Would you join me tonight in
the book of Revelation, chapter one? And as we look at this passage
of scripture with regard to the revelation of our Savior, the
Lord Jesus, this wonderful display, and I feel ashamed, but in reading
some of the writers on this passage, they did too feel ashamed of
their inability to grasp all that is here about our great
high priest. So I hate to say I appreciated
that, but I did appreciate that. There's just, it is, it is so. Wonderful. And I know that's
a trite statement, but it's so, this whole block of scripture
is so wonderful, a picture of our Savior, our great high priest. And I, as we look at that, I
just have to go over to Colossians. Keep your finger in the book
of Revelation chapter one, but turn with me to the book of Colossians
chapter two. And in this passage of scripture,
we find a wonderful statement about the Lord Jesus and also,
as he is portrayed here in Colossians or delivered to us in Colossians
and in the book of Revelation, we find our total completeness
in him, that there's nothing left out, that he makes us complete
and there's nothing wanting. We're not pushing up the scale
and God's pushing down the scale like one of my favorite Norman
Rockwell you know, the scale has been met. And there's no
writing on the walls, thou hast been weighed in the balanced
and found wanting. We're declared to be children
of God and complete in Him. And as we look at Him in the
book of Revelation, we find just how complete we are, that there
is absolutely nothing wanting and every victory that He has,
and is, is ours to enjoy, and we stand in that great victory. When he is victorious over sin,
death, hell, and the grave, the church said hallelujah. When
we see Him victorious over all the enemies in the book of Revelation,
all the scary things. He's just showing how victorious
He is. He's not wanting us to spend
a lot of time in trying to figure out what those things are. He
wants us to spend our time saying, He's my Savior and in Him is
my victory. Now, whatever they are, there's
things that we don't even know He's won a victory over. We're
just thankful he did. And the farther we go, the more
we realize what he overcame, and we're just thankful. But
some of those things could be called strange creatures, and
still, he won the victory over them, and we're just enjoying
it. Now, notice here in the book
of Colossians chapter two and verse nine, for in him. Now, this has particular wonderful
meaning as we look at the Lord Jesus here in the first chapter
of the book of Revelation in those pictures. illustration
that's left to us. This is the Lord. He's not standing
at a door knocking with long black hair and a jet black beard
and, you know, like we're so common, so used to seeing in
pictures. This is the revelation of Jesus
Christ. This is him in his glory. And
though we see it through a glass darkly. Now, last Saturday, I
had a wonderful privilege of going over and seeing my oldest
brother and having lunch with him. Picked up Tim, we just had
a good time. And he's shown me some old pictures. And he knows this person in a
picture, and he knows this person in a picture, and he knows this
person in a picture, but this person he doesn't know. Now that's
looking through a glass darkly. I said that to say this, there's
things about the Lord Jesus Christ that we discover as we read his
word that makes the picture clear. And we're just so much the more
glad that he has made himself acquainted with us. How we like
to find out that we're related to Ben Franklin or George Washington
or some horse thief, you know? Bragging rights, got bragging
rights. My goodness, the picture of the Lord Jesus Christ gives
every child of God bragging rights. He is my savior, and this is
his picture, and this is his attitude towards me, and this
is his victory over sin. So as we look here in the second
chapter of the book of Colossians, there in verse nine, it says,
for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Now,
when we look at that beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus in
the first chapter, just think of this verse, in Him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. This is the manifestation
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in redemptive work
for all his people. And it's in open display for
us to adore, to love and appreciate. Now, I used to stop at that verse
of scripture, but go to the next verse with me, would you? Go
to the next verse. And ye are complete in him. That just makes a shout. You
are complete in Him. There's nothing undone. There's nothing that needs to
be finished. The work is complete. The living
stone is complete. Completely polished. and fit
to be placed in the temple of the living God. So as it says
there, in ye are complete in him which is the head of all
principality and power. So he's the King Lord Jesus Christ
and we're complete in him and we get to enjoy his royalty. We don't have to wait for a letter
from the president or the king or the queen to come into his
presence. We're invited to come boldly into his presence because
he is our king and father at the same time. Now, keeping these
verses in mind, that in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
and in Him ye are complete. Let's go over here and look at
these verses of scripture in the first chapter of the book
of Revelation. It is our prayer and desire to
get past the golden candlesticks. I want to get in the midst of
them. That's where the Lord is. A church without Christ is a
hollow shell. a hollow shell. It's not worth burying. It's
already dead, parched out, no need. So it is our delight and
it is our prayer and it is our hope that we get to the midst
of them. The church is just hollow without
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there's a verse that I have
been ruminating on. Talked to a lady the other day
and she had a project. I said, I got to ruminate on
that. And she says, what are you talking about? I says, I
got to go think about it. I got to get under my shade tree
and chew on it. And she says, I am going to remember that word.
I says, you have to be raised on a farm and see a cow under
a shade tree chewing its cud to know what it is. But they
just take a break. And sometimes we just need to
take a break and ruminate. There's a verse over in the book
of Exodus chapter 20 that has always been used as a hammer
against me, and that is, do not take the name of the Lord your
God in vain. And as I think about that, and
as I ruminate on that, and people that, and I've done it. that
do not look at the Lord Jesus Christ as the sovereign ruler
of the universe, is taking the name of the Lord God in vain. If we look at the Trinity, and
I was looking through some articles of faith, and in fact, several
of the books I was reading, talking about what's valuable to a church,
well, you gotta have the Trinity. Well, if you have a Trinity and
a Father that never chose anybody before the foundation of the
world, you have a hollow Trinity. And if you have a Son that never
purposed to die for a soul, you have a hollow Trinity. You're
taking the name of the Lord God and you're in vain. And if you
have the Holy Spirit that never purposed to come down and regenerate
anybody, I mean, it's all up to man. Then you have the hollowest
Trinity and you really take in the name of the Lord God in vain. Because all those things are
revealed about him and shared in the scriptures about him.
And when we leave them out, we've left out the most valuable part
of the Trinity. Just having a God that's equal.
What is that? But having a God that is equal
in redemption, that's to our benefit. And that's looking at
God in his wholeness. and in his holiness. So it's
not swearing. It is taking it, looking at the
Lord Jesus Christ as just a slight something that comes along and,
you know, we have to bow to once in a while, just insincere. So we're gonna look at that sometime,
but that has a whole lot to do with this passage of scripture
here in the book of Revelation, as we see the Lord in his glory,
the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He came and tabernacled among
men. He came as the God man. Now, in this passage of scripture,
we see that the John is going to get to see him, and we, through
the word pictures, get to see him. in reality soon, but in
word pictures now, we get to see him, and it tells us here
in verse 12, and I turned to see the voice that spake with
me, and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks. Thank God,
that's not as far as, John got to go farther than that. In the
midst, now that's an interesting term. There in the middle of
seven. Now seven is a, is an odd number,
but the Lord can work miracles. He can get in the middle of the
oddest. Seven candlesticks, one likened
to the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot. Now,
this in the midst is the person and presence of our Savior. Now, turn with me, if you would,
over to the book of 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel, someday these verses
are gonna be worth So we'll just, like that, they're gonna be marked
over here in 2 Samuel. You may not have them highlighted,
but the oil on your skin will take care of that for you. 2
Samuel, chapter 23. Now, you remember these as David's
last words. David's last words. 2 Samuel
chapter 23 and beginning with verse 1, it says these are the
last words of David. Now they're so valuable, they're
so grand for us to think about, to ruminate on. This is David
coming to the close of his life and he has this to say about
his God. Now notice this, Chapter 23,
verse 1, he says, now these be the last words of David. David,
the son of Jesse, said, and the man who was raised up on high
and anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet psalmist of Israel
said, the spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was
in my tongue. And I like that because David
said, the Holy Spirit gave me the Psalms. It wasn't me, it
was the Holy Spirit. And the God of Israel said, the
rock of Israel spake to me, he that ruleth over men must be
just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light
of the morning when the sun rises, even the morning without clouds,
as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining
after rain. Although my house be not so with
God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things, and sure, for this is all my salvation and
all my desire, although he make it not to grow. Now, I just want
us to go over those words again for this is all my salvation
and all my desire. Now, that covenant that David
mentions here is the fulfillment of the person that we're looking
at here in the book of Revelation. He is all my salvation. Now, I don't want just to go
to a covenant written on a piece of paper. I want to look at a
person who made that covenant for me. A covenant written on
a piece of paper was broken by Israel, but this covenant is
a person on the behalf of all his children, and he makes it
sure, and it will be honored by God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit, and nobody can break it, not even
those it is made for. They cannot break it, and they
too will be able to say, in time at least, He is all my salvation
and all my desire. Now that's who we're looking
at here in the book of Revelation. He is the church's desire. He
is the people who make up the church's desire. He is all their
salvation. This one that we're looking at,
this one who fulfills all the demands of the law, this one
who is going to go through the book of Revelation on a horse
victorious, he is going to extend his strength over all nations,
he's going to extend his strength over all peoples, he is going
to sift them as wheat and chaff are separated. He is going to
produce His people. They will stand before Him in
glory. They will sing the great songs
of Zion. They will sing, worthy is the
Lamb that was slain, right out of this book, because He is all
my salvation and all my desire. And everything that we read about
him in the book of Revelation in this first chapter is the
fulfillment, the culmination of all these verses of scripture
about him who loved us and gave himself for us. Now look with
me as we see this. He's clothed with a robe which
reaches to his feet. Now I think it's interesting
that the feet are mentioned. Because there is a verse in the
book of Romans that share with us. Now, he could have had his
feet all covered up and never be mentioned. But it says in
the book of Romans, blessed is he that brings the gospel. Blessed
are the feet that bring the gospel. Let's just read that. Over there
in the book of Romans chapter 10 and verse 15, as we see this
mighty holy garment covering our Lord, his robe of righteousness,
as we read about in the book of Isaiah. But notice that his
feet are mentioned here, and it's, there's no doubt many reasons
that his feet are mentioned, but this one catches my eye. because it is so true about him
that it was he that prompted the deliverance of the gospel
on the behalf of his people. He's the one that prompted the
gospel to be delivered. It was on his character, it was
on his death, his burial, his resurrection, he could prompt
the gospel to be brought to every one of his sheep wherever they
are. It was on his security. It was
on his down payment. It was on his death. It was on
the payment in full by the Lord Jesus Christ that he could do
this. Now notice here in the book of Romans chapter 10, and
there in verse 15 it says, and how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace. Now here's
our Savior in his glorious high priest robe. And what do we get
to see? Those beautiful feet of our Savior,
which was used to bring us the gospel of how that Christ died
for our sins according to the scripture, was buried and rose
again the third day according to the scriptures. This is the
feet of him that was crucified for us. This is the feet of him
that put away sin for us. This is the feet of him that
traveled miles on this earth, did wonderful miracles. And you
know, I don't know how many of them were on the Sabbath day.
Mike's been helping us go through that chapter there and John and
all of that. I mean, he plunked a rock in
and the ripples don't get smaller. They get larger as they approach
the shore. Those, he and I were talking
the other day, those Pharisees were just like a spring trap.
He dropped a rock on them and they're just coming unglued.
I mean, he is the gospel personified. He is the gospel walking in among
those people. He is the one that that man said
he was blind, born blind, and he healed him. He says. I don't
know who it was, but I know where, as I was blind, now I see. And
it isn't very long, the Lord Jesus comes to appear to him.
He could see him, he appeared to him, and then he knew him.
How beautiful are the feet of him that brought us the gospel.
Now, I love the man that brought me the gospel, but he was prompted
by God Almighty. It was God that gave him the
message to deliver. He didn't create it, it was given
to him. He will just admit he's just
a man, just a man. And he was prompted to bring
the gospel, and I got to hear it. And he will say, as I will
say, how beautiful are the feet of the Lord Jesus. to bring the
gospel, to prompt men and women to share in its clarity, the
simplicity of the gospel. No works added. So how beautiful,
how shall they preach except they be sinned? And our Lord
was truly sinned. The covenant of grace brought him down to
this earth. As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings
of good things. And the church says, hallelujah.
I love that noise. It's a clear sound. It's a trumpet
that just stirs my soul. I know what it means. Some people
think it's thunder, but it's the gospel of God's glorious
salvation. And his purpose was ordained
before the foundation of the world. And now we get to see
him in his great high priestly robe and sticking out from under
it are those glorious feet pierced for me. It isn't floor length, it's toe
length. I like it. Now, going over there,
it says that robe, and I'm sure there's many things this robe
means. We looked last Wednesday about that high priest over in
the Old Testament and how immaculate. I was thinking this week, I'm
sure there's a whole bunch of mamas saying, I want my boy dressed
just like that. Beautiful as Aaron walked by. But you know what? That robe
got so splattered. Splattered with blood. Linen
clothing splattered with blood. Beautiful hat. All those jewels
that were on him. All the symbols of God's love
for Israel. The church. And here he is. And now we see him in the book
of Revelation with that beautiful robe of righteousness. Now, it
tells us there that around him is a girdle, around his breast,
and it's gold, it's a golden girdle. He is like Melchizedek. Maybe I should say Melchizedek
was like him in this sense. I believe with every fiber of
my being when Abraham Melchizedek, he met Christ before he became
Jesus. He is the king priest. He's the priest of the Most High
God, King of Salem, King of Peace. That's what it says over there
in the Book of Genesis. And Abraham came out and met
him. Now Abraham's a big man in everybody's
eyes, and he's got an army, and he went and whipped a bunch of
kings and got his nephew back. And you know what happened? When
he met Melchizedek, he says, I'm gonna give you 10. I'm giving you tithes. Now it's
interesting when we get to the book of Hebrews, that that whole
picture is imputation because in Abraham, Levi paid all his
tithes 400 years before he was ever born. imputed. That's just our Lord and Savior
imputing His righteousness to us before the world ever began. It didn't take Him to get down
here in time. He had already taken care of
the issue as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Now He is the King Priest. He is King. He's in a high priestly
robe, but he has a girdle about him made of gold. There is not
one of his church people that would ever deny his kingship. He's king over all creation. That's fine. Everybody believes
that. He's king over all the critters, that's fine, everybody
believes that, but he's king over every individual and particularly,
I like what is written in the New Testament, he says, he is
a savior of all men, especially of them that believe. Every man's
life is dependent upon him. It is in him we live and move
and have our being. Every lost man is dependent upon
the very breath of the Lord Jesus Christ. But he is a savior specially
of his elect in a special way. He is their king priest. He represents
them to God. He's the one that stands in the
way. He's the one that stands before them. He's the one that
caught all the arrows. of justice, the law, sin, death,
hell, and the grave. And he absorbed them all, took
them all, and came out of that tomb, marked for eternity, victorious
over all our enemies. And now we see him in his robe
of righteousness, in his golden girdle of kingship, and we look
up and we see his hair. And we mentioned last week there
in the book of the Song of Solomon, he's got black hair. When he
came to this earth, he came as man, represented man. He came and he became sin for
us. But now there's not a black hair
on his head. He is the perfect righteous son
of God, immaculate. You go through his hair, you
will not find one black hair. It is white. It declares and
decrees that he is the righteous son of God. It is beautiful,
white hair. It's not motley, it's white. It tells us there, he says, I
saw him in the midst of the candlesticks. I saw him, son of man, clothed
with a garment, down to the foot, going about the paps. His head
and his hairs were white. And then he goes on to say, if
you don't know how white that is, as white as new snow. As white as new snow. And if
you don't know what that is, he goes on and tells us there
in verse 16, the latter part of verse 16, his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength. Now that's how bright
he is, that's how white he is, that's how righteous he is. No
one can stand in his presence his equal. No one can approach
him as equal. Nobody can approach him as equal.
In their own self, they cannot approach him. His hair is so
white, whiter than any white hair. And it is whiter than any
snow. And it is like his countenance
is like looking at the sun. Nobody can approach it. Nobody
can approach it. This is our great high priest.
This is our king. He is immaculate in every way. We could also say here, as the
church did in the Song of Solomon, He is altogether lovely. There's no imperfection, and
it is all on my behalf. It is all for me. It is in him
I have all my perfection. I am all complete in him. He
is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now, as we look here,
it says, is a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot,
gird about the paps of the breast with a golden girdle. His head
and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his
eyes were as a flame of fire. His eyes flash like a flame of
fire is what the Amplified says. Black. He sees everything. Now that's good. Have you ever
been coming up the freeway and you see this light going at night? It's that great big bright beam
on the front end of a train. Going like this searching, you
know, that's a good thing. I'm glad we don't go down a railroad
track with no light on that train. It's a good thing. This light
that we have in the eyes of the Lord Jesus, he has carried it
straight as an arrow. It's between here and glory and
it opens up the way for us. A light for my path. His eyes
are a flame of fire like radiance opened up the path to glory.
I press towards the mark. How do we know how to go? The
light, it's so evident. It's so open. It's right there. Follow the light. Follow the
beam. I'll have to tell you, I should turn this off. Nancy
and I were just married. We were just expecting Nathan
and I went home. And we were poor. And I told
her, we're going to go out and get some meat. Now, I was accustomed
to going out and getting venison at night with a flashlight and
a .22. So we went down in the orchard
there and she's holding the light in the car for me and I went
bang. And that buck I hit followed that beam of light, came up to
the fence and tried to get through the fence to the car. Now it
just saved me a lot of packing. Brought it right up the beam
of light. Now that's where we're going, right up the beam of light. his eyes or as a flame of fire. Now, on the negative side of
that, every enemy is going to face the vengeance of those eyes. Every one of his children, they
don't face it. He has already faced justice
and judgment for us. He will not pour out that vengeance,
that flame of fire, that eye on us. He will not give his people
the evil eye. He gives them the eye of glory,
eye towards glory, the eye of peace. So the Lord Jesus here
is sharing with us, I am the fullness of the Godhead bodily. His head was white, white as
snow, eyes were a flame of fire, his feet like undefined brass
as it had been burned in a furnace. We heard there last year at camp,
Brother Coffey brought that lesson from the three Hebrew children
in the burning fiery furnace, and they saw one in there that
looked like the Son of Man. And they came out, you couldn't
even smell it. Now he referred to this verse
of scripture, which I just thought, whoa, referred to this verse
of scripture, he was, he was in the burning fiery furnace
of humanity. and came out refined, beautiful,
without sin, without sin. He became sin for us. He was
likened to sin, but he committed no sin. Refined in the refiner's
fire. Now he did that for us. He will
not take us through that. Now, the second death will take
people through that and it will never be over. But He will not
take His people through that. Now, you may have trials, you
may have tests, we may be refined in this world. God may refine
us, but we'll never go through that refiner's fire. That was
taken care of at the cross. When He cried, it's finished,
the fire was put out for all His people. Now, it goes on here
and says, And his voice was the sound of many waters. Now I like
that. I just like that. That means
when he gets his people's attention, they can't turn off the radio. They just can't get rid of it.
It's such a sound that nothing can interfere with it. I like
what the old theologians said about this. They just called
it irresistible. That's what they called it, irresistible. You can't turn the TV on and
get rid of this sound as the voice of many waters. You can't
move and get rid of this sound of many waters. You can't visit
and get rid of the sound of many waters. You can't even go to
church and get rid of the sound of many waters. It's going to
be of such intensity that there's not a thing on this earth, and
thank God for it. Thank God that can get rid of
that sound of many waters. It will get the job finished. And you know what? It still continues.
That voice, the sound of many waters, is the word of God being
brought to memory to our souls. When we're ruminating, when we're
in trouble, what does God bring to comfort us? His voice, his
word. It may not be the Psalms, but
it may be. It may be revelation. It just doesn't matter, but he's
going to bring that sound of many waters. It is unquenchable. You can't destroy it and nobody
else can destroy it for us. Our activities cannot destroy
it. Our sin can't overcome it. It is the voice of many waters. It is. It just penetrates. it
is it's a sound you it's no wonder people pick up those those uh
great big shells i hear the ocean i hear the ocean you know how
they know that they've heard the ocean they've heard the ocean
once you've heard the ocean It's a sound you never will forget. And that's the voice of the Lord.
It's like the ocean, the sound of many waters. It's a voice
you cannot forget. And even in the sound of other
voices, I've seen this happen. Little baby cries and mama hears
it. Now other mamas may hear it,
but it's not theirs. They know when their baby's crying.
That's a voice that you just know. All right, then it says
here, he had the voice, the sound of many waters, his right hand,
seven stars, and that's a reason that's in the right hand. It's the right hand that's got
all them sheep. It's the right hand that's got
all them sheep in it. Left hand. Depart from me, you
workers of iniquity, for I never knew you. Right hand, welcome
to the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Now, I like being over there. I don't deserve to be over there,
but I enjoy it. I like being over there. Out
of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was
as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet as dead. Now that's the results of seeing
the Lord. I'm not what I once was. John
was never the same, and neither is anyone else that has ever
seen the Lord, that has ever heard the Lord. They will never
be the same. Now they may throw stones at
Stephen, but they will never be the same. And the one that
hear the voice and God grants repentance, they will never be
the same. Never. Now, there's some verses
I want to read. Turn with me to the book of Hebrews,
if you would, please. Hebrews chapter seven. We think about this high priest
in his great high priestly robe that reaches down to the feet
and has a golden girdle. royalty, and hair white as wool,
white as snow, countenance as the sun that shineth in his strength. Beautiful picture of our Savior,
the Lord Jesus. Out of his mouth goes a sharp
two-edged sword. His voice is the voice of many
waters. How descriptive those are. Now
notice over here in the book of Hebrews, if you would, chapter
seven. So we think of this great high priest. We have a description
over here in Hebrews chapter seven of this high priest after
the order of Melchizedek. Now notice with me here in Hebrews.
Hebrews 7, verse 1, the scriptures say this, for this Melchizedek,
king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation
king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which
is king of peace. Now that's a wonderful description
of this high priest we just got to see over here in the book
of Revelation. He is after the order of Melchizedek. Then it
tells us that without father, without mother. Now, isn't that
interesting? One more time, we have a wonderful
description of our Lord, without father, without natural father,
without natural mother. In a sense, without descent,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like
unto us the Son of God, abideth the priest continually. Now,
consider how great this man was. unto whom even the patriarch
Abraham gave tenth of the spoils. And verily they that are of the
sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have
a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the
law, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins
of Abraham. But he whose descent is not counted
from them received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that
had the promises. And without contradiction, the
less is blessed of the better. And here men that die receiveth
tithes, but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed
that he liveth. And as I may so say, Levi also
who sieve of tithes paid tithes in Abraham for he was yet in
the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him." Isn't that
wonderful? Abraham paid the tithes for his
great-great-great grandson Levi years before he's even born.
And that tithe was imputed and you never find Levi paying a
tithe. His priests never paid tithes. Why? Because they were paid over
there in his father Abraham to Melchizedek. What's that mean
for us? Christ Jesus imputed his righteousness
and took all our sin upon himself. We don't have the deal with it. Levi didn't deal with tithes,
we don't deal with sin. The only thing we do with sin
is, Father, forgive me. That's all we can do with it.
You can't deal with the least of sin, not alone, the sin of
an offended God. All we can do is, Father, forgive
me. Let the mercy seat be on my behalf.
Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner. Father, I've sinned, forgive
me. That's all we can do. but it was taken care of by our
great high priest with hair as wool. Great sharp two-edged sword coming
out of his mouth voiced many waters with a golden girdle and
his robe reached down to his feet and all his church bowed
down to those feet and say, thank you God almighty for ever bringing
me the gospel of good news that you would take care of sinners. So often we find in the scriptures
that the Lord Jesus took care of sin. You know what he did
there? He took care of our nature. Our nature. Religion wants us
to take care of sins. Quit your drinking, quit your
smoking, quit your lying, quit your cheating, quit your, quit
your, quit your, and it never gets to here. Now the Lord takes
care of sin, the sin nature, and eventually he'll take care
of the sins. They're paid for in full. We
continue through this life wrestling with them, but he's taking care
of them. Now this great high priest says,
all ties have been paid. I went before the mercy seat
and took care of all your sin debt from beginning to the end
of the world, just as that priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Now I like, we never found that in fact we find the contrary.
The Lord Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi, he's of the tribe
of Judah. And it's not gonna be long, we're
gonna find out the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed
over the seals. And the church once again says,
worthy is the lamb. The lion of the tribe of Judah
hath prevailed He's the priest after the order of Melchizedek
in all his glorious splendor on the behalf of his people.
And his people will worship him because he has been victorious
over all our enemies. And the number one enemy must
be put under his feet. And what is that? Me. He must
reign until he has put every enemy under his foot. Now that's
not the devil, that's his elect one still out there running from
him and he will put them under his feet. He will, he'll bring
them in. Promise, promise. All right, we're gonna stop there
for tonight. We're gonna look, Lord willing,
next time as he supports the churches and what will a church
hold as true We're going to look at seven churches, and a couple
of them had some commendations, and one of them says, there's
not a thing in there I like about you. But what will a church hold as
true? And over there in the book of
Jude, I had that verse beat into me till I could just It says, earnestly contend for
the faith once delivered unto the saints. Never read the next
verse. For certain men have come in
unawares who have turned the grace of our God into lasciviousness. They never read the next verse.
That's the problem. That's the problem. Keep the
grace of God, the grace of God. Then we don't have a problem.