Before turning with me tonight
to Judges chapter 15, would you look at Deuteronomy chapter 32
with me, please? Deuteronomy chapter 32. This
chapter is called the Song of Moses. In this chapter, Moses
sings concerning two things in particular. First, he sings of
the divine and illustrious person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look
at verse four, it says, he is the rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he. My, that's a mouthful and it's
all true. And then secondly, this song
of Moses reveals the sin of ingratitude of the people of Israel to this
great God, in spite of all that he's done for them. Look at verse
five. It says, they have corrupted themselves. Their spot is not
the spot of his children. They are a perverse and crooked
generation. Do ye thus requite the Lord,
O foolish people and unwise? Is it not He, thy Father, that
hath bought thee, purchased thee? Hath He not made thee and established
thee? And this has always been the
case since man's fall in sin. And this whole chapter reveals
the love and the goodness and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
to His people and their unfaithfulness to Him. And you know, we've studied
through Genesis and Exodus and Numbers now and Joshua and Judges,
and we see it over and over and over again. God does wonderful
things for his people, and they, over and over again, turn their
back on him, serve other gods, begin to worship idols, and yet
he continues to be merciful to them. And the goodness of the
Lord, here is again seen in verse 10, he found them in a desert
land, and in the waste, howling wilderness, and he led them about.
He instructed them, He kept them as the apple of His eye. And
then we again see the ingratitude of Israel in verse 16. They provoked
Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations and provoked
Him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils,
not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came
newly up. whom your fathers feared not. Of the rock that beget thee,
thou art unmindful and has forgotten God that formed thee. But one
thing is consistent all through the Bible, and I'm so thankful
that it is. The Lord had a people that he
loved. You know, I must confess to you
that I can't Talk much about my love for him. It's often so
fickle and so lukewarm, but I sure can talk about his love for his
people. He loves us with an everlasting
love. He loves us in spite of ourselves. And isn't that a wonderful thing?
We're not gonna talk about all that we do for God and how much
we love God when we've got so much to talk about in respect
to Him loving us and what He's done for us. The Lord has a people
that He loved and He loved them in spite of them. And that's
what makes this gospel good news. The Lord loves the unlovable.
The Lord shows grace and mercy to those who are ungracious and
unmerciful. And the only difference between
the Lord's people and the Lord's enemies is the difference that
God alone makes. Now that's just a fact. Who maketh
he to differ from another? What do any of us have that we
didn't receive and if we received it from the Lord, why do we glory
in it as if we didn't receive it? No difference apart from
that. All of us in sin have said, no
God, no God for me, and they say no to God. All of us. There's none of them that doeth
good, the scripture says. Those whom God loves and those
whom God doesn't love. Every one of them has gone back,
back from God and His commandments. They are all together become
filthy. This is what the scriptures say
about us. In sin, they are all workers
of iniquity who have no knowledge but that knowledge that the Lord
has been pleased to reveal to them. The only knowledge that
any of us have about the things of God is what God has been pleased
to reveal to us. Isn't that right? And with no difference between
them, but the difference that God alone makes, the Lord avenges
His people against all who become their enemies. And that's what
we have tonight in Judges chapter 15. You can go ahead and turn
there with me. He did so against Egypt and Pharaoh. He did so against the evil kings,
Sihon and Og. And the Lord with vengeance delivered
his people from all their enemies in the promised land of Canaan. But to those who remain ungrateful,
they will experience the vine of Sodom In the fields of Gomorrah,
we're told here, their grapes will be full of gall, their clusters
be bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons
and the cruel venom of asps. Let me read verse, I had you
turn too quick. Let me read here in Deuteronomy
32, verse 35. It says, to me, belongeth vengeance
and recompense. Their foot shall slide in due
time, for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that
shall come upon them may taste. In verse 41, it says, if I wet
my glittering sword in my hand, take hold on judgment, I will
render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate
me. And that's not the kind of reward
that they'll want. Verse 43 of Deuteronomy 32. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his
people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will
render vengeance to his adversaries. and will be merciful unto his
land and to his people. Now that's the God with whom
we have to do. In Romans chapter 12, verse 17,
you remember what Paul wrote? He said, recompense to no man,
evil for evil, provide things honest in the sight of all men.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably
with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath, or take the anger of another
patiently. It's what that means. For it
is written, vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord. Now, if you belong to the Lord,
we ought to endeavor, all of us who belong to the Lord, should
try to live peaceably with all men as much as possible. Don't
avenge yourself. Don't take the anger of others
patiently. Why? Because the Lord will repay
you. The Lord will fight your battles
for you. Vengeance is his to disperse. And do you know that
every time the word vengeance is used in the Bible, I looked
at all of them, I think it's 39 instances, 45 times the word
I believe is used, but every time the word vengeance is used
in the scripture, it pertains to being of the Lord. Not of
me and you. No justification for us trying
to take vengeance. Vengeance belongs to the Lord. He says, I will repay. Now, that word vengeance means
punishment inflicted and retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. You know what vengeance is. You've
felt like taking it out on folks, and so have I. but that's what
it means. And synonyms are revenge, avenge,
retribution, and justice. Vengeance is God's to give. Vengeance is always His to give. And that's what we have a picture
of this evening. Now here in Judges chapter 15,
I've said this so many times during the last few studies,
Samson is no doubt a type of Christ. And the Philistines,
the enemy of Israel, very well gives us a picture of our enemies,
the enemies of God, the main one being sin. God's holy justice
demands vengeance if you and I are to be saved. God's vengeance
against sin is essential and it's necessary for our salvation. The wages of sin got to be paid
in full. cannot one sin go unpaid for. They've all got to be paid in
full. Holy justice, God's holy strict
justice must extract vengeance for, or excuse me, from the offender. For you and I personally to experience
the fire of hell for eternity would not pay for the first sin. Perfection is required before
remission can be given. How many times have we said that
it's got to be perfect to be accepted? You know what that
means? Just what it says. It's gotta
be perfect to be accepted. You and I have never done anything
perfect. Everything we do is tainted with sin. The Lord Jesus,
Our substitute, our sacrifice. He who came in the world to save
sinners. We call His name Jesus. Why?
For He shall save His people from their sin. He's the only
one that can. We're shut up to Him and Him
alone. We're shut up to His mercy and His grace. We can't be saved
any other way. And He is going to avenge our
enemy of sin for His people. Just as Samson, Christ's type,
did Israel's enemy. Now under divine commission,
Samson sought occasion against the Philistines to destroy them,
to avenge the children of Israel. Look at verse one here in Judges
chapter 15. But it came to pass within a
while after, in the time of wheat harvest that Samson visited his
wife with a kid. And he said, I will go into my
wife and to the chamber, but her father would not suffer or
allow him to go in. And her father said, I've barely
thought that thou hast utterly hated her. Therefore, I gave
her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer
than she? Take her, I pray thee, instead
of her." Now, you remember last study, the riddle, and she
got the answer of the riddle out of Samson, and then she told
his companions, and you remember that. Verse three says, and Samson
said concerning them, now shall I be more blameless than the
Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. Now the Lord does
work, as the scriptures say, in mysterious ways, his wonders
to perform. Initially, Samson was angry over
his wife's trickery in revealing the riddle to these men that
Samson toyed with, with the riddle. But time has now passed and Samson
comes to make peace and restore the fellowship of his marriage
to this woman. And he brings a peace offering
of a kid, of a goat, that was customary. Now I couldn't help
to think about Samson's displeasure with his wife's actions and then
definitely picturing the Lord's displeasure with us, his wife,
over our sin. You know, our sin is our fault. Some folks try to blame it on
Adam. Well, you know, we fell in Adam. Well, he was our federal
head and we died in him, but sin's our fault. We have no one
else to blame for it. Our Lord Jesus came to be our
peace offering. Samson now arrives to discover
that his father-in-law has given her to another man. And his reason
is, is that I thought she hated her after what she did. And by
the way, I've got a younger daughter here, much prettier. And he tried
to give Samson her younger sister, but Samson again under divine
commission. The Lord is ruling and reigning
him as he does all of us. And under divine commission,
he used this occasion against the Philistines to destroy them
and avenge himself and to avenge the children of Israel. Look
at verse four, and Samson went and he caught 300 foxes. and he took firebrands and he
turned tail to tail, tied these foxes' tails together, and he
put a firebrand in the midst between the two tails. And when
he had set the brands on fire, he let them, the foxes, go into
the standing corn of the Philistines, and he burned up both the shocks
and also the standing corn and the vineyards and the olives. This put a major hurt on Philistine. This was harvest time. This is
when they harvested their crops and put it up, you know, and
it's all burned up. It seems to be a total loss here. Samson set on fire the standing
corn. He burned up the shocks along
with it. The vineyards and the olive trees
were destroyed. He was a one-man wrecking crew. You know, Paul said in Romans
5, verse 19, by the obedience of one, that being the Lord Jesus,
shall many be made righteous. You know, the only man who could
save us is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is but one God and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Samson
was a one-man wrecking crew. He was a strong man, but friends,
our strong man. is the only one that can help
us. No other God but Him, only one
mediator between God and men, and that's the Lord Jesus. Now
look at verse six. Then the Philistines said, who
has done this? And they answered, Samson, the
son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given
her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and
burned her and her father with fire. And Samson said unto them,
now look at this, though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged
of you, and after that I'll cease. Now I want you to consider closely
those, the words of Samson there in verse seven. He said, though
you have done this, you burned and you killed my wife, Yet I
will be avenged. You did this to her, but you
did it to me. What proof that husbands and
wives are one? They really are, that's what
God said. The two become one flesh. What proof that Christ
and His bride are one. Now when the Lord Jesus met Saul
on the road to Damascus, you remember what He said to him?
He said, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Well, Saul persecuted
Stephen. He held the coats while his men
stoned him. Saul persecuted the church. But the Lord here said that Saul
persecuted him. He said, I am Jesus whom thou
persecutest. Let me read you another passage
in Matthew chapter 25, beginning in verse 40. And the
king shall answer and say unto them, verily, verily, I say unto
you, inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, you've done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto
them on the left hand, depart from me, you cursed into everlasting
fire, prepare for the devil and his angels. For I was a hunger
and you gave me no meat and I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
And I was a stranger and you took me not in, naked and you
clothed me not, sick and in prison and you visited me not. And then
shall they all answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry? When did we see you thirsty?
When did we see you a stranger naked, sick or in prison and
didn't minister unto you? And then he shall answer them
saying, verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you did it not to
one of the least of these, you did it not to me. And you know,
also in that passage, he talked about all that they did for him. And they said, well, when did
we do that? He said, when you did it to the least of these.
Samson said here, you harm my wife, you harm me, and I'll be
avenged. I'm gonna be avenged. Vengeance
is mine. What a picture of our heavenly
husband. Our Lord said in Isaiah chapter
49, excuse me, 46 verse nine, remember the form of things of
old? For I am God and there's none else. I am God and there's
none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
my counsel shall stand. How can anyone with a simple
statement like that deny the sovereignty of God? He said,
my counsel shall stand. I will do all my pleasure. Yea, I have spoken it. I will
also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will also
do it. Does that sound like a God that
wants to do something? Does that sound like a God that's
trying to do something? No, that sounds like a God that's
in the heavens and He does whatsoever He's pleased. And that is the
God of the Bible. The Lord Jesus is going to avenge
the death of His wife. Vengeance belongs to the Lord.
And here we have a picture of the Lord executing, exacting
judgment on the enemy in the avenging and delivering of his
people. Did you notice there in verse
seven, Samson said, yet I will be avenged of you, and after
that, I will cease. You know, I didn't even pay much
attention to that at first, but as I read over it a time or two,
Our gracious Lord avenged his people, and then he ceased. Isn't
that what he did? His law was satisfied. His justice
was appeased. Sin was atoned for. And Christ
said, it's finished. What a picture this is. Samson
said, I will be avenged, and then I'll cease. When he was
avenged, our Lord ceased. His work was finished. Our Lord
did everything, absolutely everything that was necessary to avenge
His bride, His church, and Himself in the putting away of her sin.
And that is the good news that I proclaim to you tonight. You
know why when God looks at you, He sees no sin? Because you don't
have any. It's just that simple. He's put
it away, it's gone. He called forever. He did everything
that was necessary. And again, we see that Christ
did for us what we could not do for ourselves. All by the
sacrifice of Himself. And I find it so Interesting
that Samson used the employment of fire to destroy the sustenance
and confidence of the Philistines. What a beautiful representation
of the destructive power of the Word of God. In Jeremiah 23,
29, God says, is not my Word like a fire? Like a hammer that
breaketh the rock in pieces? in Acts 2, verses 2 and 3, on
the day of Pentecost. And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven
tongues like as a fire, and set upon each of them. Paul tells
us in 2 Thessalonians chapter 5, Eight, that our Lord is an
inflaming fire, is gonna take vengeance on them that know not
God and obey not Christ. Now, look up at verse eight here
in Judges 15, verse eight. And he smote them, Samson, hip
and thigh, with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in
the top of the rock Edom. Samson smoked them hip and thigh."
Now it doesn't say anything here about him having a weapon. These
these fellows were messed up. They were bruised and maimed
and lamed and no doubt some of them killed. And what proof this
is that the Lord's Our Lord's weapons were not carnal or fleshly
weapons and neither are ours. Paul tells us that though we
walk in the flesh, we don't war after the flesh. Our war, our
battle is not a physical one. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, they're not fleshly. but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and
every high thing, but exalted this self against the knowledge
of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
of Christ. Peter said, beloved Christ suffered
for us, leaving us an example that we should follow in his
steps. who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth,
who when he was reviled, reviled not again. When he suffered,
he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously."
That's what we do. We leave that up to God. That's
God's business. We just rest in Christ and what
he's done for us. who his own self bear our sins
and his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, not
dead in sins, dead to sin, should live unto righteousness by whose
stripes you're healed. Now that's where I rest. The strikes that would do my
back were put on him. The crown of thorns that dug
in deep into his Brow, should have been mine. That's my hope. The blood that
was shed and fell to the ground on Calvary's cross should have
been my blood, but it wasn't. It was the perfect son of God.
And God accepted his sacrifice for my sin and my sin and your
sin and all the sin of all God's people throughout all time is
put away. And that's where we rest. That's
where we rest. The Lord has promised to fight
all our battles. We do well to sit back and rest
and let Him take care of it. I shouldn't even say it that
way. We don't let Him do anything. He takes care of it. Now, beginning
in verse nine here, we have the binding of Samson by the men
of Judah. You remember this story. Let's
read a few verses here in verse nine. Then the Philistines went
up and pitched in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi. And the men of Judah said, why
are you come up against us? And they answered, we came to
bond Samson and are we come up to do to him what he'd done to
us. And then 3000 men of Judah, now
these are Israelites. went to the top of the rock,
Edom, and they said to Samson, they went up as mediators, so
to speak, to Samson and said, knowest thou not that the Philistines
are rulers over us? Well, sure he knew that. What
is this that thou hast done unto us? And I'm sure Samson's saying,
I didn't do anything to you, I did it to them. You see what
fear they had? And he said unto them, as they
did unto me, so have I done unto them. Now never forget that with
God, men reap what they sow. That's what Samson's saying. As they did unto me, I've done
unto them. I didn't do anything to you.
But they were worried about suffering the repercussions from it. And look what they said in verse
12. And they said unto him, We are
come down to bind thee that we may deliver thee into the hand
of the Philistines. If we don't, we're going to be
in a bunch of trouble. And Samson said unto them, swear
unto me that you will not fall upon me yourselves. In other
words, don't you kill me. You can bind me and let me go. Because you know what he's thinking
in the background? I'm going to wipe them all out. I don't
want you to do anything. You're my people. I don't want
to hurt you. I don't want us to have a conflict. But don't you do anything silly. You just deliver me to them.
Bind me and give me to them. And they spake unto him, verse
13, saying, no, but we will bind thee fast and deliver thee into
their hand, but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound
him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock. Now, what
a picture this is, the binding of Samson of the works of Israel
against the Lord Jesus. He came unto his own and his
own received him not. And you know, Scriptures, well,
you know that the high priest and the elders and the scribes
and the Pharisees, they hated the Lord Jesus without a cause.
And the men of Judah were able to bind Samson only. Now listen, they were only able
to bind Samson because Samson allowed them to bind him. They had no power over Him except
the power that He gave to them. And is it not the same with the
Lord Jesus? That's exactly right. It was
said by Christ of Pilate in the government of Rome. He said,
thou couldest have no power over me at all, except it were given
thee from above. You couldn't be holding me here
in this court. You couldn't be, you say you've
got the power to let me go or the power to crucify me. You
don't have any power other than the power I've given you. And
Samson made the men of Judah to swear they wouldn't kill him
because he's on a mission to destroy the Philistine. And what
a picture again of Christ. The men of Judah would not kill
Samson for the same reason that Israel wouldn't crucify the Lord
Jesus. Well, they would rather leave
that deed, that action to the law of Rome. Pilate told the
high priest, you may remember, and the Jewish elders, he said,
you take him and you judge him according to your law. And they
said, oh no, we can't do that. The Jews therefore said unto
him, it's not lawful for us to put any man to death, but it's
okay if you do. It's okay if you do. They would
rather Pilate and Caesar and Rome do their dirty work. But
they were guilty nonetheless. They had no problem selling Christ
for 30 pieces of silver to Judas. They had no problem with instigating
this conspiracy against the Lord Jesus. They didn't have any problem
hiring false witnesses to falsely accuse him. But no, we can't
be a part of killing him and crucifying him. They had no problem with conspiracy
to murder the Lord. And yet they were self-righteous
enough to think that they would not be considered a part of the
act. You can be assured that the Lord
avenged himself. and those whom he died for when
he arose from the dead. You see, friends, that was the
proof that God accepted his finished righteous work. That is the proof
that those who trust in the Lord Jesus have been accepted in the
beloved, the Lord Jesus Christ, because God accepted his perfect
work of righteousness. The manner and the means Samson
used in the destruction of the Philistine teaches us some things.
Look at verse 14. And when he came unto Lehi, the
Philistine shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came
mightily upon him. We see again, it wasn't Samson's
personal strength that did this, it was the Spirit of the Lord
upon him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him,
and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that
was burnt with fire, and the bands loosed from off his hands.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and he put forth his
hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith." Can you imagine? And look at this, and Samson
said, with the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the
jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. And that heaps upon heaps,
I picture him slaying a man and throwing him on a pile, and slaying
another man and throwing him on the pile, and he's got them
all piled up. Samson, with the jawbone of an
ass, threw a thousand men, piled them up in heaps. I was thinking
the Lord often used and still uses the carnal things of this
world in his hand for the good of his people. He used worldly Pharaoh and he
raised him up, didn't he? For the sole purpose of showing
the whole world his power in Pharaoh. And by this, God's people know
that He has mercy on whom He'll have mercy, and that He has compassion
on whom He'll have compassion, and whom He will, He hardens,
and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, what are you doing,
Lord? The Lord uses fleshly, worldly
means to show His people and to do good for His people. God
the Father gave Christ our Lord power over all flesh, the things
and the people of the world that he might give eternal life to
as many as God gave him before the foundation of the world.
The jawbone of an ass. It also pictures the despised
means of gospel preaching by which the Lord's people are saved. It's just a... How did that jawbone
of an ass get there? God put it there. God put it
there, it was the means that Samson used to defeat this enemy. I wonder how that tree that they
cut down and made into a cross that our Lord hung on, I wonder
how he got there. The Lord put it there. It was
just the means, it was just the means that God used. This is the condemnation that
light, the word of God, the gospel, Christ who is the word of God
has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light
because their deeds were evil. Look at verse 17, and it came
to pass when he made an end of speaking that he cast away the
jawbone out of his hand and called that place Ramoth and Lehi. Now that name means the height
of a jawbone. And when Samson lifted up that
jawbone to swing it and to kill those men, God's power and glory
was seen. You know it was. As Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be
lifted up. The Lord Jesus said, and if I
be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all, all his elect
unto himself. When Samson made an end of speaking,
that word speaking there I found to be interesting. It means subduing,
conquering, destroying. When Samson made an end of conquering
and subduing the enemy and destroying the enemy, The verse reads as if Samson
slew one Philistine after another, and as I said the whole time,
he's speaking this riddle, this mystery. As he kills these men
with the jawbone of an ass, he's saying with the jawbone of an
ass, heaps upon heaps. With the jawbone of an ass, have
I slain a thousand men?" And then he kills some more, and
says it again, and kills some more, and says it again. That's
the way it reads to me. But when he made an end of speaking,
when he made an end of destroying, when he was finished, when he was finished, he cast
away the jawbone of the ass. Cast it out of his hand, he called
the place Ramoth Lehi, the place of the jawbone. He cast away
the jawbone. It wasn't the jawbone that saved. And it wasn't the cross that
saves. You can cast that piece of wood
away. It's the Christ upon the cross that saves. Throw away
your man-made crosses and trust in the Christ that hung upon
it. When Samson finished his work, he thirsted. And when Christ
finished his work on Calvary Street, he cried, I thirst. Look at it, verse 18. And he,
Samson, was sore a thirst. And he called on the Lord and
he said, thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand
of thy servant. And now shall I die for thirst
and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? Now, did you notice
there what Samson prayed? He said, Lord, thou hast given,
past tense. You've already, you've given
it. Thou hast given this great deliverance. You've already given
it into my hand. I finished the work that you
gave me to do. John chapter 19, verse 28. After
this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished,
finished. that the scripture might be fulfilled,
saith I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full
of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it up on
hyssop and put it to his mouth. And when Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said, it's finished. And he bowed his
head and he gave up the ghost. Do you see the type? Samson begins
to deliver Israel with the carnal, fleshly, worldly means that God
provided. What was it? A job only of mass. And the Lord Jesus Christ delivered
His people by carnal, fleshly, worldly means. And what was it? It was a cross, a piece of wood. At Calvary. But that's not what
saved us. No more than the jawbone slayed
the Philistines, it was the strong man who slung it. And it's not the cross itself
that saves. It's the strong man who hung
upon it. Vengeance is mine, saith the
Lord. I will repay. And he's able. and he's willing. How did the Lord avenge our enemy
called sin? He put sin away on Calvary's
cross. It wasn't the cross that did
it, it was by the sacrifice of himself hanging on that cross. That's how his vengeance is repaid. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery. Even the hidden wisdom which
God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of
the princes of this world, Pilate, Caesar, Herod, none of them,
none of these princes of this world knew for had they known
it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. The foolishness of God is wiser
than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For
you see your calling brethren, how that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise. And God had chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And
the base things of the world and things which are despised
hath God chosen. yea, and things which are not,
to bring to naught things that are." Why? That no flesh should
glory in His presence. God's gonna get all the glory
for our salvation. He rightly deserves it, it's
all His, and there's not a child of God that'll argue with that.
We want Him to have the glory, don't we? We want Him to have
it. We didn't do anything. Isn't that an amazing story?
It's a true story. And it pictures the work that
the Lord Jesus Christ did in our room and study.