Sermon #1427 Miscellaneous
Sermons
Title: Christ The Servant
Text: Exodus
21:1-6
Subject: The Law of the Bond Servant
Date: Sunday
Morning --October 8, 2000
Tape # W-4b
Reading: Psalm 40:1-17 and Exodus 20:1-21:6
Introduction:
When the Lord God came down on Mt. Sinai at the giving of
the law, he commanded that no man save Moses alone come up into the mount. No
man was permitted to even touch even the border of the mount, under penalty of
death (Ex. 20:12). When the Lord came down upon Sinai’s fiery mount, thunders
and lightnings, clouds and thick darkness covered the mount. Then, the voice of
a trumpet blast was heard, so loud and shrill, that all the camp of Israel
trembled with fear and quaked before the mountain.
That is exactly what will happen with anyone who ever hears
what God in the law says. "Tell me,
ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" (Gal. 4:21)
·
“Be ye holy for I am holy.”
·
“Walk before me and be thou
perfect!”
·
“It must be perfect to be
accepted.”
·
“The soul that sinneth, it shall
die.”
The law revealed God’s holiness and justice. Any mere
sinful man who dares touch it will die by it. God never gave the law to be a
code of conduct, a means of salvation, or a ladder to holiness. God gave the
law. God’s law was given at Sinai to identify and condemn sin, to pronounce
sinners guilty, and shut sinners up to Christ alone for grace and salvation
(Rom. 3:19-31).
(Romans 3:19-31)
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God. {20} Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by
the law is the knowledge of sin. {21} But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
{22} Even the righteousness of God which
is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:
for there is no difference: {23} For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; {24} Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus: {25} Whom
God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; {26} To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and
the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. {27} Where is boasting
then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. {28} Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law. {29} Is he the
God of the Jews only? is he not also
of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
{30} Seeing it is one God, which
shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. {31} Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law."
No
sooner did the Lord God give his law to Moses on Sinai, than the children of
Israel cried out for an intercessor, a mediator, someone to stand between them
and God (Ex. 20:18-19).
(Exodus 20:18-19)
"And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and
the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. {19} And they said unto Moses, Speak
thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we
die."
While “the people
stood afar off, Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was” (Ex.
20:21). And the Lord God began to
speak to Moses in terms of hope. He spoke to him about an altar. An
altar is a place of worship, a place of sacrifice, a place of atonement, a
place of hope. The Lord God, immediately after giving the law, opened a door of
hope for trembling sinners. He said
to Moses (Ex. 20:22-26), -- “You go down there and tell that crowd of
terrified sinners that there is a way they can come to me.”
Listen to me now. Things have not changed. If you and I would come to the holy Lord
God and find acceptance with him, there is only one way we can do so, and that
way is the way here declared, that way is Christ. If we would come to
God and be accepted of him…
·
We must worship him alone as
God. He
alone is God who is sovereign, holy, just, and gracious (Ex. 20:23;
33:13-34:7).
(Exodus
20:23) "Ye shall not make with me
gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold."
·
We must worship him upon the
altar he has made (Christ), with the sacrifice he requires (Christ), in the place where
he records his name (Christ) – (Ex. 20:24).
(Exodus 20:24) "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto
me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings,
thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto
thee, and I will bless thee."
·
We must come to the holy
Lord God trusting Christ alone, contributing nothing. We must not attempt to
come to God upon the basis of anything we have done or might do (Ex. 20:25;
Gal. 5:1-4).
(Exodus 20:25) "And if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon
it, thou hast polluted it."
Illustration: -- Uzza
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We must not attempt to come
to God by degrees. There are no steps of grace and salvation, no steps by which we
ascend to God, no steps to righteousness and holiness. Christ is all, or
nothing (Ex. 20:26; 1 Cor. 1:30-31).
(Exodus 20:26)
"Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon."
Now, I want us to look at Exodus 21:1-6. Here the Lord God
begins to give his judgments (civil statutes) to Israel, by which he typified
and portrayed redemption, grace and salvation by Christ[1].
The very first civil statute given to Israel was a blessed picture of
redemption and grace by Christ. Let’s look at it together.
(Exodus 21:1-6)
"Now these are the
judgments which thou shalt set before them.
{2} If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
{3} If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were
married, then his wife shall go out with him. {4} If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself. {5} And if
the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I
will not go out free: {6} Then his
master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or
unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and
he shall serve him for ever."
Proposition: This law describes a man who would
voluntarily make himself a bond servant to his master for life; and that Man is
the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
The Servant spoken of in
this passage of Scripture, by type and picture, is the Lord Jesus Christ our
Savior. It is him whom we have come to hear, him we have come to worship, him
we must have, and him I have come here to preach. The title of my message is – Christ
the Servant. The
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became the Servant of God that he might
redeem and save sinners chosen of God from the foundation of the world.
Yes, I know that the text is
talking about men who became the servants of men among the ancient Israelites.
But, before I am done, you will see clearly that this text looks beyond those
men to the Man Christ Jesus. How blessed it is to see and know Christ in this
relationship! The eye of faith sees the Servant and rejoices in all his work.
Let
me show you five things about this law of the bond servant, by which our Lord
Jesus Christ was typified.
I. First, the
Lord Jesus Christ chose to become Jehovah’s Servant.
We understand and rejoice to
know that this servant is himself God, one with the Father in being, glory and
greatness, in all things equal with the Father.
In his eternal Deity, as God
the Son, our Savior is altogether equal with the Father. But he became a man,
became our Surety, became our Mediator, that he might subject himself to and
obey his Father’s will as a man.
(Philippians 2:6-8)
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross."
Those words are of
unspeakable importance. Much, very much indeed, depends on a right
understanding of them. Here let it be clearly understood that
A. The Son of God is and must be God, the second Person
of the blessed Trinity.
We are Trinitarians. We
believe, according to the Scriptures, that there is one God, subsisting in
three eternal Persons, in all things equal to one another (1 John 5:7).
(1 John 5:7)
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
B. The Son of God cannot possibly be inferior to the
Father in his divine nature.
If Jesus Christ is God
manifest in the flesh, as the Scriptures declare, there cannot be, in anyway,
an inequality between the Father and the Son. Augustus Toplady, wrote,
"The uncreated and eternally begotten Son of the Father Almighty is and
must be as truly a divine being as the Father who begat him."
C. Therefore, when we read in the Scriptures of
Christ’s being the Servant of God, subjecting himself to the will of God, and
obeying the commandment of God, we are assured that his servitude is and must
be by his own free and voluntary consent.
He is indeed the Servant of
God; but his service was no forced work. "He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:14). "Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it." (Eph.
5:25). Our Lord himself declares, "As
the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for
the sheep" (John 10:15)
There
was a perfect understanding between the Father and the Son from eternity. Let
there be no misunderstanding in our own minds. Christ became the Servant of
Jehovah by his own will.
(Isaiah 50:5-7)
"The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. {6} I gave
my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid
not my face from shame and spitting. {7} For
the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have
I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."
(Isaiah 42:1-4)
"Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. {2}
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street. {3} A bruised reed shall he
not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth
judgment unto truth. {4} He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles
shall wait for his law."
II.
Second, the
Lord Jesus served.
From the moment of his birth, until his final breath in
this world, the Lord Jesus served. He was ever Jehovah’s righteous and faithful
Servant. He said, to his disciples, “I am
among you as he that serveth” (Luke 22:27; Heb. 10:5-14).
(Hebrews 10:5-14)
"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {6} In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
pleasure. {7} Then said I, Lo, I come
(in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. {8} Above when he said, Sacrifice and
offering and burnt offerings and offering
for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; {9} Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, that he may establish the second.
{10} By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. {11} And
every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
{12} But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God; {13} From
henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. {14} For by one offering he hath
perfected for ever them that are sanctified."
Now, listen carefully. According to Exodus 21, a servant
could only serve for six years, no more, except he become a voluntary bond
servant forever.
(Exodus 21:2)
"If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in
the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."
Six
years was the measure of a man’s obedience. That is not accidental. Six is the
number of man, the number of incompletion, frustration, and failure. The Lord
Jesus Christ came here to do as Jehovah’s Servant what no man had ever done
before, but what all men must do; and he did it (Dan. 9:24; Rom. 8:1-4).
(Daniel 9:24)
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to
seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."
(Romans 8:1-4)
"There is therefore now
no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. {2} For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of
sin and death. {3} For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {4} That the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit."
1.
This Servant of God
fulfilled the law perfectly, bring in everlasting righteousness.
2.
This Servant of God put away
the sins of his people by the sacrifice of himself.
3.
Our blessed Savior taught
us, by example, how to serve our God. – He washed his disciples’ feet (John
13:1-5).
The Lord Jesus chose to become a Servant. He actually
served the will of God. Now, be sure you get the third thing stated in the
text.
III.
Third, Had he chosen to do so, our
blessed Savior could have gone out free.
It was the servant’s choice, back here in Exodus 21,
whether he remained a servant or went out free. So it was with our Savior, even
after he had come into the world.
A.
Living here as a Man, the Lord Jesus had perfectly
honored and pleased his Father.
(Matthew 17:5) "While he yet spake, behold, a bright
cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."
B.
Even in Gethsemane, the Lord Jesus told Peter he was
under no constraint, except the constraint of his own voluntary will to die in
our place at Calvary (Matt. 26:52-54).
(Matthew 26:52-54)
"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place:
for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. {53} Thinkest thou that I cannot now
pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of
angels? {54} But how then shall the
scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"
C.
But – Had he gone out free, he would go out by himself.
IV.
So,
fourth, I want you to see that our
Lord would not go out by himself.
Look at Exodus 21:5, and watch the order.
(Exodus 21:5) "And if the servant shall plainly say, I
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free."
(John 12:27-32)
"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. {28} Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from
heaven, saying, I have both glorified
it, and will glorify it again. {29} The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said,
An angel spake to him. {30} Jesus
answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. {31} Now is the judgment of this world:
now shall the prince of this world be cast out. {32} And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
“If the servant shall plainly
say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.”
-- Let's see what we can learn from these words. Picture in your mind the great
covenant of grace. The Lord Jesus, way back before the world was made, stood
before God the Father, and said...
A. "I love my Master."
Why did the Lord Jesus
Christ come into this world? The answer is found in these words. Christ came
here because of his great love for his Father, to glorify God the Father. The
first Adam, who was made for the glory of God, failed miserably. The last Adam
gloriously succeeded.
1. He was altogether competent for the work he came to
do, because this man is God, because this God-man was altogether without sin.
·
-"In him is no sin"
(1 John 3:5).
·
-"He knew no sin"
(2 Cor 5:21).
·
-"He did no sin" (1
Pet 2:22).
·
-When tempted of the devil, Satan found nothing in him by which to
seduce him.
2. He had no work, no ambition, no will, but to do his
Father's will.
·
When he was just a boy, he corrected his mother on this subject,
saying, "Wist ye not that I must be
about my Father's business" (Luke 2:49). He loved his Father
too much to be detracted from his work by the fleshly sorrows
of his mother.
·
When he was a man, he said, "I
do always those things that please him" (John 7:29).
·
When his labor was ended, when his work was done, when the faithful
Servant gave an account of the work he had done, he said, "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have
finished the work which thou gavest me to do" (John 17:4).
It is by the covenant
Surety's glorification of the Father that elect sinners are saved with an
everlasting salvation and eternally justified. The love of God for us and the
love of Christ for his Father is the source and cause of it all.
B. Next, the Servant says,
"I love my wife."
You who are loved of Christ
cannot fail to see your Beloved here. Here we see something of the marvelous
love of Christ for his bride, the Church. What David said concerning Jonathan
we say from the heart concerning our Redeemer: "Thy love
to me is wonderful!" (2 Sam 1:26).
I pray for you, and for
myself, as Paul did for the Ephesians, that we might know the unknowable, -
"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and
grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God"
-- (Eph. 3:17-19).
Ephesians
5:25-27 --
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water
by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.”
Where can we find
illustrations of Christ' great love for his elect bride?
1. Jacob's Love for Rachel
Genesis
29:18-20
-- “And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel
thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee,
than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served
seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love
he had to her.”
Jacob's love was rewarded
with deceit, but it did not dampen his love. Our Savior's love for us caused
him shame and suffering unknown, but the more he endured the more his love was
made manifest. His love for us is stronger than death and as firm as the very
life of the eternal God!
2. Adam's Love for Eve
Nowhere do we see the love
of Christ, the last Adam, for his bride more fully illustrated than in the love
of the first Adam for his wife Eve.
The Holy Spirit tells us
plainly that Adam was not deceived by the devil (1 Tim 2:14). He knew exactly
what he was doing. He sinned with his eyes wide open. He saw Eve in the depths
of her sin, guilt and shame. Yet, he loved her. Out of pure love for her,
before he would be separated from her, he chose to be damned with her. He
cleaved to his wife, for they were one. He plunged himself into ruin. He
freely, deliberately plunged himself under the wrath of God. He made himself to
be sin for Eve's sake, because he loved Eve! In all this Adam stands out as an
eminent type of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us.
C. Next, the Servant says, "I
love my children."
Even back then, in the
covenant of grace, before the world began, the predestinated children of God
were given a family relation with the Son of God. Is he the Son of God? So are
we, by divine adoption and special predestination, from eternity.
Thomas Bradbury wrote, "Through the
perfection of His righteousness -- the preciousness of His blood -- the power
of His resurrection -- and the prevalency of His intercession, He brings forth
the progeny of grace from the womb of the eternal purpose, to serve, praise and
adore the eternal Three in One to all generations."
1. In us Christ sees the fruit
and satisfaction of his soul's travail.
2. In him is all our salvation
(1 Cor. 1:30).
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In him we were chosen to salvation.
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In him we have been redeemed from all sin. In him we are begotten again
unto a lively hope by his resurrection.
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In him we have been quickened into spiritual life by his Spirit.
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In him we have been born again never to die.
·
In him we are saved!
·
He carries us in the bosom of his everlasting love.
·
He washed us from every stain of sin in his own precious blood.
·
He has justified us with his spotless righteousness.
·
He shall at last present us faultless to the Father in perfect holiness
(Heb 2:13).
Why did Christ become the
Servant of God? Because he love his Father, he loved his wife, and he loved his
children.
Now, there is one more thing about this Servant of God who
is our Savior. Look at Exodus 21:6. “He
shall serve forever.”
V. Fifth, our
Lord Jesus Christ shall serve forever.
How delightful and blessed
it is to our hearts to see the willingness, the delight of Christ to bow, to
humble himself, to become obedient to the Father's will, to suffer and die for
us. Oh, how he loved us!
He
said, "I will not go out free!"
He
had his ear bored. He solemnly declared himself to be Jehovah's Servant
forever, and never had a second thought!
A. A human body was prepared for the Son of God and he
came into this world as Jehovah’s Servant in that body.
What a glorious sight for
the comfort of every believing heart! -- The Son of God wears and forever
dwells in a human body!
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A REAL HUMAN HEART to feel the sorrows and
sufferings of his loved ones in this world.
·
REAL HUMAN EYES to watch over his people,
to weep with those that weep, to weep for those who cannot weep for themselves.
·
REAL HUMAN EARS ever attentive to the cries
of his beloved.
·
REAL HUMAN HANDS to minister to the
necessities of his family.
·
REAL HUMAN FEET frequently weary in errands
of mercy for his beloved.
·
REAL HUMAN LIPS ever filled with grace,
ever flowing with words of love and life for his chosen.
·
A REAL HUMAN SOUL which was troubled and
sorrowful, even unto death, that his sinful, sorrowing people might be sinless
and joyful to all eternity.
Blessed be God, yonder in
heaven's highest glory is a man, a real man, Jesus Christ, Jehovah's Servant,
my Savior!
B. Once more, pause to consider what our Lord Jesus has
done and is doing for chosen sinners as Jehovah’s Servant.
1. He brought in everlasting
righteousness by his obedience to God as our Representative.
2. He put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
3. He lives in heaven, to make
intercession for transgressors, according to the will of God.
4. He sends his Spirit to
regenerate and save his redeemed ones, in the time of love.
Illustration: David to Ziba, -- "Fetch Him!"
5. He keeps and preserves his
believing people secure unto eternal glory.
6. He rules the world for the
good of his redeemed ones.
7. He is coming again to gather
his elect up to glory.
(1 Corinthians 15:24-28) "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God,
even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and
power. {25} For he must reign, till
he hath put all enemies under his feet.
{26} The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death. {27} For he hath put all things under
his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things
under him. {28} And when all things
shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him
that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
(Ephesians 5:25-27)
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it; {26} That he
might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, {27} That he might present it to
himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but
that it should be holy and without blemish."
(Jude 1:24-25)
"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of
his glory with exceeding joy, {25} To
the only wise God our Saviour, be glory
and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen."
All praise to Christ, THE SERVANT! "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen" (Rev. 1:5-6).
Whatever our need may be, it
is supplied from the unfailing stores of our heavenly Bridegroom. The time of
our destitution and helplessness gave him opportunity to exercise his love and
care. When we were lost and loathsome, he came to us in love. When we were
naked, he clothed us with the garments of salvation.
Isaiah
61:10
-- "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."
When hungry, he feeds us.
When fainting, he restores us. When helpless, he upholds us. Do we long for
glory? He will bring us in!
C. Now, look at the last two
words of our text. -- "For Ever" (Luke 12:37).
(Luke 12:37)
"Blessed are those
servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto
you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will
come forth and serve them."
Time will not terminate his
service of love. In the ages to come God will show the exceeding riches of his
grace toward us through Christ Jesus. When time shall be no more, the Lamb in
the midst of the throne will feed us, lead us to fountains of living water, and
bless us with eternal joy in his presence! -- “FOR EVER!”
Application:
1. Would you be partaker of
these rich blessings of grace and life? Come to Christ!
2. Forever adore, love and
trust Christ, who stooped so low to lift us so high.
3. If Christ our Savior is the
Servant of God, let us imitate him as we endeavor to serve our God and one
another. "Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus." -- (Phil. 2:5).
[1] Ever remember, the law of God, these civil statutes, ceremonial rites, and all the commandments were messianic. They were given to Israel alone and applied to Israel alone. The law of the Old Testament has absolutely nothing to do with Gentiles. It was never given to Gentiles. The law was messianic. It pointed to point to Christ, who is the fulfillment and the end of the law.