Recognising - It is the Lord

Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayer for attention to the book of Samuel, the first book of Samuel, chapter 3, and reading a few words from verse 18. In the middle of this verse we read, it is the Lord. The whole verse reads, and Samuel told him every wit and heard nothing from him, that is from Eli, and he said, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. The Lord's people, recognizing when it is the Lord that has spoken, The Lord is dealing with them and in recognizing who it is, able to fall before His sovereign hand, to bow before Him and to be comforted that it is the Lord that they are dealing with, who is dealing with them, that He is in control.

We read the account of our Lord constraining the disciples to get into a ship, to go into a path that He had most clearly directed them in. Now maybe those of you here that are in a path where the Lord has most clearly directed you in, appointed it for you, directed you in it, but when you walked in it, when you're in it, then you don't feel the Lord with you. The disciples there, they did not feel the Lord with them, He was not with them, they could not see Him. And yet then there arose this wind and the storm and the darkness, all without a realization of the Lord with them. What a picture! of the path often that God will lead his people in and direct his people in, so that they follow, they obey. And then it becomes the path of tribulation, of trial, of fear.

And then in that account, just before they are delivered, then they see what they think is a spirit coming to them. It is the Lord coming to them, but not in the way that they expected, and they didn't at first at all recognize Him, but rather were in even more fear.

These things are written not as an account that's happened once and has no parallel in the lives of the people of God. It is a record of what happened. It is a record of what the Lord did, the miracle that He performed and what He enabled Peter to perform as well. There's also a record of the path of the people of God walking in the Lord's bidding and walking in paths that are dark to them until the Lord comes.

And the whole changing of that scene In the midst of their fears is when the Lord says, it is I, be not afraid. When they could know by His own word, and that they could recognize Him, that it really was the Lord. Then when they saw the miracle, Peter walking, Peter saved, the winds, the bed to be still, the waves to still, and the Lord in the ship, the effect of viewing of Him with reverence, and that thou art the Son of God, the testimony of who He was. What a wonderful outcome, what an outcome of blessing, of lifting up, of strengthening their faith, and viewing the Lord in a way that they had not viewed before, and yet it had been through trial and darkness and tribulation and uncertainty. But this is what is upon my spirit here, is the coming of the Lord and His people recognizing Him, who it is that is dealing with them. It is not chance, it is not fortune, it is not man, it is not the world, it is not nature, but it is the Lord. and what that means to the people of God.

So I want you to look this evening at the Lord's help. Firstly, at the person recognized, the Lord. And then secondly, the mark of grace in recognizing that it is the Lord. And then thirdly, how some of the Lord's dear people have recognized it is the Lord. And we can only just look at a few of those in Scripture this evening. There may be some others not in Scripture.

But firstly, the person that is recognized God manifests in the flesh, in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In all the manifestations throughout the Scripture, it is through God's beloved Son that He manifests Himself toward men. in types, in shadows, in similitudes, in the Old Testament, as an angel, as one that when asked the name said, why askest after my name, seeing it is secret? But the one that is being shown is the one name that is given among men whereby we must be saved. The Eternal God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, is the author of salvation. In each one of the Trinity, there's a part of that salvation.

But it agrees the Father that in Him, in the Lord Jesus Christ, should all fullness dwell. And the Holy Spirit, our Lord says, shall not speak of himself, but that which he shall hear, that shall he speak. He shall receive of mine and show it unto you. No man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. And so, our Lord, if we were to read Paul's epistle to the Colossians in chapter one, He has set forth then that in all things He, that is the Lord Jesus Christ, might have the pre-eminence. while our Lord was on earth.

The miracles that He wrought, the Father wrought through Him and bore witness, He says, they bear witness of Me, and the witness of the Father's voice from heaven. This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. and it is him that is viewed and set forth to poor sinners. Our Lord speaks of his sufferings and of his death, that if I be lifted up above the earth will draw all men unto me. It is central for the types and the shadows that pointed to Calvary and the preaching of the gospel that preaches and points back to Calvary and the ordinances of baptism, buried with him by baptism into death and risen again in newness of life.

And the Lord's supper, this do in remembrance of me, As oft as ye eat this bread, drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord's death till he come, they all exalt our Lord Jesus Christ. They all set forth his work, His work in salvation, His work in sinners' hearts, His work that the people of God rest and trust in, which really is the sum of the gospel, is what the Lord has done, God's provision in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

And when He is viewed He is viewed as the Redeemer, the Saviour, the One Name given among men, whereby we must be saved. And so it's very important that we recognize that when God is showing Himself and showing Himself in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, He's setting forth that way of salvation and that which is for the good of God's people. not for their destruction, but for their good.

When Joshua was to go into the promised land, there stood against him the angel with sword drawn, art thou for us or for our enemies? Well, he was the captain of the Lord's house, one of the pre-incarnation appearances of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ is for His people and is Him that is shown to His people.

And when they are brought to this, it is the Lord. It is a recognizing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is recognizing Him whom God has highly exalted. It is pointing to Him who was sent made of a woman, born under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, that suffered, bled, died, and rose again for the justification of His people, made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in heaven. This is the one that the Holy Spirit and the Father reveals to sinners, reveals to them in various times and ways in their lives, and each time that he does, it is coming in a way of blessing and a way of help for his people. So I want to look with our second point, the mark of grace in recognizing it is the Lord. Now why I want to put it in this way is because the Lord is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe.

There are not two forces in this world. If we were to go into a hospital ward and we have one of the Lord's people there and we have five that are atheists, or of different so-called faiths, and they all go forth from that ward healed, and the atheist would say, well so much for your God, you say you pray to him to be healed, and you give thanks to him, but I don't believe in him, I haven't prayed to him, And I've been healed just the same as you. You prove that you've got a God, that your God's anything better than my God. I don't believe in a God.

And what answer have you got? The answer is, the Lord healed him just as much as one of his people. When it comes to the last judgment day, the judge of all the earth would say, you You did not ask to be healed, and I healed you. I healed you, and you didn't give thanks. You didn't even acknowledge me. But this, my child, did pray for my help. And in answer to their prayers, I healed them. And when they were healed, they returned, and they gave glory to God and gave thanks.

You think of the Lord with those ten lappers. Where are the nine? and how much that is repeated in hospital wards and throughout the country. So we must be clear on this, that is not just recognizing that it is the Lord, the Lord is good to all, his tender mercies are over all his works. He opens his hand, he satisfies the desire of every living thing. He is the God of heaven and of earth. Who is He that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

And it's important for us to realize this. and to give no allowance that there are other forces in this world that are superior or working for others and God has no control, no saying, oh, Satan isn't in control, man isn't in control, chance is not in control, God is in control. We need to know that. But what a difference it is When the Lord's people may see exactly the same thing that is happening, they might see the same events, but they see that it is the Lord. They recognize the Lord's hand in it, and that marks them out from the rest of this world.

The Lord said before he was taken up, and the disciples, they puzzled over this, they said, how thou reveal thyself unto us, but not unto the world? And the Lord said, but the world cannot see me. They cannot see the Holy Spirit. And therefore they don't believe, they cannot believe. How wilt we? How wilt thou show thyself unto us, and not unto the world? They puzzled at it.

Our Lord said very clearly, before he suffered, bled and died, the world seeth me no more. Before he suffered they did. They saw him in the streets, they heard him in the synagogues, they saw But after He suffered and then rose from the dead, He only appeared to His people. He only appeared to His own, not to the world.

And that is the mark that is so encouraging for God's people. Because where the Lord shows Himself to them, There is firstly a mark that they are His people. That's why He has shown Himself to them. The Lord has given them faith. He has given them to see what others cannot see. To perceive what others cannot perceive.

And He's marked out His people in that way. that we know that was so in those 40 days between when our Lord rose and then ascended up into heaven. 40 days of testing, 40 days of witnesses, 500 brethren at once. Notice, not 500 at once, 500 brethren at once, God's people.

But how is it then? that he still shows himself to his people. Well, the Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road, but not all is like that. But he still shows himself, reveals himself to his people so that they're able to say it is the Lord in his dealings with them, in providence, in grace, through the Word, God is known by the judgment that He executed. The Lord's testimony in John 10 stands to the end of time.

My sheep, they know me, and I know them. My sheep, they hear my voice, and they follow me. Stranger will they not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers. And that testifies to the end of the world, that mark of the people of God, they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest. They shall not teach every man his neighbor, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me. The covenant is everyone shall be taught of God. Great shall be the peace of my children. And the Lord then is revealing and showing Himself to His people through His Word.

We read of it here with Samuel. At the end of this chapter, the Lord appeared again in Shiloh, for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the Word of the Lord. So by the word of the Lord, Samuel could say, it is the Lord, because the Lord had revealed himself to him through his word. When the Lord began with Samuel, Samuel did not yet know the Lord. But how did the Lord begin to show himself to him? He showed him by speaking to him.

The Lord said to the rich man, the case of Lazarus and the rich man, when he said, My brethren, they will believe if one rose from the dead. He said, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they hear though one rose from the dead. The Lord speaks through his word. Whoso receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth my Father which sent me.

And it's specifically shown through Samuel. It is through the word of God. And of course, in the New Testament, in these gospel days, it hath pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. We should gather in the house of God expecting that the Lord reveal Himself to us through His word, through the preached word and remember with Samuel he would have known Eli very well and he thought it was Eli's voice.

I wonder how many of you, how many of the Lord's people at first, have thought, well, it is the minister's voice. It is not the Lord's voice, it is the minister. And in that way, it's only when another minister has come, and they've heard the same word, and the same voice is spoken again, then they realize that it is the Lord. It is not that. It is not chance. It is not that just two ministers have colluded together and wrote the same word. They are the messenger.

The Lord is the one that sent them. The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of them that spake it. And great are those that hear it. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said unto the churches. That was the closing word of each letter to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. It is vital that the Lord is recognised as speaking in a church. and in their lives, and we'll be able to say it is the Lord.

And where it is so, there's a real token of the grace of God for us. And also, it will be known by the effect, we said with those on the sea, how they had their comfort, their fears taken away. Where the Lord speaks to his people is through the gospel, through the Lord. It brings the blessing of the Lord, maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with him.

Or in John 16.33, In me ye shall have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer.

I have overcome the world. And so if there are those of you here that have recognized in your providences, you might be able to see some to recognize as we come to those examples from the Word, but through the ministry, through the Word, you felt this rise up, it is the Lord. Or this is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. Those through Scripture. And those in more recent times who have been able to recognise through the comfort of our souls that the Lord has had dealings with us, it is the Lord.

May they be the Spirit's witness and comfort and blessing through that knowledge this evening. I want to look then thirdly at how some of the Lord's dear people have recognized the Lord and what has been the circumstances. I want to begin with the portion here before us with Eli and Samuel.

Eli here is being told some very solemn tidings. concerning his sons, really concerning his own lack of reproving his sons. That is what the Lord said. He knows these things. He's not been dealing with them. He's spoken morally to them, but he should have put them out of the priesthood, should have stopped them doing the things he didn't. He'd already been told by one prophet of the Lord this same message.

And then Samuel comes, the first time Samuel ever come. You might have one of the Lord's servants, your esteemed Lord's servant, you may have heard him for many years, could be your pastor, and you hear the word from his mouth, maybe a very searching word, Word that cuts you down, word that really you feel the Lord's found you out. It's been the solemn word too. And then when a Lord's servant comes that's only just newly been sent out, he comes with the same word, the same warning. Can you hear that? You don't say. That was a coincidence. Our pastor spoke of that the other week. Well that was an interesting account. Eli here, he fell before it.

He said it is the Lord. It's not the former prophet, it's not Samuel, it's the Lord that's speaking through these two. Samuel didn't know anything of the former one. Samuel was fearful of telling Eli. But you know, instead of Eli collapsing, crumbling, devastated under this world, he said, it is the Lord. Let him do what seemeth good.

You think of when David numbered Israel. David couldn't at first see his sin at all. Joab tried and tried to make him see it, he couldn't see it. But then when he could, his heart smoked him. He didn't blame Satan. He didn't blame the Lord. One account says Satan stood up against Israel. The other said the Lord moved David to do it because Israel had sinned. No, he didn't blame them. He said, I have sinned.

When he was given those three choices, he knew he had to have the chastening hand of God upon him and upon his wife. He said, let me now fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great. He knew the Lord. He knew even in chastening, even in judgment, the Lord would show mercy. and that it was better to fall into his hands than to fall into the hand of man, or fall into any other hand. And so dear Eli here fell under the hand of the word of the Lord. It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him doing.

We have a similar account in Leviticus 10, those first three verses when David had The two sons of Aaron, of Ihu, they took strange fire and they offered it before the Lord. The only fire that should have been offered was that which was kindled from heaven, taken off the altar, not sparks of your own kindling as we read in another place. And the Lord consumed them, He spoke them, He killed them. And Moses, he said, this is what the Lord said, I will be sanctified on all those that approach unto me.

It must be done as ordered by the Lord. And we read, and Aaron held his peace. I've often marveled at that. As a father, and I think any father here, to see two of your sons cut down in front of your eyes, to realize it was under the judgment of God, because what have they done was against God, against His demand, to hold one's peace, what grace was needed. But Aaron, he realized it was the Lord. is dealing with the God of heaven and of earth, of a God that is to be feared, to be reverenced, a God in whom is our salvation.

The hymn writer has got it right, hasn't he? The hymn writer says, my soul stands trembling while she sings the honours of her God. David knew what it was when Uzzah was slain before the ark. The New Testament church knew what it was when Ananias and Savirah were cut down and slain. They knew it was the Lord.

They were dealing with the God of heaven and of earth, not a figment of imagination. Not man, not one that could be made to say this or that or do this or that. What comfort does us all have of a God that is just a puppet or just an idol that is made to say and to do what we want it to do, but has no control over our lives. But when we realize we have a God that will chastise, that will correct, that will reprove, We recognise when he speaks that he is the Lord.

And bow before his hand. I've no doubt Eli was one of the Lord's dear people. And though he was chastened, no came as such a weight upon him when the news came. that his sons died. I believe it was more when he knew the ark was taken that he fell back and died. But I believe he was one of the Lords and yet had to walk that path. But he was brought to submission and to bow before the Lord. That is a real mark of grace to be submissive to the Lord. What did our Lord say?

Nevertheless, not mine, but thy will be done. So we have Eli here. We have Jacob. Jacob, when Esau was coming, and he feared for his life, he feared for his loved ones, and he wrestled with the angel. I will not let thee go except thou bless me." Jacob means supplanter. It was at that time that it was said thou hast wrestled with God and with man and hast prevailed. Thy name shall be called Israel. Wrestled with who?

God and with man. It's one of the first times the Lord blessed His Word to me in revealing Himself, it is the Lord. One never forgets that. One's eyes are open in reading the Word of God, in reading those accounts of the pre-incarnation appearances of our Lord and it suddenly is revealed and opened up to you who that is. God and man in one person and Jacob had prevailed and wrestled and that's why his name is Israel.

Those are precious times and we've sung two hymns on prayer, haven't we? Those are precious times when there is a difference between prayer and prayer. When we are given resting prayer. When we have that sense that the Lord has heard and will answer our prayers and to know it is the Lord. because it is the Lord that takes our petitions, receives them, and sends them above.

He is the one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. He is our advocate with the Father, and the first evidence was, I will pray the Father, He will give you another comforter, which shall abide with you forever. Tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. And when the Holy Spirit was given in Pentecost, a direct fulfillment of the intercessory power of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It could be said then, it is the Lord who has sent, made intercession, and the Spirit has been given. And so, dear Jacob, and each poor soul has known a blessing of it is the Lord while they have been in prayer. while they've been wrestling with the Lord. So know in that time it is the Lord that has come, given them power to wrestle, permitted Himself to be wrestled, to give them that faith to believe that what they have asked shall be done for them, as it was with Jacob.

You think after our Lord rose from the dead, and first the women, they came to the tomb, weeping, who shall pull us away the stone? Disciples had come, they looked, they'd gone away, and there's Mary at the grave, weeping. And our Lord comes, and she thinks first it is the gardener. Why weepest thou? Who seekest thou? They have taken away my Lord. I know not where they have laid him.

The Lord only needed to speak her name. And she could say the words of our text. It is the Lord. She didn't in fact, she said Master. He immediately recognised him. How many of you have known what it is the Lord to come to you as you wept, as you mourned? Mourned a saviour that you couldn't see, you knew not where he was. Know that I knew where I might find him, says John. And then the Lord comes.

Of course with Samuel he spoke his name. Mary, he spoke her name. The Assistant Faith over in Australia, very low, despondent in her soul in the nursing home, and a new member of staff came hanging up clothes in the wardrobe. She turned to my Assistant Faith Alice, she said to her, my name is Mary. And immediately the Lord said to her, Mary. had chosen that better path. It shall not be taken away from her. And my sister in faith's temptation that she was under was that the path that she had would be taken away from her.

But the Lord used that member of staff just introducing herself with that one name to bring to her remembrance the Scripture. The Holy Spirit, the Comforter, shall bring to your remembrance all things whatsoever I have said unto you. Sometimes the Lord uses little triggers, as it were, to immediately bring it straight back to your remembrance, with a sweetness, with a power, with an effect, which it did in my sister in faith. a great effect, even physically, so that the staff could notice the difference, the blessing the Lord blessed it with. The Lord's blessings don't leave His people unmoved when He visits them and shows Himself to them. So dear Mary, what a wonderful change to her, an empty tomb, but now a risen saviour, and one that she could sigh in tears. the Lord, or it is my Lord. Then what about the later on, the disciples in the upper room? Why were they in the upper room?

They were there for fear of the Jews. Easy for us to just overlook that fact. Why were they there? They were already in fear And then suddenly those locked doors, there comes someone through them. How fearful they were. Behold it is I, a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see he hath. He showed them his hands and his feet. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. They were brought to know it is the Lord. Thomas, he wasn't with them then. They told him that they had seen the Lord. He said, except I see the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of his nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. We had to wait eight days. Had to wait to the next first day of the week.

And our Lord comes. And he reveals immediately, he knows exactly what Thomas has said, immediately addresses himself to him, reach forth thy finger, put it into the print of thy nails, thrust forth thy hand into my side, being not faithless, but believing.

Thomas said unto him, my Lord and my God, What if Thomas had been left in that position? What if the Lord had never appeared, but the Lord did appear? What a blessing when the Lord does that. I remember when my mother died, when she died, and I'd seen all of her prayers, I'd heard all of what the Lord had done, but I hadn't recognized it was the Lord. I so wanted her to be saved. It was hid from me. But the Lord didn't leave that like that. She died on the Saturday. The Sunday my father got me to read at the family worship. They didn't have a church in Tasmania then.

One of Frank Gosden's servants. from Hebrews 11, they that say such things declare plainly that they see a country. And one of those things that he said was what Ruth had said, thy people shall be my people, thy God my God. And that was something I had witnessed, my mother saying. In an event that happened before, she'd had a The General Baptist minister come and sit next to her, my father and I were standing at the door, we saw him, and she never gave any indication that he was there at all. And he got up, he stood next to me, my father sat next to my mother, spoke to her. Suddenly she says, I don't want these people, I want my own people. And that flooded back to me.

And then, it was as if the Lord took off the veil from my eyes and I saw all of her prayers, everything that had happened, in such a different light. And I ever since been called into the ministry, I think her conversion, her death, that hidden from me first and then opened and seen, has been such a strength to me. To see faith in exercise, to see the peace and blessing of God, and to know as well that you can see all that in someone and not even recognize it. And then to have it opened as to who it was that had done it, and whose work it was, and the comfort that flows forth from that. No wonder the psalmist says, open thou mine eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of thy law. But in the context here, open thou mine eyes that I might see the law, that I might see in this providence, in this path, that it is the law.

What about with the disciples? They were fishing. They said, we go fishing. It had been a time before. They toiled all night, they caught nothing. The Lord had blessed them with a wonderful catch. But this time this stranger appears on the shore. and asked them whether they'd caught anything. No, they hadn't. Again, they'd toiled all night, caught nothing. Again, he directed them, cast the net on the right side of the ship. Then they enclosed those 153 fishes and the net was not broken.

And it is John that recognized. He said, it is the law. Peter, he throws himself into the sea, he goes to the Lord. The Lord says, come and dine, he's already got fish, he's already got coal, he's already cooking it. None asked him, art thou the Lord, for they knew it was the Lord. Those were mysterious appearances. after he rose from the dead, because it was sound like on the way to Emmaus on that occasion, that by visual sight alone they did not know him. But it was him, and they knew by his works, by his miracles, by his word, everything pointed that this was the Lord, and we know it was.

We can have providences as well. The Lord is the God of providence. We can have things like when Abraham sent his servant for a wife for Isaac. The servant relates to Laban and Bethuel how he prayed and how the Lord had answered his prayer. And they said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord. telling from how the Lord had acted in Providence, how he'd ordered these things, that it was the Lord. Jacob could trace back to the ten times that Laban had changed his wages, except the God of my fathers had been with me. He knew it was the Lord that was keeping Laban from just taking everything from him.

We can notice the same. He that will watch providence will never lack providence to watch. If you think of the ups and downs, again, the debts, the prayers, the answers to prayers through Psalm 107, and then we get to the end of that Psalm, Who so is wise, and will observe these things even though, shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. That it is the Lord that has been doing these things, bringing into depths, bringing into troubles, bringing into times when prayer has been squeezed out, but prayer has been answered and deliverances, and through that psalm, O that men would praise the Lord. And in noticing these things we understand the loving kindness of the Lord.

Dear friends, watch Providence, watch His hand, so easy to mistake Him. I've seen those profess Christians and they've told me things. that have happened, and they've ascribed them to luck and chance. I said, that is not luck and chance. That is God's providence. His hand was in that matter. And even though I told them they couldn't see it, they wouldn't receive it. It's a solemn thing. But it's a blessed thing. You know, we do sing, don't we?

My last minutest circumstance is subject to His eye. already quoted, who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not. We are to practice it, we are to walk it out. and to notice the timing of the Lord, the suitability of the Lord, the bringing together. Remember we know that all things work together for good to them that know God, to them that are the cause according to His purpose. Providence might happen prior say to the service tonight. Then the Lord brings the word and joins that with what has happened. What has happened is changing how you hear the word.

The Lord waited three and a half years with Israel in a famine before he brought Elijah up to test them. Is Baal God or is the Lord God? When they saw the altar, the flame from heaven, and everything consumed, they said, the Lord, he is God. In other words, it is the Lord. He is the God. The Lord prepares our ears.

And you look in the book of Esther, and you see the Lord's hand. Who can read the book of Esther and say, it is not the Lord? It is the Lord, right through. And what about the book of your life and my life and the words that he brings to us and what he blesses to us?

One last one to think of, and that is the case of the eunuch in his chariot leading Isaiah 53. He cannot see the Lord. The Lord sends, the Holy Spirit sends Philip. He sends him to that chariot. Understandest thou what thou readest? How can I accept some man guide me? Bids him come up into the chariot. Of who speaketh the prophet this?

Of himself or some other man. As lab is the sheep to the slaughter, and as sheep the voice hearest is dumb, as a lamb before the slaughter, so opened he not his mouth. Philippi began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus. Now at the end of that sermon, or through that sermon, this truth would have been impressed on that human.

It is the Lord in Isaiah 53. That is who has been speaking of. Then he wanted to be baptized, and his testimony was, when Philip said, If thou believest with all thy heart thou must, his testimony was, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. In other words, it is the Lord that you have been preaching. Philip preached unto him Jesus.

May that be repeated again and again for you and I, under the preaching of the Word. so that we are able to come in with the eunuch, and if not, walking in his ordinances, as yet to walk in that. But if we are to be confirmed and strengthened in that, to know it is the Lord. Why is it that the Lord has shown himself to me, to my poor soul, through the lattice of the word of God and not others? Only because of his favour. and love to my song only because I'm one of His children. May we know these times when the answer of our song, our profession is, it is the Lord. One day we shall see Him face to face. When He comes, His people shall know Him. They shall see Him. They shall be like Him. What a blessed day! But here below it is by faith. We come to these words. It is the Lord. The Lord bless this world. Amen.

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