That last line says, we must
trust his purpose wholly to his children's welfare solely. Today
I was talking to Bobby about something and I had to stop for
a second and I looked at it and I said, why are we worried about
this? The Lord spared not his own son. but freely delivered
him up for his people. And we believe that we believe
him because he's made us to, he's enabled us to. So why do
we fret? Why do we worry? Well, that's
unbelief. It's the sin that does so easily
beset us, isn't it? But know this, the Lord's purpose
is to give us all things for our good and for his glory, whatever
it is. What's he gonna withhold from
us if he spared not his own son except that which would harm
us? Our call to worship, let's turn to Psalm 25. Psalm 25. Tonight I'm gonna be speaking
on the secret of the Lord, as found in our text in Proverbs,
and it's found here also in Psalm 25. Let's start at verse eight
and read through the remainder of the chapter. Good and upright
is the Lord. Therefore, therefore is It's
always good to say, why is the therefore, therefore? I got that
from Todd Niber, and I believe that's just, that's good. It
causes us to ask the question, well, therefore, why is that
there? Because God is good and upright. Therefore will he teach
sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment,
and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the Lord
are mercy and truth, unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies. For thy namesake, O Lord, pardon
my iniquity, for it is great. What man is he that feareth the
Lord? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. His
soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the earth.
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will
show them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever toward the
Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net, turn thee into
me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh, bring thou me out
of my distress. Look upon my affliction and my
pain, and forgive all my sins. Consider mine enemies, for they
are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred. Oh, keep my soul
and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I
put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness
preserve me, for I wait on thee. Redeem Israel, O God, out of
all his troubles. Let's pray. Father, we have gathered
in this place tonight to worship you. We desire to honor you and
glorify, magnify you, but we cannot unless you enable us.
Lord calls us to see your face tonight, calls us to rest. There are those of us who are
weary, those of us who are battling sicknesses, maybe the afflictions
of life, different things. We come from all walks of life.
different trades responsibilities. But, Lord, we have one thing
in common. We desire to see Jesus Christ. We desire to look upon
him through eyes of faith and believe. So, Lord, we pray that
you would send your spirit and grant us that request. Pray for
those, Lord, who are sick, our brethren near and far. We pray
that you would give them grace and strength. Lord, we pray for
Marie as she's back in the hospital. Pray that you would aid the doctors
in their medicine unto her, that they would be able to help her
to continue to improve. Lord, you know her knee. We pray
for that. Father, we pray for. Our children, Lord, that you
would save him. Pay for our family that doesn't
all of our families that don't know you bring them to a knowledge
of the truth. Lord, we pray that you would
save us. Forgive us our sin. Calls us
to. See you tonight. In Christ name,
Amen. Let's turn to number 326, more
about Jesus. Let's stand together again. ? More about Jesus would I know
? More of His grace to others show ? More of His saving fullness
see ? More of His love who died for me ? More, more about Jesus
? More, more about Jesus ? More of His saving fullness see more
of his love who died for me more about Jesus let me learn more
of his holy will discern spirit of God my teacher be showing
the things of Christ to be more more about Jesus ? More, more
about Jesus ? More of His saving fullness see ? More of His love
who died for me ? More about Jesus in His Word ? Holding communion
with my Lord ? Hearing His voice in every line ? Making each faithful
saying mine ? More, more about Jesus more of his love died for
me more about Jesus on his throne riches in glory all his own more
of his kingdom sure increase more of his coming prince of
peace ? More, more about Jesus ? More
of His saving fullness see ? More of His love who died for me Please
be seated. Turn with me in your Bibles to
Proverbs chapter three. Proverbs chapter three. Proverbs chapter three. A secret
is something you don't know. It's something not known. If
you have the secret, you're the only person that has that secret.
Nobody else can find out unless you tell that secret. And so it is with the Lord and
his gospel. He knows all things. He has infinite
wisdom. He has infinite knowledge. He
knows, he knew how to save sinners. He knew how to create this world
and send forth his son to save his people from their sin. You
and I would not have known how to do that, would we? We wouldn't
have had the ability, even if we'd had the knowledge. But this
secret of the Lord is something that a lot of people believe
that they have, but they don't. A lot of people believe that
they have. And I want to spend this hour
talking about the secret of the Lord. And by the end of it, I'm
hoping the Lord will reveal it to us that we would see the Lord
in it. There's but one Lord. There's
one faith. There's one baptism. There's
only one salvation given to the Lord's people, according to the
Lord's purpose, according to the Lord's purpose. The Lord's redemption is found
in the person of Christ. The revelation of the Lord Jesus
Christ is the mystery of godliness, isn't it? Whenever you don't,
the Lord doesn't reveal Christ, you couldn't, would never know
who he was. Think about all the Pharisees
and the scribes and everybody that talked to Christ. They were
talking to God. How many knew that? See, it's
a mystery, it's a secret. He has to introduce himself. He has to say, live. He has to
say, peace, be still. He has to say, be made whole. That's the secret of the gospel.
It's all his work. But it's written in plain black
and white. We can read it, but it must be
revealed. This hour, I've titled this message,
His Secret. The good news is, is it's given
to his chosen people, his elect, whom he loves. He gives his secret
to them. Let's read this before I get
too far ahead of myself here. Proverbs chapter three. And we're
gonna look at verse 31 through 35. Envy thou not the oppressor
and choose none of his ways. For the froward is an abomination
to the Lord, but his secret is with the righteous. The curse
of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he blesseth the
habitation of the just. Surely he scorneth the scorners,
but he giveth grace unto the lowly. The wise shall inherit
glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools. His secret. His secret is with
everyone that he made righteous. Everyone that he chose in the
covenant of grace before time has his secret. The secret of
the Lord is of his love and it's of his grace. It's of his mercy. It's of his finished work on
the cross. It's of his favor, the favor
that he shows forth to his people, the everlasting favor of God,
the everlasting love of God, the everlasting. You and I don't
understand everlasting. We can, we believe it, but we
can't enter into everlasting, never having a beginning and
never having an end. Everything around us had a beginning and
an end. You and I have a hard time understanding that, but
we believe God is from everlasting to everlasting, therefore his
attributes, all of his attributes are from everlasting to everlasting.
The secret of the Lord is revealed in none other than the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The secret of the Lord is revealed
in none other but the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. What
did he say about the Lord? He said, here's, this is my beloved
son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him, hear ye him. The Lord's not going to reveal
any other, anything else other than the Lord Jesus Christ. And
he only reveals the Lord Jesus Christ to his people unto salvation. That's the purpose of the revelation
of Christ. If he shows you Christ, then you're going to believe
because he's given you eyes to see. In His appointed time, He manifests
His love towards us. He reveals it. He manifests His
grace towards us so that shows us I've been giving you grace
this entire time, but now I'm going to give you salvation by
grace. I'm going to show you it's already finished. That's
the secret of the Lord, isn't it? He lets us know everything
that He's already done from everlasting to everlasting. He lets us know
that we can't mess it up. There's nothing we can contribute,
nothing we can take away from his salvation. He's just letting
us know about his great grace, about his great love, about his
favor towards us. He manifests it by regenerating
us, doesn't he? That's how he does it. His secret
is of his own purpose and grace. He says in Ephesians chapter
one, verse five, he predestinated us unto the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his own
will. His secret is about his will,
not ours. The secret has to do with him
choosing, not our choice. He predestinated his people to
adoption. You're sons and daughters of
the Lord. That's what we are. And the favor wherewith he shows
his son is the same favor that he shows towards his people,
his children. He's not a respecter of person,
isn't that glorious? If we're in the Lord Jesus Christ,
he loves us the same as he loves his darling son. What is he gonna
withhold from us? that we need. What's he gonna
not give to us that we have need of? Oh, he's a gracious father,
isn't he? He's a gracious father. His secret
is with respect to election, to redemption, from calling his
people. This is about the Lord's secret.
This is what he does. It's about adoption. But he makes
it known in the effectual calling. His effectual calling. His calling
has an effect. What is that effect? You're born
again. You're made alive. That's the
effectual calling. Some call it irresistible grace,
and I'm perfectly fine with that as well. It's irresistible. God's
the one that speaks it. We're gonna believe. He says,
believe. Nobody's gonna be able to say
unto him, no, I don't think I'm going to. No, he's God. That's
a secret though. Men don't know that. They don't
believe that. They can't understand that until
the Lord does that for them, says live. Then they believe. That's why it's a secret. It's
not a secret that we hide, that we put under our pillow and don't
share. We don't put it under a bushel
as the scripture talks about. Men don't put a candle under
the bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light to all that
are in the house. And he says, so let your lights show, son,
before men that they may see your good works and glorify your
father, which is in heaven. What's he talking about? He's
saying, we don't hold this secret. We tell others about the gospel.
We tell them the truth. But they hated Christ because
he said, you hate me because I tell you the truth. I'm telling
you the secret and you can't believe it. I'm telling you the
truth, the mysteries of God. I'm telling you the secret right
now and you will not believe it. because they wanted to be
God, didn't they? They wanted to be God. His secret is that of his covenant,
the covenant of grace, the everlasting covenant. He is our covenant
God. He's the mediator of the new
covenant. We've been reading in Hebrews or a couple of weeks
ago, we talked about that in Hebrews. He's the mediator of
the new covenant. He's our covenant head. God's secret is given freely
to whomsoever he chose in that covenant. We don't earn the secret. If somebody knew something, you
can bribe them sometimes to tell you what it is. One time, my
sister knew what I was getting for Christmas, and I didn't,
but I knew what my sister liked, so I was able to manipulate,
I was able to do something. I found out what I was getting.
She didn't lie to me. I got it. I got exactly what
she said. It was a game or something. I manipulated her. You can't
manipulate God into telling you this secret. It ain't gonna work.
No, this is his secret. And he reveals it at his appointed
time. And it's the best secret. You remember when being younger,
perhaps, you would have, you'd pass secrets along. And even
as adults, you have secrets that you share with maybe your friends
or maybe your family or somebody you wouldn't share everything
with. You have these, close relationships and you found it out. This is
the best secret that you could ever find out. The best secret. When you find out a secret of
somebody, you sit on that secret, you have this knowledge. This
isn't knowledge that puffs up, is it? No, this is knowledge
that abases the flesh and gives God all the glory. That's what
this secret does. God's secret is given freely
to whomsoever he chose in this covenant. Who he ever liveth to make intercession
for who he mediates for. He's the go between. Between
God and man. He's the one that can touch God
and not be destroyed. And if you and I touch God will
be destroyed. And he's the one that can touch me and you. And
not be defiled, but make us whiter than snow. Wash us in his blood. He's the only one that could
do that. That's a secret. That's his secret. His secret is that of all spiritual
blessings and promises fulfilled. And that has one focal point.
All the promises fulfilled in spiritual blessings are in one
person, the Lord Jesus Christ. He fulfilled every promise and
every spiritual blessing that the Lord has for his people comes
from the Lord Jesus Christ. We can't. bribe him to know this
secret, we can't pay, can't make him tell us, we can't come to
a knowledge of it on our own. What did the scripture talk about
whenever they were learning? It said they were ever learning,
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. That's the secret,
the knowledge of the truth. Christ said, I am the way, the
truth, and the life. That, he's not a way, he's not
a truth, He's not just part of life, He is all those. He's all
of those. Without Him, we have no life.
Without Him, we have no way. And without Him, we have no truth.
And this is what men refuse to believe. They refuse to believe
the Lord's secret. His secret is of His gospel,
how God saved His elected sinners. how he saved sinners, how he
died according to the scriptures. He wasn't just that he died.
A lot of people, you've seen movies and things that portray
a false Jesus dying on a cross. Men don't have a problem with
the cross and Christ dying. The offense of the cross is that
he didn't die for everybody. That's where people have a problem
with it. No, they want to be God. They don't want that truth.
No, I have a choice. I have my rights. With God, we
have no human rights. Right now, everyone's talking
about a lot of human rights and things that some are taking away
rights from others so that they can have more rights. And I think
everybody understands what I'm saying here. With God, we have
no rights as humans. We have no rights. We have no
ability to approach him, no rights to obtain mercy, no rights to
obtain anything from him, good. But the Lord Jesus Christ does.
The Lord Jesus Christ did obtain all good things from the Father.
And who did he give it to? His people. His people, the ones
that he died for. How he died according to the
scripture is the secret. He didn't just die. He died for
his elected people. He died for his chosen, the ones
that chosen before time ever began. And when he died, he successfully
redeemed them. It wasn't just an attempt. It
was sure, it was certain because of who he is. His secret is as of his providences,
what he has done, what he is doing, and what he's going to
do. He's going to return for his
people, isn't he? It's of his providences. Everything in our
life, whether we realize it or not, is by the Lord's gracious
providence to us. The car that passes us by on
the road, the bird flying over our head, every aspect of everything,
how fast your yard grows, everything is by his providence and his
purpose. He's made it that way. And did
you know that's a secret? People don't know. They don't
know that. They refuse to believe that. Now the secret of the Lord is
It came to pass and it came to pass and it came to pass. What came to pass? Everything
that he purposed. Everything that's happening right
now, it's coming to pass. This evening, we're having service
right now because it came to pass. The Lord purposed all of
us to be sitting where we're sitting, me to be standing where
I'm standing, to try to declare to you the finished work of our
precious Savior. What mercy and grace in the Lord's
providence. That's a secret. People don't
know that. Everything was purposed. It comes to pass because of the
good pleasure of his will, not our will. So the Lord's people
say, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto your name be
all glory and all honor and all praise. None can stay his hand
or say unto him, what doest thou? No, the potter still has power
over the clay to make one lump unto honor and another dishonor.
Lord, why would you make me a lump unto honor? Don't look at yourself
and ask that question. Look to Christ, because if you
look to Christ, you'll see, I don't see how you couldn't have made
me a vessel of honor. It's finished work and what he accomplished.
Can't limit the blood. The blood's infinitely powerful
to redeem you and me, isn't it? It's infinitely powerful. Why did he choose you and why
did he choose me? Grace. Not because, We're the prettiest
or the ugliest or this or that, not because we're the smartest,
and I'm thankful for that. Chose you because of grace in
Christ Jesus alone. So that none can boast. Where's
boasting then? It's excluded. It's excluded. Our God is absolutely sovereign.
Men might say that, but unless the Lord reveals his secret,
they can't believe that. I'm talking absolutely sovereign. He's seated on his throne. And
everything, every drop that falls from the sky, he purposed. You
know, the scripture says he's numbered the hairs of your head.
And in false religion, I always thought that that meant he counted
them or he knew the number of them just because he's God. You
know what that means? That means you have 2,333 hairs on your
head because God said that's how many hairs you should have
on your head. That's what he's done for everyone and for his
people. He's purposed all things. Most
amazing part is that he would become a man to redeem sinful
creatures such as us. And he did. He really did it. He really was successful. He
really redeemed. That's his secret. Those for whom he did not die for,
those whom he did not love, his secret that you and I know about
is that he's going to take every single action of those people
when they stand before him, and they're going to give their good
to him and their bad. And the Lord's going to say every
bit of that is filthy rags. Every bit of that is utterly
sinful. You have nothing to offer me
because nothing can compare to the blood. Nothing can compare
to the Lord himself. Everything God required, he must
provide because he's only pleased with himself. He's only pleased
with himself. All we can produce is sin in
his sight. There's none that doeth good.
There's none that seeketh after God. What a sad condition indeed
for those who are Pharisaical, believing that they're self-righteous,
believing that they have a righteousness. I wrote an article, it won't
be out till next week, but men will take their lives and they
will examine themselves and then they will look at others and
they will justify themselves based upon looking at other people.
They'll say, well, I'm not as bad as this person, or I don't
do this, or I do this. They really believe that there's
something because of that. Compare yourself to God. That's
the standard. Compare yourself to the Lord
Jesus Christ, because that's all that God's pleased with.
And if you don't live up to that standard, and you don't, we don't,
we know we don't. But if we don't live up to that
standard, he's gonna say, depart from me. That's it, that's what's
gonna happen. That's a secret got to be found
in Christ. His secret is that there is none
good but God. None good, but God men talk about.
I heard. Yesterday I was talking to somebody
and they said, oh yeah, so and so he's a really good man. Really
good man. Sometimes. That and they gave
me his pedigree. You know he goes to church. He
does this and that for the community. Whatever else and I I I cringe
at stuff like that just because I. I thought Lord, we that man
has no idea how bad he is. It's a secret. Lord ain't told
him yet. Lord, have you told me your secret? Have you showed
me I'm a sinner? You let me see what I am. Have you dangled my
feet over hell and showed me what I deserve and then showed
me Christ who's the Savior? His secret is that he only accepts
what he provides and he provided everything required in his precious
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything required for your
salvation. is found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not by works of
righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy.
Everything required. It's already there. He's already
done it. Everything required. His secret is because of what
he's provided in giving us the salvation, we have communion
with God. We have communion with him. We've
been made the righteousness of God in him. We have, we've been
made accepted in the beloved because of what he provided.
Ephesians chapter two, verse five says, even when we were
dead in sins, hath quickened us together. Even when we were
dead in sins, hath he quickened us together with Christ by grace,
you are saved. Unless he does all the saving
by grace, nobody's going to be saved. If there was one thing
I had part in my salvation of, one thing I did, I'm not saved. Salvation's all of grace, all
of grace. And it's a work on the heart
that he does. He does, we don't do it, he does
it. Unless he does the quickening, no one will ever be made alive.
What hope did Lazarus have of coming out of that tomb? Unless
the Lord came to that tomb, told him to roll away the stone and
called forth his name. There would have been no hope for Lazarus.
There's no take, that's hogwash when people talk about, take
the first step, I'll take the rest. No, he doesn't say that.
Lord, you're gonna have to take all the steps, I'm dead. Well,
if you try to breathe a little bit, I'll get the defibrillator
out. No, that's silly, that's foolishness. That ain't how it
works. We're dead, Lord, you're gonna have to come all the way
down to where I'm at. and this cesspool of sin that
I am, that I'm living in, you have to save me completely and
utterly. That's his secret. That's his
secret, what he's done for his people. This is his secret, plainly
declared in his word. Christ came into the world to
save sinners, his people, his chosen, all by God's choice. all according to his will. He
came on purpose. I think I said that Sunday, and
I've never really said it that way, but he came on purpose.
It wasn't an accident. It wasn't an attempt. He had
a purpose. He came according to his will,
according to his purpose. We didn't constrain him. We didn't
restrain him. He chose to redeem, and he did. His secret is not that Jesus
died to make a way. He is the way. That's the secret. Salvation was certain, or he's
not God. The Lord laid our iniquity upon him and was satisfied at
the travail of his soul, Isaiah 53 tells us. He was satisfied
with his soul. Second Corinthians 521, for he
hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. Well, I love that
that's not a complicated verse, don't you? Whatever it means
to be made sin, that's what it means that we've been made righteous. That we've been made righteous.
That's not complicated, is it? Because he was made to be sin,
we were made to be righteous. The righteousness of God in him. Here's the transaction. He took
our sin into himself. He owned them. This did not pollute
the sacrifice, as some men think. I don't know why people think
that. It didn't pollute the sacrifice. He was made sin on the cross
of Calvary for his people. He owned them. If he had not owned them, then the
Lord would have killed him unjustly. Think about that. Justice had
to be satisfied because of the sin that was upon him. It's our only hope. The imputation of righteousness
could only be done if the Lord Jesus Christ took our sin from
us. And here's what 1 Peter 2.24
says, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. How complicated is it? He bore
our sin in his own body on the tree. I like to think of it as
a cup that he drank. What was in the cup, our sin.
It was the cup of damnation. Father, let this cup pass from
me. Now the very righteousness of
God has been given to his people because of what Christ accomplished.
It's been bestowed upon his elect. I've said this before, I'm gonna
say it again. He loves us as he loves Christ. What a statement. What a glorious truth. I mean,
we have a heavenly father that loves us as much as he loves
his son, because we're in his son. He's pleased with us. because
we're in the Lord Jesus Christ. Boy, that's a good secret to
find out, isn't it? The God of this universe, the
one that created all things, he loves me? Wow. Because of what Christ did, yes.
Because of what Christ did. This is his secret. Only can be revealed by his spirit
and only to his people. Why do we fret? Why do we get
so despaired? But we forget that he spared
not his own son. What will he withhold from us
that we don't, that we need? Nothing if we need it. The Lord
said, my father knows what you have need of before you even
know that you need it. He knows that you have need of
it. Before you even know, before you wake up tomorrow morning,
whatever the day is going to happen, the Lord already knows
if you're going to have a need that day. And if it's money that
you're needing, the check's already in the mail, Lord's already put
it there, it's gonna be there. I mean, you get what I'm saying. That's
theoretical, it's hypothetical, whatever. I'm not preaching a
health, wealth, and prosperity message here. I'm saying the
Lord will provide whatever your needs are. Why? According to
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. That's why. Because of
Christ. Because of Christ. He that spared
not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things? If he didn't spare
his son, shall he not give you all things? That's what he's
saying. His secret is that of two natures.
With two natures, if you're born again. You have the old man that's
strapped to your back right now, the flesh that you're carrying
around, and you have the new man born of the spirit, born
of above. One is of the earth earthly,
which is of sin, it's of the curse, it's bound in the flesh.
One is spiritual, created in his people by being born again.
Second Peter 1.4 says, whereby are given unto us exceeding great
and precious promises that by these you might be partakers
of the divine nature. That's what it's called, the
divine nature. We have this corrupt nature, and then we have the
divine nature, and they hate each other. They hate each other. That's the secret. That's the
secret. But the elder shall serve the
younger. When this body's gonna die, all
that new man's gonna live forever and ever and ever with the Lord. His secret is that he by himself
made us partakers of his divine nature, his divine nature, so
that when the Lord sees us, he sees the blood of Christ, he
sees his precious son, he sees us as perfectly righteous in
him. He's made us heirs of God and
joint heirs of Jesus Christ. If you're an heir of God, The
joint heir of Jesus Christ, what do you own? You're an heir of
everything. Think about that. But all we
truly want is him, isn't it? That's all we truly want. According to his will, his love,
his grace, and his mercy, he hath saved us, he hath called
us, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose
and grace, given to us before time ever began. He reveals it
in time to us, causes us to know his secret. I've done it all.
I've done it all. I said this Sunday, but who is
thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as
I am? That's what Mephibosheth said when he came into the King's
throne room. He thought he was going to die.
Mephibosheth thought he was going to die. He was an heir to the
throne, so he was a threat to David. David said these words,
fear not, for surely I will show thee kindness for Jonathan's
sake. And he said, what is thy servant? Thou should look upon
such a dead dog as I am. David doesn't even answer the
question. He's like, I'm not doing this for you. Or he's not
doing this because of you. I'm doing this because of Jonathan,
because of the covenant I made with Jonathan. And it's so much
the same, but infinitely more whenever we come to the throne
of God's grace for the first time by his purpose, his power
enabling us We fall flat on our face and say, Lord, what is our
servant that thou should look us upon such a dead dog as I
am? And he tells us, oh, it's because of what Christ accomplished.
It's all by grace that you're saved through faith. It's not
a yourself. It's the gift of God. This is
his secret. His secret is when his people
die, they will awaken his likeness. The glory that's in us right
now will be revealed in us that day, and it's the glory of our
Lord, the glory of Christ. Be conformed to his image, won't
we? In closing, I'll ask you this
question. Do I believe his secret, his truth, or do I believe a
lie? Can't be both. Am I looking to
him or am I looking to myself? Am I trusting his word, trusting
his gospel? Or is it his gospel plus something
else? Because if it is, we're not trusting him. It can't be
both. Am I looking to Jesus Christ as my only hope of eternal life,
or am I looking to myself for anything? It cannot be both. For those of you who the Lord
has given his secret to, you're only looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ, aren't you? You're only believing him, you're
only trusting him, you're only resting in him. Can't trust this
old flesh, can we? No. It's gonna let us down. It's
gonna always, evil's always present with us. We are, that's what
we are, sin. Thanks be to God, his secret
is with all his elect, whom he has made the righteousness of
God in Christ. Do you know his secret? Let's
pray. Father, I pray that you would
take this and bless it to our understanding for your glory.
In Christ's name, amen.