Thank you, Todd. Would you turn
with me in your Bibles, please, to Psalm 62 Psalm 62. And I'll tell you up front that
I've titled this message the onlyness of Christ, the onlyness
of Christ. So that's not a word. Well, it
is now. All the words we use, we made
up somewhere along the line, right? Psalm 62, beginning in verse
one. Truly, my soul waiteth upon God. From him, from him cometh my
salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation. From election to glorification,
he's done it all. Men love having choices because
it gives them a sense of power. There's no choice in the gospel.
No choice. The Lord shuts you up to his
onlyness so that you have nothing to say, nothing to add. Men confuse
the kingdom of God with the kingdom of this world. The Lord said,
my kingdom's not of this world. I find a lot of folks think that
the kingdom of God is a capitalistic democracy where You get rewarded
for your labor and you get a vote. Well, it's not. It's not. It's a benevolent theocracy whereby
the subjects and citizens of that kingdom bow in submission
to their king. And he in return loves them.
Loves them. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not be greatly moved. I'm so thankful the Holy Spirit
put that word greatly in there, because we often are moved, aren't
we? We're distracted. We're prone to wander. We look
away from the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ and try to
find some other source of hope. David said, I envied when I saw
the prosperity of the wicked. But then I went into the house
of God, into the tabernacle, and then I knew their end. They
didn't envy anymore. We envy, we stumble. I hear the
Lord says, I will not be greatly moved. The Lord himself is my
onlyness. How long will you imagine mischief
against a man? Now, the man here being spoken
of is the man, the God man. the mediator between God and
man, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. How long will you imagine mischief
against a man? Why do the heathen rage? Why
do they imagine vain things against the king whom God has set on
his holy hill? How long will you imagine mischief
against a man? You shall be slain, all of you,
as a bowing wall shall you be and as a tottering fence. Here's the second time the word
only is used in this passage. Look at verse four. They only
consult to cast him down from his excellency. Casting the Lord
Jesus Christ down from his excellency is robbing him of his glory by
taking away his onlyness and adding to his work, the work
of man. That's what it is to cast him
down from his excellency. And that's what that's what legalistic
free will man-made religion is all about. Casting the Lord Jesus
Christ down from his onlyness and adding to what he has done
some work on the part of man. The Lord says they only consult
to cast him down. That's all they do. They only
consult to cast him down from his excellency. They delight
in lies. They bless with their mouth,
but they curse inwardly. The Lord said, you honor me with
your lips, but your hearts are far from me. You're not bowing
in submission to me. You're calling me Lord, but you
don't mean it. Verse five, my soul, wait thou
only upon God. For my expectation is from him.
What is your expectation from God? Lord said, I know the thoughts
that I have for you. Thoughts of peace, not of evil. To bring you to your expected
end. Oh, what an expected end we have.
To see him as he is and be made like him. And he says, the thoughts
that I have for you are to that expected end. But it will only
be as your soul waits only upon God. Verse six, he only is my
rock and my salvation. He only. I've got no place else
to go. He shut me up to himself. Peter,
whom do you say that I am? Thou art the Christ, the son
of the living God. Oh, Peter, you've been blessed
of God. Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you. My father,
which is in heaven, has made it known unto you. And upon this
rock, this rock, the rock of ages, I'm going to build my church.
It's the rock that the builders rejected. God has made to be
the head of the corner. He said, I'm going to build my
church on that confession that I am the Christ, the son of the
living God. And when the Lord asks the disciples,
will you lead me also? What do they say? Where are we
gonna go? You alone have the words of eternal
life. We know and are sure that thou art the Christ, the only
living God. This is life eternal that thou
might know thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent. Do you find comfort and encouragement? and not having any choices, being
shut up to the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my defense, verse six.
Oh, there's a. There's an avenger of blood.
That pursues centers, it's called the law. And. The only safe place for that
sinner to be is in that city of refuge. He's our defense. Flee to that city. Verse seven, in God is my salvation
and my glory. Oh, for the glory of his grace.
Turn me to Zachariah chapter four. Zechariah chapter four, verse six. Then he answered and
spake unto me saying, this is the word of the Lord. You know,
God never attempts to explain himself or defend himself. He
just simply says, thus saith the Lord. And those that have
been shut up to him, they don't want any other options. They don't want to know, well,
what about this and what about that? What does God say? Thus
saith the Lord unto Zerubbabel. Now, Zerubbabel is the man that
the Lord used to bring the children of Israel out of Babylon back
to Jerusalem. But here in this passage, he
clearly represents the Lord Jesus Christ who brings his children
out of Babylon, come out from among her and be separate, saith
the Lord." Isn't that what the Lord said? Oh, this land we live
in is a land like Babylon. You listen to men in religion,
you feel like you're in Babel, listening to the confusion of
speech after the Lord came down. And one man says this and one
man says that, and you can't make sense of it. Why? Because
they have not bowed to the onlyness of Christ. Not by might, nor by power. Oh, there's such freedom in being
powerless. If you've known somebody, perhaps
you yourself have gone for some help with an addiction, what
is the first of the 12 steps? Confess that you are powerless. I have no power over this addiction.
Well, the interesting thing is that those 12-step programs are
much like freeware religion. They give you 11 things to do
after you confess that you have no power. But here's the point. There's no hope for deliverance
until a person admits that they have no power. And God says,
not by power, not by might, but by spirit, saith the Lord. The spirit of God has set us
free. The Lord told Nicodemus, Nicodemus, you can't see the
kingdom of God unless you're born of the spirit. You've got
to be born from above. The spirit of God has to breathe
life into your heart in order for you to know me. Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who
art thou, O great mountain? Now the mountain here represents
those who would stand up in objection against God. Who art thou, O
great mountain, before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt become a plain. Oh,
when the Lord humbles his people, he brings them down, doesn't
he? We've heard about that already. The way up is down and he makes
the mountains to be plains. And he shall bring forth the
headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, what? Grace, grace unto
it. Moreover, the word of the Lord
came unto me saying, the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
struck hands with his father in the covenant of grace and
committed himself to his father to be the surety of his people
in eternity past before the foundations of the world, that's when the
foundation was laid. The foundation for the salvation
of God's people, he alone is my salvation." And everything
he did was to fulfill that promise that he made to his father. The hands of Zerubbabel have
laid the foundation of this house. Oh, he's laid the foundation
of the house of God, his church, and the house of every child
of God. What David say, although my house
be not so with God, Yet, yet, he has made with me an everlasting
covenant. That word everlasting means that
it never had a beginning. Everlasting doesn't mean it starts
now and lasts forever. It means that it never had a
beginning. It's God's time. It's God's establishment of his
purpose in the covenant of grace. And here he says, His hands that lay the foundation. Look at the rest of verse nine. His hands shall also finish it. When God starts a work, he finishes
the work. He doesn't have a plan B. He
doesn't back up. He doesn't change his idea. He
finishes what he starts. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
bowed his mighty head on Calvary's cross and cried in victory, it
is finished. The work that the Father gave
me to do to redeem my bride and to save my people and to put
away their sins, the hand of Zerubbabel has finished what
he started. It's all God's work. Your pastor read from Acts 15
last night when we began this meeting. Why tempt ye God and
put a heavy yoke on the necks of your brethren, which we nor
our fathers were able to bear? That's adding the law to grace. That's denying the onlyness of
the Lord Jesus Christ and bringing him down from his excellency
by robbing him of his only glory. and adding to His work, our work. No, it was the Lord Jesus Christ
that fulfilled all the demands of the law of God. Romans chapter
10, they have a zeal for God. That's the religious. They have
a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. Being ignorant
of God's righteousness, they go about to establish their own
righteousness, not knowing that Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth. He fulfilled
the law. He said, I did not come to destroy
the law, I came to fulfill it. Don't you love the story of Naomi
and Ruth and Boaz? And when Ruth met Boaz, Naomi
said to Ruth, she said, She said, you just sit right there and
wait because the man will not rest until he finishes the work
today. And Boaz agreed to be the redeemer,
the kinsman redeemer of Naomi and Ruth. But Boaz said, there
is a kinsman nearer to you than me, and he's got to be reckoned
with first. And so Boaz went to the city gates with the 10
elders and and dealt with that kinsman and said, Naomi's back
from Moab and you're the near kinsman and it's your responsibility
to redeem her. And what did that kinsman say?
I'll do it, I'll do it. And Boaz said, in the day in
which you redeem Naomi, you also have to redeem the Moabitist,
Ruth. And he said, oh no, can't do
that. I'll mar my inheritance if I
bring a Moabite into my family. And Boaz reckoned with that kinsman. And then Boaz turned around after
having reckoned with that kinsman and redeemed both Naomi and Ruth,
made Ruth to be his wife. What a picture of our kinsman
redeemer who reckoned with the law who was not able to redeem
us, the law can't redeem us. The only thing the law can do
is curse us. The law stands in judgment against us. We are in
need of a redeemer who's able to reckon with the law. The men
love to add their works of the law to the onlyness of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He only is my salvation. We don't tempt God by putting
the yoke of bondage on men's necks because we're not able
to bear them. The Lord Jesus Christ himself
is the only begotten Son of God. He is the only redeemer of sinners. He is the only righteous man
that ever lived. He is the only one able to keep
us from falling and to present us faultless before the throne
of God. And he gets all the glory, all the glory. Todd read that passage from 2
Corinthians 11, I fear. Paul said to the church in Corinth,
I fear, lest by any means, And Satan is not short on means,
and he doesn't care what means he uses as long as he can take
you away from Christ. He'll use legalistic religion.
He'll use licentious living. He'll use morality, immorality,
religion, irreligious. It doesn't care. He'll use, well,
you've seen it. You've seen the things that men
follow after in denial of the Lord Jesus Christ. How's that go? Lest by any means
as the serpent beguiled Eve, that your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ. What is his simplicity?
It's his onlyness. It's his onlyness. He gets all
the glory for everything that he has done. And religion is,
it is complicated. It's convoluted. Religion will
tell you that God is almighty until he comes up against your
free will, and now his hands are tied. They'll tell you that
salvation is by grace, not by works, but then they'll take
you back to the law in order to prove that you're saved. If
you're looking to the law of God, either for the cause of
your salvation or for the or for the evidence of your salvation,
you're not looking to Christ. Denied his onlyness and taken
him down from his excellency. But lest we become too critical
of the Pharisees without, let's not forget that the biggest problem
that you and I have is the Pharisee that's within. We're drawn away, enticed to
look at something other than the onlyness of the Lord Jesus
Christ for our salvation. That's the reason why we're here.
That's the reason why we come together. That's the reason why
we preach the gospel. That's the reason why we lift
up the Lord Jesus Christ. So that believers can be... Believers
are the only ones who are going to hear the gospel. They're the
only ones who are going to hear. A believer doesn't hear. If you've
heard the gospel, it's because you're a believer. God's given
you ears to hear. He's unstopped your ears. He's opened your eyes.
He's taken out, as we saw this morning, the heart of stone and
put in a heart of flesh. He's given you faith. Faith is to salvation like breathing
is to a natural birth. People say, well, I'm saved by
faith. When that child comes out of
the womb, it breathes because it's alive. It doesn't breathe
in order to become alive. If the child doesn't breathe,
it's because it was stillborn. And that's the way faith is.
For by grace are you saved through faith and that's not of yourself,
it's a gift of God. God has to breathe life into
our hearts before we can have faith. Faith is not the cause
of our salvation, it's the result of it. The Lord Jesus Christ
in his onlyness gets the glory for having given to us the new
birth and consequently faith. Faith. Those Pharisees asked the Lord,
what work can we work? In order to do the works of God
and what the Lord Jesus Christ say said, this is the work of
God. that you believe on Him whom He has sent." Now, the Lord
wasn't saying, if you want to do the work of God, then you
have to believe. He was saying, this is the work of God that
you're able to believe. If you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, it's because God did a work of grace in your heart.
Oh, He gets all the glory. We don't, we don't take him down
from his excellency in order to take credit for our faith.
The faith that we have is of him. Listen to what Solomon said
in Psalm 72 verse 18, blessed it be the Lord God of Israel
who only doeth wondrous things, wondrous things. We heard a wonderful
message by, um, Who preached the message about Joseph? That
was David, right? David, last night. And I was
thinking about when Joseph was in prison and the prison keeper
gave to Joseph responsibility for the prison. He turned over
the whole prison to one of the prisoners. And the scripture
makes this statement. It says, and whatsoever they
did there, he was the doer of it. And that's our Joseph. Everything
that's done in salvation, he is the doer of it. Oh, we would
not dare take him down from his excellency and rob from him his
glory to try to add to what he has accomplished. You have your Bibles open to
Psalm 62. Look over at Psalm 64 at verse 9. And all men shall fear and shall
declare the work of God. That's what we're trying to do.
We're just trying to declare the work of God. The work of
God is the work of election. It's the work of redemption.
It's the work of regeneration. It's the work of revelation.
Revelation, you remember the centurion that brought his servant,
or came to the Lord on behalf of his servant, and the Lord
said, I'll go with you and I'll heal him. And the centurion said,
oh no, Lord. He said, I'm a man of authority.
I tell a man to go and he goes, I tell him to come and he comes,
and I know that you have all authority. Speak the word only
and my servant shall be healed. Speak the word only. Lord, if
you just speak the word, I'll be healed. If you turn me, I'll
be turned. If you give me faith, I'll believe.
If you cause me to come, I'll come. But only you can do it. Only you can do it. The onlyness
of the Lord Jesus Christ is the hope of our salvation. And it's
the joy of every child of God who has been delivered from the
pressure of having to perform in order to be in favor with
God. The work of God, for they shall
wisely consider His doing. His doing. You know, I find people
want to debate the redemptive work of Christ. Was it for all
men or was it for a few? Some of the things that people
say in religion are just, they don't make sense. You can't understand
them. I hear people say, well, Christ died, Christ's death on
the cross is sufficient for all men but efficient for the elect.
If somebody was able to define that or tell me what that means,
please do. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. Or they'll say that Christ died
for everyone that believes. Well, that's true. Why say it
that way? Why say it that way? They say
it that way for one reason, to take Christ down from his excellency
and to deny him of his onlyness and to get some glory and some
credit for a decision or a work that they've done. This gospel of God's grace is
all about the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the truth
is that let men debate theological things all they want. When God
makes you to be a sinner, all that goes away. All that goes
away. Genesis chapter 6, the Lord,
the Lord tells us that when he looked down from heaven and he
saw the wickedness of the earth and he peered into the hearts
of men, what did he discover? Every imagination of the heart
was only, only, only, only evil and that continually. God convinces you of that. Oh,
you'll rejoice in the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll
delight in him getting all the glory because you'll know that
you're not capable of making any contribution whatsoever to
your salvation. Paul said, in me, that is in
my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. And David asked this question,
if the Lord should mark iniquity, if the Lord should mark iniquity,
who should stand? Who's going to stand in the presence
of God? Do you want to stand in the presence of a holy God
and be judged on the value of the most sincere prayer that
you've ever prayed in your life? I'm here to tell you on the authority
of God's word, you'll go to hell for it. You'll go to hell for
it. Why? Because everything we do
is marked with our sinfulness. That's why David said, he only
is my rock and my salvation. Because everything I put my hand
to, oh, it just defiles it. It defiles it. The Lord said,
when you build an altar, don't don't hew the stones out. As
soon as you put your hand to that altar, you've defiled the
altar, you've defiled the sacrifice. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that can offer up to the Father a sacrifice that God's
pleased with. And the scripture says in Isaiah
53 that God saw the travail of his soul. God saw his sorrow. God saw his grief. God saw the
burden that he bore, and God was satisfied. Oh, I'm so thankful. God is satisfied with the Lord
Jesus Christ. The only question you and I have
to ask ourselves is, are we satisfied with the same one God's satisfied
with? If we are, then we can say, He only, He only, He only
is my rock and my salvation. Oh, what a comfort. What a comfort. When the Lord told Isaiah to
comfort the children of Israel, Isaiah, we saw this last night,
Isaiah said, where do I start? Tell them they're grass. Tell
them they're grass. That'll be a comfort to them.
Tell them they're powerless. Tell them they have no ability.
Tell them they can't make any contribution whatsoever. Tell
them that it's all up to me. That's the labor. The labor is
to enter into his rest. For his works were finished from
the foundation of the world. He only is my rock. He only is my salvation. The only hope that you and I
have to come to him is if he fetches us, if he comes and gets
us. You remember when David asked
Ziba, he said, is there anyone left from the household of Saul
that I might show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? And Ziba
said, well, Jonathan's got a son. His name is Mephibosheth. He's hanging out in the house
of Matre. Which translated means sold.
Now there we are, we're crippled, but he's crippled in both his
feet. He lives in Lodabar, which means there's no pasture, there's
no bread in Lodabar. So he's sold into sin, he's got
no sustenance for his soul, and he's crippled in both his feet.
And what did David say to Ziba? Fetch him, go get him and bring
him here to me. And when Mephibosheth walked
into the presence of King David, Mephibosheth just, you know that
he thought this is it. I'm the only threat to his throne. And it would have been the right
thing for the king to eliminate any threats by putting to death
any descendants of the previous king. But David looked at Mephibosheth
and said, oh, Mephibosheth, Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth, what would you
have to do with such a dead dog as I? Mephibosheth, come here,
sit at my table. Hide those crippled feet under
my tablecloth. You're gonna eat the king's fare
the rest of your life. What a blessing. No man can come to the Father,
no man can come unto me except the Father which sent me. Draw
him, draw him. He only is my salvation. He only
is all my hope. He only. Turn to me too. We're talking
about the difference between law and grace here. Law and grace. And every message I've heard
so far this weekend has been a distinction between law and
grace. And every time I go to the scriptures,
I see that the Lord is making a distinction between law and
grace. You're not under the law. It's not based on your performance.
It's the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ that saves. It's
his work of redemption. It's his resurrection that justifies
us. He was offered up for our offenses
and raised again because of our justification. God is pleased
with him. With him. What does the law do? The law condemns. The law judges. We try to add our law keeping.
to the onlyness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we'll find the enemies
of God to be... You see, what is the enemy of
God? That which brings Christ down
from His excellency. That's the enemy of God. Now, turn to me to Joshua chapter
3. I want to show you something
here. I think it'll be an encouragement to you. I hope it will be. Joshua, typifying the Lord Jesus
Christ, brings the Ark of the Covenant, which is all about
Christ. It's all about Christ. That ark
is the mercy seat that was on top of that ark of pure gold
where the blood sacrifice was made. And the Lord said, here,
I will meet with you. And how many times we read in
the scriptures to be hid under the shadow of his wings? And the Lord likened himself
to a hen who would gather her chicks. And he's likened to an
eagle that would gather, would hide their chicks under the shadow
of his wings. I have to. Be honest with you,
and I don't know much about chickens and eagles, but I don't find
a lot of comfort in those illustrations. But there is one wing that I
find great comfort in. Over the mercy seat on the Ark
of the Covenant that Joshua brought across the Jordan that the children
of Israel didn't get in front of, they followed behind. Over
the mercy seat were winged cherubim. The Lord said, you get under
the shadow of those wings. That's where the blood sacrifice
is. Oh. So here we have the Lord bringing
his people into the promised land. And he says in verse 10,
Joshua said, chapter three, verse 10, and Joshua said, hereby shall
you know that the living God is among you. And hereby shall
you know that the living God is among you. I want to know
that God's among me. How am I going to know that the
living God is among me, among us, and with me? And that he will, without fail,
drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and
the Jebusites. Now that's how I'm gonna know
that God's among you, that he has promised to guarantee the
driving out of these enemies of Israel. What is the significance of these
tribes? Turn with me to Genesis chapter
9. Genesis chapter 9. Grace, grace unto it. This is the. This is the hope
of our God being with us. It's all of grace, all of grace. For by grace are you saved through
faith. Verse 20 of Genesis chapter nine,
and Noah began to be a husbandman and he planted a vineyard and
he drank of the wine and was drunken. And he was uncovered
within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without."
Now, I want you to take special notice of that because there's
been a lot of speculation in terms of what happened with Ham
and Noah. That's what happened. Anything
else is just evil surmising. Ham went into the tent of his
father, found him naked and drunk, saw him, came back out and shamed
his father to his brother. That's it. Verse 23. Ham's name, by the
way, translated means hot or fire. And Shem, And Japheth took a garment, and
laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered
the nakedness of their father, and their faces were backwards,
and they saw not their father's nakedness." So we have Shem and
Japheth. Shem's name translated means
name, and Japheth's name translated means opened. So here's a picture
of of God's grace opening up the name of God to his people. And he takes this garment and
they don't look upon their father's nakedness. They walk into the
tent backwards and they cover him up gently. Their faces were backwards, verse
23. They saw not their father's nakedness and Noah awoke from
his wine and knew what his young son had done unto him. And he
said, cursed be Canaan. Ham wasn't cursed. Canaan was
cursed. Canaan was cursed. And all those
tribes that we just read about in Joshua chapter three were
all without exception descendants of Canaan. What is the message here? What is the message? I'll tell
you what it is. The goodness of God leadeth to
repentance. The law of God only exposes our
nakedness. That's all. It only exposes our
nakedness. And it shames us. And shame has
never brought anybody to Christ. It's the love of Christ that
constraineth us. You remember in, I'll finish
this in just a moment, stay with me, please. You remember in John
chapter eight, when the Pharisees, those lawmongers brought this
woman who had been caught in the very act of adultery before
the Lord Jesus, and they wanted him to exercise the law against
them. They wanted him to expose her nakedness. They wanted to
shame her before all men and shame Christ. And what'd the
Lord do? He bent over and acted as if
he didn't hear them, and he began writing on the ground. There's
only two other times when the finger of God wrote something.
One was when he wrote the tablets of stone, the Ten Commandments,
and the other is when Belshazzar in Daniel chapter four was having
that, brought the vessels of the temple into his drunken party
and the handwriting on the wall. You've been weighed in the balance
and found wanting. What is that? That's the law
of God. You've been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt not commit adultery. And what
did he do? He looked up and he said, let
him who is without sin cast the first stone. And the scripture
says, being convicted in their conscience, one by one, beginning
with the eldest down to the youngest, they walked away. Now that's
what a guilty conscience will do. That's what the law will
do. You will be judged by God based on the same foundation
that you come to God on. The Lord Jesus Christ judged
those men based on the law. And the law can only expose our
nakedness. And they left the Lord Jesus
Christ because they were convicted in their conscience. A guilty
conscience won't bring you to Christ. A guilty conscience drives you
away from Him. What did it do to the first sinner? What did
a guilty conscience do to him? He ran from God. He hid in the
woods. And then he took fig leaves,
which is a picture of the law, and tried to cover his nakedness. The onlyness of the Lord Jesus
Christ is salvation by grace alone, without the law. Without the law. Perfect love
casteth out fear. What did the Lord say to that
poor woman after all? He said, where are your accusers? There are none, Lord. Neither
do I accuse you. Go and send no more. Now, only the believer. Who's
covered by the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ? As sham sham and Japheth covered
their naked father. That's what you and I need. We
need God to take the covering of grace. and show us kindness
and cover our nakedness. Because the descendants of Canaan
are all cursed, and they're all lawmongers, and they've all taken
the Lord Jesus Christ down from his excellency, and they've added
to his work of redemption some measure of works on their part. By the law is the knowledge of
sin. The strength of sin is the law,
isn't it? It's the law. One last brief story. A man's name was Jay Iris. He had
a 12-year-old daughter who was on her deathbed. And he came to the Lord and begged
the Lord to come to his home and heal his daughter. And the
Lord agreed and said, I'll come. And on the way to Jairus's house,
the Lord encounters that woman with the issue of blood. And
I can just see Jairus just pleading, Lord, come, come. We'll take
care of her later. My daughter's dying. Finally,
after dealing with the woman with the issue of blood, Jairus'
servant comes and says to Jairus, bother the master no more. Your
daughter's dead. And we can just imagine Jairus'
world coming to a crashing halt, his strength of his legs giving
way. And the Lord reaches down in
grace, puts his blanket over him, and says to Jairus, don't
be afraid. Don't be afraid of the law. Don't
be afraid of death. Only believe. Only believe. The onlyness of the Lord Jesus
Christ requires us to only believe, only believe.