We have a long one today. 3 paragraphs to try to explain 2 verses, and most likely doing a poor job at it. I pray God filters these words and reveals what it pleases Him to you within the His words. May He be our teacher and us His humble students.
Only one link today for further studying if any are interested. I mentioned below a sermon I listened to by Todd Nibert a Pastor from Kentucky. I decided to link a similar article I have posted of my Gleanings of Grace blogspot that he wrote. “Are you Faithful?”
Jhn 8:50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Jhn 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
- Who does the seeking?
- What is it to keep my saying in verse 51?
It is amazing to see how God uses other verses to expound and illuminate what we read. I just heard a sermon on I Kings 19:15-21 which revealed these verses we study today. I guess if we think about it shouldn’t surprise us much. For not only could God use the words of a mule to humble us but in reading His Word it all points to the revealed gospel no matter where you are in the Bible. Everything, every word, points to Christ.
“There is One that seeketh..” I heard it said (in the sermon I just listen to by Todd Nibert), that religion is a man seeking Christ, and the gospel is God seeking and finding a man. How true this is and should stand to humble us and cause us to rejoice and praise the Lord. Much like we capitalize He or His when referring to our Lord, “there is One”. There is One that seeketh, there is One that findeth, there is One that calls, there is One that justifies, and there is One that judgeth. In I kings it was Elijah (Hebrew meaning God of Jehovah) who was sent to find Elisha (Hebrew meaning one who believes of Jehovah)
And those that He seeks, He finds, and they harken to His voice and come. And they shall keep His saying. They shall believe. Not to believe that merely that He is God, for the devil believed that, but believe in what God has promised. To believe in what God has said, believe that it is finished. To keep His saying is to hold it and believe what He has stated as truth. And they that believe, believed because there is One that seeketh and findeth. And those that do not believe they were never His sheep and there is One that cometh and judgeth.
(Gal 3:22) “But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.”
