How different is the Christ of
Scripture than the Jesus being preached
today. How different is the true gospel than the counterfeit one today? The true Christ of Scripture
was despised and rejected and hated by the masses, by all. All but a few chosen individuals
wanted him dead. Nearly everybody wanted him dead. They hated him. That Jesus today is received
and supposedly loved by anyone and everyone and hated by no
one. Now, why is that? Because it is just like Paul
said that it would happen that they come
preaching another Jesus, not the Christ of Scripture. They
come preaching, he said, another gospel, which is not another.
It's a perversion. You see, Jesus Christ is the
same today as he was then. Scripture says that. He's the
same yesterday, today, and forever. And men are the same. Mankind
hasn't changed. Mankind's not in a more God-loving
notion. As a matter of fact, Christ said
it would be the opposite as time went by. As iniquity abounded,
the love of many would wax cold. Mankind's the same. If Jesus
Christ, the Christ of Scripture, walked this planet right now,
today, 1997, if he walked this planet as a
man, as he did nearly 2,000 years ago, he would be absolutely,
across the board, hated and rejected and despised. He wouldn't be received with
open arms. This generation would hate him just like they did when
he did walk this planet, especially the religious people. were the
ones who had him killed. And the religious people of our
day would be the first to reject him. How do I know that? Because if you merely say what
he said, now, this generation will hate you
and reject the truth. If you just merely say what Christ
said. And this is the reason that people
aren't offended today, or the reason people love a so-called
Jesus is preachers aren't saying what he said. They're not saying it. They're
not telling it like it's written. Paul said he had become everybody's
enemy for telling them the truth. Isn't it? Now, just as it was with Christ
and the prophets before him and the apostles after him, he was
hated, they were hated, they were all killed. All of them
were killed. Why were the prophets killed?
Why was Christ killed? Why were the apostles killed? I mean, they were all killed.
Why? And killed by religious people.
Why? Not for working good deeds, is
what they said. One time, they picked up stones to stone
Christ, and he said, wait a minute, he said, For which good work
do you stone me?" And they said, Oh, we're not stoning you for
a good work. You can do all the good works you want to. Fill
our bellies. Heal our diseases. Raise our
dead. Help us. Be a humanitarian. Because you said you were God.
And you said nobody gets to heaven but by you. And that nothing
amounts to anything but what you've done, because you said
that God gave you a people. People are elected. You decide
who goes there, because you said all this, and we're stoning you. You see, our Lord, we saw in
John chapter 6 all the way through where he said some hard sayings.
Remember, that's what the people said. These are hard sayings.
Who can hear them? Well, not many, but his people
will. Hard saying. Before that, over
in John chapter 5, he did and said some things on Sabbath day,
and that's what started it. Sabbath was very precious. Saturday
was very precious to religious people. Man, but it would be
like him doing things on Sunday now. saying something about so-called
Christian Sabbath, you know, sacred cow. It got them mad. They got mad
at him. That's where it started. So he
says in verse 1 of chapter 7, look at it. It says, After these
things, what things? It wasn't so much what he did
as what he was saying. After these things, after he
said so many things, After all that he said, and after everybody
turned thumbs down on him. We don't like that. Everybody
left him. After these things, it says he
walked in Galilee. He wouldn't walk in Jewry. The
Jews sought to kill him. They wanted him dead. They wanted
him dead. The Jews heard what he was saying.
Now verse 2, Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. Now do you see what, again, what
that's saying? The Jews' feast of the tabernacle
was at hand. What's wrong with that? It's
written the way it should be written, but Just like the Passover and other
feasts that were mentioned previous to that, they started out, you
see, the Lord is the one who instituted or gave them these
feast days. And they were feasts unto the
Lord. They were supposed to be times
of worship unto the Lord. worship of God, and they had
degenerated into social gatherings. They had degenerated into just
a club meeting where everybody got together and everybody felt
real good about themselves, and they had entertainment and what
have you, elected officers. And it sounds just like church
meetings today, so-called church meetings today. had been replaced
with the religion of man. It was all man-centered, Jews
feast. Man-centered is by men, is for
men, is about man. Remember when Paul said over
in Galatians, he said, The gospel I receive is not by man or for
man, or of man. I didn't receive it. It's not
about man. What we're doing here this morning
is not about you or me or us. It's not geared toward people,
Listen, I had a man call me on the phone the other day, just
two days ago, and he was with an organization, a charitable
organization that does good things. They do. It's a good work. It's
a good program. And he wanted to come here and
present that program to you. And I said, well, if you'll just
tell me another time and place. He wanted to do it on Sunday.
That's when they do it, is on Sunday. I said, no, I said, if you'll
just tell me another time and a place that you're going to
do this at, I'll tell the people and maybe they'll go at their
own convenience. He said, no, we'd just like to
do it on Sunday morning or Sunday evening. I said, no, you can't
do it here then. I said, no, we reserve this time
for one thing. And he said, oh, he said, saving
soul, saving soul. I said, no. No. Worshipping God. I said, I've never saved one
soul. Never will. We're in a God-worshipping business.
That's why God's people come. So-called church is to worship
God. Whether anybody's saved or not,
we come to worship God. That's what preaching is all
about, to glorify God, just to tell the truth. Now, if God saves
somebody, we'll rejoice and be glad. But if God doesn't, we'll
still rejoice and be glad. This is a day we rejoice in the
Lord and worship him and make much of him and make everything
of him. It's not about man. We're not
trying to get men to do anything. That's not what this is about.
No, that's what religion has degenerated into, people. And
if that's what your religion is all about, that's what your
message will be. You understand? In other words,
if your religion is aimed at bringing people in, that's what
you'll say, and that's all what you'll do. You'll do things to
bring people in. You'll come up with gimmicks
and tricks and tactics and schemes, and you'll water down the truth
to keep from offending anybody, and get people in. You'll hire
dollar bills under the pew, and you'll send buses out to get
them, a cup of sea and land to establish the cross of life.
But you won't. But if you just declare the truth,
you can't preach the gospel. God is honored, God is glorified,
his people are edified, and some people are indeed truly saved. That's the power of God. The
gospel's the power of God unto salvation. And if you know that, if a man
knows that, that God uses one thing and one thing only to save
souls, that's the one thing he'll do every time. He'll preach the
gospel to the world. And he won't resort to anything
else but that. He doesn't need pictures. He
doesn't need crosses. He doesn't need choirs. He doesn't
need a robe. He needs one thing. He needs a Bible, and somebody
will hear it. The Jews feast. People say, My church. That's
just what it is, all right. Very little God's church around. Well, look at verse 3. You see,
true worshipers worship the Father. The Father seeks us such to worship.
Verses 3 through 5. It says, "...his brethren therefore
said unto him, Depart, go up to Judea, that your disciples
may see the works you do." There's no man that does anything secret
if he himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things,
if you indeed do what all they're saying you're doing, They hadn't seen anything yet
that he had done, and they didn't believe it. They said, if indeed
you've done what they say you do, go show yourself openly.
Nobody that's trying to be well known and let everybody know
who he is, and trying to convince everybody of who he is, nobody
does things in secret. If that's what they're out to
do, that's right. That wasn't what he was out to
do. He wasn't out to make himself known. He wasn't trying to get
anybody to believe in him. He wasn't trying anything. You see, God doesn't try anything.
He doesn't try anything. He does according to his will.
His predetermined will that was purposed and planned before this
universe came into existence. known unto God, Acts 15, 18,
are all his words from the beginning. And Christ didn't come down here
to try to get anybody to believe in him. He came down here to
express purpose of saving certain individuals that were given to
him by God before the world began. He wasn't trying to get anybody
to believe in him. Is that right? That's what he'd
said in chapter 6. That's what he'd been saying,
wasn't it, Stan? That's what he kept saying over and over
again, didn't he? All that the Father giveth me will come to
me." He said to the son, you will not come to me that you
might have life. Why? You're not my sheep. My
sheep will. You see, Christ didn't preach
openly in the streets. When he went up to this feast,
he didn't stand out in the middle of the feast and say, listen,
listen, listen. I don't know. He went in the
temple. where perhaps there were some
true worshippers, not just some party-goers outside, but some
true worshippers who came to sit and quietly listen to the
Word. And he preached in the temple.
Christ is still in his temple, teaching and preaching. That's
where he is. But he didn't preach openly in the streets or go about
trying to get folks to believe in him. No, he said, My sheep,
I know my sheep and have known of mine. He said, They'll hear
my voice and they'll follow me. Now, the masses did hear him.
The masses did hear him. Many people heard him. Wherever
he went, he attracted a large crowd. And like we saw in chapter
6, many times after he spoke, they all left. Said, we don't
like that. But, nevertheless, lots of people
heard him. But just a few heard him. You know what I'm saying? Then
he heard his voice, but ended up walking away. But he went
to certain individuals. He himself went to certain individuals,
looking for them to tell them something. And they were going
to hear it, and they were going to follow him. He found them
in various places. He found some up a tree, one
sitting on a well. Some in a boat. He had to find
them, you see. The masses crowded around him.
They heard what he said, and they walked away. But he went
after his sheep. And there was one of the trees.
He said, Zacchaeus, come down. I've got to go to your house.
You're mine! And Zacchaeus said, That's right. Zacchaeus, before
that day, he didn't give a flip about God or anything to do with
religion, but God came to him and said, You're mine. And he
said, I believe I am. And he said, I must at least
go through Samaria one time. Disciples said, that's not the
shortest route. Let's go this way. He said, I've got to go
there. Why, Lord? I've got a sheep over there. She's sitting on a well. I'm
going to be sitting on a well. And she's going to come by, and
I've got to get her. And he did. And he walked them
down the ocean one day. Why? Because he liked the ocean?
No, there were sheep out there in boats. Now, sheep aren't in
boats. Bees were. And he walked down
the ocean, and he said, Peter, or Simon, Andrew, come on! Now, these boys had been fishing
all their lives, and that was their life, and they had a net
full of fish at the time. He said, what are they going
to do? They're going to go. Why? They were made will in the
day of his power. Matthew was sitting there counting
his money. Matthew, follow me. No argument, no decision to be
made. He got in line. John, James,
leave your dad, leave your boats, leave everything you have. Just
put it down and follow me. Who are you? I'll tell you later. Follow me. And they did it. Now, that's power. Who is that?
That's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the one. That's how he
does things. That's who came here. That's
who's talking here. He's not trying to get anybody
to accept him as their personal Savior. No, but he's the sovereign
Lord, given a people before the world began, who came in search
of every one of those individuals. And he will find every one of
them, and he will save them all. And they'll follow him. I like that. That's the way he
found me. And if you come, that's how he'll
find you. Oh, you know, he didn't try to
get people to hear it. He said he hid himself from the
wise and prudent. Now, there's going to come a
time. There is going to come a time when Christ is going to
show himself, or rather the Father, God, is going to show his Son
openly, publicly, before every eye. The Scripture says, every
eye shall behold him. No secret rapture, like these
fools say, but every eye, like lightning that comes across the
sky, as Scripture says, every eye will behold him and know
who he is. God's going to declare him and
say, this is he. And everybody's going to believe.
But not savingly. But they're going to believe. But it's not yet. It's time.
It's not yet. This is what he says here in
verse six. Look at it. Jesus said unto them, My time
is not yet come. My time is not yet come. Now,
he's saying to them, the time he's talking about here is the
time of his crucifixion. That hour, you could say, you
could call it maybe his finest hour. That's what the time he's talking
about here. My time has not come for me to
be set forth openly, publicly, for every eye to behold me. It's
not here yet. It will be. When Christ is set
forth, when Christ was to come and be set forth as an object
of hatred, hung on that cross as a curse, as a ridicule, to
be scorned, to be imitated by every man and woman set up for
every eye to look at him, to behold him, to spit in his face,
to jeer at him, to mock him, to reject him, to laugh at him.
The hatred and enmity of man finally coming out, showing what
they really feel about God Almighty. It's no different today. At that
time, he says, not here yet, when every eye will see me, and
they'll hate me, and they'll do exactly what their free will
wants to do. kill me, but they will do what
God has determined before to be done. You see, God is going
to set me forth on that cross, yes, as your object of ridicule,
but as a propitiation for the sins of his people, as a lamb
that is slain, as a sacrifice for sinners. God is going to
set me forth as a sacrifice for sinners. That time is not here yet. You
see, he says they tried, they wanted to kill him. He says,
I'm not going to, I'm not ready yet. Now, he's not hiding for fear
of them, because you see here, he finally did, he taught openly. And another place, it said, doesn't
he know they're trying to kill him? Oh, yeah, he knows. Another time that they tried
to get him, a whole angry mob grabbed him, or tried to anyway,
and tried to kill him and said he passed through them. I'm talking
thousands of people were out to get one man, one against a
thousand, and he passed through them. How do you do that? He got lost in the crowd? No,
just like he passed through that door when he came to his disciples
one day. He didn't open the door, he went
through it. He said, in other places, that
no man takes my life from me. No man. I lay it down. And he wasn't about to die until
he said so. And neither were you, for that
matter. But he said, My time is not yet come. He said, look
at this, verse 6. He said, Your time is always
ready. You're always ready. Now, Barbara, that can mean several
things. My time to die is not yet, but
you're already. You see that? The Scripture talks about the
wrath of God abiding on the ungodly. It's a time appointed to every
man to die. No man knows that time. It's
always ready, though, prepared by God. This is what Scripture
says. It ought to make us fear, shouldn't it? In this sense,
though, he said, your time is always ready. They wanted him
to go show himself. They wanted him to go make himself
known, to be somebody. And he said to them, he said,
this is your constant pursuit. It's not mine. This is your desire. This is the desire of man to
want to be seen or heard or want to be recognized. And every little
Tom, Dick, and Harry wants to be somebody. If it's just, you
know, head of the union or city council or whatever, you know,
he wants to be somebody. This is the most sought-after
thing by man. Not riches, but it's honor and
glory and esteem and position. Why do you think that a billionaire would want
to be President of the United States? For this reason. Honor. This is why these old
athletes in their forties, they can't lay it down. They can't
lay it down. Lay what down? The applause of
men. You know, they're out of the limelight, they're out of
the spotlight, and they want to be in it. Christ said, that's
what everybody wants. He said, not me. You see, look
at verse 18. Christ said, He that speaketh
of himself seeketh his own glory. He that seeketh his glory that
sent him. There's the true one. Christ
came here not for his own glory, but the glory of God. Isn't that what we were just
talking about? The church doesn't come here to brag on one another
or talk about man. God ain't going to be there.
If there's any man in it, God's not going to be there. If we
come together on Mother's Day to exalt Mother, God ain't going
to be there. Mom may be. God ain't. We come for one reason, to exalt
and honor and glorify God. God's going to be there, and
the people are going to be glorified. They're going to be glorified.
They're going to see glory, and John Day themselves will be glorified. You know what I'm talking about,
don't you? Whom he predestinated, he called and he called, he justified
and he justified, he glorified. You see, the highest mark, Stan,
the highest mark that a believer wants to attain to is the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Did you see the
article in the paper, or in the bulletin, about the high honor
of hearing the gospel? This is the highest honor conferred
on a human being on planet Earth, is just to sit and hear this
gospel. President Clinton does not have
this high honor or this privilege. He's hid these things from the
wise and prudent, but he's conferred this high honor and privilege
on truck drivers! God stops what he's doing and
says, and talks to a truck driver! Think about it, Joe Parks. You see? This is honor! This is honor we want! It's not
he whom men commends, who God commends, Scripture says. And any preacher, you know, who's
out to win friends and influence people, he'll have plenty of
them. And a man that's out to glorify God, he'll see glory. He'll be consumed
with glory himself. And he'll be like, John, he won't
care if anybody doesn't believe or not. But he himself was full
like Enoch, and nobody around him believed, but Enoch just
walked off into glory. So what did it matter? Well,
the one thing mattered. Christ said, Your time is always
ready. Look at verse 7. He said, The world can't hate
you. Me, it hateth. You see that? The world hates
Jesus Christ. It was that way then, it's that
way now. Because he's the same. He says
the same. Man hasn't changed. Man, if anything,
is progressively worse. The world, you see, John said,
loves its own. In 1 John 4, he says, they speak
of the world, therefore the world loves them. The world is beating
a door to places where men are scratching backs and tickling
ears. Men-pleasers, men-pleasers please men, don't they? They
please men. Ear-ticklers, they get rich. Backscratchers get their own
backscratched. God glorifies. They get to know God and be with
God someday. My, my. Christ said, Me hath
hated. Why? Why? Verse 7. Look at what
he said here. I testify of the world, that
the works thereof are evil. Terry Christ, everything he said
about this, it wasn't anything good he said about this world,
was it? Evil, he said, evil. Especially religion. Now listen
very carefully. Especially religion. Christ said
to a bunch of self-righteous religionists, A bunch of, just like a Sunday
morning crowd in the average so-called church today, Christ
stood there in front of a bunch of them one day and he said to
a bunch of Sunday morning, or Saturday morning, religionists,
self-righteous, they prided themselves in how they looked, how they
walked and talked, and how they prayed. They loved to be heard
praying. They prided themselves in their
church attendance. before you do. Harvest or get
in the heaven before you do. And that made them furious. And the same thing holds true
today. Right? At one time, On another
Sabbath day, I believe it was, a crowd of religionists like
that, a crowd of religionists brought this woman in that they'd
caught in adultery. They brought her in and threw
her at his feet, expecting him to condemn her. Now, everybody
there knew she was guilty. Everybody there, all those good
people, all those saved people, all those saints, stood around
and there was one sinner. Bunch of saints standing around
and one sinner. And they just knew he was going
to condemn her. What happened? When it was all
said and done, he received the sinner and rejected all the saints. He said, everybody in here is
lost but this one. Ain't that wonderful, somebody? Huh? Where do you want to be
found? In the dirt, as a sinner. And that made those religious
people furious, like it does today. You mean all my religion,
all my attendance doesn't count for nothing? Nothing, matter
of fact, it'll be against you if you're not careful. You mean
the fact that liquor has never touched my lips doesn't account
for nothing? Nothing! You better drink wine at the
Lord's table. You mean, that's what I mean. Nothing I do, nothing you do. Salvation's by grace. You see, Christ is the Savior
of sinners. Salvation is for sinners. Mercy. It means, if you want to receive
it, you've got to be guilty. You've got to be. I don't mean
hell-deserving guilty. Mercy. We say, well, if He saves
us, we're not guilty. We're saints then. Then there's
no more mercy. Right? But he says his mercies
are new every morning, and his mercy endures forever. Why? Because
I'm going to be a sinner till the day I die, and I'm going
to need mercy. And thank God that's why Christ
came. Now if I ever reach the point
of I'm a saint and no longer a sinner, there's no more mercy. Grace is for the helpless. It
doesn't say anywhere in the Bible God helps those who help themselves.
No, to the contrary, it says God helps only those who can't
do a thing for themselves. What could that woman have done
for herself? She's guilty, the law says. Only what could she
do? Nothing. What could Christ do?
Everything. Everything she needed. Live for her, die for her, justify
her, receive her, take her home. Oh, I'm having a good time. Grace is for the helpless. Righteousness. What's righteousness for? Who
is righteousness for? The unrighteous. Christ said,
I didn't come called the righteous. They don't need me. They don't
need righteousness. They got one. They don't know
it, that it's filthy rags, but they've got one, and they're
happy with it. Sinners, boy, they need one. They're naked,
and they say, "'Clothe me with your righteousness before the
all-seeing eye of God.'" Oh, Christ, "'Hide me, O my Savior,
hide.'" And what does he do? Bless God, he wraps that robe
around him. "'I'll hide you, children.'" like a mother hen that's gathered
her brood. Look at verse 8. It says, Go
on up to the feast. I'm not going yet. My time is
not yet full come. He says it again. He says it
again over in another verse, verse 30. Verse 9, he says, When it said
these words, he abode in Galilee. When his brethren were gone up,"
read on. I'm going to end this thing. When his brethren were
gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but
as it were in secret. Not openly, but as it were in
secret. Now, the Jews sought him at the
feast. They said, where is he? There
was much murmuring among the people concerning him. They discussed
him. But you know, this feast was
mostly about things of the Jewish religion, like most of these
meetings are. You know what they did when they
got together here at this, their annual feast in the tabernacle?
You know what they did? They decided, listen to this,
you know, this is so. Rick, listen to this. You know
what they did at the feast of the tabernacle? They decided
how long the selectors would be, and how long would be the borders
of their governments, and who would sit in what chief
seats. That's exactly what they did. That's what the Lord said in
Matthew 23. He said that's what they loved. That's what they love to get
together and do. And every now and then they'll get around to
discussing Jesus. And they did. You know, they
got around to discussing Jesus when all that, everything else
was over. And some said, he's a good man.
He's a good man. Maybe some woman said, I believe
that. I heard him and I believe what he said. And one of them
said, no, you don't believe him, surely. He deceived me. That's not the truth. What he's
saying is not the truth. You better not believe him. You
go down there and listen to him. We'll kick you out." That's what they said. Somebody
said he's a good man. Over there in the last part of
this chapter, it says, well, none of the Pharisees or the
rulers believe on him. They said, I love this, they
said over there, these people who don't know the law, they're
cursed. Oh, my. But that's what actually happened
at this Feast of the Tabernacle. And they got around to discussing
Jesus, and maybe somebody said, Well, he's a good man. I like
what he said. I believe it. And they said, You'd better not.
And look at verse 13. No man spake openly for him,
for fear of the Jews. They'd get kicked out of church,
if they believed like that. Folks, things haven't changed
one bit. They haven't changed one bit. Look at verse 14. Now, in the
midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
Jews marveled. How knoweth this man letters,
having never learned? Boy, how does he know anything? Oh my, he gave you your brain. Verse 16, Jesus answered them
and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether
I speak of myself. Now let me close with this point
here. Any man will do his will. What's
his will? This is the work of God, he said
back there, that you believe, that you believe on him. Nobody's going to believe except
by the will of God. And this is his will, to believe
on his Son. And if any man will do that,
he'll know. He'll know. But he's not saying
whosoever will, whoever accept him, won't you please believe
on him. He's not saying that. He's just
saying if any man will do his will and believe, he'll know. If any man or woman does, it's
because they were willing in the day of his power. It's not of the will of the flesh,
the will of man, but of God. Not of him that willeth, but
of God that showeth mercy. That's plain. But when a man
does believe by the grace of God, by the will and power of
God, when he does believe, boy, it's all clear then. Isn't it
clear? It's just as plain as the nose
on your face. And some of you have pretty plain
noses. And the scriptures, that's what
Proverbs 8 says. They're all plain to him that
findeth knowledge. They're all right. to him that
understandeth. And they say, John, he was Abraham,
shall not the judge of the earth do right? Any true seeker wants to know
the truth. If there's anybody anywhere who
really wants to know the truth, they'll hear this. They'll hear
this message that you heard this morning. That's right. They'll hear the truth. If any true worshiper wants to
worship God, that's exactly what he'll find. He'll find the place. God rather will bring him or
her to a place where that's what happens, that's what goes on.
If anyone truly wants to know Christ, see Christ, have him
set forth, and see his glory, they'll see
his glory. If anybody hungers and thirsts
after righteousness, anybody hungers and thirsts after righteousness
will be failed. Any true believer who wants to
see the glory of God, they're going to see it. They're going
to see it. Christ said, you'll know the
doctrine whether it's of God or not. There's two ways you
can look at any doctrine, people, two ways. Or you can look at a doctrine—there's
one way to look at it. You look at two sides of a so-called,
of a doctrine, all right? And how you know whatever's true
is what he said there in Martin, chapter 7. And there in verse
17 and 18, if a man will not do his will, he'll know. And
in verse 18 he said, he that seeks his own glory If he seeks
God's glory, it's true. And the same thing holds true
for all doctrine. Look at two sides of the doctrine.
The world says you must choose God, you have a free will, and
it's all up to you. God's done all He can do. Now
who's getting glory? Who's going to get the glory?
If I say, OK, I'm going to let God, I'm going to decide for
Jesus. He's not going to. I vote for
no one. Who's got the glory? Hmm? You're going to try to understand
that. Sarah, who's got the glory? The man did. But, on the other
hand, when God chooses, He does all
the choosing, and they didn't want to have anything to do with
it. But he chose them and made them willing. Then he gets all
the glory, doesn't he? And you can look at every doctrine
in that way. The blood of Christ. Who did
he die for? Well, if he died for all men
without exception, and some of them go to hell, what is it that saved them? What in blood is their fate? Right? But on the other hand,
if Christ died for his elect and every one of them will be
saved, he's going to get all the glory. It's the blood then
that saves them. Isn't that what saves? It's the
blood. The blood makes them believe. The blood makes them believe. The power is in the blood. All
right, I hope that's a help to you, but, Joe, you got a hymn
picked out? One-twenty-seven. Come back Wednesday
night and we'll pick right up where we left off. One-twenty-seven. One-twenty-seven. Stand with
me and let's sing the first third and the fifth stanza. Hallelujah
for the Savior. First third and the fifth. Man of sorrow, what a name for
the Son of God who came. Cruel and sinners to be claimed,
hallelujah, what a Savior. Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
Father's Lamb, our God, was He. All atonement, tennis, peace,
and delirium, are to Him due. When He comes our way, Thank you for this. A good song. A good song.