Welcome friends to another broadcast
of Morsels for Zion's Poor. We live in a time when there
is no lack of preaching and teaching about the Bible around us. One
only has to turn on the TV or radio to easily find a number
of stations solely dedicated to that very endeavor. Yet I
believe we live in an age when it is difficult to find more
than a handful of broadcasts that are solely dedicated to
glorifying Christ alone. I have no desire to be critical
or to pass judgment on others' motives, but I am simply making
a troubled observation. The age in which we live is one
where the gospel is watered down and mixed with man's endeavor
to become a concoction that cannot help ruin sinners, or it is somehow
linked to the natural realm in which we live, brimming with
promises of health and wealth. We have a whole generation whose
heart has been healed slightly. They have peace and confidence
without any substance. They have houses without foundations
and riches without value. When a man has a real illness,
he needs medicine that will actually remedy what ails him. If, on
the other hand, all that he wants is sympathy, then all he needs
to do is find a doctor that will tell him what he wants to hear
and prescribe a cure which satisfies his desire. By and large, the
preaching that we hear today is just like that. It does not
get to the root of man's problem and therefore cannot prescribe
the proper medicine or determine the dose needed. The malady of
sin is a sickness unto death. It does not simply hinder men
from entering into eternal life. It totally prevents them from
even seeking out the only known remedy for its destructive power. There is only one known antidote
for the awful effects which this terrible disease has caused.
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow, no other
fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. This blessed
salve, when applied by the Holy Spirit, can and will heal completely
all who taste its life-giving power. Some would-be doctors
preach peace, peace when there is no peace, promising salvation
for praying a prayer or signing a card. Because we have a radical
disease, we must have a radical remedy that is applied by the
one true physician. We cannot be helped by those
who offer us topical ointments and anesthetics. Our primary
purpose in preaching the gospel is to glorify Christ in the earth
and rejoice when he is pleased to awaken dead sinners and call
them to himself by faith and repentance. The need of lost
sinners is such that only the Lord can meet it. Conversion
takes place only when the Lord does a work of grace in a sinner's
heart. For it is God which worketh in
you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. We might ask,
how has the Lord healed his people? he has brought them near to him.
When Adam sinned in the garden, he brought about a separation
with the Father, which has been amplified by man's willing participation
in that sin. Behold, the Lord's hand is not
shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it
cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from
you that he will not hear. But God, who is rich in mercy,
has removed that barrier that has kept his people from him.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made
nigh by the blood of Christ. The Lord has healed his people
in removing their blindness and causing them to hear. In our
natural state we could not see nor hear the gospel, yet the
Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to heal us. He said, I
am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
should not abide in darkness. Therefore, the day spring from
on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of
peace. And I will bring the blind by way that they knew not. I
will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make
darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These
things will I do unto them and not forsake them. The Lord has
healed his people by taking away their stony hearts and giving
them a heart of flesh, enabling them to love him his way and
his people. By nature, we do not value the
things of God. Yet as Christ heals his people,
he changes their whole perspective and makes those things they once
despised the very things that they prize most highly. Therefore,
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are
passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. And the Lord has healed his people by setting them free
from the law, that is, the principle of sin and death. He has made
them heirs and joined heirs with him. Wherefore thou art no more
a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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