HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS!

"For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour." -Isaiah 63:8 [KJV]

Oh what a tenderness of expression is contained in these words! Jesus not only takes His people into relationship with Him, but undertakes for their faithfulness. In the birth of God's everlasting purpose, this was done from everlasting; so that in one and the same moment, we are His people, His children, His brethren, His wife, His redeemed, His fair one, made comely in His comeliness, and in His blood cleansed, and in His righteousness justified before God. And observe, my soul, the grounds of this relationship: surely, He saith, they are My people. Not only as God's workmanship and property, but as His purchase. Not only in first giving them being, but in giving them new being in Christ Jesus.  

The Lord hath taken them into covenant with Him in Christ, and granted them a charter of grace and salvation in Jesus. Sweet and precious thought. God the Father, whose right they are by creation, hath given them to His Son. And Jesus hath made them His, both by His own purchase, and the conquests of His grace therefore He hath an interest in them, and in all that concerns them. Surely, saith Jesus, They are My people, My jewels, My treasure, My hidden one.  

And observe further, how He speaks for them as well as of them they will not lie. How is this? Why, they are children of the covenant. And because He hath undertaken for them, therefore He was their Saviour. Oh the preciousness of such a Saviour, to every circumstance, to every state, in every way, and upon every occasion in life, in death, in time, and to all eternity. Jesus, Thou art indeed a Saviour, Thou art truly called Jesus, for Thou hast saved, and Thou wilt save, Thy people from their sins. 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

December 9th, THE POOR MAN'S MORNING PORTION 


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