For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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the manna wasn't defiled by the earth Jesus was pure and sinless the manna was sweet to the taste and the psalmist says taste and see that the Lord is good the manna had to be taken and eaten and Christ tells us that we are to eat of the true bread of heaven manna was sufficient for one million Israelites wandering in the wilderness and can I tell you today that Jesus Christ is sufficient for anyone in the middle of your wilderness today. He alone will satisfy and he alone will sustain you. I read a story just as we close and we're gonna get to take communion together in response. I was reading a story. Many of you in Atlanta, you know the road Charles Allen. I used to live off of that road but never really knew who he was. Well, he was a pastor in Georgia in the late 40s, all through the 50s and into the 60s, led one of the largest congregations in the state. …
I remind you once more, Beloved, that, you have received CHRIST. It is true that you have received His Doctrines and that you still believe them. It is true that you have received His precepts and that you have obeyed them, though, alas, your obedience has been far from perfect. It is true that you have received His ordinances and that you have conformed to them by being baptized on profession of your faith in Him—and by sitting down with your fellow Believers at His Table. But, after all, the main point is that you have received Jesus Christ, Himself! Every word that He has spoken is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, but sweeter far are the lips with which He uttered those words! Every command of His is to be esteemed more highly than the finest of fine gold, but as for the King who gave those commands, "He is altogether lovely." Human language cannot describe Him and yet you have received Him—His very Self—you have received into your hearts to dwell there as your only Lord and Master. You have received Him as your life, for you live through Him. And you receive Him day by day as the Bread of Life upon which your soul feeds and as the Water of Life which quenches the thirst of your soul. You have not merely received His offices, His gifts, His Grace, His promises, but you have received Him! He is the center of your confidence, the target of your hopes! The text says that you have received "Christ Jesus the Lord." Here are three out of His many names and, first, Beloved, you have received Him as Christ, the Anointed of God. You see in Him no amateur Savior, uncommissioned—but One sent by the Father, the authorized Representative of the Most High—the Christos, the Messiah, the Sent One, who could rightly apply to Himself the ancient promise, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." Christ came to this world because the Father sent Him. He said to the Jews, "I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." He lived and died here because it pleased the Father for Him to do so. And He is still appointed by the Father to distribute unnumbered gifts to His people. "It pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell." You believe that upon Christ, the Spirit rests without measure, that He is anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows, and in receiving Him as the Anointed One, you also have an unction from the Holy One and, therefore, you also are anointed to be kings and priests unto God. So you have received Him as Christ, the Anointed. …
He who has ears to hear this word of God, let them hear it. You may be seated. Let us pray. Oh God, this text. is so rich. And we are so poor. It is so strong, and we are so weak. It is so deep, and we are so shallow. How can we understand these things unless You open them by the illumination of Your Spirit? And so we ask for that even now. Amen. This week I got a letter from a woman who said in the letter that she had been subscribing to Table Talk magazine for many years and has been diligently reading through the daily Devotions, and this year, 2002, the Daily Devotions have been based upon a commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans written by the late James Montgomery Boyce. The woman on to say in her letter that she read the pages covering the doctrine of predestination, And she said, I want to cancel my subscription. I will no longer read that magazine because I don't believe in predestination. …
It is well to travel girt with this shoe ofpeace with all mankind. "If it is possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men." It is barely possible, but aim at it—and if you do not perfectly succeed, try again. Unconverted men will not love your religion, for they are carnal. That you cannot help, but you must love them, carnal as they are, and by degrees you may win them to love both you and your Lord. If they will not live peaceably with you, yet give them your love and live peaceably with them. Be not easily provoked. Bear and forbear, forgive and love on, return good for evil, seek to benefit even the most unthankful and you will travel to Heaven in the most pleasant possible manner. Hatred, envy and persecution may come, but a loving spirit materially blunts their edge and oftentimes inherits the promise, "When a man's ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him." If you have to feel, "Now, I am going this part of the journey with the view of avenging a wrong," you will not journey pleasantly or safely! But if from the depth of your soul you can say, "When Christ made peace with God for me, He made peace between me and my bitterest foe," you will march on like a hero! Travel through the world as a sincere philanthropist, with your feet shod with love to all born of woman and your course will be happy and honorable. God grant us that loving spirit which comes of free Grace and is the work of the Holy Spirit, for that is a mystic sandal which gives wings to the feet and lightens a weary road. …