord, you see, what a shame, I mean, I fancy you knowing me like that, I'm no good to you, now I'm here, sort of thing.

And as though God made great mistakes, and it was a pity, and all this sort of thing, the way our ignorant and insolent minds take up a revelation of God, twist it to God's disadvantage, and say, well, now you've done all this, what a mess it all is, you see.

And all this kind of thinking. And that's why we sympathize with these great men of the Bible, because in them we see ourselves, especially in the mistakes and the sins, and in their inabilities. And in their great abilities, we never see ourselves.

We haven't got faith for it, and all this sort of thing. But God willed, and God thought, and God desires, and God is, and you aren't. Not in the great begetting. It is normally thought that in the processes of birth, it is the mother that forms the child.

But God said, I formed thee. Amen. Isn't this a glorious thing? When you know you're not in the hands of human beings, and you're not at the mercy of genetics, and all these things. Bless God for a God that's bigger than scientists.

Bless God for a God that knows how to work His will in each one of our lives. Praise the name of the Lord. I had the privilege of talking to a young lady. She's in the room, I don't know where to look, if I'm going to even find her.

And she won't mind me mentioning this, because I said, I'm probably going to talk about this tonight. And I said to her, you had no choice in what form you would come into this world. None at all. Hallelujah.

You can't choose in what shape, size, form, or deformity you come into this world. We have nothing to do with it. Many do come in deformed. They do come in in special ways. We know that the processes of sin, and sometimes the foolishness of men, a thalidomide, all this does things.

And how do we know how much these drugs are doing good or ill among us? How do we know? My, it wasn't so long ago that I discovered. I've got nothing against the medical profession. You know I owe much to them.

But there are some marvellous people handling the most dangerous things in the world. Talking about the hairline job. These doctors do it. I hope you know it, you know. They really are. And they need our strong love and admiration.

Almost a ghast I read not so long ago that aspirin upon which people nearly live. Now, it's terrible to take aspirin. It gives you a bleeding of the stomach. And I don't know what it doesn't do. But when it first started out, it was the panacea for all ills.

And this is the great trouble. And they didn't discover it for decades. About the most common things, salicylic acid, that people fly to. I'm not here to give you a lecture. I'll have Jack up here saying it's only a technicality, or something like that.

And it'll be a blob too, for I'm venturing into a world where I tread with fear, or else I'm like a bull rushing in where angels fear to tread. But this then, is the grey realm, beloved. We have no choice in how we come into this world.

Israel Formed From the Womb

And isn't it a glorious thing that the child of God comes back to this great knowledge and revelation that this man of God revealed for us in Psalm 139. And Jeremiah testifies to us in his great book.

I want to proceed from there to other things and move through the rest of life. I'd like you to turn with me into Isaiah's prophecy. I think this is a tremendous thing. Let's read in chapter 43, shall we?

We'll just touch on them at the moment, these things. Now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel. Chapter 44. Yet now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.

Thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb. Now we are making progress, aren't we? Before the womb, way back there in the thought of God, in the womb, from the womb. What a glorious progression of even human life connoted with spiritual life, of course, as we are going to see it tonight together.

God is moving in these wonderful ways. And you know, if it was true of anybody, it was true of this great nation of Israel. You will know how that they liked to look back upon this, how God formed them.

You know how it all is. They went down into Egypt and how that on that great night of deliverance, the Exodus night, when the Passover lamb was slain and the blood was sprinkled, and they were inside eating the lamb, all ready to make their getaway, not stealing out by stealth in the dark midnight, but being led out triumphantly by God, out of the death and the desolation.

They had been saved in a glorious demonstration of power by God, saved from being destroyed as a nation. They were the nation of born ones. The firstborn was saved and they became God's great firstborn.

What a marvellous thing it was. And God said, Now I formed you. I did this. I created you. Blessed be the name of the Lord for these marvellous things. But you see, because He has done this for us and He not only has His hand upon us way back before we knew a beginning, He has His hand upon us from the beginning.

And it's wonderful when you know in your New Testament that Jesus said, I'm the beginning. Hallelujah. So when He began, He began with Christ and He chose you in Christ. Then, in the beginning He formed you in Christ.

In the beginning and in the continuing to. And you'll be fully formed in Christ in the ending. That's a glorious anticipation. Whether we'll get as far as that tonight remains to be seen. But, it's a glorious truth that when we get this deeply into our hearts we come to understanding, Lord, here I am.

As you look back in your life I trust every one of us can see this. That God has had His hand upon us. When we were spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. When we were rebellious. When we were playing around with devils.

When we were giving ourselves over unto the corruption of the world. God still had His hand upon us. This is the wonder of God. The wonder of God is that He just loved me. That's the wonder of God. I think that's probably the greatest miracle of God.

That He is love. Absolute love. And there's no exhausting His patience and there's no outwitting Him. The great love of God. I've seen it. I've seen it this very day. I've seen the love of God heal. I've seen the love of God deliver this day.

The love of God. Nothing but the love of God. That's what I testify to you. Only that. Nothing but that in the end can do anything for humankind. Amen. Amen. In fact, it's the love of God that makes Him do things for Himself.

He does everything in love. Oh, bless Him. And in the end, He'll have our love or else He'll not have us. And we move in this realm. Now, the great thing for us to understand is this great truth. Look at chapter 43.

I created thee, O Jacob. Verse 1. I formed thee, O Israel. Now, fear not. I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name.

Thou art mine.

Called by God's Name

I expect you'll all agree with me that every parent has a right to call its child by the name he wants. Is that right? If there's any babies going to be born among us or have been born, I'll guarantee not one of us ever went round or ever will think of going round.

All the neighbors will say, now look here, I'm expecting a baby in three months time. Would you tell me what you'd like it called? Hmm? Amen. No. We won't. We don't do that. God says, I've called you by your name.

And you know, when He deals with this great truth, you'll find, drop your eye down into chapter 44 and we'll look at verse 5 and we read about these sons, these children that are going to be born, they're going to come.

One shall say, I'm the Lord's. Another shall call himself by the name of Jacob. Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and surname himself by the name of Israel. Oh, glory. He not only names you, but He has surnamed you.

Amen. He's not just called you Bill, He's called you Sykes as well. He's given you a surname. That's a tremendous thing. And you see, God brings this all unto an understanding that we really do belong to Israel.

That's it. When the truth works itself out, even the Israel of God, what a marvelous thing it is that we surname ourselves there. You know that Prince, Israel means Prince. Prince of Power. Prince with God.

That's what Israel means by God's definition. And when we know that we belong to this marvelous family of God, it's tremendous. Isn't it? And isn't it lovely to know that all through your life, dropping back into chapter 43, verse 2, when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.

And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. My, they had good experience of this. They only like to look back in their history when they passed through the waters and God was with them. Amen.

Even the waters of the Red Sea. They passed through the waters. They said, Waters? Didn't see any. It was dry. That's right. Didn't even get my feet wet. When thou dost pass through the waters, I will be with thee.

Through the rivers. Ask the next generation. How about you? Yeah, we crossed Jordan. Was God with you? Yes. Right in the center. That's where He was. Amen. They had to go in via their great baptism into everything.

God's Presence Through Fire and Water

What a glorious truth it was. God, beloved, is giving His revelations to our hearts. And when you go through the fire, He said, in verse 2, you are going to walk through the fire. Thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

And of course, your mind goes leaping forward now to three Hebrew children when they pass through the fire. They were thrown in and came out and nothing could burn them. Nothing. Absolutely astounding that not even the ropes they bound them up with or their hose or whatever it was, didn't even have a smell of fire on them.

Oh, if God could bring to our hearts by the many testimonies to His grace and power in the Scripture, the real life that He has for us. If only He could bring us to see it. If He could bring us to an understanding.

If He could only bring us onto this plane of thinking. If only He could make you see that you were wrought down there in those lower parts of the earth. I don't pretend to understand what I am saying to you.

I only profess to believe the Bible. That's all. If we believed, understood, entered into, lived on these realms of God's sure will and perfect designs, we wouldn't become the puppets of fate. We wouldn't be made to drink, to dance on a string by the devil.

We wouldn't get into panics and grumble at God and call it prayer. We wouldn't get into any of these things at all. Once we understood that we have been the flowering forth of the eternal life of God by His will in the time that He chose, because we didn't choose the day, nor the hour, nor the family, nor the shape, nor the color of our skin, nor the type of hair we've got.

We didn't choose a nation in which to be born. We came forth by the power of God. Do you believe that? Then why this state of panic into which you get? God help us. Here it is. Hallelujah. I'm here because God wants me here.

Amen. That's it. Isn't that a marvelous thing? And the flames will never kindle on me, nor if I move in the power of God. The waters won't overcome me. I make no boast. How about you? The rivers won't overflow you, my friend.

My, He says, I love you. I've redeemed you. You have been even better than ancient Israel. You've been twice born. When you're a child of God, God has not only had command over your physical, natural circumstances.

He has not only had charge over the time element. You weren't born by an accident in 1952. God had charge over all this. Would you like to believe that? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. To rest in this great knowledge of the overruling power of God, of His prevening grace in our lives.

To rest there. Oh, the contentment. And then, to pass on into a perfect understanding of these things. We know that, Lord, Lord, we've passed into this thing by faith and by our understanding. And we're in the Spirit of all things.

The Spirit of creation. We're in the Spirit of redemption. We're in the Spirit of regeneration. We're in the Spirit of eternity. We're in the Spirit of God. We're taking our place in the eternal Spirit.

Do you see it? Once the heart comes there unto that perfect place, rest comes deeper than the untouched deeps of the lowest caverns of the earth. Calm, unreachable stillness. Amen. Now we're here. We'll turn to chapter 44.

Yet, now hear, O Jacob, my slave. That's where we started on our first night. My slave. And Israel, whom I have chosen, thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee.

Fear not, O Jacob, my slave. And thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. Jeshurun is a name which means upright. It's another name for Israel. Speaking on the moral side now. Speaking on the side of character.

Upright. Whom I have chosen. Do you see that? God wants us to understand so many things. Please turn with me into chapter 59 now. I'm sorry, 56. Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice. For my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the sabbath, the rest, from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. What a marvelous thing, beloved, when we've entered into these great truths that God has for us.

The Servant Called From the Womb

Now let's look at chapter 49. Listen, O Isles, unto me. And hearken ye people from far. The Lord hath called me from the womb. From the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name. Amen. Is that right?

Oh, it's so true. You know, God calls us. And each one of us that belongs to the great spiritual Israel of God is a called person. He has called us by our name. He says we're His. And He's called us from our mother's womb.

We are very precious to Him. And He expects this great life that He has given us to work out. Let's listen to it. He's made my mouth like a sharp sword. In the shadow of His hand hath He hid me and made me a polished shaft.

In His quiver hath He hid me and said unto me, Thou art my slave, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I've labored in vain. I've spent my strength for naught and in vain. Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God.

Now saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be His servant. Have you let the Lord form you into His servant? Isn't this the trouble with so many of us? We can't touch the will of God. We can't touch His great desires and choices way back before the world was.

We can't touch that. But there comes the time when being born of God and we enter into the great family of God that we have to see that we can touch what God does. He wants to form us into being His servant power in the earth to serve Him.

Praise the name of the Lord. One of the things I've often loved to hear my brother Peter Palmer testify about he's in the room he won't go red, he's used to me talking about him he always said I heard him said in his testimony several times he's always declared that he never had any difficulty about this life of service he knew from the moment that he was saved this is his own testimony that he was the servant of the Lord he knew it from the moment he was saved.

I've heard him say so and you see are we really prepared to let the Lord form us into being His servants? Are you? This is so great. Let's go right on shall we. You might say well surely this is a prophecy about the Lord Jesus.

Precisely other things we're going to look at are precisely the prophecies about the Lord Jesus but you see the same things that are prophesied about the Lord Jesus were the things that God wanted for Israel.

That's why you get the interchanging name and that's why the Lord say when He was on earth used a figure like this you read it in John 15. He says I am the vine the true vine. Here are the branches. Well now if you read back in your Old Testament you'll find that it was Israel that was the vine.

You can read it in the fifth chapter of this same prophecy of Isaiah Israel was the vine. Here comes a man on the stage and he says I am the vine. Oh hallelujah. That's a whole nation. That's right. And the things that Isaiah was saying were as true of Him and had to be true of Himself as they were of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Of course the Lord Jesus Christ in a greater way take this wonderful statement in Isaiah 61 where He says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. Beware of thinking He was only writing words that had no reference to Himself at all only refer to Jesus.

They refer to Isaiah. Not first Jesus preceded Isaiah like He preceded John Baptist. But they were also true of Isaiah. He was the anointed man of God. He was the great servant of the Lord. These are our privileges beloved.

And when we read in this wonderful book of God this is what God wants us to see. Jesus is not only the light of the world and the light of men but He's the light of Scripture. And unless we have the light of Jesus upon Scripture we don't understand it.

Christ as the Servant and the Light of Scripture

What a marvellous thing this is written about the Lord Jesus. You think of Him being a polished shaft. Think of Him being hidden in God's quiver. Think of Him being put upon God's bowstring. Think of Him.

Think of yourself. God's formed you to be a servant to bring Jacob again to Him. Verse 5. Though Israel be not gathered yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord. And my God shall be my strength.

And He said it is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

And how in the world do you think that God's going to be light and salvation unto the ends of the earth. If we don't go as light and salvation if it isn't us. The same thing that is said of Jesus must be said of thee friend.

It must be as true of you and I as it is true of the Lord Jesus. And it's time we all came right bang out into the light and into the open and knew God's great message to our hearts. If God does nothing else in this conference it will be a mighty eruptive thing if it dawned on all our hearts that we're nothing else but the slaves of God.

And we're to go anywhere.

Not that it's anywhere in the sense of any old where but anywhere He sends anywhere He wants uprootings from here pullings off from somewhere else moving out under the masses. And the millions of people predestined unto death by the sin of Adam no fault of their own.

We who look back and see that somehow by the mercy and grace of God were born somewhere where finally someone came and told us about Jesus.

Oh beloved.

Where someone we had no right to it none at all. God has done this marvelous thing for us and He wants you to know right from the beginning that you are His slave. Oh He says Amen. Amen. There comes a time when everybody I think comes to the point.

I can remember when I came to a point where I said what's in verse 4. I've laboured in vain. I've spent my strength for naught and in vain. Yet surely my judgement is with the Lord and my work with my God.

There comes a plain statement and there comes a sort of consolation that springs up in our mind. You know we like to say this thing. And then in comes God. He says now look I've homed you from the womb Jacob.

It's just a light thing this sort of local kind of work ministry that you've got I'm going to send you to the ends of the earth. I've made you a polished sharp to be shot off a long long distance. Amen.

Jesus Introduces Truth Through Creation

Have you ever thought about the delightsome way in which Jesus introduces truth to our heart. Let me take a statement something that you know ever so well you know they say that it was an occasion when Jesus was out for a walk with his disciples or whether he wasn't but this is quite a nice way to say it to a Sunday school class and they were walking along and they were on a nature walk.

You know they're all good biologists or biology teachers or whatever they like to call them at that stage take their children on a nature trail and they look at this. And they look at that. And Jesus said now look here.

He said you see that lily of the field. We know it was a wood anemone and it was growing. And he says now behold this lily of the field how it grows. It doesn't toil it doesn't spin and it doesn't do this and it doesn't the other.

And he says I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like this. And here are these big apostles all listening to Jesus. And then when he got them fixed on something that grew right down there at their feet and I expect they didn't wear spectacles.

But I would have to put mine on and have a look on it. And I'd get down here and I'd have a look at this lily unless I'd seen it since I was two years old with memory and sweetness. And then all of a sudden he switches my attention and he says behold the birds appear.

He says he says look at them up there. He said they don't. They don't. They don't build barns. They don't do anything. They are constantly on the move. He said now what a wonderful lesson he said. Your heavenly father feeds them.

He said now that's a marvelous lesson. But don't you big disciples you apostles overlook the thing. That's in the simple lesson. He's turned us to two things. There are those who have to take root and remain where they are.

There are those who have to go flying off. They're both right. If they're in their proper position. Some are on the move all the time. Excuse me I'll stand still. I didn't mean that. Just before the meeting Norman gave me a big hug.

He said I love you brother. And I said I love you. I wish I could have you more than I do. But you see here then is the great truth. But all you've got to be sure is that you're growing in the place where God wants you to grow.

And if you're one that's got to have roots and stop stationary. Don't try flying. I never saw a lily flying. And I never saw a bird with roots. I saw claws. They're just made that way so they can perch on a branch for a night and off.

They mustn't take roots. We say tell me the stories of Jesus. Oh I'm sorry I'm singing you know that hymn. I love to hear scenes by the wayside tales by the sea. You know tell how the spirit. Lovely children's hymn.

But didn't Jesus say to these grown up apostles. One day he said what are you arguing about here. Come here sonny. Except you're converted and become like this little child. You'll not be in the kingdom of heaven.

That's what he said. And he teaches by the childish childlike things where it's so necessary the simple plain lessons. It wasn't a sort of a wild gasp. Now what shall I talk about next. He was following through the plan of God the revelation of God for those that have eyes to see it.

Growing as God's Servants

You and I are God's servants. Blessed be the name of the Lord. If you'll put your roots down and grow you'll grow nice clothes. You'll grow them. You'll grow your spiritual clothes. You'll be beautiful and birdie.

If you'll fly around you'll grow some lovely wings. If you'll just do. If you'll just be what God wants you to be. You are his servant. Praise the name of the Lord. And you see in chapter 50 I hope your thoughts go quickly with mine.

How much I'm trying to get through tonight. I wouldn't like to say. And so in 49 where you have been born of God and formed of him into being a slave. He turns in chapter 50 and says where's the bill of your mother's divorcement.

Not talking about your mother. Now you see it's what father has made you praise God. We come into the great fatherhood. We come into the father realm. We come into the masculinity of God. The sheer look like immovability.

The determination even though it's by a cross to put you right out there. And he'll hang you up on it. And if you wriggle and scream and squirm and say I'll die. He'll say I wish you'd hurry up. You say I thought he loved me.

That is his love to you. If you see that God has mapped out for you a path of going his love sometimes will have to just force you into it. Amen. What a glorious thing then that God does. And that is why so many tragedies happen in people's lives.

Didn't you know this is why this happens. That happens. And so and so happens to people because they're in the most dangerous position on earth outside of the will of God for their lives. Christians again a great longing to be married.

So a good girl or marry an unsaved man just to be married. Or a Christian fellow or marry some attractive girl that doesn't know Christ. Their happiness may outlast their honeymoon. If they are the children of God God has the great path mapped out for them.

Hallelujah. Isn't this tremendous. Do you believe this. Oh it's so tremendous. I wish we had time to read it all he says I haven't sold you to any creditors. Your iniquities. You sold yourself. That's what you've done.

And this was the great nation that God had created for himself. Sold themselves out rather than go God's way. Tragedy, tragedy, tragedy. The stories that I could stop from preaching now and tell you all lives that have gone the wrong way though they turn to the Lord truly enough in the beginning.

The Servant's Mission to the Prisoners

Now God is going to do a big thing. And when he sends somebody out why. It's a glorious truth he says look thus saith the Lord. Verse 8 of chapter 49. In an acceptable time. Have I heard thee in a day of salvation.

Have I helped thee. I will preserve thee. Give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritage that thou mightest say to the prisoners. Go forth to them that are in darkness.

Show yourselves the lights come. They shall feed in the ways their pastures shall be in all high places. They won't hunger. They won't thirst. They won't be heat stroke or sun stroke. Nothing of that.

God will lead them by the springs of waters. He'll guide them. He'll make all his mountains away and his highways shall be exhorted. Oh hallelujah. Don't you want to go to see these miracles. That's why people don't see the miracles.