Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The faith of God's elect
is not built upon premises, but rather promises. What the Lord
says, He will do. And there is no power in either
heaven, earth, or hell that can overturn His purpose to redeem
and deliver His people from guilt and darkness. The curse of the
law and the pit of destruction. If the salvation of the Lord's
people in any measure depended upon their own ability to either
believe it or receive it, then there could be no certainty that
any man would be saved, and the possibility would exist that
the Lord could fail to save any. How foolish is such a thought,
and how utterly barren is such preaching which relies upon the
decision of men to follow the Lord. Thy people shall be willing
in the day of thy power." Paul says we can do nothing against
the truth. Yet is it not true that we each daily find ourselves
at odds with the truth? Do we not wrestle with our own
flesh which seeks to dominate us and turn us aside from that
truth which is written upon our hearts? Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors, for it is the Spirit of God working
in us that proves the very principle which Paul states. The truth
is in us, except we be reprobates. When David prayed, Take not thy
Holy Spirit from me, is he not illustrating the very fact that
the sons of God are kept by him who will not let them go? Where
else could such a desire come from, except from him who convicts
and convinces his people? A thousand shall fall at thy
side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not
come nigh thee. This is a promise which is given
to Christ, who in turn has hidden his people in his side, and he
will never leave nor forsake them. We stand because he stands. When Peter denied the Lord in
a display of cowardice and human weakness, it would seem to men
that he had overturned this very principle. Yet the Lord used
Peter to illustrate this principle, as he assured Peter, while Peter
scoffed at the thought, that he had prayed for him that his
faith would not fail, even though he would be sifted as wheat.
Those whom the Lord loves he will keep, and they can do nothing
against the truth. Some will no doubt remind us
that if we deny Him, He also will deny us. This is certainly
true. And every child of God, including
Peter, would be in jeopardy were it not also true that if we believe
not, yet He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself. Thus
the sons of God can do nothing against the truth, because Christ
is their Performer and Keeper of the sheep. He will lose none
which are given to him. Those sent by God can do nothing
against the truth, for they are all given the same message that
Paul declared. For I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Paul
labeled those that did not preach this same message as being deceivers.
There be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel
of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto
you, let him be accursed. If any man preach any other gospel
unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Even though
the men of this world seek to overturn the word of God, yet
they cannot thwart the will of God, for He has ordained their
actions unto His glory and the fulfillment of His purpose to
destroy them and preserve His flock. The Lord will winnow His
wheat and gather it into His barns, using even the errors
of men in contrast to that which is true, to establish His people
in the faith once delivered to the saints. There shall be false
teachers among you who shall privily bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves
swift destruction. The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto
the day of judgment to be punished. For there must also be heresies
among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest
among you. The children of God are for the
truth, not simply passively, but inactively rejoicing in Him
who is the truth. Any message which gives all glory
to Christ in the redemption of sinners is both a welcome and
a delightful sound to the sons of God, who are bought with a
price. As the Spirit leads them into
all truth, they are compelled to desire the truth in even greater
measure. For this cause also thank we
God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of
God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of
men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually
worketh also in you that believe, having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he
hath purposed in himself. Do you delight in the salvation
which is alone found in Jesus Christ? For a free CD containing
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