Mark chapter 8, this will be
my fourth attempt at preaching, declaring our compassionate Lord. He said in verse 2, I have compassion
on the multitude. The second time, he sped a multitude. And back in the previous chapter,
he said he had compassion. Chapter 6, he saw the people,
much people, he was moved with compassion toward them. Our Lord's love, mercy, grace,
kindness, compassion is infinitely greater than we can possibly
know. He said this in Isaiah 55. He said, As the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways and my thoughts higher than your
thought. And he was talking about his mercy there in Isaiah 55. If you haven't read that in a
while, go back and read it. It's such a blessing. His mercy. Compassion means it. Compassion
means pity. pity. Compassion means feeling
sympathy for someone who's stricken by troubles or misfortune. Compassion
means a desire to alleviate suffering. Psalm 103, you don't have to
turn. Let me read you some of these. This is one of my favorites
and yours also. It says the Lord has not, He's
merciful, He's gracious, He's slow to anguish, plenteous in
mercy. He hath not dealt with us after
our sin. He has not rewarded us according to our iniquity.
As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy
toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the
west, so far has He removed our transgressions from them. Like
as a father pitied his children. You pity your children. You love
them dearly. You pity. You look upon them
with sympathy. Pity, don't you? As a father, pity these children
so much more than you pity your own. So infinitely much more. If I can just get across to us,
I mean us, you and me, a little bit of just how compassionate,
how merciful, how kind He is. We'll be blessed, and He'll be
glorified. He knows our pride. He remembers. He never forgets what we are. Dust. Dust. Listen to Psalm 86. You can turn
if you want to, but you have to turn fast. Psalm 86, I love
this. It says, David, who was a man
after God's own heart, David knew God's heart. He had God's
heart in him. He knew the Lord. Don't you believe
that David was as close to the Lord as any man in Scripture? No doubt the Lord used him to
write so many psalms. He says in verse 5, Thou, Lord,
art good. You're ready to forgive. Someone
said he's more ready to forgive than we are to ask for it. He has to make us ask for it.
He's plenteous in mercy. Plenteous in mercy unto all that
call upon Him. All. Down in verse 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full
of compassion. Gracious, long-suffering. Plenteous
in mercy and truth. You know the story. When Moses
asked the Lord to show him His glory. Remember that? He'd already
seen the Red Sea and so many things and Egypt's smitten. And the Lord said, I will make
my goodness pass before you. When he described himself, when
he declared himself. He said, I will make my goodness
pass before you. And he went on to say, proclaim
his name, the Lord. The Lord God, merciful. Now, we know his chief attribute
is holiness there. Mercy is part of holiness. You
understand? A truly holy person is merciful. You can't be holy and not be
merciful. Gracious. Gracious. Long-suffering. Abundant in goodness
and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands. That is, reserving it. The Gospel. Forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin. That's how God describes Himself. Isn't that something? Listen to, you know, these verses. Lamentations 3 is some of your
favorite verse right after Jeremiah. Lamentations 3. Right after he said, I'm the
man that the Lord has smitten Christ to speak. I'm the one
He set His mark upon, on your behalf, as your substitute. And
if we recall this to mind, we have hope because verse 22 says,
it's of the Lord's mercy. We know all His mercies are in
Christ. But since Christ died, God is infinitely merciful to
anyone who comes to Him. And so the Lord's mercies, we're
not concerned. It's because His compassions, they fail now. He never quits pitying us like
a father. and sympathizing with us. His
compassions fail not, they're new every morning. This is where
we got the hymn, Great is Thy Thankfulness. Oh God, my Father. Listen to this. I love these
verses. We'll get to Mark 8 in a minute. We don't have to, we
can just stay. Hebrews 2, I love this. For as
much as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He took part
in the same. that through death he might destroy him that had
the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through
fear of death, those who fear death. And don't tell me you
don't fear death to a certain degree. You do. It's just natural, it's just
human. But he came to deliver us from that fear of death by
dying and by rising again. And he went on to say, Paul or
whoever wrote this, he didn't take the nature of angels but
of Abraham in everything. He was made like his brethren.
Made like his brethren. He himself has suffered being
tempted. He's able to suffer. He's able
to help those that are tempted. He tried. He knows. How can he
pity it? How can someone truly have compassion
upon you if they don't know what you've gone through? They can't.
Real compassion and empathy, like sympathy. You've been through
what that person has been through, and you know. And that's how
our Lord empathizes, sympathizes, and has pity upon. Listen to
this. We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with
the feeling of our infirmity in all points. Have you ever felt sorry for
yourself and said, nobody knows what I'm going through? We all
have. We've all been full of self-pity,
haven't we? He's touched on the field of
our infirmities in all points, tempted like as we are, yet without
sin. So we can come boldly to His
throne of grace. We'll find mercy. We'll find
sympathy. We'll find pity. We'll find someone
who knows how we feel. And it goes on in chapter 5,
it says he can have compassion on the ignorant. Now he's going
to upbraid the disciple. Did you read that with me? I've
read that many times, but I don't think I've ever really paid that
much attention to it. He upbraided them severely, didn't
he? More than he had ever done so
before. But they were just acting ignorant
and full of unbelief. He can have compassion on the
ignorant. You know, the root word of ignorant is to ignore
something or something. Something you've read. I've got
to go on. I'm getting antsy. Now let me say this. We'll go to Psalm 145. One more
Psalm and then we'll go to Mark 8. Psalm 145. Let me say this in the beginning. Let no one confuse the compassion
of our Lord with the love of our Lord. The Lord's love is sovereign.
He loves whom He will. The Lord's love is effectual.
That means He saves everyone He loves. God doesn't love every
single human being. No, He does not. But He does
love many. And He chose to love them. And
His love is effectual. Whoever He loves, He saves. Wouldn't
you? Do you love your family? Would you save them if you could?
Would you? Sure you would. How much more? He can. And He does. His love is effectual. All right? And His love is eternal. Love
never fails. If God loves someone, He'll never
stop loving. His compassions, they fail not.
His mercies, He doesn't change. If He loves you today, He's going
to love you tomorrow. He's going to love you always. It's eternal.
So those He loves, He saves. He loves forever. There's no
sense in which you can say God loves everybody. No sense what
that means. But now listen to this. Psalm
145, verse Verse 8, The Lord is gracious,
full of compassion, slow to anger, of great mercy. The Lord is good
to all, isn't it? And His tender mercies are over
all His works. Now, one can have compassion
on someone and not have love for them. You can't have love
without compassion. But you can have compassion without
love. I pity, you have compassion on, I have compassion on worms,
bugs, stink bugs. I don't want to see them suffer. Cruelty means loving to see something
in pain and suffering. Loving to cause pain and suffering.
God is not cruel. Man is. God is compassionate. God is compassionate. It doesn't
mean he loves everybody. He's compassionate. He's tender
mercy over all his work. One can show mercy and kindness
without loving. But you cannot show love without
mercy and kindness. So don't confuse His compassion
for His love. But now I do want us to see here
just how kind and compassionate our Lord is to everyone. We just read that with me. His
tender mercies are over all His work. In our text, Mark 8, verse
1, He says he saw the multitude. In those days the multitude being
very great, they had nothing to eat. Now you and I know that
from Scriptures that people would come to see Him just to get food. And people would come just to
see miracles. People would come out of curiosity.
The Pharisees would even come to hear Him. They didn't believe
Him. They weren't coming to listen to Him. But the multitude came. And yet all of these people,
the just and the unjust, believers and unbelievers, he had compassion
on them. Didn't he? He had compassion on them. He
had a great multitude. I have compassion on them. Psalm
104, let me read you this too. Psalm 104. Our Lord Jesus Christ
is the Creator of all things. He made the heavens and the earth.
He is God our Creator. He made everything. This is the
one who's going to feed the multitude, and this is the one who has always
fed every single creature on this earth. Psalm 104, I love
this. Listen. He sends the springs
into the valleys which run among the hills and give drink to every
beast in the field. Wild asses. Who needs a wild
ass? Well, that's who he saves. That's
who he rides. He sends the fowls of the heaven,
have their habitation among the branches. He waters the hills.
He grows grass for the cattle, herb for the service of man.
Young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from
God. Listen to verse 27. They all
wait upon Thee, that Thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That Thou givest them, they gather. You open your hand, and they're
filled with good. That's the reason everything
that hath breath should praise the Lord, because He's feeding
everything that hath the breath of life. That's our reasonable
service, to come and to worship the Lord and give thanks unto
Him. All right, in our text here, so he had compassion. They had
nothing to eat. He had compassion on a multitude. A multitude. How many were there? I don't know. Thousands. He fed
4,000. Earlier, 5,000. It could have
been more. 5,000 men the first time. That
means there could have been 10 or 12,000. So, there were many. It was a
multitude. And he had compassion on them.
Our world today, the population, they think, is around 8 billion
people. That's a lot. Do you know that
Matthew Henry and some of the other commentators think there
was about that many people before the flood, when God sent the
flood? I know it's said the whole earth
had corrupted his wife, the whole earth. God doesn't use a figure
of speech. The whole earth had corrupted
his wife, full of violence. At any rate, there are 8 billion
people, and I read this, I don't know if it's true, it's partly
true, that 10% of the world population is hungry. 828 million people hungry. And I read this, that $25 billion
could put away all hunger, at least in the United States of
America. Just $25 billion a year could eliminate all hunger in
the United States of America. There's a man whose name and
face I am so sick of looking at. Elon Musk. They say he's worth
$253 billion. He personally could eliminate
hunger in the United States of America and not miss a dime. Wicked man. James said, weep and howl for
the misery that's coming upon you, the gold and silver, the
canker of your gold and silver, you're going to rise up in a
judgment against you. All these so-called celebrities and athletes
and stars that people so admire, they're wicked. They could all
get together in a limited time. When our Lord saw the multitude,
here's the thing, He was rich and yet for our sake became poor.
Alright? And what He came to do, He came
to save the poor, the poor in spirit. And yet He literally
had compassion on the physically poor, didn't He? He did what
He preached. Those that lend to the poor,
he said, lend unto the Lord. And he had compassion. You'll not find that compassion
with man. You'll only find it in the Lord. If anybody has it,
they got it from the Lord. Man's not compassion. He's cruel.
He's selfish. He's greedy. Well, listen to this. Now, Paul
said in Romans 10, And all these people came to
cry. All these people came for one reason or another. And you
and I, when we first came to hear the gospel, came for the
wrong reason, didn't we? I told you my story. I came because
there was a contractor. It was a construction contractor,
and I needed a job, and he gave me a job. And then there was
a young girl that I had my eye on, and I got the girl. But the
Lord brought me there, though I came for all the wrong reasons.
And the Lord was compassionate upon me, and merciful to me,
and gracious, and evidently the Lord loved me because He revealed
Himself to me. But He had me there, and I came
for all the wrong reasons, but His purpose and grace in Christ
before the world began was for me to be there. And I was. And he said, Paul said in Romans
10, Jew, Greek, it doesn't matter, the same Lord is rich unto all
that call upon Him. Whosoever, the next verse, shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. I want to preach
the gospel so freely, our Lord so kind, so compassionate, So
willing to say, and merciful, that Calvinists will call me
an Arminian. And I want to preach the gospel
so narrow, so straight, so strict, discriminating. That doesn't
mean discriminate against anybody, but for people. That God chose
and elect people for when the world began, and that's who's
going to be saved, and no more. That the Arminians will call
me a hyper-Calvinist. And our Lord is so compassionate,
so merciful. He stood up one day after that
great feast and said, come unto me, all ye that labor, that they
can't come. I know it. He knew it. No man
will come, but he cried nevertheless. See, that makes them accountable
if they don't come. It makes them to blame if they
don't come. It gives him all the glory if
they do. You understand? Come unto me. Whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. If somebody's
not saved, they have not called on the Lord Jesus Christ. You
can't blame him. If a poor native in the jungle,
a poor native in the jungle of Borneo or wherever, We'll stand
up and say, God in heaven, please reveal yourself to me. You know
what's going to happen? He's going to send a gospel.
I got an illustration of it. A true story. There's a man in
the deep jungles of Mexico. His name was Feliz. It means
happy. He was far from happy. He'd just
lost his only daughter. For what it's worth, he had a
dream that God would send a white man to tell him about God. True
story. Lo and behold, one day, Walter
Gruber was traveling in his truck, and he decided he knew this road. He'd never been up it before.
He knew there was a remote village up there. He said, I'm going
to go up there. And that man met him in the middle
of the road. It's like Ethiopian eunuch and
Philip, isn't it? And Walter preached the gospel
of that man, and that man didn't go on. Whosoever shall call her,
be saved. Mark 8, look at verse 3. He said, If I send them away
fasting in their own houses, they'll faint by the way. I send
them away. I have compassion on them, so
they'll faint. If you've come to Christ for
help, for mercy, you're going to find it. You have God's Word on it. He
will not turn you away. These people came for whatever
reason, and He is not going to turn them away. He said, they're
not going home today. Anyone. And somebody really hungry. Blessed are the hunger and thirst,
poor in spirit. Those that mourn. Spiritually
speaking. He said, you'll not only go home
having eaten, but you'll go home full. Well, if you go to John and Irene's
house, if you go home hungry, it's your fault. You know, they
got 12 basket loads left, or seven. Our Lord will not turn
anyone away. You will go home full, full of praise and thanksgiving and peace. And look at verse 3, I love this.
He said, divers, different ones of them have come from far. They've come a long way to see
me. How can I not feed them? Now, first of all, he came a
lot farther than anybody. To do what? To feed. To feed
his people. With what? Himself. He said,
take, eat, this is my body broken for you. He came. to feed His
people, to give them life. He said, I have come that they
might have life. You can't live without this bread of life, the
bread of God from heaven. And He came down. He came from
afar. He came from heaven itself to
earth. Oh, what a vast gulf God did
cross to get Him to save, to feed such unworthy creatures. But He did it. And you're not
going to out-distance our Lord. You're not going to travel further
than He did to get mercy. To show mercy. He showed mercy.
You understand? You can't out-give Him. You can't
out-do Him. You can't do it. He moaned. Have
you done this? He moaned. The Queen of Sheba. Remember
the Lord talked about the Queen of Sheba. He said she came a
long way to hear the wisdom of Solomon. What happened? Boy,
did she get full. He said, she's going to rise
up in the judgment against this generation. This man right here
next door has been here ever since this building has been
here. They were there in the beginning and they left. People
over here. They've got to travel about 50
feet. Some people come a long way to
hear the gospel. That's because there's a famine
of the hearing of the Word. And you've got to travel a long
ways to find the truth, don't you? A long way. Some in here
right now have come a very long way. Just this week. Just tonight. Families have moved
here from a long way. We did come here. North Carolina, New York, New
York, right? A long way. The Lord is not going
to send you home hungry. And what a burden this puts on
me. When somebody picks up and moves
and comes here, How do you think that makes me
feel? By God's grace, you're not going
to go home hungry. I got a job to do. By His grace,
I'm going to do it. I'm going to feed you with the
bread from heaven, which is Christ Himself. I want you to go home
so full that you say, I can't take anymore. You ever done that? You ever
left here thinking that? I can't take anymore. The Son of God comes from afar.
He said, feed them. Feed them. The Ethiopian eunuch. Remember
him? Alright, look at verse 4. The disciples answered and said,
from whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in
the wilderness? It was just, I don't know, a
month ago. They just fed more than this. This is why he's going to rebuke
them here in a little bit. But this is a good statement,
really, from which can a man satisfy these men? Man can't
satisfy them. You can go to the ends of the
earth trying to get satisfaction and peace and comfort and answers
and truth from man and you'll never find it. There is no...
peace with man. There is no satisfaction with
man. You won't find it in the flesh.
But you'll find it in Christ. No, man can't satisfy us with
bread. He can't give us what we need. Only God can. And Christ is that
bread. He asked them, verse 5, He said,
How many loaves have you? They said, Seven. You Bible students, you know
that seven is always the number for perfection, for completion
in it. God created all things, the seventh day he rested, there's
no more, nothing needs to be done. This, what is the bread
of God? It's the Word of God. The Word
of God. What is the Word of God? Christ. He said, I'm the bread of God.
The Word of God is perfect. There's not one thing that needs
to be added to this, and better not take one thing away. It's
the perfect, complete, Paul called it the sincere milk, meaning
pure milk straight from the cow. of the Word of God. Desire it. Feed upon it. It's Christ through
and through. Seven, perfection. That's Him
and His perfect Word. We need to feed on Him, His perfect
Word. His person and His perfect Word.
Seven, complete. You're completing it. Look at
this. And that's what I have. I have
a perfect Gospel. People talk about a four square
Gospel. What in the world does that mean?
Would somebody tell me? We preach the four square gospel.
Why? Ours is sevenfold. He commanded,
verse 6, you remember the message Sunday? He commanded the people
to sit down. He maketh us to sit in heavenly
places. He commanded the people to sit
down. Oh, you've come here and you're
seated. And oh, may the Lord break this
bread of life. May He have already done so to
you. He took the seven loaves. Unless
the Lord does it, unless the Lord blesses it, it will not
be bread. And He gave thanks. Oh, thank
the Lord for this bread, for this Word, for Him Himself. He
broke it. And remember, this always represents
our Lord's broken body. And look at who fed them. Look
at who the Lord provided it. The Lord provided the word. The
Lord provided the bread. But who did he have feed them?
The disciples. Men. His apostles that were called
to do that. And they fed the people. He said,
set before them. Set this bread before them. And
they did set this bread before the people. Have I been set in
Christ before you tonight? Have I been setting the table
for you today? God forbid that we say 20 words
without mentioning Christ. He is the bread. He is the Word.
And so they did eat. Verse 6, they sat before the
people, ate a few small fishes, and what's that? Well, Zechariah
said, who hath despised a day of small things? Small thing. Fish is small. Small fish. That's
who the Lord keeps. Small. Nothing. Insignificant
people. But the Lord populated the earth
with just a few people. You know that? Adam and Eve,
Seth. And then later on after the flood,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth populated the whole world. The world said,
I don't believe that. Well, I do. And you do too, don't
you? But most especially, there was
a virgin with a child in Bethlehem, house of bread. And by that child,
from that virgin, the whole kingdom of God was populated. Who hath despised the day of
small things? Mustard seed grew into a tree. Small fishes. A fish is something
that gives its life for others to live in it. That's crap. Okay, verses 8 and 9. They did
eat. They were filled. They took up broken, of the broken
meat, seven baskets. What did they do with the seven
baskets? Well, there were some people that weren't there. There
were some people that couldn't be there. They took it to those
people. You know, live preaching is better
than mix-up. Fresh food is better than leftovers.
Isn't it? Tell me. But if that's all you
got, it's good. You'll take it. You'll take it,
and you're glad for it. The Lord's not going to let anybody
go hungry. Those who are there, those who
can't be there, take it home. And you take this gospel, and
you go to people, and you give it to them. That's what it's
all about. 7 baskets, 12 baskets. And they were eating, had those
as 8 or 4,000. Let me hurry. He went across
the Sea of Galilee, like he often did, and he went to this place
called Dalmanutha, which is Magdala. Now that name sounds familiar
to you. Magdala, Magdalene. You know anybody come from Magdala?
As far as we know, there's one person from Magdala that the
Lord had mercy on. We don't know what he did here
in Dalmanuth and Magdala. We don't know. If everything
our Lord did and said was written in the book, the books couldn't
control it. I know this. Whatever he did,
he went and saved somebody. He went to show mercy to somebody. Okay? There's some Pharisees
there. They're everywhere. Scribes,
Pharisees, hypocrites, people play in religion, people that
claim to believe God don't know God, zealous for God with effort,
ignorant, going about to establish their own righteousness. That's
what Paul said about Pharisees. He knew, he was one. Ignorant. Paul had a desire that they might
be saved. But these Pharisees were everywhere, and they were
feeding the people with their leaven, with their self-righteous,
legalistic doctrine, where they're, you know, keep the law and you'll
be saved. They themselves were hypocrites. That's religion as a whole today. The Lord's going to warn them
about that. All right? All right? So they
got back in the ship and headed back to the other side, and the
disciples had forgotten to take bread. Why do you suppose that
is? I don't know. I don't know. But they did. They'd forgotten.
There was only one loaf of bread in that whole boat. And he charged them, verse 15,
he said, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.
And the leaven of Herod, what's that? Herod was a worldly wise
man. Herod was the worldly ruler,
wasn't he? You're talking about religious,
the religion of the world, and the politics and the wisdom of
the world, okay? Man's human reasoning, religious
reasoning. Jew and Gentile, that's what
you have. They're all fools by nature. Beware of their letter. Herod
one time got up and did an oration. And the people said it's a voice
of a God. Like Pluto, like Socrates, like
Plato. Oh, listen to this wisdom. It's
foolishness. And God struck him dead and says
the worms ate him. What kind of man is he? No God. Dust. Beware of human reasoning. Beware of of the world's religion,
beware our Lord." And they said, it's because we didn't bring
any bread. That's just ignorance. He can
have compassion on the ignorant. That's what we just read. Have
you ever said anything ignorant? Have you ever asked any ignorant
questions? Anybody? Done anything ignorant? Foolish? These disciples have been with
Him for two years or more. They just saw Him feed the five
thousand. Well, He's getting on to us because
we didn't bring enough bread. They reasoned among themselves.
You see that? Their carnal minds and human reasoning was, well,
he didn't bring any bread. He's a mad-ass. And our Lord
knew it. Look at verse 17. And then I'll
close with this verse. It says, Why reason ye? Because
you have no reason. Why are you reasoning? What is
this reasoning among yourselves? If we use our carnal and human
reasoning, it will fill us with doubt, with fear, with worry
over little things. We'll forget everything the Lord
said. We'll act like, and we'll seek
reasons and answers from everybody but Him like we've never heard
a word He said. We don't need to consult human reason again,
certainly not ourselves. It'll make us full of doubt and
fear. You know, the reason why Christ
came, they forgot the reason why Christ came, was to take
care of them, save them. They never did provide for themselves.
Now all of a sudden, we should have brought food. You know, have you ever worried
these fathers, I'm not providing enough for my family. I need
to make more money, I need to do this, I need to do that. No,
really. I'm here to tell you, you have never provided one thing
for your family. Never. The jobs you have, God
gave it to you. The houses you have, God gave
it to you. The health you have to work your
job, God gave it to you. Who maketh thee to everything
you have, you have received from your Father? It doesn't change.
Have you ever missed a meal? Human reason. Now we need to
provide for ourselves. No, you don't either. You didn't trust the Lord. Not
human reason. Listen to what he said. He said,
Don't you see? Don't you understand? Have you
your heart yet hardened? You know, Pharaoh in Egypt, we
just looked at that. In spite of everything the Lord
did, nobody in Egypt believed that God did it. The wrath of God was revealed
from heaven against all of Egypt, and nobody in Egypt said, ask
for mercy. Israel saw it as the hands of
God. They knew everything was the hands of God. And yet our
Lord said, have you forgotten everything you've seen, everything
you've heard? That quickly? Anybody guilty? We're all guilty. He said this, you have eyes, but don't you
see? You have ears, don't you hear?
Have you heard anything I've seen? This is, Vicki, this is
a, I've been looking for the right word, not a scathing rebuke,
but it's a severe rebuke. Do you need it? I do. I'm trying to teach you this,
and I need it worse than you do. Sometimes I act like, haven't
you heard a thing he said? What are you worried about? Now we get back to where he started.
He has compassion. He understands. But it doesn't
excuse our unbelief, does it? It doesn't excuse it. He knows
our faith. We believe, but, oh my Lord,
please get rid of my unbelief. It doesn't do anything to God.
It dishonors Him, but He's still faithful. But it sure does hurt
us to keep us down without any peace. And he said in verse 18,
don't you remember? Ears you hear not, do you not
remember? He asked them how many fragments and he told them and
asked them how many fragments the second time and they told
him seven. How is it, verse 21, how is it
that you do not understand? Brothers and sisters, what has
the Lord done for you your whole life? I'm approaching 70 years old.
It boggles my mind. But I'm not old. Robin, I'm still
not old. That's old. 99. Let's ask her. How good has the Lord been to
you for 100 years? Look at that. Made her sit in heavenly places
for 80 years. Never missed a meal. Everything
he did, every single thing was for her good. How about that? What all has the Lord done for
you? How merciful has the Lord been to you? How gracious has
the Lord been to you? What all has He done for you?
How many times can you look back on your life and see how He spared
you this and spared you that and provided this? How many times
have you thought, where am I going to get my house payment? And you forget all about the
sin payment. He came down from heaven to make
a sin payment. of His own life, His own blood. How could I doubt it? If God spared not, here's Romans
8, if God spared not His own Son that delivered Him up for
us, so how shall He not with Him freely give us all things? We're worried about the house
payment. And He came down here to make the sin payments. We're sad, aren't we? We're so
sad. Oh, my sin. I'm so sinful. My
thoughts are so wicked. And they are. Why did I say that? Why did I do that? How could
I do that? How could I still do that and say that and think
that? Surely the Lord's going to kick
me out of His kingdom. Don't you understand? Haven't you heard? Haven't you
heard Him say, I will never leave you? Heath that cometh to me,
I will in no wise, what's that mean? Under no circumstances,
for any reason, cast you out. Oh, you're going to kick me out.
You might kick your son out, but he won't. Because his ways
are so much higher than that. Believe Him in spite of your
sins. Believe Him in spite of your unbelief. Trust Him. He
can be trusted. Don't put your trust in anybody,
but put all your trust in Him. Okay. Stay with me.