And verse twenty-one, verse twenty-one of Isaiah forty-five. Tell ye and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient times? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? There is no God else beside me, a just God and a Savior. There is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, or shall surely be fulfilled and not revoked, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear or shall contest as you have in Philippians chapter two and eleven. morning I want to speak on some precious things four looks in this chapter of Isaiah in this book of Isaiah has it often been said that are sixty six chapters in the book of Isaiah and there are sixty six books in your Bible so you have a little Bible condensed into one book the book of Isaiah is it any wonder that the man in the chariot with Philip the Ethiopian eunuch was reading in the book of Isaiah. I believe if a person possessed only the book of Isaiah, he would find plenty of information in there as to how to be saved and how to live for the Lord. I know as you read in Ecclesiastes three, four, two, three. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. To me that's an amazing statement. What God does is for eternity. And God puts the stamp of eternity upon everything that he does. And in this book of Isaiah you have seven things that are everlasting. He speaks in chapter forty five and seventeen of everlasting salvation. He speaks in chapter sixty of everlasting light. He speaks in chapter thirty-five of everlasting joy. And in chapter twenty-six he speaks of everlasting strength. Chapter fifty-four he speaks of everlasting kindness. Then he speaks of the everlasting covenant in chapter sixty-six and verse eight. And sad and solemn, he speaks of the everlasting burdens. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burdens? There you have seven everlasting things and God. Everything God touches and does is for eternity the importance of the little word look that we noticed in our text look unto me and be ye saved that little word is very important remember in the case of Lot's wife in Genesis chapter nineteen when she and her husband and their two daughters fled from the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because God had promised to destroy those cities. He had warned them. He had declared that he could no longer left them exist. He must block them out. And you remember what Watts' wife did because the angel warned them not to look back. Plead for all your life but don't look back. But Lot's wife did look back, and she became a pillar of salt. But Lot's wife in hell today, rightly as using language like this, why, oh, why, did I look back? That little look, that turn of my head, cost me my life. saddest of all it cost me my soul but over numbers twenty one you have that look in another connection you remember the children of Israel were bitten with these serpents and Moses made that serpent of precious and everyone who looked was healed and the Lord Jesus uses that in John chapter three when speaking of the new birth, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believe, or looketh on him, should not perish, but have eternal life. Thank God for every one of us here this morning, who have looked. And as lost wife will lament forever, why did I look to thank those of us who are saved can thank God that in this life and throughout eternity will say praise God I didn't I looked at the serpent of grass or what it figures what it typifies I looked at the person of Christ upon the cross and I What a wonderful thing to know and be able to say, I looked. And the age of nineteen sitting in the kitchen of our home in Stratford, Ontario, with my father talking to me about my soul. At quarter past nine, I looked, and I haven't been the same individual since. God gives us the object to look to. He says, look. onto me look onto me he is the object many are urged to look elsewhere no need looking to yourself oftentimes I've heard people say well just look within your difficulty your problem is within no friend although I'll agree with that statement that your problem is within and there's a difficult problem in there but you're not going to cure it you're not going to get rid of your problem by looking within and trying to solve this situation with your own strength or wisdom or ability if you're going to solve that problem you've got to look away from yourself God says, look unto me, look unto me. We were talking to a young man a couple of weeks ago in the apartment, and he had a lot of problems, and he was wanting to get rid of them in the worst way. And finally we said to him, now listen, if you were to look to Christ right now, you go back to your office tomorrow morning, You'd still have your problems. You'd still have your difficulties. But if you accept Christ, there'd be a change within you. And you would be different. And you'd look at your problems and circumstances differently. You would change your circumstances. You would change. You'd meet the same people, have to travel with the same problems and difficulties. them in a new light because you have looked at Christ and you found peace within you have changed by being born again stricken by the Holy Spirit of God and so there's no need looking within yourself no need looking to any man whether it be the Pope or any other individual he does not hold the key He cannot solve your problems. There's only one individual. There's only one personality that you can look to with profit. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Look unto me. He is the object. They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. Look unto me. So God gives us the object to look to, not to the church. He never tells you to look to your church, and your church will meet your need, though. The church cannot meet my spiritual need, and there's no need looking elsewhere such as to the world. Many are looking at the world. They're hoping for an improvement in the world. They're hoping that the world's problems will be solved. No. No need looking to the world you'll be dissatisfied. You'll find no security there. I know you need looking at a sacrament. A sacrament is not going to do you any good. Or an ordinance is not going to do you any good. God says, look unto me. He's the object that God wants you to look to, to observe. You know the word look takes on form of a command when uttered by deity or by a king. If a king were to say to one of his subjects, I want you to look in that direction. That takes on a command because of who is speaking. Look. And God is commanding you to look this morning to Christ. He commands all men everywhere through each. Yes, friend, God is commanding you to look to him through his Son, and your need will be met. Look unto me. In verse twenty one of our passage you read about God being a just God and a Savior. He couldn't be a Savior unless he was a just God. God must be just. He is just and the justified of him that believeth in Jesus. And the Lord Jesus could not save you unless he was that just virtue in the scriptures. Christ was just. In every department of his life, he was just. He was righteous. Unseeing he was the just one. By his work, he can make you just. He can justify you. By his being a righteous one, he can make you a righteous And so we find here, he's a just God and the see. The Lord Jesus had to meet all the just requirements of a holy God. He had to satisfy his courage. He had to carry up the divine will. In every aspect, God might vindicate himself in reaching and saving poor sinners and doing so righteously. Without it anyway, affecting or weakening is carried. Do you notice the looks, the four looks I want to mention this morning? First ones in chapter six of Isaiah. Look unto me in my holiness. You remember it was in the year that King Uzziah died. He says, I saw the Lord. high and lifted up, and his train filled with him. That was the first look in Isaiah. And you know, Isaiah remembered when he took that look. It was in the year that King Uzziah died. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. I looked to him. The throne on earth was empty. For the king had died. Now, says Isaiah, I see a throne that's occupied. He will never be vacated by death. He saw a living, an everlasting person now. I saw the Lord. I am lifted up. God wants you to take this look. And before you get saved, or take another look that will refer to you. you've got to take this one what effect did this look have upon the prophet I am untouched I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips when you see God in his holiness you see yourself in your own If you look at God in His righteousness, you see your own unrighteousness. If you look at God in His purity, you see your impurity. If you look at God in His might and power and strength, you see your weakness. Oh yes, to see ourselves as we truly are. Guilty and undone. That's the first impression that God wants you to get when you look at him. That holy, righteous one. That mighty God. That everlasting God. That prince of business. Justice and judgment are the habitation of his Lord. He dwelleth in the light that no man can approach unto. There he is. Have you seen God in all his purity, in all his power? Man shrivels up under the light, the brilliant light of the person and presence of God. Have you seen yourself like that? I am undone. Maybe it's a sermon. that God used to make you see what you really are. Maybe it's a circumstance, like in this case, the year that King Isaiah died and Isaiah loved the king. But ah, the death of a beloved king. That was the year that Isaiah looked to the Lord. Maybe it took a casket in your king. a person can trace their conviction and sum their conversion to the death of a loved one. Sometimes it's adverse circumstances that make a person look up. To see God in all this foolishness and you see yourself in all your own. What a mighty God exists between a holy God and sinful man. Man in all this sin and corruption and violence and putinous. That's man. God describes man from the crown of his head to the soul of his wounds and bruises and puntry, my soul, that's how God sees you this morning if you're unsafe. Is it possible that an unsaved person, a lost, guilty, betrayed human being to remain compatible? If God had asked the angels, is it possible for me, do angels who bow your faces in my presence, who know somewhat of the degradation and shame of the human being? For the very smell of Sodom and Gomorrah rose to tie him. Is it possible for me to save man out of this stint and make him suitable and acceptable in my holy presence? The angels would have said in chorus, no. The Gromf can't be reached. Michael, Gabriel, what do you say? No. No, it can't. But God says to his son, my son, can I take man in all his sin and shame? Can I wash away his stint? Can I make him acceptable to my presence? Yes, sir. It can be done. It will be done. It must be done. down from the glory the Savior came down to the cross of death and shame. There in wonder, I now believe, Jesus died. I bought a book a month or two ago, longer than that, that I was up in Canada, who gave to a friend of mine in Atlanta, who was interested in railroad. And the title of that book is, A national dream. When I left Canada, there were about, when I was a boy, there had about nine million population in Canada. Today, it's twenty-three million. And this book was written, A National Dream. The Dominican government dream of a railroad that would run from the Atlantic to the Pacific. know those treacherous walking mountains, how could they ever put a railroad through there? There is one place where you go in at the top of the mountain and you make a complete circle inside and come out to the bottom. But when they were pondering the prop, putting a railroad, the Pacific, Canadian Pacific Rail, from the Atlantic to Pacific, They got the best engineers they could get. They said, no, it can't be done. They even invited engineers from the United States. They came up with the same thing. It can't be done. They sent abroad to England. Engineers came from England. They said, oh, it can't be done. They got other engineers from Germany. other countries in the Europe. They survey the situation for months. They come up with this conclusion. Yes, it can be done. It can be done. It will be done if you do so. And it was done. I traveled on that railroad myself. Yes, And God makes sinful man suitable for his holy presence. The whole universe and those who knew anything of the Almighty God, and his greatness and his grandeur, his power, his omnipotence, omniscience, and on the present. And here is poor man likened unto a word, crawling in the muck, mire of sin on the earth. Can that golf the bridge, yes? The Lord Jesus was the one who stepped into the bridge, made it possible for Almighty God to save the vilest sinner out of peril. Yes, it was done. It was done nineteen hundred years ago. The next look you find is in chapters seven and nine of Isaiah. A virgin, so bear a son, thou shalt call his name Emmanuel God. And over in chapter fifty, Jehovah's servant, the same one, speaking, He speaks a word and sees him. Him, that is real. Here you have his birth, and you have his life. Oh, yes, he came down from the heights of glory, one who knew more than anyone else what God was like. He dwelt in eternity past in the bosom of a pond. He knew God's love. power. He knew God's wrath. He was acquainted with all God's attributes. And he came down from heaven to become like one of us, to dwell on earth, to become acquainted with the fallen rings. And he went about doing good. healing all who are pressed to the devil for God who's living, speaking words and seasoned to the weary. O think of those words, come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I, ye wretch. Many were the individuals in his life that he spoke words of seasoned. I presume you were told this morning about these calendars. I don't know how many hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Christians have gotten up in the morning depressed and cast down, only to find a word in season, something that Matthew came, something that met that presently throughout the year, a word in season. maybe that calendar will provide for you more than one word in season suitable for that day as you read he still speaks words in season there you have him in his humanity and you know when he came there was no room for him in the inn though none whatsoever That's true today. Who the world is celebrating? His birth? Nice things are said about them. The carols are sung. Many are making lots of money. We don't believe in Christ at all. But if the Son of God in person were to come to these many who are celebrating this occasion and ask, may I come into your heart? May I take over the reins of your life. Will you live for me? No. There's no room for him today in many human hearts. Oh, yes, the world approaches you, and you open wide your door and see the men. Worry me, companions, O true men, for my heart, the strength you prove. Just this opportunity. Oh, yes, respect, you. Who? Why, how can you? But the Lord Jesus comes. And he asks, May I come in? Oh, Lord, I'm not ready. I didn't expect you just now. When I get old, for example, Jesus, and the door is shut. room for pleasure and for business. But for Christ the crucifix, not a place that he can enter in a heart for which he might find. No room for him in the end. No room for him in many a human heart today. No room for the Lord Jesus when he was here on earth. were out among the cattle at his work. And throughout his life only a Jew, a very Jew, opened their heart to the sea. The next look we have is in Isaiah fifty-three and five. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes we are healed. This is the look he wants you to take. especially if you've seen yourself as you really are because of that first look in chapter six and you saw and have seen from the scriptures and had it told you about the life that he lived the miracles he performed you've seen in this life but now he wants you to see him on the cross wounded for your transgressors grues for your memories, being chastised as if you were having peace, and through the stripes of judgment that fell on him you may be. Look at him, bearing your sins in his own body on the tree, suffering in your stead, paying your debt. Oh, would you not say this morning, all my sins were laid upon me, Jesus bore them on the tree. God knew them. Lay them on him. Now believing, I am free. Look thy faith for Christ, and you will be saved. Let us another look. We've seen him in his holiness, and then in his humanity, in chapters seven and nine. We have seen him. in humiliation in chapters fifty three now we see him in the highest in chapters sixty three one and two he's mighty the same he's back in the heavens he came down from the globe down from the mountain peak of fellowship with us down, down, into the valley, into the depths of the valley, into the valley of death. Then he came up, and he went back to the Father. Now he's at God's right hand. He wants you to see him there. Mighty, mighty to see. How did he see? He can save. He's got the power. He's got the right. And He's willing to save you this morning. He can save you from the penalty of your sins. He can save you from the very power of your sins. Yes, and one of these days He's going to save all who are born again from the very presence of sin. When He comes to catch us both, be forever with himself. How do I know? I know it because he saved me. And he's been saving millions since. I know he can save. He's a wonderful savior. And he'll save you this morning. Look unto me and be saved. That's why you should look to be saved. to be happy, to be secure, to be satisfied, and to glorify God. Look unto me and be ye. Save, not have saved, complete. There are three looks in your Bible. Look to him, look on him, and look for him. Look to him. Look to him as a savior. There's your salvation in our text. Look unto me and be easy. But then in John one, thirty-five, you look on him as your master. Contemplation. John, looking upon Jesus as he walked before the Lamb of God. The next look is looking for him as the bride. Waiting for his return is your glorification. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, looking to him, looking upon him, and looking for him. Here's the greatest possible blessing. Look unto thee and be ye saved. That's the greatest blessing you can get in life, you see. And then you have the easiest possible terms. Look unto me, how easy. The largest possible number, all the ends of the earth, on the best authority. I am God. I am God. You can't get better authority either. You know, look is simple. You'll not be able to say, if you're lost, well, I wasn't educated. I didn't know enough. God's salvation is so simple. A wavering man, though he'd be a fool, he'd not heard that. Even a little babe cooking in the cradle goes to the point when it knows and recognizes that voice. And the meaning of that word, look. Look. Yes, how simple God's salvation is. Look unto me. How free it is. You can't say, I don't have the money. I can't be saved. It's too expensive. I don't have a nickel to call my old salvation's free. not cost you a penny to look. Who would you say I haven't got the time to get saved? It only takes a moment to look. So you have no arguments. Oh, no, it's simple. It's free. It takes only a moment. But there's a warning here. As I mentioned a while ago, it'll never be revoked. God says, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess. And he means exactly that. If you don't look now in grace, you'll bow your knee in judgment, and you'll confess. Yes, Lord, for the glory of God was born. But do you know good then? Every need has got to God. Every need has got to recognize him. That's the Son of God. That's what will make hell hell. And the lake before a lake of part of us, because there is such a God, there is such a son who suffered such a death, there's such a sinner as you, could have been saved. It was simple. It was straight. It only took a load, and you missed it. This is God's warning. One time, two brothers were going to kill a beef, a big steer up in the barn. They had up their truss work, who they'd done this before, and they had their tackle. and of course the big crank and these two husky young men were turning this crank tried to get the animal up at hind legs so they'd be able to cut it open and then to skin it finally they got it up and the one fellow said can you hold yes he said i'll get off of the aisle And the other one let go, he said, I'll get something and block those cogs. He picked up a big chunk of wood about a yard long, and as big as his arm, and he jammed between the big cogs and the little one. He said, okay, Larry, do you think that'll hold it? biggest part of that piece of wood hurled it and caught it. The one who said that in the temple and he was killed. His last words were Jesus Christ. Couldn't break that. God warns. Remember this is warning you this morning of the possibility of the danger of you hearing You set an unencumbered plan of salvation, and you visit it. That's your prayer. This was C.H. Spurgeon's take. I've always loved the story of Spurgeon. C.H. Spurgeon in the year, eighteen fifty, I think it was the first Sunday of that year. You started out, you go to church. Snow, snow, snow everywhere. though was small. The care taker tried to get things going. Finally, Spurgeon, deciding not to go further, he was only fifteen. He turned in. When the time came for the service of Stark, only eleven men were present. And this one fifteen-year-old boy, sitting back under the belt, It was a whispered consultation. What would they do? Would they have a service? Well, they decided, yes. And they turned to one of the stewards and said, you preach this morning. There sat the H. Spurgeon. He'd been under conviction in the time he was ten. He's fifteen now. And he was under conviction. storm drove Spurgeon in, but the storm kept the preacher from coming. He couldn't make it. A broken program resulted in a path of destiny. It would be a good thing today if a lot of programs were so interrupted. But the gospel we preach instead of all the program. So here sat Spurgeon. in that building. My, as he listened to that old man, repeat his text, repeat his text. He had visited every other church, he said, in town. He called them ecclesiastical experiences later on this night. So there was a storm raging without which Smurgeon says it was not like the storm that was raging in my heart. A greater storm raised there. Each virgin snowflake, as it fell, mocked the pollution and the corruption of his heart. The Iran, he said, I felt more loathsome than a toad. The empty building only illustrated his empty heart. The poor lighting, the leaden heaviness of the big building, only illustrated the mood of his spirit heavy heart the building was cold that spurt was spiritually cold there he curiously watched the old preachers he got up into the pulpit the old man got up and he read this text Isaiah forty five twenty two and he pointed his finger down at the audience He only had one target. That was that fifteen-year-old young man under the dump pit. He says, young man, you look miserable. You'll be miserable for all eternity unless you look at Jesus. Young man, he shouted, you look miserable. Virgin says, I've never had my personal appearances spoken about before in any church service. That old man shouted, young man looked at Jesus. Look, look, look now. And Spurgeon said, I looked. I looked. What happened? Ah, says Spurgeon, that was a blow well struck. The preacher was obliged to stick to his text for he didn't know anything else. He just kept repeating. All was changed, the cloud lifted. The darkness rolled away. The storm was still raging with that rose, but there was a holy calm within that young man's heart. Later, C. H. Spurgeon referring to, oh, he said, all I could hear ringing in my ears, And that man in the pulpit was anything but an orator. The young man looked at Jesus. Looked at Jesus. And he said, I did. And he said, I laughed as I went home through the storm. And I thought of that verse, Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Why, says the whiteness of the snow no longer mocked by pollution. I knew I was saved by the grace of God. My heart was warm. Instead of my body being cold, of my soul was cold, until I took that look. But oh, he said it's warm now. Warm with the love for the grace of God. Yes, look. Look as a babe. to the mother for food. Look as a child, to the teacher, to be taught. Look as a patient, to the doctor to be healed. Look as a client, to the lawyer, to the chief counsel. Look as a drowning man, to the lifeguard, to the confession. And look as a man or a woman in a burning building, to the fireman below, Save. Save. Look for the sinner to Christ. And if you look for Christ...