If all you have is Christ, is
that enough? And he replied, it is if he's
all you have. If he's all you have, yeah, he's
enough. If you have something else, no. No, but if he's all you have.
Some news on Emma. She got out of the hospital Tuesday. She's doing better. She swallowed
some food and she has spoken some words and is doing better
and she will have her first round of chemotherapy on this coming
Tuesday. Is that right? And I think she'll
go through six rounds. Will she have to be hospitalized?
for three days at a time to take that chemotherapy. She'll take
it for three days and be off 21, but everybody continue to
remember them. I'm so delighted once again to
talk about our dear friend Cody Groover. Cody Groover, missionary
to Yucatan, Mexico. Been there for 20 years preaching
the gospel of God's sovereign grace. They have a preacher's
class. I've taught in that several times.
I've preached in about all those churches. And such dear, dear
friends, and I just admire and love them dearly. And I think
one of the great privileges of our church is to have some part
in this ministry that the Lord has blessed in such an unusual
way. So we're thankful to have you
once again, and you come preach to us. Good evening. Once again, it's
a great joy and pleasure, great privilege to be here with you
tonight. I asked Brother Don this morning
after the service had concluded, I said, did Brother Todd tell
you what I was going to preach tonight? He said, no. I said, well, then that's something.
I'm going to preach from that same verse. Open your Bibles
with me, if you will, to Revelation chapter 22. And there's just
one verse I want to bring our attention to. I'm glad to be
here tonight to observe the Lord's table with his church here at
Lexington. Our brothers in Yucatan are observing
the Lord's table tonight also. So all his people to gather around. We look forward to the day when
all, all the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be put under
his foot. and all enemies. We shall be
together around the throne rejoicing in His presence forevermore. In Revelation chapter 22 verse
17, it says, And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let
him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come.
and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely."
All through the Bible, from the beginning to the end, this book,
this book you have in your hand, is a revelation of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's a hymn book. You've heard
it said, and it is so. It's about Him, the Lord Jesus
Christ. And it's specifically in this
book of the Revelation starts out with these words, the revelation
of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Him. We cannot come to God and we
cannot worship Him apart from seeing the Lord Jesus Christ,
apart from seeing Him. We can know nothing about God. God is spirit. They that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth. But God has revealed
himself, manifested himself in his son. The only begotten, which
is in the bosom of the father, hath revealed him, declared him,
manifested him. This book we're looking at from
beginning to end is the revelation of Jesus Christ. And as I said,
The reason is because we cannot worship unless we could see him. Only as we see him. Now we see
him through a glass darkling. We see him by faith, but we see
him. We see him. Our Lord Jesus Christ
said this. This is life eternal, that they
may know thee, the true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
We know nothing about God except in the person and work of our
Lord Jesus Christ. To know Him is to see Him. Well,
the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed in the Scriptures, in this Bible,
as the Lamb of God. From the beginning to the end,
He's revealed as the Lamb of God. In the Rook of Revelations,
He's the Lamb sitting on the throne, the Lamb that has overcome
all our enemies. But I want us to look through
the scriptures in the beginning, in the very beginning, in Genesis
chapter 3. Now, in my feeble way, the only
way that we may see Him is if the Holy Spirit enables us to
see Him, worship Him. But I want us to look through
the scriptures here and make the Lord Jesus Christ be magnified.
In Genesis, in Genesis chapter 2, when the Lord, when Adam failed,
disobeyed, and the Lord came looking for Adam in the garden,
we see there in Genesis chapter 2, in verse, well, Excuse me, it's Genesis chapter
3. Genesis chapter 3, verse 21. And unto Adam, also unto his
wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothe them. The very first sacrifice, the
very first shedding of blood in this world was the shedding
of blood of an innocent victim. the innocent dying in the place
of the guilty. And these coat skins, coats of
skins by which Adam and Eve were dressed, were the skins of lamb. They were lamb skins. It doesn't
say that in the text. But you know, faith comes by
hearing. And hearing by the Word of God.
And you know, The next chapter tells us that Abel brought a
sacrifice, a lamb. And the scripture says that he,
by faith, offered that sacrifice. And it's the lamb of God, the
lamb typified. We have in the scriptures the
lamb typified, the lamb of God that would come into the world
and cover the nakedness of his people. Faith comes by hearing. Abel didn't just occur to him,
or it wasn't just because it was convenient, he was somebody
that watched over the sheep, but he believed God and brought
the sacrifice. In Genesis chapter 4, we read
of that as the lamb typified. And then in Genesis chapter 22,
the Lord said this about Abraham. He said, Abraham saw my day and
was glad. Abraham saw my day. And he had
reference to this time when the Lord told Abraham, proved Abraham,
said, Abraham, take your son, your only son, the son you love,
and offer him up for sacrifice on the mountain that I'll show
you, Mount Moriah. And it says, scripture says,
Abraham went up and on the third day he lifted up his eyes and
he saw the place and Something happened, let's go here to Genesis
chapter 22. I want you to read this because this, I want to
come back to this text. We're talking about the Lamb
of God as is in all the scriptures. In Genesis chapter 22, Abraham left his servants. Verse six, it said, And Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son,
and he took the fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both
up, both them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham,
his father, and said, My father. And he said, Hear my, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire
and the wood. But where is the lamb for the
burnt offering? We cannot come to God without
the lamb. We cannot worship God. We cannot
see God. We're not accepted without the
lamb. And Isaac knew that. He said,
Where's the lamb? And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb. God will provide himself a lamb. He will provide himself a lamb.
He will provide himself a lamb. And they went for a burnt offering. And so they went both together. And you know the story. God kept
Abraham from plunging the knife, the dagger, into Isaac and said,
That's not thy son. I know thou fearest many. He
showed him the ram with his horns in the thicket. But in that place,
Abraham said, call the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide. The Lord
will provide. And then later on in Exodus chapter
12, we have what the scriptures talk about the lamb offered for
the children of Israel. We see that the lamb was provided. The lamb was provided for the
nation of Israel only. Only. The Egyptians in that land, when
the Spirit of the Lord came upon the land of Egypt, all the firstborn
in Egypt died. All those that were under the
blood that was put upon the doorpost and the lintel of the door Then
they were in the house and partake, partook of the lamb according
to the instructions. The word of God were saved. That was the lamb of the Passover.
So the blood was applied. In Isaiah 53, we read of the
lamb who is a man. We're not redeemed with the blood
of bulls and goats. The sheep, the lamb that was
sacrificed in the Old Testament was nothing more than a picture
of the real Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who came into
the world. The Lamb of God is a man, the
man Christ Jesus, who was born. In Isaiah 53 it says, Who hath believed our report,
and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he, the Lamb,
shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of the
dry ground. He, the Lamb of God, hath no
form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected
of man, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid, as it were, our faces from him, and he was despised, and
we esteemed him not. Surely he, the Lamb of God, hath
borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded
for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
and the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we're healed. All we like sheep have gone astray,
we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was
afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a
lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shears is
dumped, so he opened not his mouth. The Lamb of God is the
Lord Jesus Christ. And then in John chapter one,
the last prophet of the Old Testament came, sent of God the precursor,
that which one that would go before the Lord. And he identified the Lord Jesus
Christ and said one day, behold, the Lamb of God that take us
away the sin of the world. Behold, Jesus Christ, the Lamb
of God that takes away the sin of the world. In the fullness
of time, the scripture says, God sent his son, made of a woman,
made under the law that he might redeem us, that he might pay
the price, not to Satan, not to Satan. He paid the price to
God's holy law who had a claim on us. the law that says the
soul that sinned shall surely die. He paid that law. He paid that debt to God's justice. Well, this is the Lamb. And in the
book of Revelation, in the book of Revelation, we have Jesus
Christ, the Lamb of God, sitting on the throne, sitting on the
throne. He has fulfilled all that God
the Father sent him to do and is now seated at the right hand
of the majesty on high. It's the Lamb of God that sits
on the throne. And when we come before God in
that last day, it's the Lamb of God we're going to see. The
Lamb of God. We read in Revelation chapter
13 verse 8 that the Lamb of God was slain from the foundation
of the world. We read in Revelations 13, verse
8, that this lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, was slain from the foundation
of the world. This speaks of purpose. This speaks of provision. Aren't you thankful that the
Lord Jesus Christ was provided was provided, a
sinner substitute was provided before there was ever a sinner.
Before there was ever a sinner, the Lord Jesus Christ was provided
the surety of his people. It speaks of purpose and it speaks
of provision. It was the purpose of God to
save his people from their sins. You see, it was not an afterthought. It was not an afterthought. God
set him forth from the beginning as the propitiation. God set
him forth from the beginning as the sacrifice for sins. Before
there was ever a sinner. God's purpose has not changed.
God does not change. And it's God's provision. One
of the names that we looked over as I was going through the lamb,
as we saw there in Genesis, one of the names of our Lord Jesus
Christ has revealed himself to his people as Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide. Now, in
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, God has provided for
his people some things. Now, this may be coming out,
and I trust the Lord can make it affectionate. The Lord Jesus
Christ has provided some things to his people. We're talking
about the Holy Spirit calling his people to the Lord Jesus
Christ. I'm making such a poor presentation. But how can I speak? How can
a person speak of the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ and
do it right? How can a person really describe
what the Lord Jesus Christ, who the Lord Jesus Christ is. Lord
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, has provided a perfect sacrifice,
a perfect sacrifice. Is that beautiful to your eyes?
Is that beautiful to your eyes? A perfect sacrifice, one that
really takes away the sins of his people. one that really takes
away all sins. That's our only hope. That's
our only hope. If it's left to us to respond
for one sin, if God should save us from all but one sin, then
there's no salvation, no hope. But He has put away the sins
of His people. In the Lord Jesus Christ, God
has provided a perfect sacrifice By His sacrifice, God is both
just and the justifier of them that believe. In Romans chapter
3. Romans chapter 3 and verse 25. Whom God had set forth to be
a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through
the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
that he might be the just and justify of him that believeth
in Jesus. In Christ Jesus, our God has
provided a perfect sacrifice. He's provided a way. The way,
that word A shouldn't be there, the way by which he can be just
and justify sinners through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is that is that beautiful to you? Look at this. The Lamb of
God. The Lamb of God, God has provided
righteousness. Not only has he provided perfect
justification, He's taken away the sins of His people in the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ Jesus, God has provided
perfect righteousness. In order for you and I to stand
before God, it's not enough that we have a zero balance. I'll
try to explain it like this. All men by nature are debtors,
sinners, sinners. And God requires that the soul
that sinneth shall surely die. But also God requires perfect
obedience. If you have a line across here
that's the zero line, and anything below it is the negative line,
anything above it is the positive line. Well, it's not enough that
your sins be paid and bring you up to zero line. You must have
a positive obedience before God. perfect righteousness, perfect
justice before God. That is to say, always obeyed
God's law. That's what God requires. Perfect
obedience. And you and I, we have never
obeyed and can never keep God's holy law. But Jesus Christ, the son of
God, our righteousness has fulfilled all righteousness. As a man,
he obeyed God's holy law. He obeyed God in every precept,
every jot and tittle of the law. Men like to say, well, I'm not
guilty of that because they're looking at the letter of the
law. But our Lord said this. He said, if you just look at
a woman and desire, you've already committed adultery. We know that
there is none in this world, no man that is not a sinner.
But the Lord Jesus Christ, he perfectly obeyed God's law. The
father said of him, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well
pleased. He earned the right to walk into
heaven. He earned that right. And it
is that righteousness, that perfect obedience imputed to everyone
that believes. Everyone that believes. God has
provided to His people not only a sacrifice for sins, but perfect
righteousness. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. But of Him, it says here in 2
Corinthians chapter 5, God has made Him to be sin for us who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. In the Lamb of God, God has provided
sanctification. We're saints. You know, the Roman
Catholic Church likes to make saints. I say that because, well,
you heard it not too long ago, they voted on making the Pope
and so many other people saints. But listen, in Christ Jesus,
every believer is a saint. Every believer is sanctified
by the blood of Jesus Christ. You can't be any more holier.
You can't, right now, right now, in Christ Jesus, everyone that's
in Christ Jesus is saint, is saint. We're sanctified in him. 1 Corinthians 1.30 says, But
of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption that as is written,
let him that glorieth glory in the Lord. In the Lord Jesus Christ,
we have acceptance in the blood. We're accepted in the presence
of holy God. In Christ Jesus, we are in His
presence. In His presence. We're seated
right now in the heavenlies with Christ Jesus. In His person. In Him. We're accepted in the
beloved. We are adopted His sons. In Christ Jesus, we're adopted
children of God. Behold what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the
sons of God. In the Lord Jesus Christ, God
has provided all things. All things. All things present,
all things future, all things are yours in Christ Jesus. Pastor said, is Christ enough? If you have Christ and nothing
more, you have all things. All things. All things in Christ. God has provided all things.
He is my shepherd. I shall not want. I shall not
want. And I shall not want now and
I shall not want in eternity. We're made to sit with him. Now
the question is, do you see him? Do you see him? I say that I
make such a poor attempt, but the Holy Spirit must make this
alive. The Holy Spirit has to bless
His Word that people may see Him. We preach Christ and Him
crucified, but Christ is lifted up in the sight of people. Do
you see Him? Do you see Him? Do you see Him
by faith? Are you convinced when the Holy
Spirit shows you the Lord Jesus Christ? Are you convinced of
sin and of righteousness and of judgment? The Holy Spirit
convicts men of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. Do you see him? Well, let's go back to our text
in Revelation 22. Verse 16 says, And I, Jesus,
have sent my angel to testify unto you of these things in the
churches. I, Jesus. I am the root and the offspring
of David. I'm the God of David, and I'm
the Son of David. I'm God manifest in the flesh. and the bright and morning star.
I am. This is who is speaking here.
And when the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed, listen, if the Lord
Jesus Christ is revealed, that's the Holy Spirit calling. That's
the Holy Spirit calling. The Holy Spirit doesn't reveal
himself, doesn't reveal the Lord Jesus Christ to those he's not
calling. He's not trying to save anybody. The Holy Spirit, this
is a command. The Spirit and the bride say
come. The Spirit says come. This is
a commandment of God. Come. Come out of religion. Come out of the world. Come out
and be separate. It says in Revelation 18. Everything
looks different in my English Bible. Well, I wish I had my Spanish
problem. It's on this side of the page. Verse 4. Another voice of heaven is saying,
come out of her, my people. Notice who he's speaking to.
My people. Come out of her. Come out of
false religion, my people. Come to me. Come to Christ. The Holy Spirit testifies of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Come. Come to Him. Come and welcome. The Holy Spirit
says come. And notice it says, and the bride
say come. The bride, the Holy Spirit and
the bride say come. I hope I'm not This is what I believe. Everyone that has tasted of the
grace of God says come. Everyone that has tasted of the
goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ says come. mercy beggars, finding
bread, says come, come. And can you hear, can you hear
the church victorious? Can you hear the church victorious
in heaven say come? You know, in Revelation chapter
4, it talks about the souls of the martyrs under the throne
saying, when Lord, when are we going to have to wait? And the
Lord says to them, wait till your fellow servants are brought
in. But the cloud of witnesses that
has gone before you, does that not say come? There's a cloud
of witness that has gone before. They trusted in the Lord Jesus
Christ. They came to the Lord Jesus Christ
and they were not ashamed. They were not ashamed. And they
say come. And you that hear, you that are
here right now and hear the gospel and you that know This is true
because you have been redeemed. You have been saved. You have
this hope. You say come. This is our witness. This is
our testimony. When we preach Jesus Christ,
we don't preach Jesus Christ to try to keep anybody out. When
we preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, it's not to try
to exclude anyone. It's to try to call them. Come.
We're not going to save anything off, try to not offend anybody. The gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ offends man's pride. The doctrine of sovereign election,
sovereign grace offends man and his supposed dignity, his self-righteousness. But we're going to preach the
gospel in truth and say to the person, this is why we're telling
you this. Look at 1 John. We don't preach
the gospel saying, well, I know you're not going to believe this,
but here it goes. That's not what we're saying. We're saying, believe, believe
and thou shalt be saved. Here's what John says. Verse two, for the life was manifested
and we have seen it and bear witness and show it unto you,
that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested
unto us. That's what we have seen and
heard, declare we unto you. That's a witness. what we've
seen and what we've heard. That's what we declare to you.
Notice it, that ye also may have fellowship with us. That's the
reason we're preaching to you. We want you to believe. And we
say, come. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
He saved this sinner. He saved this sinner. The Apostle
Paul said this is a faithful saying. This saying is worthy
of all acceptation. Jesus Christ came to the world
to save sinners. He saved me. I'm the greatest
sinner. He can save you too. Come. The Spirit and the bride say
come. And those that are hearing the
word, they say come. Come. The Spirit and the bride say,
come. And who do they say come to? Or who is it that responds
to this call? Well, only those who the Spirit
reveals who they are. Come. The Lord Jesus Christ came
to save sinners. A person might say, well, I'm
not that bad. That's too sad. Brother Scott
Richardson used to say this. He said, the more you can convince
me that I'm a sinner, the more you qualify me for a Savior.
The more you can convince me that I'm a sinner, the more you
qualify me for a Savior. Of course, Jesus Christ came
into the world to save sinners. It says, let him that is a thirst
come. Who are the ones that are qualified
here? The ones that are thirsty. The ones that are thirsty and
hungry for righteousness, because they don't have any of their
own. I don't have anything of my own. I don't have any righteousness
of my own. All I am is sin, and I'm thirsty. The Lord has made me thirsty
for righteousness, hungry and thirsty for righteousness. The Lord says, come. Those that
are thirsty, come, and whosoever will. whosoever will. That's a blessed word there,
whosoever will. You know, a person might think,
well, I heard that about election, and I don't know. I don't know
if I'm elect or not. Let me tell you about a woman
who knew she wasn't of the House of Israel. You remember that
Sarah Phoenician woman, and she came supplicating to the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, he
said, I'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And he said, it's not right for me to take the children's bread
and throw it to dogs. I came to the house of Israel.
Now, she was sure of one thing, that she wasn't an Israelite.
She was a Syrophoenician woman. But you know what? She said,
truth, Lord. Truth, Lord. But the children
eat of the breadcrumbs that fall on the table. I'm just seeking
for mercy. I'm not coming asking for my right. Whosoever will. Whosoever will means, are you
thirsty? Are you hungry? Do you see the
Lord Jesus Christ? Do you want to come? Come. Do
you want to come to the Lord Jesus Christ? Then come. In coming
you will find out. That's because He's drawn you.
Because He loved you with an everlasting love. But not until
you come will you find that out. You come. Come. And let Him take
of the water of life freely. Let Him take. The Lord Jesus
Christ, let Him take of this salvation freely. Without price. Without money. Without price.
This is by grace alone. By grace. By the grace of God.
Not by works. Not saved by works, but by the
grace of God. May the Lord bless this word. We're going to observe the Lord's
table together. If you turn to first Corinthians chapter 11
for just a moment, let me read this passage of scripture. And
when we. Are doing this in remembrance
of him and thinking about the broken body and shed blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lamb of God. Verse 26. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till
he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat
this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.