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Honey On the Ground

1 Samuel 14:24-45
Eric Lutter May, 28 2024 Video & Audio
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The sermon titled "Honey On the Ground," delivered by Eric Lutter, focuses on the doctrine of salvation through Christ alone and the dangers of legalism. Lutter discusses the historical context found in 1 Samuel 14:24-45, where King Saul places a law upon the people that forbids them from eating until evening, which results in their distress. He contrasts this with the spiritual nourishment available to believers through the grace of God in Christ, using scriptures such as John 6:31-35, which describes Christ as the bread of life, and Galatians 3:24-25, pointing to the law's role as a tutor that leads us to Christ. The significance of the sermon lies in the reminder that believers are called to partake of the sweetness of Christ rather than to be bound by the law, emphasizing that it is through faith in Him alone that one gains true sustenance and righteousness.

Key Quotes

“It's not in the things that we do. It's not by the law. Believers don't need the law to bind them.”

“The law opposes that grace. If you're bound with that law, you don't want to hear that grace.”

“You that come in the righteousness of Christ, there is no holes in that garment. It is perfect, it is bright, it is beautiful, it is the righteousness of God given to you through Jesus Christ.”

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Eat freely, eat freely of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Sermon Transcript

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It's good to be back once again
with you, brethren. Michelle and I have enjoyed our
time here in Kentucky, and we appreciate the invite because
our grandchildren, we have some grandchildren up in Lexington,
so we got to spend some time with our daughter, our son-in-law,
and our grandchildren. So thank you for inviting us
and having us here. Turn with me again to 1 Samuel
chapter 14. We saw in the first 23 verses,
we saw a picture of the salvation, the glorious victory that our
Savior Jesus Christ wrought by himself on the tree, on the cross
for his people Israel. Well, no sooner had the victory
been won by our Savior than a controversy over the gospel occurred. And there were men who went forth
and they began to tell the believers that except ye be circumcised,
ye cannot be saved. And they began to try and bind
men with the law. And thankfully, our Lord raised
up men such as the Apostle Paul who were clear that it is by
the grace of Jesus Christ alone that sinners are saved and that
God receives us entirely in the blood and work of our Savior,
Jesus Christ. It's not in the things that we
do. It's not by the law. Believers don't need the law
to bind them. He's given us his Holy Spirit.
And by his grace, he's given us the blessings and the benefits
all in Jesus Christ to stand before holy God, accepted in
him, faultless before his throne. So this second half of the chapter,
picking up in verse 24, gives us a picture of that controversy. How is it that we are to live
now in Christ? Must we be bound with the law
to expel the Philistines from this land, sin from this flesh
under the curse of the law, or is Christ's blood sufficient? By His grace, we know the answer
to that question. Christ's blood is sufficient
to save to the uttermost all that come unto the Father by
Him. So before this victory goes forth and Saul gets involved,
Saul, as we know, is a man of the flesh. And the Philistines
are a picture of sin in this flesh. And there's already a
victory that has been accomplished. And rather than continuing in
that same spirit, Saul, being a man of flesh, takes an entirely
different tact. He changes course here, and he
turns the men from that victory brought by Jonathan, a picture
of Christ's victory, and he turns them to the flesh. He gives them
a law of commandment and binds it with a curse. Let's look there
at verse 24. And the men of Israel were distressed
that day, for Saul had adjured the people. He bound them with
an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until
evening. that I may be avenged on mine
enemies. So none of the people tasted
any food. This law forbade the people from
partaking of the spoils of the victory by Jonathan that Jonathan
had wrought. They were unable to feed upon
and take part in those precious spoils that were gained for them
in Jonathan. And the picture here is that
Christ is our victory. He's obtained salvation for his
people. He is our inheritance. We are
his and he is ours. And we live and feed upon Christ,
rejoicing in what he has done, declared to us through this precious
gospel, which makes known what Christ has accomplished for us.
You know, this is this has happened in the church multiple times. And Paul himself right there
in the beginning, Paul himself had to go to the Galatians or
write to the Galatians because the Judaizers had come in there
trying to bind them with circumcision, entering them right under the
yoke of the law. And he said, yes, are you so
foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are
you now made perfect by the flesh? Are you now gonna turn from the
spirit which Christ gave to us, sent to us, to reveal these things
in our heart? Are you now gonna turn from the
spirit and his work and now be perfected by the works of the
law? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Turn over to John chapter six. John chapter six. And in verse
31, The Jews were chiding with Christ. Our Lord was teaching
the people. And they noted this in verse
31, John 6, 31. They said, Our fathers did eat
manna in the desert. As it is written, he gave them
bread from heaven to eat. Now they believed that the giving
of the law of Moses was the bread from heaven upon which they were
to feed and live. This do and live. Do the law
fully and you'll live. Fulfill all the righteousness
of the law and you'll live. Well, our Lord spoke. Then Jesus
said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you
not that bread from heaven. But my Father giveth you the
true bread from heaven. The law given by Moses is not
the bread of heaven. That is not what we feed upon.
Our God has given us the bread of life. which is Jesus Christ,
and we feed upon him, we eat his flesh, and we drink his blood. He is our righteousness, our
sustenance, our life, our all, the stand before the true and
living God. He said in verse 33, for the
bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven. and giveth
life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord,
evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. And so the Lord reveals through
his word that we are to feed upon Christ. This is why the
son of God came and was manifested in the flesh. This is why Christ
came because he is the life of his people. And because it's
a gift of God, we need the grace of God to make that word effectual
in our hearts. It's not something that we would
ever choose for ourselves. We delight by nature in the works
of the flesh. All we are by nature is flesh.
We need the grace of God to come to us with power and effectually
work this salvation, bring us into the light, out of darkness,
into the light, and reveal that Christ has done this, that he's
sufficient for us unto the uttermost. He's all that we need. to be
righteous before God. And so it must be given, our
Lord said, and all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. So this
is a work of God. This is why man doesn't see this.
This is why man doesn't understand, and he so quickly turns from
the spirit to the things of the flesh. Without the grace of God,
we just don't get it. We don't understand. We must
be born again and made new creatures. So what Saul was doing, he was
turning men away from the victory of Christ. And he was turning
men away from Christ, which was pictured in this victory, by
turning them to the yoking bondage of the law. Because remember,
he wanted to get the Philistines out of the land. He wanted a
sure and certain victory, and he thought, if I can just turn
them to the law now, if I can just bind them with this curse,
then I'll get the biggest bang for my buck here. I'll drive
these Philistines out with this. He didn't continue on in the
victory that was wrought for him by Jonathan, picturing Christ. And when bound with the law,
man was forbidden to eat the fruits of the spoils of that
victory. They could not partake of that
food. And so the picture is, under
the law, men do not partake of Christ. They do not feed upon
Christ. They don't lean upon Christ as all. Now, verse 25,
1 Samuel 14, 25. And all they of the land came
to a wood, and there was honey upon the ground. So in pursuit
of the Philistines under that yoking bondage of the law, God
in providence brings them to a wood. They came to a wood,
and here they came upon something very sweet. Very sweet. Something so abundant, so free,
that it was on the ground. It covered the ground. It was
honey. So abundant was this honey that
it flowed upon the ground and there was enough to satisfy every
one of them that had come to that wood. Had they all partaken,
their eyes would have been enlightened. They would have been satisfied
and fed to carry on that battle in purging the Philistines from
the land. Now the picture to us is rather
a simple one. The wood is that cross, that
cursed tree upon which the Savior the Son of God hung as the sacrifice
of his people, as the sin bearer of his people. He hung upon that
tree, that wood, that cursed tree to put away our sin. And the honey is the sweet gospel,
which declares what Christ has accomplished for his people,
that he was not there on that cross for his own sins, but for
the sins of his people, to make an atonement for their sins,
to put away our sins, to obtain forgiveness for us, for our sins,
that we would go free from the hand of God's justice. That's
what this honey declares. It's sweet to the needy sinner. It's needful. It's sweet to the
needy sinner. We need that, that, that, those
comforted. We need to hear what Christ has
done. We need what Christ has done. We need his grace and it
covers the ground. That honey covers the ground.
It speaks of the blood of Christ, which covered the ground. What
does that mean? What is that picture? Well, the
ground was cursed for Adam's sake. So that the ground brought
forth cursed things. Thorns and thistles and bramble
bushes. Not fruitful things, dead things. And it covered that ground. It
covered, his blood atones for the sins of his people so that
the curse is put away. We are delivered from that curse.
We are set free in the Lord Jesus Christ to go in liberty by his
spirit and serve the true and living God in thankfulness and
in peace and in joy and rejoicing, not under the yoking bondage
of the law, not in fear and doubts and worries and suffering, being
afraid. Have I done enough? No, you haven't. And I haven't either. But Christ
has. His blood is sufficient to the
uttermost. Verse 26, and when the people
were coming to the wood, behold, the honey dropped, but no man
put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. They're in such bondage under
the law, they're so afraid that they don't dare partake of that
sweet, delicious honey. They won't eat it, and they're
starving. They're hungry. It says later that they're faint. They're fainting. There's all
these Philistines yet in the land and they're already fainting
under the yoking bondage of that law. Paul wrote of something
like this. As many as desire to make a fair
show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised only lest
they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. You
see, men are in such bondage to the law that they don't dare
preach the sufficiency of Christ lest they should suffer persecution,
lest they should be accused of being an antinomian. to preach
Christ so freely, that He's so sufficient that you can lean
all your needs upon Him, all your care, you can trust Him
fully to save you, to clothe you, to protect you, to deliver
you, so sufficiently they won't do it because they're afraid.
What are you saying then? That men can just go out and
sin freely and do whatever they want? And they look to the flesh
rather than to Christ, trusting that Christ saves his people. Christ leads his people. Christ
keeps his people. He'll chase them if need be.
In wisdom, in care, in love, he'll guide us. He'll separate
us from the love of this world. He does all of that in his salvation. It's all part of his, it's all
the benefits and blessings, the spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, which are given unto us. He provides all that we need. And so because of that fear,
they won't preach the sufficiency of Christ. They won't preach
him freely. And so they fail to preach of
God's free grace, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the sufficiency
of Christ. They won't exalt him, they won't
dare preach him in that manner. For neither, Paul said, for neither
they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have
you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. They wanna see you playing the
same religious vain games that they play. because they don't
know the truth. And they think they know the
truth, but they don't know the truth. They don't know Christ,
and they don't know the sufficiency of Christ. But the Lord reveals
Christ to the hearts of his people, to the needy sinner who rejoices
to hear what Christ has done, and doesn't need the law, doesn't
want the law, wants to feed upon Christ to the full. And so, when
we preach Christ crucified, who is glorified? The Lord Jesus
Christ, when you preach the law, who's glorified? The flesh, as
if the flesh can do anything. The flesh couldn't do anything
before, and it ain't gonna do anything now. The flesh does
not save, it does not deliver us. We preach Christ because
we believe that Christ is able to save his people to the uttermost.
I think Paul said it this way to the Corinthians, he said, Such confidence have we in Christ
to Godward. Yeah, such confidence have we
in Christ to Godward. In other words, we're so confident
that Christ is able to save his people, to provide everything
you need, that we preach him. We stay right there preaching
Christ. That's how confident we are. And that's how confident
he's made his people. And that's why you rejoice in
the gospel of Jesus Christ. And you take of that honey, That
sweet honey and you rejoice in it. Now verse 27, but Jonathan
heard not. Yeah, yeah, they told him your
father made an oath, but Jonathan heard not when his father charged
the people with the oath. You see, Jonathan's ear wasn't
tuned to the law that these people were under. His, his, his ear
was tuned to the voice of Christ. Now I had said in the, in the
beginning, Jonathan is a picture of Christ. And here, in this
part of the chapter, this is Jonathan, but it's a picture
of Christ formed in you. It's a picture of Christ in the
new man, whereby we hear the voice of the Son of God and follow
Him. This is Christ in you, the hope of glory. This is what He
gives to all His people. We don't live in the flesh now,
we live in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. And so this is Christ
in you. And the spirit gives life to
his people. The spirit makes us new creatures
so that the spirit makes us to hear this gospel, to see this
honey, to desire this honey, to receive Christ and to believe
on him to the saving of our souls because it's all his work. This
is what he gives to his people. Wherefore he put forth the end
of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honeycomb,
and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened. Now see, here is the purpose,
the end purpose of the law. The putting forth the end of
the rod to the honey reveals the purpose of God in giving
the law. So that's a fair question. If
we're saved by Christ, why then did God give the law to the Jews? Well, Romans 3.20 tells us one
thing. First, it assures us that by
the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified. But this
is why the law was given. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. Through the law, when we look
at the law, we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin. We see the
breadth of our sin. We see the depths of our sin.
We see that we are dead in trespasses and sins. that no man can save
himself by the deeds of the law. We need salvation. We need a
Savior. We cannot save ourselves by the
deeds of this law. And that's what we see. That's
what the believer sees when he looks in the law. I can't do
this. I'm a sinner. This keeps showing
me again and again and again what a filthy, vile, wretched
sinner I am. I'm incomplete. I'm naked. I can't stand before God in my
works. God save me. Who shall deliver
me from the body of this death? I thank God for his son, Jesus
Christ. Thank God for Christ. He saves
his people. Turn over to Galatians 3. Let's
just see a few scriptures here. Galatians 3, and we're gonna
pick up in verse 24. Now, remember to the Galatians,
Paul, a Jew, by the flesh, he's writing to Gentiles in Galatia,
who now have the Judaizers coming in trying to yoke them with the
bondage of the law by getting them circumcised. And so Paul
tells them in Galatians 3, 24, he said, wherefore, the law was
our schoolmaster, us Jews. God gave the law to us Jews. It was our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ. And the way that those words
may also be translated are, the law was our schoolmaster until
Christ, unto Christ. It was given to us until Christ
came. that we might be justified by
faith. Just like you Gentiles are justified
by faith, we Jews are also justified by faith. This law was given
till Christ came. You know, when you read Acts,
Paul didn't go around teaching the Gentiles, preaching Moses
to them and the law. He went to them and the first
thing out of his mouth was the gospel. He declared the gospel. He didn't put them under the
law first, and then, after so many months, start teaching them
the gospel. No, he preached the gospel. And
by that gospel, it was the power of God unto salvation for those
Gentiles. But after that faith is come,
verse 25, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Jonathan touched
the end of that rod. The end of the law touched that
honey. Why? Because he believed. He
was given faith to believe. And he touched that honey, thus
concluding the law. And faith was come. Faith was
come. And he put his hand to his mouth. And you can imagine all those
men standing there, watching him slide that rod off on his
hand, dripping and glop with honey, and putting it to his
mouth. And they must have been like,
If we could just partake of that, if we could just have that sweet
honey, it would be health to our bones, it would be life to
us. And all they could do was watch
it. Romans 10, verse eight, but what
saith it? What saith what? The word of
faith which we preach. The word is nigh thee. When any
man preaches Christ, when the gospel is preached and Christ
is exalted, there is honey dripping all around you. All is right
there, right near you. Right there, the word is nigh
thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of
faith which we preach, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For the scripture saith, whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. It's dripping right
there. That honey probably landed on
some of those men and hit their hand and they just trembled because
they would not taste and see that the Lord is good and able
to save all that cry out to him, all that need him, all that desire
him. He's a merciful savior. All whoever
asked him for mercy found mercy, but man left to himself will
not taste that honey, for he's under the curse of the law, and
he hasn't been delivered. He needs the grace of God to
deliver him. But the Lord says here, whoever
believes in Christ, you will not be ashamed. The picture there
is that we that lean wholly upon Christ who have no other confidence
but are trusting everything to Christ and not coming to God
with Christ and something else in our hands, but trusting everything
to Christ, the scriptures tell us that we shall not be ashamed. In other words, the Lord's going
to look upon you from his throne of judgment and he'll look and
say, you look good. You're well clothed. You're in
the wedding garment. You have the robe of righteousness
of my son, Jesus Christ. Well done, thou good and faithful
servant. Enter into thy rest. But that one who says, no, I
don't think I can trust that. I don't think that's enough for
me, and comes in their own righteousness, is going to show up in a robe
that is full of holes, that is torn and tattered and filthy
and dirty, and it smells. And those holes expose their
nakedness, and they shall be ashamed. But you that come in
the righteousness of Christ, there is no holes in that garment.
It is perfect, it is bright, it is beautiful, it is wonderful,
it is the righteousness of God given to you through Jesus Christ.
You shall never be ashamed for leaning wholly upon Christ. But if you hold back, and bring
your own works, you shall be ashamed. You shall. And so all
these scriptures serve to show us that, to tell us, don't look
to the law of Moses. That's not your salvation. That's
not your righteousness. Don't look to the law of Moses.
Don't mistake it for your life. That's not why the law was given.
It was given to show us our sin. It's a ministration of death. And if you're his child, He will
break you from it. He will show you your sin, make
you to know your need of Christ. And if he leaves you to yourself,
Christ said, you will die in your sins. For if you believe
not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. We come in Christ
alone. This is what it means in Galatians
3, 22, when Paul said, but the scripture hath concluded all
under sin. When you read this word, Honestly,
when you read this word, you find out, wait a second, all
these people are sinners. Every one of them is a sinner.
Adam was a sinner. Noah was a sinner. We read of
Abraham, he was a sinner. Isaac, Jacob, his sons, Judah,
David. They were all sinners, filthy
sinners. And that's what the scriptures
are showing. They weren't showing us how to get ourselves saved.
They're showing us that we're all sinners. And the reason is
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to
them that believe. It's to bring us to Christ. It's
to show us our need of Christ. And so when Christ has come by
faith, then the eyes are enlightened. The veil is lifted. The Lord
has revealed in you that you're his, that Christ died for you.
Because faith is not a work of the flesh, it's a gift of the
spirit. It's what he does in his people. Verse 28, 1 Samuel
14, 28. Then answered one of the people
and said, thy father straightly charged the people with an oath,
saying, cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And
the people were faint. See, the law opposes that grace. If you're bound with that law,
you don't want to hear that grace. You can't receive what Christ
has done. And if you come to God in the
law, you're going to faint and die. You're going to perish in
the way. It will not last to the end. The law is not the bread
of heaven. Verse 29, then said, Jonathan,
my father hath troubled the land. See, I pray you, how mine eyes
have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. Because of Adam's fall, the natural
man is troubled by the law. Because of his fall, we're troubled
by the law, because we're born of that corrupt seed, that defiled
seed. that cannot save ourselves or
deliver ourselves. We need the grace of God in Christ. How much more, verse 30, if happily
the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies,
which they found. For had there not been now a
much greater slaughter among the Philistines, If you would
be free of the Philistines, the sin in your heart, the sin in
your memories, the sin in your flesh, if you're grieved by the
sin you see, do not turn to the law. The law cannot drive out
the Philistines from you. It stirs up enmity. It was the
law, it was Saul's work in the beginning, in the previous chapter,
that brought that flood of Philistines and riled them all up, that stirred
up the enmity in the flesh. Like Paul said, when I had not
known sin, except the law said thou shalt not covet, and then
lust came. It was stirred up in his flesh. Don't be turned to the law. Turning
to the law is looking away from Christ. And it's feeding upon
things that cannot save. It's feeding upon things that
do not satisfy. Our Lord said, come unto me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. It's in Christ. He didn't say,
look a little to me and a little Moses. He said, look to me. Come
unto me and I'll give you rest. This is what the prophet Isaiah
was saying in Isaiah 55, verses one through four. He said, ho,
everyone that thirsteth, come to the waters, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for
that which is not bread? and your labor for that which
satisfieth not." He's describing the works of righteousness that
we try to do by the law. That's spending and striving
and laboring for that which gives no satisfaction. It cannot save
you. Hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself
in fatness. In other words, eat freely. Eat freely of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Eat him to the full. Lean wholly
upon Jesus. He is sufficient to save. He
is the one whom the Father has sent to save his people from
their sins. If you would have peace in the
land, look to Christ. Turn over to Revelation 15. John tells us, We're gonna be
in chapter 15, but John tells us in chapter four, verse six,
I believe, that before the throne of God is a sea of glass, a sea
of glass. And here in chapter 15, verse
two, he comes back to that. He says, and I saw as it were
a sea of glass mingled with fire. And them that had gotten the
victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark,
and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having
the harps of God. And that picture there is that
the beast and all those of that body of sin, all those who by
nature tried to please God and serve God in that body of sin
by the yoking bondage of the law are beneath that sea overwhelmed
by the wrath and the fury of God. But the children of God
who have been purchased by Christ, who died with him, who were buried
with him, and who were raised again in Christ, they're risen
above that sea and they stand upon it and it's described for
them as a sea of glass. That's what you see when you're
looking out at a lake and there's not even so much as a gentle
breeze blowing. No one's skipping rocks, no motor
boats are going by, no birds are landing in it, it's just
so still that it is as a sea of glass. And that is the wrath
of God toward every one of you who stand before him in the righteousness
of Christ. His wrath is so still that it
is but glass. So still God is at peace with
all his people raised above that wrath in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is perfect. Perfect peace
eat freely of the Lord Jesus Christ Look to him believe him
Cry out to him. He's a merciful Savior Take that
honey and just put it to your mouth Confess that Christ is
all oh If he's giving you faith in your heart You don't even
need me to tell you that you already believe him that God
hath raised him from the dead and raised you in him God is
merciful. And then verse 31 says, they
smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ajlam, and the
people were very faint, verse 32, and the people flew upon
the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slew them
on the ground, and the people did eat them with the blood.
And they told Saul, saying, behold, the people sin against the Lord.
And so Saul said, and that they eat with the blood, and he said,
ye have transgressed. Roll a great stone unto me this
day. And that's what the law does.
It just produces greater sin. When we think we've done something,
when we've bound ourselves with the law under a curse, it just
results in more and more sin. Because at best, we're just whited
supplicants. We can make the outside look
good, and we can make the outside look clean, but inside is full
of dead men's bones. We need the grace of Christ to
deliver us from that. Now, eventually it came out that
Saul wanted to go on fighting after they had eaten. He wanted
to go on fighting and it came out that Jonathan had taken of
that honey, and so the Lord wasn't answering them, and Saul said,
well, if it's Jonathan, he's gonna be put to death, and so
it came out through Lot that it was indeed Jonathan, and it
says down in verse 44, and Saul answered, God do so more also,
do so and more also, for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. But
in the next verse, we see that Jonathan was delivered by gracious
means. You see, there was a victory
that was wrought by Jonathan, by Christ, and because of that
victory that was wrought, Jonathan went free. in grace from that
punishment, that punishment for breaking the law. Verse 45, and
the people said unto Saul, shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought
this great salvation in Israel? God forbid, as the Lord liveth,
there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for
he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,
that he died not. The picture being, that you that
believe Christ, in whom God has revealed His grace, revealed
faith in you, that trusts Christ, that's of Christ formed in you. That's by the new man of grace
born in you, wrought in you by the seed of Christ, by the Spirit
of God taking the things of Christ and giving you life and grace
and power. And because of Christ in you,
because you are Christ and not in that body of sin, but members
of the body of Christ, you stand complete in Christ. And so that
wrath of God shall not touch you. You are delivered from it,
delivered from it in and by the Lord Jesus Christ because of
his victorious redemption on the cross. And so it's a blessed
thing. Paul said, I am crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet doubt I, but Christ liveth
in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved. Eat freely, eat freely of the
Lord Jesus Christ. You shall not be ashamed. They tell you, don't eat that
sweet thing, it'll rot your teeth, it'll rot your gut, don't keep
eating that. No, I tell you, keep eating Christ.
Believe him, he is sufficient to the uttermost. Cast it all
upon him. Commit everything to the Lord
Jesus Christ, nothing to yourselves. Have no confidence in his flesh,
and you will not be ashamed. I pray the Lord bless that word
to your hearts, brethren. Amen. Eric, thank you so much for coming
and for that message that you brought with you. Sunday, Lord willing, Cody Henson
will be with us, and I'll be in Harrodsburg with that church.
And I need to look on my phone to see who's... Billy's going
to be a week from tonight. So be praying for those men. Be praying for me as I go to
Harrodsburg. Be sure to come around and thank Eric and Michelle
for coming. I know we're afraid.
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