Welcome, friends, to another
broadcast of Morsels for Zion's Poor. Division itself is not
necessarily a good thing, but if we be the sons of God, we
are quite certain that even this shall work together for our ultimate
good. Even though we are perhaps unable to see it at the time,
we are not free to pick and choose what doctrines we stand upon,
but are compelled by a spirit to stand upon those truths he
has burned into our conscience. Who art thou that judgest another
man's servant? To his own master he standeth
or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up, for God is able to
make him stand. If he has taught us truth, then
we have no option but to defend it, and take our stand upon it
to live or to die. I shall leave it to others who
are more adept at casting men to the moles and bats over doctrinal
issues, to define those lines which cannot be crossed under
pain of death. I can only declare what I believe
to be true and speak against that which I see as error, whether
anyone stands with me or not. Knowing that there are many issues
which the true sons of God may fall out with one another over,
I believe there's at least one truth to which they shall all
absolutely agree. It is set forth in the words
of Solomon as he writes of the bride's description of her husband
and lover. She said, he is altogether lovely.
Is this not what Paul meant when he said, Wherefore I give you
to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth
Jesus accursed, and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord,
but by the Holy Ghost. Also John said, Howbeit when
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.
For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak. And he will show you things to
come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and
shall show it unto you. The born-again sons of God may
be given various levels of understanding on different doctrinal issues,
but they all without exception will testify to the glorious
beauty that they behold in the person of Jesus Christ. This
is an amazing work of grace when one starts to consider that when
Christ came in the flesh and walked among men, He did so in
such a humble and unassuming way, suffering an ignominious
death, So that the scripture says, for he shall grow up before
him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground, he
hath no form nor comeliness. And when we shall see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid as it were our faces from him, yet he was despised and
we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God, and afflicted. The Lord has hid his beauty from
the wise and prudent and has revealed it unto babes. A man
in the flesh may see some good in Christ as far as his example
of humanity was demonstrated. The religious man may even believe
him to be a prophet and a teacher of high moral principles. Yet
only those who are born from above can behold him as that
one who is all in all, whose price is above rubies and exceeds
that of gold. Only that man who has been given
eyes to see can look on him with a longing desire to be made in
his image, to prize his commandments, and to love those that he loves.
As John said, we know that we have passed from death unto life
because we love the brethren. He is altogether lovely to them
in His person as the Son of God. And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. The glory is of the
Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. He is
altogether lovely to them because He first loved us. Herein is
love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His
Son to be the propitiation for our sins. He is altogether lovely
because he has demonstrated that love by the sacrifice of himself,
who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purifying to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
He is altogether lovely because he continues a present work in
his people. 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." He is altogether lovely
because they see in him their only hope of acceptance with
the Father. much more than being now reconciled by His blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were
enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son,
much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life. And
not only so, but we also join God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement. He is altogether
lovely to the elect of God because he is coming back to receive
his own. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I
come quickly. Amen. Even so come, Lord Jesus. Is Christ alone your hope? For
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