Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The scriptures tell us
that the Lord inhabits eternity and that He only hath a mortality
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no
man hath seen nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting.
Thus it is utterly amazing when we discover that He took upon
Himself human flesh and became obedient unto death, just as
any other man in the flesh. Just as surely as we are born
as an infant of a span, so too was he wrapped in swaddling clothes
and laid in a manger. Do we not marvel that he who
created time and marks out every moment of every day since the
beginning did humble himself and become a servant of time,
just as every son of Adam? In this human body, when he had
offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears
unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard
in that he feared. Though he were a son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him. We are struck dumb with amazement
at such a revelation and must fall upon our faces in adoring
wonder. We must say with the psalmist,
such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot
attain unto it. In the limitations of time which
he imposed upon himself, he kept every appointment which he marked
out from before the foundation of the world. We see just such
an appointment with a Samaritan woman who had never met him nor
had any inkling of who he was. Thus he must needs go through
some area. Her name was in his appointment
book, but his was not in hers. This event could only have taken
place according to his purpose and not hers. This was no random
meeting, but was prescribed to take place at the sixth hour.
This sixth hour would have been about twelve noon, as we would
reckon it. The evening had ended at sunrise, and the day had begun.
The sun was at its zenith, and the glory of the sun was shining
in all of its strength, when the Lord of glory, who made the
seas and rivers, asked this adulterous woman for a drink of the water
which he had placed in a well which he ordained men to dig.
This well could have been nowhere else upon the earth, just as
this woman could not have been in any other location at this
particular time. Little did she know that it was
he who would give her a drink of water, which would forever
satisfy her thirst. Thus we see the demonstration
of the Lord's mercy exhibited as he sought his lost sheep and
led her in a path which she had not designed or contemplated.
He told her of his intent to give her living water, though
she had no understanding of that of which he spoke. She was intrigued
with his words, and in her flesh, as many religious folks do, she
asked for this water. Yet the Lord must strip her of
her supposed righteousness in order that she might rightly
desire it. She sought to skirt the issue of her husband, just
like politicians do. Yet the Lord broke down her excuses
and laid her adultery bare before her eyes. For thou hast had five
husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. She
was rendered without excuse. Yet she was not yet fully broken,
however, because we see her appealing to her religion. Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain. I can almost hear someone singing,
give me that old time religion. But the Lord would not abandon
his lost sheep, even though she was clinging to the brambles
which she had become entangled in, all the while thinking that
they offered her comfort and hope. He spoke words of truth
to her as he described the nature of true worship. God is a spirit,
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. Then he made her to be a true
worshiper. The Father seeketh such to worship him. We see that
illustrated as the Savior sought his lost sheep. He revealed himself
to her. I that speak unto thee am he.
She believed and went on her way with the testimony of Christ
upon her heart and lips. This all took place in the sixth
hour. Our blessed Lord had another
appointment which he would undertake at a particular time and place,
which he gladly kept, though the burden he bore was greater
than any other man has or could ever bear. He made his soul an
offering for sin. And it was about the sixth hour,
and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth
hour. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave
up the ghost. The giver of life, yea even life
itself died, a sinner's death. Well did the sun in darkness
hide and shut his glories in, when God the mighty maker died
for man the creature's sin. Has there ever been love like
this? Can we do anything less than fall upon our faces in adoration
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