chapter 12 I Started reading Exodus 13 this
week and Chapter or verse 26 in chapter 12 Caught my attention
And I thought I'm not done with chapter 12 yet not that I ever will be. I was thinking I'm going to finish
up chapter 12, but we never finish it up, do we? We'll come back
to this again sooner or later. But I titled this message, Tell
Your Children the Gospel. Tell it to them plainly, truthfully,
hold nothing back, When your children, even at their
earliest age, inquire about the gospel, why we do what we do,
tell them, tell them the truth. Listen here in 1 Peter 3.15, But sanctify the Lord God in
your hearts, and be ready always To give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness
and fear, not with arrogance. Because God saved me, God saved
you, that's humbling, isn't it? That's humbling. But you answer
them, you be ready, He says, to give them an answer of the
hope that's in you. So how much more shall believers
be ready to tell their children the gospel when they ask them
any questions about the gospel and why we do what we do? If
we're ready to tell a stranger, how much more our children? How
much more our children? Who do we pray for the most,
really? Our children. That's just so. WE PRAY FOR OUR
CHILDREN, AND I WANT GOD TO SAVE OUR CHILDREN, MY CHILDREN AND
OUR CHILDREN HERE. I WANT GOD TO SAVE THEM, I DO.
I WANT TO SEE THEM IN GLORY AND REJOICE WITH THEM IN GLORY AND
WORSHIP WITH THEM IN GLORY, JUST LIKE WE ARE DOING HERE RIGHT
NOW. THAT IS WHAT I WANT. CHILDREN'S SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
STARTS AT HOME. Don't just bring them here and
just let me be the educator, you also be the educator, which
means you've got to learn something yourself. You have to know the
gospel yourself, but children's spiritual education must start
at home, and this is not brainwashing, it's telling the truth. It's
telling the truth. Now let me read again the portion
of Scripture that Ben read. in verse 25, And it shall come
to pass, when ye be come to the land, which the LORD will give
you, according as he hath promised that ye shall keep this service,
and it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
you, What mean ye by this service, this Passover, that ye shall
say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S PASSOVER. You know, it
degenerated into being called the JEW'S PASSOVER, the JEWISH
PASSOVER, but it was originally called the LORD'S PASSOVER. It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S
PASSOVER who passed over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And
the people bowed their heads and worshipped And the children
of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses
and Aaron, and so did they. Now over in chapter 13, look
in verse 14 through 16. Now Lord willing, next week we'll
pick up in chapter 13 and verse 17, God led them, being led of
God. But I don't want to get into
that now. I could, but But let's look here in verse 14, And it
shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying,
What is this? That thou shalt say unto him,
By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from
the house of bondage. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh
would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn
of beast. THEREFORE I SACRIFICE TO THE
LORD ALL THAT OPENETH THE MATRIX, OR THE WOMB, BEING MALES, BUT
ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF MY CHILDREN I REDEEM. AND IT SHALL BE FOR
A TOKEN UPON THINE HEAD, AND FOR FRONTLESS BETWEEN THINE EYES,
FOR BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT US FORTH OUT OF EGYPT."
The Lord saved us out of Egypt. It wasn't me and the Lord, it
was the Lord. He saved me. When your children
ask, what does this mean when you do this service? And then
when we have the Lord's Table, which I'll touch on here in a
little bit, we tell them. We tell them what the slaying
of the lamb and what all that means. Now I thought about this,
and He said, when your sons ask, your sons or your daughters ask,
I imagine the father sitting down with his children and telling
them the story of Egypt. Now just imagine this, his father
sitting down and telling them the story of Egypt and of bondage
and of deliverance. And I imagine he probably started
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the twelve sons and how they
ended up in Egypt because of a famine. He probably told them
the story of Joseph I imagine. And I thought of this as he told
him the story, if we don't know how we ended up in bondage, the
Passover means nothing. If we don't understand the bondage
and how we ended up there, the Passover means nothing. How we
became sinners is one of the first lessons we must learn,
how we became sinners. What happened in the garden?
Or Christ means nothing. Christ our Passover means nothing
if we don't learn how we became sinners. I didn't become a sinner
because I told a lie. I told a lie because that's what
I am. A LIAR! Let God be true and every man
a liar. Every person on this earth, every
person, 8 billion people, everybody lies. Everybody lies. It's even been proven scientifically,
if I can say it that way, that within five to ten seconds of
a conversation, a lie is told. I'm surprised it would get that
far. A lie is told. If you don't tell exactly the
truth and nothing but the truth, it's a lie. It's a lie. And so we have to know how we
became sinners. And no doubt the Father told
them of the hard bondage of Egypt and how they served the Egyptians
with rigor. That's what it said, they served
them with rigor. Sin and Satan are cruel masters,
they are cruel masters. But then he tells his children
about a deliverer named Moses. God sent them a deliverer, Moses. And he told them that Moses came
and God used him and through him he sent 10 plagues on Egypt. And that last plague was the
death of the firstborn. The last plague was death. But son, God gave us a substitute, God gave us a substitute, a Lamb
that would die in the stead of the firstborn of Israel. Here is a glaring fact, and it's
evident the Pharisees, this went over their head, and most of
the Jewish nation, it went over their head. THE FIRSTBORN OF
ISRAEL WAS NO BETTER THAN THE FIRSTBORN OF EGYPT. You see, this one plague of death,
if you�ll remember when we went through those plagues, it said
it did not enter into the land of Israel and over into Goshen
and the flies and all of that, but DEATH DID! DEATH DID! And they just didn't realize
that by this death of this lamb, it's saying that you're just
as rotten, you're just as wicked, you're just as sinful as those
Egyptians, but I have given you a substitute. I've given you
a substitute, you're mine. The only reason you're not dying
with the Egyptians because you're mine. How many times did God
say to Pharaoh, let my people go. He didn't say, just let those
Israelites go. I feel sorry for them. You've
just been too hard on them. No, he said, you let my people
go. And before they go, before they
go out of Egypt, there's bloodshed. There's death. There's death
in Egypt. There's the death of a lamb in
the place of the firstborn, which says that firstborn is only better
than the Egyptian firstborn. THAT ONE PLAGUE OF DEATH REACHED
ISRAEL, EXCEPT GOD PROVIDED A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL,
NOT FOR EGYPT. NOT FOR EGYPT. BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE BLOOD
WAS SHED AND APPLIED TO THE DOOR THAT ISRAEL WAS DELIVERED FROM
THE EGYPTIAN BONDAGE. WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD
THERE IS WHAT? No remission, no forgiveness. I don't care
if you're a Gentile or a Jew, apart from the blood, you're
lost. It's the blood that makes atonement for the soul. Not repentance,
not faith, not the miracles of Christ, not the birth of Christ,
it's the death. It's the blood. It's the blood
that makes atonement for the soul. And that's what they had
to learn. And that's what we have to learn,
it's without the blood there's no remission. Now how does this
apply to the gospel we preach today? How does this apply to
the gospel we preach today? Over in 1 Corinthians 5.7 it
says this, "...Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be
a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover
is sacrificed for us now to understand this to understand christ crucified
to understand christ our passover is sacrifice for us we have to
understand what happened in the garden how did we come into bondage
i didn't even realize i was in bondage until god saved me you
know that I didn't realize I was dead in trespasses and sins until
he gave me life. I didn't know I was in darkness
until he gave me light. Here's something that I believe
the Lord impressed upon me when I thought of what happened in
the garden. What land was Abraham in before
the famine came? And he went to the land of Egypt.
What land was he in? Do you know what land he was
in? The land of Canaan. He was in the land of Canaan.
That's where he was at, the land of promise. That's where he was
at. Listen, I'm going to try to put this together. Genesis
12, 5. And Abram took Sarai, his wife,
and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance, that they
had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran. And
they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the
land of Canaan they came. They were in the land of Canaan.
But because of this famine, this grievous famine, when it came,
Abraham and his whole family went down to Egypt. They went
down to Egypt. And we know that a Pharaoh arose
that didn't know Joseph, and that Pharaoh represents Satan.
Egypt represents the world. Now listen, and I think this
works, this works. When Adam sinned, where was he
at? He was in the Garden of Eden.
God put him in a perfect place, and he was in the Garden of Eden.
But when Adam sinned, he took the whole human race down to
Egypt, the world. as we know it now, which is represented
by Egypt. That's where He took us. Even
all of God's children went down with Him. We were children of
wrath by nature, even as others. All God's children were in Adam.
God chose a multitude of sinners out of Adam's race, and God let
them fall in Adam. HE IS GOING TO SAVE THEM IN CHRIST
BUT THEY FELL IN THE FIRST ATOM, HE IS GOING TO SAVE THEM IN THE
SECOND ATOM, BUT THEY FELL. Ephesians 2, Romans 5, verse
12, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned, through this one man we came into bondage. Until God
saves us, we're in bondage. We're in bondage to Satan. Satan's
got you. Satan had me. I didn't know that. I didn't know that at all, but
he had me. I was under the Spirit of Darkness,
the Scripture tells us in Ephesians 2. We're under that Spirit of
Darkness. He's got us. Until God says,
He's mine, you let Him go. You're gonna let Him go. You
know how you're gonna let Him go? You're gonna let Him go through
the death of that lamb. Through the blood of the lamb,
you're gonna let Him go. Death can't hold you, Satan can't
hold you, sin can't hold you. Satan has no dominion over God's
children, sin has no dominion over God's children. At one time,
sin reigned in our hearts like a king. But no more, Christ reigns
in the heart. Christ reigns in our heart now. This is how we came into the
bondage of sin, we became slaves to it, but God, Ephesians 2,
4, and 5, thank God for the grace of God,
but God who is rich in mercy, where his great love wherewith
he loved us, even when we were dead in sin, even when we were
dead in bondage, slaves to sin and Satan, hath quickened us together with
Christ. By grace you are saved. What's the difference between
Egypt and Israel? The only difference is God. The
grace of God, God providing the lamb, God saying, you're mine,
you're mine. You know, when he first spoke
to Pharaoh, he said, let my son Israel go, let him go, you're
mine. It's astounding to me that God
would set his love upon me and save me. die in my stead
and bring me to eternal glory which I can't even imagine what
that's what that's going to be like all by grace all by grace
God provided the substitute he provided the lamb without spot
or blemish for his people God provided a lamb and God provided
himself as the lamb God himself is the lamb That's astounding. The Lord Jesus Christ, who is
God, is the Lamb of God PROVIDING. It says in John 1.29, the next
day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Aren't you glad it says that? Not just for some Jews, but for
some Gentiles also. GOD HAS A PEOPLE OUT OF EVERY
KINDRED, TRIBE, TONGUE, AND NATION UNDER HEAVEN. There is a song they sing in
heaven in Revelation 5 and 9, and they sung a new song saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof,
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation. God has a people out of every
nation on this earth out of every tribe he said every family every
family every tongue every family i had a great aunt that had buried
she had 14 children she buried eight of them seven of them as
infants i have i believe with her with
the lord And one of those infants, that's how so many of them are
out of every family, every family. If you get on back past the time
zone here, we know you get back about two, three, 400 years long
back, about every family, they had big families, man, every
family had a child that died, an infant that died. But God's
gonna save. Now He's not saving them because
they're innocent. If they were innocent, they wouldn't
have died. Innocent people don't die. No, they're saved the same way
you and I are, by the blood of Christ, by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He said, He has a people redeemed.
He's redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, tongue,
and people, and nation. And I thought this morning, and
I jotted this down, let's not get so caught up in our little
world that we forget what's really going on. God is saving these
people. He's calling out a multitude
of sinners that no man can number. Calling them out by His Spirit,
by His grace, saving them through the blood and righteousness of
His Son. That's exactly what's going on. And sometimes I get
so caught up in my little old world that I forget what's really
going on. Let's not do that. Now in reference
to the Lord's Table, turn over to Luke 22. In reference to the Lord s Table
in Luke 22, look in verse 14 through 20. And when the hour was come, he sat
down and the twelve apostles with him, and he said unto them,
With desire, and over my mouth he says, I have heartily desired.
With desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer. For I say unto you, I will not
any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of
God. And he took the cup and gave
thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves. For
I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread and gave thanks
and break it and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which
is given for you, this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also
the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood, which is shed for you. Here's the blood of the
Lamb. He said, My blood is being shed
for you. Not just being shed and then
see what you do with it. Wouldn't that be foolish? Wouldn't
that be foolish? No, He said, My blood is shed
for you. My body is broken for you. The bread represents Christ. Now over in, let me read this
scripture in 1 Corinthians 11 and 26, For as often as you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death
till He come. It's a memorial of redemption,
not just of the past, but present and future, He s coming. We ve
been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. But the bread here
represents Christ s body that was broken for many, and the
wine represents His blood that was shed for the same many whose
sins are forgiven. But listen here, let s never fall into the trap,
and I don t believe Well, I'm going to say, I don't believe
you will, but I tell you, I'm not going to say that. You know
why? We're sinners. We can fall for anything. I'm
telling you, if disassured we say we wouldn't fall for something,
we will. We're capable. What's a believer
capable of? Everything. You wouldn't have thought David
would have done what he did. The sweet psalmist of Israel? The
man after God's own heart? adultery and had her husband
killed. So I tremble to say I wouldn't
do that. I know I'd do that except for
the grace of God. I know I would. So let's never fall into the
trap of thinking that the bread and wine has any saving power
in them. It's a memorial. It's a remembrance. However, we do keep this till
He comes. He said to baptism, we keep baptism
and the Lord's table. Both of them, not just one of
them. We don't pick and choose. We don't pick and choose what
we want to do. I know a lady years ago, she's passed away
now, and she was faithful as can be. She confessed to believe
the gospel. She took the Lord's table, but
she never would submit to baptism, and that always just puzzled
the life out of me. How do you do that? How do you
pick and choose? You don't pick and choose. That's just astounding to me.
Those are the two commands the Lord gave. There's two commands. We are to do this. We are to
show forth His death till He comes. It's always Christ crucified. And so sad that most of today's
preaching has left Christ crucified. As Christ loves you, Christ wants
to save you. Accept Jesus as your personal
Savior. They don't even tell who He is. You can't believe
on someone you don't know. A name reveals a person. When God speaks about His NAMES,
you read His NAMES, they reveal His CHARACTER. Jehovah-Jireh,
the LORD WILL PROVIDE. Jehovah-Zedekiah, the LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS, they reveal His CHARACTER. But just to say the
name Jesus, Jesus, trust Jesus, would tell me which one because
Paul said they'll come preaching another Jesus. So which one are
you preaching? That's what I want to know. Is
it the one this Bible speaks of? Or is it the one your pastor
speaks of? You know what? What's so sad
is so many today, Vicki and I were talking about this the other
day about some people that never take a Bible, never take a Bible
when they go to their service, they never take a Bible with
them. All you're doing is taking what that man says at His Word.
John said, Try the Spirit, whether they be of God. There are many
false prophets going out into the world. How are you going
to try Him, whether you like Him or not, whether He is a good
speaker or not? How do you try Him by the Word of God? It would
be like the Bereans, you go home and you search the Scriptures
to see whether those things are so. Your soul is at stake! Your
soul is at stake! When we quit doing that, that's
how compromise starts to come in. That's how false doctrine
starts. You know, false doctrine just doesn't come in all at once
in a complete 180-degree chain. It's little by little, little
by little. You stay sharp in the Scriptures
and it won't happen to you. Peter I think once said, You
do these things and you shall never fail. you won t fail or fall. Nobody
will trick you or deceive you. You say, No, that s not what
that Word says. That s not what that Book says. Now, what was I at in reference
here to the Lord s The body, his body is represented
by the bread, the wine represents his blood. Who may eat this bread
and drink this wine? Who may do it? Who may do it? Well, let's go
back to Exodus 12. Go back to Exodus 12. Look in verse 43 43-49 let me read here, And the LORD
said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover.
There shall no stranger eat thereof, but every man's servant that
is bought with money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall
he eat thereof. A foreigner and a hired servant
shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten.
Thou shalt not carry forth out of the out of the flesh abroad
out of the house neither shall you break bone thereof all the
congregation of israel shall keep it and when a stranger shall
sojourn with thee and will keep the passover to the lord let
all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and
keep it and he shall be as one that is born in the land for
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof one law there's one
gospel shall be to him that is home born, and unto the stranger
that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of
Israel as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. Here is the spiritual application
of this. Paul says this in Romans 2, 28-29, For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly, Neither is that circumcision which is outward
in the flesh, but he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision
is that of the heart and the spirit, not in the letter, whose
praise is not of men, but of God." Those who may eat, and he speaks
here of being circumcised, it's the circumcision of the heart,
those who are born of God, those who believe the gospel. You see,
it's the Lord's table, it's not mine. It's not Bethel Babs' church
table. I had one congregation that wanted
to call me as a pastor when I was 27 years old. I think I was 27.
And they wanted to know if I held to close communion. And I said,
do you mean if my pastor, Henry Mahan, if he visits here and
we're having communion and I've got to tell him to leave? That
he can't take this table, our table? I said, no, that's not
going to happen. I probably could have said it
a little better, maybe a little kinder, but I told him, I said,
no, that ain't happening. And I didn't go back, they never
called me back, but at the same time, it's the Lord's table.
The only fence around the Lord's table is this, do you believe?
Do you believe? If you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ TAKEN, I don't care where you're from, it's the Lord's
table, it's not ours, it's His. And the only fence around it
is faith. Whenever they killed that lamb and they shed His blood,
what did they do? They put the blood on the doorpost,
an act of faith, that's what that is, that's an act of faith.
And when you take this, the wine and the bread, it's an act of
FAITH. You're saying, Christ is my life. Christ is my life,
Christ is my righteousness, Christ is my salvation. My whole salvation
before God is right in the blood of the Lamb. Right there it is,
that's it. Now how serious is this matter? 1 Corinthians 11 27 WHEREFORE,
WHOSOEVER SHALL EAT THIS BREAD, AND DRINK THIS CUP OF THE LORD
UNWORTHILY, SHALL BE GUILTY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF THE LORD.
Well now, first of all, there is nobody here worthy. What He
is saying here, to eat unworthily is to eat without faith. You
are just doing it because everybody else is doing it. You know, they
are passing it around, and you just take it because everybody
else is doing it. You don't do that! TO EAT UNWORTHILY HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH DID I DO ANYTHING WRONG TODAY OR NOT OR THIS WEEK
OR NOT. IT HAS TO DO WITH DO YOU BELIEVE.
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE AND YOU TAKE IT, THAT'S UNWORTHILY AND
YOU'RE IN TROUBLE. YOU'RE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE THAT'S
SERIOUS WITH GOD. NOW ONE LAST THING BEFORE WE
LEAVE THIS CHAPTER. After I got looking at it, I
got into it more. At first I thought, you know,
sometimes I look at it and I thought, Where is the message? And then
yesterday morning I just started typing it out and it just kept
flowing. I hope I am making sense. I hope it is coming together.
But there is one last thing before we leave this chapter. Back in
Exodus 12, go back to Exodus 12. Look in verse 38, And a mixed multitude over margins,
says a great mixture of people, a mixed multitude went up also
with them, and flocks and herds, even much cattle. This caused a real problem with
Israel, this mixed multitude. THIS MIXED MULTITUDE KEPT REMINDING
THEM OF EGYPT, OF THE ONIONS AND THE LEAVES. THEY APPEALED
TO THEIR APPETITE, IS WHAT THEY DID. YOU SEE, THE WORLD'S INFLUENCE
STARTS WITH APPETITE, OUR FLESHLY APPETITE, THAT'S WHAT IT STARTS
WITH. SATAN'S SUBTLE, OH HE'S SUBTLE, HE'S SUBTLE. THE SCRIPTURE
SAYS THIS, 2 CORINTHIANS 6, 14, BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER
WITH UNBELIEVERS, WHAT FELLOWSHIP HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS?
AND WHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? THE WORLD, THE
FLESH, WILL ALWAYS BE CONTRARY TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THIS MIXED
COMPANY. Here, I want you to listen to
this in Numbers 11, verse 4, AND THE MIXED MULTITUDE THAT
WAS AMONG THEM FELL ALUSTI. You write that down. Numbers
11 and verse 4, you can read, you can go back to Numbers 11
and read that. They fell a-lusting, and the
children of Israel also wept again and said, because of this
mixed multitude among them, agitating them, you know, said, Man, I
sure miss that food we ate in Egypt, you know. They got tired
of the light bread and they started wanting that food back in Egypt.
And the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall
give us flesh to eat? We're tired of just this bread.
That mixed multitude stirred them up. They stirred them up. You see in Numbers 11 verse 4,
they are the first, this mixed multitude was the first to complain. They were the first to complain,
craving meat instead of the manna that God provided. That is so important. And their
complaining stirred up discontent among the Israelites and led
to a widespread rebellion. That's what it led to. God killed
a bunch of them over. He killed a bunch of them. It led to God's anger in Numbers
11, 31 through 33. You'll see where God sent all
these quail in there, and as they were eating it, God sent
a plague, killed a bunch of them. from murmuring and complaining.
And the mixed multitude started it. It started it. The mixed multitude influenced
Israel in a negative way and caused them to be discontent
and caused them to start thinking about Egypt and saying, Boy,
I wish we was back in Egypt, man, we had a lot better food
to eat. Appetite. Appetite. I tell you, man lives for his
belly. He lives for his belly, I'm telling you. I ask Nick every
day, I ask her every day, what are we eating for supper? Every
day, I never miss a day, what are we having for supper? And
I usually ask at about 11 o'clock. Our belly, we just, we live,
we serve our belly way too much, serve our appetites way too much,
way too much. You know over in Daniel chapter
2 verse 8, Daniel would not eat of the king's food and the wine.
He wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it. He was not
going to let himself fall in to that appetite of that food
and the wine and the drink and you know all that the king had
and gave him. The king gave them the best because you know he
really liked Daniel. Meshach, Shadrach, Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego. He liked them. He wanted to keep
him fat. You go and read it. He wanted
to keep him looking lean, I mean, looking good. And Daniel said,
I'm not eating that. I'm not eating it. And of course he had favor with
the one that was over him. And so he said, you know, the
king will kill me if you come in there looking bad. He said,
well, you just give us a few days and come back and look.
And he did. And they were look, they looked
real good. But he wouldn't give himself in to the appetite of
this world. Nehemiah 13, verse 3, I'm going
to close here in just a second. Nehemiah 13, verse 3, Now it
came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated
from Israel all the mixed multitude. They separated. And one last
point that struck me as I was finishing this up. THE BELIEVER
HAS TWO NATURES, SPIRIT AND FLESH. IN A SENSE THERE IS A MIXED MULTITUDE
IN ME. THE SPIRIT LUSTRATES AGAINST THE FLESH AND THE FLESH AGAINST
THE SPIRIT, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 5, IT SAYS
THIS I SAY THEN, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YOU SHALL NOT FULFILL
THE LUST OF THE FLESH, FOR THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST THE SPIRIT,
AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST THE FLESH, AND THESE ARE CONTRARY ONE TO
THE OTHER, SO THAT YOU CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD."
We'll always have this battle. We'll always have this battle.
We'll have this battle in the world. We'll have this battle
in us. We have those two natures of
war. We'll have the battle in the
congregation. There will always be somebody There'll always be somebody in
there that doesn't believe the gospel. And it's just needling
all the time. Satan's never quiet for long. But when we had the opportunity, Tell our children, and listen,
I don't care how old they are, they're still our children, aren't
they? It doesn't matter. They can be
20, 30, 40, 50, they're still our children. And when the opportunity
comes, God opens that door, tell them again. Tell them and tell
them and tell them. Because God won't save apart
from the gospel. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing
by the Word of God. All right.