Don't you love that old ham? My, my. interposed His precious blood. If you seek me, let these go. Go with me back to 2 Peter 1.
2 Peter 1. Read verses 18 and 19 with me
again. 2 Peter 1. 18 and 19. Simon Peter writes, this voice
which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the
holy mountain. We have also a more sure word
of prophecy whereunto you do well that you take heed as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and
the day star arise in your heart. Now, I'm quite sure that most
everyone in here has thought, has said this to themselves,
as I have. I wish, if only the Lord would
speak to me, I mean really speak out loud to me. Just speak to me. Show me a sign. a special sign. Has anybody beside me ever thought
that? How many times? David said that
one time. David said, he said, it's time
for you to work, Lord. They've made void your law. In other words, do something. And another place, David said,
Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down. Come now. Right now, Lord. The disciples
said basically the same thing. When the Lord was leaving, they
said to him, Show us the Father. Just show
us the Father. Let's have a special... John,
they went up on that mount and they saw him. And yet, even that wasn't enough of it.
Show us the Father and that will suffice. So we're not alone when
we say that. The Lord would only speak to
me. And at the end of this, somewhere
in the middle of this message, I want to try to answer the question,
why doesn't God speak out loud? Why doesn't God speak out loud
to us, audibly to us? The Lord said to his disciples
there in John 14 when they were so frightened, he said, Believest
thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? He said, The words that I speak
unto you, I speak not of myself, but God gave me. These are words
of God. And he said, have I been so long
time with you and you haven't known me? The Lord held up his Word to
his disciples above everything. He said, all that I've told you
is the Word of God. The Word of God. Later, he's
praying to his father. And he says in John 17, I have
given unto them the words that you have given me. And they,
listen, and they have received them. And they know surely that
I came out from thee. And they have believed. Why? The words. The word of God. What you have in your lap, if
God is pleased to use it, is the power of God. And he says he upholds all things
by the word of his mouth. He upholds all things by our
mouth, the word. This is our subject. In a few
minutes I'm going to try to answer that question. God speak out
loud. Everyone would like for Him to.
We all think that. If only He would, then I would
really believe. I would really quit worrying. I would be free from fear. I'd
have such peace if He'd just speak out loud to me right now. Well, all right, let's go back
to the first verse here in 2 Peter. Simon Peter, servant, slave,
and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like
precious faith with us. You read that? To them that have
obtained. That doesn't say attained, but
obtained. That means it's been given to
you. It's given unto you to believe. This like Like means the same. The faith of God's elect. All
God's people believe the same. Yes, they do. There are no denominations in
His church. It's just the church. They have this like precious. That means it's rare. Everybody
doesn't have it. It's rare. It's hard to find.
It's precious. It means it's invaluable. How much does Scripture say about
faith? over and over and over, doesn't
it? Faith says we live by faith, we're justified by faith. It
says we walk by faith. In other words, we're going to
live in this world by faith, not sight. Faith. In what? Who? In God. We can't see Him though. In His
Word. In His Word. This is the Word
of God. This is the Word of God. Faith cometh how? By hearing. Hearing what? The voice from
heaven. The Word of God. Faith. Confidence. Faith is trust in the Lord. Faith
is peace. Faith is strength. Faith is hope. Faith is... We live by it. Where does it come from? Here in the Word of God. Nowhere
else. It doesn't come anywhere else.
It does not come anywhere else. Do you need faith? How much faith
do you have? How much faith do I have? Our
Lord said to his disciples, if you had faith, they had faith. He gave them faith. He said at
the time it was so small, it wasn't even the size of a mustard
seed. They had it. They had faith. He gave it to them. He said,
you believe in God. You do. I revealed him to you. You believe
also in me. Faith cometh by hearing the word.
Look at verse 2. Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. Grace. All grace. Faith is a gift. Hope is a gift, grace. Strength
is a gift, it's grace. Wisdom comes from above. Courage, patience. Name something
that we have that we don't receive. That's not by grace. And it all
comes from who? The God of all grace. Grace and
peace. Peace. Peace of mind. That's freedom
from fear and worry. Peace of heart. Freedom from
guilt and shame. Peace. Where does it come from? The God of all grace. From looking
to Christ who made peace. Who is our peace. He is our peace.
You know, as long as the disciples were in the presence of the Lord,
they were at peace. They were free from fear. As
long as they could hear Him, His word. He said, I'm leaving. I said, the words, the words,
I've given you the words. I put them in your heart and
it will spring up when you need it. The words, the words I've
spoken to you. Precious promises. Look at the
next thing. His divine power has given us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness. His divine
power. The Word of His power. God Almighty, through His Word,
has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. You've got a question. Do you
have a question? Anything pertaining to any matter you have? Anything?
Where are we going to find the answer? has given us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness, this life and the one to come. Living here,
how are we going to make it? He tells us, by faith. How are
we going to get to God? He tells us. He tells all things
that pertain to life in God. Now, look at this. Through the
knowledge of Him. Verse 2, through the knowledge
of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Through the knowledge,
verse 1, this faith, this knowledge of Him, our righteousness and
our Savior. Grace, peace, all the answers
and all our in knowing Him, knowing Him who is all in all. Verse 4, he says, and are given
unto us by His power, are given unto us exceeding, exceeding
great and precious promises, promises
that exceed anything you have ever heard or even can think.
exceeding, great and precious. These are so precious that at
a time when there's nothing and no one else will do you any good
whatsoever, there's this preciousness. And you'll think when you leave
that this is the most precious and invaluable That there is
nothing else you need but these precious promises. That's what
He's saying. And there will come a time in
every believer's life, there is in the beginning, when you
come as a guilty sinner, don't know if you're going to be damned
or saved, and you hear these precious promises. That's good
news. complete pardon, iniquities are
gone, remembered no more, my past is wiped out, Christ put
away my sin. Yes, that's the promise, and
God can't lie. Oh, that's so precious. And to
you that believe, He is precious. So he says here that by his divine
power, by God's sovereign power, we have these wonderful promises,
exceeding great and precious promises that you might escape,
that you might be made like him, escape the corruption, the destruction,
the bondage and so forth that is in this world. Think about
this for a minute with me, okay? God's Word, we have this Word
by His power. This is God's Word. I want to
just talk to you a little bit about this that you have in your
lap this morning. This that you believe and all
your hope and peace and so forth comes from reading and hearing. We have this Word. This book
you have in your lap is a miracle in itself. The fact that we have
it is a miracle of God. by his divine power. How it was
written, this thing was written on skins, animal skins, started
3500 years ago to be written on animal skins which have long
perished. Afterward in the New Testament
it was written on paper, pulp, but those actual Original manuscripts
are gone. They found a few. Rolls. You've heard of those dead sea
scrolls, haven't you? But the fact that we still have this
is by God's sovereign will and power. This was written, the
last entry in this book was nearly
2,000 years ago. Where are the books written by
men 2,000 years old? Anybody got one sitting around
that you read? 2,000 years old? The last entry in this book was
nearly 2,000 years ago. It was written over a period
of time, over 1,500 years. 1,500 years by nearly
40 different men. Most of them didn't know each
other. Most of those men did not know each other. It was written
in a dead language, Hebrew. Nobody speaks Hebrew anymore.
It's gone. There are just a few Hebrew scholars
out there, but nobody speaks it. They don't speak that in
Israel now. They don't speak Hebrew, they
speak Greek. When Alexander the Great came through, everybody
started speaking Greek. Nobody speaks Hebrew anymore.
This was written in Hebrew. But it's translated into over
190 languages. Forty different men, most of
them didn't know each other, and it tells the same exact story
in every jot and tittle. Over a period of 1,500 years,
everybody's story exactly coincides, agrees. Men have tried to destroy this,
led by the God of this world. They've tried, powerful men and
nations, whole nations, kings have tried to destroy it. They
can't. They've burned thousands upon
thousands of books. They can't get rid of it. Why? Well, God said, forever, O Lord,
thy word is settled in heaven. It's written. Just as soon as
they destroy it, God has them write another copy. That's what
they did to Jeremiah. Remember, they destroyed it,
and God said, write it again. They destroyed it, and Moses broke
the Ten Commandments. God said, write it again. Put
it in that, John, put it in that ark. Seal it up. It'll never
touch it. It's there forever. All the writers tell the same
story. What do they tell? What's the
story of this book? This is all about Jesus Christ. God Almighty wrote a book, and
in it, this whole book is all about the Son. The Son of God. God's beloved Son. Do you have
any pictures of your family at home? How many? Your grandparents. Got any pictures of your grandchildren? You have whole albums. I guarantee
you, you have a whole album from cover to cover. It's just them.
Right? Nobody else. That one grandchild.
This book, God Almighty, has one begotten well-beloved son
and he wrote a book about him. Pictures, the Old Testament pictures,
types, symbols, pictures of the Son. Look, isn't that a picture
of my Son? Isn't He beautiful? And this story of Jesus Christ
is the story of our salvation. Jesus Christ is the Savior, God's
Savior, our salvation. This whole book is about Him
who is God, our Savior. Jesus Christ, God that manifests
in the flesh. Look down at verse 16. Peter
says, this is not a fable. He says, we have not followed
cunningly devised fables. He went on to say, holy men spake
as they were moved. The Old Testament prophets, they
were moved by the Spirit of God. You remember the Ethiopian Union. He was reading Isaiah 53 and
the Lord sent Philip to him and he said, the eunuch said, I don't
understand what I'm reading here. Isaiah wrote this. Is he talking
about himself or who's he talking about? And Philip said, he and
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and Moses and all of them are
talking about one person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Our Lord,
in whose hands all things are, our breath and all our ways,
and the only Savior, the only one whereby we, human beings,
mankind, sinful creatures, can be with God someday forever.
That's what this book is about. Who? That's what this book is
about. That's right. To Him give all
the prophets written, the prophets and the apostles. The foundation
of it all is Jesus Christ. That's the story of this book.
Peter says, this is no fable, read on. He said, when we made
known unto you, they went out preaching, making known, declaring
the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's what
they went out telling, the power They went out preaching of God
with all power, the Son of God with all authority given into
his hands. It said over in Acts chapter
5, I believe it is, it says the Lord gave the apostles great
power to bear witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
You see, the Lord Jesus Christ of Scripture is indeed Lord That
means he's in sovereign control of all things. He says, all authority
is given unto me in heaven and earth. That's the
truth. That's not just religion. That's
the truth. Christ, a person, a real person,
a man who walked this planet, that was the God who made this
planet and is now sitting, reigning and ruling over this planet.
with it in his hands. And he said, all authority is
given unto me in heaven and earth. Come unto me. This is no fable, Peter said.
This is no fable. When we made known unto you the
power and the coming of our... He came! This is the King of Glory of
whom David wrote in Psalm 24. Open up the gates, the King of
Glory is coming in, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Who is He? Who
is He? It's the Lord Jesus Christ, that's
who He is. He came riding into Jerusalem
on a donkey one day and they said, who is this? It's the King
of Glory. It's of whom David wrote, of
whom the prophets wrote, of whom God wrote. King of kings, Lord
of lords, this is the Lord of whom Malachi said will suddenly
come to his temple. And who will abide the day of
his coming? Like fuller's soap or finer's
fire. Come with a sword. This is no
weak, pitiful Jesus in man's hands. He came with men in his
hands. engraving on the palms of His
hand. He came. This is no weak Jesus who can
only do what men let Him do. This is the One who will work
and who will let Him. This is the One who has all authority
over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as God has given
Him. This is He, Peter said, that He has all power. We make
known unto you the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He says, we were eyewitnesses
of His majesty. We saw Him. John said, of whom
we have seen Him. John wrote this. He was another
witness. He said, we've heard, we've seen
with our eyes, we've looked upon, we've handled. The God in whose hand, the God
in whom we live and move and have our being. Life. We handled
life. We looked into the face of the
Son. S-U-N, of righteousness. We saw
God, whom no man can say or hath to say. We saw Him. God. This goes along well with
last Sunday's message that who is Jesus Christ? Every message
we preach is who is Jesus Christ, isn't it? Every message we preach,
we have no other message. Peter said, I'm a messenger,
apostle of Jesus Christ. He's the message. We're out to
declare who Christ is, who He is, what He's done. That's the
radio message, wasn't it? Who He is, what He's done, where
He is now, what He shall do. He's coming again. This is no
fable. It's no fable. Peter said, we saw him. John
said, we saw him. And Paul wrote, of whom he was
seen of over 500 people at one time, alive. He was dead, but
he said, I'm alive. You can't kill me. I'm God. We saw him go to the glory of
a chariot of clouds. And he said, I'm coming again.
His majesty. Who is this? It's His majesty.
Take your hat off when you say that. Take your shoes off. We're
talking about His majesty. The regal and royal King of glory. The Son, the Crown Prince of
glory. His majesty. We saw Him. We heard Him. Peter
said, I've got to hurry. Man, I'm late. It's good what's said so far,
isn't it? Verse 17, he says, he received from God the Father
honor and glory. That's because he's honorable. That's because he's glorious.
That's because he's lovely. God sees all together love. This
is my son. I love the thought that God admired
his son so much. God who doesn't speak, didn't
speak for so long, spoke out loud. couldn't contain himself,
Nancy. This is My beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. Give Him glory. Give Him honor.
He's worthy of it. Oh, and if only you knew why
He came for you, you'd do that. I'm going to make you know. I'm
going to make you know. And you'll be singing about Him
and Him only from here on. Verse 17, when God said, up on
that mountain, we were there, He said in verse 18, We heard
this voice when God said, this is my Son, my beloved Son in
whom I am well pleased. We were there, Peter, James,
and John, chosen by the Lord to go up on that mountain, elect,
God's elect, chosen by Him to go up on the mountain to see
Christ's glory. Boy, if that isn't a picture
of every believer. This people have I chosen that
they might know me. My glory. Well, he said, we heard this
voice out loud. Simon Peter said, we heard him. What did they do? When they heard
from God speak out loud, what happened? You get the dirt. The voice of the Lord breaks
cedars. The voice of the Lord causes cows to give birth. The
voice of the Lord parts the water. The voice of the Lord is power.
The voice of the Lord, Scripture says, thunders. You get the dirt,
buddy, if you're flesh. You get the dirt. Fear. That's
what they did. The people of old heard it thunder
and said, don't let Him speak to us. They said to Moe, you
go speak to Him. Scared them to death. And what
did God say? When they went up on that mountain,
what did He say one time? Again, the same thing. This is
my beloved Son. You hear Him. I'm not going to
speak to you except through Him. Hebrews 1 says, God at sundry
times in divers manners spake unto the fathers by the prophets,
but hath in these last days spoken to us by son." In son language. By his son. God came down. He said, if you're going to hear
God, you hear me. He said, if God heareth my word,
God's word, the words I speak are from God. OK? All right. We hear from him. All right.
But he left. Now what are we going to do?
God's not speaking out loud. The Son of God is seated in the
right hand of the majesty on high, where he ever lives, like
intercession for, having obtained eternal redemption, having purged
our sins. That's worth saying again. There he sits. Now, where are
we going to turn? Who's going to speak to us? He
wrote a book. He wrote a book. And Peter said,
we have a more sure. Peter was there. He heard that
voice. He saw him. And he says, this is something
more sure. Isn't it? More sure. I don't
understand, Peter. I don't understand. He says,
you do well to take heed. He said, look at this, I love
this. He said, you do well to take heed as unto a light that
shines in a dark place. This world is full of darkness,
isn't it? People are in ignorance and darkness, groping for answers,
aren't they? Men love darkness rather than
light. This is a light that shines in a dark place. Sheds light
on everything. He said, you do well to take
heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns. Don't we use that term all the
time? It just dawned on me. It just
suddenly dawned on me. What? Something, the truth or
something. Well, it never occurred to me.
Barbara, it just dawned on me. He says, until the day dawn,
what day? The day star arise in your heart. What's that? What's a day star? Do you see any stars out there
today? They're out there. Zillions of
stars. What do you see out there? Do
you see anything at all? One thing. One star. One bright,
burning, The rest of the stars, most of them burn out. But there's
one that remains constant, under whom we live and whose circuits
is from the end of the earth, day unto day others speak, as
a strong man to run a race, Psalm 19. What is it? The sun. God,
this is no mere coincidence, that all flesh lives because
of that bright and morning star. And though you live and move
and have your being and all things from that S-U-N that burns pure,
you can't get near it, you can't look upon it without being blinded. What a picture that is of the
Holy Son of God who came. And he says, you listen to this
word until God, who caused the light to shine out of darkness,
will shine in your hearts to give you the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Until
it finally dawn on you by the grace of God, hey, you know Christ
is all. Hey, this is all going to be
burned up. Hey, I'm flesh. He's God. Hey, I'm undone. I'm complete in Him. Ha! It just occurred to me, thank
God, that it's all going to melt away in a fervent heat. By who?
Who He shall destroy with the brightness of His coming. The
world's not going to perish because the sun's going to burn out or
fall. It's because the Son of God's
coming. Well, I just never knew. Now I know. And He who said all things, I
have ordained, predestined, and worked all things after the counsel
of my own will and by my own power. I the Lord, Jesus Christ,
do all these things. Well, there is nothing else but Christ. Well, he wrote a book. Why doesn't
God speak out loud anymore? Why not? Number one, there are
several reasons, many that I Won't give, but I don't know. But here's number one. Nothing
more needs to be said. Right? People that say that wish
God would speak out loud, if you'd look real closely, if you
dig and search and ask, He does speak to you, doesn't He, Jeanette?
He does, just as really. as if it were out loud. Doesn't
he? Doesn't he, Nancy? Doesn't he? Just when I needed
him most. He does speak. There's nothing
new needed. How firm a foundation, you saints
of the Lord. is laid sure promise, is laid
for your faith in His excellent, exceeding great Word. What more
can He say to you than He had said to you? He's all. What else does He need to say?
I'm all. Said, done. Everything's working
according to plan. What more needs to be said? We
have the prologue. We have the main body. We have
the epilogue. We have the finished story. It's
finished. He said you don't need to add
any words. Perfect. A perfect word. Why doesn't God
speak out loud? Because He said no more. That's good enough.
God spoke in the last days, spoke through His Son in these very
last days, and He said, you hear Him. And then Christ said, the
Lord Jesus Christ said this when He left, He said, He that heareth
Me will hear through you. Didn't He? Why didn't He speak out loud?
Because He said He was not going to. He said so. I'm not going
to speak anymore. I wrote a book. They have Moses
and the prophets, our Lord says. Let them hear Him. Oh no, but
if one wrote... It's the Word. God doesn't speak
out loud. God wrote this book because... Well, Paul said we have this
treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power might
be of God and not men. Who wrote this that you're reading
right now? It was Simon Peter. Right? Simon Peter wrote it. It's amazing what this... You
can just stop, stand, and dwell on every word that's written
here. Who's Simon Peter? A fisherman? Now wait a minute. A fisherman wrote this? This profound word? deep, mysterious,
glorious Word, this powerful Word that just gives me... A
fisherman? No, no, no. It came through Him. Holy men
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. No, this didn't come
from Peter. This is God's Word. See, we have
this treasure in earthen vessels that you will know clearly. This
is how you know this is... How do I know this is God's Word?
Because a fisherman couldn't write this. That's how. How do
I know this is God's Word? Because a plowfella, a fellow
over there plowing 24 yoke of oxen, a shepherd, a man who's
sitting on a hillside all day watching sheep, he can't write
things like this. That's how we know. This has
to be of God. No man could write these things
except God told him. Right? And, oh my, I'd love to go on
with that a little bit. How do we know it's God's Word?
Because of the holiness of it. This is a pure Word of God. Oh,
it's so holy, isn't it? It's pure. The words of men are
so corrupt, so full of This is pure, holy. It's good. This is good. Everything about
this book is good. Everything he says is good. The
wisdom of it far exceeds. Oh, it makes foolish the wisdom
of this work. The power of it. The beauty of it. You know, about
every single clever or wise saying that man has, I guarantee you
if you search it out, you'll find it came from this book.
The beauty of it. Why doesn't God speak out loud?
Because if He speaks to me, it doesn't speak to you. You didn't
hear it, did you? But now He wrote a book, and
we've all got it. The same Word. Leaving no doubt, Brother Henry,
you're reading the same thing I'm reading. God's Word. God says the same thing to you
that He says to me. And that removes all pride, doesn't
it? God spoke to me. He didn't speak
to you? No, He didn't. In fact, He hides
these things from the wise and prudent and reveals it to plowboys,
service station owners, truck drivers, to show us that it's
a revelation. I speak to whom I will. You're not going to figure this
thing out. I speak. This is the voice of the Lord.
This is my word. And you'll read it until you're
blind, and you'll remain blind until I open your eyes. This
is my word. What man knoweth the things of
a man, say him, he revealed them. It's even so. God doesn't speak
out loud because we all have the same Word. No different Word
from God. No different Word. It's always
there. It's always there. If He spoke to me out loud yesterday,
what about today? He might not speak to me today.
It's always there. In the middle of the night, in
the morning, in the day, any time. You can go, Lord, I need
You to speak to me. Okay. And He does. What does He speak? The same
blessed promises. They don't change. It's the same. Yesterday, today, and forever.
Oh, yesterday I read where you said my sins were gone. Oh, I've
sinned again. Let me read it. I need to hear
it again. Read it! There it is again. Oh, thank
God for the written Word. He might, the heavens are brass,
but the book is open. You see that? This keeps us from
listening to their voices. God doesn't speak out loud because
there are counterfeits. There are counterfeits. Right? Just like the men who counterfeited
the miracles of Moses. It really happened. And so people
say, well, that ain't nothing, that miracle of Moses. Look here.
I heard God speak, a man said. God spoke to me today. Really? No. God's people say, no, He
didn't. If they speak not according to
the law and the testimony, He didn't speak. He said to Jeremiah,
who heard me say that? Remember? In chapter 23, John,
where he said, they say unto them, God loves you and you have
peace and no harm. God says, who stood in the counsel
of the Lord and heard me say that? Read it. Tell me where
it says that. Brother James, you say, Scripture,
please. So that's the test. And God spoke
to Macbeth. He didn't speak through this
word. He didn't. This is the Word of God. And to keep us from
listening to strange voices, and listen to this, we all hear
it if He blesses us. If God blessed our brother's
prayer this morning that he would be with us and bless us. And we hear it together. We hear
him speak together. Like the three apostles up on
that mountain. Heard that voice and saw His glory. You know,
everything's more precious and wonderful when you're with somebody
in concert, in congregation, when you're huddled up together.
Heaven, we're going to hear Him speak. He is going to break His
silence and never be silent again. He's going to speak out loud.
We're going to touch Him, Nancy. Him whom we have not seen and
loved, we're going to handle Him. We're going to hear His
precious voice. But until then, we all huddle
up like sheep and say, Oh Lord, our Shepherd, speak! And He speaks. Did you hear it? He spoke to
me. Did you speak to me? Yes. Wasn't
it wonderful? It's like going to a concert.
What beautiful music. Oh, and that glorious, it just
chills up my spine. Did it do that to you? Yes! Isn't
that a wonderful song? Yes, I love it. Let's sing again.
Everything's more wonderful together. You go out there alone, all you'll
find is loneliness. You go out there alone, all you'll
find is darkness, fear, worry, distraught. You'll fall into
a ditch. Come back here, our Lord says.
Come to the light. Come to the light. Come. Come
to me. I'll give you rest. The first
thing our Lord said when those disciples, when He came back,
peace. Peace. Oh, you go out there and you'll
find turmoil. You come where He speaks, you'll
find peace. Perfect peace. And on and on
we could go. And here's another, and my last. God wrote this book. It doesn't
speak out loud anymore, but He wrote this book for us so we
will continually resort to it. Continually. This is the only
help, our only hope, and I'm going to keep dwelling on this
for my sake and yours. This is the only place we're
going to find any, any, any, any, any, any, any faith. Faith cometh by hearing. Any strength, any peace of mind,
any peace of heart, any, it all comes right here. How can I accept
some man? Tell me. Accept the Lord's speak. I'm lost, but the Word finds
us. I'm sinful, the commandment's
clean. I'm ignorant, but the Word instructs
me. I'm blind, but the Word makes
me see. Oh, I'm so upset. The word comforts me. It's all
right there. As we looked at Wednesday night,
their strength is to sit still. Like Mary. Just come, just sit. Hush. Quit crying. Listen up,
quit thinking about this and that and the other. Isn't this
the only time when we're actually able to forget the past, forget
all our worries, forget, isn't it, all our fears, if the Lord
gives us ears to hear? It's the only time. And we come
in here and we go out of here thinking it's going to be alright,
isn't it? Why? Because we're His hands. He's Lord. He is all. It's all
about Him. Okay, you come back Wednesday
night, and we'll do it again, because you need it. I need it.
All right. Brother Gabe, come, please. Thank you. Oh, it's amazing how
blessed I am when I hear everything. Oh, I miss so much. I wish everybody
could hear that.