Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. The blessings which Jesus
Christ has purchased for His brethren are not in any wise
conditional. He has met and fulfilled all
conditions in the behalf of those whom He loved with an everlasting
love. Whatever they have lacked He has provided, but without
faith it is impossible to please Him. Thus He has provided faith
to those whom He loves. His faith is perfect and without
doubting, and it is in His faith that we stand. This is that one
faith of which Paul writes, Christ is the source of all true faith,
which is the gift of God. Christ is the basis of all true
faith. As Paul says, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me. This faith is in no wise
dependent upon the performance of the children of God. If we
believe not, yet he abideth faithful, he cannot deny himself. Faithful
is he that calleth you, who also will do it. The Lord demands
a perfect righteousness for those who would enter into his presence.
who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand
in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and
a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and
righteousness from the God of his salvation. There is only
one who has ever met those requirements, and it is He who is our substitute.
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. The
salvation of the sons of God is from the beginning to the
end the product of His own will and power. He is mighty to save. Any condition which the sons
of God stand in need of, He has provided. While the law demanded
obedience, it could not furnish it, since the weakness of our
flesh is demonstrated by our inability to keep its demands.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, condemned sin, in the flesh. Paul writes of a sequence
of events which must transpire in order for the salvation which
Christ is wrought to be made manifest in the conscience of
those for whom he has provided it. For whomsoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How shall they call
on him whom they have not believed? How shall they believe in him
of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings
of good things. In order for a man to believe
in Christ, he must first hear. How then cometh this hearing?
It must be bestowed upon them by him who is the healer of deaf
ears. Many have made the mistake of
thinking that the power of the preacher is that which causes
men to hear. It is only as the Lord opens
the ears of the hearer that they shall be enabled to hear the
word which is preached. The Lord promised, I will put
my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts,
and will be their God, and they shall be my people. They shall
be called to hear and then to learn of him. And they shall
teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord. For they shall all know me, from the least of
them to the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. And this is
life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. In this fashion they have
indeed learned of the Father. For when a man has seen Jesus
Christ, he has seen the Father. As the Lord told the Pharisees,
if he had known Me, he should have known My Father also. When
a man has learned of the Father, he has also learned of the great
gulf that there is between the perfections and glory of God
and himself. This is the learning which begets
repentance, as Job confessed. I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor
myself and repent in dust and ashes. So it is that when the
sons of God have heard the word of truth from the lips of him
who is the truth, they will learn of the Father, and they will
come unto him, for they can do nothing else. All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. For the glory of God, we do proclaim
liberty to the captives and the giving of sight to the blind,
declaring that he calls sinners to come to him. Come unto me,
all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly
in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke
is easy and my burden is light. Have you heard his word today?
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