If you will, let's turn to the
book of Zechariah, chapter three. Zechariah chapter three. If you
get to Matthew, turn left two books. I think what we just had for
our scripture reading there in first John will tie in well with
the passage here in Zechariah. The Lord said, Moses wrote of
me. And so did every other prophet that wrote a book in this thing
we call the Bible. So did every apostle that wrote
an epistle or a book. And so did every disciple that
wrote one. And they still do. They write of him. This is the
word of Zechariah. Here in Zechariah 3 verse 1,
it says, and he showed me Joshua, the high priest standing before
the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to
resist him. It says there in verse 1, and. And what? Something else took
place, didn't it? Look back in chapter 2, verse
7. The Lord sent word to Zechariah and to Jerusalem. Jerusalem had
been in Babylon for about 70 years and got themselves there
and was getting kind of comfortable. And so the Lord speaks to him.
He says in verse seven, deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest
with the daughter of Babylon. What a way to start something
off, save yourself. What's our mind say? I can't,
I can't. Verse eight, for thus saith the
Lord of hosts, after the glory hath he sent me unto the nations
which spoiled you, for he that touches you touches the apple
of his eye. For behold, I will shake my hand
upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants, and
ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. Sing and
rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, and I dwell in
the midst of thee, saith the Lord. And many nations shall
be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people.
And I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know
that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord shall
inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose
Jerusalem again. Be silent, O all flesh, before
the Lord, for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. Chapter
three, verse one. And he showed me Joshua, the
high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan at
his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan,
the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, Even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake
unto those that stood before him saying, take away, this is
the Lord speaking, take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold,
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will
clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair
mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon
his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the
Lord stood by. Who are the people that are in
this passage of Scripture? Who's the characters we're gonna
look at if this is a story? Well, there's the prophet Zechariah.
That's the one that's recorded this and speaking on behalf of
the Lord, saying, thus saith the Lord, and he's saying what
he had witnessed. And he sees Joshua, the high
priest, clothed in filthy garments. Those things that Joshua had
done and made him self-filthy. He was wrong. And there's Satan. The Lord showed Zechariah Satan
standing there to resist Joshua, the high priest in filthy garment.
And the Lord, he's the one that rebuked Satan. He's the one that
commanded Joshua, the high priest, to be clothed in new raiment,
to have a miter put upon his head. That's who this is. I wanna put our bifocals on this
evening, and we're gonna see us in this, and we're gonna see
why. We're gonna see why. Verse one
says, and he showed, Zechariah three, verse one, and he showed
me Joshua, the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord
and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. Here's Joshua,
the high priest in the court of the Lord. And here's an accuser. Satan's right there with him.
And you know what? He doesn't have to lie. Does
he have to tell lies on you? You don't have to tell lies on
me. I can just tell everything I've done. I hang my head. Because he's right. He's accusing
us. He's resisting us. Resisting
us being in the presence of the Lord. And that's just like we
saw last week. That King of Egypt, that's what
he wanted. If there's new life being born,
kill it. kill it, you stop it at all costs. He want nothing else. Josh was
on trial, isn't he? And he's standing there, and
he's clothed in filthy garments. Now that's a picture of us, the
Lord's people, but that's a picture of all mankind born of Adam. If we're of our father Adam,
that's us, that's my friends, that's my parents and my loved
ones, and that's my children, and that's my grandchildren someday.
That's everybody. standing in judgment before God. There will be a final judgment,
but the Lord judges this earth on a daily basis. He deals with
us, and there's times He's merciful to the bodies of people, and
He don't slay people right then. He restrains. But that's all
of mankind. This isn't just the final judgment.
That's our condition right now. That's everyone's condition right
now, but this one's different. If somebody tells me what I've
done wrong, the first thing I'm going to do is tell you why I've
done it right. I hope I don't blame my wife. That's
nature. You told me something, Kevin.
And I said, well, Kimberly told me. I don't care what Kimberly
told you. You told me something, Kevin. Yeah, but she was there.
I hope I don't do that. It's what my daddy did. It's
what Adam did, wasn't it? Lord said, what happened to you?
He said, that's that woman you gave me. Blame it on the Lord.
We blame shift, don't we? This one's different. Satan's
accusing him. He said, I did not mean that.
And you know better. And he didn't even tell who his advocate was.
He didn't tell who his propitiation was. He was just quiet. That's
different. That's different. He's quiet. Why? He's wrong. There's times
I've just had my tail tucked between my legs. I was flat wrong. And there was some other stuff
I was right in, but I ain't even gonna bring that up. Just hush. Shut up to sin. Shut up to the
law. All of it. Not Ten Commandments.
Not being kind. All of it. This man standing
here, Joshua, wasn't making excuses. because the Lord had dealt with
him. The Lord dealt with him. That's the same thing that happened
to Paul, and the same thing that happens to the Lord's people
now. Paul said, I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment
came, when God commanded it, and I saw that law for what it
was, sin revived and I died. He wasn't alive before, but he
said, and that's when I knew I spiritually dead. I ain't got
nothing to say. The Lord blinded him. He couldn't
see nothing, but he knew he was blind. He was blind the whole
time, didn't know it. Then Pharisee said, you saying
we're blind? He said, if you were blind, you wouldn't have
sin. That's what takes place in the life of a believer. That
point comes, and we get judgmental, and we get, so this one ought
not do that, or we ought to be doing this, or whatever. And
if the Lord shows us what we are, all of a sudden we ain't
got nothing to say. We'll shut up and our opinions will shut
up and our excuses will shut up. He'll shut us up to sin.
That's what's happening right here. And he's, I wanted to say
this as clearly as I can. I don't want to preach to you
right now. I just want to talk to you. Joshua wasn't hushed up to indwelling
sin. Okay? You hear what I'm saying? He wasn't shut up to indwelling
sin. Boy, that sounds a whole lot
better. Doesn't it? It's indwelling sin. Indwelling
sin is something you can't see. Just like cancer. Well, I have
something bad going on, but what don't look that bad to me? That
sounds precious. That's like a harlot, that Disney
character. It was the noun. That's what shut him up. Not
an action that took place. Not him letting his sons marry
women that wasn't the Lord's. It was what he was. DNA. I mean, what pumped through his
veins. All of it. The noun. Not a verb. The noun.
His body wasn't nothing but sin. And that man that happened to
dwell in him, his indwelling new creation, knew it. That's
what shut him up. That's a rare thing to come across,
did you know that? I mean, just as rare, people think I'm nuts
saying this, it is a rare thing to find somebody telling the
truth about what it says in this book. The truth about man, the
truth about God, and that will not sway. and be succumb to input and suggestions,
and this is maybe what we ought to try, and he's gonna preach
the word, he's gonna preach Christ all the time. That is a rare
thing. Well, there's churches all over
the place. I'm saying it correctly. And it seems to be more rare
to find a sinner that needs somebody to preach to. That's what they
are, not something I did, something I used to do. That's what I am. That's a rare thing. If sin is
what you do, you can do better. If I'm overweight, I can lose
weight. If I'm dumb, I can study. If I don't speak Spanish, I can
get a lesson and start learning. If sin's what I do, you can do
better. But if it's what you are, there must be a new creation. What you are ain't gonna do.
Somebody that isn't sin doesn't need a savior. If they just have
sins, they can just do better. We can't enter that womb again.
We need a new creation. He's gonna have to do it. That's
what we read for our text, or our scripture reading in 1 John.
It says, if we say we have no sin, that's a noun. That's not
a verb, that's a noun. That's what we are, it's a nature.
We deceive ourselves, and this is terrifying. The truth is not
in us. But I like them people. God says
truth ain't in them. I like me. If I say, well, I'm
not nothing but sin, that's all I am, born of Adam. I ain't nothing
but the noun sin. Truth ain't in me. For as a preacher
that doesn't say that, truth ain't in me. 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,
that's a verb in 1 John 1 10. What's the verb do? It's doing
something. Well, how can it do it unless
it's already the noun? You got to be sinned to be a
sinner. We make him a liar. Call God a liar. And his word
is not in us. What has already taken place
for Joshua the high priest clothed in filthy rags to be standing
before the Lord? He was plucked out. Do you know
that? He was plucked out. He was guilty
before God. He was guilty before God's law.
He was accused by Satan, and he was no match. He was shut
up to sin, and his only hope was that the Lord provides. Not a little bit of my faith
in something. I mean, a nanogram of anything. His only hope was that the Lord
did something. And so he sat in silence. Did
he pray? I'm sure he did. I don't know
what went through his head. I know what go through mine. I'm thankful
the Lord's keeping my mouth shut right now. I'd probably be thanking
him, begging him to keep it shut. But that's what had already taken
place, isn't it? He had already been plucked out. That's how
he got there. He knew he was in filthy rags. He knew that
Satan wasn't making up false accusations. He's right. He don't
know half of it. He don't know my heart. Where
was he? Where's the arena that this court
of law has taken place? Whose presence is it? It says
in verse one, he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before
the angel of the Lord. The Lord's speaking here, it's
verse two. And the Lord saith unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee,
O Satan. Even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. I've chosen people. He said,
you touch them, you're touching the apple of my eye. That's what
I said back in chapter two, wasn't I? Touch not mine anointed. Do my prophets no harm. And you're
opening your mouth towards my prophet, Satan. And he rebuked
him. I don't even want to know what
that means. That's terrifying. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Satan, isn't this one that I've
chosen? Isn't this one that was dead,
but I, the Lord, I made them alive. I sent my spirit to them. I plucked them. I preserved them
because I bought them and I've kept them. Do you think I'm gonna
hear a word you have to say about him? This is mine. That one that ain't saying a
word, doesn't say a word in this whole thing. That one right there,
that's just ugly and filthy and dirty and covered, and he knows
it. He knows it because I taught him that. That's mine. Don't
touch him. Don't touch him. What's the outcome? This is pretty short, isn't it?
Five verses here in chapter three. That's what we're going to look
at. Verse three. Now Joshua's clothed with filthy
garments. and stood before the angel. And he answered, the Lord
answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying,
take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him, he said,
he spoke to Joshua the high priest in filthy garments and said,
behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee. Did you do
something? Lord said, I've took it all away.
All those good things you thought you were doing. There's a difference
between sin, iniquity, and transgression. I'm all three. If the Lord's
speaking about forgiving it, I need to hear it. He said, I've
caused an iniquity passed from thee. I will clothe thee with
change of raiment. And I said, let them set fair
miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon
his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the
Lord stood by. Right there the whole time. What
is happening again? What's going on here? This is
a picture of us in the Lord's people. This is a child of God.
that's plucked out, that's showed what they are, they see their
filthiness, they're silenced, they're shut up to it, they're
defended when they're accused, and then they're robed. All that
iniquity's just been cleansed and took away. And a robe of
righteousness has been put on. Just like that prodigal son,
wasn't it? He rehearsed everything, and
he was eating the corn husks, and he said, I'm gonna go be
a servant at my daddy's house. And he'd come walking, he'd rehearse
things, and he said, Father, I've sinned against heaven and
in thy sight, and I'm not worthy to be called thy son. He didn't
even have to say that out loud. The dad could have saw it in
his face. But the father said to his servants,
just as the Lord just said to these servants, bring forth the
best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his hand and
shoes on his feet and come kill the fatted calf. Don't go get,
I got a cow on sale the other day and it's a little cross-eyed
and it's got some blemishes on it. No, he said, you go get the
best calf we got. We learned something there. and
kill it, let us eat and be merry, for my son was dead and is alive."
He was in a fire, and he's just a stick sticking in a fire, and
I pulled him out. He ain't burning no more. He was lost and is found,
and they began to be merry. This is good news. That's real
good if we got filthy clothes, if we're sinning. Christ came to save sinners.
Huh? This is Him doing it. I like
to watch Him work, don't you? This is bifocal. Now remember,
the prophet is witnessing this. Zechariah is there, and he's
telling what he saw the Lord do, isn't he? That's a lesson
for Zechariah. God taught his prophet something,
and then he wrote it down for Israel, for Jerusalem to see
this. They're gonna be taught something in this, and that's
for us. We're reading it now, long time later. Why? So we can
learn something. This is what the Lord does for
us. That's precious, isn't it? Zechariah was seeing this, but
what does he see? He doesn't see himself standing
there, does he? What do we all see? Let me help
you. Who do we see? Who do we see? Verse one, he showed me Joshua. Joshua, that's the same name
in the New Testament, Jesus. God showed me Jesus. He showed
me the one that shall save his people from something, their
sin. If we read on in 1 John 2, it
says, And that's right. When a man sins, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Our high priest, and he's a propitiation
for our sins. Christ, our high priest, that
one that's a mediator between God and man. He's the mercy seat. that's covered in blood. He's
the acceptable bloody sacrifice. He's the lamb, and we have to
see him. You know what Isaac needed to
see? He said, Daddy, we got all his things. Where's the lamb?
That's what we need to see. That's what we need to see. The
Lord plucked Zechariah again. He'd plucked him before he already
was his prophet, but the Lord plucked him one more time, and
he showed him Joshua. He showed him the Lord Jesus
Christ, and he's plucking Israel out. those that's in that physical
nation, and he's showing them Joshua, showing them Christ our
Lord, and his people now, he's plucking them out, he's bringing
them out, and he's showing them something. Christ our Lord, and he's clothing
his people. He clothed Zechariah, he clothed
his Israel throughout time and shall. That's what he's doing. Is that legitimate? Is this legal? Is this holy? How could a man
be just before God? How could this physical man that
was named Joshua, that happened to be the high priest that was
in dirty clothes and was accused, how can this be right? We can't
sweep it under the rug. The Lord, our Joshua, our high
priest, he must wear our filthy rags. and he must be accused,
and then he must be found accepted. And we in him. We in him. It says in verse one, and he
showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of
the Lord and Satan at his right hand to resist him. He showed
me him and he showed me that great opponent I'm no match for. You know, Satan tempted Christ. I've been tempted a little bit.
And the Lord reminded me of this. He was tempted. Satan tempted
Christ. You know what he tempted him
with? Twisted scriptures. He didn't say there's gonna be
crazy little green men in funny underwear coming down to get
you and Bigfoot and all those other crazy things. No. He got him with the scriptures,
didn't he? That's what he did. He told part truths. Well, he said some good things.
Would you say that about Satan? The tempter came to him and he
said, if thou be the son of God, command these stones to be made
bread. He was, he was God and he was a man. He was hungry.
Hadn't ate in 40 days. And he said, you're the God man
right there. There's stones. You can make
them bread. I know you can. I believe in you. But he answered, it is written,
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God. He told him what the scriptures meant,
what it said and what it meant. He didn't just give him knowledge,
he gave him knowledge and understanding. And he took him up to the top
of that big pinnacle up there. And he said, thou be the son
of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, he shall give
his angels charge concerning thee, and their hands, they shall
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against the
stone. He loosely quoted Psalm 91, verses
11 and 12, didn't he? Jesus said, it's written again,
thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. That's who Satan was
tempting wasn't it? Show Christ all the lands and
all the kingdoms. And he said, I'll give you all
these things if you'll fall down and worship me. Jesus said, Get thee hence, Satan,
for it's written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve. And the devil leaveth him, and
behold, the angels came and ministered to him. It was over. But that was in the wilderness.
That's whenever the Spirit led him out to the wilderness. And
here in our text, this is the presence of the Lord. This ain't
the wilderness. This ain't that working. This is His court. This
is His judgment. And Joshua didn't say a word.
This is the Lord our Joshua. I thought I crossed in front
of Pilate. Those chief priests came, and they accused him of
many things. They're in this court. They didn't
tempt him, they accused him. They said, we can give you something.
They said, he's guilty. And he answered nothing. And
Pilate asked him, said, don't you, why are you answering nothing?
Behold how many things they witnessed against him. They got all these
charges, surely one of them. But Jesus answered nothing, so
Pilate marveled. Pilate marveled at that. The
Lord did not defend himself. Joshua here didn't defend himself.
Why? Isaiah 53 says, all we like sheep
have gone astray, we've turned everyone to his own way, and
the Lord hath laid on him, on the Lord Jesus Christ, the iniquity
of us all. That's what he told Joshua he
got rid of, wasn't it? He was oppressed, he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter and as a sheep before his shears is done, so he opened
not his mouth. Why wouldn't a sheep say, why
are you shearing me? Well, they need sheared. And then they got
wool on them, don't they? You set them on that button and
they don't move, they don't talk. I wonder if that'd come up if
Philip talked to the eunuch there in Acts 8, as he was reading
it. Joshua the man, didn't speak
because he was guilty. Why didn't Christ speak? He bore
our guilt, our sin, and our shame. That's why. Is that precious
to us? Verse three says, and now Joshua
was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. Oh,
he was filthy. He was filthy. Real filthy. You know how filthy he was? Turn
over to Isaiah 52. Back to Isaiah 52. Here in verse 13, speaking of
the servant of the Lord. Isaiah 52, 13. Behold, my servant shall deal
prudently. He shall be exalted and extolled
and be very high. As many were astonished at thee,
his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men. So shall he sprinkle many nations.
The king shall shut their mouths at him, for that which had not
been told them shall they see, and that which they had not heard
shall they consider." He's going to reveal himself to them. That
marring, that marring. He said his visage was so marred. That was our filthy rags. I said
that to you before. That's my iniquity, my sin, and
my transgression. He was made Kevin Bailey Thacker.
And in the sight of God, he couldn't look upon it. Get it away from
me. Forsake it. Forsake him. Turn over to Isaiah 64. Verse
6. Isaiah 64 6, but we are as an
unclean thing and all our righteousness Righteousnesses are as filthy
rags that ain't a dirty shop towel I think something that
somebody had to walk house is walking table off with that's
used sanitary napkins you understand It's something that's vulgar
It's repulsive That's the best we have, what we think's good. And we all do fade as a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And
there's none that call upon thy name, that stirreth up himself
to take hold of thee. For thou hast hid thy face from
us, and hast consumed us because of our iniquities. But now, O
Lord, thou art our Father. We are the clay, and thou our
potter. And we all work the work of thy
hand. We all work the work of thy hand.
In my hand no price I bring, simply to thy cross I cling.
I can't even stand there with my mouth shut. He has to do that
for me. He has to do that for me. Turn
over to John 13. This will be the last one, John 13. Here's the act that our great high priest, becoming
our filth, burying that in his body on the
tree. And he shows this to us. He gives us an example. John
13 verse 1. Now before the feast of the Passover,
when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart
out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were
in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended,
the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon's
son to betray him, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all
things into his hands, and that he was come from God and went
to God, he riseth from supper and laid aside his garments,
He had garments on, and he took those garments off, and he took
a towel and girded himself. Who did all this stuff? Nobody
asked him to. He did it willingly. Did it willingly. After that, he poureth water
into a basin. I just see him holding that pitcher
of water up by his side, leaning it into that basin. He poured
water into a basin, began to wash the disciples' feet, and
to wash them with a towel wherewith he was girded, with his own clothes.
He took his garments off, he put this towel on as his garments,
and he's washing his people. Is he getting clean, or is he
getting dirty? Getting filthy. And he came up to Simon Peter,
verse six, and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my
feet? And the Lord said unto him, what I do thou knowest not,
but thou shalt know hereafter. You don't know what I'm doing
yet, Peter, just hush, and watch, and give it six months. Give
it six weeks, six months, or six years, just give it time,
and the Lord's gonna teach you, just wait. And Peter just couldn't
stand it. I understand. Peter saith unto
him, thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, if
I wash thee not, thou has no part with me. If I don't do the
washing, you ain't ever gonna be here by yourself. Simon Peter
saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands
and my head, not just my walk in this world, but everything
I work with and everything I think. Wash me solely, wholly. And Jesus
said unto him, he that is washed, He is not saved to wash his feet,
but is clean every whit, and you are clean, you're clean.
I have bore your filthy rags. I've done that. I was the sheep
heading to slaughter, and the Lord slew me. It pleased the
Lord to bruise him, to forsake him for you. But not all, for
he knew who should betray him, therefore he said, you're not
all clean. So after he had washed their feet, and he had taken
his garments, those dirty garments, those filthy garments, Isaiah
53 says, surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He took that. Where did he take
it? So Chris Cunningham asked, where
did the towel go? As far as the east is from the
west. Blotted out, gone, gone. And was set down again, he said
to them, know ye what I've done to you? You want to know right
now, Peter, you know what I did to you? The Lord has to show us Joshua.
He has to show us Jesus. He has to show us our sin. He
has to pluck us out and convict us and show us our need of him.
And we see him and we see that he's washed us. And he was the
one standing there. He's our high priest that was
bearing our filthy rags. and bore our punishment, and
then the Lord rewarded him. And whenever he rewarded him,
we were rewarded in him. When he bore our sin, he was
made sin, we were made the righteousness of God in him. I understand the in him better
than I understand the righteousness of God, I'll tell you that. I'm
thankful for both. You know what I've done to you?
He says that to his people. He comes, he reveals himself,
the Spirit works. That Holy Ghost abounds toward
him like a linebacker. You ain't gonna get away. And
he gets a hold of them, and he does a work in them, and they're
glad, and they're happy. And he says, you know what I've
done to you? I say, impart, and thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank
you. He said, you call me Master and
Lord, and you say, well, for so I am. and he gives them a
charge. If I then, your Lord and master,
have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
That's just what we walk through this world in, isn't it? For I have given you an example
that you should do as I have done unto you. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither
he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If you know
these things, happy are you if you do them." If you do them. You think Joshua, that high priest,
that man, he was living in a fleshly body after the Lord spoke this
to him, you think he's hard to get along with? You think he made a good neighbor?
I'd say he did. It's probably pretty easy to
get along with. We know these things. Knowledge
ain't enough. He said, do them. And if you
understand, you can't keep from it. That's a new creation. You
can't stop it. It's just going to happen. Forgiveness,
well, you have to. How could I not? That's so. And to think, our Lord, he has
a name that's above every name. He's a king of all kings. He's the Lord of all lords. He's
the head. He's the potentate. He's the
only authority that there is, and all glory goes to him. Bar none, and I wouldn't have
it any other way. And we're in him. We're glorified
with him. Right now, we're seated at the
right hand of the Father on high. How could that be? He'll show
us. I pray the Lord would pluck us out, all the fiery things
that we're in, and the situations and the trials and the confusion
and the sadness and the whatever, fill in the blank. He'd pull
us out of whatever it is that ain't Him. Show us the Lord Jesus
Christ. Show us Joshua, our high priest.
Show us what he really bore for us. We have to see our sin or
that Savior ain't worth nothing. If this is some kind of technicality,
you don't need a technical Savior, you need a living Savior. I do
too. Show us Him and what He's done
and that it's finished. Did it come to pass? Yes. Did
it happen before time? Yes. That's my people. I chose them. That's an apple
of my eye. Apple of my eye. That's the most
tender part. You know, I remember my pastor teaching me those things
when I was a kid. You know what the apple of your
eye is? You know how important your eye is? Look at your head. He said, get
you a mirror, son. Your whole head's built around
it. Your eyebrows come out. Why we got cheekbones? To protect
the eye. Why do you have an eyebrow? To
protect the eye. Why you got eyelashes? Keep stuff out of
your eye. Why you got an eyelid that's the fastest thing on your
body? Protect the eye. And he said, you're the apple
of my eye. And all this is already done. We just have to be shown,
don't we? He just has to reveal himself
to us. I pray he'd do that. We'd be glad. Be glad if he does. All right. Brother Mark.