Good to see our visitors and
friends back with us today. Turn with me to Luke chapter
12. Luke chapter 12. Have you ever asked yourself
this question? What does my life consist of? What does my life consist of? There's only two kinds of people
in this world. There are people whose life consists
of serving themselves. And there are those whose life
consists of being the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. One day our Lord was standing
and there was a multitude of people around Him. And somebody in that multitude
spoke up and they said, Master, speak to my brother. that He
divide the inheritance with me. And the Lord said, Man, and He's
speaking to man. He said, Man, who made Me a judge
or divider over you? He said, take heed and beware
of covetousness. A man's life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things which he possesseth. He said, he that layeth up treasure
for himself is not rich toward God. And then he said, where your
treasure is, That's where your heart will
be also. And I'll tell you something,
where your treasure is has a lot to do with what your treasure
is. Because if your treasure is in
heaven, it's Christ. And if He's our treasure, that's
where our heart is. In heaven. in heavenly places
with Christ. We have to eat. We have to be
clothed. And there's many who think, well,
I'll minister. I'll serve others. But first, there's quite a bit
that we need. Let's get enough saved up so
that we can minister to others and do it with some security
and some peace. We need a building. We're going
to have to buy a building one day, or rent a building, or Lord
willing, if He's pleased to bless us, we'll have to get a bigger
place. Does that mean we're going to
wait until we've got all that squared away before we minister
to those that have less than we have? When our thoughts run
that way, we never have enough. We never find that peace. We
never find that security. and we continue just being self-serving. Our Lord here is directing the
hearts of His servants away from this world to a day of eternal
happiness. And He does it by giving this
most amazing expectation. Luke 12, verse 37, Blessed are
those servants whom the Lord, when He cometh,
shall find watching. Verily I say unto you, that He
shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meet, and
will come forth and serve them." Think of that for a minute. Does
that do something for you? Can we really look forward to
God our Savior, the Creator of heaven and earth, our Master,
the Lord Jesus Christ, girding Himself, making us to sit down
to meet, coming forth and serving us? I want to concentrate on this
verse, but let me read the whole context to you, beginning in
verse 34. He says, where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded
about and your lights burning. And ye yourselves like unto men
that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding,
that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall
find watching. Verily I say unto you, that he
shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meet, and
will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second
watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are
those servants. And this know, that if the good
man of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he
would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken
through. But ye therefore, be ye therefore ready also, for
the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. Now let's
think about this verse 37. Our Lord Jesus Christ gives a
parable here comparing the believer to this comparison of some servants
who are waiting for their Lord. And he says here, and we'll use
this verse 37 as our division for our message. He says here
in verse 37, blessed are those servants. Christ Jesus is our
Lord. And you and me are His servants. And I say that in this crowd
of folks, unreservedly, about everybody sitting here in front
of me. Whether you know Him, whether
you trust Him, whether you love Him, whether you hate Him, whether
you despise Him, whether you reject Him, He's your Lord. It's blasphemy when preachers
stand up and say, make Him Lord. He is Lord. Whether you know
Him as Lord or not, He is your Lord. And if you hate Him and
despise Him and reject Him, everything you do in your rebellion against
Him is serving His purpose of grace and His purpose of glorifying
His name perfectly. Perfectly. But for the believer, more than
any other description in scripture, the description that is most
often used of a believer is a servant. A servant. And he says here,
to you and I who trust him, verse 35, let your loins be girded
about and your lights burning. Our garment And the oil of our
lamps and the light which shines is the righteousness, the Lord
our righteousness, Christ Jesus our righteousness, the oil of
gladness, the light that we've seen of the glory of God in His
face. The parable here speaks of servants
waiting on their Lord and this Lord is going to return very
soon from a wedding. Now, if you're Christ's servant
by the Spirit of Grace dwelling in you, you're His servant and
called His servant because you're born of this One who has everlastingly
served you. before God made time. The Lord Jesus Christ served
you by serving Himself or providing Himself as surety for you to
pay your debt in full before the debt that you incurred had
ever even come into being. Whenever Judah got ready to go
up there, go down to Egypt, Israel, Jacob didn't want him to take
Benjamin. He didn't want him to take Benjamin.
He'd already lost Joseph. He didn't want him taking his
youngest son with him. And Judah said, I'll be surety
for him. What does that mean? I'll be
surety for this boy. It means this, of my hand shalt
thou require him. If I bring him not unto thee
and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever. That's serious business. That's
what our Lord Jesus Christ did in serving His people when He
entered into suretyship for them before God ever made anything. In the fullness of time, as the
representative of his elect, this one who is God, came to
where we are. And as the representative, he
came to this sin-cursed earth, and in complete faithfulness,
he served for his bride. He made himself of no reputation,
took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness
of man." You know, if there's something that's just, that just
hurts your eye to look upon it, it's so wretched and sinful,
would you want to be made like it? In the likeness of it? He came and was made in the likeness
of men. I try to put myself in the place
of that night when he ate supper with his apostles. They've just
got through eating supper and they know that he's going to
the cross. He said, this bread that's broken,
this is a symbol of my body that's broken for you. Take this and
eat it." He said, this wine that comes from a grape that has been
beaten and pressed in the wine press, spilled out the juice,
crushed out of it. He says, this is a symbol of
my blood shed for you. And they took that bread and
that wine and very little time had passed. They got through
and they're sitting there. And they started arguing with one
another. They got into an argument over
which one of them is going to be greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. I wonder what they were basing it on. You know, we love to foolishly
exalt ourselves, don't we? We love to, if counsel that we've
given is not heeded by somebody, because our counsel is so wise
and so great, it just burns us up if somebody don't heed it.
And when somebody else gives us counsel, because we're so
wise in ourselves, who are they to counsel me? I don't need their
counsel. We think our riches, and our reputation and our resolve
to do what we'll do. If it's going to be lessened
in any degree by anything anyone else says or does or any contact
we have with one another, we'll just cut them off. We'll write
them off before we'll let our riches or our reputation or that
which we determine to do be hindered. Our old fleshly desire loves
to be considered the king. Our old fleshly desire loves
to exercise lordship. Our fleshly desire loves to be
considered and regarded as great benefactors of everybody within
our sphere of influence. Look over there at Luke 22. Hold
your place right here, Luke 22. Listen to what our Lord said
to them that night. There was strife among them.
Which one should be accounted the greatest? He said unto them,
The kings of the Gentiles, heathen kings that don't even know who
God is, they exercise lordship over them, over the Gentiles. And they that exercise authority
upon them are called benefactors. I have such a benefit to you. But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest among
you, let him be as the younger. And he that is chief, as he that
doth serve. Whether he is greater, he that
sitteth at meat or he that serveth, is not he that sitteth at meat,
but I am among you as he that serveth. The Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, equal with God, one with God the Father and God
the Holy Spirit, making Himself of no reputation with us, us
who are by nature children of wrath, God-haters, despisers
of God. Here He is with us as we boast
of our great, grand reputation and the basis of why we are to
be accounted greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. And yet he's
serving us. Like Jacob, who served seven
years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days because
of the love he had for her. He said in Luke 12, he said,
Fear not, little flock, it's your father's good pleasure to
give you the kingdom. And you know what he said to
his apostles that night? He said, and I appoint unto you a kingdom,
as my Father hath appointed unto me, that you may eat and drink at
my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve
tribes of Israel. This is Him. This is the author
of faithfulness. He who had every reason to make
himself of reputation and yet made himself of no reputation. He who had every right to sit
them down and say, I'll tell you who's going to be greatest
in heaven. Who said, I'm with you as one that serveth. And then, as our substitute,
He served the Father by giving His life. And He served us by
giving His life that He might have His bride. He made Himself
of no reputation, took upon Him the form of a servant, was made
in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, He
humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross. Listen to this, the son of man
came not to be ministered unto, but he came to minister and to
give his life a ransom for many. We think of ransom. We think
of a hostage. And we were hostage. We were
held. We were the captives of Satan. The captives of sin. We were
bound and in the prison of death. What's the ransom? What's the
ransom that's demanded? You have to give your life and be made a curse for folks who love me, for folks
who have pretty good thoughts about me, for folks who are my
friends. for folks who hate you and despise
you and don't want to have anything to do with you or your grace
whatsoever. And He redeemed us, ransomed
us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for
it's written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Now in
that parable back there in Luke, He's speaking of a Lord who's
returning from a wedding. Jesus Christ is not only our
Lord, He's not only our Master, our Sovereign and King, He's
our Bridegroom. Through that shameful cross,
when He hung there between heaven and hell, as bad as everything
was that He endured at the hands of men, That was light affliction,
light affliction compared to what he endured from God the
Father. wrath that we don't even know
anything about. We can't even enter into it.
We see hurricanes, and we see tornadoes, and we see tsunamis,
and we see the earth open, and earthquakes, and fires, and all
of these things. That's just a token of His wrath. He endured the wrath If I just
think of the wrath that I deserve, if I just think of the wrath
from God that I deserve, much less a number that no man
can number, and to bear and satisfy eternal
justice and eternity of wrath in that time in which He endured
the cross, and then into the grave, into that cold, dark,
damp tomb. But then from it he rose and
he went into the heavens because he loved the church and he gave
himself for it. Now listen to this. Christ loved
the church. Christ gave himself for the church. that He might sanctify, that
He might cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
that He might present it to Himself a glorious church without spot
or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and
without blemish. Did you catch who did this? Did
you catch whose work this is? It's His work. He did this. And this one has gone into the
heavens, into glory where now He serves,
even now, as our King, as our Advocate with the Father, as
our Great High Priest. This is the garment. This is
the garment wherewith our loins are girded. This is the oil wherewith
our lamps are kept alive with this flame. This is the light
that lightens us and makes us a light of this world. This is
it. It's Christ. Our righteousness. It's Christ who sends forth the
oil of the Spirit into our hearts. It's Christ who is the light. What other garment do you have?
What other oil do you have? What other light do you have? This is how our lawns are girded
about and how our lights remain burning because this is what
He said. He that spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely
give us all things? Oh, you talk about Christ being
your bridegroom? Where is He? You talk about Christ. You being His bride? Looks like
you've been left by your bridegroom. No, our bridegroom's in the heavens. He's serving us right now just
as he has from before time began. Just as he did when he came to
this earth. Just as he did when he went to the cross. Just as
he did when he went to the grave. Just as he did when he rose.
He's seated at God's right hand and he's ever living to make
intercession for us. And he said this, He's coming back. He's coming
again. And He said to us, while I'm
gone, while I'm gone, let your loins be girded about, let your
lights be burning. What's He mean by that? Make time, brethren. Make time. Put on these garments. Put these
garments on. Put this oil into your lamp. Tender this fire. Feed your soul. Don't feed your
flesh. Be renewed in the spirit of your
mind, not serving this flesh. How do I do that? Make time. Make time. Make everything else
revolve around this time. that you're going to sit down
and read His precious promises that He's given you in His Word.
Sit down and read it and study what He said. Read these Scriptures
for yourself and read them to your children. We get so overwhelmed
with thinking about the world and serving God as getting out
into the world. What about in our home? What
about the ones whom God has given us the accountability for, the
responsibility of? You know what it is? For fathers,
for us not to provoke our children to wrath. You know what it is?
It's not just poking and prodding them and getting them angry and
getting them upset. That's not what it is. It's providing everything
they desire in this world and making them ten times the more
children of wrath than they are when they come into this world
by paying their way and heaping riches upon them and giving them
this and giving them that and never giving them the nurture
and admonition of the Lord. That's provoking them to wrath.
That's feeding the enmity of the natural heart. Oh, let's
make time, brethren. Let's put on this new man. Let's
feed the soul and not the flesh. Forsake not the assembling of
yourselves together. Listen, the ransom of the Lord
shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads. And they shall obtain joy and
gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. That's a promise. Make your brethren, your constant
companions, have no fellowship with the children of darkness?
Which one is it? Tell me, tell me, which one is
it? In times of trouble or in times of aid, are you strengthened? Are you edified? Are you encouraged
by the company of unbelievers or by brethren? Is it the languages of the world? Is it the politics of the world?
Is it the clamoring of the world that comforts you? Or is it the
language of Canaan? Is it the songs of the drunkards
that you love to hear? Or is it the song of the righteous? He says, speak to yourselves
in psalms, in hymns, in spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord. Oh, and pray continually. Enter into the closet of your
heart and live. Live in communion with God. Live in constant Constant prayer. Constant speaking to Him. Communing with Him in your heart. Live in that. Live continually
in it. Beg His mercy and His grace.
Beg fresh views of Him. He is going to be asked for these
things. Ask Him. He has given us access. Come bold into the throne of
grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time
of need. What time is that? When I wake up, the first hour
of the day, the next hour of the day, every turn I make, when
I sit down to eat, when I rise up, when I go to work, When I
come home, when I'm trying to figure out how to speak a word
in season, when I'm trying to know what to say to my children,
when I'm trying to know what to say to my wife, when I'm trying
to know how I should behave in this time and that time, when
I lay down at night, when my head's on the pillow, when I'm
not even moving a muscle, just laying there and my thoughts
are running through the fields of this world 90 miles an hour
and I can't even control them. All those times are my times
of need. He said, come boldly, come confidently,
come with assurance to the throne of grace that you may find grace
to help in time of need. Pray continually. And live every day in the realization,
in this realization that whatever God has put into your hands,
right now, where you are, It's not men you serve, it's
the Lord Jesus Christ you serve. You remember Paul when he was
being taken to Rome and he was being taken before Caesar and
he's on that ship and you know he's thinking in his mind, You
know, what, well, how's this all going to happen? And what
am I going to say when I get to Rome? And what am I going
to say when I'm brought before Caesar? And I want to, I want
to speak that which is honoring to my Savior. And I want to be
able to be a witness in the midst of all these people. And I want
them to hear me. And God sends a hurricane and shipwrecks him
on the island of Melita. How am I going to serve God?
How am I going to speak to Caesar? What am I going to say to Caesar?
I want to get to Caesar so I can be a servant of the Lord, so
I can speak for my Redeemer. He got off that ship and began
to preach the Gospel right where God put him. Right where God
put him. It don't matter what you're doing.
It don't matter what He's put into your hand. Ladies, I realize
now when I sent you that email yesterday, I put Colossians 2
instead of Colossians 3. But I hope you figured out what
I was saying. This is what He said, "...whatsoever
you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men, knowing
that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance."
All this serving that He did, has guaranteed you who know Him
and trust Him of the inheritance of the saints being joint heirs
with Christ because He served you. So know this, brethren,
that you're serving the Lord Christ. You mean if I'm down at the store
and I'm stocking some shells, and I'm over by myself in the
back corner trying to offload a truck and load it up on the
on the shelves, I'm serving the Lord. He's going to take those items and bring them somehow through
all the channels He's going to bring them to for His people
because it's what they need for whatever reason they need it.
to provide some temporary thing that they need. That's our God. Whatever it is
I'm doing. You mean, if I'm just home and
I'm just going to cook supper tonight, and I'm just working
and working, and it seems like all I do is I'm up to my elbows
in laundry, and I'm scrubbing the tiles on the bathroom, and
I'm trying to cook supper, and the kids are screaming, and I'm
doing all these things. You mean I'm serving the Lord? If you're His, you are. You mean tonight when my husband
comes home and sits down at the head of the table? Christ is sitting down at the
head of that table. If he's Christ, Christ he is. That's what he said. It's not
as if I'm serving Him. I'm serving Him. Now here's the next thing. Look there in Luke 12, verse
37. Our Lord says that those servants will be happy whom the
Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching. The Lord Jesus Christ is returning
soon. He's returning soon. When Paul
spoke of that Lord's table, he said, as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till
He come. Christ our Lord is sending forth
His gospel into all the world right now. And by the power of
His grace, He's bringing all of His elect into the obedience
of faith. And He's keeping them there through
the Gospel. He's rebuking them. He's comforting
them. He's encouraging them. He's disciplining
them. He's giving them everything they
need through the Gospel that declares His most marvelous,
wonderful works, His power and His glory and His grace and the
full, effectual, full accomplishment of His salvation. And one day, one day, in one
hour, when He quickens the last of
His elect and brings them to cry out by faith, trusting Him, it might be this hour. It might be this hour. But when
it happens, and the last one brought into the fold, He's coming
back. He's coming back. How's He going to? It says here,
He shall find. No doubt about that. He shall
find. How's He going to find you? He says, Ye yourselves, be like
unto men that wait for their Lord, when He will return from
the wedding, that when He cometh and knocketh, they may open unto
Him immediately. Christine, did you have to be
coerced to go pick up Robert when he came back from Germany? You know why she didn't? Because
she loves that boy. And he was gone. And she longed
to see him. And she was watching. It wasn't
a day went by she didn't see. How many days has it been since
he's been gone? How many days is it till he's coming back?
And when she knew the time that that flight was touching down,
she didn't have to be coerced. She didn't have to, when that
knock came at the door, She was waiting on her tiptoes for that
car to pull in the driveway and for her to open up that door
and say, oh, come here to me, boy. He said, wait and watch so that
when he knocks, you'd open up immediately. There was some, you can look
over with me at Luke chapter 14. Look down there at verse 16. A certain man made a great supper
and bade many. And he sent his servant at suppertime
to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all things are now
ready. What have you heard me say to
you this morning? What have you been hearing me
say to you here this hour? Come. Come to the Lord. If you don't
know Him, you don't trust Him, come to the Lord. Believe Him.
And he said, you'll see my glory. The glory you're going to see
is that He was drawing you. He was bringing you. He was forcing
you in His everlasting love to come to Him. Come, he said, come. Everything's ready. There's nothing
else for you to do. It's all done. And you that know Him, come to
Him. You that know Him, believe Him
and trust Him. Come to Him. Everything is ready. And they all with one consent
began to make excuse. The first said unto the servant,
I bought a piece of ground. I got to go see it. I pray thee
have me excused. Another said, I bought five yoke
of oxen. I go to prove them. I pray thee
have me excused. Another said, I've married a
wife, therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and showed
his lord these things, and then the master of the house, being
angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city. Bring hither the poor, and the
maimed, and the haught, and the blind. And the servant said,
Lord, it's done, as thou hast commanded. And yet there's room. And the Lord said unto the servant,
Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come
in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you that none
of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. Are
you haught? Are you lame? Are you blind? Are you sick? They came. Their treasure was coming to
a place where they could sit down and be fed, where they could
sit down and eat, where they could sit down and be provided
for. When they heard, you're being
bid to come to a place where everything is ready. These to
whom nobody would give anything. These who saw their awful condition. These who knew that they had
nothing to offer to anyone. You know what they did? They
came quickly. Verse 38 of our text, he says,
if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch
and find them so, find them watching, waiting, anticipating his return
with that light shining, the gospel, with the... That's all
we got, brethren. What else do you have? Do you
have another treasure? That's the only treasure we got.
That's all our treasure. That's the unsearchable riches
of Christ Jesus our Lord. He says, blessed are those servants,
and this know that if the good one of the house had known what
hour the thief would come, he would have watched and wouldn't
have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore
ready also for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when you think
not. Why is it that the Father has
hidden the time of our Lord's return so that nobody knows or
can know when He's going to return? Let's see. We know every week
that this service starts at 10 a.m. And what do we do? We try to cut it as close as
we can cut it, don't we? We've known all week, and yet
we cut it as close as we can cut it. If we knew when our Lord
was returning, Last week, and last month, and last year, we'd
live like hell in this world. And this morning, if we knew
it was this morning, we'd either be hiding under the rock somewhere,
trying to hide from Him, or we'd be sitting right up here in the
midst of His congregation like we've been waiting on Him the
whole time. And He don't tell us when He's
coming. You know why? Because those that desire Him,
those that desire Him, those that desire Christ Jesus, the
person, they want to be where He is. They want to be where
He is high and lifted up. They want to be where His works
are spoken of. They want to be where their Savior
is because they delight in Him. They want to be with His brethren. And they'll be watching and waiting
and feeding that inner man, feeding that soul, hanging on every promise
of His. encouraging one another with
spiritual songs and with hymns and walking with their breath
and being led of the Spirit, longing for sin, sick, depraved,
hard-hearted sinners to know Christ Jesus the Lord because
they know the only dynamite, the only sword, the only balm
of Gilead that's the cure for those that are incurable above
themselves is Christ Jesus, the righteous Lord of glory. He gave Himself for us that He
might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar
people zealous of good works. And those who are zealous of
good works have a zeal, a burning zeal to hear constantly, continually
of His good works. And we hate our sin and we find
no peace from this world. And though we desire to be delivered
from it, grace causes the believer to live every hour in anticipation
that today might be the day, not that I'm delivered from hell,
not that I'm delivered from my sin sick flesh, not that I'm
delivered from this body of death, but that I might see my Redeemer
face to face. Is that what you want? Is that
what you're seeking? The psalmist said, ask for me,
I will behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied. And not
until the end. But I shall be satisfied when
I awake with thy likeness. Be ye therefore ready also, for
the Son of Man cometh in an hour when ye think not. Now, Luke 12, verse 37. Here's
the third thing. Blessed are those servants whom
the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching. Verily I say unto you. Now remember
we saw this in Matthew 5. He's the Amen. Verily that's
His name. The Amen, says Isaiah. Now this
is sure and certain. Verily I say unto you, that he
shall gird himself, make them to sit down to meet, and will
come forth and serve them. You know, it's a great type of
our King's grace and mercy whenever King David called for Mephibosheth. And he was gone. He sent forth
his servants to fetch him. That's what Christ does through
the Spirit. Sends forth his servants to fetch the one he's going to
be merciful to. And Mephibosheth was brought
to King David's table. And he sat under King David's
table as one of the king's sons all the rest of his days. And
he was lame on both his feet. And as great a type as that is
for our King, there's something that's missing. When our Lord
bids His saints to the marriage supper over the Lamb, there's
not going to be anybody seated at the King's table who is lame. Be no lameness there. There'd be nothing but perfection
seated at that table. This mortality will have put
on immortality. This corruption will have put
on incorruption. But there's something even greater.
David didn't do the serving to Mephibosheth. But at King Jesus' table, the
One who here on earth lay aside His garment and washed the disciples'
feet, this One who laid down His life, this One who everlastingly
served for His bride, shall yet gird Himself and come forth and
serve those He has redeemed. Revelation 7, 17 says, For the
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes. Now Scripture tells us, That
eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him. And I don't stand here and pretend to you that I understand
this at all. But this I know, our great King
and our Savior, who is preeminent in all things, has the preeminence
in this thing of serving. And He'll serve us without measure,
without any limitation, delighting for us to have and to enjoy all
that he has, all that he enjoys, all that he is. There's no degree
of honor, no degree of glory, no degree of happiness and bliss
that the Lord Jesus Christ will withhold from us in eternity. Christ shall gird himself. and serve us. That in the ages to come, that in the ages to come, never-ending ages to He might
show the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness toward
us through Christ Jesus. And that day, I can't tell you
what it is now. I can't tell you about it now.
But in that day, every one of us seated here right now whose
treasure is in heaven, we will comprehend with all saints what
is the breadth and length and depth and height and know the
love of Christ that passeth knowledge and be filled with all the fullness
of God. Now, for those who still want to put
your treasure Set your heart's affection on the treasure that
you think this world can give you. It's vanity. It's corrupt. It's fool's gold. It's perishing. It will not last. Somebody said
it's like sand. You pick up a handful of sand,
and the tighter you clutch it, the faster it runs out of your
hands. But for those of you, by His
grace, who are watching, who are waiting, who are filled with
this oil of gladness, whose lights are burning, What are we going
to say to these things? I reckon that the sufferings
of this present hour are not worthy to be compared with the
glory that should be revealed in us. Thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved
brethren, Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work
of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in
vain in the Lord. Amen.