and flow through Luke. And I want to just take verses 22 and 24 tonight. Luke 4, 22 and 24. We're told that the Lord went in spirit to Galilee and a fame went out throughout all the land. They were talking about Him. And He went and preached to them. They gave Him the book of Isaiah and He read it And then he told them he is the one it was speaking about.

And verse 22 says, And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. They wondered at the way he preached. And then a carnal question comes up. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? Now they go from wonder to skepticism. And he said to them, you were surely saying to me this proverb, physician, heal thyself, heal us, do this for your own people. Whatsoever we've heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said, verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. And then we know how it ends. Verse 28 says that, When they heard his message, they were filled with wrath. They rose up, thrust him out of the city, led him to the brow of the hill whereupon the city was built that they might cast him down headlong. But he passed out of their midst.

Now this happened amongst religious folks. This happened in a synagogue. The people here make this transition from wondering at his gracious words to skepticism, to wrath. And what we see in this people is the natural heart that is in every sinner. This is every sinner's natural response to the gospel, to Christ and his gospel. He may not manifest it outwardly like they did, but it is the heart of everybody by nature.

And what we see here In what our Lord said, and looking at these verses, we see what every sinner needs. What every sinner needs. First thing, we're going to see our need for Christ to speak effectually to us, in power. And we're going to see our need for Christ to reveal Himself to us, to make us know His person, who He is. And then thirdly, we need Him to give us an entirely new spirit from what we have.

Let's look at these three things. Our need of Christ to preach into our heart, to preach affectually. Verse 22, all bear him witness and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Their initial reaction was wonder. Wonder, wasn't hostility. It was wonder. They wondered at His gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth. Now, our Lord Jesus preached this word. He preached the word, the Old Testament. They gave Him Isaiah. He gave that word to Isaiah. And He is the word. He's the word in human flesh. And nobody ever preached the gospel as graciously and as powerfully as our Savior did.

In Song of Solomon, this is the church, his mouth is most sweet. Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved. This is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. But natural man heard only his natural words. They just were looking at the way he preached and how he preached and his manner. That's all they were looking at. Natural man will go along with the crowd. And his fame had gone out, people were talking good about him. And all the people sat and listened to him. Some began to wonder at his gracious words, and they all began to wonder at his gracious words. But if a sinner follows a man in, he'll follow a man out. Christ said, how can you believe? How can you believe? which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only. We can't believe, we cannot believe if we're looking for the honor and praise of men, because as we'll see, this gospel's gonna offend men. And if we're trying to keep men satisfied and pleased, we can't do that and believe Christ. You can't do both.

But even this was our Savior fulfilling the gospel. He's fulfilling the scripture by what took place right there. Go with me to Ezekiel 33. He's still doing it. This is still happening in the world, right up to our day. But right here, we see just what he declared would happen right here.

Ezekiel 33, and look at verse 30. Ezekiel 33, 30. And what I want you to see here now is this is showing what the natural heart is, how natural man comes into the building, and here's the gospel. This is how a natural man does it.

Look, also thou son of man, now Christ is the one really spoken of here, also thou son of man, the children of thy people, still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them.

For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument. For they hear thy words, but they do them not. They hear the words, but they don't repent from self and from all their vain works and from looking to themselves for anything. They won't do that, and they won't believe on Christ alone to do all the saving. They hear, but they don't do. That's his command.

And he said, and when this cometh to pass, lo, it will come, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. And that's what we see right here in our text, brethren. When the Lord makes you to know him, when he speaks powerfully and effectually and gets the job done, he makes you wonder at him, not at the manner in which he speaks, him, his person, and all that he accomplished for us. He makes you be amazed and full of wonder at him. And that's what we need. We need him to make us hang on His word, and look to Him only. Give us a hunger for Christ.

You take a starving man, he's starving. That's what all sinners are by nature, starving. And this man, let's say he comes upon a package of bread, beautiful, it's got all these ornate colors on it, and it's very, very artful, and he just sits and looks at the package, and just amazed at how the package looks. but he never opens it, never eats the bread. So he just starves to death because all he ever did was just look at the wrapper.

That's how natural man comes in, sits down, looks like the Lord's people, goes through the motions like the Lord's people do, but does not hear like the Lord's people. Only just hears the manner in which the preacher preaches, wonders at how he preached and what he, you know, manner he did it. We need to, don't be like these folks in Nazareth. Don't, don't do that. Hear Christ and look to Christ and believe on Christ and trust Christ. It's not just the manner and the outward. It's knowing him, knowing him.

So we need him to speak effectually. You know, he preached that day. They heard him speak, but it's not just hearing his words. It's him directing it into your heart. Many people heard him that didn't believe him because he didn't speak effectual to him. Lazarus heard him and came out because he's speaking to him directly. Those men, when they came to arrest him, he spoke in power and they fell on their rear end. Why didn't everybody do that? He didn't speak that way to everybody. It's him. He accomplishes what he will, in whom he will, by speaking in power. That's what we need. We need him to speak in power.

Now that's the first thing. Here's the second thing. We need for Christ to be revealed in us. We need him to be revealed. Salvation is by revelation. We need him to be revealed in us, that he is the son of God.

Now the mood's gonna shift here because somebody's gonna put a question mark on him. Look here now, verse 22. Somebody said, is not this Joseph's son? Here they were, they're wondering, at least they're wondering at his words, but then somebody poses this question, is not this Joseph's son? That's the devil's work right there. Remember when the devil tempted the Lord just before this? When he tempted the Lord in the wilderness, he put a question mark on his person. He kept saying, if thou be the son of God, And see, that's, men will hear something and they'll start hearing, you know, at least just hearing with the ear, but they're paying attention and somebody comes along and puts a question mark on it. Ask a question to interfere, put a question mark on it.

In Matthew, the Lord tells us this was nothing but unbelief. In Matthew 13, they said, in this, don't we know his mother? And they said, His brethren, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas and his sisters, are they not all with us? And Winston had this man, all these things, and they were offended in him. And it says, and he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. That's what this question was, unbelief. And it produced more unbelief.

He was not Joseph's son. He is not Joseph's son. He is the son of God. He is the second person in the Trinity. He is, God is who he is. God came down. God came down and took flesh, the same one who's one with the Father and one with the Spirit. He came down and took a nature like his people. Why did he do that? Because it was God's eternal purpose. God purposed from eternity that he was going to glorify his name in his son. And he was going to give all preeminence to his son. And he was gonna do it by saving chosen sinners. Sending his son to save chosen sinners.

And so the Lord Jesus, the God, came down and took flesh like unto his people. Because no man can work out a righteousness. No man can make himself holy. We can't do this by the works of the law. Only Christ can do it. And that's why he came, to do for his people what we cannot do. If there's any part of your salvation that you can do, or I can do, we're not trusting the true Savior, and we're not being saved in true salvation. If there's any part of it that we're contributing, we're not believing the true God, because the true God does all the saving. We have to be saved by the Lord Jesus, and that's the only way he's gonna get all the glory, all the preeminence.

It pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell in him. So he's everything. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. In the nature of his people, he condemned sin. And it says that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, not by us, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in our nature, in a man representing all his elect who are men. A man sinned, a man had to obey. A man broke the law, a man had to come and bear the wages of sin, which is death. And he did that for his people.

that God's law might be honored, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled, and it's finished. He did it. There's nothing left for his people to do. When he said it is finished, he fulfilled the law as full as it can be fulfilled. You can't add anything to what Christ did. He is the righteousness that we must have. He is. Now, Be sure to get that. He was not Joseph's son, brethren. He is the second person in the Trinity. He is the Son of God. And we need this to be revealed to us. We need it to be revealed that He is the Son of God.

Go with me to 1 John 4. 1 John 4. The Spirit must reveal Christ to us, and it's through this Gospel. Only when the Spirit of our Savior is in us will we know He is the Son of God. Look here in 1 John 4, and I want you to mark 1 John. We're going to come back here in just a minute. 1 John 4, 15. Whosoever, see this goes for everybody He saves, because we're all dead sinners by nature. We all have to have Christ revealed. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him and he in God. That's the only way you do it.

We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. We'll come back to that. But look with me at 1 John 5 and look at verse 5. Who is he that overcometh the world? And you know where this begins? It begins with your sinful nature being overcome. We have to have our sinful nature overcome. How's that gonna happen? Who is he that overcometh the world? But he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son, and this is the record.

that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. See, salvation is in Christ, it's by Him, and Christ has got to be revealed. Go with me to Matthew 22. I'm gonna give you a contrast here, Matthew 22. Our Lord asked this question, what think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He? How would you answer that? Well, let's see it contrary. Let's see how the Pharisees answered that.

Matthew 22, 41. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Matthew 22, 41. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked him saying, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? We're talking here now about having Christ revealed so that we know this is the son of God. That man, Jesus, is God, the Son of God, the God-man? And he asked them this question, and here's what they said. They said to him, he's the son of David. And he said to them, how then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, thee, Lord, said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, Neither does any man from that day forth ask Him.

" Any more questions? All right, let's see the contrast now. Let's look at Matthew 16. Just back to your left, just a few pages. Matthew 16. Matthew 16, verse 13. When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they said, some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He said unto them, but whom say ye that I am? Now we're getting to where the rubber meets the road. Who do you say I am? And Simon Peter answered, and he said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered, said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon born Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Let me help you with that next part. He said, Peter, your name is Rock. He said, but I'm not building this on your name. This church is built on my name. the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He said, you answered right, that's how I'm building my church. And the gates of hell trying to keep my gospel out and trying to keep me from saving my people is not gonna prevail against my name, the Son of God, Christ Jesus, I'm gonna prevail and save my people.

See, and you notice there, he said, you didn't come up with this on your own, Peter, and no man does. The Father reveals Christ to us, Christ reveals Christ to us, the Spirit reveals Christ to us, but He has to be revealed, that He is the Son of God. It's not believing a system of doctrine. You can just almost tell when somebody understands the right answers. They've memorized the doctrine, but they don't know the Savior. You know, when you're taking a test when you're younger, if you memorize the answers, you could get it as long as the question was asked, just like you memorized it, and in the order you memorized it. But if they changed it up, changed the wording and changed the order, you was done for, because you just had it memorized. But if you knew the answer, it didn't matter how they asked it, you'd answer it.

And that's the difference. When you know Christ, you know, I preached one time, for a couple of years. It dawned on me that people were listening for the words depravity and election and particular. And I preached for a year or so and didn't say those words. I intentionally did not do it. I preached the doctrine. I preached the truth of it. I just didn't use the words. Because the Lord's people are here. They will hear what you're preaching and they know that this is the truth. They see it in the word of God. But a natural man, it's like he's checking off a list to get the word. It's not in learning a system of doctrine. It's knowing Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

Over and over, you hear it. When the Lord gave Paul life and revealed himself in Paul, Scripture says, straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues that he is the Son of God. Philip said to that eunuch, that eunuch said, here's water, what hinders me to be baptized? Philip said, if you believe with all thine heart, thou mayest. He said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. This is the question mark that the devil and his seed won't put on Christ. Who is he? Whose son is he? He's the Son of God. He is God in human flesh. Now that's the question. Who do you say he is? Who do you say he is? It doesn't matter what other men think. It doesn't matter what mom and daddy believe. That's not gonna save you. If mom and daddy don't know the gospel, when you stand before God in judgment, they're not gonna step in and take sides with you. You look at that, look at them, that blind man. They threatened to kick his mom his mom and his dad out of the synagogue, and when the Pharisees came around and asked him, what happened to your son, who healed him? They said, he's of age, let him answer for himself. What matters is, what do you think of Christ? Has Christ been revealed in your heart? He is the son of God, he is the God-man, the only one who saves, the only salvation, the only salvation.

Now let's get to this third thing. Back in our text, Luke 4. We see our need for Christ to give us a new spirit. This is why we need him to speak effectually. This is what he's gonna create, a new spirit. We need him to reveal himself in this new spirit. We need an entirely new man created in us because look at this, verse 23. He said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. And whatsoever we've heard down in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. Now these are earthly sayings. That's what it means. You're not gonna find this in the scripture. These are just earthly sayings familiar to them. And the Lord Jesus, we see here, he knows the end from the beginning, because he's telling them what they will surely say. They're gonna hear what he's done and they're gonna eventually say this to him. And he's telling you the end from the beginning. That tells you he's God. That tells you he's the son of God. And he said unto them, you will surely say.

Now here we see something about the heart. This is why we have to be given a new spirit. Because the natural heart is proud and selfish. First of all, he said, you will surely say, physician, heal thyself. What's that mean? It means do for your own. You've been out here doing stuff for these other people. Do it for us. Look out for number one. Heal us. Don't be out there healing them. Do whatever we've heard done in Capernaum. Do here in your own country. See, that's pride. Pride thinks, We're entitled to that. You're from our town. You should be doing this for us, not for them. That's pride, brethren. And another thing is they just wanted earthly healing. That's all. And it's selfish. It's selfish. They're saying, do it for us. That's the world's attitude. Look out for number one. Don't worry about it, look out for number one. That's not the spirit Christ had, and that's not the spirit he gives his people.

Now, get this, he is the great physician. He is the only one that can heal. We saw that Sunday. He's the only one that creates the fruit of the lips, and he does it by giving a new heart, a new heart, making you know he made peace for you, and then he comes and makes peace in you, but making you be reconciled to God. He creates fruit, and He's the one that heals, and He does it, but in a sense, in an unselfish, gracious way, the Lord does heal His own, doesn't He? That's the only ones He does heal is His own. Those of His own country, those who are His people, love from everlasting. He said, I laid down my life for the sheep. That's who he lays his life down for. All we like sheep have gone astray. We turned everyone to his own way and the Lord took all the iniquities of his sheep and laid them on Christ. And he was bruised in place of his people. He was wounded in place of his people. The chastisement of justice that had to be poured out to declare God holy and to justify his people, he bore that in place of his people. And it's only with his stripes that his people are healed. He is the great physician. who alone heals his people, and he heals his people, and he's gonna heal all his people. He healed them all at the cross, and he's gonna come and heal them all by giving them a new spirit, so that we're not proud thinking we're entitled.

That's why they're telling, you do this, we're your countrymen. We're entitled for you to do this for us. That's the heart in every sinner by nature. Think they deserve to be saved. Everybody deserves a chance. Well, God doesn't save by rolling the dice. He saves on purpose, and he saves his own, and he gives you a new heart to love like he loved.

Go with me to 1 John 4. 1 John 4. Lord Jesus has to give us this new spirit so that we looked at, he laid down his life and justified us, and he has to do this in us to heal us, to make us holy. because nobody can make themselves holy. This is what holiness is, him giving you a new holy heart. And when he does, he gives you his spirit, and he is love. He is love.

So not only are we gonna believe on Christ, we're gonna love in a manner like him. Not anywhere to the degree he loves, but we're gonna have the same spirit that he had. Look here, verse 10. Here in his love, not that we love God, 1 John 4.10, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son, the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, for God so loved the world, that word is not talking about the intensity and degree of which God loved, it's talking about the manner in which God loved. If God loved us after this manner, that when we didn't earn it, we didn't merit his love, we didn't do things to earn it, he loved us when our minds were enmity against him, and he sent his son who laid down his life for us when we didn't want him, that's the manner in which he loved. And if he loved us after that manner, we ought also to love one another after the same manner.

In other words, If your brother's offended you, don't make him earn your love. We didn't earn his. We didn't earn his love. He loved us when we didn't love him. He loved us when we were ungodly and offensive to it. But we'll only do that if he puts this new spirit in us. If he loved us after this manner, we are also to love one another after this manner.

No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, here's why, God dwelleth in us and his love's perfected in us. His love brought you to this love. His love put this love in you and brought you to love as he loves. Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he's given us of his spirit. That's how you know him, that's how you have faith, that's how you have love, he gave you a new spirit. And it's only by him giving us a new spirit.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you and me love as we ought to, I'm not saying we love to anywhere even remotely to the degree he loved us, we don't. But when you're born of him, two things are gonna happen. You're gonna believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's gonna keep you believing on him. And number two, you're gonna love your brethren. And they're not gonna have to earn it. You're gonna love them even when they aren't lovable. And it's all owing to him. It's all to his glory. Not to us, it's to his glory.

He is love. If he dwells in us, what do you think's gonna be there? The love of God's gonna be there. Because He is love. Wherever He is, that love's gonna dwell. And you're gonna dwell in that love. And I'll tell you something about that love. It's not this sentimental stuff that the world talks about. The love of God is just being committed to never leave one another. It's not always having a gushy, good feeling. It's being committed to one another. That's the love God, He's committed to His people. He said, I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you.

His love's perfect love. And when it says there His love's perfected in us, it doesn't mean you have perfect love. It just means this is the end to which He will successfully bring His people. And the longer He grows you, the more you come to realize more and more how He loves you. Because you see more and more, there's nothing in me to love. There's nothing in His people that would have caused him to love us. The cause is in him, not us. And that makes you more and more realize, my brother ought not have to try to give me a reason to love him. I ought to love him. Christ loved him. That's why.

And he declares another familiar saying here. He says in Luke 4.24, verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. That's just a saying they would have known. The meaning of it is how we would say familiarity breeds contempt. It's kind of a way you'd say that. But that's not always the case, but it's usually the case. Sometimes a preacher's rejected in a strange place. The Lord came down and men despised and rejected him. Sometimes a preacher's in a strange place and they love him. Sometimes his own community loves him and esteems him. It's not based on sinners, and what sinners do, it's the grace of God that does it. It's the power of God giving that new spirit that does it. And one reason it's so that a preacher's not received in his own country is the gospel's offensive. The gospel tells us, the word of God says we're sinners, ungodly sinners, and that offends men. The four nones, there's none righteous, not one, there's none seeks God, there's none that understands, there's none righteous, that offends sinners. And the preacher's not even trying to rebuke, he's just declaring what the Word says, but it comes offensive to a natural man, it rebukes him. And so if a woman changed the diapers of the man that's preaching the gospel, it's gonna be doubly hard for them to hear that when it rebukes them.

But you know, and the scripture says we can't make ourselves holy. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? God said, then can you do good that are accustomed to evil? I found this one I like. Listen to this from Proverbs, Proverbs 27, 22. Though thou shouldest bray a fool, though you should bruise a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle. Like you bruise wheat with a pestle. Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." You can't beat it out of him. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. We can't create this new spirit. And you know, if a filthy Dirty sinner is trying to clean himself and he starts having confidence in himself that he made himself holy by his works. Now you have a double dirty sinner. He's doubly dirty because he not only is still unclean and unsanctified now, he has also the filth of thinking he did make himself holy. And that's most of what goes for so-called holiness today. Listen, God said this, though thou wash thee with nitrate and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. You can't just wash the outside. God has to give an entirely new spirit and a new heart.

So, the Lord's gonna kill when he makes alive. And unless the Lord works that, No sinner's gonna receive the preacher. He's not gonna receive the gospel unless the Lord gives him that new spirit. You've not received the spirit of the world, you received the spirit of God that you might know the things freely given to you of God. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, they're foolishness to him. This gospel and this word is foolishness to a natural man, neither can he know them.

Go with me now. to 2 Corinthians 5, 2 Corinthians 5. What I've been trying to show you is this. The Lord's gonna have to give us a wonder for Christ and his gospel, not just for the trappings of religion and the means and methods we use. He's gonna have to give us a hunger and thirst for Christ himself, a wonder at him. He's gonna have to speak effectually so that we stop looking to ourselves and Christ is revealed in us. and he's gonna do it by giving you an entirely new spirit, Christ formed in you.

And here's the result, 2 Corinthians 5.12. We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance and not in heart. Isn't that appropriate? Because we're talking about these folks just looked at the outward. We're talking about what the Lord has to do inwardly. So Paul said, I'm giving you something to give them that glory in appearance and not in heart.

For whether we're beside ourselves, it's to God. Or whether we're too sober, it's for your cause. For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge. Here's how we discern now. That if one died for all, then we're all dead. That sinner in you and in your brother died in Christ. And all his people died in Christ. Remember that about one another, especially when a brother sins, he's already died in Christ under the justice of God, and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again. Do everything as to the Lord. because he did all this to bring you to live to him.

Wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh. We're not judging by the outward anymore. Yea, though we've known Christ after the flesh, now henceforth know we him no more after the flesh. We know our brethren, we know our Savior in spirit. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. It wasn't just merely patching on something, a new creation. He gave you a new spirit. All things are passed away. All your old way of worship and your old way of looking at things is gone. All things have become new. And who did it? All things are of God. He did it all.

Who hath reconciled us to himself, Jesus Christ, and he's given us the ministry of reconciliation. He justified us and sanctified us. To wit, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. That's what he did for us. And he's committed to us the word of reconciliation. He did something in us. He gave us a new heart and committed his word to us. Now then, we're ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled to God. I'm not just here representing me. I'm here on behalf of my Savior saying now what he says. Now you be reconciled to God.

How come he doesn't impute sin to us? Because we don't have it. He put it away. How'd he do it? For he hath made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

We then as workers together with him beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith, I've heard thee in a time accepted, in the day of salvation I've succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.

Who do you say Christ is? What think ye of Christ? Has he made him to be your wisdom, your righteousness, your sanctification, your redemption, so that he's all your salvation? If he has, confess him in baptism and keep believing him to the end. That's what he makes his people willing to do. And he keeps us to the end and you'll be saved.

And for you that he has saved, brethren, don't, that outward, everything we see with these eyes and hear with these ears is not what's real. It appears real right now, but it's all gonna vanish one day. The only thing that's gonna remain is what cannot be shaken. That's everything Christ created. His people that he created will remain. Everything else is gonna be shaken.

The spiritual is what's real. It really is. We have that backwards in our flesh. It's the spirit that's what's real. When this earth is gone, we have a body prepared and a place prepared and a kingdom prepared, and it's all the creation of our Lord.

So I hope that helps brethren. All right, Brother Eric.

Brother Eric. Man, I'm going way back. Brother Adam.