Zechariah 13, and I'd like to
say a few words about verse 1 again. It is a wonderful verse of Scripture. There is a very talented and
God-fearing man that wrote a hymn. There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And in this 13th chapter of the
book of Zechariah, we have, in verse 1, we have this verse of
Scripture that shares with us these blessings. In that day
there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. What a joy it is to proclaim
that fountain. It is a person. This fountain
is a person, a person of Christ Jesus. Robert Hawker had this
to say. Under the figurative language
of scripture, by various ways in these verses are described
the blessed benefits of being cleansed in the fountain of Christ's
blood. And we've noticed that as we
follow through here, that the Lord promised that through this
fountain and being washed by the blood of Christ, he's gonna
deal with some of the things that have given us the greatest
difficulty in our life, and that's our idols. And our main idol
is ourself. we have been sold out to self
and here it goes he goes on to say the enemies of the gospel
wherever or in whomsoever they be are found will be disowned
when it comes to this as we drop through here notice a few of
these other verses the fountain takes away the dominion of sin
the fountain takes away sin now we're going to live with sin
but the penalty for sin is done away with We not face that very
fact when we come to the end of our life. We'll not be held
accountable. It was all placed upon Christ. He is the righteous
son of God. He has all righteousness. He
kept the law, every part of it, every jot and every tittle of
it perfectly. We can't imagine a man that was
able to do that. We just can't put it into our
thought processes because it's so common to us not to think
about that, not to think about perfection. We are so prone to
think about other things. So this fountain does away with
the dominion of sin and it's done by the power of grace. There's
no other thing. We don't contribute anything. We didn't put any of the mixture
into that fountain. It's all the blood of Christ.
And the wonderful blessings of this fountain are now going to
be described here, as it tells us in verse two, it shall come
to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts. Now that's that
gospel day. When the Lord spoke grace to
Abel, that was his gospel day. It was that day. And when he
gave Moses peace, that was his gospel day. And when he spoke
to to Noah, when he spoke to David, when he spoke to Solomon,
when he spoke to all of his people in the Old Testament, and as
he spoke to Saul of Tarsus, he spoke to Luke, he spoke to Matthew,
follow me, and he followed him. Zacchaeus, come out of that tree. And that was the gospel day.
That was the most important day of their life, is to realize
that the call of the Lord Jesus Christ, I mentioned to a man
today that we were talking about this, And virtually we are immortal
until we meet that day. Then our mortality comes to bear. The Lord does not let any of
His elect die before they're saved. He keeps them. They are kept by the power of
God even in their unclean, unsaved state. And then when He saves
us, we could die that moment. We look at the thief on the cross
just a few hours later. that his life was done. He should
have died earlier as just as well as many of us. Accidents,
all kinds of foolishness, stupidity, things like that. But yet God
protects his people until they meet that day. And then it says,
in that day saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the
names of the idols out of the land. The Lord is going to deal
with our idols. He's going to deal with us. He's
going to give us a new heart. Our number one idol is ourself
and our own private will that we have we have it all conceived
I am brought to the attention of that man by the name of Naaman
when he heard what he should do and you know what he said
I thought And he got really upset He didn't want the way that had
been prescribed for him, just as we don't want the way that's
prescribed for us. We must bow. Every knee must
bow. And we have a hinge problem with
our knee when it comes to spiritual things. We must be bowed. We must be brought to that point.
And so this, the saying that the blood Going on to verse three,
it says, and it shall come to pass that when any shall yet
prophesy, that his father and his mother that begat him shall
say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies.
You continue in this. If this is your life, this is
the end of it. Now, in the Old Testament, if
they come up with these new thoughts about who brought them out of
Egypt, the scriptures told us they are to be stoned to death.
And here we find in our day, if you continue with this thought,
you continue in this belief, you continue with this in your
heart, there is no hope. There will be no hope for you
in the end. So that come to pass when any
shall yet prophesy. And then it says, for thou speakest
lies in the name of the Lord. Brother Rupert Reibenbach shared
from our pulpit and many pulpits that he preached in, that there
is a whole lot more wrong going on Sunday morning than there
is Saturday night. And you know the truth of that
is, lying about the Lord, lying about God, lying about his purpose,
lying about his salvation, lying about how he saves and who he
saves, he says right there, lies in the name of the Lord and his
father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through
when he prophesieth. Now the saying that blood is
thicker than water when it comes to regards to our family is not
true with the gospel. It cannot be. You know, I've
had a lot of mamas and a lot of daddies tell me that their
children were saved 50, 60 years ago, and they haven't lived one
day of service to the Lord, of going to his house, or loved
the gospel, loved the Bible or anything, but they know they're
saved. You know, that's a lie. It's being perpetrated. And we
have come up and created an entire theory, a philosophical statement
that they are backslidden. Now, that's not a biblical term
when it comes to salvation. It talks about Israel being that,
but backsliding does not mean that you turn around and walk
off. We have trouble at days, but we're not turning our face
away from the Lord. We are headed in His direction.
A cow going uphill does not turn around, it continues to go, and
so do the people of God. We have a destination, we have
a purpose. We may have a difficult day and
it may seem like we haven't traveled any, but it doesn't mean that
we're going to take our eyes off the Lord Jesus. So this idea
of this, that anything our children say, our grandchildren say, our
parents say, we just have to automatically agree with. It's
not the truth. We can't do that. If the Lord
has ever saved us, we cannot agree. And the scriptures are
so plain on this. And in this passage of scripture,
you continue in that direction. This is the end. You have no
hope at this moment. Now, I believe in preaching the
gospel to anybody. But the same is true. If they
go to the end of their life without Christ, that is the end. There
is no second chance. There's no... Well, anyway. So turn with me, if you would,
over to the book of 2 Corinthians for just a moment. The book of
2 Corinthians. In 2 Corinthians, there in chapter
6, chapter 6, verse 14. We're always parents. We have
children, we're always going to be parents. I'm still a parent. Almost 72 years old, got a son
that's 50 years old, I'm still a parent to him. The other children,
I'm still their parents. But when they come with some
theological statement that is not in agreement with the Word
of God, I cannot agree with it. The Lord changes that attitude. We're not looking for agreement.
Now, I realize that we don't have to, and we don't need to
be, we don't want to be offensive. We don't want to be offensive
with the gospel, but I'll tell you this, the gospel is offensive. It'll take care of itself in
offending people. We don't have to go out of our way to offend
people and try to force it down there and try to teach them this.
It's offensive enough. So here in the book of 2 Corinthians
chapter 6 and verse 14, But be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light
with darkness? There is none. We can't, there's
no agreement. So, blood is thicker than water. And we will stand up for our
children on almost any point. But when it comes to the gospel,
we just have to stick with Christ. We cannot turn aside. And I've
shared this with many of you about my dad. You know, I'm raised
in a Baptist church. And you're taught that they're
teaching the truth. And my dad's in a pulpit in the
Bible class for 40 years at least. And my uncle passes away, his
youngest brother, and he says, now we know where Uncle Clinton
is. Well, being 10 or 12 or 14, 16 years old, I just asked the
question, how do you know that? How do you know that he's in
heaven? He says, because he was a good man. Well, today I could
say, I'm sorry, Dad. That's not good enough. Good
men don't go to heaven because they're good men. What fellowship,
what fellowship hath light with darkness? What fellowship does
righteousness have with unrighteousness? And then if you'll turn back
to 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians
chapter 10. It was only when I got among
grace people. I never knew this before. I never
heard about it before. But it was only when I got among
grace people that any of the children were lost. They understood
how people were saved. Grace people understand that
people are saved by grace and not by some work or by some confession
or by going forward or praying a prayer or pigeonholing them
and getting a confession of faith out of them. Grace people understand
that people are saved by the grace of God in God's good time
when he pleases and not who not. So we preach the gospel and let
it fall where it lies. We just pray that it's good ground
where it lands. If it's not good ground, it's
not going to bear anything. And it doesn't mean that it's
going to be bad ground the entire trip. It just means right now
it may be poor ground. God plows it up, God prepares
it, God does that, and then God works a work of grace. All right,
here in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 10, 1 Corinthians chapter
10 and verse 21, it says here, you cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the
Lord's table and the table of devils. That's pretty plain.
Adversary, you cannot be for the Lord in the adversary. Now,
Uncle Moes, who was a janitor for a Baptist church, said you
cannot shoot the Lord's gun, the Lord's cannon, with the devil's
gunpowder. That's just what Paul is sharing
here. You cannot. You cannot. We cannot. And that's
what is being brought out over there once you've been washed
in this blood. Things change. We see things
differently. We know how people are truly
saved. The light comes on. We're in
agreement with the Lord. We're in agreement with His Word.
We're not in conflict with it. It's a sure sign that people
have not been born again when they're in constant conflict
with the Word of God. when they deny the very scriptures
that's supposed to have given them life. So this fact that
we have here, that God said, when I put you through that blood,
This is what I'm going to do for you. I'm going to take away
your idols. And I am going to make the gospel
really important in your life. And it's going to be so important
that you can agree with the false gospel. And if you do, you don't
know the real gospel. All right, let's go over here
to the book of 1 John. 1 John chapter 3. 1 John chapter
3. In 1 John chapter 3, verse 12. Now we're breaking into a passage
of Scripture, and you know, that's what we're always doing. We should
read the entire chapter, but we're letting you do that at
home. But here it says, Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one,
and slew his brother, and wherefore slew he him, because his own
works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Now, do you know what? Cain did. He exercised his free
will. And you know what Abel did? Nothing. God had to give him a will to
do the right thing. We are not born with the will
to do the right thing. I was talking to a young man
today, and I just posed this point. I said, Adam was placed
in the most perfect place. God said with his creation it
was all good. The creation was good. The heavens
and the earth were good. Everything that he had created
was good. He spoke about Adam. He's good. And God gave him a
free will. And in that position of perfect
conditions, everything was perfect, he fell. His free will caused
him to fall and caused us to fall. Now do you think for a
moment in this undone condition that our will is going to get
us out of this mess? It is not. It cannot. We must
be born from above. We must be given life from God's
realm and not in the realm that we're walking in today. So here
it goes on. Marvel not, my brethren, if the
world hate you. We know that we have passed from
death into life because we love the brethren. He that loveth
not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother
is a murderer. What did we have a comparison
to? Cain and Abel. Why did Cain kill his brother?
Because his deeds were evil. And what was Abel's? They were
righteous. This fuss has been going on.
This fuss. And you know what? Abel would
have done the same thing if God had not intervened in his life
and caused him to present a sacrifice that represented his Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. What was he saying when he offered
that lamb? I am a sinner and I need a substitute. What was Cain saying when he
offered it? I'm okay and this should do.
and he exercised his free will alright goes down here we know
that we have passed from death into life because we love the
brethren not if we love the brethren because we love the brethren
he that loveth not his brother abideth in death and it goes
on to give us some great explanation as we go through that we do not
need to be offensive with the gospel I look at Abel, in my
mind's eye, he's just minding his own business. He went out
and caught a lamb, minding his own business. He did not go to
his brother and say, loan me something. He did not go to his
brother and say, help me catch the lamb. He's minding his own
business. And he took that lamb and slew
that lamb and offered that lamb as a sacrifice. By faith he offered
a more excellent sacrifice, minding his own business. And it was
so telling that Cain rose up and killed him. Now you just
think he'd mind his own business. But no, this is a serious thing. We find that relationship between
the flesh son of Abraham is still evident today. It will rise up
and persecute the spiritual son even to this day. There is no
fellowship there. There's no compromise and we
can't go back. Why, once the Lord has given
you peace in Christ Jesus, you just cannot go back to the hog
wallow. Can't go back to the swill. It's
just, it's an abomination. And that's what God intends it
to be to us. He doesn't want us to be satisfied
with that. He wants us to be satisfied with
Christ. And in fact, he gives us the grace to be satisfied
with Christ. Completely, wholly, totally.
to trust Him and Him alone, to believe what God said, salvation
is up to the Lord, and He is my Lord by grace. All right,
in verse four here, to have a salvation that allows us to agree with
God, I just, that thought struck me this afternoon, what a blessing. And more importantly, I mean,
maybe not more importantly, but as importantly, to agree with
His word. There was an article in the bulletin last week that
was written by Horatius Bonar about the word must be agreed
upon. We just cannot say that we have
the gospel and disagree with the word of God. Well, I remember,
some of us remember Brother Jim Williams. Now Brother Jim called
me up one night and I told Nancy I don't want to go talk to him
because I'm going to be asked to leave his house. I've had
it happen to me before. I just don't want to go." And
she said, go, Norv, go. I went over to Brother Jim. He
said, well, I want to talk to you about what you believe over
at your church. So I sit down there and I'm just had my Bible
tucked away. And he says, you know, every
church that we visited here in this town, they got God in a
wheelchair. What do you preach? I said, oh my goodness, let's
start off here. And they said, we'll be in church
Sunday. And they were in church Sunday,
Wednesday, And that way for three or four years until he passed
away. Now, before he passed away, he shared something with me.
He said he had to speak to the Lord about the songs he used
to sing. He was a very important person
in a big Baptist group. And they called on him to come
and help them in their revival meetings because he could sing
real well. And he said, I had to ask the Lord to forgive me
for the songs I sang. Now, at his funeral, I mentioned
that to one of his sons. And his son said, my dad never
sang a bad song. Now, that's the difference between
grace and words. One man said, I'm sorry for what
I sang. And the other man says, he didn't
sing a bad song. Well, if you sing, There's a
new name written down in heaven. That's a bad song. And I'm sure
He did. Well, same thing had to happen
to me. I've had to ask the Lord. Now, He did. At my salvation,
when He saved me by His grace, He forgave me for all the nonsense
that I had ever preached. But I had to speak to the Lord
about what I used to believe about Him. Because I said a lot
of things that were incorrect. They were lies on God, just as
we read there in that second verse, lying on God. Well, Saul
of Tarsus had the same problem. Let's notice here in verse four
of Zechariah, Zechariah chapter 13. Let's go back there to Zechariah
chapter 13. Now, God Almighty makes a big
difference. When he said, I will give you
a new heart and you shall love me. You know, there's one thing
that I have found as we go comparing scripture with scripture, that
when God saves somebody, he reveals the same thing about Christ as
he does to everyone else he ever saves. There is no disagreement. We're not going to believe two
or three different things about Christ and all of them in conflict.
He's not going to share this with somebody over here, and
this with somebody over here, and this with somebody over here,
and what he revealed to them is in conflict with each other.
They're going to be in absolute agreement because the word is
what we base it on. We base what we believe on the
word of God. Now that's an anomaly anymore.
I've had a number of times somebody just tell me, well, this is what
I did. I said, take me to the book where
that happened. Take me to the book where that
happened. Well, it's what I... All right. Here in the book of
Zechariah, chapter 13, in verse 4, and it shall come to pass
in that day that the prophet shall be ashamed every one of
his vision, when he hath prophesied, neither shall they wear a rough
garment to deceive." Now, in our day and time, we're not gonna
have the liturgical collars after this. We're not going to have
the long flowing robes after this. We're not going to have
the religious paraphernalia after this. God saves us. We get rid
of that nonsense. One of the greatest comments
I was ever given here in the Dao, since I've been here, was
another preacher telling me in a safe way, Norm, you're not
dressed like a preacher. And I said, thank you. That's
the greatest comment I could have. I don't know what a preacher's
supposed to look like. I find that one of the great
preachers of the New Testament wore camel's hair, a leather
girdle in camel's hair, and ate locusts and wild honey. Now people
thought he was weird. They still think he's weird when
they find out what he wore and what he ate, but his gospel was
pure and true and came right from the realm of God Almighty.
And so did the rest of the disciples. They may have been a lot of weird
things about them, but when it came to the gospel, God revealed
to them the same thing about God and his son, Christ Jesus.
And they were able to walk away and said, thou art the Christ,
the son of the living God. And here Jesus say, flesh and
blood did not reveal this unto you, but my father, which is
in heaven. And then we realized that's the truth. I didn't get
this. I didn't learn this. It was revealed
to me. God opened up the scriptures
to me, and they became a spiritual book. Now, I said we were going
to read this verse. It came to pass in that day that
the prophet shall be ashamed, everyone his vision, when he
hath prophesied, neither shall he wear a rough garment to deceive.
Now, the Apostle Paul shares with us a lot that Jim shared
with me. You know what he started singing?
Not the songs he used to be singing. He started singing songs of grace.
And he didn't look at the legalism in the Old Testament. He was
preaching the grace in the Old Testament. He was using exactly
the same book that that famous guy that taught him the law was
using. Moses to Malachi. And you know what? It became
an absolutely new book to Saul of Tarsus. He preached unto them
Jesus. He'd never preached Jesus before. He talked about the Messiah,
and the Messiah is going to come and set up an earthly kingdom
and get rid of the Romans. That's what was believed. But
the Holy Spirit revealed unto Saul of Tarsus, that's not the
kingdom. The kingdom is the kingdom of
God, and it comes not with observation. It is in the hearts. God working
his work of grace in the heart. Turn with me, if you would, to
a few verses about Saul of Tarsus. And most of this, the Holy Spirit
gave to Saul to write for our benefit. Corinthians and Galatians. Those were the books that the
Holy Spirit gave to Saul of Tarsus, the Apostle Paul as we know him.
All right, 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Now this is what he had to say. He'd spent some time in the back
side of the desert. And you know, that may be around
the kitchen table today. It's just the place where we
find that God blesses us. He was taken to the backside
of the desert and spent some years out there being instructed
by the Holy Spirit. Well, God blesses his people
wherever they are being instructed by the Holy Spirit in the things
that be of God. And we'll come to the same conclusion.
You know, if I could speak the language of those folks down
there in New Guinea and we sat down with the Bible We would
agree on salvation, we would agree on Christ, we would agree
on heaven, we would agree on sin, we would agree on everything
that is important to the gospel. Now, there are some things that
we could discuss that we may not agree on, but the important
things, the gospel issues, we would agree on. Why? Because
the gospel is preached, the Holy Spirit reveals Christ, and there
is an agreement going to develop. We don't have a choice in it.
You believe this or you don't believe, that's it. All right,
here. For I am the least of the apostles. This is Saul of Tarsus writing. This is the apostle Paul. I'm
the least of all the apostles that am not me to be called an
apostle because I persecuted the church of God. Now most of
the people that he wrote to knew about this. I persecuted the
church of God. What's he doing? I can't sing
the same songs I used to. What's he saying? I can't preach
the same way I used to. What's he saying? I can't go
along with what I used to go along with. I used to go along
and convict and convince people that breaking the law is due
punishment. What did he start preaching?
Grace, grace, grace. Punishment was meted out upon
Christ. Alright, let's look at another verse here in the book
of Galatians chapter 1. Galatians chapter 1, as the Apostle
Paul shares some more, as the Holy Spirit imposed upon him
to write these glorious truths about what God does for people. Saul of Tarsus was an angry,
angry, bitter, bitter man. And you know what increased that
bitterness? The gospel. He was a whole lot like Cain.
But God had his mark on him. I love going to the book of Acts
chapter 13 and verse 48. Those who were ordained to eternal
life believed. And here he is. Now the reason
that we don't find Cain believing is not because he didn't have
the capacity. He was not ordained to eternal
life. And he exercised his free will by offering watermelons
and killing his brother that believed the truth. All right,
here in the book of Galatians chapter one, verse 13. For ye have heard of my conversation,
my manner of life, the way I acted in time past of the Jews' religion,
how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted
it, and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals
in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the tradition
of my fathers. But, The Lord didn't leave me there.
I was a rascal, but the Lord saved me. But when it pleased
God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me
by His grace to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him
among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and
blood." He didn't depend on an experience. And in Galatians
chapter 4, And there in verse 29, God has
promised that those He washes in the blood of Christ, those
that He washes away their sin, as we read about their made white
in the blood of the Lamb. Though your sins be as crimson,
they shall be white as snow. What does that mean? Done away
with. But as then He that was born
after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now. He's going way back in the history
of Israel and talking about some sons of Abraham and saying the
same thing happens now. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 again.
Would you turn there with me? Going back to the book of 1 Corinthians
chapter 15 and verse 9. Paul says this, I think we just
read this, but I want to read it again. For I am the least
of the apostles, not meet to be called an apostle. I don't
think Paul realized a lot about what people say about him. They
say he's the greatest apostle. He would never have agreed with
that. He was a preacher of the Gospel. I've heard another preacher,
he's the greatest preacher since the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul didn't think
that about himself. I am least of the apostles. I am least of those amongst the
saved. And this was an attitude that
he carried to the grave with him. And that's what happens
when God takes us through that bath of the blood. He gives us
grace. Ephesians. Ephesians. He talks about his status or
station among the saints. In the book of Ephesians, chapter
3, just like Jim had to apologize for what he sang, what he said,
who he was with, who he agreed with at the time. Here we find
in Ephesians 3, verse 8. Unto me who am less than the
least of all saints. That's His perspective of Himself. I'm sorry for what I sang. I'm
sorry for what I preached. I'm sorry for what I did. But
it's all under the blood. And then, in 1 Timothy 1, He
said this about what He was. 1 Timothy 1, verse 13, who was before a blasphemer. Boy, that's serious. You know, if you blaspheme against
the Holy Spirit. Blasphemer. Speaking evil, slanderous, reproachful,
railing, abusive. Preacher doesn't have any room
for any of that. It's grace. Who was a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
and injurious, but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly
in unbelief. And then in Romans chapter 15,
if you go back with me to the book of Romans chapter 15, there's
again the Apostle Paul, and that's what the Lord said He would do
to the prophets. All those important people, they're
important in themselves, And the Lord strips us of our self-righteousness
and gives us the robe of righteousness. And it's in Him we trust. All
our salvation is entrusted to Him. I am committed all unto
Him. Here in Romans chapter 15, verse
15, we find that, again, Paul, nevertheless, brethren, I have
written the more bolean to you in the same, of some sort, as
putting you in mine because of the grace that is given to me
of God, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ. The grace of God given to me
that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God. that the offering up of the Gentiles
might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Spirit, the Holy
Ghost. I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ
in those things which pertain to God." How glorious! What a change! God worked in
him. God used his blood to cleanse
him from all unrighteousness. Now there's a passage, and with
this we'll close, found over in the book of First Chronicles. David had something to say about
this whole thing. We think David had, oh, he's
such a, for a long time he's such a nice guy, you know? Well,
he was just so nice that God didn't have to do anything for
him. Well, that's not what David had to say about it. If we don't find a personal testimony
by somebody in the Old Testament that say that God didn't save
them, it doesn't mean that He didn't save them, it means He
did save them if they could say things like this. There's really
only one, one testimony that is brought out in the Old and
the New Testament, and that's about Saul of Tarsus. And you know what Saul said?
He's an example. of believers. So we're going
to find out that Noah was a simple man before Almighty God and God
saved him. David, all of them. Alright,
here, 1 Chronicles chapter 17. I've got to get back to 1 Chronicles. 1 Chronicles chapter 17. And beginning with verse 16. And David the king came and sat
before the Lord. He came up to his kitchen table where he was used to meeting
God, where he had his prayer closet. He wasn't ostentatious. And he said, Who am I, O Lord? Who am I, O Lord God? And what
is my house that Thou hast brought me hitherto? What in the world? And yet this was a small thing
in thine eyes, O God, for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's
house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according
to the estate of man of high degree, O Lord God. What can
David speak more to thee for the honor of thy servant? For
thou knowest thy servant, O Lord, For thy servant's sake, and according
to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness in making
known all these great things. O Lord, there is none like thee,
neither is there any god beside thee, according to all that we
have heard with our ears. And what one nation in the earth
is like thy people Israel? What's he talking about? He's
talking about saved people. What? There's nowhere in the world
there is a group like this. Have one interest and one interest
only and that is honoring and praising God. One nation in the
earth is like unto thy people Israel whom God went to redeem
to be his own people to make thee a name of greatness and
terribleness by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou
hast redeemed out of Egypt. What did He do for Israel when
they went into that way? He drove out the enemies. What
does He do for the church when He takes them through the fountain
filled with blood? He drives out the enemies. We are resting alone in Christ
Jesus. We are so thankful for what God
has done for us in this great work of grace. There isn't words
to explain it. It is something only God can
reveal. I have a placard in my study. If you don't know grace, there's
no way I can explain it to you. And if you do know grace, there's
no way that you can miss it. That's a liberal translation.
All right. Thank you for your time tonight.
May God bless you. Remember one another in prayer.
Remember These that are set, remember those that have been
mentioned here tonight. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.