Our text is found in Proverbs
chapter nine. Proverbs chapter nine. Last week we looked at three
simple questions. Three simple questions. The title
of the message was The Favor of the Lord. The three questions
were, what is, the favor of the Lord. The second one was what
does his favor accomplished, or what does his favor accomplish?
And the last one was how do I obtain favor of the Lord? Tonight, we're
going to be looking, I hope, to see our Savior in the office
character as him in his office character of wisdom, of wisdom. I want to see his accomplished
work in saving his people. And I would remind you that there's
no such thing as chapters in the original manuscripts that
were written. They were added in by the translators. So this
is building upon that which has already been spoken. So chapter
one all the way till now is a continuation of everything that's been said.
The chapter is just something that divides it up and the verses
are something so we can actually find where to turn to so we can
be on the same, well, the same page. Here we have a continuation of
what the favor of God looks like. What he's gonna tell us here
in the first six verses is the gospel. It is the gospel of our
Lord. And it's a continuation of what
it looks like to be in the favor of the Lord, what he actually
accomplished for his people. So let's read this together.
Proverbs 9, one through six. Wisdom. hath builded her house. She hath hewn out her seven pillars. She hath killed her beasts. She hath mingled her wine. She
hath also furnished her table. She hath set forth her maidens. She crieth upon the high places
of the city. Whoso is simple, let him turn
in the hither. As for him that wanteth understanding,
she saith to him, come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine
which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish and live
and go in the way of understanding. I've titled this message, The
House That Wisdom Hath Built. The House Wisdom Hath Built.
That's exactly how it starts out. Wisdom hath builded her
house. It's important to note first and foremost that when
we see the word her, and I'll be talking about this a little
bit later on too, because I can show us that the Lord and his church
are one. When we see her, this is representing
the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a mystery to be one with
him. You remember in, I believe it
was, I can't remember which book it came out of now, but the scripture
talks about I believe it was Jeremiah, but it says, the Lord's
name is the Lord, our righteousness, Jehovah sit, can you? And you
keep reading on, you go a few chapters farther, and what does
it say about the church? Her name shall be called the
Lord, our righteousness, Jehovah sit, can you? So we're wanting
the same with him. And as we see him as he is, as
we look through by the lens of faith, by the sight of faith,
we see that Um, this must be talking about our Lord. It must
be, but it's hidden because he used the word she rather than
the word he, but it's the Lord Jesus Christ. And it also applies
to the Lord's people for that reason. Wisdom has been bestowed
upon us. We are in him and he and us as
the scripture says. Now, first I want you to notice
all this is past tense. Wisdom hath builded her house.
She hath hewn out her seven pillars. She hath killed her bees. She
hath mingled her wands. She hath furnished her table.
She hath sent forth her maidens. She crieth upon the highest places
of the city. So you have six haths. That's
all past tense. This has already taken place.
But the one that's not past tense is crieth. Let's continue. That's
continual. So what we have here is the established
and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, what he has accomplished
in preparing this table of bread and wine, which we know is the
body of Christ and the blood of Christ. We know it's Christ
himself who is the tabernacle of the Lord, the one that he
is Zion, he is heaven. I mean, there is none without
him. And we see here that the one
thing that is continually being done is crieth, she crieth. What
is she crieth? What does she cry? This is the
gospel preaching. This is the preachers that go
forth in the high places to the highways and the hedges. You
remember the parable where the Lord said the king had a son
that was going to get married. And the king told his servants,
we don't have any guests. So go out and ask my friends
to be our guest. And what did they do? Well, they
were mean to the servants. And they ended up, finally, the
king said, well, I'm going to send my son down there. I'm going
to send my son. And they'll have respect unto
him. And what did they do to the son? They killed him. They killed
the son. That's a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. The people,
the ones that are bidden to come in, they're the ones that the
Lord has purpose to come in. He didn't leave them to themselves.
But the Lord Jesus Christ had to be crucified. He had to die
for his people to be saved. And so we see what the king say
after that, well, go into the highways and hedges and bid all
to come in. And that's what this is right
here, is a general call to everyone without exception. This is a
general call. But God's salvation is a specific
salvation that he obtained for a specific people. So the salvation is not for everybody.
But the call that goes out is a general call. We preach a whosoever
salvation. Whosoever will, let him come,
take of the water of life freely. Well, how are you going to come
if you're dead? We can't. Lord, you have to make
me alive. How am I gonna see if I'm blind? Well, I can't.
Lord, you have to give me sight. How am I gonna hear if I'm deaf?
I can't. Lord, you have to give me ears
to hear. So the Lord does the work. We find ourself the complete
benefactor of his salvation, sitting at his table, eating
all that he supplied. That's the picture here. In our text, this water of life,
this wine, the water of life, the same thing. So you remember
where the Lord, uh, I was going to quote that, but the spirit
and the bride say, come whosoever will let him come take of the
water of life freely. The water of life is the same
as the wine right here in this, this verse, the word mingled
means to make it to sweeten it or add spices to it, to make
it, uh, better than what it was. And is it not true that whenever
you've tasted of the Lord, there is nothing else that'll satisfy
your, that'll satiate your soul, the longing soul that's thirsting,
that's hungry, like the Lord Jesus Christ. There's nothing
that can but him. And so he's been made precious
unto us for that reason. This water of life emanates from
the fountain of living water, the wisdom of God himself, the
Lord Jesus Christ. That's where this comes from.
So he's the sum and the substance. He's the sum and the substance.
Turn with me to Ephesians chapter five, and I'll explain more about
the he, she mystery that I mentioned. Ephesians chapter five. One of these days I'm gonna draw,
preach a message on the mysteries of the Lord. In one place it
says, without controversy, great is the mystery in Godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh, believed on, can't remember the rest of it
right now, received back up into glory. But here's another mystery, Ephesians
5.30, let's look at this. For we are members, this is the
church, it just says that right before, look at 29 for no man
ever hated his own flesh but nourish and cherish it even as
the Lord the church for we are his for we are members of his
body of his flesh and of his bones for this cause shall a
man leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife
and they too shall be made one they too shall be one flesh this
is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
You mean those two will be one? Yes, the Lord's church and the
Lord, those two are made one. This is complete and perfect
union that was accomplished by our savior for his elected bride.
For everyone that the father elected, for everyone that was
chosen before time, the Lord has made us one in him and one
with him. Complete in him alone. I love
the fact that it's without her knowledge, without her consent,
without her permission, without her input, without her doing
anything, God saved his people from their sin. Go back to our
text. Wherever you see she, you can
just put the Lord Jesus Christ's name right there. Wisdom is the
wisdom of God, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that to
be true. Let's read this together again. Wisdom hath builded her house.
She hath hewn out her seven pillars. She hath killed her beasts. She
hath mingled her wine. She hath also furnished her table.
She hath sent forth her maidens. She crieth upon the highest places
of the city. Who is simple? Let him turn in
hither. As for him that wanteth understanding,
she saith unto him, Come, eat of my bread and drink of the
wine which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish and live
and go in the way of understanding. First thing I want to bring up
to us again that I want to make certain that I'm clear on tonight
is that word hath. That's the most important word,
maybe one of the most important words in this text. She hath
done all these things. At what point did wisdom ask
us for our input? At what point did wisdom ask
us for our help or our aid? That would be God. When did God
ever ask us for anything? Everything required the Lord
provides doesn't need us like we need him. This hath been done. When was it done? Before we were
ever born. Before we were ever born, before the foundation of
the world was ever laid. This is not might be or maybe
can be that his works were finished from the beginning, the scripture
says. Works were finished from the beginning. Well, what house
then is she speaking of? Wisdom hath builded her house. hath builded her house. So the
house is complete. The house is done. What house?
What house is this referring to here? The house of the temple
of the Lord Jesus Christ's body. The Lord said, a body house thou
prepared for me. This is the house. This is our
Lord and Savior. This is the house that he built.
And us in him is our hope of glory. Do we see that? His people are complete in Him. You know, the Lord said, I go
to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place, I'll
come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there
you may be also. You know what that place is? The next thing
he says, in my father's house are many mansions. If it were
not so, I would have told you. That place is not a mansion. That
place was a person. That place is the Lord Jesus
Christ. I go to prepare a place for you in Christ. If we're not in him, it won't
be heaven. Lord Jesus Christ is where we have to find ourself. And the only way we can find
ourselves there is if he puts us there. Everything from Genesis
to Revelation and in between, everything is about the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's all about him. It's all about his salvation
for his people, his finished work for his elected bride, his
satisfying the father's demands. It's all about him, all about
him. Wisdom hath builded her house. She hath hewed out her seven
pillars. Now what does the number seven
mean? Remember the numbers we studied? It's the number of perfection.
It's the number of completion. What is he talking about? Well,
the foundation of the Lord, we know that the Lord is the head
of the chief cornerstone. We know that he is the foundation
of the building, but here we have seven pillars. That's a
representation of the finished work of Christ, the perfect work.
That's salvation, isn't it? That's what the Lord did. That's
what it's all built up with. It's built upon Christ. It's
built up with Christ. And now we see the Lord on the
inside of this house that has been built for his people. We
see the supplied needs met of all the Lord's sheep, everything
needed, he provided in this table. Scripture says this, Colossians
2.10, we heard it earlier, and ye are complete in him, which
is the head of all principality and power. See, he completed
the work given to him by his father. He completed the work. He put away the sin of His people. He satisfied God's demands. It
was all by the sacrifice of Himself. And what in doing so, not only
did He provide everything to the Father that the Father required
to save His people, but He provided everything to you and I that
we would come to the knowledge of the truth, that we would believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, that we would be in perfect, complete
oneness with Him. He did both. He did both. He
satisfied God's demands, and he made us one with himself. Now, let's look at verse 2 and
3 here. I don't want you to miss this next part of this. She hath
killed her beasts. This is referring to the sacrifice. no doubt, of the Old Testament
beasts that were slain, which all pointed to who? The Lord
Jesus Christ. These beasts have already been
slain, it's already been sacrificed. In the book of Exodus, the Lord
said, kill a lamb, put the blood upon the doorpost and lintel,
and when I see the blood, I will pass by you. Now this is also
referring to the Lord's body because he says, my body is meat
indeed, my blood is drink indeed. We're gonna turn there in just
a second in John chapter six. But this is what this is a picture
of. She hath mingled her wine. She hath also furnished her table.
She hath sent forth her maidens. She crieth upon the highest places
of the city. Here is the body and the blood
of our precious Savior. That's what's on the table. That's
what's on the table. Do you remember Mephibosheth,
where he went and sat? David said, you're gonna sit
at the king's table and you're gonna eat daily from the king's
table for the rest of your life. It's a picture of the Lord's
table prepared. Remember in Psalm chapter 23
says, thou prepare us a table before me in the presence of
mine enemies. Who's your enemy? This flesh is my enemy, but he's
prepared a table before us. What's on the table? Everything
he provided to the father, he's provided to us in his own person,
his own blood, his own finished work, his own righteousness as
he's given it to us. His body and his blood. That's
what's here. The word mingled, I said this earlier, but it's
spiced to make flavor more enhanced. That's the word, enhanced. We
don't understand that flavor unless we tasted it. Scripture
tells us, oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Pharisees had
a hard time understanding this. I'm getting ahead of myself a
little bit, but the Pharisees had a hard time understanding this. They thought
he was talking about cannibalism. That's what they thought. You
can tell by their reaction. This is a hard saying, who can
hear this? That's weird. That's basically what they were
saying to him. They thought he was talking about
cannibalism. This is a spiritual matter. This isn't a physical
matter. And that's what he kept telling them. I didn't come to set up
an earthly kingdom. I came to set up a spiritual kingdom. And this
is the spiritual house that he built with his own hands by himself. He purged our sin. He has this,
he is the foundation. He is the pillars. And now we
see the table that's set and who's on it. He is. He is our
bread and our wine, the Lord Jesus Christ. Told the disciples,
this is my body broken, broken for you. This is my blood shed
for many. This is Christ, this is the Lord's
gospel right here, Proverbs chapter nine, verse one through six. Is it not true of God's people
that we say there is none that satisfies like him? There's nothing
that satisfies like him. As a matter of fact, the things
of the earth are wearisome, troubling some. You might have some enjoyment,
and I'm thankful for the enjoyments that the Lord gives us. And enjoy
them, because the Lord gave them to you. Enjoy them. Scripture
talks about that. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
We don't sit underneath. stay underneath a rock and do
nothing because we're, no, the Lord said, enjoy the fruits of
your labor, but who are you looking to? We're looking to Christ,
right? And the truth of the matter is that he has to cause us to
do that or we'll be distracted from so many things, but he brings
us back to him. Sometimes, you know, Peter, when
he began to sink after looking at the winds and waves, boisterous,
he was walking on the water and he began to sink. That's us. I was trying to determine how
often it's definitely every day, probably more times than that.
And it's the Lord that makes us cry out, Lord, save me. Lord,
save me. Why? Can't save yourself? No.
You're the only one that satisfies. You're the only one that can
save me. And what does he do? He reaches out his hand. Every
single time, he's so faithful, he says, I delight in mercy.
I will be thou made whole. I will, I'll save you again and
again. And you can't exhaust the grace
and mercy of God. What good news? You can't exhaust
this table. Table's inexhaustible. There's no peace outside of him.
He's the Prince of Peace. There's no hope outside of him.
There's no rest outside of him. He is now our Sabbath, revealed
by the Lord. Herein is life eternal, that
you may know God, only one true God, and believe on him whom
the Father hath sent. To know him is to have salvation. To know Christ is to have salvation. Now let's turn to John chapter
six and look at the Pharisee's reaction to our Lord's words. Brethren, he told us his flesh
is meat, indeed his blood is drink, indeed, to all of those
who are made to partake. His body and blood is not meat
and drink to those who are not made to partake. They can't see
it for what it is. They can't see it. This is a
spiritual matter. Look at this. John 6, verse 52
through 61. The Jews, therefore, strove among
themselves. Imagine that. They're always
striving among themselves. Always trying to trick our Lord,
trap Him. saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, or truly, truly, I say
unto you, except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink
his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and
drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up
at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood
is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent
me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he
shall live by me. This is that bread which came
down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat manna and are
dead. He that eateth of this bread shall live forever. He's
comparing it to the manna that came when we were in the wilderness.
He's simply saying you missed the sign that was there. That
was what that represented as Christ's condescension. Verse 59, these things said he
in the synagogues And our synagogue and he taught in Capernaum many
therefore of his disciples when they had heard this said, this
is an hard saying who can hear it well that's a question who
can hear it only the Lord's people can hear it. Only the Lord's
sheep. When Jesus knew in himself that
his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, doth this
offend you? Now there's a question. And that's
a question I wanna ask us. Doth this offend you? Or is this life and death? It's
life and death either way. Does this offend you? Does the
body of our Lord offend you? The blood of our Lord offend
you? or is it the absolute necessity for your salvation? Has the Lord
revealed that? Because it is, whether we believe
it is or not. If we don't have the body of
Christ, the blood of Christ applied to us, we do not have salvation. Does this offend you? Does it
offend you that your body's not good enough for God? That's a
question. My body's not good enough for
God. What do you mean my body's not good enough for God? I'm sin,
I'm born in sin, shapen in iniquity. There's nothing good about me
whatsoever. That which I would do that's good, I can't. I'm
not the ability. That which I would not do, that's
what I always find myself doing. Does it bother you that your
body's not good enough? That your sacrifice, that's what the blood
represents, is the sacrifice unto death. That your blood is
not good enough, it's Adam's blood, does that offend you?
It offends people when you tell them that. That's what the Lord
was telling them, you're not good enough, you need me as your
substitute. They said, this is a hard hearing,
who can hear it? The Lord said, my sheep hear
my voice. That's what he said, my sheep,
that's who's gonna hear it. That's who's gonna hear it. The flesh
hates it, the flesh can't understand it, but as we hear the sweetness
of his gospel, as we hear the sweetness of his gospel, we are
reminded how he died according to the scriptures, how he was
buried according to the scriptures, how he was risen again according
to the scriptures. We are reminded that this is life eternal to
know him, to know him. That's why we need to hear the
gospel again and again and be reminded of the truth, because
we forget. Not that we forget that God saved
his people, but we are so distracted with everything else around us
that we forget the most important thing. The most important thing. We rejoice when we hear these
things. We rejoice knowing that the table
has been set. You know the most amazing part
about, well, I say that often, I know, but every bit of it is
the most amazing part to me. The most amazing part, the Lord
said, I'm going to gird myself and I'm going to serve you when
you come to my kingdom. When you sit at my table, I'm
going to serve you. Boy, that's unthinkable, isn't
it? You're going to serve me? You're
not going to serve me. The Lord says, if I don't serve
you, you have no part with me. Peter said, well, don't just
wash my feet, then wash my head and my hands too. Remember that
where Peter said, Lord, you ain't washing my feet. Tables spread for you in the
presence of your flesh, your enemy. Tables spread for you
in the presence of your enemy, your adversary, Satan. Tables
spread before you, set, ready, always in this world. No matter where you go, no matter
what you do, the Lord has prepared a table spread before you, and
it is the precious lamb of God, the sweetest wine and the most
wonderful bread that has ever existed, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let's go back to Proverbs chapter nine. Notice verse three again. She
hath sent forth her maid, and she crieth upon the highest places
of the city. I know I've already said this
once, but that's a continual cry. This is God's gospel going
forth by God's preachers. This is what the Lord's called
to do, is to preach the gospel. Paul charged Timothy, said, preach
the word. Be instant, in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke,
and exhort with all long-suffering doctrine. Paul said, I'm not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to
the Greek. Romans chapter one, verse 16. So we have the gospel
that's going forth from God's preachers. So what's the message
that we hear? Now we've, we've seen, we've
seen the house. We've seen the seven. So the
number of perfection that's been completed, the finished work
of Christ, we've seen how it was done by the body and the
blood of Christ, by the sacrifice of himself, offering himself
to the father, satisfying justice, satisfying the law. Therefore,
justifying his people, saving his people from their sin, once
and for all, sanctifying. So what is the message of all
this here? How does it go forth? Verse four, whoso is simple,
let him turn in to hither. Are you simple? Turn in hither. As for him that wanteth understanding,
she saith come. Do you desire understanding?
Come. Eat of my bread and drink of
my wine, which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish and live
and go in the way of understanding. What is the message? Are you
hungry? Are you thirsty? Are you weary? Come to Christ. Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall
be filled. That's what the Lord said. Why are they filled? God made
you hungry. If you're hungry and thirsty,
God made you hungry and thirsty. This isn't a natural desire. This doesn't come by nature.
This comes by God's doing. He causes us to be hungry and
thirsty after the things of him. And if I find myself hungry and
thirsty, God is the doer of it. This feast This feast in this
perfect house of God is fully furnished with grace and mercy,
fully furnished with grace and mercy, fully furnished on the
word of God, founded upon the word of God so that we can rest
in him. Can you rest in the grace of
God? Come rest. Can you delight in the mercy
of the Lord? Delight. Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Come
to Christ who is our bread, who is our wine. Now understand something very
important. It's not prepared. It is not prepared for them that
are whole. For them that are whole need
not a physician, but they that are sick. It's not prepared for the
self-righteous. No, the righteous, he said, I
didn't come to call the righteous, but what? Sinners. Sinners to
repentance. It is set for the vile, wretched
sinners that Christ came to save. It said, somebody said, well,
I don't feel worthy to come and dine. Well, that's the whole
point. If you were worthy, you'd have a self-righteousness about you.
But also in saying that, we're saying the blood of Christ wasn't
good enough to put away sin. So that's a little bit of self-righteousness
in itself. That's not very wise. The Lord says, come. Whosoever
will, let him come. Take up the water of life freely.
Freely. This is the most wretched and miserable,
the most poor, and needy, the hopeless, the hungry, the starving. You ever been so thirsty that,
well, we've never, I don't think any of us ever really been in
a desert or something where we didn't have any access to something
to drink, but just imagine that's the case. Are you thirsty for
Christ like that? Because he makes us thirsty like
that. Lord, I've got to have you. I'm
out in the world, I'm getting dirty, getting all this dirt,
all this sand from the desert, this weary land with no life.
It's just hot, it's brutal, I'm dirty from head to toe, and I
come to this little oasis, it's like, Lord, you're gonna have
to give me your water, you're gonna have to wash me again,
you're gonna have to fill me, satisfy my thirst, give me Christ,
lest I die. If these, if I use the words
poor and needy, wretched and miserable, the most vile, unclean
sinners, if these words describe you, then lay hold of Christ,
lay hold of the Christ in these verses by faith. Read verse four with me again.
Who so is simple? Not who's wise, not who's knowledgeable,
not who's got it all figured out, not who has all these things
memorized, but whoever is simple. The gospel's a simple gospel.
Are you simple? Let him turn in hither. As for
him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, come, do you
want understanding? I want understanding. I don't
have understanding. Not of God, not unless he reveals it. Eat
of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled. Now
I want you to understand this is really important. It's his
bread. It says my bread, my bread. And it says the wine that I,
have mingled. This is the work of God. This
is God's salvation. If you want, if you want to be
saved, you've got to come to Christ. And the only way you
can come to Christ is if he has made you hungry, if he has made
you thirsty, if he has made you wretched and vile and undone,
we see Christ as the most beautiful thing that has ever existed because
he is, because he is. Whoso is simple, let him come,
let him turn in hither. And as for him that wanteth understanding,
she sayeth to him, Come eat of my bread and drink of my wine,
which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish and live, and go
in the way of understanding. Now, who's the foolish? Who's the foolish? Are we not
the foolish by nature? We are, aren't we? Driven back
to our own lust of the flesh as fast as we leave the building.
We're warring with the flesh again. We're the foolish. Forsake
the foolish. If you want Christ, you're going
to have to take sides with God against yourself, against you.
I'm gonna have to take sides with God against me. I'm gonna
have to say, Lord, truth, I am false and full of sin. Thou art
full of truth and grace. Lord, I am the sinner. I have
nothing to offer. I have no goodness. I have no
righteousness. We can't pretend that we have
anything to offer God whatsoever, because we don't, whether we
pretend or not. Our covenant with death will be disannulled.
It has to be Christ alone. because Christ alone is all that
please God. You come to Christ like that, as a needy, desperate
sinner, Lord said, All that the Father giveth me shall come to
me, and he that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. You
come to Christ by faith, you come to Christ believing everything
that he said, everything that he done as all your righteousness,
wisdom, sanctification, and redemption, he'll in no wise cast you out.
He promised, he promised. The table is set, the table is
spread. The problem is is we cannot come
unless he enables us. The glorious part is is everything
he provided is what we required in order to be saved. We have to be simple. We must
desire understanding. We must eat and drink. How? Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Only God's elect can do that. Aren't you glad he said, I'll
make you willing. I will make them willing in the day of my
power. I was reminded recently, feeling a little insufficient
on something, and I was praying, seeking the Lord's face, and
I remember what Paul, Paul went to the Lord three times over
an infirmity of the flesh, we don't know exactly what it was,
but he had an ailment of some kind, and what'd the Lord tell
him? My strength is made perfect in
weakness. My grace is sufficient for you.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. Do you feel weak? That's
when his strength is made perfect. You won't need his strength until
you see that you're weak. You won't need his life until
you see that you're dead. I won't need his life until I
see that I'm dead. I won't need his body until I
see mine, what it looks like, what it does, how it the sin
that it is, the taintedness of my blood. I won't need his blood.
It's gotta be the Lord that shows us all these things. And here's
the promise. I will make you whole and you will be whole.
I will save you and you will be saved. I have redeemed you,
you are mine. That's the good news of the gospel. If you desire to come, you must
forsake self, any notion of self-righteousness, any thought that you can please
God. You must come as needy mercy beggars, begging for the body
and blood of Christ alone as our hope. We must come begging
for Christ as our substitute, our substitute. Lord, I need
you as my substitute completely. You wanna know the glorious part
of these six verses? Everything, every part of this
hath been done. Hath been done. He's already
saved his people from their sin. You don't have to do anything
to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. If you can, he'll
enable, he'll make you, he's the cause that you do it. It's
not something you produce. Belief comes by faith. Faith
comes from God. Faith comes from God. This, This
is the house that wisdom built. Let's pray. Father, we pray that
you would take these words and bless it to our understanding
for your glory. In Christ's name, amen.