If you have your Bibles this
morning, please turn to the book of John, chapter 6. Book of John, chapter 6. Our text is going to be verse
40. I've titled this message, To
Look Upon the Son is Life. We're going to start reading
at verse 37 down through 40. It says, All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this
is the Father's will which hath sent me. But of all which he
hath given me, I should lose nothing, but shall raise it up
again at the last day. And listen to verse 40. And this
is the will of Him that sent me, that every one which seeth
the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the
last day. You know, to see the Son and
to believe on Him is to see and believe in our hearts as God's
will And as the Holy Bible describes who he is, who he is, not what
the world says he is, but what he has done and what he is doing
right now and what he's going to do in the future. To believe
Christ is to love him, to love him with all your heart, to have
complete trust in him. to rely on Him, and to have complete
confidence in everything that the Word of God says that He
is. It's to depend on Him. And it's to know that we need
Him as His children. We need Him each and every hour
of every day. And it is to rest in Christ,
for Christ is our Sabbath. Second Timothy says, all Scripture
is given by inspiration of God, In 2 Peter, the written word
says that prophecy came not of old time, but by the will of
man. The holy men of God spoke as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Therefore, every word in the
Holy Bible is absolute truth. Every word. I know you have a
red-letter Bible, and people say, well, the words that are
spoken in red were spoken by Christ. But every word in the
Bible was spoken by Christ. It says here that the Holy Scriptures,
1 John, that there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
What is it to see the Son and to believe? It says one verse
that truly describes our Lord Jesus Christ is found in Isaiah
chapter 9, verse 6. It says, for unto us a child
is born, speaking of Jesus Christ, for unto us a Son is given. And
the government shall be upon his shoulder. Listen to this. And his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace. That's who Jesus Christ is. And
that's his name. In other words, he is the Lord,
is Almighty God. The Holy Word of God tells us
that we are to honor the Son. Listen to this. And the world
don't do this, but His children does. The Word says that, in
the Word of God, that we are to honor the Son to the same
degree as we honor the Father, because the Scriptures say, I
and my Father are one. The Scripture says in John 5
that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. If he that honoreth not the Son,
it's what? He honoreth not the Father which
sent him. And there's so many millions
of people in this world that believe in God or a God, but they don't
recognize Christ for who He is. But to see the Son and to believe
in Him is to believe all that God's Word says about Christ.
In Isaiah 7.14 it says, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. And that
word Immanuel means God with us. And you know, we may ask
ourselves, how can a virgin have a child? You know, the Bible
says with God, everything is possible, everything. But in
Matthew 1.20, God's word says, that which is conceived, and
he was talking to Mary, he said that word which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Ghost. In 1 Timothy 3.16, it says, and
without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God
was manifested in the flesh. I don't have to understand it,
but by God's Spirit that lives within me, I truly believe it
with all my heart. Isaiah 43, 11 states, I, even
I, am the Lord. We're speaking about Jesus here,
Jesus Christ, our Lord. He says, I, even I, am the Lord,
and beside me there is no Savior. The Holy Scripture says in John
5, and we know that the Son of God has come and have given us
an understanding that we may know Him that is true. Listen
to this. And we are in Him. What a blessing. We are in Him that is true, even
in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. If you will, look at our text
in verse six. In chapter 6, verse 40, and this
is the will of him that sent me, that everyone would see as
the Son, and believe upon him, may have everlasting life, and
will raise him up in the last day. Why is it the will of the
Father, all but seed of Adam are sinners? But God's word says
in 323, it says, for all have sinned and come short of the
glory of God. We have all sinned, whether we're God's elect or
not God's elect. In the flesh, we're covered with
sin. God chose a people, though, before
the foundation of the world, and He placed them in His Son.
And in Ephesians 1, 3 and 4, it says, blessed be the God and
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which has blessed us
with all spiritual blessings. He's not going to. He's talking
about His children, His elect, but He's already done it. But
He's going to bless us with all spiritual blessings. And the
Lord of our Jesus Christ, who has blessed us, in every place
is in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blame
without him in love. How is it possible for us sinners? For he said, all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. How is it possible for us
sinners to be without sin? If you will look at the book
of Romans, Now would you please share it, the book of Romans,
chapter 24. I'm sorry, the book of Romans, chapter 3. It says in verse 24 of chapter 3,
Being justified, how? Freely. We didn't do nothing
to earn salvation. We ain't got nothing to offer
God except cries of mercy. But he says being justified freely
by his grace, there's a redemption that is in Christ Jesus. And
in verse 25, chapter 3, it says, whom God hath sent forth to be
the propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God. In Ephesians, in Acts 4, 12,
it says that neither is there salvation in any other, for there
is none other name under heaven. given among men, whereby we must
be saved. We had to have a substitute,
and the only one that qualified was the Lord Jesus Christ. And
when he says that there is no other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved, that name is Jesus Christ. What is the name Jesus Christ? What does a person see Christ
and believe in? He believes in his person, he
believes in his work. Yes, his works. It's not our
works, but his works. The Bible says that we have been
saved and called with a holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. You know, if you remember what the
scripture said in Ephesians 3, it says that God has blessed
us of a believer with all spiritual blessings. One of those blessings
is saving faith. It says in Ephesians 2.8, as
I said, for by grace are you saved through faith that are
not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Faith is
not something that, like so many people in this world, faith is
not something that we produce within ourselves because that
would put works and it would mix works with grace. God's Word
says in Galatians 2.16, knowing that a man is not justified by
the works of the law, But by the faith of Jesus Christ, even
we might believe in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. The gift of faith that has been
given unto us allows us to see and believe the person and the
works of Jesus Christ, our Lord. And the word of God says, for
by grace, what is grace? That's God giving us something
that we don't deserve. What did he give us? He gave
us his son. He sent his son into the world
to die for our sins. We must always remember that
it's not our faith that saves us, but it is the blood of Jesus
Christ. that we shed at Calvary. It is
not faith, although faith is necessary for God. For God's
word says that in Hebrews that without faith it is impossible
to please God. But we are saved through faith. It's not the faith that saves
us, but it is the object of that faith that saves us. And that
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 10, it says, but this
man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat
down. Why did he sit down? The work
was finished. He sat down on the right hand
of God, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that
are sanctified. The redeeming work has been finished. The work of redemption for his
people and to himself is done. The word says there is therefore
now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. I don't
know if I could enter into that. God's word says without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission of sins. The sins of God's chosen
people are covered with the blood of Christ. And all too often,
I tend to forget What Christ had to go through to take away
my sins and the sins of His people. If you would please turn to Isaiah
53. This is a chapter that I like
to read from time to time because I get so covered up in this world
and I have a tendency not to realize everything that our Savior
had to go through. But if you would, look at Isaiah
53 and enter into what it's saying here. And we're talking about
our Lord Jesus Christ here. He says here in this first verse
of Isaiah 53. Who hath believed our report?
And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow
up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground.
He hath no form nor countenance, and when we shall see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected
of man, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we extended
him not. Surely he hath bored our griefs
and our sorrows, yet We did exteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his scraps we are healed. All we like sheep
have gone astray. We have turned away every one
to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him, listen to this,
the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted
and he opened not his mouth. Why did he not open his mouth?
He had the sins of all his people in him. You know, the Bible says
that it's a number that cannot be numbered. And as I look at
myself and I see the sin that is within me, imagine the sin
that Christ had in him when he was on the cross. And often we
think of the physical pain that he went through. But you know,
how about the mental pain? God, out of his holiness, could
not look upon his son. And Christ cried, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? God couldn't look upon him because
he had the sins of all his people in him. He is brought as a lamb. of a slaughter," in verse 7,
"'and as a sheep before its shearers is done.' So he opened not his
mouth. He was taken from prison and
from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgressions
of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the
wicked. and were rich in his death, because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make
his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in
his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, speaking of his elect, for he shall bar
their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death. And
he was numbered with the transgressors, and he barred the sin of many,
and made intercessor for the transgressions. Let's go back to our text in
John, verse 40. You know, God's word says, everyone
that seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life. You know, I can't remember a
time in my life when I did not believe that there was a Jesus.
When I was in religion, yeah, there's Jesus, Son of God. But
I couldn't see him for who he was. And under grace, free grace
preaching, You learn the truth about our Lord Jesus Christ.
That word Christ, that's not his name. That's a title. He is the anointed one of God.
And it's the same word in the Old Testament. He is the Messiah. He is the anointed one. He is
the one that God hath sent. But to see the Son and to believe
on Him is to believe all that the Word of God, not what man
says about Him, but what the Word of God says about Him. From
Genesis to Revelation. This is a beautiful verse right
here. And in the book of Corinthians, it says, for God, who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, has found in our hearts to give
a light of a knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. By saving faith, the spirit of
God is placed in the heart of his chosen people, the knowledge. And anything that we know, it
comes by revelation. But Christ is not only our prophet,
He's our great high priest, and he is our king, and we belong
to him. He is our representative, our
substitute, his perfect obedience, his is our righteousness. God's
word says in 1 Corinthians 1, 30 and 31, but of him are ye
in Christ, who of God has made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption. It's all in Christ. from Christ
alone, that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let
him glory. The only thing we ever have anything
to glory about is our Lord. Does God's people believe everything
that scripture says about his son? They sure do. The scripture
says in Hebrews 1a, and this is the father speaking, it says,
but unto the son he said, thy throne, O God, is forever and
ever. A scepter of righteousness is
a scepter of thy kingdom. A very dear preacher said this
one time, and there's so much wisdom here, but you know, we
need our Lord every day of our lives. Sometimes I get caught
up in this world, and I have a tendency to get my mind off
the Lord, but we need him Every day, every hour of every day. A very dear preacher said this
one time. He said, look to Christ, not
to your faith. Look to Christ, not to your works,
whether it be good works or bad works. Not to your feelings and
your experiences, but look to Christ. Not to your brethren,
either to the best of them or the worst of them. Look to Christ
now. Look to Christ in you, look to
Christ alone, and to look to Christ always, always. And it is a clear fact that Christ
come into this world to save sinners. And that blesses my
heart very much for whenever I look in the mirror, I see who
I am. Because the Lord has opened my heart and my eyes to know
and to see that I am a sinner, that I am a chief of sinners. 1 Timothy 1.15 says, this is
a faithful sin and worthy of all acceptance that Christ come
into the world to save people like me. He come into the world
to save sinners. It is also a clear fact that
Christ is the Bible. from Genesis to Revelation. Acts
10 43 says, to him give all the prophets witness that through
his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive the remission
of sins. You know, God's elect knows that
salvation is of the Lord, and it's all of grace. And there's
no works involved at all. And we rest in Christ, in Christ
alone. Let's read verse 4 in John 6
again. Verse 40, it says here, this
is a will of him that sent me that everyone that seeth the
Son, seeth the Son for whom the scripture says that he is, not
what man says he is, and believe on him, may have everlasting
life, and I will raise him up at the last day. He says here
in the last part of verse 40, I will raise him up in the last
day. He's talking about, what's he
talking about here? He's talking about all of us
that are in Christ. He's talking about those who
sins that he died for at Calvary. Most people that study the Word
of God, and it's their life's work, especially pastors, they
consider the book of Job to be the oldest Bible, the oldest
book in the Bible. And Job said in chapter 19, now
listen to this, it's considered to be the oldest book in the
scriptures. Job said himself, he said, I know, I know that
my Redeemer liveth, and that the latter day he shall stand
upon this earth. And though after my skin worms
destroy his body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. You know, when
the Lord says here in verse 40, I will raise him up the last
day, he's talking about his return to earth and talking about his
elect here. If you take a minute, I'm about
finished, turn to 1 Thessalonians. Chapter 4, look at verse 16. 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16. It says, for the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven, and he shall, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the crump of God, and the dead in Christ
shall rise first, Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord
in the air. So shall we ever be with the
Lord. It goes on to say, therefore,
comfort one another with these words. We do believe that he
will and that he can do this. You know, in the Lord's prayer,
which is John 17, he was praying to the Father. And in that prayer,
he said, all power, all flesh has been given unto me to do
whatsoever I will. Back in chapter 6, if you will,
it says here, beginning in verse 37, as I said, he said, I have
been given power over all flesh He says, I do according to my
will, an army I have, and a money, and the habitants of the earth,
and none can stay in my hand. But in verse 37 right here, it
says, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. We can believe
that with all our hearts. For I come down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me. But of all which
he hath given me, I shall lose nothing, but shall raise it up
again at the last day." And I thank God for that. and Isaiah 118 speaking to us
because of the blood that's been applied to the life of his children.
He says, come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
And though they be red like clemson, they shall be as wool. And that
brings great comfort. You know, he tells us to keep
our affection set on things above, not on things of this world.
For our life is hid with Christ in God, and that should bring
us peace. You know, spiritual life is in
the blood of the blessed Lamb of God. You know, in Ephesians
5, the church is called the Bride of Christ. And the Lord said
of His bride in the book of the Son of Solomon, because He loves
His bride. And we love Him, but only because
He first loved us. But He says in the book of Solomon,
speaking to His elect, He says, Thou art all fire, my love, and
there is no spot in thee. Our sins has already been judged
at Calvary in Christ Jesus, our Lord. You know, may we keep looking
to Christ as we journey through this life and continue looking
for that blessing and good hope of the glorious appearance of
our great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. I'm finished. You're dismissed.