Worth Infinitely More Than Millions of Worlds!
Christ is worth infinitely more than all creature-enjoyments, and believers can live a peaceful, joyous, and glorious life by living on God.
Anne Dutton preaches about the infinite worth of Jesus Christ, emphasizing that true happiness and fulfillment can only be found in Him, not in earthly possessions or creature-enjoyments. She encourages believers to seek God in all things, to live joyfully as children and heirs of God, and to trust that God will always provide for their needs according to His riches in glory. Anne Dutton reminds her audience that God is the full fountain of life and bliss, and that living upon Him in faith will lead to a peaceful, joyous, and glorious life, both in this world and in eternity.
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My Dear Sister in Christ,
Your Beloved is yours and you are His, and what can you want or desire more? Your one Lord Jesus is worth infinitely more than millions of worlds, were there so many! Oh, what little, uncertain, dying things, are all creature-enjoyments! Not a drop of refreshment can we find in them, unless the Creator fills them, and communicates of His own fullness through those pipes of conveyance; and yet, how prone are we to seek after creatures as if our happiness were in them! Ah, foolish we, to "forsake the fountain of living waters, and hew out to ourselves cisterns--broken cisterns--that can hold no water!" Were every pipe broken and every cistern dry, the Lord--the full fountain, the overflowing ocean of our life and bliss--would never fail. There is a river of love, life, and glory in God, the streams whereof, through Christ, by the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, shall make glad the hearts of the citizens of Zion.
My dear sister, God, our kind Father, takes away the creatures from us that we may learn to live upon Himself as our present and eternal All; and not a soul that has Him for a well, while passing through the valley of Baca, of tears, shall ever lack supply of life and joy. A believer can never lack anything, languish and die in his spirit for lack of any good thing, unless he goes out of the bosom of Christ, where he has all things--to hunt for supplies among the creatures where there is nothing. Blessed is that soul that seeks God in the creatures it desires, that lives upon God in the creatures it enjoys, and that makes life a peaceful, joyous, glorious life out of God--or rather, that lives peacefully, joyfully, gloriously in Him when the creatures fail--for surpassingly excellent, sweet and soul-satisfying is God in all--is God in Himself.
O for more faith to live upon Him, and to Him, in all things that He gives us, and in what He withholds or takes from us; for our God will supply all our needs, according to His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.
Don't you see, then, my dear sister, how well you are provided for? Oh, live joyfully, as a child of God--and heir of God--for no good thing will He allow you to lack--and soon He will bring you to His great, His glorious, His eternal Self! Your God, your all-supplying God, will be with you in every strait, to the last moment of your stay on earth, and then He will bring you home, to be forever with Him in heaven, where, in His immediate presence, and seated at His right hand, He will bless you with fullness of joy, and make you drink of the river of His pleasures for evermore!
Sermon Outline
- I. The Value of Christ
- A. Worth infinitely more than all creature-enjoyments
- B. The source of all true happiness and satisfaction
- II. The Dangers of Seeking Happiness in Creatures
- A. Creatures are uncertain, dying, and unable to satisfy
- B. We are prone to seek after creatures as if our happiness were in them
- III. The Sufficiency of God
- A. God is the full fountain of living waters
- B. God will supply all our needs according to His riches in glory
- IV. The Importance of Living on God
- A. We must learn to live on God as our present and eternal All
- B. A believer can never lack anything unless they go out of the bosom of Christ
Key Quotes
“Your one Lord Jesus is worth infinitely more than millions of worlds, were there so many!” — Anne Dutton
“Blessed is that soul that seeks God in the creatures it desires, that lives upon God in the creatures it enjoys, and that makes life a peaceful, joyous, glorious life out of God--or rather, that lives peacefully, joyfully, gloriously in Him when the creatures fail--for surpassingly excellent, sweet and soul-satisfying is God in all--is God in Himself.” — Anne Dutton
“Our God will supply all our needs, according to His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.” — Anne Dutton
Application Points
- We must learn to live on God as our present and eternal All, and not seek happiness in creatures.
- A believer can never lack anything unless they go out of the bosom of Christ.
- We can trust God to supply all our needs according to His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.