Morning, everybody. Good to see
you all again. If you will be open to the second
Kings chapter six. Judges Ruth, Samuels and the
Kings, second Kings chapter six. When I was talking on the way
over, we've had a lot of different time zone. And then we had time
change last night. And so it's for my body. It's
630 in the morning. And last time I was here, I preached
on a Monday. I never did that either. So, I pray the Lord be
with me. Me being off my game is a good
thing. It is. That and I was thinking too with
this message. You see things, just like with children, and
you see problems and you see pain and you warn them. And the
Lord sent us, I'm to warn people and would warn our families as
the Lord opens the door. But I'm thankful I'm not needed.
There might be a tool he uses, but like we'll see in this story
with these lepers, the Lord decided he's going to warn these men
in eternity past and shake them up and bring them to faith in
Christ. And he sent a famine and he sent
armies and he sent everything and just made it to where it
went all around my soul gives way. I mean, you just done. He
then, I want then, is my hope and stay. And that's what happened
with these lepers. These lepers, the Lord blessed
them by giving them leprosy. What a thankful, wonderful thing
that is. And we'll see in this story too,
as I tell people, warn them and say, this is the condition we're
in, and this is what God's going to do for His people. He's abundant
in mercy. People get mad. Why in the world? You've experienced that. You've
told your family when the Lord's done something good. Or there's
a crisis. Thankfully, your grandson has a believing parent. Something
terrible's happened to you, the Lord might use this for good.
He's going to glorify Christ in it, don't that make you happy?
And I've had my family get mad at me for saying those things,
that's why I have to lie to them. Anyway, this is an expositional message.
I'm going to go through this and look at it. It's an evangelical
message. This is a message that sinners need to hear to come
to Christ. And for me, it's an experimental message. It's been
experienced. I've lived it, you've lived it.
This story is about a nation of people starving to death.
And in this nation that's starving to death and famine, the absolute
worst of them, the dregs, they found food. And then they told
the rest of the nation about it. And they said, you're hungry
too. I'm gonna tell you where I found bread. If you want some,
I'll tell you where it is. It shows us what we are outside,
we have to see that first, what we are outside of the mercies
of Christ, and what we are in the mercy and the forgiveness
of the Lord Jesus Christ and going and telling needy sinners
where mercy is found. That's what takes place. I was
going to, it's awkward for me, I guess, to email everybody and
say, hey, read this tonight. I told Mark and told John. I
said, read chapter six and chapter seven of second Kings if you
get a chance. But go home read this on your own time after it'd
be blessed. It was for me. I'm excited Decided Henry's tell
us he said this is gonna be good and I can't we got bullion out
of the fridge when it's called better than bullion and I thought
what surge is gonna be better than bullion Here's a situation
here in second king six this King of Syria they besieged Samaria. They surrounded them. They didn't
go in and fight they didn't raid the buildings, but they had surrounded
them, and they said, we're going to starve them out. And it was
working. And here in 2 Kings 6, 25, it says, there is a great
famine in Samaria, and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's
head sold for four score pieces of silver, 80 pieces of silver
for the head, for a donkey's head. That's how hungry they
were. Ain't much meat on a skull, is there? I go to the store,
and I can't stand buying meat that's got bones in it. I don't
mind, I'll eat a round of bone, but I'm paying for them bones.
I don't want to pay for them bones. Unless we get a whole
chicken, care to make broth out of it or something, but I don't
like that. Here they're paying a whole lot
of money just for the head of a donkey, isn't it? And it said
in a fourth part of a cab of doves dung for five pieces of
silver. I don't know how much a part
of a cab was, I tried looking it up, but a small amount of
doves dung they were paying for. Different scholars said, well,
let's try and get the seeds out of it. Or they were using it
for fire, like they make Ezekiel bread, which if it's true Ezekiel
bread, I don't want to eat it. Look it up on your own time.
But they're using it to make fires with or something. But
what it was, they spent a whole lot of money for dung. That's
a condition we are before God comes to us. We're working hard. We're saving up our money just
to buy dung. and thinking we're going to feed
ourselves. That's how bad the situation was. But this isn't
a lesson in stockpiling food. This isn't a lesson in Depression-era
meal planning. The Lord's showing us something
here. This is our spiritual condition
outside that we think we're saving ourselves, we think we can figure
it out, we think we can keep on going, but we're just eating
dung in reality. That's what Paul said, wasn't
it? When he wrote to the church at Philippi. He said, what things
were gained to me? And he listed them. There's a
whole bunch of good stuff. Eyes dotted, all my Ts crossed. But
I count those things lost for Christ. Yea, doubtless, I count
all things lost for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ my
Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do
count them but dumb. That I may win Christ. I don't
want to just win and go to heaven. I'm winning a person. I want
to be with him. My kinsman, redeemer, my husband.
and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness." Somebody
had preached to Paul. That's what's going to happen.
These lepers are going to go preach to him. Noah was a preacher of what?
Righteousness. That's a person. It's not a systematic
theology. People get mad at me because
of that. The Lord didn't use a monotheistic approach to a
systematic theology. He said, I'm the door. You got
to go through me. I'm it. It's one man wide. He
is our righteousness. It's not something we do. Someone,
someone that saved us, which is the, is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, his faithfulness, the
righteousness, which is of God by faith, the faith he gives
us in that person who is the object of our faith. If the Lord
leaves us to ourselves, it won't stop with eating a head. It won't
stop with eating dung. We'll turn on ourselves. Mankind
will turn on mankind. They'll start judging and fighting,
and they'll scream. I saw people grit their teeth
and say, you need to be patient. Love. Is that loving? Is that patient? We'll turn on
each other. Look here at verse 26. It says,
as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried
a woman unto him, saying, help my lord, O king. And he said,
if the lord do not help thee, when shall I help thee? You need
help, lady? Well, what happened was, she tells him, There was
a pact made between her and another lady. And she said, times are
so bad. This morning, we're going to boil my son and eat him. And
then tomorrow, we'll kill your son and eat that baby. And then
so they did it to her son. And the next day happened, and
they didn't eat that woman's child. She hid him. She hid that
child. And so she went to the king and said, hey, we had a
deal. She ain't letting us eat that baby. That seems just crazy
to us, don't it? That's our lives. That's what
this nation is right now. It's so spiritually, isn't it?
Verse 30 says, And it came to pass, when the king heard the
words of the woman, he rent his clothes, and he passed by upon
the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth
and ashes upon his flesh. It tore the king's heart out
to see this. This all was happening because
Israel had sinned against God. All of our problems All of my
problems come from sin. And that sin's not against the
person, it's not against just the law, or it's not just doing
something, it's against God. David said, against thee and
thee only have I sinned. That prodigal son said, Father,
I've sinned against God and you saw it. I did it in your sight. It may have, it's affected you,
but I sinned against God. I told my son that he was late
to, when he started driving, he was late to services one morning,
he came in I'm from the military, so everybody can learn from someone's
mistakes. I said it loud enough so other people would hear. But
he said, Daddy, I'm sorry I was late. I want to apologize to
you. I said, well, I appreciate that, son, but don't apologize
to me. You sinned against God. This is His time. He gave us
to worship. Pray to God for it. That's who you sinned against.
Outside of Christ, outside that new creation, He gives us, left
in our own heart, who do we blame? Before the Lord does anything
to us, who do we blame? We blame God. That's what Adam did, didn't
it? Why did you eat that tree? It's
that woman you gave me. He blamed God. But the Lord wasn't
physically there for him to blame, was he? So what's their nature
blame? Look at verse 31. Then he said, God do so and more
also to me if the head of Elisha, the son of Sapphath, Shall not
stand on him this day. I'm going to take Elisha's head
off of him. This nation's got so bad, and I saw what these
women are doing. They're killing their babies, and people's eating
dung, and heads, and all these things. Give me that prophet,
I'm going to kill him. Go get your college preacher,
don't they? First one they attacked. And you've had that happen. I
told you in the beginning. You tell your families at a trial
or good times, the Lord's on his throne. The president didn't
do this. The Pope didn't do this. The
Congress didn't do it. God did it. He's not surprised. And people
get angry with you. Get out of my house or whatever
it is. Stop telling me that. Brother Henry's reading, before
he left Apollo Baptist, his scripture reading. He just read Romans
9. And a man yelled at him. He said, you stop preaching election.
He said, I ain't preaching nothing. I'm just reading it. That's what
God says. I'll tell you, I was going through
Genesis and a man sent me a letter and he said, I've been watching
you and he said, I'm tired of you saying to get up early. Rise
up early, rise up early, rise up. We got into Exodus. Moses
had to get up early every day. It says it. I said, I never said
nothing about getting up early. The Lord said it 38 times. These
men are going to get up earlier in a little bit. But the Lord
will Surely visit, and he sends a messenger, doesn't he? Look
here what the prophet says in chapter seven, verse one. Then Elisha said, hear ye the
word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, tomorrow
about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.
The king brought Elisha in, he was going to cut his head off,
and he said, here's God's message. Tomorrow you're going to have
food coming out of your ears. It won't cost you a penny, and
you'll have pounds of food. That's a wild opposite. If they're spending high dollars
for dung and eating children, and to say 24 hours from now,
food's going to be just overflowing your pantries. Well, you're crazy. That's too good to be true. Isn't
that the same, though? To be dead in your sins, to be
dead in trespasses, to be an enemy of God and hate him? and
trying to make out your own righteousness, and you're going to receive double. Machpelah. You'll be washed from
your sins. Look, the Lord was merciful and
kind. Did you know he didn't just stop
at merciful? We need mercy. And then some. He didn't just
say, well, you're pardoned, but you got to sleep outside. Come
here, son. Come here, my daughter. Sit down.
Get the best robe. Put a ring on him. Kill that
young calf. It tastes good. He's abundant. Abundant in mercy. Paul said,
now unto him that is able to exceedingly abundantly above
all that we ask or think. He's able to do that. Do exceedingly
abundantly. That's good news. The Lord has
a people and he's going to provide all things for them in his good
time. That elect people. That's a precious
thing for people that cannot feed themselves and cannot fend
for themselves. We have a king, there's a captain
of our salvation. It says in verse two, then a
Lord, this is just one of the council men or something, one
of the advisors to the king. Then the Lord, on whose hand
the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, Behold,
if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?
You're saying there's going to be food everywhere? The Lord
has to open up windows of heaven to make that pour out. That's
exactly what he said he's going to do. He says, O Bramalch, I
bring you all the tithes in the storehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord
of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and
pour out a blessing. In this particular case, it's
going to be food, physically. That blessing of forgiveness,
of pardon, of a nature that cannot sin. It's holy to be in the presence
of a holy God. Just pour it out. These are valuable
things, just like food. If you're starving to death,
this is needed. This is precious. I have to have it. And he says
it's in abundance, just like it's like it's raining out of
the sky, like it's falling out of the sky. Here, for my people. Trust Him, trust His Word, and
wait on Him and watch Him work. Just watch Him. Watch what the
Lord will do. That's what our brother prayed this morning,
told who we need to remember and take to the Lord's throne.
The Lord said, I'm going to do all these things, but you're
going to inquire of me. He's going to do it, but He said
we're going to ask Him, and we want to, don't we? Just like,
I want to talk to my wife about things. I want to talk to my
friends about things. We want to ask him. Look at the
end of verse two, Elisha says to him, he said, and behold,
thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shall not eat thereof. That's
a warning, isn't it? To this Lord, this ruler, this
advisor. He said, you're going to watch
this dumb, but you ain't going to eat it. What a warning it
is to those people that don't believe the Lord's word, that
don't trust him, that don't love him. You'll see it, but you ain't
going to eat. And this man didn't. Down in
verse 17, it says they trodden him at the gate. He died. He
saw it happen, and then he got stampeded, and he didn't make
it. We've seen that happen, too. You've seen that happen. I've
seen it happen recently. People watch the Lord work, and
then God kills them. That's terrifying. That makes
me cry out for mercy. Lord, is it I? Am I next? If somebody can forsake you,
it's going to be me. And I cry out, Lord, keep me.
If you said you would, I believe you. Lord, be with me. The Lord must give faith to believe
him and his word. But we have to warn people about
unbelief, don't we? Not believing the Lord and not
relying on his son and believing his son is eternal death. He
said it's going to convince us of sin. What was the sin? If
I told you the worst thing I ever did in my life, was that God
said something, and I was like, I don't know about that. It's
unbelief, isn't it? I can get you a detective, buddy. You'll find all kinds of things
on me. I called Maurice. His name was Wayne. He said,
you've got to have an alias if you're as mean as I am. I'm going to start going
by Bailey. Worst thing I've ever done is
didn't believe God. That's the sin and who I've sinned against.
But we're to believe him, believe him, trust him, love I heard
a message of Don's one time. He was talking to a young person.
He said, you believe God. You can't. But try. And he screamed it. And I thought,
boy, that's... Lord, I believe. I do. Help my
unbelief. I believe. Help my unbelief.
And then he says, sirs, what must we do to be saved? And I
said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Believe on his name. What's his name? He's got a lot
of them. Most men say seven, but it's
a lot more than that. Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will
provide. We need something. Where are we going to get it?
Jehovah Jireh. Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that heals. Nisi, the
Lord, our banner, the one that's lifted up that we follow. Jehovah
M. Kadesh, the Lord who sanctifies.
I need to be set apart. I need cleansed. He's the one
that does it. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord who is peace. Jehovah
Sitkenu, the Lord our righteousness. Believe the Lord, believe what
he says. Not what man says, not what we think, but what the Lord
says. Elijah had a word from the Lord.
He said, the Lord's going to deliver us. Hide and watch him. And he's going to do it real
early. David said, God is in the midst of her. She shall not
be moved. God shall help her and that right
early. Elijah said, the Lord's going
to provide. And the leopards were provided for. And they said, come inside them
gates. And they said, God provided. They didn't say, we found it.
And what we did, we did our research. We really committed about three
months to studying the landscape and the topography. No. They
said, God did it. The Lord gave us this. Look here
at verse three. And there were four leprous men at the entering
of the gate, and they said one to another, why sit here until
we die? 2 Kings 7 verse four. If we say
we will enter into the city, then famine is in the city and
we shall die there. It was against the law for them
to go in there. They were leprous. And if we sit here, we die also.
Now, therefore, come, let us fall into the host of the Syrians.
Remember, they were surrounded all around Samaria. If they save
us alive, then we shall live. And if they kill us, we shall
but die. We're going to die anyway. So
they had three options here. They had to go inside of that
city. But the famine was just inside of that city, the same
as it was out there for them lepers on that wall. And it was illegal. The law said the lepers couldn't
come in. So if they go to the law, They're just as dead as
they've always been. You can't keep it. If you stay
there in yourself, on your own, you dead. I know so many people,
the state we're from is chocked full of armchair preachers. Everybody's
their own pastor. I don't need, I got commentaries.
I'll just stay here at the house and study. Lord says he's going
to fitly frame us together. He's going to gather us together,
isn't he? We stay by ourselves with our own knowledge and understanding,
we're dead. We can't go to the law, we die. We stay to ourselves,
we die. We got one choice left. Go to
the enemy. Go to the ones that we thought
was going to kill us, the ones that we wanted to kill. Go to
the enemy and beg for mercy. And maybe, just maybe, we'll
live. We're dead men anyway. The only
hope we have in life is to go to them. But if they kill us,
they're right to kill us. You see the picture here, don't
you? Over a couple chapters in chapter
12, it says, or I'm sorry, back in Samuel, 2 Samuel 12, David
said, he's praying for his son. He said, prayed to the Lord and
he ran his clothes and he was just in shambles. And when he
found out the son had died, then he got up, he cleaned himself
up, he shaved, put some cologne on, and he went down to services,
went to church. And they said, what are you doing?
You was a wreck when the boy was alive and now he's dead and
you seem fine. And he said, while the child
was yet alive, I fasted and wept. For I said, who can tell whether
God be gracious to me that the child may live? We don't know
what Lord, that's what the King and Jonah said, wasn't it? And Nineveh. He said, maybe Lord
be merciful. That's what we need. We've been
fighting him. Abraham interceded for Sodom.
He said, what if there's 50 left? What if there's 45 left, Lord?
Would you be merciful if there was 40, 20, 10? What if there's
one? Would you save us, town? But we're enemies. That's what
we forget. We're enemies. Somebody said,
you know what? I've never been at war with God.
Either you don't know Him or you still are. I was. I had my gun loaded with all
the right doctrine and everything, but I was fighting to be right.
Me, I was winning. It was the Kevin show. And then
God broke my heart and saved me. I was fighting Him. I was fighting
to get my own glory. Paul said in Romans 5, if we,
when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
We were enemies. That's when he came to us. The
carnal mind is enmity against God. We were at war with him.
Why did these lepers go to the ones that were right to kill
them? They had no other option. When all around my soul gives
way. Ain't got nothing else. He then is all my hope and stay.
Christ the solid rock. Job said, though he slay me,
yet will I trust him. There in verse seven, it says,
they rose up in the twilight. That's so early, it's still late.
It's still not time. They rose up in the twilight
to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they were come to the
uttermost parts of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man
there. They come upon this camp, and
it's just like people vanished. All the stuff's there. The beans
are still in the pot, boiling for breakfast. Fires are still
going. Beds are still made. Nobody's
there. They came to find mercy, and
mercy beat them to it. from eternity past. Mercy was
waiting. Before they ever needed it, before
they ever knew they needed it, it was there waiting. God, huh? Not the Syrians. This
is the imperfect picture. The Lord was there. That's what
the Lord's done. How did this happen? How could such a thing
happen? Look at verse six. For the Lord had made the host
of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of
horses and the noise of great host. And they said one to another,
lo, the king of Israel had hired against us kings of the Hittites
and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. We thought that
we had them outnumbered. They hired other armies to come.
Wherefore, they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as
it was, and fled for their lives." They dropped everything and ran
out of there with the clothes on their back. Didn't take anything
with them. Left it just as it was. What a provision of the
Lord, huh? We have nothing. Now you have
a fully supplied poor army with all the provisions. That fast,
huh? Why? They were there looking
for mercy. What'd they get? All. It ain't just being saved and
going to heaven. Christ is all. That person is all. He's all
the provision we need and we got him. He's mine and I'm his. That's precious. I have a lot
of comfort knowing I'm the Lord's and whatever he does to me and
for me is right and it's for his glory and it's for my good.
But he's mine. He's mine, too. That's precious.
Verse 8, and when these lepers came to the othermost parts of
the camp, they went into one tent and did eat and drink. They
didn't just sit and look at that ark. They went in it. They didn't
sit and look at that food, buddy. They ate it. Why? They was hungry.
Why'd they drink? They was thirsty. You ain't got
to convince nobody to do those things. They were hungry. They'll
eat, won't they? And carried thence silver and gold and raiment
and went and hid. Came again and entered another
tent and carried tents and also went and hid it. They took these
things and they stockpiled them up and hid them. Why? Well, the
Lord's teaching them. But they was looking out for
number one, weren't they? They was afraid this stuff may go
away. They didn't know this was for everlasting. They wanted
to keep it for tomorrow. At first, they hid it. They was
looking out for number one. They was afraid. They was fearful. Well, fear of the Lord's beginning
wisdom. They just started it. Wisdom
began. Good judgment. Keeps you out
of bad decisions. How do you get good judgment?
Make a lot of bad decisions, don't you? But the Lord did a
heart work in him, and he sent him. He let him experience this,
but then he sent him out. Look here what he did in verse
9. And they said one to another, we do not wail. What we're doing
is wrong. This day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our
peace. We got wonderful things here. Life is here. We is dead, remember?
We're starving to death. We're alive now, and we're going
to keep that to ourselves? We're not going to tell somebody?
And some mischief will come upon us. Now therefore come that we
may go tell the king's household. Let's go tell the whole place.
Let's tell them where we found bread. Let's tell them where
life is. We have to. I'll read to you from Matthew.
I used this illustration one time. We'll see how it goes over
here. We had a hard time finding insurance. Our homeowner's insurance
got canceled for fire, because all the fires in California,
you know. And so they'd just go through and say, hey, we're
not going to insure you. You'll get it. They're going to insure you no more.
And we was calling everybody. If that phone would ring, I'd
call them trying to find insurance. And I said, you know, some other
people, we knew our friends had lost their homeowners insurance.
And I said, you know, if I found insurance and it has a good price,
someplace cheap, I'm going to call. I'll call Steve. Hey, Steve,
guess what, buddy? Call this place over here. They
got cheap insurance. I tell everybody because they need it, don't they?
Just like I need it. The Lord said, you're the light
of the world. A city that's set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither
do men light a candle and put it underneath a bushel, but on
a candlestick and give light to all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men. You can't keep from it.
We're to be a light in the community. And these things, you just are.
Because Christ is in you. It can't be hid. And he ain't
going to run out. I got mercy. Well, you need mercy.
Well, I ain't going to tell you, because he may just only have
a little bit. No. Come on, don't bring you money,
just come eat, come drink. You'll find him, find him that
he tastes good. He ain't going to run out. They
had good tidings and they had to go tell somebody. Verse 10.
So they came and called on under the porter of the city and they
told him saying, we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold,
there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied
and asses tied in the tents as they were. And he called the
porters and they told the king within his house. What good tidings,
the war's over. The war's over, the famine's
over. Everything's provided for. Now remember, I said this is
a picture of us being enemies of God. There is therefore now
no condemnation. We deserve to die. No condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of
life in Christ hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, salvation to the Lord. He's done
this. And that it was weak through the flesh, I couldn't do this.
God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh for
sin, condemned sin in the flesh. That's how short it is. How is
all these things possible? Christ came and died for it.
He redeemed his people in his own blood. And he's risen. There's no temple we go to see
his tomb where his bones lay. He's risen. We have an empty
tomb. That's good news. God accepted
the sacrifice and he's satisfied. And that same God's sitting on
his throne. He's lived and he lives now making
intercession for us. It ain't gonna run out. The defense,
the security is forever. It's eternal. He spared not his
own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not
with him also freely give us all things? Lord gave me eternal
life. You think I can trust him with
my transmissions going to make it to my next destination? I'm trusting with illnesses and
heartache and paying a mortgage. He'll take care of it. He saved
my soul from the depths. I have to learn to trust him,
don't I? He's the faithful teacher. It's
too good to be true, isn't it? It doesn't fit human logic. Why
would he go find worms and the worst thing, the dregs of society? Find me the worst one. And he
said, that's when I'm going to send my son to die for. And I'm
going to make them kings and priests. It honors the masters,
what it does. Guys make fun of me because of
the tools I use when I was working. I saw an old plumber had the
same tools I did, and he was being honored. He said, son,
you see that tool? He goes, the tool don't matter.
It's the hand of the master that matters. And I said, buddy, you
don't even know what you're saying, but that's right. So I'm going to
use that Sunday. And that's right. The tool don't matter. It's the
hand of the master that does. This king said, well, it's a
trap. We ain't going out there. And he said, we're staying right
here inside of these walls. We ain't leaving this law. Don't
you preach against Moses. Same thing happened to Pharisees,
isn't it? last throughout time. But they took some old starving
horses to go check and went out there with a party and they found
it was so. It says down in verse 16, and they went out and spoiled
the tents of the Syrians. So, here's what come to pass
after all that. A measure of fine flour. This
was just beautiful to me. A measure of fine flour was sold
for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according
to the word of the Lord. God said so and he did it. That's just too simple. I understand
that a little bit and I want to understand it more every day.
God said so, it is so. Now he said it. The Lord says,
best compliment I ever got from somebody. I met a man one time,
he said, all you ever do is just say what God says. I was like,
you're welcome. That's the only thing that's going to come true.
I can tell you all about UK basketball or whatever, that ain't going
to do you no good. We need to know what God says. I need to
be reminded of his promises. I need to be taught of his warnings. So as a child, I don't err. I
didn't warn my children. And I need to be reminded of
those promises I forget. I forget, I'm just like a scared
squirrel. But that's what the Lord says.
And boy, I'm so bold. I'll take on armies. And then
I'll breathe. Oh, and just right back to weak,
ain't I? It seems as if he's all my strength. I'm learning
that. We all are, ain't we? Just as the Lord said, he said
in Isaiah 65, therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold, my
servant shall eat, but ye shall be hungry. He's warning them,
warning our enemies. He said, my servants are going
to eat, you'll be hungry. My servants shall drink, you'll
be thirsty. Behold, my servants shall rejoice. They're going
to be happy about it, but you shall be ashamed. Does that make
you happy? God's on his throne. If he can't
be thwarted, he will receive, Christ will receive all the glory
for it, all. And he's taking care of his people
the whole way. That makes me happy. I rejoice. Don't go to
the law, just like him, four lepers. Don't go to the law,
you'll die. Don't stay to yourself, don't
go to another man, you'll die. Go to the one we were at war
with and beg for mercy and you'll find mercy there was great and
grace was free. I hope that was a blessing to
you. I was excited to tell somebody. If you'd been down to lobby that
motel last night, you'd probably got a preview. But thank you
for everything, and Lord be with you this weekend. And as he's
pleased, I'll see you Tuesday. So thank you.