Alright brethren, Isaiah 55.
I just want to draw your attention
to verses 10 and 11 for now. Isaiah 55 verse 10 and 11. The
Lord says, As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh
it bring forth in bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater, So shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I send it. You know, without
a doubt, the Lord makes his people faithful stewards, but there's
this popular notion in the day that the creature, you and me,
that we can control the climate. Now, I want you to think about
that for a minute. You know, you might say, if you
know the scriptures, you would say that's pride, that's a lot
of pride, a lot of pride. Well, that's coming from the
same depraved heart that says we can control God's Word. Our Lord says here, He's the
one that sends the rain and the snow. If He's the one that sends
it, He's been sending it since the beginning. He didn't cause
it to rain at first. He didn't cause it to rain until
Noah's day. But ever since then, He promised, I'll never again
destroy the earth with rain. He put the rainbow in the sky
to remind us of that as a covenant. And all this time he'd been sending
snow, he's been sending rain. He makes it to evaporate over
and over and over and over all this time. He does that. He does that. And this is what
he asked you and me. Look over at Job. Job 38 to your left there. Job
38 and look at verse 22. Now listen to this. Job 38, 22.
Has thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures
of the hell which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and war? By what way is the light
parted which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? Who hath
divided a water course for the overflowing of waters, or a way
for the lightning of thunder, to cause it to rain on the earth
where no man is, on the wilderness wherein there is no man, to satisfy
the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender
herb to spring forth? You think about that. We want
to clear the land and we want to take care of the land and
tend to the land. And the Lord just said there,
I cause it to rain in the wilderness where no man is to satisfy the
ground and cause it to bud and spring forth. No man does that,
He does that. At the reign of Father, who hath
forgotten the drops of dew, Who made the rain? Who made the rain? Who created it? Out of whose
womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven? Who hath gendered
it? Verse 37. Who can number the
clouds in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of
heaven when the dust grows into hardness and the clouds cleave
fast together? When you need rain, who can make
it rain? He said. That shouldn't surprise us that
men think they can control the rain and the snow and the lightning
and thunder and all these things because man thinks he can control
God's Word. And God is saying, just like
I made the snow, just like I control the snow and the rain, so I do
to my Word. As the rain cometh down, and
the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but watereth the
earth, and makes it bring forth in bud, that it may give seed
to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I send it. Just like God sends
the rain and the snow, he sends his word. He sends his word. Just like God sends the rain
and the snow and it accomplishes His will, God's Word never returns
to Him void. It always accomplishes His will.
It always accomplishes that which God sent it to accomplish. God
sends the rain to accomplish what He sent it to accomplish.
And just like that, He sends His Word and it always accomplishes
what He sent it to accomplish before it goes back to Him. I
want to look here at just these few verses and let's get what
we can out of this. God made the rain and snow and
He made it to illustrate the Word that I sow. He made the rain and snow. He
made the earth, made all things in it. Scripture says it was
made by our Lord Jesus and for Him. It was made to illustrate
Him. Made to illustrate how He saves His people. We're going
to see at the end of this chapter, He's going to say, if the Lord
saves you by His grace, you're going to see the mountains and
the hills break forth into singing. You're going to start seeing
the Lord. You're going to see what I just said. You're going
to see that He made everything to glorify Him, and it all does.
But He made the rain and snow to illustrate Him and His Word. He said, verse 10, as the rain
comes down and the snow from heaven, verse 11, so shall my
word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It's God from above
who sends the rain and the snow. We just read that. He said in
another place in Job, God thundereth marvelously with his voice. Great
things doeth he which we can't comprehend. He says to the snow,
be thou on earth. Likewise to the small rain and
to the great rain of his strength. If it rains a little, it rains
a lot. If it snows, God sent it. God sent it. So we ought
never complain about the weather. We ought never murmur about the
weather. God sent it. God sent it. It comes directly
from God's hand. Psalm 147, 16 says, He giveth
snow like wool. He scattereth the white frost
like ashes. He casts forth His ice like morsels. Who can stand before His cold?
He sendeth out His Word and melteth them and He causes His wind to
blow and the waters to flow. God does that. God does that. So it is with God's Word. Concerning God's written word,
we have the written word right here. The scriptures were given
by God from above. It came out of God's mouth into
men who God used to write it down. It was from God above. He said, my word that goeth forth
out of my mouth. Now listen to this, 2 Peter 1.
If you want to jot it down or you want to turn there, 2 Peter
1, verse 20. He said, know this first, no
prophecy of the scripture, none of these words of our Lord is
of any private interpretation. That means it's not of man, it's
not of man's imagination or invention. For the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is going to be one of the
first things God does when He saves a sinner. He's going to
make you really believe this is God's Word. This is God's
Word. When you're talking to somebody
and you're trying to show them something in the Scriptures,
this is the best place to start with. Start right here. Do we
believe, we both agree, this is the Word of God? Because if
they do not, we got nothing else to talk about. Don't waste your
time and then get to the end, they go, well you don't even
know if that's the Word of God or not. Just ask them right up front,
is this the Word of God? Is this what we're gonna use?
When God makes you to know this is His Word, oh boy, what a blessing
to know God has spoken to us from heaven. He has given us
a word from heaven. You know what a blessing that
is? Men say the scriptures are not the word of God, they're
the word of men. Well, would man write in this book and say
that all sinners are guilty before God and can't do a thing about
it? Would man write that in a book? Would man write that the only
one who can make his people righteous is God coming in human flesh
and saving his people from their sin? Man would even have conceived
that God would come down and be flesh and then go back as
the God-man. That wouldn't even enter our
mind, much less would we write that God is the only one who
can save us. Carnal men hate to hear God's
Word declared that there is none righteous, no, not one. That's
what it says. There's none righteous, no, not
one. There's none that seeks after God. Men will argue with
that. I'm seeking after God. You're
not seeking after this God, not unless He's drawing you and making
you seek Him. There's none that seeks after
God. Man wouldn't have written that. It had to be of God. That's natural man's enmity against
God for saying those things. Man surely wouldn't have written
those things just of ourselves. Well, not only is the written
word of God, God's preached word is of God. We saw this this morning. Not every preacher is God's preacher. Here's how you know if you're
hearing God's preacher. If you preach according to the Scriptures,
if He declares to you and shows you this is what the Scriptures
say, and if He gets all the glory and man gets absolutely none,
if He shuts you up to God as being the only salvation of His
people, to being the Alpha and Omega, the author and finisher,
so that He alone is the one who gets the glory for saving sinners. You and me are sinners. We can
get all the credit for that, But God gets all the glory for
saving. And if God sent His preacher, and He's preaching His Word according
to the Scriptures, and God blesses it to the hearts of His people,
every bit of that's of God. Every bit of that's of God. He
said in Jeremiah 3.15, I will give you pastors according to
my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
That's God's Word. So if you have a true pastor
preaching the Word of God, God sent him and God brought him
forth to preach. Now concerning the false preacher
who God does not send, He's not going to preach according to
this word. He's not going to preach, thus saith the Lord.
He's going to preach his own thoughts. He's going to preach
and he's going to tone it down and he's going to take the offense
out and he's going to make sure he tries not to offend men. But
this is what God says about that. He said, I'm against them. Jeremiah
23, 32, I'm against them that prophesy false dreams, saith
the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their
lies and by their likeness, yet I sent them not, nor commanded
them, therefore they shall not profit, this people at all, saith
the Lord. The man who is a false prophet,
who is not true to God's Word, not preaching to God, God said,
I didn't send him, he will not profit the people at all. Not
at all. Not any at all. The Word preached is of God,
just like the written words of God. And here's what it's all
about. Here's what the written Word's
about. Here's what the preached Word's about. It's about the
incarnate Word. The incarnate Word is from God.
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is the Word. John 1.1 says He
is the Word that was from the beginning. He's the Word that
is God. He's the Word by which everything was made. And he said,
John 1.14, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and
we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth. Just like the snow comes down
from God out of His mouth, The written word came from God and
wrote it as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The preached
word comes forth and God sends it. And then, it's all concerning
the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, who came down from heaven.
Who came down, just like the snow and the rain, it came down
from heaven. Everything this book is declaring
is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Word
of God, and nobody else. Nobody else. It's to give Him
all praise, all preeminence, all honor, all glory. That's
what heaven's going to be. It's going to be Him getting
all the praise and the glory forever and ever and ever. And
that's what God's people want it to be. That's what God makes
us want. We want Him to get the glory. You came here today to
hear His glory, didn't you? That's what you came to hear.
Alright, so the words from God, just like the rain and snow.
Now secondly, just like the snow and the rain, God's word never
returns to him void. God always accomplishes His purpose
by His word. Always. He said there, just like
the snow and the rain come down and it returns not thither but
waters the earth and makes it bring forth in bud that it may
give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word
be that go forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I send it. You know, I know that we just
do it. We just, you know, we murmur. We murmur about the weather.
We just do. If it rains, we think it's rained too much, or we think
it hasn't rained enough, or we think it needs to stop raining,
or we think it needs to start raining, or we, you know, whatever. But here's the thing about it.
Not only does it come from God, It is exactly accomplishing what
God sent it to accomplish. It's the exact right time, the
exact amount, it's doing just what God sent it to do. Every
bit of it. Psalm 65 9 says, thou visitest
the earth and waterest it. Thou greatly enrichest it with
the river of God, which is full of water. Thou preparest them
corn, when Thou hast so provided for it. He's given us bread.
He's given us bread. If we say, oh, I just wish it
stopped raining, we might as well be saying, I just wish God
stopped feeding us. I wish God stopped providing
us bread. Thou waters the ridges thereof
abundantly, Thou settest the furrows thereof, Thou makest
it soft with showers, Thou blest the springing thereof, You crown
the year with Thy goodness, And Your paths drop fatness." That's
what God's doing around us all the time, every day. Christ the
Word came down and He accomplished what God sent Him to accomplish.
Just like the snow and the rain accomplishes what God sends it
to, the Word of God, Christ Jesus, the Son of God, came down and
accomplished what God sent Him to accomplish. That's what He
did. Go to Daniel 9.24. To your right, just a few books
over. Daniel 9.24. What did He accomplish? This is speaking of what he would
accomplish, but he's come now and this is what he accomplished.
Daniel 9.24 says, 70 weeks are determined. Now listen, before
you get all caught up on the 70 weeks, let me help you. That
word determined means it was decreed, it settled, it marked
out. That means in the fullness of
time, God sent forth his son. That's what it meant. When it
pleased God, just according to the time He marked out, that's
when He sent His Son. That's what this is talking about.
Upon thy people and upon thy holy city. That's who He came
to do this for. His people. This makes up His
holy city. What did He do? He finished the
transgression. He finished it. He made an end
of it. We sinned in Adam. That's where the transgression
is, right there. And that's how we became guilty.
But by Christ's obedience, brethren, He ended that transgression for
His people. That means when God beholds His
people, He's looking at Christ, He beholds Christ. And because
Christ never transgressed, His people never have transgressed.
Would you like that to be known about you? That God says of you,
you've never transgressed against Me. That's what Christ accomplished. He made an end of the transgression.
God looks at Christ, and because Christ is eternal, and what He's
done is eternal, God says, my people shall never transgress.
Never. That's so in Christ now. God
sees no transgression in His people. Christ, the Word, He
says there, made an end of sins. That's what He came to do. He
made an end of sins. Now, we're not talking about
what you see in yourself. When I talk about your thoughts,
when I talk about don't sin and keep your heart, mind set on
Christ and forsake your sin, flee from your sin, walk honoring
Christ completely. Now, I'm going to tell you that
and you're going to walk out of here and you're going to sin.
Whether you want to or not, whether you meant to or not, you are
going to. And if you know God, He'll make you know you did it.
This is the good news. This is not an excuse to sin
in any way, shape, form, or fashion. But what this is saying is this,
Christ made an end of sins. Before God, before the judgment
seat in Christ Jesus, Christ put away all the sins of His
people, past, present, and future. All of them. All of them. God
says He does not behold iniquity in Israel. He remembers the sins
of His people no more because Christ made an end of sins. Listen
to Hebrews 9.26. There's one judgment. God's appointed man to die one
time and after that there's one judgment. Hebrews 9.26 says,
Now once in the end of the world hath Christ appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. That's what he did. That's what
Daniel 9 says he did. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this to judgment, so Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many. That's saying He endured that
one judgment for all His people and He put away all our sin.
And so He says, now unto them that look for Him. Do you want
to be found without spot and without blame? Do you want to
be found accepted of God and perfect? To them that look for
Him shall He return. The second time, without sin,
unto salvation. He put sin away. He's coming
again. There won't be any sin the next
time. He's coming again, and he's receiving his people to
himself. This is what Paul meant when he said, I want to be found
in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
was through the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Word didn't
return to God void. Christ didn't go back void. He
accomplished the thing where to God sent Him. The Word was
made flesh and it says there in Daniel 9, He made reconciliation
for iniquity. He made reconciliation for iniquity. You see, it was God we offended. It's God we sinned against. Your
sin is not against me. You may sin against me, but it's
not me you got to worry about. It's God. That's who you've offended. David said, against thee and
thee only have I sinned. We have to be brought to take
sides with God against our own self. We had to be reconciled
to God because we offended God. The Lord Jesus Christ came, and
by His blood and His righteousness, He made atonement for sin, He
made full restitution for the iniquity of His people, and He
reconciled us to God. And then He comes and teaches
you this and makes you to know He's done it for you, and by
the power of His Spirit, He makes you be reconciled to Him. He
makes you bow to God and say, Thank you, Lord. He said in Romans
5.10, If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of His Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be
saved by His life. And then the Word didn't return
void in that this, He accomplished bringing in an everlasting righteousness
for His people. It's not enough that we just
be, our sin be put away and we brought back to zero. We got
to have a perfect obedience to God. We got to have a perfect
righteousness to come into God's presence. And He brought in everlasting
righteousness by one man's obedience. Many were made righteous. That's
what He did. And then this incarnate Word
sent by God sealed up the vision and the prophecy. That word sealed
up means He brought it to its end. He brought it to the end
it was given for. The scripture here, this vision
and this prophecy, all these Old Testament scriptures are
all about Christ. They're all about what Christ
would do. And when it says He sealed them up, it means He fulfilled
everything that was written. He brought it to the end which
God said He would do. He did it. He accomplished it.
He fulfilled it. The Law and the Prophets, He
fulfilled everything that's written. And this Word anointed the Most
Holy, Christ anointed the Most Holy. I was looking at this specifically. The written Word of God declares
this, in the Old Covenant, the altar was called the Most Holy.
It says there in Daniel 9, He anointed the Most Holy. The altar
was called the Most Holy. All the offerings were called
the Most Holy. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
altar, most holy. His offering is the most holy
offering. He's the anointed high priest
who's the most holy. He entered into the most holy,
not made with hands and at God's presence. He accomplished the
redemption of His people by His own blood and He made His people
most holy. And when He poured out the Spirit
on the day of Pentecost, He anointed the church with the Holy Spirit,
making us the most holy by what He's done. He anointed the most
holy. The incarnate word, Christ Jesus,
did not return to God void. You see, this is the difference
between the truth and what men are preaching. What the world's
preaching is this. They're preaching that Christ
came, but they don't say he accomplished anything. They say he made it
possible. Well, what does that do? That
puts it in these hands. That leaves it all up to you.
That don't offend a fly because I can take it or leave it when
I get ready. All right then, you stop the rain from falling
next time it falls. You stop the snow from falling
next time it falls. You stop it from evaporating
and going back up to heaven. You can't stop it. You can't
stop this word either. He came and he accomplished his
will. He accomplished what God sent
him to do. He's a success. The scripture says he shall not
fail. He shall not fail. So he has
set judgment in the earth. He's gonna bring everyone, every
member of the isles. You know, we talk about the Jews
and Gentiles, but the scripture talks sometimes about all God's
people being Gentiles. Because the truth of the matter
is, all these people live on an island. We live on either
the big one right here we're living on, or we live on a little
one down in the Caribbean, or we all live on an island. That's
what Gentiles mean. And He goes set judgment, and
the isles are going to wait for His law, for His gospel. We're
waiting on Him. That's what He's done. He's did
it at the cross, and He does it in the heart of His people.
He's a success. He's not a failure. Just like
the rain and snow accomplished His purpose, Christ did too.
Now lastly, I want you to see this. God's preached Word does
not return to him void, but by God he accomplishes this thing
where to he sent it. When the Word's preached, he's
accomplishing what he sent. I said to you this morning, it's
never in vain. He's going to glorify the Father
and the Son and the Spirit. They're going to be glorified
through the Gospel. He's going to call out His lost sheep through
the Word. I pray today. I do. I beg God
this every week. Lord, please bless Your Word
today. Call out one of these lost sinners. Call them out.
That's what He does to this Word. You that He's already called,
He blesses you by the Word. He edifies you by the Word. He
grows you by the Word. He keeps saving you by the Word.
And those that will not bow the knee and will not believe, He
condemns them by this Word. You don't leave the Gospel neutral.
It has this effect. But it always accomplishes His
Word. Just like the snow and the rain waters the earth, God
saves by the water of the Word. This is what He said in Deuteronomy
31, 32. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I'll speak. Hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the
rain. My speech shall distill as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass. We were conceived in sin, and
you know what that means? We come into this world dry. You come into this world with
a soul, and that soul is going to live forever. When you die,
it's not going to be the end. We're going to live somewhere
forever. Here's the problem. We don't have the spirit. We
don't have a spirit to worship God with as we come into this
world. Only God can give that. And we're dry without that. We're a barren desert without
that. But thus saith the Lord that made thee and formed thee
from the womb, which will help thee. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant,
thou jester in whom I have chosen. I'll pour water upon him that's
thirsty. Floods upon the dry ground, I'll
pour my spirit upon thy seed, my blessing upon thine offspring,
and they'll spring up as among the grass as well as by the watercourses.
That's a good news to us because we can't make this happen. We
can't make it happen. Our Lord told Nicodemus the wind
blows where it will and that's so with everybody that's born
of the Word of God, born of the Spirit of God. But He promised
the parched ground should become a pool and the thirsty land springs
of water. He said you'll be like a watered
garden, you'll be like a spring of water who waters fell not.
Our Lord described it as water of life springing up within you.
When He gives you the Spirit, He's giving you spiritual life.
When you find yourself seeing that you are a real sinner, that
nothing you have ever done has ever commended you to God and
God won't accept it, when He starts making you see that Christ
Jesus is indeed the Word who accomplished the salvation of
His people, the only righteousness God will accept, when you begin
to experience these things and you begin to believe and you
begin to see God's Word says it, I see it now. God's Word
actually says it. He's already given you spiritual
life. He's already given you life. That's the only way you
see it. The only way you know it. He's already poured the rain
out in your heart. By the word preached, God produces
in His child just like He does in the earth by the rain and
the snow. He's going to produce something. He says He makes us
bring forth and bud just like He does in the earth. That's
what He does by His word. Out of God's mouth into His spiritually
dead, barren child, He brings forth life by the water of the
Word. He creates a new spirit, a new
life, a new man that we didn't have and that we couldn't create.
And not only that, He makes you to bud. He produces fruit. You start believing God. You
know what faith is? Well, I believe God, but we've
got to do our part. That ain't faith. That ain't
faith. Well, I believe Christ is all
my salvation, but now I got to do something. That ain't faith.
That ain't the faith God gives. Might be the faith of devils.
The faith God gives says, Christ is all my salvation. That's it. End of story. End of story. That's the fruit he produces.
Hope. He produces hope. He makes you
to hope for the righteousness of God. You actually believe
the Lord Jesus is reigning when he's called every one of his
people. He's not willing that any should perish but that they
should all come to repentance. And when he's finished it, he's
going to call us to glory and we're going to be with him. I
have that hope. You have that hope. It's a real
hope. And love. He makes you to love Christ.
He makes you to love your brethren. He makes you to love this Gospel.
He makes you to love His Word. And what that does is it makes
you realize, because of what He's done for you, Nothing, nothing
is worth jeopardizing the gospel. Nothing's worth leaving the gospel. Nothing's worth dividing with
your brethren so you can't have the gospel. It's kind of like
folks who get all upset and they decide they're going to go on
a hunger strike. Doesn't that just make you sometimes scratch
your head and think, you know, you're not hurting anybody but
yourself going on a hunger strike? We need the Word. And the Word
and the love that God puts in the heart makes you say, I'll just take the wrong, I'll
take the fault, I'll be wrong, I'll be guilty, whatever. Let's just be at peace. And let's
keep worshipping the Lord. That doesn't satisfy somebody
that doesn't have love in their heart. They want to kill. I want
vengeance. Love makes you say, I deserve
vengeance. I deserve vengeance. I deserve
wrath. And God poured that out on his son in my room instead. Love keeps you coming to Christ,
keeps you casting your care on Christ, keeps you trying to help
your brethren get to Christ. It helps you keep speaking this
word to one another. And he provides, verse 10, seed
to the sower and bread to the eater. The bread we eat, the
bread we live on is Christ, the Word. The just shall live by
faith, faith in Christ. He said, I'm the bread of life.
You come to me, you'll never hunger. You believe on me, you'll
never thirst. Has the Lord, in all these years
since He's created this world and caused the rain and the snow
to come, He's never stopped providing food. Well, he tells you, my word accomplished
this, Christ Jesus. And he says, now you believe
me and you feed upon me, you'll never hunger and thirst again.
You'll have everything you need to come into God's presence.
Everything you need to be accepted of God and everything else you
need, he'll provide it. And this is the seed we sow.
He provides seed to the sower and bread to the eater. We feed
on this and this is the seed we sow. We're sowing this gospel. and he always accomplishes his
pleasure by his word. Verse 11, so shall my word be
that goes forth out of my mouth. It won't return void, it'll accomplish
that which I please, it'll prosper in the thing where to I send
it. Just like Christ came in the
fullness of time and accomplished His purpose, Satan tried to stop
Him from the beginning. That's what the fall was about.
He tried to stop Him. He tried to kill all the children
of Israel when they were babies in Egypt. That was all that was
about. He's done it over and over through
history when Herod tried to kill the Lord Jesus at His birth.
That's what that was about. Satan trying to stop the Word
from accomplishing this and he couldn't stop it. Christ came
forth the King and He accomplished the work God sent Him to do.
And nobody's going to stop the Word of God. He's not going to
stop Him from sending it forth. He's not going to stop God from
accomplishing the purpose that He sent it to accomplish. Now
what's going on in the world then? Why we got 10,000 different
religions and 15,000,000,000 different denominations and everybody
believes they worshiping the right God and the other thing.
There's only two religions. There's works, something you
gotta do and the message I'm preaching to you today which
says God does it all. There's only two. What's all
this other stuff? Just what Brother Scott read,
they got tired of waiting And they began to scoff, and they
did just what the children of Israel did when Moses didn't
come out of the mount. They said, up, make us some gods we can
see. Because carnal man don't have
spiritual sight, and he's got to have some sign, something
he can see in his religion. And so, you do this, you do that,
you do the other, you do that, you can see that. And that pleases
man. And all that is, is not being
pleased to wait on God's Word. God's preacher's gonna go forth
and he's gonna say this, it's not how many he saves, it's not
how many he don't save that makes the ministry a success. Paul
said, he didn't send me to baptize, he didn't send me to make converts,
he sent me to preach Christ and Him crucified. If he saves a
million or if he don't save one, it's been a success if he glorified
Christ and preached Him. That's a successful ministry.
Let men say what they want to. We're in this ministry together,
brethren, and I promise you, God promises you, better than
me promising, God promises. We're just to preach Christ,
we're to trust God to accomplish His purpose, and just like not
one drop of rain and not one snowflake returns to God's void,
God's word shall never return to Him void. We are unto God
a sweet saver of Christ in them that are saved and in them that
perish. To the one we're the saver of
death unto death, to the other the saver of life unto life.
Who is sufficient for these things? You think about that. You think
about that. Sometimes I want to tell people
just stop amening. You might be amening yourself
right to hell. Just hear and believe. God says of His Word,
it will accomplish that which I please. It will prosper in
the thing wherein to I sin it. Brethren, I pray God give us
grace to believe Him, trust Him, take heed to His Word, ask Him
for light on His Word, depend entirely upon His Word. Ask Him
for grace to obey His Word, live upon His Word. Everything you
need to know. Why are you spending money for
that which is not bread? Everything you need to know is
right here. Right here. Here, He said, in your soul to
live. Let your soul delight itself
in fatness. These things are inward work.
They're inward work. I pray God bless you. Amen.