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Coming to The King

1 Kings 10:1-9
Luke Coffey June, 9 2024 Video & Audio
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Luke Coffey June, 9 2024
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In his sermon titled "Coming to The King," Luke Coffey primarily addresses the theological doctrine of revelation, focusing on how God makes Himself known to humanity through Christ, as illustrated by the visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Coffey emphasizes that the Queen's journey was prompted by an extraordinary hearing about Solomon’s wisdom, particularly concerning the name of the Lord, which symbolizes a deeper spiritual quest for truth. He supports his arguments through several Scripture references, including Matthew 12:42, which speaks of the Queen acknowledging a greater than Solomon, and John 1:1-3 that expounds on the preeminence of Christ. The practical significance of this message underscores that true seeking must lead individuals to Christ, where they can receive wisdom and answers to hard questions about life, faith, and salvation. Coffey asserts that this journey to the King is essential for all sinners, as it is only in Christ where real understanding and salvation can be found.

Key Quotes

“A sinner does not come to the Lord unless they hear something.”

“We must go to the Lord Jesus Christ. He must tell us. He must show us. That's the only way we'll know.”

“Christ is the wisdom of God. Christ is the truth. If a man would know God and the mysteries of redemption and life, let him ask of Christ great and hard questions.”

“Once we see the glory, the power, and the wisdom of God, we abhor ourselves.”

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Good morning. You say that, Rex, and it brings
joy to my heart. And then I think to myself, if
we didn't have a Lord who could do everything, how could I believe
that it could happen four generations? You know, I got four little ones
and we just pray constantly. But thankfully, the Lord can
do anything. If you would open your Bibles to 1 Kings 10. 1 Kings 10. We'll read the first
nine verses of 1 Kings 10. And when the queen of Sheba heard
of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came
to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with
a very great train, with camels that bear spices, and very much
gold and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. And Solomon
told her all her questions. There was not anything hid from
the king which he told her not. And when the queen of Sheba had
seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers,
and his assent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord,
there was no more spirit in her. And she said to the king, It
was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts
and of thy wisdom. Howbeit, I believed not the words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen it. And, behold, the half
was not told me. Thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth
the fame which I heard. Happy are thy men, happy are
these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and
that hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God,
which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel,
because the Lord loved Israel forever. Therefore made he thee
king, to do judgment and justice." I love this story. But I remember
as a child thinking this story was about a wealthy lady who
heard about a king that might just be wealthier than her. And
I thought she just had to go see if she was the wealthiest
or if he was the wealthiest, and that's why she went. But
in verse 1, there's a little phrase And when the queen of
Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord,
that little phrase changes everything. She wasn't going to see about
his money. She wasn't going to see about
his fame. She was going concerning the
name of the Lord. This woman had heard of someone
that knew things that she didn't know, that had things that she
didn't have, and did things that she couldn't do. And in Matthew,
our Lord quotes this passage or references this and says,
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with
this generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold,
a greater than Solomon is here. This story is an example of a
sinner coming to see Christ. A sinner who, if we look at verse
1, it says, And when the queen of Sheba heard, she had heard
something. She had to have heard something
pretty special, something pretty spectacular for her to pack up
this large train of people and animals and goods to travel a
very long distance to go check out what she had heard. I hear
things all the time. And even in a day when almost
everything is at my fingertips, we have a device now that you
can ask anything and find the answer. But oftentimes I hear
things and I just dismiss them. I could find the answer in five
seconds, but I just dismiss it because it's not quite important
enough for me to listen to. She heard something so amazing,
so special, so unique that she had to pack up and travel a great
distance with great peril in order to do so. She did not come except that
she heard. A sinner does not come to the
Lord unless they hear. We just don't care. What do we
care about? We care about ourselves. We don't
care about a God. We don't even believe in a God.
We will not come unless He makes us to hear something. Now, that
manifests itself in many different ways. It might be just a whisper. It might be something in the
Bible. It might be something someone says. But everyone is
here this morning because they have heard something. Now maybe
it's your parents have forced you to come. I was there for
many years. Maybe you came, you spoke of my dad. He came to hear
this word because of some girl that he liked. The Lord uses
many means to make us come to hear something. But we don't
come on our own. A sinner will not approach God,
will not come to Him, will not ask any questions apart from
He makes them to hear something. I can't say that enough. I'm
not going to dwell on that the rest of this message. But everything
we say, this whole story about this woman and go to see the
king, us going to see our king, seeing the king of Israel, the
king of the world. See, the Lord Jesus Christ is
all because he makes us to hear something. He pricks our heart.
He makes us to do that. So keep that in mind, because
I feel like everything I'm going to say the rest of the way, I
need to add that qualifier. Don't forget, we're not coming
except he made us to come. So keep that in mind. And when
we read this verse, And when the queen of Sheba heard of the
fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she heard something
and it was about a person. All of this fame, this glory,
this wealth, all of it was about one person, about the king. Everything we hear, and we've
heard a lot, is all about the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there
are many things to be heard in our day and age. There's information
everywhere and there's a lot of people talking. It has become
very popular to say that you go to church or that you believe
in God. It is kind of a norm thing. People
want that to be known about themselves. But the Lord pricks the heart
of a sinner, and they hear things. Now, the queen heard of this
fame. She heard of the wealth. She
heard of the glory. Have we not heard of the person and work
of the Lord Jesus Christ? Turn with me to Isaiah 7. Isaiah chapter 7. In Isaiah 7, listen to this.
Verse 14, Turn over one page to Isaiah 9 and look at verse
6. For unto us is a child born,
unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace,
All these things we've heard about Him. Listen in Galatians,
it says, When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth
His Son, made of a woman, made under law, to redeem them that
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. We have heard of this person,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We've heard of the person and
the work of Him, what He's done. The world, the government shall
be upon His shoulder. He'll be called Wonderful, the
Counselor. He'll be all these things. Have we not heard of
the deity and the glory of Christ? Turn with me to Hebrews 1. Hebrews
1. In the first five verses here,
this is of the deity and glory of Christ. God, who at sundry
times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His
Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He
made the world. He made the world. who being
the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when
He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand
of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the
angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name
than they, For unto which of the angels said he at any time,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee, and again I
will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son." This
is the Son of God who we're talking about. That's who we've heard
about. This isn't the false religion or the popular so-called Jesus. And I hate using that word, but
so many people just use that word flippantly. This isn't just
a man. This isn't just a person who
made things possible, who has some power, who can do some things. No, this is the Son of God who
does all things. The world, everything is His.
He created the worlds. When I describe our existence,
we live in the world, singular. He made the worlds. I don't even
understand the things He made. That's too far above me. What
about, have we not heard of the wisdom and power of Christ? Listen
to this. In Colossians it says, For by
Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers. All things were created by Him
and for Him. And He is before all things,
and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body,
the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
and in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased
the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell." Not only
did He create everything, He has preeminence over everything.
He controls everything. I find it so hard to believe
that so many people seem to think and be okay with God created
all things, but He's not in control of all things. That's amazing
to me. He is in control of everything.
Everything is in His hand. Everything is in His mind, His
heart. He controls all things. So we've heard about His person
and work of Christ. We've heard about the deity and
glory of Christ. Have we not heard of the wisdom
and power of Christ? And what about hearing of the
death and resurrection of Christ? Turn over to 1 Corinthians 15.
1 Corinthians 15. Verse 20. I know I'm reading a lot of these
Scriptures and returning to these, but it's so important. And just
in case you haven't heard this, I want you to see it in the Scripture.
We hear about the death and resurrection of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15 verse
20 says, But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every
man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, afterward they
that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet."
He has to reign until that happens. Verse 26, The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death, for he hath put all things under
his feet. But when he saith, All things
are put under him, it is manifest that he is accepted, which did
put all things under him. And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject
unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all
and in all. We hear about the death and resurrection
of Christ. Paul told Festus in Acts, he
said, these things were not done in a corner. He said, these things
were not hidden. These things were done out in
the open for everyone to see. They've been recorded in a book.
People have been prophesying this, teaching this for centuries. For thousands of years this has
been spoken. This is not a secret. This woman
heard these things. This queen, turn back to our
text, in the first Kings verse 10. We've heard all these things. This woman had heard the fame
of Solomon. The fame of Solomon, who is well
regarded as the wisest king ever and probably the best king. Wouldn't
the wisest be the best king? Earthly king? He pales in comparison
in every single way to our Lord, the true King. All these things
we've heard, we can just hear a glimpse of it. We can't grasp
the truth. I read these passages for the,
I don't know how many hundreds of times I've read these, and
yet you still just can't, I can't get it. I don't understand it.
My sin, I can't grasp it. He's too great to understand.
We'll see that in a minute. But the queen, having heard of
Solomon, came to him to see and hear for herself. That's the
thing we must do. She had probably heard people
tell stories of Solomon. She may have seen things that
were written about Solomon. She may have talked to people
who had heard or seen Solomon. She may have talked to people
who lived in Solomon's kingdom. She may have done all that stuff.
But what did she have to have? She had to go talk to him. There
are a lot of things we can do, but until we go to the Lord,
until we hear it from Him, we can't be sure. We can't know.
Is this not the thing for a sinner to do? Come to Christ? Come directly
to Him? Do not be satisfied with only
hearing of Him. Don't be satisfied with hearing
of Him. Go to Him. There was a gentleman, Robert Howey, who
was asked a question by a man. This person came to him and said,
please, write down in black and white, write it on a piece of
paper for me, what I need to believe. Write down. There are
so many texts for me. Give me one text to read that
I can believe it. And his response was, it is not
any one text nor any number of texts that save any more than
a manslayer, a murderer, could be saved by reading the signposts
on the road to the city of refuge. The man must go to and enter
the city of refuge. Salvation is in the Lord Jesus
Christ and in coming to Him. Listen to this one. When a man
is thirsty, he is not satisfied by studying the well. He's not
satisfied by being near the well, and he's not satisfied by looking
in the well at the water. He is only satisfied by drinking. We must go to the Lord Jesus
Christ. He must tell us. He must show
us. That's the only way we'll know. That's the only way we'll
find the truth. The Queen came, well listen to
this in Colossians 1. To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles. The mystery is this, Christ in
you is the hope of glory. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
hope of glory. He's everything. This queen came
to prove Solomon with hard questions. Look in the text here in verse
1. And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard
questions. I have seen a lot of hard questions
written about this passage and thoughts of what these questions
might be. But do you know what the definition
of a hard, the difference in a hard question and an easy question?
If I know the answer. If I ask you what is one plus
one, that's an easy question, right? Well, if I ask my three-year-old
what is one plus one, that's a hard question. The only difference
in a hard question and easy one is if we don't know the answer.
I'm not sure where she started in her questions for Solomon,
but she started with questions that she didn't know the answer.
We don't go to the Lord to ask questions that we know the answer
to. We go to him because he knows things that we don't know. He
knows the truth. When we go to the Lord, what's
the first thing we find out? We find out the truth. When he
pricks our heart, we find out who we are and who he is. We
go to Him because He knows things we don't know. She asked these
questions she could not answer, and others could not answer.
We oftentimes ask our questions to other people. I've done that
for years. I grew up in a church and asked
questions all the time. How is this? Or what's this?
And though they might give me answers, I can't be sure unless
I hear from the source. Unless I hear from Him. This
woman, the queen, could have asked these people that came
and told her about Solomon, what was he like? Well, she said at
the very beginning, or when she said she wanted to prove him.
Why do you prove someone? Because you don't believe. You
don't go ask someone a question that you already know the answer
to. You go to ask something you don't know because it needs to
be proven to you that it is the truth. Christ is the wisdom of
God. Christ is the truth. If a man
would know God and the mysteries of redemption and life, let him
ask of Christ great and hard questions. Ask everything. The answer to every question
is Christ. Anything we want to ask, anything, it's Him. And I know that seems far-fetched.
I remember hearing that as a kid and thinking to myself, well,
what color are these pews? The answer to that can't be Christ.
Every question that matters, Christ is the answer. He will
tell you the answer. He is all wisdom. He is everything.
Look here at verse 2. She came to Jerusalem with a
very great train, with camels that bear spices and very much
gold, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. She came
to him and asked him questions. She communed with him. It doesn't
say she did anything else on her visit. This whole time, in
this whole passage, there's nothing else described except from she
asked him questions and communed with him. We go to the Lord because
we need His wisdom. We need His answers. So many
people look at the things in this book as the things that
the child of God receives. And they come to the Lord wanting
the reward. This woman didn't go to Solomon
asking for goods. She didn't go to him asking for
those things. She came to him to ask him how
he got them. How does he know all this? Where
did he get his wisdom? Where did all this come from?
All of these things concerning the Lord. That's what she wanted
to know. She didn't want anything from him. She wanted to know
of his God. She wanted to know the one who
gave him all these things. It says, she communed with him
of all that was in her heart. When we approach the Lord, when
we come to Him, it must be from our heart. When she is proving
Him, she's not proving Him in the sense that so often we do
nowadays. We ask questions of someone to try to catch them
in a lie. Our sin makes us do things that
are just ridiculous. And I don't know why, but when
someone says something that they have done, I don't know why in
my mind, oftentimes the first thing that comes in my head is,
I don't know if I can believe that. See if I can prove them
they didn't do it. That's ridiculous. But she didn't go for that reason.
That's not how she's proving it. She's proving, she wants
proof that what he's saying is true because that's what she
wants. When we approach the Lord, when
we've heard these things, we've heard of what He can do, what
He's done for His children, we want to prove that that's right
because that's what we need. We want it to be true. A person
who is going to the well that's thirsty doesn't go to the well
to prove there's no water and no satisfaction. They go to the
well because they need the water. We go to Christ because we need
salvation. We need what He can do for us.
The worst news ever is so many things we hear on TV and on the
radio in false religion nowadays that we've got to do something.
I have no hope in that. I don't want to go see somebody
who's going to tell me that if you do this, it might work out.
I want to hear from someone that says, he has done it. He saved
sinners. He chose a people. Verse 3, And
Solomon told her all her questions, or told her all her words, all
her answers. Just as Christ, Solomon had the
answer to every single question. There's nothing we can ask that
we can't get the answer. He will show us. He'll show us
all things. We have a very big book that gives us all these
answers. Now, you can read this and I
can read this back to that first thing I brought up. Apart from
Him opening our eyes and opening the Word to our heart, we can't
understand it. There's one of these books beside
every hotel room in a drawer. Every single person has access
to this book, yet no one understands it apart from the Lord showing
it to us. That's why we got to go to him. We must come to him.
We must ask him these questions. He has the answer to every single
question. Every single one. Verse 3, And
Solomon told her all her questions. Not only did he have the answer
for all the questions, he gave her the answer to all the questions.
What if our Lord had all the answers, but did not answer our
questions? We'd be helpless. We wouldn't
have anything. Not only does He have the answers, but He gives
the answers. He has given them in this book.
We can find everything. He answers all our questions.
And Solomon told her all her questions. There was not anything
hid from the king which he told her not. This woman was desperate for
answers, and Solomon withheld nothing. How wonderful to think
that our Lord will tell us everything. There's no tricks. There's no
secrets. There's nothing hidden. Now, we don't understand anything.
We see through a glass dimly or darkly. But He doesn't withhold
anything from us. He tells us the truth. He tells
us everything. And that's such good news because
He is the truth. He's the answer to everything.
And Solomon told her all her questions. There was not anything
hid from the king which he told her not. And when the queen of
Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he
had built, when she'd seen all these things, and the meat of
his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance
of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his assent
by which he went up unto the house of the Lord, there was
no more spirit in her. She was completely overwhelmed
with everything. She was overwhelmed with the
answers. She was overwhelmed with what she saw. She didn't
even have the words to speak. It said her spirit was overwhelmed. She had no more spirit in her.
There's a lot in this. But when we approach the Lord,
when He shows us who He is, just a glimpse, when we just see a
glimpse of Him, we are smitten by that. His holiness puts everything
in a completely different light. Everything takes a whole new
meaning. Everything that was important
to us becomes totally obsolete. Everything that was unimportant
to us and Him becomes our focus. Once you see Christ, once He
shows you who He is, you have a singular focus in life. Now
our sin, I hate even saying that out loud to her, I have, because
He's shown me who He is, I have a singular focus. My mind is
all over the place and I can't, I'm supposed to be preaching
you this morning and driving over here, there are moments
my mind just wanders off in the craziest thought. But we have
singular focus because we're in Him. Because He had one focus. Remember it says it set His face
like a flint to the cross. He had one focus and one purpose. And because we're in Him, we
get all that. That's who we are. We get all
the things that He's done. When the queen had seen His wisdom,
the house He'd built, His riches, His piety, she was quite astonished. She couldn't even speak. She
said to him, and look at this in verse 6, she said to the king,
it was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts
and of thy wisdom. One day we will see things clearly
and we will realize this book is a true report. this book in
every single word and who it speaks of, of His coming, of
His death on the cross and His coming again, we will one day
see every single word was perfect. It was the truth. Everything
we've heard about Him, it's the truth. And not just that, not
just that everything I'd heard in my own land and the acts of
thy wisdom, verse 7, how be it, I believe not the words. Lord,
I believe, help my unbelief. I know that I don't believe things.
I know I don't do it. She admits here, I didn't believe
it until I came. I did not believe it. How be
it I believe not the words, verse 7, until I came and mine eyes
had seen it. That's us. We, for some reason,
just don't believe things unless we experience it, unless we see
it. And behold, the half was not told me. Though we have heard
of Christ's love, of His mercy, of His grace, and of His glory,
it is not until we came to Him in faith that we saw and experienced
Christ, the wisdom and power and glory of God." Turn with
me to 1 John 1. Let's look at a scripture too
of this. 1 John 1. She said she didn't believe until
she had seen. 1 John 1, the first verse, That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands
have handled of the word of life. For the life was manifested and
we have seen it, and bear witness and show unto you that eternal
life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us. that
which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye
also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship
is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. In these things
write we unto you, that your joy may be full. Job wrote this, Then Job answered
the Lord, and he said, I know that Thou canst do everything,
and that no thought can be withholden from Thee. Who is he that hideth
counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that
I understood not things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Here
I beseech Thee, and I will speak. I will demand of thee and declare
thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the year, but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore, because
I see thee, I abhor myself and repent in dust and in ashes."
Once we see the glory, the power, and the wisdom of God, we abhor
ourselves. We do. Once we see Him, we understand
that the half wasn't told. That expression is so good, the
half wasn't told of what Solomon was. The billionth wasn't told
of our Lord Jesus Christ. I don't, I could say the infinitiest.
I don't know the right word to say this, but one day we will
be thinking in our, we will literally have a moment where we will think
to ourselves, I couldn't even imagine something like this.
We've been told, the disciple who went into the third heaven
and came back and said, it would not be lawful to speak of this.
And whether that means that or it means He didn't have the words,
there's no words that can be spoken in any language that could
even give a glimpse of what glory is like. And what's glory? It's
Him. It's being with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Being in Him the day that we actually physically see
Him. That day will be just the greatest
moment. We can't imagine. We can't imagine
what that will be like. Back in our text here. She said,
"'Howbeit I believe not the words until I came, and mine eyes had
seen it, and behold, the half was not told me. Thy wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.'" Our Lord is
so much greater than we could even possibly understand. And
look in verse 8. "'Happy are thy men, happy are
these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and
that hear thy wisdom." She exclaimed, happy are all these around you.
Happy is everyone. We can say with greater emphasis,
for a greater than Solomon is here. Blessed is the man whom
thou choosest. Whom the Lord chooses, blessed
is he. Blessed is the man whose sin is covered. Blessed are the
eyes that see and ears that hear. Blessed is the man whose delight
is in the Lord. Blessed are those who know Him,
love Him, and dwell by faith in Him." All those are different
verses in the Scripture. The only place to find the blessing
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Anytime anybody uses... The phrase,
God bless you, is one that is like blown up, and everybody
loves saying it to people. They don't know anything, all
that stuff. The only place to find a blessing is in the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is the blessing. It's Him. And look in verse 9. Blessed
be the Lord thy God. She says, blessed be the Lord
thy God. She's giving God the credit for Solomon. All this
that she's seen, she understands where it came from. Which delighteth
in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved
Israel forever, therefore made he thee king to do judgment and
justice. The queen blessed the Lord who
delighted in Solomon, who put him on the throne of Israel to
do judgment and mercy. The Father loves the Son and
has given all things in His hands. The Father delights in the Son
and gave Him preeminence. This is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. The Father made Christ the surety. made Him the prophet, the priest,
and the king of spiritual Israel because He loved them all in
Christ with an everlasting love. Christ came to the earth to honor
God's law, to satisfy God's justice, to do judgment and justice that
God may be just and justifier of all who believed. I'm closing, but let me read
you a scripture here in Romans 3. for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, listen
to this, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission
of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. To declare,
I say at this time, His righteousness that He might be just and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus Christ. I said this
at the beginning that this woman came to see Solomon because he
knew things that she didn't know. That he had things she didn't
have and that he did things or could do things that she couldn't
do. This is us coming to our Lord. He knows the truth and
we must find that out from Him. He has all the answers. He has
the power to save and we must come to Him because we don't
have that ability. And not only that, He has provided a sacrifice
for His people. He has done the work that we
can't do. He has done it all. He's done
everything. And in saying all these things, there's a phrase
that comes to mind. And I'll say it in a second.
I'm going to lead up to it. To hear that Christ chose a people. To hear that He's done the work. To hear that He lived perfectly,
became a man, lived perfectly. That He bore our sins on the
cross. That He took our burden, our guilt, and paid the price.
And He gave us, in turn, His righteousness. That He was made
sin for us. That He did all that. But then
He conquered over death and ascended on the throne. And one day He's
coming back again to hear all of that. To hear, I'm not involved
in that. That He's done that for someone. The phrase comes
to mind that that sounds awful. It sounds too good to be true.
I've heard my whole life, you know, anything free is not worth
it. The only way you're going to
get anywhere is if you work hard. All these phrases and all that
kind of stuff. This is too good. But it's also true. We don't
deserve any of this. We deserve damnation. That song in the bulletin about
that I can stand in boldness in Christ while millions will
perish. We don't stand in boldness in
ourself. We stand in boldness because our Savior is bold. Our
Savior. That's who we're in. I dread
the moment. thinking of standing before God
in my sin and in myself. That makes me... I don't even
know how to describe that. It seems it's chill over me to
even think about that kind of thing. But yet... The confidence I have from what
I've heard and what I've seen in this book, that in Christ,
I can feel a surety. I can feel comfortable. I can
even, dare I say, feel bold because I'm in Him because of who He
is. We must approach Him. We must
come to the Lord. Ask Him hard questions. What's
a hard question? Any question. Ask Him anything. Come to Him. Ask Him. What's
the truth about me? Who are you? Can I really be
saved? Ask anything, but ask Him. If you ask Him questions, He
will give you answers. And not only will He give you
answers to your questions, He'll give you the next question. We
don't know the questions to ask, but once He gives you an answer,
He will give you the next question. And then He will answer that
question all the way until He gives you the faith to believe.
All of that comes of Him. All right.
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