CHAPTER 63
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 1
This is speaking of Jesus. He alone speaks in righteousness and is mighty to save.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 2-6
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 2-6
His garments are stained with blood from treading the winepress of the wrath of God (Rev. 14:19-20 and 19:15) God had to punish Man for sin. His justice had to be done, but Jesus stood in the winepress instead of us—all alone—even without His connection to the Father (Matthew 27:46 ) and the wrath of God came down full force on Him for all mankind from the beginning of time until the end!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 7
I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 7
We will all praise God for His loving Kindness to us!!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 8
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 8
He calls us children who will not lie. We are not slaves to sin anymore. The word for “lie” denotes a covenant breaking act. We are covenant bound to God!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 9
Jesus took on our afflictions for us. His very presence instead of ours, is what saved us. He redeemed us purely because of His Love for us. He didn’t have to do it. He has always been our God, even from the days of old. He is the “Ancient of Days”
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 10
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 10
But, after all that, some people refuse to believe all the wonderful things He did for us! They cannot be saved. It is not God who condemns them but themselves. They must take their own part in the wrath of God if they won’t accept Jesus to take it for them.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 11-13
11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 11-13God remembers all the things He did for us through the ages. He leads us through our life so we don’t stumble on satan’s lies.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 14
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 14
When satan tries to bring up our past to us, to make us forget our Joy in the Lord, to tempt us, depress us, haunt us with our old selves, when “the beast” tries to go into “our valley’, God stops him! He can’t get hold of us anymore, and so the Spirit leads us to reject satan’s lies and make a glorious name for the Lord.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 15
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 15
This is our prayer to Our Father, asking for His strength, His joy, His very life within us, and His mercy.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 16
He is our father, though, (Abraham be ignorant of us)-not through geneology, as the Chosen People, but we have been grafted in, and are members of the chosen race through Jesus Christ.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 17
O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 17
Sometimes we feel far from God. We do things we know we don’t want to do, yet, we want to do them also. (Romans chapter 7) All we have to do is confess that openly to the Lord—even that some part of us still wants to do it—and ask for His Grace to become real to us again. He will give us the strength to stay on course.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 18
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 18
“Our adversaries” are satan and his demons, and they can influence us to want to do and think things that are wrong. God’s sanctuary is our soul (our mind and will). We must keep it clean and occupied by Christ, and when they have “trodden it down”, we must first reject the evil, then run to the throne of Grace to repent and receive forgiveness along with strength, wisdom, and peace, to move on in the Lord.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 63, VS 19
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 63, VS 19
We are Yours, Lord, but those thoughts that come to us from satan, are not, so we cast them out, run to You, and go on with You!
END OF CHAPTER 63