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“ A most comforting & consoling sermon ”
“The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary;” Is. 50:4a
Indeed to you has this gift been given Pastor Pickett . . for this message was truly just that “word in season” for this weary pilgrim!
For our time of fellowship last evening, we listened to this sermon. Though in our household there is much by way of affliction because of chronic health problems, this comforting sermon was the very balm of Gilead prescribed by the Great Physician himself, suited to our peculiar condition and circumstances, in order to the reviving of our spirits, the cheering of our hearts, and the strengthening of our frail and feeble frames. (1 Pet. 1:7-9; II Cor. 4:17-18) As one diagnosed with cancer, and no stranger to affliction, this passage in Scripture must oft have comforted and consoled you as well!
Thank you again for showing us more of Christ in this text, as He is pre-figured in the earthly temples built by Moses in the wilderness and those built by Solomon and Zerubbabel in Jerusalem, the combined beauty of which is far and away eclipsed by the Lord of Glory himself! What a beautiful truth is conveyed here in shadows, pointing to the substance found only in Christ! |
