I hope that the Lord will enable us
to listen carefully, that He will hear the prayer we just
made Him and ask Him to set our affections, our minds, our hearts
right now on things above. I hope and pray that you will
pray right now for me. Because this is what the Lord
uses for us and our children. This is what the Lord uses. You
and I need this. We need to hear. We have ears
to hear, don't we? And pray with me right now that
the Lord will speak to us. told Moses to teach this song
to all of Israel, God's people, chosen people. Deuteronomy is
the last of the five books. And they had already traveled
through the wilderness for 40 years. It's over. Their journey
was just about over. And this is at the end, the last
days. He's reminding them all of everything
he did for them. and who he is, and what he's
done, and what they are, and what they've done. And yet God
is so merciful and gracious, what His purpose to do with His
people. Vengeance upon His adversaries,
mercy to His people. These are the last days, brethren. Look around. These are the very
last of the last days, okay? We need this now. I need this
right now more than ever. This is a song. I remind you
songs are to be sung. Songs are good. Songs do you
good, don't you? When you really sing songs from
the heart, there are two reasons. When you really sing a song that
blesses you and you sing it with all your being, you're either
sad or you're happy. And God's people are both. They
mourned. Yet they rejoiced. That's what
this is all about. We need to learn this song. You
know, they're singing this song right now. The song of Moses. Right now, as I speak, as we
sit here, they're singing this song. Everyone who learns this
song now will be singing it there. All the chosen, the children
of Israel. Have you learned this song? To
know this song, to know this God, is to know salvation. To
have eternal life. To be with Him in glory. To sing
this blessed song. Do you know it? This song, if
you hear this, if you hear this message, there's three reasons
we preach. Number one, to glorify God. To
glorify God. God is glorified by declaring
who He is and what He's done. Number two, to call sinners. To call sinners to repentance,
to faith. to bow, to believe, hoping and
praying God will bring them into the kingdom at the time of show.
Number three, to comfort the saints, to comfort God's people. All three is accomplished in
this message of God will bless us. To declare God as he is,
declare us what we are, and declare what Jesus Christ has done for
his people. It's right here. Verse 1, Give
ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak. Give ear, O earth, the
words of my mouth. Give ear. All should, shouldn't
they? We have ears. Why did God create
ears? When He first created Adam, He
created ears, didn't He? Before He made Eve, He made Adam
have ears. Why? To hear what? His voice. Oh, turn away our ears from everything
else. Let God hear His Word. God who
cannot lie. If you have ears, I hope you
won't turn them away. Most do. In the last days, they
shall turn away their ears from the truth and the fables. All should hear, shouldn't they? These are words of life. He said,
this is not vanity. He said, set your hearts upon
these words. Tell your children these words.
They're not vain. This is your life. Words of life. Oh, blessed are your ears if
they hear. Blessed. He said, the words of my mouth.
These are the words of my mouth, the words of God. Wait a minute.
God is spirit. Does God have a mouth? Does God have hands? Does God
have feet? Yes, but they're not like false
religion said. They're not yours. The mouth of God is Jesus Christ. He's the Word of God. He's the
voice of God. The hands of God. His hands. His feet. Everything's under
whose feet? His feet. My doctrine, verse
2, listen to this. I was going to go to John 1.
I have so many scriptures where the Lord said, where John the
Baptist said, the words of His mouth, listen to the words of
His mouth, He that came from God is from above. Oh, so He
was with God in the beginning. Yes, He was. It's all through
there. I started looking at that, Helen,
at his pre-existence. Every page, he's just jumping
out at me. He reveals himself to his people.
Not to these others. He hides himself. God hides himself. Verse 2, my doctrine shall drop
as a rain, my speech shall distill as a dew, as a small rain upon
the tender earth, as a shower upon the grass. My doctrine.
That's teaching. Go with me. And I won't have
you turn much, but you know what a blessing it is to have a Bible
and want to turn. But 2 John, ok? 2 John. I've done the work for you. But
my doctrine, he said, doctrine means teaching. Our Lord Jesus
Christ said this in John 6, 45. This is taken from Isaiah. He
said, They shall all be taught of God. Who? All thy children
shall be taught of the Lord. And great shall be the peace
thereof. The children. What are they taught?
Of God. They're not only taught by God,
but they're taught of God, that He is God. This is what God's
people all know. This is life eternal. John 17,
3. The mouth, the voice of God said
this. He said, this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the
only true God, and Jesus Christ in benediction. The doctrine of God. Well, wait
a minute. You can't know God. No man has
seen God, heard God, seen Him at any time. We sure have, haven't we? That's
confusing to the world because confusion belongs to us, Daniel
said. You cannot know God except through
Jesus Christ. You cannot know God except God
reveal Himself. And this is what the Son of God
has said, No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither
knoweth any man the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son
will reveal Him. We know that the Son of God has
come and given us an understanding that we might know Him that is
true. Who? God. Who is He? Jesus Christ. Cannot know God except through
Jesus Christ, except the Son revealing. So the doctrine of
God is the doctrine of Christ. Look at it. 2 John, verse 7. Many deceivers are entered into
the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh. To come means you were somewhere
before you got there. Right? This is a deceiver, an
antichrist. And John said in another place,
or Paul said it in 2 Thessalonians, even now there are many at that
ground, it's not just one. Whosoever, look to yourselves,
verse 8, and lose not those things which we have wrought, that we
receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth and abided
not in the doctrine of Christ hath not gone. He that abided
in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the
Son. How clear can God's Word be? It's plain to him to understand
it. That's from Proverbs 8 and 9. Plain to him to understand
it. Has he given you an understanding that you might know him as true?
Has he? Don't take that for granted.
Ever. There are people encompassing
sea and land to try to get you to not believe that. God has
hid these things from them and revealed them unto us and our
children. Go back to the text. My doctrine.
The doctrine of God is the doctrine of Christ. He said, well, drop
as the rain. Distill as the dew, as the small
rain on the tender herb. as the showers upon the grass. Isaiah 45, I had you, I wrote
that down for you. Turn over there, okay? Isaiah
45. Where did Isaiah get Isaiah 45? From Deuteronomy 32. Maybe you've never seen how perfectly
and together these scriptures are. Look at Isaiah 45. Unless you don't know Cyrus,
he's a king that hadn't even been born yet. Persian king,
God named him before he was born, and said everything he was going
to do through him, and he's a picture of Christ. But look at verse,
oh my, I want to read it all. But look at verse 5. I am the
Lord, there is none else, there is no God beside me. I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me, that they may know." Who? God's people. From the rising
of the sun, east to west, that there's none beside me. I am
the Lord, there is none else. I form the light. and create
darkness. I make peace and create evil.
I the Lord do all these things. Read on. Drop down ye heavens
from above. Let the skies pour down righteousness. Like what? Like rain. Let the earth open like the dew. Bring forth salvation. Let righteousness
spring up together. I the Lord have created it. Listen to Psalm 72. Let me turn
this to this for you. Okay? If you ever want to turn,
you're welcome to. But listen to this. It speaks
about the King. This is a whole psalm about Christ
like the other 149 are. He shall judge the people with
righteousness, King, the poor with judgment. The mountains
shall bring forth peace to the people, little hills by righteousness. He'll judge the poor of His people.
He'll save the children of the needy. He'll break in pieces
the oppressor. They shall fear Thee as long
as the sun and moon endure. He shall come down like rain
upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. In His
days shall righteousness Abundance of peace. He shall have dominion
from sea to sea. They that dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before Him. Who's that talking about? Jesus
Christ. In our text, look at Deuteronomy
32. My doctrine shall drop as the rain. That's Christ. The doctrine of Christ. His speech. Distilled as it do. God from
heaven, man upon earth. The small rain, tender herb,
showers upon the grass. Oh my. What a blessing. The water of life. This is all
talking about water. We can't live more than three
days without water. Christ said, I am the word of
life, the water of life. So. Verse 3, I will publish the
name of the Lord. Ascribe you greatness unto our
God. Our God, alright? Who's he speaking
of? The Lord. Capital L-O-R-D. That's Jehovah,
isn't it? He's our God, isn't he? Well,
look at verse 4. He is the Rock. Singular. Right? Not A-Rock. The Rock.
Do you remember reading that anywhere? We just read it in 1 Corinthians
10. That rock that followed them,
Paul said, is Christ. Wait, wait, wait, how can He
be God? He is. Without controversy. Oh, there's
a controversy among unbelievers. Who is He? What did He do? Not
among His people. It's without controversy. God
was manifested there. God came there. And we worship
Him as Savior. If He's not God, He can't save
us. If He's not God, He needs saving just like us. Right? He forgave sins. Who can forgive
sins but God? He justified. He said, this man,
this publican went down to his house, justified. Who is He that
justified? God. Who kills? Who makes a life?
Who has power? Who's the light of the world?
Jesus Christ. The light of life. John said,
the light of life came. We beheld the word of life. Who is Jesus Christ? Job said,
I'm going to see God with my eye. But Job, no man hath, no
man can. He said, I am. He's Jesus Christ. Does it matter? This is life eternal that they
might know thee, the only true God. He said, if you believe
not that I am, you'll die in your sin. I believe that that man that
walked this planet is none other than the God who made it. I believe
the one who hung on that cross hung himself on that cross. And
he made the tree on which they made a cross and hung him on
it. The nails that were put through his hands, he made the ore in
the ground that they made the nails from. They nailed Him to
the cross because He said, do it. They spit in His face because
He said it before, spit in my face. He made a back so they
could whip it. He grew a beard so they could
pull it. He did all these things to fulfill Scripture because
who is He? The first and the last and everything
in between, all and in all. He's God. Come to earth to save
His people. If you don't believe that, you
don't have hope of salvation. You have no peace, no comfort,
no salvation. He's God. The rock is the foundation
which no man can lay. A stumbling stone, a rock of
offense to many. Not to us. It's the rock. I love verse 31. Look it over there. Verse 31.
Have I lost you? Please, pray with me. You need to learn this song. I hope at the end of this you're
going to be shouting hallelujah. Verse 31 says, Their rock's not
as I rock. Their refuge is no refuge at
all. Their foundation is no foundation
at all. It can be moved. It can be changed. Their purpose and will of their
God can change and man can change it. Satan is just as powerful
as he is. That's no refuge. That's no salvation. That's no comfort. That's no
peace. A God who wants to do things and can't. They say this
of their God. Iraq is not like Iraq. They say
this, God didn't want that to happen. When something bad, God
didn't have anything to do with that. What comfort can there
possibly be in that? Why do you need a God like that?
You don't, and there is no such one as that. Our God is God. His name is Jehovah. His name
is God Almighty. His name is Jesus Christ. They
are one and the same. Reigning and ruling, none can
stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou? It's like rain, soothing rain
on the head of those that are... Look back at our text, verse
4. He's the rock. His work is perfect.
What work? Creation. Who made this world? God did, didn't He? You believe
that? Everybody says they believe that, every Christian. In the
beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. They're very zealous
for that. Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons,
all of them, very zealous for that. Very zealous that God created
the earth. Who created the heavens and the
earth? Jesus Christ. Without Him was
not anything made, it was made. Isn't that what the Scripture
said? To deny that He's Creator and
God is to deny God. You don't know God. You haven't
learned the doctrine of God. The doctrine of Christ. You and
I have, haven't we? We see everything as a picture
of our Creator. Clouds are dust of His feet. The trees, He's the tree of life. All His ways are, His work is
perfect, His work of creation. But this is chiefly speaking
of, and Psalm 90, which I exhort us to keep reading, keep reading,
Let Thy work appear unto Thy people. Thy work of salvation. This is His greatest and most
glorious, and I've got to lift my voice a little bit. This is
His greatest work of which those who are like these people we're
going to read of realize this is the greatest work of all.
The work of redemption. The work of salvation. With man
it's impossible. Man doesn't want it. Man doesn't
seek it. Man doesn't even know he needs it. But God knows and
came to make them know Him and know His greatest work. This
is what Moses wrote to end it. Oh, that they were wise and they
understood this. Oh, that they understood this.
Make us glad. Let Thy work appear unto Thy
servants and Thy glory unto their children. His greatest work. His salvation on the cross, the
Lord Jesus Christ. God was dying. That's what Paul told the Ephesians,
didn't he, when he was leaving them. Peter, feed the church
of God, he told them, which he purchased with what? His own
blood. I don't understand, the world
says. No, you don't, because He hasn't given you an understanding.
But I do, don't I? Man can't satisfy the law of
God. Man can't keep the law of God. God can. Only God can. God can't die. Man must. The soul that sins must surely
die. How can man be just with God? How can man live and yet
die? How can man be punished and yet
be forgiven? in the God-man. God becoming
man. Do you understand that? This
is so basic. This message. There is no other
message. This is the message. This is
the song. This is what we need to learn. Go back to the text.
His ways are judgment. The God of truth without iniquity.
Just and right is His. His ways are Just and right. Judgment. Judgment means verdict. Judgment
means assent. Judgment means a decree. The
God of judgment. You know that Christ said, The
Father judges no man that hath committed all judgment to the
Son. You remember that? That's what He said. In John 5. All those that rejected
Him as God. You're just a man. You make yourself
God. He said, I judge, I'm the judge of the earth. That's what
he said. All judgment, verdict, decrees. See, our God is not a bystander
in the affairs of man. He's not a bystander. He didn't
create all things and then step aside and hope it turns out alright. That means He's no different
than us. Doesn't it? That's what we say. I hope it turns out all right.
This is a God who worked at all things at the counsel of his
will. All things. Who purposed and predestinated
everything in this world down to the very hairs on your head. Do you believe that? To the world,
that's foolishness. If that's not so, there's a germ
that's floating in the air that will kill us all. We better run. Spurgeon said there's not a particle
of dust in the sunlight coming through the window. You ever
see that? You don't know there's dirt and
filth in the air, do you? Until the sunlight reveals it. Alright, the sunlight coming
through the window. You see all those particles of dust. You
think everything's clean. No. You think your house is clean,
don't you, Sal? That's why you've got the shades drawn. But when
that light comes through the window, you see all that dust
and particle spurs. There's not one single particle
of dust that lands on the ground, except God predestined where
it lands. That's right. You see, if God
is one we can understand, he's not God. He's like us. You hear
me? I don't understand. Good. But
do you believe? If you believe a God you don't
understand, if you believe a God you don't see, if you hear His
voice, you see His glory, and you bow your knee to a God who
no man can see or hear, and you believe Him with all your heart,
that's the work of God. That's the power of God. It's
not of yourself. Man won't do that. That's foolishness. It's faith. It's a God-given
gift. The most precious thing God can
do for you. And that alone, that God is God,
will give you peace that passes understanding. Enable you to
go through anything God sends your way. Know that He's ordered
it all for your good, for His glory. And you're going to wait.
You're going to have to wait. And you're going to see. It's
true. God's true. And every man was
a liar. But not God. Comfort. Are you getting any
comfort out of this? He's a God of truth without iniquity. Just and right is He. Justice
and truth. Truth and righteousness and peace. Mercy and truth met together.
Where? Do you know where that is? I'll make it back. Do you
know where that is? In Jesus Christ at the cross.
How blessed are your ears. So blessed, so blessed. I'm not
worthy to say this thing. But this is ingrained in my heart,
in my vocabulary, in my preaching. It's ingrained there. I hope
it never leaves. It's all about Jesus Christ.
Now He describes His people. They. That's Him. This is them. That's He. This is they. This
sounds just like Ephesians 2, you know. All that God has done for His
people, and you, but you. They, verse 5, corrupted themselves. Their spot is not the spot of,
they don't look like His children, perverse and crooked. Do you
thus requite the Lord? Verse 6. Oh, foolish people.
Didn't Paul say, Isaiah said it? Woe unto him
that striveth with his maker. Isaiah 45. But we do, don't we? We did. All do. Until God breaks down that inmant. Gives us understanding. perverse
and crooked. Oh, Isaiah 1 began this way,
from the top of our head, the sole of our feet, to the top
of our head. No sense in wounds and bruises and putrefied souls.
The whole world becomes filth. That's us. That's all of us by
nature, isn't it? You know that, don't you? You
know that and you believe that. You still see, feel, you still
have the plague of your heart within you, do you? Know something
of your wretchedness before God? Your rebellion against God? Your
ingratitude toward God? Do you know that? Do you really
mourn over that? The world doesn't mourn over
that. The world doesn't see that. The world doesn't think that
about themselves. Religious people don't think that about themselves.
You do, don't you? Who does? All the sons of Jacob. All the sons of God. All His
people. His people. He told Jeremiah,
cause my people to know their iniquities. Because if they don't,
they won't know Christ's great work on the cross. They won't
appreciate it. They can't sing that song in
glory unto Him that loved us and washed us from what? Our
sins. And such were some of you. No, He's your Father. Remember
the days of old, verse 7, and I'm not going to look at every
verse, but how the Lord, it says when He divided the sons of Adam,
when He made this whole world, it was all all the purpose of
God in this whole world, Egypt, Ethiopia, all these countries,
Moab's water is wash pot. All these nations and everything.
He said, I created the whole world to serve one little group
of people. They're my people. These right
here are my people. Nobody deserves anywhere. They
were just like everybody else. But God chose them. Do you believe
in election? Who does he elect? God does.
Why? Because you deserve it. Oh, no. Jacob, just like he saw. Isn't
he? Who made him to differ? God did. Who made you to differ? What
brought you here? What makes you believe this?
Not a what, it's who. You believe in election? Oh,
you say, no, I don't believe in election. I believe in the
God who elects. Many people believe in the doctrine. This is the doctrine of God.
God is. God does the choosing. God does
the saving. God does the bringing. God does
the calling. God does the killing. God does
the wounding. God does the healing. He said,
see now, you listen to this. I do all these things. He said, if I lift up my hand,
nobody can stop Him. And it's just. It's right. All his words are judgment. All
his works are truth. He cannot do wrong. He does right
with everybody and everything. Don't you question God ever. Ever. Whatever happens. When this world
starts asking why, our reply should be one thing. It is the
Lord. Don't reason with them. Don't
reason with yourself. Don't try to figure it out. That's
what Job and all his friends did. When God sent everything
to take everything from Job, all his possessions, all his
possessions, When God sent the Sabaeans and
the Chaldeans to kill all his family. When God smote him from
the top of his head to the bottom of his feet with open running
sores. This was Job's reply. This was
Job's profession. This was Job's testimony. And
this glorified God unlike any man on earth. The Lord did this. The Lord gave, the Lord taketh
away. Blessed is the name of the Lord. Eli. The Lord said, told Samuel, tell
Eli I want to do a work that will make his ears tangle. Shocking. He said, I'm going to kill both
his sons. They're not going to find any
mercy at my hand. They're going to be lost forever. And nobody in his house will
ever live again. His house is gone. His name is
gone. His children are gone. They have
no mercy from God. Eli said this, it is the Lord. Whatever it is. Only a true child of God believes
this. Now the world doesn't believe this. Religion doesn't believe
this. They don't believe this. They
think God's only love, and He wouldn't do this or that or the
other. He said, now you see now. Go
to verse 39, okay? This is it. You see now. My dad used to say that. Where did he get that? Deuteronomy
32, 39. Southern people learned to read
from the Bible. Boy, that'd be good, wouldn't
it? See now? Messing up now. I, even I, am
He. There is no God with me. Little
g. Kathy, did you hear that? There's
nobody anywhere has any power over anything. None! He keeps saying this all the
way through. Lower your voice. I just can't declare this God
without lifting up my voice. Don't you wish the world could
hear that? They'd reject it. They haven't heard it. Oh, blessed are your ears. You
say within yourself, lift up your voice, tell it, preacher.
Amen. Say it again. This is my joy
and rejoicing. This is my comfort. This is my
hope that God is God. And I don't have to understand
Him. I just have to trust Him. And I can't even do that unless
He makes me do it. I, even I am He, there is no
God with me in me. I kill. And I make a life. I heal. I wound. And I heal. If anyone gets sick,
would you please get out of your vocabulary. I don't want to give
this to you, this cult. You can't give nothing to nobody.
You can't take anything from somebody. You can't do nothing. You can't breathe. Our breath
is in God's hands. It's airborne. Well, sure it
is. Who's in control of the air? We're the prince of the power
of the air. So you're giving Him more power
than God. He has no power at all. Read
Job chapter 1. This is the God of the battle. Satan came, presented himself
to God. He couldn't do anything without
God's permission, without God's direction. God let him. Only
he that now letteth it will let. Second Thessalonians 2. God over
all, good and evil. Nobody can do anything. Not an
arrow can fly, not a bullet can fly, not one soul can die except
God does it. Do you hear me? Our Lord Jesus
Christ came down and everybody on earth wanted Him dead. They
tried. They tried. They got so mad at
Him. They got furious. Throw Him off the cliff. You
got Him. I got Him. Let's get Him. Let's get Him.
You got Him. No, I don't have Him. You got Him. What happened
to that? Our Lord said, No man taketh
my life from me. I lay it down on myself. And
you know what? No man taketh your life from you. God says, I kill. So who should you fear? What
should you fear? Things, people, man? No, God. He said, fear him after he hath
cast both body and soul into hell. After you kill it, you
can't move the body and soul. Fear. The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom, he said, which brings repentance. Oh,
Lord God, I've sinned against my Creator, the one in whose
hands my breath is. I've not been grateful. I've
not been thankful. I haven't worshipped Him. I haven't given
Him thanks. I didn't care about His Son. Oh, God, please spare
me. Have mercy on me. You ought to
kill me right now. If you gave me what I deserve, the soul that
sins shall surely die. That's what we deserve. That's
what I deserve. Oh, God, be merciful to me, this sinner. He says,
I will. How? Jesus Christ, the mercy of God,
the grace of God. He didn't do that for everybody.
He did it for his people. And it was effectual. And it
was eternal. And it was absolute. And nobody
could change it. Aren't you glad that God is God? He doesn't change. His will doesn't
change. His purpose doesn't change. His
Son doesn't change. His Word doesn't change. His
covenant doesn't change. It doesn't change. God doesn't
change. Nothing's changing. Everything's changing. You say,
yeah, but no, not really. It's all according to God's purpose. It talks about His people, the
Lord finding them in a waste, howling wilderness, leading them. Is that where the Lord found
you? And it says, let me go down here
to this verse 36. The Lord shall judge his people.
Look at verse 36. The Lord shall judge his people.
How does he judge us? How does God can be just and
yet justify us? How can God punish us and yet
forgive us in Christ? You know that. And repent himself. He'll turn himself from his anger. God is angry with the wicked
every day. What turned God's anger from us? Why is God not
angry with His people? Why does God love His people?
In Christ. All the love of God is in Christ.
You know that. When do they find this out? Verse
36. When they see they have no power.
They have no ability. When He shows them what they
are, what they've done to Him, and how they can't do anything
about it, then they'll see the glory of
God. Then they'll see the love of
God. Then they'll see the mercy of God. Then they'll see the
grace of God. Then they'll see it's all God. It's all God. It's
all Christ. It's all Him that they had nothing
to do with. They did nothing but sin, and
God did nothing but save them. He gets all the glory. Not our
decision, not our work, not our turnover, nothing. It's Him doing
it all. And they're going to be singing
of Him and to Him and through Him for all eternity. Do you know this song? Do you know this song? Can you
sing that from the heart? Bless the Lord. Oh, my soul.
God has had mercy on my soul. He says, I am the Lord. I kill.
I make a life. Oh, God's got, you know, He's
got to kill us before He makes us alive. People think they live by the
law. The law is a rule of life. Paul did too. Saul of Tarsus
did. He was dead in transfiguration.
Dead and didn't know it. Then God the law came and killed
him. He said, killed him, slew him. Now he's alive. God had
to kill him to make him alive, had to blind him to make him
see, had to show him how filthy he was to show him how clean
he is. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you know this song? It's to
wound you before you be healed. How are we healed? What heals
us? By His stripes we are healed. He was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our faith
was laid on Him, and by His strife we are healed. Does that put
a tear to your eye and a song in your mouth and your heart?
Why do we preach this every time? Because there is nothing else.
Because that's this book. And Moses is reminding them when
it's all over, Look what you've done, and look
what I've done. Glory, hallelujah. Oh, we don't understand why God
does that. Let me tell you, let me give you this in closing.
There are two reasons that God kills people. He kills everybody.
Two reasons. Justice or mercy. You understand me? The wages
of sin is death. The soul that sins shall surely
die. Anybody quotes that? Religion quotes that. The Romans
wrote. The judge of the earth does right. He doesn't kill innocent
people. Do you understand me? The righteous, he doesn't forsake
the righteous. He said of his people, He that
liveth and believeth in men. He that hath son hath life. He knows Christ and he has life.
He was dead, now he's alive. He believes Christ. He said,
they'll never die. They'll sleep. They'll sleep. But the soul, those that hate
God, he says, I'm going to kill them. Second death, I'm going
to kill them. You see, the justice, The judge
of the earth does right. The foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal. The Lord knows them that are
here. Why? He chose them. So a person is
either in Christ, judged by God, Christ died for his people. Suffered the
wrath, the punishment, the justice of God against sin, the wages
of sin, made his soul an offering for sin. All of God's people
were in Christ on Calvary's tree, and God punished them and killed
them all. They were crucified, buried,
but now they live. They are risen in Christ. Do
you understand that? And those outside of Christ,
those that didn't need Christ, those that don't really worship
the true Christ, the living Christ, the wages of sin is what they've
earned, the soul that's sinning is surely dying, and God is going
to kill them, body and soul, and cast them into hell. God
does it all, both things. He's sublime. Do you understand
that? And I can give you illustration after illustration
after illustration. My time is up, and I'm going
to give you a couple, okay? Abel was the first person ever
that ever died. Remember? His brother in blood
bashed his brains out, killed him. That's awful. A brother. What was it over? The first murder, the first death,
what was it about? What was it over? The truth.
who God is, who Christ is, how we're saved, how we approach
God. That's the gospel. You understand? Do you understand
the significance of that? That the very first murder was
committed by a man supposed to be the brother of this other?
Because he hated the God of the Bible. He hated the truth. He
hated Christ. He hated redemption through blood.
He hated righteousness imputed. He hated that. He loved his right.
And he killed him. Blood. Abel. Now, Abel's a sinner. Cain's
a sinner. Why did God accept Abel? Blood. Not his blood. The Lamb. Abel received mercy. There was a time when there was
one sinner saved by grace in heaven, singing at the top of
his lungs. One man. that was brutally murdered
and killed by his brother over the truth. Unto God be the glory,
great things he hath done. God killed me, yet made me alive. God spared me from a nine hundred
year life of sin and misery. And he sentenced Cain to a life
of misery, a long life of misery and sin upon this earth. Justice
and mercy. I could go on and on. All those
babies that were killed and thrown in the river, Pharaoh said, take
every son born to the Hebrews and throw them in the river. Who did that? God did that. Why? He took all those babies
to glory. They didn't have to live on this
ugly place. They might have grown up, they
would have grown up to be sinners and rebels. But, God, didn't
He have mercy? Wasn't that good of God to do
that? Who did it? God did it. And He took out of
every house in Egypt, there was not one that was dead. Not one. And God killed them all and sent
their souls to hell. It's the Lord. Do you believe
that? Now don't question anything that
happens. And this is your profession.
And this may bring up a conversation and enable you to witness of
who your God is and who the truth is. Whatever happens, don't say,
I don't understand, don't say it. Say, it's the Lord. What
do you mean it's the Lord? Yes, the Lord did that. But he
was shot by... No, God did that. A bullet couldn't
have hit him if God didn't do that. But why? God doesn't give
an account of his matters. God doesn't answer to me. You
answer to God, and you need to ask God to save you, to show
mercy to you, because He's the one that kills, and He's the
one that lets live. Do you believe that? Did it give you any comfort?
Did it give God any glory? No? Okay. Let's sing in closing
number 22.