Let's turn in our Bibles to 1
Corinthians chapter 14. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Let's begin reading in verse
21. 1 Corinthians 14 verse 21. It says, In the law, That is the Old Testament. In
the Old Testament Scriptures, it is written, With men of other
tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people. And yet, for
all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. Now here's the
conclusion Paul draws from that passage he quoted in the Old
Testament. Wherefore, tongues are for a
sign. They're for a distinguishing
mark. To put a distinguishing mark
upon. Not to them that believe, but
to them that believe not. But, prophesying, understandable
preaching, serveth not for them that believeth not, but for them
which believe. Now, I started to preach, I prepared
an entire message on that passage, but I really want to get on down
to another passage here that he's going to talk about. I want
to preach on that, but let me give you a few words on this.
There were two things that came out of the mouth of the Lord's
disciples on the day of Pentecost. Two things came out of their
mouth on the day of Pentecost. One, they preached in a language,
in tongues, in a language that they had never known and never
learned, that they were given the ability to preach in, so
that they could preach to all those different nations, those
different languages and tongues that were present that day. So
first, the gift of tongues came out. The gift to speak in a language
they had never learned before came out. But with those tongues,
the second thing was they prophesied. They preached the gospel, the
wonderful works of Christ the Lord. Now, two different people
heard two different things with two different outcomes. Two different
kinds of people heard two different things with two different kinds
of outcomes. Unbelievers heard. Unbelievers
heard. They heard Galileans who spoke
Galilean miraculously speak in languages that they never learned
before. They heard tongues. They heard
the gift of tongues. Now, they also heard the gospel
preached with those tongues, but they didn't hear it with
ears of faith. They didn't hear it with ears
of faith. And so the result was they went
on in unbelief. exalting their wisdom, exalting
their way, exalting their works, and they mocked God's disciples
and said they were just drunk. They were drunk. So tongues were
given at Pentecost for a sign to put a distinguishing mark
on those who were unbelievers. exposing them as reprobate, exposing
them as not God's true Israel, exposing the hardness of their
heart. And it was great hardness of
heart. It was written in their Scriptures. This was written
in their Scriptures that God was going to do this. It showed
how ignorant they were of their own Scriptures. It was a miracle
only God could perform. That ought to have drawn their
attention to heed what was being spoken. And it was God Himself
speaking. He said, there with other tongues
will I speak. It was Him speaking. And what
He spoke was the message of God's salvation. He spoke the message
of Christ, risen, victorious as both Lord and Christ of His
people. And He says there, yet for all
that Will they not hear me, saith the Lord? Wherefore, Paul says,
tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them
that believe not. Those tongues, by speaking in
tongues, God put a mark on those. He made it clear and evident
those people were not believers. They were unbelievers. We'll
talk more about it in a moment. But the other kind of people
who heard didn't begin as believers. They were unbelievers at first
when they began hearing that day at Pentecost. And indeed,
those tongues got their attention as unbelievers. It got their
attention and caused them to pay attention. But they heard
prophesying. They heard preaching. They heard
the message of Christ victorious seated in heaven. That's what
they heard. It wasn't the tongues by which they were saved. It
wasn't just the miracle that saved them. It was preaching
by which they were saved. It was the gospel of Christ,
the true King David that the Holy Spirit used to prick their
hearts. and to give them faith to believe
and repent. Verse 22, Wherefore tongues are
for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe
not. But prophesying, preaching, serveth not for them that believe
not, but for them which believe. Do you get the point there? I
want to show you something in Isaiah 28. This is where that's
quoted from. And I'll show you. God actually
told Isaiah to go preach this message to those who were drunk
in their own estimation of themselves. They were drunk thinking they
were so wise. They were drunk thinking that
they were saved by their works, by their law keeping. And Isaiah
went and preached this message to them. And he was telling them
that little by little, line upon line, little by little. God's going to teach those that
He's weaned away from the milk and from the breast. He's going
to teach those that He's made men and matured in understanding. That's why Paul earlier said,
don't be children in understanding. In malice be children, but in
understanding be men. But when Isaiah preached that
to them, they turned around and repeated it back to Isaiah, mocking
him. And they said, There, mockingly,
in verse 9, who shall he teach knowledge? Who is he going to
teach knowledge? This was true. What they were
saying was true, but they repeated Isaiah's words to him, mocking
him. They said, whom shall he make
to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breast, for precept must be upon precept,
precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a
little, there a little. And what they were doing right
there was stammering. They were speaking like babies.
They were like you would talk to a little baby. That's how
they were saying this. And then he tells us why they
did it. Why did they... Here goes Isaiah
to their preaching in a plain language they could understand,
simple words they could understand, and that was their reaction,
just like it was on the day of Pentecost. Why? Because the Lord's
declaring what He's going to do on the day of Pentecost, and
He's using Isaiah to even show it. Not only declare it, but
to show what the reaction of the people will be at Pentecost.
It was the same as it was here. And He says, 4, verse 11, this is why He did
it. With stammering lips and another tongue will he speak
to this people, to whom he said, this is the rest wherewith you
may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing, yet
they would not hear. Now why did he speak to them
that way? And why did he say he was going
to speak to them this way? Here's why. But the word of the
Lord was unto them, precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little,
that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and
taken. That's what Paul is saying. That's
why God poured out and gave men the gift of tongues to speak
in The languages they had never learned on the day of Pentecost,
so that those that heard had no more excuse. It was declared
to them plainly in simple language, but by their being so wise in
their own estimation and rejecting it, a mark was put upon them,
their justly reprobate. God blinded their eyes. And if
you go on and read the rest of Isaiah 29, you'll see that all
the rest of Isaiah 28 and 29, you'll see that it's clearly
spoken. God said He wants to blind them. and their prophets
and their false teachers. I'm going to blind them all.
So Paul is saying here that's what tongues were used for. They
were used to put a sign on those unbelievers. And he's telling
the Corinthians. So here's another reason why
you don't want to be speaking to one another in tongues. That
was something used to declare God's just reprobation on men.
Preaching is what he used to save his people that day. The
preaching of the gospel. That's what's going to benefit
those God makes to believe on Him. Now look at the next verse
in our text. He says, verse 23, If therefore
the whole church be come together into one place, like they did
at Pentecost, but now they're together in their assembly, all
believers, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those
that are unlearned or unbelievers, would they not say that you're
mad? Paul is saying, at Pentecost, when there were people there
who spoke all these different languages, and you spoke in the
language of the people and preached the gospel to them, Those standing
by said, they're mad. They're drunk. And they mocked
you. He said, now if you're all gathered together, where everybody
speaks one language, and y'all all are showing off that you
can speak in this language, and you in that one, and this in
the other, and some unbeliever comes in there and hears you,
will he not certainly say you're mad? Will he not say the same
thing to you again? You imagine if here we are gathered
tonight. We're gathered here tonight.
Suppose one prays in French, Suppose another got up and he
read in Latin. Say another gets up and he sings
in German. I get up, I preach in Russian.
If there was a visitor here that didn't know us, an unbeliever,
he would sit here and go, ain't no point going to those people,
they're crazy. Ain't nobody there to even speak the language of
the people. That's what Paul's saying, verse 24. But if all
prophesy, if all speak the truth of God in a language everybody
can understand, And there come in one that believeth not, or
one unlearned. He's convinced of all. He's judged
of all. And thus are the secrets of his
heart made manifest. And so falling down on his face,
he'll worship God and report that God is in you of a truth. Now I want to focus in today
on this message here of what God does through the gospel.
There's folks who are... We don't have these gifts of
talking in languages you never learned before. You can't suddenly
all of a sudden start speaking Russian if you've never learned
it. We don't have that gift today.
But God does make men able to preach the gospel, to pray in
the truth and all these different things that we do in our worship
service. And so it's not great oratory
that God uses. It's simple language. It's not
subjects not clearly revealed. Men want to talk about things
that aren't even revealed in the scriptures. It's the simple
preaching of the subject of Christ and His accomplished redemption. That's clearly revealed. They
want to use other means rather than the preaching of the gospel.
They want to show these great outward shows of spirituality.
The greatest show of spirituality and the greatest miracle is God
taking a sinner who hates God by nature and giving him a new
heart and making him to hear and understand and believe the
gospel and cast all his care on Christ. You can't get a greater
miracle than that. So the great thing and the only
thing God uses to save His people and to unite His church is the
clear, simple preaching of Christ and Him crucified. That's what
I want to show you tonight. The great thing, the only thing
God uses to save His people and unite His church is the simple,
clear preaching of Christ and Him crucified. We'll see three
things God does through preaching right here. First, through the
preaching of the gospel, God reveals the heart of His child
to that child. He says there in verse 24, If
all preach, and there come in one that believeth not, or one
unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all, and
thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest. Not to us, to
him. The secrets of his own heart
are made manifest to him. All who speak in our services,
all who stand right here and speak, they speak the same gospel
every one. Same gospel. In the songs we
sing, in the scripture reading, in the prayer, and in the preaching,
we're speaking the same message. Eric will ask me a lot of times. He's pulled out a book and showed
me a verse in a book and asked, should we sing this song? Is
this consistent with the Word of God? Because we all want to
be consistent with the Word of God. We want to preach the Gospel
so that the person in whom God is working is convinced by all. Everything that's said here will
be convincing and be used to judge him in the court of his
conscience where God begins to work. And also this all refers
to all three persons in the Godhead. All three persons must work this
work in the heart of a sinner because we can't make it effectual
in their heart. Christ said God the Father will
draw His people. He said no man can come to me
except the Father which has sent me draw him. So God the Father
is included in this work. And of course God the Son is
included in this work. He said if I be lifted up I will
draw all men unto myself." Everybody that's supposed to be drawn to
Christ, He's going to draw to Himself. All His people, those
He died for. And God the Holy Spirit is a
part of this work. He convinces and convicts and
judges His people in the heart, in the conscience. Christ said
when He's come, He will prove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment." Not everybody in the world, but His people
that He's calling out of the world. He's going to wherever
they are in the world. He will use this word, this gospel,
to reprove them of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because
they believe not on Me. A man of satan, he's lost, he
hears the gospel of Christ declared. The chief sin You know, this
is the thing we all try to do, and this is what every unbeliever
tries to do. He tries to talk about how his
sins aren't as bad as other people's sins. You know, at least I'm
not as bad as that one. I haven't done this, or I haven't
done that. Oh, I did this other thing, but I didn't do that thing.
You know? Well, this is what the Holy Spirit convinces everyone
He saves of. The sin you're guilty of is you
have not believed on Christ. That covers them all. You see,
everything else we say, we're trying to justify ourselves from
our sin. And the only way we can be justified
from our sin is believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ
said, he that believeth on him is not condemned. But he that
believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Everybody that has
not yet believed on the Son of God, the wrath of God abides
on him. God has got to bring you to see
that all your works and all your way you thought you'd be just
before God is just vanity. That's what he's talking about
when he said, lights come into the world and men love darkness
more than light because their deeds are evil. It's not the
evil deeds of the pimp and the pusher, it's the evil deeds of
thinking we can somehow by our religious works and our doing
make ourselves accepted of God, just with God. How can a sinner
be just with God? There's only one way. God had
to send His own Son and Christ had to bear the sin of His people
and go before the brilliance of God and the all-seeing eye
of God and stand guilty before God in the place of His people
and bear the complete and total justice and judgment of God on
their behalf so that So that God's just and He's their justifier. That's the only way we could
be saved. That's the only way we're justified from our sin.
Turn to Galatians 2 and look at verse 16. This is what God's
going to make you believe in the heart. This is why I don't
stray too far from this. Somehow or another I'm going
to preach this anywhere I'm preaching in the scriptures. Because this
is what we're supposed to preach. If He's going to convince us
of sin, of righteousness, of judgment, then we better preach
on what this sin is, and this righteousness is, and this judgment
is, wherever we're preaching. Galatians 2.16, Knowing that
a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, by Christ's faithfulness, by the work Christ
accomplished Himself. Even we have believed in Jesus
Christ. That's why we cast our care on
Christ. Because we've been convicted
of sin that we haven't believed on Christ. And He brought us
to see the only way to be justified of our sin is believing in the
Lord Jesus, who by His faithfulness justified His people. Let's read
it again. Knowing a man's not justified
by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified
by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. For
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. By Him
all that believe are justified from all things from which you
could not be justified by the law of Moses. So as the gospel
goes forth, first thing the Holy Spirit is going to convince and
judge His child of in the court of His conscience and convince
him of is this. He never believed on Christ. The only one who can justify
us from our sin. He's going to convince you you're
still under sin. Because the only way it can be
put away is if Christ justifies you and if you're brought to
throw all your care on Christ and believe on Christ. The only
way. Now sinner, you that are hearing this, I pray God would
do this. I pray He would come forth and
make this known in the heart. Are you guilty of this sin? If
you've not believed on Christ, you are. You are. And this is
the damning sin right here. If you don't hear the Holy Spirit
and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, if you don't trust Christ,
there's no way you can be saved. That's it. That's the end of
it. He said this. The Lord said, if you believe
not that I am, you shall die in your sin. Now, Christ said
the Holy Spirit will also convict of righteousness. Because I go
to my Father and you see me no more. Now how is that going to
convict us of righteousness? We must be made the righteousness
of God. God cannot receive us if we're
not as righteous as God. We have to be the righteousness
of God. Christ is the righteousness of
God. And it is only by Christ's obedience
that his people are made the righteousness of God. That's
why we read in Romans 5.19, by one man's disobedience, many
were made sinners. So, just like that, by the obedience
of one, shall many be made righteous. Look at Romans 3 and verse 21. Now, the righteousness of God,
without the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. Even the righteousness of God,
which is by faith of Jesus Christ, by His work, by His faithful
obedience to God, that's where the righteousness of God is manifest.
It's unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no
difference. This is the only way we can be
made the righteousness of God, is to believe on Christ, our
righteousness. For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. But how do we know He is the
righteousness of God? How do we know that? Well, Christ
says there, the Holy Spirit is going to convince you of righteousness. Because He is going to make you
behold Christ is raised, seated at the right hand of the Father.
So you hear this gospel going forth. You hear it declared that
God manifests that His Son is the righteousness of God when
He raised Him from the dead. God is satisfied. God declares
He is the righteousness of God. And as this word goes forth,
the Holy Spirit convinces His child that His child has been
ignorantly going about to establish His own righteousness. He probably
made his boast that I've been submitting myself to the law. God said by doing that you haven't
submitted to my righteousness. A man hasn't submitted to the
law, that's for certain. But even if he could do that,
he still hasn't submitted to the righteousness of God because
the righteousness of God is his son. Paul said, I would that
Israel was saved, but I bear them record. They've got a zeal,
but it's not according to knowledge. They going about to establish
their own righteousness have not submitted themselves to the
righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believes. But only to those
that believe. And the Holy Spirit's going to
make you to see that. He's going to make you to know that. He's
going to make you to see you've been trying to establish a righteousness
of your own and you can't come to God by any righteousness you
establish. If you could somehow find a man
who was the very best man among men that ever lived outside of
Christ, God won't accept him. He won't accept him. Even if
he's the number one over all humanity, God won't accept him. You've got to come, bow into
Christ and believe on Christ and trust Christ. He's the only
righteousness of God. The way He's going to make you
see that is make you see your works are ignorant vanity and
He's going to make you have eyes to see Christ seated at God's
right hand, accepted of God, and God say, this is my Son in
whom I'm well pleased. This is my righteousness. Now,
if you're convinced Christ alone is the righteousness of God,
if He's made you to be convinced He alone is the righteousness
of God, listen to this good news. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead, that He is the righteousness
of God, your only righteousness, thou shalt be saved. For with
the heart man believeth unto righteousness. And with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. Not the works of the hands. Not
going back to Mount Sinai ever. Believing on Christ unto righteousness. Now, Christ said the Holy Spirit
will also convince His child of judgment because the prince
of this world is judged. We're all afraid of judgment.
We're all by nature afraid of judgment. You know why? That's
the devil's work. To make us afraid of death and
of judgment. That's what Christ came to destroy.
You know, you do so much in religion and so much of this work, so
much of that work, but you can't rest because the devil will accuse
you of something. And He'll make you to know, this
isn't going to stand up. This isn't going to bring me
into God's presence. And so you fear death and you fear judgment.
But Christ came and what Christ came to do is He came to make
His people righteous and justifies from our sins. And when He's
made you to behold that and believe on Him, He makes you also to
see that when He went to Calvary's tree, He settled judgment for
you. cast out the prince of this world. He cast out the devil. You know
what he did? He took all the devil's ammunition
away from him. If you don't have any sin before
God and you're perfectly righteous in Christ before God, the devil
can accuse all he wants to. He don't have anything that will
stick. He don't have a thing that will stick. God says, this
is my child. This is one for whom I died.
This is one my blood made righteous. There's nothing you can say to
charge him. Who's going to lay anything to
the charge of God's elect? It's God that justified him.
It's Christ that died and is risen again to make intercession
for him. And so he makes you to seek. Judgment is settled.
And then you can rest. Then you can rest. Two things
I always hear from people who come here, who God's given a
heart to believe Christ. Number one, I'm so glad to be
out from under the rules and regulations of false religion.
Will works religion. And number two, I'm so glad now
that I can rest and rejoice and glory and praise Christ. Cause now I know the works really
finished. I am accepted in Christ the beloved. That's a good thing. That's the
only way you can really worship God. The only way. Now if you
can believe sinner, If He's convinced you of this in your heart and
you can believe on Him, I'll tell you why you can do it. It's
because Christ has bound the strong man. He's bound the devil
and He's spoiled his goods and you're one of those He's spoiled.
He's ripped you out of His captivity and now you're Christ's captive.
And He won't ever let you go. He won't ever let you go. Now,
our text says, by this work of the Spirit, verse 25, thus are
the secrets of His heart made manifest. Every secret hope. Every secret hope. I don't care
what men say. Everybody has some kind of hope of being accepted of God when
they die. Everybody has some kind of hope. It's something they've done to
justify them of their sin other than believing on Christ. It
is something that makes them think they're righteous other
than believing on Christ. It's something that makes them
think they have no fear of death and judgment other than Christ
making them righteous and holy and crushing the devil's head
for them. It's something else. But what the Lord does by this
work is He makes you know all those secrets that you harbored
in your heart are vanity. You see, we don't know that about
ourselves. We don't know that's the secret
we hold in our heart until God makes us understand that's the
secret you really hold in your heart. It's a vain hope outside
of Christ. He makes you to know that. He
reveals that to you. And for the first time, the sinner
sees all he is, all he ever thought, all he ever hoped in is sin. That's it. He's sin, his hope
was sin. What he called trusting God was
sin. That's what God makes you to
know. He knows himself for the first time. And here's the thing
about this gospel. God don't stop doing that through
this gospel. You and I who believe, God keeps doing this to us through
the gospel. Anytime our flesh begins to take
over and begin to try to pull us away from Christ and give
us a vain hope, we hear this gospel. And He turns us again. Turns us again. Remember when
Christ spoke to that woman at the well? He said, God is spirit. And He said He seeks those that
are going to worship Him in spirit and in truth. And as Christ told
her that, He also told her everything about her. Remember that? She went back to Samaria and
said, Come see a man that told me everything about me. This
man knew me better than I knew me. This is the Christ, she said. Well, what Christ was showing
there is what He does through the gospel. He still does that
same thing through the gospel. Have you ever heard the gospel
preached and you started thinking, the preacher has been eavesdropping
on me or something because he's in my business. He knows what's
going on. He's preaching this to me. Preacher
don't have a clue. They don't have a clue. That's
God's Word. That's Christ revealing to you
the secrets of your own heart. and turning you to Him. That's
what that is. That's what that is. Listen.
The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword. There's probably been some sharp
two-edged swords in this world. Not as sharp as the Word of God.
It pierces even to the dividing asunder, the splitting of two
of the joints and the marrow. What does that mean? It's a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. But you know, when
God's saving somebody and He's going to bring them to where
His gospel is spoken by everybody in that assembly. So they hear
it prayed, they hear it sung, they hear it preached, they hear
it read in the scriptures, and afterwards, if they try to go
up to a believer and try to get them on their side, to side with
them, that believer is going to repeat it to them. And God's
just going to keep on making those secrets known in their
heart. That is just vanity, vanity, vanity. They can run out and
try to get away. He's going to keep on lodging
that word in them so that if they can't get shit, they can't
get loose from God. He's going to make them to know
this. That's the only way a man knows his heart. Now look at
this. And then through this preaching of the gospel, by that, God's
going to make His child worship God. Verse 25, and so falling
down on his face, he will worship God. When are you going to worship
God? You hear me preach this, just
like those folks at Pentecost heard it, in their own language. God took all excuse away from
everybody there. They all heard it clearly. But
this is what some heard there. Some heard that God had loved
his people from eternity. Some heard that God loved them
from eternity. It became personal to them. Some
there heard that Christ came and redeemed His people, justified
us, made us righteous, settled all our judgment before God on
the cross of Calvary while as yet in our own minds we hated
Him and would have nothing to do with Him. and that even when we were in
our rebellion and were trying our best to run from God and
to ignore His Word and to do anything we could to get our
fathers and mothers not to talk to us about it and get the preacher
not to talk to us about it and get the brethren not to talk
to us about it and try to soothe our conscience and our vain hopes
and our vain ways and all of those things, God still sent
the Gospel to us and irresistibly penetrated that hard heart and
divided it asunder and made us to know those famed secrets of
our own heart. And when He makes you to know
that He loved you from eternity not because of anything in you,
that His Son redeemed you not because of anything in you, and
that the Spirit called you not because of anything in you, And
now He won't ever let you go because you're righteous and
holy in His Son. That's when you will fall down on your face
with a broken and a contrite heart and you will worship God. You'll give Him all the glory
and all the praise. What's going to make you do it?
Seeing that you are nothing and can do nothing. have nothing
about you that deserves to be saved, and yet Christ did everything
to save you freely by His grace. That's the only thing that will
make a man worship God. That's true worship. That's true
worship. That's when you'll proclaim,
not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory
for thy mercy and for thy troops' sake. That's worship. Worship
is giving God all the glory. Worship is falling down before
God in the heart with a broken and contrite heart, giving every
aspect of the glory A to Z to God. And until God brings us
to that place and causes us to do that, whatever it is we've
called worship has not been worship. Lastly, When this is done through
this gospel, this is how God's going to unite that child with
His people so that they'll continue to help further in this gospel
and they won't leave it. Look at there verse 25, and he'll
report God's in you of a truth. We got brethren that live way
away from here and come here to hear the gospel. And everybody
one time or another has told me that they've talked to people
that has asked them, why in the world do you go all the way down
there to hear the gospel when there's churches right around
here where you could go? And they report. They report. Because God's in that place.
God's preached. God's exalted. God's glorified. God's working. God's teaching
in the heart. God's in that place. That's why
I go there. I hear God speaking in that place. I don't hear him
in the other place. I go there because I hear God
speaking. Brethren, we don't have any way of making sinners
join us. We don't have any way of making
sinners stay with us. You know what will make them
do it though? Preach this gospel. This is the only thing that works.
Baseball won't do it. Programs won't do it. Any amount
of extracurricular activity, pretending to speak in tongues
and heal you with oil won't do it. It won't make them stay.
It might make them get a fit and stay for a little while,
but they won't stay forever. What will make a man stay is
when God does His work in his heart through this gospel and
He makes him a believer. He believes, yes, that's how
God does it. I got to be there. That's how
God does. I've experienced it. That's how I know this is so.
I've experienced it. And you that are here have experienced
it. And so God brings us all together to preach this one message. And when He works it in the heart
of His child, that's when His child will say, I want to join
with you. God's working in you. God's working in you. And God
said He'd do it that way. He said, Thus saith the Lord
of hosts, In those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall
take hold out of all languages of the nations. They'll take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew. They'll take hold of
Christ first and want to be covered by His garment. But they'll take
hold of you who God's made true Jews. He said a true Jew is one
that's been circumcised in the heart so that he worships God
in spirit, rejoices in Christ Jesus and puts no confidence
in the flesh. That's the true circumcision.
And God said, I'm going to make men latch on to you and they're
going to say, we will go with you for we've heard God is with
you. When He makes you to hear that
message, that's when you'll say, I've heard and I know God's with
you. I'm going with you. This is just
God fulfilling what He said He'd do. The gospel works, brethren. Preaching the gospel works. I
filled out something yesterday for the insurance that they wanted
to know, do you have this program and that program and do you go
do this and that? You know, it's all the stuff
that most so-called churches do today. And it was a real easy
answer. I said, no, no, no, no, no. And
I mean, I said, I told her in one space, all we do is preach
Christ. That's it. And she emailed me back. She
said, that was fast. I've never had anybody fill it
out that fast. I said, it's simple. We do one thing. We preach Christ
because that works. That's what we're supposed to
be doing. All right.