The Necessary Revelation!
In
spite of what false religion says in our day, Christ and His word
still say, “All things are delivered unto Me of My Father:
and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man
the Father, save the Son, and He to whomsoever the Son will reveal
Him” [MATTHEW
11:27].
No man can by searching find out God, God must reveal Himself to us
and in us. This He does to His people through the word of the truth
of the gospel and by His Holy Spirit.
He
does this, as Paul says, when it pleases Him to do so. He cannot be
hurried and His hand cannot be stayed. Paul’s description of his
own experience is the same with all that God saves: “But when
it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called
me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him
among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood”
[GALATIANS
1:15-16].
Not even the clearest preaching of the gospel alone will avail for
sinners who are dead spiritually and blind to all that is of God. But
God will bring this work to pass in all those He loved, chose and
redeemed in Christ. His sheep will hear His voice. They will be all
taught of God and when they learn of Him they will come to Christ.
Christ
promises that the Holy Spirit whom He would send would do this:
“Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide
you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever
He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to
come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall
receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto
you. All things that the Father hath are Mine:
therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine,
and shall shew it unto you” [JOHN
16:13-15].
It is the command of God to His servants to “preach the Word”
and it is His command to all to “seek the LORD.”
As
this is done, He graciously reveals Himself to the objects of His
saving mercy. “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love Him” [I
CORINTHIANS
2:9-12].
But there is another “but” also: “But God hath
revealed them unto us by His Spirit...” What does He reveal
to us? “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God.”
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Sovereign
Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA
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