Well, that was a blessing. Thank
you so much. Leviticus chapter 1. Leviticus chapter 1. This burnt offering was accepted by God. We know that the Lord thought
much of it. He valued it. Therefore, we read this expression
in the 9th verse, in the 13th verse, and the 17th verse, At the end of each of those,
first of all in the ninth verse, it was a sweet savor unto the
Lord. That's the offering of the bullock
as a burnt offering. In the thirteenth verse, if an
offering was of the sheep or of the goats, it met all the
qualifications that God insisted upon, then it says at the end
of verse 13, it was a sweet savor unto the Lord. Now if an individual
couldn't afford a bullock or a sheep or a goat as their burnt
offering, The Lord graciously made provision for those. They could bring fowls, either
a turtle dove or pigeon. That was okay. They could bring
that. And if they did everything the
way God said it, the way God ordained it, Then this is what
is said at the end of verse 17, of the offering of the fowls. It was a sweet savor unto the
Lord. God accepted the sacrifice, and
in accepting the sacrifice, He accepted the one who brought
the sacrifice. And that's what we worked on
this morning. And if you forget everything
else that I say today, you ought to remember that. You need to
remember that. If the sacrifice was accepted
by God, and that's the one it was intended for, if the sacrifice
was accepted by God, then the one who brought the sacrifice,
he was accepted. So that the acceptance by God
of the sacrifice guaranteed, it absolutely assured the acceptance
of the one who brought it. That sacrifice was to God sweet,
sweet. We said that word means soothing,
restful. to repose. God rested on this
sacrifice. In other words, the justice of
God was put to rest. Now, not forever. Just temporarily
at rest. Unto the one that these sacrifices
prefigured until the Lord Jesus came. And He offered Himself
a sacrifice to God. And that sacrifice of our Savior
was to God a sweet savor to the Father. Now, as I thought about this, this sacrifice, whatever it was,
a bullock, a sheep, a goat, or pigeons, or doves, being delightful
to God, Being a burnt offering, it rose up the smoke and the
ashes went up to God. I think about whichever one of
Aaron's sons put the animal up on the altar and burned it. I
bet it wasn't a sweet savor to that man. Isn't it amazing when you build
a fire It has a way of coming back in your nose, and it's not
very delightful, is it? Maybe you decide you're going
to go camping, and we camped before. Nothing tastes better
on the campfire, cooking bacon and that sort of thing, country
ham. It draws all the neighbors in
that are camping. But you build that fire, and
you're sitting there, and then all of a sudden the smoke starts
coming toward you. It's not too pleasant. And I
think about this man, after this worshiper, he brings his offering
to the priest, and then the animal itself, after it's been prepared
according to God's specifications, it's put up on the brazen altar. And as it began to burn, depending
upon which way the wind was blowing, That smell of burnt flesh. That smell of the entrails of
the animal burning, being consumed. If the wind is blowing toward
that priest, I wouldn't have thought it would have been a
sweet savor to him. And it made me think of this. This is the direction my mind
went as I studied this. The gospel of God's grace, though
it is a sweet savor to God, the death of the Lord Jesus, substitution,
the sacrifice that our Savior offered to the Father, it was
a sweet savor to God. But to those who despise the
gospel, it's smoke in their nose and in their eyes. It's an offense
to them. And that which delights God,
that which puts the justice of God at rest for those for whom
it's offered, is an offense to the natural man. In fact, the
Apostle Paul says that very thing, that the gospel is offensive.
It's offensive. The Savior said to His disciples
one time, or He said to those who were listening, He said,
does this offend you? Does this offend you? And to
some people the gospel of substitution, of sovereign grace, of the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ, of salvation condition only upon
the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is smoke in their
nose. And they find the gospel to be
very offensive. But to those of us who are saved
by the grace of God, by the power of God, that gospel, it's delightful
to us as it is delightful to the Father. There was a time when the gospel
offended us. But I asked you what the Savior
asked those folks that day. Does this offend you? It doesn't offend me anymore.
It delights me. It delights me. In Ephesians chapter 5, we read
this this morning that the Savior, He hath given Himself for us
a sacrifice to God for a sweet savor. A sweet savor. God rested in what His Son did. He hath given Himself for us. What did He give? He gave Himself. Not silver or gold, for neither
silver nor gold has purchased our redemption. The way into
heaven could not thus be bought. The blood of the cross is my
only salvation. Right? That's what we just sang.
The blood of the Savior. He has given Himself for us. He gave His time. He gave His service. He gave His strength. He gave
His name. He gave His reputation. He gave all the comforts of life. Yes, He even gave life itself. He gave His entire person. He gave His body upon the altar
of His deity. He gave His soul, that in union
with His divine person. He gave Himself in our room and
in our stead, even when we were ungodly, when we were sinners,
and when we were enemies. And He gave Himself for us, for
this purpose, as an offering and a sacrifice unto God for
a sweet-smelling saver. You see, the Lord Jesus, He was
at the same time the altar, and the priest, and the sacrifice. He was the altar, he was the
priest, and he was the sacrifice. He's the altar. He offered his
humanity upon the altar of his own deity. And he is the priest
who offered the sacrifice to God. And He was Himself the sacrifice. And thereby, He made satisfaction
to God's justice, and God's justice insofar as those for whom Christ
died, the justice of God says, I'm at rest toward them all.
I have no issue toward anybody in whose stead the Son of God
has died. All those in whose stead the
Son of God gave His life, the law of God has no argument with
them, has no issue with them, because for those people, the
law of God and the justice of God has been fully satisfied
in the Savior's death. It's at rest. It reposes. Our Savior offered up Himself. And if you would be accepted
by God, I'm not talking about you accepting God. I'm talking
about if you would be accepted by God, then you'll only be accepted
by God in the Beloved, in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the
only place of acceptance. this offering of the burnt offering. What was it? If you could think
of a word to set forth exactly what a man was doing when he
offered a burnt offering to God, can you think of any word what
you'd be doing? Well, I can. Go back to Genesis
22. And we looked at this passage
this morning, but I want to make another reference to it, a different
reference to it than I made this morning. Look in the book of Genesis chapter
22. When Abraham went with Isaac
to the mountain, He had two servants go with Him. And they got up
there to offer a burnt offering to God. And we noted this morning
the different verses where a burnt offering was mentioned. And this
is the first location in the Bible where a burnt offering
is actually mentioned. Those exact words. Well, in verse
5, Now God has told him to go and offer his son Isaac that
he loved for a burnt offering. Isn't that what God told him
to do? Right? That's exactly what God told him to do. Go and
offer your son Isaac whom you love. Offer him as a burnt offering
to me. That's exactly what God said.
Now let me tell you what Abraham's understanding of that was. Verse
5. Abraham said unto his young men,
abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder,
and he could have said, offer to God a burnt offering, and
that would have been correct, wouldn't it? That would have
been correct, because that's what he was doing. But he expressed
it a different way, and yet he's saying the same thing. He says,
I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and worship. You see, to present to God the
right sacrifice is to worship God. That's what it means to
worship God. And you remember that Isaac said,
back in that passage, he said, my father, Here's the wood, here's
the fire, and we also know Abraham had the sacrificial knife. And
Isaac had heard what his father said, I and the lad will go yonder
and worship. And Isaac said, where's the lamb? If we are going to worship, where
is the lamb? There can be no worship without
the lamb. That is, there can be no worship
without the burnt offering. You got to have the burnt offering. Where is the offering for sin?
Where is the sacrifice? Where is the blood? And all over
this nation today, all kinds of religious denominations, all
kinds of churches and so forth, they've said, they've got it
out on the sign, worship service at 10.30 or 11 o'clock or whatever,
contemporary worship and then modern worship or old timey worship
or whatever it is they want to call it. We're going to have
a worship service. But you can't have a worship
service unless there's the burnt offering. You can't have a worship service
without the Lamb. Where is the Lamb? You see, that's
why in this service, in every service that we have, we make
much of the Son of God. We make everything about Him.
He is all in all. He is all in all to the Father.
He is everything to the Father. This is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. Hear ye Him. It is His sacrifice. It is the offering of Himself.
It is His glory. It is His name. It is His blood.
It's His blood. It's His righteousness. It's
His work. We make much of the Lamb. For
it's only as we make much of the Lamb of God, this burnt offering,
who offered Himself to God, it's only as we do that, that we worship. If we don't exalt Christ Jesus
and His work of substitution. It isn't just preaching Christ. It's preaching Christ and Him
crucified. Don't leave that out. People
say, oh, he preached Christ. Well, wait a minute. That sounds
good. But did he preach Jesus Christ
and Him crucified? Because there are a lot of people,
they preach Christ as an example to follow. As a great teacher? As a great healer? As a martyr? Oh, but what we preach him, the Word
of God sets him forth as the burnt offering. As that sacrifice
who offered himself to God and God said, that's a sweet savor
to me. And God rests in the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus. God rests upon the same sacrifice
that we rest on. Isn't that right? He looks to
the same one we look to. You see, the Father has always
looked to the Son for satisfaction to His justice. The salvation
of the elect, the salvation of the remnant according to the
election of grace that was entrusted to the Son of God before the
foundation of the world. It has always been the responsibility
of the surety of the Savior to do the work that the Father gave
Him, the work that He volunteered to do. And He came and He did
that work successfully. He's the burnt offering. So it's
only as we acknowledge the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, it's only as
we center everything around the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, it's
only as we look to the sacrifice of Christ Jesus that we worship. That we worship. And in Leviticus chapter 1, This
is where we're instructed on how to worship God. This is how
we worship God. Number one, we draw near to God
the right way. The right way. There is no worship,
there is no approaching God, except to come to Him the right
way. And there is only one right way. The Savior said, I am the
way. Thomas said, we don't know where
you're going, we don't know how to get there. And Christ Jesus
said, I'm the way. I'm the way. And take that spiritually as
far as you want to take it. I'm the way to life. I'm the
way to heaven. I'm the way to the Father. I'm
the way to righteousness. I'm the way to forgiveness. I'm
the way. That's what he said. I'm the
way. You see, if an Israelite wanted
to worship God, If he wanted to honor the God of his fathers,
if he wanted to honor the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,
he first of all began right here. And this has everything to do
with it. Bring the right offering. I know there must be sincerity,
it must be a heart worship. But for an Israelite just to
be sincere, That's not good enough. Got to be the right offering.
Got to be a male. Got to be blameless. Got to be
blameless. It was an offering that was offered
at the voluntary will of the offerer, as Christ voluntarily
offered Himself. It must be an offering offered
at the door of the tabernacle. Christ Jesus died in a very public
manner. And it must be an offering unto
the Lord. I know Christ died for us, for
our sins. But everybody needs to understand
this. First of all, Christ died for
God. He died for God so that God could
be just and the justifier of everybody who believes on Jesus.
He died for God. And I don't think there's one
out of 10,000 that understands that. You put all religions together.
And some of us are talking about it a little before service, some
of us talked about it last week. Listen, there's only one true
religion. There's only one gospel. And
all others, you say, well, I tell you, such and such a religion,
they sure come close. That's not good enough to come
close. If you're just coming close,
you may as well miss it a million miles. And anybody who believes in salvation
by works, by man's works, by man's will, or by man's worth,
No matter what denominational affiliation they may be, they
may be Muslim, they may be Presbyterian, they may be Mormon, they may
be Baptist, they may be Methodist, they may be any one of hundreds
of different religions, if they miss the gospel, they've missed
the gospel totally. You don't miss it just a little
bit, you just miss it. It's just one way to the Lord.
It's just one sacrifice that matters. It's the right way to come to
God. There can be no worship of God
apart from a sinner approaching God upon the basis of the right
offering. If you come to God by means of
the correct offering, you will be worshiping God and you will
be accepted. And if you try to come some other
way to God, some other way than Jesus Christ, His blood and His
righteousness, you've dishonored God. Well, preacher, they have good
intentions over such and such a church. Well, did they preach the gospel
of God's free grace? That salvation is fully dependent
upon the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ? And it's not by
the will of man, or the works of man, or the worth of man?
Well, they don't see it exactly like we do. I'll tell you, you try to come
to God some other way, you'll be rejected. It's just that simple. But they mean well. But they
say the name of Jesus. But they talk about the grace
of God. But they do this and but they do that. Do they preach
the gospel of Christ Jesus in salvation by sovereign grace
alone? If they don't, it's a false gospel.
I don't care what you call it. And we're not trying to be unkind.
We're trying to be truthful. We're trying to be honest with
the souls of men and women. And first and foremost, we are
trying to honor God. I am not out here trying to make
men happy. I am not trying to win friends
and influence people. That is not my goal. My goal
is to honor the God who is holy and righteous in all His ways.
And the God who demanded that if you are going to worship Him,
you will worship Him the right way or you are going to perish.
That's why we preach the way we do. That's why we talk about
the holiness of God and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ and
blood redemption. It's because we love folks. I'm
not mad at anybody. Try and be honest. I heard Brother
Mahan say years ago, he said, honest people don't wind up in
hell. People who are honest with God. People who handle the Scriptures
honestly. Not dishonestly, but honestly. Just telling it like it is. Setting forth God for who He
is. And setting forth man the way
we really are. Not trying to cloak it. Not trying
to make us sound better than we really are. I don't care how
sinful we preach men, the half has never been told. They say,
preacher, you really think we're as bad as you say we are? We're
worse. We have no real concept of the
depth of our own depravity. and consequently we don't have
as full appreciation of what it took to save us as we're going
to have. Someday we'll understand perfectly. Someday we'll fully appreciate
what Christ had to do to save His people from our sins. But I'm thankful for what little
bit we know now. I'm thankful for what little
bit of understanding we've got now, aren't you? God could have
left us in the dark. He could have left us in our
ignorance. He could have left us in our error. But He didn't. He didn't. And that's why when
it comes to this pulpit, and who stands behind this pulpit,
we guard it carefully. We don't want a false voice sounding
forth a false message. We've been entrusted with the
gospel. God's church has been given the
message. We hold this message dear. We
hold this message to be very precious. This is a great treasure
God has entrusted to us. I don't take this responsibility
lightly and I know you don't either. One way to come to God. a person who wanted to worship
God, they had to bring an offering that met these requirements. And they had to come to God willingly. You notice in verse 3, if his
offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a
male without blemish, he shall offer it of his own voluntary
will. Now I know our will is enslaved. And I fully realize that no sinner
will ever worship God until he's made willing in the day of God's
omnipotent power. But He does make us willing.
Isn't that right? He makes us willing. I tell you, I'm right where I
want to be tonight, aren't you? I have exercised my will, if
I could put it that way. I have exercised my will and
I have decided I'm going to be right here. And unless I'm preaching
the gospel somewhere else, I'm going to be right here every
time the doors are open for public worship. Because I want to be. I want to be. I didn't sign a
paper that said I promise I'll attend all the services. I didn't vow a vow to anybody. I'm just doing what I want to
do. Aren't you doing what you want to do? I hope you are. It's a willing worship. I'm willing to be here. I'm glad
to be here. I'm delighted to be here. I was joking a little bit, which
I tend to do on rare occasions. I had my offering envelope, and
I was just telling, I said, Nancy wasn't here to put it in the
offering plate this morning, so I said, I've got to pay my
tax tonight. And so I went back, and I had
an assistant put it in the slot for me back in the box. But really,
I give because I want to give. Don't you? There's nobody holding
a gun to my head. It's what I find. In this world,
and especially when it comes to worship and the things of
God, but other things as well, people pretty much do what they
want to do. If they can find a way to do
it. Lots of times, and I've heard
this excuse for years, people say, we've missed you at church.
Well, I've been so busy. I just can't seem to find the
time to get there. And yet they find the time to
go to the grocery store, and they find the time to go to Walmart,
and they find the time to do this, and they find the time
to do that, but they can't find the time to come and worship
God. I tell you, people pretty much do what they want to do
unless they're providentially hindered from doing so. Isn't
that right? People do what they want to do. And those of us who are here
tonight, we are here doing what we want to do. There is no law,
there is no commandment other than the law of L-O-V-E, the
law of love. I love this gospel. I love the
God of grace and glory. I love to come here and meet
with the saints of God. The Lord says of this worshipper,
let him come voluntarily. Voluntarily. He's made us willing in the day
of his power. 2 Corinthians 8 verse 12 says,
For if there be first a willing mind, it shall be accepted to
that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. Whatever you do, do it with a
willing heart. And then watch this. If you wanted
to worship God, you drew near to God in confession and in faith. Because in verse 4 it says, he
shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering. Here is
a symbolic transference of guilt and sin. But there's more than
that because that word put is a very powerful word. It doesn't
merely mean to lay your hand upon gently or just to barely
touch something. It means to lean your weight
upon it. That's why if you brought these
animals, it had to be in the strength of its days. Because
that worshiper, he would come and put both his hands on the
head of that animal and lean on him like that animal was a
crutch. Like that animal was holding
him up. And he brings a bullock. Here's a bullock. A beast of
burden. And the worshipper comes and
he lays his hand on that bullock and he just leans upon it. You
see, that's what we do on Christ. We lean on Christ Jesus. We put
the full weight of our souls upon Him. Leaning on Jesus. We're leaning on Jesus. It's interesting in Psalm 88
verse 7, the Savior says, Thy wrath lieth hard, against me."
You look it up, that's the exact same word that's translated here
in this verse as put. Lieth hard. Thy wrath lieth hard
against me. That's what the Savior said.
The wrath of God leaned all of its weight on Jesus Christ the
Lord. The wrath of God put all of its
force into Him, all of its vengeance into Christ Jesus. It leaned
on Him. It leaned hard on Him. And the Savior took the burden of
sin away and He satisfied wrath. And now you and I come to the
Savior and we lean our souls upon the same one that God's
wrath leaned on. I tell you, He's mighty to save.
He's a mighty God. Who else could bear our sin burden
away? And this bullock is a fit emblem
of our Savior because it was a beast of burden. You know what
a bullock did? It carried the weight of others. That's what our Savior did. The
weight of our sins, God the Father heaped it all on the Savior.
He's mighty to save. And He carried it away into a
land uninhabited. That's what our Savior did. Strong
as a bullock. And as meek as a sheep. Because a sheep could also be
brought. Oh, the meekness of our Savior. led as a lamb to
the slaughter. Just like this worshipper, he'd
pick out a lamb and he'd lead it up to the door of the tabernacle.
And of course, that lamb didn't know what in the world was going
on. He was just walking along submissively. But our Savior
knew what he was facing. And he still went willingly.
He was a willing sacrifice. And He's the goat of the animals
of the flocks. It could be a sheep or a goat.
He's the goat. Strong. Mighty. And like the scapegoat, He could
carry our sins away in the land uninhabited. And of the bullock, or the sheep,
or the goat, it says this, It had to be flayed. Look at
verse 6. He shall flay the burnt offering
and cut it into pieces. Now all of this was for the Lord,
except for the skin. That word flay means to remove
or strip off. To strip off. Strip off the skin. Well, what happened to the skin?
Look over in Leviticus chapter 7. And verse 8, here's what happened
to the skin. Leviticus 7 and verse 8, and
the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, and that's
what we're talking about, right? The burnt offering. So he's flayed
it. He stripped it of its skin, whether
a bullock, sheep, or goat. The priest that offereth any
man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself
the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered." And that
skin became for him a coat. And I'll tell you, Christ Jesus,
He's our coat of salvation. He's the robe of salvation. He's
the robe of righteousness. He covers up, just like in Genesis
chapter 3. God took those animals, there's
our fallen parents, standing naked before Him. Oh, they tried
to cover their nakedness with their own works. Self-righteous
rags. Fig leaf apron, that's what they
made for themselves. And man's been making fig leaf
aprons, he's been in the fig leaf apron making business ever
since. And it didn't cover our first
parents and it hadn't covered anybody else's either. And God
said, that won't do. And God flayed animals. He stripped the skins off of
them. And He put them around our fallen parents. And they
were clothed. We're robed in the righteousness
of Jesus Christ. And we are kings and priests
unto God. And then, there are the fowls. Back in chapter 1 from verses
14 to 17, the fowls. You know, the bullock is the
symbol of strength. The sheep is the symbol of meekness
and gentleness. The goat is a symbol of strength
as well. But then there's the dove or
the pigeon, which is a symbol of peace and hope. When Noah
released a raven from the ark after it quit raining, the raven
never came back. And then he released a dove.
And it came back to the ark because it found no rest for its feet.
Seven days later, he released a dove again. And it came back, had an olive
leaf in its mouth. Similar peace and rest. It brought back a message of
hope and peace to Noah and his family. And what was the message? Judgment's over. There's no more
judgment. No more flood. No more wrath. And here is the good news of
the gospel. There is no more wrath. There is no more judgment. All
is peaceful. Why? Christ has died. Christ
has died. And He made our peace by the
blood of His cross. In fact, He is the Prince of
Peace. The Prince of Peace. The dove is also not only a symbol
of hope, but it's a symbol of grief. A symbol of sorrow. Our Lord
Jesus is the man of sorrows. He's acquainted with grief. And we have peace. But oh, I
tell you, peace, it came at a tremendous cost. Like right here, look at
verse 15. The priest shall bring The bird
to the altar, ring off its head. Ring off its head and burn it
on the altar. With the bullock or the sheep
or the goat, a knife was thrust into its neck. With the bird,
ring its head off. This is not for the squeamish. I know people for years, and
this was something you used to say a long time ago, oh, y'all
believe in that slaughterhouse religion. You betcha. Yes, indeed. For without the
shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. I'm thankful for the example
of our Savior. But it was His example that put
our sins away. I'm thankful for all the teaching
of our Savior, but it wasn't the teaching of the Savior that
put our sins away. It was His sacrifice. It was
His death. His death. Then He says in verse 16, pluck
away His crop with His feathers. You know what a bird's crop is.
That expandable sort of pouch. at the lower part of the throat,
sometimes called a crawl. You know, I got something stuck
in my crawl. We'll say that sometime. It's
actually, and I did a little bit of reading on this, especially
with a pigeon and a dove, they tend to have a bigger crawl than
other birds have. They tend to have a bigger crop.
And what that is, of course, it's part of the esophagus, part
of the throat. But as a bird eats, and I was
watching this morning. I was up early and sitting on
the back deck looking at the bird feeders, and I had some
pigeons out there, some doves out there. And they're eating
and eating, and I was looking to see their crawl, their crop.
And it gets kind of filled right here. You know what that is?
They eat, and then some is in their crawl. It's kind of a to-go
box for birds. It's food for birds to eat later. or to give to their little ones.
And the Lord said, you take that crop and you jerk it out of there. That's got to go. And with that
would go everything else that was part of that digestive tract
or the intestines. It all had to go because it's
filth. It's filth. In fact, if you look
at Look at verse 16. If your Bible has center column,
as mine does, it says, His feathers or the filth thereof. Does your
Bible have that? Anybody else see that? The filth
thereof. The filth has got to go. That's
what God said. Well, why? Why so? Because this
sacrifice is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who is absolutely
perfect. And with the other animals, you
wash their intestines, you wash their entrails, and then they
were offered on the altar with these birds. Rip that out of
there! And then that goes on the altar
too. Our Savior, you see, He was absolutely perfect. Without
spot and without blemish. The Holy Lamb of God. And he says in verse 17, he shall
cleave it with the wings thereof, but not divide it asunder. Don't
cut the bones, because not a bone of him shall be broken. And the
priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the wood that's upon the
fire. Well, what is this? It's a burnt sacrifice. It's
an offering made by fire. It's an offering to God. You
see, this is about honoring God. That's what it's about. It's
an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. And this is how we worship God.
We present to Him, we preach about, we sing about that offering
that He appointed. The offering of His only begotten
Son who died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and
we're justified by that death. We're saved through the death
of another. Isn't this a wonderful gospel?
It just thrills my soul with joy, and that's why I say I'm
here doing what I want to do tonight. I'm worshiping the Lord. I'm preaching His gospel. The story is told of Charles
Spurgeon. He was supposed to preach for
his grandfather. And he was late. It was an afternoon service.
And young Charles, at that time he was pretty young, he was late. And the reason he was late was
because the train was late. Well, he wasn't there on time. They had some singing, and then
his grandfather just got up and opened his Bible to a passage
of Scripture, and he started preaching. And finally, Charles
came in. As he came walking down the aisle,
his grandfather said, Well, there's my grandson, Charles. He can
preach the gospel better than I can, but he can't preach a
better gospel. I tell you, you can't preach
a better gospel than this. This is the gospel that I need,
that you need, and that we love. And as the story goes, his grandfather
said, I'm preaching from such and such a passage, you just
pick up where I left off. And he did. He did. Let's sing a closing song, number
118.