We're in Deuteronomy 18. Now
I want you to listen to me very carefully this morning. We're
going to look at some scriptures, quite a few scriptures, read
quite a bit of scripture. But I want you to listen to me
through the words that I'm speaking to you. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching. to save them that believe. And I'm not speaking my own words. What I'm saying to you are the
words of God. Those are the words of God. So
what I'm speaking to you is the words of God, my Savior, whom
I serve, whose I am and whom I serve, as Paul said. Now, in
time past, the Lord suffered all nations. to walk in their
own ways. He didn't leave Himself without
a witness, but He allowed them to go without a prophet, without
a teacher, without His Word, but showing us how that God would
provide His children with teachers, with preachers, with, in the
Old Testament, called prophets. Speakers is what they are. Speakers
that speak the word of God. Showing us how he would provide
those whenever the time had come for God to deliver his children
out of Egyptian bondage. That's why he sends a preacher. Through that preacher he's going
to deliver his elect children out of spiritual bondage. And so before he, when the time
came to do that, he first raised up Moses. And he sent Moses to
preach to Pharaoh and to those children in Egypt. And through
that message, he brought his children out of Egypt. And then
when he got to the place where he was going to deliver his children
into the land he had promised them, he warned them, he gave
his words to Moses, And Moses spoke the words he gave him,
and he told them that the land they were going into had people
in that land who preached things that were an abomination to God.
And those people in that land hearkened to those teachers,
and they believed those things that were an abomination to God.
And he gives this warning right here in verse 14. He says, For
these nations which thou shalt possess hearkened unto observers
of times and unto diviners. But as for thee, the Lord thy
God hath not suffered thee so to do, The Lord thy God will
raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me. This is Moses speaking. Unto
him ye shall hearken, according to all that thou desirest of
the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let
me see this great fire any more that I die not. And the Lord
said unto Moses, this is where Moses got this word, the Lord
said unto Moses, they have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him. That's a good definition
of a prophet of God, of an apostle of God, of an evangelist of God,
of a preacher, a pastor, a teacher. I will put my words in his mouth
and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
We don't have a direct revelation as Moses did. What we have now
is the written word of God and that's what we're commanded to
speak. These are the words of God. Now, the Son of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ, is that prophet that God was speaking to the
children about through Moses. He is the prophet. Now, we've
seen from the scriptures that Christ Jesus, the Son of God,
is the high priest of whom Aaron, the high priest, was a type.
He was a picture of it. We've seen how that Christ is
the king of whom King David was a type. And now we're seeing
that Christ is the prophet of whom Moses was a type. Now, what does that mean? What
does it mean that Christ is the prophet, the priest, and the
king? What does that mean? It means
that as the king, Christ Jesus has all power over all. in heaven and in earth to govern
His kingdom, to rule in the midst of His people, to protect His
people, to direct His people, to guide His people, all the
servants in His kingdom, He has that power. Christ as the High
Priest means that He has come and He has effectually accomplished
the work that the High Priest accomplished. We spent all that
time looking at the Day of Atonement. That's what Christ did. He came
and by His one offering, He perfected forever them that are sanctified.
And not only this, but if you believe the Gospel, it's because
through the Spirit of God, Christ Jesus purges your conscience,
your inner man. and turns you from dead works
to serve the living God. This is the work of a high priest.
And as prophet, it means Christ has the power to effectually
teach every one of those children whom He effectually calls in
the heart so that they leave all and come to the Father through
Him, by Him. Now, the Scripture says they
shall be all taught of God. and the glory that belongs to
God the Father in teaching all his children, he gave to his
son to be the prophet of God. Now I have three aspects of this
to look at this morning. One is is before Christ came. The second will be when Christ
came. And the third will be now that
Christ is risen. I want you to see this. Now before
Christ ever came in human flesh, every true prophet that was sent
were given the words to speak by the Spirit of Christ the prophet. And they all spoke about Christ
the prophet. All right, let me show you that.
1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1. Look at verse 10. He's talking about the salvation
that the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you. Peter's
saying he's after Christ. He's saying, but all those prophets
before, they sought diligently, inquired and they prophesied
of the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what
manner of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, did
signify. You see that? When it testified
beforehand, this is what they spoke. That's how they spoke,
by the Spirit of Christ. This is what they spoke. They
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that
should follow. This is what they spoke of. Paul
in Romans 1 says, I was called by Christ, separated unto the
gospel which He had promised. by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures
concerning what? His son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Whenever Nathaniel found Philip,
he said, we found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write. This is who we're talking about.
That was beforehand. All the prophets wrote of him.
They wrote of him. by Him. And they wrote of Him. Now here's the second thing.
Then Christ the prophet came and spake to His children in
person in human flesh. This is what Hebrews 1.1 says.
God who at sundry times and in different manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets. Unto the brethren of
old he spoke by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
to us by his Son." His Son. This prophet is the Son of God. He's exceedingly superior to
Moses in that he is God the Son. Now, Moses was a type of Christ
in several ways. Let's go back to Deuteronomy
18. Look in verse 15. He said, the Lord thy God will
raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy
brethren. Now, John said, let me read this
to you, I want to get over here and see it myself. John chapter 1, this is what
John said. In the beginning was the Word,
Now Christ is the one who speaks the Word, but He is the Word.
You see, if you have His Word abiding in you, Christ abides
in you, His words are spirit and truth. He is the Word, and
He is the gospel. He is the good news. In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And then He says, He says, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. God dwelt among us. As much as
the children were flesh and blood, He took part of the same. He
said, I'm going to raise Him up from among your brethren.
And He says, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Alright,
in verse 15 it says, The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee
a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me. Him, unto him ye shall hearken. Now, he said unto him, ye shall
hearken. And remember when the Lord came,
Lord Jesus Christ came. And the scripture says, as they
were speaking a cloud overshadowed them and a voice spoke out of
the cloud. And God said, this is my beloved
son, and whom I am well pleased, hear ye him, hearken unto him. Moses was sent for this reason.
The Lord called him, and he said, come now, therefore, I will send
thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Christ did something far
greater. He came and the scripture says,
if He shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. He said,
the words that I speak, they're spirit and they're life. His
words give eternal life. He makes us completely, totally,
absolutely free by the word which He speaks. Moses was given a
word from God to tell his people so that they would know that
God had sent him. Moses said, if I go tell them
you sent me, they're going to ask me, what's the name of him
that sent you? What am I going to tell them? And Moses, the
Lord told Moses, he said, you say, I am that I am. Do you remember when the prophet
Christ came to the woman at the well? And he was talking to this
woman at the well. And she said, I know. that Messiah cometh who is called
the Christ. And she said, and when He's come,
He will tell us all things. She's referring back to what
Moses is saying to us in Deuteronomy 18. She said, I'm looking for
the prophet. And the Lord answered her and said, I that speak unto
thee, am. That's what He said to her. He
didn't say, I am sent me. He said, I am. I am. God gave Moses power to perform
some miracles so that the people would know that God had sent
Moses. The Scripture says that whenever
the people had seen the miracles that Jesus did, This is, they
said, this is of a truth, that prophet that should come into
the world. You see how we're seeing how
Moses and Christ are similar, they're alike, there's a type,
there's a picture here of them. But now I want to show you something
a little more in depth on this. Deuteronomy 18 verse 16. Now
here's what he said, he's going to be like unto me. Verse 16, according to all that
thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly. saying, let me not hear again
the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great
fire anymore that I die not. And the Lord said unto me, they
have well spoken that which they have spoken. All those children
of Israel, the Lord said, wash yourselves, be ready, tomorrow
I'm going to speak with you out of the mount. Out of the mount. And he said, now be ready, assemble
yourselves. So they got all washed up and
they got ready and they all was going to go out and talk to God.
Well, when they woke up, the mountain was on fire and it trembled
and it shook and it shook the heavens and God spoke from off
the mountain and gave them a covenant, gave them a law that it was symbolic
of the fact that there was no way they were going to be able
to commune with God, to fulfill the law that God required to
have anything to do with God. And what they said to Moses was,
Moses, you go up to God for us and talk to him and get Get the
covenant, get the word and bring it back and teach it to us. Because
if you don't, we're going to die. We can't talk to God and
live. And God said, they have well
spoken that. They've well spoken that. You
can't commune with God unless you have a mediator between you
and God and that man is the man Christ Jesus, the prophet of
God. He can come into God's presence
and he can come into our presence and he can teach us the truth
of who God is and how God saves. Now, Moses was a mediator of
a legal covenant. That simply means God gave this
law to show the great transgression that we committed in the garden
in Adam. To show that, to make our sin
exceedingly sinful to us. To show us the depths of the
transgression that we committed against God. To show us that
we're undone. There's no possible way we can
come into God's presence unless somebody come and do something
for us. Now, the scripture says the law
was given by Moses. But grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. Now, look at Hebrews 8. Hold
your place there in Deuteronomy and go over to Hebrews 8. And look at verse 6. Now it talks about Moses. I'll
read this verse 5. It says, all those things that
Moses was given was a shadow of heavenly things. That means
they were types and pictures God was declaring what He was
going to do in His Son. As Moses was admonished of God,
he was given this word from God and he came forth and did what
God told him to do. As Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle, for see saith he
that thou make all things according to the pattern showed thee to
thee in the mount. But now hath he, this is talking
about Christ that prophet, the prophet, now hath he obtained
a more excellent ministry by how much also he's the mediator
of a better covenant established upon better promises. You know
why it's a better covenant? You know why it's established?
And you know why it has better promises? Because in that first
covenant, God said, if you'll do this, I'll do this. and there wasn't anybody in their
midst that could do what God said for them to do. This covenant's
better because God didn't ask you to do anything. He didn't
command you to do anything. He gave it all to His Son, and
His Son said, I'll perform it. And He came and worked the work
of God. And He is the mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus. He says here, if that first covenant
had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for
the second. He's telling us you can't come to God in the law.
There was no fault with the law. The law is holy, just, and good.
The fault was in us for finding fault with them. He saith, Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord, when I'll make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, 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 and lead them out of the land of Egypt.
That's the law that Moses gave. Because they continue not in
my covenant. And I regarded them not, saith
the Lord." That's the end of that. That's the end of it. God's
not obligated to anybody that tries to come to Him under the
law because you don't continue in it and He won't regard you.
Well, for this is the covenant, this is that better covenant,
verse 10, that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, saith the Lord. I'll put my laws into their mind. Not on a tablet of stone. I'm
going to create a heart of flesh and I'm going to write it in
their heart. I'm going to write it into their mind and write
them in their hearts. And he's talking about the laws
of love and grace and faith. That's what he's talking about. Watch him now. He says, And I'll
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. All his children, all those that he's going to, when
he writes this law in their heart and he teaches them, how are
they going to all know? Because they're all going to
be taught of God. Who's going to teach them? Christ the prophet's
going to teach them. He's the mediator of this covenant.
He brings it and teaches it and testifies in the heart of his
people and tells us what this covenant is. He is that word
that enters in. And he says, and this is what
I'll do, I'll be merciful to their unrighteousness and their
sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Now that's
good news. When he comes and he tells you
that. Now, look at Hebrews 9. You know what a will and testament
is? A testator writes out what his will is. It's his will and
his testimony. What he has to say about his
will and who his inheritance goes to. Now, that testator that
writes out that will, that testament does not go into effect even
though you may be the one he's written into that will to be
the recipient of his inheritance. It doesn't go into effect until
the one who is the testator dies. And then they come to you, and
they set you down, and they tell you, they read the will, and
they tell you what the testament was of the man who wrote the
will, and what the inheritance is that you freely receive. You didn't do a thing. Somebody
died, and they left it to you. They gave it to you. Well, Christ
is the testator. When it says he's the mediator
of this better covenant, he's the testator. He's the one who
is one with the Father. He's the one who is joint heir
with the Father. He's the one to whom the Father
entrusted this work. And He came and what He had to
do was He had to die as a man for this testament to go into
effect. And He says here, and then Hebrews
9.15, And for this cause, He is the mediator of the New
Testament. Here's the reason why. He was
made flesh like unto His breath and He came to where we are that
by the means of death. for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under that first testament. That first testament started
in the garden. It didn't start, I am outside,
it started in the garden. You came under the curse of God's
broken law when Adam sinned in the garden. That law he gave
to Moses was to be recorded to teach us the great transgressions
that were committed under that first covenant. Christ came and
redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for
us. For everyone he represented. And he says here, he did that,
that they which are called. You see, he's not only the testator,
the mediator in the regard that he's the one that died and wrought
this work of grace on the behalf of his father and on the behalf
of the children, but he's the one who also does the calling
and teaching so that they understand in the heart what he's done.
You understand that? And he gives them the promise
of eternal inheritance. His gospel is when Christ the
prophet speaks in the heart, the message that he declares
is he has established the law. He has completely done everything
that God requires for you. That's what He'll say if He comes
and He testifies this in your heart. And He'll tell you, you're
justified from all transgressions, from all iniquity, from all your
sin. And He will tell you this, the chastisement of your peace
was on Him and with His stripes, you're healed. Healed. Whole. Whole as God is whole. That's holy. what that is. You're
whole. And he'll say to the child to
whom he speaks, your sins and iniquities I will remember no
more. There's no more offering for
sin. There's nothing else to offer anymore. And he'll say
to this, free inheritance is yours. What does that include? Everything that belongs to God.
All things are yours. Joy and errors we cry. Everything
belongs to Christ is yours. That's what this prophet will
testify. Now, I want to look at this third point. I want you
to get this because this is where folks tend to at least act like
they forget this. Turn over to Matthew 28. This
is the third thing. Now Christ is risen. Now I can
understand, you can probably enter into the fact that when
He walked this earth, And he taught people in person. And he was the prophet there
in person and he walked this earth. You could probably say,
well, I can understand him being the prophet there. He's still
the prophet. He was the prophet of God. by
whom all the prophets spoke before He came. They spoke by the Spirit
of Christ and they spoke about Him. He is the prophet that came,
and when He came, He's the only one that ever came that didn't
tell them about another. He came and preached Himself.
He was the only, and that's what He was sent to do. And now, He
sends forth His pastors and His teachers and His evangelists,
and they go forth just as those prophets of old did, they go
forth with this written Word complete, with the Spirit of
Christ in them, with the Word that He gives them to speak,
and they shall speak the Word He gives them to speak. And it
is still Christ the Prophet who is teaching through the Holy
Spirit, through His Word, in the hearts of His people. All
right, let's see this. That's what Paul said. He said,
we're ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. Now look what he said here before
he ascended. Matthew 28, 18. Jesus came and spake unto them. This is his disciples. Genesis 28, I'm sorry, Matthew
28, 18. Jesus came And spake unto them, and this
is what he said, all power is given unto me in heaven and earth. All power as the prophet, priest,
and the king. All power is the king who supremely
can deliver us and protect us and order his kingdom and righteousness.
All power is the high priest whose one offering has perfected
his people forever, who is able to purge the conscience and draw
us near to God. All power is the prophet to teach
effectually in the heart. Listen to this now. This is what
Paul said plainly is the problem with men who want to constrain
other men, using God's Word, constrain them, and glory in
what they've made other men do, and have you to observe certain
days, and certain meats and certain drinks and are continually pointing
you to things that are of the earth and earthy and making you
think that righteousness is in something you do or don't do. Paul said, this is the problem
with those fellows. Colossians 2.19, they do not
behold the head. Christ is the head of the church,
his body, and it's from which, from the head, from Christ, the
prophet, all the body, it's Colossians 2.19, all the body, by joints
and bands, have nourishment ministered to them from the head, from the
prophet, from the, the prophet of God, the head of his church,
They have nourishment ministered to them and they are knit together
and they increase with the increase of God. He said the same thing
in Ephesians 4.15. He says the head, even Christ,
is He from whom the whole body is fitly joined together. He
does it. Just as real as when He walked
this earth and walked up to Peter and James and John and said,
follow me. He doesn't. And you'll find yourself
following Him if He ever speaks this Word in your heart. And
if you're in error and you're walking contrary to His Word,
He is the King who can work all things together and fitly join
you together with another one of His saints and fitly bring
you together and give it in the heart so that one speaks a word
in season to the other in the spirit how it's needed to be
said, and He works effectually in that heart, and He compacts
you together, and He supplies every ministering every nourishment,
every... He makes this bread effectual. He makes this bread to be sanctified
to you. He makes this bread to cause
you to grow. And it says here, by His effectual working in the
measure of every part of every individual child whom He redeemed,
He teaches them, every single one of them, and He maketh increase
of the body. That's what He does. makes it
to edify itself in love. Now the prophet, the priest,
and the king, he declared to these insufficient earthen nobodies
that he had called out and taught in the heart before he ascended,
he told them, he said, all power is mine to do this. And he said
then, verse 19, Matthew 28 and 19, go ye therefore and teach
all nations. baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them. Now what did he say back there
when he said, I'm going to raise up a prophet? And he said, I'm
going to put my words in his mouth, and they shall speak what
I command them to speak. Now Christ came and he even said,
when he was here walking on this earth, the prophet of God, he
said, my words are not my own. I speak that which was given
to me of the Father. And it was given to him of the
Father, and he spoke those words. And you know what every one of
his ministers do that he sends? He gives them the words, and
they speak the words. They speak the words. Alright. Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you. And Christ our prophet,
our priest, and our king, He gives us this cause of the certain
triumph of this ministering, of going forth and preaching.
He says, verse 19, Lo, I am with you always, even until the end
of the world. Amen. Now don't make any mistake
about it. Right now, as He always has,
as He did when He walked this earth, as He did before He even
walked this earth, as He did when He walked this earth, and
even right now, as the King, as the Priest, as the Prophet,
He is able. He is able. to break every barrier,
break down every obstacle, to send forth His Spirit who is
like the wind. You don't know where it's coming
or where it's going and you can't stop it or question Him or do
anything. He brings it and He teaches this
word. He's able to send His messenger
to His people It don't matter if they're on the back side of
the desert where Moses was, when he called him in the burning
bush and Moses drew near to him and he said, take your shoes
off Moses, I'm talking to you now. He's able to do that. That's how he did it with Moses.
In various manners he's making time pass to the fathers by the
prophets. But in these days he's spoken
to us by son. And now this one who has been
inaugurated into these offices eternally, this God, the Son
of God, has no problem with any obstacle and any little fickle,
fumbling, ignorant being on this earth to work this work of grace.
When he's pleased to do it, he'll bring them to a unit from Ethiopia
out on the back side of nowhere on a road that was the... Bypass
had done bypassed it by and he sent his prophet out there and
he preached the gospel to him at high noon at the most unlikely
time in the middle of the desert to the most unlikely person and
God saved him Christ taught him and he heard it This is the God we're talking
about This is the God we're talking about now Paul said this he said
I have planted Apollos is watered But it's God that gave the increase.
He said this, Christ sent me not to baptize. What did He send
me to do? He didn't send me to try to build
His church. He didn't send me to try to get
converts. He didn't send me to try to make
men moral. He didn't send me to try to make
men reform themselves. That's not what He sent me for.
He sent me for this, to preach the gospel. It don't matter if
he does a thing through my preaching or he don't do anything or he
does wonders through my preaching. That's not what my charge is.
My charge is not to worry about that. My charge is to preach
the word he's given me to preach. What he does with it is his business.
And he said, not with wisdom of words. I'm not to take these
words. He says, I'm going to give you
two words of warning here in a minute. One of them is this.
He says, then that prophet that shall presume to speak in my
name, that which I've not commanded him to speak, that prophet's
going to die. He said, if they don't speak
according to this word, to this testimony given by the testator
into the heart of his prophet, it's because there is no light
in them. Period. Got that? And he said, the result will
be, if you go and read it in Isaiah, he said, the result will
be those men and everyone that they mutter and peep to will
go through life hardly bested and hungry, and when they're
famished, they're beaten, and they're whipped, they'll curse
God, and they'll look at their self, they'll look at the earth,
because that's where they've been taught to look, mind earthly
things, and they'll be hungry, and all they'll perceive is darkness,
and God said, and they'll be driven to darkness. Turn them
over to a reprobate mind that they might believe a lie. We're
living in that age right now reform preachers Presbyterian
preachers Pentecostal preachers papists Islam must the whole
all the bunch it's works religion trying to yoke and bind and whip
and mmm God's messengers come declaring cap setting the prisoners
free not binding them and yoke on them We have this treasure in earthen
vessels. Here's why we don't use wisdom
of words, that the excellency of the power may be of God, not
of us. Now, here's a word of warning. This is to you, back
there in Deuteronomy 18. I'll tell you what, you'd be
turning to John 6. John 6. Now let me give you this word
of warning in Deuteronomy. It shall come to pass that whosoever
will not hearken unto my words, which that prophet shall speak
in my name, I will require it of him. I'll require it of the
man who doesn't hear it. John 6, 28. What is the word
Christ spoke? Then said they unto him, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered
and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe
on him whom he hath sent. What else? Not anything else. Well, I don't believe that. God's
going to require it of you if you don't. Because this is what
the prophet said. These are the works of God that
you believe on Him whom He hath sent. He that believeth on the Son
hath life everlasting. And he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Well, what do we say about that? Turn over to Hebrews 12 and we'll
be done. Hebrews 12. You see, this Gospel is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. A man can seem religious. A man can have all his doctrine
down. A man can have all his creed in order, have it memorized
front and back. He can know all the traditions. He can be staunch, ready to die
for his denomination. But when he hears the Word of
this Gospel, he'll sigh with harlots and prostitutes before
your side with God's preacher." How do I know that? Look at the
foot of Calvary's cross and see the Pharisees with the Romans,
with the Gentiles, with the Sadducees, with the heathens that didn't
even know him, all joined together crying out, we have no king but
Caesar. This is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. This is it. I don't know. I can't
tell you. I have no idea. But this word
right here will discern. Make the discernment. Well, what
do we say about that? Hebrews 12, 18. Remember that
mount over there that they came to? He's speaking to believers
right here. Here's what he said. Ye are not
coming to the mount that might be touched. You can't touch the
mountain that we've come to. It's not a carnal mountain. "...that might be touched, and
that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which
voice they heard, and entreated that the word should not be spoken
to them any more, for they couldn't endure that which was commanded."
That's why they said what they said. Verse 22, "...but ye are
coming to Mount Zion, unto the city of the living God, this
city whose foundations, whose builder and maker is God, the
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, that mother of us
all that's free, that's above, that only can be seen with the
eye of faith, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general
assembly and church of the firstborn. which are written in heaven.
Somebody asked me the other day, what do I need to do to get my
name on y'all's church roll? You come sit down and hear the
gospel. Maybe the prophet's written your name on it. I don't know.
Maybe he has. Maybe he'll make you understand
he's done it. This is written in heaven. We come to the God,
the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
and to Jesus, that mediator. of the new covenant. And to the
blood of sprinkling, this mediator to this new covenant speaks better
things than that blood of April. That blood was under that old
legal covenant. This is that blood of that new covenant. He
speaks better things through this blood and he says, here's
what you heard, here's what you want to hear. See that ye refuse
not him that speaketh. For if they escape not who refused
him that spake on earth, Those that didn't heed Moses' word?
What happened to Korah and all his merry men of pranksters? What happened to all them? God
swallowed them up, didn't He? You know what will happen if
you don't hear this word right here? God may not open up the
earth physically and swallow you up in an earthquake, but
I'll tell you what He'll do. You'll be driven to darkness
and you will be swallowed up out there in that world and be
twice dead. That's what happened when for
that one that spoke on earth, he says, much more shall not
we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh. Where? From
heaven. That's where he is. That's where
he's speaking. Now, this is the work of God
that you believe on him whom he has sent. We're going to be
so brazen to say, well, that's not all. That's not all. Oh, heed this word. And the other
word of warning he gave over there was, he said, if a prophet
presumes to speak in my name, that which I have not commanded
him to speak, he'll die. He'll die. I'll tell you something,
I'm seeing this more and more. When he told them, you shall
not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. He's talking to preachers just
as much as he's talking to me and you walking around on this
earth and using his name like a cuss word. Preachers that presume
to speak in his name have taken his name in vain and presume
to speak that which he had commanded to be spoken. Dangerous thing
to fall into the hands of a living, angry, fiery God. All right.