Well, good evening and we're
thankful that God brought us here again to listen to the gospel
of his grace and hope you had a good afternoon, although brief. But I hope you got rested and
ready to worship again this evening, and we ask God to be pleased
to speak through these preachers to us once again. Let's get our
hymn books and turn to hymn number one. Hymn number one, O Worship
the King. And you may remain seated as
we sing this hymn number one. And then Brother Bill Parker
is going to come and read Scripture and lead us in prayer. O worship the King, all glorious
of old, and gratefully sing his power and his love. Our shield and defender, the
Ancient of Days, Pavilion in splendor, anchored with praise
O tell of His might, O sing of His praise Whose robe is the
light, whose canopy's face His chariot's a wreck, the deep thunderclouds
pour, And dark is His path on the wings of the storm. Thy bountiful care, what tongue
can recite? It breathes in the air. It shines
in the light. It streams from the hills. It descends to the plain. And sweetly distills in the dew
and the rain. We're children of God. and people as frail. Can thee do we trust, nor find
thee to fail? Thy mercies have tendered, now
firm to the end. Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer,
and Friend. Let's open our Bibles to Psalm
130. Psalm 130. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. If thou,
Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Not any of us. Here's grace. But there is forgiveness
with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the Lord. My soul hath waited, and in his
word do I hope. My soul waited for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning. I say more than they
that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord. For with the Lord there is mercy,
and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from
all his enemies. Heavenly Father, how grateful
we are in realizing that if you were to mark iniquity, if you
were to charge us with our sins, there would be none among us
born of Adam, born in sin and depravity, who would stand the
test. For we know that thou art a righteous
and holy God, and of pure eyes than to behold evil. And then
we know that by nature we're nothing but evil. But praise
God, there is forgiveness with thee. And that forgiveness, dear
Lord, is freely and fully and eternally given to your people
through the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our surety who is our
substitute, who is our redeemer, who is our intercessor, who is
our Lord. And dear Lord, we wait upon thee.
We hope in your word. We hope in Christ. We plead his
merits and not our own, for we have no merits to plead. We plead
his worthiness, worthy as the lamb that was slain. We plead
his blood and his righteousness alone. For we stand in him, we
who have been brought by your power and your grace to believe
this gospel, we stand in Christ. And there's no one else and no
place else we would rather be. Shield us, dear Lord, from all
that comes against us. And tonight, dear Lord, we're
met here to worship. We pray that you would clear
our minds of all the the junk that enters into it, that hinders
us from the world and from our flesh, and pray that you will
focus our full attention upon Christ and allow these men, your
servants, to come and to preach Christ crucified and risen from
the dead. Comfort us, teach us, correct
us, encourage us, edify us as we look to Christ, the author
and finisher of our faith. And dear Lord, bless us all to
worship in spirit and in truth. We pray your blessings upon this
congregation and others who are met and will meet tomorrow as
they come together around the truth of Christ, who he is and
what he did, why he did it and where he is now. And so dear
Lord, we pray in his name and for his sake and to your glory,
amen. ? In the deep, deep love of Jesus ? ?
Careless compassion, boundless free ? ? Rolling as a river flows
? mighty ocean in its fullness
over me. Underneath me, all around me
is the ? Of thy love ? ? Leading onward
? ? Leading homeward ? ? To my glorious rest above ? Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus
Spread his praise from shore to shore How he loved them Heaven,
love that changeth never, nevermore. Happy watches for his loved ones,
die to call them home. His own. Have for them He interceded. God shed for them from the throne. ? All the deep, deep love of Jesus
? ? Love of every one the best ? ? Tis who shall be glorified
? ? A blessing, it is a haven sweet
of rest ? ? Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus Christ ? ? It is
a heaven of heavens to me ? ? And it lifts me up to glory ? ? For
it lifts me up to glory ? ? To thee ? Thank you, Susanna. Pastor Wells,
it's good to have you back with us. When did you You came and
preached in a Bible conference here, did you? Or you attended
a Bible conference back in the 80s, maybe? 14 years ago. OK.
We came to the Bible school for two years. OK, came to the Bible
school. OK, very good. Well, somebody
asked me, and I said, I don't know. I'll ask him. And I kept
forgetting, and I thought this is a good time that I could ask
you. And others are listening. But
it's good to have you and we appreciated you preaching and
such a blessing you come deliver God's Word to us this evening. It's good to be here. It was a blessing to come here.
I think the first time I came was about 16 years ago or 17
years ago with Brother Gene Harmon. He was going to speak and I tagged
along. And then we came to a couple
of the Bible schools and it's just good to be back. I cannot
tell you how much I've enjoyed your fellowship. You've been
so warm. Such a blessing to be with you.
And I've enjoyed my time with Ron and Trish very much. They've
been so gracious to us. My wife Nancy is telling me that
she's streaming all of these messages. Now how that happens,
I don't know. Me, streaming is fishing. It's
a place you go fishing. But now we call it streaming
and she's watching us. The other night she texted me
and she said, who is that sitting right behind you? And I said,
that's Brother Bill's wife. Oh, good to meet her. Would you turn with me tonight
to the book of Second Kings. Second Kings. I want to stop
and read a couple of verses in chapter six. Second Kings chapter
six, and then I want to Look at some verses in chapter 7,
2 Kings, chapter 6. I would that you would remember
us in prayer out there in the dowels. We're not in another
vineyard. We're in the same one. We're
just on that edge over there. Now, it depends on how you stand,
whether it's the right or the left hand. But we're on that
edge. And you please remember us out
there. And we'll remember you. We've just appreciated you so
much. The book of 2 Kings chapter 6, there is a real, real, real famine
going on. And it is so serious. I just can't imagine this, but
it's so serious, it tells us in 2 Kings chapter 6 and verse
25, 2 Kings chapter 6 and verse 25, it says, I'll get to Second Kings. And there was a great famine
in Samaria. And behold, they besieged it
until a donkey's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver
and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces
of silver. Now I'm not gonna read the rest
of this chapter, you can, but it got worse. This is a serious, serious famine. And that's the stage that's set
for us to enter in to chapter seven. Chapter seven, there's
a serious famine that is there. They have been oppressed by the
enemy. And things are really bad, and
when they thought things couldn't get any worse, it did. And now
we have before us in chapter 7 of this 2 Kings, it tells us
in verse 1, then Elisha said, hear ye the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, to borrow
about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel. Now that's the price has went
from way up here to way down here tomorrow. It's going to
be extremely cheap. Food is going to be plentiful
tomorrow. And two measures of barley for
a shekel in the gate of Samaria. Then a lord of whose hand the
king leaned answered the man of God and said, behold, if the
Lord should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? In other words, I don't believe
it. And he said, behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof. You're gonna die before you get
to eat. Well, we're not gonna get quite that far into this
chapter, because I would like to speak on the subject that's
found in verse three, and there were four leprous men. There were four leprous men. Sin, like leprosy, shuts them
outside the gate. They are not permitted to go
into the city. And we read about this in the law, in the book
of Leviticus, that if you have leprosy, you cannot go inside
the gate. You are withheld. You are put
into a colony outside. You are to stay there, and you
have a serious problem. Now, there are several chapters
of the book of Leviticus that are dedicated to how to deal
with leprosy. And if you get it, how there
might be a possibility of a cure. But leprosy, like sin, is impossible
to be cured by even a high priest. It must be by God, and only the
priest can declare you clean. Now, these four lepers are in
a dilemma, and they share with us right away that they are in
a position to die. Four times we're going to hear
them say these words. We're about to die, and we're
going to die if something doesn't happen. Notice with me as we
read this chapter, it says in verse 3, and there were four
leprous men at the entering of the gate, and they said one to
another, why sit we here until we die? Then it says, if we say
we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city
and we shall die there. If they allowed us to go into
the city, if we break the door down and go into the city, it
hasn't helped a bit because even there, the famine is on to such
a degree that if we enter in, we're going to die there. And
if we sit here, we all die also. Now, therefore, come and let
us fall unto the host of the Syrians. If they save us alive,
we shall live. And if they kill us, we shall
but die. So we're not going to lose anything.
We're not going to lose anything. If we stay here, we're going
to die. If we go into the city, we're going to die. If we sit
here, we're going to die. And if we go over there and they kill us, We have a serious problem here.
We, like the lepers, are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. You know, the gospel must be
preached in every message, and the gospel should be preached
in every message, and part of the gospel is we're ruined by
the fall. The fall has taken a serious
toll on us. We are participants in the fall. It is on us. We feel it from
the moment we're born. We have an appointment to die. The scriptures tell us as much
as the doctors may try, they can't keep us alive one second
after our appointed time, and life cannot be taken from us
one second before our time. We are immortal, if you would,
until that moment comes. Now, I should have been dead
a number of times in my life from the stupid things I did
as a teenager and the stupid things I did on the farm where
I grew up. We did some serious experiments and we should have
been dead. But by God's grace and by God's
mercy, He let me live till I heard the gospel. And that's what he
will do with every lost sheep. They will live till they hear
the gospel and God reigns in their soul. Now they may die
that quick afterwards, thief on the cross, case in point. He did not live long after God
gave him his grace. But he was ready. Now we have
these four serious, problemed people, these four men. They're
lepers, they're like what we read in the book of Revelation
chapter three, as God spoke to one of the churches there, he
said, I would count you, you're wretched and miserable, poor
and blind and naked. You are in a bad straight. There
is no way to adequately describe the total ruin and utter poverty
and spiritual helplessness and hopelessness of Adam's children. I cannot explain it as bad as
it is. Only the Spirit of God can do
that for us. Now the closest I can come to
seeing how totally terrible the fall is, is to see what it cost
God, His Son, Jesus Christ's punishment on the cross to redeem
me. That's as close as I can come.
Now we read here that these were starving, helpless lepers. They're no different than those
on the inside, except they're on the outside because they're
supposed to be there because they're lepers. The inside, they're
having terrible famine there too. And did you know that a
donkey's head is an unclean animal? unclean animal to eat, and yet
it's selling for a high price because there's nothing else
what people will do in certain circumstances. And here we find
these starving helpless lepers give us a very dim picture of
our spiritual condition. Now, these lepers, knowing their
helpless state, consider three alternatives. Number one, if we stay here,
we die. If we stay where we are, we shall
perish. Friends, if you're here without
Christ, you're here without God, you're here with hopelessness,
if you stay where you are, you will perish. That's the promise
from God. You know, I have no idea. I'll preface that by saying Charles
Spurgeon was told, since he believed in the doctrine of election,
that he should only preach to the elect. And he said, if you
point them out, that's what I'll do. We're to preach to every creature
and God does the rest. We don't know. I was a member
of a church for years and years and years. and finally heard
the gospel. If we stay here, salvation is
impossible with men, and our condition only worsens with time. B, if we go into the city, we
die. There is no food there either. If we go to religion, organized
or otherwise, we die. There's no hope in that either. So many people turn to an alternative. They go to a religious organization
or they say, I don't believe in any religion, which is a religion
in its own. Atheism is a religion, agnosticism
is a religion, religion is just part of our heart and core by
nature, and we'll worship something. Most of us will say, I am a free
will agent. My friends, there's one person
that ever walked the face of this earth that was a free moral
agent, and that was Adam. Nobody since him, since the fall,
has ever been a free moral agent. Let me illustrate this point.
You can go down to the zoo and you can give a lion hay. and
you give it to him for food and you know what he's going to do
with it not eat it because it's not his nature to eat it but
you give him a beefsteak and he will eat it it's his nature
to eat it and you give a cow she has a free will to eat a
beefsteak and she won't do it because she does not have the
nature to eat meat you give that cow some hay and she'll eat it
that's her nature our nature is not to ever choose God. We will not do it. We're enmity
against God. We have an anger towards God
that is innate and born within us, and we'll raise our fist
and say, I will not have this man rule over me until God overcomes
that. We thank him as Lord, God Almighty. Organized religion. There's a
passage of scripture. Keep your finger right here,
but would you turn with me to one verse of scripture in Isaiah
chapter 4? Isaiah chapter 4, verse 1. We
have, and you know, I really appreciate what Gary said about
modern religion. Almost all of them have a pre-millennium
view. and they twist verses of scripture,
and this verse of scripture has nothing to do with that. This
verse of scripture has everything to do with religion, and religion
does this for us. Verse 1, in that day, seven women
shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread. We don't need the bread of life.
We'll eat our own bread, and goes on to say, and wear our
own apparel. We don't need a robe of righteousness.
But let us, only let us be called by thy name to take away our
reproach. We want to be legitimatized. We want to be legitimate. Let
us call ourselves the Church of Christ. Let us call ourselves
the Church of God. Let us call ourselves Baptist,
Methodist, whatever it is. We want to be legitimized and
we don't need his bread and we don't need his robe, but we want
his name. That's a killer. and religion
is a killer. It has killed and killed. There
is no life in religion. And here we have these four lepers
sharing with us, if we go in there, we die. You know, they
had been given some intelligence. A sinner is a sacred thing. Well, Number three, what else
is there? What's the other option? Go to
the Syrians. They are our enemy, but have
food. God is our enemy until he makes
himself our friend. We lay charging, Adam's not the
only one that blamed God for doing something. I had an uncle, his young boy
died of spinal meningitis and he blamed God till the day he
died. He would have nothing to do with
religion. I said, praise God in front of
him one time. He says, he didn't have anything
to do with this. God is our enemy until he makes
us his friend. Go to the Syrians. They have
food. We would go to them and seek
mercy and help if they show mercy and we live. But if not, we haven't
lost a thing. We're going to die. My friends,
I can say cast your care upon God. The wonderful thing about it
is God has already opened the road if you've got that far.
Well, let's look here. It says, let's go to the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall
live. And if they kill us, we shall
die. And they arose up at twilight to go unto the camp of the Syrians. And when they were come into
the uttermost part, when we arise to go to Christ,
we find the work is already done, the path already cleared. When we read about those cities
of refuge, we find that in Jewish history, it was required, I don't
find it in the scriptures, but in Jewish history, we find that
they were required to keep all of the roads to the city of refuge
clear of all obstacles. In fact, we have an allusion
to it found in Luke chapter 3, would you read there with me?
Luke chapter 3 verses 1 through 5, particularly verse 5, they
were to keep all the roads to the cities of refuge open, anybody
that wanted to go down that road could get there quickly, and
there was no trees across the road, there was no rocks in the
road, they were cleared and made ready for anybody that needed
to get to the cities of refuge. In Luke chapter 3 and verse 1,
we read these words, Now in the fifteenth year of
the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor
of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip
tetrarch of In the region of Thracianitas, and Lysanias, the
Tetrarch of Abilene, and Annas, and Caiaphas being the high priests,
and the word of God came unto John, the son of Zacharias in
the wilderness, and he came into all the country about Jordan
preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, as
it was written in the book of the words of Isaiah, the prophet,
saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare you
the way of the Lord make his path straight every valley shall
be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low
and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough way shall
be made smooth this is an allusion to what they were required to
do with the cities of refuge and we find out that when it
comes to Jesus Christ Every obstacle of every kind and every requirement
established by religion is removed. Religion says, we don't have
any hindrances to you coming to Christ, but you've got to
be baptized. We don't have any hindrances to you coming to Christ,
but you've got to come forward. You've got to shake the preacher's
hand. The sovereign grace gospel of Jesus Christ says, come unto
me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give you
rest. There is no hindrances to coming to Christ. When God
imposes upon you his grace and comes to you in his power, there
is nothing to stop anybody but coming. The way is open, the
valleys have been filled in, the mountains have been cut down,
the rivers have bridges over them, and there is nothing to
hinder anybody to come to Christ but your own stubborn will and
inherit depravity. We find here that these four
lepers, covered with leprosy in rags and hungry to the bone,
head to the Syrians for food, and if they won't give it to
them, we die. Same boat all the way around. Well, just as God has opened
up the path, and if he allows us to get this far, the road
has already been opened. Everything is filled. If we arise
to go to Christ, we find that the work is already done. The
path is already cleared. The roads to the city of refuge
were to be kept clear. When the four lepers arrived,
let's look at verse 5 of this chapter 7 of the book of 2 Kings. And it says here, and they arose
up in the twilight to go into the camp of the Syrians. And
when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold,
there was no hindrance." No man. Nobody's left. What in the world
happened? For the Lord had made the host
of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses,
even the noise of a great host. And they said one to another,
lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites
and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. Wherefore, they
rose and fled in the twilight and left their tents and their
horses and their donkeys and even the camp as it was and fled
for their lives. It was a miracle. God performed
something that, you know, you just can't figure out God. We lay, oh, I've got a son I
would just love to hear the gospel. Nice kid. I love him. Whenever he sees me in town,
he comes up and says, hi, Pop, and gives me a hug. I'd like
to lay a trap for him. But you know what? That's not
my business. These four leprous, ugly, wicked-looking
clothes, rags, ribs showing, cheekbones showing, hungry to
the bone, starving to death, wish they had a donkey's head
to eat. They come into this camp and there is nobody there. They've all fled by the hand
of an almighty God. God put a stirring in their ears,
imposed upon them, and they left without a trace and didn't leave
one guard. Now, we get to the good part.
What do they find there? No one could have predicted how
God would do his business and they never can. I would have
never predicted that God would send somebody from here to way
out there to preach to somebody who already thought he was OK.
Couldn't be predicted. And that person that came out
there, he said, you never know what's going to happen. And out
of all those folks that were in that assembly, there was about
80 folks that said they believed in sovereign grace, tulip, five
points, or whatever. He said, Norm, you're the only
one that has ever called me up and said anything about a blessing
out of it. And I said, I'm glad you came. Man was walking down seashore
after a great storm and there's thousands of starfish that have
been washed up on the shore. And he's picking them up and
throwing them back in the ocean. Some guy comes along and says,
what are you doing? He says, these guys are going
to die out here if I don't get them back in the ocean. He says,
there's thousands of them. You'll never get the job done.
They don't appreciate it. She said, this one does. This one does. I appreciated
the gospel. I can't say for anybody else.
Well, they enter in here. It says, when the lepers came
to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one of the
tents, verse eight. And these lepers came to the
uttermost part of the camp and went into one tent and did eat
and drink and carried thins, silver and gold and raiment.
and went and hid it, and came again, and entered into another
tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it." Food is
so scarce. They said, let's put this away. What does it tell us they found?
To the hungry, there was good tidings. There's food. To the
thirsty, there was good tidings. There was drink. To the naked,
there was good tidings. There's raiment. To the poor,
there's good tidings. There's riches, gold and silver. There was raiment, there was
drink, and there was food. The wretched sinner will jump
at mercy like a hungry fish towards the bait. Mercy is so valuable
to us, we just cling to it. It is God's mercy. My goodness,
mercy. Mercy and grace go hand in hand. What did they, four lepers, provide? Nothing. They're poor, wretched,
clothes terrible, they stink. Leprosy is a terrible disease. They just stink. Nobody wants
to be around them. But they came in there this day
and were given everything they needed. They were just like us. They are given the bread of life.
They found bread in those tents, the bread of life. Jesus said,
I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. They found the bread there, and
it says they found water there, drink. He that believeth in me
shall never thirst. Here we have the bread of life.
We are given the most precious thing. God said he is my only
beloved son. We have the most precious gift
of heaven given on our behalf, and when he is given to us, we
are given the bread of life. Never hunger or thirst after
righteousness again. We're provided the greatest blessing
that could be given, and God does it all. And we are in consent
to it because he's given us that hunger, and then we find The
riches in glory, they picked up gold and silver. Now, they
can buy seven donkey heads with this, but there's no need because
now they have all these riches. Then we have there, we found
some raiment. The Book of Isaiah tells us that
we're given a robe of righteousness. We have none of our own. Our
righteousness is as filthy rags. We have no righteousness of our
own. We can't make any righteousness on our own. We can't provide
any righteousness on our own. We're given a robe of righteousness
and that is the only thing that God accepts. We have the bread
of life, we have the water of life, we have the riches of glory,
and we have a robe. Now these Four wretched lepers come to grips with all of this
bounty. We have it all. What does it
say here? Verse nine, then they said one
to another, we do not well this day is a day of good tidings. We got some good news. We can't
keep it to ourself. There's a city over there starving
to death. And here is a plenty of food
and drink and gold and silver and raiment. We have it here. We can't keep it though. We're
not doing well if we do that. He goes on to say, we have good
news. We have good tidings. We hold
our peace. If we tarry till the morning
light, some mischief will come upon us now. Therefore, come
that we may go and tell the king's household. We got good news. Right over here, the fulfillment
of the prophecy of that prophet, tomorrow at this time, you're
going to have all the grain you can eat for just two cents. We're not going to do well if
we don't get the deuce over there because they're starving over
there. Under the laws of leprosy, if you had leprosy on the head,
you're unclean. If you had it on your hands,
you're unclean. If you have it on the feet, you're unclean.
If you have it on your body, you're unclean. Now I want to
read one verse of scripture in the book of Leviticus chapter
13. This is a paradox. It's not logical. God said it. We're going to believe it. There
is so much about this book I do not understand. But believers will never say,
I don't believe it. It's okay to say, I don't understand
it, but I believe it. Now here in the book of Leviticus
chapter 13. Leviticus chapter 13 and verse
13. It goes through lists. Your clothes
can have this leprosy. Your house, if you get leprosy
in your house, I don't understand all about that, but they're gonna
dismantle your house. Some of us gotta deal with mold
sometimes. You have leprosy on you, you
go to the priest. You got it in your hands, you
go to the priest. If you got it in your head, you go to the priest.
You go on and on, but notice here in Leviticus chapter 13
and verse 13. It says, therefore, Then the priest shall consider,
and behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean. That hath the plague is all turned
white, he is clean. Now, if you have leprosy of the
hand, you're unclean. If you say, you know, I've committed
just a little sin, you're unclean. Oh, I've got a little in my head,
unclean. But by the grace of God, we're
able to say in Christ Jesus, I am a sinner saved by grace. Only believers can admit wholeheartedly,
without any reservation, I stand as a complete sinner before God. And you know what he declares?
Clean. My blood has made you clean. He will not save part sinners.
He will not save quarter sinners. He will not save half sinners.
He will not save seven, eight sinners. He saves all sinners. Well, these three, these four
came back to town. There was a rejoicing. People
poured out of that city. They went into that camp. They
had food galore. They had drink galore. They forgot about the famine
they were having. Isn't that what grace does for
us? We forget about the famine. We're
reaping the rich blessings of God's free and sovereign grace
in Christ Jesus. We find out that before we were
ever born, Our names were written down in the Lamb's Book of Life.
He had an interest in us before the world ever began. He came
down and went through all of those things, those types and
shadows and pictures and prophecies, and in the fullness of time,
he sent his only begotten son just like he promised. Then at
the appropriate time, there were several times they were willing,
ready to take Jesus Christ out and kill him, But it said, it
wasn't my time. But on the appropriate time,
he went to the cross. And he wasn't defeated. He spoke
with a loud voice. He was victorious on the cross. And he was victorious when he
gave up the ghost. He was victorious when he said,
it is finished. He was victorious when he bowed
his head. He was victorious when they took
him down off of that cross and they wrapped him up and put him
in a tomb. Sunday morning when they came they came with no intention
of seeing a risen Savior They came with the intention of putting
more embalming stuff on him keep him smelling better He surprised
him He said, three days, three nights later, I'll come out of
the tomb. And that's what he did. He surprised even his disciples
with what he did. And we look back on that and
we say, thank you, God. It's a sign to us. You accepted
the sacrifice, the payment for all our sin. And as Brother Gary
so ably brought out, He's seated at the right hand of the Father.
That's the only way we can pray. We admit that every time we pray.
He's seated at the right hand of the Father. We pray in his
name. So these four lepers, boy, how terrible off they were, but
how glorious it turned out. If we stay here, we die. If we
get into religion, we die. If we move over here, we die.
Let's go over here and see what's going to happen. And we find
out the path has already been prepared for us to come and meet
the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, I have every spiritual
blessing. I'll provide you with all the
bread, all the drink, all the glory, all the raiment you'll
ever need. Trust me and don't move a muscle. Let's get those black folders
and look at page one. and we'll sing a chorus, reach
out and touch the floor as he passes by. Thank you for the
word of God, brother. Let's stand together and let's
sing this chorus, and then we'll take a bit of a break till about,
oh, the top of the hour. Reach out and touch the Lord
as He passes by. You'll find He's not too busy
to hear your heart's cry. He is passing by this moment,
your needs to supply. reach out and touch the Lord
as He goes by reach out and touch the Lord as He passes by you'll
find He's not too busy me me me