Jesus is wonderful
August 8, 2023
When I was a student pastor in a little, unpainted, suppose-to-be white church, and I remember one morning after I’d finished preaching, there was a country boy there, waiting. And after everybody had left, he came up to me, tears came down his eyes. And he shook hands and he says, “I didn’t know Jesus was so wonderful!” Then he wanted to say something else, and he couldn’t say it; he choked up. He turned and walked and started across the cotton patch right by the church. And I stood there and watched him. I said, “Oh, God, I want to preach so people will think that Jesus is wonderful.”
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You see, God today is not a disagreeable neighbor that’s waiting around the corner to pounce on you and to find fault with you. God has His arms outstretched, and He’s saying to the sinner, He says, “Come, and I’ll give you redemption rest.” And now He goes on to say something else here that’s very important. “Having made peace through the blood of his cross….” And you see, when God forgives it’s always because the penalty has been paid. God never forgives until the penalty has been paid. The penalty’s been paid for your sins; therefore, God can forgive you.
August 7, 2023
“For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.” And that’s one of the important words that you have in this epistle. He was God when He came to this earth. And in Him “all fullness dwelt.” He was 100% God down here. He wasn’t 99.44% God—100%. And that little baby that was lying yonder 1900 years ago on the bosom of Mary and seemed so helpless, He could have spoken this universe out of existence. He is man of very man; He is God of very God! That’s who He is.
August 4, 2023
And then we have this statement: “…that in all things he might have the preeminence.” And this is, may I say, a very wonderful statement. The will of Christ must prevail throughout all of God’s creation. That’s God’s intention. Even in spite of the rebellion of man down here, God says, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” God is moving forward today—undeviatingly, unhesitatingly, uncompromising—toward one goal, and that is to put Jesus on the throne of this little world on which you and I live.
August 3, 2023
Did you know there’s only one man raised in a glorified body today? He’s “the firstfruits of them that sleep.” And so, when you put a loved one that’s in Christ, put that body in the grave, you’re just putting it in a motel—like putting it in a hotel for just a few days. Because there’s coming one bright morning! The body is put to sleep; the individual’s gone to be with the Lord! What a picture we have. And then when He comes to take His church out of this world, then, my friend, that body’s going to be raised. It’s sown in corruption, raised in incorruption! And we receive a new body. Oh, He’s wonderful!
August 2, 2023
Have you ever stopped to think of the power that’s tied up in this vast physical universe? Who’s holding this thing together? He not only created it, but He holds it together. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one that does this. “…By him all things consist!” And you have that, by the way, again back here in Hebrews 1:3. “Who being the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power—He holds everything together—when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” He’s a wonderful Person, isn’t He? He’s a glorious Person!
August 1, 2023
“O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, because His mercy endureth forever.” Let me ask you this morning a very frank question: Do you think God is good? Do you? My friend, since I was operated on I thank Him every day, because I’m living on, you know, sort of borrowed time. I didn’t think I’d make it. And not a day comes around that I don’t say, “O Lord, You’re good to let me see the light of a new day.” He’s good, friends. I don’t know about you, but He’s been good to me. And I’d just like to say with the Psalmist, “God is good.” Do you mind saying “amen”? God is good.
July 31, 2023
“That I might know Him”—the Lord Jesus—“and the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto his image.” My friend, how well do you know Him today as you come to the table? Do you know anything about the power of His resurrection? Paul prayed for the Ephesians, he said, “That they might know something of that power which wrought in him and brought Him back from the dead.” How we need that today. We need to know something about the power of His resurrection today.
July 28, 2023
When was the last time that you went to the top of a mountain and watched the sun come up and thanked God for it? When was the last time you walked by the seashore and listened to the sobbing of the waves as they broke? Or that you stopped out on the desert and saw that long vista and you thanked Him for it? He is the Creator. And even in a world that has been tinctured and touched by sin, there’s still beauty in His creation. “And the heavens still declare the glory of God and His firmament showeth the handiwork.”
July 27, 2023
We today have made the Lord’s Supper a very morbid affair. I wish we had more joy in this service. This ought to be a service of informality and great joy. That was the way that it was intended to be. You can be reverent without being long-faced. I hope our officers, when they come down this morning, will smile. We’re not looking at someone on a cross this morning. He’s gone! He’s at God’s right hand, and He’d like for us to enjoy this supper today. I hope you’ll enjoy it today.
July 26, 2023
If you have enough faith to just come to Jesus Christ and say, “I’ll take You as my Savior. I’ve got a lot of questions.” Paul says to the Colossians, “I’m praying that you are going now to be filled with the knowledge….” Epignōsin—that means “super knowledge.” That’s the kind of knowledge that after you come to Christ, these things then are made real to you. You know, faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith rests upon real knowledge. And any man that has faith enough just to reach out and take Christ as Savior, the Spirit of God makes these things real to him.
July 25, 2023
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