Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayerful attention to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 3, reading from our text, verse 22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, They prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me. Em shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Acts 3 and verse 22.

Moses' prophecy of Christ, like unto me, the prophet that was to come. We read the portion in Deuteronomy that this quote is taken from. You think also of Stephen when he was being martyred, the first Christian martyr, and he also quoted from this same portion. And of course the reason why the Apostles, why they so emphasize this message of Moses and our Lord as well was because the last message in the Old Testament in Malachi, it exhorted them to remember the Lord, or the law of Moses, and until the Lord should come.

We find that when our Lord came, he had a people that were, in outward ways at least, diligent on the law of Moses. They had the idea that the Lord Jesus Christ came to destroy the law, that he was in conflict with Moses. We find the situation when they are bringing the woman that was taken in adultery, and Moses commanded that she should be stoned, but what sayest thou? And they were contrasting the two, trying to lay a trap for him.

into the case with the man that was born blind. And he had very little that he knew. One thing I know, whereas I was blind, now I see. They said to him, We are Moses' disciple. As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. And the man that had been born blind, then he said, Why, herein is a marvelous thing. He know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Was it ever heard since the beginning of the world that one could open the eyes of the blind? If this man were not of God, he could do nothing."

And you see, they were cleaving, cleaving to Moses, thinking that was their proper and true religion. And yet at the same time, the Lord said to them that they had gone away from the commandments of men, and instead are teaching for commandments the precepts of men. They had made some 638 other laws separate, and making the law of God of none effect by their traditions, and yet they still held or prided themselves that they were the disciples of Moses, they were holding fast to what he had. set forth.

And so we think of the times like the Mount of Transfiguration where we had Moses set forth and the prophets by Elijah and then they saw no man but Jesus only. We read in the opening of the Gospels that law, the law came by Moses but grace and truth by Jesus Christ. But here we have Moses, all of those thousands of years before, prophesying, foretelling the coming of Christ, and that when he came, that he should be like unto me, like unto Moses.

And he's right for us then to look into the likeness. How is it? that our Lord Jesus Christ was like unto Moses. In finding that out, we not only get the assertion and the seal put by the very things that Moses said, the prophet, that his word comes to pass, you know he's a true prophet, well, if that comes to pass, a Christ, the prophet, like unto Moses, we can see that, we know Moses is a true prophet, And we also know that Christ is the true Messiah. He is the one of whom Moses did speak.

When John Baptist was first beginning his ministry, then they were asking him, aren't thou a prophet, or aren't thou the prophet, as if they were actually expecting that there should come a prophet. Of course, John the Baptist said no, I am not he." Now the Lord was clear concerning John the Baptist that he was the one sent before him as the voice crying in the wilderness. And so on to this evening to look at this word that we have before us.

Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. So there are three things I desire to bring before you and before myself, and the first is this, a prophet to be raised up like unto me, the raising up of our Lord Jesus Christ, even in that light unto Moses. And then secondly, to see our Lord's work through Moses. Moses had a work to do. Our Lord had a work to do. And so the light unto me, we would expect there be a lightness in his work as well. And then we have the last part of our text, which is the importance of hearing our Lord, shall ye hear. He shall speak, it shall be his word. Their ears were just open as it were to Moses, but Moses is saying no, there's one coming and you are to hear him.

So I hope it is this evening that we are drawn as Christ is lifted up and we are drawn to him and to see these likenesses because sometimes in seeing it in the time, seeing how Moses was, can make us see more clearly how Christ was and his office and his work.

So firstly then, a prophet to be raised up unto you. Now it was said unto you of your brethren, Now Moses was born as a Hebrew. He was born amongst his people. Very soon after his birth he was in the palace, but he was distinctly one of the children of Israel. He was not from another nation, not from any mixture, but a very clear line of the children of Israel. And our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, as well in the Gospels, is opening it up very clearly that He was the Son of David. And the line right through from Abraham, that the one that was expected to come, they would expect He would be of the tribe of Judah. He would come through that line. And the very beginning of the Gospels emphasize really this very point, Jesus of Nazareth, it was one of the brethren, he was born unto that nation, the seed of the woman that should bruise the serpent's head, born of the Virgin Mary, born into that line. And the emphasis is in Matthew, the kingship line, in Luke, the line that runs right back down to Adam. And so when Moses says that it is to be unto his brethren, then that is fulfilled.

Then we have another likeness as well, because his birth was in a time of persecution. The king in Moses' time was seeking to destroy all of the male children of the Hebrews. The king in our Lord's time sought when he was deceived or the wise men didn't come back to him, he sought to destroy all the male children in his time. And Moses was miraculously delivered from that through the ark, through the bulrushes, being found by Pharaoh's daughter and our Lord was told, or Moses, Joseph and Mary were told to go into Egypt and therefore they also escaped, he escaped that death as well. So we have very clear parallels like unto Moses in that situation.

Another likeness is Moses was, you might say, the adopted son of a king, or grandson of a king. He was in a king's household. Whereas, of course, our Lord was veiled in flesh, but the King of kings and Lord of lords. He truly was the great anti-type, the one that should come, Emmanuel, God with us. We mentioned about Moses in Egypt, and of course our Lord went down into Egypt. And so both of them have that connection with Egypt, and a son being brought up from Egypt. In this way, Moses says, like unto me, a prophet raised up like unto me. Another likeness is the rejection from his own people. When Moses had been 40 years in the Pharaoh's household, then he saw his brethren and he defended them. He slew the Egyptian. Later on the next day, there was two Hebrews that were striving together, and one said, will thou kill me as thou didst kill the Egyptian the other day? And Moses, when the thing was known, he had to flee.

But we are told concerning that, that he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would, through him, bring them out of Egyptian bondage. But his brethren did not understand. They thrust him out. They said, Who made thee a judge and a ruler over us? With our Lord Jesus Christ, he came unto his own, his own received him not. He was rejected of his own people, the Joseph we know, his father we know, his mother we know, the carpenter's son, and they were offended at him. They didn't receive him. And we have then the same parallel, like unto me having to walk that same path.

Preparation for ministries, another similarity. Moses had to have 40 years in the backside of the desert, in the wilderness. 40 is a testing time, the same as later on, 40 years that they went through the wilderness, 40 years the rain on the earth in Noah's day, 40 days that Goliath challenged Israel And we have our Lord, 40 days, fasting in the wilderness, tempted of the devil. So before Moses came for his work and his ministry, then he had that preparation in the desert. Before our Lord's ministry, immediately after his baptizing, he also is in the desert and tempted of the devil.

Both of them, God used miracles to validate their ministry. Moses, when he was called, when the Lord appeared in the burning bush, then he said that they will not receive me. So God gave him those miracles to perform before them. His rod to turn into a snake. his hand to be put into his bosom, and leprous again, the waters to be turned into blood. He gave them those signs, and Moses wrought those signs, and the people believed that God had sent him.

The Lord Jesus Christ likewise, he said, the miracles, the things that I do, these I do of my Father. And so those miracles, he said, they testify of me." He reproved those that had received the loaves and the fishes because they ate of the loaves and were filled, and that they followed him not because they saw the miracles, but because they ate of the loaves. That the miracles were doing a greater thing than just feeding bodies, they were testifying who the Lord Jesus Christ truly was.

And so when Moses says that the prophet shall the Lord thy God, your God, raise up unto you of your brethren, we would expect that as Moses, his ministry, his standing forth had God's stamp upon it, so would also that prophet raised up like unto him. And we see that in our Lord Jesus Christ. in the miracles and things that he performed. They showed the authority. The Jews came to our Lord once and said, by whose authority doest thou these things? And the Lord answered it really by a question to them. John the Baptist was his ministry of God or of men, they said that they couldn't tell. Because they said that if they said of men, then they would be counted against the people, the people counted John as a prophet. If they said of God, then the Lord would immediately turn around and say, why didn't you hear him? And so they wouldn't give an answer. But they were questioning authority, and it is vital. It's vital that Moses had authority, the Lord had authority, and his servants have an authority given them from God.

Another thing that both Moses had, and of course our Lord, was their intimate communion with God. Our Lord spent whole nights in prayer with his father, and Moses, he spoke And he was as one that stood alone as the only prophet that spoke to God face to face. The Lord knew him face to face. And in that, Moses stands unique amongst the prophets and our Lord Jesus Christ stands unique as well. And so we have a prophet raised up and in the very raising of him up, we see that fulfilled, that Moses is saying that he is like unto me.

On to look then secondly at our Lord's work. In that, how was our Lord like unto Moses? On to, as it were, see our Lord's work through Moses' life. The first one that I'd mention is as being a liberator of his people. Moses was raised up to be sent to his people that were in Egypt and to bring them forth. God had remembered them, looked upon them in their groanings, in their bondage, in their trouble, And the whole aim, the whole reason why Moses was sent to them was that they should be set at liberty. They should be released from captivity, released from their bondage.

Now, with Moses, it was not a thing that happened immediately. They believe when he first came and showed the signs, Then they had nine signs and wonders, during which time Pharaoh was making their labours harder and harder, and it looked less and less likely that they were to have liberty and freedom. But at the end, they had the Passover. The blood was shed, and they immediately had liberty, immediately they were thrust out and brought out with a high hand. out of Egypt, a very clear deliverance and setting forth out of Egypt. This was Moses' work. This was God's work using Moses and to magnify him above all Pharaoh and all his household and in all Israel and bring them out in such a remarkable way.

Well, our Lord Jesus Christ was sent in the same way. The message, when he first came, was that there was to be goodwill toward men, on earth peace, goodwill toward men. The ministry of our Lord and his disciples was not what the Apostle Paul had, which was Jesus Christ and him crucified, it was that The Lord is on his way. This is the day that the Lord has made. This is the Lord appearing. The same as when Moses was sent to Israel, they were to know the Lord was appearing. It was the day in which he was beginning to work. Years had gone by, 80 years since Moses had been born, that nothing was seemingly happening at all. And yet suddenly things were happening. And so when our Lord came, things were happening. And when His ministry began, things were happening.

And the end that was in view was to release the people of God from captivity. If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. Our Lord was to redeem His people the same as they were redeemed out of Egypt. It was to be with the shedding of blood. But at first, the disciples had to go through seeing their Lord crucified and slain, seeing as it seemed to be that the Jews triumphing, and the Romans triumphing, and that they weren't set free at all, and weren't delivered at all. and they needed to have it opened up to them and shown to them that as those two on the way to Emmaus, we trusted it should have been He that should have redeemed Israel. They'd seen the blood shed, they'd seen what was done, but they couldn't see that that was redemption, that that was a finished work as Christ had declared upon the cross, it is finished.

And so we have the parallel with them too, the two of them, what the Lord came to do. And I believe in one sense, by looking at what Moses' work was then, in releasing from bondage and releasing from captivity, it shows in really clear contrast, clear ways, the work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sinners are held fast by Satan. They are by Satan bound. They are like with Lazarus, bound hand and foot with grave clothes. Loose him and let him go. They are like under Pharaoh's servitude. And we get such a picture of them in Egypt, that how before Moses came, they might have perhaps deceived themselves, thinking, well, We don't really, we could just walk out of Egypt. We can just stop being here.

But the more, the more that they tried to go out, the more it was evidence that they were actually captives. You know, someone might be confined to say house arrest, and they could go around and in their house and think, oh, I'm quite at liberty. I can go to the kitchen, I can go to the rooms, and everything like that, I'm at liberty. And they open the front door to go out, and suddenly, well, you're not allowed to go out, you've got to stay in. And the only way they get to really realise they're captives, is when they're trying to get out of that.

And so it is with sinners, those who have awakened to their sinnership, those who have awakened to their state and condition by the fall, As soon as they start to cease from sin, as soon as they don't want to sin, as soon as they want to be free from their lusts, their corruptions, their evil heart and their evil ways, then they find out how strong those are. They will not let them go. They will not just allow them to stop them. It is a very powerful force, too powerful for any to undertake but the Lord Himself and but the shedding of blood.

We often underestimate how powerful sin is, how strong it is, and how impossible it is to be released and set free by any other way than Christ. If there could have been, there would have been another way. But Christ's coming, His alone coming, shows us that this needed almighty power. It needed the bloodshed. It needed the debt settled. It needed there to be justness and righteousness and a people set free.

And so when Moses said, that a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, it was to be in that work of releasing his people, setting them free, bringing them forth, out of nature's darkness, out of bondage to sin and Satan, and brought to serve the Lord. That is the whole message that Moses had. We must go into the wilderness, we must serve the Lord.

And with our Lord Jesus Christ was that man should serve Him and to worship Him. So may we think And we're thinking of the work of the Lord Jesus, think of Moses, a prophet like unto me, and think of that work of bringing that people out of Egypt, setting them free, delivering them. We think of Psalm 136, where every verse is resounding with, for His mercy endureth forever. And it speaks of how the Lord brought them out of Egypt. His mercy endureth forever, and with a strong hand His mercy endureth forever. And He brought them to the Red Sea, He brought them through the Red Sea, and every part of the Lord bringing them out is all put as a mercy that endures forever. And so the Lord Jesus Christ is to be pointed to in this and magnified And as we said, our Lord says, if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

But a second likeness in the work of our Lord is that of prophet and lawgiver. Both Moses and our Lord were prophets and lawgiver. We read that the The people esteem the Lord as a prophet, and a prophet is one that hears and sees and foretells that which is to come to pass before it comes to pass. Having the verse after our text, it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken likewise foretold of these days.

Our Lord was then a prophet, but also a lawgiver. Moses, the law by Moses came. He was the instrument, he was the way that received the law on the two tables of stone, brought it to the people, Our Lord Jesus Christ, he opens his ministry, he comes with the Servant on the Mount and he sets forth in those chapters from Matthew 5 and onwards the Law of God, the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. So we have in those offices as well that which is common to them both.

Then we have thirdly that of the mediator of a covenant. Moses was the mediator of the Old Covenant, the covenant of works, that covenant that was received at Mount Sinai that depended upon obedience, and he was the one that brought that forth, brought it forth to the people, and a mediator of that covenant. We think of our Lord also, who is the mediator of the new covenant, a new testament in his blood, the old passing away, the new covenant brought in, the law by Moses came, grace and truth, by Jesus Christ.

In Hebrews 9 that begins, Verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worthy sacrifice. And it describes the tabernacle, describes that covenant, describes what was bound up with it. And then we have that going forth to the Lord Jesus Christ. He says that Christ is being come as a high priest of good things to come by a greater more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building and then he speaks of that covenant how much more shall the blood of Christ through the eternal spirit offer himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God, so much better than the blood of bulls or of goats.

For this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that run to the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Both Moses and our Lord were mediators of covenants. The old covenant is to be done away with in Christ. Out of Christ it still stands. The covenant of works is still standing for everyone outside of Christ. But in the Lord Jesus Christ, that new covenant in His precious blood, And that takes precedence over it. You are not under the law, but you are under grace. And this was the Apostle's great point with the Galatians, who had believed the Lord, who were set free from the covenant of works, but then they went back to it. Now those that said you must be circumcised to be saved, the Apostle says you can't take part. If you take part, you take the whole. If you want to be free from the covenant under Moses, then you're free from it all, not just part of it. But if you want to go back and be under the circumcision part, you're under it all. And so he said that this is not a gospel. It is another gospel that is not a gospel. And so the Lord Jesus Christ is that pointing of a new covenant.

And of course we could enlarge on that as well, the beautiful contrast that we have in Hebrews 7 regarding Melchizedek. Because the Apostle puts the point there, and he says that the first promises to Abraham were given while Levi was in his loins, before even the Levitical law came into pass, Levi wasn't even born, God gave that in him and in his seed, Abraham's seed, should all nations of the earth be blessed. And so that law which came after cannot make of none effect the promise that went before. And so then, when we have Christ coming, which is after then, Levi, that there is then a new priest, a new order, not the order of Leviticus law, that the tribe of Judah was not mentioned at all in the offerings, in the sacrifices. It was Levi. So Christ came from another tribe, of which no mention in the altar. So there being a change of priesthood, there must also be a change of law. So therefore it brings out under the law, away from the law, that in the time of Melchizedek you get a very clear distinction of a real change. There's Moses' covenants and what he was a mediator of, that covenant, and Christ who's a mediator of a completely different, a new covenant. The old is done away, the new replaces it. So we are under law unto Christ and not in bondage to the law of Moses.

Then we have another likeness made like unto me and that is in the intercession for his people. There were a few times that Moses stood in the breach, and sometimes he actually offered that his own life would be taken away, that the Lord would spare the people. One was at the time of the, when they made the golden calf at Mount Sinai, the Lord's anger, and Moses, when he comes down from the mount, he casts the tables of stone down that are broken, and he crushes the golden calf into powder and makes the people drink it as he strews it upon the water. But God said, leave me alone, I will destroy this people and that I'll make of thee a better nation. And Moses, he stood in the breach and he says, but if thou dost destroy this people, then what are the promises to Abraham? And what will the other nations think? will say that you could not bring them into the promised land therefore destroyed them in the wilderness and he pleaded that even his life might be taken but spare this people and the Lord hearkened and that was a factual intercession he destroyed them not and so Moses their real type of an intercession we have it later on when the people murmur Then again Moses interceded for them, so that the wrath of God would not come upon them.

Now with our Lord Jesus Christ, His work is a work of intercession, especially in heaven. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. He appears in the presence of God for us. On our last hymn, in our humble beautiful hymn, What voice is that which speaks for me in heaven's high court for good? The Lord speaking on behalf of his people. When his people are rebellious, when they're murmuring, when they've sinned, when they've caused the anger of God to rest upon them, then we have our Lord speaking those words like Moses did, turning away the wrath of God.

Let me, and I love that verse in Psalm 80, let thy hand be upon the man at thy right hand, the Son of Man, whom thou madeest strong for thyself. Moses offered to take the place of his people, to die in their place, but he was not called to do so, but our Lord did. He did die, and he did lay down his life. Moses' intercession was only for that people, and only for the time when He was alive. But our Lord's intercession is an everlasting intercession. It is, He ever liveth to make intercession for us.

And so, when we get a little glimpse of Moses, how effectual that intercession was, how He turned away the wrath of God, we get a little glimpse. of that which our Lord does in heaven, and how vital for us, how comforting, when we sin, when we murmur, when we complain, and then to have, instead of what we deserve, to have mercy instead, and contralized blessing, the Lord turning away the anger of the Lord. I believe those are some of the sweetest blessings a child of God can have.

When we look for wrath, we look for anger, we know what we deserve, and the Lord shows mercy, and that anger is turned away, and we wonder, how is that so? How could the Lord do that? Why has the Lord been so gentle and so kind to us? When St. Job, the one that said, his gentleness hath made me great, and the gospel of our Lord, the work of our Lord, is that of mercy and intercession for his people. They don't deserve it, we don't deserve it, but this is a beautiful work that the Lord does of which Moses could say, the Lord shall raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me.

But then we have another likeness and that is as of a shepherd. We said of Moses that He was in the wilderness 40 years and he kept the sheep of his father-in-law. But later on he shepherded or led the children of Israel through the wilderness. Now of course they had the fiery cloudy pillar that went before them but Moses was under God the leader of the people of God.

The beautiful chapter John chapter 10 where the Lord is set forth as the Good Shepherd. When He putteth forth His sheep, He goeth before them. My sheep, they hear my voice, they follow me." And so Moses led the children of Israel through the wilderness. How much more does the Lord lead His people through the wilderness of this world? Leads them, not just like Moses, to the border of the Promised Land, and then He must hand over to Joshua, But Joshua's other name is Jesus, and our Lord brings his people right to heaven, the same one, through this world, the same one, out of nature's darkness, out of Egyptian bondage, then through the desert, then through the wilderness, and then into heaven itself.

We think also of during that time, leading through the desert, It was through Moses that God provided the manna, and the Jews immediately drew a parallel. When the Lord multiplied the loaves and the fishes, they thought of Moses providing the manna. We have the Lord's discourse in John 6 concerning the manna. Moses gave you not that manna, but my Father giveth the true manna from heaven. And so, as a giver of that sustenance, Paul says, they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. But he is the bread of life, and he is the one that God supplies his people, every need, as from the hand of a good shepherd. A shepherd that goes after its sheep. You know, if a sheep has fallen into the gutter, it's on its back, it can't help itself, the shepherd doesn't call out from the other side of the field, get yourself up, he goes over to him and he does for that sheep what that sheep cannot do for itself. He doesn't hit it, he doesn't berate it, he treats it as one of his sheep and these are beautiful times and it's good for us to to look at how We have the type shown in the narrative of the children of Israel.

We have not followed cunningly devised fables. That's the history of Israel, but it's linked to the salvation of the people of God and to the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I mention one last point under this head, and that is the manner of communicating God's Word to men. Moses says, God raised up unto you of your brethren like unto me. How did God speak to his people in Moses' day? Well, God spoke to Moses, but Moses had made all of those objections that he couldn't speak, that he was a slow speech. And our Lord said, Aaron, my brother, he comes to meet you. I know he can speak well. And so Moses, then having received the word from God, spoke it to Aaron. And Aaron spoke it to the people.

And then we think how it is in the gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ says of his father, he gave me what to speak and what to do. The word that I have is not mine, but my father's from heaven, and in no way am I suggesting that our Lord was inferior to his father. He humbled himself and as a man he became obedient unto death, but in his divinity he is equal with the Father and equal with the Holy Spirit. He is truly God.

the mediator is the Lord Jesus Christ. He testified in his day that he that receiveth you, receiveth me, and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. And the words then that are spoken by Moses was God to Moses, to Aaron, to the people, in the gospel it is God, to Christ, to the ministers of the gospel, and to the people. That's not to say the Lord doesn't speak directly to his people, but it is through the foolishness of preaching, say them that believe, he uses the ministry as long as it is his word.

One pastor was asked, what authority do you have as a pastor of your people? And he said, none whatsoever. He said, I have no authority But the Word of God is only as I preach the Word, is there any authority in my ministry? And that's good for us to remember, it's not our thoughts, it's not our feelings, it's not our frames, it is the Word of God. My Word shall not return unto me void, it shall accomplish the thing whereto I sent it. Thy words were found and I delete them, thou shalt join rejoicing in my heart, And the Bereans, when Paul preached, they searched the Scriptures daily whether these things were so, therefore his sermons were scripturally searchable. They could search whether these things were so, and any of those things that I've mentioned tonight, you should be able to go through the Scriptures and search them and find those places and test what is said by the Word itself.

And so, Moses and our Lord, there is a very same way in which the Word of God is communicated to the people. I want to look then at the last point, which is the importance of hearing our Lord. Our text says, For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you." A great expectation that this prophet, that the people that hear him shall hang upon his word. We read of those times that they marveled, they wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his lips. Indeed, our Lord is the Word made flesh and dwelt among us.

Our Lord, when there were those that believed on his name, he said to them, if ye continue in my Word, ye shall be my disciples indeed, ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And the emphasis was in the Word. It is a solemn day, in which we live, as that many would say, oh, we believe in Jesus. And they set forth the Lord so differently from his own word, and make out that all he spoke was love and embracing every device and thought of man, and completely pass by our Lord's emphasis on the creation, in the beginning it was not so, the institution of marriage, the setting forth of that which was in the beginning of the world, in the beginning of the creation of God, and they pass by that, but our text here, it doesn't say, him shall ye hear in some things whatsoever he shall say unto you, it says all things, not to pick and to choose, and the Lord has that special mark.

My sheep, they hear my voice and they follow me. One of the solemn things that goes through the Old Testament is there were many that were raised up like Jehu that executed the judgment of the Lord perfectly. But then you hear, but he did not follow the Lord with all his heart, or take heed to follow the Lord with all his heart. He still claimed to idols. He still followed the ways of Jeroboam. And you find that again and again. And yet when you get those like Joshua or Caleb, it is said of them that they followed the Lord fully. And with hearing the words of the Lord, it is in that way that we are to follow the Lord fully.

When our Lord preached, without a parable spake he not unto them. And after his parables ye all said, He that hath an ear, let him hear. And the seven letters to the churches in Asia, they all followed with the word, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. What the Spirit saith is this inspired word. This is what the Spirit saith unto the churches. There is no further revelation. This is why in the Articles of Faith we say that present-day ministers are not inspired like the apostles were, because there is no fresh revelation. We preach that which is already revealed and already set forth.

Another reason why the TBS, why I personally do not like the Bibles with the red letters in, because it implies that the only words of the Lord Jesus Christ are those that are written in red. Instead of all the Scriptures, from beginning to end, they all are the words of God. They all are Christ's words. They all are inspired. We don't want to divide. Of course we do know that some of the parts of the Inspired Word of God actually are recording the very words our Lord spoke on earth. But God forbid we should just confine, especially with our text, and virtually say that Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever He shall say unto you while He is upon the earth. Of course it was His ministry, it was what He was saying, but our Lord pointed again and again to the prophets, He brought them again and again to the Word that was beforehand, and joining those things together that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.

And so for us to follow this, and when we think of what follows after our text, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people." Will not hear, what a solemn word. Those that have ears to hear, let them hear. What a blessing to have a hearing ear.

Our Lord said, if you believe not that I am he, you shall perish in your sins. And those that, he told the parable of the Those that built upon the rock and built upon the sand, the difference was those that were doers of the Word and not hearers only. May we then be of those who have an open ear and hear the Lord speaking.

Remember those two on the way to Emmaus, and thinking of what I've said as to how the Word comes to us, they didn't know who it was through night to them. but he spake to them in all the scriptures concerning himself, and he prefaced it with, Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? So he's preaching in all the scriptures the things concerning Christ. Old Testament scriptures, not the new.

But here is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking of them. And what's the effect? Their heart burned within them while he talked with them by the way. I hope we I encourage them to see, see more clearly the work of our Lord Jesus Christ, how precious it is to us, how vital, how needful, how blessed that we have an intercessor in heaven, that we have his precious word, that we have this that is fulfilled, putting the stamp upon Moses and also the stamp upon our Lord Jesus Christ.

and in a day that would pull the word of God to pieces, say it's just cunningly devised fables, you say, well here, here's a very clear joining together of Old Testament and you, Moses and our Lord, a prophet, shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say. unto you, the Lord at His blessing. Amen.