Alright brethren, let's turn
to Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12. My introduction
may be a little long this morning, but the message probably won't
be. The purpose of every word in
God's Holy Scriptures, the purpose of every word in God's Holy Scriptures
The purpose of every act of providence God works in this world is to
turn His people to look to Christ. Every single one. And it is to keep us doing so
until the end. Until the end. A Hebrew writer
spent ten chapters preaching Christ. Then in the eleventh
chapter he gave that great role of faith. And then he comes
to verse 12. And he begins to apply this.
And he says, verse 1, Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses. He showed us there
in Hebrews 11, Not one child that believed on Christ perished. They were made more than conquerors
through Christ that loved them. That trusted Him. Wherefore, seeing this, let us
lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset
us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. You can't run with weights on. Let us lay aside every weight,
whatever it be, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. That's
the only thing sin does, is beset us. turns us out of the way,
turns us from looking to Christ. Wherefore, let us lay aside the
sin which just so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us. God said it. We are running it
with patience, endurance, perseverance. And as we run, He says, run looking
unto Jesus. The author and finisher of our
faith. That's how the cloud of witnesses
ran. He just gave us that cloud of witnesses and He was like,
that's how they ran, looking to Christ. He's the author of
our faith. He's the finisher of our faith.
He's the Alpha and the Omega. It's by His faithfulness that
we're made righteous, that we're accepted of God. By His faithfulness. And it's by His faithfulness
that we live, are given faith to believe Him, it's by His faithfulness
we're going to keep running looking to Him. By His faithfulness that
we'll lay aside the weight, lay aside the sin that besets us,
and run looking to Him. And it says, "...who for the
joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For
consider Him, that endured such contradiction of sinners against
Himself, lest you be wearied, faint in your minds, if not resisted
under blood, striving against sin. If you've never believed
on Christ, believe Him now. And it'd be something if that
word spoken and the Lord sent the Spirit and just made it happen,
like He did in the Valley of Dry Blooms. If you've never believed
on Him, believe Him right now. He's salvation. There is salvation
in none other. Everything else you look to is
a weight and it's the sin that besets you. Christ Jesus alone
is the salvation of His people. Believe Him. Run this race looking
to Christ alone. But God won't lose one child.
He's everlastingly loved. You know this from Him working
in you from the beginning. You wouldn't lay aside the weight.
You wouldn't lay aside the sin that beset you. Why did you?
He came and worked it in you. And so when His children, believing
children, sanctified children, are weighted down and we have
sin besetting us, our Lord's not going to let His child perish.
He's going to chase them. He's going to keep us looking
to Christ, running this race, persevering, looking to Christ,
partaking of His holiness. Verse 6. He told us not to forget
this. And he said, verse 6, For whom
the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom
he receiveth. Every son whom he receiveth.
If you endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.
For what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? Verse 10. For
they verily for a few days chasten us after their own pleasure,
but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness."
How do we know God is our Father? How do you know? Well, He can chasten and scourge
everyone that's His child. He does it because He loves His
children. Not one is going to be without
it. And not only that, but by His grace He's going to make
us endure chastening. Everybody suffers. He's going
to make us endure chastening and profit by it. It's going
to be profitable. It's going to be profitable.
It's going to teach us some more about ourselves and some more
about Christ. It's going to be profitable. He's going to effectively keep
us partaking of His holiness. We don't have any. It's His. It's His. If you have any, it's
of Him. Really, it's this. He keeps you
in Christ, separated in Christ, sanctified unto Christ. From
self, from sin, from the world, from everything that we are by
nature. He's keeping us separated into Him. You're not doing something
to be holy. He's your holiness. He's going
to keep you in holiness. Keep you separated under Him.
Keep you partaking of His holiness. His holiness. He's not going
to let His child turn out of the way and fail of the grace
of God. If it was up to us, we would.
He's not going to let that bitter root spring up and defile us
so that we leave Christ, leave His gospel, leave His people
and sell it all for the world, like Esau. He's not going to
let his children do it. Now he will show us, if he allowed
us we would, but he won't. He won't. This is how you know
you're His. You know the chastening has been
from your Heavenly Father when you're enabled to lift up your
hands that hang down and your feeble knees. and make straight
paths for your feet straight to Christ, straight to Him. He is going to make our old man
die day by day while He is going to strengthen our inner man.
And by this, He is going to make you lay aside the weight and
the sin that beset you. And He is going to make you run
straight to Christ, run straight to Christ. And this is how He
is going to keep us following peace with all. and holiness,
without which no man will see the Lord of glory." What is that? What is that? Well, by God lifting
your hands, He's going to make you compassionate to lift your
brother's hands. By Him strengthening your feeble
knees, He's going to make you peaceful and merciful to strengthen
your brother's feeble knees. He's going to help one another
make a straight path to Christ. Paul said we comfort our brethren
with the same comfort wherewith God has comforted us. The same
consolation wherewith we've been comforted. That's the comfort
we comfort our brethren with. That's Christ. We tell our brethren
when their hands are hanging down and they're chasing of the
Lord because they've been beset. He's turned them back into Christ.
We tell them about how we did that and how
the Father turned us back to Christ. to encourage them, the
Father will turn you back to Christ. He's going to keep you. Keep looking to Him. And you
encourage them to look to Him. Not only has He lifted your hands
up, but by doing it, He's made you lift your brother's hands
up, when they're in that shape. Strengthen their feeble knees.
Every word of these scriptures, every word of these scriptures,
is to point us to Christ, every one of them. If we don't see
it, we just are blind to it, but they're all to point us to
Christ. Every work of God in providence
for His people is working to that end to keep us persevering
in faith, looking to Christ. To bring us to Christ to begin
with and keep us looking to Christ. Everything that He's doing. Everything
that He's doing. And He's teaching us to remind
one another of what Christ has done for us. to keep reminding
one another what Christ has done for His people. That's what the
Hebrew writer is doing. Now just think about this. Back
up for a minute and look at what the Hebrew writer is doing. He had experienced this. He knew
what it was to be under the weight of the law. He knew what it was
to think that his law keeping and going after all
his so-called holy deeds. He thought that was really profitable
to him. And the Lord did this to him
and showed him it was all sin. And whatever other sin he was
guilty of, the Lord had to chase him and turn him to see Christ
is his need. Christ is his need. And I don't
know how long, I don't know who the Hebrew writer was. I'm not
going to speculate. But whoever it was, he's probably
been in the faith a while. And he experienced this a few
times. And so what he's doing, he beholds his Hebrew brethren
weighted down and beset by sin. Why? They're not looking to Christ
only. And so what did he do? He began
in the first chapter and he preached Christ, Christ, Christ, Christ,
Christ. Then he went to chapter 11 and
he talked about how Christ saved all our brethren in the past.
Then he declared how, now look to Christ, run this race, look
into Christ, set it aside, set aside the weight and the sin,
run the race, look into Christ. You're weary, you're faint in
your mind, consider Him. You've not shed blood striving
against sin. And don't forget the exhortation,
the Lord's going to chase His children, so yeah, you're suffering,
but now, look to Christ. And what's he doing? He's strengthening
in the hands of his weak brethren. He's strengthening their feeble
knees. He's helping to make straight
paths for them to Christ. He's trying to teach them again
the Gospel and remind them of what Christ has done for His
people. He's doing what He's telling them to do. That's what
He's doing through this whole letter. This entire epistle is
one brother lifting up the hands of his fellow brethren. exhorting
them to run straight to Christ for help, to run looking only
to Christ. That's what he's done from the
first verse to now. Run to Christ. That's what he's
saying. If you just get one thing, that's what he's saying. Christ
is the answer. Christ is the cure. Run to Christ. That's so of everything. Last
week while I was down in Willersburg, one of the preachers was unable
to come because he had to flute. and got there Saturday. And there
was quite a few people there. And people from other churches
were there in addition to the folks from there. And Brother
Walter Pendleton walked in. He pastors a church at Crow,
West Virginia. I've preached for him many times. But he came
in and he just was coming to sit in here. And they asked him
would he preach first. And he got up, he didn't have
any notes, he got up, and he preached, I think, one of the
best messages I've ever heard. He preached from Colossians 3,
verses 1 through 4, about setting our affection on Christ. And
this is the point he kept hammering over and over and over. Every
problem, the cure is Christ. Look to Christ. He's going through
some kind of trial. I don't know what it is, but
it's severe because he's preaching from the heart as somebody that
knows what he's talking about. And he kept saying, look to Christ. He's the answer. That's exactly
what this Hebrew writer is telling us. And so he comes to this point
in verse... He says, look to the Lord Jesus
to offer and finish our faith. He sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God. He says, that's why the Father's
chasing you. He says, wherefore lift up the
hands that hang down and the feeble knees and make straight
paths for your feet. Verse 18. Now here's what he
reminds us of. For you're not come to the mount
that might be touched. and that burned with fire, nor
into blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet,
and the voice of words, which voice they that heard entreated
that the words should not be spoken to them any more. For
they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much
as a beast touched the mountain, it should be stoned or thrust
through with a dart. And so terrible was the sight that Moses said,
I exceedingly fear and quake. But you come to Mount Zion, and
unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an
innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church
of the firstborn which are written in heaven, and to God the judge
of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See
that you refuse not him that speaketh. If anybody's being drawn today
for the first time, or if there's any believer who's chastened
and being drawn again, it's going to be to Mount Zion.
It's going to be to Christ. That God's going to draw you
to Christ. Now, some say the sin that so
easily besets us is unbelief. And that's certainly the sin
that besets us. No doubt about it. That was the sin besetting
these Hebrew believers. No doubt about that. That's why
he spent so much time telling them Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believes. And as Brother
Rob pointed out last weekend, there's not a worse sin than
unbelief. Not a worse sin than unbelief. It's the unpardonable
sin. If we reject Christ, there's no more sacrifice for sin. That's
what the problem is because the Hebrew writer tells us that.
Men don't believe Christ only. Now, if that was true of them,
and this is what the Hebrew writers do, shouldn't that be what we
do, whatever the problem is? See how he's just pointing them
to Christ, pointing them to Christ? We're just saying it. When a
believer is suffering, when he's in sorrow, if your child's in
sorrow, don't you try to give them something that's going to
make them be more comforted? If they're wounded, don't you
try to give them something that's going to heal their wound? That's what the gospel of Christ
is to sinners. Now imagine if from the day one,
if all I did was go through here and pick out scriptures that
just judged you and condemned you, and that's all I read to
you. From day one, that's all I read to you. Scriptures that
condemn you. You never believed on Christ.
You'd be so self-righteous, nobody would be able to stay in the
room with you. But you don't do that. I don't
even want to read Scripture without something that's so clearly pointing
you to Christ. Because He's the answer. He's
the answer. Now, God's believing people,
this is what He reminds them of, have not come to Mount Sinai. That's what he's telling them.
Here they are in this unbelief. Here they are sinning against
God. And this is what he starts with.
You've not come to the law. That fire and that blackness
and that darkness and that tempest represents the wrath of God toward
any sinner that attempts to come to God by the mountain of the
law. The tempest of God's wrath is
against those who are under the law. We're all guilty sinners. We can't obtain life by the law.
We can't justify ourselves by the law. We can't put away sin
by the law. The only thing we can do by the law is die. That's it. Die. Remember when
the children of Israel beheld Sinai and they saw it on fire
and they heard the voice of the Lord shaking and it was on fire
and they drew back and they cried out for a mediator. They wanted
Moses to go between them and God. Christ is that mediator. What
the law cannot do, and that it was weak through the flesh, weak
because of us. God sent His own Son, and in
the likeness of sinful flesh, enforced sin, condemned sin in
the flesh. He condemned it, put it away. That the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us, not by us, in us, by Christ. for those who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit. The Hebrew writer said back in
Hebrews 7.19, the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in
of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God. Now, our Father's chastening
is not joyful. It's very painful, very grievous. He just said that. It makes our
hands hang down. It makes our knees weak. It makes us feel like We're not
His. And when that fiery law shows
us our sin, sadly at first, remember what you did at the very first
when you saw your sin? Did you not try to do something
about it? Did you not try to go to the law? That's what we
do again and again. That's what we do again and again. We have this terrible thought
that we're going to have to stabilize the ark and keep it from falling
over. You know what that was? That was the same as saying,
I'm going to have to help Christ from falling. I'm going to have
to help Him from failing. He don't need our help. He don't need our help. These Hebrews were doing that.
They were looking to themselves. They were looking to clean up
the outside and to do something themselves to make things right.
And so the Hebrew writer, he's experienced this chastening love
of God that he works towards his people. He's experienced
this scourging. Painful. And so he reminds them
right away. He starts with this. You've not
come to the law. That's what he starts with. It
was the first word out of Nathan's mouth to David. God's forgiven
you your sin. You'll not die. He reminds them, we didn't come
to that fiery mountain. We came to Mount Zion. We came
to God, the Judge of all. We've come to Christ, the Mediator.
And He's saying, now make straight paths to Christ. Now, when God draws us, He's
drawing us, those He saves, He's drawing to Mount Zion. Those
that He's calling for the first time, He's drawing them to Mount
Zion. He's drawing them to Christ is what He's doing. And every
believer he's chastening after that, he's drawing us to Mount
Zion. He's drawing us to Christ. Verse
22, he says, but you come to Mount Zion. You come to the city
of the living God. You didn't come to Mount Sinai.
You've not come to the law. You come to Mount Zion. You come
to where Christ is seated. Verse 23, the middle, he says,
you come to God, the judge of all. Come to God, the judge of
all. Verse 24, you've come to Jesus,
the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you refuse
not him that speaketh. This was his message to them.
This is his message to them. Why is this his message to them?
He's obeying Christ. He said, comfort my people. That's what he's doing. God, the judge of all, is seated
in Mount Zion. And so is Christ, the mediator
of the new covenant. They're one. visualizing this for us. Consider
God the Father, the Judge of all. We know all judgments have
been committed to the Son, but consider God the Father, the
Judge of all, and Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant,
both seated in glory. Now Christ's blood is speaking
better things than that of Abel. His blood is speaking to God,
the Judge of all, and His blood speaks to those drawn to Him
in faith. That's what a mediator does.
A mediator is bringing two parties together. That's what he's doing. Bringing two parties together. So he speaks to God the Father
about how his blood has made them perfect. He speaks to them
about how God the Father sent him and made them perfect. He brings the two together. To both His blood speaks better
things than that of Abel. What does Christ the Mediator's
blood cry out to God the Judge? What's His blood crying out to
God who is the Judge of all? He's the Judge of all. None of
us are. We can't pass judgment before
the time. But He's the Judge of all. Abel's blood spoke guilt and
condemnation against Cain. That's what Abel's blood spoke,
because Cain killed him unjustly. That's what Abel's blood was
speaking. Vengeance, judgment, condemnation
toward Cain. What does Christ's blood speak
to the Father? Christ's blood speaks to the
righteous judge that Christ paid everything His people owe in
full. He paid all the debt His people owed in full. That's what
His blood cries out for you. He died once and His people died
in Him. Judgment is settled toward His
people. That's what His blood cries out. Christ's blood cries
declaring God's been exalted. God's justice has been magnified. His righteousness has been manifest. He declares God's glory. That's
what His blood declares. That's what He cries out to God,
to the Judge. And so Christ's blood cries to
the Judge for all His redeemed to be given life and to be given
faith. That's the only reason we were
called in the first place. Because that's what His blood
cried out to the Judge. And for you that have been called,
have you sinned since you've been called? Yes. His blood still cries the same
thing. His blood cries to the Father
to keep us. His blood cries to the Father
to chasten us, correct us, because justice won't let us perish.
His blood cries to the Father to keep us partaking of His holiness,
looking nowhere but to Him, walking after Him, following Him, looking
to Him, trusting Him. His blood cries for us to be
forgiven all our sin. And so we shall. Now Christ's
blood doesn't call for vengeance against His people. His blood
doesn't call like Abel's did toward Cain. Christ's blood cries
to the Father for mercy, for propitiation, for pardon, for
forgiveness toward all His people. That's what His blood cries to
the Judge. Now, the Hebrew writer experienced
this power of God. He experienced this end purpose
of God's scourging. He knew this. He experienced
this. He knew this is what God's doing when He first draws and
every chastening moment thereafter. He knew this is what the Father,
He'd experienced it. And so, He knows to exhort and
comfort and encourage brethren to run to Christ. to run to Christ. Make straight paths for your
feet. Because you have not come to that burning, fiery mountain
of Elohim. You have come to Mount Sinai. You have come to the City
of the Living God. You have come to the Judge of
all. You have come to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant.
See that you refuse not Him that speaketh. Well, what does His
blood speak to His people? His blood speaks to the judge.
What does His blood speak to His people, in the heart of His
people? Same thing it speaks to the judge. Same thing it speaks
to the judge. God our Father speaks to us through
the mediator, and shall not the judge of all the earth do right?
Absolutely. What does He speak to those He
has made to cry out for mercy? What does He speak to those He
has drawn to Christ? What does He speak to you? He
declares in our hearts how Christ took our place as the sin bearer.
How he bore that bitter cup, drank it dry, bore all the justice
of God on our behalf. This is the message that's saved. He never stops making you hear
it. When you see your sin, and you're
falling, and you get encumbered with the weights of trying to
save yourself from your sin, and go back to the law and make
yourself righteous, and you start condemning others, and you won't
let it stop. You're just going to condemn
them, and condemn them, and condemn them, and condemn them, and condemn
them. This is where He's going to bring
us. This is where He's going to bring us. Every time. And it won't be one time. It's
going to be over and over and over. And He's going to declare to
us again, Jesus Christ is our righteousness. He's our acceptance
with God. He's our eternal redemption.
And He's going to make us hear the Father through the mediator
say to us, your sins and your iniquities your sins
of sinning against me and your iniquities of trying to be righteous
before me that are not righteousness, I remember no more." Do you remember your brother's
sins? Do you remember them? Is that
all you can think about? God doesn't remember yours. God doesn't remember them. I
want to forget my brother's sins. I want to forget them. There's
only one way. Look to Christ. It's the only
way. Look to Christ. And as believers,
when we're weighted, when we're beset, He is going to turn you
to His throne of grace and that is where you are going to find
righteousness. That is where you are going to find peace because
that is our peace. It is Him being our righteousness.
That is where you are going to be separated from this fleshly,
all this we have been talking about that set us aside is just
nothing but you. Nothing but me. The old man in us is all us.
It is all us. All the sin and nastiness of
it is us. The new man created of God, it's us too. But we don't get glory for the
new man. That's all up to the Lord. We can take all the credit
for the old man, for the sin, but we can't take any for the
new. You look to that cloud of witnesses
now. They were all saved one way. That's what He's telling
us. They were all saved one way. Faith in Christ. Abel didn't have this lost Sinai.
How was he saved? He came through the blood of
a lamb. Enoch had the testimony that
he pleased God. He didn't have the lost Sinai.
How did he please God? Without faith it's impossible
to please God. He believed God. Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac,
Jacob, One way they were saved. These all died in faith. In faith. If I could take their
lives from the Scripture and just take out anything God worked
in them and show you all the sinful things they did, and you'd
say, well, that's not a believer. If you go to the New Testament,
God doesn't record any of those. just records the things that
he is pleased with, that he worked because they're righteous in
Christ. I wish we could just see that's how God sees it. I wish we knew that. I wish we
knew that about each other. Now, he tells us, once he's shown
you this, then he says to you what he said to that woman caught
in adultery. Sent all her accusers away. And
he said, now go and sin no more. He teaches us to have grace that
we might serve God. faithfully, reverently, acceptably.
Verse 26, He reminded us how His voice shook Mount Sinai,
and He said, Whose voice then shook the earth, but now He's
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven. And this word, yet once more,
signifies the removing of those things that are shaken as of
things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain. And we look in God's Word and
we see how His voice shook Sinai. He shook the earth. Shook it. We see how when Christ cried
out, ìItís finished!î He shook the earth with His voice. The
veil ran in two, top to bottom. And if you beheld Godís law a
little bit, speaking to your heart, it shook you. It made
you see nothing good in you. Nothing you ever did, nothing
you ever said, nothing you ever thought. Nothing good in your
flesh. And it shook you. Well, in the
end, when this world is judged, it won't be the earth only. It
will be the heavens and the earth that will shake. He has promised
that. He will shake it. No man is going
to be able to stand outside of Christ. Nobody that hasn't been
created entirely anew, all of Christ's hand, all of Christ's
work alone will be able to stand. It won't be anything we contributed.
It's not anything made. It's what He created. That's
the only thing that's going to stand. But all things established in
Christ's righteousness shall not be shaken. They can't be.
They can't be. That's His people. That's that
new man in His people. It can't be shaken. Right now. It can't be lost. It can't be
separated from Christ right now. And in the end, He's going to
create a new body. It can't be separated from God. It's all
of Him. It's all of Him. His people,
His kingdom, by His grace. To you that believe, He's given
a kingdom which cannot be moved. He's given you a kingdom that
can't be moved. He's made a new man, a new creation
that can't be separated from Him. Verse 28, he says, he reminds
you this again, this is all part of this chastening comfort he
gives his people to strengthen your feeble knees and lift up
your hands that hang down. He says, verse 28, wherefore
we receive in a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have
grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire. I want to leave the judging to
God, because that scares me, to take that to myself. I want
to leave working in His people to God. That scares me. I don't want to do that. I want
to preach His gospel and preach Christ uncrucified. I want Him
to get all the glory, and I want to follow Him. I want to reverence
Him with godly fear. I do, and I want more of it. Now, where do we get that? Where
are we going to get this grace? Where are we going to get this
grace? So I'm going to tell you to go
back to the law. You don't go back to Mount Sinai. That's not
where you're going to get the grace. You go to Christ our mediator
in heavenly Mount Zion. That's where you're going to
find the grace. Is anybody here that's been shown their sin for
the first time? You hear the law declare you
guilty? You're not going to find salvation
in that law that's declaring you guilty. Run to Christ at
Mount Zion. Believe Him. Anybody here that
believes God, that's suffering under His chastening hand? You're
not going to find relief going back to the law. You're not.
Go to Christ. Go to Christ. I'm not talking
about... I'm telling you something I know. You've got to go to Christ. Does
any believer need grace to serve God? You're not going to get
it going back to the law. Go to Christ. Go to Christ. Verse 4, let's go to Hebrews
chapter 4. Here it is. Listen, he's done
said this already. Verse 4, 15. We've not a high
priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin.
He says later, he cried to God. He went to the Father. That's
where he went to. Cast his care on Him to save
him. What does he tell you and me to do? Let us therefore come
boldly. Welcome to His throne of grace
that we may obtain mercy. You're going to need that because
there's going to be sin mixed with whatever you do. And grace
to help in every time of need. The New Covenant is written in
His blood. It's ordered and ensured it won't change. So He's called
you now and He's given you welcome access to His throne. Go to Hebrews
10 now. Verse 19, "...having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus
by a new and living way which He hath consecrated for us through
the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having a high priest
over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in
full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Connect
that with what our text says. Run the race looking to Christ
because you've not come to Him. that fiery mountain, you've come
to Mount Zion. Come to the Judge of all. You've
come to Christ to mediate. His blood speaks better things
than that of evil. Don't refuse Him that speaketh.
Is He speaking to you right now? Is He speaking to you? Go to Him. Go to Him. What are these things that He
calls us to do? Well, He gives us one chapter. One chapter. Let brotherly love
continue. And He goes through what I read
to you at the beginning. If He gives us grace, that's
what we'll do. These things He's commanded. But you failed. Missed it. Missed it. Missed everything just said.
That's what we think. Well, what about that brother?
Missed everything he just said, if that's what we say in our
heart. It ain't about your brother. It's about you. Do you really believe that? Do
you really believe you are the only one in this room that needs
Christ because you're a vile sinner? Yeah. We do. Why do we want to act like that's
not the case? Why would we charge our brethren
with not loving when their heart's breaking because of their love
in their heart? There's a mean wretch in us.
It's a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He's got to be put down. You
agreeing with me or at me? Agreeing with me or at me? Which one? That's what I don't want to do.
I don't want to agree at you. I don't want to judge you. Because
God's a consuming fire. Amen.