Good morning. Let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 299. 299. Day by day and with each passing
moment Strength I find to meet my trials here Trusting in my
Father's wise bestowment I've no cause for worry or for fear
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure Gives unto each day
what he deems best Lovingly it's part of pain and pleasure Mingling
cold with peace and rest Every day the Lord himself is
near me With a special mercy for each hour All my cares he
feign would bear and cheer me He whose name is Counselor and
Power The protection of His child and treasure Is a charge that
on Himself He laid As Thy days, Thy strength shall be in measure
It's the pledge to me He made Help me then in every tribulation,
So to trust thy promises, O Lord. that I lose not faith's sweet
consolation, given me within thy holy word. Help me, Lord, when toil and
trouble meeting, here to take us from our Father's hand. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
511. 511. Face to face with Christ my Savior
Face to face what will it be? When with rapture I behold Him
Jesus Christ who died for me Face to face, I shall behold
him, far beyond the starry sky. Face to face in all his glory. by and by. Only faintly now I see him, with
the darkling veil between. But a blessed day is coming,
when His glory shall be seen. Face to face I shall behold Him,
far beyond the starry sky. Face to face in all his glory,
I shall see him by and by. God rejoicing in his presence, When our pain is grief and pain
When the crooked ways are straightened And the dark things shall be
plain Face to face I shall behold Him Far beyond the starry sky
Face to face in all his glory I shall see him by and by ♪ Face to face to see and know
♪ ♪ Face to face with my Redeemer ♪ ♪ Jesus Christ who loves me
so ♪ ♪ Face to face I shall behold him ♪ Happy Mother's Day. All you mamas, I've got a little
announcement to make. The Lord called a dear brother
and friend home this morning, Joe McSherry. Can you imagine
what he's doing right this moment? You can't help but rejoice about
it. You just can't. I can't help it. Can't help it. What a blessed, blessed day. Everything in the scriptures,
when it talks about going home, going to be with Christ, it's
always in the most blessed, glorious ways, things. Our Lord, he told
his disciples, let not your heart be troubled. Don't let it be
troubled. Don't let your heart be troubled.
You believe in God. You say you believe in God. Believe
also in me. He said, up yonder in my father's
house, there's many mansions. Many of them. And I'm gonna go
and prepare a place for you. And when I've prepared a place
for you, I'm gonna come and get you again. I'm gonna come again
and get you. And you know what he said? Bring
you to where I am. You know, that's my way of rejoicing. I can't help it. It's just a
wonderful thing to me. And he wanted to go home so bad. And a lot of folks in here this
morning prayed for the Lord to take him. And Todd, his pastor for 20-something
years, said, can you believe what a glorious sight he's seeing
right now? What a glorious sight. Now turn
with me to Mark chapter 8. Oh, my. Tears of joy. Tears of joy. I know that there
is grief, but oh, Start here in verse 22, go down
to verse 26, this is what I hope to be preaching on today. And
he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man unto him, and
besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by
the hand and led him out of the town. And when he had spit on
his eyes and put his hands upon him, he asked if he saw art. He said, he looked up and said,
I see men as trees walking. And after that he put his hands
again upon his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored,
and saw every man clearly. And he sent him away to his house,
saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town. Our blessed, blessed, blessed
Father, O glorious God our Father, great God, Creator, Sustainer,
the Giver of life, the Giver of your blessed Son, our Savior,
our Savior. Oh Lord, we bless you today. Oh God, how thankful we are that
we're able to be here, want to be here, come to worship the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself, to talk about him, talk about his
blessed person, his glorious work, what he does for poor sinners
like ourselves. And Lord, I thank you for the
faithfulness and graciousness of all your dear saints and how
they deal with what goes on in this life in a way that God honors
you and glorifies you. Oh, the abundance of grace. You
always give grace. sufficient for whatever anyone
goes through, and not only that, but over and above it. Grace
for grace, and we thank you for it. We thank you for our dear
brother, oh Lord, that you took home today. What a blessing,
what a blessing, what a blessing. And Lord, we're thankful that
you took him. No more pain, no more sorrow,
no more grief, no more longing, no more desires. all fulfilled. Thank you for his family and
the people that loved him. And Lord, we've gathered here
and I pray that you would enable me to speak today, enable me
to preach and honor the Lord Jesus. And Lord, we're in your hands to do with
as it seemeth good, because the gospel will run well here today,
bring someone to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, to confess
their faith in the Savior, to confess that they need the Lord
Jesus Christ, to confess that, Lord Jesus, you're everything
to them, and they have no hope in this world without you. Oh,
God, we commit it to you, to you for Christ's sake. Amen. Let's all stand together as we
sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. As on the cross of Christ I thought
It seemed I heard one cry Is all this nothing in your eyes? You who this day has found Is not such suffering greater
than that which you've seen before? And was there ever any man Who
grieved or suffered more? I looked again, and what I saw
I cannot fully tell. It seemed within his very bones
There raged a fire of hell What caused you grief, I ask the man
What crimes could you have done? that God Jehovah struck you down
and left you all alone. His answer cut my heart like
steel and left me void of breath. Tis for your sins this pain I
feel. For you I go to death. Your soul before my father's
throne Could find no place to hide This is the way God can
be just, can you be justified? Jehovah's mercies never fail,
each morning they are new. Great is His faithfulness and
love, therefore we're not consumed. Jehovah God in Christ the Son
shall all my portion be. My soul shall therefore wait
for Him ♪ And live eternally ♪ Be seated. All right, let's go back here
to Mark chapter eight. I tell you, I love simplicity. I love the simplicity of the
Gospel. And the simpler a message is, I think the greater a blessing
it is. But it's said here, I'm going
to talk about a blind man, the Lord leading the blind. In verse
22, He cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring him a blind man unto
him, and besought him to touch him. He took the blind man by
the hand, led him out of town, and when he had spit on his eyes
and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw art. You
know, our Master said over in Matthew 15, He said, If the blind
lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch. Now there's
a lot of blind people leading blind people today. You know,
they're blind to Christ, they're blind to His glory, they're blind
to His work, they're blind to their sinfulness, they're blind
to His ability, they're blind to their self, and it's blind
leading the blind. But what we have here is our
Lord Jesus Christ leading a blind man. He led a blind man, led
him out of town, led him out of town. And He took him by the
hand and led him, took him by the hand. Someone once said one
time, We ought not to look for that in the law, which can only
be found in the gospel. There s nothing in the law but
condemnation and knowledge of sin. But oh my, we find a remedy
for sin, and the sin put away, that s what the gospel s all
about. A salvation is accomplished,
it s finished. And don t look for that in ourselves,
which can be found only in Christ. Don't look for any works, don't
look for any merit, don't look for any worth, don't look for
any ability, don't look for any approval from God when it can
only be found in Christ, and don't look for that in the creature
which can only be found in the Creator. Trust not princes, nor
put your trust in man or in the princes of the earth. and don't
look on the earth for that which can only be found in heaven."
You know, our Lord God Himself said, Look unto Me, look unto
Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. I am God,
and there is none else. I am God, and there is none else.
And what we have here is our Lord taking a blind man by the
hand and leads him out of town. Now we're going to go down through
these verses and hopefully see a few things. First of all, I
want you to see a merciful, merciful work. Look what it says in verse
22, And he cometh to Bethsaida, you know they'd got into a ship,
those Pharisees wanted a sign from him, so he got in the ship
and left them alone, went across the sea and come to Bethsaida.
And they took a blind man, they took a blind man unto him. and besought Him to touch him.
What a merciful, merciful work! They bring a blind man unto Him.
I want you to notice no names are given. They didn t tell who
the person s names was, didn t say anything, gave no recognition
to them whatsoever. The only person in this narrative
is the blind man and the Lord, but they bring him. No names,
no names given, no matter what happened, But I tell you, what
they did will never be forgotten. And whom they brought, they brought
a blind man, a blind man. Why'd they have to bring him?
Because he's blind. He s utterly, utterly, absolutely
helpless to find the way to the Lord Jesus Christ for Himself.
He could not get there by Himself. It d be impossible for Him to
get there by Himself. Somebody had to take Him. He
couldn t discern the Lord Jesus from any other man around there.
He couldn t, he could have, he would have fell around and touched
people and he could not have any idea what the difference
in Christ is somebody else would. So they brought him. What a merciful,
merciful work. this is the way man is by nature. Man by nature is spiritually
blind, spiritually blind. I ll tell you, you know, the
Lord Jesus Christ, He said this about man over in I Corinthians.
When we talk about the Word, it s always the Word of God.
He says the natural man, the natural man, Receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them. Why
can't he know them? Because they're spiritually discerned.
And he's natural. There's a difference between
the natural and the spiritual. You got to be made spiritual
if you can understand spiritual things. And I tell you what,
and again, the Lord, I want you to see with me over in Matthew
13. Again, it says, if our gospel be hid, it's hid to them that
are lost. lost in whom the God of the world
hath blinded, blinded the minds of them that believe not. Oh,
I can remember being spiritually blind. Oh my, I can, I can remember
it very well. But look what he said here in
verse 13, Matthew 13, verse 13, Matthew 13, 13. Therefore I speak to them in
parables, because they seeing, see not. They see a lot of things,
but they don't see me. And they hearing, they hear not.
They hear lots of things, but they don't hear me and don't
understand. And in them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Isaiah, which says, by hearing, you shall hear and
not understand. You hear the same words everybody
else is saying, shall not understand. And you shall see, and yet not
perceive, not grasp what you're seeing. For this people's heart
is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes
have they closed, lest at any time they should see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, should understand with their
hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Now that's
the condition man is by nature. But now look what he says about
his people. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your
ears, for they hear. God gives you ear to ears and
seeing eyes. Oh, what a blessed miracle. Even
when a man is awakened to his sense of danger and need, the
only thing they can grope after is the door of salvation like
the blind men. You remember down in Solomon
Gomorrah when the angels come down there to
bring Lot out, And they went in there to bring Lot out, and
Lot and them was all behind the door. And these men, they know
that the angels was inside that door. They come to get in there,
and these depraved, sinful men was trying to beat that door
down to get in there and get those men that come into town.
And the scripture says that those men struck them blind, and those
fellas was trying to find the door. That's the way man is. Without Christ, he can't find
the door. He can't find the door. And look where they brought him. And it said again, they bring
a blind man unto Him. Unto Him. Oh my! They bring him to the Lord Jesus
Christ, Emmanuel, God with us. That's who this is. They bring
him to the one who can do something for him. What a blessing, what
a privilege. Is there anything too hard for
the Lord? Look in Proverbs 21 with me. Proverbs 20, excuse me, Proverbs
20. I want you to look in Proverbs 20 about this. what our Lord
teaches His people here. Proverbs 20 and verse 21. You
know, what a blessing! They brought Him to the Lord
Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us. They brought Him to the one
who is able. And what a blessing it is for
us! What a lesson it teaches us! bring everyone that you know,
everyone that you love, bring them to Christ. If you can't
bring them physically, bring them spiritually. Bring them
from your heart, bring them from your soul, bring them with your
words, bring them with everything you got, and just keep bringing
them to Christ, just keep bringing them to Christ, keep bringing
them to Christ, because He's the only one, they brought Him
to the Lord. Who else can do anything for
Him? His mother and daddy can't. Everybody in town couldn't do
anything for him. And I'll tell you what, they
had to take him by the hand and lead him to the Lord Jesus Christ,
but they brought him to the right person. And I'll tell you what,
that's what we need to do. And I'll tell you what, bring
them to Christ. Bring them in our words. Oh Lord, name their
name. Name their name, call out their
name. Call out your children's name. Call out your grandchildren's
names. Call out your great-grandchildren's name. Call out your neighbor's
name. Call out your name. God, my children's names. My children's names. Oh, Lord,
would you please have mercy on my child and give his name? Make him for reality, make him
when they're real in your heart, they'll be real for the Lord.
And oh my, and look what it said here in Proverbs 20 and verse
12. Look what it says here. The hearing
ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made both of them. Is he gonna give you a seeing
eye and a hearing ear? Oh my. Oh, tell about Him. Tell them that He is able, Christ
is able. You know, you remember, you remember,
I tell you what, when we talk about bringing people to Christ,
you remember that our Lord was in a house and He was teaching
and the house was crowded and nobody could get in. So these
four men, they wanted to get this crippled man, this paralyzed
man to the Lord Jesus Christ. But they couldn't get him in.
They know that he couldn't do anything for them. So they loved
this man. They got up. They climbed up
on the top of the house. They lifted him up and got up
there. The only way they could get there
is to tear the ROOF off the house. They tore the ROOF off the house.
That's how desperately they wanted that man to get to Christ. These
folks know that this man had to get to Christ. and they tore
the roof off the house and left that man down right in front
of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only way I can get
to him. Well, then all of a sudden, our
Lord's teaching and he can nobody get in. And you know what the
first thing he said to him was? Son, be a good cheer. Your sins
are forgiven you. They brought him there to be
able to walk. But that's the first and necessary
need, is your sins be forgiven you, for you to have your blindness
taken away from you, from the scales taken from your eyes.
And oh my, and that man that brought his son to the Lord Jesus
Christ, and he said, do you believe I'm able to do this? You know
what that man said? Lord, I believe, I really do. But please help my unbelief,
help my unbelief. And oh, what a merciful work
they brought a man to the Lord. And what a wonderful, what a
wonderful blessed Savior we got. What a wonderful work that our
Lord Jesus, look at how our Lord dealt with this poor blind man.
Look how He dealt with him. Remember, His actions speak volumes,
often as full of meaning as His words. When they brought Him
to the Lord Jesus Christ, they left Him entirely in His hands. Entirely in his hands and he
don't deal with everybody the same way and look what he said
here He took him and he took the blind man by the hand. Oh The glory of his wisdom and
grace in the manifold ways of him dealing he took him by the
hand The Lord Jesus Christ just They
brought him to the Lord and, you know, they led him by the
hand to get him to Christ. They led him by the hand to get
him to Christ, put their arm on him, walk him along. And when
he got up there, the Lord Jesus said, give me, let me have him. Let me have him. He got him by
the hand. They led him by the hand. The
Lord said, let me have that hand. And the Lord Jesus got him by
the hand. Just started walking, started
walking with him, got him by the hand. Oh my, what a blessed
thing for the Lord to get you by the hand. Oh my, personal
contact, that's what it takes. That's what's necessary. And
those who brought him, look what it says. They said they besought
him to touch him. Well, he did. Got him by the
hand, took him by the hand. And oh, you remember your first
contact with the Lord Jesus Christ when He first touched you, when
you first had contact with Him? Remember your first contact with
His touch? Oh my, remember when you felt,
and oh my, and God, our Lord Jesus Christ, this rare, rare,
rare thing, THAT HE OVERWHELMS SOMEBODY IMMEDIATELY, LIKE HE
DID PAUL ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD. BUT MOST OF THE TIME, MOST OF
THE TIME, HE DEALS WITH THEM IN DEGREES, AND THAT'S THE FIRST
THING HE DOES, HE HAS CONTACT WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, THE VERY
FACT THAT YOU WANT TO BE WITH A GOSPEL PRIEST SHOWS ME THAT
THERE'S BEEN SOME KIND OF A CONTACT THAT CHRIST HAS MADE WITH EVERYBODY
IN THIS BUILDING, SOME WAY, SOMEHOW HE'S MADE CONTACT, OR YOU WOULDN'T
BE INTERESTED. He makes contact. But you remember
when you first felt that His truth, oh my, gripped your heart. Oh my. And you know you had been
touched by the Lord Jesus Christ. Know you've been touched by Christ. Touched by the blessed Son of
God. And not only did He take you
by the hand, personal contact. You know, I didn't say personal
Savior. That's not what I said. That's
not what I said. I mean, but here's the thing
about him. Everybody in this building here,
he can touch them. Touch each and every person in
this building, and he'll touch them, all of them, according
to what he wills for them to have today. He'll do that today. And then look what else he did
about him. In verse 23, he took the blind man by the hand and
led him out of the town. Led him out of the town. Oh,
my. Why did he do that for? Well,
he wanted to take him away from everything that would hinder
him, from all the show. People like show. They like to
be entertained. They like to see—all these folks
would have loved to seen a miracle. But he took him, he said, oh,
I'm gonna get you out of town. I'm gonna get you away from all
these people. I'm not gonna make a show out of this. I'm not gonna
let everybody see all these things that's happening. I'm gonna take
you out of town. I'm gonna take you where I got you with nobody
but me and you. It's just me and you. I'm gonna
bring you here where it's just us. It's like that woman taken
with an adultery. I'll tell you, when it's all
said and done, he said, you that's without sin cast the first stone.
Everybody left. And it says Jesus and the woman
was alone. And that's what happens here.
He took him, led him out of town. Led him out of town. Away from
all the show. He took him to be alone with
him. And the town, with all of its attractions, it don't take
much for us to get distracted. It doesn't me. It doesn't me.
It don't take me much to get distracted. But with the town,
with all of its attractions, all of its hindrances, all of
its hubba-loo, all of its marketing, and all of its advertisement,
and all of its magazines, and all the things that don t amount
to anything, oh my, they ve taken Him to get away from the Redeemer. They took Him away, they took
our Lord away, and oh my, and this is And that's something
I would tell everybody in this building today that don't know
Christ, never have confessed Christ. Get alone with the Lord.
Get alone with the Lord. Lord, you told me to get alone.
You know, they tell us it's just you and me. Lord, it's just me
and you. And when it comes down to salvation,
that's exactly what it is. There's nobody but you and Christ.
You and Christ. And I'll tell you what, you gotta
get along with him. You gotta deal with him, and
he gotta deal with you. But oh my, look what happens
now. And when he had spit on his eyes, what would you do if I walked
up and spit in your eyes this morning? Now Lord puckered up his mouth
and went, Spitting, spitting that eye, spitting that eye,
spitting the man's face. Spitting the man's face, spitting
his eyes. Oh my, what in the world? The spit of our Lord Jesus Christ
on these sightless eyes, spitting the man's eyes, spitting the
man's face. Oh, my! Well, I'll tell you something,
there's virtue in everything Christ's done. His tears, His
Spirit, His words, His touch, and oh, my! And that virtue,
that Spirit personally applied to the sin-blinded hearts of
men. And you're talking about wisdom.
The world would say that's the craziest thing I've ever seen,
spitting a man's eyes to give him sight. He's blind and you
spit in His eyes. And the world says, that don't
even make sense. But God says the wisdom of this
world is foolishness. Men will look at that and say,
why in the world would He do such a thing? That's not even
understandable. But oh, the wisdom of God, how
God does things. He does things His way, not our
way. And oh my, he spit in his eyes.
And I tell you, oh, do you who believe, he is precious. Look
over here in Mark 7 and verse 32. This is not the first time he did
this. And they bring unto him one that
was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they beseech him to put his
hand upon him. And he took him aside from the
multitude, put his fingers in the ear, and spit, and you know
what he done? He took that spit and put it
on that man's tongue. The way our Lord does things,
it's amazing to me, it really is, it's just amazing to me,
the most incredible things, and all his spit in his eyes, You
know, spit's a bad thing. It's most, I guess they say that
our mouth is probably one of the filthiest things we got.
And I remember one time I was in,
we was over, we was in Europe and I come out of a restaurant
and I spit. Just spit. And there was some girls there
and they stopped and looked at me like I had three heads. Because I spit. They said, You
don't do that here. Well, I did. But that was unclean to them.
What about this fella? Do you reckon our Lord Jesus
Christ that His spit? I'll tell you what, it's like
when He was washing His disciples' feet, Simon Peter said, You ain't
going to wash me. There's no way you're going to
get down there and wash my feet. And I tell you what, he said,
if I don't wash you, you don't have no part in me. Oh, Lord,
listen. Start washing my feet, wash my
hands, wash me all over. And that's the way we are. Oh,
my, that spit never bothered that man one iota. I guarantee
you, it never bothered him. Never offended him, not hurt
his feelings, and he didn't think he was being mistreated. And oh, look what else he did
now. And then put his hands on him. Turn around and put his
hands on him. Put his hands upon him. Oh, if
his spit was something in his hands, if his spit was humbling
and his spit was on his face, his hands would be such comfort.
His hands, such blessed, blessed hands, hands full of power, Hands
full of comfort, and these hands that touched this blind man,
those same hands were one time nailed to a cross. Those same
hands were nailed to a cross. Oh, look what he said over here
in Luke. I want you to look in Luke chapter 24. Oh, the hands
that touched him, and oh my, put his hands upon him, But the
hands that touched him were hands that were later to
be nailed to a cross. If we look here in Luke chapter
24 and verse 50, And he led them out as far as
to Bethany. Mary Martha and Lazarus were
from. He led them out as far as to
Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he
blessed them, he was departed from them, carried up into heaven.
Oh, there's something about them hands that's got some power.
Oh, the power in the hands of Christ. the power in the hands
of the Son of God. And you know, the only person that will have
any mark on their body when we get to heaven, when we get to
glory, will be the Lord Himself. That's the only one. The scars
that He had on His body will be the same. He'll have them
scars when we get to glory. You know, that's why when He
resurrects from the dead, He said, Look here, look at My hands,
look at My feet, look at My side. And they sung a song unto Him
as a lamb as it had been slain. Oh, His hands, His hands, and
then look what our Lord asked Him about. He said, and then verse 23, And He asked
him if he saw anything. What do you see? What are you
looking at? And he looked up, He looked up,
and oh, this is an amazing thing to me, and said, I see men as
trees walking. I see men as trees walking. What
do you see? He said, well, I see men, but
they look like trees walking around. They look like trees
walking around. And I'll tell you what. This
man was honest with the Lord. He told him the truth. You know,
it's good to make confession, to be honest, and not pretending
to see something you don't see, not pretending to know something
you really don't know. And that's what this man, he
said, I see, I see some things, but what I see, I see men as
trees walking. And I'll tell you something about
us. I don't know, I wouldn't say you're like this. I wouldn't
say you're like this at all. But when you get spiritually
depressed, when you get in a real heavy and get in real heavy and
you feel like you're in darkness, I'll tell you one thing, you
can't see it clearly either. How many times have you not been
able to see clearly? You can't see clearly. You can't
see clearly what's happening, what's going on. You see things
differently than the way they really are, the way they really
are. And oh my, make confession to
the Lord, don't pretend to see more than you really do, or know
more than you really do. And a man's eyes aren't very
clear, he only sees these men as trees. But oh my, this isn't
the full light, this ain't what Christ, Christ ain't finished
yet. I do know this, that He which begun a good work in you,
HE THAT BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU, HE WILL PERFORM IT UNTO
THAT DAY. HE'LL PERFECT THAT DAY, AND TRIALS
KEEP US OFTENTIMES FROM SEEING CLEARLY. AND THEN LOOK WHAT HAPPENS. HE SAID, I SEE ME AND HIS TREES
WALKING. SOMETIMES WE DON'T SEE VERY CLEAR.
AND AFTER THAT, HE PUT HIS HANDS AGAIN UPON HIS EYES, AND MADE
HIM LOOK UP. put his hands on his eyes and
made him look up. Oh, my! Look up! Look up! The man looked up once,
and he saw me and his trees walking. He said, Look up again. And oh,
my! A perfect cure because of the
perfect One, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord gets no glory leaving
a man half blind. Our Lord gets no glory by saving
men with a half-truth, by saving men with something other than
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. God don t save men
with a lie and don t save men with deception, and He don t
leave men half-blind. He doesn t do that, and He don
t leave men half-blind with false opinions of themselves, of Christ,
of God, of God s Word. Oh my, and when He made him look
up, look what He said, He was restored, He restored,
He restored that which He took not away, and this to this, and
saw every man clearly. Do you see men clearly now? There
was a time we didn't see men clearly, but you know when it
says He sees men clearly? You know what He's talking about? When He gives you a revelation,
you ll see every man clearly. It s like Isaiah said when King
Uzziah died, before that he saw ministries working, but when
the king Uzziah died, Isaiah was all, oh, he was upset. He
was in an upset, and then God came to him and gave him a vision.
I see the Lord high and lifted up, and I see His glory, I see
His glory. And I see him saying, holy, holy,
holy to the Lord. He's a holy, holy, holy God. And then he said, oh my, when
I saw the Lord high and lifted up and I saw his train, I saw
the angel saying, glory, glory, glory. He said, first thing he
said, woe is me. He saw himself clearly. in light
of the glory of God. He saw himself clearly in light
of the holiness of the Lord. He saw himself clearly. And I
tell you, have you ever saw yourself clearly? No? Oh my. David said, what is man that
you're mindful of him? What is he? What is man that
you're mindful of him? What do you think about him?
What is man that you might? You create the stars, the sun,
the moon, the heavens. And then I look up and look at
them and I say, what in the world is man in light of that? Oh my. When David said, is there any
yet that I can show the kindness of Jonathan, the kindness to? They said, oh, there's Mephibosheth.
Go fetch him, bring him here. And you know what the first thing
Mephibosheth said when he got in David's presence? He said,
why lookest upon such a dead dog as I am? Oh, my. I tell you what, I know this
much. I see myself clearly. I see myself clearly. I see that
without Christ, I have nothing. Without Christ, I can do nothing.
Oh, my. And I tell you, to see who he
is, see who Christ is, to see what he did, to see where he
is now. Oh, my. When Christ opens our
eyes, that's when we see what a desperate state man is here.
Now we see every man clearly. We see every man clearly. I see my children clearly. You
know, I tell you what, people will defend their kids and make
all kinds of excuses for them, the way they live and that, but
listen, if you see them clearly, you see clearly that there is
nothing to them, no hope for them apart from the Lord Jesus
Christ. There just ain't, there just
ain't. And He made him look up, and
then look what He said in verse 26, saw every man clearly, and he
sent him away to his house." Send him home. Send him home. Why'd he send him home? Well,
he'd never seen his mama, never seen his daddy, didn't know what
the house looked like, didn't know what it looked like on the
inside. He'd never known anything about it. But now he can find
his way home. He can see now, he can find his
way home. And oh, he starts home, and oh, he said, go to your house. You know, he needed to, they
needed to see what Christ had done for him, see his ability. And oh, he would be a constant,
constant witness of the power and glory of Christ. He could
see clearly now because of what Christ did for him. And he's
telling me, don't go back into town. He said, don't go back
into town. Don't go back into the town.
Don't do that. Oh, go back to, oh, don't go
back the old way. He's gonna go back to them folks
leading you around and know what they're all doing. Don't tell
anyone there. Don't cast your pearls before
swine. And let me to give you, you know, our Lord opened three
blind men's eyes. One man, he spit on his eyes
like this one here. One man, he made clay. spit in
the ground, made clay in both of his fingers and put clay in
his eyes. And another man, Bartimaeus,
was sitting by the wayside begging. And our Lord stopped and said,
bring him to me. What do you want? I want that
I may see. He said, okay, so it be unto
you. Now, if you asked the fellow
that he spit in his eyes, You ask the man who made clay for
his eyes, and you ask Barnabas, ìWhat did Christ do for you?î
And every one of them would tell you a different experience. Every one of them would say,
ìWell, He made mud for my eyes, and if He didnít make mud for
your eyes, you canít see then.î ìNo, no, I tell you, all He does
is tell me to go see.î Heís spitting my eyes, so everybody seems to
think the third way is the only way. But Christ does things His
way, and I don't care how He does it as long as He does it. Would you care? Spit in your
eyes? Put clay in your eyes? And I know one thing, we was
all blind. We was all blind, and the Lord
is the only one who gave us eyes to see. He had the power to do
it, and He's the only one who did it. Huh? And I'm satisfied with the way
he does it. Ain't you? I really am. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, our Savior. I pray that you take this gospel
today and use it for your glory and use it for the good of those
who heard today. Thank you for giving us this,
me, the privilege, the blessed privilege of preaching the gospel. And I pray that it would be a
blessing and that you'd use it for your glory and the good of
those here. who ask and cry thy Lord's name, amen, amen. Let's turn to 51 in the hymn
book. And we'll sing this and you'll be at liberty to go and
I'll see you tonight at six o'clock. 51. And we'll stand and sing this
and then you'll be at liberty to go. Praise the Savior, ye who know
Him All who tell how much we owe Him Gladly let us render
to Him All we are and have Jesus is the name that charms us He
for conflict fits and arms us Nothing moves and nothing harms
us While we trust in Him Trust in Him, ye saints, forever He
is faithful, changing never Neither force nor God can sever Those
He loves from Him Keep us, Lord, O keep us cleaving
to Thyself and still believing till the hour of our receiving
promised joys with Thee. ♪ Then we shall be where we would
be ♪ Then we shall be what we should be ♪ Things that are not
now nor could be ♪ Soon shall be our own See you tonight, six
o'clock, Lord willing. th th