Unless the Lord changes my mind,
this will be the last that we're in chapter four. Ended up being
a four part series. Didn't mean to do it that way,
but it started out with, who are you looking to? Proverbs
4, 25 through 27. We've drawn a text from there
four times. First was who are you looking
to? Then what are you looking for? And the next one was turn
us, oh Lord. And don't allow us to look the
wrong way. And the last one is tonight, which is why look to
Christ? Why? Why look to Christ? Now, I want to preface that by
saying we don't debate. So this isn't a debate to try
to persuade someone to make a choice or to come to an understanding
to make an action. But the command is clear right
here, turn not to the left or to the right. What does that
mean? Well, it means look to Christ. It means look to Christ.
But we don't debate the gospel and we don't argue over the gospel. We don't challenge one another
over it. The gospel is to be declared
simply and in truth and in love. And if we ever get away from
that and we start defending the gospel, well, we're in the wrong
for that. The gospel doesn't need to be defended. The Lord
defends his word. We just declare it simply and
plainly. So my hope tonight, my intention
tonight, is that the Lord would cause us to understand why look
to Christ. I hope he allows us to see him.
May he be pleased to cause us to look to him tonight. Not just
tonight, but every night, every day. Looking to Christ is a gift. It is the gift of God unto eternal
life. If you're unable to look to Christ,
that means you've been given the grace to look to Christ and
the faith to believe him. And neither can we please God
by without faith nor without grace. We have to have both in
order for us to be enabled to look to Christ. And aren't you
glad you're saved by grace through faith in that not of yourself.
We're going to hear that a little later on also, but It's not of
us to look. It's not in our ability. It's
our flesh is not capable of looking. Scripture says of some eyes they
have and they cannot see, ears they have and they cannot hear. And in revelation, the Lord says,
the spirit and the bride say, come and whosoever will let him
come, he that hath ear to hear, hear. And I've told you this
before. I had a woman come up to me after
I preached something similar before. And she said, well, my
ears work just fine. I heard every word you said.
And I thought, you didn't hear anything I said. If you would
have, you'd understood. I'm not talking about maybe I
wasn't clear. And I try to be as clear as I can be. But this
isn't a physical hearing. Does it go in our physical ears?
Well, yeah, we hear it with the physical ear. But this is something
that is heard inside, internally, in the new man, in the new heart.
It's something that we digest, if you will. It's manna. It's
life-giving water. It's life-giving sustenance to
the Lord's people. It's the bread of life, the word
of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. You and I, we're not looking
for a choice in the matter. And this is not me offering you
a choice. Salvation is a choice, just not
yours or mine. It's the Lord's choice. That's
good news. I'll make the wrong choice. If it's left up to me,
I'll make the wrong choice. No, the declaration is, ask yourself,
why choose Christ? Why? You and I can't change anything
by our choice. Only God's choice can change
the heart. Why choose Christ? Well, I got
three, I have three little points I'd like to make about that tonight.
And I pray the Lord would help us. That's why we need faith. That's why we need the blood.
Cause it's not up to us. If you don't give us the blood
and wash us, it doesn't give us faith to believe. We'll never
believe. Listen to what Hebrews nine says much more. Shall the
blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God. What does that mean? That means
if you're dead and trespasses it in sin, everything that you
do is dead works. Doesn't matter what it is. That's
one reason to look to Christ. Because if you're able and able
to look to Him, looking to Him means that the Lord has given
you faith to believe Him, and therefore the work that you do
is not unto yourself, it's unto Him. Now, He's not looking to
your works in order to give you salvation, but the Lord's people,
we certainly, We want to work for our heavenly father, don't
we? And what do we do? Well, we come to service. You had to
get ready tonight. You had to drive here. That's
a work. That's physical labor, physical effort to get here.
And what does that mean? Well, it just simply means the
Lord's put that in your heart to be here. He gets all the glory for
that. He's given you the ability to believe the desire to come
in here. Let's read our text here. Proverbs 4.25. Let thine
eyes look right on and let thine eyelids look straight before
thee. Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be
established. Turn not to the right hand nor
to the left. Remove thy foot. And he's talking
about the eyes here. This is where light enters us
humans. That's where we see from. Can't
see anything in darkness. And so that tells us the first
thing is, is the light has been given in order to look straight
on. And this is an encouragement You ever heard the expression,
keep on keeping on? Anybody ever heard that before?
Is that a Southern thing? Am I the only one who heard that?
Okay. That's what he's saying. Keep
on keeping on what the Lord has enabled you to do thus far. Keep
looking straight ahead. Don't change. Keep on keeping
on. That's what he's saying. Why
look to Christ? Well, he's saying he's our only hope. That's why. He's our only hope of salvation. It might be an interesting question,
but most who actually say they're looking to Christ alone for their
salvation aren't looking to Christ alone for their salvation. They're
looking to Christ in some ways, but they're also looking to things
that they've done or things that they have not done. And in doing
so, they actually discredit the Lord completely and entirely.
They don't mean to do that, but that's what they're doing. And
that's what happens if the Lord leaves us to ourselves. So we
need the Lord to cause us to look to Him, to enable us to
look to Him, to give us the desire to look to Him, to give us the
faith to look to Him. Judas, do you not think, somebody
asked you, do you believe You believe that's Jesus Christ?"
He would have said, yeah, I believe that's Jesus Christ. Now did
he believe by faith that that was the Christ, the son of the
living God? No, he didn't have faith to do so. But he would
have said, well, he's a, you know, he, he, well, he's said
to be the Messiah and he's a, you know, a prophet and this,
and he would have said these things. But who was, what was
Judas's real confidence when, when everything got boiled down
to nothing and we see it transparent now, what was his real confidence?
It was in himself, wasn't it? It was in his self-righteousness.
It was what he wanted. And he betrayed the Lord because
That's why he was born for one, but he betrayed the Lord because
he was never enabled to look unto the Lord Jesus Christ. He
never was. Unless God wakes us up out of the darkness of sleep,
we will walk continually the wrong direction. We will walk
in a circle. that will end up being exactly
where we started from. We will spend our four score
years, by reason of strength, or our three score and 10, if
we don't have a reason of strength, that's 70 to 80 years. That spans
a lot of time. Some men live longer than that.
We have people in the church that live longer than that. If
the Lord doesn't wake us up out of our sleep, and that's what
it is. It's the sleep of death. It's the grip hold of sin that
has the Lord has to break us out of by the blood of his son.
He has to do it. He has to rescue us. He has to
ransom us. And he did that once for all in the cross of Calvary.
If he doesn't do that, we will work in the same circle. all
the way in the same circle and we end up right where we started
with nothing but dead works. And we'll present that to God
and we'll say, this is my works that I've done for you. I've
cast out demons in your name. I've done this and that, but
it's empty. Why? It's done in the flesh.
It's done in the flesh, and they that are in the flesh cannot
please God. Why look to Christ? Because everything that you and
I do is empty, dead works in and of ourself, in and of the
flesh. But they that are of the Lord,
they that have been purchased by the Lord and called out of
darkness into his light, did you know that the work that they
do, the Lord sees his precious son? He sees his precious son
in them. What does the scripture say?
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Is that not wonderful? He sees
that you've never done anything but had good works. I love that,
don't you? You say, well, I've sinned today. I've done this and that. Not
in his eyes, not if you're Christ's. No, you've never sinned one time.
He's put it all away. That's why we have to look to
him. He's the only one that lived a perfect life. He was born perfect. He lived perfect. You and I could
never live perfect. This is why he had to, because
we couldn't. Everything that proceeded out of his mouth, you
remember whenever he was reading the scriptures, and it's amazing,
he was just reading scriptures, and they marveled at the gracious
words that he spoke. He was just reading scripture,
but it was God talking, wasn't it? It was the Lord speaking.
Unless the Lord causes us to hear and understand, we need
to have a substitute that spoke the words perfectly because we
can't speak the words perfectly. Do you know every step he took,
he never made a mistake. You know what that means? He
never stubbed his toe. Have you ever thought about this?
He never scraped his knee. How do you know? Because he was
perfect. He didn't make mistakes. He didn't
make mistakes. Couldn't sin and didn't make
any mistakes. How do we know? Because he was
God, 100% God and 100% man. Isn't that glorious? We need
the one that walked perfect, not only in the flesh physically,
but walked perfect before the father in every way, in every
shape, every form. As the father looked upon his
son every single moment that he was upon the earth, he said,
this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. That's why
he said, hear ye him, which could also be say, look to Christ,
look to him, hear him. No, we need the one that walked
perfect before the Father, because you and I cannot walk perfect,
not even once. We need the one that kept the
law perfect. Why look to Christ? Because he kept the law perfectly.
We can't keep the law at all. Not one time have we ever kept
a law perfectly. And what does the scripture say
about breaking one law? You're guilty of the whole law.
Guilty of the whole law. Well, that'd be a scary thought
to have our society have such standards as our Lord. That means
if I broke the speed limit one time, I'm just as guilty as murdering
somebody. I mean, that's a scary thought,
but that's exactly what the Lord's saying. You've done one, you've
done them all. This is his holiness. He says, you're guilty of all
of it. And what's the wages of sin? Death. We need the one that
never sinned. That's what we need, because
we can't help but sin, and everything we do, every thought, every word,
every action, you're sitting there right now, and I'm standing
here, and guess what we're doing? We're sinning. How do you know? Because
that's what we are. Unless the Lord takes these words
whenever we pray, or whenever we're preaching, when we're singing,
unless he takes them and washes them in his precious blood, and
then presents them as perfect to the Father, it's just sinful,
isn't it? It's just sinful. The good news
is, is he actually delights in his people rejoicing and worshiping,
and he enables us to do so. And that's part of the beauty
of the gospel, is how the Lord allows us just to cry out to
him and he hears us. He hears us. We need the one
that intercedes on our behalf. Because if we come before God
with our own words and our own deeds and our own actions, he
won't hear us. But if we come before the Lord with the blood
of Christ, pleading the blood of Christ, pleading his finished
work. The Father accepts that. And
he says he hears us. He hears us when we pray. I love
that. The only way we can be heard
is to be in Christ. The Lord doesn't hear everybody's
prayers. Did you know that? He doesn't. Only those that are
in Christ. Only those that are in Christ
because he has to intercede for them. The Lord does not hear
everyone's prayers. He hears the prayers of his people
on behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why we need to look to
Christ. No matter what we do in the flesh,
it cannot profit spiritually. Why look to Christ? Because no
matter what we do in the flesh, it cannot profit spiritually.
Not in and of ourself, not what we do. Pharisees thought they saw the
truth, that they were profiting spiritually because they did.
The Lord said, search the scriptures. They thought they had all of
it under control because they had the scriptures memorized.
And how do they have it memorized? How do we know that? Well, they'd
studied it. It was their righteousness. They knew more than everybody
else knew about it so that they could look down on people. It
was part of their righteousness. And there's people today just
like that. What does the scripture say about knowledge? Puffeth
up. Puffeth up, doesn't it? He said,
search the scriptures. The Lord said this to them, for
in them you think you have eternal life. If you think that you have
righteousness and eternal life, search the scriptures, if that's
where you think it's coming from. But he told them the truth of
the matter, didn't he? They are they which speak of me. They're not talking. about themselves,
they're talking about me. These are my words and my word
will not return void. It'll go forth where I send it
and accomplish that which I've purposed. In another place, they
were angry with the Lord and they said to him, are you suggesting
that we're blind also? Are you telling us we're blind? And he said, if you could see,
let's see, I have this written down here, I wanna quote it.
Jesus saith unto them, if you were blind, You should have no sin. That doesn't make any sense to
us, does it? What do you mean? We know what he means because
we have understanding of this. But he says the rest, but now
you say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth. And in the next
chapter, you know what they did? They sought to kill him. For
what? For telling the truth. Why do
we need Christ? Why do we need to look to Christ? Why do we look to Christ? Why
look to him? Because he's the truth. And we're false. I said I have three points. I've
already said two that I didn't even write down. There's going to be a bunch
of them, I guess. There's a lot of reasons to look to Him, isn't
there? A lot of reasons. And I don't get hung up on points,
necessarily. I try to stay focused, though. I guess that's the best way to
put that. He's the way. The way I look to Christ, He's
the way. He's the truth. That's two. And He's the life.
Number four, no man come to the Father but by Him. That's why
we must look to Him alone. Not our self, not our works,
not trusting in self. That's the issue that we have
in our flesh is we desire to trust in self. Some way, shape,
or form, we desire the glory. We desire the recognition. We
desire the power ourself. But when the Lord passes by and
he says, Lazarus, come forth. We come forth, we're dead, bound
hand and foot. He says, loose him and let him go. Lazarus didn't
want any power at that point, did he? He didn't. You think
he bragged, oh yeah, I did a good job waking up out of my death.
I mean, how silly is that? No, the Lord gets all the glory
in this salvation. That's why we must look to him.
He is salvation. When he says he's the truth and
the life, That's not just physical life. Yes, in him is light and
that light was the life of men. That's true. Without him, there's
nothing made that was made. So he is our physical life, but
he's spiritual life. That's why we must look to him
or we remain spiritually dead. Those that attempt and I say
attempt because Scripture even talks about this. It says, they
sought to take him by force, going back to the Pharisees.
You know what that means? They were saying, away with this
man, let his blood be upon us and on our children. But when
they go to take him by force, it's the same thing as men saying,
I'm going to let God do something. That's causing him to do something,
isn't it? Or I'm going to obligate him. They're trying to take him
by force. He can't be taken by force. No, the, The believer
comes before God in contrition, with God-given repentance, with
a broken heart and a contrite spirit, and it's a gift from
Him, isn't it? How contrite does your heart
have to be? Well, you need a new one, first
of all. How much repentance do you have to have? All the repentance
the Lord gives you by grace. All that he requires, because
you can't just repent. It's not something we're capable
of. Again, anything that we do in the flesh doesn't benefit
us spiritually. And that's the problem with the
thinking of men today. Well, the thinking of men always,
how they've always been. Nothing's changed, has it? No, those men are like shadows.
I wrote this down. I hope I can say this right and
it won't be confusing. And if you don't understand what
I mean by this, come to me after service and I'll try to explain
it, but I believe I can say this right. If we are working, if
we're not the Lord's and we are working to try to obtain salvation,
it's the same thing as our shadow following what our hand does.
It's the same thing as our shadow following what our hand does
and then saying, look at what my shadow's accomplished. The
shadow didn't accomplish anything, there's nothing there. Does that
make sense? Nothing happened, nothing changed.
But the shadow was moving, the shadow was doing, but nothing
changed, nothing happened. It doesn't accomplish anything
spiritually to do something in the flesh, it doesn't, nothing.
It's just like casting a shadow, it does nothing. Nothing to complete
the work. I've done a lot of work in construction.
Some of you all have too. You know what it's like starting
several of all, you all have done several different businesses.
You know exactly what I'm talking about. You start the job and
you have to physically do it. Well, when it comes to salvation,
don't touch it. That's the point. If you touch it, you're not doing
anything for yourself. Matter of fact, you're making
it worse. It's called iniquity. It's called iniquity. Sad state of unbelief to present
nothing to God, thinking it's something. The only thing, and
this is why we need, thus is why. Why look to Christ? Because he's the only one that
presented something to God with substance. and that was his blood,
and it was his life, and it was his finished work for his people.
He accomplished salvation, presented that blood to the father. The
father said what? Sit thou here at my right hand. Sit here till I make thy enemies
thy footstool. God is well pleased with his
son. He's not pleased with you and I, in and of ourself, in
and of what we do, what we think. God's not pleased with anything
about us unless we're in the Lord Jesus Christ. And if we're
in the Lord Jesus Christ, that's where we've always been, and
that's where he's always seen us. The good news of the gospel is
by God's amazing grace, we are turned. We are made to believe. We are enabled to look. He gives
us eyes of faith. He doesn't leave us to ourself.
If we're his, he doesn't leave us to ourself. Then and only
then can we look to the Lord. That's all our salvation. And who maketh us to differ?
Well, it's him. So why look to Christ? Because they that are
in the flesh cannot please God. They that are in the flesh cannot
please God, and he did. He pleased God. How did he please
God? In every way imaginable, in every
way fathomable, in every way possible, and even ways we can't
fathom. He pleased God perfectly. I don't
like using percentage, but if I said 100%, well, that's complete,
I guess, by math standards. Makes me want to say a thousand
percent. You understand what I'm saying. I don't want to. Anyways,
the Lord was successful. One hundred percent. He was perfect. We don't know anything about
perfection in and of ourselves, but he was perfect and he did
it perfectly. Why look to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Well, because he pleased the Father. And we can't. We can't. But he did. He did. How do you know? How do you know
he pleased the Father? Well, the scripture tells us
clearly he was raised because of our justification. God was
pleased with him. He didn't let his Holy One see
corruption. He was satisfied and resurrected him and accepted
that offering. purge the sins of every single one of his children,
every single one that he chose and predestinated in the covenant
of grace before time. Let's read this again, Proverbs
chapter four. Verse 24, verse 25, let thine eyes look
right on and let thine eyelids look straight
before thee, ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy
ways be established. Turn not to the right hand, nor
to the left, remove thy foot from evil. I like how the Lord
words this by saying, let thine eyes look right on. And I believe
we agree, or we testify to this fact, we're just like the father
of the child that the Lord said, if you believe, all things are
possible. And he said, Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief. He says right here, let thine
eyes look right on. And what do we say to that? We say, Lord,
cause mine eyes to look right on. Enable me to do that. I want
to do that. I want to look to you at all
times. I don't want to look to myself. I don't want to look
to my circumstances. I don't want to look to my problems.
I want to look to you. Cause me to. Cause me to. And you know what that is? That's
letting your eyes look right on. Begging him, begging him,
the desire. He put that there, didn't he?
He put that there. So why look to Christ as all
your salvation? Well, because of looking to self
or anything else. And you can put a period on that.
Looking to self or anything else. guarantees eternal separation
from God. It is the most condemning thing
that we can do is not look to Christ as our righteousness before
God. It's the most destructive thing
one can do for their own soul. Scripture says in 2 Corinthians
10, do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any
man trusts to himself that he is Christ's, Let him of himself
think this again, that as he is Christ, even so are we Christ. What did he mean by that? It
means if you believe that you're Christ because of what you've
done, you're not his, you're your own. But what does the scripture
tells us? You're not your own, you've been
bought with a price. He owns us, he owns his people.
And therefore we do indeed look to him, we do indeed. Thank God
for, I told you we were gonna Hear this again, but thank the
Lord for these precious for the entire scripture. I don't ever
want to put one above the other, but. For by grace. Are you saved through faith?
In that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. What does that mean? Salvations
of the Lord and not me. Not my works and not what I do,
it's of Him. That's why we must look to Christ.
Looking to anything else or looking to self in any way as part of
our salvation is not going to work. It's not going to work. It's not gonna produce salvation. We make salvation an act of our
flesh then and deny the necessity of the blood. It's like the Tower
of Babel. They thought, let's build a tower
to God. You want to? Let's get together. We can make
it. We can get to God. And they started building a tower.
And the funniest, I say funny, it's, I guess that's the right
word. It was funny that they, it shows
our ignorance as human beings. They start building a tower out
of bricks and slime. That slime is pitch, it's tar
is what it is. It's how it translates. But they're
in the desert, and how do you think tar's gonna be in the desert?
It's gonna melt, it's gonna fall apart. So that's the whole point
is there, that word is also the same word as covering or atonement. Atonement's the same thing used
on the ark to waterproof it. So their atonement melted away
is the whole point. And that's what we do by nature,
we're building these bricks up to God, we're gonna get to him,
right? No, he's gonna confuse our language, so we don't talk
the same as he does. and all our atonement's just
gonna melt away and our little tower's gonna crumble if he leaves
us to ourself. Why look to Christ? Because you
can't get to God any other way. No man come to the Father but
by me. That's it. The Lord said this,
no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is
fit for the kingdom of God. Now we're in Proverbs chapter
four and he's telling us, look not to the right hand or to the
left, look straight on. The Lord also says, looking behind
you, looking back. What does that mean? That means
going back to the law or returning back to Egypt, going back to
bondage, trying to produce something in the flesh that would accomplish
something in the spirit or please God. Doing so, you're not fit
for the kingdom of heaven. I recently, and I'll explain,
I'll give you an analogy. If you ever used a rototiller
or saw somebody use a rototiller, everybody know what that is.
You plow your garden with them. I was a young boy, and my father, I
saw him put stakes at the end of each row that he was plowing.
It was a handheld deal that we were using. And one day, I think
I was about 11 years old or something like that, and I said, I could
get that done for him. So I'm going to surprise him. Well, I plowed
a couple rows. I looked back, and man, it was
like this. And I was like, I don't understand what happened. I was
going in a straight line, I thought. And dad came home, and I said,
well, I was going to plow the garden, but I didn't know exactly
how to do it, because it looked like a snake was out there messing
around. He said, that's why you have
to put the stake at the end, and you keep your eyes on the
stake. You just stay fixed to that stake. You don't look down,
you don't look left or right, and you don't look back. You
look at the stake, and you keep going. And I tried that, and
I turned around after I was done. That's a perfectly straight line.
That's a weak analogy, but it's so true when it comes to the
Lord Jesus Christ. If we start looking around, or
we start paying attention to what our hands and our feet are
doing, we're not in a straight line anymore. We're not pressing
towards the mark, as Paul said. He's the mark. We have to keep
looking to him. Why look to him? Because we will
deviate to the left or to the right, We'll end up hitting rocks,
not meaning to. Whatever it is, we won't accomplish
anything. We'll have to redo it. Redo it. I'm thankful the work's finished,
aren't you? We're not even plowing. Did you know that? We're pressing.
That's the word pressing. And that's just looking to Him.
And everything that you do, you're pressing. Your desire is Him.
You're looking to Him. I've heard Greg Elmquist use
an analogy just like I gave you as well. And I told him, I was
like, you know, the same thing happened to me. And his is a
little better, but anyway, that's okay. If we look back or away
from Christ, our mark will deviate from the path and get off course.
So why look to Christ? Because looking to anything else
will not save you. It will not, cannot. Christ is
the only ordained, King of kings and Lord of lords that has successfully
redeemed his people. He's the only one that did it.
Salvation is of the Lord, and it's found in one person, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is salvation. He is salvation. Looking to anything else is useless,
it's worthless, it's fatal, and it's futile. It's not gonna accomplish
anything. Look to Christ. All right, let's
read this one more time. Let, verse 25, Proverbs 4, let
thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight
before thee. I pondered what that meant. How
does your eyelids look straight forward? Well, I think he's saying
don't even blink. Don't even blink, keep your eyes
open, straight forward. Now, I'm not sure if that's exactly
the interpretation of that. As I looked it up, it was just
the same word as eyes, but I think he's saying, don't even blink,
look to him. It makes sense, doesn't it? Because
if we blink, our eyes are closed just for a second. Ponder the
path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established. Turn
not the right hand nor to the left, remove thy foot from evil. While I look to Christ, Oh, brethren,
because you have a need, and the Lord's given you that need.
Only those that are given the need to look to Christ, look
to him. Only those that are given the
ability to come to Christ, come to him. Only those that are given
the need of being washed and cleansed in his precious blood
are ever washed and cleansed in his precious blood. Why look
to Christ? Because you have a need, a need
that he gave you and then provided his darling son to fill every
bit of that need. Every bit of that need, everything
required God provided to satisfy God and to satisfy you, the Lord's
people. Satisfy you. Our satisfaction's
found in one, isn't it? Can't put our trust in man. David said that in the scripture.
Some others did too. Our hope's not in man. Hope's
not in the world. Our hope's in the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, we've been given
a need. We see our sin. We see ourself. We see our inability to produce
righteousness. We see our ability to taint everything
we touch. We taint it. We destroy it. We condemn it. Everything we touch. Not him. Not him. Everything he touched,
he made whole. Think about that. Everything
he touched, he made whole. He fixed it. The only thing we
do is break it. He fixed it. That's all he can
do. That's why we must look to him. That's why we must look
to him. Everything we touch, we make
sinful, but hear the good news of the gospel. He made him sin
for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. What does that mean? It means
he took our sin away and because he touched us and the father,
And it was not destroyed by the Father, and not condemned because
He touched us, or defiled, I should say, because He touched us. We've
been made whole by Him. We've been made whole by Him. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. That's good news. See, it's the Lord. All of this
is the Lord. Why look to Christ? Well, you've been given a need,
but the good news is all that the Father give me, they'll look
to Christ. They'll come to me. They'll come
to me. He said, my sheep hear my voice.
I know them and they follow me. Well, it's hard to follow something
if you're not looking at it, right? You ever followed after
something and never look at it? Of course not. You're looking
to him. That's following him. Look to Christ. Look to Christ.
Romans 8, 9, but you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man
have not the spirit of Christ, he has none of his. See, he's
given a need only he can feel. We need the spirit of Christ.
We need the spirit of the Lord to be in us. And if it's not,
we have no hope of eternal life. But the good news is he feels
that need that we have with Christ himself. He gives us that. And we're made to look upon him.
And I'm thankful to say we're kept looking to him. We start looking away, and he
says, nope, you can't. They won't let you. Why? Because
we follow him. He's made us to do so, caused
us to do so. Because God has made Christ unto
us all wisdom, that's why we look to Christ. God has, why
look to Christ? Because God hath made Christ
into us, all of our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification,
and our redemption. Why look to Christ? Because he
satisfied the just demands of the holy God by himself. He pleased the Father, and you
and I cannot. He successfully redeemed his
people, and you and I couldn't redeem ourself. That's why we
should look to Christ. Put away the sin of his people
as the spotless lamb, and in the process he conquered death,
hell, and the grave. That's why we look to him. You
and I can't conquer death, hell, or the grave. Why look to Christ? Because we
have been made known looking to anything else is fatal. It's futile. It's futile. And
we look because we have a need that he alone can fill. Because
he alone can feel that need. He's the only one that's able.
He's the only one that does feel that need. He will keep us looking
if we're his. We look to Christ for all these
reasons I've said, but you know why we look to Christ? Because
he is all. He is all. That's why the Lord
said so. Let's pray. Father, we ask that
you would take these words, bless it to our understanding, calls
us to look to you in Christ's name. Amen. In closing.