When I tell you that I am truly
thankful to be here, I believe I mean it. I was talking
to Gabe earlier today, and we've had the blessed privilege to
be able to be with him, his family, and Paul, indeed. And I think
to myself, It is truly a miracle of God's grace that we can be
together. There's some things that we all
know, we've heard, and truly believe. I truly believe that before a
few of the Things that the Lord has graciously allowed me to
experience, and I mean that. These things that the Lord is
pleased to send our way, to teach us. I believe before this that
we're just frail, frail creatures of dust. I believe that we believe
a little bit more, don't we, Bob? We believe a little bit
more, don't we? I'm telling you truly, all things,
and I wish I believed this as I should, and we know that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his pleasure, purpose, purpose. I'm gonna ask you to take your
Bibles and turn with me to the book of Proverbs chapter 30. Proverbs chapter 30. I believe
that this passage of scripture, I'm gonna look at verses 15,
16 for a few minutes. While you're turning there, we
know that these scriptures speak of Christ. We know that, but
Paul just brought that out so clearly, and we know that. And as I was reading through,
been trying to go through the book of Proverbs for a while,
and I read these two verses of scripture a couple of weeks ago,
and it just so arrested me. And I thought to myself, I know
this is concerning our Lord. It's concerning His glory, His
honor. And I wanna just look at these
two verses for just a few minutes this morning. And I do pray that
the Lord's pleased to cause us to see him. Proverbs chapter
30, verse 15, 16. The horse leech had two daughters
crying, give, give. There are three things that are
never satisfied. Yea, four things say not, it
is enough. The grave, the barren womb, the
earth that is not filled with water, and the fire that saith
not, it is enough. When the Lord was pleased to
speak all things that He created into existence, the scripture
declares that this was the Lord's conclusion. You know, that's
the only thing we're concerned about, Neddy. What does the Lord
say about it? Not what I say about it, what
I think about it. What does the Lord say? The Lord
said this concerning creation. The Lord saw that everything
that he made, and behold, it was very good. Very good. It was excellent. Excellent. Everything he made,
everything was created good. Because God Almighty created
everything good, and God is good! God being good, everything He
made is good, and all He does is good! And for His glory, and
for the sustenance of creation, God made it good. Hold your place
there, and turn with me to Genesis 2, 8 and 9. Genesis chapter 2. Verse 8 and 9 says this, And
the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the
man whom he had formed. Out of the ground made the Lord
God to grow every tree that is pleasant, the sight good for
food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden of the
tree. of knowledge, good and evil. God Almighty made everything. It was good. It was to His pleasure,
to His honor. And not only was God's creation
good, it was enough. It was enough. What God made
was enough. Enough, there was no lack in
anything that God had made. The Lord supplied all the need,
all the need of mankind to people. There's enough here. There's
enough, there was muchness. When he said it was enough, it
was exceeding much and abundance. But when man by one sin, one sin, I thought about that
as I was reading that, and I thought by one sin, and before Adam did
it, he thought it, and it was one thought of disobedience. One thought of disrespect. And
then he did what he thought. By one act of disobedience everything that Almighty God
had created was ruined. By one act of disobedience nothing
in God's creation was unaffected. One thing, the earth that God had made,
remember God made everything good. And this one act, by one
act, this whole earth was cursed. Harmony among all the animal
kingdoms was gone. Plants, food, and beauty, now
going to wrestle with thorns, thistles. Nothing was left unaffected. Death. Death that man knew nothing
of. Everything was good. Now death
was the end result of everything that God had created because
of One man's disobedience, one sin. And nothing in creation
now was satisfied. Nothing was enough, nothing. For man or beast, nothing was
unaffected. There was no provision now. that God had made that would
say, it's enough, this is enough. Now with that truth, knowing
that by one man's sin, everything in creation has been affected,
I want us to look at our passage, Proverbs chapter 30, verse 15,
16, again, and read it. The horse leech, it's just exactly
what you think it would be. Horse leech, it's just a bug. A leech, latch on to it. Animal. The horse leech has two sisters,
I'm sorry, two daughters. These two daughters came from
the horse league, two daughters. They're going to be just like
the horse league. They got the same attitude, crying, give,
give. There are three things that are
never satisfied. There are four things that say
not, it's enough. These are examples. These are
things to consider just like everything else. It's just in
creation. And listen to this. Let me tell
you something which never has enough. Verse 16. The grave. Men, we all die because of sin. We die. and they bury us. Bury things
that die. Do you know that whatever was
living and has died is never going to come to a time where
it's going to say, okay, that's enough. You can come back to
life. It died. It'll never be enough. It'll
never satisfy the penalty of sin. It'll come back. Not humanly
speaking. The grave barren womb, the earth that's not filled with
water, fire that saith not it's enough. Have you ever been out burning
a good brush pile? You got like a big old brush
pile. It's all dry and it's all good. Set it on fire. How long do you think it's going
to burn until it just quits burning? When there's no more fuel. No
more brush. No more sticks. That's when it's
going to be. Until then, it's going to burn.
It's going to burn it up. It's not going to say it's enough
until it has consumed all the fuel. Now here we behold wisdom
speaking. Now this is the Lord speaking
through a man, a man that had been taught of God
to write these words down. And it's the Lord Himself. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God. It's profitable. Profitable. Correction, instruction,
righteousness. And here's the effect of sin
upon God's creation because of man's disobedience. There's nothing
in this world that's ever going to say it's enough. I'm satisfied. Plenty. Nothing created by God and ruined
in the fall says Satisfied. Good, good. That blood-sucking
leech, and all like him, here's what he's gonna do. Here's what
he's gonna say. Give. Give. Tell you what, y'all know what
a tick is. You let a tick get on you, grab
hold of you, how long do you think it's gonna be? I'm not
trying to be overly dramatic or anything like this. You take
a dog, get a dog too. Here again, I'm not trying to
be other than consistent with this horse leech, blood sucking
animal. How long you be before he says,
okay, I've had enough, I'm gonna quit. It's gonna take till you
get him off or kill him or something. It's never enough. I don't care what it is, it's
just going to be forever hanging on as long as you don't kill
it. You're not going to say it's
enough. Again, the grave because of sin will never say I'm fulfilled. You've been here long enough,
you can go ahead and go back to living, barren womb because
of God's providence to withhold children or give according to
God's timing to say, well, okay, you've waited long enough, Mom,
to have a baby for a woman, a wife. Until the Lord gives life, it's
just not gonna happen. The barren womb, that earth filled
with water, as long as this earth is parched in places that have
a lack of rain until God sends it it's not going to happen it
may rain here we may go through a dry period you come to that
point and say boy we need some rain and finally the Lord sends
rain and the Lord withholds it you won't say if it's dry If
you're out there and your garden is burning up, and God holds
off the rain, you're never going to say, well, it's just fine.
I've had enough. No. We want what we want. That fire? No. Carnal man, because of sin, that
is in all of us, will never be fulfilled. Man, carnal man, and
all that is associated with carnal man will never say it's enough. How much money you got? How much
money you got in the bank? Now let's just be honest here,
you know, how much you got? At what point will you say it's enough? I don't, I guarantee
you if you got A million dollars in the bank and I offer you a
hundred bucks. I promise you, you're gonna take
it. Oh, you might appear as though, you know, no, I'm fine, I'm fine.
But really, you want it. You want that hundred bucks.
Whether it's money. How about your health? How about your health? You've
been on this earth X amount of years and you've just, you know,
I've been doing good and, you know, well, I think I've been
well long enough. I just, I'd kind of like to be
sick for a while. Health is never enough, would
you? No, no, it's never gonna be. We're never gonna be content
with God's provision. Even when He comes because of
the fall, because of sin, you're never going to come to that place,
spiritually speaking. You'll never come because of
a carnal, fallen nature. You'll never come to a point
to where you'll say, concerning my safety, my security before
God, it's enough. You'll never do it. I tell you
what man's gonna do. He's gonna try to contrive his
own security. God Almighty says, for by grace
are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God. Now we
read that scripture. How many men, women, by nature
will say That's enough for me, by nature, no? Man is gonna believe
that he holds the key to his salvation until God Almighty
gives him a new heart. This old heart, this old man,
he will not bow, he'll not say it. He won't do it. Well, with that setting forth,
The truth that we know is God's word. We're brought to a place
to where I won't talk about for just a few minutes. You know
where I'm going, don't you Dwight? When is it enough? When is enough? When is it enough for my standing
before God? What's gonna have to take place?
What's gonna have to happen where I will admit until the Lord does
something for me, I think I have provided enough. I've been going to church a whole
lot of years. I've been, you know, I've done
pretty good. I'm not as bad as most people
I know. You know, I've done enough. That's
gonna be my attitude, but when will I come to that point to
where I will now say it's enough I can tell you this it's going
to be when the Lord by His infinite mercy and grace shows me what
I am by nature and by nature I think for me I will think I've
done enough But when God is pleased to give me a heart, to see that
I am in myself, that there dwelleth no good thing. And when the Lord gives me a
new heart, realize that the only finished work was accomplished
at Calvary. Whenever the Lord Himself said, It's enough. For hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of years. We read in the Scripture where
man would offer sacrifices for sin. Hold your place right here. Turn with me to Hebrews 10. Hebrews chapter 10. I think about this scripture.
I came up in false religion, believing. Hebrews chapter 10,
I'm going to start reading verse 4. I came up in false religion
thinking that I had done enough. I'd done enough. I walked down
the aisle. I repeated a sinner's prayer. I'd been baptized. I had to be
baptized about three or four times because I got worried about
it. I thought, well, maybe it didn't
take the first time. I don't know if I was sincere
enough that first time. I'm not sure. is it that I can truthfully say
from my heart concerning my salvation I know this I'm going to leave
this world and I'm going to stand before God I want to know what scripture
has got to say about enough because I can tell just from the examples
that the Lord was pleased to give through these bugs man by nature is never going
to say it's enough. Man by nature, I'm sorry, man
by nature will say what he's done is enough. He'll never say
that I, you know, I need to do more. I thought I had done all
I needed to do. Let's repeat this sinner's prayer. Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 10,
verse 4. It's not possible. It's not possible that the blood
of bulls and goats should take away sin. I could tell you from
experience, it's not possible that Marvin could be sincere
enough in making a profession of faith. It's not possible that
Marvin could do enough good in this world. It's not possible.
It's not possible. It's not possible that the blood
of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he
cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest
not. But a body hast thou prepared
me. That's what you're talking about,
Paul. We're talking about him. We're talking about him. My profession, Not enough. In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the
volume of the book, it's written of me, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to do thy will, O God. But when he saith sacrifice,
and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldst
not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law.
Then said he, and then the Lord said, Lo, I come to do thy will,
O God. You know, I think if I read that
right now and I think, oh, there's one that's pleased God.
There's one that has done the will of God. There's one. One. I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the first that he may establish the second by
the witch will. were sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Every priest standeth
daily ministering, offering oft times the same sacrifices which
can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins forever. Set down on the right hand of
God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. By one offering. One offering. I think, oh, that I might know
Him, that I might be found in Him. Oh, that God Almighty might show
mercy to this hell-deserving sinner. Bless the Lord for the
one in whom the Father is well-pleased. This is my beloved Son. in whom I'm well pleased." You
hear Him. You hear Him. In Him alone, God Almighty dealt the issue
of sin on the behalf of His elect. God Almighty satisfied, satisfied. the penalty of the broken law. I don't even know, I don't even
know the depth of what I've done. I don't know what God demands. I mean, I can quote scripture,
I can tell you what, a little bit I know, but I don't even
know what I've done. And all I could do was find myself,
casting myself upon the mercy of God. I said, Lord, if you
don't save me, I'm gone. I don't have any hope. I have
no hope. Oh, the depth of 2 Corinthians
5, 21. For he hath made him, to be as
in italics, he hath made him sin. for us who knew no sin. Somebody would ask me, what do
you mean, sin? I can quote scripture, sin is
the transgression of the law. William, I still don't get the
depth of it. I don't know, I don't know. I need one. that can save me. In my ignorance,
in my state of need, I don't know what I need. But I know who has promised that
my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
and glory, what, by my profession of faith, by my, you know, by
Christ Jesus the Lord. In Christ Jesus the Lord, all the provision has been made. And this ignorant sinner needs
one to save needy sinners. Because I don't know that passage
that Gabe Redmond goes, when I see the blood, Oh, I'm so thankful he didn't
say when Marvin sees the blood, just when I see the blood shed
on the behalf of God's elect, the transfer of the guilt made
sin for God's people. I said a while ago, I don't even
know the depth of what I've done. I need a savior. to save me,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. I think, Lord, those
are the sweetest words that I've ever heard in my life. I need one who will see the blood,
shed on my behalf, and pass over me from the wrath that I deserve. Believer? Can we as hell-deserving
sinners ever thank God Almighty for the truth that in Christ
Jesus, the blood that was shed on the behalf of God's elect,
that God Almighty will say, it's enough. It's enough. I pray God bless this to our
hearts for Christ's sake and for our eternal good.