Divine Visitation — Emanuel Esh

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Greetings to all, in Jesus' name. Comforting words that soul, though hell endeavors to shake, will never, never forsake us. Praise the Lord for that. Seems like a little while since I've been here, but it's good to be back with the family of God.

I was blessed with the opening meditation by Brother Daniel. He was sharing about the disciples out there fishing and how that Jesus was on the shore and he asked them if they have any meat. They said no, and then he told them to cast their nets on the other side, and then they caught a lot of fish.

The Miraculous Catch and a Testimony of Faith

I thought about a testimony I heard of a man from, an Achenese man, who was in Indonesia. His father had come to know the Lord through listening to the radio while out on a fishing boat, and his family greatly persecuted him.

His son grew up in this persecuted home and he wasn't sure about his father's faith and all the ridicule and all those things that came upon their family. Because of it, it almost turned him bitter. The day came when he was seeking the Lord and he got in his boat and he went out there in the ocean and was desperately seeking for the Lord.

But he was troubled, and you know how those things go when you're in the middle of those things. He cried out to the Lord and he said, God, if you're real, if Jesus, if you're real, then help me catch some fish.

And it was at a time of year when no one even puts their nets out for fish. The fish just don't, they aren't even there. And he threw his net overboard and he said, Lord, you can make the fish come to my net, and they did.

And he caught a large straw of fish. And he became a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so the Lord still catches fish today. This man then, I think he lost his wife and several children in the tsunami there in Indonesia.

But since then he has gotten married again. And now some folks helped him build a house. He lives out towards the airport there. So hopefully someday we get to meet him and hear his testimony face to face.

But the Lord did meet with him there. I'd like to share a little bit this morning on, I guess out of the desire and longing of my own heart. As I reflect over 19 years of a Christian life. I think of how my wife and I, we came to know the Lord in the midst of a revival meeting.

And I think of the beautiful things that God did back there 19 years ago. And there is such a longing in my heart for that kind of revival again. And there is a longing in my heart for a divine visitation from God.

Divine Visitations in the Old Testament

And so this kind of comes out of my desire, my heart there. I'd like to share on divine visitations from the Lord. But in studying and looking at the Bible and looking at the times when God did visit His people.

I just meditated and thought about the Old Testament and how that under the Old Covenant, under the Old Testament when most of the time it seems when God visited His people. He visited them with judgment and destruction.

Whereas in the New Testament the visitation of God was different. So I want to just walk through some of those things and see what God has for us in light of some of those things there. In the Old Testament we can begin with Adam and Eve and after they sinned.

God did visit Adam and Eve there and He pronounced judgment upon them. But in the midst of that pronouncing of judgment He also pronounced a blessing. And said that the deliverer will come. There will be a deliverance.

And so there was hope in the midst of that and as I study the visitation of God. When God visits His people, when He visited them in the Old Testament He would bring judgment upon them many times. But in the midst of that there was almost always a deliverance likewise.

But in order for there to be a deliverance there also must be a judgment. It's kind of the conclusion I've come to. I think of the days of Noah when God looked upon the face of the earth. And He saw that mankind was totally corrupted and had gone their own way.

And the Lord said that He was sorry that He made man. It grieved God in His heart and He repented of making man. He was so grieved at the condition of the souls of men that He repented of making man. And He grieved them in His heart.

He was sorry that He had made man. And at that point it seemed like God may have looked upon the animals and so forth. And the rest of creation, how the rest of creation it still flowed somewhat more in the sense of what God had made them to do.

But as far as man was concerned, man so corrupted himself that it grieved God in His heart that He had made man. And God decided to bring judgment upon mankind. He did that through the flood of waters.

God sent a flood there but in the midst of that judgment where He judged and condemned everyone on the earth except Adam and his family. In the midst of that judgment God delivered Noah and his family.

And that's the picture I see continually if we would just walk through some of the other Old Testament examples of when God visited His people. When God came down, what did He do? I think of what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Again God was looking upon the face of the earth and He saw a people were so wicked that He deemed them unworthy of deliverance, unworthy of salvation. And He brought such a condemnation and overthrew them with brimstone and fire in Sodom and Gomorrah.

But out of that He delivered Lot and his two daughters. Also think of how God when He delivered Israel out of Egypt. He brought destruction and judgment upon the enemies of Israel. He brought destruction upon the people.

He overthrew them with the ten plagues there in Egypt until Egypt was decimated. If you ever stop to imagine as you read through Exodus what that country must have looked like at the time when Israel came out.

You would certainly think there was total devastation there. The trees were bare. The insects had stripped them of everything and the hail and the lightning had run across the ground and had burned up things.

And perhaps there were still piles of dead frogs and there were dead animals. It was total destruction you might say. In the midst of that God delivered His people. He brought them out. Going through the Red Sea again God saved His people but He brought destruction upon the enemies of His children.

I think of the nations in Canaan and how the Lord again took Israel into the land of Canaan. Why did God destroy the people of the land of Canaan? Why had God condemned them to destruction? It seems like it was because of their sin.

Because of their wickedness. And that's the way that God dealt with sin in the Old Testament. He brought destruction upon the people. The people who lived in gross darkness. The people who practiced gross sin.

God brought destruction upon them. But if there were people in the midst of those that were godly and that tried to follow Him. Those He delivered and He brought them out. Gideon. Think of how Gideon was delivered with 300 people.

And many other of the leaders there and judges. You could look at those likewise. I thought of Elijah on Mount Carmel. Again God brought a judgment upon the nation of Israel. And upon those 400 priests of Baal.

But He delivered Elijah there. I thought of the destruction of Jerusalem. Again, now it's God's very own people. Who have now lived in sin so gross and so long. In such depth of immorality and idolatry that God finally.

They crossed the mark and God brought destruction again. God visited them. And every time that God would come down and visit His people. Or how should I say? These are visitations of God. This is the way that God was visiting the people in the Old Testament.

By bringing destruction upon the people. Think of how He dealt with Haman there in the book of Esther. Daniel in the lion's den. And God visited His people over and over again. And when God visited His people.

He dealt hardly with sin. He dealt hard with sin. But He delivered His people out of it. Over and over we can see that. Divine visitation. That's the Old Testament. There's many others we could look at there in the Old Testament.

The New Testament Visitation in Christ

But I want to look at the New Testament. Now of what happened when God came to visit His people in the New Testament. It was very, very different. Very, very different. The visitation of God in the New Testament was not that of the Old Testament way.

I want to look at that a little bit. In Luke chapter 1. Here we have the beginning of the Gospel. And the beginning of the visitation of the Lord in the New Testament. We have had, if you look in history here.

It's about 400 years since Israel has returned to Jerusalem. Or since the Old Testament prophet Malachi last spoke. So there was about 400 years of no prophets in Israel. It was a time of silence. It's called the 400 silent years.

When Israel or God's people basically did not hear from God. And there was basically no visitation. And Israel was longing for a visitation from God. As the nation of Israel continued to go backwards and down and become more religious.

And other nations ruled over them. And at the time of this the Romans were ruling over them. And Israel was not a nation on its own. But the people were longing for something. They were longing for a deeper reality.

They were longing for God to come. And to meet with His people. There was a longing for a visitation. They were waiting for God to meet with them. Beginning in Luke chapter 1. We have the story of how God visited His people.

This is the beginning of the visitation of God Himself. We know how that in Hebrew it says that in times past God spoke to His people by the prophets. But in this time now He spoke to them by His Son.

And this is what we have the beginning of the visitation. God Himself has now come down and is going to visit His people in actual human form. Let's start reading verse 5 in Luke chapter 1. There was in the days of Herod the king of Judea.

A certain priest named Zacharias of the course Abiah and his wife was one of the daughters of Aaron. Her name was Elizabeth. They were both righteous before God. Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

They had no child. Because Elizabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years. And it came to pass that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course. According to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him he was troubled and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said unto him fear not Zacharias for thy prayer is heard and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shall call his name John. And thou shall have joy and gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children. And the disobedient to the wisdom of the just and to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

And Zacharias said to the angel whereby shall I know this for I am an old man and my wife well stricken in years. Zacharias had a divine visitation from the Lord. And these are the words that were given to him.

You are going to have a son. Your wife is going to have a son and this son is going to be a great man. He's going to turn the hearts of the people to the Lord. He's going to prepare the way for the Lord Jesus to come.

Zacharias didn't believe. Zacharias didn't understand. Even though this was an angel standing in front of him. I wonder what you would do if an angel of the Lord would come and stand in front of you and would give you instructions and directions.

Would you believe or would you still be in unbelief? Zacharias said how should I know this? And the angel answered and said to him I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and am sent to speak unto thee and to show thee these glad tidings.

And behold thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed because thou believest not my words which shall be fulfilled in their season. Now he was smitten dumb and when he came out of the temple he could no longer talk.

And the people wondered why he was in there so long. And when he came out he had to make signs and wonders to them because he could no longer speak. But his wife she did conceive and she conceived and hid herself five months it says.

Then in verse 26 we have another divine visitation. God is beginning to visit his people. In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth. To a virgin espoused a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary.

And the angel came in unto her and said hail thou that art highly favored. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

The angel said to her fear not Mary for thou has found favor with God. And behold thou shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest.

And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel how shall this be seeing I know not a man.

And the angel answered and said unto her the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the son of God.

And behold thy cousin Elizabeth she has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her who was called barren for with God nothing shall be impossible. Now we have Mary's response.

Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Then we have Mary meeting going to meet Elizabeth there and how they met together. Let's read what Mary says in verse 46.

She's speaking prophetically here. And Mary said my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden. For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

For he that is mighty has done to me great things and holy is his name. She's testifying of what has happened in her heart. You see when there is a divine visitation by the by the Lord then the people begin to speak forth.

The people begin to testify. People's lives are changed when there is a divine visitation. Lives are totally changed. They begin to speak forth the mind and will of Christ. They begin to preach the word.

Mary is speaking forth the things that God has done in her. Verse 49. For he that is mighty has done to me great things and holy is his name. Does anyone else here have a testimony like that? Has he done great things for you and holy is his name?

Have you had a divine visitation? Where you met the Lord Jesus Christ. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. I continue to be amazed at what happens when the Lord meets someone and how that their understanding, the spiritual understanding does open up wide.

And that's exactly what I see happen to Mary here. She's explaining what she's seeing. She's prophetically prophesying. She's saying the things that God has done in her heart. And she begins to say great and mighty things.

His mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. That's true. He has showed strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. He has put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree.

He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent empty away. He has hope in his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy. As he speak to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.

Wonderful words. And Mary abode with her about three months and returned to her own house. About the time of Elizabeth's deliverance or delivery for the baby. Now Elizabeth's full time came that she should be delivered and she brought forth a son.

I don't know why Mary didn't stay for this. But she went home. I guess the Lord had it all. It was all planned out. But Mary left before the baby was born evidently. And her neighbors. Elizabeth's time came and she brought forth a son.

Her neighbors and cousins heard how the Lord has showed great mercy upon her. And they rejoiced with her. And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

They realized that Zacharias still was not talking. He wasn't speaking yet. Why not? The baby was born. Wasn't it all fulfilled? Not quite. The angel said thou shalt be dumb until this all comes to pass.

So what hasn't come to pass yet? They had not yet named the child specifically. It was told of him that he would thou shalt call his name John. So until he named him John it wasn't all fulfilled yet. And he couldn't speak yet.

They named him Zacharias after his father. His mother answered and said not so. But he shall be called John. And they said unto her. There is none of thy kindred that is called by thy name. By this name.

And they made signs to his father how he would have him called. Can you imagine the emotion at this time in this family? The emotions are running high. Zacharias is there and he calls for a writing table.

He wrote saying his name is John. And they all marveled. And then his mouth was opened up immediately. His tongue was loosed. And he spake and praised God. This happens when, may I say to everyone who has a divine encounter with the Lord.

Everyone who is visited of God. His mouth is opened up. His tongue becomes loosed. And he begins to speak. And he begins to praise God. This is what Zacharias did. Notice the words that he said. Reading verse 65.

And fear came on all that dwelled around about them. And all these things were noise abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea. What do you suppose people were saying? What do you think was noise across the hill country of Judea?

Do you think they just talked about this little boy that was born? And how that his father was dumb? Or do you suppose they began to talk about the visitation of the Lord? Do you think the people realized that God was visiting his people?

They knew something unusual was happening. They knew something was going on. What did they say? All that heard them laid them up in their hearts saying, Hmm, what kind of a child is this going to be? What manner of child shall this be?

And the hand of the Lord was with him. That would be pretty interesting, wouldn't it? What do you think we would do if in amongst one of our families there was this kind of divine visitation over the birth of a child?

What do you think we would do? Don't you think you'd hide it in your heart and you'd just wonder? And you would look. You'd go visit their family. You'd look at that little baby. What's it going to be like?

You know that God has specifically visited this family. Listen to what Zacharias says. His father Zacharias in verse 67 was filled with the Holy Ghost. Interesting words there. We notice that Mary was filled with the Holy Ghost.

We notice that Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost and he spake, Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost and he spake, prophesied saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

That's the purpose of a visitation from God, is a redemption. God doesn't just want to come and visit us but he comes with a purpose of redeeming us. Looking back to when I was first saved, I remember that.

When the Lord visited me and I saw my need of a redeemer. That's the purpose of God's visitation, is redemption for his people. He hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.

Notice this is a prophetic utterance. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began. That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us.

He was realizing redemption. These words that he spoke, yes, Israel was looking for a redeemer to redeem them and save them out of the hand of the Romans but this goes a lot deeper than this. When there is a divine visitation from the Lord each one of us that is visited like this will realize that yes, we have been delivered out of the hand of our enemies.

We will recognize that the salvation of the Lord it will open up a whole new dimension to us. There will be a divine kingdom that we suddenly see that we never saw before. That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us.

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. Once again, Zacharias in this divine visitation realized the salvation that had been promised for many, many years was becoming a reality.

It became a reality, I believe, in his own heart and life. It was very true, it was very clear. Suddenly the Old Testament prophets were becoming alive in his mind. He began to prophesy of these great and wonderful things.

These things are happening now. He is performing it now. It is already done. We already have this horn of salvation. It is already complete in Zacharias' mind. The oath which he swore to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and in righteousness before him all the days of our life.

You see, he saw a clear picture of the power of God. He saw a clear picture of salvation by faith. He was visited by the Lord Jesus Christ. Thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the highest. For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge.

Look at this. Son, my son, he is holding his baby. You shall be called the prophet of the highest. For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways and to give knowledge to his people.

To give knowledge of what? Salvation. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by remission of their sins. Very, very clear picture. Oh, yes. To give knowledge of salvation. To give a full assurance of salvation.

How? Through redemption. Through repentance. By the remission of their sins. And this is how salvation comes. If you're here today and you still are not saved, it is because there is sin in the way. Sin stands in the way of redemption.

Sin stands in the way of salvation. Sin stands in the way of eternal security. May I say, of the assurance of salvation. Excuse me there. Sin stands in the way of holiness and righteousness. But this son, this child, this little boy is going to be giving knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of sins.

If you have not yet experienced this kind of salvation, there needs to be repentance from sin. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us. Present tense. Zacharias had had a visitation from the day spring on high.

Who was the day spring on high? It was his Lord. It was his master. It was God. This day spring from on high hath visited us. Has this day spring visited you? Yes. Probably most of us can think back to a time, right?

I remember 10 years ago. I remember 19 years ago. I remember when I was 18 years old or whatever it may be. Yes, I remember the day spring visited us. But that's back there, isn't it? How long it should be that the day spring would visit us again.

And again. Through the tender mercies of our God. Yes, God's tender mercy. Because of God's tender mercy, the day spring visits us. Verse 79. The purpose of that visitation is to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Oh, that would come fresh anew in my life and heart. I am longing for a fresh visitation from the day spring on high. To give light, new light in my own heart and life. To dispel all the darkness, the shadows of death and to guide my feet in the way of peace.

And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the desert to the day of his showing unto Israel. The New Testament visitations of the Lord are very different than the Old Testament, are they not?

Redemption Rather Than Condemnation

And how is that? It is because does that mean that God no longer needs to look at judging sin? Does that mean that God just simply looks the other way anymore? No, that's not the case. But God has laid upon Him our iniquities.

He bears the sin of many. You see, God has already done that. It was already accomplished. Even by this time, it was already accomplished, already written. It's already accomplished, but in time it was not yet done.

But in the spiritual realm, it's as though it was done. And to those who walk by faith, it's reality. And that's why at this time, God's visitation to His people could be without judgment upon the people themselves.

I think of what Jesus said in John 3, verse 17. He says that for God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Jesus Christ came not to bring judgment.

He came not to bring condemnation upon people. But He came to bring redemption. He came to bring salvation. He came to forgive us our sins. He came to draw us to the Father. And He came by His own life and by His own death.

He took upon Himself our sins, our judgment. He was judged for our sins. He died for our iniquities. And because of that, we can come into the New Testament era. We can come under the New Covenant. And under that New Covenant, there is no judgment at this time, may I say, from the Lord.

But He comes and He delivers us out of that mire clay. I was so blessed with one of the family version songs at the missions conference about the first Thursday evening. How many of you were there and heard that family version song?

I was so excited just to hear how that this man was found himself in a deep pit. And here comes something. He saw a shadow fall across the top of the pit. And there was Buddha. And Buddha refused to help him out of the pit.

And there was others who came in. And he asked that this man's crying out for help. He's crying out for deliverance. But there's no deliverance given until another shadow fell across the top of the pit.

And there was Jesus. And the man cried out for help. And Jesus did that which Buddha and Confucius and other false religions won't do. He jumped down there beside the man in the pit and put his arms around him and lifted him out of the mire clay.

That's what Jesus does. He takes upon Himself our sin. He took upon Himself our iniquities. Therefore, under the New Covenant, when God visits His people, He doesn't necessarily bring divine judgment as in the Old Testament.

Does that mean that there's no more judgment these days? I believe God still brings judgment through natural calamities and so forth. Don't you think 9 -1 -1 was a sense of judgment on the U .S.? Don't you think Hurricane Katrina was a sense of judgment?

Don't you think the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was a sense of judgment? I believe it was. But God's people, we can come to God without condemnation. We can come to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ knowing that He took upon Himself our sin.

And now today, when God visits His people today, what happens? It's not fire and brimstone like Sodom and Gomorrah. But there is what is called conviction. If God comes to visit us, conviction settles down upon the hearts of everyone around.

People begin to fall on their faces and repent and cry out for mercy in a divine visitation. How I long for that kind of divine visitation. Jesus Himself was born. God incarnate. He was the very present divine visitation from God.

God in the flesh. And there He lived and walked on the face of the earth for 30 plus years. 33 years or so. And people saw in Him. What they saw in Him, they saw the Father. Those with eyes to see beheld Jesus.

And they saw God incarnate. But there was people who did not believe. They didn't see the same thing as others did. What this does mean is that we have the wonderful opportunity to judge ourselves beforehand.

We can go. We can come to the Lord. And when the Lord comes to meet with us, He deals with our sin. He shows us our sinfulness. And then we through repentance and faith and acknowledging and confession of our sin, yes, opening up our mouth and saying, this is what I have done.

This is how I have sinned. We can do that. And then, God by His Spirit, God takes the blood of Christ, and the blood cleanses us from all sin. Like it says in 1 John, the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.

Personal Encounters With Jesus

But I long for divine visitation from God, don't you? There's people, there's some of you here that have never been, have never experienced a divine visitation from God. Either personally or as a church.

And I would long that God would visit His church, visit His people. I believe that we desperately need a revival. I believe we desperately need a divine visitation from the Lord as a body. I know that I desperately need it.

I think of how there was such a longing in the hearts of Zachariah and other Jewish faithful believers. A longing for God to come. A longing for something from the Lord. I believe that if there's a deep longing in our hearts, God will lead us to that place where He can visit us.

Many people in Jesus' day, they had a personal encounter with Him. They met Him personally. I think of the many stories in the New Testament. Jesus met the woman at the well. That was a divine visitation for her.

A divine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. With the Lord of glory. She met Him. And Jesus talked with her. And she was set free from her sin. She was delivered. And that's what happens when you meet Jesus.

There is a deliverance from sin. There's a new life that comes in. The man that was born blind, he met Jesus. His eyes were open. Not only were his physical eyes open, his eyes were open spiritually. And that's what happens when we meet Jesus.

There is a spiritual darkness. There's a spiritual blindness over the eyes of all who have not yet been born in the Spirit of God. There's a spiritual darkness. And you don't even realize it. But when you have a divine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, those blinders are taken off.

Like Saul on the road to Damascus. Some things actually fell off his eyes. After Ananias prayed for him. And his eyes were open. And what did he do? He prophesied. He spake. And he began to preach the Word of God with zeal.

I think of Zacchaeus. Trying to see Jesus. Climbing up in a tree. What did Jesus say? Come down, Zacchaeus. Today I'm going to meet in your house. And Zacchaeus took him home. And there he supped with Him.

Amen. The demon-possessed. The Guderian. Mary Magdalene who had seven devils cast out of her. She met Jesus. She met Him. And she could testify of meeting Him. The woman caught in adultery. The woman at the well.

The woman with years of disease. All she needed to do was just to touch Him. His disciples. They walked with Him. They knew this is the Lord. They knew this was Jesus Christ. They knew He was the Christ.

The Messiah. What about the Pharisees? The religious ones? They saw the same man. But they did not have a divine encounter with Him. And you can... It's an amazing thing. It's not by belonging to some certain church.

Or so that you are saved anymore. No, it's individually. And while the whole crowd may see... If the whole crowd could see Jesus. Yet some saw much more than others did. And that's still that way today.