Our Lord Jesus Christ promises to protect His people and save His church from all our foes. He is our hiding place from the wind, our covert in the storm. He is all our righteousness and promises to supply peace, quietness and assurance for ever.

Our Lord Jesus Christ promises to protect His people and save His church from all our foes. He is our hiding place from the wind, our covert in the storm. He is all our righteousness and promises to supply peace, quietness and assurance for ever.

Our Lord Jesus Christ fought for His people's salvation on the cross. He won the victory and He has given it to us. Our Saviour told Isaiah, descending He will fight, defending He will deliver, passing over He will preserve. All this He has done and continues to do. Our Husband is a man of war as well as our Prince of Peace.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the source of all salvation. Some rest in their faith, others in their works, some in their church, some in their minister’s praise. Only by resting in the completed work of Christ on the cross can a weary soul find rest. Only in our Saviour is there grounds for quietness of spirit and confidence of heart.

Empty religion that tries to approach God with sacrifices and worship God with the lips but not the heart is an offence to Him. Only true spiritual worship founded upon the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and offered spiritually by faith is acceptable to God. Isaiah comforts the Lord's people by pointing them to the Redeemer, reassuring them about God's purpose to save and the promise that Christ's church shall be taught the doctrine of grace.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Sure Foundation upon whom His people are safe and secure for all eternity. He is our Tried Stone, always dependable and trustworthy. He is our Precious Corner Stone upon whom His church stands and His people rest secure.

Our Lord Jesus Christ everlastingly guards His people whom He calls His vineyard. He grafts them into Himself, the True Vine, that they might be fruitful through all the earth. He gathers them to Himself that they might be numbered in His church and arrayed in glory as His Bride.

Isaiah looked forward with eager hope to the gospel day in which we live. He was blessed to see the day of the Lord and the success of the Saviour as He opened wide the gates of the church and brought many ‘sons unto glory’. Isaiah saw the blessings of imputed righteousness, peace with God, enlargement of the church, regeneration and full gospel blessing. What comforted Isaiah are the privileges we enjoy.

The mountain of the Lord is His church. God’s elect people are redeemed by Christ’s blood, called in grace by the Holy Ghost and protected in the palm of The Father’s hand. This is Mt Zion where God reigns in the midst of His people. Isaiah gives us three promises from the Lord concerning what He shall do ‘in this mountain’. In God’s church He will feed His people with gospel fare, unveil their eyes to heavenly truth and destroy their enemies that they be no longer troubled.

Our sovereign and holy God is the judge who comes in righteousness to turn this world upside down. Yet, the Lord’s people are safeguarded and protected by the Saviour Himself who visits His own children with mercy, comfort and strength in their trials in this world.

Our Lord Jesus Christ visited the city of Tyre to bless its inhabitants with the gospel. He visits His people still to bring mercy and grace. When the Lord visits His people with transforming grace they are transformed and filled with new passions, new purpose and new life in Christ. The people of Tyre made their living from sea-trade but when the Lord visited Tyre what had once supported the worship of Baal was now directed to the glory of God and preaching of the gospel.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is a ‘nail in a sure place’. The souls of all God’s elect hang upon the person and work of the blessed Saviour Jesus Christ within the covenant of purposes of God. He is all our salvation and He is all our desire. On the cross the Saviour hung between heaven and earth. There all our sin was laid on Him and carried by Him.

Many believers struggle with personal assurance but the scriptures tell us full assurance is God’s gift to those who see the efficacy of Christ’s sacrifice, receive the Holy Spirit’s ministry to our hearts and bodies, and understand God’s faithfulness. Our assurance is not based upon our feelings but upon God’s promises and He is dependably faithful and true.

Our Lord Jesus Christ promised His people that the Father's pleasure was to give them the kingdom of glory. Daniel, too, knew that the Saints would possess the kingdom of the Son of Man. God gives grace and glory to His people. Grace in salvation and glory in His everlasting kingdom. Those to whom He gives grace He will certainly preserve and bring into glory.

Quick means alive and Paul tells the Lord's people they have been made alive by the power of God when they were dead in their sins. Salvation is a sovereign work of God and quickening brings a new creation, spiritual occupation and life-long transformation. It begins a good work and God's mercies are new every morning.

The Lord Jesus Christ is a suitable Saviour for sinners like us. His perfect life and willing death was crowned by resurrection and glory. He is also a selective Saviour for He bought with His death and brought to salvation all those placed into His hand by elective decree. He is also a successful Saviour; all for whom He died are justified, redeemed, reconciled and heirs of glory by the merits of His precious blood.

The Biblical doctrine of unconditional election to salvation is denied and misrepresented by many but it is the foundation of God's covenant purposes of grace and truth. Believers rejoice to know that their great God and loving Saviour has accomplished and supplied a full, free and complete salvation according to His good will and sovereign purpose.

If we are to have a proper estimation of our condition as sinners before God we ought to hear what God says about it. The verdict is not good. We are fallen, contrary and rebellious people opposed to God. It takes a work of grace to make the change our hearts and that work is sovereignly God’s alone.

Isaiah served God as a prophet and as a watchman. Preachers are watchmen, too. They watch for danger from without the church and trouble from within. Let every watchman answer the earnest enquiry, ‘Watchman, what of the night?’ Let every believer ask that question with humble honesty. Let us all remember the principal Watchman over our souls is our Saviour Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for sinners like us. Isaiah warned his age not to rely upon the strength of flesh and spiritually all believers must learn the same lesson both for salvation and in their pilgrim journey. The Lord teaches us to trust not in our own abilities but in Him.