Romans 8, all throughout the
Scriptures, it speaks of sons of God and then the sons of men. Okay? Sons of God, sons of men.
Children of God. Beginning in Genesis 3, verse
15, the Lord spoke to Satan and said, I'm going to put enmity
between your seed, Satan's seed, and her seed, the woman's seed. Do you understand? That's the
children of God versus the children of this world, the children of
men, who they call the seed of Satan. So that completely dispels
what all people say about everybody being a child of God. That's
not so. Romans 9 tells us that. It's the children of the promise.
They're the children of God. And Romans 9 tells us about that
before they were ever born. I'm way ahead of myself. Okay. Which are you? I want to know, don't you? Can
we know? Oh, yes. First John all the way
through. Hereby we know. We've passed
from death unto life. Now we're the sons of God. All
through the Scriptures. The only way you and I can know
is if God tells us from His Word. Okay? If the Spirit of God bears
witness with our spirit. Look at verse 16. This is what
it says, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, talking
about God's people, that we are the children of God. I want to
know. Don't you? If you do, if you
want to know, that's a good sign. There was a time I didn't care.
You? I do now. It's a pressing matter
to me now, isn't it? All right, can we? Yes, we can,
one way. God's Word declares it. All right, children of God
are children by adoption. Look at verse 15. We have not received the spirit
of bondage again, but received the spirit of adoption, whereby
we cry, have a father. I love that verse. Adoption. What this is, is election. That's
what it is. Brother David Edmonds and I spoke
about this, and we both admitted that sometimes, over the years,
it's been kind of difficult to know adoption. We're born of
God, but adopted, which is what's both. Adoption really is election. Election. Look at verse 14. I already read it to you, verse
15. All God's children know this.
Look at Romans 9. Romans 9, turn to page. All God's
children know and believe salvation is of the Lord, it's His choice.
Our Lord kept reminding His disciples that day, you did not choose
me, I chose you. They all know it's His choice,
it's His will, it's His work. All of it, from beginning to
end. From the choice, election by the Father, redemption by
the Son, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit. That's the three
R's. It's not reading, writing, and
arithmetic. It's ruined, redeemed, and regenerated. All God's people
know that. Salvation is of the Lord. Look
at Romans 9, verse 11. The children being not yet born.
Well, look at verse 8. The children of the flesh. These
are not the children of God. Oh, Abraham. No, they're not
all Jews that want out. The children of the promise.
account for the seed. Verse 11, the children being
not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand. You see that? Election.
Not of works. Him that calleth. We love Romans
8, 28 through 31 through 39. We love it. Everybody does. It is said unto her, verse 12,
the elder shall serve the younger, Rebecca, as it is written, Jacob
have I loved. That's sovereign love. Esau have
I hated. What do you say about that? What
shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with
God? Is that unfair? God forbid. He said to Moses,
and we know these verses don't we? Exodus 33. God said, I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Mercy means you don't
deserve to be saved. The wages of sin is death. That's
what we deserve. But God. Rich in mercy. But he has mercy on whom he will. Sovereign mercy. You got any
problem with that? It keeps saying, what should
we say to these things? God's people say, Amen. Don't
they? The world doesn't. The world doesn't like this. They
wish Romans 9 wasn't in the Bible. There may have been a time when
you did. Right? So then, verse 16, it's not of
him that willeth or him that runneth. So there's no free will,
is there? Not of the will of flesh, not
of the will of man, but of God. Can you believe that? Sounded pretty good like you're
adopted. Adoption is just election, and
Brother David and I talked about this. You remember his message
on adoption? He was adopted. Go back and listen to it. It's
wonderful. But, and he reminded me that before he was born, Leo
and his mother, Edmondson, there was a young lady going to have
a child, and they made an agreement and a covenant with this woman
to take their unborn child and raise it and give it a name.
David. Edmondson. This all happened
before he was born. He had nothing to do with it. Adoption. Edwin Berry was adopted. See there? That's election. covenant
of God He made with Christ, the Holy Spirit, covenant of grace
in which He chose a people before the foundation of the world,
put them in the Lamb's book of life. Christ agreed to come down
here and do everything necessary to save them, go back, send the
Holy Spirit to round them all up by the preaching of the gospel.
They all got to be born in time. But this all was settled before
they were born. You like that? That's pre-destination. That's election. The world hates
that E word. They hate it, don't they? They
hate it. The P word, they hate it. God's
people love it. They all know. They all know. Election, salvation is We're
elect unto salvation. That's Ephesians 1. And blessed
be God according to chosen us in Christ for the foundation
of the world, predestinated us to the adoption of children.
All right, the next thing is God's children, we, I'm going
to say we, okay, because I look around and I see a lot of believers. We are children of God by adoption. We're children of God by birth.
You say, where's the new birth here in Romans 8? Well, the first
verse. Look at it. There's therefore
now no condemnation of them which are in Christ Jesus. Verse 2,
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ. A new birth. Life in Christ.
Look at verse 10. If Christ be in you, the body's
dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life. You've been given
life. The life of God, the life of
Christ. Our Lord said this to Nicodemus,
who wanted to question and argue with him and didn't understand
anything. Our Lord didn't argue with him at all. Didn't even
reason with him. He said, you're a master in Israel
and you don't know these things. He said, you must be born again. And if and when we are, it all
clears up. It all falls into place then,
like solid Tarsus. But our Lord said this to Nicodemus.
He said, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit, except a man be born of water
and of the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. He
can't even see the kingdom of God, like Nicodemus. He didn't
understand anything until he was born again. I believe he
was born again, Nicodemus, at the foot of the cross, don't
you? And he saw Christ crucified, and a little while later, he's
no longer a nighttime disciple. He comes in broad daylight and
begs the body of Jesus Christ. Claims Him. Confesses Him. New
birth. New birth. This is how all of
God's people are born. 1 Peter 1. You don't have to
turn it off. I'll quote it for you. I'll read it for you. By
the way, I gave you a wrong scripture reference. Isaiah 5,
Sunday. It was Isaiah 3 I meant. I hate
when that happens. I hate to misquote scripture.
I hate to give a wrong reference. And I ask the Lord, why, Lord?
Why do you let me do that? Well, maybe it's to try you and
see if you're going to go home and search and see if it's so. And to me, it tells me, you need
to know Scripture better. But anyway, 1 Peter 1 says this,
verse 2, we're elect right off the bat. You can't preach the
gospel without talking about God's sovereign election. You
know what? He can't. He can't know God.
He don't know salvation. He hasn't been born again. He
hasn't been adopted. Elect, according to the foreknowledge
of God, that's Romans 8, through sanctification of the Spirit. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to His abundant mercy, have begotten
us again, born again, unto a lively hope, That's Christ. And he went
on to say, we're born again, not of corruptible seed, but
incorruptible, the Word of God. Born of the Word. Holy Spirit taking it, planting
it, creating life. And this is the Word which by
the Gospel is preached unto you. How shall they believe in Him
whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher?
This is how every single child of God is born of God, by preaching
the gospel. Is that how you heard it? If
not, you haven't been born again yet. If it's some kind of experience
you had or some kind of Bible study group or whatever, you
haven't been born again. Because every single person in
this Bible heard a preacher preach the gospel. Any argument about
that? That's the way God does it. Preached
the whole message on that one time. Why does God choose preaching?
The whole message. Because He did. No other question needs to be
asked. Birth. New birth. Born of God. Listen
to Colossians 1. Colossians 1. Here it is again.
Same thing. Listen to this. Colossians 1,
verse 3. That's when you heard. That's when faith came. That's
when hope came. since as it does in you, since
the day you heard it, knew the grace of God in truth." True
grace of God. 1 Peter, the whole book is about
that. This is the true grace of God. Sovereign grace. You have to
holler that. I wish the whole world could
hear this message. Sovereign grace. New birth. Children of God by adoption.
Children of God by new birth. Born of His Spirit, washed in
His blood. Children of God, how we know
it is our dwelling place. Look at Romans 8. I already quoted
it. Romans 8. What is our dwelling
place? It's a person. Verse 1. Them that are in Christ Jesus.
Verse 2. Life in Christ. In Christ. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty." Who's the Almighty? Jesus Christ. In Him we live
and move and have our being. He's our dwelling place. John
15, listen to this. And God's people know what this
is saying. They do. Not perfectly, but we believe
it and we know it so. John 15, our Lord said this.
He said, Abide in Me, and I in you. The branch cannot bear fruit
of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you except
you abide in me. I'm the vine, you're the branches.
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit. Without me, you can do nothing. You don't have life.
He that hath the Son hath life. If a man abide in me, he's, if
a man abide not in me, he's cast forth as a branch, and withered,
men carry, and they're burned. But if you abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ask what you will, it will be done unto
you. You know what that means. You
love verses all through Ephesians, Colossians, and other places
talking about being in Christ, in Christ, in Christ. Philippians,
Paul said, there's one thing I want, I want to be found in
Christ. Like that ark of Noah. Everyone in that ark. I was going
to go to Ephesians 1 and just start reading, but I thought,
you'll get stuck. Don't you love it? That's another
chapter people love to take out of the Bible. Not me. Not you.
Not if you're born of God. Not if you dwell in Him. All the children of God know
that we're in Him. In Him. In His heart, in His
mind, in His covenant, in His hands, in His will, in His purpose. in his heart, and he's crying.
Oh, man. Love it. Speaking to a woman,
a sister, recently, and asked her about if her home felt like
home to her. She said, yes, home is really
where your family is. I said, that's right. Who's your family? All God's people dwell in Christ.
He's our home. He's our dwelling place, isn't
He? That's why we come here, isn't it? To worship Christ. It's like all those animals getting
together in the ark. He's our life, our whole. Alright, we're children of God
by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Look at Romans 8 again,
verse 1. Those that are in Christ, they
don't walk after the flesh. after the spirit. Because the
law of the spirit of life in Christ has freed us from this
ruling power of sin and death. See that? And he goes on to talk
a great deal. Well, look at verse 5. They that
are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. They that
are after the spirit do the things of the spirit. Now, we all live
in a body, don't we? We're flesh. And we know this
painfully, that which is flesh is flesh. Okay? There are two persons residing
in us. The chapter right before this
is Romans 7. It talks about Paul's, well look
at it. Paul said, he said, I see two
laws warring in my memory, verse 23. I see another law in my memory,
warring against the law of my mind, bringing me into the captivity
of the law of sin. Oh, wretched man that I am. Verse
22, I delight in the law of God after the inward man. There's
two creatures, an old man and a new man. All the children of
God have this old man and this new man. In the story of Rebecca
having Jacob and Esau in her womb back there in Genesis, do
you remember? She was, there was a struggle
within her. And she asked the Lord, why, if, if, if you bless
me, why, why am I blessed? Why is this going on? It's nothing
but turmoil inside of me. And the Lord said, because there's
two men in you. One I love and one is your enemy, my enemy.
And that's the way it's going to be until you lay down this
body of death and that new man. creating the image of Christ.
All right, that old man thinks about the things of the world.
The new man thinks on things of the world. There was a time
when there was not a new man, was there? What do you think
about? That's all you do is think about
this world, the flesh, and think of it. That's what you were after.
You start out as a young person, boy, you're after the world.
Now you're after the flesh. After the flesh, that's what
I'm after. I'm going after it. But God. And you're born again. And there's something else you're
after. Now you're after things that
are higher, things that are nobler. These have allured my sight,
the Scripture said. A new creature. So, and Paul said, in another
place he said, some people, their God is their belly. And I say
this weeping. But our conversation is in heaven. From whence we
look for the Savior. Is that so with you? There was
a time when you gave no thoughts of eternal things, of God, of
Christ. It just didn't matter to you.
You didn't care. But God, through the preaching
of the gospel, gave you this new life, and now you think on
things about it. You can't go very long at all
without thinking on things about it. You pray. You call on Him? There was a time you didn't.
You were dead in trespasses and sin, walking according to the
course of this world. What's that? Death. But now you
have life, the Spirit of God dwelling in you. All right, that's
the best I can do with that. But the Spirit of God is our
leader. He gives new birth through the
preaching of the gospel, sanctified of the Spirit. We're led by Him. It says in verse, go back to
Romans 8. It says, many, verse 14, as they're
led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. We want
to do, we desire to do what He tells us to do. What does He
tell us to do? The Word. He brings the Word to our mind.
He's the Spirit of truth. It tells us to walk in the truth.
Doesn't it? Alright? And we do. And we can
grieve the Holy Spirit. Can't we? Yes, we can. Can we sin so much that He's
gone and never come back? No. Not if you're born of God. You'll
think he's gone, and then you'll pray with David and say, take
not the Holy Spirit from me. Won't you? Create in me a clean
heart. Renew within me a right spirit.
Oh God, have mercy upon me. And he will. How? Has he come
back and bear witness with you that though you're a sinner,
you're still a son of God? How's the gospel? The same way as in the beginning. He's the chastener. You've got
to turn with me to Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12. If you're a son,
you're going to be chastened. You're going to be chastened.
And no, chastening is pleasurable or joyful, but it's necessary. If you're like me, and you feel like When am I ever
going to learn? I feel like I'm a child of God.
I believe I am, but boy. But the Holy Spirit chastens
us. Look at verse 5. You've forgotten
the exhortation that speaks unto you as unto children. My son,
despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou
art rebuked of him. We need to rebuke subscription.
reproof, rebuke, correction, instruction, don't we? Don't faint when you're rebuked
of him. The righteous smite you, it won't break your hand. Oh
no, it's an excellent oil. Whom the Lord loveth, verse 6,
he chastened, scourgeth every son whom he received. Scourging
is not pleasant. Did your dad ever scourge you?
Steven Park, did your dad scourge you with a belt or something
or a switch? Did your mama go out and get
a hickory switch? This generation doesn't have
a clue about child discipline. Not a clue. How to raise children and dogs.
Don't have a clue. It's got to hurt for you to learn
a lesson. If it doesn't hurt, you're not
going to learn. No's got to mean no. And the
consequences of no got to be severe. And they are with God
Almighty. You will learn. And you'll know
you've been chastened. Yes, you will. And I want to
do that again. If you endure chastening, verse
7, God deals with you as with sons. What son is he whom the
Father chastened at nigh? If you're without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, you're bastards. You're not sons. You don't chasten other people's
children. Although I'd like to. But you
don't. You don't. But you chasten your
own. Because you're responsible for your own. And you love them. That's why you chase. It's not
punishment. It's correction, isn't it? They think it's punishment. They think, you don't love me.
How could you love me now? We say things, it's going to
hurt me worse than hurting you. I remember my parents saying
that. I think, they can't mean that at all. I'm the one that's
hurting here. I know now, don't you? It grieves
me, son, that I've got to do this. You're not going to learn
if I don't do this. Right? But if you are chasing, and maybe
somebody hadn't heard this story, I'd love to tell it. Who brought
it up? You brought it up. Walter Betty
Groover adopted a Mexican girl years and years ago, 50 years
ago. She's in a poor village. She
just didn't have anything. I think one of her parents, if
not both, were gone. And they adopted her. Her name
was Chela. Oh, she was gorgeous, wasn't she? I mean, beautiful.
And they adopted her into her home. Now, they already had five
kids. Maybe four at the time, but five. And they're like us. You know, Cody. Cody said, I've
got to whip it every day. They said it wasn't enough. Gabe
said that. He said, I got ten a day. And
Kevin, I knew them all, all the Grouper kids. But anyway, Chela
was adopted into this family and she saw all of them being
spanked and chastened and all that. Born of the Grouper. And she was a fine young lady. She never caused any trouble.
She never opened, you know, just uttered a peep. She never was
in any trouble at all. She was so grateful to be a part
of that family and have all the blessings of that family. She
never caused any trouble whatsoever. She was obedient and all that.
But she saw all these children getting chastened. And one day
she did something completely out of character, just pitch
to fit. And Betty said, Chela, what are
you doing? That's not like you. Don't do
that again. And she did it again. She did
something else. No. And Betty said, Chela, if you
do that again, I'm going to spank you. She did it again. So she
took her in there and spanked her. And it hurt. And while she was spanking her,
tears were running down those little brown cheeks and a big
old smile on her face. And she said, now I feel like
one of the family. We need Jason and Noah. Till
the day we die. Yes, we do. Oh, man. So, He's the Spirit of... He
leads us, teaches us the Spirit of Truth, takes the things of
Christ, and shows them unto us. That's what the Spirit of God
does. He's a witnesser of the Lord Jesus' merit. He tells us
over and over again. Our Lord said this in John 14.
He said, I'm going to send the Comforter. The world doesn't
know Him. There's a whole lot of talk about the Spirit of God,
They're not talking about the Holy Spirit. Because all He does
is make people talk like idiots and act foolishly. And it's all
flesh and wildfire. That's not the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit sits you down, closes you, puts you in your right mind,
the mind of Christ, and you worship God in spirit, not the flesh,
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and you don't have any confidence
in the flesh. That's what the Holy Spirit does. And He takes
the things of Christ and shows them unto you. That Christ is
your all. That Christ is your salvation.
It's not your feelings, not your works, not your enthusiasm, not
your faith. It's Christ's faith. That's what
the Holy Spirit does. Takes the things of Christ and
confirms them to you. His oath, His covenant, His blood. That's what the Holy Spirit does. Yes, He does. That's what Christ
said. All right, so now we're children
of God because of my suffering. Look at Romans 8, suffering. Romans chapter 8 again. Now all
human beings suffer, but this is a different kind of suffering.
All right? Verse 18, he says, I reckon the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Verse 23, he
says, we which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the wit, the redemption of our
bodies. Groan. What are we groaning over? What causes us the most suffering
of all? God's people more suffering than
anything else. Sin! Romans 7. We just read that,
didn't we? He says, In my flesh dwelleth
no good thing. Can you hear Paul saying that?
Sure you can, because you say that. You say, O wretched man
that I am, who's going to deliver me from this body of death? Psalm 38. You know these psalms,
don't you? 51. David wrote those. He said,
my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. You know what that leper felt like?
Lord, one thing I want, I want to be clean. You want to be pardoned, yet
you want to be washed from your sin. You want to be done with
it. We've grown within ourselves.
Look at 2 Corinthians 5. This is good. And this is the
chapter on a new creature. But 2 Corinthians 5. John dealt
with this, didn't he, John? 2 Corinthians. But look at 2
Corinthians 5. You have it? Now verse 1, we know that if
our earthly house of this tabernacle dissolve, we have a building
of God, a house not made with hand, eternal in the heaven.
What's that? That's Christ. There's no temple there. We live
in him, within. In this we groan, earnestly desiring
to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. My, because
this body of death, it just plagues us. If so, that being clothed
we shall not be found naked. Clothed in His righteousness.
We that are in this tabernacle, verse 4, do groan, being burdened. Not that it would just be done
with our problems, but clothed upon. We want to be like Him. David said,
I'm going to wait, I'll behold Thy face in righteousness, he
said. The righteousness of Christ. And I'll be satisfied. I'm not
going to be satisfied until I awake with His likeness. Because I
have this body of death that I carry around and I'm just so
tired of it. It's with me everywhere I go.
You know what I'm saying? That's the suffering. That's
the first thing. We suffer. because of sin within us, and
suffer because of sin without us. It never bothered us before. We were in the world, and we
were of the world before, and it never bothered us. We were
just like it, and that's what we were pursuing. But something
happened. Born of God. Now you're like
a lot inside of, and you're vexed. Everything vexes you. Doesn't
it? You're born of God. New creature. New creature. Our Lord kept saying
that. They're not of this world. They're
in it. If they're not of it, they're
like me. They have me in them. Is that you? The sin within vex
you? Do you groan? Does it make you
suffer? Make you doubt your salvation?
There was a time you didn't care. Do you groan about all that's
around you? You see the cause of it? Sin. Is it vexing? Do you have a burden
for your children out there in this God-forsaken world? That's a new creature. A new
child of God. And it says in Romans 8, verse
17, If so be we suffer with him. Oh my. Paul said, I want to know
the fellowship of his sufferings, didn't he? Flipping straight.
That Christ suffered. That's what really causes you
to suffer. And you won't until you see that Christ did that
because of you. There's only one way to put away
your sin and bring you to glory is for Him to be made sin. Take
every one of your sins in His body on the tree and be punished
for something He did not do. That'll make you grow. Do you ever walk around groaning? And your family and whoever's
just, they're aloof to what's going on inside of you. They
don't know what's wrong. I remember that as a child. My
dad, all the time, he'd put his hands, his elbows on the table. What's wrong with dad? I know now. I know now. And I catch myself the whole
time. And the whole creation. Don't
you love this chapter? The whole creation groaneth and
travaileth together. Subjected to sin. Animals. Only one thing that make us all
get together and bring us together, and that's change our nature.
Reconcile us, a new nature, reconcile. In the ark, how is it that the
wolf would lay down with the lamb and the cow with the lion? How did they all get along in
the ark? God changed their nature. There was no bloodshed, no death
in the ark. They all got along. There were
no cages. There were no doors. There was no bondage. They were
new creatures. They got along just fine. They
all ate the same. No meat. They didn't eat any.
Nothing had to die to feed them. They all ate hay. I believe that Kelly is the best
alfalfa ever grown. Can you imagine the smell inside
that ark? There's no stench. There's no
violence, no bloodshed, no fighting, no bickering, no schisms, no
divisions. They're all one. New nature,
new creatures in Christ. That's it. That's it. All right? I've got to hurry.
We're children of God. by the hope that we have. Look
at verse 24. Two of our ladies have a very
good name. And we're saved by hope, verse 24. And hope that's
seen is not hope. What a man seeth, if he doesn't
hope, why is he yet hoped for? But if we hope for that which
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it? As said, it is an
italic, isn't it? What are we waiting for? Everybody wants to go to heaven. Carnal people want to continue
their carnal ways in heaven. And that's what they foolishly
say. I know an old so-and-so, some
drunken actor, he's up there drinking a martini right now.
That's what they say. Now, the kingdom of heaven is
not in meat and drink. It's in righteousness and peace
and joy of the Holy Spirit. What's the joy of the Holy Spirit?
Christ. We want to see Him. Him. Our hope is in a person. The hope of His calling, whom
He did predestinate, He called. The hope of eternal life, that
God that cannot lie promised all God's people. And our hope
was in Christ, completely, 100% in Jesus Christ. Is your hope
built on nothing less than Jesus Christ's blood and righteousness?
Do you trust any other thing the sweetest frame? But do you
wholly lean on the Lord Jesus Christ's name? Is it on Christ
the solid rock you stand? Is all other ground sinking sand?
Is all other ground sinking sand? And you're a child of God. Yes,
you are. And lastly, we're children of
God in hope of future glory. Look at Romans 8, verse 19. The
earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of
the sons of God. Verse 21, the whole creation.
There's going to be a new creation. And don't ask me if there are
going to be animals there. I kind of think there will be. But not
the one you had here. Come on now. Everything is going
to be forgotten. Isaiah 65 and all the former
things will be forgotten. Nothing will come to mind. Okay.
No memory, no regret. But there were animals on the
new earth and the first earth, and it may be now, and the new
one. But the whole creation is going
to be delivered, verse 21, from the corruption, the bondage of
corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. When sin entered, the fear of
man was put on the whole earth. All creatures fear man. And that
man and that woman got against each other. And it's been that
way ever since. God's going to wipe it all out. He's going to create 2 Peter
3. He says He's going to create
and all this is going to melt away with a fervent heat, a loud
noise. And God is going to create a
new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Does
that sound good to you? No sin. No sin. Everybody is going to get along
just fine. Let me just read this to you. Revelation 21. I'll close. And this is the glorious
liberty of the sons of God. When God reveals all His children. Behold I and the children that
you have given me. I heard a great voice of heaven
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell
with them. They shall be his people. And
God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. No more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying, Neither shall there be any more pain. The former things are passed
away. And he that sat upon the throne said... Who's on the throne?
Jesus Christ, the Lamb. Behold, I make all things new. And he said, write it down. These
words are true and faithful. So we're waiting. We're just
waiting. We hope. Our hopes. A good hope. A certain hope. A sure hope.
Because it's on the Word of God, which is Christ our Lord. Okay.
Stand with me.