That's a song by Augustus. Top
lady. And it is an excellent, excellent
song. Thank you for that. Let's go
to Revelation chapter 6. Here's our subject for this morning,
the message of the four beasts. The message of the four beasts.
We're inching ever so close to the study of the four horsemen
of the apocalypse, and we'll get to that this evening. That's
going to be There's no way I can finish it this evening. It'll
be next Sunday morning at least, at least two parts. This message
is really an introduction to that. And I know everybody is
interested in the four horsemen of the apocalypse. And we'll
begin to get into that more fully this evening. As we begin to
look at this chapter 6 of the book of the Revelation, I want
you to keep in mind some vital, important principles when seeking
to understand a passage of Scripture, indeed a passage such as the
one that is before us here in Revelation chapter 6. First of
all, As we look at the Word of God, let's always do so by asking the Spirit of God to
give us guidance, to direct us, to give us spiritual understanding. The things of God are so averse
to our nature. This is a spiritual book. And by nature, we're not spiritual
people. So we ask God the Spirit if He
would take the things of the Lord Jesus and reveal them unto
us. In the words of John the Baptist
in John chapter 3 and verse 27, he said, a man can receive nothing
except it be given him from heaven. So, don't ever read the Word
of God without asking the Spirit of grace to give you understanding and
give you knowledge about what you're reading. You can't figure out, you can't
discern spiritual things. without the Spirit of Grace.
That's just all it is to it. John was led to write this book
by the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God inspired him. And no one knows better than
the Spirit of God exactly what this is saying. Therefore, if
we're to get some grasp of what this means, He's got to help
us. And so whenever you begin to
start studying a passage of Scripture, be it this one or any other,
ask God, ask God the Spirit in prayer, Lord lead me, Lord open
my eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of your book. And then another thing, let's
look at this remembering these are the words of our Savior. That is, they are about Him. They have to do with Him. Indeed,
they are His words because He gave this to John, the apostle,
to write. But these are not only His words
as given to John, it's also about Him. Because all the Bible is
about Him. And whenever you read any selected
portion of Scripture, you not only want to seek the face of
God in prayer, asking for leadership, asking for illumination of our
darkened minds, but we also want to read, remembering this. This is about the Lord Jesus.
It's about the Savior. The Savior said in John chapter
3 and verse 39, He said this to the Jews. He said, you search
the Scriptures. For in the Scriptures you think
you have eternal life, but these are they that testify of Me. Now if all the Scripture does
indeed testify of the Lord Jesus, I need to remember that when
I read the Bible. You see, this is the revelation
of Jesus Christ. The word revelation is, as we
have said before, it is apocalypse. And that means uncovering or
the unveiling of Jesus Christ. You know, you've seen before,
maybe you've been in attendance where a sculpture or a A portrait
has been fashioned by somebody and everybody gathers together
and it's covered over with a sheet or something and a few nice words
are said. And then there's the unveiling.
They take that sheet, they take that cover, they absolutely pull
it off so that you can see the sculpture or see the picture. That's what the book of the Revelation
is. It's the Spirit of God taking
the sheet off to see the Savior. Now understand this, you cannot discern the Scriptures
unless the veil is taken away, unless the sheet is taken away,
unless that which covers over the Savior and His gospel, unless
it's removed, you can't see and know The Word of God. The book of the Revelation, as
it begins, it's like here is our Savior. Here is the mighty
conqueror. Here is the victor. We've said
that in the book of the Revelation, it's about the victory of the
Lamb of God and His followers over the dragon and his followers.
And as you begin the book of Revelation, in Revelation chapter
1 and verse 1, it's like here's this great statue to the glory
of God, this vast monument in all of these 22 chapters, and
it has a like a sheet over it. Here's the sheet covering it. And this is what is happening
in the book of the Revelation. It's slowly being revealed to
show us the Savior in all of His glory and in all of His beauty. This is the revelation of Jesus
Christ. So many people, when they come
to the book of the Revelation, They're looking for Russia? Boy,
where is Russia in here? I know Russia's in here. Well,
where is... Oh, I'm looking for China. Maybe
there's North... I can find North Korea in here
somewhere. Or maybe the USA's in there somewhere. And if you do that, you have
already violated one of the very key principles of understanding
the Scriptures These are they that testify me. You've got to
remember that. As you go to any passage of Scripture,
Oh God, I come to you in prayer, open this up to me. Lord, show
me what this means. That's the first principle. The
second principle is, I know this is about the Lord Jesus. because He says these things
are about Him. These are they that testify of
Me. When our Lord spoke to the disciples
on the road to Emmaus, and then later He spoke to the eleven
in the room where He ate fish with them, it says He opened
the Scriptures, He gave them understanding of these things.
He illuminated their minds. He revealed Himself. And that's
what is absolutely necessary. So, as you go through the book
of the Revelation, and indeed as we go through this chapter,
and this is one of the most probably controversial chapters, at least
one of them in all of the book of the Revelation. But as you
look at it, and as we go through it, and we begin to inch our
way through it this morning, Get a little deeper this evening,
then next Lord's Day, at least cover through the first four
seals. But as we do this, remember this,
this is the revelation of Christ Jesus. This is showing me something
about who He is, what He's done, what He's doing, what He's going
to do. That's what this is about. These
are they which testify of me. Sets forth his identity. Sets
forth his work. Sets forth his exaltation. Thirdly, the third principle
that I want to give you is let's look at this without any preconceived
ideas. It's very difficult to do. It is absolutely impossible without
the help of the Spirit of God. You see, unfortunately, a lot
of our thoughts about the apocalypse has been fashioned and formed
by movies, television, and they don't even know what the word
apocalypse means. In fact, yesterday, I took a
little bit of time to look on some sites, and you can Google
apocalypse or apocalyptic, and it says destruction, annihilation, war. You know what? That's not the
meaning of the word at all. You see, words mean not what
the folks who make the movies say they mean. Words mean not
even, especially words in the Bible, not even what a secular
dictionary might say. Words mean what they mean in
the Bible as God gave them. And this revelation is literally
apocalypse It is an unveiling, it is a discovery of the Lord
Jesus. Now in discovering the Lord Jesus,
in unveiling Him, indeed we see He is the Lamb who sits upon
His throne, and He is the Lamb who will come in judgment. In
fact, as our brother read just a few moments ago, at the very
end of chapter 6, we see the Lamb upon His throne, and He
is so fearful, After all, as we learned back in chapter 5,
He has seven horns. He has absolute authority and
absolute power. And when all of the wicked see
Him, They'll have an unusual prayer
meeting. The most unusual prayers ever
prayed are offered up at the end of chapter 6. They pray to
the rocks and the mountains. Fall on us and hide us from the
face of the Lamb of God. They should have been crying
to the Lamb of God through their lives. They should have been
looking to Him for mercy. They should have been looking
to Him for grace. This is the same Lamb that John saw for the
very first time back in chapter 5, as the exalted Lamb, the Lamb
who was worthy to take the book out of the hand of God. We saw
Him in chapter 5 as He ascends the steps to the very throne
of God. And He takes the book out of
the hand of God. That book is the book of God's
everlasting predestination. Everything God has ever purposed
to do is in that book, is in that scroll. It's not a book
as we think of a book, but a scroll like rolled together like a piece
of paper. It's written on the inside and
on the outside. That's the purpose of God. All
of the purposes of God are in that. And this is the Lamb who
received the book, took the book out of the hand of Him who sat
upon the throne, and He's executing the purposes of God. And here
He is at the end of chapter 6, He's on His throne of judgment. So when we say the apocalypse,
it does include Judgment at the end. But that's
not the meaning of the Word. That's not the meaning of the
Word. And I know there are those who disagree with my interpretation,
my understanding of the book of the Revelation. There are
many people who see the redeemed of the Lord, the church of the
Lord, they think the church of the Lord was raptured out at
the beginning of chapter 4. And if that's the way you want
to believe, that's fine. That's fine. I disagree with
you. And you've been wrong before.
And I think you're wrong now. And I would just say this for
any of you who believe that way. And if you want to believe, I'm
not going to split hairs. I'm not going to divide with
anybody on fellowship over what's going to happen in the future.
But I would say this to you. If that's the way it is, if the
redeemed of the Lord are gone, why all of these words that are
given to the church? Because if we're not going to
be here, they have nothing to do with us. Does that make sense?
If after chapter 4 and verse 1, if the church is no longer
on earth as C.I. Scofield believed, and C.I. Scofield, some of you may have
Scofield Bible, I grew up thinking that's the only Bible you're
ever supposed to have. In fact, our preacher said, if you don't
have a Scofield Bible, sell your boots and buy you one. But if you want to follow C.I.
Scofield's notes, you're welcome to, but he also believes six
different Gospels, by the way. And he also believed, and I don't
want to be too anti-C.I. Schofield, but he believed people
in the Old Testament saved by works, by obedience to the law,
and in the New Testament saved by grace. But if you want to
follow him, go ahead. Go ahead. But he's got the church
leaving at the beginning of chapter 4. But why would the people of
God need words of comfort and encouragement? Why would we need
to know these things and be assured that our Lord is victorious if
some of God's people aren't going to be here? So, let's look at this without
any preconceived ideas, if we can, keeping these three things
in mind. Now, to understand here at the
beginning of chapter 6, to understand what is being said to us. You remember John's on the island
of Patmos for the gospel's sake. In his first vision, he's received
a view of the exalted Lord Jesus Christ dwelling among his people,
dwelling among his churches. And then John receives a second
vision. Now we've said this about these
visions. In each of these seven visions, And maybe next week, probably
week after next, I'll break the book down in half for you. Two
halves, because there's really two halves of this book. But
as John sees this second vision, he's taken back by the throne
of God, the book of God, and the Lamb of God. And we dealt
with those things last week, so I don't want to get into those
things in very much detail. except to say this again about
the book of the scroll, sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of
God takes that. And that scroll is everything
that God purposed to do. The scroll is said to be written
on the inside and on the backside. That is absolutely full. Nothing
can be added to it. And there's no empty spaces in
it, which means everything is there. That's everything that's
going to happen. And the book is sealed with seven
seals, the number of perfection. John sees it sealed and then
he sees the Lamb of God, the Lamb of God slaughtered, who's
worthy to take the book and open up the seals thereof. He's the
one who redeemed us. He's the one who bought us to
God. And so we get to chapter 6 and we see the Lamb beginning
to open the seals. He's beginning to bring into
fulfillment the things that God has purposed to do. Now, as we
see these different seals open up, and in the 6th chapter you
have 6 seals, the 7th seal is in chapter 8. But as you see
these seals beginning to open up, don't think that all of the
first seal is opened and then Those come to pass, and then
the next as in numerical order. Rather, the opening of the first
seal goes all the way from the first advent of our Lord Jesus
to His second advent. The opening of the second seal
is all the way from the first advent to the second advent.
The third seal, all the way from our Lord's first advent to the
second advent. That's the way it is with all
of these seals. They cover the entire Gospel age. They cover
that period of time when our Lord Jesus came and gave His
life a ransom for us. It goes all the way to that time
when He shall come again and then we know time shall be no
more. Our Lord has bought His people.
And He's bringing everything that God has purposed to pass
for the good of His people. and for the glory of God. So
that's chapter 6, verse 1. We've got to get into this. And
I saw, verse 1, I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals. He watched the Lamb of God open
the seal. Now, this is the Gospel Age. During the Gospel Age, the Lamb
is opening this first seal. He's fulfilling God's purpose.
Well, this says the Lamb of God. I've said this before. This is
a symbolic book. Chapter 1, verse 1 talks about
the things that God has signified. Signified, literally signified. It's written in sign language.
It's written in a language that's picturesque. Very symbolic. And when you read about the Lamb
opening up the first seal, it's not a four-legged animal. Certainly
not. Our Lord is like a lamb in His
meekness. He is the lamb, according to
Isaiah chapter 53, the lamb who is led to the slaughter. The
lamb who is a sheep that is dumb is sheared. He is the Lamb of
God. So often in the Scriptures, He
is set forth as being the Lamb of God. Behold the Lamb of God
is what John said that taketh away the sin of the world. He's
not talking about a four-legged animal. He's talking about the
Son of God who is pictured in the Old Testament as being like
a lamb. In Exodus chapter 12 we have
the Passover Lamb. The Passover lamb is a beautiful
picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. A male of the
first year without spot and without blemish. So we know this is our
Savior here in Revelation chapter 6 and verse 1. He is the one
who has liberated His people. Go back to chapter 5. Let me
show you this. Chapter 5. Look at chapter 5
and verse 9, talking about the people of God. They've sung a
new song saying, Thou art worthy singing to the Lamb. Thou art
worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof for Thou was
slain. Thou wast sacrificed, Thou wast
slaughtered, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of
every kindred and tongue and people and nation, and hast made
us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth."
He has liberated His people. Liberated us from what? Redeemed us from what? Well, He's redeemed us from the
curse of the law. Look with me in a reference in
Matthew chapter 5. Matthew chapter 5. He had to
be slaughtered in order to pay the ransom price for the freedom
of His people who were in bondage to the justice of God and the
law of God, which indeed held us captive because of our sin.
The law demands perfection which we cannot render unto it. We've broken God's law. Look
at Matthew chapter 5 verses 25 and 26. Agree with thine adversary quickly
whilst thou art in the way with him. Who is our ultimate adversary? Is it not the justice of God? lest at any time the adversary
deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee,
thou shalt by no means, no means come out thence, till thou hast
paid the uttermost You see, the justice of God holds
men captive, and there will be no release until the uttermost
farthing is paid. That's what the Lord Jesus did
for us. He paid the uttermost farthing.
He redeemed us, as it says back over here, In Revelation chapter
5, He redeemed us to God by His blood. God's law could not and
would not release the captive until the uttermost farthing
had been paid. And thank God the Lamb of God
paid it all for all of His people. And in God's eternal purpose
of redemption and salvation, the Lamb is all. He's the one
who redeemed His people unto God by His blood. Now, back to
chapter 6 and verse 1. So, and I saw the Lamb. The Lamb,
the Lamb who redeemed us. The Lamb who saved us. He said,
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals. And then John said,
I heard as it were the noise of thunder. The noise of thunder. That's the majestic voice of
God. Israel at Sinai, they heard the
Lord speaking to Moses and they said, it's thunder. In John chapter
12, our Savior prayed and He said to the Father in His prayer,
Father glorify Thy name. Then there came a voice from
heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.
The people therefore that stood by and heard it, they said, it
thundered. And another said an angel spake
to him, God speaks and it sounds like thunder. God speaks and
it gets everybody's attention. But notice this. And I saw when the Lamb opened
one of the cells and I heard, John said, as it were the noise
of thunder, one of the four beasts. In other words, God spoke like
thunder through the beasts. Who are the beasts? We've already
answered that question when we went through chapter 4. The beasts
are preachers of the gospel. The four beasts. The four beasts. Those that labor in the Word.
Bold as a lion. They serve the Lord like a calf
or a bullock. They have a face of a man because
they are men themselves. They soar like an eagle going
wherever God sends them to preach the gospel of His grace. These
are the ones who lead the ransomed of the Lord in worship. And now
John says, I saw and I heard as the Lamb opened up the first
seal of the scroll, And I heard a voice that sounded like thunder. What is that? That's God speaking
through His preacher. And you know what? That's how
God speaks to people. Through the proclamation of His
Gospel. The Scripture says that it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them to believe. How
shall they believe on Him of whom they've not heard? How shall
they hear without a preacher? And God sends a preacher. He
sent a preacher to you. And for so many, maybe weeks
or months, maybe even years, you didn't hear any thunder.
All you heard was the voice of a man. But then one day, one
night, As you sit here or maybe somewhere else listening to the
gospel, all of a sudden, it wasn't so much the voice of a man that
you heard, it was the voice of God that you heard in your soul
like thunder. What has God used today? What
has God been using throughout this gospel age to convey the
Word of Life, the Word of Truth to His people? Preaching! And
it's what most people today don't want. They say, hey, I can study
the Bible as good as a preacher can. We don't need a preacher.
I don't want a preacher. And yet, there's still these
verses that talk about how shall they hear without a preacher. These verses that say, please
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. And
unless you're going to take a knife and cut those verses and several
other verses out, you're stuck with the fact that this is the
way God goes about calling His people unto Himself. And the Word of God... You see,
Barnard said this, if the only voice you hear today is my voice,
you're not going to be any better off. But if through my proclamation
of the Word of the Gospel, of who God is, of what you are,
of who Christ Jesus is, if the Word of the Gospel comes to you,
yes, through my voice, but it's the voice of God speaking to
your heart, then something of everlasting value is going to
happen, see? It's thunder in your soul! And
that thunder has rattled several of you, hasn't it? You know how
thunder does? Boy, you be in the house, maybe
late at night, seems like that's when the thunderstorms come,
and all of a sudden, God just shakes everything. Even the windows
in your house rattle. It's the voice of God. Whenever
a thunderstorm, I always say, that's the voice of God. And
the lightning is the flashing of His eyes. When God speaks,
He gets your attention. You're going to have to listen.
And if God speaks through the words of His preacher, through
the Word of the Gospel, He will get your attention. I can't get
it. Oh, maybe I can cause your ears
to hear, but I can't change your heart. I can't give you life. But if He thunders and the lightning
flashes in your soul, God creates life. That's the way God works. It's very, very, very clear to
me. He said, I watched the Lamb open
one of the seals and I heard the noise of thunder. As it were,
thunder. It was a sound I could not escape
from. And it was one of the beasts talking.
One of the beasts preaching. And what did he say? Here's what
the beast said, the end of verse number one. I heard the voice
of one of the four beasts saying, come and see, come and see. And look at this. Drop down to
verse three. When the second one, here's the
second rider, the rider on the red horse. And I heard the second beast
saying, you know what? He's got the same words. Come
and see. And you go down a little further
to the fifth verse. The rider on the black horse.
When he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
saying, come and see. And then drop down to verse 7.
When he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
fourth beast say, come and see. You know what? All of God's preachers
say the same thing. Now what did God's preachers,
what were they saying to begin with when we first listened to
them? Go back to chapter 4. Look at
chapter 4 and verse 8. We've already heard the four
beasts preaching. Look at chapter 4 and verse 8.
And the four beasts, each of them with six wings about him,
full of eyes within, they rest not day and night. Here's their
message. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is
and is to come. They're preaching about the holiness
of God. Who is God? God's holy, thrice
holy. And what are we? You see, it's
only in the light of God's holiness that we see what we are. We're worms in the dust. And here's what the beasts do,
verse 9, when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to
Him that sat on the throne. That's what we do. We glorify
God. Whenever you hear one of God's
preachers, I guarantee you He's going to be preaching the holiness
of God, the sinfulness of man, the necessity of the Lamb of
God, and the shedding of His blood, and they'll give glory
to God. It's ultimately the difference
between God's preachers and false preachers. God's preachers give all the
glory, all of the honor, all of the majesty to the triune
God. Salvations of the Lord in electing
grace, in redeeming grace, in regenerating grace, and the sinner
gets no credit whatsoever. But you listen to a false prophet,
inevitably he's going to give some of the credit to the sinner.
He's got to. He'll say things like, God's
a God of salvation, God's a God of grace, and He wants to do
something for you if you'll just let Him. And that makes salvation
to fully hinge on you. That's a death gospel, right?
That's a death message there. Because that's salvation by the
works of man. So, here's the message of the
four beasts. It's a message of honor to God.
And they lead the church of the Lord into worship. Into worship. And now going back to chapter
6, let me deal with this. Here's our message. The message
of the preachers is come and see. Literally, approach and
consider. Draw near! Think seriously. That's what it means. Come and
see. Approach. Come and see. Consider. Think seriously about this. Draw near to the Savior. Approach
Him and consider Him. Come sinners to Christ Jesus
for full and free salvation. The message you see is not come
to the altar. It's not come to the front. come
to the church, come to the preacher, come to the baptismal waters.
The message is, pump to the water of life. The messages come to
the Lord Jesus Christ. If there's somebody here this
morning, I pray God will deal with somebody and maybe several
somebodies to make you thirsty for God. My soul thirsts for
God. That's what David said. As the
heart, as the deer panteth after the water brook, so panteth my
soul after Thee, O God. May God create that kind of thirst
in the heart of somebody this morning. And I say, come, come,
approach to the Lamb of God. He never has turned the sinner
away. Come as you are. And I know this
song has been misused and abused down through the years that Ms.
Elliot wrote, Charlotte Elliot wrote this many years ago. Come
just as You are. Just as I am, without one plea. I don't have anything to plead,
but that Thy blood was shed for me. O Lamb of God, I come. I come. Come to the Savior. This is a message of all God's
preachers. Come and see. Come and see. Come and see. All of God's preachers have the
same message. And somebody told me not too long ago, they said,
you know, I went down and I heard a preacher in Georgia. Albany, Georgia. He said, he
preaches the same message you preach. Yeah, that's right. A bunch of preachers preach the
same message. All of God's preachers preach
the same message, and it's this. Here's the gist of it. Come and
see. Come and see. Come and look. See. Come and see. Come and look.
Come and behold. Behold the Lamb of God. See Him
for yourself. Consider Him for yourself. Hebrews
chapter 3 verse 1, consider the apostle and the high priest of
our profession. Consider Him! Think on Him. Turn to John chapter 1. Maybe
I've got time to give this to you. John chapter 1. John chapter 1. John the Baptist, he had the
message, Behold the Lamb of God. He had that message in verse
29, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world,
John 1, 29. Drop down to verse 35. The next
day after, John stood with two of his disciples. How big is
his congregation? Two. I don't think that's big enough
to even have a service. I told a Sunday school teacher
one time, I said, well, I didn't have one student today, so we
just went in with another class. Oh, don't do that. Isn't one soul valuable? What
better opportunity do you have if God gives you one soul, just
one-on-one? Just one-on-one. John the Baptist. He got two in his congregation
that day. John the Baptist! And he said to them, Behold the
Lamb of God. Preach the same message that
day as he did the day before. And the two disciples there,
they heard him speak and they followed Jesus. That's Andrew
and probably John. Watch it. Then Jesus turned and
saw them following him. And saith unto them, What seek
ye? And they said unto him, Rabbi, which is to say being interpreted,
Master, where dwellest thou? And he said unto them, He's got
the same message as his own preachers. Come and see. That's the same message. You
know, I get great comfort in knowing in Mark chapter 1, it
says, And Jesus went forth preaching. Jesus went forth preaching. Read
on. They came and saw where he dwelt
and abode with him that day for about the tenth hour. One of
the two which heard John speak and followed him was Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother
Simon, and saith unto him, We found the Messiah, which is being
interpreted the Christ. He brought him to Jesus, and
when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonah. Thou shalt be called Cephas,
which is by interpretation a stone. The next day, a day following,
Jesus would go forth into Galilee and find Philip and saith unto
him, Follow me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida,
the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and
saith unto him, We found him, of whom Moses, and the law, and
the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come
out of Nazareth? And Philip said unto him, The
message of all of God's preachers, Come and see. Come and see. You say, preacher, you talk about
the glories of Jesus Christ, the beauties of the Lamb of God,
the Lamb who saved His people from their sins, the Lamb of
God who's been exalted, He's got the Book of God in His hands,
and He's loosening the first seal, bringing to pass the purpose
of God. Is He that great a Savior that
He could save me? I say, come and see. That's what
I say. Come and see. Let me give you two more references.
Look at Psalm 66. Psalm 66 verse 5. Psalm 66 verse 5. Psalm 66 verse 5, and I'd love
to read these verses that precede it, but in the interest of our
time, I'll leave for you to read those, Verse number 5, come and
see the works of God. Come and see His work of creation.
You see it every day. Come and see His work of providence. You experience that every day. And I say, come and see His work
of salvation. It's the greatest work of all.
And one more verse, I've got to show you this. Isaiah 66. Isaiah 66. This is a message
of all the beasts. You can just go tell people tomorrow,
I'll tell you we've got a beast of a preacher. We do. All God's preachers are like
beasts. But we all got the same message.
Like it says in Isaiah 52, all of God's preachers see eye to
eye on these things. All got the same message. Jesus
Christ Him crucified. Look at Isaiah 66.18. Isaiah 66.18. For I know their works and their
thoughts. He's talking about the wicked
there. But it shall come to pass, it shall come that I will gather
all nations and tongues, that is, I will gather all kinds of
people unto Me. And they shall come and see My
glory." That's effectual grace. They shall come and see! And
what are they going to see? My glory! That's what they're
going to see. My glory! The glory of my redemption, the
glory of my grace, the glory of my person, they'll all come
and see. And I say to all of you this
morning, come and see. Come and see if these things
aren't so. Come and see if this isn't the Savior of sinners like
us. Come and see. All of God's preachers
preach the same thing. All the beasts have the same
message. Come and see. Come and see. Well, let's sing.