Draw me nearer. Draw us, and
we'll run to Thee, as the Scripture says. Draw nigh unto God, and
we'll draw nigh unto Thee. Psalm 115. This is a message
for God's people. You notice it keeps saying, O
Israel, O house of Aaron, O those that fear the Lord. This is a
message for God's people who live in this world. present evil world, this world
that we're tempted with, tempted by, this world in which we're
tried, trial of our faith. Every day is a trial of the faith
of God's elect. This world brings us trouble,
full of trouble, sadness, sorrows, this world. This is a message
for those, for God's people in this world, In the world you
shall have tribulation. This is a message for us to trust
the Lord. Do you need it? I do. A title could be not unto us,
O Lord. For the Lord is, the Lord hath,
the Lord shall. Not unto us. This is how it begins.
Not unto us, O Lord. Why are we here? What we hear
today is not about us. It's not about any of it. Not unto us. Not unto us. But unto thy name give glory
for thy mercy and thy truth's sake. Not unto us. Aren't you
glad? If you know this, rejoice and
be glad that salvation's of the Lord. It's not of us. Aren't
you glad it's not up to us? Aren't you glad it's not our
choice, not our will, not our work? Aren't you glad? We ought
to be saying hallelujah. Not unto us. We're accepted in the beloved. For Christ's sake, God saves
us. Not unto us, not unto us. No power. We don't have any power. No glory should be given to us. No thanks should be given to
us. Salvation is of the Lord. No thanks to us. No, not unto us. No room for
boasting. Our Lord, the Scripture says,
not that we love God, but that He loved us. Our Lord said, You
have not chosen me, I have chosen you. Scripture says it's not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
His mercy He has saved us. Not under us, not under us. But under Thy name, Thy name
be glory and praise and honor. Blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord, all that He is, the
Lord, the Lord God, the Lord God merciful and gracious, the
Lord our Creator, the Lord our King, the Lord our Provider,
the Lord our Judge. Judgment and righteousness. Our
Lord, the Judge of all the earth. Aren't you glad He's in absolute
control of everybody and everything? Because He'll do what's right.
Always, I told the sisters morning, I said, the judge of the earth
does right. He cannot do wrong. He has to
do you good. Trust Him. Trust Him. The Lord our Creator, the Lord
our King, the Lord Jesus Christ is our God, isn't He? Yes, He
is. I don't care what men say. He's
God. That's His name. Our God, our Lord, and our God. For Your mercy, Mercy. I like the sound of that word.
Mercy. Oh, not unto us, but we give
glory to our Lord for His mercy's sake. Oh, don't you love Lamentations
3? If you don't know it, you need
to know it. It says it's of the Lord's mercies that we're not
consumed. Not consumed by the world, not consumed by our sin,
not consumed By the God of this, by the God Himself who is consuming
fire. We're not consumed by sorrow
and troubles. We'd not be consumed. Our Lord
said He will not have dominion over you. Why? Because He has
dominion over us. His mercy, His mercy is kindness. That's what mercy means. It means
not only not getting what we deserve, but His kindness toward
us through Christ Jesus our Lord. Oh, His compassion, full of compassion. They fail not. They're new every
morning. You know, that's what we ought
to dwell on. You know, we need to wake up
thinking about not our troubles, but God's mercy and compassion. Listen to Titus chapter 3. If you don't know it, you needn't
know it. But Titus chapter 3 says this,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according
to His mercy He has saved us. Now the washing of regeneration,
renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Savior, justified by His grace. And I could keep
reading. God who cannot lie, he said. Chapter 1. Hope of eternal life that God
cannot lie. I promised. Not unto us, no. We give all
glory to God for His mercy and for His truth's sake. What's
truth? Well, I just told you. I just
told you. I've been telling you all morning.
It's God's Word. In a day full of lies and deceit,
the God of this world is deceiving the world and everybody, telling
them lies. He started in a garden. He's
continued to do it. He's a master of lies, a master
of deception. What's the truth? Is there truth?
Yes, there is. And you're looking at it. You're
hearing it. And that truth is a person. The
Word of God was manifest. Dwelt among us. Truth personified. He is the truth. The whole truth
and nothing but the truth. He's the way, the truth, and
the life, the truth. Oh, how we thank God. Jesus Christ,
whatever He says is truth. He cannot lie. Cheer up. Trust Him. Don't listen to anybody
else. Don't trust in men. Don't trust
in princes, rulers. Trust in the Lord. He cannot
lie. He is the truth. Can I shout
that louder? Trust the Lord. Don't trust anybody
else. Trust Him. Don't take your chances. Take Him at His word. Don't take
anybody else's word for it. Take His word. He's the truth. For thy truth's sake. Doctrine?
It's a person. My salvation is 1,000% hinging on, depending on a person. Not what I know, John. It's Him
knowing me. That makes me happy. I think myself happy to say these
things again this morning. For as mercy and as truth, Psalm
85 says, mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and
peace have kissed each other. Where? At Calvary on the cheeks
of Jesus Christ. That's God's mercy. That's God's
truth. That's God's righteousness. That's
our righteousness. And that's our peace. That's
how we have peace with God. Christ hath died. I could close right now. I've
got to quit. Let's go home. Isn't that wonderful? Isn't he
wonderful? Isn't he wonderful? Not unto us. You see why we say,
not unto us. This service, Brother Kelly,
is not about us. God forbid that we should talk
about us. We ain't worth talking about,
Sister Sally, Sister Sarah. We ain't worth talking about.
We talked to a woman that went to that church out there. They're all the same. We asked her why she went there.
You remember, Ben? She waited on it. I said, why
do you go there? She said, because he makes me feel good about myself.
Because he makes me feel like I'm a better wife. I want you to go away from this
place feeling real bad about yourself and feeling real good
about Jesus Christ. I want you to be so convicted
of your sin that you have no other recourse but to look to
Jesus Christ and Him alone. I want you to go from this place
trusting Jesus Christ alone. Feeling real good about your
salvation because your salvation is in the hands of the Lord. And everybody you know is in
His hands and He cannot, He cannot, it's not possible for Him to
do wrong. Not possible. And one of these
days we're going to, you know, we live by trust, we live by
faith right now, and one of these days we're going to see, we're
going to know if we've been known. Buddy, are we going to sing then?
We're so self-conscious. Singing, you know, oh, I don't
sound very good. Who cares what you sound like?
We're singing unto Him. One of these days. Don't you
look forward. Let me go on. That's just the first
verse. Why should the heathen, the heathen says this, where
is now their God? The heathen says, where is now
your God? Where is your God? The unbelieving,
scoffing, mocking world that says there is no God. Religious
work. There God's not God. We'll see
that. Where is He? Especially in calamities and
disasters and troubles and traumatic things and plagues and all that.
Where is your God now? Where is now your God? Where
is your God now? Look at all this. I thought you
said God loved us. How could a loving God let this
happen? Where is He? Why didn't He do something? Why didn't he say something?
He has. You ain't listening. He hath
done something. He's doing something. He ever
shall do. In fact, he's working all things. He's working all things. You
just don't see it. Where is he? David said, I'll
tell you where he is. Where I got him. He's in the
heavens. He's seated at the right hand
of the majesty on high. He's seated on the circle of
the earth. You know, there's a popular saying
out there. People put it on their shirts,
WWJD. What would Jesus do? You cannot
fear and know the Lord Jesus Christ and abbreviate His name. I'm here to tell you what the
Lord Jesus Christ hath done and is doing and ever shall do. That's
what this book tells us. What would Jesus do? If you don't
know, you need to find out what He did, what He came to do. Did He do it? Ain't no hope otherwise. And David says, Our God, and
Jesus Christ is God, hath done, not hope to do, not will do if
you let him, hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. You like that? Only those that
love God as God like that. I've preached these things and
watched the veins pop out on people's necks. Our God is sovereign. Your God
is sovereign. Everybody's God is sovereign
whether they know Him or not. Our God is God. He does not want
to be God. He's not running for election.
He does elect Him. He's not hoping and wishing Let
me tell you what God is pleased to do. He hath done whatever
He's pleased. Alright? It pleased the Lord. He goes on down to say the heaven,
verse 16, the heaven, even the heavens are the Lord. Okay? It pleased the Lord to make a
heaven and an earth. And when He did, He said, this is good.
It pleased Him. He made man. It pleased Him. Man was holy
and upright. It pleased Him. He was pleased
with His creation and His in it. Pleased. But oh, didn't man
fall? And God was not pleased. And
oh, has this world full of mankind displeased God? It's so much
so. God says, I wish I'd never made
Him. Humanistic. He knew what He was
doing. And for this reason, Praise His
holy name. It pleased Him to make you His
people. Some of these God-haters, it
pleased the Lord. Let me tell you who it pleased
the Lord to save. He's hanging on a cross. And
there's a man beside him that's never done one ounce of good
his whole life. All he's been is a mean, rotten, no good, worthless
murderer and a thief, and he's never done one good work in his
life. He's never spoken one thing but
cursing and bitterness his whole life. He's hurt everybody he's
come in contact with. He's cussed God. He's hurt everybody else. He's
hanging there ready to die. That's the first person Jesus
Christ took into heaven with Him. It pleased the Lord to make
that man one of His people. Why? Because who could do such
a thing but the Lord? Who gets the glory now? What
has this man done? Nothing! Well, who did this? He did! Christ did it. It pleased the Lord to make you
His people, not unto us. We didn't accept Him. We didn't
receive Him. We didn't let Him be. Oh no,
He let us. Please God to choose some. Bless
God that He chose anybody. Bless God that He elected anybody.
We didn't choose Him. And He passed some by. He passed
some by. It pleased the Lord to pass them
by. What if God, willing to show
his sovereignty, his power, made the same lump, same lump, mind
you, one vessel under honor and another under dishonor? What
do you say about that? I'd say hallelujah that God made
anything out of that lump. Then he's going to go on to say
that he visited us, he's mindful of that. Oh, my. It pleased the
Lord, pleased God. In order to make you His people,
whom it pleased to make you His people, it pleased God to bruise
His Son. There's no other way for us to
be God's people. No other way. but to make his
son a sacrifice for sin, a burn offer, to kill his only son. No other way. To make me his
son. Why would he do that? According to the good pleasure
of his will. That's why John, that's why Paul, when he
names the blessings of God, he doesn't name one physical thing. All spiritual blessings in heaven
and the planet, that's where it is, in Christ Jesus. It's
all according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of
the glory of His grace. And in the ages to come, He's
going to show us seeding riches of His grace and His kindness,
His mercy toward us through Christ Himself. I wish I could preach
this like it ought to be preached. We all will someday. This truth,
who God is and what He hath done and shall do, who Christ is,
it's truth to make us trust Him. Do you hear me? It ought to make
us trust Him. Trust the Lord. Trust the Lord. Look at what He says about their
God, verses 6, 4 through Their idols are silver and gold. You know, that doesn't just mean
that they made an idol, you know, like a statue or something out
of silver and gold. People worship silver and gold. That's their security. They depend on their riches to,
you know, keep them on through their old age and all that. Boy,
what a vain thing to trust. You know that paper money, well
you better find gold and you better throw that paper away
or exchange it. Because one day it's not going
to be worth anything but toilet paper. That's right. Well, their idols are the works
of men's hands. Isn't that right? An idol is
something man made up, something man imagined, and this is how
our God is. Isn't that right? Isn't that true of the people
of this world? That their God is not according to Scripture,
but the way they think He is. Our Lord said that in Psalm 50,
didn't He? Thou thoughtest. Listen. The Lord said, Thou thoughtest
I was altogether such a one as thyself, like a man. He said,
I'm going to set things in order for you. You're going to find
out. He's God. He's not a man. You
can't let God be God. Can you? No. Read on. It says they have mouths,
but they speak not. Why doesn't God say something?
He speaks to me every day. Doesn't he? Does he speak to
you? If you speak to him, he speaks
to you. Doesn't he, brothers and sisters? How? Well, they have eyes, but they
see not. They have ears, but they hear
not, noses, and they smell not, have hands, but handle not, feet
have they, but they walk not, neither speak they through their
throat. You know, every single false preacher says this very
thing. God has no hands but your hands,
no feet but your feet. Every one of them. Southern Baptists
are the most conservative Bible-believing denomination on this earth. Southern
Baptists. And every single one of those
so-called soul winners says that. God has no hands but your hands.
No feet but your head. Your feet. In other words, God
can't do anything unless his hands are trying. You know, you
didn't have any hands. He doesn't have any hands, no
feet. He can't do anything unless you
let him. He's a quadriplegic. How many times on every page
do we not see that everything is in our God's hands? The God in whose hands our breath
is in all our ways. Are you glad that our God has
hands? Sister Irene, are you not glad
that you're totally in God's hands? That that surgeon is in
God's hands? We don't trust ourselves into
the hands of anybody. We are trusting in the hands
of our Lord. Oh, look at verse... Let me tell
you a little story. Some of you have heard this,
some have not. Brother Walter Gruber told it
as being true. A young boy in Mexico heard the
gospel. And there's nowhere that idolatry
is more... If you want to see Catholicism as true light, go
to Mexico. You want to see priest crap,
wicked priests extorting people for money while they all live
in dirt floors and grass huts, while they live in palaces by
the pesos that they bring them. If you want to see it in its
true life, you want to see the idolatry, the true idolatry of Catholicism,
go to Mexico. All right? Big old cathedrals
in the middle of town, everybody around them has barely enough
to eat. Wicked! And yet they bow and scrape to
these fellas and want them to bless them and have favor before
God. Anyway, the Lord sent a man,
a simple steel mill worker named Walter Groover to Mexico in 1962
or something like that. With the gospel, the power of
God, the sword of God, went down there, traveling out in the jungles,
And God called out his sheep, saved them by the power of God,
the gospel, and they all bowed to the true and living God. Seven
thousand reserved unto himself that didn't bow to that priest.
Bowing to Jesus Christ. Anyway, Walter told the story
of a young boy who the Lord saved, young, I don't know how old he
was, but his dad, his father had all kinds of idols at home.
And they do, they literally have these statues. They have them
here. Everywhere. People wear them around their
neck. They got them on their dashboard. Got them in their
yard. Yes, that's an idol. Anyway, this boy tries to tell
his dad. Dad, those, in Spanish, those
idols are nothing. Those are not gods. They can't
do anything. They can't do anything. And he
got indignant. He said, those are my gods. And
he worshiped and he bowed down before Mary, the statue of Mary,
and here's the statue of Jesus, over here's the statue of Saint
Christopher. They're all equal. Well, one day the father was
gone, and the little boy took a hammer. And there were about six or seven
of those gods lined up. He took a hammer and busted every
single one to pieces. Busted every single one except
the last one. He laid that hammer right there
beside that last one. And the father came home that
day. He looked and his guards were busted. And he was indignant. He was furious. He said, Who
did this? Who destroyed my guards? The
little boy came up and said, That one did it. That lone God sitting there.
He said, foolish boy, he can't do anything. He said, I've been
trying to tell you that. You don't want a God who tries
and fails. You don't want a God who wants
to save you and can't unless you let Him. You want a God that's
going to save you in spite of yourself. God doesn't force people. Oh,
yes, He does. Go out in the highways and the hedges and compel them.
My dad used to compel me. He'd grab me by the arm. You're
coming. I don't want to come. You're
coming. I'm so thankful. Aren't you,
Kelly? I'm locked, living inside of
them. The Lord is merciful to me. Aren't
you, John? He's being merciful. He laid
hold of me, drew me with a cord, lassoed me with a halter, a short
lead rope. Not under us. Not under us. You see that? My salvation didn't have anything
to do with me. Not under us. Oh, and now look at this. Oh,
Israel trusts now in the Lord. He's their help. He's their shield. Trust thou in the Lord, O Israel,
sons of Jacob. O ye sons of Jacob. Jacob? Who's
Jacob? Oh, bless his heart. That's what
you say. Southern women say that about
somebody that's ugly. Well, bless her heart. That's us, isn't it? Ugly and
powerless. Bless his heart, Jacob. What
a sinner. What a sorry fellow. Oh, happy
is he that hath the God of Jacob for his head. God said, Jacob
have I loved. Really? Yes. Jacob have I said. Fear not thou worm, Jacob. I've
made a covenant for you. I've given Egypt for thee. Ethiopia
and Saba for thy ransom. You're precious to me. Really?
Jacob? I hate Esau. He ought to be hated. So should Jacob. But God said
His love. on Jacob. And whoever God sets
His love upon, He puts Christ's blood on them. And whoever Christ's
blood is put on, the Holy Spirit comes and regenerates them. They
hear the gospel. Okay? And whoever hears the gospel,
going to glory. God chose them. Christ died for
them. The Holy Spirit regenerated them. Salvation of the Lord.
Not unto us. Not unto them. Oh, Israel, trust
thou in the Lord. Bernard used to say, two books,
you just need two books, a Bible and a dictionary. And I'm finding
that more true all the time. I'm talking about Webster's Dictionary,
or Oxford if you fancy. Two books, a Bible and a dictionary.
Listen, listen carefully to the dictionary meaning of trust. Would you listen to this? See
if you can sit still. Trust means to rely on the integrity,
the truthfulness, the strength, the ability, the suretyship of
a person or thing. Didn't you hear that? Trust means
to rely on the integrity, the truth, the strength, the ability,
the power, the surety, of someone that you trust. That's Christ, that's the Lord,
that's God, the surety. Turn to Genesis 43. Genesis 43. Melanie, turn to Genesis 43.
This is wonderful. Deborah, all you who love these
old types, This is wonderful. The surety. That's the verb,
trust. Listen to the noun. Listen to
the noun. And you don't need to know grammar,
but I'm teaching you. Trust is someone you look to
and rely on. A noun is something that's been
given. A thing, all right? It means
a charge given. Custody given. Care given. the full responsibility for another
given to someone else. That's Christ. He, Johnny, I keep calling the
same names, Patrick, the Lord God entrusted, gave this trust
to Jesus Christ of the people He set His love on. He gave the
trust of Jesus Christ, the care, the custody, the suretyship,
the responsibility of all that God chose to Jesus Christ. Can
he do it? I trust he can. I trust he has. I trust he does. I trust he shall. We're kept by the power of God
and Jesus Christ is the power of God. Genesis 43, I didn't
even turn there. Look at this. I love the story
of Judah the surety. If you've never heard it, oh
my. Joseph was on the throne. Okay? That's Jesus Christ. God hath
made him Lord over them. And all these sorry sons of Jacob, Sinned against him. Hated him.
Joseph, so merciful, so loving, so gracious. Purpose to save
him. Well, they didn't know him. And Joseph told these brothers
when they came before him. They didn't know him. He knew
them. Purpose to save him. He said, don't. He said, you
have another brother, don't you? A younger. They said, yes. His name's Benjamin. And Joseph
said, Don't come back here. I will not see your face unless
that brother is with you. Do not come before me. You will not behold my face,
and I won't look on you if you don't bring that son back with
you. Do you know that Christ is all?
You do know that, don't you? Christ is Joseph. Christ is the
Son. Christ is Judah. But alright, Judah stood forth. Look at Genesis 43, verse 8.
Judah said unto Israel his father. Now this is the surety speaking
to Israel his father. He needs to bring the Son back. And he said in verse 8, send
the lad with me. We will arise and go, that we
may live and not die, both we and thou, and also our little
ones. I will be surety for him. Of my hand shalt thou require
him. If I bring him not unto thee
and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever. I am his surety. Judas said,
I will be his surety. If I don't bring him back to
you, I will take the blame forever. Did he? Yes, he did. Our Lord Jesus Christ is called
the surety of an everlasting covenant. God entrusted him. Gave him full custody of, charge
of, responsibility for all the people that God chose. And Christ
said, I will be their surety. If I don't bring every single
one of them back to you, hold me to them. And you know what
he said on the cross, don't you? Joseph, you know what he said
on the cross? I have kept them. Not one you've given me, I know.
And He's going to say in the last day, Behold, I and the children
which thou hast given me. We got a good hope, don't we? A good hope. Assurity. So trust
in the Lord. Oh, house of Israel. Oh, house
of Aaron. That's the preacher. You know
that? He's the spokesman. Oh, house of Aaron. That's the
preacher. I want to trust the Lord. I'm
telling you to trust the Lord. I want to trust the Lord. I'm
telling you, I'm preaching trust and faith. Well, I want to believe. I want to lead by faith. I want
to be an example in faith. I urge you and exhort you. I
want to lead by example. Here's what he says. He is our
help and our shield. He kept saying that over and
over again. O Israel, trust in the Lord. He is our help. There
is no help anywhere else. Vain is a helpful man. Don't
run to Pharaoh for help. Don't run to Egypt for help.
They can't help you. They can't help you. He is our
help, right? And He's a very present help
in times of trouble. I love that story. I was going
to have you turn again. keep having you turn to 2 Chronicles
20, Jehoshaphat and all Israel surrounded by the enemy, and
Jehoshaphat said, we don't have any power, we don't know where
to turn, our eyes are upon them. God doesn't help those that help
himself. Would you find that in the Bible
for me? It ain't there. I'll tell you who he is. Those
who can't help themselves. There was a man sick of the palsy.
He'd been lying on his bed for years. He couldn't move. Well,
come to Christ, he couldn't. What happened, John? Christ had
him brought to him. They carried him. They fetched
him. I love this gospel. Oh, Israel,
He's our help and He's our shield. He's our shield. Not long ago, this really meant
something to us, didn't it? Just a few years ago. Boy, how
time flies. Oh, how people forget. This really
meant something to us. God is our shield. greatly helped
us while the world was literally putting up shields and trusting
in their shields to save them. Some still do, bless their heart.
It's still true. It was true then, it's true now.
God is our shield. Our shield. Listen, I'm going
to quote it to you until the day I die. Okay? Until the day
I die. Okay? It says this, I will lay
me down in peace and sleep for thou, Lord, only makest me to
dwell in safety. David was surrounded by everybody
that wanted him dead. Arrows flying throughout the
sky. Swords drawn by everybody he
came across. He died in his old age. Listen to this. I'll preach this
to the day I die. Oh, let them that put their trust
in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy because
thou defendest them. Let them also that love thy name
be joyful in thee, for thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous. With favor wilt thou compass
him as a shield. Compassed about. These men pray
all the time. Hedge him about. I am. We are. Job, nobody could touch Job.
Couldn't touch him. That's the Lord said so. That's
our God, sister. Aren't you glad? There's a psalm
that says the shields of the earth, Psalm 47, the shields
of the earth. Do you know, those of you who
paid any attention in science class, do you know that there's
a protective barrier around this whole earth to keep the sun from
burning us in? You know that? Where'd that come
from? This protective barrier to keep
these flying meteors, these objects being hurled at us from striking
us. These fiery darts from touching
us. There's a shield around the earth.
Yes, there is, literally. Science, unbelievers acknowledge
it. There's a shield. Who put it
there? The Lord is our shield. What are you afraid of? Who are you
afraid of? I'm so happy. This makes me happy. The Lord is our shield. Read
on, I close. It says in verse 11, you that
fear the Lord, trust in the Lord. Don't fear anybody else. Trust
in the Lord. You won't fear anybody or anything
else. He's their help and their shield.
Listen, verse 12, the Lord has been mindful of us. Brothers
and sisters, what you're hearing right now means the Lord is mindful
of you. What is man that thou art mindful
of him? The son of man that thee visits him. If you're hearing this, you're
blessed. The world is not hearing this. He will bless us. He's been mindful
of us, His people. He's set His mind on whoever
He sets His mind on, His affection on, His love upon. Oh, my. There He is forever. He will
bless us. That's the house of Israel, sons
of Jacob. He will bless us. People say,
have a blessed day. Well, I have, I am, and I shall. Because this is a blessing of
all blessings. We know God. Rejoice, He said. Not that devils are subjects,
but your names are written in it. That you're known of God. He will bless us. He will bless
the house, verse 12. He'll bless the house of Israel.
He'll bless the house of Aaron. Oh, how the Lord has blessed
us together as a church, hasn't He? Oh, how He's blessed me personally
to study and preach His gospel. How He's blessed and He continues
to bless. I'm so thankful. Bless His holy name. It hasn't
dried up yet? The fountain hasn't dried up
yet? I don't think it's ever going
to. It gets deeper. He will bless them that fear the Lord. Small
and great. Those that fear the Lord, that
trust the Lord, that look to the Lord only. He will bless
them. Small and great. Little faith,
great faith. Listen. In that ark, Noah's ark,
in the midst of that perishing world, Inside that ark, Shem's
wife was trembling and scared as that ship was rocking and
those waves were crashing and the thunders rolling. She's scared. She's trembling. And over here,
Noah's just feeding, singing, whistling, singing, feeding the
lamb, feeding the rocket. That was a bad one. No, it's
good. It's all good. It's all good.
Feeding and feeding. He's happy. He's happy. Who's
saved? Which one's saved? Both of them. Why? The ark. Small and great. In the houses
in Israel. When the death angel's passing
through. Inside that house is a young
boy. And he hears the cries of all the people in Egypt, the
screams, the terror. He smells death outside. And he's scared to death. Over
here in the corner is Moses. Joshua, Caleb, they're just eating
that lamb. Oh, isn't this good? Isn't this
good? Give me another helping of that lamb. Give me plenty
of that unleavened bread, too. Isn't this wonderful? Wonderful.
All the screams and all that. Full of faith. No worries, no
doubts, no fears. Who's saved? Who's saved? That trembling little
small child or that strong, resolute captain named Joshua? Who say
both of them? Why? The blood. He will bless. Small and great. The Lord shall increase you.
Oh, I want to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord, don't
you? More and more. You and your children. You know the Lord is
going to say He has saved some of our children and He's going
to. He's going to. He promised to. Yeah, he is. He has. We've seen
it. You know, all these children
are our children. Huh? They were there when your
children were born. They're our children. And if
the... I mean this with all my heart.
I want my grandchildren to be saved. I do. Brother, if the Lord saves everyone,
I'm going to shout. He's going to. He's going to
save somebody. This gospel is being preached.
He's going to save somebody. And we'll shout hallelujah. You're
blessed to the Lord. You're blessed. He made heaven
and earth the heaven. The heavens are the Lord's. Verse
16, the earth that be given to the children of men. Let them
have it. Right? I've had a taste of it. I've been through it. And it
ain't all I thought it was. In fact, there ain't nothing
to it. I want a new heaven and a new earth, don't you? The dead, verse 17, praise not
the Lord. No. There was a time I didn't. Dead
and trespassing sin. And those will go down into silence.
But we will bless the Lord from this time, right now, this day. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Let
all the people bless the Lord. And, boy, forevermore are we
ever going to praise the Lord. Why? Because it's not under us. Not under us. Okay, Brother John, you come.