Thank you, John. Thank you, Sherry. Alright, go
back to Judges 6 with me. Judges 6, read verse 17 again
with me. Judges 6, read verse 17. Gideon said unto
the angel, unto the Lord, If now I have found grace in thy
sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me. A message for those who need
to know that the Lord is speaking to you. The Lord has chosen you,
and the Lord is going to have mercy on you. David one time
said this, Lord, say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Tell me. I need to hear it from
you personally. This is a glorious picture of
our Lord Jesus Christ. He must have the preeminent.
It's also a picture of every believer, every believer that
asks this question. All right, verse 1 says, The
children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the
Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. Go back to chapter 2 with me.
What kind of evil did they do? Well, it wasn't open, outward
wickedness necessarily. It probably led to that. But what it was, was idolatry.
They mingled with the people of the land, became like them.
And this was God's greatest judgment upon Israel always. Verse 1,
the angel of the Lord came from Gilgal to Bochum and said, I
made you to go up out of Egypt. I brought you into the land which
I swear unto your fathers. And I said, I will never break
my covenant with you. And you shall make no league
with the inhabitants of this land. You shall throw down their
altars. But you have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this?
Verse 11, children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
Lord, served Balaam. They forsook the Lord God of
their fathers that brought them out of the land of Egypt, followed
other gods and the gods of the people that were around about
them, provoked the Lord to anger. Verse 17, they wouldn't hearken
unto the judges and went a-whoring after other gods and bowed down
themselves. In other words, Now go to chapter
3. In other words, they just mingled
with the world and became just like them. And that's us. It really is. The Lord kept telling them, I've
brought you out of this world. Chapter 3, verse 6, they took
their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their
sons. That is, the Amorites and the Hivites, godless people,
served their gods. They turned their hearts from
their God. The children of Israel did evil
in the sight of the Lord, forgot the Lord their God. They were
rich and increased with goods and all of these things. So,
chapter 6, so that's what they did. It doesn't say they did
any outward, open immorality. They just were out in the world,
forgot God. Who's not guilty of that? Look
out, God. Verse 2 in our text, a hand of
Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the
children of Israel were forced to hide in caves and mountains
and strongholds. That's the church, isn't it?
That's the church. It's hidden. But the Midianites,
let me tell you who the Midianites were and the Amalekites and all
these Ites and Hivites and Perizzites, they were their brethren. They
were their relatives. These were offspring of Abraham. So they were just people just
like them. And when our Lord said a man's
enemies should be those of his own household, it doesn't mean
just your immediate family. It means all our brethren out
there in the world, you know, that we're related to. Verse
3, it was so when Israel had sown, that is, they sowed seed,
the Midianites came up, the Malachites, against them. Verse 4, they encamped
against them, destroyed the increase of the earth. I thought about
this, that, you know, whatever seed, I'm the sower here. I have the sower go forth to
sow. And the seed that is sown is pretty much wiped out in it
when we go out there in the world. Not much of it lasts. It's sad that the world and the
cares of the world and the thorns and this will choke out the Word
and all the increase. We don't make much increase,
do we? Why? The world. The world. Oh Lord,
deliver us from this present evil world. They're like grasshoppers. Doesn't the Lord say in Isaiah,
the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as grasshoppers for
number and for insignificance? Without number, they destroy
the land, verse 5, the destroyers. And Israel, verse 6, was greatly
impoverished because of the Ammonites. They were poor. We're poor, poor,
greatly impoverished. You know, we live so poorly as
believers, don't we? We live so far below our privileges. We're so poor in faith. Yes,
we are. We have such little peace, such
little joy. Why? The world robs us of that. We listen to it. We look around.
And we mingle. And it robs us. Evil communications
corrupt good men. People and things of this world
steal the increase. We're such poor examples of faith,
aren't we? We're just poor people. We're
just poor people. But this poor man cried, David said,
and the Lord heard him. Blessed are the poor. Our Lord
said, blessed are the poor, they'll have the gospel preached unto
them. That's what I'm going to preach the gospel to you. If
you'll take your place with these Israelites, if you take your
place with these Israelites that have sinned against the Lord,
mangled, that don't appear to be much different, and impoverished, not making
much increase, hiding in a cave, hiding in a cave. Well, the Lord
sent a prophet, verse 7. He sent a prophet, verse 8. When they cried, the Lord sent
a prophet unto them. The Lord is so good, isn't He? When we
cry, Psalm 107. So every time they got down and
they cried, it says, the Lord heard them and delivered them
out of all their trouble. It's so good, isn't it? He said, in
another place, before they cry, I'll answer. Well, the Lord sent a prophet.
What did he preach to them? What did he say to them? He just
reminded them. This is what all prophets and
preachers say. He just reminds them that salvation
is of the Lord. Just said unto them, thus saith
the Lord." That's what the true prophet and preacher says, the
word of the Lord. I brought you up from Egypt,
salvations of the Lord. I did this. I brought you forth
out of the house of bondage. I did this. I delivered you out
of the hand of the Egyptians, out of the hand of all that oppressed
you, draved them out from before you. I gave you their land. Salvation
is of the Lord. Salvation is by grace. I did
this. I chose you. I bought you. I brought you. I have restrained
you. I have given unto you. Salvation
is of the Lord. I said, I am the Lord. You are
God. I said, fear not. But what did
we do? We have not obeyed the voice
of God. You have not obeyed. That's us. Well, the Lord is
nigh unto them that are of a broken heart. What my pastor preached
Sunday, he saith unto such as be of a contrite spirit. To this
man will I look, and he that is poor and of a contrite spirit,
and trembleth at my word. I keep hoping and praying that
the Lord will break somebody else's heart. But if He doesn't do that, I'm
going to keep breaking mine. Because the only good heart there
is, is a contrite one. That's the only good heart there
is. The gospel won't mean a thing to us unless we're poor and needy. You know that? It won't mean
a thing. It won't mean a thing. Like Brother Milton said, man,
if the Lord keeps us poor and contrite, mercy is the sweetest
word you'll ever hear. You know, and I was hoping somebody
would be here tonight. They're not here. When the Lord moved at Pentecost,
when the Lord moved at Pentecost, all 3,000 people, I cried out, what must I do? Men and brethren, what shall
we do? That's what I want for us every time we come and sit
here. Lord, speak with this old sinner again. Break my heart
and then heal it. Kill me and then make me alive.
Wound me and heal me. Came an angel of the Lord, verse
11, sat under an oak which was in Oprah. that pertaineth unto
Joash, Abba Israel. John, aren't you glad? Our names
are John, Stan, Joe, Ron, John, Matt, aren't you glad? But these
names have meaning, they do. His son Gideon, fresh wheat by
the wine press. He was hiding it from the Midianites.
Now, oh, what a glorious picture of our Lord Jesus Christ this
is. Look at verse 12. The angel of the Lord appeared
unto him and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty
man of valor. Who is this speaking of? Listen
to Isaiah 63. Who is this that cometh from
Edom with dyed garments from Basra? This that is glorious
in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength,
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. I have trodden
the winepress alone." Who is Gideon here? This is the Lord
Jesus Christ. This is who he speaks of, the
Lord Jesus Christ. Emmanuel, God with us, mighty
to save. The Lord is with him, is in him,
Immanuel, our mighty man of valor. Verse 13, And Gideon said unto
him, O my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this
befallen us? Where be all the miracles? Now
every type cannot be perfect, can it? That's why there's so
many. But did not our Lord cry on our behalf on Calvary's tree? Did He not cry on our behalf? We wouldn't know that God had
forsaken Him if He hadn't cried then. My God, my God, why? Why? God forsook Him because
we would be forsaken if we didn't have a substitute. So He cried
like Gideon. Why? Why? And our Lord cried
on our behalf. Why? The Lord looked upon him,
verse 14, looked upon him with love, with favor. with affection,
didn't he? Oh, my! God said, this is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Oh, how the Lord looks
with such favor and such admiration and such love upon His only begotten
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. And He said under Gideon verse
14, Go in this thy might. and thou shalt save Israel from
the hand of the Midianites. Have not I sent thee? Did not
our Lord say over and over again, The Father hath sent me? The
Father hath sent me. And he said unto him, Gideon
said, O Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold, my family
is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my Father's house.
Did not our Lord Jesus Christ become poor that we might be
made rich. Was he not the least? Oh, he
took upon himself the form of a servant, made in the likeness
of sinful flesh. Oh, and he became a servant,
a substitute for his people, poorest of the poor that we might
be rich. He gave us his riches for his
poverty. And the Lord said unto him, verse
16, to Gideon, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt
smite the Midianites as one man." As one man. Doesn't the Scripture
say, when he had by himself purged our sin, sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high? By himself. Salvation is of the
Lord Jesus Christ. What was Gideon doing when the
Lord found him? Threshing wheat by the winepress,
hiding it from the Midianites. The Israelites were poor, yet
they were not completely without sustenance. There was a man named
Gideon that was providing them bread all the while. Though hidden
to the world, though hidden to the enemies, he was the one threshing
wheat in the threshing floor. By the wine prayer. Bread and
wine. Bread and wine is what he kept
providing the people of Israel with. And so it is with our Lord
Jesus Christ. Verse 17, And so he said unto
the Lord, If now I have found grace in thy sight, show me a
sign that thou talkest with me. Let's just keep reading. Depart
not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth
my present, and set it before thee. And this sounds somewhat
like our Lord's prayer in a garden to me. I'm coming to you, Father. Father, I'm coming to you. But
these are in the world. I leave the world to come unto
you. But these are in the world. Keep them. I've come to save
them. And the Father says, I'll tarry until you come again. I'm
waiting on you. Verse 19, Gideon went in and
made ready a kid. Who's doing all this? Who's providing
this sacrifice? Get him. Christ is made unto
us all these times. He is the one that provides.
My son, God will provide himself a lamb, Abraham said to Isaac
and to us. God will provide himself a lamb. And Christ is all of these things.
Read on. He is the kid. He's the unleavened
cakes. He's the flour beaten. He's the
flesh. He's the basket. He put the broth
in a pot by His precious blood. He's the receptacle. He's the
altar. And brought it out unto Him under the oak. He's that
tree, that strong tree. And presented it to the Lord.
He's the angel of God that said unto Him, the Holy Spirit is
also, take the flesh and the unleavened cakes and lay them
upon this rock and pour out the broth. And He did so. Did not
our Lord pour out His soul unto death? made his soul an offering
for sin. Then the angel of the Lord put
forth the end of the staff that was in his hand." Everything
in God's Word, the staff of God, touches the work of Christ. Everything written is concerning
him and his work. "...and touched the flesh and
the unleavened cakes, the bread and the flesh. Did not our Lord
say, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood? And there
rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh, the unleavened
cakes, the angel of the Lord departed out of His presence.
And down in verse 23, the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto
thee, fear not, thou shalt not die. Did not our Lord say when
He arose from the grave, Peace be unto thee? Did He not say,
My peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you? Did not
Christ die? Yes, but no, He lives. He ever
lives. And Gideon built an altar, verse
24, unto the Lord. And Cahalt called it Jehovah
Shalom. Unto this day, that's where it
is. It's still there, the altar. We have an altar, people. Christ
the Lord. And He's still there. He's still
there. Now, let's look at this as you
and me. Such a clear picture of Christ, but as He is. So are we in the world. Alright?
Gideon, is every poor, weak believer who needs to hear from the Lord,
who needs to see a sign, show me that I've found favor in your
sight. Show me that you're talking to
me. I know you've chosen a people. I know you've said they'll be
saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. Am I one of those? Would you
show me a sign that proves to me that you're talking to me,
that the Gospel's for me? You need to hear that. I do. That's why I brought this message,
because it was for me. I woke up real early one morning
reading this, and I said, Lord, I need a sign. I need to know
that You're talking to me. Are You talking to me? You know,
the Lord shows every one of His people the same thing. It can
be no mistaking. Verse 13, go back there. Gideon
said, Oh my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this
been falling on us? Where are all the miracles? Why
am I like I am? Why am I in the state I am? If
you're with me, why am I in the state I am? Job, one time, in
the middle of his sufferings and trial, he said, Why am I
thus? He said, Oh, that I were as in
months past. There was a time early on, you
remember, Perfect and upright. He was cheweth evil when he was
younger, but in the middle of all his trials, he said, why
am I like I am now? Why am I in the midst of all
this? Oh, I wish I wasn't like I was before. If the Lord is
with me, Gideon says, and we do too, where are the miracles?
I can't seem to see much of a miracle in my life. I'm so poor. Verse 15, he said,
my family's poor and I'm least in my father's house. That's
a good confession. You know that? If you'll say
you're poor and less than the least of all the saints, that's
a good place to be. Everybody that says that, he'll
show you the sign. I'm poor and I'm less than the
least. Would you show me, verse 17, if I found grace in thy sight,
would you show me a sign that you're talking to me? Show me
a sign that you're going to save me. Show me a sign that I belong
to you. Show me a sign. Anybody? Now, Gideon doesn't realize it
at this time. But the fact that he is talking
with the Lord, and the Lord is talking with him, is a pretty
strong sign. The fact that he's asking the
Lord, that he's seeking favor and grace in God's sight, the
fact that he's asking the Lord for something, that's a sign,
isn't it? That's a sign. The fact that
he's wanting to know if he's found favor in God's sight, that's
a sign, isn't it? Most people don't care. God's
not in all their thoughts. Most people aren't calling on
the Lord, are they? Most people have no desire whatsoever for
mercy and grace, not asking the Lord for mercy and grace, to
find favor in His sight. Most people. Do you? Do you? The fact that he's asking for
a miracle is a miracle. Isn't it? Our Lord said, ask and you'll
receive. Somebody that's dead and trespassing
in sin doesn't call on the Lord. Somebody that's dead and trespassing
in sin, don't ask. They don't seek. They don't come.
Gideon said in verse 18, don't leave. Don't leave. Please don't leave. And I want
to bring you something. And look at what the angel of
the Lord, what the Lord said unto him, I'll tarry until thou
come again. To whom coming? You want a sign? Here's as good a sign as there
is. The Lord said, all that my Father giveth me, all that the
Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh. It doesn't matter how bad a sinner
they are. It doesn't matter how many times
they come. He said, if you come again and again, I'm going to
carry you. I'm going to wait on you. If you keep coming, I'll
keep waiting to be gracious. If you keep coming to hear this
gospel, that's a good sign. If you leave, you're an apostate.
You don't need this gospel. But if you keep coming, He'll
be waiting on you. That's a good sign, isn't it? Need a sign? Our Lord said, Come
unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you
rest. Come. Peter was in that boat. He said,
Lord, if it be You, bid me come on the waters. He said, Come. And he did the impossible. Oh,
Lord, bid somebody come. Bid me come. If they don't come,
bid me come. Would you please? But Lord, I want to bring you
a present." What made him want to bring the Lord a present? Evidently, he was beholden to
the Lord. Evidently, Gideon was feeling
beholden to the Lord. He was feeling gratitude to the
Lord for just speaking to him. He hadn't done anything yet.
The Lord hadn't done anything yet. He hadn't shown him a sign
that he'd found grace in his sight. But it's like that woman,
that Syrophoenician woman, the Lord ignored her, and the Lord
said, No, this is just for my leg. And before the Lord did
anything for her, He said, She worshiped Him. And that's what
Gideon's doing. I plainly remember as a young
Believing when the Lord was dealing with me and I didn't know He
was dealing with me. I believed everything He said.
Certainly believed everything He said about my sinfulness.
I believed everything God said about Himself, His holiness,
His righteousness, His justice. I didn't necessarily believe
that I was one of His chosen. I didn't necessarily believe
that Christ had died for me. But I believed what He said about
me. And I'd come to hear the gospel. Oh, blessed be the day
that He showed me that it was for me. He was talking to me.
But I kept coming, kept coming. And I was beholden to Him. Am,
still am, more now than ever. So the Lord, in His mercy and
grace, I will tarry until thou come again. I'll be waiting on
you. He waits to be gracious. And
so Gideon went in. What's he going to bring to the
Lord? What's he going to bring to the Lord? I've got to bring
something. This is the Lord. This angel of the Lord. I've
got to bring something. He killed a goat and brought unleavened
bread. Now where did he learn that? Where did he learn that? People,
they shall all be taught of God. Every man that hath heard and
learned of the Father cometh to Christ, cometh by Christ.
Everyone whom God speaks to, everyone who's found grace in
God's sight comes to God by Jesus Christ, by the blood of a lamb.
You say, it says goat. Yeah, he's a scapegoat. Let me
tell you this about the goat. The goat was a poor man's sacrifice.
If you're too poor for a lamb, anybody can afford an old goat.
So that's what he brought, a goat. He was so poor. The Lord accepted
that. It's blood in him. He brought
the blood. That's what the broth was. Unleavened
cakes. Unleavened cakes, a kid, the
goat. Oh my. You see, beginning with Abel
to Zerubbabel. All of God's people, A to Z,
all of God's elect come by blood. All of God's elect come by sin
sacrificed. That's what they all know. All
come by faith in Christ. The very first example of faith
in Hebrews 11, of all those examples of faith, says these all obtained
a good report by faith. The very first example was Abel.
And God accepted Abel because what Abel brought. What was it?
Blood. Blood. So here Gideon come. How do you come to Christ? God.
How do you come to God? You know He's holy. Gideon was afraid God was going
to kill him. But he knew God was holy. He
was afraid because he knew he was a sinner. And he was afraid
God was going to kill him. That was his whole fear. God
was going to kill him. And he was bringing something to appease
God's anger, to appease God's wrath against his sin. He brought
the right thing. But he was afraid. He was afraid
of the Lord's beginning of wisdom. He knew. God is holy. God will by no means clear the
guilty. God needs a sacrifice to be propitious. He knew that. Like the public in the temple,
God be merciful, be propitious to me. Let the blood be on the
mercy seat for this old sinner. That's what every single believer
whom God has chosen believes, and they come by faith in Christ
alone. We all know that. And let me
just go ahead and tell you this. Everybody that comes to God by
faith in Christ is accepted. Christ is all. Like we said,
He's all of these things here. Everything Gideon brought was
a picture of Christ. And we see, don't we? We see
Christ in everything. And we endeavor in all that we
do here, the songs we sing, The ladies that play the piano, the
Scriptures we read, we endeavor to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ.
God taught us that. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that. Well, look at verse 21. Verse 20, the angel of God said
unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, lay them
upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. The
angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in
his hand. Staff has always been the Word
of God. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. Remember, David said, Thy Word
unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope. Thy Word
upon which I lean, like a staff. Was it Isaac that blessed his
son, leaning upon his staff? This is the staff of God. And
God, when He puts forth His hand, The staff, He'll show you that
which pertained to Christ. It all touches what Christ did.
It's all concerning what He did. If God, in His Word, opens it
to you, He'll show you Christ and Him crucified. And what Gideon
brought, the Lord accepted, verse 21, and the fire fell. You see, you remember Elijah
on Mount Carmel? You remember? You know who's
God? You know who the God of the universe
is? He's a consuming fire. Our God
is a consuming fire, Hebrews 10, 29. Their God is too, but
they just don't know it. But it's the God that answers
by fire that's God. That's what Elijah said on Mount
Carmel. How long halt ye between two
opinions? If God be God, serve Him. If
not, But it's the God that answers by fire, holy, righteous, consuming
fire. Remember Moses, when he first
came to know the Lord, what did he first see? What did Moses
first see when God revealed Himself to Moses? A bush that burned,
fire, but was not consumed. What's that? Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. This is what God shows all His
people. And keeps showing them. Keeps showing them. Keeps showing
them. And the fire fell. It rose up out of the rock. My, my. And consumed the flesh
and the unleavened cakes. That's Christ and Him crucified. Any doubt in your mind? Our Lord
was consumed by the fiery wrath of our Lord. And he is our sin
sacrifice. And the angel of the Lord departed
out of his sight. And then Gideon said, Oh, no. Oh, Lord God. Now, I've seen
an angel of the Lord face to face. I've seen an angel of the
Lord face to face. He was worried that he was going
to die. No, Gideon. Because you've seen him, you
won't die. You see, this is the Father's
will that sent me, Christ said, that everyone that seeth the
Son and believeth on Him, I raise him up. See His glory. The Lord
didn't take Peter, James, and John up on that mountain and
show them His glory to kill them. He did that to show them He wasn't
going to kill them. And He kept telling them and
telling them and telling them, I'm going to die. You're not. I'm going to die. And the Lord
was showing Gideon there and showing us this over and over
again. Christ and Him crucified. Have you ever thought about all
the signs that Moses saw? The Passover lamb. That's Christ. The smitten rock. That's Christ
crucified. The brazen serpent. That's Christ
and Him crucified. You want more? The Red Sea parted. That's Christ and Him crucified.
What more can He say to you than He had said to you who for refuge
to the Lord Jesus have fled? Fear not, I am with thee. Oh, be not dismayed. I am thy God. I will still give
thee aid. And the greatest aid of all is
this right here. Show me. Show me. You're not
going to kill me. Would you turn with me to chapter
13? And I'll close with this. Chapter
13. Some of you knew I would have to go there. Chapter 13.
It's another story. Another story of a man and his
wife who the Lord appeared to, and Manoah was his name, he was
a priest, Levite, and the Lord appeared to them to tell them
that it was a deliverer coming, Samson, the glorious picture
of Christ. Well, Manoah, you know, was so
slow to believe, such little faith, and the Lord appeared
to Manoah's wife, never gives her name, that's not important.
And he appeared to Manoah's wife and kept telling her, and Manoah
wasn't there each time. And he kept asking his wife,
asked the man, asked the man, and finally he asked the Lord
himself, the angel of the Lord, to prove to them that he was
talking to them. And so he did. And so what did
the angel of the Lord do? to prove to Manoah and his wife
that the Deliverer is coming, that they're chosen of the Lord,
that they found favor in His eyes. What did he do? Look at
verse 19. Manoah took a kid and a meat
offering and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord. And the
angel did wondrously. And Manoah and his wife looked
on. They saw what the angel did. came to pass the flame that went
upward toward heaven from the altar. The angel of the Lord
ascended in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife
looked on it, fell on their faces to the ground. And Manoah knew
it was the angel of the Lord. He said, We're going to die. Why did Manoah think that? Because
he knows he's a sinner. He knows he's a sinner. Peter, when Peter first saw the
Lord, His power, what did he do? He fell down on his knees
and said, depart from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. So what did the Lord do to show
Manoah and his wife? What did the Lord do to show
Gideon that he had found favor? What does the Lord show us that
we have found favor in His sight every time? What does He keep
showing us? One thing. One thing. An evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign, but no sign shall be given. But
my people keep seeing the sign of all signs, Christ and Him
crucified. And I love what Manoah's wife
reminded him of. Verse 23, If the Lord were pleased
to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering. Christ
wouldn't have come, people, as a burnt offering and died for
your sins. and a meat offering at our hands.
You come to God by faith in Christ, He'll receive you. He's promised.
God can't lie. Neither would He have showed
us this. See, the reason you know is He showed it to you.
And you wouldn't know this. Most people don't. But you do,
don't you? And you keep being reminded of
this. Nor would He at this time have told us such things. And if the Lord keeps showing
you Christ to keep speaking peace to your heart, old Gideon the
angel said to him, does this voice sound familiar? Peace be
unto thee. Does that voice sound familiar?
Fear not. Oh, that's the Lord Himself.
That's the Lord Jesus Christ speaking to Gideon. Thou shalt
not die. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who
is He that condemns? Christ died. Now, fear not. Fear not. Stand with me. Our Lord, thank You again for
Your Word upon which You caused us to hope. We do hope. All our
hope is in Your blessed promises. And oh, how many exceeding great
and precious promises You have given to us that we might be
partaker of the divine nature having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust. The greatest promise of all is
that the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, that Christ died,
yea, rather, is risen again, who is even at the right hand
of God, who ever liveth to make intercession for sinners, poor,
needy sinners that come unto God by Him. The Lord keeps showing
us this. What time we fear, what time
we are afraid, Show us Christ and Him crucified. Let us look
to the Lamb of God and be saved by all ye people. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.