I'd like to read a few verses
from Psalm 80 to open our service tonight. Psalm 80. This is every believer's prayer
when they come together for worship. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel,
thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. Thou that dwellest between
the cherubim, shine forth. Oh Lord, would you open the windows
of heaven and allow the light of your grace to shine in my
heart. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and
Manasseh, stir up thy strength and come and save us. I wonder if we're here tonight
in need of being saved. saved from ourselves, saved from
our sins, saved from the judgments of the law, saved from this world. Lord, would you be pleased to
save us? Turn us again, O God. Here's
how He saves His people. He turns them. Oh, we're so easily
turned away from Him, aren't we? Turn us again, O God, and
cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. But if you'll
just turn us and shine the light of your glory in our hearts,
we'll be saved. That is salvation. O Lord God
of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of
thy people? Oh, so often we feel as if he's
so distant, don't we? And we get the idea that he's
not hearing. Thou feedest them with the bread
of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure. We know a little something about
that. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies
laugh among themselves. We just don't belong in this
world. Turn us again, O God. O God of hosts, and cause Thy
face to shine. and we shall be saved. Let's
pray. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we come before Thy throne of grace as sinners Sinners, Lord,
in need of your mercy, in need of your grace, in need of you
to turn us, in need of you, Lord, to shine the light of the gospel
in our hearts and cause the dark doubts that creep into our souls
to be pushed away, that we might find hope and life and reason
for rejoicing in the finished work of your dear Son. We ask
that you would send thy Holy Spirit in power, that you would
illuminate the gospel to our hearts, that you would cause
us, Lord, to rest, to rely, to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
who himself is life eternal. For we ask it in his name. Amen. If the Lord is going to be pleased
to To shine the light of his grace in our hearts and turn
us and save us It will be by revealing himself to us in 1st
Timothy chapter 1 if you'll turn with me there in your Bibles Paul, the apostle, under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, breaks into joy and pronounces,
not at the end of his letter, but at the beginning of it, a
benediction. We think of a benediction as
being something that concludes the matter. But after having
declared that the Lord Jesus Christ came to save sinners in
verse 15, of whom I am chief, he in verse 17 breaks into this
glorious benediction, declaring the person and work of the Lord
Jesus Christ in just a few words. look what he says in verse 17
now first timothy chapter 1 first timothy chapter 1 verse 17 now
unto the king eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be
honor and glory forever and ever amen Amen. This word Amen is also translated
faithful. It's the same idea that Paul
uses in verse 15 when he says this is an Amen saying. This
is a faithful saying. The faithful one has come in
order to save sinners and God's people say Amen. They don't if,
and, or, but the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They
bow and they declare amen. This is true. That's another
way this word amen is translated. When the Lord says, verily, verily,
I say unto you. He's saying amen and amen. I say unto you. This is the truth. And when God's people hear the
truth, the truth recommends itself to our hearts. And we know it's
the truth. And we don't respond like the
goats and say, well, yeah, but. We know that grace means grace. Turn to me, to the book of Jude. Right there at the end of your
New Testament, right before Revelation. Jude verse 4, and there are certain men crept
in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation. Now it is true that Election
is a positive work and act of God's grace upon the heart of
lost people. And that He has to elect us and
He has to regenerate us. The new birth is an intervention
of God. It's completely His work. We don't have anything to do
with it. And contrary to that, reprobation is, in fact, God
leaving men to themselves. And He doesn't have to positively
do anything in the hearts of those who die and go to hell
in order to condemn them. We come into this world condemned,
and if He doesn't intervene, we will remain condemned. Now
that having been said, the scriptures are clear that God has made the
reprobate he fitted them to destroy them that the glories of his
grace might be known to his elect those who whose are the recipients
of his grace Lord if you don't intervene I'd be just like that
I'd be just like that And so that we, we don't, we don't emphasize
the passing over of the reprobate to the point to where we deny
God's sovereignty in that passing over. You see what I'm saying?
It's not like God's sovereign in salvation, but he's just completely,
totally out of the picture passive in reprobation. No. He's ordained all things and
that's what this verse tells us in 1st Timothy chapter 1 verse
17. God has ordained everything. The election and the regeneration
of his children and the damnation and reprobation of those who
he hasn't chosen. Look what he says here in verse
4. For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before
of old ordained to this condemnation. God ordained them to that. Don't
strip God of His sovereignty when it comes to the reprobation
of the lost, of those who die and go to hell. God's ordained
it to be so. Ungodly men. Now this is what
I want you to see. I never saw this like this before.
Turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness. Now I used
to read that and I think, you know, men are using grace as
a cloak to cover up their ungodly ways. In other words, they're
true antinomians. They're saying, you know, I believe
in grace and then they're living like the devil and justifying
themselves in it. But this word turning doesn't
mean that they've gone, that they're using grace to justify
their lascivious living. What this means is that they've
actually turned grace into the doctrine of lasciviousness. Here's
what this verse is saying. You can't preach free grace or
you will lead people into sinful living. These men who are ordained of
God have taken grace and they've turned it into a damnable doctrine
because they've said you can't preach free grace. You can't
preach free grace. If you do, you're going to encourage
people to live in sin. And so what do they do? They
preach grace and law. and then makes works with grace. They've turned the doctrine of
grace into lasciviousness and denied the only Lord God and
our Lord Jesus Christ. In doing that, in saying you
can't preach free grace, grace doesn't lead to sin. Grace leads
to the exposure of sin. Grace leads to Christ. Where
sin abounds, grace does much more abound. The grace of God
exposes us for what we are and causes us to flee to Christ as
the only hope of our salvation. But these men who were ordained
of God from old to their condemnation and to the condemnation of those
who hear them, they're saying you can't preach grace. If you
preach grace all by itself without any restraint, then you're going
to lead men into sin. And in doing that, they have
denied the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we speak of grace, what
do they say? Here's what they say. Amen! It's
all of grace. But it can't be grace by itself. There's got to be a but. There's
got to be something else. So they're not able to say, Amen. Go back with me to our text.
To the King, Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise God,
He gets all the honor and all the glory forever and forever. And God's people say, Amen. It's all of grace. It's all of
grace. We're not worried about grace
leading God's children into lasciviousness. No, we know what grace will do.
Grace will only expose deeper and deeper and deeper the reality
of their own sinfulness. And where grace abounds, sin
will abound. And where sin abounds, grace
will abound. And it's like that tree, isn't it? Roots grow deeper
as the tree grows higher, and the way up is down. We don't
have to put a butt on the gospel. We say, Amen. Amen. This is a faithful saying. this is a true saying Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners and he does it all
by grace and he gets the honor and the glory forever and ever
amen another word another way this word amen is translated
in our New Testament is believe Believe. Believe on the Lord
Jesus. Amen on the Lord Jesus Christ. And thou shalt be saved. In other
words, you just bow. You just agree. You just confess. You don't try to add to. How does this book, how does
God conclude his word? Here's how he concludes it. Anyone
adds to this book? Anybody takes away from this
book? All he has to look forward to is the judgment of God. And
so what does faith do? Faith just says, Amen. Amen. So Paul breaks into a benediction
here when he says, Unto all glory and honor and power and praise
unto the king eternal invisible the only wise God he gets all
the glory 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 verse
20 he writes for all the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ
yes and amen amen It's over. That's it. True. It's faithful. We don't add to it. We don't
take away from it. We just say Amen. The promises
of God are fulfilled in the work and person of the Lord Jesus
Christ and don't depend upon us for anything. And I'm so glad. Aren't you glad? That's good
news to a sinner. And if a person uses that to
justify some sort of ungodly living, they've not heard. If
they're going to turn that into antinomianism, then they've not
been brought to Christ. Amen. Unto the King. The King. Now, we talked about this in
Sarasota the other night, and I'm not going to go into a lot
of detail. You know the history of this nation. We were born
into this world as rebels. We're born that way naturally.
We're born that way spiritually. And as Americans, we're particularly
born that way in that we consider our independence and our rebellion.
It's not been so with most generations of people. You understand that.
Most folks have a great respect for king. And God's people will. They will
bow to the authority and the rule and the sovereignty and
the power of the one who is king of kings and Lord of lords. He's king. He's king. He's the monarch. He reigns over
his creation and over his church and over his people. And he has
no constitution or bylaws outside of his own sovereign purpose
that he's bound to. He doesn't govern in the way
we do. He has no counselors. He has
no cabinet. He has no advisors. There's no Senate or House of
Representatives that has to approve his will. He has full veto power
over everything. And God's people like it that
way. They rejoice. By the way, the word benediction
means to speak well. That's what that word means.
It's a conjunction of two words. The word to speak and the word
good. To speak good, to speak well,
to speak highly. And here's what God's people
say, unto the king, unto the sovereign, unto the one who governs. And as the sovereign king, he
wasn't voted into office. This is not a democracy. That's
what men have done. Well, I'm going to vote for Jesus. You know, God, God's voted for
me and devil's voting against me. I'm going to be one to break
the tie. I'm going to, I'm going to cast my vote and I'm going
to let the Lord come into my heart. He's not up. He's not running for office.
He's not running for office. He's not trying to get control
of your life. You're not going to make Him
Lord. He is sovereign over each one of us. And God's people pronounce
a benediction in that. They say, Amen! He's King! He governs! He's sovereign! He rules and He reigns and He's
not threatened by His detractors. and all of his purposes shall
stand. As king he kills and he makes
alive. As king he is the potter and
we are the clay and he has the sovereign right to make of the
same lump of clay some vessels of honor and some of dishonor.
He's king. He's a sovereign monarch and
he rules whether people know it or not. The wrath of man shall praise
me and the remainder he shall restrain. In other words man's sin has
been ordained of God for his glory and what he won't use for
his glory he'll just stop. He'll restrain. I love Nebuchadnezzar's confession
there in the book of Daniel when he says he hath done whatsoever
he wills with the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth
and no man can stay his hand or say unto him what doest thou
all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing His dominion
is an everlasting dominion and His kingdom is from everlasting
to everlasting. There's never been a time when
He wasn't reigning. When He hung on Calvary's cross,
He was reigning as King. God saw to it that His title
was placed on that cross, didn't He? King of the Jews. But in fact, king of all men,
his death was for the purpose of revealing himself to the Jews,
the true Jews, the true Israelites, the true children of Abraham,
the elect of God, as king. And they say, unto the king,
unto the king. eternal, immortal, invisible,
the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. And God's people say amen. That's
what I wanted. I want to be a subject of the
King. Revelation chapter 19, John sees
the Lord Jesus Christ seated upon his throne with his name
written upon his vesture and written upon his thigh. Now in
the Bible God uses anthropomorphic language to condescend to our
level so we can understand something about who he is. It just means
that he takes pieces of our anatomy And uses that to describe his
nature. Because he's invisible. He's
beyond our comprehension. And so he has to say, well I'm
like this. And so he speaks of his hair
of white, and his eyes of fire, and his tongue as a sword, and
his feet as brazen brass, and his hands of righteousness, and
his thigh. The strongest muscle in your
body is your thigh. You can move more weight with
your thigh than any other muscle in your body. You can leg press
a whole lot more than you can bench press. And the strongest
bone in your body is your femur. The strongest bone in your body.
And so he's got on his thigh, representing his strength, his
authority, his power, his name. And what is his name? King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. And on his vesture, this cloak
of righteousness that covers him, there's his name again.
And God's people bow and glory in him being king. Pilate asked him, are you the
king of the Jews? Ask me this of thyself, or because
another has told you so. Pilate said, what am I, a Jew? You know, here a half-wit governor of Judah,
a little country, standing in front of the King of Kings and
Lord of Lords and thinking that he's going to interrogate him.
And the Lord said, for this end was I born and for this cause
came I into the world to bear witness unto the truth and everyone
that's of the truth hears my voice. They know I'm king. They know I'm lord. They know
who I am. It doesn't diminish his sovereign
reign over the unbeliever. It doesn't diminish his lordship
or his power over the reprobate. But God's people say unto the
king, amen. Amen. What does the unbeliever say?
Will not have this man reign over us. Oh yes you will. Oh
yes you will. Why do the kings of the earth
imagine a vain thing? Why do they imagine an empty
thing? As if they can stand against the King of Kings and the Lord
of Lords. Oh, their hatred is so intense
and they're hostile. The Jews pledged allegiance to
their number one enemy. They hated Rome. They hated Caesar. And what did they say to Pilate?
We have no king but Caesar. Their hatred for the Lord Jesus
Christ was so intense and so deep that they confessed allegiance
to Caesar. rather than bowing to Christ.
He's king. He's king. And as king, he has
power to pardon. It seems like at the end of every
presidential reign, the individuals that the president pardons at
the end of it is going out. It's very interesting to see
who he pardons, isn't it? But he has, according to our
Constitution, he's got that power. He can pardon anybody. He can
let anybody out of prison and take away their sentence and
it's done. He's free. Well, that's true of the President
of the United States. How much more true it is of the one whose
name is on his thigh and on his vesture, King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. What do you mean you're going
to forgive his sin? Don't you know that only God can forgive
sin? Isn't that what they said? Yep. That's right. And that's exactly
who I am. And the only way your sins are
going to be forgiven and my sins are going to be forgiven is if
God forgives them. Truth is, sin is against God
and against Him only. That's what David said. Sin by definition is an offense
to the sovereignty of God. Can I offend you? Can I hurt
you? Can I trespass against you and bring great harm to you?
Yes. Yes. But sin, by definition,
What did David say? Against thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. Well what about Uriah?
What about the hundred men that were with him that David murdered
essentially? Did he not sin against them?
He said against thee and thee only have I sinned. The king
is the only one that can put away sin. And that's exactly
what he did. When he went to Calvary's cross,
and he bowed his mighty head, and he said, it is finished. Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit. He paid the price for our sin. And he's got the sovereign right
to have mercy upon whom he will have mercy and whom he will he
hardens. There's another reference to
this matter of reprobation. Yes, reprobation is leaving men
to themselves. But reprobation is more than
that. God says he hardened the heart
of Pharaoh. He has the power to pardon and
the power to reward his servants. Don't you love the story of Esther
going before the king Ahasuerus? And Mordecai said, this is the
day that God caused you to be born. You've got to be the Savior
of Israel. And Esther is a picture of Christ
there. And he said, you go into the
king and you plead for the mercy of your people. And she said,
but it's against the law to go into the king's court unless
the king calls you. And finally she said, if I die,
I die. If I die, I die. I'm going into
the king. And here she's a picture of us, isn't
she? Because as soon as the king saw her, what'd he do? He took
his scepter, his golden scepter, and he leaned it out to her.
And he allowed her to touch the scepter. And he said, what is
it, Esther, that you'd want my queen? Up to half my kingdom. No, he had the authority to kill. He had the authority to make
a life. He had the authority to reward. He was the king. He was the king. Here's the Lord
Jesus Christ as our king. Let me say this about At the Last Supper, when the
Lord had the disciples there and washed their feet, He said
to them, You call me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so
I am. There's no place in the New Testament
where you'll find the apostles addressing the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ in calling him Jesus. I don't care what your political
views are, I don't care how much you might disagree with the policies
of our current president, I promise you if you were invited to the
White House you would not call him Barack. You would call him Mr. President
out of respect for the office you would say Mr. President.
You may call him other things in private, but if you were standing
in his presence before his court in the White House, you would
say Mr. President. Now if that's true
of a man like that, how much more it's true of speaking of
the Lord Jesus Christ. God's people. I listened to,
somebody gave me a message to listen to recently and the preacher
said a lot of true things. He obviously was a Calvinist
and he said a lot of true things about the Lord. But all throughout
the message it was Jesus this and Jesus that. And I was so
offended by it. He was just taking the name of
the Lord in vain. We don't talk about him like
that. you call me master and Lord and you say well for so
I am he's the king he is the king unto the king eternal eternal
the word there is eon And it's the word that describes the longest
span of time known to man. An eon is the largest span of
time. And that's how we use that word,
literally. And that's the word here. But
it doesn't do justice to his glory any more than the picture
of a thigh does justice to his power and to his strength. For
He's eternal. That means He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever. And that's the only hope we have,
isn't it? It's the only hope we have. If God didn't choose us and place
us in Christ outside of time, then when time came into being, how would we be saved? How would
we be saved? He would have to change. He would
have to come up with a plan B. Truth is, our God's never had
a new thought. He's never changed his mind when
the scripture speaks of God repenting. And again, it's using anthropomorphic
language. It's using language that condescends
to where we are to explain to us what God's doing in the human
realm because we can't comprehend something that's eternal. It's
just no beginning. No beginning. You mean out there
in eternity past? We use the word past and we talk
about time. This is a little bubble we live
in. This thing we call time and space and you let the Hubble
telescope look out into the universe until it finds the farthest galaxy
and all that is inside of this little bubble that God's created
called time and space and He's outside of it. he's the king
eternal eternal one day God's going to pop this bubble and
we're going to find out something about eternity when we step into
it and when you and I get to glory we're not going to look
around and it's going to take us a day or a week or a month
to figure out where we're at when you take your last breath
and enter into glory if you're a child of God You know what's
going to happen? You're going to be outside of
time and space and you will always have been there. You will always have been there. Now I know that's beyond our
comprehension, but that's what the eternal is. Here's a description
of our God. He is the King Eternal. That means He doesn't change. He said, I change not, therefore
you sons of Jacob are not consumed. It's the only hope we have. He doesn't change. He hasn't changed His decrees. He hasn't changed His purpose.
Men talk about God having a plan for this and a plan for that
as if he sat down and devised some plan. The Bible doesn't
speak of God having a plan. He's a God of purpose. He's eternal. he's the ancient of days without
beginning and without end he is the uncreated source of all
life and that's what he said when he gave us his name I am
I am I'm not like you in any way in any way. I'm not created. I'm not dependent. I'm not derived from something. I just am. I exist within myself. I always have and always will.
I'm the king. Eternal. And that's the God that
was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld, what? His glory as the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace. What a benediction! And what
do God's people say? Amen! Amen! No ifs, ands, or buts about it. And when He gives eternal life, That's not a life that starts
at one point and lasts forever. That's a life that, that's his
life. That's his life. John chapter 10, turn with me
there. Verse 24, then came the Jews
round about him and said unto him, How long dost thou make
us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Oh, the foolishness of blind
men! How much plainer could he have
spoken? Jesus answered them, I told you
and you believed not the works that I do in my father's
name they bear witness of me if you're not going to hear my
words at least believe what you see that I've done you see the
dead rise you see the blind given sight you see the crippled but
you don't know you don't believe you know I can't even believe
that you can't even believe the physical evidence of who I am
you won't believe my word why not verse 26 you believe not because
you are not of my sheep as I said my sheep hear my voice they hear
my voice and you know what they say you know what they say amen
that's what they say They just say, Amen. Faithful. True. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Call me a dog. Truth, Lord. Amen, Lord. And I give unto them eternal
life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. My Father which gave them me is greater than
all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones to stone
him. And he answered, Many good works have I showed you from
my Father, for which of these do you stone me? And the Jews
answered, For good works we stone thee not, but for blasphemy,
because that thou being a man makest thyself God. The Lord was clearly declaring
himself to be the King eternal and they wouldn't have it. Why? Because they weren't of his sheep. My sheep hear my voice and they
say amen. And the Lord Jesus Christ said
in John 17 verse 2, Thou hast given me power over all flesh
to give eternal life to as many as those that Thou hast given
to me. And this is life eternal that they might know Thee, the
only true God in Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. He possesses life. He is life. Eternal. This is not real. This is not
real. The real life is in the eternal.
Immortal. Oh, let's do this quickly. Immortal. Immortal. What that means is
incorruptible. And these words can only be used
to describe God. Everything in this world goes
from order to disorder. One day this pulpit will be part
of the ground if God tarries. One day this building, one day
this body. Everything is decaying. Why does God use gold to describe
the incorruptible nature of the Lord Jesus Christ? Why was the
ark covered in gold? Why do we read so much about
the gold of Ophir? Because gold is the one element
in the world that doesn't tarnish and it doesn't rust. But it is
corruptible. You heat gold hot enough and
you will turn it into a vapor. You can corrupt gold. Not so
with God. He is the true incorruptible. Here it is, immortal. He's not
subject to decay. That's the reason that he could
not remain in the tomb. when they put him into that grave
and and John remember John and Peter running to the grave on
that resurrection morning and Peter looked in John looked in
and Peter in his impetuous way just boldly went in and the scripture
says that Peter wondered but when Peter wondered he couldn't
understand what he was looking at but John when he saw the grave
clothes believed And the scripture says that the grave clothes were
lying there separate from one another. Very distinct description
given in the word of God about these grave clothes. And the
picture is that the grave clothes were in, you understand, they
wrapped the body as if it was a mummy with cloth. And they wrapped the head with
a separate piece. And what the Bible is telling
us is that those cloths that were used to wrap the body, it's
not just talking about putting a blanket over top of it, it's
wrapping this body up, preparing it for burial. And the wrappings
were laying there right where the body was laying in the exact
form that they were in when they were around the body, only there
was no body in them. When Lazarus came out of the
tomb, what did the Lord have to say to them? Loose him and
let him free. They had to unwrap that boy,
didn't they? But not the Lord Jesus Christ. He came right out
of those great clothes. He came right through them. And
for the next 40 days, he appeared and disappeared before the disciples,
didn't he? coming in and out of time and
space and eternity at his own will. Why? Because he was immortal. And what does the Bible say about
us? He's the firstborn among many brethren and when we're
raised we're going to be like him. And the corruptible is going
to be made incorruptible and the mortal is going to be made
immortal. unto the King, eternal, immortal,
invisible. Invisible. Oh, and He is. Men say, well, I want people
to see Jesus in me. Listen, they didn't see Jesus
in Jesus. He's invisible. When he walked the face of this
earth in the likeness of sinful flesh, born of a woman, born
under the law, he looked just like everybody else. Though he was holy and perfect,
and at the Mount of Transfiguration the disciples saw the veil of
his humanity taken away, and the brilliance of his glory was
such that they couldn't look up, they fell to the ground. He's invisible to the natural
man. The natural man cannot receive the things of God. Father, I thank Thee that Thou
hast hid these things from the wise and the prudent and revealed
them unto babes. Where is the wise? Where's the
scribe, the only wise God? Where is the disputer of this
world? Our young people go off to college,
and they have to listen to these foolish, self-righteous, proud,
arrogant professors with degrees. And young people are made to
feel foolish if they believe what God has declared. They're
made to feel foolish. What are you, just a Neanderthal? Aren't you up with the times?
Don't you know that scientific discovery has proven these things
to be wrong? And the wisest men in this world
are fools and they're blind when it comes to the truth of who
God is. Why? Because he's invisible. And he
is the only wise God. You can't be wise and know God. He's gonna make you foolish. And that's the only time you
know anything about wisdom, isn't it? Only God Only God could be wise
enough to maintain His holy justice and purpose a way for sinners
to be justified in His sight. Only God could come up with the
gospel. Only God, the eternal wise immutable
King of Kings and Lord of Lords could have the wisdom and the
power and the authority to place a people in the person of his
dear son before time began and purpose that lamb to be slain
before the foundation of the world and then be satisfied with
the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus Christ made as the sinner's substitute
God making Him to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness
of God in Him. Only wise God could do that.
Only wise God could do that. You listen to all the foolish
plans that men have for saving themselves. There's no wisdom
to it. The gospel is the only wise God. And to Him be all honor. You see that word in our text?
Honor. That word has to do with value. Let me ask you a question.
How valuable is the Lord Jesus Christ to you? How valuable is
He to you? Most people just want three dollars
worth of God. You understand that, right? Most
people want just enough God to salve their conscience and help
them get through life and, you know, help them live another
day. If the Lord Jesus Christ reveals
himself to you as the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
wise God, he will become the pearl of great price to you and
everything will go on the altar for him. and glory. This gospel is the
only message of salvation that gives to God all the glory, isn't
it? Glory has to do with estimation, opinion, judgment. What is your judgment? What is
your judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ? What's your judgment
of Him? I hope that our judgment is unto
the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
be honor and glory forever and ever. Let's stand together. Find your
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