Revelation chapter 22, and I
know it's hard to believe, but we're gonna try to cover two
verses tonight. They are so close together, they're
just married, that we want to look at them together. And then
that looks like that will leave us two verses left in this passage
of scripture. And I do appreciate your prayers
on my behalf this past week. I've just had a grand week, it's
been good. And I was sharing with Merle,
I just appreciate my study so much. Thank you for dedicating
that section, large percentage of the real building, of the
whole building, is that my study. But I appreciate it. Revelation
chapter 22, verses 18 and 19, for I testify unto every man
that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book If any
man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away
from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city
and from the things which are written in this book. Now there's
some things, particularly a couple of things that I notice here
with regard to these two verses, none of the consequences mentioned
in these two verses are positive. There's no positive in these
passages of scripture if people will mess with God's word. The
lesson to be learned is do not mess with God's word. That's
the lesson to be learned. Now, I'd like us to go over to
the book of Deuteronomy. We keep this verse in mind, these
two verses. Over in the book of Deuteronomy,
God led Moses to write some things similar to this. with regard
to these passages in the Old Testament, and I've come to the
conclusion that we can apply what is said in Revelation to
the Book of Revelation, but I think we would be much more correct
in applying it to the whole Bible, that every word of God is precious,
and it's not just the Book of Revelation. Now, there's a double
uh... statement there with regard to
the book of revelation and i think that it probably is saying to
us if you don't understand it if you don't come to the conclusion
of what it has don't throw it away you know time will bring
an answer and if the lord should return before he shares the answer
it doesn't matter anyway so just uh... but the rest of the bible
to deuteronomy chapter four deuteronomy chapter four Moses was led to
write these words to Israel and to write it to the church too.
And I'm reminded of what we heard one time in our Bible class.
The Bible was not written to the world. It was not written
to the lost. It was not written to those who
don't love God. It was written to God lovers.
It was written to Christians. It was written to believers.
Now in Israel, there were a lot of people that were not believers.
But those who were believers, it was written to them. The book
of Genesis was written to believers and the book of Exodus and all
the prophets were written to believers. And so when we look
at the Bible from that standpoint, it will answer a lot of questions
for us that come up. What does this mean? Well, we
know it's not written to non-believers, so let's look at it from another
standpoint. Well, here in the book of Deuteronomy,
we find that the Lord is sharing through Moses, ye shall not add
unto the word which I command you. Now, it is true that by
and large, it is unbelievers, religious people specifically,
that meddle and mess with God's word. Those who are outside of
religion could care less. Those inside of religion, and
usually, usually the issue has to do with something about Christ. How complete was his redemption?
Who did he die for? How long has he lived? Was he
all man or all God? How can he be combined? And all
these issues come up. Usually in religion, it has to
do with Jesus Christ. That's the issue that is brought
up. But here he says, In Deuteronomy
4 and verse 2, you shall not add unto the word which I command
you, neither shall you diminish aught from it, that you may keep
the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you.
What he's sharing was don't mess with God's word. Don't mess with
it. If you don't understand it, don't
mess with it. Just say, I don't understand
it, and move on. And in Deuteronomy chapter 12
and verse 32, we find this statement made as the Lord shared with
Moses again. Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse
32, the word says, what things whoever I command you observe
to do it, thou shall not add thereto, neither diminish from
it. Now, the church, God's people
have never been in the habit of making things worse than they
are, or better than they are. When it comes to depravity, we
can only make this statement. And I think that's one reason
that the old fathers have come up with it. Totally depraved.
I don't understand how much that is, but it's totally. Eternal
life. I don't understand how long that
is, but that's what it is. It's eternal life. Eternal death. I don't know how long that is,
but it's eternal death eternal separation So we just we don't
know how to measure it but we just make the statement as it's
revealed in God's Word and let it stand and don't try to to
polish it up or make God more successful because there's nobody
that is as successful as God and He is ever doing his purpose,
all right? And then in Psalm, Psalm 50,
would you turn there with me as we think about, don't mess
with God's word and, well, here's a book. I could open this book
up right here, this hymn book, and right in the front of it,
there's gonna be a copyright. You know, we think, well, God's
just kind of serious about his word. That's one reason we have
copyright laws in all of our books. No infringement rights. A man has put it together, a
woman has put it together, wrote the book. You have 20 years before
you can mess with it. God just said, don't ever mess
with my word. It's copyrighted. Don't get involved with messing
with it, all right? Here in Psalm 150, excuse me,
Psalm 50 and verse 16, the word says this, Psalm 50 verse 16. But under the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do? What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. So this is another way of saying,
I just don't take your word, I'm gonna throw it behind me.
Now, there's much said in the scripture about what is gonna
happen, what God's people are faced with every day. It's used
in the word terms of wolves. Now I've never seen wolves except
in captivity and only have I seen their actions out in nature films. Never watched them. But I know
there's a bunch of people in Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Montana
that are having some trouble with wolves. Now I don't think
any of them have ever seen wolves in sheep's clothing though. Those
wolves don't get a sheepskin on them and stretch them over
and go out there among the sheep herds. But the Lord said that
there will be people that are there really wolves. And they
will make every effort to stretch a sheepskin over their hide and
get among the flock. And the only way that we can
tell the difference with our natural eyes that are given to
us and our spiritual eyes that are given to us, the only way
we can tell the difference between a wolf with a skin stretched
over him and a sheep that loves the gospel is the voice that
they use. You never find a sheep barking
like a wolf, and you never get a wolf that can bleat like a
sheep. The vocal cords don't match. The appearance may be there,
but as soon as the mouth is opened, you can distinguish between the
voice of a wolf and the voice of a sheep. And the Lord shares
with us here in these two verses in Revelation chapter 22, don't
mess with my word. Now turn with me to the book
of Matthew chapter seven. There are warnings given to the
church about those who will come and make every effort and subtly
to make God's word say what it doesn't say, take away or add
to the word of God. Matthew chapter 7 verse 15, We
find the writer Matthew led by the Holy Spirit. He didn't come
up with these words on his own, but he was given them by the
Holy Spirit. Matthew chapter seven and verse 15, beware of
false prophets. Now that's an interesting beginning
for a sentence because it goes on to share with us, beware of
false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing. Now
they've done everything that they possibly can do to cover
up, to mask what they really are. And yet the Lord shares
with us they are false prophets in sheep's clothing. And it goes
on to say, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Now that's
the people that the Lord Jesus met during his personal ministry.
They were religious people. They appeared to be Jews, but
inwardly, and he said this about them, you honor me with your
lips, but your heart is far from me. Now, this is what we have
described here. False prophet come in the appearance
of sheep and are inwardly ravening wolves. And that means tearing
wolves. That means tearing apart. That's what they do. And they
tear apart God's word and they tear apart the flock and they
tear apart, they do not, they cannot be settled. They have
this interest. Now again, Matthew chapter 10,
verse 16, the Lord said, I want to send you among these. This
is what we're going to meet. Everybody we meet that does not
know Christ is going to have this attitude towards the Word
of God. I know what it says, but I'm
the exception. Everybody. No exceptions here. Matthew chapter 10, verse 16. There's going to be these that
will not honor God's Word. They want to mess with it. Matthew chapter 10 verse 16,
it says here, behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst
of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents
and harmless as doves. I am sending you out among false
prophets. Cain was a false prophet. Abel
was a minister of the gospel. False prophets followed Israel. False prophets were among Israel.
They were those guys who were always saying, I know what God's
saying, but it's not the truth. And we find that recorded a number
of times. I was just reading about Jeremiah.
He had a person tell, you go put him in jail and feed him
the water of affliction and the bread of affliction, because
I don't like what he says. And he did that with another
guy. In Acts chapter 20, the apostle Paul, when he was visiting
with the saints at Ephesus, a bunch of the elders came to visit him
on his way back to Jerusalem, and he mentions this. He shares
several things in here that are truth. These are the things to
stick with. Ephesians, excuse me, Acts chapter
20, Acts chapter 20, and in verse 28, The Holy Spirit left these words
through Luke, the physician, and it says here, Acts chapter
20, verse 28, take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the
flock. And he's speaking to the Ephesian elders. They have a
responsibility to be very careful, very cautious with the word of
God. They have a responsibility to preach the gospel to their
flock. They have this responsibility.
And not to mess with God's word. If it's not something that's
clearly understood, pass by it. There's enough that can be understood
that God reveals. He says, take heed unto yourselves
and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers. Now, these people were not there by their choice. They've been made overseers by
God Almighty. The Holy Spirit has placed them
where they are, and it is their responsibility to feed the church
of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Now, he's telling
us right there much about the gospel, much about this book
that needs to be declared and not hindered, not backed off
from. He purchased something with his own blood and it's called
the church. Don't back off from this. People
will not want to hear it, but don't back off from this. This
is who he laid his life down for. Don't ever give in and say
he died for Pharaoh who is in hell. God is not someone that
fails. The gospel is not a failure,
the gospel is success. And then it says, for I know
this, Paul had been shared this by the Holy Spirit, that after
my departing, now Paul had to do a lot while he was there. There was a lot of people in
these towns where he went and preached the gospel that would
just assume that he wasn't there. We read there in the book of
the Acts about him visiting. What was it? Two hours they cried
in the streets, great as Diana of the Ephesians for two hours
and wouldn't let him say a word? Well, That's just the way it
is. People are not pleased with the
preaching of the gospel. It rubs them wrong. It goes up
against their religion. It messes with their playhouse,
as Donnie Bell says. So it's not popular. When I was there, for I know
this, that after my departing, shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own self shall men
arise, speaking perverse things." There's going to be those who
come in from the outside. There's going to be those in
the inside that do not know the gospel. They think they do. Now,
that's the part we'll get to in just a moment over there in
the book of Revelation chapter 22 and verse 9. Take their name
out of the Lamb's book of life. What that is, is they're gonna
find out their name was never written down in the Lamb's Book
of Life. To draw away disciples after them. I heard a preacher
say one time, very little evangelism going on anymore, it's just subdividing.
Go in, get a few people out of church and start your own group.
Brother Rivenbark said, you can tell a split. Right down the
road from him is new hope. Well, he pastors old hope. He pastors where the people split
off from. Down there, there's no hope. Anybody that raised their hand
is saved. And down here, the gospel is
being preached that God is free and sovereign in his purpose
of grace. And people that God moves on
are saved, and down here, people are moved on by people. So don't
mess with God's word. There is going to be false prophets,
and there will be sheep put among wolves, and grievous wolves at
that. They will arise up. They will
speak. Kings are not the only ones that
cut up and leave off part of the word. I'd like us to go over
to the book of Jeremiah, chapter 36. Jeremiah chapter 36 and verse
21. In Jeremiah, there's a king by
the name of Jehoiakim. And he's been invited to come
in and hear the word that God gave to Jeremiah. And as he hears
it, well, at least he's honest with it. He cuts it off and throws
it in the fire. Jeremiah chapter 36, verse 21. Jeremiah chapter 36 verse 21. He's doing, he does, but many
wish they could. Just cut it up, throw it away.
But in chapter 36 verse 21 of the book of Jeremiah, we have
this account left to us. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch
the roll. He's heard that there's a roll. It's the word of God, God gave
it. It's the word of God. And he took it out of Elishema,
the scribe's chamber, and Jehudai read it in the ears of the king
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month, and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came
to pass that when Jehudai had read three or four leaves, He
cut it with the penknife and cast it into the fire that was
on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that
was on the hearth. I don't agree with it. He cut
it up, threw it away, had it burned up. He did what I probably would have done at
one time too. I don't like this. I don't like Ephesians 1. I don't
like Romans 9. I don't like Romans 10. I don't
like Romans 11. I don't like Romans 12. I don't
like. It just does not fit what I have. And so this guy, it didn't fit
what he believed and he had it burned up. Well, it's interesting
to go on here. It tells us in verse, Verse 26, but the king commanded
Jeremiel, the son of Hamilch, and Zeriah, the son of Azariah,
and Shalamiah, the son of Abel, to take Barak, the scribe, and
Jeremiah, the prophet, but the Lord hid them. Then the word
of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned
the roll, and the words which Barak wrote in the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying, take ye again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll, that Jehoiakim, the
king of Judah, had burned. And so the Lord replaced it,
gave it back to him. One king heard it, threw it away,
burned it up. God gave it back to him. He had
it on another roll. Now, Jehud I read, and Jehoakim
burned. Thou shall not mess with my word. Revelation chapter three, would
you turn there with me? We just read over there in Revelation
chapter 22 that one of the punishments that God is gonna mete out to
those who do this, that he's gonna take their name out of
the Lamb's book of life. Now, we know that no one that
is truly born again will ever be taken out of the Lamb's Book
of Life. Notice this verse of scripture here in Revelation
chapter 3 and verse 5. It says here, he that overcometh.
Now, if you want to know what an overcomer is, we have to go
to 1 John. In 1 John, it tells us that everyone
that's born again is an overcomer. That is God's promise. They will
be overcomers. He that overcometh. It's not
their effort. It's not my effort. Not your
effort. It's the effort of God that makes us overcomers. The
same shall be clothed in white raiment And I will not blot out
his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before
my father and before his angels. God will not blot out the names
of overcomers or born-again believers out of the book of life. Now
it appears here that those that are speaking are those who profess
to be Christians, who suppose that their names were in the
book of life, and most of the corruptions of the scriptures
have been attempted by those who profess to be Christians.
As we read here in Revelation chapter 3 and verse 5, I will
not blot out their name, but Go just a little further in the
book of Revelation, chapter 13 and verse 8, and we find those
whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life are those
that would be cast into the lake of fire. Revelation chapter 13
and verse 8. Revelation 13 and verse 8, all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, that's the beast,
whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. The name is not written,
this is the outcome. They will be cast into the lake
of fire. Everyone's name who is written
in the book of life, I will not blot out his name. Now, God's
ink is dry. I was just going over a song
that's in our hymn book. I didn't realize that the three
verses are not that bad, but the chorus, there's a new name
written down in glory? Now, that's believed by at least
the author. Whoever put that together believes
that. And it's mine, it goes on to
say that. That's just too late. It has to be written down before
the foundation of the world to be authentic. We don't write
names in the Book of Life. We don't even write our own names
in the Book of Life. In fact, we have never seen the
Book of Life. We are convinced, we are shared
with Almighty God. In fact, he says, my spirit will
bear witness with your spirit that you are the sons and daughters
of God. We haven't even looked on it.
We haven't seen it. Now, whether God lets us see
it when we are presented before his throne, it doesn't matter.
He is the one that has chosen and written down the names before
the foundation of the world in eternity past. He has done that,
and no man can be added to and no man can be blotted out of,
but there are many who have written their own names down in the Lamb's
Book of Life. They're the ones that are spoken
of here in this passage of scripture when it says, if you mess with
my word, you will find out your names were never written in the
Lamb's Book of Life. You trifle with it. You go against
my copyright laws. You know what's interesting?
Have you ever watched the very beginning of the caption on a
movie? If you mess with this, you can pay $200 trillion and
spend 60 lifetimes in jail. You can get in more trouble messing
with the copyright laws of a movie than you can by murdering...
I'm sorry. It's more serious. You mess with
a man's book, a woman's book, and they can take you to court,
and you can end up in jail and pay a fine. And God has the same
right, an eternal copyright law, and those who mess with it are
identifying themselves that they have only written their own name
in some book, probably the back of a Gideon Bible. That's where
the name is written. Those who are cast into the lake
of fire did not have their names written in the book of life.
By denying or explaining away to do either is a deadly sin. To deny the word of God or to
explain away the word of God is a deadly sin. To tamper with
the divine word in any way is sinful. It is not. And I was
reading one of the commentaries and he says, you know, this just
keeps me wanting to be very careful in what I have to say about the
word of God. Make sure that it is the truth. The whole spirit of the scripture
is against adding to or taking from the Lord's Word. Now, let's
look at some promises with regard to God's Word on our behalf.
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 35, and it's mentioned three
times in the Gospels, once in Matthew, once in Mark, and once
in Luke. I'm just going to read this one in the book of Matthew. Matthew chapter 24 and verse
35, the Lord Jesus said this about His Word. as much as people
want to manipulate it and as much as people want to write
about it and say, this is what it means. I know what it says,
but this is what it means. In Matthew chapter 24, verse
35, the Lord Jesus shares this about his word. Matthew chapter
24, verse 35, heaven and earth shall pass away. Now we've read
that in this book of Revelation. Heaven and earth shall pass away.
It's a fact. But my word, but my words shall
not pass away. As much as people mess with it,
as much as people manipulate it, as much as people speak out
against it, as much as people hide about it, my word will not
pass away. It will be here in the end. Heaven
and earth shall pass away. People think it's secure. but
they'll pass away. There will be a new heaven, and
there will be a new earth, but there will not be a new word
of God. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall
not pass away. He mentions that in the book
of Mark. He mentions that in the book of Luke. Turn with me,
if you would, back to the book of Isaiah, chapter 55. What a
wonderful passage of scripture that God has left for us here
with regard to his word. Sometimes we think, well, it
just didn't do much today. My word will accomplish what
I sent it to do. That's what he's promised. Men
may mess with it. He called them false prophets
coming in sheep's clothing, and they are inwardly ravening wolves. That's what he called them. but
they cannot destroy his word. Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my word shall not pass away. Isaiah chapter 55 verse 11, the
saints of old and the saints today delight in this, so shall
my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return
unto me void. God's word went out. I used to stand in front of a
whole stand of poplar trees down there where I grew up, and in
the evening you could shout and that echo would come right back.
Just, whoa, we thought that was so much fun. God never gets an
echo. He gets the real thing. My word shall not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Now, some people are going to
be identified by messing with God's Word, breaking His copyright
law. They're going to identify themselves
by destroying or trying to destroy the Word of God. They're going
to identify themselves as those who have written their own names
in the Lamb's Book of Life, or they think they have. They're
going to say, I am not a believer. Look at me. I'm messing with
God's Word. My word will accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto
I sent it. It's all up to God, what happens
to his word. We're just declares. We're just
declares. We're not commentators. We're
just declares. We're not editorialists. We're
just declares. We're not going to editorialize
God's word. We're just declares. We're reporters. We're just sharing what God's
word has to say. Now he said he'd send us in among
wolves and there are people that are not going to like it. But
every once in a while, There's the appearance of a wolf that
is really a Saul of Tarsus. They just look like they're wolves,
ravening wolves, and to a lot of people they were. Didn't they,
oh, I believe God's word, I'm gonna kill you over it. That's
really believing God's word, I'll kill you over it. Religion
is a terrible beast, terrible beast. God said, my word will
not return unto me void, it will accomplish that whereunto I have
sent it. And then backing up just a little
bit in the book of Isaiah chapter 46, Isaiah 46 and verse 10, Isaiah
46 and verse 10, not one good thing is on the horizon for those
who mess with God's word. If you add two, not one good
thing is going to be accomplished by it. Take away from, not one
good thing. Isaiah 46, in verse 10, it says
here, calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth
my counsel from a far country, yea, I've spoken it. That's his
word, that's a promise God's people have. I have spoken it,
I will also bring it to pass. I've purposed it, I will also
do it. What a wonderful promise. God
left his church, left his people. Oh, we can say, my goodness,
I wish that person could just see God's word and would leave
it alone. Here we have it. I, my counsel
from afar, I've spoken it. I'll bring it to pass. I'll bring it to pass. God's
word will be fulfilled, every jot and every tittle. In fact,
we read here in the book of John chapter six, John chapter six
and verse 63. Would you turn there with me?
John chapter six and verse 63. As we think about God's word,
the whole spirit of the scripture is against adding to or taking
away. The word of God is like honey
in the honeycomb. It's precious. It's sweet. It's beneficial. It's good. It's the seed that's thrown out. And that seed that's thrown out
here There, here, with that seed that's
thrown out in good ground, God said, I will make it produce. We are born again by the seed
of his word. It is essential to have the gospel
preached here in the book of John chapter six. John chapter
six and verse 63. Someday I'll learn the difference
between Luke and John. John chapter six, verse 63. It is the spirit that quickness,
the flesh profiteth nothing. And that's what is in a man's
heart in life when he wants to take away or add to the word
of God. The flesh profits nothing. There is no profit. It doesn't
build spiritually. The flesh profiteth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are
life. The words that I speak unto you.
So, oh, don't mess with this word. The consequences are so
dire, the consequences. And finally, if you'd turn with
me back to the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 22. Matthew chapter
22. I don't know what, well I do
know what. Those who have made an attempt
at translation and intentionally, intentionally made errors in
it. That's a crime, that's a sin.
That is just a crime. And there are translations that
have done that. That's the reason they translated
was to add error to them. But I do know this too. God preserves
his word. I was visiting with a Jehovah's
Witness one time, and I just pulled out their Bible, and I
went right over Ephesians. And Ephesians is as strong in
the Jehovah's Witness Bible as it is in the King James. They
messed up John 1, 1, but there's just some things they didn't
mess up. God did not let them mess up. So I just use that with
them. They don't want my King James.
I don't want theirs, but that's the only thing they'll read.
So just take it. Matthew chapter 22 verse 29. Jesus answered them and said,
you do err. There's an error here. Now it's
talking about the Sadducees. They don't believe in the resurrection.
They're talking to the Lord about, well, there's a man and he married
a woman and he died. And then they bring up another
supposition and she married his brother and his brother and his
brother and his brother and his brother. And they all died finally.
And who in the end, who's going to, well, he said, you've got
a problem here. You got a problem. You do err.
There's an error here. You're basing your whole theology
on a falsehood. And if you base your whole theology
on a falsehood, you're going to end up with a falsehood. That's
all there is to it. You can't get good out of bad. You can't start in a wrong place
and get to the right place. You do err. Not knowing the scriptures. That's one error. You don't know
the scriptures. You've already got your mind
made up about the resurrections, what he's talking to him. You've
already got your mind made up about election. How in the world
can we talk about this? You've got your mind made up
about eschatology. You've got your mind made up.
Let the word of God speak. You do err, not knowing the scriptures,
or the second part, nor the power of God. You've got a God that
is limited. You get God unlimited, you get
God almighty, and things will change with you. And that comes
by revelation. My goodness. God, there's a passage
of scripture, this one with Brother Rupert, and he brought up this
passage in John. We love him because he first
loved us. Number one, God's first. And our love is based on his
love. Everything else is the same thing. Every spiritual blessing
proceeds from God to us. And these who had messed with
God's word and trying to get to the Lord, they're just, they're
false prophets dressed as sheep and in sheep's clothing. And they're inwardly, they're
ravening worlds. If we can just catch him on something, his answer,
you have two errors, very vivid. You don't know the scriptures
and you don't know the power of God. two grand, great, big
errors. I testify unto you, every man
that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any
man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away
from the words of the book of this prophecy, they're really
identifying themselves that their names are not written in the
book of life. They are lost people. They know
not God. God said, I'll just show you
who's boss. You say on the left hand side
or on the right hand, on the left hand side? We've done all
these mighty works in your name, and he shall say, depart from
me, ye workers of..." You know what they said? Our names are
written down. He says, no, they're not. You
wrote them down. I didn't write them down. Your
names are not in the Lamb's Book of Life. The ink's too wet. The ink's too wet. You wrote
them in your own lifetime. Now, it's a marvel. And Jesus
said this about names. Those disciples came back and
said, Lord, you ought to have been with us. Whoa, we had a
meeting. You should have been there. The
devils were subject unto us. Who was casting out those devils
for them? Anyway, he didn't. He didn't
get after him. He just simply said, you know,
marvel not. that you can do this, but marvel that your names are
written in the Lamb's Book of Life. That's the marvel. That's grace. That's grace. No one ever, ever, ever will
say it should be there, except those who are not there. They'll
say, I should be there. Look what I've done. And those
whose names are there shouldn't be here. I've just been a sinner
all my life. I'm just a sinner saved by grace,
and find out my name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life? Hallelujah. Well, we'll stop there, and Lord
willing, next time we'll pick up. He which testifies these
things, surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. So be it. Don't mess with God's word.