“Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.” Luke 24:45
Blessed opening, when He that hath the key of David puts in his hand by the hole of the door and opens our heart to receive his own word. Then when we go to the Word of Truth, after it has come to us, our fingers drop with sweet-smelling myrrh upon the handles of the lock.
It is said that “the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.” O, to hear the voice of the Son of God in our hearts! Surely it shall make our dead hearts, cold frames, withering hopes, dropping love, dying faith, languishing prayers, and fainting minds live; yea, revive as the corn and grow as the vine.
What is all religion without a divine beginning, middle, and end, commencing, carried on, and accomplished with a heavenly power, supernatural life, and spiritual function? Well may we be ashamed and sick of, and sorry for all our thoughts, words, and works, all our knowledge and profession that have not stood, or do not stand, in the power, teaching, and wisdom of God. All our talk has been but vain babbling, our prayers lip-service, our preaching wind and vanity, our profession hypocrisy, our knowledge the worst kind of ignorance, and all our religion carnality or delusion, if they have not been divinely communicated. Sir Isaac Newton, the wisest philosopher, is said to have remarked to one who congratulated him on his knowledge, “I have been like a little child on the sea-shore taking up a little water in a shell when the vast ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.”
Much more may a spiritual man feel how little, how nothing he knows of the unsearchable riches of Christ, and the boundless stores of wisdom hid in them.
To my brethren that believe they have all the answers and truth about where the church stands and is going, think again because unless you freely give your spiritual insights are clogged and you cannot see afar. You are stuck in your self, believing that you the buck stops at you. I say to you this morning that you have not tapped into the canopy of God’s knowledge until you fully surrender to Him. Think on these words and the others that are living the myth.
THE MYSTICAL COURT 