{"id":11636,"date":"2013-10-13T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:15","slug":"64-an-exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2013\/10\/64-an-exposition\/","title":{"rendered":"64 An Exposition: Preaching Good Tidings Unto The Meek"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.\u201d\u2014Isaiah 61:1-3<\/em><\/p>\n

What a divine cluster of immortal blessings rests in the Man Christ Jesus; and how blessed it is for poor sinners that he is appointed to give them these blessings and is filled with the Spirit without measure, that he might give them in measure to such poor vile sinners, loathsome sinners, God dishonoring sinners as we; and his blessed Majesty has to deal out these blessings to these poor sinners. However men may despise these poor hobbling creatures, the Lord will find them out, in some corner or another. God’s method is to deal out his pity to these poor, forlorn creatures.<\/p>\n

Now, if the Lord has given you to feel something of the blessedness of these three verses, when you come on a death bed you will out shout angels and triumph in the mysteries of the cross.<\/p>\n

Who shall be redeemed priests? Why, these poor hobbling creatures, these poor captives, these sin-sick souls\u2014they shall be named Priests; and God the Spirit shall so direct them that he will show them the mysteries of the cross. God’s method is to take these poor creatures from the dust and the beggars from the dunghill; he lifts them up and he rejoices over them.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor your shame ye shall have double.\u201d \u201cAh!\u201d says some poor soul. \u201cI am afraid I shall have double confusion and condemnation; for I feel so much boiling-up of my inward sins that I am almost distracted.” Notwithstanding all this, and all the shame and confusion that it produces, still the Lord says, \u201cYe shall have double.\u201d Double of what? A double knowledge of God’s method of salvation; first, that all the human race were ruined and that he came into the world to save sinners; and, next, that he came to save you. You shall have this double in your land here, and instead of confusion you shall rejoice in your portion, and everlasting joy shall be your portion hereafter. Dear forlorn child of God, can you have a better double than this? And are you not often ashamed, when you think of God’s goodness and your sinfulness? Well. Some commentators say this should read, \u201cFor your double shame you shall have a double inheritance.\u201d The greater your shame, the greater will be your rejoicing when the blessing comes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,\u201d &e. These poor broken-hearted sinners, men despised,\u2014this obscure family, is the seed which the Lord hath blessed. Yes, and their enemies shall see it and acknowledge it too. And when God makes this manifest you will be enabled to say with Isaiah, \u201cI will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has the Lord the Spirit brought this feeling into your hearts and consciences? Since I saw you last, I have been laid on a bed of affliction. But while there, I was brought to feel that he had wrapped me up in his righteousness; and he passed the sentence of death so on self and all connected with self, that I felt no solid pleasure out of Christ. I want nothing else. Let others have what they may, I want to be wrapped up in Christ’s righteousness and to feel the mysteries of redeeming love.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.\u201d\u2014Isaiah 61:1-3 What a divine cluster of immortal blessings rests in the Man Christ Jesus; and how blessed it is for poor sinners that he is appointed to give them these blessings and is filled with the Spirit without measure, that he might give them in measure to such poor vile sinners, loathsome sinners, God dishonoring sinners as we; and his blessed Majesty has to deal out these blessings to these poor sinners. However men may despise these poor hobbling creatures, the Lord will find them out, in some corner or another. God’s method is to deal out his pity to these poor, forlorn creatures. Now, if the Lord has given you to feel something of the blessedness of these three verses, when you come on a death bed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[876],"tags":[1225,1224,1226],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-gadsby-sermons-complete","tag-discipleship","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}