Good morning, everybody. I'm
going to start off this morning with Amazing Grace, hymn number
247. Would you like to stand with
us? Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now
am found Was blind, but now I see Was grace that taught my heart
to fear, and grace my fear to flee! How precious did that grace appear,
the hour I first believed! Through many dangers, goals and
snares I have already gone! If grace had brought me safe
thus far And grace will lead me home The LORD has promised
good to me, His Word my hope secure! He will my children fortune be,
as long as life endures! The earth shall soon dissolve
like snow, the sun for their to shine! But God who called
me here below, will be forever mine! But we've been there ten thousand
years bright shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's
praise than when we first begun! All right, please be seated.
Hymn 546. We found this in the hymnal, but we found out that
we may not have sang it before, so we'll do our best. Jesus, I, my cross, have taken,
All to Thee, and follow Thee, Lest, if You despise or forsake
me, Thou from hence my all shalt be. Perish, every unambition, All our sorrow and hope can know
Yet how rich is my conviction God and Heaven are still my own
Let the world lay its eyes and leave me They have left my Savior,
too. Human hearts and Lord deceive
me. Thou art not like man, I'm true. And while Thou shalt smile upon
me, God of wisdom, love, and might, Clothes may hate and friends
may shun me Show thy face and all is bright And may trouble
and distress Toils would drive me to thy breast Life would try,
old heart may press Heaven will bring me sweeter rest Hope is
not in grief to harm me While thy love is left to me Hope will
not in joy to charm me For then no one cares for thee Face thee on, from grace to glory
Armed by faith and winged by prayer Heaven's eternal gate
before thee God's own hand shall guide thee there To the top goes
my earthly vision which shall pass like pilgrims' days. Hope shall change new land through
vision, faith through sight and prayer through praise. Thank you. We didn't do too bad on that. We welcome each one this morning.
I know some are away traveling and taking holiday. We pray for them and their safety
as they travel. This morning we want to continue
to pray for those that are sick in all our minds and hearts.
I continue to pray for Betty's granddaughter, Christian, as
she undergoes treatment, and Jerry Mathis, my daughter, Steph,
as she seeks to recover. I pray for Reed, who's got some
health issues, for Joe Schwartz, and For others that have been
in our sake, we want to remember them all in prayer. Turn in your Bibles this morning
for our reading to Psalm 122. Psalm 122. I know that the Lord alone can
put this gladness in a sinner's heart. And only He can keep it there. And it's the joy that David writes
about when he says, I was glad when they said unto me, Let us
go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy
gates, O Jerusalem." He's speaking there of the church, the true
church, Zion. Jerusalem is built as a city
that has come back together. Whither the tribes go up, the
tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give
thanks unto the name of the Lord." They went up to the Ark of the
Testimony, which was simply just a picture of Christ and the Gospel,
that Ark of the Testimony. and they give thanks unto the
name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of
judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love
thee. Peace be within thy walls, and
prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions'
sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the
house of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good. Our Father this morning, Thank you that you put in our
hearts this need, this gladness to be
among your people. And in that house where you ordained
that they meet, that your gospel might be proclaimed, that your name might be exalted
and worshipped. And we ask this morning that
you would make this place such a place that there might be a
meeting of your body for the sole purpose of giving thanks
to you, speaking that word that honors you alone rejoicing in
Christ Jesus and ascribing all glory to the eternal Godhead. We come this morning in our knees,
weak and frail, and we ask that you would give us help and aid. We cry out like so many of your
people past, and present. O Lord, have mercy upon us. Help us. Do not leave us to ourselves,
to our ways, our wants, and our wisdom. But bring us by your
power and keep us. Keep us to your Son and to him
alone. Calls us to put off all idolatry,
whether it be of this flesh or whether it be a false religion. Help us that we might know you. Reveal yourself to us in power
through your word and by your spirit. And help and bless these
that we have named and mentioned called out in prayer this morning. And not just them, but many more
that we have no doubt forgotten. Many more that would not come
to our minds, but yet we desire to pray for them. All of the
Lord's people in this world, we ask that you would help them.
All the Lord's true servants, who proclaim your word. We ask
that you would aid them as they do so. And in all things, reveal
yourself to us in truth, that we may know the living God, that
we might know him that is true, that we might know him of whom
we have to do. Bless these, we pray, all your
people in every place, and give them grace and more grace, faith
and more faith. Teach us, Lord, we pray. Grant
to us patience and strength, and enable us to trust more fully
in you alone. We pray that you would be exalted
in all that's done and said this morning. For we ask it in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I don't think any of us are going
to be able to sign the key. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of
my heart! God be all else to me, save that
Thou art, Thou, my dearest Lord, my day or my night, Waking or
sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my wisdom and Thou my
true word I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord Thou my great
Father, I Thy true Son Thou in me dwelling, and I in Thee one Riches I need not for man's empty
praise Thou mine inheritance, now and always! Thou and Thou only, first in
my heart! My King of heaven, my treasure
Thou art! I, King of Heaven, my victory
won! May I reach heaven's joys, O
bright heaven's sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever
befall, Still be my vision, O ruler of all! Send her to mercy alone, of permanent
mercy I sing I come with Your righteousness on, my humble offering
to bring The judgments and the holy law, and He can have nothing
to do My Savior's obedience and blood are all my transgressions
without you. The work which Your goodness
prepared, the arm of Your strength will complete. Your promise is
yes and amen And never was forfeited yet The future of things that
are now No power below or above Can make you your purpose forego
Or sever my soul from your love My name from the palm of your
hand, Eternity will not erase. It's rest on your heart it remains,
In parts of indelible grace. It's life to the end we'll endure,
Until I bow down at your door, Forever and always secure. Forever and always secure, forever
and always secure, a tenor to mercy alone. That is a good hymn. Every word. When Kevin got the capo to put
on his guitar so that we would be able to sing in the right
key, I thought maybe he didn't know this congregation too well. We may be all singing in different
keys. Open your Bibles this morning
to the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 45. This is an awesome passage of Scripture. It's like God draws us up to
stand really close before His throne, so we won't miss seeing Him as
He is. And in verse 18, He says, For
thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that
formed the earth and made it, he hath established it, he created
it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. And he says, I am the Lord and
there is none else. I have not spoken in secret in
a dark place of the earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob,
seeking me in vain. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. Assemble yourselves and come,
draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They
have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image,
and pray unto a God that cannot say. Tell ye and bring them near,
yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
times? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? And there is no God else beside
me, a just God and a Saviour. there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word
is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto
me every knee shall bow. every tongue shall swear. Surely
shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength. Even to him shall men come, and
all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed
of Israel be justified. and shall glory. In our country, tomorrow has
set aside a holiday, a memorial day, a day of remembrance. And it is a day to remember the
fallen, many brave men and women, many who died, many who gave
their life in defense of this country. And I thought about it. I'm thankful for them. I really
am. They were used of the Lord in
one way or another to preserve the freedoms that we enjoy to
worship. And it came to my mind that every
one of them that died, many of them tragically, many of them
suddenly, they died just like some did
last night in the tornado in Texas. They died suddenly. unexpectedly. And they died as every person
dies, whether it be sudden, whether
their dying be prolonged. They all die and they go out
immediately to meet God. But they go out to meet God as
He is. Maybe and probably not as they
thought. I remember when the Lord began
to do a work in me. One of the things that came to
my mind in the very beginning is when He began to reveal His
Word to my heart, I thought, boy, God is not who I thought
He was. And they died meeting God not
as some false prophet or preacher said that he was. All people, when they meet God,
meet this one God that we have read about in the book this morning,
and they meet Him as He is. He'll be no surprise to his people. He'll be no surprise because
he's revealed himself to them and he has already made known
to them that it is he who appoints the time and the means by which
they'll die, whether it's a tornado, whether it's an enemy's bullet.
No matter what it is, every instrument of death is ordained of God. And when we die, it is immediately
that we find out who God really is. No questions. no wondering anymore,
no looking to your own judgment. And one of the things that makes
me afraid, that most people do not know who the God of the Bible
is, is their response. to some things that we as those
who preach the gospel have to say about him when we talk about
his sovereign rule over all things. No accidents, no mistakes, nothing
happening out of his will. If it happens, that's the way
we know it was the will of God Almighty. All these natural disasters,
such as tornadoes and such, all the things such as war, all the
things such as crime, they say God didn't and God couldn't be
behind this all. That tells me that they don't
know who God really And their responses not only
show their unbelief, they show their contempt for God as He
is. The Bible says the carnal mind
is enmity against God. Men naturally hate God, but what
did they say? Oh no, I don't hate God. You don't hate God the way you
think He is. You hate Him the way He really
is. And they have a natural enmity. And it is because of a great
ignorance of the Word of God. If you're ignorant of the Word
of God, you're going to be ignorant of God. And none can ever know the true
God by their own reasoning, or by natural inquiry, or by their
own intellect, or by sight. You see, God has revealed himself
in the natural creation, and men in their blindness don't
see him. But they are without excuse. If you go to the book of Romans
and read the first chapter, verses 18 through 32, you see that God
has revealed Himself in the things that are, but no man sees the
true God by these things. Instead, He changes. He changes or exchanges the truth
of God and creates his own God. And as a result, God gives him
over to a reprobate mind wherein he does all these things we see
listed in that chapter. All the things that are common
in our day and acceptable and not surprising to us But God
has condemned them all as a result of their idolatry. And you know
what he says? So they are without excuse. The fact that the sun came up
this morning, it leaves you without excuse. You know that didn't
happen by accident. The fact that the moon will shine,
the rain will come, Whatever it is in nature that is revealed
day to day, it leaves us without excuse. But He reveals Himself. How could we read such a text
as this and not know that God is not playing around here? That
He has a purpose. That He's going to bring that
purpose to life. That He's going to save that
people that He mentions. How can we ever read it? And yet, we read such as this,
and apart from God's revealing grace, apart from the Word of
God, by the Spirit's work showing us. Showing us. Who is God? Well, verse 18 he
says, For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens. God himself that formed the earth
and made it, he hath established it, he created it not in vain,
he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord and there is none
else. That's pretty simple. God 101. He's the Creator. This isn't
by chance. It isn't by faith. It isn't by
explosion of ooze. It's not any of those things.
God created this world. You know why men don't like God
creating in this world? Because if He created it, He
owns it, and we are accountable to Him. Can I not do with my own what
I please? God is the sovereign creator
of the universe. He's the one who made it all
and He is God alone. Darn faiths. Many faiths. He's a bad faith. None of them.
That's what we find out when we meet God. There's just one
faith. And that's the faith of the Living
God, just one God, no other God. Every other one so-called is
simply an idol. Hebrews says, neither is there
any creature that is not manifest in His sight But all things are
naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do."
We're going to have to meet this God. We're going to have to stand
before Him face to face. And the Bible says that outside
of Christ, men just flee away. They cannot stand to behold Him. And God has spoken He's not only
declared Himself, He's not only told us who He is in His singularity,
but He has told us how He saves. You don't have to wonder. Verse
19, I have not spoken in secret. Oh, they say you can't know the
secret things belong to God. Oh, yes. But the things that
are revealed, they belong to His people. He's revealed them
to His people for a purpose that is to make known His glorious
self and salvation and His mercy to them. That's what Paul said. He has
revealed them unto us. He's made them known to us. Why? that we might know the things
that he freely has given to us. And he sends his gospel out. I have not spoken in secret in
a dark place of the earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob. Who are the seed of Jacob? This
is God's elect here. He's the God of Jacob. Unless
you think that's some pretty name by which to be called that
you're something special and fabulous, Jacob was a conniver
and a scoundrel. He's a picture of what every
one of his people are by nature. But he says, I said not unto
the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain. I didn't say seek me
in vain. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. The gospel, Paul said, is that
gospel wherein the righteousness of God is revealed. In other
words, God is the righteous God. He requires righteousness and
he tells of the only gift of righteousness in the Lord Jesus
Christ. His gospel is not a yay and nay
gospel. His gospel is not a mysterious
thing that we'll never find anything out about. His gospel is a revealed
truth to his people. It reveals His glory. It reveals
His Son. It reveals all that eternal inheritance
that He gives in Christ. And He sends His Gospel out. There are not many places where
you can hear the Gospel. Not a religion. But my friend, as long as this
world stands There's going to be somebody that God has preaching
the gospel. The gospel of His free grace. The gospel of His Son. The gospel of God. And they're
going to be preaching it until that last sheep, that last child
of His is gathered to Christ. And then Christ comes back. Assemble
yourselves and come draw near together ye that are escaped
of the nations." What is going to happen to all
the nations in Gentile? They're going to perish. They're
going to meet the judgment of God. They're headed toward this
hour when they meet a God that they know not who He is. They have no idea of who He is. They're going to meet Him as
He is and He's going to be They're God, but not God their Savior. But His people, the objects of
His grace, they're described as these who have escaped the
nations. They've escaped about like Lot
did. The Bible says that Lot escaped
the punishment and judgment that fell on Sodom. How did He escape? Did He just say, well, I think
it's time to leave? No. God sent angels and they
escaped Him. They brought Him out. They delivered
Him. He said, ye that have escaped
of the nations because they have no knowledge that set up up the
wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that cannot save. Oh, you say, well, we're not
into all these carved idols and stuff. No. But any God of your
imagination or a false prophet's imagination, any God who is not
this God is a God that cannot save. Cannot say. You see, this is God speaking
to you. Wouldn't you like to have a conversation
with God prior to that hour? This is God. And He's speaking,
and He's declaring who He is. And He says in verse 21, telling
ye, and bring them near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? Who hath told it from that time? Ancient time. God is described as the Ancient
of Days. And He's been telling this from
the time that are ancient to us. It's before the world He
ordained this truth and this purpose in Christ, but He has
from old time, from the garden, all of this day, through type
and prophet and shadow and all these other things, He's been
declaring this same gospel. You said in the Old Testament
they offered up lands and things like that? Yes. They were pointing
to Christ. It's called the everlasting gospel. Not only because it's going to
be forever, but also because it's been forever. Everlasting. Nothing has changed. Abraham
was the same way that I am. There you are, Isaac, Jacob,
whoever it is that is manifest as a child of God. All these
through Hebrews 11. Samson even. Ray had the heart. How? Hang a red cord in your
window. What was that? The blood of Christ. Who had told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else beside me? You talk about a narrow gospel.
A narrow way. All that man does by nature is
want chances and different options and things. No. One God, one
way. Christ is the way. The truth,
the lie, this is one God, there is no God else beside me. How are you? A just God and a
Savior. If you only knew what is involved in God being
a just God and a Savior. He says there's none beside me. So when we meet God, what is
He going to be? Just what He said in His faithful
unchangeableness that He said He'd be a just God and a saint. But He said I'm going out to
meet the God of love. Some say I'm going out to meet
the God that's holy, so I'm going to be living holy. And this is
just God declaring himself in the harmony of his attributes
all together. What does it say that he is first? He's a just God. A just God. What does that mean?
Well, justice and righteousness are the same thing. You don't have righteousness
without justice. You don't have justice without
righteousness. Sometimes the words are used
interchangeably. Sometimes the same word is translated
both ways. He's a just God. And that makes
me know that justice is not only essential to God's glory, essential
to His character and His name, but it is also essential to His
goodness and His grace. I used to hear a preacher. It
scared me every time he said it. He said, God's a just God,
but He's a Savior. No, He's not. He's a just God
and a Savior. He is a just God and a Savior
at the same time. When He in the book of Exodus
revealed Himself and His glory to Moses, it was the fact that
He in His sovereignty as God alone doing what He will doing
what He would to whom He would. He will have mercy upon whom
He will have mercy, and He'll be gracious to whom He'll be
gracious. But He's always going to be God. You see, God cannot deny Himself. He is holy in His essence. He is just and righteous and
he will not be otherwise for you or me or my children. He must punish them. Preachers in our day say we'll
just sweep that under the carpet. or we'll do something else. Because
to do so would be a denial of His holiness. And how did He
always show us that sin was punished? By death. By eternal death. eternal death. Because we've
sinned against the eternal God. In Ezekiel, he said, the soul
that sinneth it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity
of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity
of the son. The righteousness of the righteous
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." And a great example of that is
the flood. Boy, when God brought about the
flood, the judgment of that antediluvian world, when He brought about
that worldwide flood and consumed everything He threw a monkey
wrench in all of man's thinking and reasoning and we have to go back and say something
is 23 billion years old. They used to say it took so many
billions of years for crude oil to form. Then one day, a certain
scientist somewhere, he took a little bit of animal and plant
vegetation and tissue and stuff like that, and he put it under
extreme pressure. You know what he did? Kudos. God's a God of extreme pressure. But here he is, and he brings
on this flood. Let me read you something out
of Genesis chapter 6. Genesis 6 and verse 5. And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his evil was only evil continually. And it's
been that way ever since. And it repented the Lord that
He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air. For it repented Me that I have
made them but Noah. found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. That's an amazing statement. And these are the generations
of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect
in his generations and Noah walked with God. Oh, no. Did God turn his head away when
he lay there drunk and naked, exposing himself before his sons? Yeah, that Noah. Did God turn his face away when
Noah maybe lied to somebody or did something that he ought not
to besides that. We just have an awful example
to show us just what Noah really was in himself, but he found
grace. You see, God says about himself,
I'm a just God and a Savior. That's what he was to Noah. That's
what He is to every one of His people. He's a just God. He had to deal with Noah's sin. And He purposed to be gracious
and to show mercy to Noah. He was to Noah a just God and
a Savior. And whenever that judgment of
God began to fall in the form of all that moisture that never
had been on the earth, it rose up and drowned and destroyed
everything on the earth. They were all sinners just like
Noah. You say God gave him a pass. No He didn't. He put him in the
ark. He had Noah build an ark which
would be a type, a wonderful type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he brought Noah into the
ark and that same judgment and that same reign and that same
destruction that came on all the known world at that time
all the world at that time. It came against the heart. They preach that there will be
people in hell for whom Christ died. They say there will be
multitudes in hell that God loves with His everlasting love. No,
there won't. because God would no longer be
a just God if he sent one to hell for whom Christ died. If
he bore his sins in his own body on the tree, if he paid the price
entirely on his cross on Calvary, if he did all these things, God
would be unjust to send him to hell. And on the same hand, he
would be unjust if he took to heaven One whose sins were not
paid for, dealt with. This is God. The just God and
the Savior. And yet men and women look to
idols and statues and icons, but much more they look to that
one in their mind that they have invented, or that one that the
false preacher has put in their mind. But He's a God they cannot
save. Only this God can save them.
Their God loves everybody with no consideration of a satisfaction
of God's justice. They make God to be unjust because
they say that Christ died for all without exception. But God's
going to send some to hell anyway. They'll tell men That Christ
paid the debt of everybody, but most of them are going to have
to pay it also. They say, well, that's right. He's paid the debt of everybody's
sin, except unbelief. That's the only thing keeping
you out of heaven. Isn't unbelief a sin? The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses
His people from all sins. God doesn't do this bait-and-switch
stuff. He's a just God and a Savior. How can He be better? That, my friends, is the good
news of the true gospel. The gospel of God's sovereign,
free grace is that in saving His people, God is just also. Not but. And He's a just God. and a Savior. Just like that ark that bore
the wind and the rain, and went all the way through
that judgment of God, that's a picture of Christ enduring
the penalty for the sins of His sheep on that cross. Satisfying! I'm pronounced to dip to death
for my crime. And I put to death for my crime. That's the end of it. In myself,
that were to happen, that's the end of it. But you see, Christ was the substitute
of his people. For then, I lay down my life
for the sheep. I'm paying the debt of the sheep,
not the goats. That's why Job asked this question.
I know it is so of a truth, but how should man be just with God? And again, how then can man be
justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is
born of a woman? We have the picture not only
with Noah and the Ark. We have it with Israel. How were
they delivered out of Egypt? By the blood on the doors. By
being brought through the Red Sea. That's the way it was with
Darius in this dilemma with Daniel. Daniel broke that law of the
Medes and Persians that can't be changed. What happened? Threw
him in the lion's den. He wasn't just thrown in the
lion's den, he was thrown in a den of lions. But he lived. How? They looked in there and they
said, whoa, didn't we throw, as these Hebrews, We threw three, and they said,
there's a fourth one in there. They looked down there at Daniel,
and he was thrown in the den of lions. And someone had shut
the lion's mouth. There's but one way you shut
a lion's mouth when he's hungry, and that's feed him. Christ is consumed. He dies, and then he and Daniel are raised
from the dead. When they brought Daniel out
of the lion's den, he was alive and well and healthy, and all
those wicked, lying men killed him. This is how a just God does it. By imputing the sins of His elect
to Christ. By charging Him. By making Him
responsible. By Him paying. By Him dying the
death of the cross in their place. So God counts us righteous. Noah was a just man. That means
he was justified based on the satisfied justice of God in Christ. He was made the righteousness
of God in Christ. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even
at the right hand of God. who makes intercession for us. I've got to hush, but I want
you to look at that last verse. Verse 24 rather. Surely shall
one say, in the Lord have I righteousness
and strength. Even to Him shall men come. That's what I want to say on
earth, this day, every day, until I meet in the Lord and my righteousness
and strength. In the Lord I have righteousness
and strength. Then verse 25. In the Lord shall
all the seed of Israel be justified. You see Christ stood in old eternity. as the surety
of God's end. He took upon himself, as the
surety, all the responsibility, all the
weight, all the guilt of their sins. When he struck that bargain, Ottoman says, be careful now
if you strike hands as a surety, so smart, you're going to have
to pay. If you're a guarantor, they might
just default, and it might be that you have to pay. But if
you're a surety, the responsibility is yours from the beginning. It's kind of like signing a note
for one of your children. You might as well face it. It's
probably yours right then. Because he says in the Lord.
How long have God's people been in the Lord, Ron? Forever and
ever. Old eternity. Chosen in Christ
Jesus. Made the righteousness of God
Him in the Lord. Justified. Counted righteous. Made righteous. And all the seed of Israel. Every one of His people. They're
going to glory. They're going to give all the
glory to Christ. God forbid that I should glory
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world
is crucified unto me and I unto the world. You know what Moses did when God spoke of His sovereign
grace and mercy, this just grace, what Paul calls in Romans 5,
this grace that reigns in righteousness? It says when God told him what it
was. What are you going to do Moses? It's in the Lord's hands. I'm just going to fall down and
worship Him. That's what Moses did. There's nothing to do. There's
nothing to do but thank Him, praise Him, exalt Him. It says
that he fell down and worshiped Him. And when he died, the Lord took
him. When Abraham died, when Isaac died, when Jacob died, when every true
child of God dies, the God that they meet is the God that they
know. No surprise. No, we'll see. He's just going
to be the God He says He is in this book. And He counts all who are in
Christ Jesus as righteous. And He's the only one that matters. Meaning, God. as He is. Oh, God is just, and He's a Savior. It's wonderful. Our Father, we thank You this
morning Know my weakness. Know my weak. You know the things that lay
heavy on my heart. But I thank you. I thank you that you revealed
to me who you are. Just God and the Savior and Christ
crucified. We pray your name and pray in
his name. Amen. You need to jump up. I saw that. I think I'm happy. because it was supposed to be
in the middle of the world. When he noticed I was running
out of medicine, he gave Sarah her medicine. That's the first
time I've ever heard of it. I've never heard of it. I've
never heard of it. I've never heard of it. I've
never heard of it. the the what we have next yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah It's about 3 o'clock. I've got
to run to the grocery store. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm
going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late.
I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late.
I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going
to be late. I'm going to be late. I'm going Yeah. Good job, David. Good morning, sir. I don't know. It's okay. Oh yeah. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Hey man, how are you? I'm good. What's funny is, I know you're
here so it's never funny. This is what my dad used to say. Okay, I will remember for you. We have way too many. I just said the main thing is
you want to get more of a message from me, but I need to know what
it is that you're excited about. Yeah, I know. yeah yeah Yes, sir. Okay. I don't want to go there. oh wow It was weird. It was really strange, but they
were really sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We stopped at Wal-Mart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So good to meet you. Yes sir. Yes sir. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. yeah yeah yeah what are you doing? Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah What? I don't know what you're
talking about. I don't know what you're talking
about. I don't know what you're talking
about. I don't know what you're talking
about. yeah yeah yeah you you you you you you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I didn't mess it up. You should
have. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I He has no clue. Does anybody need any help? I
can do it. I can do it. Oh, thank you. You don't need help, don't worry. He really acts it. I didn't know
that. I didn't. You didn't. I don't know what he did. I went to bed at 8 o'clock the
first night because I was so sick. he was sending me a picture,
he was texting me, he was like mom, what are you doing? he was like, I have something
to do, and I was like, there is so much to do on this cruise
ship. he went and watched karaoke,
he went and watched the show, he went on vacation, I think
they're by the way. yeah, that's it. right. but they
should pay you, huh? right, they should pay you. activities if I want there all
the worst vacation ever it's war You're constantly doing it. It's
130 degrees with 99% humidity and a thunderstorm and rain.
Everybody clear it out. And we've seen more in the next
two hours than we've seen at home yet again. It's just not...
I just... It's so much. What it was, is
we had a week in between two Facebook posts. And then, so
we're like, yeah but now you have to take
out a small loan just to get the tickets to get into the park. Actually, right now they're running
a deal of $99. That's still ridiculous. It's
better than $150. It is. They're kind of peddling
because no one's going there. They think the price is the thing. I'm I'm I'm I'm Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. the gay stuff and the trans stuff
and the, whatever it is, they'll sit there and jump on board and
people are like, oh, they don't care about you, they just want
your money, they think it's gonna make them more money. As soon
as they realize it doesn't make them more money, they pull the
trigger. Yeah, they haven't put their transgender princesses
in Susan's world yet, because they know Florida a little more.
But I read an article where, you know how the Olympics are
coming up and they always have torches? Four trans queens will
be lighting the thing this year. It's just so blatant and fake
in your face. That even drink gasoline before
they go to sleep. Yeah. I love it. I love it. I'll
try to sweeten it up as much as I can. Oh, there will be sweet
alright. So I went and I didn't recognize
the singer. So I went and I checked on Google,
you know. Gay country singer. He's more of a gay synthesizer,
I think. But this guy was four or something. That's what I was thinking, what
was I going to say? I don't know. I don't know. You can't spot it. But there's some you can't spot.
Oh yeah, there's some. You're both right. I've never
heard of it. Yeah. Yeah, he looks weird. But I also read about him that
he stopped his tour recently because of, you know, issues. Oh, yeah. He's definitely mentally
ill. Oh, but you know, he's good. He's weird. He is weird. He does
have friends now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She has a cousin
that's practicing. That's another friend. health
issues and neither one of them are out there leading a happy
life. they just don't see that. and you know what? they know it's not like that.
UK, the lesbos, one's a man and the other's a woman. I know!
When there were so many lesbians on the street, I was like, oh
my gosh, get them! So many, there were probably
like six. I know! I've never seen that.
Inventive handwork, but they're all the same. With his chain
hanging out. That's the thing, it's like there
are probably only six of them, but it just seemed like we saw
them everywhere. Maybe they don't notice. yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah So that's the thing. You're miserable,
so you don't get it. Enjoy your time.
About Gary Shepard
Gary Shepard is teacher and pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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