Go back with me now to John,
Mark chapter 9, Gospel of Mark chapter 9. I was seeking a message
and not just a sermon, mind you, a message. We need the Lord to
speak that. You need to hear someone besides
me. I do. But I've been working on
a message from Psalm 86. I wrote it down a couple of weeks
ago and looked at it and looked at it and started working on
a message, Psalm 86, on a cry for help. I was amazed how many
times through the Scripture, especially the Psalms, David
cries for help, help, Lord, help, help. Psalm 86, Be merciful unto
me, O Lord, for I cry unto Thee daily. David said, I cry unto
you day and night, day and night. He said, my tears have watered
my bed, crying unto the Lord over and over again. I think
that's why we love the Psalms so much. Cry for help led me
to this text. I began to look at various Scriptures
that talked about people crying unto the Lord. And it led me
to Mark chapter 9 where this man cried unto the Lord for his
son. Look at it again. Look at verses
23 and 24. This is the subject and the title. Our Lord said unto him, If thou
canst believe, all things are possible unto him that believeth. Straightway, the father of the
child, he didn't have to hesitate, cried out, cried and said with
tears, he's crying, Lord, I believe. Help thou. I'm calling on you
to help me. You help mine unbelief. Help my unbelief. This is a seven-word
prayer. Lord, I believe. Help thou mine
unbelief. It's a short prayer like the
public in a temple. God be merciful to me, a sinner."
Seven words. It's a perfect prayer to pray
and cry. Do you not pray this all the
time? I know you do. I do. Lord, I
believe. Would you get rid of this unbelief?
Help thou my unbelief. We all need help, don't we? We
all need help. People need help whether they
know it or not. I think everybody knows they
need help, but they're looking for it in the wrong places. Isaiah, I've read this to you
so many times. You've looked at it so many times
with me. Isaiah 30 says those that go down to Egypt, that is
the world, and don't ask it in my mouth. Don't ask me for help. I'm going to try to go down and
look to the rulers of Egypt. That's vain. The Egyptians, the
world, their help is in vain. It's no purpose. He said, so
I cried. I cried concerning it. Their
strength is to sit still. Well, that's hard for this generation
to do, isn't it? Just come and sit still. Be still. And you'll get some
help. Be still and do what? Know that
He's God. And he went on to say in Isaiah
31, he said the Egyptians, the world, they're just men. They're
not God. He said when the Lord stretches
out His hands, those you look to for help, they're going to
follow. They don't get any help. The
world, the rulers of this world, the wisdom of this world won't
help anybody. They can't help themselves. It's
not helping, it's hurting. What God said about the wisdom
of this world and the counsel of this world is it's foolishness. Look around you. People have any peace, any strength,
any comfort, any help, anybody? Is not this world in chaos and
turmoil and trouble? Is it not? Where is everybody
looking for there? Wisdom. What is wisdom? What is truth? It's not what,
it's who. So, with man it is impossible. Our
Lord said this, with man it is impossible. You cannot find any
peace, any comfort, any wisdom, any help. But with God, all things are
possible. David said, I will lift up mine
eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. What hills? Well,
Mount Zion, that's his church. His way is in the sanctuary. I'm quoting Scripture if you
don't know it. I'm quoting Scripture. His way is in the sanctuary.
David was all torn up in Psalm 73. Just torn up. Tore up. And he was envious that he couldn't
understand why this was happening. Why the wicked prospered and
God's people had so much trouble. And why do you allow those people
to oppress other people? And God's people are oppressed.
And on and on it went. He kept questioning. He said,
until I went into the sanctuary. until I went into God's house."
And he heard a man named Nathan preaching what? God's Word. That's all God's men do. They don't entertain. They don't
speak moral messages on social issues. They preach the Word
of God. This is our only help. David said, I went into the sanctuary.
Then I understood. And not until then. David said,
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hill from whence cometh my
help. My help cometh, where from David? The Lord. Which made heavens
and earth. He made everything. He's the
owner of it. He's the creator of it. Whatever
it is, it is the Lord. And since He created it, He's
the potter and we're the clay and every single human being
and every single thing on the top side of this earth, God made
it. And it's in His hands. And He's in absolute control
of it. Them. It, whatever it is, it
is the Lord that made it. He said, cannot I do with my
own what I will? And yes, He does. He works all
things after the counsel of His own will. And none can stay His
hand. I'm quoting Scripture. None can
stay His hand and say, what doest thou? You can't do that. He does.
And He does all things well. And if you wait until the end,
you'll see. This man needed help for his
son. He said in verse 22, if thou canst do anything, have
compassion on us. He's speaking for his wife too. I had this son, and he's a grown
man now. It said he started when he was
a child, but now he's older. How old? I don't know. He could
have been 40, 50 years old. Nothing in this world helped
him, did it? For 40 or 50 years, nothing.
No one could help him. His parents couldn't help him. He needed help for his son. He
needed help. He said, if you can do anything, help us. We need help. This is tearing
us all up. He's tearing us up. He came to the right person,
didn't he? Why did he come to that person? Why did he come
to Christ? Why did he come to Christ? Who
came to who first? Irene, who came first? Who came
here first? Christ did. Why did Christ come
to this place? He's going to meet this man.
Why did you come here? The lot is cast in the lap. Why
are you here this morning? Well, we got up and decided to
come. No, no, no. No, no, no. No. And you need
to thank the Lord you're here. And I'm praying like this father,
Lord. I know you can do anything, but
would you please? There's someone here you need
to speak to. You need to speak to me. John,
he can do anything. He needs help. Us! I need help. And he said this statement, and
I say this all the time. I cry it. Lord, I believe. I do. I really do. Do you? You believe God's God? You want
to know what faith is? It's to believe that God is God. This is life eternal. He that
believeth hath life. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God. Not about Him, but believe
He's God with all your heart. He's God. Not trying to be God.
He won't be God. The God of the Bible, you don't let
Him be God. He lets you know He's God. This
is salvation. He lets you know He's God. The
world doesn't know He's God. They say things like, in all,
here's the wisdom of religion. Let God be God. Let go and let
God. How ignorant can you get? It's
the God who made everything. Let Him be God. That's how captive, that's how
the God of this world holds men and women and young people so
captive to such ignorance. Let God be God? Here is to know the true and living
God and Jesus Christ whom He sent. Christ was sent on purpose
to do something that God sent Him to do. Did He do it? Christ
said He did. God said He did. Scripture said He did. It says
He finished the work. He came to do a work. What? Save
His people from their sin. To come down here and help His
people who can't help themselves. Can't save themselves. Did He
do it? Does He do it? Will He do it? Yes, He will.
And it ain't up to you. You can't help. With man, it's
impossible. But with God, with the God-man, So he sent Christ down here and
here's the scripture, all things work together. This is faith
to know that God is God. Christ came to save his people. He's not standing outside people's
door, hoping they'll let him in. He's sitting on a throne.
That's what the scripture says. He's sitting on the right hand
of the majesty on high, expecting his enemies to be made his footstool.
Sent his Holy Spirit down here to gather up all his people through
the preaching of the gospel. He's not worried. Scripture says
he will not fail nor even be discouraged. He's not discouraged.
He's seated. No one other than God always
worked from the beginning of the world, and Christ did His work and went
back and sat down, and the Holy Spirit come and is doing His
work through the preaching of the gospel, rounding up His people,
and it's as good as done. He's not worried. It's going to happen exactly
like He purposed. That's what this book says. Do you believe
that? Do you believe Him, God's God? Do you believe Christ? Do
you believe Christ? Do you believe that all things work together?
That God's working all things according to His purpose? Do
you believe that? To understand the God of the Bible, you've
got to understand He is God and He does all things on purpose.
Nothing catches Him by surprise. It's all on purpose. He purposed
it. He predestined it. That's the
Bible. He predestined it before the
world began. Wrote it all in a book. Every
single thing written in a book and sealed. And when it's all
over, you're going to peel it back and say, see, see, see,
see. All things work together for
good to them that love God. Do you love that God is God?
I know you believe He's God. Do you love the fact? You know,
it's the only thing that gives you any peace. Do you love that
Christ came to save His people and He did just that? Do you
love that? Do you love His salvation? Such is love thy salvation. Aren't you glad it's not in your
hand? Aren't you glad your child's salvation is not up to you? Aren't
you glad? You've tried, haven't you? Haven't you? Oh, you're
still trying, aren't you? Still talking to them. What's
wrong? They're deaf and dumb. Just like you. It's up to the
Lord, isn't it? That's where it needs to be.
And it is. All things work together for
what? Now God is sovereign. You know
what we need to be? Thankful. Like that old preacher. There was a preacher my dad knew
well. I think it was Muse, A.D. Muse. He was in a car wreck. Car flipped several times. No
seatbelt. Had to survive. Y'all remember the seatbelts?
You remember them? Man, how's that going to help
you? You remember that? Well, he was
in this car wreck. It flipped several times. The
fellow that was with him and neither one of them were hurt.
But they were laying there and the glass shattered all over
them. And the man that was driving her said, Brother Mute, Brother
Mute, you okay? You okay? And he said, yes, son. He said, God is sovereign and
we'll be thankful. What a good answer. It's all
good. My dad used to say his latter
day, it's all good. All good. All things work together
for good. God's working all things together. You believe that? You're
not going to have any peace other way. Peace is only possible if you
believe, if thou canst believe. It's absolutely possible that
you'll get through the worst possible trial you could ever
go through, if you believe. Our biggest problem that gives
us most grief and pain is our unbelief. It is certainly an unbeliever's
greatest problem because there's not going to be any peace for
the wicked, God said. Those who reject God, God rejects
them. God is a God of all comfort.
God is a God of all peace. God is a God of all truth and
wisdom. And nobody's going to have any
if they reject God. Nobody's going to have any peace
if they reject God, if they're at war with God. Nobody's going
to have any comfort. Nobody's going to have any wisdom,
any understanding who reject the Word of God, the Wisdom of
God. I don't believe that. Then go
on then. Have at it. Let's see if your
religion helps you. Let's see if any psychologist,
any philosopher, let's see if anybody anywhere can give you
any help. No, you'll turn to drugs, you'll
turn to this, you'll turn to that, and it won't help you.
No, it won't. There is no peace to those that
reject God. It's not going to happen, God
said. I'm not going to let it happen. You believe man, this is man's
problem. You believe man, not God. Man
is vain. Man is finite. His understanding
is so darkened. He believes man's God and God's
just a man. He believes man's got a free
will, it's up to man, and it's not up that God can't do anything.
How jaded, how ignorant can you be? And God does that. He blinds us. Okay, go ahead. Unbelief, that's everybody's
problem. No help, only troubles. Turmoil, doubts, fears, worries. You believe man, you're going
to believe a lie. Man's a liar. Man's a sinner. You think man's
out to help you? There's a sign. I laugh. I pass by these signs. There's old Daniel Crandall.
He really cares. We need to call him. He cares.
Yeah, right. That's what they all say. I care. I feel your pain. Yeah, right. You're out for my money. The unbeliever. No, you're not
going to have any peace. What about the believer? This
is our problem too, unbelief. It's our problem, isn't it? If
we don't believe God, we'll revert right back. If we don't believe God, we'll
revert right back to the world. We'll turn right back to the
world. If we don't hear God, We'll start, we'll listen to
everybody else. Right? That's our problem. That's our
problem. We'll go right back to the pit
from which we were digged. If we don't cry out like David
said, deliver me from going down into the pit. You see, we walk by faith. Listen
to me. Are you listening? Are you hearing
me? We walk by faith, not sight. If you walk by sight, you'll
believe what you see. If you walk by hearing, you'll
judge according to your hearing. And Satan's a father of lies.
And man's a liar. If you believe what you hear,
everything you hear... Are you kidding me? You know, you can
turn on your phone. You can go to your phone. You can Google it. You want an
answer? They'll tell you anything you
want to believe. And people will believe it. What do you want
to hear? Here it is. What does that say? I believe that. Do you really?
God is true. Everything He said. He said not
one word of mine shall fail. He said heaven and earth, listen,
He said heaven and earth shall pass away. But not one word of mine shall
fail. Not one. Everything that's ever
happened, God said it would. Everything that's happening right
now, God wrote it down. Look, read, you'll see it happening
right before your eyes. When our Lord, here's the greatest
proof, our Lord was hanging on the cross and men had spit in
His face and rejected Him and slapped Him and did all this,
the worst evil that man could do to man, God did to Jesus Christ,
didn't He? Who did that? Who did that? Who did that to Jesus Christ
on the cross? It's the worst thing that man could do to a
fellow human being, and they did it to the Son of God. Who
did that? God did it. God had that happen. That's the
greatest proof of all, that God reigns over evil. What they did
to Joseph. You remember all that these brethren
did to Joseph? What did Joseph say then? You
meant it for evil. You did exactly what you wanted
to do. But God. We tell the truth and men say,
well, but. Well, they tell lies and I say,
but God. Did it for, did it. Greatest salvation. We walk by
faith. Where's faith come from? Huh? We don't walk by sight. You walk by sight, you won't
have any peace. You won't have any comfort. You won't have nothing
but trouble. You'll be tore up. Every time
I say that, I go ahead and say it. Kelly all the time says,
I tore up from the floor up. That's what they say. It's things
like that in North Carolina, you know. You understand where
they're coming from. If you don't believe God, you'll
believe anything. You'll believe everybody. And
you'll stay tore up. And nothing will help you. We
walk by faith. Where's faith come from? Where's
faith come from? Faith cometh by hearing the Word
of God. I ain't going to hear that preacher.
Okay then. See if you can find some peace. I don't like it. He ain't nobody,
that's right. He didn't know anything, that's
right. But he's just telling you what
God said. Faith cometh by hearing. Unbelief,
then how does unbelief come? If faith cometh by hearing the
Word of God, how does unbelief come? Not hearing the Word of
God. I ain't going to listen to that. Okay. Okay. I'm not going there. All right. Faith. Faith is to believe God
is God. Faith is to believe His Word.
Not one word has failed, is failing, or ever shall fail. Faith is
to believe God's Son. You know, He said, My kingdom
is not of this world. Christ came preaching the kingdom
of God. Listen to me now. You need to
listen to me now. You need to listen to me now.
I'm not telling you what I'm saying. I'm telling you what
Christ said. He said, my kingdom is not of
this world. And he came preaching the kingdom of God. What does
that mean? He said, this kingdom is going to be going to melt
with the fervent heat. Who is? He is. And Simon Peter said, seeing
that all these things be dissolved, what manner of persons ought
we to be in all holy conversation? That is, have our conversation
in heaven thinking about, if we're in the ark, now I'm talking
to a believer, if we're in the ark, what should we be concerned
about? Nothing. What should we be taken up with?
What should we be talking about? What should we be talking to
others about? What should be our concern for others? Huh?
Get in the ark. All this is going to be gone. Where did you get that? It comes
from my hearing. Word of God. Christ can't lie.
He said that. Christ, he said, my kingdom,
if my kingdom were of this world, he said, we'd fight. Well, there's
going to be a big war over in the Middle East, and it's happening
right now, and God's people on one side, and God, oh no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, the Scripture's already
said that's already taken place. They made war with the Lamb,
and those that when this battle overcame by the blood of the
Lamb. How's that? Christ crucified. Christ hanging
on the cross defeated all the foes of God's people. The adversary
crushed the power of the God of this world and took his people
that were held captive, took them to himself, delivered them
from the pit. He found a ransom. But the whole world, religious
world, you go, oh, we've got to be concerned. No, you don't
either. No, you don't. You don't have to worry about
that. He said, my kingdom is not of this
world. If it were, we would fight. This is not our world. It's not our home. Are you worried about what's
going to happen to it? I'm going to tell you what's going to happen
to it. It's going to fold up. Should we be worried about the
economy? Should we be worried about who's
going to be elected president? Should we be worried? I'll tell
you who's going to be. Who God puts there. It's always
been the king. The king and his heart is in
the hands of the Lord. And he always put bad rulers
over idolatrous nations. It's going to happen. So here's the story. The story here, that's the intro. That's what Brother Chapman did,
didn't he? David Edmondson. Pretty good intro, wasn't it?
Give anybody any peace? Any comfort? Any answers? Any wisdom? Any comfort? You believe God. They came, verse
15, a great multitude ran to Jesus, and they always did, and
they still do. Multitudes flock to Jesus everywhere,
out of curiosity and for whatever reason. And they questioned,
they were questioning. You know, men have lots of questions,
don't they? And they're not asking the right questions. You know, they asked the Lord
many questions, didn't they? About this and that and the other. They thought were unanswerable
questions. And people like to do that. And brothers and sisters,
listen to me. Stop asking so many questions.
Okay? Don't come up to me and bring
up, well, what about this? What about everything else that
was said? What did you get out of that? Don't ask so many questions.
Why don't you just believe God? This is what happens. God doesn't
give an account of His matter to the man. The secret things
belong to the Lord. Why this? Why that? If it's not
plain, stop questioning. Just believe Him. I don't have
all the answers. Do you? Why this? Why that? Well, then what? Trust the Lord. I ask you questions. Brethren, don't question. You
know, questions gender unbelief. Do you hear me? Questions gender
unbelief. Well, look, it says this, it
says that. That seems to contradict. Why don't you just believe God's
true, okay? And if He's pleased to show you
now, He will. If not, He'll show you later.
Just trust Him. Believe Him. Faith begets faith. He said, didn't I say unto you,
if you would believe, you'd see? Here's the answer to any question. I'm going to give you the answer
to any question. What about this? What about that?
It's the Lord. Why'd this happen? The Lord did.
I don't understand. He does. It's the Lord. Verse 15, all the people held
Jesus greatly amazed and ran and saluted Him. And many do
all over. Yes, they do. You see them. Can
all these people, can the multitude be wrong? Would you answer that
for me? Where do you get your answer? Is the multitude wrong or the
remnant right? Huh? Let's ask Noah and his family. Would all those people out there
be wrong? And just a few claim to be right? What sayeth the Scripture? The multitude is always wrong.
There is a way that seems right to man. The end is what? Destruction. Christ said, straight is the
gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto the eternal life,
and few there be that find it. Broad is the gate, and wide is
the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and
many go through it. That's what our Lord said. I
didn't say that. Multitudes flocked to Jesus,
and they were questioning Him, and He questioned the scribes,
verse 16. One time they asked him all sorts
of questions, didn't they? He asked the one question, the
one needful question. What think ye of Christ? Whose
son is he? He's the son of Mary. Is he?
He's the son of David. Is he? Well, I know he's the
son of God. Is he? Is that all he is? What think ye of Christ? Might
David call him Lord? Huh? Why did God call him God? Why
did the Father call him God? Why did he say, you've seen me,
you've seen the Father? Huh? Whose son is it? That's
the question. What think ye of Christ? Is he
Lord, or do you make him Lord? What think ye of Christ? That's
the question. Now, he questioned the scribes, and one of the multitude,
this man, said, Master, He called Him Master, Teacher. He's going
to call Him Lord in the end. When he finally understands that
nobody can do one thing for him, for his son, for his wife, nobody
has any control over anything. It's all helpless. All of his hope and his help
and his family, his son, his wife, himself, his soul, his
everything is in the hands of this Jesus of Nazareth. He's
going to call him, you know what he's going to call him? Lord.
and whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Master, I brought unto thee my
Son, and the dumb spirit, and verse 25, the Lord said, dumb
and deaf. You know what this means. Dumb means you can't speak. You
can't speak, and it's always because of hearing. If you can't
hear clearly, you can't speak plainly. If you can't hear, you
won't learn words how to say them. You won't learn truths. And what you say doesn't sound
anything like what the truth is. Are you with me? And all men and women, our Lord
says, they have ears to hear, but they don't hear. They have
mouths to speak. But what's coming out of them,
they come forth from the womb speaking what? You know what this mouth was
made to do? You know why God created the tongue and the mouth? To praise God. To give thanks
to God. You know what it is humanly impossible
for this mouth to do unless God does something? Say things like
this. Thank you, Lord. Praise be to
God. It is the Lord. Holy, holy, holy. That's what this mouth was created
to do. That's what this tongue was created to do. But man is
dumb. Man can't speak. You know what
comes out of man's mouth? Cursing and bitterness. If God's
name comes out of his mouth, it's to cuss him with. Is it not so? Murmuring and complaining. This mouth was made to thank
God. What comes natural? What comes easy? Murmuring and
complaining. See, we still have a problem. This was upon this son from a
child, and it was on us from a child. And we still battle
with some of these youthful sins. Dumb because death won't hear
God's Word and listen to everybody but God. And so he cannot tell
the truth. He cannot speak the truth. He
cannot truly praise God in truth. He can't thank God. All he's
full of is cursing and bitterness and lies, and that's a dumb spirit. All habit by birth. He can't say things like, Praise be to God. Verse 18, he
said, this spirit tears him. It takes him. It's got hold of
him and tears him. He's torn up. This whole world
is torn up in him. Foameth at the mouth like a madman. Gnasheth the teeth. Do you know
how many times the Lord talked about weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth? In Matthew's Gospel alone, it's
about five or six times, he said, they'll be weeping and wailing
and gnashing their teeth. You ever gnash your teeth? I
do. It's when you get angry at it. People are angry. What are people
angry at? God. Everything else is second causes.
You know that? Everything else is a second cause.
God's the first cause. And they're angry with God. Angry with Him. Can't touch God, so
take it out on people. And I ask you in the teeth, read
on. It said, and He pines away. That means He's wasting away. She is wasting away nothing. Her whole substance, heart, mind,
soul, everything, just wasting away. He's mad at God. He's torn up. Isn't that the
Word? And they said, we brought Him
to your disciples. They couldn't cast Him out. They
couldn't cast Him out. You know, it's good to ask a
disciple of Christ things. You know that? It is. But if He's a disciple of the
Lord Jesus Christ, if He's a man of God, do you know what He's
going to tell you? You know where He's going to look for answers
to give you? Right here. He's not going to
tell you what He thinks. He's not going to tell you what
anybody else is saying. He's going to tell you, well,
this is what Scripture says. But He can't make you believe
it. He can't give you any peace. These disciples came to the Lord
and said, Lord, we couldn't one other time. We can't cast Him
out. And that's what I do every time. Asked me questions, and what I'm going to try to
tell you is what God's Word says. That's all I'm going to do. A
man called me on the phone just a day or so ago, and he
was torn all to pieces. He could not find any peace whatsoever. I think he's a believer. He could
not find any peace. And all I did was quote scripture
after scripture after scripture to him. I said, brother, I can't
help you. But I'm going to tell you what
God said. I'm just going to give you promise after promise after
promise. He had no assurance. He had no peace at all. He couldn't believe. And I said,
brother, this is what God said. And I could not make him believe.
I said, Brother, I'm just telling you what God's Word says. Why
don't you trust Him? Why don't you believe Him? I couldn't help
him. I can't help myself. You know where I turned? I'll lift up mine eyes unto you
from whence cometh mine. Verse 19, this man came to Christ. And the Lord said, Oh, how long
shall I be with you? Oh, Lord, stay with us, please. To the end. He said he would.
They brought unto him, and they brought him to Christ. And when
this man saw the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit threw him on the ground. He fell on the ground wallowing
and foaming. When he came to Christ, where
Christ was, that Spirit threw him on the ground. I just tore
him all to pieces. And you and I have talked about
this so many times. There's no greater proof that man hates
God than You try to get him to come and just sit in a pew and
hear what God's Word says. We're not going to call on you.
We're not going to acknowledge you. We're not going to embarrass
you. We're just going to tell you
what God's Word says. Sing some songs to praise Him. We're going to ask Him to help
us. We're going to give thanks unto
Him. Then we'll go home. But people can't stand to do
anything but that. I'll do anything but sit in a
pew and worship God. That's what happened to this
fellow. He fell on the ground like, I'd rather lie in the dirt
than sit in a pew listening. I'd rather cling to this dirt,
this world, than cling to Christ. Wallowing and foaming. Mad. Angry. Verse 21. He asked the
Father, how long has this been upon Him? And He said, since
a child. And oftentimes, verse 22. Are you still with me? Often, it casts Him into the
fire and the waters to destroy Him. Brothers and sisters, young
people. You know what that fire is? It's
lusts of the flesh. It's passions that course through
our bodies. And it gets stronger and stronger.
And the fire just burns you up. You're just burned up with passion. Consumed with the lust of the
flesh. It starts out small and it just
gets greater and greater. You can't extinguish it. Nothing
can extinguish it but one thing. And the water of this world,
you know, Scripture talks about the water and Revelation 12 says
that God, the beast, cast out of His mouth a flood and the
whole world swallows it up. That's the riches of this world.
That's the things of this world. Drowning people in perdition.
Floods. Overflowing. Scourged. Everybody's
swallowed in it. Drowning. Flood of perdition. Flood of iniquity. And this man said, Lord, if you
can do anything. Can he? He not only can do everything,
he is doing everything. He said, have compassion on us. Does he? Oh, he's full of compassion. He delights to show mercy. Help
us. Help us. And now listen, listen
to me, just a few more minutes, all right? The Lord said this,
if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Listen to me now, false religion has taken this and rested it
and twisted it like they do everything else. It means if you'll just
believe, God's obligated to do what you believe. And that's
not what He said. He said it's possible. Didn't he? He didn't say it's
certain. If whatever you want, you ask me, I'll do it for you.
No, he said that to his disciples who were going out with special
power to do what man cannot do. He didn't say that to everybody. He said it's possible. It's possible the Lord will save
your child. It's not certain. He can if he will. Right? No one else can. That's certain. Whether or not he saves your
child or saves you, it's completely up to him. It's not up to your
faith. Are you hearing me? That's what
religion says. You just need to believe. Your
faith's not strong enough. No, it's up to God's will. It's
not up to my faith. He said it's possible. It's up to the Lord. Faith says,
here's what faith said, it is the Lord. Whatever it is, it
is the Lord. Here's what faith said. Job said,
though He slayed me, I'll trust Him. And it's possible for you
to go through the worst trial you'll ever go through and get through it if you believe,
if you trust Him. It wasn't certain the Lord was
going to save this young man. Job had ten children. And he went and prayed for all
of them, didn't he? Day in and day out. Did the Lord
save any of them? None of them. Who killed them?
God did. All ten of his children. The
worst thing, some of you have lost children. But I tell you what, it's possible,
yeah, it's certain to go through that trial if you believe and
trust the Lord and get through it with peace, with comfort,
with an understanding. Job said, the Lord gave with
tears running down his eyes. He's not in despair. He's not
distraught. He's sad. He's sorrowful. He
wanted his children to be saved, but the Lord didn't did He? And
what Job believes, it's the Lord. The Lord gave him to me. He took
him away. He doesn't have to save him.
He doesn't have to save me. This is faith to overcome everything. It's possible, if you believe,
to get through anything. Job is the perfect example of
that. And the Lord took all of his children. And you know what
Job said? The Lord gave them to me. The
Lord taketh away. Blessed be His holy name. He
didn't sin with his lips, but man getting foaming and mad at
God. He took away my child. Well, He gave Him to you. He
didn't have to give Him to you. And the greatest statement of
faith in the Scriptures is by Job. He said, if He slays me,
I'll trust Him. If He slays my children, I'll
trust Him. Abraham pleaded for Lot and others,
and he said, Lord, if you can just find five righteous people,
if you can just find five righteous people in Sodom, a city of three
or four hundred thousand, just five, will you spare the city?
Lord's gracious, yes, just five. You find me five, I'll spare
the whole city. He couldn't find five. He found one. Why? Because God had mercy on Lot.
And here's what Abraham said to get him through this. With
man it's impossible. He said, shall not the judge
of the earth do right? Yes, he will. And God destroyed
that place. But God. Rich in mercy. You know how merciful God was?
He saved one person. He saved Lot. Was Lot worthy? He's a sinner. Lot wanted to
stay there. Isn't God good? You see, God
doesn't have to save our children. And He's not necessarily going
to save them because we want Him to. It's possible. As long as they're alive, there's
hope. They have deaf and dumb spirit.
They're just like me. You know what my mother told
me later on when I was just like this She told me later on, she
said, you know, I quit asking the Lord to save you and finally
I just started asking of Him, just restrain Him. Just restrain Him. The Lord's going to do what He
will. He's going to do what He promised to do. He's going to
do what the Scripture says. And it's going to be right. And when it's all over, you know
what we're all going to say? Amen. He's done all things well. And that'll give you peace right
now. If you believe, all things are
possible. And believe. You can get through
the Lord by faith. You can get through anything.
Well, people came running together and our Lord rebuked this dumb
and foul spirit. He came out of him. He entered
him no more. They tore him up. It says in verse 16, he seemed
like he was dead. They said, he's dead. You know
what's going to happen? You know what's going to happen
when the Lord saves you or your children? It's going to happen.
You're going to be tore up as never before. It's over your sin. It's going
to be over the state of your soul. It's going to be over what
you've done to God and done to everybody around you. And it's
like the prodigal son. And the Lord took and raised him
up. Quicken. And you hath thee quickened. He was dead. Quickened. Oh, my. And the disciples, you
remember, they said, Lord, why couldn't we cast him out? Because
you can't do anything. without me, if it's not my will. But this kind, he said, this
is, you know there's some people that are going to be sinners,
unbelievers, rebels against God up until their 60s, 70s, long
time. 80s, is it possible? Is it possible for the Lord to
save a 75-year-old man? Is it possible? Surely, he's
too far gone. Surely, no, it's over now. He's sent away the day of grace.
Is it possible? Let's ask Abraham. How old was Abraham? 75 years
old. So don't quit crying. Okay? But for your peace, You just
believe in God. Whatever He does is right, okay?
If He spares them, wonderful. If not, it's okay in Him. Okay. Okay. Number 459.