Now, our text this evening is
Jeremiah chapter 28. Jeremiah chapter 28. The title of the message is,
Another Prophet, Another Message. Another Prophet, Another Message. Now the one thing that man by
nature really doesn't want to hear, basically, is that God
is a just judge, a righteous judge, who must judge according
to truth. He must judge in righteousness. And that He, as the judge of
the whole earth, will hold men and women accountable, legally
accountable, for our sins. That's why you have so many today
who will deny the very existence of God, because they don't want
to recognize a higher authority to whom they will stand and give
an account. That's why you see so many today
in religion who concoct their own God, their own ideas of God,
bringing the God of the Bible in their minds and in their hearts
down to their level. And you see so many today who
preach, everything's okay. You all just go on doing what
you're doing. This world now, that's what he's
talking about, what I'm talking about. Don't worry, it's going
to come out in the end. God is love and He's merciful
and He wouldn't dare, He wouldn't dare hurt you or harm you or
anything like that. That's the way men want to see
God. And that's the ones who cry peace when there is no peace.
Jeremiah had to deal with them but God is a just judge he will
do right and he will hold men and women accountable legally
accountable for sins now that's why that's why we need Christ
that's why we need mercy that's why we need the grace of God
because you see God is going to hold us accountable either
in our own persons Individually. We stand on our own at the judgment.
Or he's going to hold us accountable in the person of a substitute.
Assurity. One who is appointed of God. And always remember this, the
three requirements for assurity. A proper substitute to stand
before God at judgment. Number one, he's got to be one
appointed of God. You see, that's the choosing
right there, God. You know, Christ himself is called
God's elect in Isaiah 42. Behold, mine elect. He is the
chosen one, that's the anointed one, that's Messiah. So he must
be one of God's own choosing. And then secondly, he must be
willing. We read this morning in John
chapter 10 where Christ said, I laid down my life for the sheep. He said, no man takes my life
from me. He said, I lay it down. He did
it willingly. And that's why Christ being our
substitute, it's not unjust or dishonest or unfair. He did it
willingly. He did it because he loved his
own. He loves his sheep. The Good
Shepherd laid down His life for the sheep. He did it because
He loved His Father for the glory of the Father. Hebrews chapter
12, it says, He endured such contradiction from sinners because
of the joy that was set before Him. That's the joy of knowing
the glory of God. The joy of knowing His own exaltation. Giving a name above every name.
The joy of the salvation of His people. So He's willing. And then the third thing that's
required for him to be a proper substitute, to stand in my place
and be accountable, held accountable for my sins. And that's what
this doctrine of imputation is all about. Christ being held
accountable for the sins of his people charged to him. The third
thing that's required, he's got to be able to pay the price. You see, you might find someone
who's willing but who is not able. And that will do you no
good. You might find one who is willing
but is not appointed of God. The judge. The judge is the one
who does the appointing here. God, not man. Man doesn't cast
his vote. His vote doesn't count. He is
a sinner. He is on the chopping block.
He deserves death. You see, that is man by nature.
We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. You think
God is wanting our vote? Our vote doesn't count. It's his promise, his determination,
his covenant. And so this substitute who stands
in the place of his people and is held accountable, he's got
to be able to do the work. Well, there's all sorts of scripture
we could go to there, but you understand that. That means he's
got to be both God and man in one person. That's who he's got
to be. You see, here's the problem.
Death is the requirement. The wages of sin. That's why
Christ came into the world, to die, didn't he? Didn't he tell
his disciples, for this reason came I into the world? It wasn't
just as a martyr now. He wasn't just a martyr. Plenty of his people have been
martyred for the cause. But he didn't die as a martyr.
He died as a sin bearer, a sin offering, a substitute, a surety,
a sacrifice to redeem. He's the redeemer. It means he
paid the price of redemption. And so he had to come to die. Well, God cannot die. You can't
kill God. So what did he have to do? Well,
Hebrews chapter 2 tells us, he took not on him the seed of the
nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham. Now why did he do
it? To die. That's why he was made
of woman. That's why his name is Immanuel.
The word made flesh dwelt among us. But now here's another problem. No matter how powerful that man
is, or how rich that man is, or no matter how perfect that
man is, man cannot create and give life and sustain it. Can't
do it. Cannot do it. Adam in the garden
couldn't do it, could he? Adam was created. He didn't create
anything. You know, Adam didn't create
anything. You know, they talk about people creating life. People
can't create life. That's God's business. That's
just man lifting himself up. He can put things together in
a test tube. But life originates with God. Christ is the life, John 1. Man cannot create and he cannot
sustain life. Only God can do that. So whoever
saves us from our sins, whoever stands in our place, he must
be God-man. And anything or anyone less cannot
save a sinner. He must be every bit man. He's got to have every human
quality and characteristic that any and every human being has
without sin. The spotless lamb. That's what
he's got to have. And that's our Savior. The man
Christ Jesus. There's one mediator between
God and men. The man Christ Jesus. He's a
man. And that doesn't diminish him
now. He condescended. He became obedient unto death.
He made himself of no reputation. All of that. You read passages
like Isaiah 53, a prophecy of Christ. What a passage. We esteem Him not. He's the only man. He's the only
man that we need as our surety and our substitute. and our sacrifice. And then He's God. He's got to
have every quality of character and nature that is God Almighty. Everything. He's not a lesser
God. Somebody says, well, He's the
Son of God. Yes, He is. But that doesn't mean He's a
lesser God. He's every bit God. Every bit
God. And He is our message. Christ
is our message. Now our message of Christ is
not simply Christ absolutely considered though. It's Christ
in His person. Yes, salvation is in a person. But that person, God says, that
person, God says, had to do a work. He had a job to do. And the job
he had to do was to pay the redemption price as he himself, by himself,
was held accountable legally for the sins of his people, his
sheep, God's elect, on the cross of Calvary. And that's what he
did. And so when we think of salvation,
we think of Christ crucified. And when we think of Christ crucified,
we think of the resurrected Lord because his death was an accomplishment. It was a redemption. The price
was paid. Daniel 9.24, he finished the
transgression. I love that passage. He finished
the transgression. He's the only one who ever did
that. You never have done it. I've
never done it and we can't do it, but he did. He finished the
transgression. He's the author and finisher
of our faith. He made an end of sin. He's the only one who
ever did that. You've never done that. I've
never done that. We have a struggle every day. I have a struggle
every second of my life with sin, don't you? But He made an
end of it. He made reconciliation for iniquity. You know what that means? That
means that He's the only person who ever measured up to the requirement
of God's justice and law. You've never done that. I never
have either. Now we can say we have in Him, can't we? That's how God's people are called
the righteous. He established righteousness
of the law. And that's how we're counted
before God. As Christ was numbered among
the transgressors, We're numbered with him. And so he who was made
sin for us, Christ who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righteousness of God, and never forget the last two words of
that verse, in him, in him. Now that's our message. Well,
do you know that was Adam's message to his two boys, Cain and Abel? And it's just like when that
message is preached anywhere, anytime to sinners. Some believed and some believed
not. Abel believed. Cain did not. What made the difference
there? Well, Abel was just a better
boy. As one old country preacher said, Abel had to be gooder than
Cain. No, that's not the case. I'll
tell you how I know that. Because when Abel approached
God, what did he bring? the blood of the Lamb. And you
know who the only one who needs the blood of the Lamb? Is a sinner
who needs mercy. If Abel was saved and accepted
of God and blessed of God because he is, the old guy said, gooder
than Cain, he wouldn't have had to bring a Lamb. He wouldn't
have had to come to the mercy seat as it were back then. Not
the one in the temple, but Christ is our mercy seat. He wouldn't
have needed mercy. You see, when Abel brought a
lamb, here's what Abel was in essence saying, I'm a sinner.
Just like that old publican in Luke 18, God be merciful to me
the sinner. I can't do it. I can't pay the
price. I can't bring righteousness to
you. God, I have none. Old top lady, he believed that.
Did he? In my hands, no price I bring. Simply to the cross
I cling. You see that? Abel could have
sung the same song, because the meaning's right there. You see
what I'm saying? It's just the same message with
different words, isn't it? That's what old Noah believed.
What's the first thing you read about Noah? Anybody know? Noah
what? Found grace. How did Noah find
grace? I don't know. But I know this,
God brought it to him. Noah wasn't saved because he
was better than the rest of that bunch. Read the verse before
it. How the world, their imagination, their thoughts, evil continued.
Noah by nature was the same. So if Noah was saved because
he was better than the rest of them, then he wouldn't have needed
grace. God would just be giving him
what he deserved. Because God is a just God. But
Noah found grace. Noah was a preacher of righteousness,
Peter said. Whose righteousness do you think
Noah preached? His own? You think he stood up there and
said, now fellas, y'all better get right just like me. Follow
me, do what I do. No. He preached Christ. That's
who Noah preached. That's what that ark was all
about. That's a picture of Christ. That same message, that old,
old story hadn't changed. Now men try to overthink it,
and they'll always be trying to add something new, and they'll
call it God's Word. And they'll preach with such
authority, oh my soul. And they'll tell you, they'll
say, hear me well, you know. And they'll come up, and just
like one fellow said, told you, said there's a fine line between
revelation and speculation. Now, it's very possible As we
study the Word of God, and as we read it, some of you are following
our reading schedule, and that's good. We're in our second time
of doing it, reading the scriptures through in a year. I think we're
in our second year of doing it, so some of you are reading it
over. You read from Genesis to Revelation. Now you're back reading
it again. And several of you have told
me, you know, I saw something I didn't see before. And I do
that too, don't you? And sometimes the Lord will give
us new light. Not new revelation now, because
revelation, the revelation of God, the uncovering of the Word
of God is already sealed and shut. Don't add to it, don't
take away from it, Revelation 22. Somebody says, well, I've
got a new revelation from God. Don't listen to them. God revealed
his word in Christ. Now we may have new, as one old
writer said, new illumination. The lights turn on more and we
see things we didn't see. I think it was one old preacher
down south said one of his members come to him. He said, he said,
I've got a revelation from God. And he said, I wanted to see
what you thought about it. And the preacher said, well,
what do you care what I think about it? If it's from God, what do
you care what I think? But you see, you have to be careful
with that. We will see things that we didn't see. But the things
that we see, that we didn't see before, will never deny, ignore,
diminish or challenge this old, old story that I've been telling
you about. And it always comes down to this. There is peace
and salvation and comfort and safety and assurance for sinners
in Christ. And outside of Christ there's
nothing but God's wrath. Now anything that doesn't preach
that message is another message of a different kind that's not
from God. Now that's what's going on here
in Jeremiah 28. Jeremiah had a message of doom
A message of God's judgment against sin. He said God's going to put
this nation in captivity for 70 years because of sin. God's going to give us what we
deserve and what we've earned. Now you submit to God's will. But Jeremiah also preached that
there's hope for the future. He says that God is going to
bring us back out of that captivity. And He is going to keep us together
to fulfill His ultimate promises and His promise to Abraham and
that fulfillment is in the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. He said
God is going to bring us back. Look at verse 22 of chapter 27.
He says they shall be carried to Babylon. That's the nation
Judah. That's all the nobles, the princes,
those who refuse to submit to God's will. would be destroyed. He said they're going to be carried
to Babylon. He said, and there they shall be until the day that
I visit them. Seventy years Jeremiah had prophesied. God revealed to Jeremiah that
seventy years was going to be the time span. That was directly equivalent to the punishment
of their sin of not keeping the Sabbath. And remember, that Sabbath,
it was all a picture of Christ and our rest in Christ. Their
ignorance and their neglect of the Sabbath was indicative of
their ignorance and neglect of God's grace in the Gospel. And
he says, saith the Lord, he says, then will I bring them up and
restore them to this place. He's going to bring them back.
God wasn't through with them yet. God wasn't going to be through
with them until Messiah comes. And that's when they were ultimately
destroyed. That's when that temple was destroyed.
Remember, that's when the veil was rented to, the old covenant
was over. And so God told them through Jeremiah, now you're
going to be punished for your sins. There is punishment for
sin. And as I said, we look at that
today, how it applies to us, and we tell men and women, you're
either going to stand before God as an individual on your
own and be judged guilty and condemned, or you stand in Christ
in the grace of God, washed in His blood and clothed in His
righteousness, and hear the Lord say, well done, my good and faithful
servant. You see, that well-doing there
is not the equivalent meritorious works that you've accomplished.
No, sir. That's the work of Christ. Do you know that well-done? Do
you know the term, when it was really established, what that
means? It's back in Cain and Abel, Genesis chapter 4. God
told Cain, he said, Cain, you know if you do well, you'd be
accepted. What was it to do well in the context of Cain and Abel?
Bring the lamb. Bring the blood. Lead Christ. That's what it is to do well.
Yes, we're to obey God. Yes, we're to be moral, ethical
people. Yes, we're to be sincere, dedicated,
diligent servants. But that's not our righteousness
before God. Christ is. That's not our merit
before God. Christ is. You see what I'm saying?
Well, Jeremiah told them the same thing. He used different
terms, different circumstances, different people. There's a lot
of differences here, aren't there, between Genesis 3 and 4 and Jeremiah
28. But now, here's what happens.
Here comes another prophet with another message. And you know
what? Here's the thing. Ever since
man fell and God revealed the woman's seed, the grace of God,
the sacrifice, His way of salvation, His way of justifying the ungodly,
there's always been another prophet with another message. And there's
always been another prophet, and another prophet, and another
message, and another message. And people so confused today,
they say, well, that's what you say it says, or that's what you
say it says. That's how you interpret. See,
it's another prophet with another message. This fellow's name was
Hananiah. Here's Hananiah's message. Look
at it. Verse 1, it came to pass the same year in the beginning
of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, the last king before
the fall of Jerusalem. In the fourth year and in the
fifth month that Hananiah, the son of Asher, the prophet, which
was of Gibeon. He spoke unto me in the house
of the Lord, in the presence of the priest and of all the
people." Now here's his message. He said, thus speaketh the Lord
of hosts. So Hanani, he's saying, I'm speaking
by God, the same God that Jeremiah speaks by. And he's saying, I
have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Remember, Jeremiah
had in chapter 27 how he put a yoke. God told him to make
a yoke and bonds and put them on your neck. And you go in and
you tell all these kings, all these ambassadors from all these
kings, these nations, who are met with Zedekiah to form a conspiracy
and a rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar. He says, you tell them to submit
and then you go to the people and the priest and you tell them
to submit and you tell Zedekiah, well here comes another prophet
with another message. And he says, no, no, no, I've
broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. The yoke that the king
of Babylon would put on you, I've broken it. God says he's
broken it. You don't have to submit. to Nebuchadnezzar. You don't have to submit to the
judgment of God against sin. It's okay. He says in verse 3,
within two full years will I bring again into this place, that is
the temple, all the vessels of the Lord's house. Remember those
vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away down into Babylon?
And Jeremiah says, now they're going to stay right there until
the 70 years are up and then God's going to deliver you and
He'll bring them back. And that was fulfilled 70 years later
when you can read about it in Ezra chapter one. How Cyrus,
king of Persia, king of the Medes and Persians, how he conquered
Babylon and he brought those vessels back and he allowed them
to rebuild the temple and rebuild the city walls. And he said,
but Hananiah says, oh no, two full years. And he says, I'll
bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house
that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this
place and carried them to Babylon. Verse four, and I will bring
again to this place Jeconiah. Now he'd been taken to Babylon
as a prisoner, Jeconiah. The son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, he said, I'm even gonna bring back Jeconiah. And with
all the captives of Judah that went into Babylon, saith the
Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. So here
he is. What's he preaching? Peace, peace
when there is no peace. Now obviously both Jeremiah's
message and Hananiah's message could not both be from God. They
contradict each other. One says submit to God's judgment
against your sin. The other says you don't have
to submit. Everything is fine. You are okay. Two opposing messages. We have
the same thing today. There are those who preach salvation
by the sovereign, free grace of God all the way. And there
are those who preach salvation by the works of man or try to
preach some combination of grace and works. The Bible says the
two won't mix. Paul wrote in Romans chapter
11 and verse 5. If it's of grace, it's not of
works. Or it's not of grace at all.
And if it's of works, it's not of grace. or it's not of works
at all. Works and grace will not mix.
That's what people try to do and they call themselves Christian.
They preach salvation conditioned on the sinner at some stage,
to some degree, in some way. That's works. They don't preach
salvation of the Lord based on the blood of Christ, the righteousness
of Christ, but based upon the faith, the will, or the works
of man. That's works. The Bible says, for by grace
are you saved, through faith it says, but that's not of yourselves,
it's the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Salvation is not by works of righteousness which we've done,
it's by the work that Christ did to establish righteousness,
for Christ is the end, the fulfillment, the finishing, the completion,
the perfection of the law, for righteousness to everyone that
believeth. It cannot be both. So one is truth, The other's
a lie. Plain and simple. Somebody said,
well, they're just off on a little error. No. Could you say that
about Hananiah here? Jeremiah says, submit or die.
That's basically what his message was. You submit to God's judgment
or you die. Didn't he say that in Jeremiah
27? He said, those who remain in the city and don't submit
to Nebuchadnezzar, who was God's servant, he said, you'll perish
by the sword or by the pestilence. Submit or not. Hananiah says,
oh no. Oh no, he's going to break the
oath. So you can't be both now. Cannot be mixed. Alright, here's
Jeremiah's answer. Look at verse 5. Now this is
interesting. Listen to this. Jeremiah the
prophet, he said unto the prophet Hananiah, in the presence of
the priest and in the presence of all the people, as stood in
the house of the Lord. Now this is going on at the temple
now. Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen. Do you hear what Jeremiah's saying?
Now, what is Jeremiah? You know, usually we think of
that term, amen, as being, well, I'm in agreement with you. But
it doesn't necessarily mean I'm in agreement with you. What it
means, we could interpret it this way, so be it. So be it. And here's what Jeremiah's essentially
saying. Hannah and I, if what you're saying is true, then so
be it. Let's see if it's gonna happen. And he goes on, he says,
he says, Amen, the Lord do so. The Lord perform thy words which
thou hast prophesied to bring again the vessels of the Lord's
house. Those vessels of the temple. The bowls, the serving bowls,
the wash basins and all of that. And all that is carried away
captive from Babylon into this place. Verse 7, now here, listen
to Jeremiah, the prophet of God. Nevertheless, hear thou now this
word that I speak in thine ears and in the ears of all thy people,
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied
both against many countries and against great kingdoms of war
and of evil and of pestilence. The prophet which prophesieth
of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then
shall the prophet be known that the Lord hath truly sent him.
So here's what Jeremiah's essentially saying. He's saying, number one,
you've got to think about this. No prophet before me who was
a true prophet of God spoke your message, Hannah and I, to a sinful
people. That's right. Did the Lord preach
peace to Cain? Absolutely not. He didn't accept
Cain. Did the Lord preach peace to
the world? No, he brought judgment against
the world and saved Noah and his family in the ark. Did the Lord preach peace to
Saul, King Saul? No. Did the Lord preach peace
to Judah in Isaiah's day? Everything's fine, you're all
right, just do your best. What was the problem in Isaiah's
day? Same in Jeremiah. The people
were in unbelief, in idolatry, they had outward forms of religion
and morality, they appeared righteous, but they had no heart for Christ.
They had no heart for God's grace. And they were adulterous, idolatrous,
conniving, all kinds of things. What's the problem with people
today? The problem is sin. There are churches all over this
country claiming to be Christian and in the name of Christ and
in the name of love they receive homosexuals into the fellowship
of the church, even into the ministry. Well, I want to tell
you something. There's not one prophet or preacher
that was sent of God in the Bible that ever did that. That's right. But you could go
all over the place with this. There are preachers who preach
salvation by works. In some way, at some stage, to
some degree. There's not one prophet or preacher
in God's Word, all the way back to Genesis, who ever spoke peace
to anyone who believed that. And that's what Jeremiah is saying
here. Isaiah told them the judgment of God is coming. Repent, submit
to His judgment and repent and turn to the Lord. Jeremiah is
saying the same thing. Hananiah says, Oh no, you are
fine. Let it go. Peace where there
is no peace. God is going to bless you. And Jeremiah basically
says, Well, let's see. Let's see. All the true prophets
of God before Jeremiah, Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahum,
Habakkuk, Zephaniah and others. They all prophesied the judgment
of God's wrath against the nations, even against Israel for sin and
idolatry and unbelief. And the prophets who spoke peace
were all wrong. Show me one place where that
message was ever honored by God. So let's wait and see what happens
to see who's speaking for God, Jeremiah says. So be it. So be
it. God's word. Do you know one proof
of the gospel of God's grace as I open this message up is
that it's the old, old story that's told by the prophets and
the preachers of God all the way through. Paul said, I'm preaching
the gospel of God which afore was preached by the prophets.
Same message, same salvation by grace, same Christ, same blood,
same righteousness. You plead the same blood that
Abel pleads before God, pled before God. The seed of woman,
that's Christ, who was made of a woman, made under the law to
redeem them that were under the law. Christ said in John chapter
5, he said, Moses wrote of me. If you believed Moses, you would
have believed me. Moses wrote of me. Everything
in that Old Testament was a prophecy, a picture, a type of the Lord
Jesus Christ when it concerns salvation and the way God justifies
the ungodly. It was never by the righteousness
of men, it was always by the righteousness of God in Christ
imputed and received by faith. Never any other way. And that's
the apostles. Paul and James and John and Matthew
and you can go on and on. They preached salvation by grace
through the blood and the righteousness of Christ who accomplished redemption
by his death on the cross. And not that one that's being
preached today. Who's trying to save you if you'll
just let him. No prophet in the Bible, no preacher
in the Bible ever preached that way. Some people say, well, if
you'll just open up your heart and let him in or accept Jesus
as your person, that's not biblical now. Yes, we must receive Christ. Oh, yeah. My friend, it's a submission
by the power and grace of God to the glorious person and finished
work of a sovereign Savior who accomplished redemption for His
people. Turn to Him. Well, look at verse
10. Here's Hananiah's presumption
now. Verse 10. It says, Then Hananiah the prophet
took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and he broke
it. You see, Jeremiah still had that yoke on his neck. Hananiah
took it off of him. Broke it. And Hananiah, verse
11, spoke in the presence of all the people saying, Thus saith
the Lord, even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, king
of Babylon, from the neck of all nations, within the space
of two full years, and the prophet Jeremiah went his way. Jeremiah
didn't argue with him. He just went his way. He'd already
said his piece. He'd already spoken. That's all
you need to do. You don't need to argue with
him and debate with him and go back and forth with him like
a tennis match. No. There it is. So Jeremiah went his way. But
what presumption on the part of Hannah and I? He took that
yoke off the other prophet's neck. And then he repeated his
message. Well, look at verses 12 to the
end. Here's God's judgment against
Hananiah. It says, Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah
the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke
from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Go and tell
Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Thou hast broken the
yokes of wood but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. You know what he's saying there?
It's going to be worse for you. You preached a message of peace
that seals the natural man into a false refuge of lies. You've
made them two-fold more the child of hell than you are. Just like
the Pharisees preaching their salvation by works, and men and
women listen to it, and they like it, and they receive it,
and they're sealed into a false profession. And that's that yoke of iron
that cannot be broken. Verse 14, For thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I put a yoke of iron upon the
neck of all these nations. In other words, what God told
Jeremiah, He said, Jeremiah, this is coming true. He says
that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and they shall
serve him, and I've given him the beast of the field also.
I'm even going to give him the animals. And then look at the last verses.
Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear
now Hananiah, the Lord hath not sent thee, but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie, a refuge of lies. Another prophet, another
message, another gospel. You know, Paul talked about that
in Galatians 1. He said, if we or an angel from
heaven come unto you preaching another gospel, which is not
another, let him be anathema. Let him be accursed. You know
what that word another in Galatians, in the Greek, is? It's another
of a different kind. It's not the same. It's not just
another version of the same God. It's like grace versus works. And he says in verse 16, Therefore
thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will cast thee from off the
face of the earth. This year thou shalt die, because
thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord. So Hannah and I the
prophet died the same year in the seventh month. Thou shalt surely die. There
is no salvation, my friend, for you, for me, for any other sinner,
but by the sovereign mercy and grace of God in Christ. And I
tell you, do not, do not corrupt that with your own works and
intentions and righteousness and refuges. It's all Christ. Or it's nothing at all. Don't
listen to another prophet with another message. Listen to that
old, old story that's been preached by God's preachers down through
the ages since the fall of man. And though they be few, and they
are, and though those other prophets with their other messages be
many, you go by thus saith the Lord. There's the key. All right.