A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

Q: What does the Bible say about God's promises?

The Bible affirms that God's promises are sure, as stated in Exodus 3:17, where God declares His intention to deliver His people. The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the certainty and faithfulness of God's promises. In Exodus 3:17, God tells Moses, 'I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt.' This statement not only confirms God's intention to save His people but also illustrates His sovereignty and unchanging nature. The assurance that God will fulfill His promises is a cornerstone of Reformed theology, grounded in the belief that God's covenant with His people is eternal and unwavering. As it says in 2 Corinthians 1:20, 'For all the promises of God find their Yes in Him.' Thus, God's promises are not contingent upon human actions but are certain and secure due to His immutable nature.

Q: How do we know God's grace is sovereign?

God's grace is sovereign, as seen in His election of individuals like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom He chose despite their shortcomings. Sovereign grace is a fundamental aspect of Reformed theology, illustrated through God's selection of figures such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In Genesis 12:1, God calls Abraham not because of Abraham's merit, but purely by His sovereign choice. This theme is consistent throughout Scripture, as seen in Romans 9:11-13 where Paul states, 'though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue.' This sovereign grace underscores that salvation is entirely a work of God, based on His will and purpose rather than human effort. Thus, the assurance of God's grace lies in His sovereign decision to extend mercy to undeserving sinners.

Q: Why is knowing God as 'I AM' important for Christians?

'I AM' signifies God's eternal and unchanging nature, assuring believers of His constant presence and faithfulness. In Exodus 3:14, when God reveals Himself to Moses as 'I AM that I AM,' He asserts His eternal and immutable nature. This is a crucial aspect of God’s character, which means He exists outside of time and is not subject to change. For Christians, this understanding provides profound comfort, as it assures us that God's promises and love remain constant regardless of our circumstances. Knowing God as 'I AM' signifies that He is always present, ever-faithful, and never forsakes His people, as echoed in Hebrews 13:8, 'Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.' This foundational truth encourages believers to trust in His leading and provision in all aspects of life.

Q: What does it mean for God to bring His people into a land flowing with milk and honey?

The land flowing with milk and honey represents God's abundant provision and blessing for His people. The phrase 'a land flowing with milk and honey' is a rich metaphor found in Scripture, particularly in Exodus 3:17. It signifies the abundance and fertility of the Promised Land, a stark contrast to the affliction of Egypt. This land symbolizes God’s provision, prosperity, and blessings that He bestows upon His people. From a theological perspective, it reflects the ultimate spiritual blessings that believers receive in Christ, indicative of the peace, satisfaction, and joy found in union with Him. Believers today understand this 'land' as the fulfillment of God's promises in Christ, where they experience the richness of His grace and love, embodying both present and future realities of eternal life in communion with God.

In love He lifted me. In sinking sand He lifted me. With tender hand He lifted me. From shades of night to plains
of light, O praise His name. He lifted me. Now on a higher plain I dwell,
And with my soul I know it well. Yet how or why I cannot tell,
He still hath lifted me. If you're here tonight singing
that hymn, You have been lifted, you have
been raised up, beggar from the dunghill to sit among princes,
literally. Yeah, the world out there is
a dung heap. All right, Exodus chapter three,
what a clear picture this story is. God's sovereign, electing,
saving grace. has seen through a mediator,
a deliverer, Moses, as he represents the Lord Jesus Christ. And here
in this chapter, as we read, God confirms his call of Moses. He confirms that call to Moses
and to the people as the deliverer. And he reaffirms or reminds Moses
and us of his promise of deliverance, how sure and certain his promises
are. This is what gospel preaching
is all about, confirming that Jesus is the Christ, the deliverer,
and reaffirming and reminding us of this great salvation of
deliverance that's in Christ, our deliverer. That's what gospel
preaching is, declaring, as Paul said, that all the promises of
God in Christ are yea, and in him, amen, under the glory of
God by us. And I fully expect to hear a
couple of amens tonight. All right, let's look at it.
Verses seven and eight, the Lord said, I have surely seen the
affliction of my people which are in Egypt. and have heard
their cry by reason of their taskmasters, I know their sorrow."
That was a blessing study in that way. You remember that?
The Lord said, I have surely seen. I see. I see. And I hear. And I know. I know. In verse eight, he says, and
I came down. I am come down. Our God was made
flesh and dwelt among us, and He knows. We have not a high
priest who cannot be touched for the feeling of our infirmity,
but was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He knows our frame because He
took upon Himself flesh. And God said, I am come down
to deliver them. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to
this earth to deliver His people out of the hand of the and to
bring them up out of that land that is Egypt unto a good land
and a large unto a land that flowing with milk and honey. And down in verse twelve he says
certainly he says this to Moses. He's still talking out of the
burning book. And he says to Moses, certainly I will be with
thee, and this shall be a token, a sign unto thee that I have
sent thee, when, not if, but when thou hast brought forth
the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
And I was, I just rejoiced in that, how that represents our
Lord's certain salvation. It's not an if, but it's when. Now that he will and has and
shall bring all of his people, Christ will someday appear in
heaven with all of his people, saying, Behold, I am the children
which thou hast given me, and we will serve and worship our
God upon that mountain. Well, verses fourteen and fifteen,
and God revealed himself unto Moses as the I am. I am that I am. And God said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. Now, this is worth going back
over, is it not? I am. God reveals himself to
his people as the eternal one, always, ever, eternal one. No
beginning, no ending, that's what makes him God. And the immutable
one, the one who never changes, and since God never changes,
we're not consumed, thus sons of Jacob. And his mercy doesn't
change, it's forever. His love doesn't change, it's
eternal. His salvation is eternal. His
grace, once in God's grace, always in God's grace, because God is
immutable. of God or without him, gifts
and calling. So the Lord reveals himself as
the eternal, unchanging God through Christ. Moses is the one who
came down to tell the people who it was that sent him and
who God was. And Christ, Scripture says, came
to reveal the Father. God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto Verse 15, And God said moreover unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel. We saw very
clearly that this is all for God's people and God's elect,
Israel. The Lord God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
That's what you're going to say to them. That's who you're going
to declare to them. The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob have sent me unto you. This is my
name forever. God says, this is my name. I'm
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Our Lord said that to
the woman at the well, did he not? Salvation's up to you. And
he says, this is my memorial. Do you notice that? We didn't
get to look at that Sunday morning. Consider that. This is my memorial. On to all generations, he said. My memorial, this is how he's
going to be remembered. Abraham sure remembers him. He's
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Abraham was, what was
Abraham when God found him? He was a 75-year-old idolater. He was steeped in idolatry over
in one of those Arab countries, Ur of the Chaldees. worshipping
idols with his his infidel father and family. He was an idolater. But God. God chose him. Abraham didn't choose God. God
chose him. This is God's memorial throughout
eternity that he sovereignly elected people. And we're going
to be singing that throughout eternity as a memorial unto God.
Thank you for choosing us. Thank you for electing me. I
was an idolater when you found me. I'm the God of Abraham. I'm the God of Isaac. Isaac,
the son of promise, a miracle son. God said, in Isaac shall
thy seed be called. Isaac shall be blessed, and all
of Isaac's seed. God of promise, a covenant-keeping
God. This is his memorial, John, throughout
all eternity, that God keeps covenant and mercy always for
eternity. He will not break his covenant.
He's promised. He cannot break it. That's his
memorial. And the God of Jacob. Oh, happy
is he that hath the God of Jacob for his head. You know all about
Jacob, don't you? Most everybody in here feels
like an old Jacob. Aren't you glad he's the God of Jacob? Jacob,
Jesus, a planter, no good sinner, up, down, in, out. changing all the way, but Jacob's
God never changed. And Jacob was loved by God. Jacob have I loved. And since
God has loved Jacob, he always will have loved Jacob. That's
his memorial. That's what he's going to be
remembered by. Every one of us are going to remember for all
eternity that God chose us, that God made a covenant concerning
us, and God loved us. while we were yet sinners, and
that Christ died for them. That's his name and his memorial.
And we could go home now, couldn't we? But it gets better. No, not
better, just more of the same. Now, here's what God told Moses
to tell the Israelites, and this is what God told Christ to tell
us, just exactly. Verse 16, Go and gather the elders
of Israel together. And isn't that what Christ did?
He gathered unto him his apostles. He went out and chose twelve
men to make known unto them the mind, the will, the purpose,
the covenant of God Almighty, those men who, in turn, would
tell it to the people. That's exactly what our Lord
did, his apostles. And down in verse eighteen, it
says that they will hearken to your voice. They did, didn't
they? Peter, Simon, James, John, they
did. Christ said, My sheep hear my
voice, and they followed. They hearkened unto me. The voice
of power, where the voice of a king is, there's power. Power,
soul-saving, following power. Go gather the elders together
and tell them, say unto them, and he keeps saying this over
and over, say under them are sixteen the Lord God of your
father's the God of Abraham Isaac and of Jacob appeared under them. That's how he's distinguished.
You see, this is what distinguishes the true God from all other gods. This is what distinguishes the
truth from all the error out there. And we still preach all
that that means. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, which I just summed up very shortly, concisely. Electing God, covenant-making,
covenant-keeping God, eternally, eternal, loving, merciful, gracious
God in Christ in a medium. That's how you know the living
God. He keeps revealing Himself to
us over and over again as this God, this God. We keep hearing
it. How many years? I've been here
fifteen years we keep I keep saying this over and over again
you were here before I got here fifteen or maybe a hundred fifteen. You were here and you were here
and that before I got here same thing you're still smiling about.
That's good this is the true and living God as opposed to
the gods of the Egyptians. OK you see the difference. God
hath made a difference, doth make a difference between you
and Egyptians. How? He's revealed himself to
you. You know the true God, not a
God of your imagination. All right, he says this. He tells
Moses to tell the elders, to tell the people, I have surely,
verse 16, I have surely visited you. This is a blessing. Go over to Proverbs 8. Proverbs
8. God said to Moses, I have surely
visited you." Well, what do you mean? When? Always. From the beginning, Barbara,
God has been with His people. From the beginning, God visited
His people. Adam and Eve. Who was that that
was talking to them in the garden? Huh? The Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He's the only member of the Godhead
who possessed a body except the Holy Spirit in the form of a
dove. But Christ appeared to his people. God came down to
earth many times. God hath visited his people many
times. They heard the gospel from the
Lord, and they saw the Lord skin that animal, and the Lord put
that coat on them, made it with his own hands. They watched all
day. Christ is God's hands, and he's
the one that did that. Noah. God appeared to Noah, didn't
he? And gave him the blueprints for
the ark. Abraham. Jacob. Uh-huh. He wrestled with him. Lord wrestled
with old Jacob. Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Gideon,
Samson, we could go on and on. Look at Proverbs 8, verse, the
Lord said, I have visited. Verse 31, this whole chapter's
about Christ, who is wisdom personified. Verse 31, he says, rejoicing,
talking about I was with the Lord in the beginning, rejoicing
in the habitable parts of his earth. And my delights were with
the sons of men. Oh, yes, God came down many times
to visit His people. And oh, bless His name, two thousand
years ago, He really came to me and stayed here thirty-three. Made Himself clearly known, God,
with the, I have visited my people, the Lord said. Go back to the
text. I have surely visited you. and saying that which is done
to you in each. I've seen that. And you know to this day. Our
Lord. Is with us. We don't see him. Who have not
seen Peter rise we love. And yet our Lord promised I'll
never leave you know for Oh, this was his last words before
he left this planet. Lo, I'm with you always, even
to the ends of the earth. Uh-huh. He said, where two or
three are gathered together, I'm in their midst. Not in theory,
in actuality. He said, I have heard of this,
and I see. I see. God doesn't leave it to
someone else to see over and watch over His people. That's
His name, Jehovah Jireh, Lord of Situ, Lord of Situ, angel
of His mercy. That's what Jesus Christ did. Now listen to these words of
comfort. Verse seventeen, and God said, I have said, and He's
going to remind the people of what He said. Stay with me if
you want a blessing. became hungry. You've got to
be fear. God said, I have said. I will
bring you up out of the affliction of each. And I said that before
he said it before God spoke once he ate twice. And at the mouth
of two or three witnesses, the thing is the same. And God said,
I have said this is what I've said. I'm going to bring you.
I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt. Now this is, people, this is
all our help. Everyone in here, every believer
in here, goes through difficulties, goes through trials and troubles
and lives in this Egypt, this modern Egypt, this world full
of sin and trouble and trials. All our help now, all our help
is found right here in what God says. This is all our help. This is
the only place you can find any help, any hope, any comfort,
any consolation, any strength, anything, any answer, anything. It's what God says. And God said,
now I have said. He's reminding Moses and the
people and the elders of what he has said. And if you'll be
reminded right now, tonight, you'll have some comfort. You'll
have some peace. You'll have some joy. I have
said, I will bring you up out of the affliction in Egypt. I've
said that, and I can't lie. God's promises, you cannot lie. This is the Word of our God,
our rock. This is our rock to stand, and their rock, their
rock's not like our rock. And I love that verse in Deuteronomy
32. God said, Moses said, somebody
said, their rock, talking about the God of the Egyptians or the
world, is not like our rock. Our God does what he says. God
said, I have said and I will. See, here's all the difference.
Verse 18, and God said and they shall. And thou shalt come. See, here's the whole difference.
Their rock, their God, their God, small g, says, this is what
they're all saying, that their God says unto men, I want to. I would like to. I hope to. If you will, I will. who is God, says, I will and
you shall. That's all my own. That's all
those without strength. That's great. That's just the
good news. I said, I said it, and whatever
God said shall be done. I will, his will, will be done
in heaven and earth. He works all things after his
will. All right, let's look at each of these promises
he gives in verse seventeen. This is really our text. The
title of this message is A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. I got you now. All right, A Land
Flowing with Milk and Honey. We're going to look at it. God
says this so many times. Look at all these promises here.
I will bring you up. Here's the first promise and
the first point of the Gospel of Good News. God says, I will.
I'll do it. Salvation is not dependent on
us in any way, shape, form, or fashion. Not at all. It's not dependent on our cooperating,
our accepting, our whatever. It's not. God says, I will. Good news, Kelly. It sure is. My birth the first time wasn't
dependent at all on that. My mother didn't say, Honey,
would you please, would you like to come out? No! That baby, I'm
sorry to tell you this, Annabelle, is not going to cooperate at
all. Is it, ladies? Not going to cooperate at all.
You're going to have to shut up! And the government is going
to pull it out. maybe it won't be that often.
You'll forget all about it when it's over. But all I'm trying
to say is, it's the same way spiritually. It's exactly the
same way. Thy people shall be willing,
but it's in the day of His power. God said, I will. And it's only
going to happen when God says, I will. And when He says that,
buddy, you have no choice in the matter. you know I could
give his people choice in salvation he makes a choice aren't you
glad I have said that I will I'm going
to do I will not God now but God says he will Christ said
he would I will in that covenant and when he had by himself purged
our sin he sat down waiting expecting All these people be brought away
and he said I will look at the next time bring you up. Bring you up. I wish I could rise to this day.
And preach this like it ought to be bringing. We're in. A cesspool of neglect that's
called the world. We're in a pit of corruption.
Aren't we? This world is getting worse and
worse. The slime, the dung is rising in this filthy mire, in
this sloughed-ness pond, aren't we? We're in a sloughed-ness
pond, aren't we? God says, I will. I'm going to
bring you up, up to all those who feel down and dirty. He brought you up tonight. This
is going to get you up. I'll bring you up to all beggars
on a dunghill. And Kelly's not the only one
that does that. We're all beggars from a dunghill.
I told somebody one time, Kelly, it'd be a good thing if everybody
shoved a little maneuver. It would. It'd be good for everybody's
ego. and somebody came by one time
and I was that's all you know they were all dressed up. You know what I want to do. You know. I thought you need
to get in here with me and do you so good. Well that's who
God raises up those who feel like they're. On the. Lift some of them among friends. All the poor in the dust, He
raises up. All in the pit, He brings up. He said, I'll bring you up out
of the affliction of Egypt. I love that song. He lifted me
out of the deep miry clay. He set at my feet in the straight
narrow way. He lifted me up to a heavenly
place and flooded my soul each day with his grace. He lifted
you up. You're being flooded right now
with his grace and the story of him lifting you up out of,
he said, out of sin. God hath redeemed a people out
of every nation, tongue, tribe, kindred under heaven out of the
world. They are not of the world, Christ
said, as I am not of the world, but he has redeemed us out of
this place and someday is literally going to take us out of this
Egypt, this place of misery and affliction, the affliction. You
notice it's just singular, not afflictions, though there are
many, but all can be summed up by sin. Our sins, everything
is all summed up in this word, sin. God is going to bring us
out of sin. Unto the land of, and he goes
on to name these tribes, Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,
Habites, Jebusites. And we saw that how that, well,
I just quoted it. Went ahead of myself. this revelation
five in the year of revelation five of the people say that Lord
have redeemed us to God by his blood out of every kindred every
time every people and that's what that's how that God have
redeemed half already and brought us up out of the affliction now
read on. And he says in verse seventeen
unto a land flowing with milk and honey. Now you know that
the Lord mentions this milk and honey land flowing with milk
and honey over twenty times. a land flowing or that flow with
milk and honey over twenty times. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, Joshua, and he says, I didn't write it down, but he
says it in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and I think that's it, but over
twenty times he talks about a land flowing with milk and honey,
over and over, over and over. Let's just look at it, Pete,
all right? verse eight he said that one verse eight he says
I'm going to bring you up out of that line. And to a good life
you're going to come to a good life you've been in a bad life
we've been there with him we've been in the bad lines we've been
living in the bad lines you were out there that God said I'm going
to bring you to a good life. And a large means that this room
means whoever wants to go And he says, unto a land that floweth
flowing with milk and honey, verse seventeen, he says it again,
a land flowing with milk and honey, chapter thirteen. I'll
just give you a couple. But in Exodus thirteen, he says
in verse five, He shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into
the land of the Canaanites, Hittite, Amorite, Hivite, Jebusite, which
he sware, he said it and he swore, and sware by no greater, unto
thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey. Now what does this mean? What
does this mean, this land flowing with milk and honey? Well, no
doubt the promised land well we read about we read about that
the promised land of the Canaanite so forth where the Israelites
went into was a fertile rich and fertile land. Do you remember
when the spies when the spies were sent into the land to spy
out the land and they came back they found a great mine. Do you
remember a place called Esko And they wanted to show the great.
And so they came back and they brought. One. One. No doubt now that the physical
promised land that the Israelites went into was a bountiful land,
rich, lush pastures, that would fatten cows. I don't know how
much milk they produced, Henry, but they've never been produced
like that since. And they had some milk out, flowing,
flowing. because of the richness of those
valleys and so forth. And field after field full of
wildflowers of every imaginable name, and it was full of nectar,
laden with nectar, so that the bees, they'd just lie anywhere. They'd just pull up, and they'd
just, their hives were exploding with honey. You'd just go anywhere
to find the best taste of honey. West you never had. Now, no doubt that was true. And no doubt that the new earth. The new earth is going to be
like that. Only better, no thorns, no thistles, the new earth. I
am just convinced that the new earth that God is going to create
for his people. will be very much like the one
that Adam and Eve enjoy. Because whatever God says is
good, whatever God makes cannot really be improved upon. God
doesn't do anything imperfect, does he? And when God created
the first earth, he said, it's as good. That means it's just perfect.
It's just wonderful. It was paradise. And the only
thing wrong with it is sin came in and marred it. That's what
messed up this whole play. God's going to destroy this whole
play. But he said in Isaiah 65, you rejoice now in that which
I create. Behold, I create new heaven and
a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. And the Lord God
will dwell with you there. And there are going to be big
grapes and lots of milk and honey. No doubt about that. But I continue. I say, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
We're already there. We're already there. You're drinking
gallon after gallon of it. Milk. The sincere milk of God's Word. You never had it until God brought
you to this blood. You never had it. Some of you
told me how you were in religion before and you never heard Hardly
any of this stuff. All you've got to do is open
your mouth when you come here, and we'll just fill you full
of milk. You'll get more milk in one sermon
than you'll get in a lifetime of sermons out there. I guarantee
you, I know it's so. I listen to these dudes, and
I listen to all our brothers that pray. Flourish with milk. Desire the sincere milk of the
word Peter said that you may grow thereby. We're in a land,
we're in a Mount Zion, this Canaan, we're already there. This is
a foretaste of glory divine. This place is flowing with milk.
Milk is so good. Milk is baby food. Milk is baby
food. It's the first food. It's the
first food. These mothers that have nursed
and tell me that It's just something special about it. Something special. And I know for a fact that that
mother's milk is the absolute most necessary and complete food,
and that child doesn't need anything for as long as that mother wants
to feed them. Should I tell them? Okay. Some mothers nurse their babies
a long time, and they do well. Don't they, Jimmy? They do. This woman teaches that. I know
what the experts say, and I don't give a big flying flip. They
say there's no nutritional value in honey either. John the Baptist
lived on it. You just throw away your nutritional
books. We've got one. Milk! Don't drink too much milk. And
cut her down to the skin. I went to the store one day,
Henry, to get some buttermilk. And it said, I looked everywhere,
and every carton said, low-fat buttermilk. That's not possible,
Sherry, is it? That's a misnomer. Isn't it? It can't be low-fat
and be buttermilk, can it? Neither can it be gospel that
doesn't save you. Gospel that the blood doesn't
actually redeem you. Gospel that God wants to and
can, strives in faith. That's not gospel. Whole milk. My dad calls it sweet
milk. When he comes to our house, he
requests sweet milk. Thank you. You old country folks
know what that is. That means I want it all in there.
I want the cream in there. Don't skim the cream off. Give
me the cream. You get the cream here. You get
whole milk. This is necessary food, nutritious food, and it's
miraculous food. It's miraculous. Isn't it miraculous
how a child is sustained by that which flows from its mother?
Isn't that amazing? Huh? Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? Well folks, that's exactly how
we live. That's exactly how. Turn with
me. If you've never seen this, you'll know. Isaiah 66. Look
at this. Isaiah 66. Yes, we're in a land
flowing with milk. Flowing with milk from God himself,
from the breasts of God. I didn't make that up. Look at
it. Isaiah 66, verse 9. Read it with
me. and rejoice. Shall I bring to
the birth and not cause to bring forth? God has no stillborn children
or deformed children. They're all complete. They're
all born alive, and they're all perfect in Christ. All right. I could stay here an hour. Go
on. Saith the Lord, shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb,
saith thy God? Oh, God doesn't bring you here
to hear the gospel only to tell you that you can't have it. No. That's why you're here, to hear
the good news. You want to believe that, would
you? Believe it. That's why you're
here. You wouldn't be here if it wasn't so. Christ said, if
it were not so, I don't care. I wouldn't have called you to
hear it. All right? Read on. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem. And be glad with her. This is
where we're at, folks. Read it with me. Rejoice. This is Jerusalem. This
is New Jerusalem. Everybody in here's a Jew. Be
glad with her. All ye that love her. You do,
don't you? You love God's church. Rejoice
for joy with her. All ye that mourn for her. That
ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations. What is that? There's two of
them. Old and new. Just choose one. It's full of
milk. That you may milk out how much
you want, how long you want to nurse. Milk out. Be delighted. Are you delighted
in this? Isn't it delightful? Just simply delightful with the
abundance of her glory. God's Word is his glory. For
thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like
a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then shall you be born upon her
side. We were brought up here. Our
children are being brought up here. Oh, my. Someone said it's the
greatest blessing on a church when the children of children,
the Lord redeems them. My, my. You shall be born upon
her sides, be dandled upon her knees, as one whom his mother
comforteth, so will I comfort you. You shall be comforted in
Jerusalem. When you see this, your heart's
going to rejoin you. Bones, you'll have good bones.
Did you hear that? Where's Lauren? She's studying
down there. Good bones, that's what milk
gives you, good bones. Good bones, good skeleton, good
framework. You'll flourish like an herb,
and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants,
and his enignation toward his enemies. So what God tells us
there with this milk that you get from our heavenly parent
is going to be satisfaction. When a child's nursing, they're
so satisfied, aren't they? They do good and, you know, making
all these little sounds. And I hear some out of you, what
I can't hear. I hear them every now and then. Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm. Huh? Right? And dandled. After dandled
on the knee, you know, you're so happy. I need Jeanette up there to tell
us about this grandbaby. Like a cackling baby, delighted,
comforted. Comforted. Till you, can I say this? Till
you burp out. Amen. Oh, that was good. That
burp is sure a sign. That was good. And your bones are going to flourish.
Oh, desire the sincere milk of the word, child of God, that
you may grow thereby. Open your mouth. Just open your
mouth. And honey. Honey. Psalm 119. You know these verses. I'll just give you one. Psalm
119. You know there's nothing sweeter on earth than honey.
There's nothing. And like I said, Wesley, I don't
give a flip what they say. I eat honey. I love honey. And I believe God would sustain
me on strictly on honey and locusts. Yes, sir. And it's significant that this
modern generation says those things bad for you because they
don't pay attention to God's word. That's very significant,
very telling. But to those who truly tasted
the good word of God. It's sweeter. It's even sweeter than honey. Psalm 119, 103. David says this
often, and he knew. In 103, David said, How sweet
are thy words to my taste. Oh, yea, sweeter than honey to
my mouth. Sweeter than honey. My dad likes
the honeycomb. Do you like the honeycomb? I
never did like it. It's kind of like wax, you know.
I never would go away. But that's a good picture, isn't
it? Now you can chew on this word
as long as you want to and get something from it. He'll never
go away. Like an old cow chewing his cud.
They seem so content, don't they? They eat a while and then they
just sit down there and chew on it. And bring it back up and chew it
again. That's what we need to do. Get all that we can out of
it. How sweet it is. Old child of
God. What a land we live in. Are you convinced that we're
already there? Uh-huh. You will be when you leave here.
Thank God for Christ our Redeemer. Thank God for His sovereign electing
grace and choosing us and bringing us here and bringing us out of
Egypt into this land that's flowing with All right, stand with me. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. It is indeed sweet and fulfilling. We thank you for it. We ask that
you would give us a hunger and a thirst for it, a desire for
this sincere, pure, life-giving, sustaining milk. Lord, may we
truly. I am consolation from your word. It is full. We need it. Thank you for it. Bless your
people. In Christ's name, amen. You're
dismissed. Okay. you All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Okay. Thank you. uh... uh... I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know. you Thank you very much. Okay. you. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh huh. Uh huh. you

A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

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What does it mean for God to bring His people into a land flowing with milk and honey?

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