Matthew chapter twelve and verse
thirty-eight this morning. It says, Then certain of the
scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, Master,
we would see a sign from thee. They called him Master, and you
might think that this was noble of them to honor the Lord Jesus
Christ with this title, but the Lord knew their hearts. He knew
their hearts. Christ was speaking to these
same characters, these Pharisees, in Matthew 15 and verse 7 when
he said, You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth
me with their lips, Master, but their heart is far from me. These
are the same characters that our brother just read about that
our Lord was angry with because they watched him to try to catch
him doing something that they thought was wrong so that they
could shame him in some way. See how the Lord describes them
in the next verse of our text, verse thirty-nine. He answered
and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh
after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it but the
sign of the prophet Jonas, the word of God. He describes them. They call him Master. And he
said, You're evil and adulterous. And here's what characterizes
this evil and adulterous generation to whom he spoke. They seek after
a sign. He said, The only sign you're
going to get is the Word of God, what my prophet wrote concerning
me. God spake in time past by his
prophet, such as Jonah, mentioned here. And he hath in these last
days spoken by a greater than Jonah. And these wicked and adulterous
Pharisees, they neither believed Jonah's prophecy, nor did they
believe the one of whom Jonah prophesied. And they wanted to
see a magic show that would impress their senses. And that's what
my generation wants, too. They want to be entertained,
and they want to be assured while they're being entertained that
they're going to heaven when they die, where they'll be entertained
for eternity. My generation is no different
from his. It's a wicked and adulterous
generation. because they believe not what
his prophet said of him, nor did they believe what he said.
Look at verse 40. For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the son of man be three
days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of
Nineveh shall rise up in judgment with this generation and shall
condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas. and
behold a greater than jonah says here that's not just an entertaining
story that store the the book of jonah wasn't written so that
children could go he was eaten by a whale you know how exciting
how fun you know but little pictures up on the flannel board he preached
christ and he showed forth christ he prophesied of christ he pictured
christ and he exalted christ and christ said to them the one
that he spoke of prophesied of is standing here right in front
of you and you didn't believe him nor do you believe me look
at verse 42 the Queen of the South shall rise up in 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. I want to speak to you
this morning on that subject a greater than Solomon Who is
this Queen of the South, and why does the Lord Himself use
her as an illustration in this message to these Pharisees? In
judgment, He said, she's going to testify against these religious
reprobates. Why? Why did He say that? Turn
to 1 Kings chapter 10. 1 Kings chapter 10, and we'll
spend some time here this morning. start with verse one it says
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
this Queen Christ said will rise up in judgment against the enemies
of Christ first of all because of this now listen Solomon was
wise in all things the Lord asked him the Lord told you you asked
me for whatever you want What's the one thing, Solomon, that
you desire above all things?" He said, Lord, give me wisdom,
that I might rule thy people in wisdom. And it says that saying,
please the Lord. The Lord gave him wisdom. And
he was wise in all things. He was able to settle disputes
in the kingdom by ingenious means for discovering the truth. You
remember in 1 Kings chapter 3, I'm sure you've heard the story
of the two women who debated and argued over whose child was
alive and whose child was dead. You remember that story, I'm
sure. The one woman said that the other
one had accidentally rolled over on her child in the night and
then had come and stolen her child, and that's what had happened.
She had accidentally smothered her own child, and she came and
stole another woman's child that was about the same age, apparently,
and took it to be her own. And but the other woman said,
no, this one is mine and the dead one's hers. And she made
this story up. And so there's a dispute. And
Solomon didn't know which one was which. But Solomon said this,
you bring me a sword and we'll cut this baby in half and I'll
give half to you and half to you and we'll settle this matter
right now. And one of the women said, that's fine. We'll just
neither of us have the baby. Go ahead and cut it in half.
But the other woman said, no. Don't hurt that baby. You give
that baby to her." Solomon said, that's the mother right there.
You talk about wise now. That's the mother. Give the child
to her. Solomon, as the wisest man who
ever lived, he pictures the Lord Jesus Christ here who is himself
the wisdom of God. In 1 Kings 3.12, the Lord said
to Solomon, Behold, I have done according to thy words, lo, I
have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that
there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall
any arise like unto thee." And then Solomon sets forth Christ,
the wisdom of God, unto them which are called, Paul said.
Both Jews and it don't matter who you are, if you're called
of God, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. But notice this, the Queen of
Sheba wasn't interested in Solomon's ability to resolve disputes or
his knowledge of the sciences of which he was greatly informed. He was apparently also an architectural
genius, oversaw the building of great structures. But that
didn't get her attention. That didn't impress her. It was
when she heard of his wisdom concerning the name of the Lord
that she came to Jerusalem to see Solomon. She's going to rise
up in judgment against these Pharisees, because she wanted
to find out who God is. And they came just to trip Him
up, just to catch Him saying something, you know, that was
against their law. But she came to find out who
God is with an honest, open heart. Now, how about you this morning?
How about me? The Pharisees came to Christ
flattering Him with titles. They kissed Him with their mouths,
with their lips, flattered Him. They always asked him many questions,
just like it says in our text here in verse 1, the queen of
Sheba came to prove him with hard questions. Is she as wicked
as these Pharisees then because she came to do that? No, the
Lord said she'll rise up in judgment against them. What's the difference?
The difference is the motive of the heart. Why are the questions
asked? What is in the heart? That's
what matters. God doesn't look on the outward
appearance. He looks on the heart. in mark
eight eleven says the pharisees came forth and began to question
with christ seeking of him a sign from heaven tempting him and
he said deeply in his spirit and said why does this generation
seek if after a sign barely i say and do you there should no sign
be given to this generation and he left the and entered into
the ship departed to the other side he didn't want to be This
queen came to Solomon to hear what he had to say, what he was
able to tell her concerning the name of the Lord. Why are you
here this morning? Why am I here? Did we come to
hear what God says? To learn of the Lord Jesus Christ
and to worship Him? Or do we perhaps draw nigh unto
Him with our presence here and honor Him with our lips, and
yet is our heart far from Christ? Here's what I'm asking you this
morning. Be honest with God. Be honest
with God and with yourself. Will this queen rise up in judgment
against you someday because of the wicked motive of your heart
for being here this morning? This queen wanted to hear who
God is. The name of the Lord is his character,
his attributes, who he is. She traveled a long way to hear
of him from somebody that could tell her. Solomon was a preacher
first and foremost. In Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verse
12, this is the way Solomon begins his writing. I the preacher was
king over Israel in Jerusalem. Does that seem unusual to you?
I'm a preacher and I just happen to be king of Israel too. He
didn't say I the king, I'm a preacher. He was a preacher of the Lord
Jesus Christ and that was everything. Everything else was secondary
to that. Even something so great as being king of a large nation. And notice that she asked hard
questions. Just like the Pharisees did now,
there's not a thing in the wrong world wrong with asking hard
questions in order to find out the truth about God. And that's
why she asked them. The Pharisees asked the Lord
questions for a different reason. Luke 11, 53, as He said these
things unto them, the scribes and Pharisees began to urge Him
vehemently and to provoke Him to speak of many things. And
that word provoke there means literally to interrogate Him.
They began to interrogate Him. Can you imagine that? These wicked,
vile Pharisees, self-righteous, began to interrogate the Son
of God. Why? Laying in wait for Him,
and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they might
accuse him. But this queen, she was determined to find out who
God is. In Acts 17, we're told that the
Bereans, after Paul had preached to them, it says they searched
the scriptures to find out if what Paul told them was the truth.
Here's what I'm saying. Be an inquirer into the things
of God. If you don't find out anything
else in this world, you find out who God is and what He did
for sin, how He deals with sin, and why He did it. And the gospel
will answer every question that you have that's worth asking. I promise you that. You go and
find somebody that knows who God is, that can answer these
questions, and you listen. I don't know about you, but I'd
like to ask some of these religious so-called preachers of my generation
some hard questions sometime when you Because they reveal
in all that they say that they don't have the answers for them
the Lord Jesus Christ a greater than Solomon Has come and spoken
to us of the name of the Lord He said the words that I speak
to you. I received them of my father He spoke of the name of
the Lord. He said, If you've seen me, you've
seen the Father. He revealed the Father to us.
The Father said this, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased. Hear ye Him. He came to reveal
the name, the character, the attributes, the person of God
to us. And this queen didn't know the
answer to these questions. And she couldn't figure them
out on her own. And you can't either. I can't either. God's
got to reveal them. flesh and blood didn't reveal
this to you Peter flesh and blood can't reveal anything to us but
my father which is in heaven there are questions that only
God can answer and as Solomon pictures Christ here Christ is
himself the answer to every question worth asking let's come to him
who is the wisdom of God and he'll tell us all things all
things we don't come to him to tell him something but to find
out something And it says these are hard questions. Many wise
and prudent have sought the answers to these questions and have not
been able to learn them. But Christ said that God revealed
them unto babies. Job asked a question, how can
man be just with God? That's a hard question because
God is holy and spotless and righteous and just. and we're wicked, vile, wretched,
and condemned and guilty before Him. How is God going to look
at me and say He's perfect, spotless, sinless? How can that be? How
can God be just and justify me? That's a good question. That's
a hard question. If you know the answer to that,
God gave you that answer. You didn't get that out of a
book, not even this book, without God Almighty's grace. Can you
answer that question? If not, I'd ask him if I were
you. I'd ask him. Like this woman asked Solomon,
how can man be just with God? Scripture says you have not because
you ask not. Nicodemus asked the master, how
could a man be born when he's old? Can you answer that? Nicodemus couldn't. He was a
ruler in Israel. Christ said, are you a ruler
in Israel? And you don't know these things? How about you?
The Philippian jailer asked a question from the anguish of his heart,
from the desperation of his heart. He said to Paul, what must I
do to be saved? He didn't know anything about
it, did he? But he wanted to know. He wanted to know, how
can I be saved? That's a good question. Do you
know the answer to it? Could you have answered his question?
There's one thing, there's one means by which God saves sinners,
and that's faith in Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
you'll be saved. The Lord asked that man blind
from his birth a question, Do you believe on the Son of God?
And then he asked the Lord a question, Who is He, Lord? Who is He that
I might believe on Him? Do you know the answer to that
question? Who is it that's worthy? Who is it who alone is the object
of all God-given faith? Who is He? Have you found out?
Have you inquired? He's the only one that can tell
you who He is. And he'll use a man to do that, but it's the
Lord. He said, my sheep hear my voice. They don't hear the
preacher's voice. They hear the voice of the master. Here's a
question for you. What manner of man is this that
the winds and the seas obey him? Have you ever inquired into that?
Who is this man? Who is this one that's bone of
my bone and flesh of my flesh and walks in the same dust that
I walk in? But when he speaks to the ocean,
it lays down like an obedient dog at his feet. Who is, what
manner of man is that? God asked Ezekiel, he took Ezekiel
out into that field of dead bones that were very dry. And he asked
a hard question, didn't he? Can these bones live? And you
know what Ezekiel said? Lord, thou knowest. The only
one that knows the answer to that question is the one who
alone has the power to give life to the dead. Look at verse 2. She came and asked some hard
questions. And then in verse 2 it says,
She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
bear spices, and very much gold and precious stones. Why did
she do that? When she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. First
of all, why did she bring all of these things? She brought
to Solomon a great train with camels that bore spices and very
much gold and precious stones. And don't try to make this something
that it's not. She didn't need to pay for the
information that she got from Solomon, did she? He didn't say,
well, I'll answer your questions, but it's going to cost you. That's
not why she brought these things. Solomon was the greatest, wealthiest
man on the planet at this time. He didn't need anything from
the Queen of Sheba, did he? But she came this way. Here's
what these gifts signify. She came with due respect that
was to be paid unto a great king. And you better come to Christ
that way too, because He's a greater than Solomon. Oh, infinitely
greater than Solomon. If you come to Christ as a far
escape from hell, you're not coming to Christ. He's the king
of glory and he'll be approached as the king of glory if he's
going to be approached. David said in Psalm 89 7, God
is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to
be had in reverence of all them that are about him. Are you going
to come near unto God? You better come with reverence
for him. Reverence. That man in Matthew
8 and verse 5, for the sake of time I'm going to read you some
scripture this morning rather if you want to turn there fast
Matthew 8 verse 5 when Jesus was entered into Capernaum there
came unto him a centurion's beseeching him begging he came begging he
was a centurion he was a man of authority as he testifies
in this passage but he came as a beggar to the Lord Jesus Christ
how did you come to Christ and saying Lord My servant lieth
at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto
him, I'll come and heal him. And the centurion answered and
said, Lord, I'm not worthy that thou shouldest come under my
roof, but just speak the word only. My servant will be healed. For I'm a man under authority.
I'm not king of the world. I have a boss too. And there
are soldiers under me too. And I say to them, go, and they
go. I say to one of them, go, and
he goes. I say to another, come, and he
comes. And to my servant, do this, and he doeth it. And I
know this, all you've got to do is just speak, and it's done."
And the Lord said, I hadn't seen faith like that anywhere. Oh,
I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. You come to
the Lord Jesus Christ as Him who is the authority over all
authority. God has given him a name which
is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow. And the queen of Sheba came as
unto a great king, bearing those things that you didn't approach
the king. It was disrespectful not to bring
gifts unto the king. And she had respect and reverence
for him. And we'll see that in a minute
in a different way. And so she came When the Lord
Jesus Christ came to this earth and submitted Himself into our
hands, what did we do? We mocked Him as King, didn't
we? We put a purple robe on Him and a reed in His hand as a mock
scepter, and we put a crown of thorns on His brow, and mockingly
we cried, Hail, King of the Jews. But when you come to Him for
mercy, you're going to own Him in that very character, but in
a different attitude like Thomas, you're going to come and say,
my Lord and my God, he's the king. And she approached him
that way. Now notice that she poured out her heart to him.
She communed with him of all that was in her heart. And this
is the way to do business with the master. He already knows
your heart anyway. You don't try to hide anything
from God. Don't put the fig leaf apron on and hide behind a tree
from God. Be honest and open with it. Pour
out your heart. to God. He knows it already,
but He'll have you commune with Him from your heart. He doesn't
look on the outward countenance. He looks on the heart, and you'll
tell Him all of your heart. You come to find out who He is. This queen didn't come to have
an intellectual summit with Solomon and to compare notes, you know.
This is what I think about this. What do you think? She came and
poured out her heart. And that's what we do with the
Lord Jesus Christ. We confess, don't we? We confess
our ignorance before Him. This queen, she was a dignitary
herself. She had a throne too. But in
asking Solomon these hard questions, she was admitting that she didn't
know. She didn't know anything. Confess
your sins to Christ. You see, this is heart business
that we do with the Son of God. Nobody on this earth Nobody knows
my sins but Him. Repent unto Him. He's faithful
and just to forgive. And then repent of your repentance.
Repent that you're not repentant. You see, open your heart to the
Lord Jesus Christ. The Queen didn't tell Solomon
what was in her head, what she knew. She told him what was in
her heart. God says to us, Adam, where are
you? If you're going to answer that
question truly, you're going to have to talk about what's
in your heart, aren't you, for God? Friend, betrayest thou the
Son of Man with a kiss? That's a heart question right
there. Do you believe on the Son of God? That question can
only be answered from the heart. And so she poured out her heart.
She communed with him of all that was in her heart. Do you
love me, Christ said to Peter? Do you love me? That's a heart
question right there. That's not an intellectual question. And then verse 3, And Solomon
told her all her questions, and there was not anything hid from
the king. He knows everything, and there wasn't anything which
he told her not. He's got all the answers, and he doesn't withhold
them from those who come to him seeking. If you come to him seeking
the answers to the eternal questions, spiritual questions, The Lord
Jesus Himself is the answer to all those questions. And He said,
Seek and you'll find. Seek. He doesn't hide Himself
from true seekers. Lord, show me Your way. Show
me Your way. My ways are not Your way. I want
to know Your ways. Is that right? Is that how you
come to Him? I want to know Your will and
Your way. And show me Your glory. Have
you ever had that prayer like Moses? Lord, show me Your glory.
James said in 1 5 if any of you lack wisdom I get anybody there
you lack wisdom Let him ask of God the Queen knew where to come
didn't she to get her questions answered God giveth to all men
liberally He's the giver giver giver Go to him and ask for wisdom
and it says he upbraideth not That means to reproach to cast
in one's teeth He won't cast it into your teeth that you're
a fool. And even though we are fools, we come before Him as
fools, not knowing anything. Peter said to Him one time in
Matthew 19, Behold, we've forsaken everything, Lord, and followed
You. What will we have therefore? Does that make you cringe a little
bit? What a question to ask the Master. Look what He forsook. Look what He left and where He
came and what He came to do. And Peter's saying, we've left
everything. What's in it for us? But you know, he didn't upbraid
him. He didn't reproach him. He didn't
cast it into his teeth. He comforted him. He said, Peter,
you haven't left anything. You came to me. I'll restore
a hundredfold everything you've left. And you'll have eternal
life, too. Eternal life. Is that what he
said? Jesus said unto them, I say unto you, that ye which have
followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit
in the throne of his glory, you'll sit on twelve thrones judging
the twelve tribes and everyone that hath forsaken houses or
brethren or sisters or father mother wife children lands for
my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold in this life and
shall inherit everlasting life." What did you leave behind Peter?
When I sent you out he said in another place did you lack anything?
And they honestly answered him and said nothing. How about you?
So he upbraideth not. He doesn't cast it in our teeth
what idiots we are. Ask him. Come and find out all
of the answers to all of the questions that are worth asking
from the Lord Jesus Christ. And he'll answer them. Solomon
didn't withhold anything from her. He answered all of her questions. Then verse 4, when the queen
of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom. Verse 1, she came. She came from Jerusalem unto
him. Verse 1, also she inquired. Verse 1, she heard. She heard,
she came, she inquired, and now here she saw. She saw. She saw all the wisdom of Solomon. Job said, I've heard of you by
the hearing of the ear, but now might I see of thee. Oh, come
and see for yourself. Nathanael said to Philip. Philip
went and found Nathanael and said, come, we found the Messiah. And Nathanael said, Can any good
thing come out of Nazareth? How are you going to answer that
question? Here's how Philip answered it. He said, You come and see.
You come and see. If somebody asks you, What goes
on down here? How many do you all have down
here? What do you have for the young people? What kind of music
program do you have? Come and see. I'll tell you what
we've got. We've got Christ and His gospel. We've got His promise that where
two or three are gathered in His name, there I am in the midst
of them. We've got the truth of the Lord
Jesus Christ. By His grace, come and see. Come
and see. And anything else is a waste
of time. A waste of time. We have His
ordinances that He gave. To what? To show forth my death,
He said, till I come. And remember, remember if we
can, by His grace, peel away the flesh, get the flesh out
of the way and remember the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did
for you. Come and see. She saw His wisdom. 1 Corinthians
1 23 Paul said we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews he's
a stumbling block and unto the Greeks he's foolishness but unto
them which are called unto them which God has called out of darkness
into his marvelous light Christ is the power and the wisdom of
God she saw Solomon's wisdom look at verse 4 of our text there
in first Kings and when the Queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's
wisdom and the house that he had built My Lord's building
a house too. There's so much in here that
Solomon pictures Christ here. And the meat of His table, the
meat of His table is His person and work, His body and blood.
He said, My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath life. He that by
faith lays hold of the Son of God, and as the bread of life
partakes of Him, He's life to those who partake of Him and
the sitting of His servants and the attendance of His ministers
and their apparel. What is their apparel? Who are
these that are arrayed in white? They are those that are robed
in the very righteousness of Christ Himself and His cupbearers
and His ascent by which He went up into the house of the Lord.
She watched Solomon go up to worship his God and it says 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. How be it, 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." There are many pictures of Christ
here. His house, his table, his house
is made up of living stones, he said, his people. the meat
of his table, his person and work. And here in a word what
the Queen of Sheba saw is this. She saw the glory of King Solomon.
Is that what she saw? The glory of King Solomon. She
extolled him. And it literally took her breath
away. The sight of his glory and greatness. It says there
was no more spirit in her. The word spirit there is wind
or breath. There was no breath left in her.
Have you ever seen the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory? in so much
that it had this effect upon you. It just took the wind right
out of you. Have you ever seen Him like that?
Breathless at the contemplation of all of His greatness. I get
the sense of that in Romans 11. The Apostle Paul is dealing there
in Romans 11 with the unbelief of the Jews and how that God
in mercy had turned to the Gentiles and included the Gentiles. He
included them. And Paul just seems to stop what
he was saying. and to break forth with praise
and adoration. Listen to it in verse 29. He's
talking about, as I said, the gifts and calling of God are
without repentance. For as ye in times past have
not believed God, the Jews, yet have now obtained mercy, or the
Gentiles, yet now you've obtained mercy through their unbelief,
even so have these also now not believed that through your mercy
they may also obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all
in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all. and then he stops
and says in verse 33, Oh, the depth of the riches, both of
the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments
and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of
the Lord or who hath been his counselor or who hath first given
to him and it shall be recompensed unto him again for of him and
through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever."
I believe Paul got a glimpse of that glory like the Queen
of Sheba saw in Solomon representing Christ. It was at the sight of
his majesty and glory. Have you ever seen the glory
of God? If you have, I know where you saw it. God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts. to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God where in
the face of a person is Christ. That's where God's glory dwells. He is the brightness of God's
glory, the express image of His person. God's glory is revealed
in His purpose of grace toward sinners in the substitute. It's
revealed on the cross and displayed there, His glory where my Lord
gave His soul an offering for sin. She confessed that all that
was spoken of Him was true. Did you see that in verses 6
and 7? I heard about it and I came and
saw for myself it was a true report. That's confession of
Christ right there. And this is Peter saying in John
6, 69, We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ. What
Christ, Peter? The one we've heard about. The
one that we've read about in God's Word. We believe and are
sure that the reports are true. You're who you say you are. You're
who God said you are. You're who all the prophets said
you would be and are. She believed the report. Look
at verse 8. Happier are thy men, happier are these thy servants
which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom.
She's right about that, wasn't she? Happier are thy men, the
Lord Jesus Christ, which stand continually in his presence.
King David wrote, Where shall I flee from thy presence? If
I ascend into heaven, you're there. Behold, if I make my bed
in hell, behold, thou art there. We're continually in his presence. What a picture of Christ Solomon
is here. She blessed God. Look at the
rest of that. Verse 9, 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." You see Christ in that? She blessed God that because
God loved his people, Israel, he put his king on the throne
of his king. Amen. Amen. Because God loved us, He has
established an everlasting kingdom, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
And He came to this earth to redeem a people, to populate
that kingdom. And because He loved us, we'll
dwell with Him forever. And it says in Revelation there,
His servants shall serve Him. Like Solomon's servants, joy
and gladness served King Solomon. There in Revelation chapter 21,
I believe it is, it says, His servants shall serve and will
dwell in that everlasting kingdom of which the Lord Jesus Christ,
the King, He sits enthroned, and we, His servants, we're happy
about that." Aren't you glad He's on the throne? Revelation
19, 6, "...I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude,
and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings."
And here's what they were saying. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise His name forever. What
for? for the Lord God omnipotent,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's bow in prayer. Lord, thank you for a little
glimpse of the glory of him who is infinitely greater than Solomon. Bless us, Lord, as we try with
these feeble, weak minds to contemplate the glory of Christ. And as we
observe this ordinance, Lord, You so graciously gave. Enable
us, Lord. We need Your grace to enable
us to worship the Lord Jesus who's represented here, to remember,
to commune, to contemplate, apply our hearts and minds to who He
is and what He did for us on that cross. He shed His precious
blood. His body was ripped apart and
His blood fell to this earth. What He accomplished there, the
victory that was wrought there on that cross, open our hearts,
Lord, and enable us to think on these things. Bless us as
we worship