Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The truth never changes
because all truth ultimately stems from him who said, I am
the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father
but by me. If ye had known me, ye should
have known my father also. And from henceforth ye know him
and have seen him. Jesus Christ is the word which
is translated from the Greek word logos, which of course is
the root of our English word logic. There is no true logic
outside of Him. Yet while the world is convinced
that its own way of thinking is logical, nothing could be
further from the truth. But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty. God has ordained that men by their own wisdom
should come short of knowing Him. In the wisdom of God, the
world by wisdom knew not God. So it is that men by nature are
in a terrible dilemma. The only way that they may escape
the certain doom which awaits them is to come to know the truth
of God. Yet they don't possess the ability
or desire to comprehend and embrace that truth. In fact, the scriptures
reveal that judgment will come upon many for this very reason,
because they receive not the love of the truth that they might
be saved. And for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that
they all might be damned who believe not the truth. The natural
man's inability in these matters is described thusly, but the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are foolishness unto him. Neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. So it is obvious from
the Scriptures that the understanding of men must be opened by a power
outside of themselves, or they will most certainly perish in
their ignorance. We have established in the past
the certainty of the fact that the redemption and justification
of God's elect children is effected totally outside of themselves
by the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ in their behalf. So the
salvation of sinners is that which is brought to pass in the
minds of the Lord's own as he opens their understandings that
they might see and believe the gospel. God does not save his
people through ignorance, but through a knowledge of the truth.
In fact, the Lord Jesus said, and ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free. It is not the truth itself
which produces this freedom, but rather the knowledge of it,
which is comprehended and subsequently acted upon. In Gethsemane's garden,
the Lord Jesus prayed, and this is life eternal, that they might
know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent. Jesus Christ purchased for us not only the right to
be justified in the courts of heaven, but to be reconciled
to God in this mortal body by coming to a knowledge of Him.
So He is at work at the present hour through the person of His
Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. He has sent preachers
into the earth who are taught of this Spirit. for whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then
shall they call on him whom they have not believed? And how shall
they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall
they hear without a preacher? The Pentecostals say that a man
can come to this knowledge through an unexplainable evidence that
controls his faculties. The Charismaniacs say that they
can arrive here through receiving the blessings of health and material
wealth. Most Evangelicals today say that a man can arrive at
this knowledge by making a decision to do so. Humanists tell us that
a man arrives there by the power of positive thinking. Counselors
agree and say that each man has it within his power to arrive
where he needs to be by following a few steps. The natural man
thinks he can know and choose God's way when and if he wants
to. The truth is that God awakens dead sinners according to His
sovereign will and causes them to see and understand. But of
Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according
as it is written, He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. He
makes them aware of this truth, not by giving them a spine-tingling
experience or stirring up their natural mind, but by communicating
God's Word to their understanding by His power. 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. Do
you know Him in whom you have believed? For a free CD containing
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