Michael's gonna preach the first
hour, Hugo will do the scripture reading, and R.G. will preach the second hour.
So let's all stand together, we'll open with number 103 from
your heart-backed hymnal, number 103. One day when heaven was filled
with his praises, One day when sin was as black as could be,
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin, Dwelt among men, my
example is He. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sin far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day He's coming, O glorious
day. One day they led Him up Calvary's
mountain, One day they nailed Him to die on the tree. Suffering anguish, despised and
rejected, Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He. Living, He loved
me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sins far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day, He's coming, a glorious
day. One day they left Him alone in
the garden. One day He rested from suffering
free. Angels came down o'er His tomb
to keep vigil. Hope of the hopeless, my Savior
is He. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sins far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day, He's coming, a glorious
day. One day the grave could conceal
him no longer. One day the stone rolled away
from the door. Then he arose over death yet
conquered. Now is ascended, my Lord, evermore. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sin far
away. Rising, He justified freely forever. One day, He's coming, O glorious
day. One day the trumpet will sound
for his coming. One day the skies with his glories
will she shine. Wonderful day His beloved one's
bringing, Glorious Savior, this Jesus is mine. Living He loved me, dying He
saved me, Buried He carried my sin far away. Rising he justified, freely forever. One day he's coming, O glorious
day. Please be seated. Good morning. I'll tell you,
this makes me, brings back memories, because I will tell you, if you've
never been to gospel churches, most of them were very small.
I mean, three or four families, a lot of them. A lot of times
I remember meeting in people's homes and that. But I thank you
for coming this morning, and we ask that the Lord would bless
it. If you would turn with me, please,
to Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. And the title of the message is, and I speak to myself first,
but are you satisfied with Christ? Are you satisfied with the Lord
Jesus Christ? Because I can tell you this morning,
most of the people sitting in the pews of most so-called churches
are not satisfied with Christ. They want Christ plus something
else. If you are satisfied with Christ,
that's all you want, that's all you have. And I don't want anything
else. And I pray that God would this
morning speak to us and cause us to see that all of our life,
our satisfaction is found in the Lord Jesus Christ and that
we'd be satisfied with him. As I was preparing for this,
I thought about the folks here. I said,
you know, I probably live as close as anybody to the church,
probably six, seven miles. But just from my house to here,
I probably pass about eight or nine churches. Some of you come
from 60 miles away, some from over 100 miles away, and they
pass literally hundreds of churches. There's people that have moved
here. Moved here just to come to church
here. And I can say with absolute certainty,
your family's looked at you like, what in the world are you thinking?
You're gonna do what? Can't you find a church around
here that you can go to? And the answer is no. God's people has to be where
the gospel of God's grace in Christ is preached. And there's
a reason we have to be here. And I want us to look at that
before we get into being satisfied with Christ. Isaiah, he is the
gospel preacher. And God commands Isaiah in chapter
40, verse one, and he tells him, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
that's the church. Isaiah, my command to you is
that I want you to speak words of comfort to my people. Well, that tells me two things.
One is that God's people need comforting. That must mean if
they need comforting, that must mean they have troubles. And
trust me, if you're a believer, you know we all have troubles,
don't we? Brother Greg and I have told
many a person this. When he said this, it stayed
with me. I don't remember much, but certain
things I'm pleased God keeps. And that is that our whole lives
were either going into trouble, in trouble, or coming out of
trouble. and young people market down that's the way it's going
to be until this old flesh dies and they put you in the grave
now there is times of peace in there but just get ready enjoy
it thank god for it but trials and tribulations are coming they're
coming and the people of god we needed to be comforted that's
why you've come here this morning to be comforted by the Word of
God. I can speak for me. Many of us,
you go to religion or you go to a religious church, whatever
it is, I walked out of the doors more troubled than when I entered
the doors. There was no comfort. All they kept doing was telling
me what I needed to do. That gave me no comfort. But
the Lord, when the gospel of God's grace and Christ is preached,
It is a comfort to the souls of his people. And we rejoice
in that. What is it that Isaiah is to
preach to them? That her warfare is accomplished. God has commanded any preacher
that stands behind this pulpit to tell you, his people, the
battle has already been won. These battles you think you're
fighting, those are not the battles. The battle for your soul has
already been won. And the Lord Jesus Christ has
secured the victory. And you fighting these battles,
you're just, you're wasting your time. These are nothing. Christ
fought the victory for your soul. And it's already won. It's finished. And why I say most people are
not satisfied with Christ, they want to add to what Christ has
done, don't they? It's always Christ plus their
works. Because they're not satisfied
with what Christ has done. God's people, oh, we rejoice.
What a comfort it is for my soul to know that my salvation is
in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he has won the battle. It says in his word, it's not
my battle to fight. He's won the battle. And he's
won. The outcome has already been
determined. We're gonna live through this life, but the outcome
is already, God's already determined it. He determined it for the
foundations of the world. That's what I'm gonna tell you.
Don't fret. The war's been won. The second
thing he tells them is tell them that Her iniquity is pardoned. Her iniquity. Christ has already
won the battle for our sins and our iniquity. That's the good
things we think we do that's pleasing to God. God says, not only have I forgiven
your sin, but I've forgiven you of your iniquities. One of the struggles we all have
is our self-righteousness, don't we? I know Brother Todd says,
we're all recovering Pharisees. We always want to do work. We
want to add work. We want to be in control. That's
our nature. The Lord says, be comforted.
Your iniquities are forgiven. I have forgiven all the good
things you've done for me. You know, you talk to a religious
person, it's not fun talking to them, is it? I try to avoid
them, especially if I see them in Walmart, I'll go down the
other aisle just to avoid them, because they want to tell me
all the wonderful things they're doing for God. You'll never hear
a believer say that. A believer will tell you what
the Lord's done for them and had to do everything for them.
I was powerless, as Greg preached, when I had no power. And also
tell her she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all
her sins. Not only have I received forgiveness
of my sins and iniquities, but Christ has won and given me his
righteousness. I have a righteousness that I
could never obtain in my own efforts. We have the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a perfect righteousness. And to say to someone that, well,
you're saved, but you need to go back under the law to add
to, that's progressive sanctification, that is denial of Christ. And they're not pleased with
Christ. They're not satisfied with Christ. They have to add
their works in. Not if you're a believer. That's
good news. I can come to God without fear
of wrath and judgment, because I have the righteousness of the
Lord Jesus Christ. I don't want, I never want my
righteousness to be something I have to do, because I fail
miserably. That's what the Lord, He told
Isaiah, this is what you tell the people. Tell them their salvation's
accomplished in Christ. Tell them I've done all the work,
And the good news is, what I've done can't be undone. Not only
have I determined to save them before the foundations of the
world, I've went to the cross, I've paid for their sins, I've
pardoned their iniquities, and I'm gonna keep them to the very
end. And then he goes on in verse
six, he says, the voice said, cry, and he said, what shall
I cry? Lord, what am I gonna tell them?
Tell them all flesh is grass and all the goodness thereof
is of the flower of the fields. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely
the people is grass. The grass withereth, the Lord
flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. Now if we were at a cemetery
or seminary, as Don Fortner says. How would that function? Well,
you need to tell the people they're grass. I can't tell them they're
grass. Nobody's going to come back after
I tell them they're grass. But God's people will. We're in the hands of God. We
bring nothing to salvation. God has to do all the work. We
are nothing. I always liked what Charles Pennington
said, and I hope the Lord and Lady will do this, he always
said, I've never been able to preach Christ too high, and I've
never been able to preach man too low, and thankfully, I've
never been able to preach grace too free. Believers like to hear that,
don't they? If it doesn't bring a joy to
your heart, I feel it's because your heart's dead. That Christ
has done everything for the salvation of my soul. When I could do nothing
for myself, he's done it, and he's done it perfectly. And oh,
thanks be to God, I can't run it and take it away, because
I would if left to myself. good news to the believers. That's
why some of you come 100 miles. We want to hear comfort. We want
to hear what Christ has done in saving our souls. We keep going. Verse 3 says,
I jumped around there, the voice of Him that crieth in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. We've come here to hear what
God has done. and prepare our hearts to meet
God. And that's all we do. We come
into this world, everything we believe about God is wrong. It's
wrong. And what we need to hear is,
what I want to hear is, what saith the Lord? I don't care
what a theologian say, I don't care what a confession say, I
want to know what has God said. Because, you know, I find this
interesting. When you take someone, an unbeliever, especially a religious
person, and you tell them, let's read this verse, blah, blah,
blah. Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated. What's the first
word out of their mouth? Do they say, no, that's not right.
You're not reading that right. Do they say that? No. The first
word of their mouth, but, but. But what about John 3, 6? See,
they can't deny it because you've read in the Word of God, that
saith the Lord. But goats but sheep believe.
It's true. They want to go somewhere else
because they can't deny it because they don't want to believe it.
That's where it is. We pray that that's what the Lord will do
for us this morning. He will comfort our souls. When
I said that most people are dissatisfied with Christ. It's because we,
it is our nature from the womb we come as people who are dissatisfied. We are dissatisfied. If you don't
believe me I can't speak for you but I'm pretty sure this
is probably true. We have five closets in our house
and guess what? Every one of them is full. We have a two-car garage that
you can only get one garage in. Why? Because they're all full
of stuff. I laughed when I had a garage
sale. Some of it had the tags on it. They'd never been used.
But see, I felt, and more me probably, I had to have that. That was it. I needed that because
I wasn't satisfied with what I had. You understand what I'm
saying? And we come, young people, come
into nature. It's a hard thing to determine the difference between
want and need. But we always want more, don't
we? We're never satisfied. We're never satisfied. And that's
where it is with Christ. Man, by nature, is not satisfied. Turn with me, please, to Genesis
chapter three. We inherited this nature of dissatisfaction
from our parents, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve, when God created
the garden and put Adam and Eve in it, it was called paradise. You know what paradise means?
It means there's nothing you can do to make it any better.
It's absolutely perfect. And God, see if this sounds familiar
to you, God provided everything that they needed. Everything. Food. You know, I can't imagine this
because it's beyond us. They never, never were sick. They never aged. They never had
an ache or pain. God's Word says they walked and
talked with God Almighty in the cool of the day. And God said to them, I only
have one commandment for you to obey. One. That's it. Just one. And that's
not to eat from the tree in the center of the garden. That's what we hope to do in
glory. That would be glory to us. We'll walk and talk with
God. on a daily basis. Chapter 3, verse 1, they're in
the garden and now the serpent was more subtle than any beast
of the field which the Lord God had made. Who put the serpent
in the garden? God put the serpent in the garden.
God did. Well, then it's God's fault that
Adam and Eve, oh no. God forbid, that's what Paul
says. That's the strongest words, but God forbid. Well, why, you
know, people sometimes ask you, well, why would God put a serpent
in the garden knowing that Adam and Eve's going to fall? I'll
tell you why, because Brother Greg said it Wednesday night.
You remember the blind man that came to the Lord and his disciples?
And the disciples asked the Lord, they said, Master, Lord, why
is this man blind? Is it the sins of his mother
and father or is it because of his sin? And what'd the Lord
tell him? Neither. This man is blind so
that the works of God may be manifest in him. Without the
fall, you and I would know nothing of God's mercy and God's goodness
towards us. We would know nothing of His
love towards His people and His Church. That's why the garden. And the Lord had made, and He
said unto the woman, Yea, hath the God said, You shall not eat
of every tree in the garden? That's what they do in false
religion today, don't they? They pick a verse that they want
to quote, and they quote that. Didn't God say you could eat
every tree? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of
the fruit of the trees of the garden. Yes, that's what God
said. But here's what Eve said next. But of the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of the garden, Gotham said, you
shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you
die. Did Eve know the commandment of God? Yes. Eve knew doctrine. She knew truth. But the serpent said unto the
woman, you shall surely not die. For God knoweth that in the day
ye eat of them, then your eyes shall be open, and you shall
be God. That's why people are unsatisfied
with Christ, because people want to be God. And what you're going
to hear in most false, well all false churches this morning is,
God loves you, Christ has died for you, but the salvation of
your soul is up to you. You are God. and they end up worshiping the
creature rather than the creator. That's the sum of works religion.
Oh, God forbid that we ever do that. And the woman saw that
the tree was good for food and was pleasant, and she did eat
it. And then she gave it. Then that she took the fruit
thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her,
and he ate it. Adam willfully, willfully disobeyed
God. Eve was deceived. Both knew the
commandments of God, but Adam willingly, willingly sinned against
God. And as soon as they did, their
eyes were opened. And what's the first thing they
knew? That they were what? Naked. Was there a problem being
naked before they ate the fruit? Did God say if you ever become
naked, you're gonna go? No. Sin had entered into the
world, they said, right then, sin and death. And what's the
first thing they did when they saw that they were naked? They
sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Man's first attempt. When he
is unsatisfied with what God provides, man creates an atonement
that he can do. That he can sacrifice for sin
and God will be pleased. That's what it boils down to.
There's something you can do to save your own soul. The first
thing they tried to atone for their own sin and they hid in
the garden, didn't they? The truth was is Adam and Eve
were dissatisfied with what God had provided. And that dissatisfaction
carries on to you and I. We come to this world haters
and unsatisfied with God. We are His, the Word of God says
we are His enemies. And unless Christ intervenes
we'll remain His enemies. You know I've had times where
people have said Well, I don't hate God. Well, if you don't
hate God, I'm afraid you still hate God. We see we've come as satisfied.
I'm always amazed. I was thinking about the nation
of Israel. When God commanded Moses to take
the nation of Israel and take them out of Egypt, they were
slaves in Egypt. They were at the mercy of their
taskmasters, and it was a hard life. And he told Moses, we're going
to take them out of Egypt. You remember? And Pharaoh said
no. So God sent plagues. And Pharaoh
still said no. And after nine plagues, finally
Pharaoh said, yes, you can take them out, but leave behind all
their possessions. And God says, no. Another plague
comes. And then Pharaoh said, take them.
Take everything. Just get them out of here. And
they left. And the Word of God said they
left without even a hoof being left behind. All their animals,
all their possessions, they left. They come to the sea, and God
enabled Moses to raise his rod and staff, and the sea departed.
And they walked across the Red Sea on the land. And God's Word
said there was water on all sides. Now, can you imagine that? I'm
walking, there's this wall of water right there, right next
to me. And the ones in front, I thought
was a great point, I don't know, Every step they took it looked
like they were going to step into the water but the water
rescinded. And they walked across and of course the Egyptian soldiers
came and what happened to them? The water swallowed them up and
killed all the enemies of God. These are God's people. The Nation
of Israel is a picture of God's Church and God's providing for
His Church and His people. But we know that the Nation of
Israel was mostly perishing and being held. Paul said that all
the children of Israel will be like grains of sand, only a remnant
will be saved. They got to the other side, God
put a pillar of fire in the sky at night to guide their way and
to keep them from freezing to death. And He put a cloud during
the day to keep the heat off of them so they didn't dehydrate
and die. He rained manna from heaven. He put a rock and they
struck a rock and the rock provided water. God provided for them the whole
way. They saw the acts of God on a
daily basis, didn't they? The miracles of God every day
they saw. And yet, what did they do? They
complained. They were not satisfied with
what God had provided. They complained. The Word of
God says they complained And the Lord's anger was kindled
at them. He was angry. And then when His
put trials and tribulation in their life, what's the first
thing to ask? Moses, please go for us and pray to God. That's
our nature and my nature. We are not satisfied. We come to this world unsatisfied
with what God does. We're unsatisfied with the salvation
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to be God. David, King David. One of the
things I do appreciate about the Bible, I need to get past
this, is that God shows us his people warts and all, doesn't
he? They're not, they're just like you and I. Sin is ever present
with, they do some of the most horrific things that we would
see that, how could you give your wife to another man? you
get drunk and commit incest with one of your family members i
have a man killed so that i could have his wife these are all believers god shows us that his people,
that old flesh is no different it's no different in all of us,
it's constantly there in psalm 77 king david complained he said
i complained against god and my spirit was overwhelmed. The waters encompassed me. That means they went over his
head. Now we do live close to the ocean here, and I don't know
if you've ever been out in the ocean, but you ever swam and
all of a sudden the wave went over the top of your head? That's
a pretty frightful thing, isn't it? When there's no bottom to
it, you're kicking and the water's going over. That happened to
me and I thought, well, this is it. I'm drowning right here.
It's all over. That's how David felt. That's how we feel, don't we?
When trials and tribulations come to us, we feel overwhelmed. How many
times I know I've cried out, Lord, I cannot take this another
day. Even thoughts of, I wish my life
would end because I can't take this another day. But the good news is, those trials
and tribulations came from our Savior. And it's those trials
and tribulations that bring us and cause us to look to Christ.
And I can assure you, if things were to go our way as we want
them to go, we would have no thoughts toward Christ. Never a thought. Because they're
going just like we like. And we'd enjoy the treasures
of this world rather than looking to Christ. I need to move here,
so I will. Turn with me, please, to Isaiah
53, and we'll close with this. How do I know if I am satisfied
with the Lord Jesus Christ? One is, He's all I got and He's
all I want. I don't want the salvation of
my soul dependent upon anything I do or somebody else does. Only Christ. That's the only
hope I have. Isaiah says, Who hath believed
our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? That's Christ. Who is Christ being revealed
to? For Christ shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
as a root out of dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness.
And we shall see him. There is no beauty that we should
desire him. Christ is despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid, as it were, our faces from Christ. He was despised and we
esteemed Him not." You know, people always said, well, if
I could just see Christ. They saw Christ and they didn't
want anything to do with Him. They had no desire for Him. Was
there a time in your life when you could say that about you?
I can say it about me. I had no desire for Christ. Oh,
did I pray? Yes. I pray, oh, Lord, change
my circumstances. Change these things, because
I can't handle them, Lord. I need you to change them. Seldom did
he do that. What I didn't know is after God
revealed himself to me, Lord, change me. Cause me to look to
you. Don't take these circumstances
away. Don't take these trial and tribulations away. Lord,
cause me to rest in You." Because the circumstances are your circumstances. Surely He hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we esteem Him not, streaking
and smitten of God inflicted, verse 5, but He was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of peace upon
Him, and with His stripes we are healed. And all like sheep
have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and
the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth, as he brought
us a land to slaughter, and as a sheep before shears is done,
so he opened not his mouth. Verse 10, yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief, what
thou shalt make his soul, and offer him for sin. He shall see
his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the
Lord shall prosper in his hand." And look at verse 11. He shall
see of the travail of Christ's soul, and God the Father, what
shall be? What's God going to be? God satisfied. I want to be satisfied with what
God's satisfied with. Because that's what'll save my
soul. If God is satisfied with the Lord Jesus Christ, oh Lord,
make me satisfied with Christ. I wanna love what God loves,
I wanna hate what God hates. Now because of this flesh, I
don't. But if God, God Almighty is satisfied with his son, how
much more should I be satisfied? Because what he did, he did for
me. Oh, that we would be satisfied
with Christ. I must close with this, I guess. I don't know if you struggle
with prayer. I do. I struggle to pray. I'll be, like I said, I do it
like I walk in the morning and there's nobody around. So I know
when I see somebody, I'm sure they're looking to say, hey,
I better get away from this guy. He's talking to himself. But
I try to pray, and I might be 30 seconds in trying to pray,
and guess what? My mind's wandered off somewhere
else. I hope you don't have that problem, but I do. And I struggle
to pray, because I find myself praying for the same things over
and over and over again. And yet, Scott and I thought,
how do I not pray for my loved ones who I know are lost and
on their way to hell? And I know God's the only remedy.
I plead with him, Lord, would you be merciful? Would you save
them, Lord? Would you send a John the Baptist
to them to preach the gospel, Lord? I can't stop praying for
them. But I worry sometimes, is that
vain repetition? And I was reading, and I thought
it was a good suggestion. A man from many years ago, he
said he struggled to pray. He said, but when I struggle
to pray, I start praying and thanking God for what he's done
for me. Lord, I thank you that the salvation
of my soul is in your hands. I thank you, Lord, that you come
to me and send a gospel preacher to me and that you made me willing
in the day of your power. Lord, I thank you that you gave
me the faith to rest and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Because
if you hadn't done it, I'd have never believed. I'd have never
believed. Lord, I thank you that all power
and authority on heaven and earth has been given to Christ. And
whatever circumstances I have, Christ has ordained them. And
he's in control of them. And the devil, don't leave me,
Lord, please don't leave me to temptation. Because if you do
and leave me to myself, Lord, I'm going to fall. I guarantee
it. Start thanking God for what He's done for you. He said, that'll
change your prayer life. I said, one of the things I find
myself anymore, I find I pray more and more the words of God
than what's in, I pray the words of God. Just pray scripture back
to God. And one of the things I have
to ask God for every day is, God, against thee and thee only
have I sinned. My sin is against God. And Lord,
would you forgive me of my sin and my iniquities? I ask God,
Lord, would you forgive me of my unbelief? My unbelief is real to me. I
can see my unbelief more than I can see my faith. Because it
seems so prevalent in my life. Lord, would you forgive my unbelief?
I'll ask this, any of you worry? Any of you ever worry or fret?
And when you say no, then I'll say, well, we know God's word's
true, and that's every man's a liar, because we know that
we all worry and fret, don't we? I know Brother Todd one of
the Bullets said, do we believe God is sovereign? Yes, we believe
God. Then why do you worry? These
events are in his hands. It's his battle. Do you not know how the end's
gonna turn out? I've told you how it's gonna end. Yes, Lord,
that's my unbelief. Lord, forgive my unbelief. Lord,
forgive me for willfully sinning against you. Paul says, that
which I know to be good, I do not do, and that which I know
to be evil, I do. Michael Etheridge can say that
and know what that means. I know before I do it that it's
a sin against God, and yet I continue. Lord, forgive me. I have to ask
the Lord to forgive me of my self-righteousness. We always, it's hard for us to
believe when Paul said, in me, that is my flesh, there's no
good thing. That old Pharisee likes to come back in there and
tell you, well, you're not as bad as so-and-so over there.
You did pretty good. There's some things you do just
like Satan. You're deceived, aren't you?
Surely you do some good thing. No, I don't do anything good.
I sin because that's what I am. I'm nothing but sin. And the
last one I felt very guilty about, even though it's been forgiven, Lord, forgive me for complaining
against your good providence. I'm sure none of you do that,
do you? Boy, I wish my circumstances
was different. I wish that wasn't happening
in my life. I wish, I wish this, I wish that, you understand what
I'm saying? One day I'm walking, I said,
I am complaining against God's good providence when I do that. That's what I'm doing. I'm no
different than those Jews that walked across the water, so am
I. God has done these things in my life and yet what do I
do? I complain. God have mercy on us. How many
times we wish we had that, we wish we had this. God knows what
we need. But I ask now, Lord, forgive
me. Forgive me. You alone are right and good.
The judge says in the word of God, the judge of the earth shall
always do right. He always does right. Whatever
circumstance I have, no matter how difficult they may be, I
know they've come from the hands of who I've put all my hope in. And Lord, don't change my circumstances. I always have to, Lord, don't
give me what my heart desires. Oh, if it would, it'd be to my
destruction. Give me what you know to be best. And Lord, please
give me the faith to be satisfied with Christ. Keep me looking
to Christ. I think, I believe, I think this,
Charles Spurgeon said this, He said, the Lord revealed himself
to me, and I saw the dove of peace fly in. Then I looked to
the dove of peace, and it went away. Because we took our eyes
off of Christ. It is Christ who gives us the
peace, not the dove. That's one thing I'm so thankful
for. My faith, I'll speak for me,
it seems so small, so insignificant, so wavering. You wonder sometimes,
do I have any faith at all? The Lord has said, even the faith
is a little bitty old mustard seed. You see, it's not my faith
that I'm looking to. It's the object of my faith,
the Lord Jesus Christ that I'm resting in. And no matter how big or small,
He, oh I'm so thankful, He is faithful. Not me, I'm not faithful. He is faithful. Oh, I pray that
God would make us satisfied in Christ. Thank you, we'll have
a break here. Thank you for your time. I fell
down there. All right.