Wandering from the fold of God,
He can rescue me from danger, Interpose His precious blood. Oh, to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrained to be. When thy goodness, like a fetter,
Binds my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it, Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, O, take and
seal it, Stealing for thy courts above. I have to say, that's my favorite
hymn in all the book. Come thou founts, that all my
springs are in thee, David said. Fount of every blessing. Come,
come Lord, right now. Oh, north wind, come, blow upon
thy garden, let the spices flow out. Luke chapter 9, right after the
Lord called His twelve apostles, disciples, sent them out to preach
the Kingdom of God and heal the sick. You read it with me. We looked at it how He told them
not to take anything for their journey. staves, or a staff, or script,
or bread, or money, or two coats, and to go into wherever he sent
them. Verses 7-9, let's read these.
These will make up most of our message. Now Herod, the tetrarch,
the governor, the ruler, heard of all that was done by him,
by our Lord, and he was perplexed Because it was said of some that
John was risen from the dead. Herod had beheaded him. And some
said, no, this was Elijah. Elijah hath appeared. Others,
one of the old prophets, Samuel went back with it. Herod said, John have I beheaded. But who is this? Who is this? of whom I hear such things."
They desired to see him. Herod heard, like everyone had,
of this Jesus of Nazareth. Paul said that in his book, Letter
to the Romans. Had they not all heard? Yea,
verily the sound is gone throughout the world. You'd be hard pressed
to find anyone on the face of this earth that has not at least
heard the name of Jesus. especially now with modern communication
and all. The name Jesus, His story, something
that has been read and heard for 2,000 years by nearly everyone. Let me read to you three broad
facts. My pastor said this, preached
this, had this written down years ago. Three undeniable, irrefutable
facts in our glory, and I love these facts, but we don't need
facts. When skeptics and agnostics have
said all they can say, there are three broad facts that men
have to deal with, they have to face. Simple fact. Plain facts. Impossible to ignore. Irrefutable,
undeniable fact. Jesus Christ Himself. His existence in history, men
cannot deny. He lived in this world. He was
born in Bethlehem, most acknowledge that. He died on a Roman cross,
and many, many, many, many said he arose from the grave. But
without force or bribery, without arms or money, without an earthly
kingdom, or without any possessions at all, he left a mark on this
world. as no other person in all of
history. He never wrote a book, yet no library can contain all
the books written about him. He never wrote a song, but there
have been more songs penned about him than all others combined.
All other religious leaders came to live. He said he came to die. All other Messiahs chose as their
followers the rich, the powerful, the influential. He chose the
poor, the despised, the rejected. All other Messiahs say, follow
me, I'll show you the way. He said, I am the way. All others stay dead. They're
dead. You can find their bones. He lived. He won't find his bones.
They've been looking for years, like that Ark of Noah. They can't
find it. They never will. looking for the bones and looking
for a sepulcher and find some bones and you won't find them.
That's a fact, a person, undeniable, irrefutable, he lives. The Bible
itself, here's another fact, if this were the mere invention
of men and has no divine authority, it's not of God, how can you
explain this book? Dates back 3,500 years, written
by 40 different men over a period of 1,500 years and tells the
exact same story. Most of them didn't know each
other. They didn't collude or they didn't confide in one another
and get their story straight. No, they didn't know each other. They wrote the same story. They declared one message. One
person, Jesus Christ, in promise, in type, in picture, in person,
written by men who were not scholars. They weren't scholars. They weren't
authors. They weren't recognized as literary
giants. Written in a language that's
all but dead, Hebrew. You can't find anybody here that
speaks Hebrew. But now it's written in every
language known to man. Where are the books that were
written nearly 500 years ago? The last entry into this book
was nearly 2,000 years ago. This book, God's Word, has overcome
the barrier of custom and nationality. It's read by Americans, Chinese,
French, Africans, old, young, lawyers, laborers, and they all
need this one thing. It meets the need of everyone
else. It's the Word of God. The Bible
itself tells the truth about man, doesn't dignify him, doesn't
justify him, doesn't gloss over him, doesn't flatter him. It
shuts man up to the mercy of God. It leaves his deliverance
completely and totally in the hands of a sovereign, yet gracious
God. It's profound, yet it's simple,
mysterious, yet it's plain. been abused, misused, misquoted,
they've tried to burn it, tried to do away with it, they can't.
Why? It's God's Word. Very broad fact. The last one.
The results of true Christianity. If the mere invention of man
has no power beyond the resolve and determination of flesh, how
do you explain, how do you explain The differences in the conditions
and the behavior of men and women where God's Word is preached
and where it's not. Look at the map. Look at it.
And the place where God's Word is, where there are people called
Christians, as opposed to where they're not. Places where it's
outlawed. Human life is regarded. Human
rights recognized, laws of morality, civil law, government, subject
to the people. Compare the homes of two true
believers of God's Word, God's Christ. We brought facts. Undeniable. Undeniable facts. Herod heard
of it. Everybody has. His disciples
heard from him. Herod was perplexed. I can't
figure him out. He was nonplussed. He didn't,
as we'd say today, have a clue. Who is this? The people didn't
have a clue. Everybody would say, well, we
think he's this. We think he's that. The last part of this chapter,
look down in verse 18, well, not the last part, Verse 18,
He was alone praying, and His disciples were with Him. He asked
them, Whom say the people that I am? And they answered and said,
Everybody's got something different to say. John the Baptist, some
say you're Elijah, others one of the old prophets. He said,
But whom say you that I am? Peter answered and said, The
Christ of God. He didn't stop and hesitate.
Like Anna and I and Moshe on Azariah. We know who you are.
How did they know? Flesh and blood doesn't reveal
Him to you. How did they know? Because He foreknew them. For
whom He did foreknow, He did predestinate. What? To be His children. Whom He did
predestinate, He called by our gospel. Whom He called, He justified. Gave them faith. Whom He justified,
He glorified. To do what? To see His glory.
To know Him. They knew Him because He foreknew
them. He chose them. Christ said, He
said this in Matthew 11, He said, No man knoweth the Father but
the Son, neither knoweth any man the Son but the Father, and
he to whom the Son will reveal Him. Did I get that right? You
know it. No man knoweth the Son but the
Father, neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son, and he
to whom the Son will reveal Him. Who is this? When I stand up,
I don't stand up to prove God. I stand up to declare Him. Now, I don't listen to and I
don't look at all these seminars and these things where wise men
get together and they try to convince people there is a God. I've got a brother, some of you
have never seen. Never seen, don't know him. He
lives. I know he does. What if somebody
said, I don't believe it. I'm going to leave it for a minute. Prove it. Why? Why should he? No. He's got to prove himself. And then you believe. God reveals
himself. Christ reveals himself. That's
what John said. We know the Son of God has come
and given us an understanding that we might know Him that is
true. And we're in Him that is true. This is the true God. And
this is eternal life. He's a real person. He's not
a philosopher, not a doctrine, not a psychology. You're not
educated. You're not convinced. You're
born into the kingdom. This is life eternal. And that
doesn't mean the duration of it per se. Mostly, it means the
type of it. Spiritual life. Unseen life.
The life of God. This is life eternal to know
Thee, the only true God. Not about Him. To know Him. To enter into a
relationship with. He reveals Himself. And Jesus
Christ whom He sent. Why He sent Him. Who Christ is.
Why He came. Who He came for. What He did.
This is life eternal. And God reveals that to all of
His people. He comes to them through the
preaching of the gospel and says, I am He. I am your God. He won't try to convince people
He's God. God reveals Himself. I am by
God. There's a day when you didn't
know Him and you heard the gospel preached. Opens blind eyes and
deaf ears. Heart starts... He is God, isn't
He? Christ come for the preaching
of the gospel. You know who He is. You know why He came. You
know who He came for. You know what He did. You know
where He is now. All of God's people know that. It's the gospel. Where am I? Luke 9. That Herod was perplexed. The
people were perplexed. His disciples weren't perplexed.
His disciples weren't... In darkness as others? Why? Because the people that sat in
darkness, some of them, saw a great light. Listen to Simon. Listen to Simon, son of Jonas. Listen to him. He didn't know
who he was. He didn't know who he was. And Christ came and said,
follow me. And he came. He followed him.
And this is at the time when our Lord said, I'm getting in
your ship. My ship. And we're going to launch
out there. And we're going to catch some
fish. Galilee. And so, what did Simon do? Listen to the Lord. He doesn't ask anything. He gives
the commandment. They went out there, and after
the Lord brought that net full of fish into that boat, you know,
Simon, skeptic, is the Lord going to sit down and say, no, listen,
you've got to understand it. You need to understand this, I can. Look, I'll show you. He's not trying to convince him
of anything, he's going to reveal himself. So they brought in that
net of fish and every one of them were numbered, 153. Simon Peter hit his knees. Before they went in that boat
on that sea, he thought he was just a man. Now he knows he's
God. He's Lord. And he didn't make
him Lord. The Lord made him know it. And
he hit his knees and said, Lord, I'm a sinful man. He knew it
was something of his sin and that Christ is God come to earth. And he followed Him from that
day forward. dropped everything and everyone. Listen to Saul,
that religious man who thought he knew God, who was moral, who
thought he kept the law, lived by the law, it was his rule of
life. Listen to Saul of Tarsus, okay? He rode his high horse
on his road to Damascus to put an end to this Jesus thing, okay?
Saul! And he fell off his high horse
in the dust with his face in the ground before the Lord. Jesus Christ,
whom Saul thought was just a man, now he realizes that I am in
his sovereign hands to do with as he pleases. Saul went about
thinking he was going to do what he will, and the first thing
Saul said was, what will you do with me? Call him Lord. Listen to Thomas. Thomas, after the Lord rose from
the grave. Thomas, be not faithless. I believe him. Reach hither.
This is why I came, Thomas. I told you. Reach hither thy
hand. Touch my side. My hands. He fell on his knees. What did
he call him? My Lord and my God. No, God's people are not perplexed. They're not in doubt. One time
they came to Christ and said, if you be the Christ, tell us
plainly. He said, I told you. And do you believe not? Because
you're not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know
them. They know me. And they follow
me. And I give. Not offer. I give. I am come that they might
have life. I give unto them eternal life.
Salvation is by grace. It's by Christ. He is the grace
of God. He is the salvation of God. I am come that they might
have life. And I give unto them eternal
life. And they shall never perish. And nobody will pluck them out
of my hand. They know Him. They know Him.
They're not perplexed. This whole world is perplexed. In O Herod, it's said in Mark
chapter 6 that he loved to go hear John. He loved to hear John. You know, it says he feared John. He feared John. That's what I
was saying a while ago, Ricky, that my dad is a true man, a
true man, a sin of God, a fearless man, and one whom men respected
and would sit and listen to. Not like these fellas today.
And so was John. And Herod came to hear him and
feared him. It was said of the bloody Queen
Mary that she feared the prayers of John Knox more than all the
armies against her. So Herod, verse 9, look at the
last part of verse 9. He said, who is this of whom
I hear such things? And he desired to see him, just
out of curiosity. He desired to see him. Lots of
curiosity seekers today. Maybe somebody in here. Sermon
hearers. Curiosity seekers. Oh my, may
the Lord Truly make us seek the Lord with all our heart. Call
upon Him while He may be found. What for? Like Daniel. Like we
read. Mercy. Grace. Forgiveness of
sin. He is the Lord. It's all in His
hands. Alright. Look at verse 10. The apostles,
when they were returned. The apostles came back. The apostles. His chosen. His born again disciples. Taught of God. Those whom the
Father had given Him. They came to Christ the first
time, now they came back to Him, didn't they? He sent them out,
but they couldn't stay away. Peter wrote, to whom come Him?
Peter said, we kept coming back. We'd send us out and we'd come
back. Returned to Him, sent by Him to preach. How long did they
stay away? It doesn't say, does it? It doesn't
say. I believe it was at least 40
days. Significance in 40 days and 40
nights in the Scripture. At least 40 days. No matter how
long they were away, they returned to Him. Here's what I want you
to say. They returned to Him. They came back to their Lord
and their Master. That's what sheep do. Sheep go
out to pasture in the morning and come back in the evening.
They've got to come back to their Shepherd. They've got to come
back to Him. They will. No matter where they
go, No matter how long they stay, they're going to come back to
Him. They're going to return to their Lord. Prone to wander,
we say, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love,
but if You're His, here's our comfort. Here's the gospel. No matter how far they've roamed,
no matter how far away they get, the Lord, that Great Chief Shepherd
of the sheep, He'll go after them. He'll find them. They bring
him back. Where does he bring them? To
him. They return. They return to him. The church, see, is his bride.
And she looks to him. She depends on him. She must
have him. She desires to be with him. Here's
the difference between a nominal church member and his true church,
his true people. They're the bride of Christ.
They look to him. They depend upon him. They go
where he is. They must abide with him. They
desire him. They love him. They love his
companions. Like in Psalm 145. His companions. The king's daughters and her
companions. They're together. The church
is his city. The city of refuge, where the
God of their refuge dwells. This building is not our refuge. These people are not our refuge.
But this is where God, who is our refuge, has promised to be.
So that's where we come, don't we? We come like Daniel, to call
on Him, to seek His faith, to be spoken to by Him. You wouldn't
have gotten all of this at home, would you? Because this is what God has
promised. This is what Christ has promised. He sent these apostles
out. Go, I've got sheep. They're going
to hear your voice. And it's not your voice, it's
my voice. And I'm going to gather them into this kingdom. Preach
the gospel of a kingdom. What's that? The King is here.
The King reigns and rules. He's got a people. He's gathering
those people. They rode over Christ's cross. The whole issue, And this was without controversy,
though it's controversial. God was manifest in the flesh.
The King over all the earth came. And that was the controversy
when He was born, you know. Herod. Where is He as born King? I want to come worship Him. Yeah.
You're consulting to cast Him down. You want to be King. You
will. No, He is King. And you're not
going to dethrone Him. He comes to bring His people
into His Kingdom. And he did just that. And when
he was hanging on the cross, they wrote over his head this
accusation. King of the Jews, in every known
language of that day. And the people said, don't write
that. And this pagan, heathen king said, that's what I've written.
I don't know why. I just feel compelled to do it. And it's not coming down. No,
it never will. Because this government has no
end. And every nation under heaven,
every language, knows at least in their head that this Jesus
is said to be King. Why? Because Psalm 2 says, God
said, I have set my King. I have declared the decree. Kiss
the Son. Worship the Son. Fear and joy. I have set my King, and where
I have set him is on his holy hill of Zion. And all of his
people know he is King." And they are so happy. They are so
glad. The church is his city of refuge. As I said earlier, Bethlehem,
house of bread. Bethel, the house of God. Bethesda,
the house of mercy. Bethsaida. What is that? Bethsaida, this desert place
he took them to, Bethsaida. It's a fishing house. A fishing
house. Our Lord is a great fisher of
men. He brought these fish, like those
fish caught in that net, into that boat where he was. And that's
what every church is. He's got them numbered. The Lord
knows them. They're His, and they know Him.
He brought them into his house, didn't he? Where they see that
he's the great... He brought them out of that gospel
net, sister. He didn't use bait and hooks and sinkers and artificial
lures to entice them. No, he sends the gospel out and
grabs them. And they're brought into this
house of bread, a house of God, a house of mercy, a house of
kindness, a fishing house where the great fisher of men leads
them and teaches them how to fish. How? Go preach. Go preach. Fishing out. Alright, it says in verse 10,
I love this. Oh, I love this. One way we know
this is God's Word is there's just so much in just one line.
And I just got stuck. Oh, it's wonderful. Stick and
play. The apostles, verse 10, were returned and they told him
all that they had done. They came back, came back to
him, excited, overjoyed, full of peace, full of comfort, full
of enthusiasm. Lord, we went everywhere, just
like you told us. This town, that town, we went
here, we went there. This is his bride. That's what women
like to tell their husbands. All the details, you know. Right? Go into great detail. That's fine, that's fine. We
did what you told us. We preached. We did exactly what
you told us. That's all we did. We preached.
We didn't have a spaghetti dinner. We didn't do this. We preached.
We went everywhere. We preached. What did we preach?
We preached you. Oh, Lord, it was wonderful. Scripture
after scripture after scripture came to our minds. There wasn't
enough time to say all that we had to say about you. Right,
Melanie? Mindy is all the time telling
me her lesson to the children, and she just goes on and on and
on. Look at this scripture, look
at that scripture, look at this scripture, look at that scripture. Maybe
some things I'd already seen, but it overjoyed me. And they
were telling him things that he already knew. But he was rejoicing
in the fact that they were rejoicing, in him, in the message, right? Lord, we went out. It was so
wonderful. We were never at a loss for words. We preached the Gospel
to men and women. You know what? Some of them heard
us. Simon Peter said, I've never preached. I've never spoken in
a public place in my life. Simon said, I was scared to speak. But I went and preached Your
Word. And they believed me. They heard. I never had a speech class in
high school. I never had a speech class. Not
one. Maybe somebody will say, well,
you should have. Well, okay. Look, there's some people listening
to this old railroader, old construction worker. Believing. They're not believing me. Because
you know, I didn't come up with this. Lord, they heard us. They asked us into their homes.
They opened up their homes. Lord, Your Word is true. Yeah, it sure is. Yes, it is. The Word of God shall
not return void. It's not the Word of man, it's
the Word of God. This is His power. This is how
He draws people. These disciples didn't use tactics
and gimmicks and schemes and hold dinners and all that. That's
a denial of the power of God. That's a denial of the Spirit
of God. God who said, I'll say unto my sons and daughters, bring
them. I'll say it to them. Bring my sheep. And they'll come,
buddy. They will come. Just by preaching? Yes. Ask Ezekiel how the dead
live. Ask him. You don't entice them? You don't bribe them? You don't
try to prove something to them? God brings them and gives them
life. What's life? Where does life
come from? A life-giving seed. A life-giving Word. Christ is
life. He Himself speaks through this
Book, through this Word, through the mere man. Mere man. This is how you know it's a God. The Spirit of God, the Angel
of God. Turn with me quickly to Genesis 24. I've got to show
you this. Genesis 24. Maybe somebody hasn't
seen this. Those who have will want to see it again. Genesis
24 is the story of Abraham who sent his servant to find a bride
for his son Isaac. And there's not a more wonderful
story of how God sends gospel preachers out to preach His Son
and to gather His people to His Son. That's who they come to.
That's who the preacher preaches, and that's who they're drawn
to. Genesis 24. Abraham, the type of God, the
father. Isaac, the son of promise, throughout
the scripture, is a type of Jesus Christ. And Abraham, the father,
sends this servant of his, chosen by him, called by him, sent by
him, with one message. What was the message? The Son.
Alright, he sends him to his people. He makes it clear. He says, don't go just anywhere
you feel like. You go to where I send you. God's
preachers are not beggars, not trying to find a bride. They're
preaching the Son. God finds the bride and brings
them to the Son. Alright, Genesis 24, look at
verse 4. Abraham says, Thou shalt go unto my country, to my kindred,
take a wife unto my son Isaac. My people, Christ said, My sheep,
hear my voice, chosen by Him, elect of God and precious, they're
going to hear about the Son, and they're going to come. All
that the Father giveth me, Christ said, shall come to me. His people. Verse 5, the servant said, What
if she's not willing to follow me? What if she's not willing? Listen
to the Father, what He said. Verse 5, he says, must I bring
thy son again into the land from which thou camest? No, he's not
coming down here again. No, sir. No, no. You're going to tell where he
is now. You're going to tell who he is. You're going to tell
where he is right now. I'm going to bring him down.
He's not going to beg her to come. I'm going to bring her.
She's going to see his glory. Verse 6, Abraham said, Beware
that you don't bring my son down again. Verse 7, The Lord God
of heaven, which took me from my father's house, from the land
of my kindred, which spake unto me, that sware unto me, saying,
Unto thy seed will I give this land. He shall send his angel
before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. He shall and she shall. God says,
I will and they shall. Here's the difference between
the God of the Bible and this modern God who wants to be God.
Our God says, I will and they shall. They come. They shall
come. If the woman will not be willing
to follow thee, you're clear from your oath. If she's not
willing, you're clear. Just declare the Son. Don't beg
her. Don't ask her. You go exactly
where I sent you and you declare this message. And what he's saying
there is she's not willing. Oh, you'll see. You're going
to see. There was no doubt about that. Because he said it. He
certainly made that promise. Don't do anything. He's telling
them, don't do anything. God's people, Psalm 110, verse
3, shall be willing. When? The day of His power. Alright, look down at verse 15. Twelve, he started praying. The
servant, O Lord God of my master, I pray thee, send me good speed
this day. Show kindness unto my master
Abraham. I stand here by the well of water.
He came to a well. The daughters of men, they all
come to this well and let it come to pass. The damsel whom
I say, let down thy picture. Picture, I pray thee, that I
may drink. He said, let it be. the one appointed, in verse 14,
for thy servant Isaac. That's what happened. Next verse. He came to pass. Here she came. Before he had
done speaking, Rebekah came. Isaac's bride. Isaac's bride. And so it is with
God's people. Verse 27, look at this. Abraham's servant blessed God.
Blessed be the God, the Lord God of my master Abraham and
not left destitute, my master of his mercy and his truth. Abraham
spoke of God, the Lord God. He spoke of mercy. He spoke of
truth. I being in the way, he spoke
of the way. He spoke of his master's house and his brethren and what
their damsel do. She's listening all this. They're
at a well. And here she comes. He's waiting on her at the well.
And here she comes. Is this familiar? Here she comes
to this well. And he speaks of mercy and truth
and God's help and the Lord God. He speaks all of this. And the
damsel hears everything he's saying. What's she doing? She
came with a water pot. I think she dropped it. And went
running. To do what? Tell everybody. It's
a prophet out here. It's not just to Christ, the
woman at the well. Look at verse 33. So the servant
went into the house. They opened the house to him
and he went in there and he sat at meat. They set meat before
him to eat. And he said, verse 33, I will
not eat. I'm not here to eat. I'm here
to tell something. I'm not here to socialize. I'm
here to tell a message. This is why I am. And here's
his message. He said, I am Abraham's servant. Paul said, I'm sold out under
the gospel of God. Here's the gospel. The Lord hath
blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Brethren, God, the earth is the
Lord's, the fullness thereof, the world and inhabitants thereof. And he hath given him flocks
and herds and silver and gold, the cattle on a thousand hills,
God said, is mine. If I were hungry, I wouldn't
ask you. That's Psalm 50, what you read
the other day, Kenneth. Men, servants and maidservants
and camels and asses, he's God. And Sarah, my master's wife,
bear a son, a miracle child, a son promised of God. That's Christ. To the eternal
God, when she was old. Unto him hath he given all that
he had. That God hath made this same
Jesus Lord over all. Owner, ruler, master of all. I've come to tell this message.
I've come seeking a bride. Not begging, not asking, but
just declaring the Son. That's all it is. Well, what
happened? Well, everybody heard that. Rebecca's
brother, everybody, and father, they all heard that story, didn't
they? One person found it. Look down at verse 58. They said to Rebekah, they called
Rebekah and said unto her, wilt thou go with this man? She said, I'll go. I will. And they couldn't understand.
The brothers and father and all these people, wait a minute,
hold on now. They tried to get her to stay
a little while. No, I'm going now. I want to go. The sooner
the better. They couldn't understand it.
Sisters, they couldn't understand it. Look what all you have here.
Now I'm leaving father. I'm leaving mother. I'm leaving
houses. I'm leaving land. I've heard
of Him. I've got to see Him. I've got
to be with Him. I've got to go to Him. I'm in
love with Him. I've never seen Him before. I love Him already.
I can't wait to get to Him. You wait. The rest of us, it
gets better. So she left. And Rebekah, verse
61, arose in her damsels, and they rode upon camels, followed
the man. The servants took Rebekah and
went on his way, and Isaac came. Here he came. Oh, Isaac, the
son, the master over all. He came from the way of the whale. Isaac went out to meditate in
the field and pray in the evening time, lifted up his eyes, and
he saw, behold, The camels are coming. The camels are coming. The Father said to Isaac, they're
going to bring her. They're going to bring her. They're
bringing her to you. I sent my servant, the angel of the Lord
is going to make her willing. He's going to tell of you. And
she's coming. And she's going to be your bride.
Here they come. The camels are coming. That's what's going to be said
in heaven one day. The camels are coming, and they're all here. The bride. And Rebecca, verse
64, lifted up her eyes. Oh, that every Rebecca would
lift up her eyes and see Christ. And she got off her camel, hit
the dust, and she said, what man is this? that walks in the
field to meet us. And the servant said, it's my
master. That's what I was telling you
about. And she took a veil. So the disciples came back. Lord,
it all just like you said it would. It happened just like
you said. People believed. People came. People followed us. And Lord,
we didn't need sticks or stuff. We didn't need the script. We
didn't need bread. We didn't need money. It was
all provided. Lord, whenever we got hungry, miraculously,
amazingly, there was bread. There was drink. We were never in danger. It was
all around us, but it's like we were just hedged in, like
we were protected. Lord, we had it all. Oh, we were
so blessed together. What a blessed time we had together,
Lord. We've just never had a better
time. We've conversated these things, and brethren, so shall
it be when our journey is over. You remember, I'm going to close. I quit. I had so much to say
about this private place he took them. We'll take that up next
time. But, you know, the Lord, the Queen of Sheba, when she
heard Solomon, she came to see him, and she said, the half has
not been told. It was true of everything I said
about you. Like Rebekah, when she saw Isaac. The Queen of Sheba
says, true of everything I said about you, but the half wasn't
told. I didn't believe until I saw you. Oh, she said, happier
are the men of your servant, the people that wait before you.
Since God loved Israel, he said, and paid you king. And it says
she told him all her mind. She just poured out her heart.
Come people, pour out your heart. God is a refuge in that. And
so she poured out all her heart, and you know what it says? He
told her all her questions. He revealed everything to her. And the disciples were just
beside themselves. We got this. Okay. Let's sing
a closing hymn. What number? 255. Blessed Assured,
255. Let's stand and sing. OOF