As you know, we have been studying
through the Gospel of John. I was just Just sitting there thinking how
providential it has been, how the Lord providentially brought
these things up at this time. I have already prepared Ellen's
funeral message. I prepared it before she passed
away. I knew what it was a long time
ago. It was from John 11. Providentially, we just went
through that. And so the Lord bears witness
with us over and over the truth of these things. But in John
chapter 11, for those of you who know, that's the story of
the resurrection of Lazarus from the grave. The story of our Lord
raising Lazarus, he whom Christ loved, raising him from the dead. And then here in chapter 12,
we read about a supper for Christ, and Lazarus was there. After
he was raised from the grave, Lazarus sat at supper with Christ. Now let's begin with verse 9.
It says, Much people of the Jews therefore knew that Lazarus was
there, and they came not for Jesus' sake only, or that is,
to see him, to see this Jesus, this miracle worker. But they
came also that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from
the dead. They really didn't have a preference
between the two. They just wanted to see all these
goings-on, you know. Now, I noted this before. We noted this before, that miracles
don't save anyone. Miracles don't convince anyone
of the truth. Miracles don't produce faith
in God, in Christ. Miracles don't do that. This
miracle of all miracles, raising a man from the dead, it didn't
produce faith in anybody. We're going to see that. The Scriptures, our Lord said
in John 14 that the Holy Spirit must convince a man, a woman,
a young person of sin, righteousness, and judgment. This is what brings
salvation. Miracles don't do it. Our Lord
said an evil and adulterous generation seeks after signs and wonders
and miracles. Emotional testimonies don't do
it. Lazarus never said a thing. It's significant that God's Word
doesn't record anything Lazarus says. If this were the National Enquirer,
they'd have had a full couple of page interview with Lazarus
as he told what all he saw while he was dead. Not God's Word,
because a testimony of a man, does it say. I take that back. The testimony of that man does. The word of that man, the Lord
Jesus Christ. But miracles don't save. Emotional
testimonies don't save. Mysterious stories, signs and
wonders, those don't save. Our Lord said unbelievers seek
a sign. Unbelievers. They don't believe
the record. This is the record. This is what
God reveals and has his people believe. Not some, not some sign. See,
the just live by faith in what he's saying, not by sight. Can't
trust your sight. It might be an illusion. But
you can trust this. Trust God's word. Look over at
2 Thessalonians with me. 2 Thessalonians chapter Chapter
2, and I'll show you that. 2 Thessalonians 2. Do you have it? 2 Thessalonians
2. There's one thing the Lord uses to reveal himself to his
people. It's not miracles and signs and
wonders, it's this Word. It's the truth, the gospel. Look at verse 10. Now, this is
very revealing. He talks of the Scriptures as
talking about people being deceived, him who comes with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness, and them that perish, because they receive
not the love of the truth. That's the gospel, love of the
truth, that they might be saved. Read on. Look at verse 11. That is, since they receive not
the preaching of the word, the love of the gospel, the truth,
God's word, for this cause God shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie and be damned. Is there any validity
to some of these miracles and wonders and signs going on today?
Is there any validity to it? Are any of these things happening? Yes. Yes. It says here that God sent them.
It says, Believe a lie. Isn't that what it says there?
You know what your... Strong delusions. Men don't receive
the simple preaching of the Word, just a man standing up and declaring
what God has said. Don't receive that. So they go
where a man, or maybe a woman even, is standing up and doing
all sorts of miraculous things and they believe that are all
taken with that. And they end up perishing. But
they see some signs and wonders these things something some of
them at least are so God sent not that they might be saved.
But the condemned. For not receiving You remember
when our Lord said, now there's only one sign that's going to
be given. You remember that? Does everyone in here know what
sign the Lord Jesus Christ said would be given? That's right,
there's a lady who does. He said no sign will be given
except the sign of the prophet Jonas. And as Jonas laid three days
and three nights in the belly of the whale, even so the Son
of Man will lie three days and three nights in the heart of
the earth. And Jonah came out of the belly, so did the Son
of Man. That's the gospel. That's the
story of the gospel. Christ said that's the only sign,
wonder, and miracle that God's going to give, the gospel. And his people will hear it and
wonder at it. Well, these curiosity seekers
here in John 12, these curiosity seekers, miracle watchers, they
came to see the miracle worker and the one who received the
miracle. That reminds me so much of modern religion, doesn't it? Just turn on your TV and you'll
see it, any channel you want to. Turn it on and you'll see
people who are interested not in a man standing up declaring
this word, word for word. but interested in a man up there
making a fool out of himself and making a fool out of other
people. Them wallowing on the ground and healing their, throwing
their crutches away and all sorts of nonsense like that. That's
what this reminds me of. I read on, verses 10 and 11. Then the chief priests consulted
that they might put Lazarus also to death, because by reason of
him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus. Now this
is a picture of how men hate, people hate, true disciples of
Christ. That's what this is a picture
of. Christ said this. He said, they
will hate you because they hated me. He said, marvel not. if the world
hate you. They hated me. No, he said that
they hated me before they hated you. And he said in another place,
they'll seek to kill you. Time will come when they that
seek to kill you think they do God a service. And it's the same
today with those who know and believe and declare the true
and sovereign Christ, Christ of Scripture. All those who declare
him as he is, sovereign, all-powerful, will be hated by the world. It's so. You know it's so. Many
of you who believe and merely go out and declare who has all
power. That this Jesus is not like men
say he is. He's not in their hands to do
with as he pleases. That's not Jesus Christ. You
go and declare that this Jesus is not the one they're saying
who has done all he can do, and now it's up to me. And that's
not the Jesus Christ of Scripture. Go out and declare that this
Jesus is not the one who tried all he can do, and now it's up
to you, who tried and failed, who, what will you do with Jesus
who's in your hands, who wants so bad to save you, if only you'll
let him. That is not the Jesus Christ
of Scripture. Do I have to declare that he's
the one who raises men from the dead? He's the one who must raise them
from the dead, or they'll stay dead. Lazarus, I'm sure, said,
I was dead. And he didn't come to my grave
and say, will you accept me as your personal raiser from the
dead, or Savior. He didn't do that. I was dead. He didn't ask me anything. I
didn't cooperate with him at all. But he came who has all
power and said, rise! And I wouldn't have risen unless
he had said so. That's the Jesus Christ of the
Scripture, Lazarus said. And they said, we don't like
that. Well, he's not that. He's just a man like we are.
And that's what this modern world says of Jesus. He's just a man
like we are. He can't do anything unless we
let him. No, he's not. All power, he says, given unto
me in heaven and earth. I kill, Deuteronomy 32, 39. I kill. Anybody dies, Jesus Christ
killed them. That's Christ's description.
I kill. I make alive. Anybody lives,
he lives. He gave them life. I wound. Anybody get sick, he makes them
sick. I don't like that. That's the
way it is. I personally like that. That means nothing can touch
me, not hell or high water, unless he decides so. I'm in good hands. That he's worked all things after
the counsel of his own will. That all things work together
according to his all-wise purpose for my good. I'm glad he has
all power. Are you? Declare that. Just go out like I'm doing right
now and declare it to someone and they'll hate you. Some of you are nodding your
head because you've done it and you've experienced their hatred.
So did Lazarus. What did Lazarus do? Understand? What did Lazarus do? Lazarus
just went out and said, Hey, I was dead. And he raised me. I said, we're going to put you
out of here. Well, so be it. So be it. But fear not him who
kills the body, and after that can do no more. Look at verse
12. Let's read these next few verses.
Verse 12 through 15. On the next day, much people
that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was
coming to Jerusalem, They took branches of palm trees, and went
forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, Hosanna! Blessed is the King of Israel,
that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had
found the young ass, sat thereon as it is written, Fear not, daughter
of Zion, behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's Hosanna. That word Hosanna means,
oh, save us. Oh, save us. Now, I said a while ago that,
and this is written, that they came to see Lazarus and Jesus,
right? Both, either one. They believed
in him. Did they? They cried, Hosanna. Save us. I'm sure that these people did
not say this out of hearts broken over sin. They were not saying
this as broken-hearted sinners saying, Oh, save us from our
sin. Oh, no. These were Jews who wanted liberation
from Roman rule. Oh, yeah. They wanted liberation
from Roman rule, and they said this. But they said this. Stan,
they said this. because they had to say this. They must say this. God said
a long time ago that they would say this in order for Scripture
to be fulfilled. You see, you remember Proverbs
16.1? The answer of the tongue is of the Lord. Here Christ is
going to ride into town, and they've got to announce his coming.
It's always so when a king comes into his court. and ascends his
throne, someone announces his coming.
Just like John the High Priest had to be anointed. Somebody's
got to anoint him. Mary said, I think I'll anoint
him. She didn't know what she was doing. When a king comes in, he's about
to ascend his throne and take his scepter. Somebody's
got to announce his coming. They didn't know what they were
doing. Oh, shut up! This is it. Yes, it is. Oh, he had these people to fulfill
scripture. He had these people shouting
to fulfill his word. Shortly, why do I know this,
that they didn't believe him? Shortly thereafter, they were
saying, crucify him. Every one of them. They didn't believe he was the
Savior, their Lord, Lord of salvation, just like men don't believe that
now who call him Lord, Lord. They don't need him as Lord over
salvation. They need him to give them a
new car or a new house or heal their arthritis. Hosanna! Heal me! Well, look at verse 16. All right? Verse 16. Now, stay with me.
These things understood not his disciples at first. They didn't
understand what was going on. They didn't understand what these
people were saying, why this was taking place. But when Jesus
was glorified When he arose from the grave, and you remember it
says he revealed, he opened the scriptures to them, preached
the beginning and the books of Moses and the law and the prophets
and the Psalms, things concerning himself. He preached Zechariah
9. I'm going to try here in a minute,
but I'm going to fail miserably. He preached it, and he didn't
fail. Because later on they said, now
I see what this was all about. We remember now when you were
coming into the city, what they were saying. They had to say
that. Now we know why that took place. Now we know who you are. Now we see you as you are. These things were written of
him. And that they had done these things unto him. They did these
things because it was written that they would do these things.
Isn't that marvelous thing? That's marvelous. All right,
turn over to Zechariah 9 now. Zechariah 9. You see, this was
written, was prophesied many, many, many, many years before
it took place. Zechariah chapter 9. This is
the Scripture prophecy of this scene that was fulfilled in the
New Testament. As with all the Old Testament
They are they which testify of Christ. One man recently pointed out
that I preach from the Old Testament types a great deal. That's because
I want you to know the true Christ. That when you see him in the
New Testament, you'll know this is the Christ. This is him. You see, the Jews missed him.
When he came, they missed him. Why? They missed him in the Old.
They missed him in the Old Testament. They didn't see these things
as pictures of Christ, John. They saw them as rules of life,
how to live right. Right? Men today miss it. They miss
the point of the Old Testament. They don't see any beauty or
need of the Old Testament. Why? They don't see Christ in
it. That's what 1 Corinthians 3 talks about. Well, look at it here in Zechariah
9-9. This is glorious. I hope the
Lord will make it so. Zechariah 9-9, he says, and this
is the prophecy of what happened. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold! Stop! Consider! Look! Thy King cometh unto thee."
He's just and having salvation, lowly, riding upon an ass, upon
a colt, the foal of an ass. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion. We just sang two hymns. Somebody
requested, did you request that hymn, Brandon, March into Zion? I didn't tell you I was going
to preach on this. Zion. What does Zion mean? Huh? What is Zion? Was that the Jewish
state? Huh? Well, there was a place
over there. Listen to this, Joe. You'll like
this. There was a place over there, the original name given
to the city of David. The city of David where Jerusalem
now is. City of David was a rock, a rocky hill. There's a hill
over there in which Jerusalem sits. It's solid rock. And it's called Zion. Zion. That means a fortress, a habitation,
a place of safety. Well, a city set on a rock, set
up on a pedestal, as it were. This speaks not of Jerusalem
itself, but of New Jerusalem. This speaks of the church. Zion,
city of God, we sang that other song. This speaks of the church. He says, O daughter of Zion.
You see that? A daughter. I have a daughter.
She's my offspring. Right? She's the offspring, old
daughter of Zion. Offspring of the Church, and
every one of us have been born under the sound of the gospel.
Old daughter, that's female, isn't it? She's a female. She
will someday be some man's bride. When she gets about 40 or 45,
she will be some man's bride. I know it's a little early. It's
a little young, I know, but I am going to submit. But she'll be
the bride. She's a female, a daughter. Why
does he say old daughter of Zion? Why doesn't he say son? Because
that's the Church. Christ is our husband. We're
his bride. We're his bride. The Church is
the bride of Christ. So this says, rejoice to the
Church. Shout daughter of Jerusalem,
shout, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee." He comes to the Church. Now listen,
it says over in John 1, he came to his own, and his own received
him not. Now that's talking about the
Jews. Christ was born a Jew. He came to his own nation, that
is, Jewish nation. And they received him not, but
now some did receive him. John 1, 12 says, as many as received
him. And the next verse says, they
were born of God. They're the daughter of Zion.
Are you with me? Somebody. All right, there you
are. Stay with me. She was listening
to me, so that's the reason I'm going to preach to you from here
on out. Old daughter of Zion. Right there's a daughter of Abraham.
Daughter of Zion. A Jew. She wasn't born in Israel. Oh, she was born in Zion. Oh,
yeah. Born again, that is. She's a
Jew. A Jew's not worn out unless she's
not dark skinned, not dark curly hair. doesn't bear the physical resemblance
of a Jew, but she's a Jew. She's a Jew which is wanting.
Inwardly. Inwardly, he said. Rejoice, O
daughter of Zion. Shout. He says rejoice greatly,
doesn't he? Rejoice greatly. He comes to
you. Christ has come to you. Christ came for our sister Mary,
didn't He? Sister Mary Ellen came for her,
didn't He? He comes to you in the gospel this morning. He cometh
to rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. You who believe, behold,
thy King cometh. Shout! And if you feel led to
it, go ahead and shout. I didn't tell you to. Christ
did. O daughter of Jerusalem, behold,
thy King cometh unto thee. He cometh unto thee. Rejoice
greatly." In what? What do we rejoice in? If you
have to ask, then you don't know. What did Paul say? Jeanette,
there's another daughter. What did he say rejoice in? Rejoice
in what? Go ahead. Rejoice in the Lord. And again I say, rejoice. Rejoice greatly in the Lord.
This is what separates the true believer from a pretender. This
is what separates a true child of God from the supposed child
of God. Paul gave these three marks over
in Philippians of true believers. The true circumcision, he said
in Philippians 3, has three marks on Not that they speak in tongues. Not that they do none of this. Three things in Philippians 3.
He said they worship God in the Spirit. They worship God. That's what it's all about to
them. They worship God from the heart, in the Spirit. And the
Spirit takes the word of truth. That's how they worship God.
God's not worshiped with men's hands. Scripture says that, God's
not worshipped with men's hands. God's worshipped with God's word,
the truth. And he says, number two, worship
God in spirit. Number two, they rejoice. Somebody
say it. Go ahead, Mindy. They rejoice
in Christ Jesus. This is a true Jew. Jenny, do
you worship, do you come here and worship God? This is what
you're You don't come here to see the choir, we don't have
one. You didn't come here to see the handsome preacher, you
don't have one of those either. You come to worship God, to hear
of him. Rejoice in Christ Jesus. Do you
rejoice in this gospel? Do you rejoice to hear me stand
up here and preach nothing less than, nothing more than, Jesus
Christ and him crucified. That there's a daughter. And
thirdly, put no confidence in the flesh. Do you have any confidence
in yourself? That's the reason she rejoices
in Christ. Right? That's the reason she
rejoices in Christ. We have no confidence in the
flesh. If it's left up to me, I'm a goner. But it's not. It's
left up to Him. And those who know this joyful
sound, which is the gospel, they rejoice greatly. Did you hear
the gospel in that? Yes. Second verse, same as the
first. Rejoice again, I say, rejoice. They rejoice in Christ, who he
is, what he's done. Who is it? Right here it says,
thy King. Thy King. Now, was anybody here
eternity years ago, billions of years ago, and helped put
that crown on his head. Men say, don't they, make him
Lord, make him your. Is anybody there? Some of you
are old, I know that. Henry is old. He knew Methuselah. But he wasn't there back then
when that crown was placed on Christ's head. Oh no, there was
no flesh present, it was God Almighty placing the crown on
his son's head. And he said, I've declared the
decree when no one around to hear it. I set my king on my holy hill
of Zion. He crowned him then and there,
Rick, and later on he comes marching into his kingdom looking for
his subjects. He says, there's one, he found
one up a tree, come down and worship me, I'm your king. Found
one at a well, he said, worship me, I'm your king. Found a leper
coming down from a mountain, he fell at his feet and worshiped
him. He said, he's king, he always worshiped the king. Oh, worship
the king, all glorious above, and gratefully sin his power
and his love. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion. I, king, cometh to thee. Has
he come to you? Garnet, O daughter, are you a
daughter of Zion? Has he come to you in the gospel? Do you see him as king? Blessed are you, Garnet." Look
at the next line. He says, Zechariah 9, verse 9, Behold,
thy King cometh. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Shout! Now turn over to Isaiah 40. I've
got two more verses of Scripture. I might lose you. I might have
already lost you. I don't know. But I don't want to lose you
here, okay? I want you to turn to these two
verses of Scripture with me. And then we're going to turn
over to Numbers 23. And I just might hear a shout
before this is over. Not because of anything I say,
but if you see and hear what he says, you... Look at Isaiah 40. He says, shout. Shout, old man. What shall I cry?" Look at verse
2, "...speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, cry unto her." Shout! That's what the word cry means.
People don't like preachers that holler. Well, I don't either,
really, and I try not to most of the time. But here it says,
Doesn't he say that all the way through this verse? He says,
lift up your voice, be not afraid. Get up, verse 9, it says, get
up in the highest mount. Lift your voice with strength. This is the one time I am absolutely
commanded to shout. Do you mind? Huh? Cry out under
her, verse 2. What are you saying? Her warfare
is accomplished. I see some smiles. I see some
people who are rejoicing, old daughter of Jerusalem, who wish
you could get up here with me right now and shout this out.
No, sure, I know, I see it. Warfare is accomplished. What
are you talking about, preacher? She knows. Read on. Her iniquities pardoned. Sin's
gone. She's received of the Lord's
hand double for all her sins. There's a daughter. Oh, my. Prepare to shout. Look over at
Numbers 23. Numbers chapter 23. If that didn't
get it, this might. Numbers 23. Look at this. Now,
this is, I told you the other night to read Balaam. Well, here
it is. We'll read it. All right? Numbers
23. Numbers 23. Now, I know this is at the mouth
of a false prophet, but again, Stan, once again he's fulfilling
Proverbs 16. Now, answer the tongues of the
Lord. Balaam's about to say what God
tells him to say. He's about to say what God tells
him to say. Now, look at it in Numbers 23,
verses 19 through 21. Look at it. God came unto Balaam at night,
and said unto him," it meant, well, I'm in the wrong chapter. Yeah, chapter 23, verse 19. Look at what he said, "'God is
not a man, that he should lie, neither the Son of man, that
he should repent. Hath he said, shall he not do
it? Hath he spoken, shall he not
make it good?' Oh, yeah. Behold, I have received commandments
to bless, and he hath blessed. I cannot reverse it, while he
hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob. He doesn't see any sin in his
people, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord
his God is with him. The shout of the king is among
them. The shout of the king is among
them. What's the shout of the king among them? It's not people
shouting. Now listen to this. It's the king shouting. Whose king? Jesus Christ is among
them. When did he shout? The last words
he uttered on this planet while he was hanging on his throne,
he shouted. The Scripture says he cried with
a loud voice. It is finished. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy King has come, and
is coming again." And he's finished the work. His salvation is accomplished. Sins have been put away. All
foes vanquished. Rejoice, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! He did this for you. He said,
I am come that they might have light. Christ is King. Look,
back to the text, Zechariah 9. Very quickly, and I'll close,
all right? We need, we have to see this. Zechariah 9, verse
9. Christ the King. It says of him,
verse 9, you're going to like this. It says he's just. Thy King cometh unto thee, he
is just." Oh, my, all the way through scriptures it says he's
the just one. Why, this is the one who's just
and justifier. That's who he is, the just one.
My righteousness. And having salvation. Read on.
Having salvation. Do you, what's your margin say,
Rick, right there, right in front of us, having salvation? That
little number there, verse 9, having salvation. And what's
it say over there? In your? Saving himself. Does that mean he saves himself?
Oh no, if he saved himself, others he couldn't save. Saving by himself. That's what Hebrews 1 says, doesn't
it? When he had by himself purged
our sins. Sat down. Saving himself. He has salvation. Well, he does
all the saving himself. Rejoice! Salvation is not in
our cooperation, it's in his work. Completely. Saving himself. Read this next thing. He's lonely. lowly. He was made a man. This is what Proverbs 8 says. Psalm 8 says that he was made
a little lower than the angels. This is why men didn't believe
who he was. This is why the Jews didn't believe
who he was. This is why maybe you don't believe
who he was. He was a man. He was robed in
flesh. God in flesh. The Jehovah's Witnesses
don't believe that. Mormons don't believe that. Most
people don't believe that. Armenians don't believe that.
He's just a man. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, yes, he's
lowly. He became a man. And Paul went
over in Hebrews and said this, we see Jesus made a little lower
than the angels. Why? Can you quote the rest of
that verse? made little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death." He had to be a man to die. God
can't die. God had to assume a body to die,
so He did. He was lowly in that sense. A man. He came as a man, lowly. Thank God He did. Huh? Don't you rejoice greatly, John,
that there's a man in glory? You'll, we'll shout someday,
well look, a man! That's what they said over in
Psalm 24, open the gates! A man's coming in. And therefore
men can come with him. There's a man in those. Thank
God. So now this man can be there.
Lowly. Look at this. Oh, you're going
to like this. Oh, you're going to like this.
Well, if you know I do. Look at it, riding upon an ass. And he clarifies, he qualifies
it, he clarifies what this ass is. A colt, the foal of an ass,
a young ass. Now, over in Matthew and Mark,
don't turn that. Over in Matthew and Mark, it
gives the account of our Lord giving orders to his disciples
to go into that town, and you'll find, he said, tied up, tied up to a rail, maybe has
a twitch on his nose. Anybody who has horses knows
what a twitch is. Maybe a twitch, maybe hobbled. You know what
hobbles are, don't you, Joe? may be hobbled, but there's a
wild ass's coat. Now, Molly, my horse, just gave
birth to a coat. And that thing's growing up.
And I'm beginning to wish it'd been a feminine. If you know anything about horses
now, there's nothing wilder, there's nothing more unpredictable
than a coat, an unbroken young horse, or mule in this case. They're worse. You have mules,
Henry? They're worse till they're broken.
And Christ said, Now you go into town. Now listen to what he said. You go into town, and tied up
there'll be an ass's coat, and he said this, wherein no man
is ridden. He'd never been sat on, never
had a bet in his mouth, never had a saddle on him, unrideable,
unbrokenable, unbreakable, wild as a buck, as a Red River steer. Get him! Lead him like a lamb. I'm getting
on him. Now do you see the picture? You're
looking at a wild ass, who one day God said, tie him
up, lead him, put a bit in his mouth,
a saddle on his back, and gonna ride him. And I didn't buck a lick. didn't raise a foot. He breaks
the unbreakable. He rides the unrideable. He tames
the untameable. He's the only one who can. The
only one who can. We got Hannah's, has a young
horse, having him being trained right now. And this lady's spending
a great deal of time on him. It's taken her a long time. Christ
said, bring him. Put a saddle on him. And he hopped up on the road
into town. And that thing was like an old
gray mare. Rejoice. I rejoice. You know what they said of me? Some of them say, well, he'll
be in prison by the time he's twenty-one. They don't know how
true that was. Well, he'll never be. Never be
what? Well, if it's up to man, he'll
never be. But my king came. The king came and said, Catch him. He's mine. I bought
this coat. One nobody else wants. I could
do anything with it. That's the only kind of animals
he buys, you know. Wild asses coat. When you were by
nature children of wrath, even as others, but God came, thy
King came. Rejoice great. Aren't you glad?
Aren't you glad, Teresa? There's another. There's a chestnut
fillet. that he broke, right? Well, there's a, right back here
is a Palomino, blonde, named Jill. That he breaks, he breaks. He
takes his power, doesn't he? He takes his power. All right, let's sing a closing
hymn, Brother Joe, as we prepare for baptism. What number? 103. Jill, you come on and prepare,
and we'll sing hymn number 103. And how many verses are there? Five. Let's sing all five verses
as we get ready. Come on, Jill. Just think. One day when heaven was turning
to heaven's grace One day we'll see it in the morning me. Asking for truth from another
person. Wealth of a minion, that bold is he. Letting me love me, dying
he saved me. Where did he carry my Riding he just might, really
forever One day he's coming, on glorious days One day they'd
let him up Calvary's mountain One day they nailed me to die
on the tree. Suffering anguish, despised and
rejected, burying their sins buried deep. Where did he love me? Why did he slave me? Where did he carry what is far
away? Driving me just like God, living
forever. One day He's coming, O glorious
day! One day they left Him alone in
the garden. One day He rested from suffering
and grief. Now all is true to be fair to
me. Home of the hopeless, my savior
is he. Living in love with me, lying he's played me. Lady cabbage,
my friends borrow me. Rising he justified, reeling
forever. One day he's coming, O glorious
day. One day the grave could conceal
him no longer. One day the stones roll away. Oh, oh, let me ask God's word.
When I was descended, I wanted to move. Love me, like He takes me Where
He can't be, but is far away Rising we just with God, freely
forever One day He's coming, oh glorious day One day the trumpet with silver
is coming. One day the sky with its glories
will shine. Oh. Oh. One day He's coming, O glorious
day. What is baptism? Maybe some young people or someone
else may not know what this is all about or why we do this. But our Lord gave two things
for believers to do in remembrance of Him, to confess Him, He told
all those that believe him to be baptized. That is, go into
water. And this is a picture, this is
a symbol of how those who believe Christ, those whom he came to
save, those whom he came to die for, and lives for now. This is a
symbol, a picture, of how they confess before the world that
when He lived, He lived for them. We sing, we live right now. When
He died, He died for them. We died in Him. We were crucified
with Christ. I'm going to put Jill under the
water, a picture of how Christ was crucified for her. She was
buried with him, crucified with him. Her sins were placed on
him. Christ became Jill Olds when
he went to that cross, when he went to the grave. Jill Olds,
killed, dead before God. And I'm going to bring her out
of the water." That's a picture of a person arising to walk in
movement of life, to walk with Christ. And he said, you tell
the world. This is how you tell the world. Do you believe that? This is
your Christ. She told me, she came to me,
and there's so many of us in here, myself included. She said,
I made a profession when I was a young girl. I was baptized.
But she said, I didn't know Christ. But she said, I believe that
Christ has revealed himself to me. So that's it. That's it. That's just what I
wanted to hear. And I said, so, dude, what does
interest mankind? Let's do it. And how fitting. Isn't this a fitting time? That Jill's about to be buried
this morning. which her mother was buried many
years ago, spiritually speaking, and we will bury her body Tuesday. Isn't that fitting? Isn't that
the way the Lord moves? And she came asking for this
well before she knew her mother was gone. So it wasn't an emotional
thing, was it? Do you rejoice with our sisters
this morning? Say it with me. OK. Jill Ogle, in obedience to the
divine command of Christ Jesus our Lord, I baptize you, my sister,
our sister, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit. Okay, let's stand. Brother Joe,
will you do this in prayer for us? Our Holy Father, God, we
come to you through Christ our Savior, giving you thanks, and
all of you thanks for the name of your Savior, God, here at
this time. We thank you for this day. We thank you for Christ. We thank
you again for this day. We thank you for Christ. Thank God for your access, friends. I'd like to say goodbye. Please
go ahead for our team's briefing and see you again in just a moment. Amen. I don't know if you can see it. So, I'm going to go ahead and
do that. Thank you. Thank you.