So Lord, may you graciously help
me, I'll turn your prayerful attention to a text you'll find
in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 12, and verse 42. Matthew's Gospel
and chapter 12, verse 42. The Queen of the South, that's
the Queen of Sheba, shall rise up in the judgment with this
generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a greater than Solomon
is here. Matthew's Gospel chapter 12 and
verse 42. The Lord Jesus here in speaking
to those Pharisees that wanted a sign was making a very great
claim in the Jewish mindset. Solomon was their great king
that had been when the Jews were their greatest. It was the greatest
part of the kingdom when Solomon was ruling. He was known for
his riches, for his fame, and for his glory. And yet here,
the Lord Jesus makes this great claim. Behold, a greater than
Solomon is here. Clearly the Lord Jesus was a
man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He did not have a
great entourage of horses and people around him and a throne
to sit on in an earthly sense. He didn't have any of that. He
didn't have where to lay his head, we read. He was despised
and rejected of men. And yet, it's a wonderful blessing
if by faith we can agree and put our acclamation and agreement
to this great statement. And behold, a greater than Solomon
is here. That was the apex. of the Jewish
kingdom was Solomon. Of that time, it was the greatest
time, and yet greater than Solomon was here. And of course in this
verse, it's a verse of of warning really, very much so, that the
Queen of Sheba would travel so far to hear and to come and see
what Solomon was like and to see his greatness. She made all
that effort, all that distance, all that trouble, and all that
cost and expense to see a human king that had this glory. And yet the Lord Jesus is saying,
actually, I surpass Solomon completely in his glory. And therefore it
is a judgment on those Pharisees because they were rejecting this
greater than Solomon. And it is a warning for us today. This is my beloved son. Hear
ye him. As the Lord helps me, I want
to speak then of something of the greatness of Solomon and
how that Solomon in his great kingdom is great glory. He had
so many aspects to it. I spoke with the children in
the Sunday school. Some of the aspects of Solomon's
greatness, he had this wisdom. He was known for his wisdom.
He was known for his wealth. He was known also for that peace. His name means peace. And there
was a great peace. There was not lots of fighting
going on when Solomon was king of Israel. And then there was
also these great things that he built, these great works that
he did. And his dominion was so vast
compared to David and others. All the kings around him gave
him presence and respect. It was a glorious time in Israel.
And you see here, there's a little picture. of the Lord Jesus Christ
in his great glory. Of course, all the types in the
Old Testament, they come short compared to the great anti-type,
the Lord Jesus, who has an everlasting kingdom, who truly will be King
of Kings and Lord of Lords. But Solomon, in his day, was,
as it were, a sweet type of that, of the Lord Jesus, who would
be King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So let us think then firstly
of Solomon's wisdom. If you remember Solomon prayed
for wisdom, well God asked what he would choose and he chose
wisdom to lead this great people. He wanted wisdom. He had great knowledge, and this
morning I spoke to the children about some of the things he had
great knowledge about. He knew how to build great buildings.
He knew so much about the animal kingdom and all the plants and
things. He knew so much knowledge about
so many things, and people came to listen to it. And it is today,
isn't it, if you have somebody that knows so much about a subject,
and particularly if you're interested in that subject. You love to
talk to them because they've got so much knowledge and they
fit together loads of things that you couldn't fit together.
You thought they didn't go together and you couldn't understand how
they worked. But Solomon would be able to tell you all about
them like he did the Queen of Sheba. She came with all her
tricky questions, all the things that she couldn't understand.
And Solomon told her everything. He explained it all to her, nothing
that she came with, that she had a problem, did he not answer
and did he not give a good response. This was Solomon, a man of great
knowledge. And so many people came to hear
his wisdom. But you see in this he was, we
think of the Lord Jesus Christ. Solomon knew all about the animals
and how they worked and how it all went together and their habits
and so forth. He could speak of all those things.
But the Lord Jesus did not only know all that information, he
also created them in the first place. He created them out of
nothing. He is far, far greater than Solomon. Although Solomon was great, he
was a far greater. What are we to come to Him then?
The Queen of Sheba, you see, she came with her hard questions.
What are your hard questions? Is it just about the animal kingdom?
Is it just about how things work here below? Or have we got a
need, you see, of something far more important than just the
things of this world? What must I do to be saved? How can I be made right for heaven?
Good Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Are these
the questions? We're coming to this great King,
this King that knows everything, the King that created everything.
He made the stars also. The whole heaven, the whole universe
is made by Him. He understands how everything
fits together. We read that the whole, He upholds
all things by the word of His power. That's what we read in
Hebrews. This is the greatness of this
greater than Solomon. And what do we come to him for?
Or do we run off and listen to the celebrities of this world?
The people that this world calls good or great? Or do we say,
this one? Oh, that I may seek this one.
Oh, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection. So his knowledge. But also, you
see, Solomon was so inventive, wasn't he? He made so many inventions. And one of the pictures I showed
to the children this morning was the irrigation. He was very
much into irrigation. Obviously, in the land of Israel,
it's very dry for the most part. And therefore, if you want to
grow crops and have agriculture, you need lots of water. And without
the water, you don't get the crops, obviously. And Solomon
was very much at the forefront of making all these aqueducts
to bring water to the places he wanted, pools of water. We
read of it in Ecclesiastes. And he built cities, we understand,
in the desert area. He had much wisdom to know how
to do these things. He had a vast breadth, you see. He wasn't just good at one thing,
but not good at others. He had a great breadth. And of
course, that's the aspect of the Lord Jesus, isn't it? He
isn't just good at one thing. When you look at the complexity
of a single cell, you see the fineness and the complexity in
the minutest detail. But simultaneously, he's the
one that created the universe. You see, he can go to the smallest
and to the greatest. He has such a vast spectrum of
knowledge, not just a little knowledge, but he knows everything. But you see, Solomon had these
inventions and had these things that he was very good at. And of course, the Lord Jesus
created everything for his glory. He created the world, what we
have. But in Job, we have these words. In Job 34 verse 24, then he is
gracious unto him and saith, deliver him from going down to
the pit. I have found a ransom. You see, the plan of salvation
was God's creation. It was God's invention. It was
God's way to reconcile lost mankind with a holy God. And this greater
than Solomon, this Lord Jesus Christ, had this great plan of
salvation to rescue rebels doomed to death. They were to be rescued
and to be brought back. Behold a greater than Solomon
is here. Yes, his works were wonderful
in this earth's terms, but they didn't save souls from death.
They didn't save eternally, did they? Not these watercourses
and so forth. No, we have here the plan of
salvation. I have found a ransom. So his
wisdom, but also Solomon is known for his sayings, isn't he? We
have the Proverbs, mainly written by Solomon. We have the Ecclesiastes. We have the Song of Solomon,
written very much from Solomon. And we read that he had more
than a thousand sayings and so on. It lists how many. So we
only have recorded in the Bible a small fraction of what he actually
wrote in these things. But he had great wisdom in his
words. In the things that he spoke,
there was much wisdom. But we think of the greater than
Solomon. When the Lord Jesus came to this
earth, in Mark's gospel, chapter 1 and verse 22, we read these
words, and they were astonished at his doctrine. For he taught
them as one that had authority and not as the scribes. There was something vastly different
with the Lord Jesus than all the scribes and Pharisees that
went before him. He had authority. The word he
spoke had power. This is the greater than Solomon. Of course, Solomon wrote of Christ
and therefore the things he wrote of Christ were great because
Christ was the subject of the song. So we have his great Sayings
that he had and the Lord Jesus. We need to hear those signs.
We need to listen to them. We need to take them seriously
Well, you see there's this word The Queen of the South shall
rise up in judgment with this generation and shall condemn
it So there's a responsibility here, isn't there clearly? Jesus
is saying there's a responsibility for she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth and to hear the wisdom of Solomon, the wisdom
of this great king, who she, quite frankly, didn't really
believe the report. She thought it was a lot of hearsay,
a lot of embellishment. She was sure it couldn't be as
good as she had heard. But she came anyway And of course
we read, she found that it was actually that the half had not
been told her. She found that it was actually better and more
precious and Solomon fulfilled her expectations double to what
she expected him to do. We have a greater than Solomon.
We have the Lord Jesus Christ. But the other aspect that Solomon's
known for in a subtitle really of his wisdom is his judgments.
And you probably, you children would recall the story of that
baby that was, there was that controversy between the two women
as to whose baby really this living baby was. And both claimed
that it was theirs. And we see here Solomon had such
an insight into the way that the human mind thinks. Such an
insight to put these two women to a test. They didn't know that
they were being tested. And to put them to a test to
find out what they really thought of that little child. Whether
they really had a mother's love and a mother's care for that
baby or not. He put them to the test. They
didn't realize it. And one failed miserably and
showed clearly that she was quite happy for this living child to
be cut in two and given half each, which meant that they both
had dead babies. So this was something that Solomon
was given great wisdom to discern, you see, how to find out the
truth. from these two women, which both
claimed that the baby was theirs. Well, you see, what wisdom did
the Lord Jesus have? Well, he spoke. They came to him, if you remember,
on one occasion. They tried to trick him, they
tried to trap him. They told him, is it lawful to
give tribute unto Caesar, trying to trap him and trying to get
him in trouble? But he said, show me a penny. Whose image
and superscription is on this penny? And they said, Caesar. He said, render unto Caesar the
things that be Caesar's and to God the things that be God's.
And we read at the end of that chapter, they didn't ask him
any more questions because they were confounded. He confounded
them in his answers. They'd put special stories together
to try and trip him up, to try and get him in trouble and to
be able to report him to the Roman authorities, but he silenced
them. You see, his wisdom in judgment,
in discernment, he knew what they were up to. But you see
for you and I, today when some terrible thing
happens, for example what happened recently with the sad death of
this MP, people want justice to be done, don't they? They
want the one who has done that evil to be brought to justice
and of course that's right. And you see, Solomon was able
to determine the truth and who was the real criminal, who was
the real offender. And you see, the greater than
Solomon, the Lord Jesus is able always to tell when he judges
to make righteous judgment. He doesn't, he isn't a foolish
judge that can be bought out, a judge that can be bribed. He
isn't a judge that doesn't really understand the problem and therefore
gives a false judgment. No, he fully understands, he
fully knows. But you might think, well, that
sounds really good then. Well, it is good, but if we're
sinners, which we are, and we've come short of the glory of God,
we're on the wrong side of that justice. He's holy, and he's
going to judge against sin, and there's no way we're going to
get away with it. There's no way that we're going
to be able to bribe him. There's no way that we're going
to be able to slip in any other way. You see, he is a righteous
judge. And therefore, we need to prepare
to meet our God. We need to find a way whereby
we can be accepted in the Beloved, that we do not find that judgment
spoken against us, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting
burnings. We need a judge. Behold, a greater
than Solomon is here. Solomon was great in so many
ways. So we've dealt with this aspect
of his wisdom, but what also God gave to Solomon, which was
his wealth. And we read something of his
wealth and the majesty of his kingdom. There was so much that
was so impressive in this world's terms about Solomon. It was,
and of course, the kings of the earth came to see him and indeed
we've read in Kings about the Queen of Sheba. And she came
with this great train of camels to bring to Solomon presents
and we read that the amount of gold she brought was she gave the king 120 talents
of gold. Each talent is 30 kilograms.
That's 3,600 kilograms of gold. The current value of that in
England would be something like £105 million worth of gold. That's what she was carrying
on these camels across this long distance from the uttermost parts
of the world to come to bring a present to Solomon, to hear
his wisdom. This is her concern. This is
how much she put on this journey. This is how keen she was to be
found coming to Solomon. Solomon, you see, had, and then
we read how much, he had more than 20 tons a year of gold that
came to him on this circuit. He was a tremendously wealthy
king. He had so much wealth. And we're
reminded, you see, that the Lord Jesus, well, you might say, well,
that wasn't true of the Lord Jesus. In his humiliation he
laid aside his glory. Though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be
made rich. on that day of atonement. There
are many types because each type has a part, has aspects that
are like the King of Glory. And if you like, the aspect of
Solomon that was like the King of Glory was Christ in His exaltation. Christ when He shall reign as
King of Glory. He shall have dominion from sea
to sea. He shall have an everlasting
kingdom. There shall be no one who will overthrow His kingdom. in Solomon's day he had that
peace, we're coming on to that, but there was that peace in his
day. Well, he was rich, the Lord Jesus was rich, and yet he made
himself poor. And we need to remember when
we think of the riches of the Lord Jesus, that He is now exhorted. He's given a name which is above
every name. He owns everything. Solomon owned
a lot, but he didn't own the whole world. He didn't own everything
of this world. Everything was created by God.
He owns the universe. You can't own more than that,
can you? He owns everything. Well, he was eternally rich.
And you see, I came across an account of an
old man who was, he said, I'm a very old man, my only son has
died, and I'm penniless. And what's worse than that, I'm
also blind. But he said that does not matter
too much because Christ is not infirmed. Christ is not poor. Christ knows all things he can
see. And as I have union with Christ,
as I am joined to him, I have all things in him. And you see,
we need to gather hold of that more. In our difficulties, in
our weaknesses, that we are married to one, if we are the true people
of God, married to one who is eternally rich. And though Christ,
here below, He turned away from the riches of this world, He
did not bow down to Satan to gain the riches of this world
and the acclamation of it. But He is eternally rich. And
you see, we need to realize, as we are in Christ, what a blessing
that is, that the benefits and the blessings of Christ are ours. All is ours, and ye are Christ's. You see, we need to lay hold
upon that. So Solomon had this great wealth,
and we need to realise that the cattle upon a thousand hills
is our gods. He is able to do all things. He has the wealth at his fingertips,
though we do not. But he is able to govern all,
and he is an almighty king. Well, let us look then at another
aspect of Solomon. That was his peace. If we turn
to 1 Chronicles chapter 22, we have these words, 1 Chronicles
22 and verse 9. This is a prophecy of what would,
before, David speaks of it before, of what would happen about Solomon. Behold, a son shall be born to
thee, this is God speaking to David, who shall be a man of
rest. And I will give him rest from
all his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon. And the meaning of that is peaceable.
And I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. And what a fulfillment there
was in in Solomon's day. The name means peace and he was
known his peaceful reign. He had such tremendous peace
on all sides. David's kingdom if you remember
with fought with battles from the beginning to the end. He
was battling on all sides almost continually. And Saul's reign
that was true too. But of course Saul and David
were both kings of the whole of Israel. David eventually after
his first six years or seven years. But Solomon also was king
of the whole of Israel and then of course the kingdom split.
So there was no king then over the whole of Israel again because
they were split kingdoms. We read then of the riches. 1 Kings 4 we read, and Judah and
Israel, verse 25, and Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man
under his vine, and every, and under his fig tree, from Dan,
even to Beersheba, one end of Israel to the other, all the
days of Solomon. So Solomon's reign was a, had
associated with it peace. There was peace associated with
Solomon's reign. Not warfare, peace, and you see,
Here below we are in the church, militant. If we are the people
of God, we are in the church, militant. But you see there is
coming a church triumphant, when there shall be this peace, all
his enemies shall be put down. Having said that, which is true,
there is also a peace that the Lord's people can know in their
hearts today. In the midst of their troubles,
the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, is to know
the Lord Jesus, to know that He's in control, to know that
He's the Father, my Father, and He is my God, and He has everything
at His control. He can do everything. I am thy shield and thy exceeding
great reward, the Lord said to Abraham. When he turned down
the riches of the king of Sodom, I am thy shield and thy exceeding
great reward. Don't fear anything else, Abraham.
You've got all these enemies, you've got all these dangers,
but I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. This is, you see,
so true of the Lord Jesus. He is that great King of Peace.
He did not just... Solomon made peace, you see,
between Israel and the surrounding nations by his allegiances, by
his trade, and by his marriages as well. He made peace in a great
area. But you see the peace that the
Lord Jesus came to make was not a peace between man and man on
an earthly level so much. It was to bring peace between
an offended God and wretched, hell-deserving sinners. That
was a peace that Solomon never could make. He never could bring
those two together, but the king of peace, the one who has this
great plan. In eternity past, he had this
plan of salvation. I have found a ransom, the ransom
so that there could be peace between offended justice and
a holy God. Well, this peace then that Solomon
had, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Solomon's also known for his
great works. He built the temple, didn't he?
Did he not? David wanted to build it, but
he was not allowed, and David was told that his son should
build that temple, and David prepared a lot of the materials
for it, although it seems Solomon also got a lot more materials
as well. David Solomon built this temple. I understand it was one of the
seven wonders of the world in its day, in its greatness, in
its glory. this temple that he built. He
also built a great house for 13 years for himself, his great
palace. And then these aqueducts and
all the things that he built and all the cities and all the
glory and all the great entourage that he had round him was so
much of the building. But you see now, that kingdom
is gone. Solomon is gone. Israel's glory,
the temple, got into decay. It got ruined and taken off into
captivity. There was so much that it came
to an end. And though things were spoken
of, he shall sit on my throne forever. There was a certain
length that Solomon lived, but then they went into captivity. And of course, it's really fulfilled
in the Lord Jesus, who truly has this everlasting kingdom,
the kingdom that cannot pass away. So Solomon built these
buildings, he built this temple. But what is the Lord building
today? What is he doing? Well we read
that he's also building a temple. Not an earthly temple, not one
that's going to be carried off into Babylonish captivity. but a temple where each individual
stone is a chosen vessel of mercy in themselves far off from God,
in themselves in the quarry of nature, with all their pollution,
with all their far offness, but he is shaping each individual
stone. to make himself a glorious house. And to compare all those stones
to that great cornerstone which is himself. He is the great cornerstone,
the whole building fitly framed together. We read that in Ephesians,
a lovely picture of the church. He shall present it to himself
a glorious church. In Ephesians 5, not having spot
nor wrinkle or any such thing, this building that he is building
will truly be far more magnificent than Solomon's temple. It will
be far more everlasting. Well, you can't have something
more everlasting, can you? It will be for everlasting. Solomon's
house did not last forever, but this kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom. These people have been taken
out of nature's darkness. worked upon. You see, God works.
God is not somebody who doesn't work. We read that God is working
all things after the counsel of his own will. He's working
to make all those stones fitly framed together, be put to make
this glorious building. Another picture of the church
of God, that his people, all living stones, lively stones,
shall be fit together to worship God forever and forever without
any sin. This is this great work that
the greater than Solomon is involved with day by day. He's involved
with this in our hearts. And every child of God, he is
working in to make them ready, fit, suitable for that great
place in the building of the temple. Not an earthly temple
made by hands, but a spiritual temple. But God has graciously,
you see, given us all these pictures in his word. Physical pictures
with a physical temple, with physical building blocks. And
you notice in the building of them that Solomon made, none
of them were to be cut to size and shaped on site. It was all
to be off site. So that by the time they came
to the temple itself, they would just be placed in position. There
was no more knocking and chiseling and banging at that point. And
the picture being that, you see, the chiselling and the knocking
off of the corners happens here below. We have many corners to
need knocked off. Peter did, didn't he? Many times
he shot off in the wrong direction and God had to stop him. But,
you see, then he came as a chosen vessel. Then he came ready to
be made into glory. He was ready for that great end. when God had worked in his heart. And that's why we need to grow
in grace. There needs to be this chip come off, and this corner
knocked off, and this unevenness sorted out. We need to be worked
on by God. Solomon was known for his great
works. But what great work is there greater than the plan of
salvation? Saving lost mankind, lost and
ruined in the fall. and bringing them into union
with his beloved son. You see we read that, don't we,
that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to those who are called according to his purpose, for them he also
predestinated to be conformed to the image of his son. This
is the moulding process, to be conformed to the image of his
son, the chief cornerstone. so that the whole building will
glorify him, the foundation. But another aspect of Solomon
was his dominion. His kingdom was larger than David's,
not because he conquered them by military force, but his greatness
was such that kings around him came and submitted to him and
gave him honour and gave him glory without any conquest at
all. won, as it were, the affections
and the glory. And I think it was Napoleon that
made this statement that he could conquer great nations and he
could bring them under his military power and make them his subjects. But he made the comment that
the Lord Jesus has a kingdom and his kingdom, it brings in
his subjects by love. He loves his church. He brings
them in. He woos them. The Gentiles shall
trust in him. The idea that those surrounding
nations, which were not really Israel, became under Israel's
jurisdiction and Solomon was like the king over them because
they had come to appreciate the greatness of Solomon. And yet,
of course, as you well know, Solomon had his faults. Solomon had his ways in which
he was not wise, ways in which things were difficult. And as
the Lord helps, I want to look at those perhaps more this evening.
But Solomon is a glorious picture, you see, of what the Lord Jesus
is doing. And as we see his kingdom, as
we see his greatness in Solomon, you might think, but if you compare
Solomon and his glory, and you see the Lord Jesus, the carpenter's
son, having not where to lay his head, how can you say that
Christ is greater than Solomon? Well, as we trace through these
things, how much more glorious. is the Lord Jesus than Solomon.
Yes, there was a picture and a beauty in Solomon. It was the
praise of the whole earth. The kingdoms came to hear his
greatness. Yes, there was so much glory
in it, and yet it was passing. Yet it didn't last forever. But
we have in the Lord Jesus an everlasting kingdom. A dynasty
that will never come to an end. A temple that will never be carried
off into Babylon. the Queen of the South, shall
rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn
it. For she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. She travelled a long way. She
went to great lengths. She wouldn't give up. She took
a lot of risks, no doubt, to travel with With that amount
of value of goods, so many million pounds worth of gold, is a dangerous
thing to do. She risked many things. She could
have lost a lot. She could have been overcome
by an army. But she went that way for one reason. Because she
wanted to hear the wisdom of Solomon. She'd heard a report.
She couldn't really believe that it was true, but she went anyway
to find out. And she found out that that report
was not only true, but actually, if only she'd realized, it was
actually much, much greater than she could have believed. You
see, that's an earthly picture. The thing is for us today, we
have the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the great shepherd of his
church, the great king, who has a glorious kingdom, who has this
great dominion over all the lands and seas, not just over an area
around Israel like Solomon reigned in, but he reigns from pole to
pole. He has an everlasting kingdom. We were reading as a family in Revelation
recently. struck by some of the amazing
scenes that we have there of the greatness of the Lord Jesus. In Revelation 5 verse 9, we read,
And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book
and to open the seven seals thereof. For thou wast slain and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue
and people and nation. A huge dominion, you see, not
just Israel, the whole surrounding area were under Solomon's control
and so the Lord Jesus has a much greater. And I heard and I beheld
and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the
beasts and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times
10,000. and thousands of thousands, saying
with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory
and blessing. And every creature, every created
thing, which is in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth,
and such as are in the sea, and all that in them is, heard I
saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto
him that sitteth upon the throne, that's God the Father, and unto
the Lamb, God the Son, for ever and ever. This is an everlasting
kingdom. Solomon's kingdom passed away.
This is an everlasting kingdom. The Queen of the South shall
rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For she
came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon. Behold, a greater than Solomon
is here. Well, may we by God's grace come
and seek the Saviour. Come and seek. The Lord Jesus. Seek he the Lord while he may
be found. Call upon him while he is near. The Queen of Sheba only had a
certain length of life, and in that lifespan she had to go and
meet Solomon. we have a certain lifespan. And
during that lifespan, we need to go and seek the Saviour. Seek
ye the Lord while he may be found. When our life is ended, there
will be no seeking of the Saviour. It will be too late. Seek ye
the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is
near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man
his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord. There's a greater
than Solomon in our Lord Jesus Christ. The majesty, the riches,
the beauty, the magnificence of Solomon pales into insignificance
before that greater than Solomon. May we be amongst those who seek
the Saviour, who see the vanities of this world, the celebrities
that this world calls good or great, to be nothing but time
wasters in comparison to this glorious great king. I will just
make one comment. Paul Ralph was preaching many
years back and he made this comment. I've never forgotten it. He said,
to muse about something, is to think, isn't it? If I muse on
something, I think about something. If you put an A in front of it,
it means the opposite, not to think. You need to think in our
lives how much comes into the category of amusing us. In other
words, occupying our time and stopping us actually thinking
about the things that are important. Amuse. We need to think upon
the things that are eternal. We need to think of our destiny.
Time is short. We have a great King in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Let us come unto Him and seek
the Saviour and come with repentance and find that Him that cometh
unto me, I will in no wise cast out. May the Lord have His blessing.
Amen.