invite each of you to the Parsonage
Saturday from 4 till 7. This is like a graduation celebration
for Austin. We have no earthly family here. You're our family. And so we'd
like to invite our family to the house and we'll have some
barbecue and other foods from 4 till 7. You will leave at 7. Because I have a long day on
Sunday. But we look forward to the fellowship. And Austin, he's done very well. This is third high school. And
of course, he only went to this high school till 11 every day. and he went to ACTC the rest
of the day. So it's a good many people, even
at school, that he doesn't know. So you're the ones that he knows
the best. And so we'd like for you to come
over and visit and fellowship, and we'll see if we can show
you a little hospitality and give you some barbecue. I'm going
to be smoking some meat tomorrow. And I hope it comes out okay,
because that's what you're going to get. But we'll look forward
to that Saturday. Let's open the scriptures to
John chapter 5, the gospel of John chapter 5. Here's our subject,
Miracle at the Sheep Gate. Let's talk about the miracle
at the Sheep Gate. You notice in chapter 5 verse
1, after this, that is, after our Lord had done
many things in Galilee, He's up north. And basically, He stayed
there over a year, maybe upwards of, oh, 15, 16 months. The only time he came
back was to attend one of the great feasts, the three feasts
that it was required of the males, the Jewish males, to be in attendance
at. And so he spent a good bit of
time in Galilee. Then he goes up to Jerusalem,
and that's where we find the Savior here in John chapter 5. He's gone up to Jerusalem to
another feast. Now, as we get to the fifth chapter,
we find that our Lord's, the response of the people to our
Lord has been one of sort of reservation. The response of
the people to the Savior has been one of reservation. It's
almost like the jury was still out on Him. But as we get to
the fifth chapter, we're going to see that their attitude toward
Jesus of Nazareth escalates and it goes from reservation to rejection. And then we'll go from rejection
to detestation. They just detested him. In fact,
here in John chapter 5, he is in Judea. So he's gone back into
the southern part of Israel. And in John chapter 5, we see
hostility and rejection in Judea. You get into the next chapter,
John chapter 6, the Savior goes back to Galilee, He goes back
to the north. And we see then hostility and
rejection in Galilee. And you'll remember it was in
Galilee at the end of chapter 6 that many of His disciples,
they didn't follow Him anymore. They said, these are hard sayings. who can know them, who can believe
them. And they left Him. That's in
the Northern Kingdom. In chapter 5, we're going to
see this rejection and it will become obvious this evening as
we get into the first 18 verses of John chapter 5. Then He goes
back to Galilee and we'll see in a few weeks the rejection
in Galilee as well. Now I'm setting before you the
first 18 verses of John chapter 5 as we study the subject, miracle
at the sheep gate. Let me show you three things.
And I've alliterated them. Here's the first one, performance
of a miracle. If you're keeping notes, that's
the first nine verses. The second thing, persecution
of the master. That's verses number 10 through
16. Then lastly, preparation for
a murder. Verses 17 and 18. Let's look
at the first one, performance of a miracle. Now again in the
first verse, after this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. We don't know which feast it
was, the scriptures don't tell us. Most likely it was the feast
of Pentecost. Back in chapter 4 and verse 35,
if you look back there, you remember when the Savior said, say ye
not, there are yet four months and then cometh harvest? Behold,
I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields for
they are white already unto harvest. He said four months unto the
harvest. Well, here's the reason Pentecost
was such an important feast because it was a feast in commemoration
of the harvest. It was held 50 days after Passover. Thus we get the first part of
the Pentateuch, which is 50. It's at the beginning of the
wheat harvest. It's only called Pentecost in
the New Testament. The Old Testament is called the
Feast of the Harvest and the Feast of Weeks. It was a great
feast of rejoicing. It was a feast in which they
thanked God for the abundance of the crops that they had brought
in. We know in Acts the second chapter,
that's the day of Pentecost. That's when the Spirit of God
was given in unusual great power. And that was in anticipation
of another harvest, a great harvest. Not of grain, not of some earthly
crop, but it's in commemoration of and looking forward to a great
harvest of souls. The Lord sent His Spirit, remember
the Savior, said He ascended 40 days after the Passover, 40
days after He had died and been buried and rose again the third
day. Our God's Passover Lamb gave
His life for the sheep, 40 days later He ascended into heaven,
and He told His disciples, you wait, wait 10 days. Just wait
for the giving of the Spirit of God. Ten days went by to the
day of Pentecost. Fifty days after Passover, then
the Spirit of God was given, and the Spirit of God was given
in order that there would be a great harvest into the Kingdom
of God. Indeed, the Gospel of God's free
grace, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ went forth in unusual
power. The Apostle Peter, He set forth
the risen Redeemer. That One whom men humiliated,
that One whom men crucified, God raised Him from the dead.
And we know He had to be crucified in order to save us from our
sins. But then Peter said, God has
made that same Jesus, both Lord and Christ. And then thousands
of people, My, what a harvest! What a harvest! And it's God
who brings the harvest. It's God who gathers His wheat
into the garner. And so this is most likely the
time of Passover. We know this, that our Lord Jesus
was made under the law. In order to redeem those that
were under the law, And it was a legal thing for him to go to
these three great feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Here he is obeying the law. The
law that we couldn't obey. The law that we have broken.
The law that demands exact obedience. The law that says if you don't
obey, you die. Our Lord Jesus, He came into
the world as our representative, as our Savior, as our substitute. He honored God's law. He obeyed
God's law. And then He died on the cross
on account of the fact that we had broken God's law and the
penalty for all of our transgressions was death. Our Lord Jesus died
for our sins. according to the Scriptures. He honored God's law. Read at your leisure in Isaiah
chapter 42 verses 16 through 21. You'll find out that He came,
He magnified the law and He made the law honorable. So here He
leaves Galilee where He had undoubtedly performed even more miracles
And it goes down to Judea. You get to the second verse,
now there is a Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. And over in the middle of my
Bible, it says gate. Where it says market, it says
gate. And that is correct. There is
a Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool. Which is called? In the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda
having five porches. Our Lord Jesus, when He enters
into Jerusalem, He goes to the temple. And there is a Jerusalem
at the temple, these gates. We know the temple had ten gates.
You can read about those in Nehemiah chapter 3. But one of the gates
was the sheep gate. And it is most fitting, indeed
our God arranged this in old eternity, it's most fitting and
appropriate that God's Lamb, the Lamb of God, would be here
at the sheep gate where He would bring into the fold of salvation
one of His lost sheep. Here he goes to find this lost
sheep. This is a sheep that had been
entrusted to him from before the foundation of the world.
This is one of the sheep that he came into the world to seek
and to save. This is one of the sheep that
he came into the world to lay down his life for. Here he comes. He comes to the sheep gate. And
there is at the sheep gate this man. A specific man. One that our Savior loved from
old eternity. One marked out for salvation. One given and in union with the
Lord Jesus from before the foundation of the world. That's where He's
at. That's where the Savior goes.
He goes to the sheep gate. The sheep gate. This was the
gate through which the animals entered that were to be sacrificed
to the Lord. It's where all the animals came
in. They all came in through the sheep gate. Even the animals
that were to be sold. You remember back in the second
chapter where our Lord, He turned over the money changers tables
and there were sheep there and goats and other animals. They
had all come in through the sheep gate. Through the sheep gate. They were to be sacrificed to
the Lord. And here again, as I say, it's
only fitting that God's Lamb would be there because the Savior
is going to be sacrificed for His people. Behold the Lamb of
God. That's the message of John the
Baptist. back in John chapter 1. And here
comes the Lamb of God. Where does He come to? He comes
to the sheep gate. He comes to the very gate that
sets forth Himself as being the sacrifice, as being the innocent
victim that's going to be sacrificed in order that the guilty would
go free. We say, look to the Lamb of God. That's going to be our last song
tonight. Look to the Lamb of God. If you
from sin are longing to be free, look to the Lamb of God. And
here's God's Lamb at the Sheep Gate. Now there was at the Sheep
Gate a pool, Bethesda. It means a house of mercy or
a house of flowing water. And our Lord walked through that
gate and He walked out to the pool. To the pool. We know there were five porches
there. The Scripture says that, having five porches. Five is
the Bible number for grace. Five is the Bible number for
favor, divine favor. And our Lord walked there. At
the house of mercy, He came there to show grace. He came there
to show favor. And look at the third verse.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind and
halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. All kinds
of invalid people. What a sad, sad sight it says,
in these lay. In these lay. Nobody standing
up. Everybody's laying down. Too
weak to walk. Too sick to move about. They're
impotent. And that sets forth the inability
of all of these people. They were absolutely powerless
to help themselves. And isn't that the state of all
of us spiritually? We're impotent folks. We're dead
in trespasses and sins. We're absolutely helpless. We've
been rendered helpless spiritually by the fall. There's nothing
of a spiritual nature that we can do. We can't keep the law
of God. We can't atone for our transgressions. We can't redeem ourselves from
the curse of the law. We can't believe. We can't repent. We don't have the spiritual ability
to do that. We can't have a good thought.
We can't do a good deed. We can't have a good motive.
What's our problem? We're impotent folk. That's our
problem. That's a universal problem. It's
a universal condition. It says here, in these lay a
great multitude of impotent folk. And isn't that an accurate description
of everybody in the world by nature? In this world lay a multitude
of impotent folk. That's all of us. It doesn't
matter who you are, where you live, what your education is.
Spiritually, we're all, it's a great multitude of impotent
folk. Absolutely helpless and hopeless
before God. We can't do anything to merit
God's favor. We can't do anything to earn
God's favor. We've got all this sin indebtedness. We can't do anything to put any
of it away. We can't satisfy God's justice. Our hearts are dead and cold
and closed and calloused. In this whole world lay a multitude
of impotent folk. Impotent folk. Don't tell me
what man is able to do. The Bible says we're impotent
folk. In these lay, lay, we're not
able to get up and walk around and do things by ourselves. None
of us spiritual nature. We're impotent folk. Well, can these be further described? Yeah. Blind. That's what it says. Blind. That represents men in
the state of nature. Men who are ignorant, men who
are unknowing, men who are blind. to all things spiritual, blind
to the true knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, blind to the
way of salvation, blind to the necessity of blood redemption,
blind to satisfaction demanded by God's law, blind to justification
by imputed righteousness, to all of these things we're blind.
We're blind. A great multitude of impotent
folk, we're blind. And a halt. What does that mean? Lame. While we were absolutely crippled
by the fall, that sets forth the inability of the sinner to
come to Jesus Christ. That's the reason the Savior
said, no man can come to me, no man has the ability to come
to me except, except the Father which has sent me drawing. And
I'll raise him up at the last day. It's a great multitude of
impotent folk who are blind and hollowed. Have to be drawn. And withered. That's what it
says, withered. The word withered literally means
dried up. That is having no life. Like
a foot or a leg or an arm. Absolutely useless. Withered
up. That sets forth our natural condition
without the Spirit of God. We're dried up. We don't have
any grace. We don't have any life. We don't
have any abilities. We're withered. We're dried up.
Dried up. Here's our Lord walking among
this great multitude of impotent folk. The great physician was in their
midst. But they don't recognize him.
They don't recognize him. Here he comes in through the
sheep gate. Here all this great multitude
of impotent folks. Well, he's fresh off of miracles
performed up in Galilee. Well, he healed the nobleman's
son right there at the end of chapter 4. And undoubtedly more miracles
were done by him and now he goes down to Judea and he goes to
the temple, hears all these sick folk and here comes the great
physician walking in and nobody recognizes him. Nobody sees Him
and said, would you show me mercy? Oh Master, would you come over
here and help me? Nobody spoke to Him. He is unrecognized. Unrecognized. The Lord of glory. The One who made this globe.
It says back in chapter 1, He came unto His own and His own
received Him not. Don't recognize Him. Don't recognize
Him. Reminds me of what the Lord said
to the woman back in John chapter 4, the Samaritan woman. Look
at John 4 verse 10. Jesus answered and said unto
her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith
to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and
he would have given thee living water. And here are this great multitude
of impotent folk. I see them there, don't you?
I see them all laying down on mats, and they're helpless, and
they're moaning, and they're groaning, and they're crying,
and they're in a helpless state, and here comes the only one who
has the authority and the power to speak life back to dead limbs,
the only one who can give sight to the blind, the only one who
can make the lame to walk again, and here he comes through, and
nobody speaks to him. Nobody recognizes Him. And that's our spiritual condition.
We don't recognize the only one who can help us. Only one who
can save us. Only one who's got the ability
and the power and the authority to bring us to God. God who is
holy and righteous and just. And here we are a great multitude
of impotent folk just laying around on planet earth. And the
only one who can save us and redeem us and reconcile us, He
came down here and walked among us. He was unrecognized. And He is still unrecognized.
Unless He makes Himself known. Well, look at verse 4. This tells
you why a great multitude was there. For an angel went down
at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first after the
troubling of the water stepped in was made a whole of whatever
disease he had. Here's this mass of people just
waiting. And apparently, every once in
a while, an angel from the Lord would come and disturb the water,
and the first one that got into the water got healed. Maybe it's somebody who's up
close, and they got a friend, they got a relative right there
with them, and the water started bubbling, got agitated, and stirred
up, and it helped them right into the water. But you think
about all those other people. All those other people. No possibility
anybody could help them. And verse 5 says, and a certain
man was there. Now, I hope that we're starting
to look at that word certain now. He's a certain man. He's marked out before God made
the world. He's a certain man. He's one of God's elect. And
he was there. In fact, he had had an infirmity
38 years. 38 years. He had been lame. These physical infirmities teach
us of our spiritual infirmities. We are lame, unable, unwilling
to come to Christ. Verse 6 says, when Jesus saw
him lie. Just stop right there. When Jesus
saw him lie. He saw him in his helpless condition. But notice the individuality
of this. When Jesus saw him, this certain
man. When he saw this certain man. We are not told that he paid
any attention to the great multitude. The eyes of the Savior were fixed
on one man. amongst the multitude of the
people that were there that day. He saw Him. He fixed His eyes
on Him. But actually, our Lord had fixed
His eyes on this one from before He ever made the world in the
covenant of grace. He had been looking at this man.
He has known this man. The eyes of the Savior were fixed
on this one, just one man, a certain man out of all this multitude. It says, in these lay a great
multitude of impotent folk, and one man, one man is the object
of our Lord's attention. He saw him. And not only that,
it says, and knew that he had been now a long time in that
case. He saw him and he knew him. He said, I know my sheep. I know
my sheep. He knew this man. He had eyes
for this man. And he says to him, Will thou be made whole? Notice this, it wasn't the man
who first spoke to the Savior, but the Savior who initiated
this conversation. Now listen, every facet of salvation
is of the Lord. It's the Lord who stirs up an
interest in us. And He who hath begun a good
work in us will finish it to the day of Jesus Christ. And
here He goes to work on this man. Will thou be made whole?"
Strange question. Why this question? Well, maybe
to gain the man's attention. I mean, if the Lord had walked
up to him and said, nice day, isn't it? He wouldn't have paid
any attention to it. But you know, if you want somebody
who's sick to talk to you, mention their sickness. They'll talk
to you. He'll talk to you. Why did He
ask him? Wilt thou be made whole? Maybe
for this reason, if he was made whole, it means that after 38
years of being waited on, then he's going to have to wait on
somebody else. He's going to have to serve somebody else. Wilt thou be made whole? Look
at verse 7. The impotent man answered Him
and said, Sir, He didn't know who he was. He didn't know who
he was. He just said, Sir, I have no
man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool. But
while I'm coming, another step down before me. I can't get into
the water. I can't get into the water. I
need help. I need to get in there when the
water is troubled, but somebody always beats me to it. This man doesn't have any idea
who's speaking to him. And I bet you, if you had talked
to him, he'd say, you know, over these 38 years, I've seen lots
of other people get in that water and be healed. And here I am. I'm still this way. And I wondered, as I worked on
this message yesterday, I wonder if there's an individual
in our congregation, maybe somebody who's watching the Internet,
and you think, you know, over the years, I've seen other people
get into the water. I've seen other people healed
of their spiritual maladies. I've seen other people saved
by God's grace. I've seen God call out this one
and call out another one over here. And here I've been here,
And I'm in bad shape and I wonder, will I ever get in the pool?
Will I ever be an object of God's mercy? Let me tell you something,
the great physician is passing through. He says, wherever two
or three are gathered together in his name, he said, I'll be
in the midst. The great physician right here
amongst this great multitude of impotent folk. And you know
what? It might be the very hour when
he looks on you. Wouldn't that be something? Oh,
I tell you, and if you have any wisdom at all, if you have any
knowledge at all, if you have any wits about you at all, you'd
say right now, Oh Lord, look on me. Oh Lord, show me mercy. This preacher has described a
great multitude of impotent folks Lord, that's me in my natural
condition. That's me in my sinfulness. And
I've seen you, Lord. You've called others. You've
called one over here and one over there. Lord, would you please
call me? Would you do something for me?
And I'm going to tell you something. If you honestly cry that out
to the Lord, He's already doing something for you. He's already
doing something. He said, I've got nobody to help
me. Have you discovered that I can't help myself and nobody
else can help me? I got nobody else who can help
me. You see, here's what the Spirit of God does. He backs
us in a corner to where we have no hope save Jesus Christ alone. That's what the Spirit of God
does. He shuts off every other route, every other way, and He
just pushes you and pushes you and boxes you in, and then you
have to look up and say, Lord, if I'm going to be saved, if
I'm going to be helped, you've got to help me. It's a blessed
day when that happens. Oh yeah. The impotent man said,
Sir, I've got nobody. and nobody can help me. Maybe
somebody here tonight, somebody wants to say, nobody can help
me. You just don't know what I've done. You don't know what
I've thought. You don't know where I've been.
You don't know the magnitude of my sins. Let me tell you something.
He's the great physician Christ Jesus is, and His specialty is
the salvation of the vilest. You come to Him. You come to
Him. And look at verse 8. Three commands. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take
up thy bed, and walk. Three commands. And somebody
says, He can't do that. With the command comes the power
to obey the command. Well, a man can't believe. You
call on sinners to believe, they can't believe. They can't believe
if Christ says believe. When He sent forth His omnipotent
voice and His power and His Spirit and He says, Believe! You'll
believe. You'll come to Him. You'll come
to Him with all of your sins and say, Lord, save me. Save
me or I'll perish. And look at verse 9. Immediately. This is not delayed. Immediately
the man was made whole. He took up his bed and he walked.
He said, well man, was it a four poster bed or what kind of bed
was it? It's just a mat. It was just
a little cotton mat that they laid the impotent folk on. And
he just stood up, rolled up his mat, put it under his arm and
started walking away. And don't you know everybody
else there looking? There goes old Joe. What happened to Joe? He's walking. Man, I've been here all these
years. He's been here every day. And what's happened to him? I'll
tell you what happened to Brother Joe. I'll tell you what happened
to that fellow. The Savior healed him by His
mighty power. That's what the Lord does. What
He does. It was the Sabbath day. What
an act of sovereignty this was. Don't you agree? There lay a
great multitude of impotent folk. All of them were equally needy. All of them were equally helpless. All of them were equally powerless. And all of them wanted to be
healed. That's why they were there. And here is the great
position God incarnate Himself. Infinite in power with inexhaustible
resources at His command. Don't you know it would have
been just as easy for Him to say to the whole multitude, rise,
take up your beds and walk? Don't you agree? He could have
said that to the whole multitude. But He didn't. Because he shows
mercy to whom he will. He shows compassion to whom he
will. There's nothing in this narrative
to even remotely suggest that this certain man was more deserving
than anybody else, no. And get this, he didn't even
have faith. It wasn't that the Lord looked
at him and said, you're believing so I'm going to heal you. Oh,
no. The Lord created faith in him.
Don't you listen to these so-called faith healers? They're hucksters.
And they tell people, you know, if you're sick and you don't
get healed, it's because you lack faith. You know, our Lord
Jesus, He healed some people that didn't have faith and He
healed some people that did have faith. But the healing was not the result
of the faith. The faith was the result of the
healing of the soul that Christ gave them. You notice this man, he never
even looked to the Savior and said, have mercy on me. He is
as spiritually blind as everybody else was. In fact, later on,
as we are going to see here in just a couple of minutes, he
was not who he was that healed him. This is a sovereign act of mercy.
Alright, very quickly, here is the second thing. Persecution
of the Master. Look at verse 10. The Jews therefore,
the Jewish leaders, whenever you see this little expression,
the Jews. Most of the time, most of the
time, especially in the gospel of John, John is aiming at a
certain group of people, the religious leaders, the Jews,
the enemies of our Lord, those who are out to get him. The Jews
therefore said unto him that was cured, it's the seventh day. It is not lawful for thee to
care thy bed. Oh, what a hard-hearted, legalistic,
religionist these are. And this is the kind of folks
you don't want to deal with. Man, these are tough people.
Here's some men who have been lame for 38 years. And he's walking
in the temple with his bed under his arm. They say, you can't
do that! Instead of saying, bless the
name of God, this man has been lame for 38 years and now he's
walking around. What a miracle! No, they didn't
say anything about that. They didn't say, I'm so thankful
for you. I'm so grateful the Lord did
this for you. It's so good to see you up walking. My, my, my, this is absolutely
wonderful. Oh, nothing like that! You can't
do this on the Sabbath day. Well, he answered, verse 11,
he answered him, he said, he that made me whole, the same
said unto me, take up thy bed and walk. Well, they asked him,
well, what man is it that said to thee, take up thy bed and
walk? Well, he said, I don't know. Look at verse 13. And he that was healed wist not
who he was. He said, I don't know. I just
know a man said to me, rise, take up thy bed and walk, and
that's exactly what I did. I don't know who he is. I don't
even know where he is. You see there in verse 13, for
Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Verse 14, afterward Jesus findeth
him, because he always finds his sheep. Afterward, Jesus findeth him
in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole. Sin no more. Don't sin anymore. Sin no more. Lest a worse thing
come upon thee. In other words, keep believing
me. Keep looking to me. Don't start
looking to your works or to your deeds. That's sinful. You keep trusting me. or a worse
thing is going to come upon you. What's worse? What's worse than
a physical infirmity? Everlasting punishment in hell. That's worse. That's infinitely
worse. Infinitely worse. So the man
departed and he passed to Jews and said, by the way, you want
to know who did that for me? Jesus did that for me. That's
what he said. Jesus did that for me. He's the
one that made me whole. Boy, he's not ashamed of it.
You know what? They could excommunicate him
from the synagogue for this. Oh yeah, and that means he's
on the outs with his family, on the outs with his church family.
Well, he doesn't care. He said, Jesus did this! And
you show me somebody who's been forgiven of their sins and made
the righteousness of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. Sins washed
away by his blood. Somebody said, who did this for
you? He said, Jesus did this for me! He did this for me. The Great Physician. So verse 16, Therefore did the
Jews persecute Jesus. This is the persecution of the
Master. And they sought to slay Him,
because He had done these things on the Sabbath day. And you know, When you get to
verse 16, we lose sight of the man who was healed. We lose sight
of Him. And really, here's kind of a
thing about this morning. In chapter 3, we have the Lord
dealing with Nicodemus. And you know, he talked to Nicodemus
for a while and then suddenly we lose sight of Nicodemus, don't
we? We lose sight of Nicodemus. Nothing
more is said about him because John is focusing on the Savior. And in chapter 4, the emphasis
is on the woman at the well. And after he reveals himself
to her as I am the Messiah, I am He, we lose sight of the woman,
Christ Jesus who is the focus of everything. And now here in
John chapter 5, here's this miracle at the sheep gate. Here's this
man who was lame. And suddenly, we lose sight of
Him and we're focusing on the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The Jews are upset with Him.
Which brings me to the last thing, preparation for a murder. Verse 17, But Jesus answered
them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Verse 18, Therefore the Jews
sought the Lord to murder him, to kill him, because he had not
only broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father,
making himself equal with God. They sought to kill him, but
they weren't successful. Somebody said there were ten
attempts upon the life of our Lord that ended in failure. The
eleventh one was successful. But that was according to the
purpose of God. They hated him so much, they
planned his murder, preparation for a murder. But that won't
happen for a while. It won't happen until His hour
has come. And next week we'll begin to look into the evidences
of the Savior's deity. The Savior's deity.