“O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires."
- Isaiah 54:11
Everything of the Church, seen and unseen, is precious to God.
The foundations of the Church are out of sight.
But in God's work, everything is valuable.
The deep foundations of the work of grace are as precious as sapphires.
No human mind can measure their glory.
(1) We build upon the strong foundations of the covenant of grace.
Sapphire foundations are eternal.
The covenant abides forever.
(2) Another foundation is the person of the Lord Jesus, which is clear and spotless, everlasting and beautiful as the sapphire.
We see Him radiant with the soft blue of love, love abounding, deep, eternal.
(3) Our eternal hopes are built upon the justice and the faithfulness of God, which are clear and cloudless as the sapphire.
We are saved by mercy defeating justice.
The Lord Himself has laid the foundation of His people's hopes.
Our hopes are built upon what God had done for us.
Good works and ceremonies are not a foundation of sapphires.
They are not laid by God, but by our own conceit.
All foundations will be tried before long.
Woe to him whose foundations shall come down with a crash.
He whose foundation is built on sapphires may await trials with confidence, for he shall abide the test.
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires."
- Isaiah 54:11
Everything of the Church, seen and unseen, is precious to God.
The foundations of the Church are out of sight.
But in God's work, everything is valuable.
The deep foundations of the work of grace are as precious as sapphires.
No human mind can measure their glory.
(1) We build upon the strong foundations of the covenant of grace.
Sapphire foundations are eternal.
The covenant abides forever.
(2) Another foundation is the person of the Lord Jesus, which is clear and spotless, everlasting and beautiful as the sapphire.
We see Him radiant with the soft blue of love, love abounding, deep, eternal.
(3) Our eternal hopes are built upon the justice and the faithfulness of God, which are clear and cloudless as the sapphire.
We are saved by mercy defeating justice.
The Lord Himself has laid the foundation of His people's hopes.
Our hopes are built upon what God had done for us.
Good works and ceremonies are not a foundation of sapphires.
They are not laid by God, but by our own conceit.
All foundations will be tried before long.
Woe to him whose foundations shall come down with a crash.
He whose foundation is built on sapphires may await trials with confidence, for he shall abide the test.
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