That's a fitting hymn, John,
that you chose. Tears unavailing. This is the
gospel. No merit had I. Mercy had saved
me. or else I must die. Sin had alarmed
me, fearing God's face, but now I'm a sinner. He saved my grave. Do you know how few people have
a clue what that was saying? No merit at all. Ezekiel 36, Ezekiel 36. Someone in here has not heard
this before, I'm certain of that. When I started studying it, looking
at it, it was like I'd never heard it before. So many things
I'd really never really seen before. This was born through
one of you ladies. Well, Jeanette, remember we were
talking last Wednesday night or maybe Sunday, and you just
casually mentioned verse 37 in our conversation. We were talking
about God saving His people, and you said, He'll be inquired
of to do this. Who am I going to ask Him? I
said, That's right. And I went back and started reading.
And I hope you're glad I did. Chapter 2, go back to chapter
2 because, and this is a mysterious book, much of it, much hidden
meaning, but the gospel is so clear, what we do see. Chapter 2, see this is the word
of the Lord through a man. He's called throughout this Son
of Man. He's just a man. Ezekiel. The
Lord hasn't changed like John 1. It was a man sent from God
to bear witness. And the Lord still speaks through
men. God sent men. Thus, and here's how you know
them. They all say. This is all they do. Thus saith
the Lord. Chapter 2, verse 1, He said unto
me, Son of man, stand upon your feet. Ezekiel, like Moses, like
Jeremiah, like all of them, I can't do this. Stand up, son. I'm sending you. Who made man
said to Moses, Moses, I don't want to. Stand up, Moses. Act
like a man. I made your mouth. I'm going
to send you. Don't apologize. I'm sending you. So the Spirit entered me when
he spake unto me, and he set me upon my feet, and I heard
him. You can't tell what you don't know, what you haven't
heard. I heard him that spake unto me. He said unto me, Son
of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, a rebellious nation.
They've rebelled against me. They and their father transgressed
against me. I'm sending you to sinners. They're
impudent children, stiff-hearted. I do send thee unto them. Not
good people, the worst. And here's what you'll say, verse
4, Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they'll hear
or whether they'll forbear, they're a rebellious house. They'll know,
yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And
son of man, be not afraid of them. Don't be afraid of their
words. Be not afraid of their word. Don't be dismayed at their
looks. They're a rebellious house. Verse
7, Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they hear
or whether they forbear. Preach the word. That sounds
familiar. Said that to Timothy. Says that
to all his preachers. God hasn't changed. Chapter 3,
verse 1, So he said unto me, Moreover, son of man, eat that
thou findest. Eat this roll. Devour this book. Eat it up. Let it be in your
heart, in your mind always, to wherever you go, to whoever you
go. Look at verses 9 and 10. So I did. And he said, oh, let's
see. No, chapter 2, verse 9 and 10.
Look at this. When I looked, behold, his hand
sent unto me in a roll of a book And he said, he spread it before
me and it was written within, without, and it was written,
Lamentations, Mourning, and Woe. And he ate the roll. He ate it
up. Lamentations, Mourning, and Woe. God's Word. Thus saith the
Lord. Lamentations, Mourning, and Woe. We're accused of preaching too
much about sin. We're accused of preaching a
woe message. This is where the gospel starts.
This is the word we first hear. Because those who lament over
their sin. Those who mourn, didn't our Lord
say in His Sermon on the Mount, first words out of His mouth,
blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they that mourn.
And woe, blessed are they like Isaiah, who here says, woe is
me, I'm undone. You know what they're going to
hear after that, John? Everyone of them, like Isaiah, he's going
to take a coal from the altar and lay it on your lips. And
he's going to say, your iniquity is purged. Everyone that says,
woe is me, I'm undone, I'm unclean, I'm a man of unclean lips, will
mourn over our sin. This is the same message. See,
I told you it wasn't any different. Alright, go to chapter 36 of
Ezekiel. I've got news that all those
who fear the Lord, oh, the psalm said, mercy and save me or else
I must die, sin and learn me, fear in God's face. Those who fear, they will hear
Him say, fear not. I've got good news for Israel,
God's people. This is for Israel. Are they
better than the Gentiles? No. They're worse. They're worse. They sinned against
mercy. They sinned against grace. They
sinned against revelation. They sinned against goodness.
They sinned against the revealed Word to them. They sinned against
all these advantages, all the prophets. God sent prophet after
prophet, and they just kept sinning. And that's why He says, do you
understand that I'm not doing this for your sake? Now, there's nothing clearer from
Scripture Nothing clearer from Scripture than salvation is of
the Lord. Man's made up of this little
gospel, you know, but it's not from the book because there's
nothing clearer from this book than salvation is of the Lord
from start to finish. He's the author and he's the
finisher of it. And man has nothing to do with
it. Man is a passive recipient of the salvation of the Lord
by command. election by the Father, redemption
by the Son, and regeneration by the Spirit, salvations of
the Lord. You read with me here in Ezekiel 36. Didn't you read
with me? Did you read all through here?
He said, this is what I will do. Did he ask one time them
to do anything? Did he one time ask us, ask anybody,
will you let me do this? That's preposterous. Oh, I love this. Oh, how I love
this. Those who love God's glory and
salvation love this too. Religious people hate it. Well,
let's look at it. Salvation must be of the Lord
because man is so bad. Look at verse 17. Son of man,
when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled
it. They're defiled. They're unclean. And he used
the worst illustration he could use, didn't he? Like an unclean
woman, a menstruous woman. That's what that means. Oh, don't say stuff. That's what
God said in Isaiah 64, verse 6. Their righteousness is like
filthy rags. It's a stench in my nostrils,
he said. All their religion, all their goodness, all their
morality, all that they do. Supposedly, my name is for their
glory, to establish their own righteousness, to make themselves
look good to people. They don't need sovereign mercy.
They don't need grace. And everywhere they go, look
at verse 18, and I poured out my fury upon them. He's not just
talking about the Jews, though they're the principal, the most
guilty. But I poured out my fury upon
them, the blood they've shed upon the land. What blood? They
killed all the prophets. They killed every prophet. That's
the story of the husband, Brother Stan, isn't it? He sent his laborers,
his servants, and they killed them all. And he sent the son,
killed him too. So he said in verse 19, I scattered
them among the heathen. They were dispersed through the
countries according to their ways, according to their doings.
I judged them. And they went into the heathen,
they profaned my holy name. When they said, we're the people
of God. Oh, are you? My holy name. And people, this,
now, substitute for Israel there, substitute the word Christian. Christian, all these so-called
Christians that profane my name. And all they say about God, about
Jesus Christ, profaning His name to where the world laughs at
and scoffs at so-called Christianity. Their prophets are fools. Their
preachers are fools. They act like fools. They look
like fools. They sound like fools. They preach a God who can't.
They preach a Jesus who can't. And the world is laughing and
mocking and scoffing. They say, God wants to. That's
profaning His name. They say, let God be. That's
profaning His name. They say, God's done all He can
do. That's profaning His name. And so there's no fear of God
before their eyes. And they say to everybody without
exception, God loves you. It's profane in His name. And
every person in here that was in religion before you heard
the truth, John and Erlene, St. Jerry, whoever was in false religion,
Robin, every single person that was in false religion, You profaned
his name. If you made a profession of faith,
it was profanity to God. That's a fact. My holy name, but God. Verse 21, But I had pity for
my holy name, which these professing Christians had profaned among
the heathen, whether they were. Say unto the house of Israel,
say this, I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but
for my holy name's sake, which you profaned. I'm going to sanctify,
I will sanctify my great name. I will set apart my name. Look
at verse 23. It says, You profaned it, and
the heathen shall know I am the Lord when I be sanctified in
you before them. I'm going to teach you who I
am. You're going to know who I am now. This is salvation.
And you're going to go back to those people and you're going
to tell them, I was lost and I told a lie about God. Now here's
the true God. I did that. I tried to look up every friend
that I blasphemed the name of God to. and tried to undo what
I did, or at least tell them I was a fool. Now let me tell
you the truth. What a blessed opportunity that
is. All these preachers, like Brother
Donny Bell, you know, he was a false preacher, an Arminian
preacher, free will, Pentecostal preacher. He's told me so many
times he'd love to go back to some of these places and preach.
He profaned God's name. You know, throughout this whole
book with Ezekiel, I quit counting. He keeps saying, they shall know
that I'm the Lord. They're going to know that I'm
the Lord, not want to be. I am. This is salvation, to know
Thee, the only true God. They shall know that I'm the
Lord. Now listen, and you've heard this many times, but maybe
you haven't. Here's the difference between false religion and the
truth. Here's the difference between
the false God that men believe and the true God. There is no
gray area here. Here's the difference. False
religion says, if you will, God shall. That's what they say. If you will exercise your will,
if you will accept Him, if you will make a decision, if you
will come down front, if you will let God be God, then God
will save you. That's a lie. Here's the truth. God says all through here, I
will, and you shall. No ifs, ands, buts, or buts.
I will. This is He who works all things
after the counsel of His will. There's no gray area here. God's
either God or He's not. That's what Elijah said on Mount
Carmel, didn't he? How long halt you between two
opinions? Is God God or not? It's God,
God's man-God. Who's God here? So you're going to find out when
the fire falls. If you will, they say, God shall.
But no, here's the truth. In every way, God says, I will. And you shall. False religion
says free will. It's of man. God wants to. God
says, no. I will do all my good pleasure.
If it's something I want, it's going to happen. Paul's religion says it's all
up to man. The truth says it's all up to
God. The Gospel does not offer salvation. It gives it. The Gospel does
not tell you the way and invite you to enter the way. The Gospel
puts you in the way. This is good news. The gospel
doesn't invite, the gospel fetches. The gospel doesn't invite, the
gospel brings. The gospel saves. The gospel
keeps. This clearly declares all that
God must do, hath done, shall do to save poor, wretched sinners. Alright, look at verse 23. Here's
what all He says He's going to do. I will sanctify you. I will
set you apart. And you'll set me apart. This
is the first thing. When you hear who the true God
is, you're going to renounce your old religion. You're going
to renounce your old God. And here's what Peter said, Sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts. And you'd be ready to give every
man a reason that asks you an answer. Every man that asks you
a reason of the hope that's in you with meekness and fear. You
sanctify the Lord God in your heart. You know that He is God.
And somebody asks you, you can tell them. In your feeble way,
but you can tell them. God is sovereign. Sanctify. I will be sanctified in your
mind, in your heart, and you are going to go out and you're
going to tell them. He profaned me before. Nope, you're going
to glorify me now. And I will, verse 24, I will
take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all country
and bring you. I will take you, I'll gather
you, and I'll bring you. Chosen out from among the people,
huh? Like sheep. And I will bring, I love Exodus,
the whole story of Exodus. Mindy, Keith wants me to preach
from that again. Because she's going through it. And she says, she's preaching
to me. This is us. This is us. Israel is us. I know
that. But God started that thing in
chapter 3 by saying, I am come down. I am come down to bring
you out. to bring you up. They wouldn't
have come out if He hadn't have come down. They wouldn't go up
if He didn't bring them. That's the gospel. I have come
down. I will bring you out. Not won't
you please come. John, aren't you glad the Sovereign
Lord sent His Sovereign Holy Spirit and said, Aren't you glad,
Brother Stan, that the sovereign son of David said, go fetch old
Stan Anderson? He won't come? Oh, yes he will. Won't come. I know he can't.
He's dead. He's slain. I'm asking you to
ask him. I'm telling you to bring him.
Pick him up. Put Him on your shoulders like
a lost sheep that He is, and bring Him all the way home. That's salvation. Was that your
salvation? If you get there, that's how
you're going to get there. If He let you down right now,
Brother Stanton, us, if He let us down right now, we'd fall,
wouldn't we? We would never get there. Bless
God, the Lord is our shepherd. He puts us on His shoulder, buddy. It takes us all the way home. Bring them. Not part of the way,
now you've got to walk the road. No! There's only ever been one
set of footprints in the sand. Bring them. Oh my, I thought
this might happen. Every verse has a message in
it saying, bring them. I will bring you into your own
land, your own people, your own fold. You'll be one fold, one
shepherd. My church, my people, my body,
now sprinkle clean water upon you, verse 25, and you shall
be clean. Oh my, my, my, my, my, my, isn't
that wonderful? I will sprinkle clean water,
the water of His Word, which speaks of the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the blood of sprinkling. And you shall be clean. The blood
of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all. You shall be clean
from all your filthiness. From your idols. I was going
to have you go back to chapter 6. You can read it for yourself
sometime. God said the first thing He did
to Israel is He killed all their idols. Killed all their idols. Brought down all their high places.
He said their works. He said, I've destroyed them
all. Before He makes you alive, the first thing He's going to
do is kill you. He's going to kill your God. He's going to
kill your religion. He's going to bring it all down.
He's going to destroy it all before your face, and then show
you, and then you're going to know, I am the Lord. I am the
Lord your God. I am the Lord your salvation.
I am the Lord your righteousness. I am the Lord your shepherd. I am the Lord. You're mine, I'm
yours. What have you got to say about
that? Wonderful! Call his name one. Well, a new heart, look at verse
26, a new heart will I give you. A new spirit will I put within
you. A new heart. This is regeneration. A new heart. A new spirit. This is a new man,
a new creature. If any man is in Christ, he is
a new creature. Who does this? I will do this,
he said. I put him within you. Born of
God. Born of His Spirit. I will take
away the stony heart out of your flesh. Hard heart? You know, some of you in here,
when you first heard the Gospel, you heard the Gospel, you didn't
like it, did you? Harden your heart. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? God said, His heart is just as hard as
stone. He hates this, but I love him. I'm going to make him love
me. I'm going to give him a new heart. I'm going to give him like old
Saul of Tarsus, and you're going to sanctify me before the heathen. Saul of Tarsus is a good illustration
of that. He hated this way. He hated this
way. And then after a while, they
all heard, he that hated this way, loves it. Now, who could
do such a thing? Who could turn a man's heart
like that? Only God. A new heart, heart
of flesh, tender, where a man can stand up and say, thus saith
the Lord, your vow. A man can stand up and say, thus
saith the Lord, you're a wretched, unclean, all your righteousness
filthy rags, unworthy, undeserving. And you say, that's right. Like
the woman, the siren of the Phoenician woman, everything you say, I'm
not fit. It's not fit to give my bread
to you. Not fit. You're not worthy of that. She
said, what did she say? Truth, Lord. She'd been given a new
heart. Everything you said is the truth.
All you say about me is the truth. I just want a little mercy. You
got it. I will put my Spirit within you.
Verse 27. The Holy Spirit. I will do this. and I will cause you to walk
in My statutes." This is the Spirit of God. Brethren, there
is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
Isn't that wonderful? Who walk according to the Spirit. If any man hath not the Spirit
of God, he is none of His. Aren't you glad? God said, I
will send my Holy Spirit. I will, like those disciples
of John. We hadn't even heard of it. What are you talking about
the Spirit of God? And it came upon them. What does the Spirit
of God do? You know. Very few people do. Most people think the Spirit
of God makes you talk like a blooming idiot. Makes you wave your hands
and roll and get wild and crazy and hang from a chandelier. That's
how they profaned the Spirit of God before this world. That's
how they profaned it. You know what the Spirit of God
does? He does the opposite. He takes people like that lunatic,
like that man in religion that was doing all that crying and
cutting himself out of Pentecostalism like Brother Donnie Bear, takes
them and sits them down. shuts their mouth, sits them
at the feet of a man preaching the gospel like that, closes
his mouth, closes him with the righteousness of Christ in his
right mind. The Spirit of God, Christ said,
takes the things of mine and shows them unto you. He convinces
you of sin, of righteousness, and judgment, and it's all about
me. I've made sin for you. I've made
your righteousness. I took your judgment. That's
what the Holy Spirit does to every single person. I'm going
to put my Spirit within you, and you're going to know that
I am the Lord. And you'll walk in my statutes.
Aren't you glad? Don't you say, oh, but I feel
like sin has such a hold of me. Aren't you glad? that the Lord
said, sin shall not have dominion over you. You will walk in My
way. You will. Because I will and
you shall. And you shall keep My judgments
and do them. People, don't you love God's
Word? Don't you love everything He said? Don't you want to do
what He said? Don't you? Don't you endeavor to do it?
Don't you? Isn't it your heart's desire?
to be like Christ, to do what he said. Don't you want to keep
his command and do what he does? So he says, don't you, don't
you, don't you. But aren't you glad that he said, it's not you
doing that, it's Christ doing it for you. But this is a society
predestinated us unto good work which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in. He said, I will cause them to
do these things. But that's not their holiness. That's not their
righteousness. That's not their acceptance. That's not their
salvation. Thank the Lord. It's proof of it. I will save you, verse 28. You shall dwell in the land that
I gave to your father. You shall be my people. I will
be your God. You shall dwell in the land. You and I wouldn't be here this
morning. if it's left up to us. I keep saying, aren't you glad? We just looked at that then with
Psalm 122. Aren't you glad that they said unto you, that God
the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit said unto you, come on,
you're coming to the house of the Lord. You're going to hear
the gospel, girl, and you're going to bow to Christ, and you're
going to believe, and you're going to stay there. You're not going
to leave like Rahab, like Ruth. This is my people, this is my
God, this is my gospel, this is my hope, this is my salvation.
I'm not going anywhere. You dwell. You'll be my people. I'll be your God. The world can
have that God. That's not my God. We can't meet
with these people, can we? Can we, Brother Steve? We can't
meet with these other places. Why? We don't believe the same
God. Is this your God? Is this my God? My God is God. Read on, verse 29. He said, I
will also save you from all your uncleannesses. That means future. Oh, we've got so much sinning
left to do. I hate the thought of that, don't
you? Aren't you glad the Lord said, all of them, all of them,
past, present, future. I will save you. I have, I do,
and I shall. And I'll call for the corn. And
we'll increase it and lay no famine among you. Many of us
are driving back from Fieldpot Lake where we're camping.
Oh, the Lord has blessed this area, hasn't He, with rain and
abundance. Just look, it's lush and it's
green. Everybody's cornfield is just flourishing in it. Everybody. How many people are gathering
today to thank the Lord for that corn? Well, he said in another
place, he said, I'm going to make you more glad than the time
when their corn grows. That's what he said. I'm going
to make my people more happy and glad than when their corn
crop is ten feet high. They're going to receive, my
people. They're going to be full with
all this stuff. but empty, lean of soul, but
I'm going to make my people full of the gospel. The whole world is in famine.
I'm going to prepare them a table in the midst of their enmity.
I'm going to call for the corn. You know who ate the best in
Egypt during that famine? You know who ate the best? The
twelve sons of Jacob. They sat at Joseph's table. Benjamin
got five misses. Some of you have to go to a funeral
or have to go somewhere else to appreciate the fact of what
we're getting here. You go there, you come back from
here and say, I'm not getting nothing. You say that all the
time to them. You say, we're so blessed, aren't
we so blessed? It's not me. It's because God
said, I will call my man, and he's got to do this. Not him,
he's got to. Necessity is laid upon him. These
are my sheep, men after my own heart. They're going to feed
them. They're going to feed my people. That's how you know them.
They will feed them. They'll never quit feeding them.
What? The gospel of Christ. That's
our corn. That's our bread. That's our
food. And I'll increase it, multiply
pardon, multiply grace, lay no famine upon you. If you're hungry,
you'll never be without, never be begging bread. I'll multiply
the fruit of the tree. What's the tree? Christ is the
tree. What's the fruit? The fruit of the Spirit. love,
joy, gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith, temperance, all these
things, the fruit of the Spirit. I will multiply the fruit of
the Spirit. They'll grow in grace and knowledge
of me, an increase of the field, and you'll receive no more reproach
of famine among the heathen. Verse 31, you'll remember your
own evil ways and your doings that were not
good, and you shall Loathe yourselves and your own sights for your
iniquities and your abomination. That's how you know a true child
of God. God says, I will do all this for them, make myself known
to them, and I will make themselves known to them. Here's the difference. Me and you and I were in a restaurant
one time, This girl that works at the YMCA was waiting table.
And we, you know, we like her. And we started talking to her.
And we found out she goes, attends that big tent out there. And
I said, why do you go there? Why do you go there? And she
said, and I quote, didn't she? He makes me feel good about myself. But you shall loathe yourselves. You do understand this, don't
you? That this is the grace of God. That this is the goodness
of God to make you hate yourself. If you don't hate yourself, you
will hate the Gospel. You will hate all talk of righteousness
imputed. If you don't hate yourself, you
won't love mercy. You won't need mercy. But I've
got good news to everybody that hates themselves. I've got good
news that can't find one good thing that you've ever done,
that you remember all your past iniquities. I've got real good
news for you. Anybody? I've got real good news. It's gone! Gone! How? Christ said, I put it away. You can't do, I've done it. Like
the person in the public, like the woman caught in the act of
adultery. Gone. How? I said so. That's too good to be true. Well,
it may be, but it is true. That's the truth. You're going
to hate yourself. You're never going to quit hating
yourself. Oh, here's what God's people
say. They come and they hear the gospel and say, that preacher,
he makes me hate myself. But then he tells me about Christ,
how God loves me, in spite of myself. And that makes me go away. You
see, here's the difference. God's people go away hating themselves,
but loving Jesus Christ. God's people go away hating everything
about themselves and loving the salvation that's of the Lord.
Not for your sake. Verse 32, Be it known unto you,
be ashamed, confounded. Oh my, so ashamed, aren't you? And people tomorrow are going
to be ashamed of today. Thank God He's not ashamed to
call us brethren. And that day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquity, read this, verse 33-36, I'm going
to take the waste places, the waste places shall be built,
the desolate land will be tilled, I'm going to tear it down and
build it back, and it's going to be a garden of Eden. What
was waste before, ruined. Going to be redeemed and fenced
and inhabited. And he's going to see, look,
what the Lord's done. That's this church building.
That is a perfect picture of Central Baptist Church. Right
there. A perfect picture. Arminian to the core, wasn't
it? Earl Burke, wasn't it? Preaching a false gospel. Isn't
it? Waste! This place was a waste before
the gospel came here, wasn't it? That's a perfect picture. The Lord takes a typical Southern
Baptist abomination to God, and tears it up, and plows it,
and plants it, and they start hearing the gospel. And people
come and say, this is the Garden of Eden. Whereas before it was
just another cornfield. That's right. That's what God
does. Like, I keep bringing up Brother
Donnie. I'm going to send him this message.
He'll have it. But Donnie was, you know, wild
and preaching to some people. They met in a place and it was
just wild. And God sent Ezekiel. Yes, brethren,
Ezekiel's a sinner. He's no special man. He's just
a sinner, but sent by God with a message from God. And God sent
that man to tear up Jack, kill Donnie Bell's gospel and his
God and his profession, and split that church wide open, but save
people like old Floyd Moore and Eleanor, and on and on it goes.
And start it all over again. What do you think about Lantana
Grace Church now? It's like the Garden of Eden.
I'd like a garden to be. No place I'd rather be than here,
than there. Well, you know what I'm saying. The place was a waste. It's a
waste. Shouldn't have built it. Oh, God tore it all up and built
it again. I'd like a garden out of it.
Verse 36. Oh, I love this. I love this. The heathen that
are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, build
and ruin and plant that which was desolate. I, the Lord, have
spoken it. I will do it." Dictum factum. I said it. It is going to be
done. But. But. You say, Preachers, no but. Well, look at verse 37. Thus
saith the Lord God, but, for I will yet, that's a but, I will
for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for
them. They're going to ask me to do
that. They're going to call on my name. They're going to seek.
They're going to ask. They're going to knock. They're
going to call. And then I'll do it. I don't understand. Yeah, you do. God's people do. They all know that the Lord was
found of them that asked not for Him. Don't you? You know, the only reason that
you ask is because He said, ask. The only reason you seek, the
only reason you came, is because the Lord said, come. But nobody's
going to be saved. That doesn't call. Right? They're going to ask me. If they
don't ask me, I'm not going to save them. If they don't call on me, I'm
not going to save them. If they don't come, they won't
find rest. If they don't confess me, I won't
confess them. It's just as simple as that.
But blessed God, His people shall. That's my hope for some that
haven't yet confessed Christ. That's all my hope. That's all
my hope. That's all my hope. And he said,
I'm going to increase them. They're going to be my flock,
my holy flock, the flock of Israel, Jerusalem, and their solemn feast,
verse 38. Solemn feast. And the way city
is going to be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that
I am the Lord. Oh my. And I hope, I hope the Lord will make it known,
you know, I knew all this in my head as a young person. I knew it all in my head. I believed
all this. Oh, but bless God, one day He
caused me to hate myself. And I never quit hating myself.
And caused me to hear His voice. and love his gospel and I hope
he does that for somebody. Lord do it. John, what was the hymn you gave
me? 480. 480. Let's sing the first. Just the first couple of verses,
okay? Verse 1 and 2. Let's sing.