Devotion 811

"Look To The Rock Where You Were Hewn"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 51

Every man, woman, boy, or girl is hewn from one Rock. That Rock is God. Every man or woman is a light from God. That's the image of God in the man, the first Adam.
In the first Adam, or the first seed, was every subsequent seed. Every body on Earth was in this first Adam or first blood seed. When the original seed is blessed, all the seeds in him are blessed. When the original seed is cursed, all the seeds in him are cursed. God blessed Abraham, and Abraham's seed were blessed.

Isaiah writes.

Let's read.

Isaiah 51:1 "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."

Any man or woman born again is hewn from the side of the Rock. The Rock is Jesus Christ.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:2 "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."

He called Abraham alone and blessed him. When Abraham was blessed, every seed in the loins of Abraham was blessed. The seed of Abraham was Isaac. The seed of Isaac was Jacob. The seed of Jacob was Israel. Every one of these seeds was in Abraham when God called Him and blessed him. So, was every man or woman a seed in the first Adam before he fell. Everyone was in the image of God as a seed in the first Adam before the fall, and when Adam fell, every seed fell. But God has sent the second Adam, another blessed Seed, and every believer was placed in the second Adam, even before the foundation of the world. When He went to the cross, He took every believer with Him to the cross. When He died, every believer died with Him, and when He resurrected, every believer resurrected with Him as new seeds of God, seeds of righteousness. They believe in everything that God believes. One with God, one in word, one in blood one in love, one in light.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:3 "For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."

God is bringing man back in full circle to the new Garden of Eden, the new Jerusalem. God will be with man just like He was with the first Adam before the fall. The earth will be restored back to its original creation, and peace shall be on earth forevermore.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:4-5 "Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. [5] My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust."

His judgment is a light to his people. His judgment is His Word. The word of God is a light of the world. The word of God is Who Jesus Christ is. We likewise become the lights of the world when we are in line with the Word of God. We believe everything God believes.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:6 "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished."

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but His word shall never pass away. His word brings salvation. His word brings Righteousness. We are saved when we receive His word by faith, when we believe His word. We are transplanted from the unrighteous blood of the first Adam into the righteous blood of the second Adam.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:7-11 "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. [8] For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. [9] Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? [10] Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? [11] Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away."

He made a highway through the Red Sea. He bruised the head of the serpent. His salvation is from generation to generation. The redeemed of the Lord shall come to Him with singing, gladness, and joy. There will be no more sorrow, no more mourning. They have been redeemed from the blood of the first Adam into His blood.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 51:12-16 "I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; [13] And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if He were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? [14] The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that His bread should fail. [15] But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is His name. [16] And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people."

He called Israel when they were in the loins of Abraham. He called you in Christ when you were in the loins of Adam before the fall.

We conclude our reading.

Isaiah 51:17-23 "Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. [18] There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. [19] These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? [20] Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. [21] Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: [22] Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: [23] But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over."

Israel went contrary to the word of God. Like drunken men, they had no one to guide them. The only thing that brings guidance is the Word of God. When we go contrary to the word of God, we are like drunken men and women with no guidance.

Awake and be led by the word of God. BELIEVE and confess Christ, the Word of God, as we revealed Him from the first Adam. You were called in Him even before the foundation of the world, in Christ!


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