These Three Men

Q: What does the Bible say about Noah, Daniel, and Job?

Noah, Daniel, and Job are mentioned in Ezekiel 14:14 as examples of righteousness that cannot save others, but they themselves will be delivered by their own righteousness. In Ezekiel 14:14, God refers to Noah, Daniel, and Job to illustrate a profound truth about individual righteousness. Though these men were exemplary in their faith and obedience before God, the text underscores that they could not deliver others; it emphasizes personal righteousness. Instead, their deliverance comes from their own relationship with God, representing the righteousness found in faith. The historical context of these figures demonstrates God’s mercy in every generation, using them as witnesses in times of apostasy and spiritual decay.

Q: How do we know that righteousness is by faith?

Righteousness is by faith as demonstrated in Romans 3:21-22, showing that it is God's righteousness, not ours, received through faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 3:21-22 provides a clear distinction about righteousness: it is the 'righteousness of God' that is revealed 'through faith in Jesus Christ.' Human efforts or adherence to the law cannot justify a person before God; only faith in Christ can grant righteousness. This is further affirmed in Romans 4, where Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness long before the law was given. The essence of sovereign grace theology is rooted in the belief that our righteousness before God is completely reliant on Christ, not our works.

Q: Why is the fear of God important for Christians?

The fear of God is foundational as it cultivates reverence, wisdom, and a right relationship with Him, as indicated in Proverbs 9:10. The fear of God is immensely important for Christians as it reflects a reverence for God’s holiness and authority. Proverbs 9:10 states that 'the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.' This fear is not one of dread, but of respect and awe, leading to obedience and a desire to know Him more deeply. In the sermon, a focus on fearing God is highlighted as crucial in combating the apathy seen in today’s culture, where false prophets mislead people. True understanding of God's character and His power drives believers toward repentance and faith, pivotal elements of a believer's life.

Q: How do Noah, Daniel, and Job represent Christ?

Noah, Daniel, and Job represent Christ through their faithfulness and righteousness, serving as types or foreshadows of the ultimate Righteous One. In the sermon, Noah, Daniel, and Job are portrayed as archetypes of Christ due to their steadfast faith and righteous living. Each man faced significant trials and adversity but remained faithful to God. For instance, Noah preached righteousness and built the ark, which represents salvation through Christ. Daniel, known as 'the beloved,' exhibited wisdom and integrity, characteristics that reflect Christ’s own attributes. Job, through his suffering and intercessory role for others, embodies the suffering servant archetype, ultimately fulfilled in Christ. These men exemplify what it means to have a righteous standing before God through faith, foreshadowing the attributes of Christ the Redeemer.

Q: What does it mean that deliverance comes by righteousness?

Deliverance by righteousness refers to salvation granted to believers as a result of Christ's righteousness, not their own acts. The concept of deliverance through righteousness entails that salvation is based solely on the righteousness of Christ applied to believers. In Ezekiel 14:14, it is stated that Noah, Daniel, and Job would be delivered by their righteousness, emphasizing that any righteousness seen in them is not a product of their works but is representative of the righteousness that God provides. This aligns with Reformed theology, which posits that believers are justified and saved through faith in Christ alone. Their lives may exhibit fruit consistent with faith, but it is ultimately Christ's redemptive act that accounts for their deliverance.

Thank you, Sherry and John. I
go back to Ezekiel 14. I'm sure just the reading of
it was very interesting to you, but I hope it will be more than
that. Those verses are four times,
beginning with verse 14, though these three men, Noah, Daniel,
and Job, were in the land. They won't deliver anyone. They
can't deliver anyone. They'll be delivered by their
righteousness as I live, saith the Lord God. This is the word
that said the word of the Lord came again to me. Ezekiel was
a preacher raised up a prophet raised up by our Lord to preach
to his generation. And God has not left Himself
without a witness in any generation. Thank the Lord. Thank the Lord. In the darkest of days and the
worst of times, down through the years, the Lord has raised
up men to tell the truth when most preachers, so-called, or
prophets, so-called, are false. And that was the case in Ezekiel's
time. The land was full of false prophets. And that's what the Lord, if
you know these verses, if you know these chapters... Well,
look at chapter 13. Jeremiah. You've read Jeremiah.
You've read Isaiah. You've read them all. All these
false prophets. But the true prophets were few. They were just few, weren't they?
But the Lord had them. And they were heard. Chapter
13. One and two, the word of the
Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy
out of their own hearts. Here are you, the word of the
Lord. Foolish prophets. Follow your own spirit. You've
seen nothing. Your visions, your signs and
all that, you've seen nothing. And the Lord said, I send them
strong delusions. Down in verse 22 there, look
at this, it says, "...their lies have made the heart of the righteous
sad." Hearing what you hear, it makes us sad, doesn't it?
Don't you hate it? You can turn on the TV and the
radio and all you hear are lies, aren't you? In God's name. In
Jesus' name. Oh, my. But Paul said, thank
God, and we can say the same thing. We are not as many. which
corrupt the Word of God. But as of sincerity, as of God,
in the sight of God, we preach Christ. That's what he said. And in verse 22, he says, you've
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return
from his wicked way by promising him life. Remember, Jeremiah
said that in chapter 23, you say unto them that hate me. God
has said, you've got peace. No evil shall befall you. God
loves you. That's the general, the wholesale
message today. Any man that stands up, certainly
a woman, that stands up and tells everybody indiscriminately, God
loves you and Jesus died for you, is a false prophet. It's
a false message. And those that are following
them are lost. It doesn't matter who they are. And that's what
Ezekiel was contending again. That's what Jeremiah was contending
again. In fact, that's what all the prophets were contending
again. And it's no better now. It's worse. There are more today
than there were then. Because simply, there are more
people. More people. False prophets. False prophets
everywhere. No fear of God because they don't
preach God who is to be feared. Listen to a message by my pastor
yesterday when I was jogging around. We're on the fear of
the Lord from Deuteronomy 10. Oh, I wish the whole world could
hear it. Fear of the Lord. I've never
heard a better message. Look it up. I told Brother Bruce
Crabtree, listen to this message. You'll never hear a better. Deuteronomy
10, the fear of the Lord. The whole world needs to hear
it. They don't hear things like that. There is no fear of God
before their eyes. Unite our hearts, though, David
said, to fear thy name. You know, man is not ignorant,
just ignorant. He's willingly ignorant. But
God's so merciful. He's so merciful. He hasn't left
himself without a witness. He remembers his covenant. He
remembers to keep mercy. And every generation there, he
has men who stand up and tell the truth. Now, who made us to
differ that we would come and hear the truth when we could
be caught up in all that, and were? Well, yet God brought us
out of it. It's so, isn't it? It's so. Every prophet renounced
his generation. Every single one. God hadn't
changed, and man hadn't changed, really. And the message hasn't
changed. They preach repentance, fear of God, That's what Paul
said, the great apostle. He said, I cease not to preach
unto you repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ. Night and day with tears, warning every man, preaching
repentance and faith. It hasn't changed. It hasn't
changed. And God in His mercy, God in
His blessed, blessed mercy and His love for His people, He's
sent them preachers, just a few, like Noah, Daniel, and Job. In every generation, He has not
left them, but left the mouth of two or three witnesses. These things have happened. And
He said, My sheep will hear My voice. And those men are the
greatest of men. Those sinners, though heathen,
He raises them up, makes them a voice in the wilderness. Here's the story. Ezekiel was
in captivity. Daniel was in captivity. I don't know if they knew one
another, but they were all in captivity. In fact, every prophet from Jeremiah
on was in captivity. Every single one. Up until that
prophet came, the Lord Jesus Christ, who Himself was under
Roman rule, right? Captivity. What about us now? Are we in captivity? Absolutely. The God of this world. That is,
our nation, this world, is under the God of this world. God of
this world. What sets the captives free?
Who? Remember the owl? Who right there?
He said, I am come to proclaim liberty. Set the captives free. And he does it through his gospel,
through the preaching of the gospel. But Ezekiel was in captivity. And so was Daniel. And so are we. But God had a
man stand up with a message. And in every generation, he's
not left himself without men. Men, mind you, but men who stand
up to declare the truth. True men who declare the truth. Same message. I think back over
the years of the great men. I mean, they're men that I honor,
like Martin Luther. I've been reading this story
again. And folks, I'm so thankful for Martin
Luther. But the Lord raised that man
up. We've got a Bible. You've got a Bible in your lap
because of Martin Luther. William Tyndale. John Huss. Huss was burned at the stake. William Tyndale was burned at
the stake because he said, I want everybody to have a copy of this
Word. Thank the Lord for William Tyndale, for John Huss, for Martin
Luther who stood up under threat of death and said, here I stand.
I can do no other. Well, who kept him? Who held
him up? Who's the one who gave him the message? Who sent him
into this world? Martin Luther. John Bunyan. Put him in prison.
Put him in prison for preaching the truth. Oh, thank God he was
in prison. We have Pilgrim's Progress, the Holy War. Paul
was put in prison. Oh, thank the Lord. See, the
whole disposal there is of the Lord. Men like that, Bunyan,
Knox, John Knox, John Calvin, And on and on the list goes.
Well, you can come right up into our generation. Mayhem. Not this one. But that one. Oh, my. How thankful. Richardson.
The world doesn't know these men. If they do, they hate them. God's
people don't. They're so thankful. Oh, my.
You've got the likes of Crabtree and Bell and Nybert and Elmquist. Keep going, huh? Aren't you thankful? But those men can't deliver anybody. They can't deliver anybody. And it says here, surely it didn't
confuse you when it said they'll be delivered by their righteousness.
They can't deliver anybody else, but they'll be delivered only
by their righteousness. I know good and well, and nobody
in here thinks for one second Noah, Daniel and Job are going
to be saved because of their righteousness. No way you believe
that. The average person would. The average person would read
that and say, well, see there? God's Word is not confusing. Man is confused. That's what
they said to Scott Richardson one time. Somebody said, well,
that's confusing. He said, no, it's not confusing. You're already confused. It's
just confusing to those that are confused. The Word doesn't
contradict itself. God doesn't contradict Himself.
Not at all. Look with me at the book of Romans. Very quickly. The book of Romans.
We're going to see in these three men, we're going to see three
things. We're going to see who they represent. We're going to see who and what
they believed that made them righteous. Who and what they
believed that made them righteous. And who God will deliver from
judgment and wrath to come. Men like men. I'm going to be
just like him. Are you? You say, oh, no. Yes, you are. You better be.
All right. All right. Look at Romans now.
Romans chapter 4. Romans chapter 4. Go back to chapter 3. Romans
chapter 3 says in verse 20, by the deeds of the law there shall
no flesh be justified in his sight. It could nothing be plainer. Nothing. By the deeds of the
law not one person can be justified, accepted, declared righteous
by God by the deeds of the law. Right? That's what it says. The
Lord says there's not a just man on earth that doeth good
and sinneth not. Not one. None righteous. No, not one. Isn't that what
it says? Now read on. But now, verse 21,
the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, revealed. To whom? Us. Not everybody. But to us. I know. Where are my righteousnesses
at? Don't you? I know who my righteousness
is. I know if I'm righteous. Why?
Christ's Jehovah Sidkenu. Surely, shall one say, here he
is, here he is, here's one that says, in the Lord have I righteousness. And I can tell you this, Noah
did too. And Daniel did too. And Job did
too. Noah woke up on his sin and said,
The only reason I'm not in hell right now is because of Jesus
Christ. You say, Noah knew Christ? Yes, he did. Moses wrote of him,
and he's the one who told the story. He said, Abraham saw my
day. Job was in the time of Abraham.
You reckon Job did? Yes, he did. Daniel? Oh, read his vision. And he said, Christ, I am lifted
up. He said, my cumbleness melted
into corruption. And I'm getting away, I'm at
the last page of my notes. I couldn't help myself. Look
at this, Romans 3, oh my, this is more than doctrine, this is
my salvation. The righteousness of God provided, imputed, charged
to, reckoned to, holiness, righteousness. Acceptance with God, considered
holy and unblamable and unapprovable without the law, without us keeping
the law, is witnessed by the law and who? Who witnesses it? And the prophets. Who? Ezekiel. Ezekiel is not writing that Noah,
Daniel and Job were righteous in themselves. No, sir. Read
on. He's not confused. We are, if
we don't understand. The righteousness, verse 22,
of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe. There's no difference. Is that
a grammatical error there? It's faith in Jesus, isn't it?
No, sir. Because it says that four or
five times. The faith of Jesus Christ. The just shall live by
his faith, Habakkuk said. Whose faith? Jesus Christ's faith. His faithfulness. Our covenant
head, the righteous one, came down to this earth. The Lord,
our righteous one. The Lord looked down from heaven to see if there
was any. He said, there's none. He saw that there was no man.
No man. And then it says he's well pleased
for his righteousness. He'll bear his holy arm. He'll
do it. He'll do it. And he did. He did. For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. Look at chapter 4. What about
Abraham? What about Abraham? Was he justified
by works? Come on now. He was 75 years
old in idolatry. He didn't know God, wasn't looking
for God. We've looked at that story recently. Who came to who? God came to Abraham. Who chose
who? God chose Abraham. Who revealed
who? God revealed Himself. Who called
out who? God chose Abraham. See, you're
caught in it. Look at chapter 4, verse 5. Let's read the whole
book of Romans. Verse 4, Now to him that worketh
is a reward reckoned not of grace, but of debt. But to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. Not works, faith. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and you're righteous. It's not written for
His sake alone, verse 23, that it was imputed to Him, but for
us also, in whom it shall be righteousness imputed if we believe
on Him that raised our Lord from the dead. Oh my! See that? Righteousness. They're not delivered because
of something they did. They're delivered because of
something Jesus Christ did. Moses wrote of me. The prophets,
to him, give all the prophets witness. We're not surely going
to give glory and honor to Noah, Daniel, and Job this morning,
are we? Well, I did, but I rendered honor to whom honor is due. Our
Lord did. But there's greater than Noah was here, a greater
than Daniel was here, a greater than Job was here. And you know
what? All three of these men are one. All three of these men
represent the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why it's written. In the
volume of the book, our Lord said, it's written of me. These
three are one. Alright, look at Noah. Noah,
over in... I was going to have you turn,
but I'm not for the sake of time. Noah, what did the Lord say about
Noah? The Lord said to Noah, He said, Be have I seen righteous
in this generation. First it says he found grace.
He found grace in the eyes of the Lord. But then he said, Be
have I seen righteous in this generation. Who can Noah possibly
represent other than the Lord Jesus Christ? The Lord is well
pleased for his righteousness. Is that what he said? Be have
I seen righteous in this world. Noah was a preacher of righteousness,
wasn't he? Now, what do I say about Noah?
Almost everybody thinks of Noah as just an art builder. No, he
was a preacher. Preacher. Full-time preacher.
And art builder. But what did he preach? Righteousness.
A preacher of righteousness. Whose? Christ's righteousness. That whole boat, ship, ship,
that ship speaks of Jesus Christ. You reckon Noah worked on that
ship for 120 years and not know what it represented? You reckon
God would tell him about this covenant with him and all salvation
in that ark and not reveal Christ to him? No, no way. Neither does
he do that with his people. All of God's people know what
that ark represents. And Noah, what's his name mean? What's his name? Rest. Remember that? Remember that?
His parents said, what are we going to name him? They said,
well, Noah. Rest. God said, name him that. Our Lord Jesus Christ is our
rest. Sabbath. He's our righteousness. He's our Noah. He's the preacher
of righteousness. Listen to this. Our Lord said,
I delight in the volume of the book it's written of me. I delight
to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is in my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. Christ
said that. Preacher of righteousness. Rest. Christ is our Lord. Our Sabbath.
Our rest. The builder of the ark. Scripture
says, except the Lord build a house, labor in vain to build it. God said, on you, on this rock,
Christ Jesus, I will build My church, and the gates of hell
won't prevail against it. And everybody in Christ will
be saved. Daniel. I do want you to turn
to Daniel, the book of Daniel, because you're going to love
this. These men represent the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only
man to ever live and be accepted by God by His righteousness.
And we're accepting Him. Where? In the Beloved. What's
Daniel called? The Beloved. Daniel chapter 1. Oh, the story of Daniel. We briefly looked at it. Daniel
chapter 1. Look at verse 3. It says, unto the master of the eunuchs
that he should bring certain of the children of Israel the
king's seed, and of the princes, bring them children, verse 4,
in whom is no blemish, but well favored and skillful in all wisdom,
cunning in knowledge and understanding. And these men were, verse 6,
the children of Judah. Daniel came from Judah. Imagine
that. That's our Lord's tribe there.
And his name was Daniel. Daniel. Oh, my. That means God
is judge. The judge. The judge sent by
God. And our Lord say all judgment
is committed unto him. Oh, Daniel. in whom is no blemish,
our Lord in whom is no blemish, full of wisdom and knowledge.
Verse 17, these four children God gave them knowledge and skill
and all learning and wisdom. Daniel had understanding and
all visions and dreams. He had all understanding. That's
our Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? Revealer of Secrets, chapter
2, Daniel 2, verse 46. King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his
face and worshiped Daniel. and commanded that they should
offer an oblation and odors unto Daniel. The king answered and
said unto Daniel, Of the truth, your God is a God of gods, and
Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets. See, and thou couldst
reveal the secret. And he made Daniel a great man,
getting many gifts. And God has highly exalted his
son, giving him a name which is above every name. He is the
great revealer of secrets. The Beloved of the Lord, chapter
9. Over there quickly. Daniel 9, verse 23. Look at this. Daniel 9, verse
23. Daniel prayed and God heard him.
Do you have it? Daniel 9, verse 23. At the beginning
of thy supplication, and who was he praying for? I know you've read Daniel 9.
We've all read it. We've looked at it together.
Daniel was praying for his people. He was praying for Israel. And
God heard him. And God granted his request.
And it said in verse 23, at the beginning of your supplication,
the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee thou art
greatly beloved. Greatly beloved. Daniel is the
beloved. Our Lord God said from heaven
itself, this is my beloved son. Job. What about Job? I was going to have you turn
there. You know the story of Job a little bit, don't you?
What does it say? God said of Job, He said he's a man that fears
God, eschews evil, and there's none like him in the earth. There's
none like him. There's not one single son of
Adam like Job in the earth. Who can he represent but the
Lord Jesus Christ? Fear of God is true evil. None
like Him in earth. Righteous servant of the Lord.
Tempted. Tried. Job was tried. Hedged about. Beloved of the Lord like Daniel.
Intercessor of His people. Job said, could be my sons and
daughters have sinned. I'm going to pray for them. I'm
going to offer a sacrifice. And he did. And because Job prayed
for his friends, They were accepted. Our Lord said, I call you friends.
If you've heard His blessed intercessory prayer, who could this represent
but the Lord Jesus Christ? Greater than these was here,
Noah, Daniel, and Job, and these three are one. I know them. They represent Him. But they're three real men. Hold
on. They're three real men, and they're all sinners, yet the
Lord says they're righteous, and they're going to be delivered
by their righteousness. Isn't it? Are you ready with me? They
can't deliver anybody else, but they'll be delivered because
they're righteous. Why are they righteous? We've
already said that, haven't we? We've already looked at it. Who
did Noah believe? They're righteous because of
who they believe, because of who they trust. Because of who
they're found in. Didn't Paul say this? Oh, that
I may win Christ and be found in Him. Not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that righteousness which is by faith
of Jesus Christ. Oh, that I may win Christ, Paul.
And here's the pronouncement to all his people. You have found
favor. Thou hast found favor in the
eyes of God. You are accepted in the blood.
You are in Christ. If you trust Him, if you believe
Him, if you look to Him and Him alone, rejoice. You're in Christ. You're just like Noah. You're
just like Daniel. You're just like Job. You're
well beloved. Oh, my! How do you know, though,
that a person is righteous? How do you know? Romans goes
to great lengths to tell us that, go with me to Hebrews 11, okay?
Hebrews 11. Romans goes to great lengths
to tell us that we're justified by faith without works. Even
faith is not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. Right? We don't even produce faith,
God gives it to us. And that faith is counted for righteousness.
It doesn't give life, it proves life. It doesn't give righteousness,
it proves it's there. Alright? But what does James
say? You show me your faith. Without
your work. He said, I'll show you mine by
my work. He wasn't bragging. He wasn't boasting. He just stated
a fact. Stated a fact. How do you know
Noah was a righteous man? How do you know he believed God?
That's his righteousness. Believed God. How do you know
Daniel was? How do you know Job was? Well,
what they did. That's what they did. Okay? Look
at Hebrews 11, verse 7. By faith, Noah being warned of
God. It's the first thing God does. Warns them. Warned of God. And only if God warns us, only
if He speaks to us, only if He opens our heart and our eyes
and our ears To see the great danger and see our sin convinces
us of our sin only if He does it. A man can't do it. God must
do it. Warned of God. Of things not
seen. Eternal things. The things of
God. What did He do? How do you know
He's righteous? He moved with fear. He moved. Where did He go? He came to God. All that the Father giveth man
shall come unto man. He walked with God. Enoch walked
with God. Noah, it says, walked with God.
He hadn't walked with Him before. Why is he walking with Him now?
God made him righteous. He made him walk with Him. What
did he do? What did he do? He prepared an
ark. He prepared an ark. An ark for the saving of his
house by which, verse 7, he condemned the world. See, he knows the
truth, doesn't he? Noah knows the truth. God doesn't
love this whole world. He's going to destroy it. But
God does love some people, Noah said. And thank God, I'm one
of them. How do you know He loves you,
Noah? He showed me the ark. He showed me the ark. Now come
into the ark. And He told everybody, you're
our only hope is the ark. Noah knew Christ. How do you
know Noah knew Christ? You built an ark. You moved.
You believed. Alright, here you sit. And who did we talk about in
the first hour? Who are we talking about right now, huh? What are
we doing here? One thing. Christ said, if I
be lifted up, I'll draw all men, I'll draw every tribe, kindred,
nation and tongue unto Me. We're here to lift up Christ.
We preach Christ. We preach not ourselves. We preach
Christ. If we preach not the church, we preach Christ. If
we preach not man's work, we preach Christ's work. If we preach
not man's righteousness, we preach Christ's righteousness. If we
preach not man's will, we preach God's will. Oh, He's made known
unto us His will in showing us Jesus Christ. The purpose of
God in Christ. Oh, how blessed we are if we're
in the ark, if we're in Christ, if we know that Christ is all.
We're like Noah. Yes! Thee have I seen righteous." How? In Christ. What's your hope? Let me ask
you now. Dig deep down in your heart,
out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaking. Let me ask
you one question. What's your hope of eternal life? That means Christ is in you.
Your hope of glory. You're righteous. You're righteous. Daniel. Daniel. Daniel was beloved. How do you
know? Well, God greater loveth no man
than this. And he laid down his life for his friends. And our
Lord said, I call you friends because I've made known unto
you. I've made known unto you the
truth. Like Manoah's wife says, he's
not going to kill us, but he wouldn't have shown us this.
He wouldn't have told us this. And he wouldn't have accepted
the sacrifice. God loves me. I believe He loves me, not because
of me, but for Christ's sake. I really do. I really do. I know He doesn't love me for
my sake, but for Christ's sake. Daniel. He understood wisdom. Wisdom from above. Daniel did.
I do too. John, you do too. I know we feel
like fools. We feel like we don't know anything.
After all these years of preaching, I still feel like I don't know
anything. Yet, Brother Stephen, we know
all things. Yes, we do. What? What's that? What's the
mystery of it all? Christ. I understand all wisdom. It's
Christ. Daniel was thrown among the lions. He was cast into the lion's den.
But they couldn't touch him. My soul is among lions, David
said. They're for war and I'm for peace.
Oh, woe is me that I dwell in Mesech. And woe is me that I
dwell with all these heathen. But thank God, he heads me about. Job. That brings me to Job. He
was hedged about one. He's hedged about. Satan desired
him. So he desires every one of God's
people. What's his hope? What's Job's
hope? He's just a human being. God
hedged him about. The hands of the Lord campeth
around about them that what? Fear him. Fear him. Job feared God. So the angel
of the Lord kept around about him. He feared God. Do you fear
God? Honestly, I want you to listen
to that message. Deuteronomy 10. The fear of the Lord. It's
the beginning of wisdom. You do. I know you do. I know
you do. Fear God. Uh-huh. Eschew evil. Fight it. War with
it. Oh, my. Hedged about. Intercessor. Daniel was an intercessor. I'm about to forget something
here. You're a Daniel. You're a Noah.
You're a Noah. You're a Daniel. You're a Job.
Yes, you are. You don't think you are, but you are. Is that not
your testimony? Noah? Found grace? Put you in the ark? One hope. Are you not a Daniel? Are you not a Job, hedged about?
Fear of the Lord has been given to you. Do you not pray for your
friends? These three will be delivered.
Everybody like them will be delivered. God said so. By their righteousness. What's their righteousness? You
know what? It's a who. It's who chosen. It's who saved Him, who revealed
Himself to Him. Alright, now look at this in
the closing, verses 22 and 23. And this is what I'm saying to
you. Verse 22, Behold, therein, in Israel, in Jerusalem, there
will be a remnant. They'll be just like Noah, Daniel,
and Job. Of the sons and daughters. Oh
Lord, make our sons and daughters Like Noah, Daniel, and Job. Like
our Lord. Put Christ in them. And they'll
come to you, and you'll see their way and their doings, and you'll
be comforted. And I am. I am just like Ezekiel. Ezekiel looked around and said,
doesn't anybody believe this? Isaiah looked around and said,
who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? Back there in chapter 6 of Isaiah, the Lord said, I'm
going to send you out and I'm going to blind people's minds.
They're not going to believe Him. I'm going to harden their
heart. They're not going to believe
the old man told them. And He said, they're going to be blind
the world over. They're going to be blind. But
He said, yet, there will be a tent, a remnant. They are going to
believe Him. They are going to believe Him.
And here He said, there's going to be a remnant. The rest of
them are going to hate you. But there's going to be a remnant,
a small remnant, that's going to come to you and listen to
you. I know Ezekiel thought, me? I'm a sorry preacher. Yeah, but
you've got the message. Yeah, you're a sorry preacher,
but you've got a great Lord. You've got a great gospel. You've
got the truth. And they're going to come to
you, and you're going to be greatly comforted. You're my comfort that I have
the message. And I'm comforted, he said, by
the same comfort wherewith you're comforted. And they'll comfort you, verse
23, when you see their ways and their doings. What ways are that?
The ways of Rochester. The ways of Noah. The ways of
Daniel. And the ways of Job. And I look out over this congregation
And I see, by the way, I bet we have one of the largest in
Franklin County this morning. I hope you're glad that we didn't.
I hope you're glad. And I am greatly comforted. I
came to Church House Wednesday before last, I believe, or maybe
before that. Drove into the parking lot, as
it is on Wednesday, Y'all take a little while to get here. Because
you work. And I was kind of downcast. And
I said to Manny, look at that little flock. Just a few cars. And I thought, oh, look at that
little flock. She said, yeah, isn't it precious? I said, you know, it is. It sure
is. And I get to be amongst them.
It comforts me. Oh, comfort me. But you come. We have nothing here to appeal
to the flesh. Anyone looking for fleshly entertainment
won't find it here, and they won't come here, and they won't
stay here. Anybody looking for answers to all of your worldly
problems and issues and this and that and the other, to find
a mate, With this or that or the other, you won't find it
here. They just won't find it here. They'll quickly realize
they don't have all these fun and games and programs for their
children. And if that's what they're looking for, they won't
find it here. But I'll tell you what you will find. You'll find the truth. And the
truth will set you free. And the truth will put joy in
your heart and rejoicing in your heart. Christ in your heart. And Christ said no man can take
it from you. And from that day forward, nobody will take you
out of it. And you can't tolerate anything
or anything else. This is how you know who loves
God and who loves Christ. It's those that don't want to
hear anything, anyone else do anything or do anything else,
but worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
get all this flesh out of my way. Get it out of my way. Don't
need that. That's flesh. We need to see
Him in the Spirit. We need to hear Him, His voice. Alright, that's the best I can
do. Noah Daniel Jones. Let's sing a closing hymn. Brother
John, 44, you believe. That's it. 44.

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