Now let's turn to the first epistle
of John, 1 John 1. Read with me the first three
verses of 1 John 1. which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word
life, for life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and show unto you that eternal which was with the Father
and was manifested unto us. That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with
us. And truly, our fellowship is
with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. All that we believe All that
we believe is based on a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything
we are, I'm talking to believers, everything we are and everything
we do is based on the belief that that man named Jesus who
lived, who grew up in Nazareth, nearly 2,000 years ago is none
other than God Almighty, the God who made this planet, that
One. Everything we are and do is based
on that belief, that that was not just a man, that's God, that
God walked this planet. We believe everything He did.
Believers believe everything He did. call anything into question. They believe everything he did
and everything he said. Everything he said. Believers
live their lives based upon his teachings, his doctrine. Believers live their lives based
on his teachings, this one that lived two thousand years Believers
live, we die, we hope to live again, trusting that everything
that that man did and said is absolutely true. We commit ourselves. Believers
commit themselves, their families, they want their families to be
committed to know this one, that everything we are, everything
we do, we live our lives in devotion, in study, in service of that
person who lived on this planet. Believers want to know him better,
want to study him, want to be like him, want to follow him. Everything is based on him, that
person. This is not, well, it's very
real. God's people are following a
person, not a denomination, not a religious movement, but a person.
And we're not the only ones. There have been literally, literally
billions of people, billions of persons who have lived on
this planet since he came, and the ones before him who believed
him. billions of persons who profess
the very same belief in that same person as you and I do. Billions. And where do we get
the record? Where do we get the information
about this person? Where did we hear this story? Where do we get this? We believe
on him, this person, on the account of. based upon the account of
a few fishermen that lived 2,000 years ago, who
lived with him just three years. But it really goes much deeper
than that, because we believe and are certain that he himself
has supernaturally and miraculously spoken, very really. just as he did to them. But,
nevertheless, these were just a few fishermen, with the exception
of a tax collector and a couple of other fellows, but mostly
fishermen. One of them named John, who we just read. John
was just a fisherman. He had a brother named James,
his father named Zebedee. They've been fishermen all their
lives, generations of fishermen, just fishermen. Nets, boats,
little boats. They had cousins named Philip
and Andrew, Simon, and so forth, who themselves were fishermen.
Now, John writes here in verse 3, John, that which we have seen
and heard declare we unto you that you also may have fellowship
with us. John says, I'm writing that we want you to know this
person, fellowship. John and the apostles, the followers,
that lived with him for three-and-a-half years, they had fellowship with
him. They lived with him twenty-four hours a day for three-and-a-half
years and grew very close to him. And they had fellowship
with him. And he says, now truly our fellowship
is with the Father and with his Son, and we want you to have
fellowship. We want you to know the same person. So John says,
I'm writing to you. what we've heard, what we've
seen. We want you to have fellowship.
And our Lord said in John 17, his prayer to the Father, he
said, Father, I pray not for these only, but for them also
which shall believe through their word. Those who will later on hear
the preaching of John's gospel or John's epistle and believe
the same person. Come to know him and have fellowship
with him. So, John says, I want you to have this same faith and
belief in this one. Now, John, Peter, one of the
writers, Peter, one of the fishermen, said, he said, we didn't make
this up. That's what Peter said. These
weren't cunningly devised fables, Peter said. We didn't all get
together, all of us fishermen, in a great conspiracy and come
up with this story about all the miracles of this one named
Jesus and about him dying and rising. He said we didn't make
this up. We haven't followed cunningly devised fables, Peter
said. He said we were eyewitnesses. We saw this thing. We saw him,
eyewitnesses of his majesty. And these men, these men had
nothing to gain by telling this story, nothing to gain. They
weren't made rich for telling this story like you would be
today. The media and people all over
who love fantastic stories, you know, who love hype and sensationalism
would make somebody rich who claimed to see all of these visions
and so forth and wonders and all that make them rich and they'd
be famous, but not these men. That every one of them were killed, brutally, brutally killed, tortured
for telling this, believing it. And many after them who repeated
it were literally burned at the stake, sawn in half, died slow,
torturous deaths for merely repeating it. And their torturers would
say, no, if you'll just renounce this, just say you didn't. It's
not true. We'll let you go. And none of them would. Can't. Peter and John, James,
all of them said we, we must, we must tell the things we've
seen. We can't. It's true. John said, look at verse one
here, John says, that which was from the beginning. Are you with
me? That, John said, now I'm going to tell you what I've heard
and seen. He says, that, I'm going to try to describe to you
what we've seen and heard. Now, that which was from the beginning. John is trying to describe the
indescribable. And he says that. John is trying to compare the
incomparable. There's never been anything.
What do you, our Lord said this throughout the scriptures, to
what will you liken me or compare me? What are you going to compare
me to? Well, when God came and they
witnessed him, John and all of them, they're trying to compare
him to somebody or something. And John could just say that. When the angels announced his
birth. And so the multitude of heavenly
hosts came down and appeared to Mary and Joseph in the beginning,
and they said this is what they said. And they'd never seen anything
like this. They didn't know what to compare
it. God assuming the body, going into a womb of a woman, and all
they could say was that which is conceived in Mary is of the
Holy Spirit. But you call his name, wonderful
Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace, you call his name Emmanuel, that being interpreted, God with
us. You call him the Son of the Highest.
But that, I would never see anything like that. That, John said, that
person, that one to which no one can be compared Now, words, acts, his words,
his acts, his person are beyond definition. So John says that. Now look at
what he says about it. That which was from the beginning,
this one, which was from the beginning, which was from the beginning.
Now, is this child born? Is this a child born? Yeah, there's
a baby born. The one who's being born never
was born. He wasn't beginning right there. This child is the eternal one. There was a human body born,
but now the eternal one assumed that body. Now, what are you
going to call that? A child? You going to call it a child? When he was twelve years old
as a boy, he confronted the old doctors and lawyers in the temple.
A boy? A child? A son? Is this the son?
Is this Mary's son? No, that's Mary's father. What are
you going to call that? And a man, this is a man, a man
child is being born. Oh no, no, no, no. This is a
God-man. This is a God-man. Never been
anyone like it. That which was from the beginning, John said. The beginning, did he have a
beginning? Is this a new life begun? A new life has begun. That's
what we say when a baby is born. How about that one? Oh no. He is life. We have our beginning in him. His life didn't begin. He's from
the beginning, wherever that was, whenever that was, but he
didn't begin. Life in whom everything... with
me to John's gospel. He said that we read over there
in John's gospel. He said in the beginning was
the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. Where is that? When was that?
I don't know. When was the beginning? There
was none. Now, just explain that. If you can, that's when he was.
Proverbs 8. This is what it says about the
Lord, Proverbs 8. Listen to this. Proverbs 8, it
says, The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before
his works of old. I was set up from everlasting
from the beginning, or ever before the earth was. The beginning. When is that? In the beginning,
God. When is that? God has no beginning. He says, I was set up from everlasting,
from the beginning. He said before the mountains
were settled, before the hills, I was there. Listen to this. He said, hearken to me, you children.
Hear me. Blessed is the man that hears
me. Whoever finds me, finds life, obtains favor. He that sinneth
against me, wrongeth his own soul. All they that hate me,
they love death. So John says, that which was
from the beginning, John said. Read on with me, verse 1. That which we have heard, that
which was from the beginning, which was manifest, the body
that came forth, grew up, and became a man, that. We heard
it, John said. We have heard it, John said.
One day we were sitting in a boat. John says, Me, my brother James,
my father Zebedee, up the coast a little bit, Philip, Andrew,
we heard him. We were out fishing one day.
Several of us heard him. We were fishing, not minding
our own business, when someone called our names. Each of us.
Somebody called our names. John said, he said, John, And
we were inexplicably drawn to this voice that called out. Irresistibly drawn. We were just
fishing one day, like we did every day since the day we were
old enough to fish. We were out fishing, and somebody
called us—Simon, Philip, Andrew, James, John. And we were irresistibly drawn
to this person just like he had a rope around us, like he had
cords attached to us, like he threw a rope around us. We could
not help ourselves. We heard him. He said, follow
me. We dropped everything. Hundreds of people, friends and
acquaintances passed by and said, hey Phillip, hey, how you doing?
This one said, Phillip! And I can't explain it, but I
just had to follow him. We heard him. He spoke to Park. Park. We heard his voice. And
from that day forward, for three and a half years, we heard him
speaking. After he called us, he began to speak to us. We heard
him. We heard his words. We heard
his teaching. We heard him speak to us. His voice, John says,
I can't describe to you his voice. He tried later on, John says,
that's the sound of many waters. Some that heard him said, no
man spoke like this man. Even his enemies said that. Never
heard anything like it. Even his enemies said he speaks
as one having authority. He sounds like everything he
says is true. John said we heard him. We heard
him. We heard him speaking to us. And his voice, everything
he said would pierce our hearts. Things would just pierce our
hearts. like a knife piercing in our
hearts, revealing the very thoughts and intents of our hearts, exposing
everything about us, all our thoughts. There was nothing hidden
from him. He knew our thoughts. Whatever he said, it would blow. It'd break our hearts and convict
our consciences, and then it'd make us fearful of him. Fearful
to think, fearful to say anything, but then he'd speak peace. He
would say something to us that would just calm us and bring comfort and inexpressible
joy to us. And the things that he said to
us filled us with wonder. He spoke mysteries beyond—I can't
even repeat them, John said. He spoke of things too wonderful
for us. He spoke of mysteries, wisdom,
knowledge that we've never heard before. Things impossible to
understand, things impossible to repeat. We've heard him, John
says. We've heard all the Pharisees,
we've heard all the scribes, we've heard all the lawyers,
we've heard the most eloquent men on earth, but we heard him,
that one who just—everything he said was a revelation. Every
word he uttered was a—I never heard that before. We heard him, John said. Read
on, he says, we've seen him with our eyes. Are you listening to
me? John is telling a record. John
says, this is a real person here. I'm not preaching a sermon. John says, I'm declaring unto
you what we've heard and seen. What if I was a witness for the
defense this morning? Your life is at stake. Your life is at stake. This one
person can save your life. And I'm sitting up here, I'm
standing describing him. Would you listen? That's exactly
what it is. Those that know this one, believe
this one, have fellowship with this one. You remember I quoted
to you in Proverbs 8, those that love me will have life. Those that don't, not interested,
they love death. They're going to see death. He
that hath the Son hath life. John wrote that. He's a half-knocked
son shall not see light. The rash of God abides on him. John's giving an account here.
He said, we've heard him. We've seen him. We've seen with
our eyes this want. We've seen him. John said, we
saw him. We saw him feed thousands with
a basket of five little loaves of bread and two little fish. Five thousand men, not to mention
the women and children. Thousands, we saw him do this. We were there, and John said,
everybody needs something to eat. And the Lord said, what
do you have to eat? And we said, Lord, we've got
two loaves of bread, or five loaves of bread and two fish.
He said, give it to them. John looked at James, and James
looked at John, and Peter looked at Andrew, and they all said,
well, Lord, So we reached down in the basket, and we kept reaching, and kept
giving. And John looked to James, and
James looked to John, and Philip looked to Peter, and Peter looked
at Philip. Who is this? We saw that. National Enquirer said it. Johnson,
we saw it with our eyes. We saw that. We saw him as a
wedding one time. Our Lord was there. We were at
the wedding, and there were a bunch of water pots for drinking, for
cooking, for washing up with, washing the dishes and all. A
bunch of water pots, and all these people, they ran out of
wine, and our Lord said, Give them that to drink. I said, well,
that's why that's why they want one. Yeah. And we poured it out
and it was the best one ever made. Never been one of this
vintage in this ever. And it was the finest wine. We were there. And we really
looked at Peter and Peter looked at Philip and James looked at
John and we saw this. John says, we saw him, there
was a man born blind, everybody knew it, everybody knew him for
years, born blind, a beggar sitting on the street. His eye sockets
were sunk in. He didn't have cataracts, he
didn't have eyeballs. And the Lord spit on the ground
and put mud in his eye, and the man's eyes came forth. We saw
that with our own two eyes. We saw that. We saw a man dead. Couldn't hear a thing. Lord put
his finger in his ear and he could hear birds singing, crickets
chirping. We saw him do it. John says we
saw him grossly disfigured lepers that everybody would avoid. Grossly disfigured. Their limbs
gone. Hands gone. Not people with arthritis. Hands missing. Lepers. Face is a melted mass of flesh. Son, just heal them and their
bodies are like newborn babes, with a word, with a word. We saw him. We were out on the ocean one
night, fishing. The biggest storm we'd ever seen
in our history of fishing. We were about to go down. We
knew it. This was it. This was the big
one. We saw him walking on the ocean. Yes, we did. We saw him. I wouldn't believe it if I'd
seen it. And he got in the boat and we saw him save the ocean,
sit down. Like a farm pond, I tell you,
John says. John's telling, we saw, we saw
it. He could call fish to the shore. I tell you, we needed some money
to pay our taxes. He said, go down, drop your net, drop your
hook, pull out a fish, he'll have money in his mouth. We saw
it, it happened, it really did, John said. We saw him raised
to dead. We did. We saw him raised to
dead. Two or three times. We saw him
raised to dead. How many people have been dead?
A man's been dead for four days. His body was stinking dead. He
was dead. Everybody knew it. And the Lord,
and he walked out of the grave when the Lord called him. We
saw this. We saw him. Look at the next thing. He says,
we saw this with our eyes. We have looked upon him. Now,
there's a difference. There's a difference. We saw
it. We witnessed everything he did. We heard things he said. We looked upon him. That is,
we observed him. When he wasn't watching us, or
we didn't think he was, but we were watching him. We were observing
him. scrutinizing, carefully observing him, everything about
him. We beheld him. His countenance. God said, I've never seen anybody
like this. I've never beheld a human being
like this. Never, never. Look upon his face. At any given moment, whenever
you look upon his face, it was like looking and an angel. His eyes? See right through you. His burial. His countenance. John says, I've heard the story
that Sheba tells of Solomon and his royal and regal person ascending
up to his throne. You've never seen anybody like
this man. the way he carried himself, with
such dignity, with such honor. He just looked like a king. He
just looked like a king. Nobody else saw this, but we
did. We beheld him. We watched him. We observed him
carefully. We looked upon him. His attitude
at all times, his actions, his walk, incomparable, indescribable,
majestic. Amazing. We observed it. He's the most amazing person,
John said, we have ever seen. That, that one, is simply amazing. John said, our hands have handled
it. We touched him. We touched him. We shook hands
with him. He held our hand. We held his.
He put his arm around us. And I can't describe to you what
it was like. It was like a husband and a father
and a... He put his arm around you
and it's like he could just all worry would be gone. All fears, all anxiety, all distress, everything,
just a touch by him. Those hands. We've touched him. We've handled
him. Our hands have been on him. John says, look at verse one,
our hands have handled the word of life. The word of life. Verse 2, he says, the life was
manifested. We've seen it. The life. Life. What are you going to call it,
John? Life. Life. That's what he said over in his
gospel then. In him was life. Life was the light of men. We
can't understand these things, can we, Brother Stan? John's
trying. He's trying. How do you compare
him? How do you describe him? You
can't make him understand. You can't make us understand.
John said, I'm trying. We handled life. We handled the
son. We heard him. We saw him. We
beheld him, he said. We handled him for three and
a half years. We heard him. Every word he spoke was a revelation. Every word. There. There's a purpose. Every step, no matter, he didn't
turn, he wasn't just, where am I going? Every step he took was,
is like a, he'd written this thing hundreds of years ago.
Choreographed the whole, every move he was to make was of the
same purpose to what he was doing and where he was going. And when
he got there, he got it done. Every step. Where's he going now? I don't
know, but he sure does. Hallelujah! Where you going? Every act he performed, every
work he made was a marvel, was a wonder. Everything he did was
amazing. For three and a half years, John,
we just stepped back in amazement. You see what John Stratton said? We heard him. We saw him. What? Back. We beheld him. We watched him. We observed him.
We handled him. Who, John? Life. Now, he's real. He's real. John said we observed him for
three and a half years, and we never saw one flaw in him. Not one sin. People look
for faults, don't they? People love to find faults in
others. They all wanted to. Everybody
wanted to. All of his enemies. Everybody
wanted to find one fault in him, one sin, one weakness. The whole
world was observing him. Devils were looking at him, trying.
They didn't find one thing. Who could bear up under such
scrutiny? Not one thing. He was never angry
without a cause. Never. Did you read the article in the
Bulletin? What makes you angry? What sets you off? What can tick
you off, as we've said? What is it? Anything. A bee sting. Anything. Somebody put it out in front
of you and you turn into a raging maniac. Not once. Not once did we see him angry
without a cause. We were spitting mad. We were
fighting mad with all that was going on around, not him. In
perfect control of himself. He never spoke an idle word.
We never heard him speak one foolish, idle, careless, off-the-cuff,
work. Never. Never. Everything he said was just pure
and holy and just and true and right and good and edifying and
amazing and astounding and a revelation. It's like we were little children. Everything he said was teaching
us something. We couldn't take a step. We couldn't
make a move without him teaching us something. We were learning
daily, hourly. We never He was never tempted
by anything, ever. We never saw him tempted by anything. Beautiful women, beautiful buildings. Look at this, Lord. He wasn't
impressed with anybody or anything. He wasn't tempted with anything
or anyone, no matter what. We never heard him say, I want
anything, never. Ever in three and a half years,
do we ever hear him say, I sure would like to—never, not once. We never heard him complain,
not one time. Not one time did we ever hear
him murmur or complain, not once. Who is this? This is God. Tell me about that Jesus of Nazareth
that lived. 2,000 years ago. You show me a man that can do
everything that I've just described to you. Show me one that can
even come close. There is none. He never coveted
one material thing. He never murmured a complaint.
He was always, all the time, as we observed him, he was always,
at all times, thankful. He was always giving thanks to
God, always. He was always kind. He was always merciful, always
gracious, always patient. Always patient. He was patient.
He was always long-suffering. He put up with us all. He was
always bold, strong, courageous, always fearless,
and a faceless. It doesn't matter who it was
or how many there were. He was faceless like a lion. Fearless, sober, no, nothing
familiar about him, nothing trivial about him. Always truthful. Everything
he said was truthful. Diligent, faithful, temperate. He was always working. From sunup
till we fell asleep, he was still working. He was something. Always working. He never slept. We hardly ever saw him sleeper,
except one time when we were in the boat. The rest would sleep,
and he was, back to the boat. But he rarely slept. One day,
three or four days before his crucifixion, he didn't sleep
a wink. He ate very little. So many times we tried to get
him to eat something, and he said the strangest thing. He
said, I need him. He said, Lord, here, eat some
bread. He said, I have some. Where'd you get it? I have bread
to eat that you don't know of. I'm eating, I'm feasting right
now. I'm full. Fat things. Wine on the lease. But Lord, you haven't eaten in
three days. Man doesn't live by bread. He would gaze at the stars as if he knew every one of them
by name. It's like he was seeing that they were there where they
should be. He could look into the sun without
blinking. His face shone brighter. He's the only one that could
look into the sun without blinking. We saw him one day transfigured,
changed into the sun, so that we couldn't
even look at him. He blinded us. We saw this. He predicted years before it
happened. He told us, we remember now well
how he told us over and over again, kept predicting, prophesying
the very place, the time, the exact events leading up to his
death, every detail as though he had planned it himself. We saw him at the time of that
crucifixion, we saw him face an angry mob, a huge throng of
men with weapons, angry, face that angry mob alone. stand in
front of them, and we saw him say with a word, I am, and every
one of them hit the dirt, hit the dirt as if he had mowed them
down. We saw it. But then, when they got up, he
committed himself to them. He voluntarily put himself into
their hands, and then endured, we saw him
endure the cruelest torture that we have ever seen a human being
endure, hours on end. We saw him be the object of cruel
Roman torturers as they inflicted upon him the most inhumane, ignominious,
horrible, horrendous torture, painful torture that no one could
possibly endure. We saw him endure them pummeling
his face into a bloody piece of meat, ripping his beard out
by the hand, slapping him, spit in his face, stick a crown of
thorns on his head, and not wince. He didn't wince. He didn't cry out. Even Pilate said, what a man. John said, we saw him. Who is
this? God, that's who it is. We saw
that, and then we saw them. stretch his arms and his legs
out and take huge rusty spikes and drive them into his hands
and his tender feet. And he didn't wince. And then we saw him take his
body, hanging on that tree in a six-foot hole in the ground,
drop it down in the hole with every joint of his body jerked
out of place, and he didn't wince. Didn't weep. Didn't cry. Amazing. That, see what John's trying
to describe, that which we've seen and heard, trying to declare
unto you. He's not a man. He's not some
Jesus like any other Jesus. And she's hanging on that cross
naked, I mean naked, no cloth around his loin, naked in front
of thousands of people, men, women, and children, hanging
there naked without shame, with the eye gazing upon his
tormentors, looking at them eye to eye. They couldn't look on
him hardly. And as he's hanging in obvious
agony and pain, yet without crying out or without wincing, we heard
the most gracious words coming from his mouth. It was unbelievable
that at a time like this, he looked down at me. John said,
he looked at me. And he said to me, he was taking
care of me. He's the one in pain. He looked
at me, John said. He said, son, you go home with
this woman here. You take care of her. And woman,
you all live together, take care of each other. How could he be thinking of me,
John said? And there's a man hanging there,
a filthy, rotten, wretched man. Everybody knew him. That old
thief, he deserved to die. Everybody hated him. We saw the most miraculous transformation
come over that man. That man hanging there, it's
like his whole countenance changed when the Lord was speaking to
him. It's like he was like a new person, just when the Lord said
something about that. And then we saw, we heard, after
six hours hanging there, we watched him. He did cry out, he cried
out to the Father. We didn't understand it then,
we do now. And then we saw him bow his head. His head didn't
drop. He didn't expire. Nobody killed him. We saw him
royally, sovereignly, as a king, taking a bow. We saw him drop his head and leave his body
and die. Then, you know, some people said
that he wasn't dead, but we saw a soldier. A soldier came by,
took an iron bar and busted the legs of the two men beside him
so that they would asphyxiate while hanging there and die. And he saw that he was dead,
and our Lord was dead already, but just to make sure, we saw
him pull out his huge and disemboweled him in front of our eyes, cut
his whole midsection completely open, his bowels filled up on
the ground. He was dead. We saw him. He was dead. We saw him. And it ripped our hearts out.
And I'm telling you, John said, I'm telling you, three days later,
we saw him again. None of us believed it. One of
the women came to tell us about it, said, he's alive. We said,
no, he's dead. We saw him dead. Nobody, everybody
refused to believe it. And he walked through the door.
I don't mean the door was open. And he walked through the door. We saw him standing there. We
tumbled him. We touched him. We heard him.
He's alive. We saw him for 40 days after
that. Forty days, he walked and talked to us. We heard him. We
saw him. We observed him. We handled him.
He's alive. Then one day, we walked out on
the hillside. He said, We're going somewhere.
We just followed him. We walked out on the hillside.
He spoke to us. Once again, wonderful words.
Amazing thing. And as we were, as he was speaking, The cloud received him up out
of our sight. We saw it. We did. We saw it. And then a mercy to
the heavenly host said, He's coming again. He's coming again. Same one. We saw it. It's real. It's not. I started this out
by saying, Everything we believe, everything we're doing here,
we commit ourselves, our families, everything is based on a person.
Who it was that lived here. Who it was. It wasn't just a
man. Because if it was, he can't help us one bit. If he's just
a man, his words are of no avail. His words don't last. But if he is who this book says
he is, who John says he is, God, then everything he says is words
of life. Our life depends upon it. Everything
he said. God came down here and talked
with me and said, Now listen to me. Listen to me. Heed the half ears to hear. He
kept saying that over and over again. Heed the half ears to
hear. You better listen to me. I made you hear. I'm your God.
Now listen to me. We heard him. And John said,
and we're trying to declare unto you, we're writing it all down. We wrote it all down, as much
as lies within us, as much as he brought to our memory, we
wrote it all down, and he said and he did. But if the books,
if we wrote down everything he said and everything he did, and
all the facts about him and the other books, the world couldn't
contain the books. But we have written this account, and this
is the record. This is what John said. He that knows this one,
he that hath this one, believes this one, he that trusts this
one, who commits his whole life and devoted to this one, he for
whom he died and lived, is going to have eternal life. Describe
that, John. I can't even describe him as
a man, John said. How do you expect me to describe
him? And he did. John wrote the Revelation, remember?
John wrote the Revelation. Does anybody understand that,
Fuller? Passed finding out. Passed finding out on this earth
right now, but we will find out. Do you believe that one? Do you
believe that one? It's not a As Peter said, it's
not a fable. It's a real person lived. All
he said, all that he did, all that he was. Where is he now? What's he doing? What is this about him coming
back? What's that mean to me? Everything. Life or death. Life or death. That's the record.
That's the record. That one. That one. Brother John, if you'll come
up to sing a hymn in closing. No hymn can adequately speak of him. Number
46, though. Oh, for a thousand tongues to
sing, my great Redeemer's praise, my gracious Master and my God,
assist me to proclaim. Stand with us. Number 46. Oh, for a thousand tongues to
sing Thy great Redeemer's praise, The glory of my God and King
Let Zion's prophets praise. Thy gracious Master and my God
Have placed me to proclaim, To say through all the earth, Jesus. He breaks the power of heaven's
machine. He sets the sinner free. His
work is made by God's hand. His love is for me. Where can we get this crazy stuff? Your little town, say it's Roy. He drives me for your super stuff,
and keeps me waiting for your boy. Glory to God and praise Him for
He's ever, ever is. Thy praise is always, ever, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever. I'm so sorry. Thank you.