I'm delighted to be here, just
delighted. It's been a few years and it's
just a joy to see you again. Your building is beautiful. This
is the first time we've seen it in person. We've seen pictures
of it. You've done such a wonderful
job on it. I know how difficult the hard work that went into
doing this. I've done it myself. And it just
looks great. Just looks great. You're to be
commended for that. And I thank you for everything
you've done thus far to bring this conference about, all the
hard work. We came by Thursday, I believe
it was, just to see the building. And Jeff and Joyce were out there
working, just sweating. And others, their son. And it's
hard work. I know what goes into it. And
I thank you all for it and commend you for it. So thankful for your
pastor. I was trying to remember when
we first met. So it was 25 years ago. You were living in Tennessee,
weren't you, and Melinda. And by the way, I like, I have
fondness for pastor's wives who are named Melinda. There are
three of them. Brother Drew Deets' wife, Melinda,
my own, and Brother Clay. Dear lady, you all are so blessed. to have this man as your pastor.
He's a good preacher, isn't he? In fact, we have a lady in our
church that listens to him a lot, and she tells me about it. She
just goes on and on. And then she'll say, oh, but
I like your preaching, too. It doesn't bother me a bit. I
listen to you too, but the Lord's blessed you. What a gift, a faithful
pastor, a true man, a true man, and he tells the truth, doesn't
he? My, my. Turn with me to Matthew chapter
9, Gospel of Matthew chapter 9. I want to look at one verse,
Matthew 9. You know, one way that we know,
one of many ways we know this is God's Word is the eloquence of it. And hopefully
that's the last big word I'll use. Eloquence is not what you
think. It's not lofty language or saying
things or persuasible words of man's wisdom, but it's the ability
to take difficult, profound things and make them simple, make them
understood. And God's Word can say so much.
in just a few words, just a line, just a phrase. Our Lord Jesus
Christ who is wisdom, et cetera, personified, spoken mostly in
one and two syllable words. Now that's eloquence, isn't it?
To take the mysteries of God, the things of God, and make them.
And the common people heard him gladly. Common people. One verse here, and this one
verse is mostly one and two syllable word, but in this one verse is
all the salvation of God, who saves, who he saves, how he saves. It's a story of salvation, it's
a story of one man's salvation, it's a story of my salvation,
it's a story of everyone's salvation, how God saves sinners. Look at
verse 9 with me, verse 9. And as Jesus passed forth from
thence, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom. And he saith unto him, follow
me. And he arose and followed him. Very simple. This was my calling. Do you see your calling? Very
simple. The gospel is simple. It's not, salvation is not simple. It's the work of God. It's impossible with man. The
amazing work of God. John Newton once preached a message
entitled, The Character and Genius of the Gospel. There are no geniuses
among man. No, no, no. The genius is God
alone. Character and genius of the gospel.
It's not simple. It's not simple. It took the impossible work of man for God
to perform. But simply put, very simply put,
salvation is to be in Christ. Salvation is of the Lord. Very
simply. Salvation is in Christ. But I
want to make this simple. Brother John and I had the privilege
of sitting in a preacher school that my pastor taught for two
or three years back in, was it 80, 81, 82? And you remember this, he said,
write this at the top of your sermon notes. K-I-S-S. Keep it simple, stupid. Keep it simple, stupid. He said,
pick out a 12-year-old boy out in the congregation and preach
to him. Preach to him. That way everybody
will understand. Two word, a two word sermon I
entitled it. All right, look at verse nine.
And as Jesus passed forth from then. Jesus passed. Who? Who
passed through? Who is this walking on planet
earth? Jesus. Paul said, we see Jesus. Yes,
made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
But he's not just Jesus, is he? When you finally learn who he
is, you'll know he's the Lord Jesus. Call his name Wonderful,
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. Yes, a virgin
shall conceive and bear a son. Call his name Emmanuel, God with
us. Who is this Jesus? Who is this
Jesus of Nazareth? This is God manifest in the flesh.
Why did he come? He came to seek and to save the
lost. He came to save his people. That's
who this is, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the covenant head. This
is the second Adam from above. This is the sinner's substitute.
This is the sin offering. This is the sin bearer. This
is life itself. John said, we beheld him. Life,
God, came here to save his people, seeking to save the law. This
is the Lord Jesus Christ. He passed through. He passed
through. We used to sing a song, Reach
Out and Touch the Lord. You remember that? Reach out
and touch the Lord as he passes by. You'll find he's not too
busy to hear your hearts cry. Well, one day he was passing
by, and there was a man who was blind from birth, and he had
a great need, and that one need was that he might see. And he
heard the healer of blind men was passing by, the only one.
He'd heard someone else had been healed by him. And he cried out
from the top of his lung, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy
on me. What happened? The Lord of glory
stopped and called him and saved him and healed him. That's why
he came and that's who he came for. Whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord. Jesus, when you find out who
he is, you'll quit calling him that and you'll call him the
Lord Jesus. That's the difference. The fear
of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. This generation doesn't
fear Jesus. Everybody talks about Jesus.
I saw a sign in Ewing on a Presbyterian place of all places. It says
LGBTQXYZ. Jesus loves you. That's blasphemy. Now the Lord
Jesus, when you find out who he is, the fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom. When you find out who he is,
you'll call him Lord. Jesus passed by, and he passed
by, and this is the point. Today is the day of salvation,
wherever the gospel is preached. Right now, this day, last night,
this day. Today is the day of salvation.
When the gospel is preached and wherever two or three are gathered
in his name, the Lord Jesus Christ is in their midst. So he's here. But he passes. Look at the next
two words. He passed forth from thence. From thence. Now our Lord Jesus
Christ went into every Oh, how merciful and gracious and kind
he was. He said over in Mark's gospel,
he said, let's go into the next town or village that I may preach,
for therefore am I sent. He was sent to preach the gospel.
And Brother John, he went into every village and town and city,
not just the big city, but every little village, every little
village. The gospel has come to Rocky Mount, Virginia. How
many in here know where Rocky Mount, Virginia is? Well, not
many. Have you ever been to Dingus,
West Virginia? And how many people know where
Dingus is? It's getting fewer and fewer. There's a gospel church
there, isn't there? The Lord came down. Oh, not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many nobler
call. You see your calling, brethren? The gospel has come to you in
New Jersey. Rocky Mount, Virginia, Danville,
Kentucky, Spring Lake, North Carolina, the Lord has come,
but he passes through. All those churches in
the Revelation, Ephesus and Laodicea, they're gone. You know church
history, Brother Don. A church doesn't last much more
than 60 or 70 years at the most. It passes from then. The Lord
was in Capernaum. That's where it was called his
city because he spent a great deal of time there. About three
years the Lord spent there, always. How blessed was Capernaum? And
how blessed is this place? The gospel's been here for about
12 years, hasn't it? How blessed is this place? That
after he left, when he passed from thence, he pronounced, woe
on that place, didn't it? Woe unto thee, Capernaum, if
the works had been done and you had been done and Sodom and Gomorrah
had repented long ago. Can't that be said of everywhere
the gospel is preached? Why aren't there people, why
is this building just big enough? Why isn't it exploding at the
scene? Because not many are called. Well, many are called but few
are chosen. How blessed you are. Don't take it for granted because
the gospel passes. Our Lord comes and he goes then. He gathers his sheep and he goes
from then. Look at the next two words. Jesus
passed forth from thence and he saw a man. He saw somebody. That's why he came. He's looking
for somebody. I've recently started putting
in our bulletin messages, our people, I want
them to hear and I have the what do you call it, a hyperlink where
you can just click on it and go there, sermon audio. And here's
a message you need to hear by my pastor. It's called On the
Trail of His Sheep. On the Trail of His Sheep. My
pastor preached the message On the Trail of His Sheep. Our Lord
Jesus Christ is a great shepherd. He's looking for his sheep. He
came into this world to find his lost sheep. And scripture
says he finds every one of them. And he never loses one of them.
He finds every one of them. He puts them on his shoulder
and he takes them all the way home. And he says, rejoice with me
because I have found my sheep. I found them. He's on the trail
of his sheep. All right? The Lord Jesus Christ
set his eye, set his love, set his heart, set his affection
on this man. This meeting was ordained, was
arranged by our Lord long before it happened. He saw Matthew. Matthew hadn't seen him yet.
But the Lord saw him. He saw. Who saw who? The Lord
Jesus Christ saw him. He set his eye on him. He looked
upon him. This man. The scripture says his eyes behold
his eyelids try all the sons of men. He sees everything. David
one time, and we think the same thing often, we think, Lord.
One time he said, Lord, it's time for you to work. He was
so upset over what all was going on around him, what all was being
heard. Lord, don't you hear this? Yes, he that made the ear, he
hear. Lord, don't you see this? Why don't you do something? Look
at this. He sees. His eyes behold, his eyelids
try. Imagine our Lord Jesus Christ, how that all this noisome pestilence. He can read men's thoughts. He
knew what everyone was thinking. Like Lot, we're vexed with the
conversation of the wicked all around us, aren't we? Imagine
the Lord Jesus Christ, how that affected him. But he wasn't listening. That one time he stooped down
to that woman caught in the act of adultery. And they were talking
to him, weren't they? They were demanding of him. He
wasn't even listening to them. Why? He had his eye set on this
woman. He had his heart set on this
woman. He came for this woman. And he's just tolerating everybody
else. He came for her. Don't you see this, Lord? Yes,
he sees. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the sons of men.
Man can't see God, but God sees man. That's what one of the writers
once said. He that made the eye, does he
not see? Oh yes. No man doesn't know it. Matthew didn't see him. You could
say, he didn't see this coming. He didn't see it coming. If he
had seen him, now our Lord was, scripture says, his fame was
everywhere. Great multitude. And they just, had just followed
him. And this thing, like Paul said,
wasn't done in a corner. Everybody had heard of him. Everybody
had heard of Jesus of Nazareth. Okay? Matthew probably heard
of him, but he wasn't interested. Maybe Matthew saw him. Maybe
he saw him. But if he saw him, there was
no beauty in him that he should desire. Nothing about him that
appealed. He didn't need this Jesus of
Nazareth. And that was me. Was it you? For the longest time. I heard
message after message after message. Read some scripture. I didn't
see any need in the Lord Jesus Christ. I didn't see any beauty
in the Lord Jesus Christ. But thank God he had his eye
on me. He had his eye on me. Matthew
didn't see him, but the Lord saw him. The Lord set his eye
upon him. When did the Lord first see Matthew?
When did the Lord first behold Matthew? David said in Psalm
139, before I was born, thine eyes did behold my sentence. You knew me. For whom he did
foreknow. That's for love, elect. He did predestinate. Whom he
did predestinate, he called. Whom he called, he justified.
Whom he justified, he glorified. All sounds like past tense. Sounds
like it was done before it happened. It was. You believe in eternal
justification, preacher? Absolutely. Absolutely. When God said it before the world
began, it's done. Nothing can stop it. Oh, we have
to believe, yes. We have to repent. We have to
be given faith. But when God said it, He said,
I've spoken it, I bring it to pass. I purposed it, it shall
stand. This man's salvation is certain
because the Lord Jesus Christ set His love, set His eye on
him in a purpose of redemption before the world began. The Lord
Jesus Christ chose Matthew and He's coming for him. And neither
hell or high water is going to stop Him. Is that good news to
you? That's the only hope we have
for our lost loved ones, isn't it? We can't get through to them. With man, it's impossible. You
speak to people, you talk to them until you're blue in the
face, and they won't hear you. But if the Lord has set his eye
on them, and he's coming for them, he's going to speak to
them, and they're going to come. Isn't that good news? He saw. He saw. Look at the next two
words. He saw a man. he saw a man. What did he see? You know what
the scripture says about man? Man thinks he's something when
he's nothing. Scripture says, what is man that
thou art mindful of him, the son of man that you would visit
him? What is man that God would be mindful of him? What are we
that the creator would come down here and become a man? Scripture
says that the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as grasshoppers. You all care anything about grasshoppers?
Huh? Do you pay any attention to them?
Do they deserve a chance? Worms. That's what the Scriptures
calls man, doesn't it? Worms. See, this is what makes
salvation so amazing. That the Creator would become
a worm. Isn't that what He said in Psalm 22? I become a worm. I'm not sure people fully understand
this. Maybe you don't, but here's my
advice to you. Buy you some worms. They sell
worms over the internet. I did it one time. I had a garden.
I was real heavy in the garden, and I heard that worms were good
for your garden, you know, because all the excrement that they produce. And I bought 2,000 worms. You
think I'm crazy, don't you? I did. I paid money for worms. Isn't this a good illustration?
I paid money for worms, all right? I bought those worms and they
were mailed to me in a sack. And I opened up that sack and
it was the most despicable thing I'd ever seen. 2,000 worms writhing,
wriggling, massive worms, corruption. Worms are dirt. That's what they're
made of. That's what they go back to.
That's all they produce. All worms are good for is done. They don't like live things.
They eat dead things. They love darkness. Well, I bought
those worms for myself. And I looked on them. There's
nothing beautiful, nothing. But I bought them, okay. I made
a house for them, a worm house. And put them in that house. Do
you know what? That night, I woke up and went
down and checked on them. I'm serious. What condescension? Well, why would I think on worms,
brethren? This doesn't even compare. This
doesn't even compare with the difference between us and God. One more story on that worm. When I was getting them all out
of that sack and putting them in their little house, one worm,
one worm was stuck in that sack. Well, what's one worm? Throw
it away. No, I paid for that one. And
I reached way down in that sack and got that one worm. I said,
you're mine. I'm not gonna lose you. Put him
in the house. He came for worm. Now, we're
nothing. I don't care what your mother say. You're nothing. You're
just like a billion others, just like you. When he came, our Lord
saw a man. What? A worm, a worthless, no
good rebel, a sinner. This man is not interested in
the Son of God. He's not calling on the Son of
God. He's not seeking the Son of God. His salvation was the
Son of God was seeking Him, looking for Him. This gives Him all the
glory, you see. And everybody in glory is giving
Him that glory for calling Him, for seeking them, for loving
them, for shedding His blood for them. Right? This is good news for worms.
He saw a man. Look at the next two words. Named
Matthew. It's a sermon with two words.
Name Matthew, all right? Matthew means the gift of God.
That's what it means. 30 or 35 years before this, a
husband and wife decided to have a child, to have a family. And
a boy was born to them. And they were thankful, perhaps,
and what shall we name him? Well, they said, he's a gift
to us from God. We'll name him Matthew. But I'm
here to tell you, long before God gave that son to these two
parents, he gave this boy to Jesus Christ in a covenant before
the world began. The sheep that God gave Christ.
And he is the gift of God. given to the Son of God to come
and save. And here's his time. He came
to save this one that was given to him by the Father. Look at
the next two words. Sitting at the receipt of custom.
Now, he was sitting there. He's a tax collector. He's a
publican. Matthew the publican. And he never quit calling himself
that. When he talked about the Lord calling his disciples, he
said Peter and James and John, and he said Matthew, the publican,
the publican. He never lost sight of that,
what he was. But he was sitting at this seat of customs, that
is, taking up taxes from the people. And you know something
about publicans. Oh, they were crooked tax collectors. They would extort people. They
would skim off the top. They'd extort more out of people
than was required by law, and they'd put it in their pocket.
Everybody hated them. Everybody hated them. This may
be a little play on words, though, but he's sitting in his customary
seat. That's what he's doing. He's
sitting where he always sat, day in and day out, his customary
seat. He sat there day in and day out,
counting his money. Money was his life. Scripture
says that. It said, have you ever considered
the weight, the depth of this statement that the love of money
is the root of all evil? Have you ever considered that?
All evil, no matter what it is, money's behind it. Money answereth all things. Scripture
said. Our Lord one time said, what
will a man give in exchange for his soul? I'll tell you what
man will give in exchange for his soul. Anything. Anything. Ticket to the Super Bowl. Ticket
to the Daytona 500. eight point buck, a six pound
bass, a six pack of beer, right? Anything, doesn't matter. That's
Matthew. He's sitting here where he always
sat and he'll sit here to the day he dies counting his money.
And if God doesn't do something for him, his head will fall over
in his money and he'll go straight to hell. And I can't preach the
gospel without saying these two words, but God And you, counting your money
or whatever it was you were doing, sitting in your customary seat,
sitting where you always sat with no thoughts of God, but
God, is that you? For his great love of what the
love does. Even when we were, what? Dead. Matthew's dead in sin. Matthew
is totally, completely consumed with counting his money. Oh,
bless God, the Lord Jesus Christ came for him. He's sitting there
in his customary seat, verse 9. Look at the next two words. Look at it. He saith, the Lord spoke. You know how you and I are going
to be saved? If the Lord speaks to us. These men say it time
and again and it's true. That if our voice is the only
voice you hear, nothing will come of it. You must hear the
voice of the Son of God. That's how we say it. He saith,
the Lord Jesus Christ saith, spoke to him. Now our Lord does
not speak out loud. Our Lord does speak though. He
speaks through his word, and it pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them to believe. This is the means. There's
not one single example in the New Testament of somebody saved
apart from the preaching of the gospel. Is that right? This is
what God said. How shall they hear without a
preacher? And people that deny that haven't heard. They're arguing
with God. If anybody in this community
hears from the Lord Jesus Christ, they're going to hear it from
that man who's preaching the gospel. Right? Is that too narrow? It's just true. It's just true. The Lord speaks. But he's the
one who has to speak. This is just a man preaching
day in and day out. But some of you have heard the
Lord speaking. He said, look at the next two words, unto him.
He said it unto Matthew. Unto him. He spoke to Matthew.
How many publicans were there, Scott, at that time? Were there
more than one? Probably. Probably several tables
with men sitting there counting their money day in and day out.
But the Lord came to this man, didn't he? He came to this man. He spoke to this man. He said
it unto him. The Lord spoke to him. I'm a preacher's kid. I'm like, we'll
take heart, buddy, if you won't die from this. I've heard more messages, oh,
I'm like that kid sitting in the service, you know, the services
and plaques all over the wall of people killed in wars and
all that. And he asked his mom, he said,
what are those plaques? He said, that's names of the
boys that died in the service. He said, which one, morning or
evening? That's me, that was me. They
used to take me on vacations to places like Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
No offense, but you've been there, haven't you? That's a desert
wasteland. That's not where I wanted to
spend my summer vacation. The Lord, Paul thanked God that
the grandmother and mother of Timothy took him to hear the
word and read to him the word that he heard the word from a
child who was able to make him wise unto salvation. The best
thing you can do for your children is to have them under the sound
of the word. They're not going to be saved otherwise. But the
Lord's got to speak to them. And I heard message after message
after message, message after message. I would sit there like
these young people, and that was my dad. Henry Mahan was my
dad. And that's all he was, my dad.
I'd hear my dad preach another sermon. I'd hear my dad preach
another message. Then one day, it wasn't my dad. It was the Lord speaking to me. And I never really thought of
him as my dad from that day forward. That's my pastor. That's the
gift from God. That's who I heard the word from.
The Lord said to Matthew, oh and I hope and pray this morning
he'll speak to you. Speak to your husband or your
wife or your son or your daughter. They're not going to be saved
otherwise. Has the Lord spoken to you? Bless God, he spoke to me. And
he still speaks to me. You know, whoever he spoke to
the first time and called the first time, he keeps speaking. Every one of God's people, they're
the prodigal when they're saved, and they play the prodigal later.
And they're so glad, like Simon Peter, when they hear these words.
Go tell my disciples, and Scott, and Russell. And he calls us
back. He speaks to us. He's not done
with me. He's still speaking to me. He
said, look at the next two words. Here's what he said, two simple
words. Follow me. Follow me. Follow me. This is what he said to every
disciple, didn't he? He said the same thing to every disciple.
Follow me. Look to me. Listen to me. Follow
me. Believe me. Trust me. Walk with
me. Follow me. Not the world. Follow me. Follow me. Not religion. Follow me. Not your dream. There
is a way that seemed right to man. The end is destruction.
Don't go that way. You'll perish. Follow me. My
way. I am the way. Leads to everlasting
life. I am life. Follow me, Christ
said. Follow me. Look unto me, and
be ye saved. Oh, the ends of the earth. He's
God, isn't he? Now, salvation is not an invitation. I despise that. Don't you, Brother
John? I despise it. It's not an offer. It's not an
offer. I despise it. There have been
some good men down through the years that say that. Well, they're
just dead wrong, because it's not there. It's not in the Bible.
The word bid, when it says, go out and bid them, that doesn't
mean invite them. It means make the pronouncement.
This is going to happen. God commandeth the old man everywhere
to repent, doesn't he? Kings don't give requests. Kings
give commands, don't they? Don't you love this song? I think
it's Psalm 71. Thou hast given commandment to
save me. I'm glad the Lord gave the command
that day. Come, salvation's my command. You quoted it. Where the word
of a king is, there's power. Power. coming to me all ye... That day the Lord stood up and
said they're coming to me all ye that labor and heavy laden.
He's not inviting sinners, but he has some out there that he
chose. They're going to come. They'll come. I had a dog years ago, had him
for 15 years and had to put him down a few years ago, but when
I first purchased him as a puppy, the first thing, one of the first
things I taught him along with sit and lie down and was come. come. If he doesn't come to me,
he's going to run off. He's going to get in danger.
He's going to kill himself in it. He's going to destroy himself.
Come. I taught him to come. And I'm a pretty good dog trainer
because he would come. He'd come to me. My wife, well,
I don't know. She had a little shih tzu and
he never would come. But we loved him anyway. But
my dog would come. I'd say come and he'd come to
me. He come. Salvation is my command. Our
Lord said, you will not come unto me that you might have life
then. But bless God when your day comes, like Matthew. And
he calls you by his sovereign power, by his grace, you will
come. I ain't gonna believe that. Yes,
you will. Yes, you will, and you'll love
it, and you'll be glad. Salvation is by command and not
by invitation, or you wouldn't come. One time that dog of mine,
you know, can an old believer, and here's the thing, is our
Lord keeps calling his people. They run off. Prone to wander,
Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.
Oh, call me back. Peter said, to whom coming? Because
he keeps calling. Can an old believer act like
a worldling? Can an old believer go out in
the world and get caught up in the world and think they're lost
and think they're not a child of God? Can a dog act like a
dog? One time that dog of mine, I
loved him and he taught him to heal and come and he would and
he was obedient and all that. Mindy came in from outside and
taken little Charlie out and she said, there's a pack of dogs
out there. She was afraid for Charlie's safety. She said, you
got to do something about them. They don't have collars on. They
look mean. I went out there. They weren't
there. Next day she came in and said, they're back. Those dogs
are back. Okay. Now I was prepared to do
what I had to do. Right? I did what I did. And
I went out there, and I looked in that pack of dogs across the
street, and lo and behold, my dog was in there with them. My dog. My obedient dog. The one I loved,
the one I trained, the one I taught, the one that came to me, the
one that lied down. That's my dog. He's acting like a dog.
He's an old dog then. What's wrong with him? He's a
dog. And he's out there in the middle of those dogs. And I'm
ready to shoot them all. You know what I did? I said one
word. Come. One dog. He didn't have a tail. If he'd
have had it, he'd have been tucked between his legs. Oh, his head
was down. If he could talk, he'd say, I
don't know what I was thinking. I don't know what I was doing. Oh, please
forgive me. And you know, like John said,
the best place to hide from God is in God. That's what he did.
He saddled up to me, John. He said, oh, please forgive me.
I'd forgiven him before he came. I know him, I know his frame.
But I called that one dog, because he's my dog, and he came to me. When this gospel was preached,
huh? Do you not hear the Lord calling you, sinner? You didn't
have to call his name, he would come. You come. Aren't you glad? Salvation's by command. And look
at what happened, two words. In verse nine, he arose. The gospel is pretty simple,
isn't it? He arose, and you hath he quickened who were dead in
trespass against him. Oh my, my grace be saved. Through faith, that's not easy,
that's a gift to be honest. He arose, he arose. I am resolved
no longer to linger charmed by this world of delight. Things
that are higher, things that are nobler, these have allured
my sight. I will arise and go to the Savior. He arose. One day I came to cry it by sovereign
command, by sovereign mercy. And look at the next thing. And
the Lord said, and he followed him, he followed him. He arose
because the Lord called him, because the Lord chose him. And
what did he do? Follow Christ. Where else is
he going to go? Mark's gospel said he left all.
He left his money. The disciples left their boats,
left their net, left their pie, left everything. Who can do that? Who can make a man leave his
money? Who can make a man leave his job and go to where the gospel
ends? Only the Lord does, and the Lord does that, it's obvious.
Lord did it. He left all and followed Christ. He didn't follow the masses.
He didn't follow the world. He didn't follow the people.
He didn't follow his inclination. Now he is a follower, a lover,
a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's his life now. Doesn't
need anybody. Doesn't need anything else but
Jesus Christ. Is that you? I pray that it is. Amen.