Chapter 3, Hebrews 3, read the first verse
with me. Hebrews 3, verse 1, Wherefore,
holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider Consider the apostle and high
priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. Consider Christ. Paul said to young Timothy in
a letter to him, he said, Consider what I say. Consider what I say. And the Lord give you understanding. And I hope this morning that
you will at least consider what is said, give a little bit of
consideration of what is said, OK? A little bit of effort went
into this. And I know the Lord, it must
be the Lord, though, to give you understanding. I know that. But if you will at least consider
it, OK? Give some consideration of what
is said. I'm not going to try to deliver a sermon. our moral
story. But as I said, as we were reading
this, this is life and death. This is your children's life
and death. This is the health and spiritual health and wealth,
prosperity of your home, your family, everything. This is life
and death. This is serious here. Every meeting
together is very serious. The things that I'm about to
say and read you from God's Word and commune on is life and death,
serious. God forbid that we should play
one more game of religion, one more Sunday. Now, the word consider
means to stop and think. Just stop and think about something. When it says consider, consider.
Stop and think. And we live in a society that's
so fast—we live in a fast-paced society that doesn't stop and
think about anything. It's obvious, isn't it? They
don't stop and think much about anything. They don't have time. Too busy, you know, earning the
almighty dollar and accumulating Think a lot about that, but not
about anything of any consequence. You stop and think about these
things this morning. These things are of eternal consequence. And we live in a generation,
though, that doesn't like to... I read an interesting, a very
telling article that said 40% of people Forty percent of people, upon
entering, every time they enter the room where the television
is, turn it on. Forty percent of people, when
they walk in the room where the television is, first thing they
do is turn it on. It's not funny. This thing is,
and I've made comments about it before, but I'm telling you,
it's a scourge on our society, it really is. Our youth are absolutely,
are absolutely, formed by it. Children, I say children watch,
the average child watches four hours a day. Is there anything
on there worth watching for four minutes? Four hours. And you know religion,
one reason religion is all music and all show and entertainment
That's indicative of our society, isn't it? People don't want to
sit and open a Bible and look into it and study. Don't have
time to stop and think about anything. Too big of a hurry.
Got things to do, got places to go, people. So you got somebody
to see, all right. We've got somebody to see, all
right. And it's somebody that nobody's prepared to meet, except
a few. I'm talking about God. Nobody wants to sit and study,
though. Nobody wants to take time to look into the Scriptures.
But I want you to, this morning, I want you to sit here and I
want you to consider with me, Sarah. I want you to consider
what I'm saying this morning, OK? I hope you considered what
your teacher said this morning. I heard the lesson. It was just
great. It blessed me when I heard it. I stopped and considered, and
I learned something. Just for a minute, okay? Just
for a little while here. Don't have services tonight.
Just for 30 minutes at the most. Just consider it. Christ Jesus. All right? Look now at Hebrews
chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1. I want you
to stop and I want you to think about this one named Jesus Christ. Okay? And is this old hat to
some of us that we considered Him so much that it's familiarity
bred contempt? Oh, man. Familiarity with this
one. Well, the more we know Him, the
more we ought to be enwrapped with Him, enamored with Him,
taken up by Him. Hear a message by Him, just get
enthused about it. How can—the only way we can drop
off into a stupor or slumber and sleep is if we've left our
first love. That's the only way. If I was
going to get up and stand and talk about your children, you'd
sit there and listen just absolutely engrossed, right? Joe, if I was
going to talk about—I'm not picking on you, you're just there. If I was going to get up and
talk about Joseph Aaron, you'd be on edge of your seat, wouldn't
you? up in your ear. Say it again, I didn't hear it.
Boy, he's something. Say it again, yeah, that's right.
Man, I'm talking about the one who's supposed to be our love,
our life, our Lord, our King, our everything, our all and then
all. And the consequences I preach
as one that may never preach again, as a dying man to dying
men. There I preach any other way that would fervency and zeal
and enthusiasm, and like it's the last message you're ever
going to hear, probably like you've never heard it before.
Should I presume upon your salvation? I want to comfort you, yes, but
I want to warn you, lest you just sit there and be, you know,
just be lulled to sleep by a sense of security. Now, I want you
to rest in Christ, but that won't make you sit there and sleep.
It'll make you sit on edge of your seat with enthusiasm, joy,
and gladness. A false sense of security won't
allow you to sleep. I want you to consider him with
me this morning. You're not coming to me this morning. You're not
hearing Lord willing, not from hearing from me. I don't want
to tell you anything. I haven't told you anything thus
far. New. Nothing new under the sun. I
got one message I want to repeat what's already been said a million
fold. Consider him, who this was, who
this is, who it was that came here, what he did, where he is
now, what this means to you. Okay? Consider him. Hebrews 1 says in verse 1, God
at sundry times, in past days, in different manners. Young people,
don't let the—Luke, look at your Bible with me, okay? Look at
it. Hebrews 1, verse 1. It's too serious. God who at different times in
different manners. Look at it. Don't let the English
language throw you. I want to speak in your language.
God at different times and different places spoke unto our fathers
by the prophets, didn't He? God spoke out loud. Catherine,
He spoke out loud to some men, some men like me, men like your
daddy. Their names were Isaiah and Jeremiah and Moses and men
like Ezekiel, just men, but God spoke out loud. who made the
planet, spoke out loud and said, Isaiah, or just like he'd said
to Terry, Terry, I've got a message for you. Go tell the people. If they believe it, they'll be
saved. If they don't, they'll be damned.
And Terry went out, and I went out, and different men went out,
like Isaiah, or Isaiah and them went out, just like us. And when
they spoke, it was God that spoke, just as really Just as real as
if God spoke to everybody out loud and said, listen up, everybody.
Right? You believe that? Well, it's
so. People didn't believe it. Who does he think he is? That's
what they said to Moses. Who do you think you are? Huh? Because he spoke as one having
authority. Verse 2, now, in these last days, we're living in the
last days. It's obvious. Like Paul wrote
to Timothy over in 2 Timothy 3, he said, we're living in the
last days, perilous times. Let me give you a description
of 1994, okay? September 25th, 1994. This is a description written
in the Bible 2,000 years ago, just as if it was a front-page
news. And he'll be lovers of themselves. Isn't that the way
people are? Lovers of themselves. Covetous.
You know, just after how much they boasted. You ever heard
this trash talk and it's boasting? Trash talk, what they call it,
Stephen, in the sports world. Trash talk. Everybody's talking
trash. I'm somebody. I'm tough. I'm a big guy, you
know. Covetous, both proud, blasphemers. Everybody's got God's name on
their lips. Jesus Christ this, Jesus Christ
that. Blaspheming God. God hears every
word of it. Disobedient to parents, there's
no sense of authority whatsoever, even in some of our children.
If it's bad here, you think of what it's like out there. There's
no sense of authority. Why? Because there ain't no God
being preached today. That's where it all started.
This thing of authority goes on down the line, and we've gotten
so far away from the truth as it is in God, in Christ, the
authority of God's Word, that this thing is just duck plumb
petered out. No authority. Nobody has any respect for any
authority, and that's what's being taught to our children
today. Question authority is what they tell you. It's what
they're telling our kids. You don't have to take it because
they say so. Question it. I'm telling you, God says you
have to take it because he said so. The proud shall be abased. The
humble, the meek, the recipients of truth shall be exalted. God
is able and God will abase everyone that stands in pride before him.
And that's the single greatest description of our generation—pride. And it comes before a fall. This is desperate. I see it in
our kids. Unthankful, unholy, without natural affection. All this homosexuality and abortion
and mothers Oh, child abuse and all that. God said it would be in the last
days, as never before, truce breakers. Well, man's word is
about as good as spit, isn't it? False accusers, gossipers,
the tabloid magazines are the leading sellers. Incontinence. Can't control their lust. Fierce. Fighters despise skinheads, neo-Nazis,
just go on and on. Black power despises those that
are good, the laughingstock of the world, those that have any
morality about them at all. Traitors, heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form
of God. Yeah, they've got some religion,
but they don't have any power. There's no power in it. We're living in the last days. Ever since Christ walked this
planet, it was the beginning of the end, the beginning of
the last days. It was the beginning, all right,
for God's people, but it was the beginning and the end for
planet Earth. Read on now, verse 2. It says,
God in these last days has spoken unto us in son language. God
doesn't speak out loud to men anymore, and don't you believe
anybody that says he God doesn't speak to men anymore out loud.
I don't care what Oral Robertson, Richard Robertson, all of them,
Bob, what's his name, all of them say, I don't care what they
say. God doesn't speak like that anymore. God speaks in the language
of his Son. What's that? Who's his Son? The
Word. The Word. The Word. God has spoken of us in these
days by His Son, by His Word. Peter said we have a more sure
Word of prophecy than those people who heard from Moses personally.
Would you rather hear from Moses this morning? What if Moses come back from
the grave? Does this sound familiar to you? That rich man in hell? Austin Moses. You know, they're
sending somebody back from the grave. What if Moses? Would you
rather hear that? The world would, wouldn't it? They'd rather hear
some fantastical story or hear some experience. Let me tell
you what this book says. This is how God speaks now. Do
you take it lightly? Have you ever considered it?
This is how God speaks. Some people in here have heard
God speak to them as powerfully as if he'd a thunderbolt. I'm
in absolute thunderbolt and lightning flash like Paul on the road to
Damascus. When they heard the gospel, it
was as if God said, called them by name, Henry Ford, listen to
this. Is that the way it was when you
heard the gospel and still the way it is? It's just as real
as if God spoke from the heavens, from this book, in son language. It's all about his son. whom,"
verse 2, "...he hath appointed heir of all things." Jesus Christ
is in charge of everything. He owns everything. Jesus Christ
owns planet Earth. It's in his hands. God the Father
gave it to him, and he's the one that made it anyway. It says,
"...by whom he made the worlds." Jesus Christ made planet Earth. John 1, verse 3, verses say,
"...in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God." The same was in the beginning with God.
Without him was not anything made which was made. All things
were made by him. And without him was not anything
made which was made. Jesus Christ made planet earth. Now consider with me who this was that walked planet
earth. Consider it. Stop and think for
a minute. History records it, men cannot
deny it, that there was one who walked this planet nearly 2,000
years ago. His name was Jesus, born in Bethlehem,
raised in Nazareth, and this book says he was God, the one
who made us, the one in whose hands we are. Walked planet Earth. Why? Just to see what was going
on? Just kind of say, you know, who'd
have him, who'd accept him, and try this and try that. Oh, he came down with an eternal
purpose. Ordered in all things and sure.
Son of God, who made the world. God, look down at verse 8. It
said, under the sun, God Almighty's talking here in verse 8. Under
the sun, God says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. There's
a whole slew of people out there who will argue and believe and
say they believe in the Son of God, who will come short of saying
they believe that Jesus Christ is very God, very God. Right? This whole denomination, Jehovah's
Witnesses, Mormons, so forth, they will stop short of believing,
of confessing that Jesus Christ is God. Well, they don't have
hope if he's not God. Because the things he said and
the things he did, only God could say and do. And the fact that
people worshiped him and he let them, encouraged them to do so. And the fact the scriptures attest
to it and proclaim it, who he is, Lord. At the name of Jesus,
yes, a man's name. A man walked this planet, but
he's more than a man. He's Lord. He's God. Not just a man. He's God. That's who he is. And it goes on, you know, the
first two chapters of Hebrews, it goes into great detail about
his glory, his power, his honor, who he is and what he did. Stop
and just consider with me. Who this was that walked this
planet? God. Not any ordinary man. God did. God did. All right, look down at chapter
2, verse 1. It says, Therefore, because of
who this was and who came and the things he said, you know
what he said to his disciples? Who was it? Was it Thomas that
said, Lord, how will you reveal yourself unto us and not the
world? And Christ said there, I think
it was John 16, somewhere around there. He said,
By the word, either hath my words, and keepeth them. He, it is,
is loved by my Father and will be loved by me and my Father,
and will come unto him and make our abode with him. He that hath
my words and keeps them and believes them, my word, everything I said,
my word. He said, if you believe my words,
then are you my disciples indeed, right? If you keep my words,
what I said, everything I said, who I am, what I came to do,
who you are, your desperate need of me. And look at verse one,
it says, Therefore, because of who this is, God, and what he
said, everything he said was of eternal consequence. No idle
words out of his mouth. Therefore, we ought to give the
more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. And like I said, I have endeavored
from the very outset. I've failed miserably many times. but have endeavored from the
very beginning, coming here, to just tell you what this book
says. In other words, tell you what Christ said. Just to repeat,
like a Paul parent, if you will, what God's word says, in hopes
that he'll speak. If a man's voice is all you hear,
you'll profit, not profit, but if God speaks to you. And all
he's going to speak to you is through this book. That's the
reason I'm going to just preach and read and quote just as much
of this book as I can to you. This is what God uses. And from
the beginning, you've heard just countless thousands of scripture. How many books have we gone through?
Children, how many books have you gone through with your teachers? We ought to give more earnest
heed to things we've heard. We've heard some things here,
haven't we? Oh, my. Why are you yet unbelieving
is what I want to say to some people. Why are you yet unbelieving?
What's it going to take to convince you? I speak as a man. I know what it will take to convince
you. But yet we're responsible, aren't we? We take the blame.
If we're not yet saved or believers, we have to take the blame. Don't
hide from me, okay? Come out from behind the one
you're sitting behind. We ought to give the more earnest
heed to the things we've heard, because they're slipping. They're
slipping fast, fading fast. It's the past several Sundays,
and it seems to me like it's been kind of a dropping off of
attendance and all that. And that doesn't play a part
in what I'm saying here. I just thought about it. These things are slipping. Truth,
over in Isaiah, he said, truth is falling in the streets. It's
falling. It's slipping. Look at this, verse 2. Read it
with me. Consider now what God's word is saying here. If the word
spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedience
received a just recompense or reward, how shall we escape if
we neglect so great salvation? How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation? Listen now and consider with
me here. Look down at verse 8, who this was that came. God put
all things in subjection under his feet. See this? Verse 8,
God hath put all things in subjection under Jesus Christ's feet. In
that he put all, A-double-L, in subjection unto him, he left
nothing that is not put under him. What's that mean? Let me
put it into clearer language. You are under his feet. Kevin Berry, Shannon Parks, Charles Ross, You are in the
hands of this Jesus Christ to do with as he pleases. You are all things, it says. Buddy, we better consider this
person. We better consider this person.
We better stop for a minute and just think about who this is
I'm talking about here. Who this is is speaking here.
This is not me trying to persuade you. All right, look at verse
9. Now here's the problem men have,
and this is the reason I get so sick of all this talk about
this Jesus. Because that's all men see is
this Jesus who's made a little lower than the angels. This man
named Jesus, you need to see him a little higher than that. The only way a man's going to
worship and fall down and beg for mercy and ever be—have that
scepter of righteousness extended to him is if he sees Jesus as
the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody speaks Jesus, made
a little lower than the angels, who wants this and that and died
and cried and this and that and the other. Oh, we're going to
have to see one sitting on the throne right now, and us sitting
there in his head. Believe me, it hurts to do that.
This thing's urgent. In his hands right now. I'm talking about you're in his
hands right now. And been there from the beginning. Consider him. He can do what he wants. He doesn't
have to save us. Why would he have to? He doesn't
need us any more than—and I don't care if the world isn't like
this. It's so. He doesn't need us any more than we need a grasshopper
in our yard. There's an infinite number more
where we came from. This little grasshopper better
be hollering, hadn't we? Huh? Read his hands! It ain't matter, he can just grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr It's about a Lord reigning and
ruling, sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
with all things under His feet! Not waiting, not wishing, not
wanting, expecting! Expecting! It's as good as none! All things are ordered! Right, John? You read the Bible
a little bit. Is that the Jesus Christ of Scripture? Well, verse 9 says that people
see Jesus made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death. Why? Now, here's the second question.
Why did he come then? I tried to tell you who he was,
very pitifully. I don't have the ability to tell
you who it was. God's going to have to tell you
who he is. God's going to have to reveal unto you by faith who
this is. Why did he come? To die. Why? Because he was a martyr? Because he was trying to get
men to feel sorry for him? No, because God's holy. Because
God's righteous. Not because God's all-loving,
blessed God. He is love, men. Yes, he is love. That's why it came, the love
of God. But it ain't on everybody. It's not for everybody. God's holy first. God's righteous. God loves holiness. God loves
righteousness. And that's exactly the opposite
of what we are, Sarah. You, sweet Sarah. The opposite
of holiness and righteousness. God's angry with workers of iniquity.
Every day. Every day! Doesn't smile and
say, look, boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and
they ain't take cue. He loves righteousness. Hates iniquity. The thing he hates worse than
anything is indifference. That's unbelief. Unbelief. And Christ Jesus, as a man, came
down here to establish a life that God looked down on and approved
of, as a man. He thought about God day in,
day out. The minute he woke up to the
minute he went to sleep, he worked out of righteousness, as a man. And God Almighty—I never get
tired of saying this—God Almighty was so impressed with him, so
thrilled by him. God created one man, and from
his posterity came millions and billions and trillions of others,
and all of them came miserably short of glorifying God, of even
giving God one out of the thanks that God deserved. He said, All
day long I've nourished and raised up a children who've rebelled
against me, who'd rather go after food than God. God is their belly all day long,
all their life, forty, fifty, sixty years. Find me a man that
will glorify me and thank me and live for my honor and glory."
Here he came. Lo, I come, the God-man, Jesus,
the Christ, came as a representative. He didn't have to. God loved
him and got approved of him in the beginning. But he came. Why? Because Joe Parks needed
somebody to do this for him. Oh, Joe, we saw the thrill of
your heart, buddy. He came and said, Joe Parks ain't never going
to glorify you as he ought to. He's never going to be thankful.
He's a sinner. And God can't receive him like
that. So he says, Lo, Jesus comes and says, Lo, I come, and the
bottom of the book that's written on me, I'm going to do thy will,
O God. I'm going to live that law, establish
a life, a righteous life as a man. for old Joe Parks. He can't do
it. He's helpless. I'm going to be
his help. He's without strength. I'll be his strength. He's without
God, without hope in this world. I'll be his God. I'll be his
hope. He can't live this life. I'll
be his life. I'll live for him." And he lived
for thirty-three years, and God said it out loud, I approve of this man." And Jesus
cried. Here's imputed righteousness.
Bless God for imputed righteousness. He said, Don't charge it to me,
charge it to Joe Parks. I know I did it all, and he ain't
even grateful for it like he ought to be. But give it to him
anyway. And came along and just said,
get out of there, I'm going to take your place. And he died
in your place and you went on skipping down the road and just
forgot his name. Would you? You see why unbelief is so vile
and God hates it? Today, if you'll hear his voice.
How many times, young people, I'm telling you, this is either
going to save you or it's going to damn you. This message is
going to add to your condemnation. You've heard enough. You're old
enough. You're old enough. Consider it. When I came down
here to do something for some people, boy, I'd be crying out
in the privacy of my home and in my heart right now, oh, Lord,
do it for me. Did you do that for me? I hope
you did it for me. It's life and death. That's what I say in my last
poem. What it means to you? Well, what it means to you, it
says in verse 13, boy, this is becoming of him. Don't you love
that verse? It became him. It's just like him to do that. For whom are all things, by whom
are all things, bringing many sons to glory, thankless as they
may be, rebellious as they may be, worthless as they may be,
as prodigal as they may be, just like a parish love that
they put up with an old prodigal. And that's all of us, just like
him. What a gospel that will come
into him. Verse 11, He that sanctified
they who are sanctified are all one. God Almighty receives us
as if, just as if, we'd never sinned, just as if we'd been
holy all our lives. Just as if we was holy and lovely
and beautiful and as appealing to Him as Jesus
Christ was. That's the way He thinks about
you. I'm telling you, this is unbelievable. And this is what Christ said,
I'll declare your name unto my brethren in the midst of the
church while I sing praise unto thee. And again, I'll put my
trust in him. And again, oh, I love this, behold,
someday he's going to present us faultless, unblameable, unapprovable
before God's holy presence, God the Holy Father, and say about
us, here they are, here's your babies, here's your children,
your blessed little loved ones, here they are. Boy, they weren't
much before, but look at them now, all dressed in white, clothed
in their right minds, thanking you like they ought to, smiling
and rejoicing in God their Savior. Ah, look at them now. They're
worth something now. They'll be worth something to
you now. They'll sing your praises throughout eternity. That's what
they'll do. Oh, and I love these. These were
especially precious verses on down that says that, for as much
as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same. You know, I went through what
my daughter went through, by God's mercy and grace, or what
she's going to have to go through, and I can relate to her now. I can come down to her level. I can relate to her now. And God Almighty came down to
our level, bent a knee to talk to us little children. Speak
to us. Oh, consider it. Consider it. In all things, verse 17, it behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a
merciful and faithful high priest, and, thanks pertaining to God,
to make reconciliation. Why, because he came to die a
bloody death that you deserve, you old ungrateful fellow you. You deserve to die. And oh, what
a death that had been, and eternity's been in hell. But he came to
do it, make reconciliation for the sins of the people, in that
he himself also suffered being tempted. He's able to succor
them that are tempted. He knows you. He got down here,
put on this robe of flesh, and knows what you've gone through
and going through. But he did it principally. Not
just so he'd know, not just so he could relate to you, but to
be your substitute, to die a death you deserve. That's the reason
you can't gloss this thing up. You're not going to preach this
thing with wisdom or words. It costs the Christ to be made
an old fag. Huh? He took a bloody death of God's
own Son to save the likes of us. Dare we make light of sin? God didn't make light of it,
did He? And what this has to do with
you, verse 1, I already read it to you. Verse 3, Wherefore
holy, brethren? Oh, you may not feel like you're
holy, but God says you are. Holy, brethren, partakers of
the heavenly calling. Are you a partaker of the heavenly
calling? I can find a few this morning. There's one. It's obvious,
because when God calls, there's sheep here. He partakers of the
heavenly calling. There's sheep. Like I said before,
they say, I'm bad. And the shepherd hears them.
He calls them. They follow him. How do they
follow him? They can't get enough of the green pastures and still
waters. That's how you know them. That's how you know them. They
eat. They get sick and lose their appetite. Holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, I'm persuaded that he that called
you will also perform. You'll finish that work. Are
you a partaker of the heavenly calling, Barbara Ross? Are you?
Have you heard this call, this gospel call? I'm calling you
this morning. Would you like to profess in
believing baptism? I would, all over again. That's what I'm saying. You heard
it before, you baptized before, confessing him, you're not ashamed? Man, oh man, consider, consider
the Apostle, the Apostle. The Apostles, there were twelve
of them who sent messengers from God or with a message. He's the apostle, the messenger
of the covenant, the apostle sent by God, the one whom the
apostles took their message from, their orders from, the apostle.
And high priest, spit on that old fellow in that robe that
lives in Rome, spit on his face. If they ask me to kiss his toe,
I step on it, bite it, Yes, spit on him. They spit on the high
priest, the great high priest of heaven. But I'm going to bow
at his feet and kiss his feet, lest he be angry. You see, he
ain't the sweet Jesus making mine. Lest he be angry and you
perish. You need to consider this. Lest
his anger, his wrath is kindled just a little. And the thing
that Kindles his wrath more than anything else. Unbelief. Indifference to this message
you heard this morning. That's the thing. It aggravates me.
I admit it. But it aggravates God infinitely. But today, you just heard it. If you'll hear it, don't harden
your heart. Today, while it's called today,
harden not your heart as in the day of provocation. Don't go
another day or another week and think, well, almost thou persuadest
me. Don't do that, Agrippa. Today, thou most not thyself
of tomorrow, you don't know what tomorrow will bring forth. Well,
when I get a little older, who's promised you that? Huh? I'll get a little more settled.
I'll have time." Who's promised you time today if thou wilt hear
his voice? Harden not your heart, as in
the Provogation. God was angry. And you know God's
anger is going to be greater. If the mighty works had been
done in this place, had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, Jonah
went down to that place and preached the gospel. One message. One message. Salvation of the Lord. They heard
one gospel message, and the whole city repented. We hear 100,000. It's amazing, isn't it? Why would God put up with the
same old job? Why would He? It's long-suffering, that's why.
The longsufferings of the Lord is salvation in that, but there's
no promise that it won't end tomorrow. No promise. Today. Today, you'll hear His
voice. Pardon not your heart.