Summary
So here is the servant, the prophet, Isaiah, giving the prophetic word with regard to the Messiah, and notice you speaking in past tense, as if the Lord Jesus has already come, the great sacrifice has already occurred on the cross. And so the time of grace then is the time in which we are alive prior to death or we are alive when the Lord comes again, then that time of grace closes. So the antichrist, remember, is antichrist against Christ, against then the teaching that we are saved by grace through faith, in the Lord Jesus Christ, who were saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus. Here, Jonah is using the prophetic past tense and he is communicating in the past tense as if it's already happened but he's still in the belly. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts and Romans, 1 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, then you hit the tea books, 1 2 Thessalonians, and then 1 Timothy, 1 Timothy, chapter 1, 1 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 15, 1 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 15, that we read, the saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the foremost. This week as we go about our activities may we by the grace of God be a people that live in the prophetic past, in the sure confidence that indeed God is in control, in the sure confidence that God is sovereign, in the sure confidence that God uses all for his glory and for our ultimate good and that the flower that we see in Jonah, blossoms forth in all of the beauty of its fragrance, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was died, who was buried and rose again.
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