I go back to John, chapter 9. John, chapter 9. This is such a relevant story, as all the Word of God is, but
this is so, so common, what happened here. Nearly every professing
Christian in our day, everyone who calls themselves a born-again
Christian, will tell you of some salvation experience that they
had. Maybe somebody in here has had
a similar experience. They'll tell you of a childhood
experience that they went through, a saving experience, or later on in life, perhaps.
saving experience, and sometimes it goes like this. They were having a revival meeting
down at the church house, and some friends invited me to go.
They kept, they'd been badgering me for a long time, and finally
I agreed to go, and I went. And at that time I'd been drinking
pretty hard and smoking and running around. And that night the preacher got up
and preached real hard. They had some singing and a lot
of singing and the preacher preached real hard. I don't remember his
text or anything he had to say, but he preached real hard. And
then they started singing some more. And they sang. And they sang and sang and sang
and the preacher would stop between verses and ask if there's anybody
there who needed help. Asked us to bow our heads and
if anybody needed help to raise their hand and I did. I don't
know what came over me but I raised my hand and they kept on singing
and I don't know what came over me. I started crying and And
people were looking at me, and I felt compelled to walk down
that aisle. And I walked down that aisle, and the preacher met me down
there, and he took me to the side and asked me if I was a
sinner. I said, yes, I'm a sinner. And he said, you don't want to
go to hell, do you? I said, no, I don't. He said,
you want to go to heaven, don't you? I said, yes, I do. He told
me God loved me. He said, Jesus died for me. If
I just accept him as my personal Savior, that I'd be saved, everything
would be all right. And then after I repeated some
words that he told me to repeat in front of everybody, he told
me I was saved. And you know, I felt so good.
Something a feeling came over me and I felt so good and people
came and gathered around me. They were so nice to me. And
from that day forward I had no desire to drink anymore. I quit
my smoking and running around and joined the church and now
I'm just, I'm safe. And I know it. Because something
happened. Something happened. Well that's exactly what happened
to this fellow here in John chapter nine or rather similar anyway. You know salvation is not believing
some facts. Jesus died and rose again that's
not salvation salvation not accepting Jesus salvation not making a
decision salvation not being baptized. Salvation is to know
the true God. To have him revealed to you.
Salvation is to become acquainted with, person to person, a living
Lord. To bow to his sovereign claim. Salvation is to Dear God, first
of all, to bow and worship him and to see your desperate need
of this one named Jesus Christ as your substitute, as your righteousness,
and trust him only. We'll see that a little more
in depth in a moment. Well, here in John chapter 9,
let's read the first seven verses again, OK? Here's a very typical
story of a fellow who got religion. got religion, but he wasn't saved.
Jesus passed by and saw a man which was blind from his birth,
and all men and women are blind by nature. And his disciples
asked him, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents? He said
he was born blind. Jesus answered, Neither hath
this man sin, nor his parents, but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him. Many feel that or believe that
bad things happen as a result of men's sin and so forth. Our
Lord dispels that. And he says it's all that the
works of God might be made manifest. But there is a sense in which
we are born blind because of our parents. And you know who
that is? Adam and Eve. who fell in the
garden, and all men and women are born blind because of that,
because of our parents. In Adam all died, and we died
in Adam. All right? But Christ said that
this man was born blind, physically blind, so that his glory might
be seen. But the work of God is going
to be shown in this man. And some blind men and sons of
Adam are going to be given eyesight, that the glory of God might be
made manifest." Read on, look down at verse 6, "...when he
had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the
spittle. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
and said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is
by interpretation sin. He went his way therefore, and
washed, and came seeing." He came seeing. Here's a fellow
who was born blind. Everybody knew him. He was a beggar. He said that
in verse 8. The neighbors, therefore, which
before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that
sat and begged? They knew this man. They'd known
him for a long time. He was a beggar. He was a bum.
He was no good. And you know, that's the story
of many sinners who get saved. A preacher friend of mine was
a notorious fellow in his hometown, a little small town in Georgia,
a notorious sinner, a carousing fellow, and he got saved. And you know they put that on
the front page of the local newspaper. He was so notorious and everybody
knew what a sinner he was that when he got saved they made it
front page news. Front page news. Well that's what went on here. Let's call this fellow Bill,
OK? So you know who I'm talking about from here on out. Is there
any Bills in here, William? Yeah, I'm sorry, William. We'll
just call him Bill anyway. That's the only name I can come
up with. One day something happened to old Bill. Old Bill went to
Siloam and washed, and he saw. Now he was a blind man and he
came away after washing in that pool with eyesight. I mean something
miraculous had happened. They saw. He saw. And this is like the experience
of so many. So many who go to some similar
revival that I described and some experience takes place and
a change comes over them. Something happened in my in here
that happened. I mean, actually, it's something
happens experience. It happened to me. And people say, oh, so-and-so
got to say. He got to say he baptized in
Pee Pee Creek and got to say. Do you know, Henry, that there
is a creek in Kentucky and I agree. Yes there is I didn't make that
up. And I guarantee you a lot of the film in bed. Well. He had a religious experience.
He came out of there a changed man. And some people go through
an experience and have an interest in spiritual things that they
didn't have before. Their eyes are opened somewhat
to see that there is a God and that this Jesus did live and
that they are a notorious sinner and they need salvation. And
they start reading and go to church and Quit their this and
that and the other. It happens. But outward reformation is not
regeneration. Outward reformation and outward
change is not salvation. That's not being born from above. That's just turning over a new
leaf, you know. That's just quitting your bad habit and picking up
something that's worse. I'm going to show you that in
a minute. Well, the neighbors saw him. Like I said, they knew
him. In verse 9, they said, Is this not he? This is he, they
said. Why, it can't be old Bill. They said, It is. Why, he's changed. He looks like him. It can't be
Bill. And I believe they probably said
that about me, too. Yeah, it can't be, Paul. No way.
He sure is changed. He can't be the same man. Do
you ever wonder at some of the miraculous changes that take
place in some people's lives? Have you seen some of these gospel
bills? Have you? I have. I've seen them, and there's some
people that absolutely go truly indeed go through an outward
reformation. And it's miraculous, the change
that comes over. I mean, they were out and out
drunk, and they no longer truly have no desire to drink anymore. And now, while that's a good
thing, that they give up their drinking and beating their wives
and all that, that's not salvation. Now, I would that all men would
give up their drinking and beating their wives, and wives certainly
would wish they'd do that. But that's not salvation, is
it? And to call it salvation is to
be in a worse state than you were to begin with. You see, listen, the devil is
not just in the drinking business. I acknowledge that Satan does
deal in the darkness of this world and all the sin and depravity
that goes on. He does. He does. But he's not only in the drinking
business, he's in the stop-drinking business. He's in the stop drinking business.
If stopping a man's drinking and cussing and chewing and smoking
and all that, and children, I'm not condoning those things at
all. They're bad. But if he can get a man to do
all that and become self-righteous and think, or a woman, get them
to stop doing those things, and get religion and make them think
that since they've quit all these things and joined church and
are now a good moral person, they become self-righteous. There's
no talk of Christ and his work and his person, but all that
they gave up for Jesus and this and that and the other and their
experience they had. If they can get that person to
do that, if he can get that person to quit all these things and
start living right, and join the church and all that, and
fill them full of self-righteousness, thinking they're good people
now, that God approves of them now because of what they did.
Then they're in a refuge of lies. Now they're in a religious refuge that has nothing to do with salvation,
and that's a dangerous place to be. It's tougher to say, and
may I use this, It's harder to save one out of religion than
it is the gutter. We know it's so, don't we, because
we run into them all the time. Sinners, at least at a point,
at some point in time, will acknowledge, hey, I'm down and out and I'm
no good. But it's hard to get a religious
person to admit that they're a sinner any longer or need this
gospel. Well, they said, He sure has
changed. He sure has changed. My, my. Verse 10, they said,
What happened to you, Bill? How were your eyes open? Verse
11, He answered and said, A man called Jesus made clay and anointed mine eyes,
and said, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And I went and washed,
and I received my sight. I accepted Jesus, and I was baptized,
and now I see. Do you now?" Well, they said, where is he,
Beal? Verse 12, where is this Jesus? He said, I don't know. I don't know. Well, this man not only experienced
an outward reformation, A real change took place. But now he
becomes a witness for Jesus. He's going to become a witness.
We read the story here, and I'll not read it again. But they kept
asking him about Jesus, and he became a witness for him. I mean,
he got up on his soapbox and started witnessing for this Jesus.
And they asked him about him. Look down at verse 17. They said
unto the blind man, What do you say of him? What do you think
of this Jesus? He that opened his eye, he said, He's a prophet.
He's a prophet. Now, this man didn't have the
froggiest idea who Jesus Christ was, or where he was, or what
he had done. He only knew a man named Jesus,
a miracle worker, gave me my eyesight, and he's a prophet. If he knew who this was, he'd
say he's that prophet. wouldn't. Not a prophet. He'd
have said he's that prophet. And he wouldn't have called him
Jesus. He wouldn't just say he's a man
named Jesus. Now he didn't know why Christ
came, he didn't know where he was then, he didn't know who
Christ was, or he didn't see his need of the Christ. Didn't
see any need. Now I've heard people use this
story all the time. I've used it falsely, verse 25.
I've used it. And if you take it out of context,
you can use it, too, like this. If you take it out of context,
you can say, I don't know much of anything, but I know this.
I was blind, now I see. You can make a message out of
it. I've heard some good ones. I've preached a pretty good one
like that before, but that's out of context here. This man
didn't know Christ. And he saw something that he
hadn't seen who the Christ was. Now that's eyesight. Like I said, he didn't know why
Christ had came, where he was now, and who the Christ was,
or his need of Christ. And this is so typical of so
many people who have some sort of saving experience, yet don't
know who God is, don't know who Christ is, don't know what the
true gospel is, but they had some kind of experience. You
can't deny it. You can't deny something has
happened. A miracle has taken place. And again, let me say
this, the devil is in the revival business. He's right in the middle
of those Saturday night revivals. As a matter of fact, he's in
the pulpit. As long as there's no true gospel
being preached, no true gospel preaching going on, he's all
for all this gospel singing, but no gospel preaching, mind
you. And he'll stir up a frenzy in
the midst, and he'll make you foam at the mouth and roll on
the floor. He's all for that. As long as
nobody goes out of there talking about Jesus Christ and Him crucified,
and what, who He is now, or who He is and where He is now, and
what He has done for sinners. As long as there's none of that.
As long as there's no talk of the sovereign God and men in
His hands, oh, they'll, He'll let them talk about Jesus all
they want to. About Him being in their hands
and how He wants to save them. Oh, He loves that sort of talk. And nobody will have their fear
of God. And they'll fall right into his hand. And he delights
in that, works reformation outward. Well, old Bill not only had an
outward reformation or a saving experience, he had a change,
an outward reformation. He had a, he became a witness. And do you know he even suffered
persecution? Look down at verse 34. They answered and said unto him,
While you are altogether born in sin, dost thou teach us? And
they cast him out. He was excommunicated. He got
a little bit too fanatical with his religion. You see, those
old churchgoers have been there a long time. Bill, a little too excited, a
little too rambunctious, a little too enthusiastic, read his Bible
a little too much, asking them questions that they couldn't
answer. And Bill, now you don't need
to read that Bible so much, you just come down to the meeting. Now he'd ask his preacher mate,
what about this, what about that? And he'd say, preacher say, now
never mind that, Bill. We will have a good thing. If
never you mind. And he became a witness. And
even suffered persecution they cast him out of the synagogue.
But he did not cry. Has anybody in here had this
happen to you? Anything similar? You know, this
is all my story. This is my story. I was born
to church-going parents. These parents here in this, they
were members of the synagogue there, and they didn't want to
be kicked out. They didn't believe in this Jesus, and they, something
was going, taking place with their son, and they didn't They
sure didn't believe in this Jesus fellow, and they didn't want
to be kicked out. They were church-going people,
and I was born to church-going parents. Thank God they were
true believers, and I heard the truth. But hearing doctrine in
your head and believing the gospel in your head won't save you.
I'm living proof of that. Twelve years old, I had an experience. And it's easy to get a 12-year-old
to have an experience. I could get every child in here
saved. I guarantee you I could. It's easy. And preachers today
are good at that. Show films, you know, of the
burning hell and scary little kids to death and promise them
all sorts of things. You can get professions out of
young people, and that's not what happened to me necessarily,
but I did make a profession when I was twelve years old. Now God can save a twelve-year-old. It's rare. Maybe even a ten-year-old. It's a hard matter for me to
believe that a ten-year-old knows anything about sin and their
need of a Savior. But he can do it. I'm not saying
it's out of the realm of possibility, but God, all things are possible.
But it's rare that a man or a woman or a young person is going to
have to see their sin and come to fear God and bow and know
Him and then follow Him. I was convinced I was a sinner,
I thought I was, when I was twelve years old. got convicted about
something anyway and they had we have enough was just a regular
church service and but one of the other friends one of my childhood
friends in the church they were running down the aisle in the
service. And this is what happened years ago back twelve years old
nearly thirty years ago. This is what would happen my
pastor would tell you that they would give these invitations
at the end of And if you give them, and the song is, the music
is emotional enough, and something happens, you know, and you've
heard a little something, and you get convicted in your conscience,
and, well, that friend went running down, I think somebody else did.
And I did, too. And I remember telling my dad
I'm a sinner, and this and that and the other, and I was baptized. But I backslid. The world would
call it backsliding. I backslid when I hit twelve,
when I hit thirteen. When I hit thirteen, that's when
the backsliding took place, and went on through about twenty-one,
another seven or eight years. I wasn't backsliding, I was lost.
I just had some kind of emotional experience. when I was 12. Now I would that God would save
some of our 12-year-olds, all of our 12-year-olds. If you see your need of Christ,
you come to Christ by all means, young people. But I'm not going to jerk a profession
out of them. I'm not going to get your children
in that water there. As a matter of fact, I'll discourage
them from doing it if I see, based on all the discretion and
wisdom that God gives me, see that they don't really see their
need of Christ and don't know him. I won't put them in that
water. I won't do it. Mine are yours. Well, I went
on. I became a notorious fellow.
Everybody knew me. Everybody but my mother. She knew me. Love is sometimes
blind in ladies. David was just the sweetest boy
ever was, wasn't it, Roberta? Go ahead, admit it. He wasn't. He rotten to the core. He was the bad company, just
like me. He didn't run around for that
company. He was the bad company. Well, one day later on in my
life, I returned to church. I started courting a girl, right
there she sits. I cleaned up my act. Started
reading the Bible. Now, God uses things. He does. He uses means. He brought me back to where the
only place I was going to hear that which could only save me,
the gospel. If your child is going to be
saved, they're going to be saved by hearing this gospel. If you don't bring them to hear
this gospel, they're not going to be saved. Whether they want
to be or not, you bring them here. That's your responsibility,
to hear the gospel. Every opportunity, any opportunity
that is afforded you for them to hear the teaching and the
preaching of the word of God, you better bring them here. And
don't presume upon anything. They're going to hear this gospel.
Well, I started coming back for all the wrong reasons. You're not a wrong reason now.
But I started courting this girl. I cleaned up my act. I had kind
of long hair, and you don't believe that, do you? I did. It's long
now, really. I've been trying to get it cut
here the last few days. But I mean, it was long, long.
I told Hannah the other day I was going to start letting my bangs
grow out. She laughed. Well, I used to
have bangs. Thought I looked good, too. Man,
I see some of these kids today, and I think, they're going to
look back and see their pictures and think, oh, goodness gracious,
I thought I looked good. Yes, you are, young people. You're
going to look back at that haircut and think, Mom, you let me go
out like that? She didn't want you to. But I
cleaned up my act, got my hair cut. I even quit a few things. Boy, my friends didn't like it.
Started dropping me. Cleaned up my act. Got a good
job, though. There was a man at the church house who was a
contractor. And a lot of construction going
on. I got a good job, boy. I was
breaking into money, and I was going to church, and I was dating
a cute girl, and oh, my. And I was reading, and all that
Calvinism I'd heard as a kid, you know, was starting to come
back to me and all that. And I even started to testify
a little bit. And getting self-righteous was
what I was getting. I cleaned up. And I started telling them,
you don't clean up like me. And I started testifying, and
I remember standing toe to toe arguing with people of religion.
But I didn't know Christ. I knew doctrine, but I didn't
know Christ. And I guarantee you there's somebody here right
now just like that. No doctrine, that's it. But like this man, Christ knew
me. He had foreknown me before the
world began. And you know who came looking
for who? Huh? Look at verse 35 down there.
He'd been cast out, and my friends cast me out. And they heard,
and Christ heard that Cast him out, and when he had found him,
Christ went looking for him. See, Bill wasn't looking for
Christ. He'd already found Jesus. Right? Bill wasn't looking to
be saved. Well, he got saved. See, there's
a big difference in getting saved and being saved. Getting saved
is making a decision and doing something to get yourself saved. Being saved is having a miraculous
saving work done by God Almighty on you. Something you have nothing
to do with. Something he has everything to
do with. Bill wasn't looking for the Lord, he already knew
Jesus. Bill wasn't trying to be found, why he didn't know
he was lost. He wasn't trying to be found.
And I wasn't either. Everything going smoothly, Henry. But God. God manifesting the flesh was
looking for this old fellow. He's looking for him. Did he
find him? Oh, yeah. He finds every single
sinner that he sets out to save. He said, My sheep will hear my
voice. I'm going to look for them. I'll
leave the ninety and nine. the myriads in heaven, and come
in search of that one sheep. And when I found them, he picks
them up, puts them on his shoulder, and he carries them all the way
to glory. And little do they realize he's
carrying them from the day they were born, in his heart, on his
palms, in his mind. on black as he is. He's my sheep,
and I'm going to get him. I'm going to go get him and bring
him home to the glory of God the Father. Well, look at it
here. Christ finds this man. Look what
he asks him here in verse 35. He says, Just as I believe on
the Son of God, on the Son of God, not in, but on the Son of
God, and I believe, and I can spiritualize this a little bit,
I believe. Something when Christ, you see
this is the Son of God here, this is God Almighty in the flesh
dealing with a sinner one-on-one. And I can't, you know, in something,
in the voice of the Son of God, His power, in His eyes, in His
presence, in His life. And for Him just to say, look,
a man is And so he confronts this man
with his present and asks him this question. But every person
that God saved, every single person, man, woman, young person,
every single one has this question proposed to them by God. In a sense, they have their ignorance
revealed to them, first of all. They have their ignorance revealed. Look at this man's answer. Does
thou believe on the Son of God? Verse 36, he said, Who is he,
Lord or Sir? Who is he, Sir, that I might
believe on? Who is he? You see, this man had to be brought
to the point of an ignorant sinner needing to be taught the truth.
And a true Christ revealed to him. I wish we had time, but
Saul of Tarsus was another religious fellow. He was religious until
he met the true Christ, the Sovereign Lord. He didn't know who he was,
and he had to confess, who are you? Didn't he? Who are you? Who is this Christ? And so will
every single person that God confronts with the gospel. They'll
be confronted with this, that they don't know the true God.
They don't know the true Christ. The one that they thought they
knew before was not the true Christ. That's just Jesus that
they accepted. And this gospel is the gospel,
not that gospel. That was another. And they didn't
confess the true Christ then, back then in baptism. They must
now. This is the truth. And the first thing that happened
to Saul of Tarsus was similar. He was brought down, wasn't he?
He thought he was somebody. He had to be brought down into
the dust. He didn't know who the Lord was, but he knew that
whoever brought him off that high horse was Lord from that
day forth. And he was brought low to bow
and believe the true Christ. And he, Christ revealed himself
to him, like this man. And Paul, Saul of Tarsus, received
instruction from a man, didn't he? And an ice. What happened
to Saul? God sent a preacher to him, didn't
he? And an ice. Now Saul was a doctor. He was
an educated man. He knew something. He didn't
know nothing. And I use that for emphasis, bad grammar for
emphasis. He didn't know nothing. Thought he knew everything. He
didn't know anything. He didn't know the first principles
of the gospel. And God sent this Ananite. Who's
Ananite? A nobody. A nobody. Probably a coal miner. So where
do you get that? I don't know. It might have been.
But he's an nobody. And God will even send a woman. You believe that? Ask Apollos. Oh, he's a mighty man, an eloquent
man, an educated man. God sent a man named, what was
the man and woman's name? Husband and wife. What were their names? I didn't
write it down. Somebody tell me. That's it. Priscilla and Aquila, a husband
and wife, and expanded a woman. I'm not saying a woman stands
in the pulpit and preaches, but I sure learn a lot from these
women. Even now, a man thinks he knows anything and can't learn
from a woman. He doesn't know anything. Is that right? It most certainly is right. That's
the policy. My, my. Saul received his instruction
from a man and he renounced. Listen to him. Here's what happened
to it. He renounced all his former religion. Renounced it. He said, I thought I knew the
law. I thought I knew this. I thought
I knew God. I thought I knew, he said, nothing. I didn't know anything. And I am a nobody from nowhere. Christ is all. And that's what happens to every
single person, God says, without exception. If a man or woman
is not willing to renounce their false profession of religion
that happened early on, as what it is, a false profession and
a religious experience, and not willing to sit down under the
simplest of gospel preaching and hear and rejoice in it, they
are yet in their sins. They think they see. Their sins
remain. Well, this man said, Who is he,
Lord, that I might believe on him? Christ revealed himself.
Verse 37, he said, Are you seeing him? And it is he that talketh
with thee. You've seen him. If God ever
reveals himself to you, you'll see him as he is. You'll see Christ as he is. Not just Jesus. Not just a man. Not just a prophet. Not just
a miracle worker. You'll see him as he is not someone
who's in your hand. You see him as he is Lord Sovereign
King that prophet that priest that King your King and you're
in his hand to dispose of as he will. That's how you see every
person with every person. They'll all be taught of him.
Oh, they'll come to the true Christ. And you'll hear his voice. You'll not only see him, but
you'll see him through hearing his voice. Job said, I've heard
of you, now I see you. And that's how every single child
of God becomes acquainted with Jesus Christ. They hear him through
the gospel. Yes, through a man. And they
come to cry, and they see him, see his glory, high and lifted
up, hear his voice, the gospel. And look at what he said. Here's
a change of tense here, Lord. Before he said, well, who is
he, sir, that I might believe? Now he says, you're him. Lord. I believe, Lord. This is what happened to Peter,
wasn't it? Peter? Peter said, Lord, save me or
I perish. This is what happened to Saul,
wasn't it? Saul, Saul, who are you? Lord? He said, I'm Jesus.
What would you have me to do? No bargaining? No agreements? No, I'm going to do this for
you, Jeannie, and what are you going to do with me? No more
bargaining. This is what happened to the
thief on the cross, wasn't it? Oh, he's casting things in his
teeth, but all of a sudden he saw who he was and he said, would
you remember me? The publican, Lord, be merciful. Thomas, my Lord and my God, Lord,
and worship him. And he did. Verse 38, Lord, I
believe and worship him. And Jesus said, now I'll quit,
for judgment I am come into this world, and judgment begins at
the house or the so-called house of God. Right here in our midst
today, judgment began for every man, woman, and young person
that heard this message. This is how God saves people. The preaching of the gospel,
Christ crucified, him and him only, as our Savior, the true
Christ, the true God, true salvation. And Christ said, I'm coming to
the world for judgment, that they which see not might see. Do you see? Oh, I feel so ignorant, Preacher.
Then you see. Did you see that? Did you get
that? Oh, I talked to a fellow I worked
with one time. He was so, man, he was an out
and out. He was one of these notorious
fellows I was talking about. And I was trying to preach the
gospel to him a little bit. And I didn't know anything, and
he, boy, he didn't know, he knew less. I didn't know anything,
Stan. He didn't, he knew less than
I did. I said, after I started telling him what I knew, I said,
Do you see? He said, Oh, I see, I see. Oh, men are so blind they think
they see. And if the light that is in a
man is darkness, how great is the darkness. They which see not might see. I don't see like I want to see. I see through a glass dimly.
What about you? I preach in part. I've never preached the gospel. I've never preached the gospel.
The half's never been told by any man. Preach in part. We know in part. What do we know?
What do you know of Christ, of God? What do you know, Henry? So is that your confession? I
don't see, I don't know, I need to be taught, I need to see.
But they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees
said, well, are we blind also? Christ said, if you were blind,
you'd have no seeing. Now you say you see. Does anyone
in here say, well, I see, I believe the gospel, I believe doctrine.
Do you now? Oh, do you now? Oh, do you now? We'll see. I'll tell you one way we'd see. If we had another service tonight,
we might see. We have one Wednesday night. Where do you think you'd find
this fellow from that day forward? You look at every single instance
of conversion in the scripture. After they were saved, you'd
find them following Jesus Christ. Wherever his people were, that's
where they were sitting. When Lazarus was brought forth
from the grave, where was Lazarus found? Sitting there with Mary,
listening to him. That blind man, Christ said,
that other blind man said, Go your way. Where'd he go? Scripture
said, He followed Christ. Go your way. I'm going with you,
and whoever else is going with you. eyesight, real eyesight, love,
joy, and the Holy Ghost. This is what the Holy Ghost causes
men and women to fall in love with Christ and His gospel. And
they fall in love. And nothing and nobody else will
ever take His place. And they follow Him. Joy and
the Holy Ghost and much assurance. And He begins to assure them
that there He is. from that day forward. Do you see? All right, Joe, did
you have another hymn picked out?