Song of Solomon, chapter two. I don't know how far he had to
reach down for you, but he has a long, long, long, long, long
way he reached down for me. One of the preachers said last
night about God cleansing the unclean. I hope nobody was more unclean
than I was because I was certainly unclean and desperately, desperately
needed the Lord Jesus Christ and didn't know it until he made
me know it. Once he makes you know that,
that's all you do want to know. That's all you do want to know. Chapter two, verse eight, down
through 13. The voice of my beloved. Behold,
he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved
is like a roe or a young heart. Behold, he standeth behind our
wall. He looketh forth at the window,
showing himself through the lattice. My beloved spake and said, rise
up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter
is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the
earth, the time of singing of birds has come, and the voice
of the turtles heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her
green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good
smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. I titled my message this morning. He has won our hearts, won our
hearts. This is called the song of songs,
the song of Solomon. This whole thing is a song. Now
I don't know how I would sing it. I don't know how anybody
else would sing it. I don't know what tune we'd use
on it, but it's a song. It's a song of songs. All the
songs have been written. He said this whole thing's a
song. And it's Solomon's. And many find it very mystical
or spiritual and they don't get no help from it. Don't have any
interest in it. But what it is, it's a song of
love. It's a love song. It's a love
song. And it's a song of spiritual
intimacy between the Lord Jesus Christ and His people. Very,
very intimate, intimate. You read this book and you find
some things in it that's just very, very point blank. And there's two leading personalities
in this song of love, and they assume the character of the bridegroom
and the bride, the bridegroom and the bride, the Lord Jesus
Christ and his church. And the language, as you go through
this, is very, very intense. It reveals deep, deep, tender
feelings. Tender feelings that our Lord
Jesus Christ has for his people. Oh, how he loves his people.
No one can love like the Lord Jesus Christ can. And he has
such tender feelings for his people. And then this bride,
SHE HAS THE SAME FEELINGS TOWARDS HIM, THOUGH NOT AS DEEP AND NOT
AS INTENSE AS HE HAS TOWARDS THEM. AND THE FIRST ONE TO SPEAK
IN THIS RELATIONSHIP IS THE BRIDE HERSELF, AND THAT'S IN THE FIRST
FOUR VERSES OF CHAPTER 1. THE SONG OF SONGS, WHICH IS SOLOMON'S,
IS THE FIRST THING SHE SAYS. after she knows him. Let him
kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Kiss the son. Let him kiss me. Lord, kiss me. Show your love for me. For thy
love is better than wine. And when it says thy love, even
in the margin, it says thy loves, thy loves. Thy loves. And then he said, because of
the savor of good ointments. Oh, such a wonderful smell. The sweet savor of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The savor of a good ointment.
The blood of Christ, what a blessed ointment. The righteousness of
Christ, what a blessed ointment. Thy name is ointment poured forth. Therefore do the virgins love
thee. Draw me, draw me, Lord. I'll
run after you. THE KING HATH BROUGHT ME INTO
HIS CHAMBERS, HE TOOK ME INTO HIS SECRET PLACE, BROUGHT ME
INTO A PLACE TO BE WITH HIM. AND WE WILL BE GLAD AND REJOICE
IN THEE, AND WE'LL REMEMBER THY LOVE MORE THAN WINE. THE UPRIGHT,
ALL THAT LOVE YOU, THEY LOVE YOU UPRIGHTLY. AND I TELL YOU,
And as He won this bride's heart, our Lord has won my heart. I
hope He's won your heart, and He's conquered it, not just by
sheer power, no, no. He has won my heart, but by His
character. What a blessed character our
Lord Jesus is. How would we describe Him? When
you think about describing the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't
start describing a person that stands 5'9 or 5'10 and he's got
blonde hair and blue eyes. No, no. When you start thinking
about the Lord and going to describe Him, you start describing a personality. You start describing a character,
someone that is different, the most glorious, the most blessed,
the most precious, the most Beloved person you could ever
imagine And that's what he is It's what he is. He got the most blessed eyes
that looks at you I'd love to look back at him
the way he looks at me And I'll tell you then he loved
he wins you by his love oh He wins you by his love and by the
force of his personality Oh, and look what it says here. Now,
she started out talking about him, and then she continues to
talk about him here in verse eight of chapter two. Look what
she says, the voice of my beloved. I hear a voice. Well, whose voice
is it? It's a voice of love, I'll tell
you that. I know that much about it. It's a voice of love. It's
a voice of love, a love that manifests itself. uses these
wonderful words, uses these wonderful actions. He comes with these
words of grace and kindness and tenderness and calling and then
all the actions. Our Lord Jesus Christ, bless
His name, He comes and performs actions in this service today.
He performed an action when you sang that song today. When my
Savior in love come from above and reach down, how far down
did he reach? How far down did he reach for
you? How far down did he have to go
to get you? And oh my, then he comes with these
wonderful words. And you know what he said? It's
the voice of my beloved. The one that loves me. And look what it says. He comes. He comes. Oh, behold, he cometh. Yeah, I said he comes. You don't just hear his voice,
but here he comes. He's coming. Oh, he did come. Oh, he did come. He left the Father's glory, He
left the Father's love, He left the joys of heaven, left the
worship and adoration of angels, and He came into this world.
And behold, He come. And I tell you, He came so far, so high, so glorious, and He
came all the way down here. The distance between us and Him
was so great, so great. We could not possibly go where
He was. We could not possibly attain
to where He is. So what'd He do? He come, come
to where we are. Come and identified with us.
Come and said, oh listen, I'm gonna identify with a bunch of
God hatin', Christ rejectin', sinners from the top of their
head to the sole of their feet. I'm gonna come and identify with
them. And oh, he come and he brought
that. This is the most wonderful thing
and this is what's so blessed about the gospel. God had to
have something equal with himself. So what did he do? He sent himself
in the person of his blessed son. And so what happens is,
he can reach us, and because he's God, he can reach God, and
he can take, because he's man, he can take men, and he can take
God, and bring them together in his blessed person, and make
them one. Huh? Now how can he do that? For the multitude, you read it
this morning, the multitude that no man can number. I tell you
what, it's easy for him. We can't get our mind around
it, but he can hold all of us at the same time. And oh my, what a love, what
love it was. What love it must have been that
he would come and do this. And then look what else it says
now. And then he comes with great power, The voice of my beloved,
he comes, and then he's leaping. He comes powerfully. He comes
with some power. Now, the Lord don't need to be
using language for us to understand. He don't have to jump over mountains.
He owns the mountains, and He can step on mountains. He can
step anywhere He wants to step as long as He comes. I don't know if He comes, and
He comes leaping over the mountains, and every mountain He takes the
mountains and brings them down. And he leaps over the mountains
and comes over every mountain that separated him from the ones
he loved. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
he said they was making, you know, they was ridiculing him.
The gospel that our Lord priest, whenever you find out what the
enemies of Christ said about him, that's the gospel. You say
what? You take what they said about
him and it's the gospel. He said he aided Republican sinners. Take that and you got the gospel. He does do that. And he said,
I'll tell you what, you fellas, if you had a bunch of sheep and
you lost one sheep, what would you do about that sheep? Well,
I believe I'd leave all the rest of them and go hunting for that
one. Well, sure enough, he said he went looking for that one
sheep, and you know where that sheep was? He was lost. And here's the thing about it,
he come looking, and he went into the wilderness, he come
looking for that sheep, and he looked and looked and looked
for that sheep, and when he found it, believe me, there ain't but
two kind of sheep in this world. found sheep and lost sheep, but
they're all sheep, and he gonna find his sheep. And he found
that sheep, and this is what I love about it, he put it on
his shoulder. He didn't say, now follow me
out of the wilderness, follow me across these valleys, follow
me across these mountains, follow me through the dark, follow me
through these briars, and he didn't say anything like that.
He put it on his shoulder and carried it all the way back to
the fold. Huh? That's what the shepherd
does for his sheep. And oh, he come leaping. Then
look what else it says. He said not only did he leap
on the mountains, he skipped on the mountains. He's happy.
He's joyful. He's joyful. He's full of joy. He comes skipping, you know. He's happy. He's full of joy.
And you know why he's full of joy? He said, for the joy set
before him. He despised the shame, but he
went to that cross. He said, Father, they're yours. You gave them to me. And I'll
go and I'll do what I do. I'll do it with joy in my heart.
I'll do it with joy in my soul. I'll do it with joy in my actions.
I'll do it with joy. I will joyfully lay down my life
for them. I delight, oh Lord, I delight
to do thy will. Thy will, oh Lord, I delight
to do. I just love to do your will.
What is your will? Go and save my people. Go shed
your blood for my people. And he comes with joy. You know, I don't know how many of you
know me very well, but I'm generally a pretty happy fella. And I feel
good almost all the time until I feel bad. But I'll tell you something about
feeling bad, and I'll tell you this, I won't tell nobody else
but you all. When you're in public, when you're
in public, you be full of joy, you be full of grace, you be
full of kindness and tenderness. Don't go around with an old sad
face. Don't go around, oh boy, life's
so tough. Don't do that. When you go on
the job, go on there and you just smile and be happy and be
joyful and do something. We've got a joyful sound we hear
and God gives us joy in our heart. I'd rather have joy, everybody
wants to be happy. Mom said, I want you to be happy,
I want you to be happy. Happiness is, you know, who cares
how happy anybody is? The thing is if you got the joy
of the Lord. Joy, that joy that bubbles up,
that joy that makes you happy, that joy that makes you want
to rejoice, that joy that makes you want to skip. Huh? If you think the Lord skipped,
he'll get you skipping in a little while. I mean, he'll get you
skipping. Paul, I'd like to see you skip
sometime. I'm gonna sneak in up there one
of these days, see if you do. But then look what else he says
here now. He comes joyfully. Look down at verse nine, look
what else he does. My beloved is like a roe, a young
heart. And then look what he says. Behold,
he stands behind our wall. He stands. Oh, he hears. Then he comes. Then he leaps
and he skips. And now he's standing by the
wall. He stands behind our walls. And you say, what kind of walls
we have? Well, pride's a bad wall. Oh, that's an awful wall. Self-righteousness, that's an
awful wall. Self-comfort, you know, loving
self is an awful wall. You know, unbelief's an awful
wall. Indifference is an awful wall.
Cold-heartedness is an awful wall. Presumptions, but he stands
behind that wall. But you reckon this wall's gonna
keep him out? Huh? You know, he don't have to step
over the wall. He just pushes the wall down
and comes on in. And oh, he stands behind our
wall. No wall can keep him out. But
a wall sometimes will keep him from view. A wall will keep us
from seeing him. It won't keep him from seeing
us, but it'll keep us from seeing him. And oh, blessed be his name. But here's the thing, he condescends
to stand. He condescends to stand. And
he stands behind these walls. And then he, you know what, he'll
tear them walls down. Oh God, tear down our wall of
self-righteous. Tear down our wall of unbelief. Tear down every wall that's between
me and you. Tear it down. And oh my. And then look what he's standing,
then look what he does again in verse nine. He starts looking.
He stands and then he starts looking. He looks. Where's he
looking at? In the windows. Looking at us. Oh my, he gets, he stands and
then all of a sudden he's coming looking at us. Where's he looking?
Looking right here. Looking right here, looking in
your mind, looking in your heart, looking in your soul, looks into
your intents, looks into your motives. He looks into everything. He looks into your heart, your
will, your affections, everything about you. He looks into a soul
and he sees every need that the soul has. I don't know what your
needs are, when they are, but there's not a moment in time
that we do not have a need for the Lord Jesus Christ, and He
always comes and meets the needs of our needy soul. He said, I
see a need right there. I'm gonna go take care of that
need. I see that cry, I'm gonna go
take care of that. I see that heartbroken, I'm gonna
go take care of that. I see that fear, I'm gonna go
take care of that. I see that worry, I'm gonna go
take care of that. He looks in, and I'll tell you,
he looks into our hearts, he looks into everything about it.
And here's what's so wonderful about it, and I've said this
countless times. Lord, look, look, look, look,
look. Go ahead and look. Look me over
from top to bottom. Look me inside, look at me outside. And if Christ is not there, Lord,
you take everything away that would keep Christ from being
everything. Oh, Lord. Don't you, ain't you grateful
that God sees you and knows you? You know, there ain't no sense
putting on no sham. There's no sense putting on what
we call the dog down home. There's no sense doing that.
There's no sense us being put on or act like we're something
we're not, because God knows us just exactly the way we are.
And I'll tell you something else, He knows what we want to be. He knows what we want to be. That's another blessed thing.
Not only does He know us, but He knows our desires and what
we want to be. What do you want to be? I want
to be with Him forever. I want to be like Mary, I want
to sit at His feet. I want Him, I want Him as old
Maurice Montgomery used to say, He'd take me up in His arms and
hold me in His bosom. I'll tell you, we can have such
a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, it's more intimate
than any relationship you can have on this earth. I mean, we can do that. I mean, there's some people that
do. He's looking in the window. What
does he see? He sees me, not like I am. Then look what else he says.
And then look what it says, not only does he stand, he came powerfully,
not only does he stand, not only does he look, but then look what
it says there in verse nine again. He shows himself through the
ladder. He stood, he looked, now I'm gonna let you see me.
That's what it says, showing himself through flourishing.
Oh, he's looking at us. And now here he comes, he said,
I'm gonna show you myself. I'm gonna let you look at me.
Shows he's flourishing, he's flourishing. Oh my, what a gracious,
gracious lover of our souls to show himself. Oh, you know, and the wealth
of his character to his beloved. I noticed something last night
when Marvin was, And he went over there and showed us in 13
about how wealthy Abraham was, silver and gold, had all kinds
of it. But you know where his wealth really was? When he got
over to Genesis 15 and God said, I am thy exceeding and great
reward. Abraham wanted the reward of
God was better than everything else he ever had. Ain't that
right? As you know, Peter and John,
they went up to the temple and there's a man laying there and
he said, wanting some money, begging. You know what Peter
told him? He said, I ain't got no money
at all. I ain't got none. If I had money, I'd give you
some, but I ain't got none. But I'll tell you what I do have.
I've got Christ, and I've got the grace of God, and I've got
a message I'll tell you about. And he told him, and that old
boy jumped up and went to dancing. You know, and then he shows himself.
He stood, then he looked, and then he shows himself. That's
kind of the way the Lord does it. He comes and reveals himself,
makes himself known to us, reveals himself to us. And he don't do
it, he does this so many times in our experience, in our spiritual
life. He shows himself to us in so
many different times, in so many different ways, and so many different
experiences that we go through. Then look what else he does now.
In verse 10, he stood, he looked, and he showed himself, and then
he spake. He said, I got something to say to you. What are you gonna
say? My beloved spake. Oh, you reckon
she recognized that voice? You know what our Lord said? My sheep! Hear my voice, my beloved
spake. She has no doubt of whose voice
it is. She knows his voice when she
hears it. What other voice, what other
voice sounds like his? What other voice speaks in such
sweetness and kindness and compassion, speaks in power to the heart
and the will? Oh my, that's why our Lord said
my sheep hear my voice and I know them, I know them. You know,
Zacchaeus heard his voice. Zacchaeus, little bitty fella,
climbed up a tree to see the Lord. Zacchaeus! How'd the Lord
know his name? He said, I know. Zacchaeus! I don't believe Zacchaeus said
a word. I don't believe he looked down and said a word. He just
looked. He was up there to look anyway.
That's why he's up there, he's looking. He wants to see the
Lord. Come down! He got out of that tree. That's
kinda like a preacher I heard about one time. He was born to
preach his first sermon. The preacher's sittin' there
and he's gonna get up and preach his first sermon. He said this, he said,
and he used Zacchaeus, he said, and the Lord said, Zacchaeus, come
down. He said, I'm like Zacchaeus, I'm a man of a little stature.
I'm like Zacchaeus, I'm up, and I'm like Zacchaeus, I'm down,
and I'm gonna get down. But that's what the preacher
said, three points, he got up, got down. But here's what Zacchaeus
heard his voice, and he come down. Oh my, Lazarus, Lazarus
heard his voice. How can a dead man hear the voice
of the Son of God? How can a man that's dead and
corrupt, how can he hear a voice? It's according to who's speaking.
And our Lord Jesus Christ stood outside his tomb and he said,
Lazarus! And the scripture said, he that
was dead, he that was dead. Oh my. Paul heard his voice on
the Damascus road. Saul, Saul. I tell you, John
the Baptist said, I'm just a voice. But he spake unto me. Spake unto
me. Hear his voice. Hear his voice. Oh, what a blessed voice it is.
And then look what else about his voice. His voice is, Compelling
yet it tells us to do something He says there in verse 10 again
rise up my love my fair one and look what he says rise up and
come away He always always, you know when he calls us up. He
always calls us to himself Come away to me come away with me
He said come away rise up and come away He always calls us
to himself Let me ask you, could she have said, no, I don't believe
I'll go. I don't believe I wanna go. I just don't believe, I don't
believe I wanna go. No, no. Oh my, he always calls
us to him. Could she have refused such a
compelling voice? It was the voice of her beloved.
And he has come to take her to himself. He says, come away,
come away. You know, when, Most folks in
here, one time or another, has a marriage vow. Make a marriage
vow. Marriage vow. And when you make a marriage
vow, this is the first thing they ask you. They say, do you
take this woman or this husband, this man to be your lawful wedded
husband? Do you take care of her, love her, cherish her, honor
her all the days of her life? You say, oh yes, I will. And
from then on, you take her to be your wife or her husband.
And you all become, well, this is what our Lord Jesus Christ
is. He says, you come away to me. I'm gonna be married to you. I'm gonna take you to myself.
And here you are, you come away with me. Could you go with anybody
better, huh? Oh my, there's a voice, follow
me. And he says, come away. Come away from everything that
harmed you. Comes away from everything that
hinders you? Come away to His way. Come away to what He did. Come away where there's such
peace. Come away where there's such power. Come away where there's
rest. Come away from yourself. Come away to Christ. Come away. As sinners, we go to Him. we go to him and keep going.
Then look what he says here at verse 11. This is language that
he shows us about our new birth, our new life that he gives us
in Christ. That's what he says, come away. And this language,
you know, that he's using here is where winter's past and the
spring has come. And he says this, he says, The
winter's past. The winter's past. Oh, the springtime
has come. New life in Christ, the son of
righteousness has arisen over our old, cold, cold, dark souls. And all the blessings of a new
life comes from him. And here's the gospel. Listen
to this. He says, the winter is past. In the winter, everything's
dead, lifeless. Lifeless, dark, the winner's
death. It is past. Death is past. He's made us new creatures in
Christ. He quickened us from the death of our sins, brought
us to himself. We know people that's alive die,
go from life to death. But what God does for us, we
go from death to life, just the opposite. And he brings us from
death to life. And he brings us into this warmth
of grace and mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he gives us
this new life, this new creation. And if the winter's gone, here
comes the spring. Listen to what he says now, next
thing. And the rain's over, the rain's
stopped. You know, when you talk about
rain in the scriptures, it's always, it means judgment. God
said, I'll hold the rain. I'll hold the rain. And you know,
the rain of judgment's over, over and gone. It's like Noah. Noah was in that ark. It rained
and rained and rained and rained and rained. And then when the
flood was gone, Noah stepped out into a new world. And when
we, God saved us, we brought us into a new world. I never
knew a world like this existed, did you? I never knew a world
like the spiritual life we have in Christ existed until I experienced
it myself. And you know how our Lord stopped
the judgment? He bore it Himself on the cross.
Our Lord, by His death on the cross, He brings us into this
newness of life. And I believe this with all my
heart, that when God saves a man, When God actually saves a man
and does a miracle in his life, regenerates him, gives him the
new birth, what He does is He brings into existence a person
who never existed before. You never had a problem with
sin until God gave you life. You didn't understand one word
of the Bible until God gave you life. You couldn't see Christ,
you couldn't see the Bible, you couldn't see nothing. You couldn't
see your sin, you couldn't see righteousness, you couldn't see
nothing until God gave you life. And when he gave you a new life,
he created a new man in you, and that new man is the person
we have fellowship with God in. This flesh don't fellowship with
God. This flesh gets tired and weary,
and sleepy, and discouraged and depressed. But I tell you what,
this new man in here, he's always happy, he's always joyful, he's
always looking. If you got a new man in you,
you know what that new man in you is doing right now? Listen
to what I got to say. And you say, well, if that's
so, yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. You know
who that is responding to that? That's that new man. That old
man ain't responding at all. That new man is. That old man
says, would you leave me alone so I can listen? Has that ever happened to you?
Oh my. And then, oh, look what else
it says. Then it comes down to the flowers. The flowers. He says, the flowers appear on
the earth. You know when flowers, the first
thing that comes in the spring, you know the first thing flowers
that bloom in the spring is what we call Easter flowers. Everybody calls them Easter flowers.
Daffodils, you know them little yellow flowers that come up and
snow will get on them. That's the first thing that comes
up is them. And that's what happens to us. That's the promise of
spring, promise of life, and when these flowers come, we have
the promise. God gave us promises in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Oh, what promises we have. That
flower starts coming, that flower starts blooming, and life starts
coming back to life. And because of what our Lord
Jesus Christ did, by His blessed, glorious life, by His blessed,
blessed death on the cross bearing our sin, by His resurrection,
and by Him ascending back to glory. And now I tell you all
the promises of God. Do you know what they appear
like? Beautiful, beautiful flowers. Beautiful, beautiful flowers.
Huh? Beautiful flowers. Beautiful
flowers. Oh, what promises. What promises
God's give us in His Word. And then look what else happened
here now. Then the Lord God says the singing, the time of singing
has come. Oh, the time of singing has come.
We sing a new song. We sing a new song. I preached
last Sunday morning on the 98th Psalm and it was seven notes
in the new song. There's seven notes and I had
seven notes in that song I sung last week. Best song I ever sung.
It's a good song. It's a good song. It's a scriptural
song. And I can't sing, but with this here, I'll sing. But oh,
the time of singing has come. He hath picked me up out of a
horrible pit, and established my going, set my feet on a rock. And you know what it says? He
hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Oh,
time of singing. We sing a new song, blessed song,
glorious song. Sing and make melody in your
hearts to the Lord. Then look what else it says here
now in verse 12. The voice of the turtle's heard
in the land. Now when he's talking about the turtle, he's talking
about the turtle dove. Talking about the turtle dove.
That's what he's talking about. He's not talking about turtles.
He's talking about the turtle dove. The dove. Beautiful thing. Beautiful bird story. One of
the most beautiful, wonderful birds. And everything in the
scriptures about a dove always has to do with our Lord and peace.
And you know, when our Lord was baptized, the Holy Spirit come
down in the form of a dove and lit upon him. And you know what
left Noah's ark and came back with a A sprig, it was a dove. A dove, he sent a dove, a clean
bird out. He come back, and here he was. Oh, the voice of the
turtle dove. And you know, we hear the gospel.
We hear the gospel, and it's a voice, a blessed voice. You
know, and we hear it in our hearts. The Holy Spirit's our guide,
our comforter. And he's heard in the land. Oh,
heard in the land. And let me tell you, look what
else happens here. I don't want to take too long, I really don't.
Look what it says here in verse 13. It's a season of fruitfulness
after he brings us away and spring's come. The fig tree put us forth
her green figs. Oh my, and what else it says?
And the vines, they got the tender grape on them, got a good smell.
Fruitfulness, the fig tree ripens. And the vines are in blossom.
That's one thing that God does for us. He gives us the fruit
of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, there's no law against that. And I tell
you what, the figs give off such a wonderful smell. And our Lord
said, without me you can do nothing. And so the only fruit we have
is what He Himself gives us and works in us. And then look what
he says again in verse 13. He repeats his call. He comes
to our hearts and he wins our hearts. And he said, come away. Come away from your fears. Come
away from your disillusions. Come away from yourself. Come
away from your reasonings. Come away from the promises you
make yourself that you know you ain't gonna keep. Come away,
come away, my love, my fair one. And you know, come. Come and
enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ. Come into the joy of the Lord.
Enjoy the promises of God. It's like Rebecca. Like Rebecca. When Eliezer went down there
and he took some silver and he took some gold and he took all
those garments and showed them to them. And they said, now listen,
I gotta go. I gotta go back. Gotta go back
to my master's house. And they asked Rebecca, you gonna
go? After she saw all that wealth. You know who the wealthiest person
in the universe is? God himself. When you got him,
you got all the riches it could possibly have. You know, this
earth is His and everything in it. But he, Rebecca said, oh,
listen, don't go, don't go, don't go, don't go. Honey, stay with
us just a little while longer. Mm-hmm. He's like Zacchaeus up
that tree when Zacchaeus was told to come down he come down
and when they said Rebecca you go with this man. Oh Yeah, yeah,
you didn't show me you done told me you done showed me and I tell
you what when you see Christ How many of you I heard Scott
Richardson preach one time? But I'll quit, listen. Scott
Richeson preached one time at our place in that old, old building,
we had an old block building. He preached on the ark, preached
on the ark and that one door into that ark. And I wanted so
bad, I wanted to get up right there then, and I saw that door,
I wanted to get up and go get in that door and get in that
ark. That's how vivid he made it to me. I wanted to get in
that ark! And Lord, you told me to come
away, here I come. I'm coming, Lord, I'm coming,
huh? Will you come too? Will you come
with me? Thank you, appreciate you very
much.