That's the Lord's promise to
His sheep and good shepherd. That's His promise. And no matter
how dark and cloudy the day may seem, surely goodness and mercy doth
follow it. Ezekiel 34. Go back there with
me now. Ezekiel 34. The story of our Lord searching
for His sheep. The sheep and the goats, He said
that two or three times, didn't He? I judge between cattle and
cattle, meaning sheep and goats. In Matthew 25, the Lord spoke
of the last days. And then when He comes, He's
going to gather His people, the sheep, on His right hand. and
the goats on his left hand. That's what the Lord said. There
are sheep and there are goats. And I hope you will examine yourself,
or rather the Lord will search you out by His Word and find
you out whether or not you're a sheep or not. This is how we
know. Sheep are God's elect. Sheep
are God's chosen, aren't they? Sheep are God's children. Look
at verse 11 and 12. Thus saith the Lord God. Behold, I, even I, will both
search my sheep and seek them out as a shepherd seeketh out
his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered. So will I seek out my sheep and
will deliver them out of all places where they've been scattered
in the cloudy and dark day. I started to entitle this cloudy
and dark day, but I thought the sun may be shining. It's still a cloudy and dark
day, and if you know anything about this world, If you look
at this world, if you look to this world, Isaiah 8 says, darkness,
dimness, and anguish of spirits. Oh, you see. Right before the
Lord delivered His people out of Egypt, He sent darkness, didn't
He? Over the land. It was so thick.
It was so gloomy. It was so corrupt and perverse. Darkness of sin. So perverted. that you could feel it. Scripture
says you could feel it. And then the Lord, I remember,
killed all the firstborn of Egypt. There was not a house in Egypt.
There wasn't one dead. But nobody in the house under
the blood died. Not one. I keep emphasizing that now.
Why? Because the Lord does. Keep yourselves under the love
of God. My, my. The Lord's coming in a cloudy
and dark day. The Lord says, I will see. I will deliver. I will bring
them out. I will feed them. And yet the
Lord, and this is, who is this? Says the Lord God. Who is this
shepherd? I, the Lord. Well, didn't Christ
say in John 10, I am the good shepherd? Didn't He? He said,
I will feed my flock. Didn't He say that? Then He's
God, isn't He? No doubt about it. No controversy
with you, is there, sister? The Lord is my shepherd. The
Lord Jesus Christ. And He said, I will feed. But our Lord Jesus Christ is
on the throne in heaven right now. A man. Lord, God, yet a
man. He's right there. Well, how does
he feed his sheep there on earth? Shepherds. Pastors. Doesn't he? That's how he does
it. That's how he does it. He does this through what the
world calls foolishness. I don't have to go to church,
they say. I don't have to hear a preacher. I can work. No, no,
no, no. If you're a sheep, you do. He said, I'll give you pastors
after my own heart. What will they do? What did he
say in Jeremiah 3? What are those pastors going
to do? Feed you. And fat things. Wine on the leaves,
well refined, Isaiah 25. In the mountain, good pasture. I'm way ahead of myself. Good
pasture. Good, fat, soul-filling grass. His Word. So he does this through
preachers. And they don't know who the sheep
are. Our Lord said, I'll judge. Preachers don't know who the
sheep are, although when the Lord begins to move and work
on someone. New birth. Childbirth is pretty
obvious, isn't it? And I'll tell you the first thing,
and this is, once again, at the end of my message. At new birth,
when a baby sheep is born, they cry. They cry. I mean bawls. Why? What do they
want? Milk. They want mama. And they don't quit bawling the
rest of their days. They don't quit crying. And neither
do God's sheep. They don't quit crying. That's
how you know that's the first thing. The Lord calls by the gospel,
preaching the gospel, His voice that is the gospel. And that
God's people come, His sheep come, and they follow Christ,
look to Christ. They're gathered to Him, gathered
into the fold. I was sitting, working on this message. I started
working on it Wednesday. And I said, Lord, here we go again. I keep doing this. I keep doing
this over and over again, over and over again. I keep begging
you, keep asking you to call some of these lost sheep. Why
won't you do it, Lord? Why don't you call them? There's some lost sheep in this
room. And what I'm doing is vital. I keep using that word, don't
I? You nurses, you take vital signs, don't you? Are they alive?
Got a pulse. That means a heart. This is vital. It's a saver of
life to life. Death to death. Doesn't mean
anything to a dead person, but a live person can. And if you
want to have life, if you want your children to have life, you
want to be under the sound of the words of life. And it's not
a part of your life. Christ is your life. Lord, here we go again. And again,
in the Scripture it says, preach the Word. Preach the Word. The Gospel is
the power of God in the salvation. Keep preaching. Keep preaching. My sheep, he said, will hear
my voice. They will come. They will come
to Christ. Are you a sheep? Or are you a goat? There are sheep and goats together
until the day that Christ comes. You know that. There are wheat
and tares together until the day that Christ comes. One time,
the disciples said, shall we pull up the tares? He said, no,
don't do that. You might pull up some Tender wheat, because
you don't know. Now here's some ways that you
can know you're a sheep, all right? Look at verse 12. He says, As a shepherd seeketh
out his flock in the day he is among the sheep that are scattered,
I will seek out my sheep and deliver them. He said, I will
find them that are lost. Verse 4, they talked about these
preachers that didn't seek the ones that were lost. You've got
to be lost before you find them. This is going to be a very simple
message. Not even a child can understand it. You've got to
be lost before you're found. You know that? And if you're
lost, what does that mean? It means you're lost. It means
you cannot find your way. You don't know the way. You can't
find the way. And if you're lost and you can't
find the way, what does that mean? How are you going to be
saved? Are you going to save yourself?
No, you're lost. You don't know the way. Somebody's going to have to come
find you, Martha. Somebody's going to have to find
you. The Lord said, I will search for my sheep. I will seek them
out. I will, in the day that they're
lost. Our Lord said this in Luke 19. He said this, let me quote it
for you. He said, the Son of Man has come
to seek and to save that which was lost. Right? That's very simple isn't it?
Lost, lost. David, in Psalm 119, you love
Psalm 119 don't you? What's your favorite verse in
there? There's 176 verses. The first
one, blessed is the man. The last one, I've gone astray
like a lost sheep. Lord, come find me. Have you ever been lost? Huh? You can be lost. out in the world,
in the gutter, in the midst of sin and corruption, you can be
lost sitting in a church pew. There were some in here that
sat in church pews for years, didn't know the Lord. You're
just as lost as that harlot on the street. Isn't that right?
It takes the same mercy and grace, the same Lord, the same gospel
to save you as it did the harlot. Saved the same way by the gospel,
by our Lord coming to find us. Hmm. Lost. Lost. Hmm. If you were lost, really lost,
have you ever been lost? I mean physically lost. Anybody?
Ever been lost? Every one of these husbands have
been, and didn't admit it, driving on a trip somewhere. Are you
lost? No. I think you are. No, no, no. until he finally admitted, let's
stop and ask some directions. Well, that's funny, but have
you ever been really lost? I mean, out in the woods or wherever,
and you thought, I'm going to die. I don't know where I am. What did you do? What would you do? Wouldn't you? One time? Softly? Help! Well, I called. You're not lost. You keep calling
until somebody finds you. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. What's that name? From the heart,
Lord, and lost. Do you ever quit calling? Are
you there yet? Have you arrived? Are you in
glory yet? Are you? No, you're not. What
are you going to do? You're going to keep calling. How does he answer you? How does
He come and save you? How did He save you the first
time? The gospel of prayer. How does He keep saving you in
the dark and cloudy day? How does He keep calling you?
The gospel is the power of God. So you keep calling. If somebody
you loved is lost, if your son or daughter is out in the woods
and you know they're lost, What would you do? Help. Help. Somebody help me. Somebody come
find me. And you hear a man, I'll go find
him. Will you really please? I'll pay your expenses. Yeah,
I'll go out there. Your children are lost. I sat
and studied all those men. Not one man didn't have a child,
a grandchild lost. Not one. It's a fact. What would you do? What do we do? Our Lord one time
gave the parable of the wedding feast. And he said, the king made a
wedding for his son, glorious, wonderful, and blessed is he
that is called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. They're called
for the gospel. And he sent out this bidding,
this declaration of the marriage of the king's son. It says, all
the people with one consent, that is, they all had the same
mind and heart. They were united in there. They're
not interested. It's not important. This world
is, and everybody in it. So they all with one consent
began to make excuse. Well, I've got to do this. I've
got to... No, you don't. No, you don't. There's one thing,
brother and sister. It's so much more urgent as I
see the day of Christ approaching. The older I get, the older you
get, as time goes on, this thing's about to end. Rain, the fire is getting ready
to fall. And people mocked Noah, mocked
Elijah, mocked Jeremiah, mocked Isaiah. Ezekiel said, they came
and heard him and said, he's got a good voice, he plays well,
but they weren't listening to him. Jeremiah warned them, we
don't like that, we'll find somebody that preaches a really smooth
message. Oh no, it's a cloudy and dark
day right before the Lord is taking his people out. So, my, my, my. But anyway, the Lord sent out
this bidding to the marriage of the king's son. Wonderful. Why would anybody not want to
attend that? Be in that. Who or what is more
wonderful than that? Who or what is more important
than the Son of God? But they began to make excuses.
It says that the king was wroth. You see, people have believed
these false prophets that we just read about so much, that
aren't preaching the Word of God as it really is, aren't preaching
the God of the Bible as He is. How is He? Angry. Holy, holy, holy. Cursed is he that continueth
not in all things every point written in the book of the law
to do them. Cursed. Man's under the curse. He's under the wrath
of God. He's under the judgment of God.
The God in whose hands his bread is. Who's that? You. Me. Our children. What am I to say? What's a true preacher say? I'm
going to tell you who God really is. I'm going to tell you what
this world really is. I'm going to tell you what man
really is. What you are. I'm going to tell
you your salvation span. One place. One person. One way. One truth. One faith. One Lord.
One Baptist. You better start calling. Start calling. So our Lord said
this. Here's what He said. Listen to
me. Listen to me now. They said they won't come, Lord. He said you go out in the highways
and the hedges and you compel them to come in. Like Lot went
out there and shot him. And if you go out there and do
that, Lot, that's a son, daughters, this is serious. What are you
doing? Isn't it? He seemed as one that
mocked. Maybe he hadn't done this in
a long time, but it's never too late, is it? Well, it is too
late. There will be a time it's too
late. He said, you go out there and
you compel them to come in. If you love them enough, you'll
keep compelling, keep compelling. You won't quit. You won't quit. I'm not quitting. If I quit,
I'm not a watchman. I'm a false pastor if I quit.
If I quit warning, if I quit compelling your children to call
on the name of the Lord, if you do or not, if I quit, I'm not
God's pastor. If you leave this gospel, there's
no hope. You and your children. Is that
too hard? It's true. It's true. Be not moved away from the hope
of the gospel, Paul said in Colossians. Go out and compel them. All right? Look at our text. Go back here
to Ezekiel 34. Look at verse 11. And somebody
says, well, if they're going to be found, they're going to
be found. Hmm. Lord may try you on that. He just may try you
on that. That's hard-shelled hyper-cavalism,
fatalism. That's what that is. That's not
what this book teaches. He said, you go out and you compel them.
And if they don't come, I didn't bring them. But you do what I
tell you to do. Why preach? If the elect are
going to be saved, why preach? Because God said so. Because
this is how He's going to save. And if they're not under the
sound of it, don't expect the Lord to save them. Is that right? Is that right? We made our daughter attend the
services. She's really glad now. We would
not let her go spend the night with somebody on Saturday night
and go to their place where they go and hear that stuff. We wouldn't
let her do it. And she couldn't understand.
She does now. She has two daughters of her own. Would you let your child go spend
the night with some drug pushers who were the next day going to
watch pornography with them? Would you? That's what religion
is. It's called the great whore. It's religious pornography. Flesh
trade. It appeals to the flesh. And people give themselves to
these things. And they're caught captive. No,
you don't put your children in harm's way if you love them.
You put them where there's salvation to be found. Are you with me? You put them where salvation
is to be found. Then you call on the Lord and
say, Lord, here they are. I've done what you told me to
do. It's up to you to save them, but here they are. Right? I tell you the truth. You couldn't
hear a more important message than that. Well, the Lord said in verse
11, I will search My sheep and seek them out. I will search
them and seek them out. And when the Lord causes you
to know you're lost, you know what He does? He takes His Word
and searches you. David said that. He said, Lord,
Thou hast searched me and known me. There's nothing about me
you don't know. Not a word in my tongue you don't know. Not
a thought in my head you don't know. Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me. What happens when the Lord brings
His Word and searches your heart and finds you out and finds out
that filth in there, that sin in there? What does it make you
do? Number one, fear. Number two, call, Lord have mercy
on me. I'm a sinner. You didn't know
it before, and you do now. Why? The Word of God searches
you. Be sure your sin will find you
out. Isn't that what the Scripture says? Be sure your sin will find
you out. And the thing we need to do is
confess. Here's what the Scripture says.
Whosoever confesses his sins and forsakes them shall find
mercy. You found me out. You found me
out to me. I didn't know I was so bad. I
didn't know I was lost. Now I do. Lord, help me. Be merciful on me. Will He? Every
time. Every time. That's the first
thing that happens. He searches you and finds you. Finds you out.
You found out. I've told you this story so many
times. But somebody in here hadn't heard it, I guarantee you. I
heard my pastor tell these stories 1,000 times. I never got tired
of them. And I'm telling them. Brother
Ralph Barnard was an evangelist. The Lord said, and he ascended
on high, he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists,
men that traveled all over like John the Baptist. Pastors and
teachers. Barnard was an evangelist from
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And he's the one... Father Heard
preached the gospel. My father was a false preacher. He was one of these shepherds.
If the Lord hadn't sent him a preacher, if he hadn't heard this man preach
the gospel, he'd be in hell right now. He'd have preached all his
days like one of these false prophets, that God loves you
and Jesus died for you, and he'd have split hell wide open. He
didn't know the Lord. But the Lord sent an evangelist
named Ralph Martin with this message. And Barnard came to a town one
time. He went all over. He was literally
beaten up and cast out of town. He went to Texas back when they
were still carrying guns, riding horses. And they beat him up,
Brother Kelly, and rode him out of town. Said, don't you come
back here again. That's God's man. He came to a town and there
was two parents, had a young teenage daughter who was giving
them nothing but trouble. She was nothing but a heartache
and heartbreak to her parents. She was a rebel out there in
the world, doing what have you, what kids do. And the parents
came to Brother Barnes and said, Brother Barnes, could you speak
to our daughter? She is in a bad way. We can't do anything with
her. She won't listen to us. She's
lost. She's corrupt. She's out there
in the world and we can't do anything. Would you speak to
her? Barnes said, yeah, I will. And he said this one simple thing
to this young lady. He said, young lady, and she
didn't want to hear him. This man has her soul in his heart. And she didn't want to hear him. Isn't that something? He said, young lady, I want you
to go home and get in your closet and I want you to ask the Lord.
Here's what I want you to do. I want you to ask the Lord to
show you yourself. And he shut up and he left. Well, about six months later,
he was back in that town. He was called to preach at that
same place. And the parents came up and said,
Our daughter hadn't been the same since you left here. So she's torn all to pieces.
She's not giving us trouble anymore. She's just down and out. And
she's just a wreck. And we can't comfort her. We
can't do anything for her. Brother Byron, would you speak
to her? He said, yeah, I will. He said, young lady, I want you to go home and get
in your closet and ask the Lord to show you Himself. And she did. And that young lady is probably
gone now. I believe she's with the Lord.
Isn't that what, Sister Jeanette, you're in your 80s now. You have
granddaughters, a daughter, a son. Isn't that the hope of your heart
more than anything? Your life's about over it. The one thing you hope for more
than anything on this earth is that the Lord will save your
lost children. And you tell them. I know you
do. We talk about it. Honey, I want you to ask the
Lord to show you yourself. This is what he's got to do. First thing he's got to do, like
a prodigal son, is show yourself. Look at yourself. I remember I was a prodigal son.
I remember thinking, I'm pretty cool. When I had hair, chance
I had hair. Bangs, you know, flip that, and
the girls thought they were pretty cool. I thought I was pretty
cool. Drove a Corvette. I'm really something. But God, I heard the gospel say, you're
vile. Woe is me. I'm not something. I'm undone. I'm unclean. Look what I am. Look what I have
done. Look what I have done. I've lived
my whole life for me. Irregardless of anybody else,
it was all about me, no matter who I hurt. Number one, principally,
chiefly, look what I've done to my God who spared my life
all these years. Look what I've done to Him. Look
how I've rejected, despised and rejected Him. Didn't care if
God's son lived or died. Didn't care at all. The message
my pastor preached, I don't need that. I'm gone. How did the Lord
save me? He brought me back under the
sound of the gospel. And I sat down and the Lord pierced
my heart with what I'm preaching right now. Son, look at yourself. Oh, I'm a good girl. No, you're
not. I've been in church all my life. Big deal. I'm lost. How are you? Look at verse in our text. Here's
a description of sheep. I've only been 26 minutes. Are
you with me? Here's a description of sheep.
Okay? Look at verse 4. Diseased, sick,
broken, driven away, lost. Scattered, verse 5, scattered.
Verse 6, wandering. Isn't that you? That's you? That's where the Lord found you?
Diseased. I didn't know you, Sally, before
the Lord dealt with you. I did, too. But I always thought
you were a believer. I didn't know until one day you
said, I'm not. But I am now. The Lord, I heard
Him. But you're probably a pretty
good mother and a good daughter and so on and so forth. And so
were some of you and all that. You weren't diseased. Yes, you
were today. Disease, the disease we all have
is called leprosy. And it starts out like a little
child, you know. Oh, he's such a good baby. Yeah,
we'll see about that. Let him grow up a little bit,
and you're going to see that disease come out. And if God doesn't
show mercy and restrain that child, they're going to put their
fist in your face. And you're going to die a rebel
if God doesn't do something for them. Diseased. Sick. Sick. You ever been sick? Are
your children sick? Has your children ever been sick?
What did you do for them? What did you do for them? Did
you take them to the physician? If they're sick enough, you will.
What about antibiotics? People put more faith in antibiotics
than they do Christ. Oh, we've got to take these antibiotics.
What do you do? Robin, you nurses, Helen, take
antibiotics. I'm glad. I'm thankful for them.
Aren't you? Yes, you are. Do you take an
antibiotic for a day or two and you say, oh, I'll just skip a
couple of days? It doesn't matter. Huh? Oh, it does matter, doesn't it?
Every dose matters. Does every message I preach matter?
Every message I preach, I think, this is the one. This is the
one. And there are times when somebody's not there that I want
to be there and I think this is it. The Lord's going to use
it. And they're not there. And you know what I think? Maybe
they don't belong to the Lord. That's what I think. You miss a dose. This sickness has ever completely
gone away. I need the gospel now more than
ever. Well, you're saved, Preacher. Paul said, I haven't arrived
yet, but this one thing I do, I press. This is a pressing matter
for me. He said, forget the past. I'm
pressing to the mark for the prize of the high calling of
God in Christ. He said, let everybody I'm preaching to be the same
minded as I am. This is a pressing matter. Disease, sick, broken, broken,
broken. Our heads are broken. Our hearts
are broken. Our feet are broken. Our hands
are broken. Our faculties are broken. Man's person is broken. It doesn't do what God made us
to do. We're broken. We're full of pride.
We're full of sin. Broken. And what we need broken
is our heart, don't we? Driven away. Look at verse 4.
Driven away. They've been brought again, driven
away. Who drives us away? Who drives us away from God? Who drives our children away
from God? The God of this world. The people of this world. This
whole thing that the Lord is telling them, bring them out.
Come out, come out, come out. Why? Because they will drive
you away. I urge our children to date, and marry at least the children
of believers. That's what the Scripture says. Because if not, the children
of people that don't know the Lord, and their children haven't
been trained up the way they should go when they're old, they're
going to completely depart from those things. They're going to
take your heart away. They're going to drive you away
from the Lord. They're going to take your heart away from
Christ. And I've warned and warned and
warned, and I've seen it happen too many times, and it's just
breaking my heart. I wish some young lady would
listen to what I'm saying. A young man. You say, I'm not
a believer. She's not a believer. If you're
both sitting under the sound of the gospel, there's really
hope. Otherwise, there's not. Sick. Driven away. Lost. Scattered. Scattered. Wandering. None searching. Oh, my. Now,
let's get to the end of this. Let's get to the good news. I'm
looking at some sheep that the Lord did this for. He said in
verse 12, The shepherd seeks his flock in the days among the
sheep. Is Christ among us right now? Is the truth being preached? Either I'm God's pastor or I'm
not. There's no gray area. There really
isn't. Okay? And how do you know as
a man? He warns you. He comforts you. He tells you
the truth. I don't like it. Man doesn't
like it. But let the righteous smite me.
It'll be a kindness. It won't break my head. It's
an excellent oil. It's the best thing that could
happen to us and our children to be convicted, convinced of
our sin, of the urgency. Well, maybe tomorrow, when I
go out and I get a job and I get a house and a family and all
that, when I get older, after I've made my way and have my
little nest egg. Children die too. If they die
without the Lord, they're lost forever. It's a fact. A sad fact. Carried my best friend's body,
15 years old, dead. Carried him out of a building. Dead. I tried to resuscitate
him. Mark! Mark! He's dead. He didn't know the Lord. What
about me? The Lord had me on the sound
of the gospel. I'm so thankful. My parents had me on the sound
of the gospel. I'm so thankful. So thankful. So thankful. One thing, Life, life, eternal life. Delivered. I'll deliver them, he says. Verse
12, I'll deliver them out of all places. Well, the brethren, the Lord
saved him out of these places, these dark and cloudy places. And he comes to hear the gospel
and just can't get enough of it. And he told me one time he
had to go somewhere on business. He came back and he said, I've
been to places I wish I'd never been. These are places that you
loved before. These are places and people you
loved before. You were like them. You were in the world and you
were of it. But God has saved you out! Isn't that? Not left you in it. Saved you
out! Come out from among them. And
I'll be your God. You'll be my people. And you're
going to know it. Ruth! Ruth! Ruth, go home to your gods
and your people and find you a husband. No! Your God's my God. Your people
are my people. I'm going with you. But you're
going to have to walk a long way. It's okay. I'm going to the house of bread.
You know how it ended up with Ruth, don't you? She left everybody
and everything, her home, her family, her country, her people,
and came with a woman that knew the Lord. She landed in Boaz's
Field and she's still there today. Is she happy? Everything that
happened to her. All that cloudy and dark and
gloomy and lost her husband and all that, you know, poor and
begging. Oh, it was all real good wasn't
it? It was good. Weaning her from Moab. I'm bringing you out of this
heathen land. Out of these heathen people.
They may think they know God. They may say they know God. They
may think they're good Christians. They're not! to bring you out
into a good land, a high mountain, Mount Zion, good fold, a fat
pasture. You know, these sheep started
out lean. He said, I'm going to judge between
fat and lean. Who does the Lord say? Who does the Lord bring
into His fold? Not fat sheep. Lean. Do you remember a message I preached
years ago from Genesis? Rings, strakes, spotted, streckled,
and brown sheep. Anybody remember that? Jacob,
you know, was going to get a fold of sheep together. And this other
fellow said, I'll take the fat ones. I'll take the good ones.
And Jacob said, well, I'll take the ring-striped, spotted, speckled,
and brown sheep. None of them were white all over. They were all brown and speckled
and spotted and ring-striped. Who knew they were sick and sickly
and weak and frail? And that's who Jacob, you know,
when it all ended, he had a huge foal and every one of them were
fat and flourishing. On what? Christ. I'll bring you. He said, I'll make them lie down.
I'll make a covenant with them. He said, I'm going to feed them
in green pasture. Didn't our Lord say that? Didn't
He say that? I'm the Good Shepherd. And one
day He fed, He had compassion on a multitude. He said, make
them lie down. Make them sit down in the green
pasture there. Well, who's going to feed them?
I am. I am. But there's not enough. Oh yes,
there is. What do you got there? Loaves and fish. Bread? Feed
them. He told his pastors, his apostles,
feed them. It is the Lord feeding through
these men. And I, buddy, I bet when they
all got through eating, they all wanted to just lie down and
take a nap. Rest. Rest. We preach Christ and crucified. He said, take, eat. This is my body broken for you.
This is my blood that was shed for you. I made a covenant concerning
you, sons of Jacob. And all you have to do is rest. Come. All you have to do is come. Bring your children. Come. Sit.
And hear this message. of a full, free, final, effectual,
eternal, complete salvation that's in the Lord Jesus Christ. And
just rest. Just rest. Then, when you seek
first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these
things are added to you. You'd be like Ruth and say, I'm
leaving everybody and everything. I don't need this thing. I need
pride. Lord, help me. I need You. You say that, you
know what the Lord's going to do? He's going to marry you.
And you know what else He's going to do? Give you all the rest
of this stuff. Yes, He will. Yes, He will. Did He? Has He? Robin, has He
done that? Helen, has He done that? Has
He done that? Irene, pulled you up from Grundy.
Grundy? Are you in a fat pasture? Are
you where you want to be and need to be? Has it been good?
Has the Lord been good to you? Oh, my! He promised. You can't lie. Go out and compel
Him like I'm doing. Compel Him. Come in. Sit. Listen. Eat that which is good. Let your soul delight itself
in fatness. And they said they would not.
May the Lord make us willing in the day of His power. Boy, it's going to be good if
He does. All right. Let's sing in closing
number 236, Amazing Grace.