If you will, let's open our Bibles
to John chapter 1. John chapter 1. I hope to come back here often.
Our text tonight will be the first 14 verses. John chapter
1. It says, In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, The Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him.
And without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was
life. And the life was the light of
men. And the light shineth in darkness.
And the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent
from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to
bear witness of the light that all through him might believe. He was not that light, but was
sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by him and the world knew
Him not. He came unto His own, and His
own received Him not. But as many as received Him,
to them gave He power to become sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." As
we read through the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
some of the old writers have said, and rightfully so, of course
they all have the same topic. The topic is the same. Christ
Jesus and Him crucified. That doesn't change no matter
what book you turn to in these scriptures. But one writer said
Matthew wrote to the Jews. That's who he was writing to.
Mark wrote to the Romans. Luke wrote to the Greeks so they
could understand too. They spoke as they could understand.
And John wrote to all men about the deity, the godliness of Christ. He was God in human flesh. And we'll see this theme, if
the Lord enables us to go through the Gospel of John, we'll see
this theme throughout this book. He's God. That's who He is. I
want to look at five things this evening, and as John did, I pray
that I can just declare them. I just want to tell you, each
of the letters that John wrote, beginning with Matthew and Mark
and Luke, they did the same. They just declared the Gospel
from the get-go. We call it that bottom line up
front. But for John, here in the Gospel of John, his first,
his second, his third general epistle, Revelation, it all began
straight to it. He got right after it. Paul always
started, Paul, comma, an apostle, comma, Paul and Timotheus, fellow
servants, laborers, grace to you and peace to you. James said,
James, comma, an apostle, grace to you and peace to you. What
John's doing here is grace and peace. He's telling us plainly. Off we have ears to hear it.
I want to touch on five things this evening. Jesus of Nazareth,
the Messiah, the Christ, Jesus Christ our Lord, He is God. And
man, in our corrupt, wicked, religious, nasty, filthy state
that we just think is so clean, wants nothing to do with Him.
That's how we're born into this world. Without the love of Christ
in us, we want nothing to do with Him. But for those chosen
elect children, those that are His, throughout time, He sends
a preacher to them. Someone to tell them this, to
declare the holiness of God, to declare man's sinfulness and
what Christ did for sinners. He hasn't neglected a one. He
will not neglect a one. A preacher's going to come tell
you about this. Somebody's going to come tell you. And through
that work of God the Holy Spirit, we're created anew. When He comes
to us in power through the Word, the spoken Word, we're created
anew. We're born again of that incorruptible
seed and we're given eternal life. That's when our life was
created. When we began. And all that took
place. It's all effectual. It's just.
It's right. It's holy for God to do so because
Christ became a man. We're going to see His person,
who we're not, and His work. What He accomplished. What He
did. The surety of His people. Christ our substitute. He had
to be like us to be our substitute. He became a man. Alright, first
Christ is God. He's holy. He is life. He's the creator of all things
and He, the person, is the salvation of His people. Look here in verse
1. John 1, 1. In the beginning was
the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. There was a... This doesn't make
much sense. It's hard for our brains to understand
this because we live in time, don't we? There was a time when
there was no time. All there was was the Lord, a
triune God. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Ghost were there. What was going on? I don't know.
You may tell us in eternity. But there was a time when it
pleased the Lord that time began, what we consider time. And at
that moment, Christ was already the Word there. He was with God
and He was God. That's important for us to hear.
That seems like it's oversimplified, but we overcomplicate things,
don't we? Before all this started, He was.
He said, I am. They said, how can you know Abraham?
You ain't even 50 years old yet. He didn't say, I used to be.
He said, I am. That's an omnipresent God. We've heard something similar
to this before, haven't we? In the beginning was the Word. Moses wrote to us, we just looked
at it a few weeks ago, there in Genesis 1.1. In the beginning,
God. Telling the same story, isn't
He? John later in life told us, he said, for there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, capital W,
same as here, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. They're
one. There's no hierarchy. When I
was a young son, I used to think that. That's all I knew. I hadn't
experienced any different, been told any different. My dad was
above me. So I thought that it was God the Father, and God the
Son, and the Holy Spirit was somewhere else. No, these three,
they're three distinct persons in one. In one. The three are
one. Turn over to Revelation 19. This
began in Genesis, in the beginning God. John told us in the beginning
was the Word. He told us these three are one
here in Revelation 19, verse 11. John writes to us again and says,
I saw the heaven open, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat
upon him was called Faithful, capital F, and True, capital
T. And in righteousness he doth
judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns." We sing that song gladly, don't
we? Crown him with many crowns. The Lord's crowning him. We just
agree, don't we? Happily, rightfully so. And he had a name written
that no man knew. People say, I found God. He had
a name written that no man knew but himself. What's the name
of this faithful one, the true one, this crowned one, the righteous
judge? How are we going to know his
name? He's the only one that knows it. He told us in Matthew
11, Christ spoke and said, All things are delivered unto me
of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and He to whomsoever
the Son will reveal Him. He's the only one who knows that
name. No one knows it but Himself, and no one's going to know His
name, His rightful name, and speak it from the heart, unless
it pleases Him to reveal Himself in His child. That's all that's
going to happen. Look at verse 13. And He was
clothed with a vesture, Dipped in blood. So many people preach about Christ.
They preach about the gospel and they don't preach the gospel.
You can't separate the two. The person of Christ is accompanied
always by the work of Christ. The blood of Christ. That's what John saw on that
white horse, crowned. There's faithfulness, there's
truth coming riding a horse. righteous judgment, righteous
war, fire in his eyes, dipped in blood, that's his vesture,
that's what he wore. And his name is called the Word
of God, capital W. We'll read more than just about
this physical word that we can buy and carry with us. John's
proclaiming and declaring Christ the Word, and that's what his
written word declares from Genesis all the way through Revelation.
It's about Him. Christ the Word. I'm back in
our text there in John 1. It says there in verse 3, this
One who is God, all things were made by Him. And without Him
was not anything made that was made. He made it all. In the
beginning was the Word. He made everything. What did
Moses write to us? In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. He made everything. Paul told
us, for by Him were all things created that are in heaven, that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers. All things were created by Him.
Why did He make all those things? And for Him. for God, and He
is before all things, and by Him all things consist. He sustains all things. Why does
He do that? Why did Christ make everything?
We've been looking in Genesis 1. Why did He create everything?
Who's the Prime Minister of Turkey right now? Do they have kings
or prime ministers? I don't know. The Lord put Him
there. Christ did. It pleased Him. It's for Him.
Who's ruling our country right now? Whoever it pleases God to
rule our country. Who's that for? The benefit of
His people for His glory. That's the truth, isn't it? Paul
went on to say, and here's the reason, for it pleased the Father
that in Christ the Word should all fullness dwell. John begins this witness, his
account, his written Word of the Gospel, speaking of the Father's
Christ. His elect, His firstborn, the
one in whom He is well pleased. Christ the Word. That's who He
starts with. The Word was with God and the Word was God. Before time, we know it. During
the time that we're in and for eternity, He's God. That and
us. That's something I chewed on
for a long time. Who is that? It ain't me. And that's not anybody
I know either. People think they are. They put
themselves in the place of God, either as a prophet, or as a
priest, or as a king, or as a ruler, or a decider, or a judge, or
something. That ain't us. That ain't the nicest person
you've ever met in your life. That's a drastic difference.
Stark difference. Night and day, as the Lord says. He's light, we're darkness. That's
the most innocent baby you've ever held in your arms. Not that. Night and day. This is the Holy
God we're speaking of. Not the wisest king or queen
that's ever ruled. We're all unclean. We're not
clean. He is. We didn't come out of the womb
worshiping God Almighty. We have to. Did you know that?
It had to be conceived, not in sin. We began evil, didn't we? But
the Word did. Christ the Word did. Every thought
and every deed he ever had was holy and unreprovable and perfect,
and he trusted the Father the whole time. What an incredible
thought. That ain't me. Outside of him,
that ain't me. Well, that's good news. Several
times in the Psalms, we read about the birds singing to the
Lord. And our Redeemer told us, He said, they told not, they
don't pile up food in barns. God feeds them. And they cry
to Him. And they sing to Him when they
get a meal. My grandpa used to say, when it come to rain, leaves
would start turning, cows start laying down. You could smell
it coming. Rain comes. And I'd go outside to play. And
he'd say, boy, he said, a chicken's got a head that big and he's
got enough sense to get out of the rain. We don't even know to bow wholeheartedly
to the God of all creation. Just in His creation. You walk
outside and look at everything. He made that. Bow down. Worship
Him right now. We haven't got enough sense to
do that. Mankind in our natural state, we're fallen, we're depraved,
wicked, unruly. We are enemies of God and we
can't approach God and we don't want to approach Him. On our
own, we will not seek Him. We will not beg for eternal salvation. It's impossible with men. We
can't do it. It says there in verse 4, in
Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The Word, Christ,
He is life and His creation. He's ruling all things and reigning
all things at all times in every person alive, and we're all alive
because He made us so. I looked this up several days
ago. The average human heart beats 4,300 times an hour. In
a day, in 24 hours, the average human heart beats 103,000 times.
Did you do that? Did I make my heart beat 103,000
times? No, I didn't. The Lord made it beat. He gave us physical life. Paul
said, when he was pleased Him to separate me from my mother's
womb. And He is the one that sustains this physical life.
He said, for me to live is Christ. And He set our bounds in this
physical life. He's appointed that final hour.
It's appointed for man to die. What a physical, temporal picture
we have in His creation that is me and you. of our eternal
life that God must give and He must sustain wholeheartedly. I can't make my heart beat. I
can't make myself have spiritual life either. He has to give it. He has to do it. Left alone,
we cannot enter into that or accept it. We don't want nothing
to do with it. Look at verse 5. John 1, 5. And
the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended
it not. Does that mean the darkness didn't
understand it? It didn't comprehend as we use the word? Yeah, it
means that. It didn't understand it. But
the word comprehend there means it didn't attain it. It didn't
come upon. It didn't stumble upon it and
find it. It didn't acquire it. There's nothing that darkness
did to receive a light and it didn't perceive it. It didn't
know that light was coming. The darkness had nothing to do
with the light, did it? It comprehended it not. It says down in verse
10, He was in the world and the world was made by Him. He came
into the world that He made and the world knew Him not. And He
came unto His own. And His own received Him not.
That word receives there is the same as comprehend. He came into
His own and we didn't find Him, we didn't acquire Him, we didn't
perceive Him, we didn't attain Him. We didn't understand Him. We didn't know who He was until
He revealed Himself to us. Birds do have more sense than
we do, don't they? Turn over to Psalm 14. Psalm
chapter 14. This is every man and child and
woman since Adam fell in the garden. This is our problem.
Our problem's not family issues. Our problem's not health issues.
Our problem's not financial issues. It's not government issues or
other, other wicked people. We've sinned against the holy
God. That one who is God, the word, This wicked man right here
standing before you, sinning against Him. If I ever commit
a sin, it is against Him. We didn't receive Him. We didn't
comprehend Him. He was preached to us and we
didn't listen. Didn't want nothing to do with
it. Look here in Psalm 14 verse 1. The fool said in his heart,
there is no God. Or you can take that out. The
fool said in his heart, no God. They are corrupt. They have done
abominable works. There is none that doeth good.
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see
if there were any that did understand, that comprehended, and sought
God, and seek God." Surely somebody does, don't they? Somebody understands
something. We're all smart folks. We send
people into space and drive cars and do heart transplants, all
kinds of stuff. Surely we seek God. Everybody
and their brothers got a Bible and they got bumper stickers
more than they got Bibles. Surely somebody. How do all of mankind,
when the Lord looks down, they understand and seek something
of it, don't they? Look in verse 3. They are all
gone aside. They are all together become
filthy. There is none that doeth good. No. No, not one. have all the workers of iniquity,
no knowledge, who eat at my people as they eat bread, and call not
upon the Lord." Oh, if we could call on the Lord. Peter revealed
himself and we called upon him. Man tries everything we can.
We read more, we pray more, we give more, we do more. We do
everything we can, or stop doing stuff. Quit doing that like them
in Jonah. Them men going to Tarsus. Throw everything overboard. Get
rid of all that stuff. Stop cussing and drinking and
carry it on. Stop doing it. Men tries everything they can.
They can't get no comfort and they can't get no peace. on the
anxiety and fear. More work to do. Something more
to do. Look here in verse 5. Psalm 14,
5. And there were they in great
fear, for God is in the generation of righteousness. You have shamed
the counsel of the poor. Poor needy sinners will tell
you what the Lord does, who they are, and who Christ is. But you've
shamed the counsel of the poor because the Lord is His refuge. You poor sinners. All you've
got is Christ. That's what that means. Is that just for mean, wicked
people? In my life, I thought, sure,
we can get some programs going. Years ago, I thought, we need
basketball things. There's some higher things we
could be learning. Some deeper things than just
Christ is the Word and He's God, a man's a sinner, and He's got
to do something for them, and He does it through preaching.
There's got to be more than that. I want a title. Maybe I get promoted. There's some upward mobility
in this place. The poor come and say, I ain't poor. I got
him. You need him too. Have I ever
been rich? Because that's in the contrast
of the poor and the council of the poor. Have I ever been rich?
Have I ever, in pride and in knowledge, been wealthy? an understanding of my own thoughts
and the way that I saw good. Have I ever been rich like that
and looked for a refuge other than a place of Christ the Word
ever? Who then can be saved? You know
what the disciples asked the Lord? They said, rich man ain't
going into heaven. They said, who then can be saved?
They ain't rich. Physically, right? It wasn't
money he was talking about. Pride is what they were talking about.
Turn back a little bit to Psalm 10. One page over. Psalm 10 verse
4. The wicked through the pride
of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in
all his thoughts. All of them. All of them. Do I agree with what the Lord
says concerning me? It's a pretty harsh reality,
isn't it? He's a holy God. You can't wear
that out. Man's wicked. You can't wear
that out either. We need to be apparent and conscious
of these things at all times. Why? Well, we got a need. We
know who He is, and I truly know if the Lord revealed in me who
I am, I got a need. I ain't got a want. There's a
difference. When God reveals Himself in a person, He saves
them. They will agree to this blindness. They will be convicted,
and the verdict in their heart will be settled. That verdict's
come. This is true. Against Thee and
Thee only have I sinned." My thoughts were not honoring to
God. Not just all the time. Ever. Ever. Turn over to Isaiah
53. And we will confess that Christ
came to save sinners. He came to heal those that are
sick. That's who that great physician came for. He came to give life
to dead men. Whom I'm chief. That's what we
tell everybody. That's us poor people giving
counsel. Isaiah 53, 1. Who hath believed
our report? And to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed? This is every one of us. For
he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root
out of the dry ground. And he hath no form to come in
us. And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him. We ain't gonna comprehend him. We ain't gonna receive him.
He is despised and rejected of me and a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And we hid as it were our faces
from him. He was despised, and we esteemed
Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem Him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed." You see how it
keeps going back and forth? He's holy. We ain't. We can't get
proud, can we? All we like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned every one to his own way and the Lord has laid
on him the iniquity of us all. While in sin, this wretch that
I am, while I was at enmity with God, I was at war with him. I
get a little bit of an accolade. I get a little bit of pride.
People ought to respect me a little bit, shouldn't they? I should
have a little bit of respect. That's being at war with God.
Christ died for the ungodly. That ain't good news, is it?
Back in our text there. All the human race is an eternal
mess but God. How can we know about our sin?
How can we know about this holy God we willfully rejected? The
Lord's got to send a preacher. And when He does, it will be
effectual. That grace of God to sinners
will be irresistible. He'll be the stronger man that
comes in. We're strong. We're at peace. The Lord comes
and shakes us up. But then a stronger one comes in. Here, John 1, verse
6. There was a man sent from God
whose name was John. Speaking of John the Baptist.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light.
that all men through Christ the light might believe. He was not
that light. John wasn't. But was sent to
bear witness of that light. He just came and told everybody
what he saw. That's a witness. If you witnessed
a car wreck, and you had to go to court, and they said, what
happened at a car wreck? And you said, well, I was at
the beach three years ago, and I had a really good time. And
we went out to eat, and we ate some lobster. Judge said, hush. Tell me what you saw. That's
a witness. What did he witness? Verse 9,
that was the true life, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. God's preacher comes declaring Christ, the Word,
the Light, the Redemption, the Resurrection. Not himself, just
as John's doing as he's writing his Gospel here. They declare
the way, not a way, the truth, not a truth, the life. Not some
other way of life, some other way of living. Whosoever, that
doesn't refuse anyone, does it? But the proud, they won't. Whosoever calls on the Word,
begging for mercy to be saved from themselves, he delights
to show mercy to them. Turn over Romans 10. Romans chapter 10. There in verse 13, Romans 10,
13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call
on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they
hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach? except they be sent. As it is
written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, that bring glad tidings of good things, that
bring that good news. There's mediation. But they have
not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath
believed our report? That's what we just read in Isaiah
53, wasn't it? This is true. The Word dwelled among us and
we didn't perceive Him. He did a work in us, so we tell
folks, not our thoughts, not my opinions, but what God says
in His written word about Christ the Word. That's what we tell
them. Verse 17. So then, we were all the same. Same area as Isaiah 53, wasn't
it? So then, faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word
of God. Who gave me ears to hear? The
Word did. The Word made me hear His Word.
That's what He did. Saving faith is given through
the means of preaching the gospel of Christ the Word and nothing
else. Who He is and what He did in and for His children. That's
the only way God saves sinners. That's how He comes to us. That's
how God the Holy Spirit will come in power. I can have all
my doctrine right. I can be theologically dead on
with everything that God says in the scriptures. But if He
doesn't bless it, the Holy Ghost doesn't come in power. give people
ears to hear and put that incorruptible seed in them, it's for nothing.
People just comb their hair, paint their nails, take a nap,
and go on and do something else. Don't do no good. Message don't change. We don't
start preaching something different and get folks to tune in, do
we? Back in our text there, what happens when the Lord saves somebody
through preaching of Him? They're born again. There's a
new creation. They are made sons, made children,
born into the family. They have an inheritance now. Look here at verse 12. But as
many as received Him, attained Him, perceived Him, comma, to
them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on His name. You can take those two commas
there and read that straight through. But as many as received
Him, even to them that believe on His name, colon. There's going
to be a listing of who those people are. Those that He gave
power to, made believe, and received Him, which were born, not of
blood, not of heritage, not because of who Mom and Daddy was, nor
of the will of the flesh, me. I didn't choose him. I didn't
attain him. I didn't perceive him. Nor of the will of man.
Somebody else didn't do it. I wasn't baptized as a baby.
Somebody didn't say a sweet little prayer for me on my deathbed.
No, it wasn't of the man, but of God. That's how we're born. I had just as much to do with
my second birth as I did my first birth. God did it. How could that be? How could He be right to do so?
Man, that's impossible, isn't it? The thanks be to God, all
things are possible with Him. Salvation to the Lord. How could
this reconciliation take place? God has to do it all. And a true
sinner, a desperate, needy person, that's truly God's revealed their
sin to them, they wouldn't have it any other way. Don't want
it any other way. Here's the work of the person.
Look here in verse 14. And the Word was made flesh,
made a man. John's dealing with some things.
We'll see down the road the Gnostics and the Diostics and all these
that say, well, it's as if He became a man, because that would
tarnish it. God says He became flesh. Pleased
Him. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, us wretches. full of grace and truth. The whole time He was among this
world He created that turned from Him, that hated Him, that
willfully sinned against Him, wanted nothing to do with Him.
The whole time He was down here dwelling with us for His people
in grace and in truth, in perfection from the womb to glory. Nothing
ever changed. He's a God. He changes not. And
you know what, when we get to that, when we understand who
He is, who we are, and what He did for us by becoming flesh,
and coming to this wicked, cursed world, which is way worse, He
was made me, bearing my sin, He says there in the middle of
that verse, and we beheld His glory. The glory as of the only
begotten of the Father. He says, this is my Son, whom
I am well pleased to hear ye, Him. That's Him. Oh, we glory
in Him. We beheld His glory, not our
own. Turn over to Romans 8. Romans chapter 8, verse 3. Romans 8, verse 3. For what the
law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh, through
me, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, in His body, that
the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who
walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. You who have
the law completely fulfilled in you and Christ in you, how
can you walk after the Spirit? There's a new Spirit in you.
This old man ain't getting cleaned up and polished up and the old
spirit got refurbished with the original serial numbers in it.
There's a new spirit. That's the spirit we're walking
in now. It was purposed, it was purchased, and it was proclaimed
all completely by Him. That three in one. As our surety, our atonement,
and our propitiation, Christ became a man. The one who is
a holy God and manifested on this earth that He created as
a man for His people. to save them from their sins.
What a thought. Turn over to Galatians 3 and
I'll let you go. Galatians 4, I'm sorry. Paul talks about this
plainly here in Galatians 4. We were at war against God, we
were enemies, but God saved us. He sent His Son for His people.
He sent His Spirit through His witnesses, through His preachers,
and gave us life. What a God to worship. What a
God to have glory in. Look here, Galatians 4 verse
3, Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world. But when the fullness of time
was come, God sent forth His Son, the Word, made of a woman,
made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, Not
because you're going to be, not because you might be if you do
something, but because you are sons, God hath sent forth the
Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. We're sons
now. We can cry that. We Abba, Father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then
an heir of God through Christ. What a salvation. Christ is God. Man wanted nothing to do with
Him. How can a people be saved then? God sends a preacher to
them to preach Christ. Why did He do that? Because we
are sons. His elect put in Him before time
began and through the power of God, when Christ's words were
revealed to His people, we're given a new birth. We're given
an incorruptible seed, a holy nature that cannot sin. He put
away our sin as far as the east is from the west and made us
a new creation in Him, giving us eternal life. And all that
took place because of the person. and the work of Jesus Christ
our Lord. That's who did it. Paul set a
page back in Galatians 3. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it's written,
Cursed is everyone that hangeth on the tree. Why did he do that?
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith, through the faith he gives us. We're born of Abraham's seed
because of him. wicked, vile, filthy, unclean,
wretched sinners that wanted nothing to do with God. He chose
a people. They say it so meanly to me.
You believe in election, don't you? I sure do. So God saved
some people. Made some people just like His
Son. I love it. If I had to do something, I couldn't
do it. Oh, but He did. And it's done
forever. Finished. Finished. What did The Word do
in His Word? It is finished. Done. What's left for man to do? Praise
Him? Thank Him? Honor Him? Do we need to worry?
No. Thank Him. I just run out of gas. Thank
You, Lord. Boy, nothing could be... Whatever happened today
is the absolute best thing that could ever happen in the life
of a believer. We thank You, Lord. Amen.