My message this morning is made
nigh by one. Made near, made nigh by one. When we look at Ephesians chapter
2, I want us to turn first to Romans chapter 11. Have you all
ever been apprehensive about something? Something come up
in your life and you thought, how am I going to deal with that?
Or you dread dealing with something. And you struggle and you sweat
through it. And then you finally make two
or three different decisions. Well, here's my plan A, plan
B, and plan C. This is how I'm going to address
this. And then before it ever comes to fruition, the Lord deals
with it. That happens to me often. You'd
think I'd quit making too many plans. It happens often. We've been working through Romans
chapter 11, and we've been taking that in chunks. And I feel like
the Lord's gave me messages there, and I've been itching to get
to verse 25, but I've also been apprehensive. And I thought,
how am I going to put that in context? How am I going to deal
with it? I've been going through that on Wednesday nights. And
then I got to Ephesians chapter 2, and I said, that's dealt with. The Lord dealt with it, didn't
He? I didn't mastermind syncing those
two messages together. I pray the Lord gave it to me. But if He'll be with us today,
if He'll be with us today, I think we're going to learn something
that we need to learn. And I think He's going to comfort
us. I really do. Now a lot of question and debate
is brought up in the past 150 years. past 150 years over the nation
of Israel, physical Israel. Some say that God is forever
through with that physical nation. He used them as a picture. He's
done with them. They're completely cast away.
They cannot be saved. It's over. Gospel's only to the
Gentiles now. If so, people that believe that,
they're going to have a lot of trouble. They're going to have
a lot of issue dealing with Romans chapter 11. I'm not going to
sit with them. I'm going to have a hard time
reconciling that. Look here in Romans 11, verse
11. I say then, have they stumbled
that they should fall, that physical nation? God forbid. But rather
through their fall, salvation has come unto the Gentiles, for
to provoke them to jealousy. Now, if the fall of them be the
riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches
of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness? If the Lord had
that physical nation, and He made them fall, He took His light
from them, so we, us Gentiles, could have the gospel preached
to us. How much more so will the fullness of the Lord save
them? Read on, verse 13. For I speak to you Gentiles inasmuch
as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office. He wasn't
bashful about it. Here this great Pharisee Saul,
the Lord saved him and now he's preaching to Gentile dogs and
he magnifies his office and he told everybody about it. If by
any means I may provoke to immolation them which are my flesh and might
save some of them. Paul does that. He magnifies
his office as an apostle to the Gentiles. That way maybe some
of those brethren of the flesh, if they're the Lord's elect,
they may say, why is Paul so excited about preaching to those
Gentiles? I'm going to go hear him. I'm going to go hear what
he has to say. And the Lord might use that to
save some of them. Just maybe. Verse 15, for if
the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, that's
us, what shall the receiving of them be? If the Lord casts
that physical nation away so that you and I can hear the gospel,
what will the receiving of them be? If He comes again, sends
His Word again to that physical nation, what will that be? But
life from the dead. What happened when the Lord saved
you? I was dead and He gave me life. Well, what special is going
to happen if the Lord comes back to that political nation Israel?
If He saves some of His people there, they're dead and He's
going to give them life. Same thing, isn't it? Verse 16,
For if the first fruit be holy, the lump also is holy. Those
very first saints that the Lord saved, if they were made holy,
every saint after them, until this world's over, they're holy.
Why? If the root be holy, so are the branches. How holy are
we? Crossed our root of David. That's
whose holiness we're given, just as Him. And if some of the branches
be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, Us Gentiles
were grafted among them, and with them partakest of the root
and the fatness of the olive tree. We are made one with Christ.
We are partakers of Christ. Boast not against the branches.
Don't boast against the ones that were broke off. Don't have
pride of grace, and don't boast against the ones that were there.
Well, you were naturally here, but the Lord picked me and grafted
me in with you. Don't boast. Don't boast. But
if thou boast, Boast not against the branches, but if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee." When you boast,
when you boast, when I boast, that doesn't affect the root.
I'm not bearing Christ. I'm not upholding an impotent
God that wants things. He's upholding me. Constantly
making intercession for us. Verse 19, Thou wilt say then,
the branches were broke off that I might be grafted in. Well,
Lord gave a nation for us, for his people. He cast away those
who are natural of the flesh, his relation, to send his word
to the Gentiles. undeserving people. That's what
we'll say, and he says, well, that's the right thing to say.
Because of unbelief, they were broken off, and thou standest
by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear. We stand in faith in Christ,
but we don't take that for granted, do we? We look to Him always,
always. We don't start looking to Him
one day when we're 10 years old and say, well, I accepted Jesus,
now I'm good. Don't have to do anything else. We look to Him
and we fear Him and honor Him. Verse 21, for if God spared not
the natural branches, take heed lest also He spare not thee. Behold, therefore, the goodness
and the severity of God. On them which fail, those that
had unbelief, broken off, severity. But towards thee, towards us
Gentiles, towards those Jews that believe, Those elect of
God, goodness. If thou continue in His goodness,
otherwise thou shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide
not still in unbelief, those that are His over there, those
that are natural children of Abraham, if they abide not in
unbelief, if the Lord gives them a heart to believe, shall be
grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. How is the
Lord able to save a Gentile? Through the blood of Christ.
How is the Lord able to save one of those natural branches,
one of those physical Jews? By the blood of Christ. He's
able to graft them in because of the person and the work of
Christ Jesus. Verse 24, For if thou wert cut out of the olive
tree which is wild by nature, That's us being born of Adam.
And we're grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree.
We're grafted into Christ. How much more shall these be
the branches, be the natural branches be grafted in of their
own olive tree? Those that are physically his
relation on this earth. Physical seeds of Abraham. Wouldn't
that just be appropriate for the Lord to, how much more so
for him to save them? Verse 25, For I would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should
be wise in your own conceits. I want to explain this mystery
to you, because if not, we're going to be wise in our own conceits.
We're going to sit down, we're going to read the Scriptures,
and we're going to say, well, I think, and that's all you got.
You got what you think. The Lord sent His prophet here
to write these by the Holy Spirit so we aren't left to our own
conceits, to our own wisdom. For I would not, brethren, that
you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in
your own conceits that blindness in part has happened to Israel
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. As it lays after that last Gentile
is called, of the fullness of the Gentile, it appears that
God will send a preacher to his elect in physical Israel." That's the way it reads. You
know what we've been looking at? Those Jews looking down on
them Gentiles. Dogs, they don't deserve to have
the gospel. Look at us. We've got the tabernacle. We've
got all these things. We've got ceremonies. We've got stuff to
do. They don't deserve to hear about who God is. You read that
and think, at the time, the Lord may send a preacher to go save
those physical Jews that are his elect. Well, they don't deserve
that. How am I any different than those
Pharisees? Look down on them. Verse 26, and so all Israel,
all spiritual Israel, not that nation, all spiritual Israel
shall be saved. As it is written, there shall
come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob, from his people. For this is my covenant unto
them, unto who? Those that are put in Christ
before the foundation of the world, Jew and Gentile, any of
them, someone that's saved. This is my covenant unto them
when I shall take away their sins." Blotted out. What blotted out the sins of
those that Christ died for that were Jewish? His blood. What
blots out our sins? As far as the East is from the
West, us Gentiles, His blood. Nothing's different. Now, some
say that that physical nation, they're wiped off the face of
the earth, they're done, the Lord has nothing left to do with
them. And then others, they read Romans 11. And they read Luke
21-24. And they read Revelation 11-2. And they read the end Isaiah
63. And then they start thinking.
I think it's all you can get. And they make a big to-do over
dealing with that physical nation on the other side of the world.
How we treat that nation. Semitism. We have to make rules.
We have to abide and handle these people with kid gloves. There's
a certain way we've got to address them. That means something in
this earth. We've got to establish physical
borders. Here's the things that are common. You've got to establish
physical borders over there. And this is all within the last
150 years. Rebuild the temple. It's got to be on the right foundation. You've got to start blood sacrifices
and burn offerings again. Some people think that's going
to happen. And then, after all this, Christ is going to come.
He's going to return there. And we're going to have to go
over there to see Him in His earthly kingdom He's going to set up
for a thousand years. Left to their own conceits. That
nation, national Israel, will judge the other nations on the
basis of how these nations treated them in this world. No. That ain't gonna happen. Christ will judge this earth
and the reprobate will be judged in direct comparison to Christ's
worthiness. Not my yeses and nos towards
something that's happening on the other side of the world.
be in comparison to Christ and He'll be the judge. Heretics
make themselves prophets. I'm going to say that again and
I chose my words carefully. Heretics make themselves prophets. They get excited any time something
happens in the Middle East involving Israel. And they say, oh, this
is the beginning of the end. It's Armageddon. Beginning of
the Tribulation. The Second Coming. This is it.
Whatever happens with Israel and Providence is not the issue. That's not it. Christ's coming
is the issue. Christ Jesus is it. Why don't
you look for the coming of the Lord? Oh, I look. There have
been several brethren that are loved of the Lord and are loved
of the Lord that's went home to be with Him in the last two
weeks. with quite a few of them. And I get excited. Oh, the Lord
might be coming. This nonsense that's going on
in our world right now. Oh, I get excited. The Lord might
come. I look for Him. I don't look
for signs and details of what it could be and try to foresee
things. I hope He comes. And I look daily
in my heart. Lord, come to me today. I hope
the Lord comes and speaks to you this morning. I hope He comes
and speaks to me this morning. That's looking for the Lord's
return. Lord, you came yesterday. Come again. Come for me today.
Have grace and mercy on me today. Now, Ephesians chapter 2. I don't
know much. about what's going to happen
in Providence, what the Lord's going to do with that nation
over there, how he's going to stage things right before his
return. I don't know much about that,
but I do know something about how he's going to act with his
people, whether Jew or Gentile. That's pretty clear for us. How
will national Israel be preached to and those elect saved in Providence,
how's it going to play out? I don't know. I don't know. But the Jews and the Gentiles
that will be saved, yesterday, today, and however long the Lord
sustains this earth, I know how that's going to happen. Someone
that's not saved, are you interested in how God saves His people?
We're going to see that this morning. And all these things,
I thought of that, we have that saying, the devil's in the details,
isn't it? And we say those things to motivate
people to have attention to detail. The devil's in the details because
he gets men and women wrapped up in stuff that don't matter.
And all the little sideline things, and then you keep going off on
that tangent. Oh, what about this? Oh, I read
that. You miss the point. You miss Christ. You miss the
mark. That table's set as a snare, as David told us. Now, Ephesians
chapter 2, In verse 1 through 10, Paul tells
us of the riches of God's grace in Christ. In verse 1, Jew and
Gentile, all of Adam's race, and you hath he quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sin. Everyone born of an earthly father
to Adam, male, female, Jew, Gentile, doesn't matter, past, Right now,
in our present time, and in the future, it does not matter, we
are all dead spiritually in our birth on this earth. That's us. That's me. I was born dead in
trespasses and sins. Verse 4, But God, who is rich
in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us even when
we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace
are ye saved. How are we saved? By God's grace
and Him quickening us together with Christ. Who? Jew or Gentile. That's how it was before, that's
how it is now, and that's the only way the Lord is going to
save somebody in the future. Be through the blood of Christ,
by His grace. Verse 8, For by grace are you
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God. For by grace are you saved through
faith, That's not of us, the Lord's gift to His people. Is
there any other way to be saved? Ever. For by grace are you saved through
faith. Abraham. How was Abraham saved? Abraham
believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. He
had faith. He believed God. Where'd he get
that faith? Gift of God. God gave it to him. Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. How did Noah have that grace?
It was a gift of God. The Lord gave it to him. Now
Moses. Moses, he's the one that penned
all them. He went up to the mountain and he got the law for us and
brought it back to us. What about Moses? Christ said,
Moses wrote of me. He wrote of Christ. That's who
Moses was writing about. Jew or Gentile, it is the gift
and the workmanship of God, not of works, lest any man should
boast. That's how people are saved. How is anyone saved? Young
or old? Black or white? Jew or Gentile? We are saved by grace, through
faith in Christ Jesus our Lord. Throughout time. That's how His
people are saved. Now, verse 11. Wherefore, remember,
The E being in time past, Gentiles in the flesh. Are we still Gentiles? I'm just as much of a Gentile
standing here as I was before the Lord saved me, ain't I? What
happened? Gentiles we are in flesh, yes,
but spiritually we are Israel. We're given a new heart, given
a new citizenship, aren't we? In our flesh we were Gentiles,
we were dead just like everyone else, but we didn't even have
the pictures and the types that that physical nation did. Look
there. Wherefore, remember that ye being
in time past Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision
by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands."
We didn't have the things and the benefits that we looked at
that physical nation did. We're called uncircumcision by
them which were called the circumcision. Gentile dogs is what they called
us. Remember. Therefore, remember,
that's what we were, wasn't it? Verse 12, that in that time you
were without Christ. Well, aren't all people dead
in sin and without Christ until the Lord does something? Yeah,
but the promise of the Messiah coming was to that physical nation
Israel. They had all those benefits.
They had the profits. They had the tabernacles. And
the Lord said, in Isaac shall thy seed be called. All the earthly
promises and the prophets and the types, that wasn't to the
Gentiles. Did Egypt have them? Those Amorites,
all those other nations? They didn't have those things.
It wasn't in their presence. Paul told us that God in time
past spoke to our fathers by the prophets. He didn't even
speak to the Gentiles. Remember that. We weren't just
dead in sin. We didn't even have the form
of it. It wasn't even in our presence. We were without Christ. And it says there we are aliens. Being aliens from the Commonwealth
of Israel. Gentiles couldn't live with the
Jews. They couldn't marry the Jews. They couldn't eat with
them. We were aliens. We were illegal immigrants. We
hadn't immigrated. We wouldn't have lived in there.
There's no welfare. There's no benefit. It's hard
to look down on somebody else when you know what you are. It
changes your mindset and your decision-making, doesn't it?
That decision-making paradigm. But it was so much this way,
so much so, the separation, that it went both ways. The Lord said, you can't eat
with the Jews, you can't marry them, you can't do nothing. And
they said, well you can't come to us either. You took your toys
and go home, we're going to put a fence around our toys. I want
nothing to do with you either. Strangers from the covenant of
promise. Now, that's not a stranger from
that everlasting covenant of grace for His people. But of
that promise of Canaan, of David's kingdom, of Solomon's kingdom,
we were not part of that. We were strangers, cast out,
having no hope. Before the Lord came to us, before
the Lord came to the Gentiles then, before He comes to us today,
we don't even know we need hope. We think we've got everything
figured out. Doing just fine. I've got that sorted out. Didn't
even have hope, didn't know you needed hope. Without God in the
world. Now many Jews, they didn't have
that incorruptible seed in them. Most of that physical nation
didn't know God. But God's glory hung over that mercy seed, didn't
it? He followed them in the wilderness. His presence was with them. They
drank from that rock that was smitten. We had no knowledge
of God, no given guidance of worship. We worshiped cats and
eagles and the S-U-N. We worshiped all manner of things. Israel worshiped God. Now, not
in their hearts they didn't. But they had the form of it,
didn't they? We didn't even have that. This is the condition of
all of us, by nature, in our birth. That's our condition.
He who dwells outside of Israel has no God. That's what the Scriptures
say. Paul tells us there in verse
11, Wherefore, remember, Preacher, every time we come here, you
get up and you tell us we ain't worth nothing. Remember, wherefore
remember, we were Gentile dogs. We had
nothing and now we are made the sons of God. That's where we
come from. The Lord made us sons of God and the new man When we
remember these things, we remember where the Lord found us, or we
found Him, or He found us, our natural state, condition we were
in. The new man has no desire to look on anyone else. When the Lord convicts me of
my sin, and He makes me yesterday, or tomorrow morning, whatever
it is, and makes me remember what I am, I have no concern
about somebody. I hope the Lord saves His people.
I know He will. He promised He has. Well, they're not doing
things right. I'm worried about me. I need
His mercy. Verse 13, But now, in Christ
Jesus, ye who are sometimes afar off, how far? That's what we just
looked at, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. How far were
we? We weren't, I'm sorry, but now
in Christ Jesus. We weren't in Christ before,
and now we are. What are we in now? Are we in
Calvinism? Are we in a doctrine? Are we
in church membership? Is that what got us? No, in Christ. But now you are in Christ. We
were far off, but we're made nigh, we're made near, made close
by the blood of Christ. That's the gospel. That's the
good news. Gentile dogs with nothing. No
hope. You're without God. And by the
blood of Christ, He's reconciled us to God. He's brought us nigh. That's the good news. That's
what Hebrews 10 The Hebrew writer said, "...having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way..." We didn't have that way before. We were
dead. "...which He hath consecrated for us through the veil," that
is to say, His flesh, "...through His body on a tree." God reconciled
us. Verse 14. For He is our peace. He's our intercessor. He's our
reconciliation. Who hath made both one. What did He make both one? Jew
and Gentile. In our hearts. We were both far
off. They were far off in their natural
birth and we were far off in ours. But He has made us one
through Himself. Cross blood made the elect, Jew
or Gentile, nigh unto God. We are one because of who our
peace is, who our Sabbath is, who our rest is. Because of Him,
there's no difference in believers. There's no difference in us.
He hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. What's that mean? Some people
say, well, that's the wall of the temple that separated the
inner court and the outer court and there's a wall around it
and the Gentiles had to stay out there. Maybe. But it certainly
means that Levitical Law and that ceremonial difference that
we had, all those outward differences and ceremonies and laws, they've
all been fulfilled in Christ. Every one of them. All those
outward pictures, they became a reality when He came to this
earth. And there's no court of the Gentiles,
and we're made one in heart, because we have that same seed
put in us, in Christ. may just like Him be conformed
to His image. It's the same. Turn just a couple
pages over to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians 3. The Lord made us both one. What is that? Look at verse 7.
know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the
children of Abraham and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify
the heathen through faith as us Gentiles preached before the
gospel unto Abraham this happened a while back didn't it saying
in these shall all nations be blessed so then they which be
of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham How are we blessed? Same as Abraham. How was Abraham
blessed? He believed God. The Lord gave
him the gift of faith in Christ, didn't He? Look over at verse
25. But after that, faith has come. After the Lord gives us that
faith, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Those laws are
gone. All those ceremonial and Levitical
and Mosaic differences, it's over. We're no longer under that
schoolmaster. For you are all the children
of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free.
There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ
Jesus. Same. Same. In Him. made in His likeness,
made one with Him. How did that happen? How we brought
together, there's a vast difference between us. Christ made us one. Made us one. As far as mercy
goes, as far as blessing goes, as far as salvation goes, there
is no difference between Jew and Gentile. No difference. If
Christ is doing something in that country on the other side
of the world that's different than these scriptures, we're
missing out, ain't we? That means we ain't in Christ.
Ain't nothing going on over there. Whatever goes on there and hit
the hearts of His elect is the same as now here in this country,
in China, in Australia, and throughout time. It's the same work. Turn
it over to Romans chapter 2. Romans chapter 2. What is a Jew
then? Does a physical Jew have something different, a different
spiritualness in them than we do? Is there something that's
different than a spiritual Jew? Look here at verse 28. Romans
2.28. For he is not a Jew which is
one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward
in the flesh. Nothing to do with the flesh.
But he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is
that of the heart and the spirit, and not in the letter, whose
praise is not of men, but of God." I have a friend who asked me
one time, he said, are you Jewish? And I said, yeah, not in the
way you think. The Lord did a work of my heart.
He circumcised my heart. There was a surgery done. I was
asleep. And He cut me and put a new heart
in me. Same for every one of His people.
That's spiritual Israel right there. Someone's got a heart
worked on. Now back in our text in Ephesians 2. We'll look back at verse 13 again.
Ephesians 2.13, But now, in Christ Jesus, you who are sometimes
afar off are made nigh by the blood of God, by the blood of
Christ. For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having
abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in the ordinances. The ordinances are completed.
The law of commandment is completed. What's that mean? What Brother
Bob was talking about this morning. That Sabbath, we don't have to
keep that. In His flesh, He's fulfilled
that. There's no holy days, there's
no feast, nothing. All's been fulfilled in Christ.
And it says there, for to make Himself of twain, one new man,
so making peace. That twain of one new man. How
are we made of one from those two different, the Jews and Gentiles?
We have one body that we're put in. We are baptized with one
baptism. We have one faith. We have one
birth. In who? Where does all this stuff
take place? In Christ. That's where we're made the same.
There's not two different Gospels. There's not three different Gospels.
Things didn't change through the dispensation of time. There's
one gospel, just one. Christ Jesus the Lord. And what's
the result of that? Soul-making peace. Revelation, it says, write this. This is a good and faithful saying,
John. It's done. That's peaceful, isn't
it? Our warfare is accomplished.
There's no condemnation. Jew believers, the physical nation,
and Gentile believers, we have the same High Priest. We have
a High Priest. We have the same Sabbath crossed
as our rest. We have the same Tabernacle.
We have the same Mercy Seat. We have the same Atonement. No
difference. The two have been made one. Our
Lord said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. There's
no days, there's no ceremonies, there's no feast, and there's
no abstaining from foods and do this and don't do that. There's
no abstaining to get nigher to God, to get nearer to God. There's nothing that we do to
bring us close to God. Only through the blood of His
Son. That is it. Someone says, well, I'm trying
to get a little closer to God. Well, I have to be through the
blood of Christ. I don't have to draw you. That's
the only way it will happen. Verse 16, and that he might reconcile
both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity
thereby. Jew and Gentile elect are reconciled
by Christ's person and His work. How do you and I know this? How
is this made effectual to our hearts? How was it made effectual
to the saints' hearts before? And how is it going to happen
next week? Christ is all. How do we know? What's the only
means He's going to use? Look at verse 17. And came and preached peace unto
you which are far off, the Gentiles, and to them that were not, the
Jews. By the foolishness of preaching,
God called His people. The Lord speaks to the heart
of His people. Preaching the gospel into that
new man put in them. Verse 18, here's the regeneration.
Here's the product of that preaching. For through Him we both have
access by one Spirit unto the Father. If anybody, any man,
comes unto the Father. They have access unto the Father.
It is by the working of God, the Holy Spirit, because of the
blood of Christ. That is the only way. Verse 19,
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.
Are we physically moving over there? No. We're not strangers
to grace, are we? Lord's come preaching to our
hearts. We're not foreigners to mercy. He's fulfilled that in us. We
are made children of the living God, citizens in his kingdom.
Now can this waiver, this work that he does, are we building
our house on sand? There's something left for me
to do to keep the wind from blowing this house down. The diligence is on me. He saved
us. No. Look there in verse 20. And are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone. That's who we're built on. Verse
21. In whom all the building. fitly framed together." Made
one, right? Made the same. "...fitly framed
together groweth unto a holy temple unto the Lord, in whom
ye also are built together for a habitation of God through the
Spirit." The Lord grows His people together for Him, and He dwells
in His people. Now, the house is not made with
hands. The Lord told us, He said, I'll
make all things new. All this work is done by Him.
There's peace between us. If the Lord went to the other
side of the world, to that physical nation, and He saved a group
of people there, His elect, would I hold anything against them? How could I? They're the Lord's
people. They've got the same heart in
them that I've got. He put it in them. He put it
in me. That's my brothers and my sisters. I don't care what
they are. What about North Koreans or Iranians? Lord has people in China right
now. Brother Henry's messages are translated and there's people
downloading them. Different countries. There's
people in Korea downloading Brother Clay. We have brothers and sisters
there. I have peace with them, don't even speak their language.
I hope that's clear to us. These prophecies and all these
things, we can get caught up in the details. Whatever the
Lord comes to pass, He's going to be the same yesterday, today,
and forever. And how He saves His people and the work He does
in their heart will be the same. It ain't going to change. All
the tops, the pictures are over because Christ has come and they
all pointed to Him. He proved it. Same as before,
we are reconciled to God in Christ no matter who, no matter when,
no matter where. He is our sure foundation. He
must be or to be built on sand. Now, we would be fools. We would
be fools to go back to Sinai. If I told you all that and I
said, well, now you got to wear a head covering. You got to keep
the Sabbath. Better start doing this. Can't
do that. Foolish. And the man that would
tell someone that is a greater fool. And Lord saved his people. It's finished. It's done. That
makes me want to praise Him. Don't it, you? Makes me happy. I hope that's a blessing to you. Let's pray together.