♪ Take my baby back, my only love
♪ ♪ Spreading all the flowers in the ground ♪ ♪ Let it be,
let it be ♪ ♪ Spreading all the flowers in the ground, my angel
♪ ♪ Let it be, let it be ♪ ♪ I'm spreading all the flowers in
the ground ♪ Thank you, Gabe. Thank you, Jerry. Back to Matthew 11. Can you be seated and still standing? Yeah, we're standing on the rock,
even while we're seated. I'm standing right now, and I'm
seated. Seated with Christ in the heavenlies.
Matthew 11. We've never gone through the
whole Gospel of Matthew together, but we have gone through bits
and pieces of it. This is the last book in the
New Testament, the only book we have not studied together.
But we've looked at most of it here and there over the years. And you may recall looking at
verse 4, the first part of this year. Yeah, it's still this year. We looked at that at the first
part of this year. Go and show John again. And we
looked at the king of heaven suffering violence. You may remember
that message. Not too long ago, a year or so
ago. Tonight, we're going to look at it in content, all of
it together. Now, verse one, it came to pass
when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples,
he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. That is, he went to the hometown
of all the disciples. I thought that was interesting.
Their cities, the disciples. He went where they came from,
each one of them. taught and preached to their
families and their people. Now that's what he does with
us. But the Lord, I thought about this, the Lord, his occupation
as a man on this earth was a teacher and a preacher. That was his
principal occupation. He said that in Luke's gospel. He said, let us go into other
towns that I may preach for you. Here too am I sent to preach
As that passage in Isaiah says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, an anointment to preach. And the Lord went preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, he said. And that is very encouraging
to me because I often get discouraged because the world thinks very
little of what I do, very little. what the world thinks is the
most useless vocation on the earth, the Son of God was a preacher. He's elevated this position,
hasn't he? My, my, that really struck me
today, that I'm doing what God sent His Son to do. Verse 2,
it says, John heard in the prison the works of Christ. John was
in prison for preaching for declaring the truth. And this is exactly
what our Lord just said to his disciples. Did he not? In chapter
ten, he said, You shall be hated of all men for my name's name.
He said, They've called the master of the house Beelzebub. How much
more shall they call you Beelzebub? They'll hate you, he said, and
kill you. And that's what they did to John.
That's what they did to all the apostles and prophets before
them. Well, John was in prison for
the truth's sake, for preaching. Now, you'll only go to prison,
you'll only suffer persecution for what you really believe in.
Right? John believed Christ and believed
the truth and preached it, declared it unashamedly, boldly, dogmatically. John called sin, sin. John told
people, looked them in the face and told them the truth, like
Herod did to Philip's wife. He took Philip's wife. He said,
it's not lawful for you. Remember that? Old Brother Barnard
used to call bold preaching of the truth, preaching that'll
get your head cut off. And it will. If it were lawful
today, they'd do it today. I'm glad it's not lawful. Y'all
would have been through about five or six pastures by now.
Y'all hadn't been behaving. In the early church, that happened
to them. Well, John was in prison for
preaching the truth, for declaring it, yet he's a man. And he's in prison, and he's
wondering, why am I here? I'm sent to preach. I know God sent me to preach
this message. I have a message. Why am I in prison? I know Paul
the Apostle thought that, didn't he? When he was put in prison,
when the Lord had opened so many effectual doors for him to preach,
he had to throw him in prison in Rome. Why am I? I'm sure he
thought that at times. Why am I here? We know, don't
we? We have quite a few epistles,
letters that he might not have written had it not been Everything is on purpose according
to God's purpose and for good. John, nevertheless, is in prison
and he's a man and he needs some reassurance. He needs to have
the truth confirmed to him again, one more time, who Christ is,
that this is the truth. How about you? I think that's
why you come here. You keep coming here, you hear
the same story. You can count on it. Every time
you come here, you're going to hear the same thing you heard
the week before that. Why do you keep coming? Because
during the week, doubts and fears assail, and we being human and
we hear all this about it, we come back to have the truth confirmed
to us again. So the Lord says, He sent two
disciples. John sent two disciples of Him.
He's in prison. disciples and to ask the Lord
in verse 3, are thou he that should come or do we look for
another? Are you the Christ? That's all I need to know. That's all he asked. He didn't
ask about the millennial reign. He didn't ask about, you know,
the future of Israel. He didn't ask about anything.
He said, I just need to know that. I just need to have it
confirmed to my heart and soul. Are you the Christ? Because all
my hope, all my salvation is in the Christ of God. Are you
He? How about you? Do you need to
know that? That's why we keep preaching have him confirmed over and over
to our hearts. And, you know, we all ask this
at times. Is this gospel that we believe,
that we hear? I ask it. Is this gospel that I preach,
is this the gospel? Or is there another? Are we being
too narrow? Is there another? John needed this assurance but
I believe, I really believe John did this more for the sake of
his disciples. John, being filled with the Spirit
of God, he knew that all of this had fallen him according to God's
purpose and that he was just a forerunner of Christ and now
Christ is here and his mission's over. Right? He knows that. He's the forerunner. Christ has
come. Don't need him. He's the last prophet. Don't
need a prophet anymore. That prophet's here. The prophet
to end all prophets. Christ is here. John knew that. And yet his disciples are worried.
They're worried. They hear that John's going to
be killed. And they're worried. And so he sends them to ask the Lord. Now, verse 4,
The Lord answered and said unto them, Go and show John again. Do you need to hear this again?
I'll ask John. This John right here has heard
this more than anybody in this room. Yeah, you've been here
longer than anybody here. As long. Do you need to hear
it again? All right, this John. You've
been here 16 years. Do you need to hear it again?
Go show John. again. Which John? Everybody named John. Go show
John again. The things you hear and say. The things you hear and say. Now, all that the Lord said and
the way in which he said it is by everything he said in the
order in which he said it. is vital. The Lord never uttered
words that could be twisted or turned in any way. The way he
said it is important. Here is a clue as to how we may
know that this is the gospel. Did you catch it? Go show John the things you hear
and see. This is the order in which the
gospel comes. You hear it and you see. This is the order. The Lord said
that on purpose. John the Apostle said, that which
was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we've looked
upon, which our hands have handled. That's the way he said that.
Because the truth is first heard. Faith cometh by hearing. Hearing
what? The Word of God. The truth. The Word of God. And then we
sing. See, faith is sight. Faith is sight. We hear. Faith
cometh by hearing. We hear. God gives us a spiritual
ear to hear. And then we sing. And all of
this is spiritual. You see, fleshly, worldly religion,
like what goes on today, the majority of what goes on today
is all taken up with the externals, with the externals, material
things, visions, signs. Our Lord said that. An evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. They want to see
something. They said that to the Lord. Show us a sign. We
want to see something. Make something happen. They that
are of the flesh want to have something fleshly happen. That won't do any good. Our Lord
said, though one rose from the dead, he won't believe. No signs or visions or wonders
or miracles of any sort can make a person believe. What our Lord
is dealing with here are spiritual miracles, what He does on the
inside. John said this, John the Apostle
said this, they are of the world, therefore speak they of the world,
and the world hears them. What people today want to hear
about is how can I have my finances taken care of. Well, I want to
know that too, but not tonight. You know, I'll go to Edward Jones,
financial consultant, he'll let me know. This is not a bank or
a financial consultation, this is a worship. The one thing needful is spiritual. They are of the world, therefore
speak thou of the world, and the world hears them. The world
wants to hear about, you know, how you can find a, have a good
marriage, or how you can have this or have that, you know,
the external, how you live in this world. That's what the world
wants to hear about. They have health and wealth in
this world, material world, a carnal utopia. And the world hears them, and
they beat a path to the door, and they can't build buildings
big enough to hold all the people who want to hear about it. Now
look at this little flock. Look at this little flock. You can meet down in one of those
classrooms tonight. Now it disappoints me, but that's all that God sent
here tonight. Why? Because what we're interested
in are the unseen things. You see, the things that are
seen are temporal. They're temporal, but the things
that are not seen are eternal. Now, what are we interested in? Spiritual things. And what happens
in this thing of salvation, whenever God works it's it you hear and
you see here you see. John on the isle of Patmos says
I heard a voice behind me. What a voice he said it was the
sound of many waters and I turned to see and who did he say what
did he say he saw a person. What we hear is God's Word, the
gospel, and what we see, what we see. Our Lord said, you go
show John again the things which you do hear and see. And what
we see is what the Holy Spirit does for people, for us and for
others who hear this gospel. Read it, verse 5. The Lord said,
the blind receive their sight. I have witnessed many a blind
person receive their sight. I once was blind, but now I see. I mean stone blind. I mean blind
to God. I could walk outside and not
see God at all. How could a man do that? The
heavens declare His glory. The firmament showeth His handiwork.
How could anybody walk outside and not see God? I didn't. You
didn't either, did you? I could not see God. The judgments
of God, which are clearly seen from heaven, Paul wrote in Romans
1, clearly seen the judgments of God. Judgment after judgment
after judgment, calamities, disasters, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes, pestilence, famine, all that, just killing men, slaughtering.
Didn't see it. Didn't see that as a judgment
of God. Like the Egyptians of old, all these plagues came upon
them, and they didn't see that as a hand of God. Boy, there's
a lot of flies today, isn't there? Have you ever seen hell like
this? I wonder why it's dark midday.
They didn't give God a thought, blind. But one day, I see. Boy, I see it. Oh, I see it all
now, don't I? This is God's doings. Blind to
Christ, blind to my need of Christ. God's Son came down here, and
there was a time when we were blind to His glorious beauty.
Didn't care. Could care less if He came. Right? Could care less. Like people
of old back then, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God,
walking in front of their faces, and they saw nothing in Him. Heard His voice. Didn't hear
it. Blind to ourselves. Just totally
blind, I'd say. One day. How? How'd that happen? How did I
receive my sign? I've seen several of you, many
if not most of you, whom I haven't had the privilege of watching
the Lord deal with, that come in here blind. And then one day,
see? I mean, literally, I got to look
into the eyes of, you know, the Bible's on, nobody's home. And
then one day, somebody is home. I mean, Christ is there now.
He read on. He said, Lame walk. Go show John
again. Lame walk. You know, like Mephibosheth,
most of us were lame on both legs, unable and unwilling to
come to Christ. I wouldn't come to Christ if
we could. Right? Oh, I sat through service
after service after service and watched people profess Christ. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't see my need. I didn't
want to. I was lame on my legs. I couldn't. I couldn't come. But bless God,
one day I came. But it did move a muscle. Oh,
I did come down from it. I remember I was thinking. But
coming to Christ is a coming in your heart by faith, saying,
Lord, I believe. Those whose feet were swift to
run to mischief, those who once had legs, the only way they worked
was to run toward evil. one run toward mischief. Now,
just running the other way, running to Christ, running to the church
house, running away from it, trying to get away from it. Those who walked according to
the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of
the air, are now walking by faith, walking with God, walking in
paths of righteousness, walking with God's The leper, you go
show John again, our lepers are cleansed. You know, sin deforms
people. It deforms us, literally. Makes
us ugly. Makes us ugly in every way. Corrupts
the flesh. Sin does. And I've seen people,
literally, take on a new account. Those who once had a scowl on
their face. Lepers cleansed. The deaf hear. Go show John again how the deaf
hear. Once unable. You know, people who haven't
heard the truth, you just can't get through to
them, no matter what. Can't you? Jeanette, you talk
to your family. You can't get through to them.
It doesn't matter. You can give them the best tape they've ever
heard, the best article they've ever read. You can say all you
want to from the scripture. They're not hearing you. Why? They're deaf. So are you. One day, in the fullness of time, God's
good time, Put his finger in your ear. Put his finger in your
ear. And all you could hear from then
on was him. Deaf here. Those who wouldn't listen, who
wouldn't listen, who would not hear a word. Our Lord said here
in this same chapter, we've piped unto you and you have not danced. We've mourned unto you and you
have not lamented. Music can't touch a dead person. Ah, one day. Those who wouldn't
hear a word now hanging on every word. You go show John again,
I've got to get away from here, we've already looked at that.
But you go show John again, the dead are raised up. I mean, it's
like coming back from the dead, isn't it? Those down, depraved,
dead, Like Lazarus, some of us were just stinking dead. I mean,
rotten to the core, stinking dead. All of us were, but some
of us, well, we were all stinking. Raised up from the dunghill to
sit among friends. Literally raised up. I've seen
people literally who have gone from slumping down in the pew
Literally, just dead. Can't get through. To sitting
up on the pew and leaning forward. Dead or raised up. You go show
John again how the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Poor. Poor. This gospel is only for the poor.
You know that? That's why we can't get a very
big hearing. There aren't very many poor people. I don't mean physically, materially
poor. That's not what the Lord's talking
about here. Everybody in this room is rich by worldly standards. Yes, we are. Every one of us
in here would be considered rich people in Mexico or Africa. You just go on and
name these third world countries. What this poverty is, is our
Lord said, blessed are they that are poor in spirit. poor in spirit
are those who are beggars and don't have anything. They don't
have any ability. They don't have any knowledge.
They don't have any goodness. They don't have any righteousness.
They don't have anything. They're beggars. Everything they're
going to get, they're going to get from God. They're going to
get it all by His grace. It's all going to be a handout.
They're beggars. This gospel is for beggars. For blind Bartimaeus, beggars. Is this gospel for you? Beggars. You know, a beggar, a poor person,
could have been rich at one time, but lost it all. And you know, we come in here
and we get enriched by the gospel. And in just a few days' time,
we lose it all. We come back dragging our tail
poor again poor rotten down there no good center tell me you tell
me again one more time lift me back up this gospel is for the
poor he said you go tell John that the poor have the gospel
preaching oh the rich and increased with goods the world and all
that are having all this other stuff done for them but the poor
My people have the gospel of Christ. These are clues, you see, as
to whether or not we have the Christ and the truth. And he said, look at this, verse
6, he said, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended
in me. Now, the claims of Christ, the
sovereign claims of the Lord Jesus Christ have always been
offensive to the natural man. They still are. I don't know
why this religious world can't see that it was the religious
people that killed Jesus Christ. They hated Jesus Christ. They
hated Him. All He did was good things, but
they hated Him. Why? Because of what He said. Because of who He said He was. Because He said He could do with
His own what He would. Because he said he elected a
people. He told the story of all those lepers in Israel that
day, and God saved one elect Gentile. And all those widows
in Israel, and God saved one elect Gentile. He kept saying
that. And they hated him for his claims
of who he was. for saying that no man can come
unto the Father but by me. They hated him for saying that,
and they killed him. And they're no different today.
They hate the sovereign claims of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
himself, election was, his vocabulary was full of it. Shall not God
avenge his very elect? That's what he called his people,
his elect. And people today hate the sound
of that word. Do you? A blessing is he or she. That's not offending. That offends
most people, that Christ elected a people. That offends them.
That's His sovereign right to be God in the John. Does that
offend you? You glory in that. Oh, blessed art thou, John Bar-Davis. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you. John Calvin didn't reveal that to you. The Lord
Jesus Christ. Blessed is he that is not offended
in me. Offended. Matter of fact, to
the contrary. God's people are just plumb. Proud of who Christ is. Not offended. And so our Lord confirms to John
and his disciples and to us who he is and what he does, what
the truth is, and what the truth does to those who he received.
Did we have the truth? You better believe we did. This
is the true Christ that we preach and believe here. And then, the
title of this message is The True Christ and His True Messenger.
Then the Lord confirms the messenger of Christ to the people who heard
him. Is that necessary? It's more necessary today than
it ever has been in the history of the world, because there's more so-called
preachers than there ever has been. And we're to try it. We're to put them to the test. Immediately, as soon as you hear
somebody called a preacher, be their suspect. Be wary of them. Put them to the test. So the
Lord confirms to the people who hear the preacher that he confirms
the message. There's a great sense in which
the messenger confirms the message. Paul said to his people that
heard him, he said, you've fully known My doctrine and my manner
of life is fully known. And so many false prophets and
preachers, we need confirmation that there are some true ones
left, don't we? We really do. We need to know. Well, how? Verse
7, Our Lord, as they departed, the Lord began to say unto the
multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness
to see? A reed shaken with the wind. Now hold it right there.
Where was John? In the wilderness. Where was John? Was he in mainstream
religion? Was he downtown Nazareth in the
First Baptist Church of Nazareth? Was he in the middle of the Nazareth
Ministerial Association? Was he involved with all that?
Did he have a bunch of friends? Clerical? Whatever those fellas
are. Ministerial friends? Was he received
all over by everybody? He was a voice. He cried in the
wilderness. You had to get out all that mess,
Roy, to go hear the truth. There was a whole bunch of fellas
all congregated together. But this fella stood alone. Now
isn't that the way it always has been? It's always been that
way. It's always been that way. It's name one. He said, what did you go out
to see? A reed shaking with the wind? Turn real quickly to Jude,
the book of Jude. You know, Paul warned in Ephesians
4 of some that say they're carried about with
every wind of doctrine. Remember that? Carried about
with every wind of doctrine. Jude says the same thing. You
know, many men change the way the wind blows. They really do. The wind of change will change
them. Times, according to the times, will change worship. We'll
make it modern. We'll make it contemporary. So
you're going to change the way God is set forth. Some men change with the times.
They change whatever's new, whatever's popular, whatever's fashionable,
whatever's successful. We don't need to try that. Right? You know it's so. Look at Jude 14. Jude 14 says,
Enoch also the seventh. Wait a minute. 12. Jude 12. These are spots
in your piece talking about false Preachers, spots, spots in your
feast of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear. Clouds they are without water.
Carried about of wind. Clouds, they just cloud every
issue. Cloud the truth because they
don't have any water. What is the water? That's God's water.
Carried about of winds. Carried about every wind that
comes along. Let's go here, let's go there, let's try this, let's
try that. Have something loose. One of our brethren, somebody
was an old college mate of his, was
saying about one of our preacher brethren, he said, I know him,
he said, and he wasn't saying this nicely, he said, the thing
about him, you can say, is he hadn't changed one bit from the
day that I first heard him speak. He didn't mean that in a good
way. Well, God's preachers don't change. I don't read Shaken with
the Wind. I'm not going to bend according
to the times. First, hey, what did you go out to see, you see?
A man clothed in, back in the day, a man clothed in soft raiment. Back then, as now. These kings
and so forth would wear these big, long satin robes, you know,
with all the trimmings. You look at these so-called services
going on all over the place now and you see these fellows dressed
in these long satin silkies. They've got their silkies on. I don't think I could go hear
a man wearing a silkie. Could you? Matter of fact, I
don't think I could hear a man whose hands are softer than my
wife's. That's not a man. Soft man with a soft skin, soft
voice, soft robes. That's what he's talking about,
a softie. James and John were called sons
of thunder, aren't they? John the Baptist was clothed
with leather. I like leather, don't you, Steve? Leather, leather and girdle. John was a man's man the Lord
is confirming his preacher to the people that's good. He was
a man's man John was. As our Lord was. As he's like
our Lord but John was tender John was kind John was caring
John was sensitive John was all these things compassionate sweet
don't picture John as some raving raving lunatic out there no no
no no no no John was filled with the spirit of Christ. He was
a tender, kind, compassionate, sweet, gentle, caring, harmless
as a dove. But he would stand in front of
the face of a king. He wouldn't bow and scrape to
anybody. He wasn't impressed with anything. A man's man. Hardworking. A man that rough,
gruff fishermen would follow. That's what a man he was. Peter's
not going to follow just anybody. Simon is not going to follow
a mamby-pamby sweet little preacher boy. But he followed John, didn't
he? He followed the Lord, a man. Our Lord said in verse 9, what
did you go out to see? What went ye out for to see,
a prophet? What is a prophet? A prophet,
as the word implies, is a foreteller of future events, foretelling
things unknown. That's the reason preaching is
always, they're synonymous. Whenever a man preaches the truth,
he's preaching to someone who hadn't heard it before, he's
prophesying. Whenever a man preaches Christ, he preaches of Christ's
certain return. It hadn't happened yet, he's
prophesying Christ is coming. Just as the prophets of old said,
somebody's coming. Whoever preaches Christ now said,
somebody's coming. See? Prophesy. All true prophets
of old foretold, and the prophets of old, if you've read the Word
at all, you read any prophet, just pick one, just any, meany,
miny, moe, and pick one. And their prophecies were of
God's wrath, God's judgment upon a sinful, corrupt generation. That, every one of them, Malachi,
Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Elijah, Elisha, it wasn't every single
one of them. None of them had anything good
to say about their generation, about this world, about how much
God loves this world. It was all judgment upon a sinful
world. But they tempered that word of
judgment with, there is salvation. There is mercy. God will show
mercy. We're guilty as charged. We're
getting what's coming to us. But there's mercy! Bow! Beg! Plead! Call! The message
hasn't changed, has it? Do you hear anybody preaching
that today? You just did! Quit shaking your
head! You just did! You just did! God has not left
himself with that. They're not called prophets.
They're no more prophets in the sense that they're foretelling
things that haven't been written. But we're still, Roy was saying
the same thing that Elijah's saying. That's how you know. It's not,
well, it's not what they're saying today. It's totally different.
It's radically different. It's 180 degrees different. It's different as daylight and
dark. And a prophet. Yes, I'm more than
a prophet. Verse 9, I say unto you, more
than a prophet. More than a prophet. He said, this is he, speaking
of John only. Of course, John is the one prophesied
in Malachi 3. Behold, I send my messenger before
thy face. As we said, he's the forerunner
of Christ, the harbinger. The one who is immediately before
Christ. Who shall prepare thy way before
thee. And really, every preacher, that's all they want to do, isn't
it? Just preach Christ and get out
of the way. preach Christ and here he is, and get out of the
way. Don't get in there, don't stand in the way. People come to Christ, not the
soul winner, not the preacher. Verse 10, this is he of whom
it's written, verse 11, Verily I say unto you, among them that
are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John
the Baptist. You know, I can say that about
my pastor. I mean it. You've heard me say often that
I wish you weren't my father, so I could say that without seeming
biased. You'd think it's just a familiar
thing, a family thing. It's not at all. I've never known
a great man. And there are others. There's
an old former coal miner. turned preacher up in the hills
of West Virginia. That's just been one of the greatest
men born in the world. And the world doesn't know him. If they knew him, they wouldn't
give him a job. John the Baptist stood alone.
These men stand alone. Yet, our Lord said, there has
never been a greater. Never been a greater. But, look
at this, notwithstanding that being said, he that is least
in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Mary Magdalene is as
great as John. Oh, the grace of God is the great
leveler. It puts a former harlot on the
same level as They're all saved the same way. All saved the same way. Grace is the great leveler. Great
leveler. We're all equal by the grace
of God. The most humble believer is greatest
in the kingdom. The most anonymous is the most
used by God. I believe the greatest article
writer and hymn writer ever in the history of the world is a
fellow named Anonymous. I read him all the time, that
fellow named Anonymous, the greatest I've ever read. The most despised
are the most recognized. That's the way God does it. Verse
12, From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom
of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. The Lord is saying in the days
before John, leading up to John, days during John, and even now
in his day, the kingdom suffered violence. This means two things
basically. I've got to hurry. It means basically
that the truth and those who declare it and those who believe
it are hated and they will be killed and apprehended. They
will suffer violence. They'll reach a violent end.
as happened back then and it means this I think principally
that Christ who is the truth kingdom of heaven the gospel
truth it come Christ came Christ who is the truth he came the
king of heaven came and with violence what did it take for
Christ to to to establish his kingdom and bring salvation. What did it take? Violence. He didn't talk the devil into
letting him have it. He crushed his head. And what
did it cost him? His life. Violence. See that? It was a violent confrontation.
God met God. And this is what Martin Luther
couldn't understand. And it was violent. It made his
soul And when the gospel comes to
a human being, it's a violent confrontation. It's no, oh, won't
you please, won't you please, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it? It's a sword in your heart. It
pierces you through. Makes you weep and mourn. Oh,
it's a violence, a confrontation with a sovereign Lord. You're
down in the dust like Paul. That was violent, wasn't it?
Solitars. He hits that dust on his face,
trembling. His life is in the hands of the
sovereign Lord. Violent confrontation. Buddy, anything that you need
desperately, you'll take it, whatever it takes to get it,
you'll take it. A hungry man will go to great extremes. Whatever
it takes, I've got to have it. This is why Paul said,
I rest. Some people don't have to have
the gospel. Some people have to have it. It's a pressing matter. Buy it. Take it. There it is. I'm taking it. Didn't David say,
I'll take the cup of salvation? And all the prophets, let's close
with this, all the prophets in the law prophesied until John. John was the last. And the Lord,
as you know, is that prophet to end all prophecy. And the
Lord said, if you will receive it, this is a life. This is a
life which was for to come. This is he. Now he that hath
ears to hear. That's everybody in this room. Everybody in here has two of
them inside of our head. Let him hear. Oh, let him hear. Hear what? Who Christ is. Art thou the Christ? Are you
interested? Is this the Christ? This is gospel.
Go show John again. Go tell John again. Either have
ears to hear. What about God's preachers? Does he still have some? All
right, listen. Listen carefully. We'll tell
you about it. What about the kingdom? How does it come? How's
it gotten? Listen. This is it. You either have to hear it here,
or let him hear it. OK. Stand with me. I would like
to thank you, Dr. Johnson, for your words. It is
really life-changing. I can understand the solar and
all these things. Grid, water, air, and milk, and
all the things. You can see Josh's hand. You
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