Good morning. Let's all stand
together and sing hymn number 485. 485. We praise Thee, O God, for the
Son of Thy love, for Jesus who died and is now gone above. Alleluia, find the glory. Alleluia, amen. Hallelujah, Thine the glory,
revive us again. We praise Thee, O God, for Thy
Spirit of light, Truth has shown us our Saviour and scattered
our night. Alleluia, Thine our glory. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Thine the glory, revive
us again. All glory and praise to the Lamb
that was slain. Has borne all our sins and has
cleansed every stain. Alleluia, Thine the glory Alleluia,
Amen Alleluia, Thine the glory Revive us again Revive us again Fill each heart
with Thy love. May each soul be rekindled with
fire from above. ? Hallelujah, thine the glory
? ? Hallelujah, amen ? ? Hallelujah, thine the glory ? ? Revive us
again ? Be seated, we'll sing hymn number 222. 222. There is a fountain filled with
blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners plunged beneath that
flood Lose all their guilty stains Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. And sinners plunged beneath that
flood. Blurts all their guilty stains
The dying thief Rejoice to see that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile
as he, wash all my sins away. wash all my sins away, wash all
my sins away. And there may I, though vile
as He, Wash all my sins away. Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious
blood Shall never lose its power. Till all the ransomed Church
of God be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. no more. Be safe to sin no more. Till all the ransomed Church
of God be safe to sin no more. E'er since by faith I saw the
stream, thy flowing wounds supply. Redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die. And shall be till I die. And shall be till I die. Redeeming love has been my theme. And shall be till I die. When this poor lisping, stammering
tongue Lies silent in the grave Then in another sweeter song
I'll sing thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. When in an older, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save. All right, if you got your Bibles,
open with me to Hebrews chapter 7. Hebrews chapter 7. I'm going to comment on these
scriptures as I go so people that don't know what these scriptures
mean and who they're talking about, maybe I will explain them
as I go. But Hebrews 7, 11, I'm going
to read down through verse 17. If therefore perfection provide
the Levitical priesthood, For under it the people receive the
law. What further need that another
priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek and not
be called after the order of Aaron? Aaron was the first high
priest of Israel. And they come from the tribe
of Levi. And they would take time about
doing their deeds or during their work in the priesthood, they
offered sacrifices every day, morning and evening, special
sacrifices certain days. And then there was a man named
Melchizedek. When Abraham went off to war
to get Lot back, they run across to high priest. came in presence
of a high priest named Melchizedek. In the scriptures, he had no
beginning of days nor ending of days. And Abraham met him,
and he was the priest of the home most high God, and he had
bread, he offered bread and wine to Abraham. So Melchizedek was only seen
one time in the Old Testament. And our Lord was made after the
order of Melchizedek, no beginning of days, no ending of days. And
it's by him that we have the bread and the wine. So that's
the priesthood I wanted to mention to you. And then in verse 12,
it says this, for the priesthood being changed, if they change
the priesthood then from Aaron to Melchizedek, there is made
of necessity, you gotta change the law too. If you ain't got
the same priesthood, then you don't need the law. You don't
need the same law. For he spake, verse 13, for he
of whom these things are spoken of pertains to another tribe
which no man gave attendance at the altar. Out of this tribe
comes the great high priest after Melchizedek. For it is evident,
clear to us to see, that our Lord sprang out of Judah, that's
the kingly tribe, of which tribe Moses did not say anything concerning
the priesthood. For yet it is far more evident,
even more evident, clear to us, that after the sibilitude of
Melchizedek, then there ariseth another priest, who is made not
after the law of a cardinal ordinance or commandment, a fleshly commandment,
but after the power of an endless life. So that's the power of
an endless life. This Melchizedek has the power
of an endless life. For he testifies, Thou art a
priest forever, after the order of Mechizedek. And my subject's
going to be there in verse 16, after the power of an endless
life. I hope that you understand the
things that I said. I wanted us to know those things
before I preached them. Our Father, our great glorious,
great God and Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, both God and our
Savior, a just God and a Savior. And Lord, we see that things
are evident, clear to us that you're a high priest forever,
that you're not like the high priest who couldn't continue,
who worked under the law, worked
after fleshly commandments, earthly things, earthly things, but now
we deal with eternal things, not earthly things, eternal things,
things of the heart, things of the soul, things concerning our
Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, God, let's leave this world
behind for just a little while, and Lord, let us enter presence
of our Holy Father, our great and glorious God, into the holiest
of holies by our Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord Jesus, bring glory to
yourself today. And may this gospel run well.
May, as we talk about our Savior, may the gospel run well here
today. May sinners be saved. May Christ be glorified. May
The gospel has the power of God behind it. And forgive us of
everything that's unlike you. And Lord, we have saints in our
congregation who have great, great troubles, who have heartaches
and sorrows, trials in this life. Lord, we pray for them. You know
who they are. And we know who some of them
are. So God bless them, strengthen them, encourage them, bring peace
in their homes, peace in their heart, peace in their mind. And Lord, we pray again for Debbie
and Jim. Lord, give her grace to deal
with the situation she is in. Please continue to strengthen
Jim, Rick and Helen. Oh, God, have mercy on them.
We know your grace is sufficient for it's held them up this many
years. And Lord, we pray that You would
bring glory and honor to yourself in the preaching of the gospel,
and have mercy, mercy, mercy upon our children and grandchildren,
and do for them what only you can do. We ask these things in
our Lord Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Let's all stand together and
sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord. Praise his name with one accord. Tell the wonders of his power. Praise His goodness every hour. Let the ransomed Church begin,
Whom He has redeemed from sin. Gathered from the east and west,
north and south to interest. Through the wilderness they stray,
In a lonely, weary way, Hungry, thirsty, tired, and faint, God
attends to their complaint. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord While His goodness they record. All His wondrous works rehearse
Who redeemed them from the curse Be seated. The first line of that verse,
depth of mercy. Ask the question, depth of mercy,
can there be mercy still reserved for me? Can my God, his wrath
forbear, save from sin? Oh my, people don't ask those
questions anymore. Can my God his wrath prepare? Be the chief of sinners spare?
They don't ask about the God of mercy. They've got God figured
out. They know what he's like. He's
a benevolent old man who has no power but what you give him.
Has no will but what you let him have. Preachers have made Him, all
the problems we have in America, I'm going to tell you where it
starts. It starts in the pulpit. As God has lowered God, as men
have lowered God and built up man, so man becomes everything,
God becomes nothing. And when God becomes nothing,
you've got a nation like we're living in right now. That's what's
at reason. Starts in the pulpit. Starts
in the pulpit. All right, look back up here
in verse 16 with me, talking about Christ being like Mekesedek,
who has made a priest, not after the law of fleshly commandments,
and that's all it was, fleshly, fleshly commandments, but after
the power of an endless life. I want to talk about the power
of an endless life. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ
spake often of his hour. His hour, his hour that was to
come. Speaking about his death. You
know, he told his mother when he turned the water into wine,
you know, she said, oh my, what's going on here? And he says, woman,
my hour's not yet come. She was telling people what to
do. And he said, listen, my hour's
not yet come. And also, he said, in so many
different places, my hour has not yet come. Now, you keep Hebrews
7. Look with me in John chapter
12. I want you to see this over here. You know, John chapter 12, down in verse
23, Men wanted to come and see the
Lord Jesus Christ, some Greeks did. And our Lord answered in
verse 23, answered them saying, the hour has come that the Son
of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily, or truly, truly,
I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground
and die, It abides alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. He's talking about his death,
dying. Only way he could save people was to die. And then he
said, he that loveth his life, and if you die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. He that loveth his life shall
lose it. He's saying, if I love my life
more than anything, and if you love your own life more than
anything else, he'll lose it. But he that hateth life in this
world shall keep it unto eternal life. If any man serve me, let
him follow me. And where I am, there shall also
my servant be. If any man serve me, him will
my father honor. Now listen to what he said. Now
is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father,
save me from this hour. But for this cause, this is the
reason I came into the world. Look down in verse 1 of chapter
13. Our Lord talking about his hour. Now the feast of the Passover,
when Jesus knew that his hour was come, hour was comes, time
now, that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them,
to the end. So our Lord is talking about
His hour, the day that He is going to be crucified on the
cross. And when the hour came, the hour of Him going to the
cross, the hour of His death on that cross, as He hung upon
that cross, His life, the last thing it appeared to be, was
an endless life. Here He is dying. Here he is
crucified. Here he is bloody, a sacrifice
on a bloody, bloody tree. He hangs there bleeding, suffering,
dying. And it didn't look like anything
like an end to power of an endless life, but it was an endless life. But to those who know and those
who can see and understand that our Lord Jesus Christ, His life
went all the way back into eternity, an endless eternity, and His
life goes on to an endless eternity. And so He has the power of an
endless life. Even when He was hanging on that
cross, He had the power of an endless life. And you know, it
reached back to an endless past, reached unto an endless future.
in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word
was God and there was not anything made that was made without him
he went back to when God said let there be let there be Christ
was the word that God used to say let there be and oh my and
Aaron being the first high priest the Arab Arianic Levitical priesthood
was after the passing of a law the law had to pass away that
the law of commandments, the law of ordinances, the law of
flesh, the law of a priesthood, the law of sacrifices, the law
of bloodshedding was over and done with because here comes
the Lord Jesus Christ. And their priesthood, oh my,
our Lord's priesthood was a true priesthood after the power of
an endless life. You see, those priests could
not continue Because they died. They started their ministry in
the priesthood when they was 30, and they had to not have
a blemish in them. If they had a blemish, it couldn't
work. They couldn't enter the priesthood. But they went into
that priesthood, and at the end of 50 years, when they was 50,
they was out of the priesthood, but they lived by the priesthood.
But they couldn't go by reason of death. And the law passed
by because it was fulfilled. Christ is alive forevermore. Those men die. Christ never dies. Christ died once and put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. And now he has an endless life,
a glorious life, a precious life, and he is our great half-priest
that's passed into the heavens. But what I want us to see is
not so much the endlessness of his life, but the power of his
life. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
we need his power. And when we talk about his power,
we're not only talking about his power and his might and his
strength, but we're also talking about his authority. He has all
authority, He has all power, and that word power means authority. They say our president is the
most powerful, but they always have been the most powerful men
in the world. Well listen, they go and come,
they go and they come, they go and they come, but Christ, He
come once, And He still is, and He always will be. He always
was, and He is, and He always will be. Jesus Christ the same
today, yesterday, and forever. That's the power of an endless
life. Now let me talk about the power of it. The power of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the power of His life, is the only power
of His life that can give life. Nobody else can give life but
Christ. And I'll tell you what, nobody,
men, we must have life given to us. You know why we have to
life given to us? Because we were born dead in
trespasses and sins, dead to the things of God, dead to the
things of this spiritual life, dead to the things of the scriptures. Don't have ears to hear, eyes
to see. And oh my, He gives life. Let
me show you Hebrews and look over here with me in John 5.
Look what our Lord said over here. Men must have life given
to them. They can't create life. Men can't
create life. Only God can create life. You
know when God said, let us make man. Who's He talking about us? God the Father, God the Son,
God the Holy Ghost. They the only person that can
give life. God, you know, men need life. You got natural life. Everybody's
got natural life. But not everybody has spiritual
life. Not everybody has the life of God, has the life of Christ
in their soul. And that's what most needful
thing in this world is to know Christ. The most glorious thing
in this world is to know Christ. And I tell you, before you can
know him, he's got to give you life. He's got to give you life.
Look what he said in John 5, 21. For as the father raises
the dead. You hear that? The father raises
the dead. Oh my. And quickens or gives
life to them. Even so, listen to this, the
son quickeneth, now watch what he says here, whom he will. Whom
he will. There's three people in the scriptures
he gave life to, just by speaking. Just by speaking. Three people. And all three of those people
represent different types of people in this world. There was,
first of all, there was a young girl, she's 12 years old. 12
years old. And she died. And they went to
get the Savior to come. Well, our Savior walked in there,
and he just spoke to her, said, daughter, get up. And they laughed
him to scorn. He said, she said, she's not
dead. She's not dead. She's sleeping. They said, they
said, oh, they just started making fun of him. What are you talking
about? She's not dead. She's cold. She's lifeless. You
don't have a heartbeat. She don't breathe. Our Lord just
got her by the hand and said, daughter, get up. What happened? That 12-year-old girl got up.
He says, mother, fix her something to eat. And then there's another
fella, 12-year-old. She needed life as much as anybody
else. And oh my, then there's another
man. A woman, a widow, had one son, one son. Our Lord was coming
into town, and a funeral procession was going out of town. And they
was carrying that boy's casket, going out to town to take him
out to bury him. Our Lord Jesus coming in, he's
coming in, and they're going out. He's seen that funeral going
out, and he stops and says, stop. They stopped. He touched that casket. Rush
in there and touch that young man and say, young man, I say
unto thee arise. He got up, gave him back to his
mama. Can you imagine how her mama,
how his mama felt when he gave that child back, her only son?
Oh, you know how she rejoiced. But the fact is that he was a
young man. Young men need Christ. Young
men need life. And then there was a man that's
an older man, named Lazarus. He had been dead four days! And they had him in a grave,
and he had a stone over it. They was gonna move that stone. Oh, Lord, don't open that stone.
He stinks. Don't open that stone. He stinks
so bad. He's been dead four days. He's
corrupt. Worms are working on his body.
Our Lord said, take that stone away. Take away that stone of
tradition. Take away that stone of free
will. Take away that stone of goodness. Take away that stone
of morality. Take away that stone of I'm doing
the best I can. Take it away. Lazarus! That corruption of four days
that was stinking, when Christ said, Lazarus, come forth, he
that was dead came forth. And all that corruption was gone.
All that effects of four days of death was gone. And that's
what our Lord said, the Son quickeneth whom he will. Those were people
whom he quickened. Maybe the Lord will quicken you
today. Maybe the Lord will say, listen,
that's the one I'm going to give life to. That's the one that
I'm going to speak to. That's the one that I'm going
to touch with my hand and say, live. Yea, I say unto you, live. Maybe he'll do that. And then
look what else it says down here in verse 25 of John chapter 5. Look what our Lord said here.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming And right
now it is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God. Voice of who? The Son of God. And they that hear shall live. Oh, my. You know, Christ is our
life. Oh, no man can come unto me except
the Father which sent me drawing. And I want to show you another
one, John chapter 12. Look in John chapter 12 with
me. You know, if we get through this, fine. If we don't, that's
fine, too. But I tell you, I want to stress this thing of life.
Life is something you can't give. If we could give life, nobody
we love would ever die. If we had the power to keep people
alive and to give them eternal life or just give them life for
as long as we possibly could, We would do our dead level best
to keep them alive. Scientists are working all the
time to get people to live longer and longer and longer. I want
to live as long as God wants me to, but he don't want me to
live any longer. I'll go home and be with him. That's the long
and short of it. But people need to understand
that you can't keep life. You can't even keep your own
life. And you can't give your own self life. And we're talking
about spiritual life. Where are you going to get it
at then? You can't buy it. You can't pay for it. You can't
work for it. You're not worthy of it. If we could give people life,
we'd go to the graveyard and get our loved ones back out of
the grave. If we could have kept them from
dying, we would have done everything in our power to keep them from
dying. And the most shocking news you'll
ever get when you don't expect somebody to die and all of a
sudden somebody knocks on your door and said, I hate to tell
you this, but I got to tell you, your husband's gone or your son's
gone or your daughter's gone. And if we would do that for natural
life, how in the world much more would we do it? We can't give
you spiritual life. Look what our Lord said here,
John 12. But yeah, excuse me, John 11, I'm sorry, John 11.
Look what he said down here in verse 21 now. John 11, 21. You know, Lazarus had died, then
said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother
had not died. That's as short as, if you'd
have been here, he wouldn't have died. But I know that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus
saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto
him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at
the last day. I know that. I know something
about the resurrection. Listen to what our Lord said
now. I am the resurrection. If you live, I'm the resurrection. I'm the one that, I'm resurrection.
I'm the one that, I'm the resurrection itself. We're not waiting until
we get, you know, three days or until the day of the resurrection
comes. Listen, Christ said, I'm the resurrection. You dead? I'm
the resurrection. Oh my. And I'm the resurrection
and the life. Watch this now. He that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Oh, my. And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. But believest thou this? Yes, Lord, I do. And what do
we mean? We'll die in this body. But we
enter into life. Paul said, for me to die is gain. Gain. Oh my. And all the life he gives is
an endless life. An endless life. That's what's
so wonderful about a believer leaving this world. They really
truly enter into life. And oh my, well, But I want you
to understand that. Men need life, and they can't
do it. They ain't got it. And there's only one person who's
got it, and that's Christ. And then I'll tell you something
else about the power of his endless life. The power of his life gives
life, but it also gives peace. Peace. You know, peace is so hard to
come by in this world. but he has the power of life
that gives peace. You know, the peace I'm talking
about, first of all, is peace with God. Man was born mad at
God, don't like God, don't need God, don't want God. He's got this enmity in his heart,
got this natural enmity in his heart. Well, Christ, power of
His life, brings peace. And the first thing He does,
He makes peace between God and man. God's not mad at anybody
that's in His Son. Everybody's not in His Son, the
wrath of God abides on them. I mean it abides on them. It don't just pass over every
once in a while, it abides on them. And oh my, But to have
peace with God, you know, before you can have peace of heart and
peace of mind, you've got to have peace with God. Oh, my. Christ, He is our peace. You know, peace of conscience
is hard to come by. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace, peace with God. Before you can ever have
peace anywhere else, you've got to have peace with God. And oh
my, when you try to work for your salvation, you can never
have any peace. When you think you deserve something,
you can't never have any peace. But boy, when you understand
that Christ made peace with God, then you'll have peace of conscience. In fact, back over here in Hebrews,
go back to Hebrews chapter nine, you know, peace of conscience,
not having any guilt, Wouldn't it be wonderful to not have any
guilt? To have no guilt. Look down here in verse 12, Hebrews
9, 12. I've used this so many times. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but watch what it says here, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal
redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats and of ashes, sprinkling the unclean, purifies the flesh
from one year to the next, how much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without
spot to God, listen to this now, purge your conscience, Your conscience,
that thing that will not let you find peace, your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God. And oh my, I'll tell
you, our Lord Jesus Christ entered into that and that blood speaks
peace. Oh my, he himself is our peace. And there's nothing like peace
with God, nothing like it, nothing like it. If you never have peace,
you ought to know, if you don't have peace now, peace of mind,
peace of heart, peace of conscience, it's because you don't have peace
between you and God. If you're scared to die, if you're
afraid to die, you don't have peace with God. If you think
you're good, you don't have peace with God. If you think God's
going to pay you for something good that you've done, you couldn't
possibly have peace with God. Oh my, peace, peace, wonderful
peace coming down from the fathers of light. And there's wonder working power
in the blood of the lamb. And let me tell you something,
peace is, oh my goodness, I remember for years and years and years,
I didn't have any peace. I didn't have any peace. I couldn't
sleep. I'd go to bed at night, and I'd
think I'd pray for the morning to come. And then I'd get up
at day, and I'd say, pray for the night to come. My life was
miserable. 24 hours a day, seven days, the
only time I didn't have any misery was when I was asleep. I went
to doctors, took all kinds of medicine, spent lots of time
in the hospital. No peace, no peace. One day some man come along and
preached the gospel of the grace of God to me and told me about
a blood that would cleanse my conscience, that if I had a perfect
sacrifice that come before God Almighty Himself, if I had a
perfect sacrifice, and Christ is that perfect sacrifice, if
I had a perfect sacrifice and there was peace between God And
that sacrifice, if I had that sacrifice, if I had that blood,
if I had that blood sprinkled on my conscience, if I had that
blood to wash away my sin, then I could have peace. But I had
to have peace with God first. And now, boy, you talking about
peace. Oh, peace. Now, I'll tell you
something else we have. We have peace by surrender. I
gave up. You know, when people fight wars,
somebody's got to win, and the losing party, they've got to
surrender. I surrender, Lord. I stack my
arms. I ain't fighting no more. I surrender. I give up. I give myself up to
you. Oh, my. And let me give you another
one. The power of His endless life
is a sustaining power. If Christ gives us life, and
we have this eternal life in Christ, and Christ in you is
the hope, our blessed hope. But the
power of an endless life is a sustaining power. If He gives us life, well,
how in the world is that life going to continue. You know,
when you think about who you are, and what you are, and how
frail you are, how weak you are, well, how in the world is this
life going to be sustained? We couldn't start it, so we can't
keep it going. So how in the world is it going
to be sustained? Huh? You know, our Lord said this,
because I live I live, you know what he said, you'll live too.
Because I live, you're going to live. And oh my, our Lord
Jesus Christ, I've used this, that's another one I've used
so many times, but I never get tired of using it. He said, I
give, I know my sheep, and this is why he said, I give unto them,
I give unto them eternal life. And he says, no
man shall pluck them out of my hand. And a preacher told me
one time, he said, well, you can pluck yourself out of it.
I said, how can you do that? Why would you want to? If you're
in Christ's hands, you think you can force his hand open? And oh, he got, Christ got you
in his hand. He said, and my father, which
is, Greater than all, he says, no man's able to pluck them out
of my father's hand. So if you can open God's hands
and Christ's hands, then you can get out alive. But oh my,
that's what our Lord, that's why He sustains it, because He
holds us. He holds us. I think it's Isaiah
40. I'm not for sure, but there's
a place over there that says, I bear you, from the womb and
bared you till you're old age." He said, I got you when you was
a baby and I carried you till you was an old, old man. And you know what it says? He
don't set us down. How could he carry all of us
at the same time? He has no problem with that. You know, we're talking about
God. We're not talking about some pretender after the throne.
We're talking about God. He created the world with a word.
Can He not uphold us with the word of His power? Can He not
keep all of us at the same time? Can He not hold us all in His
arms? Can not He hold us all in His
hands? Oh, my. It's one thing to have
life of Christ, but how does it continue? And there's lots
and lots of things in this world to destroy it. Lots of things
to destroy our life. First one, sin. And you know
what it says about sin? Deceitfulness of sin. Sin is
so deceitful, that it'll tell you that you can get by with
that, you can do that, and there'll be no consequences to it. It'll
deceive you into thinking that you're doing what's right until
you say, oh my, God tells you how wrong that is. Oh my. And I tell you what, Satan, he
comes, if he don't come as a roaring lion, he comes as an angel of
light. And then there's the world. Oh, the world out there. Tell us. There's so much money
to be made out there, so much power to be made out there, so
much authority to be made out there, such honor, such ambitious
to be got out there, such glory's got to be got out there, so much
enjoyment's got to be out there. Quit going about church, get
your boat and go out and fish all day Sunday. Forget about
that. And oh my, and then there's self.
Oh my goodness. That's the worst enemy we got.
And then false preachers come along in the flesh. But our Lord has promised us
that He's going to sustain us. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And you know what the next line
says? Him that comes to me. Him that comes to me. I'll in no wise, there's nothing
they'll say, nothing they'll do, no way they act, nothing
they'll say or do will ever make me cast them out. Because they
was the sorriest bunch that ever was saved, and they never get
no better, and he says, I don't care what they do, I don't care
how far they fall, I don't care whatever they get into, there's
nothing that'll ever make me do, cast them out. I won't cast him out. Well, you
just don't believe what I said. I won't cast him out. You wouldn't
believe where I went. I won't cast him out. You wouldn't
believe what I do. Yeah, I'll not cast him out. I ain't going to do it. I ain't
going to do it. Not only that, but I'm going
to raise him up in the last day. And he has the power. All power in heaven and earth
is given unto him. He has the power to sustain us.
He gave him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him. Oh my. And he has the will. He has the will to sustain us.
He has the will to do that. He said, I don't pray for the
world. I pray for them that you give me out of the world. And
oh my. And He has this will, He says,
Father, listen to this, Father, I will that those thou hast given
me be with me where I am. And one reason I wanted to be
here, that they might see my glory, might see my glory. And then let me give you this
one. The power of His endless life
gives comfort. Not only does it give power,
it gives us comfort giving power. Now I want you to look with me
in 2 Corinthians chapter 1. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. I want you to look with me. In
verse 3. Oh, comfort. Comfort. Comfort. Every one of us need
comfort sometime. At one time or another, we really
need comfort. And oh, and it's such a power
that gives comfort. Look in verse 3, 2 Corinthians
chapter 1, verse 3. Blessed be God, even the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the Father of mercies. And
what's this now? And the God of all comfort. Now listen to this, who comforts
us in all our tribulation, when we're in trials, and some of
you have been in some very, very deep trials, tough trials, flesh
withering trials, trials that you say, I don't know if I'll
get through this, but oh my, he comforts us in our tribulation,
comforts us in our trials. And the reason he does that,
is that we may be able to comfort them that are in any trouble.
When we find people in trouble, we find people in heartaches,
find people in trials, God comforts us so we can comfort them. Be a comfort to them. If you've
ever been comforted by God, and you see people going through
heartaches and trials and troubles, and then you try to comfort them. Job's friends, they set for Three
days and never said a word. And sometimes that's all it takes,
is just to sit with somebody and not say a word. Just being
with them is comfort. Just comfort. And oh, that we
may be able to comfort them in any trouble by the comfort we
ourselves. God comforted us. God teaches
us so we might comfort somebody else. Oh, my. And I'll tell you
what, this is comfort to live by, And this is comfort to live
with. Comfort for our past. Comfort
for our past. God forgives and He forgets.
Comfort for the present. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the same
today, yesterday, and forever. And then comfort for the future.
You know what Job said? He said, I know that my Redeemer
lives, and He shall stand in the flesh in the latter days.
We know our Redeemer lives. Oh, my. I know some men who they
wouldn't watch a ball game, whether it's basketball or football,
until they knew the score. And then they'd watch it because
they said it's too stressful to watch a game and not know
how it's going to come out. They'd wait till the end of it,
and then they'd find out what the score was, then they'd go
back and watch it. Well, I'll tell you what, we
know the end of the game. We know how this thing's coming
out. We've read the back of the book.
We've seen who's won the score. We've seen who won the victory.
We know who's got all the power. And beloved, we know what the
end of this thing is. Victory's ours already. Oh my,
it's already ours. It belongs to us now, now, now. And oh, let me give you another
one. I'll be done here in just a few minutes. And the power
of his life, the power of his endless life, satisfies the soul. Nothing satisfies the soul like
the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he satisfies the soul. He
said, He that believeth on me shall never hunger again, never
thirst again. Now, what does that mean? No
spiritual hunger, no spiritual thirst. You know what it means?
That we're not looking for anybody else to satisfy our hunger, spiritual
hunger. Christ satisfied it. We're not
looking for another spiritual drink. Christ is our drink. We're not looking for another
light. Christ is our light. We're not looking for no more
bread. Christ is our bread. And oh my, when a soul has Christ,
it doesn't want any more. If you have Christ, you don't
want no more other than Him. And you don't, your soul doesn't
need anybody but Him. We're not looking for any more. We're complete in Christ. Perfect
in Christ. Oh my. And this is something,
let me tell you this. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
you know, I never will forget when stereo started. I was very
young when stereo started. Everything was mono. And that
means it just had one channel, one thing. Well, when Christ
saves us, we become mono maniacs. One God. One faith, one Lord,
one baptism, one way of salvation, one Savior. Everything is one. You cannot misunderstand that. You go listen to some men, you
say, good grief, I don't, what did he talk about? What is he
saying? Well, listen, we all believe one. We just, we just,
you know, our arithmetic's easy to learn. One thing. One way! Oh, it makes it so easy, so good.
I tell you, you understand that. All that 5,000 people walked
away from our Savior, and He looked at each one of them and
said, you gonna go too? You gonna go? No, Lord, we're
not going. We're not leaving. Because you,
you, you have the words. that gives me life, gives me
comfort, gives me salvation, that gives me sustaining power.
You have that power. And then last of all, let me
give you this. The power of his endless life gives us such a
blessed, blessed, blessed hope. I want you to look with me back
over in Timothy. Go back to Timothy. Just keep
going back to your left and you'll get to Timothy pretty quick.
Timothy chapter 1. Oh, my. His power gives us such a
blessed, blessed, glorious hope. And hope has to do with the resurrection. Hope has to do with the future.
Paul, verse 1, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment
of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, our Hope. Our hope. People got a lot of
hope in this world. And things is perishing. But
our hope is in a person. In a person. In a person. I want
you to turn back over here now to 2 Thessalonians. Just keep
going back to your left until you come to 2 Thessalonians.
You're probably looking at it right now. And it's the last
chapter before 1st Timothy. Look down 2nd Thessalonians 2,
16. Talking about a hope, Christ our hope.
Now, Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, even our Father, which
hath loved us. Oh, he hath loved us and hath
given us everlasting consolation and good hope. How did he do
it? Through grace. By grace. He is able to take endless care of his own. Endless care. He's able to save
to the uttermost. That means he's able to save
the uttermost. You know, being confident this
one thing, that he which hath begun a good work in us shall
perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. Our hope is sure. Our hope is steadfast. Our hope
is strong. Not because we're sure, not because
we're steadfast, not because we're strong, but because He
is. He is. Paul said, I know whom
I have believed. And I've been convinced that
whatever I give into his hands, he's able to keep it until the
day of Jesus Christ. And you know, and I'll tell you
what, and here's the thing that we all really, really hope for.
Some of us are there closer than the rest of us. I'm very close
to this. But the hope of being changed,
into his glorious image. David said, I'll be satisfied.
Nothing satisfies me in this world. I'll be satisfied when
I wake in his likeness. I'll be satisfied when I wake
in his likeness and I'll see him in his glory, see him in
his power. Our Father, in the blessed, blessed
name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for your
gospel. Thank you for your word. Thank
you for the life you give, the life you sustain, the life you
satisfy, the life it comforts us. It gives us our blessed, blessed
hope, our glorious hope, our hope for the future. the hope
of the resurrection. Thank you for the grace that
brought this glorious hope. God bless this gospel to the
heart, mind, and understanding. Lord, it's not in my power, not in my abilities
to give anything to anybody other than the gospel. What you do
with it, Lord, is in your power. It's in your power. So we leave
it there. Thank you for your grace. Thank
you for your mercy. Thank you for your love. Thank
you for your saving, saving, sustaining grace. In our Lord
Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me thy great salvation, so rich and free. See you tonight, God
willing.