2 Samuel 2, verses 6, 7, and
8. Let's read them together. 6,
7, and 8. The Lord killeth and maketh alive. That's the first statement of
our sentence. The Lord killeth and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and he bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh
rich. He bringeth low and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to
set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne
of glory. for the pillars of the earth
are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them." Now, in
this 8th verse, I want to talk to you about man's sad, sad plight. It says here that in this 8th
verse, it says that he lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill,
and set him among princes." Now, he's described here, man outside
of the Lord Jesus. He's described here by his character
and by his position. His character is that he's a
beggar. Now, his position is that he's
on a dunghill. That's what I want to talk to
you about, those two thoughts right there. His character and
his position. His character is that he's a
beggar. Now a fallen man, whether he
knows it or not, is a spiritual beggar. Now, in order to find
out what a fallen man really is, we've got to find out what
a beggar is. If we find out, ever come to
know exactly what a beggar is, we'll find out what we are. Because
every man, now that's the truth. I know that it's humiliating,
But yet it will do us good if we find out who we are. Man by nature is a beggar. What is a beggar? Well, a beggar,
you have seen beggars on the streets. You don't see them near
as much now as you used to see them, but back when I was younger,
I remember a young man, well I wasn't unusual for beggars
to come to your door, knock on your door, and want something
to eat, or want a dime or fifteen cents,
or beggars on the street begging for money, begging for help.
Well, I said, a natural man is a spiritual beggar Now, if
you take a beggar and empty his pockets, you won't find a penny
in his pockets. You take the old clothes off
his back, and to find out the value of these tattered rags
that's on his back, if you go down to the Union Rescue Mission
or some other store that deals in old clothes, you'll find that
that beggar's old clothes, now the clothes that you've emptied
out his pockets to find out that there's not a penny there, then
you've taken his old clothes off, or he's taken them off and
laid them down there, you've put them in a sack, and you've
taken them down to have the value, the worth of them, estimated
by someone that knows, you'll find out that his clothes is
not worth a single solitary penny. They're nothing but rags. Now
we're talking about a beggar. We're trying to find out what
a beggar is. Now a beggar doesn't have a foot of land that he can
call his own. He doesn't have any. If he did,
he wouldn't be a beggar. He doesn't have a single solitary
foot of land that he can call his own. And the six foot of
land that's needful and necessary for his burial will probably
have to be given to him by the county or by the state, and they'll
grudgingly do so. So, he hadn't got anything. You look at his old hat, got
a hole in his hat, there's no crown in his hat anymore. You
look at his old shoes there, and you can see his feet through
his shoes. There's an old proverb that goes
something like this, that says that a beggar can never be bankrupt. That is, I guess they mean, that
because he hadn't got anything, he can't be bankrupt. But if
we would say that he was never anything else but bankrupt, we'd
be closer to the truth, because a beggar is bankrupt. A beggar
doesn't have anything of any value. That's what a beggar is. And the Scriptures say here that
our spiritual condition outside of the Lord Jesus Christ is that
we are beggars. And I can, as I think about this
and look at this, I can see an accurate portrait or a picture
of myself, what I was by nature, what I was by nature. I was by
nature a beggar. I was by nature a spiritual beggar,
absolutely penniless. And if you'll turn any man's,
natural man that is, if you're turning inside out like you would
turn a beggar's clothes inside out, you couldn't find a nickel's
worth of merit in any of us. You put us all together, every
spiritual beggar that was ever born into the as a member of
the family of the human race and put them all together, you
wouldn't find five cents worth of merit in the whole kit and
caboodle of us. You see, the very rags which
we profess to cover ourselves are so filthy that we'd be better
off without them. As a matter of fact, the Bible
says that our righteousness, or the best efforts that's ever
been produced by this natural heart, or this spiritual beggar's
nature, is as filthy rags. The best thing that we've ever
done. not just the ordinary things that we do, but when we are at
our very best. The best thing that we've ever
done is as filthy rags. Now, you can search into a man's
thoughts and his words and his deeds, and you can look very
good, look very good, and you can take this man and his words, and his thoughts,
and his deeds, and turn them over, and over, and over, and
over again, and again, and again. And if you judge according to
truth, and according to the Word of God, you're going to have
to say it's vanity of vanities, and all is vanity in this individual. He's a spiritual, spiritual beggar. Let me say this about the beggar.
Never was a beggar so short of money as a sinner is short of
merit. Well, I ask you this evening,
have you ever felt yourself to be so? Have you ever felt yourself
to be a spiritual beggar? Have you ever realized your spiritual
poverty? Never in this world or in the
world to come will a man become rich in faith until he has learned
first that he is penniless, so far as merit is concerned. You must be emptied. I mean a
man must be emptied. His pockets must be turned inside
out, and he must see and know that he's penniless. He must
feel the awful lowness and guilt of being a poverty-stricken,
bankrupt individual as far as righteousness, goodness, or merit
is concerned. He must feel that. He must be
absolutely emptied and drained dry. Drained the last drop out
of the bucket and drained dry. He must be made to feel and to
confess, as we mentioned to you this morning, made to feel and
to confess that in His flesh dwelleth no good thing. Spiritual beggar. He's a beggar.
He hasn't got anything. Hasn't got anything. You know
what a beggar is? Find out what a beggar is, you'll
find out what you are as far as eternal merit and worth and
value is in light of the presence of Almighty God. Alright? A beggar is not only one that's
broke. Have you ever heard this song?
I've heard it several times. I kind of like it. He says, I'm
busted. Have you ever heard that? He
said, I'm busted. Went to my brother for help.
He said, no help. He said, I'm busted too. He said,
they're going to take the refrigerator. And he said, the wife and children.
But he said, I'm busted. I'm busted. He's broke. He's
broke. He hasn't got a penny. He's busted. He's penniless. A beggar is not
only busted, he's not only broke and penniless, he's also tradeless. I'll tell you what I mean by
that. The only thing that he can do is beg. He hasn't got
any trade. He never learned to trade. If
he did, he wouldn't be a beggar. He's a beggar. He hasn't got
any trade. He can't do anything but beg.
That's all he can do. He's a professional beggar. He
knows all the ins and outs of begging. You see, there's a lot
of people that'd be willing to give a beggar a day's work, but
there's nothing he can do. You can't give him any tools
to work with, because if you do, he'll probably cut his leg
or cut his fingers off. He knows nothing. A beggar knows
nothing, is good for nothing, he's shiftless and useless. And most other men are eager
to get rid of him and to get him out of their sight. They
don't want anything to do with this busted, broke, penniless,
hopeless, helpless, no good, shiftless beggar. They don't
want anything to do with him. They shun him as if he had a
plague. Ah, such is ever a son of Adam.
Ever a son of Adam. Not only has ever a son of Adam
no merit, no merit whatsoever, but it's impossible for him to
earn any. There is as much hope as a beggar
getting rich as there is a spiritual beggar obtaining eternal life
on the basis of his good works. Does not the scripture say, by
the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in God's
sight? In other words, he says that
if a man who is a spiritual beggar is ever brought out of his spiritual
poverty, it will be by the grace of God. His case is so bad. His case is so bad that nobody,
nobody, and I mean nobody can help him or wants to help him
except God Himself. Though there are exceptions to
the rule, in this man's case, I said this morning that I cited
the scripture to you that there was no exception to that rule.
There's an exception to this rule generally speaking, see?
But generally speaking, a man that is a beggar is generally
one with a wicked character. And the less said about his character,
the better off he is. You see, by nature, now spiritual
beggars, by nature we think that we're rich. We think we're rich,
we think we're increased with goods and have need of nothing
while all the time, while all the time when we think we're
rich. When we think we're increased with goods, when we think we
have need of nothing, we're poor and wretched and naked and blind. Only grace can make poor beggars
like us see, see ourselves, that we're poor and we're needy. And
the next thing about a beggar is he's one that's usually a
man without any friends. He's kind of what they refer
to nowadays as a man who stays by himself. He's what they call
a loner. He doesn't have any friends. You remember you used to see
around in various towns and on the sides of buildings No vagrants. No vagrants. All vagrants will
be prosecuted. That means beggars. No begging
allowed in this town. All beggars will be prosecuted. No one likes to take in a beggar. He hasn't got any friends. Who
wants to take in a beggar in their house? He's too filthy. He's dirty. You won't let him
in your house. You hardly want to let a beggar
in your barn. A beggar has no friends except
those that are beggars just like him, fellow travelers. who share
his poverty and are generally just as wicked and vile and destitute
and hopeless and helpless as he is. The natural man is like
that. He has no friends to help him.
Nobody can help him. Nobody wants to help him. The
poverty of sinners is too great. for you and I to cure. We can't
cure. I can't cure the poverty of sin. Nothing I can do about
it. I can tell him, preach to him, but unless God reaches down
and lifts him up, He'll still be where he is. He'll still be
a beggar when he dies. That is, a spiritual beggar.
We might as well. I'm telling you, he's so hopeless,
as far as I'm concerned, and I'm so hopeless. I'm so hopeless,
apart from the grace of God, that I might as well try to make
an attempt to fill a sack that's full of holes or to fill to librium
a bucket with no bottom in it, as to seek by anything that I
can do to bring a sinner nearer to God. I just can't do it. No,
sir. The sinner, apart from God, has not one friend who can help
him. And you have no merit with which
to help yourself, and no power to win any merit, and no friend
to give any to you. He hasn't got any himself, and
you haven't got any character that would be of any value by
way of recommendation unto God. Yet you're a beggar. A man outside
of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual beggar. Can you see that? You're
a beggar and a beggar for sure if you're outside of the Lord
Jesus. Well, you see, in spite of all
this, now that's not the worst yet. The worst is yet to come
about the beggar. There's nobody that I know of
who particularly cares for the beggar's acquaintance. They don't
want his companionship. They don't even want to know
him, much less take him in his house. That is, a beggar's company
is not one that's generally sought after by others. Did you ever
seek after the company of a beggar and say, I'd like to be a friend
of that beggar? Would you like to go down on the street and
sit on the curb with that beggar? I'd like to go there and sit
there and help him hold up pencils. I'd like to help him. No, you
don't seek after the acquaintance and company of a beggar. There's
not many people who'll make a supper for a beggar. Not many. If any. If you make a supper for him,
I'll tell you what you'll do in most cases. You'll set it
out on the porch and tell him to eat it out there. See, now
a man might give a beggar some bread, might give him a slice
of bread and a place to sleep out on the porch or in a tent
or in the smokehouse or out in the barn, but they put this beggar
off by himself. It's not a person that I know
of wants to have a beggar in his home. You want to have a
beggar in your home? A filthy, hopeless, helpless,
shiftless, good-for-nothing beggar who's dirty, who's tattered and
torn, who stinks. I come in contact with a fellow
the other day and he is by no means a beggar. No means a beggar. He gets a little money. But he
approached me and got real close to me. And I couldn't, it was hard for
me to stand the smell of that fella. I wasn't talking about
his breath, I was talking about his body, I was talking about
his clothes. He was, he stunk. He stunk. He was dirty. He was
dirty. He had a, used to be a white
undershirt that he had on, but it was black. It was black. And he just came out, and I don't
know what the house looked like that he was in, but he smelled
to high heaven. Now, would you want a beggar,
oh, shiftless, no account, dirty, loathsome beggar to come in your
house and to set in on your furniture and finally say, would you excuse
me, I want to use your bathroom? Huh? Oh, no. No. We're Christians and all
that, but we don't want no beggar to use our bathroom. Do we? You
want a beggar to go in there and wipe his hand, wash his hand? He wouldn't wash his hand. He
might wipe his hands on one of those guest towels, but he wouldn't
wash it. No, sir, you wouldn't want that beggar to go in your
bathroom or in your kitchen or sleep in your bed because that
beggar might have some loathsome disease! You'd want to protect
yourself from that loathsome disease of that beggar? from
you and your children and as much as you'd want to help him
in your heart. You'd say, I can't do it. I got
to think of my own family here. I can't let him go in there. I can't let him use the bathroom. Can't do it. I'm telling you
about a beggar. Well, I wouldn't give much for
a man's conviction of sin. if a man's conviction of sin
does not produce in his heart a very loathsome idea of himself. The truth of the matter is, if
God ever saves me and he ever saves you, In the process of
conviction of our sin, he'll make us to see what we are, and
when we see what we are, we'll not be in love with what we are
because we find out that we're as loathsome and low as a toad. We're like beggars in the sight
of the matchless purity and beauty and glory and holiness of the
God of glory. No, sir. Do you ever feel this
way? Do you ever feel loathsome like
that in God's sight? Do you ever feel like when you
come to church, you just kind of like to come in the window
somewhere, crawl in the window, knock a hole in the floor, and
kind of lay down under the seats? Just lay down under the seats
and hope nobody would notice you. Just hope nobody would say
a word to you. They wouldn't even see you there.
You could listen to what the preacher had to say, and then
you could crawl back down your hole. Just kind of slide back
down in your hole and hope that no one's seen you. And slide
back outside. Slide back into your cave. Lonesome, lonesome. I'm telling
you, a true conviction of sin will produce a lonesome idea
of ourselves. It will make us see what we are.
Oh, you ever kind of like a dog, kind of like a dog that kind
of gets his nose up to the door. And the door's not latched and
he just kind of pushes on the door until he cracks the door
and he gets his nose in. The first thing you know, here
he comes with his tail between his legs. Here he comes, an old
loathsome stinking hound that's never been in the house before. Always stayed out there tied
up to the corn crib or in the barn or running loose. Here comes
this old foul-smelling, stinky, slimy hound with his tail between
his legs and he slips in there and just kind of slips in under
the dining room table looking for a crumb that might fall from
the table. You ever feel like that? Beggars,
beggars. Ah, to complete the picture.
A beggar is one whose entire dependence is upon charity. Charity. Don't give to that beggar,
he's going to die. That's all they are to him. Somebody
don't help the beggar, he can't help himself, by the way, he
won't help himself. He is good for nothing, he knows
nothing, and the only thing he can do is beg. That's the only
thing he can do. And he's a victim of charity,
and if charity doesn't help him, I mean if society doesn't help
him through charitableness to him, he's a gone Jesse. A beggar is one whose entire
dependence is upon charity. He knows he can't claim anything
from you as he holds out his hand. That is, when he puts out
his hand as you come by, he knows, when he does so, that you don't
owe him anything. He knows that. That beggar knows. You go over there in front of
the courthouse and there's a beggar over there with a wooden leg.
And he's got some pencils there, and he's had them for about 20
years. He never passed out one of them yet that I know of. And
I'm not jumping on that poor fellow. I'm just telling you
his sad plight. That's our sad plight. And you
go by there, Brad, and he'll hold his hand out like that,
and he has some pencils in this other hand. He ain't about to
give you one, but he makes you think. Maybe if you'd grease
the palm a little bit, if you'd lay something in there, he might
give you one of them pencils. But he knows, he knows when he
holds his hand out, that he has no claim on you. He knows that. He knows that you're not obligated
to him. He knows that, see. He's completely,
entirely dependent upon charity. He knows he can't claim anything
from you as he holds out his hand to you. And he knows if
you give anything, it's an act of grace or charity on his part. It wasn't owed to him. That's
what a beggar is. You a beggar? A spiritual beggar?
I believe I see myself here. I'm a spiritual beggar. I understand
that God didn't owe me anything when I held my hand out. I understand
that. I had no claim on God. I was
a spiritual beggar. And I held my hand out to God
for mercy, and He didn't have to give it to me. He didn't have
to. He could have said, No. He could
have said, I'm finished with you. I've given you opportunity
after opportunity after opportunity. I've given you all kinds of advantages
in this life. I owe you nothing. I don't owe
you nothing. You see yourself that way? If
God ever saves any of us, I'll tell you it'll be by the grace
of God. It won't be because He owed it to you, and He won't
give it to you because He pays it to you. He'll give it to you
because He wills to do it, and for no other reason. Well, such
beggars we are. And if we ever become reconciled
unto God by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, it must be
an act of charity. If you come, I believe, if there's
anyone here tonight, and this has affected you, and you realize
that you're a beggar, you realize that you're a beggar, if you
come to God, If you'll come to God in your true character, don't
come out of your true character. Come in your true character as
destitute, hopeless, helpless, shiftless, good for nothing. You're just a beggar. You're
loathsome in the sight of God. You're no different than I am.
That's the way I come. You'll have to come the same
way. There's no other way to come. Jesus said a man can't
come any other way unless he comes in his true character.
Unless he comes as he is. Just as I am. Without one plea. Just as I am. Nothing in my hand
I bring. I come as a beggar. I come in
my true character. Lord, I have nothing. I have
no pride. I have not one single solitary
virtue in my hand to offer, to bargain, to recommend. I've got
no goodness. Nothing. I'm helpless. Surely
there's something good, but nothing. Nothing. Take a fine-tooth comb
and go all over me, there's nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a penny's
worth of goodness or merit to commend me or recommend me to
God. come in your true character. And I believe if a man will come,
a man, woman, or boy or girl, if they'll come to God in their
true character as a beggar, sincerely desiring to be lifted up and
to be clothed, God will do something for them. I believe I can say
this, that God never turned a beggar down who came to Him as a beggar.
No, sir. Never did. Oh, listen, I've described the
character of a spiritual beggar, but there's some more here. It
gets a little bit worse than this. I talked about the spiritual
beggar's condition here. Now let's talk just a minute
or so about the beggar's position according to the verse of Scripture
that I read to you, according to the text. It says, and lifteth
up the beggar from where? This is his position. This is
where he's at. We know what his character is.
He's a beggar. He's penniless. He's hopeless.
He can't do anything but beg. That's all he is. That's all
he ever will be. But it says, and lifteth up the
beggar from where is at? Where is he at? He's on the dunghill. From the dunghill. He's on the
dunghill. Listen. That's the only throne
that the beggar has by nature. Why is the spiritual beggar said
to be on a dunghill? All right, let me tell you why
it's said that he's on a dunghill by first telling you what a dunghill
is. This is what a dunghill is. A
dunghill is not a, that's not a very pretty hill. In fact,
this is about as worse a place as a man can possibly be on a
dung hill. A dung hill is a pile of horse,
cow, or camel offal heaped up to dry in the sun. It's a pile
of cow, horse, or camel manure. He's stuck! All of us here, most all of us,
we grew up in the rural area. We know what it is to clean the
barn out and to throw it out the window in the pile. We know
what it is. And we know how the flies and
the worms and the maggots and everything collects on that pile! We know it! It's filthy! Filthy! Filthy! I ain't like to talk
about it. But the Scriptures say that the beggar's character... Well, I thought there was something
good about me. Well, there's not. Just, well, say, well, that's
right. There ain't nothing good about me. If I ever get to glory,
if I ever get to God, I'll have to see myself as a beggar and
where I'm coming from, on a dung hill, on a dung hill. Oh, listen
to me. It says here, though, it doesn't
leave him on the dung hill. Look at that. If you're a beggar,
a spiritual beggar, and God has raised you up, He's lifted you
up, He's raised the poor up out of the dust and the beggar from
the dunghill. The text tells us what is done
for the beggar upon the dunghill. All right, listen. It says, He
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set them, that is,
to set them beggars that was on the dunghill among princes. and to make them inherit the
throne of glory. These beggars. Who? Beggars. That's who God saves. Beggars.
He saves spiritual beggars. He doesn't save anybody else.
If you're hoping in anything else this evening, if I'm hoping
in anything that I've done, can do, or will do, in myself as
a means of my acceptance with God, I'm lost. I'm lost. I missed
it 10,000 miles. Because God only saves beggars. He only saves hopeless, helpless,
poor people that can't do anything for themselves. Hopeless! You say, well, surely, surely,
if I brought the best I had, God, no, God wouldn't accept
it. Only add to your condemnation. Accept your lot. If you're ever
going to be saved, you're ever going to be saved, accept who
you are, a beggar. Accept where you are on a dunghill.
That's where you're at. Oh my, what did he do for these
people, these beggars that was on the debt? Well, he clothed
them as princes are clothed. Now you can get that out of that
verse. A robe of righteousness, now this is to a spiritual beggar.
A robe of immaculate, white, pure, spotless, linen robe. is put around the naked body
of that beggar. And now that beggar, who was
worth nothing, who in himself was loathsome to other people,
now he has been raised from this awful dunghill and he has been
clothed with clothing that princes wear. You see that? He wears
the clothes that princes in the fine castles and courts of royalty
wear. He wears what? He wears the immaculate
robe of the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. God robes
that poor beggar's body with the robe of righteousness. And
now he wears what princes wear. Boy, that's good, isn't it? He
wears what princes wear. Listen, he lives as well as they
do, too. He gets manna from heaven. He
gets water from the rock. God supplies his needs. He feeds
upon the Lord Jesus Christ. God supplies his needs. He has
an appetite for spiritual things. And God feeds you. God feeds
you. God will feed you. God will feed you. If you belong to him, you're
a beggar if he has to take a raven to do it. You remember that raven?
There's old Elijah out there. And God told him, said, there's
a famine here in the land. And he said, wickedness and all
that. He said, get out there and I'll tell you where to go.
There's a cave out there on the side of that hill. He said, go
out there and hide in that cave. Hide in that cave. stay out there
in that brush. He stayed out there for about
a year in the brush, in the cave. And God took a raven, a raven,
and went against the bend of the will of that raven. And he
told that raven, he said, I want you to take him some bread and
some meat every morning and every evening. And that raven, God
supplied him, supplied the Old Elijah's fire and bounty, and
that old raven swooped right down. He'd been used to eating.
That's all he ever ate was dead stuff. That's all a raven will
eat, dead possums along the road. And God went against the very
will of this raven, and he said, I want you to fly down there.
I want you to get some bread and some meat. I want you to
pick it up in your old long belt, and I want you to fly right over
there, and I want you to give it to my man down there, because
he'll be waiting for you. for about a year, that raven
came over. That unclean raven fed that clean
man, that great prophet, every morning, every evening, every
morning, every evening. The unclean feeding the clean.
God, what I'm saying is, not only will we fare well as far
as clothing is concerned, we'll fare well as far as food is concerned,
because God will see to it. that we feed upon the gospel. We'll feed upon the Lord Jesus
Christ. Alright? This fella is guarded. This beggar that's on the dung
hill, not only is he clothed as princes are clothed, but he's
guarded as princes are guarded. You can't walk into it. You try to get into where Princess
Diane is. You can't do it unless you're
a thief like that one fella was that slipped in through the window
there And the guards, the security guards, they kind of lax, but
that's an exception to the rule to go in to where princes are. You couldn't do it. You go to
Buckingham Palace and see if you can get in where the princes
are. See if you can go past the guard. You can't do it. Why?
Because they've got guards there protecting the princes. Well,
we're not only clothed and fed as princes are, we're guarded
and kept as princes are guarded and kept by God. Oh, there's
nothing that can separate that spiritual beggar who's been raised
from the dust and from the dunghill and set down among princes. There's nothing that can separate
them beggars from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
my Lord. Nothing. They can't be separated
from the love of God. because the Spirit of God's own
God, He's there. Oh, listen, He's not only guarded
like princes are guarded by the strong right arm of God, that's
His perpetual, continual defense, but He's housed as a prince is
housed. That is, he dwells in the same
type of a place that princes dwell in. Where does the spiritual
beggar that's been raised to sit among princes dwell? Well,
the Scriptures say he dwells in the secret place of the Most
High God. He sits at the seat of the royalty
of heaven. why he is a member of the family
of God. He is a member of the household
of God. As a matter of fact, this beggar
is like Mephistopheles, who was crippled at his feet, who was
sent for and fetched and sat at the king's table forever. He is as rich as princes are
rich. How rich is a prince? I don't
know my value. Well, if you're a spiritual beggar
that's been raised up from the dunghill to sit among princes,
you don't know your value. Why? Because you're an heir of
God. You're an heir of God! An heir of God! And a joint heir
with Jesus Christ! Brother, you're rich! Though
you haven't got a penny, you're rich! You're rich! He who was
rich became poor for your sakes that you through him might be
rich. Rich, rich, rich. Oh, my soul. Well, who does all this? He does it. That's what it says.
It says the Lord killeth. The Lord maketh alive. The Lord
maketh poor, maketh rich. Verse number 8 says, continues
right on with, He raiseth up the poor. Who does all this?
Huh? Does He do it by proxy? Does
He do it by the church? Does He do it by a priest? Does
He do it by a preacher? Does He do it by a prophet? No
sir, the Lord God of heaven and earth, He does it Himself! He does it. He comes down and
finds them. He found me. If he found me,
if he found me, a beggar on the dunghill, there's hope for you. There's hope for you if he found
me. You see, it says, he does it. He raised him up. He healeth
the brokenhearted. He bindeth up their wounds. He
bendeth over in tender mercy, and bindeth up their wounds with
the skill that no earthly surgeon has, or with success that no
earthly surgeon has. He does it. He does it. No one
else can do it, only the Lord of glory, the Lord of love. Oh,
that God Almighty of heaven and earth, who loves poor, poor beggars,
He loves beggars, can you see that? He loves beggars! They said about John the Baptist,
they said, talking to our Lord, they said, he said, who do you
come out to see? Huh? A man dressed in fine clothing! He said, in fine linen, he said,
why, he said, they're fit subjects for palaces! But he said, this
fella, He's kind of a beggar-looking fellow. He hasn't got anything.
He hasn't got a place to live. Oh, the Lord of love loves the
sinner. He hears the sinner. He embraces
the sinner. I might say that He loves a beggar. He hears a beggar. He embraces
a beggar. He lifts up the beggar from the
dunghill. Why? Why will He do that? Well, He does it because He loves
that beggar. He does it because he wills to
do it. He does it for his glory, because
he gets glory out of it. He gets glory out of the salvation
of poor, helpless, hopeless, spiritual beggars. He gets the
glory. He'll not share his glory with
others. You see what I'm talking about? It's all of God. Well, I hope that somehow you
and I have been able to find out what a beggar is. Find out
what a beggar is, then you find out what you are. And you find
out where a beggar sits, you'll find out where you sit. And if
God has raised you up, it'll be by the grace of God. It won't
be because of worth and value of a poor beggar.