The Lord slept still within the
ship As waves did toss about As Peter, James, and even John They thought God's sea and awful
wind would plunge them into death. That they could see that sleeping
there was God in human flesh. Had drove them to despair As
if the Lord so strong and kind Had for them not a care Then
up on deck he cried aloud, O wind and sea, be still. And then those fainting hearts
of theirs with awe did overfill. When is this that stills the
thunderous sky? The one who bore the wrath of
God for others when he died. They went from unbelief to faith
as they heard him speak. That voice still calms the troubled
breast and lays it at his feet. And as the burden of my sin comes
crashing on my soul, God has spoken, Christ is all, and he
has made me He is my faith, my hope, my life,
my trust in Him alone. For He reached down to pick me
up to Heaven's eternal home. ? Faith is trusting what God
has written ? ? In his holy word ? ? And rest comes sweet when
in the heart ? ? His precious word is spoken ? Trouble flees when shielded by
faith and cut by God's own sword. Guilt takes wings and flies away
and loosed our sorrow's cords. When is this that stills the
thunderous sky? The one who bore the wrath of
God for others when he died. They went from unbelief to faith
as they heard him speak. That voice still calms the troubled
breast and lays it at his feet. That voice still calms the troubled
breast and lays it at his feet. Good morning again. I was told
to change out the water if Tom didn't do it. I'm so thankful to be with you
all. Thankful for the message the Lord gave Todd and David. I remind you what I said last night.
I'll be saying some of the things David said last night again. I'm reminded that if it's true,
it's not new. My pastor told me that one time.
And if it's new, it's not true. And if it's true, it's not new. The truth of the Lord is everlasting,
isn't it? So we desire to hear one thing,
and that's the Lord's truth. So I pray the Lord causes us
to hear his truth this morning. Turn with me from your Bibles,
if you would, to Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10. Let's read our text here in Luke
10 verse 38. Now it came to pass as they went
that he entered into a certain village. And a certain woman
named Martha received him into her house. She had a sister called
Mary, which also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about
with much Martha was cumbered about, much serving, and came
to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath
left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help
me. And Jesus answered and said unto
her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many
things, but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good
part which shall not be taken away from her. I titled this
message, One Thing Needful. One Thing Needful. We see the
contrast of these two women. We have on one hand Martha, who
is cumbered about with much serving. She's full of care. She's troubled
about many things. And then we have Mary, on the
other hand, who is seated. and she's hearing the word of
the Lord. She's at his feet. That's the
one thing needful, isn't it? To hear his word, to be placed
at his feet, to hear what he has to say, for he has the words
of eternal life. Now, I understand that this is
a physical account, but there's also spiritual application throughout
the word of God for most, if not all, of the physical accounts
that are given. You and I have one thing needful
when it comes to the truth of the Lord, and that is for him
to cause us to be seated, to cause us to be listening, to
cause us to hear. He has to enable us to do all
of these things. Either we are troubled and full
of care, or we are given the one thing needful that only the
Lord can fill. Now, every one of God's elect
are given the same need in time. They are made to hunger after
the bread of life. They are made to thirst after
the fountain of living water. They are made to need him alone. I'm sure that Martha was unintentionally
ignoring the Lord as he was there. She was busy trying to, and you
can imagine the setting. She was really trying, perhaps
not to impress the Lord, but as some of us know, when you're
going to host, you want to have everything looking good and you
go to extreme measures to do so. She was really trying her
best, wasn't she? And isn't that true with all
men in religion? Spiritually speaking, they really
try their best. They don't realize that they've
never been given the one thing needful. They've never seen that
their best is not good enough. Aren't you glad for the allegory
here that shows us what we need from the Lord? We need him to
cause us to need him. We need him to cause us to need
him. Otherwise, we would be like Martha
and be burdened about with so many things and yet never have
the one thing needful. I said this last night, I wrote
this down again. Either we're made beggars or
we're made braggers and the spelling of the two is not far off from
each other. You just change the A and the
E around and you add an R and you have bragger or you have
beggar. Who maketh thee to differ? It's the Lord that does it. It's
the Lord that does it. Turn with me to Luke 18. Here we heard this last night
but we have the parable of the The Pharisee and the Publican.
Look with me, Luke 18 and verse 9. And he spake this parable
unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous
and despised others. Two men went up into the temple
to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican. The Pharisee
stood and prayed thus within himself, God, I thank thee that
I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as
this publican. I fast twice in a week. I give
tithes of all that I possess. And the publican standing afar
off would not lift up so much his eyes unto heaven and smote,
but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone
that exalteth himself shall be abased. He that humbleth himself
shall be exalted. First of all, we see the audience
of our Lord who he's speaking to. It's they that believed in
themselves that they were righteous. They were righteous. Notice the
distinct difference though in the confession between the Pharisee
who is righteous and the publican. The Pharisee says, I, I, I, it's all about I. It's all
about me. And in religion, is it not true
that every, and some of you who were perhaps in religion, you
remember you had to sit a little bit higher than everybody else
so that God would notice you. You weren't as bad as so-and-so,
you weren't really that bad. It wasn't that the logic or the
idea. If I do more, I'll sit a little higher than my peers
are. I'll be observed as better. I'll have some kind of righteousness.
And yet we see when it comes to the Lord that there's none
good, no not one. There's none that seeketh after
God. We heard last night. The distinct
difference is the Lord must give one thing needful. He must give
the need that only he can fill. And he only gives that need to
his people. That's what he gave to the publican,
wasn't it? The publican knew what the problem was. It was
a heart problem. He smote upon his breast. He
was made a mercy begging sinner, would not lift up his eyes unto
heaven. But he said, Lord, have mercy on me, the sinner. Now, there's there's no pride
in begging. And I want to say this as clear
as I can. I don't. We are to humanitarily do the
best we can for our fellow man in love and compassion. But you
know, there's some that are going about, they're begging, they're
homeless by choice. They do these things by their
own choice. And I certainly would not say anything against, you
know, those that are in poverty, those that are in need, we should
help. But as best we can, as unto the Lord is able, as he's
made us to be. But some, as I have seen in my
experience, and you've probably seen in your experience, They
beg in order to obtain, and once they've obtained, they brag about
it a little bit. I know a guy that he got a new
pair of shoes because he made somebody feel really guilty about
the shoes that they had on, so they went and bought him a pair.
He walks around, it's a place I frequent, and he says, look
at these shoes I got. Look at these shoes I got. He'd
been begging there for a while. He could get a job, he just chooses
not to. But he did that, and now he's bragging about it. There's
no bragging. in begging. A beggar comes empty-handed
with one need, one thing needful unto the Lord. We don't come
saying, Lord, I need you, therefore I've obligated you to help me. I'm worse than so-and-so, so
I'm obligating you to help me. No, the beggar has nothing to
offer, not even in their state of being a sinner or a state
of being a beggar. No, we're completely dependent
upon him. We come with an outstretched,
empty hand unto him, not offering him anything. not offering him
anything, men will actually justify themselves
because they say they're sinners. Have you ever heard somebody
say, well, I'm just a sinner? By nature, I'm just a sinner.
That's why I did that. They're justifying themselves because of what they
are. Not the mercy beggar. No, the mercy beggar says, have
mercy on me, the sinner. The sinner. If we knew And if
we've been made to know and to see the holiness of some, I'll
say this hesitantly, some of the holiness of God, realizing
by grace, through faith, how high and lifted up he is as Isaiah
saw, we'll be like Isaiah. We'll realize we're the vile
one. We'll realize the word sinner is not a compliment. It's the
worst creature upon the face of the planet, isn't it? That's
what a sinner is. And that's what the Lord makes
his people realize. I have no hope in myself, in my flesh.
In me, there dwelleth no good thing. No good thing. I've got
to have Christ. We come for one thing, the righteousness
of Christ made to realize he is the one thing needful. He
is the one thing needful. Now, unless God makes this need.
We will brag as this Pharisee did, we will brag ourself all
the way to hell. I would remind us that in the
day of judgment, many will stand before the Lord and what will
be their confession? I have done many, many wonderful works in
your name. We even cast out demons in your
name. I've done all these things. I, I, I. They're not begging,
they're bragging. I take great comfort in knowing
every person that came to the Lord begging for mercy, begging
for help, begging to be saved. The Lord met that need. He met
that need. We're mercy beggars, brethren.
We know it's all of grace. It's all of grace. And it's all
of grace that we're justified. Look what he says in verse 14.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
than the other. Now understand something. The
cause and effect here. If we believe it's not to become
justified. If we believe it's because we've
been justified. If we come to Christ begging,
We come to the Lord not to obligate God to save us, but because he's
already saved us. That's why we beg. He's given
us the beg. He's given us the cry. He's given
us the words. We must say, Lord, have mercy
on me, the sinner. We've been made to know that,
haven't we? It's not what we produce in any way. It's what
he gives freely by his grace. We come desiring to hear one
thing, to hear His Word, have forgiveness of sin, forgiveness
of what we are. It's only found in one place,
in the Lord Jesus Christ, His righteousness. That's where we
come. We've been made to know He's righteous, we're not. We
come desiring to hear, fear not, I've put away thy sin. Now, unless
we are made desperate, will never come. Christ said these words,
you will not come to me that you may have eternal life. Why? They didn't have the need. They
didn't have him as the need. They were speaking to God. How
often do we see in scripture the Lord talking to the Pharisees
or talking to the scribes has already been mentioned. They
were talking to God and they could not see him. They did not
hear his voice. They did not know him. They hated
him. He told them, I am the bread
that came down from heaven. And they said, our father's ate
man in the wilderness. He told, I'm the bread that came
down from heaven. They said, well, we'd be of Abraham's seed.
He said, you're not of Abraham's seed. If you were, you would,
Abraham was glad when he saw my day. Abraham rejoiced. He
said, you're of your father, the devil. You don't have a need.
I've not given you the need. He said, all that the father
give me shall come to me. Why? He gives the need. We have one
thing needful. He must give it. And it is the
Lord Jesus Christ himself, isn't it? When he makes the one thing needful,
he always fills it with that one, the Lord Jesus Christ. You're
in the book of Luke. Turn to Luke chapter 8. We're
going to look at a few allegories this morning. Luke chapter 8 has two individuals
that come to the Lord for two different needs. One is named
Jay Iris. He's a ruler of the synagogue,
and he has a daughter that's 12 years old, and she's dying.
He says, Lord, I need you to come to my house. I need you
to heal my daughter. And the other one is the woman
with the issue of blood. You probably are familiar with
that account. She had the issue of blood for
12 years as well. Now, one had a 12-year-old daughter
that was dying. The other one had an issue of
blood for 12 years. Which one had a greater need? Aren't you
thankful that the Lord creates the same need regardless of whether
we think it's great or whether we think it's small? The need
is Christ. They came for Christ. I've done
all I can. I am shut up to Christ. That
was both of them. That was the conclusion. That
is every believer's conclusion by grace through faith. Christ
is all. I've got to have him. Let's read
this here in Luke chapter eight, verse 41. And behold, there came a man
named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell
down at Jesus' feet and besought him that he would come into his
house. Now, do you remember the publican that was in the temple
praying? He would not so much lift up
his eye. Do you remember that? Well, here's Jairus falling down
at his feet. When the Lord gives us the need,
he shows us what we are, who he is, and he shuts us up to
Christ, the same response for every believer will happen. We'll
fall down in worship. will worship him. He fell upon
his feet, fell down at Jesus' feet and besought him that he
would come into his house. For he had one only daughter,
about 12 years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went,
the people thronged him. And a woman having an issue of
blood, 12 years, which had spent all her living upon the physicians,
neither could be healed of any, came behind him and touched the
border of his garment and immediately, her issue of blood staunched. Now, if you think about this account
as it's unfolding, as it's taking place, how we would react, how
we would respond to this by nature, we have found the Lord. We're
bringing, asking him to come. He says, I'll go to your house.
I'll hear your daughter. And he's on the way. And yet,
as the crowd presses upon the Lord. This woman realizes that
Jesus is passing by. She crawls unto the Lord and
she touches the hem of his garment. And the Lord knows that virtue
left her. He stops. He stops and he says, who touched
me? Now understand something. Jairus has no time to waste.
Jairus is in a desperate situation. His daughter's dying and the
only one that can help has now stopped and he's no longer heading
the direction that Jairus in his mind thinks that the Lord
needs to be heading. That's how we are by nature,
isn't it? What happens? Well, the woman is made to confess. Virtue left that who she was,
her need of the Lord, and she was healed. Look what the Lord
says in verse 48. He said unto her daughter, be
of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole, go in peace.
Verse 49 says, while he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler
of the synagogue's house saying to him, thy daughter is dead,
trouble not the master. Now what's gonna be our response
to that, naturally speaking? All hope's lost at that point,
right? Naturally speaking, naturally speaking, Desperation, and so
oftentimes the Lord creates it in his people. He shuts us up.
The Lord's the only one that could have healed the daughter,
but you know what faith believes? The Lord's the only one that
can raise the daughter from the dead too. Look what he says right here
in the next verse. When Jesus heard it, he answered him saying,
fear not, believe only. Do you know what our need is?
No matter the circumstance, whenever you see that you're a sinner,
it doesn't matter what it is. Our need is to hear the Lord
say, fear not. Peace, be still. That song, that
was a glorious song. It was talking just of that.
When the Lord, when the waves of our sin beat up against us,
yet the Lord says, peace, be still, they're gone. They're
gone. The Lord's the one that put them
away. That's the need. Faith just believes God. Not
what we see, not the circumstantial evidence. No, faith believes
the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith rests in Him. That's the
need we have, is to believe on Him. Only desperate men and women
are beggars. Only desperate men and women
are beggars. If we have... You're not completely
desperate. If the Lord hasn't made us completely
desperate, we'll never beg. We'll never beg. Why does a beggar
beg? If you're talking about being
a mercy beggar because that's... That's what we've been shut up
to do. We have nothing to offer. We come with no, what was Blind
Bartimaeus? Did he have any hope in and of
himself to approach the Lord and to persuade the Lord to show
him mercy? No, he cried out, Jesus, thou
son of David, have mercy on me. And the more that they hushed
him, the louder he got, didn't he? And finally, the Lord called,
I love that. The Lord called for, Lord, call
for me. Lord, you've put the desire, the cry in my heart.
You've given us the desire. Now, Lord, call us unto yourself.
Do you know if he's given you the cry, he's already done the
calling. He's already done that. He doesn't do that in vain. But
how did Bartimaeus approach the Lord as a beggar? Well, number
one, he was blind. He was a beggar. But number two,
it says he cast his garments to the side. He had no righteousness
coming to the Lord. He was completely empty. He was
completely naked before God. He said, I have a need only you
can feel. I have nothing to offer, nothing
to offer. And what did the Lord say? Be
thou made whole. He said, receive thy sight. The
Lord gave him, the Lord gave him sight. In the allegory we were at, I
suppose I should, everybody knows this probably, but the Lord resurrected
that young lady. So no matter the need, the Lord
met the need. The Lord met the need. But there's a spiritual
application there. Somebody said, I'm dead in trespasses and in
sin. I have no hope. That's good news. If you know
the Lord Jesus Christ, he has the power to say, live, live. By his grace, He says, live,
and says, come take of the water of life freely. Isaiah 55 says,
everyone that thirsts, just come. Are you thirsty? Only somebody
thirsty will eat. Only somebody hungry will eat.
I've got three children, and some of you have children. You've
probably done the same thing I have, suppertime in the evening
when they were younger. You need to eat your vegetables. You need to eat your food. Well,
I'm not hungry. Well, you're going to sit there
until you eat them. You're going to sit there for a while till
you eat them. Well, time passes by and either my, eventually,
they normally won, you know, however it went, whatever, but
you don't have to tell someone hungry to eat. If they're starving,
if they have any, if they're in a desert place and they have
had no water, if they have had no food, you don't have to tell
them to eat. If they're presented with food
and water, if it's supplied, they'll eat, they'll drink. Lord
makes us desperate, doesn't he? And He gives us that need that
only He can fill the bread of life and the fountain of living
water. Everyone that thirsteth, come.
Everyone that thirsteth, come. Come ye to the waters, and he
hath no money. Come ye, buy and eat. Yea, come,
buy wine and milk without money and price. Somebody says, I have
nothing to offer. That's good. That's part of the
qualification, isn't it? being a dead dog sinner with
nothing to offer. The Lord did that. The Lord does
that for his people. Otherwise, we would brag about
something we have to, that we can offer. No, it's all been
paid for by the blood of the lamb, hasn't it? We can't, we
can't purchase redemption. It's been purchased. We can't
add to or take away from it. It's forever settled. Lord, you're
going to have to give me this water. You're going to have to
give me this bread. You're going to have to cause
me to live. And he does. He does, he gives that need and
then he does just that. Now back to our text in Luke
chapter 10. I want you to look at Mary here.
Either we're begging or we're bragging, what was Mary doing?
Verse 39, she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus'
feet and heard his word. She was not bragging, was she?
Matter of fact, she wasn't even speaking. That's what the gospel
does, is it shuts us up. We have nothing else to say about
us. It's all about Him. She was listening. She was hearing. She was observing. She was given understanding of
the Lord's words. That's what the Lord's gospel
does according to His work, by grace in the heart. That's our
need. Lord, give us your gospel. Cause
us to hear your word. That's the need that we have,
isn't it? You remember the Syrophoenician
woman. Syrophoenician woman came to
the Lord. She was a Gentile. David mentioned this last night.
She was an outcast. She was a dog. She had no claim
on the promise of being Abraham's seed. And as she comes to the
Lord, she asked the Lord, for mercy. And the Lord said, it's
not meat to give the children's bread unto dogs. And he responded
to that after she said, help me. And you heard that last night.
I don't want to add to that. But when the Lord said those words
to her, it's not meat to give the children's bread unto dogs. She said, truth, Lord. She heard
the truth of what she was, of who she was, but she knew who
he was as well. See, he had given a need that
only he could feel and it's him. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. That
was the need. She said, but the dogs desire
the crumbs that fall from the master's table. The dogs desire
the crumbs that fall from the master's table. I have a few
dogs. I have four dogs to be exact.
I know something a little bit about dogs. I have a new dog
that's a little bit over a year old, and she would risk my wrath
every single day of the week in order to have one more crumb
or one more morsel fall off my plate. No matter how many times
I scold this dog and tell this dog to go lay down, no, I'm not
sharing my food with you. This is my food. She continually
begs. Why? She's a dog. She's a dog. It's her nature. It's her nature.
You know, the Lord gives his people a new nature. that begs
after one more crumb from his table. He gives his dead dog
sinners a need that only he can feel. And he fills that need
with the manna from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. We're made to beg for one more
crumb, aren't we? One more morsel of manna, one
more drink from the fountain of living water. Now either he gives us this need
or he leaves us to ourself. An example of that, for the sake
of time, is found in Mark chapter 5. We're not going to turn there,
but it's the Maniac of Gadara. We know the account. The Lord
travels on the sea to him. He condescends from the north
part all the way down to the south because he had a need to
meet the Maniac of Gadara. He goes to the tombs where the
man's at. And how was he found? Scripture says that he had been
put in chains and in fetters often, but he broke those chains
and fetters. And we know that's a picture of false religion.
Men trying to make covenants with God, men saying, I'm going
to do my part. And they make promises, but we
can't keep any promise to God. It's not our promise. It's his,
isn't it? We know that to be true. When he saw the master,
when the master met the maniac, the maniac came running to him
and fell on his face and worshiped and worshiped. And he was, The
Lord demanded his name, and he said, Legion, for we are many.
And the spirits asked the Lord to not send them away, but that
he would send them to the swine that was nearby. And he bid them
go. They went, and the swine drowned themselves in the sea.
You know the account. When the farmers, the herdsmen, came and
found the maniac, how did they find that man? They found him
seated at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. They found him
clothed. and they found him in his right mind. Now this man
was not given the need for Christ until first Christ came to him. Very important. No man come to
the father, but by me. But for every single maniac that
is elected of the Lord, he will come to them and he will say
unto all the false thoughts that we have of who God is, by his
repentance, he'll say depart. And now we say truth, Lord. Now
we are clothed in his righteousness alone. It's not my righteousness.
Now we are seated in his finished work alone. We're not seated
in our finished work, but his. And we're in our right mind.
Christ is all. Christ is all. This maniac wasn't coming to
Christ. Wasn't coming to Christ. Lord told the Pharisees, you
will not come to me that you may have eternal life. None of us
would come to Christ had it not been him first. seeking and saving
his people that were lost. We've been made to have one need. Unless God gives us that need,
we will never, never need him. He never gives that need in vain.
Every time he gives that need, he fills it with the Lord Jesus
Christ. The last allegory I want to mentioned to you today is
found in 2 Kings 5. We're not going to turn there
either, but it's Naaman the Syrian. Most of these are very familiar.
Naaman was captain of the host of Syria. That means he would
have been a five-star general. He was in charge. He was an honorable
man. He was a mighty man in valor.
He was a distinguished man. And yet we can think about all
the problems he had. I think Chris may have mentioned
this one time. He had a lot of problems until the Lord made
him a leper. After that, he had one problem, just one. See, if
the Lord doesn't give us that one thing needful, which is the
Lord Jesus Christ, we will not come to him. Naaman heard from
the servant girl that there was a prophet in Israel, and he goes
down to Israel, but he has the wrong mentality about God still.
He has the wrong ideal about God. He's gonna load up the caravan.
He's gonna bring the best silver, the gold that he has, everything
that he is gonna offer. He's gonna say, I'm gonna give
unto this man, and he's going to give unto me, healing. That's
the idea of men, isn't it? By nature, we think we can do
something to obligate God. It's not true. Well, what happened
when he got there? Well, Elisha never came out to
meet him. Elisha sent the servant and said,
Lord says, go down to Jordan, which represents death, and dipped
seven times. That's a picture of the perfect death of the Lord
Jesus Christ, isn't it? Naaman was furious. And he said
these words, and me and you, we're guilty of this. We are
so guilty of these words, I thought. Is that not the problem that
I have and you have all the time? I thought. I thought that this
man would come out and he would do this and he would do that.
I thought this and I thought that. His ways are above our
ways. His thoughts are above our thoughts.
He's God. He's God. What happened then? Well, the servant, his servant,
Naaman's servant, I said, Lord, if he'd have told you to do some
great thing, you'd have done it. Just go dip in the River
Jordan seven times. And Naaman did, by grace, and
he was healed. He was healed of his leprosy.
Understand, unless the Lord makes us a leper from the top of our
head to the bottom of our feet, we will have no need. We will
not glory in the cross of Christ. We will not glory in his perfect
death for his people that saved them. We will glory in ourself. But if he creates that need,
He fills that need with the Lord Jesus Christ and causes us to
rest in the finished work of Christ alone for our salvation. You and I don't think anymore,
do we? Naaman said, I thought. You and
I don't think anymore. Faith doesn't process, faith
doesn't compute algorithms. Faith doesn't think. Faith believes
Christ. We don't think anymore and try
to figure out God. Faith believes the Lord Jesus
Christ. How is it that we obtain that?
By grace alone. Faith believes the Lord Jesus
Christ successfully redeemed. See, he's given us a need and
that need is Christ alone. Christ alone, faith just believes
him. Faith just believes him. Only
when we're given the need, only when we're 100% leprous are we
declared clean. Only when we're made to see that
we're a maniac are we made to see the Lord's put us in our
right mind in seeing Christ. Only when we're made a dead dog
sinner does the Lord cause a crumb to fall from the master's table.
It's not how we see ourself that saves us, but it's that we see
Christ Jesus and his righteousness alone. We desire one more word of life,
one more crumb. We have one thing needful to
hear him speak. What does the Lord say? The good news of the
gospel is this. John chapter 10 tells us my sheep
hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give
unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. They shall
never perish. If you've been made a maniac,
you've been made a leper, you've been made a dead dog sinner,
If you know that you have an issue of blood from your father
Adam that cannot be cleansed by anything that you do, hear
the good news of what the Lord said in Revelation 21, it is
done. I am Alpha and Omega. I am the beginning of salvation.
I am the end of salvation. It is done. It is finished. I
will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of water of life
freely. How is it that he gives a thirst to everyone of the fountain
of life freely? Them that are thirsty, he's put
the thirst there. He put the thirst there, he put the hunger
there. The way that you and I would
ever come as if he causes us to, but hear what the spirit
and the bride say, come, come. Let him that heareth say, come.
Let him that a thirst say, come. Let him that a thirst, come.
And whosoever will, let him come take of the water of life for
you. I think it was Todd that said this one time. I'm glad
that he said whosoever there more than if it said Caleb Andrew
Hickman come because there's many Caleb Andrew Hickman's in
the world but I'm a whosoever by grace if you're thirsty he's
put the need there come if you're hungry he's put the need there
come wilt thou be made whole if he's made you a mercy-begging
leprous vile sinner yes Yes, you'll need to be made whole.
You know that he's the only remedy. He's the only remedy. He alone
is the one thing needful. Amen. Great. Let's all stand. We'll close
with hymn 318, number 318. Sorry, Joy. 318 in the hardback. I need thee every hour, most
gracious Lord. No tender voice like thine can
peace afford. I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Every hour I need thee. Oh, bless me. I'd come to thee. I need thee every hour. Stay thou nearby. Temptations lose their power
when thou art nigh. I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Every hour I
need thee, O bless me now, my Savior, I come to thee. I need thee every hour, in joy
or pain. Come quickly and abide, or life
is vain. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour, Most
Holy One, O make me Thine indeed, Thou blessed Son. I need Thee, O I need Thee, Every
hour I need Thee, Bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. Please be seated. I love that hymn. There's not a time we need him
more than when we gather together to worship him. We asked the Lord to meet that need when we began
this service, and I believe he has. I'm very thankful. The one
thing needful is the gospel. Thank you, brothers. We're going
to have lunch together. Hope you can stay. Lord willing,
we'll plan to meet back here tomorrow at 10 o'clock. At the conclusion of the service
tomorrow, we're gonna be able to witness a brother in baptism,
confessing Christ in baptism. So we're very thankful for that.
And let's pray together. Our Heavenly Father, thank you for creating a need
in our heart for the Thank you for meeting that need in the
person of thy dear son and the glorious gospel of your grace. Lord, you've fed our souls now
with the bread of life, for surely his body is our meat indeed,
and his blood is our drink indeed. And we thank you for the for
the nourishment that you have given to our souls. Lord, we
pray now that you would bless our fellowship. We thank you
for the food that we're about to receive physically. And thank
you, Lord, for the nourishment of our bodies that you provide.
We ask it in Christ's name, amen. And dismissed.