Well, good morning everyone.
If you would, open your Bibles with me to Mark chapter 7. We'll
continue our study in the book of Mark this morning, Mark chapter
7. Before we begin, let's bow before our Lord together in prayer. Our Father, which art in heaven,
holy and reverent is your matchless name. And Father, we come reverently
and carefully into thy presence, daring only come before you pleading
the person, the work, the blood, the obedience of our Lord Jesus
Christ, pleading his person as our only hope of acceptance with
thee. We come reverently and Father, we also come thankfully.
How thankful we are that you've instructed us in your word that
we can Come before your throne of grace boldly, confidently,
pleading our Lord Jesus Christ, confident of our acceptance in
Him because of who He is and what He has accomplished for
His people. Father, it is our earnest plea
this morning that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ be lifted
up and magnified in everything that is said and done here this
morning. That Father, as He is lifted up, you might be pleased
to show us your glory. Show us the redemptive glory
of Christ our Savior and cause us to run to him and find in
him everything that we need, everything that you require of
us. Father, how we beg that you would be pleased to give us the
gift of faith this morning. And what we pray for ourselves,
we pray for our children's classes, we pray for your people wherever
they may meet together today. Father, bless your word. for
your namesake and for the good of your people. And Father, for those that you
brought into the time of trouble and trial, we pray for them.
Those we know of, those that we do not, those who are suffering
silently, those that need you especially, Father, how we pray
that you would be pleased to comfort their hearts with your
presence. And when it comes time and your goodwill and providence
that you would be pleased to lead them out. Father, all these
things we ask and we give thanks in that name which is above every
name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Our lesson this morning is just
one verse, Mark chapter seven, verse 37. It says, and we're
beyond measure astonished, saying he hath done all things well.
He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. I've titled
the lesson this morning, he hath done all things well. Now all things, as they say here
in our text, he hath done all things well, means the same thing
as all things, Romans 8 28. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them where they're
called according to his purpose. He hath done all things well.
Now all things is everything. It's everything. that is, it's
everything that ever happens, whatever it is, our God has done
it, and he's done it well. That's what the word of God teaches
us. Now all things, that's a great big subject, isn't it? But in
the limited amount of time that we have this morning, I wanna
give you a few things that I thought of that our Lord has done well. And I pray that these things
will lead us to trust our souls to Him. To stand in awe and amazement
of Him who hath done all things well. Number one is this. He hath done all things well
in creation. Look at Romans chapter one. Creation
tells us that God is. I mean, you just, all you gotta
do is step outside and look around. You know God is. Now people might
try to deny the fact that they know it, but everybody knows
God had to create all of this. Romans 1 verse 20. For the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. People see
creation and you see something of the eternal power of God. is the whole Godhead involved
in creation. And you look at that work of
creation, I want to tell you, our God did that work of creation
well, didn't he? Creation shows us something about
the power of God, the wisdom of God, the beauty of God. You see creation, and it's right
here in our backyard, and maybe sometimes we've seen it so often
we kind of become blind to it. but go somewhere else and see
something a little different, you're just amazed at the beauty
of God's creation, the wisdom of God. Now, we don't see anything
of the grace of God. We don't see anything of the
redemptive power and will of God in creation, but we see something
of his power. The mysteries of the microscopic
atom that you've got to have this fancy microscope to see,
and the mystery of space that can only be seen with these huge
telescopes They're just as beautiful, just as wonderful, aren't they?
The beauty of a flower in the spring and a snow-capped mountain
in the wintertime, which is still snow-capped even in the summertime.
It's beautiful, it's wonderful. The Lord brings different seasons.
We're getting ready here to have a change of seasons. And all
those different seasons bring blessings to man. The different
seasons give us a time of rest, They give us a time of planting,
a time of refreshing, a time of harvest. This creation, the
wisdom of God, the beauty of it, you see, it's just astounding.
And this creation is marred by sin. It's under the curse of
sin and it's still awe-inspiring. After 6,000 years of man living
on this God's creation, we're still learning new things about
it because it's so magnificent, it's so intricate. Now that's
what we see. You try to imagine what Adam
and Eve saw. Now I know that work that they
lived in was done well because God said so. God got done creating
all of it. He looked at it and he said,
oh, this is very good. Very good. Now that had to be
something else for Adam and Eve to see. Now all we've ever seen
is something marred by sin, but it's still wonderful. And scripture
tells us that God uses that same creative power that he spoke
the world into existence. He used that same creative power
to create a new man in the hearts of his people. And that new creature
who's born of God will never fall into sin and corruption
and death like God's first creation did. You know, Adam caused God's
creation to fall into sin and fall under the curse of sin because
of his rebellion against God. But God didn't leave it up. Now,
God created that garden and He put Adam in it. He said, now,
Adam, you know, you got free reign. It's just one rule. Don't
eat the fruit of this tree. And it was up to Adam whether
or not that place stayed innocent or not. But God does not do that
with the new creature that He creates in the hearts of His
people. He doesn't leave it up to His people to keep that nature
holy and sinless. God created that man. By the
same power, He spoke and said, let there be light. And there
was light. God creates that new man in the hearts of his people
and he creates him holy so he can never fall and become unholy.
Ephesians 4 verse 24 tells us that that new man that God has
created is created in righteousness and true holiness, not pretend,
true holiness, not innocence, not innocence that can be lost,
but true holiness. And our God has done this work
of creation this work of creating a new man in the hearts of his
people. He's done that work so well that that new man is holy,
truly holy, truly righteous, and it's a man that the holy
God will accept into his presence. He has done that well, hasn't
he? All right, number two, God has done every work of providence
well. Now again, Romans 8, 28, we know
that all things work together for good, to them that love God,
to them who are called according to his purpose. Now, all these
things that I'm talking about in Providence, all the acts of
Providence, they work together for good to God's people. They
don't necessarily work together, not necessarily, they do not
work together for good to those that do not love God, to them
who are not called according to his purpose, but they do work
together for good, for believers, for God's people, and that's
who that verse is talking to. Now look first back at Psalm
13. God has done all things well for his people. Every act of
his providence has been done well for his people. Psalm 13, verse six. David says, I will sing unto
the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me. God has
done well for his people. in dealing bountifully with Him.
Dealing bountifully with Him in His grace where our sin abounded. Grace did much more bound. God
has dealt with His people bountifully in His mercy. The riches of His
mercy, they're all yours. If you trust Christ and he had
held one thing back from he's dealt bountifully, he's dealt
bountifully with his people and his goodness to us. Oh God, so
good to his people. He had dealt bountifully with
his people. Now look over at John chapter
one, John chapter one. John 1 verse 16. And of His fullness
have we all received and grace for grace. God has dealt so well
with His people. We receive grace heaped upon
grace. And God's done that for the likes
of sinners like you and me. Oh, He's done well with all the
events of His people. Now that's all things that ever
happened to us. all things that ever happen in
God's creation, all things that happen in the world around us,
God has done all of those things well. He absolutely has. That includes what we think is
bitter and what we think is sweet. That includes big things and
little things. That includes things that we
say are blessings and things that we say are trials. God is
working all of those things together to accomplish a good purpose.
to bring His people home to glory, to be with Him where He is that
we may behold His glory. Now that is only speaking to
believers. Now I tell you, just trust Him. Just trust Him. He shall do His will. And you know, when I made this
statement a minute ago that all things, all things that our Lord
has done with us, He's done them well. That includes the bitter
and the sweet. Every single person in this room
believes that, don't you? But sometimes when we're tasting
that bitter, it's just hard for this flesh
to be able to say this is good for me, isn't it? Let me tell
you, there's coming a day when our God accomplishes his purpose
for us. and he brings us to glory, we're
gonna look back like the people in our text in astonishment and
say, he hath done all things well. All right, number three. Our God has done all things well
in what we call eternity past in the covenant of grace. Now
before God created anything, when only God existed, God entered
into a covenant with God, the covenant of grace. And in that
covenant, the father, he elected a people to save. And when the
father elected a people to save, I'm telling you, he did all things
well. He did that well. You know who
he chose to save? Not people who could do something
to deserve it, but sinners who could never do anything to deserve
it. Sinners who all they could ever do is sin. The father chose
to save sinners who could never be saved, who would never come
to Christ, who would never choose God, unless God chose them first. Oh, he did that work well, didn't
he? And the son in this covenant,
he agreed to be the savior of those people that the father
chose unto salvation. The father put those people he
chose to save into his son. And the son agreed to become
a man. He would make those people righteous
by obeying the law for them. He would become a man. God would
become a man. The eternal God will become a
man of days and being made a man under the law, he would obey
the law for his people and make them righteous. Just like Adam
by his disobedience is gonna make him unrighteous, Christ
the second Adam, he's gonna make his people righteous by his obedience
for them. And he promised his father, I'll
suffer and die for them. I'll take their sin away for
them and I'll put their sin away by my bloody sacrifice for those
people. Now when the son made that promise
to his father, he did all things well. The son fulfilled his end
of that covenant so well and he has promised his father, he
did it so well. The father never one time looked
to his people for anything that he required. He always looked
to his son. because the son promised he'd
provide it. The son did so well in his promise, in this covenant
with his father, that the father never one time was angry with
his people and wanted to damn them. Not one time ever. Because
he always saw his people in Christ. Because of this eternal covenant
of grace where the son promised he'd save those people from their
sin. The father always saw his people as righteous and holy. He always saw his people as the
righteousness of God in Christ. The father always saw his people
as washed in the blood of the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. He always did. That's why the
father did not destroy the whole human race when Adam fell because
he already saw people who had come from Adam's loins as righteous
and holy and washed clean in the blood of Christ. That's how
well the son did in this promise that he made to his father in
the covenant of grace. And don't you love to hear about
God's covenant of grace? I mean, God did this well. Almighty
God determined that there's gonna be a people saved and it's gonna
be by his grace. It's not gonna be by man's works.
It's gonna be by God's grace. It's gonna be by God's doing.
Salvation would be accomplished by the work of the God-man, not
a sinful creature. That's the only way redemption
would be perfect. And that's what God did. He did
that well, didn't he? And God's covenant with God,
this covenant of grace was done so well, it can never be undone. You know, man's covenants and
man's contracts can be undone. I mean, I don't care how well
they're written, how well you think you've got every base covered,
some shyster somewhere can find a loophole in that thing. And
maybe he can't undo it, but boy, he sure can make you miserable
the way he's trying to undo it, can't he? But that can never
happen to God's covenant of grace. God's covenant was done so well
that the Father never looked to me one time to ratify it.
He never looked to me one time to fulfill that covenant. He
never looked to me one time to please Him. Because the father
knew what the son promised before time, he would do in time. So the father never one time
looked to his people to provide any of it. He's always looking
to his son. And that's what God's people
are gonna be enjoying throughout all ages. Almighty God will perfect
what he purposed before time began. Now that's done well,
isn't it? Then number four. God has done
all things well in what we call eternity future. Now again, before
God created anything, before time began, God established his
covenant of grace. In time, the son came and he
ratified that covenant with his own blood. The blood of his sacrifice
sealed that covenant and ratified it. Now when time on earth is
done, all of God's elect, They're gonna be gathered together, they're
gonna be brought to glory, and they're gonna be in heaven perfected,
made just like Christ. That is more glorious than the
human mind can comprehend, to be made just like Christ. However wonderful, We think that
is, I promise you, it's way more wonderful than what we think.
At that time, since we're gonna be made just like Christ, there's
gonna be no more tears, we're not gonna be crying over something
God did, we're not gonna be crying over pain that we caused, because
we're gonna see he did all things well. There'll be no more tears,
there'll be no more heartache, there's gonna be no more sorrow,
there's gonna be no more pain, there's gonna be no more presence
of sin in us. There's gonna be no more effect
of seeing in us or in the world around us. There's gonna be no
more division. There'll be no more division
between believers, no more division between us and the Savior. You
know, there in the book of Revelation where John said, I saw no more
sea. That's what he's talking about. There's no more division.
Seas divide us, don't they? Seas, you know, create different
countries and, you know, they're dividers. There's no more seeing
because there's no more division. We're going to see Christ face-to-face. Again, I don't care how wonderful
we think that's going to be to see Christ face-to-face, I promise
you it's much more wonderful than what we think. To see Him
face-to-face and to be able to shout His praises with perfect
hearts and perfect voices. What can possibly be more well
done than that? What possibly came? Nothing. Then in between what we call
eternity past and eternity future, Christ came in the flesh. The
Son of God came in the flesh and everything that the Lord
Jesus in the flesh was done well. You know, the angel came and
announced the birth of the Lord Jesus. And this is what the angel
said. This is why he's coming. This
is what he's gonna do when he's here. He's going to save his
people from their sin. He shall do it. No question that's
what he's gonna do. And that's what he did. And I'm
telling you, he did a good job of it. He did that job so well. He saved all of his people from
all of their sin. His people are a number no man
can number. That's what the scripture tells
us, doesn't it? And each one of those people, it's a crowd,
you can't count that high, each one of them has an infinite amount
of sin. And by his one sacrifice for
sin, Christ put all of that sin away. By his death, he paid everything
justice demands for that sin. Christ has saved his people from
their sin so well, God cannot condemn them. Now, I know we
want to be careful saying God can't do something, but if Christ
died for you, God cannot condemn you. He cannot, because that
would be unjust. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. That's how well he did in paying
for the sin of his people. Christ came in the flesh and
he obeyed the law so well that he obeyed it perfectly, and when
he did, he brought in everlasting righteousness. Not righteousness
that could be given to you and me that we could lose, eternal,
everlasting righteousness. Let me show you that in Isaiah
chapter 42. Isaiah chapter 42. Verse 21. The Lord is well pleased for
his righteousness sake, for his obedience and established for
either. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake. He
will magnify the law and make it honorable. You and I defile
the law when we try to keep it. Christ magnified it and made
it honorable. And when he did that, he pleased
his holy father. He pleased him, he satisfied
him by his perfection. And he gives that righteousness
to his people and makes them righteous. Now how righteous
are they? You know, people like to talk
about that and argue about that. Well, I'll tell you this, they're
as righteous as Christ is, as righteous as Christ is, by nature,
we're as unrighteous as Adam is, and in Christ, we're as righteous
as he is, as Christ is. And that is so much better than
Adam in the garden. You know, Adam in the garden,
he had a standing with God, didn't he? Adam wasn't created in righteousness. Adam was created in innocence,
in innocence. And he could lose that innocence.
He could keep that innocence as long as he obeyed God. And
he could lose that innocence the very moment he disobeyed
God. And that's just what Adam did. He lost that innocence.
But Christ, when he comes, Now he makes his people innocent.
He takes away their sins. So God's law, God's justice is
that they're innocent. But more than an innocence, Christ
gives his people a righteousness. He makes them righteous. It's
righteousness imputed, righteousness given to us, charged to our account
by the obedience of Christ. And it's righteousness imparted,
put in us in the new birth. A righteous nature that can never
be lost. That's a whole lot better than
Adam standing before God, wasn't it? In Christ's work of establishing
righteousness by His obedience, it was done so well that the
Father never one time looks to His people in order to keep that
righteousness. You know, this is what we tend
to think because of this fallen, depraved, dead mind. Somehow
we tend to think, okay, well Christ died for me, He made me
righteous, but now I gotta keep it. I can't be going and defiling
this thing by my sin, and God would be mad at me. Christ established
righteousness for His people so well, you cannot lose it. The Father never one time looks
to us to keep it, because it's everlasting righteousness. It's righteousness that depends
on our Savior, not on us. That's a work that's done well.
If God did a work that makes a sinner like me righteous and
a sinner like me can't defile it, that's a work that's done
well. Wouldn't you say? All right, number six. Everything that the Lord Jesus
did on the cross was done well. On the cross, the Lord Jesus
justified his people by his death. and sacrificed for them in his
death for their sin, and sacrificed for them, he justified his people. And Christ's work of justification
was done well. Now justification means being
made without any sin. Not legally, truly. Made without sin. So that when
the father looks at his people, He calls them just. The just,
the justified ones. Who are they? Those that Christ
died for. Those that He calls to be born
again with His nature. The just shall live by faith. They don't live by their works.
They don't obtain this justification by their works. They obtain it
by faith. They keep it by faith in Christ. Christ's sacrifice
for the sin of His people was done so well that that made the
sin of his people to not exist. It doesn't exist. So the father
said, I can't remember it. You can't remember something
that didn't exist. You can't remember something
that didn't happen. That's how well Christ did this job of justification
to make his people without any sin. And here's our problem with this
thing of justification. We can't understand that. How
can a sinner like me be made without any sin? It's because
Christ did that work so well. It's so, even though I can't
explain it. And the proof that Christ's sacrifice
justified all of his people, wiped out all that sin, made
that sin to not exist, is his resurrection. Christ was raised
from the dead because the sin that was charged to him is gone.
Christ died for sin. Christ died as the result of
sin, the sin of his people being made his. He died for the sin
of his people, but now that sin is gone. If it's not gone, he's
still dead in the tomb over there somewhere. But if that sin is
gone, he must be raised from the dead. And the father raised
him from the dead because his sacrifice made the sin of his
people to not exist. Romans 4.25, who was delivered
for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. He raised again as the evidence,
his sacrifice justified his people. He did that work well, didn't
he? On the cross, Christ did the work of forgiveness. Forgiveness
of sin, and he did it well. Christ did that work so well
that all of the sin of his people is gone. It's gone. The Father forgives the sin of
His people because Christ paid for it. He put it away. The blood
of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. All sin. All sin. You're not
going to come up with one that the Father didn't see and didn't
charge to Christ and Christ didn't put away. All the sin of all
of His people. It's impossible for the Father
to condemn you if Christ died for you because He's forgiven
you. Christ accomplished that work at Calvary Street, and He
did that job well, didn't He? And boy, the ears of a sinner perk up when
I start hearing about this work of forgiveness, because I need
to be forgiven. Oh, I love to hear, Christ did
that work of forgiveness so well that the Father forgives my sin. And then lastly, Christ has done
all things well in his intercession for his people. Now, after Christ
arose from the dead, he spent about 40 days with his disciples
and he sent him back to the Father, where right now he sits on the
right hand of God, where scripture tells us he ever lives to make
intercession for his people. I'm so thankful that the Savior
is the one making intercession for me. because nobody knows
better than him, he died for my sin. And he does such a good
job of making intercession for his people that the writer to
the Hebrew says, chapter seven, verse 25, he is able also to
save them to the uttermost. To the uttermost. They come unto
God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
He ever lives, pleading his sacrifice for the forgiveness of the sin
of his people, and the Father always accepts that sacrifice.
Because we've already covered that, he did that job well. So
the Father always accepts it. Our Savior has done all things
well. Now whatever excuse somebody
has to not trust him is a bad excuse. He's done all things
well. Now you trust your soul to him.
I pray we will. All right. Lord bless you.