Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayer for attention to the Gospel according to Matthew
chapter 16 and verse 17. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood
had not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 16 verse 17. We have in these words our Lord
speaking to Peter after Peter's confession that thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. and our Lord pronounces
this blessing. Now, a blessing is not just upon
the profession, but it is upon how He came by that profession
and confession of our Lord Jesus Christ. It had been revealed
Him from his Father in heaven. And that is what is upon my spirit
this evening. It is that which is revealed
and that how it is revealed, that the blessing is pronounced
here. Now, in this passage, We have
the Lord speaking to Peter and to the disciples. We have this
blessing upon Peter. But then, a few verses later
on, our Lord is revealing what He is going to go through. We
read in verse 21, from that time forth, began Jesus to show unto
his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and
be killed and be raised again the third day. Now Peter's response was to deter, discourage, say it was something that should
never happen to the Lord. But our Lord discerns where Peter's
words were coming from. They were coming from Satan. Peter was speaking there. And
so, he turns, said unto Peter, get thee behind me Satan, Thou
art an offence unto me, for Thou savest not the things that be
of God, but those that be of men." Have you compared these
two portions? You find when Peter's confession
was that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, that
was coming from his mouth. The Lord deserves where that
came from. and pronounces him blessed because
it came from his father. Now at that same mouth, Peter
is saying, you're not going to suffer. This is not unto you. And the Lord discerns where that
come from. That did not come from his father.
That came from Satan. And so he speaks to Peter in
that same way. What a reminder, that same person,
the Father has blessed and revealed, and then Satan works through
that same one. How it should make us careful
and tender. How it should make us realize,
though, Peter was not cast away. Peter was truly one of the Lord's. And yet the Lord permitted one
that had been pronounced blessed to be tried, to be tempted, to
fall in this way and speak these things. In the book of Numbers, we read
of the children of Israel, that Badak was very fearful of them. And so he sent to Balaam, the
soothsayer, to come and to curse them. And on the second occasion
he came, but the Lord had commanded him to bless and not to curse. And so in three separate places,
some two miles apart, over a six mile area, and we think the children
of Israel there several million people, they used a lot of area
of land. And he came and set up seven
altars, offered seven sacrifices, and
he blessed the people. Bolan's anger was kindled, he
brought them to another place, and so in three places, We have
these seven altars, the perfect blessing of God upon the children
of Israel, and we may say three, the blessing of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, a threefold blessing, the children
of Israel. How can I curse, says Balaam,
them whom God has blessed? He had to bless them. But then
what happened? We read that through the advice
of Balaam, Israel was caused to commit adultery
with the idols of Moab and with the women of Moab and fornication. And in the Lord's wrath, he slew
24,000 of Israel. Why was it that the people that
the Lord had blessed and caused Balaam that he should bless them?
That he should permit them to have Balaam give advice to undermine
and to come in by the back door as it were and to cause the children
of Israel to sin in that way and the Lord permitted it, allowed
it. As a nation, they were blessed.
As a nation, they were a mixed company. And the Lord used those
temptations to sift out who were His and who were not. Grace, though the smallest, shall
surely be tried. And Peter says, the trial of
your faith being much more precious than of gold which perishes,
though it be tried with fire. I was going to say just because
we are blessed does not mean to say we will not be tempted
and tried. But it really should go the other
way. Because we are blessed, we will be tempted and we will
be tried. The two go together. Satan will attempt to attack
and destroy those that are truly the Lord's. He doesn't mind about
those he has already got. May this be a help and encouragement
to those that are tempted, those of you that are trying, that
find it hard going, that struggle against the corruptions you were
harmed, and the temptations of Satan, and you seek by God's
grace to resist, you see others around you may be fooled. Satan
will say, well, you never really were blessed, you're not really
one of the Lords. But the Word of God says otherwise. The reason why you've got these
assaults, these temptations, these trials, is because you
are blessed, and you are one of the Lords. And that work is
being tried. And it is by the Lord's grace
you stand and the help and to continue with that temptations
and trials going on. And I want to look at what is
specifically upon my spirit here with this word. to direct our
thoughts awry. Three points. The first, a personal
blessing by name. In our text, the Lord Jesus answers
and says unto him, that is Peter blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah. He gives him a name. And then secondly, blessed in
what? has been revealed to us. And thirdly, blessed because
of who has revealed it to us. But firstly, a personal blessing
by name. Moses felt that a blessing. that
he'd been called by name. We read of the Lamb's Book of
Life and those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of
Life. In the Book of Numbers especially,
but we have it in the Chronicles as well, we have whole chapters
given to names. One reason is that that which
was charged to Peter in his day, that they had followed cunningly
devised fables, that that was to be proved wrong, because the
Old Testament is also a history book. It is the history of the
world through the line from Adam through the children of Israel,
and the line to Christ through that nation. And it was a real nation. They
really were formed from Abraham. They really went down into Egypt,
and they were raised up a nation there, and they were brought
out of Egypt, and through the wilderness and dispossessed all
of those nations in Canaan. God fulfilled the promises that
he had sold to Abraham. This is the foundation for our
Christian faith in that the Word is an established Word of God. that we may rely upon the Holy
Word of God, that holy men of God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost, and that those things that were foretold, prophecies
in the Psalms a thousand years before Christ came and before
He suffered, were fulfilled exactly. And it is vital for us that we
be able to see it, But in the midst of that establishing the
Word of God, there are real people and real names. Names that then
are carried over into the New Testament. As this Gospel of
Matthew begins with 14 generations, from Abraham through to David. Another 14 generations. from
David to the carrying away into Babylon, then another from the
carrying away into Babylon unto Christ. All ordered, all established,
but it is set before us in a list of names, real people. How vital it is. that the blessings
that we have are personal blessings. They have our names stamped upon
it. You say, but my name is not in
the Bible. Even if it was, many of your
names are in the Bible. I remember 25 years ago, he gave
out Bibles of the millennium to the primary school and it
was after a a school assembly that our daughter was in on Mary
Jones and the Bible. We gave a special presentation
Bible that we'd had inscribed for that occasion to the students.
That was a C of E school, that was year four. And after the
assembly, they all sat around me as I gave, we'd given them
the Bibles, and they were starting to open them and look in them.
And one after another said, look, look, Matthew, your name is in
the Bible. And one after another, we're
finding this out. They didn't know those things.
It's a shame on the Church of England school system, they weren't
brought up in that school at least, to know the Bible, to
know the basic books of the Bible. But that struck them, their name
was there. But how are we to know our names
are in the Bible or that these blessings are specifically for
us? There's been a couple of times
in my life when I have applied for a job and the reason why
I applied for it was because as I read that job application
I felt it had my name on it, because it exactly described
my qualifications, it was exactly what I was looking for, it just
was exactly right, as if someone had known, which God of course
did, exactly my situation and wrote the advert to suit. And
one of them that was like that, I answered it because of that,
not because I wanted it, but because it looked so much as
my name was on it. That was when I was leaving the
apprenticeship and was going into trainee craftsmanship for
mechanical design, and in my mind I wanted to go to a big
firm, but this was a little firm, and I'd applied for it, just
because that ad was so exact, and the surprise when they asked
for an interview. I don't want the job, I know
it had my name on it, but I want to go for a big firm. So then
the Lord had to make me willing. So what did he do? He got one
of my instructors in drafting from the college to say to me,
would you like to come up with several of us instructors up
to Melbourne to see the drawing offices in the Board of Works,
which is a great big firm in London, in Melbourne, sorry. And it happened to be the day
before this interview. I said, I'll go. So I went, and
we saw all these drawing boards, one after another. One was doing
a bit, handing it to another, and doing another bit. Well,
that's not what I want. I want to do the whole drawing.
I want to design the thing from start to finish, and see the
finished result. And it completely turned me around. I didn't want to go to the big
firm. So the next day I went for this interview, and then
the corner of this little pump firm was a drawing office with
all of the customers streaming past to get their pumps, and
that was where I was going to work. And that was the job I
got, and for four years. And it led to the one that I
got to come over here. The Lord knows how to put our
name on something. He knows how to move providence,
He knows how to Bring it so that we are persuaded that this is
for me. The Lord knows me. He knows the
situation. He's brought them together. You
know, if you come into the house of God, you're burdened and you're
troubled and you're sick. You've poured it out before the
Lord. He knows your condition. He knows
your trouble, He knows your trial, and you come into the house of
God, and the Lord's servant takes the word, and He comes right
where you are, and He speaks exactly what you're feeling,
and what you're going through, and you stand amazed at this.
How does He know? The Lord has said that when you
pray, go into the closet, and call upon your Father, which
heareth seeth in secret, and he shall reward thee openly.
And it's in that way where all may see, as it were, the answers
of what comes. You know Hannah, she was able
to say, for this child I prayed. And many, Lord's dear people
can say, for this thing I prayed, for this Word I prayed for, this
providence I prayed for, this token for good I prayed, and
the Lord has given it me. In these things the Lord is the
one that begins it and the one that seals it. Remember how this
account begins here in verse 13 We read, When Jesus
came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples,
saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? The Lord's
instigated it. He started it. He's asking these
questions. That is what is led up to Peter
being named and pronounced blessed. He which hath begun a good work
in you will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. But what
I proved is this, that the Lord does not just begin the work
in us as the very first quickening, and the Lord is always first
in conversion. We are not first with the Lord,
He is first with us. He instigates conversion, He
gives, He passes by us when we're in our blood, and He bids us
live. That is, the Lord's work is not
ours. But that's not the only time
when the Lord instigates things. When He teaches us, when He instructs
us, those things He begins. There are many times in my life
where things have been begun in a way I've had to see the
Lord's hand in it. In what I've gone into, and some
of them have been very painful, but I thought this path is appointed
and was appointed by God for my humbling, for His exalting,
for my teaching, for my lessons. First in my pathway, I used to
look for some providential blessing, for something that would be tangibly
good in an outward way. But then the Lord was pleased
to bring me into things of which, from the start to the finish,
I wasn't providentially bettered, financially bettered, health
bettered, anything bettered, except my soul. And I remember
that first time that was started. And He so humbled me. Lord, there
is more love to my soul than my body. Thou carest for my eternal
good, not just for my earthly good. Thou watchest over my eternal
welfare, and my soul, and art teaching me for eternity. You know, if we go to Romans
8.28, we know that all things work together for good, to them
that love God, to them that are called according to His purpose.
And we think that there must be some health, providence, something
outwardly will be bitterly disappointed. But if we look at that for a
spiritual good for our soul and for eternity, then we will not
be disappointed. The Lord is more concerned with
the soul than the body. The body is redeemed, but the
worth of the soul. Fear not them which kill the
body, And afterward have nothing that they can do, but fear him
that hath power after he hath killed, as power to cast both
body and soul into hell. Yea, fear him. What shall a man
gain if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? The soul. is that which the Lord
takes care of his people that he teach. And those teachings,
those lessons will have the name of his people upon it. He knows
them, he has called them, he knows where they are, what they're
doing at that particular time. You read the book of Esther,
the timing of the Lord runs right through him. and how many timings
in our life it has intimately to do with us, what we are doing. It fits in. You know, if you
have, like when you're children, you've got a block and it's got
triangles and different shapes, and the small children have got
to fit the shapes in the hole. They try to put a triangle in
the square hole and it doesn't go. But you get the right one,
and it goes exactly, it fits. You say, that fits there. And
the Lord is the one that fits. He fits things together. We know
that all things shall work together. That word together. Note the
things that God puts together. And you will be part of that
together. You'll be the link in that chain
together, taking you out of it, and you haven't got the together,
but putting you in it. They might tempt you and say,
well, you're just a scaffolding. Scaffolding at the end of a job
is just taken down, it's not part of the building. But you
know the scaffolding. You might say in a literal sense,
he's got no feeling at all. He's got nothing that is abiding
in that place. It's moved from one place to
another. But when the Lord works with
his people, it's not just in one aspect. It's one after another. And it's to one aim, and one
purpose, and one end. He said of the Apostle Paul for
this purpose, have I appeared unto thee. And they are called
according to his own purpose. And that purpose will be seen. And that will have our name on
it as well. Not all of us are called to ministry
or called to an outward purpose, but even if that were so, My
hope for heaven is not on my calling to the ministry or blessings
on the ministry, but on my personal interest in Christ and the blessings
that the Lord has given me. And yes, in the calling to the
ministry, there are added tokens for good with my name on it,
but our standing Whether we are a child, whether we are an aged
saint, is in Christ. And what He has done for us,
shown to us, revealed to us, personally. I do like it at the
end of the book of Romans, Romans for the most part does not have
any names. It's doctrinal right through.
But when you come to the last chapter, it's full of names.
And suddenly, There is a people, and these doctrines, these teachings,
they all apply to people. And may it be with us that we
desire, numbered with them, may I obey now and to eternity. And when we're thinking of names
and thinking of people, what the Lord has said, or through John in his epistles,
we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love
the brethren. You know those brethren, they
have names too. And some of us here, we can think
of those that we'll always remember their names long after they've
gone because they've been precious. The Lord has united us to them.
And The disciples being let go, they went after being persecuted,
they went to their own company. They went to those that their
names were precious to them. They were names that the Lord
knew and knitted to his people. Maybe a real prayer and desire
that the Lord knows us, has called us by name, a personal calling,
a particular calling, a gracious calling, and that throughout
our life, he has put that stamp upon our pathway, the stamp of putting on various
things. Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-Jonah. Blessed art thou, Rowland, or
Phillip, or Alan, or David, whoever it is, to have our name, that we cannot but know that
the Lord is speaking to us. Sometimes, I remember years ago
when I first came over here, and went to the decker that we
were sent out from when we went out to Australia when I was four
and a half. And I attended a prayer meeting and there was Mr. Sperling Tyrells taking it. And
I thought, he's probably going to call on me. And I thought,
how will he distinguish? My uncle with the same name,
Mr. Wheatley, was sitting in front
and I was sitting at the back. If he calls Mr. Wheatley, How
will I know whether it's my uncle or me? Well, when he called me,
I had no doubt. He looked right over my uncle's
head, got me straight in the eye, and he said, Mr. Wheatley.
There was no mistaking of it, who he meant. Though there was
two of us in the room with exactly the same name, that's the way
he called it. And when the Lord makes our name
known, it's like that. He makes it clear who he's speaking
to. and who he means. And may we have this witness
of the Spirit. Thou hast called me by name.
Thou knowest me. Thou knowest my name. I often thought of that with my
name, the spelling of it. My dad named me after one of
his school friends, but mum meant to register me But instead of
registering me that it's spelt like my dad's school friend,
she named me after Roland Hill, with a W in it, and so my name's
got the W in it. My dad never ever put the W in
it, he always put the R-O-L. But, so I've always thought about
my name in that, as to how it is actually spelt, and how the
Lord ordered that providence. But that's just an aside, the
Lord knows. Well, I want to move to our next
point, and that is blessed in what has been revealed to us. What the Lord is saying here,
it is that there has been something revealed to Simon, to Peter. Our third point is to how it
was and who has revealed it. But in this point, it is what
has been revealed. Now if we reveal something, it's
something that's been hid, and then it's been shown. If we would have a meal, and
we come in and the meal is spread, But it's got a cloth all over
it. So there is the meal, there is
your evening meal, but all you can see is a cloth over it. And
then that cloth is taken away and then you see the meal. And
the meal is revealed, what it is and what it contains. But
it needs to be opened and shown. And in this it is what is actually
revealed that is so important. What is reveal? There's the most solemn errors
that abound in Christendom. I won't name them, I don't want
to perpetuate them. But they're people that would
go to the Word of God and say, oh, this has been revealed to
me. And they go and push away all
of the ancient confessions and creeds and all of the conventional
beliefs and it is as if they have got this wonderful insight. They've seen what generations
have not seen. And they've seen it, they know
it. And they have Many go after them when you try and point out
to them, look, if you believe that, you're lost, this is a
cult, this is wrong. No, no, no, it's been revealed,
it's been shown. What has been shown does not
accord to the word of God. He doesn't agree with the word
of God. So what is revealed, may we be
very clear in this gospel day, these last days, There is no
fresh revelation. Here is the closed word of God. Nothing is to be added to it
or subtracted from it. And though the words are in plain
English for us, and we bless God for a good, faithful translation,
until our eyes are opened, until the Lord reveals His truth, The
Lord says, these things are hid from the wise and prudent and
revealed unto babes. And when they are revealed, it
will be seen. They were there all the time. I remember when my son was converted
and called down at Salisbury, and at several points he said,
Dad, I never saw that. I said, Tom, I preached that
many times at Cranbrook." He said, yes, but he said, I haven't
got spiritual life. I didn't hear it then. And it
wasn't until he'd been given spiritual life, then he could
see those things. Then they were revealed. And
so the big test is what is revealed? Is it in the scriptures? Is it
according to the comparing scripture with scripture? Is it according
to, we might say, and we won't put them above scripture, but
the ancient confessions of the Church of God and the more recent
ones, the Baptist Confessions, 1689, does it accord with them? Is it according to how the saints
of God have had these things revealed to them. That is, it
is vital that we reject anything that is so novel or lifts up
pride as if a man has seen something or interprets something in the
word of God that's different and you cannot see it anywhere
else in Christendom. Comparing scripture with scripture,
knowing Paul preached to those at Berea, They searched the Scriptures
daily whether these things were so. His preaching was such that
they could go home, get their Bibles, the Old Testament, and
they could test His preaching whether it was according to that.
And you should be able to do the same with the whole New Testament
as well. We're not introducing anything
different. And that the blessing will be
when what is revealed is in the word of God. And what is vital
with Peter, this is concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. John,
when he writes his second epistle, he writes it to those whom he
truly loved and knew in the truth, but he writes to warn them about
those that came with a wrong doctrine of Christ. Whosoever
transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath
not God. He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come unto
you any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not
into your house, neither bid him Godspeed. He that biddeth
him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds. The doctrine of Christ
is essential, that that is what is revealed. The Holy Spirit
of God is the revealer. He is the author of the Word
of God, the comforter which I shall send of my Father. He shall show
you all things. He shall make known unto you
all things, bring to your remembrance what I have said. unto you. He is the one infallible teacher. They shall all be taught of God.
Great shall be the peace of thy children. But that one teacher
does not teach one one thing and another another concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ. They shall all know me from the
least unto the greatest." The Confessions is Believe us thou. I believe that Jesus is the Son
of God. John in his gospel, 85 times
or so, is a testimony that Jesus is the Son of God. That was his
burden. And what is revealed is very,
very important. We might have a confession. We
might testify to a church and people what has been revealed
to us. that what is it that has been revealed? Is it the important,
essential, vital things of the Christian faith that all center
in the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone? Remember what has
been revealed to Peter here? He was asked, they were asked,
what others were saying, whom do men say that I, the Son of
Man am, That was the crucial thing. And there were several
varying answers. But whom say ye that I am? Is that a truth that has been
revealed to us? You might say it's been taught
in our churches, it's in our articles of faith. But has it
been made precious to us? has it been revealed and shown
to us, that at one time it was hidden, but then it's been shown
to us, opened to us. On the way to Emmaus, the Lord
opened to them in all the scriptures, what? The things concerning Himself. That's what He opened. That's
what He revealed. So that is in vital, what is
revealed. I want to look then at our third
point. He was not only blessed in what
had been revealed, but blessed because of who has revealed it
to us. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood
hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. The beginning of the Gospel according
to John, we are told that those that are born, they are not born
of the will of man, or born of blood. but are born of God, and
we have a similar thing that's set before us here.
There's not flesh and blood. Yes, we are to have teachers
and pastors, we are to seek to learn, but the teaching is of
God. He it is that opens the heart,
and this is Our Paul sets it forth before the Corinthians,
that God has hidden these things from the wise and prudent, revealed
them unto babes, that though man has got much wisdom for many
things, yet in the things of God he cannot know them, and
natural man receiveth not the things of God, they are spiritually
deserved. If you and I are natural, without
a new birth, we cannot know and see the things of God. Where
we do see them, where they are open to us, where our hearts
burn as those on the way to a majesty, we are to understand from this
word, the Lord here is discerning to Peter. If you'd ask Peter,
Peter, who revealed this to you? He might have said, I'm not sure. I don't know. But the Lord says,
I'll tell you, my father revealed it to you. And that's why you're
blessed. How did the Lord know his father
did? Because of the ordering that by natural men, he could
not know this. He could only know this by the
father. It could only be one way. You
know, if we know things in a natural sense, that something can happen
only with these criteria, and then that thing happens, we know
that it must have filled those criteria. And so if the Lord, He knew it
was decreed and ordered by His Father, by the Godhead, that
the only way men can truly confess the Lord Jesus Christ was it
had to be revealed them. That's why Philip was able to
receive the eunuch, when he came with this testimony. We are not to pass by and just
think, these things that are spiritually discerned and shown
and known, that they just happen and it's just flesh that's revealed
them. The devil will try and tell us
that. wherever the truth is revealed, it affects us. It doesn't leave
us like those two on the way to Emmaus, their heart burned,
when the Lord showed himself to them at the breaking of bread,
immediately they spake one to another, immediately they went
back those seven and a half miles, though it was late in the evening,
and they go back to the disciples. It always has an effect. At Pentecost,
when the Lord was revealed through Peter's preaching, they were
pricked in the heart, it had an effect. If there's something wondrous,
something that is revealed to us, of a wonderful nature, we
don't just sit and say, alright, so what? We'll be amazed
at that which is shown and revealed. With the blind men crying out,
the beggars. Jesus, our Son of David, have
mercy on us. Why were they so urgent? Why
were they crying out? The Father had revealed to them
that Jesus passing by was His Son, the Eternal Son. He had
power to save, power to give them sight. That's why they were
so urgent. What a fact. as the revelation
of the Lord Jesus Christ had upon us. You think of our Lord
telling the parables, the treasure in the field, he finds it. What
effect did it have on that one? It was sold, all that he had,
and he might buy that field. The man that finds the pearl
of great price, what does he affect? He says, oh yeah, it's
a nice pearl of great price. He goes and sells all that he
has so he might buy this bill. And can we think that the eternal
Son of God, Jesus Christ, our beloved Saviour, our hope for
heaven, can be revealed to a poor, hell-deserving sinner that leaves
him unmoved and cold? No. Unto you which believe, He
is precious. How precious is the Lord to us. How precious has he been made
to us. And how clear are we that the
only way that we can know these things is by the Father revealing
them. Because Christ has died for us. Because he has shed his precious
blood. Because he has paid our debt.
Because he has bought our soul. that His command is, reveal these
things to My child. Show them, show them their Saviour,
show them Him who has borne their sin on Calvary's tree. Don't
leave them ignorant of it, but reveal it to them and show it
to them. When the Lord rose from the dead,
did He reveal Himself to everyone in Jerusalem? No. only His people,
only those witnesses chosen of God, they were the only ones. And so it is, right through the
time of the Christian church. In the early church, when the
disciples preached, some believed the words spoken and some believed
not. But in another way, some had
Christ revealed to them through the preaching and some did not. as many as were ordained unto
eternal life believed. And the marking out of those
who had these things revealed by God was in what was shown
to them and known that it was the Father that had revealed
it and shown it to them. The Father's work will always
be confirmed and strengthened, and followed up, a growth in
grace, not just one thing revealed, line upon line, here a little,
there a little. He that hath begun a good work
in you will perform it unto the say of Jesus Christ. He might
say, even before the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed, Very often
with a poor sinner, the first thing that's revealed is their
sinnership, their need of a saviour, a prepared ground, a need of
salvation. And that will then be followed
on by not only revealing that they're a sinner, but that the
Lord Jesus Christ is their saviour. Nebuchadnezzar said a true word
when he said to his wise men who could not tell him the dream
that he'd forgotten, you tell me the dream, and I will know
that you can tell me the interpretation thereof. You show me one that
the Father has revealed their sinnership and need, and I will
show you the same one that that same Father will reveal his beloved
son. It takes as much as the Lord's
work to prick in the heart of those who are in Pentecost as
it was then to bring them into gospel peace and liberty. May we know this blessing, may
we know it personally, may we know it as in what has been revealed
to us, and may we know it because of who has revealed it to us. And it be this blessing to us
tonight. Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood
have not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Amen.