Good words, that hymn. Good words.
That fourth verse, thank you, says, Walk in the light, and
even the tomb no fearful shade shall wear, though we walk through
the valley of the shadow of death. That's what this Mr. Martin is saying. In elephant
words, no fearful shade shall wear. The shadow of death, the
shadow can't hurt you. It's Christ that removes the
sting, the fear. All right, John chapter 12, read
verse 35 with me again. John 12, verse 35, Then Jesus
said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not whither he goeth. Walk in the light while you have
the light. While you have the light, lest
darkness come upon you." The light here that Christ speaks of is two
things, but these two are really one. Look back at John chapter
1 with me. What is the light, or rather
who is the light? Christ is the light. We've seen
this. Christ said, I am the light of the world. John 1. Verse 4 says that in him was
life, and the life was the light of men. Life and light. And the light shineth in darkness. And the darkness comprehended
it not. So Christ is the light. Christ is the light. All spiritual
understanding comes from Christ. light. Psalm 119, now turn over
there, Psalm 119. Psalm 119. Keep your place in
John 12. But in Psalm 119, look at verse
105. I quote this quite often. You
may want to mark it in your Bible. It's one worth remembering, as is
all the But it says here in Psalm 119, verse 105, Thy word is a
lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. So Christ is the
light and his word is the light. Now, you cannot look up, Brother
Davis reminded me of verse 130. Look at that verse. Psalm 119, verse 130, the entrance
of thy words giveth light and giveth understanding unto the
simple. God's Word is the light. Now, you cannot separate Christ
from His Word. That's synonymous. As a man speaketh, so is it. Your word, your voice. and his
voice. You don't separate them. Christ
and his word, his person, and his work. His word is his power. It's the word of his power. All
right, now turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter 3. All right? This shouldn't
take too long tonight. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. Very important message tonight. Walk while you have the light.
Christ is the light. Christ is that Son of Righteousness. That Son of Righteousness which
arises with healing in His wing. We're born blind. Man is born blind to the things
of God. Man doesn't see God. God is seen
spiritually. Man doesn't understand God's
Word. It's a revelation. And Christ
gives eyes to see His Word. Christ gives eyes to
see Himself. What are the eyes? How do we
see? What are the eyes that Christ
gives? It's His Word. This is our eyesight. We walk not by physical sight,
but by faith, faith in his word. All right? No man sees, you know,
the natural man says seeing is believing, not Christ, not the
word of God. The word of God says believing
is seeing. Remember in John 11 when Christ
said, Did not say unto you if thou wouldest believe thou shouldest.
See. The glory of God, so no man approaches
God and says, well, if you show me, I'll believe. God doesn't
prove himself like that. He doesn't have to. Why should
he? He says you believe and then
I'll show you. But no man is going to believe
unless God gives him that grace. But 2 Corinthians 3, look at
this. I want you to notice this. It's spiritual. His word is like
spiritual magnifying glass. Verse 14 says, people's minds were blinded.
And until this day remain at the same veil, untaken away in
the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ.
This book from start to finish is a mystery to the natural man.
That's what 1 Corinthians 2 says. Natural man receiveth not the
things of God. It's foolishness to him. He can't understand.
He tries to figure it out by human logic. Can't be done. He
can't figure out God by human logic. God says, As high as the
heavens are above the earth, so are my ways and your ways,
my thoughts and your... You can't figure out God by thinking
of Him as a man. That's what God said in Psalm
50. He said, You thought I was just like you. Thou thoughtest
thou was such a one just as yourself. You can't even begin to think
of God in terms of a man. How he does things or what he's
like. You just can't compare him. How
do you compare God? How do you begin to think of
God? how he reveals himself here. And it doesn't gel with logic.
That's the reason people don't believe. They try to fit God
into their way of thinking. God's going to have to change
your mind. Well, look at these verses. Read
on. This veil is done away in Christ.
The mystery is revealed in Christ. You see Christ, who's the light,
and the whole body is full of light. Scripture says, Christ
said, if your eye be single, the whole body is full of light.
This is the body of divinity. Right? You have John Gill's Body
of Divinity? I do. It's a body of divinity
being a body of theology. or a book full of study of God. This is God's body of divinity. Okay? Well, in Him, in Christ
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. If thine
eye be single, the whole body is full of what? Say it. Are you with me? So I know you're
with me. If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of Light. If you're looking for Christ
in this book, you'll understand this. Because it's him, he said,
they are they which testify of me, not Jewish history, his story. All right, you'll see every parable,
you'll see every story, even Old Testament, every story. Look
at it, verse 15, even unto this day, when Moses is read, the
veil is upon their heart. They don't understand what it's
all about. Verse 16, Nevertheless, when it, that is the heart, shall
turn to the Lord, who's the Lord? Christ. The veil shall be taken
away. Now the Lord is that spirit.
Christ is that spirit. Where the spirit of the Lord
is, there's liberty, there's freedom to understand, to know. You're not in bondage
to human logic. You're not in bondage to ignorance.
Bondage to darkness. Darkness is bonding. Look at verse 18. Here's the
verse, really, I want you to see. But we all with open face
behold Him, or that is all who see Christ in the book, behold
as in a glass the glory of the Lord. This is like looking through
a magnifying glass. And you see on every page, every
jot and tittle, Every Old Testament type, Christ
just comes out. Doesn't it? Well, there's times
when we're just reading the Scripture in preparation for the preaching.
Doesn't it just, oh, light just shines all over the pavement.
There's times when we're reading and I think, I don't need to
preach on that. They've seen it already. Right? As in a glass, the glory of the
Lord. And we're changed as you behold that glass, as you look
in that glass. You're changed in the same image
from glory to glory. You grow, that is, by the Spirit
of the Lord. It's His Word. And look down
at verse 6 of chapter 4. It says, God who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts. to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. You see
that? Beholding in the glass the glory of the Lord. The glory
of God. Where is it seen? In the face of a person. You
see, the law came by Moses. He came down from the mountain
and had to veil his face. His face shone. But grace and
truth came by Christ and he removes the veil. He removes the veil. Oh, that's
wonderful. And the Word of God is everything.
Christ is all. And His Word is everything. Because
it speaks of Him. The Word of God, we're born again
by it. We're born by it. This is the
seed. This is the incorruptible seed
by which Peter says, we're born again. We're born by it. We grow by it, desire the sincere
milk of the word that you might grow thereby. We grow by it.
The word of God warms the heart. It's like the sun, which warms
us. When the sun is veiled, it's
cool, you know, you become cold. Depending on how far away the
earth is from the sun depends on how cold it gets, right? The
closer to the sun, the warmer you get. And when the sun shines in your
heart that warms, the word of God restrains us. Order my steps
in thy word that have no iniquity, have dominion over me. Thy word
have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. It's the
words of the word, you see that? But Paul said this. In talking
about this glass we see through, Paul said, and you can go back
to the text in John 12, Paul said we see through a glass how? Dimly. Dimly. We see through this glass dimly,
don't we? I preach in part. I preach what
I know. How much do I know? Not much.
We know in part, you see. But when that which is perfect
is come, we'll know as we've been known. Compared to how we
shall see someday, as He is, we'll see Him as He is. And like
I said, everyone in here is going to say, well, the half was never
told. We thought we saw Christ high
and lifted up, The half wasn't so. We thought
we saw glory. That's glory. We thought we heard
wonderful things. Compared to what we shall know,
we'll know as we have been known. Dim. Our eyesight is very dim. But compared to former blindness, compared to what you were before
the light of God's Word, or rather Christ, shone in your heart? You see, don't you? You say like
that man blind, you know, a little bit of eyesight is infinitely
better than none. You say like that man in John
9, he said, I once was blind, and now I see. And though I see
men walking like trees, I don't see clearly as I do see now. Right? I do see now, compared
to former ignorance concerning God and concerning yourself,
you know, don't you? That's what it means there in
1 Corinthians 2, that the spiritual man discerneth or understandeth
all things. Oh, sure, we don't understand all things, do we?
But compared to the natural man, we have little light concerning
all things. Well, it says we behold and are
changed in the same image. You know, you can tell somebody
that's not out in the sun very much. You can tell them. Unless they are real fair-skinned,
you know, and just have to stay out of it, keep from being burned. Let me put it this way. You can
tell somebody that's out in the sun a whole lot. They're browned
by it. They are changed by it. Right? You can't be out in the
sun very long and not be changed by it. And you know, you can tell somebody
that hadn't been in the sun, hadn't seen the S.O.N., Their
speech betrays them, their visage, their countenance. And when Christ
is preached from the pulpit, their countenance betrays them.
There's no light there in their face. They don't see Christ.
You know, somebody, a visitor walks in, they don't even have
a Bible with them, I think. They sure are ignorant. But this
is it. I mean, this is it. This is all
there is. This is it. The Word is truth. This world... Sunday talked about the world. Darkness is stealing over this
land. Darkness is. Darkness pervades
in this land. I gave the illustration of Eli
in the temple. Remember old Eli? who was the
high priest, and yet he grew fat and lazy, and it says the
lamp went out, which is a picture of the Word. That Word is a lamp. The lamp went out. That's a picture
of today, modern religion. The fellow that's in the temple
who's supposed to know something about the Word of God, it's gone
out. He's not preaching. The lamp went out. The ark was
taken, remember? The enemies came in and got the
ark. The ark's the gospel. The ark's a picture of the gospel.
Christ crucified. That's gone out of the temple,
hasn't it? The enemy has stolen away the gospel. And you remember
those two boys that were working around the temple, Hopni and
Phineas, sons of Eli? Wicked fellows. They were in
it for money and women. And that's what was going on. The light went out. The ark was
taken. And there was a baby born to
one of those boys. Remember that? Remember what
his name was? See if you're with me. Good. I didn't have to call him that.
Ichabod. There's a boy named Ichabod born
as a result of that. Those boys and all that went
on. What does Ichabod mean? The glory has departed. What's the glory? We just read
it. We all, as in a glass, behold
the glory of the Lord. God hath shown in our hearts
to give life and knowledge of the glory of God in a person. Well, that's religion. That's
the state of it. Ichabod is over the door. darkness. But you're not in darkness
as others. You're not in darkness. Look
at the text again. We have light. Walk, verse 35,
again. You get a little while, there's
a light with you. Just a little while. Walk while
you have the light. Let darkness come upon you. We
have the gospel. I make no apology for that. I
don't hesitate to say it without hesitation. without reservation,
and as I said, no matter how, what's the word, no matter how
boastful that may sound, that this gospel is the gospel, the
only gospel. I don't want to sound egotistical
in myself, but I'm just saying with confidence, like the Apostle
Paul, my gospel is Paul's gospel. I preach exactly what the Apostle
Paul preached, and that's the gospel. There is no other gospel.
So I say, if any man preach any other gospel than what I am preaching
in this place, and Cody Groover or any other man that preaches
the gospel, if anybody, even an angel in heaven, even one
they think is an angel by the name of Billy, that which is highly esteemed,
he's angels. Let him go to hell. It's not
the gospel. Another Jesus. There's only one
Jesus Christ, the scripture. And he's the one we preach the
way we preach him. No less. We preach him more,
because there have been some. But no less. High and lifted
up. You can't make God too sovereign. We haven't declared him sovereign
enough. We're going to see him someday. We're going to see him
someday. And we're going to see. He's
sovereign. He's king. Always has been. Always will be. I didn't know
the half of how sovereign he was. I didn't believe the half of
it. So he says, walk in this light,
this gospel, be light, lest darkness come upon you. Darkness. And he that walketh in darkness,
he said, knoweth not whither he goeth. You remember that illustration
I gave you of my dad leading us down to Mexico, walking out
in front of everybody? I just thought of that. Let me
tell you, in case you weren't here. We were down in Mexico, and boy,
I tell you, that place is... You need to know where you're
going. I mean, if you walk around the block, you need to know where
you're going. Seriously. That place is a mass of confusion. A little old place that's almost
a million people in it. It's just a mess. I cannot describe
to you what it's like. Buses and cars and bikes and
people. And we were walking downtown
and my dad was leading. He was out in front. Leading us. Walter Gruber who
lives there. He knows where he's going. He's
been there, done that, you know. And he was back in the back like
Walter was, you know. You know, Walter, whatever he
was doing. And Dad, all of a sudden, and
Todd and Ibert and I were behind Dad, and all of a sudden Dad
stopped and we about bumped into him. He turned around and said,
Wait a minute. I said, Why am I leading? I don't
know where I'm going. He said, I'm just like one of
these Arminian preachers today. He said, I'm leading and I don't
know where in the world I'm going. He said, I'm leading and I don't
know where I'm going. Blind leaders of the blind. That's what Christ
said then. He said, Walter, get up here and lead. If you can
follow a man knows where he's going. Can't you? Christ is the light. You can
follow a man who's holding forth his life. Those who don't, in
darkness. To the law and to the testimony.
If they speak not according to this word, what's the word according
to? Christ. Because there's no blind
in them. He either has his dream, let
him tell his dream. He either has his little miracle, let him
do his little miracle. He that hath my word, God said,
let him proclaim it faithfully. And those who see the light walk
while they have it. Walk in it. Read the next verse. While you have light. You notice
he keeps saying this? While you have it. While you have the light. Believe
in the light. that you may be the children
of light." Well, you have to believe in the light. Believe
in the light. Believe in the light. If you've
got a Bible and you're looking at it, believe it. The man's
preaching to you from the scriptures, clearly, plainly, not twisting
it and perverting it, telling you what it is. Believe it. He
said, I don't understand it. He didn't tell you to. He said,
believe it. While you have it, believe it.
If you think you're ignorant or confused now, you leave the
light and watch how ignorant and confused you'll be. It'll be like you were. If you think you're ignorant
and confused now, you leave this light, the only light there is,
and watch how ignorant and confused. If you think you're in bondage
to sin and got problems now, you leave the light and you see
how in bondage and and sin and you'll get, how low you'll get.
You'll follow anything and anyone. You leave the light, you'll follow
anything and anyone. You'll search in every place
for something and find nothing. You don't have light. You grope
in the darkness, don't you? Searching. You never find. Believe in the light. He says
that you may be children of light. I don't understand. Believe. Maybe that's the problem. Why you have the light? Walk
in what light you have. Believe that. I'll show you more. Believe. That means rejoice.
Don't say, I'm always miserable. Start rejoicing. Maybe that misery
will go away a little bit. Start believing. Trust God. As
a little child, an understanding will come. More peace will come. You know, a young child begins
walking with his parents. And that child's safe and sound
as long as he's with his parents. And that parent will continue
to teach that child. The child will grow in understanding.
You don't get it all at once, do you? Believe. Trust your Heavenly
Father. But if you're disobedient to
the least that He says, then you'll stay like a child. Right? A child that's disobedient, he'll
stay childlike all his life. Do you follow what I'm saying? This obedient child from the
start will stay like he'll be a big baby when he grows up. So I don't have much faith. I
don't have much strength. I don't have much understanding
or patience. Let me ask you something. And let me ask you with compassion
and understanding and realizing, knowing your frame, knowing my
frame, How much time do you spend in
the Word that gives these things? It gives all these things. Faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by faith. Because I don't have
much faith. According to your faith, so be
it unto you. All the more reason to take advantage
of every time here to hear the word prepared, it's
already prepared for you, right? You get, as I've said before,
you get a double portion. Like the Sabbath of old, the
people got a double portion for two
days, and that's what you get here. All the more reason to
take advantage of every opportunity, every opportunity. But let me
say this. I was going to have you turn
to the book of James at the time of Cleveland. James said, A double-minded
man is unstable in all his ways. A double-minded man is unstable
in all his ways. A double-minded woman. What do you want? We do what we want to do. We're not going to blame God's
sovereignty for our lack of faith. We just can't do that. I'm talking to believers now.
There's nobody going to believe unless God sovereignly elects
them and operates on them the salvations of the Lord. I'm talking
to believers. I'm talking about those who have
already been operated on by the Spirit of God, those who already
believe in Christ, who know their gospel. I don't think nobody is going to
be interested in God unless God moves. If anybody does call, it's God
moving. But to those who have felt this operation of God, we
do what we want to do. We do what we want to do. We
make time for what we want to make time for. Everybody in here, we make time for whatever we
want to make time for. I mean, if it's important enough
to us, we make time for that. I don't have enough faith. Who's to blame? We read what
we want to read. Don't we? Can't nobody twist
our arm and make us read whatever it is we read. We read what we
want to read. We watch what we want to watch, say, the television. We watch when we have full control. If you're like me, you like to
have full control. And I know every man in here
does like to have full control over the controller. They say
it's a manless thing. We watch what we want to watch.
We listen to tapes. You get in your car. I don't
have much faith. Faith comes by. So I stick in Vince Gill. He
doesn't know the drums from before. Holy rope. I don't have much faith. Surely
Ricky Skaggs has. I don't have much faith. How
about a rebound? It sounds, it's funny, isn't
it? It's not funny. I don't have much faith. Blame
yourself. Blame yourself. We listen to
what we choose to listen to. Got a whole library full of faith
down here. Whole library full. Walk in the
light while you have the light. And if you walk in what light
you have, God will give you more light. Now look at this ominous
warning. He said it twice, while you have
life. While you have life. Look at
verse 36. While you have life, believe
in the life that you may be the children of life. These things
spake Jesus and departed and did hide himself from you. Well, let me go on, OK? You see, what's that say? Verse 37, Though he had done
so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him.
But I say, And if Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which
he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? To whom hath the
arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe,
for as Isaiah said again in verse chapter 6, he hath blinded their
eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with
their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted,
and I should heal them. Let me just stop a moment. If anybody believes, God gets
all the glory for it, all the credit for it. If anybody doesn't
believe, they get all the blame for it. You say, I don't understand.
Yeah, you do. I can't reconcile it. Don't try
it. That's the way it is. Nobody's going to believe him
if God sovereignly causes them to. But if that person doesn't,
they get to blame. That's not fair. That's what
they said in Romans 9. That's not fair. What did Paul say? Who are you to reply to God? God's God. You're a man. He says,
Believe. He says, Repent. He says, Seek.
He says, Do all this. You just said, I can't do it
anyway. I'm confused now. You sure are. We sure are. Nothing confusing. Salvation is of the Lord. You've
got to have it. You better ask for it. What's confusing about
that? Well, if I'm one of the elect,
if you're one of the elect, you'll ask for it. What's confusing
about that? So he had done so many miracles,
yet they believed not. What about us? How many miracles
have been done in our midst? Look right there sitting between
Joe and Nancy Parker. Right there is a miracle. And it's going to be a miracle
if he grows up, isn't it? It's not a miracle he's made
it this far. It's a miracle of the sovereign grace of God. He gave him to you. That's a
miracle. Life's a good miracle. Every day is a mercy of God.
His mercies are new every morning. If he grows up, the Lord saves
him. Oh, that's a miracle of all miracles,
isn't it? How many miracles are we saying?
Everybody in here ought to be able to stand up and tell what
wondrous things, what wondrous things the Lord has done for
us. The goodness of God. Wondrous things. You know the
miracle of miracles that I want, that we have seen time and again. Psalm 119, verse 18. Wondrous things from his word. We have beheld a miracle, a miracle
from the Word of God, haven't we? Huh? He has shown us. You know, we've just gone in
the Holy of Holies. The high priest has come out
and got a common priest and ripped the veil in two and brought him
in. open the ark, the high priest come out and get one of us, pinhead,
peon, and brought us in and said, Oh, lift the ark up. This was a preaching. Anyway,
I made reference to the Word of God being like a multi-room
mansion that we go through. Have you ever been in a Biltmore
house? You've had that. How did you act when you went
in there early? Now, be honest. You went in there and You're
from Franklin County, man. You live on Riverview Street.
Now, how'd you act? Your mouth was open. I know it
was. Going through and beholding all these run-ins. What we've seen through God's
Word. He's opened door. He opens door at the door of
truth through his Word. Look at that. Did you see that?
Right, Deborah? Yet they believe not on it. And I was going to turn to Hebrew.
I don't have a watch on. I could turn. But Hebrew 6 says
this. Now listen as I quote it to you. It says, for those who were once enlightened
and have tasted the heavenly gift. And we're made partakers,
or that is, participants of the Holy Ghost, whenever the Holy
Ghost is around, and takes the things of Christ and shows them
to everybody, the glory of Shekinah, and have tasted the good word
of God. Oh, it's good, it's good, it's
good. And the powers of the world to come for a taste of the glory
of God. If they shall fall away, if they
leave this gospel, if they leave this light, he said, it's impossible
to bring them back. I've never seen it happen. Somebody claimed to love and
believe the gospel and see wonders of it and then leave and they
won't come back. They won't do it, you know. Why? Because he said they put
him to an open shame. They put the word of God. God's
not waiting around for man to see ahead of his whim. When's
he going to get interested? Well, he's interested today,
not today. Well, he's in today, he's out tomorrow. Well, I'll
just wait around. Today is the day of salvation.
It's hard not to your heart, as in the provocation. While
it is today, walk in the light while you have the light. The
gospel is being preached tonight. Believe it. It says here in our text, it
says, They believed not, though they had seen so many miracles,
so God hardened their hearts. Now, right there is gospel hardening.
A man sitting under the gospel, sitting under the gospel, sitting
under the gospel, a young person sitting under the gospel, sitting
under the gospel, sitting under the gospel, unmoved, unfeeling,
uncaring, hardened, hardened, hardened, hardened, hardened. No one leaves the gospel and
return to just don't do it. I know, listen now, you may live,
you may leave doctrine. That means you were never saved.
All right? A young person may sit under the gospel and never
make a profession of faith and then leave, but they were never
saved. And God, in a miracle work of
miracle, bring that word. That seed was planted a long
time ago. That seed was planted. And God
does something in providence to water that seed. And they
say, like that prodigal son, I'm lost. I've got to get home. brings them back to the gospel
and they, ah, light shines, life again. He may do that, he may
not, but he may. Don't count on it. Young people, don't count on
it. Today presents that way. Now
is the light. You've got the gospel now. I
go after old Joe Smoe, old Judy Blue Eyes, and that's all you
ever see from then on. You never, never come to crime. It usually doesn't happen. Well, it's an important message. God works, you see, what God
does, if people don't leave the gospel, I said they may leave
doctrine, but they don't leave Christ. That's not the way God
works. Uh-uh. That's not the way God
works. What he does is forever. He that
hath begun a good work, he'll finish it. Well, someone objects and says,
what about the apostles who left Christ at his crucifixion? That was to fulfill the Scripture. Wasn't it? To fulfill the Scripture. Psalm 22. It had to happen. He said it would happen. It had
to happen. And it was a temporary act of
insanity on their part. Temporary act of unbelief. And
when they went fishing, listen to me, when they went fishing,
They thought Christ was dead. And everybody here, if we had
been there, we'd have gone fishing with them. And if you ever get
in this place of preaching, you'll want to quit all the time. It don't surprise me ever a man
gets quit preaching. It surprises me when a man can
keep preaching. It's a whole lot easier to go fishing.
That didn't surprise me. But did they leave off loving
Christ? They went fishing. But did they leave Christ? No,
sir. What did Christ say when he got them gathered around that
fire? When he saw Peter, he said, Peter, do you love me? Well, first of all, Rick, he
proved it then when he jumped out of that boat. Did he quit
loving Christ? Did he leave Christ? No, he quit
preaching. He just quit going fishing. Do you leave Christ,
do you leave off loving Christ? No. The love of God was shed
abroad in his heart. And even though he did forsake
him in a temporary moment, he dove off that ship to get to
him, didn't he? Huh? And when they got around
that fire, Christ said, Do you love me? Without hesitation. You know what I did. I was insane. You know I love you. You put
it there. See, you can't leave Christ if Christ is in the heart. Where are you going to go? Where
then shall we flee from his presence? Huh? You sang that song, Christ
liveth in me. Where are you going to escape
from him then? Aren't you glad about that? Hmm? No one who loves
Christ in the gospel leaves Christ in the gospel. They say with
Peter, what did Peter say before that? When he was offered the
opportunity to go. Leave, go on, you go away. Lord,
where? And you've been given opportunity,
haven't you? This is life. But there have
been temporary acts of insanity on your part. to leave. I'm quit. What's the use? I quit. Well, you're not. If you're Christ. You can't leave Christ. You can
leave doctrine. You can't leave Christ. You see, you've been apprehended.
That's what Paul said. He said, I've been apprehended. And he said, I apprehend that.
He said, He said, I lay hold on that by
which I've been apprehended. I apprehend that which I'm apprehended. In other words, he laid old hold
on me, and, buddy, I'm laying hold on him, and will not let
him go by his plan. Walk in the light while you have
the light. While you have the light, believe
in the light, that you may be children of light. They'd be children of light.
Someone who leaves is just not of us. That's what John said. He knew that they went out from
us. They were not of us. If they
had been of us, they, no doubt, would have continued with us.
Why? This is the gospel. This is where Christ is. This
is the light, the walking light, while you have the light. Believe
in the light. You may be children of light,
and you'll give Him more light. OK. I just want to go on. Christ left, didn't He? And this church, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, the
light we have seen. When Christ left, these people
hid themselves from Him. Walk in the light. Don't take
this gospel for granted. Believe while the light shines. All right? Let's stand. Our Lord, work, move, blow, O
Holy Spirit, on the hearts of men, women, and young people. Shine in the hearts, dark hearts,
of some who . . . and all of us, Lord, we see dimly and darkly.
We are all still so full of darkness. Shine, arise, shine, for thy
light cometh. The Lord has enabled us to believe.
Walk as children of light. Let darkness come upon us. Let you hide yourself and hide
the gospel from us like you did those people of old who could
not believe. You hardened their hearts. O Lord, these things
spake Isaiah when he beheld his glory. Speak of him. We have
beheld your glory. So we ask that you not remove
that vision from us, to ever keep Christ before our eyes,
to ever keep us looking to him, trusting him. Lord, increase
our faith. Increase our hunger and thirst. Let us ask not seek, and therefore
receive, and be opened, and find. O light of the world, shine upon
us, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.