Mark 11:3-6 And if any man say to you, Why do you this? say you that the Lord has need of him; and straightway he will send him here.… I. HE WANTS YOU FOR HIMSELF. Jesus loves you; you are to be the compensation to Him for all He suffered. Christ feels incomplete without you. II. HE WANTS YOU FOR HIS CHURCH. The Church is a building; you can never tell what stone the Great Master Builder may require next. It is a family — you complete the circle. III. HE WANTS YOU FOR HIS WORK. IV. HE WANTS YOU FOR HIS GLORY. When the Lord wants anything you will let Him have it. 1. Your money. If He takes it you will know that He had need of it. 2. Death. He has need of those dear to us. There is great comfort in the fact that when Christ sent to appropriate what was indeed His own, He sent also the constraining power of His own grace to overrule that it might consent to the surrender. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. |
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