Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. Just as God is pleased
to direct the efforts of the honeybee to benefit mankind,
so too is He pleased to manifest His glory in the gospel by sending
the most unthankful and rebellious of all creatures to declare it
unto men. For after that, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. The foolishness
of this preaching lies not in the efforts of those who are
sent to perform this task, but rather in the content of that
message which they are sent into the world to proclaim. Because
the natural man cannot receive this message, and it is foolishness
to him unless the Lord opens his eyes to behold its truth
and gives him ears to hear it. This is that very truth which
is encompassed in what the Lord told Nicodemus. Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God. How wonderful it is that the
Lord is pleased to awaken dead sinners to behold the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. Otherwise, they would never be
able to see it, much less to embrace it and fall upon their
faces in adoration and thanks for such an unspeakable gift.
In the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, we read the Song of Moses. Oh,
what a glorious message of grace came forth from the lips of him
to whom the law was given on Mount Sinai as he spoke of Christ. As we read his words, we are
reminded of what John said, and of his fullness have we all received,
and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. For the law made nothing
perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the
which we draw nigh unto God. It is of this better hope which
Moses sang when he said, he made him ride on the high places of
the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields, and
he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the
flinty rock. There has never been any other
rock which has been the only source of blessing to the sons
of God from the very beginning. He is that stone which was rejected
by the builders, but is made the head of the corner. He is
both that one who is the rock and the one who has sucked honey
and oil out of the rock. He has purchased an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled for those he has loved everlastingly.
They have now sucked honey and oil out of this rock, as he has
led captivity captive and has given gifts unto men. Rocks do
not naturally produce honey or oil, yet he who has made the
rocks out of nothing which did appear can cause such a thing
to occur. This analogy arises out of the
fact that he has ordained the honeybee to inhabit the crevices
of the rocks, building therein a comb and depositing the honey
out of the side of men. In his own time he is pleased
to cause this honey to flow out quite without the aid of men.
Such is the promise of God to his children as we see in Ezekiel's
prophecy. For I will take you from among
the heathen, and I will gather you out of all countries, and
will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean
water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness
and from all your idols. will I cleanse you. A new heart
will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within
you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep
my judgments and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and
I will be your God. I will also save you from all
your uncleannesses, and I will call for the corn, and will increase
it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit
of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive
no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall ye remember
your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and
shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities
and for your abominations. Such is the work of God, which
is hidden from those that believe not, and revealed unto those
who do, by the grace of God. Behold ye among the heathen,
and regard, and wonder marvelously. For I will work a work in your
days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. He has
indeed hidden those things from the wise and prudent and revealed
them unto babes. Thus we have no place to glory
except in him who sends the bee and causes the honey to come
forth from the rock. Have you tasted of the sweetness
of the Lord's mercies? Do you give him all glory for
the unspeakable gift of his grace? Christ is all. For a free CD
containing 15 of these radio broadcasts, send an email to
forthepoor at windstream.net.