Wherever you read in this book
of one of God's prophets, one of God's servants speaking of
the work to which God had called him, you will find them speaking
of it as the most honorable, highest privilege they could
possibly enjoy in this world. The Apostle Paul was no exception.
Wherever he spoke of the work God had trusted to his hands,
he spoke of it in such a way as to make us understand that
it was his greatest privilege, his highest honor, to be the
servant of God Most High in preaching the gospel of his grace. To be
allowed of God to preach the gospel was to this man a cause
of joy and thanksgiving. He never once expressed a sense
that the work he was doing was something he regretted doing
or a drudgery, a servitude required of him that he preferred not
to perform. He went about the work of the
ministry God had committed to him with intense delight, with
purposeful determination, never relenting in the work. I have
no hesitancy at all in asserting that every man, every man, every
man called, gifted, and sent of God as his messenger, every
man allowed of God to preach the gospel of his grace experiences
the same delight. Yes, the burden is heavy. Yes,
the work is demanding. It consumes the whole of a man. I know preachers don't have somebody
over their back like someone in a factory or business watching
to see what it does. And lots of preachers are lazy
bums and that's just fact. That's just fact. They couldn't maintain a job
but doing anything else if they were required to do so, just
lazy bums. But a man called and gifted of
God for this work gives himself to it in the totality of his
life. But I can't imagine, I can't
imagine, even though the labor is intense, I can't imagine a
greater joy than the blessed work of preaching the gospel
of Christ to eternity bound men and women. I can't imagine a
greater joy than telling poor, lost, doomed, damned, rebel sinners
of righteousness, peace, joy, forgiveness, and salvation through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Where I sent of God with nothing
but a stern message of judgment, with no terms of peace from the
throne of grace, declaring that every rebel must forever be damned,
then I couldn't do that work without weeping, without a heavy
broken heart. Where I sent to be nothing but
a messenger of doom, there could be no joy in the work, only sorrow,
only pain, only bitterness. But blessed be God, that's not
the case. Everywhere I am sent of God,
Everywhere God sends a man to preach. He sends the man to the
seat of rebels with the white flag of peace. Terms of peace
given by God himself. And the terms of peace are very
simple. Believe and live. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The terms of
peace are crystal clear and simple. Every man sent of God is sent
to preach a message of hope, glad tidings of salvation by
grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Once and only once
God sent angels to preach the gospel, just one time. And their
message was very plain, glory to God in the highest and on
earth, peace and goodwill toward men. The glad tidings of great
joy were set to music and announced with holy joy and celestial song
by those angels. Peace on earth and glory to God
in the highest. Paul said, I magnify my office. Every gospel preacher seeks to
do so. Every gospel preacher seeks to
do so. Not only by the doctrine he preaches, but by the attitude
he has toward the work, and by the way he represents God in
all his life. Faithful men, like the Apostle
Paul, always make it their business to magnify their office as preachers
of the everlasting gospel. George Whitefield was not allowed
to preach in the churches. He was banned from churches.
So he'd find a place on a knoll somewhere at an open field and
thousands would hoard around him to hear him preach the gospel
and he considered it his honor to do so. William Carey, when
he was laboring in India, learned that his son Felix had accepted
the office of ambassador from Great Britain to the King of
Burma. And as soon as he learned that his son Felix had given
up the work and had become an ambassador to Burma. He said,
Felix has shriveled to be an ambassador. He considered having
abandoned the work of the gospel, the man lowered himself greatly. God's servants magnify this blessed
office. Paul blessed God that this great
grace had been given to him. that he might preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Everywhere I go, I
admonish every man whose soul is fired with the love of Christ
to aspire to this work. Covet this best gift. May God
the Holy Ghost call many to the work. Laborers still are few. The harvest is great. Pray that
God will thrust laborers into his harvest. And Paul magnified
his office. But there's a big difference
between that and being proud. This man who magnified his office
was honored and thankful for the work God had trusted to his
hands. His labor and usefulness, he tells us by divine inspiration
in 2 Corinthians 11 and verse 23, he was used of God to do
more in his day than all the other apostles. Now, it doesn't
say that with arrogance. He's writing by divine inspiration.
He would have us to understand something. His labor and usefulness
exceeded that of his peers, but his usefulness didn't bloat him
with pride. Rather, it broke him and humbled
him. Someone said the fuller a vessel
becomes, the deeper it sinks into the water. Abundance of
grace is the best remedy for pride. Those who are empty, especially
those who have nothing to do, usually have a very high opinion
of their abilities, and they don't hesitate to tell you how
well they could do things. Those who are called and used
of God mourn their sin, their weakness, their inability, and
their failure. If you'd like to feel how utterly
insignificant, how utterly powerless you are, give it a try. Try preaching
the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ to eternity bound men
for the glory of God. Utterly, utterly insignificant
and useless. I was chatting with Brother David
Edmondson the other day and he said, Brother Mahan once told
me, he said, a fly can keep you from having any liberty to preach.
And I remembered something. I can just picture Brother Mayhead
saying that. I preached for him many times. Sitting right there
under the pulpit, he had a can of insect spray. So if there's
a fly around, he's going to kill it because he recognized that
something as insignificant as a fly could keep him, no matter
how much he studied, no matter how much he prayed, just something
insignificant interfered with him preaching. This thing is
something for which every man is utterly insufficient and yet
many presume they're utterly sufficient. I had a man not too
awfully long ago make this statement to me. I was a bit shocked by
it. He said, this is the only thing
I've ever determined to do in my life that I wasn't a success
at. The only thing I ever determined
to do in my life that I wasn't a success at, and I can't do
this. And he was saying that with the
idea that, why can't I do this? Why does the Lord use me for
this? But his sad fact is the man who thought he could do anything
had never been a success at anything. had never successfully accomplished
anything, but he dared to presume that he could be a success at
this. I know, and I freely acknowledge my weakness and inability as
a preacher and as a pastor. I know very little about being
a preacher and even less about being a pastor. But there's one
thing about which I have no perplexity and no question. I'm never at
a loss as to what I should preach, what I must preach, Sunday morning,
Sunday night, Tuesday night, or wherever I go. I'm getting
ready to go down to Crow, West Virginia. I haven't seen those
folks, most of them in a long, long time. And then go out there
to Cape Girardeau, never saw those folks. What are you going
to preach to those places? The very same thing I preach to you
three times a week. Open your Bibles to Ephesians
chapter 3. Ephesians chapter 3 I'll show
you what every preacher is to preach what every preacher Every
time he preaches is to preach every preacher When Lindsay stands
up here teaches from book of Exodus next Sunday morning. I'll
show you what it's supposed to teach You start to teach children
in Sunday school. I'll show you what's supposed
to teach If you don't you're not teaching this book. I If
you don't, you're not teaching this book. If this isn't the
subject to the preacher, he's not preaching this book. Doesn't
matter whether his sermons are grammatically correct, historically
correct, and contextually correct. He's not preaching this book
unless he's preaching what I'm about to preach to you now. The
unsearchable riches of Christ. The unsearchable riches of Christ. I was shocked some years ago, a man I highly esteemed, highly
esteemed him, preached a series of messages on astrology. I've known men I've highly esteemed,
gifted, capable men, preached messages, a series of messages
on church history. On cultic things, the eras of
cults. On family, family life. On giving,
on politics. Those things ought never to be. Those things ought never to be. Look here in Ephesians chapter
3, verse 8. Unto me, unto me. Now Paul is
writing by divine inspiration. And what he is saying is true
concerning himself. But as you read this verse of
Scripture, as I read it to you, without the least plagiarism,
I'm giving you my own words unto me. whom less than the least of all
saints, the foulest, vilest, most corrupt of all men, is this
grace." Oh, this grace. This grace. God's given me grace to believe
and grace to preach the gospel of His grace. Unto me who am
less than the least of all saints is this grace given, that I should
preach among the Gentiles, that I should preach among you, among
you, that I should stand here and preach to you, that I should
stand here and preach to you the unsearchable riches of Christ. the unsearchable riches of Christ. That's my subject tonight. It
is every preacher's responsibility all the time to preach Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. You might say, well, that greatly
limits your message. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. This
book is all about Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It is all
about Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Beginning in Genesis chapter
1, going to Revelation chapter 22, it's all about Jesus Christ
and Him crucified. Now, please understand this. Please understand this. I am
not suggesting that every word in the book specifically typifies,
represents, or points to Christ on its own. No, no, no, no. The
name Pharaoh doesn't mean anything about Christ, doesn't mean anything
about him. The name devil doesn't mean anything about
Christ, doesn't mean anything about him. The name Satan doesn't
mean anything about Christ. What I am saying is that everything
in this book, written and understood in its context, points us to
The need of christ and the accomplishments of christ the grace of christ
and the salvation of christ everything in the book You have many allegories
given paul gives us one example in galatians chapter 4 he speaks
of sarah and hagar and ishmael and isaac Now sarah and hagar
were real human beings Ishmael and Isaac were real human beings. They really did live back there
being born of Abraham and Sarah married to Abraham, Hagar being
Sarah's handmaiden. They really did. They had a real
existence. And all that's recorded about
their history is real. It's real. But it's not recorded
to tell us there was a man named Abraham who had a wife named
Sarah who couldn't have a baby. And then God gave her, she took
her handmaiden and by her handmaiden she had Ishmael. And then God
gave her and her husband a son. And then the son started to quarrel
and the women started to quarrel. No house big enough for both
of them. And Sarah said, Abraham, kick her out. And Abraham said,
I can't do that. I can't do that. And God said,
Abraham, kick him out. For the heir of the bondwoman
shall not be heir of the free. So the whole thing. The whole
thing is a picture of redemption, grace, and salvation, and the
believer's freedom from the law by Jesus Christ our Lord. Well,
how is it? Let's see now. Let's see. Sarah
said to Abraham, you take Hagar. Maybe this is the way God's going
to do that. We know it's all talking about Christ. That's
got to be a picture of him. No, that wasn't a picture of Christ.
That's a picture of man's unbelief. It portrays that. What I'm saying
is the whole message of the book, the whole message of the book
is Jesus Christ crucified. And to say the book speaks only
of the unsearchable riches of Christ in no way limits our understanding
of the book of God. The Lord Jesus is the full revelation
of God the full knowledge of God, the full grace of God, the
full salvation of God. He is full of riches unsearchable. Let me show you three things.
I'll be as brief as I possibly can in doing so. First and foremost,
the gospel of God is the revelation and declaration of the glorious
person of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the great joy of the gospel
preacher to declare the unsearchable riches of Christ. The glories
of Christ, whom he once persecuted, were Paul's one and only theme. And that, I repeat, is the one
and only theme of every man sent of God. All he aimed at was the
glory of Christ. He didn't labor to make men know
creeds, and confessions, and ceremonies, and orthodox opinions,
and denominational rules, and philosophies. And he didn't labor
to make men Democrats or Republicans. He didn't even talk about politics
in any way. Not in any way, except to say,
whoever's in charge, you treat him like he's in charge. Treat
him like he's the one God put over you. Pay taxes to Caesar
and just leave Caesar alone. Just don't pay any attention
to Caesar. Pay tribute to Caesar and leave him alone. You read
the first chapter of Romans and you read history and you realize
that men during the first century of Christianity, during the days
of Rome, moral things were just as corrupt, just as corrupt as
they are now. I mean folks were sodomites and
fornication was rampant, adultery was smiled at, abortion was common,
just like it is now, just like it is now. But Paul, why didn't
you say anything about those things? Why didn't you tell us
how to put a stop to those things? Why didn't you tell us how to
stop people from killing babies? How to stop sodomizing? How to
stop adultery? How to stop fornication? He did! He said, preach Christ. Preach
Christ. Preach Christ. Nothing else works. Nothing else works. Paul's sole
desire was to exalt Christ. And his engrossment with this
solitary subject was his delight. He looked upon the glories of
Christ person as being full of riches, unspeakable and unsearchable. He had deep insights into truth. He had great knowledge of divine
revelation. But he looked upon the person
and work of Christ, all his offices, all his person, all his accomplishments
as being themes that he could never exhaust. He found in Christ
depths of a golden treasure that he could never fetch up sufficiently. The Lord Jesus is glorious himself
in his divinity as God. I don't understand anything about
the Trinity, but I know that there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these
three are one. And all three are actively engaged,
actively working in the accomplishment of our salvation without controversy. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory. Everywhere in this book, everywhere
in this book, the Lord Jesus is spoken of and worshiped as
God. Everywhere. When you hear folks
talk about him and speak of him as a good man, speak of him almost
like they're being polite and tipping their heads, I recognize
he's a good man. He's a good religious teacher.
He's a good example. He's a good pattern to follow.
They're blaspheming. They're not honoring him. They're
not honoring him. Jesus Christ, the man, is God
in the flesh. In him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily." Men worshipped him as God from the beginning
of time. All through the Old Testament
scriptures, folks worshipped him as God. He appeared to Manoah
and his wife and Manoah said, we're going to die. And Manoah's
wife had a better sense than he did. She said, if we had seen
the face of God, he wouldn't have let us see his face if he
intended to kill us. No, no, this is God we worship. God we
worship. While he walked on this earth.
God in the flesh. Men worshiped him as God. His
apostles worshiped him as God. He called himself God. In fact,
the Jews, when our Lord said, why is it your, what good work
is it I've done? Or what work is it I've done
for which you're about to stone me? John chapter 10. They said,
we wouldn't kill you for a good work. No, no, no, no, no, sir. The reason we won't put you to
death is because you being a man had made yourself God. They understood
he claimed to be God because he is God. Either Jesus Christ
is that one in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, God over all, blessed forever, or he's a blasphemer
and he was rightly put to death and we're yet in our sins. Even
while he was here on this earth, our Lord showed his great power
as God. He spoke the word and the winds
obeyed him. He spoke the word and the waves
of the sea heeded his command. Demons worshiped him. Demons
obeyed his voice. Demons fled from him, the Christ
of God, the son of the living God. Our Lord Jesus, while he
walked on this earth, by his mere word, by his mere word caused
the dead to live. This man is God Almighty. Today he has put aside his garments
of servitude, laid aside the towel wherewith he girded himself
and washed his disciples' feet, and power is given to him in
heaven and in earth. to have universal dominion over
everybody and everything, to give eternal life to as many
as the Father has given Him because He's earned the right to do so. Jesus Christ, the man, is God
and He is the full, complete revelation of God. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. And we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. That passage Brother Larry read
to us just a little bit ago in Exodus 33 and 34. What a remarkable,
remarkable display. Lord, show me your glory, Moses
said. He said, all right, I'll do that.
He said, we'll put you in the cleft of the rock and I'll pass
before you. And as he did, the Lord passed
before Moses. and proclaimed himself sovereign
and gracious. He said, I have mercy on whom
I'll have mercy. I have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
And he passed before him, and Moses saw his back parts. Who was that? Well, that was
the Son of God, our Redeemer. And Moses saw his back parts. What's that? That's the train
that followed Him, whose train filled the temple that Isaiah
saw, the accomplished redemption of our Savior, making it possible
for God to be just and the justifier of the ungodly. This great God,
our Savior, became a man that He might be the Savior of men.
He is Lord over all, God and man, having accomplished redemption
for us as the God-man, our Savior. I can't dwell on this any longer,
but understand what I said a moment ago. Heaven is his by divine
right. He sits as our sympathizing high
priest. He sits in heaven as our all
sufficient prophet. He sits in heaven as our advocate. He sits in heaven as our king,
because it is right for him to do so as God and as man. He's God on his throne. He's
the man who is God on his throne, for he earned the right. Our
Lord Jesus is glorious in his person and glorious in all his
promises. All the promises of God in Christ
are yea and amen. Before the world was, he volunteered
to be our surety. He volunteered to come here and
obey God for us. He volunteered to bear our sin
in his own body on the tree and satisfy the justice of God for
us. He volunteered to come here and bring us back to the Father
and promised to do so. The Lord Jesus, who made those
covenant promises with the Father, promises to save all who come
to God by him. He promises to provide all we
need. He promises to love us to the
end and he promises never to leave his own. He says, I am
with thee always. He says, I will never leave thee
nor forsake thee. The statement made in Hebrews
13 is made as a deliberate redundancy. He said, I will never, no, never
leave thee. I will never, no, never forsake
thee. Because he would have us to know
he will never leave us and never forsake us for any reason. Our
Lord Jesus, oh my, how our Savior performed great things for us. See him hanging on the tree and
hear him as he cries. Father, forgive them. for they know not what they do.
We see in His death the venom and hatred of men and devils.
We see in His death the wrath and justice of God. But oh, what
mercy, what grace, what unsearchable riches we see in the Savior Himself. He prays for sinners who wish
that He should die. that they might be forgiven of
their sin in making him to die. He prays, Father forgive them
and he speaks to one of them who had blasphemed him. Today
shalt thou be with me in paradise when he was made sin for us. He cries with broken heart, my
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cries, I thirst when the
He who bore our diseases, our sicknesses in his body on the
tree, thirsted before God. And when he'd finished all the
work, he cried, it is finished. And said, father, into thy hands,
I commend my spirit. Then he's buried. There he lay
for three days, as it were buried out of God's sight. because God's
a purer eye than to behold iniquity. He was made sin, went to the
grave as the sin bearer, but three days later justified in
the Spirit because He had put away our sins. And now our Savior
sits in glory with all power, all might, all authority, all
dominion. to give life to whom he will. Christ himself. Christ himself
is glorious. We, I would say nothing to diminish
doctrine. All the doctrine of the gospel,
oh, I delight in election and predestination and limited atonement. I'm not bashful to declare it
to anybody anywhere. But the doctrine. The doctrine
is meaningless when separated from the person of the Redeemer.
I don't know how to make that clear to anybody who doesn't
know it. But there's a huge difference between preaching true doctrine
and preaching the Son of God. There's a huge difference. I've
told you this before, but it'll bear repetition. Oh, this has
been a long time ago, better than 20 or 25 years ago. Someone
sent me a series of messages preached by a very highly regarded
Presbyterian theologian, a man after whom I have read a good
bit. And he preached at Calvin College up in Philadelphia, five
days in chapel, five chapel services, and preached on the five points
of Calvinism. And Bill, his doctrine was exactly
right. Everything he said was true.
There wasn't one thing he said I would object to. And I listened
to each message twice. And both times, I came to this
conclusion. Having told truth clearly, without
compromise, if I had walked in that chapel service and sat down
back there, Cody, where you are, and listened to him all five
days, and I'd never heard the gospel of God's grace, I didn't
know who Christ was or what he had done, I didn't know anything
about faith in Christ, I'd have walked out just as blind and
just as dark. Because never once did he say
anything about how sinners are to obtain God's salvation through
faith in God's Son. Not once. Not once. Oh, God,
keep me from such mutilation of the gospel. The doctrine of
the gospel is the robe our Savior wears. The gospel is all about
the person of our Savior Himself. In preaching, I say, let Christ
have no rival. Oh, let us so love Christ that
we want to hear nothing but that which displays His glory and
count any rival to Him anathema. Number two, number two, I'll
just say this briefly. As I preach Christ to you, the
unsearchable riches of Christ, I set before you the infinitely
generous portion of your souls. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul, therefore will I hope in him. Christ is my portion. Christ is that one thing needful,
which shall never be taken away from us. If we can claim Christ
as our portion, we have all our souls can desire for time and
for eternity. That's Paul's meaning when he
speaks of us, of Christ and says, I'm sent to preach the unsearchable
riches of Christ. Oh, what a mighty Savior Christ
is, with unsearchable riches for sinners. So great is the
love of God in Christ for sinners that God chose a word to describe
it. It seems so insignificant, but
it's so full of meaning. For God so. God so, how so? God so loved the world, the world
of His elect, His people scattered everywhere in the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. Oh, what unsearchable riches
of love, mercy and grace there is in Christ revealed in the
way he deals with poor sinners coming to him. Our Lord Jesus
must needs go through Samaria because there was a Samaritan
adulteress for whom the time of love had come and she must
be called. And the Lord Jesus carried the
gospel to her. He freely forgave the woman who
was taken in adultery, taken in the very act in John chapter
eight. I find it amazing. I find it
amazing that two of the most instructive, delightful, blessed
portions of scripture, I'm talking about two of the most important,
most instructive, most delightful passages of scripture found in
all the scripture, Almost all the translators, almost all of
them, almost all of them, those who give you these new translations,
they always come up with something new. We need a new translation. Can you imagine an English teacher
suggesting we have a new translation of Shakespeare? That's kind of
absurd. You don't need a better translation
than the battle the one God's given you. But they come up with
the idea, 1 John 5, 7, that's not supposed to be in the book.
John chapter 8 verses 1 through 11, that's not supposed to be
in the book. That's not supposed to be there. What? 1 John 5,
7 states clearly the doctrine of the Trinity, the triune persons
of the Godhead. Let's just cut that out. The
story of the adulterous woman, John chapter 8, that's not supposed
to be in the book. Oh my, oh my, what a story. What a picture! It's a picture
of free grace, full forgiveness, without merit, by Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, who alone has merit and ability to forgive
sin. How tenderly He spoke to that
woman. How graciously He sought Zacharias. How mercifully He received all
who came to Him. Oh, how the love of Christ radiates
in the reception of sinners by Him. Is there anyone who can
tell out the discoveries of Christ's unsearchable riches of mercy,
love, and grace? Christ Jesus has riches of pardon
for all who come to Him, trusting Him, confessing their sins. He has such riches of pardon
that no amount of guilt, no measure of guilt, hear me,
oh God help you to hear me, hear yourself, oh my soul. He has such unsearchable riches
of pardon that no measure of guilt can possibly transcend
the efficacy of his precious blood. He will never charge a sinner
with sin who's washed in His blood. He so cleanses us from
sin that He neither sees nor remembers sin in us. He so thoroughly
pardons us of our sin that He never treats us any of the less
graciously because of sin. And oh, what unsearchable riches
of peace He gives. He made peace with God for us. He proclaims peace in our hearts
by the gospel, and he is our peace. When you weep because
of sin, and you should. When your heart's broken because
of transgression, and it should be. When your heart's heavy because
of your iniquity, and it should be. The Lord Jesus has just the
handkerchief with which to wipe away your tears. He says, you
believe in God, believe also in me. Those words he spoke to Peter,
just as he told Peter, tonight you're going to deny me three
times. Let not your heart be troubled, Peter. You believe
in God, believe also in me. A fellow wrote to me last week,
read something I'd written in that regard, heard something
I'd preached. He said, you are a real antinomian. I didn't bother answering. Let not your heart be troubled,
children of God. You see, the children of God
know and acknowledge their sin. Not now and then, not once in
a while, all the time. Let not your heart be troubled,
sinful believer. You believe in God, believe also
in me. My soul finds more joy in a moment
of communion with Christ than in months of seeking every other
imaginable comfort. The company of Christ is joyful
company indeed. His riches of grace and mercy
and love, peace and comfort are unsearchable. And the riches
of contentment he gives, unsearchable as well. When I was a young man, I was
intrigued with a lot of things, like most young men. When I was
a young preacher, I was intrigued with a lot of things. I studied
everything. Any question anybody raised,
I'd go study it. I mean anything. I'd go study
it. I'd study it out in detail. And
I chased rabbit trails and chased rabbit trails and chased rabbit
trails and chased rabbit trails and never did catch a rabbit.
Just kept chasing them. What you're doing is running
around like a dog chasing his own tail. And I'm going to tell you
something. Today, I'm just not interested. I'm just not interested. I'm
not interested in all the experiences of religion. I'm not interested
in all the theories folks come up with. I'm not interested in
what, oh, but Don, did you hear about this? Did you hear about
that? Yeah, but I'm not interested. I'm not interested. How can that
be? I found the pearl of great price. I found the treasure of this
book. It is Jesus Christ, my Lord, unsearchable riches. And I'm content. He's enough. The Lord Jesus has unsearchable
riches of grace. for all who come to God by Him. Now, let me show you one more
thing and I'll quit. The gospel we preach proclaims
to sinners the unsearchable riches of Christ and tells us the reason,
the very gracious purpose why God has put all these riches
in His Son. Just listen to this, 2 Corinthians
chapter 8, verse 9. You know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ? How that though He was rich,
yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty
might be made rich. He gives every sinner who comes
to Him, every sinner who believes on Him, all the unsearchable
riches that are his as the God-man, our mediator. And you can use
them and use them and use them and use them and they never diminish. Watch here. Just imagine a glass
of cold water, cold water. on a 120-degree day out in the
middle of the desert. That's all the water there is.
And you take a drink and it's still just as much as
it was before. Here, Bobby, have a drink. And he drinks all he
wants to. And it's still just as much as
it was before. Well, don't take a drink. And
it is all he wants. And the glass is still full,
just as much as it was before. Such are the riches of Jesus Christ. Here, eat this bread, drink this
wine, take this water, and you get all of it. You get all of
it. You get all of it. You take some
too, you get it all. You take some, you get it all.
Christ's riches, unsearchable riches that are never diminished
by use. Live upon his riches for the
glory of his name. Amen.