Good morning. For the call of
worship, will you turn to Revelation chapter 19. I usually don't like
to say anything from here. However, after watching what
I watched yesterday morning across the pond, it made me reflect
upon the King of Kings and who it is that we give glory to as
believing saints. So we'll start at verse 11. And
I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat
upon him is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns. And he had a name written that
no man knew but himself. And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And
the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth
goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations,
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
we are grateful that you have given to us your word, not only
in flesh, Lord, but in our hearts. We ask, Lord, that you be with
those that cannot be here today. We ask, Lord, that you would
give us mercy and grace to hear your truth, that we would be
able to worship you, as you have proclaimed in your word to be,
the almighty God, the king of kings. We ask, Lord, for peace
and comfort as we come into your house, that our ears and our
eyes may be open to the truth. For these things we ask in Christ's
name, amen. Let's stand together again. We'll
sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Prepare thee, gracious God, to
stand before thy face. Thy spirit, Oon, a worker born,
for it is all of grace. In Christ's holy death's globe
hath washed me in His blood. So shall I lift my head with
joy among the sons of ? My sins subdued ? ? My sovereign
love made known ? ? The Spirit of my life renewed ? ? And safely
in thy Son ? ? Let me attest thy power ? ? Let me thy goodness
prove ? Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles together
to 1 Samuel. Chapter 2, 1 Samuel chapter 2. Scott just got a call this morning
that they've taken his 95-year-old father in California to the hospital. So Scott, I pray Lord I'll give
you wisdom and comfort in that and pray as the Lord enables
us. Also, I was visiting Robert the
other day, and the doctor was asking me some questions. And
I said, well, I said, if you Google a man's man on your phone
right there, I said, Robert Horton's picture is going to come up.
And certainly, that's been true with Robert over these years.
very much of a rugged individualist, very independent, a very strong
man all of his life. And all that's gone. He is very,
very weak. And it's a difficult transition
for him. So he doesn't hardly have the
strength to feed himself. pray to the Lord to give him.
I encouraged him. I said, Robert, I said, what
you've got to offer now is so much better. Just pray for me. Pray for the church. He said,
well, I do. I said, well, that's so much more important. So much. That's everything. And I said,
you know, so. pray for Robert and Deanna. They
moved him the night before last to a rehab center, so hopefully
he'll be able to have some rehab therapy and be back, be able
to come back and be with us. 1 Samuel chapter 2, we saw last Sunday how Eli's two sons,
Hophni and Phinehas, had robbed Christ of his glory. These men were priests and people
would bring their sacrifices and Hophni and Phinehas would
take to themselves the burnt offering that was to symbolize
what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished in satisfying the justice of
God on Calvary's cross and how apart from that there's no understanding
of anything and there's no application or no truth anywhere to be had
even in God's Word apart from the cross. And so they had perverted
the truth of the cross by taking to themselves the portion of
the sacrifice that was supposed to be burnt by fire. And then
they robbed from the people the portion of that sacrifice that
they were to enjoy in celebration of the peace that God had promised
them through the blood sacrifice always pointing in every way
to the Lord Jesus Christ. So we have these two men who
are unfaithful priests robbing the people of God of their peace
by robbing of Christ his glory in salvation. Very simple, very
clear message here in the first part of chapter 2 and very consistent
with any preaching that would direct our attention away from
Christ to ourselves to try to find peace with God by something
that we do. And well that is not the kind
of preaching I want to be a part of. and yet it's so consistent
in free will, man-made, works religion. And that old Pharisee
lives in our old man, and he's always trying to get us to look
through the accusations of the accuser of the brethren, the
devil himself, who would have us to look somewhere other than
Christ for the hope of our salvation, losing all our peace. The Lord
sends a man of God, the scripture calls him. That's all he's identified
as, is a man of God who's been given a word from God to Eli.
with a message of judgment against Eli's family. because his sons,
though Eli had confronted them about what they were doing, he
did not correct them, he did not restrain them, he did not
remove them as he ought to have. And so the Lord gives a message
of judgment against Eli's family, telling him that God is going
to remove them from the priesthood. In chapter 3, of 1 Samuel, the
Philistines come and take the ark and the children of Israel
go in battle against the Philistines at which time the Philistines
took the ark and killed Eli and Hophnius, Hophnius and Phinehas
in fulfillment of this prophecy that the Lord gives to Eli. And here it is in verse 30. Wherefore
the Lord God of Israel saith, this is the man of God saying
to Eli, I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father
should walk before me forever, but now the Lord saith, be it
far from me. For them that honor me, I will
honor and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. And
we'll skip down to verse 35. and I will raise me up a faithful
priest that shall do according to all that which is in my heart
and in my mind and I will build him a sure house and he shall
walk before mine anointed forever." Now, in the immediate context,
historically, of this passage, verse 35, is a reference to Samuel. Samuel, anytime we see a name
that has EL in it, the EL, is translated God in the Bible. And so we have the word Elohim,
which is the plural for God, a reference to the triune Godhead,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We have El Shaddai,
the Lord God Almighty. We have Emmanuel, God with us. And so El is God. Samuel, name translated means his name
is God. His name is God. So when we look
at Samuel as the fulfillment of this prophecy that the Lord
gives to Eli, that his sons are going to be replaced by a faithful
priest, we're looking at Samuel as a type of the Lord Jesus Christ,
whose name is God. So we could look at this, the
whole passage just historically and leave here with some biblical
knowledge, I suppose. Or we could, by God's grace and
by the power of his spirit, Consider these things spiritually for
our own profit and for our own benefit. We need a priest. We need a faithful priest. We
need a priest that God will establish his house and that it will be
established forever. And so whatever benefit Samuel
was to Israel and he was a great blessing and a great benefit.
You know this is a period of time before, between the judges
and the kings. Samuel's going to be the one
to anoint Saul, the first king of Israel, and he's going to
be the one to anoint David, the type of Christ, as the king of
Israel. And so Samuel is this transition figure between the
judges and the kings. And in the Old Testament, the
Lord had, among the children of Israel, three offices that
required anointing. And that was the prophet, the
priest, and the king. And no one individual could fulfill
all three offices. There were times when certain
individuals fulfilled two offices, but they could not fulfill three. The only fulfillment of all three
offices is in the Anointed One, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah,
the One who came in the full power of the Spirit of God to
be our priest before God. to offer himself as the sacrifice,
to be the prophet of God, and not just the prophet who would
bring the word of God, but the one who brings himself as the
word of God. He was made flesh. He is the
Word and the Word was made flesh and the Word dwelt among us.
And so the Lord Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of all of
these types. The Lord Jesus Christ himself
is our King. He is the one who establishes
his law. He is the one who satisfied the
demands of his law. He is the one who reigns over
his kingdom and the hearts of his people. So the Lord Jesus
Christ is the only person who fulfills all three offices of
prophet, priest, and king. The closest thing we have to
that in the Old Testament is Samuel. Samuel was a prophet. Samuel was a priest. And Samuel,
in a sense, serves as the leader of Israel. Though he's never
identified as king, you see how his figure pictures the Lord
Jesus Christ. So when the Lord says, verse
35, and I will raise me up a faithful priest, Hophni and Phinehas were
not faithful. They robbed God's people of their
peace. They robbed Christ of his glory. The Lord says, I'm going to raise
up a faithful priest. And if we take verse 35 and go
back again to the end of verse 30, for them that honor me, I
will honor. I want us to see how the Lord
Jesus Christ honored his father and how the father honored him. Because that's the definition
of a faithful priest. You and I need a priest. We need
a faithful priest. We need one who can offer to
a holy God a sacrifice on our behalf that will be acceptable
to God. Hophni and Phinehas didn't do
it. There are no priests today. Any religious group that pretends
to have priests are not. They don't believe the gospel,
they don't believe the Bible. We have a priest. We don't have
prophets today. Any religious group that pretends
to have prophets are in great error. We have all of the revelation
that God intended for his people to have through the prophets
of the Old Testament, the apostles of the New Testament, we have
it completed in God's word. Somebody came to me this week
and showed me a news report of some lost book of the Bible that's
been found. And I just simply turned to them. I just told them to, I gave them,
well, let me show you. Turn to me to Revelation. I just
showed them this verse. Verse 18, the last book of Revelation,
verse 1, chapter 22. For I testify unto every man
that here at the words of the prophecy of this book, and I
know there are those who would say, well, that's just talking
about Revelation. No, God put this here as a summary of all
of scripture. And I testify to every man that here at the words of the
prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things,
God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
That's pretty simple, pretty clear. There are no lost books
to the Bible. God has preserved his word and
given it to us. And so here's the, Here's the fulfillment
of this prophecy. God has raised up to himself
a faithful priest. We have a priest, we have a high
priest who resides in the heavens, who has offered himself to God
as a sacrifice, the only sacrifice that's acceptable to God. We have a prophet, the prophet,
the very Word of God, who every word he spoke was the Word of
God. And he continues to reveal himself
by his Word. All the hocus-pocus of ceremonial
religion will not satisfy a holy God. All the The vain efforts of man's
free will and of man's good works will not suffice as a sacrifice. No amount of sorrow, no amount
of repentance, no amount of our faith will be acceptable as a
sacrifice to God. We need a priest. The world is
full of men who are Faithless and men who would rob us of our
peace. We have within our own bodies
a man who would rob us of our peace. And we need one that God raises
up. Will you open your Bibles, turn
with me to Hebrews chapter two. Hebrews chapter two. And we'll begin reading in verse
nine. But we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels for the sufferings of death,
crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God,
should taste death Now you can look this up. I don't know why
the translators put every man in this text because the word
is P-A-S in the Greek language which is translated all. It's
translated all. They only confuse the scriptures
by saying that Christ suffered death for every man. He scoffed
at death for all, and the word all is never used in the Bible
to describe each and every individual of the world. Let me show you that in a couple
of places. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter five. 2 Corinthians chapter
five. Look with me at verse 14. For the love of Christ constraineth
us, because we thus judge. If one died for all, then we're
all dead. And that he died for all, that
they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto
him which died for them and rose again. The Bible does not teach
in a universal atonement. The Bible does not teach that
the Lord Jesus Christ gave his life as an offering and a sacrifice
for all men. The word all here is used in
the context, well let me show you another place, Matthew chapter
four, Matthew chapter four. Look with me at verse 23, and
Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing. Now the word manner is not in the
text, but I'm glad it's there. Because that gives, you know,
sometimes there are words implied. Whenever you translate from one
language to another, there are words implied in the other language
that need to be added in order to make it clear in a different
language. And so, in this text, in this
passage, the word manner is not there. It just says all. He went throughout all Galilee. teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, healing all sickness
and all diseases among the people. Now in another place when John
the Baptist is baptizing, the scripture says, and all Judea
came to the River Jordan to be baptized by him. So I just want
you to see this because The all manner, all different types of
sickness and diseases is what's meant by that passage. Not that
the Lord went throughout every town in Galilee and found every
single person that was sick or had a disease and healed them
all. That's not the meaning of the
text. The meaning is that he healed all manner of diseases,
all manner of sicknesses. And when it says that all Judea
came to the Jordan to be baptized of John, it's not talking about
each and every individual, it's talking about all manner of men
from all over Judea came to be baptized by him. And that's what
the Bible means when it uses the word all. If the Lord Jesus Christ died
for all men, then all men are saved. How can God send to hell
anyone for whom the Lord Jesus Christ died? That wouldn't be
just. It wouldn't be right. If the
Lord Jesus Christ paid the penalty for all men's sins, and I deal
with this all the time, people object to the gospel on this
very point. They don't believe that the atonement
was particular. They don't believe that it was
successful. They believe that it was an offer
made by God to all men to be accepted or rejected by us so
that we can make what he did work for us. And that is not
what the Bible teaches. And that is not what this word
all means. It means all manner of men. Jews,
Gentiles, male, female, rich, poor, bond-free, that's what
it means. All manner of men came to John
at the Jordan. And the Lord Jesus Christ, when
he died, he died for all manner of men, not just that. And when the Lord spoke to Nicodemus
in John chapter 3 and he said, for God so loved the world, the
word world is used in the same sense. It's not used to describe
each and every individual person. If he loved the whole world,
how can he send anyone to hell? What kind of love is that? 1 John 2, verse 2 says, he is the
propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only, but for
the sins of the whole world. Now does that mean in light of
all that we know in scripture that the Lord Jesus Christ is
the propitiation for all the sins of the whole world? If he
is, then you know what? Let's just, let's eat, drink,
and be merry. Let's go home and kneel. It's
all done. All men are going to be saved.
All men are going to heaven. That's not what the Bible teaches.
It's not. Go back with me to our text in
Hebrews. Verse nine, but we see Jesus
who was made a little lower than the angels for the sufferings
of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of
God should taste death for all. For it became him. For whom are
all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons
unto glory, many, to make the captain of their salvation perfect
through suffering. For both he that sanctifyeth,
that's the Lord Jesus Christ, and they who are sanctified are
all of one which cause he is not ashamed to call them his
brethren. All those for whom the Lord Jesus
Christ went to Calvary's cross and died for, he sanctified. He made holy. He was offered
up for our offenses, raised again for our justification, being
therefore justified. By faith we have peace with God
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he accomplished, this is
what I want The point that I'm trying to make is not to be argumentative
toward those who would deny the gospel, but to show very clearly
that the Lord Jesus Christ was the faithful priest that God
promised to Eli, not Samuel. It was the Lord Jesus Christ,
whose name is El, whose name is God. He is the one whose house
has been established. He is the one who was successful. in redeeming those for whom he
came to die. All those whom God chose in the
covenant of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ successfully satisfied
God's justice. He is our faithful, faithful,
faithful high priest. Look at verse 12, we're thinking
back now to that text in 1st Samuel chapter 2, they who honor
me I will honor and I'm going to raise me up in contrast to
Hophni and Phinehas who would turn you away from Christ. and
cause you to look to something else for the hope of your salvation.
I'm going to raise up a faithful priest and I'm going to establish
his house forever. Here's our hope, brethren. This
is our peace. He is our peace. Look at verse
12, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. That's
the Lord Jesus Christ speaking. I'm going to declare the name
of God to my brethren whom I have sanctified. And because I sanctified
them, I'm not ashamed to call them my brethren. I've made them
holy. And I'm going to tell them about
my heavenly father and about the covenant of grace that I
made with him. and about the fulfillment of
all these Old Testament prophecies that God would raise up a prophet
and a priest and a king whose house would be established on
a rock and would last forever. There's no other place, there's
no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. I will declare thy name unto
my brethren in the midst of the church while I sing praise unto
thee. And again, I will put my trust
in him. And again, behold, I and the
children which God hath given me. The Lord Jesus Christ is
speaking here. I'm going to put my trust in
my father. You see, it's not our faith that saves us. It's
his faith. It's his faith that saves us.
We come to God, not on our own righteousness, but in the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was that faithful priest. God
requires perfection for salvation. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the
only one that believed his father perfectly. You and I are left
with that. cried that that father made to
our Lord when he said, O Lord, I do believe. Help thou mine
unbelief. Lord, if my salvation's based
on how well I believe and how faithful I am and how sorrowful
I am for my sin, I have no hope, I have no peace. But if I've
got a faithful high priest who is in the heavens And God's satisfied
with the offering that he made of himself for me. That's the
fulfillment of that promise. The Lord Jesus Christ honored
his father. And God said, the one who honors
me, I'm going to honor. I'm going to honor. Let's read
on in Hebrews chapter two, verse 14. For as much then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that
had power over death, that is the devil. The Lord Jesus Christ
destroyed him. He destroyed his power. He destroyed
his ability to drag any of the people of God for whom Christ
died into a devil's hell. He broke his back, took away his power. and I will
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage for verily he took not on him the nature
of angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful
and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people. That's what he did. a faithful
and merciful high priest who made reconciliation. He reconciled
us to God by the sacrifice of himself. We have peace with God
through the Lord Jesus Christ and only through the Lord Jesus
Christ. For in that he himself hath suffered,
being tempted, he is able to succor or help them that are
tempted. He understands. He was tempted in all ways that
we are yet without sin. And that doesn't mean that he
had to struggle with temptations the way you and I struggle with
temptations. You see, when we're tempted,
we're sinning in our temptation. We're sinning in our temptation.
We don't have to cave into temptation to commit sin. We've sinned just
in the thought of our temptations, have we not? So when the scripture
says that he was tried and tempted in all ways that we are, yet
without sin, it's talking about the burden that he bore on Calvary's
cross. When he suffered the full shame
and separation and degradation of sin, the guilt, the fear,
When he cried, my God, my God, whyst thou forsaken me? He was
experiencing sin like you and I have never experienced it before. All the little things that we
go through when we suffer because of our sin, he knew that to its
eternal, infinite end. Yet he himself was without sin. but shame, guilt, fear, unbelief,
all those things. He knows what that is because
he suffered it on Calvary's cross when he bore the sins of his
people in his body upon that tree. Isn't that glorious? We have a faithful high priest
who's able to succor them who come to him. Wherefore, look
at verse 1 of chapter 3, Wherefore, holy brethren, Brethren, you're
holy. Oh, you're nothing but sin and
perfectly holy at the same time. Isn't that glorious? Perfectly
holy before God. He that sanctifieth and they
that are sanctified are all as one. This is our boldness in
the day of judgment that as he was, so are, as he is, so are
we. So are we. Holy, sinless. Sin had been put away. God says,
I remember it no more. I put it under the blood. You don't apply the blood of
Christ to your sin. All the sins of all of God's
people were put away once and for all by the sacrifice of himself
on Calvary's cross. That's what God says. You say,
well, that's not the way I see myself. Well, you know, every
one of us are three different people. Every single one of us are three
different people. You are the person you see yourself to be.
You are the person that other people see you to be. And that's
different. And you're the person that God
sees you to be. Now, which is the person that really is? Which is the person that really
is? God sees his children in Christ.
He sees the perfection of Christ. He says your sin's been put away.
Rejoice, rejoice in Christ. We have a faithful high priest.
This is the only hope that we have for peace. He is our peace. Wherefore, holy brethren, Partakers
of the heavenly calling, consider, consider the apostle, and that
word apostle means messenger. He brought salvation. The apostle
and high priest of our profession. You see, that was the house that
Eli had. Eli had the office of the high
priest and his sons were unfaithful. God said, I'm going to put that
away. I'm going to establish an eternal priesthood with a
faithful priest. His name's going to be Samuel.
His name is God and he cannot fail. He cannot fail. He will accomplish what he came
to do. The word of God will not return unto him void. It will
perform the purpose for which God sent it. And the Lord Jesus
Christ did not fail. He did not fail. This is our
hope. Consider him the apostle and
high priest of our profession. Look at verse two. Who was faithful
to him that appointed him? as also Moses was faithful in
all of his house. Now that's who the man of God
who came to Eli in first Samuel chapter two is talking about. I'm gonna raise up a faithful
priest and he's gonna honor me and he that honors me, I'm gonna
honor. Isaiah chapter 42 verse 21 says
that he will make the law honorable. You and I have never made the
law of God honorable. Never have. Never been able to
keep one of God's laws, not to God's satisfaction, not one single
time. He made the law of God honorable. Psalm 111 verse 2 says the works
of the Lord are great and he's not referring here to creation
and providence though those works are great. We look at the handiwork
of God in creation and we're brought to to bow to Him and
worship Him. We believe that His handiwork
in Providence is all for our good and for His glory. But here's
talking about salvation. Listen to what he says. Psalm
111 verse 2, The works of the Lord are great, sought out of
them who have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious,
and His righteousness endureth forever. His righteousness, he made the
law honorable and his righteousness endure forever. I'm gonna honor
him who honors me. And he's gonna be a priest over his
house, a faithful priest. John chapter 17, when our Lord
was praying to his heavenly father, he said, I have glorified thee
on the earth. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. I finished it. Don't try to add
anything to it. It's finished. And now, Father,
glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was. The Lord Jesus Christ, Father,
I've glorified you. I finished the work you sent
me to do. I've accomplished it. And now, Father, I commend unto
you my spirit. Glorify thou me with thee, with
the glory that I had. And that's exactly what the father
did. The way in which the father glorified the son was by raising
him from the dead and receiving him back into glory. The Lord
Jesus Christ ascended, he said, sit down here, sit down here,
the father speaking to his son, sit down here at my right hand
until I make all thine enemies thy footstool. Oh, how the father
honored the son because the son honored his father. And though he thought it not
robbery to be equal with God, Philippians chapter two, Turn
with me to that passage, Philippians 2. Verse 6, who being in the form
of God, Samuel, his name is God. thought it not robbery to be
equal with God. He was not guilty of blasphemy
as his dissenters said he was. They said, he asked them, why
do you want to stone me? Because of the good works that
I do? And they said, no, but because you being a man make
yourself out to be God. And the Lord didn't try to correct
that. He thought it not robbery to
be equal with God. He's the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. But made himself of no reputation
and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the
likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself and became obedient unto death. Obedient to who? To his
father. The father had given him a commandment.
He had agreed to be obedient to his father in suffering death
on behalf of the people whom God had chosen. and being obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross, wherefore God hath
highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every
name that the name of Jesus every knee shall bear and every tongue
confess." That's what the man of God said to Eli back there
in 1 Samuel, I will honor him who honors me. The Lord Jesus
Christ honored his father perfectly and the father honored him. By
giving him the church and the glory that he rightly deserved
because of his obedience and his faithfulness, he established
him a house. Turn with me to Isaiah 58. Isaiah 58. This is glorious, brethren, we
have a we have a high priest, one who is passed into the heavens.
One who intercedes on our behalf, and John said, I write these
things unto you, my children, that you send not. But if any
man sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ,
the righteous one. He's already presented himself
to God on our behalf. He honored the Father and the
Father honored him. Isaiah chapter 58 verse 13. If
you honor the Son, what is it to honor the Son? It's to believe on him. That's
what it is to honor Christ. God says, he that honors me,
I'm gonna honor. He honored his son because his
son honored him. He honors all those who believe
on him because they honor his son. It's to trust him. It's to rest
in him. is to rely upon him alone for
all of your righteousness before God, is to look nowhere else
for your acceptance before God other than the faithful high
priest that we have as our advocate before the Father. That's what
faith is. And here's what the Lord says
to you and me. Here's what the Lord says. Verse 13. And again,
I want to make a clarification. Sometimes in the original language
prepositions can be translated different ways and it's so the
case here in verse 13. If thou turn away thy foot and
the preposition from can also be translated on and it's I struggle
with this verse I thought turn your foot away from the Sabbath
and then I looked it up and it it's it's the word if you if
In your pursuit of trying to find peace with God, looking
somewhere else other than your rest in Christ, who himself is
our Sabbath? Hebrews chapter 4. If thou turn
away thy foot on the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,
honorable, and shall honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, then
shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee
to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with
the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it." Oh, brethren, Turn thy foot away from pursuing anything
else on the Sabbath. Seek your rest in Christ. We're not talking about a day
of the week. That day of the week that was established in
the Old Testament, like Samuel, was a picture of the spiritual
truth that would be accomplished in Christ. We violate the Sabbath. when
we add our works to His, when we try to find peace with God
through some other means other than our faithful High Priest
who gave Himself as a sacrifice for our sin and put our sin away. God said, They that honor me,
I will honor. The Lord Jesus Christ honored
his father. Faith honors Christ. For I will
raise up to me a faithful priest and he is our faithful high priest. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for the declaration of your grace and glory in Christ. Lord, forgive us for how often
we would try to find peace with God somewhere else. Thank you. For revealing once again. the
perfection of thy son, how honorable he was. Lord, enable us by the
gift of faith to honor him as our Sabbath, our rest. Thank
you for this table. Thank you for the simplicity
of it. Lord, as we partake of this bread and of this wine,
we pray that you would cause us to remember That the sacrifice
that Christ made in burying our sins in his body is all the sacrifice you require.
And that the blood that he shed is all the covering that there
is to put our sins away. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. 42, you just remain seated, I think
we're gonna sing two hymns. Oh, stand, stand, okay, let's
stand together, I'm sorry, 42. Let us praise the name of Jesus,
Prophet, Priest, and Sovereign King. Let us praise the name
of Jesus God incarnate from above Came to save His chosen people
Sent by God in love Let us praise the name of Jesus,
who upon Mount Calvary shed His blood and sealed our guide, forsake, to set us free.
Let us praise the name of Jesus, risen, conquering, gracious Friend, Advocate and Mediator, all our
hopes on Him depend. Let us praise the name of Jesus,
for he brought us to his home. Come, exalt his name and worship,
may the Savior be in you. Please be seated.