{"id":24400,"date":"2025-03-10T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24400"},"modified":"2025-03-10T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:00:58","slug":"the-redeemed-of-the-lord-shall-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/03\/the-redeemed-of-the-lord-shall-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Redeemed Of The Lord Shall Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.\u201d\u2014lsaiah 51:11<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018A good word maketh the heart glad.\u2019 Prov. 12:25. This is true of the good word of gospel-grace. Unscriptural notions of conditional grace and salvation deject the spirits of sensible sinners. God\u2019s free grace declarations and absolute promises revive the hearts of contrite ones. Man\u2019s ifs, suppositions, and peradventures, tend to counteract God\u2019s shalls and wills, his gracious purposes and loving determinations. Where the word of a king is, there is power: \u2018and who may say unto him, what dost thou?\u2019 Eccles. 8:4. In the word of Jehovah there is almighty power: \u2018He doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what dost thou?\u2019 Dan. 4:35.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s \u2018I will,\u2019 and \u2018you shall,\u2019 are the stay, the strength, the food of faith. It is the joy of believing hearts to set their seal to God\u2019s free promises, and say, \u2018Amen, so be it.\u2019 The arm of the Lord, the strength of Jehovah, which hath done wonders of old, is not shortened that it cannot save; that is our mercy. It is, it ever will be stretched forth in power; that is our comfort. Every redeemed soul shall return to mount Sion, to the general assembly of the church of the firstborn, which are enrolled in heaven; and to God, the Judge of all; and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling. Heb. 12:23.<\/p>\n

All the objects of the Father\u2019s love are the subjects of the Son\u2019s redemption, and shall be partakers of the Spirit\u2019s power and consolation. In returning to Jesus they shall find rest, and peace, and joy. By the sprinkling of his blood, sorrow and mourning flee away from their consciences. Then how sweetly, how joyfully do we sing the song of Moses. Ex. 15:1. \u2018The Lord is my strength and my song; he is become my salvation.\u2019 How comfortably do our souls join the triumphant song of the victorious followers of the Lamb. Rev. 1:5. \u2018Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God, and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.\u2019 What strong consolation, what full assurance is proclaimed from the mouth of the Lord. Every sentence contains a shall; not it may be, but it shall be. Sinners feel the power of grace, which melts hearts of stone into flesh; saints feel the comfort of love, which turns mournful penitents into joyful souls. \u2018All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to him\u00adself by Jesus Christ.\u2019 2 Cor. 5:18.<\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018A good word maketh the heart glad.\u2019 Prov. 12:25. This is true of the good word of gospel-grace. Unscriptural notions of conditional grace and salvation deject the spirits of sensible sinners. God\u2019s free grace declarations and absolute promises revive the hearts of contrite ones. Man\u2019s ifs, suppositions, and peradventures, tend to counteract God\u2019s shalls and wills, his gracious purposes and loving determinations. Where the word of a king is, there is power: \u2018and who may say unto him, what dost thou?\u2019 Eccles. 8:4. In the word of Jehovah there is almighty power: \u2018He doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what dost thou?\u2019 Dan. 4:35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1254],"class_list":["post-24400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-second-coming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24406,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions\/24406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}