you you ¶¶ ¶¶ So, you you I could have asked me. I could have gotten up. I feel like it's not. How about 24 identity? Sounds great. And then? I love six. Yeah, let's do that one. 20, 26, or 26, 24. Everything's working. I was having a good time. Oh, good evening here. I say good morning. I've got some cookies. Good to see you. How are you doing out there? Doing great. How are you all doing? Good. Little sticks up there on the ground. Little sticks. Really? Just started plugging them through. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ Yeah. Yeah. You. you. you Good morning, everybody, or no. Good evening, everyone. Just as it is in the mornings and evening, it's great to see everybody. So thankful we can do this. It's great to have anyone come visit that's coming here to tell us about Christ, but especially someone like Miles, and I'll explain a little bit more about who Miles is to everyone in a minute, but first, let's start by singing a few songs together. Let's take out our chorus book, Could someone grab one for Miles and bring it up to him? And we'll start by singing number 20. Come ye sinners poor and wretched and we'll stand together as we sing. Come ye sinners poor and wretched, weak and wounded, sick and sore, Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, joined with power. He is able, he is able, he is willing, doubt no more. He is able, he is willing, doubt no more. Come ye needy, come and welcome, God's free bounty glorify. True belief and true repentance, every grace that brings us nigh. Without money, without money, come to Jesus Christ and buy. Without money, without money, come to Jesus Christ and buy. Let not conscience make you linger, nor of fitness fondly dream. All the fitness he requireth is to feel your need of him. This he gives you, this he gives you, tis the Spirit's rising beam. This he gives you, this he gives you, tis the Spirit's rising beam. Come ye weary, heavy laden, bruised and mangled by the fall. If you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all. Not the righteous sinners Jesus came to call. Not the righteous, not the righteous sinners Jesus came to call. View Him groveling in the garden, Lo, your Maker prostrate lies. On the bloody tree behold Him, Hear Him cry before He dies. It is finished! It is finished. To suffice. It is finished. is finished, sinners will not this suffice. Lo, the incarnate God ascended, pleads the merit of His blood. Venture on Him, venture wholly, let no other trust in truth. None but Jesus, none but Jesus can do helpless sinners good. None but Jesus, none but Jesus can do helpless sinners good. I shall go, for I am wretched, weak and wounded, sick and sore. How can I, a helpless sinner, bear this burden anymore? I'll arise and go to Jesus He'll embrace me in His arms In the arms of my dear Savior Oh, there are ten thousand charms You can be seated. And we'll turn back to number six. Number six in the chorus books, Lord with glowing heart, I praise thee. Lord, with glowing heart I praise Thee for the bliss that love bestows, for the pardoning grace that saves me, and the peace that from it flows. Help, O God, this dull soul to rapture raise. Thou must light the flame, or never can my love be warmed to praise. Praise my soul, the God that sought thee, wretched wanderer far astray. found thee lost and kindly brought thee from the paths of death away. Praise with love's devoutest feet fear, and the light of hope revealing, bade the blood-stained cross appear. Praise thy Savior God that drew thee to that cross new life to give. Held a blood-sealed pardon to Thee, Bade Thee look to Him and live. Praise the grace whose threats alone Rouse me from thy fatal ease. Praise the grace whose promise warmed thee. Praise the grace that whispered peace. Loud the spusms' ardent feeling vainly would my lips express. Low before thy footstool kneeling, deign thy supplant's prayer to bless. Let thy grace, my soul's chief treasure, love's pure flame within me raise. And since words can never measure, let my life show forth thy praise. Let's pray together. Our Father, we come to you, first of all, with thanks for bringing us together this evening. We thank you, Lord, for any opportunity that we can gather with the people that you love. with people that love you because you love them first. And it is a blessing for us here while in this world to be able to gather together and worship you. And we know, Lord, that we cannot do that unless you are with us, so we pray that you are tonight. We pray that you will bless us this evening with a message that is yours and yours alone, and that it would be about Christ, Christ alone. because Christ alone is what we need. Christ alone is all we need. And we ask, Lord, that you lift our hearts tonight, hearing that message once again. We thank you, Lord, for giving us the opportunity to worship you, and we pray, Lord, that you'll bless us in that. We pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, Miles McKee, he has, Well, actually, I looked it up, Miles. The last time you were here was six years ago. And eight years before, or two years before that, so six and eight years ago, Miles was here. And every time he's been here, the Lord has blessed us each and every time. He was also a very good friend of Joe's. They traveled to India and Africa together. And I'm sure he misses him dearly as well. So we're very, very grateful to have Miles come all the way. Lives in Spain now. He's been in Nashville for the last couple weeks. And he reached out to us not that long ago and said, hey, we're going to be in the States. Do you want us to come by? And I said, absolutely. So every time he's been here, it's been a blessing from our Lord. And we expect that tonight as well. So Miles. Good evening. Hello, good evening. Amen, isn't it good to be saved? How many people, who's glad to be saved? There's one gentleman not so sure. No, he, we. I would like to bring a word tonight, but before I do that, brief update on some of the things that we are doing. Our ministry is mainly in India and Africa. And there we care for children, but more than that, we raise up pastors. And India is, I won't say a lot of people, but that's an understatement. Groves of people Multitudes of people are there. And unfortunately, there's four caste systems. And if you're down and out, plus you're in the untouchable class. That's where we do our ministry, on the untouchables. And we're training ministers. We do that with internet. We do conferences via internet. Sometimes we go there, like you and I went there. But we really appreciate your prayers. We have a number of very strong pastors who are fearless. They go into villages. You went into these villages, you get killed. Why? Because you're a white person. They don't like you. And then there's the radical Hindus. Now, not all Hindus are radical. Some Hindus are very nice people and quiet people, but there's the radical Hindus believe they're doing their God's service to kill us. and the Prime Minister of India is for them, supports them. So it's a tough ministry. And so we also, one of the things we do is I write books, but we translate them into the language of the local folks, and we're working on a French translation now at the moment. And we distribute for free books written and published by them, by their local, sorry, Hello? Can I stay here? Oh, jeez. So anyway, the books are down there at the back. And one of the backbones... There's something over there. And so one of our ministry builders has been a weekly bulletin that I write called the Wednesday Word. And if you want to get a copy of that, it gives updates on our ministry. But it's devotional about the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the center of it. All I need is your email address and there's a book down at the back with the books where you can give me your email address. Okay, here we go. The Word of God. Who would like to turn with me to Psalm 31? Psalm 31. Verse 14. But I trusted in thee, O Lord, I said, thou art my God. Now, if you're reading the King James Version, you'll see that the word Lord is all in capitals. They were kind enough, the translators were kind enough to do that. Every time we see L-O-R-D, all capitals, it stands for Yahweh, or Jehovah, if you want, but Yahweh. And so I trusted in thee, Yahweh, I said, thou art my God. Ooh, Yahweh is my God. And do you know who Yahweh is who appeared and became interpreted to us as a human being? Yahweh is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my God. Is he your God? We sing about him. But is he your God? Is he... Wow, Yahweh. And then we come to this verse, this next verse, it says, verse 16. My times... No, sorry, is that verse 15? My times are in thy hand. Deliver me from the hand of mine enemy and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant. Serve me, save me for thy mercy's sake. Oh, let me not be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon thee let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave." There's so much we could say out of this one verse or one passage of Scripture, but I was really struck when I was reading not so long ago, verse 15. It says, "'My times are in thy hand.'" Is that good news or not? "'My times are in thy hands.'" I grew up Excuse me. I grew up in the Presbyterian Church. Nobody stoned me, OK? And we learned a hymn. My times are in my hands. My God, I wish them there. This is the words of it. My life, my friends, my soul, I leave entirely to thy care. My times are in thy hands, whatever they may be, pleasing or painful, dark or bright, as best may seem to thee. My times are in thy hands, Jesus, the crucified, Those hands my cruel sins had pierced are now my guard and guide. Wow. My times are in his hands. Since our times are in his hand, wouldn't it be good for us to know what kind of hands he has? What kind of hands does the Lord Jesus have? Oh, how could you possibly tell that? Oh, we can tell a lot. about the Lord Jesus when we discover a lot about His hands. So I want us to look at the hands of the Lord Jesus and pray that we will learn a little bit more about the Master, more about the Saviour. By the way, have you ever thought about it that hands are amazing? They really are. You know, we welcome people. Come in, welcome them with your hands. We think, mm, with our hands. Yeah. We stop. Our hands do that. Stop. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Your hands. There's a whole lot to be said about hands. But the first thing we want to say about Jesus' hands are they're strong. They are strong hands. Why do I say that? Because I tell you, if we got a chance to look at his hands, we would see that they're probably, most likely, calloused hands. Jesus was a worker. It's thought that Joseph died when Jesus was a teenager, and Jesus would have taken over the carpenter's shed. Yeah, and so he would have worked with his hands. the provider for his family, working with his hands. Just think about that. Just think about Jesus in the woodshed creating tables, chairs. Boy, would you like to get your hands on some of those things that Jesus made? But Jesus, he's amazing. He creates the trees, and then he makes tables out of the wood. And there he is standing, foot deep in the shavings of the wood. Oh, what's so amazing about that? I'll tell you what's amazing about that. Do you know who this is standing there making chairs, making tables? He is God manifest in the flesh. Hey, what's your God like? Our God is not afraid to come to this earth. Become one of us and labor hard for his living. It's amazing, totally amazing. He was a working man. Jesus, the working man. And this is all the more remarkable when we consider the attitude that the Romans had to work manual labor, the same attitude as the Greeks had. They despised manual labor. They despised physical work. They said, that's not for us to do that. That's for slaves and the like. They can do that. Huh, fitting for a slave. But look into the carpenter's shed and see the incarnate God bent over the carpenter's bench, standing ankle-deep in wood shavings. He emptied himself. He made himself of no reputation. He took on the form of a servant. made in the likeness of man. Our times are in his hands. And these hands are also secure hands. We read about that in John chapter 10. If you're looking for a verse number, it would be about 28. Talking about his sheep, the Lord Jesus said, I give on to them eternal life. I give unto them eternal life. Just pause a moment. That means Jesus has eternal life. Because how could you give something that you don't have? He says, I give unto them eternal life. Jesus is the giver of eternal life. And that's why I ask so many folks, what do you think of Jesus? Has he saved you? Are you trusting in him? Are you believing in him only? He's the giver of eternal life. He says, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hands. Wow. Secure hands. Yes, secure hands. No one will ever pluck us out of the hands of the Lord Jesus. That's how good they are. It's tremendous. Neither shall any man pluck them out of the hands. And I've mentioned it already, but how do you get into these hands? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. Let's say it again. Believe. That's trust. Have your confidence. Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Rest on the Lord Jesus Christ. And you'll be saved. You'll be saved. One day I read a story. I don't like, you need new microphones. I read a story about this old, dear old lady. She was a staunch grace believer. Sorry, grace believer. And she was having an argument with her neighbor who was a strict Arminian. And so the lady, she quotes this scripture that we've just read about plucking out of his hands. Nobody will ever do that. And he said, yeah, that's fair enough. But it doesn't say you couldn't fall through his fingers. She says, no, I could never do that. Because the Bible tells me that believers are the body of Christ. It says in 1 Corinthians 12, 27, now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular. So I can't fall through his fingers, because I probably am one of his fingers. Amen. Hey, we did this the last time we were there. Anytime instead of saying amen. Maybe some of you don't remember that. You don't have to say amen, just amen, because it helps the preacher. And he says, okay, people are listening. Amen. Amen. Yeah. And so, my times are in thy hands, O Lord. I'll always trust in thee, and after death at thy right hand I shall forever be. Wonderful hands, but you know something else about them? They are healing hands. Healing hands. Yeah, you can read about this all through the Gospels, especially look at Matthew 8, verses 14 and 15. We'll not turn there, Peter's mother-in-law was ill with a fever, and Jesus went and touched her, his hands. Her hand would have been damp and limp due to her high fever, but one touch from the master's hand, and she was cured. Oh, she was cured. Jesus touched untouchables. If you were a leper back then, oh, boy, If you're even a leper today, do you want to see what, has anybody ever seen a real leper? It's incredible, they're in a state of decay. Where did you see them, brother? India's full of them. And you weren't allowed to touch them. They were supposed to walk around ringing a bell and saying, unclean, unclean, unclean. And one leper looked for mercy, and Jesus touched him, and cured him, and healed him. Then there was Jairus' daughter, again, healed by a touch. That's in Mark chapter 5. Notice, the best place for the ministry of his hands is when you are at his feet. Did you hear me? The best place for the ministry of his hands is when you are at his feet. May we never be afraid to ask him to heal us, to help us. Jesus has healing hands. I don't know what it is, why it is that in grace churches, there just seems to be at times a resistance to praying for sick people. Well, that's what Pentecostal said. No, that's what Jesus did, and that's what the disciples did. And we are called to do it too. But what if they don't get healed? Well, they probably won't. That's not my problem if they get healed or not healed. praying for the sick. Now, brother, you probably won't have me back after that, but pray for the sick. Pray for them. I remember There's a dear brother in India called Parshu. And Parshu was holding a meeting. And he had me speaking at it. And afterwards, we were mingling with the assembled people. And this lady said, whatever. And Parshu said, she wants you to pray. I said, oh, what's wrong? Oh, she's got a bad back. It was a whole lot of stuff. So I said, here we go. So I prayed for her. And I prayed as earnestly as I could. But I have to be quite honest, there was part of me that said, this isn't going to work. But I prayed away. Well, the next day, the next night, we were having meetings. And this lady walks up to me and Parshew with her. He said, this is the lady you prayed for last night. And she got completely healed. Wow. Now, that was only God did that. I couldn't do that. But a lot of us don't want to even give God a shot at it, give God a chance to pray. He's got healing hands. Yes, and he's got, apart from strong hands and secure hands and healing hands, he's got providing hands. Matthew's gospel, we read about the five loaves of bread, and the two fishes, wasn't that it? Yeah, the two fishes and the five loaves. And it's just a little bit. How are we going to feed everybody? Well, give me what you've got. This is the way Jesus deals with it. Give us what you've got. And they gave him little fish and bread. And he takes a little in his hands, and he makes it a lot. That's what Jesus can do. Who can? Jesus, your Savior, your Lord, your Master. You may be going through a situation where you're saying, oh, I just don't know how we're going to do it. Give it into the hands of Jesus. He's a provider. He's got providing hands. A young boy and his mother went into a local grocery store, and they were greeted by a very friendly grocery man. And he took a big jar of sweets and said to the boy, here, have some. And the little boy kind of shied away. And the storekeeper says, no, have some sweets. Have some sweets. And he shied away, the little boy did. And then the storekeeper says, all right. And he put his hand in, got a handful, and gave them to the boy. When they left the shop, the mother said to her son, Why were you hesitant about dipping your hand in the jar? Because I knew he was going to do it. He says, so? He says, well, he's got bigger hands than I have. And I tell you what. The Lord Jesus has bigger hands than us. He's got hands of blessing, ready to bless us. Did you know that you are already complete in him? Did you know that? That we're saved by grace? Yes, we're saved by grace, and we're made complete by grace. We are saved, and we are complete, and we are children of God. The Lord has big hands when it comes to pouring blessing upon us, and we'll speak a little bit more about blessing in a moment or two. But his hands are bigger than ours. And he's got redeeming hands. Oh yeah, John 20. Do you remember when Jesus was? hanging on the cross. There he was, hanging like a disinherited son, hanging on the cross. What were they holding him in? His hands were hammered, nails, redeeming hands. The people gathered around and mocked him and said, yeah, you saved lots of people, now save yourself. Come down and save yourself. Boy, if he had come down from the cross, we'd be lost. Totally lost. We know we are dependent on one man. That's... Don't you be running around all puffed up with yourself and saying, look at me, I'm somebody else. Listen, you are saved, if you're saved, it's all because of one man, albeit the God man, but one man, not your works, not your good deeds, not your helping old ladies across the street, saved by one man, his doing, his dying. Hallelujah. Come down and save yourself. Well, if he had come down, we would never go up. And we're nailed to the cross. Can you see it? His hands were open. What else could they have been? Well, they didn't crucify a fist. They crucified a hand, two hands. It wasn't a fist hanging there on the cross. Look to the cross, and you won't see a fist. A fist could not have been in the cross. My times are in thy hands, Jesus the crucified. Those hands that once my cruel sin have—sorry, are now my Hands and guide. Oh, yeah. Nothing can come out of a fist but a punch. And Jesus is not punching us. He's welcoming us, redeeming hands. And finally, there's the hands of blessing in Luke 24, the last act that Jesus performed as he was leaving earth in the ascension. Do you believe that, Miles? Yes, I do. As he was leaving earth, he raised his hands, check it out, in blessing, in blessing. He blessed his people as he rose to earth, and he's still blessing his people. Some of us are too afraid to let Him bless us, but He still is the blesser. And as He rose from the grave and raised His hands, that's like a picture of the Old Testament high priest when he made atonement. He came out from the Holy of Holies, and He raised His hands, and He blessed His people. Well, now, redemption has been accomplished and secured, and Jesus lifts His hands. It's secure. Why don't you trust Him tonight? Trust Him for little things. Trust Him for big things. Trust Him. Trust Him, trust Him, trust Him. We tend to think of, well, that blessing was just for them. No, he's still in the blessing business. He still blesses and he wants to bless his people. Amen. So may we look at his pierced hands and see your salvation. He died for sinners. What a wretch we are. I am, I'm a wretch. And I was just thinking again today about how could he possibly save me? I hope that you have come to those kind of conclusions yourself. He'll save sinners. That's the only people he'll save. And he's wonderful. My times are in his hands. Oh God, I wish them there. My life, my friends, my soul, I leave entirely to thy care. Do you love him tonight? Lord, we love you. And we thank you. And we need you. We need your presence. We need to know the truth of the gospel. And Lord, we do know it, but we don't know it enough. And we love you, Lord, but we don't love you enough. But we thank you that we're not saved by anything that we do. but you have done it all, and we rest in you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. Like, my times are in his hands. It's just an amazing sentence, isn't it? It's one of those that you can read so quickly and just kind of get past, but if you sit and think about that, my times, everything I am, is in the hands of the creator of the universe. and the man who came here and worked with those same hands. It's amazing. And where else would you want your times and your life and your eternal soul to be but in the hands of Christ? Incredible message. And now we'll turn to number 24. in the hymnal or in the course books, Deeper Than the Stain Has Gone, and we'll stand together as we sing. In the distance that he fell Far removed from hope and heaven Into deep despair and hell But there was a fountain opened And the blood of God's own Son Purifies the soul and reaches Deeper than the stain has gone Praise the Lord for full salvation God still reigns upon His throne And I know ♪ Deeper than the stain has gone ♪ ♪ Conscious of the deep pollution ♪ ♪ Sinners wander in the night ♪ ♪ Though they hear the shepherd calling ♪ they still fear to face the light. This the blessed consolation that can melt the heart of stone. That sweet balm of Gilead reaches Deeper than the stain has gone Praise the Lord for full salvation God still reigns upon His throne And I know still reaches deeper than the stain has gone. All of worthy we who wander And our eyes are wet with tears As we think of love that sought us Through the weary, wasted years Yet we walk the holy highway Walking by God's grace alone Knowing Calvary's fountain reaches Deeper than the state has gone Praise the Lord for full salvation God still reigns upon His throne And I know the blood still reaches Deeper than the stain has gone When the holy choirs were standing In the presence of the King And our souls are lost in wonder While the wide roped choirs sing Then we'll praise the name of Jesus With the millions round the throne Praise Him for the power that reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Praise the Lord for full salvation. God still reigns upon His throne. blood still reaches deeper than the stain has gone. ¶¶ ¶¶ ♪ th th Well, I don't know what happened. It goes by your enrollment. So I don't know. Yeah. People still play in that spot. And they play a huge way to school going home. And everybody's going to want to be schooled. Our course is on the way. All right. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I don't think that it's... I don't know.