All right, open your Bibles with
me to Matthew 11. I'm going to try to stay close
to my text tonight because I want to get to these last verses especially. Let's read verse 16 and 17. Our Lord said, but whereunto
shall I liken This generation, this generation, one to whom
he's speaking, I'm sure, is talking about them. But natural men and
women are the same in any generation. Ours is no different from this
generation to which he was speaking. In every generation, there are
those who receive the gospel. believe the gospel, love the
gospel. But in every generation, most
do not receive the gospel, do not love it, do not believe it. And Christ compares them to children
sitting in the marketplace who are indifferent and who are unmoved
by what they hear and critical of those who came to teach them
and to help them. He says, where unto shall I liken
this generation? It's likened to children sitting
in the market and calling unto their fellows and saying, we've
piped unto you and you've not danced. We've piped happy things,
happy songs, happy events, and it hasn't made you glad. You
just still sit there, unmoved and unaffected. critical, indifferent,
and then we've mourned to you. We've mourned to you and you've
not lamented. We've told you some sad stories
and some unhappy things and that doesn't move you. Good things
don't move you and bad things don't move you. What's the Lord
speaking about here? Well, look at verse 18. And he said, John the Baptist
came, neither eating nor drinking. John the Baptist came with a
message of repentance, a serious and solemn and condemning message. Let's turn and look at it over
in Luke chapter 3, John's message. Luke chapter 3, beginning with
verse 2, John came. neither eating nor drinking,
with a solemn, serious, condemning message. In Luke chapter 3, beginning
with verse 2, Anderson Caiaphas, being the
high priest, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias,
in the wilderness. And he came into all the country
about Jordan preaching. baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins. As it is written in the book
of the words of Isaiah, the prophet saying, the voice of one crying
in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make your
paths straight. Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain and hill shall be brought low. And the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places shall be made smooth. And all flesh shall see the salvation
of the Lord. Then said he to the multitude
that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come. That's John's
message. Solemn, serious, bring forth
therefore fruits worthy of repentance. And begin not to say within yourselves,
We have Abraham to our father. I say unto you, God is able of
these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the
axe is laid to the root of the trees. And every tree therefore
which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into
the fire. What shall we do? That's John's
message. John came preaching, our Lord
said. Solemn, serious, condemning message
of repentance, and you say he had the devil. Well, verse 19,
and the Son of Man, the Lord Jesus Christ, came eating and
drinking. Our Lord Jesus Christ came with
a message of grace. for the guilty. He came eating
and drinking with sinners. Let's read his message over here
in Matthew 9. Matthew 9, verse 10. Matthew 9, verse 10. And he came to pass as Jesus sat
at meat in the house. Behold, many publicans and sinners
came and sat down with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees,
the religious fellows, saw it, they said to his disciples, why
does your Edith, your master, with publicans and sinners? And
when Jesus heard it, he said to them, they that behold do
not need a physician, but they that are sick. Now you go learn
what that means. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. I've not come to call the righteous
but sinners to repentance. The Lord Jesus came eating and
drinking, friend of sinners. What's their response to Him?
He's a gluttonous man. He's a wine-dipper. That was
it. The Son of Man came. John came
condemning, solemn, serious, demanding repentance, remission
of sin. Baptism, and our Lord came kind
and compassionate, a friend of publicans and sinners. They say
he's a windbimmer. Gluttonous man. Well, learn something
here now. Let's learn something here. Number
one, the first thing I see here is this, is our Lord is pleased
to make use of men to preach his gospel. Everybody that's
ever preached the gospel has been a man. Angels do not preach
the gospel. Abel preached the gospel by offering
that sacrifice. And from Abel, righteous Abel,
down to this present day, everybody preaching the gospel has been
a man. They all, all of God's true servants
preach Christ, too. They preach Christ and his redemptive
works. I want you to look at Philippians
for a moment, what Paul says about this. All of God's true
preachers, though they are but men, that's all they are, they're
but men, but they preach Christ. Even some of them that have other
motives, but they still preach Christ. I want you to listen
to Paul here on Philippians 1, beginning with verse 14. Paul's
in prison when he wrote this. And he says, many of the brethren
in the Lord, he calls these men, save men, they're brethren in
the Lord. Waxing confident by my bonds,
see what they've seen, what happened to me, and I'm in prison, and
it's encouraged them. It's encouraged them. And they're
much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. And some
indeed preach Christ. What do they do? They preach
Christ. They preach the gospel. Preach Christ as person and work. Even of envy. That's not a very
good motive, is it? Of strife. That's not a good
motive. But some of goodwill. The one
preached Christ of contention. That's not a good motive, is
it? But what's he preaching? Preaching Christ. Not sincerely. Supposing to add
affliction to my bonds, if Paul would be like me, he wouldn't
be in jail. Well, I don't know about that, do you? Paul's doing
what God led him to do. That's where he is, by God's
grace. He called himself the prisoner
of Jesus Christ. But the other, verse 17, they
preach the gospel of love, out of love, knowing that The apostle
Paul is set for the defense of the gospel. Both of these, all
these people know Paul. And they've got various attitudes
towards Paul. Paul's in prison. Paul is the
chief apostle. And these men are preaching Christ
now. But they have different, different spirit. But they're
just men. What do you expect? They're men.
And some of them preach the gospel out of contention, hoping Paul
will hear about it and say, well, you know, he's doing a better
job than I am. Others preach it out of goodwill
and out of love. But watch this verse 18. What
then? Notwithstanding in every way,
whether in pretense or envy or contention or truth or love,
Christ is preached. Christ is preached. And I therein
do rejoice. Yea, and I will rejoice. Now
if those men weren't preaching the gospel, he wouldn't rejoice.
Paul wouldn't rejoice. He'd say like he did in Galatians,
let them be accursed. But they're preaching Christ.
What I'm pointing out is this. God's preachers are always men. And they're men of various gifts,
and backgrounds, and ages, and temperaments, and characteristics.
But they preach Christ. And therein we do rejoice. Why
doesn't God make them all alike? Well, let's turn to 1 Corinthians
2. Why doesn't God make them perfect? Why doesn't God send
just perfect men to preach the gospel? Why doesn't God do this,
that, or the other? I'll tell you why. Look at 1
Corinthians 2, verse 3-5. Paul says here in verse 3, I
was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trepidation.
And my speech and my preaching was not within placing words
of man's wisdom. In fact, one group of people
said his bodily presence is weak and his epistles are hard. And they kind of fell out with
Paul because he was too rough on them, you know. But he says
here, I was with you in weakness. And in fear and trembling, and
my speech was not with enticing words of man wisdom, but in demonstration
of the spirit and power, and here's the reason, that your
faith should never stand in a man, or in the wisdom of that man,
or with any confidence in that man. But your faith must stand
in the power of God. That's the key. Only in the power of God. Turn
to 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians chapter 4. 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse
7. It says here, let me go back and
read verse 6. 2 Corinthians 4, 6. For God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, that shined
in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels. I just got through reading that
from Philippians. We have this treasure, this awesome
gospel, this glorious gospel, we have it in an earthen vessel,
a vessel of weakness and fear and trembling. Why? That the
excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. He gets
all the glory and all the credit and all the praise. All right,
back to our text, Matthew 11. And then he closes those comments with these words. In Matthew 11, verse 19, John
came, the Son of Man came, eating and drinking, and they say, behold,
a man gluttonous, a wine-bibber, a friend of the public and the
sinners. But wisdom, wisdom is justified of wisdom's children. Now, of course, natural men refuse
God's wisdom. Natural men refuse God's way
of salvation. It's foolishness to them. The
preaching of the cross is to us who are being saved, the wisdom
of God. The preaching of the cross is
to those who are perishing foolishness. They call it foolishness. But
those who've been taught of God, every man's been taught of God,
the wisdom of God, he comes to Christ. And those who've been
taught of God not only believe the gospel, but they understand
it. They not only receive the gospel,
but they rejoice in it. Turn to 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. To the natural man, the wisdom
of God is foolishness. But to those who are being saved,
Christ crucified is the wisdom of God. I look at 1 Corinthians
2 verse 12, and we understand it. Now we have received not
the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that
we may know the things that are freely given to us of God in
Christ. We may not only believe them,
but know them, understand them, behold them, which things also
we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
the Holy Ghost teaches. We compare spiritual things with
spiritual. But the natural man does not
receive the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness to
him. Neither can he know them, because
they're spiritually understood. And we that are spiritual, he
that's spiritual, we that are spiritual, we, the word judged
there is discern. We discern these things. We understand
these things. We believe these things. We've
entered into these things. We've experienced these things.
But he himself is discerned of no man. You understand the gospel,
but they don't understand you because you understand the gospel.
Who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ. Let me give you a three-part
outline here. The wisdom of God. That's what he's talking about
here. Wisdom is justified of wisdom's children. The wisdom
of God, first of all, the wisdom of God in Christ crucified is
justified by Christ himself. He is the wisdom of God. Every
attribute of God is revealed in Christ crucified. That is
the wisdom of God. Christ crucified is the wisdom
of God. Listen to this scripture. Let
me find it and just read it to you. In 1 Corinthians chapter
1, listen to this, verse 23. We preach Christ crucified unto
the Jew, a stumbling block, unto the Greek, foolishness. But Christ
crucified unto them which are cowards, both Jews and Greeks,
is itself the power of God. Christ who's crucified to the
Jew and the Greek who are called is itself the wisdom of God.
So wisdom, first of all, is justified by Him who is the wisdom of God,
Christ. Then secondly, wisdom, which
is Christ crucified, is justified by the gospel. Because the gospel
is the only thing that enabled God to be just and justified. The wisdom is justified in Christ,
it's justified in the gospel, and thirdly, the wisdom of God
in Christ crucified is justified by us, whose lives have been
changed, whose hearts have been renewed, whose souls have been
redeemed and restored, and who have experienced the peace and
joy and happiness and hope of life eternal. Wisdom is justified
of her children. First by Christ, then by the
declaration of the gospel, and then by us who have experienced
that gospel. One of the old writers said this,
the wisdom of God, which is Christ, has no enemies but the ignorant. The wisdom of Christ crucified
is loved and believed by all who need him. The wisdom of God,
which is Christ crucified, is received by his children, whether
it's in fine China or on a paper plane. They're just glad to hear
it. All right, verse 20. Now watch
this. began he to upbraid the cities
wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they did not
repent. Our Lord then began to rebuke
the cities in which most of his mighty works were done because
of their unbelief, the hardness of their hearts, and they refused
to believe. And he said, listen to this now,
verse 21, Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida." Where
was Bethsaida? Did you know Bethsaida was the
home of three of the disciples? The Lord came to the city of
Bethsaida and called Philip, Andrew, and Peter. You talk about
a mighty visitation. You find that in John, you know,
John 1, 43 and 44. It says, is the home of Andrew, Peter,
and Philip. And then Capernaum. He says here
in verse 23, And thou Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven.
Just a week or so ago, last week, I preached Mark 5. And that's
where our Lord, when he left Nazareth, he went to Capernaum.
And that's where he raised his daughter. That's where the woman
with the issue of blood was made whole. That's where he gave sight
to two blind men. Why, he said, Capernaum, you've
been exalted to heaven, and you'll be brought down to hell. Let's read those verses again
and listen to the Lord. Verse 21 through 23, 24. And then I want to point something
out to you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted in the heaven,
shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which
had been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have
remained until this day. I say unto you, it will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the judgment than for you.
Now, why? Why? What's the chief prophet? Why is it that the Lord Jesus
went into these cities, Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, did these
awesomes, raised a man's daughter. And this man, whose daughter
was raised, was one of the chief rulers of the synagogue. Everybody
knew about this. The woman with issue of blood,
the fine man. Peter, Andrew, all called out
of Bethsaida. Why? What's the problem? What
do you know about these two cities, these four cities? Well, in the
first place, Tyre, Sidon, Sodom were all heathen cities. They
weren't Jewish settlements. They were Gentile, heathen Gentile
settlements. They were pagan people. They
had no religion, no religion. no particular religion, no special
religion, no Jewish religion. Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum,
all Jewish cities, all had temples, all had synagogues, all had laws
and ceremonies and traditions. All of them were steeped in religion
and made up of people who didn't need a savior. They had a righteousness. They
were God's people. That was the total, complete
attitude of those cities. And my friends, that is just
carrying out this one thing we all know, religion is Satan's
chief defense against the truth of Christ. Where is the gospel
welcome? Where men are lost. Where is
the gospel not welcome? where men are not lost. That's
exactly it. Now let me show you proof of
that in Acts 13. Acts 13. That's what our Lord
said. He said, these people are sinners.
The well don't need a physician. Why would the physician open an office in a place where nobody's
sick? If he moved there, he'd starve
to death. And here's the physician of souls, if he said, if I went
down in Tyre, Sadna, Sodom, some folks would have heard me. But
I've come to Tyre, I mean, to Bethsaida, and Chorazin, and
Jerusalem. We don't have this man over.
When he was nailed to that cross, all men forsook him. All men. Look at Acts 13. Let me show
you something here. Starting with verse 38. Acts
13, 38. And here Paul's summing up his
message. He just preached to these bunch of folks. He said
in verse 38, Acts 13, here's the gospel. Be it known to you
therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached
unto you the forgiveness of sin. And by him all that believe are
justified from all things from which you could not be justified
by the law of Moses. Lest there come upon you that
which is spoken of in the prophets, behold ye despisers." That's
what they were too, religious despisers. Wander and perish. I work a work in your days, a
work which you shall in no wise believe, the old man declares
it to you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue,
the Gentiles besought Paul that he might preach to them the next
Sabbath. I tell you, we'll listen to you,
they said. You can take this message and
go in the average church and they'll throw you out. You take
this message and go down to the pool hall or down to the bar
or down somewhere else and they say, that sounds pretty good
to me. That grace business sounds awful good to me. That's right. This is what we got right here.
Watch these Gentiles said, how about preaching to us? So when the congregation was
broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed
Paul, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in
the grace of God. The next Sabbath day came almost
the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the
Jews, when the religious fellows saw this multitude, they were
filled with envy. They spoke against those things
which were spoken of Paul, contradicting and belasting What did Paul preach? Christ. He wasn't condemning
Moses and condemning the sacrifices. He was preaching how Christ fulfilled
them. He was preaching Christ. That's
what they were condemning. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed
bold and said to these religious Jews from Capernaum and Jerusalem
and Bethsaida and all these places, it was necessary that the word
of God should first have been spoken to you. But seeing you
put it from you, why would they put this good news away? They
were their own saviors. They didn't need Christ. They
didn't need a sacrifice. They didn't need a redeemer.
They didn't need God's grace. They were all right. You put
it from you. You judge yourself unworthy of
eternal life, so I'll turn to the Gentiles. I'll turn to the
tyrants, and Sodom, and Sodom, and so forth. For so hath the
Lord commanded us, saying, I'll set thee to be a light to the
Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the
earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, you're going to bring
us the gospel. When they heard, you're going
to bring us the gospel. Oh, when they heard it. That's
what our Lord said. If they had tired, heard it,
they'd have repented. If Sodom had heard it, they'd have remained
to this day. You gonna bring us the gospel? They were glad,
they glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained
to eternal life. Anybody ever ask you what the
Lord mean by that? That's exactly what he means.
Religion. Self-made religion. Self-righteous
religion. Self-motivated religion hates
the gospel of grace, wherever it's preached. But sinners, they
need the gospel. They need help. They need Christ.
They'll listen to you. That's the reason the Lord has
to get a man lost before he can save him. A man who's never been
saved hasn't been lost. Never. All right, that's exactly
what that's saying. Religion is the strongest defense
against the gospel It hates the gospel hates grace
Because it's a self-made thing Now look at verse 25 at that
time at that time Our Lord was in the world and the world knew
him not Came into his own his own received him not At that
time he preached to him, but they wouldn't they wouldn't hear
it He manifested his power to them. They wouldn't receive it.
He set forth all the witnesses that God had given of his, of
his personal work. He said, John bore witness of
me. The Father bears witness of me. The works that I do bear
witness of me. You search the scriptures, in
them you think you have life, they bear witness of me. But
you won't come to me that you might have life. You won't come."
That time, with all that being so, Jesus answered. He answered. Answered? Where's the question? There wasn't any question asked,
but there were a lot of questions raised. He replied to their opposition.
He replied to their unbelief. He replied to their rejections.
He answered their mockings, their scoffing, and their doubts. And
he comforted and encouraged all sincere seekers and believers. And he lifted his eyes to heaven
and said, O Father, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, I'm going to make some comments, but I want to turn
with you to Luke's gospel, to another account of this same
prayer. But Luke uses a word that I want
to use, so I can do that. The best interpretation of Scripture
is Scripture. In Luke chapter 10, verse 21, In that hour, Jesus rejoiced
in spirit. He rejoiced in spirit and said,
I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and thou hast revealed
them unto babes. For even so, Father, it seemed
good in thy sight. It's just one word there that's
different from the other from Matthew's version. Turn back
to Matthew. One word, but I want to use that word. In verse 25
of Matthew 11, my text, at that time, Jesus answered and said,
I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven. I thank you and I rejoice. I rejoice at your suffering.
I rejoice that you are Lord of heaven and earth. They said to
David, where's your God? He's in the heavens. Our God's
in the heavens and he hath done whatsoever he pleased, whatsoever
the Lord pleased. That did he. Heaven, earth, seas,
and all deep places. God reigns in the armies of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth and gives it to whomsoever
he will and I rejoice. That's what Christ is saying.
Father, I rejoice that you're Lord of heaven and earth. Sovereign
Lord. Secondly, I rejoice that you've
hid these things from the wise and the prudent. I rejoice that
you've hid these things. What things? Well, back there
in verse 4 and 5 and 6 of Matthew 11. Listen. Jesus answered and
said, Go show John those things which you see and hear. You see
and hear this. The blind receive their sight,
spiritually blind. The lame, sinners walk. filthy lepers are cleansed. The
death to the gospel, hear it. The dead are raised. The poor
have the gospel to you to preach to them. Blessed is he whose
service should not be offended in me who does all that." That's
what he said, that gospel. He said, I rejoice that you've
heard these things from the wise and prudent, the self-righteous
in their own eyes who need no Savior. What does he mean they're here?
This is all in Christ. Redemption's in Christ. Salvation's
in Christ. Righteousness is in Christ. It's
all in Christ. That's the key. It's here in
Christ. And they're looking for it somewhere
else. That's why it's here for them. If you come to Christ,
all these things are revealed. Let me read that to you over
here in Colossians. It's hid in Christ. This thing
of the gospel being hid from the wise and prudent, it's hid
from them because they're looking in the wrong place. All things are of God and all
things are in Christ. Watch Colossians chapter 2. Colossians
chapter 2. Verse 2, that your hearts, that their
hearts might be comforted being knit together in love unto the
rich, all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to
the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, the mystery of God, the
mystery of the Father, the mystery of Christ, in whom are hid all
treasures That's what we're talking about,
wisdom, knowledge, salvation, redemption, righteousness, they're
here in Christ. And you can't find them until
you come to Christ. Look at verse 9. For in him,
in Christ, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. All the
fullness of God's in Christ, and you're complete in him. who's
the head of all principalities and powers. That's where they're
hid in Christ. I rejoice that you've hid these
things from the wise and prudent, hid them in Christ, and you've
revealed them to babes. I rejoice that you've revealed
them to those who are poor in spirit, those who are babes in
Christ. That's what Brother Chuck read
a few moments ago there. They revealed in Christ. Let
me show you a scripture over in John chapter 9 that Talk about
these things being hidden in John chapter 9 John chapter 9
verse 30 Verse 34 verse 35 Here's the man that
our Lord had healed now listen to this And Jesus heard that
he had been cast out of the synagogue John 9 35 And when he found him he said
to him do you believe on the Son of God you believe on the
Son of God This man said who is he Lord that I might believe
Tell me who he is that I might believe on him. See, everything's
in the Son of God. Everything's in Christ. All life,
hope, help, salvation, redemption. Now you tell me who he is and
I'll believe on him. And Jesus said to him, you have both seen
him and it's he that talketh with you. And he said, Lord,
I believe. I believe in what you do. And
Jesus said, listen now. For judgment I'm coming to this
world, that they that see not might see. I've come that the
blind might see. The blind might see. I have revealed
to them the gospel of Christ. And they which see, and that
they which see, might be made blind. Do they really see? No,
they think they do. They don't really see, they think
they do. But I've come that those who know they don't see, those
who are blind, those who can't do anything about their blindness,
I've come that they might see the glory of God in my faith."
And that same person, speaking to those who think they see,
makes them even blinder than they are. And listen as he goes on. And
some of the Pharisees got upset with that statement. Which were
with him heard these words and they said well you are you saying
we're blind Is that what you're saying? We're blind And Jesus said if you were You'd
have no sin If you were really lost you were really blind You
really were in need if you were really were without hope without
God without Christ in this world And you came to me in your desperation,
in your need, in your guilt, in your inability. I'd make you
see. If you were blind, you'd see.
But now you say. What do you say? You say, we
see. Well, keep on saying it. And
your sin will keep on remaining. That's as clear to me as it can
possibly be. You say, I see. I'd have nothing
for you. I didn't come to call the righteous,
I came to call sinners. You fell a slave and he walked
away saying the same thing. But the blind man, he was blind. And our Lord said, Father, I
rejoice, I thank you, Lord of heaven and earth, that you've
healed these things. They'll stay hidden, too, from
the wise and the prudent. and the rebels, the unbelievers,
folks that can't be brought down, can't be convicted and disturbed
and need a savior with all their souls. But I'm thankful that
you've revealed it to babes. I'm thankful. I got good news
for those that are poor, good news for the brokenhearted, good
news for The contrite spirit. Good news for the lost man. Good
news for sinners. But we got nothing for religious
people. Religious people hate the gospel. And then listen to
what he said. Verse 26. Even so father, it
seemed good in thy sight. Now I wrote down my notes here.
Everybody be still and listen. Everybody be still. Old Brother
Hughes used to say, don't you move a hand nor a hair. Just be still. Here's the answer
to all things. Here's the answer to the fall
of man. Could God have prevented the fall? He's God, isn't he? Here's the answer to the covenant
of grace. Here's the answer to the doctrine
of election. Here's the answer to Old Testament
Israel. Here's the answer to the coming
of Christ through the virgin's womb. Here's the answer to the
cross. Why the cross? Here's the answer to the resurrection.
Here's the answer to the kingdom of his dear son. Even so, Father,
it seemed good in your sight. That's that. Here's the reply to every question
which begins with a why. Why doesn't God do this? Why
does God do that? Why does God do something else?
Why does God not do this? But why does God permit this
bad? Why does good people suffer bad things? All those questions
that begins with a why, in reference to God. Here's the answer. Even
so, Father, it seemed good in thy sight. That's it. His will, his way,
his work. Our trials, our troubles, And
our good things, every objection, every argument that a human being
can raise about anything God did, does, he does it because
it seems good to him. If that won't satisfy you, you've
got problems. One person's an object of mercy,
another person is passed by. One person is called, chosen,
redeemed, another's not. One person's glorified, dies
in hope, trust, faith, and goes to be with the Lord. Somebody
else dies in his sin. Answer that for me. The Lord
just did. Even so, Father, it seems good
in your sight. I rejoice that you're God. I rejoice you're the Lord of
heaven and earth. I give thanks and rejoice that
you've been pleased to hide these things from the wise and prudent,
leave them in their rebellion, and you've chosen to reveal it
to base, because, Father, it seemed good to you, and what's
good to him is good for us." That's what Samuel said over
here in 1 Samuel, listen to this, Samuel said to Eli, Samuel told
Eli that God was going to kill his son. Do you remember that?
That God's going to do away with you, these rebellious boys. And
you know what Samuel answered, or Eli answered? In 1 Samuel 3, 18, and Samuel
told Eli Everything God revealed to him
and he had nothing from him and Eli said well Samuel it's the
Lord let him do what seemeth good to him Even so far it seemed
good in Dassau Now the last couple of verses verse 27. I want to
give you this All things are delivered to me of my father
things. This will bless you. All power,
he said, in heaven and earth is given to me. All persons,
I thank your father you've given me power over all flesh that
I should give eternal life to as many as you gave me. All life,
the Son quickens whom he will. All judgment, the Father judges
no man. He's committed all judgment to
the Son. All the elect, All that my Father giveth me shall come
to me. All things in heaven and earth,
that's what he said. You've given me all things in
heaven and earth, even in him. All glory, all preeminence, is
given to Christ. And no man knoweth the Son, but
the Father. And neither knoweth any man the
Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will be
given. Since Christ has all things,
wisdom, righteousness, redemption, hidden in him, he said, you come
to me, and I'll give you rest. And take my yoke upon you, and
learn of me, and you'll find rest. He says, my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light. The way of the transgressor is
hard, hard, hard way. But his yoke is easy. One of
the men in Mexico told me that men who own and still use oxen
down there, a master loves his ox, and each yoke that is put
on each ox is designed especially for that one ox. And he wears
it the rest of the time, and it's easy. Fits him. So that's,
you come to me, take my yoke, my yoke, that I designed for
you, and you'll find it easy. And my bird can fly. I hope that's
a blessing to you.