1.) Our need is evident by the command of the Son of God to ask, seek, knock. a.) Our need is met in asking, Ezek 36:37. b.) Our need is known by His command. c.) Our need is met by His answer of grace. d.) Our need is great because we need to be told of it, and told where it is met. 2.) God is gracious and good because He alone can meet our need, and He sovereignly does so. a.) In asking, seeking, knocking, we receive, find and enter. b.) It is God's condescending mercy and His glory to command sinners to do so, and then to meet their need. A king is loved for his justice and mercy (Prov 20:28; Isa 16:5; Psalm 85:10). 3.) It is because the LORD is good that He gives to sinners and commands us to come, ask, seek and knock. a.) Our heavenly Father knows how to give good gifts to them that ask Him. b.) The triune God commands c.) A promised is joined to the command: all who ask receive, who seek find, who knock entrance and an opening is granted. 4.) The ground of God's answer: Both our asking and our answer, our seeking and finding, our knocking and the opening to us are rewards of Christ's obedience. a.) Psalm 22. From the cross, Christ foresees sinners seeking and finding and praising God. Psalm 22:26. b.) His suffering in their stead was to the glory of God. c.) It is to God's glory that sinners seek Him for His grace. d.) All who seek, find (Ps 22:26), because Christ suffered in their place according to the will of God. 5.) Our seeking is His drawing (Jer. 31:3; John 6:44-45). Our finding is His finding us (Romans 10:11-20). a.) By the preaching of Christ and Him crucified, God makes known Himself to sinners; in this way they find.
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Rick Warta is pastor of Yuba-Sutter Grace Church. They currently meet Sunday at 11:00 am in the Meeting Room of the Sutter-Yuba Association of Realtors building at 1558 Starr Dr. in Yuba City, CA 95993. You may contact Rick by email at ysgracechurch@gmail.com or by telephone at...
