In Malachi chapter 3, there's
that familiar verse of scripture that speaks of the same blessed
truth concerning our Lord's immutability. That's a big word. It simply
means unchangeable. He cannot change. Now you remember
that between Malachi and Matthew, 400 years transpired. There was a space of 400 years
between the writing of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament,
and then the Gospel of Matthew when the Lord Jesus Christ that
Malachi said would come appeared on the scene. And it's referred
to as the 400 silent years. You know why they call him that?
God didn't speak. God didn't speak. He wasn't a
prophet. And you know what happened? It
didn't matter to religious folks. Everybody did what they thought
was right in their own eyes, so that when the Lord came on
the scene, the religious leaders, the scribes, for example, the
Pharisees, those who were supposed to be examples and instructors,
overseers of the people that should have said, you would think,
before anybody else, they should have said, look, there he is,
there's the Lamb of God, there's the one that we've saw in the
Old Testament, that's the one that's prophesied, that's the
one that we've made copies, scrolls of from Isaiah and others, the
scribes. And yet, they did the very opposite. They were blind. Oh, how blind
is man! He is blind by nature, but in
a sense, so to speak, religious people are doubly blind. They're
doubly blind. It's one thing to be lost. Oh,
but if that were not tragic enough to be lost, and think that you're
saved, to be deceived. We don't need this man, the Pharisees
said. We have the prophets. We don't
need you, they threw in the face of our Lord. We've got Abraham
for our father. You don't know who your father
is. You were born of fornication. We know who our father is. Malachi
said, in closing his prophecy, I am the Lord. I am the Lord. I change not. I change not. Why would he? Louis, if you and I change, there's
no if about it. It's either going to be for the
better or for the worse. God Almighty is perfect. He's perfect. He can't get better
and He can never be worse. I am the Lord, I change not. Perfection needs no change, therefore
there is no change. I am the Lord, I change not."
Oh, and look at this sweet word, therefore. Therefore. In light of what the Lord just
said, that he changes not, therefore, there are some sweet consolations
here. Some sweet consequences to an
unchanging God. And he went on to say, therefore,
ye sons of Jacob, Oh, here's the sweet consequence. Are not
consumed. Are not consumed. The reason
being not that you don't change. Oh, but I don't change. I'm the
Lord, I change not. That's the reason. That's the
sole reason that you are not consumed. You'll not perish like
other people. You're not, though you are by
nature, children of wrath even as others. Oh, I've called you
out of darkness into my marvelous light. I've revealed to you my
Son and I will never change. Because God's love never changes. Think about that. I'm not going
to expound on them, I'm just going to mention them. But take
them with you. Think about that. With that text
in Malachi and another that we'll refer to, and then our text for
the message, combine them by God's grace and think about this.
God's immutability, our unchanging God's love never changes. I like that. If God loves me
today, he must have loved me yesterday. He must have loved
me before the foundation of the world. He must have, as he said,
loved me with an everlasting love and it will never change.
It will never change. His love doesn't depend on anything
I do or fail to do. His love never changes. I like
that. That's comforting to this changing
sinner. His mercy never changes. It'll never change. Behold, the
beloved apostle wrote, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us that we should be called the sons of God. And that love
bestowed upon us shall never change. Nothing I do in his mercy,
nothing I do can stop the flow of God's continual mercy upon
and in this sinner. Well, John, what should I do
with that sweet thought? There are many who say, well,
if I believe that, then I would just go out and live like I want.
Really? Really? Well, if you do, you
don't know God. I mean, that's just it. If you
do, if the truth of God's immutable love and undying, unchanging
mercy Makes you want to go out and live as a rebel. It's because
in your heart you are a rebel. No, John says everyone that has
this hope, what does he do? Hoorah, I have a license to sin. No, no. Everyone that truly has
this hope purifies himself. That's a fact. That's what the
scriptures say. Even as he is pure. And ye sons of Jacob are
not consumed because his purposes never change." God's purposes
never change. What I have purposed, God said,
again and again. What I have purposed, I will
fulfill. What I thought, what I thought,
that will I also do, God said. And remember, that one who is
God incarnate, that one who said, if you've seen me, you've seen
the Father, that one who said, I and the Father are one, Jesus
Christ, we read concerning him, our glorious Redeemer in Hebrews
13 verse 8, Jesus Christ the same. I like that. Jesus Christ the
same. The same yesterday. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I would be a liar if
I denied that. Yes, he's been the same yesterday.
What about you, Larry? Oh, no, no, no. I'm as stable
as water. Hot, cold. Up, down. O but His love knows no variableness,
no shadow of turning. Jesus Christ the same yesterday. If He wasn't, I wouldn't be here. If he wasn't the same yesterday,
Lester, in his love, and his mercy, and his power, and his
faithfulness to this sinner, I wouldn't be here. I'd have
left with that multitude in John 6. I'd have went away. I'd have
said, this is a hard saying. I won't hear it. I won't hear
it, and I'd have went away. Oh, but the reason I stand here
is because Jesus Christ changes not. The same yesterday, and
today, and today. Jesus Christ the same today.
Do you hear that? Today. What? Do not the scriptures
tell us we don't know what a day may bring forth? That's absolutely
right. But he does. He's never taken
by surprise. Concerning the multitude in John
6, when he asked Philip, where should we buy bread that all
these may eat? Philip didn't know. He went and
consulted with Andrew and they began to count their pennies.
Imagine that. But then we read, this our Lord
said to prove him, because Jesus knew what he would do. Jesus
knew what he would do. And whatever the day might bring
forth in your life, and how often, like the parable our Lord spoke
in Matthew 7, about the two builders, and the foundations and the storms. Oh, how often those storms, those
violent, sudden storms come sweeping down, unexpected, unprepared
for. And yet, no matter what today
may bring forth, Jesus Christ is the same. That's why those
built upon that foundation shall never be swept off, shall never
be consumed, shall never perish. Jesus Christ is the same today. God help me to remember that
when today might bring forth a great trial. Help me as Don
preached concerning Job last weekend that I not do as his
wife tempted him to do, curse God and die. I will accept that
Jesus Christ is the same today. No matter what. No matter what. And forever. Jesus Christ the
same yesterday and today and forever. Thank God our Savior
never changes. I do. You do. I mean as vain
as I am, it's pretty hard to deny looking in the mirror. And looking back, that man looking
back at me, I mean I may Be so vain to think, well, I'm holding
up pretty good. You know when you see friends you haven't seen
for a while? High school reunion, so to speak. You look at those
folks and you say, man, they've got old. Man, she must have had
a rough life. Never think that about yourself.
Oh, but I look in the mirror and can't deny that man looking
back at me will soon be 66 years old. My, so where did the years
go by? Man, how swift. How swift, how
fast. Oh, what changes. Some for better,
some for worse, as we say. Oh, but the Lord God, my Savior,
this same Jesus, changes not. He who is my anchor, my anchor
within the veil. Changes not. He who is the captain
of my salvation. Remember how we used to always
say, and sometimes you still do, those foolish little plates
on cars, God is my co-pilot. Man, you're in trouble. If God's
your co-pilot, you're in trouble. No, Jesus is not my co-pilot. He's the captain of my salvation. He steers the vessel. Through
storms, he steers the vessel. Sometimes he steers me into a
sweet harbor of calm waters, where I lay like the psalmist
say, and hear those ripples, and I lie beside the still waters. And I like that, it's peaceful,
it's nice to do that. I love to hear the sound of a
flowing, rippling brook. It's peaceful. But it's not always
the case, is it? when peace like a river tendeth
my way, oh I thank God for that, oh but so often sorrow sorrow
sorrow like sea billows roll but whatever my lot Jesus Christ
is the same and it is well with my soul my shepherd, my advocate
with the Father My all in all, Jesus Christ the same forever. Verse 11 of Acts 1. Here's the
third place that speaks of the immutability of our great God
and Savior. Acts chapter 1 verse 11. This is what the angels said
to the astonished disciples as they stood looking and looking
and looking until a cloud received Christ out of their sight. The
angels are sent to stir them out of their stupor, their astonishment
and say, ye men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall
so come in like manner as you have seen him go in to heaven. I preached from this text two
years ago and the title of my message on that occasion was
this same Jesus. And the good news is He still
is. He still is. The title of my
message is this, Great Expectations. Great Expectations. Peter in
his second epistle in chapter 3 said to believers don't you
be disturbed don't you be affected by these scoffers and mockers
that'll come and they'll say where's the promise of his coming
since our fathers fell asleep we've heard that nonsense where's
the promise of his coming And Peter says, don't you be disturbed
by that. They're blind. They're lost.
The surprise would be if they didn't say such things. But don't
you be influenced by that. You have an expectation. You
have the very word of He who is the embodiment of truth saying
to you, I shall return. God is not slack, Peter said
in that same chapter, concerning his promise to usward who believe,
but is long-suffering, that none should perish of the usward his
sheep his elect. That's why He's not returned. Not because, as the scoffers
say, He's delayed His coming. It's a fable. It's a fairy tale.
Oh, child of God, we know better, don't we? He shall return. He
loved me and He gave Himself for me and He wills that where
He is, I'll be with Him also. And one day soon, He's coming
back for me. That's what Peter said. Great
expectations. Can you think of one any greater
pilgrim? Perhaps weary pilgrim? Like Christian
in Pilgrim's Progress? Oh, he set his sights on the
gate of the Celestial City. Was it hopeful, he said, as they
traveled along? Let's commune, let's talk so
we don't get drowsy. Let's have conversations so we
don't get sleepy in our journey, fall asleep, like others. What should we talk about? I
think it was Hopeful asked. He said, let's start at the beginning
of the story. Let's talk about what God did
for us. That'll quicken us. That'll keep
us awake. That'll keep us alert. In that
title, I know, and perhaps it came to your mind, it did mine.
It was the title of a novel written by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations,
and I'll be honest with you, I didn't have a clue what it
was about. So just for accuracy's sake, because I'm referring to
it now, I looked online. It was written in 1881, and it's
about an orphan boy named Pip, I think was the name. And it
said it's a coming-of-age story. A coming-of-age story. Well,
the great expectations a child of God has is not a coming-of-age
story. And like Pip, we are not orphans. Turn, if you will, to John's
Gospel. John chapter 14. This is exactly what our Lord
told his disciples that night that he said to them, I'm going
away. And sorrows filled your heart. Your heart's breaking.
I know it is because I've told you I'm leaving. And Peter, where
I'm going, you can't come with me now. You can't follow me.
Man, can you imagine how they must have felt? But he tells
them, let not your heart be troubled, verse 1 of John 14. Let not your
heart be troubled. Don't let it be overwhelmed.
You believe in God, believe in me. In my Father's house are
many mansions. If it were not so, I wouldn't
be telling you this. I'm not lying to you. I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go, is that not what
the angel said in our text in Acts chapter 1? This same Jesus
shall so come as he went. The fact that he went away is
proof and evidence that he'll come back. Because he went away
to prepare a place for you. As he says here, I will come
again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may
be also. But look at verse 18, I will
not leave you comfortless. If you've never done it, or perhaps
it may be on the margin of your Bible, right above that word
comfortless orphans. Because that's what it is. That's
what he said. It should have been translated
that way. I will not leave you as orphans. But I will come to you. Yes, a coming of age story that
promises to his children from the lips of him who is the ageless
one The Rock of Ages. This same Jesus will come again
soon to take his bride back to the Father's house. And that's
not a fable. That's not a fable. Then we shall
no more see through a glass darkly, but know even as we are known,
all grown up unto a perfect man. In Christ Jesus, all grown up,
and yet We will never grow old. This same Jesus is soon coming. That same Jesus. The same one
that was born of a woman. because it required, it was necessary
that happen, it was necessary to bring many sons to glory,
to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering,
therefore he was made like unto his brethren, the same one who
grew my soul. God, God in flesh, and yet he
grew into manhood. And that same one who lived a
perfect life, doing always the things that pleased the Father,
that was necessary. I come to fulfill the law. Yes, he suffered the curse of
the broken law, but he also must fulfill the law as our substitute,
as our representative to bring in all righteousness. The same
one who lived that perfect life and the same one who died as
a perfect sacrifice. a perfect sacrifice. The blood
of bullocks and goats could never take away sin. When he came into
the world, he said, I come, O Father, to do thy will, O my God. He
taketh away the first that he may establish the second. And
by that perfect sacrifice, he paid to God Almighty a perfect
ransom. a perfect ransom. And God said,
I'm perfectly satisfied and all his people for whom Jesus paid
the ransom, made the atonement, must go free. That same Jesus that did all
that is the one the angels told the disciples and you and I is
going to come back in like manner as ye have seen him go. I like
what Robert Hawker said concerning this verse of scripture in Acts.
He said, the blissful consequence of our Lord's ascension is this,
if I go away, he said, I'll come again. He went away. He went
away. That means he's coming again.
How sweet the scripture. This same Jesus which is taken
up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye
have seen him go into heaven. Your God, your Savior is the
same person. divine and human as he left the
earth so now remains and so again will return. So we should never
forget that the Son of God in our nature is now in heaven and
they're exercising his office of an unchangeable priesthood
so that his mercies towards his people are the mercies of both
natures and are manifested in this double way. and through
such a medium as he is could not have been shown had he been
God only. His mercies are indeed infinite
because he is God, but he is also Immanuel, God with us, God
in our nature who is now in heaven. and will soon come back for his
people. That is the very argument, so
to speak, that the Apostle Paul uses in Hebrews chapter 4. We
have a high priest who can be touched with the filling of our
infirmities. What should we do then? Say, so what? Oh, no, no,
no. Come to him. Are you like me? When I have a trial, a difficulty,
unexpected, Sorrow. I want to run to this
one and that one, seek advice from this one and that one, go
everywhere and to everyone except that one who more than anybody
else identifies and knows exactly, like no one else possibly could
better than I know myself, says, come to me. I'm not a high priest
that cannot be touched. I was in all points tempted,
just like you are being now. Come to me, that you might find
grace and help. in time of need. Oh God give
us grace to do that. This same Jesus showed himself
alive here in verse 3 of Acts 1. He showed himself alive by
many infallible proofs. He showed that he was alive.
Yes he died. He literally and truly died.
And he truly and literally rose again in that same body. from
the dead, glorified. He showed himself alive after
his death, his passion, by many infallible proofs. I emphasize
that because I remind you that a dead Christ doesn't save anybody. A dead Jesus doesn't save anybody. Christ left on the cross doesn't
save anybody. That's what Paul said in 1 Corinthians
15. If Christ be not risen from the
grave, you're yet in your sins. Yes, Christ on the cross put
away the sins of his people. Christ on the cross then and
there redeemed his people, but it's a risen, exalted, lifted
up Christ that applies all the effects and benefits of that
redemption on all those for whom he made it. It's a living Christ
that does that. Remember what the angel said
to the women that morning at daybreak? Why seek ye the living
among the dead? He's not here. He's risen as
he said. In Acts chapter 2, the day of
Pentecost, the word means 50. Pentecost means 50 or 50th. Pentecost took place 50 days
after the Passover. Pentecost took place exactly
50 days after our Lord arose from the dead, our Passover,
who was sacrificed for us. And Peter said, I'm not drunk.
They're not drunk. This is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel. This is the king of glory. This
is proof that he rose from the dead. He has done this. He has
sent this, our Passover, who was sacrificed for us. The very
meaning of Pentecost. Isn't it amazing that people for generations and
generations have read the second chapter of Pentecost? and talk
about the birthday of the church. I don't read that there. They
talk about the gift of the Holy Spirit. They say, oh, this is
what Pentecost means. It's the baptism of the Holy
Spirit. That means speaking in tongues. Oh, man. Well, let's
do that. Let's do that. Let's speak in
tongues. Let's jabber some unknown nonsense. I don't see how you can even
pursue a casual reading of the chapter and come up with that.
No, and overlook the blessed fact that in Acts chapter 2,
King Jesus sent his Holy Spirit and they spoke in languages that
they didn't know before or learn, in order that men might hear
the gospel. And they heard the gospel, and
3,000 sinners got saved. They overlook that and talk about
some unknown gibberish. Oh no, Pentecost is nothing more
or less than the revelation, the evidence of the sovereign,
exalting, ruling King of Kings and Lord of Lords. That's what
it's proof of. True faith, is in this same Jesus. It's not in right doctrine. It's
in the right Savior. I don't know why we seem to have
a tendency to think if a man's an Arminian, he's lost. Well,
yes, of course. Don't misunderstand me. But if
he's a Calvinist, he's bound to be saved. I beg your pardon. Why can't the devil deceive you
with five points? Why can't he get you to looking
at five points instead of one Savior? There's one point, there's
one issue, and it's this same Jesus. Listen to what Brother
Henry said along this line, Brother Henry Mahan. A man can be saved
and not know whether he's a pre-meal or post-meal or a meal. Tim James
says, or Reynolds' Aluminum. But a man cannot be saved who
does not know Christ. A man can be saved without a
love for Tulip, but he cannot be saved without a love for Christ.
A man can be saved who refuses the lordship of elders, but a
man cannot be saved who refuses the lordship of Christ. You say,
uh-oh, Larry, there you go again. Well, you see, Henry agrees with
me. The Word of God agrees with both. We agree with it. A man
who's never bowed to Jesus Christ is a lost man. I don't care who
he is or who she is. If she's never bowed to King
Jesus, they're lost. They're lost. A man can be saved
who does not enter the rest of your Sabbath, but a man cannot
be saved who has not ceased from his own labors and entered into
that rest of Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ is the only Savior,
Can a man be saved by any other? If this same Jesus is the way
to God, can men be saved by coming another way? If Jesus Christ
is the only mediator between God and man, can anyone else
be my mediator between me and a holy God? Can Mary do it? Can a priest do it? Can a preacher
do it? If saving knowledge, and by that
I don't mean that I know how God saves sinners, I don't mean
that when I use the term saving knowledge, but I mean truly knowing
the Savior Jesus Christ Himself. Can I be saved by someone else's
knowledge? Can I be saved by proxy? My mama
believes on the Lord God. Does that save me? Dad believes,
been a believer all his life. That's too long, Henry said.
But can I be saved secondhand? No. Paul said, I know. I know. Timothy, you know. Titus, you know. Oh, but I know.
I know whom I have believed. I'll tell you what. When this Man comes down to die
if I'm in my right mind at all. Oh, what a sweet comfort that's
going to be. When I'm gasping out my last, oh, I can just,
I'm sure, I'm sure, what a comfort it's going to be to in truth
say, I know whom I have believed. And I'm going to be with him
in just a moment, in just a minute. to open my eyes and see Him face
to face. What a blessed comfort that is.
The answer to all those questions that I just asked is a resounding
no. No. We must have Him. If you would have asked the disciples,
what do you believe? They wouldn't have to take the
long way around to tell you. They wouldn't have to go pull
off Gil's body of divinity to explain it to you. Peter, what
do you believe? What's your doctrine? And Peter
would say, see him, see him, the Lamb of God, that's what
I believe. That's who I believe. But what about practice? What's
your rule of faith and practice? Again, see him, see him, I'm
following him. I'm following him. How can I
go wrong if I follow him? Jesus Christ is all. When I had
moved from West Virginia to Kentucky, I hadn't been, I think, there
about a year. One Friday evening, I was in
my shower, actually, and Roger, Larry, banged on the door and
said, Dad, Jerry, my baby brother, is on the phone. I think something's
wrong. And I took the phone, and Jerry was crying. And he
said, Larry, I don't know how to tell you this, but Daddy died.
Daddy just died. He'd went out to cut grass. He
had a massive heart attack. He'd never had one before. They
said he was probably dead before he hit the ground. The next day,
I was driving home, going down Interstate 64. And I thought,
hmm, going home. Going to see Mom, going to see
Dad. Then I said, oh, no, no. Not going to see Dad. Dad's gone. He's not there anymore. And I
went there, and I went there many, many times since then.
But Dad's not there. And I'll tell you, even after
all these years, that was in 93, it's just not the same without
him. It's just not the same. Oh, I
love to see Mom, thankful that she's still here. But that house,
that is just not the same. And brothers and sisters in Christ,
Is that not what makes heaven heaven? This same Jesus. Is this not the glory of glory? Could it even be called paradise
properly if Jesus Christ wasn't there? We read in Revelation chapter
21 that in heaven there'll be no more death, no more sorrow,
no more crying, no more tears, no more pain. for the former
things are wiped away." Well, where's my beloved? Where's Jesus? Oh, my soul, look among that
multitude that no man can number. There's no imagining that. And
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, Job, but that won't do. That's not enough. That's not
enough. Well, looky here. There's Peter and Andrew and
James and John. And there's Paul, old Saul of
Tarsus. But again, that would never be
enough. They can never make up for the
absence of him who sits upon the throne. And thank God he
won't be absent. Oh, my soul, would you look at
that. There he is. There he is. And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write,
for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me,
It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give to him that is a
thirst. I've told you before, Brother
Scott Richardson would be preaching and he would just kind of pause
and then Come over to a corner of the pulpit, lean and look
out at everybody and say, is anybody thirsty? Is anybody thirsty? If any man thirsts, the water
of life said, come unto me and drink. And he says here, I will
give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of water of life
freely. freely. Yes, this same Jesus
shall come. I'm going to wrap this up. On this same mount, the Mount
of Olives, Mount Olivet, that our Lord ascended that day was
taken up. If you'll read Matthew 24, you'll
find that on that same mount, on that occasion, When he left
the temple for the last time, telling his disciples there won't
be one stone left upon another in this temple, he went to the
Mount of Olives and sat down and they said, Lord, when will
these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and
of the end of the world? You know the first thing he said
to them, the very first thing, and he repeated it throughout
his message, don't be deceived. Take heed that no man deceive
you. He said there's going to be many
false Christs to rise. And they're going to deceive
many. Many will follow them. Many will be deceived by them. He said, as a matter of fact, if it wasn't for me, the very
elect, for the elect's sake, they would even be deceived.
That's the subject of my article in today's bulletin, if you would
like to read it. and many were deceived. John
said even now many antichrists are in the world. I don't know
why people think that the antichrist is going to be some man rise
up with 666 tattooed across his forehead. That's not going to
fool anybody. No, antichrist is anyone that
denies and he might wear his collar turned around backwards.
Or he might not wear one at all. He might be a preacher. But if
he denies that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings,
he might smile and use the name Jesus. He might grin like Don
Says or Brian Eaton. Mule, but if he denies that Jesus
Christ is God Almighty He's Antichrist and John says he's in the world
right now You've heard that he's in gonna be in the world John
says he's in the world now Christ said don't be deceived don't
trust another Jesus Man, what a movie it was What a sly movie
it was by the father of lies the devil when he duped this
religious generation with another Jesus. That was, so to speak,
a master move, wasn't it? I'll give them a Jesus. I'll
let them believe on Him, but it'll be another. Multitudes
are trusting Him. Multitudes are trusting Him.
One last thing. On this occasion, again on the
Mount of Olives, as the Sheep, for the last time in the flesh,
follow the great shepherd of the sheep. I can almost picture
him. They go to that mount for the
last time. Gethsemane was on the Mount of
Olives at the base, I believe. I wonder if they passed that
place as they ascended. I wonder if they passed that
place where the Son of God sweat great drops of blood for. I wonder
if they passed that spot where he cried, Father, if it's possible,
let this cup pass from me. I wonder if they did. But they
continued to follow, and they reached the top. And while he's
speaking, he's taken up. He's taken up. taken up into
heaven. How high was He taken? I'll tell
you how high He was taken. So high is He exalted at the
right hand of God that everything and everyone including you and
me are under His feet. There's nothing, no one above
Him. He is so high, so highly exalted
by God Almighty and sitting at the right hand of the majesty
on high that God says every knee's gonna bow to my son. Every tongue's
gonna confess to my son. If it's before I cast them into
hell and out of darkness forever, they will bow to King Jesus. This same Jesus will so come. Is that the one you're trusting? He'll come as he went in absolute
victory. He finished his work on earth,
and when he finishes his work from heaven, calling out his
last sheep, he shall so come in like manner." This same Jesus. What a glorious, what a great
expectation. Ruth Wall, I don't know if you
know her, but she's in Don's church in Danville, Grace Baptist
in Danville. She wrote a song. I think it was after a message
I preached, it doesn't matter. But anyway, let me close with
just quoting a portion of it. The title of her song was, What
Think Ye of Christ? Of Christ. What thinkest thou
of Christ, my friend? What does he mean to you? Is
he your sovereign Lord of all, or is it up to you? What did
he do on Calvary's tree while hanging there alone? Did he just
make it possible, or is the work all done? It's all done. If it
wasn't all done, he'd still be in the tomb. God wouldn't have
raised him from the dead if he hadn't done what he came to do.
Oh, will you stand on judgment day and boast of all you've done?
Will you point to Christ and say, I'm trusting in God's Son. He's my all in all. John wrote and said, and now
little children, abide in him. that when he shall appear, you
shall be like him, not be ashamed before him at his coming. God
bless you. I appreciate your attention.