Thank you, John. Thank you, Jeanette,
for serving us in song and music. We thank you. Sorry, forgive us for not thanking
you more. John 1, Gospel of John, Chapter
1, what a glorious, glorious subject. We have before us this
morning, we have five words, five more smooth stones taken
out of the brook of God, any one of which slayed the giant
of unbelief. Behold, the Lamb of God. That's what John preached three
times. He was preaching our Lord and he said, he said, He that
cometh after me is preferred before me, he was before me,
and of his fullness have all we received. Grace for grace.
The law came by Moses, grace and truth by Christ. And then
verse 29, the next day, he preached Christ the Lamb the first day.
The next day, he seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, Behold,
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And
in verse 35, the next day, the third day, John stood with two
of his disciples, looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said,
Behold, the Lamb of God. Oh, may we behold the Lamb of
God. This is the message of all the
Scriptures. You know that? All the Scriptures. You know where the first mention
of Lamb was? Genesis 22. My son, God, will provide himself
a lamb. Isaac said, where's the lamb?
He said, God will provide. He's been there all along, like
that lamb, that ram. He was there before Isaac, before
Abraham and Isaac got up on that mountain. And we have a lamb,
there's a lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Every
one of God's people. before we were born. Behold.
Let's look at each word. Verse 29 says, Behold. I'll stop right there. We don't
use that word much, do we? We just don't. Because there's
just nothing that we have to say that's worth really beholding,
is what this is. The word means blow. The same
word. You know, when the Lord chose,
I thought about this, the Lord chose to reveal Himself to the
Hebrews and to speak His truth and write it in the Hebrew language. Apparently, it was a language
very beautiful, very complex, that words in it, and I found
this out, that words in it, you do it, you do word studies, don't
you love it? You look at one word and just
keep, just keep, just keep, just keep, wow, look at that, ooh,
wow. Behold means low. You ever heard that? Low. I come. And the volume of the
book is written under that. The word means look. Behold means
look. Like somebody that's bitten by
a serpent. Look. Or somebody that's It's
perishing. Look! Somebody's coming. Behold. It means to look, to
wonder, to look at with surprise and joy. Behold. Behold. Oh, may we behold His
glory. May we. Some have. Some in here
have. We're going to see more of them.
Some have. You know, all will. Everyone
will behold Him whom they have pierced. But it's salvation to
behold Him now. If we behold His glory now, we
will be with Him in glory then. Because He said, I will that
they be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory. Again, 30 minutes of silence
as we behold Him. His glory. Behold, The Lamb. There's one, isn't
there? Just one. Definite article. Singular. There's one sacrifice. one name under heaven, given
among men, only one, whereby we must be saved. There's one
sent by God, one mediator between God and man, the man, Christ
Jesus. Behold thee. He said, I am, and
he keeps saying this, John 14, I am the way, He doesn't have
comma, way, truth, life. No. The way, the truth, and the
life. Verily, verily. And the way,
singular. Definite. Only one. Capital. Particular option. The way, the
truth, the life. Behold the Lamb. The Lamb. Our Lord, in His infinite
wisdom, chose the Lamb, a Lamb, to be the greatest type of the
Lord Jesus Christ, of all the creatures on the earth. And I
hope you'll bear with me. I hope you'll see. You do well
to bear with me. I'm going to talk about the Lamb.
The Lord chose the Lamb as an emblem, as a picture of His Son,
because it represents Christ more than any other. We're going
to see this, I hope. No creature better represents
the Son of God than the Lamb. I want to show you the contrast
between Christ the Lamb and mankind. Man is a worm. Christ is the Lamb. And I don't
know if anyone has been around them very much. I have, a little
bit. A lamb is perhaps the most innocent
creature on earth. We've held, we've actually literally
held a newborn lamb in our arms. They are just You look in their face, you look
at them, and they are just precious. There's just no other word for
it. Innocent. No sin. No guilt. No animals have any
guilt or sin. They bear ours, don't they? They've grown because of ours.
Isn't that a good picture? They die because of our sin. What a picture that is. Our Lord
is represented by so many animals in it. The bullock, the turtle
dove, the calf, the deer, the carp. But a lamb is innocent. A lamb is innocent. It's non-violent. It's just so
precious, so dear. Man is the opposite of innocent. Man is guilty of all charges,
of all sin. There's not a sin that man hadn't
committed and thought about and wanted to commit. Guilty. A lamb
is innocent. Our Lord is without sin. A lamb is harmless. A lamb is
not going to hurt you. A lamb is not going to eat you. Oh, a lamb. You need not fear
a lamb. Now listen. You notice in Revelation
5, before they saw a lamb, they saw a lion. Right? That's important. Before the
lamb is mentioned, he's called a lion. A lion. We bow to him. We fear the king. But then when
we see him as the lamb, When we see the King of kings and
Lord of lords who became a man, who became a sacrifice for sinners,
the blood offering of the Lord, who did what he did, who made
himself lower than the angel for the suffering of death, who
made himself of no reputation, a king, became a servant, and
sacrificed himself, offered himself without spot to God for our sin,
then he says unto us through the gospel, fear not. If you're
not, He's not going to devour you. He's not going to destroy
you as a lion would. And the lion will. But He came
to save you if you're not a lamb. Man is far from harmless. Man is violent. That's what it said of man in
Genesis 6 right before the Lord. He said he repented me. I've
made man. He said the whole earth had corrupted my way. Everything that's good and decent
and holy and wholesome and just and holy like God, everything
good, everything the way God purposed it to be and created
it to be, man has defiled and corrupted everything. And now
you see it, don't you see it? It's finally, we're in the very
last of the last day. No doubt about it. Just like
as in the days of Noah. God said the whole earth everywhere
can't find anywhere where man's imagination is not completely
evil continually every day. He's corrupted my way and he
said it's full of violence. And it's full of violence. Blood
is a sport. Blood was not meant to be shed. You know that? It's the life
of the flesh. There wouldn't be no blood shed
without sin, if there wasn't sin. And the Lord's the first
one to shed blood, and it wasn't man's. It wasn't man's blood. It was a substitute. It was a
lamb to sacrifice because of man's sin. Blood is a precious
thing, isn't it? Blood. It's not meant to be shed.
It's not meant to be a sport. It's not meant for men to take
pleasure in. Our Lord said, don't drink it.
He said of His people, you're not bloody, bloodthirsty, bloody
men. Oh, the rivers of blood that
man has shed, his own, mankind, his own kind. You know, there wouldn't be animals,
predators, if it wasn't for sin. On the ark, the lion laid down
with the lamb. The wolf, the lion with the bullet
and the wolf with the lamb. Right? They didn't eat each other
in that ark. Because a sin of blood was shed,
and man's the one doing it. Rivers of blood. The first man's
blood was shed was Cain, his brother Abel. And our Lord said
the blood of Abel speaks out of him. Man is a bloody creature
in him. Violence. Our Lord harmless.
Holy, harmless, separate from sinners. Separate from sinners. How could He come down here and
be with us? It always amazes me to think of how our Lord,
His holy nature was absolutely repulsed by everything. And He could hear people's thoughts. What mercy! A lamb is a prey,
an animal of prey. In other words, other animals
prey on the animal. Man's a predator, isn't he? As
I've said before, and you know it's so. You've seen the eye,
you've looked into the eyes of many unregenerate people, especially
sodomites. Seriously. It's the eye of a
predator, isn't it? It's an animal looking for a
victim, looking for an object of its lusts. That's man. That's
man. Scripture says Christ has dove's
eyes. Have you ever seen the eyes of
a dove? Lord, every now and then has
a dove sit on the bench outside my study. He does that just for
me. That dove just sits there, beautiful,
harmless, holy. Yeah, holy. He's not like us,
is he? He's not like us. He's altogether
lovely, beautiful. Animal of prey. A lamb is a lamb
of meekness and submission. Look at Isaiah 53. We can't talk
about the lamb unless we look at Isaiah 53. A lamb is meek, a lamb is submissive,
a lamb is humble. Look at this, Isaiah 53, verse
4, oh my. Verse 3, he's a man despised
and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Ours. We hid, as it were, our faces
from him. He was despised. We esteemed him as nothing. Surely,
though he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he
was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone
astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way, but the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth
not his mouth. It's true, I've seen it. Sheep
being shorn. You know what they do? When you
lay hold of them. Now their wool is their glory
in it. Their wool is their covering.
Sheep's wool. Their glory. It's their covering.
And what you're going to do is you're going to strip them. You're
going to strip that sheep of its covering. To cover yourself
with. And what happens when you lay
hold. I've seen it done. They lay hold of that sheep and
that sheep just submits. It may have been crying out before.
And it stops. And it submits. Willingly. To be shorn. And that's our Lord. They went to the cross. And they
leveled all kinds of charges. False charges against Him. False
charges. And it says He opened not His
mouth. Why? Because He's us. He's taken
our place. He's taken our guilt. He committed
no sin, but He's burying our sins in His body on the tree.
God made Him to be sin. He didn't do any sin. He did
no sin. In Him was no sin. But God put
sin, our sins, in Him and on Him. And He willingly and humbly submitted
to being made sin. Listen to Peter, what Peter says,
1 Peter chapter 4. He says, Christ, when he was
reviled, reviled not again. Reviled not again. In him was no sin. He did no
sin. He was reviled. He reviled not
again. He suffered. He threatened not. He committed
himself to him that judged righteously, who his own self bare our sins
in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should
live unto righteousness. By whose stripes you were healed. You were a sheep gone astray,
but now returned unto Thee, Thee, Shepherd, capital S. Pastor and
Bishop, capital B, of yourself. By whose stripes you're healed.
A sheep is shorn that we might be covered. Useful. There's no more useful animal
on earth than a sheep. What use is man? Do you mind
telling me? God made him for one purpose,
to glorify God. You can't give anything to God.
You can't add anything to God. You can't do anything for God.
Scripture says that. If you're righteous, if you're
not, you can't do anything or take anything away from God.
But here's the one thing that man is supposed to do. This is
the one thing that man is made to do, is glorify God first with
his mouth. And what does the Scripture say?
Out of the heart proceed adultery and fornication, and the lips,
Throats open, man just curses his Maker. Oh, but our Lord, out of His
mouth bore grace, and grace flowed from His lips. Mercy, when He
opened His mouth, grace poured forth. Truth, man
is born speaking lies. Our Lord was born speaking truth.
and never spoke anything but the truth. The whole truth. Nothing
but the truth. So help me. God's in it. Oh, there's no more useful creature
on earth than a lamb and there's no more worthless creature on
earth than man. His mind, his heart, his hands,
his feet are spent in sin against his maker. But our Lord used
his hands for the glory of God, his feet, for the glory of God,
His mind, His heart. He loved Him with all His mind,
heart, soul, flesh, strength. Oh my! God said, Behold My servant. I am well pleased. Like a lamb. A lamb is so useful. A lamb is
for food. A lamb gives its whole self. We use every part of a lamb.
A lamb is food. A lamb is clothing. Isn't that
our Lord? A lamb is good for two things.
Food and raiment. And our Lord said, having food
and raiment be content. Well, if you have Christ, you
have all that. Food, all you need. And raiment. Food and raiment. Clothing, covering. You know what? We wouldn't wear
clothes right now if it wasn't for sin. I've got a new coat
here this morning. I'm wearing it. I got it at the
Goodwill. Six dollars. Seriously, looks
good, doesn't it? I wouldn't need this. I thought
it looked pretty good. But I wouldn't need this. We
all brag on it. We're proud of our clothing.
We're proud of that which we need to cover this ugly flesh.
Why wouldn't we be proud of that which we wouldn't need if the
flesh wasn't so full of rotten, sin, right? You take all our
clothes off, we all look. Clothes, sin. It's ugly. Well, a lamb gives its covering
to cover man. That's all. And is there anything
more warm, more comfortable, more lasting than wool? Anything. I thank this Coates wall. Our Lord's beautiful, glorious
righteousness. He's a glorious person. He was
stripped. He was literally stripped before
he went to the Calvary's cross. And we were clothed with His
righteousness. And He bore our sin, our ugliness.
And there's something else about wool. There's a substance hidden
from view in wool. Do you ladies know what it is?
Do you have any face cream on this morning? Lanolin. It's a key ingredient in nearly
every face cream. You see where I'm going with
that, don't you? Oh, His gospel makes our face
to shine, doesn't it? I see it. I see it in your faces. The gospel makes your face to
shine. It's something no face cream will do. Oh, my. Isn't that glorious, what the
Lord how the Lamb represents our dear Lord. Oh, the wisdom
of God in creating a Lamb and making a Lamb an emblem of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Behold the Lamb of God. Of. This is the Son of God. They say He's the Son of David. Huh? Remember? Then why did David
call Him Lord? He's the Son of God. He's the Holy One of God. He's the Wisdom of God. He's the Righteousness of God. He's the Power of God. He's the Salvation of God. Behold, the Lamb of God. He's the Lamb of God. God manifests
in the flesh. He's the Lamb for God. Remember
what Abraham said to his son? My son, God will provide Himself
the land. He is the land. And my son, God
will provide Himself a land. He will provide for Himself.
See, Christ didn't offer up Himself to man, and I hate that, and
you should too, when you hear people say that Christ offered
Himself to us. That's the highest form of blessing.
It really is. It's not splitting doctrinal
hairs here because that's what Hebrews 9, go with me, Hebrews
9. And this needs to be shouted from the rooftop. And any gospel,
any religion that says that Jesus Christ offered himself to man
is false. It's false. Nowhere in this Bible. A high priest didn't go into
the Holy of Holies with blood. He didn't come out and offer
it to people. Who was he offering the blood to? God! All the people despised and rejected
God, and this high priest is going in with the blood of an
innocent, sacrificed lamb that represents Christ who did no
sin, and of His blood and His righteousness and His sacrifice,
God's going to accept us. Here's the question. Will God
accept this offering from us? We despise and reject Him. All
have rejected Him. The offer is not to us. I can't say this loud enough.
Southern Baptist religion had a big sign and put it on all
these billboards years ago. had a picture of a big cross,
which is an idol, and it said, The Offer Still Stands. Methodist religion, their slogan
is, they have a cross with a purple robe around it, you know, and
some fire underneath it, which is an idol. And they say, this
is their slogan, Offer Them Christ. I'm telling you, I can't say
it loud enough. Can I? Let the whole world hear this.
That's blessed to me. That's another gospel. If Christ,
His blood and His righteousness and His salvation depends on
what man does with it, we're goners. Man trods underfoot the
blood of the Son of God. Don't need that. Thank God, John. He offered Himself to God. for His people long before they
even needed it or think they needed it. Look at Hebrews 9
verse 14. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God? You see, that will purge your
conscience. from dead works like the Queen
of Sheba, you're going to bring something to God. That's what
you thought, didn't you, sister? When you were religious, you
thought, I'm a good Christian woman. I've got something to
offer. I can play my piano, play this and do that. That's what
we all thought. Queen of Sheba thought when she
came, do you know who I am? Aren't you glad to see me? Oh,
when she saw him and heard him, she said, with no spirit, she
realized, I'm a nothing to nobody from nowhere. I'm a pagan. I'm
a stranger. Here it is. He's rich. He's wise. He's glorious. He's the king. I'm a nobody. Look at verse 26. Verse 25. In verse 24, look at verse 24,
Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, they're
figures of the truth, but in the heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God for us. Read on. Nor yet they should
offer himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy
place every year with the blood of others. For then must he often
have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now, once in
the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself. It is appointed unto men once
to die, and after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many, not all. but many, offered to God. And He bore them, the scapegoat
bore them away. Away. And that's the next thing. The Lamb of God who taketh away
the sin of the world. God takes His way. Go to Exodus
12. We cannot not look at Exodus
12. We're talking about the Lamb.
And I'll close with this. It's said John preached, Behold
the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. And we read there in Revelation,
and again, Any so-called gospel that has Jesus dying for every
person in the world is false. It's not just wrong doctrine.
It's taking all the glory away from Christ and His death. It's taking all the efficacy.
It's taking away the finished work of Jesus Christ, the particular
redemption of Jesus Christ. It's removing that and placing
it in the hands of man. And God hates it. And we hate
it. Let's share in His glory. But our Lord came, it says, to bear
the sins of many, not all. He said He laid down His life
for the sheep, didn't He? And He looked at some and He
said, you believe not because you're not My sheep. What does
that mean? They're goats. So he did not
die for goats, did he? He became the goat because God
can't forsake sheep. But he didn't lay down his life
for goats, for every creature. He laid down his life for his
sheep. He paid the price for many, not
all, many. And bless his holy name, it's
a world of people. Out of every kindred, What would
he want with the pendants? He doesn't. He didn't need anything
with the pendants. He didn't need anything with the berries.
There's berries everywhere on every bush. They're everywhere. The huffs, the pannas. Who are
they? Nobodies from nowhere. But that's
who Christ died for out of every kindred. Think of that. Christ didn't come. There aren't
any noble people. Every kindred, every nation.
That's amazing isn't it? Nation. Tongue under head. People out
of the world. God so loved the world. And so He came to take away the
sin of the world. The penalty, He came to take
away the penalty of it, the soul that sinneth must surely die. Well, God made His soul an offering
for sin. And the penalty is death. And
Christ now, once in the end of the world, hath appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. He came to put away
the guilt of sin. You know, we live with guilt,
the guilt of our sin, all our days. Don't wait. We wish we could get it out of
our head. The things that we've done and said, what we are, we
just can't get it. David said it, my sin is ever
before me. We say with Paul, in my flesh
dwelleth no good thing. The only way that you'll lose
that guilt, the only time when that guilt goes away, tell me.
The only time when you can forget what you can't forget all the
rest of the time, your sin and your guilt, is when you hear,
Behold the Lamb. Isn't it? You're smiling, John.
I've seen you hanging your head. I've seen you in sorrow like
me. Oh, wretched man that I am. When
you hear, Behold the Lamb, your face glows. He smiled. This is the joy of the Lord,
your righteousness, your substitute. Oh, the guilt of it. He came
to put away the guilt of it. He came to put away the power
of it. Yes, our Lord said sin shall not have dominion over
you. You're not under the law. You're under grace. You know
the only thing that will subdue our sin? There's only one thing. When you hear what Christ did
because of your sin, you know that? When you stop and think
what our Lord had to endure because of your sin, that'll subdue it. If we hadn't
seen, if we hadn't heard the gospel, if we hadn't seen Christ
crucified, we would sin with both hands like a cart rope. Like the Word. Be just like.
And such were some of you. Although we're bombarded with
it, we still think it, we still sometimes fall to it, but we're
not filled and fulfilled. It doesn't rain over us. It doesn't. Why? Because He showed us Christ
who died because of this sin. Right? Like Joseph, the thing that kept
him from sinning against his master was, how can I sin against
one who's been so good to me? That's it. Only thing. The law
won't do it. The strength of sin is the law. All right, Exodus 12. Behold
the Lamb. Behold the Lamb. Every man. It
said every man must have a Lamb. Where did they get this Lamb?
These were slaves. Some of them didn't have anything.
Some of them were slaves to Egyptians. They didn't have anything. They
didn't have a dime to their name. They worked for somebody. Where
did they get this Lamb? Everybody had a Lamb. Where did they get
it? They all got it from God. From the Lord. The Lord Jesus
Christ may have physically, John, may have physically went out
and rounded up every lamb in Egypt and brought it for His
people because they all had a lamb. Can't be saved without a lamb.
Every man a lamb, without blemish. Without spot, without blemish.
You see, it shall be perfect to be accepted, Leviticus 22,
21. Not the best we can do, it's the best God requires. We can't
do it, but Christ did. He said, I did it. He finished
it. We're complete in Him. Perfect, holy, unblameable, unreprovable
in God's sight. Why? Because of Him. He it is. Everybody in heaven, you read
that with me? Everybody in heaven said, He it is. What is? Name something. Wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, redemption, justification. He it is. Glory, power, faith. His faith. The faith of Christ. He it is. Whatever it is that
God requires, He it is. Oh, what three words those are. He it is. It's just like Christ
is all. He it is. Every man a lamb. Without blemish. A male. A male. A man. There's a man in glory. There's a man, Jesus Christ.
A man, the head of the church, Christ. There's no co-redemptorist,
like false religion says. Taken from the sheep and the
goats. Chosen from among the people, Psalm 89 says. Taken
from the sheep and from the goats. Taken out. Cut off. It says he
was cut off in Isaiah 53. Taken out. A lamb. You know,
we have weaned a few animals before. And if any of you have
taken puppies or cats away from their mother, it's a sad thing.
And they're going to cry for a while. A lamb, you take it
away from it, it'll bleat, won't it? Bleat. It's sad. Oh, it's sad. Our Lord, hang
it on that cross. My God, my God, why has thou
forsaken me? Why? Why would he be cut off? Why would he be taken from his
father, from the bosom of the Father? Because the Father sent
him. The Father sent him. The Father
cut him off. The Father forsook him. Why? So we wouldn't be It's sad, nothing sadder, nothing
that should rend our hearts more than to see how Christ was cut
off out of the land of the living, cut off from his father, forsaken
his father. Nothing should sadden us more, rend our hearts more,
but nothing should gladden us more. Nothing should make us
rejoice more and worship Him more than the fact that He left
His Father's throne to come down here for the likes of us, be
made sin for us, and hang on that cross, be made a curse so
we wouldn't be cursed, the forsaken of God so we won't be forsaken.
Oh, He deserves the name above every name. This is why anybody
shares His glory in any way. It's not doctrine. It is just
not doctrine. I keep saying that because it's
a whole lot deeper than that. Without spot. Without memory. Kept up, taken, observed, killed
a whole assembly. Everybody killed. We did kill
him. At that time that you didn't
pay attention to God and to Christ and the gospel, you killed him.
You killed him. Take the blood. Take the blood
of that lamb. Nothing else. Blood of a lamb.
Put it on the upper door post of the house. Strike it on the
side post on the upper door post of the house. Cover that entrance. Cover that exit. Like the ark
is pitched all over. Cover it. Whether they go in
or go out, they're going to be under the blood. Every house. What house? Whose houses was
blood upon? Did God tell Moses, take a pot
of lamb's blood and put it out in the street and whoever wants
it? No. You particularly take that precious
blood and apply it to the houses of my people. Every one of them. Every single house of my people,
God said, you put the blood on their doorpost and their lintel.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. The plague will
not come. The plague of sin, the plague
of death is not going to enter your house. There was not one
house in Israel, God's people, where one person died. Nobody
died that was under the blood. Nobody. On the other hand, there
was not one house in Egypt that wasn't one dead. No blood. But hold on. Somebody did die
in the houses of Israel. Who? A lamb. A lamb. What do you think they
all thought about the lamb? And they couldn't see it. They
couldn't see the blood. None of them could see the blood.
Some of them were worried. You reckon they were worried?
I know they were. Moses, sitting there in silence, with a smile
on his face, and yet a tear in his eye, concerned, grieving
over people lost. And yet he's confident. He's
confident. He has full assurance. That blood,
God promised, cannot lie. It's that blood. He said, when
I see the blood, I'll pass over you. So he sat there. He said,
let's eat. Let's eat. God said, you've got to eat this
lamb. You've got to eat this lamb. Christ said, you eat my
flesh. And so they all ate it. Moses
eating, someone else sitting there, a young person sitting
there worried, trembling, fearful, wondering, are we going to die? Moses' son to Moses' dad, are
we going to die? Son, God has promised. He made an oath. He made a covenant,
and He gave us the blood. And He can swear by no greater. He said, when I see the blood
of a lamb, I will pass over you. And you know what? He did. He did. He did. And they went out, and the end
of this story is, the result of this lamb, they all went out,
Scripture says, with a high hand. They all went out with joy out
of Egypt. No more bondage. No more slam
pits. The Lord's going to save us from
the presence of sin someday. Won't you be glad? Does this
appeal to anybody in here? Well, you know, sheep get dirty,
but like pigs, they don't want to water in it. They might fall
in the pit, but when they get out there, it's wash me, wash
me, wash me. They need to be dipped all the time. They need
to be stripped and dipped, all of them. But, you know, one of
these days we're going to be without sin. I can't even fathom that. Can
you fathom that? Live in a world where it dwelleth
righteousness. No. Everybody, like Christ. Can you? Silence for 30 minutes. Look at all this. Righteousness
in this wonderful, and I'm here. Glory be. Why? Behold the Lamb. That's why. Okay. John, you come
please. I was in here.