Fri.-Sabbath, 3/22-24/19 Devotion

Praise God—Sunday is *almost* here! In order to help prepare us for the church's worship of God, here is Thomas Watson, from his "The Beatitudes" book:

"The Preacher: Jesus Christ. The best of preachers. ‘He went up.’ He in whom there was a combination of virtues, a constellation of beauties. He whose lips were not only sweet as the honeycomb, but did drop as the honey-comb. His words, an oracle; His works, a miracle; His life, a pattern; His death, a sacrifice. ‘He went up into a mountain and taught.' Jesus Christ was every way ennobled and qualified for the work of the ministry.

"Christ was an intelligent preacher. He had ‘the Spirit without measure,’ (John 3:34); and knew how to speak a word in due season; when to humble, when to comfort. We cannot know all the faces of our hearers. Christ knew the hearts of His hearers. He understood what doctrine would best suit them, as the [farmer] can tell what sort of grain is proper for such-and-such a soil."