I like that line, don't you?
Leave us not to empty notions. Let us find thy hope in thee.
Will you open your Bibles with me to Psalm 144, Psalm 144. And we'll begin reading in verse
five. Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down. That's my hope this morning.
The Lord will rend the heavens that he will bow down to where
we are. What a condescension it is for
him to to leave the glories of heaven. He is in the heavens
and we are upon the earth and to be merciful toward us. Bow
Thy heavens, O Lord, and come down. If he does that, it will
be through the touching of mountains. That's my title for this message,
Mountains That God Has Touched. Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and
come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke cast forth
lightning and scatter them, shoot out thine arrows and destroy
them, send thy hand from above, rid me and deliver me out of
the great waters from the hand of strange children whose mouth
speaketh vanity and their right hand is the right hand of falsehood. There are many mountains spoken
of in the Bible. I want us to take the next few
minutes that we have to consider five of them, five mountains
that the Lord has touched. The first one is Mount Sinai,
the mountain of the law. And his purpose for touching
that mountain is to show us not the way of salvation, but our
need of a savior. The second mountain is the Mount
of Transfiguration, where the veil of our Lord's humanity was
temporarily taken away and Peter, James, and John saw the radiance
of His glory shine forth. And the purpose of Him touching
that mountain is to show us His ability to save. The third mountain
is the Mount Calvary. the mountain upon which our Lord
was crucified, satisfying the demands of God's holy justice,
burying the sins of His people in His body and putting them
away by the sacrifice of Himself. And in that mountain, we see
His success in accomplishing the salvation of His people.
The fourth mountain we look at is the Mount of Olives, called
Mount Olivet in the scriptures. And in this mountain, we see
from Zechariah chapter 14, the hope of our future blessing. And the Lord Jesus Christ comes
again and puts his foot on that mountain. And the fifth mountain I want
us to look at is Mount Zion. Now, according to the altimeter
on my phone, We're only at about 100 feet above sea level right
here in Apopka, Florida. But spiritually speaking, we're
on Mount Zion. This is the place where the Lord
is pleased to come down and touch the hearts of his people, deliver
them from the shame and the guilt and the penalty of their sin,
and give them hope in Christ. And so it gives us an understanding
of our current blessings, Mount Zion. Five mountains, will you turn
with me first to Exodus chapter 19, and we will look at the first
mountain that the Lord touched. Exodus chapter 19, beginning
at verse 12. Children of Israel have been
delivered from the bondage of the Egyptian taskmasters. They have come through the Red
Sea. The scripture likens that Red Sea to our baptism, and it
likens Egypt to our deliverance from the bondage of sin. And
now God is taking them to Mount Sinai, the mountain of the law. Is he giving them rules and regulations
in order for them to maintain their salvation? Is that what
the purpose of this mountain is? That's what most people believe.
Most people believe that God's given his law as a rule of life,
a means by which the Lord teaches us how to walk. It's not true. We walk by faith, not by sight. We're not looking for the evidence
of our salvation in how we obey or disobey the law of God. We're looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, does that mean that God's
people are lawless? Does it mean that they are antinomian? That they are against the law
of God? That they live lawless lives? No. No, not at all. It means that we have a much
better law than the law that God gave to Mount Sinai. We have
the law of Christ. We have the law of love. We have
the law of faith. We have the law of the spirit,
whereby the Lord works in our hearts, causing us to will and
to do after his own pleasure. And it's a spiritual law. See
the Religious men who don't have the eyes of faith can only see
those things which are evident outwardly. And so they take comfort
in looking at what they're not doing and looking at what they
are doing as the hope of their salvation. The comfort of the
believer who has eyes of faith is Christ. He is their comfort. He is their hope. He is their
salvation. He is their peace with God. And
so as we read this first mountain, all of those things I've said
are for the purpose of us seeing the purpose of this mountain.
God did not give the law to save us. God gave us the law to cause
us to see our need of a savior. The law of God demonstrates the
perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It shows forth his glory
and all that falls short of the glory of God is sin. And so everything
in us falls short of what God's law requires. The law of God
is not given to us as a means of salvation or as a means of
sanctification. It's given to us in order to
see, in order to cause us to see our need of a savior. our
need of the Lord Jesus Christ, who himself is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. He's the only
one that ever kept God's law. But look here, when God comes
down and touches this mountain, we'll begin reading in verse
12. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,
saying, take heed to yourself that you go not up into the mount,
nor touch the border of it. Whosoever toucheth the mount
shall be utterly put to death. The law cannot do anything but
kill you. That's all it can do. The law judges us guilty. When a lawyer came to the Lord
and asked him what he must do to be saved, and the Lord said,
well, what's the law say? You know the law, what's the
law say? What did he say? The law says that I'm to love
the Lord my God with all of my heart and all of my soul. All of my heart, all of my flesh,
all of my body, all of the time. And I'm to love my neighbor as
myself. And the Lord said, that's right. Go and do that and you'll
live. You and I can't love God with
all of our heart and all of our mind and all of our body and
all of our soul. Not for a moment, much less all
the time. But the Lord Jesus did. And you and I have never known.
I mean, you open your eyes in the morning, and you're right
in the middle of your own little universe, aren't you? And everything
surrounds you and your needs and your thoughts and your interests
and your relationships. And we can't get out of our own
way, can we? You've never loved anybody like
you love yourself. I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. The Lord Jesus did. Oh, greater
love hath no man than this that hath laid down his life for his
friends. The Lord Jesus Christ, he's that good Samaritan. He's
the one who, you know, the priest and the Levi couldn't help the
man left half dead on the side of the road, but the Lord Jesus
Christ did and he took him to the end and he provided everything
he needed. He's the, you know, man, we ought
to do what we can to help our neighbor and to help our brother,
to do good unto all men, especially those who are of the household
of faith. But all of that being said, We've never loved anybody
like we love ourselves. You know, the world says, well,
our problem is low self-esteem. You need to love yourself more.
No, that is our problem. We love ourselves too much. They
can't see that. They can't see that. And you say, well, what about,
what about insecurities? I'm so, I'm so, I've got so many
insecurities. Yeah, we all do. And that's an
evidence of your love for yourself. That's right. You didn't love yourself so much,
you wouldn't be so insecure. You think about that. It's true. You touch the law and it will
kill you. Look at verse 13. There shall
not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through,
whether it be beast or man. If one of your sheep touches
this law, put it to death. The law is holy, the law is just,
and the law is good, and we love God's law, but we're not looking
to the law of God to save us. It can't make you holy. It can't
justify you in the presence of God, and it can't add an ounce
of goodness to you. Anything that touches this mountain
will die. The mountain shook and it was
filled with smoke. And here's what David's praying
in Psalm 144. Oh Lord, bow down and touch the
mountains and let your lightning show forth. If a bee shut, it
shall not live. When the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mountain. That's what we're doing right
now. We're declaring the trumpet of the gospel of God's grace.
Pointing us to Christ, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sins of the world. Come, see what this mountain's
like. Don't touch it. Look at verse 18 in the same
text. And Mount Sinai was altogether
on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire, and
the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet
sounded long and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and
God answered him by a voice." Only one man that could go up
on that mountain. And the Lord tells us in the book of Deuteronomy,
I will send to you a prophet like unto Moses. Moses is a picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ going up on that mountain. He's the
only one that could climb the Mount Sinai. He's the only one
that could touch the mountain and not be killed. And he did. He came into this world. And
he pleased the Father and was obedient unto God, even unto
death, yea, even the death of the cross. The Lord Jesus Christ
touched that mountain. And so when we go back to our
text in Psalm 144 and we say, oh Lord, bow down thy heavens
and touch the mountains and cause it to smoke and let your lightning
show forth. Lord, don't let me touch that
mountain, but you touch it for me. You touch it for me. And when Moses gave the commandments
in the next chapter, in Exodus chapter 20, the people said,
we're going to do it. And Moses had to make a sacrifice. Moses said, you can't keep the
law of God. And he made a sacrifice to atone for the fact that they
could even think that they would keep it, was a sin. A sin of self-righteousness. Sinai. Turn with me to Acts chapter
13. Acts chapter 13. This is so glorious, brethren.
This is so freeing. The whole world is under the
law. They are under the law. And we
have to have laws among men. We've got two police officers
with us today, and I'm thankful for them. And we've got to exercise,
we've got to enforce those laws if we're going to have order
in society. Don't translate that into your
relationship with God. You can't keep God's law to have
peace with God. We want peace among men and we
have to have laws and the enforcement of laws and the punishment of
laws for that peace to exist, don't we? Just look at what's
happened in the last year or so in some of these cities that
have become lawless and the chaos and the destruction. We don't
want that. Though the law keeps us in check
with one another, it will not make you acceptable with God. Look at Acts chapter 13 at verse
38. Be it known unto you therefore. And that's all I'm, oh, may the
Spirit of God speak that phrase to your heart, to our hearts
this morning. Excuse me. Be it known unto you, therefore,
men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you
the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified
from all things from which he could not be justified by the
law of Moses." Men are trying to justify themselves. But Lord,
we've done many wonderful works in your name. You listen to your
religious friends and family members, and they are quick to
tell you about all the good things they're doing for God. What are
they doing? They're hoping in that. The child
of God considers himself to be an unprofitable servant. Oh,
he's happy to serve the Lord, but takes no notice of it. Takes
no notice of it. Not, no. There's nothing in himself he
can be proud of. Oh, but he's proud of Christ
and glad to rest in him. Through this man, through this
man, your sins are forgiven and you are justified before God. What did we read in Colossians
chapter one? Holy, unreprovable. Before him. We stand in the presence of a
holy God, no condemnation of the law. Why? Because our disobedience
to God's law has been put away by this man. And we are justified
in the presence of God through Christ, which the law of Moses
could not accomplish. You see, Mount Sinai was given
to us in order to cause us to fear
God, to fear God. The fear of God is the beginning
of wisdom. You're not gonna come to Christ
until the law makes your sin utterly sinful and you know you
can't justify yourself before God. then you flee to Christ. So God touched Mount Sinai in order to show us our need
for a savior. Second mountain is found in Mark
chapter nine. We're not going to be able to
spend as much time on the next four mountains as we just did,
but that mountain is so important to one we just dealt with. It's
the mountain that gets it all started. And if the Lord ever
teaches you the truth of Mount Sinai, the rest of these mountains
will make sense to you. The rest of these mountains you
will believe and rejoice in. It's Mount Sinai that men don't
believe. They think they can touch the
mountain of God's law and not be killed. They think they can
find acceptance with God and justify themselves in the presence
of God. They don't see the purpose of
Mount Sinai. Lord, show us that. The rest
will all come together. I've said this before. People
want to debate election. They want to debate particular
redemption. They want to debate irresistible
calling. All these things that we gloriously
preach and believe in, but that's not their problem. Their problem
is total depravity. That's the problem. The problem
is that men aren't sinners. God ever makes you a sinner.
The rest of it is just, you're not gonna have any objections
whatsoever in any of the rest of it. Men object to being made
a sinner. And that's a miracle of grace
in the heart that only God can do. And he does it through the
preaching of Christ. He's the standard. He's that plumb line the scripture
speaks of. And only when we see him can we see ourselves for
what we are. Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus Christ
high and lifted up. And what was the first words
out of his mouth? Woe is me, I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean
lips. When Peter saw the Lord Jesus
on the Sea of Galilee after his resurrection, he came before
the Lord and fell at his feet and said, depart from me, I'm
a sinful man. I'm a sinful man. Peter's glad
the Lord didn't answer that prayer. Sinners is who the Lord came
to save. This is a faithful saying, and
this is worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners. Sinners are the only ones he
saves, and he saves every one of them. He has to make us a
sinner, doesn't he? And that happens. through Mount
Sinai, the mountain that he touched, the mountain that quaked, the
mountain that smoked, the mountain that God said, don't touch it. Let Moses, let Moses intercede
on your behalf. That's what children be. You
go up and you talk to God. We don't, we don't want to get
near that mountain. And that's what we say. Lord Jesus, you
go up and you intercede on my behalf. You be my advocate with
the Father. I can't stand in his presence
unless you stand in my stead, unless you be my substitute,
my sin bearer. The second mountain is found
in Mark chapter nine. And we'll begin reading in verse
two. I'm sorry, wrong book. Mark chapter nine. Begin reading in verse two. And after six days, Jesus taketh
with him Peter and James and John and leadeth them into a
high mountain apart by themselves as he was transfigured before
them. And his raiment became shining,
exceeding white as snow, as no fuller on earth can whiten them.
And there appeared unto him Elias, that's Elijah. Now Elijah represents
all the prophets of the Old Testament. All the prophets and all the
promises that God made through those prophets. And so here Elijah comes back
from the dead. And he's standing in the presence
of the Lord Jesus Christ and Moses. And we already know what
Moses represents. He represents the whole law of
God. We just saw that in Exodus chapter 19. And they were talking with him.
Now Luke tells us this. He said, they spake of his decease,
which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Now, when was the
last time you heard of the death of a person accomplishing something? That's exactly what they talked
to him about. Elijah and Moses spoke with the Lord Jesus Christ
about what he would accomplish through his death at Jerusalem. And Peter answered and said unto
Jesus, it is good for us to be here, and let us make three tabernacles,
one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elijah, for he wist
not what he said, and he was so afraid. Good thing to keep your mouth
shut when you're afraid, isn't it? Peter didn't know what he was
talking about. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them
and a voice came out of the cloud saying, this is my beloved son,
hear him. And suddenly when they looked
around about, they saw no man anymore save Jesus only with
themselves. Now this mountain shows us Our
Lord's ability to save. We see his humanity where he was the man between
the mediator, the one man between God and man who bore in his body
the sins of his people and suffered the judgment and wrath of God
We see His deity when the veil of His humanity is taken away
and the radiance of His glory shines forth. We see the glory
of His power and of His holiness and of His righteousness. We
see God shining forth in a man. We see the God-man, and that
is what God required for him to be able to go to the cross.
He had to be born of a woman. He had to be born under the law
to redeem those who were cursed by the law. He had to be made
in the likeness of sinful flesh in order to bear our sins in
His body upon that tree. But He had to be God. No man
could do that. He had to have no sin of His
own. That sin had to be charged to
Him. And God had to make Him sin who
knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. So he had to be perfectly righteous.
He had to be the God man. And he had to fulfill everything
that the law and the prophets had had promised in the Old Testament. I don't remember if it was Wednesday
night, we were talking to a Jewish lady, Tricia and I were the other
day and she said, she said, you know, I don't, I don't think
that Jesus intended to start a new religion. I think that
just kind of happened. This was a conversation we had
with a Jewish lady a week or so ago. I said, he didn't start
a new religion. He was the fulfillment of the
Old Testament. Everything that the law and the
prophets spoke about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus
Christ is the fulfillment of that. He's the completion of
all that God had started in creation. He's the one who crushed the
head of the serpent. He's the seed of the woman. All
that the prophet spoke of, the Lord Jesus Christ is him. And so he had to talk with Elijah
and Moses. And the Lord Jesus said, I could
not come to destroy the law in the prophets. Oh, no. I came to fulfill the law in
the prophets. That's what he came to do. And
so for him to be able to be successful in accomplishing the salvation
of God's people, Mount The Mount of Transfiguration shows us his
ability to do just that. And we cry with David, bow down
the heavens, oh Lord. Touch the mountains and cause
them to smoke. so that we don't look at Elijah
or Moses, but we see Jesus only, only. The third mountain is the most
important mountain of all. It's called Mount Calvary. And
you'll find at least one description of it in Matthew chapter 27. Matthew chapter 27. Our Lord set his face like a
flint towards Jerusalem. He came into this world to die. No man took his life from him.
The whole purpose of his coming into this world was to be the
sacrifice to his father on behalf of his people, satisfying divine
justice. That's what he came to do. And
he accomplished that at Mount Calvary. The cross is not, I
mentioned this recently, people wear the cross and they display
the cross because there's no offense in the cross. To them,
the cross is nothing more than a symbol of love and sacrifice
and offering to man. That's not what the cross was.
Oh, it was love and sacrifice. But it was righteousness. And
it was justice. And it was holiness. And it was
sin. And it wasn't an offering to
us. It was an offering to God. The
Lord Jesus Christ was making Himself an offering to the Father
to satisfy the justice of God. And He actually accomplished... I can't tell you how important
this word is. The religions of this world don't
see the work that Christ did on Calvary's cross as an accomplishment. They don't see it as successful. They're still waiting to see
what man will do, what God did in order to make what He did
work. No. No, God touched that mountain. Look with me at Matthew chapter
27. Verse 50, Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice,
and what was it that he cried? It is finished. The first words
spoken out of our Lord's lips when he was 12 years old in Jerusalem,
when Peter and when Joseph and Mary lost him for those three
days. Did you not know that I must
be about my father's business? Didn't you know to come here
to look for me? This is the house of prayer.
This is what I came to cleanse. Why were you looking everywhere
else? And then he cried with a loud voice, it is finished. All that the
father sent me to do, I have successfully accomplished. That's what Elijah and Moses
were speaking to him about on the Mount of Transfiguration.
The death that he would accomplish in Jerusalem. And when he had verse 51, and
behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to
the bottom, and the earth did quake and the rocks rent. Here
we've got God bowing the heavens and touching a mountain. And the veil in the temple rent.
Miraculously, it was torn from top to bottom. You see, prior
to this moment in time, the temple was full of priests, inside and
out, warning the people, particularly when the high priest went into
the holies of holies to make sacrifice, stay away, don't come
near. Only the priest can go in. And
now God rends the veil. And the spirit and the bride
say, come. Come, the veil, the scripture says in Hebrews chapter
four, is the body of Christ. That's what was rent. It was
his life that was laid down for his sheep. And now God says,
based on what he has accomplished, the command, like that man who
was crippled from birth that we saw in Acts chapter 14, is
stand and walk. Nothing left to be done. It's
all been done. He's accomplished it all. Verse 52, and the graves were
opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose when
our Lord bowed his head. Now they didn't arise right then.
The graves were opened when our Lord said it is finished. But
the bodies of the Old Testament saints could not come out of
those graves until, look at verse 53, and they came out of the
graves after his resurrection. He's the firstborn among many
brethren. You say, boy, that's a scary
experience. Well, it's a hopeful one for
the believer. The Lord Jesus Christ conquered
death. He opened the graves. He defeated Satan. That's the
one thing that, you know, man has been called of God. All men have been called of God
to replenish the earth, to dominate the earth. And we've done a pretty
good job at it. But the one thing we can't do is control death.
And men live in constant fear of it. And the Lord Jesus Christ
conquered it. O death, where is thy sting?
O hell, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. God reached down and touched
this mountain. He touched the Mount Sinai to
show us our need of a Savior. He touched the Mount of Transfiguration
to show us the Lord Jesus Christ's ability to be our Savior. And
he touched Mount Calvary to show us the Lord's accomplishments
as our Savior. He actually finished the work
that the father sent him to do. He actually secured the salvation
of his people. He actually put them away once
and for all. Nothing else to be done. He fulfilled
the law. He satisfied justice. And he
ascended back into glory. Where did he ascend back into
glory from? Well, you know, Mount Olivet, Acts chapter one. When our Lord was there with
the disciples and he's about to be caught up back into heaven,
and the disciples asked him in Acts chapter one, they said,
Lord, is it time now for you to establish your kingdom? Surely
this is it. They were still looking for an
earthly kingdom. And the Lord told him, he says,
not for you to know the time of the season. And you go back into Jerusalem
and the Holy Ghost will come upon you and you'll be my witnesses
in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and under the other most parts
of the world. And we've been doing that for the last 2000
years in the power of the spirit of God, according to the truth
of God's word. We've been declaring who Christ
is and what he's done. And God has used that truth and
that person to save his people. Oh, what a blessing. And then
he's caught up into the clouds right there as they're standing
there. And then the angel comes. Men
of Judea, why stand ye here gazing up into heaven? The same Jesus
which is caught up from you is gonna come again in like manner. And so we're waiting. for the
return of our Lord. Waiting, faithfully believing
and looking and waiting on Christ. And the world says, well, they've
been talking about for that 2,000 years. Yeah, and the day of redemption
is a lot closer now than it was then. And God's people live in
anticipation of that day every day of their life. Lord, could
today be the day? Could day to be the day you'd
come again? And rent, bow down the heavens. You see, the Lord
is gonna bow down the heavens one more time. And the trump
of God is gonna sound. And the dead in Christ are gonna
be raised. And those of us which are alive are gonna be caught
up together to be with the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever
be with him. What a glorious day, what a hope.
And he's coming for those who are waiting and watching and
hoping for him. Turn with me to Zechariah. Zechariah,
next to the last book of the Old Testament. Zechariah chapter
14, verse 4. and his feet shall stand in that
day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on
the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof
towards the east and towards the west, and there shall be
a very great valley, and half the mountain shall be removed
towards the north and half towards the south, and you shall flee
to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains
shall reach unto Azel. Yea, you shall flee, like as
you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of
Judah. And the Lord, my God, shall come
and all the saints shall be with him." Oh, the Lord is touching the
Mount of Olives and dividing this world. between believers
and unbelievers. And here he's telling us of this
same fulfillment of what those angels told the disciples in
Acts chapter one. The same Jesus which is taken
up from you will come again in like manner. And he's gonna touch
that mountain. Here's our hope. Mount Sinai shows us our need
for a savior. Mount Transfiguration shows the
Lord Jesus Christ as the only one qualified to save. Mount Calvary shows us his accomplished
work of redemption. Mount of Olives gives us hope
for his return. And the last mountain is Mount
Zion. Turn with me to Psalm 48. Beginning in verse 1, Psalm 48,
great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of
our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation,
the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion. On the sides of the
north, the city of the great king, God is known in her palaces
for a refuge. God is known in her palaces. As a refuge. Or do you need a
refuge? A refuge from your sin. A refuge
from the law, refuge from the wrath that is to come. You have
a fear of God. The fear of God's the beginning
of wisdom. It's what causes us to flee to Christ. He's the only
one qualified to save, and he did save. He did save. You see, believing on Christ
is not you putting your faith to what he did in order to make
what he did work for you. It's believing that what he did
was successful. For lo, the kings were assembled.
They passed by together. They saw it, and so they marveled. They were troubled and hastened
away. Fear took hold upon them there,
and pain as of a woman in travail. Here's the city of our God, the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is still bowing down the
heavens. He's still sending the smoke. of his glory and the accomplishment
of his salvation and the fulfillment of his law. He's still sending
forth his lightning bolts, as we read about in Psalm 144, as a present hope, a present
hope. Listen to what the Lord said.
Behold, I lay in Zion a foundation. a sure stone, a tribe stone,
a precious stone. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
stone, he's that rock upon which his church is built. Where are you gonna hear this
message anywhere else? You're not gonna hear it in religion, You see, the church of the Lord
Jesus Christ, Mount Zion, is the only place where God is bowing
down the heavens and making himself known in the finished work and
glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's it. Someone say what? They accuse
us of being a cult. They accuse us of thinking we're
the only ones that are saved and we're the only ones that
know the truth. No, we're not saying that, but we know what the truth
is and we know who the Savior is and we know that what we're
hearing out there is not true. It's a lie. And there are plenty of other
assemblies that we rejoice to fellowship with. We've got brethren
here this morning from other churches, other assemblies around
the country. that are rejoicing in the same
message that their pastor preaches. We're not saying we're the only
ones. We're saying that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one. And you add anything at all to
what he has done. And the judgments and curses
of this book shall be added unto you. and you take anything away
from what he has accomplished and you have no hope of your
name being written in the Lamb's Book of Life. That's how this
book ends. Read the last chapter. What great mountains. The Lord
has bowed down and touched some glorious mountains, hasn't he?
to reveal to us our need for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ's
ability to save, His success in saving, the future hope of
Him coming again, and the present blessing of Him coming down every
time the gospel is preached and shaking that which can be shaken
in order that that which cannot be shaken might remain. Our merciful Heavenly Father. We ask that you would exalt Christ
in our hearts. Strip us of any hope outside
of him. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. 25 in the spiral hymnal, let's
stand together.