Let's go back to Matthew 9. This chapter begins with the
Lord healing a man, a man that was brought to Him sick of the
palsy on a bed. It began that way and it ends
in verse 35 by saying, He went about all the cities teaching
preaching the gospel of healing every sickness, every disease
among people. That's why he came. This chapter
begins and ends with our Lord healing, and this whole book
begins and ends from first to last with his great salvation. That's what it's about. He said
that's why he came. Look at verse 12 and 13. They that behold need not a physician,
but they that are sick." Go and learn what that means. If I will
have mercy and sacrifice, I came not to call the righteous but
sinners to repentance. I came to heal sick sinners,
raise dead sinners like we are going to see in our story. That is why Christ came. He came
for the dead and the dying. Now look at verse 18. Here is
where our story begins. While he spake the things that
we heard, behold, there came a certain ruler to him." A ruler. This man was
a Pharisee. A ruler of the synagogue. A Pharisee. A man of high rank and station
in religion. Scripture says that not many
wise men, not many mighty and not many noble are called. Not
many Pharisees. many stories of the Lord actually
saving Pharisees. Pharisees, you know, were self-righteous.
Pharisees thought they knew the truth. They didn't need Christ.
Pharisees who had a righteousness, they didn't need Christ. Our
Lord didn't save many, but He didn't save not any. He said not many. You know, it's not hard for the
Lord to save a religious person any more than it is a non-religious
person. Thank God he does. Many of you. Such were some of
you, right? Pharisees. The Lord saved some. Paul. Saul of Tarsus was one
such Pharisee. He's called a certain ruler.
See that? A certain ruler. A certain man. Scripture speaks often of Certain
men and certain women. A certain ruler. This man was
chosen by the Lord. This man was one of His elect.
This man was one of the Lords from the foundation of the world.
He came. If he hadn't, our brother prayed
that. If the Lord hadn't chosen him, he wouldn't have chosen
the Lord. If the Lord hadn't brought him,
he wouldn't have come. If the Lord hadn't called him,
he wouldn't have come. A certain man. Our Lord said, All that the Father
giveth me shall come unto me, and him that cometh to me, be
he Pharisee or publican, I will let no wise cast out. Look at
it. It says in verse 18, He came
and he worshipped the Lord. He came to Christ and he worshipped
the Lord. Before he asked anything, he
worshipped the Lord. Before he received anything,
he had a need. He had a desperate need. And
he knew the Lord was the only one that could provide it. And
that's why he came. But before he asked the Lord,
before he received anything, any word from the Lord that the
Lord was going to give him what he needed, he worshipped the
Lord. He must have known the Lord.
Because he came knowing that whether The Lord did anything
else for him at all. He's worthy to be worshiped.
And we come here today. Why? We have needs. We all have
pressing needs. But if you know something of
His great worth, you come here to worship. Because He's worthy. Before we get anything. And you
know, if we come to worship, we will. If we come to bless Him, He'll
bless us. If we come to hear Him, He'll
hear us. That's the way it is. That's
the way it is. This man worshiped. And he got
what he was asking for. But it took a while. He said
in verse 18, he said, Our Lord, and I wouldn't dare try to imitate
the man. His daughter's dying. And he's
crying and says in Mark's Gospel, greatly besought the Lord. Greatly
besought the Lord. Greatly besought the Lord. He
said, my daughter is as good as dead. She was dying. There was no hope for her. And
he said, she's as good as dead. But if you'll come, if you'll
come lay your hand on her, she lives. He knew the Lord, didn't he?
If you'll come. You know, many of us in here
have daughters, sons. They're not dead yet, perhaps. But they're as good as dead if
they don't know the Lord. Dead to God. Dead to the gospel. Can't hear it. No interest, no
heart for it. Can't see any beauty in Christ
that they should desire Him. Can't hear His voice. Doesn't
touch their cold, dead heart. They don't feel a thing. Dead people don't feel anything.
Don't feel any need for Him. And you may say, we may say,
well, she's a good girl. Yeah, but she's dead. She's a good daughter. Yeah,
but she's dead. She's a good student. That may
be, but she's dead. She's a good citizen. She's a
good mother. She's a good this, a good that.
That may very well be. But if she doesn't know the Lord,
she's dead. And this is one thing to keep
from. One thing to keep from. Mark's
Gospel. I want you to go over there to
Mark's Gospel, okay? Because there's more written
in Mark's Gospel, chapter 5, of this same story. This is recorded.
Mark, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. It's Mark's gospel. There's more
given to us, more information. But it's said there in Mark's
gospel, as I said to you in verse 23, it says, He besought him
greatly, greatly. I pray thee. praying to the Lord,
calling on the Lord, come lay hands on her that she may be
healed and she shall live. We want our children to be happy,
don't we? We want our children to be healthy.
We want our children to have the things that they need. We
want them to do well in this life, don't we? But above all
else, we want them to know the Lord. We know that if they know
Him, nothing else, well, everything else will be provided for them.
Everything else will be well with them, no matter what they
are, no matter if they have much or have little, if they know
the Lord, they'll have everything. And we know the power of God,
don't we? We know those of you who have experienced the power
of God, those of you who have felt the power of God, the Gospels
are the power of God. Christ has spoke the wisdom of
God and the power of God. Those of you who have heard his
voice, you know that there is only one thing that the Lord
uses to quicken dead sinners, as you. The Gospel. And so we pray to the Lord, Lord,
come, and our brother prayed, our other brother prayed, come
Lord, through the preaching of the Gospel, and quicken dead
sinners. Lord, touch my daughter, touch
my son, touch me. If you do, I'll live. The Word
of God is quick. The Word of God is powerful.
It's the only thing that is. We have sons or daughters, we
want to know the Lord. We talk to them all we want.
We talk to them until they're blue in the face, unless the
Lord talks to them. Unless the Lord speaks to them,
they're not going to be spoken to. They're going to remain dead
in trespass and sin. We know the power of God, don't
we? And so we have them under the gospel. They may not like
it, may not want it, but we have them under the gospel with the
hopes and our prayer is, Lord, please speak to them like you
did to me. Open blind eyes. Open deaf ears. Quicken them. Lord, come. Lay your hand on them. He's able. He's able. He's the only one
that can quicken. But is he willing? Is he willing? Oh, yeah. That's what I said. That's what he said in this That's
why he came. He said, I came to call sinners
to repent. I came. That's why I came. I
am come that they might have life. Dead sinner. He arose and
followed this man. He arose and followed this man.
But look at verse 24. The Lord was going home with
this man. Can you imagine that? Like old
Zacchaeus. People couldn't believe he was
going to be the guest of sinners. They said, guest. They couldn't believe it. I'll
tell you, somebody couldn't believe it more than I did. It was Zacchaeus.
I can't believe he's coming over here. The Lord was going home with
this man, this ruler. Going home with him. And he was
hopeful. Oh, he was hopeful. And the Lord, right behind him, The Lord is going to come home.
He asked him to come heal his daughter, and the Lord said,
OK. And he got right behind him and
was walking. And I bet that fellow was nearly
running to get home so that the Lord
would get to his daughter. But look at this, verse 24. The
Lord went with him, and much people followed him and thronged
him. They thronged him. Many people. The Lord had many followers. Great multitudes, it says, followed
Him. Many people with many needs. And I love this. It says He healed
everyone that had need of healing. He didn't turn anybody away.
We were walking through the streets of Mexico, and there were some
down and out people. We saw a man just like Barnabas
that somebody had brought and put on the street corner. You
remember seeing people like that? They put on the street corner
daily to ask, oh, I mean dirt poor people that would die if
they didn't get a handout. We saw many people like that.
And I said to Mindy, I said, you know, the Lord went through
Israel like that and saw a multitude, and He healed them all. Every
one of them. You know, I wanted to. I wanted to do something
for them. I couldn't. But the Lord did.
Can you imagine that? He walked through the land. Be
healed. Be healed. You need it? Yes. You need it?
Anybody need it? Yes, you. Yes, you. Anybody else? Come one, come all. What do you
need? They all came. He said, Be healed. He's able. to save a few or a multitude. No matter what it is, no matter
what disease it is, all manner of disease, all manner of sin
shall be forgiven man. There's only one person that
can. And he's willing. He's able. And he's willing. But Jarius, that's this man's
name, Jarius. All right, he's headed home and
the Lord's going with him. And all of a sudden this crowd
of people, and I love the thought that the Lord was a man, and
He had thousands of people pulling at Him. Thousands of people wanting
His attention. Thousands of people wanting Him
to do this or do that, hear Him crying upon them. And He didn't
get irritated. He didn't say, I don't have time
for you. What a man. What a merciful man. We have people pulling at us. We have responsibilities, and
we get irritated, don't we? We get upset, and we start thinking
about ourselves. Everybody's pulling at me. Everybody
wants something out of me, and we get upset. And would you leave
me alone? That's not the Lord. Thank God. But this big crowd of people
thronged him, and all of a sudden, Jerry has lost sight of him. He loses sight of the Lord. He
can't find Him in this crowd. And he thought, oh no. Oh no. I can't find Him. He lost sight of the Lord. But
I guarantee you this, the Lord never lost sight of him. Like
a little child, you know, in a vast crowd of people, a little
child, everybody's taller than him, and the parent always has
its eye on the child. You know, we may forget our Lord,
and I'm talking to His people, but He never forgets us. We may
lose sight of our Lord, but He never loses sight of us. We may
think he's not going to come and help us, but he is in his
good time. And let me assure every child
of God in here that we have our Lord's complete, undivided attention. Yes, we do. Don't you? your children, don't you? We just got to visit with our
granddaughters. They came for a couple of days.
Oh, we were preparing for that. And I had pressing, I had a job
to do. Messages to prepare. But when
they came, I dropped everything. Drop it off. The Lord's grace
is sufficient. He'll give what's needed. He'll
give the message. But my time, I don't see them
very often. I'm going to give them my undivided
attention for two days. And I did. I got down. I condescended. I got down on the floor and we
played horses and old maids and pick-up sticks and whatever childish
game they wanted to play. I said, you're mine for two days.
Everybody else can wait. But our Lord has many children.
And he greatly condescends to where we are. And always has
his eye on his people. Always attends to their needs.
Always. Well, but Jarius, he thought,
the Lord's forgotten me. No, what it is, Jarius, is the
Lord has a more pressing issue. Now look at that. Look at verse
25. It says, a certain woman. There it is again. Another woman. A certain woman came. She had an issue of blood, 12
years. An older woman. This young girl was dying and
now this older woman comes to Him. And the Lord stops to deal
with this woman. before he goes to deal with Jairus'
daughter. And I'm not sure if Jairus could
see him or not, but the Lord stops for this older woman. See,
her issue is pressing to it. Can we rejoice in someone else
receiving mercy over our own? Can we? Do we pray to that end that the
Lord will show mercy on someone else even at the expense of our
own? The Lord delights in that. That's
what He did. That's what He did. Philippians
2 says, Look not every man on his own things, but on the things
of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ
Jesus, in the form of God, took upon Himself the form of a servant.
Made Himself of no reputation. The Lord taketh pleasure. I love
the verse that says, The Lord taketh pleasure in them that
fear Him. I love that. And in them that
hope in His mercy. That was Hooker's text at his
funeral. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
Hope in His mercy. Anyone who hopes in His mercy,
the Lord takes pleasure. He delights to show mercy. But
have you ever thought that that also means the Lord taketh great
pleasure and delight in them that hope in His mercy for other
people? In them that want and desire
the Lord to show mercy to other people. He said, with the merciful,
He'll show Himself merciful. We need mercy, yes, but the merciful
means those who are full of mercy for others. And with the merciful,
he'll show himself merciful. Those that ask for others, he'll
answer you. That's just the way the Lord
does things. That's how he is. That's how Christ is. So he says,
let this mind be in you. Can we rejoice in the salvation
of another even over and above our own? Our own children or
whoever. I remember that before the Lord
dealt with my own daughter, there were other daughters who didn't
know the Lord. And when the Lord dealt with
them first, I remember distinctly being just as rejoicing and joyful
as if they were my own. I mean that, and still do. Still
am. But the Lord had this certain
woman come to Him. As we said before, salvation
It's for certain individuals. Salvation is not our choice,
it's His. It's not our will, it's His.
It's not by chance, it's by purpose. Salvation is not a possibility
either, it's a certainty. It's an absolute certainty. As
I quoted, all that the Father giveth me, Christ says, shall
come to me. But they must hear, they must
believe, they must repent, everyone must call. Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved, but they will. Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. And it is God
that worketh in us both the will and the do of His good pleasure,
because He gets the glory. He must get the glory. So this
certain woman, it says, and she had an issue of blood for 12
years. She's dying. Just like this young
girl. This young girl's dying, and
this older woman's dying. They both have the same issue,
don't they? They're dying. They're dead and
dying. Young or old, we're all dying. because of sin. I carried the body of my best
friend out of a basement when he was 15 years old. I was 15,
he was 15. I carried his dead body out of
the basement that I was supposed to be sleeping in. He was asphyxiated. A little gas, unvented gas heater. He and another friend asphyxiated. I carried his dead body. Fifteen
years old. Boy, that made an impression on me. Not a lasting
one, but it did make an impression. Fifteen. My brother at twenty-one,
I'll never forget. Those soldiers came to the door
and told us that my brother was dead. I'll never forget it. Twenty-one. Twenty-one. Dead. My sister at forty-two. Dead. Dead. We have an issue
of blood. We have a deadly issue. A deadly
disease is in our blood. It's in our family blood, Adam. In Adam, all die. By one man,
sin entered into this world, and death by sin. So death passed
upon all men for all of sin. And only one man can put it away. Look at verse 26. She had suffered
many things of many physicians, and had spent all she had, and
was nothing better, but rather grew worse. She had suffered many things.
She wasn't any better. She was worse for all that she
had tried, for all whom she had sought. How many pretended physicians
there are in this world? Job called them physicians of
no hope, no value. Quacks, most of them, all the
philosophers. You read that in the bulletin
this morning, all the wisdom, so-called, and philosophy of
this world and the religions of this world of no value whatsoever. You won't get better, you'll
get worse if you seek these things. How many so-called cures are
there? You go to the library, you go
to Barnes & Noble or wherever, and you'll see book after book
on how to this, how to that, won't you? All the so-called
cures that men and women try, and they spend millions of dollars
trying to get rid of issues. You see, they think we've got
these issues. We've got anxiety. We've got
fears. We've got addictions. We've got
worries. We've got vices. We've got depression. We've got
all these issues when the fact is one issue. All of these things
come from this one issue. And we've all got it in our blood,
and it's called S-I-N. Sin. All of these things that
are a result of this issue within us. And there's only one hope
and one cure. Not doctor if you do good, or
this and that and the other. Join a church, or brother Jack
Shanks one time. And he came up with all these
different physicians. Do you remember that? Dr. Be
Good, or Dr. If You Be Baptized, or Dr. This and Dr. That. And they don't
do any good, and people are paying by the thousands when this salvation
is free. Our Lord said, Why do you spend
money for that which is not bread? Why are you going to people that
have no value? Go straight to the great position.
That's our problem, he said. We have not because we ask not.
We're asking the wrong persons when we do have. This is a true story. There was
a man who opened his mother's mail. And it was a letter from
Oral Roberts University. And his mother was a supporter
of Oral Roberts for years. She was a widow and she gave
most of her Social Security to Oral Roberts with all his pretended
promises of this and that and the other. And this man opened
her mail one day and it was from Oral Roberts, supposed to be.
Signed by him. And it said in that, and he said
this all the time. He said, on such and such a date,
I'm going to my prayer tower. And I'm taking your name with
me. And he said, something good is going to happen to you today.
Written to this man's mother. Well, his mother had died two
weeks before. And he was furious. They're all a bunch of charlatans.
They're all a bunch of fakes, a bunch of phonies. If there
were positions of value at all, they would point you to the true
position. They'd say, don't come to me. I don't have the answers.
I'll tell you who does. Don't look to me. Look to Him.
But this woman had suffered. Oh, if people would come out
of religion. If the Lord would bring them
out. He has to. can and must bring them out of religion and
bring them to himself. How many times do we say this,
that Jesus Christ is all the religion you need? She had suffered many things,
and it was only worse And all of these problems, as we said,
come from one issue. And we all have it. And that's
the issue. And if the Lord would deal with that within us, if
we keep coming to Him for that, these other things will take
care of themselves. Look at verse 27. She heard of our Lord. She
heard of Jesus. And she came in the press behind
and touched His garment. But she said in herself, If I
may but touch His clothes, I'll be whole. His clothes. Now, there's
no virtue in clothing, is there? By the way, this actually happened. The apostles, there were cloths
sent out that people were healed by them. Don't ask me to explain
that because I can't, but they were apostles. They were the
Lord's personal hand-picked messengers. What they said was the Word of
God. They were the power of God. These men were the power of God.
He said, I give you power. that no other men have or will
have ever again for the setting up of the church, for the writing
of the Word until the Word is fulfilled. We have no more need
of that. And there are charlatans out
there today that do the same thing. They have these so-called
prayer cloths. And so you've seen that. But this woman thought
in herself, if I can just touch his garment, if I can just touch
his clothes, There's no virtue in clothing, is there? If it's his clothing, it is.
Didn't we just look at that? Huh? Didn't he just talk about
that? A new garment? Here's what she's saying. And
you know, we make much of the righteousness of Christ because
Scripture does. Religion doesn't say anything
about it. We say a lot about it. Scripture does. Because it
must be perfect to be accepted. We must have this wedding garment
on. We must have Christ's righteousness to cover us, no matter what we
do or what we come up with. If we come into God's presence
without the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, we're going
to be thrown out. who comes pleading, not by works
of righteousness which I have done, but according to your mercy,
according to the righteousness that Christ has worked out for
me, everything he hath done. Lord, I'm pleading what he hath
done, not what I have done. It's a filthy rag. What he hath
done. Would you cover me? Let the blood be propitiation
on the mercies of me. Let the righteousness of Christ
cover my naked soul." Lord, he said, I will. If you can just
touch that. If you can just get a hold of
the hem of that garment. That it's not you at all, it's Him.
It's not anything you do, not one little thread. It's His seamless robe. Our Lord wore that robe and they
took it from Him and He wouldn't allow them to Tear it. Remember that? Leave that robe
intact. Seamless robe. No place for it
to rend. And that's the righteousness
of our Lord, that He gives a perfect covering for all His people.
She said, if I could just touch that. And if the Lord will ever
show us what that means, that He covers us. All our sin. Oh, we'll thank you. Oh, if His
righteousness would just cover me. And she did. She came back
behind him and it says she reached out and touched the hem of his
garment. We used to sing that hymn, Reach Out and Touch the
Lord. As he's passing by, you'll find
he's not too busy. Thousands of people from him.
Jairus thought he was. No, no, Jairus, he'll get to
you in a minute. The woman thought, well, he won't
stop for me. He came for you. He won't stop for you. He came
for you. Blind Bartimaeus was sitting
over there begging, crying out. And they said, hush, don't. And
he cried the louder. And he says to the Lord, stop.
But the Lord of Glory, the Son, stood still for one sinner. And it says in verse 29, straightway,
the fountain of her blood was dried up. You know, as soon as
a sinner cries, Lord save me, he does. They might not know it. But the
fact of the matter is, they wouldn't be crying. They don't cry unless
you have love. They wouldn't be crying. As soon
as you cry, as soon as the dead is admitted, cancelled. As soon as the sin is confessed,
gone. Gone. Straight away. And look at this. This is important. Scripture is perfect. It says
in verse 29, straightway the fountain of her blood was dried
up. Sin's gone. And she felt it in her body.
See, it was gone before she felt it. It was gone before she felt it. Salvation is not in feelings.
It's in the blood of Jesus Christ. Salvation is in the promise of
God. Believe, he said, and you'll see. She felt it. Faith comes before
feeling. Salvation comes before assurance.
I distinctly remember. I remember as a young believer,
and I did believe, I loved to hear the gospel. When the Lord
finally opened my eyes and my ears, generally everybody sees
it before you do. The Lord, you know, I was loving
what I was hearing. I did it before. I was loving
it. I was in every sermon. I couldn't get enough of it.
I was just in love with Christ and didn't know Him. But I felt no assurance. No assurance. I thought, I know He died for
sinners, but I don't know if He died for me. He wouldn't even
be asking that question if He hadn't. Until finally I heard
a man preach on these lines that he said, it's not feeling. It's
not assurance that saves you. It's looking to cry. That you
believe Him and then He'll assure you. Trust Him. We sang that
song. Only trust Him. Only trust Him. Well, I got to hurry. Got to
quit. Look at verse 30 through 32.
I'm going to just have to read this. Jesus immediately, knowing
in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him. You see, all saving
virtue is from Him. No one else. He turned Him about
in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? And the disciples
said, You see the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched
me? And He looked round about to see her. He's going to get a confession
out of her. She's got to confess Him. He that believeth in his
bad touch, shall we say. He that confesseth me before
me, and I'll confess before the angels. Who touched me? Who did
this? He looked around and he saw her
that had done this. And the woman, look at this,
fearing, verse 33, and trembling. Oh, he that trembleth at my word. Knowing what was done to her.
Not what she had done. What was done to her. In her.
In her. She came. And she fell down before
him and told him all the truth. I'm this, I'm that, I'm your
whole. Confessed with her mouth the
truth. And he said unto her, Daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of the
plague you have my word on. You're whole. You're whole. Well, what about Jairus? What about Jairus? What about Jairus? Look at verse
thirty-six. It says, I'm sorry, verse thirty-five. Look at this, verse thirty-five.
While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue
a house, his house certain, which said, Your daughter is dead.
Don't trouble the Master anymore. He's gone. Don't trouble Him. Can you trouble the Lord? We
already said that He came for people in trouble. He put Himself
through trouble. Who for the joy set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame." That means the joy
pleased the Lord to make you His people. He came for those
in trouble. That's why He came. You can't
trouble the Lord. Huh? You can't trouble the Lord. You can never trouble Him at
any time. That's why He came. I love when
old Lazarus died, it says the Lord groaned and was troubled
in spirit. And the margin says he troubled
himself. He troubled himself. The Lord put himself through
great trouble to relieve us of our trouble. Don't trouble him.
Oh, no. No, you can't trouble the Lord.
They said, well, she's dead. There's no hope. No hope. As
long as Christ is not dead, is he? The gospel is not dead, is
it? The Word is still quick, isn't it? She's dead. There's
no hope for her. She'll never hear you now. She's
a goner. You'll wish it. Look at verse
37. He suffered no man to follow
him. As soon as he heard that, verse 36, he said under the rule
of the Son of God, be not afraid, only believe. I wish I could
get over that. I wish I could trust the Lord
more, don't you? We fear everything but Him. We believe everyone
but Him. I wish I could believe that. It's according to your
faith. Oh, Lord, I believe. Help my
unbelief. Increase our faith. He suffered
no man to follow Him. Say, Peter and James and John,
the brother of James, and he comes to the house of the ruler
of the synagogue and seeth the tumult and them that wept and
wailed greatly. And you know, the Lord sees our
sorrow. He's got our tears in a bottle.
He sees it all. He knows it all. Sure he does. He caused it all. But we sorrow not as those who
had no home knew him. And he said in verse 39, Why
make ye this ado and weep? The damsel's not dead. She's
sleeping. And they laughed him to scorn. Those that didn't know Him yet.
Those that didn't know anything about this then. The world laughs
and mocks and scoffs and laughs to scorn all that we say. We
talk about our brothers and sisters who've gone to be with the Lord,
that they are with the Lord and the world laughs and scoffs and
thinks we're a bunch of ignorant mountain people, foolish beliefs
of ignorant people. Oh, no, no. This is the Word
of Jesus Christ. He said, He that liveth and believeth
in Me shall never die. Do you believe in this? Yes,
I do, Lord. Do you? For those that die in the Lord,
O precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of this thing.
He giveth His beloved. Sleep. They're not dead. He says
to the world, You are. They laughed Him to scorn. I'll tell you who's going to
laugh last. It would be him. They laughed
in the scorn. He put them all out. He takes
the father and the mother. Oh my, what joy did they experience
when the Lord raised their daughter and them that were with him.
These men were involved. The Lord uses men to raise our
dead daughters and sons. And he entered in where the damsel
was lying, and he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her,
which is being interpreted, damsel, I say unto thee, arise. One word from the Lord. Arise.
And she arose and walked. She walked. That's how you know
she's alive. Over in Luke's Gospel, it says
the Lord commanded, give her something to eat. That's how you know she's alive.
Look at her. She's eating. She loves it. That's
a sign of life. She's walking. Walking by faith. Walking with God. Walking with
the Lord. Believing this gospel. Well, she's not brought to church
now. She's going. Who did this? Salvations of the Lord. There's
hope. There's hope. Great hope as long
as this gospel is preached. Let's beseech Him greatly for
not just ourselves, but for all our sons and daughters.