Give me my Jesus, my Lord Crucified. Give me my Jesus, my Lord Crucified. Still nearer, while life shall
last, Till safe in glory my anchor is cast, Through endless ages
ever to be, Still nearer to Thee, nearer
my Savior, still nearer to Thee. The story of Noah and the Ark
is a true story. There are four chapters devoted
to this in God's Word. Four. A true story. I'm not going to argue that.
I'm not going to try to prove it. You don't need to try to
prove it. It's a fact. Our Lord spoke of it. That's
enough. As well as the prophets and apostles.
This story and the reason it is there. It clearly testifies
of Christ and Him crucified. This story clearly reveals, if
the Lord reveals it, that salvation is only in Christ. I want to try to make this as
clear as I possibly can. Before we go to Genesis, look
with me at Ephesians 1. Ephesians 1, and those of you
who know something of God's Word, you know that throughout the
Scriptures, and throughout especially the epistles, it speaks of being
in Christ. In Christ. In Christ. Because this is salvation. Here
it is, very plainly. All in that ark were saved. all outside the ark perish. In Adam, all die. In Christ,
all may die. Very simple, very plain. As I said, I'm not going to prove
anything, I'm just going to preach it. Salvation is to be in Christ. Look at Ephesians 1, verse 1,
the last line, the faithful in, Christ. Verse 3, the last line,
He's blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ. Verse 4, according as He hath
chosen us in Christ. Verse 6, to the praise of the
glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the
Beloved. Verse 7, in whom we have redemption. Verse 10, the last line, He's
going to gather together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, which are on earth, even in Him. Verse 11, in whom we have obtained
an inheritance. Verse 13, in whom you trusted,
in whom you believed. Salvation is to be found in Christ. Paul said that, oh, that I might
win Christ, know Christ, and be found in Him in that day. In Christ. Now go to Genesis 6 with me. All through the Scripture. And
this message could not be simpler or plainer or more urgent if
you're not in Christ. Could not be more urgent. We
have one message, don't we? Come to Christ. In Christ. Salvation is in Christ. Noah
and the ark are a type, that means a representation of, a
prefigure, a figure, a symbol of the Lord Jesus Christ. Noah
and that ship, that ark, represent the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at
verse 5. God saw the wickedness of man
was great in the earth. Every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart, only evil continued. That's total depravity of it.
Dead and trespassed in sin. The Lord said, verse 7, I will
destroy man whom I have created. Didn't He? Not once, but twice God had spoken. But men perceived it not. He
said it then. And he said it again, didn't
he? Through Peter, the apostle. Once in the end of the world,
he's going to destroy everyone and everything except those in crime. Verses 8, found grace in the eyes of the
Lord. The Lord looked down upon the children of men, Scripture
says, to see if there were any that did understand. If there
were any that did seek after God, didn't they? Psalm 14. He
said, there's none. There's none that doeth good.
The natural man receiveth not the things of God. They're foolishness
to them. Neither can they. The Lord looked
down and what did He see? What does He see? This earth,
here's what God calls this earth, this present evil world. He said all that's in the earth
is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life. That's what God says about this earth. And God says,
I will destroy this place. But no one. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Noah is a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ here. Noah is a type of Christ. Noah
himself was not sinless. God didn't save him because he
was just and upright. He saved him by his grace to
be just and upright. If you'll notice, just and upright
came after Noah found grace. Right? Salvation is not of works,
lest any man should vote. Not Noah, not Abraham. No, no,
no. Abraham wasn't saved by work.
He was saved by grace. Noah wasn't saved by work. He
was saved by grace. But by the grace of God, he was
justified. He was made upright. He was made
a new creature. He found grace in the eyes of
the Lord. The Lord in great mercy and grace
and love and favor chose Noah out of a world of people. They did. The whole world heard this story
of Noah building this ark, didn't they? 120 years. News travels
fast. I forget, I read one time it said if you tell someone something
and they tell someone, they tell two others and it goes on and
on. It takes something like three hours for it to go around the
world. That's fact. News travels fast,
doesn't it? A hundred and twenty years, Noah
was a preacher of righteousness. A hundred and twenty years, Noah
was building this ark. They heard about it all over
the world. Have they not heard, Paul said, about this gospel? Have they not all heard? Yea,
verily the sound has gone to the ends of the earth. Many are
called, but few. are chosen. And if you believe,
if you receive, if you believe this this morning, if you believe
this story and are not scoffing at it and mocking at it, bless
God you've found grace. If you trust Christ, if you're
in Christ, bless God He's chosen you, in whom you trusted after
you heard. You know, most people scoff at
this. Most people mock this. Most people don't believe this.
They think it's an old Jewish fable, don't they? Made up. It's
a true story. Our Lord said of His coming,
as in the days of Noah. They mocked and scoffed at Noah,
and He said, they're mocking and scoffing at Me. But not My
people. It's who I've come for. The Lord looked down and it repented
him, but no one found grace. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
the one righteous man. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
one man God looked down from heaven upon and said, I'm well
pleased for his righteousness sake. Christ didn't just find
grace, he became the grace of God. Because there's none that
doeth good, but God said there's one. There's one man with whom
I have made my covenant. There's one man I've chosen out
among the people, holy, righteous, unblamable, unreprovable, separate
from sinners. One man, my covenant head. Noah
found grace, and Noah became the instrument of salvation to
all his family and all those animals. Salvation is in Christ. The grace of God is in Christ. Verse 9 and following says, there
were generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect.
Our Lord, truly just, the just one and perfect, holy, upright. Noah walked with God. Oh my,
our Lord is God. Noah begat three sons and the
earth was corrupt. And the Lord said to Noah in
verse 13, God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh has come
before me. Known unto God are all His works
from the beginning of the world. Before God created this world,
He knew He was going to destroy it. Don't ask me to explain that. Don't ask me to explain why sin
came, why God allowed it, but it just did. Known unto God are all His works.
Before He made the world, He knew it was going to become corrupt,
void, sinful, and He knew He was going to destroy it. But
God also. in mercy and love and grace,
before the world began, determined. And what God determines will
be done. Determined to save a people out
of every tribe, like these animals, kindred and nation under heaven. He determined it's going to be
done. And to give them to Christ in a covenant and put them in
Christ, that shelter, and spare them while he destroys
the world. He said, the end unto Noah, the
end of all flesh has come. Make thee an ark, verse 14. Make
thee an ark of gopher wood. The Lord, God said to our Lord, whom He made a body, He said,
not make thee an ark, He said, thou art the ark. The Lord made him to be the ark
of God. Gopher wood, what's that? Well,
that's a wood that's impervious to decay. That's a wood that's
impervious to rot, to insects. A wood that lasts nearly forever. That's our Lord's sinless humanity. He was made flesh and dwelt among
us in the likeness of sinful flesh, but without sin. If He's not God, if He's not
sinless, if He's not the virgin-born Son, He can't save us, can He?
You know that. You know, few people believe
that. Few people know why He must be born of a virgin. Even
fewer people believe that He was. Our hope is that the One
who came, though He was made flesh, though He was a man, He's
more than a man. If he's just a man, he can't
save us. But the God-man can. And did. Make thee an ark. And our Lord became the ark.
With rooms. I like that. With rooms. And the margin said nests. Resting
places. In that ark were many. There
were no cages. There were no cages. In this
ark, there's no bondage. There are no restraining ropes.
There are no chains. These animals didn't need them.
They're all glad to be there. Nests. David said of the sparrow
in that Psalm 84, the sparrow hath made a nest for herself
where she may lay her young. Do you find in Christ your resting
place? If you truly look to the Christ
of Scripture, there's no bondage there. Oh, you're free. But yet you're captive, and you're
glad of it. And I'm way ahead of myself.
That's one of my last points. But rest in places. Do you find
Him? Christ said, come unto Me, all
you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. All
those animals did while they were in that ark was rest, nests. Many of them, plenty of them,
plenty of room. Pitch it. This is my favorite story right
now. Pitch it, Noah. Pitch it good. Cover that ark with this black
pitch that's taken from the wound of a tree, an evergreen tree
planted by the rivers of living water. Wound that tree and take
that precious sap and pitch it. Pitch it. Cover it. Rain's coming. Don't let a drop of water go
in there. Pitch it within so they can see it. See why the
rain's not touching them. Pitch it, Noah. Pitch it good. Do you know what the pitch is?
Do you have the pitch on your soul? Do you have the pitch in
your mind? Is that pitch in your heart? People think about it. Noah had
to pitch a 450 foot ship, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high, with
three stories. Dan, have you ever painted a
room in your house? Sorry to bring up something. that now
Jill is going to make you do. But if you've ever painted, do
you get any on you? Huh? What if you paint five rooms? What if you paint six? What if
you paint the whole house? What if you paint the outside of the
house? The roof? You'd get it all over you. For
a hundred, I don't know how long he pitched it, but he had pitch
all over him. But he didn't care. He was always
mindful. If you've ever pitched your...
Brother Stephen, we did this, didn't we, to the foundation
of our house. We put pitch on it. And if you've got it on you,
it's hard to get off in it. For days you'll have it on you.
Oh, brethren. The blood of the Lord Jesus.
It was on his mind all the time, this pitch. And the Lord told
him what that pitch was. A pitch is not a thing, it's
a person. The pitch represents the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. God said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. Our salvation, we must be covered
with the blood. God must see the blood and pass
over us. The blood must be applied. And
Christ did that. Not us, but I want to see it
too, don't you? I want to see the blood. And
if you've ever seen the blood, Deborah, it's in your heart.
It's in your heart. It's in your mind, isn't it?
You know it's got to be on your hands. It's got to be on your
works. It's got to be on your feet. It's got to be in your
walk. You've got to be covered with pitch. Pitch it, Moa. Pitch it. Maybe
that should be the title of this message. Pitch it and pitch it
well. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, covers it. The Lord gave the fashion of
that ark, the height, the length, the height, the breadth. Oh, Paul said that we might know
the love of God which passeth knowledge. Oh, that we might
know the length, the breadth, the height, the depth of the
love of God that passeth knowledge. here in His love, not that we
loved Him, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be what? The propitiation. Is this God's Word or what? Ah, pitch. Blood. This is the fashion. See that
you make all things according to the pattern. This boat, this
ship, this ship that's so spacious, this ship that was high, this
ship that was wide, this ship that was long, this ship that
was deep. Here's a picture of the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the fellowship of our Lord and His sufferings. This
ark is going to take it all. This ark is going to take all
the wrath of God. This ark is going to take a beating.
This ark is going to take all the wrath of God poured out from
heaven upon it, but bless God, nobody in that ark is going to
be touched by that wrath. Everybody in that ark is going
to be saved. God said so. A window. A window making that
ark. One window. He said, put it in
the highest place. Eighteen inches from the top
of that ark. Put that window, one window,
one source of light. If you want to see out, you've
got to look through that window. If you want to see the world
for what it is, perishing, look through that window. Christ said, I'm the light of
the world. Only looking through Christ will
you see this world for what it is. Christ is the light. One door. Make a door. The door. Christ said, I am the
door of the sheep. The door. And I thought about
it. He didn't tell us how big the door was, but it was big.
You know what? Elephants had to walk through
there. Rhinoceroses had to walk through there. Big, tall giraffes
had to go through there. And it couldn't be so difficult
to get in that a snail couldn't just crawl in. One door. Christ said, I am the
door. Second and third stories. How many stories is this one
ark made of? Three. Three stories. One ark. God was in Christ. God the Father, God the Son,
God the Holy Spirit. These three are one ark. One
way. One salvation. Look at this, I said in Christ,
in Christ, look at verse 18. The Lord said to Noah, with thee
will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the
ark, thou and thy sons and thy wives and thy sons with thee.
Verse 20, the last line, they shall come unto thee to keep
them alive. Chapter 7, verse 1, "'Come thou
and all thy house into the ark.'" Verse 7, "'And Noah went in,
and his sons and wives and sons' wives with him, into the ark.'"
Verse 9, "'They went in two and two, under Noah, into the ark.'"
Verse 13, the last line, "'His wives, his sons with them, into
the ark.'" Verse 15, "'They went in, under Noah, into the ark.'" Verse 23, the last line, Noah
only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark. Where is salvation? How was anybody saved? Shem,
Ham, Japheth, his wife, sons, wives, all of them, anybody? Was there one way? Animals? All of them, no matter who they
were, no matter what they were, how were they saved? One way. We found in that ark. Christ
said, I am the way. I am the truth. I am life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. In the ark. In the ark. Amen. In Christ is eternal life. God,
oh bless God, He's given unto us eternal life. And this life
is in His Son. Christ and Him crucified. Christ
and Him crucified. Christ had to come to die, to
be crucified, to bear the wrath of God against our sins. Look at chapter 7, verse 11.
Chapter 7, verse 11, in the 600th year of Noah's life, at a particular
day, in the fullness of time, in the fullness of time known
unto God, predestined by God, the rain fell. The windows of
heaven were opened. Oh, in the fullness of time,
God sent forth His Son, made under the law to redeem them
that were under the law. The windows of heaven were opened.
The grace of God came down. It says, He shall come down like
rain upon the earth. He came the first time to save.
He's coming the next time. He shall come down like rain,
like fire. But those in Him... Look at verse
17. The flood was forty days upon
the earth. The waters increased. God sent
rain upon this earth and it began to flood this earth. And the wrath of God, Romans 1 says,
is clearly revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and
all ungodliness. There are lots of floods going
on right now. God's design that we look at
this at the exact time. But God said back there in the
previous chapter, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters. I'm
the one doing it. But men perceive it not. And
they're willingly ignorant of the first flood. They're willingly
ignorant, Peter said, of the first flood. And if creation
did not like to retain God in their knowledge, and such were
some of you, but God. God revealed this to us. Himself
to us. The flood was upon the earth
and the waters increased until the floods covered the earth. And verse 17 says so, but it
bare up the ark. The ark was lifted up above the earth. Christ and Him crucified. He
said, all things are given unto me in heaven and earth. The Lord
gave all things to Noah, didn't He? The Lord made a covenant
with Noah. The Lord revealed all things to Noah. The Lord
had Noah build it all as a type of cry. The Lord had Noah gather
them. They were all in Noah. Noah,
His name means rest. Our Noah is the Lord Jesus Christ.
But that ark is Christ too, as I said. The ark is the Lord Jesus
Christ. He said, all authority is given
unto me in heaven and earth. All souls are mine, He said.
God hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things
and sure. And God hath given Him a people.
But God made Him to be sin. for us, for His people who knew
no sin. In fact, this ark bore the wrath
of God against the sins of those that were inside of it. The ark
bore it all. God made Him to be sin for us
who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. The Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all. The
wrath of God poured out itself upon Christ on the cross. Christ
said, if I be lifted up, the Son of Man must be lifted up,
He said. Christ was made a curse for us, for His people. Made
a curse for them. But He bared up under it, didn't
He? He bore it all for His people. And He was lifted up. The wrath
of God fell upon Him and He overcame it. Oh, I love the sight of this. Think of it with your mind's
eye, people. Think of it with your mind's
eye. The whole world is covered. The whole world is covered with
water, okay? All the works of man are gone,
just like the Lord said they would. All the glory of man is
nothing. You can't see any of it. It's
gone. The place thereof knows it no more. It's covered because
of the wrath of God. The whole world is just without
form and void, but lo and behold, lifted up high, there's one thing
to be seen and one thing only when it's all over. One thing
rises above it all, one thing, one glorious thing, the Ark. Christ and Him crucified, and
everyone in glory, while the world perishes, everybody in
glory. That's the end of Christ. It lifts him up high for all
to see. It says here in verse 23 of chapter
7, every living substance was destroyed. Man and cattle, creeping
things, fowl of the heaven, they were all destroyed. Noah only
remained alive. In Him was life, and the life
of His people. He said, because I live, you
live also. He's alive. We're dead. But in
Christ, we're made alive. It says, Noah only remained alive
in day. Oh, he's not the only one alive. There's eight souls, seven more. They that were with Him in the
ark. You remember Brother Henry's
message? Those that are with him are what?
Are who? Called, chosen, faithful. Those that were with Noah. Salvation
is to be found in Christ. Few more things. Who was in the
ark? Who was in the ark? Who was in the ark? Noah's family. Look at verse 18 of chapter 6.
Chapter 6, verse 18. He says, With thee will I establish
my covenant. Christ, the covenant head. Who
for? His people. Thou shalt come into the ark,
Christ came, and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives
with thee. Who was in the ark? Noah's sons. Noah's wife. Who will come to
Christ? Who will be found in Christ that
day? All of his sons. That's what the Hebrew says.
Bring my sons and daughters from afar. All of his sons. His wife
is going to be there. Every one of them. Gomer is going
to be there. She's going to be there. They're
all going to be there. His sons' wives. What about that,
Peter? His sons' wives. Yeah. Yeah. Christ said in his prayer, he
said, Sanctify them, he said, other sheep I have which are
not of this fold, them I must bring. He said, I pray for them,
I pray not for the world, I pray for them. And he said, I pray
for them which shall believe because of their word. Christ's people spread the word
and the Lord blesses it. And they brought him there. His
wives, sons' wives. They'll be there, all of them
there. What else was there? An animal out of every kind. The story in Exodus of them going
out of that place, it says there was a great mixed multitude. Our Lord said He has a people
out of every tribe, kindred, nation, and tongue under heaven. He did this for His people. His
family was in that ark. He called His name Jesus. He
should save His people from their sin. For the transgression of
My people was He stricken. All that the Father giveth Me,
He said, shall come unto Me. They will all be taught of God,
and every one of them will come unto Me. Why did they come? How did they
get there? Huh? Free will? Is there one
animal that walked on that ark of his own free will? Not one. It's not possible. You can't make a wild animal
get on that ark. Oh, but Noah did. Look at chapter
6, look at verse 19. Of every living thing, of all
flesh, two of every sort, shalt thou bring into the ark. Who
brought them on the ark? How'd they get there? Noah brought
them. Everyone that God gives to Christ
and chose Christ will bring them. The Holy Spirit of God will bring
them. Noah went out. Noah went out and called them.
Noah went out and called them. He didn't ask them. He didn't
invite them, did he? They wouldn't have come. But
Noah chose out of every kind. There was a whole herd of elk
grazing out there, right? Noah went, that one, that one,
that one, Shem, Ham, get that one, get that one, their picture
of his preachers. That one, that one, that one,
that one, that black one, make sure you get that one. That weak
one? That little poor one, that young
one, get that one. And lo and behold, they came. They started walking. Went out
and got it. There's a lion, fearsome, violence, predator. Nobody can tame him. King of
the jungle, he thinks he's somebody. And He'll rip you to shreds if
you get near Him. Noah said, Lion, come. I always think about Simon Peter. I think of him, I picture him
as some big rough, gruff fellow, you know, longshoreman, a fisherman
that just soon fights you and looks at you. He showed a little
bit of that later, cussing. Fighting and, you know, nobody.
He'd clean house if he had to. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ walked
by the Sea of Galilee one day, and there's that rough, rough
fisherman in his boat, cursing, because he hadn't caught a fish.
Cursing the fish. Cursing God. Cursing everybody.
And our Lord in power, and saving mercy and grace, and in love
to that old worthless boy said, Father, Many boats out there went to
him. Many fishermen. He said to that fellow, follow me. And
something came over him. Something came over him. Someone
overshadowed him. The Holy Spirit of God. I pray
to God to come over here. And that rough, gruff, long shoreman
dropped his boats, his nets, his father and everybody. and
followed Christ like a lamb for the rest of his life. That's
how it is. If you'd ask these animals, every
animal, you would ask them, they would all say, if they could
talk, every single animal on board that ship would tell you,
we're here because of one person. We're here because Noah chose
us. We're here because Noah brought
us. We're here because Noah Built
an ark of safety. We're here because of Him. As I said, no lion is going to
walk into that ark, and with man it's impossible. No man can
come unto Me. And our Lord said, you will not
come unto Me that you might have life. But God said to some, said
to you, didn't He? One day, you will come unto Me. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. And they all came and they were
glad to be there. They were glad to be there. Oh
my. Thy people shall be made willing
in a day of thy power. And they all dwelt peaceably. When God puts someone in Christ,
He also puts Christ in them. There's a new nature. Listen
to me now. I'm going to close. When God
puts someone in Christ, a change comes over them. If any man be
in Christ, he is a new creature. A new creature. A new nature. God had to give these animals
a new nature to make them walk on that ark. Right? To dwell peaceably. In that ark
there was no bondage. There was nothing holding them
down and keeping them back but the power of God. The mercy of
God, the love of God, the peace of God. He changed all those
creatures who were living peaceably among each other. The wolf was
lying down with the lamb. That just doesn't happen. It
does in Christ. Has to be a new creature. Has
to be a change come over. And how it happens is every one
of them realizes, he chose me and put me, with all those out
there, and put me in that ark. Oh, I'm so glad to be here. And
a change came over them. They lived peaceably. They lived
together in peace and harmony. But now, do you suppose, do you
suppose, that at some point, a dog, you know, a dog and a
cat just don't usually get along. A wolf and a lamb. Do you suppose
at some point that one of those dogs growled at one of those
cats? Well, for you cat lovers, I had a cat one time, we had
a cat one time, if you walked by it, it would just growl. Unprovoked. Rightly, Earlene, you've had
them. What's wrong with you? We had this one for the longest
time, didn't we? And we should have put him down. Come by now. What if, what if, one of those
dogs or cats drowned at one another? What do you suppose Noah would
do? Listen to me, dog. You ain't
nothing but a dog. And I could have chosen any dog,
but I chose you. And you ain't no better than
that cat. And the only reason you're here is because I brought
you here. Now you better straighten up and fly right. Made him angry, didn't it? And
they realized, oh my, it's of the mercy of Noah that
I didn't perish. How could I? Right? How could I? There was no room
for boasting in that ark. No room for boasting. The lion
couldn't say, I'm here because I'm strong. No, no, no, no. You're here because Noah brought
you. The horse, the thoroughbred, couldn't say, I'm here because
I'm fast and I'm beautiful. He chose me because I'm beautiful.
No, no, no, Mr. Thoroughbred. Look over there.
There's a wild ass. See him? He's chosen just like
you. The owl couldn't say, well, I'm
wise. I just, I know I'm here because I'm wise. No, sir, don't
boast of your wisdom. You're here because, no, I chose
you. No room for boasting. They all ate the same food. Then
they say, where did they get that food? Noah provided it. Noah provided it. Verse 21 of
chapter 6, Noah, the Lord said, Take unto thee of all food that
is eaten, and gather it to thee, and it shall be food for thee
and for them. What do we eat? What do God's
people eat? The same food. What's that? In
the name of what? It's a hoop. Christ said, except
you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in me.
All those in Christ, they're feasting upon, they're feeding
upon his flesh and his blood. They all eat the same thing.
He says the lion shall eat straw like an ox. He's going to change
the nature. of an old sinner that can't stand
to hear God's name except cuss back, and He's going to make
him just eat it. Oh, I love that. I love that. Tell me some more. An old lion said, I want more
straw. That's the best thing I've ever eaten. An old sinner hears the gospel,
and if he's in Christ, she's in Christ. Oh, tell me again.
I love it. I love it. I love it. They all
dwelled safely. They were in the ark. Not one
drop of water hit them. They were all free. There was
no bondage. There were no chains. Let me
read this to you in closing. All of them were saved for one
reason. They were in the ark. Could it
be clearer? Could salvation be clearer? And
you know, when it was all over, and I wish we had time to go
through the whole story, that when it was all over, it says
every single one of them reached that promised land. And the waters
abated, the waters of flood, the wrath of God was gone, the
ark took it all, lifted up above it, overcame it all, and they
did in Him, in the ark, and so do we. And when it was all over,
God had made a new earth, brand new. All things had become brand
new. And one day, in the fullness
of time, the exact month, the exact day that God said, here
it is, He opened the door. He said, now, go. And they all walked out. I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself
shall be with them and be their God, and shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes. No more death, no sorrow, no
crying, Neither shall there be any more pain. The former things
passed away. He that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new. Write it down. These words are
true and faithful. And he said unto me, It's done. Done. Good is done. Come to Christ. Are you in Christ? I'm going
to say it one more time, and I can't say it in power. I can't
say it in power. I can't make anybody come. But
God told me to say this, and if Christ is pleased, He can.
Christ said, come unto me, all you that labor and heavy laden,
and I'll give you rest. Come to Christ. Okay, Brother
John, if you'll come and lead us in a closing hymn. Alright, so I'll stand and turn
to number 126. Number 126. We'll sing the first
and the second verses. Number 126.