hymn number 21 from the softback
hymnal, the Spiral Hymnal, Covenant, Ordered and Sure. This is everybody's
favorite, so I thought we'd do it our first night in here. Let's
all stand together. of the Father and the Son and
the Spirit, three in one. In eternal ages past, made a
covenant sure and fast, God my Father chose his own in the person
of his Son. and ordained that I should be
one with Him eternally. God the Son, all free to come,
in the flesh to bring me home, He would keep God's holy law
and retrieve me from the fall. Christ in love so willingly,
Stood at my great shore at sea, For my price he offered blood,
To appease the wrath of God. God the Spirit, heav'nly God,
Promised to compound in love, bringing life and peace and grace
to the chosen church's grace. He seeks the lost, heals the
lame, and He brings us to the Lamb. By His mighty sovereign
call, God's elect are gathered all. ? This poor sinner is secure
? ? For God's love and will endure ? ? It is sealed by God's own
word ? ? By his spirit and his blood ? ? Blessed holy covenant
God ? ? I am yours by tithes of blood ? Please be seated. Good evening. This is something
we'll have to get used to, isn't it? It's a little different.
Different from up here, I can tell you that. open our Bibles together to Hebrews
chapter four, for our call to worship Hebrews chapter four. Still have a few glitches we're
working out with the sound equipment. I know air conditionings are
not working in the back, but they're going to fix those tomorrow. They're actually working with
seven turned off for a reason. So they're going to be here in
the morning. Hopefully, we'll get Cooper said
midnight, he's going to call for the CEO tomorrow. So we may
be able to have it by Sunday. Either way, I'm thinking we'll
probably meet over here Sunday anyway. So all right, you have your bibles
open to Hebrews chapter four, we'll begin reading at verse
10. For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works as God did from
his. God rested on the seventh day
of creation because he was finished. The Lord Jesus Christ finished
the work of redemption. We don't work our way to heaven.
We look in faith to Christ. to the work that he accomplished
for all the hope of our salvation. That's what the Lord's telling
us here. Look at verse 11. And here's the labor. The labor
is to enter into his rest because by nature, we're always wanting
to do something, aren't we? That's just our natural tendency. Let us labor therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and he is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. God uses his word to give us
faith to enter in to his rest. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest or made known clearly in his sight, but
all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom
we have to do. All men are going to stand before
God. Some will stand before him in Christ. and be justified by
the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some will stand
before him and have to answer for their own sin. And they will
have no answer for that. Verse 14, seeing them that we
have a great high priest. that is passed into the heavens. Jesus, the son of God, let us
hold fast our profession. What is our profession? Christ
is all. It is finished. That's our profession. For we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
with confidence unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. Let's pray together. Our merciful heavenly father,
we are a needy people and we need your grace. We need your
mercy. We need the Lord Jesus Christ
to stand in our stead. We need his righteousness. We
need to be justified by his shed blood. Lord, you're the only
one that can meet that need. We have no way to produce these
things of our own. We pray that you would meet with
us tonight. Pray that you would bless your word. Pray that you
would make it quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged
sword. We pray that it would discern the thoughts and the
intents of our hearts, and that it would reveal to us the glory
of our high priest who has passed into the heavens, who's seated
at thy right hand, and that we would look in faith to him as
our intercessor, our savior, our sin bearer, and our substitute. Father, thank you for the blessing
of this building, and we pray that You'd be glorified and honored
in all that's done in this place. We pray it in Christ's name and
for his sake. Amen. Number 226 from the hardback
terminal 226. I am not skilled to understand
what God hath will, what God hath plan. I only know that His
right hand is one who is my Savior. i take him at his word indeed
christ died for sinners this i read for in my heart i find
the need of him to be my savior that he should leave his place
on high and come for sinful men to die. You count it strange,
so once did I, before I knew my Savior. Oh, that man, Phil
Pacey, the travail of his soul in me, and with his work contented
me, as I with my dear Savior Please be seated. What a Savior
He is. Let's turn in our Bibles together
to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. I've been thinking this week
that it was very timely and very appropriate that we should find
ourselves in our study of Psalm 119 at verse 105 tonight. We come here for one reason,
and that's to worship God in spirit, by the power of his spirit,
from the heart, in our spirit, and in truth, according to the
revealed truth of God's word. The first service we'll have
here, might we be caused by the Spirit of God to always remember
this verse. Psalm 109, verse 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path. Everything that we're going to
know about God will be revealed to us in his word. Worship is declaring the person
and work of the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in God's Word. God's Word is the lamp unto our
feet. God's Word is the light unto our path. And as we've seen
time and time again, we don't separate the written Word from
the living Word. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
Word of God. He is the one who became flesh. He is the one who dwelt among
us, and he's revealed himself to us in his written Word. And so the Word of God is a lamp
unto our feet. We live in a dark world. We're
born spiritually blind, and if the Lord doesn't doesn't give
the light of the gospel in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ
revealed in the word of God, we will live in darkness with
no truth, no understanding, no revelation of God, unless he
gives it to us by his word. I'm reminded of Acts chapter
10, when Peter went to preach the gospel
to Cornelius. You remember the story? Cornelius
had been praying and the Lord told Cornelius to send a servant
to go fetch Peter. And while the Lord was dealing
with Peter in Joppa, Peter came and Cornelius said to him, we
are all here, H-E-R-E, we are all here, gathered in the presence
of God to hear, H-E-A-R, whatsoever the Lord has commanded you to
tell us. And that's why we come here.
We're here to hear. We are here to hear. And God's
word is the lamp unto our feet. It is the light unto our path. The Lord tells us in Proverbs
chapter 30, verse 5, every word of God is pure. It's pure. He is a shield unto
them that put their trust in him. The Lord said, man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. Here's the word of God. It is
the lamp unto our feet. It is the light unto our path. When the Lord gave us the parable
of the sower, The parable of the soils, you remember the sower
cast the seed and some seed fell on the wayside soil, the hardened
pathway along the side of the field, and the birds of the air
came and plucked it up and carried it away. Some of the seed fell
in the hedgerow where there were thorns growing. And it sprang
up, but it grew among the thorns, and it got choked out by the
thorns, and it was never fruitful. And some of the seed fell on
rocky soil, that soil that just had a very shallow substance
to it. And when the heat of the sun
came up, the ground dried out. And though the seed had germinated
and showed some evidence of life, it died and never produced fruit. And then some seed fell on good
soil. soil that had been prepared by
the Spirit of God, and that seed grew and it produced fruit, some
30-fold, some 60-fold, some 100-fold. Well, those different soils not
only remind us of the condition of men's hearts in that some
are unbelievers and they the word of God, the disciples asked
for the meaning of the parable and the Lord told them, he said,
well, the seed is the word of God. The seed of the word of
God and the soil is the hearts of men. And unless the Lord prepares
the heart and the seed defines soil that it can grow in, then
it's going to be like the one that falls on the stony ground
or the thorny ground or the wayside ground and it's never gonna be
fruitful. I find myself experiencing all
four of those grounds. You know, we often think of that
wayside ground as the unbeliever who has no interest in the things
of God. And as soon as he hears the word, that which he has has
been taken away from him. How many times you've, God has
dealt with you. He spoke to you about something
and just within a little while, you forgot, you forgot, you got
plucked away. Or you get caught up in the things
of this world and the thorns of this world choke out the word
of God. Or the shallowness of our, and the coldness of our
hearts keep the seed, the word of God
from being fruitful as we want it to be. And that's why we keep
coming back. And I'm just giving you, I'm
sharing this parable because each of us must come into this
place and say, Lord, prepare my heart. Let the seed of your
word find a fallow ground in my heart, Lord, till the ground
of my heart, prepare it to hear your word, that it might be fruitful,
fruitful to the glory of God. The fruit of the word of God
is faith, is faith. That's what, that's the fruit.
It's, I've already quoted this verse, faith comes by hearing
and hearing comes by the word of God. Thy word is a lamp unto
my feet. Thy word is a light unto my path. If we're going to have faith,
God's going to give it to us as he speaks to us from his word. That's why he calls his preachers
to study, to show themselves approved, a workman that needeth
not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Now, I've
heard men take that passage of scripture and say, well, you
know, you rightly divide the word of truth by applying this
passage to this era of time and this passage to another era of
time. and so forth, and it's dispensationalism
is what it is. They've broken up the history
of the church into different dispensations as if different
passages of scriptures only apply to certain generations, and that's
not what that verse means at all. Rightly dividing the word
of truth is finding Christ in every passage of scripture. It's
all relevant. It all speaks to us. All of God's
word is profitable in every part of our lives. And so we're rightly
dividing the word of truth when we look for the Lord Jesus Christ
in the word of God. And when God says, my word is
a lamp unto your feet, it is a light unto your path. The Lord Jesus Christ said, I
am. the light of the world. He is that light. And as he's
revealed to us in his word, the light of the
gospel in the face of Christ shines in our hearts and reveals
to us the truth of who we are. the truth of who God is, the
truth of how it is that God's pleased to save us through the
redemptive work and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. These
are all the truths that are revealed to us through the light of the
gospel. The Lord said of the false prophets,
if they speak not according to the law and the testimony, it
is because there is no light in them. So there are false prophets
who will take this book and they will declare it to be the word
of God, but they won't preach Christ from it. They'll preach
everything else. They'll preach law, they'll preach
history and theology, but they won't preach Christ. And the
Lord said to the Pharisees, didn't he? He said, you are diligent
students of the Bible. You search the scripture daily
because you think your knowledge of the Bible is gonna save you.
That's what he was saying to them. You think in them, you
have eternal life in just understanding and memorizing scripture. You
miss the whole meaning of it, for these are they which testify
of me. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. From Genesis to Revelation, this
book is about Christ. And I pray that every time we
come into this building, the Lord will give us the grace to
search the scriptures, to discover the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ
and to find our rest in him as he is revealed in his word. He's the light unto our path.
He's the lamp unto our path and the light, the lamp unto our
feet and the light unto our path. How highly we value the scriptures. The Lord says, of himself in
the Lord Jesus Christ is life. And the life was the light of
men and the light shined in the darkness and the darkness comprehended
it not. He came unto his own and his
own received him not, but as many as received him to them,
he gave the power to become the sons of God. So this light has
shined in the darkness and men aren't interested in the light.
They like living in the darkness. The Lord said, I am the light
of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life. That's what you and I need. We
need the light of life. We come into this world spiritually
blind. And unless the Lord opens the
eyes of our understanding, we will remain blind. Not being
able to see Christ, not being able to see the truth, not being
able to see our way to find our rest and our salvation and our
hope in Him. The means by which the Lord opens
the eyes of our understanding is his word. I am not interested in convincing
anybody that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God. I know that it is. You say, well,
how do you know that? Because God taught me. And what
God teaches you, no one can teach you out of. We're not here to
defend the Bible. We're not here to try to convince
men that the Bible is the word of God. We're here to declare
it as the word of God. And we know that God's people
will hear and they will believe. So when we come to this place,
we're just going to be saying the same. We're not going to be trying
to hedge that about in any way. We're just going to say, thus
say it. This is what God says about it,
about everything. And I am confident that God's
people are gonna say amen. Amen. They're going to rejoice
in knowing that they have a light. You know, when Satan tempted
Eve, And Adam sinned and the human race was cast into darkness. The very first question that
he asked Eve was, did God say? Did God say? He hasn't changed
his tactics. The weapons of his warfare are
exactly the same today. causing us causing men to question
the Word of God. Did God say? And. You know, if he if he can get
us to to doubt the Word of God. Then then all is lost for us,
isn't it? Might the Lord give us. The grace
to say yes, God said it and that settles it. That settles it for
me. You know, you've seen the bumper
sticker that says, God said it, I believe in that settles it.
Well, God said it, that settles it, whether you believe it or
not. You believe in it, doesn't make it a bit of difference in
what God said or what the truth is. You remember in Genesis chapter
one, turn with me there, in Genesis chapter one, Verse one, in Genesis one reminds
us of John chapter one, doesn't it? In the beginning was the
word and the word was with God and the word was God. Speaking
of the Lord Jesus Christ as the living word of God revealed to
us in the written word of God. And Genesis chapter one, in the
beginning, God. You know, if you really believe
everything implied by the first four words of the Bible, you're
a believer. That's right. If you believe
everything that's implied by those very first words, in the
beginning, God. God is the sovereign creator
and sustainer of all of life, both physical and spiritual.
That's what's being said here. He is self-existent. He's not derived. He's not contingent. He's not
created. He's nothing like us in any way. He stands alone. That's why he
said, I am in the beginning, God. He what? He created the
heavens and the earth. Not just talking about physical
creation. He was talking about everything, everything. And the
earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon
the face of the water. And God said, let there be light. And there was light. Now what does our text say? Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. You see,
unless God says, let there be light, unless the spirit of God
moves upon the face of the deep of the waters of our own heart,
the world we live in will always be without form and void and
darkness will always be upon the face of the deep. Unless
the light of the gospel in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ
shines in our hearts, we will remain, our hearts will remain
desperately wicked and unknowable, unknowable. You see that description
of physical creation in the beginning is a perfect picture of the new
birth, isn't it? We're without form and void. We're darkness. We're without
direction. We're without hope. We're without
God in this world. And unless the spirit of God
speaks by the word of God and the light of the gospel shines,
we'll remain without void. We'll remain desperately wicked
and unknowable in all our ways. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
59. Isaiah 59. Might we test everything by the
word of God? And might that, the answer to
that question, what sayeth the scripture settle all controversies,
all differences. You know, when Trisha and I were
talking recently and we've come over the years to
reveal that though we have disagreements about things and we have contentions
from time to time, just like every married couple does, we
are always in complete agreement about the word of God. We're
always in complete agreement about the gospel. And that agreement
is what enables us to settle whatever other differences we
might have. We never disagree over what God
says. That's a blessing. What a blessing
that is. When there's controversy about
whatever Come back to that foundational truth that you cannot be disagreeing
on and settle your hearts there. And from there, you can work
out any differences that you might have about anything else.
That's why it's so difficult for a believer and an unbeliever
to be able to have a meaningful marriage because light and darkness
have no fellowship. And if you can't come back to
that. To that fellowship in Christ,
then what do you have? Yeah. You have your Bibles open
to Isaiah chapter 59. And I say this to young people. Don't entertain the idea of. Marrying someone that's not a
believer. You don't have a life of heartache. Marriage is hard
under the best of circumstances, but you don't have that union
together in Christ. It's going to be impossible. Isaiah chapter 59 is a description
of the natural man, the man who does not know Christ. the man
for whom God has not shined in his heart and revealed to him
by the light of the word of God, the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Look what God says about this natural man in Isaiah chapter
59, beginning of verse eight, the way of peace they know not. They don't know the way of peace.
The Lord Jesus Christ said, I'm your peace. I'm your peace. We saw that Sunday. He's the
prince of peace. We have peace with God through
the Lord Jesus Christ. But they know not the way of
peace, and there is no judgment in their goings. They don't know
how to discern the difference between truth and error. Notice what I said. All men know
the difference between right and wrong. You don't have to
be a believer to have a conscience to show you the difference between
right and wrong. Scriptures are clear that the law of God's written
on every man's heart. He knows what's right and what's
wrong. But the natural man cannot discern
the difference between truth and error. He can't. He'll call evil good and he'll
call good evil. When it comes to spiritual things,
that's where he has no discernment. And so the Lord says, this natural
man, he doesn't know the way of peace. There's no judgment
in his goings. He can't judge the difference
between truth and error. They have made them crooked paths,
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. There is a way
that seems right unto man, but in the end, that way leads to
death. What's the way that seems right unto man? That God should
reward me for my good works. God should reward me for me deciding
that I'm going to let him come into my life. God should reward
me for those things. And the Lord says that's a crooked
path. And what does our text say? Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet and thy word is a light unto my path. And if we don't have the word
of God, the written word and the living word, then we're going
to find ourselves groping in darkness. We're going to find
ourselves on a crooked path. That's what, look at the next
verse. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice
overtake us. We wait for light, but behold
obscurity. for brightness, but we walk in
darkness. We grope for the wall like the
blind and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday
as in the night we are in desolate places as dead men. Now that's
the unbeliever. That's the unbeliever who doesn't
look to the word of God. He's not. He's not following
the light of Christ revealed in Scripture. He's following
his own ways and. Job said the Lord caused them
to wonder, wander WANDER. The Lord caused them to wander
in the wilderness where there is no way. There's no way. We live in a... We saw Sunday,
we're sojourners in this. This is a dry and thirsty land. This is a wilderness. The children
of Israel didn't really wander through the wilderness. They
were led. They had a pillar of fire by night and they had the
pillar of smoke by day to lead them every step of the way through
the wilderness, didn't they? God brought them through that
wilderness into the promised land. Job went on to say, they
grow in the dark without light. He maketh them to stagger like
a drunken man. Now that's the description that
God gives of the unbeliever who doesn't have the light. Now,
what does a believer do? He believes, he believes God's
word. The word of God is the lamp unto
his feet, is the light unto his path. It reveals Christ, who
is the light of the world, and causes him to follow after the
Lord Jesus Christ. And I pray the Lord will give
us the grace to be faithful as Paul was in Acts chapter 20,
when he met with the Ephesian elders, he said, I have not shunned
to declare unto you the whole counsel of God, the whole counsel
of God. Somebody told me about a special
that was on Netflix and I watched it, it's a couple hours long,
perhaps you saw it, it's called the American Gospel. And, And
it was really the pot calling the kettle black. It was some
people who had some understanding. Well, they had some knowledge,
I guess, of some biblical truths. And they were using that knowledge
to expose the error of the foolishness that's being done in religion,
the Joel Osteen's and the Benny Hinn's and that kind of stuff,
the stuff that, you know, I mean, just way out there stuff. And in this documentary, they
talked about man being a sinner. And I thought, well, maybe they're
going to get somewhere. And they talked about the sovereignty
of God, that God was sovereign. and I watched the whole thing
and got to the end, they never mentioned, not one single time,
God's sovereignty in salvation. They never mentioned unconditional
election. They never mentioned God's sovereignty
in redemption. They made no mention of particular
redemption the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They talked about
the work of Christ being sufficient for salvation. And, but they
never dealt with the fact that it was, it was purposed for a
particular people. And they never dealt with irresistible
grace. They left you thinking that,
you know, if I make a decision, then this will be for me. And
I thought, you know, it's not really what they said because
everything else they said was spot on, but it's what they didn't
say. It's what they didn't say that
left you without the gospel. So by God's grace, every time
we come into this building, we're going to seek to preach and to rejoice in the
whole counsel of God. And in so doing, I'm certain
that the Lord will be glorified. Reminds me, there was in Jeremiah
chapter 36, there was a king in Judah named Jeholakim. Barak, Barak was the, he was
the scribe. And the king called on him to
bring the scrolls and to read the word of God to him. And as
the scribe read the word of God to him, Jehoiakim took out his
pen knife, the scripture says, and he cut off pages of the scroll
and threw them into the fire. And I thought, well, that's what
men do. But the real, you've heard people say, don't bring
a knife to a gunfight. Jeholakim was bringing a pen
knife to a sword fight. I mean, he was going up, the
scripture says the word of God is the sword of the spirit. And
he was contending with God with his little pen knife, thinking
that he could cut out the parts of the sword that he didn't like.
And when he was all finished, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah and
he said, get Barak again and write the same words. And he
wrote them again. And at the end of that story,
The scripture says, and he added, the Lord added many more like
words. So, you know, man's attempt to
deny the truth of God's word is not gonna change God's word.
And he's, it's, what a blessing we have. What a blessing to just
be able to open God's word at any point and say, amen, and
then to look for Christ and to know that God's word is the lamp
unto our feet, and it is the light unto our path. When the Lord had healed that
man in John chapter nine, who was born blind, the man didn't
know who healed him because the Pharisees called him aside, and
interrogated him and began asking him theological questions about
how he was healed. And he said, I don't know. All
I know for sure is that once I was blind and now I see. And
they ended up excommunicating him, didn't they? They brought
his parents in, they excommunicated him. They said, you're siding
with that sinner, you're no longer welcome in the temple to worship
God. And the Lord, found him and spoke
to him and revealed himself to him. And he believed on Christ,
didn't he? You know, that story shows a
couple of things, that he didn't have faith until after the Lord
had given him sight. You know, he had to see before
he could believe. And that's the miracle of the
new birth, that the Lord enables us to look on Christ and then
would believe on Him. But the Pharisees came up to
the Lord afterwards and they were offended that the Lord had
healed this man. And the Lord said, they that
are of the light, they hear my voice. And the Pharisee said,
are you saying that we're blind? And the Lord said this, he said,
if you were blind, then you could see, but because you say you
can see, therefore your sin remains. Every time we come into this
building, we're reminded, we're reminded of our dependence upon
the Lord to open the eyes of understanding. Lord, I'm not
going to, Lord, If you don't give me sight, I won't be able
to see. And if in our pride we insist that we've got everything
that we need, our sin will remain. But if we come to this place,
Lord, open my eyes that I might see. We're like blind Bartimaeus,
aren't we? What would you have me to do
for you? Isn't that what the Lord said to blind Bartimaeus?
Oh Lord, that I might see, that I might see. Might we be reminded
of that every time we come to this place. Lord, that I might
see. Make Christ to be the lamp to
my feet. Make Christ to be the light of
my path. Make the Lord Jesus Christ from
your word come alive in my heart. that I might see, that I might
see my way to rest, my way to eternal life, my way to the forgiveness
of my sin, my way to truth. I want you to turn with me to
one final passage of scripture. It's in Matthew chapter six,
Matthew chapter six. We'll begin reading in verse
22. We're talking about God's Word
being the lamp unto our feet, being the light unto our path.
God's Word giving light to our eyes and understanding to our
hearts. Look what the Lord said in verse
22 of Matthew chapter 6. For the light of the body is
the eye. Close your eyes, it gets dark,
doesn't it? The Lord says the light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be
evil. Now you can probably have concordance
or something, maybe even on your smartphone of the Bible, you
look up that word evil. The definition of that word evil
is full of labor, full of labor. So the Lord says, if your eye
be single, the whole body is full of light. But if the eye
be full of labor, then the whole body shall be
full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness. Now here's the meaning of that.
And we go all the way, we're coming full circle back to Hebrews
chapter four, entering in to the rest of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who ceased from his labors. and rested because he was finished. And the Lord saying to me and
you, labor to enter into his rest. Let your eye be single,
looking in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ for all your righteousness,
for all your justification, for all your life, for all your light,
for all your peace with God, all your peace in this world,
all your hope. Look to Christ and if the eye
be single, focused on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, the whole
body will be full of light. But if the eye be full of labor,
in other words, if you're looking to what you're doing rather than
what he's done and trusting in your labors, or you're trying
to work your way into heaven by impressing God with what you
do, then the whole body is full of
darkness. And if the light that you have
be darkness, that's what the Lord was saying to those Pharisees.
If you were blind, you could see, but because you say you
can see, therefore your sins remain. If we're looking anywhere
other than the Lord Jesus Christ, we're looking to our labors. Or for our salvation. Then what we think we have as
light. You see, that's what the Lord
said at the Day of Judgment. There will be many that will
stand before him and say, but Lord. We've done many wonderful
works in your name. What are they doing there? Their
eye is evil, full of labor. looking to what they're doing
rather than looking to what Christ has done. And if the light that
you have be in fact darkness, oh, how great is the darkness
thereof. Christ Jesus the Lord is our light. He's the light
unto our feet. He's the lamp unto our feet,
the light unto our path. If he's pleased to speak to our
hearts by his word, and you know, and here's our hope, brethren,
the word of God is not bound. Paul said in 2 Thessalonians,
2 Timothy chapter two, he said, I suffer trouble as an evil doer. And I've even been put in bonds. I've been arrested and thrown
into prison and accused falsely as an evildoer. And at the end
of that verse, he said, but the word of God is not bound. It's not bound. And the word
of God is never bound. However bound we might be, however
we might be caught up in the thorns of this world, however
shallow and cold our hearts might be with rocky soil, however quick
we might forget the things of God, if we're a child of God
and our eyes be single, looking to Christ alone for all of our
salvation, the word of God is not bound. It will return unto
God, having accomplished the purpose for which he sent it. By God's grace, we're going to
meet many times in this building. And every time we meet, we're
going to be doing the same thing. We're going to be comparing the
spiritual to the spiritual. We're going to be looking to
God's word for God's word. And by God's grace, he'll open
the eyes of our understanding, the light of the gospel. will
be the lamp into our feet and the light into our path. Let's pray. Our heavenly Father,
thank you for your word. Forgive us for our unbelief.
Cause us, Lord, to find all our rest and all our satisfaction
in the simplicity and singularity of thy dear son, courts in his
name we pray, amen. 18 in the spiral hymnal, let's
stand, 18. The game is wholly inspired work,
for only one great end. The prophets and apostles, too,
reveal the sinner's friend. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. Prophecies of old record, God's
wondrous mighty deeds, Those deeds of power and of grace,
Set forth the whole unseen. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. The prophets all revere our Lord,
as prophet, priest, and king. The types of great redemption
show, Christ's blood and grace now bring. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. The Baptist said, the sinner's
only God. As it was promised long before,
God's Son as man has come. The Bible is a book of Christ,
it only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ,
it only speaks of Him. Our substitute obeyed the law,
then died and rose again. And in His blood our Savior said,
Rejoice, I come again. The Bible is the book of Christ. It only speaks of Him. On every page it shows us Christ. It only speaks of Him. John,
John, is that music loud enough or is that the max volume? it.