Hallelujah, that means praise
the Lord. be Jehovah Hallelujah Jehovah. Hallowed be thy name Christ said. All right go back to the book
of Hebrews chapter one Hebrews chapter one. Of the game asked
me what I. What if the bulletin. Which contained
one mistake the date. If he said, ask me if the text
was chapter one verse ten, I said, no, we're going to look at chapters
one through ten. He said, all of it? No, not all
of it. But this is a brief look, a brief
look at Hebrews. Now, the book of Hebrews is a
gospel book. It's the gospel. Like all the
others, it's a declaration of God, who God is, who Christ is,
and the great salvation of God in Christ performed for sinners. Hebrews. Hebrews is a summary
of the Old Testament and how fitting we're going through the
book of Exodus. How fitting it is that we look
at Hebrews every now and then because it is a commentary About
the tabernacle and the priesthood and all of that Hebrews is a
summary of the lives. The trials travels. Tribulations of God's people
to summary. Goes over to chapter eleven you
know and talks about various ones and their lives and what
all they went through and so forth. The summary. Hebrews. The word Hebrew and
this is just for information. It has a reason but I'm not sure
what it is but the name Hebrew comes from a man named Eber who
was a descendant of Shem one of Noah's sons Shem, Ham and
Japheth and the Hebrew children came from Shem but more specifically
Eber who was a great grandson of Why the Lord calls them after
his name, I don't know. I don't know. There's got to
be a reason. Hebrews. Hebrews. But nobody could satisfactorily
give me a reason. Not even John Gill. So I won't
attempt it. Hebrew. But the word now, this
is good. This may be why. Because the
word Hebrew means crossing over. Hebrews. Crossing over. to the other side, from one side
to another, crossing over. And that pretty much sums up
what this is all about. Yes, it does. We're born, we
live, we sojourn through this life, we die, we cross over. This is not about a bunch of
dead Jews, Hebrews. This is written to us. Scripture
says things things whatsoever things were written before time
were written for our learning. This is for you for me. Whatever is written was written
for our learning. That we through patience. That means waiting
on the Lord. That's what that means. Did you
read with me chapter 10? He that will come will surely
come. He's coming. Modern religion is trying to tell people how
to live in this world. What this is all about is preparedness
for the next. It's how to die, live in this
world by faith and die in the faith. What sort of things were
written before time were written for our learning, for Jill Ogle,
for Sam Farr. that we, through patience, waiting,
and comfort of the scriptures, give us comfort, might have hope. We live by hope. We're saved
by hope. What are we hoping for? Eternal life. And God that promised. You read it with me. He's faithful. He's faithful that promised.
God that promised. God cannot lie. All men are liars. But God cannot lie. Every word
you read with me is true. He's coming. All right, I said, this is what
this is all about. Well, let me ask you a question, Brother
Dan Parks. I told you how much I enjoyed
being with him, and I want to talk about the trip on Wednesday
night for the day and preached on the radio down there for years,
years. And we went with him to record.
A radio message he was guest speaker on the pastor's program
there this time and for years every single message he would
begin this way. I want to add a way he would
say it I want to ask you a question. You know he's he's got a very
distinct. When I ask you a question. What's
this life all about. Why are we here? Everybody pretends to ask that
question, but at least seems to be interested in it. What's
the meaning of life? Are we like a dog? We just come,
and we live, and we eat, and we sleep, and we die, and that's
it. Unless there's something higher. There's something better. Is
there something else? Is there life more abundant than
that? Huh? Are we just dogs? Beasts? No, not man. Man was created in the image
of God. God said, let us make man. This
thing didn't just happen. Only a fool would look around
and think all this just happened, just an accident. And that there's no purpose to
anything. That everything's. It's chaotic and out of control,
what's the meaning of it then? God. That's the meaning of it. God
says in chapter one, verse one, God. This book begins where everything
began, God. In the beginning, God created
the heavens and earth. Verse two says, by whom he made
the world. God is created. We have a creator. God. God, the creator, the ruler,
God. We have a God. We have one who
reigns and rules over this world. Aren't you glad? Nothing's happening
by chance. Nothing's out of control. Aren't
you glad? I don't know why people bother to worship a God that's
not in control. What do you need with a God like
that? God reigns and rules. Say unto Zion, say unto your
people. Isaiah said, what shall I cry? He said, cry this, behold your
God. Your God. God says in verse one,
it's sundry times and diverse manners, different ways spake
in time past under the fathers by the prophets. God has spoken.
How do we know there's a God? He spoke. He's spoken. Scripture says once. Twice, God
has spoken, but men perceive it not. How do we know God has
spoken? How do you know God spoke through
those prophets of old? That's how he spoke. God didn't
speak out loud to the people. No, sir. No, sir. Only a few times that God actually
spoke out loud and it was to his son. It was when Christ was here, God
couldn't contain himself, if I may say that, and said out
loud for everybody to hear, thou art my beloved son and whom I
will please. Some now just thought it thundered. God's people heard that. And
they continue to hear that. God spake in time passed by the
prophet, how do you know those fellows were speaking that God
was speaking through because everything they said came to
pass. It came to pass, it was fulfilled.
And what hadn't been will. That's what he says over there,
he says, now, if that's what the Lord told Moses, he said,
now, if a prophet say something and it doesn't come to pass,
I didn't send him. But if it does, you know I spoke
through it. God spoke in those last days,
or that is, in different sundry times and diverse matters, unto
the fathers by the prophets, Moses and so forth, Elijah. But he hath in these last days.
These are the last days. These are the last of the last
days. Ever since Christ came, it's been the end times. After these last days, final
days of planet Earth, that's what that means, the last days
of planet Earth, God Almighty spoke. How? He personally spoke. He came
down here, and His name was Jesus the Christ. He spoke unto us by His Son. God came to this earth. That's
what this is all about. And this thing of people, religion,
believe in this and believe in that and all that, well, I don't
believe that. I don't believe there's Christianity. What it's
all about is this. Either that man named Jesus was
God or he's not. If he's not God, You can take
it or leave it what he's saying, take it or leave it right now
this morning, if he wasn't God, if he isn't God. What we're doing
here. Just let's quit. All right, what's
the use? Just another religion of man's
opinion and traditions and superstitions, right? But if he was God, if God actually
came down here as a man. and spoke. Shouldn't we sit up
and listen? And it's what the whole book
of Hebrews, through the next several chapters, goes on to
say. God spoke here. God came down
to this earth. God spoke to us. What did he
say? Well, but if we let it slip, if we don't give earnest heed,
If we neglect so great a salvation, if we just trot underfoot and
go on our merry way, we've counted a common thing. I've heard that
before. Take it or leave it. But if he was God, then what
he said, he said, is life. When I say it's life, you're
going to either live by what I say or you're going to die. It behooves us to sit up and
listen. What did he say? What did he
say? God came down here. What did he say? God spoke. What
did he say? I'll tell you the first words
out of his mouth as an adult preacher, thirty-year-old preacher.
I'll tell you the first words out of his mouth. You didn't say, God loves you,
and I have a wonderful plan for you, and that's why I've come,
because God needs you and wants you so bad in His kingdoms. Repent. The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
This thing's about over, he said. Repent. What does repent mean?
Almost everybody thinks they know, but repent means be profoundly
sorry from the heart or sinning against the Holy God. Your pet. The kingdom of heaven, God's
eternal kingdom, spiritual kingdom, is not of this world. It's not
of this world, Christ said. He said, My kingdom is not of
this world. If it were, we would fight for it. If it were, we
would get into political causes. If it were, we would establish
all sorts of things. No, he said, I've established
one thing. That's the church. And it's all
about the spiritual kingdom. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. What did he say? He said, I am the way. The truth. And the life. The Father which has sent me.
I declare him unto you. He has sent me to be the way. The truth. The life. And no man comes unto the Father
but by man. I am. The way to God. There is no other. There is no
other. I am the truth. Everything else
is a lie. All other religions are a lie.
Anything Christ plus is a lie. Christ and Mary, that's a lie.
I am the truth. God doesn't have a mother. I am the life. He that hath the
son hath life. That means whoever really knows
Christ and is found in Christ has life. It doesn't matter what
we say we have. If we don't have the son, we
don't have life. He that hath not the son hath
not life. I'm not saying that with the
wrath of God about. So he can't. God came down here
they live well. I become here. Warners is to warn us. I've come with them I have life
I came all of the father give it to me shall come to me I'm
come to lay down my life for the sheep I've come to give unto
them my Righteousness. He came to live as a righteous
representative. He came to fulfill the law. He said, it behooves me to fulfill
all righteousness. Why? For my people. They've broken
it all. I'm going to fulfill it all for
them. I'm working out this perfect robe that will fit them and cover
them up. He came, he lived, he died. Why
did he die? He didn't have to die. He didn't
have to die, and nobody took his life from him. Nobody took
his life from him. He was talking to a preacher, and he said, Christ died of cardiac
failure. What happened was when the heart
swelled up, that water, pulmonary, what's that called when there's
fluid all around the heart? I forget, edema or whatever,
yeah. He said, that's what happened. There were things happening naturally.
I said, that's a bunch of hogwash. He didn't die of any natural
causes. He said, no man takes my life from me. He said, I lay
it down on myself. He died. How? Nobody killed him. He willfully died. Became a sacrifice. God killed him. Pleased the Father
to bruise him. God made his soul an offering
for sin. Why? Why did Jesus Christ die? Couldn't
he have accomplished more by living? He only lived 33 years. What if he had lived 70? Couldn't
he have done so much more? He said, for this cause I came
into the world to die. Why? Because he's the lamb slain
before the foundation of the world. You're getting worried,
aren't you? You think, how's he going to
get to chapter 10? If I don't get past this, he came. It says in, look at
verse 3, it says, when he had by himself purged our sins, Christ
was a sin sacrifice, sin offering. Please, God, to bruise him, make
his soul an offering for sin. Christ died to put away the sins
of all of God's people, all the sins of all of God's people forever. Put them away by the sacrifice
of himself. And this whole book, the whole
book of Hebrews is about, and Brother Dan, boy, didn't he preach
a wonderful message on the only priest that sat down. The only priest that sat down.
This whole book is about the priesthood. The Old Testament
priesthood and all those sacrifice and then is so thorough that
he enumerated, as he would say, all the sacrifices that were
made on and it came to a million animals. Over a million. And this book says none of those
can put away one sin, but this man. He came to make a second one.
An only one, it was forever. And it put away sin, all sin,
all the sins of God's people. Jesus paid it all, he sure did. Not him and my faith, no sir,
it's him. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
son, cleansed him. Put it away, all of God's people,
all their sin, once and for all. Put it away, and he sat down.
Where? On the right hand of the majesty
on high. That's what it says there. On the right hand of the
majesty on high. What's that mean? He sat down.
It's finished. Oh, he got up one time when Stephen was being martyred.
Remember that? He got up in honor of his martyr
Stephen. They were killing him because
they didn't believe sovereign grace. He got up and said, son, I'm
standing in honor of you. And he sat back down. And he's
not getting up again until he comes again. Shut the door. Bring his people in and then
shut the door. The door of mercy is shut. Verse going down, it
says in verse 4, he has an inheritance. That is, God has given him all
things into his hand. He's the son and he owns it all
now. It's all in his hand. to do with as he pleases, belongs
to him. That's why he died. To this end, Christ both lived
and died that he might be Lord of the dead and the living. He
owns it all. Ask me and I'll give you the heathen for the
uninherited. Find enemies for thy footstool. He owns it all.
It's all in his hands. He said in Revelation, he said,
I am the Lord. I am he that liveth and was dead. Behold, I live evermore, alive
evermore, and I have the keys of hell and death. I do. I decide
everything about everyone. I do. He owns it all. Down in verse 8, God said this
about his son, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. More than
a point of doctrine to be argued. If Jesus Christ, that one who
came, is not God, you are yet in your sins. Aren't we? We are
yet in our sins. He said, If thou believest not
that I am, you'll die in your sins. Who can forgive sins but
God? That's right. It's not just a
point of doctrine here. Higher doctrine. This is our
salvation. Our salvation depends on that man that came down here
being God. Verse 11 says they'll perish,
that is, every one of his enemies, everybody, all things, the heaven
and earth shall perish, but he'll remain. He'll remain. Everything's going to be like
a garment, he said, like a garment, as a vesture, shall fold him
up when God Almighty, after his purpose, his will, everything
is finished. God Almighty is going to take
all this universe, fold it up, throw it away. He says to his
people, Behold, I create all things new. Rejoice in what I've
created. Heaven, new heavens and new earth.
Jerusalem a joy and rejoicing coming down from God and God's
going to dwell with us. Whatever. That former thing shall
not be remembered or come to mind. Why? He threw it away.
Threw it away. Take it away the first, establish
the second. He is what this is all about. What's this all about? Him. That's
what this is all about. If we're to live eternally and
not perish at the wrath, at the hands of God, according to his
wrath. And once again, I keep laboring this point, but religion,
all I got to talk about is the love of God. You read Hebrews
10 with me, didn't you? I don't see love in there.
All I see is wrath and firey indignation, vengeance. Fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. Repents. Confess your sins. He's faithful.
God is faithful. He said, All that come to me,
I cry, confessing their sin. All that come to the high priest
and confess their sin. Don't confess them to a man.
God's fiery indignation is going to come down on that priest that
thinks he can absolve your sin. But now his mercy and his grace
is in the great high priest named Jesus Christ, who put away your
sin. You come to him, God said. You come to my son, the only
high priest, and confess your sins. And buddy, they won't just
be figuratively gone. They'll be gone. God says, I'll
remember them no more, ever again. Clean slate, blotted out, put
away, covered. You condemn everyone. He's faithful. He said he would, and he'll do
it. He can't lie. And just to forgive. Why? Because Jesus Christ paid
for him. God will by no means clear the
guilty. But Jesus Christ became guilty, became sin, and God punished
him in our state. The wrath of God was expended.
No death now for God's people. Well, look at this, chapter two
says, therefore. Chapter two, therefore, we ought
to give the more earnest heed to the things we've heard, lest
at any time we should let them slip. I wrote down three things. Browsing through the book of
Romans, apostasy is going on to talk about the children of
Israel. They didn't go into promised land. They heard the gospel like
we did. We have. Same gospel. And one of these
things was they let him slip. You know. I'll hear it again next time.
That's what I mean. Just let us fly. We'll fly it on by. I'll
hear it again. It'll be there again next week. How do we know? Boast not thyself
of tomorrow. That's what this book says. I
know it's not what a day may bring forth. Today. That's what
this book said today. Well, it's called today is the
day of salvation. It talks about verse three, says,
How shall we escape if we neglect? Neglect, so great salvation,
what's neglect? Have you ever had anything and
you neglected it? You ever had a car? I'm going to use Margaret. Margaret
had a shiny yellow. What year was that, Steve? Seventy-six,
Malibu. And she neglected him. There
was a time when she would have neglected that car, before she
met Mac, I think. That's how she neglected it.
You'll lay down things, other things, if you truly fall in
love with your husband. Nothing will cause you to neglect
him. If you really fall in love with
him, if you really know him, love him, nothing, no one's going
to allow you to neglect him. That's what this is talking about.
But anyway, Margaret used to polish and waxen it, and she
began to neglect it. And man, it went downhill fast.
And Steve bought it, and it's going to take him three years
to restore it back in. A lot of hard work. Never neglected anything. A house. If you don't live in a house
very long, it'll go down immediately. It'll start going down until
it just falls apart. You ever seen an abandoned house?
Nobody lived there? It's the same with our souls.
How shall we escape if we neglect? Neglect means to treat with very
little attention. Peter said, give diligence to
make your calling election share. Well, I'm going to elect, I believe,
election. You're not there yet. Paul said. This is what it means
to give diligence. He said, if by any means I might
obtain a reservation. He said, I haven't arrived yet.
I haven't attained. At least I pressed for the mark
of the prize. If Paul said that. What about
this puny Paul, what about us? Neglect. Oh, it'll be there. Neglect means to consider no
consequence. Well, you know, Margaret neglected
that car because it's just an old car. It is of no consequence. And it's not a rust bucket, it's
gone. No matter what Steve does to
it, it's going to rust again. It's going to fall apart, it's
not going to last. Go ahead and neglect those things. But don't
neglect so great salvation. How shall we escape? He goes
on. If we neglect. He's coming. He's coming. Which
was spoken by the Lord and confirmed unto us by them that heard him.
God bearing witness. Neglect. And it goes on to say,
talk about hardening. Harden? Your hearts? How do you
harden your heart? It's to keep hearing the gospel
unmoved. Not to pray, you know, ask the
Lord. The Holy Spirit is the softening
effect of the heart. The Holy Spirit is the one who
softens the heart. I'll give you a new spirit. I'll
give you a new heart and soften your heart. But Lord, help me
to hear the gospel. I haven't heard it in so long,
been moved by it. Please, Lord, soften my hard heart. Do not
ask and you'll receive. Seek and you'll find. Knock and it'll be opened. Just don't assume on the mercy
of God, not presume upon the mercy of God, hardening and departure. It ends up with departure. It
goes on in chapter six, he said, it's impossible. To renew repentance,
them that have fallen away, see, and they have trodden underfoot.
They brought such great reproach on the son of God and church
and everything they've done, despite in the spirit of grace
and Holy Brethren, verse three, here's
the answer. Here's the answer. That means
keep in mind, keep on your mind. Keep on your mind. How do you
keep something on your mind? You're reminded, aren't you?
Reminded. We come here to be reminded over
and over again. We read the word for ourselves
to be reminded. We call upon God to remind us.
Lord, don't let me forget. Keep in mind, consider, keep
your eyes on, look to the apostle and high priest of our profession.
Son over God's house, verse six, he's a son. Hold fast the confidence
and rejoicing of the hope firm under the end. Hold fast. You
remember the lesson? He that keepeth my word. Hold
fast. Keep. Hang on. Now, when we get there
someday, we're going to know. We know for a fact that we're
not kept by our hanging on. You're not kept by our power,
not kept by our diligence. None of those things. We know
that. Nevertheless, he says to us,
hold fast to this gospel, to Christ, as if your life depended
on it. He does. Hold fast. Harden not. Verse 8, harden not. Verse 12 says, take heed, brethren,
take heed. What's heed mean? You put two
words together, you get heed. Hear and deed. Heed is a hearer and not a doer. In other words, you hear it and
say, that's good, and go on and let slip or neglect or so forth. Didn't hear it. Didn't take heed.
Hear and deed. But he is a hearer and doer.
Oh, he'll be blessed. Deed. Heed. Take heed. Take heed. Chapter 4, verse 1, says, let
us fear. Chapter 4, verse 1, let us fear.
Who's us? Me, starting with the preacher. Starting with the preacher. Paul
said, he said, I keep my body in subjection lest in preaching
to others I myself become a castaway. That would be the most horrible
thing I can think of. Well, Judah. Judas. Judas. Perished, didn't it? He went
out preaching. Preacher. Although I don't believe
one soul was profited from his preaching, nevertheless. Let
us fear, starting with me and you, you personally. Let us fear. Fear what? Missing Christ. I tell you what will make you
fear missing, will keep you from missing Christ is hold fast. We're going to. And. I was determined to preach this
message. The many reasons for preaching
number one is to glorify God. That's the primary principle
chief reason for preaching declare God number two is to declare
God's son. The remedy. Redemption, the Savior
of the Senate, declare God's Son. It's to tell man what he
is, declare, expose man for what he is, so that they'll look to
Christ. It's to feed God's sheep, exhort
God's sheep, comfort God's sheep. Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people.
It's also to reprove his money and warn, to warn. Paul told
the Ephesian elders when he was getting ready to die, when he
was getting ready to leave, he said, I did not cease to warn you day
and night with tears. Somebody in this room is going
to miss Christ. That's just the fact. It's a
sad fact, but it's a true fact. It always has been that way.
Always has been. How could we miss Christ? For
who? For whom would we miss cry, and
for what? What would a man or a woman give
in exchange for their soul? A mess of pottage? A bowl of oatmeal? A piece of
rusting metal? A man or a woman who is going
to die? I've got a job that's just to
pay bills with. We're talking about eternity. Let us fear. Let us fear, he
said. Verse 11 says, Let us labor to
enter into this wrath. Let us labor, therefore, to enter
into this wrath. What's that mean? I already quoted it to
you. Paul said, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection,
by any means, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, I've got to
have Christ. Christ said, except you forsake
father or mother, son or daughter, houses or land, and your own
life, that is, your own personal pursuits and what you want, it
cannot be my But whoever has. Forsaken from
my sake in the gospel. Shall receive eternal life and
in this life a hundredfold blessing. God is too kind to take things
away from us. For no, you seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things. Not miserly, not just a little
bit, but all these things shall be given unto you. Let us fear. Now, listen, for
your comfort, I'm not going to leave you right there. No, sir.
I want to remind you, though, leave. Let us fear missing Christ. Let's fear missing Christ. There will be some people who
sat under the gospel for years. and miscried. For what? Well, they'll be wondering and
will return to why. But he says, look at chapter
six. Chapter six. It says in verse nine. Before
that, he talks about how Impossible it is to renew someone to repent.
But he says in verse 9, Beloved, we're persuaded better things
of you. I'm glad he said that. We're persuaded better things
of you. Things that accompany salvation. I just believe that
he that hath begun a good work in you. The majority in here. It appears that God has done
a good work. It shows. That he that hath begun a good
work will perform it, will finish it. I'm persuaded. I'm persuaded. I'm persuaded that he's able
to keep that which you've committed unto him against that day. In
chapter 10, he said this. Chapter 10, which we read a while
ago. I want to read it to you one
more time in closing. Chapter 10, he says in verse 23, let's
hold fast to the profession of our faith. What's that? Christ. What is Christ? It's a gospel.
Where is Christ? He's in the church, in the midst
of his people. That's where he is. He's at the
mercy seat. That's where I'll meet you, God said, at the mercy
seat. Around one common mercy seat. That's where he is. He's
promised to be there and he's promised to come here. This is
the body of Christ. Yes, it is. The church is the
body of Christ. If you want to be with Christ,
you'd be with his body. Let us hold fast. Hang on. clutch,
hold on to it. He's faithful. Let's consider
one another to provoke unto love and to good work. We provoke
one another in many ways, don't we? We get mad at each other
in so many ways. Why? Because we're all a bunch of
no-good sinners, that's why. And we provoke each other. What
this is all about is not me and my and I and me and oh, poor
me. No, sir. It's to provoke each
other to love God and to good work. What's that? Be about the
things of our God. Let's just get all that stuff,
get me in my world and everything else, just blot it out. We're
here to worship God. Rejoice in him and exhort one
another, verse twenty five, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves
together. Some do. I don't know for what
or why must be something better. Must be something better. but
exhorting one another, and so much more. The older we get,
as we see the day approaching, the older we get, the more faithful
we ought to be. That really proves, doesn't it,
that I'm looking for a city. I have here no continuing city.
I'm looking for one whose builder and maker is God. So much more,
you see, than exhorting one another. I told you about Brother Donnie
and I walking up the peaks of Otter. You know, he wanted to
quit. And I said, no, let's go on. I wanted to quit. And he
said, no, we're going to come this far. And we wanted to quit.
And I wanted to quit. And I'd drag him. He'd drag me.
And we got to the top. And we were so glad we didn't
quit. And we forgot all about the climb.
Forgot all about the climb. The view was so wonderful. And
we had such good fellowship up there, the whole time we were
talking about the gospel and things of God. Just marveled.
Built a little fire and sat around the fire, about like Peter and
the disciples, or the Lord and the disciples, and just gloried
in the things of our God. And it was just glorious. It's
worth the trip. Worth the trip. Those things
are not even to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed.
We didn't even remember the trip. And we went skipping back down,
down the mountain. So let us, uh, exhort one another. If we sin willfully, this verse
26 means if you forsake the gospel, that's unbelief. If you reject
the gospel, if you leave the gospel, after you've received
the knowledge of the truth, you don't have a sacrifice. You don't
have a prayer. You don't have a prior priest
who stand before God someday. No sacrifice. God will say, cast, cast them
out. The verse thirty nine says now we're not of them that draw
back under perdition, but of them that believe in the saving
of the soul. I fully expect to meet Ellen Fralin in glory. I assure
you, if by God's grace I'm there. If by God's grace I die in the
faith like she did. The last thing I remember her
saying was, you remember Nancy? I'll never forget that as long
as I live. That was glorious, wasn't it? Brother Joe and Nancy
and Mindy and I were standing in the nursing home where she
was, and she didn't know our names. She didn't know who we
were. And I asked her what the gospel
was, and she said, Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Just as plain,
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I fully expect Ellen Fralin to
be there. I fully expect Joe Parks to be
right there. Yes, sir. Last thing I remember
him saying was, I'm standing on the rock. If I stay, if I
go, it'll be all right. I'm standing on the rock. And
he's beholden to the rock right now. If I get there, I fully
expect to see him persuaded. Things that accompany salvation. I fully expect, that's how she
died, Becky Coffey, I fully expect to see, if I get there, by God's
grace, if I die in faith, I fully expect, because they died in
the faith. And that's what Hebrews 11 talks
about. These all died in the faith. They didn't neglect. They didn't forsake. They didn't
let slip. My sister said, She weighed about 85 pounds and
couldn't go worship anymore. She said, life's not worth living
if you can't worship. That's what this is all about. God is faithful. Oh, is he faithful. I said he stood up one time.
He may have stood up then. What? How? Why would we miss
Christ? For who? For what? What's it
worth? A bowl of pottage? This is life. This is life. We're
talking life here. We're all fading away, aren't
we? Fading away. I'm going to preach Garnet's
funeral real shortly. If I don't preach yours first.
If somebody doesn't preach mine first. Right now. Right now. There's going to be
a body laying right here. In a while, there's going to
be another one. Might be mine. Might be yours. Might be Henry. Did he die in the face? Did he? Yes, he did. Glory, hallelujah.
We'll see him again. OK. I've got equipment. Brother
Gabe, don't let these things slip. This wasn't just a Sunday
message. slide. Give number 359 and let's stand.
Number 359 and we'll sing the first, second and fourth verse. My faith looks up to Thee, Thou
Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine. Now hear me when I pray, take
all my sin away. Oh, let me from this day be holy
thine. May thy rich grace impart.