Alright, let's go back now to
Romans chapter 9. I'm going to pick up where we left
off here in the second part of this message titled Great Advantage. Let me read the text again. Verse
4, Paul speaking of his kinsmen
according to the flesh, he says they are Israelites. They are
those to whom pertaineth the adoption. and the glory, and
the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of
God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom
is concerning the flesh Christ came, whose over all God blessed
forever. Amen. Not as though the word
of God hath taken an effect, for they're not all Israel, which
are of Israel, Paul asked the question in chapter 3, what advantage
then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? What profit is there being a
Jew? He said, much every way. Much
every way. Chiefly because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God. You think about that, brethren. One nation among all the nations
of this earth And God formed that nation. He didn't just pick out a nation,
He formed that nation and gave them His oracles. And He didn't
do that for anybody else on this earth. That's a picture of the
distinguishing grace of God in choosing a people for Himself,
in making His holy nation through the blood of His Son and giving
us the Word of God. All these advantages they have,
we have them so much greater because we have the real thing. We have what those things picture. We have the express image. We
have Christ Jesus the Lord Himself and all these spiritual blessings
that these things just typify and pointed to. I'm so grateful
for the advantage that God's given us. I pray you're faithful
and you have been faithful. I've seen most of you sitting
here have been here from the very beginning and I've seen
your faithfulness in being here and when this gospel is being
preached you're here unless you're just too sick to be here or something
has really come up if you're not here. And that's faithfulness
brethren and I'm thankful for that and I hope God continues
to keep us faithful and to never take advantage of these privileges
that He's given us, because they're great, great, great privileges.
That's my prayer for us. Now let's look at the remainder
of these and let's consider the advantages God's given to us.
Now the next thing here, this fourth point I'm going to bring
out, is actually I'm going to put all these together because
they all have to do with the giving of the law. but he said
the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of
God, the ceremonies and the promises. All of this goes together. Those
covenants and those promises that God made with the children
of Israel, they were earthly promises. He promised earthly
blessings in an earthly land. They were all carnal blessings. They were all earthly blessings.
And God fulfilled every single promise. Go to Joshua 23. He left not a single promise
unfulfilled to the children of Israel. Not a single one. Joshua 23. And look at verse
14. Moses is about to die and this
is his last words to Israel. Listen to what he says. Behold
this day, Joshua 23, 14, behold this day I'm going the way of
all the earth. And you know in all your hearts
and in all your souls that not one thing hath failed of all
the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you. All are come to pass unto you
and not one thing hath failed thereof. Therefore, it shall
come to pass that as all good things are come upon you which
the Lord your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring upon
you all evil things until he have destroyed you from off this
good land which the Lord your God hath given you. when you
have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God which He
commanded you, and have gone and served other gods and bowed
yourselves to them, then shall the anger of the Lord be counted
against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land
which He hath given unto you." Everything God promised them,
He fulfilled. The good and the curse. Everything good He promised them,
He gave it to them. everything He promised, He did
not leave one thing unfulfilled to the children of Israel. Men
who want to talk about there's some yet unfulfilled promise
to the children of Israel, no there isn't. God fulfilled everything
He promised the children of Israel. And He fulfilled everything He
promised them He would do when they transgressed His covenant.
He destroyed them. He said He would, He promised
it, He did it. See, when God makes a promise,
God fulfills it. And that's the point of this.
They had a covenant of works. And everything, though they didn't
fulfill anything, God fulfilled every promise He made to them.
And that's to show us, who are under a covenant of grace, that
there's nothing that God has promised that He's left unfulfilled. And He won't. He won't. All the
promises of God in Christ are yea and in Him. Amen. Unto the glory of God by us.
Far greater than a covenant of works, God has brought us under
a covenant of everlasting grace. And just like He made every promise
sure and fulfilled every promise He made to the children of Israel,
He fulfills every promise that He's made to you and I in grace.
everyone. Nothing shall be left undone.
By taking the place of His people on the cross and by taking the
curse of His people, when our Lord Jesus Christ shed His blood
at Calvary, He wrote the New Testament in His blood. It's
a covenant written out and signed and sealed and sure in the blood
of our Redeemer. Isn't that what He said when
He handed them the cup? He said, this cup represents
the New Testament in my blood. That's a sure covenant. That's
a sure covenant, brethren. He dotted every I and He crossed
every T in His blood. He didn't leave anything undone
for you and me, His helpless people to do. He fulfilled everything. This is the great thing about
a covenant of grace. The covenant of works said, if
you will, then I will, God said. That's a covenant of works. It's
conditioned upon what you do or don't do. The covenant of
grace is this, God didn't put anything in your hand or my hand.
He took it all out of our hand and put it in the hand of His
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who came and took flesh to be the
head and representative of all God's elect people and Christ
Jesus fulfilled everything for His people. Everything. God is
so satisfied with how well I've kept my end of the covenant,
there's not a thing that can be added to it. Because Christ
kept it so perfectly. He kept it perfectly. And He
fulfilled it in His blood. He even signed it and delivered
it in His precious blood. Do you think God our Father will
let one single promise go unfulfilled? Not one. Not one. So every chosen,
blood-bought, regenerated child of God, we rejoice with David. David knew about this. David
understood this. God's never saved people in a
new way. Those believers that lived in the time of that old
covenant, they were saved by the everlasting covenant of grace
just like you and I are. David said this, although my
house be not so with God, yet he's made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things and sure. That tells you he didn't
leave anything in David's hand. David said, you look at my house
and what I've been responsible for, I can't get anything to
go right. But when it comes to God's covenant,
he didn't leave anything in David's hand. And therefore David could
say, he's made with me an everlasting covenant. It's ordered in all
things and sure, and this is all my salvation and all my desire,
although He make it not to grow. Can you say that, brethren? Are
you delighted that God didn't leave a thing in your hands?
That it's ordered and sure because He put it all in the hands of
Christ and Christ said, It is finished! He did it all, brethren. Nothing left undone. Now in their
covenant, throughout their law and throughout those ceremonies,
those services to God, God gave them pictures and types and figures
all through the old covenant law. It was all, the Decalogue,
the Ten Commandments was to shut us up in guilt and to say you're
guilty, you need Christ, and the ceremony was to say, and
here He is. Here He is. This is how you're
going to come. In the blood of my Lamb. in my high priest, in
my holiest of holies, represented by my Son. This is how you come.
He's the high priest. He's the Lamb. He's the mercy-seeked. He's the ark. He's the tabernacle. He's everything God was saying
through that law. But He said it in pictures and
types and figures. Now that was great advantage.
Nobody else in the earth had that. They had that. That was
great advantage for them to have that. You and I have something
better. Go to Hebrews chapter 8. I love
this chapter in Hebrews. This is the better, better, better
chapter right here. Hebrews chapter 8. Look here
in verse 1. Now of the things which we've
spoken, this is the psalm. We have such a high priest who
sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which
the Lord pitched and not man. For every high priest is ordained
to offer gifts and sacrifices. That's what all those high priests,
he's saying, you look back at all the high priests throughout
the law and throughout the services. They were ordained to offer gifts
and sacrifices. They had a job to do. Wherefore,
it's of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that
there are priests that offer gifts according to the law, who
serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. He's saying,
all those priests you see serving, that are still serving, that
are still going through all the same old covenant traditions
that you were brought up in, they're showing a pattern, they're
showing an example in a shadow of heavenly things. And he says,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle, whenever God gave Moses that pattern, He said,
See that thou make all things according to the pattern showed
to thee in the mount. You think about that. God brought
Moses up into the mount and He showed him a pattern. He showed
him a pattern that he was to make all these things after.
You know what he showed Moses? He showed Moses what all these
things typified. He showed Moses Christ. Moses
saw Christ. And that's why he went down and
said, now listen boys, when y'all make this, you don't put a peg
where a peg don't go. You put every peg where it goes,
you put every tassel where it's supposed to be hung, you put
every block in that foundation where it goes, because everything
in this tabernacle pictures Christ. Every bit of it. I've seen it.
I've seen him. I know. But now, he says, hath
he obtained a more excellent ministry? He's talking about
Christ ascended. He's obtained a more excellent
ministry by how much also He's the mediator of a better covenant
which was established on better promises. This is the better,
better, better chapter right here. Everything about what God's
given you and me is better than what they had. They had great
advantage, but what He's given us is better. It's better. It's a better, it's a more excellent
ministry. He's the mediator of a better
covenant. It's established upon better promises. For if that
first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no
place sought for the second. If that first covenant, if they
could have kept that covenant in perfection with no sin, they
wouldn't have needed a new covenant. We wouldn't have needed one.
But that wasn't possible. for finding fault with them.
See there, verse 8, there's where the fault was. The fault wasn't
in the covenant God made, the fault was in the sinners with
whom He made it with. He said, finding fault with them.
He said, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make
a new covenant. with the house of Israel and
with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that
I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued
not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord." Who's he talking about when he
says, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel?
The house of Israel is sitting right here. The house of Israel
is wherever his people are assembled, Jew and Gentile. His people,
his elect, that's the house of Israel. And this is the covenant
he said that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their
mind. You know this is talking about
you have the law of Sinai written in your mind when you were born. You can read Romans 2 and he
says that. He says a Gentile who was never
even under the law, they're a law unto themselves showing they
have the law written on their heart. He's talking here about
this covenant law. He's talking about the law of
faith and the law of righteousness and he's talking about the law
of love and this is what God writes on our heart, the gospel,
the law of liberty. He writes on the heart whenever
he saves his people. He says, I'll put my laws in
their mind and write them in their hearts. I will be to them
a God and they shall be to me a people. It's not, I'll be to
you a God if you'll be to me a people. No, he says, I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. And they shall
not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the
greatest. I'm going to give them an unction
from on high, and I'm going to teach them by my Holy Spirit,
and they're going to know me. Every one of them. They shall
all be taught of the Lord. They're going to know me. Look
at this. For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember
no more. Now in that he saith a new covenant,
he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth
old is ready to vanish away. That's what the Hebrew writer
could say in his day. In our day we can say it's plumb
gone now. It's gone. It's done. There's no more reason for anybody
to be dressed as a high priest or dressed as a priest and slaying
lambs and coming to an altar and people that fake it don't
even do that anymore. They don't even bring blood anymore. But it's all gone. That's gone. This new covenant. And did you
see when he was talking about this new covenant? There's nothing
in there that he said you will do. He said, you shall, but not,
he said, all the will of this covenant, he said, I will. I
will. I will fulfill this whole covenant
and I will make this covenant with my people and I will put
it in their hearts so it's spiritual, so it's real, and they shall
respond by being my people. They're going to come to me the
way I say come to me, through faith in my Son. They're going
to come trusting, resting and observing my Sabbath forever. Trusting Christ, resting in Christ
my Sabbath alone. They're not going to be doing
their pleasure anymore by going around and trying to whip people
and tell them they need to observe a day. That's man's pleasure.
God said, you're going to do My pleasure. You're going to
worship My Son, My true Sabbath, the one that that day pictured.
That's where He brings His people. Now look down here at Hebrews
9 and look at verses 1 through 5 there. He describes that earthly
tabernacle and that service that He was talking about. I don't
have time to read it all, but look at verse 6. Now when these
things were thus ordained, the priest went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But unto the
second went the high priest alone, once every year, not without
blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people.
The Holy Ghost, this signifying, the Holy Ghost was teaching something
by this, that the way into the holiest of hall was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing,
which was a figure, it was a picture, it was a type, that's all it
was. for the time then present in which were offered both gifts
and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service
perfect as pertaining to the conscience. It stood only in
meats and drinks and different kinds of washings and it was
all carnal ordinances. Every bit of it was just fleshly,
earthly, carnal. It was just a picture imposed
on them until the time of reformation. That is until Christ come and
fulfilled it all and made an end to it. Watch this, verse
11. But Christ being come, a high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.
You see that tabernacle? Even that tabernacle pictured
Christ. His church that He builds Himself. It all pictured Christ. Neither
by the blood of goats and calves. He's the high priest. He's the
tabernacle. He doesn't bring the blood of
physical goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in
once into the holy place. He didn't have to do it repeatedly.
He did it one time. Having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Eternal redemption. For if the
blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
the unclean sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, you see,
that was a great advantage. God gave them a ceremony where
they could come. I'm going to have to go back
and preach on that red heifer sometime. But you know, in that
ceremony, he's talking about there, the heifer, the sprinkling
of the unclean, the ashes. God, if you go back and read
about that, God said basically if they moved or wiggled a toe
they could be defiled. I mean He gave them so many things
that would defile them. If they drank water and they
had no idea that a little microscopic insect had fallen into that water,
which all, every water they drank had it in it. And so he said,
but if that's so, you're defiled. You gotta be washed. If they
were walking in a field and they walked over a grave that was,
somebody was buried there 200 years before and they didn't
even know there was a grave there, God said, you're unclean. I mean,
they could not turn to the left or the right. They couldn't bat
an eye hardly without becoming unclean. And that was the point
of it. No matter what you do, you're unclean. and God gave
them this ceremony where they could take a red heifer and they
could slay this red heifer and mingle her ashes with the blood
and they could come and go through this ceremony and ceremonially
God said, now you're clean. Now you're clean. Now that was
a great advantage because every bit of that was showing them
what sinners they are and pointing them to Christ. Every bit of
it. But see we don't We don't have that. We have something
far greater than that. If He gave them that, look what
He says here. He says, if they were ceremonially purified,
their flesh was, verse 14, how much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God? Here's that law He's talking
about writing on our heart, writing on our mind, writing on our conscience. He's talking about taking the
law of the gospel where you behold the blood of Christ that was
shed and put away the sin of His people. He's talking about
that law being put on our heart by the Holy Ghost bearing witness
within us. So that God says now because
of what He's done, you're clean. There's no more offering for
sin. your sins and iniquities I'll remember no more. He writes
the law of forgiveness on our heart. He writes the law of redemption
accomplished. He writes the law of reconciliation
accomplished on our heart. All the doctrine of the gospel
he writes on our heart so that you see I'm purged. I'm clean. And He turns you from
all your dead works whereby you were trying to make all these
offerings to make up for all your bad stuff and try to appease
God somehow. And He says you don't have to
do any of that anymore. I've got something that is what
I require. My son, I provided what I require. and I've cleansed you, and I've
purged you, and you don't have to offer that anymore. And when
God makes you know this gospel in your heart, He turns you from
all those dead works. Now you serve the true and living
God. Now you worship Him. Now it's
a delight. Now you have a debt of gratitude,
of thanksgiving because of what he's done for you. You know,
when you're serving somebody out of a debt of gratitude, that
makes it easy. You know, that's the easiest
thing in the world. To do something for somebody
because you want to do it because you see what amazing, great things
they've done for you. And you just, I just, I know
I don't have to do it. I just want to because of what
you've done for me. That's the easiest kind of service
there is. And that's where He brings you
and me so that it's no more that all that they were doing under
the law, that was a heavy burden. There was no delight in that
to them that didn't know God. But to you and I, He's given
us this greater advantage now to where we actually we can come
to the holiest of holies in the full assurance of faith knowing
that we have welcome access by the blood of Christ Jesus the
Lord, knowing we have a high priest over the house of God,
knowing that by the Holy Spirit He sprinkled the blood of Christ
upon us inwardly and outwardly so that we are completely, thoroughly
holy and God will receive us and He won't turn us away. We
have boldness to come to the throne of grace, to the holiest
of holies. Brethren, we have such greater
advantage than what they had, don't we? You see what great,
great advantage He's given us? Oh, they had the types, we have
the anti-type. They had the pictures, we got
the express image. They had carnal washings, we've
got Christ who's now accomplished the redemption of His people.
They were washed ceremonially, we've been purged inwardly by
the Holy Spirit of God. He turns us from dead works and
makes us willing to serve the living God. Ah, the law was given
by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Spurgeon
said this, we don't live in the moonlight of the Jewish dispensation. We live in the noontide sunlight
of truth. It's high noon now. We're not
walking around fumbling around in the dark, are we? We got the
full light shining now. Look back, let me just give this
to you. Hebrews 1, he says, God at sundry times in a different
manner spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
but he hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son. Look,
verse 3, being the brightness of his glory and the express
image of his person. That's who He's spoken to us
by. And here's the point of the whole Hebrew letter. Let me show
you the point. And this is the point of my message.
Hebrews 2 verse 1. Therefore, we ought to give the
more earnest heed to the things which we've heard, lest at any
time we should let them slip. You see that? God's given us
more light. He's given us more advantage. Therefore, we ought to give the
more earnest heed. He says, through the whole book,
at the very end, He said, God's given you, He's spoken to you
by His Son, Hebrews 12, 25, He says, Now see that you refuse
not Him that speaks. You see, He's saying, we ought
never, brethren, we ought never grow complacent with what we
know. Never. We're not taught to do
that. We're not taught to grow complacent
with what we know and just want to just sit right there because
what will happen is these things will slip. They'll slip out of
our hearts. That's not what we're commanded
to do. The exhortation is this. Grow, grow in grace and knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the command. That's where
we're... More about Jesus would I know.
More of His saving grace to others show. More of His fullness see. More of His love who died for
me. More, more, more. That's where we're commanded.
More. And that's my point. We see we got these great advantages.
We ought to give greater earnest heed to these things. Alright,
now let's look at the next thing. I'm going to... I took my whole
time on this first point. Let me look at this other real
quick. I promise you, I won't go long. But he says here in
Romans 9.5, these folks, he says, whose are the fathers?
The fathers, these are their fathers. And of whom is concerning
the flesh Christ came, whose over all God blessed forever.
Amen. Christ is the man, Jesus Christ
the man is God over all. He's over all. He's God blessed
forever. He is the Amen. That's His name. You read it in Revelation. He's
the Word. He was with God in the beginning
and He is God and He made everything and everything is made by Him
and for Him. And He created everything. This man that walked this earth
is God in human flesh. That's who He is. And Paul and
his countrymen, they were sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Judah, Jesse, David, and God told them. God told them. He gave them this advantage.
He said, this is the nation and here's the tribe, the tribe of
Judah, here's the house, the house of Jesse, the house of
David, and through them, I'm sending my son, the Christ,
this one that I've been picturing in all these ceremonies and all
your services. He's coming through you, God
told him. Do you know what kind of an advantage
that was? They could literally take, they
kept genealogies. And to a Jew, a genealogy was
everything. Because you wanted to know who
your tribe was and one thing, if you were in that lineage Christ
was coming through, you wanted to be able to see that. And they
could literally take their genealogy and they could show the very
line right down from Abraham on down to which Christ came.
You can go read it in Matthew 1 or in Luke 1. But there it is. It's the genealogy
all the way through. And they had this. And he told
them, he pictured him, he told them what he was going to be
like, told them what he was going to do. I mean, gave them all
these descriptions of him. And then when he came, he said,
okay, here I am. I'm He, I'm the one Son of God,
I am the Son of God, come in the flesh. And they said, we're
not going to believe you. You're blaspheming God, you're
making yourself to be God. They had all this advantage and
when He came, they rejected Him. Isn't that amazing? That's what's
in my heart and your heart, brethren. until God makes us see Him and
know Him. That's exactly what we were doing,
too. But they had all this advantage,
all this advantage, and they rejected Him. Well, does that
mean that God's Word wasn't effectual? Does that mean that God tried
to save and He couldn't save? Paul says, verse 6, not as though
the Word of God is taken unaffected. What it means is they're not
all Israel which are of Israel. God's Word never returns void.
He said in Isaiah, the rain comes down, the snow comes down, it
accomplishes what I sent it to do. He said, so shall my Word
be that goes forth out of my mouth. It always accomplishes
what I sent it to accomplish. Christ the Word accomplished
everything God the Father sent Him to accomplish. And His Gospel
Word goes forth and accomplishes everything He sent it to accomplish.
You see, everybody that went by that name Israel were not
God's elect Israel. He sent that gospel and He did
two things with that gospel. He always does two things with
His gospel. Paul said He causes us to triumph
in Christ everywhere we preach. Before everybody that hears us,
He causes us to triumph. He says, we are a saver, a sweet
saver unto God 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.
And who's sufficient for these things? This is what men don't understand
and think preaching is an easy thing. When this hits you and
it comes down on you, it gets serious. Every time you open
your mouth, God's blessing that word to save somebody, and he's
blessing that word to damn somebody. Every single time you open your
mouth. That's serious business. That's why Paul said, who's sufficient
for this? Everything that God gave them
and all those advantages, to some it was a blessing, to some
it It was a great blessing. They saw Christ by God's grace
and it was a saver of life unto life to them. To others, all
that great advantage worked for greater condemnation. That's
all it did. The same gospel is hardening
some while it's saving others. Now I want us to learn something
from this. All this great light and they
wouldn't walk in it. They rejected Christ for the
law and for their works. Now don't make that mistake.
You and I have been given far greater advantage, far greater
privileges. We have these things in the spiritual
fulfillment. We come here and hear the gospel
week in and week out. But our Lord said, unto whomsoever
much is given, of him shall much be required. Now get what that
means. The day of judgment will be far
worse for us to whom God has sent the gospel if we harden
our hearts and let these things slip. Christ did all those works in
Chorazin and Bethsaida and Capernaum. He didn't do those works in Sodom
and Gomorrah. And He said, woe unto you, because
if these works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would
have repented. And yet I did all these works right before
you, and you've not repented at all. Do you get what He's
saying? Don't sin against the light God's
given you. Just like He gave them light
in these things He gave them, He's given us light We have the
gospel preached here. We can, we're in a country, we
can read a Bible, we can search the scriptures. We don't have
to hide in worship. We can do this openly. We can
get in a nice vehicle and drive here. We don't have to get in
a buckboard wagon or walk and do it under cover of darkness
because you're afraid you're going to get arrested and thrown in
jail and beat. And we're going to, are we going
to, with as easy as we got it, are we going to complain and
not take advantage of this that He's given us when it's so easy? You see what He's given us? Walk
in the light He's given you. Our Lord said, take heed what
you hear. And He said, with what measure
you meet it, it shall be measured to you. You've heard me say,
walk in the light God gives you, He'll give you more light. That's
where I got it from. Christ says, be careful how you
hear. With what measure you meet this,
it will be measured to you. If I come in and sit down and
I hear the gospel and I say, I don't care about that and I
get up and walk out, God's not going to bless me at
all. If God gives me a heart and makes
me hear this and makes me interested and I start searching these scriptures
and I meet it with a good dose of searching and looking and
trying to see what God is saying, God says, these scriptures are
just going to open up to you. I'm going to give you more light
and more light. You see people are complaining, I don't have
any light. Well, are you walking in the
light He's given you already? He says you walk in and He will
give you more. He says with what measure you meet it, it will
be measured to you and unto you that here shall more be given.
For he that hath, to him shall be given. But there is a flip
side. And he that hath not, from him
shall be taken even that which he hath. If we don't walk in
the light, God said I will just take it away. Look at Israel.
Look at them. God took it all away. Every bit
of it. Why? Because they wouldn't walk
in it. See what I'm saying? I'm not trying to scare you. He's working grace in. You hear
what I'm saying and you delight. You meet it. You hear it and
you walk in it. You delight in it. And He gives
you more light. I'm saying this to you that don't
know Him. Don't take advantage of this. He's given you something
here that's a great privilege. Go home and study what you've
heard and meet it. You meet it with some looking
into His Word and seeing what He's saying. This is God's Word. This is God speaking. I'm going
to throw this on a shelf and just ignore it. I pray God make us use these
advantages. That's all I'm saying. We got great, great, great, great,
great advantage. All right. He's given us this
one now. We're going to walk in this one. He's given us the
Lord's table. Think of what a privilege this
is. He's given us a simple illustration
here to help us always remember our Lord's broken body and His
shed blood. He says, now do this in remembrance
of me. What kind of gratitude would
we show if we just said, I know he said do this and remember
me, but I'm not going to do it. When I feel like it, I'll do
it. He said, do it and remember me. This is for our benefit. It's
for our health. He graciously gave us this simple
ordinance. So let's remember him. All right,
Brother Scott, will you and Jeff, will you come and help pass these
out?