Preaching Christ after deep affliction (Quality: Average)

[0:00] I have no harm for the second of the treasure that the Lord has paid of me in feeling that I have never felt in them before and feeling the gracious sweetness We'll find just one verse in John chapter 19 Now I'll read from verse 28

[1:06] John chapter 19 from verse 28 After this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled He says I search Now there was such a vessel full of vinegar and I filled his hands with vinegar and put it upon his lips and put it to his mouth When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar

[2:12] He said It is finished It's now this thing I think I think I heard with such a something was saved My heart has found that I think I heard with such a something was saved my heart has overflows at the tender sympathy and the simple way in which we find the simple way in which we find the simple way in which we find the simple way in which we pass from the

[3:23] Lord Moses to the Lord of the Gospel Here is the junction of the road It is in it the proclamation of the road the proclamation of the finisher called by the apostles such the author and finisher of our faith in that sight but oh how quietly no angelic hope to declare the mighty day son and unique hope to declare the mighty deity's son.

[4:33] And no discovery of mighty power in any way or form, but the Lord has hid in the fold of the Lord, and all that was contained therein, and all that Israel held under that law had stripped off, as Paul tells us, in his epistle to the Romans.

[5:21] They did not attain that. How? Why? Because, he says, they sought it not.

[5:36] I say, compare this glorious utterance with what I had spoken at the table concerning the same finality in the utterance of the covenant healing state, as he institutes the Lord's Supper in place of the ancient Passover, and see the marked similarity in God's most holy way to teach us that it is finished.

[6:49] And as I said this morning, Jesus Christ is to many a man of honour, repuged, early to be followed, and the other hand, whereas on the other hand, he is a man that's pained and hated, but to the Lord's dear family, here's something of a far, far closer to a life of a man.

[7:36] And that is, he is their head. He has accomplished and trodden the wine-pressed alone.

[7:57] A guilt that was laid upon him by his father in Gethsemane, where he is described as a man of sorrows.

[8:22] This is the heritage, therefore, of his church. It has been all likeness, all frivolity, all social revision, all carnal friendliness, niceness, call it what you will, and never come close or anywhere near to the union that his people have in him.

[9:14] But they are brought under the law. Although it is finished, it is not hidden away from their knowledge.

[9:35] It stands as God's holy law. From this, as the seventh of Romans shows up, by the law is the knowledge of sin.

[9:58] Without this knowledge of sin, through the law, finished, honored, though it may be.

[10:10] Where are we? Where are we? Is not this the promise of the comforter?

[10:22] He shall convince of sin. Go back to the table, the strife among the brethren.

[10:41] Read and know the fiction of that time, that think you laughed at which shame, like Peter.

[10:53] They remembered the time when they strove to be the greatest.

[11:04] of the world. What is it that convicts of the power of the Holy Ghost?

[11:16] What is it that reveals a broken law and consequent unworthiness?

[11:29] How came ancient Job to abhor himself? If there were no law then, how came Peter to go out and weep bitterly?

[11:51] And how do you come? In these things, O Sattah, I've sought to press in upon your spirit today with regard to your standing before God.

[12:20] What about your whole life? Does it matter? Is it a matter that can be kept post-regarded?

[12:39] No one need to know. The Lord God, the hands of the Holy Ghost will discover it and convince of the guilt of it.

[13:04] What about your daily dismissed life? You come home at night with your head, raise and feel all this well?

[13:25] Or do you think by your bedside and side door what an unworthy life is mine?

[13:37] Who brings that to you? Your wife? Your husband? Your pastor?

[13:50] Who brings this arrow, this sword? Is it not the holy spirit of truth?

[14:09] That it is his also to reveal the remedy.

[14:20] and here it is in this world. It is finished. What is finished? Types and shadows of the ancient Mosaic law, yes.

[14:39] But what are the inner details of the law? And God's just required.

[14:52] What are those secret sins of the ancient of which we all, all are guilty?

[15:03] To where then had we looked?

[15:14] Not out of the head knowledge, not by reason of what we've learnt from reading that by the sweet, compelling influence of the Holy Spirit upon our knees.

[15:40] Like the publican, God been merciful to me.

[15:52] A sinner, that these things are yours, my dear friend. Look at the riddle, the mystery of Christ.

[16:08] Look at what God has done for you. Look at how it opens your blind eyes so that you don't need anyone to settle for your argument.

[16:29] You are convinced that you are a sinner to Jesus to come. to the poor bankrupt in the days of Israel.

[16:44] Now, this being so, what is going to awaken over the hills in your life and come as the liberating trumpet did to the poor bankrupt in the days of Israel and the day of jubilee?

[17:12] What's going to give you hope? what charming sound other than this will ever bring you to listen.

[17:31] Behold how beautiful upon the mountains are the feasts of Him that bringeth good tidings, the peace that publishes peace.

[17:58] And a peace not wrapped up in some unknown language but a peace detailed sort of in the world in the world and merit the tralline of the soul of the Lord Jesus.

[18:26] What will? What can? Are you struggling after After some merit, seeing some good to do, are you weary in trying to find a Savior with your hands full of the best human grace?

[18:59] Do you know your Bible? Has He said, without money? All this must of necessity be the burning up to come back to the subject this morning.

[19:26] Of that which you felt you had. And now find that it's fabulous.

[19:39] Nothing, says the ancient hymn writer, in my hand I bring.

[19:50] Can I give you advice and counsel for the best way?

[20:25] If I did, could you follow it successfully? No.

[21:04] Knowing that all things were now accomplished. Yes. Yes. He said, I served.

[21:17] And I taunted Him with vinegar, as you know. And as He touched it. He, uh... He, uh... He, uh...

[21:28] He, uh... He, uh... He, uh... He, uh... Thou did me. He, uh... Fully conscious, fully conscious, how different from us in our hours of sickness, extreme weakness, could we deliberately and purposefully bow our head by thousands of nations' weakness?

[22:16] We know not even our own thoughts, and not master of our own intentions, but conscious, right to the end, an inexplicable, indefinable blessing that none can possibly elucidate, that face laid hold of a perfect Savior, who, though he was crucified through weakness, another of these treasures that I have brought with me out of the fire for your thanks I trust.

[23:24] Though he was crucified through weakness, but it wasn't a weakness wherein everything had to be lost.

[23:42] He was master, he had the cage of hell and of death, and still has them.

[23:56] This is where the Lord's table, the ordinance of his broken body and his poured out blood, come together.

[24:13] This is what he intends when he says, Do this in remembrance of me.

[24:25] Yes, do it. How what sacred thoughts may not thee seem to arouse, and have aroused, and will arouse, in some of your lives, in days yet to come.

[24:52] There is one great favor in old age, one great virtue in affliction, and that is that his strength is made perfect.

[25:25] Not half perfect. Not just sufficiently perfect to bring you through, but perfect in weakness.

[25:39] Thus, the wrath is consumed, all striving to merit eternal life, laid in the fallet.

[25:57] And grace reigns triumphant over sin.

[26:08] The free unmerited grace of God, as seen in the life, in the ministry, in the suffering, in the death, as here, said now, if thou, this is it, came up the dose.

[26:49] He said, to finish, finish, finish, finish, now, sinner. You who may be striving, striving hard, find a little, a stubborn merit, to bring to the sight of you.

[27:05] You who will get to come right down to the lot of you.

[27:20] Give not up your little hope, cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

[27:42] and thus, as called, tell us now, no chastening.

[27:53] For the present, seemeth to be joyless, but grievous. Nevertheless, afterward, yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.

[28:13] Is that all? To those who are exercised thereby.

[28:30] I am extremely thankful to the Lord for granting me my heart's desire once more.

[28:48] Here among you, put my four sinful hands upon the cloud of the gospel.

[29:04] And to let you know that my affections are still with you.

[29:15] And further, to express my unspeakable breath in you, to the volume of kindness, and quiet love perfection, of which I have not a slightest idea, for those who will give me a place, for whom God has given me a place in their hearts.

[30:00] I have one request to make, and it is very important. Whatever you say about today's services, many of my dear friends will be utterly amazed, to know of today's events.

[30:25] Whatever you do, please do not attribute the slightest of the most important thing.

[30:36] I, for my God's faithful name, I would have his holy name exalted. I, I, and as I have said, since coming out of Austin, oh, that I had yet a thousand times, I have a thousand times, but no.

[31:07] Let this therefore, be to you, my dear people, a testimony, in answer to many prayers, your own included, and the good hand of our God upon us, our young people, our children, and those that we love in gospel bonds, and therefore, hold up in this dire declension of error, to these simple sacred truths, whereby in one word, the Passover is finished, the Lord's Supper is instituted, whereby the mighty Lord Moses is completed, honoured, and magnified.

[32:35] and in one sweet word, the mighty Savior says, it is finished.

[32:47] Amen. Amen. . . . .

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