I want you to open your Bibles
now back to John 11. I ask Brother Henry Soward to read
the first half of that chapter, and my message will be taken
from the latter half of the chapter. I imagine all of you are familiar
with Arthur entitled, The Seven Sayings of the Savior on the
Cross. I'm sure that many of you have
read that book. It's an outstanding book. It's
outstanding. Seven Sayings of the Savior on
the Cross. I've preached from that, on that
subject many times, and you probably could, could Give those seven
sayings. Let's try. Here's the first one. He said, Father, forgive them. They know not what to do. And
then he looked at Mary standing over near the cross and the disciple
John, and he said, Woman, behold your son, and son, behold your
mother. And from that time, John took
Mary into his home. and cared for her the rest of
her life. And our Lord said, I thirst. And they got a vessel of vinegar
and dipped something in it and put it to his lips and he wouldn't
drink. And he cried, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And
then he said to the thief, and the thief said, Lord, you've done nothing amiss. we're
getting what we deserve. Lord, remember me when you come
into your kingdom." And our Lord answered him and said, today
shall thou be with me in paradise. And then he cried to the loud
voice, it is finished. All the Old Testament prophecies,
all the Old Testament types, the redemption of his Righteousness,
atonement is finished. It's finished. Complete in him. And then he said, Father, into
thy hands I commend my spirit. And all of these are so rich
and full and instructive to us. And a few weeks ago I was reading
John 11 where Brother Henry just read. And I found at the grave
of Lazarus, our Lord uttered seven profound, powerful statements that were such a blessing
to me that I put them in a message and brought them to our people
at home. And I want to bring this message to you today. Now
let's look at John 11 and start with verse 20. John 11, verse
20. Then Martha, as soon as she heard
that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary sat still
in the house. Then Martha, then said Martha
unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, My brother had not
died. Is there a tone of rebuke here?
Isn't there just a little tone of rebuke? Lord, if you'd been
here, he wouldn't have died. See, the Lord loved Mary and
Martha and Lazarus. He spent much time in their home,
this little home in Bethany, about two miles from Jerusalem. I think she was rebuking the
Lord a little bit, because Mary, these girls had talked this over.
Mary said the same thing. That's the first words out of
her mouth when she met the Lord. Look down here at verse 32. Then Mary was come where Jesus
was and saw him and fell at his feet, saying, Lord, if you'd
have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. Those girls had talked
that over. And there's a slight rebuke.
And let's go back to Martha's statement now, back here in verse
20. Martha, as soon as she heard Jesus was coming, went and met
him. But Mary sat still in the house, then said, Martha, Lord,
if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. And then
in verse 22, she seems to be suggesting what he should do
now. She's not only rebuking the Lord,
but she's telling him what to do. This is strange. behavior
normal for human beings, even believers. We question his providence,
and then we suggest to him what we think he ought to do. She
said, Lord, but I know even now whatsoever you ask the Father,
ask God, God will give it to you. So she's implying that the
thing for you to do now is to ask God to raise him, ask the
Father. That's when our Lord made the first statement. He
said, then Jesus said to her, number one, listen, thy brother
shall rise again. What a glorious promise from
the lips of our Lord. Thy brother shall rise again. The dead in Christ shall rise.
Let's turn to 1 Corinthians 15 and see what a glorious promise
that is. In 1 Corinthians 15, verse beginning with verse 50, 1 Corinthians
15, verse 50. Now this I say, brethren, flesh
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, not like it is
now. Corruption cannot inherit incorruption, but I assure you
a mystery. We shall not all sleep. Somebody's
going to be alive when Christ comes. He may come at any time.
We're not all sleeping, but we're all going to be changed. In a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise incorruptible. Thy brothers shall rise again,
Christ said." What a glorious promise. Listen, this corruptible
must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, this mortal shall have put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in glorious,
wonderful, eternal victory. O death, where is your sting?
O grave, where is your victory? The grave has no victory over
God's people. The sting of death is sin, the
strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God that giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Martha, thy brother,
shall rise again." What comfort! What joy! This is a promise from
the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ, and this is a promise that makes
every trip to the cemetery to be one of good hope, blessed
hope. Every time we visit to put a
few flowers there, they shall rise. That's His promise. They
shall rise. Death shall rise, thy brother
shall rise again." That's what Job said. He said, the worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh, I myself, I'm going to
say to God, thy brother shall rise again. All right, let's
read on. John 11, verse 23. That's the first statement. Our Lord said, Martha, thy brother
shall rise again. Martha said unto him, I know
he'll rise again in the resurrection at the last day. You know, Martha's
reply here, I'm not picking on Martha now, but she's just a
human being like I am. I learned from her. But her reply
was just a sort of a cold theological statement, had a cold theological
ring. Sometimes our doctrine gets in
the way of our hearts. It's head not luck. She said,
I know, I know. I know He'll rise again. I know
there's going to be a resurrection. I know that at the last day everybody's
going to rise. I know all that. That's when Our Lord ordered
the second statement. I want you to watch this now. When we
sound forth our theological doctrines and beliefs, a lot of times we
put out brochures to the public. We say, this is what our church
believes. I wish sometimes we'd say instead of this is what we
believe, here's whom our church believes. This is him whom we
believe. Our doctrine's not cold theological
facts. It's a person. And that's what
Christ says to Mary. This is second statement, which
says to Martha here. Jesus said to her, Martha, I'm
the resurrection. I'm the resurrection, Martha.
I'm the resurrection and I'm the life. He that believeth on
me, now watch this, he that believeth on me, though he is dead, his
body's dead, Lazarus, they've already, he's been dead four
days, his body has, and they've buried him. But Lazarus is not
dead yet. That's what Christ is saying
to her, Martha, I'm the resurrection and I'm the life. And he that
believeth on me, as Lazarus did and does, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. He's alive. Lazarus is not dead,
his body sleeps. See, that's what he told the
disciples over here. Let's go back over here where
he was talking to the disciples, verse 11. He said in verse 11,
these things said he after that he saith unto them, I pray and
Lazarus sleepeth. I go that I might awake him.
Well, his disciples, they didn't understand what he's saying.
They said, well, if he sleeps, he does well. Let's leave him
alone. If he's asleep. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death,
but they thought he was speaking of taking rest. And finally he
said to them plainly in words that natural men understand,
he's dead. That's your language, he said.
My language, he's not dead, he sleeps, because I'm the resurrection.
Because I live, he lives. That's my language, Christ said.
I put it in words so you can understand it. He's dead, but
he's not dead. He that believeth on me, his
body may rest, but he's not dead, he lives. Eternal life is, listen to me,
eternal life is not a future possession. It's ours now. If we have Christ, we have life.
He that believeth on me hath, H-A-T-H, what does that mean?
Got it. It's just a good way of spelling
got it. He that believeth on me, right now, has everlasting
life. And his body may slay, but he's
not going to. He's going, he lives. Because
I'm his life, and I'm not dying. I'm his life. Is that clear? I see exactly what he's saying
to her. She's giving him the theology, you know, that she
believes he's going to rise, she believes this and that. He
said, I'm the resurrection, I'm the life. The resurrection's
not a doctrine, it's a person. The disciples didn't argue resurrection,
they walked with a risen Lord. The state, listen, the state
of our bodies has nothing to do with the state of our souls.
Nothing. This old man died daily, but
the new man's renewed every day. You can't look at my body and
judge my soul. You can't look at the outward
countenance and judge the inner man. That's what men do. God
looks not on the outward countenance. He looks on the heart. And when
this body collapses and you put it in the grave, I'm not dead.
I promise you. Because Christ is not dead. He
said, today you'll be with me. Your body's not going to be there,
but you are. And that's what he's saying to
Martha, if you just learn this, I'm the resurrection. And he
that believeth on me, though you bury his body, he's not dead. Now what's the next statement?
Here's the third. And he says in verse 26, I've divided these
because he teaches two different things here, "...and whosoever
liveth and believeth on me will never die." But he's saying,
you know, Lazarus' body's in the grave. He bleeded on me,
and though his body rests, he lives. But I'm saying this to
you, whoever walks on this earth right now, today, lives on this
earth in human flesh, subject to trials and troubles and infirmities
of the flesh. His body someday will sleep,
but he'll never die. He'll never die. His body will
sleep, but he'll never die. No sir. Sin is the cause of death. Now listen carefully. Sin is
the cause of death. Turn back there to 1 Corinthians
again. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Let's read that verse we read
a while ago real quickly. Verse 56. The sting of death
is sin. You see that in verse 56? The
sting of death is sin. The wages of sin is death. That's
why souls die. That's why Adam died. He sinned. And when he sinned he died. By
one man sin entered this world, and death by sin. So death passed upon all men,
for all sin. The wages of sin is death. Sin,
when it's finished, bringeth forth death. The soul, the soul
that sinneth, not just the body, the soul that sinneth, it'll
die. But we'll never die. Our soul will never die. Why?
We have no sin. Christ took it away. You see
what I'm, what he's saying? He that liveth by him on this
earth and believes on me will never die. Why will he never
die? He has no sin. Preacher, can
you make good on that? Yes, sir. Turn to 1 John. 1 John. That's absolutely true. We have
no sin. Sin. We have no sin. In 1 John,
look, while you're finding the Scripture, let me quote this
to you. He who knew no sin was made sin for us. He bore our
sins in His body. He was made sin for us. He took
our sins to the cross, all of them, that we might be made to
what? Righteousness of God. We are
the righteousness of God in Him. Why? He took our sins. We have
no sins. I love you, 1 John chapter 3,
verse 5. And we know that he was manifested
to take away our sins. And in him there is no sin. Are
you in Christ? Then you have no sin. In Christ
there is no sin. Why can God Almighty say, I remember
their sins no more? Because their sins are gone.
He said, I'll separate your sins from you as far as the east is
from the west, and remember them no more. I cast them into the
depths of the sea. I put them behind my back. In
Christ there is no sin. So in the sight of God, in the
sword, you have no sin. So you'll never die. This body's
got to go. It's frail. It's deteriorating. It's perishing. It's corruptible. And corruption came and had the
kingdom gone. But you're not corrupt in Christ.
You're complete. He says in Him we're holy with
our brain before Him. Is that right? You have no sin. That means you'll never die.
Your soul will never die. The new man will never die. The
new man created in Christ will never die. The Spirit of God
in you will never die. It can't die. You have everlasting
life right now. And that's what he says to Martha
there. Look at verse 9, 1 John 3. You
still got 1 John 3? Whosoever is born of God does
not commit sin. His sin remaineth in him. He
can't sin. He's born of God. Boy, that's
powerful, isn't it? But that's the only way you can
ascend to glory. When my body dies and goes to
the grave, if I go to the presence of God, I've got to be without
sin. Who shall stand in His presence? He that hath a pure heart, clean
hands, He's never lifted up his soul to vanity. He's never sworn
deceitfully. Is that me? That's not me by
nature, but that's me in Christ. In Him there is no sin. And that, that's the reason you'll
never die. Body or spirit, you'll never
die. That's what he says. And look back at my text, John
11. Let's look at this again. He said in verse 25, I am life,
I am eternal life, I'm the resurrection. And he that believeth on me,
though he were dead, though his body's dead, he lives. And whosoever
liveth, walks this earth, and believeth on me, will never die.
Now, Martha, you believe this? And I ask you this, Martha, believest
thou this? I do. Stan, I believe. I know it's got to be something.
There is no sin in Christ. He chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world that we should be what? Holy. And
without blame before Him. In love He predestinated us to
be conformed to the image of His Son. And I'm not talking
about this old flesh. I'm talking about this new man
created in Christ Jesus and put within us by the grace of God. He's a new man. He can never
fall. He can never depart from Christ.
He can never perish. He can never die. Because it's
Christ in him. Now you can get religion and
die. You can get religion. You can
join churches and get religion, make professions of faith, learn
doctrine, perish. But if you're in Christ, you
have no sin. If when he suffered on that cross,
he suffered for you, you believe that. Rest in Him. Trust in Him.
You'll never die. All right, verse 27, she said,
Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God,
which is come to the world. And bless your heart, that's
the foundation of the church. That's what Peter said when our
Lord asked him, said, Whom do men say that I am? They said,
Whom do you say I am? He said, Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. And Christ said, Blessed are
ye. Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you, but my Father, and
on that rock I'll build my church. The gates of hell will not prevail
against you." So Martha, with all of her misunderstandings
and she still, that's the testimony, that's the confession. I believe
that the heart of Christ, the office, the Messiah, the one
who should come, the heart of Christ, the Son of the living
God. So when she had said so, she went her way and called her
sister Mary, and she said, The Master's come, call us with you.
As soon as she heard that, she rose quickly and came unto him. Now when Jesus was not yet in
town, but was in that place where Martha met him, the Jews then,
which were with her in the house and comforted her, when they
saw Mary, she rose up quickly, hastily went out. They followed
her, saying, She goeth to the grave. But when she came, When
Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at
his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother
had not died. When therefore Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned,
and the spirit was troubled, and he said, Number four, where
have you laid him? Where have you laid him? They
said to him, Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, behold how
he loved him. And some of them said, well,
could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused
that even this man should not have died? Jesus therefore again
groaned in himself. Now what I want to point out
about this statement, where have you laid him? And three things
he said. Our Lord groaned, our Lord cried,
and our Lord again groaned in spirit. Coupled with what he
said, where have you laid him? What was causing him to groan
and to weep? Let me show you. Look back at
verse 32. Verse 33. When Jesus therefore
saw Mary weeping, saw Mary weeping, he wept. He groaned in spirit,
groaned in spirit. He looked at Mary and saw her
standing there weeping. She should have been rejoicing. Her brother was with the Lord,
but she was weeping, and our Lord groaned. Let me show you
what he said about that in John 14. And this is normal for us,
I know that, but this is, nevertheless, it grieves our Lord. In John
14, verse 33. John 14, verse, John, John 11,
verse 33, I'm sorry. John 14, 28, that's what I'm
looking for. John 14, verse 28. Now our Lord is talking to his
disciples, and he says in verse 27, Peace I leave with you, my
peace give I unto you. Not as the world give it, give
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid. You have heard how I said to
you, I go away and come again to you. If you loved me, you
would rejoice. They weren't rejoicing, they
were troubled. trouble in spirit. They were
depressed. And he said, if you love me,
you rejoice. Why would you rejoice? Because
I'm going to my father. And that's the very thing when
he turned and said to Mary, where have you laid him? And saw her
weeping, he groaned. Because he knew she didn't understand
where Lazarus was. And then he said, where have
you laid him? And he wept. He not only thought
on Mary and her grief, but he thought of Lazarus. Tell me where
you've laid him and we'll go and I'll raise him. But he thought
of Lazarus. He's with the Father. He's out
of this world. He's away from sin. No darkness. No disease. No sorrow. No pain, no tears. And I'm going
to bring him back and put him right back in the middle of it."
And Christ wept. He wept. Because his dear, beloved friends
didn't understand enough to rejoice that one of his sheep had gone
home. But they were crying instead
of rejoicing. And then he's going to bring
him back and put him back on this earth, and he's got to die
again. He's got to suffer and die again. And then he looked
at the Jews. Now look at verse 37. And some
of those Jews said, Could not this man which opened the eyes
of the blind had caused that even this man should not die?
And Christ groaned again. He looked at those people and
realized that even though he brought Lazarus back, they still
wouldn't believe. His disciples didn't understand. He's going to bring Lazarus back
to this earth, and then these Jews, with all their ceremonies
and redemptions, even when Lazarus walked out of that grave, they're
not going to believe. They're not going to believe. And next, anytime you read that
and somebody says, this is the shortest verse about Jesus wept.
It's got a whole lot more power and meaning than just Jesus wept. It's the tears over us and a
lot of things that were going on back there that they didn't
understand. One of the hymn writers wrote
a hymn about it. He said, the Son of God in tears. angels with wonder see. Be thou
astonished, O my soul, he shed those tears for thee." Oh, Lord, increase my faith. Don't you pray that? Help me
to see things as you see them, as they are, and give me comfort
and joy. All right, let's see something
else here. Here's the fifth statement, verse 39 and 40. So they went
to the grave. Verse 38, Jesus therefore again
groaned in himself, coming to the grave. It was a cave and
a stone lay upon it. And he said, number five, Martha,
take ye away the stone. Take ye away the stone. But Martha
objected. Martha saith unto him, Martha
the sister of him that was dead, she said, Lord, by this time
he stinketh. He'd been dead four days. And
Jesus said, Martha, take away the stone. Said I not unto thee,
if you would believe, you'd see the glory of God. Why did Martha
object to removing the stone? Now here's the reason. Number
one, this wasn't the primary reason, but it was a Jewish law
never to open a grave, reopen a grave after it had been closed.
But her concern was not for that law. I'll tell you what her concern
was, the dignity of her brother and the dignity of her family
and the offense it would cause. When they took away the stone,
she says, he's been dead four days, his body's rotting. Already
smells. And Martha objected to them seeing
Lazarus as he really is. Seeing human flesh as he really
is. You put these two statements
together. Christ said one statement with two parts. Remove the stone. Remove the stone. But when you
remove the stone, what are you going to see? You remove the
pretense. You remove the covering. You
remove that which hides human nature from what it is. And you
have to consider flesh dead, depraved, powerless, corrupt,
helpless. What can he do? Nothing. What
does he have? Nothing. What about him? We really see it as it is. We've
never seen flesh as it really is. That's the reason she objected. But let me tell you this. Now
consider the one standing before the grave. Holiness and wickedness
seen. Light, darkness. Light, death. And that's what he says to her.
Now you take away the stone. Didn't I say to you, if you'd
believe, you'd see the glory of God? What is the glory of
God? To bring Lazarus from the dead? No. Lazarus will die again. I tell you the real glory of
God is what that shows, what that pictures. When he brings
Lazarus from the dead, that's a picture of him bringing all
of his people, spiritually, from the grave and never die again.
That's the glory of God. And I tell you, Martha, take
away the stone that thou shalt object to. We don't want to see
this like it is. Take it away! I want you to see
it like it is. I want you to understand the
glory of God in redeeming his people. Oh, the glory of God
in raising them to heaven, that they're spiritually, that they're
physically. It takes His power. It takes
His purpose, it takes His will, it takes His grace, it takes
Him to raise the dead. That's it. That is the true glory
of God. When He raises the dead, He gives
life. Man can do nothing. Nothing. He can do all things. With man,
it's impossible. With God, all things are possible.
Let's see the glory of God. Let's see the glory of God. Have
you seen the glory of God? If you believe, you have. If
you believe, you see the glory of God. You see the glory of
God sitting right where you are. He raised you. He gave you life. You did nothing. You could do
nothing. You had nothing. You contributed nothing. He did
it all. And then here's the sixth statement,
verse 41. Then they took away the stone
from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted up
his eyes and said, Father, not our Father. He said, Father,
let me tell you something. He's the Son of God as nobody
else is the Son of God. He's the well-beloved, only-begotten
Son of His love. We're sons in Him because of
Him. Father, He said, I thank you,
you heard me. And I know you always hear me.
Always. That's something for everybody
to learn. This, that what the Father does,
the Son does. What the Father wills, the Son
wills. What the Father purposes, the
Son purposes. He has seen me, he's seen my
Father. He's heard me, he's heard my
Father. He that believes on me, believes on my Father. I am the
Father of one. I know, you always hear me. The Father made a covenant with
the Son, gave Him a people, established an everlasting covenant. And
that Son has assured you that the covenant came here to redeem
those people. He said, I don't pray for the
world, I pray for those you gave me. I came to redeem, I came
to fulfill that covenant, bring in that kingdom, up, pay that
atonement, perfect that righteousness, and redeem those people. I think
you always hear this. Everything I do is because you sent me to
do it. That's right. But now here's
the reason I'm saying this. But because of the people which
stand by, I said this, that they may believe. What our Lord does,
he does toward the Father. He's the sacrifice, he's the
blood offered before the Lord. He redeemed the people before
the Lord. But our Lord did all this and sent all this upon the
earth, all this that we've gone through, these things he said
from the cross, these things he said at the grave. He said,
I say these things that they might believe, that
they might hear them and be taught and believe. Look at John chapter
20, I mean, listen. That's the reason I'm preaching,
the reason your pastor preaches these things. We go over these things so that
you'll hear. Be taught and believe. Look at
John 21, verse 30. John 21, verse 30. And many other
signs provided to Jesus in the presence of his disciples. which
are not written in this book, but these are written, that you
might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing
you might have life through his name. He did all that he did
toward the Father to fulfill the will of the Father, the purpose
of the Father, redeem the people given him to the Father, but
he did it all openly and publicly that his disciples and his sheep
might hear. and see, and understand, and
believe. The Son of God has come and given
us an understanding that we might know Him, the true God, and His
Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God. This is
eternal life. So, preaching. I tell you today, Preaching has
been relegated to the scrappy. It's singing now, and whoop-de-doo,
and showmanship, and ceremony, and all these things. But God
has ordained by the foolishness of preaching to save them from
belief. Preach Him, who He is, what He
did, why He did it, where He is now. Keep going over these
things that you might believe, and believing you might have
life. And He said, They don't need to hear these
things for them to be done. You hear me. But I'm doing it
for their sake, that they might believe. Aren't you glad he gave
us the word? Gave us an understanding of the
word. That's what he's saying there. And then here's the last
one. Verse 43, the seventh statement. And when he had thus spoken,
he cried with a loud voice, a voice of purpose. whom he raises, he raises on
purpose. A voice of power, whom he calls,
they hear. A voice of immutability, whom
he calls and who hears, will never change. Never change. Ask Christ! And he called him
by name to distinguish him from the rest of them. There was a
whole lot of folks buried out there in that place. him by name. He said, I know
my sheep. I call them by name. Matthew,
follow me. Lazarus, come forth. Zacchaeus,
come down. Saul, Saul, my persecutor, stop
me. He calls them by name. He calls
them through the word. He calls them by name. Lazarus,
come forth. Out of death, never to die again. Out of life, let's go back spiritually.
Out of darkness, into the light. Out of captivity, into liberty. You have to acquit them who were
dead. Every one of us were dead in the first place. Now let me show you something
here. He said, Lazarus, come forth, verse 44, and he continues. He that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound
about with a napkin. And Jesus said unto them, Lucy,
and let him go. When they buried someone back
then, they wrapped them like a mummy. You've seen pictures
of mummies. They wrapped them. They had the winding sheets and
the napkin and all the different things. And Lazarus came out
of that grave, and he had all that wrapping on him. Now he
lived. He was alive. He was Lazarus. He was full health, full bloom,
full life came forth. But he had all these things around
him. And our Lord said, you loose him. You can't give him life.
I gave him life. You can't make him live. I made
him live. But you can get that stuff off of him. Now, where
are you going, preacher? I'll tell you where I'm going. A man in our church was saved
when he was 75 years old. He was a Nazarene preacher. He'd
been in all his works, all his life, and he still felt like
God wanted him preached, so he came to our preacher school.
And I called on him to preach one Saturday night at the preacher's
meeting. And he said to me before he preached, he said, now, Brother
Henry, you're going to have to forgive me some of the things
I've said. I've been saying them a long time. And they're hard
to get shut up. But I said, that's what I'm here
for. I'll loose you and let you go to get it off of you, to teach
you. So wherever God found you and
gave you life, You came out of religion and that stuff hangs
on to you. It hangs on to you. All these
rules and regulations and ceremonies and traditions, and you have
to be loose. Liberty in Christ. Not to a sensuousness,
not to ungodliness, but liberty in Christ. Peace, rest, joy,
freedom in Christ. That's what I'm talking about.
But you have to get these things off. And that's, he said, you
go into all the world and make disciples and baptize them and
teach them. And you, the Lord saved you,
you win the world. There was a language you had,
you got to be loose from it. There's some companions you associate
with. Lucy, These things can't hang
on you. You can't bring it with you,
you know, and keep it. You want to get rid of it. You
understand what I'm saying? And that's when you come and
hear the Word, and these things are removed. The Word removes them. The teaching
of the Word removes them. It makes you a mature Christian
and believer. But when Lazarus came out, he
came out like this, you know, covered up. And they began to
take off this, and take off that, and take off the other, and gave
him that freedom in Christ. Freedom of the creature. Loose
him and let him go. All right. I hope that's a blessing. That was a blessing to me. Our
Lord's instruction. That's not just me preaching
this morning, that's Him preaching. Him preaching. Teach me. Lord,
be my teacher. All right. And you come and tell
us what we're going to say. All right, let's turn to the
number 227. 227. We're saying a couple verses of this. 227. first and last. Let's all sing. Oh, now I see the living way,
the fountain deep and wide. Jesus, my Lord, my true savior,
points to His wounded side. Sublime, extreme, I see, I see,
I find and know, it cleanses me. O praise the Lord, it cleanses
me. It cleanses me, it cleanses me. Number three. Amazing grace,
this heavenly host, to see the blood of Christ. And keep us on these feet of
snow, my keeper to be found. The cleansing stream, I say,
I see, my son, you know, it cleanses me. Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanses
me. It cleanses me, it cleanses me.