Thank you, Jeanette. There's
more gospel in one of those old hymns and all the modern so-called
gospel music or hymns written today. Great. You can just about
look at any hymn in that book, and it's sound and solid, full
of truth, God's glory. Deuteronomy 32 had a blessed
dilemma. As you know, we're looking at
John 17, and I was studying that, and it was such a blessing. And
then I read a devotional by a man named William Jay, and he was
dealing with Deuteronomy 32, and it blessed my heart. so much,
I went back and read it, and I could not get away from it,
and began to look at it, and it greatly blessed me, and I
hope it will bless you tonight. But next time we gather, Lord
willing, we'll continue John 17. This is Moses' song. Moses has a song in Exodus 15
also, but this is called Moses' song. sung now in glory by the
saints. Singing it right now. May we
sing this tonight from the heart. Verse 1 says, Give ear, O ye
heavens, and I'll speak, and hear, O earth, the words of my
mouth. Oh, may the Lord give us ears
to hear His voice, His words tonight. He says in verse 2,
My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall distill
as the dew, as a small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass." My doctrine, blessed doctrine. Doctrine means
teaching. Don't ever speak of the word
doctrine. Don't ever speak of the doctrine
of the Lord in disparaging or dishonoring way. It's the Lord's
Word. Instruction is teaching. Our
Lord said in John 6, 45, quoting Isaiah, they shall all be taught
of the Lord. Doctrine is just the teaching
of the Lord is what it is. Don't ever talk about His doctrine
in such a way. Just because some men make doctrine
to be salvation or some men just preach heady intellectual doctrine,
in a dry way. The doctrine of the Lord, the
teaching of our Lord is not dry. It is life. It's His truth. It's His gospel. It's another
word for His truth, for His gospel. It's life-giving. The doctrine
of the Lord. Scripture says if any man abide
not in the doctrine of Christ, he's none of His. Our Lord, when
speaking of His Word, He meant His doctrine. If my words abide
in you, and you in me, Ask what you will. It's His Word. It's
His truth. It's His teaching. It's refreshing. It's joyful.
It says here, it's like rain. If properly preached, if preached
from the heart to the heart, His doctrine. If properly heard,
how do you hear doctrine? How do you hear the teaching
of the Lord? Well, if you're hungry, it's going to be like good food.
If you've tasted the bitterness of sin, it's going to be like
honey to you. You're tasting the Word of God.
If you're hungry, if you're thirsty, it's going to be like refreshing
water. Anything but dry. He said it's like rain on the
herbs. Showers on the grass. Turn to Psalm 72 with me. I know
all of you have been outside on a day when the gentle rain
is falling. Mindy and I were at Wade Park. We like to go to that park. It's
a beautiful, beautiful park. Wade Park. And it was about two
or three weeks ago when the fall colors were at their peak. And
there was a gentle rain, like a mist falling down. It was just
like a mist. And the colors everywhere. God's
creation was just vivid, just glorious. It just heightened. It just magnified all the colors
of our Lord's creation. And then the grass, like just
moan the grass. That green grass was a vivid
green. And that mist. What doctrine is the Lord talking
about? What's He talking about when He's talking about doctrine?
Look at Psalm 72 verse 1. Give the king. This is a prayer of David, a
psalm of David for Solomon. But really, it's for the Son
of David, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's speaking of Christ here.
Give the King thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness
unto the King's Son. That's who has it. All judgment,
Christ said, is committed unto me. All righteousness. He's the
Lord our righteousness. Verse 2, He shall judge thy people
with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. Speaking of Christ,
the mountains shall bring peace to the people. Mount Zion. And the little hills by righteousness. He, Christ, shall judge the poor
of the people. He shall save the children of
the needy. and shall break in pieces the
oppressor, and they shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon
endure." It's got to be speaking of a greater than Solomon. Throughout
all generations, he shall come down like rain upon the mown
grass. as showers that water the earth. In His days shall the righteous
flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth." We need to stop. We could just
keep reading. What is the doctrine of the Lord? It's like rain.
It's the doctrine of Christ. It's a teaching of Christ. You
pray for Sunday's radio message. It is the whole theme of the Bible
in three words. The theme of this book, why God
wrote this book, what this whole book is about can be contained
in three words. Colossians 3.11. Christ is all. Christ is all and in all. In all this book, in all things. That's why God created everything.
That's why He wrote this book. That's what salvation is about.
Christ. You and Him. He and you. Christ
is all. He is all. He came down like
rain upon the mown grass. He says, My doctrine shall drop
as rain. The Word of God. Listen to Isaiah. Oh, I love this. You do too. In Isaiah 45 it says, Drop down
ye heavens from above. Let the skies pour down righteousness. That's Christ. Let the earth
open up, let them bring forth salvation. Christ was born in
this earth, came up. He is our salvation. Let righteousness
spring up together. I, the Lord, have created it.
Listen to Isaiah 55. Oh, it's all of Christ, isn't
it? Isaiah 55, listen to this. It says, as the rain cometh down
and the snow from heaven And returneth not thither, but watereth
the earth, and maketh it bring forth in bud, that it may give
seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. So shall my word
be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that which I plead. It shall
prosper, and that thereunto I have said it." That's not speaking
just of the Bible, it's talking of Christ. The Word made flesh. Alright, look at our text here.
He says, My doctrine, the teaching of this Bible, the teaching of
God's Word is this. This is My beloved Son. Hear
Him. Come to Him. Go to Him. Believe
on Him. My doctrine shall drop as rain,
shall distill as dew. Have you ever walked out in the
garden in the early spring, warm air, The dews on the roses. Some of you love that hymn, don't
you? And if the Lord will cause the sweet-smelling fragrance,
sweet savor that is Christ Himself to, as it were, come out of these
pages, it will be like the dew of Hermon, which Psalm 133 says,
that oil that comes down on the head into the garments It's like
the dew of Hermon. Upon the people of God, the Lord
has commanded a blessing there. This is where the blessing is.
Right here. My doctrine shall drop as dew,
like rain and speech as dew. Verse 3, Because I will publish
the name of the Lord. This is the doctrine. This is
the teaching. This is the Word of God. I will publish the name
of the Lord. Ascribe you greatness. unto our
God, the name of the Lord, the name above every name, the great
God, the Lord God, omnipotent reign. Does that sound good to
you? The Lord God. Moses said, Lord, show me your
glory. And he said, I'm going to proclaim the name of the Lord,
the Lord. Jesus Christ is Lord. God made
him Lord. He reigns, he rules, he sits
upon the circle of the earth. He sits on the right hand of
the majesty on high, reigning and ruling, doing as he will
with whom he will. All things are in his hand. Does
that sound good to you? That's like refreshing rain to me. All
the chaos seeming, chaos, all the evil, all the everything
that's going on. Our God reigns. He's the Lord.
He's not a figurehead. He's the Lord. The Lord God. God manifest in the flesh. The
Lord God merciful. Boy, there's rain to a thirsty
soul. The Lord God gracious. Ready to pardon. Long-suffering. Oh, there's good doctrine. Abundant
in goodness and truth. God, the name of God. God is
love. The Lord Jesus Christ, that's
His name, drops like rain, fragrant and refreshing like dew. He says,
ascribe you greatness unto our God. The Lord is great. Is it Psalm 45? Yes. He's great and His work is great.
One generation shall speak of His greatness tonight. He's great. We shouldn't call men great children.
We use that term too lightly. God is great. God is good. He's the rock. The rock. The rock of ages. Cleft for me. Moses in that same request, the
Lord said, he said, show me your glory. He said, okay, there's
a place by me. And you're going to stand on
the rock? I'm going to put you in the cleft of the rock. How
can you stand on the rock and be in it? That rock is Christ
Jesus. He's the sure foundation. He's
the chief cornerstone upon which we stand, right? And He's the
rock of ages. He's Christ crucified and whose
rib and side we're found. From which side flow the water
and the blood. Justification, sanctification.
There's doctrine. Is that dry to you? Justification? Let me give you a good verse
of doctrine. It says that we have received
full and free, final, perfect, complete justification from all
things by which you cannot be justified by the law. Now if
you know anything about the law, justification by faith is wonderful. Martin Luther, Martin Luther
found that out. Crawling up those steps, kissing
those supposed blood spots, under the law, under the whip of the
law, under the burden of trying to keep the law, and God, Holy
Spirit, sent that scripture like a bolt of lightning into his
mind and his heart. The just shall live by his faith. As he jumped up, ran out of that
dark, pagan, evil place, into the sunlight free at last. Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dry doctrine. Justification. Sanctification. Oh my. He says, He's the rock.
His work is perfect. Whose work? His work. Salvation
is not of words. Lest any man should boast, should
he? But it's His work. His work, His work is perfect.
It must be. It must be. Well, Scripture says
it is. It's complete. It says you're
complete in Him. It's perfect. It's finished. When our Lord
created the heavens and the earth, after He finished, after He made
man, what did He say? It's good. It's very good. It
was complete, and the Lord rested on the seventh day, hallowed
the seventh day, the Sabbath. Well, that seventh day represents
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Sabbath. God rested
in Him because the work was finished by Christ on Calvary's tree.
And Christ said it. Is this dried up? This is our
salvation. Christ hanging on the tree, He
said it. It's finished. Perfected. Complete in Him. Salvation's finished. Perfect.
His perfect work. His ways, verse 4, His ways. All His ways are judgment. All
that our Lord does is perfect, is best, is only what? His ways.
Whatever the Lord does. Though mysterious, though unknown
to us, though we cannot figure them out, though we don't understand
them, whatever may happen, let us say with Eli of old, it's
the Lord. It's the Lord. Let Him do what
seemeth good to Him. He's a God of truth and without
iniquity. That means there's nothing unequal,
nothing unfair. He's just and He's right. Just
and right is He. That's what He is. He cannot
do wrong. Whatever He does is the only
way. It's the way it is. Whatever it is, it is the Lord.
This is what Abraham pleaded, didn't it? Abraham did not want
Sodom to be destroyed. He wanted some people there to
be to be saved out of it. The Lord couldn't find ten righteous
people. And here's what Abraham finally
concluded. Whatever the Lord did, he said,
the judge of the earth shall do right. And that's what we
say in regards to whatever happens to death. Whatever we say, it's
the Lord. He said, I kill, I make a life. I, the Lord, do all this stuff.
May not understand. Someday we'll know as we've been
known. And we will say, as the Scripture
says, He hath done all things well. All things. The judgments of the Lord, Psalm
19, verse 9, says that the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring
forever. And the judgments of the Lord
are true and righteous altogether. This is my Father's Word. Oh,
let me ne'er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler. Amen? Is that not sweet? Is that not refreshing? I know. But look at verses 5 and 6. He's
reproving and rebuking sinful man. They have corrupted themselves.
His people. His professing people. History.
They're not the spot of his children. They don't act like his children.
They're perverse and crooked generations. Anybody here feel
that way? If you don't, you don't know yourself. He says, is this
how you requite the Lord? Is this what you return to the
Lord? Oh foolish people and unwise. Remember James said, what should
we ask for? First thing, wisdom. That we
don't play the fool. Oh, is not He thy Father that
bought thee, hath He not made thee and established thee, the
Father that corrected thee, the Father that teaches thee? Should
we not listen to Him? Should we not render honor unto
Him, honor to the Father? So he says in verse 7, remember,
remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations,
past generations, after generations. Ask thy Father, He'll show thee.
The elders, they'll tell thee. Remember. Remember. The Lord told that, Abraham told
the rich man who was in hell, but it's too late, remember. Too late. Someone said hell is
a perfect memory. Perfect memory of all the truth
that was rejected. Of all the goodness that was
unrequited. Hell, perfect memory. Remember
now. Remember now, 2 Peter 3, he said, I want to stir up your
pure minds by way of remembrance. He said, after I'm gone, I want
you to remember, I want you to read this. This is a book of
remembrance. Malachi 3 said, those that feared
his name, he wrote a book of remembrance, to remember. And most of this, you know, is
telling us over and over again the story of the children of
Israel. This is Moses' son. The story of the children of
Israel. Their sin against God and God's goodness to them. God's
mercy to them and their sin against Him. But His longsuffering, His
patience, His kindness. God's choice of this. Son, remember.
Surely this ought to make us learn something. If we hear,
if we heed, Hebrews is a summary of the whole Old Testament in
which he said, don't let these things slip like the children
of Israel. They heard these things. They
heard the Gospel too. He said, but they weren't mixed with faith. Remember. Remember. And you know
God's preachers are called the Lord's Remembrancers. I didn't
write it down where that's found, but that's what it said, the
Lord's remembrances to bring back to our memory. Consider,
he says in verse 7, consider, consider, ponder, meditate, God's
Word, God's truth, God's ways. And in verse 29, he said, oh,
that they were wise, they understood this, that they would consider
This is the thing we ought to always consider and have on our
mind. Our latter end. That today might be it. This
might be it. How important would this message
be if you knew that this was your last hour? Huh? It may be. How many in our midst have heard
their last message? It's the truth. We just don't
know. You just don't know. This is
the most vital, most important thing we can do on this earth. Do you believe that? He says, ask thy father. Ask
your father if he's a believer. Ask him. He'll show you. Or the
fathers. Ask the fathers. Ask Abel. Ask
Enon. He walked with God. Ask Noah.
The preacher of righteousness warned his generation, condemned
the world, prepared an ark to save his house. That ark was
his life for 120 years. It really was his life. Christ
is that ark. Ask Him. He'll tell you. This
world is perishing. There's one thing left. Get in
the ark to be found in Christ. One thing left. Ask Him. He'll
tell you. Ask your teachers, your elders.
Isaiah complained. Isaiah mourned. He said, there's
none that call it for truth. No one asks. You think people
ask, Isaiah was a great... Would you have asked Isaiah some
questions if he was alive today? No, you wouldn't. He is alive. God hadn't left
himself without a witness in every generation. That's what the Word of God said. No, they didn't ask Isaiah, they
didn't ask Jeremiah, they didn't ask Ezekiel, they didn't. Ask! You know what our Lord Zip said?
Ask! Ask! Some do. Many do. Yes, God's
people are inquiring, diligent people. They don't know anything.
If anybody thinks they know anything, they don't know anything. After it's all said and done,
after all these years, can you not say with me, I don't feel
like I know anything? Ask. They'll tell you. Your teachers will tell you.
Verse 8. Now here it is. Alright, here's
the story. Here's the Gospel story. Okay?
Here it is. Here's where it all started.
The Gospel of God started here. When the Most High divided to
the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of
Adam, When He purposed everything, all people, nations, tongue,
kindred, everything, He set the bounds of all the people according
to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion
is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.
What's He talking about? Divine election. Is this doctrine? This is the salvation of God's
people. This is where it all started,
in the mind, in the heart, in the purpose of God. You can't
preach the gospel without preaching it. Do you see where he started?
Tell them. Is this just a doctrine, a higher
doctrine? This is the gospel. This is where it all started.
In the mind and the heart of God, where God in mercy, in grace,
in love, chose a people unworthy, undeserving. He described them,
didn't He? No better, no different. The
Israelites were no better than the Egyptians. But God, rich
in mercy, chose them. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. Some people say, that's not fair.
Unfair. Well, I agree with that. You
shouldn't love Jacob at all. Shouldn't love him at all. He
ought to hate Esau because Esau hated God. He traded his birthright
for a bowl of beans. It's what everybody in the world
does. It doesn't worship God. That's what everybody does. It doesn't worship God. They
trade God. They sell God for their belly. God ought to hate them. But God,
who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved
old Jacob, set His love on Jacob, made Jacob His choice. Jacob,
I've loved you. Jacob didn't love God. Jacob
wasn't seeking God. But God! Doctrine? Yes, doctrine. Glorious doctrine. Wonderful doctrine. Doctrine
that drops like rain on my soul. This is where He found me. Look at it. Verse 10, he found
him in a desert land, in a waste, howling wilderness. In other
words, he found old Jacob wasted. He was wasted. Like the prodigal son. Like me,
wasting his substance. But God, the Lord Jesus Christ
came to where old Jacob was. Jacob wasn't seeking the Lord.
The Lord sought him. And he wrestled with him. Look
at it, verse 10, "...he found him, and he led him about. The
Word encompassed him, laid hold of him, he instructed him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye." Oh! God came to where Jacob
was, found him, and wrestled him. He found him. Who found
who? The Lord found him. Jacob was
lost. Jacob was dead. The Lord raised
him. Jacob wasn't called, and the Lord called him. He found
Him. He encompassed Him about. He
wrestled Him. He led Him all the way, my Savior lead me. Deuteronomy 8, you don't have
to turn, but read it for yourself sometime. He says, Thou shalt
remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty
years in the wilderness to humble you. To humble you. Oh, to humble
us. The fact that He chose us, the
fact that He came to us, the fact that He set His love upon
us, the fact that He encompassed us, wrestled with us, led us,
leads us. He instructed him. He instructed
him. Listen to Psalm 147. It says,
"...he showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and judgments
to Israel. He hath not dealt so with any
other nation." There is no other God but the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There is no other religion but
the true religion, the religion that is Jesus Christ, the only
Messiah, the only way, the only truth, the only life. Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist, it's all false. It's all thought. It's all thought. The way is this. He hath not dealt so
with any other nation. Listen to Jacob's prayer. I love
this. Jacob said, Lord, I am not worthy of the
least of all thy mercies and truth that you show me. I'm not worthy of the least of
all thy mercies and truth. Jacob esteemed the truth. God
instructed it. Doctrine? You'll never use that word lightly
again, will you? I hope not. I won't. I learned something. My doctrine drops its rain on a tender earth. If you're
tender toward it, it's precious. He found him, he led him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye. The apple of his eye. People
use that term, don't they? What that's talking about is
not an apple you eat. It's talking about the pupil.
The pupil in the eye is called the apple in the Hebrew. It's
a word for the apple of the eye. It's the pupil in the eye. He
kept Jacob. He keeps his people like the
eye guards the pupil. The pupil is a vulnerable thing,
a tender thing. Think about how well it's guarded.
Think how the Lord has guarded. The eye is a magnificent thing.
Isn't the eye a wonderful thing? The eye proves God, along with
the thumb. But the pupil is in the eye. It's before the eye. It's guarded. It's kept. That's God's people. They're in Him. They're always
before Him. He always has His eye on them. They're in Him. He always has
the eye. He keeps them as the apple, as
the pupil in your eye. Isn't that wonderful? Always. His eyes behold. His
eyelids try. This fragile flesh, this vulnerable
flesh that we have is just that, but it's immortal. Kept by the
power of God. We're kept by our Lord. and immortal until he says, it's
time. You know that? So we need not
fear anything. Read Psalm 91 again, and again,
and again, and you'll not be afraid for the error that flyeth
by day. Do you hear me? Is that more
needful now than ever? He keeps you. There's a hedge
about you. Just like Job. Yes, there is. And He speaks of Jacob, He's
speaking of all His people. And He compares Himself to an
eagle. The Lord keeps His people like
an eagle keeps her young. Verse 11, "...as an eagle stirreth
up her nest, and fluttereth over her young, and spreadeth abroad
her wing." The eagle is nothing more noble. The Lord compares
Himself to an eagle. There's nothing compared. No
animal on earth or in the skies or in the sea compares to the
eagle. Nothing more powerful in its
essence, in its glory, in its majesty. Nothing soars higher
than the eagle. Nothing more far above us than
the eagle soaring. It's noble, powerful, looking
down on everything. See the eagle eye, the eye of
the eagle, far seeing. That's our God. And this eagle
has a special eye. for her young. And all that the
eagle does is for her young, to nourish the young, to feed
the young. Look what the eagle has her young
in a nest, verse 11. She has her young in a nest.
I love Psalm 84, you know, that says this pharaoh had found a
nest for her young, even nine altars. This is speaking of where
God found His people. His people are in the world.
His people are in the world. Like Egypt, Israel was in Egypt
of old. That's where He brought them
to then. They were found in Egypt. That's where He found them. Jacob,
His people, in Egypt. And they were in bondage. They
were in the finest of the land though. You remember they were
in the land of Goshen through Joseph? Pharaoh, they were in
the finest of the land. They had the best. So that's
where they were. They were in Egypt. And for a while, they were very
content. The nest, as it were, where they were, they were happy
to be there. They were glad to be there. But that's not where
they were to stay. That wasn't their continuing
nest. God had for them a promised land.
So what did He do? The eagle, when she prepares
her young to leave the nest, fledglings, when their wings
are starting to grow and it's time for them to leave the nest,
the eagle will stir up the nest, will rustle the nest. By the
way, an eagle's nest, some of them weigh one ton. They found
one somewhere that weighed two tons. It was 20 feet deep and
10 feet across. A bird. That's some animal in
it. That's what the Lord, His nest
is deep. It's crazy. But anyway, when
the eagle prepares her young to leave the nest, she stirs
up the nest. She makes it uncomfortable. She'll
get some sticks, like thorns, and prod those little fledglings
to where they don't want to stay in that nest. Israel, when they were in Egypt,
they were comfortable in the land of Goshen. So what did God
do? He sent a Pharaoh that didn't know Him. Hard taskmaster. Brought them under bondage and
cruelty. Evil befell them. Evil befell
them. Cruelty. Hard bondage. Was it
evil? No, it wasn't. It was good. These afflictions and those trials
was good for them. And He was bringing them out. Made them uncomfortable. Put
a heart of Pharaoh-weight heavy burdens on them. And every single
one of God's people, they're in this world. They're happy.
They're fine. They're comfortable. They like
it here. And God sends them the whip of the law. Makes them guilty. gives them
a burden, a burden of their sin, a burden of their guilt. Under
bondage, they realize they're in bondage and they want freedom
from sin, freedom from the law, freedom from this world. That's a good burden to have.
Children of Israel given this burden, they're leaving. They're leaving. So he made it
uncomfortable. That's what the eagle does. Our
Lord sends trials and afflictions to where we want out. We have here no continuance in
it. It says, "...as an eagle stirreth up her nest and fluttereth
over her young." Fluttereth over her young. What she's doing here
is displaying herself. She stretches out those wings.
It says, "...she fluttereth over her young and spreadeth abroad
her wings." That eagle, that mother eagle, she's larger than
the male, by the way. She's 7 foot wingspan. And those little weak eagles,
they're going to leave. They're going to leave the nest.
And they think, how are we going to get out of here? We can't fly. They've got wings
and don't know it. But she starts fluttering these
wings, spreads them across, says, look at me! Look at me! You're coming out of here. Surely that's a picture of our
Lord and Him crucified. He spread out His hands. All
the day long I've stretched out my hands to look at Christ and
Him crucified. Look at me! She's displaying,
the Mother Eagle's displaying Herself. She's displaying Her
glory. She's displaying Her power. And
our God, when He reveals Himself, when He puts us under this burden,
under this bondage, under the whip of the law, where we want
out, out of bondage, out of sin, out from under the law, we want
freedom from sin, He displays Himself. He displays Christ.
The gospel is the power of God Himself. He displays the One
who has brought us. He makes bear his holy arm. Some
of you in here were in false religion and you believed, actually
believed in a God who had no hands. Put your hand in it. But
when Christ, when God came through His gospel, He made bear His
holy arm. My dad used to do that. When
I was a boy, my dad used to roll up his sleeve and he'd show me
his muscle. And boy, I thought, there ain't
nobody bigger or stronger than my dad. Peace gave me comfort. Well, I'm here to tell you. I'm
here to tell you that God is great. Our God is great. There's
nothing greater. It's not like these silly signs that people
have it on their bumper, you know, God is greater than any
problem I have. If you knew God, you wouldn't have that on your
bumper. You'd fear His name. You'd use His name with reverence.
But God is great. God sent the problem. Greater
than the problem, He sent it. To make you uncomfortable. And then He bears His holy arm
to show you. How are you going to get out
of here? Me. He spreadeth abroad her wings.
Spreadeth abroad. Oh, the height, the depth, the
length, the breadth. of the love of God, the mercy
of God, the grace of God, the power of God. His arm is not
short. He has arms all right. He brought
Israel out by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm. He said,
look at it, what she does is she takes them. She lays hold
of them. When an eagle lays hold of something,
She won't let go. So many things I could tell you
about an eagle. One thing in particular is so
marvelous. That eagles, when they mate, they mate for life.
They have the same mate for life. That's our Lord. Like a dove. Doves slay. Oh, this is God's
Word. It speaks of Christ. She spreads
her broader wing and she takes them, she takes hold of them,
she grabs hold of these little fledglings and she puts them
on her wing, puts them on her wing, and she soars. We're leaving now. Soars out of there. You know,
Isaiah 40 says this, Isaiah 40 says this, it says, It says, they that wait on the
Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. Over in Revelation 12, it says
of the church, it was given her two wings. I need to read that
to you, not misquote it. It says it was given to her two
wings that she should fly. Two wings of an eagle. that she would fly into the wilderness
into her place. Where's she going? Her place.
Where she's nourished for a time and time. This is God's plan. What are these two wings? What
are the wings upon which we mount up? What are the wings? Well, it's His blood and His
righteousness. It's His mercy and His truth.
It's His righteousness and His peace. It's His Law and His Prophets. It's grace and truth. It's peace
and love. The wings of our God upon which
we mount and fly off. And it says, He taketh them,
all of them. How many eaglets are in that
nest doesn't matter. He's going to bear them all up.
He's going to bear them all, carry them all. Somebody in here
I know loves this. It says, Hearken unto me, O house
of Jacob, the remnant of the house of Israel, which are born
or carried by me from the womb to your old age. I am he. To
your hoary hairs I will carry you. I have made you and I will
bear you. Even I will carry you and will
deliver you. We are leaving this place. By virtue, by power of our Lord
Jesus Christ. He is coming for us. But do you
know something? The eagle does this. This is
what she does. She flies along. Now those little
fledglings have wings. They don't know it. They've never
used them. And so what she does in flight,
she shakes them off. And all of a sudden, they're flying. It reminded me of Simon Peter.
We have faith. We have faith. What is it that
overcome? Our faith. We have faith. He's
given us out of ourselves. It's the gift of God by which
we rise above the world in sin. Simon Peter said, Lord, if it's
you, bid me come to you. He said, go. And that man walked
on water. No man can't do that. That's
impossible with Christ, isn't it? Well, he started walking
on the water. But all of a sudden, he looked
around at the wind and the wave, and unbelief crept in, didn't
it? What did he do? He started sinking. And those
little fledglings, if at any time they'd get afraid, you know
what would happen? You know what she does? Catch
them. So, the Lord alone did lead him. He gets all the glory. He does
it all alone. No strange God with him. Oh no,
we don't worship some strange God. We worship the Lord alone.
Where are we going, Mama? We're going to ride on the high
places of the earth. Made him to ride on the high
places of the earth. soar above the world and see
the heights lofty from Mount Pisgah's lofty heights to view
the world. Things as they are, we'll see
things. You see things as they are. You're up in an airplane. You see things as they really
are. The toys, the little insignificant toys that all this stuff is.
You see it for what it really is. The finest mansion looks
like a little High places, ready to ride on
the high places. Things that are nobler, things
that are higher, these have been lured by Satan. That he might
eat the increase of the field, made him to suck honey out of
the rock. Oh my! Oil out of the flinty rock. Honey
out of hardness, oil out of a sharp trial. Butter of kind. Churned milk, that's the word
of God. Milk of sheep, fat of lambs, rams, that's all Christ
did. All Christ. Breed of goats with
the fat of chiddies, that's bread. And it did drink the pure blood
of the grave. Wine on the leaf, well refined. My doctrine shall drop as rain. My speech has to do on the tender
grass, on the earth. Something amazing. Stand with
me. Our Lord and our God, thank You,
thank You, thank You for Your blessed Word. What a marvelous
story is the Gospel. What good news it is. Oh Lord,
thank You for the marvelous, glorious, beautiful, fragrant,
sweet-smelling savor that is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Thank you for the doctrine of
Christ. Oh Lord, ever teach us doctrine. Ever be teaching us. Let us ask. Let us remember. Let us consider.
Let us not be foolish as the children of Israel. Let us remember.
Son, remember. Let us remember. Bring these
things to our remembrance, Lord. And oh Lord, let us mount up
with wings of eagles, by Thy mercy and truth, by Thy grace
and Thy power, O Lord, let us rise above this world, overcome
by the faith You've given us, the faith of God's elect. O Lord,
forgive our unbelief, we pray. We give You all the honor and
glory for all things and bless You for Your holy Word, in Christ's
name, Amen. You're dismissed. Thank you.