It's the pilgrims arrayed with
children of God and demons Thank you. Gabe and Sherry. Sherry, that
operatory was very fitting with the Bible study well. I'm not ready to switch gears
yet. I'd kind of like to keep commenting
on that story. That hymn she played reminded
me of it. The one prelude reminded me of
it. Good choice. But was there any
doubt minds of the children of Israel that David was able, from
that day forward, any doubt who was the greatest among them,
any doubt who deserved to be king, any doubt that he could
lead, he was able. Matthew 21. Go to Matthew chapter
21 with me. I want to read the whole text
since we did not for the Bible reading. Matthew 21. Let's read
verses 1 through 11. And when they drew nigh unto
Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage, unto the Mount of Olives, then
sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village
over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and
a coat with her. Loose them, and bring them unto
me. And if any man say aught unto
you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them, and straightway
he will send them." All this was done that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet Zechariah, Tell ye the daughter
of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting
upon an ass, and a coat, the foal of an ass. And the disciples
went and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the ass and
the coat, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread
their garments in the way." And others cut down branches from
the trees and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that
went before and that followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the
Son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem,
all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude
said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee. Most of you probably remember
that message a couple of years ago. It's been, well, three years
actually, taken from Mark 11. on this very story, Christ riding
that ass into Jerusalem. It's recorded in all four Gospels,
so it's very significant in it. You may remember that story,
and as much as I wanted to deal with that fully again, we're
just going to look at it briefly because the rest of this needs
to be dwelled on. Verses 1 and 2. It says the Lord
sent two disciples. He's coming into Jerusalem. He
sent two disciples saying unto them, go into the village over
against you on the other side, and straightway or immediately
you shall find an ass tied and a colt whipped her. Loose them.
Bring them to me. Our Lord sent these hand-picked
disciples whom He had chosen. sent these disciples often by
pairs, didn't they? By twos. Throughout Israel. He said beginning in Israel and
then later sent them throughout the then known world, the Gentile
world, to preach the gospel. The Lord chose these men and
sent them to preach the gospel. Scripture says, how shall they
preach except they be sent? So-called, and I always preface
that name, preacher, with those words. And I think it's a high
title that doesn't belong to very many people. So-called preachers. Preacher is a lofty thing, it
really is. To God, his son was a preacher. Not to the world, they call it
foolishness. But it pleased God by this foolishness
to save them that believe. And aren't you thankful? Because
you esteem preaching now as the preaching of Christ, the wisdom
and the power of God. But Christ sent these disciples
of His by pairs into the world. The sovereign Lord had this coat
and this ass tied up in bondage. The Lord had this animal there,
tied up as he was, though a man had him in captivity. Though
somebody owned that ass and that coat at that time and had that
one. And I got to, I am dwelling on it. Though somebody else owned
that, had that one in captivity. Oh, it belonged to the Lord all
along. And the Lord had that one tied up and sent these two
disciples in to find that one that was tied up. And the first
thing He said was, loosen, loosen. The Lord delivers all those who
were held captive by Satan at his will, and he does not bind
us anymore, but he looses us. Looses us. The Lord has his elect,
his people, where they are, where he puts them, in order to hear
the gospel. That's what I'm trying to say.
The Lord put you one day where he would have you to hear the
gospel from his preacher. And what he did to you at that
time was loose you from your captivity. You read with me in
Zechariah? Tell the prisoners of hope, I've
come to set at liberty them that were captive. Well, and like
this ass and this colt, all of God's people were unbroken, unridden, untamed before the
Lord calls them. Wild asses, colts. That is, we're
just like our parents, unbroken, untamed. until the Lord calls
us. And verse 3, And our Lord said,
If any man say unto you, What are you doing? You shall say,
The Lord hath need of them. You know, the Lord doesn't need
any man, does He? Really. In reality, the Lord
doesn't need any man. It's not like that false prophet
said that God created man because he was lonely. He actually said
that. And many other blasphemous things
they say about God needing man, as God has no hands, but that's
just not so. That's blasphemy. God doesn't
need anybody. That's what makes him God. He's
self-sufficient, has need of nothing and no one. God didn't
need anybody. But God created all things and
created us. This people have I formed for
myself, they shall show forth my praise, my glory." The only
reason that God has need, as it were, of anything is to show
forth His glory. I've chosen you, the Lord said,
that you might glorify me. And this ass, there were millions
of asses all over the place, weren't there? And the Lord chose this one.
Why? What was the purpose? I'm getting way ahead of myself.
What was the purpose of this one coat? Well, we shall see.
The Lord had need to prove, number one, to prove who he was. In
verses four and five, this was done that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophets, saying, Tell ye the daughter
of Zion, that is, Israel, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek
and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. All
things must be fulfilled that are written in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and in the psalm concerning Christ. That
one named Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ. How do we know? Scripture
prophesied of Him, and when He came, He fulfilled every one
of those prophecies. Scripture said He would come
into Jerusalem. When He finally comes into Jerusalem to do that
great work, to set at liberty these captives, He would come
riding a donkey. And He would be meek and lowly
on a coat, the fold of an ass. And this is exactly The disciples
found it just as He said, and we find it just as our Lord prophesied
of Christ. Here He comes. Christ comes riding
into Jerusalem, sitting on a colt, the foal of the ass. Anybody
who's looking for Him ought to know this is Him. That's it. Because He's fulfilling the Scripture.
That's how we know our Christ is the Christ, as opposed to
this other one, this imposter named Jesus, this other Jesus.
Don't wait. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's the
same Christ, the same one in the beginning that made all things
by the word of his power, came in the word of his power, and
has all power over all flesh. That's how we know that our gospel
is the gospel. He fulfills everything. This
is our gospel, how that Christ died, how? According to the Scripture. So he came to prove he was the
Christ, and to prove his power and his Godhead, to prove he's
the sovereign Lord, and he rides the unridden. In Mark's Gospel
it says, it made it very clear that this colt had never been
ridden by any man. How old it was, I don't know.
But nobody apparently could ride it. It was unbroken, untamed. The Lord said, get him. I'm getting
on him. But Lord, you can't. Watch. And
he proves he rides the unridden. He's the breaker of the unbroken.
He's the Lord and Master of his people. He said, you call me
Lord and Master, you say, well, that's just what I am. Nancy,
he's our Lord and our Master. We don't say it in word only.
We know it so in truth. He's Lord. He doesn't want to
be if I let him. He is. He is. People like this cult are made
willing in the day of His power to be under Him, beneath Him,
to be His servant. Verses 6 and 7, and the disciples
went and did as Jesus commanded them. Everything does. Everything it does. God doesn't
want anything. God doesn't try anything. God
doesn't attempt anything. God gives the commandment and
it happens. And they did as he commanded
them, and they brought the ass and the colt, and put on them
their clothes, and set him thereon." The purpose of this colt, the
sole purpose of this colt, and this ass, the reason the Lord
chose this animal, the reason it says he had need of him, not
that he couldn't do without him, but the reason he chose him,
the purpose for this colt was to be what? Lifted up. To be exalted as it were. To
be lifted up above everyone else. For all to see Him. And that's
our purpose. That's the reason God saves His
people. To show His power. Our Lord showed His power over
this animal. And to ride into Jerusalem, the
Lord chose this animal to be lifted up by this beast. And
so it is with all of God's people. This people, I quote it, have
I formed for myself. They will show forth my praise.
That's our only purpose. Our only purpose. The reason
he chooses us and saves us is to show his power and to be exalted
by him. And he chose, and you may remember
this, he chose an ass to ride on. Wesley, why didn't he choose
a big noble black stallion? Why didn't he choose a big, white,
Lipizzaner stallion? Huh? Why? Catherine, why didn't
he choose this big, noble steed to come riding on? Well, number
one, Scripture says that he's going to be riding a donkey to
prove the Scripture. But when he came riding in Jerusalem,
there's not one person who said, Would you look at that donkey? In fact, no one ever made mention
of that donkey. He's not going to share his glory
with an ass, with a noble steed. He didn't choose. Our Lord, not
many mighty, not many noble are called. The Lord chooses sinners,
the chief of sinners, harlots and publicans. And in glory someday,
nobody is going to say, would you look at those beautiful people. They're going to say, would you
look at that altogether lovely boy. He's not going to share
his glory with another. And that's why he chooses whom
he chooses. Because he's going to get the greater glory. Oh,
now someday he is going to ride on a big white horse. Have you
read that? Uh-huh, in the end. You see,
the first time the Lord came, it was meek and lowly to fulfill Scripture. Meek and lowly.
The first time Christ came, we see Jesus made a little lower
than the angels. Why? For the suffering of death.
He was meek and lowly, submissive to the will of God, submitting
to the law of God for the purpose of death, to suffer death for
it, our substitute. He threw weakness, the Scripture
said. meek and lowly the next time
when he comes again. And he is coming again. So he
came the first time as prophesied, just as scripture said he would.
He came. Yes, he did. Exactly as it said he would come. He's coming again, just as scripture
said he would. Next time he's not meek and lowly
anymore. This is where the world's got
it all wrong. He's not meek and lowly anymore. He's not gentle
Jesus, meek and mild anymore. He's the sovereign Lord in whose
hands our breath is, sitting upon a throne, not sitting on
an ass, sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. And when
He comes the next time, it's not for salvation. It's for damnation,
for judgment, to pull His people out of this place and then to
destroy the world. He comes the next time. as the
conquering judge of all the earth. And the Scripture actually says
he's going to be riding a white horse. White horse. So he chose this animal. And
no one commented on the fine animal he was riding. But they
sang praises to the Christ. Verse 8, And a very great multitude
spread their garments in the way. What's the way? where Christ
was trotting, where Christ was riding, where Christ was headed,
in His way. A very great multitude, and wherever
Christ was, He was attended by a great multitude. A great multitude
attended His entrance into Jerusalem. And this has significance. A
great multitude, always, at all times, witnessed what He was
doing. It was no secret that He was
coming. It was no secret that he was
coming into town. The disciples would have had
it be so. They were afraid. John, they
just didn't know, did they? They really didn't know who he
was until after he arose from the ground. And they were afraid
for his life. They were afraid for their own.
But after they saw the head cut off, they were not afraid for
him anymore. And they weren't afraid for themselves
anymore after that. But not knowing, not knowing,
They were afraid for the Lord. They wished He had crept into
town under the cover of darkness. The Lord didn't walk in darkness. Never. He is light. And He did nothing
in secret. The Apostle Paul, preaching before
Agrippa one time, said that very thing, didn't he? He said, Oh,
Agrippa, this thing wasn't done in a corner. You know, and I've brought to
your attention before, that fish sign that people are so fond
of, you know, people are fond of idols. They always have been,
always will be, fond of little idols. And they wear them, like
to wear them, and put them on their cars and all that fish.
That doesn't show you're a Christian, that just shows you're ignorant.
But anyway, they say that came from a secret society of Christians
that used to hide in fear of their lives and how they would
signal other Christians who wanted to meet with them, they'd put
a fish in the window. I don't know where they got that. It's
an old wives' fable, I believe. But the Scripture does not say
that God's people ever did anything in secret in fear of the enemy. This thing was not done in a
corner. Christ didn't fear and neither
did his people. Read Hebrews 11, huh? They did. Daniel said, throw them in the
lion's den. Peter said, should I listen to you or God? Huh? They weren't afraid. And if ever time came where it
became against the law for us to meet in public, we're not
going to do it in secret. This thing was not done in a
corner. There was no secret. It was no secret that Christ
was coming. In fact, the coming of Christ had been announced
and heralded before the world began. God began saying this
back in the garden. God began saying this for all
flesh to hear. Somebody's coming. This thing
wasn't a secret. Far from it. They should have
been expecting Him. All who looked for Him were.
And they knew Him when He came. Well, impostors and all pretenders
didn't know him when he came. They weren't looking for him.
They were just being religious. Well, this thing was announced
by God, heralded by God in the beginning. God to Adam and Eve,
the first sinners said, the woman's seed is coming. It's going to bruise the serpent's
head. Do you know why the book of Genesis
is called that? The word means beginning. Everything
God instituted. Everything God set
forth. Everything started right there.
And God didn't change a thing. That's the first chapter. And
if you read any book, you read the introduction, you read the
first chapter, it sets the theme, doesn't it? It sets the theme.
Well, so does Genesis. It sets the theme of God's work.
And God began saying in Genesis, somebody's coming. And throughout
the book, somebody's coming. All the way to Malachi, somebody's
coming. And all these types and symbols
and prophecies and pictures and stories were for the express
purpose to declare someone's coming. This is no secret that
He's coming. And a vast multitude throughout
time, those that went before us, were told somebody's coming. and those that follow after.
And in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son, just
as He said, in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son,
made of a woman, made under the law, to do what? Oh, to try to
save people. No. To redeem them. That's what His
name is, and that's what He did. To redeem them that were under
the curse, under the law. He came to redeem. He called
His name Jesus. That's what it means. He's Savior. He shall save His people from
their sin. Well, God sent a multitude when
Christ was born. He sent a multitude, Scripture
says, of the heavenly host to announce His coming. It says,
Suddenly there appeared unto them a heavenly host praising
God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, Hosanna, and
on earth peace. Peace is on earth now, the peace
of God in a person. Goodwill toward men, not man,
men. That's what God announced. And
now he's coming into Jerusalem. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming
into Jerusalem and a multitude heard about it. And they're there
to see it. Verse 8, and it says, a very
great multitude spread their garments in front of him. They
took off their clothes, their outer garments, they took off
their outer garments and spread them at his feet. Now what do you suppose the significance
of that is? Well, to fulfill Scripture, for
one, but when we see Jehovah Sidkenu, do you know what that
means? Yes, you do. The Lord our righteousness. Doesn't Romans 10 say that Christ,
verse 4, is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believes in Him? Yes, Christ is Jehovah Sidken,
the Lord our righteous. He's made unto us righteousness.
And we see Him as our righteousness. What do we do? We take off these
filthy rags that we're wearing. We take off this religiosity. This is every one of you, when
you first heard of the Christ, Those of you who were religious
at the time, good Christian folk, you know, that made your profession
of faith, and now we're living the Christian life, when you
saw Christ as He is, the holiness of God, the righteousness of
God, the first thing you did was throw away, like old Bartimaeus,
throw away that filthy, stinking rag that you trusted in, that
you covered yourself in, that you thought, oh, I look good.
Oh, get rid of this. You put it at His feet. And you
looked upon him. You came naked, as it were, before
him to be clothed. Didn't you? See, there's nothing
insignificant in that word. Nothing in passing. Everything
has divine, eternal significance to it. A very great multitude. There will be a very great multitude
in heaven that were once naked, that are now clothed and wearing
a garment. And Christ made it. It's the
wedding garment that he himself, by his own hands, wrought. Verse 8, and it says they cut
down branches from trees and strawed them in the way. What
kind of tree do you suppose they cut the branches off? I know
what kind of one. Fig tree. I know it for a fact. It's a
fig tree, John. Everyone will cut down all the fig trees and
their leaves. It doesn't say. So you can't
prove me wrong. But that has significance, doesn't
it? The fig tree. That's what Brother David Pledger
brought to our attention years ago. He said there's only one
tree that our Lord cursed while he was on this earth. Fig tree. Why do you suppose that is? Because
that's the very tree which Adam and Eve tried to cover themselves
with. Tried to cover their nakedness. A symbol of man's Whatever it
is, good works and all that. Morality, righteousness. He tries
to cover himself in it. And so Christ, when he came,
said, curse it. Curse it. You'll never cover
yourselves with those again. And they withered. That tree
withered. And so I know for a fact that
they cut these fig trees down and put them in his way. All
right, verse 8. I don't know for a fact, but
it sounded good, didn't it? And it says of the multitudes
that went before and that followed, those that went before and that
followed, cried, shouted, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Psalm 118, 26. Blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. The vast multitude before Him
and those that followed after cried and shouted unto Him. Hosanna. Now the word Hosanna means this.
Oh, save us. The vast multitude before And
it followed after. And it believed he was the son
of David, the Christ. They cried unto him, O save us. Every one of them cried the same
thing. Every one of them, out of their mouths, they said the
same thing, O save us. And all that went before us,
there's been a vast multitude go before us of believers. as
the sands of the sea. And all that follow after us,
all that come after us, all will be crying out the same thing
when they see Him. When Christ comes and reveals
Himself, they all cry out the same thing unto Him that loved
us. Oh, save us. They know that salvation
is His. Salvation belongeth to the Lord.
They all know that. And they all cry. Without exception,
they all cry unto Him. Oh, save us. Hosanna to the Son
of David. What does that mean? Son of David.
King. There was not one person in Israel
who didn't know who David was. King. You ask them, who's David? King. He was God's King. He was our King. He's King of
Kings. Greatest King ever lived, David.
They all knew that with one accord. And all of God's people know
Christ first and foremost as the King of Kings. and Lord of
Lord, the Christ who is to come, the Son of David, king by God's
decree. God declared it. Psalm 2, God
said, I will declare the decree. Nobody made Christ king. The
shepherds, all the lonely shepherds knew this. The wise and the prudent
did. The wise religious people today
don't know it. But the lonely shepherds said
this, they said, where is he that is born king. David was God's king all along,
wasn't he, John? He was born king. And later on,
God revealed to the people, this is your king. This is my king.
Now you crown him. We won't. Yes, you will. I've already crowned him with
the stars, but you will crown him. You will own him as your
king. You will be willing, won't you?
Yeah, he's our king. There were many people that were
against David and that followed Saul for a while, weren't there?
But every one of them, all of Israel eventually, bowed the
knee to David as they will. All of God's people made willing
to bow before the King of kings. Bless his holy name, they said,
with one accord. Bless his holy name. The word
bless is a good word. The word bless, have you noticed
how that Scripture talks about us blessing God? These pinhead fellows, you know,
that wear all these costumes, they like to think they're blessing
people. They ain't blessing nobody. But Scripture talks about us
blessing God, doesn't it? Doesn't it, Juanita? Us blessing
God. Bless His holy name. What does it mean? It means to
attribute all honor, all glory to Him. to His holy name. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ is His
name, and that's what we say. That's how we refer to Him. All
of God's people know Him as Lord Jesus Christ in that order, and
that's how they refer to Him. I love Brother Cody Groover.
We went to worship at Grace Church there in Orlando, and Brother
Cody preached, and Brother Nyberg, and Brother Cody Gruber, this
one thing stands out about his preaching is he always refers
to the Lord. Every time. The Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord
Jesus Christ. Every time. He uses his full
name. All of his titles. The Lord Jesus
Christ. And we bless his holy name. We do. God's people, like
these people. Bless His holy name. When we
call Him Lord, we mean just that. He's not a figurehead. Our Lord
is not a figurehead. He is the head. Do you understand
that? That king over in England, that
fellow who's going to be king, he's not going to be king over
anything. His wife rules him. He's not going to be king over
anything. He's a figurehead. That's what the term figurehead
means. Just a symbol. Boats, remember ships years ago,
used to put out in front of their ship, on board the ship, used
to put a figurehead, symbolic of whatever it was they worshipped.
Mostly mermaids. Stuff like that. Anyway, these
figureheads. Well, those things were dead,
weren't they? They couldn't do anything. Dead
idols, that's all they were. And that's all people have this
Jesus for, is a figurehead. Our God's not a figurehead. He's
head. He's captain. He's riding a ship. Figurehead. He is the head. We
say, Lord, what's what we mean? Not name only, not with the lips.
This people, our Lord said concerning all those religious people in
His day, this people draws near to Me with their lips. Say, Lord,
Lord. My people don't. They draw near
with their hearts. And they say from the heart,
Thou art He. Thou art Lord. And we're sure
glad You made us know it. Not we let him be that, or not
we made him that. We're glad you let us know it
before it was ever less than too late, because everyone will
know someday that he's Lord, always has been, always will
be. And salvation, Brother Henry, is to know it now. Salvation
is for this Lord to make you His footstool and reveal to you,
I am your Lord, aren't I? Crying, my brothers, I was the
youngest. Brother Sam, you can enter into
this. My brothers used to always get me down and make me say something. Did Steve ever do this to you?
Get you down and just, you know, just master you. Have the mastery
over you until you said something. Do you remember? I don't know
where this came from. I don't know why we cried this,
but we did. Ron, you had an older sister,
didn't you? Did your sisters get you down? Mine did too. I had an older
sister. My sister would get me down and
cry and say, cry uncle. As soon as you say uncle, I don't
know where that comes from. Dan, report back to us. Uncle. Well, our Lord, every one of
His people, He has the mastery over them. Every one of them
are going to cry out from the heart. Not just from the lips. They're going to know He is over
me. He's in control of me. He has
hold of me. I'm not moving or doing nothing
unless He wills it. Say it! Lord. Thomas, say it! My Lord and my
God. Peter, say it! Lord, save us. Are we Perry? You see the difference,
don't you? You know the difference. You've
been made to know the difference in your heart. Not just your
head, but in your heart. You've been made to know the
difference, to know Him. And you say it from the heart
because you know it from the heart. They're known of Him. And they said, Hosanna, Thou
Son of the Highest. Every one of them, it says, cried.
Every one whom Christ comes to, See, He came to them, didn't
He? And He was revealed to them, and all who heard of the Christ,
and all who hear of the Christ, and all who had the Christ revealed
to them are called by the gospel. This is the gospel call, isn't
it? This is what God uses, what I'm doing right now, what I'm
saying right now. Or rather, who I'm declaring
right now. This is what God Almighty uses
to bring the dead to life. to save the lost, to find the
lost. This is why. And the world that
is still lost cannot understand, they can't figure out how that
just declaring this is what God uses, because they themselves
have not heard it. But all who hear it, this call,
this divine call of what? God doesn't ask anybody to do
anything. God doesn't plea, and in that
sense, God doesn't invite anybody to come. God gives a commandment. Don't you love that John, Psalm
71, 3, is that it? Thou hast given commandment to
save me. He said, come, and they come.
He comes to them, you see, and calls them, and without exception,
every one of them call on Him. How shall they, and whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. No one is
saved apart from calling on Christ. But why do they call? He first
called them. See, he gets the glory in the
call even. They call on him. Hosanna verses
10 and 11. I've got to quit. And when he
was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who
is this? All the city, everyone that was
around that day said, who is this? And you know, you remember
when our Lord asked his disciples that day, whom do men say that
I am? He knew what they were saying. And there were few that really knew
him. The whole city said, who is this? There were a few poor fishermen
that weren't asking that. There were a few poor fishermen
who knew who he was, didn't they? They weren't joining. They knew. They knew. You remember back
there in David's story, he said, all the assembly shall know God's
in Israel. There were a few that he had
revealed to who knew who he was. And this is where you see the
tight end. This is where the all similarity
ends. And I'm sorry, folks, but anyone
who does not know who Christ really is, is lost. And you hear them all the time,
don't you? Saying various things about it. They say, look at the
people, they said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee. This is Jesus. What do you mean,
who is this? It's Jesus. Who do you believe
in? Ask them, Jesus. Here's a good
question to ask people. Okay? When you see that on a
car, or when you ask them, and they say, gee, I believe in Jesus,
you say, Jesus who? There's four million of them
in Mexico. And ain't one of them can save the
fleet. Describe Him to me. Describe Him to me. And if they
start talking about another Jesus who tries and fails and all that,
you say, well, might as well go to Mexico. That Jesus is not
the Lord Jesus. Who is this? People who don't
know who He really is are lost. Our Lord said that this is life
eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God. That
is God who is God and Jesus. Christ whom thou hast sent."
See, every preacher or spirit that confesses that Jesus has
come into the flesh, He's made flesh. And all that that means
is of God. Who is this? Would you turn in
closing to Isaiah 25 with me? Who is this? Any and all who
merely talk of Jesus do not know the Lord of glory. Is that too strong? Is that too
narrow? Huh? Oh, no. Our Lord said this
is life eternal. It's the first thing, man, that
God reveals to you who Christ really is. First thing. And the rest of your life is
spent studying, coming to find out more of who He is. You see,
He keeps getting higher and higher, doesn't He? And you keep getting
lower and lower. You know why he was Jesus. You
know why he came as a meek and lowly. You know that. You know
that. Everybody knows that, Sherry. Do they? Flesh and blood didn't
reveal that to you, but the Father revealed to you why he was made
Jesus a little lower than the angels. Why? You know why. He
had to die. That's the only reason. He had
to live by faith. That's the only reason. But he's
not that way anymore, is he? That's not your Jesus, is it,
John? And therefore, you don't refer to him as such. He's now Lord. And that's how
you refer to him. Mr. Southern girls were taught
by their mothers to address all older men or their elders as
Mr. Right? Some of these ladies have their
children call me Mr. Paul. I kind of like that. Not
that I deserve it. Not that I want it. But it just
shows respect from the children. Mr. Paul. Well, our Lord demands
God demands that we call His Son such. Lord. Lord. He said, you say that,
and you say, well, that's what I am. I've never referred to
my dad by his first name. And I never will. Never. Well, they know Him. Not just
as Jesus, but they know Him as the Lord of glory. And all who
follow Christ Now, and all who follow him later know who he
is. Look at Isaiah 25 in closing. Verse 9, it shall be said in
that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he,
Hosanna, he will save. This is the Lord. We have waited for Him. We will
be glad and rejoice in His salvation. So all those religious Jews, you
know, who is this? Oh, there were eleven fellows
that knew who He was. And pretty soon more than that
are going to know. And thank God He's revealed Himself to
us, huh? All the assembly knows who He
is. God's with us. This is none other than Immanuel.
We've waited for Him. And He has saved us. And we are glad, and we rejoice,
and that's what all we do is about, talking about His salvation. It belongs to Him. He performed
it. It's His to give. It's His to
bring. He is it. That's the difference,
he said. And boy, they're going to know
it soon. Aren't you glad we're studying this? It's just going
to get... Our Lord's going to get... Remember
we started this where the Lord's coming into Jerusalem and He
keeps going higher and higher. Gets on this donkey, higher,
and He ascends into the temple, higher. Then He starts walking
out of Jerusalem up a mountain. Looks pretty defeated to some,
doesn't he? Oh, no. Oh, no. He's got a weapon
in his hand. What is it? A weapon on his shoulder.
A cross. And he's going to ascend high
above everyone and ascend his throne. And though the whole
world thinks that's the end, it's just the beginning. The coronation of the King. And
then he goes on higher from there, doesn't he? So you're in a good
place. It's good for us to be here. Okay, Brother Dave. Sing in the blue book, hymn number
314. Sing the first, second, and fifth
verse. The tune of the doxology.