Brother Bob had to stay home
with Vicky today and he sends his love to you all. But he ain't here to pass out
bulletins, so if you didn't get one, make sure you get your bullets
on the way out. Brother Milton Howard had an article I put in
there that's just, I had that bulletin ready before I prepared
this message. before I even knew I was going
to have this message, or this would even be our text. It's
right. The Word of God stands, it's
true. And there's things that's hard, and people's going to get
mad, and they ain't going to have no care over it, and that
don't change the mission of God's soldiers to go out and proclaim
His Word. And if God says it, I'll never be afraid or bashful
about saying it. If it's what He's declared, no
matter whose face it's in, I ought to speak plainly. I pray He'll
be with us this morning. Turn over to Jeremiah chapter
5. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations. Jeremiah chapter 5. I've titled this, Warn Them of
Sin. My brother Henry used to say, I don't know really how
I'm going to preach this. About to find out. I have a game plan,
but the first casualty in war is the plan, isn't it? This is
spiritual warfare. I may lose some friends over
this. And if the Lord did not say it, I would be terrified
to even mention it in a whisper. But what God says is true. I
can stand on that. And you can too, can't you? I
have to bring this up. I told some of y'all Saturday
morning I'd deal with this first thing. And so some people wouldn't
hear, so I waited till second thing. It's still before noon.
It's still first thing. There was some events that took
place on this coast Friday night and last night. I tried to warn
people as I could. My warning was not heeded by
some. And what seemed to be a real good preacher with a real good
message, I've dealt with this species of serpent before. Others
haven't. I have. And it's dangerous. It's wildly dangerous. This is
the third time I've heard that out of that pulpit, and that's
enough for me. I'm going to warn people about it. It's a shame. I want to warn people about poison. I want to warn people about wolves. Jaylee, we went down to a little
sushi place. White wolf always gone when she
went to her grandparents. And she got food poisoning. and was
sick as a dog for a few days. And I have a hard time talking
to her and eating sushi again. If you've ever had food poisoning,
there's a restaurant, I got food poisoning, I have yet to eat
in that restaurant in 30 years. I won't go back. Now, I asked
her yesterday if it was okay. Would you prefer if I had told
you, baby, 99% of that food's good food? there's a little bit of poison
in it. Would you rather take my word for it, or would you
rather go get harmed and sick? You'd rather take my word for
it, wouldn't you? I am to warn the people of God. People don't
like to hear that, because they say, well, I could warn myself.
I'm a sheepdog. I know what wolves are. I pray so, but I know what my
job is. My job's to warn. That's what
was charged to Ezekiel 3 that my pastor reminds me of often
to go read. I read 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy,
Titus, and parts of Ezekiel often to know what my charge is. He
said, Son of man, I've made thee a watchman over the house of
Israel. Therefore, hear the word at my mouth and give them warning
for me. This is out of Ezekiel, it's
not Jeremiah. Hang with me. When I say unto
the wicked thou shalt surely die. What's he talking about?
Wicked. He's talking about sin. That's a problem. And thou givest
him not warning. You don't tell people about their
sin. Nor speak of warn the wicked of his wicked way to save his
life. The same wicked man shall die on his iniquity, but his
blood will I require of thine hand. If that don't give you
goosebumps. Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall
die in his iniquities, but thou hast delivered thy soul. You'll
be fine. You do what I tell you. When
I say warn him, you go warn him. When I say teach him, you go
teach him. When I say comfort him, you go tell him who comfort
is. He'll handle the rest. There in Jeremiah 5, I want us
to see, we're going to look at Jeremiah 6, but I want to see
who the Lord's speaking about. In Jeremiah 5 verse 30. It says a wonderful
and horrible thing is committed in the land. That's not wonderful
like some kind of wonderful. This is an amazing, a jaw-dropping
thing, and it's horrible, and it's been committed in the land.
This was in Jeremiah's time, and this is right now in 2024
in America. Nothing's changed. The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And
my people love to have it so. And what will you do in the end
thereof? Now there in chapter six, the
Lord's still speaking this whole time of these false prophets
who ordained themselves priests. They had men ordain them. He's
preaching against them. Verse nine, Jeremiah six, verse
nine. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, they shall thoroughly
glean the remnant of Israel as a vine. Turn back thine hand
as a grape gatherer into the baskets. To whom shall I speak
and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised,
and they cannot hearken. Behold, the word of the Lord
is unto them a reproach, and they have no delight in it. Therefore
I am full of the fury of the Lord. I am weary with holding
in. I will pour out upon the children
abroad, and upon the assembly of the young men together. For
even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with
him that is full of days. And their houses shall be turned
unto others, and their fields and wives together. For I will
stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
the Lord. From the least of them even to the greatest of them,
every one is given to covetousness." That's all of it. And from the
prophet, even to the priest, everyone deal with falsely. Speaking
of those false prophets, they have healed also the hurt of
the daughter of my people slightly saying, peace, peace, where there
is no peace. I told a fellow this other day,
I just had got through working out. My blood pressure's through
the roof. My sugar was real low and I was going to apologize
for saying that, but it's true. There's an epidemic in our nation
of stopping short. People read the scriptures and
they stop short. It's a shame. It is, it's a shame. Look at
verse 15. They cry, peace, peace, for there
is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
Nay, they were not ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore,
they shall fall among them that fall. At the time that I had
visited them, they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. Now we'll
keep reading too, at the end. But we gotta get this first.
This is the order the Lord gave it, isn't it? It says in verse
14, they have healed also the herd of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, peace, peace, for there is no peace. These
false prophets came and they were saying, peace, peace, but
there wasn't no peace. And it healed the Lord's true
people slightly. Like, well, yeah, it was kind
of nice, I guess. It was a little bit good, wasn't it? Gill said here,
this word slightly, mended is what it means. It means they
healed the head and not the heart. Don't preach to men's heads,
preach to men's hearts. Don't preach to their intellect, preach
to their souls. But they're preaching to the head. And they made everybody
think that they're okay. They're crying, peace, peace.
Everything's fine, you're fine. It's okay. Gil said they did
not search the wound to the bottom. They drew skin over it, made
a scar and called it a cure. They made light of the hurt of
the wound. That's so, he hit it on the head.
Sometimes he misses them more. That was dead on, buddy. There's
a bunch of preachers all over this world, and I mean the bulk
of them. that are out there. But some of those preachers,
they say so many good things. They say a whole lot of truths,
plural. And normally, it's a double portion
of grace, of peace. They double down on it. Oh, peace,
peace. You know what God just said?
They cry, peace, peace. Why did He say they cry, peace,
and there's no peace? He doubled it. We ought to double, because
they do. That's the truth. But it's not necessarily what
they're saying that's wrong. You heed me. It's what they're
not saying. It's not what they're saying
is wrong. It's what they're not saying. You hear me? I gotta warn people. I don't
wanna make no enemies. Too bad. God said warn them,
I gotta warn them. These people come along and they
sound just like Joe Ulstein. Hello, friend. And they're smiling
like a possum eating a bunch of light bulbs. Hello, friend. Well, hit his shoulder. And they
say this goofy religious junk. I hope the blessings of the windows
of heaven are open unto you and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I talk to children. I tell them often, y'all tell
your children. You bump into them apostles, they ain't little
bald-headed men in brown robes with a rope tied around them
going, oh, they're commercial fishermen. They're men, and they're
serious, because the message is serious. This is grave. This
is eternal life and death. And these same ones, these possums
come in, grinning ear to ear, and they tell what they think.
Well, I think I've got a verse that supports that. And I think
this, I don't care what you think. I want to know what God says.
I don't wanna hear who you think your savior is, I wanna know
him. I need to know things. I don't need something that's
wishy-washy, it may come, may go. I need something that's a sure
foundation. Don't you? They go heavy on the peace and
they go light on the reason why. They go double on the peace,
they go light on the reason why. That's why I told you last week,
some of y'all agreed with me. It's good, because the Lord said so. What's the good news if you ain't
had bad news? If you ain't in a bad spot, what's
that? If you got a floaty and you can swim pretty good, why
do you need a lifeguard to come save you? You don't need a savior.
If you're kind of sick, you don't need a physician. You can have
some home remedies. Snake oil is what you got. Those people that triple up on
a piece, that double up on a piece, and lie on the reason why is
because they've never had the truth of their sin revealed to
them. They can't talk about those things because they don't know
nothing about it. God hasn't taught them. And that's a terribly
dangerous thing for all of mankind. Turn over to 1 John 1. John wrote the gospel, John,
and we've got his first epistle here. 1 John 1. Verse 8. Verse 5. 1 John 1 5. This then is the message. This
is the message. Which we have heard of him and
declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness
at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and we walk
in darkness, we lie and we do not the truth. But if we walk
in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another in the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth
us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth's not in us. If we confess
our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar and the word's not in us. Well, I'm not saying
we ain't sin. I mean, we've done some bad things.
That's making light of it. You're calling God a liar. We
have to know what sin is because he has to teach us on it. Look
at chapter 4, 1 John chapter 4. It says, Beloved, 1 John 4, 1. Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits. Whether they
are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the
world. That doesn't mean if God's gave you a faithful man, the
scriptures say wives submit yourselves to your own husband. Don't go
around this place looking for a yes to every preacher that's
out there. Just as you wives shouldn't go out around to every
husband or you husbands to every wife. God gave us somebody faithful
and we said, well, that's right. That's what it says. Be thankful.
Be thankful he sent somebody to you. But there's a lot of false prophets
going out in the world. It's not our job to go find all
of them and go listen to bad stuff. I've told you that before.
Don't do it. Leave it alone. The Lord gave
us something good. We have a feast here every time.
Be thankful for that. Hereby know ye the spirit of
God. Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ has come to the flesh is not of God. And
this is the spirit of anti-Christ. This is serious. Whereof ye have
heard that it should come, and even now already is in the world.
It's been five years, but we went through this. Do you remember
what this is about? Do you remember why John's writing this? Who
John is talking about? At that time in our day, It's
called Gnosticism. There's the Gnostics. G-N-O-S-T-I-C. Gnostics. And they were saying
then, well, we just know so much that God really couldn't be born
of a woman because then that would corrupt his holy nature.
And they have a lot of religious words that aren't in the Bible
attached to it. And they say it's as if he came and was made
a man. It's as if he was walking this
earth and as if he was really bone of our bone and flesh of
our flesh. They had an intellectual explanation. He said, well, he
didn't really come in the flesh. John's hitting it plain out.
He's telling them flat out. If they say that, they're not
of God. That's the Antichrist. Don't
listen to him. That's what was going on in Jeremiah's day. He
said, they come and they cry, peace, peace, for there is no
peace. But not a word about an abomination. Not a word about
sin. Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? No, they were not ashamed. Neither
could they blush, is what it says. Jeremiah 6.15. They couldn't even blush. Why?
They didn't know what it was. I mean, it's a word. Well, it's
as if we were sinners. It's as if we're saved. Here
in John's day, when he wrote this first epistle, that's what
was going on. And nothing's changed to our day. People say now, well,
it's as if God was made sin. The cross was made sin. And if
that's the case, it's as if I made righteousness and that won't
cut the mustard. I can't be in God's presence that way. This
also falls into a very common term. As I've told you before,
I'll tell you again, imputation. You have been taught. I'm not
failed to teach you right. What's that word mean? It's an
accounting term. I always tell you that, right?
If it's a can of peas, remember that, on a shelf. I go to the
pantry and I say, well, how many peas are in there? How many cans
of peas? And I say, one, two, three, four. I have imputed four
cans of peas in that thing. I've took a count. Another translation
of that is the hillbilly, which is closest to the King's English,
I reckon. Paul said, reckon yourselves
dead to sin and alive unto God. Does that mean it's translated
from a bank account to another bank account? No, that's banker's
terms. This is declaring what's there. The gospel is a declaration.
Blessed is the man who the Lord will not impute sin. That means
he looks on him and says, ain't nothing there. Not that he went
and did some magic trickery of computers or something like that
in the banking system. He took it away. It's not there. This
is real important. Wildly important. Look at verse
five, 1 John 4, 5. They are of the world, therefore
they speak of the world and the world hears them. What do they
speak of? outward things. They talk about David's sin.
Well, he was with Bathsheba, and he kind of had, as a secondary
means, had Uriah died, and those were outward things. That outward
stuff happened because there was a heart that was bad. You
can clean up outside the cup, can't you? You can wipe the sepulcher,
but inside they're full of dead men's bones. Somebody's got to
tell mankind that. Verse 6, we are of God. He that
knoweth God heareth us. And he that's not of God, heareth
not us. They'll say, well, but, well,
but, well, but. Hereby know we the spirit of
truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another.
For love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and
knoweth God. And he that loveth not knoweth
not God, for God is love. What's love, John? What is love? Okay, he's gonna tell us. Verse
nine, in this was manifest the love of God towards us. Here
how it come to a head, we can see it. Because that God sent
his only begotten son in the world that we might live through
him. Here in his love, not that we love God, but that he loved
us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. He came to be the acceptable
bloody sacrifice. He came to be that mercy seat
into that room that we ain't even allowed in. Beloved, if God so loved us,
if after this manner he loved us, we ought also to love one
another. What's our condition when that
triune God came and loved us and he sent his son to die on
that cross we made what we are? What was our condition? Was we
trying pretty good to keep the law? Was we good little boys
and girls that just couldn't hardly get to the mark? Were
we barely, were we, well we missed the mark. We was on the board,
I just didn't hit a bullseye. Paul said in Romans 5, for when
we were yet without strength, because we're dead, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly. What's that? His enemies. The
opposite of God. For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die. For adventure yet for a good man some would
even dare to die. But God commended his love towards us in that while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. If we miss that part,
People can quote Barnard and Henry and tell they're blue in
the face, that don't mean they know God. But Barnard was right on that.
If you're wrong on the fall, you're wrong on it all. If a
foundation ain't laid right, the whole house is shambles.
It's built on sand. I have a cold, stony heart the
Lord had to break and put a new creation in there, a heart of
flesh. It had to happen. How important was that? God forsook
God because of it. If I ain't that bad, he didn't
have to bleed that much. He didn't have to come down here and do
that. He could have just sent some angels or something. He
didn't take on him the form of angels. He became like his people,
born under the law, born of a woman just like us. Mitochondrial DNA
went through him, traced all the way back to A. Biologically,
it's fabulous. It pleased the Father that in
him should all the fullness dwell, having made peace through the
blood of his cross. That's what it took for that
peace. Peace, peace. Christ died for that peace. He
made it. He made peace for his people.
By him to reconcile all things to himself, whether it be in
the earth and heaven, and you that were sometimes alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works. Remember when he was an
enemy? And when you hated God? He said, I never did hate God.
You still hate him. You don't know him. You haven't been conquered,
you're an enemy. Captain, your salvation ain't
come around. Pray God to bring us down to the dirt and make
us cry out for mercy. Another good old saying, I ain't
trying to get people saved, I'm trying to get people lost. And you that were sometimes alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked worth, now hath he reconciled. He made atonement, reconciliation,
atonement in the body of his flesh. through death to present
you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. Holy,
holy. God made us holy. You can't sin. Unreprovable, nobody can say
nothing to you. Unblameable, ain't nothing to blame. He said,
that's my perfect child. What's wrong with you? He went
there and he didn't say, well, I'll move some stuff around.
He used to be kind of bad, but we expunged his record. It ain't
there. Imputation's important. I said
that before with math. Remember that? If Johnny's got
four apples, he can't give five apples to somebody. We got an
imputation problem. Who can blame us? There ain't
no sin there. It's a holy creation, a sanctified creation, and God
did it. Man didn't, and we thank him
for it. It's serious stuff. Through the blood of his cross,
he was made sin. I ain't gonna back down on what
God says. What's that? And I told you that before, it's
a feminine noun. What else is a feminine noun?
Bride. He was made his bride and we were made. God forsook
him and he made us the righteousness of God in him. And I wouldn't
want to be attached to no other. Explain that. I can't, that's
the mysteries of God. Take it up with him, but he said
so, and I believe it. How could it be that somebody
could preach such truths, plural things of grace and all these
things, and not tell the whole truth? How could that be? Paul
said there's false apostles and deceitful workers. There's false
apostles in that day, or false prophets in Jeremiah's day, wasn't
there? They transformed themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel, don't be surprised at that. Satan himself transformed
himself into angel like. Isn't that what he told Eve?
He told him most of what God said, not plainly. He said, you
won't die. Well, that's kind of true, isn't
it? She physically didn't die right then. She died spiritually.
Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers be transformed
as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according
to their works. The Lord warned us of that, did you know that?
He said, if any man say to you, lo, here's Christ, or there's
Christ, believe him not. Everybody's always looking, not
everybody, it's shotgun blast, shoot fits weird. I hear a lot
of people say, they're always looking for, I think this one's
preached, I think I found a guy in Canada, I think I found a
guy, you got a guy right there. If you're in Alabama looking
all over, go to Sylacauga. Larry's standing there. Why are
you looking around? Now let me put that in, let me
put that in shoe leather. You ready? Cause, cause, cause
Paul said, I'm talking about husbands and wives, but I ain't
really talking about that. I'm talking about Christ and his church, right? Is that
what he said? I'm putting it in shoe leather. Karen, how would you like it
if Mike just went around, not picking on you, Mike, if Mike
went around and just looks, this wife's available, and this wife's
available, and this lady's available, and she cooks real good, you
like that? Hurts your feelings, wouldn't
it? He'd probably be wearing an eye
patch for a while, wouldn't it? Would you like that, Cass? DM
was like, oh, let me tell you about these husbands, and all
these good husbands, and these good husbands, and these good husbands. No.
God gave you together, didn't he? He knit you together, your
hearts knit together. I don't know why everybody's
looking for something new. You got something stable. You got an
old path right in front of you. Lord warned us of those things.
He said, if anybody says Christ is here, Christ is there, don't
believe them. He said, false cross and false prophets shall rise.
It's going to happen. It's happened. And shall show
signs and wonders to seduce. What's that? That's the good
stuff. Hey, bad stuff. You want me to punch you in the eye? Well,
no. You want me to buy you lunch?
Yeah. It's peace, peace. We ain't talking
about the bad stuff. We're talking about just the
peace, peace where there is no peace. There's no abomination.
If it were possible, even the elect. Now, if the Lord's died
for somebody and that's his child, it cannot be taken from him.
It will not happen. But there could be a whole lot
of harm done to that child. You can have some broken legs
and some broken arms and some wounded hearts and some sad, sad memories
and everything else that's bad. That sheep's still the Lord's
sheep and he'll live as long as he's pleased to, but it can still
get stuck in a mud hole and break its leg, can't it? Thanks be
to God, he sent some under shepherds to watch out for those and warn
them. See where I'm going with this? Original sin. The Lord said, but take heed. He tells us to take heed often. He said, but I've told you all
these things. I foretold you. I've told you about this. What
do you think is going to happen? And the Lord is warning about the
living of the Pharisees. And you know, it's those subtle
things, just like Satan. If somebody said there's little
green men coming out of the sky and you had to wear funny underwear
to go to heaven, you'd be like, that's nuts. Go away. The Lord said if it's possible
even a lick could, it'd be just, is .1% poison enough? It would
give you food poisoning one day, wouldn't it? How much leavens
too much? It leaveneth the whole lump.
Now Kevin, I don't think, I don't care what you think, God said
so, bow to him. You will one day, I hope it happens
in his life. That original sin, that total
depravity, what is it? That's what happened in the garden.
That's what happened in the garden. Satan came. He was more subtle
than any beast of the field which God made. And he said to the
woman, yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of
the garden? Can't you eat all the trees? And she said, we may
eat of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, that tree of life, that ain't
for us. God said, don't eat of it. She added to it. She said,
neither shall you touch it. That ain't what he said. He said,
don't eat, lest ye shall die. And the serpent said to the woman,
ye shall not surely die. And he told a part truth, didn't
he? Physically, she didn't die right at the end, but she died
spiritually whenever Adam ate it, when her head ate it. They found out that he was naked.
The Lord said to the scribes and Pharisees, they murmured
against the disciples, said, why you eat Republicans and sinners?
And he says, those that are whole need not a position, but they
that are sick. I came not to call the righteous,
I came to call sinners to repentance. That's who we're talking about,
isn't it? A man that tries to convince people they are not
lost has lost themselves. And someone that tries to convince
you and tell you that, well, there's a little bit of good,
and they haven't seen the righteousness of Christ. He hasn't been lifted
high, and man hasn't been made low in their eyes. And a man
telling you that you ain't nothing but sin, that's all, you drank
it like iniquity, like it's water, you deserve to die, God's right,
we're wrong, and I tell you continually to cry out to God for mercy.
Cry out to him today. You cry out to him yesterday,
good. Well, today's today. Cry out to him today. They're
pointing you in the right direction, ain't they? There's no need of
the good news if you're only starting from a slightly inconvenienced
news, right? What's sin? I didn't know these
things were gonna transpire, but I've been on this subject
for a while, ain't I? I've asked it twice in two different
messages leading up to it. What's sin? It's not believing on the
Lord Jesus Christ. Well, what about murders and
adulteries? Nope. That comes from it. Unbelief. That's what we were.
We were enemies. Adam did that. He didn't believe God. He said,
you hated your wife and not me. And we did too. God will make us declare that,
that he's the captain of our salvation, that there was a battle
and he won the battle and we're his rightful conquest. Who's sin against? Ooh, now it
gets real, real important. This ain't facts, is it? David
said, wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from
my sin. I acknowledge my transgression. I warned you that before, too.
People sit there and debate transgression, sin, and iniquity. They have these long dissertations
on it. It's bad. It's against God. We can chew
on that later, but. We're in trouble. He said, I
acknowledge my transgressions, my sins ever before me against
thee and thee only have I sinned. And I've done this evil in your
sight. I didn't believe your son. I didn't believe your word.
Lord, I was wrong. And I did a whole bunch of outward
stuff too. But thou must be justified when thou speakest and clear
when thou judgest your right, your holy. The Lord's conquered
the great accuser of the brethren. Yes. He's fulfilled the law,
yes. The grave, death's been conquered,
yes. Everything against us is conquered,
yes. But brethren, our kinsmen redeemer
saved us from ourselves. He conquered us, it's personal. If a man blames his sin condition
solely on Adam, he's saying he ain't that bad. If a man blames
his condition solely on the law, we're saying, well, we was trying
to keep it, and we just couldn't hardly get there, and poor old
Jesus came and helped us out the rest of the way. If a man
blames his darkness solely on Satan, he's saying, I'd have
been fine if it wasn't for that mean old devil holding me down
and messing things up. You see what I'm saying? I want
you to. I want you to get it. Because if you're only wounded
in one leg, you don't need a physician. If you can swim with one arm,
you don't need a savior. The same man isn't all that bad.
other than you're calling God a liar, is to say that the Savior
is not that grand. You get that? I must decrease,
he must increase. The more I see in my, just, what
is through these veins and what this nature is, what this instinct
is, everything that I am, the greater Christ is. Well, if I
just skip all that, well, he's all right. Take him or leave
him. Well, he sits, somebody tell
you, eh, we can get another one out of a vending machine. We'll just
wait two years. They're a dime a dozen. No, they're not. He's
precious. And he saved us. It's not just
we get down and we get low and just wallow there. There is peace
to be found. Tell her her warfare is accomplished.
That means you was at war. Received of the Lord's hand,
double. To say man isn't all that bad
is to say the Savior isn't all that grand or to not say man
is that wicked. to not say it, to brush over
it, to ignore it, and to concentrate solely on peace and not solely
that we're the abomination and we need peace. Adam isn't the evil one, I am.
The law isn't too hard, I was unable and I spiritually did.
And Satan isn't the monster, I am. And if the Lord took his
hand off of me, I'd give him a run for his money, because
I won't have that man reign over me either. I know me, a little
bit. The Lord said, search the scriptures
for any of them you think you have eternal life, and they are
they which testify of me. And ye, that's personal. Well, that's, he's talking to
everybody pointing at him. You will not come to me that
you might have life. Now we go back to the other message.
Next, I was going to say, we'll get to it next hour, but that
hour's already passed. The Lord will bring you out of Egypt.
He will bring you out from underneath bondage. He will bring you to
a land that he's promised. People say, I'm splitting hairs.
The Lord said, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.
They said, well, I mean, try it out, go taste it, see if you
can tell the difference. Is that what he said? That's not what
he said. He said, take heed, beware the leaven of the Pharisees. And they reasoned among themselves
and said, this is because we've taken no bread. The Lord said,
I'm not talking about you taking bread. He said, O ye of little
faith. He said, how don't you understand? And he explained
it to them. And they understood how he made them not aware of
the living of bread, but the doctrine of the Pharisees and
of the Sadducees. We are to hearken to the doctrine
of Christ. all other doctrines will come.
You know, no one has ever got to Christ by having a right doctrine. They'll get to the right doctrine
by having Christ. And that's just so. And mankind will scoot
over things and try to, you just think about that. Like if Satan,
how happy do you think he'd be? If he could, if everything sounded
restrained, you're like, yeah, that's great. And that was just
one little drop of leaven sold in there for you to be self-righteous.
And you think you had a hand in it and you wouldn't that bad.
Is that enough? God said it was. God said it
was. Lord, bring us down. Show us
what we are and not kind of desperately melt our hearts and make us need
our King. Every day. Now, when it happens,
we're gonna be real happy. We're gonna sing. David was talking
about dancing. Let them dance during Psalm 149.
I ain't saying we're gonna start cutting rug in this place, but
our walk through this life's a little lighter, isn't it? A
little happier going to the mailbox. We need them mercies new every
morning, don't we? Need them, need them. Jeremiah 6. Verse 16. Well, verse 14, and I'll close.
Jeremiah 6, 14. They have healed also the hurt
of the daughter of my people slightly, saying peace, peace,
where there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? Nay, they were not ashamed, at
all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore shall they fall
among them that fall at the time that I visit them, and they shall
be cast down, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord. Stand ye
in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths. Where is the
good way? What's that? What's the way?
Who's the way? Christ said, I'm the way. He
told Thomas that. Thomas said, I don't know the way. He said, yeah, you do. I'm
standing right in front of you. I'm the way, Thomas. Me. You need me. And walk there.
And he said, I'll walk in them. and ye shall find rest for your
souls. They said we will not walk there
again. How will they know these things? Who's gonna warn them?
Also I set watchmen over you saying hearken to the sound of
the trumpet. They said they will not hearken. I pray the Lord
be with us in all these dangerous times and these things. He sins
in good providence, it's so. There's two kinds of, Preaching
that makes me want to preach. Good preaching and bad preaching.
Somebody gets up and puts man in the dirt and exalts Christ,
oh boy, I want to too. I want to lift him high and put
man low. And if somebody does a butcher's
that and tries to be a trickster to God's people, I want to go
full force against it. Tell you what God says. Not what
man thinks, what God says. And it's so. And he's good to
us. He's good to us. He gave me a watchman. That's
the first thing Clay preached when we got up in New Jersey
on vacation. Going to see where will the Lord have us, where
will he knit our hearts to the man that he gave. And we showed
up and he preached on the watchman of the walls of Jerusalem. And
we got through it. My responsibility is to make
sure she is underneath the sound of the gospel. That's my God-given
responsibility. That's my job. Now if she can
hear, I'll be all right. God'll provide for me. And so
I didn't want to influence Kimberly at all. And I was like, what'd
you think about that message? And she said, I think this is
where we need to be. And we both started crying. I said, that's
my watchman. I love him. God sent his people watchmen.
He's faithful to give them to us, to teach us, and to warn
us, and to feed us, and to look out for us. He's good, isn't
he? What do they say? What do they
think? He said, no, he said, I'm gonna put my words in your mouth,
and you're just gonna say what I said. And that's what I've told people
before. In a sense, I have the easiest job on earth. Well, what
about this, Kevin? Well, he says, well, but, but,
but, you can but all you want to, but my job's done. My duties
have been executed. So anyway, let's pray together. Father, be with us. Keep us. We see perilous times and wars
and rumors of wars and wolves in the midst. You shall keep your people and
your son. We're bought with a price. We're
purchased possession. We are his and he is ours, Lord.
We see dangers all around us. Give us wisdom. Wisdom, Lord. Give us Christ. Redeem us, Lord. Give us Christ. Sanctify, set
us apart for your using. Give us Christ. Lord, make that
simplicity of him ever before us and never let us forget the
true need of him and his work. Keep your people humbled. thirsty
and hungering for our King, the Lord, our righteousness. Thank
you for this hour, Lord. Thank you for your providence
and your perfect will and your wisdom. It's because of Christ
we ask these things. Amen.