HAVE YOU SEEN THE LORD?

No sinner can be saved until he sees the Lord by faith. Many people claim to be saved, but I question whether or not they have truly seen Christ in faith. If you wonder whether or not you have seen the Lord, let me give you two evidences of everyone who has seen the Lord and believes on Christ.

First, everyone who has seen the Lord shuts their mouth before the Lord. When Job finally saw the Lord, he shut his mouth and quit speaking (Job 40:4). To shut your mouth before the Lord means that you quit talking about what you have done to justify yourself. You shut your mouth because you see your own guilt of sin and you are ashamed of everything you are and everything you have done.

Second, everyone who has seen the Lord opens their mouth before men and publicly confesses Christ. (Romans 10:9). When the apostle Paul saw the Lord, he quit talking about all of his deeds because he counted them all nothing but dung (Philippians 3:8), and he began to boldly tell everyone who would listen that salvation from sin is in Christ alone. If you have seen the Lord you will quit talking about the things you have done to make yourself righteous and you will start to talk about Christ your righteousness.

Have you seen the Lord?

THINKING OF MARRIAGE?

For our brethren thinking of marriage, I encourage you to read every scripture and listen to every sermon from faithful pastors that you can find on the subject. Marriage is about much more than a man and woman obtaining a license to live under the same roof. God patterned the institution after the unbreakable union of Christ and his church. Believing men learn to be husbands by how Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. Believing women learn to be wives by how the church submits to Christ in everything. As it is with all, it pleased God that Christ have all preeminence in marriage.

Therefore, knowing marriage is ordained by God to glorify his Son, it is reason enough to take time to learn what God says in his word about the lifelong responsibilities of husband and wife. If Christ’s honor is not enough to make a young couple deny themselves so as to seek God’s counsel before rushing into an institution for whose glory it was ordained then it will likely not be enough to make them deny themselves and seek God’s word after they are married. But if by God’s grace Christ’s love is the constraint of each heart when they stand before God to utter that solemn vow then by God’s grace they will know to whom all glory is due when many years finds them still happily honoring their word.

Pastor Clay Curtis

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (Galatians 5:3).

Our Lord was circumcised the eighth day even as it was commanded to all Abraham’s seed. This was needful even though He was not born vile and in a state of corruption as we are. He came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill (Matthew 5:13). He willingly became a debtor to the whole law, and fulfilled every jot and tittle of it, to provide a perfect righteousness for His people. The law has no claim on any of His sons. So, do we make “void the law through faith”? God forbid, that is unthinkable, “yea, we establish the law” (Romans 3:21). Putting the roof on a building and walking in does not make void the blueprint. We preach and believe that the purpose of the law was to lead us to Christ. It was always God’s intent to make us free from the law through faith in Christ.