Brethren, if you will, let's
turn to John chapter 8. John chapter 8 is in the same
text, Friday there in Rescue. If you happen to tune in, good,
listen again. How many times I've listed a message over and
there's a couple of them. download on my phone every three
months or so. I've done that for years and I get something
new every time. It spends hours every week translating
all my notes into English from Kevin into English and sends
out the notes and the sermon audio link so you can listen
along while you read. My pastor does the same thing. He sends them out to us. So we
can listen along while we read because we might see something
the Lord didn't show us before. Ain't nobody watching. When you
read along, somebody speaks to you, says the same thing. Ain't
nobody looking at you. Maybe the Lord looked upon us,
huh? Hopefully He'll be with us this morning. Here in John
chapter 8, we begin in chapter 7. These officers, they were
sent to arrest the Lord, to apprehend Him and bring Him to these Pharisees
at Sanhedrin. And they didn't accomplish their
mission. John 7, verse 46 says, the officers answered. The Pharisees
said, why didn't you bring Him? Where is He at? The officer's
answer said, never man spake like this man. Then answered
them, the Pharisees, are you also deceived? Are you as deceived
as they are by his teachings, by what he says? Have any of
the rulers, that's their first concern, the first concern, the
rulers, important folks. Have any of the rulers or of
the Pharisees? What about our peers in religion?
What about them church-going folks, they believed on him?
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed." They don't
know the law. They're cursed. We know the law.
They don't know the law. We're fine. They're cursed. Ooh,
out of your own mouths. Verse 50, Nicodemus saith unto
them, He that cameth to Jesus by night, back to chapter 3,
being one of them. Did John write, he's one of us,
but the Lord just hadn't fully revealed himself yet? No, he
didn't. John said he's one of them. The Lord's working in Nicodemus.
We're going to see it by the end. I just see him with that
wheelbarrow or something with a hundred pounds of aloe. That's
a lot. But right now, he's starting
to work in him. That work of grace has begun.
John still says, being one of them, he says, verse 51, doth
our law judge any man? Did he say, does the Lord's law,
does God's holy, perfect, just law, does it judge any man? He
said, does our law, our law. Doth our law judge any man before
it hearth him and know what he doeth? And they answered and
said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look,
for out of Galilee riseth no prophet. No prophet. Well, they're
wrong. Where do you think Jonah came
from? He came from Galilee. He was born of Galilee. And every
man went into his own house. They had their big discussion.
Everybody told what they thought. Everybody showed face. Everybody
showed up and saw each other and had their opinion. Well,
I think this and I think that. Here's what it ought to be. And
their angle on it, they had a big old Bible study, didn't they?
And then they all went home. They went back to their own houses.
They didn't go to Christ and say, Lord, teach us. You're the
teacher. You're the one that can teach.
They said, well, we'll go home and sleep on it. Let's go home
and sleep on it. They went back to their houses. Where did our
Lord go? Chapter 8, verse 1. Jesus went into the Mount of
Olives. He went to go pray. He must be about his Father's
business. He shall save His people from
their sins. He's going to make intercession
forever for them. He went to the Mount of Olives, verse 2,
and early in the morning, He came again unto the temple, and
all the people came unto Him. And He sat down, and He taught
them. That's how they used to do it in those days. You'd read
the Scripture standing up, and then they'd sit down to preach.
I thought of that this morning. If y'all had to stand up to hear
the gospel, and I had to sit down and preach, I might be dozing
off. It's a good thing I got to stand
up today. I'm beat. I was up all night last night. I'll be
all right. I can take a nap after this,
but drove a lot, drove 1,200 miles. Go preach the gospel and
hear it preached to me. But very early in the morning,
these people, they came to him to be taught. You think there's
a sacrifice involved in that? Do you think they had to set
an alarm clock or get a rooster or take shifts throughout the
night? He's going to be there early.
We're going to be there where he is. Hanging out at home, we're going
to be at the house this week. We'll go think about these things.
We'll go on. They showed up to Him. That's where the person
was. God Almighty sat on the front
steps of that tabernacle right there with His feet in the dirt
and taught them. And they came to Him and they sacrificed. The
gospel that cost you nothing ain't worth nothing. It's painful. They'd get up early,
early in the morning. They had to work, get all the
work done the day before so they could worship God. Come be taught
of Him. Took some diligence, didn't it? What did he teach? We looked
at that last week, didn't we? We looked at Matthew 5, 6, and 7.
If anybody ever says, what did Jesus teach? What did Christ
teach? Go read him a sermon on the mount. That's thorough, isn't
it? Boy, it hits a lot of topics.
He opened his mouth and taught them, saying, he gave them the
Beatitudes, the lesser of the poor in spirit. Well, what's
all this going to start out with? Poor folks. Not broke folks,
poor folks. Poor in spirit. Poor heart. And he told them people, those
that are poor in spirit, those that are meek, can't do nothing
for themselves, those that are lame, those that are hot, those
that are deaf, those that are blind, they can't keep the law.
Us Gentiles, the law ain't even given to us. We ain't got no
tabernacles, we don't have any priests, we don't have this even in pictures.
And if we did, we wouldn't care just like that physical nation
didn't care, wouldn't give a hooey. Sitting right there in front
of you, take it or leave it. But he told those that truly
were poor in the heart, truly were unable in themselves. He said, think not that I've
come to destroy this law, this law that brought you to me, this
law that you fear, because you know you can't keep it. A fool
knows that. They're just pretending. I didn't
come to destroy it. I didn't come to destroy the
prophets. I'm not come to destroy but to fulfill. I'm going to
fulfill all those prophets. Every jot and tittle, everything
that was ever said, they're going to cast lots on my garments. Everything. Everything. Peter's going to
deny him. Everything. Just as he said it would be,
the whole time fulfilling the law. That's what he told them
poor folks. And he said, Except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. That means the
outside of the cup and the inside of the cup. They're clean on
the outside. It'd be hard pressed to find
something wrong with them. Boy, we don't see it on the heart.
He does. He said it's going to have to exceed theirs. You shall
in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven. And he said, you've
heard him explain that law that he fulfilled. He said, you've
heard, you know, thou shalt not kill, and whoever kills endangers
the judgment. You know that. You know that
law. He said, but I say unto you, who serves angry with his
brother without a cause, he is in danger of the judgment. I
don't like what they're doing. Hell, fire, and brimstone for
eternity. Is this serious? You better believe it is. He had some strong teachings,
didn't he? They were astonished at his doctrine, and for he taught
having as one of authority, not as the scribes. I love it. What woke you up today,
Matt, Paul and Ernie Ellen? He don't teach like one of them
scribes does, does he? We will now turn to 1 Corinthians
chapter 3. No, uh-uh. He knows God. He'll tell you about it. He taught
Nicodemus that. He says, As Moses lifted up a
serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted
up. And whoever believes on Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life, eternal life. He told them plainly, didn't
he? He said, If any man thirsts, let him come unto Me. I could
see him walk through that during that great feast. They had them
candles burning. And he said, I'm the light of
the world. They're playing. They got church going on. We
know what to do. We know how to get our stuff and write orders.
Here's the showbread. He said, I'm the bread of life.
They had a rock in there, and they was taking buckets of water
and pouring over it to symbolize they're having a play. They could
dress up children, have plays at church. They're pouring water
over it to show that water coming out of that rock in the desert.
And he said, I'm the living water. That's me. That's me. That's
me. I don't get it. What's this guy
saying? He's playing his day. All those prophets, all that
law, he came to fulfill. That's what he's saying. It's
him. It's him. If any man thirst, let him come
to me. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out
of his belly shall flow the rivers of living water." God in human
flesh, this one at the whole Old Testament, in picture and
in type, typified, pointed to Him. He sat down and He taught
people. Can you imagine that? I pray
He'd teach somebody today. I pray He would stop these and
open these up. Stop this and open this up. Stop
our heads, open our hearts. These scribes and Pharisees,
they knew he was teaching these people, and they sought a way
to discredit him. What can we do to knock this
guy out of his position? We've got to prove he's a false
prophet. We've got to prove he's against the prophets. We've got
to prove he's against this law of Moses that we hold so dear
to us. He came to destroy that law.
We've got to convince him of that. These religious, church-going
folks, They had fancy garments on, did you know that? They didn't
miss service. They knew the scriptures. They
could quote it better than we can. They seemed like the people
you ought to be following, wasn't they? They probably cheated on
their taxes. On the outside of the cup, you
couldn't find nothing wrong with them. You couldn't hold nothing to
them. They're going to teach the Lord something. They're going
to come teach Him a lesson. Nothing's changed. If they're
against Him, they're against His people, ain't they? People
are going to instruct God's prophets, God's preachers. Or we're going
to train them up. I'm going to sort them out. I'm
going to go down there and sort that preacher out. I'm going to teach them
something. I know people that do that. I know people because they email me.
I can help you with this. If I'm a man after God's own
heart, what are you going to prove on it? If He sent me with His Word,
what are you going to polish? If He's the one training me,
is your regiment going to work better than His? Not so. I wouldn't want to be that person.
I wouldn't want to be them. He's the capital P preacher.
That's him. John 8 verse 3. And the scribes
and the Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery.
And when they had set her in the midst, they said unto him,
Master, that sounds churchy, don't it? They spoke with what
seemed so respectful terms, but their mouth said one thing and
their heart meant another. They were double minded. Master, this
woman was taken in adultery in the very act. We walked in on
it. We saw it. We saw it happening.
We stopped it. We stopped it. She was taken in the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. But what sayest thou? What do
you say? They come quoting the law, didn't
they? Their law. Not those cursed people that
didn't know the law. They came quoting the law, didn't they?
Well, what does the law say? Turn over to Leviticus 20. Let's
look at it. The law had better be one of
the witnesses. A Hebrew writer said that he that despised Moses'
law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. The Lord
looks on the heart, and the law is what declares us guilty. That's
two witnesses right there. One witness will be the word
of God, and you better have a good handle on it if you're going
to throw it around, because you'll be judged at your very own mouths. Leviticus
20. Let's see if these Pharisees left something out. Leviticus
20, verse 10. And the man that committeth adultery
with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with
his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely
be put to death. Now maybe he wrote it down wrong. You think that's possible? Maybe
he wrote it down wrong. Let's turn over to Deuteronomy
20. Deuteronomy 22, I'm sorry. Deuteronomy
22. Verse 22, If a man be found lying
with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them
die. Both the man that layeth with
the woman and the woman, so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If you're going to stone them,
you're going to put them to death, you're going to do both of them.
If they were doing what Moses said, while they're acting, while
they're pretending, while they're worried about this law. If they
were doing what Moses said, they would have brought both of them
to the Lord. Actually, they wouldn't have
done that. They could have just stoned them right then. Probably would have had to seek approval.
You complain to an authority figure. You seek approval from
those authority figures, don't you? Unknowingly, they were coming
to him. But they were trying to catch
him up in it. But that man, where'd he go? Maybe it was one of them.
Maybe this was staged a little deeper than we thought it was.
Maybe it was one of their friends. Maybe it was one of their family
members. And they've done the same thing before, probably with
the same lady. And I thought, well, that's what we looked at
last hour, wasn't it? It's easy to forgive the sin
that easily beset us. It's hard. Now, just try not
to do it again, okay? Go give some alms. Go pay for it or something. Say
some Hail Marys or something. Tell them whatever, nonsense.
It's easy to forgive those if we weren't forgiven in that area.
Those who stress the law usually are the very ones breaking it.
Paul told us that. He said they command you to keep it and they
don't even keep it themselves. They don't keep it themselves.
This law is just and it is holy. And it offers no mercy. No mercy. It was written in stone. It's
unbending. It's holy, it's just, it's good, but it condemns. It
condemns. It says this woman and the man,
whoever he may have been, are guilty and they should be stoned.
The Lord said, The soul that sinneth, it shall surely die. The interest of these Pharisees
wasn't upholding God's holy law, but discrediting Christ, proving
He was a false prophet, proving He was against Moses, and proving
to all those that was listening to His teachings that He was
a fraud, and to get them back under their control. They wanted
to make them like themselves. They wanted to be followers of
men. They bring this woman, quote the law to them, and they ask,
But what sayest thou? What will you say? What will
you say? They were crafty. Crafty. The enemies of the Lord
and His people, they're not ignorant. They're not fools. They're the
wiles of the devils, not easily discerned. They're cunning, devious. If the Lord says here, they bring
Him with this question, what say you? Here's what Moses said,
now they quoted it wrong, but they said, what say you? And
all his people's listening. What do you say? We stoner? That's
what Moses said, what do you say? If he says stoner, all those
people listening to him, all those people that followed him
for three years will say he's no different than Pharisees.
He's no different than the Pharisees. Just like Nicodemus, he's one
of them. Being one of them. what He had taught them. When
Christ preached to these people, they'd listen to Him. There was
hope there. When He spoke and He said, come to Me, all you
that labor and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. That's peace.
There's rest there. There's hope there. There's comfort
there. There's love there. Life's to be had. Pardon's there.
That's why publicans came to Him. That's why sinners came
to Him. Harlots, whores, the sick, the guilty. They came to
hear Him because His message came to their hearts. But not with these legalists.
Not with them other church fellas. Not with them church goers. Them
religious folks. Those Pharisees. There was no hope for the guilty
there. It was just cold. It was rigid. And it could not
give life. All it could do was declare guilt.
That's all they could do. You're wrong. What you're doing
is wrong. What you're doing is wrong. Stop that. Start this. Peck, peck, peck, peck,
peck. Quit people with the law. This
woman was guilty just like those here in our Lord preach. And
if he says stoner, there goes hope. You were sitting there
listening to him, watching God Almighty right on the ground,
sitting on the steps of the temple, and he's speaking to you, and
you're hearing what's coming out of his mouth. He's the rivers of living water.
Right there he is. And this woman comes. She's just
like me. She's just like me. That's me standing there. She
just happened to get caught that day. Done it in my heart. So he told her, he said, no. He says, stone her. Pack your
suitcases and go home. Better go fishing. Better retire
someplace hot. Enjoy them last years while you
got, because that's all you're going to get. It's over. And if he
says let her go without doing what the law says, without handling
the guilt, without dealing with that sin like we looked at in
the first hour, the accuser will say, see, I told you he gets
Moses. Everything he's told you is a sham. He's not just. He's
not holy. He's not upright. Well, everything
he's saying is pretend. All this rest he's talking about,
it's as if. It's as if. That's a hard question, isn't
it? What say you? Stone her or loose her and let
her go? That's hard for man, isn't it? That's the very, very old question,
isn't it? And it rings today. It ought
to be asked today. I'd love to go around. If I get
invited to any church, I'm going to go and I'm going to say, how's
man just before God? How can God be just and justify
a sinner? Because you're getting down to
brass tacks. You're getting down to gospel. Getting down to good news is
what it is. It's got to do with the person and what he did. Job asked that. Oldest book in
the Bible. He said, I know it is so of a truth, but how should
a man be just with God? How could this be? Verse five. Now Moses in the law commanded
us that such should be stoned, but what sayest thou? This they
said, tempting him that they might have to excuse him." How
can this be? Here's where mercy begins. Here's
where there's hope for the hopeless. Verse 6, that Jesus stooped down. That's it. How can this woman
be freed and be stoned at the same time? God Almighty is going
to have to take on the form of a human. A body is going to be
made for Him, and He's going to have to stoop down to this earth and
condescend. This One who thought it not robbery
to be equal with God, He stooped down to this earth. This Word,
the capital W Word, was made flesh. He dwelt among us. He
came down that we may be risen. He stooped low so we may be exalted
with Him. Verse 6 says, And they said,
tempting Him that they might have to excuse Excuse him, but
Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as
though he heard them not. Those cries from Sodom. He went
to go check it out as he talked to Abraham. Oh, he heard that
the whole time, didn't he? Heard that the whole time. Just
because the Lord doesn't sin, someone's fighting against him
and fighting against his gospel. If somebody's standing out front
right now protesting just because the Lord doesn't strike them
dead with a lightning bolt, doesn't mean he ain't going to. The Lord
heard it. He heard him, but he acted like
he didn't. He wasn't distracted. Did you know that? There's all
these gainsayers, and he didn't stop doing what he was doing
to save this woman, to reveal himself in her, that the law
is fulfilled, and turn and deal with him. Now, you knock it off.
Act like you don't even hear him. What did Paul say? Mark him and leave him alone.
The Lord will handle him. Gabriel said that, didn't he?
The Lord rebuked thee. The Lord rebuked thee. I have
no idea what the Lord wrote there on the ground. I have some ideas,
but it's just what I think, it's not what I know. But I know what's
recorded every time His finger is used on this earth to write
something. Turn over to Deuteronomy 9. Deuteronomy 9, verse 10. Here's the first time a finger
was used. Deuteronomy 9, 10. The Lord delivered
unto me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. And on them was written according
to all the words which the Lord spake with you in the mount out
of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And it came
to pass at the end of 40 days and 40 nights that the Lord gave
me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
That's that covenant of law. Do this and live. We're born
in sin. We're conceived in sin. We can't
do it. God's perfect finger come down
and wrote his perfect holy law. That's the first time he come
to this earth and wrote something with his fingers. God wrote the
law with his finger in stone, unbendable. And that's the very
law they're using against him. His law. They said it's our law.
No, it ain't. It's his. He wrote it. He's the
author. You think he meant it? I went to buy a audiobook not
too long ago, and I found out the author wasn't the one that
read it. And I was like, I really don't
want to hear that. The one that wrote it, he knows how it should
be read. When the Lord stood up and read in the temples, could
you imagine? I'll hush. You read, Lord. I
want to hear you read. It'd be something, wouldn't it?
He's the author. That was the first time he wrote. These Pharisees
had this law a long time, and the whole time they've had this
law written in stone by the finger of God, they've applied it to
others. They've applied it to somebody else. You, you, you
ever listen to a message that someone needs to listen to that?
I have. Well, might apply it to others, might apply it to
ourselves. The Lord said, examine yourselves. Apply that law to
us. Back in our text here in John
8, Paul told us, He said, the reason this law was given, it
says to those that are under the law that every mouth may
be stopped and become guilty before God. John 8, verse 11. So when they continued asking
Him, they hadn't been stopped yet, had they? They hadn't been
shut up to sin. So when they continued asking,
He lifted up Himself and said to them, He that was out sin
among you, let Him cast the first stone at her. They had the law,
they carried it around, and holding that around ain't done nothing.
That's what believing the five points of Calvinism never said
to nobody, just like memorizing the Ten Commandments never made
guilt in the heart. I saw that from Clay. It's true. They've had this their whole
life, and they've never applied it to themselves. God hasn't
said, this is my law for you. He hasn't made it effectual yet.
And so he stands up, and he says, if you're without sin, Start
throwing rocks. God Almighty's put it on them.
He stood in their court. You examine yourselves. This
is my law for you. How you doing? How are you holding
up? That was the last time they spoke.
They didn't say nothing else to him that day. But the Lord
wasn't finished with him yet, was he? Verse 8. And again, he
stooped down and wrote on the ground. The first time we saw
the finger there come down and write on those tablets of stone,
He gave us the law the second time recorded in Daniel. This
is the third time of three times the Lord's fingers written here
on earth. Turn over to Daniel 5. Bill Shazar, after Nebuchadnezzar
had been removed as king, there's a couple kings in between them,
He decided to have a big drunken party with all the things, the
vessels, that were for the Lord's house, for His worship. It says
in Daniel 5 verse 4, They drank wine and praised the gods of
gold and of silver and of brass and of iron, of wood and of stone.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote over
against a candlestick upon the psalter of the wall in the king's
palace. And the king saw the part of
the hand that wrote. He didn't see God face-to-face,
did he? No man's seen the Father. If
you've seen the Son, you've seen the Father. Who do you think's
writing this? Who wrote the first law? Christ did, didn't he? He gave the law. It's his law. And now he's writing
on the wall. What's this hand writing? Look
here in verse 26. This is an interpretation of
the thing. Menae, God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it.
He's a sovereign over all. Verse 27. Thou art weighed in
the balances and art found wanting. And there's an end to that. The
punishment he brings, he'll bring an end to it. Perez, the kingdom
is divided and given to the meads and the persons. The first time
that finger came on this earth, given that law in stone. The
second time that finger came, it says, this is the end of it.
You don't measure up. You've been in those hills, you've
been found wanting. Back in John 8, our Lord wrote
the first time in the dirt something. We don't know what it was, but
He says, you examine yourselves. You without sin? Say the condemnation
was the second time, wouldn't you? It says in verse 8, and
again, He stooped down and wrote on the ground, and they which
heard it being convicted by their own conscience. You know, somebody
can feel guilty about something. The heathens feel guilty about
stuff, don't they? I probably shouldn't have done that. I stepped
on a kitten on the way over here, and I think I hurt it. Oh, I
wish I wouldn't have done that. They convict themselves. They
convict their own consciences. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin.
Not of plural sins. We convict ourselves of sins.
God, the Holy Spirit has to convict of S-I-N, the noun, what we are. that they had their own consciences.
Their own conscience was pricked. And went out one by one, beginning
at the eldest. Wow, he had the most to get blamed,
don't they? You get older. Oh, they quit
doing this, they quit doing that. You run out of money or got tired.
That's all it is. This body don't hold up good.
I have no interest in hangovers ever again. Oh, them days are
gone, ain't they? That's all I cleaned up. In fact, I just got tired of
it. or gets too excited, he'll quit anything. That ought to
be a little more experienced. Worldly, he's the first one left.
Unto the last. And Jesus was left alone and
the woman standing in the midst. Just him and his bride. How could
you say such a thing? It's true for me, it's true for
her. Just him and his bride. Verse 10 says, And when Jesus
lifted up himself, that's what happened. He saw none but the
woman. God Almighty gave His law with
His finger on those stones. On that wall that Daniel interpreted,
He gave the end state of that law. You've been weighed and
you've been found wanting, and this is the end. He came to this
earth, down in the dirt, literally, and fulfilled the law with His
finger in this sin-cursed earth, in this dirt. And He lifted Himself
up He said, look, Father's gave me this power. I lay my life
down, no man take it from me, and I got the power to raise
it back up. He lifted himself up, and whenever he's exalted
on the right hand of God Almighty, he's on his throne living the
inner seed for us. What's that mean? He saw nothing
but the woman. He sees nothing but his bride. That adulterous, caught in the
very act. He ever lives to make intercession
just for her. Just for her. Just for me. Just
for you. You who believe, just for you. I don't know it's so. It's so. He says, Woman, where are those
thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? What
did Paul say in Romans 8, 34? Who is he that condemneth? It's
Christ that died, yea rather, is risen again. When did our
condemnation go? When he lifted himself up. You
see, I'm going hand to hand. They walk hand in hand, don't
they? It's exactly the same. They brought
her for the condemnation of both her, we can knock her out while
she's here, we'll go ahead and get rid of her, and for him,
to accuse him. And they happen to bring her
right to the one that wrote the law, the very one that could
save her from the curse of the law. They partly knew it, but
they didn't know the law of Christ, did they? They didn't know the
law of Christ. Paul told us there in Galatians 6, bear ye one another's
burdens. What's that mean? Love? Not a
feigned love, not a fake one, truly, because there's bearing
involved. That means your legs are going
to get a little shaky. You're going to get sore. You carry a big old heavy backpack,
your legs are going to get tired. Shoulders get tired. Start cramping
up. Oh, you got to take some milk for tomorrow morning. Drink
some water. Bear, that's love. Love does something. It bears
the burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ. What's his
law? Love one another. I give you
a new commandment that you love one another. How's everybody
going to know that you're my people? If you have love for one another.
That's the law. They didn't come bearing that,
did they? This one they brought her to. The one that wrote the
law is the only one that can free her from the law, free her
from her burden and this whole universe. And what sovereign
grace and mercy it was that he saved this sinner. He wrote with
his finger the law in stone. He wrote on the wall, we can't
keep the law. We can't fulfill it. He must. He came to this earth
and he fulfilled the law in every jot and tittle, being made a
man. being buried under the dirt and lifting himself up again.
He's going to write one more time. He's going to write something
else. Turn over to Jeremiah 31. And
whatever the Lord writes, it's law. You get it? We can make
our heads spin if the local people bring out an ordinance or a regulation. Was it law? Does it matter? Those handcuffs are the same
shade of silver, ain't they? Just hush and do it. If the Lord
speaks it, if He writes it, it's law. If he writes it, it's perfect.
If he writes it, it's eternal. Jeremiah 31, verse 33. But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel. He said the law was
his covenant, wouldn't he? This shall be the covenant that
I will make with the house of Israel. What about that law? Christ came
to this earth with his finger and fulfilled it, didn't he?
With his very hand. After those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my law, my covenant of grace, this law of Christ,
in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be
their God and they shall be my people. I'm His and He's mine. Now, you being dead in your sins
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened to give I promise I'll sleep, and I'll
be better. I ain't got work today, but Clay
will be here. I'm sure every few in the cast
will come hand out the elements. Our Father in heaven.