Exodus 14. Exodus chapter 14. God's Word is like this red sea. It's deep, unfathomable. There's so much to see. Is this
too loud? No? I'm hearing a little echo. There's so much to see and learn
in one verse. One line. One word. This is how
you know this is God's Word. One line. One verse. One word. One person. One place. One thing. It's full. Fullness
of God. Amazing. I want to look at two
verses. I want to look at two things
this morning. The angel and the pillar. Okay. Two verses. Verses 19 and 20. The angel of
God went before the camp of Israel. The angel of God which went before
the camp of Israel removed and went behind them. And the pillar
of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them. And the angel and the pillar
came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. It was a cloud at darkness to
Egypt, and He gave light by night to these, Israel, so that the
one came not near the other all the night. Now this happened,
this was all during the night. At Passover, when the children
of Israel were told about the Passover, observed the Passover,
it was at night. Do you hear me? This is a dark
day we live in. When the sun rose up, the waters
had parted, and they walked through. But this angel of God went before
them. The angel of God led them through
the wilderness. The whole time, the 40 years
that they walked through the wilderness, this angel of God
went before and behind them, and led them, and guided them,
and taught them, and even chastened them. All of God's people were
led by this angel of God. Now, who might that be? You say,
Christ, yes, but this is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of
Christ. Neither Christ are led by His
Spirit. And look at Exodus 23. This angel is mentioned several
times through the Scripture. And David in the Psalms mentions
him. You know, David spoke of the
Holy Spirit. Men ignorantly say the Holy Spirit
wasn't given until the New Testament. That's not true. David said,
take not thy Holy Spirit from them. So, Exodus 23, verse 20. Now, who is speaking to them,
by the way? Who is the Lord that's speaking
to them? Christ. And he said, here's what the
Lord Jesus Christ said, I send an angel before thee to keep
thee in the way, to bring thee into the place
which I have prepared thee in. This is all it's said for me. Be aware of him. Obey his voice. Provoke him not. Don't grieve
him. Provoke Him not. He will not
pardon your transgressions. My name is in Him. Now Christ
pardons, doesn't He? He says, My name is in Him. This
Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Christ. Now with me to John
14. Now He said, This angel will
keep thee in the way. Keep you in the way. He's going
to point you to the way and lead you in the way and bring thee
into the place I have prepared for you. This is exactly what our Lord
said in John 14. He said in verse... I haven't found it yet. Okay,
here it is. He said in verse 2, In my Father's
house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And then he said, I'm
going away. You remember Moses did not lead
the people into the Promised Land. He represents the law. He can't. But Joshua did. But the Holy
Spirit never left them. God, this angel never left them. All right, look at verse 16. Our Lord said, I will pray the
Father, he will give you another comforter. Christ was their comforter
all the days he was on earth. He will abide with you forever.
The Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive. The
world doesn't see him. Egypt didn't have him. Egypt
wasn't led by this angel. But you do, he dwelleth with
you and shall be in you. I will not, I will not leave
you comfortless. I will come to you. See, they're
one and the same. These three, Father, Son, Holy
Spirit, are one. They're one. So this Holy Spirit,
and then chapter 16, you know these verses well. He said, when
he's come, he'll guide you into all truth. He'll lead you in
the way, Moses said. The Lord said to Moses, well,
that's Christ's way, the truth and the lie. He will not speak
of his sin. All right? Then we read there where it said,
beware of him, obey his voice, provoke him not. Look at Matthew
12. He will not pardon your transgression. You remember that? Well, look
at Matthew 12 with me. Matthew 12. Our Lord said this
of the Holy Spirit, verse 31, Wherefore I say unto you, Matthew
12, 31, All matter of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto
men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven
unto men. Whosoever speaketh a word against
the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him." He will not
pardon you. So, Scripture said, grieve not
the Holy Spirit. Quench not the Spirit. Now, go
back to the text. With many of the children of
Israel, God was not pleased, right? Are you with me? They were overthrown in the wilderness.
They provoked God. They kept provoking God. They
kept provoking the angel of God. God said, His Spirit will not
always strive with men. They hardened their hearts. They
were hardened by the world, by sin. They were hardened. It no
longer bothered them. In fact, they wanted to go back
to it. And they did. The Lord let them.
And what does the Scripture say? He that being often reproved... The Holy Spirit convinces of
sin, of righteousness and judgment all the days of our life. He
never quits doing that. He that being often reproved
by the Word of God, by the Spirit of God, and hardened at this
neck, shall be suddenly cut off with that remedy. That's serious. Obey Him. Don't provoke Him. Don't provoke
Him. Follow Him. Follow Him. Grieve
Him not. Listen, heed, brothers and sisters.
Listen, heed, and follow and obey the Holy, Holy Spirit of
God. Alright? Yield to Him. Romans 6, the whole chapter is
about yielding your members to the Word of God, the Spirit of
God. That's what it's talking about. All right, this angel,
now look at our text. This angel, which means messenger. He went before them. He was always
out in front of them, leading, showing the way, wasn't He? What
does the Spirit of God do? He takes the things of Christ.
John 16, we didn't read all in it. You know it. You know it
well. He takes the things of Christ
and shows them to you. A Spirit-filled place and people
and preaching is that which speaks of Christ. He won't speak of
Himself. He'll speak of Christ. All this
talk about the Holy Spirit, you know, he's got the Spirit. Oh,
does he now? Does he talk about Christ all the time? Well, no,
but he... And he's not led by the Spirit of God. It's another
spirit. A spirit of wildfire. Well, he'll take... He said he'll lead the way. He'll
show you the things of mine, Christ said. He'll take the things
of mine and show them unto you. In Matthew 2, It says the star,
there was a star that led the way of the wise men and the shepherds. What was the star leading them
to? Well, the star came and they
saw it and nobody else did. That star came over the place
where the child was. What child? The son of the Most
High God. Now to us a child is more. and
stopped right there and said, here he is. And the wise men
and the shepherds, they found him because that star went before
them and led them to the Christ child. Okay. All right, now,
it said in verse 19, verse 19, he went behind them. He went
before the, all right, look at this, every word is significant,
the camp. The angel of God went before
the camp, said they were in a camp, and the Egyptians were in a camp
also. Hebrews 11, you don't have to
turn, I'll turn for you. You know what we all are? Just a bunch of campers. This is not our permanent dwelling
place. You understand me? Not me, God. Do you understand the Word of
God? We have here no continuing city, and this body is a tent,
and we're going to fold it up real soon. It just staggers me. It just boggles my mind how old
I'm getting. And some of you are a lot older
than me. It's days, brothers and sisters,
we're going to fold up this tent. They're going to lay it down.
They're going to lay it down. 2 Corinthians 5 says this tabernacle
is going to be dissolved. And we have a house, not made
with hands, in the heaven, a new body. And Hebrews 11 says, all
the people of God, they sojourned in a land of promise in a strange
country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob. Heirs with him of the same promise.
They looked for a city that had foundations and builders and
makers of God. We're passing through, brothers
and sisters. We're passing through. Are you real concerned about
the next election? Who will be president? Well, the children
of Israel was concerned about who was elected Moab or Edom. Were they? Does it matter? I
mean, yes, it does. I pray that the Lord will at
least give us a man to restrain the evil men that ran over us. But really, I've lived under
ten presidencies since Dwight Eisenhower. We're passing through. We're
strangers and pilgrims here. Pilgrims means you're passing
through, you're camping in a tent. The old saying, don't drive your
stakes too deep. What does that mean? You're not staying. Verse 13 in Hebrew says, they
all died in faith. They embraced the promises and
confessed. They all confessed. They all
knew this and readily accepted this and believed this. They
were strangers and pilgrims in the end. This is not my home. Okay. So, the angel went before
them, the camp. The camp. And remember one more
thing about this. As I said to start this, this
is God's Word. Every line is just full. The camp. What a message that
is. The camp. But remember why God
brought them out of Egypt. Remember what Moses said to Pharaoh. He said, this is why God has
revealed himself to us and come to us and this is why we're leaving. To go out there and hold a feast. To go out in the wilderness and
hold a feast. You mean you want out of Egypt
just so you can go out there and hold this Passover thing? Yes! They hadn't done it the
whole time they were in Egypt. And now God revealed to them,
this is your life. And you know what they would
do for the rest of their days? Brothers and sisters, this needs
to be shouted. What they did for the rest of
their life, Brother Stephen, is camp around that temple, that
tabernacle. Every single tribe was camped
around the tabernacle for 40 years. Elizabeth, for 40 years
they'd just travel a little while, stop and worship. Travel a little
while, stop and worship. Their whole life was centered
around worship. Why? They're not going to get
to the promised land. They're going to be overcoming
the wilderness unless the Lamb brings them here. Unless they
from their heart worship God. The whole 40 years was about
worship. That's why God brought them out. Egypt wasn't worshiping God.
They didn't know God. They didn't care about God. But
God said, I'm bringing you out to worship me. And I bring you
in. And that's what you're going
to do the rest of your days. Remember that. We're strangers
and pilgrims. That's why He brought us out. Don't go back. And there's something
that comes between us. We're not in it, but we're not
of it. There's something that's coming between us, I hope. It's absolutely something came
between the children of Israel and Egypt, and they couldn't
come near one another. All right, look at this, verse
19. I've got to get ahead of myself. The message is so urgent. This is not a Bible study. This
is life. It's your life or children's
life. It might be my last message. Dare I preach it with anything
but with all my heart. Dare you hear it? All right? It went, it came before
them. It led them. Oh, lead me by thy
Spirit, O Lord. Take not thy Holy Spirit from
me. Don't leave me alone. I take one step without the Spirit
of God, I'm going to fall into the ditch. If He leaves me, I'm
back in Egypt right now. Right now. It went from before them to behind
them. You went around, they were compassed
about. What do you want to be compassed
about, hedged in? When I was a young boy, a teenager,
I wanted to be free, you know, in the 70s, free at last. I left all this bondage and dominion
of these cruel tyrants called my parents and all these rules. Well, I just about killed myself. I was safe. under that loving,
what I call, bondage. I didn't know it. Turn me loose. Oh, no, Lord, don't turn me loose,
please. Well, He went from before them
to behind them. Does that mean He let them go
their own way? Oh, no. He's just telling us our God
is before us, behind and before us. He's surrounding us, the
angel of the Lord. And he went behind them. Don't
you hear the world say this? People love this. I got your
back. Don't they? People love that term. I got
your back. I mean all these back biters
and people are against you. I'm watching over you. Yeah,
right. These back watchers quickly turn
into back biters, don't they? Don't trust men. Don't put your
trust in men. Put your trust in the Lord. He's
the one watching over you. You don't need somebody to watch
over you. You need Jesus Christ. He's the
one. Remember Psalm 4 verse 8, Thou
only makest me to dwell in safety. I got your back. I don't need you to watch my
back. But I sure need the Spirit of God to lead me and watch over
me and protect me. Otherwise, I'm a goner. I'm gone. Now he went behind. Alright,
now look at this. It said, and the pillar of the cloud went
before their face and stood behind them, before and behind them,
this pillar, this cloud and fire, cloud and fire. And verse 20,
it says this pillar and the angel, but this pillar and this fire
came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel,
this pillar. Now, to this day, There's something,
someone, and something that comes between the true people of God
and the world. Nothing has changed. God hasn't
changed. The truth hasn't changed. The way of salvation is the same.
These people haven't changed. The world hasn't changed. It's
all the same. Nothing new under the sun. And to this day, something
and someone comes between God's true people and the world. He
said in verse 20, it was a cloud in darkness to Egypt, but it
was light to the children of Israel. What is that? Who is that? Who is that? It's Christ, the light of the
world. The world doesn't believe Him. He's just a man. No, He's
not. He's not just a man to me. He's
the Son of Righteousness. He's God-man, manifest in the blood. The Word of God comes between
us and the whole world. That's just the words of men,
the world says. That's just the words of Paul. He's a woman-hater. Word of God. What Paul wrote,
God's Word. I don't... Somebody said, I don't
believe that. I do. I do. Children of Israel believed it
was God's Word. They believed God. They believed Moses was
God's man. Egypt said, he's just a man. We watched him grow up.
He's nothing. Israel said, no, he's God's man. He has the Word
of God. Which is it? Both can't be right. Huh? Let God be true, never made
a liar. I believe, the way they call
heresy, I believe. All that the prophets have written,
all that the apostles have written, everything, every word in this
book, I believe to be the holy, inspired, inerrant, infallible
word of the living God. No scriptures of any private
interpretation. Holy men of old, men chosen by
God. Men, mind you, not women. Men
spake as they were moved by the Spirit of God. This is the Word
of God, I believe. Every word of it. Every jot,
every tip. Don't you? Do you? Do you really? Oh, blessed
sister, you're a child of the Most High God. You're walking
in light, not in darkness. You didn't always believe that. There was a time I could care
less about this book. There was a time I tried to refute
it. There was a time I told my friends I can disprove that Bible. I said that. I'm still ashamed
of that to this day. And when the Lord opened my blind
eyes, I went around trying to find all those people that I
sold that to. I said, I was wrong. I was wrong. It was, it came between them.
It was a pillar. What's a pillar? A pillar is
a standing column. A standing column, something
that stands as a sentinel, as a way mark. A standing. The scripture says, Thy counsel,
the counsel of the Lord standeth forever. All the counsel of men,
all the works of men shall walk on. The counsel of the Lord standeth
in them. David said in Psalm 119, Forever,
O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Men have tried to get
rid of the Word of God. They've tried to get rid of the
Bible. They've tried to burn it. They've
tried to keep men from writing it. They did Jeremiah, that wicked
king. What was his name? I forget.
That wicked king, Jehoram. They brought him the word of
Jeremiah, and he was sitting by a fire, and he kept tearing
pages out of it and throwing it in the fire, until he burnt
the whole book of Jeremiah, burned it all, threw it in the fire.
He said, I don't like that. Don't believe it. I've done away
with it. God sold Jeremiah. Write another one. Forever, O Lord. You can't destroy
the Scriptures. Why? The master copy is in heaven. Write another one. Write another
one. Old Martin Luther was a pillar.
The church is a pillar and ground of the truth. And Martin Luther
said, here I stand. And do no other. And Jesus, you
know, the world deifies men and their works. During the Civil
War, the Confederate troops saw a
man standing back there, Lieutenant Thomas Jonathan Jackson. The
enemy was surrounding them and they looked back and they gathered
strength. They said, there he stands like a stone wall. Stone wall Jacob. No, he fought a losing cause.
He's dead. His body's in the ground. I don't
know if he knew the Lord or not. But I tell you who does stand
like a stone wall. When this whole world ends, there's
one stone that's not going to be left standing. Jesus Christ. He's the stone. He's the wall
around us, isn't He? He's the rock of ages. Clear from me. Deify Him. Look to Him for your safety.
He didn't fight a losing cause. He won. And we win in Him too. There He stands. Like a pillar. And the Spirit of God holds Him
full. A pillar of cloud. Look at this.
It was a cloud and fire. Cloud. Clouds are wonderful. Aren't clouds wonderful? Aren't
they beautiful? glorious part of God's creation,
the cloud. If you've ever flown in an airplane,
it's just amazing. Or just down on earth, look up. You ever laid in a, I know you
have, lay in a field or a yard and look up at the cloud and
look, there's a, look at all the different, just beautiful.
It's God's creation. It should remind us of Jesus
Christ. Every time you see a cloud, think of Him. The whole creation
speaks to Him. The world, clouds, oh no, clouds
are going to, it's going to rain on our parade. The clouds are a covering from
the sun. You know how much we need covering
from the sun? Well, the clouds obscure the
sun so that we cannot see the sun. You can't look on the sun,
can you? You cannot look fully on the
sun. The Lord has to send an eclipse so you can just see a
little of it. It would blind you. I tell you
what, if you ever do see the sun, look into it very long.
You know what will happen to you from then on? You'll see
sunspots before your eyes. Are you with me? If you ever
see Christ in all his glory, you know what you'll see? No
glory of man ever again. You'll see the glory of Christ. Christ will be before your eyes
the rest of your day. But we can't look at the sun
in all its strength. We see him, we know him part,
we see him part. We cannot look at the sun. Christ
had to veil himself in this cloud of flesh. Christ had to veil
himself so that we could see God. Job said, I'm going to see God
in my flesh. And he said, I know my Redeemer
liveth, and he's going to stand at the latter day on this earth.
He did, Job. He did. And he veiled himself so men
and women could see him. But the world didn't see him
like that then. You're just a man. You make yourself to be God.
He got it all backward. He's God. He made himself a man. And one day he took three chosen
disciples. Three chosen disciples. He took
them. He chose them and brought them
up on a mountain and peeled back that cloud, that robe, that veil. And they saw the sun. You know,
they hit their faces, didn't they, John? They couldn't look
on it. They saw the sun that shined in its strength. Cloud. The cloud is protection
from the sun. It obscures the sun, covering
from the sun. It's protection from the sun,
from the heat of the sun. The sun, what is the sun? It's
a fire. It's a consuming fire. You stay
in the sun very long, it'll burn you up. It'll burn you up. Our God is a consuming fire. Christ came. He's called the
Savior of the world. You know that? If Christ hadn't
come, the Lord would have burnt this thing up a long time ago.
And when Christ comes for His people, the Lord is going to
do that. Christ is called the Savior of
the world. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ protects every human
being on this earth until it's time. He gives life, and He saves
that life. We've talked about it before,
these cars, these two-ton hurtling pieces of steel driving by each
other, 70, 80, 90 miles an hour, within five or six feet of each
other, millions, hundreds of millions every day. There ought
to be millions of car crashes. Not. And some, not many. God is merciful. His tender mercies
are over all His work. It's just constant, a clarion
cry. God's what? God takes care of
everybody. God feeds everybody. God protects
everybody until it's time. Okay? That's all he has to do. Okay. Go on now. The cloud protects us from the sun
or else the sun will burn us out. Christ came. Oh, He's the
Savior of sinners. The Gospel's still here. We're
still crying unto rebels, men and women, whom God spares their
life. Kiss the Son. Worship the Son. Come to the Son. Bow to the Son. Lest you perish from the Lamb. The cloud is soothing it. The
cloud is comforting. I told John that y'all come up
when I'm ready. It's just too much. The cloud
is soothing it. The cloud is comforting. The
cloud is relief from the heat of the day. God's Word, God's
Gospel speaks of Christ. The Holy Spirit is our comforter.
Holy Spirit, in our day-to-day labors and sweat and trials,
through fiery trials, what is it that comforts us? What does
the Spirit of God bring to us that comforts us? The Gospel.
We're out there in the heat of the day, in the heat and the
lust of sin. We come in here. We need some
comfort. We need some soothing relief,
don't we? Please. The cloud is the promise of rain. The cloud is the promise of rain.
Oh, don't you love Psalm 72? The whole psalm is about the
King, the coming King. David wrote it. Not about himself,
but about the Son of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to
this. Psalm 72, verse 6 says, well, verse 5, They shall fear
Thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations,
and He shall come down like rain. upon the mown grass, as showers
that water the earth, in His days shall the righteous flourish,
an abundance of peace as long as the moon endureth." I could
keep reading. He'll have dominion from sea to sea. Isn't that wonderful? Look, you have the Gatsby hymnal
in front of you. You got one? I want you to look
at 320. Return to Gatsby's number 320. Brothers and sisters, do you
not see, do you not feel that a dark cloud hangs over this
world? You remember we looked at that.
It was darkness that you could feel when they were holding the
Passover. Remember that? Do you not feel
and see the dark cloud that hangs over this world? There's no dark cloud that hangs
over God's people. It's bright. Look at Isaiah, Gatsby 320. Gatsby 320, verse 3, look at
that. Ye fearful saints, fresh courage
take, the clouds ye so much dread. are big with mercy and shall
break in blessings upon your head. Read on. Judge not the
Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace. Behind the
frowning providence, he hides a smiling face. His
purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour. What is that purpose?
He's abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence unto John,
made known unto his purpose. It's in Christ to gather together. The bud may have a bitter taste,
but sweet will be the flower. The last line says, blind to
unbelief is sure to err, and scan his work in vain. But God
is his own interpreter. He'll make it plain. Oh, it's
not darkness at all. It's light. The world says, I don't see it
that way. No, of course you don't. He's
hid these things in the wisdom of prayer. It's cloudy. Their
judgments is clouded in it. Clouds, not us. We see clearly.
Clouds are a promise of rain. Mercy drops around us are falling. But for the showers we've Come
on down, Lord. Come down, Lord. Come get us.
Clouds are the dust of His feet. You see clouds, you know what
you need to be thinking? He's getting up. He's seated. When He by Himself
purged our sins, He went back and sat down on the right hand
of the Majesty on high. When you see clouds stirring,
you need to think, He's getting up. He's at the door. Smile. He said, I'll make you
smile. And holy cometh. Cometh with
what? Clouds. He went up. How'd they go up? How'd they
go up in the air? A cloud received him to obscure
the world from him. But the disciples stood there
looking. They still saw him. They still saw him. They didn't
want to take their eyes off him. So you met him as you were going,
standing there gazing, just going about you. He's coming. He's
coming back with clouds. And then the clouds shall be
rolled back as a scroll. And that day. And every eye. And you know, someday there's
going to be no more clouds. No more clouds. You don't need
the clouds. There'll be no more sun. The lamb will be the light there.
It's just the most wonderful thing you've ever heard in your
life. That's his name. Our dear sister Tammy, every
time says, that was wonderful. If it's about Jesus Christ, it's
wonderful. His name is wonderful. Do you
not see the wonder and amazement? Every word, every line. You're
so blessed, Teresa. She's sitting there smiling.
He's heard this thousands of times. Is it still new? Is it still a blessing to you?
You must be a child of God, sister. I rejoice. Pillar of fire. Pillar of fire. What did Jeremiah say in chapter
20 and 23? It's not my word like a fire. Didn't it? The Word of God stands
forever like a fire. Fire, long before there was electricity,
there was one source of light in the darkness. Right? The sun was light by day, it
lightened everyone in the world. And by night, fire. Fire. Christ is a light. He's a light. The Spirit of God is a light.
Fire is light. Without light, we're blind. Without
God's Word, we're in darkness, even as others. He said, The
entrance of thy Word giveth light. He said, In thy light, Christ,
we see light. Everything's seen clearly in
light of Christ. Isn't it? I see clearly. You see clearly. Oh, bless God
for the light. Firelight. Verse 20, I close,
it says this came between the Egyptians and the children of
Israel. There's a division between God's
people and the world. Always has been, always will
be. When Christ was on the earth, it says there was a division
because of Him. Constantly, there's a division. Our Lord asked His
disciples, whom do men say that I am? I said some good things. Who do you say to that? You're
the Christ. You're the Son of God. Thomas,
who do you say to that? Thomas, who do you say to that?
Is he God? Thomas? Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you. The Spirit of God. Angel. Angel. Came between them. Came between
them. Our Lord said in His prayer,
John 17, He said to the Father, I've given them Your Word and
the world hates them. I've given them the light of
Thy Word and the world hates them. Just because they have
light. The world loves darkness rather
than light. He that loveth the light cometh
to the night. Well, the world hates it. Why?
Because darkness exposes evil. The world hates it. Exposes their
sin. Fire is light. The fire destroys. The fire burns up. Our Lord said, I am come to bring
fire on earth. He's come to destroy all false
religion. Jesus Christ is the only true
religion. Any other religion is false.
He comes to destroy, burn up the dross in His people, the
vanity, the flesh, get rid of the flesh. Fire, burn the flesh. It won't burn gold. This thing called faith, more
precious than gold, though it be tried with fire. No, I won't
burn up today and cry. Fire purifies. Fire warms. Fire warms. The world hears this. The world hears what I'm preaching
right now, who I'm preaching. It has no effect on them. They'd
rather hear something else. When God's people hear it, you
know what they say? When Christ preached to those disciples on
that road, He said, when He opened up the Scriptures, our hearts
burned. Did not our hearts burn within
us when He opened the Scriptures and showed us Himself? A fire warmed you. Does it still,
if it ever quits warming you? In verse 20, it says, It was
a cloud and darkness to Egypt. He gave light by night to these,
so that the one came not near the other all night. They could
not come nigh one another. They could not get together.
They could not dwell together. They could not. How can light have fellowship
with darkness? It can't. It can't. They couldn't. They didn't. They
wouldn't. If you're comfortable in the
darkness that's in this world, and with the people of this world,
you're yet in darkness. We couldn't. It couldn't come
that easy. There's something that came between
them. Something came between them.
Is that right? And Peter said, now they think
it's strange to God's true people, strangers. He wrote to the strangers.
He said, they're going to think it's strange when you run not
with them, you don't run with them. Can't. There's something
between us. Is it? Is it? I don't like darkness. I don't like it anymore. I don't
like it. Oh, may God make it so for everybody
in this room. Amen.