James H. Brookes, that valiant servant of God and teacher of God's Word, formerly ministered. Mr. Gregg is now the pastor of the Elim Chapel, Winnipeg, Canada, and he will address us on the subject, "Hath God spoken?" in order to start off with the foundation of God's own Word for the entire basis of all our teachings and all our conclusions.

HATH GOD SPOKEN?

REV. HARRIS H. GREGG, D.D.

Pastor of Winnipeg, Canada, Presbyterian Church, and former pastor of Dr. James H. Brookes' Church at St. Louis, Mo.

Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Scriptures are our theme this morning, in reply to the question of the topic "Hath God Spoken?" The subject, of course, is the inspiration of the Word of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ fills the eye of God, fills the lips of the Holy Ghost, He fills the mouth of the Word of God; He fills the heart of His church. Our Lord is the only thing that the church is in God's sight, He is its only righteousness, its only holiness, its only redemption, its only foundation, its only way to God. He is all the truth of God. He is our dwelling place, our food, and our blessed hope. Christ is all.

The attention is called, in the first place, to the fact that

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE THEME OF

THE SCRIPTURES

He is the Lord and Seed of the woman in Genesis, the Lord and Seed of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and

Judah. When the Holy Spirit is telling us of the first man, He has our Lord in mind as the Last Man. When He is telling us of the substitute, He has Christ in mind as our Substitute. When He is telling us of Noah, who, on the basis of that sacrifice which pointed to Calvary, takes possession of the renewed earth, He has in mind our Lord Jesus Christ, who, on the basis of His sacrifice for sin, some day is going to take possession of the new earth. When He is telling us of Abraham, the stranger coming from a far country and living a life of faith and having nothing but a grave there, He has in mind a greater Stranger, coming from a farther country, and living a life of faith in this Word in that same land, and getting nothing but a cross. When He is telling us of the miraculous birth of Isaac, his being laid on the altar, and on the third day rising, is a figure of speech; He is thinking of the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus, and the story of His Calvary and His resurrection on the third day. When He is telling us of Israel, a prince of peace with God and man, He is thinking of our Lord. When He is telling us of Jesus, that great Sufferer of the Old Testament, who through suffering entered into His glory again, He is thinking of "the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow." Our Lord is the Lamb of God in Exodus; the High Priest of Leviticus; the Star out of Jacob in Numbers; the Prophet like unto Moses in Deuteronomy; the Captain of the host of the Lord in Joshua; the Messenger of Jehovah in Judges; our Kins

man in Ruth; the Lord and Seed of David in Samuel; the King of kings and Lord of lords in Kings and Chronicles; the Lord of heaven and earth in Ezra and Nehemiah; our Mordecai sitting on the throne in Esther. In Job, He is our risen Redeemer. In the Psalms, He is just about everything. He is the happy Man of the first Psalm; the Son of God of the second; the Son of man of the eighth, under whose feet some day all of creation shall be placed; the risen Man of the 16th Psalm; the persecuted Man of the 22d; the Shepherd of the 23d; the King of glory of the 24th; our Saviour in the 51st; the King of the 72d; our great High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, of the 110th; the One who leads everything that hath breath in praising God in the 150th Psalm. He is the suffering and then the glorified One in Isaiah; He is the Lord our righteousness in Jeremiah; the Man of sorrows in Lamentations; the Messiah who comes and is cut off in Daniel, getting nothing, and coming the second time as the Son of man in the clouds of heaven and getting everything then. He is our risen Saviour and Son of God in Hosea. He fills each one of the minor prophets. He is the King of the Jews, rejected but risen, in Matthew; the Servant in Mark; the Lord and Seed of the woman in Luke; the Son of God in John; our ascended Lord and Christ in Acts; our Righteousness in Romans; the Firstfruits from the dead in Corinthians; the Authority and Theme of Paul's apostleship in Galatians. He is the Head of the church and Head over all

things to the church in Ephesians; our Lord Jesus Christ in Philippians; the fulness of the Godhead in Colossians; our great High Priest who is passed into the heavens, in Hebrews; and in the Book of Revelation He is the Throne-sitter, now upon a throne of grace, later a throne of judgment, and then the throne of his glory. "In the volume of the book it is written of me," He says, in the 40th Psalm and in the 10th chapter of Hebrews. How familiar our Lord was with the Scripture! When his ministry is recorded in the Gospels, He speaks of creation and of marriage, and refers to Satan in the beginning as we have recorded in the third chapter of Genesis. He speaks of Abel in the 4th chapter of Genesis, He speaks of Noah, He speaks of Abraham, He speaks of Moses, He speaks of David and Elijah, and Elisha, and of John, and of Daniel the prophet. How constantly He used the Scriptures, and always as being the words of God!

Our Lord is not only the Theme of the Scriptures. In the second place, your attention is called to the fact that

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE

OF ITS PERFECT STANDARD

In other words, he lived the Word of God, and His life was as true as that Word of God. That Word of God molded in Him and produced the only perfect, sinless life that there is any record of in the Word of God. He lived it. Were it