Go with me to the book of Luke
chapter 7. Luke chapter 7. I want you to read these verses
with me, this story. Luke chapter 7, verses 16 through
23. Luke 7, 16. There came a fear
on all. The Lord had just raised the
Son only son of a widow woman from
the dead. There came a fear on all and
they glorified God saying that a great prophet has risen up
among us and that God has visited his people. And this rumor, this
story of him went forth throughout all Judea, throughout all the
region around the back. The disciples of John showed
him all of these things. John was in prison. And John,
calling unto him two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, asking
him, Art thou he that should come, or look we for another? And when the men came, they came
to Christ and they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto
thee, saying, Art thou he that should come, or look we for another? And in that same hour, He, the
Lord, cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits. And to many that were blind,
he gave sight. Oh, that he would do that in
this hour. And then Jesus answered and said
unto them, Go your way and tell John what things you have seen
and heard, how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed, The deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor
the gospel is preached. And blessed is he or she whosoever
shall not be offended in me. If I had a text, it would be
verse 23 in the title, blessed if not offended in him. Now,
our Lord had just raised a man from the dead. And it says fear
came upon all of them. Can you imagine? Just try to
imagine. We're cats. But if we saw someone literally
raised from the dead right before our eyes, it says fear. They were just overwhelmed with,
it was just a frightening thing. This person got up, dead. This was not the fear of God.
It's not fear of God that they had. This was just something
to scare. And they said, God hath visited
us, the great prophet. God hath visited his people. Now you would think that something
like that happening, that it would have started a huge revival. And the rumor went everywhere.
And they did flock to hear Him. They came from everywhere. In
John chapter 2, everywhere our Lord went, multitudes followed
Him. And so many claimed to believe in Him. And let me go ahead and tell
you that three years later, everybody cried out for his death. Herod, Pontius Pilate, the people,
the Jews, Gentiles, everybody that was there, a multitude of
people were crying out for his death. Now, John 2, verse 23. When he was in Jerusalem at the
Passover and the feast day, many believed in his name when they
saw the miracles which he did. See that? Jesus did not commit himself
unto them because he knew all men. They were just enamored
with and impressed with and amazed by the miracle. And he didn't
need any should testify, any should testify of man. He knew
what was in man. What's that? Unbelief. He really
didn't need a savior. Man just wants a sugar daddy,
as it were. Give us, give us, give us, give
us. And John chapter 6, our Lord
said this, in John chapter 6, great multitudes followed him
because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were
diseased. And he left. He got out. But
at one time they tried to make him king. Remember that? They
wanted to make him king. But it says he passed through
the midst of them. He's not going to let them make him king. Why? He already was king. He didn't
need to sit on a throne in Jerusalem. He's not coming back again to
sit on a throne in Jerusalem. He's seated right now at the
highest throne in the universe, reigning and ruling. And he is
king of kings already. But they were impressed with
these miracles. And then and now, people want
to see a sign a miracle. And when they think they see
a sign or a miracle. And God does send some things,
but 1 Thessalonians said, strong delusions. They believe a lie. They don't
believe God's Word. Alright? Our Lord sent an evil
and adulterous Generations seeketh after a sign. He said no sign
will be given. Didn't it? No sign will be given
but one. What was it? Remember? The sign of the prophet Jonas. Our Lord said it. As Jonah was
three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall
the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth. He's talking about Christ crucified. This is the sign. A virgin shall conceive. The king said, show us a sign.
He said, I'll show you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bear
a son. His name is Immanuel, God with
us. A child is born, a son is given.
Call his name Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. His government, no end. It's all on his shoulders. Salvation. Everything. God was manifest
in the flesh. This is a sign. God was manifest
in the flesh. And all that He said were the
words of God. Not interested. Not interested then, not interested
now. Show us a sign. Show us a sign. Luke chapter
16. Go over there. Luke chapter 16. Our Lord said this, and He's
told this story of a rich man and a poor man, a rich man and
a beggar named Lazarus. Do you remember this? Luke 16,
verse 27. The rich man was in hell and
Lazarus was in heaven, the poor man. And the rich man in hell
said, in verse 27, now this is a parable. Because nobody prays to Abraham. All right, verse 27. I pray thee,
Father, that you would send him to my father's house. I have
five brethren. Send Lazarus to my father's house,
that he may testify unto them, lest they come to this place
of torment. This man's not sorry for his
sin. He's tormented. He wants out. He wants to keep his brethren
from coming in. Verse 29. Abraham said unto him, They have Moses,
the Word of God, the prophets, let them hear them. And the rich
man said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one went unto them from
the dead, they will repent. They see this miracle, this sign,
they will repent. He said unto them, Our Lord said,
If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded that one rose from the dead. And our Lord, in another place,
said, Moses, vote of me. Your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day. He saw it and was glad. It's
all concerning Christ. As I said, in another place,
he said, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. These people, go back to the
text now, Luke chapter 7, these people saw this dead man raised
from the grave. And they said, it's a great prophet
and more than that. They said, God hath visited his
people. Yes, he has. They really didn't know what
they were saying. Do you see any of these people
falling at his feet in fear and asking him for mercy and forgiveness? Of sin? That's what will happen
when you understand the truth of living God. You'll understand
something of yourself, your sinfulness against God and your need for
mercy. Do you see any of these people? Do you hear any of these
people falling at His feet? Like Mary Magdalene fell at His
feet and bathed His feet with the tears and wiped His feet
with the hair of her head. Why? Because of her sin. Simon Peter? Dropped to his knees
when he found out who he was, he said, Lord, I'm a sinful man,
a partly man. Thomas fell at his feet, my Lord
and my God. These people aren't saying that.
They're just all carried away with this miracle and have God's
with us and all that, just like a Pentecostal holiness meeting
going on today everywhere. God had visited His people. God
was manifest in the flesh. Great is the mystery of Godness.
God was manifest in the flesh. And you know, there are so few
people then and even fewer today that believe that Jesus is God. I don't just mean the Son of
God. I mean God. One time he healed a man who
was lame, born lame, and the first thing he said to him was,
Thy sins be forgiven. And they said, Who can forgive
sins but God? That's right. And that's why he came. These miracles and all, healing
the The lepers and the blind and the deaf and raising the
dead were pictures of a greater miracle. The miracle of salvation. All right? All right? Now, this
is all related. This is all related. Luke chapter 7. Go back there.
This is all related. The disciples of John showed
him all these things. Verse 18. And John is in prison. Why was John in prison? For preaching
the truth. And our Lord said, you shall
be hated of all men. He called sin, sin. And Herod
didn't like it. Put him in prison. John was preaching
against sin, wasn't he? Repentance toward God. And faith. Behold the Lamb of God. Faith
in Christ. That's what he'd repeat. That's
what Christ came. He preached repentance of sin.
That's what the prophet preached, repentance of sin, that God is
angry with the wicked every day. And what man needs, though he
doesn't know it, is mercy at the hands of a holy and offended
and a just God who will by no means clear the guilty. And Christ
came to clear the guilty. Christ came to make His people
righteous. Christ came to pay the penalty for their sin. Christ
came to put away sin by the sacrifice Himself. Christ didn't come here
just to heal people, their bodies, because they got sick and died
of something afterward. But all that's a picture, a type, a symbol
of the great miracle of salvation. This is why Christ came in this
world. And this is the miracle that all of God's people experience. This is what Jesus Christ does
for all of His people. He does all of these things that
he did for all of these people right here in this story. Every
son of God is born dead, blind, deaf, lame, leper. All right? John is a man. John the Baptist is a man. He's
subject to doubts and fears like any man, okay? He wanted, he
needed some reassurance. He's in prison for telling the
truth, for preaching the truth. And he gets doubtful and fearful
just like us, though he had the Holy Spirit. That's a comfort
in it to know. And he sent two of his disciples
to ask Christ, are you the one we're looking for? Are you the
Christ we're looking for? Or do we look for another? Is
there someone else coming? And they came to Christ and told
him that. And in another gospel, he says,
you go show John again. I'm not sure what all John saw
Christ do. earlier on, he certainly heard
and he knew and he believed that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed
the Christ who was to come, the Son of the living God, the Lord
God to come, the Lamb of God. He said, you go show John again. And I want to show John again. John, we have three Johns. You're going to hear the same
thing you've heard over and over again. Maybe somebody in here
hadn't heard these things. These Johns have, many times. But he
told me to go show you again the same thing. The things you've
seen and heard. Because this is still going on
today, right now in our midst. Alright, he said, you go show
John. And verse 21, that same hour, he waited a little while
while he did these miracles. Many were
cured of their infirmities and plagues and evil spirits. How
long did that take? And many were blind. He gave
sight. He said, you go your way, verse 22, and tell John what
things you have seen and heard, how that the blind see, and that
lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised
to the poor. The gospel is preached, and blessed,
O blessed is he. whosoever shall not be offended
in me." You go show John again that the blind see. Look at John chapter 9. John
chapter 9 is the story of a blind man whom the Lord healed. John
chapter 9. Now most people, if you said
they were blind, if you told them they were blind, that they
couldn't see, the truth, couldn't see themselves, couldn't see
God. Oh, I'm not blind. I was talking to a man one time,
working on the railroad, and this fellow was about, he was
notoriously simple. Known by all the guys on the
railroad as just being a real wild man, okay. And I was talking
to him about the gospel. I was telling him about salvation,
about Christ. And I spoke a little while, and
he said, Do you see? I said, Oh, I see. He didn't
see anything. I see. John chapter 9, look at
this, verse 39. Our Lord said, Jesus said, For
judgment I am coming to this world. Judgment? You know, most people think Christ
came because he loved everybody so much, and he just wanted to
save everybody so much. He said, I have come to bring
sword, fire, judgment. For judgment have I come. Why?
Because if Jesus Christ doesn't bear our judgment, our sin, we
will. For judgment I have come in this
world. to bring forth righteous judgment
or understanding or discernment of who God is and what God really
thinks about man's evil continually from his youth up, and what God
must do to spare this sinful man. Verse 39, For judgment I
have come into this world, that they which see not might see,
and they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees
heard him and said, Are we blind? Well, we know the Bible. They could quote the Bible. Jesus Christ is the Bible. He's
called the Word of God. He's standing right in front
of them. The Bible. God! They didn't recognize Him. They
didn't believe Him. But we know the Bible. We know
Moses. Moses wrote of me, Christ said.
Are we blind? Yes. Everybody's born that way. Verse 41. Jesus said, if you
were blind, you should have no sin. What's that mean? Do you know what that means?
That man in John 9 over there, he said, I know this, I don't
know much. Now, he was born blind. And when
Christ came, and blind means you can't see yourself, you can't
see others, you can't see beauty, you can't see danger, you can't
see God, you can't see His creation, you can't see anything, you're
blind. Blind means blind, not nearsighted,
blind. But when Christ came and opened
his eyes, who was the first person he saw? He saw himself. He saw everything
around him blind. And that blind man later, he
said, I don't know much, but this one thing I do know, I was
blind. And now I see. Well, who did
it? He did it. All right, here's what I'm trying
to say. And our Lord said, Blessed is he who is not offended in
me. He came to give sight to the
blind. Salvation is a revelation. Salvation
is a revelation. No man can see God, hath seen
God at any time. Salvation is a revelation, a
truth of revelation that God has to give eyes to see. That
offends man's wisdom. I can figure this thing out. There's a bunch of people who
know something about Calvinism, and they just consider it a higher
form of doctrine. You're not educated in the Kingdom
of God. No man can know God except the Son of God reveal Him. It's by revelation. You can't
see God, can't know God, except He make Himself known to you.
It's a person. Salvation is not a doctrine,
or a concept, or a theory, or a state of whatever. It's a person. You know a person. The Son of God hath come, John
said, and given us an understanding that we might know Him. It's
a person. Not a creed, not a denomination,
not something you do. It's someone. All right, look
at the next thing. So salvation by revelation offends
man's wisdom. And the next thing our Lord said
in our text, in Luke chapter 7, He said, go show John again how the blind
see and the lame walk. The lame walk. For the sake of
time, I won't have you turn, but over in Luke chapter 5, Christ
was standing there, and a crowd of people were all around Him,
like religion today. Everybody believed Jesus, and
they'd come, and our Lord said, You will not come unto Me that
you might have life. But they're all around Him. He
said, You will not come unto Me that you might have life.
But they were all around Him. If they hadn't come to Him for
life, for forgiveness of sin, because they were dead and they'd
be calling on the Lord for mercy, for grace, for salvation, they
would come because of the miracles. They would come because they
got their bellies filled. They would come to get something
out of Him, but it wasn't salvation. And our Lord said, You will not
come unto Me You will not come to the Lord Jesus Christ for
mercy, for grace, for forgiveness of sin, for pardon, for mercy.
You will not come because nobody believes they need it. He said
you will not, man, will not come to Christ for the thing
you really need because he's blind and he's lame. And in John chapter 6, our Lord
said this, no man can. No man can come unto me. except
the Father which hath sent me, draw him." No man can. Nobody
will, and nobody can. Why? They're dead. They're lame.
They're lame. And our Lord said it twice. I'm
going to say it again. He said, no man can come unto
me except the Father which hath sent me, draw him, and I will
raise him up. This is the will of the Father. The truth of a sovereign Lord,
of salvation of the Lord, of man dead and trespassed in sin,
of man who will not come to Christ, of man who cannot come to Christ
unless the Father brings him and draws him, that offends man's
will. That offends man's ability. You're blessed if you're not
offended by hearing this. There was a time when I would
not come to worship God. I was not interested. I didn't
need that. I was a child of the 60s and
70s, you know, born in the 50s, raised in the 60s and 70s, the
enlightened generation. I was so blind. Blind leader
of the blind, and we were all about to fall, we all were in
the ditch. All me and my buddies. But God. through the preaching
of the gospel, reached down, plucked me as a bran from the
burning, out of the miry clay, out of the pit, brought me up
out of a horrible pit that set my feet on a rock, Christ Jesus. Opened my blind eyes, had me
come hear the gospel. I was lame. They had me come
hear the gospel and sit. And now, by God's grace, I believe
I'm clothed and in my right mind. But you tell people they can't
come, don't know God, can't come to God, that offends them. Doesn't
offend me. Does it offend you? Blessed if
you're not offended. Doesn't offend me. I wouldn't
come. I couldn't come if he hadn't
drawn me. If I hadn't been fetched like a fibber ship, I wouldn't
have come. But God. And I was blind. Blind to myself, blind to God,
blind to the truth, blind to the world, but God. It doesn't offend me. I must be one of the blessed.
How about you? Look at the next sign. He said
blessed are the lepers that are cleansed. Go show John again
lepers are cleansed. Lepers. Very little leprosy today. You hear of any cases of leprosy?
Very few, if you look at a few in a poorer country. Leprosy,
and man thinks he's cured it. Okay? It's kind of like smallpox, you
know, it's breaking out again. Tuberculosis, all these diseases,
man thinks, we've got that cured. It's coming back. It wouldn't
surprise me if there's not a great outbreak of it. The man thinks,
we've cured leprosy, it's old-fashioned. No. It's rampant. God says about man, this is what
God says about man. Man being blind, doesn't see
it. God says, from the sole of the foot unto the head, there's
no soundness in man. Nothing but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores that have not been closed up, neither bound
up, neither modified with ointment. God looked down from heaven upon
the sons of men and says it all together filthy. The word is
stinking in God's eye. Everything about it. Corrupt
from his evil. It says the imagination of man
is evil from his youth up continually. Every day. All day. The moment
he wakes up, he goes to sleep. That's what God says about man.
Does this offend you? It offends most people. It doesn't
offend me. You know why? Because I still
see it in me. This awful disease. David said,
my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, didn't he? Psalm 38,
didn't he? You know you're blessed? You're blessed. This gospel is
for sinners. And the only reason the best
woman in here is not walking the streets tonight as a harlot
is the grace of God, the mercy of God of keeping you from it.
And you don't deserve salvation any more than the woman still
on the street. And the only reason God is going
to show mercy to you is because Christ died. Not anything good
in you, leper. He said that to the Laodiceans,
didn't he? Church, church, good church people. He said, you don't know. You
just don't realize you're wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. He said, I urge you to buy an
eye salve, but to open your eyes. And that's what happens in it
for God's people. We look into this book, and you know what
we see? We see me. That's me. That's what God said,
and that's what I see in me. And then we see another face. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God, forgiveness of sin, mercy and grace for such
vile creature in the face of the person, the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. We see a face. And our sins make
us sad, and Christ's death and blood makes us glad. It cleanses us. The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. You go show John again,
lepers are cleansed. There was a story years ago of
a missionary to India in the time when leprosy was rampant
on this earth still. Parris Reedhead was his name,
a missionary to India, and he said he was going back through
the bush, and the natives were before him cutting the bush,
and they were going into the highways and the hedges looking
for people to preach the gospel to, and he said he heard the
most horrible cry. Help me. Somebody help me. And they kept cutting through
that bush and it got louder and I, help me, somebody help me. And he said he came through the
bushes and he saw the most horrible sight he'd ever seen in his life.
He said there was a man lying on the ground in the last stages
of leprosy. Both his arms were gone. His legs were gone, his face
was just a mass of flesh and flies all over him. No eyes this time. True story.
And he's holding nothing up. Somebody help me. And Parris Reed had that missionary
thought. He knew he could do nothing for
him. He said, if only I could take him And embrace Him. And put that leprous face up
to mine. And put that filthy, stinking
body up to mine. And in part, put my health in
Him. And take His leprosy into me.
Give Him what I've got to cure Him. And that's exactly what
Jesus Christ did. That's what God sees in us. You can't preach the gospel without
that. He sent His Son. When it says He was made sin, He came down here. God laid on
Him the iniquity of all of His people. He made sin. He knew no sin. He imparted His
light. And He died. He took this sin
and God punished him. What you'll see when you see
the cross, you'll see who God really is. Holy. By no means
clearly gifted. You'll see what God really thinks
about sin. About man. You'll see what man thinks about
God. Killing. About what man thinks about holiness.
We don't like that. We love sin. But God. Christ was made sin for them. He who knew no sin, that they
might be made the righteousness of God. Substitution. Does this offend you? Calling
you a leper? We don't know that. Look at the next thing. Don't
show John again that the deaf here, the deaf here, Our Lord
said, having ears to hear, they don't hear. In fact, listen to
this, the Lord told Isaiah, go preach and stop up their ears.
They have ears. They hear what they won't hear.
They hear it. And Brother David preached on
this. One. One Lord. One hope. One faith. One way. One truth. One calling. One who does the choosing. One
who does the saving. One. One. One. Salvation is by
one. One person. One work. Not man. I said, what's hard to understand
about that? About one. David said, I wasn't
much good in algebra. But he said, when I first found
out one, I always knew what one was. One means one. You know,
salvation is not you and God, you and Jesus, what you do and
He did, and He did and you do. No, it's by one. By one offering
He hath perfected everything that is sanctified. By one. When
He hath by Himself purged our sin. One elect, chosen of God. Everyone's elected, chosen in
one, in Him. The way, the truth, the life. That's not my message, but it
is my message. One way. One way. And it's hard to understand,
but men and women and people don't like it. They hear it. They read it. That's what it
says. Not by works of righteousness,
which we have done. All our righteousness are filthy
rags. That's what Isaiah 64, 6 says,
okay? That's what God's Word says.
It's not your decisions. It's not your works. It's not
your decisions. It's not anything you have done.
Salvation is completely Jesus Christ, what He has done. Who
does He do it for? Whom He will. It's not your will. It's His will. It's His choice. It's whiny. Men see that. They read that and say, I don't
like that. Not that they don't understand it. I don't like that. I will not have that. I will
not have a sovereign God. I'm not that bad. God's not that
holy. Oh, yes, He is. And yes, you
are. I'm not dead. I'm not blind. I'm not unworthy. I'm not this.
Oh, yes, you are. God said so. They see it and
say, I don't believe that. Death, willfully. The scripture
says, the time will come and now is when they turn away their
ears from the truth. I don't want to hear that. And
I'm going to go somewhere where a man will tell me how much God
loved me. I'm going to go somewhere where a man will tell me how
much Jesus loved me and died for me and standing outside and
I was accepting when I get ready. And God has stopped their ears.
And some of you were in that religion, weren't you? Huh? Right
there, you see it? A whole bunch of them. Deaf.
Won't hear that. Thank God. You see, if He hadn't
chosen you, John Caesar Sr., you would never have heard this.
You would never have believed this. You're sitting there right
now. There was a time you might have
heard him say, I don't believe that. But God said, that's one
of my legs. That's my chosen. And he said
his Holy Spirit through the preaching of the gospel said, John, you
were blind. John, you were a leper. John,
you could not come. You would not come. But I've
drawn you through the preaching of the gospel. John, be thou
opened, O ears. And you heard who God was. And
you heard what you were. And you heard who Jesus Christ
is. You repented of your sin. You came to Him. Go show John again. Oh, I hope
and pray he does it for somebody else whose ears are stopped.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, he said, and
the deaf people that have ears. He said, you're my chosen, whom
I have chosen that you might know me, that I'm God, there
is none else. He said, I've saved, I've declared
it, I've done it all. You hear that? You know, to a
leper, to a sinner, the gospel is such good news that he did
it all, isn't it? The truth of revelation offends
man's wisdom. The truth of the dead. Here's the last thing. Go show
John again that the dead are raised. To the poor, the gospel
is preached. The dead are raised. Time is
coming, our Lord said, and now is when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God and live. And the Scripture says, and you
hath to quicken, for we are dead in trespass and sin, by grace
you say. Sovereign, electing, calling,
redeeming, quickening, grace that raises a dead sinner to
walk in newness of life. The truth of man being dead in
sin offends man's worth, man's holiness, man's goodness, and
the poor, he said, have the gospel printed. Are you poor? Oh, what poor have the gospel
printed. A beggar. There was a poor, blind
man sitting by the wayside one time, dressed in rags. But he's blind, he can't see
his rag. And he's poor, he doesn't have
anything. He's a beggar. He's totally dependent
on somebody doing something for him. He's blind, he's poor, he's
a beggar, he's dressed in rags, alright? He heard. Somebody told him. First thing,
faith cometh by hearing. Somebody said, there's a man
named Jesus of Nazareth, that they say is the Christ. And in
the Scriptures, in Isaiah 35, it says the Christ will come
and heal the blind. And the lame will walk. And the
deaf will hear. And lepers will be cleansed.
And the poor have the gospel prayer. And they say this Jesus
of Nazareth is the Christ. He's come, and we heard that
He's healed blind men just like you, Bartimaeus. We heard that.
We heard that He's healed the lame, that lepers have been cleansed. I mean lepers, born that way.
I mean, conceived in iniquity. He's healed them. He heard. And somebody said, today, He's
here. What do you think? He cried out. He called. Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord Jesus, thou son of David, Christ. He
said, Jesus the Christ, the one who is to come, have mercy on
me like that leper. Help me. Help me. You know what?
The Lord Jesus did. He stopped. God walking this earth. So much to do. So many to say. He stopped for one blind beggar,
poor, needy, worthless, in rags. He stopped and he said, bring
him to me. Bring him to me. And they did. They brought him to Christ. And
the Lord opened his eyes. He was a beggar in rags. You know He took away those rags
and gave him a new robe. He cleansed him right then, healed
his blind eyes, his deaf ears, his leprosy. The Lord is still
doing it. He's still doing it. And oh,
how blessed are those who have been healed of all these infirmities. Blessed if not offended. Does
this gospel offend you? One time many went away and walked
no more with him. We can't hear this. This is hard.
We can't take this. We're not that bad. And we can't
take this. And they want no more with him.
And he said to his disciples, does this offend you? Will you
also go away? Simon Peter said, where? To whom? This is life. This is
what you did for us. You did all these things for
us, didn't you? I hope and pray you'll do that
for somebody else. You know that? The gospel is still being preached.
And somebody in this room is all these things. May the Lord
open blind eyes, deaf ears, cause the lame to come to Him, cleanse
them of their sin, and hear this blessed gospel, raise them from
the dead. All right. Brother John, you come and lead
us in closing hymns.