Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. When the Lord created the
earth out of nothing, He created the concept that we have of night
and day according to His unchangeable purpose. And God saw the light,
that it was good. And God divided the light from
the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness
He called night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day. Our great scientists tell us that the sun is our source
of light, yet the light existed on the first day and the sun
was not created until the fourth day. The light dispelled the
darkness. The scriptures say that a day
begins at sunset and ends at the same. By this we are reminded
that we are by nature born in darkness and move in that same
nature towards darkness apart from the grace of God to show
us that eternal light which can only be seen in the face of Jesus
Christ. The Scriptures tell us that He
inhabits eternity and that He only hath immortality dwelling
in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath
seen nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. Thus it is utterly amazing
when we discover that He took upon Himself human flesh and
became obedient unto death, just as any other man in the flesh.
Do we not marvel that he who created time and marks out every
moment of every day since the beginning did humble himself
and become a servant of time, just as every son of Adam? In
this human body he learned obedience by the things which he suffered,
and being made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation
unto all them that obey him. We are struck dumb with amazement
at such a revelation, and must fall upon our faces in adoring
wonder. In the limitations of time which
he imposed upon himself, he kept every appointment which he marked
out from before the foundation of the world. We see just such
an appointment with a Samaritan woman who had never met him,
nor had any inkling of who he was. Thus he must needs go through
Samaria. Her name was in his appointment
book, but his was not in hers. This event could only have taken
place according to his purpose and not hers. This was no random
meeting, but was prescribed to take place at the sixth hour.
This sixth hour would have been about twelve noon, as we would
reckon it. The evening had ended at sunrise, and the day had begun.
The sun was at its zenith, and the glory of the sun was shining
in all of its strength, when the Lord of glory, who made the
seas and the rivers, asked this adulterous woman for a drink
of water, which he had placed in a well, which he ordained
for men to dig. This well could have been nowhere
else upon the earth, just as this woman could not have been
in another location at this particular time. Little did she know that
it was He who would give her a drink of water, which would
forever satisfy her thirst. Thus we see the demonstration
of the Lord's mercy exhibited as He sought His lost sheep,
and led her in a path which she had not designed or contemplated. He told her of His intent to
give her living water, though she had no understanding of that
of which He spoke. She was intrigued with His words,
and in her flesh she asked for this water. Yet first the Lord
must strip her of her supposed righteousness, in order that
she might rightly desire that water. She sought to skirt the
issue of her husband, just like politicians do. Yet the Lord
broke down her excuses and laid her adultery bare before her
eyes. For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now
hast is not thy husband. She was rendered without excuse.
Yet she was not yet fully broken, however, because we see her appealing
to her religion. But the Lord would not abandon
his lost sheep, even though she was clinging to the brambles
which she had become entangled in, all the while thinking that
they offered her comfort and hope. He spoke words of truth
to her as he described the nature of true worship. God is a spirit,
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. Then he made her to be a true
worshiper. We see that illustrated as the Savior sought his lost
sheep. He revealed himself to her. I that speak unto thee am
he. She believed and went on her
way with the testimony of Christ upon her heart and lips. This
all took place in the sixth hour. Our blessed Lord had another
appointment which He would undertake at a particular time and place,
which He gladly kept, though the burden He bore was greater
than any other man has or ever could bear. He made His soul
an offering for sin, and it was about the sixth hour, and there
was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And when
Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave
up the ghost, the giver of life, yea, even life itself died a
sinner's death. Well did the sun in darkness
hide and shut his glories in when God the mighty maker died
for man the creature's sin. Has there ever been love like
this? Can we do any less than fall upon our faces in adoration
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