Isaiah 48:17-22

How gracious the preface to all these sweet promises; and how sure they become, in the name of the great Promiser! Reader! let it be our earnest study and delight to come under the teaching of this almighty Lord, whose instructions are sure to profit us. He teacheth not as man teacheth: he teacheth powerfully, for his word comes with power: his teachings are infallible, for HE, the Spirit of truth, guideth into all truth; and what he teacheth will abide with his people forever. I shall never, said David, forget thy word; for by it thou hast quickened me; Psalms 119:93 . But amidst all these blessed promises to the Lord's people, how solemn is the termination of the Chapter to the ungodly! There is, there can be no peace but in Jesus; and the unawakened, the graceless, and the ungodly, rejecting the counsel of God against their own souls, and despising the blood of the cross for salvation, can find it in no other; Acts 4:12 .