Our Lord Jesus Christ says here
in verse twenty-seven, All things are delivered unto
me of my Father. And no man knows the Son, but
the Father. Neither knows any man the Father,
only the Son. And if you know the Father, It'll
be the Son that will reveal Him to you, whomsoever the Son will
reveal Him. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ just
pronounced woe upon all these cities. He said, you know, if I'd have
been in Sodom and seen the things that are done in Sodom, if you
all had been there, and you were Sodom, and I'd have done the
things, Sodom would have remained as it is today. So he pronounced
all these judgments on these places, and then he turned around
and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that
you hid these things from them. You hid them from them. But you
revealed them unto babes, because it seemed good in your sight.
It seemed good in your sight. And then he turns around and
says this, the only reason nobody knows me and knows the Father,
and don't know the Fathers, because I haven't revealed them. I haven't
revealed them. So we see the grace and glory
of Christ here in revealing His Father to whosoever He will. Now, that's what I love about
it. That's what I love about it,
the fact that God will never be in debt to anybody. And nobody
will ever know who God is if Christ don't make Him known to
them. Now, that's just the way it is. That's just the way it
is. And I'll tell you this, I know
this, that the love that we have for the Lord Jesus Christ and
the confidence that we have in Him will be in direct proportion
or in accordance with the knowledge and apprehension we have of Him.
The more we know Him, the more we'll love Him. The more we know
about Him, the more we love Him. And I also know this, that the
more we know about Him, the more we want to know about Him. The
more we apprehend of Him, the more we want to apprehend of
Him. Paul said, I've not arrived yet. He said, I know Christ.
I've counted all things but a loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ. But he said, I've not arrived yet. I've not attained.
I've not apprehended. And so, you know, when the scripture
said, Peter says, grow in grace and knowledge, knowledge of grace
and knowledge of what? Just grow in grace and knowledge
for the sake of growing in grace and knowledge. But no, grow in
grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I know that
the scriptures are full of hymns. This Bible, and I've heard it
said so many times, this Bible is a hymn book. H-I-M, capital
H, capital I, capital M. Hymn book, Christ book. And the
scriptures are full of hymns. They describe hymns that we might
have a greater knowledge of hymns. That's why this Bible's given
to us, and God blessed us with it, that we might have a greater
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Himself says, Thirst
the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, for
they are they which testify of me. He says, if you'd believe
Moses, they said, you know, Moses, we believe Moses. We believe
what Moses has to say. We love Moses. We love the Lord.
We love what he said. He said, I'll tell you this,
if you'd believe Moses, you'd believe me. And I'll tell you
why you'd believe me. Because Moses wrote about me.
Moses wrote of me. And I tell you, the scripture
says that he is the brightness of God's glory in the express
image of his person. And God in time past spake unto
the fathers by the prophets. And he spake in different ways.
Sometimes he spoke in dreams, sometimes he spoke in vision,
sometimes he gave signs, but he says now, in the last days,
he's spoken one way, and that's by his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you go through the Scriptures,
look at all the things he's told us about. He's called the Bread
of Life. Oh, we love bread. We love bread,
and some beds are like that, and this is the Bread of Life.
not just bread, the bread of life. And then he's called the
water of life. So if you eat him, you have life,
water of life. He's called the light. Why is
he called the light? To keep us out of darkness, to
save us from darkness, so we won't walk in darkness as we
look to him. He's called the way, And if you
follow Him, you'll always be in the right way. He's called
the truth, as opposed to lies and deception and hypocrisy. And the only way we'll know the
truth is to know Him. And He's called the life. And
the only way we'll have life, the quality of life, eternal
life, to enjoy God, is to know Christ. And He Himself said,
I have come to save my people, from their sins. Nobody else
ever said that. Save them from their sins. As
some say, they come save them from hell, they come save them
from their troubles, come save their marriage, come save them
from their financial problems. But Christ said, I came to save
from their sin. That's our problem, sin. He's
called the shepherd of his sheep. He's called the lamb of God. In fact, He says He is God. And, oh, beloved, the Scriptures
give us a knowledge, talking about knowing Him. You know,
in our Lord Jesus Christ says, neither knows any man the Father
save the Son, and He, too, so ever revealed. And Christ is
telling us here that I have this knowledge. And the Scriptures
give us a knowledge of His sufferings. not only of his person, but of
his sufferings. And why did he give us a knowledge
of his sufferings? That we might be saved from our
sins, delivered from our sins, saved from our unbelief, saved
from our fears, saved from our anxieties because of that. And
beloved, that soul, that soul that has been brought to fill
their need of a Savior, fill their need of a Savior, And I
tell you, beloved, I need saving. I need thee, I need thee. Oh,
blessed God, I need thee. Every hour I need you. Every
moment I need you. Every day I need you. I need
you when I'm asleep. I need you when I'm awake. I
need you when I'm eating. I need you when I'm resting.
I need you, I need you, I need you. And that soul that's been
brought to feel its need of a Savior, that's been brought to trust
Him, They know that the person with whom they trust their soul
with must have three things. Three things. First, he has to
have the power to save. There's a Jesus being preached
today that does not have the power to save unless you cooperate with him,
unless you let him. But the one, when you feel your
need of a Savior, you need one that you know has got the power
to save you, because you know you don't have any power. That
you're unable, that you're weak, and you're helpless, and you
need Him. And secondly, you know this, that He must have the authority
to save you. Jeremiah didn't have any
authority to save. Moses couldn't save anybody.
Noah didn't save anybody. The Popes never saved anybody.
So he has to have the authority to save. And secondly, thirdly, he must
have the intention to save. If he don't have the power, he
can have the intention, and he wouldn't do anybody any good.
He can have the intention and not have the authority, and we
still would be in the same boat. And that's all that anybody has
today is a Jesus who has just the intention to save, and he
can't save because you have the power and you don't have the
authority. But I got news for you. The soul that trusts and
knows Christ, he has the power, he has the authority, and he
has the intention. And that's what he tells us right
here. He comes, descends here and teaches us in verse 27 by
his word that all three of these things belong to him. He said,
first of all, all things are delivered unto me of my Father.
That means he's got all the power. Isn't that right? And secondly,
he said, all authority belongs unto me. I have the authority
to say. He said, again, all things are
delivered unto me of my Father. So He has all the power and He
has all the authority. He says, here's the Father in
glory with all the power and authority vested in God Himself. And He said, here He gave it
all to me. He gave me all the power to do what I will when
I want to. And He gave me all the authority
to do what I want to while I'm in this world. All things. Now, what is all things? Does
that leave anything that's not a thing? And then not only that,
but he has the intention to save. Look what it says here. And he
said in the middle of the verse, No man knows the Son, but the
Father. Neither knows any man the Father,
only the Son, and He to Whomsoever He revealed Him. He came to reveal
His Father. He came to reveal His Father.
And that's why he says in the next verse, he says, therefore,
since all things are delivered unto me, I've got all the power,
I've got all the authority, I've got the intention. Therefore,
come unto me. Come unto me. And oh, look at
here at his grace towards sinners. He says, you know that the Father
has revealed this unto babes. And here's the Lord Jesus Christ's
power here and what his grace towards us is. First of all,
to reveal God. He says, you know, no man knows
the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him. Our Lord came here to reveal God. To reveal and give the knowledge
of the Father. And He does this to whomsoever
He will. Now, what He's talking about
here, I'm going to make you know my Father. I'm going to reveal
the Father. What He's talking about here, it means more than
just a knowledge of knowing there is a God. It's more than that. It's much, much more than that,
knowing that there is a God. Most people would be offended
and be aggravated, and even so much as tell you they would,
if you told them that they were ignorant of God. But oh, there's
so much ignorance of God in this world. So much ignorance of God
Himself. I mean, all you've got to do
is just listen to a person talk about God just a few minutes
and you know immediately that they're ignorant of God. They're
ignorant of His holiness, ignorant of His righteousness, ignorant
of His justice, ignorant of His sovereignty, ignorant of God
sitting on His throne with all power and authority. with all,
everybody, and you know, the God that holds this universe
in the hall of His hands, that inhabits all eternity. He's not
just a little bitty God that Brother Henry used to say is
like a peanut rolling around in a boxcar. No, we're talking about a God
that, they say, you know, He created the universe and the
universe in Him. That's not true. I mean, beloved, the universe
and everything that is, is it him? And oh, and that's what our Lord
says here. Man, if you know people are ignorant of God, and when
they're ignorant of God, they're ignorant of the self, they're
ignorant of the Bible. You know how many preachers get up today
that will not know a thing in the world about the Scriptures? And if you're ignorant of the
scriptures, you've got to be ignorant of Christ, you've got
to be ignorant of sin, you've got to be ignorant of God. Is
that not right? But our Lord here says He didn't
just come to tell us that there is a God. Every Jew that He talked
to and every Jew He preached to believed that there was one
God. The devils believe there's one God and they trim them. But
He didn't come just to tell us. He came to reveal to His people
these babes that He's talking about here. He came to reveal
to His people a knowledge of God that would save them, that
would teach them how to approach Him, how to have a hope in His
blessed mercy, and such a knowledge that they would turn and cry
out, My God, My Father, My Savior, My Redeemer, My hope is in You. That's the knowledge He come
to give us of the Father. And our Lord Jesus Christ in
His incarnation came to give us a two-fold revelation of the
knowledge of His Father, knowledge of God. And how did He do it?
What's this two-fold revelation? First of all, you can only know
God as you know Christ Himself in His person. He came to reveal
God in His person. While His incarnation, while
His on this earth, He came to make His Father known in His
very person. And secondly, He makes His Fathers
known to His people by His Holy Spirit. And oh, let me show you
something. Look over here. If you keep Matthew,
and look over here with me in John 14. I'll show you what I'm
talking about. John chapter 14, verse Verse 5. You know, the Scripture
tells us that he was the brightness of God's glory and expressed
image of his person. So when you looked at Christ,
you saw God, the expressed image of God. And here, look what he
says. Our Lord said he was going away.
And Thomas saith unto him in verse 5, We don't know where
you're going, so how can we know the way? Our Lord said unto him,
I'm the way. to where I'm going. I'm the truth
of where I'm going. I'm the life, and no man comes
unto the Father but by me. Now watch this. If you have known
me, you should all have known my Father also, and from henceforth
you know Him and have seen Him. Philip saith unto Him, Lord,
show us the Father. Reveal to us the Father. Make
us know the Father, and it'll be sufficient for us. That'll
satisfy us, and we'll rest in that. And our Lord said unto
him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not
known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen
the Father. How sayest thou then, Show us
the Father? So you see, he revealed the Father
in his person while he was on his earth. He said, Philip, every
time you looked at me, you seen the Father. Every time you heard
me speak, you heard the words of my Father. Every miracle you
saw me do, it was the work of my Father. Every deed I've done,
it was my Father for His glory. And so, beloved, I know this,
that in creation and in providence, we see so much of God's greatness,
so much of His glory, and His goodness, and His wisdom. But
there's no saving knowledge in creation. There's no saving knowledge
in providence. You can look at the stars till
the cows come off, and you won't see redemption. You won't see salvation. You
won't see your sin. You can look at creation, or
stand at the Grand Canyon, stand on the top of Mount Everest,
and look at all the glory before you. And I tell you something,
there will not be no saving knowledge in that. Well, how in the world
are we going to get saving knowledge? Don't look at creation. Don't
look at Providence. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Look at His blessed person. And if we look to Him in faith,
that's where we get a saving knowledge of God. That's where
we get a saving knowledge. And I tell you, look at Him on
the cross. You want to see Him? You want to see how His Father's
known by Him, how He reveals the Father? Just look at Him
hanging on that cross. If you and I had been there,
and we could have seen this transaction taking place, and if we'd have
been in our right minds, we'd have started asking some questions.
We'll start asking some questions. And that's one thing, bless God,
that the Holy Spirit's done for us, made us start asking questions.
Start asking questions. You look, you want to see, look
at our Lord Jesus hanging on the cross. We'd have asked some
questions. The first question we'd ask was
this, who is this man? Who is this? Who is this on this
middle cross? What has he done that they're
doing him this way? They didn't do the one on the
left the same way. They didn't do the one on the
right the same way. Who is this? What has he done that he has
been treated this way? Why was he scourged with that
cat of nine tails? Why was he wounded in his hands,
in his feet, on his brow, in his side? Why was he beaten to
a bloody pulp? Why was he tormented by the men
as they stood, and the women, and ridiculed him and said, come
down, he saved others, and yet he can't save himself? If you
say you're the Christ, come off that cross and prove it to us.
Why are these men mocking him, spitting at him, cursing at him,
wagging their heads at him? Why are they ridiculing him while
he is suffering? Why doesn't He just come down
and destroy them? And this man hanging there is
the Son of God's love. There's no sin, no guile in Him,
so why is He going through this? I'll tell you why He is. He suffered
these things, and we're talking about revealing the Father, and
He suffered these things as we see Him there in His person.
to reveal to us, first and foremost, the wisdom of God. You know,
Christ is the wisdom of God. He's the power of God, the wisdom
of God. So when we see him hanging on that tree, why? What did this
man do? He didn't sin. He didn't have any guile. Why
did they treat him the way that they treated him? Why did the
Father have this to happen? Oh, he suffered these things
first and foremost to reveal the wisdom of God. And oh, I'm
going to show you something. Look over at Psalm 85. You know, when we talk about
the wisdom of God, we're talking about how justice, justice is
something that our world knows nothing about. Our world knows so little about
justice. They talk a lot about it. They promise to execute it. But oh, God just. God is just. You know, He suffered these things.
He didn't have any sins, but oh, my. But how come He suffered
these things to reveal the justice of God? How justice and mercy
can meet and be reconciled? How can God inflict justice on
me and punish me for my sins and yet at the same time extend
mercy to me and save me from my sins? How can God's righteousness
be manifested in the death of Christ on the cross? And by that
death on the cross, God established peace between me and himself
when I didn't have anything to do with it. Look what he said
here in Psalm 85, in verse 8, I will hear what God the Lord
will speak, for he will speak peace unto his people and to
his saints, but let them not turn again to folly. Surely his
salvation is nigh to them that fear him, and glory may dwell
in our land. Listen, mercy and truth are met
together. Where'd they meet at? How can truth and mercy be reconciled? Truth says the soulless sinner
shall die. Mercy says I can't show mercy
until that sinner has been punished for his sins. I can't just show
mercy for the sake of showing mercy. I can't sweep their sins. I can't see if they're wrong.
I can't sweep their awful guilt under the rug and just show mercy
at the expense of truth. But here it says, mercy and treason
are met together. Where do they meet at? In the
Lord Jesus Christ on that cross. What's this? Righteousness. Whose righteousness? God's righteousness. The righteousness of Christ.
God's righteousness as His Son is hanging on that cross. God
is righteous to put Him on that cross. And then peace for us. Peace that'll be brought to us.
Peace that'll be established between us and God. Peace that'll
be brought into our hearts. That's why the Lord says, come
unto me and I'll give you rest. Come unto me and you'll find
rest. And rest from this justice of
God. Rest from this truth of God.
Rest in this mercy. Rest in this peace. And how in
the world did they do that? Truth! Spring up out of the earth. Where'd it spring up at? On that
cross! That tree's springing up there.
Righteousness shall look down from heaven. And oh, beloved,
and here's the situation. And this is what I'm talking
about, my beloved. God must have a sacrifice. Now,
you listen to me. You listen to me. This is the
gospel. We've got to have this gospel.
We've got to know this gospel. God must have a sacrifice worthy
of Himself, equal to Himself. Now, is God holy? He has to have
a holy sacrifice. Is God righteous? He has to have
a sacrifice that'll satisfy that righteousness. Is God just? He
has to have a sacrifice that'll satisfy that justice. That's
why the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin. But
God said, I have prepared, our Lord says, Thou hast prepared
me a body. It's like those lambs and those
goats and those bullocks, they had bodies and they shed blood,
and they just typified Christ. But our Lord Jesus Christ is
the Lamb of God. He's without spot and without
blemish. And He's God, so He's equal to God. And as a man, He's
able to bleed and suffer and die. And He said, Master, prepare
Me a body. What did You prepare Me a body
for? That I might do Thy will. I'd like to do Thy will. And
He said, Sacrifice and offerings. That was never satisfying to
You. So You prepare Me a body. And
he said, and this man, by the sacrifice of himself, once in
the end of the world, he put away sin once and for all. How? By the sacrifice of himself. Huh? I'll tell you what he done
for us. Now, you're talking about revealing
the Father here. Look in Hebrews 10 and verse 12. Now that's why, you know, when
you ask, why is this man on this tree? Why is he there? Who is
this man? Why is he suffering so? How is
he going to reveal the Father to us? The wisdom of God in Christ
on that cross. Here in Hebrews 12, 10 and verse
12, it says this, but this man, this man, talking about the person
of Christ as a man, But this man, after he had offered one,
one sacrifice for sins forever, what did he do? He sat down.
Oh, when you get the shotgun, you sit down. Now, listen to
this. From henceforth, expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool. Now, this is what I like. For
by one offering, by this one offering, what did he do? He
perfected. Forever, them that are washed
in that blood, sanctified by that blood. You see the wisdom
of God there? God punished sin in His Son.
Justice. And, oh, beloved, He was obedient
unto death, and He made an end of sin on that cross. An end
of it. It's gone. God said He cast it
behind His back. go to him in the depth of the
sea, sent him as far east as from the west, brought him out
with a thick cloud, and he said, I look for iniquity in Jacob,
and guess what? I didn't find any. Not only did he reveal
in his person there on that cross the wisdom of God, but he also
revealed here the love of God. Oh, my. You're talking about
God's love. God commended his love toward
us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. But if God was love, and God
is love, why was he treated so badly? Why was he scorned? Why was he wounded? Why was he
beaten? Why was his side ripped open
with a spear? Why was he mocked? He was treated
that way because he stood in the place of sinners. And when he stands in the place
of sinners, he cannot be spared at all. He cannot be spared. He cannot be spared. And that's
why, that's why hell just goes on and on and on and on and on
and on, because God cannot spare a man that's got sin on him.
He can't do it. And the awful justice, people
say that the devil had us. I'll tell you, the awful justice,
you know what barred our way to God more than anything in
this world? Our sin and the justice of God. The awful justice of God that
barred the way to God has now been satisfied in such
a way that we can now say we've been saved as much by the justice
of God as we've been saved by the mercy of God. Ain't that
right? Would you pay for something twice?
If you paid for it once and you had the receipt that you paid
for it, would you dare pay for it a second time? If you go buy something, pay
for it in full, and they come to you and say, well, listen,
we don't have the record that you paid for that. And you got to pay again. And
you go up there and you say, no, here's my receipt. It's paid.
Paid in full. I don't owe you nothing. Well,
that's what Christ did. He went to the Father, whose
justice demanded our death for our sin. And He went to the Father
with His own blood. And He presented His own blood.
And He satisfied that justice of God because God spared Him
not. that now we say when God's justice,
God's holiness, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's
elect? Who is He that condemns? It's God that justified us. So
when the holiness of God comes, the righteousness of God comes,
even condemnation comes to us, we come up and say, listen, I've
got a payment in full. Where's your payment at? Christ
is my payment. Take, if you say, well, that's
like, you know, I've told you this before, old Martin Luther
said one time he had a dream or else he was having a vision.
He says, you know, that that devil come and rolled out a great
big long scroll. Sin, just a long scroll of his
sins. And I especially here over the
last few weeks and few months been thinking about my sins as
just a moaning, as a little moaning. Fourteen years and under, you
would not believe. I just told you. So ashamed of
sin as just a little boy. And oh my, and that sin's come
out there. What am I going to say about
it? What am I going to do to them? I've got to say, I've committed
them, I've done them. My own conscience tells me, my
memory tells me that I did them. I can't deny them. And I hope
you never find out about them. But God knows them all, so what
do I do when my sins are there? Telling me, saying, oh, my great
enchantment. I go back and say, oh, Father,
Christ has done more of these sins. They took them away. I tell my conscience, I tell
my mind, I tell my memory, oh, them sins are gone. And justice can't come now and
say, pay for this one or that one. They've all been paid. Oh, because of our love for substitution,
standing in our place, bearing our sins in His own body on that
tree, God is just now, and He's faithful to forgive us our sins,
and at the same time say, I'm righteous. in punishing your
sins in My Son. And if you believe on My Son,
and trust My Son, and trust His blood, trust His righteousness,
and look to Him alone, I'll justify you, and I'll declare you as
righteous as My Son Himself." And not only did He suffer these
things to reveal the wisdom of God and the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ didn't
stay dead. Oh, at the end of the third day,
He come out of the grave, and He stayed on this earth for forty
days, and by many infallible proofs showed that He had raised from
the dead. And now, now He reveals His Father to us as He sits at
the right hand of God, reigning in glory. Huh? He's no longer
that man of Socrates. He's no longer on that cross.
He's no longer in his humiliation. He's on the throne in his reign
and in glory, and he's sitting there in majesty, in power. In fact, there's a man in glory,
in all power and authority. is in His holy hands. He's right
now that God-man, exalted. What did I say? After He by Himself
purged our sins, He said, I am on the right hand of the majesty
of God. And as He says, you know, this
man out here offered this one sacrifice for sins, he said,
damn, waiting right there until God brings all of His enemies
and says, Get right down here. He gonna put his feet on you. He done put his feet on me. He done trampled me down, put
me in the dust where I want to be. I'm not his enemy anymore. Why? Because righteousness and
peace have kissed each other. Mercy and truth have been reconciled. Oh my. And he's right now, exalted
above all. And guess what he's doing right
now? doing His will in heaven, in the earth, in the sea, in
all deep places. And, O beloved, we see this about
Him as He reveals the Father to us, this in His grace and
in His glory. In Him the fullness of the Godhead
dwells, and from Him now God is enthroned in Christ our Lord.
And we see God, as Christ is revealed there, sitting at the
throne of God. You know, as He reveals the Father to us. How
does He reveal the Father to us? Sitting there on His throne.
Since the cross has been, since the wisdom of God's been seen
at the cross. Since the love of God's been received at the
cross. Since the justice of God's been seen at the cross. Now He's
sitting on His throne. Now He's sitting there reigning.
There the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him. Now, how does
he make God known to us? How does he reveal God to us
from that throne? First of all, as the God of grace. Sitting on that throne? Now,
it's the God of grace that we see. God of all grace, Peter
said. Manifold grace. Grace with all
of its facets. Calling grace. Converting grace,
restoring grace. When you fall, when you feel
your guilt, when you feel your condemnation, He restores you.
And preserving grace. And this grace is given to the
worthless, to the helpless, to nothing, to nobody that the glory
of God might be seen. And giving that grace. And I'll
tell you, beloved, salvation from first to last is of grace. And I'll tell you something about
grace. Grace goes before grace. How in the world did you go from
one day being an enemy, being a rebel, start thinking about
your sin, start wanting to hear the gospel, start wanting to
look at the Bible, start feeling some guilt? Grace goes and prepares
the heart and the mind before grace is manifested in a person's
heart. Grace prepares for grace. It goes before. Oh, my. You know, we'd have never
thought of God if God had not gave us grace. Is that not right? And this grace, this grace in
the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed by Him. And this grace was given
us in Him before the world ever began. And there he sits on his
throne showing us the God of all grace, eternal grace, electing
grace, enabling grace, enabling us to live from day to day without
just absolutely utterly falling away. And being all as he sits there,
he reveals the power of God. What power are we talking about?
Well, the power to give life. Just anybody can't give life.
If you could give life and somebody you loved died, you'd bring them
right back immediately. If somebody you loved and you're
standing there by their bedside and they died, if you could bring
them back, you'd bring them back just that quick. If you had the
power. That's how selfish we are. That's
how much we're downed by this flesh. But we don't have the
power to bring the dead to life. We don't have the power to forgive
sin. We don't have the power to raise dead sinners. We don't
have the power to take a Saul of Tarsus who's riding on that
horse as he goes to deliver those saints into the jailhouse. We
don't have the power to bring a light above the brightness
of the sun and put him in the dust. But God does in Christ. Where that life that you've got
in your heart now, that life, that eternal life, that crying
out to God, that need of God, that preciousness of God, and
that need to be down, humiliated, and humility before Him, where
did that come from? Christ gave it to us off that
throne. And not only that, but power to sustain us. How are
we going to live from day to day? To the glory of God. How
are we going to live from day to day with this flesh? How are
we going to live from day to day with all this weakness and
inability about us? Impotence. His power. His power. And then He reveals
to us the riches of God as He sits on that throne. The riches
of God. The riches of His grace. The
riches of His glory. And they are in Christ. He's
the Son. The inheritance is in Him. Let me ask you a couple
of questions. How rich is the Lord Jesus Christ, do you reckon?
How rich do you reckon He is? How rich do you reckon the Lord
Jesus Christ is? There's not a man on this earth
that can't count his money. They can't count his houses.
They can't count his cars. I mean, they can count his cars,
they can count his bank accounts, they can count his money, they
can count his stocks, they can count everything. Everything
about a man that ever has on this earth, it can be counted. But can you count the riches
of Christ? Can you measure them? And I tell you what, let me tell
you this, how rich is He made us? How rich is He made us? I'm not talking about things
in this earth. That's not what I'm talking about. How rich has
He made us? How rich has He made us in grace?
How rich has He made us in righteousness? How rich has He made us in justification? How rich has He made us in the
knowledge of God? How rich has He made us in the
knowledge of grace and appreciation for and the love for? How rich
has Christ made us? And not only that, but you know,
people in this world who have a little wealth and have a little
power, they only run around with those who are like themselves.
But our Lord Jesus Christ, with all His wealth, He gives it to
us. And not only that, but He owns
our name. You say, boy, that's... He says, I know His name. Got
it right here. Not only do I know His name,
but they're my brethren. Well, they don't have anything.
We've got Him. Oh my, I was going to go eat
somebody one time and visit them and I said, well, let's run over
to Shoney's real quick. That's a great place. Oh my, I wouldn't
eat at Shoney's for nothing. I don't go to Shoney's. I'm going
to run over to Kmart. I wouldn't shop at Kmart. I just
don't darkness Kmart. Too high and mighty for that.
But Christ came down and looks at you and me and says, I know
your name, and I'm not ashamed to call you brother. Wherever
you go, whatever you do, I know you, and you're my brother. People are ashamed to go to...
Anybody too proud to go to a Sony's and too proud to shop at Kmart,
too proud to live. And I tell you what, they'll
find out what pride's really like one of these days when they
face God. Huh? That's sad to be that proud,
ain't it? To feel that superior. To feel that superior. That is
sad. And I tell you, and I got, well,
I was going to give you two things, two or three things, and I'm
done. I told you that not only reveals God by His No man knows
the Father, but the Son, He to Whomsoever He revealed." He revealed
this on the cross, the wisdom, the love, and the justice of
God, revealed on His throne the grace and the power and the wealth
and riches of Christ. And then He comes and reveals
these things to us by His Spirit. Our Lord Jesus Christ promised
the Spirit. He said, I'm going away, but
the Holy Spirit, He'll come. And guess what He'll do when
He comes? He's going to teach you and guide you into all truth. He said, you know, He'll comfort
you. I'm not going to leave you like you're fatherless and orphans. He's going to take my place.
And He'll sanctify you. He'll separate you. And He'll
seal you. He'll seal you. He'll put my
seal, the seal of my blood, the seal of my righteousness, the
seal of my power, the seal of my authority, He'll put it on
you. And He'll seal us. And see, He
teaches us that we're lost, and we know that in our flesh dwells
no good thing. He teaches us that. And then
He works faith in us, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then
by the Holy Spirit, He seals us to the day of redemption.
It sets a mark. You know, when you put a seal
on something, wherever the president goes, he takes that seal with
him wherever he goes. It's on his plane. It's on everything
he's got. That's the seal, the evidence
that he's the President of the United States. Nobody can use
that seal but him. Well, God says, I'm going to
put a seal on them and let them know that they're ever one of
mine. You say, well, I can't see the seal. That don't make
no difference. You can or not. He's the one that sees it. That's who counts to see it.
You say, well, I don't know anything about the seal. I do. God stamped
his approval. I am His, and He is mine.