Sermon 2705 - To Be A Worm And Crawl.....(Sun am 7/13/2008)

TO BE A WORM AND CRAWL.....(SUN AM 7/13/2008)
Matthew 11:28-30 mentions two kinds of rest. There is rest that we receive by gift, and there is rest that we find by growth or work. To find rest means that we are looking for something. To find something means that we have to work for it. The rest that Jesus gives is the rest of a worm. It is the crawling rest of an infant, a baby. An infant is a child that cannot walk. If we think we can walk up and down the Cross, we are wrong. The only ones who get on the Cross are the crawlers. The Psalmist said, “[I] am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people” (Psalm 22:6). He was speaking prophetically of how the Son of God felt when he was hanging on the Cross. Jesus Christ crawled with all Humility up to the Cross.

The Worm, Jesus, is meek outside and lowly inside, and He feeds on the Blood. The first thing the worm does is to feed, by faith, on the Blood on the outside of the Cross. There are things that we can get victory over from all other places of the Cross, by standing under the Cross. But there are some parts of the Blood that never flowed under the Cross. The wood soaked it up. There is a Blood in the wood of the Old Rugged Cross that we can crawl on and get the victory! We can know about the Principle theoretically, but that does not mean that we have crawled and inherited it. Jesus said, “[V]erily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). Except we become as a little child, a crawling child, we will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, the Father’s Kingdom.

The ticket into the Father’s Kingdom is to be little, crawling, and helpless. The lowly side of Jesus, which is the Father’s side, goes inside the Cross through the nail holes in His Hands and His Feet. This principle was pictured in type and shadow by the pillars in the Mosaic Tabernacle. The pillars were grounded in brass, which was a picture of the Knowledge of His Love. They were anchored with cords of Love and covered with silver, picturing His redemption. When our pillar is grounded in this Knowledge, we become a nothing. We have no head; it is covered up. We have no body; it is covered up. We have no feet; they are covered up. The only arms we have are His Arms of Love that first go down to the ground, anchored in the nail holes.

Jesus is our Table at all times, in all things, and in all situations. He is all in all. We have to be lowly in order to learn of Christ’s lowliness and to enter into the nailprints. There is Blood there when we work to get the Blood inside the holes of the Cross, and inside the hole for the Feet. It is the same principle of the pillars.