What a joy it is to be here again.
We're glad for everyone that is here, those who have traveled
for many miles, and remember the services following this in
prayer. Would you turn with me to the
Book of Acts today? The Book of Acts in your Bibles. This last week, Monday through
yesterday, my oldest son Nathan and his friend Nathan and Mike
and I went elk hunting. And we hunt in an area that once
in a while we find a beautiful agate or a beautiful rock. And
sometimes we ask more questions about rockhounding than we do
about the gospel. Because Nathan's friend Nathan
found a chunk of petrified wood And it was about this big around
and about that long, but it was absolutely beautiful. And he
was not sure what he was going to do with it, whether he was
going to cut it or not. You know the first question I ask him
about that rock? Where did you find that? Every once in a while I'm out
with my metal detector and find an interesting coin. And I show
it to somebody, you know the first question they ask? Where
did you find that? And you know, when we get to
the gospel, so often people are just blind to the gospel. And they say they have something,
but they never tell you where it came from. Now, that's not
true about the Bible. We're going to find out that
everything that we have spiritual, that is positive, that is good,
has been issued to us by God. Everything, every spiritual blessing
comes from God. It is not something that we concoct. It is not something that we build
up. It's not something that we lay
hold of. We have to answer the question, where did you get that? And we have to go to the point,
we love him because he first loved us. It's not something
that we have, it's something that's been given to him. Now
here in the second chapter of the book of Acts, we've noticed
several times that the apostle Peter called on those people
who said, Men and brethren, what shall we do? And that is so often
we find that people will ask that question. It's found a number
of times in the Bible, and they're looking for me to tell them something
to do. They're looking for you to tell
them something to do. It's a natural thing. When we
find out we got caught because of doing something wrong, we
cry out, what can I do to make it better? Well, there's actually
nothing you and I can do. because it is out of our hands.
We have to say, where did you find that? And we must point
people to Jesus Christ. Now, I've been found fault with,
and that's fine, probably all of us have over some issue or
other, but I've been found fault with that I'm not quick to win
someone to Jesus. You know my solution for that
is go alone with Christ. Get alone with Christ. I have
nowhere to get you any higher than the gospel that I've preached.
And so as we look here, we find in the book of Acts chapter two,
in verse 41 of the book of Acts chapter two, let's read this. A few verses that are found here
in the book of Acts chapter two, as we've gone through this and
it's been, I apologize, but it's been slow plowing. We wanted
to dig deep. We wanted to turn that furrow
over. We wanted to make sure that as we look at the book of
Acts chapter 2, that it's going to be the answer to many of the
other issues that come up in this book. And people found fault
with them teaching about the resurrection, but that was the
heart and core of the gospel. That is the heart and core of
the gospel, is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So it's brought
up here, and it's going to be continuously brought up. And
here in Acts chapter 2, beginning with verse 41, we read these
words. It says, And they that gladly
received his word. Now, I believe there's two meanings
to that word, his. They gladly received Peter's
words, but if you gladly receive Peter's words, his words were
the words of God. So they are ultimately saying,
not only do we believe his words, Peter, he preached the gospel,
he went to the Old Testament, Lord, the Holy Spirit led him
to appropriate verses of scripture that shared with this whole host
of people, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. But when they
believed his word, they were really saying, we believe, His
word, it's made a difference, His word. Now it's so much different
than those that were in the temple and those who set their students
down and catechized them and brought them to some mental agreement
about what the Bible had to say about their position in this
world and so forth. Just as we read about what they
did to the Jews, they were catechized from a very young age. They're
not the only ones though, and most people are catechized and
don't have any idea at all what their meaning of their catechism
is. Well, here we find they that
gladly received his word were baptized the same day and they
were added unto them about 3,000 souls. As we look at this, turn
with me to the book of First Thessalonians if we would. First
Thessalonians Chapter 1 and verse 5. We find over here that the
Apostle Paul is sharing with those at Thessalonica. Church
at Thessalonica, he is sharing with them the benefits of hearing
the preached word. But the preached word is valueless
unless it is carried by the Holy Spirit. I don't know how many
times I heard something, but never heard it. Didn't pay any
attention to it. In fact, the first time I ever
heard the gospel, I went home and told my wife, I hate that
man. And I didn't even know what he was talking about. All right,
here in the book of 1 Thessalonians 1, verse 5, we find that the
apostle Paul, in writing to the Thessalonians, he'd been there
and preached. And he said, there's a bunch
of you folks that went beyond hearing just me. But where did
you find out? Where did it come across to you?
It says, for our gospel came not unto you in word only. Now it's a privilege to bring
word only. Many years ago, the Holy Spirit
bore upon my soul to be here at this place, 37 years now,
to carry the word only, as far as I can go, but be faithful
in declaring the word of God only. He says there, we came
unto you in word only. That's all I could do. I couldn't
get any farther than that, but also in power and in the Holy
Ghost. So if we don't have that, It's
just word only. We're going to go home, word
only. Oh, it was a good sermon. He
talked about this and that, but I certainly wish he'd got onto
prayer, or I wish he'd got onto Christian living, or I wish he'd
got onto something else, because I'm just not willing to hear
Jesus Christ alone. I had a man tell me in this group
one time, is this all you're going to preach? And I said,
what? I didn't know what he's talking
about. And I said, what are you talking about? He says, is this
the only message that you have is about Jesus? I said, that's
all I got. Well, what do you want to hear
anyway? He said, I want to hear Christian living, how to raise
the kids. I said, if you ever hear the gospel, the Holy Spirit
will reveal that to you. The word will be opened up to
you. You will understand about how to be a good husband and
a good wife and how to raise your children. If God ever shows
you Christ, you'll have that taken care of. So they were brought
the word only, but also in power and the Holy Ghost and much assurance. And you know what manner of men
we were among you for your sake. We were just like you. I like
people who say, Norm, what do you want to be called? Norm.
Why? Well, they called Peter, Peter,
and Paul, Paul. Norm's okay for me. So there was no added words
given to Paul or Peter, Reverend, Doctor. In fact, the Lord Jesus
Christ was so opposed to that calling something special because
we're saved out of the same pew you're saved out of. We just
don't have anything different. So as we look here in the book
of Acts chapter two, we notice that there was such a work and
demonstration of the power of God. Now I found out among many
people that they don't know and are afraid of the power of the
Holy Spirit. They don't know it, number one,
but they're afraid of it. And so if we don't know it and
we're afraid of it, we're going to try to circumvent the work
of the Holy Spirit and nothing can circumvent the work of the
Holy Spirit. We can't get around it. If we're
going to be saved, it must be through the power of the Holy
Spirit. And so people are afraid. He's not getting his job done
quick enough. He's not getting his job done
soon enough. What happens if this person should
die before they ever confess Jesus? You know, that's out of
my hands. But I know this. I don't have
the power. Peter didn't have the power.
Paul didn't have the power. And Jesus Christ demonstrated
that with his own brothers and sisters. They were unbelievers. until the work of the Holy Spirit
in them. And so it must be in the power
of the Spirit. And the power of the Spirit bore
fruit that day after the preaching of the gospel. Now, I don't know
how many thousands of people were there. I do know this, there
were 12 preachers preaching. And Peter's preaching to the
Jews. And here's a group over here with this group. Here's
a preacher over here with this group. 11 different other groups
of people that were gathered there to hear the word of God
in their own language, and they heard it. Out of that whole host
of people, 3,000. About 3,000, it tells us there
in the book of Acts, about 3,000 were demonstrated that the Holy
Spirit had activity in them and gave them the new birth because
it says that 3,000 were saved. Souls were saved that day. About 3,000 passed from death
unto life. You know, we really don't comprehend
what mess we're in by nature. And it's called in the Bible,
death. It's called in the Bible, dead. We're dead in trespasses
and sin. We can't comprehend what that
is, any more than we can comprehend how we were given life. But we're
dead in trespasses and sin, and we find through the power of
the Holy Spirit, we pass from death unto life. And you know,
Mike was talking about this morning about being in darkness. It apparently
was that Adam and Eve had a light about them. And as soon as they
sinned against God, that light was removed from them. And we
find that the Holy Spirit, when he comes upon us in the new birth,
we are given the light of the liberty that we have in Christ
Jesus, light of the gospel. They pass from darkness to light. That's what God does for his
people. We are a new creature in Christ Jesus. We have life
and we have light. And then they passed from Jesus
of Nazareth. You know, it really, anything
ever get under your skin? No, dad's going to, no. No, you know what really gets
under my skin? Is someone who says they know
the gospel refer to God the Father as the man upstairs. What an
atrocity. They're revealing a whole lot
about what they know about God. He is not the man upstairs. He
is almighty God, ruling and reigning in this world like almighty God
has always done. He reigns, he rules in this world,
and it accomplishes his eternal purpose I got a note, we're about to
run out of battery. And then it tells us in Acts
chapter 2, would you turn there back to Acts chapter 2 with me?
In the book of Acts chapter 2, there in verse 41, the scriptures
say this. Now in these people doing this,
it's so much different than today. But when these people were baptized,
it was like signing their death warrant. They were ostracized. And the religion that they were
accustomed to didn't want them in there anymore. And they would
tell their parents, if you aid and abet him, you'll be out of
here. They lost their jobs. They lost their friends. They
lost all that they had. It's no wonder they're going
to have all things common. They've lost their property because they
have gone from worshiping a God that the Jews were worshiping
and continuing with their sacrifices and offerings and seeing nothing
in there about the Lord Jesus Christ. They've gone from that.
And now God has saved them and he is expecting them to be baptized. And when they are baptized, they're
ostracizing themselves. It was a big thing. for them to go through the watery
death of baptism. They are declaring that they
are going from knowing Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified,
to the Lord of glory. They realize now that God the
Savior has saved them by his grace, and they will suffer anything. What did Paul say? I will endure
all things for the elect's sake. I will be beaten. I will be left
for dead. I will have all of these atrocities
that man can come up with, but I will continue to go on until
the last breath of my body is taken from me, declaring Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. not how many people we fed, not
how much we supported somebody, but Jesus Christ and him crucified. This is a, believing the gospel,
repentance and faith is a private embrace of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when we went down through
there, we found out that that word repentance is not something
that we do on our own. Judas repented, but he was just
sorry he got caught. The apostles preached a gospel
of repentance, and that repentance means that you have a change
of mind about God, that He gives us that change of mind, that
we go from darkness to light. We go from death to life. We're
raised from the dead. We're brought out of a horrible
pit. We have all of those things behind us, and He has given us
a view of Him. Now, it's not all we're gonna
get a view of. Grace comes daily. And then that
day when we pass through this veil of darkness and tears, we
see him face to face and we'll know him as we are known. But
that's on the way. They were baptized. They openly
declared that they believe God and his word no matter the consequences. And so they went through that.
And then it continues on here in the book of Acts chapter two.
As we see the Gospel, the results of the Gospel, Acts chapter 2,
verse 42. If you turn there with me, Acts
chapter 2, verse 42. We read these words. And they
continued. They continued. What a difference
the Gospel makes in people. They continued steadfastly. The invitation was always to
leave. If you'll give that up, you can
come home. If you give that up, you got your job back. If you
give that up, you can go to the temple again. If you give that
up, if you renounce all of that stuff. Yet, they continued steadfastly
in the apostles doctrine. Now, a lot of people have a fuss
about doctrine. Doctrine is teaching. Doctrine
is teaching. That's what Mike does. That's
what Mike does. That's what Lauren does. That's
what I do. Just teaching. We're just teaching the word
of God. But it is doctrine. It is a declaration of God and
his salvation only through grace. And this doctrine that we have,
they did not disregard the instructions of the apostles. In fact, they
wanted to be around the gospel. It was satisfactory to be around
the gospel. They would give anything to be
around the gospel. They needed to hear the gospel.
You know, just as Jesus used that picture, that type and that
shadow of the Lord's Supper to share, you know, this is my body
and this is my blood. In reality, spiritually speaking,
he is our food. And He is our drink, and that's
why He is called our Savior all and in all. Every bit of Him
is an important quality, and the church has been looking into
and desiring to know more about this Savior every day. We want to know more and we'll
never come to the end of the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is something that he gives us every day. His blessings are
new every morning. In the night seasons, have you
ever woke up and can't get back to bed, sleep? I don't know how
many times I've said, I'll look under the hills from whence cometh
my help. My help cometh from the Lord. He's going to take care of all
the issues that I face, that we face. You know, the Lord Jesus had
a doctrine that everybody was astonished at. He taught things
that they were astonished at. You know what he preached? himself. He's the only person that ever
walked on the face of this earth that had the right to preach
about himself and what he was doing. The rest of us, we must
preach him. Turn with me, if you would, to
the book of Matthew, the book of Matthew chapter seven. Matthew
chapter seven, and here in verse 28, Matthew chapter seven, verse
28, Jesus, if you back up there,
has just spoken and quite a long conversation or ministry is preaching
there. And it tells us in verse 28,
and it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings, the
people were astonished at his teaching. It wasn't the normal
thing that they had been accustomed to. It wasn't normal what they
had heard all their life. It wasn't the normal teaching
that they had been given at home or in Bible class or Sunday school
or in seminary. It was the teaching of Jesus
Christ. And it was, as it says there,
they were astonished at his doctrine. Look with me just a little bit
further there in verse 29. And for he taught them as one
having authority. Now, I love that, don't you?
My goodness. He taught them as one having
authority. No wonder he's called the Lord. He has authority. No wonder he's
called King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is one that has
authority. He's had authority in eternity
past. He had authority while he was
on this earth. He was able to have the authority to walk up
to a tomb and say, Lazarus, come forth. And Lazarus came out of
there alive. He had the authority to speak
at demons and cast them out. He had the authority to speak
to a young man who was broken and fix him. He had the authority,
a man was born blind, heal him. He had the authority, a man that
could not walk and brought him up to his feet again. This is
one who has authority. And it says there, they were,
they taught them as one to have an authority and not as the scribes. You know, I can just imagine
what that was. There was no zip. Those scribes
had lost all their zip. They were just so uninterested.
It was just a job to read Isaiah 53, and it was all so monotone. I'm glad it was over with because
we can go have lunch. It's just they didn't have any
authority behind them. They didn't believe what they
were reading. It takes a person who believes. to share with authority,
and Jesus Christ believed every word he said, because he has
been with the Father before the world was. In the beginning was
the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and so
he has authority to speak in every capacity, on every subject,
and sometimes they'd ask him a question, and he says, I'll
give you that answer if you answer my question. You ever done that? Jesus did that several times.
He said, I'll answer that question if you'll answer my question.
And you know what? They talked among themselves.
He says, we better keep our mouth shut. If we answer it one way,
the people will hate us. And if we answer it another way,
they're going to say, why didn't you believe him? And so they
said, we can't answer that question. And he simply said, neither will
I answer your question. You know, most people have Jesus
as a salesman, just a salesman. I preached a message one time
in my religious days and the man came up to me, an old man
came up to me afterwards and he says, you've got to be like
a car salesman. You've got to close the deal.
Well, I didn't know anything, but I knew that wasn't right.
It's not my job to close the deal. God has to take care of
that. And then if you turn with me
to the book of Luke chapter four, Luke chapter four, as we think
about the Lord's authority, the Lord's doctrine, the Lord's teaching,
here in Luke chapter four and verse 32, we read these words,
it says, and they were astonished. at his doctrine, for his word
was with power." Oh my goodness. to grip that for just a second,
to lay hold of that for just a second, that his word had power,
explosive power. Is not my word like a hammer
that breaks the rock to pieces and like a fire? Isn't my word
almighty and powerful? Well, that's exactly what it
is. It is powerful. When God's word is declared,
it has the power to cause us to leave our subtleness and our
religion and say, Lord, save me, lest I perish. That's what Peter cried out.
And as an example of the church, Lord, save me, lest I perish.
What must I do? You can't do anything, but God's
already taken care of that. He's the one that has supplied
everything that is necessary. And he's the one that will come
and he will save 3000 at one time, as he did on the day of
Pentecost. So he came with power and he
declared it. His word was with power. And
it tells us going back there to the book of Acts chapter two,
that they continued in fellowship. Acts chapter two, would you join
me there again? In Acts chapter two, this is the result of hearing
the gospel. This is a result of the new birth.
This is a result of God saving a people. This is what they will
gladly do. They will gladly travel 100 miles
one way. When we were in the old building,
it's just a dream right now. It's just part of almost a passing
thought. When we were in the old building,
People would tell me, people are not going to come to that
church. And I said, sheep will go a long ways to have some green
grass. Now, where I grew up, cattle
had to graze at about 20 miles an hour to get food enough in
a day. There was such a sparse food
for them, but they did it. And they'd come to water when
they needed it. And Isaiah said, An ox knows its master's crib,
but Israel has run away from me." Well, here in the book of
Acts, Chapter 4, if you'd look at that please, Acts Chapter
4, verse 43. Acts Chapter 2, excuse
me, verse 43. Verse 42, it says, and they continued
steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, in fellowship, in the
breaking of bread, and in prayers. I think not only did they have
food together for meals, but they also had the Lord's Supper.
They continued in the fellowship and in the doctrine, the apostles'
doctrine. Why would they continue in that?
Because those apostles knew something about the gospel and they were
preaching the gospel and that was their life, blood. And then
it says in verse 43, and fear came upon every soul. Now, isn't that interesting? You know, the Lord had done something for
those folks. And they had changed in their
mind about a God that was their co-pilot to a God that sits on
his throne. They had changed their view about
God from, he's my best friend and buddy, until he's my Lord
and Savior. He is not what we commonly think
about him. He is much greater than that. His thoughts are above our thoughts
as far as heaven is above earth. But He's also promised that His
word will not return unto Him void, but will accomplish that
whereunto He ascended. That's power. That's authority. And that's God. Fear came upon
every soul. The fear of God came upon their
soul. They had a reverence about God
that they had never had in their life before. that when they talked
about fear, they were afraid. Well, sometimes it's just really
good to be afraid of God, to have reverence and respect for
him, to count him more than just some buddy that's our buddy. You know, the gospel shares with
us, he is king of kings and lord of lords. They continued, as
it tells us there, in the steadfast in the apostle's doctrine and
fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. You know,
most of these prayers were private things. A lot of people got the
idea that prayer is to be that vocal verse that we have for
God. I remember there was an old preacher
in the church where I grew up, and nobody ever wanted to ask
him to pray. Why? because he preached a message
in his prayer. He took all the time up because
they would never ask him to preach. Well, most prayer is a prayer
in our prayer closet. This was with believers. People
who believe the same thing. This was in their life. They
prayed, they honored God in prayer. But this is not what they went
home and bragged about. They were doing a conversation
with God that was to themselves before God. And then it says
in verse 44, or verse 41, fear came upon them and many wonders
and signs were done by the apostles. No more than we can today. The Lord authenticated the gospel
by some of these apostles doing some things you and I cannot
do today. We can't raise the dead. I can't
heal a pimple. I can't heal a toothache. I can't
even heal my own toothache. I'm dependent upon someone else.
I asked a young preacher. He was telling me all he did
for his salvation. I said, what do you do when you get a toothache?
Do you take care of it yourself? He said, no, I have to go to
someone who knows something about it. And I said, my point. You
have to go to someone who knows something about it, and that's
the God. So they continued in the apostles'
doctrine. Verse 44, all that believed were
together and had all things common. There's two thoughts on that.
Number one, since they're all together and they've all been
ostracized and they don't have any jobs to go home to, no family
to go home to, nothing like we commonly think about, they did
pool their funds. And they did go by bread, and
they did take care of each other. But more than that, they had
their doctrine common. They didn't plan on how to circumvent
some preacher, the apostles teaching about something. They didn't
go and say, well, you know, I'm really going to go looking into
this and prove that guy wrong. It's a They had all things common. They believed the same about
the gospel. They same about the blood of Christ. They believe
the same about Christ being in great power, the son of God,
all of these things. Their theology was in agreement. And how they were blessed. They
didn't argue with those who were given a responsibility. And yet
we find the apostle Paul wrote about the Bereans and they were
more noble. because they searched the scriptures
daily to see if those things were so. And if those things
came from an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ that had studied
the word and God had given them the message, they would say,
that's in agreement with this. What he had to say is in agreement
with this, because he took it right out of the word of God.
Verse 45, and sold their possessions and goods and part of them all
To all men as every man had need and they Continuing daily with
one accord in the temple in breaking of bread From house to house
did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart You know
these guys probably the first time in their life. They were
doing something glad When I was young I was drugged I Was drugged to church It was not pleasant for me. I
didn't enjoy it. It was not something that I wanted
to do. I was made to do it. Now I honor my parents for wanting
to do that. But you know what? When God saved
me, I'm a whole lot more interested in being here. It's something
I want to do. In fact, it's one of the most
selfish things I do. I want to be with God's people. And that's what I find out about
these 3,000 souls that were saved that day. They wanted to be with
God's people and hear the apostles preach and teach. They wanted
to honor that. They want the gladness and singleness
of heart. There was one accord in the temple. Now they didn't observe the temple
services anymore. That's all done away with in
Christ. even before the temple was destroyed in AD 70. Those
believers did not go up there and watch this sacrifice anymore
because Christ is their Passover. They had him, they didn't need
that. I had a preacher tell me one time he was over in Israel
and he partook of the Passover and how wonderful that was. I
thought to myself, that is wrong. That Passover is wrong. He is
our Passover. My goodness, just to go along
with some religious because it feels good, that's not going
to do a thing for God. So here they are praising God,
having favor with all the people, and the Lord added. Did you know
that's that? The Lord added daily. Who did he add? such as should
be saved. Verse 47, the Lord added daily. It was his addition. I really
appreciated when I was going through the book of Daniel that
I didn't have to be a mathematician to figure out a lot of stuff
out. You could just trust God. Here's the time they were sent
forth. Here's the time when Jesus was
born. What he did in that period of time was okay. Doesn't matter
what group raised their hands or anything else, Jesus Christ
was going to be born and have the appropriate message for the
people. He was going to be there for
the forgiveness of sins. Well, here we have, it doesn't
take a mathematician to figure out who's going to be saved.
It's such as should be saved by the Lord. He added to the
church such as should be saved. What a blessing God does. You
know, turn with me to Acts 13.48, if you would. Acts 13.48. Now, this is in a time when the
Apostle Paul began to preach to the Gentiles. There was some
difficulty by those first apostles about ever saying a word to the
Gentiles. Peter had to be shown, go to
the Gentiles. The rest of them had to be shown,
go to the Gentiles. And here we find that the Apostle
Paul shared with a whole group of Jews, you have judged yourselves
unworthy of eternal life, therefore, I turn to the Gentiles. And you
know what? I can raise my hand and say,
thank you, God. You brought the message to the
Gentiles. I'm one of them. And here he
said, And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified
the word of the Lord. Now notice with me the rest of
that verse. And as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed. God already had it worked out.
He didn't have to have a mourner's bench. Didn't have to have a
pray-through service. Didn't have to hold your hands
up, heads bowed, hands up. It was simply the Lord added
daily, such as should be saved. And it tells us there, and as
many who are ordained to eternal life believe. Romans chapter
eight and verse 30. Two more verses, and we'll wrap
this up. Romans chapter eight, verse 30. Romans chapter 8 and verse 30. Now it's just on this coming
Thursday, Nancy and I are going to be down at the airport in
Portland. Lord willing, we get on a plane that goes to Cincinnati.
Now if they came out and told me we don't know where this plane
is going to end up, I probably wouldn't get on it. I want to have a predestined
plane. We're going to a destination
that's already prepared. And I'll get on that plane. We're
going to end up in Cincinnati. All right, listen to this. Moreover,
whom he did predestinate, then he also called. I've had people
say, well, if that's true, then what about my family? They may
not be. What about your family? They may not be. Who's going
to convert them? Goes on. Them he also called,
and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified,
them he also glorified. They're as glorified today as
in heaven. We just don't have that new body. We are just as justified as we
will ever be. We're just as sanctified as we'll
ever be. We don't add a thing to any of
those spiritual blessings. And then again, in the book of
Romans chapter 11, Romans chapter 11, and there in verse five. Even so then, at this present
time, and I'm thankful for that, even though then at this present
time there is also, there is a remnant according to the election
of grace. And if by grace, then it is no
more of works. Otherwise, grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then it is no more of grace. Otherwise,
work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained
that which he seeketh for, but the election hath obtained it,
and the rest were blinded. You know, as we're gone, this
pulpit will be filled with faithful men of God declaring the gospel. And when I get back, Acts chapter
3, I want to ask this question, are you a lame beggar? Brother Mike.