Will stand up with me and we'll
go to page 475. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb, Redeemed through His infinite mercy. His child and forever
I am. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed, redeemed, His child
and forever I am. Redeemed and so happy in Jesus,
No language my rapture can tell. I know that the light of His
presence With me doth continually dwell. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed, redeemed, His child
and forever I am. I think of my blessed Redeemer,
I think of Him all the day long. I sing for I cannot be silent
His love is the theme of my song Redeemed, redeemed Redeemed by
the blood of the Lamb Redeemed, redeemed His child and forever
I am. I know I shall see in His beauty
The King in whose law I delight, Who lovingly guardeth my footsteps,
and giveth me songs in the night. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed, redeemed, His child
and forever I am. seated, if you would turn to
page 449. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done, So loved He the world that He gave us His Son. Who yielded His life and atonement
for sin, And opened the life-gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. O perfect redemption, the purchase
of blood To every believer the promise of God The vilest offender
who truly believes that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice O come
to the Father Through Jesus the Son And give him the glory Great
things he hath done Great things he hath taught us Great things
He hath done and great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son. But poorer and higher and greater
will be Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he hath done. Turn with me to the book of Galatians,
chapter 1. know it's been a couple of weeks. I'm going to try to pick up where
I left off, but I need to read the verse 12 verses. I'll start in
verse 1, read down to verse 12. Paul, an apostle, not of men,
neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who
raised him from the dead, and all the brethren which are with
me under the churches of Galatia. Grace be to you and peace from
God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself
for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world. according to the will of God
our Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I marvel that you are so soon
removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some
that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though
we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now
again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you that you
have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men or
God? Or do I seek to please men? For
if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren,
that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it by
man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ. Our Father in the precious name,
that name that's above every name, That name that we hold
so precious, that name that we hold so dear, that name, O Lord,
that speaks peace to our heart, gives comfort to our souls, the
Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Master, our Savior, our Redeemer,
our Righteousness. O Lord, He's everything to us.
You yourself said in your word that Christ is all and in all. And Lord, he is all in all to
us. He really, really is. And we're
grateful that you made him that way to us. We could not know
these things if you hadn't taught us, hadn't revealed them to us.
So, Lord, meet with us tonight. Meet with us and enable me to
speak, enable the saints to hear. And Lord Jesus, we pray for Debbie
and Jim. Continue to pray for them. that
Jim would get stronger and stronger, and you'd give Debbie grace to
handle him, deal with him in her situation, in his situation. Pray for Rick and Helen. Lord, they got so much older and yet
with so much trouble, so much heartache, so much sorrow in
their lives. God strength them, encourage them, bless them by
your grace, Give them grace, give them strength. You be their
strength. You be their very present help in time of trouble. And
Lord, we pray for others among us who are going through great
fights of affliction, who's going through great burdens, going
through great trials. God, we know that your grace
is sufficient, but yet we still pray for them so we could share
in their burdens and pray for them that God that you would
Be with them and you'd get the glory for what you do for them. And forgive us of everything
that's unlike you. Every thought, every word, every
unkind thing, everything we've said and done is so unlike you.
Oh, God, forgive us. Bring glory to yourself through
us tonight. For Christ's sake, amen. If you would, turn your hymnals
to page 388. We'll sing, Have Thine Own Way,
Lord. Amen. Have Thine Own Way, Lord Have
Thine own way. Thou art the potter, I am the
clay. Mold me and make me after Thy
will, While I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord, have
Thine own way. Search me and try me, Master,
today. Whiter than snow, Lord, wash
me just now, As in Thy presence humbly I bow. Have Thine own way, Lord, have
Thine own way. Wounded and weary, help me, I
pray. Power, all power, surely is Thine. Touch me and heal me, Savior
divine. Have Thine own way, Lord, have
Thine own way. Hold, O my being, absolute sway. Fill with Thy Spirit, till all
shall see Christ only, always living in me. Get my message from verse 10
down through verse 12. Persuading men or God? Men or
God? Verse 10, for do I now persuade
men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For
if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
You know, Paul called and a deviation from the gospel, a perversion. He said, they pervert the gospel
of Christ. And we all know what perversion
means. And he said, if they pervert
the gospel of Christ, they change the gospel. And any other than
what we've already preached to you, let them be cursed. Let
God curse them. He believed these Galatians were
believers. So why was he so concerned for
them? Ain't there room enough for differences,
interpretation of the gospel? No, no, there's not. There's
not. The apostles writing by inspiration. He didn't just sit down and say,
I'm going to write the Galatians and try to straighten them out.
For all scripture is given by inspiration of God. God breathed
his prophet for correction, instruction, and reproof and instruction in
righteousness. So he's writing by inspiration. And God is using the apostle
Paul to warning for all time and eternity. Every time we read
Galatians chapter one, that there's a perversion of the gospel, and
there ain't but one gospel. And I'll tell you what, he's
warning for all time, for everybody that ever reads the Bible, that
there ain't but one gospel. And if you ever change that gospel,
it's a perversion of the gospel. And his concern was twofold. The gospel is called the glorious
gospel of the blessed God. Secondly, it concerns his son,
Jesus Christ, our Lord. And here's the difference in
man's gospel and a perverted gospel and the gospel of God.
The gospel The gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of the
glorious blessing of God gives God all the glory. He gets all
the glory. And the gospel that detracts
anything from God's glory is a perversion of the gospel. And
I'll tell you, anything that detracts from God's glory or
diminishes the grace of Christ that belittles the sovereign
mercy of God in Christ is a perversion. And it's dangerous, it's so dangerous
to deviate from God's perfect provision for the salvation of
His people. That's why he said, would you
tempt God? Paul said, you know, and Peter
said, then would you tempt God? When they wanted to bring in
the law and wanted to bring in words, would you tempt God to
bring a burden, put a yoke on these men that we or our fathers
were not able to bear? And I'll think about, I wonder
about, I remember myself, it was such a burden to try to live
right. It was such a burden to try to
make your own peace. Such a burden to try to live
by works. Such a burden, and you never,
ever got to lay that burden down. But now, Christ, he bore all
the burden. He bore all the shame, he bore
all the guilt. I don't have to carry anything
anymore. Don't have to do anything. Gonna rest in him. And oh my, who would add to or
improve a rim branch? You know, if you saw a rim branch,
would you say, boy, this needs one more brush stroke on it? That's like the gospel. Well,
I can, you know, I can change it. And he was concerned over
the danger of the apostasy. The apostasy. I marvel, he said,
that you're so soon removed from the grace of Christ to another
gospel, which is not another. Now, God's elect are secure.
We are secure. We're eternally secure. It's
impossible for one whom Christ died for to fall away. It's impossible. But there are those who make
a profession who appear to be real, and they turned their backs
on the gospel. You know, in the parable of the
sower, there's four different kinds of soil, but there's only
one seed that bring forth any fruit. The scripture says that
a sower, our Lord said a sower, it sows the word of God. That's
what he's supposed to do. He said, they sow the word of
God. But the word don't fall on good ground all the time.
It appears like it's going to bring forth fruit, but there's
only one seed that brings forth fruit, and that's all it's ever
bringing forth. And look over here in Galatians
chapter 5 and verse 4 with me for a moment. Look what it says
over here. And I've said, and Greg Amquist
said it Sunday morning, he said, if a person can leave the gospel,
they will. If a person can quit, they will
quit. If you could walk away from the
gospel, you'll walk away from it. And look what he said here
in verse 4. Christ is become of no effect
unto you, not effectual for you. Whosoever of you who are justified
by law, reformed or any other way, look what he says, you're
fallen from grace. You know what it takes to fall
from grace? add anything to Christ or take anything away from Christ
and you've lost grace immediately just like that just like that
and oh my when professors deviate from truth and get involved in
error fool around with new ideas that have no foundation in scripture
and there's lots of people that's got new ideas that has no foundation
in the scriptures whatsoever They must be warned against these
things. And the only way you can warn
against them is by declaring the truth. Mr. Spurgeon said
one time, and I think I've told you this before, you won't know
how crooked a stick is until you lay a straight one down beside
it. And you may be carrying a crooked stick most of your lives, and
when that God starts laying that straight stick down beside it,
you start saying, boy, my stick's been crooked. I mean, it's really
crooked. I see how crooked it is. And that's the only thing
that'll do it is the gospel, is the gospel. And oh my, and
he now returns to the fact of his apostleship that was not
of men, neither was his gospel. He said in verse 11 here, but
I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of me is not after man. He said, I'm an apostle, not
of man, but by Jesus Christ. He said, I neither received it
by man. I never got this gospel from
another man, neither was I taught it. Somebody never said I'm taught
it to me. You know how I got the gospel? By revelation, by
revelation. And that's what he is talking
about. And then he says this, and that back there, he says,
now, He said here, in verse 10, do
I persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? You know,
pleasing men or pleasing God? Pleasing men or pleasing God?
And he asked this question. Do I persuade men or do I persuade
God? Can you persuade God to do anything?
That's what he's saying here. He's using a statement, using
a question. What could I persuade God to
do? Could I change Him in any way? Could I entice Him to do
something? Could I entice Him to change
His way of dealing with people? Could I entice God, could I persuade
Him to change His mind? Or do I persuade men? Well, we know that God can't
be persuaded. We know that God can't be changed.
So he said, what we do is we persuade men. He said, oh, listen. He said, I persuade men knowing
the terror of the Lord. I persuade men. And I'll tell
you, you know, God don't need persuading, but man needs persuading. Man needs persuading. Man's the
one that needs convinced. That's why we preach the gospel
over and over and over. And he says, but if I seek to
please men, if I make my ministry to seek to please the men that
I'm preaching to and the people that I get around, then he said,
you know what? I would not possibly be a servant
of Christ if I tried to please men. If I tried to make men like
me, and I tried to make men persuade, you know, make men please their
flesh, please what they're doing, and make them feel good about
everything that they're doing in this life, instead of telling
them that they're worms, that they're lost, that they're sinful,
if you do that, try to please men, Christ said, there's no
way I could be a servant of Christ if I tried to please men. Oh,
my. And I tell you what, you know,
These people here in Galatians, they were preachers seeking to
please. They were men seeking to please.
They were trying to please the Jews. They wanted the Jews and
they wanted the Gentiles to come and be like a Jew. They wanted
to bring them back under the law of Moses. They wanted to
bring them back to circumcision. They wanted to bring them back
to works. And there was a time that Paul was just like this.
Look what he said in verse 13 down here. There was a time he
was just like this, when he talked to pleased men. For ye have heard
of my conversation, my manner of life, and times past in the
Jews' religion. There's a difference in the Jews'
religion and what the Gentiles believed. And he says, how that
beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and I wasted it. And listen to this, and profited
in the Jews' religion above many my equal in mine own nation,
being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. He said, there was a time that
I sought to please men. There was a time that I sought
to make myself known, make myself to be somebody and persuade men. He sought the applause and approval
of men And oh my, now he doesn't seek the pleasure and approval
of men. And I tell you, when we impose
any achievement, any achievement by the flesh unto or upon the
gospel of free grace, we got to reject it, got to reject it.
And that's what Paul does here. He said, I'm not seeking to please
men. I'm not seeking to please men. And oh my. And you know, people say all
the time, when they talk about police and men, you can't be
saved except, you can't be saved except you do this. You can't
be saved except you do that. You can't be saved except you
dress this way. You can't be saved if you go
to this place. You can't be saved if you go
do this thing, if you don't dress a certain way. You know, I was
talking to Greg, he went out and preached up in Canada a few
weeks ago. And there's a, group up there
that they're Dutch they're Dutch and They came over and they still
speak in Dutch and he says, you know, they got a church in this
this And this is he said everybody they got ten elders ten elders
and they come into the service and every one of them wear black
and they wear a hat and they got big long beards and And they
come down to church in a profession, in a procession. Five go over
here and sit on the front, five go over here and they sit on
the front. And I'll tell you what, I'd hate
to face that bunch if I got up to preach. I'd say, boy, I'll
tell you, your clothes, your heart's as black as your clothes. Your heart's as black as your
clothes. That's the first thing you'd
have to tell men. You'd have to tell them, oh, listen, you
can walk down this hall and make a profession all you want to.
But the fact is that if you do anything, anything to please
the flesh in any circumstances, you've detracted from the gospel
of the grace of God. And I'll tell you, that's why,
you know, I've said it so many times. Why is our service is
so simple? Why don't we just read a couple,
sing a couple of songs, read some scriptures and preach? You
know why we do that? We don't give the flesh any chance
to do anything. You know, the flesh, we're singing. And then we read scriptures and
we preach. That don't give the flesh time
to do anything. Do you know, and I tell you what, the thing
that bothers you more about your flesh than anything in the service
is how your mind wanders. That bothers you more than anything
you'll ever do in the service. Your mind wanders over here,
and mine wanders over there. What you left undone, what you
got to do tomorrow. And that stuff, that's the flesh. So we got to do every, you know,
we got to, by the grace of God, preach in such a way, keep that
flesh. Oh my. And I tell you what, and
I tell you works and law appeals to man's pride. Oh, how it appeals
to man's pride. But, oh my, it can't please God. They won't please God, and they
won't persuade God. There's people that they think
that they actually can persuade God to change, but it can't be. Oh, to please God is to serve
Christ, to honor Christ, to glorify Christ. To serve Him is to preach
Him, preach the grace of Christ. The minute, the minute We ask
how we can attract people. How can we attract people? How
can we get people to do something? How can we attract people to
come to the service? You know, sometimes in the service
here, we ain't got enough people to carry a casket if we had to.
And that's sad. That's sad. But you know, the
minute we try to attract people to do something for God, What
can we offer them to please them? And there's only one way. Pervert
the gospel. Change the gospel. Change the
gospel. And that's why Paul says we're
not going to pervert the gospel. And then, oh, look what he says
here now in verses 11 and 12. The gospel is revealed. The gospel
is revealed. I certify you. You know what
a certificate is? You know what this means to certify
something? That means to actually examine
it and certify it and say, this is nothing. This is flawless
here. This is flawless right here.
I certify you, but the gospel which was preached of me is not
after man. Not after man. Oh my. You know, false gospels designed
to please men. They originate in the human mind. But the gospel is revealed from
heaven. He said, the gospel that I have
revealed to me, no man, John 3.27 says this, no man can receive
nothing unless it be given him from heaven. You can't receive
nothing unless God gives it to you from heaven. That's what
the scripture tells us. And that's why he says the gospel
our priest is not after man. I didn't get it from man. I didn't
receive it from man. And he'll go on down here and
tell us how, what happened here. I did what man didn't. I didn't
sit down and let somebody teach it to me. But I got the gospel
by Christ revealing it to me. And Paul, God taught Paul things
that he never taught anybody else. He was the first preacher
to preach that salvation was for Jew and Gentile, for bond
or free, male or female. He never made no distinction
in anybody. The Jews make a great distinction,
and they still make a distinction. And religion makes distinctions.
But Paul says, you know, the gospel does not make distinctions. The gospel does not make any
difference in the condition of man and how God saves a man. It makes no difference in man
whatsoever. And I didn't receive it by man,
by the revelation of Christ. And the revelation of Christ
is preserved in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. James
read from Genesis chapter one tonight, back there in the study. And I tell you what, the first
thing he says, God, God. And God said, let there be light.
There ain't gonna be no light in us unless God said, let there
be light. As God commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, what does he say? He shined the light.
of the gospel of Christ into our hearts. And all look over
in John 539. Keep keep Galatians. Look in
John 539 with me. Our Lord said. In verse 38. John 538. telling the, He's telling these
Jews and them that stand in there. He said, You have not His Word
abiding in you, God's Word, for whom He hath sent you believe
not. And He says, Search the Scriptures. Search them. Look through them.
Go in Genesis. Go in Exodus. Go in Leviticus. Go in Numbers. Go in Joshua,
go in the Bible, go in Judges, go anywhere you want to. He said,
search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal
life. But he said, I'll tell you what,
they are they which tell of me, testify of me. You search them,
and if you don't find me, you're searching in vain. That's what
he's telling about. And all this place is Paul's
writing, and preaching and thing as the same category of revelation
of the Old Testament Scriptures, same revelation. And let me tell
you something about the gospel, it's unique. It's unique. The only one authentic gospel,
only authentic gospel. A different gospel, he said,
a perverted gospel is really not another gospel, it's a perversion.
And in listening to men, there are so many versions of the Gospel. Let me give you a few of them.
There's the Gospel of works. You know, preachers, as a guy
started a work out on Genesis Road, And
they're doubling the size of that building. They got a big
construction company and they're doubling the size of that building.
And he started out with three or four cars and now they've
got parking lots full, packed out. Oh, they got them parked
in fields. They got them parked everywhere. And he's the same one started
that Christian Fellowship Church out by the flea market going
that way. But anyway, what I'm telling
you is, is that there's so many different versions of the gospel.
There's the gospel of works. Everybody knows what that is.
Gospel of works. And man, by nature, he wants
to do something to please God. He wants to do something to make
himself acceptable. And then there's the gospel of
decision. One of the famous preachers of
all time said he is preaching and he had a radio program called
it the hour of decision. Hour of decision. God made a,
you know, God, God, God, the devil made a vote for you and
God made a vote for you. Now you make the decision who
you go serve. You make the decision. And then
there's the social gospel. You know what that one is? Oh,
go out here and go to soup kitchens and do things for us, you know,
get sociable and make a gospel based on social mores and social,
you know, and around social things. Come in and we'll have donuts
and coffee every morning. You come in here and visit together
and drink some coffee and let's eat some donuts together. Oh,
boy. And then there's the free will
gospel. Oh my, what a perversion all these are. The free will
gospel. There ain't no gospel in the free will. Can't possibly
be gospel in free will. It'd be impossible for the will
to be free. Our Christ, our Lord says, you
will not come to me that you might have. Oh, and then what
about, there's a liberation theology. I read about that liberation
theology is telling you all you got to do to be free. The things
that you gotta do to be free, you gotta be, quit doing this
and quit doing that and quit being doubtful and quit being
fearful and all that and liberate yourself from all that stuff.
And then there's the healing bunch, the miracle bunch, the
charismatic bunch. Oh my. There was a, somebody
told the other night of some preacher that they used to know
and he preached the gospel for a while and he left And he joined
a charismatic church, tongue-speaking church. He just says, well, if a man
don't preach the gospel, Tom Hardy said, if you don't preach
the gospel, sit down and shut up. Get out of the ministry.
And that's the truth. If they ain't preaching it, get
out of it. And then there's what they call sacramental gospel. Now what that means is that you
make sacrifices. And then there's really power
in the bread that you eat, and there's power in the wine that
you drink, that it actually has the power in it to do something
for you in this world, that it will change you. It changes into
the blood of Christ and the body of Christ. And I tell you what, men that
think that they take a little old piece of bread and say that's
the body of Christ, when you take that, the body you're eating,
actually eating the body of Christ, and you drink this wine, you're
actually taking the blood of Christ. And you get life from
that, and God gives grace in that. What a perversion, what
a perversion. And all of them are the vengeance
of men. And against them all stands one, revelation of the
gospel of the grace of God in Christ. And the gospel was made
known by the revelation of Christ. Ain't that what he said over
here in verse 1 there and down in verse 12? Neither was I taught
it, but I got it by the revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation
of our Lord himself. Christ taught me the gospel,
made known to him by the revelation of Christ. not through some general
revelation, but Christ revealed it to him personally, personally,
personally made it known by posting. And this gospel, this is why
they hated Paul so much. They hated him so much is because
he started preaching that Gentiles could be saved exactly like anybody
else would be saved. And the Jews hated Gentiles.
They hated them. They thought they were just a
bunch of dogs. And we were. We was ignorant. We didn't have
law. We didn't have anything but false
gods. False gods. And that's why on
Mars Hill he said he'd seen all these different gods. He said,
oh, you've got lots and lots of gods here. But just in case
you missed one, you've got one here that says the altar of the
unknown god. Well, you know the god you don't
know about? I'm going to tell you about him. I'm gonna tell you about it.
And he did, he started with God creating the world, made all
things. And oh my, and I'll tell you
what, the gospel is for, it makes no difference in me. And that's
what I love about the gospel. The gospel makes no distinction
except for Christ dying for his elect, particularly for his elect.
But I don't know who they are. Oh, that's why we preach the
gospel. We're not trying to please men or, you know, we're preaching
the gospel and God do what he will with it. I have some here
that I pray that God would do something for and I hope he does.
But if he don't, that's left up to him. And oh my, and it
come to Paul, this gospel of Jew and Gentile, male and female,
bond or free. Back in them days, the Romans,
They had more slaves than there were citizens. And they were
scared to death, said, if these slaves, these bondmen, these
slaves that we have here, if they ever rise up against us,
we're gone. So they had to keep them in such
bondage. Paul went over and preached to them, you men that are slaves,
Christ is your only hope. You men that are free and all
slaves, the only hope for you is Christ. You women, the only
hope for you is Christ. You Gentile dogs, the only hope
for you is Christ. And they hated him for that.
Because he made the gospel for, it made no difference. God is
rich unto all that call upon him. All that call upon him. And I said the gospel is Christ
in all of his, all of his glorious attributes. It's a full revelation
of Christ. Look over in Ephesians chapter
3. Look what Paul said about this gospel. And it's a full
revelation of Christ. When Paul was struck down on
the Damascus Road, he said, who art thou Lord? He said, I'm Jesus. And you're persecuting me. You're
going to quit kicking this way. You're going to quit You know, you're not going to
go against me anymore. You've kicked one last time against
me, and you ain't going to kick again. And he put him down. And oh, look what he said here
in verse 8. This is what he thought about himself. Unto me, who am
less than the least of all saints. Boy, there's a lot of saints.
Unto me, who am less than all saints, is this grace given? Oh my. Thank God that grace is
given. And that I should preach, preach
among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. He said, I'm
preaching the riches of Christ and you can't, you can't, he
got so much you can't search them out. Got so much. And oh
my. A revealed gospel must be a perfect
gospel. A revelation gospel, a gospel
revealed must be a perfect gospel. You know why? Because it's God's
work. It's God's work. Man has no input
in it. It must be flawless. It must
be complete. You can't improve upon the gospel.
You can't improve upon the gospel of grace. You can't improve upon
the gospel of Christ. If you add anything to it, you
destroy it. You delete anything from it,
you destroy it. So it has to be perfect. It has
to be flawless. It has to be complete. To say
that Christ is insufficient and you need another gospel? Ah. You know, one of these things
that I despise in this new gospel that people have today Is this
contemporary? Contemporary. Which I'll get
to that here in a minute. But a revealed gospel has to
be perfect. And a revealed gospel, when Paul
said, the gospel was revealed to me, a revealed gospel has
to be unchangeable. Has to be unchanged. You can't
change the gospel. If it's the gospel, you can't
change it. Why would you want to change it? If it's the gospel
of the grace of God, if it's the gospel of Christ, it's unchangeable. Look in Revelations 14. Go over
here in Revelations 14. You know, it was born of God,
executed by God himself. In Revelations 14, look down
here in verse 6. You know, it's born of God, this
gospel was executed by God. He sent Christ into the world.
It's an unchangeable gospel. And I saw another angel. fly
in the midst of heaven. Listen to this now. Having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth.
When did it start? It started before the foundation
of the world. When's it going to end? When
the world ceases to be. To every nation and kindred and
tongue and people. That's what he said. Everlasting
gospel. It's unchangeable. Born of God,
executed of God, grace was given us in Christ before the world
began. Every generation is looking for something new. People tell
you all the time, we need to make the gospel. We need to bring
it up to date. We need to bring it up to date.
Let's make it contemporary for people to understand it better.
Oh my. Preaching's out. We don't want
preaching anymore. Let's sit down and have a dialogue.
Let's have a talk about this thing. Let's have a dialogue
about things. Oh my. And they'll tell you that
doctrine divides people. Doctrine divides people. Let's
quit preaching. Let's leave doctrine off. We
don't need doctrine. What we need is all of us are
going to the same place. Let's all just put aside our
differences, and let's all get away from all our differences,
and let's all meet around the same thing, around our experiences,
around our lives, and how our ideas are. Let everybody have
his own idea. Let everybody have his own opinion.
And I'll tell you what, the first time somebody asked you, said,
listen, we need to get together and have a Bible study. You know
what, somebody, when they say that, they want to be a teacher. I've been places where the women
say, well, the women need to get together and have Bible study.
You know, the worst that says that, I'm going to be the one
to teach them how to, I'm going to be the one to tell them how
to. That's exactly what they want.
And then when they get in there, What do you think about it? What
do you think about it? We don't care what people think about
it. There ain't but one gospel. There ain't but one Bible. There
ain't but one truth. Oh, everybody's looking. You all heard this guy on the
radio. He says all the time, oh, come as you are, come as
you are, come as you are, come as you are. We don't care what
you look like. Don't get tattooed up, tattooed
down. We don't make any difference.
Oh, listen. Sure enough, they come in with
their baseball caps on, their shorts and their flip flops.
No respect for God. No reverence for God. If the
preacher has no reverence for God, the people that he's preaching
to is not going to have any reverence for God. and the people that
he's preaching to, if he is preaching in his t-shirt, or preaching
in a golf shirt, and preaching in his flip-flops, then everybody,
nobody's gonna have any regard or respect for God himself. Oh my, but oh, that's, but oh,
let's have a, let's have a, let's make this thing so contemporary.
You know, we don't need evangelism anymore. We just need to find
out how to market people. Oh, but the gospel's a revelation. It's a revelation. It can't be
reproved upon. And every generation's looking
for something new. And I tell you what, I've been
shocked sometimes at some of the things that people's come
up with. I know when they first started putting out these flyers
years and years and years ago, you know, come, we're gonna have
contemporary worship. And now most places, they have
the old-fashioned service early in the morning for old-fashioned
people. You come at 8 o'clock, and we'll
have you out here by 9 o'clock, and we'll sing Amazing Grace
and Jesus Paid it All. And then at 9.30, they switch
over to contemporary. So they've got the people that
like the old-fashioned, you know, they're called traditionalists. And then you got the contemporaries
that come in. And the contemporary, when they
come in, they get out the drums, they get out the guitar player,
they get out the horn player, and they start having a big time.
And people can come in any way they want. But all my certified brethren, that the
gospel that I preach, man didn't have a thing in the world to
do with it. Nobody taught it to me, Christ revealed it to
me. And that's the same way it is with us. If we know anything
about the gospel, God has to reveal it. And that's why we
gotta keep preaching it and preaching it and preaching it. You know,
people talk about we need to preach the gospel. Preach it.
And I tell you, oh God help us. Oh, we're in the days of Noah again.
Going to be eight of us saved. I hope some of you, I hope some
of you are in that eight. I'm a bit facetious now, but
Lord help us. Oh, our Father, oh, your word
has such Power, and thank you for revelation. Thank you for
your Bible. Thank you for your word. It tells
us, Lord, that there is a perversion of the gospel. And Lord, we don't want the gospel
perverted. We don't want to change anything.
Our Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel's perfect. It's complete. It's unique. There's nothing
like it on this earth. It's that you use, you use the
gospel to save your people. You use the gospel as the power
of God to change men's hearts and minds and wills and affections
and emotions. Or you use the gospel as the
power of God to do for men and women that they can't do for
themselves. So God give us thy blessed grace
to always, always preach the gospel, always to glorify Christ,
always to honor Him, always to bring glory to Him, none to ourselves
in any way. Lord, we trust not in ourselves
in any way, but we trust our Lord Jesus Christ, who did it
all, all to Him we owe. He washed us white as snow, cleansed
us from our sin. God bless these dear saints as
they go the way. And Lord, we pray again for our
brothers and sisters who are in trials, who are in burden,
and in the things that they have to go through in this world.
Lord, please uphold them. Please be their strength and
stay for Christ's sake. Amen. Let's sing Jesus paid it
all. Is that 125? I think that's 125,
ain't it? Let's sing that. You can't go wrong talking about
our Lord Jesus, singing about Him. Let's stand together. When we're done with this song,
you can go, if you're willing to go. And I'll see you Wednesday
night. I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and
pray. finding me thine all in all. Jesus paid it all, all to him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
he washed it white as snow. Lord, now indeed I find Thy power
and Thine alone Can change the leper's spots And melt the heart
of stone Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe Sin had left a crimson
stain, He washed it white as snow. For nothing to divide,
Whereby thy grace to claim, I'll wash my garments white, In the
blood of Calvary's Lamb, Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. And when before the throne I
stand in Him complete, Jesus died my soul to save. ? My lips shall still repeat
his name ? ? All to him I owe ? ? Sid had
left a crimson stain ? ? He washed it white as snow ? See you Wednesday
night, God willing.