Zechariah, and we're going to
be in chapter 13 of the book of Zechariah. And I would like
to go over verse 1 for a few minutes tonight, and then we're
going to look at the benefits and the blessings of verse 1
in verses 2 and 3, and see how far we get. But in verse 1, it
tells us these glorious words. And a wonderful author, a hymn
writer, wrote a hymn from this verse of Scripture There is a
fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. So here
in the book of Zechariah, chapter 13, verse 1, in that day, now
there's a lot of discussion about that day, but every believer
has had that day. Every one of God's sheep have
had that day, a gospel day. We have record of it with Abel. We're going to have record of
it through all ages until the last sheep is saved. And then
that day will be over. And we'll see him forever in
eternity. We'll not have to have faith.
We'll see him face to face. In that day there shall be a
fountain opened. And I like that word opened.
It's an open fountain. Now not everyone and in our natural
state we cannot see that fountain. We may look at Christ, we may
read about Christ, we may have all kinds of views about Christ,
but he is not an open fountain to us. Only in the revelation
of Jesus Christ, only in the new birth do we see this fountain
opened. And this fountain is opened,
it says, to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
So it is for a specific group of people. In the book of Romans
9, it talks about a quote from the Old Testament from the book
of Isaiah, though Israel shall be as the sand of the seashore,
the sand of a remnant shall be saved. Now I walked down just
a little bit of the eastern seaboard and their sand is finer than
our sand. It will go right through your
clothes and stick to your hide. That's why I don't want to sit
down in it. It is so fine. Jennifer showed me, she washed
some clothes that the boys wore, and she opened them up to put
them in the dryer, and the sand is still there. And I says, you
need to rinse them again. It is so fine. So that side of
the world, as the sand of the seashore, and yet a remnant,
shall be saved. So we have this mentioned here.
The fountain is for the church. It's for all of the elect. It is for God's people. It is
for the sheep of His pasture. The Lord promised full cleansing
for all His elect in the covenant of grace. And that's something
to rejoice about, that there is full cleansing. There is not
something left. This blood cleanseth us from
all sin. Now that word cleansing in that
verse of scripture it says there for uncleanliness there's a cleansing
from uncleanliness and we find that that thought is used by
the Lord a number of times when he's dealing with people with
physical defects. Leprosy, Just look with me, if
you would, over to the book of Matthew chapter 10 for a moment.
Matthew chapter 10. He deals with physical defects,
but in it he is showing us, just like we read about the different
parts of the tabernacle or the temple, they are physical things,
but they are reminding us of spiritual things. Now he's going
to deal with physical defects that people have. Not everyone
may have these physical defects that he is dealing with, but
the spiritual part of everything he's dealing with, we all have.
We all have spiritual blindness, we all have a spiritual inability,
we all have a spiritual inability to talk right about
him, to see about him, to hear about him. And here in the book
of Matthew chapter 10, we find here in the eighth verse of that
chapter 10 of the book of Matthew, this is why he speaks of concerning
to John and says, you just go tell him what's happening here,
what you've seen him do. And it says, he's healed the
sick, cleansed the lepers, Now, that's an interesting way to
use the word cleanse. He's cleansed the lepers, the
most difficult physical defect at that time to deal with. Now,
we might call it fourth stage cancer today. It is a physical
defect that there is no hope for and yet he cleansed the leper. He made that skin as if it was
newborn skin. So he's going to deal with that
demonstrating that he's the only one that can deal with our sin.
We have a physical defect, a spiritual defect, a mental defect that
we inherited because of the fall and we just aggregated it over
time. We've aggravated it over time. We've just made it worse and
worse over time. But he is the only one that is able to cleanse
us from leprosy. It goes on, raise the dead, cast
out devils, freely receive, freely give. So he's sharing with us
in this passage of scripture. And in the next book, the book
of Mark, would you turn there with me as we look here for just
a moment in the book of Mark. Chapter 1, verse 42. In chapter
1, verse 42, the Lord shares with us again what He is doing. He says, And as soon as he had spoken,
now if we back up we find, I will be thou clean. Now that's the
Lord speaking. He didn't ask for a vote from
the guy that had the leprosy. Now, once we have been given
the fact that we had leprosy, once we've been opened up to
the fact that we are born with the spiritual problem of sin,
then we will cry out and say, thank you. But the dealing with
it is wholly up to the Lord. I will be thou clean. And notice
verse 52, and as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy
departed from him and he was cleansed. So we have a fountain
open for great issues, spiritual issues, problems that we have
because of the fall. And it's the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth us from all sin. The blood, it's not confession
that does it. It's not praying through that
does it. It's not coming forward that does it. It's not signing
a card that does it. It's the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth us from all sin. So there's a great deal of difference
here. It is in his hands to do, but
when he does it, it is absolutely complete. No more leprosy. All right? And you remember what
Peter said to the Lord when he was called on to eat some food
that wasn't his style to eat, some bacon, pork chops, mussels,
oysters. Well, the Lord told him, don't
you call anything that I've cleansed common. There's something about
this. It is uncommon. The Lord does
the uncommon. Don't call anything that I have
cleansed common or unclean. He's the one that did the cleansing.
Now after the Lord revealed that to him, he said, now alright,
you're going to the Gentiles. There have been the unclean ones. The Jews have had all of it,
but the Gentiles have had none of it, so they're common or unclean.
And as soon as the Lord convinced him of the truth of the fact
that he's in charge of who's going to be cleansed, he went
to a man's house and preached the gospel. Now he comes back
with a message to the church of Jerusalem, and they said,
oh man, that's a hard saying. A whole bunch of people in there
said, you know, if they're not circumcised, they can't be saved.
Well, there's a whole bunch of people in that church of Jerusalem
that didn't know anything about cleansing. They didn't know anything
about spiritual cleansing. It was all physical cleansing,
and that's the kind of people the Lord dealt most of His ministry
with, was those who had physical cleansing. You clean up the outside,
but you don't care of the inside. You're like You've painted the
outside of the tomb, but the inside is full of dead man's
bones. So they've done the cleansing,
it doesn't work. We may reform ourselves, we may
do all, turn over new leaves, we may go through all of that,
but there's only one thing that does the job, and that is regeneration,
the new birth. And when that takes place, there
is a real cleansing that he has promised. In the book of 1st John chapter
1, 1st John chapter 1, 1st John chapter 1 verse 7. Now
the first thing that we want to notice here that there is
a walking in the light. And there's only a walking in
the light in regeneration. We're not walking in the light
in reformation. We're only walking in the light
in regeneration. And it is a real light. His name
is Jesus. He's the light of the world.
And the light of the world dispels the darkness. And it says here,
if we walk in the light as He is in the light. Now, this is
a heart check. We recognize the fact that we
still have sin. You know, when we get down to
it, God never saves one atom of our flesh. Not one atom. We still have the same old flesh. And that flesh is going to be
taken care of only when either He comes and changes us or we
die and He resurrects us and He changes us. The difference
that we have is brought out so many times in the scripture and
that is we now in regeneration have the Holy Spirit. We have
the indwelling of the Spirit. That is the only holy part that
we have. It is Him in us, Christ in us. That is the only holy part we
have. So He doesn't create a special
divine little part of us from our flesh, because he's not going
to do that in this. He will when it's completed.
Now, we say, well, I'm better than I used to be. Well, thank
God for his restraining hand. Thank God for his work of grace. Thank God for his word. Thank
God for the peace that we have from his word. I'm working on
a message. It's found in the Song of Solomon.
It says, draw me and we shall run to you. Song of Solomon chapter
one, verse four. And I'm running to that verse
of scripture. I says, whoa, draw me and we shall run to you. Now that's exactly what God does.
He draws us by his grace, and when he converts us, we run to
him with great joy. The Ethiopian eunuch went on
his way rejoicing. Where was he headed away from?
Jerusalem. Where was he headed to? Christ. That's where we're going to leave.
We're going to leave that old, because we're going to head for
Christ. All right? And then in 1 John 1, 9, if we
confess. Now, the thought here is not
we're going to have to enumerate, delineate. confess our sins. It means that through salvation,
through the new birth, we're going to be able to admit that
we're sinners. If we confess, we admit. The publicans summed it up. God
be merciful to me, a sinner. Or may the atonement be made
for me, a sinner. So in regeneration we're caused
to know something about our very being and we're not going to
spend our time confessing our sin because we don't have time.
We never get the job done and most of the time we don't even
know that we had sinned. It's interesting when we get
over to the sacrifices in the book of Leviticus, one of them
was for unknown sin. Stuff that we don't even comprehend
and I'm thankful that the Lord took care of all of that on the
cross. But if we confess, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.
We find out that when God dealt with his people throughout the
Old Testament and the New Testament, they always came to that conclusion
about themselves, that I am a sinner. Depart from me, for I'm a sinful
man. That's exactly what Peter said
to the Lord Jesus when he told him to put his net down on the
other side. He doubted that they would catch anything. And when
he caught stuff, oh, And Paul, oh wretched man that I am. So
if we confess our sin, our sins, he's already taken care of it. He's already been faithful. He
is faithful and just, just to forgive us our sins. Now our
sins are forgiven in an eternal covenant of grace. You'll never
find in the scripture that God has wrath for the elect. never
had wrath for the elect. He had an eternal love for them.
He had eternal justification for them. He had eternal mercy
for them. He had an eternal son for them,
an eternal lamb for them. The eternality of God in Christ
Jesus is how much he has for his people. So he never had wrath
for them. Wrath is for those who never
were named in the covenant of grace. So we have this wonderful
position that he's placed us in. If we confess our sins, if
we had, we're just at, God's going to cause us to admit that.
And if we say we have not sinned, The scriptures say, you're a
liar and the truth is not in you. So we've never been born
again. It's just that simple. So he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous. He's
already taken care of it. When he gives us that knowledge
and only then, as it's found there in the book of Ezekiel
in that great I will chapter, then you will know that you're
sinners. after I've given you all of this,
then you will know this. So he shares with us this wonderful
blessing of the cleansing hour of that fountain. And then if
you'll turn with me back to the book of Zechariah, we find the
results of this great cleansing. Many things are mentioned as
we've already brought out. But let's notice here in the
book of Zechariah chapter 13 and verse 2. What does it say
there? And it shall come to pass in
that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. Now I have to stop there for
just a moment. I went back through and there are at least 53 times
in this short book that that name for God is used, Lord of
Hosts. So we're dealing here, God is sharing with Zachariah,
sharing with us that this is the sovereign ruler of heaven
and earth that's bringing this message and giving it to Zachariah. It's the same one that gave all
the rest of the Bible. But he is clearly telling Zachariah
the Lord of hosts. Now the closest place that I
can find in scripture, the most succinct passage of scripture
that explains what the Lord of hosts means is from a mouth of
a great king Nebuchadnezzar in the book of Daniel. So would
you turn with me to the book of Daniel for just a moment?
It says here, the Lord of hosts, the Lord of hosts. And here in
the book of Daniel chapter four is a great summation of what
the Lord of hosts means, the Lord of armies, the army of heaven. He is in charge of all the angels. He's in charge of all the inhabitants
of the earth and every grain of sand is in, he's in charge
of. He's in charge of the movement
of every grain of sand by every wave that is ever cast upon the
beach. We just cannot imagine the greatness of this God that
is able to do that. Well, here in the book of Daniel,
chapter 4, verse 34, chapter 4, verse 34, here is Lord of
Hosts made in its most succinct manner as this King Nebuchadnezzar
comes out from under the pride that he had. Recently I told
a person pride is the hardest thing for us to deal with. We
do something really stupid and this pride keeps us from going
and making it right. But Lord give us grace to make
it right. Well here, in the end of the
days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes into heaven and my
understanding returned unto me And I blessed the Most High and
praised and honored him that liveth for... What did he bless
and honor? Thank you, Lord, for seven years
out in the field, because I learned something. Would you trade seven
years in a field, eating grass, for learning something about
Almighty God? He's saying, thank you, Lord.
I was a fool. for my estimation of myself and
my estimation of Almighty God. I was more, bigger, and that's
just religion to the core, bigger than God. Anyway, it goes on
to say, I blessed the most high and praised and honored him that
liveth forever. What a confession, this man. Now, if he wasn't saved, he really
is given the Holy Spirit, gave him some words for us to have
written down in our Bible so we can find out what God is like.
He revealed that to him. Whose dominion is an everlasting
dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation. Now,
notice verse 35. and all of the inhabitants of
the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven, Lord of hosts." Sovereign, Jehovah
of armies, Lord of hosts. Doeth according to his will in
the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth.
Can you imagine that for one second? that he's doing all his will
right now in this world. Not for just a second, but for
two, and then minutes, and hours, and weeks, and days, and years,
and millenniums, and eternity. In the army of heaven, among
the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand or
say unto him, what are you doing? Now when we go against the doctrines
of grace, we're essentially saying that very same thing. How can
you do this? What doest thou say? Now that's
the Lord of Hosts. He's brought out 53 times in
the book of Zechariah, 114 chapters. He is called the Lord of Hosts.
Sometimes twice in one verse, one verse, three times in one
verse. So here we have the Lord of Hosts going back to the book
of Zechariah, There in chapter, Zechariah chapter 13, and there
in verse 2, we have the Lord of Hosts. Now, he's saying this.
This is it. This is what the Lord of Hosts
will do. He's in charge of doing this. If you've ever been washed in
this fountain, this is what he's done. Now, it's impossible for
us. We will never get this job done. I have had people tell me that
they've done battle with the devil. You know what? They've
just lied to me one more time. Because we can't. Even in the
scriptures, it tells us they overcame him by the blood of
the Lamb. He's the one that deals with
it. Alright, it says, It shall come to pass in that day, saith
the Lord of hosts. This is what I'm going to do
as a result of verse 1. as a result of the preaching
of the gospel, as a result of my carrying out my eternal purpose
on the elect of God, this is what I'm going to do. That I
will cut off the names of the idols of the land. I will do
this. You know what God does for everyone
that he's ever saved? He is going to cut off everything
they've ever depended upon for their salvation in the past.
and he will reveal himself to be the one that is the salvation. Everything. Now it's not just
some rock on some beach or some carved thing. You know what we
believed before that needs to be cut off and that is that we
had a free will to choose God? That has to be removed because
Free will will never choose God. Free will will never, ever choose
God. That's the problem that we face
by a natural inclination is that we cannot choose God. It's an
impossibility on our part. And that God, that idol is going
to be removed from us by who? Not by our power, but by His
power, saith the Lord, by the Lord of hosts. The Lord in charge
of all things is going to deal with this. He said here, I will
cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall
no more be remembered. What does that mean? Well, in
50 years, Lord given us grace, we will never go back to them. I've heard a number of people
say, I cannot go back. I've heard something, I cannot
go back. I cannot go listen to it. 70 years, 100 years, that idol will
be gone. Now, if, as we find in the book
of 1 John, they went out from us because they were not of us,
if they'd been of us, they'd have continued with us. If they
leave and don't come back, they never knew anything to begin
with. They still had their old idol all the time. Their free
will and whatever they're attached to. But God's people, as Jesus
asked his own disciples after 5,000 men left, will you also
go away? To whom shall we go? You have
the words of eternal life. We're convinced
of it. Now sometimes it looks like that
they weren't. They betrayed Him, they did all
kinds of things. But that confession was made
because Jesus said, flesh and blood did not reveal this unto
you but my Father which is in heaven. You have this. You'll
not lose this. You'll not give up on this. I
will not allow you to lose this. I'm in charge of this. So this
is what he's going to do. I'm going to take care of the
idolatry. Now, how can that happen is because
he is the captain of our salvation. He's in charge of it. He has
it down to the very last item of our salvation. The very last
drop of blood required. Everything. He's in charge of
that. He's the captain of our salvation. We read concerning
Joshua meeting a man outside of Jericho. Who are you? Are you for us or against us?
And he says, I'm the captain of the Lord's hosts. And in the
next verse, As captain of the Lord's host, take your shoes
off. I am the Lord. Now, turn with
me, if you would, to the book of Hebrews, chapter 2. This is
the one that does it. He's the captain of our salvation.
He is the author. Do you know that word author
and the word captain come from the same word? He is the author
and finisher of our faith, or he's the captain of our faith,
and he's the finisher of our faith, he's the captain. Here
in the book of Hebrews, chapter two, Hebrews chapter two, we
read these wonderful words about the Lord. Hebrews chapter two,
verse 10. For it became him for whom are
all things, and by whom are all things. Isn't that an interesting
conversation that we start off that verse with? what it says,
for whom are all things, right here, whom are all things, and
by whom are all things in bringing many sons, now that could have
been translated children, many children, many sons unto glory
to make the captain of their salvation, you know what that
word Perfect. He didn't have to become perfect.
It's an old word that is used to mean to carry through, or
to complete, or to accomplish, or to finish, or to bring to
an end. What did He say on the cross?
It's finished. That is what perfect is. The captain of their salvation,
perfect through sufferings. Now He completed the task through
suffering for our sin. He completed the task. It is
finished. No longer is there any charge
against my elect. Who shall bring anything to the
charge? of my elect. It is God that justifies. How could he do that? Because
he perfected it. He finished it. He completed
it. There's no room left. He came up to the end and wiped
it out. No charge. Nothing left. It's done away
with. I like when we read in the Old Testament that the sins
of Israel, I'll remember no more. I'm glad he's not a historian. He's not going to bring up the
past. He's completed our salvation. He has set us at liberty. That's a wonderful thing. That's
what this verse 2 is all about. To be set at liberty. We're not
bound by these idols any longer. We're not bound by our flesh
any longer. We're not bound by our fleshly
attitude towards how to be saved. We're bound by His salvation.
We're bound by His Holy Spirit. We're bound by His purpose of
grace. We're attached to Him. We agree
with Him. First time in our life that we
ever agreed with Him is when He gave us the new birth and
we say, we agree. You're a sinner. Yes, you got that right, Lord.
We know all about that. Well, he's done that. So he's
the captain of our salvation. And then it tells us there in
verse two. Let's go back to the book of
Zechariah. Zechariah, verse two, it says here, and he says, verse
two, I will cut off The names. I will cut off the names of the
idols out of the land. The gospel is so powerful, it
allows no one, even many, M-I-N-I, the smallest idols to remain. Not even the smallest. People
say, his idol is the dollar, his idol is this. If you have
Christ, you don't have any of those. Now, sometimes they seem
to bother us, but from Christ's side, He says, I've taken away
all of them. They're going to trust me and
me alone. They believe me and nothing else. I've done away with their old
attitude that they can save themselves because they couldn't and they
won't. But when He saves us, we realize that. We've come to
the conclusion that salvation is of the Lord. It is absolutely
and totally and completely of the Lord, and that's who we're
trusting with all our faith, and that faith comes from God
to do that. I will cut off the names of the
idols out of the land. Now so many people think, well
he's going to do that for Israel. He's doing that for spiritual
Israel. He did that for the first one he saved. He'll do that for
the last one he saved and everybody in between. That's the only reason
we can say thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. You're
the one, you're the Messiah. You're the promised one in living
flesh to have handled the word of life. What are we doing? We're
handling the Word of Life. The Lord. The Gospel is so powerful. I will cause the prophets and
unclean spirits to pass out of the land. What's that say right
next to there? And they shall no more be remembered, and also
I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out
of the land. You know, no longer will we say,
well, I know that that preacher isn't preaching all the truth,
but I still dislove him. I know that preacher, he's mixing
works and grace, which is impossibility, but I still love him. We're not
going to have that. We're not going to be mixing
up all that nonsense with the gospel. We can't go along with
it. Now we're not going to be... We're just not going to go and
try to create a problem. The cross does that. There is enough embitterment
in natural man against the cross that we don't have to create
any. It's our pleasure to share with people the gospel. Now,
I believe, and I believe that Paul believed this. I believe
that Peter believed this. When he preached to those thousands
on the day of Pentecost, along with the other 11 that were preaching
to the thousands, they didn't go out there and say, well, I
think that one is probably one of the Lord's and that one, that's
not the way we preach the gospel. We preach the gospel as if everyone
were Jacob's. Now it's going to be God's business
to take care of the rest. I don't sit here and try to sort
out and say, well, I don't want to preach to those people because
if that would have been the way it was done, nobody would have
ever preached to me. And nobody would ever preach
to Saul of Tarsus. So here we are. Who are we going
to preach to? The Bible tells us, preach the
gospel to every creature. Now that's an impossibility on
my part and your part. But the Lord is going to get
the gospel to everybody that he ever intended to save. That
is the truth about it. And we're going to find out that
there's a whole bunch of those guys that we didn't think the
Lord had any business in saving. But he did. because he had the
same grace towards them as he had towards us. I will cut off
the names of the idols and I'll cause the prophets and unclean
spirit to pass out of the land. The false message of works is
dispelled by grace. We're never gonna be part of
this false gospel again. Now, if we are, we have never
been. I'm just gonna say that. If we
are going to take part in the false gospel, then we have never
known the gospel. The Lord has promised to remove
these idols from us. He is going to set at liberty. He's going to set at liberty,
and there's no liberty in that. There's no liberty in the false
gospel, and there's no hope in it. In fact, sometimes I wonder
if I'm using a misnomer to even call it the gospel. Now, Paul
was used to do that when he's speaking to the Galatians, which
is not the gospel, which is another gospel. Well, there's no good
news in the false gospel. There's no good news in a God
that is trying to do anything. There's good news in a God that
said, I will seek and save that which is lost. There's good news
in that. There's good news that he will
lay down his life, a ransom for many. There's good news that
the lamb will die for the sheep. That's good news. There's good
news that he had an intended number to save and he's going
to save them. One of the things that Pastor
Mahan brought up that just sent me into a tailspin is him, he
used this terminology. Jesus Christ is a Savior that
actually saves His people from their sins. You know, that's
the truth of the matter. But it sent me into a tailspin.
I'd never heard anything like that. I'd always heard that God
is trying to save everybody and He's waiting on them to make
up their mind about it. He is a savior that actually
saves his people from their sins, and he is a redeemer that actually
redeemed his people, and that means he paid in full for them.
Their redemptive price is paid. In time, they will be reconciled
to God by the gospel. I will cause the prophets to
leave. He is amazing, mighty power to do all of that. Amazing
mighty power and he sets at Liberty turn with me if you would to
the book of Mark Excuse me the book of Luke excuse me the book
of Luke chapter 4 the book of Luke chapter 4 And verse 18 This is what Jesus said when
he opened the book, I think it's there at Nazareth He says the
Spirit of the Lord is upon me It is a quote from the book of
Isaiah. He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me, he has anointed me, he has sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering
of sight to the blind, and notice the last phrase, to set at liberty. Now that's what he does when
he cleans up all of the false gods that we have handle on.
He throws them away, they're no longer. Them that are bruised. He sets at liberty. And then
Paul would say, be careful about those who aren't here to spy
out your liberty. What do you mean he's taking
care of all your gods? There's one that you need to
bow down to, and that's the God of works. and stand fast in the
liberty wherewith He has made us free. Stand fast in that. Well, go back with me. The time
is about up, but I want to read one other verse, and we will
not make much comment on it. It's verse 3 of that 13th chapter. Verse 3. It says, and it shall
come to pass that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father
and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt
not live. Now, it's not our business to
go around and run a shaft through people, our own family. But when we, well, you know,
Johnny, we know everybody's going to get to heaven anyway, and
your path is your path, and my path is my path. That's garbage. That is garbage. That's dumb. Let's go one step further. That
is terrible. We never do that with our children.
We never do that with our parents. We never say, well, you know,
you got your idea, and I have my idea. Well, he said, here,
this is a picture This is, no, that's not right. The truth of it is this. Now
I've had a granddaughter come to me and say, Granddad, I've
become a Catholic. And you know my response was,
so? I went from Arminianism to Calvinism
and didn't know any different. She needs the gospel. All right,
as it goes on to say there, I will, it will come to pass that when
any shall yet prophesy, then his father or his mother that
begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou
speakest lies in the name of the Lord. And his father and
his mother that begat him shall trust him through when he prophesieth. Well, oh, oh, no, no, sorry,
no. We can't go there. I had a brother that was a Jehovah's
Witness. I was in the same boat. You know, I look back, I almost
had the same agreement. The only thing that we discussed
is Easter and Christmas. You know? They didn't believe
it. I thought it was fun to have Easter egg hunts and other things. But that was the difference between
us. And yet, that's not the difference between us. The difference is,
he didn't know the Gospel. The gospel is revealed to his
people. So now when people say, my cousin
said, well, I know where Virgil is. And I said, where is Virgil?
And he says, well, he's in heaven with Janie. And I said, that
is not true. Anybody that sells themselves
out to religion is not in heaven. It's grace. All right, we're
going to stop there. Thank you for your kind attention
tonight. And pray for us. We pray for
you.