All right. Thank you, Brother. That was a blessing. I pray the
Lord help us to hear that again and again. The Lord Jesus Christ. We're going to bring up Brother
Don, Don Bell from Lantana Grace Baptist Church. Lantana Grace
Church. I have it right here. I should
have read it in Crossville, Tennessee. And I had the pleasure of going
down to Brother Larry's place when he had some flood going
on there at the house there. And Brother Don came down with
a crew of some men from his church. And I was impressed with how
hard you were working there. I saw him breaking up the flooring.
I mean, just ramming that there. I looked at this guy and he was,
I was impressed. So that really, I'm not impressed. It really
impacted me in a positive way just seeing how hard you were
working. And I said, I want to work as hard as that man. And
I believe that he labors that hard in the word to bring forth
this gospel to the Lord's people. And so I'm thankful that you
came up. And brother, if you'd come and preach the gospel to
us now. Don't forget to turn that. It's
on? All right. OK. Well, what a blessing. What a
blessing. I enjoyed that. Oh, I'm so blessed. So blessed. Two of the most enjoyable things
that a person has in this world as a believer is to hear the
gospel, believe it, hear it and believe it. And the second is
enjoying the Lord's people, being with the Lord's people. That's
the two most blessed things that you have in this life. And I'm
doing both right now. I'm doing both. Turn with me
to John chapter 20. John chapter 20. I'm going to
read these first 18 verses and then try to go down through them
and see what the Lord has for us to see today. John chapter 20. The first day
of the week. cometh Mary Magdalene early,
when it was yet dark under the sepulchre to the grave, and seeth
the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth and
cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus
loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out
of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and they
came to the sepulchre, came to the grave, So they ran both together,
and the other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre.
And he stooping down and looking in saw the linen clothes lying,
yet went he not in? Then Simon Peter cometh following
him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the
linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went
in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre,
he saw and believed, for as yet they knew not the scripture that
he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away
again unto their own home, but Mary stood without at the sepulchre
weeping. And as she wept, she stood down
and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white
sitting. the one at the head, and the
other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they
say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because
they have taken away my Lord, and I not know not where they
have laid him. And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not
that it was Jesus. And our Lord said unto her, Woman,
why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposed
him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne
him away, or borne him hence, tell me where thou slay'd him,
and I will take him away. And Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith
unto him, Rabbani, which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto
her, Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father. But
go to my brethren, say unto them, I ascend unto my father. And
to your father, to my God and your God, Mary Magdalene came
and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he
had spoken these things unto her. I get my subject out of
Mary weeping. Woman, why weepest thou? Why
weepest thou? How many times over the course
of history do you suppose God's people have wept? How many times? How many times have we found
in the Bible that people wept? And there's many reasons for
us to weep, many reasons for us to cry. And when it says weep,
that means that you're doing it with great emotion, great
emotion involved in it. And many reasons why we weep.
Sometimes we weep tears of joy. I do that often when I'm hearing
the gospel, tears of joy. And then sometimes we have tears
of sorrow. We'll lose somebody that we love,
see somebody having great heartaches and troubles, and we get sorrow.
We have sorrow, and we cry over our sorrow. And then we have
tears of so thankfulness, being so thankful what God's done for
us. And then, oh, sometimes we weep because we're happy. You
know, we have a new baby, you know, and the mom and daddy weeps,
the granny and grandpa weeps, and, you know, and everybody
gets happy because they've got a new baby. And sometimes we
reap because we actually physically hurt. You know, our Lord Jesus
Christ has said he wept twice. It's hard for me to grasp, but
our Lord Jesus Christ, when he stood at Lazarus' tomb, he wept.
And when it says he wept, can you imagine? Our Lord, he's holy,
harmless. I mean, he is a holy man, perfect
man, sinless man, God man. And yet he stood there. And tears
streamed down his face. Tears come out of his eyes and
streamed down his face and dripped off his chin. Can you imagine
how them holy eyes, that who could talk to God, you know,
person to person, tears coming down off his face. And all the
Jews could think about, he must really love Lazarus. But you
know why he was weeping? He said, I got to bring this
man back from where he's at. him back into this world, and
then he's going to have to go through this again. That's why
he was weeping. That's why he was weeping. That's
why we wouldn't bring back any of our loved ones for 10,000
worlds like this. And the second time our Lord
wept, He looked out over Jerusalem, and He said, He started weeping.
He said, Oh, how often would I have gathered you as a hen
would gather her chicks, and you just would not. And He wept. He wept. Tears went down His
face. But here's Mary Magdalene, weeping,
weeping, walking around, tears streaming out of her eyes, her
heart's breaking, her body's probably shaking even. And here
she is, she's weeping. And she's weeping because she
can't find her master, she can't find her Lord. She wanted to
go and see his, go to his grave and visit him. And so, you know,
Jesus loved, they talked about John, that disciple whom Jesus
loved, but Mary Magdalene, Christ loved her, but she had a peculiar
love for the Lord Jesus Christ. And the reason why is because
she was forgiven of so much. Now you keep John and look over
in Luke chapter 8. Look in Luke chapter 8. Gives
you some idea of what kind of a character this woman was that's
standing there weeping at the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, she had been forgiven much, and she loved the Lord. Look
what it says here in verse 2, Luke 8-2, And certain women,
which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, and
Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils. Can you imagine? what kind of
woman she was, what kind of character she must have been, that she
had seven devils in her. Can you imagine somebody how
mean, what a reputation she had? You wouldn't cross her. If you
crossed her, don't tell them what she'd do to you. She had
seven devils, and the Lord saved her and cast all them devils.
So you imagine how much she loved Christ, that Christ set me free
from all this bonding. from all this torment, from all
this depression, from all the sorrow and all the grief and
all the meanness that I was. And He saved me from that. And
oh my, so let me give you several things about Mary and her weeping
and why she was weeping. First of all, look, she was very
anxious to be with the Lord. Look what it said here in verse
one. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early. when it was yet dark under the
grave. She came early. It was still dark. It was still
dark. Nobody else had got up and went
out to the grave there. Simon Peter didn't. John didn't.
No other disciple did. But here's this woman. And the
darkness of this morning was just symbolic of the darkness
she felt inside for what she had seen done to her master.
She was at the cross of Christ. Do you know that? Look over in
John chapter 19 verse 25. Look what it says here. Now there
stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, her name's Mary, and
his mother's sister, then Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene. Three Marys were there. And our
Lord Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, saw Him on that cross. She saw
his broken body. She saw the blood flowing from
his body. She saw that Roman soldier pierce
his side with the spear. She saw that blood coming out
of him all over his body. I mean, he was a bloody mess,
bloody mess. This idea that just a little
bit of blood here, a little bit of blood on there. He was blood
from the top of his head to the sole of his feet, and it was
running down his body onto the ground. And she stood there and
watched what they, mocking the Lord Jesus Christ, mimicking
the Lord Jesus Christ, deriding the Lord Jesus Christ, tormenting
the Lord Jesus Christ. And she stood there and watched
all of that. And she got up and her heart was so sorrowful and
she had such darkness in her soul because she had seen what
they had done to her master, to the Lord Jesus Christ. And
why did she come so early? Why was she first? because she
said, I would rather be with Christ and Him dead and at His
grave as to be without Him, period. I'd rather be where He's at,
even if He's not alive. She said, I want to go be with
Him. And she saw this, and then it says there, and she saw the
stone taken away from the sepulcher. She got there and they'd put
a big stone over there. And the stone was gone. And oh,
what a disappointment. What a disappointment. Oh my. Then it says in verse two, look
what it says. She runs. She didn't walk. She
ran. She was in such a hurry. She
ran and come to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus
loved. That's John. And this is what
she said. She said, they've taken away
the Lord out of his grave and we don't know where he's at.
Don't know where they took him and laid him. Don't know. Just don't know. They took away
the Lord. She went to see her Lord Jesus
Christ, whom she believed was dead, and instead she found an
empty grave. She found an empty grave. And
I tell you, he said, they've taken away the Lord Jesus Christ. And I tell you, it's grievous,
grievous to believers. Oh, how grievous it is to believers
when our Lord is taken away. Oh, when they take him away.
They take away his glory. These preachers today, and I
tell you at home and everywhere else you can go, they take away
his glory. He has no glory. He has no power. They take away his power. Take
away the power of his blood. Take away the power of his grace.
Take away the power of his mercy. And I tell you, take it away
and put it all in man's will. Put it all in man's power. Put
it all in man's purpose and all. Put everything, take his glory
down and bring it down and give man his glory and put him way
up there. there. Oh, my. They take away His preciousness.
Oh, how precious He is to believers. But they take away the preciousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They take away the preciousness
of His person. Make Him a little old helpless
man. Make Him a helpless man with no power, no ability. Oh,
my. They take away His person. They
put Him in a manger at Christmas time. saying, Oh, little Lord
Jesus, our baby, and saying little Sims to him. And then they keep
him, they put him on a cross at Easter, bring him down and
then raise him again from the dead on the third day. Oh, they
take away his glory, take away the power of his blood, take
away his righteousness and put man's righteousness in his place.
They even take away his voice. That's why men preachers have
to plead with preachers because Christ ain't got a voice now.
That's why he says, you know, Paul said they count his blood
an unholy thing. That means they counted his common,
common walk on his step on it. But oh my, she is disappointed.
They've taken away the Lord. I don't know where that lady.
But Mary didn't quit. She's going to keep on looking.
She's going to keep on until she finds him. There's no satisfaction
for her heart until she finds the Lord. Now look what she said
down here now in verse 10, Mary stood, then the disciples
went away home again, but Mary stood without a separate or weeping,
and as she wept, she stooped down, she stooped down. But now
look what these disciples did. Go back up here and look at this.
In verse six, follow these fellows down here. They come running
to the grave, and Peter looked down and looked in. And they
saw the linen clothes lying, yet he didn't go in. But Simon
Peter, he went in that grave. He crawled in that grave. It's
a hewn out of stones, and it was big enough for him to get
in there. And he walked in there, and he
saw, he saw, I'll tell you what he saw. When he looked in there,
there was the clothes that our Lord Jesus Christ was wrapped
in, laying right there just like he had been in them. But over
here, they put a napkin over their face, and that napkin was
wherever he was laying, and that napkin was laid over here. But
his clothes was laying right there just like it had been in
them, and the face was laying over here. Now how in the world
does that stay there, and him not in them? They saw that to understand. And these people, they keep saying,
where we found the Shroud of Terran? I guess something, you
know, that you could find the grave clothes of Christ. If you
found them, set them on fire. Stick a mask to them. If you
find the Ark, make toothpicks out of it. Ain't that right? Because people are going to make
a religious relic out of it, ain't they? But oh, my. And they go, you know, and then
they went in there and saw all that. And all said in verse 8,
you know, that John went in, he saw and he believed. For as
yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from
the dead. And look what these fellows done. They turned around
and went back home. Saw an empty grave, saw the grave
closed, saw the napkin, and they turned around and went home.
Mary didn't. She stayed right there. She stayed
right there, weeping and crying. And oh my, they saw all that.
But Mary stood by the tomb, held by cords of love, held by cords
of faith. Her desire for her Lord Jesus
Christ was so great, her eyes were so blinded by sorrow. Now when those fellows looked
in there, there was no angels. But when Mary stood down and
she looked in there, she saw two angels, two angels. Huh? And where was one? One was
sitting where the feet of Christ was, and the other was sitting
where his head was. And, oh my, and they asked her.
They asked her, and she's still weeping. She's just crying so
hard. And they said unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Oh, why do you weep? She said,
oh my. She said, they've taken away
the Lord, and I don't know where they've laid him. Her grief was
so great, her grief was so sad, she was so sorrowful. Have you
ever been so taken up with your own grief, or your own sorrow,
or your own pain, and your own burdens, and have so much trouble
in your soul, that you fail to see the greatest blessings that
God's give us? And the greatest blessing is
an empty tomb, and a raised and ascended Lord sitting at God's
right hand, making intercession for us. Oh my, Mary did, she
couldn't see it. She couldn't, she couldn't grasp,
she couldn't grasp the Lord being risen. So taken up with her sorrow
that she didn't even, wasn't even suspicious that Christ had
risen from the dead. But our own, our own grief sometimes
and our own troubles and our own sorrows gets in our way.
I should say not our way, should say my way. gets in my way sometimes
where I can't see things clearly. I can't say things the way they
really are. And you know, you get taken up and you get discouraged,
you get depressed, you get things on your mind, you get down, and
all you can think about is what you're down, what you're going
through, your troubles, and then you forget about what Christ
has done, who he is, and where he is now. And oh, that's why
we have to just keep coming, hearing the gospel over and over
and over. I have to be reminded. I have
to be reminded. But oh, she made such a mistake. Look what it says now in verse
14. They asked her, woman, why are
you weeping? Why in the world are you weeping so hard? And
when she had thus said, she said, I don't know where they've taken
my Lord. You know, they've taken away my Lord. And she, even in
death, she called him her Lord. As far as she knew, he was dead.
But she said, my Lord, my Lord, my God, my Savior. And when she
had this, she turned around and she's gonna leave. And she turned
around, you know why she meant? She turned around and there was
a man standing there. Watch what happens. She turned herself around
and she saw Jesus standing. She didn't have any idea that
it was the Lord Jesus. Didn't have any idea. She's fixing to leave and she
turned around and there's a man standing right in front of her.
Bumped into him, pissed about. And she turned around and she
saw him standing there. She didn't know it was the Lord.
She thought he was the gardener. She thought he was the one taking
care. You know, we have graves at home. And every community
has its own graveyard. Every community has its own graveyard
where all the people in that community get buried in those
cemeteries. Where I live, they call it Thomas
Springs. And they have people that take care of, you pay them,
you pay them, and they mow the grass and do all the stuff and
keep everything clean and all that stuff. Well, that's what
she thought this fellow was. He takes care of the garden there.
Takes care of all that stuff that went on there. And look
what the Lord said to her. Why are you weeping so? Why are
you crying so much? Why is your eyes so filled with
such water? Why is your heart breaking so?
Why are you so sad? Why are you so grievous? Why
are you hurting so bad? And then he asked her another
question. Who you looking for? Who you looking for? She said,
I'm looking for my master, but I can't find him. I can't find
him. But I listen. Oh my. And she said, sir, if you took
him from this place here, tell me where you've laid him and
I'll take him away. Oh my. You know, even in our Lord's
resurrection, and I'll deal with this tomorrow, son, nobody knew
the Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody ever saw him in his resurrection
body except his elect. And the only way they could see
Him is for Him to reveal Himself to them. She was standing right
there and it was still the Lord Jesus Christ. But she didn't
know who it was. It's like those disciples on
the Emmaus Road. They walked seven miles with the Lord Jesus
Christ and called Him a stranger. Says, stranger, don't you know
what just took place in Jerusalem? What happened? Well, they took
Jesus and Nazareth. We thought he was a prophet.
We thought he was going to be our savior. And they crucified
him. And we're going home. We're done. And then the Lord's walking along
with them, talking with them. They didn't have a clue he was.
And they got all the way home, walked seven miles, and he was
going to just go on. They said, no, no, no, no, don't
come in here and eat. We're going to eat. We're going to eat and
eat supper. And they said, come in and eat
with us. Well, our Lord Jesus took that bread in his hand and
started praying. That's when he knew it was him. You know
what he said? Oh, fools, it's slower hard.
My that's the way it is nobody even today. I'm telling you Nobody's
gonna know who Christ is and the only person he's gonna make
himself known to is his elect And I'll tell you he's got a
lot of elect and a lot of people that ain't never heard the gospel
yet But they gonna hear it one of these days and when they see
him They're gonna become a sinner like you talked about earlier
that all my look what happens now Oh how Lord was there and
he didn't recognize him If he had been laying in the tomb,
she would have recognized him. She said, that's the Lord. If
he had been laying in the grave, she would have looked in there
and said, that's my master. That's my Lord. But she saw him
standing. How can a dead man be standing? Oh, my. I'll tell you, my conception
of the Lord is so low sometimes that if he appeared in any degree
in his glory, I wouldn't recognize him, oh my. And I'll tell you,
if the Lord Jesus Christ came back today as he was, nobody
would know him and they'd do to him again just exactly what
they did the first time. But oh my. And then he said to
a woman, why are you weeping? You know why I asked her that?
Because he cared so much for her. He was concerned with her
fears, for her sorrow, for her grief, And he does he feels our
sorrows and that's why I said who you looking for who you looking
for And he would come from I he would find from our own lips
what we think about him I've got to come out of our lips got
to come out of our hearts. Oh My But this is so this soul
is so determined to find her Lord. She's willing to bear any
burden extreme, go to anything she can possibly do, and she
addresses him so respectfully, and she says to the Lord Jesus
Christ, she said, Lord, sir, sir, she addressed him so well.
Now look what happens in verse 16. Well, she's fixing to turn
around and walk away from the gardener. She's going to walk
all around him. And then, you know, she turned herself away
and posed him to be the gardener. And then our Lord spoke a one-word
sermon, one-word sermon. And Jesus said unto her, Mary. Bless you, Mary. Oh, Mary. One word from the lips of our
Lord Jesus Christ. One word, that's all it takes.
Just one word to our hearts. One word to our mind. One word
to our understanding. And that's all it takes. Just
give me a word. Just give me a word. And oh my,
you know our Lord Jesus Christ called his people lots of times. He said, Martha, Martha, you're
concerned about a lot of things. He called Zacchaeus. How did
he know Zacchaeus' name? In the upper tree. He taught
Lazarus. He called these people by name.
Look over in Isaiah 43. Let me show you something. Let's
look together in Isaiah 43. Let's look at this together.
You know, Moses said, Lord, I want to know your name. I want to
see your glory. I want to know. I don't want
to go anywhere. without you, and I, Lord, you know what God
said to him, said, Moses, I called you by name, and you only have
I known by name, and I'll go with you wherever you go, but
now look what it says here, talking about calling her by name, but
now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, oh, and
that formed thee, Oh Israel, fear not, listen to this, for
I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name. And them not only called you
by name, but you're mine, you belong to me, you belong to me.
And then he said, I tell you what, I love you so much, I'm
gonna care for you so much, and that's what Mary was going through.
She was going through deep waters, She was, her soul was in a fiery
place. She was going through agony over
Christ. And then when now passes through
the waters, I'm going to go with you. When you go through the
rivers, it's not going to overflow you. When now walk through the
fire, it ain't going to burn you. Flame ain't going to get
up on your clothes. I'm the Lord thy God, the Holy
One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for a ransom, Ethiopia,
and Sheba for thee, since thou wast precious in my sight. I have loved thee. I have loved
thee." Oh, my. She was seeking, back over in
her text, she was seeking the Lord, and she found him. She didn't find him dead. She
didn't find him somewhere else with a lady's body. She's standing
right in front of her. Oh my. And she turned herself
by his word. And she said, Mary. She turned
around and looked. She turned around and looked.
And the first thing she says, Master. Master. You're my master. You're my lord. You're my savior.
You're all authority. She went seeking for a dead Lord
and found a risen Savior, a risen Lord, a risen Master. And I know
this, no one, no one will truly seek the Lord and will not find
Him if they truly seek Him. And you'll not find a powerless
dead Savior left with nothing. But I tell you, if you ever find
Him, you're going to find Him sitting at the right hand of
God with all power and authority vested in Him. I tell you, that's
where you're going to find Him. And He says, Mary, she says,
Master, Lord, He knows me and I know Him. And then look what
she starts to do in verse 17. And I'll tell you, you know why
I said, don't touch me? She was fixin' to throw herself,
just her arms around him. She was fixin' to just grab him
and hug him and squeeze him and kiss him. She was fixin' to do,
I mean she was fixin' to show her love for her master. But
our Lord said, don't do it. Don't do it, don't touch me.
Don't touch me. She wanted to. Oh my. She is so glad to see him, so
anxious to embrace him. But now she'll have to walk by
faith and not by sight." And all he said, touch me not for
I've not yet ascended to my father. But look what he
tells her, go tell my brethren. And I've got something I want
you to tell them. You notice that he says, my brethren. He
didn't go say, tell everybody. He didn't go tell everybody,
run down through town, holler, oh, I got news for you. No, no,
go tell my brethren. You know, he's not ashamed to
call us brethren. Oh my, those who denied him,
got to go tell Peter, he denied him. Got to tell them other disciples,
they all forsook him and fled. But look what our master said,
you go to my brethren. And you say unto them, I send
unto my Father and your Father to my God and your God. Oh my. We are one. Your Father is my
Father. Your God is my God. And I identify
with you and you're gonna identify with me and him. And that's what
he's telling her right then and there. And oh my. Oh what a blessed
thing. Our Lord ascended. But look what
she did. And Mary Magdalene, verse 18,
Mary Magdalene came. Our Lord said, go. Mary Magdalene
went. And Nicholas said, and Mary Magdalene
came and told the disciples. Here's the first thing she told
them. I've seen the Lord. I have seen the Lord. Everybody's
ever seen the Lord was dramatically changed. Oh my. She said, I've
seen the Lord. Oh my. and that he has spoken
these things unto her. I'm sure he said some other things
than I'm gonna sin. But oh, what a story she had
to tell. What good news, what good news she had to tell. What
good news for these pitiful, pitiful disciple. Oh, they was
pitiful. She said, I've seen the Lord.
He spoke these things to me. Oh my, she just told him what
she's seen and what she'd heard. And you know when a soul is seeking
the Lord Jesus Christ, no obstacle is going to stop them. A garden
ain't going to keep them out. The grave ain't going to do it.
Burdens won't do it. She is willing to do, to be,
or anything to be with Him and to find Him. And that's the way
a believer is. It said over there in Acts chapter
2, it says there that after they were baptized, that 3,000 souls,
they continued They continued in the apostles doctrine. They
didn't, after they got baptized, said, I need something to be
doing something else. I need to go somewhere else. I got this
going on. Got that. No, no. It says they continued. They
followed. They didn't stop a while and
go a while, stop a while, go a while. They continued. They
followed them around. And that's the way anybody, that's
what Mary does. She said, I'm going to have my
Lord. I'm going to have my master. I'm going to be with him. I don't
care what it costs me. And that's why she did. And I'll
tell you, a seeking soul like Mary will not be satisfied, will
not be satisfied with seeing angels. She saw two angels. That
didn't do anything for her. Never helped her a bit. All she
did was kept on crying. You know the thing that done
anything for her? When the Lord Jesus called her by name, my
sheep hear my voice, and I know them, And when I call them, guess what's
going to happen? They're going to hear my voice
and they're going to follow me. Oh my. And oh my, look what happens
down on down here. Let me just show you this real
quick. Then the same day, down in verse 19, at evening. Now this is, this is, she started
out, it was dark. It was dark. Now they're in the
evening now. And the evening for them started
at six o'clock. The same day at evening, being
the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, were the
disciples, listen to this, were assembled for fear of the Jews. Listen to this now. Came Jesus
and stood in the midst of them. Now, how did he get in? He didn't
knock on the door and say, would you let me in? I need to come
in. No, no. He just, there he was. You know what the first thing
he said to them? Peace be unto you. You're scared to death.
You need some peace. You're terrified. You need some
peace. You're scared of these Jews and
they're gonna come do to you what they did to me. Peace be
unto you. Peace be to your heart. Peace
be to your mind. Peace be to your soul. Peace
be to your understanding. And when he had so said, look
what he did to prove to him who he was. He showed him his hands,
showed him his side, and listen to this. Then were the disciples
glad. What would make you glad? When
they saw the Lord, then were they glad. Oh, I tell you what,
I got glad. Oh, I got so glad when the Lord
made me to see him and know him. When I saw him for myself, saw
him for myself. And once you ever see him, you
never get tired of looking. Never, never, never. Well, I
appreciate you. Appreciate you letting me come.
Thank you for listening. You want to turn this off, or
you turn it off? OK. All right, brethren. So we are
going to break now for a meal, about an hour. And then we'll
come back at 530. And I pray the Lord strengthen
us and help us because these are wonderful messages and I
want to hear them. And we'll have Brother Larry come back
and then Brother Darvin a second time and then we'll be dismissed
for the evening. So I'll close us in prayer and
then we'll break for the meal. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your grace, for feeding us with your precious word, declaring
and exalting your son, Jesus Christ, whom you have sent to
save your people from their sins, to give us life and hope, love
and fellowship with our God in him. Lord, we thank you. We thank you for your grace and
mercy. Lord, we pray that you would bless the food which you've
given to us, that you would strengthen us and bless the time of fellowship
we have together. We thank you for those that you've
gathered here this day to hear your word. It's in Christ's name
we pray and give thanks. Just stop it?