And let's read a few of these verses
again. Deuteronomy 18. I believe this will be a very helpful
message to you. I hope it will be one, a very instructive
one, a very interesting one. I have enjoyed these messages
through the book of Acts, enjoyed my studies of them, and the Lord
seems to be blessing the preaching of them. Let's read Deuteronomy
18, beginning with verse 21. If thou say in thine heart, how
shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken. When a prophet speaketh in the
name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass,
that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken. But the prophet
hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him,
or pay any to him, even though he says, touch not mine anointed
earth, I am one of his prophets, don't do me any harm, and so
forth. Now, that ought to rule out 99.9,
maybe 100 percent of today's present-day so-called prophets,
shouldn't it? It says, if one thing they prophesy of doesn't
come to pass, forget them from that day forth. Right? Forget them. Don't ever
listen to them again. If they prophesy and say, this
is what's going to happen and it doesn't happen, mark them
off. Here's a mark of a true prophet.
He says in verse 18, I will raise them up a prophet from among
their brethren like unto thee, he's a man, and will put my words
in his mouth. There's the key. What does Isaiah
820 say, John? To the law and to the testimony.
If they speak not according to my word, if their preaching is
not full of my word, if their preaching is not concerning the
word, Christ, and there's no light in them, they're not God's
prophets. They're not preaching God's word consistently. And
I will put my words in his mouth, he shall speak unto them all
that I shall command him." He won't hold anything back, if
a man is holding anything back. If he is not preaching the whole
counsel of God, he is a false prophet, a false preacher. And
it shall come to pass, whosoever will not hearken unto my words,
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Look back at Deuteronomy 13. concerning how shall we know
a man is not a prophet of God? Back then, it was a difficult thing. It
required some discernment, didn't it? It required some diligence
on the part of the people, some careful consideration, some careful
hearing of what they were saying in respect to the rest of what
God had already said. And it requires the same discernment
today, because there are many gone out today. And we need to
ask that. John said, Try the Spirit. We
need to ask, How do I know he's a false prophet and a true prophet? Here he says in chapter 18, that
if it doesn't come to anything they say is going to happen,
doesn't happen, then they're a false prophet. Don't hear them
ever again. And if they don't speak according to my words,
if their message is not full of my word in context Comparing
spiritual things with spiritual things and so forth. Speaking
of Christ, they are a false preacher or prophet. Here in Deuteronomy
13, now look at this. This is very, have you ever seen
this? Look at it. Deuteronomy 13, if
there arise among you a prophet, or one who says he is, or a dreamer
of dreams. Boy, you love those today, don't
you? And giveth thee a sign or a wonder. You do see some kind
of sign or some wonder out of this fellow. And the sign of
the wonder comes to pass. You know, there's some real things
happening in these so-called healing meetings. Most of it's
bogus. Most of it's a hoax. And the
people have followed these fellows out and caught them up in these
tricks and gimmicks and all that, and found out some of these people
who supposedly were healed and never sick in the first place.
findings and all, but some of them are real. Some of it is real. Some of it
is a spirit. Not this spirit. I heard Richard
Roberts on the TV this morning saying, if I'm not speaking by
the spirit of God, then who is it speaking through me? Oh, I thought, oh my. He said, if God is not speaking
to me, who is speaking to me? Well, look at this. And the sign
of the wonder comes to pass. It actually happened. You see
it. You marvel at it. Whereof he spake unto thee, but
now here is the key. And something happens. The sign
of the wonder. See, that's first. And it comes to pass. And whereof
he spake unto thee, but he spoke unto you. These are the words,
things he said unto you. This was his message, saying,
let us go after other gods. which thou hast not known." They
preach another God, another Jesus, another gospel, a God, small
g. A God who wants to and can't. A God who can't unless you let
him. A Jesus who tried and failed and you make it effectual. Right? Other gods which the Bible doesn't
say anything about. that you don't believe, that
you haven't heard, which is not consistent with the Scripture.
Isn't that what's going on in the preaching of these fellows?
You haven't known. That's a God you haven't known
anything about. And he says in verse 3, Thou
shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, that dreamer
of dreams, the Lord your God. You know why he's given these
signs and these wonders? Didn't it say over there in 2
Thessalonians 2, verses 10 and 11, that because they receive
not the love of the truth, God shall send them strong delusions
that they believe a lie which had no pleasure in the truth? He says, God's proven you to
know whether you love God or you love a miracle. Right? Does that shed some light
on what's going on today, what you see on TV? It ought to. If
it doesn't, you're still in darkness. The word of God is very clear.
Do you see that? John, do you see that? Isn't
that an indictment against today's so-called prophets? Now, there's
much said about true and false prophets in the word of God. There were truly some prophets
back in the Old Testament days. The true meaning of the word
prophet is a man with a message from God foretelling future events. He prophesied. He's telling something
that hasn't happened yet. All right? He prophesied. There were just a few back then.
The ratio was about 850 to 1. Ask Elijah. One true prophet against 450
prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the groves, 850 to one. The ratio is much greater now. It's about 850,000 to one. Everybody's brother is a so-called
preacher. There were some true prophets
back then, but there were many false prophets.
or those who claim to have a message from God. Now, from the outset,
let me say from the very beginning, and you hear me, there are no
more prophets today. No more prophets today. I don't
care what anybody says. There are no more prophets today
in the true sense of that word foretelling future events. No
more prophets today, in spite of what many are saying. There
are many false prophets today, but no more true prophets, that
is, men who come from God with a message of new and unfulfilled
prophecies or promises. There are many men coming today,
preaching, if you want to call it prophesying, of some good
news. But it's not new. It's nothing
new. Unfulfilled? No. All fulfilled. Turn over to 2 Peter 1. This
will be very enlightening to you, very interesting if you
follow along. 2 Peter 1. A prophet was someone
who came to reveal the word of God to the people. come from God to reveal the word
of God, the will, the mind of God. God sent men to tell the
people his mind and his will, because back then the people
didn't have a Bible. Right? They did not have a Bible. They didn't even have copies
of Moses' books. All right? They didn't have Bibles
back then, so God sent men to tell the people his mind and
his will. He truly did. Now, John the Baptist
was the last Old Testament prophet. Our Lord said that, that the
prophets until John preached. The last of the Old Testament
prophets. The Apostles were, as it were,
New Testament prophets. We saw that. You remember me
saying, I didn't see that verse before when we read it over there
in Ephesians. It said that they were prophets.
Our Lord himself said in Matthew 23, verse 34, that they were
prophets, because the whole Bible wasn't written yet. They were
prophets of God who finished writing the word of God. Now, John's book called Revelation,
back in the back, that was the last book of prophecy. The last book of prophecy. Most of Revelation is already
fulfilled. You tell Mr. Schofield I said
that. or all the dispensationalists,
premillennialists, fundamentalists. You've got to talk in tongues
to say that. You tell them that it's all,
most of it has been fulfilled concerning Christ. It's the revelation
of Christ. There are some future things,
yes, but most of it has been fulfilled. Daniel and Ezekiel
and so forth have been fulfilled. I could elaborate, but I'm not
going to. I'm going to stay with my text and try. But the last
book of prophecy written was the Revelation by John. So John could rightly be called
a prophet, could he not? The beloved disciple of John,
the Apostle. Now, Peter, here in 2 Peter 1,
is talking about the written word of God, and he says this
in verse 19. Now, Peter said, glorious transfiguration of Christ. We saw Christ changed into a
being of light, or that is, not changed, but he revealed himself
as being light. Verse 19, he said, But we have
a more sure word of prophecy. He was talking about the Old
Testament scriptures. Now, if Peter said that, what
do we say? We don't need any signs and wonders.
We've got a more and more sure word of prophecy, right? We've
got the old and we've got the new. That really opens up and
reveals the old, right? We've got the whole Bible now,
completely written. We've got the last chapter. Terry,
we've got the last chapter. We know how it's going to end.
Do I need a prophet to tell me how it's going to end? I've got
a book! If I need somebody to tell me some
new things, there ain't no new thing under the heaven. I don't
want to hear it. If he's got some new revelation
from God, I don't want to hear it, because if it isn't written
in this old book, then it's not of God. We have
a more sure word of prophecy. Peter said, Whereunto you do
well, that you take heed. Now, listen, I watched this morning. I just turned the TV on. Sometimes
I do this just to get a little fuel for my fire. And it worked. Oh, it worked
this morning. I turned on, and they were having
a conference, an ICBM. Yeah, I think that was the name
of it. I thought that was Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile. But they were having an ICBM
sponsored by War Roberts University. You can guess who the keynote
speaker was. But they had all of these fellows today preaching
on TV. They had excerpts from nearly
every one of their messages. They had this John Hagee. They
had this, what's his name, Carl something. They had all the well-known
preachers of our day together. What does that tell you about?
They ain't no different than what any of them are saying.
They all believe the same thing. They all believe the same false
gospel. At any rate, they got up, one
after the other, and were saying the most blasphemous thing I've
ever heard out of the mouths of men. One man said, You don't
have to wait around on a sovereign work of God. He actually said
this word, sovereign. You don't have to wait around
on a sovereign work of God. He said, You, you move, you do
something. Things like that. And then I
told you what Richard Roberts said. But they had this line
up of preachers, all of them. You know that not one I watched
about eight men, one right to the other, preaching their little
messages, little parishes. Not one of them was going, now
let's look verse by verse at the Scripture. Let's look here,
let's see what it says. Richard did at the end, went
to Psalm 92, and I went over there and turned to it, and he,
boy, he took it way out of context. But they were all using this
as a prop. That's all they were doing, was
using it as a prop. They were holding it to make sure everybody
thought it was a Bible and it wasn't a collier's encyclopedia
or something. But they were using it as a prop,
you know, and they were preaching, they were running across the
stage and saying all sorts of things, getting the people cheering,
you know, and cheerleaders getting them pumped up and this and that
and the other. And the people were listening very carefully
to what they were saying, and raising their hands, you know,
and doing this number and all that. And the preacher was getting
excited. And boy, he was preaching in
the Spirit. And you can. You can get talking enough. You
can get to going. I've heard it. I've done it.
You can get to going about anything. Politics. Anything. You can get to going. Is that
the Holy Spirit? If they preach not according
to my word. I don't care how good what they're
saying sounds. I don't care who agrees with
them. I don't care if the majority
of people are following them. We'd do well, Peter said, to
take heed to this word, and the man who follows most closely
to this book is the man you'd do well to take heed to. Not
one who waves it around on stage, but one who pictures it. I mean,
goes verse by verse by verse, and comparing spiritual things
with spiritual things. Right, Ed? The Word of God with
the Word of God. Not taking one verse out of here
and saying, well, look and hear what it says. We've got a new
revelation. No. There's nothing new. And he says, we've got a more
sure word of prophecy, and we're not to take heed to feelings.
I was listening to a gospel preacher now talk about the difference
between the real anointing of God's Holy Spirit and all of
this that goes under the name of it. And he was talking about
how the Holy Spirit keeps convincing you over and over again of the
truth, the truth, the truth, the truth, line upon line of
what? Precept upon precept of what?
God's Word. God's Word. Here a little, there
a little. Always the Word of God. And it's
not based on feelings. Any faith, anything you believe,
shouldn't be based on feelings. This generation is totally caught
up with getting a religious feeling. I can give you a feeling. I could
cheer you up just with the best of them. I can go on and on and
make shenanigans and all that with the best of them. I can
do it. I guarantee you I can do it. I've got enough of what
charisma, I guess, to do it. Get you all pumped up. But if
that pumping up, if that feeling doesn't have anything to do with
a sure promises and word of God Almighty, renounce it. Like I
said before, bad pizza can give you a feeling. It can fill you
up. It won't be the Spirit, it'll
be gas. Right? Don't—our religion doesn't
need to be based on feeling. It doesn't need to even be based
on an experience. I've had experiences. I've had
real experiences. Real Holy Spirit experiences,
and I haven't told you about it. I maybe have told you about
one here and there or something, but That's not what we rest in,
or trust in, or look to. That's not what we're looking
for. John, we're not looking for an anointing of the Holy
Spirit to make us do that. LSD will make you do that. What we're looking for is an
anointing of the Holy Spirit to show us Christ, to take our
hearts and our souls and plant them on the sure rock, Christ
Jesus. to where every wind of doctrine that comes along can't
move us. Right? Now, we do well, he said, to
take heed until the day dawned. What's the day dawning? A new
day of revelation, a new baptism of the Holy Spirit? No, he that
hath been baptized into Christ hath been baptized into the Holy
Spirit. Everybody that has Christ has
the Spirit. If any man has not the Spirit
of Christ, he's not of God. You can't be saved without being
baptized into the Spirit of Christ. That ain't another work. It's
a simultaneous work, when God gives you faith to see Christ. You're baptized, you're washed
from your sins and from your ignorance and your superstition.
Your eyes are washed, your ears, all that sort thing, until the
day dawns in your heart. Stick with the word until God
makes it word clear, just as clear as the sun. Just as clear
as the sun. Until the day's star, he said,
look at it, until the day's star arrives in your heart. What's
the day's star? Huh? What's the day's star that needs
to arise in our heart? Anybody know? The bright and
morning star! That's Christ, isn't it? He goes
on to say, knowing this first. We ought to know this first.
This is the first principles that we need to know about the
scriptures. Are you with me? Are you reading
2 Peter 1, verse 20, with me? I ain't just preaching, I'm telling
you something here. God's Word is. This is the first principle
we need to understand. Look at it, every eye. Look at
your Bible. Knowing this first, no prophecy of the scriptures
of any private interpretation. None of the Old Testament prophets,
Brother Henry, said anything contradictory to the other ones.
Elijah didn't come up and say, I got something new, something
Moses didn't tell you. No! All Elijah did was reiterate,
reconfirm, reaffirm what Moses had already said, and so on down
the line. An agreement with one another.
No private interpretation. And they all better be in agreement
with God, right? No scriptures of any private
interpretation. Verse 21, "...the prophecy came
not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." No private interpretation
or personal interpretation or individual interpretation. But
God, in other words, this thing didn't come from man, it came
from God. Now, what was the message of
the prophet? All right? The prophecy came in old time
from God Almighty, and the prophets were sent out to prophesy. What
was their message? Baptism of the Holy Spirit? That's
all you're hearing about today, isn't it? I'm not making, oh
my soul, I'm not making light of God's Holy Spirit. I'm making light of what they're
saying about him today. What was the message of the prophets?
Principally, and I'll turn back to Hebrews 1, the prophets preached
about that prophet. Every one of the prophets was
saying, there's one prophet you need to hear from. Moses said,
Moses could be rightly called the first
prophet. Moses said, that prophet. You need to hear it. Now, I'm
a prophet, yes. God sent me, but all I want you
to know and hear and tell you about is that prophet. If you
just hear from me, you've just heard from a man, but if you
hear from that prophet, the one God's going to send, he's not
just another prophet. He's not just another man. Come
from God. He's God's There is a difference,
isn't there? Look at Hebrews 1, verses 1 and
2. God, who at sundry or different
times and in different manners spake in time past, he did, unto
the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.
God himself came to speak. God came down to earth. You remember
the parable our Lord gave of the great landowner, a vineyard
owner. I'm getting across to him. He
said he talked about having a man who owned a great deal of property
and all that and sent his servants down to get the fruits and so
forth. And they one by one began to
kill him. And then he said, I'll send my son down there. Surely
they'll reverence him. This applies here, doesn't it? Christ is even called the
Word of God, isn't he? He's even called the Word of
God. Jesus Christ, listen to me, Jesus
Christ is the first and last Word of God. He's the first Word in the beginning
God, and he's the last. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Now,
back to Acts 3. I'm sorry that was my introduction. For those of you who don't like
long introductions, I'm sorry. I don't either, but everything
needs to be said. Acts 3. Back here in Acts 3. Now, all the prophets, please
listen to me. I feel this is hard enough for
me to expand upon. without your undivided attention.
All the prophets were messengers for God. They were ambassadors,
they were emissaries, they were men, as it were, who came to
other men with second-hand information. Right? In other words, God handed
something down to them and they came and turned and handed it
down to men. Now, Jesus Christ doesn't have any second-hand
information. It's first hand. It's right out of the hand of
God. He came to earth, the word was made flesh. And here in Acts
chapter 3, beginning with verse 19, Peter, preaching, says, Repent. Repent ye therefore and be converted.
That was the message of every prophet in the Old Testament.
Look it up. Every single prophet came with
a message of what? I just told you. Repentance,
right? Repentance. Repent. The message
of John the Baptist, who was the last Old Testament prophet,
was what? What was the first word out of
John the Baptist's mouth? Repent. Repent. The message of
the apostles, look it up, was repent. The first message of
God's Son out of his mouth was what? What was the first public
declaration by Christ out of his mouth as a preaching message?
What was it? What was it? Huh? Repent! That's what it was. Repent. Now, this is an unpopular
and a despised and a totally disregarded message today, but
it's still the message. You still start there, right? every true preacher of the gospel.
Call him a prophet, but he's not in the true sense of the
word. But his message should be one of repentance. Repent
and be converted. And there's a threefold repentance
that this world doesn't know anything about. I think it was
George Whitefield, that great preacher who coined this, he
said, we need to repent of our sin. Not sins first. Not S-I-N-S,
plural. That's what you do. We do need
to repent of what we do. But we need to repent of what
it is that makes us do what we do. Right? That's sin. That's this what I am, you see. That's what it is. That's me
that makes me lie. My lies are those sins. Me, I'm
a liar, I'm sin. I'm sin. We need to repent of
what we are. Hell-deserving, guilty, unworthy,
sinner. We need to repent of our sins,
what we do. Yes, we do. And turn from them.
Repentance means to turn. Turn from them. And then he said
this, and nobody's heard this in our day. We need to repent
of our self-righteousness. Very few people are repenting
of that. And there's no true repentance unless you've repented
of your self-righteousness. God hates that more than anything. That is, our self-pride, it's
anti-Christ. You know, pride and self-righteousness
is anti-Christ. It's a spirit within us, within
every one of us, that's anti-Christ. In other words, we don't need
Christ. I can get there on my own. I can get there by my morality.
I can get there by my Sunday school pants. I can get there
by my decision. That's anti-Christ. You don't need Christ. Anti-him. Pro-me. Right? and then repent. When the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord, times of refreshing,
that means regeneration. That's what that means. Regeneration. There's no regeneration without
repentance. And we'll have no part in the second coming of
Christ if we've had no part in his first coming. You hear me? We'll have no part in the second
coming of Christ when he regenerates or remakes all things new, unless
we have been regenerated the first time. Verse 20 says, And
he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you.
He shall send Christ to gather his elect, his repentant, his
regenerated, his believing saints, those that made a covenant with
him by faith, by blood. He shall send him who was before
preached unto you. And let me say this, Christ shall
come the second time, he says, to them that look for him shall
he appear the second time. To them that look for him shall
he appear the second time, but only to those who look to him
the first time. Right? Those who look to him
by faith. Only those will he come for the
second time, verse 21. Now, Peter goes on and says,
Now God shall send Christ, who was before preached unto you,
whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution
of all things. Whom the heavens must receive.
After Christ accomplished his work on Calvary's tree, his work
upon this earth, after Christ accomplished his work of redemption,
and he did accomplish After he came down here and established
a righteousness, satisfied God's justice by shedding his blood,
paying for the sins of God's elect, he went back to heaven,
the Scripture says, and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty
on high. And he now reigns and rules over
all things. He's victorious. Paul said in
Romans 14, I believe it was, that to this end Christ both
lived and died. that he might be Lord over the
heavens must receive him. Christ must go back and sit down
and reign and rule over all things. And Christ rested from his work. You see, Christ came down here
to do his work, and he went back and sat down just like he did
in the beginning when he created the world. When he regenerated
his people, he went back and sat down and rested, not from
fatigue, but because that's all that needed to be done to save
his people's souls. And he sat down, satisfied, successful
Savior. he made restitution. Christ restored
restitution, the law to its proper place of dignity fulfilled by
a man, and his people's souls he restored, he brought them
back to God by his work, by his person. And Peter says all of
this, and that which is to come All that work of Christ and that
which Christ is going to come do, that is, bring his people
back to him, come get them and take them home, and the Holy
Spirit, the giving of the Holy Spirit, the promise of him. It
said he was already written in the holy prophets since the world
began. Verse 21, that's what the holy prophets wrote about.
All of this that I just said in a few words. I'm going to
quit. I don't have your attention here,
but I'm going to quit. This is what the holy prophets
wrote about. All that I just said in a few words about who
Christ is, what he did, where he is now, and what he's going
to come do again. And if anybody's preaching or
ministering and he calls himself a prophet, if it's not that,
he's a false prophet. This is what the prophets wrote
about. This is what preachers are preaching about today, true
preachers, what they're preaching about today. It's what Moses
wrote about, Moses wrote of me, Abraham rejoiced to see my day,
saw it and was glad, and so forth. And he says, And it shall come
to pass, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, that
is, Christ, whom you must believe, you must receive, you must hear
his voice, who will not hear him, shall be destroyed from
among the people. And all the prophets from Samuel
and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have
likewise foretold of these days. Your children are the prophets,
and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying
unto Abraham, In thy seed," singular, "'shall all the kindreds of the
earth be bled.' And unto you first," he was talking to these
Jews, and he was preaching to a bunch of Jews there in Jerusalem.
And he said unto you first, you Jews, God raised up his Son,
Jesus, and sent him to bless you, turning away every one of
you from his iniquity. And then after a while, God sent
the gospel to us Gentiles, the gospel of Christ to us Gentiles,
and he delivered us. He sent him to bless us in turning
us away from, every one of us, from our iniquity. And I wish
I could elaborate. I will read this to you. I hope I know when to quit, but he said, if you do not hear that
prophet, if you don't hear that prophet, what Christ said, then
you'll be destroyed. That's strong language in it.
Strong language. What did that prophet say? Now
let me tell you just a few things that Jesus Christ said, and I'll
quit, all right? have been thirty-one minutes. He said in John chapter
4, verses 23 and 24, the hour cometh and now is when true worshipers
shall worship the Father in spirit, or that is, from the heart. And
in truth, you have to worship in the right way. For the Father
seeketh such to worship him. God is a He's not worshipped
with men's hands. He's worshipped with hearts.
Now, he said that. Then he said this over in John
chapter 5. He said this. He said, "...as
the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so
the Son quickeneth whom he will, the Son sovereign in salvation. The Father judges no man, but
hath committed all judgment unto the Son." In other words, the
Son is not just a Savior. He's just God. He's a judge. He's just not Jesus, some pitiful
Jesus. He's your judge. He said this, all men should
honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. If you're honoring
Jehovah and you're not honoring Jehovah Jesus, you're not honoring
God, and you're under the judgment of God. You'll be destroyed,
all Jehovah witnesses. Verse 36, he said, I have greater
witness than that of John. The works which I do, they bear
witness of me. He said, you search the scriptures
and you think you have eternal life, but they are they which
testify of me. If you don't hear or see or read from the Old Testament
and all the rest of the book of God, that it concerns the
Lord Jesus Christ, you're ignorant of the word of God. That's what
Christ was saying. They are they which testify of
me. I don't care if you are Jack Van Wimpy. If you don't see Christ,
you don't know the scriptures. You can quote them like a scribe,
but you don't know the scriptures. That's what Christ said. He said
this over in John 6. People said, What do we do to
do the works of God? Christ said, You can't! It's
the work of God is that you believe. Faith is the work of God. It's
not like that huckster said, You don't wait around on the
Holy Spirit. Yes, you do. Or, You don't wait around on
the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. Yes, you do. You better wait
on the Lord, or you'll get another spirit. You get your spirit,
all right. It will be another one. You wait
on the Lord what you do. Wait, I say. I say that to all
sinners. Don't wait on an experience,
either. You wait on God, and you take heed of the word of
God until the dayspring dawn in your hearts, until the gospel
dawns upon your mind and your understanding, and God puts it
in here. He said this, He said the same
thing in chapter 6. He said, I came down from heaven
to do my own will. I came down. I'm God and I came
to earth. I came not to do my own will,
but the will of God that sent me. And this is the Father's
will which is sent me of all which he hath given me. I'll
lose nothing. I'll raise it up again at the
last day. He's not asking anybody to do anything. He said, God
gave me a work to do and I'm going to do it. And he did it.
Christ said, I've got a particular people, God elected a particular
people, I've got a particular redemption or atonement to apply,
and I'm going to atone it. I'm going to apply it, and they're
all going to be saved. Particular redemption? You're getting something
out of nothing there, preacher. No, I'm not. Christ said that. Of all which God has given me,
I'm not going to lose one. Anybody that doesn't believe
that doesn't believe the prophets. Right? That prophet He said in
the same chapter, No man can come to me except the Father
which has sent me draw him. If that ain't waiting on a movement
of the Holy Spirit, what is? You can't come unless God draws
you. That gives all glory to God.
And he said this in another place, It's the spirits that quickeneth
the flesh, profiteth nothing. Quit paying attention to the
flesh. But paying attention to these dreams and signs and wonders
and all that, it's the Spirit. The words that I speak unto you,
they're Spirit. Don't literalize everything in
the Bible. It's spiritual. One more and I'll quit. He said
this, he said, I'm from above, you're of this world. You're
from beneath, I'm from above. You're of this world, I'm not
of this world. I said therefore unto you, you shall die in your
sin. For if you believe not that I
am, you shall die in your sin." Oh, you could go on and on, couldn't
you? Went over there to chapter 16
of John and says, I am. If you believe not that I am,
you'll be destroyed. You don't believe what that prophet
says? That prophet, he says, I am. Am what? Right, John? The way, that no
man cometh unto the Father but by me. Nothing added to, nothing
taken away from me. I am the way, I am the truth,
and anything that is not according to the truth as it is in Christ,
the truth of the gospel according to God's Son, is not the truth
and the life. If any man hath not the Son,
he hath not life. I don't care if he's got forty-four
baptisms. Richard was talking about being baptized four times.
I don't care if he's got forty-four baptisms. If he hadn't been baptized
into Christ, if he hath not Christ, he hath not life. Christ said,
I am the life. And if you're looking for anything
other than Christ, anything other than Christ, you're
looking in the wrong direction. You're looking in the wrong direction.
If any man, Peter said, if any man here or not, that's prophets. Well, I could sit here all day.
I could stand here and you could sit here all day and we could
read the things Christ said, very plain, very plain, bold,
clear truths about who God is and who Christ is and what we
are. and how we're saved and what the Holy Spirit's work is.
Couldn't we? Couldn't we sit here all day
and read what Christ said? If we don't hear that prophet,
we're going to be destroyed. And we better not be listening
to these dudes, should we? And you only listen to me, as
long as I'm telling you what that prophet said, all about
that prophet. Thank you very much. the the the I'm going to go ahead and close the door. Thank you very much. I'll see you next time. I'm going to go ahead and close the door. I hope you have a great day. Thank you.