My God and My Country

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:6 (GNV Translation Ed. 1599)

Jesus said unto him, I am that Way, and that Truth, and that Life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6 (GNV Translation Ed. 1599)

Greetings friends in the name of Jesus Christ

Today’s post (edited by RPW Sr.) is taken from Matthew’s Bible Commentary. It is a very useful and insightful book. 

We have here a further account of that covenant of grace which is made with us in Jesus Christ, both what is required and what is promised in the covenant, and of those considerations that are sufficient abundantly to confirm our believing compliance with and reliance on that covenant. This gracious discovery of God’s good-will to the children of men is not to be confined either to the Jew or to the Gentile, to the Old Testament or to the New, much less to the captives in Babylon. No, both the precepts and the promises are here given to all people. 

Christ, having set the happiness of heaven before them as the end, here shows them himself as the way to it, and tells them that they were better acquainted both with the end they were to aim at and with the way they were to walk.  Christ is the way, the highway spoken of in, Isaiah. 35:8. Christ was his own way, for by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Hebrews. 9:12), and he is our way, for we enter by him. By his doctrine and example he teaches us our duty, by his merit and intercession he procures our happiness, and so he is the way. In him God and man meet, and are brought together.  He is the beginning, the middle, and the end. In him we must set out, go on, and finish. As the truth, he is the guide of our way; as the life, he is the end of it. He is the true and living way. There are truth and life in the way, as well as at the end of it. He is the true way to life, the only true way; other ways may seem right, but the end of them is the way of death.

A fallen mankind must come to God as a Judge, but cannot come to him as a Father, otherwise than by Christ as Mediator. We cannot perform the duty of coming to God, by repentance and the acts of worship, without the Spirit and grace of Christ, nor obtain the happiness of coming to God as our Father without his merit and righteousness; he is the high priest of our profession, our advocate.