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The Sign Of The Prophet Jonas

Matthew 12:38-41
Paul Mahan February, 8 2006 Audio
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Beyond the skies, here lies my
life, here lies my way, from earth to realms of endless day. O grant us grace, Almighty Lord,
to be involved in Thy holy work. In Thy will be done, in Thy will
be done, Great, great words. Co-authored, if you noticed that,
co-authored by two different men back in the 18th and early
19th century. Okay, go back to Matthew 12 with
me. Our brother, Dan Oval, read the
scriptures and prayed and studied this evening for us men. In the
course of his prayer, he asked the Lord's forgiveness for us
taking these things for granted. And those were my opening remarks,
Dan, about how we are prone to take most of our blessings for
granted. When you have so many things and they keep coming, they just
keep coming, you tend to presume upon them and take them for granted. Anything you have a lot of and
it's just always there, you take it for granted. simplest thing,
like food. There are people all over this
world who scarcely have enough to eat. I was reminded of that. Brother Gabe and I went to a
buffet yesterday for lunch, not yesterday, the day before. And that's the way it is in America,
you know. You can go and just eat and eat yourself sick. But the greatest blessing of
all, is it warm in here? Just certain women of a certain
age are fanning themselves. OK. The greatest blessing of all,
though, and the one we probably take the most for granted, is
this book right here. This is the greatest blessing
of all. And you can have all the goodness
of this world and not have this and perish and be eternally damned. You can have very little of this
world's goods and have this and be rich. Scripture says, there's a proverb
that says, there's he that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing.
Yet there's he that maketh himself poor, yet hath much. But this. Word of God and more specifically
the truth the gospel. The gospel that we enjoy hearing
and studying. Is on a regular basis nearly
every time we come here nearly as well I would have to say every
time. We just feast on this work. Line upon line and. One way I
believe to remember what a blessing this is and how blessed we are
to have this. And one way not to presume upon
these things, not to take them for granted, is to look around
you every now and then. Look around you, consider what's
going on out there in the world. And contrasts are good. You know that? Contrasts. God's
word The way he makes the gospel so wonderful and marvelous is
to put it on the backdrop of our sin. That's what makes the gospel
so wonderful to sinners, is they see the blackness of their sin,
the awfulness of their sin, the exceeding, Paul called it, sinfulness
of sin, makes the unsearchable riches of Christ just that, don't
they? Contrasts. Contrasts. Why do I say all that? Because
quite often you'll see in the scripture you'll see the Lord
dealing with scribes and Pharisees, scribes and Pharisees, scribes
and Pharisees. Men who had the written word
of God. Who read it, who studied it. Scribes were, well look at
verse 38 again. Then certain of the scribes and
Pharisees answered, saying, Master, teacher, we would see a sign
from thee. Scribes were Bible scholars.
That's who they were, scribes. They spent their whole lives
transcribing words, the word of God. They didn't have copy
machine in order for people to have copies. They had to literally
write them out. That's what these fellows were
scribes. They were Bible scholars. But they didn't know Christ,
they didn't know the God who wrote it, did they? And in all their studying, of
the Word of God. What did they want to see? What
did they want? A sign. They wanted to see something. All this is going to sound real
familiar to you, because it's still very prevalent today. We're still in a world full of
nothing but scribes and Pharisees. And it's only the grace of God
that makes us to differ. Pharisees were strict, orthodox,
religious people. do. Or that they were very moral. What they want to say what did
they what were they interested in. What did they want the Lord
to do. Show them a sign. And these fellows
represent most people in religion today. Who want to see a sign. The Word of God is not good enough. Not good enough. What Christ
was teaching, can you imagine? You know, we think it would be
heaven on earth just to sit and listen to the Lord Jesus Christ
speak for 30 minutes. We can't fathom that, can you,
John? Can't fathom that. Just sit and listen to him. It's
where. You think I can die now. But I wouldn't. And. What Christ said all that
he was saying. And the depth of what he was
saying and the wisdom that. In just a word. On the net. Verse 39, he said this, he answered
them and said, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. An evil and adulterous generation,
evil means wicked, corrupt, without God, godless. Now, he's not dealing,
Mellon, he's not dealing with murderers and rapists and thieves
and robbers and so forth, he's dealing with religious people.
And he says they're evil, evil. Why? For seeking a sign. And
evil, that means wicked, corrupt, vile, godless people. Adulterous,
adulterous means those who sell themselves, are sensual. Adulterous is an unfaithful person,
secretly corrupt, generally done secret. He said, seek at the
sign. An evil and adulterous generation
seek at the sign. Sign, meaning they seek to see
something wonderful. They seek to see miracles. They
want to see miracles. We'll see phenomena. We'll see
something extraordinary, supernatural. We'll see something exciting.
We'll see something happen. We'll hear something. We'll see
something. We'll be excited. We'll be, show me something so
I'll really believe. Now, is that not our generation? Is that not? Does that not characterize
most of religion. Is that what you want? You see the contrast I'm making
here? You know, the Lord is dealing with these, the common people
that says, heard his word gladly, just heard him gladly, what he
had said. Now, why is it evil to seek the
sign? Why is that even Lord call it
evil? Why? What is wrong with wanting to
seek and see a sign, wonders, miracles, and so forth? Jeremiah
23, turn over there, Jeremiah 23. Now, most of you have looked
at this, but some of you probably haven't. Jeremiah 23, and You know man hasn't changed as
he's been saying from the beginning Jeremiah dealt with his generation.
It was the same as this one. His generation was the same as
this one. The Lord's generation or when he was here was the same
as this one. Religious but taken up with other
things. And Look at Jeremiah 23, let's
just read a few verses here. Verse 9, this is Jeremiah. Jeremiah is called the weeping
prophet. Do you know that? He's called the weeping prophet.
All through his word, God's word through him, he says he's weeping. In verse 9, he says, my heart
within me is broken because of the prophets. And read on, my bones shake.
He was really affected by what all he heard and saw around him,
all the false prophets. I'm like a drunken man, like
a man whom wine hath overcome. Why? Because of the Lord and
because of the words of His holiness, His holy word, because of His
holy word. Because of what all I see and hear out there grieves
me to no end. when we have the word of his
holiness. Look at verse 11. He says, Both
prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house have I found
their wickedness, saith the Lord. Verse 14. He says, I have seen
in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing. They commit
adultery and walk in lies, strengthen the hands of evildoers. None
doth return from his wickedness. They are all of them unto me
as Sodom and habitants of the as Gomorrah. He's talking about
religion, talking about priests. Verse 16 through 18. Thus saith the Lord, hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you. They
make you vain. They speak a vision of their
own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord. Read this, this is like every
99.9% of so-called preachers, Teresa, are saying verse 17 right
here. They say unto them that despise
me, they say to God-haters. That's what he said. They say to people that hate
God, the Lord has said you shall have peace. God loves you. They say to everyone that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart. People that don't
give a flip for God, Barbara, people that don't care for God,
don't care for his glory, don't care for his word, they hate
God, never listen to his word, could care less, they say no
evil shall come upon them. God's got a wonderful plan for
them. And Jeremiah said, it breaks
my heart. In verse 18, he says, Who stood
in the counsel of the Lord and heard that? Who heard him say
that? Where did he say that, Jeremiah
says? Where did he say that? Where did God say anywhere in
his word, I love you, I have a wonderful plan for you. Where, Jeremiah said, where are
they getting that? Now, I'm making a vast contrast
here. You see this clearly, don't you?
You see this. You see it going on. It's all
around you. You clearly see it. Why? Why do you see this? Why aren't
you, Henry, in the midst of that mess? Why am I standing here preaching the truth? Why? No, let's not take this for granted. Look at verse 22. He says, if
they had stood in my counsel, if they had stood, he said, if,
Kelly, he said, if they were there, if they had stood in my
counsel and had caused my people to hear my words, then the people
would have turned from their evil way and the evil of their
doing. Verse 25. I've heard what the prophets
said, that prophesy lies in my name. Here's what they say, I
dreamed a dream. I dreamed a dream. The Lord said
to me, verse 26, how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets
that prophesy a lie? The prophets of the deceit of
their own heart. Verse 27, they think to cause
my people to forget my name by their dreams. And look at verse twenty eight.
He says the prophet that hath a dream let him tell his dream. He that hath my word. He that hath my word. Let him
speak my word faithfully. What's chaff to wheat? Let them,
let them do that. Let them go on and on. It's not
going to accomplish a thing. Nobody's going to be saved by
it. Nobody. Look at verse 20 or verse
32. The last line of verse 32. Well, look at the whole verse.
He says, I'm against them that prophesy false dreams, saith
the Lord. Do tell them. And cause my people
to err by their lies, by their likeness. That is all this flippant
stuff, this careless, flippant likeness. I sent them not nor
commanded them they shall not profit the people at all not
at all no one has ever ever ever been saved by a false prophet
not one or profited one. Nobody has ever profited one
and what that's it. Not at all they will not profit
them at off, doesn't matter how good it sounds. And such and
such quits this, quits that, starts this, starts that, doesn't
matter. Now that is now, that is the
day we are living in. You just turn on your TV, turn
on your radio, across the board, isn't it? That's all you see
and all you hear. And what I'm getting at here
is, and this is the reason it's so evil. God's word is not good
enough. But people want something else.
Show me something. Do something spectacular. I know
this, you know, we've heard that, you know, we made our decision,
but give me something wonderful. And that's the reason there are
all these different stuff going on. Most of religion now is charismatic. Most religion is charismatic,
which is a synonym or word meaning for all this Pentecostal, you
know, wildfire, enthusiastic, animated religion and all that. And you know, most people, most
of this that's going on today is all about. And, you know,
there are people that do use this Bible, but it's a perversion
of it. They're not using King James
by any means, which is closest to the original they've used.
They've come up with all sorts of new versions. I call them perversions. And
most of what is being said today is to the end that people might
live the victorious life in a personal victory, financial victory, miracles
in your finances and miracles in your life and miracles in
your personal life, miracles and so on and so forth. Isn't
that it? That's it. In a nutshell, that's what it's
all about. And it's not about Christ. It's not about Christ. And God Almighty, and this is
why it's so evil to God, John. God Almighty wrote a book, sixty-six
books, over the pace of fifteen hundred years. And the whole
book from cover to cover is about His glorious, well-beloved, spotless
Son, the King of Glory. And men are interested. Not interested. The whole book,
line upon line, about Christ and His glorious,
the whole book, God wrote this book about Christ's redemptive
glory. See, the whole issue is man's
sin against God, and the sin of sins, the root of all sin
is unbelief. And what God's Word says is to
a damnable generation of God-haters, and it says there's God's Word
says, there's one hope for you bunch of rebels that ought to
snuff out. One hope! And he writes a whole
book about it. His son. His son. Just marvel after marvel
after marvel. And yet, you know, men and women,
oh yeah, I accepted Jesus years ago. But now I need to know how
to live. And we're all going to wake up,
most of them are going to wake up someday in the presence of
a God they never knew and a Christ they weren't interested in. To
hear him say, you workers of iniquity. Now who makes us for
different? He said, he that hath my word He that hath my word. That is,
those who have had it revealed to them. Those who have had it
truly revealed in them. The word of God is called the
seed. He plants it in the heart. And it gives life. The word of
life. He that hath my word. Go back to, go over Psalm 119
with me. Psalm 119. And this is the reason
folks. I'm not mad at. All the people
out there for say because. You know and we should not be
proud of what we've received by. The reason most people don't
see Christ in all the scripture. Because he had. That's the reason. The reason that preachers, and
I do get mad at them, but I believe they're willfully corrupt men. The reason their subject
is not the redemption that's in Christ, it hasn't been revealed
to them. They've never seen his glory,
John. If they had, they'd be like Peter. We can't help but
speak the things we've seen and heard. What are you going to
tell us, Peter? I'm going to talk to you about Christ. And bless God, Paul said in Ephesians
1, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things,
that is, in Christ Jesus, and how he has abounded toward us
in all wisdom, all wisdom, and prudent have he made known unto
us. Who? You that were dead and trespassed
in sin have made known unto us the mystery of his will. What's
that? What is it? It's crying. It's
all about crying. The mystery of God's will. The
whole world's looking for God's will, God's will, God's will,
the mystery, mystery. I want to know God's will. He's
revealed it to us. To God's people, you know, what
I'm getting at is the miracle of miracles. The miracle of miracles,
the wonder of wonders. and what we continue to marvel
at and what is signing up. This is signing up. This is enough
time for you. God's Word. This is what David
said. Psalm 119. Now, David wrote this
psalm and there's 176 verses. 176 verses of this psalm. This
is a 176 verses, every verse is about
God's Word. What was it David was interested
in? What was it that David wanted to see? What was it that David
was captivated by? The wonder of wonders, the miracle
of miracles, God's Word. Look at verse 14, Psalm 119.
He says, I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies. as much
as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precept,
thy word, and have respect unto thy way. I will delight myself
in thy statute. I will not forget thy word. Verse
18, Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold signs, visions,
miracles, wondrous things. And that right there is proof
enough. If that's you. If you see wondrous
things in God's work and you're satisfied. And to the contrary,
John, you don't want to see a sign. You don't want to see anything.
Don't want me to talk in some ridiculous nonsense. You don't
want me to do that. You'd run out of here as fast
as you could if you heard me doing that, wouldn't you? Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you, but the Father which is in heaven. 2 Thessalonians 2 is perhaps
the clearest passage in all of God's Word concerning these signs.
2 Thessalonians 2. Why do I deal with this? Like
I said, I hope it will make us appreciate what we have here,
because there's an awful lot of people out there caught up
in this mess, and why not us? And here's the reason, 2 Thessalonians
2, verse 3 talks about, let no man deceive you, because that
day, talking about the coming of Christ, what shall precede
the coming of Christ? according to verse three, a falling
away. Now, what is it? That's what 1 Timothy 4 said,
too, John, that falling away from the faith, apart from the
faith. And down in verse 4, he says, talks about antichrist,
the spirit of antichrist, which is not one person. Verse 9, Him
who is coming is after the working of Satan with all what? What? What's a unity sign? A lying woman. There's some things going on.
There really are. There's some signs taking place.
There's some things happening. There's some people being whatever. But it's not under the salvation
of the people. Look at verse 10. It says, It is all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive
not the love of the truth. God's Word is not enough. They
don't love the truth. But they might be saved. It's
one thing. You see, that's what it's about, Jeanette. Salvation
from sin. Not my finances. The kingdom
of heaven is not in meat and drink. Not living the victorious
life. The kingdom of heaven is about being made holy. Made like Christ. Forgiving our
sins. Sins put away. Verse 11 says, For this cause
God shall send them strong delusion. Who does? God. OK, my word's not good enough. It's fine. I'll show you. It's not going to save you. It's
going down. Isn't that something? Go back to our text. Buddy, well,
I could have kept reading, couldn't I? Oh, but we're bound to give
thanks. to God, always to God for you, brethren, beloved of
the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto
He called you by what? By what? A sign of wonder, our
gospel. By our gospel to the obtaining
of the glory, not the victorious life, but the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Glory being seen in His glory.
Beholding His glory. Being glorified. We've already
been glorified in seeing His glory. That's what Peter said
when we went up on the mountain. He said, let's just live right
here. We've seen it all. We've done it all. We don't need
to go anywhere else. We just stay right here. We've seen His
glory. John wrote, oh, we've beheld
His glory. What glory? His glory. And back in our text, so our
Lord says an evil. Why does he call him evil? That's
the reason. That's the reason. Christ is none done. You see
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at verse forty and
forty-one. Verse thirty-nine. He says, No
sign shall be given it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For
as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. Men of Nineveh shall rise in
judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because
they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, a greater
than Jonas, a greater story than Jonas. You see, the greatest
story ever told is the gospel of the Lord Forty or fifty years now hearing
it, and half of it hasn't been told yet. The greatest man who
ever lived, we haven't touched the hem of his garments. I mean,
we haven't touched the hem of his garments. Nobody has come
close to adequately declaring the Lord Jesus Christ and His
beauty and His glory. Hadn't come close. Take the finest
message that's ever been preached. Hadn't come close. Sunday morning
we're going to look at Sheba going to see Solomon. And that's
where we got that. She went there and saw him and
she said, Hathor, I heard about you. And somebody tried to tell
me. I had to speak for myself. And
now I'm going to go home and I'm going to try to tell them. The greatest story ever told,
the greatest man who ever lived, the Scriptures calls this thing
of salvation, so great salvation. And the Hebrews, we read it Sunday
morning, how much, what do you think God says about those who,
so great salvation, thought nothing of it? Oh oh yeah yeah yeah I
took care of that years ago let's go on to something else something
else. My. Story of Jonas and I've got about
five minutes to tell you this don't go back there would you
book Jonah. Daniel Hosea, Joel Amos, Obadiah,
Jonah. I did that for my sake, so I
could. Jonah, a little small book. Oh, what a great, great
story. One time, you know, speaking
of these scribes and Pharisees, you know, in our day, there are
a whole bunch of these scholars, Bible scholars, and they love
to cut up and divide. Word of God, and so forth. Turn your TV on to the History
Channel, Discovery Channel, and all that. Every day, there'll
be something on the Bible, the life of Jesus, who wrote the
Bible, Bible stories, and all that. Are you going to hear the
gospel when you turn there? No. No. It's mostly going to
be questioning, putting question marks on things, filling people
full of doubts. Who's doing that? Who's doing
it who's had that up. I read I heard a man on TV one
time a Catholic. Priest who was questioning the
very existence of David he said most Bible scholars question
that David even exist as a person. Don't know the reason I brought
that up and I brought that up wrong because Most people argue
against the book of Jonah as being related to Christ or whatever
is because there's no mention of blood. No, there's no sacrifice.
There's no blood. There's no no Jewish sacrifice. Nothing in there about redemption. Nothing. Do you see anything in here about
redemption, John? Our Lord said there's one sign,
one sign will be given. And it's the one that they say
there's nothing there about him. Now isn't that ironic? Isn't that how he blinded their
minds? The Lord said one book will rise up in the judgment
about everybody. Jonah! What's it about? Christ crucified. The whole story
took place to display Christ crucified. Jonah? Yes, Jonah. One of the clearest stories in
God's Word about Christ crucified. You've seen it. You look at it
with me again. Verse four and five. You know, this is the story
of Jonah, who was on board a ship and a great storm arose. All
right. It was a ship full of ungodly,
idolatrous men. Ungodly, idolatrous men he was
on board with. Look at verse 4 and 5. The Lord
sent a great wind into the sea, a mighty tempest, so that the
ship was like to be broken. It was about to be broken and
they were about to be destroyed. And the mariners, the sailors,
were afraid and they cried, Every man to his God, small g. They all were religious. They
were all religious, and they all had a God, and they all cried
to Him. They had a big prayer meeting,
one of the biggest prayer meetings ever held. On board this ship,
everybody on it cried out loud to their God. They didn't know
the true living God. And look at this, amazingly,
Jonah was down in the ship asleep. Does that sound familiar? Right out of the bat here, we
have a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ came
into this world of ungodly men and women, all religious, but
none know God, all have a God. Well, these men began to be greatly
afraid. And nothing they did would calm
that storm. They were about to be destroyed
and nothing they could do, no amount of calling on their gods
worked. They were about to go down with this ship and nothing
they could do did any good. Their gods could not save them.
They cried unto gods that could not save them. But God, merciful and gracious to this
bunch of ungodly, idolatrous men. Put a man on board that
ship, a man named Jonas, and even his name sounds close, doesn't
it? Put a man on board that ship,
the only one sent by God. As far as I know at this time
there was no other prophet but Jonas. God sent him. But he put him on board this
ship, God whose anger and wrath was being clearly revealed to
them from heaven. You see, that's what Romans 1
talks about, that ungodliness of men, unrighteousness of men,
and how the wrath of God is clearly revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness, like right here. And look at verse 11. They said
unto Jonah, What shall we do? What shall we do? All that bunch
of idolaters came to Jerusalem one day, didn't they? Pentecost.
I heard Peter preach. Peter was standing up preaching.
What was their question? What shall we do? Peter was declaring a person,
one whom God had exalted to be Lord in Christ. What shall we
do? How is this sea going to be calm
to us? Oh, it's very tempestuous. How
is this raft? How are we going to keep them
being destroyed? We're going to be destroyed,
and we'll get what we deserve. How are we going to keep them
being destroyed? Well, they kept rowing, though.
We'll keep trying. We'll keep rowing, that's what
we'll do. We'll get more religious. We'll get more zealous. We'll
work harder for Jesus. We'll do this, we'll do that.
The sea wrought, that means it was just kept crashing down hard,
hard to kick against the brick, and very tempestuous against
it. Wherefore they cried unto the Lord. All of a sudden they
start crying unto the true God, the God of Israel, Jehovah. Why? Because Jonah made Him known
to them. He said, You worship a God you
know not, like the woman at the well. He said, you don't know
who you worship, what you worship. None of it's worked for you.
Your life's a mess. You don't know what you worship.
But he revealed unto them the Lord Jehovah. And here's what
Jonah told them. Here's how the sea shall be calm
to you. Here's how you're going to keep from being destroyed.
Here's how you're going to keep from the wrath of God coming
down hard upon you. Throw me in the sea. throw me in the sea. And when
you do, peace will be upon you. No wrath, no judgment. You're
not going to perish if I go in the sea in your place. Substitution. God's wrath has been satisfied.
You have peace, but I have to go down into the very pit of. That's what you're going to wrote
the whole chapter to. Down in the bottom of hell but
being in hell is Christ in hell is chapter two. So. Christ that God has made
him to be seen. In the. Jonah took these men. And God spared them, but didn't
spare Jonah. And he prepared a great whale
to swallow Jonah. It consumed him, didn't it? This
great whale consumed Jonah, swallowed him up whole, down into the bars
and the pit, it says, the lower parts of the earth. Verse 6 of
chapter 2 says, it brought up my life from corruption. Oh, Lord, my God. Jonah was consumed,
but did he see corruption? Jonah went down to the very pit,
the lowest of the low, but did he see corruption? What happened? Three days, three nights later,
he suddenly appeared, miraculous, glorious, out of nowhere. Now you tell me, what's the story
of that? Christ crucified. And we just
spent five minutes on it. And we could go through this
whole book you know we could deal with that in depth that story
but Christ said this is it that's it. The only sign of it. You want to hear more you want
to hear go in depth about that a little more. Time won't allow. Who's made us different. This
is the sign of sign. Because what do we need what
is our great need. Yet has been our need from the beginning
it is right now our need and will be to the day we die our
greatest need. Substitute sin. And that's what God shows us
repeatedly keep showing us this that every time every page we
look on we see. The fact. That. Signs of Christ's glory
are greater than Jonas It's here a greater story than Jonah and
Sunday if you've never. Been anybody at where I'm not
going to ask for a show of hands. If you have not heard the story
of Sheba. Going to see Solomon. You better
be here. It's all I got to say. Because
it's the greatest story in all of Scripture. At least Sunday
morning it will be. Greater than Solomon. The whole book of Hebrews talks
about a greater, a greater, a better, a greater, a better, a better
than Moses, better than the priesthood, better and better and better
and better. It just keeps getting better for God's people because
we keep seeing Christ glorified more fully. Okay, stand with me. Our Father, thank you so
much. We don't have words to convey what we really feel, and
we ask your forgiveness for the dullness of hearing at times
so great a story, so wondrous a thing. Lord, forgive us. Forgive
us. We know you do. You know our
frame. Remember we're dust, like the disciples of old who slept
at the time when they should have been watching of all times,
and yet we do the same. Thank you, Lord. This further
proves to us our greatest need, your mercy, your grace. And that
is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Thank God there is a substitute. We have a substitute with the
Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God for sending his son. And Lord, keep revealing him
not only to us, but in us. And may we be content as the
songwriter said in beholding thy face, his face, the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And in his name we have met here
for his glory, according to thy word. Amen. Yeah. You're right. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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