So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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… here's the way Isaiah talks about it all the way back 700 years before Jesus he says the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing everlasting joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. So that's the day that's coming. But that's not the day that's here yet. It's not where we live yet. So let me close with this. For now, how do joy and sorrow relate? On the one hand, they coexist in the Christian life. Paul talks in 2 Corinthians 6 about being sorrowful yet always rejoicing the sorrows didn't push the joy out the joy was deeper it was thicker it helped him endure, they coexisted so don't think that to have joy you got to push out all the sorrows or that when sorrows comes it pushes out all the joy they coexist in the Christian life and in 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 6 and 7 he says in the living hope of Jesus risen from the dead he's a living hope in him you rejoice there's joy though for a little while if necessary you have been grieved by various trials you rejoice though you're grieved so joy and sadness coexist in the Christian life and secondly and finally sorrows now prepare us for greater joy to come the joy will be greater in the end because of enduring sorrows now by faith and so Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 4 17 that our slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an …
… And he said, you'll return unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon them and they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning and grieving shall flee away. Let's throw it all off this morning. Let's take that old garment off of heaviness that keeps tripping you up and put on the garment of praise. and say, I'm moving. It's time to move. When you get there, you ought already be singing. Hallelujah. Miriam, anybody can praise the Lord when the water's parting. And anybody can praise the Lord when Pharaoh and his army is drowning. But I want to see you break your tremble out and your timbles out and your tambourine out and your cymbals. I want to see you break it out when the devil's nipping on your heels. I want to see you break it out. I want you to break out into a praise when it looks like you don't have anywhere to go yet, but you know that you got your staff in your hand and the God of Moses is your God. …
The Bible says, AND THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD SHALL RETURN AND COME TO ZION WITH SONGS AND EVERLASTING JOY UPON THEIR HEADS. THEY SHALL OBTAIN JOY AND GLADNESS AND SORROW AND SIGHING SHALL FLEE AWAY. I LOVE JESUS. IF I HAD A THOUSAND LIVES, I'D GIVE HIM EVERY ONE. DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR ME BECAUSE I'M ON THE HOLY HIGHWAY. OH, OH, FRIEND, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. What a wonderful, wonderful road this is. We love to sing that song, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. It was written by John Newton. John Newton was one of the most wicked, vile sinners that ever lived. He'd committed almost every sin known to man. He was a, a drunken rum runner. He was a South Sea slave trader. He got so low in debauchery and sin that he finally ended up selling himself as a slave of slaves. …