Good morning, everyone. What a blessing to be here with
you folks today gathered in the name of our Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ, to worship him, to praise his name for loving
us, for saving us from ourselves, and not leaving us to what we
deserve, but taking what we deserve upon himself. I want to thank you all for being
here. Thank you for being such helpful, loving brothers and
sisters in Christ. If it wasn't for all the help
that you folks have done, my wife would just be dead beat
tired. Thank you so much. But a special
thank you to you men who have traveled so far to feed the sheep
of God. We're hungry. We're hungry for
His Word, and the Lord has not let us down in the messages that
we've heard so far. Thank you. Thank you so much
for being here. I'd like to read an article in
today's bulletin. If you have a bulletin you'd
like to join and read along with me, it's in the middle page of your
bulletin, bottom left-hand corner. Forty years ago, a man by the
name of Henry Mahan came to rescue on the request of Pastor Gene
Harmon and preached the Gospel with three other men. But he wouldn't want to take
any glory in that. His glory is right here, what
he wrote in this article. Would you join me in reading
this? Go home and tell them what a message for the Lord to give
to you and I. Go home. When you leave here,
go home and tell them, go home to thy friends, the Lord says
in Mark chapter 5 verse 19, go home and tell them how great
things the Lord has done for thee. Henry writes this, he says, the
Lord has shown great mercy to this poor sinner. setting him
free from demons and from sin. Now he tells him to go home to
his family and friends and be the Lord's witness. Do not go
home and begin to preach. Do not go home and take up the
great doctrines of grace and expound on them. Do not go home
and strive to bring everyone to your views and beliefs. Do
not go home and condemn all who do not see what you see. Go home and tell them what great
things the Lord has done for you. Not what great things you
have read or heard, but what great things you have experienced. This is the way There is never a more interesting
story than the story of a person who has experienced, lived, and
felt. If you would really interest
others and get their attention, tell them what great things the
Lord has done in you and for you. There's our mission. When we leave these doors this
morning, we're going into the mission field. That's what that
sign says right above the door out there. Your mission is go
and tell the people what great things the Lord has done for
you. Brother Mike, would you read Scripture for us? Our Scripture reading for this
morning is taken from the book of Psalms, Psalms 92. Psalms
92, verses 1-15. This is the Word of the Lord. It is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High, to
shoot forth thy love and kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness
every night. Upon an instrument of ten strings,
and upon the psaltery, upon the harp with a solemn sound, for
thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work, I will triumph
in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works,
and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not, neither
doth a fool understand this. When the wicked spring up as
the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is
they that shall be destroyed forever. But thou, Lord, art
most high forevermore. For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,
for lo, thine enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall
be scattered. But my horn shall thou exalt
like the horn of a unicorn. I shall be anointed with fresh
oil. Mine eye also see my desire on
mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked
that rise up against me. The righteous shall flourish
like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon. Those that be planted in the
house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They
shall still bring forth fruit in old age, They shall be fat
and flourishing, to shew that the Lord is upright. He is my
rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. May the Holy Spirit add
blessings to the Scripture. Will you stand with me, please?
Allow me the honor and the privilege to lead us to the throne of grace. Our great God, Sovereign Creator of all that
is, it is good, it is a good thing to give thanks unto you,
to sing praises unto your name, O Most High. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for the blessings that
you have shed upon us. Lord, we are a needy people,
though. As you well know, we are a needy people. We need you
every moment. Be with us this morning, Lord.
Cause us to gather in your name, for there, there is where we
will find you. You promised us that where two
or three are gathered in your name, you'll be in the midst,
and that's where we want to be, Lord. in you and our Savior. Cause us to sing from the heart. Cause the words that we have
in these hymns to apply to our hearts. That we would cry out
with great joy of your love these men, Father, that You have
brought so far, so far across this country to preach Your Word. Lord, they're just men. Be with
them. Give them umption. Lay Your Holy
Spirit upon their lips like the burning coal. Give them words,
Lord, to bless us with Your Son Speak to the hearts of those
who hear your words preached this morning, Lord. We can do nothing, absolutely
nothing of our own. As our dear brother brought out
in his message last night, cause us, make us, make us to worship
you. We know, Lord, that as sinners,
coming into this world, hating You that, Father, whatever we
have now is because of You. Our faith, our hope, it is all
because of Your graciousness to us. So bless us, Lord. Bless us for Your Son's sake,
in whom all blessings flow. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Would you turn in your
hymn books with me and remain standing? Let's sing 471. The
Way of the Cross Leads Home. Pay attention to the words. The
Way of the Cross Leads Home, page 471. I must each go home by the way
of the cross. There's no other way but this. I shall ne'er get inside of the
gates of life if the way of the cross I miss. The way of the
cross leads home. The way of the cross leads home. It is sweet to know as I onward
go, The way of the cross leads home. I must need go on in the
blood-sprinkled way, The path that the Savior trod. the way the way of the cross leads home. And I bid farewell to the way
of the world to walk in it evermore. For my Lord says come and I seek
my home where he waits at the open door. The way of the cross leads home. It is sweet to know as I onward
go. The way of the cross leads home. this time. My dear sister in Christ listened
to this song and just fell in love with the main part of it. And as she listened to it, she
said, these words are wrong. So she rewrote it. The young girl and the little
boy could only live a day or two. The gift he brings the Gospel
Savior is truly a gift. Salvation's plan was not to run
from Him. But grace and love yet seemed
more than a lure. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, He took my sorrows to the grave
And made it even though this was late And now I'm saved, glory,
hallelujah The Son of God, when His blood
was sprung, chose to die for His love. No second thoughts,
He gave His life for you. The way of truth, the only truth,
His blood was shed for His chosen people. And now we sing alleluia.
Alleluia. Eternally to be His bright, forever
to sing glory, hallelujah. Yeah, yeah, amen. Yeah, yeah, amen. Yeah, yeah, amen. You know you're going to get
a bunch of people asking for that. Yep. As long as it's not my voice
singing. It was beautiful. That's what
a child of God does. They take all those words out
that didn't give any glory to anybody and put in words that
glorify her. That was good, Cheryl. Thank you. Bless my heart. All right. Brother Eric, please
come. Did you turn it back on? Oh,
did I? Yeah, there we go. Thank you. Eric Floyd, pastor of Grace Fellowship
Church in Wheelerburg, Pennsylvania. Oh, hi. Ohio. What did I say? Pennsylvania. Oh, when you all
get to be my age, you're going to understand those little mistakes
that I make like that. Lord bless you, brother. Here's
some cold water for you. Our sister sang that song. We've
let this world rob us of so many words. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. What a shame
we've let this world rob us. They use it flippantly. They don't know the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you for that. Thank you
for that so much. Turn with me to John chapter
5. John chapter 5. While you're turning there, I'll
try to echo what Luke and Paul have already said. But thank
you all. John, I don't know how many times
he called and texted, making sure we had our itinerary, wanted
to make sure everything was taken care of to get here. And then
once we got here, Kathy took over. She wanted to make sure
we had everything we needed while we were here, and you both You
both have done that. Thank you to this congregation
for your support of the gospel. What a blessing. What a blessing
it is. And Paul, Luke, and Brother Warden
for just preaching the gospel. It's such a blessing just to
sit and hear the Word preached so clearly and so plainly. Early on, Rothbard, we've mentioned
his name a few times, but he said this, he said, this passage
of Scripture unlocked everything and ruined my ministry. Do you have John 5, 25? Verily,
verily, I say unto you, the hour is come, and now is, when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
hear shall live. Just a few points. The hour is
coming. in which the Son of God was glorified.
An hour of judgment. Each of those hours, as we have
learned, ordered. Ordered of God. Not a minute
too early, not a minute too late. This hour, which we read up here,
is the hour in which a dead sinner is going to hear the Gospel.
The hour. You know, God spoke to Zacchaeus
and he said this, this day, not tomorrow, this day is salvation
come to thy house. Today. Today is the day of salvation. He said this, I have heard thee
in an accepted time and in the day of salvation have I succored
thee. Now, right now is the accepted
time. Behold, now is the day of salvation
in an accepted time. In a time of peace, in a time
of goodwill from the Father, His Son in the day of salvation have
I succored Thee. Christ worked out the salvation
of every one of His people by His obedience. Not man's obedience,
not man's works, not man's doing, but Christ and Christ alone. He was helped, He was strengthened
by the Father through the Spirit. Now is the accepted time. It's the time of God's mercy
and grace to men in Christ. Now is the day of salvation. Do you know the work is done?
It's finished. He said that from the cross,
didn't he? It is finished. Righteousness
has been brought in. Almighty God is reconciled. We
were separated from God, but He's reconciled us unto Himself. All that He purposed, all that
He promised, all that He purchased, brought to Him. We see that throughout
the Old Testament, don't we? This day, this day, today, If
you'll hear His voice, harden not your heart as in the provocation. Paul said this, I believe, yesterday. There's an urgency with the Gospel. Men's lives are at stake. The
salvation of the soul. Why would we linger? Second, he says this. The dead. The dead. Who's that? Scripture's pretty
clear. Those that are dead in trespasses
and sin. By nature, men will not come
to Christ. They'll refuse. They're dead in trespasses and
sin. Just like Lazarus of old. until the Lord, in mercy, is
pleased to pass by and call them forth. They're going to lay there. In man. In this flesh dwelleth
no good thing. The whole head. We read this
in the Old Testament. The whole head. It's sick. The whole body. From the head, let the heart.
This heart is faint. From the sole of the foot to
the top of the head. There's no soundness in it. Nothing
but wounds and bruises. and putrefying sores, they've
not been closed up, they've not been bound up or mollified with
ointment. Dead. Do we understand what that
means? Brother Henry, he said this once,
talking about the deadness of man. He said, I would as soon
expect a dead man to get up out of the casket, walk into the
kitchen, pour himself a glass of water, and drink it. as for
a sinner to raise up and come out of his sins without Christ
the water of life. We have to be quickened, we have
to be regenerated by the Spirit of God. I imagine across this stage that they cannot do. They're
incapable of doing it. Ask a dead man. We've got
a cemetery just right where we border. Our house borders the
cemetery. I can walk up there any day of
the week and I can say, anybody who wants to live, just take
the first step. And the most I'm going to hear
are crickets. or somebody yelling, are you
crazy, get out of this cemetery. Right? Isn't that foolishness?
Isn't that just absolute foolishness? To make a decision? Can a dead
man make a decision? Can a dead man reach down and
pull himself, I don't even know what that means, pull himself
up by his bootstraps? A dead man has no ambition. A
dead man has no ability. That's us. Apart from Christ. That's what we are. Dead. Legally dead. How am I legally
dead? I've broken God's law. I'm spiritually
dead. God told Adam. Remember that? He gave him the
garden to dress it and keep it. And he said, in the day that
you eat thereof, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
in the day that you eat thereof. He wasn't surprised by that,
was he? He knew. He told him what was going to
happen. In the day you eat thereof, thou shalt surely die. He was
still alive physically, inwardly, outwardly, but spiritually dead. And if we're left to ourselves, it's not just going to be physical
death, it's not just going to be spiritual death, it's going
to be eternal. That's where our death. In Romans
7.24, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this What? What did he say? Death. Death. In Romans 6, verse 6, Paul calls
it the body, this body of, not just the body of death, the body
of sin. What do we know about that? The
soul that sinneth, it shall surely die. When lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth Death. We see this throughout the Scriptures,
throughout the Word of God. Listen here in Ezekiel 37. It says, Ezekiel 37 verse 1,
you turn there if you want to, but I'll read it to you. The
hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the Spirit
of the Lord and sent me down in the midst of a valley caused me to pass by them round
about. And behold, there were very many
in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto
me, son of man, can't these bones live? And I answered, oh Lord,
oh Lord, you know. What did he tell him to do? Prophesy. Preach. Preach to those. Lazarus. He lay there in the
grave for four days until his body stunk. Stunk? Stank? It smelled, right? His body had began to decay. Can he live again? You know, with man, that's impossible,
isn't it? But with God, all things, all
things are possible. Dead, that four-letter word,
that's a very clear, that's a simple word, isn't it? That's a word
we can all understand. We know what dead means, and
that's a clear description of our fallen state before God. dead, helpless, corrupt in the
sight of Almighty God. That's what we are. Listen, not
just as a result of Adam's sin, but my sin. My sin. Turn with me to Romans chapter
5. Wherefore, as by one man's sin,
by one man's sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
so death passed upon all men. For all, all have sinned. 1 Corinthians 15.22 says this,
for as in Adam, all died. Chapter 2, Ephesians 2, verse
1. He's not going to leave his people
there. Ephesians 2, verse 1, and you
have to eat quickly. We read it in the Word. Just
look at that. You have He quickly given life who were, what, dead
in trespasses and sin. You know, Andre mentioned this
the other morning when he was eating breakfast. When a sign
says no trespassing, as soon as you cross that line,
you're trespassing. You're guilty. It don't matter
if you know, you can't really say, I didn't know where the
line was. That doesn't hold up, does it?
We've crossed that line. Maybe we say that about God's
law. I don't know how severe God's
law is. We've trespassed. And we've done
far more than walking onto somebody else's property. We've trespassed God's law. And as a result of that, we're
dead. Dead in trespasses and sin. That's
how we're described. God told Adam in the garden.
He said, again, of every tree in the garden. Think about that. Not a weed in that garden. I
mean, everything he needed was right there. But he wanted that one he could
not have. The day that you eat thereof,
thou shalt surely die. He trespassed God's law. He disobeyed
God's law. He sinned against God. And again,
the result of that is death. Spiritual death. And when Adam
died, we all died in him. Go back to our text, back to
John chapter 5. Here we read, they're gonna hear His voice.
They're gonna hear the voice of the Son of God. I pray He'd
speak to us. I pray He'd be pleased to speak
to us. Now, I'll say this, not everybody's
gonna hear. There are those that refuse. They refuse to listen. They will
not hear. Zechariah wrote this in Zechariah
7. He said they refused to hearken. They refused to listen. And they
pulled away their shoulder and they stopped their ears that
they should not hear. There's plenty of things that
we should plug our ears. But when it comes to the gospel,
when it comes to the Word of God, we ought to be all ears. When I read it, it said, pull
away the shoulder. I can remember as a kid, I don't
think I did it too many times, but my dad tried to tell me something,
and what do we do? Pull away that shoulder. Or try
to tell me something I needed to hear. And like a little child,
just cover it. We refuse to hear. Oh Lord, deliver me. Deliver
me from that. Amen. They stopped their ears
that they should not hear. They made their hearts as an
adamant stone lest they should hear the law and the words that
the Lord of Hosts has sinned. Therefore, as a result of that,
came wrath from the Lord of Hosts. God's long-suffering, but He's
not going to be long-suffering forever. There's going to come
a day when He's going to wrap this thing up. Therefore, it came to pass that
as they They wouldn't listen. And then he cried. They cried. They cried. I imagine there's
a few people outside that ark when that door shut and that
rain started falling, crying. They cried. And he said, I would
not hear. This is serious. This is a serious
matter. They shall hear the voice of
the Son of God. God has a people that are going
to hear. Our text says this, they shall
hear. That's said with certainty, isn't
it? They shall hear. Is that true? Can I say that? The Lord Himself said this, He
said, My sheep, what? Hear My voice. And I know them. And they follow
Me. Sometimes He speaks in a still,
small voice. There was a time in the early
church when God spoke from Heaven. How does He speak now? You're
holding it in your hands there. Through the Word of God. Through
the preaching of His Word. The foolishness of preaching. That's what men call foolishness,
isn't it? The foolishness of preaching. How shall they hear? How shall
they hear without a preacher? How shall they preach except
they be sinned? He is a lamb. He is sheep. What
a miracle. They hear. Has He given you ears
to hear? Hear His voice. Not a man. But to hear the Word of the Lord. They hear the Gospel with the
ear. With the heart. And where'd both
of those come from? Almighty God. God, who is sovereign over all
things, gives his people an ear to hear. Gives them spiritual
life, a desire, a desire to hear. They shall hear his voice. Sin made. We read Moses. Moses heard the word of the Lord. There at that burning bush, he's
out there walking in the desert, and Moses saw him. He wondered
at the sight. And as he drew near, the voice
of the Lord came to him. He said, I'm the God that I follow.
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And
when Moses heard the word of the Lord, he trembled. He trembled
and durst not behold. And the Lord said unto him, Put
your shoes off your feet. You're standing on holy ground. You're standing in the presence
of the Lord. When God speaks, He speaks in
power. and his sheep hear him. Back in the seventies, some of
you remember this, but there was an investment firm and they
launched an advertising campaign. And it would start, you'd go
into this big crowded room, maybe a restaurant, just a big crowd,
people talking, you couldn't make out anything anybody was
saying. But one person in that group would say this. You'd hear
him say, E.F. Hutton. You remember that, Paul?
E.F. Hutton. And the room would just
grow silent. And then they would come in and
they'd say this. They'd say, when E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen. I don't know if that's true or
not. I don't. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.
But I know this. When God speaks, he speaks in
power, and his people hear. Amen. The dead, listen to this,
the dead shall hear the voice of the Lord. Bear with me to
Psalm 29. Look at verse 3. Psalm 29, verse 3. The voice of God. Here we read
of the voice of the Lord. I had planned on looking at this
entire chapter, but just look at this verse. is upon the waters. The God of glory, thunder. The Lord is upon many waters. Many waters. You know, if you go through the
Word of God, you'll see some of these, but think about this. The voice of the Lord, it speaks
of creation, doesn't it? We read this, that the Spirit
of God moves upon the face of what? The water. The voice of
the Lord speaks of judgment. When God sent that flood, back
there in the days of Noah, when He looked down upon the earth
and He saw the wickedness of man and that it was only evil
continually, what did He do? He sent a flood. A flood of what? Waters. And the waters prevailed
exceedingly. The waters speak of judgment.
They speak of deliverance. They're at the Red Sea. Think
about that. Remember that when Pharaoh drew
nigh with his armies? And the children of Israel, oh,
they were so afraid. They began to murmur, didn't
they? Why'd you bring South Egypt? And yet God, in mercy, was pleased
to deliver them. Moses spoke to the people and
said, fear not. What do we do, Moses? Stand still. Don't do a thing. Stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord, which He, who's going to
show? and they walked through on dry
land. And listen, not only that, there was also victory over the
enemy, wasn't there? That enemy, they pursued Pharaoh
and he's not going to have God reign
over him. He doesn't think he's going to have God reign over him. He
says he's not going to, but he charges into that water with
everybody with him. And those waters, fell on them
and crushed them. The sea returned to its strength.
The water returned to its strength. Pharaoh and his army were destroyed. The waters, they speak of humbling,
healing, naming. Remember that name of the leper?
He thought the prophet of God Is that what we're waiting on? Who do we think we are? Naaman, you go down in that river
and you dip seven times. In the River Jordan, Naaman was brought, that water
brought him down. Naman the leper. His flesh came
again like that of a little child. And he was what? Clean. Clean. The voice of the Lord
is upon the waters. Speaks of comfort. There in Psalm
23, what do we read? It speaks of salvation. There
at the cross, remember that when they came through to break their
legs, to speed up their death? Our Lord had already given up
the ghost. And that fellow took that sword and just shoved it
into his side. And out came blood and water. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, save
from wrath and make me pure." Speaks of life. Water is essential to life. If you don't have water in a
short amount of time, you're going to die. It speaks of life. This water, well, I guess ultimately
we can do with or without it, but we cannot do without the
water of life. The Lord said to that Samaritan
woman, if you would ask of me, do what? Just ask. Ask of me,
and I'll give you living water. And he that drinketh of this
water will never, never thirst again. Let's read on here. The voice of the Lord is powerful. It's a word spoken by the king,
isn't it? The word of the king comes in
power. Not just in word, but in power. The voice of the Lord is full
of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh
the cedars. These giant cedar trees, I mean,
they're great, aren't they? They're majestic. God can just take one of those
and just put it on the ground, no matter how great they are.
A strike of light flashes and just destroys that tree. He breaketh the cedars. Yea,
the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also
in a skip like a calf, Lebanon and Syria like a young unicorn.
The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. The voice
of the Lord shaketh the wilderness, shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
The voice of the Lord makes the hives to calf, and discovereth
the forest, and in his temple doth every one speak of His glory,
the glory of God. Listen, the hour is coming, and
now is, the day, day. They're going to hear the voice
of the Lord. And they that hear, grab on to
this, what's it say there? They that hear shall, there's
that word again, shall live. Back to that verse we started
with. You have He quickly. You have He given life that were
dead in trespasses and sin. There's life in His Son. He's sovereign. He's self-existent. He's eternal. He's omnipotent. He's all-powerful. The Word of
God goes forth in the Spirit of power to the saving of the
soul. They that hear shall live. There was a centurion. He approached
our Lord and he said to the Lord, he said, my servant is home sick
with palsy. He's grievously tormented. And
the Lord Jesus said, I'll come. I'll come to your house and I'll
heal him. What did that centurion say?
Lord, I'm not worthy for you to enter into my house Do this,
just speak the Word. Speak the Word and my servant
shall be healed. In Mark 5, the ruler of the synagogue,
his daughter was dying. She was dead. And he said to
that man, be not afraid, only believe. And he came to the house
of the ruler of the synagogue, and he seen the tumult. It was a mess. People were crying
and wailing. And our Lord said, why do you
make such an ado? She's not dead, but she's sleeping. You know, not everybody hears
His voice. There were many there that day. And he entered in to that damsel,
and he said unto her, Talitha Kuma. Damsel, I say unto thee,
arise. He speaks in power. And straightway,
I didn't look that up, but I believe that means immediately. Straightway,
the damsel arose and walked. She's 12 years old, and they
were astonished. It says they were astonished
with a great astonishment. Lazarus, he lay in the grave
four days. This was said of him, he was
one who loved. The voice of the Lord spoke and
said, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was what? Dead. Came forth. Bound hand and foot with grave
clothes. And Jesus said unto him, loose
him. All that that binds him, loose
him. and let him go. One more, in Ezekiel 16. Let's
turn to Ezekiel 16. And no eye pitied her, but one. None had compassion on her, but one did. Ezekiel 16, verse
six. I passed by thee, and I saw thee
polluted in thine own blood, And I said unto thee, when thou
wast in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee, when thou
wast in thy blood, live. And I caused thee to multiply
as the blood of the field, and thou hast increased, and waxed
great, and thou art covered in excellent ornaments, thy breasts
are fastened, and looked upon thee. Behold,
thy time was a time of love. I spread my skirt over thee,
and I covered thy nakedness. I swear unto thee I entered into
a covenant with thee, said the Lord God. Then washed I thee with water.
Yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed
thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered
work, and shod thee with badger skin. I girded thee about with
fine linen. I covered thee with silk. I decked
thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on thy hand.
I put a chain on thy neck. I put a jewel on thy forehead,
and earrings in thy ear, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
Thou was decked with silver and gold, And thy ringlet was of
fine linen and silk, embroidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour
and honey and oil, and thou was exceeding beautiful. And didst
prosper in the kingdom. And thy renown went forth among
the heathen for thy beauty. Why was she so beautiful, son? Perfect, made perfect through
my comeliness, which I had put on thee. saith the Lord God. The hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead, they're going to hear. They shall hear, not
just anyone, they shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
and they that hear shall live. John, while he was in prison. He had heard about the work of
Christ. And he sent two men unto the
Lord, saying, asking Him, Are you the one that should come?
Or do we look for another? And the Lord said, He said, You
go back and you tell John this. This is exactly what I want you
to tell. You go show John what you heard and seen. They receive their sight. The
lame walk. The lepers are cleansed. The
deaf hear. And what else? The dead are raised. And the poor, these all go together,
don't they? The poor have the gospel preached. What are they going to hear? The voice of the Son of God,
and they that hear shall live. Alright. God bless you.