The Purity of the Lord Jesus Must Never be Overlooked
8/10 Reading Portions: Ruth 3-4; Acts 28; Jeremiah 38; Psalms 11-12
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8/10 Reading Portions: Ruth 3-4; Acts 28; Jeremiah 38; Psalms 11-12
Psalm 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
PURE
In The Treasury of David, Mr. Spurgeon rightly observed,
“What a contrast between the vain words of man, and the pure words of Jehovah. Man’s words are yea and nay, but the Lord’s promises are yea and amen.”
Even among those of us, saved by God’s grace, there is enough corruptions in our mortal flesh, enough avarice in our secret lusts, and enough malice in our hidden prejudices that the words of our mouths cannot compare with the Word of God in Scripture, neither the words spoken by our precious Lord Jesus Christ. Christ’s words were the eternal utterances of heaven— pure, unspoiled, unstained. Jesus Himself was the living Word, the eternal Logos, who was in the beginning with God the Father, and became flesh to dwell among us. Jesus was tried with fire even before He suffered God’s eternal wrath when He hung upon Calvary’s tree; and thus, the KJV, more correctly translates the Hebrew when it says: “as silver tried in a furnace of earth.” Christ Jesus is, was, and evermore shall be pure. He needed not refinement since absolute perfection needs no improvement. But by His enduring God’s trials, tribulation, and temptations, He was tried and proven to be the purest Man to ever live— proof to the god-hating world that the Beloved Son was the pure Prince of Peace, chastised for our sins, iniquities and transgressions. Then afterward, when Jesus suffered God’s holy, eternal, and infinite anger on the cross for sins He did not commit, from our Lord Jesus came forth no slag or dross. Therefore, if we have trusted by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice, the words from our mouths, however misspoken they may be, are purified seven times, not by virtue of our goodness, but because of the perfect purity of Christ placed upon our account. Moreover, we may trust God’s written Word. For in, by, and through Christ’s fulfillment of the Scriptures, it is refined in our minds for our cleansing thereof; and thus, we may trust its purity and security. Though we may not understand every part of it now, its truth will prevail by and by, and ultimately, in pure glory when Christ returns, we shall see Him as He is. Hallelujah! What a pure Savior!