room saw 54 end of this month october 27th
28th and 29th i'll be at the conference and taylor arkansas Louisville. I can't remember
which one. Where Darwin is. I'll be in Arkansas preaching
and stay in Texarkana. It's close to wherever that is.
The same weekend Chris Cunningham is going to have his conference
in College Grove outside of Nashville. So there's a whole lot of people.
There's going to be six preachers in Arkansas and I don't know
how many Chris is going to have. So that's a whole lot of pulpits
that need to be filled. I can't get nobody to come. They ain't
available. We ought to pray that the Lord
raise up laborers in the harvest, give some young men some unction
of the Holy Spirit to preach throughout this nation and this
world. So I started asking preachers. Pastors, I asked preachers, ain't
no preachers can come, can't. And so I asked pastors to come
and I talked to Bruce Crabtree and he said, I'd love to come
to California, but I'm preaching somewhere else that evening.
He's been preaching Sunday morning at his pulpit and then there's
another gathering that's close. He drives like several other
ones have throughout time, Tom Harding did. Tom Harding drove
Kingsport, Tennessee every Sunday evening for years. And so Bruce
is traveling that evening somewhere else to go preach. So he said
he'd come in February. I said it'd be a warm month.
I haven't seen him come down and stay with us, but I'd like
to be here to visit with him. But I finally got a pastor that's
coming to preach to California. And I'm excited, and I hope you're
excited. Todd Niber's coming, and he's gonna preach the 27th,
he's gonna preach the 28th, and he's gonna preach the 29th. But
we ain't gonna do it in this building, though. You pumped
up? I'm gonna tell you something.
It's close. It's a fifth of the distance that that Ethiopian
traveled to go worship in Jerusalem. Marysville, California. Our brother
Rick Porter. It's close. We ain't even gotta
take a buggy. We ain't even gotta get a horse
saddled up and feed it and take hay with us. You just put a little
gasoline in your car and go. Kimberly's going up there. She'll
be up there with the children. They're going up Saturday morning. But I was going
to call Todd and ask him to come down here. And then I found out
he's already going to be in California. So it's close. I hope everybody's
able to go. And Rick said they're going to
broadcast it anyway. I think audio only. But they're
going to broadcast it. So for those that God hasn't
made willing or able to go, uh tune into that friday night saturday
night sunday night if you want to or tune into i don't think
darvin puts them up on mixler maybe but um tune into the services
in arkansas but anyway brother todd todd's coming to california
i might pick on him a little bit uh psalm 54 i titled this
message save which is important and judge that's important Psalm
54 verse 1 says, save me, oh God, by thy
name and judge me by thy strength. God's going to have to teach
us what that means. A whole lot of commas in there. So we'll
take it in small bites, but save me. God who's saying that well
the man that wrote it's David wasn't that he's the same one
a little shepherd boy He said what's wrong with y'all Goliath
out there. He said just some uncircumcised Philistine what
y'all worried about I'll take care of it God's on his throne He says, later in life, save
me. God teach us what that means.
Who's he talking to? Oh God. What's the method he's
gonna do? What's the means by which? By
thy name. What's the context all this is
gonna take place? I'm giving away a whole, all
my points. What's the context, this saving
that God's gonna do by his name? What's the basis on which this
is gonna take place? judge me justice judgment judge me by
according to your strength that's as just and as judged as it can
get that's in holiness save me in a way that's just and holy
and right There's false gods all throughout this world, and
some of them have Baptist or Calvinist or Reformed or whatever.
Something sounds real good on their church doors out front.
And it's a false god. It's a false gospel, and they
will die and perish in their sins if they make God believe
in them, is that God somehow swept some sin underneath the
rug. Like he's like an old uncle, and we just won't pay no attention
to that. We'll save everybody. Like it's a party. Come over
for some cake. That's blasphemous. To blaspheme
God's name, saying he tried to do something, he didn't do something
injustice. This has to be done in justice. I need to be saved. That's the need of every human
being driving up down that road and saying he ain't gonna count
it. Well, to tell them. There's a need. We need to be
saved by God, through His name and according to justice. This
has to be holiness. This can't be fraudulent. That's
not God. He's a holy God, isn't He? David
says, save me. That's my need right now. How many preachers do you know
that need to be saved? That's my need right now. I need God
to save me. That was my need. It was when
it was right now a few years ago. A few years ago was right
now then. And right now is right now. And
that was when it was right now last week. I could cry this. It was needful. I'll be safe.
When right now was 20 minutes ago. Save me. Old enough to save us, buddy.
He has saved us. Yes. He's going to have to save
us right now. Yes. And he shall save us. He's
going to have to save me in the future. Yes. We call it plum
saved. I'm going to have to be plum
saved. Saved. There's three tenses in
the scripture. People argue this and I ain't arguing nothing. I'm just going to tell you what
the word of the Lord says. He uses his words three different
ways. There's three tenses to saving in the scriptures. Believers,
those put in him, before the foundation of the world and that
covenant of grace, there's a savior before there was ever a sinner.
We have been saved. He's the lamb slain from the
foundation of the earth. He entered that covenant willingly
to die for his people, to live for him, to be risen for him,
to represent them on his throne. It's always happened. Yes. Believers are being saved. We
have been saved. We are being saved right now. It happened when he physically
came to this earth. That covenant was ratified and
come to fruition. However, we want to word these
things. It come to pass. He came to this world. He was
born of a virgin. and looked to be about his father's will
all through childhood. Talk about an easy child to parent.
When he's at his job working, imagine the tables he made. He
was a carpenter. You think him doors were square when he got
through hanging them? Think of his hands. I know his hands were
pierced. Think of the calluses on them. That's a capital M man. That's a manly man. And he hung on that cross. saving
his people from their sins. As a shepherd laid down his life
for his sheep, he did it. He purposed to do it, he did
it. And now, that's before we ever come on the scene. Then
I'm born, 1980 years later, I come on the scene, and then
he comes to me and declares through the Holy Ghost in my heart, abounds
towards me, and you can't get away from it, It's not just irresistible
grace. That's a grace that's irresistible.
And he said, I've saved you. And by me saying, I saved you,
I'm saving you. And then like your last message,
you're going to feel pretty small. I'm going to save you. Till we're
with him. That came to pass, didn't it?
That's happened in the hearts of some of His people. And when
the Lord reveals Himself to us, and He saved us, and He showed
us that He's salvation, and He's commanded the salvation, we don't
say, boy, we got that squared away. All right, what's next? Our jaws ought to drop. Day in
and day out, consider, right? We got some stuff to consider,
don't we? He tells us to. And we cry out when we consider those
things, the things that are bigger than us or smaller than us, and
Him and what He's done, His message He's given us, and one another,
we cry out, save me. Save, Lord. Believers never stop
crying for the Lord to save them. It's not a one and done salvation.
We are being saved. Paul wrote that in Romans 10.
He said, for the heart, with the heart, man believes unto
righteousness. That's not what it says. Man
believeth unto righteousness. That means whenever he revealed
it to me, I believe. And right now I'm believing.
And guess what's gonna happen to you tomorrow? God's gonna make you believe
him. He's gonna speak to you and you're gonna believe it.
Well, you are. That's what he says. With a heart, man believeth unto
righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. And that don't stop either. The
Lord did it. I'm a worm. I'm grass. Behold
your God. Does it change? You get tired
of hearing that? Do I get old hat and you want
to talk about something that happened 20 years ago? That's today. That's to now.
Right now. It was yesterday. It was right
then. That's true yesterday. I'm going to tell you something.
If the Lord keeps this world spinning, guess what's going to happen
tomorrow? His people's gonna believe, and confessions are
gonna be made. For the scripture saith, that means it said it,
and it still says it. Where are they gonna change?
The scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed. Believe it. Turn over to Matthew
14, I wanna look this up. Believers cry out for the Lord
to save them, to keep them. Matthew 14, remember that valley
of dry bones? Ezekiel went down to preach to
them, and they rose up, and sinews laid on the bones, and breath
was breathed into them, and all that. And he said unto me, Son
of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. That's the house
he's built, his body, his church. Behold, they say they have life
in them. Our bones are dried, our hope
is lost. He was dead five minutes ago.
He was a bunch of wadded bones. And God gave you life, and then
that life cries out, I'm lost, help me. Dead men ain't lost. Dead men ain't at war with God.
Now they are, they don't know it. They don't cry that out.
They don't cry out, I surrender. They ain't got enough sense to
know they're in a war. They don't know they got enough
sense to know they're lost. God gave you that sense and gave you that
heart and you cry out and it don't stop. It don't stop. That ain't my
opinion. I'll take the beating for it,
that's fine. Y'all agree with me, but that ain't my opinion. That's Matthew 14, verse 22. Matthew 14, 22. And straightway
Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go
before him unto the other side while he sent the multitudes
away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into
a mountain apart to pray. And when the evening was come,
he was there alone. But the ship was now in the midst
of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was contrary. The
Holy Spirit was doing this. In the fourth watch of the night,
Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples
saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It's the
Spirit. And they cried out for fear. Where were they? In the
boat Almighty God spoke to their ears to get into after he said,
Follow me. Ye believe in God, believe ye
also in me. These are believers. They're scared of spirits and
professional commercial fishermen are scared of a storm. Probably
a pretty bad storm. They're scared to death. But
straightway, verse 27, Jesus spake and said, Be of good cheer,
it's I, be not afraid. And Peter answered and said,
Lord, if it be thou bid me to come to thee on the water. And
he said, come. I wonder what things we asked
to be near to the Lord, we're not near to him because we ain't
asked. I want to be near to you today, Lord. Bring me to your
feet today. He might just say, come, come
on. He said, come. And when Peter
was coming down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go
to Jesus. And when he saw the wind bolters, he was afraid.
When he saw everything going on around him, not looking to
the one that saved him, that was having him come to him, he
began to sink. And he cried, saying, Lord, save
me. Save me, Lord. And immediately, Jesus stretched forth his hand.
Oh, if somebody that wasn't saved, or that needed saved, would call
to him and say, Lord, save. Lord, save me. He ain't going
to give you a six month probationary period and a bunch of doctrine
you got to memorize and a bunch of things you got to know and
a bunch of things. Immediately, he reached forth his hand. If
he put a heart in him to cry out to him and we get to watch
it, I'd be happy with you. Heavens rejoice. I'd rejoice,
too. He would. Immediately, Jesus stretched
forth his hands and caught him and said unto him, O thou of
little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were
coming to the ship, the wind ceased. All their troubles went
away. Then they that were in the ship
came and worshiped him, saying, Of a truth, thou art the Son
of God. That's him. We can agree with a lot of people
that Peter cried out to the Lord. Peter walked on the water. Peter
yelled out, Lord, save me. That's what it says. If you can
read the English language, you know that's what it is. We can
give mental assent to that. We can give agreement that salvation
has been accomplished. We can give agreement that it
is being accomplished and we can give agreement with a bunch
of people in the world that it shall be accomplished. We can
give agreement that God saves people. But who does this concern? God
saved Peter? The Catholic Church calls him
a saint. A whole mess of people believe that God saved Peter.
But who must this concern? I know it's a short text, but
let's turn back to it. Psalm 54. Psalm 54. I want you to focus on one word.
I'll read two of them. Psalm 54 verse one. Save from
eternity past, right now, to eternity future. Save. Who? God's gotta do that, right?
Save who? Me. Save me. Not people that are totally depraved,
this totally depraved person. Not people that fell in the garden,
this one that fell in the garden. Not because of unconditional
election, and that's a fact that there's nothing based in you,
because ain't nothing in me worth basing it on. An irresistible grace. Make it,
it has to be me. Not the person sitting next to
me. I want it for the ones I love. I want it for the ones sitting
next to me. I want it for those inside my own house. It's gotta be one-on-one. Me. Joseph, I really thought all
week out was a message for today. And I got up this morning, I
said, I got great notes, great notes. That ain't God's message.
That's terrifying. The other one was. But Joseph,
whenever he revealed himself to his brethren in Genesis 25,
it said, Joseph could not refrain himself before all that stood
by him. And he cried. Cause every man to go out from
him. He said, get out. Everybody go away. Just me and
these 11 brothers. And there stood no man with him
while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. Now they could
have been, there's 10 million people in that country. I don't
know. They might've just went outside the room or they might've
went to the other side of the room. They was not close to them,
but he dealt with them brethren one-on-one right there with,
got them alone. They might have had 10 stand
next to him, but he dealt with one on one. The Lord gets his people
one on one. You get that? Remember that deaf man? He was
wearing Mark 7. And so they bring him one that
was deaf and he had an impediment in his speech. And they beseeched
him to put his hand on it. He couldn't talk right because
he couldn't hear. Well, if God didn't give you ears to hear, the right
words of his gospel ain't gonna come out of your mouth. And those
that can hear, like, that ain't right. not to judge one another
but like i don't want to hear what they have to say stop taking
advice for people like that and they don't they ain't got enough
sense to stop giving it just stop taking it don't listen to
them they took that man aside from the multitude they brought
this deaf man couldn't talk and this happened more than once
i'll just pick mark seven The Lord took them aside from the
multitude. He said, come on. And those that
brought him said, hey, let's watch you work, boys. Here he
goes. What's he going to do? Stand back. And the Lord took
him aside from the multitude. He put his fingers in his ears
and he spit and he touched his tongue and looked up to heaven. He sighed
and said unto him, Ephthatha, that is, be open. And straightways
his ears were open and the strings of his tongue was loose and he
spake plain, Shibboleth. That happened one-on-one by himself. Now, you come, you sit, and you
hear the gospel preached, and you consider the things that are preached,
and I'm just flinging arrows as hard as I can fling them.
I don't know where they're going to land, per adventure. But the Lord's going
to hit somebody in the heart, and that ain't going to be me
taking them off to the side and taking the arrow and kind of
wiggling it in them. It ain't gonna happen. I've done it a
thousand times. You know, I mean, washing machines, I've sat on
the army and gave little Bible classes. And all of a sudden, we had a
Bible class, a little Bible study in my house. It's a veiled nothing. God saves by the foolishness
of preaching. And he does it one-on-one. I've said that before. I'll close my eyes. What if you
was the only one that showed up today? And I looked you dead in the
eye and I said, I hope God saves somebody in this room this morning. Save. He's about to say, reveal
himself to me today. Me. Me. I can't preach nothing
to you if I ain't lived it. I read ahead sometimes. I'm like,
I don't want to really preach from that song. Or something else. David's
in trouble. I don't want to go through that trouble. That's
all right though. Save me. The Lord's gotta get
somebody by themselves. And they don't walk an aisle, and they
don't make a deal with the preacher, and they don't have some experience.
And people ask me to pray for them, and I wanna pray for them.
You gotta tell me what it is. I want you to pray for me. But
I'm not, I don't have a hotline to the man upstairs, as people
say. I'm a sinner saved by grace. I'm no different. You won't have
to deal with God, God's gonna have to deal with you. That's how it's gotta be. It'll
take place in the preaching of His word. It's gotta be one-on-one. He's gotta do that. It's gotta
be independent. God must save me. Now how? What is it? Save who? Me. How? Psalm 54 verse
1. Save me, O God, by thy name. By your name. Acts 4. I'm gonna turn a little bit.
I'll try to go quick though. I won't keep you too awful long
today. Acts 4. Verse 10. Talk about making it applicable. Where people see people here,
the preacher, the gospelness you talking to me? Yes. God is,
I pray, he's dealing with you independently and me independently.
Look here what was said, what a pointed statement. Be it known
unto all, you all, and to all the people of Israel that by
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by his name, whom you crucified. Ooh, that was fresh. This just happened. That was
the people that did it. They were there. Hope Lord give me boldness to
do that, and the power and strength to do that. Whom you crucified,
whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him doth this man
stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set
at nought of you builders, which has become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is none
other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be
saved. We know that part. What's the
context? You're the builder and you threw him away and you killed
him. And by his name, this one we rejected. That's called pleading
for mercy. Save me from what? Christ came
to save his people from something. Not from making a bad decision,
from their sins. What was our sin? Not believing
God and being at war with him. To not believe him is to hate
him. I crucified him. He was the chief
cornerstone, I rejected him. I was the builder. I didn't want
nothing to do with him. And that's the very one, you
gotta bow down to him, beg, and he says, I'd like to show mercy.
Who's got a God like our God? That God's our God, David said. That's something. Neither is there salvation. David
said, save me, oh God, by thy name. Here in Acts 4, 12, neither
is there salvation by any other, for there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. It's
gotta be by his name. Turn over to John 3. Now this is a very unfamiliar
text, I want you to look at it. John 3. The Lord's talking to
a Pharisee, likely a member of the Sanhedrin. A very religious,
unregenerated man that believed in election. Wholeheartedly. Follow what I'm saying. He has
some strong words to him. John 3, verse 16. Nicodemus, for God so loved the
Gentiles. You get that? Who's the world
to Nicodemus? He was dealing with Nicodemus,
one, on one we have to get the context of this stuff we start
talking about things we don't understand he was dealing with
this pharisee the world to nicodemus was those gentile dogs and god
looked at him and said god so loved gentile dogs and you better
be made one nicodemus god's gonna have to make you a holy spirit's
going to do this work in you to make you see what you are
and this is good news to us i'm a gentile and i'm a dog For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That
gives me a free reigning license to preach to anybody. Anybody. The pulpits or the prisons, it
don't make a difference. The palaces, wherever. Anybody,
because that's his business. I'm just telling you. For God
sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him
is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already. Do you know what that little
half sentence means? Adam fell in the garden, we fell in him.
It was already, we woke up that way. We were conceived in sin,
we come from the womb speaking lies, we're condemned already.
We don't even help in that. We can't charge God with that, that's
our doing. Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
That's believing in his name. Oh God, save me. In your name,
in your name. What's his name? Does that just
mean everybody says Jesus and we're good to go? That's not
the password. That's not what this is. It's not a challenging
password to get through a door. It's to believe him, to believe
his name's his attributes. That's who he is. And there's
not just seven names. There's a whole lot more than
that. He's a God of war. That's his
name. Well, better figure out we're in a battle first. That's
a good thing to realize, isn't it? He's holy. He's just. He
said in Isaiah 9, his name should be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. His name is He Shall Provide.
He healeth thee. We needed healing, didn't we?
Those kinds of conditions. There's things that go with it.
He's present because we didn't used to be with him. He's our
peace because we used to be at war. He's our banner. We're just
waving our own flag. He's my shepherd. That's what
David said, the Lord's my shepherd. Not he's the shepherd or he's
a shepherd. He's my shepherd. And he is, he's the person, and
it's personally, it's to us. He's my righteousness. He is
righteousness, he's the Lord, our righteousness. And the name
whereby she shall be called, the Lord our righteousness. That's a whole lot to a name,
isn't it? That's a whole lot to a name. That's believing on
a name. That means he's all. He's all. What is this name? This Lord,
this King, what's he going to do? She shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his
people from their sins. He's got a people. They're sinful. He's going to save them. He shall. I saved them back in eternity
in that covenant. Yeah, he showed up now. He saved them right now,
and he shall forevermore, and he's gonna keep them. That goes
with it, too. Could you imagine if you go out
in the middle of the ocean and somebody's drowning, and you brought them up to the
boat, and you said, you good, you breathing? Now get back in the
water. You'd go to prison. A false god that the people preaching,
they ought to go to prison. Do it better, maybe the Lord
will teach them something in there. That king's gonna save the people.
What's the context? What are the rules, the situation
of salvation taking place, How can I be saved by the Lord's
name? Me. I know what I am. How? How could this be right? By his
name's sake and for his name's sake. David said in Psalm 54, save me, oh God, by thy name
and judge me by thy strength. Old Bill Dash talking to Job,
he said something right. He had a good question. I wish
people in this day and age would ask this question. I have an
answer for them, and it's a good question to ask. How then can
man be justified with God? How can he be clean that's born
of a woman? How? How could this be? We've established he's not an
unjust God that just sweeps sin under the rug and acts like it
didn't happen. Well, we'll forget about it. He has to be just. He has to be holy. He has to
be right. Turn over to Isaiah 45. Isaiah 45, verse 20. Isaiah
45, 20. Assemble yourselves and come.
Draw near together. That ye are escaped, ye that
are escaped to the nations. They have no knowledge that set
up the wood of their graven images and pray unto a God that cannot
save. Tell ye and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel
together. Who hath declared this from ancient
times? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? And there is no God else beside
me. Ain't nobody like him. What's he like? A just God, does
that come first? That's first. He is a just God. There ain't no other gods like
him. He's the only one. And a savior. There's none beside me. You whittle
it down, pick your poison. There's two religions, there's
two gods in this world. There's God, who is God, and
there's man's imagination, and it's fake. And you whittle it
down. Are they just? Well, that's with the Muslims.
Well, our God, yeah, if we repent, he'll forgive us. Well, what
if you did it again? Well, if we repent, he'll forgive us.
Will we get tired of that? Well, maybe someday, I don't know.
Well, think about a judge on this earth. If somebody killed your
family maliciously, they premeditated, they went in, they murdered your
family in a violent way, and then you went before the judge,
and they said, judge, I'm real sorry about that. He said, well,
just walk free. Uh, no, that ain't justice. That's
kangaroo court, buddy. That's something bad going down.
This ain't right. Man knows that. This God is a
just God. What he does is right. And a
savior. Ain't nobody like Him. Man can't
dream that up. He's holy, just, good, and Savior. He delights to show mercy. He
considers our frame. He pitieth His children. He has
compassion. How? That's what we're getting
at, isn't it? Psalm 85. Psalm 85 verse 9. Surely His salvation. Oh, we could just camp out there
for a little while and understand what that means. I need it. It's His to
give. He commands it. He owns it. It's His. It's His salvation.
Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him, that glory
may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together. His salvation, this holy God,
this just God, it's His. And because of Him, mercy and
truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed. That's something to consider.
When did that happen? Did they have to kiss? Our Lord spoke about an hour
that was to come. And that was his concentration
walking this earth to serve his father. And he said, my hour
has not come. My hour has not yet come. What's wrong with you?
My hour ain't come. He always thought about that
hour. And then the hour came. Was it I can't enter into them
things Three hours three days. I'll tell you what happened.
He was forsaken of God because he said it out loud Our came when all
that we can't do that I can't somebody murder somebody I can't
go down to jail house say I killed him now I mean I didn't he did
it but I'll just take that I can go set in a cell phone I guess
but I can't take guilt His people they're seeing their guilt was
laid on him. I And his righteous, his acts
of a holy nature on this earth and the holy nature that he is,
we were made that. And it was just. That ain't my
salvation. I can't do that. That's his salvation. He's a just, he's a savior. It's
his plan. People talk about God's plan
for salvation. They talk about this. Christ became me. That's why
his face was so more, his mama didn't even know him. Looked
like Kevin Thacker. and I was made him, and God turned his
back on God. And that blood was so valuable
and effectual, and the work was so done. There ain't nothing
to put onto it. It was finished to a point that
it was just and holy, and we're saved. Save me, oh God, by thy
name, and judge me. Judgment satisfied. Is that what
the Holy Ghost comes and does? Convict of sin. Well, I smoked
a cigarette one time when I was 13. No, you didn't believe on
me. Oh, unbelief sin. Because that comes from pride,
doesn't it? I think I'm right and he's wrong. Righteousness. That ain't me. Him. It has to be him. And I'm going
to have to be made him. And he's going to have to be made me.
And I don't really know how that works, but I'm going to need him. He's
going to have to do it of judgment. He said it's finished. Do you
believe him? Somebody telling somebody else go get underneath
the law. I want to ask him when Christ said it's finished. You think
he's lying We said stop That cross that's
the error. That's the payment. That's the
transaction. I don't it ain't something legal and I we just
ain't got no words to describe it We're gonna sing about it
an eternity. I can tell you that It took place. He purposed it before time. He
brought it to pass and that's what he reveals in the hearts
of his people. I God's saved a people and he's just in doing
so. He's holy. Some people believe
in a sovereign God and that God's terrifying. He's a monster that
they conjured up. There's a holy God that's sovereign. He shall save his people from
their sins. That's what, on that road to Emmaus, they were so
downhearted. And you hear, me too, I'm glad
Lord recorded that. You hear about these, go read
Matthew 27. How does that make you feel? Sure he is. That'll break your heart, won't
it, buddy? That was me. I ought to have been there. And
them two was walking that road to Emmaus, and they had their
heads down as their hearts was tore out of them. And he walked
with them. God walked with them. He said,
I will walk in them. That's what his words said. He
said, oh, fools. God called him a fool. You ever
been foolish? I have. O fools, and slow of
heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not
Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His
glory?" That's what he came to do. And he did it! Ain't this right? And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, he expounded unto them and all the scriptures the
things concerning himself. I'd pray that robe was a little
bit longer, wouldn't you? I want to hear him now. Popping by in
the head that's talking, too. Gosh, he's talking. When he reveals himself, who
he is, when he reveals in the same time, hand in hand, whatever,
what we are, our need of it. Here's it reveals it what he
did and this amazing salvation is just unspeakable And he did
it and it's done and he saved us He's and he saved he saved
me and he's gonna save I Can't do it. Well, we're learning on
Wednesday nights and John he kept them and I kept them and
That means he kept us from killing ourselves and being alone, and
he's kept us from running away. We ain't escaping. That's good
news. Then we cry out, Psalm 54. When Christ is revealed, just
like those dry bones, once life's put in, we cry with David. Save me, O God, by thy name,
and judge me by thy strength. That's a good thing to say. Believers ought to say that.
Because believers will say that. And I ain't going to get old.
If the Lord saves us today and reveals himself to us and what
his name is and everything he's done is in perfect, total justice,
this is right. Justice demands that we're saved.
That's good. You know what's going to happen
Tuesday morning at 9.17 a.m.? ? They're gonna need him to save
us, ain't it? Tell me about that name one more
time. Was it Just? Judged in strength. Whose strength?
His strength, isn't it? That's amazing. All right. Observe his table. If he's revealed
himself, that's all we can't remember somebody you ain't met.
That's all I got to say about the Lord's table. You can't remember
somebody you ain't met. He's got some strong words against
that, don't he? Brother Andre. If you and Trevor come hang out
to Elements, I'd appreciate it.