I've always liked that hymn.
It's scriptural. When the children of Israel,
all the children of Israel, had traveled 40 years through the
wilderness, and they came to the banks of the Jordan. They were on the brink of crossing
over to the promised land. And they're all standing there.
And you remember the story, Joshua. standing there and the Jordan's
banks were stormy and flooding and how are we going to cross
over to that? And they did. They did. On Jordan's
stormy banks, we stand and cast a wishful eye to Canaan, our
Lord's fair and happy land where our possessions lie. Good hand. Turn with me to Hebrews, the
book of Hebrews chapter 1. We will, Lord willing, take up
our study in the Beatitudes on Wednesday. I just felt impressed to deal
with this. You want me to bring a message
that the Lord lays on my heart, don't you? But you read many times in Hebrews,
it makes this statement, fear, let us come, let us hold fast. All through the Old Testament
it says that. David particularly in Psalms
many, many times. And such as, I was glad when
they said unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord. This
is an exhortation to God's It's written to the Hebrews, written
to God's professing people. Let us. It's an exhortation.
It's an urgent exhortation all through Hebrews. John read it
there in the psalm five times in six verses. Let us worship. Let us sing. Let us make a joyful
noise. Let us bow. Let us kneel. Let
us come. And we're here and I want to
exhort us all from the Scripture. Not an invite. This is not an
invite. The Lord doesn't invite. There's
a reason the invite is not in the Scripture. Because salvation
is not by invitation. It's of the Lord and it's by
command. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? You wouldn't be here if they
hadn't said unto you, let us go. They called us. But it is an urgent exhortation
that the Lord bids. The word bid means, and that
make an announcement, an urgent exhortation, come. The Lord bids
everyone come, doesn't He? Come. The Lord is so merciful,
so gracious, He bids everyone come. Isaiah 55, I'd love that
scripture, don't you? Ho! Stop what you're doing. Listen
to this now. The Lord says this to everybody.
Everyone that thirsteth, come to the waters. Come, buy wine
and milk without money, without price. Let him that is a third
come. Here, and your soul shall live.
The Lord is so merciful, isn't He? And all who do, all who come,
all who hear, all who answer this call, God gets all the glory,
doesn't He? He gets all the glory. All who
do not answer His call. He says, come. They get the blame. He said,
you would not come unto Me that you might have not. The world
says, I don't understand. You do, don't you? That you would
not have come if He hadn't called you. You wouldn't continue to
come if He didn't call you. But do you not go after this
and that and the other and the Lord calls you and through His
Word and the Holy Spirit conviction and all that and you don't answer
that call, you grieve the Holy Spirit? Isn't that right? You get to blame. We get to blame.
He said in Proverbs 1, I've called and you refused, didn't you? He said, there's going to come
a time when you won't call me, and I'm not going to answer.
And that's the thing God's people fear more than anything. So this is an urgent call to
all, and yet God's people are going to hear this. In Hebrews
1, it begins this way. God at sundry times in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophet. God
spoke. He didn't speak out loud to people,
but He did speak to men, prophets. Verse 2, He hath in these last
days spoken unto us by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God was
manifest in the flesh. God Almighty came to this earth.
Most don't believe that, but we do, don't we? He came. God
walked this earth. We wouldn't know God if He hadn't.
If He hadn't come here. He came. And it says in verse
2, "...whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also
He made the world." Our breath and all our ways are in the hands
of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's serious, isn't it? Young
people, old people, everybody, we're in His hand to do with
as He will. And we need to ask Him, what
will You have me to do? Verse 3, He be in the brightness
of His glory to express image of His person. The only begotten
bodily image of God is Jesus Christ, upholding all things
by the word of His power. Jesus Christ actually, actually
controls everything and everyone. All power is given unto Him,
He said. over all flesh. That's a fact. You, yours, his
enemies, plants, animals, elements, everything is under his absolute
sovereign control. He is the one doing everything. Whatever it is, it is the Lord. Do you believe that? It's so,
whether men believe it or not. And I'm leading up to something
in Hebrews 4. He said, now we need to hear. We need to hear this more than
anything else. I've got one shot this morning.
You've got one message to hear. This is life or death. It really
is. God came here. And He upholds
all things. He has you in His hands. And it says in verse 3, oh my,
when He had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the
right hand of the Majesty on high. Oh, how this declares the
Jesus Christ of Scripture, doesn't it? We've been talking about
the God of the Bible and the Christ of Scripture and how He
differs so vastly different from what men are saying about Him
today. Why don't men listen today? Because they're hearing about
a God who's going to be waiting just any old time you get ready.
They're hearing about a Jesus. He's standing outside. Whenever
you get through playing your games, you let Him in and it'll
be alright. No, it won't. This talks about
today. It's the day. He spoke. And the children of Israel, many
of them, That He, when He had by Himself
purged our sin. Whose sin? His people. His elect
people. Those He chose before the world
began. John said in his prayer, didn't
he? His elect. I don't like that. Well, I do.
Why wouldn't you like God's Word? He must be a rebel against God.
His elect. Purged our sin. What put away
the sins of God's people? Huh? We sang that song, Jesus
thy blood and righteousness. Dare not trust the sweetest frame.
One thing, not your acceptance of His blood, it's the application
of His blood by the Spirit of God upon your soul. It's His
blood. Not your faith, it's His blood. His righteousness. It's not you
accepting that and putting it on, it's Him putting it on you.
Is imputation important? You don't know God if you don't
know something about that. Like, yes, ask the prodigal son,
how did you get that robe? He put it on me. Boy, if that isn't the gospel.
I hadn't planned on staying right here. But this is the Christ
of Scripture. This is the God of the Bible.
This is the Jesus Christ who came. This is who came, and this
is what He did. He finished His work. That's
what you pray to. What did He do then? Well, He's
hanging around everybody's heart. No! He's seated, expecting His
enemies to be made to push to Him. At the right hand of the
Majesty on high. What's He doing? Resting. Waiting. and the fullness of time for
it to be over. And he's going to get up, and
boy, the clouds, the sky is going to be full of clouds because
it's the dust of his feet. And then he's going to clear
the clouds, and like the lightning shines from one end from east
to west, he's going to see, and every eye will see him. And so
many will say, I wish I'd listened. Chapter 2, verse 1 says, So we
ought to give the more earnest heed to the things we've heard.
You have it? We're just going through Hebrew.
You don't have to go anywhere else except Ruth. We ought to get because of who
came, because of who spoke, because of why He came and what He did.
This is an urgent message. You need this. Your children
need this. You don't really need anything
else. If you've got food and rain,
that's all you need in this world. But you need this. Why? You don't know what tomorrow
brings. You don't know. If you live till tomorrow, it's
this Jesus Christ who's going to sustain your life. We ought to give them more earnest
heed. What's that mean? Seriously listen to what we're
saying. Lest we let them slip. What makes things slip? Man, oh man. It ain't two minutes
until this is over and we're thinking about what? What are
we going to eat? What are we going to drink? What are we going to
wear? Where are we going to go? What are we going to do? And that's what
our Lord said. Don't be like the Gentiles. This
is their world. This is all they have to think
about. No, this is not your world. It's not even theirs. So, we ought to give them more
earnest tea. Chapter 3, all through chapter
3, look at verse 6. It says, Christ as a Son over
His own house, whose house are we if we hold fast? It goes on throughout the Old
Testament. Let us hold fast the confidence. The Gospel is our confidence
in it. Christ is our confidence. Let
us hold fast. What does that mean? Lay hold
of. To those of you who have laid
hold of the hope that is set before you, what is your hope?
It's a person in Christ. in hope of eternal life, which
God, who cannot lie, promised us. And Christ is the hope that
has gone before us within the veil. I said it wasn't going
to have returned to another place. It was going to have returned
to Genesis 32. But no. I'll just tell you that story.
The Lord came to Jacob. Alright? And he's sleeping. You know the story of Jacob.
He's running and he's got all kinds of trouble with his family
and this and that and the other. Himself, within, without, troubles, troubles,
troubles. In this world, you're going to
have nothing but troubles, you sons of Jacob. But thank God
that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the angel, the messenger
of His covenant, came and laid hold of Jacob while he slept.
Laid hold of him. Wrestled with him. What's your
name? Jacob. Now I'm going to change your
name." He changed his name, changed his heart, changed his life,
changed his walk. He said, you're mine. Oh, may the Lord lay hold of
us. But you know what old Jacob did when the Lord laid hold of
him? You know what he did? He says he laid hold of the Lord.
And you know what he said? I mean, he held fast. Jacob's hope is the one holding
him. You know that? Your hope is the
one holding you. But really, how do you know he's
holding you? How do you know the Lord laid
hold of Jacob? What's Jacob doing? Trying to
get away? He laid hold of him. And he said, I will not let you
go unless you bless me. I'm not letting go. You'll be
by the grace of God if you don't let go. You will. And that's not our salvation,
our hold of Him. But I tell you what, it's proof. It's certain proof that the Lord's
laid hold of you. The Lord said in Hosea, you know, He said of
old Ephraim, I'm going to give you up, Ephraim, and I'm going
to let you go. And He said, let's see if those
gods, I'm going to just turn my back I'm just going to leave
you alone and see what happens." Oh, my. What happened? You know,
here was Ephraim's hope. The Lord said, I can't give him
that. No. He's mine. I'm not going to give
up. This is what I'm going to do to him. And then old Ephraim,
when it was all over, he said, what do I have to do anymore
with idols and all this stuff? I've heard of him. He's my hope. I ain't going after that anymore.
In the beginning, he said, leave him alone. He's gone to his idols.
His salvation was when the Lord said, I can't leave him alone.
I won't leave him alone. I'm going to lay hold of that
old boy, that girl. I'm not going to let her alone. I'm never going
to let her alone. Him. And that's our salvation. But how do you know? Part with your idols. You let
go of those things. And you seize and hold fast to
the end. Some people have let go. That
just tells me that they didn't belong to the Lord. Unless later
on. And it happens. It can't happen. But it's presumption to think
that it will. Yes, it is. Oh, my child, she'll
be alright. She's gone out in the world.
She'll be alright. Oh, you think so? I hope so. But it's presumption. No, so what do you do? You urge
them, don't you? You exhort them. Honey, you need
to come. A preacher friend of mine, as a
daughter is more than one. But his daughter attends the
services, and her husband, and he, this brother, thinks the
Lord's been dealing with them. He thinks they believe. And he
just, speaking to his daughter like a loving pastor first, and
father, and said, Honey, I believe you believe this, don't you?
Yes, I do. The Lord's done this for you. There was a time you
weren't interested, I believe you are now. Yes, I am. She said,
why won't you confess Christ? You need to confess Christ. She
said, Daddy, don't pressure me. This is a pressing matter. Our
Lord said, if you don't confess me before me, I will not confess
you before me. It's a pressing matter. This
message, to me, is an urgent matter. Today. I've got today. And so do you. Because it's over
and over. Right? Old. Young. Well, I've believed for years.
Well, you better hold fast, by God's grace. Don't leave. There's a gap right back there
a few people left. It's been here for years. Right?
The message hasn't changed. It's serious. It goes on to say,
in verse 7, the Holy Ghost says, Today, if you hear His voice,
harden not your heart. What hardens? What hardened these
people's hearts? The world. They were going through
the world. The Lord said, We're passing
through. We're passing through. We're
passing through. They didn't want to pass through. They wanted
to stay there. They wanted this, they wanted that. Look at verse 12. Take heed,
brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
and departing from the living God. Is that urgent? In any of you? Me? This is to
me. Take heed. Listen now. Take heed. Lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. But exhort,
verse 13, exhort one another when? Daily. This is why I wish we
were all more urgent and more serious. Let your laughter be turned to
mourning. There needs to be a whole lot less levity and joking and
kidding around and jesting and all that. A lot more serious.
We're getting old. Our kids are leaving. Let us
exhort one another daily. While it's called today, lest
any of you be hardened, verse 13, through the deceitfulness
of sin. The God of this world is deceitful. He's a master of human nature. And He can't manipulate all of
us unless He can. That's what our Lord said to
Peter, Simon, Satan hath desired you, and he can sift you like
wheat. You are no match whatsoever. Now that's Simon and Peter. What
about you? What about me? He said, I prayed for you that
your faith fail not. Well, how is faith strengthened? Where does faith come from? One
way. The Word of God. Hearing the Word of God. This is why I said, let us hear
now. You're here. Bless God you're here this morning.
I am so thankful you're here. This is for you. This is for
you who are here. Let us hear this. Young people,
you're here. Not by accident. Oh, may the Lord give us the
ears to hear what is called today. See that? Over and over again.
Over and over again. It says that. Look at verse 14. We're made partakers
of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end. Well, preachers, it's not up
to us I know that, but I didn't write that. God did, didn't He? Over and over again He said,
if we hold fast, if we hold fast, if we don't depart, if we don't
depart from the living God, if we're not deceived by sin, if
we're not deceived by this world, if we're not deceived by ourselves.
So this is urgent. Because He said, some, verse
16, heard and they provoked God and they left. Chapter 4. Look at chapter 4. Chapter 4. It begins this way. Let us, therefore, what? Fear. Don't preach a heart-searching,
mind-searching... The whole of Hebrews is that.
The whole of Isaiah is that. The whole of Jeremiah is that.
Every single prophet in the Old Testament is urging the people.
Weeping. Jeremiah is weeping over the
people. Lamentation. When was the last time you read
Jeremiah in Lamentation? You're talking about serious.
Jeremiah, he kept warning the people. Warning the people. What
people? God's people. And they got tired
of it and they put him in a pit. We don't want to hear that anymore. He was right, wasn't he? Because
God is right. Lamentations. Oh, my. Lamentations means lament.
Let us therefore, verse 1, fear lest the promise being left us
of entering into His rest, any of you... There it is again.
Any of you. I'm Henry Mahan's son. I don't
have anything to worry about. Hold on now. We're not saved
by blood. Because I'm a Baptist or because
I'm a preacher, that's not going to save me. Paul said, I was
a Hebrew of Hebrews, Pharisee of Pharisees. That's not going
to save me. And that's Philippians 3 in it, John. What does he say
in that? I'm going to forget yesterday and press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ. He
said, I haven't arrived yet, but this one thing I do, I lay
hold. I want to apprehend that for
which I've been apprehended, if by any means I might attain
unto the resurrection of the dead." Didn't he? There's a man,
and he's the one that said, therefore knowing the terror of the Lord
will you persuade me? Didn't he? When's the last time
you heard that modern day preacher? The terror of the Lord. You do
all the time. Your ears are blessed. Let us
hold fast. lest any of us should come short
of them. Wouldn't that be something? To hear the Gospel for 40-some
years? And just a few years right before
they put you in the grave? To miss Christ? Why? It's over. People everywhere, I'm looking
at people in their 70s and 80s. Your life is over. It is. Borrowed time. What's important? Today, if you'll
hear His voice, harden not your heart. Don't let these things
harden you. It's always tomorrow. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's today. It's said in verse 2, unto us
the Gospels preach as well as unto them. They really didn't
believe. They didn't enter into rest.
Verse 7, he keeps saying this, doesn't he? He limits a certain
day and date. Today, after so long a time. Today, after so
many years. Today, if you'll hear his voice,
harden not your heart. Verse 9, they remain at the rest
of the people of God. He has entered into his rest.
He has ceased from his own work. Let us labor, verse 11. and enter
into that rest, His rest, lest any man fall after the same example
of unbelief as the children of Israel. Now, let me labor this
point a little bit, okay? I worked a long time on this,
and this morning I couldn't write fast enough thoughts coming to
my mind. Now most of you know, and you've heard this for years
and you're so blessed about this rest, that number one, the primary
meaning of this, is to rest in Christ and stop working, trying
to work in your way to heaven. Stop trying to make peace with
God and appease God and do things to redeem for your past sinful
life. A lot of people do that. This is written to the Hebrews.
the Jews who thought they kept the law. And Paul labored this
point all through Hebrews and Romans. You're not saved by the
law. It's evidence. No man. He uses Abraham. Was Abraham
saved by the law? No, he was before the law. He
was saved before there was a law. Then how was he saved? God? Christ? Faith, a gift, grace, mercy. Lamb slain before the foundation
of the world. That's how he was saved. Not by keeping the law.
Well, what's the law for a preacher? To expose sin. Now, nearly everybody in here
has heard this a thousand times. And I don't really have to keep
laboring this point. Don't try to establish your righteousness.
You know better than that, don't you? Boy, there's a bunch of
people out there that need to hear this, though. Amish, German
Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists. Do you know they use this whole
chapter to try to justify their keeping the seventh day as the
seventh? Yes, the Seventh-day Adventists
say they remain at the rest of the people of God. That means
God's people are still keeping Saturday. That's not what that's
saying. See, he's blinded their minds.
The rest of the people of God is Christ our Sabbath. He kept
the law for us. You know that, don't you? You're
so blessed to know that. But you've got religious people
like the Amish, the Seventh-day Adventists. You've got Southern
Baptists that are keeping a Christian Sabbath. I've never missed a
Sunday school in 43 years. Well, you need to. Liquors never
touch my lips. Well, it ought to. It's the self-righteous. You need to take a bath in that
liquor. Get over that self-righteousness. Because you're not saved by doing,
you're saved by something that's done for you. Jesus Christ. It's not you accepting Him, it's
Him accepting you. Now, you know this. Some people
make faith a work. No! It's resting in Christ. Believing Christ alone. You know
that. So many trying to make peace
with God. trying to atone for their life.
You know, most religious people are really bad sinners, you know. So they're trying to appease
God and atone for their past life. They get real religious.
You take a man, he's an out-and-out rounder and a drunk, and this
and that and the other, and he accepts Jesus, and the preacher
makes him a Sunday school teacher, and now he's laboring for Jesus.
He's working for Jesus. He doesn't even know Jesus Christ.
But he's so, you know, now he's atoning for everything he ever
did in the past by serving the Lord. He doesn't even know the
Lord. If he knew the Lord, he wouldn't
be there at that place. So there's so many in religion
that need to hear this message of rest, don't they? Because when God finished the
work, of this creation. He said He rested, didn't He?
And that seventh day is a picture of Christ. The finished work
of Christ. Salvation. When Christ hung on
that cross, what did He say? It is finished. What's finished? Your salvation. That'll make
you rest. You mean I don't have to act?
No, you don't. That's wonderful. But now here's something I see
that we need as much as that. Rest from materialism. Rest from trying to work and
obtain this and obtain that to find some measure of whatever.
Materialism. What was it that overthrew the
Hebrews and the wilderness? They wanted to stop and take
root in that world. Leeks and onions and homes and
all these things. And the Lord kept warning them
in Deuteronomy and so forth, when you cross over and you're
going to build houses and all that, beware you don't forget
God. Through what? Materialism. We
need rest from trying to accumulate and find some measure of peace
and happiness and this and that and security in this world. You know, the Jews were wandering.
They were wandering. They were chosen to wander. He
kept telling them, this is not your home. This is not your home.
They didn't work. They weren't working. But they
wanted to settle down. They wanted to build a house.
They wanted to take root and all that. And there's nothing
wrong with those things. The whole book of Ecclesiastes is
about hard work. You know that? And he tells young men and young
women, go ahead, do this and that. But you're not going to get rest
in the things of this world. It's not going to give you this
happiness and this peace and this rest and this contentment
that you're soul-seeking. Security? Financial security. Oh, really? Are you listening to me? Some
of us are making more money than we ever made in our lives. Now
we've got financial security. Really? Do you really believe
that? If we believe that, the best
thing that could possibly happen to us is a depression. Yes, it is. There's no security
in the richest. It's deceitful. This is what
people labor for. This is not your rest, this place. Didn't our Lord say, labor not
for the meat that perisheth? Didn't He say that? Labor not. He said this is what the Gentiles
think about. What are we going to eat? What
are we going to drink? What are we going to wear? Where are we
going to go? How are we going to do this? He said this is not
your rest. This place is not your home. This is a tent. You're passing through. The old
saying, don't drive your stakes too deep in it. This is not your
rest. Prepare to pull up stakes. To
fold up this tabernacle. Prepare for that. That's the
preparation. You know, we've slept in tents
before, haven't we, John? Ron? Who else? Wesley? We were out
tenting. One years ago when we were much
younger and we all could sleep on the ground in comfort. And I was, I was real comfortable
with an overflowing scourge. A flood came through. A deluge
hit this big tent. Nancy, you and Joe and I, we
slept in the same tent, the big tent, nice tent. It's a tent. But anyway, we were sleeping.
I was sleeping. And the rain came through. And these fellas who had no faith
got up and were trying to shore up that tent. Weren't you, Wesley?
Putting tarps all over it and everything and trying to keep
the water out. And Ron said there was a river
running through and he was worried about me. I'm sleeping. And they
woke me up. Wake up. We're going to drown. Well, you all take care of it.
I'm going to sleep. What are we going to do, try to shore
up this tent the rest of our lives? Why not rest? This tent's coming down. This
time we're not going to. Ready to be folded up? Look
at you. Yeah, I see all these things,
you know, how old men can get flat stomachs and do this and
that and the other and sit in a chair and do all this stuff.
I need to start doing that. No, I don't. I need to sit in
a chair and read this book more. Prepare for this long journey
of which I'm not going to return. Right? We need rest from listening
to this world. It bothers us, doesn't it? It deceives us. We need rest from listening and
following. We need rest of heart, mind,
soul, from worry, from fears, from unbelief, don't we? Where
does that come from? The opposite comes from listening
to the world. The opposite comes from looking and listening and
watching the world. Worries and doubts and fears
and anxiety. You look to the world and all
you see is anguish and darkness and dimness and nothing. Oh,
what are we going to do? Here is what God says for us
to do, to rest. Be still. Come and sit and be still. Don't do anything. Rest. And know what? I'm God. If you
lose all your money, it's okay. If you lose your health, it's
okay. I did it to keep you from working
all your life for nothing. You hear what I'm saying? This
is a rest we desperately need. Don't we, brother? I do. We built a new house nearly 20
years ago now, and all I'm trying to do now is fix it. We got to
have, oh, isn't this wonderful? These things start breaking,
and all I do seems labor to try to fix it. Ain't my house, this ain't my
house. Are you hearing me, old folks?
Margaret, you're older than me. Ed, Jeanette, this is not our
city. This is not our home. This cannot
inherit eternity. The Lord is bringing it down. Don't labor for this. Listen to this. I was going to
have you turn. We need rest of heart, mind,
soul. Rest in God's wisdom. We need
to rest in God's providence. We need to rest in His love.
Don't we? God, our Lord loves us. He is
all-wise. He knows what He's doing. But
we've got to do this. No, you don't got to do nothing.
You need to trust the Lord. We need rest from worrying about
our children. We need rest from worrying about
world events. The average American, do I have
enough money to retire on? Spend all our lives laboring
to retire. We need rest, freedom from worldliness,
freedom from fears, freedom from anxiety. Listen to this. I was going to have you turn
to Ruth, but I won't. But here's what Naomi said to Ruth. She said, Shall I not seek rest
for thee, dear Ruth?" They'd been roaming and they'd been
everywhere in all this trouble. They'd lost their husbands. She'd lost her sons. Naomi'd
lost her sons. And Naomi, a wise woman now,
she's back at Bethlehem where the bread of God is, where the
Redeemer is. And she said to Ruth, she said,
Honey, what I want for you more than anything else is rest. Marais. Orpha went back to her gods and
her wanted husband. She probably went through four
marriages by then. And she said, Honey, I want for
you Marais. And here's what she said, Ruth, Marais is down there
at the threshing floor. Your kinsman redeemer, my kinsman
redeemer, our hope, our help, our salvation is at the threshing
floor. Get down there. Let us kneel
and bow down and come to His feet and beg Him, redeem me. That's what we need, Sister Robin,
don't we? Come and sit at the feet of our
blessed Redeemer and say, please, I want rest from this world. I want rest. Marry me. You know what happened? He did. And in Scripture, John
says, He won't rest until it's finished. Until you're with Him
forever. And the end of that blessed story
of Ruth. She quit working. She quit roaming. She quit worrying. Why? She met
boys. She didn't have to work anymore.
She's got a husband providing for her forever. That's the man
you need to marry. That's the one you need to rest
in. Those children are His. This whole world is His. Rest. Do you hear me? I'm going to
say it again. Rest in the Lord Jesus. Christ the Messiah is coming
back for you somewhere. I don't know about me. What do
you mean you don't know about you? I'm too much a sinner. Good! Good! Then you've heard, haven't you? I had about ten more lettuces. Let us hold fast. Let us come.
So let us come boldly. Let us exhort one another. So
much more as you see the day is approaching. Let us provoke
one another. To what? Love. Let us consider
one another. Let us exhort one another. Come on, let us. Shall we? Come
with me. Like Moses said to his father-in-law,
we're going to the promised land. Come thou with us. We'll do you
good. Let us go, shall we? We're going to cross the Promised
Land real soon, to the end of the Promised Land, real soon.
All these storms and everything, it's good. Things are looking
up. Pretty soon the water is going to part. Let us rest.