That Day in Christ! — Phil Beach Jr.

Isaiah 12 and the Prophetic Call to Encounter Christ

Isaiah chapter 12 is a prophetic utterance describing this very event. Isaiah chapter 12 is a prophetic utterance describing the very event tonight that's occurring in our midst. Friends, this call is going forth throughout the land.

The Holy Spirit’s Call to Submission

The searchlight of God's Spirit is going to every door, house of every believer. And as you become acquainted with the Holy Spirit, you will discover immediately that God, the Holy Spirit, is a perfect gentleman and he respects our wishes.

It is his divine job to search out every church, to go beyond every denominational barrier, every label that men have put upon themselves, and to knock at the heart's door of every believer and offer submission.

Believers respond. Some don't. Jesus gives many reasons why some don't. Things preoccupy. Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit is preparing a people who, as one minister has said, will take the Jesus plunge.

You know the iced tea plunge? Well, there's a people who's going to take the Jesus plunge. Isaiah chapter 12. In that day, and of course this, once again, is a scripture that can be referred to as the law of double reference.

The Law of Double Reference in Prophecy

Many scriptures throughout the Old Testament. For example, I believe it's in the book of Hosea, the Bible says that God called his child, his son, out of Egypt. Now, the scriptures in the New Testament use that scripture as a fulfillment of when God called Jesus out of Egypt to go to the city of Jerusalem, after he had gone there to take refuge.

So it referred prophetically to Christ, but it also referred to the nation of Israel, because the nation of Israel went into Egypt, and God called them out of Egypt land under the leadership of Moses.

So that scripture would be called what Bible scholars, I guess that's what you call them, would refer to as the law of double reference. That day can refer to the future, when Israel will know her king, but it also refers throughout the ages to any man that ever beheld the king.

In that day, any day, any moment a soul catches a glimpse of the Savior and has a life-transforming experience, this scripture is fulfilled. So this day, spiritually, is being fulfilled every day. But there's a moment in time when it will be fulfilled also.

Salvation Through Calvary

In that day you will say, I praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away. How many have said that? Friends, the moment we believe on Him, the Bible says God's anger, He's angry at the sinner all the day long.

That's what the Bible says. But God took out all His anger on Calvary. He took out every bit of His anger on Calvary. So when a sinner realizes God's angry with him, then he goes to Calvary and sees God took out all His anger on Jesus.

And that's why when we believe on Jesus, God is not angry with us anymore. I praise you, O Lord, although you were angry with me and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid.

The Lord, the Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. Now notice verse 3. I guess because it was so hot today, I got on the subject of water. But this is what we seem to be on today, water, tonight.

Drawing Joy from the Wells of Salvation

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isn't that what the woman asked Jesus? How, how are you going to get water from this well? You don't have anything. How do you have salvation?

Jesus said, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, they shall be filled. Then He went on to say, ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened.

To draw water out of the well of salvation is to place your faith and trust in what Jesus Christ did for you. And then through faith you ask and keep asking. Seek and keep seeking. Knock and keep knocking.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say, can you see what's happening? The day that the Lord wants to reveal and teach us to let in. It is not a day such as Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Friday or Saturday that the Scriptures are speaking of.

Sing to the Lord, for He hath songs of joy, and praise shall be instead. Be filled with the Spirit. Songs, hymns, spirits of songs, sing and make mellow. Shout out the day for Christ Himself. In that day there is peace evermore.

There is victory. So what would be the chief job of the Old Testament? There's no songs of rejoicing. There's no shout. There's no name that's to be known. They'll all be for joy. For great is the Holy One of Israel.

Jesus Christ and the Rest Promised in Hebrews

And in chapter 3, Hebrews. Now remember, we began by speaking about water. Living water. Then we proceeded to show you that there's a cry in the Bible. The Word of God is crying. The Holy Spirit is crying for us to come to the water.

Then we showed you how there is a certain day in the Scriptures. This day, whether it's a futuristic realism, this day. Spiritually, the things that, you know, the Bible speaks of in Isaiah 65. That in that day there is none other than the Lord.

We share in the heavenly call. Fix your faults on Jesus. Whoever read the book of Hebrews was consumed with Jesus. Remember Hebrews chapter 12? He says, therefore, looking on Hebrews chapter 3, he's saying, fix your faults upon Jesus.

Boy, he really brought the attention of the people to Jesus. It got like that. Fix your faults upon Jesus, the Apostle on high, praise whom we confess. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's.

Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses. Just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house. Testifying to what will be said in the future. But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house. If we hold on to our courage and hope of which we boast.

Hearing the Holy Spirit Today

Now here is the cry of the Holy Spirit. So as the Holy Spirit says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. As you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert. When your fathers tested and tried me and for 40 years saw what I did.

That is why I was angry with that generation. And I said, their hearts are always going astray. And they have not known my ways. So I declare or move in my anger. They shall never enter my house. Referring to something much greater than the people of God entering into a certain day.

The rest here was the rest for their souls. Now what did Jesus say? Matthew chapter 12. Come unto me all you who are weary. And I will give rest for our soul. Let's read on here. See to it, brothers, that none of you have a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

But encourage one another daily as long as it is called today. So that none of you may be harmed by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ. If we hold firmly to the end. The confidence which we have at first.

That today, if you hear his voice, do not harm your hearts as you did in the rebellion. Who were they who murdered and rebelled? Were they not all that Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for 40 years?

Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to you did God swear that they would not enter his breast, if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter because of their unbelief.

Unbelief and the Daily Struggle of Faith

Therefore, unbelief is a great, great blessing to us. Arrest a sinner. But unbelief will also prevent a saint from discovering possibility to provide their finances if they run short. So see, the struggle with unbelief is not just overcome.

When we get saved, we say, well, praise God, I'm a Christian now. Unbelief refers to the sinner. No, unbelief is a daily struggle. Faith, the heart of faith, that enters salvation and then possesses it and allows Christ to fool the human.

And then it's never unbelief and never going to work. This is so key revelation. We'll see that as we do. A Sabbath rest for the people of God. Therefore, chapter 4, verse 1. Therefore, since the promise of ending his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did. But the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard it did not combine it with faith. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said.

So I declare on oath in my anger, they shall never enter my rest. And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words. And on the seventh day, God rested from all his work.

And again, in the passage above, he says, they shall never enter my rest. It still remains that some will enter the rest. Those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in because of their disobedience.

Therefore, God again set a certain day, calling it today. Paul referred to this day when he said, now is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day. You might say, well, when is that day?

The day of salvation and the day of victory is whenever a person hears and is able to receive. That's the day, that's the time. Paul said, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Entering God’s Rest by Faith

Now listen here, let's go on here now. Therefore, God set a certain day, calling it today, when a long time letter he spoke through David, as was said before. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains then a sabbath rest for the people of God. Anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own Word.

Entering into God's rest is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and continue in Him. Continuing in Him, then what happens? Just as God did from His, we cease from our own words. We cease from our own struggles.

We enter in to the very life and provision of Christ Himself. And He becomes the author and the perfecter of everything pertaining to us in that day. Now listen to this, verse number 11. Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest.

Now the King James says, let us therefore labor that we might enter into rest. So it sounds like a contradiction of terms, but it's not. The labor is to believe. As Jesus said, after He was asked the question, what must we do to work the works of God?

Jesus said, these are the works of God that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. And by believing, you will have life. So the work is to believe. Now let me tell you something. When you get into the spiritual battle, you're going to find out that it's work to believe.

Persevering in Faith Through Spiritual Battle

It is work to believe, friends. I don't have time to believe. But I'll take it over. I'm going to continue to believe and persevere. Because when the enemy comes, you know how easy it is to get in a little rut.

Because as soon as that faith and that belief is somehow calloused through the subtlety of Satan, what does that do? We lose access into that glorious day where Christ is, and we no longer experience that victory and that joy.

But it becomes a battle that we ourselves fight. One woman described it, the sunshine of that day dimmed to my eyes, and the coldness of this cave enveloped. The sunshine of that day who dimmed to my eyes, and the coldness of the cave.

She was describing an experience that she had. Having received the Lord, she was seduced, and she was deceived. And she drifted from the Lord and got off into something. And she said, the sunshine of that day who dimmed to my eyes, and that cold cave got a hold of her soul.

So important. And I'll tell you, the only place where you can believe is in His presence. See, it's by His presence that you have the power to believe. It's by His very life that you can believe. He is our very life.

Living in Christ and Sharing His Victory

This is what Satan so fights to keep us out. This truth. Because this truth will change you. And you'll change others. You'll change others. You can free other people by exemplifying the rest. Being in Christ.

Did you ever see someone who's in the rest? And you'll just get around it, go crazy. It's like, wow, it's so simple. This is what the Lord wants. The devil is such a liar. His kingdom is being shaken, people.

His kingdom is being shaken. And begin to share in the power of that day. The power. Go forth. It's going to happen. Enter that rest. We're here at my priesthood with 10 spiritual disciplines in 1 Peter.

Making Every Effort and Hearing the Word of God

Make every effort. Curb your mouth. Be sober, see. Make every effort. Do everything within the power of God's grace to keep yourself in the posture of believing God. In the posture of fellowshipping with God.

In the posture of the springs of living water. In that posture. Then faith and belief. So that no one disobeys. Then of course, verses 12 and 13. For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword.

It penetrates even to divine soul and spirit. Joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare.

But for the eyes of Him to whom we must give. To anyone who believes. But to enter in by faith. Possess. Experiential. When it's time. It's the cry of the bride. Notice. Years ago. A person. Had a real close relationship with God.

Coming to Christ for Living Water

So this man decided he was going to tempt. Well, almost tempt God. He's going to say. Well, I'm going to ask this person a question. About a certain area in my life. See what the person says. Thinking that this person would come and tell me.

Exactly what to do. And said. Thus, thus, and thus. And surprisingly. The spiritual person looked at this guy and said. Sir. Come to me. And ask me. It is the Lord's work for us. To learn. That we can go to Him.

Sit at His feet. And when His feet. Such as I. Severe attack. By the way of God. And by your own flesh. Because such a place. Is the ultimate place. Where the Savior. Leads you and guides you. It's the water.

Jesus said. Only His water. Can quench your thirsting soul. Your thirsting spirit. Only His water. Can lead you and guide you. And meet your deepest needs. There's a call of the spirit. To drink His water.

The Day Fulfilled in Christ

Thirdly, there's a day. That the scripture speaks of. A day in which there is joy. There's singing. There's victory. There's shoutings. And fourthly. That day. Is fulfilled. In Christ. Whoever enters by faith.

In Christ. And continues. In Christ. By faith. In Him. Out of the water. And we end up with Him. And access to the water. Is through Him. And we come to Him by faith. And believe in Him. And we keep faith.

And we continue to believe. At His feet. Looking unto Jesus. Gazing to Him. Our faith continues. The word of God becomes a book of life. A trial of your life. Through every dark path. It's continuing.

It's coalescing. I'm sure girl. I took a second look. Before I drank my water. There's a water flowing. Protein. This life will feed that.