Let's read verse 34 and 35. Now
at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven,
and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most
High. That is, I blessed God. And I
praised and honored him that liveth forever. whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion, or whose reign, whose kingdom, whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
to generation. And all the inhabitants of the
earth, that is, all the people of the worlds, are reputed or
considered in light of God. They are considered or reputed
as nothing. And he doeth, that's God, and
he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among
the inhabitants of the earth, and none, that is, none of those,
the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, none
can stop his hand, or say unto him, that is, call him into question,
What doest thou? Now, Nebuchadnezzar has never
been numbered with any of the ancient prophets. He certainly
was not a prophet nor son of a prophet. And I don't believe
that his language was inspired of God. That is, in the same
sense that the language or the writings of Isaiah and Jeremiah
and the other holy prophets in the Old Testament, or the writings
of the Apostle Paul and John and James and Peter. I don't
think that his language was inspiring, but what we have before us here
in these two verses, verses 34 and 35, is a simple statement
made by an uninspired man who has just passed through an extraordinary
experience. What do you mean by that? I mean
that this man, in the 30th verse of the 4th chapter, made this
statement. The king said, that's Nebuchadnezzar,
he said, is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house
of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of
my majesty." He said, this in which I reign over, I built it. I built it of my power. It is
of my doing. It is of my making. It is of
my achievements. You can see the mark of my fingers
on this great kingdom, and I have done it by the might of my power
for my honor and for my glory and for my majesty." That is
what he is saying. He said, I have done this. There
are a lot of proud, boastful men. that number themselves among
the inhabitants of this earth and talk about being self-made
men. I have done this. That which
personifies them in language is I, the big I. It's I have done this. I have
accomplished that. It's for my honor. It's for my
glory. It's an everlasting memorial
to me because I did it with my might and my power. Well, because
of that, because of that, because of him being one of the proudest
men and one of the greatest men upon the face of the earth at
that particular time, he went through an extraordinary experience. And Dale read the experience
that he had. He had been, as I said, among
the greatest. and proudest of men, and suddenly,
from out of nowhere, suddenly, just that quick, just like the
lightning as it comes from the sky, or the rain all at once
bursts forth from the clouds to the earth, all at once, suddenly,
he fell into the condition of a grass-eating ox. by losing
his reason. He lost his reason and he became
a brute beast and he crawled upon the ground. He walked upon
the ground as an ox walks upon the ground. And it says here,
it says that In that 32nd verse, it says, And they shall drive
thee from men, that is, Nebuchadnezzar, and thy dwelling place shall
be with the beast of the field. That is where you live from now
on. They shall make thee to eat grass
as an oxen. You will eat grass just like
an ox when out there in the field. laid down and I suppose chewed
his hood just like an oxen. He passed through a terrible
ordeal, an awful experience this man Nebuchadnezzar had. This
is no ordinary man here. This is a king. This is a king
here. This is not a poor man like you
and I. It's not a fellow off of the
street. It's not a fellow that rode into town in the back of
a pickup truck. This man is the king. The king never can answer! And
he lost his sanity! He lost his reason! And God made
him to eat grass like a Knox in the field. And when he was restored to his
reason, then he acknowledges publicly the hand of God. And I believe, brethren, when
he spoke these two verses here, that we use for our text. When
he said at the end of his days, and when he lifted up his eyes
to heaven, now this is the end of his ordeal, the climax of
his experience, him being restored to his sanity and reason now,
after spending I don't know how much time out there with the
oxen eating grass, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,
till his hair was growing like eagle's feathers, and his nails
were like bird's claws. I don't know how long he was
in that experience, but he was there for some time. And at the
end of that, when he got his reason back, he says, I lifted
up my eyes unto heaven. He says, I looked up to heaven.
I looked up there. I wonder why I looked up there. Oh, because that's where God
is. God's in the heavens. And He rules and He reigns in
the hearts of men. And He's in heaven. He said,
I lifted up my eyes to heaven. He looked to Himself. Prior to
this, He'd been looking to Himself. He said, this big kingdom that
I see here, that I've got, all the glory and majesty of this
kingdom, He said, I did it. It's for my glory and for my
honor. But now, But now, he says, I
lifted up mine eyes into heaven, and my understanding returned
unto me. And he said, I blessed the Most
High God. I blessed Him. I blessed His
name. What is it to bless God? It's
to acknowledge your nothingness before God and acknowledge His
all and in all. He acknowledged that, Oh, I'm
a king of nothing. Most High, he said, I praised
and honored Him. that live up forever, whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion. His kingdom is from generation
unto generation. He acknowledged publicly that
the hand of God was in this. God did this. And we believe
that he spoke correctly. And I believe that he was very
accurate in what he had to say. And I think that what he had
to say is in full compliance with and accordance with the
very Scriptures themselves that are breathed by the Spirit of
God into the hearts and fingers of men to put down upon paper.
I think that this is the way God is. Listen. over here in the book of John.
John seems to confirm this. Turn with me real quick to the
book of Revelation. John out there in the isle of
Patamos in this fourth chapter, he had this to say. The fourth
chapter of the book of Revelation in the ninth and tenth verse. It says, Well, in the 8th verse
it says, The four beasts had each of them six wings about
him, and they were full of eyes within. And they rest not day
or night. And this is what they say. They
don't rest. They say, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord
God Almighty, which is, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts gave glory
and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth
forever and forever." You know what they are talking about?
Talking about the same thing. that Nebuchadnezzar was talking
about in this 34th verse, when he says, I have blessed the Most
High, and I have praised and honored Him, that what? He speaks
here of the self-existence of God, whom he praised and honored
and extolled. He says, I have praised and honored
Him that liveth forever. Oh, the self-sustained existence
of the God in whom we have to do. Oh yes, he tells of the eternal
self-existence of God Almighty. And if you was to turn to the
fifth chapter of the book of John, you could read there where
he talks where the Lord Jesus Christ, who was God, by the way,
manifests in the flesh. Our Lord Jesus Christ was as
much God as if He was never man, and as much man as if He was
never God. He was, He is, the God-man, the
Lord Jesus Christ. That is not Him. The Lord Jesus
was God Almighty, and He said, I am that I am. He does not say, I was. He said, I am. That I am. The eternal self-existence of
God himself. You'd read that over there in
the fifth chapter. He also says, our God. He alone can say this. He says,
I am God. I am God. And beside me there
is none else. He alone can say, I lift up my
hand to heaven and say, I live forever. God says that. I'm talking to you about the
character of God and the being of God. I'm telling you here
what an uninspired man said at the end of a terrible ordeal
and experience. This is what he said about God.
And I'm telling you what he said. He was accurate in his sayings,
and the Scriptures affirm everything that he says. God alone can say, I lift up
my hands to heaven and say, I live forever. I'll tell you, He is
only self-existent and the only self-existent. sustained being
on the earth or under the earth is God himself. If anything exists
in this world from necessity, even the necessity of the existence
of anything comes from God. God is independent. He's the
only being that is so. You and I, we need food. We need
food every day. As a matter of fact, we need
it three or four times a day. We actually use more of it than
what we need, but what I'm trying to say is we must find food. with which to repair the daily
waste of our body. We've got to have more food.
We're dependent upon light, we're dependent upon heat, and a lot
of other external agencies we're dependent upon. But He, but God,
but God, this is what This is what this fellow is saying. He
said, not a liver, however, he's talking about his self-existence
and he's saying that God only is self-sufficient and all-sufficient. He said, I am God, I change not. You can't say that and I can't
say that. I'll tell you, he's self-sufficient and all-sufficient
and self-existent. And he alone is like that. I'll tell you this. He was as
glorious before he made the world as he is right now. He was as
glorious eons of ages ago as he is right now. He was as great before the sun
and the moons and the stars leaked out from nothing into existence. He was as great and as glorious
then as he is right now. Nothing of God, nothing of God's
being is derived from another. But all that is, all that is
that you see, that you hear, that moves, that feels, that's
active, that has life and doesn't have life, everything that is,
is derived from Him. But nothing, but nothing of Him
is derived from something else. Self-existent. Self-sufficient. And all sufficient is God. God
is not an old man upstairs with a long beard and his cane getting
old trying to do something that he can't do. I get so tired of
hearing people talk about, well, trying to get religious and talk
about the man upstairs. You better not call him the man
upstairs. You better be afraid when you start talking, referring
to God as an old man upstairs. like the old man upstairs. You
better be afraid. God might strike you like He
struck Nebuchadnezzar. You might wind up out there like
a fish in the water, chasing gnats, or like an ox out in the
field, switching your tail. Oh no, what I'm telling you tonight
is this, all that is, is derived from God. We were sold like a
garment, but He's the same and He has no end. That's what He's
talking about. He's talking about the eternal
self-existence of God when He says, He says, I bless the Most
High. That is, when my understanding
returned to me, my reason returned to me, He said, I bless the Most
High. Oh, He wasn't too proud then. People are now too proud
to bless God, to even talk about God. Going to talk about it and
refer to him as a man. Bring him down to our level and
talk to him like an old man trying to do something. God's trying
to do something, but he can't do it. Oh, well, I wonder why
God does this, and I wonder why people suffer, and I wonder why
we have wars, and I wonder why little babies die, and all that. You know, as if God was not in
control. God's in control of all things. He said, I kill, I wound, and
I make alive. God Almighty! Oh, we need to
get back to the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible! Not the
God that's been manufactured by some Sunday school teacher
that wouldn't know God if they met Him in the middle of the
road! The God of the Bible! The God of the Scriptures! This
God in whom we have to do! This God in whom we worship!
We'd come treading into the presence of God like a bullet in a china
shop. Don't know where we're going.
Oh, we better start walking softly in the presence of God. We better
enter into His presence on our tiptoes. We better be like old
Moses there at the burning bush. That bush was on fire, but it
was not consumed in the curiosity of that bush. It overwhelmed
old Moses, and he moved over to take a better look. And God
told him, He said, You're on holy ground, son. And he said,
take your shoes off. You're in a holy ground. Oh,
we're in a holy ground tonight. This is holy ground. We're talking
about God and the self-existence, the eternal self-existence of
God. Oh no, we wax old like a coat,
like an old garment, but He's the same. He's the same. Never
has no end, no end to Him. There's no time of beginning
with the eternal God. You see, there's no starting
point from which we can determine the age of God. A fellow asked
me one time when I was working on the job, he asked me where
God came from. And I think before the conversation
was over with, he wanted to know how old God was. I said, I don't
know where God came from. He has no beginning. He has no
beginning and he has no ending. That's too much for me. I said,
move over, that's too much for me too. But that's the way it
is. No time of beginning with the
eternal God Almighty and no starting point from which we can determine
His age, whether He is 50 or 75. The Bible says, from everlasting,
from everlasting, thou art God! The Bible refers to Him as the
Ancient of Days. There is no conceivable force
in heaven or on the earth or under the earth or under the
sea that can ever wound or injure or destroy God. He's not vulnerable. He's got no weak spot. His throne
is so high that it cannot be reached." That's what this fellow
said. He said, I turned my eyes. Now what he said, he said here,
he said, he said, my understanding returned unto me at the end and
I lifted up my eyes to heaven. God's throne is on the circle
of the globe, the circle of the heavens. That's where I sat.
Oh no, His throne so high it cannot be reached. As a matter
of fact, men can't even shake his footstool. Ah, we ought to
delight in this living God. We ought to be like this fellow
Nebuchadnezzar. We ought to praise him and extol him. We ought to
bow down before him. We ought to get down in the dust.
from whence we came, and make that dust our headquarters, and
stay down in the dust, stay down in the dust, and look up to Him
from our hearts and worship Him with whom we have to do." Oh,
the next thing that this man says, which is the outcry of
this ordeal and this experience and this truth that he realized
in his own heart, is this. First he says here, he praised
Him, honored Him that liveth forever. He talked about His
eternal self-existence. And then he said, whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion. Which means that the God whom
we serve, the God that we worship, the God that I preach, not only
exists, but He reigns. He reigns, that is, He rules. God rules. This thing is just
not being run by what men determine is an accident. It's just not
going by itself. But everything that takes place,
everything that happens, happens because God predetermined it
to happen. There's not a leaf that falls
from the tree that does not pause. on its own. That does fall on
its own. There is not an ant that you
step on that was not predetermined to die in that way. Everything
that happens, this is what I'm saying, everything that happens
in this life happens because the God of the Bible, the self-existing
God decreed it and determined it before time ever was. He rules. God's got a program. He's got
blueprints. He's charting the course. He's
running everything just exactly as He purposed it before time
ever was. He's running it as it pleases
Him. God is. No, he didn't call me
in to counsel and say, would you give me your advice. He didn't
call the Methodist in or the Baptist or the Presbyterians
or Billy Graham or the Pope or a bunch of religious men and
say, listen, would you cooperate? Here's what I want to do and
this is my plans. I want you to prove them. No,
he didn't do that. No, he rules. He rules. He says,
who's Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Whose reign is an everlasting
reign. He reigns. I'm telling you that. He not only reigns, but He rules
over all and none rules over Him. None rules over God. His
character is not to be impugned or called into question by puny
men and puny, peanut-headed preachers whose arrogance and pride is
a shame to the divine aim. No, sir. Oh, my soul, who would
dare even to insult the Christ Holy God by calling His works
and his question or his character in question. He says to men who
are so full of pride that they impugn the wisdom of God and
murmur and complain at the providential dealings of God, he says unto
them, he said, be still, just shut up, shut your mouth and
know that I am God. His place is on the throne and
our place is to obey. It's His to govern. It's ours
to serve and to do as He wills without questioning. And then,
you see, God has a right to do all of this because He's God.
Now, God has reigned. He has reigned from day one. And God shall reign. When time
shall be no more, God shall still be reigning. His dominion whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion. And he that lives forever will
reign forever, from day one until there is no such thing as days. And then the third thing that
he says, this uninspired man, look at it down here. Verse 35,
this is what he says. Boy, this is a truth that not
many people believe. Not many people know it. Well,
the reason they don't know that this is in the Bible is because
preachers don't know it themselves, and those that do know it are
afraid to say anything about it. It says, "...and all the
inhabitants," that is, all the peoples, "...of the earth are
reputed or considered as nothing." Well, now, if you want If you
want this confirmed by one of the prophets, you turn with me
real quick to Isaiah chapter 40. I want you to see what Isaiah
said, who was inspired of God. Look over here at Isaiah chapter
40, verses 15 and 16, I believe. He said here, The nations are as a drop of
a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing. Verse 17, All nations before
him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than
nothing and vanity. The inhabitants of this earth,
the members of this human race, are to be reputed by God when
they are considered by the glory and majesty and power of God,
they are considered as nothing! He said, Isaiah said that the
nations are as a drop of a bucket. What did he mean by that? I think
that he meant this. I think that he meant that a
drop from a bucket, a bucket of water if it's only a gallon,
pour it all out, and then tip it again, and then tip it again,
and tip it again, you'll still see a drop that hangs or clings
to the side of the bucket. He says that the nations before
him are considered as a drop in the bucket. That is a fang,
a fang too small and insignificant and unworthy to even notice or
pay any attention to. That's what he's talking about.
And then he said they're counted as a small dust. of the balance. That is, as the dust which falls
from the scales. But it's not sufficient to affect
the balance of the scales. Unnoticed. Doesn't affect the
full weight that's upon the scales. Doesn't affect that at all. Not
worthy of notice. All of them. Notice. Down there
in that 17th verse. Look at that. Isaiah 40 and 17.
ALL NATIONS, ALL NATIONS, ALL NATIONS BEFORE HIM ARE AS NOTHING. ALL NATIONS BEFORE GOD IS NOTHING. ALL OF THEM, NOT SOME OF THEM,
ALL OF THEM. NOT JUST POOR SIMPLETONS LIKE
YOU AND LIKE ME. NO SIR. Kings and princes and
queens, presidents and governors, astrologers and philosophers,
doctors and lawyers, poor people and rich people, all, all nations,
all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing in the
sight of God. I get all puffed up, you know,
and think, boy, I'm doing God a favor. Well, God doesn't need
you. He doesn't need you. He doesn't
need you. Why? You're nothing. You and
I are nothing. Even in this life we have strong
ties with our families. Strong ties. We're clannish. planish, and we'll do for our
own, leave others go, but we'll do for our own. We'll protect
our own, because we love them, and we hug them to our bosom,
and we think that that love is strong, it's strong, and it'll
tie us to them. But, boy, the grim reaper comes. God sends His death angel over,
and He severs the ties. And we go to the graveyard, and
the pallbearers, they shuffle along like this. You ever seen
a pallbearer? That's the way they're going
to carry you somehow. Like that Bob. They take them short steps. Like
this. Shuffling. Shuffling. Going along the cemetery.
Going along the graveyard. They're going to put you in a
hole. They get you down there, they're going to throw dirt in
your face. Dirt in your face and you won't hear it. Put you
in a copper-lined vault down there and you say the worms can't
get to you. The worms can get to you because the worms come
from inside. They don't come from the outside.
They come from...worms are going to get you. Worms, these eyes,
these eyes that look at you, these eyes will be a carnival
for worms one day. What I'm saying is this. These
ties, these friends, we think we're so, we think we're important.
Think we're somebody. Oh, boast of what we got and
what we do. Our families. My son's a doctor. My son's a lawyer. This and that
and so forth. Wonderful people. Listen, when
we die, when we die, it won't be two weeks after you're dead
that your family will start to forget about you. Mark it down. Oh, my wife won't. Mark it down. Oh, my husband won't. Mark it
down. It'll start to leave. It'll start
to leave. Oh, I'm not saying they'll abandon
you. I'm not saying that there'll not be some memory of you that's
cashed in your heart. But I'm telling you, when the
axe, when the axe lays the tree open, when it lays it open right
to the heart of the tree, it won't be long till by the nature
of that tree, it'll begin to heal its wound. The scar will
be there, but the wound, the wound, or be healed. We act like
God couldn't get along without us. If our family can get along
without us, God can get along without us. You see what I'm
telling you? I'm telling you that the people,
you and I, we're, he said, he said, why he said, all the inhabitants
of the earth are as nothing before God. They're just like a drop
in the bucket, like the dust, like the dust on the scales that
doesn't affect the balance of the weight there. It's the dust
that nobody notices. Oh, I thought about this, and
I said, what, somebody ought to, well, if I'm smart enough,
I'd know where to go to find this information, but I'm not
that smart. Maybe someone else knows. What
an impressive array. What an impressive assembly.
It would be if all the nations of the world was gathered together.
I don't even know how many there are. Do you, Pat? And Pat went
to college. He don't know, so I don't feel
too bad. There's a bunch of them though,
aren't there? Tim, you know. There's a bunch of them. Nations
of the world. There's a bunch of them. Now
what if all the inhabitants of every nation upon the topside
of God's green earth was gathered in one big congregation. Wouldn't that be something? I
seen the other day on the television where they had a meeting of some
sort. I don't know where it was. But they said there's 500,000
people there. And they took a picture from
up high down this way. It was just a sea of faces. Just as far as you could see
out there, it was people upon people. 500,000 of them. That's only a drop in the bucket
compared to this assembly of all the nations, of all the peoples,
of all the nations, from the least to the greatest of every
nation, if they was gathered in a vast front line. And I don't
know how much territory it would take to put all the nations of
the earth in one place. But what I'm saying is this,
if you had them all together, You couldn't get on a high enough
place to see them all. You'd have to get in an airplane.
You'd have to get in an airplane and fly over to see what an assembly
that was. A vast assembly. You just couldn't
think about it. Staggers your imagination, doesn't
it? This is what I'm trying to say. Doesn't make any difference
how many of them would be there. Don't make any difference about
the array and the bands and the flags and the colors and all
the pomp and all the ceremony and all the ritual of all these. they'd be as nothing in the sight
of God. All inhabitants of the world
are as nothing. They're nothing. They're like
a little anthill. You ever see those little anthills?
You're walking out in the woods and you'll see a little rise
of dirt about like that, about as big as a three-gallon pail.
A little rise of dirt. We're considered like a little
anthill on a ten-piles-an-acre farm. on a 10 million acre farm,
like a little ant hill. Oh, my soul. We're nothing. We're nothing in our election.
If you're ever saved, it'll be because God elected you before
time ever was. You're not going to be saved
by accident. You'll be saved by choice, and
it'll be God's choice. Listen, we were nothing in our
election. The Bible says, ye, listen to
me, ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. You can choose
God all you want to, but if God don't choose you, it won't mean
a thing. Huh? That's right. You say, well,
I choose God. Well, if you do choose God, it'll
be because He first chose you, see. Your choosing will be the
result of His first choice. There's nothing, you and I, in
the election of God. There's nothing in our redemption
either. We contributed nothing to the price that Jesus paid
for our redemption. He paid it all. He paid every
bit of it. Every part of Him that was owed,
He paid it. We didn't contribute anything.
Not even the batting of an eye. Not even the lifting of a finger.
We didn't add anything to it. Didn't pay anything. We added
nothing to the price that Jesus Christ paid for our redemption. And I'll tell you, we was nothing
in our regeneration either. Well, listen, the spiritually
dead cannot help God to quicken them. A man outside of the Lord
Jesus Christ is spiritually dead. He's dead before God in trespasses
and in sins, and he cannot help God to quicken himself. He's
dead himself. God the Holy Spirit must sovereignly
come along and quicken him from that dead state. Regenerate him. Give him repentance. Give him
faith. Reveal unto him the Lord Jesus Christ. Give him the want-to
to trust in God's Son. Ah, we was nothing in our righteousness.
Our righteousness is as what? Ah? Filthy rags, isn't it? Our righteousness, the Bible
says, in our very best state, the best two minutes you ever
spent in your whole life, in compared to what God demands
of Him, compared to the perfect holiness and righteousness of
God, your righteousness is as filthy rags. Well, I'm going
to quit. Listen to what else he says.
He says, all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.
And then he says, he speaks of God's divine sovereignty. And He, that's God, and He doeth
according to His will. God does according to His will,
not according to my will, or your will, or the Pope's will,
or the denomination's will, or the Baptist church's will, or
some other church's will. He doeth He doeth according to
His will. God does what He wants to do. Oh, I thank God for that. He
does what He wants to do. And what He wants to do is always
right. Boy, if you'd depend on what
I want to do. Oh, if you'd do what I want to do sometimes,
there wouldn't be a 2x4 in that building. It would be straight.
Oh, my. He doeth according to His will.
Where at? in the army of heaven. In heaven
He reigns and rules there among the angels and all the celestial
beings. He does as He pleases in the
army of heaven. He does that. He doesn't call
men to cooperate with Him. He doesn't say, Come on in now
and help me do my will. No, He doesn't take anybody into
His counsel. He does according to His will.
in the army of heaven, and secondly, among the inhabitants of the
earth." Now, what does he say again? He said, all the inhabitants
of the earth are considered as nothing. That is, when you compare
the people of this world to me and to my glory, they are considered
as nothing. And He does, that is, God does
according to His will in the army of heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth, and none of them in heaven or on
earth can stay His hand. I was telling Brother Perkins
here the other night, we was talking about death. I said,
you don't go to death. Death comes to you. And you can't
stay in death's hands. Death has iron hands. Iron hands. And when death reaches out for
you and gets you, he will not let you go. Can you see that? He won't let you go. You can
hold on to the seats, you can hold on to the wall, you can
hold on to the trees, you can hold on to the door handle of
your car, but death has iron hands, and he'll set you loose. He doeth, he doeth among the
inhabitants of this world according to his will, and none can stay
at hand or say unto him, why did you do that? Why'd you do
that? Why'd God do that? Oh, I'll quit. And then that
fellow said this after he made that statement. He said, My reason
returned unto me in the glory of my kingdom. My counselors,
my Lord sought me out, and I was established in my kingdom. And
he said, I, now, he said, I never could enter. praise and extol
and honor the King of Heaven. All whose works are truth, and
his ways judgment, and those that walk in pride, he is able
to abase." It doesn't say that he will abase every man who walks
in pride. What he's talking about is worship
here now. He said, I'll extol. I'll worship God. I'll bow down
and I'll worship the King of Heaven. And He said in those
that walk in pride, He is able to. He doesn't. He doesn't. All the proud people in this
world, He doesn't strip all of them. Some of them die in their
pride, but He's able to. That's why He said He's able
to. He's able to take, to strip men of their pride and their
pomp and their self-esteem. He's able to break men, to strip
men, to empty men. He's able to wound men. He's
able to make men scream out for mercy. He's able to do it. He
does do it to some, and others he just leaves go by. They just
go on as fast as their little legs will carry them on into
hell. May that not be the case of anyone
here tonight. May God stop you. May God stop
you on the way to this moral suicide that you're about to
commit. Suicide to your own soul. Stop you. You might see yourself
as nothing before God, and fall before Him, and ask Him to give
you a heart that would love His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and
a desire to obey Him. God help me. God help me. Maybe He will. I believe He will. I believe
He will. The Lord bless you.