Open your Bible to the book of
Hebrews the ninth chapter. Hebrews chapter nine. Richard Baxter. Was a. You've heard this quote before,
I'm sure, but he said, he said, I preach as though never sure
to preach again. I preach as a dying man to dying
men. And I was sitting there thinking
while we were singing in the last hymn, what if this for the
last sermon that God would ever have me preach. What if after the service is
over, God was pleased to take me out of this life and these
are the last words that I'm ever going to speak on earth. And that's the way I want to
preach this morning. That's the way I always want
to preach. And I'd like to turn the tables on you and remind you that this may
be the last message you'll ever hear. This may be the last time
you'll ever come to church, last time you ever hear about
how God can be just and justify the ungodly. If you knew, let's
just suppose, you don't know the will of God pertaining to
your future and how long you're going to live, but let's just
suppose you did. Let's suppose that you knew that
this would be the last time you would ever hear the Bible read. The last time you would ever
hear any man preach who was trying his best to do what he can to
prepare you to meet a holy God when you die. If this was the
last time and you knew it, you reckon you'd listen closely?
You would, wouldn't you? I know you would. And that's
the way you ought to hear every message. caught up, it seems, with our
own immortality. We think we're just going to
be down here for a long, long time. And maybe we will be. And maybe we won't be. Maybe
this will be the last message we'll ever hear. Let's listen
carefully to what God has to say to us from His Word this
morning, and maybe He'll speak to us. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
If the Spirit of the living God would touch this hard heart,
you talk about this hard heart, if He had touched my heart this
morning, I believe I could go away from here rejoicing in Christ
Jesus if God would speak to me. I don't want to just have a religious
service. Everybody's having religious
services. I don't want to just be religious.
I want to know God. Christ said, this is eternal
life, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Christ
Jesus, whom thou hast sent. I want to know God, Henry. I
don't want to know religion. I don't want people to say, well,
here's a Baptist preacher, here's a Calvinist preacher. I want people to say, that man,
if I should die today, I want people to say, that man loved
Christ. That man preached Christ. That
man knew God. I want to know God. I don't want
to just go through life preaching hither and yonder and reciting
passages and being religious and going through baptizing folks
and ministering the Lord's Supper. I want to know God. That's what
I want. I'm not very old, but I'm getting
on up in years. And some of you knew me, I was
24 years old when I came to pastor this church. And I'm 41 now. But it ain't the years, it's
the mileage. It's the mileage. I'm getting more miles on me.
And the longer I live and the more I preach, I'm learning that
a lot of things aren't important anymore and not important. And what's really important is
that in my heart of hearts I know Christ and I love Christ and worship
him. Now that's what's important.
I know we're caught up in our jobs and we have to work. Because you got to eat. And we
love to eat. We love to eat. Got to pay grocery
bill. Got to live somewhere. And we
like to drive nice automobiles. And that's all well and good. But the Lord Jesus said, Seek
ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. All these
other things have been added to you. God will take care of
you. God will take care of you. So I'm just real intense this
morning. I guess that's—you can tell that. I'm just real—as the saying,
I'm really into this. I'm really into it. And it's
because the grace of God, I believe, has got a hold to my heart. It's
one thing to say, well, I'll hold to the doctrines of grace. Maybe that's our problem. We're
doing the holding. It's something else for the grace
of God to get a hold of you, to get a hold of me. Now that's
what I want. I want God to get a hold of me.
I want His grace. I want those warm, loving, merciful
fingers of grace to just take hold to my heart and just squeeze
it. And squeeze life into me. And
squeeze love into me. grace unto me and mercy unto
me. That's what I want. That's what
I want for you, too. Now, Hebrews 9. That was my first
message. That wasn't even off notes. This
next comes off some notes I've got. Hebrews 9. This is what
I want to talk to you about. How is sin put away? You interested? Interested in how sin can be
put? You know what? Sin is a transgression of the
law. Sin is any word spoken, any thought
of your mind, any action, any deed, any motive that is not
in perfect conformity to the will of God. Like it's said in
our Bible class lesson this morning, what's true of those fellows
we was talking about, we can't cease from sinning. If we ever
see what we are, you see, we've got a heart problem. We've got
a cesspool of iniquity. That's trouble. We've got a heart
trouble. It's not hand trouble. It's not mouth trouble. It's
not ear trouble. It's heart trouble. We've got
hard hearts. We've got depraved hearts. That's our problem. And what
I'm interested in, and I grow more interested in this, I believe,
every day, is this. How can my sin be put away? I mean put away so far and so
completely that even the all-seeing eyes of Jehovah God can't find
them. Well, wouldn't that be wonderful?
Have sin put away. That's what I want to talk about.
If you're not interested, just tune me out, because that's my
subject. But if you're interested in how
your sins can be put away, I'm going to tell you. Now, let's
read the Word of God. Hebrews 9, starting with verse
24, For Christ, Hebrews 9, 24, For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the
truth. but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence
of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with blood of others, for then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world. But now, once in the end of the
world, hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." speaks very clearly of three
appearances of Christ. Did you catch them as we read
down through there? It mentions in verse 24 that
he is now appearing in the presence of God for us. This is the first
one Paul mentions. He appears in heaven as our great
high priest. There is in heaven. This is a
wonder of wonder. Yes, it's just—it's glorious
news. Would you listen to me? There
is in heaven this morning a real man, bone of our bone, flesh
of our flesh, our elder brother, one chosen out of the people. His name is Jesus Christ the
Lord. He's a real man. He's really
in heaven. Seated on the throne, and he's
the only mediator between God and sinful men, he's the man
Christ Jesus. He is our go-between. When we
come to him in prayer, when we come to the Father in prayer,
we pray in Christ's name. You see, this real man is appearing
in heaven for us right now. He is constantly at the right
hand of the Father on high. And God the Father will not speak
to nor be spoken to by any member of the human race except by this
man, Christ Jesus. Now, if you want to do business
with God, you do business with God's Son. That's right. You want to come to God. You
want to come to God. You want to be accepted by God.
You say in your heart, Oh God, I want you to receive me. I want
you to accept me. I want you to forgive me. How
can I come to God? God says you can't come to me
one-on-one. You're not worthy. You're not
holy enough. See, God's absolutely holy. God's a consuming fire. If you
was to come to God one-on-one, you'd be consumed in his holiness.
But God says, there is a way. You come to me by my son. Christ
said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto
the father, but by me. And he appears this morning in
heaven for us. That's what Paul says in this
passage. This is the appearance that he
mentions first. You see, Christ our Lord has
entered into heaven. He's gone there as our forerunner. He has laid claim to our eternal
inheritance, and he appears in heaven for our benefit. As our
advocate, as our mediator, as our go-between, he appears in
heaven for us. Well, then another appearance
is mentioned in this passage, and that's in verse 28. And this
is his second coming that Paul mentions, and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second time. This Christ
Jesus, who ascended back to glory, shall again appear on this earth. Henry said a while ago, I don't
think it will be long, and I don't either. I hope it won't be long.
When John wrote the book of the Revelation Christ said in the
end of it, Behold, I come quickly. And John added to that. He said, Even so, come, Lord
Jesus. Just come back now. I pray that
he would. I pray that Christ would come
back. If it would be his will, come back right now and establish
his kingdom in this world. Then every tongue shall acknowledge
his lordship, and every knee shall bow and say, Jesus Christ
is King. The whole world will be full
of his glory." That's his second appearance. The first time he
came to this earth he came in humiliation, but this next appearance
he's going to come in glory. His first coming, he allowed
the wicked to judge him. He allowed the wicked to put
their vile hands on him. But at his second coming, his
next appearance, he'll be the judge. The first time he came,
he came as a servant, a servant. He said, I came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, to serve, and to give my life a ransom
for many. But next time he comes back,
he's coming back as master. He's coming back as king. First
time he came was to purchase salvation. But his next appearance,
his next appearance, it says here in verse 28, he will appear
the second time without sin unto salvation. That is, when Christ
comes back, salvation shall be culminated. You say, in what
sense? When Christ died at the cross, he redeemed body and soul. My soul is saved by the grace
of God, but this body, sin, sin is in it. And if our Lord is
not pleased to come soon, this body is going to die and be laid
in the grave. But Christ is going to make an
appearance, and when he comes back, this mortal shall put on
immortality. This corruptible shall put on
incorruption. This body will be raised, and
body and soul will be joined together, and then my salvation
will be complete." He will make another appearance. But our text
speaks of yet another appearance that is vital. Verse 26, it speaks of three
appearances. Verse 24, it talks about Christ
appearing in heaven for us. In verse twenty eight, he speaks
of Christ who will make another appearance on this earth. That's
his second coming. But wedged in between these,
Paul says there's this appearance. Verse twenty six, for then must
he have often have suffered since the foundation of the world.
But now, once in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Now, when writing of
these three appearings, Paul puts this one in the middle. But actually, chronologically,
it doesn't go in the middle, does it? Chronologically, it
ought to go first. Why put it in the middle? He
puts it in the middle because everything hinges on this. You
see, his appearance in heaven for us this morning—our advocate,
our lawyer, our go-between, our mediator—is all dependent upon
what he did at Calvary. He's the successful Redeemer. He shed his blood and saved his
people. He satisfied divine justice. Therefore, God exalted him. God
put him on the throne. And God said, I'll save every
sinner who comes to my son, who bows to my son, who trusts my
son. I'll save every sinner. Christ
appears in heaven now as a reward for this appearing. He earned
the right to sit at the right hand of the Father. He earned
the right to be the mediator. He earned the right to be the
go-between. And in this last appearing, He
earned the right to come back in great glory because he died
on the cross, accomplishing the eternal salvation of every sinner
that the Father gave to him in the covenant of grace. Therefore,
he will come back in great glory. So when Paul writes of these
three appearances, when he writes of these These three, the appearance
of Christ right now at the right hand of the Father, the future
appearance, his second coming, he puts this one, verse 26, he
puts this one in the middle. You see, Christ wouldn't be qualified
to be our mediator apart from that first appearance. I'm talking
about the first one now chronologically. I'm talking about his incarnation.
That's what qualifies him. And he could not appear a second
time without sin and the salvation, apart from having come and died
on the cross. He put our sin away. Now, let's
focus in. Let's just hone right in on this
business of putting sin away. And I want to address you, first
of all, on the difficulty of it. The difficulty of putting
sin away. And if we think about this, I
think it will help to magnify the power of God and the grace
of God and the wisdom of God in coming up with a plan whereby
sin can be put away. I know this, all of the Jewish
sacrifices offered in the Old Testament, all of them together
couldn't even put one sin away. I want to show you a passage
I was reading the other day, 1 Kings 8. I think we'll take
the time to look back over here because this is so, well, it's so amazing, so astonishing. 1 Kings chapter 8, and this is
at the dedication of Solomon's temple. 1 Kings 8. Look at verses 4 and 5. What
I'm saying is, all of the Jewish sacrifices, all of them together, couldn't
put even one cent away. This is the difficulty of it.
How hard is it to put a cent away? Well, all these sacrifices
couldn't do it. Now look at 1 Kings 8, verse
4. And they brought up the ark of
the Lord and the tabernacle of the congregation. and all the
holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the
priests and the Levites bring up. And King Solomon and all
the congregation of Israel that were assembled under him were
with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not
be told nor numbered for multitude." That's a lot. And they had some
mathematicians around and they said, we can't even count all
these sacrifices. Look, look a little further.
Oh, this is a long chapter. Look at verse 62, verse 62. It says, and the king and all
Israel with him offered sacrifice before the Lord. Verse 63, verse
Kings 8. And Solomon offered a sacrifice
of peace offerings which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty
thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the
king and all the children of Israel dedicated their house
of the Lord. The same day did the king hollow
the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord.
For there he offered burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat
of the peace offerings, because The brazen altar that was before
the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings and meat
offerings and the fact of the peace offerings. Wow. That brazen altar. I said, that's
too small. We just go out here in the middle
of the courtyard. Start offering sacrifices. Boy,
don't you know those priests worked overtime that day. slitting
the throats of these. Bring me another one. They're
just one right after another, offering all these sacrifices. And not only were all these offered
that day, but all the way through the Old Testament, rivers of
blood flowed. All these rams and turtle doves
and sheep and lambs and goats and oxen, all these sacrifices
died, all sacrificed by God's command. But all of them together couldn't
even put away one sin. They weren't meant to put away
sin. They were pictures. You see that? They were pictures,
types, figures of the Lamb of God. See, there's only one the
Lamb of God, and He would come in due time to put sin away.
All the Old Testament sacrifices couldn't put sin away. All the
observances of holy days and feast days and ceremonies couldn't
put sin away. And they can't put away sin today.
We baptize people. We love to trouble the baptismal
waters. They aren't troubled enough for
us. We'd love to see more people saved by the grace of God and
brought to confess Jesus Christ in believer's baptism. But it
is believer's baptism. It can't put sin away. No. And the Lord's Supper, we delight
to sit at the table and take the bread, which symbolizes the
broken body of our Savior, and drink the wine that teplifies
his blood. But you can eat the bread and
drink the wine from now on till you couldn't eat or drink any
more. I'm not going to put any sin
away. It's not a sacrament. It doesn't impart any saving
grace to you. It's a picture. And now, hold on. This may surprise
some of you a little bit. Even repentance and faith can't
put sin away. You say, now wait a minute, Preacher.
I was with you on the first two. And in the rituals and baptistry
and the Lord's Supper, I was with you, I was with you all
the way. I said, Amen, in my heart. But now you tell me repentance
can't put sin away? No, sir, it can't do it. You
mean my faith can't put sin away? No, no. We sang Hallelujah, What a Savior,
if I'm not mistaken. The song right above that is
Rock of Ages. Is that right? In the psalm book,
126. 127, Hallelujah, What a Savior.
126, I believe, is Rock of Ages. Augustus the top lady said, Could
my tears forever flow? Could my zeal no longer know? Do you know what the word languor
means? I was singing that one day, and you know what? What
does languor mean? I've been singing that all these
years. Could my zeal no languor know? Langor? Langor? That's some foreign word. Weariness. Weakness. Could my zeal, no weariness,
know? In other words, if I was zealous
from now on, if I repented from now on, if I wept from now on, these for sin could not atone. Thou dost save, and thou alone. In my hand no price I bring,
simply to thy cross I cling." Don't misunderstand me. We ought
to be sorry for our sins. We ought to be. We ought to be
repentant for our crimes against God. But though I weep a river of
tears, and though I stayed on my knees, repenting all the rest
of the days of my, until my knees were bloodied." That's right. Until I wore a hose in my knees,
in my pants, and my knees got bloodied. And I stayed on, I
crawled everywhere on my knees, repenting. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry. All my tears of repentance couldn't
put one sin away, neither could my faith. And my works can't
do it, Paul. Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, Paul said. By grace he is saved through
faith, that not of yourself. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. by the deeds of the law, so no
flesh be justified. Words can't put sin away. Death
can't put sin away. Death doesn't even kill one sin. Sin is immortal until Christ
deals with it. And your sin and my sin, if they're
not put away, we'll take them to the grave with us. That's
right. They'll just follow us right
along. Death's not going to get rid of them. Well, I know he
was a bad boy during life, but well, he's died now. Yeah, but
his sins went with him. He left his family behind. He
left his wife behind. He left his children behind.
But he didn't leave his sin behind. They went with him right on to
the judgment. Is that the way you want to go?
I don't want my sins to go with me to the judgment. Oh, so death's
not going to put sin away, and even hell itself can't put sin
away. It never has put one sin away. Many people have been there for
thousands of years. They hadn't paid for one sin.
Hell's not where you go to pay for your sins. There's no payment. Hell's where you go to suffer
the just anger and vengeance and wrath of God. Well, if all the Jewish sacrifices
and ceremonies and feast days and my repentance, and my faith,
and my efforts, and my works, and my tears, and my death, and
even hell itself can't put sin away," you see what a monumental
task was required of Jesus Christ. And it says, You don't know them all, but
just think of the ones that... There are some things in our
lives, some deeds that we've done, that right now, when we
think of them, make us blush. There are things right now that
are coming back to your memory, aren't they? You say, boy, I
hope nobody in here knows about what I did or what I said. All
those fouls and ugly stinking sins. You're embarrassed to think
about it. Preacher, I hadn't thought about
that in years. Boy, you hadn't. You did it, didn't you? You said
it, didn't you? You thought it, didn't you? And
I'm telling you, it's like an iceberg. You only see the tip
of it. The tip of it. The mass of it's underwater. You've just commenced to begin
to see in some of your sinfulness. You're just seeing the tip of
the iceberg. How can it be put away? It says
Christ appeared to put them away, to put them away. Oh, I like
that. Put them away. Put them away. Turn back with me to Genesis
35. Genesis 35. I've always liked
tracing words or phrases. I like what I always used to
call the law of first usage. I didn't invent that, but I like
it. I like the law of first usage.
Just take a word or a phrase and go all the way back and find
the first time it's mentioned in the Bible. Well, that's what
I did with this phrase, put away. Put away. Look at Genesis 35.
Let's see if I can make some application of this. And if you're
watching your clock, I didn't start to twenty-five minutes
past eleven, so don't expect me to quit at twelve, OK? So
I just want to tell you that so you won't get bothered by
that. Genesis thirty-five, verse one, And God said unto Jacob,
Arise, and go to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an
altar unto God, that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest
from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household
and to all that were with him," now here's the phrase, put away,
put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and
change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel. And I will make there an altar
unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with
me in the way in which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all
the strange gods. which were in their hand and
all their earrings, which were in their ears and Jacob hid them
under the oak tree, which was by Shechem. Jacob told all of his household,
put away your false God, put them away. And they went through
the tents, they went through the houses, they looked in the
attic, they went down in the basement, they went to the utility
building, they looked under the beds, they went everywhere gathering
all these false gods. Jacob said, bring them all to
me, bring them all to me. And he got them all and he hauled
them out and he buried them at a tree. That's what Christ did
with our sins. He went searching for all of
them. all of the sins of all of the sinners who would ever
believe on him down through the ages. He went searching for all
of them, and he searched till he found them all. And he took
them all himself, and he buried them at a tree, not an oak tree,
but at Calvary, at the cross. What did he do? He put them away.
Do you see that? He put them away. Let me show
you something else. Look at Exodus. Exodus twelve. I love Old Testament typology,
don't you? I love these Old Testament pictures. Look at Exodus twelve. It's Passover
day. And Moses got something to say
to Israel about the Passover lamb. Watch what else he says
here in verse fifteen. Exodus twelve. Seven days Exodus
12, 15. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread. Even the first day ye shall put
away, there's our phrase again, put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day unto the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel. Moses said to Israel, put away
the leaven. Don't keep it in your cupboards.
Don't keep it under your sink. Don't keep it in the closet.
Don't keep it in the pantry. All leaven was to be put away
on the day of redemption, on the day of Passover. And I'm
telling you, when Christ, our Passover, when he died on the
cross, he got rid of all of the leaven of our sin. He put it
away. He put away all the leaven. He
did it himself, and he did it by himself. I'll give you another
illustration. Look at Matthew 19, verse 9.
Matthew 19, verse 9. Put away. That's the phrase we're
focusing in on. Look at Matthew nineteen in verse
nine. Our Lord has some things to say
about divorce. Matthew nineteen nine, and I
say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it
be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery.
Put away. This has reference to an unfaithful
wife. When she was divorced, she was
put away. You remember when. You remember
when Joseph found out that Mary was pregnant. Scripture says he was mindful
to. What does that mean when you
know back then when you was engaged It took a legal decree to break
it off. It wasn't just give me my ring
back so long. Goodbye. It's over. No, it took
a legal document. It took the judge to decree it.
This thing's over. He was mindful to put her away. That is have no more to do with
it. That's it. It's over. I'll never see you again. He
was. That's what Joseph wanted to
do. Put her away. grant her a bill of divorce,
she would no longer be his. Our sin is married to us. It's part and parcel of us. It
sure is. It's married to us. It's linked
to us. It's joined to us. We're one. God helped us. God help us all. Our sins and our persons, we're
one. We're one. It's joined to us.
You can't just quit a habit and say, well, I'm through with sin
now. Sin's not a habit. Sin's a heart. Sin's a nature. Sin's you. Sin's me. It's our name. We're sinners. And we seem destined to be married
to sin forever. But mercy of mercies, Christ
came and He proclaimed an everlasting divorce. He put our sins, isn't that beautiful? A divorce decree has been...
God the Father granted the decree. The decree has got to come from
the judge. And the judge has seen that Christ
has satisfied justice And the Father says, the divorce is granted. Sin is put away. Glory, hallelujah. He did it. Christ did it. He put it away. You know how
He put it away? Not by His birth. Paul says, He hath appeared To
put away sin by, not by his birth, not by his life, but by the sacrifice
of himself. That's how he did it. He died. He died. You say, Jim, did he
put my sins away? You a believer? You trust in Christ? Do you see
that you're foul and loathsome, deserving of hell? And in your
heart of hearts, you trust the Savior. You bow to Him. He's
the Lord. I glory in Him. I trust the Savior. He's my God and King. I rest
in His blood alone. I rest in His righteousness alone. I trust Christ! Yeah, He put
your sin away. He sure did. He put your sin
away. Where'd He put them? Where is the way where did he
put. Well he he separated them from
us as far as the east is from the way that's where you put
you find wherever that is you find that this is that's how
he's put them that far away from us as far as the east is from
the way not how far north south that can be measured the east
to west. Where do you put what you do
with my cassettes He cast them all into the depths of the sea.
My daddy was in the Navy. USS Biloxi, Navy cruiser, stationed
out of San Francisco. And one day, when leaving Bassett,
years ago, and when I had to go empty the garbage, remember
that garbage can, Teresa, we had all the way out there at
the end? Mama remembers, of course. So I had to go out there and
burn the garbage. back then didn't have garbage
pick up like you have day you go burn of course now you can't
burn it you pollute the environment but anyhow I went out and burned
the garbage I got thinking about this business of garbage on ships
and I asked him Henry I said hey what did you do with the
garbage when he was on the ship he said threw it overboard sunk
it sunk it down in the Pacific Ocean Never be heard from again. Nobody, no human eye will ever
see it again. Just those fishes down there,
they may see it way down at the bottom. That's what Christ did
with our sin. He just threw them overboard
and sunk them. He hung a millstone about their
neck and sunk them. And they're not going to rise,
they're not going to float on you. And when you go to the judgment,
God's not going to say, well now, time for them to float again
and bring them to the surface. That's the beauty of forgiveness.
It's full and free. You mean all my sins? You mean
I'm not going to be embarrassed when I stand before God? Oh,
no. You stand before God in the righteousness of Christ. You
stand before God in the beauty of the Son of God, in His holiness. And God will say, well done,
thou good and faithful servant. Well done me. I hadn't done a
thing. I know. My son did, God said. My son did. And you got his right. You got his obedience. He'd given
it to you. Well, what about my sin? Oh,
they were put away. They were sunk. Isaiah 38. Here's what he did. He put them away. He cast them
behind God's back. And Jeremiah 31. God says, I'll
remember them no more. I remember some of my sins. Do
you remember some of your sins? Of course you do. But God doesn't
remember one of them. And the reason he doesn't remember
any. Is because the blood of Jesus
Christ is so powerful. It has so much omnipotence. that
it erases sin from the very memory of God Almighty. He put away sin. Do you say amen to that in your
heart? Tell you a story. I was preaching
in Louisville, Mississippi a few
weeks ago, and there was a I want to say dog veterinarian. There was a veterinarian, two
veterinarians actually in the church. This one veterinarian,
we were staying at his house. His name was Philip Amen, almost
Amen. People called him Amen, Brother
Amen they called him. His veterinarian, he told me
this story. He said he was out in the country and this black
man had a mule that was sick and Philip Doctored on him, did
whatever you do to sick mules. And he said, now, if you have
any more trouble, that mule. I want you to come to my clinic
or you can call me if you want to and just ask for Dr. Amen, you know, like you finish
your prayer with. That's how you remember it. His
black man said, all right. Two days later, the receptionist
came back to see Philip. And she said, I have got a crazy
black man out here. And she said, he said, well,
what in the world is wrong? She said, there's he is out here
saying, I want to see Dr. Hallelujah. I want to see Dr.
Hallelujah. He went out there having told
this black man, you know, the way you end your prayer. That's
that's how he finished. He finished his prayer with Hallelujah.
I tell you what, in my heart I say amen and hallelujah, don't
you? Amen and hallelujah. Do you know
this chorus? Did you hear what Jesus said
to me? They're all taken away, away. My sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. My sins are all taken away. So I'll praise the Lord for sins
forgiven. They're all taken away. While onward pressing my way
to heaven, they're all taken away. They're all taken away,
away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. My sins are all taken away. My sins are all taken away. My sins are all taken away. Christ hath appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. The Lord willing, we'll see you
this evening. You dismissed. God bless you. Thank you very much.