Sufficiency of Christ
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The first song we sang this past Sunday was Amazing Grace.
That song was written by a man named John Newton.
John Newton wrote sevel hymns that we still sing today.
Amazing Grace of course.
Also, There is a Fountain filled with blood.
At the end of John Newton’s life, he became very sick. A man named William Jay, he was a young pastor that John Newton had discipled and helped starting in ministry.
He came to visit him and he brought along a notepad to scribble down just one more piece of advice from John Newton.
John Newton, was so sick and elderly that he couldn’t muster much else in the way of advice. But William Jay did get one last sentence from John Newton, and he wrote down the last recorded words from Him.
This is what John Newton said and this is what he wrote down:
“My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.”
I pray we can all relate to the second statement.
I know we can all relate to the first. We are all great sinners.
That should make us all the more captured and captivated by the greatness of Christ and the wonderful merciful Savior that he is.
We spoke this past Sunday about Christ from Hebrews 1.
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
We learned a few things.
He is the highest revelation. God has most clearly and fully spoken in Christ. That which the Old Testament foretold, Christ fulfilled. So to grow, we study Christ.
Peter wrote in his letter.
2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2. He is the heir of all things, and we are co-heirs with Christ.
3. He is the creator over all, and we are submit to Him because he is the creator and we are the creation.
4. He is the sustainer of all things. We trust in Him.
Jesus, because he is all of that and more is our all sufficient Savior.
Nothing can be added to Christ’s work or his sacrifice to make it more anything. In him all our guilt, our sin and our spots, are made right.
This comforts us. The all sufficiency of Christ should comfort us.
We are the bride of the Lord of all the Earth. We can lay down and sleep well at night.
Christ is all to us.
John Newton.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast;
’Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary rest.
Dear name! the rock on which I build,
My shield and hiding place,
My never failing treasury filled
With boundless stores of grace!
By Thee my prayers acceptance gain,
Although with sin defiled;
Satan accuses me in vain,
And I am owned a child.
Jesus! my shepherd, husband, friend,
O prophet, priest and king,
My Lord, my life, my way, my end,
Accept the praise I bring.
Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought;
But when I see Thee as Thou art,
I’ll praise Thee as I ought.
Till then I would Thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath,
And may the music of Thy name
Refresh my soul in death
Jesus is all of that to us.
Jesus! my shepherd, husband, friend, O prophet, priest and king.
Our Shepherd who leads us.
Our Husbands who cleans us and presents us before the Father.
Our Friend- our advocate.
Our Prophet- He speaks to us the clearest Words of God
Our priest- He makes sacrifice for and brings us near to the Father’s throne.
Our King- He has conquered and everything is in subjection to him. Through the cross the King has won.
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.