Please turn with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 43 versus 8 through 13.

Bring out the people who are blind even though they have eyes and the death even though they have ears.

All the nations have gathered together in order that the peoples may be assembled. Who among them can declare this and

proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified or let them hear and say it is true

You are my witnesses declares the Lord and my servant whom I have chosen in order that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.

Before me there was no God formed and there will be none after me.

I, even I am the Lord and there is no Savior besides me.

It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed

and there was no strange God among you.

So you are my witnesses, declares the Lord, and I am God.

Even from eternity, I am he, and there is none who can deliver out of my hand.

I act, and who can reverse it? versus it. up into your worshipful presence by and can it be.

And when we hear a breathtaking word from Isaiah like this.

We either despair that we could ever love you as we ought,

preach as we ought, or we are made bold by the word Savior. There is no other Savior

besides me.

And I want to hang right there in my preaching.

I need a Savior.

I love your sovereignty.

I love the sentences that say I act and none can reverse it.

But if that's all I had, I would be undone.

I need a Savior.

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