Again, what a pleasure it is
to introduce a good friend of mine, and what a good friend
he has become. First heard about this man from
our dear brother Don Fortner when I asked our dear brother
Don, who can I get to take your place? Without hesitation, he
said, Clay Curtis. I reached out to Clay on the
phone, And from that day, it's just been a thing, hasn't it,
brother? It's just been a thing. Clay Curtis from Ewing, New Jersey.
Please come, brother, and brag on our wonderful Savior, the
Lord Jesus. Well, brother, thank y'all so
much for everything that you've done to make this such a good
weekend. I've enjoyed the fellowship with
you. Thank you, Brother Larry, for the messages. They've just
been a blessing to me. And thank you for those words,
Brother John and Kathy. You've become dear brethren to
me, too. And I'm thankful for the recommendation
Brother Don gave. And it's certainly not me. It's the Lord. It's the Lord. He gets the glory. Let's turn
our Bibles to Isaiah 46. I have the exact same message
that Brother Larry just preached to you. Christ is the truth,
so we're not going to preach anything else. That's just one
message. We're preaching the same message. In this chapter, the Lord declared
how Baal and Nebo, they were idol gods, Isaiah 46, and the
Lord declared not only did they not deliver the people, they
ended up being disassembled and carried away on beasts themselves,
these idols did. And then the Lord declares this
in verse three, hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all
the remnant of the house of Israel, which are born by me from the
belly, which are carried from the womb. And even to your old
age I am he. And even to whore hairs will
I carry you. I have made and I will bear,
even I will carry and will deliver you. I have a message for all saints. A message for all saints. Here we have a description of
God's people from the womb, through every stage of life, even to
we're old and gray-headed, even to He delivers His people into
glory. So this is a message for all
saints. No matter where you are in life,
this is God's promise to His people. He said, I made you.
He said, I bore you from the belly. I've carried you and I
shall carry you even to your old and gray headed. I will carry
you and I will deliver you. That's the word of our Lord.
That's the word of our Lord. Fanny Crosby wrote, all the way
my Savior leads me. What have I to ask besides? Can
I doubt his tender mercy? Who through life has been my
guide? Heavenly peace divide his comfort, here by faith in
him to dwell, for I know whatever befall me, Jesus doeth all things
well. Amen. And our Lord says in our
text, not only will our great shepherd lead you all the way,
as Mr. Prosby said, he said, I will
carry you the whole way. Who's this house of Jacob he's
talking about? Who's this remnant of the house
of Israel? These are those God chose from
eternity in Christ and love from everlasting to everlasting. This is His elect in Christ,
Jesus. They're not all Israel which
are of Israel. He's not talking about a political
nation. They're not, just because they're the seed of Abraham doesn't
mean they're all children. No, brethren, the scripture says
the children of the flesh are not counted. is the children
of promise. The children of promise. These
are God's elect, chosen of God from the foundation of the world.
And in ourselves, we know this about ourselves by His grace,
we're Jacobs. That's what we are in ourselves.
We send an Adam, we come forth with a corrupt nature, dead in
sin. And we still have that sin nature
with us, even as God says. So that by nature, right here
with us all the time, there's a self-loving, self-saving, self-righteous,
self-sanctifying, self-seeking sinner in all of us. Every one
of us. But you know the good news is,
what did God say about Jacob? He said, It wasn't based on any
good or evil that he did. In his mother's womb, not based
on any good or evil that he did, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. He said, Jacob have I loved. Why? Jacob have I loved. Don't need another reason. God
said, Jacob have I loved. And we love to hear that and
know that, brethren. When I read that next passage
in Romans 9, where God said, I will have mercy. I read that,
and I like to put the emphasis on God's will and what God says
he will do. I will have mercy. Amen. I will have compassion. That's
what he said. So then it's not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth. It's a God that shows mercy. That's what you love, that's
what you delight in, that's your hope, that's what sustains you
when you know you are a son of Jacob. That's what is the blessing
when you know you're a son of Jacob. The Lord said, I'm the
Lord, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. You sorry sons of Jacob are not
concerned. Our immutable God, His grace
never changes. How thankful we are to hear Him
say that we're the remnant of the house of Israel. Christ is
Israel. I could show you two or three
places where that's His name. He's Israel. And He's given us
His name. So we're of the house of Christ,
our Israel. I think it was, didn't you read
that at the beginning of the week? Christ as a son over his
own house, whose house we are. The house of Israel. And here's
what he says to us, brethren, hearken unto me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house of Israel. This is all his people
from the womb all the way to final glory. This is a message
for all saints. He said, hearken to me, all of
you. Here's what he says, first of all, our savior declares,
you're born from the belly, you're carried from the womb. This is
two things here, two things. We're born by him from our mother's
belly. And then by his grace, he gonna
make his child be born again by him. There's gonna be two
births for God's people in this earth. You're gonna be born the
first time from your mother's belly, and then you're gonna
be born again by the Lord Jesus. He told Jeremiah, before I formed
thee in the belly. How did he get formed in the
belly? He said, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew you. Before thou camest forth out
of the womb, I sanctified thee. I ordained thee a prophet to
the nations. He said, and then not only is
it that you're gonna be born in your mother's womb, all who's
elect, but then also we're gonna be born again from the womb of
the morning. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, from the womb of the morning. In the beauty
of holiness, from the womb of the morning, thou hast to do
of thy youth. The children of thy youth, they're
all produced by you. When it pleased God, Paul said.
That's right. Who separated me from my mother's
womb, He called me by His grace. I want you to think about this.
I want you to see how big our Savior is. I want you to think
about how big He is. Do you realize when you think
back on your great-grandparents and your grandparents, and your
parents, do you realize that it was Christ who arranged everything
for this great grandparent and that grandparent to meet and
have their grandparents, and for this one over here to meet
and have their, that grandparent, and then for those grandparents
to meet and have your mom or your dad, and then for you to
be born. He did that. Christ did that. He did that. We had nothing to
do with being conceived in our mother's womb. He did that. Well,
by the same token, think of when you came forth and you didn't
know him, and you didn't have any love for him, and all those
days of your rebellion, he carried you the whole time and brought
you under the sound of this good news, and by his grace, he made
you be born again. Amen. Oh, I have the privilege of knowing
all my great-grandparents except one. And I knew all my grandparents,
and I spent a whole lot of time with them. We all lived real
close down in South Arkansas, and I spent a lot of time with
them. My great-grandparents kept me just about all the time until
I was about 10 years old. And one thing that taught me
was the value of listening to my grandparents, to older folks.
They got some experience. They got some years, and they
can teach you something. And as important as that is,
brethren, I'm gonna tell you something. To have aged saints
in the church that have gray hairs, that can tell you that
this word is so, because they've experienced it and they've been
through it, you can't put a price on that. I used to love to go
to conferences and in between the services, you know, a bunch
of brethren would get together and I'd love it when The older
brethren would get to talking, and I'd just sit there and listen.
And they'd tell something about how all the Lord worked to bring
them unto the gospel, and how the Lord has kept them in all
His work through these years to keep them. You younger folks, and everybody's
here younger than somebody. You listen to the ones older
that can verify to you that word of our Lord is so. I've experienced
it. I've proved it. I know it's so.
And you that are aged, you might think, well, I'm not as useful
in the kingdom now. My body's weak or whatever. No,
you are. You are. You can tell these younger
believers This is true. I've experienced it. It's true. That's an equal. Our Lord, when he said the gospel
to us, we were like Jacob. You remember when the Lord came
and he wrestled Jacob? That was Christ that did that.
That pre-incarnate Lord Jesus did that. And I know it's so
because after it all happened, Jacob said, I've seen God face
to face. And God only deals with sinners
through a mediator. There's just one. And it was
Christ that came and wrestled him. But here was Jacob's problem.
And this is what happened to us when the Lord first came to
us and started revealing this gospel to us. We started trying
to wrestle in our own strength. And that's what Jacob did. He
was trying to wrestle in his own strength. And the scripture
says, when the Lord saw that Jacob prevailed not with him,
that's how that needs to be read. When the Lord saw that Jacob
prevailed not with him, the Lord touched the hollow of his thigh
and Jacob's thigh was out of joint as Christ wrestled with
him. I hear men preach on that and
talk about You need to wrestle with God in prayer, and you keep
wrestling with God in prayer, and if you're strong enough in
prayer, you twist his arm and you get God to give you what
he wants. That is not even what that passage is teaching us.
When Jacob was trying to prevail in his own strength, he did not
prevail. But Christ came to make him prevail. When he comes to you to teach
you this gospel, he comes to make you prevail. And as long
as you're trying to get the blessing and you're trying to do it by
your works and your merit and looking at yourself and wrestling
against the gospel and trying to hold on to the old and grab
on to the new, it ain't going to happen. But He's going to
touch the hollow of your thigh. He's going to make you weak.
He's going to make you so utterly weak that you can't do nothing
but do what blind Bartimaeus did and say, Lord, please, please
have mercy on me. That's what Jacob did. When after
the Lord touched the holly of his thigh, the Lord began to
withdraw from him and he said, leave me alone, it's a breaking
day. And Jacob just held on to it and cried out, I won't let
you go till you give me a blessing. Give me a blessing, please give
me a blessing. He's begging, he's begging, he's begging. Look
with me over at Hosea 12. I'm gonna show you that's how
he prevailed, begging mercy. Look here, verse three. At the
end of verse three, talking about Jacob, it said, by his strength,
he had power with God. I just thought you said it wasn't
his strength. Well, it wasn't, but it was. By his strength, he had power
with God. Yea, he had power over the angel
and prevailed. He wept and begged for mercy. He wasn't trying to do that at
first. He didn't have that power to prevail until Christ made
him utterly weak in himself by touching his thigh so that all
he could do was say, Lord, have mercy on me, the sinner. That's
how you won't prevail. So what does he tell us to do?
He said he even, he found him in Bethel. There he spake with
us. And he's really, the Lord really spoke with us there. He's
teaching you and me something there in Bethel. He said, even
the Lord God our host, the Lord is his memorial. Therefore, turn
now to thy God, keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God
continually. You know how you keep mercy and
judgment? Christ said, judge righteous judgment. You know
how you're going to keep mercy and judgment? Trust the righteous
judge. Turn to him away from yourself. Wait on him continually. to save
you. We gotta be made, you know, it's
not just when he first calls you that he touches the hollow
in your thigh and makes you weak. So that all you do is turn to
him and trust him and trust him to work what's right and to keep
you in the way. We go through our life and we
start feeling pretty strong as believers. We start feeling like
we got some strength and maybe you did a good thing here and
there Well, that was a good thing. And then He gives you some understanding
and He gives you some more revelation in Him and you get a little exhausted
because you know something. And He's going to send sorrowful
affliction. He's going to send some painful providence. And
even when He does that, we start wrestling in our strength, you
know, trying to get out of it, lean to our wisdom to get out
of it. He gave Paul a lot of suffering and affliction. You
know why he did it? Paul said, a messenger of Satan
to buffet me. That's what he gave me. And he
said, lest I should be exalted above measure. I'll tell you
this. He was going to reveal himself
more and more to his people. But the more he reveals himself
to you, the more you're going to suffer in this world. lest
you be exalted above measure. He's gonna use his people, but
the more he uses you in the kingdom of God, the more you're gonna
suffer, lest you be exalted above measure. Moses used mightier
than any man. Moses suffered. David wrote all
the Psalms. Think of all the word of God
we have that David wrote, how mightily God used him as his
king and as a prophet and to write all those scriptures. David
spent most of his time in the wilderness. Paul, the Apostle
Paul, used more mightily than anybody in the New Testament
as far as the Lord's Apostles goes. In most of the letters
we read that the Apostle Paul wrote, he wrote them in prison,
forsaken of most of his brethren. Why? Unless I should be exalted
above measure. See, Christ is gonna keep us
knowing I'm carrying you. I'm carrying you. I bore you
from your belly. I'm carrying you. That's what
he taught Paul. He said, my grace is sufficient
for you. He said, my strength is made
perfect. How? In your weakness. That's right. And we're so proud
by nature. He has to touch our thigh to
make us weak, to make us trust him to be our strength. But when
he does that, Paul said, I glory in my infirmity. He said, you
want me to brag and boast about something? Here's what I brag
and boast about. I don't have any power. I'm weak. I'm weak. Why do you glory that
you're so weak that the power of Christ might rest on me? Our
Savior said, you're born by me from the belly, and you're carried
by me from the womb. So what's he telling us to do? Tell us what he taught Jacob. Turn thou to thy God. That's
how you keep mercy and judgment. Turn to him. He's kept mercy
and judgment. Turn to him and trust him to
keep mercy and judgment, and wait on him continually. Our great Savior, he bought his
elect remnant with his precious blood. So not only shall each
be born again of him, he will carry each one all the way to
glory. Look at it, verse four. Even
to your old age I am he, and even to your gray hairs will
I carry you. I have made, I will bear, even
I will carry and will deliver you. Christ. made us. You know, He made the first creation
and all things made by Him and for Him. And that's an illustration. This whole creation and Him being
the one that made it is an illustration to declare He's the only one
who makes the new creation. The new heavens and the new earth
will be made entirely his righteousness and his holiness
alone. You and me won't get there and
say we added one thing to it. He did it all. He did it all. Now to make us, he had to be
made like us. It behooved him, now listen,
in all points to be made like unto his brethren that he might
be a a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for His people. He had to be
made like unto His brethren. Have you ever wondered why the
Apostle John, in 2 John 1-7, he said, many deceivers are entered
into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Have you ever wondered why John
wrote that? Didn't everybody believe Christ came in the flesh?
There was a thing in John's day that was already prevalent called
Gnosticism. It's still prevalent in our day.
Gnostics believe you're saved by a degree of knowledge. You gotta have a certain degree
of knowledge to be saved. Listen to me. Anything you put
between a sinner and Christ becomes the object of your salvation,
even if it's your degree of knowledge. No, Christ is our wisdom and
he teaches us everything. But because they had this knowledge
and they thought they were so wise, they said, since we know
everybody that's flesh is a sinner, Christ could not, the Son of
God could not have been made flesh or he would have been a
sinner. And so here was their solution.
It was just as if he was made flesh. That's what John was dealing
with. That's what he was talking about.
Anybody that said he wasn't made flesh is an antichrist and a
deceiver. They said he was like a mirage
or like a spirit but he wasn't really flesh. You can look that
up. That's what Gnostics taught.
Listen to me, brethren. He had to be made like us in
all points. He's the head. He's the substitute. He's the one that God looked
to. And a man sinned. A man fell. God requires a man
be obedient. So he had to become a man and
do that for his people. He was made of a woman. Was he
really made of a woman? He was made of a woman. Why was
he made of a woman? Romans 8 says, so that he might
condemn sin in the flesh. In flesh like ours as a man,
he condemned sin. So that righteousness might be
fulfilled in us. That doesn't mean you do it,
right? That means in our flesh, he was obedient and brought in
everlasting righteousness. He was made under the law. He gave the law. He's the one
that gave it to Moses at Mount Sinai. And then he came down
and humbled himself and was made under his own law. Circumcised
the eighth day. Paul said any man that's circumcised
is better to keep the whole law. That's what he came to do. Made
under the law. And he kept the whole law. He
didn't have to strive to keep it. It's just who he is. Perfectly
obedient. Why did he do that? So that we
might receive the blessing of Abraham. So that we might be
freely given the adoption of children. And then when the time came,
as Brother Larry said, he who knew no sin was made sin. Just as real as he was made of
a woman, as real as he was made under the law, he was made sin
for us who knew no sin. Why? Because God is just and
the number one purpose of the cross of Christ is not even to
save you or me. That's not the number one purpose.
The number one purpose is to declare that God is righteous. God is the just judge. God will
do nothing but what's right and just. When you're looking at
the scripture and you're trying to discern if something's true
or not, you always discern it from this number one priority,
God's just. What's the just thing? What shows
His justice? And our Lord Jesus Christ went
to before the Father as the spotless Lamb of God. No sin. Would not
sin. Could not sin. made him sin for us. It was pictured in the ceremony
when they brought the spotless lamb and the high priest put
his hands on him and confessed the sins of Israel over him and
put the sins on him ceremonially. That was pictured in that. But
it was, he's the express image. And it was far more than that.
He was made sin for us so that holy God, the just judge, would
not pour out justice on him till he was worthy of that justice. I heard somebody say, God will
never pour out justice on an innocent man. He sure won't. He sure won't. Our Savior is
sinless, spotless, the holy, spotless Lamb of God. But before
God would pour out wrath on Him, He made Him sin for His people
so that God's just pour out that wrath on him. And he did it so
that he would be judged to be merciful to his people. He justified
us and he did it so he would be merciful to his people. And
with that sin on him, now God was judged and he made our substitute,
a curse for us. Those are two different things.
People confound being made sin and being made a curse. He was
made sin, made to bear the sin of his people that God might
be just to make him a curse. And then he bore all the curse
and condemnation that his people deserved. And you know what he accomplished
by that? He made us what he is. That's right. Where's he now?
He's made higher than the heavens. And that's where we are with
Him. He made His people the righteousness of God in Him. As real as He
was made of a woman, made of the law, made sin, made a curse,
that's how real He made His people the righteousness of God in Him.
He made us holy like we saw last night. He made us free, redeemed
us from the curse of the law. Comes and redeems us from our
sin nature and one day He's gonna redeem us into glory with Him.
He made us his purchased possession. Where he is? I made you, he said. Therefore,
he says. You look at this long wilderness.
From the day you're born out of your mother's womb, all the
way to glory, there's a big waste out in the wilderness you gotta
go through. There's a long valley of the shadow of death you're
gonna have to go through. How you gonna get through it?
He said, and I will bear you, even I will carry and will deliver
you. He'd been carrying me from my
mother's womb. That's so you. You didn't know
him. He's the power and wisdom of
God unto salvation. God declared 200 years before,
200 years before Israel ever, He ever sent them into Babylon.
He said, I'm going to send a man named Cyrus and he's going to
deliver you out of Babylon. He's going to perform all my
counsel. And that's who the Lord talked about down on the page
there in verse 9. Christ, that's a picture of Christ. Before we
fell in at him, God set up the Savior, and God sent him forth,
and he accomplished our redemption, and he delivered us out of bondage,
and Cyrus carried him all the way back to Jerusalem, and Christ's
carrying us all the way to glory. God said, my counsel shall stand,
I'll do all my pleasure, calling the ravenous bird from the east,
the man that executed my counsel from a far country. Christ came
down from a far country, and he executed God's counsel. I've
spoken, I'll bring it to pass, I've purposed it, I'll do it.
There's no maybes in this thing. It is all sure by God. I bore
you, I made you, I will carry you, and I'll carry you to glory,
he said. You know, when trials come, and they trouble you, and
you don't know what to do, and you're just troubled and perplexed,
you know, we're gonna end up at Christ's feet trusting him.
But that's not usually how we start the trial. And we get in
ourselves in a mess and get to looking at ourselves and get
troubled and shaken and say what we shouldn't and do what we said
we shouldn't and all the things that happen. And I like to call
my older brethren that, you know, older in the faith. And they've
been through it. They've seen the Lord bring them
through it. And they'll be just as calm. I'll be just talking
90 miles an hour and they'll wait for me to run out of breath
and they'll just say, look to Christ. Amen. Amen. Why, how do they, why can
they be scum? They haven't been through all
that. And they've seen the Lord deliver them through it. And
they just console you. We don't have but one consolation.
Paul said, he said, Christ comforts us in all our tribulation so
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted. For as the sufferings
of Christ abound in us, so our consolation abounds by Christ.
In other words, Christ is the consolation of Israel. He's the
only one we have to console one another with. You older brethren,
do me a favor. When I call you next time and
I'm just tore up and rambling and the air, the sky's falling,
console me with Christ. Console me with Christ. We saw those, God's one does
a separate and a sanctifying, making you pure. Pharisees, they're
self-sanctifiers. That's what Pharisee means, separate
ones. And a man who's trusting himself, he'll come out in a
trial because if a brother falls, he's going to look for fault.
He's going to look for more fault. He's going to whip out the law
and whip him with the law. And he ended up saying, stand
over there. Don't come near me. I'm holier than you. And God
said, they're stenching my nose. You know what God's child's going
to do who has fallen? And Christ has underneath been
the everlasting arm and He's carried him and kept carrying
him and kept carrying him. And then you know what that age
believer is going to do when he sees the boy in the fall?
He's going to say, come here brother. Let me pick you up and
let me tell you one more time about our consolation, about
our Savior, about our Redeemer who's carrying us both. Come
alongside me. Let's talk about our Redeemer.
That's what the Lord said to Jacob. That's what he taught
us through Jacob. He came and touched him and took
all his strength from him and made it so he couldn't save himself.
So that all he could do was look to Christ for mercy and ask Christ
to save him. And Hosea said, this is what
he was teaching us. You turn to the Lord. That's
the only way you're gonna keep mercy and judgment is to trust
Him who keeps mercy and judgment for His people. Wait on Him. Wait on Him. And here's the good
thing, brethren. He never changes. He never changes. He said there at verse 4, even
to your old age, I am He. You know what He's saying? We
go through all these stages in our life and we change. We'll
go through another stage and we'll change. We'll go through
another stage and we'll change. And all the while our flesh is
getting weaker and our flesh is getting weaker and our flesh
is getting weaker. I don't mean getting weaker to
sin. You've still got that in you.
I'm just saying getting weaker to do any of the mighty things
that we thought we could do. But He don't change. Listen to this, Psalm 102, 24.
Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou
laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work
of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yea, all
of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture. Shalt thou change
them? They shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy
years shall have no end. So you know what the result will
be? He says, the children of thy servants shall continue,
and their seed shall be established forever. In other words, he used
Moses. He was with Moses. He helped
Moses. He carried Moses. And he used
Moses to produce some more spirits of the children through Moses'
word. And then Moses died. The Lord still continued with
that one born through Moses. And he used Joshua, and he taught
Joshua, and he carried Joshua, and he delivered Joshua. And
through Joshua, he used his gospel to create some spiritual children. Then Joshua died. And the Lord
took up with him that was born through Joshua's word, and he
walked with him, and he carried them, and he taught them. And
he's been doing that through every generation And He's done
that for you and me that know Him now. And when we die and
our bodies are in the dust, those that He saved through our work,
He's just going to be doing the same thing for them, carrying
them all away. He doesn't change. You've proven
this. His faithfulness to you hasn't
changed. His mercy hasn't changed. His grace hasn't changed. His
accomplished work of redemption hasn't changed. Nothing about
Him has changed. Because that's so, brethren,
the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights
in his way. Though he fall, he shall not
utterly be cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I've been young and now old,
and I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging
bread. He is merciful and lendeth, and his seed is blessed in every
generation. because He changes not. Oh, there's
going to come a day, we go through all these troubles, but there's
going to come a day, the day of our departure is at hand,
like Lazarus. But you know this is so, what
our Lord said about Lazarus is true of His people in every sorrowful
thing we face in this life. It's true of everything we go
through in this life, even of our death, our physical death,
this is true. The Lord said, this sickness
is not unto death, but that God might be glorified and the Son
of God be glorified thereby. That's so everything you face
in this world. It's not unto death. Why? Christ
said, I'm the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. So whatever you face, it's not
unto death. Even death is not unto death. What's this life? You know, righteousness
is life. Sin is death. Righteousness is
life. Christ could have just as easily said, I'm the resurrection
and the righteousness. Because righteousness and life
are synonyms. If you have righteousness, you're alive. If you're alive,
it's because you've been made righteous. If Christ is in you,
the body's dead because of sin, but the Spirit's life because
of righteousness. And if the Spirit in him that
raised up Christ in the dead dwell in you, he will also quicken
your mortal body. So one of these days, I'll show
you a mystery. He said, the last thing he says
in our text is, I will deliver you. The same one that delivered
you in the first hour, when you come down to that last breath
and you draw that last breath, he said, I will deliver you.
We won't all sleep. We won't all be in the grave.
But I'll tell you what we are going to do. We're all going
to be changed. The trumpet's going to sound. The dead's going
to be raised incorruptible. And we shall be changed, because
this corruptible flesh has got to put on incorruption. And that
too is going to be by our Lord's creating. I made you. And here's what he said, when
I've brought the past and mortality swallowed up of immortality,
then I'll be brought this past to say and death is swallowed
up in victory. Oh, death, where is thy sting?
What is the venomous sting that causes death? It's sin. What's
the strength of sin? It's the law. Christ fulfilled
the law. He put away our sin. He's the
righteousness, the life. Thanks be to God and give us
us to be through our Lord Jesus Christ. I'm telling you, brethren,
turn to the Lord. Judge righteous judgment. Trust
the righteous judge. That's how you're going to keep
mercy and judgment. Because he's justified his people. Whatever
happens to your brother, no matter how bad he falls, you are justified Be merciful. Don't pull out the
law and condemn him. Be merciful. You're just. Well,
it's not just he did something wrong. I believe this, but I
might be just. You want to be just? His justice
has already been settled at Calvary. You be merciful to him. And trust
the Lord and wait on him. I pray the Lord bless that. We're
in good hands, President. Better than that insurance company.
We're in good hands.