The King's Highway

V 1-2 – The dead, desolate, desert of our hearts come to life because Jesus has moved in and filled our souls with His divine fragrance.

V 3 – Hands once prone to mischief now do the Lord’s work. Knees that once bent to the altar of self & sin, now bow before the Lord.

V 4 – The Lord has defeated our deadness, our darkness and our depravity. He has visited and saved us. He has replaced our fear with His peace.

V 5 – Our eyes have been opened; we have seen His truth and glory. Our ears have been opened; we have heard His call to follow Him.

V 6a – Our feet have been strengthened so we can walk in His ways. Our tongues have been loosed so we can sing His eternal praises.

V 6b-7 – The parched ground of our heart has become a river of living water.

John 4:13-14 Jesus said to her, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

• The mirage we were reaching for has been transformed into a reality.

• We were pursuing a mirage that offered nothing but destruction, deception and death, we have been given real peace, real joy, real hope, real salvation and real satisfaction.

• The place that was once fit only for “that old dragon,” has become a place of glory, blessing and the dwelling of the Lord God.

As Isaiah speaks to Israel about that highway that will exist during the millennial kingdom, we can glean some things about the spiritual road we are walking. I would like to preach on “The King’s Highway.” Let me point out some interesting characteristics of this road.

#1. IT’S A HEROES WAY – v 8. “An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”

This is a “royal road.” In ancient times powerful kings would build roadways through their kingdoms.

“The way of holiness” can be translated, “The way of the Holy One.” It speaks of the Holy One leading the redeemed back to Jerusalem, both in the terrestrial and celestial sense. Christ, at His return, shall be the Leader on this highway, thus it is called, “The way of the Lord.”

There was a time in my life when I could not walk the King’s Highway. My feet were firmly planted on the low road of life.

Ephesians 2:1-3 I was “dead in trespasses and sins;” and “walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” “fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and was by nature a child of wrath,..”

I was wandering across the burning sands and treacherous byways of this world. I stumbled along blindly toward Hell. Each step caused me to be mired deeper in sin. But, when I trusted Jesus, I was lifted from the low road of sin and my feet were placed on the high road of salvation.

Psalm 40:1-3 “I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.”