Matthew 5. I asked the Lord,
after reading this, to give us this day our daily bread. I asked Him to let me feed you in these green pastures of His
Word. Every teacher is not a pastor
or a preacher. but every pastor is both preacher
and teacher. And I'm going to do more teaching
this morning. Our Lord taught the people, His
disciples, this, that He sat down and taught them. Now everyone
has heard this Sermon on the Mount. I mean, most human beings
have at least heard of it and seen some of it. Verse 25 of
chapter 4 says, there followed him great multitudes of people. And verse 1, seeing the multitudes,
he went up into a mountain. Great multitude. But look at
it, verse 1. When he sat down, his disciples
came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them. Do you see who he's talking to? You see that? Look at Luke chapter
6. And I don't want to bring up false religion too much. I
really don't. But a grave error and a terrible
thing that they do is apply the Word of God to everyone. It's
not written to everyone. Our Lord is not speaking to every
human being. He's speaking to His disciples.
Look at it. In Luke chapter 6, you have this.
A shorter version of the Sermon on the Mount, much shorter. Verse
17, you remember this, we preach from this. He came down with
them and stood in the plain. He just called His disciples
right before this. Peter, James, John, Matthew. He came down with them and stood
in the plain in the company of His disciples. A great multitude
of people came out from all over. They came to hear Him, be healed
of their diseases. They were vexed with unclean
spirit and they were healed. The whole multitude sought to
touch him and went out in virtue of him. And he healed them all.
He was so good, so kind. He healed all that had need of
healing. But verse 20, and he lifted up
his eyes on his disciples. Do you see that? Do you see that? Yes, you see that. Blessed are
your eyes. They see that. That says exactly
what it says, doesn't it, brother? His disciples. And he went on
to say blessed, blessed, blessed are you. Now his eyes are on his people. His children. The eyes of the
Lord run to and fro, Scripture says, throughout all the earth.
The eyes behold, the eyelids try. But His eye of love and
mercy and grace is upon His people. You parents, I know you've gone
to a school function, and there'd be a multitude of people, of
children, like the band, and there'd be a multitude of them,
and you don't hate children at all. and you have compassion
on them, you wish them well, but who are you looking at? Who do you love? Everything you
have belongs to them, doesn't it? If only they knew. Not everybody,
but them. His eyes were on his disciples,
his eye of mercy, of love, of grace. His tender mercies were
over all his work, but his eye, his love, his eternal saving
purpose, his covenant, his promises are for his people, his children. Now look at our
text in chapter 4, verse 30, or verse I'm sorry, chapter 5, verse 45. He says that ye may be the children
of your Father, which is in heaven. Children of the Heavenly Father.
Father's children. That's who this is for. Okay? He calls them in verse 6, I'm
sorry, chapter 5. In chapter 5, verse 13, look
at it. He says ye are the salt of the
earth. See that? Look at verse 14. He of the light of the world. They have the light of the knowledge
of the glory of Christ in them. They're not in darkness, even
as others. Right? Is it clear to you who
he's speaking to here? They're not in darkness, even
as others. First Thessalonians 5.4 talks about the children
of darkness, children of light. They've been called out of darkness
into his marvelous light, 1 Timothy 2.9. This is for his children. Verse 16, he says, let your light
so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in heaven. Men and you, you and them. All through here, you and them.
Do you see that? Do you see that? Verse 16 says, your works, your
good works. Now, both Brother Tom Harding and
Brother Don Bell both preached from Ephesians 2. And I think Brother Rowland was
to preach the next day. He said, I had planned on preaching
from Ephesians 2. You know what it says, don't
you? And you. We're dead. All the children
know these things. They've been raised from death
to life. They've been brought out of darkness into His marvelous
light. His marvelous light. We're not the light. We know
that. Reflect that light. Preach the light. John said that.
He said, I'm not the light. I bear witness of the light. The Ephesians says, You hath
He quickened who were dead. He's quickened us together. It
goes on to say, By grace are you saved through faith. All of God's people. Pardon me
if I do a little preaching this morning. Man, I love this. Don't you? The world doesn't
love you. By grace are you saved. Aren't
you glad? Through faith. And that's not Of yourselves. Brother Tom preached himself. By himself. And Brother Don got
up and preached this. It's not of yourself. You hear
that? Two witnesses. It's himself.
By himself. And Don said, it's not yourself.
It's him. It's faith. Not of yourself.
Not the will of man. Not the decision. Not our choice.
It's his. You know, all the children know
this. John 6, 45, our Lord said, They
shall all be taught of God. That's from Isaiah 54. All thy
children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the
peace. They all come to Christ. They all believe Christ. Listen.
By grace you say, through faith. That's not of yourself. It's
the gift of God. It's not of works. Lest any man should boast. But we're His workmanship. Created
in Christ Jesus unto good work. He does it. It is God that worketh
in us. We don't take credit for it.
We don't even acknowledge good works. Ours. We acknowledge others. And this is what our Lord warns
of here, about praying and giving alms. God's people don't do that. When the Lord commended his people,
brought them into the kingdom, he says, well done, you've visited
me, you've fed me and clothed me and all that. He said, as
much as you've done it to the least of one of these, you've
done it unto me. The point being, those that did it, don't even
remember, don't take credit for it. It's God that worked it. You're the light, you're the
salt, and it's just reflected light. The salt is the gospel,
Christ, that we preach, you see. We're not personally the salt
of the earth, Christ is. But Christ in us is the message,
that you may glorify your Father. Now, ten times it says, your
Father, your Father, your Father. Ten times in this Sermon on the
Mount. Who's he talking to? Are you
with me? He's talking to his children.
Ten times. Now look at Matthew 13. Matthew
13. And we're going to look at what
he said to us here in the sermon in a minute. But Matthew 13,
he told, he spoke in parables. Without a parable spake he not
unto the whole multitude. Seven parables. Perfect. Seven parables. Okay? And without
a parable, he did not speak. And the disciples came, verse
9, the Lord said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. And the
disciples came and said, Why speakest thou unto them in parable?
And he answered and said, Because it is given unto you to know
the mysteries of the kingdom. To them it is not given, it is
hidden from them. Have you ever heard that scripture? He's hid these things. The Lord
himself rejoiced in heaven. The scribes and the Pharisees
and all the religious people, they hated what he said. They
hated him. They hated the truth. They couldn't
understand anything he was saying. And he rejoiced. He said, Father,
I thank you. You've hid these things from
the wise and the prudent and revealed them unto babe. Even
so, Father, it seemed good in thy sight. Wisdom is justified
in virtue. And you, most of you in here,
know these parables. All right, look down at verse
10. I'm sorry, verse 13. It said, therefore I speak unto
them in parables, because seeing they see not. People see the
scripture. Hearing, they hear not. They
hear it, but they don't understand. It's fulfilled in the prophecy
of Isaiah. By hearing, you shall hear, and
not understand. Seeing, you shall see, and not
perceive. This people's heart is waxed
gross, the ears of devil appear, and their eyes they have closed.
Verse 16. Blessed are your eyes, they see. Your ears, they hear. Why? Why do you see? Why do you understand? That's what that means. Why?
Why? Do you know what 1 John 5, 20
says? I quote it once every service. Because the Son of God has come
and given us an understanding. To you, it's given. To them,
it's not given. You're so blessed. Blessed are
your ears. They hear. They hear. You can
preach these things to the wise and the prudent, to a seminary
professor. you can read it, they can read
it with their eyes and see it right there in black and white,
Romans 9, Deuteronomy, and they'll twist it and pervert it and arrest
it and say it doesn't mean that. What do you mean it doesn't mean
that? Plain as a nose on your face, but they can't see. And Thomas it says they turned
their ears from it. Clear? What he said was And one
time he was teaching in Nazareth and says they put their hands
over their ears, stopped their ears. Stephen was preaching.
Stopped their ears. What do you do? Cup your ears. I noticed Betty's back there.
She's wearing two hearing aids. Why are you wearing hearing aids?
You want to hear this, don't you? A man used to come here for years.
It was hard to hear, and he sat on the back row. And he quit
coming. And I went to him and talked
to him. Why'd you quit coming? He said, I can't hear what you're
saying. I said, well, come sit on the front row. Huh? If you want to hear, right? Blessed are your ears. Blessed
is your heart if you want to receive it. Blessed are your
eyes. Now look at verse 24 here of Matthew 13. Look at this. He told this parable. The kingdom
of heaven is like unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field. But while men slept, his enemy
came, sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. Wheat and tares.
Wheat and tares. Wheat and tares. Our Lord talked
about goats and sheep, didn't He? Right? Look down at verse Verse 36, when the multitudes
away, his disciples came and said, declare unto us. Now he
just preached four parables. They wanted to know this one.
They asked him to declare this parable. Declare unto us the
parable of the tares of the field. And he answered, look at verse
37, he that soweth the good seed is the son of man. Did he exist
before he came? Oh, yes. The field is the world. The good seed are the children
of the kingdom. The tares are the children of
the wicked one. Do you see that? Do you see that? One more time, I'm going to bring
up false religion. Without exception, all false religion says, it's
your children that have the thought. Without exception. Every single
denomination says that every single false preach except true
preach they will not say that they will not stand up and say
God is your father God loves you and Jesus loves you. Why?
Because the Bible doesn't say that. Okay. Is that settled? Who's
he talking to? Are you a child of the Heavenly
Father? Are you? Do you want to know? That you may be children of your,
do you want to know? Can you know? Well, what I've
said thus far, what do you think about it? What do you say these
days? Have I said anything contrary
to scripture? Children of the kingdom, children
of the wicked one, one time to, now go back to Matthew five,
Matthew chapter five. One time he was speaking to some
other scribes and Pharisees, and he said, If God were your
father, you would love me. He said, You're not. You're of
your father, the devil. Did he not say that? Is that not plain? It is to us. Why? He's given us an understanding. So right there is first a key
to know if you're a child of God. You understand? He teaches
us all be taught of the Father. God's the teacher and God's the
one who teaches us of Himself, who He is, who God really is,
who Christ is, why He came, what He did, who He did it for, did
He do it, where is He now, what's He doing now? Thy God reigneth. Did you hear that? Brother Greg
preached on it. You're not going to hear that
anywhere else. Maybe in principle, but not fully. All right, here in chapter 5,
he declares, or he describes the children of the Father. And
then he teaches them. Okay? Are you? Look at it. Don't you love this sermon? It's
to you. It's the Heavenly Father. It's
Jesus Christ, both Son and Father. Yes. You believe that? Do you believe
that? That's what he said to his disciples.
He had seen me, he had seen the Father. And he opened his mouth
and taught them, verse 3, blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed,
blessed are the poor in spirit. All God's children know I'm a
nothing, I'm a nobody, I don't have anything, I don't have any
goodness, any righteousness, any knowledge, any merit, any
wisdom, any right, sanctification, redemption. I need, everything
I need is going to be a hand, that's going to be grace. Everything
I need to get to God, for God to accept me, God's going to
have to give it to me, supply it to me, put it on me, put it
in me, do it for me. I'm a babe at best. Blessed. The poor, theirs is the kingdom.
Verse 4, blessed are they that mourn. Over what? Mourn. The
whole world mourns over things. What do you mourn over more than
anything? You see? Don't you? Oh, wretched man that I am. Who
shall deliver me from this body of death? Mourn. Don't you? Huh? Oh, they'll be
comforted. How? The God of all comfort. How? He shows us Christ on the
cross, doesn't He? That put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself. Blessed are they that mourn.
Blessed are the meek. That means they take whatever
is doled out to them. They know that God does it. Good,
ill, whatever it is. Job said to his unbelieving wife,
Shall we receive good from the hands of God and not evil also?
He said, You're talking like a foolish woman. Its infinite
mercy will receive any good. Any evil, we deserve much more.
Right? Do you believe that? All God's
people do. Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness, they'll be filled. Blessed, blessed
are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. That's just
another word for the gospel, isn't it? Christ is our right. Hunger and thirst. He said, those
that eat my flesh and drink my blood, His Word, His person,
His Word. I was going to preach on Psalm
122. I might do that Wednesday. But
I was glad when they said unto me, let's go to the house of
the Lord. Why? Because they go up to the testimony. That's where
they all go to the testimony. They want to hear this gospel
of Christ. They've got to have the gospel.
John, I'm not talking to you. Do you want to hear this again? After all these years, 40, 50
years, again, John? Blessed! There's a blessed man! The whole world blessed this,
blessed this, blessed that. This is the blessing! You know
that, don't you? Spiritual blessing. Oh, God's
people. I was going to turn to Ephesians
1 and read it to you. Well, that's what I'm going to
do. I never get tired of it. Let me just read it to you. Oh,
Paul, by the will of God and Apostle Grace to you. Peace.
to the faithful in Christ Jesus, from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places. Where are they? Say it. In Christ. According as He hath. Number
one. They all know this. They love
this. I'm preaching now. I don't know
how to do anything else. Forgive me, I guess I'm not going
to change. But if you like what I'm saying,
you won't get tired of me. According as He hath chosen us,
Him, before the foundation of the
world. to the praise of the glory of His grace. Hallelujah. Amen. Can I hear an amen? Then your children of your heavenly
Father, all the children know this. They not only know it,
they love it. They believe it. We did not. Our Lord kept telling us, you
did not choose me. I chose you and they knew it.
And they were sure glad he chose them because they would never
have chosen him. Peter would have died fishing.
Matthew would have died collecting his money. And they would have
both split hell wide open. But God. All God's children know. There's
no exceptions. There's no exception. There's
no true preacher. I mean, there's no preacher anywhere.
If he's a preacher sent by God, he stands up and declares his
thanks over and over and over and over until the day he dies
to the glory of God the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
Nothing else. Nothing else. That's what he's
called to do. And you love it to some extent.
All right? Blessed. Go back to our text.
Blessed are the merciful. They obtain mercy. Why are people
merciful? Why is people merciful? They've
obtained mercy. Oh, my. Do you not know, do you
not believe with all your heart that it's of the Lord's mercies
you're not concerned? Isn't it? Aren't you thankful
for sovereign mercy? You know mercy is sovereign,
don't you? By definition, mercy means sovereign. Not getting what you deserve.
So if you don't get what you deserve, it's up to the one you've
offended to show it. It's not up to you. You can't
choose to accept it. That's blasphemous. Blessed. Blessed, verse 8, are
pure in heart. They're not double-minded. Their
heart's been purified. How? John Howard, purified by
the blood of Christ, by faith, not of yourself, it's a gift
of God. Have a true heart, it's unmixed, it's not mixed with
works and grace, it's pure grace. It's not Christ in you, it's
pure Christ. It's not mercy in Mary, it's
pure mercy. Your heart is just grounded and
settled, pure, it's not mixed. It's not double-minded. You're
going to see God. What's your hope of witnesses?
No, you can't see. I guess you will. Our Lord Jesus. God said that. You're going to
see God. And his name is Jesus Christ. Best are the peacemakers. You
know how we make peace more than anything else is we promote the
gospel of peace. Do you hear me? That's our calling. You know
that? Go out with this gospel of peace. That's what the disciples
were sent to do. Go, if the house be worthy, your
peace will be on it. Peace of God. They're called
the children of God. Verse 10, blessed are they that
are persecuted for righteousness sake. Theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Righteousness sake. Whose righteousness? Noah was a preacher of righteousness.
A hundred years he was a preacher of righteousness. Whose righteousness?
Whose righteousness? God's righteousness. Paul said,
I bear them record, my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the
flesh. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. They're ignorant of God's righteousness. Romans 10. And verse 4, he says,
Christ is the end of the law for righteous to everyone that
believe it. They don't believe that, so they
don't have righteousness. They have self-righteousness.
You have righteousness. And you had nothing to do with
it, old prodigal. Hey, prodigal. Prodigal Ron, you had nothing
to do with it. God called you, brought you in, and said, put
that on him. Put that robe on him. You're covered. You're wearing
a wedding garment. And you didn't sew one stitch. The King of Glory did it. You
know that, don't you? There's not a child of God anywhere
that doesn't know that. Not one. Not one. Blessed for righteousness' sake. Persecuted. Theirs is the kingdom. Blessed are you and men shall
revile you and persecute you, say all manner of evil against
you falsely for what reason? For Christ's sake. When you stand
up for the, Martin, you say the kingly rights of Jesus Christ,
The sovereign rights of God to be God, of Christ to be Christ,
the Spirit to be sovereign. You stand up for God as God and
Christ as God and man is nothing but a worm in his hands and you're
going to be persecuted and you're going to be reviled and you're
going to be hated without exception. There's not one single child
of God who stands up for the truth if people don't revile
him and say evil against him. Not one. But they say, well, good things
about the people. He's such a good man. Such a
good man. Not God's people. And they're the salt of the earth.
The world's not worthy of them. As he said, rejoice, be exceedingly
glad. All right? They're blessed. They're
blessed. And then he teaches us the law. He teaches all his people the
law. You've read this. He magnifies the law. Doesn't
it? And makes it honorable. It requires
perfection in thought, motive, word, deed. God looks where? On the heart. It shall be perfect. Who shall ascend unto the holy
hill of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart,
never lifted up his soul unto vanity, or swore to sin. Perfect,
good as God, holy as God. Is that anybody? Well, how are
you going to get to God? Somebody tell me one word. Say
it. You really believe that? Only
hope? Christ is all your hope. You
really believe that? Nothing you do, nothing you think, nothing
you believe, nothing you've ever done? It's not your faith? That's your good intention? Do
you really believe that Jesus Christ is your only hope of eternal
salvation? Piss it off. You're so blessed.
They're all taught the law. What about the law? Guilty. Look at it. Verse 21. Well, verse
17. Verse 17. Chapter 5, Think not I am come
to destroy the law, or the prophets I have not come to destroy, but
to fulfill. Till heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till
all be fulfilled. Down in verse 20, Except your
righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
you're not going to be in the kingdom. You know what he's talking about. That it's not by works of righteousness
which we have done. It's according to His mercy He
saved us. But there's got to be a fulfillment of the Lord,
hasn't there? This is what He... Brothers and sisters, I know
we hear this a lot. And I'm teaching you. And I want you to be able
to know... I want you to know this and be
able to teach others. Okay? There's no exception here. God's people know this. If anybody... thinks they're under the law.
Anybody who's under the law doesn't know God. They don't know the
law. They're not God's children who
are trying to keep the law, to please God, and think they're
doing it because of the way they wear their beard, or monitor,
or whatever, or don't drive certain things. How ignorant can you
be? They're ignorant. That's what I quoted to you.
You're not. Why? He's taught you. He's taught
you that the law is spiritual. We're flesh. And I was going
to turn to Romans, how by the deeds of the law no flesh are
justified. Whatsoever things the law sayeth.
Do you know where that is? Romans 3.19. Whatsoever things
the law sayeth, it saith to them under the law that... Why? Every mouth may be stopped and
all the world become what? Guilty. Guilty. That's a chart. Some
people asked a brother preacher of mine one time, what's your stand on
the law? He said, guilty. That's a good answer, isn't it?
I love this law, but I'm guilty. And I'm not under the law. The law's a curse. God's people
know this. That's why Christ went to the
cross. If righteousness comes by keeping the law, then Christ
didn't need to come. You know that, don't you? Yes,
you do. Why do you know that? Because
Christ taught you, the Holy Spirit taught you, and he sent a man
to teach you this day. The law is against us. Look at
verse 25. And the Lord went on. He said
things like this. Heard it said, Thou shalt not
commit adultery. If you look on a woman, you're
guilty. Isn't it? So verse 25, he says, Agree with
thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him,
lest any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge deliver
you to the officer, and you be cast into prison, and you're
not coming out till everything's paid for, every single crime
you've committed. Every jot and tittle of the law,
you broke it. You're not coming out until it's
paid for. Do you understand that? Melanie Hudson, do you understand?
Charles Wesley, do you understand that? You know how blessed you
are? Your ancestors weren't. Turman
Baptist, they don't believe that. They don't believe that. Your Nazarene, your Methodist,
your families, they don't believe that. Who's our adversary? The law.
It's against us. The handwriting of ordinances
is against us, isn't it? Isn't that what the scripture
says? Well, what are we going to do about it? Nothing. Ain't
nothing you can do. Well, who can't? Christ had to
do it. Native unto the cross. He lived
33 years. It took him 33 years to fulfill
this book. Every hour of every day, every
moment, every thought, every work, every step, every motive,
every jot, every tittle of God's law, the Lawgiver Himself came
to this earth to fulfill every jot and tittle. And when it was
over, He said, Finished! Done! We're saved by the faith
of Him. Then he hung on the cross and
God put the sins of his people, the guilt of his people on him.
The handwriting of ordinances that were against us came down
on the head of the body. Jesus Christ. He nailed him to
the cross, covered in his blood, kept and paid. That's what happened. Thirty-three years kept perfectly
on the cross equivalent of eternity in hell, paid every sin of every
child of God, paid in full, full. Did you hear me? The fullness
of God dwelleth in him. You like that? John Davis, you're
smiling. You've heard this a hundred years
now. Want to hear it through eternity? You're a child of God. Irene from Grundy. Do you understand that this is
the gospel? It's not doctrine. This is the
gospel. There's no other. You cannot
preach the gospel without preaching what I'm preaching this morning. There is no other God. And all
of God's children know that. They're all taught of God. Oh my, I was going to go. Alright,
he teaches them in chapter 6 about giving. And I was going to go
to 2 Corinthians 8. You do it yourself later. 2 Corinthians
8 and 9 is about giving. Look at chapter 6. Take heed,
you do not your alms. That's what that is. Giving,
either service or money. to be seen of men. See that? He said that's what
hypocrites do. That's what they want. They want
people to know they're giving a check to the church and they're
doing charitable acts for such and such a cause. That's what
they want. Their own glory and people see them and our Lord
said that's their reward. They're going to be punished
by God for doing it. Though they give their bodies to be burned. But he says to us, don't sound
the trumpet as the hypocrites. That's their glory. When you
do your own, do it in secret, he said. Do it in secret. You
do it as unto the Lord. And as I said, I wanted to take
you to 2 Corinthians 8 and 9. We are told to give. Prove the
sincerity of your love. Give, give all to support the
gospel for the cause of Christ. That this gospel will continue.
Do you need it? You're hungry and thirstful. We're told that all who have
received the gospel must freely give to support it. Blessed are you. What do you
have you have not received? What's it worth to you? It's
worth more than, this house is worth more than our own houses,
I'm telling you. And everyone who's listening
to this by sermon audio or later or right now by Mixler, you need
to give to some church, some ministry somewhere or you're
not supporting the gospel. This thing of being disciples
is not one of convenience. It's sacrifice. Commitment, it's
prove the sincerity of your love. There are needs everywhere. Support
the gospel. Prove it. Prove it. If you love
it, prove it. And you do, our people. And then
the Lord teaches them in verse 5 to pray. He tells them about
prayer. And I'm going to quit. It hasn't
been long, 30 some minutes. You got anything else to do?
You sure don't have anything better to do. When thou prayest, verse 5, when,
not if, when. All God's people pray. Children
pray. Children of the Heavenly Father
cry, don't they? Abba, Father. When thou prayest, don't be like
the hypocrites. They love to pray standing in
the synagogue, the corner of the streets, that they may be
seen of men. You see them at the courthouse,
don't you? You see them in front of the high school. You see them? If you see them, they're not
God's people. If you see them, they're not God's people. That's what they're doing to
be seen. See them in the restroom? You
know why they're doing that? Huh? Is that what our Lord said? Don't
do it if you're going to be seen. Because you cannot not be aware
of people watching you. One time, Brother Barnard, Brother
Ralph Barnard, the Lord sent him to tear up religious playhouses.
And boy, did he ever. He told the truth. They'd never
heard it. My dad had never heard it. They'd never heard it. They read
these things, but they didn't know what it meant. They didn't believe
it. He went with a bunch of these
fellows. They asked him to come preach. He was a well-known evangelist.
He went to them to a prayer breakfast one time, and they said, Brother
Bonner, pray. He bowed his head. Dad was there. He said, he prayed, Father, these
men want me to pray for them. He said, I can't pray for them.
They're butchering your gospel. They're lying on you. They're
lying to men's souls. Lord, bless me. Bless me. I can't pray for them. Boy, that's a bold man in telling
the truth. Oh yeah, I'd love your enemy.
Not God's enemy. David said, do not I hate them.
I hate them with a perfect hatred, a mature hatred. They're lying
on God. I can't love a man that's lying
on my God. Lie on me. I'll pray for you,
but don't lie on my God. I know the time they went with
some of these fellows to a breakfast, and they came and brought the
biscuits and gravy and the eggs and all that, and Barnard just
tore into it. They were shocked. Brother Barnard,
aren't you going to pray? He said, how do you know I didn't? That's why I said it. They're
praying to be seen. Don't do it. Don't join with
them. Can't. Praying to the wrong God.
Take a stand this way. You see that? We can take a stand
this way. Why aren't you bowing your head?
We looked at this one. Why aren't you bowing your head
at the ball game when the preacher... Because he doesn't believe my
God. He's not praying to my God. Pray to a God that can't save.
That's not my God. My God's not interested in a ball game. He's
not on either one of His side. It's who's on the Lord's side.
Huh? Doesn't matter whether we win
or lose this game, but it does matter whether we win Christ
and be found in Him. Doesn't it? You know these things. I don't want to be hard. I'm
not trying to exclude anybody from the Kingdom of Heaven. I
want people in the Kingdom of Heaven, but I'm not going to
compromise the truth. Not an ounce of this truth. Not
a word of this truth. To bring people in. To make people
happy. I'm not going to do it. My dad
didn't do it, and I'm not going to do it. By God's grace. I'm
going to tell you exactly what our Lord says. and declare it
with love, with boldness. That is the truth. Men don't
love the truth. You tell the truth, they're going
to hate it. They're going to hate you. But God, He can break down that
enmity, can't He? And it's not dependent on how
I say it. It's not. Because I've tried
to say it every way. Holler, loud, soft, mild, frown. God's got to do it. He's got to bring it home to
the heart. I weep. I lose sleep over your
children who are not here. They haven't lost a minute's
sleep over me. But God is rich in mercy. And I have faithfully,
by His grace, faithfully preached the truth, and that's what I'm
hoping that He'll use this. Because it ain't me. Ain't nothing
I can do about it. And I wouldn't if I could, because
I'm glad it's in His hands. I am. So, he said, when you pray,
pray in secret. Don't use vain repetitions. Doesn't
that do away with all Catholic prayers? Completely. It does
away. Anybody that prays, you know, Hail Mary, they don't know
God. Not one of them, Mike. Not one
of them. Not one Catholic knows God. They're all lost. Can I
say that? Should you say that? You better. You better. Or you're not witnessing
to the God of the Bible and Christ. You better. You better tell them.
Don't want to hope for them. It's not Mary. It's Jesus Christ. Don't use vain repetition. They
think they're heard for that. Your Father knows. Now, after
this manner, and here's what He teaches us to pray. Verse
9. I'll go through this quickly. I wish we didn't have to. Our Father, our Father, who art
in heaven, where is our God? He's on the throne. Christ is
on the throne, hallowed, holy, holy, holy, Lord God of heaven. His name is holy. His word is
holy. You must be holy. Thy kingdom
come. His kingdom. Thy will be done. Whose will? Whose will will be
done? You know this? His children all
know this. On earth as it is in heaven. Everywhere. Give us
this day our daily bread. If He doesn't give us whatever
we get, we're not going to get it. We can't produce it. What do we have we have not received?
He said ask and you receive. He's our provider, our giver
of life, of all things. Forgive us. What's our chief
need? Forgiveness of sins. Comfort
my people. Tell them, number one, their
iniquity is pardoned. Brother Eric read from Mark 2
on that man who's of the palsy and never walked. And they brought
him in and ran him down through the roof, hoping he'd be healed.
And the Lord walked up to him and said, Your sins are forgiven. He healed him. Hadn't walked
yet, but he healed him. Do you understand that's our
greatest need? You're so blessed. So blessed. Forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation.
Brothers and sisters, we will be tempted on every hand. The
great tempter. Deliver us from evil. That's
the evil one. Our adversary is much stronger
than us. What's our hope? Christ. Ask. Plead. Don't let me fall into
temptation. If you let me alone, I'll fall.
Deliver us from the evil one. This is your kingdom. This is
your power. And this is your glory. It's
all your power. It's all in your hands. It's
your kingdom. All authority over all flesh.
All souls are yours to do with as you please. You believe that? And it's your glory. It's what separates the true
people of God from the self-seeking hypocrites, isn't it? They do
what they do. Religion does what it does to
be seen of men. Why do we do and say what we
say? Every song, the way we do it, Our methods, our preaching,
our singing is for one reason, the glory of God. Is that right? We're so blessed. Okay, let's sing a closing hymn.