OK, let's go back to Exodus 15. Exodus chapter 15. This, as you
notice, this chapter contains the song of Moses. Song of Moses. Song of the redeemed. Children
of Israel. Purchase. Are you ready with
me? Those whom God purchased, those whom God redeemed, those
whom God brought out with a high hand, a strong hand that we've
been reading about, we've been studying that. Wonderful picture
of salvation. The Song of Moses. How does that
apply to us? Well, this is the very song that
they're singing in heaven right now. Oh yeah. God's Word is so
amazing. In the revelation, it's spoken
of that the people sing the song of Moses and the song of the
Lamb. You know, that song of all God's
people, that worthy is the Lamb, our worthy. You want to know
what chapter that's in? 15. Revelation 15. Amazing. We saw in chapter 13
of Exodus, the story of the token on the hand and the front lip
And of all places, Revelation 13 speaks of the world having
tokens on their hands and for their eyes. Well, this song of
Moses, I wish we had time to go through every verse, but we
don't. We don't. I want to cover this chapter,
just hit the high point. It's the song, as I said, which
every believer in heaven is singing right now. It's a song we learn
here on the earth. A song of, number one, God's
glory. A song of God's sovereign salvation
of His people. Evidently, it's a song we never
get tired of because we're going to sing it through eternity.
I'm singing it right now. I can hear somebody saying, let's
sing that again. Second verse, same as the first,
throughout eternity. And I'll never grow weary of
it. Salvation of our Lord. They sung this song right after
the Lord delivered them from the Egyptians through the Red
Sea. And the highlights of this, look at verses 1 to sum, or the
essence of this song are verses 1 and 2. Then sang Moses and
the children of Israel. You know, the Lord, Moses is
a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the mediator between the
people, God and the people. He was the leader of the people.
He's the one that brought them through by his word, by his rod,
parted the Red Sea. This vast gulf fixed, parted,
and made a way for them to cross over on dry land. No mud. Here's a little footnote of Wednesday
night's message on going through on dry land. They didn't have
any mud on their feet. They didn't even have dirt under
their fingernails. You get that? We're not going
to have one sin on us. Not one. Complete. You're complete
and perfectly holy, pristine in Christ. No dirt under their
fingernails. Brother Steve and I never have
been without dirt under our fingernails. We will. But Moses is a picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it says, you know, it says that
Christ led the disciples before when they were sitting at that
supper. Remember, they were eating that supper and the Lord sang,
led them and singing a hymn. He led them singing a hymn. What
do you reckon they sung? I just have a feeling it might
have been them. Wouldn't you love to hear him
sing that? As it is written, no man spake like this man. They
went to hear him speak. Even his enemies were just mesmerized,
dumbfounded, stricken by his heart and by his voice. So much so, Teresa, they went
back and forgot what they went for. And I'm just certain that
no man sang like this man. When you've learned to hurt him
saying gay, we will. Moses and the children will sing.
I believe the Lord is going to lead us in singing, isn't he?
I believe he will. Can't wait. Can't wait. And we'll sing with
perfect, perfect voices. No minors, no flats. All in the
key of C. And Moses and the children of
Israel sang this song to whom? What was it all about? What was
the essence of this song? Why were they singing this song?
Who were they singing it to? Why were they singing it? To
be heard by... to the Lord. But if we could ever sing a song,
really, from the heart unto the Lord, we'd flat do some singing,
wouldn't we? Though men might think it's out
of key, God... music to his ears. He just says
make a joyful noise. You're not interested in the
key and the tempo and all that? No sir. From the heart. All this
people draw up near with their lips, don't they? A lot of religious
singing going on. A lot of pious looks toward heaven. It sure sounds pretty with all
the equipment. Like a brother. It's just last
night. Fairmont. He said to a couple
of singers one time he was setting up all their equipment. He said,
real singers don't need all that stuff. Well, McGinnis, Pat McGinnis. How could I forget a wonderful
Scottish name like that? One and two, he sang unto the
Lord in spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath
triumphed. This is his work. This is his
glory. This is his honor. That's what it's all about. That's
who we sing to. That's why we sing at all. We
wouldn't even be singing if he hadn't triumphed. Glorious. Right, John? Who's the Lord here
he's talking about? The Lord Jesus Christ, who triumphed
over our enemy, who brought us out. is bringing us in. He hath triumph. He hath. He
hath. Remember what we are? We're he-hath-ites. That's what we are. We're he-hath-ites.
We're the Jebusites, the Hivites, the Hittites. We're he-hath-ites.
Everything we say is he-hath. He-hath. He-hath. The horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea, the strength of Egypt. Read on, verse 2. The
Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord is my strength. He's
my salvation. He's my song. He's the sum and
substance of... He is my life. He's my God. Isn't
that the song of history? Isn't that your song? Doesn't
that sum it up? So he says, I'm going to prepare
him in habitation. I'm going to prepare myself a
heart. Put the belly in. That's where
you are. My son, give me that heart. Prepare. You said, My
Father's God, I will exalt Him. This is the essence of this song.
They're singing now. They sang then. I will exalt
Him. Down in verse 11, Who is like
unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee? Well, tell us what He's like,
people. Sing about it. He's glorious in holiness. This
is the song of the redeemed. This is the song of God's people. This is the song we learn down
here. The world doesn't know it. You're
not hearing this. Glorious in holiness. That's
His glory in the John. That's His glory. That's why
we make much of it. The angels do. The seraphs never
cease to say it. Holy, holy, holy. I will exalt
the Lord. I will worship at His holy footstool,
in His holy temple, in His holy presence. Holiness. He's glorious in holiness. Read
on. Fearful in praises. That's the reason we conduct
our praises in a fearful manner, in a reverent manner, in a careful
manner, in a respectful manner, in a worshipful manner. It needs
to be praised, yet do it temperate with fear. Don't let the flesh
Don't let the flesh get the best of you. Isn't this how we sing? Not only what we sing, isn't
it how we sing? I heard a modern day preacher making fun of that
very song we just sang. It made me angry. He doesn't
know the song of Moses, does he? Oh God, our help, that was
written from Psalm 90. Oh God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come. You can't get a better hymn than
that. Can you? Except this. Verse 13. Read on. Verse 13. This is hitting
the high spot. Thou in thy mercy. What's the
song of the redeemed? What's the song? What do God's
people all the time speaking of and singing of? Huh? What
did old brother Ed tell you? Your favorite chorus that we
sing around here. What did he write? Oh, how merciful. We haven't sung that in a while.
But you love it every time we sing it, don't you? It's the
song of the redeemed. That's the song of Moses. Thou
and thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed. You notice who he's given. All
the Lord thou hast, thou hast, thou hast, thou hast. Thy mercy,
thy will, thy power, thy hand, thy strength, thy glory. And you're guiding them. Thou
hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. Who's
that? What's that? Where's that? That's
Christ. God's holy habitation, the temple
of the Lord. Verse 18, going down there. The Lord shall reign
forever and ever. Doesn't this sum up the song?
Huh? period and exclamation point.
Paul, writing that definition of the gospel in 1 Corinthians
15, said, Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel.
And he went all the way down through there, and he pretty
much ended up by saying, For he must reign till his enemies
be made his foes. He must reign. Say unto the people,
Thy God reigneth. Isn't that our comfort, isn't
that our chief source of comfort and praise and worship? Huh? Do you ever get tired of hearing
about your sovereign God? Anybody? Good. You're going to be singing it
for eternity. Singing it. Well, so that's the Song of Moses
in brief. Song of Moses. And it deserves
a lot longer consideration But we will. We will. Hang on, we will spend about
100,000 years. Well, these people who were singing
this song, don't you know, picture them with me. They're going out
of Egypt. They had just come through the most glorious display
of God's power and mercy and grace and keeping power And his
destructive power, his wrath upon his enemies, his mercy to
them, his grace to them, his kindness to them, they just went
through the red sea. Now that's impossible, isn't
it? Well, God made the way. And the water was a wall unto
them. And all of that. Would you like
to go through that again? OK. Stan says so. So we'll go on. I could. I really could. The
glorious picture of our salvation. Now, they just went through that.
A picture of Calvary. A picture of Calvary. Christ was lifted up like Moses
lifted up that rod, and the wave parted for them to cross over.
The wave, it was their safety from the overflowing scourge
of God's wrath, which was for their safety, which was a wall
under them. No possible way those waters
could come down on them. No way. There wasn't even dirt
under their fingernails. They passed over, complete, not
hardly, not difficultly. They just passed right on over,
and every one of them, every single one of them, not hiding
their hair was left behind. Every one of them, because of
their mediator, holding up that rod. That's Christ, crucified. And then they stopped and beheld
as God went whoosh. And just covered up their head
and just destroyed them. They saw them all lying dead
on the seashore. It should have been them. They
were not one whit man. They saw this. Oh, how merciful. That should have been me. I was
just like the Egyptians. There's one of my old neighbors.
Oh, there's my employer. Right? Oh, how merciful. three days later. They'll never forget this. When
they hear this great salvation. When they see such mercy. When
they see such power on their behalf, when they hear of God's
electing, redeeming mercy and grace to them, not their sister
or not their brother, not their mother, not their father, them
in particular. When they hear that, they'll
never forget that. They'll never be ungrateful for
that. They'll never cease to sing.
They'll never complain about anything from here on out when
in light of God's wonderful mercy. Surely not. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, we met on Wednesday. Can anybody murmur and complain
about it? I'm not laughing at this. It's not funny at all.
Not funny at all. The irony of it is that we're
not one whit better than these children. We've seen the same
power in the same people. We've been redeemed no less than
that. Chosen. Heaven. Surely we'll never forget
that. Surely we'll never grow tired
of seeing it. They went out real enthusiastic. But three days
later, it says, verse twenty-three, verse twenty-three and twenty-four,
when they came to Marah, they ran into some bitter waters. That's why they're called Marah.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall we
do? In spite of God's wonderful mercy, in spite of so great a
deliverance, in spite of all his promises where they were
going, and he would never Take the cloudy pillar from them and
never forsake them, never leave them. Murmuring is bitter, complaining. Murmuring. Now the children,
listen to me, listen, this is very important. This is extremely
important. This is what the writer of Hebrews
wrote in depth about children of Israel were great sinners.
Great center. Just read the story of what all
they did. It's just hard. If we haven't done it, we thought
about it. But they were great centers.
I committed horrible sins against the Lord against such mercy,
but, you know, none of those sins kept them out of the promised
land. And that's something to think
about. Those sins didn't keep them out
from Him. The Lord Himself walked this
planet and He said, I say unto you, all manner of sin shall
be forgiven. Aren't you glad? Somebody's getting a hold of
this right now. All manner of sin shall be forgiven. It doesn't
matter what you've done, where you've been, what you've gone
through, it doesn't matter how hideous it was. No matter how
dark the past life, it doesn't matter. He's ever merciful and
gracious and kind and loving, will forgive us all thine iniquities. Get a hold of it, somebody in
here. Your sins are not going to keep you from God. There's
a way that God has made the way, the only one, to pass over with
no mud on your feet, with not one sin on your record, not even
dirt under your feet, not one charge against you. Not anything
to God's delight. Isn't that good news? That's
what the gospel is about. That's why it's called good news. And to whom much is forgiven,
they'll love the gospel much. But why didn't they go in? Murmuring and complaining. you hear this out of them for
forty years. We're going to look at murmuring and complaining. Why is this so serious? Why is
this so serious? Because, let me give you a few
reasons. Murmuring and complaining is finding fault, number one.
Murmuring and complaining is finding fault with God's providence. Finding fault with God's Lord,
you shouldn't have led me this way. I shouldn't have had anything
to do with you at all. I shouldn't have even taken notice
of you. What is man that thou art mindful of him? I shouldn't
have even ever given you a thought, let alone lead you, choose you
and lead you. Finding fault with God's providence,
murmuring and complaining is being ungrateful and unthankful
for God's blessings. And everything Paul said, give
thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you. When did he write that? He was sitting in a jail cell. Do you remember the story of
Pilgrim and his friend? They got thrown in the dungeon,
doubt and despair. They were held by that giant
of despair down in a dungeon. And one of them looked at the
other and said, how are we going to get out? I don't know. Hey. He said, here's a key. I got a key to get out. And they started singing. Found
the key. The well sprang within you, springing
up. Praise God's blessings, God's
goodness. Paul and Silas are the best illustration
of it. They were in the dungeon, weren't
they, in Philippi? They had just been beaten within
an inch of their life. And at midnight, Brother Paul
said to Silas, Brother Silas, it's a bad circumstance, but
God put us here and must have a reason. God does all, our God
reigns, Silas. Nobody put us in here but God.
There must be a reason. Let's just thank God for his
purpose and his will and his goodness toward us. As a matter
of fact, Brother Silas, we deserve to be here. Paul said, I was
a chief of sinners, less than the least of the saints, not
worthy to be called an apostle. I was injurious, a blasphemer,
a persecutor, but God. That's a faithful saying. Oh,
well, sadly, we've got a lot to sing about, don't we? In spite
of these stripes, oh, by his stripes. Look what all the Lord
went through for us. What shall we sing, Paul? It
doesn't say what to sing. I'd venture a guess. How about
the Song of Moses? They sang. And lo and behold,
the prison opened. The gates flew open. Murmuring and complaining is
being ungrateful and unthankful. Murmuring and complaining is
a form of self-righteousness. It really is. We say, when we
murmur and complain, we say, why me? No one. We're all guilty. Why me? I don't deserve this.
And kind of we're saying, should have had no so-and-so, not me. I deserve better than this. You
listen to this statement by Brother Ralph Barnard. I quote him often.
I quote it this often. You listen to the wisdom of this,
what he said, how many times some of the herd did. He said,
anything on this side of hell is mercy. Anything. Anything. Old Job was fine, wasn't
he? When he said it's the Lord, he
was doing just fine. And then he started defending
himself and he started murmuring. He cursed the day he was born.
And then he didn't have any peace for about 40 chapters. Long time,
didn't have any peace. But God, same God, came back
to him and said, you need to shut up again, Joe. Joe, shut
up. Let me tell you what all I've
done for you and who I am. And the latter end was better
for Job than the beginning. It sure was a difficult while he
was murmuring. It was tough. Well, murmuring and complaining.
They murmured, it says in verse 24. People murmured against Moses.
Moses. Turn over to chapter 16. Don't
cross the page. Verse 2. The whole congregation.
Children of Israel. How about us? That doesn't murmur? Oh my, I'm guilty. The whole
congregation did, murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Verse 7 and 8, In the morning ye shall see, the Lord said,
that the glory of the Lord, for he that heareth your murmurings
against the Lord. And what are we that ye murmur
against us? Moses said. Moses said, This shall be when
the Lord shall give you an even flesh to eat, and a morning bread
to the full. The Lord hearth your murmur, but you murmur against
him. What are we? Your murmurs are
not against us, but against the Lord. Now listen to this carefully.
He said, Your murmur is not against us, but it's against the Lord.
The Lord uses means, doesn't he? Our God is a God of means. He uses circumstances, situations,
people. He uses men, he uses events,
he uses things to accomplish his purpose, doesn't he? God's
spirit that he moves in this material world, he uses material
things as the means to accomplish his purpose. Every situation,
every event, every person, every place and everything is the means
ordered by God Almighty concerning us, from the weather to a dog barking in the night. Awaken us in our sleep. Is that
right? Oh, yeah. I've often thought
about things that happen, you know, and wonder why. What could
be the purpose of that? I've often thought about various
things. And, Lord, I don't understand
why. What is being accomplished? You
know, if anything, It makes you stop and just think about him. You know, if anything, it just
makes you stop. I sure don't understand. Your ways are pacified me now,
but you did this. Whereas you weren't even thinking
about it. But something happened to you. Why? Even so, Father, it seemed good
in my sight. He'll explain someday, but maybe not now. Doesn't have
to. He giveth not an account of himself
to any man. Doesn't have to. Doesn't have
to. But know this, for your good, for your peace, that everything,
everything, every person, down to dogs barking, are ordered
by the Lord. Remember when the children were
going out and God wouldn't even permit the Egyptians' dogs to
bark? Nothing's going to destroy their peace. This is a day of
happiness and peace. I'm not even going to let a dog
bark and destroy this thing. I'm not even going to let a dog
bark at an Israeli dog. Oh, but what's a dog? It's a dog that belongs to my
people. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Everything. It's the Lord. Men,
means. And as we said in the morning
Bible study, everything in this life This whole life, for God's
people, is to humble us. That's the grand design of God
Almighty and the things that take place in our lives, to humble
us before the God, because he that is humble exalts him. And he that exalts himself, which
is what this world is full of, shall
be amazed. God has purposed it, to stain
the pride of all glory. And God does all that he does
to wean us from falling in love with this world and clinging
to it. That's good, isn't it? That's good. The waters of Marah,
what are they? We're coming to them now. What
are the waters of Marah? The word means bitter. The word
means bitter. What did our Lord say in John
chapter four about the waters of this world? The waters of this world are
the waters of tomorrow. And we all come to them. We all
go through them. We all have to drink bitter water. The things that We run into leave
a bitter taste in our mouth. That's by design. That's by design. You're looking
for better water. You're looking for better water.
An eternal well. I'm getting ahead of myself.
The waters of Mara and the God. Everything that happens to us
is to show us that we're nothing. And we deserve nothing. And it's simple of bread and
water just simple bread and water. Has to come from God. And it's cause for rejoicing
just simple bread and water cause for rejoicing as an Ethiopian
one woman somewhere. Ask a Nigerian woman to watch
as her child died starvation. Bread and water. That's a gift
from heaven. That's all you need. Food and
rain. It calls for rejoicing. This
is a picture of the gospel right here. This water of Marah. Beautiful
picture of the gospel right here. This tree. Stay with me, all
right? Look at it. Verse 25. They came
to the waters and couldn't drink. They were so bitter. These are
God's people now. They can't drink these bitter
waters. They taste them as bitter. And it's called modern in the
world. Say, well, what shall we drink
then? You want something to drink? If you'd ask. If you knew who
it was that you would have asked and he would have given Remember
that? Are you really thirsty? Do you really want something
to drink? So he cried unto the Lord. Oh, picture of our mediator. The only one that God would hear
is Moses, and Christ is the only mediator between God and man
who cried unto the Lord in that high priestly prayer, and the
Lord showed him. Here it is. Here's how you're
going to make a bitter water sweet, a treat. It's going to be cast right in
the middle of those waters. It's going to make the bitter sweet.
Are you with me, Nancy? There's only one thing to make
these bitter waters turn sweet. The tree. What's that? It ain't a what. Remember, I told you. Didn't
I tell you? If I ask you a question, there's
three right answers to every question. Christ is a trip. A man. Someone blessed is the
man you'll be like a tree. And the revelation he's that
tree of life with healing in his way and his leaves leaves
are for the healing of the nation tree of life. Christ came into
the midst of this bitter world. Mara. Christ who himself hung
on a tree. That was by design, wasn't it?
He hung on a tree. Calvary's tree. Christ crucified.
And if you ever get a hold of Christ crucified, if God ever
enables you to behold Him, He'll make these bitter waters sweet.
It's the only thing that will. You know, Christ is the only
thing that makes this life really worth living. Right? How did He live? He who he who was repulsed by
it who recoiled at every single thing in person that he ran into. He who who's separate from sense
and if I. Walked this cesspool of iniquity
every single word he heard he read men's hearts minds thought
could you imagine if you could read people's thoughts. Bad enough
they did it. out of these vile mouths, Romans
3 says. Mouths like an open sepulcher,
aren't they? It's just painful to your ears to hear all this
stuff. Well, the Lord God told him, walk this planet, repulsed
by, recoiled at everything he saw, everything he got. What
a bitter place to him. For thirty-three years, which
would be the equivalent of us living here for two thousand
years or more. What made the waters? How did
he endure? He endured to see in him. He
had this well of water, Tammy, springing up within him. That's
what he drew from. That's what he drew from. He got thirsty. That's what he
drew from. Christ is that tree. And it says
there, he proved them. Verse 25, I like this. There
he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved
them. This is where all men are going to be proved. Yes, it is. We all murmur and
complain. We all go through bitter water.
We're all guilty as charged. The Lord proves us, tries us
by the cross. What shall we do to work the
works of God? believe. Look to him. You're
a murmur or a complainer. Look to him. Look to him. Read on. Here's the statute. Here's the ordinance. If thou
wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and
wilt do that which is right in his sight, thou wilt diligently
hearken. Diligently. And do that which
is right. Read on. and keep and give ear to his
commandments and keep all his statues. Has something to do
with the ear that. Keep saying it Harkin listen.
Paul wrote the young Timothy said. The time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine but shall turn away their ears
from the truth and be turned on by. How do we come here. What's this all about? Let us not be like them, who
just do it as a show of religion, but may this be the song of our
heart, the gospel of our salvation. This is why we come, to hear
this glorious message again. Here, and lay hold of him. Read
on. And I'll put none of these diseases
upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I am
the Lord that healeth thee, Jehovah Rapha. I'll put none of these
diseases on you. Now, it goes without saying that if
we live as the world does, guilty of, so horribly guilty of today,
it goes without saying, if we live in open sin and uncleanness,
we could get AIDS. There's no promise to a child
of God that they won't get AIDS if they act like the world hepatitis. These diseases that are so rampant
prevalent in modern day Egypt or Rome. The diseases of the
world would you turn with me though that the principal disease
of this were second Timothy three second Timothy three. Would you
turn over there real quickly. I don't think the Lord I don't
believe the Lord is speaking so much of. physical ailments,
though those apply. But it's like the examples of
our Lord healing people. Every one of them had a spiritual
significance, didn't it? That's why they're recorded,
because those people died of something. But like I said, it
goes without saying that we will, children, young people, you do
what the world's doing. If you don't listen to what the
Lord says about against premarital sex and and licentious or unclean
lifestyle you may come down with a deadly disease. Probably will. But the disease is that the Lord
the disease of the. Breaks out in all manner of maladies
is seeing right thing. And here are the symptoms or
here are the sins sin is the deadly disease. Here are the
sins. Second Timothy three verse two
men shall be lovers of their own self love. That's a that's
a disease and a horrible outbreak of that day and self love. There's
a magazine called self. What's the cure? The gospel. It's the only thing that will
keep you from loving yourself. You know what? Those that are
in here now who were formerly religious, self-righteous, didn't
know about yourself, about this disease, this loathsome disease,
this leprosy, until you heard the gospel. The gospel is the only thing.
It is not only the prognosis diagnosis but it's secure. Like that serpent on the pole
right not only the. Prognosis but it's secure self-love
look at the next night covetous oh my this disease. Contagious. America who most materialistic
side of society we've ever ever in the history of the world without
a doubt is it not We're just bombarding on every hand the
richest. Society in the history of the
world, no doubt about it. What's the cure from being overtaken,
overcome with this disease of covetousness? What's the cure?
The gospel. If you really hear a Christ,
if you get a taste of this water, nothing else will really ever
satisfy you. Is it so with you? Come on now. Examine yourself,
see whether you boasters, read all boasters. Oh, if that isn't
a man should be proud boaster. Is that a disease or what? Oh,
how people like to talk about themselves, don't they? What's
the cure? You see him who is altogether
lovely, him like the people. I love this story, my favorite
story. David, the people that followed David, they said unto
him, you're worth, you're worth 10,000 of us. They were all willing
to lay down their lives for David that David was going to go. And
they said, no, no, we'll lay down our lives. You're worth
10,000 of us. You're irreplaceable. We're nothing. You're everything.
You're altogether nothing. Ah, boasters. I'm going to quit.
Some of you already quit me, so I'm going to quit. The gospel of God's grace. Look
at this last one. Somebody will somebody enjoy
this. Well, he said in verse twenty
six, I've brought you I've brought these things upon the Egyptians,
and I'm the Lord that healeth thee. I've chosen you. I've redeemed
you. I've revealed all these things to you. I've made these
precious promises. Are you going to hear me? Are you going to hear
me? I need the happy ears to hear.
Did you hear it? All right, look at this. All
right, they left. And they came, now they just
left, passed through Elam, or passed through Mara, and they
came, where'd they end up at? Elam. Bitter water there? Twelve wells. You get that, Sheriff? Twelve,
not one. Twelve wells, deep wells, full
of just wonderful water. And palm trees, seven palm trees. Palm trees are always a symbol
of peace. Remember the children of Israel
laid down the palm branches in the palms of victory? Well, Donny Bell would sing that
song. Palms of victory. Hosanna under the palm trees. Doesn't that make you think of
paradise? Palm trees, water everywhere. What'd they do? We'll just pitch
our tents right here. You get that, Sammy? That's where
we're headed, buddy. I've got news for you. We're
already drawing from the whales. That's what Isaiah said. In Zion,
they'll draw from the whales of salvation. Twelve of them.
Twelve apostles. Twelve stars. Right here. You're drawing from
whales. Well, you want to camp here?
Camp here a little while? All right. We will someday will.
And forever. Never leave. Never leave. All right. Hope as a blessing.
I hope God was honored. He deserves it. Number 13. Let's sing and close in hymn
number 13. God have you come up and lead
us in that. Praise the Lord. The Almighty. King of creation. Oh my soul
praise him. He is thy health. Let's stand
as we say, first and last.