Good evening. Let's all stand
together. I forgot to put my stickers on. Number 17. M number 17. Come Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount I'm fixed upon
it, mount of thy redeeming love. Here I raise mine Ebenezer, Gathered
by thy help I'm come And I hope by thy good pleasure Safely to
arrive at home Jesus sought me when a stranger Wand'ring from
the fold of God He to rescue me from danger interposed his
precious blood. Oh, to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be. Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
By my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it, Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, O, take and
seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above. Be seated, we'll sing
hymn number six. Hymn number six. Come thou almighty king, help
us thy name to sing. Help us to praise. Father, all glorious, Lord, all
victorious, come and reign over us, ancient of days. Come, thou incarnate Word, gird
on thy mighty sword. ? Our prayer attend ? ? Come
and thy people bless ? ? And give thy word success ? ? Spirit
of holiness ? ? On us descend ? ? Come holy comforter ? Thy
sacred witness bear In this glad hour Thou who almighty art Now
rule in every heart And ne'er from us depart Spirit of power
? To the great one in three ? ? Eternal praises be ? ? It's evermore
? ? His sovereign majesty ? ? May we in glory see ? ? And to eternity
love and adore ? Good evening, I'd like us to
read a few verses from Romans chapter 15. Romans 15. We then that are strong ought
to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves,
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. Even Christ pleased not himself,
but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproach thee fell
on me. Whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience
and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now, the God
of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one toward
another, according to Christ Jesus. May with one mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, receive ye one another
as Christ also received us to the glory of God. Now I say that
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God to confirm the promises made under the fathers, and that
the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles and
sing unto thy name. And again, he saith, rejoice,
ye Gentiles, with his people. And again, praise the Lord, all
ye Gentiles, and laud him, all ye people. And again, Isaiah
saith, there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise
to reign over the Gentiles. In him shall the Gentiles trust. Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through
the power of the Holy Ghost. Our kind and gracious and merciful
Heavenly Father, we bow once again. We confess our nothingness,
we have nothing to bring. We offer our praise and our thanksgiving from the heart that you've given
us to praise you. Thank you for our dear Savior,
most of all. We have so much to be thankful
for, but our hope and our salvation, our
life, all that we need, we find in
our Lord Jesus Christ, who came and who died, who laid down his
life. Lord, as we open your word tonight,
May he be set forth, may he appear to our minds and our hearts and
our eyes and our ears as we hear. Help us to honor him tonight.
Establish us, establish our hearts, edify us. Establish our hope once again
in him. Send us assurance and faith and
grace. May your word go forth in power and meet the needs of our hearts
in this hour. We confess we need you. We find
no hope in ourselves or anything in this world. All we see and
find is emptiness, vanity, trouble, turmoil, sin. Thank you for your
word. Thank you for this time where
we can shed all that out by your grace and look at your eternal
word that lifts us up and gives us hope, gives us joy and peace
in believing. Establish us, Lord, in your word. Establish our hearts in your
grace. Be with our dear pastor as he
leads us. Thank you for his labor, that
he continues to labor, to preach. Bear messages. Help him tonight. Equally so, help us as hearers
to hear. Join our ears. Soften our hearts. Cause the word to penetrate.
our souls and our minds and our hearts. May we go forth from
this place rejoicing. Thank you for the gathering of
your people. Pray for the lost. Oh, we remember
those that we love that know nothing of your salvation, know
nothing of their need. Lord, go to them. intervene in their lives, cause
them to need you, to seek you, to fall down before you seeking
mercy. Oh, we all need your mercy. Thank
you that there is mercy. Thank you that there is salvation
and there is a Redeemer, our blessed Redeemer. He solved our sin problem. Lord,
we can't affect anything. But he came and he died, and
he solved our sin problem and put it away. How we thank you
for him, our successful Savior. Pray for those that are weak
and sick and ailing. Help them and give them grace
and mercy to endure what you providentially brought to them. Go through this service with
us Once again, bring honor to thyself, who alone is worthy,
in Christ's name, amen. Item number 176. 176. Break thou the bread of life,
dear Lord, to me, as thou didst break the loaves beside the sea. Be on the sacred page, I seek
Thee, Lord. My spirit pents for Thee, O Living
Word. Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord. ? To me, to me ? ? As Thou didst
bless the bread by Galilee ? ? Then shall all bondage cease, all
fetters go ? And I shall find my peace, my all in all. Thou art the bread of life, O
Lord, to me. Thy holy word, the truth that
saveth me. Give me to eat and live with
Be a bird, teach me to love the truth, for the Lord loves. O send thy Spirit, Lord, now
unto me, that he may touch my eyes and make me see. Show me the truth, God still,
within thy word, and in thy book revealed I see the Lord. Turn with me to Romans 5, Romans
chapter 5. Our subject this evening is seven
men, seven men. I talked about seven mountains
here a few weeks ago. Started out with Abraham offering
Isaac. Sinai and ended up at Calvary.
Started one mountain and ended up where God always meant for
us to be. At Mount Calvary, there where
Christ was crucified. And that's where I want to, that's
where my starting place is and my ending place is. Our Lord
Jesus Christ dying for me. Dying for me. But the Bible tells
us about seven men, that describes seven men, And every believer
is identified with every one of these men. Every one of these
men, I believe when I deal with them, you'll say, well, yeah,
I'm identified with him. And there's seven of them. And let me start with the first
one. Look what he says here in Romans 5, 12, talking about Adam. Adam is the first man. Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in
the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law." So what
he's saying is that the law entered that the offense might abound,
but look what he says. Nevertheless, though there was
no law, No law written, no Ten Commandments, no moral law. But
nevertheless, death reigned. From who? From Adam all the way
to Moses, who gave us the law. Even over them, listen to this,
even over them who had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
congression, who was the figure of him to come, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, I want you to look with
me in Genesis. I want you to look with me in
Genesis chapter 2. When we talk about Adam, everybody
descended from Adam. My children, I descended from
Adam. Your children descended from Adam. Everybody is related
to Adam. And what the Scriptures tells
us is that Adam was the head of a race, a federal race. He
was the federal head of a race. He was the beginning of all of
God's creation other than the heavens and the earth. He was
the very first man. He was the first man. He was
earthy. And Adam means the man of the red earth. And look what
it tells us about Adam down here in verse 6 of Genesis chapter
3. Excuse me, Genesis chapter 3.
I'm sorry. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, God told him not to eat of the tree of
knowledge of good and evil, but Satan deceived her. Adam wasn't
the one deceived. Eve was the one that was deceived.
Adam did this with his eyes wide open. He deliberately did what
God told him not to do. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise, Ain't that what man
wants to be, wise in his own eyes? And did eat, and look what
it said, gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. What
in the world happened when he ate of that fruit? What happened? Something that happened to all
of us and affected all of us. By that one man, sin entered
into this world, by this one man. And death passed upon that
man, this separation from God and physical death. And every
one of us died with Adam when he died. We spiritually died
with him. And God, if He don't have mercy
on us, we'll also die the same death He did. And look what it
said in verse 7. And the eyes of them both were
opened. That's something that they never
knew before. And they knew that they were
naked. God made them naked. God made
them that way. He made them that way. They didn't
have anything that bothered them before. I don't know how long
they'd been in the garden, but oh my. And here's the first thing
they did, and this is what naked people do. Religious naked people
do exactly the same thing. They sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons or things to gird about them. That's
the first thing everybody does that's the that's what our relationship
to Adam caused us to do Men Oh Barney. I've said it so many
times Barnard said this he said the safest place to hide from
God joined a Baptist Church And that's the truth safest place
to hide from God is joined a Baptist Church. And then look what he
said and They heard the voice Now this is one of them To whom
the prophets give witness and they heard a voice of the Lord
God walking in the garden Now God is a spirit, he don't walk,
so who is this walking in the garden? That can only be one
person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves, hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord amongst the trees
of the garden. That's what sin does to us. That's
what this one man, by sin, entered in. And he's the head of the
race. And look what God said to him. And the Lord God called
unto Adam, you know, the thought to his head. And if God, this
is what God's got to do for us. And the Lord God called unto
Adam, said unto him, where are you? He's off and hid in those
trees. God knew exactly where he was.
And he wasn't asking him for information, he wanted Adam to
know. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden and I was
afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. And he said, who
told you that you was naked? He said, hast thou eaten of the
tree where I commanded thee thou eatest not? And this is what
another effect of sin on us, the woman you gave me. want to
blame everybody else. And that's, that's been, that's
the, that's one of the worst sins that we commit being related
to Adam is somebody else's fault. If it hadn't been for you, I
wouldn't have done this. If it hadn't been for you, I
wouldn't have come, I wouldn't have went this way. I wouldn't
have done that. I wouldn't have said, and you know, so everybody,
people don't want, and that's what God said, listen, if you
ate of that tree that I told you not, The woman that you gave
to me, it's the woman that you gave to me. And the woman said
it's the serpent that done it. Everybody was fault but Adam. But what Adam did, we did. One man entered into this world
and death and sin and came by one man, one man. And that's
what sin does to us. That's what it does. And what
he's the head of the federal human race, and what he did,
we did as being in him. He sinned, we sinned. He fell, we fell. He died, we
died. 1 Corinthians 15, 22 says in
Adam, all die. All die. Now listen to the second
man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Get that back over in Romans
5 with me. Back over in Romans 5. It says
there in verse 14 at the bottom of it, the simitude of Adam's
transgression who is a figure of him that was to come. That
word figure means also a type. Adam was a figure of Christ that
was to come. And now this is the difference
between what Adam did and what Christ did. But not as the offense,
not as the sin, The offense brought death, but also is the free gift. For if through the offense of
that one man, that one sin, many be dead, much more, much, much
more the grace of God and the gift by grace by one man. Jesus Christ has abounded unto
men. We had many sins through Adam. We fell in Him, we inherited
His nature, and we sinned many offenses, but the free gift,
and that was grace, through our Lord Jesus Christ, it abounded
unto all of our sins, all of our many offenses. And oh, look
with me over in 1 Corinthians 15. And he was a federal head
of a human race. He was also the federal head
of a race that God gave him, a people that God gave him. And
I tell you what, Chosen hit our Lord. He he was that race federal
head of a race chosen among Adams fallen race This is you know
God never Died for an angel Christ never died for an angel Christ
never laid down his life for an angel and there were fallen
angels and And thus we were born in sin, shaped in iniquity, conceived
in sin, raised in sin, but our Lord Jesus Christ came and by
a free gift, His grace abounded through many,
many, many offenses. And look what He said here in
1 Corinthians 15, 45. Oh my, our Lord, you know, God chose
a people out of the out of this fallen race. Oh, such a fallen
race. That's why we pray for our children.
That's why we pray for our grandchildren. That's why, you know, Armenians,
they think that, you know, they don't need to pray for their
children because they're not gonna be accountable till they're
12 years old. You know, I don't know where
they got that. They're not held accountable
till you're 12 years old. But now, wait a minute, wait
a minute. When you're shaven in iniquity
and you're conceived in sin, and you know, I'm telling you,
that's why we who are real believers and understand the depravity
and the sinfulness of the human nature, we pray for our children
even before they're born. Because we understand we're bringing
an eternal soul into this world, and he's gonna be related to
us. Not just Adam, but us. And that's why we pray for them.
We understand what they are and what they'll be and how they'll
end up if God don't do something for them. So we start praying
for our children in the womb. We don't wait till they get 12
years old and try to talk them into a profession and trying
to talk them in to get baptized. We understand what shape they're
in. And that's why we say that the Lord Jesus Christ is, listen,
there's no other savior. There's no other anybody. Everything
that he did for us, he's called it the free gift and it's a free
gift of grace. And it was for many offenses,
many offenses. And oh, look what he said in
1 Corinthians 15, 45. And so it is written. He goes
back to Galatians or Genesis 2, 7. So it is written, the first
man, Adam, was made a living soul. God breathed into his nostrils
and he became a living soul. The last Adam, the Lord Jesus
Christ, is a quickening spirit. One that gives life, death in
Adam, life in Christ. But here's what he said, first
of all, that which was spiritual was not first. The spiritual
man wasn't first, but that which is natural. And that's what we
were in Adam. Afterwards, that which is spiritual. And oh my, the first man is of
the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. And look at this in verse 48.
As is the earthy, such also are they that are earthy. Those that
are related to Adam are going to be like. But as is the heavenly,
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord from heaven, such are they also
that are heavenly. We're related to Christ. Related
to Adam, now we're related to Christ. Oh, my. You know, our
Lord Jesus Christ, bless His name, You know, he said, because
I live, you should live also. Every God, I was identified with
Adam. And I, you know, but here comes the Lord Jesus
Christ. And Christ, instead of me identifying
with him, he identified with me. He come here and identified
himself with me. And he identified himself with
us. He became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. We didn't
identify with Him. We identified with Adam, but
we didn't identify with Christ. Christ identified with us. He
came to us. He represented us. We didn't
have sense enough to know that we needed a Savior until He made
us know that. And He came to us. We were chosen,
but we didn't know we were chosen. We didn't know that we were crucified
with Christ. We didn't know that Christ had
chosen us. We didn't know that Christ had
bore our sins in His own body on the tree, except He made us
to know that. And everything is by the grace
of God and by, you know, we was one with Him in purpose, one
with Him in purpose. The Father's purpose was in Christ
and God gave us grace and purpose in Christ. Oh my, and by the
Spirit, we're joined to Christ. Being baptized by one Spirit
into one body, we're baptized into the Lord Jesus Christ. And oh my, bone of His bone,
flesh of His flesh, we're vitally, vitally united to the Lord Jesus
Christ. That means that we're so vitally
joined to Him, He said, without me, you can do nothing. He's
the vine, we're the branches, and we get our life from Him
and Him alone. We had death from Adam, sin from
Adam, life from Christ, sin put away by Christ, and grace by
Christ, and it's all a free gift. Free gift. Oh my, that's the
most important man you'll ever know. You know a lot of people in this
world. You may meet a lot of people. Oh my. And if we don't own our relationship
with Adam, we can't own our relationship with Christ. That's what people
say. I was talking to a preacher one time, and oh my goodness,
he was so popular. He was so popular. Preached 50
weeks out of the year, somewhere all over the country. But him
and I was talking when God taught me the gospel, and him and I
talk about the gospel. And I told him about Adam, I
said, Adam, when he died, everybody died with him. He said, yes,
yes, yes, man lost all of his power in Adam, except his free
will. How can you be dead and have
a free will at the same time? And I tell you what, the only
person that had a free will was God Almighty and the Lord Jesus
Christ, and he freely God freely with him gave us all things.
And if it ain't free, God didn't give it. If you have to pay for
it, God didn't give it. But oh, everything he gives us
is a free gift. Where sin abounded, what'd he
say? Grace did much more about it. By one man's disobedience,
we were made sinners. By the obedience of one, One
man, by one man's sin, we all became disobedient. But by one
man's obedience, we all became righteous. By the obedience of
what? The Lord Jesus. What obedience?
The Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, that's the first two men.
Let's look at the second, the third man. Look over in Romans
6 with me. Look over in Romans 6 with me. He's called the old man. The old man, look what this old
man is. Look what he said in Romans 6,
6. This is something, he says, knowing
this, know this, we know this, that our old man, old man, is
crucified with him. Paul said, I'm crucified with
him, nevertheless I live. Now watch this. That the body
of sin might be destroyed. Now what body is he talking about?
This old body of sin that we carried around. All of our sin
that we had in this body, and every sin we'd ever commit in
this body. That body of sin might be, listen
to what he said, destroyed. That we should henceforth not
serve sin. Why? Because the body has been
destroyed. How? Through the crucifixion
of Christ. For he that is dead is freed
from sin. Now watch this. So we've already
died with Christ, crucified with him. Now if we be dead with Christ,
crucified with him, we believe also that we shall live with
him. If we're dead with him and died with him, we're going to
live with him. And look what he goes on to say.
Oh my. And knowing that Christ, being
raised from the dead, he dies, he don't die no more, he ain't
never gonna die again. Death hath no more dominion over
him. For in that he died, he died
unto sin, once, once. But in that he liveth, he liveth
unto God. Now how did we die to sin? How
was this body of sin destroyed? when Christ was crucified on
that cross. He said we were crucified with
him, that the body of sin, when he is on that cross, the body
of sin might be destroyed. Now we're dead with Christ, raised
with Christ, living with Christ. Now look what he said. And then
verse 11, he says, since all this business of being dead to
sin, and when you're dead, you know you're free from sin, you
know, I told you the other day that my father-in-law, after
he died, they sent him a bill for $45,000 for a helicopter
ride from Crossville to Chattanooga. Now he's dead. He's dead. How's he gonna pay
$45,000? We're dead. Sin can't hold us
anymore. Our body of sin's been destroyed.
Who'd we die with? With Christ. Oh, come, you got
to pay some more. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
He that's dead is freed from sin. Oh, my. So, likewise, reckon yourselves
also be dead indeed unto sin. That word reckon means to account
yourself. Believe yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin. But, oh, watch it now. But alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, my. I tell you
what, our connection with sin, our
connection with death, our connection and everything, our connection
with sin was destroyed in Christ, and the life that we now live,
we have it with Christ. We now live as Christ died and
lives under God, even so now we died with him, and now we
live under God. You know why? Because that old
man, He died. He died. Look over in Colossians
2.11. I want you to see this. I think
this is where I want to go. I think this is where I want
to go. Colossians 2.11. Yeah, Colossians 2.11. Look at what
it says here now. says in verse 10, naturally,
Colossians 2.10, and you are complete in Him, which is the
head of all principality and power. Now watch this, in whom
also you are circumcised with the circumcision of Christ. Now
what does that mean? That means that our hearts are
clean. Circumcision was a sign of the covenant. Well, Christ,
when we talk about circumcision with Him, that means that what
He went through, we went through. Christ was pure and perfect,
and this circumcision has to do with the heart. In whom also
you are circumcised with the circumcision, watch this now,
made without hands. Hands had nothing to do with
it. My hand, your hand, church hand, preacher's hands, nobody
had nothing to do with it. And listen to this now, in putting
off the body of the sins of the flesh, how did it happen? By the circumcision of Christ.
Christ did that. And we never raised a hand. And look what it says here now.
And this is not, this is not water baptism he's talking about
here. I know some people say it is, but it's not. Buried with
him in baptism. Now this baptism is baptized
into the body of Christ. Wherein also you are risen with
him, listen to this, through the faith, And this faith is
an operation of God. God done the work who raised
him from the dead. Oh my. You reckon this old man
died? And then let me go to 2 Corinthians
5.17. 2 Corinthians 5.17. You know what this is. And there's Adam, there's the
Lord Jesus Christ, second man. Third man's the old man. Now
look here. If there's an old man and he's
dead, then we have to be a new man. If the old man's dead, what's
gonna happen to us? Gotta be made new. Look what he said. Therefore,
verse 17, therefore, If any man in Christ, he's a
new creation. He's a new creature. Old things,
there's that old man again. Old things are passed away and
all things are new. Oh my. I tell you one thing is
new. It's called the new birth. That's
new. That was new. And we didn't have
nothing to do with that. And oh my, the new birth. A new
relationship with God. New mind, new heart, new will. Oh, my. And how did this happen? It says
in verse 18, this happened because all things are of God. You know,
God made us new creatures. This is something that God did
for us. And oh my, and he reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. This new man, oh my. I've talked to people over the
years and it happened to me. When God saved me, I read the
Bible for years. That's all I read for the first
four years after I made a profession. All I read was the Bible. I was
scared to death to read any other book, afraid it would lead me
astray. And I read the Bible, but when God actually gave me
the new birth and saved me by His grace, that Bible became
a brand new book to me. He was shut up. All I saw was
works. All I saw was holiness. All I
saw was living right. That's all I saw, work. But after
God saved me, all I see is grace. All I see is the Lord Jesus Christ.
All I see is what God did in Christ. And so when I understood
I was a new man, that means a person that never existed before. That's
what the new birth is. God brings into existence a person
who never existed before. He gave, he brought in, he brings
in a new heart, brings in a new will, brings in a new relationship,
brings in new attitudes, brings in a new mind, brings in a new
love. Everything is new. And you know
what, when he says old things are passed away, that means all
of our old relationships, all of our old ideas, all of our
old opinions, all of our traditions, and all the things we held to
for so many years, they're gone! And we're glad of it. They're
gone. They passed away. My relationship
with Adam's gone. My relationship with my old man,
gone. Oh, my. Oh, we've been reconciled. We stand before God in Christ,
and I'm telling you, oh, I'm gonna believe what God said.
I'm not gonna believe my feelings. And my feelings are just ain't
worth it. They're like yours, they're just not worth much.
They're just not worth anything. Not worth it. We don't walk by
sight, we walk by faith. And oh my. And you know it says
there in verse 18, that all things are of God. Mr. Spurgeon used
to say, people said, well that's high doctrine. He says, no, that's
God's doctrine. Call it high, call it low, call
it what you want to. When you say all things are of
God, high, low, whatever it is, it means all things are of God. Rick Garrett tells me that all
the time. He said, Donnie, God knew, God
purposed everything that's happened in my life and Helen's life and
my, God has purposed this before it ever happened. And he gets
to preaching to me and he gets me just happy just preaching
to me about what God's doing in his life. And his wife, bless
her heart, she's just, but that's what happens. That new man, how
can a person do that? How can a person face the awful
circumstances? How can you do that, face these
horrible circumstances, and these things that's happening in your
life, and start talking about God? All things are of God. God put me in this situation,
he said. And that's the truth. All things
are of God. You find something that's not
of God, don't have nothing to do with it, because all things
are of God. And I'll tell you another thing
that's of God. And this is one of the scariest things in the
world that's of God. God said, I'll send them a strong
delusion that they should be alive, believe a lie, and be
damned. That's one thing he does. And
he before of old ordained some men to this condemnation that
they'd go preach a lie. Oh, my, that new man. God brought
into existence somebody who never was there before. And, oh boy. Ain't you glad God, this is God's
work. This is God's work. And okay,
let's go on to the next man. Let's go to the fifth man, that's
the fourth man. Let's go to the fifth man over
in Romans 7. Gonna talk about the inward man.
That's that dude, man, this inward man. Look what he said here in
Romans 7, 22. He said, for I delight in the
law of God and the inward man. The inward man. Who is that inward
man? Who is that inward man? That's
the man that looks at God and looks at his law and says, that
law is just, holy, and good, and I find no fault in it, but
I am certainly grateful that Christ himself fulfilled it and
put it away for us. I delight in the law of God,
and that law means his word. There's three laws mentioned
in the scripture. There's God's word that's called
the law. I've hid thy word, thy law in my heart that I might
not sin against you. Then there's the moral law, the
Ten Commandments. And then there's the law of ordinances,
the laws that God give to all of Israel. And then when he talks
about this law, I believe he's talking about, I delight in the
law of God. I delight in the word of God.
I delight in everything God says in the inward man. Oh, my. And you know, look what he said
in verse 21. I find then a law, and this here
is the principle, a principle, that when I would do good, evil's
present with me. So since that's right, I've got
an inward man that absolutely delights in what God says. But that law, that law of God,
I delight in it. I delight in it. Oh my. I'm gonna show you, look over
in 2 Corinthians 4, 16 with me. Look what he says over here.
Now I'm going to show you something in 1 John. Look what he said here in verse
16, 2 Corinthians 4. For which cause we faint not,
we don't get weak, but though our outward man perish, This
outward man's dying every day. Paul said we die daily. This
outward man perish, yet the inward man, that inside man, that man
of God, that man that's in Christ, that man is renewed day by day
by day. That's that daily allowance I
was talking about this morning. Oh my. And I'll tell you what,
that inward man, this old outward man's perishing, but this inward
man's renewed day by day. Now look in 1 John chapter 3
with me. 1 John chapter 3. I'm talking about this inward man
now. You know the scripture says we're
made partakers of the divine nature. I know men who believe
we don't have two natures. But do you know the scriptures,
1 Peter 1 verse 4 says we're made partakers of the divine
nature. You know Christ in us at divine
nature, the nature of God is in us. And that's what I've told
you all this so many times, but what nature is it that we converse
with God? What nature is it that makes
us understand the scriptures? What nature is it that makes
us delight and love What nature in us that lets us be so acutely
aware of sin and yet so acutely aware of God at the same time?
What nature is it that enables us to pray? What nature is it
to understand? That's that inward man. We're
made partakers of the divine nature. And oh my, and then look
what it says in 1 John 3, 9, what it says here. He that committeth sin is of
the devil. The devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested. Verse 8, I said verse 8, I'm
reading verse 8. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. Now I want you to notice this
right here. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin. He said, he might. He said, well,
he might sin. He could sin. But right here it says, he that's
born of God cannot sin. Who's that man that cannot sin?
That inward man. That new nature that's in us.
He cannot do it. He cannot do it. That's what
makes sin so grievous to him. But that inward man, that's this
man, and why is it that we cannot sin? For his seed, whose seed? The seed of Christ, the seed
of the word of God, the seed of Christ remains in him and
he cannot sin because he's born of God. And that's the difference
between a child of the devil and a child of God. You know, there's a little old
thing here, if I can find it. I can find it here. Oh yeah,
here we go. Here we go. You know, we go by
feelings most of the time. But when God says that we cannot
sin, with this new man, we cannot sin. This new man cannot sin. He does not sin. God, and you
know, being born again by incorruptible seed by the Word
of God that liveth and abideth forever." Where does it live
and abide at? In us. And so we cannot sin because
he's born of God. Now listen to this, feelings
come and feelings go and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is
the Word of God, not else is worth believing. Though all my
heart should feel condemned, For want of some sweet token,
there is one greater than my heart whose word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging
word till soul and body sever. Though all things shall pass
away, his word shall stand forever. And that's what God said. God
said, he that's born of God cannot see. What do you think of that? And you know, this is the strangest
thing about us. Paul says, that that I hate,
that's what I do. That that I wouldn't do, I do. And all the things, you know. Well, we hate what we do. Why? You know, this inward man that
I'm talking about, this inward man, and oh, look, we're in John,
look in John 5, 18. You know, the believer loves
only good, wills only to do good, but ought to find the ability
to form. Sometimes he does not, he finds
a hard time finding. Now look what he said here in
1 John 5, 18. We know. Now again, we know.
We know. That's what he said over there.
We know. We know. We know that whosoever is born
of God sinneth not. First John 5, 18. But he that's
begotten of God keepeth himself from that wicked one and toucheth
him not. Touches him not. And I love verse
20. This is why these things are
like this. And we know, you know how many times John says, we
know, and we know that the Son of God has come and has given
us an understanding that we may know Him that is true. And we
are in Him that is true, even in His Son, Jesus Christ. This
is the true God and eternal life. That's that inward man. That's
that inward man. Now, let's go to the sixth man.
Look in Romans 7. Go to the sixth man. Do y'all
see how related we are to every one of these people so far? Romans
7. How we're related to all of them.
We identify with every single, you know, so far I've identified
with all of them. Look in Romans 7. And down in verse 24. Oh, wretched
man that I am, who shall deliver me of the body of this sin, of
this death. There's that wretched man. Everybody knows who he is. Everybody
can identify with him. Oh, that wretched man. When Paul
found out that everything he wanted to do in his new nature,
in his new heart, in that inward man, was nothing but good and
right and just and true and delighted in God, delighted in his word,
delighted in everything about God, then he comes down. And when you talk about that
wretched man, this body of, that's what he called it, this body
of death, now, I heard a preacher say, and I know it so, and I've
said this myself, when a person committed murder sometimes or
killed somebody, they would take that dead body that they'd killed
and strap it to their body and tie it around them. And they'd
have to carry that dead body until it rotted and corrupt and
stunk. It stunk, and that's what Paul
said. Oh, wretched man that I am, who will take this body of death
that I'm living with? This wretched, stinking man,
this corrupt man, who shall take him off my back and get rid of
him? Who gonna do it? Oh, my. I thank God. Boy, ain't you glad the next
verse says, that old wretched man who's gonna deliver from
me this body of death? Oh my, I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Now here's the difference. So
with the mind, that's the same mind and heart interchangeable,
I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of
sin. The old nature, this old body
of flesh, that inward man can't do evil, That wretched man can
do no good. And you know what that's called?
It's called a man with two natures. That's a man with two natures.
You know, the inward man can't do evil. The wretched man can
do no good. You know, when Jacob and Esau
was in the womb, when they was in Rachel's womb, in Rebecca's womb, they struggled. They said, oh, there's something
in my womb here. They struggled in the womb. You
know why? Because one of them was born
of the spirit and the other was born of the flesh. And that flesh
and those two men in that womb struggled, struggled, struggled.
They struggled and that's the way we do. We struggle. We got
this new nature and we got this old nature. And there's a war
going on between us all the time. And I'm telling you something,
this new nature, Always wins. Always wins. And I'll tell you why always
wins. Because we will not, we will not allow ourselves by the
grace of God to dishonor God by living after this old rotten
corrupt flesh. We just, oh my. You know, the
nature of this wretched man is never, never, Prone toward God
and good, never performing good. Ain't that what he says up here
in verse 18? He says in verse 18 of Romans
7, I know that in me, that in my flesh, that's just old nature
he's talking about. Now we've all got a new nature,
but that is in my flesh dwells no good thing. Now listen to
me, for the will is present with me. The will is present with
me, the will to do everything God purposes, everything that's
right, just, holy, and good is present with me. But how in the
world to perform it, I just cannot find how to do it. And I tell you, oh, let me show
you Galatians 517. You all have seen this so many
times, but let's look at it again. Several people told me this morning,
don't worry about time, so I'm not going to worry about it.
That's a few of us here, and anyway, you know. You know, in this old nature,
this old flesh don't never get any better. The believer is two
men in one body at war continually. And our only deliverer is in
the Lord Jesus Christ. And after Paul said, I thank
God through Jesus Christ our Lord, the next verse he said
was, there's therefore now no death, no condemnation, and no
judgment in Christ, even though I'm that wretched man. But now
look in Galatians 5, 17. For the flesh lusteth. against the Spirit. You see how
that word Spirit's capitalized? That's the Holy Spirit in us.
And the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, is against the flesh.
And these are contrary, the one to the other. The flesh and the
Holy Ghost is contrary, that you cannot do the things that
you would. And that's the same thing he
meant over that. When I would do good, evil presents itself
with me. Oh, wretched man that I am. Who's
gonna deliver me from this body of death? Thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Everything comes right back to
what Christ did, no matter what happened. Our relationship with
Adam. Christ. You know, I said I was
gonna preach out of Acts 10, 43, you know, to him all the
prophets give witness. so many things out of Genesis
that I'm going to start with when I start preaching that.
And I am going to preach it. I thought of it on the way to
meeting tonight. I thought, well, Shirley asked me when I was going
to start preaching. And I started, I said, you got to start out
in Genesis. You got to start out in Genesis chapter one. Because
it gives, I'm not going to give it away. I'm not going to give
it away. I'm going to start, you know,
at all my, And look what he said, oh, you know, we can't do the
things we want. We'll come to a service, and
we'll be so tired. Some of you will be so tired,
and you'll be so wore out that you just barely can make it.
And you struggle. And other times you come, and
God quickens you. But when you feel that flesh,
you say, oh, God, please don't let my flesh ruin me. Don't let
my flesh ruin this service. And then you get up and you leave
and you don't even remember what was said. That's just flesh.
And then other times you come and everything is just so alive,
so alive. Everything is said just comes
with life to it, comes with life to it. What makes the difference?
The spirit in us and the flesh against us. And I fight against
it myself right here when I get to the pulpit, every single time
I get up here. And there's never been a time
that I've been up here that, oh my, I don't want to be left
in my flesh. I don't, I don't. All right, let's go to the next
man. Let's go to the last man. Let's go to the last man, the
seventh man. And I want you to look with me
in Romans chapter eight, in verse 30. Let's see the seventh man. The seventh man. Romans chapter
eight. Look in verse 30. He's talking about predestination.
Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom
he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he
also glorified. We're going to talk that the
last man is the glorified man. You notice that's in the past
tense? That's the last man, the glorified
man. Oh, he's out in the future, but
God said he's already there. Oh my, we've grown within ourselves
to be made with that new man. Oh, we shall see Christ as he
is, and we'll be changed like unto his very appearance. Oh,
this new man, that inward man will have a new body and behold
the glories of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, my, he's yet future. And oh, look with me over in
1 Corinthians 15, 57, that glorified man. Oh, my. You know, that's
what's so wonderful about, you know, when somebody, the Lord
calls somebody home, It's one of the most, it's some of the
best news we hear at that time. I mean, we, we, this flesh hates
to let our loved ones go. This flesh hates to do it. But
yet at the same time, we say, thank God, thank God they're
not in this world anymore. They're finally glorified. They're
finally with Christ. But look in first Corinthians
chapter 15. Oh, this last man, this glorified
man, first Corinthians 15. Look down in verse 50. Now look what he says now. Now
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God. This flesh and blood's not going. Neither doth corruption in this
old corrupt body can inherit incorruption. But I'm going to
show you a mystery. I'm going to show you a mystery.
And you know why I call it a mystery? Because it is. But we shall not
all sleep. That word sleep means to go into
the grave. But one thing's going to happen
to every one of us. We shall all be changed in a moment, just
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump For
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall be raised
incorruptible and shall be changed. For this corruptible man, this
wretched man, must put on incorruption, and this mortal man must put
on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, and he read it tonight out of Isaiah 25, then it's brought
to pass the saying that's written, death is swallowed up in what? Victory, victory. Oh death, where
is thy sting? You know, I'll tell you, Wasp
or something can sting you, but if you take that stinger out
of it, he can't hurt you. God took the stinger out of death.
Can't hurt us, can't hurt us. Oh, look what he says now. Oh,
grave, where's your victory? You thought you had me, didn't
you? You thought I was gonna stay here forever. But oh, grave,
you ain't got no victory over me. You got no power over me. You got no power over this body.
The sting of death is sin. And the strength of sin is the
law. But oh my, Christ put away sin so we don't have to face
that. And the strength of sin is the
law. Christ fulfilled that. But oh, listen to what he says
now. But thanks again, but thanks be to God which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh my. That's that glorified man. And
let me show you one other, Colossians chapter three. I will quit when
I get done with it. Got one more verse to quote,
but look at Colossians chapter three. Colossians chapter three. What it says over here. That
new man, that inward man, that new body, we're gonna see the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ glorified body, glorified man. Look what he says in verse 4.
When Christ, our life, our life, shall appear, then
look what he says, then shall we also appear with him in what? In glory. Oh, David said, that sweet psalmist
of Israel, he said this, oh, I've had a lot of things in life. I've had a throne, I've God-destroyed
all my enemies, I've had a throne, I'm the king of Israel, I'm a
man after God's own heart, and I've had a lot of things in my
life. But I've never been satisfied
with anything, but I'll never be satisfied. Nothing will ever
satisfy me until I awake in His likeness. And that's what this world is
worth. There's no satisfaction in this world, but what are these
blessed days? Like Him, till I'm made like
Him. Oh, our blessed, blessed Savior,
how wonderfully gracious, how wonderfully kind you are to me,
to us. Oh, Lord, we bless you for what
you've done for us in our Savior. Lord, if we had our way, and
one day we will, We'd never sin. We'd never sin against you. We'd
never sin against one another. We'd never think another evil
thought. We'd never have a proud thought, never. Oh, God. So, Lord, we are so thankful
for that new man, that inward man, that glorified man. Oh, Lord, you'll Change this
disobedient body, fashioned like unto your glorious body, when
you come again. What a blessed hope we have.
What a glorious future we have. What a blessed, blessed future
we have in Christ our Lord. God bless my brothers and sisters
that's gathered here this evening. Bless them who couldn't come
because of their bodies, your providence, their bodies being
weak. God bless them. for those that listened, meet
the needs of their bodies, their health, and do it for Christ's
sake. We bless you in his name, amen. Oh my, well, I don't know what
to say. I can't think of a song, can't
think of nothing. Savior of my soul Jesus, my Jesus He's the
Savior of my soul He's the Savior of my soul. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. He's the Savior of my soul. He's the Savior of my soul. Did y'all identify with all seven
of those men? I'm glad that we ended up, started
out with Adam and ended up with the glorified man. Went from
the worst to the best. That's just what the Lord does
for us. The Friday night, seven o'clock, Oh.