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Give it me

1 Samuel 21:8-9
Greg Elmquist January, 21 2024 Audio
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Give it me

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Good morning. It's good to be
back. Let's open this morning's service
with hymn number 18 in your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymnbook. Number
18, let's all stand together. God gave his holy inspired word
for only one great end, the prophets and apostles to reveal the sinner's
friend. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. ? The prophecies of old record
? God's wondrous mighty deeds ? Those deeds of power and of
grace ? Set forth a woman's seed ? The Bible is a book of Christ
? It only speaks of him ? On every page it shows us Christ
? It only speaks of him ? The prophets all reveal our Lord
? As prophet, priest, and king ? The types the great redemption
show ? Christ's blood and grace now bring The Bible is a book
of Christ, it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us
Christ, it only speaks of Him. Behold the Lamb, the Baptist
said, the sin-atoning One. As it was promised long before,
God's Son as man has come. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. It shows us Christ, it only speaks
of Him. Our substitute obeyed the law,
then died and rose again. And in His word our Savior said,
Rejoice, I come again. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. Please be seated. Good morning. I always try to send Tom the
titles and text of the messages that I've prepared on Saturday,
usually, and he always picks an appropriate hymn to go with
each message. I didn't do that yesterday. I
thought I did, but I didn't. And Tom, there's really not a
more appropriate hymn we could have opened this message with,
this service, than the one we just sang. The Bible is a book of Christ. And I hope that the Lord will
be pleased to reveal Christ to our hearts this morning from
his word. We're going to begin by way of introduction in Hebrews
chapter 12, if you'd like to open your Bibles with me there.
Hebrews chapter 12. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for the revelation
that you've given us of thy dear Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. We thank you for your word. We
thank you for your Holy Spirit that inspired men to write it
and that inspires and enlightens our hearts to hear it and to
believe it. Lord, we truly are that woman
that's been sent out into the wilderness. And we thank you
for that two-winged eagle that has brought us our food. We pray this morning that you
would feed our souls by your spirit and by your word, and
that you would enable us to rest in Christ, to feed on his flesh
and to drink his blood and to believe on him. Lord, to leave
this place with hope and with thy salvation. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. There is a great paradox in the
believer's life that can only be understood by experience. And that is that we rest in Christ
and at the same time, we are in a race. We run and we rest
at the same time. And I hope that the Lord will
give us some encouragement and hope this morning in this life
of faith that we are running. Hebrews chapter 12, verse one
says, wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, the Lord is referring back to those Old
Testament saints that are spoken of in the previous chapter. Let
us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily
beset us. Now surely each of us have different
struggles with sin, but there is one sin. that doth so easily
beset each one of us. And it's the same sin. It's the
sin of unbelief. It's the cause of all our sin. And so the Lord is admonishing
us to set aside that sin and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the beginning and the end
and everything in between. Who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God. God our Heavenly Father said
to his dear son, sit down here at my right hand until I make
all thine enemies thy footstool. We are by nature at enmity with
God. And what God does by his grace
is cause us to do what Mary did and sit at the feet of the Lord
Jesus and listen to him and follow him. For consider him, and here's
the, Here's the paradox, for consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied
and faint in your minds. So there's a rest and there's
a race. There's a weariness and there's a hope. where you have
not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin. There's a striving
and a resisting. And the Lord said, you haven't
been killed yet. And so Ryan did our men's prayer time
this morning and he read from 1 Corinthians 9. And I told him afterwards, I
said, well, that was in my notes to preach this morning, where
Paul speaks of running the race in order to win the prize. The
Lord Jesus himself being that prize. In another place, Paul
said, I've not yet apprehended that which has apprehended me.
But this one thing I do, I press. I press towards the mark for
the prize of the high calling. in Christ Jesus. He himself is
the prize. I am thine exceeding great reward. In 2 Timothy chapter 4, Paul
said, I have finished my course. This race is a course. And those
that have been set on the course, it's a marathon. It's not a sprint. A lot of people join the race
and they think that it's a sprint, but it's not, it's a lifelong
pursuit. I have finished my course, I
have kept the faith. Henceforth, Paul said, there
is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the righteous
judge shall give me in that day. And not me only, but all those
who love his appearing. So as we run in this race, we
are looking to Christ And we are loving the hope of knowing
that one day we'll see him as he is and be made like him. Believers are always on the run. We're on the run from something
and we're on the run to something. The scripture speaks of men in
religion, and I can relate to this so well, who run to and
fro without any aim. They're not on a course, they're
just, they're looking for something. We're not on that sort of race.
We have our eyes fixed on the prize and we're running toward
a goal. Now, if you'll turn with me to
1 Samuel chapter 21, we're going to look at an Old Testament type
that speaks to this hope that we have
and this race that we're in. David, fleeing from Saul. Saul is his enemy, he's cruel,
he's merciless, he's jealous, he's afraid and he's obsessed
with getting rid of David. He is relentless in his pursuit
of David. David's running from him. You
know, What do they say? Don't run from a fight. Oh, you
better, you're gonna lose it. The scripture speaks of our need
to run from some things. 1 Corinthians chapter six, the
Lord tells us to flee fornication. He tells us in 1 Corinthians
chapter 10, do flee idolatry, run from idolatry. And Paul told
Timothy, flee from youthful lust. Flee from these things, run from
them. And then when he was speaking in 1 Timothy chapter six about
the deceitfulness of riches, he says to Timothy, he says,
flee these things, flee from them and follow after righteousness
and godliness and faith and love and patience. When our Lord spoke
of how his sheep would not listen to the voice of a false prophet,
a hireling, he said, my sheep know me, they know my voice and
they'll follow me, but of a hireling, they'll run from him, they'll
flee from him. And so we're to flee the false
gospel. And anyone who is telling lies
about our Lord, we read in God's Word, flee from the wrath to
come. I don't want to be a part of that.
I need for the Lord to do for me what he did for Lot and Sodom. And even when Lot lingered, the
Lord sent an angel and took him by the hand and caused him to
flee. He caused him to to run from that destruction. And our Lord tells us in Matthew
chapter 10, when you are persecuted in one city, flee that city to
another. So there's nothing cowardice
about running from sin and running from those things that would,
as long as we're running to something or someone. Mary and Joseph were told by
an angel to flee to Egypt, go down to Egypt until the death
of Herod and they fled. They hid out in Egypt. God had provided them a hiding
place. They had a specific thing to flee from and a thing to flee
to. Children of Israel are told by
God to flee Moab, and they're told to flee Babylon. They're run from those things. You see, the believer's life
is a life of being on the run, aren't we? We really are. And as I said, we're not just
running to and fro, we're running from something, and we're running
to someone. The Lord tells us to sit still. The battle is not yours. He will
get all the glory for it. And so as we run from these things,
we're running to the Lord Jesus. Look at our text in 1 Samuel
chapter 21. Verse 10. Well, I'm sorry, let's back up
to verse 8. And David said unto Ahimelech, Ahimelech was the
priest. David's fleeing from Saul and
he says to Ahimelech, Himmlech's name translated means, my father
is king. We have a priest, a high priest,
who's seated successfully at the right hand of the father,
interceding for us. He's the one we flee to. David
didn't just flee haphazardly from Saul, he ran to Nob. Nob translated means, a fruitful
mountain. And so David had a very clear
objective as to where he was going. A couple of weeks ago
we looked at the first part of this chapter where David got
from Ahimelech the showbread and ate the showbread and how
the Lord used that example to declare himself as the Lord of
the Sabbath, that he was that bread. And now David, after having
received the showbread, asked Ahimelech, he said, do you have
a weapon under your hand? I'm defenseless. I'm vulnerable. I don't have a weapon. Look what
he says. And David said unto Ahimelech,
and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? Do you not
have something that I can use to defend myself? I'm on the
run. I need a weapon. For I have neither brought my
sword nor my weapon with me because the King's business required
haste." Oh, the Lord has called us in haste to run from these
things and now we come to our high priest, our Ahimelech, whose
father is king. And we ask him, is there not
a weapon under your hand that you can give me to defend myself
against this relentless enemy that pursues me? And the priest said, the sword
of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of
Elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod." Now the ephod was the shoulder
breastplate that the high priest wore. And it's another description
of our Lord as the one who God has put on his shoulders the
governments, and he's able to bear the weight of these enemies
that we cannot defend ourself against. We have no weapon against
them. And if thou will take that, if
thou will take that, it's the only thing I've got, the only
option you have, If that will take that, take it. For there
is none other save that here. And David said, there is none
like that. Give it me. And give it me is
the title of this message. And I pray the Lord will put
into our hearts this same desire to say, to our high priest, the
son of the king, the one who wears the ephod and bears the
weight of our sins on his shoulders. Oh Lord, there's none like that.
There's none like that, give it me. David not only was being
pursued by an enemy, but he went to the right place. He went to
the place where he could achieve those things that were necessary
to defend himself against this enemy. He was running from trouble,
but in running from trouble, he ran to the only place of hope
and refuge that there was. The Lord tells us to flee to
the mountains. This word, knob, We know that
that's where he was. Look at verse one in chapter
21. Then came David to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech
was afraid at the meeting of David and said unto him, why
art thou alone and no man with thee? This was a Levitical city. The
Levites weren't given land like the other 11 tribes were given. They had cities in every one
of the tribes had Levitical cities and Nob was one of those cities.
It was a place for the priest. And David knew that. He knew that if he was gonna
get help from God, that's where he had to go. Here we are gathered together
in a little mountain. And we've come here, I trust
this morning. because of the relentless pursuit
of our enemy, that sin that does so easily beset us, unbelief
that causes us so often to look away from the only one in whom
we can have the hope of salvation and try to find our comfort and
our strength somewhere else. and the Lord in his mercy has
put it in our heart. So go back to Nob, go to Himalek,
ask him if there's anything under his hand that he can give you
to deliver you. You're in need. We run to a mountain, not to
the Mount Sinai, we're not running to the law to try to to try to
conquer this enemy. We're not trying to, well, if
I can just step up my religious activity, if I can do better
and pray more and read my Bible more, somehow I'll be able to
defeat the enemy. Well, we ought to pray more and
we ought to read our Bible more and we ought to be more faithful
and we ought to try harder. But those things come as a result. If that becomes our work, then
there's no hope of we're only being entrapped by the enemy
all the more. If we think that Mount Sinai
applying the law and becoming more faithful to the law is somehow
going to deliver us, then we only become more entangled with
the very enemy that we're trying to escape. We don't go to Mount
Sinai, we go to Mount Calvary. We go to that place where the
Lord Jesus, suspended between heaven and earth, bore our sins
in his body upon that tree and put them away once and for all. And we look unto Jesus, as we
read in Hebrews chapter 12, who himself is the author and the
finisher of our faith. Who for the joy that was before
him He went to that cross knowing that the father would raise him
from the dead, knowing that the father would be satisfied with
the sacrifice that he made, knowing that the father would ascend
him back into glory and put him at that rightful place, at the
right hand of God. That's who we look to. Our hope. when we come here is
that he will meet with us. We like David are vulnerable. We're needy. We're unarmed. We cannot defend ourselves. We
can't reason with our sin. We can't argue it away. We can't
outmaneuver it or strengthen ourselves against it. One of the reasons why the Lord
calls us sheep is because that's the way sheep are. Sheep are
defenseless. They're vulnerable. The only
hope that they have is to gather themselves together in a flock
and be protected by a shepherd. Is that not why we're here today?
Gather ourselves against the wolves of our own sin and cry
out to the shepherd, Lord, is there anything under your hand?
Anything that you could give me. You see, though we walk in the
flesh, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. We don't use
fleshly weapons against spiritual enemies. This is a spiritual
enemy, requires a spiritual weapon. We can't use the determination
and strength and commitment of our own will to defeat this enemy. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, they are mighty through God. To the pulling down of strongholds
that we might bring into captivity, every thought and imagination,
it rears itself up against God. And that verse in second, Corinthians
chapter 10 ends with, to the obedience of Christ. We look
to the Lord Jesus and to his obedience, we're looking to the
sacrifice, not only his act of obedience in his perfect life
of righteousness, obeying the law every letter, every dot,
every tittle, but his passive obedience. He
was obedient even unto death, even the death of the cross.
When the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross, he was obeying
his father. He was laying down his life for
his sheep. And so it's the Lord that we
run to and that we look to. We have no defense otherwise. And like Saul, this enemy is
relentless. He's not going to quit. And so this race and this rest,
this paradox that believers experience in the walk of faith is an everyday
experience. And it will be until the day
that the Lord takes us home. Notice in our text in verse 8 of 1st Samuel chapter 21, is
there not here under thy hand? Now that's just biblical language
for You have complete authority for whatever it is that you have.
It's under your hand. It's in your hand to give or
to keep back. It's up to you to show mercy. I will have mercy upon on whom
I will have mercy. Lord, I can't demand this of
you. It's under your hand to give
or to withhold. And we know that the hand is
a picture in the Bible of works, of works. And how often the Lord
Jesus is referred to as the strong right hand of God. And how you
remember when Jacob gave his blessings to Manasseh and Ephraim,
he swapped his hands and he put his right hand on Ephraim A picture
of the blessings of God being given by Christ. It's by his
hand. Our hands are defiled. Anything
we touch with our hands, who can stand before God? He that
hath clean hands and a pure heart. How can my, the Lord, we're like
Uzzah. What did Uzzah do? He reached
up and he put his defiled hand on the ark and God killed him
on the spot. And the Lord said, if you're
gonna build an altar, don't put your hand to it. Don't try to,
just don't try to hewn the stones because as soon as you touch
it, you defile it. Only the hand of the Lord Jesus
Christ is pure and clean. And everything is under his hand. And so as we flee from the enemy
of our own sin, We flee to that priest in Nob who possesses under
his hand that which we need. And he has the authority. We're
like David. Is there anything under your
hand? I know it's by your power. You remember we read last weekend
from Revelation chapter 5 where John sees the Lord holding the
book in his hand, in his right hand, and that no one was able
to unlock the seals of the book and to reveal the secrets. And
without the book being open, no one would be saved. The decrees
of God would not be fulfilled. The book of life would not have
life. The scriptures would not be opened. And John wept and the angel said,
weep not, weep not for the lion of the tribe of Judah. But we
know who that is. He hath prevailed and he is able
to open the seals and he's able to open God's word and he's able
to open the land's book of life and he's able to fulfill the
decrees of God in order to accomplish the salvation of God's people.
It's all in his right hand. And when we look at the seven
churches of Revelation chapter one and two, and the churches
are referred to as candlesticks, and the Lord Jesus is walking
among the candlesticks, and he has in his right hand the seven
stars, the shepherds of those churches, and he possesses them,
and it's only by his hand. Lord, my hand can't accomplish
anything. My hand's unclean, it's defiled. Every time I try
to fix something with my hands, I just make it worse. Every time
I try to fix my sin problem with more of a commitment on my part
without looking to Christ, I just created all the more problem,
find myself more in bondage. Lord, it's under your hand. The Lord Jesus is spoken of as
the right hand of God, seated at his right hand with all authority
and with all power. In Exodus chapter 13, it says,
the Lord said, with a strong hand, the Lord has brought thee
out of Egypt. With a strong hand. You weren't
willing to come out. You weren't able to come out.
You were under the taskmasters of the law that were abusing
you And what another glorious picture. Every time the children
of Israel, when they were in Egypt, got close to producing
the amount of bricks that the Egyptians required, the Egyptians
would raise the quota and take away the straw. They could never
accomplish. They could never achieve what
was required. There we are. We can't keep the
God's law. We must look in faith to the
only one who is able. Psalm 136, verse 12, with a strong
hand and with a outstretched arm. He has mercy and his mercy endures
forever. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 10,
behold, the Lord will come and with a strong hand And with a
strong arm, he will rule for his people and his reward is
with him. And his work shall go before
him. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that could send his works ahead of himself to recommend
him to God. And that's exactly what he did.
You and I can't send our works ahead of ourselves. His work
went before him. So we're looking unto Jesus,
the author and the finisher of our faith. We're like David,
pursued by a relentless enemy, defenseless without a weapon.
Oh Lord, is there anything under your hand? The Lord tells us
in Isaiah chapter 59, the Lord's hand is not short that it cannot
save. nor is his ear deaf that he cannot
hear." David asked the right question,
didn't he? He went to the right place and he asked the right
question. Not only did he ask a question
revealing his knowledge of where that help was to come, under
the hand of Ahithophel. But he asked the right question
as to what he needed from under the hand of that priest. I need
a sword. I need a sword. Oh, we know what that's a reference
to, don't we? The sword of the spirit is the word of God. And we don't separate God's written
word from the living word of the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The word was made flesh and the word dwelt among us and
we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and full of truth. In the beginning was the word.
The word was God. When we go to So I said, what
an appropriate hymn that we began with. The Bible is a book of
Christ. It only speaks of him. Every
story and every passage we go to, if we're to be saved, we
must find him. We must look to him and look
for him. We're running from something,
yes, and we're running to someone. David said, do you have a sword?
Do you have a sword? Oh Lord, I need a word from God. I'm like that Syrophoenician
woman, the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table.
Lord, would you just give me one precious promise, one word
that would speak hope and truth to my heart, that would help
me in this race that I'm in? Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
2. Isaiah chapter 2, verse 1. The word that Isaiah, the son
of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. The word for you and me. And it shall come to pass in
the last days. Now, when the Bible speaks of
the last days, it's speaking of all those days. I hope we're
in the last of the last days right now, but the last days
began at the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they will continue
until his second coming. So we're in those last days and
the church has been in this. So here's the promise for the
entire time of the church. And it shall come to pass in
the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be
established in the top of the mountains. What does Nob mean? It means a mountain. A high place. We come to this mountain. The Lord would meet with us. And shall be exalted above the
hills and all nations shall flow into it. And many people shall
go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the
Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. and he will teach us
of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion
shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Brethren, there's no other place
in this world except the church of the Lord Jesus Christ that's
giving any word of hope to sinners who are fleeing from the enemy.
and have their hearts set on heaven. There's no other place.
There's only one reason to go to a church, and that is if the
gospel's being preached there. You find out, you know, people
leave churches for all sorts of reasons. You find out why
they came when you hear about why they left. Because the only
reason to leave a church is if the gospel's not being preached.
What a rare thing it is, what a rare find, what a rare. Churches
of the Lord Jesus Christ are few and far between, aren't they?
And here's the promise in the last days, the Lord will raise
up mountains and the people will say, come, this is where we'll
hear a word from God. This is where we can, this is
where we can find the spirit and the sword of the spirit.
And Hebrews chapter 4 tells us that that sword divides asunder
the flesh from the spirit and reveals the thoughts and the
intents of the heart. It's a living sword. It's a two-edged
sword. It kills and it makes alive.
This is what David's asking for. Do you have anything under your
hand? Or not just anything, do you have a sword or a spear under
your hand that will defend me in this pursuit of sin that is
always with me? Verse four, and he shall judge
among the nations and rebuke many people. and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares." Now in Exodus chapter 15, the
enemies of God, the scripture says they draw their sword and
the sword is not only a picture of God's word, the sword of the
spear being the word of God, but it's a picture of the tongue,
which is the place from which we speak. When the Lord Jesus
comes in the book of Revelation, the scriptures describe him as
one who has a tongue of a flaming sword. And in Exodus chapter
15, the enemies of God say, we'll draw our sword. We'll speak our
word and we'll demand things of God and we'll require of him. No, you won't. When God speaks, you beat your
sword into a plowshare. And that's what we're doing right
now. We're not speaking against God. We're plowing the field,
planting the seeds of the gospel, speaking God's word. We don't
have anything to say, to add to, or take away from what God
has said. They will beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into pruning forks. Nations shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
anymore. Oh, house of Jacob, come ye and
let us walk in the light of the Lord." David was being pursued by a
relentless enemy, went to the right place, he asked the right
question. He knew where his help was, it was under the hand. of
the priest and he knew what he needed, a sword, a weapon, a
word from God. Oh, this sword is also a sword
of remembrance. It's a sword of remembrance when
David saw Goliath's sword, the very sword that David used to
take the head off of Goliath. You see his eyes light up and
he says, oh, there's none like that, give it me. There's none
like that. It's the sword of remembrance.
David's faith was waning. David was afraid. David was in
flight of an enemy. And when he saw that sword, can
you just imagine that the sight of that sword brought to his
memory what God had done in miraculously slaying this giant? Now, brethren,
we're not to live off of yesterday's manna. Yesterday's manna is rotted. We need fresh manna every day. And we try to live off of the
experience of yesterday's grace, and we'll find out what the children
of Israel found out when they tried to save manna a day over. It'll be full of worms and it'll
be rotting. Lord, give us this day our daily
bread. We must come to Christ daily.
And that having been said, the scripture often reminds us to
remember. Remember. The disciples were
afraid because the Lord had rebuked them about bread and they thought
that they were being rebuked because they didn't bring a loaf
of bread with them. And he said, do you not remember? I wasn't
talking about physical bread. I was talking about the leaven
of the Pharisees. Do you not remember when I took
five loaves of bread and fed 5,000 people and there were 12
baskets of fragments left over? Do you not remember? Oh, child of God, come to the
Lord daily for fresh manna. But remember this, remember this,
He hasn't brought you to where you are to leave you now. If
He's shown mercy and revealed His grace and glory to you in
the past, remember that. The sword of remembrance. If
God, by his word, has spoken hope and peace to your heart,
he's not going to stop that. Remember how the Lord brought
you out of Egypt. Remember how he brought manna
from heaven in the past. Remember how he brought water
from the rock. Sword of remembrance. Don't you know that one look
at that sword and David would have been renewed in his faith. And finally, David made the right
request. Oh, give it to me. Give it to
me. The evidence of God's grace in
salvation. is our desire to have Christ,
to have his word. It is our request. The Lord put that in our hearts.
We know that he's not rewarding us because we made a decision.
David's not making a decision. The priest had already told him,
there's nothing else I've got. This is it. This is all I've
got. It wasn't like David had a choice
to choose something different. Well, I'll take that sword over
there. I'll take this. If God gives you and I a choice, we're
always going to choose against Christ. He has to shut us up
to Christ so that we've got no place else to go. And when found
in that place, faith says, there's none like that. Give it me. Give it me. call upon the name of the Lord
and thou shalt be saved. The Lord's gonna put it in our
hearts to ask. Ask, knock, the door will be
open. Ask, you'll be given unto you.
Seek and you will find. The Lord is gonna put it in,
don't think, well, I'm just gonna sit here until something happens
and I'm gonna wait for something outside of me to just strike
me from heaven like a bolt of lightning? No. The Lord says,
ask. David, ask. There's none like
that. Give it to me. Oh, Lord, give
me Christ or I die. Give me a morsel of hope. Give
me the sword of the spirit. Cause your living word to be
alive in my heart. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and he that cometh unto me I will in no wise
cast out. You know that one verse, you
have election, you have particular redemption, all that the Father
giveth me, they won't come to me unless the Father gives them
to me, why? Because they're totally depraved, they're dead in their
trespasses and sins. But all that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out irresistible
grace, perseverance, effectual calling. There it is, it's all
right there. Don't you love the story in John
chapter four of the woman at the well? When the Lord said
to her, if you knew, if you knew who it is, that saith unto thee, give me
to drink. You would ask him and he would
give you living water. She did ask, Lord, give me this
water that I thirst not. And she ran back down into Sychar,
come, come see a man. who told me everything that I
ever did, is this not the Christ? The Lord revealed himself to
her. She said, we know that when Messiah comes, which is the Christ,
he'll teach us all things. And the Lord Jesus said, I am
speaketh unto thee. He revealed himself to her. And she said with David, there's
none like that. Give it me. Give it me. All right, let's take a break.
Greg Elmquist
About Greg Elmquist
Greg Elmquist is the pastor of Grace Gospel Church in Orlando, Florida.
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