The House That Wisdom Built

Q: What does the Bible say about the church?

The Bible describes the church as the body of Christ, where believers gather under His lordship. The church is often referred to as the household of God, built on the foundation of Christ, the apostles, and prophets. Ephesians 2:19-22 states that believers are no longer strangers but fellow citizens with the saints, being built into a holy temple in the Lord. Importantly, Romans 12:5 describes the church as the body of Christ, where each member is integral and functions in unity. The church exists not only as a structure but as a living organism that nurtures and supports its members in faith and community.

Q: How do we know the church is important for Christians?

The church is essential for spiritual growth, fellowship, and serving God. Scripturally, the importance of the church is emphasized throughout the New Testament. Hebrews 10:24-25 encourages believers not to forsake assembling together but to encourage one another, especially as the day of Christ's return approaches. The church serves as a place for worship, teaching, and the sacraments, facilitating the spiritual growth of its members. Additionally, as the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15), the church plays a vital role in upholding and proclaiming the gospel, making it indispensable for the Christian life.

Q: Why is wisdom personified in Proverbs as female?

Wisdom is depicted in the feminine form to signify its nurturing and relational characteristics. In Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman to illustrate its nurturing aspects and the relational qualities associated with wisdom. This figurative language suggests that wisdom is accessible and inviting, as seen in Proverbs 9:1-3, where wisdom calls out to the simple. The church, as the body of Christ, embodies this wisdom through its proclamation of the gospel and the nurturing of believers. Thus, the female imagery surrounding wisdom emphasizes the church's role in cultivating understanding and relationship with God among its members.

Q: How is Christ the foundation of the church?

Christ serves as the solid rock and cornerstone upon which the church is built. 1 Corinthians 3:11 clearly states that no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. This verse reinforces the idea that Christ is not only the builder but also the cornerstone of the church. He is the one through whom all members are united, forming a spiritual house filled with the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, as believers, we are described as living stones being built up into a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-5), emphasizing our collective identity in Christ and our dependence on Him as the foundation of our faith.

Q: Why are members of the church called pillars of the truth?

Members are pillars to support and uphold the gospel's truth within the church community. In 1 Timothy 3:15, the church is referred to as the pillar and ground of the truth, exemplifying its role in supporting and promoting the gospel's message. The metaphor of pillars suggests stability and strength; just as physical pillars uphold a structure, believers are called to uphold the truth of God's Word within the church. This responsibility extends to encouraging one another in faith, helping each other grow in knowledge and understanding, and being steadfast in proclaiming the gospel, thereby ensuring that the church remains a beacon of truth in a world of confusion.

That is such a good hymn. If you can sing that from the heart, if you really mean it, I believe you are his church. And I love that hymn. House of thine abode, the church our blessed redeemer saved with his own precious blood. He loves the church and gave himself for her. I love thy church, O God, her walls, salvation, are the walls of the church before they stand as the apple of thine eye, dear as the apple of thine eye, graven on thy hand. Her my tears shall fall. They do, don't they? Don't we cry for one another? Her my prayers are sin. I don't pray for everybody, but I pray for you. I pray for the church.

To her my cares and toils be given. Beyond my highest joys, I prize her heavenly ways. David said that, and one thing of my desire, and I want to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Her sweet communion, this is sweet, solemn vows, her hymns of love and praise. Sure as thy truth shall last, as I and shall be given, the brightest glories earth can yield. and then brighter bliss in heaven.

What a great hymn. This is as good as it gets on earth. It's gonna get better. But not until we leave this place. But right here, David said, thy love and kindness is better than life. He meant that, I do too. You've got Proverbs 9, look at Hebrews 3 with me, Hebrews 3. Brother John, or Brother Ron, read Ephesians 2, which was well-chosen, speaks of the household of God. Listen to this, Ephesians 2. It says that, you're not strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints of the household of God. You're built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

Jesus Christ himself, the chief cornerstone, The whole building is fitly framed. In whom? It's fitly framed and grows together under a holy temple in the Lord. You're building together for an habitation of God. This is God's house, not this building. This is the church house. But you are his church, his house, his dwelling place.

In Hebrews 3, It says in verse one, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle, the messenger and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. The Lord commended Moses for his faithfulness in his house. to his people. For this man, Jesus Christ, was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, and as much as he who built the house hath more honor than the house.

For every house is built by some man. A house doesn't build itself. He that built all things is God. Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant. for a testimony of those things which are to be spoken after. But Christ, as a son over his own house, whose house are we.

If we hold fast, we're gonna look at pillars, a pillar. If we hold fast, the confidence and rejoicing of the hope permanent end. Now, so go back to Proverbs nine with me now. We all live in a house, don't we? Some kind of dwelling place, a place we reside in, a place we constantly go to after work or wherever. Don't you? You don't just live in a tree. You don't roam around. You go to your house.

And if it's comfortable enough, you've been there long enough, you call it a home. It's a place you like to go to. The place you reside, you constantly come home to, you rest there, you eat, you drink, you live there with your family, or if you have one, or your cats or dogs, if you don't. There's some blessing in it, to have a place of refuge, repose.

Our Lord had no place to lay his head. Isn't that what it said? For 30, prior to his 30th year, he lived with his parents, apparently. But after that, he left, he left home. And he slept under the stars, just like the first Adam, didn't he? But he, you know, like Psalm 90, thou has been our dwelling place forever. He was, we read that Proverbs 8. Our Lord didn't need a shelter over his head.

He showed that, he proved that, but he was found all the time, wherever his church was. That's where you'd find him. And it was usually in the temple on the Sabbath day or the synagogue in his little villages. You want to find Christ? He's going to be at home. He's going to be in his house with his people all the time, every time. And now God is our refuge. Christ is our resting place, isn't it? In him we live and move and have our being. And yet, he says he dwells in us.

Know what it says? In his people, they are called the temple, the house of God, the church. Isn't that, that's mysterious, isn't it? And now we're gonna look at the house wisdom built. Now, the house wisdom built is the church of God. That's plain to you, and you knew what this was speaking of. I preach a lot on the church, don't I? I love the church.

You can't love Christ and not love your people. You can't love the head and not love the body. You can't have the head without the body. No, you can't. You can't serve the head without serving the body. I love the church, church of God, church of Christ.

You know, that's why God made the universe? Yes, it is the kingdom of God. The reason he made this universe is to bring a people born of man, of woman. They've gotta be born of water and blood. They gotta be born the first time and to be born again through the preaching of the gospel, to be brought into his everlasting kingdom. The reason for the universe is for Christ to come into it and redeem his church and bring them into his everlasting kingdom. Well, that's the reason for everything. His church is his family, it's his house, it's his people, where throughout the scripture, throughout the scripture, his church was a particular place. Yes, it was a particular place.

You remember Deuteronomy beginning with chapter 12? I just looked at it again, 17 times, and I'm sure I missed a few. 17 times he said, there's a place that I've chosen to put my name there. Go there, go there. Well, let's turn there, Deuteronomy 12, real quickly. I'm not gonna keep you too long. Deuteronomy 12, 17 times, it's significant, isn't it? Look at this, Deuteronomy 12, verse two. Deuteronomy 12, verse two.

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which ye shall possess serve their gods upon the high mountains, upon the hill of every under, throw down their altars, break their pillars, burn their groves with fire, their graven images. That's not my place.

Verse five, but under the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, to put his name there, his glory, his honor, under his habitation, Shall you seek, and thither thou shalt come. Thither you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your heath offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offering, the firstling of your herd, of your flock. There you shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all that you put your hand unto. You and your household, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

Ron read Ephesians 2. He's made us to sit together. Where, what's it called? In heavenly places, where are they? In Christ. This is a heavenly play, a foretaste of glory to God. I love his church. Our sweet communion, Solomon. A particular place, it's always a particular place with names like Ephesus, Philippi, Galatia, Thessalonica, Sardis, Corinth, Rocky Mountain, Kingsport, Fairmont. Particular places, right? Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am.

Seven letters were written to seven churches with names, with pastors. That's the church. It hadn't changed. This is not a new and modern way. No, no, no. It's a living organism of people met together worshiping the Lord with a man standing up to preach. That's the way it's always been. Always. And the house that wisdom built, that Christ built, is the church, which always resides in a house.

Or two or three. And if you're not, and those who are listening to this, if you're not in one, you better go. You better go. In Deuteronomy 14, verses 24 and 25, it says, if that place I've chosen, but my name there is too far from you, sell everything you got and go there. That's what it says.

You know, we have these means that God has given us, and I'm glad for them, TV. You know, the Lord used television before internet and all that, and my father was on TV for 30 years, I guess. What do you use it for? Well, to get out the gospel. That's what these means are for, to get the gospel out. The evangelize, send the gospel for by radio. We were on the radio for 35 years or 30 years. And now we've got Mixler and Sermon Audio and the internet and all that. And the purpose of that is to preach the gospel, isn't it? To preach the gospel, to get the gospel out, to bring the people in.

You understand me? It's not for convenience for people. No, no, no. is to bring them in to the fold, where they'll be a part of the body, where they'll be nourished. We're gonna look at Revelation 12 in a little bit, where they'll be nourished in the wilderness, in a place for the rest of their days.

That's the church. a foal, a pasture, people, were the Walter Gruver. The Lord used, raised up Walter Gruver, an evangelist, a missionary. And he went to Mexico, and he would preach in these villages in the open air in the middle of the town. He would start preaching. He didn't know the language very well in the beginning, but God doesn't, he doesn't need to know the language very well. Who made man's mouth? That's what Moses said, I can't speak. He said, who made me a man? It was people of a stammering lip when I speak.

Brother Walter would stand in those little villages full of Satan's seed. Catholicism had the whole of everybody's heart and soul and finances and everything. Poor people, downtrodden. under bondage, and Brother Walter preached the gospel, which is the power of God.

What is the gospel? Christ. He preached Christ. What happened? The Lord raised up churches in nearly every village. Churches! And he raised up pastors in those churches and brought the people in those churches, and most of them are still there. That's what these means are for. Not convenience. Get the gospel out and bring the people in. Sheep have to have a foal and an undershirt.

All right, let's look at this house that wisdom built. Wisdom is Christ, you know that, don't you? Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. He's the one that built the house. He's the one who wisely purposed it and Everything about it, ordered all things concerning it. Sure. Christ is wisdom.

I was gonna start back in chapter one. From there on through chapter nine, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. I had probably one, two, three, four. I don't have time. Man, I wish we did. It's wonderful. Read it for yourself. Read it for yourself.

It's all wisdom. It's all Christ's. Fear, and most of the time, wisdom has, those chapters have fear in it, fear of the Lord, because in several times, he says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. So, all right, but here it says in Proverbs 9, verse 1, wisdom hath builded her house. She hath hewn out her seven pillars. Christ is wisdom. Why is wisdom used in the female gender?

Every time, if you read it. And we've looked at it before, but you probably forgot. And I called a brother who I believe has wisdom, Brother John Chapman. I said, you tell me, because I can't find anything any better than this, anybody. Why is that? And we both agreed, we both concluded that the church is where you're going to hear the gospel of Christ, who is the wisdom of God. That's where you're going to hear him, hear his voice. And that's where he's going to speak to you. And that's where you're going to meet him. That's where you're going to find wisdom. You're going to find Christ in the context of the church with a man preaching the gospel. How shall they hear? What does it say? What does it say? How shall they hear without what?

A preacher. And a preacher like the people is the bride of Christ, the weaker vessel. Oh, he certainly shows forth his power in preaching through a weak vessel. If you've ever heard his voice, you've heard it through a clay pot, haven't you? that the excellency of the power might be of God, not of man.

The disciples went out. They were fishermen. What'd they know about Greek? What'd they know about the Bible, the Old Testament? Nothing. But Christ gave them wisdom from above, and gave them the ability, and they went out preaching, and the Lord saved people, raised the dead through those men.

And the people said, this has got to be of God. These men, we know these fellas, they're just fishermen. So in the context of the church, it's female. You want to hear his voice? Preachers, where are you going to hear Christ's voice? Usually in context of the church. Oh, yes. If you're looking for the bridegroom, where is he found?

With his bride. He's faithful, John. He never leaves her. She leaves him, but he never leaves her. He's gonna be where he's promised to be. She might be roaming around, but he's not. You wanna hear from Christ? Am I making this up? Oh, no, no. So Christ is wisdom, and in the context of the church, it's where you're gonna hear him preach. Verse one.

Christ hath built his house. He's the builder of the church. In Psalm 127 verse one, it says, except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Vain to rise up early. I hate, I hate to hear these fellows say, well, so-and-so, he's planting churches and he's building a church and he's, I hate that. Who builds a church? Church doesn't build itself. Oh no, Christ is the builder of the church. Whose house are we? We're his workmanship. Christ built his house. What'd he built it up? Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's an illustration.

Young couple gets married. They're in love. They get married. They need a place to live, don't they? This is the way it used to be. They get married, they're in love, they need a place to live, so the man works, provides, his wife has children, they need a roof over their head, and the man starts building that house, doesn't he? A place to live, a place to sleep, a place to eat, a place to laugh, a place to raise their young, and there they live. The husband's a provider, protector, builder, keeper of the house, woman with the children, they live happily ever after. Not anymore. But that's the ideal.

Isn't that the way the Lord purposed it up? Yeah, he did. Yes, he did. But that is exactly what the Lord does with his house. All right? Oh yeah, oh yeah. He built this house. He's the provider and everything. The woman's to be a keeper at home. Is she not? A keeper at home. All y'all? Ye women, John, be a keeper at home. An example to the children. Nourish them with what? Milk, bread, wine. Well, here's how a house is built. I know a little bit about building a house. It's how the Lord built his house. First thing, what's the first thing you do? You have a blueprint. You purpose to build. You don't just, well, I just did this this way. But you don't do it this way. You don't just get some two or four and throw something up. Although I just did that. And what happened, Mike, is that I had one wall about an inch out of plumb. Oh, well.

But anyway, you have a blueprint, a purpose, we call it a plan. No, God doesn't plan things. He has a purpose, an everlasting purpose. He purposed to build this church, a blueprint. And over in the Old Testament, it talks about, see that you make all things according to the pattern, pattern. Church is God's people. are predestinated to be conformed to the pattern. And the way of worship is according to the pattern, isn't it?

We still, we're Jews, salvations of the Jew. We still worship God the way Jews worship. You gotta have three things to worship God. We still do. Oh yeah, you do, you do. You gotta have a tabernacle, you gotta have a high priest, and you gotta have a sacrifice. And these three are one, are Christ. Where do you hear that? Where would you hear that? Where would you hear that if he weren't here tonight? He wasn't. That's where you hear these things.

So there's a blueprint, there's a pattern, there's a purpose. God's eternal purpose, he purposed in Christ to make a people just like Christ, to make a people his body, the body of Christ. All right, you got your blueprint, your plan, your purpose. Then you gotta do what? What's the first thing?

Dig a foundation. You dig it deep until you find solid rock. You know they don't do that anymore. They don't do that anymore, Tom, do they? Uh-uh, they just dig and dig and dig, and there ain't no rock down there. Oh, poor son. I remember. that they actually used to go so deep till they found rock.

Well, the foundation, other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, Christ Jesus, the solid rock. The church is built on Christ, the solid rock, the foundation. When our Lord told Peter, he said, I'm gonna call you, Simon Peter, I'm gonna call you Peter, rock. He said, upon that rock, I'm gonna build my church. It's not Peter. No, no, Peter was, you know, oh no. It's Peter's confession when Peter said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. He said, that rock, your profession, that confession of faith, that I am the cry, I'm gonna build my church.

What he's saying is, the church is built on me. Built by me and built on me. He's the foundation. The foundation, all right. Then you start erecting the building. Look at verse one. Wisdom hath built her house. Christ hath built his house. She hath hewn out her seven pillars. Now the walls start going out.

Pillars, pillars, seven pillars. 1st Peter three, I'm sorry, 1st Timothy three, go over there. 1st Timothy chapter three. I quote this all the time. We need to know where it is. I didn't really know where it is, I do now. 1 Timothy 3, look at this. The foundation, the church is built on Christ, the solid rock. Then he starts erecting this edifice, this building. And look at it, verse 15.

First Timothy 3.15, if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. Pillar, the church is Pillar of the truth. Pillar. Seven pillars. Complete. You're complete in Christ. Seven is perfection. Pillar is a post, isn't it? A post.

And they don't do this anymore. But you used to dig deep. You used to dig deep and you put those posts or pillars, whatever they were made out of, on that rock. And then you fill it in, and it's not going anywhere, is it? Now, what do they do now? Get these little plates, and they screw them to the ground and put that big post on. Oh, that's gonna stay. We'll see about that.

No, no. A pillar is set on a foundation. It's grounded and settled. A pillar is a fixture in the building, unmovable, Unshakable, in Hebrews 13, 12. A pillar, for what? To hold forth the truth. That's what every member of Christ's church is. Fixed, David said, my heart is fixed. He fixed it. Grounded and settled, unmovable. Paul said, don't be moved away from the gospel. Don't do it, or you're not his house. Fixed, fixed, a pillar to hold forth the truth.

That's what the purpose of the church is and every member of it. Supporter of the truth, supporter of one another, supporter of the gospel. That's what we are for. That's what the church is for, one thing, one thing. It's not a poor man's country club. It's not a YMCA. It's not a fine diner. It's a pillar of the truth. Hold forth the truth.

You know, there were two pillars in the temple. They had names, Jachin and Boaz. These were the names of the pillar. 1st Kings 7.21, Jachin and Boaz. Jachin means he shall establish. Boaz, Kinsman, and David. Both those pillars are clearly pictures of crime. However, those were real men. Jachin was a real man. You don't know much about him, do you? Well, he was a pillar. Do you ever think about these posts out here? Do you? Talk to them? No. But they're there. Jacob was a faithful man, a supporter of the church. What about Boaz? Was Boaz a faithful man? Oh, he sure was.

Oh, Lord, let it make us be pillars, fixed, settled, holding forth the truth, faithfully supporting the gospel, supporting His church, supporting one another, unmovable, unshakable, A fixture, like living stones. That's what he said of God's people, they're living stones. They're built on Christ, a solid rock, but he calls us living stone. Faithful pillars, seven pillars, seven churches. We've been looking at seven churches, seven pillars. And they were there as long as Christ used them, complete and grand.

Look at verse two. She, Christ, hath killed her beast, mangled her wine, she's furnished her table, killed her beast. What is the church, what is this house all about? Sacrifice. That's what's done there. That's what's done there. And throughout this book, the temple, the temple, the tabernacle, the tent, and then the temple, more permanent dwelling. Wasn't permanent, but that temple and that tabernacle were for the purpose of one thing. And all those beasts and all those animals slain throughout the scriptures, lambs, rams, bullocks, calves, turtledoves, it's all Jesus Christ. Every one of them represent the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what the church does. That's what she did, always, all the time. Never deviates from that, right? Right, that's all the church does, the purpose of the church.

It says in verse two, she killed her beast and mangled her wine and furnished her table. What could that possibly be except the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood, the blood of the lamb. He's prepared us a table in the wilderness, hadn't He? Where we partake of Christ's broken body and shed blood. It says mingled wine. What does that mean? Well, the blood of Christ It mingled means spiced. That's what it means, spiced wine. What is the spice that's in Christ's blood?

There are many. It's the love of God. It's the mercy of God. It's the grace of God. It's the goodness of God. It's the holiness of God. It's the righteousness of God. It's mingled wine, mingled with God. Oh, the character of God. It's not just animal blood, it's precious blood. He prepared us a table.

We eat his body and drink his blood. When Christ said that in John 6, he kept saying that, didn't he? Except you eat my body and drink my blood, you have no part in it. Didn't he? Over and over again. What does that mean? That means where you go in the gospel of Christ's blood and sacrifice is preached constantly. His sacrifice on Calvary's tree is preached constantly.

Unless that means something to you, unless that is your salvation, your hope, your peace, your faith, your life, your everything, Christ and Him crucified, you have no part in Him. Unless that's it. If we don't discern the body and the blood of Christ in taking the Lord's table, He said, you bring damnation to yourself. All the Catholics, all these people that go through the motions, they don't know that Christ is not their bread and their everything.

Is he yours? Well, and some people went away there in John 6, didn't they? So this is hard to say. What do you mean, eat you? We can't. What's he talking about? We're leaving. That's too hard. And he said to his disciple, well, you go away too. Because that's, John, that's all he talked about, wasn't it? Wasn't it? His sufferings. He kept telling them, I'm going to the cross. One time Peter said, oh no, don't do that. Get behind me, Satan. Get behind me. So they said, we're leaving. But he said to his disciples, will you go away? Will you?

Not if you're a pillar. Not if he's made you a pillar. You're not going to go away. Not if you've got a taste of his blood and his precious body. No, no, no. Not if you've sat at his table and you don't want to sit anywhere else. And like Simon Peter said, to whom shall we go? Not what. To whom?

You're our everything. You're our life. You're our bread. You're our meat. You're our water. You're our father. You're our mother. You're our brother. You're our redeemer. You're our friend. You're our redemption. You're our savior. You're our high priest. You're our glam. You're our turtledove. You're our everything. You're our beloved. To whom shall we go? Don't leave us. He ain't gonna leave you. Barbaric? No. Believer. That's what it is. Look at verse three. She has sent forth her maidens.

If you've forgotten that message on Boaz's maidens, go back and listen to it again. Naomi told Ruth, you stay by Moaz's maidens. Remember that? Boaz told Ruth, you stay right here with my maidens. And my young men, I've instructed all of them concerning you. They're not to touch you, do you any harm. You sit right there at the table with my maidens. And she did. What happened? It was good. She found a house, didn't she? And she stayed there. She's still there right now. Ruth. Ruth.

Her maidens. In Acts 2, it talks about your young men and maidens. I'll pour out my spirit and they'll prophesy it. That's what we do. A maiden is a house maid. That's what a maiden is, a house maid. She's not running around here and there. She's in the house, serving the house. That's a house maid. You understand? That's what a maiden is.

A virgin. A maiden is a young virgin. And he's gonna present us as chaste virgin. Without spot, without blemish, we're gonna wear white. Reserved for our Lord. Isn't that something? A maiden is a servant. Of who? Her master. Her master. A maiden serves her master, serves his house. It's where she dwells, that's the place she lives, and that's who and what she serves. A handmaiden. A handmaiden, why is she called that? Because everything the maiden receives is from her master's hands. What do we have we haven't received?

I'd rather be a housemaid or a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord, wouldn't you? Sent forth, verse three, sent forth her maidens. She crieth upon the highest place of the city. He told you about Walter and these handmaids of the Lord being sent out, servants. Well, they cry.

Verse four. Who's so simple, let him turn in here. Anybody simple? Simple, I'll have you know, I got a degree from Fahrenheit University. Celsius. Big deal. They told Paul, Paul said, do I need letters, credentials? No. This is for his servants, for the simple, for the simple. Who's so simple? Gospel's for the simple. The Lord preserved it, the simple, Psalm 116. Are you simple?

Let him turn in hither. This is understanding. As for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, down in verse seven, it says, reprove a scorner, you'll get shame. Rebuke a wicked man, you'll get a blot. Reprove not a scorner, he'll hate you. Rebuke a wise man, he'll love you. He'll love you. Give instruction to a wise man, he'll be wiser. Teach the just man, he'll increase in learning.

What do we know, John, after all these years? You've been with me from the beginning. What do we know? Preach in part. We know in part. We need to learn more, don't we? If Paul the apostle said, oh, that I might know him, where does that leave me? Oh, we need to, I'm simple. I need understanding, don't you? After all these years, you'd think we had some real understanding. We're sad, poor learners, aren't we? We sure enough are.

Verse four, she saith to him, verse five, come eat of my bread. Drink of the wine which I have made. Eat my bread. What is that? Christ is the bread of life. Christ is all the word of God. Our Lord one time said, man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. It's all him, isn't it? It's all Christ. He is the word, he is the bread. He said, I'm the bread from heaven. Come eat of my bread, drink of the wine which I have made known. Oh my, what a good Lord, what good news. He says come and dine, all things are ready.

All things are prepared, just come sit. That's what we're told today. What could be simpler? What could be more comfortable? And to come and hear of what Christ has done for his people and just rest and relax and eat. It's all prepared, you don't bring anything. This ain't potluck. It's sovereign grace, not potluck. Come and eat. No, he went on to say scorners and all that. But here's my parting words to you. If you look at Psalm 65, this is my, the Lord's parting words to that, Psalm 65. Do you want to be a Boaz? Do you want to be a Jacob? A fixture in his temple? I do. I do. You want to be one of Boaz's maidens? Do you? I do. Whose house are we if we hold fast? I say, Lord, hold me fast and I'll hold fast.

But look at Psalm 65. This is wonderful. This is wonderful. Verse, oh man, I wanna read it all. Verse three, iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Had to read that. But verse four, blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house and of thy holy temple. There, stand with me. Stand up like a pillar. Our God.

The House That Wisdom Built

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about the church?

How do we know the church is important for Christians?

Why is wisdom personified in Proverbs as female?

How is Christ the foundation of the church?

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The House That Wisdom Built

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What does the Bible say about the church?

How do we know the church is important for Christians?

Why is wisdom personified in Proverbs as female?

How is Christ the foundation of the church?

Why are members of the church called pillars of the truth?

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