Alright, let's look back at Matthew
chapter 22. Matthew chapter 22. I've entitled this message this
morning, the question of all questions. The question of all
questions. And of course you can tell that
question that I'm going to be dealing with is in verse 42 of
Matthew 22. where the Lord posed this question
saying, what think ye of Christ? Now the Bible's full of questions,
important questions, questions that people ought to be asking,
but are not. And here our Lord was confronted
by different factions in the Jewish religion, in the Jewish
nation, and they had their questions. And basically their questions
are like most questions that people without the wisdom of
God, without the grace of God, without the guidance of God deal
with, and useless questions. Questions about the afterlife,
questions about the law, things like that. And our Lord answered
them, each one, masterfully. I mean, he's wisdom incarnate. They were trying to trap him.
You know, a lot of times a person will come to you and try to ask
you questions with the intent not of getting information, or
not with the idea of finding out about you, but with trying
to trap you. And that's what these men were
doing. You had different sects here, different factions here. You had those Jews who were loyal
to Herod and to Rome, called the Herodians. You had the Pharisees. The Pharisees, they would represent
the conservative religious faction. They were the taste not, touch
not, handle not guys, you know. Very conservative, the fundamentalist
of their day. Then you had the Sadducees. They
were the liberal wing of the religion. They were the ones
who were in control of the temple. They were political, very politically
oriented. And they each had their questions.
But then the Lord, it says in verse 41, and the Pharisees,
after the Sadducees finished with him and he put them to silence,
the Pharisees were glad. Oh, he got them, didn't he? Boy, he really told you fellas
off. And so then they come with their questions. And so it says
in verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus
asked them. Now he turned on them and asked
them a question. And he says, saying, What think
ye of Christ? That Christ there. Now let me
tell you something about this. It's very fundamental. Most of
you know this. I'm not trying to insult your intelligence.
But Jesus Christ, we see Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ,
the name Lord. That's Jehovah, Savior. Jehovah, our Savior. That's what
that name means. And if you see that usually in
the King James versions of the Bible that we mostly have, you'll
see those, when that's written out, it'll be in all capital
letters. L-O-R-D, all capital. And that's Jehovah. There are
other words that are translated Lord in small letters. One of
them means Master, and it's very significant to this passage here.
the master, and that can sometimes be applied to men. But now this
name Lord, Jehovah, that can only be applied to one who is
God. And then we talk about the name
Jesus. Now there are different forms of Jesus in the Old and
the New Testament. You might hear on TV a lot of
them use the term Yeshua. That's Joshua. And that's the
Old Testament form of the name Jesus. And again, it means Jehovah
Savior. That's what the name actually
means. Now the name Lord, which I mentioned before, that would
be Yahweh. That's the covenant keeping God.
And then Jesus, Jehovah Savior. It's all together, it's one who
is God. His name shall be called Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins. Savior. We're
studying in the book of Hosea in our evening services. Hosea
is a form of that word Savior. And then Joshua, as I said. And
then Christ. He says, what think ye of Christ?
Christ literally means anointed one. It's the Messiah. It's his title. It's not his
last name. His name, his earthly name would
be Jesus bar Joseph. That would be his earthly name.
Jesus, son of Joseph. That's what bar means in the
Jewish language. Son of. Jesus, son of Joseph. Yeshua,
son of Yosef. And so Jesus Christ, Christ isn't
his last name. Christ identifies him as Messiah. The one sent, anointed of God
and sent into the world to perform a task. And so, what he's asking
him there in this question is, what think ye of Messiah? What's your thoughts concerning
the Messiah? Now, there are thoughts of the
Messiah like people's today. I mean, it goes all over the
map. Who is the Messiah? Who is Jesus Christ? Their main thoughts of the Messiah
would run something like this. Well, he's God who will come
in the clouds and someday, and conquer all the enemies of Israel
and take up residence in the temple and pat us on the back
and say, well done, you faithful servants. You've been faithful
to me all these years. and will be his sergeants, his
lieutenants, and will be second in command. Now that was basically
their thoughts of the Messiah. He's going to come and conquer
Rome, conquer all our enemies, set up his earthly rule in the
temple, and rule from Jerusalem, his chosen people. Well, that
doesn't sound too different from much theology that I hear preached
today about his second coming. And of course, his second coming
will be a triumphant, powerful, judgmental coming. He will come
in the clouds. And he will gather his people
unto himself. And he will judge his enemies.
But see, this is what Messiah meant to them. And that's why
when they looked upon Jesus of Nazareth, they could not see
him as the Messiah. They couldn't see that. That
just didn't make sense to them. He was, he had, listen, can anything
good come out of Nazareth? That's what they would say. He's
the Messiah, he's the king of kings, he's God in human flesh. He's a carpenter, son, we know
you. We know where you come from. You're Joseph's son. That's what
they would say. What did Isaiah 53 say about
him? He was a man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief. We esteemed him not. We esteemed
him stricken of men, stricken of God rather. He grew up as
a tender plant. This is not the white horse coming
down out of the clouds carrying the vengeful God who will destroy
all of our enemies and vindicate us because we've been so faithful.
And then, one who died on a cross, suffered, bled, and died on a
cross, he's the Messiah? He is God in human flesh? Come
on now, that doesn't make sense. You see, this was all contrary
to their natural religious views of Messiah. And so he asked them,
what think ye of Messiah? What think ye of Christ? I was
listening to a man this morning who was talking about a question
in the Bible when Paul and Silas were in jail at Philippi. And
as you know what happened, they were in jail rejoicing in the
Lord, singing his praises and praying. And then an earthquake
come, God sent an earthquake and he opened the jail doors
and the Philippian jailer, who was a servant of Rome, he was
gonna kill himself because he thought they were all gonna escape
and that was the penalty that he would be killed. So he thought
he would just beat them to the punch. And Paul told him, he
says, don't do that. He said, we're not gonna run,
we're right here. And that's an amazing thing, isn't it? I
mean, we'd have turned tail and run quick, wouldn't we? Paul
said, no, we're not going to run. This is of the Lord. And
the Philippian jailer asked him this question, what must I do
to be saved? That's a great question. And
of course, Paul preached the word of God to him. And I'm sure
what he told him, based upon Paul's writings, that believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And of course,
to believe on Christ is to rest in Christ for all forgiveness.
and all righteousness, and all glory, and all eternal life.
Rest in Him. Rest in Him. He is our salvation. He is the Lord, our righteousness. And the man said, who was preaching,
he said, you know, that's the most important question you can
ask. And you know, I agree with that.
But now, if that's the most important question you can ask, Here is
the most important question that can be asked of you. What think
ye of Christ? What think ye of Christ? Now
listen to what he says here. Look at verse 42. It says, saying,
What think ye of Christ? This is the question. Whose son
is he? Whose son is the Messiah? And
remember, they would say to Jesus, they'd say, you're Joseph's son.
He said, well, whose son is he? Well, here's their answer. Now
look at verse 42. It says, they say unto him, the son of David. He's David's son. Now let me
tell you something. They spoke correctly. They weren't
wrong in their answer. I mean, if you were a teacher
and you were given a fill in the blank test and they put David
in the blank, you'd have to give them credit. But did they understand
what they were saying? No, and what follows shows you
that. Now listen to, is it important
that we understand? You know, salvation is not a
fill-in-the-blank test. Is it important that we know
something about what this means? And it is. Now let me show you
why. Look at verse 43. He saith unto them, how then
doth David in spirit, now that would literally be better translated
by the spirit, meaning the Holy Spirit. And here's what he's
saying, he goes back to King David and he says, how then doth
King David, by the Holy Spirit, call him Lord? Saying, the Lord
said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand till I make thine
enemies thy footstool. Now, verse 45, if David then
call him Lord, that's master, How is he his son? How is he David's son? How can
he be both David's Lord, David's master, and David's son? Because that doesn't make sense
to the natural man. I mean, you fathers, I hope you
don't go around calling your sons master. And if you do, there's something
wrong. Isn't that right? I hope your son is the one who
calls you master. I don't literally, you know what
I'm saying. I hope that you're the authority in your home and
that your son obeys your word and not you his. Now all too
often in our day, it's the other way around, I know, but that's
not the way it should be. So how did David call him Lord
and master? if he's David's son, David's
offspring, David's seed. Well, look at verse 46. And no
man was able to answer him a word. They didn't know. Neither durst,
that means dared, neither dared any from that day forth ask him
any more questions. They said, well, we're gonna
stop asking him questions. It's just not working out for
us. You know how it is. I'll tell you how you can get
people to stop asking you questions. You may not want them to stop
asking you questions. Foolish questions. How about that? Just
take them to the scriptures and they'll stop. Unless, unless
they want to hear what God's word says. Now, if they don't
want to hear what God's word says, then they'll say, well,
this isn't working out for me. You're not telling me what I
want to hear. But they stopped. Now these men who didn't know
the answer and dare not ask him any more questions, you've got
to understand who these fellows were now. These weren't just,
as Henry used to say, they didn't ride into town on the back of
a turnip truck. These were the religious leaders,
teachers, the students of scripture. These are the ones of whom it
was said by Christ, he says, you do indeed outwardly appear
righteous unto men. These are the ones, and over
in chapter 23, I'm gonna deal with some of that next week.
Over in chapter 23, he really showed what they were. He calls
them hypocrites, but he said in John chapter five, he says,
you do search the scriptures, for in them you think you have
eternal life. He said, they are they which testify of me. And
he asked these men, what think ye of Christ? What do you think
about the Messiah? These were the seminary graduates.
These were the masters of divinity, as men would call them today,
the THDs and the PhDs. These were the ones who the people
in mass followed for religious wisdom and teaching and guidance. And they didn't know the answer. to one of the most fundamental
issues of salvation, of Scripture. What think ye of Christ? Whose
son is he? Well, he's David's son. The Bible teaches he's David's
son. Back over in 2 Samuel chapter
7, you don't have to turn there, when God made a covenant with
the earthly King David. He said, David, upon your throne,
there's going to be an everlasting throne, it's going to be an everlasting
throne, and your seed is going to sit on that throne. Who was
he talking about? He wasn't talking about an earthly
king, he was talking about Messiah, David's son. And then he's called
the son of David all through in Psalm 89, the covenant Psalm,
he's called the son of David, the Messiah is. He's identified
as the son of David. You remember blind Bartimaeus,
when he cried out to be healed of his blindness, you remember
what he said? Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. He's the son of David. Messiah
is the son of David. They all knew that, that was
just common knowledge. Even today, even today, if you
ask a devout Jew, Who Messiah is, I just about guarantee you
the first thing that'll come out of his mouth or soon after
is son of David. And here's what they say, he's
going to reestablish David's throne right here in Jerusalem
and rule from this temple. That's what they say. Now I'm
gonna deal with some of those things if you're interested.
In fact, this is what this message, I really didn't plan to preach
this message this morning, I was gonna deal with some of that,
but I wanna lay the foundation right here, because let me tell
you something, Christ is the foundation of all truth. And
if you don't come full swing, face-to-face with yourself. And
if I don't do it with myself on what I really think of Christ,
I can talk to you about millenniums and raptures and all that stuff
till I'm blue in the face and it will do you absolutely no
good. You can mark it down. What think
ye of Christ? Let me tell you something. Whatever
we go through here in November 2010 on to the rest of the time
that God allows us to be here, Whatever happens, if Christ comes
in my lifetime, if He does not come in my lifetime, this is
the question of all questions right here. What do I think of
Christ? That's right. And if this isn't
settled, you can forget everything else. It means nothing as far
as your salvation. is identified in the scripture
not only as David's son, but as in Isaiah 55, the sure mercies
of David. The sure mercies of David, David's
greater son, Christ himself. And he'll rule in an everlasting
kingdom and he himself, now I want you to think about this. You
remember he stood before Pilate and Pilate began to question
him like an unbeliever would. What is truth? See, to unbelievers,
truth is not absolute. and doesn't find its definition
in God. To an unbeliever, truth is relative.
What is truth? You know, what's true for you
may not be true for me, and what's true for me may not be true for
you, and we've got a couple of hundred different truths around
here this morning. And so every man for himself. Just do your
own thing. You see, that's modern philosophy.
That's what that is. But you see, Christ said this. He said, I am the way, I am the
truth, I am the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by
me." Are you looking for truth? What think ye of Christ? That's
the truth. But he stood before Pilate and
he said, Pilate, he said, you couldn't lift a finger against
me, you couldn't do one thing against me except my Father which
is in heaven gave you that authority and power. Do you understand the astounding
nature of that truth? We live in a world where men
think that they can alter God's will and God's ways with just
their wills, their whims. And our Lord stood before Pilate,
who at that time was the most powerful man in Judea, even more
powerful than Herod. Herod was a king, but he was
a conquered king. Pilate was the representative
of Caesar, who to Rome was God. And he said, Pilate, you couldn't
do a thing to me except my father gave you that power. And then he told him, he said,
I want you to know, he said, well, are you a king? He said,
my kingdom is not of this world. Mark that down in your brain,
what the Lord said there. Everybody talks about him setting
up an earthly throne. He said, my kingdom's not of
this world. He told his disciples, the kingdom of heaven is within
you. He'd already established the
kingdom by his cross, by his finished work on the cross. And
he said, my kingdom's not of this world. But he's the son
of David. Christ asked him this, and you
know, he said, Here he said, well then how could David by
the Spirit of God call him Lord and Master? And then he quoted
from Psalm 110. Now sometime, let's go back there,
Psalm 110. This is where the Lord himself
quoted from. It's a messianic psalm, it's
a psalm of the Messiah. And you know what I want to tell
you, this is the most quoted psalm in the New Testament. It's
a short Psalm, seven verses. It's called a Psalm of David.
David wrote it. The Holy Spirit wrote it by David,
that's what happened. And it says in Psalm 110, the
Lord, that's Jehovah, that's Yahweh, that's the covenant-keeping
God, said unto my Lord, that's the word for master. And here's
talking about the covenant relationship between God the Father and God
the Son. And he says, sit thou at my right
hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. This speaks of
the exaltation of this one whom David called Lord. He's going
to sit down. Sit thou. You know why he's going
to sit? Because his work's done. This
is a prophecy of Christ who came and obeyed The law unto the death
of the cross finished the work. He said it's finished, John 19.30.
He made an end of sin, finished the transgression, brought in
everlasting righteousness. He redeemed His people from their
sins. That's who He is. He redeemed
us. He drank damnation dry. He was
made sin, Christ who knew no sin for us that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. He established an everlasting
righteousness of infinite value whereby God could be just and
yet be merciful to sinners like me and like you. So he's gonna
sit down. And where's he gonna sit? At
my right hand. That's the right hand of authority. Now the only one who would sit
down at the right hand of God himself is one who is God. You remember when the disciples
were arguing in Matthew chapter 18 over who would sit on his
right hand and who would sit on his left hand? And basically
when the Lord, he come to him, he said, oh my soul, you've got
this all wrong. Basically, his answer was, none
of you are going to sit on his right hand or his left hand unless
you become his little children, he said. Humbled. You're going
to sit at his feet. That's what he meant there. Like
Mary, sit at his feet. That's where we're gonna sit
for eternity, so to speak. At his feet. It's not gonna be,
well, old pastor so and so, he's been in this thing for a hundred
years and been faithful. Look how many people follow him.
I know he's gonna be the closest to the throne in glory. Oh no.
Where are our thoughts coming from? Listen, I'm not gonna be closer
to God in glory than you are. You know how close we all are
going to be to God? We're gonna be in Christ. That's
as close as we, how much closer you wanna get? He is God in human
flesh. But now this person, he's gonna
sit at the right hand of God because he is God. That's the
right hand of authority. Nobody's got that kind of authority
but God. And it's the right hand of judgment. The right hand of judgment, he's
been judged and found not guilty. Now how is that possible? Because
he died. He shed his blood as the complete
payment for all the sins of all his people. In other words, you
could say it this way, he did his time. He did it on the cross. And what does that mean for me
and you who are in him? It means there's therefore now
no condemnation to them who are in Christ. That means our sins
are washed away. We stand righteous before God,
not chargeable. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's the right hand of judgment.
And that's the right hand of acceptance. The Father accepted
him. And you know what? We who are
in him, he accepts us too. We're accepted in the beloved.
Now let me show you something here. When he says, sit thou
at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool,
that shows us this, that there is absolutely, we have absolutely
no authority without Christ. Anything I say to you in preaching
has absolutely no authority except as it is in Christ, the right
hand of authority. So that if I speak not according
to this word, there's no light in me. Whatever advice I give
you, whatever thing I say to you, whatever gospel I preach
to you, it has no authority except as it is in Christ. And then
there's no salvation except as we find it in Christ. He's been
judged for my sins. Now, if he wasn't judged for
my sins, then my sins are still charged to me and I'm still held
accountable for them. And you know what that means
for me? That means death, eternal death. So without Christ, there
is no salvation for me. And then without Christ, there
is no acceptance before me. I have no righteousness without
Him. I have no holiness without Him.
I have no goodness without Him. In other words, without Him,
I'm nothing less than nothing. That's what I'm saying. And then he talks about that
in Psalm 110. You can read the rest of it. He says, the Lord
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion. That's Christ. Rule
thou in the midst of thine enemies. Look at this, verse three, thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Whenever his
power comes to his people, you know what? They're made willing. Willing to what? Willing to submit
to him. Willing to come to him. Willing
to bow to him. Willing to trust him. and follow Him. And they're made
willing in their heart. It's not just beat down and forced.
He changes the heart. He gives us a new heart, the
Scripture says. That's what He does. And it's
in the beauties of holiness, His holiness. From the womb of
the morning, thou hast the due of youth. The Lord hath sworn
and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Paul explains that in Hebrews,
talking about the eternal priesthood of Christ. He stands as my Lord
and my Savior and my advocate and my surety forever and forever
and forever and forever. My identity is with Him and in
Him. My life and well-being is in
him and with him. My glory is him, not my own,
it's him. And he says in verse five, the
Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day
of his wrath. There's no victory over our enemies. You remember
back here he said, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
There's no victory over enemies without him. And that includes
the enemy of sin and the enemy of Satan and the enemy of death
and the grave. There's no victory without Christ. Verse six, he shall judge among
the heathen. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies.
That's his judgment against sin. Sin demands death. He shall wound
the heads over many countries. They may be powerful here today,
but when he comes again, that's it. And he says in verse seven,
he shall drink of the brook in the way. Brother James preached
on that, the brook Kidron. That's talking about how he walked
through that dirty brook as he walked through sinful humanity.
and went to the cross to die for our sins. And therefore shall
he lift up the head." In other words, that's a victory for him.
There's no victory without Christ. Now that's what he quoted from
here over here in Matthew 22. And let me put it to you this
way. Now listen to what he's saying again. He says, he says,
verse 43, how then doth David by the Spirit call him Lord,
saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand
till I make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then called
him Lord, how is he his son? You know what he's asking there
essentially is this. How could he be both David's
God and Savior and David's offspring? How could he be both? Well, what's
the answer to that? Well, let me tell you what the
answer is. He's both. He is both David's God, David's
Savior, and David's offspring. Now let me show you that. Turn
to Romans chapter 1. Here's your answer to this question. How can he be both? They didn't
know. These masters of Israel didn't
know how that's possible. And listen to me now. When you
find the answer here, there's a lot of things that's going
to amaze you. And it's gonna rack your brain, as they say.
That's okay. But here is the answer. Look
at verse one of Romans chapter one. Here's the answer. He says,
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated
unto the gospel of God, which he had promised afore or before
by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. Verse three, concerning his son,
Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh. That's how. That speaks of what? That speaks of Christ's sinless
humanity. Sinless humanity. He is man,
every bit man, everything that man is in human flesh without
sin. He was not born of Adam, of the
seed of man. He was called the seed of woman
in Genesis 3.15. He was born of a virgin, conceived
in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit. That holy thing is what
the angel called him. And that wasn't a derogatory
remark to call him a holy thing. It's just simply indicating how
unique and special he is. There's no word for it. We call
it the incarnation. From the word carnal, which means
flesh, we usually think of that as sinful, but that's speaking
of Christ's flesh, his humanity, body and soul, without sin. And
the angel came along and told Joseph, he said, you shall call
his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. Not try. And then later on in
verse 23 of Matthew 1, he said, his name shall be called Emmanuel,
which being interpreted, God is God with us. Look at verse
4, Romans 1, and declared. Now remember he was made to be
the seed of David according to the flesh. That word made there
is created. His holy humanity was created. He didn't bring
it with him. It was conceived in the womb of the virgin by
the Holy Spirit. But now he was declared to be
the son of God. He wasn't created to be the son
of God. He wasn't like the Mormons say.
He wasn't created and then evolve into a son of God. That's blasphemy. If that's what you think of Christ,
you don't think much of him. You understand what I'm saying?
He was declared to be the son of God. It was a declaration
according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the
dead. That's his deity. Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6
put it this way. It says, for unto us a child
is born. That's his humanity, the son
of David, the seed of David. Unto us a child is born. Unto
us a son is given. The son wasn't born. He was given. He had no beginning and no end.
He's the great I Am. He's God in human flesh. Now what do you think of him? You say, well, I don't think
much of him. Well, that's your problem. Well, there's a lot of ways we
figure out we can know what we really think of him. What are
your thoughts of Christ? Listen to this. Brother Mayhem
preached this and I wrote it down. He said a man's salvation,
a man's redemption, a man's relationship with Almighty God, a man's future,
his eternal well-being can be gauged by what he thinks of Christ. Think about that. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians
16, 22, if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
anathema maranatha. You know what that anathema maranatha
means? It means let him be condemned. Now come on, Holy Spirit. Come
Christ, that's what he's talking about, and judge the world. Do
I really love Christ? That's the question. What do
I think of Christ? Do I really love Christ? Now,
I didn't ask, and I want to caution myself and all of us on this,
I didn't ask, do I love Christ perfectly? Because I don't. And you don't. Look back at Matthew
22 there. Hear this? Lawyer, now a lawyer
back then was one who dealt with the scriptures. Wasn't like an
attorney. And he says, what's the greatest
commandment? Verse 36, and he said, love, thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. The second is like
unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. That's perfect
love. That's what the law commands and demands. I know we don't love Christ perfectly.
We don't love our neighbor perfectly, but do we love him at all? That's
the question. It is my heart fixed on Christ
and Him crucified and risen again. The Bible says in Proverbs 23
and verse 7, for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Well,
what think ye of Christ? Christ spoke of those who draw
nigh unto Him with their mouth and honor Him with their lips,
but their heart is far from Him, He said. Proverbs 23 and verse
26 that I read at the opening said, my son, give me thine heart. That's what he wants. Matthew
chapter six and verse 21, for where your treasure is, that's
the most valuable thing you can think of, your treasure. That's
what you value more than anything else in life, in death, judgment,
anywhere. For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also. What think ye of Christ? What
do you think of His person and His glory? Who is He? What did
He do? Why did He do it? Where is He
now? Who is He? He's God in human flesh. He's
God in human flesh. Who is He? He's my Savior. He's
my Redeemer. He's the Lord, my righteousness.
He's my all and in all. Without Him, I'm nothing. I'm
doomed, damned forever without Him. What did he do? He accomplished my redemption
full and free. He finished the work. He didn't
ask me if he could do it and he didn't even ask me if I accepted
it. He just did it. And he said,
all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. He is my redemption. He is my surety. Why did he do
that? For the glory of his Father.
That's why he did it. and the good of his people. Where
is he now? He died, he was buried, he arose
again the third day. He's not a dead martyr. Don't
be looking for his grave and don't be fooled by people selling
pieces of the cross. It's nothing. It's damnable.
He's in heaven, seated at the right hand of his father, ever
living to make intercession for me. He saved me, he keeps me,
he blesses me out of his fullness and his mercy, and he'll bring
me to glory. He's Lord, He's sovereign. Do
you love Christ? Well, I'll tell you, if you love
Him, you'll love His sovereignty. You know, a lot of people, they
bow up in rebellion against His sovereignty. I love the fact
that my Savior and my God is sovereign over all things, that
He works all things after the counsel of His own will. I don't
understand all of that, but I'll tell you what, I love it. I'd
rather Him be in charge than you be or me. We'd mess it up. We have messed
it up. He's God in human flesh. He's
the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He's the Messiah of the covenant.
He's my surety, my substitute. He's the fulfillment of God's
purpose and grace and love. There's no love from God without
Christ. Do you realize that? What think
ye of Him? Without Christ, there is no love
from God. Mark it down. There's only wrath
and judgment against sin. He's the seed of all mercy, my
substitute, my sin bearer, my sin offering. He's the sovereign
Savior who put away all the sins of all His people for all time.
He's the risen Lord, my righteousness. He's the way, the truth, the
life. He's the one who ever lives to make intercession and stands
as my advocate that when I sin, I have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the righteous. He's the one who'll never leave
me nor forsake me. He's the one who gave me life,
spiritual life. and who keeps me faithful. He's
the one who keeps me to the end. He's the one who rules and disposes
over all things for the glory of God and the good of his people.
He's the one who's coming again to gather his church and to judge
the world. Oh, that I may be found in him,
not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ. What think ye of Christ? What do you think of his truth
and his word? When the multitudes turned away
from him and went back, he asked his disciples, will you go away
also? And Peter said, speaking for all of them, he said, to
whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. How much do you love and value
Christ? Well, the Bible says, under you
therefore which believe, he is precious. He is precious. What do you think of Christ?
Is He a sideline? Can you take Him or leave Him?
Can you take His Word or leave His Word? Oh, I can live with
it, I can live without it, it doesn't much matter either way,
huh? Is that what you think of Him? Well, to His people, He's
everything. He's my all and end all. And
without Him... I'm going to tell you something,
if you ever come to know Him, and ever experience the love
of God in Christ, You realize that without Him, there really
is no reason to live. Isn't that right? That's how
precious He is. He is my life. Thank you, Christ.