There are many different voices
being heard today, voices coming from the old, the
young, the rich, the poor, black, white, red, yellow. Many people are saying many different
things about many different subjects, and nowhere, Are there more voices to be heard
than in religion today, so-called Christian religion? It's so unbelievable
to me how that everyone supposedly is reading the same book, yet
everyone is coming up with some kind of different opinion or
idea. about what it's saying. There's
so many different ideas as to what it's saying. You can take
the plainest of words from this book, from the Bible, the plainest
words that leave no doubt as to what it's saying. No doubt. And you ask several people to
explain it and you'll have as many different answers as you
want. And most people will leave you
so confused over the plainest and simplest of scriptures that
you don't know what they're talking about. Let me give you, for instance,
turn over to Romans, chapter 9. I read that verse of Scripture
to you from 2 Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 12, I believe it was,
or 13. That's said, seeing then that
we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. In other
words, he's saying, seeing then that we have one hope, we're
using plainness of speech. We don't want anybody to misunderstand
us. Look at Romans 9, verse 15. Now, look at this. He's talking
about God here. God says to Moses, I will have
mercy. on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion." What does that mean? Henry, it
means what it says, doesn't it? Can there be any mistake at all
as to what that's saying? Does anybody have any doubt whatsoever
what that's saying? God says, Have mercy on whom
I will. I'm going to be merciful to who
I want to. Look at Romans 9 verse 21. Listen to this. A little stronger, a little clearer,
if it needs to be clearer. Verse 21. Have not the potter
power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto
honor and another unto dishonor? Now what can that be saying except
what it says? That God is the potter and we are the clay and
He can do with us exactly as He pleases? Is that not what
that says? If a man was honest, he'd have to say that's exactly
what that's saying, isn't it? Well, look at our text in 1 Corinthians
chapter 14. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter
14. This is where we're going to be looking at, what we're
going to be looking at. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 6. The Apostle Paul says
here in 1 Corinthians 14, 6, he says, Now brethren, if I come
unto you speaking with tongues, that is, in another language,
what shall I profit you? except I shall speak to you either
by revelation," that is, telling you exactly what I'm saying,
or by knowledge, by you understanding what I'm saying, or by prophesying,
or by doctrine, clearly defining what I'm saying. If I come unto
you speaking in another language, what good is it to anybody? What
good is it to anyone if I am saying things that no one understands? And the question needs to be
asked, why would I do such a thing? Why would I speak in such a manner
as to not be understood? Unless I really didn't want people
to understand what I was saying, lest for fear of what I was saying
would bring about consequences that I didn't want. But the Apostle
said, we speak not as pleasing men. This thing is not all about
pleasing men, but it's about honoring God. So if I'm saying
things that no one understands, what good is it? Listen to me. What good was that? Worthless, totally worthless. Look at verse 7, and he says,
"...even things without life giving sound." Even things without
life giving sound, like a voice, whether pipe or harp, or except
they give a distinction in the sound, except they play a tune. that you know what they're playing. How shall it be known what is
being played? Listen, I'm going to play for
you Amazing Grace. That's what I'm calling it. Isn't that a beautiful version
of Amazing Grace? Is that Amazing Grace? It doesn't
sound anything like it does. It may be pretty. You may enjoy
it. It may sound real good, but it
was not amazing grace. And that's what he's saying here.
Even an instrument, if it doesn't give a distinction, if you're
not playing a tune, a distinct tune, how's it going to be known
what you're playing? Who's going to know? And look
at verse 8. He says, Now if the trumpet give
an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?
What if you remember back in cavalry days, they had a trumpeter, a man that
would sound the battle cry, sound the charge. The captain said,
when I raise my arms, sound the cry. You know that sound. When I raise my arm, raise my
sword, sound the cry, and the troops will go forth. And he raises his sword, finally,
when the enemy's approaching. And the trumpeter starts playing
taps. Starts playing taps. How are
the troops going to know what to do? They don't know whether
to go to sleep. Or stand up, or what? Well, I'm not talking about languages
here, I'm talking about what is being preached. And people
in this day and age, the scripture plainly says that they're crying,
peace, peace, when there is no peace. They're playing taps.
They're playing taps to this generation. Look at verse 9. So likewise
ye, except you utter by the tongue, words easy to be understood,
how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall speak into
the air." So unless I speak definitively, that is, defining what I'm saying
so as to be no doubt as to what I'm saying, plainly and simply,
you're not going to understand me. And unless I've got something
to hide, if no one understands what I'm saying, then I'm only
blowing hot air. Isn't that what he's saying there?
Unless somebody understands me, I'm only blowing hot air. There's a lot of hot air blowing
going on in this day and age. This is what's going on from
the average pulpit today, and no one seems to mind that. Nobody seems to be minding it.
As a matter of fact, people seem like they kind of like it. Uncertain
tombs. I think because they have heaped
to themselves teachers having itching ears to say and prophesy
unto us smooth things. We don't want anything hard.
We don't want any definitive doctrine. It's like a young man
told me at work one time. He said when a fellow was getting
ready to preach there at work, one of the fellows from our church
congregation, he started getting concerned. He said, now you tell
him this guy was in charge of this little service they were
having, and he was getting worried about this fellow from our church
going to preach there. And he said, now you tell him,
tell him not to preach doctrine, just tell him to preach Jesus.
He smiled real big. We've got people here from all
denominations, you know. Just don't preach the indoctrination.
Just preach Jesus. Well, what I'm trying to say
is that there are many people, many preachers and all, and who
are saying some of the same things using the same terms, using terms
like sin, depravity even, grace, mercy, salvation, even terms
like justification, sanctification. They're using these terms, but
they're saying it in such a way that nobody understands what
they're talking about. And I venture to say I could read that Romans
9 in such a way that nobody would just go right over what was said
there about the potter and the clay. I've heard it read like
that. Here's the average sermon. I'm
not preaching negatives. I'm getting right to the point
here in a minute. I just want it to be clear. Here is the average
sermon being preached today from the average pulpit. They're saying
this. God loves you. He wants to save
you by his grace. And I listened, I turned on the
radio this morning and flipped across the dial and I listened
to one after another, one after another. And they were saying
things like this. They were talking about grace, talking about mercy,
talking about sin, talking about salvation. They said, God loves
you and he wants to save you by his grace. And Jesus died
for you. Now, if you will accept him as
your personal Savior, you will be saved. If you do not believe, if you
do not accept him, then you will go to hell. He will send you
to hell. But he wants to save you if you
will let him. So why don't you let him? You've
heard that over and over again, haven't you? Any rational thinking
human being ought to be able to pick that to pieces. That
fellow I was telling you about on that talk show, he did. He
said, now wait a minute. He rationally thought this thing
out. God loves me, you say. And Jesus Christ came down here
to die for me and pay for my sins. Is that right? Is that
what you're saying? Yes, sir. God loves you and Christ
died for you to pay for your sins. Now, okay then, since God
loves me, I mean God loves me, and Christ died to pay for what
I've done. I ain't got anything to worry
about. What have I got to worry about? I'm all right." Oh, no,
no, no, wait a minute now, sir. You've got to believe. Oh, now
wait a minute. I've got to believe to make it
effectual. Is that what you're saying? Yes,
yes, that's what we're saying. Okay, then. But you said at first
that God saves by his grace. Yet my believing is what makes
it effectual. So in other words, God doesn't
save me at all. I did it. Right? No, no, no, wait a minute. Yes, you're saying my decision,
my faith, was the ultimate cause of my salvation. In other words,
I wouldn't be saved until I believed. So in other words, my little
decision saved my eternal soul. Is that what you're saying? Well,
no, it takes God doing it and you helping him out. Oh, so we're
in this thing together. We've got equal power. Is that
what you're saying? I'm just as powerful as God is.
See, that puts that to open shame, doesn't it? If a man would just
think about it, just stop and rationalize it, eh? Right? Just
stop and think about what people are saying. They say things like,
God's going to send you to hell. He's trying to save you, you
won't let him, so he'll send you to hell. You've heard that
illustration about the man who said, well, God tries to save
me and I won't let him. He tries to send me to hell, I won't let
him do that either. That's how absurd and ridiculous
what we're hearing today, isn't it? I wish these uncertain-sounding
theologians would tell me what good the love of God is to me
if it can't save me. If there are people in hell today
that God loves, what good is that going to do me? I don't
want that kind of love. Do you? If his love won't finally
save me, and I go to hell and he still loves me anyway, what
kind of love is that? What kind of people would brutally
torture and beat somebody they love? A human being wouldn't
do that. They're accusing God of that,
aren't they? God loves everybody. He loves
everybody. Loves Hitler, Manson, loves them all. Him, discriminately. Everybody. And what good is the death of
Jesus Christ if it doesn't save me? If it didn't do anything,
if it takes my faith to make it powerful, what good did it
do me? That's what they're saying, though,
isn't that exactly what's being said today? If that's the case, if it takes
a joint effort between God and I, then God is taking credit
for something he did not do. God's being unjust, isn't he? He's being unrighteous. I'm the
one that should be congratulated for believing on Jesus. And isn't
that what they're doing? And that's just what they're
doing with people today. We're glad to have Brother Bill
here this morning. Our Brother Bill accepted Jesus when he was
fourteen years old, and he's been serving the Lord ever since
over in the foreign lands. He's won many souls to Jesus,
Brother Bill has. Brother Bill, come up and give
your testimony. Let's give Brother Bill a big hand. Where is the
glory of God in all that? Where is the mention of the great
sacrifice of Jesus Christ? We're talking about Brother Bill,
and that's what's going on today. That's exactly what's going on
today. And consequently, they're begging men to do something for
God. They're begging them. And all of this, what I'm saying
from that scripture verse we just read, all of this is so
much blowing hot air. Blowing our own horn is what
it's doing. It's not the gospel. God's word is sure and certain. There's no mistaking what God
says, and if you have ears to hear. open ears to hear and are
open to the truth, you've got to hear what this Word says.
So listen, I'm going to say in no uncertain terms exactly what
the Word of God says about this thing of salvation. I'm going
to blow this horn about as clear as it can be blown. Listen, listen
to these, but him that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the
Scripture says. Listen to this. Number one, God
Almighty is God. I am the Lord, he says, I change
not. The God that killed everything
that urinated against the wall one day is the same God that
lives today. He changes not. The God who commanded
his armies to go down and wipe out everything that has breath
is the same God today. God created everything. God controls
everything. God owns everything. God does
what he will, with whom he will, when he will, how he will. He's
God. He's God. And no one or nothing
can say anything about it. Let every mouth be stopped, the
Scriptures say. God is like the potter, and we
are like the clay. He can take two men, one man,
and save his eternal soul, lift him up, cause him to be made
a vessel unto honor, a child of God himself. He can make that
piece of clay, that human being, a child of God Almighty himself. And he can take the other one
and dash him to pieces. Is that not what the Scripture
says? That's what he said. He can leave him alone. He can
make one a child of God and leave the other one alone and eventually
destroy it for his own wickedness. Did you hear what I just said?
Is there any mistake in what I just said about who God is? That he's in
absolute control. He does not have to save anybody.
He can save one and damn the other one. He's God. He owns
everything. Is there any mistake whatsoever
about what I just said? Any? There shouldn't be. Okay, number two. All men and
women and young people are absolutely dead spiritually. Dead spiritually. No one can take one step toward
God Almighty. Can't think one good thought
about God Almighty. Can't do it. No one can make
one decision toward God. Can't do it, Steve. Can't do
it. Except God give spiritual life, no one can do anything
without Him. Anything. Except a man, Christ
said, be born from above. given life by God Almighty, except
a man be born by God himself, given life, then he cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven. He's dead. He's dead. He's graveyard dead, somebody
said. You go to the graveyard. It would
be just as easy or it would be just as effective for me to go
to the graveyard and speak to one of those tombs. and plead
and beg and holler and scream and do whatever I can and tell
them to get out of that grave and come up here. It would be just as well, more effectual
to do that than to try to convince a natural man of his need of
God Almighty and try to get him to believe God to his eternal
salvation. He's dead. He's dead. Dead. Can't do anything. Can't decide
for Jesus. Uh-uh. Dead, dead in sin. He can only do that which is
evil. Did you hear what I said? Did
everybody fully understand what I just said? I don't want there
to be any doubt, Stan, what I just said, that man is altogether
dead in trespasses and sin. Even our little children, they
cannot come to God. They cannot except God draw them. Number three, listen to this.
God Almighty chose who he would save before the world began. Election. Election. That's exactly what
I'm saying. God Almighty, before time began,
And out of the mass of humanity that would live on this earth,
he reached down and picked, hand-picked some out to save. Hand-picked them. They didn't
choose him. Uh-uh. He chose them. Hand-picked
every one of them. Every single one. He elected
each one of them. No more. And the rest he leaves
in the cesspool of sin. He just leaves them alone. He
handpicked these. He elected them. He did. It's
kind of like ants in a stump. You go out in the woods and you
split wood and you open one up and you'll see a bunch of ants
in a log. Now, they're making their refuge
in that log. You're going to take home and
you're going to burn that log. You have no regard, really, for ants.
You have no need for ants. They can't add to your life one
thing. They can't bring you enjoyment.
Ants can't. Uh-uh. They only mess up things.
You know, you turn them loose, they'll mess things up. Well,
it's like taking that log, splitting that log, and there those ants
are, and you're taking a few of them and just scraping them
up in your hand and laying them over the side and then taking
that log full of the rest of them and just set it on fire. That's what God is going to do.
That's what he has done. Chosen a few of us ants, a few
of us grasshoppers, the scripture says. Calls us grasshoppers.
Only to burn the rest of them, because they deserve it. They
deserve it. He didn't have to elect a man
to go to hell, because that man's on his way. He's condemned already.
He didn't have to choose to damn that man. That's what the man
chose to begin with. That's the only thing the man
will choose if left to himself. But God, this thing started from
the beginning of time. He chose to save men and not
angels. Nobody seems to be upset about
that. He chose men instead of angels. He didn't choose to save
the angels. Every one of them that fell, he cast down into
hell. Nobody's screaming about the angels' rights, are they?
That's not fair, God. You can't damn angels. You've
got to give them a chance. He chose men over angels. One
day when he destroyed the world by flood, he chose eight people
in the ark, which is a type of Christ in the ark. He chose eight
people to destroy the rest. He chose to save Israel, the
nation of Israel, and not the rest of the world, didn't he? And it got down a little further.
He chose to save the tribe of Judah and not the rest of Israel
when they fell into pagan idolatry and so forth. He chose to save
some and not all. I can't make it any clearer.
I can't make it any clearer. I can too. The Bible does. A
lady was pregnant. She was expecting a child. Her
name was Rebecca. She had twins in her womb. Twins. And the scripture says in Romans
9, before those children were ever born or had done any good
or evil, God said, I love this one and I hate that one. That's what he said, didn't
he? He elected Jacob. He left Esau
alone. I can't make it any clearer.
Do you hear what I'm saying? Did you understand what I just
said? I don't want there to be any uncertain sound here this
morning as to what I believe. Fourthly, Jesus Christ died for and saved everyone God chose. No more. No more. Jesus Christ
did not die for every single person. He did not shed his blood
for every single person. I can't make it any clearer.
We talked to a man not too long ago that said he couldn't understand,
said he was preaching He said he was preaching these things,
and he said he couldn't understand why people weren't hearing what
he said. Gracious sakes! God does not love everybody,
and Jesus Christ did not die for everybody. You reckon people
hear that? Wait a minute! I heard that! And that's what we're saying.
That's what this book is saying. by his own blood, Christ entered
in once into heaven, having obtained eternal redemption for us." It
doesn't say that he tried to save some people, all people.
It says he did obtain eternal redemption for us, who's the
us, God's chosen people. Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of Many, the scripture says, not all, it says many,
many. Oh yes, there are people as the
sands of the seashore, yes. No man can number, and nobody
knows who they are. But there are no more, just the
ones that he died for. Not one single drop of Jesus
Christ's blood was shed for anybody in hell. No, no. He came with
redemption price, that is, his own precious blood, to buy, to
purchase everybody God chose, no more, no less, every one of
them. And he had the exact price, Rick. If I go down to the store and
I say, how much is that? And the proprietor says, that
is $1.98 plus 5 cents, that's $2.03. It costs you $2.03 to buy that
object. I pull out of my pocket and I
say, I've got $2.02. He says, not enough. It takes $2.03. Well, I pull out of my pocket
and I say, well, here's $2.05. Keep or change? No, no, it doesn't. It takes $2.03. $2.03 to buy
this product. That's all. You don't need any
more. And God said, the soul that sins, it must surely die,
and the wages of sin is death. And without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin. All right. And Christ and the
Father, before time again, made a covenant. And Christ said,
all right, how much blood is he going to take to save old
Rick Williams? And Christ said, all of your
blood, every bit of it, no more, no less. He won't take his blood,
but he'll take all of yours. Christ said, all right, how much
will it take to save Henry Soar? How much will it take to save
Terry Kenseth? And they went down the line, through the Lamb's
Book of Life, every child And God in his infinite wisdom says,
all right, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one,
this one, it'll take your blood, every bit of your blood, it'll
take you doing this, it'll take you living perfectly on this
earth, all the requirements, every jot and tittle it will
take to save those people, no more, no less, in exact price. And Christ said, all right, I'll
do it. And he brought the exact price,
no more, no less. And the Catholicism is trying
to kill him again. They're trying to bring more
blood into this thing, aren't they? More blood. They say the
bread and the wine becomes his body and blood, and they're issuing
more blood. It takes more blood. And men are saying, it takes
your works. It takes your work. No, Christ's works, and Christ
alone. He got the job done. He did all
that was necessary, his blood and his righteousness. And he
laid down that precious price. My soul! What an injustice to
him it would have been if the Father had required more than
everything he gave. The son would say, Isn't that
enough? I poured out my soul and my blood
in vain? The Father says, I'm sorry, he's
going to have to believe though. Then I said, My blood in vain! Well, it took His perfect blood,
His perfect sacrifice, His perfect righteousness, everything, all
solely by Him to save every single person, no more, no less, and
every single one He died for will be saved, period. Is there any mistake as to what
I just said? Jesus Christ did not die for
every single individual. Fifthly, every single person
Who is saved must be called by the Holy Spirit, or they will
not come. There is a general call, yes.
All people hear the call. God is on the throne. Repent
or perish. Everybody hears that. Everyone.
But everybody doesn't hear the call of the Holy Spirit, you
see. The call of the Holy Spirit is an effectual call. I'll illustrate
that. Suppose my wife, she does this all the time. She fix dinner
and she'll say, dinner's ready. And Hannah and I, we piddle around
every now and then. We fool around a little bit,
you know, until finally she'll come in and she'll say, Hannah,
and she says it to me sometimes too, dinner's on the table. Come. If you want it, come on. We'll
say it to Hannah, effectually. Hannah, you better come to the
table. What does she do? She gets up
and she gets to the table. That's an effectual call, realizing
the consequences of that. They come. And that, in effect,
is this call of the Holy Spirit because of who he is, because
he's all-powerful and able to do the job. God issues the word
and says, repent or perish. All men hear that. But the Holy
Spirit takes the ones that God chose, the ones that Christ laid
His blood down for, that paid the price, the ones that Christ
imputed His righteousness to and took their sins upon Him.
The Holy Spirit then comes to that man or that woman or that
young person, comes to them and says, come to Christ now. And they come immediately. because of who he is, you see.
They can't resist. Uh-uh. He's all-powerful. He's able to break their will. Jimmy Swigert and some of them
say God limited his will so as not to hinder the will of man. He said
God limited his will so that man would have a free will. In
other words, what he's saying is that God is limited. I'm not. That's what he's saying. God's
limited. Not me. I've got free will. God
can't break my will, but I can't His. Isn't that what they're
saying? God can't overrule my will, but I can't His. He wills
to save me, but I won't let Him. That's blasphemy. That's blasphemy. The Holy Spirit, what I'm saying
this morning, is the Holy Spirit, because of who He is, all-powerful,
comes to a man and convicts him and convinces him and draws him
to Christ, and He will come, every single one of them, let
the Holy Spirit work. Every one of them. Did you hear
what I just said? There's no doubt. There should
be no doubt what I just said. Every single person who is saved
is called by the Holy Spirit, and everyone that God saves is
saved forever. Now, wait a minute, Preacher.
You're not saying once in grace, always in grace. That's exactly what
I'm saying. Once under the grace of God Almighty,
it's yours forever. That's exactly what I'm saying.
God doesn't, He's not an Indian giver to speak in our foolish
language. What God does, the scripture
says, is forever. Doesn't it? He does not take
back gifts. He doesn't say, here you have
this today, I want it back tomorrow. Uh-uh. He says, this is yours
forever. What'd Christ say? I give unto
them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Never. Some have temporary relapses
into sin. Yes, they do. Some fall into
some sin. Yes. But some of you have sons. How long are they going to be
your children? Forever. I mean, son is a son.
I don't care what you do. You can't disown a son. He's
a son. He's yours. And God makes his people that
he chose and that Christ died for his sons. And believe you
me, he loves us and has a greater stake in us than we do our own
children. He's not about to let us fall away. Not about to. If
any do fall into sin that we thought were saved and stay there
in sin, people we thought were Christians, it's because they
never were Christians. Scripture says if they were of
us, they no doubt would have stayed with us. but they are
not with us, they did not stay with us, that it might be made
manifest that they were not of us. It might be clear to us they
never were of us in the first place. What God does is forever. The Scripture says we're kept
by the power of God in salvation. Did you hear what I said? Did
you hear what I said? There should be no doubt. in case there's any doubt. People
say, well, that means you can go out and live like you want
to, that there's no possibility of falling. You can go out and
live like you want to. No, no, no, no. I'm not saying that you
can live like you want to. No, no, no. I'm not saying that. Don't let there be any doubt.
I did not say that. Let me say this so as to be no
doubt. Every truly saved person Everyone
that God chose, everyone that Christ died for, everyone that
the Holy Spirit calls, every single one of them loves and
follows after Jesus Christ more than anything or anybody else. Listen to Christ. He said, My
sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I said this last Sunday, the
whole message was about true discipleship. Except you forsake
all that you have, you cannot be my disciple, Christ said.
He has no mere doctrinal disciples, Christ said. No, no, no. God has no mere children in principle. Every single one of God's chosen
people have been predestinated to be conformed unto his Son
and unto good works. I'm not afraid of that word.
created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God had before
ordained that they should walk in them." Christ God preordained
and predetermined for his people to walk godly and holy lives
here, just as much as he did for them to be saved. Is there
any doubt in what I just said? I'm not saying that men can live
like they want to. God does not have a people—this
too—God does not have a people who are in love with this world. I mean taken up wholly by this
world. Do you understand what I just
said? If any man loved the world, the love of the Father is not
in him. I didn't say that, did I? If any man loved the world, the
love of the Father is not in him." Can there be any doubt
what that's saying? You know, we believe, we might
believe these doctrines, the doctrines that I've been expounding,
but that's in there too, isn't it? I don't want to be any misunderstanding.
I don't want to go, I don't want to have your blood on my hands,
or my blood. I don't want to go up there and
say, well, I thought if I was just a Calvinist. The conclusion of the whole matter
is this. Salvation is of the Lord from start to finish. Man
doesn't have anything to do with it. Nothing. Salvation is in
the Lord, in the Lord Jesus Christ. You're either in him or you're
out of him. You're saved in Christ, you have his righteousness or
you're not. Salvation is unto the Lord. That is, for His glory
and His glory alone. We reap the benefits, yes, but
He doesn't do it for us. He does it under His glory, for
His name's sake. And salvation is being as the
Lord, being conformed with the image of a person, if the change
is not being made. Did you understand everything
I said this morning? Is there any doubt whatsoever
what I was saying about anything? There's certain sounds, but I
can't make it any clearer. Can't make it any clearer. So
I don't want anybody going out of here from meeting God, for
that matter, on account of I didn't tell you the truth. I didn't
tell you the truth. I told you in no uncertain terms.
The pipe, the harp, gave a certain sound. Terry did it. Certain,
is it clear? Salvation is of the Lord from
start to finish. Man doesn't have anything to
do with it. Salvation is in Christ, in Christ alone. Our good works
don't amount to a hill of beans toward our salvation. And salvation
is being made like a person, though. We're either following
him or we're not. God's either done this work in
us and given us a love for Christ and a desire to follow after
him, or we're following the world. I mean, it's one or the other.
There's no middle ground there. Plain sounds. No uncertain terms. And I say this over and over
again. I want to know the truth. I don't want to be deceived.
I don't think you do either. I know the ones of you I know
pretty well now. I don't think you want to be
deceived either. I think you want me to tell you the truth. Stand with me and I'll dismiss
this in prayer.