This evening, we're going to
look at Psalm 81. And I'm taking the title for
the message from what is said down in verse 16. Psalm 81, verse
16. He should have fed them also
with the finest wheat, with the best wheat. God gave them manna
from heaven. Remember? Manna from heaven. And with honey out of the rock. should I have satisfied thee. We know that rock is Christ.
We know the honey out of that rock or the spiritual blessings
we enjoy in the Lord Jesus Christ. We know the Lord Jesus Christ
in scripture is called the rock of ages. We sang that just a
minute ago. Top Lady song, Augustus Top Lady,
rock of ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. God hid Moses in the cleft of
that rock there in Exodus 33. In Isaiah 26, we read this. Trust
ye in the Lord forever, for the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. And the marginal reference is
he's a rock of ages. The rock of ages. We know that
the honey of his love and his mercy and his grace, flow out
to us because of the sweetness of his person. He's altogether
lovely. We know that the honey of his love and the grace of
his wheat flow out to us because of the redeeming work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He redeemed us with his own blood.
That's the reason we enjoy the bread of life. That's the reason
we enjoy the honey out of the rock. the water of life we have
in Christ. Of His fullness have we all received
what we've received. Of His fullness, what have we
received? Grace for grace, of His fullness. In Him goes all the fullness
of God's head bodily and in Christ we are complete, nothing lacking. Everything that God demands of
us has been fully provided in the substitute to Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, when I started working on
the book that I recently published, I started compiling some of those
bulletin articles I've written over the years to publish a book
with those articles. And one of the things that I
had to come up with was a title. And this verse, when I got to
thinking about a title for the book, This verse came to my mind,
verse 16, Honey Out of the Rock. Honey Out of the Rock. I remember
reading a sermon, this is 40 years ago or more, by a preacher
by the name of William Romaine. And the title of that sermon
was Honey Out of the Rock. And he took his text from that
verse 16, Honey Out of the Rock. So I thought that would be a
good title for the book. I pray the Lord be pleased to
bless that little book, those articles in that book. And I've
given that book to my neighbor. I pray that he'll read it. I
plan to give a book to that neighbor over here. He's a good neighbor. I like him. We get along well.
He does everything I ask him to do. He does it, so we get
along pretty well. When I need my garden plow, I
just tell him, come over and plow my garden. He says, okay.
So, but you know, in giving them the book, and through that book
is God's word, God's truth. God's word and God, every article,
with maybe exception of a few, there's a reference to a scripture
and a reference to that scripture. I know that the Lord will be
pleased. I know this. He will bless His
word. Now, will He bless my comments
on it? I don't know. But He will bless
His word. He will bless His word, and His
word will prosper according to His purpose. Remember Isaiah
55, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth.
It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto
I send it. So I give out those books, and
I would encourage you if you want to give one of those books
to a friend. You can actually go to the website,
lulupublishing.com, and you can purchase a book and ship it to
any place you want to ship it to. Of course, you have to pay
the shipping and tax on it, plus the purchase of the book, which
is $9.05, which is, I think, a very reasonable
price. Now, let's look at verse 1. Of course, they're free to you
here. But if you want to buy one online, you'll have to pay
the price. Look at verse 1. Sing aloud unto our God. Sing aloud unto our God. There's
no God like our God. There's none like Him. Sing aloud
unto Him. Sing with a heart of understanding. Sing unto our God. Unto God,
He's our strength. He is our strength. He's the
strength of our salvation. He's the strength of our righteousness.
He's all our strength. He is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble. Sing aloud unto God. our strength, and make a joyful
noise. We do rejoice in the Lord Jesus
Christ. We have great joy in our heart. And I like the way it says here,
unto the God of Jacob. The God of Jacob is the sovereign
God. We read that Sunday, Romans 9. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. And what's amazing about the
gospel of God that God took Jacob, his name is supplanter and cheater. He cheated his brother. But God
took Jacob and turned his name into, you ever wonder where we
get the name Israel? God changed his name to Israel. Over in Genesis 32, Israel means
the prince of God. And God has made us kings and
priests unto our God. So sing aloud unto God our strength. Like a joyful, joyful note. We
do rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a God of Jacob. You remember Malachi 3, 6, the
Lord said, I am God, I change not. Beside me there is no other.
Therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. I am God. He does
not change. He does not change. We're debtors
to his love. We're debtors to his mercy. We're
debtors to His grace, and we love to sing about it, don't
we? And to Him who loved us and washed us from our sin in His
own blood. You remember Revelation 5 verse
9, they sung a new song, thou art worthy because you redeemed
us to God by your blood. Worthy is the Lamb. They sung
that new song. Turn over a few pages. Look at
Psalm 95. Psalm 95, 1. O come, verse 1,
Psalm 95, come let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful
noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence
with thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise unto Him
with psalms. For the Lord is great, He's a
great God, a great King above all. Look over here at Psalm
98, 1. Psalm 98, 1. Oh, sing unto the
Lord a new song. For He hath done marvelous things.
His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten Him to victory. Thanks
be unto God who has given us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Sing unto the Lord. It's an honor. He is the God of Jacob. He's a God of our salvation,
is He not? God is our strength. He saves
sinners whom He loves, just like He loved Jacob, sovereignly loved,
everlastingly loved, chosen in that eternal covenant of grace.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the strength of all of our
salvation. We have strong salvation because
He's the almighty God. Let's go to verse two now. Let's
go to verse two. Take a psalm. That's what we're
doing right now. We're looking at a psalm. These
psalms, old Israel of old, they sang these psalms. Take a psalm,
take a hymn, a hymn book. It's all about H-I-M. Take a
psalm and bring hither the timbrel and the pleasant harp, the pleasant
music, the harp and the psaltery. So it's all right. Some people
think that we shouldn't use musical instruments in a worship service.
Well, David certainly did. He played the harp. It's all
right to use musical instruments in praising the Lord. They add
much to the melody of a song when it's done in a way of worship,
is it not? I wish the Lord we I had a piano
player for a while, and we were thankful the years that we had
a piano player, and I pray often, Lord, send us another piano player. Sometimes I think about going
out and trying to hire one, but I don't think that would work
so good. They probably couldn't stand my preaching. They'd probably
quit. But it's okay to have, I love
musical instruments and the tunes of these songs we sing are just,
they're a blessing to sing the songs of grace with a melody
that's pleasing to the believer. Look at verse three, blow up
the trumpet in the new moon. Blow up the trumpet, blow the
trumpet in the new moon in the time appointed. on our solemn feast days. On feast days and appointed days,
they were to blow the trumpet to remind them that God is God.
Under the law on the day of atonement and on the day of jubilee and
other feast days, they were to sound the trumpet long and loud. Now, we don't have to actually
use the trumpet to sound out, although I have been in a worship
service where The young man of that congregation was a music
professor, and his instrument that he played was a trumpet. And they started the worship
service with a playing of a hymn with a trumpet. And I thought,
what an appropriate way to begin a worship service, blowing of
a trumpet. But we don't have to have an
actual trumpet, but here's what this is a reference to. We do
preach the gospel of Christ. We do blow the gospel trumpet
to declare that God is God and that salvation is of the Lord.
And when the gospel trumpet is sounded, the sheep will hear
his voice and they'll follow him. There's a reference to Isaiah
27, 13, where it says, those who were were those who heard the trumpet
when they were ready to perish, they turned to the Lord. Those
who were ready to perish, when the trumpet is sounded, they
turned to the Lord, they come to the Lord. Remember our Lord
said, coming to me all you who labor heavy laden, I'll give
you rest. It's pleased the Lord to call out his people with the
preaching of the gospel, or we could say the trumpeting of the
gospel. That gospel trumpet we sound for. Please God through
preaching to call out His people. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing
by the Word of the Lord. Look at Psalm 81 verse 4. For this was a statute in Israel. This was a law and a commandment
of Israel. And a law of the God of Jacob. This was a statute. This was
a mandate. This was a decree. This was a
law of God. Sound the trumpet. This was a
binding precept under the law, and it's still a binding precept
under the gospel. We're commanded to preach the
gospel. He said, go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature. You remember Paul in
his last days, while sitting in a Roman prison, waiting to
be executed, sitting on death row, he wrote back to young Timothy,
he said, I charge you before God. and the Lord Jesus Christ
preached the word. Sound the trumpet, sound the
trumpet, preach the word, be instant in season, out of season,
reprove, reprove, rebuke with all longsuffering and doctrine
for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
Does that mean we're to quit preaching? Oh no, keep preaching,
keep preaching. As Paul said, determined to preach
Christ and him crucified. And then again he said, woe is
unto me if I preach not the gospel. Now if we're gonna preach, we
gotta preach the gospel. The gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ that gives him all the honor and glory. This he ordained,
verse five, this he ordained in Joseph for testimony. Joseph, remember his brother,
his brother sold him into slavery. put him in that pit and then
took him out of the pit and sold him into slavery. He went down
into Egypt and God made him the governor. God put him in charge. This he ordained in Joseph for
testimony. And we know that Joseph is the
type and picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. When he went out
through the land of Egypt, God said, when I heard a language
that I understood not. Joseph had a testimony, and his
testimony was, remember, he told those brethren, what you did
to me, you meant it for evil, God meant it for good. God meant
it for good. Jacob and Joseph were both pictures
of sinners chosen and redeemed. by the Lord Jesus Christ. This
is the testimony of God. This is the witness of the gospel
concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. That's their testimony. The God
of Jacob and the God of Joseph, their testimony was salvation
to the Lord. And that's our testimony, is
it not? And this again is a true picture of the Lord saving us.
He chose us, called us, elected us, redeemed us, and saved us
by his grace. just as he did Jacob, just as
he did Joseph. If you wanna turn with me, you
can. So I'm turning to 2 Timothy chapter one. I think about that
word there, testimony. Testimony, 2 Timothy chapter
one. Look at verse 7, For God hath
not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed
of the testimony of our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but be thou
a partaker of the affliction of the gospel, according to the
power of God who saved us and called us with a holy calling
not according to our works but according to his own purpose
and grace given us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of
the world but now is made manifest by the appearing of our Savior
Jesus Christ who has abolished death and has brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel. Weren't to I'm appointed
a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles, for the which
cause I suffer these things. Nevertheless, I'm not ashamed,
for I know whom I have believed. And I'm persuaded that He's able
to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day. I'm
not ashamed of the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ for
His grace. The whole Revelation, the book
of Revelation is what? It's called the testimony of
the Lord Jesus Christ. When we are taught the gospel
of God's sovereign mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ, When we're taught the Gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, look what it says in the last part
of verse 5, "...when I heard a language that I understood
not." When he teaches us the testimony of God concerning the
Lord Jesus Christ, when we hear strange language that does not
glorify God, we recognize it immediately. When we're taught
the Gospel, Of God's grace, everything that's contrary to the gospel
is strange language, is it not? You can identify a false gospel
when you hear it, can't you? A false gospel is quickly rejected
by God's people. There's no room for compromise
when the glory of God is at stake. We're to stand fast, contend
for the faith once delivered unto the saints. Now look at
verse 6, Psalm 81 verse 6, I removed his shoulder from the burden. When they were in the land of
Egypt, bondage all those years, and they cried unto the Lord,
who removed the burden from their shoulder? Well, the Lord did,
didn't He? He delivered them through the
Red Sea. His hands were delivered from the pots pots of labor. As the Lord set Israel free from
400 years of bondage, the gospel of Christ has set us free. He
delivered us from the bondage of the law, from the bondage
of sin, from the curse of the law. Stand fast, therefore, in
the liberty. You remember Galatians 5? Stand
fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has set us free.
He's redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us. He has removed our sins from us and has delivered us
from our sin as far as the east is from the west. You remember
one time our sin separated us from God. Now our sins have been
separated from us as far as the east is from the west. Psalm
103 tells us about that, doesn't it? Look at verse seven. Thou calledest in trouble, and
I delivered thee. They called out in trouble. God
sent them deliverer, Moses. He delivered them. Thou called
in trouble, and I delivered thee. That's when we really call upon
the Lord, when we're in trouble. When we're in trouble, I answered
thee in the secret place of thunder. I proved thee at the waters of
strife." Meribah. Selah. Think about that. We call
upon the Lord in trouble. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. We call in trouble, and what
does he do? He delivers us. He's called the deliverer. Deliver
them from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. He has
delivered us from sin, death, hell, and the grave. He's our
deliverer. God said, I answered thee in the secret place, in
the secret place, the secret place of the Most High. I've
got a reference here. You can turn with me to Psalm
91. Turn over to Psalm 91. The secret place. That has to refer to the power
of the gospel of Christ. Psalm 91, look at verse 1. He
that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty. I will save the Lord. He is my
refuge, my fortress, my God, and Him I'll trust. Surely He
shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. from the noise
and pestilence. He shall cover thee with his
feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall
be thy shield and thy buckler. We dwell in the shadow under
the wings of the Most High God, the secret place of thunder.
The gospel's called the power of God unto salvation. The last part of verse seven,
is a reference there to Exodus 17, when they were delivered
from Egyptian bondage, and they were out there in the wilderness,
and there was no water. There was no water. Remember,
the Lord told Moses to take that rod and to smite the rock, to
hit the rock. And out of that rock came water. Water, the rock provided water
for them for 40 years. And we know that's a picture
of Christ being smitten. Christ is that smitten rock out
of which life-giving spiritual water freely flows out to us. He that spares not his own son,
but deliver him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things, justified freely by his grace. I put another
verse on the back side of that book, not only Psalm 81 verse
16, but I also put on the back of that book 1 Corinthians 10
verse 4, which says, they all drank of that spiritual rock,
or they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and
that rock was Christ. That rock was Christ. How did
that rock follow them? I don't know. But God said He
did. That water followed them. That
water out of the rock followed them. Now here's something interesting. In Numbers chapter 20, when they
were needing water again, God said to Moses to speak to the
rock. You remember? Speak to the rock. And what did Moses do? He got
angry and upset. He said, you rebels, must I fetch
you water again? And he smote the rock again. God said, speak to the rock. Moses spoke the rock instead
of speaking. Then we read in Deuteronomy 32
verse 50, the Lord prevented Moses from entering the land
of Canaan, Joshua had to lead them in. Why was that so important?
The Lord said to Moses, you didn't sanctify me before the people.
The Lord Jesus Christ is to be smitten one time. Don't smite
that rock twice. You smite that rock once and
then speak to the rock. And God, God chastised him over
it, didn't he? Moses did not enter into the
promised land. Representing the law, he couldn't.
God took him up on Mount Pisgah and showed him the land, and
then God took him to glory and buried his body. The Lord Jesus
Christ, for by one offering, He perfected forever them that
are sanctified. You see how exact the Word of
God is? Look at verse 8. Hear, O my people. What a blessing. Hear, to hear
the Word of the Lord. To hear the Word of the Lord.
That's not just hearing with the ear, but hearing with understanding
in your heart. Hear, O my people. And that's
what the sheep do. They hear His voice. Hear, O
my people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou
wilt hearken, hearken, listen, listen to me. The whole written word of God
is the last will and testament of God concerning the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. You have it in your hand. Everything
God has for us to know about the will and testimony of the
gospel is revealed in this book. We read it as such, we believe
it as such, the testimony of God. You remember in our study
in the book of James, James said, let us be swift to hear, swift
to hear, what? Swift to hear Him, and slow to
speak. May we be like the family of
Cornelius. Remember when Peter, Cornelius
had that vision, and he called for Peter to come and preach
the gospel to him. And Peter came with the gospel
message, and Cornelius said to Peter, we're all here to hear,
All things commanded thee of God. And we're here, we're here
right now, to what? To hear. To hear a word from
Him. To hear a word from Him. A little
verse 9. There shall no strange God be
in thee. There's no strange God. He mentions
that twice, doesn't he? When I heard language I understood
not. Language is foreign to the gospel
of God. It's not found in the word of
God. There shall no strange God be in thee, neither shalt thou
worship any strange God. Strange God. When we are taught
from the word of God and receive the truth in our heart, we will
not entertain or believe or receive any notions of a false gospel. Not at all. Turn to Psalm 119. You remember this verse? Psalm
119. Psalm 119, little verse 103. Psalm 119, almost every verse
in this psalm has to do with the word of the Lord. How sweet
are thy words unto my taste. Psalm 119, 103. Yea, sweeter
than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts I get understanding,
therefore I hate every false way. by word as a lamp unto my
feet, a light unto my path. When we're taught from the word
of God, we will not entertain any notions of a false god or
a false gospel. If we don't hate that which is
contrary to the truth, it's because we don't believe and love the
truth of God. When you believe the truth and
love the truth, you can't stand that which is contrary to the
truth. I found this statement in a bulletin,
I believe it was Marvin Stoniker's bulletin, but it was an article
written by Pastor Mahan. He said, having religion is one
thing, but knowing and walking with Christ is different. Having
religion, the world understands, it'll tolerate. But free grace and the world
neither understand nor tolerates. Any two religions can walk together
and permit to exist. But the truth of God's grace
cannot exist with error, for one must always go. Truth and error cannot walk together. Two cannot walk together except
they be agreed. Look at verse 10. I am the Lord thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt. You remember the message
in Exodus chapter 12, or Exodus 14, rather. Stand still and see
the salvations of the Lord. I am the Lord thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide,
and I'll fill it. God says many times in Isaiah,
I am God, beside me there is no other. He's the only just
God and Savior. I am the Lord thy God. I am God. God is God. Beside Him there
is no other. And then He said to us, open
your mouth and I'll fill it. What does He fill it with? with
the milk of the word. Desire the sincere milk of the
word that you may grow thereby. Open your mouth wide and I'll
fill it with what? The meat of the word of God.
The Lord is able to provide for us abundantly. He shall supply
all our need according to His riches in glory through the Lord
Jesus Christ. Open wide your mouth. God said,
I'll fill it. Fill it with good things. You
remember the psalmist said, I think it's Psalm 37. Oh, taste and
see, the Lord is good. He is good. He is good. Open your mouth. God give us
an appetite to do so. God said, I'll fill it. Lord,
fill me with your truth. Fill me with your word. Now look
at verse 11, down through verse 15. And here's a sad, sad story
of Israel. But my people would not hearken
to my voice. They weren't delivered out of
Egyptian bondage just a short little time, and they were ready
to stone Moses and said to him, why did you bring us out in this
wilderness to die? We'd been better off down there
in Egypt. They complained and complained
and complained, and yet God took care of them all those years,
but my people would not harpen to my voice. Israel would none
of me. They didn't want me. So I gave
them up to their own heart's lust. Verse 12, and they walked
in their own counsel. That's what we don't want to
happen. We don't want the Lord to leave
us to our own thoughts, our own way, To walk in our own counsel. To walk in our own counsel is
to walk away from the truth. To walk away from the truth.
There is a way that seems right unto me, and the end of that
way is death. Verse 13, look at this. Oh, that my people had
hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways. I should soon have subdued their
enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries, The haters
of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their
time should have endured, and their time should have endured.
You know, they could have, when they were at Kadesh Barnea, and
they sent those 12 spies in to spy the land, they could have
took the land right then. God said, go and take it, but
they would not. It says in the book of Hebrews,
they entered not in because of unbelief. unbelief. My people would not have none
of me. How sad, how sad. Israel of old
were depraved sinners that would not hear, although some did. There's a remnant according to
the election of grace. You remember our Lord's words
in Matthew 23. You remember he said, how oft
would I have gathered you as a mother hen gathers her little
chicks, but you would not. You would not. He said, your
house is left unto you desolate, desolate. Forty years they wandered
in the wilderness because they would not listen to the word
of God. Only two men of the age of 20 entered into the promised
land, Joshua and Caleb. And God killed that whole generation,
40 years, wiped them out. And that's a good picture of
what our flesh, our fallen sinful flesh is all about. Our old sin
nature is just rebellion against God. The carnal mind is yet enmity
against God. The natural man will not see
the things of God. May the Lord be pleased not to
leave us alone, to give us up to our own heart's lust, to walk
after our own counsel, our own way. May God be pleased to teach
us and correct us and make us new creatures in Christ. Think
about this. What could have been for that
nation Israel had they listened to God? But just look at their
history. Talk about national Israel. Look at their history. Wars after
wars and wars God put him in 70 years of Babylonian captivity,
but it made no difference. They came out, they went there
as rebels, and they came back as rebels. And when the Messiah
was sent to them, to that nation, he came into his own, and his
own received him not. When the Messiah, long-promised
Messiah, came to that nation, they would not receive him. They
rejected him and nailed him to the tree, turned thumbs down. on the Lord Jesus Christ. We're
going to study Matthew 27, when Pilate saw that he could prevail
nothing, but rather a tumult was made. He took water and washed
his hands before the multitude, saying, I'm innocent from the
blood of this just person. See you to it. What did they
say? They answered all, then answered
all the people and said, his blood be on us and our children. It still is. judgments on that
nation today, and it will be until the end of time. God does
have an elect among that people, but for the most part that nation's
a reprobate nation. They have rejected the Messiah,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's close with verse 16. He should have fed them also
with the finest of wheat, and with honey out of the rock, should
I have satisfied thee. We're thankful for the Lord not
leaving us alone, for giving us life and salvation that we
might hear the gospel and look to the Lord Jesus Christ alone
for all spiritual blessings. And the Lord has freely and abundantly
and sovereignly given us the finest wheat, whole wheat, not
that bleach, what do they call that, bleach flour? He doesn't
give us the bleached out gospel. He gives us the whole wheat,
the whole kernel of the gospel. He gives us the bread from heaven.
Turn over here to John chapter 6. I'm almost through, but let's
look at this for a moment. John chapter 6. John chapter 6, look at verse
31. John chapter 6, verse 31. Our
fathers did eat manna in the desert. They called it light
bread, as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven
to eat. And the Lord said, verily, verily,
I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but
my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. That's that
finest of wheat. For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord
evermore, give us this bread. They didn't understand Christ
is the bread. He said, I'm the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, shall never thirst. Those
that believe on me shall never thirst. As I said unto you, that
you also have seen me and believe not. All that the Father giveth
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will know
why he is cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this
is the Father's will which he hath sent me, that of all which
he hath given me I should lose nothing, but raise it up again
at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that everyone would see it, the Son, and believeth
on him may have everlasting life, and I'll raise him up at the
last day." The Lord Jesus Christ is that bread of life that we
feast upon. The Lord also gives us the rich
honey that flows out of that smitten rock, Christ and Him
crucified. We have those exceeding great
and precious promises of the gospel, don't we? All that God
has promised, he's able to perform. All the promises of God in Christ
are yes and in him and amen and to the glory of God by the Lord
Jesus Christ. He said, I've given them the
honey or should have given them honey out of the rock. And he
has given that to us in Christ. Should I have satisfied them?
Believers are satisfied with the gospel of Christ. and all
our salvation in him alone. But what's more important than
that is that God is satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake. He'll magnify
the law and make it honorable. We read in Isaiah 53, and I'll
send you home with this. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him, He hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin. He shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in
his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Thank you, Lord, for the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ himself is our portion.
Believers enter in by the riches of His grace, by the fullness
of His love, by the blessedness of His eternal kingdom. Look, one more scripture. Just
turn one page, I think it is. Psalm 84, a little verse 10. Psalm 84, verse 10. For a day
in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents
of the wicked. Psalm 84 verse 11, for the Lord God is sun and
shield. The Lord will give grace and
glory, no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly. Oh Lord of hosts, blessed is
the man that trusteth in thee. He gives us all