Good evening. Let's all stand
together and we'll sing hymn number 512. Hymn number 512. Someday the silver cord will
break And I no more as now shall sing But oh the joy when I shall
wake Within the palace of the King And I shall see Him face
to face And tell the story saved by grace And I shall see Him
face to face and tell the story saved by grace. Someday my earthly house will
fall. I cannot tell how soon't will
be. But this I know, my all in all,
has now a place in heaven for me. And I shall see Him face
to face and tell the story saved by grace. And I shall see Him
face to face and tell the story saved by grace. Someday when fades the golden
sun, Beneath the rosy-tinted west My blessed Lord will say,
well done And I shall enter in to rest And I shall see Him face
to face and tell the story saved by grace. And I shall see him
face to face And tell the story saved by grace Someday till then
I'll watch and wait My lamp all trimmed and burning bright That
when my Savior opens the gate, My soul to Him may take its flight. And I shall see Him face to face,
And tell the story saved by grace, and I shall see him face to face
and tell the story saved by grace. Thank you, be seated. Team number
228. 228. My faith has found a resting
place, not in device nor creed. I trust the Ever-Living One,
His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. Enough for me that Jesus saves,
this ends my fear and doubt. A sinful soul, I come to Him,
He'll never cast me out. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. My heart is leaning on the Word,
the written Word of God. Salvation by my Savior's name,
salvation through His blood. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. My great physician heals the
sick, the lost he came to save. For me his precious blood he
shed, for me his life he gave. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. Boy, it seems like a coon's age
since we've been here. Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter
9. Read these first five verses. I say the truth in Christ, I
lie not. My conscience also bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart. For I could wish myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving
of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose
are the fathers, of whom are concerning the flesh, Christ
came, who is over all. God bless forever. Amen. Amen. our blessed God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ. I am so thankful, and I know
everyone here is thankful, that we were allowed to meet this
evening, that we've been blessed together here. And Lord, I thank
you for it. I bless you for it. And Lord,
I pray that you'd be pleased to bless us together Bless me
to speak, bless them to hear. May we enter into a true worship
tonight of the Lord Jesus Christ. May we learn some things about
him. And Lord, we thank you for your
faithfulness of your saints and the love and care and concern
that they show for one another and the love that they express
toward me. Oh Lord, I bless you for it. And Lord, we ask that
you would Please be mindful of those among us who are having
heartaches and grief and sorrows, those as lost loved ones, those
whose bodies are weak and frail, those who through providence
are not able to come. But Lord, of all the things we
ask you, we'd ask you to please remember our lost loved ones,
our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, Lord,
oh Lord, there's nothing, nothing that they're interested in, except
this world and the things of it. But Lord, there was a time
that's where we were. But you saw in a time, at the
right time and perfect time, that you crossed our paths. So
Lord, cross their paths if it please you. Cross their paths
with the gospel. Oh, Lord, make their lives miserable.
Stir up their nests. Make it to where they have no
comfort at all in this world, in the things of this world.
And we ask you, please, again, to meet with us. And thank you
for allowing us to meet. We bless you in Christ's name.
Amen. Him number 126, 126. Rock of ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. save from wrath and make me pure? Could my tears forever flow? Could my zeal no longer know? These for sin could not atone,
Thou must save and Thou alone. In my hand no price I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling. While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death, when I rise to worlds unknown,
and behold thee on thy throne, rock of ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. When you read these verses that
I read tonight, Paul says, you know, that I have a great heaviness,
a continual sore in my heart, could wish myself a curse from
Christ, my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh. How could
a man go from such heights of joy and confidence that he had
in chapter 8, starts out no condemnation in Christ? that He closes it
out, that there's no possibility of anything ever being able to
separate us from the love of Christ. Talks about how that
God, you know, nobody can lay any charge to God's elect. It's
God that justifies, it's Christ that died. He went through all
this, went to this great joy way up there, took us up there
with Him, and then He comes down and He says this, I say the truth
in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the
Holy Ghost." Now that's a startling statement where he says, I could
wish myself a curse from Christ. His heart was heavy, his heart
was torn by his fellow Jews' rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the rejection of the Savior. You know, the Jews looked for
a Messiah, and a lot of them are STILL looking for a Messiah.
You know, they ask, Our Lord, are You THAT prophet? Are You
THAT prophet? And they said, Well, nothing
good can come out of Galilee, so He can't be a prophet, He
didn't come there. So they wanted to know who He
was, and they asked Him countless times. And oh my, they expected,
and this is what they expected the Lord to do, and this is the
way a lot of people believe, they expected Him to restore
Israel to its great, great prominence that they had back under David
and Solomon and Hezekiah. He expected Him, that s what
they said when He comes in, He s going to make Israel to be
the greatest nation like they were at one time on the earth.
to destroy the great Kingdom of David. And if a Gentile, somebody
like you or me, was going to be in this glorious Kingdom,
you know how the only way we could be in it? We had to convert
and become a Jew. We had to convert to Judaism.
That s the only way you could be in that Kingdom. But I do
tell you this about the Jews, and that s why Paul had this
great heaviness They didn't understand the Scriptures. Our Lord Himself
said, you do err, neither knowing the Scriptures nor the power
of God. You know, they didn't understand
the Scriptures. They didn't understand the sacrifices. If they understood the Scriptures,
they'd know that Christ would have been coming as a sacrifice,
as a sin offering, as a lamb that was led to the slaughter.
They would have understood that if they had looked at it. They
said God made his soul an offering for sin. He poured out his soul
unto death. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? But they was looking for a Messiah.
His disciples said to him when he was fixing, they went outside
Jerusalem before he started going back up into the glories. They
said, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? He said, it's not for you to
know the times or the seasons. Not for you to know, you just
go preach the gospel. But oh my, they didn t understand
the scriptures, they didn t understand the sacrifices, and they didn
t understand all the TYPES! They didn t understand all the
types! Oh, how many TYPES of our Lord s in the Old Testament?
When you know Cody preached here three nights out of Genesis about
Joseph and him being a TYPE of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you
know, the Ark is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Passover
is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And every sacrifice pointed to
Him. The tabernacle was a type of
our Lord Jesus Christ. And oh my, there's so many of
them. They didn't see, they didn't see the Messiah coming first
as a lamb. Oh, His first purpose to come
into this world was as a lamb. Why did He come as a Lamb? To
be OFFERED! To be SACRIFICED! To be PUT on
God's ALTAR! And oh my, they didn't UNDERSTAND
that our Lord Jesus Christ would be a SACRIFICE, a SIN OFFERING,
that He would go to a CROSS, and the Bible, all the Old Testament
speaks of His SUFFERINGS before He ever came into this world.
And oh my, and they specially didn't think he would come and
be a savior. They didn't need saving. They
needed a kingdom. They needed power. They need
a king. And then when they did say, when
Pilate put over his, took over his cross, said, help the king
of the Jews. They said, he said, he said he's
the king of the Jews. He said, what I've said, I've
said. And oh my. The last thing they knew anything
about was the Savior. They didn't know nothing about
the Savior. And I'll just tell you, you see
all these these pictures and all these things that people
have in their yard of this little baby in a manger and all these
people standing around and all that. When our Lord Jesus came
into this world, the first thing they said about Him was, ?Unto
you is born this day in the city of David a Savior!? Jews didn?t need a Savior! They
had Moses and they had the Law! they had the prophets, and they
didn t need a Savior. And oh, when He did come, you
know what the response to Him was? Reject Him! Despise Him! Reject Him! Reject His message! And because
of this, their great, great sin of rejection, they ve been blinded
and the Gospels preached to the Gentile nations now. I want you
to look over here at chapter 10, verse 20 with me. Just look
over in chapter 10, verse 20. This is what it says there, Isaiah
was very bold and says, I was found of them that sought me
not. That s me and you. I was made manifest unto them
that didn t even ask after me. But to Israel, But to Israel
he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto
a disobedient and gainsaying people." That word gainsaying
means denying, denying people, rebellious and denying people. So in the next three chapters
is how he deals with the Jews and their awful rejection. And
this is the reason the apostle turns to about the rejection
of the Jews of the Lord Jesus Christ, and oh, he has some awful
things to say. And you know, we ll go through
these first five verses and see what he has to say. You know,
his feelings, they were honest feelings, and he was expressing
the honesty of his heart, the sincerity of his heart, and what
was going on in his heart. it says, I say the truth in Christ,
I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy
Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. You know, Paul knew that he was
regarded as a traitor by his countrymen. You know how they
treated him, the Jews, how they treated him? One time he was
preaching, And and when he got through started preaching they
start throwing dust up in the air and scarts hollering and
screaming a man It's not fit that a man like him should live
His that's not fit that this man even he shouldn't even live
and They would have beat him to death except the Romans come
down and got him out of there And the Jews, how many times
did they, he said, I received stripes, five times I received
stripes of my fellow brethren. For the Jews, five times I received
stripes. Five times I received stripes. Oh, he thought he was a traitor.
But I want you to notice three things here. And he says, oh,
I say the truth. I say the truth. What makes him
say that I say the truth? What makes him say that? Because
he s going to make some statements here that people would never
be able to understand. He says, I say the truth, and
then he says, I say the truth in Christ. He said, Because of
my union with Him, I couldn t possibly lie. You know, for my Master,
my Lord Jesus, my Savior, He searches my heart. He knows everything
about me, and I say the truth, and I lie not. I'm telling you
the truth in Christ, and oh, my! So He starts off talking
about, I'm not going to lie about what's going on in my heart and
my soul. Oh, my! I'm not going to, look what He
says, lie not my conscience, I lie not, my conscience bears
witness." And oh, he said, I have a conscience without offense
toward God or man. I can t say that, that my conscience,
and look what he says, he says, My conscience bears witness.
And then the third thing he says, And the Holy Ghost bearing me
witness in the Holy Ghost. the Holy Ghost Himself, the Spirit
of God Himself, bears witness to Him, His truth, His conscience,
and what He says, and His relationship to Christ. And He is sincere
in His feelings here. He's standing in the presence
of God Almighty, the God of truth, and He said, Oh Lord, I got to
tell the truth. And oh my, I tell you, do you
know what He did? He poured contempt on Jewish
pride. You know, he started out in Romans
chapter two. He says, you know, you, you are
a teacher of the law and you need somebody to teach you. You
say don't steal and you're a thief. You say don't commit adultery
and you commit sacrilege. And he said, it's not a Jew that's
one outwardly, but it's one that's inwardly. Circumcision is not
of the flesh, but of the heart. And then he comes along and he
says, Jews, you know, they profit, what's the profit of being a
Jew? He said, in every way. But he said, you know, you want
to accuse God of something, but let God be true and every man
a liar. And then he said, we've proved
before both Jew and Gentile, ALL are under sin. All of them
are. And you know, he not only poured
contempt on them, but he poured contempt on himself and his pride. He said, if a man has some confidence
in the flesh, I really can't do that. I was born a Jew, full-blooded
Jew. I was of the tribe of David,
I mean the tribe of Benjamin, and I was of the tribe of Benjamin.
After the law, I was a Pharisee. But everything that made me somebody
in somebody's eyes, everything that made me somebody in my own
eyes, you know what he said? I counted but done. I counted
garbage. I counted filth. That's NOTHING! I despise everything that I ever
was! And now I want to KNOW Christ!
I want to FIND Christ! I want to WIN Christ! I want
to be FOUND in Christ, in Christ alone! And I'll tell you what,
that's something that God, you know, there's something God causes
every believer to do, pour contempt on themselves. I don't have to
pour, you know, That's something God does. He just does that.
He makes us pour contempt on ourselves. About the time we
think, well, I feel pretty good, you know, and you start thinking
about something you've done, and oh my, then you say, oh Lord,
forgive me. And you just pour contempt on
yourself. You can't help it. You can't help it. And then look
how intense these feelings are. Look how intense. That I have
great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. Oh my. His grief is great. Oh my. He said, I have continual sorrow.
But then he said, I have great heaviness. How many of y'all
know anything here about having heaviness? Real heaviness. He had heaviness
in his heart. He had heaviness in his soul.
He had heaviness in his mind. He just had a weight on him that
was so heavy It's just heaviness, and oh my! And then He said,
oh, He said, listen to this, and a continual sorrow in my
heart, continual sorrow. It's always there, a continual
sorrow in my heart. Look what He said in chapter
10, verse 1 about this. He said, Brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be
saved. I want God to have mercy on them,
I want Him saved. And oh my, He said, I have this
great heaviness. Oh, heaviness for them, heaviness
for their souls, heaviness for their rejection of Christ. And His affection for them was
real, though His joy in Christ was real for him, but he loved
his Jewish brethren, and it caused him great, great heaviness and
sorrow. But here's the statement, here's
the statement most people have trouble with, but I think, I
hope I can, but he said in verse 3, For I could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according
to the flesh. Now, that's a startling statement.
I could not say that under no circumstances. But you notice
the wording there, he said, I could wish. It cannot possibly happen. He didn't say, If I COULD do
it, I WOULD do it. If I had the ability to do it,
I WOULD do it. If I didn't love Christ so much, I WOULD do it.
IF CHRIST DIDN'T SAVE ME AND CALL HIM TO BE HIS OWN, I WOULD
DO IT. BUT HE SAID, I COULD WISH, AND
THIS IS ALL I CAN DO, IS I COULD WISH, AND HE'S SHOWING THESE
FOLKS HOW MUCH HE LOVES THEM AND HOW HEAVY HIS HEART IS FOR
THEM. I COULD WISH MYSELF THAT I WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST,
AND THAT WORD ACCURSE MEANS SEPARATED FROM, SEPARATED FROM. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE MEANS IF
HE WAS SEPARATED FROM CHRIST? The only time he ever talks about
being separated from Christ, to die is gain. To live is Christ, but to die
is gain. And when he talks about being
separated from Christ, he KNOWS it s an impossibility. He knows
it can t, but he wants to emphasize how HEAVY he is and what he FEELS
for his brethren, according to the flesh. And he said, A curse
from Christ, separated from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen,
according to the flesh. Oh my! His love was ready to
forgo His best by doing He could save some. And I want you to
look over in Exodus chapter 32. Look at Exodus. Somebody else
done this one time. Somebody else did this very same
thing in Genesis 32. Verse 31, Exodus, I don't know
why I keep saying Genesis, I got it on my mind already. Exodus
32, 31, here somebody went through the same thing. they sinned a great, great sin. And oh, my! And God was, He said, Moses,
get out of My way, I'm going to kill them, I'm going to kill
them. But look what happens now. And Moses returned unto the Lord
and said, O this people have sinned a great sin, and made
them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive
their sin, and if not, If not, blot me, I pray thee, out of
the book which thou hast written." And this shows us the love that
Christ has for His people. Blot my name out if I can't deliver
your people. And that's what He's saying here
now. And the Lord said unto Moses, He said, And whosoever has sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book. And I tell you, there
was two people here that we find in the scriptures that they say,
if I had the ability, I would stand between them and God. I
would stand between them and God, but he says there's an impossibility
for me to stand between them and God because Christ is the
only one that can stand between us and God. And that's what he's
doing, he's expressing himself and showing how intense his feelings
is for the Jewish nation. And I said, and the key is, I
could wish, but wishing don't get anything done, and that's
what he's talking about. That's what he's talking about.
He said, if I WILL, if I WILL to do it, I could do it. It's
like Moses, if you ain't gonna forgive them, Lord, plot MY name
out. Forgive him for my sake, for
my sake. And oh my, and what way could
he wish for the good of his people Israel? And then look what he
says now in verse three, excuse me, I've done down there. And
reasons for feeling this way, he says in verse four. who are Israelites, my kinsmen,
according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertains
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving
of the law, and the service of God, whose are the fathers, of
whom are concerning as concern the flesh Christ came," and listen
to this, "...who is over all God blessed forever." He said,
And the Christ that came is God, and He's blessed forever. But
here's the reason for His flesh, here's the reason for His flesh.
He said, They're Israelites, they're Israelites. My brethren
are Israelites, who by their rejection of Christ, leaves themselves
accursed and leaves themselves cut off. are LOSERS of the greatest
PRIVILEGE of Christ and what Christ would have done for them,
and then their REJECTION of Christ. You know, it gives us eight marks
of God s favor to Israel that they rejected every one of them.
Oh, what a things that God done for them that He never done for
anybody else, and yet they rejected Him. Here s the first thing he
says about them, who were Israelites to whom pertains the adoption. What does that mean? That means
that God took Israel. When they were in Bondi, down
in Egypt, they were slaves down there. God told Moses, He said,
When you go down there and face Pharaoh, I said, I want you to
tell him one thing, let MY people go. Moses had to tell them, you know,
LET MY PEOPLE GO! Who? God s people. You know,
Jacob was a deceiver and a supplanter until God got a hold of him in
Genesis 32 and would not let him go, and then He says, From
now on you re not Jacob, but you re And that nation of Israel
was born right that day, and then they went down into bondage
for 400 years, and God said, Let My people go, and they came
out of there. God said, Of all the nations
of the earth, this is the only one that I m choosing. Ah, let
every other nation go to hell, but I m choosing this people
right here. And oh, my! And then look what He says, And
the glory. Now, what s He talking about
the glory? Well, there are several glories about God in the Old
Testament. First of all, the first glory
that you find is the Shekinah glory, and that's where He come
down in this cloud, and the power, and it would just shine, and
He'd come down, you know, He'd come down in Shekinah glory on
the tabernacle. When they first established the
tabernacle, He'd come down in great glory, and all the people
stood in wonder. This great cloud come down. That
was God in His glory coming down. Didn't see a physical person,
His glory come down, His Shekinah glory. And oh my, and then there's
the glory, a special token of God's presence. And oh my, He
come down on the ark. He come down one time in the
camp. He come down in Israel when they
had their camp set up. He come down right in the middle
of the camp. And all those people just, everybody
stood at their tent door. And the Scripture says they all
bowed their faces to the earth and worshiped the Lord. And when
the glory of God comes down, and the only place He comes down
now is in Christ, and when He comes down in His glory, you
know what we do? We worship! We worship! And when He comes down, we REALLY
worship! Oh my! And then look at the other
thing, it says the covenants. and the covenants. Now what covenants
is he talking about with? The first covenant God made in
the Bible was with Noah when he says, I'm going to put a bow
in the sky. And said, you'll never flood
the earth again. I said, I'm going to put that
bow up there. So next time it starts raining, don't get scared,
Abraham. No, Noah, don't get scared. Because
if it rains, you don't need that ark anymore. And then I tell
you then another covenant, the covenant that he made with Abraham
And this is the covenant that he made, that Israel, and he
said, Abraham, and they made that covenant with Abraham with
US through Abraham. He said, Abraham, I'm going to
make you the father of many nations, father of many nations. And then
there he said, Abraham, it went to Abraham, then it went to Isaac,
then it went to Jacob. Oh, my, and then he had a covenant
with David. He said, David, I'm gonna raise
up some more. I'm gonna raise up a king that's
gonna sit on your throne for how long? Not for 40 years, not
for 45 years, not till he dies. He's gonna sit on your throne
forever, and his dominion is everlasting dominion. No place
where his throne won't be. And who was that king? Our Lord
Jesus Christ. My and then look what he says
the giving of the law the giving of the law And you know, there's
two kinds of law that God had First he gave the law all Shana
the Ten Commandments come down with the Ten Commandments And
then he had the CEREMONIAL LAW, the MORAL LAW and the CEREMONIAL
LAW, with all the riches and all the sacrifices and all the
divers washings and all the priesthood and all the things that went
on there, and God gave laws to teach these people how to judge. He said, You set up JUDGES over
people. He said, We're not going to be
a lawless nation. You're not going to be a lawless nation.
We've got judges that's going to judge you, and if you do things
that need to be judged, you're going to be judged. If you take an axe and kill a
man, you're going to face God for murder. But if it's an accident
and your axe head comes off, then all you'll have to do is
restore the man. So I mean they had all these, this kind of laws
they had. And oh, it went from Exodus to
Deuteronomy, and oh, how to govern the Lord's people. And then look
what he talked about, the service of God. What's he talking about,
the service of God? Well, look in Hebrews, I think
it's, I think it's chapter nine, I believe it's chapter nine.
Hebrews chapter nine, I'm gonna think it is. Let me see if that's
what it is. Yeah, yeah, this is it. Yeah,
talking about the service of God. What s he talking about
the service of God? You know, everybody talks about,
Well, we really need to serve God. But oh, no, they re talking
about the service of the tabernacle and all the things that they
had to do. And he says in verse 1, Then verily the first covenant
hath ordinances of divine service, and the world is sanctuary. That
was the tabernacle. That was the tabernacle. And
now look down in verse 6. Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing
the service of God. Their service was around the
tabernacle. Around the tabernacle. People
will find that and say, boy, they'll try to motivate you to
serve the Lord. A fellow come to me one time, He's
dead and gone now, but he was here for a while. He said, boy,
I believe we ought to do something. Come talk to me one time. He
said, I believe we ought to do something. I said, well, what do you want
to do? I don't know, but we ought to do something. I said, well, if you want to
do something, just help yourself. You don't know what you want
us to do. You can t make it up! But people
just feel like it s like Simon Peter said, Wish not what to
say! That s what people are a lot of times saying, Wish not what
to say! And then look what else it says
over here now in chapter 9. We ll go back over here. And
service of God, and look what else it says. Now, the giving
of the law, the service of God, and the promises, all the promises
of God. The first promise in the Bible,
I'm going to put enmity between thy seed and the seed of woman. He's going to crush your head,
but you're going to bruise His heel. First mention of the Christ
and His sacrifice, His death. And I tell you what, you go from
Genesis to Malachi, and the last thing it says in Malachi is that
the Messenger of the Covenant shall come SUDDENLY, SUDDENLY
to His Temple. And who is that? The Lord Jesus
Christ. Oh my! And I tell you, We had
the promises of Messiah, the promise of redemption, the promise
of glory, and then look what He says in verse 5, WHOSE ARE
THE FATHERS? You know, Israelites, WHOSE ARE
THE FATHERS? WHO ARE THE FATHERS? They always
pointed to Moses and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and that
s the way God, He said, I m the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And when they talked about there being no resurrection, he said,
Well, what in the world are you talking about? He said, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, he's not a god of the dead, he's a god of the LIVING!
These fellows are ALIVE! And while they're alive, they
resurrected from the dead, they come to be with Christ. And I
tell you, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, and all their ancestors,
And I tell you, look what it says, Whose are the fathers,
and listen to this, of whom these Israelites, as concerning the
flesh, Christ came. Our Lord was a Jew. I seen somebody
said the other day that He was born a Palestinian. He was born
a Jew. His mother trace her lineage
all the way back to Abraham. And then they took another one,
went all the way back to Adam, and another one they went all
the way back to David, showing his lineage. And I tell you what,
and Christ came of the Jewish nation, and you know what it
says, John 1.11, He came unto His own. Who s his own? His own nation, his own people. He came unto his own, but his
own would not receive him, would not receive him, would not believe
him. And I tell you what, that s concerning the flesh, and that
s what it says, that s concerning the flesh. And I tell you what,
he is of the seed of David. You trace him all the way back
to David, He s a direct descendant of David, and that s why he was
born king. People INHERIT thrones. There
s people waiting to I think the next heir of the throne of England
is William. When his daddy dies, he s going
to be the king over England. But that don t mean They wasn't born king. They got
to wait till somebody dies and the heir gets on the throne.
But the scripture says he was born king. Nobody else has been born king,
but he was. Oh, the Bible has so much for
us, oh, it's so. And then look who He says, not
only He come in the flesh, came who is over this Christ who came,
who is over all. He's over everything. And then
why is He over everything? Because He's God, and He's blessed
forever and ever, and every blessing we get, that's where it comes
from. Well, you know, our Lord Jesus
Christ, the one they rejected was their own. And now he stood
outside Jerusalem and he wept and he said, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
how oft would I have taken you and gathered you as a hen doth
gather her wings and you would not. Oh, the peace, the peace
that you could have had, the peace you could have had. And
oh, I tell you, there's an awful, awful sin of rejecting Christ
and how we should be interested. If Paul was so interested in
the Jewish nation, his brethren, how we should be so interested
in souls, especially our family's soul, our flesh and blood souls.
Oh, how we ought to be interested in him. What would we go through
for our flesh, our children? What would we do? What would
we do? Our Lord, thank you. Blessed
be your holy name for allowing us to meet here tonight. And
Lord, we thank you. and bless you for allowing us
to look into your word. Your word has such power, such
delight, got so many treasures in it, so many precious things
in it for us to, as I learn, as I learn as I go along, and
I'm grateful that you're our teacher and that you open them
to our understanding. If they're opened, you do it,
and we bless you for it. Bless these dear saints of God
as they go home Bless them getting up and bless them going down.
Keep them day in and day out to your glory, and they're good.
For Christ's sake, amen. Amen. There is a name I love
to hear. I love to sing its worth. It sounds like music in my ear. The sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. See you Sunday, God willing. Oh, boy.