IT'S MONDAY AGAIN!

... and I am feeling as lethargic as I can be. Oh but how wondrous is our Lord that He is never lethargic and is always seeing to the needs of His children. That gives me a power boost!

Yesterday, we preached on John 14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled; if ye believe in God, believe also in me." Those are the words of our Savior to the hapless, helpless men the Lord called His disciples. Christ is preparing these men for the events that were about to happen, that is His arrest, mock trial, murder, burial, resurrection and eventual ascension. Each one of these events would play heavy on the heart of each of these men. So much so, that they would all run and hide. But there would come a time that our Lord would send the Comforter that He would promise them in this chapter and all these events would make sense and their poor troubled hearts would lose its worries and they would become bold preachers of the faith that Christ had delivered to them.

We are often bowed with a load of sorrows on this planet, but our hearts ought not be troubled. He, who is Emmanuel, has spoken and delievered to us a medicine of assurance that the godhead of God is in control. Nothing can harm us, no foe alarm us! Even our death is taken care of with the assurity of Heaven itself. I pray that the Lord's flock at Providence Baptist where I pastor received this message and went forth to seize the day, today, in the name of Jesus.

For myself, I covet your prayers as we try to evangelize our little part of the world. We are such a small flock, but the care of it is so great. I leave you with a personal devotion from John 13:3.

The Soevereignty of Christ
John 13:3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

Once again we have one of those great verses that speak to the sovereignty of Christ. It is here, also, that we see the God-man ability. Fully God, Christ knows all the Father's decrees and His Father's actions, for they are His own. He is also able to fully carry out the Father's will in all things that pertain to life and death, the collection of all the Elect persons given to Him, as well as the judgement of all the inhabitants of earth for all time who are subservient to Him. And Christ is truly fully aware of from where He came as our text reveals. He was not just a mere man, He had come from where God is, to whom He would return and take His rightful position and seat next to the Father, having a name above all names, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings.

Christ Jesus is the great Mediator between God and men. Christ Jesus the great Redeemer is Immanuel, God with us! And He works the works of Him that sent Him all the way from a manger in Bethlenhem to Golgotha's execution hill, bearing in His own body the sin of the Elect. He has come to make restitution to God for the sins of the Elect, to purchase their pardon with His own precious blood. He, then, mediates the position between them and the Father. Those who are elected unto salvation are called, justified and glorified, setting them into the family of God as children. Is that so? Ephesians 1:4-6 say it is: "4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."

So that that is spoken here of Christ is a true statement and speaks to our Lord's sovereignty. What a wondrous thing to know! Our Lord and Savior is God, too! And we have nothing for which to dispair. He, who knew no sin, became sin for us, died for us, was risen for us, and is presently collecting us home to Glory where we will live out the ages with Him and the Father. What a wonderful Savior is Jesus our Lord! What a majestic Lord who leaves nothing to chance, but in and of Himself He mediates our position in the Beloved. Now are we the sons of God!