Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The basis of all we believe
about the future is found in what has been revealed to us
now about the present. We know that Christ will reign
in the future because He reigns at the present time. We know
that we will escape eternal damnation because we have been given eternal
life now. We know that we will be seated
with Him in glory because we are seated there now. But God,
who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved
us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together
with Christ. By grace you are saved. and hath raised us up
together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
The ages to come are but an extension of this glorious life which has
already been given to us. As Ralph Barnard once said, there's
a lot of heaven on the road to heaven. The Lord Jesus said,
I am come that they might have life and that they might have
it more abundantly. Sometimes it seems that the foods
which we love to eat are the very foods we have to avoid for
fear of ruining our dainty waistlines. Yet the Lord has said that He
has spread for us a banquet that contains all of those things
which are a delight to us. He will withhold nothing from
us that is spiritually fattening. Rather, He invites us to come
and dine. He wants us to be filled with the delights from His table.
He has saved for us the best food and the best wine. He has
fed us with peace. The Lord Jesus said, Peace I
leave with you, my peace give I unto you, not as the world
giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. The peace that the world gives
is temporary, it is conditional. It requires strength in the flesh
to maintain it. His peace is real, lasting, and
is bestowed upon us when we are least able to act in peace or
feel peaceful. It is not the result of positive
thinking or listening to soothing sounds, but it is the gift of
God to us that passeth understanding. Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in
thee. The gift of peace is the cause
of, rather than the effect of, trusting in the Lord. He has
fed us with joy. We are not weaklings in the kingdom
of God, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. He has not
left us to devise a means whereby we can rejoice. He has given
us food to eat that the world knows not of. Because thy lovingkindness
is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will
I bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy
name. My soul shall be satisfied as with myrrh and fatness, and
my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips, when I remember
thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
wings will I rejoice. We have joy unspeakable without
having to discover something to rejoice in, for he is our
joy. Thy words were found, and I did
eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine
heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. He
has fed us with truth. The Lord said, And ye shall know
the truth, and the truth shall make you free. He identified
himself as the truth. We are not still searching for
something or someone to believe in. We have already found him.
Peter said, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of
eternal life. Truth cannot be found in the
words of some guru or self-proclaimed prophet, but only in the person
of Jesus Christ. There have always been and always
will be witch doctors who are revealers of secret things using
their supernatural talents to gain control over the minds and
hearts of the ignorant. We don't need men to unfold mysteries
to us because grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The message
of a man can be judged as to its veracity by the regard that
is given to the Lord. Those who relegate Christ to
any position other than that of a singular Redeemer who has
procured His people salvation cannot enlighten us or aid us
in our journey. Finally, He has fed us with hope.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable. We are not among those who only
know sorrow at the graves of true believers, nor do we recall
in terror at the prospect of our own mortality. Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according
to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time. Do you eat
at the Lord's table? For a free CD containing 15 of
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