Alright, brethren, let's turn
to Judges chapter 13. Judges chapter 13. We're going to just read one verse
to begin. Judges 13, 18. And the angel of the Lord said
unto him, Why askest thou thus after my
name, seeing it is secret?" Now this is another question asked
by the Lord to a sinner. This angel of the Lord, this
is a pre-incarnate appearance of the man Christ Jesus. It's
a pre-incarnate appearance of the man Christ Jesus. We know
this because Christ is the messenger sent by God. That's what the
word angel means. It means messenger. And Christ
is the messenger. Malachi 3.1 says, The Lord whom
you seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger
of the covenant, the angel of the covenant, whom you delight
in. And then we know this is Christ, for there is one God
and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
This is God speaking to a man, a sinner. And God speaks to sinners
through Christ, the Mediator. And then we know this is Christ
by His name. By His name. The angel of the
Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing
it is secret? Secret means absolutely and supremely
wonderful. Wonderful. Surpassing and separate
by a distinguishing action, by a distinguishing work that makes
Him wonderful above all. It expresses the character of
Christ's name and His nature, which is infinite and incomprehensible
to finite minds like ours. Turn to Isaiah 9 and verse 6. Isaiah 9, 6. Speaking of Christ, it says,
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. That tells
you He is the God-man. He is the Son of God given. He's the Child, the Son of Man
born. And the government shall be upon
His shoulder, the government of all. The government of God's
house, the government of the universe, the government of the
world shall be on His shoulder. And His name shall be called
Wonderful. His name shall be called Wonderful. This is the same name, the same
word as in our text, Secret. His name should be called wonderful.
Christ is wonderful because in His person He's God and man. That's incomprehensible. He's
God and holy man. He's perfect and wonderful, secret
and wonderful because of His incarnation. He became a man. He was born of a virgin like
no man. That's unbelievable to a natural
man. That's wonderful. He's wonderful because of his
offices and his relation to his people. He's our prophet who
teaches us. He's our priest who presents
us to God. He's our king who rules us and
everything for us. He's our lamb. He's our mercy
seat. in whom we have propitiation
with God, forgiveness of sins by His shed blood. He's the way
to God, the only way to God. He's the truth of God, who God
is. He's the life of God. That's
wonderful. He's wonderful because of His
unchangeable love to His people. His love never alters. It has
never changed one iota towards His people. It was not based
on anything in us and it's not based on anything in us now.
It never changes. His name is secret and wonderful
in all that He is and all that He has done for His people. He's
our wisdom. He's our righteousness. He's
our sanctification. He's our redemption. He's our
all and in all. In Proverbs 30 and verse 4 it
says, Who hath ascended up into heaven or descended? Who hath
gathered the wind in His fists? Who hath bound the waters in
a garment? Who hath established all the
ends of the earth? What is His name? And what is
His Son's name, if thou canst tell? His name is secret. It's wonderful. It's beyond comprehension,
all that He is. What we know of God is so little. It's so little. And yet what
we know is delightful. It makes you rejoice. It makes
you so thankful. But what we know is just very
little. His name is wonderful. Now in
this passage in Judges 13, Christ is announcing the birth of Samson.
Samson is a type of Christ, a very beautiful type of Christ. But
in everything Christ said and did in this passage, as He's
announcing the birth of Christ, everything He used, every person
involved, everything about this teaches us why Christ's name
is wonderful. Why His name is wonderful. Now,
first of all, we see Christ is wonderful due to the reason that
He came into this earth. His name is wonderful for the
reason He came to this earth. Look at verse 1. Judges 13, 1. And the children of Israel did
evil again in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord delivered
them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was a
certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites whose name was
Manoah. Now the reason Christ came to
this earth It's because all God's elect Israel, all God's chosen
people did evil in the sight of the Lord. That's why it came. Now that in itself is wonderful.
That in itself is wonderful. We did evil against the Lord. In the sight of the Lord. What
happens when somebody does evil against you in your sight? Let me tell you what happened
with God. It didn't change His love for His people at all. Not
at all. That's wonderful. Why? How? Because God's love is in
His Son, toward His Son, for His Son. And all those He chose
are in His Son. You picture this, God looking
at His people, but He doesn't see His people, He just sees
His Son. And that's why His love for His
people never has changed. Because He has an unchangeable
love for His Son. And Christ has an unchangeable
love for us. He sees us in His accomplished
work. He sees us as those who honor
God because of what He shall accomplish in all His people.
He sees us how we shall be, not how we are. That's wonderful. We couldn't deliver ourselves
from this bondage. Christ had to come to deliver
us. He came to deliver them who all their lifetime were subject
to bondage. And then, in these two names
here, we see what Christ came to do. Samson was born, verse
2, of the family of the Danites. That is, of the tribe of Dan.
We just read about him in Exodus 1. one of the sons of Jacob,
Dan. He was a Danite. Dan means judgment. That's what it means. You remember
when Jacob was giving God's blessing to Dan? Back there we saw it
in Genesis 49, I believe. God said to him, you shall be
a judge in Israel. And it's because God was going
to raise up Samson to be a Danite from the tribe of Dan. That's
a picture of Christ the judge. He's a picture of Christ the
Judge. Christ came to settle judgment. That's what He came
for. And Christ settled judgment. He settled judgment for His people. And He settled judgment against
those who will rebel against Him who are not His people. He
settled that. He said that. He said in John
chapter 9 and verse 39, For judgment I am come into this world. that
they which see not might see, and they which see might be made
blind. You know what is a fearful thing
to most people, to a natural man, and a shameful thing to
him? To admit he doesn't see and understand the truth of God.
That's a shameful thing to him. So instead, he acts like he knows
everything there is to know about God. You ask the average person
who never even opened up the Word of God, and they'll tell
you they see. They know everything there is
to know about God. You know who God, who Christ reveals Himself
to? Those He makes to confess, I
can't see. I don't know. Because He gets
the glory for teaching us. He gets the glory for making
you see. But those who go on in there, Arrogance. He said,
I see. He said, those are the ones I'll
make blind. They'll never see. He'll leave
them alone. So He came for judgment. And
then verse 2 says, He was born to Manoah. His father's name
was Manoah. Samson's father's name was Manoah.
That means rest. That's what Christ came to do.
He came to settle judgment for His people and He came to give
His people rest in Him. Our Lord, when He walked this
earth, He said, Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I'll give you rest. You see, it's not about our working. The government is on His shoulder.
He settles the judgment. He does the work. And so He says
to those who are working, who are heavy laden, working, trying
to come to God, He says, Come to Me, and I will give you rest. He says, Take My yoke upon you. My yoke, my rule of faith and
love, easy and light. And he says, and learn of me,
be taught of me and learn all about me. For I am meek and I
am lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls. Now, is there anybody here trying
to work their way to God? Is there anybody here that's
laboring under that heavy load of trying to work themselves
into God's favor? That's the hardest, heaviest
workload there is in this world. There's none like it. None like
it. weary and have just worn out
and tired because you can't ever just rest and be assured and
know you have acceptance with God. Christ says, come to me
and I will give you rest. Come to me, believe on me, trust
me and I will give you rest in your soul. Every trial we come
into is just like these children doing evil again in the sight
of the Lord. Every trial that we come into, usually, almost
every trial, it's not always the case, but most of the time,
We have turned from the Lord somehow or let something come
between us and the Lord. And what Jesus Christ is doing
all over again is just what He did in the beginning. He is coming
to make us see, to give us judgment, to see. He is ruling everything. He is governing everything. We
can look to Him and trust Him and honor Him and worship Him
and let nothing come between us and Him. He's teaching His
child that. And by doing that, He gives you
that sweet rest all over again. Just try to know that. When you
come into some situation, you don't know what's going on, why
is this happening, what's the Lord doing? He's going to show
you again just how real He is. The government is on His shoulder.
He's settled judgment. He's going to lead you in the
way that's just and right. And He's going to give you rest
to trust Him. That's the end of everything
He does. Every trial and all our salvation
is accomplished that way. Now secondly, and that's wonderful,
isn't it? That's wonderful. That's why
His name is wonderful. Now look, here's the second reason
we see His name is wonderful. It's because He's the wholly
consecrated Son of God's promise from eternity. That's a mouthful. Let me say it again. His name
is wonderful because He's the holy, consecrated Son of God's
promise from eternity. Look at verse 2. The second half
says, And his wife was barren and bare not. And the angel of
the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold, now
thou art barren and barest not, but thou shalt conceive and bear
a son. She had no way of conceiving
life and bringing forth this fruit. She could not do it. She
was barren and she bare not. But God appeared in Christ and
declared this promise to her. Behold, now thou art barren and
barest not, but thou shalt conceive and bare a son. Now just like
this angel came to her first and then went to Manoah, that's
what happened, remember, with Mary. The angel came to Mary
first and then went to Joseph. Mary was a virgin. She couldn't
conceive. She had never known a man. But
the angel came to her and said she would. He said, Fear not,
Mary. Behold, thou shalt conceive in
thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
Samson was a gift of God. That's picturing Christ. Christ
is the unspeakable gift of God. Christ is the promised Son of
God. Christ came forth by divine intervention,
a miraculous power and grace. Now, you think about this. All
through Scripture, all through Scripture, we find several great
men who were born of a woman who for some reason was barren
or could not bear. You have Isaac. You have Joseph. You have Samuel. You have Samson. You have John the Baptist. And
preeminent above them all is the Lord Jesus Christ. They all
pointed to Christ. They all teach us something of
Christ. And here's the lesson. The life
that God gives is not of us. We're barren and we cannot bear.
That's all that can be said of you and me and our flesh. But
the life that God gives is a gift in Christ. And Christ Himself
is the unsearchable gift. The life God gives is in Christ. It's all in Christ. The life
God gives is by the promise of God. Just like He promised this
son would be given, He promised Christ would come. He promised
it in the garden. He promised it to Abraham. He
promised it to Isaac. He promised it to Jacob. He promised
it to all the saints of old. and He brought him forth. Christ
came forth and He promises in Christ He's going to give life
to all those that are His elect. The life is a miracle of God's
power and grace. Just like a woman who's barren
and cannot bear, like Sarah was, like Manoah's wife here, who
all of a sudden can bear and have a child because God purposed
it and brought it to pass by the miracle of His power and
grace. That's what has to happen to a sinner like us. The life
God gives is in Christ, the Son of God's promise, the Son of
God's power, the Son of God's grace. That's why Isaiah 54 says
this. After giving all that, Isaiah
53, all about Christ, then Isaiah 54 opens. After a telling of
His victory and His accomplished redemption, Isaiah 54 opens and
says, Sing, O barren, you that did not travail with child, sing.
Why? Many more are the children of
the desolate. True children, true children
are born of us who cannot bear children. Why? Because your Maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is in His name.
He is the Holy One of Israel. He is the One who brings forth
the life in His people. And so look, now what he says
to her here shows us how he separated and consecrated to God before
he ever came into the world. Verse 4, he says, Now therefore
beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor strong drink, and
eat not any unclean thing. For lo, thou shalt conceive and
bear a son, and no razor shall come on his head, for the child
shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb. And he shall begin
to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. This
is showing us Christ was separated and consecrated to God before
as yet he ever came into this world. A Nazarite wasn't made
by a man, a Nazarite was made by God. God separated him and
consecrated him before the world was made. and separated him from
the womb. That's what's being shown here.
And by not cutting his hair and not drinking the wine or anything
like that shows how he was holy and separated to God. He was
for God's purpose and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. When the
angel announced Christ's birth he said almost the same thing
that the angel said to Manoah's wife. He said, You shall bring
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for He shall
save His people from our sins. That tells us what this consecrated
work was. What was it that God separated
Christ for in eternity? To come forth and save His people
from our sins. That's what He was separated
for. That's what He was consecrated to do. You know, you got a bunch
of children. And you take one of your children
and you say, come with me. You separate that child and you
say, now I've got a job I want you to do for me. And you give
that child a job to do just for you. You know what you've just
done? You have separated and consecrated
that child for your use. That child's holy from the rest. That's what the word means. He's
holy, he's separated, he's consecrated for your service. That's what
God did with Christ in eternity. In eternity. God sanctified Christ
and sent Him forth being the holy, spotless, consecrated,
promised Son of God who came forth in sinless, holy humanity
and lived all His days serving and pleasing God. Everything
He did pleased God. God sent Him in great mercy for
a people He already elected to save that He separated as holy
and consecrated for God's use in Christ. So if He chose a people
in Christ, and Christ was holy and separated and sanctified,
then that people in Christ are holy and separate and sanctified.
And so Christ came forth for those people. 2 Timothy 1.1. I know you may tire of hearing
me talk about election. God's people don't. But people
that don't know Him and sit here may say, well, He always talks
about election. The Scriptures talk about it
everywhere. 2 Timothy 1.1, Paul in his introduction
said, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according
to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus. Titus 1.2,
he said, in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised
before the world began. It's all through the Scripture.
Brethren, don't be fooled by those who point sinners to themselves
and tell them now they have to be their own sanctifier and their
own sanctification by their works under the law. Oh, they'll say
Christ helps out, but they always put it in man's hand. Brethren,
Christ is the sanctifier and Christ is the sanctification.
Because God made it so. God separated him to be the holy,
consecrated son of God's promise. And in him, all his people are
holy, sanctified sons of God's promise. And when Christ is formed
in you, then you're in Christ, and Christ is in you, and separately
connected. And it's like Christ is your
heartbeat. It's like Christ is now your
mind. We have the mind of Christ. Christ is now the ruler determining
where you go and where you don't go and what you think and what
you don't think. Yes, there is an old spirit that's
still there that rebels constantly against that new man. But the
one that's going to win always is Christ, the Spirit of Christ. That's our sanctification. That's
our holiness. That's our consecration of God.
If God removed His presence from you or me, the second He removed
His presence from us, we'd cease being holy, we'd cease being
consecrated. It's not of us. We can't do it.
It's of Him. And He is our sanctifier. Thirdly,
that makes His name wonderful, doesn't it? Wonderful. Now thirdly,
we see Christ is wonderful by His faithfulness unto His great
sacrifice. His faithfulness to His great
sacrifice. Now Christ is wonderful in that
He's the only perfectly faithful Son of God. The only one. The only one. The faith of Christ
is what saves His people. He's the only perfect faithful
Son of God. Look at verse, Judges 14, 15.
And Noah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let
us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Thou, though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread. And if thou wilt offer
a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah
knew not that he was an angel of the Lord." Christ was not
revealing himself here as the Son of God, but only as an angel
of the Lord. Manoah didn't know that. He didn't
know he was an angel even. Manoah only saw a man. That's
all Manoah saw. And Christ, you notice here,
was willing for Manoah to detain him. He asked, stop here with
us for a moment. And Christ was willing to be
stopped. Thank God Christ is willing to be stopped by sinners.
He will stop for sinners who detain him, who ask him, who
beg mercy of him. He will stop for sinners. But Christ told Manoah, I will
not eat of thy bread. I will not eat of thy bread.
He didn't have time to sit around and eat bread. That wasn't what
he came for. That was not the mission and the purpose for which
God sent him. Remember when Christ walked this earth and they said
they're going to get meat and all that and He said, I have
meat to eat you know nothing of. I have meat and drink you
know nothing about. My meat and my drink is to do
the will of Him that sent me. I pray to God He'd make that
our will and our desire to know that the reason we are here and
saved by God is to do His will, to promote His Son, to declare
His Son and the great truth of God in His Son. That's our purpose. That's our beaten drink. I'm
not, you know, I don't know how to say this, but sometimes I'll
get to studying and the Lord will give you that, He'll put
you in that zone where you're just, you're seeing things He's
getting things and He's showing you stuff. And it'll sometimes
be... I'll start out at 8.30 in the
morning and it might be 2 or 3 o'clock before I look up and
realize it's 2 or 3 o'clock. I ain't even eating a thing today.
That's good when God gives you... And I know He can do that. He
can zero you in so much committed to God's Word and God's purpose
that you don't even miss eating. It's like His word is food to
your soul. We need that other food. We got
to have that other food. But I'm just saying, we have
to do some of these other things in life we have to do. But our
chief bread and our chief purpose is the will of God to further
His gospel. That was what Christ was. And
Christ taught Manoah, just like He does all those He saves, that
if we're going to make any kind of offering, we've got to make
it to God. He said, if thou would offer a burnt offering, thou
must offer it to the Lord. Now, this burnt offering was
a thanksgiving. That's what it was, giving thanks
to the Lord, because the Lord was giving them a child. He gave
thanks to where thanks was due. But you notice here, Christ taught
him this. And Christ is the prophet. He's going to teach His people.
He's the shepherd. That word shepherd means pastor.
He's the pastor. He's the bishop. He's the elder
who's going to teach his child in the heart that we have to
make an offering to God. Every one of us that's going
to come into God's presence, we have to make an offering to
God. We have to be holy and righteous before God. That's the offering
we have to make to God. But there's not a single solitary
sinner who can do that. How can you and I make an offering
of ourselves or anything? that we would even think to offer
and God accept it who's holy and righteous when we are unholy
and unrighteous. The only way is in Christ. That's
the only way. The only offering God will accept
is the Lord Jesus Christ who is holy and righteous and He
accepts His people through faith in Him. That's the only way.
Neither, you know, it's not a coincidence here that when the Lord told
him, you must offer an offering to the Lord. Right after that,
Manoah asked, what is your name? That's not by coincidence. And
he's told him, my name is Wonderful. And that's what we see here in
all that took place here, we see how his name is Wonderful.
But you know, it's not a coincidence that when He said, you must offer
to the Lord, Manoah said, what's your name? Because when you connect
those two, you get the meaning. There is none other name under
heaven whereby we must be saved. The only name in whom we can
come to God is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only name whereby
we can be saved. And the reason is because His
people are accepted in Him because of His sacrifice on the cross. Verse 19, we see it in Manoah's
sacrifice. Manoah took. Now Manoah is not
a priest. Manoah is not in a temple. So
how can he make a sacrifice? Well, it's picturing Christ who
is our high priest, who makes the sacrifice to God. And He
by His blood has made all His people priests unto God so that
we can come offer thanksgiving to God in Christ. And Manoah
took a kid with a meat offering and offered it. Christ is the
only kid. He's the Lamb. He's the Lamb
of God. He's the only offering we offer
to God, pictured here. And upon a rock he offered this
unto the Lord. That rock was the altar. Christ
is our altar. Christ is our altar. Christ is
the altar whose holy Eternality made infinite satisfaction to
God so that we and our worship are accepted unto the Lord as
perfect and holy. Christ offered up himself. He's the altar who sank... When
they put the meat on the altar, it was sanctified. And that altar
is Christ. Christ is the altar who sanctifies
his people so that our worship and our offering to God is acceptable
in Christ to God. The only way we can come to God
is in Christ. And look. And then the angel
did wondrously. And Manoah and his wife looked
on. Christ did everything on the
cross. What he did on the cross was
wondrous. He did something incomprehensible
on that cross when He was made sin for His people and took our
place under the just judgment of Holy God and God separated
Himself from His Son. God always called His judgment
in Isaiah, do you remember this? In Isaiah 29 He called His judgment
a wonder. A wonder. And that's Christ's
wondrous work on the cross. And that flame came down on that
cross, that flame of justice came down on that cross to consume
Christ, the sacrifice. But He consumed this flame. He
consumed that flame of God's judgment. He consumed it for
His people when He justified His people. And after He justified
His people, He did wondrously like this angel of the Lord did
right here by what He was typifying right here. Look, it says, it
came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the
altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame off the
altar. When Christ has satisfied justice
for His people, He ascended into glory into God's right hand as
our High Priest to present Himself in His own blood and that's where
He remains right now. That's why we are accepted of
God. That's why when you pray, As
filthy and sinful as our prayers are, they come up to God holy
and perfect and accepted. Whenever you come in here to
try to worship God, as filthy, stinking, vile as our attempts
at worshiping God is, it comes up to God in Christ, holy and
perfect and accepted of God. And you and me, as vile and sinful
and wicked as we are, by faith in Christ, come to God holy and
righteous and accepted of God. That's wondrous work, isn't it? That's wondrous. Now let me close
and I want to give you a few reasons why we preach this wonderful
name of Christ. First of all, it's because He's
worthy of all reverence. All reverence. Back in verse
6, After he revealed himself to Manoah's wife, she came and
told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his
countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible. That word was in the psalm you
just read, Art. His name is terrible. It means
worthy to be reverenced. Worthy to be worshipped. Worthy
to be feared and honored. Christ is worthy to be feared. You know why? You don't believe
on Christ? You that don't believe, you know
why you don't? You fear man rather than God. You're fearful of what
mom and daddy is going to say, what your friends are going to
say, fearful of what you're going to have to give up in this world,
all that sort of stuff, rather than fearing God, whom you're
going to stand before. God is the only one worthy of
fear and reverence. He said, sanctify me, I'll be
your sanctuary. Let me be your fear and your
dread. I'll be a sanctuary for you. The beginning of the fear
of the Lord, that's wisdom. And when you begin to fear the
Lord, that's when, of God, Christ has been made wisdom unto you.
When you begin to fear the Lord. We preach it because it's not
by our questions. It's not by man's endless questions
that we're going to be saved. It's by this gospel being preached
through which Christ is going to reveal Himself. Look at verse
6. She said, but I asked him not
whence he was, neither told he me his name. There was no need
to ask and there was no need for Christ to tell her because
Christ was revealing himself in everything he was doing in
this whole thing he was doing here. That's what he was doing.
And that's what the gospel is. We preach Christ's person and
work. And that's how He reveals Himself
to His people and teaches His people who He is and what He's
doing and why He's doing it and where He is now. Everything about
Him through this gospel that reveals His person and His work.
And then we preach this gospel of Christ because God's willing
to be entreated by all who desire to know Him. Verse 8 says, Manoah
entreated the Lord. He said, Oh my Lord, let the
man of God which outdid sin come again unto us and teach us what
we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And God hearkened
to the voice of Manoah. And the angel of God came again
unto the woman as she sat in the field, but Manoah her husband
was not with her. Isn't it amazing that God is
faithful to be entreated? He's merciful to be entreated.
Anybody who desires to know Christ, God will be entreated. And you
will know Christ. God will make certain all His
people know Christ. It shall be so. But He's going
to do so through the woman. He came to Manoah's wife and
taught. That's teaching us He's going
to do it through His church, preaching the gospel, declaring
who He is through this gospel. So don't be as Manoah and be
separated from the church of God. Be under the gospel, be
under the sound of the word so that you can hear this message
delivered through the bride. And we preach Christ because
this is the gospel God will have us to run with and declare to
those in need. The woman, verse 10, she made
haste and ran and showed her husband and told him all about
this one who came to her. Let's run like Manoah's wife
did. She made haste and ran to tell
about Christ. That's why we preach this gospel.
We're to run and make haste to preach Christ. That's our mission.
And we preach Christ because when Christ reveals Himself to
His child, that's when we'll truly worship Him. Look at verse
20. And Manoah and his wife looked
on. You know, that's the only thing. They stood there and you
know what they did? The whole time the angel of the
Lord was doing everything. You know what they did? They
just looked. That's the work you and I have in this thing.
We don't put our hands to the work. Christ does the work. Our
salvation is in a look. It's in looking to Christ. Looking
to Christ. Believing on Christ. Now look,
they looked and they fell on their faces to the ground. Verse
21, Then Manoah knew that he would not have received us in
Christ the Lord. That's what she's saying there.
Would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering
in our hands. Neither would he have showed us all these things.
He wouldn't have revealed Christ to us and God's purpose. Nor
would he at this time have told us such things. And the woman
bare a son, called his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord
blessed him. in Christ. Neither would He have
showed us all these things concerning Christ, nor would He at this
time have told us all these precious promises in Christ. This is the
rest He gives you. This is the rest He reminds you
of. God is pleased towards His people in Christ, because Christ
bore that flame. He bore that vicious flame of
justice for His people. And just as God promised them
and it came to pass, they had the Son, just like He promised.
Everyone, God sent Christ, He came for us just like He promised.
Christ finished the work just like He promised. And every child
God promises to save in Christ are gonna be born at God's set
time just like He promised. What do we do? What did Christ
tell them? To obey Him. Do as I've told
you. And this child shall be born.
He tells you and me, believe on Him and love our brethren.
Believe on Him. Trust Him. Preach Him. Give honor
to Him. And that's loving you, brethren.
And He will come and do the work in the heart. You can trust Him.
Just like He did this work. And when it's finished,