“ Great Sermon! ” Me thinkest that the greater Joseph longs greatly to have His people, His bride near Him. More than we can ever imagine. Oh what provisions He has made for those that love Him. Its seems to me that God will not rest until all His own are seated around His table in glory. I found this message so sweetly fragrant with the comforts and mercies of God, and testifying of God's goodnesses with endure continuously
“ Great Sermon! ” Oh what a beautiful, beautiful sermon. This would have to be the best sermon on the "Love of God" that I've ever heard in my 35 years of being a follower of Jesus. The best way, I believe, to understand the realities of God is to study the shadows and types of the old testament. Mr Beeke masterfully and wonderfully brings these realities to vivid life namely; the wondrous and amazing love of God in the life of Joseph. Oh what a glorious gospel picture is presented before us. It reminded me of Job who says "I was at ease (as were the 10 brethren but as all we the elect are) but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark" and all that He may do me good at my later end. I think that this is very, very little understood today by the religious masses; that the six months with sweet odours, comes after the six months with the oil of myrrh. Surely this is the Lord's doing and its all marvellous in my eyes. After a very difficult passage in the world this past week, this sermon so wonderfully refreshed and revived my drooping and languishing spirit. It greatly confirmed the many beautiful promises of God namely summed up in this; " fear not little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
“ Great Sermon! ” Oh how incomprehensibly beautiful is this sermon. I could not but weep as i was listening to it. A poet once wrote "O Love that will not let me go" It is so descriptive of Joseph with his brethren. One struggles much to comprehend how can such a thing be. One can only trace this love back to eternity past where God the Father chose a people and gave them to Christ. A people of whom it is said I have loved you with an everlasting love. The whole story of Joseph reminds me of the words of Jesus who said "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent." Is this not what the lesser Joseph is doing with his brethren, as the Greater Joseph does with all the elect???
“ Great Sermon! ” Oh what a lovely message. How it condemns many professing Christians today for their superficial, heartless and empty repentanceses. The 21st century disease of easy believism runs rife today. But how wonderfully do we see in Mr Beekes message that God must first smite, wound and kill the sinner before repentance is given to him. God must orchestrate all the circumstances of the elect sinner that a thorough solid and lasting impression may be made on him. Here is the wonder of it all; God afflicts His people, and those same afflicted ones must go to Him that afflicted them and appear before Him that He may pardon and forgive them. How this reminds us of the children of Israel in the wilderness. They had sinned. God sends firey serpents which bite them. The last thing they want to see is a serpent. But to a serpent they must gaze so as to receive their healing. God smites and to Jesus must the sinner go to receive a pardon. This is the mystery of the gospel.
“ Great Sermon! ” Another excellent message, particularly the introduction which was exceptional. In listening to this series of messages I'm more and more at a loss to be able to comprehend the Incomprehensible. God Almighty coming down to this sin cursed and hostile world to hay hold of guilty vile sinners and in sovereign mercy draw them wonderfully to Himself. Oh such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Oh what a joyful melody this makes in the ears of all the redeemed, how blessed are those saints who know this joyful sound, those who seek to apprend Him by Whom they have been apprehended.
“ Great Sermon! ” Very helpful message. The righteous will have many afflictions and sorrows as he sojourns towards the celestial city. Griefs, loses and crosses are appointed for him. Disappointments and discouragements oft are his companions, but the tried saint must, he must learn to say in the face of these trials; all things are working together for my good, then let him add, because I love God, and finally let him say because I am called according to His purpose. When the Christian has arrived here, he or she has made great progress in that way, having entered into the very suburbs of the new Jerusalem.
“ Great Sermon! ” Ohhh what a good sermon. Very didactic and rich, very rich in spiritual consolations. I do think there has never been a saint in the history of the world that has not cried out in his griefs and sorrows; all these things are against me. Gods ways are truly amazing. I couldn't help but think that while in the prison, the nine brothers no doubt were feeling condemned for their being spies; surely we are condemned to death; will we ever see our families again; will we get out of here??? No doubt these things were going thru their minds. Ahhh who can fail to see Gods using the law to smite and to kill that He may make way for the gospel to heal and make alive as has been His method in all generations. The sentence of death which the law brings must go before the giving of life which the gospel brings. The heart must be ploughed in order for good seed to be sown therein. These Chapters from 42 to 50 are so full of law and gospel that they are divinely sublime and ought to be studied by all Christians and blessed are those who can find there experiences in these pages.
“ Great Sermon! ” Another excellent message in this series on Genesis. Go to Joseph for bread. The very God who commands all to go to Joseph must be the one who sends a famine in the soul. How else can that be explained which is so common today namely, Christless Christianity. Countless professing Christians simply never come to the greater Joseph because they never feel their need of Him. They never have had a sore famine in their souls to drive them out of themselves and to Jesus that they may live and not die. Their hearts whisper constantly "I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing" but sadder still, these same ones who are pure in their own eyes yet are not washed from their filth. Oh me thinkest that these, as we must all do fall down and cry mightily to God day and night for mercy till the Spirit whispers in our hearts saying be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
“ Great Sermon! ” What a high and noble privilege it is for a sinner to suffer with Him and for His cause, that he may be glorified together with Him.
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God had only one Son without sin but no sons without chastisement. The path to glory is paved with many afflictions and sorrows. But oh how good these are and oh what good they bring to the saint. God must prepare His people for their exaltation as He prepared Joseph for his position of governor and ruler of Egypt, and this continues through out the lives of His dear people. A very lovely sermon and a beautiful reminder of those years the Lord led me personally thru the great and terrible wilderness to humble and prove me. Another excellent message full of practical comfort for tried and weary pilgrims on their pilgrimage to the celestial city.
“ Great Sermon! ” Very Sobering message. I think the life, sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension and reign of Christ in glory was looked upon by the Father as an event so gloriously stupendous, so wonderfully amazing, so incomprehensibly great, and no marvel, its the very sending of Jesus by the Father down to this sin cursed and hostile world to seek and save a people lost in the fall of Adam, to redeem them, to offer a ransom for them, to restore them to that pristine condition they were in, in the mind of God the Father before the foundation of the world. God views this with unparalleled importance and with unparalleled delight that almost in 10 chapters of Genesis is the event typed out in amazing accuracy and detail as do all the types in the old testament look forward to that event. The very life of Joseph is a very vivid and moving story of Gods mega love for His people and how salvation would come to them. I get the impression that God was so eager so impatient ( i speak respectfully) to bring this about, that 1500 years before it occurred He wanted the world to know of it, Its wonderment, its glory etc. I cannot help but remark that Mr Beeke brings us all onto Sacred ground with the preaching of this message. I certainly felt it. A most excellent and moving message.
“ Great Sermon! ” Again and again in listening to this series of sermons, I cannot, though I try;I try to fathom somewhat the breadth,and the length and depth, and height of this most amazing Lord God who has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. But I cannot, I cannot. Exacting from us less, oh much less than our iniquities deserve. Another very, very good sermon that searches the conscience and pricks the heart. This is what preaching MUST do. Thank you Mr Beeke for a most excellent message.
“ Great Sermon! ” Wow!!! What an excellent sermon. This would have to be the best sermon relating to practical and experiential Christianity ever preached in this epoch.
Mr Beeke most wonderfully expounds the very dealings of a most gracious and loving Father, and the soul converting experiences of all the true Jacobs. Not one, not even the least saint is exempt from passing through Penuel mant times as he heads for glory. This sermon is a commentary on Deut 32:36 where God judges His people that is He rules,regulates,sways, contends with,strives with, brings a controversy to the believer, pleads, and governs all for one purpose; that their power may depart from them. Then God repents Himself concerning them. He literally opens His arms to embrace them with a love that will not let them go. How blessed is that believer who can say, He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days. Or that believer who can say, I had the sentence of death in myself, that I should not trust in myself, but in God which raises the dead. On the other side of the coin , it is much to be feared many are today strangers to this path paved with afflictions that leads to eternal life as Mr Beeke well said about those who talk much about blessing but alas alas the root of the matter is not in them.
“ Great Sermon! ” Another very good sermon! Dr Beeke once again brings out blessed but solemn truth. It should always be remembered that material prosperity and abundance was the peculiar blessing of the old testamen as Dr Beeke has well said; in the new, as hard as it may sound, suffering is the peculiar blessing of all God's people. Its the taking up the cross and following a despised and rejected Lord and Savior. Our blessings be it remembered, are spiritual and they are in heavenly places; the saints portion falls wonder of this world and not in his life. Oh how blessed to have ministers that remind the congregation that we must die as Mr Beeke does in this sermon. Me thinks it ought to be proclaimed loudly and oft lest God's people sleep the sleep of death.
“ Great Sermon! ” What a good sermon!!! How little (if at all) is such teaching understood by the religious masses today. The common notion that seems to prevail in this day and age is, that God is some abstract diety that doesn't really concern himself with his creation. But how far from the truth is this, who has personal, intimate and one on one dealings with all His elect children. He will be no man's rival. He will have His people love Him far above all other creatures, pleasures and material objects. He will and often causes His people to be despised, reproached, scorned and hated even by loved ones in order to bring it about as the case with Leah. Its in this way the Lord judges his people, and when He sees their power is gone He repents Himself for His servants. By this time the Christian has comes out of the wilderness leaning upon his or her beloved. Has it ever been seen or heard, that one has said "the best thing that happened to me was that my spouse hated and despised me, for it taught to love the Lord my God with all heart, my soul, with all my strength, mind etc" only the true Christian can possibly have such a testimony. This sermon enters again into those secret and mysterious dealings with God and His people and Dr Beeke masterly brings these precious gems to our attention.
“ Great Sermon! ” How well did the poet put it,; "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform..." Nowhere in the Bible do we get such an insight into this wonder working God with his much loved people. To be clay in the Potters Hand. To feel the very scourgings of a disciplinary Father is the Lot of all the true Jacobs. How solemn, God will use the very sins of ones youth to discipline and correct His sons and daughters. Those very sins I indulged and gratified in my youth; the very pain and heartache I caused others, God has raised up ones to do to me as I've done now over 40 years later. And as painful, hard and troublesome as it is, God gives me glorious glimpses of the works of His hands. This wonderful sustains the soul in all its calamities. Indeed He smites,but He makes whole. He wounds but He heals. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. No Christian can really understand what those words "to be conformed to the image of His Son" mean except those whom God often speaks to and says "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him". Oh its good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn His statutes. Thank you Mr Beeke this sermon was excellent as it reveals the secrets of the Lord.
“ Great Sermon! ” What a good and instructive sermon! Let us bear in mind that Jacob was a vessel of mercy, a vessel God would prepare for glory. God will and must chastise every son whom He receives. This discipline will last for many years even to our hoary heads. A newly converted soul will very soon discover that he has much,very much indwelling sin and corruption, a cesspool of iniquity and wickedness and this God must purge. Like the house of Lev 14 that is full of leprosy and must be taken down stone by stone and then layed aside and new stones,new mortar and new plaster be used and so the old goes and the new comes. What a fitting description of all the sons God prepares for glory. Every precious and costly stone God places in that glorious temple was quarried by Him but as it is it has no beauty or glory. God then begins to cut and chisel away at this stone until its fit, perfect and beautiful and full of glory. This is now ready for the temple. So as it was with Jacob so it is with all the election of grace. After listening to this sermon my much discouraged and down cast spirit was revived, just like the corpse in the grave Elisha was lowered into and revived. This is an excellent sermon which Mr Beeke brings out the secret and mysterious workings of Him who is God. Blessed be for ever.
“ Great Sermon! ” Hallelujah!!! Oh shout for joy all you saints that know this joyful sound, and may you walk in the light of His countenance. This was an excellent message. Oh blessed are all who can relate to some degree to these strange but necessary dealings by the Spirit of God.
“ A Sobering Sermon ” How solemnly true the words of the apostle; "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" This principle applies equally to believers in Christ as it does to the unbelievers. A decision once made and acted upon can bring dire and heart wrenching consequences in the life of of a believer. God is absolutely sovereign in the dispensing of His mercies. To some believers they may abound in outward blessings and prosperity, while others of the same family may go halting all their days and rarely enjoy outward comforts and blessings. The difference between the two is that the afflicted and tried saints will always attain to a deeper and more intimate knowledge and communion with their God, but its what God has decreed, for He will do the thing that is appointed for each and every member of His family. God many times uses the failures and even the sins committed by His own people to bring about His divine purposes in their lives. But let us never forget, His blessings are first and foremost "spiritual" and these we should seek earnestly. Nowhere in the new testament does He promise to give His people outward prosperity but rather has told us that the way that leads to eternal life is a road that is paved with many afflictions as the original has it in Matt Ch 7.
Excellent sermon.
“ What a Good Sermon! ” Listening to this sermon in some very disheartening circumstances of life, in times of outward hopelessness I'm greatly encouraged and edified that my God is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. That which rejoiced my spirit is the memory of His great Goodness. I recalled my Marahs but then remembered my Elims. I thought on my Bochims but then remembered my Ebenezers. I meditated on all the way the Lord led me through the great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, but then recalled that it was so the Lord might prove me and do me good at my latter end. God indeed puts feathery down in the pillows of His people but often in the same pillow we find thorns and briars. This is the Lord's doing and its all wonderfully marvelous in my eyes.
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