2 Chronicles 26. I'm going to
look at these first 21 verses and I'll try to keep to a minute
apiece. I'll go as quick as I can. But
here's what we get. We looked at last hour the mediator,
the captain of our salvation. That's the go between us and
the Father. We're sin sick. He's the one
able to save and Christ on our behalf petitions the Father for
us. He prays for us to approach God
without a mediator. a go-between, a representative,
a substitute, is death. It's death. When I was a young
man I joined the volunteer fire department, and I hadn't got
my pager yet. They give you a big old pager
that goes off when the fire calls go off. And I hadn't got that
yet, so I went and bought a scanner, and I kept it in my truck. And
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that's a crime. Because you can
have the police channels in there and know what the cops are doing,
and it's bad. And so I got pulled over one
time, and I didn't get a ticket. It was somebody else speeding,
and they said, well, we'll let you go. And then they heard that,
station 94, Cannonsburg. What's that? That's why I ain't
got my scanner yet, or my pager yet. I just got this scanner
so I can go on fire calls. And I said, you give that to
me, buddy. You can't have it. And then he went back to his
car and he said, do you know all the state police's channels are programmed into
this thing? I lied. No, I didn't know. Of course
I knew. I wanted to put them in there. I'd go to the judge. I'd appear in court for that.
And I didn't hire a lawyer. I did not get a mediator. Because
I knew the judge. There's two judges in Boyd County,
Kentucky. And the one, Judge Rosen lived, his property line
touched mom and dad's property line. I saw him all the time.
He's our neighbor. And I thought, well, Judge Rosen knows me. I
ain't gonna get in no trouble. Why would I worry about going
down there and meeting him? I know him. I'm familiar with
him. I have familiarity. Don't people have familiarity
with God nowadays? Oh, I know Jesus. Me and Jesus got a good
thing going. It's familiarity, it's flippant.
That's wrong. I walked in that courthouse and
it was not Judge Rosen. It was Judge Davis. He looked
like a wolf man. Jack had a big old beard back before that was
popular. Long hair slicked back and he was a hard man. And I said, dude, how do you
plead guilty or not guilty? I said, well, you got my scanner.
I'm guilty. He said, you think it's a laughing
matter? He said, I'll put you in county jail for six months,
son. You think this is funny? Guess who wanted an advocate
right then? Guess who wanted a lawyer? I
didn't speak his language. I don't know your rules. And
all of a sudden, buddy, it's been found out I'm a leper. I
ain't like you. I can't be in your presence.
I need somebody to talk to you on my behalf. I had to pay a fine and court
fees and everything else. That cheap scanner got real expensive.
Boy, that was a valuable lesson. Lord, use that to teach me something.
This text is looking here at a story of a great king. 2 Chronicles
26. A great king as far as men's
considered. And he was locked and he was well-blessed on this
earth and he did a lot of wonderful things and he prospered and the
people under him did well. And then he came to the temple
because he had success in so many areas. And he was smart,
buddy. He just knew the Scriptures.
He came to sacrifice to the Lord without a priest, without a mediator,
without a go-between on his own behalf. To approach God without
a mediator is to perish. I'm not a priest. I'm not a mediator.
I'm not a go-between. I'm a preacher. I'm not the middle
man between people and God. But I proclaim, I want to tell
people who He is. Who He is, Christ our High Priest. He says in Hebrews 14, we have
a great High Priest that has passed into the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God. Let us hope fast our profession.
For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, but in all points tempted like as we
are." He's been through everything. Oh, we can relate to this one.
Sitting some cold stoic person in a weird outfit. He's been
tempted in every way that we have. I thought about that. If a woman's
pregnant and you've got troubles with it, go to the Lord. Well,
he never had a baby. He said he's been tempted in
everything we've been tempted in. I believe him. Do you believe him? I don't
know how, but that's so. Yet without sin. Yet without
sin. That's who our go-between is.
Paul told Timothy, there's one God and there's one mediator
between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. That's it. What happens when we come to
God on our own? What happens when we approach His throne without
a high priest, a mediator, without that go-between between God and
man? We'll see what happened here to Uzziah. Here in 2 Chronicles
26, verse 1. Then all the people of Judah
took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king
in the room of his father, Amaziah. But Eloth, that's a great port
city, and he built Eloth, that great port city, and restored
it to Judah. After that, the king slept with his fathers.
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign. And he
reigned 50 and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoli
of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right
in the sight of God, according to all that his father Amaziah
did. He did what his dad did. He did
the same thing his father did. Ain't all of us born of Adam
do the same thing that our fathers did? Clay talked about that this
morning. He said, thanks, dad. Look at
my father and said, well, because you's that way, I'm that way.
And he can look to William Bailey Thacker Jr. and my grandpa and
said, well it's your fault, and we can trace that all the way
back to Adam. Now we did it, but we're just doing what our
fathers did too, isn't it? That's our instinct, that's our nature,
that's our DNA that's in us. So he sought God in the days
of Zechariah, verse 5, who had understanding in the visions
of God, And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. When he was 16 years old, he
was made king. And his first act as king was to retake his
port city. And he was gaining all the respect of the people
from day one. That's what he's doing. He's
getting back the land that's properly ours. And he went to
the prophet of God, and God tried to get a word from him, and we're
going to do everything right, and people liked him for it.
You can go back in chapter 25 and read about his father. He
did all the things that was right in the sight of God too, but
his heart wasn't pure. He followed those directions
to a T. But, however, he didn't know God. He didn't bow to God.
He didn't give God the glory for it. And he was never given
a new heart. And he ends up, whenever he's captured, he's
bowing to these idols of the gods that he captured. That was
wrong. It looked on the outside like
everything he was doing was right until the end, didn't it? Uzziah went a
step further in this obedience. In verse 5, he sought God through
God's prophet. He went to seek the Lord where
he was preached. And he had a motivation to learn
about the Lord. And as long as he saw the Lord, he was blessed.
And he prospered. There's so many people that seek
after knowledge. Many people seek the knowledge of the Scriptures.
But they don't seek understanding. They search the Scriptures because
they think they have life. If I exercise good, I'm going
to get in good shape. If I save my money and make good business
decisions, I'm going to get money. And one of the other pillars in my
life, if I read the Bible every day, I got God, all my blocks
are checked. I got insurance in every category.
I've shored up all my bets. Oftentimes people, they think
they're doing well because they find earthly wisdom. And these
scriptures, we go through the Proverbs or whatever and you
see the practicality in that and you do what the Lord says.
You may have well-behaved children. You may have a lot of money in
the bank. You may be a good boss or be a good employee and get
along good and fine in this world. But if we don't see the Christ
of the Scriptures, we've got nothing. Everything's going to
burn. It's all going to be gone anyway,
and we're going to face Him one day. Some people find it just as a
guidebook to living. And there may be some gains on
this earth, but the things of this earth won't perish and fade
away. They're all going to burn. We should seek things above,
shouldn't we? Not what's our physical gain right now. What
can we do to make everything okay today for me, with them?
What's in it for me? What's in it for me? Like I said,
that centurion, that servant dies. Well, who's going to wash
my car? A man just died. What do we worry about a car
for? But that's us by nature, isn't
it? John told us, he said, the world passeth away in the lust
thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
We seek his will, seek his glory. Paul said, if you be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God, that mediator we have. He's already
there. Set your affections on things above, not on things below.
Set your affections on Him. Look to Him. There's current benefits. Those
eyes sought wisdom through that prophet. But we're going to see
he only received worldly wisdom and a temporal benefit. And the
Lord helped him during this. This is alright. This is the
Lord's doing. Look at verse 6. And he went forth and moored
against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath,
and the wall of Jabnath, and the wall of Ashdod, and built
cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines. And God helped
him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that
dwelt in Gerbal and the Mahams. The Lord helped him. He didn't
know that. He just thought he was doing
all the right things. This is quid pro quo. If I do this, then God will
do that. This is the Lord's doing, wasn't
it? When Uzziah sought the Lord, he was blessed. And he knew he
was blessed, and the armies knew he was blessed, and the Ammonites
knew he was blessed. Look at verse 8. And the Ammonites gave gifts
to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad even to the entering in
of Egypt, for he strengthened himself exceedingly. That praise
that came, that was from men and to a man. I care what people think about
me. Not as much as some others do. More than others do. But
I do. I care what people think. And
you do too, don't you? You care what people think about
you? Here or other places or wherever? At the grocery store? I do. We ought not. We ought
not. But we do, don't we? But that
praise that's from men is to a man. And nowhere in that today
they praise God for giving him that strength, for God for being
with him, for God for giving him the ability. And they didn't
spread the name of God throughout all the land, they spread the
name of Uzziah throughout all the land. He was a popular leader. You see trouble brewing? How
you think it's gonna pan out? Who gets the glory in all things?
God's a jealous God. He gonna share his glory. But
Uzziah kept building and he kept prospering. He was building churches
in verse 9. Moreover, Uzziah built towers
in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at
the turning of the wall and fortified them. He didn't just build them,
he fortified them. He made them good. He spared no expense. He
ordered good concrete, best stone cutters. And he also built towers
in the desert and digged many wells. For he had much cattle,
both in the low country and in the plains, husbandmen also,
and buying dressers in the mountains and in Carmel. For he loved husbandry."
He enjoyed what he was doing. It was a labor of love to him.
What's this a picture of? Uzziah's building these vineyards
and digging wells and breeding livestock and building these
walls. And worldly, he's making defenses and securing that food.
Spiritually, it's a picture of Uzziah trying to build a church.
He contributed to the furtherance of the gospel, and he contributed
to these walls and these towers. That's all pictures of local
assemblies where God puts his preachers. He said in Isaiah
62, I've set watchmen upon the walls, O Jerusalem, and they
ain't gonna hold their peace, day or night. You that make mention
of the Lord, keep not silent, and give him no rest. Don't let
off of him. You just keep going until God
establishes it. He'll make Jerusalem the praise
of the earth. He'll do those things. But it was I who made
places for the gospel to be spread. He did, that's what this is a
picture of. Am I saying that a person can be very blessed
on this earth by God and put in charge of many things and
help build the church of God and be used to further the word
of the Lord and seek God through his prophets and still be without
spiritual life? Just because I'm a preacher don't
mean nothing. Is that right? What Paul say? He that water,
who cares? It's God that gives inquiry.
Just because I preach, you think I pray daily, Lord be with me. Well, I'll say 25 years ago,
Lord be with me, I need mercy this morning. And then be merciful
to me, then give me a message for those that need mercy too.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. We read about our fruits, our
works, or the proof of faith that the Lord gives. James said,
faith without works is dead. But you know what? You can read
that backwards too. Works without faith is dead works. That works. Energy has been expended to accomplish
a task. Something got done. They didn't
sit around and talk about doing it. They did something. But without
faith, without looking to the Lord and knowing He's everything,
it don't mean nothing. It don't mean nothing. Paul said there in Romans 3,
Therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified
in his sight. So if my works don't save me,
if I'm not given life by going to church or donating to a faithful
ministry that preaches the truth or helping my brethren, what
am I to do? If those things don't save me,
I must look to Christ. I must look to that mediator.
I must seek that captain, that centurion. And I'm in need of
a substitute. I can't do this on my own. I
have to seek Him. I have to look to Him. And going
through the motions of serving Christ, Paul cautioned a whole lot. That
was his big worry, wasn't it, the Apostle Paul? It's false
converts. Going through the motions of serving Christ and worshiping
Him will do you no good. We must be given a new spirit.
We must be born again so we can worship in spirit and in truth. And we can't worship God under
a lie. You ain't going to be saved under the preaching of
a lie. He said so. So we have to worship Him in
truth. He said in spirit and in truth. It's got to be true,
but we have to have the spirit. We're dead in trespasses and
sins. He has to give us new life. If I didn't know you yesterday,
Lord, make me know you today. I don't care what's done. I don't
care what's happened in 44 years. Be my mediator today. Intercede
for me right now. Right now. He must give us a
new spirit. Then, if the Lord gives a new spirit, a new heart
in him, that heart's like his heart, then that new faith that's
in him, it'll desire to build churches, and it'll desire to
be with those that love God, and it'll desire to further the
gospel, and it'll do all those things. It will. He'll melt them. There's no such
thing as indifference. He can't stand lukewarmness.
If God works in somebody, there's a new creation in them, and it's
going to poke out. Like that little child said,
Daddy, if Christ is in me, wouldn't he stick out? Yeah, he sure will,
son. People are going to notice. The old preacher said even the
dog is going to be able to tell the difference. In verse 11 through 15, we see that
Uzziah had a great army under him, thousands of men. And he
took good care of them. And he was a good leader over
those men that he was in charge of. Look at verse 14. And Uzziah
prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears
and helmets and habergons, that's body armor, and bows and slings
to cast stones. He provided for all these soldiers.
He equipped them properly. And I tell you what, I've been
a soldier. And when you get good equipment, you get the good stuff. Not that old beat up, handed
down stuff. When you get good equipment, good tools that you
need, you're happy about it. It ain't my helmet, it ain't
my body armor, but if it's new, it's mine for now. I'm going
to keep it clean and take good care of it. We're thankful, ain't
you? It is I who provided physical armor and all these tools, but
it never mentions him talking about carrying the shield of
faith, does it? He doesn't point them to that sword of the Lord
and put on that helmet of salvation, does he? Not once. He was concerned about temporal
things, physical things. And he had his brightest men
develop equipment for the army. Look at verse 15. And he made
in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men. The Lord gave
them men that ability to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks
to shoot arrows and great stones withal. That's crossbows and
catapults. They invented those things. And his name spread far
abroad and he was marvelously helped till he was strong. till he was strong. As King's
life had led up to this point, Almighty God had physically and
earthly blessed him greatly, gave him ability, wealth, now
power, and he was strong as far as men go. And all around him,
everybody thought he was mighty. And he'd been lifted up, and
boy, they praised him and they lifted him up more, didn't they?
That's a dangerous place to be. Oh, pray for so-and-so, they're
having a hard time. Well, pray for so-and-so that's
having a good time. I'm telling you. Now, listen to me. I mean it. We know that carnally, don't
we? If you was ever a teenager or you saw one on TV or read
a book or something, I don't know, I hope we can get into
this. If you take an 18-year-old in a day and then make him a
multimillion dollar, a millionaire, give him $50 million. Now, you
all have been alive for more than 18 years. What do you think
is going to happen? I've seen it. It's going to go south. Chances are this ain't going
to be good. They'll probably be dead within
five years, won't they? We've seen it happen. We have. You
imagine, that's just carnally. But to be given all that power
and ability and strength and knowledge without understanding,
imagine what a draw that would have on the heart away from Christ,
away from the gospel. Well, I'll get to that next week.
I know, I know, I know. Do we? I'd rather be a doorkeeper
in his house. Wouldn't you? Be with him. I'd
rather be that servant curled up sick on the bed and him praying
for me. Him interceding for me. That's what I'd rather have happen
than me be doing pretty good on my own. What effect did this
have on Uzziah? Verse 16. But when he was strong,
his heart was lifted up to his destruction. Have you ever thought
before I have? Well, that was just Uzziah. If
I got elected president or something, I could handle it. I could be
alright. What did the wisest man born
of Adam say? Pride goeth before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall. As I was lifted up in pride,
he was strong, yet a haughty spirit just before he fell. Verse
16 says, but when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, to his
destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God and
went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar
of incense." He just went in and burned a little incense.
Ooh, you're approaching God all by yourself, in your power, in
your strength, in your ability, in your knowledge, in your wisdom.
You think, well, I've had success in business that way too. Sometimes
people have a business, and that business will be real successful.
And then they think, well, I've struck gold in HVAC. I'm going to be good at hot air
balloon rental. They just think it's off-the-wall
things. I had a cousin who wanted to
make shotgun jeans. He bought a bunch of Levi's and took a
buckshot, went out and shot them on a clothesline. He said, I'm
going to make a million dollars. I said, I think you just made a million
holes. You ruined a good pair of jeans. But we think we get
a little bit of success, we think we can do it in everything. Like
I said about those pillars, you get in shape, you get your money
right, you get your kids raised and good, and everything's going
good, and then you think, well, I got this religion stuff squared
away too. Oh, it's dangerous. We need to be warned of these
things, don't we? He'd approach the Lord without a mediator.
It was a high priest's business to enter into that holiest of
holies. No king. King or no king, it didn't matter.
It was his job, the priest's job. And there was only one that
could enter where God the Father met with people. There could
only be one mediator. Just one. Not two of them holding
hands. Not twins even. Just one. Just
one. As I came to God without Christ
is what this is showing us. He approached the Father without
a mediator. And by doing that, he was saying, I don't need one.
I can do it myself. And he was flat wrong. He was
flat wrong. What he did was terribly wrong.
And he probably still thought he was doing okay because the
Lord hadn't punished him yet. Just because sin goes unpunished
doesn't mean that the Lord is satisfied. Just because he doesn't
call down a powerful brimstone or strike somebody dead right
in that moment doesn't mean it's okay. Well, we've always done
it this way. Well, maybe God just ain't dealt
with us yet. Flying over a nation, I wish
however 300 some million people in this nation would hear that.
I want to say that they would see the need of a mediator and
see that we can't do it on our own and we need a substitute. Would the God that hear it. But
that punishment hadn't come yet, it was about to. Verse 17, there
was a warning before that. Did you know that? We saw them
in plagues. Every third one didn't, but what
a generous thing for the Lord who owes us nothing to give us
a warning. Somebody come tell them. How many years? Something
says 100 or 120. No, it's going to rain. Nobody believe me. It's going
to rain. You need to get in this boat. Maybe some agreed with
it. They didn't get in the boat, did they? They didn't get in
that oar. But the Lord warned. So here in verse 17, And as it
arrived, the priests went in after him, and with fourscore
priests of the Lord that were valiant men. These 80 men, they
were valiant. How were they? They were standing
up to a strong king that was put over them, standing up for
the gospel's sake and looking out for his soul. Don't you go
in there, buddy. Don't you do this. Verse 18,
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It appertaineth
not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the
priests of the sons of Aaron. Don't do this. They were concentrated
to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for
thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honor from
the Lord God." The Lord ain't going to honor this. This is
all a picture. Now just get out of here until
we can explain it to you. This is pointing to that mediator
that's coming. Don't trifle with it. Don't play with this. This
man in great error was admonished by the Lord's messengers. He
was warned plainly and clearly and he had erred greatly. And
they addressed it quickly and firmly, didn't they? What was
the result? Now here, man, what you're doing
is wrong. Now stop it. What was the outcome of that?
Did his eye have a new heart that was contrite and humble
before the Lord? I said, oh, boys, you're right.
Tell me about the mediator. I don't know what I was thinking.
You're right. I'm glad God sent you to warn
me. Tell me about him. Did it do that? Tom Harding,
you've got an article there. I'd say that before, you're either
humbled or angry when the word of the Lord comes. Look at what
Isaiah did. Verse 19, then Uzziah, not Isaiah,
Uzziah, then Uzziah was wroth and he had a censer in his hand
to burn incense. I'm already here. He got mad. He got mad
at him. The king didn't bow to the word
of God and he didn't submit to the men the Lord sent to instruct
him. He got mad and he didn't let go of that censer. Got a
hold of it. Much like Cain. I thought of
him. His offering wasn't accepted.
And there was no punishment. The Lord didn't kill Cain right
then. But instead of asking the Lord
to teach him, he said, I don't have any respect for that offering.
Well, Lord, what kind of offering will you have respect for? What's
that mean? What are you looking in for,
huh? Instead of having a humble heart, he became wroth. He did. Henry told me one time, well
not me, I heard in the message, I think he's traveling, and he
said, if you got the word of God, you got a message from God,
and you got people that want to hear a message from God, and
they ain't getting it, he said it's the preacher's fault. Now
I think he might have just been correct. I want you all to do
me a favor. Will you do me a favor? This is for your good. I want
you to breathe in your nose real deep. Let's breathe out. When you breathe in like that,
your eyes open up. This is real important. God keep us. Don't give us a spirit of slumber. We might meet him right now.
Somebody sent me an article of the Olympics mocking the... I'm
just talking to you. I ain't preaching right now.
I'm talking to you. Somebody sent me an article of the opening ceremony of the
Olympics. I don't pay attention to that stuff. I've been studying.
Talking to preachers on the phone, Eric and all them. And they're
mocking the Lord's Supper with cross-dressers and all this abomination.
There ain't a believer that ever lived that didn't think the Lord
was coming. The Lord might be coming. Like, I mean, hot and in a hurry. Maybe
tomorrow. I don't know. But it sure is bad out there
in this world, isn't it? It's getting worse and worse
and with the devices, man's devices, we can do it faster. God make
this serious to us. Because we might meet Him today.
Don't come to Him without a mediator. I mean it. Let's keep looking.
Like Cain, whose offer wasn't accepted, there's no punishment
at that time, but instead of being taught, instead of being
asked for a humble heart, he became wroth, just like Uzziah
did. God did not let this heresy come and go. He addressed it
immediately. Look at verse 19. And Uzziah was wroth, and he
had the censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was
wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead
before the priests and the house of the Lord from beside the incense
altar. They said, don't do it. He got
mad. And right then, as soon as he got mad, boy, that leprosy
started growing on his forehead. And Azariah, the chief priest,
and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, he was leprous
in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence. Yea, he
himself hasted also to go out. He was in a hurry to get out
of there. It wasn't just these priests. Kick him. He's got leprosy. Get out of here. You felt that,
ain't you? Have you ever seen somebody just
blaspheme God? I don't want to stand next to you. You can have
that attitude if you want to, but I ain't getting on an airplane
with them anytime soon. I'll tell you that, the Lord
may kill them. But he was hastened. He was hastened. He saw what
God had punished for that disobedience, didn't he? Because the Lord had
smitten him. That's who did the work. Verse 21, And Uzziah the
king was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt in a
several house being a leper. This great, mighty, powerful,
respected king decided to approach God just in a picture and type,
take incense in order to burn the God, and he struck him with
leprosy. What a favor he did to Uzziah. And he's down there
at a leper house until he died. No more king, no more power,
no more... I bet they mocked him, made fun of him. If the
Lord worked in his heart and gave him that new spirit, what
would he say? Well, I came, I found the truth, and... Oh, he'd say,
I was wrong, God was right, and he didn't kill me. Let me tell
you about, don't you go in his presence without a mediator.
I tell you that, you better have a high priest. That's what he'd tell,
wouldn't he? That's the thing he would have
to say. As I came to the Lord God Almighty without a mediator,
He approached God, standing on His own strength, not Christ's
strength. He came on what He had accomplished, not Christ's
finished accomplishments. He came in His worth and not
the worth of the Son of God, that Lamb slain before the foundation
of the world in His blood. So I tell you, no matter what
happened yesterday, flee to Christ. of Christ. He's the only way.
Brother Bob just read it. He's the way. And it's true.
He's true. And that's life. He's all those
things. Don't come on your own. Don't
come in your own garments. Don't come with your own merit.
You'll perish. Run to Him. Run to Him. This man was used to build Judah
and its economy and take care of those priests and win so many
battles. Was he only used for that time? Well, you got three
years or whatever it was and that's it. Now he's gonna be
in a leper's house and everybody's gonna be quiet. In Isaiah chapter six, he said,
in the year that King Uzziah died, he knew him, didn't he? He knew him. Went down there
and talked to him through the fence or something. But in the
year that he died, he knew when he died, I saw also the Lord
setting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled
the temple. Do you see the Lord lifted up and the man brought
down low? Do you see His majesty and our unworthiness? If so, what option do you have?
Approach Him. Come to Him. Get down low like
that woman wanted to touch the hem of His garment. Get your
fingers stepped on. I've got to get to Him. If I
can just touch Him. I can just touch, come to him,
come to him. And you'll find that he's been
tempted, everything we've been tempted with, yet without sin. And that's who's represented.
That's the one, just like I said, that's our captain. We're sick
and laid up, don't know, you get sick, you get a high fever.
I just know I'm running a fever, you get delirious. You can't
tell if you're dreaming or you ain't thinking right. And then
you dream about dreaming and you're just out of it. When we're
just delirious like that, that's the one that's making intersection
for us. And it's worthy, and it's out of love, and boy, it's
just right. It's him building his body. Go
to that one. Go to that one. All right, let's
pray and be alive.