Returning to Isaiah chapter 32,
let me talk to you for just a little bit. I understand that word has
gotten out that I have bone cancer and I'm not expected to survive
just a little while. And believe me, none of it is
so. I'm doing very well. I'm not
surprised that folks surmise such. But I assure you, my family,
As I know things, you'll know them. I won't keep you in the
dark, and no one will know anything about my progress beyond my wife
and myself before you know it. I make you that promise. I'm
doing fine. I've had cancer now for better
than 42 years. It's just been slowed up for
a while, and hopefully they'll slow it up again. But the treatments
went fine yesterday. make me a little tired, and they
said it would, and I expect when I have another one in three weeks,
it'll make me a little tired too, but I feel fine, and I appreciate
your concern and your prayers, but doctors do what they can
do, and God will do what he wills to do, and I'll be very happy,
and I trust that you will. Now let's turn to Isaiah chapter
32, Isaiah chapter 32. Nothing can be more comforting
Nothing can be more assuring, nothing can be more joyful to
the believing heart in this world than the blessed, sweet assurance
that Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, the God-man mediator who laid
down his life for us, who died for us, who redeemed us with
his own precious blood, now sits upon the throne of absolute monarchy
over all the universe. He who loved me and gave himself
for me holds the reins and the hearts and the thoughts and the
deeds of all creatures, of all men, of all power, of all devils,
and of all angels. He who loved us and gave himself
for us sits on his throne in absolute serene sovereignty,
always performing his will. That's the message of Isaiah
32. Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. That's the
message I've come to preach to you this hour. This chapter is
clearly a prophecy of our Lord Jesus Christ and his reign as
our king in this present gospel age. It is not talking about
Hezekiah or any other great king in the days of Israel's Old Testament
life as a nation, but rather when you read the chapter, the
things spoken here that could not be applied to anyone except
the Christ of God, our King, God's Messiah, and our Savior. The King spoken of here then
is the Lord Jesus. The kingdom he's describing is
the kingdom of heaven, the church of God. The time about which
this passage speaks is this present gospel age. Let's read these
20 verses of inspiration with our minds focused upon our Redeemer,
His person and His work, and we'll find much here to rejoice
our souls. The Church of God is a blessed,
prosperous, peaceful kingdom, under the rule and dominion of
Christ our King, who is king of all things. Let me show you
three things in these 20 verses, and we'll move through them verse
by verse. First, we have before us here
a description given by Isaiah, a prophetic description of the
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and its blessedness in verses
one through eight. Before we read these verses,
I remind you that the kingdom of God is not a carnal, material,
political kingdom of any kind. It is altogether spiritual. The
kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. Forget about what folks
who write reference Bibles or write references in the Bibles
and folks who write prophetic books tell you about the nation
of Israel and all the stuff that's supposed to happen in the nation
of Israel. The kingdom of God is not over there across the
water. The kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. Our Lord
Jesus said, the kingdom of God is in you and you are in God's
kingdom. The only way anyone can see the
kingdom of heaven, the only way anyone can understand, perceive,
apprehend anything about the kingdom of heaven is if he's
born again. The only way you can enter this
kingdom is not by birth of a natural kind, not by any kind of physical
thing you do, but the only way you can enter this kingdom is
by the new birth, by being born again. Hold your hands here in
Isaiah 30 and look at John chapter 3. John chapter 3. You're very familiar with this
passage of scripture. It's a passage almost anyone who goes to church
for very long can quote most of it, but few people understand
it. There was a man of the Pharisees
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus
by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know thou art a teacher come
from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except
God be with him. And the Lord Jesus answered him
saying, Nicodemus, you don't know a blooming thing. You don't know anything. You
just think you know. This is what he said. Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot
see. He cannot apprehend. He cannot
know. He cannot understand the kingdom
of God. And then Nicodemus tells us just
exactly how much he really did know. Nicodemus saith unto him,
how can a man be born when he's old? Can he enter the second
time into his mother's womb and be born? I've talked to a lot
of folks just like that. Just exactly like that. Ask ridiculous,
stupid questions, exposing their ignorance because they don't
see the kingdom of God. Our Lord Jesus answers. That
which is born, I'm sorry, Jesus said unto him, verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of
flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit
is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. How does that happen? The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof.
But canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth,
so is every one that is born of the Spirit. All right, back
here in Isaiah. Let's look at these first eight
verses together first. The church of God is a kingdom,
the kingdom of God. All who believe God, all who
trust Christ, all who are born again are a part of that spiritual
kingdom. And Isaiah here tells us about
that kingdom. Verse 1, Behold, a king shall
reign in righteousness. This king, of course, is the
Lord Jesus Christ, whom God hath exalted. In the prophets, over
and over again, the Lord God by his prophets spoke of the
king as being David. David. David is going to be a
shepherd over his foe. David is going to be king forever
and ever. But David only represents the Lord Jesus Christ, who is
David's Lord and David's son. Christ is the king. He has entered
into his kingdom, taken his seat on the right hand of the majesty
on high, having all things put under his feet in subjection
to him. For to this end, that is for
this purpose, Christ both died and rose and revived, that he
might be Lord both of the dead and living. He is every man's
Lord. Every man's master, every man's
ruler, he controls all, he rules all, he does with all as he will. He lived and died and was exalted
to the right hand of God for this purpose, that he might be
Lord of all. Christ our Savior is the King
of the universe, King of kings and Lord of lords. He's the King
of his saints. and he reigns right now. He is
king forever over all things. King over all things. Oh, how easy our hearts ought
to be. How free of care we ought to
be. How comfortable we ought to be. He who redeemed us. rules everything absolutely all
the time. He's king over all things and
he is king in the hearts of all his people. Salvation is no less
and certainly no more than Jesus Christ taking up his dominion
in the heart of a man. conquering the soul, moving in,
setting his throne in you, so that you willingly, gladly bow
to him as Lord. And Christ is king in his church. Wherever men and women worship
God, as we gather in this place to worship him, if this is indeed
a church, which is the house of God, the pillar and ground
of the truth, There's only one person who rules, and that's
Christ the King. There's only one person who rules,
that is Christ the King. He reigns everywhere, in the
universe, in our hearts, and in his church, in righteousness. He reigns as king because he
fulfilled all righteousness. Because he finished the work
the father gave him. And now the father said to him,
ask of me and I'll give you the heathen for your inheritance.
And he holds dominion over all because he's earned the right.
His law, the law of his kingdom is holy, just, good and true. He rules everywhere in righteousness. He rules everywhere by righteousness,
and he rules everywhere righteously. What are you saying, pastor?
Whatever he does is right. Whatever he does is right. It should never be questioned
by me. It's right, because he's righteous.
He cannot and will not do wrong. He does everything in strict
accordance with righteousness, justice, and truth. His administration,
that is his ways and his methods, are all right. The righteous
Lord loveth righteousness. and the scepter of his kingdom
is a right scepter. It is righteousness. He is the Lord our righteousness,
and he rules the universe in righteousness. Well, pastor,
I see a lot of things going on that don't show any righteousness.
No, you see things as you see them through your damn eyes and
set in judgment over God, questioning whether or not God does right.
God does right. He only does right. If it weren't right, it would
not come to pass. God does all things righteously,
even in the way he uses wicked men and their wicked actions.
The next line in the text reads, and princes shall rule in judgment. The princes of Christ's kingdom,
the princes of Zion, The princes of God's church are gospel preachers,
pastors of local churches, men sent over the Lord's people by
the Lord himself to rule the house of God as a man would rule
his own house. The Holy Spirit says, remember
them which have the rule over you. who spoken to you the word
of God, whose faith follow." Considering the end of their
conversation. Pastors are given oversight of God's house. It
is their responsibility to rule the house of God. That is to
keep things in order according to the word of God, by the will
of God, for the glory of God. It's not a matter of exercising
their power and might and dominion. It's a matter of exercising their
responsibility. It is my responsibility to be
a doorkeeper in the house of God. To bring in those things
that are right for the house and to keep out those things
that are not. It is the responsibility of every man set as an angel
of God in his church. Set as God's messenger to his
church. To see to it that the house of
God is ordered, directed, and ruled by the Word of God, by
the Spirit of God, and in no other way. No matter who objects. No matter who's pleased or displeased,
the pastor must never, he must never give to the will of men,
not even to yours, but only to the will of God. That's his responsibility. It's not that he rules as though
the kingdom were his. He rules as a prince in the kingdom,
under the king, for the honor of the king, for the glory of
the king. When God's pleased to send a
church a pastor, I was just talking to two this week, the two congregations
we've had a hand in helping to establish. When God gives them
a pastor, I step out of the picture and I tell them, follow your
pastor, follow your pastor, follow your pastor. God gave you a pastor
to lead you by his word. Look at verse two. And a man
shall be for a hiding place from the wind. You don't have to guess
who this is. This is Christ our Redeemer,
the incarnate God, our God-man mediator. He is our hiding place
from the wind, our covert from the tempest. It is he who hides
us from the wrath of God. He who shelters us in times of
trial and temptation. He who protects us from Satan's
assaults. He who keeps us in the midst
of opposition and persecution from men. It is He. who is our
rock of refuge in time of adversity, affliction, and sorrow. When
providence seems dark, we run to him and find refuge. Christ
is as rivers of water in a dry place. This speaks of the abundance
of grace in our Lord Jesus and the freeness of it. Grace flows
to us. flows to us from the ocean, the
infinite boundless ocean of God's love, mercy, and goodness in
Christ Jesus. It comforts and refreshes our
souls in this dry and thirsty land. I like what John Gill said
concerning this. He said, it makes God's saints
cheerful and fruitful, revives their spirits, makes glad their
hearts and causes them to go on their way rejoicing. And Christ
is as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Oh, what a
weary land this is in which we live. We're wearied with our
own sins and wearied with the temptations of Satan. Wearied
with the corruptions of the world and wearied with the sorrows
and troubles of this world. And our weary souls take refuge
in Christ who is our rock. Turn back a few pages to Psalm
64. Psalm 64, look at this. Hear my cry, O God, attend unto
my prayer. From the end of the earth will
I cry unto Thee, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the
rock that is higher than I, for Thou hast been a shelter for
me and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Thy tabernacle
forever. I will trust in the covert of
thy wings. Think on this now. God is my
strong tower. I will abide in his tabernacle
forever. I will trust in the covert of
his wings. Christ is our rock of salvation. our rock of refreshing, our rock
of stability, our rock of refuge. The name of the Lord is a high
tower and the righteous runneth into it and is safe. Look at
verses three and four back here in Isaiah 32. Here's the blessedness of those
who are born of God's spirit and enter into the kingdom of
his dear son. And the eyes of them shall see or the eyes of
them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear
shall hearken. That is, they'll walk in bright
light with clear vision, and they won't have to have hearing
aids. Their ears will be sharp and clear. The heart also of
the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers
shall be ready to speak plainly. What on earth is that talking
about? All who are born of God, born into the kingdom of God,
are born into lights. And they are enlightened, illuminated,
and given understanding by the Spirit of God. So that God the
Holy Ghost says concerning you who believe Christ, you have
the mind of Christ. I haven't yet begun to get an
idea of what that means. In measure, I'm certain it means
this. Being born of God and taught of God, we learn to observe things
with the mind of Christ. To see things through his eyes
as he sees them. You have the mind of Christ and
you judge, you discern all things. Being taught of God, We believe
his doctrine. We bow to his ordinances revealed
in this book. We obey his word. We are God's
people. We're God's people. Things which
we once spoke against rashly in our foolishness and rebellion,
we now understand and rejoice in. Believers being taught of
God Rejoice in the person and work of the Lord Jesus. Oh, how
we rejoice in his blood atonement. How we rejoice in his righteousness.
Those garments of salvation with which he's clothed us. How we
rejoice in his covenant mercy, love, and grace. How we rejoice
in his sovereign rule of all things. And men of stammering
tongues are made ready and able teachers and preachers of the
things of God. I read with great delight and
interest when Brother Heller sends us a translated sermon
from one of those pastors in New Guinea. When Brother Gruver
sends a translated sermon from one of the pastors in Mexico,
I've had the privilege of sitting and listening to some of those
men preach as the message was translated. It does my heart
good to hear them. Brother Bill Clark used to send
the messages from the African preachers in the Ivory Coast.
God calls his men of stammering tongues to preach his word fluently
and clearly and freely. And you see, your calling brethren,
among my friends who are gospel preachers, myself included, not
many wise, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God
takes such things nobody else would have or use. He takes such
things as nobody else would have or use and puts them in the work
of the ministry and uses them for His glory as only He can
that no flesh should glory in His presence. Look at verses
5, 6, and 7. These verses describe those who
are unfit and must not be allowed to speak for God in his church. The vile person shall be no more
called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the
vile person will speak villainy and his heart will work iniquity
to practice hypocrisy, to utter error against the Lord, to utter
error against the Lord. to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
The instruments also of the cheril are evil. He diviseth wicked
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
speaketh rights. And you thought I could be harsh
with, we'll worship Arminian preachers. The vile man, described
here by Isaiah, is one who is a hypocrite. In the name of God,
in the name of serving God, he speaks lies against God. The cherub is the covetous hireling
man, the man who does everything he does for one reason, himself. He does everything he does for
one reason, himself, that's all. I've told you before, but it
bears repetition. The first time I went down and
preached for the Gary Perkins, there were several preachers
from the mountains around there who came to the services, and
we were sitting in a fellowship hall after services, and a preacher
who looked to be considerably younger than me, but old enough
to know better than to talk as he did, he said, I'd give anything
if I could preach like that in my church. And I looked at him
real frank, and I guess he caught the look out of my eyes as if
being utterly contemptuous as I intended it. I said, what did
you say? Because I'd give anything if
I could preach like that in my church. I said, if you don't,
I can tell you why. He said, why? And I pulled my wallet out, stuck
it under his nose. I said, that's the only reason. That's the only
reason. The cherub, the deceitful, lying
man in the pulpit, serves no one but himself. Now I don't
care if that's your son or your daughter. I don't care if that's
your son-in-law or your daughter-in-law. I don't care if that's your brother,
your sister, your father or your mother. The cherub who lies on
God in the name of God serves no one but himself. And both
the cherub and the vile are destroyers of men's souls. What a statement. Both are destroyers of men's
souls. God's saints are required to
try the spirits. Try the spirits by the word,
and those who are tried by the word of God will be exposed in
their true light. Believe not every spirit, but
try the spirits. John says, try them now because
there are many antichrists who've gone out in the world. They confess
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. They confess not
that Jesus the Christ is come in the flesh. That is they deny
that the man who died at Calvary, Jesus of Nazareth, actually did
bring in everlasting righteousness, actually did put away sin, actually
did crush the serpent's head, actually did redeem and save
his people. and all who deny that Christ
has accomplished all he came to accomplish is a vile, churlish,
deceiver, and destroyer of men's souls. You try what you hear
from this pulpit, whether from my lips or any other man, and
if it is not according to what's written in this book, don't come
here again. If it is according to what's
written in this book, make dead sure you hear and believe everything
proclaimed from the pulpit. Verse eight describes the princely
character of true faithful gospel preachers. But the liberal deviseth
liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand. God's
servants are free spirits. They preach the gospel of God's
free grace, And they do it freely with no sinister designs, no
personal ambitions. And by the message they preach,
God's servants are established. They're established by the very
thing they preach. Folks don't have to guess about
it. What does your pastor preach? Well, I don't know whether he
believes that or not. If he preaches it, you do. If he preaches it,
you do. They're established by the doctrine
they preach. Now look at verses nine through
14. These verses describe a time of great distress and trouble
as God's people pass through this world. Rise up, ye women
that are at ease. Hear my voice, ye careless daughters. Give ear unto my speech. Many
days and years Shall you be troubled, you careless women? For the vintage
shall fail, that is the vines will give no fruit. The gathering
shall not come. Tremble, you women that are at
ease. Be troubled, you careless ones. Strip you and make you bare and
gird sackcloth upon your loins. They shall lament for the teats,
for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Upon the land
of my people shall come up thorns and briars, yea, upon all the
houses of joy in the joyous city, because the palaces shall be
forsaken. The multitude of the city shall
be left. The forts and towers shall be
for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks. Before the coming of Christ,
And in the beginning of this gospel age, the church of God
went through a long, long time of barrenness and trouble. You
read about it throughout the Old Testament. It began back
just as soon as God brought Israel out of Egypt, during the days
of the judges, during the days of the prophets. And then they
had that long Babylonian captivity. And all of those things always
came as a result of people who wore the name of God, who professed
to be the people of God, refusing to obey God, refusing to worship
God according to his word, bringing into the house of God and incorporating
with the worship of God every form of idolatry. And so God
sent them to Babylon for 70 long years. After the Babylonian captivity,
this is hard for us to imagine, But for 400 years, from Malachi
to John the Baptist, there was no open vision from heaven. God
was silent. Silent to people who refused
to hear his word, who refused to walk before him in obedient
faith. And then just before our Savior's,
during the time of our Savior's life on this earth, and just
before he came into this world, The Jews were in Roman bondage
for the same reason. The church today, when she becomes
presumptuous and careless, and I'm not talking now about that
goat barn across the street or the one down the road or the
one back this way. I'm talking about Grace Baptist Church in
Danville. I'm talking about Todd's Road
Church in Lexington. I'm talking about Hurricane Road Church in
Ashland, Kentucky. I'm talking about people like
you and me. God's Church. When we become presumptuous and
careless, we bring trouble on ourselves. We care not for the things of
God, but shove those things under the rug to make room for more
important things. When we heed not the voice of
God in His Word, but give our attention to other things. You
see, carnal security Everything's all right, we're saved, we know
everything's all right. That sense of carnal security
produces careless neglect. And careless neglect brings barrenness
and spiritual desolation. These verses we just read, verses
nine through 14, are a call to repentance. In times of spiritual
desolation, There is no milk in the breasts. The women are
called to lament the teats because there's no milk in the breast.
There's no children born and they're barren. We come to the
house of God and we sing his praise. We hear his word. We
observe his ordinances. We eat the bread, drink the wine.
We baptize folks who confess Christ, but there is no milk
of life in the ordinances for our souls. There's no harvest
in the field. Few are converted. There's no
fruit in the vine, no spiritual joy, no rejoicing in the Lord. And the palaces, the churches
of God are forsaken. And for the most part, they are.
Just forsake it. Just forsake it. I'll be going,
the Lord willing, in a few weeks over to Dudley, England, and
I'll be preaching in a congregation, in a church building. The congregation,
not so very many years ago, exceeded 400 regularly. They rarely exceed
20 today. Rarely. I will be going, friends,
Pikeville, Ashton, Dingus, some go over to Cottageville. Most
of the places I preach are smaller congregations we have here tonight.
Why? Because men and women presume. We have the Church of God here. We have the Word of God here.
We can go when we want to, or we can stay away when we want
to. And when you make that presumption, folks generally choose to stay
away. And the palaces are forsaken. Forsaken to your hurt. Forsaken
to the ruin of your families. Forsaken to the everlasting ruin
of those for whom we most earnestly care. But blessed be God, it
shall not always be so. Look at the last verses, 15 through
20. These verses proclaim a time of restoration, a time of revival. Without question, this prophecy
is a prophecy of the coming of this present gospel age, of the
outpouring of God's spirit and grace upon his elect among the
Gentiles as the inauguration of Christ as King is set forth
publicly. But these verses also speak of
times of refreshing, restoration, and revival promised to God's
church. As surely as trouble comes, deliverance will follow. As surely as we experience times
of desolation, we will experience times of refreshing. Let me give
you five indications of what we might call true revival. I
don't pay much attention to what men call revival, what you read
about in history books, the Pentecostal nonsense, folks rolling in the
floor and ripping their shirts and women exposing themselves
and all that's supposed to be done in the name of the Spirit.
If you call that revival, I want nothing to do with it. I pay
no attention to that nonsense. But there is a reviving that's
of God. And it involves certainly these
things. Repentance, lamentation, and the confession of sin among
God's people. In verse 9 we're called, rise
up ye women that are at ease. And in verse 11, tremble ye women. Be troubled, you careless ones. Strip you, and make you bare,
and gird sackcloth upon your loins, and they shall lament
for the teats. In verse 15, where there's this
lamentation of sin, where there's repentance, there is sure to
be the outpouring of God's Spirit that caused it. Until the Spirit
be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field be counted a forest. Then judgment
shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the
fruitful field. Verse 17, when God pours out
His Spirit upon His church, He brings repentance, lamentation,
confession of sin. And that brings, or is brought
to pass, by the exaltation of Christ in his person and work
as our Redeemer. And the work of righteousness,
Christ's work, shall be peace. And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever. I don't know when we will ever
learn this, preachers, who ought to know
better keep pointing us to ourselves and our feelings and what we
see in ourselves and experience in ourselves for assurance. If
you feel yourself sinful enough or low enough or bad enough or
good enough or holy enough, no, no, no, no. The only peace is
righteousness. Perfect, absolute righteousness
possessed by faith in the Son of God. That's peace, that's
assurance forever. Fourth thing, verse 18. Wherever
there is this outpouring of God's spirit, the uplifting of the
Lord Jesus, there will be the in gathering of God's elect.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in
sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, when it shall
hail coming down on the forest, and the city shall be low in
a low place. What's that talking about? When
the Lord Jesus gathers his sheep into his fold, the Spirit of
God is working in our midst. His fold is a local church. These
local churches are called peaceable habitations. Sure dwelling places,
the house of the living God. Quiet resting places, palaces,
quiet peaceable palaces. Resting places even when hail
falls all around us. We come in here, oh how I thank God, oh how I thank
God for the peace of this house. how I thank God for the blessed
privilege. We come into this place, no matter
what's going on out there, no matter how the hail is beating
things down out there, we walk in here and the storm's over
and there's peace and rest in the house of God. Now look at
verse 20. One more thing that's a sure
mark of God's reviving work is the faithful preaching of the
gospel far and near. Blessed are ye that sow beside
all waters. Beside all waters? That send
forth thither the feet of ox and the ass. Blessed are ye that
sow beside all waters. Those words refer to gospel preachers.
Preaching the gospel is like sowing good seed. And you sow
the good seed beside the waters, where it's likely to take root
and grow and bring forth fruit. But we're responsible to sow
the good seed by all waters, that is to preach the gospel
everywhere. That send forth thither the feet
of the ox and the ass. Now that last line makes it very
abundantly clear that this is a prophecy, not of anything that
took place in the Old Testament Mosaic Age, but of this Gospel
Age. Because back in Deuteronomy 22,
God strictly forbade in the Old Testament economy that the ox
and the ass should plow together. They were never to be used in
the same yoke. But here he says for you to send out the ox and
the ass among all waters, scattering the seed. What's he talking about? God sends out the ox and the
ass to labor in the word, in the doctrine, plowing the field
and sowing the precious seed everywhere. And God gives the
increase. I find it interesting how he
describes preachers. Pretty good description. The
ox is a dumb animal, but he's strong. He's strong. You can work him all day long.
He just keeps right on plodding along. The ass is an unclean
animal, but it's stubborn. That's a pretty good description
of gospel preachers. They're not so smart, but strong. And they're not clean by any
means, except as God makes them clean. But they're stubborn,
they just keep right on plodding along. faithful men do. I recall my first day in Bible
college out Springfield, Missouri, there were about, I guess, 300
freshmen in the theology class on the beginning day. And the
professor got up and told a story about one time God used the jawbone
of an ass to slay a thousand Philistines. And he just paused
a little bit and he looked at us and he said, looks to me like
he's still using the jawbones of asses. Pretty good description
of preachers. They're not worth anything. They're
not worth anything except as God uses them. It is ours. to send forth the ox and the
ass to all waters with the word of grace and spread the seed. Just keep throwing it out there. Just keep throwing it out there.
Just keep throwing it out there. Just throw it out there and spread
the seed. Just keep throwing it out there and watch God work. Watch God work. Nothing else,
just cast the seed beside all waters and watch God work. That's our privilege, our responsibility,
and our honor as the kingdom of God our Savior. Amen.