Thank you, Sherry, and thank
you, John. Now go with me to Matthew Chapter 11 as we continue
through this wonderful gospel of Matthew Chapter 11. These are not new things to most
of you, yet let's hope the gospel is gospel indeed. Read with me Matthew 11, verses
1 through 6. It came to pass when Jesus had
made an end of commanding his twelve disciples. He departed
thence to teach and to preach in their cities. When John heard
in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples. and told them, Luke's Gospel
said, he told them to ask the Lord. They said unto him, Art
thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus
answered and said unto them, Go and show John again those
things which ye do hear and see. The blind receive their sight.
The lame walk. The lepers are cleansed. The deaf hear. The dead are raised
up. And the poor have the gospel
preached to them. Blessed, blessed is he whosoever
shall not be offended in me. This message is to comfort the
child of God. That's what this is for. All
of God's people have doubts and fears, and we need to hear over
and over again the good news that He is the Christ, our Lord
and our Savior. We need to hear it again. We
need to have the Gospel confirmed We need to have our faith strengthened
if we have it. We need to be reminded that we
must, through much tribulation, enter the Kingdom of Heaven,
but be of good cheer. He has overcome the world. It says in chapter 11, verse
1, that Christ commanded His twelve disciples. I like the
article by Brother Nyvert in the Bulletin if you had time
to read it. Everything's been commanded. Everything's by command. Everything's been predetermined.
Aren't you glad? Everything's been predestined.
Everything. Every hair in your head is numbered.
Don't fear. Don't fear. And it says he commanded
his twelve disciples, and everything about us has been commanded,
and he departed to teach and to preach in their cities. Our
Lord, we've seen this several times, haven't we, in Matthew's
gospel. He went about all their cities and their villages, went
about all their teaching in their synagogues and preaching the
gospel. Thank God for teaching and preaching. Thank God. What
did he teach? What did our Lord teach? Huh? Philosophy. Huh? Sociology? Wisdom of this world? Oh, no. Taught God's Word, didn't
he? They shall all be taught of God.
Oh, my. All God's people are taught of
God. This is God teaching His people. What is going to take
place here is a private conversation between the Lord and His disciples.
They came and asked him questions. They were full of doubts and
fears and worries. And they came and asked him a
genuine question. The world is full of game savers.
The world is full of arguers. The world wants to have things
proved to them. The Lord doesn't prove Himself
to this world. The Lord is not trying to get anyone to believe
Him. No, no. Salvation is a revelation. Salvation
is for the Lord to reveal the truth to you. But God's people
still have doubts and fears, and He removes those doubts and
fears, and He teaches us who He is and what we are and His
will and so forth. And He does that through the
teaching of His Word. Thank God we have His Word. Thank God.
Yesterday, He said in Revelation 1 that read the Word. We just read God's Word. several
verses of God's Word. How blessed we are. Blessed are
they that hear the Word, He said. Blessed are those who hear it
preached. Don't you love preaching? The
world doesn't want to hear preaching. They think it's foolishness.
Don't you love preaching? Didn't you love what you heard
last week? And we went and sat and I was
so glad I didn't have to do it, but I got to sit and listen to
preaching. I got to sit and listen as God
took hold of a man through His Word and preached the Word in
power. and boldness. And I was blessed. And God's people were, don't
you love preaching? Why do you love preaching? The world doesn't
love it. But God gave you that love. He
gave you that. Our Lord went about teaching
and preaching. Bless God for His Word. Bless God for those who teach
and preach Him. Well, in verse 2 it says, John
heard in prison, the works of Christ. John was in prison for
teaching, for preaching the Word of God. John was in prison for
preaching the truth. And you know, it may come to
that in our day. Maybe not. Maybe the next generation. It
may. It's been that way since the
beginning. Ever since the Lord sent the Word, and great is the
company that brought it. There have been many prophets
Apostles, evangelists, pastors and teachers doing one thing.
The true men of God do one thing. They're not entertainers. They're
not socializers. They're not organizers. They're
not fundraisers. They're preachers. That's what
they do. He's going to go on to show us
that about John. What did you go to see? They went out to hear
a preacher. And when they came to the Lord,
they heard a preacher. That's what he did. That's what
they needed. That's what they heard. But John was in prison
for preaching. It's always been that way, that
those who preach the truth will be hated. Our Lord said that,
didn't He? They'll be hated. And so will you for telling them.
But John was in prison. Brother Barnard used to call
it preaching that will get your head cut off. Preaching that
will get you persecuted. The truth, that is. This preaching
today that God loves you and Jesus died for you, that doesn't
offend anybody. They won't put you in jail for
doing that. They'll make you rich. But not the truth. Not the truth. He was in prison
for preaching the truth. And he sent two of his disciples
to ask the Lord. Like I said, Luke's account gives
a little bit more there. He told them, ask Him. Are thou
he that should come? Or do we look for another? They
told him to ask the Lord if he was the Christ. If he was the
Christ. And I thought about this. How
many people even care today? Is anybody asking you
about the Lord? About the truth? About the Word
of God? About Christ? Huh? Our Lord said in His Word,
the Lord looked down upon the children of men to see if there
were any that did understand, that is, their need of a Christ,
and any that did seek after God. He said, there's none. They're
not asking. But if you ask, if you're even
interested that there is a Christ, if you know there's a Christ,
if you know you need a Christ, oh, how blessed you are. How
blessed you are. Nobody's asking. One of our brethren preached
a message entitled, The Question. Nobody's asking. How can God
be just? How can He be clean as morn of
warmth? Nobody's asking. But some are. And God's the one that raises
them up. Aren't thou He that should come? The Jews of old, they often said
that of the Christ. He that should come. He that
should come. The one that should come. The
one we need to come. The Christ, the Messiah, the
Savior, the Intercessor, the King, the Lord God manifest in
the flesh. They knew that. Are thou he that
should come or do we look for another? And we need to ask that
question too. Is this Christ that we pray? Is the Christ that
we believe? Be Christ or will you have the
wrong one? I wish more people would ask
that. Is the gospel we preach the gospel? Because Paul said
there would be many come preaching another gospel, which is not
another, but is a perversion of the gospel. I wish more would
ask, is the gospel I'm hearing the gospel? Is the Christ I believe
the Christ? Is the truth is what I'm hearing?
Is it the truth? Is my God really God? Is this
salvation going to save me? Huh? Do we look for somebody
else? Should we be looking elsewhere?
Good question. That's the question. There is
no other question. What think ye of Christ? Our
Lord said. Well, John knew the Lord. Go back to John chapter 1. Go
over to John chapter 1. John knew the Lord. You know he knew the Lord. Because
he preached it. He preached Christ. He said in
John chapter 1, things like this, verse 27, He it is, there stands
one among you, you don't know. He it is, who coming after me
is preferred before me. Who shoelaces I am not worthy
to unloose. And the next day, verse 29, John
saw Christ coming unto him, and he said, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world. Because God revealed
Christ to him. God said, The one you see, this
dove, the Spirit of God descending upon, like a dove, that's Him. Get up. Rise. You're in the presence
of a King. Anoint Him. This is He who should
come. This is the Christ. This is the
King of Kings. This is the Lord of Glory. This
is the Christ of God. This is the Son of God. This
is God come to save you. Well, that's what Isaiah 25 said. It'll be said in that day, this
is our God. We've waited upon Him. He'll save us. Yes, He will. He'll save His people. Now John
said, verse 33, I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize
revealed him to me. And verse 34, I saw and I bear
record that this is the Son of God. See that? John knew him. John knew who he was. He preached
him. And he said things like this. He said, He said, He whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God. God giveth not the Spirit
by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, hath
given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. He knew
who Christ was. So I think he did this for his
disciples. I believe he did this for their
sake. I think he did this for them,
as does every true preacher sent by God will take those that are
following them, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you're
following a man that's following Christ, as long as that man is
pointing you to Christ. Paul said, follow me as I follow
the Lord. And he pointed these two men
to the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, you go ask Him. You
need to hear it from His mouth Himself. Not just for me. You need to hear Him say unto
your soul, I am the Christ. Like the woman
at the well. She'd heard of Him. Now she heard
from Him. So He said, and we have some
in here that need to hear from Him. You've heard from Me. You
need to hear from Him. That's my prayer. He did this
for their sake. He's in prison, and these disciples
are worried. They're fearful. They're full
of doubts and fears for the future. Their preacher was in prison. I'm not sure we understand. I
know we don't. We've never experienced anything
like it. The persecution that the church has been through from
the beginning. We've never been through any
of that. We've never seen our brethren taken to the stake and
burned, killed, pierced through and tortured and so forth like
Hebrews 11 talks about. We've never seen that. But they
saw it time and again. And don't you know they all wondered,
why is this happening? Now Christ had come. They believed
He was Christ. John preached Him. Those that
knew Him preached Him. They knew it. He was a cry. But
they're thinking, why is all this trouble? Why is all this
turmoil? Why is there all this tribulation?
Why is there all these wars and rumors? Why is all this happening? Why is the preacher in jail? They took James and beheaded
him. Why? Disciples came and took had to
took solace and consolation in our Lord Himself. David, all
of God's men and people down through the years, when looking
around at the world, all that's going on around them, ask the
Lord, why? Lord, You reign. I know You do. You rule. I know
You do. You're on the throne. I know You are. You predestine
and predetermine and rule over everything. I know. Peace, make evil. You do all
these things. We know. But why? Why? Why does it have to be like that?
David said that, Lord. Don't you see what's going on?
He said it over and over again. How long? Again, let me quote that scripture
to you. Whatsoever things are written are written for our learning. That we have to be patient. We're
going to have to wait and see what the Lord's doing. Because
the Lord's ways are not our way. His thoughts are not our way.
The Lord moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.
He raises a storm. Why? To show us His power over
us. Tribulation and troubles to strengthen us, strengthen
our faith. The praise of the glory of His
constraining and restraining and keeping grace. But they're
written for our learning, that we might, through patience and
comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope. Hope in who? Hope
in what? Christ. We look around at world
events, all that's going around us, and I can't help but think, Lord,
how long are you going to let this go on? Why did you put this
man in? Why did you do this? Why did
you do that? Why did this person die? Why did that person die?
Why did you take this person? Why is this person? Why? Why? Why? John may have himself had some
doubts and fears. I mean, he's just a man, isn't
he? Hmm? He's just a man. He's got to have some doubts
and fear. He's not infallible, is he? He's not omniscient. He believes
God. He had the Spirit from his womb,
yes, but he's just a man. He's a sinful man. He needs the
same word himself. John needs the same word of confirmation
and consolation himself, doesn't he? John needs to hear the same
thing himself. Though it seems like he's a man
of unwavering faith and absolute assurance, he goes through times
too. He's in prison thinking, I'm
doing the Lord's work. Why am I here? You reckon Paul
thought that when he was in Rome? Paul wrote the Romans. You know,
he never saw them. He never saw Rome. He never visited the people
at the church in Rome. He thought he would. He said,
I hope to come to you. He said, I will pray to that
inn. The Lord didn't bring him out. Cut his head off. You think
he had doubts and fears? What was his comfort? What was
his consolation? The same thing that he comforted
others with, by the same comfort with which he was comforted.
He didn't hear it from the Lord's mouth. Why, Lord? Why is this going on? I'm doing
your work. Are you the Christ? Are you writing
and ruling? Do we, should we look for another?
And you know, John, I believe this perhaps, John, being a Jew,
John, like all Jews, you remember on the road to Emmaus, those
two disciples, both Jews, they were sad that Christ was dead, they thought. And they said they
were sad. And the Lord came to them. They
didn't know Him. And he said, why are you sad? And they said,
are you a stranger here? Don't you know? They said, this
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God by signs and wonders,
we thought, we hoped he would be one that would deliver Israel.
We thought that he was the Messiah. We thought he was the Christ.
that he would set up his reign and rule, that he would sit on
a throne in Jerusalem, that he was going to bring back the kingdom
to Israel, that he was going to put down all this corruption,
all this evil. We thought that's why he came,
to put down evil and to set up a kingdom of righteousness. He
did. But they didn't know. They forgot,
at any rate, that his kingdom was not of this world. And it doesn't come with observation.
And what you see going on is all His doing, but you don't
see what's really going on. You don't see what's really going
on. The things that we can't see
that are working together for our good. Are thou to Christ? Lord, we
need you to tell us again. We need you to tell us again.
So the Lord said, and it says in Luke's Gospel, that at that
same hour, He did many wondrous works before them. Let me go
back and read it to you. It says in that same hour, it
says that in the same hour, He healed lepers. He cured many of their infirmities. The evil spirits were cast out.
The blind he gave sight. He said, now go your way. Go
show John. And here he says, go show John
again those things which you do here. That's it. He was preaching. When they came,
he was preaching. He always preached. Oh, he always
preached. That's why he came. He said,
I came to preach. And they heard him preach. They heard his voice.
They heard him declare the truth again. They heard him declare
who he was, who God is. They heard him declare God's
Word. Faith cometh by hearing, not seeing, hearing. Christ's sheep hear his voice.
They hear his voice. The world wants to see signs. The world wants to see miracles. Our Lord said no sign will be
given, didn't He? In the last days, He said this.
He said no sign will be given but the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Do you know what that is? You could ask 99 out of 100 people
what the sign of the prophet Jonah is and they won't be able
to tell you. You know, don't you? Christ crucified. Listen to this, what He told
His disciples one time. Judas, not Iscariot, But Jude,
of whom the epistle is written, Jude said unto him, Lord, how
is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto
the world? How are you going to reveal yourself
to us and not the world? Because he hides these things
from Moab. He reveals them to his people.
How? He said. The Lord said, If a man love
me, he'll keep my words. And my Father will love him,
and will come unto him and make our abode with him. He that loveth
me not keepeth not my sake." The Word which you hear, it's
not mine. It's the Father's. It's the Word.
You're going to hear the Word. While the world is seeing things,
and they're seeing some things, but God sends strong delusions
to believe a lie. There are some things that the
world sees and experiences, but it's a lie. And that's what they're
looking to. Well, what are you doing? You're
hearing the Word. You're hearing the Word. You
go show John again the things you heard. You go tell him one
more time. Show him again. He's heard this
Word over and over again. He's read it. He's heard it.
Tell him one more time. God reigns. Tell him one more
time. Christ is up. Tell him one more
time. Christ said His name. The warfare
is coming. Tell Him one more time. Need
to hear that? John? John? John? Go show John again the things
you've heard. Faith cometh by hearing. You
come here to hear His voice. You come here to hear His Word.
And tell Him, show Him the things you do see. See. You know, we tell our children
things, we teach them over and over again things until we hope
that they can say this, I see. In other words, you really don't
learn anything until you experience it. We hear the Word of God preached,
we hear it, we hear it, we believe it, but we don't really believe
it until we see it, until we experience it. That we go through
something that the Word of God has taught us, and we say, yes,
that's what He said would happen. Yes, that's what He said. We
experience these feelings. That's what the Word of God says,
and I'm experiencing it. We see, we see, we see. Now,
this is what we hear and see. Look at it. Verse 5. This is
how he proves himself to be the Christ. The true Christ. He said, you go show John the
things you hear and see, how that the blind receive their
sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the dead are raised
up, the poor have the gospel preached unto them. You go show
John how the blind receive their sight. The eyes of the blind shall be
opened," we read there in Isaiah 35. The eyes of the blind shall
be opened. But the God of this world has
blinded the minds of them that believe not. Doesn't that say
that? God has hidden these things from
the wise and the prudent, but He's opened the eyes of some
blind people. He's opened their eye. I've heard
it and I've seen it. I keep hearing stories of people's
eyes being opened. Don't you? How? Not some healing
crusade, but through the preaching of the Word. I've heard and I've
seen it myself. I've seen men and women and young
people's eyes open. Eyes that were blind to the glory
of God's created glory. This world, the whole world,
the heavens declare His glory. The firmament showeth His handiwork.
Day unto day others speak. But men and women are blind to
the Creator, aren't they? How can people look at this creation
and not see that God created it? How? Blind, that's how. God
has blinded them. God of the world has blinded
them. But God, in great mercy to some, opens their eyes to
see God has created them. All things were created by Him
and for His glory and for His pleasure they are and were created.
I've seen people and heard people that are blind to providential
glory thinking all their days that their That through their
ability and through their industry and through the goodness of people,
like old Gomer. Remember Gomer and Hosea? Gomer
thought his lover, her lovers gave her all that she did, all
that she had. No, it was her Savior that gave
her all that she had. She was blind to who it was that
was providing these things. All those days while she was
in rebellion, it was her Beloved that provided those things. And
one day she had her eyes open. Those who are blind to themselves. Oh, my. How blind men and women
are to themselves. Blind to sin. Blind to the God
of this world. Blind to His wiles, His tricks,
His pets, His nets. Blind to all of His guile. Blind. And so were we. Blind to the truth. And look
right at it. Read it, hear it, and just not
see it. Read it where it says, it is
not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth, but of God
that showeth mercy. Not of the will of the flesh,
not of the will of man, but of God. And read it with their own
two eyes. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God. And they say, I don't see it that way. And they never will and we never
would have unless God had one day opened our eyes. I don't see it that way. And
then he opens our eyes. He opens our eyes until we say,
well, I see it. I see it. How could I have been
so blind? You go show John again how the
blind receive their sight. The lame walk. It says we walk
by faith. Oh, we once walked by, according
to the course of this world, children of wrath, even as others. But God couldn't walk, would
not come to Christ, could not come to Christ. But God gives
feet, faith like feet, to come to Christ. The lame walk. He
leads us, sets our feet in paths of righteousness. for His name's
sake. Lepers are cleansed. You go show
John again what you hear and see that lepers are cleansed.
Take an old gutter snipe, an old gutter dweller, a harlot
like Mary Magdalene, and turn her into a saint. Cleanse her
until she's white as snow. Oh, my. That's the power of the
Lord. You go show John again that the death here the deaf
ear. Haven't you seen, and I have,
many men, women, and even young people who have heard you, have
heard others tell them the truth over and over again, and will
not hear it, cannot hear it, finally have their ears opened? I didn't want to come hear the
gospel. Now, I really want to. My ears used to be shut to the
songs of Zion and open to the song of the drunkard. Now, I'd
a whole lot rather hear the songs of Zion. And I want to get rid of this.
Oh, how we've seen A dead race. A dead race. Dead in trespasses
and dead to God. And God with the Word, like He
did with Lazarus of old. And that's what we hope and pray
for for others. Then look at this. He said the
poor have the gospel preached to them. The poor have the gospel
preached to them. This world is rich and increased
with goods and has need of nothing. Brother Allen and I have talked
about the things in this world for the last week or so, talked
about America, the most affluent, lavish lifestyle in the history
of the world. We have a rich and increased
with goods and have need of nothing. He talked about England, how
it's rich. You can't believe the wages that people earn and
what things cost over there, the cost of living, what it takes.
A rich world. Rich, but oh, they're poor in
faith. And yet God takes this glorious
gospel, the unsearchable riches of Christ, and takes it down
to a little third world country where there's a bunch of Mayan
Indians who have been steeped in idolatry and pagan and heathen
religion for thousands and thousands of years. of years worshiping
statues. And the Lord of glory, the Spirit that moveth where
He lives to go down to that place of those people in dirt floors
and grass huts and brings them this glorious Gospel and a great
awakening. Church after church after church
raised up the really poor, the dirt poor, have the Gospel. Oh, these people in America,
these people in Britain, they don't need this Gospel for the
poor. Oh, but the poor do. And he makes
people, and this is a greater miracle than that, to take somebody
who is rich in the things of this world, someone who does
have much, and reveal to them that you're wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked. That you are nothing, know nothing,
have nothing, can do nothing, will go nowhere and you're a
nobody from nowhere and everything you have, I gave you. And if
I don't do something for you, you're going to perish. Reveal
that to somebody who's high and bring them low. Somebody who's
rich and make them poor. Oh, blessed are the poor in spirit.
Theirs is the kingdom of God. To show them that the riches
of this world are not riches at all, but the riches of Christ. The
poor have the gospel. And this he said in closing,
and what a word, and may we hear it, and blessed is he whosoever,
the word he is in italics, he, she, blessed is that person whosoever
shall not be offended in them. We've never lived in a time where
the gospel has been more offensive to the natural man. We've never
lived in a time where there's fewer people believing this gospel
in relation to the population. Haven't. Never been a time. We're in a
day of apostasy. The truth is offensive. Blessed are they that are not
offended in me." Christ came a sword. He said, do you think
I've come to bring peace on earth? I say nay, rather a sword, isn't
it? A sword. A sword is an offensive
thing. And we've already looked at this.
But the sword is God's Word. The sword is God's truth. And
the sword, the first thing the sword of God does is it wounds. The first thing the Word of God,
the truth, does is it kills, doesn't it? The sword, the two-edged
sword. It kills before it makes a light.
The Word of God has to. It has to kill us. It has to
kill our God. It has to kill our religion.
The Word of God, he said, is not my word as a hammer. The Word of God has to break
the hardest heart, the hardest mind, that obstinate mind against
God, against the truth. The Word of God is the only thing
that will. It has to break our hard hearts and our hard heads. Christ said things like this.
He said, No man can come unto me except the Father which hath
sent me draw him. Now that offends the free will
of everybody. Baptists, Methodists, whoever.
All free will. That offends them all. Christ
said, No man can come unto me. And He said it twice in case
they didn't hear it the first time. That offends them. We don't
want to hear that. Well, you heard it. Brother Henry, you one time thought
man had a free will, didn't you? Bless the Lord Jesus Christ.
He came to you and put out a hammer and said, you will believe this.
It offended you, didn't it? You heard the truth at one time.
It offended you. I won't have that. Yes, you will
if you're God's own. Christ said things like this. He said, come unto me all ye
that labor and heavy laden. I will give you rest. I'm the
Lord of the Sabbath. Well, that offends Seventh-day
Adventists. I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. I've taken away the
first to establish the second. I'm the end of the law for righteousness
for everyone to believe. That offends the legalist, doesn't
it? We don't like that. Oh, you better. You better. He said things like this. There's
nothing from without a man that goes into his mouth that can
defile him. Nothing you put into your mouth can defile you. Nothing. Whatever it is, that's not your
problem. There's no sin in a bottle or
a box. Oh, that offended the holiness people, the teetotalers
and the people that liquor never touched their lips. Oh, how that
offended those who took pride in never sinning and pretending
they were holy. He said, there's nothing. He
said, out of your hearts are proceeded adulteries and fornication
and blasphemy, evil thoughts and lust. That's your problem,
not that bottle, not that pill. It's you the problem. And I know
I want to do something about it. Oh, that offended them, didn't
it? He said things like this. He said, I pray not for the world,
but for them which thou hast given me. Oh, that offended the
universalists, didn't it? God loves everybody. No, He didn't.
No, He doesn't. He didn't pray for everybody.
How would He not pray for everybody He loved? He did. He doesn't
love everybody. He prayed for His own. That offended
them. I offended them. It's offending
people now. It's offending people now. But oh, blessed. Blessed are you. Whosoever he
be, let's not offend him. Not offended, but rather offended
by what they're saying about him now. You know, he turns it
around. He turns it around to where those
that once were offended in what he said, offended in what the
Word of God says so plainly, offended in that, and turns it
around to where now they're offended in all these lies being told
on them. They're offended in all this blasphemy that's going
on. They're offended by what they're saying about the Lord
of glory. Offended! David said that. Do not I hate
them. I quoted this to a fellow on the phone one time. Some fellow,
religious fellow, called me up. And we were talking about these
things. I was. And I said, I hate these false
prophets. I shocked him. You can't hate anybody. Well,
David said he did. And I do too. Why? They're lying on my God. Lying
on Christ. They're condemning souls. They're
butchering souls. The Lord turns it around to where
you now hate those things that are offensive to our God. David said, Do not I hate them
that hate thee. Yea, I hate them with a perfect
hatred. I count them my enemies. God's enemy. God's enemy. Oh, the offensiveness today,
the blasphemy that goes on in the name of God, and I hate it.
Don't you? You can't love God and not be
offended by that. And you can't love God and be
offended by what He said, anything He said. You can't. You can't. Brother Todd, how much does a
person have to believe to be a believer? Everything. You can't be a believer and not
believe anything he said. Blessed, oh how blessed you are. We are if we are not offended
in him. In him. Blessed if we believe
in him. Blessed if we trust in him. Blessed
if we want to be like Paul, be found in him. Not have him out
on Rochester. being hidden in Him. Oh, blessed, blessed, blessed.
Blessed we are if we can say with Peter of old, I believe
and am sure that thou art the Christ. I know this, I'm nothing,
and this much I know, Christ is all. I believe and am sure
that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and all
my hope..." Brother Gates said, "...all our eggs are in one basket."
All our hope is in one person. Let me tell you this. If you
trust and look to Christ alone, if all your hope of salvation
is in one person, Jesus Christ, you're a saved person. That's
right. That's what he said. Didn't he?
That's what he said. This offends so many people.
Oh, no, no, no. You've got to what? Don't believe them. Who are you
going to believe? Christ or men? Who are you going
to believe? Pharisees or Christ? Trust Christ. It will be well.
OK, John, come and lead us in that last 10. I lost the number. 224. That's all. Stand number
224.