Now, to Hebrews, the book of
Hebrews. Turn to chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2. Verse 1 will be a text, will serve as
something from which to Gather our thoughts. Look at
Hebrews 2 verse 1. Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed,
or we ought to sincerely listen. That's what earnest heed means.
We ought to sit up and pay attention to the things which we have heard. lest at any time we should let
them slip. You remember what my pastor said
about the word therefore? Whenever you see the word therefore,
you need to understand why it's therefore, what it's there for. He put that because of chapter
one. Therefore, because of what I
said already, so look back at chapter one. This book of Hebrews
is the book of Jesus Christ. There are a lot of pictures out
there that people have concocted and
made up that's supposed to be Jesus. They're not. There's no physical description
of Jesus Christ in the scripture, except Revelation 1. And I've yet to see a picture
that looked like that. Eyes as a flame of fire, feet
as brass that burned in a furnace, his countenances the sun that
shineth in all its strength. There's a lot of pictures out
there of so-called Jesus, They're all idols and images. But this book gives us a picture
of Jesus Christ. The only picture you're going
to get of Jesus Christ is a description or a declaration of who he is
and what he's like from the pages of this book. And not the color
of his hair, not the color of his eyes and all that. but what
he's really like, his character. This book is about, and this
book of Hebrews, unlike any other, gives a glorious picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Every chapter speaks of Jesus
Christ. From first to last, it speaks
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, who he is, who he was,
who he is, what he did, why he did it, where he is now. And
in there in chapter two, it impresses upon us the urgency, the necessity
of hearing what he said. Absolute necessity of hearing
and believing in this one who came, a real person. I wish that
I could make him known this morning, make him real. I can't do it.
I can't do it. God can and has and does. not through the eloquence of
a preacher, but through the pages of this book, through these words.
Let's look at it, all right? You see, we ought to, therefore,
we ought to listen to what we've heard. Why? Why do you say, therefore? Because, verse 1, look at it,
Hebrews 1, 1, Because God at sundry or different times, or
other times, in times past, Old Testament times, and in different
manners, God used to speak to men by—to our fathers, our ancestors,
used to speak in times past under the fathers by the prophets,
various men that would come from God, said, Hear ye the word of
the Lord. The Lord spoke to me. And the Lord would speak in visions
and dreams and actually audible voices to these prophets like
Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and so forth. Well, this God who used to speak
by the prophets, verse 2, hath in these last days, and these
are the last days, ever since Jesus Christ walked this planet,
this has been the last days. God hath in these last days,
the days preceding his coming to when this whole thing will
be destroyed and all things made new. God hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his Son." The Son of God came down to talk
to man. There's a passage over in, and
I didn't write it down, I think it's Isaiah where it says, God
spoke to us once by the prophets, Law, Moses, God spoke very clearly. the Word, the Old Testament,
twice Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, came down to speak.
It says, but men perceived it not. God spoke. In these last
days, He spoke unto us by His Son, His Son. God sent His Son
down here to speak to me. Who? Who is this Son? Verse 2.
Who is this Jesus Christ? Well, He's the One by whom He
hath appointed heir of all things. He's the heir, the owner of all
things. He's the Son over His own house.
By whom? Verse 2. Who is this Son of God? He's the One by whom God made
the worlds. He, in the beginning, was the
Word, John said in chapter 1. The Word was with God. And the
Word was God. All things were made by Him,
and without Him was nothing made which was made. And the Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us. Who is this Son of God? God
manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ, by whom also He made
the world. Verse 3, "...who being the brightness
of His glory," getting in deep waters here now, the brightness
of God's glory. I don't know about that. I don't
hardly know what to say about that. The brightness of God's
glory, the very verse three says, the express image of his person.
It says that Adam, and people get all confused. When God said
that he made Adam in his own image, remember that? They made Adam in his own image.
Therefore, people think, well, Adam's the son of God, and therefore,
all of us are sons of God. That ain't so. Adam was made
out of the dust. Right? Adam was said, Scripture
said, let us make man in our own image, or in the likeness
of us, similar to us, but we'll make him out of the dust. But
the Son, the Scripture says, is the only begotten of the Father. The One who came from the actual
seed of God. What's that? I don't know. But
He actually is God. Not just like God, but is God. That's what the express image
means. The exact duplicate of God. The express image. Express image. Some of you have children that
look just like you. It's obvious that they're your
children. Well, and then they're nobody else's child. Well, that
is the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Express Him in. Have God all
had Him. And look at verse 3. Who is this
Jesus Christ? He's the one who upholds all
things by the word of His power. The same one who in the beginning
said, let there be light, is the same one who walked this
planet. and who is the same one now that sits on the magic throne
of the majesty on high right now and upholds all things and
said, let there be this, let there be that, let there be this
and that and the other. It's the same one who is upholding
or controlling or reigning and ruling over all things. Lord, that's what it means, by
the word of his power. You know how powerful he is?
Just a word. He does things by word. He walked out on the ocean one
day, by the ocean, and told the ocean to lie down at his feet,
and it did, like a puppy dog. He upholds all things by the
word of his power. Verse 3, you want to know something
about his power? He can by himself purge our sins. Verse 3, when He had by Himself
purged our sins, put away sins, the iniquity of us all, or all
of God's people, by Himself, by the sacrifice of Himself.
And the whole book of Hebrews—and it goes from here on out to talk
about to talk about the angels, to talk about Aaron, the high
priest, to talk about Moses, to talk about sacrifices, the
lambs and so forth, to talk about the glory of the law of God, of which all things are a type
of this one man. And you remember in the Old Testament
how they used to sacrifice lamb after lamb, after bullock after
bullock, and there was priest after priest, after high priest
after high priest, Levitical priests and so forth, said this
one man, all of this that was done in times past, for thousands
of years, he could by himself, by one offering, take care of
it all, do it all. What all those things tried to
do and couldn't, he could do by himself. What all those people
typified, he by himself did, put away put the weight of the
world on his shoulders, the sin of the world, and put away by
the sacrifice of himself, by his righteousness, by his shed
blood. Verse 3 says, And when he had by himself purged our
sins, put away our sin. Now, once again, he's not talking
about everybody. Because if Jesus Christ put away
everybody's sins, everybody's saved. Right? Well, he did purge someone's
sins. All that the Father giveth me,
he said, shall come to me. And them that come to me, I'll
know why I was cast out. I'll purge their sins by myself. I'll do it. And he did it. All of his elect, all of God's
chosen. And after he did this glorious
work, came down to earth from heaven, established a righteousness
that God would accept. on behalf of His people. You
understand what that means, don't you? Huh? That Christ lived the
life that He demands of you and me in perfection, thought, word
and deed, holy. That's what it goes on to say,
because He loved righteousness. He lived that law perfectly and
kept it perfectly in thought and word and in deed. And therefore,
God took that and imputed it or charged it to the account
of all his chosen people. That's the gospel. Charged it
to their account, and therefore when God looks on his people,
he sees them holy. Why? Because they're good little
boys and girls? No, because Jesus Christ made
them holy. Or what he did. And then took
their sins, which God said must be punished. And this is why
everybody who Christ died for has to be saved. He took their
sins on his shoulders and went to Calvary's tree, and when God
killed him, God killed me. I was crucified with Christ.
He killed all those people that Christ represented as our high
priests, whom Christ shed his blood for. He killed them, and
their sins were paid for. Jesus paid it all. Not part of
it, and you pay the rest. Big Stetton, you meet him halfway,
he did it all by himself, purged the sins of all his people. And
after he did this glorious work, unlike any priest before him,
those Old Testament priests, they made sacrifice after sacrifice,
one in the morning, one in the evening, and they'd wake up the
next day and do it all over again. They never sat down. There was
always something to do. The sacrifice was never finished.
The work was never finished. Never finished. It never put
away the people's sins. Scripture says after he did this,
he went up to heaven, sat down. He sat down. Why? He's finished, he said. When
he hung on the cross, he said, it's finished. In three days,
I'm going to sit down. The work's finished. Nothing
left to be done. Huh? Oh, but what you must do
for Jesus. No. It's finished. It's finished. When he had by
himself purged our sins, verse three, he sat down. Where'd he
sit? On the right hand of the majesty
on high. The right hand of favor, the
right hand of acceptance, the right hand of honor and power
and glory, the right hand of the majesty on high. God Almighty's
Son, Son of His right hand. When He sat down, men would have
us think that He's walking the banisters of heaven, you know,
hoping that you'll let Him do this and you'll let all poor
so-and-so. I wish I want to say them so
bad and they won't let me. He's seated. He's not patient. He's seated. And he's expecting
some things to happen that he has decreed before the world
began. He's not worried about his sheep. He saved them. And he sent the Holy Spirit to
lasso them. And they're coming. They're coming.
And he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
expecting, waiting on this thing to be all finished in God's due
time. And it will. And all the people
said over in chapter 2, verse Verse 13 says someday he's going
to present the children. Here they are. Behold, I and
the children that you've given me, they're all here. All the ones you've loved, all
the ones you've chosen, all the ones you've given to me, all
the ones I died for, all the ones the Holy Spirit came to,
preached the gospel to, and drew by that gospel, they're all here.
Behold, I and the children which thou hast given me, none missing.
Not too many, not too few, just exactly how many you chose. They're
all here. And as I said, the book of Hebrews
talks about Christ in comparison to other men and other things
like angels and Moses and Aaron and so forth and the law. Verse
4 said that this one, this Christ being made, don't trip up on
that word made there. It means declared. It means declared. The so-called Jehovah Witnesses
take this verse to mean that he was actually formed or made. Now, Isaiah 9-6 says a child
is formed. Yes, a child is born. A baby
was formed in the belly of a woman 2,000 years ago, named Jesus.
And we're going to see here in chapter 1 how that the Son of
God never did have a beginning. Isaiah 9, 6 says, A child is
born, but the Son is given. Isaiah 7. Isaiah 7. And it says that He
was declared so much better than the angels. Look at that. Read
it. Now, this is why we better take heed to things we've heard. Are you listening? Verse 4, He's
made so much better than the angels. as he hath my inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they." It's like somebody
to you. Say, I sent somebody to you with
a message from me. Our Lord gave a parable like
this, a parable of the husbandman. Say, I send somebody to you with
a message from me. and you honor and reverence that
person or else you dislike them and kick them out and so forth.
Well, that's bad if you don't receive them. You've done that
to me. But if I send my daughter, if I send my daughter to you,
whatever you do to her, you've done to me. If you listen and
receive her, you receive me. If you reject her, you rejected
me. She's a whole lot better than those messengers I sent.
She's a part of me. She's me. See? And God sent the
angels throughout time to herald this and that and the other.
But now, in this last day, God sent his Son, his only begotten
Son. Read on. He hath, he's an heir. He hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent name than they. What's that name? Verse five.
Under which of the angels did he say, Son? He didn't say that
to Michael. He didn't say that to any of
the angels. He said it to one. Son. One. Only begotten. Son. Thou art my, and he's quoting
from Psalm two. Thou art my son, this day have
I begotten thee. Now this is God talking, we ought
to give heed to this. Are you with me? Thou art my son, this is God
talking, what he said to his son. We're getting in on, God
let us in on what he said to his son. This is private conversation
here. He lets his worms like us in
on. We ought to heed it. Thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee, and again I will be to
him a father, and he shall be to me a son." And again, when
he bringeth in or brought his first begotten into the world,
he says, Let all the angels worship him. And they did when Christ
came on that hill in Bethlehem. It says that the angels, ten
thousand angels, multitude of heavenly hosts said, Glory to
God in the highest, peace and goodwill toward men. He's here. God said it, go down there and
herald my son's come. My son is coming to the earth.
And the angels came, God's here, God's here. Worship Him. And they fell down
in that little cow stall and worshiped Him. Angels fell down
and worshiped Him. And to the angels, he said, you've
been ministering spirits. Look at verse 7. Under the angels,
he makes spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. You go down
there, keep his foot lest he dash it against the stone. He
said to the angels, now you wait on my boy. That's my son. You wait on him hand and foot.
You watch over him. You give him everything. You
serve him. He's going to be in the flesh now. He's going to
be made of flesh now. He's going to live by faith now.
He's going to live somewhat confined to a body like the rest of his
brethren. You watch over him. Don't let
a thing happen to him. So they did. That's what God said to
the angel. But verse 8, look at this. But
under the sun, he said, when all this was getting ready to
take place, See, a baby was born. A child named Jesus was born,
but the Son was given, the Scripture said. I quoted that to you, didn't
I, from Isaiah? Isaiah said that. The Son was
given. You see, there was a time when
the Son of God entered into that body of that baby. And this is a mystery. That's
the reason Paul said in 2nd Timothy, chapter 3, this is a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh. Scene of angels, justified in
the Spirit, and so forth. Scene of angels. That's the reason
the angels, when they saw this happen, when they saw this baby
there, and then at some point in time, the Son of God entered
into that body, the angels said, This holy thing, they didn't
know rightly what to call it. So holy, so unusual. Never before had the Son was
given. And God said to the angels, now
you go serve him, but under the Son, He said. Now there's God's
marching orders to His Son. This is God, what He says to
His Son. who came to this planet. Verse 8, Under the sun he saith
thy throne. Is Jesus Christ God, or is he
just a son of God? That's right, Terry Kinsley.
Blessed art thou, Terry Bar Kinsley. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you. The Mormons won't tell you that. Jehovah's Witnesses
won't tell you that. Catholicism won't tell you that.
They'll tell you, you're as much a son of God as He is. Uh-uh.
Uh-uh. That's one time. And He's as
much God as God is. Look at what God says about Him.
This is what God says to His Son. Thy throne, O God, is forever. Is He God or is He not? Is this
important? You're in your sins if he wasn't
God. A mere man can't put away sin,
right? A man can't satisfy the law and
justice of God, only God can. Thy throne, O God. And I've told you before, the
reason he's called the Son of God is because he was a bodily
manifestation of God. But He's no less God than God.
He's very God, the Scripture says, very God. And that's what
God says about it. Let there be no mistake about
it. This One, this Son, is God. If you don't believe that, Christ
said in John 8, 24, you'll die of your sins, didn't He? If you
don't believe I am, who are you? I am that I am. Moses said to
God on the mountain when he received the tablets of stone, who shall
I say sent me? Who are you, Lord? And God said,
I am that I am. I was, I am, I will be. I am
that I am, the eternal one. I am, I am God. And when they
came to get Jesus in the garden, you remember what happened? He
said, whom do you seek? They said, Jesus, and he said,
I am. And they fell over backwards.
And Christ said there in John 8, he said, if you don't believe
that I am, you'll die in your sins. And the Pharisees one day,
when he forgave a man his sins, that lame male, he said, go thy
way, thy sins be forgiven. The Pharisees said, who can forgive
sins but God? He said, that's right, I am. I am that I am. Why did he say
I am? That's interesting. Why did he
say I am? You and I can't say that. You
know what? If we go to our neighbor next
door and go up to him and try it sometime, what a fool you'll
make out of you. You go up to him and say, uh,
John? He'll say, yeah. He'll say, I
am He'll say, You are what? Right? Well, I am. You are in what?
You see, we have to qualify that with something. I am a man. I
am thirty-eight years old. I am this. I am that. I'm fat. I'm tall. I'm skinny.
I'm this and that and the other. I am. You have to qualify that.
You can't describe God. And, you know, we can't say,
I am, because that's in the present. Because the minute we say, I
am, no, we're not. We have changed. We're creatures
of change. The minute we say, I am, no,
we're not. We've become something other than what we were. You
understand? We're changing. We're dying.
The minute I say, I am, no, I've changed. You can't say that.
God says, I never changed. He said that Malachi 316, I am
the Lord, I change not. I am the Lord. I am that I am. What are you? I am that I am. I am that what I was. I am that
what I am. I am that what I will be. I am
that I am. And Hebrews 13, 8 says Jesus
Christ. The same yesterday, today, and
forever. I am. He's God. Is it important? Sure is. None can forgive sin. You know, either Jesus Christ
is God, or he's the biggest liar and hypocrite and imposter that
ever walked this planet, and he deserved to die the worst
death of all. He deserved that, because he
did and said things that only God could do and say. He said
things about himself that only God deserves. People would fall
down at his feet and worship him. When the scripture says,
Thou shalt worship no other god but me. Right? God said it all
the way through the Old Testament. I am the Lord, there's none else.
Thou shalt worship me and me only. Well, Christ Jesus let
people fall down and worship him and kiss his feet. He didn't
stop them. Why? He's God. Why don't men see that? Because their eyes were blinded.
Because he had a body on. He wore a suit. He wore a plain
brown wrapper. And they couldn't see through
him. And like I said to you, one day on the Mount of Transfiguration,
he took Peter, James, and John up there and he said, I'm going
to show you a little bit. I'm going to show you something. Now watch carefully. He peeled back that fleshly They saw God. God, in a mass reason, we can't,
you know, we can't fathom, we can't understand, we can't enter
into this, who this was, this man named Joseph, good man, and
people everywhere all over the planet now worshiping some Jesus.
He's more than Jesus. Is it important? Your soul hangs
on it. and worshiping some Jesus. Paul
said, another Jesus who tries and fails, who did something
that didn't do any good for anybody. I'm telling you, God walked planet
earth, said some things, did some things, went back home and
sat on the throne and is waiting for some things to happen that
he decreed would happen, and they're going to happen. God! We ought to give heed You see
why he says that? Therefore we ought to give heed.
And we ought to listen. You ought to listen to what I'm
saying this morning. All I'm saying is what Hebrews 1 said.
Look at it, what God said to His Son. Verse 8, unto the Son,
He says, Our throne, O God, is forever and ever. Who's sitting
on the throne of God right now? Jesus Christ. You know, when
you get to heaven, if you get to heaven, it'll be by this one.
But if you get there, and when you get there, you're not going
to see God, you're going to see Jesus Christ. You're going to see a man. And
he says, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of
righteousness is the scepter of thy King. Oh, I love this. I love this. A scepter of righteousness. You remember in the old days,
don't you love Deborah, the story of Esther? Ahasuerus, what was his name,
the king? It's hard to pronounce him. That
king who Esther wanted the people to be accepted by and received. Esther became the representative
of the Jews. You remember that story? Well,
back in the old days, kings used to sit on their big, big golden
thrones, you know, big lion heads here and so forth, and wear these
big 50-pound crowns, you know, and robes, and, buddy, if you
looked wrong. Our generation, you know, there
are no more kings. There are no more kings. There
are imposters. There are fellows who like to
be king, who would be king, but they're... Do you remember that
fellow from... And he had medals from here.
And wherever he made a grand appearance, even though he was
little, buddy, he'd walk around and he commanded respect. But
that fellow, he's a little peanut king of a peanut country. There
are no more kings. And all who say they are, they're
not. The Queen of England, she's a figurehead. She has no power.
Parliament can give her what they will. And so that little
lord's over in the Parliament aren't a little aware of their
little powdered wigs, you know, and walk around and talk honey?
Little lords and little kings, and I'll tell you, the Scripture
says he's king of kings. And lord of lords. And the king's
heart—Kyle Selassie or whoever—his heart, that king's heart and
his thoughts are in the hands of this lord of lords, this king
of kings. He's lord, and he has a scepter. Those old kings of old used to
have a scepter that they would carry, and boy, that was a symbol
of power. Whatever they deemed to use as
their little scepter and a symbol of their power, whether it be
whatever, they had this little scepter. And when you came in
to see them, when you came in to see that king, like the king
of the old medieval king who would hold out his sword, you
know. A knight would come in and kneel before the king, and
the king would dub him. Now, that king could either cut his head off, or he could
lay that sword gently on his head, or he could take his scepter
and hold it out, and the person would touch it to their head,
and they would be granted entrance into that great king. Whatever
that king said, you'd either be accepted or rejected. on the
basis of that scepter. He watched that scepter. Huh? What's this mean? A scepter of
righteousness. Do you understand what this means?
Do you? Huh? Do you understand? Darn it. Do
you understand what this scepter of righteousness is? See, King
Jesus, King Christ, is seated on His throne of heaven. I can't
describe it. He's seated on His throne of
heaven, and everybody's got to come through Him. If you want
to get in His throne room, His heaven, you've got to come through
Him. And He's got a scepter. And it
says the scepter of righteousness, it says. It's the heart of the gospel,
isn't it, Sammy? Huh? Scepter of righteousness. What's
that mean? It's the righteousness of Jesus Christ. It's that life
I said a while ago. that He lived on planet Earth
for some people. Now, if you come in there, and
it's like a garment that He clothes you with, a wedding garment,
the dress code of heaven. Are you following me? It's what
you must have on. It's a wedding garment, or you
can't get in. It's what He must extend to you, or you can't be
accepted by the Holy God. It's what He must hold out and
do to you. Oh, you can't come in, Henry?
You can't come in. A scepter of righteousness. That
means that what Christ did, he had to have done for you. And it's not an offer. The king
didn't hold that scepter up and say, now would you accept this
in honor and power? You held it out and boy, you
were made willing, weren't you, in the day of When you saw his
glory, when you saw his righteousness. And Terry, he took that righteousness
out and clothed you with it. That scepter, whereby you may
be accepted by him. I don't know if I made that clear
enough. Look at verse 9. He loved righteousness and hated
iniquity. even by God. You know what? One time, twice, God spoke from
heaven. He couldn't help himself. And
there are times when I cannot help myself by bragging on my
child. She does something that pleases me, I say, that's good,
honey, that's good. She does something at various
times that the way I taught her and the way I would have her
to do it, I say, honey, I like that. You've done well. God couldn't
help himself twice from heaven after looking at his son. That's
my son! In whom I'm well pleased. Hear him. We ought to give him. He loved righteousness, hated
iniquity. God said, that's my boy. That's
my boy. Therefore God, even thy God,
anointed him with the oil of gladness above his palace, the
Holy Spirit without measure." Verse 10, and he kept talking.
God keeps talking about His Son. "...Thou, Lord, in the beginning,
hath laid the foundation of the earth, the heavens are the works
of thy hands." This is God bragging on His Son. They're going to
perish, all these peanuts are going to perish. All these men
are going to perish. These men and women who think
they're somebody, they're nothing, you are all. He said, you're
all and in all. They shall perish, you will remain.
They shall wax old as doth the garment, and you're going to
fold them up in your mighty hand. This is God talking about Christ.
You're going to fold this earth up like a man takes a God, Jesus
Christ, one day is going to take planet Earth and the universe
and all that. That's what this says. And He's going to fold
it up like a man would a vesture. Put it away. Done with that! Don't need it anymore. The stage
is over. I've accomplished what I came
to do. Saved those I came to save. It's
all over. As a vesture, verse 12, thou
shalt fold them up, they shall be changed, and done away with.
You're the same. Thy years shall not fail, and
your work won't age." Now, to which of the angels did he say
this to? To what man? Did he say this
to Moses? Did he say it to Abraham? Did
he say it to Adam? He gave Adam charge over a little
garden. How you take care of those lions
and tigers and all that? Gave the universe to his son.
Gave his people their son. Which of the angels did he say,
you sit right here, you sit right here, till I make thine enemies
thy footstool? Oh no, they're just servants,
sent forth to be servants to them that will be heirs of salvation.
Who? Who? We ought to give who? Who? Who
did Christ come to do this for? Huh? And he said something. He said, I am the way, the truth,
the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. He said, Come unto me, all ye that labor and every
labor. I'll give you rest. He said, My sheep hear my voice.
I know them, and they follow me. He said, I pray for them, not
for the world, but for them which thou hast given me. I am come
that they might have life. I am that I am. My sheep, I'm
the good shepherd. The sheep know the shepherd.
The shepherd knows the sheep. He's come to give them life.
I left the ninety and the nine in search of the one. Who are
they? I don't know. God knows. And He said, My sheep
will hear. They'll hear. I'll speak and
they'll listen and they'll hear by my power. if we didn't hear it this morning.
If we didn't hear it this morning, don't you come to one of two
conclusions? There's some people in here who could care less about
what I just said. It's obvious. There's no light
in their eyes. There's no smile on their face. There's no tear in their eye.
There's no change of countenance. It's like, you know, you go to
a funeral and the person's dying, the person that's weeping the
most, probably, is the person who knew that person the most.
Right? Huh? You go and you hear, when the
gospel is preached, when Christ is exalted, who knows Him? The
person that's smiling the most, and it's in that, it's obvious. You come to one of two conclusions
when you preach Jesus Christ. The people that know Him, either somebody knows Him, or
they don't. And he said my sheep hear my
voice or the one that heard it. And rejoiced in it. Are you. You like that John you said there
was a smile on your face nodding your head I believe you just
might be sheep buddy. And the other conclusion is.
You're not my sheep. You didn't hear it. I spoke about
my son. I told you about my son. You
didn't hear it. We all did. Less than any time we let him
sleep. I said, I'm going to go out of here this morning and
talk about, well, it was a good sermon, and it's a nice day,
and what are we going to eat? And it's gone. It's gone just
as fast as it came. Faster. And others are just going
to go down and take root. Be planted and grow up and well up. Be like
a plant whose leaves shall not wither in due time. Be rooted
and grounded and some things are going to come back up. You're
going to regurgitate this gospel sometime during this week and
chew on it some more. Those that gave in, that God
enabled to. This is important. And then the
rest of that chapter goes on, and I wish we had three more
hours. But the rest of that chapter says, how shall we escape if
we neglect so great salvation? How? God said, I'm going to send
my son down here, that Reverend Tim. Not interested. How shall we escape? We won't. Because God is ordained,
it says in that same chapter. God is ordained a day in which
he will judge every man by that man whom he hath ordained, Jesus
Christ the righteous. We ought to give thanks. We ought
to give thanks. He's more than a man that walked
this planet. He's more than a history book. This is the story of the
Son of God. And there's one right now living,
I mean, right in here, this whole building, this whole kit and
caboodle is in His big hand. To lift up or to crush. We ought to get there.
It's life and death. All right, let's stand. Let's
stand. And may we stand before His throne. Christ in righteousness, not
our own. Let's pray. Our Lord and our
God. Too much Lord for us to approach. Too big for us to fathom. To
understand. For us, too deep. The ways of
God. The mysteries of Christ. The
mystery of God's on us is just too deep, Lord. No man, what
a feeble attempt at trying to declare the undeclarable, trying
to show forth your sign, the brightness of your glory. No
man's ever done it, ever. Someday we'll see, we'll know,
we'll hear, as he is. I look forward to that day, Lord.
Until then, let us see a glimpse, just a glimpse. Peel back the
covering, these scales from our eyes, and let us see a glimpse
of your Son, who he really is. And these ears, Lord, unplug
these ears, and let us hear his voice. Let us give heed to the
things we've heard, lest at any time it slips. In Christ's blessed
name, we've met together today, hoping, praying that we've given
some honor to Him and somebody's seen Him. In His name we pray. Amen.