Don't Settle For a Vague Understanding of Christ | Clip from Servant Song VI

A Clear and Precise Knowledge of Christ

Now as we bring these songs to a close just a couple of words of advice. Do not settle for a vague Understanding of the person of your Savior or his work. Think of the person. Why not make it your goal to get to know the Lord Jesus Christ the God man.

Why not make it your goal to know him better than you know any other person. What about his work? Get acquainted with the fine print of the New Covenant. I mean grab it like a greedy miser would grab up a Document that explains your inheritance and all the ways that you will get it and when you will get it and how much There is and where does it come from and and you just read it over and over and over.

Come to the New Testament. Wrestle with these words. Go back to the Old Testament and see the foreshadowings. But do not leave the scripture alone. Crash against its chapters until it yields its riches to you.

Particularly all that Christ is and has done for you. Sin does not come with kind of vague generalities. Temptation comes. Very precise. It's high-def. It comes to allure us and when our conscience accuses us before God when we do sin.

It's not just generalities it's very specific and if you want to have a cure for temptation if you want the cure for despair and Despondency, it's going to have to be an equally clear view of the glorious person and work of your Savior.

Isaiah’s Four Songs and the Need for a Clear View

So don't settle for anything less and Go back now and take time and let Isaiah walk you through these four songs again until you too. Like Richard roll from the medieval English Church said until you to find yourself singing What you once only spoke.

Spurgeon on Not Settling for a Shadowy Christ

Can I close these four songs with a quote by Spurgeon? It's a quote we've used before but perhaps you don't remember it or haven't heard it. Spurgeon said this my soul never be satisfied with the shadowy Christ.

I Cannot know Christ through another man's brains. I cannot love him with another man's heart and I cannot see him with another man's eyes. I am so afraid of living in a second-hand religion. Lord save us from having borrowed Communion.

No, I must know him myself. Oh God. Let me not be deceived in this. I must know him on my own account. Thank you for watching the clip. We hope that it was helpful for you. If you want to hear the full audio of that podcast, you can find it on any of your favorite podcast apps.