Good morning, let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 483. 483. There is a name I love to hear. I love to sing its word. It sounds like music in my ear. The sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. How I love Jesus, oh, how I love
Jesus, because He first loved me. It tells me of a Savior's love,
who died to set me free. It tells me of His precious blood,
a sinner's perfect plea. Oh, how I love Jesus Oh, how
I love Jesus Oh, how I love Jesus Because He first loved me It
tells me what my Father hath done ♪ In store for every day
♪ And though I tread a dark some path ♪ He'll sunshine all the
way ♪ Oh how I love Jesus ♪ Oh how I love Jesus how I love Jesus
because he first loved me. It tells of one whose loving
heart can feel my deepest woe, who in each sorrow bears a part. ♪ That none can bear below ♪
Oh, how I love Jesus ♪ Oh, how I love Jesus ♪ Oh, how I love
Jesus ♪ Because he first loved me be seated we'll sing hymn
number 209. Marvelous grace of our loving
Lord Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt Yonder on Calvary's
mount outpoured There where the blood of the Lamb was shed Grace,
grace, God's grace Grace that will pardon and cleanse within
Grace, grace, God's grace, Graceless, greater than all I've seen. Sin and despair like the sea
waves cool, Threaten the soul with infinite close, Grace that
is greater, yes, grace untold. points to the refuge, the Binding
Cross. Grace, grace, God's grace, grace
that will pardon and cleanse within. Christ's grace, God's
grace, grace that is greater than all our sin. Dark is the stain that we cannot
hide. What can avail to wash it away? Look, there is flowing a crimson
tide. ♪ Wider than snow you may be today
♪ ♪ Grace, grace, God's grace ♪ ♪ Grace that will pardon and
cleanse within ♪ God's grace Graceless, greater
than all our sin Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace All who believe You that are
longing to see His face Will you this moment His grace believe? Praise, praise God's grace, grace
that wills pardon and bliss within. God's grace, grace that is greater
than all our sin. Where grace abounded, sin did
grace much more abound. Mark chapter 7. Mark chapter
7. Finish up this chapter and start
on a new one next week, God willing. Start reading at verse 31 to
the end of the chapter. And again, departing from the
coast of Tyre and Sidon, he came into the Sea of Galilee through
the midst of the coast of Decapolis. 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 and put his fingers in his ears and spit and touched
his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he
sighed, and saith unto them, Efathah, that is, be opened. And straightway his ears were
opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake
plain. And he charged them that they
should tell no man. But the more he charged them,
the so much more, a great deal, they published it, and were beyond
measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well. He
maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. Our most blessed, gracious, glorious
God, our Father in heaven. Lord, we're so blessed and so
privileged to be able to come into your presence And come,
Lord Jesus, as boldly and freely and with some confidence, not
in ourselves, but our confidence and faith and trust in you. For we know whom we believed
and we've been persuaded that whatsoever we commit unto you,
you're able to keep it against that day. And so, Lord, we come
and I bring this body of believers All of us, we come into your
presence. Oh Lord, we all of us come with
a need. All of us come with prayers.
All of us, some of us come with heavy hearts and care and concern
for others. But Lord, you know the need of
every home, every heart, every soul represented here. But Lord, we especially pray
for our brothers and sisters. that are going through trials
and troubles, who are burdened. We pray for Joe, pray for Eleanor,
pray for Brother James. Oh, Lord God,
we pray that you'd bless these dear saints, strengthen them,
encourage them. Lord Jesus, as they brought this
deaf man, Lord, we bring these people to you. We got no place
else to take souls. Souls that we can't do nothing
for, but you can. We bring the laws because we
can't save them, but you can. We can't open a heart, but you
can. We can't convince a soul of their
need of Christ, but you can. So Lord, we look to you. Ask
for your presence in this meeting today. Meet with us. Come among us. Let us feel your
power. Let us feel your presence. Let
us be touched by the Spirit of God Himself to bring glory to
our Lord Jesus Christ, to see sinners brought to faith in our
blessed Savior. In His name we pray. Amen. Let's stand together as we sing
the hymn of the day in the bulletin. Father, we, thy children, bless
thee, for thy love to us bestow. As our father, we address thee,
called to be the sons of God. Wondrous was Thy love in giving
Jesus for our sins to die. Wondrous was His grace in leaving
for our sakes His home on high. Now the sprinkled blood on we
go, Toward our rest through the desert Thou dost lead us, hast
freed us With Thy constant favor blessed By the truth and Spirit
guiding Furnished he of joys to come, And with daily food
providing, Thou dost lead thy children home. Through our pilgrimage be dreary. This is not our resting place. Shall we of the way be weary? when we see our Master's face. Now by faith anticipating, in
this hope our souls rejoice, we His promised Advent waiting,
soon shall hear His welcome voice. Be seated. All right, let's look back here
in Mark chapter 7. I love that last verse, it says,
He hath done all things well. He hath done all things well,
and He has, and He does, and He will. He has done all things well,
He IS doing all things well, and He WILL, in the future, do
all things well. Our Lord Jesus Christ is successful. He's not a failure. Whatever
He undertakes, it's going to happen. It's going to happen.
You know, everyone, people who had loved ones, just like last
week we dealt with, or the week before last, we dealt with a
woman whose daughter had a devil and she came to the Lord Jesus
Christ and begged him to please do something for her daughter.
And you remember he ignored her. And finally he said, ah, dog's
not fit to take the children's bread and give it to dogs. She
said, yes, Lord, that's right. But I don't care to be a dog.
Just give me the crumbs. Give me the crumbs. And he said,
great is thy faith. And she went home and immediately
when she got to the house, her daughter was well. And so everyone
who has loved ones and people that they love, whether they
were sick, whether they were diseased, whether they were dead. Mary and Martha's brother Lazarus
was dead, and our Lord Jesus KNEW that he was sick, and He
waited. They sent to Him and said, He
whom thou lovest is sick. They KNEW He loved Him, and oh,
they thought He would come immediately. immediately, but our Lord waited
four days before He went over there, and you know why He said
Lazarus died? For the glory of God, for the
glory of God, so that Christ could raise him from the dead,
so I mean even dead people. One man said, Oh Lord, I got
a daughter, she's 12, just 12 years old, and And oh, listen,
he started going to her house, his house, and boy, when he got
there, they ran out and told him, said, forget it, said, tell
the master to forget it, she's dead. The Lord Jesus just walked
in there and said, got her by the hand, said, get up. So people that he loves and people
that they love, whether they're diseased, sick, deaf, blind,
or dead, when they knew where Christ was, and knew who Christ
was, and where He was, they brought them to Him. And oh my, but here
they said in verse 32, they bring unto Him one that was deaf. If any of y'all ever know anybody
that was deaf, I mean really deaf, I know a man lost his hearing
in a car wreck, deaf. Last time I saw Henry, he couldn't
hear and I had to write it. You have to write to him. I had
a deaf man one time that that's the only way we could get verse
is writing back and forth. Can you imagine what it's like
to never hear, to never hear, to never hear your mother or
dad's voice? To never hear your brother or
sister's voice. To never hear anybody's voice. Just look at them. And that's
something else. At this time, they didn't have
sign language. They didn't have sign language.
If you was deaf, you just couldn't hear. Never heard a bird sing. Never heard a cricket. NEVER HEARD A FROG CROAK! THAT'D
BE AWFUL, TO BE DEAF! OH, TO BE DEAF! OH, NEVER HEAR
ANYTHING! OH MY! AND THERE'S NO SIGN LANGUAGE
AT THIS TIME, TO BE DEAF! OH, TO BE DEAF! AND OH, AND THEN
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT SAYS THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ONE THAT WAS
DEAF, AND NOT ONLY COULD HE NOT HEAR, BUT HE COULDN'T TALK! He
had a speech impediment, a speech impediment. He not only could
not hear, but he couldn't talk. You couldn't understand him when
he tried to say something, you couldn't understand him. Deaf,
can't hear, and he can't speak, that you could understand him.
So here's this man, he has a speech impediment. Oh, to be able not
to hear, and then not to be able to be understood when you try
to talk. Try to talk. But oh, I tell you,
the first thing they knew was, you know what it says? They bring
Him, Him that was deaf, Him that had a speech impediment. Who'd
they bring Him to? They brought Him to a person.
They brought Him to the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he was right
there at getting ready to go into the Sea of Galilee, through
them he come off to Decapolis, and then got out of the boat,
and there they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an
impediment speech. Oh my, what can we do? This tells us this, bring those
that you love, bring those that are in need. You know, the natural
man is deaf to the things of God. the natural man can t say
the right things about God and the right things about Christ.
And so here you ve got, you ve got your loved ones, you ve got
sons, you ve got daughters, you ve got husbands, you ve got wives,
and you ve got people that they cannot hear. They re like this
fellow, they can hear, you know, they can hear the preacher s
voice, but they can t hear the voice of Christ, and that s the
voice you need to hear. And I tell you, when you don't
know what else to do, bring your sons, bring your daughters. I
bring my children, I bring my grandchildren, I bring my great-grandchildren,
and there's only one place that I can bring them, that somebody
can do something for them, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
I can't do anything for them, I can pray for them, I can talk
to them, but you know, But bring your
loved ones, bring your loved ones. Christ can do for them
what nobody else can do. He s the only one that can do
it. So, oh my, think about, think
about yourself. Who else are we going to come
to when we re in need? You know, and sometimes we get,
even as believers, we get DULL in hearing WE GET DULL IN HEARING,
AND WE GET SLOW IN SPEECH, SAYING THINGS ABOUT CHRIST. SO WHAT
CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? COME TO HIM, SAID LORD PLEASE,
PLEASE TAKE AWAY THIS DULLNESS OF HEARING. PLEASE LORD, ENABLE
ME TO SAY MORE ABOUT YOU, AND LOOSEN MY TONGUE TO BE ABLE TO
SPEAK MORE TO YOU. BUT LOOK WHAT IT SAYS HERE AGAIN
IN VERSE 32, They bring unto him one that was deaf and had
an impediment in his speech, and they beseech him to put his
hand on him. You know what that word beseech
means? It means I desire, I desire,
we desire you to lay your hands on him. We call on you for aid
to lay your hands on him. We call on you to lay your hands
on him for comfort. FOR HIS COMFORT AND OUR COMFORT.
THAT'S WHAT BESEECH MEANS. OH LORD, WE DESIRE YOU LORD.
WE CALL ON YOU LORD. OH, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT
CAN COMFORT HIM AND COMFORT US. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. AND HOW
MANY TIMES HAVE WE IN OUR LIFETIMES HAVE BESEECHED THE LORD JESUS,
NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES BUT FOR OTHERS. OH LORD, WE DESIRE YOU
TO COME WE CALL ON YOU FOR AID, LORD JESUS, WE CALL ON YOU FOR
COMFORT, AND OH MY, YOU KNOW IT'S HARD TO COMFORT SOMEBODY
WHEN THEY'RE REALLY IN TROUBLE, BUT OH THE LORD JESUS, HOW MANY
TIMES HAVE WE IN OUR LIVES HAVE BESEECHED HIM, NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES,
LORD COMFORT US, COME TO MY AID, I DESIRE YOU, AND HOW MANY TIMES
HAVE WE DONE IT FOR SOMEBODY ELSE? How many times have we
got up and said, Lord, comfort them, aid them, call on them. We desire you to do something
for them. And I tell you, when you go to
Him, oh, He can do something. He can do something. You know,
I was talking to Billy Argeropoulos yesterday. His wife had a stress
test because she needs a knee replacement, or something in
her heart wasn t strong enough, but anyway, I was talking to
him, and he asked me to please pray for her, and then I called
him to ask how she was doing, and I tell you, I told him, I
said, One of the greatest things we can do for anybody in this
world, now listen to me, is pray for them, When you pray for somebody, you're
taking them to the Lord God in heaven. You're taking them to
somebody that's got some power. Somebody that's got some authority.
Somebody that can come to your aid. Someone that can comfort
you. Someone that can do something
for you that nobody else can. Huh? Oh my. And it's like that woman with
the issue of blood. She had a great need. And you
know what happened? GREY CROWD AROUND HER, GREY CROWD
AROUND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT SHE SAID IF I CAN JUST TOUCH
THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT, I DON'T HAVE TO TOUCH HIM, JUST THE HEM,
AND YOU KNOW THE MINUTE SHE TOUCHED HIM, THE MOMENT SHE TOUCHED HIM,
YOU KNOW WHAT OUR LORD SAID? VIRTUE IS GOING OUT OF ME. WHEN
WE TOUCH HIM, SOMETHING COMES OUT OF HIM. WHEN WE GET A HOLD
OF HIM AND COME TO HIM, HE'S TOUCHED. Ain't that what it said? He's touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. And I've got plenty of them,
don't you? Oh, touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
And oh my, look what our Lord did now. Look what our Lord did. Now there's a multitude there.
He took him aside from the multitude. There's all these people around,
it'd be like us being here, and the Lord Jesus taking him behind
that door, takes him OFF to Himself, get him AWAY from that crowd,
get him AWAY from the multitude, and takes this deaf man, this
man with his dysphagia, and takes him OFF to Himself, takes him
OFF to Himself. He took him where he was ALONE
with Him. Boy, what a, oh my, there's nothing,
nothing like being alone with Christ. And when you're alone
with Christ, something's gonna happen. Something's gonna happen. Let me show you over in John,
look in John chapter eight. And that's another thing, I never
will forget years and years and years ago when we was just learning
the gospel. And Brother Henry was down here
for our first meeting, and that's one thing he said. He said, you
go home and you get alone with the Lord. You go home and get
alone with the Lord. Don't worry about what's gonna
happen here. If you hear the gospel and you hear Christ, go
home and get alone with Christ. Get in the closet. And look what
happens here in John. Everybody at John 8, you know
the story about the woman taken in adultery. and they bring her
to the Lord Jesus Christ, and they want to stone her. And look
what it says down here in verse 10. Oh, all those fellows walked
away and left, and you know, he just without sin cast the
first stone. And then verse 10 said, when
Jesus had lifted himself up and saw none but the woman alone
with Christ. In this instance, he would have
got away from the multitude. This time the multitude went
away from him. And Noah, he said unto her, Woman,
where are those thine accuser? Hath no man condemned thee? No
man judged thee? She said, No man, Lord. And he
said, Neither do I. That's what happens when you're
alone with Christ. That's what happens when you're alone with
Christ. That woman at the well, Along with Christ, huh? Along with Christ. And oh, Zacchaeus,
I mean, he went to Zacchaeus' house. How would you like that
to go? But oh my, you know, he took
him aside. Lord, take us aside. Take us
aside. Sometimes He'll take us aside
right in the service like this, and He'll get us off to ourselves,
and He ain't speaking to nobody but us. everybody else around,
but he's only talking to you. Oh my, along with Christ. So he took him aside, took him
aside. And then look what next he did,
put his fingers in his ears, put his fingers in his ears.
What in the world? Put his fingers in his ears.
Well, we know that he's raised the dead, but let me tell you
something. You know whose fingers that was
was stuck in his ears? That's the fingers of God Himself. That's who that is. He stuck his fingers in my Lord's
ears, I don't care. He stuck his fingers in his ears.
You know, that man wondered what in the world, what's he sticking
his fingers in my ear for? Oh my, stuck his fingers in his
ear. And you know, whenever you find
the finger of God, over in Exodus chapter 8, it says over there
that after all those magicians and all that of Pharaoh, they
done as much as they could, and then all of a sudden they couldn
t do what Moses did, and they said, This is the finger of God! Huh? And I tell you another time
when the finger of God moved, when He wrote the law on the
tablets of stone, And another time when he wrote on the wall,
it says, Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting.
But here is the finger of God doing something for a deaf man!
Go ahead, Lord, stick your fingers in his ears! Oh, my! And I tell
you, Lord, stick your fingers in my ears, unstop them! Unstop
them! Oh, Lord, let me get my, you
know, when Bunyan s Progress, it says that when God began to
bombard, or in the Holy War, not Bunya s problem, but in the
Holy War, it says there that they set up their engines, and
that means weapons, that they d shoot, and they started bombarding,
they started bombarding, and you know where they was bombarding?
Irrigate. They just kept hitting that irrigate,
and hitting that irrigate, and hitting that irrigate until they
finally got His attention. God, hit that ear gate, hit that
ear gate. Oh my, and I tell you, Lord Jesus,
give us ears to hear, give us ears to hear you. Now look what
else happened, what our Lord did now. Look what it says, and
he spit, he spit. I believe he spit on his finger,
told that fellow, stick out your tongue. Spit on his tongue. The way he does things, by the
time we think he's going to do something one way, he does something
else. But how would you like the Lord,
somebody spit on their finger and tell you stick out their
tongue and you touch it? You wouldn't like that. You know,
mama says no telling how many times mothers over the years
have spit on herself and washed off dirt off of some child's
face. Huh? There's no telling how many times
that's happened. You know, I mean, mamas has been
doing that as long as there's been a mama. Ain't that right? They're taking... Let me spit on that, there, get that
hair down. But that's, you know, and here's our Lord Jesus, here
he is. He takes spit, open your tongue, stick out your tongue,
and touched his tongue with spit on it. Oh my, and you know, I don't know how else to say
this. I don't know how else to say it. There's only one way
to say it. That everything that come from our Lord's Body, that
Spirit was as holy as Christ Himself. There wasn't nothing
nasty about it. There wasn't nothing unclean
about it. There was nothing that was wrong
with it. Can you imagine that the Lord
Jesus Christ would do that and what if his hands is holy, his
tears are holy, then his spit that come from him, it'd have
to be holy, it could not, it had to have some kind of virtue
in it that he had touched that man's tongue with it, oh my, oh out of his mouth, this is
what happens, out of his mouth comes healing, Out of his mouth
comes, whether it's a word or whether it's spit, out of his
mouth comes healing. Whatever he does, out of his
mouth comes healing. And oh my! Let me show you something
over here in John chapter 9. Look at this over here, John
chapter 9. This is, Bruce Crabtree wrote an article
one time on, Are You a Mud-Eyed? something else, I mean, you know,
because the Lord Jesus Christ could open a man's eyes, He opened
people's eyes, but this one time He done something different.
And look what it says here in John chapter 9, And Jesus passed
by and saw a man which was blind from birth. his disciples asked
him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind? That s the first thing people
think, Boy, somebody d done something really bad for this to happen.
Oh, my! And he said, Neither hath this
man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him. And this happened till I could
come THIS HAPPENED, GOD PURPOSED THIS FROM ETERNITY, THIS MAN
BE BORN BLIND, SO I COULD COME AND DO SOMETHING FOR HIM." That
s exactly what our Master said. And He said, I must work the
works of Him that sent Me while it is day, the night cometh when
no man can work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world. Listen to this now, And when
He had thus spoken, He spit on the ground, He spit on the ground
and then he got down and took all that spit and started working
around in that spit and started making clay. He spit enough to
make clay and he made enough clay to put on both his eyes. Our Lord is, it's amazing how
he works in this world. He got down, now you think about
it, he got down on the ground and spit. and spit enough that
he started making clay with his fingers, and he took enough clay
and he said, ìMade some more clay?î Why would you put clay on a man
thatís blind already? He canít see the clay, but he
can feel it. Oh, he spit on the clay and moaned
the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and then he said, ìGo
wash that clay off.î Go wash that clay off. And in his way,
and he washed his face in the pool of Siloam, and what happened? When he washed that clay off,
he saw. The way our Lord does things. You
know, it s astonishing. When you start thinking about
Christ and the way He does things, nobody would do anything that
way, but the Lord can. Oh, if you went to the doctor
and he said, I m going to make up some clay and I m going to
cover your eyes up with clay so you can see better, you d
say, Boy, I m not going back to that guy again. No, you wouldn
t do it. You wouldn t do it. You wouldn
t go to a doctor in this world and he d put clay on your eyes.
No, but that s the way our Lord does. That s the way our Lord
does things that nobody else can do. And everything he ever
did, it come out just exactly right. If a man was blind, he's
gonna see. If a man's dead, he's gonna live.
If a man's deaf, he's gonna hear. If a man's a leper, he's gonna
get cleansed. And oh my, and then look what
he said. He spit on his tongue. He put
his fingers in his ear, back over in our text, verse 33, and
he spit and touched his tongue. Got his fingers in his ear and
then he spit and touched his tongue. Touched his tongue. And oh, listen to what he said
now. Look what happens now. And he looked up into heaven. You know how many times it talks
about our Lord looking up into heaven. I mean, you can look
up into the heavens. But Christ, when it says He looked
up into heaven, He was seeing heaven itself. He's seeing His
Father. He's seeing everything that's going on out there. And
it says that He, looking up to heaven. You know, look over here
in Mark chapter 6, and I think it's verse 41. Look what it says
over here. And when he had taken the five
loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven. And what
did he do? He blessed. And he broke that
bread. And here he is looking up to
heaven. In John 17 and 1, the scripture says that the Lord
Jesus looking, looking, When He looks up, He sees things
that you and I can't see. Paul was caught up to the third
heaven, and he said, I saw things that when I got back down here,
I couldn't talk about it. I couldn't talk about it. All
these folks that died come back and they say they see this light
and all that rigmarole. Let me tell you something, when
Paul was caught up to the third heaven, caught up into the presence
of Christ Himself, He come back and said, what did you see, Paul?
I can't tell you. I can't tell you. You couldn't
handle it. I couldn't handle it. Well, here's looking up to heaven.
And I'll tell you, you know, he looked up to heaven, he came
down from heaven. And all the blessings that we
have come from heaven, every single one of them. I'll tell
you what, Well, you know, if you, when you're born again,
you're born from above, from heaven. James said, every good
and every perfect gift cometh down from the father of light.
So he looked up to heaven and this is something that's really,
really, look what he says next, looking up to heaven and look
what he said. He sighed. He sighed. Can you imagine? Now I know what
it is to sigh. You do too. Everybody has moments
of, that they just get heavy hearted, they get things going
on in their life, and they sigh. And they sigh. And they sigh. Oh, one of these days all these
sighs will be gone. Yeah, I tell over in Revelation,
the sighs will be gone. There'll be no more. Sorrows
and sighs will cease to be. But he sighed. He looked up to
heaven. saw this deaf man, this man with
his bed in the middle of speech and that multitude looking and
our Lord Jesus Christ, he sighed. Why would he sigh? You know,
you find him weeping twice. You find our Lord Jesus weeping
twice. But here he, one time when he
stood outside Lazarus' tomb, the scripture said he groaned
in spirit. Oh, he groaned. Oh, he groaned. Now, what does
that tell us? That our Lord is deeply, deeply,
deeply touched with our feelings. Deeply, deeply touched. with
what's wrong with us. He is touched with our sorrows,
touched with our infirmities. And oh, we see here the depth,
the depth of His sympathy. Oh, how sympathetic was He towards
this man. Oh, He's touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. And not only is he touched with
them, and he was touched with what this man was going through,
and touched with the people that brought him to them, but he's
able to do something about it. I can sigh, and it won't do nobody
no good. When you hear somebody sigh,
you say, what's the matter? What's troubling you? What's
bothering you? What's wrong with you? When you
hear somebody sigh, what's up? All you gotta say, I don't know.
I was just heavy, just heavy hearted. But oh my, but here
he was, he sighed. Oh, he sighed. He had such deep,
deep sympathy and such deep feelings for these people, for these people. And then look what he said. He
said unto him, nobody else now, if there'd have been a half a
dozen dead people there, if he'd have said, all of you be open.
He always called people singly, but he looked, and he saith unto
him, Ifathah, Ifathah. What does that mean? Be open. Be open. Just be open. Oh, my. What happens? Oh, a sudden change takes place
then. He speaks, He speaks and it's done. He speaks and it's
done. Oh, be open! His voice raises
the dead. Oh, may He say to you, Be opened! May He open your ears! You know,
Lydia, He opened her heart. May He open our hearts! May He
open your heart! Oh, and open, may He open your
mind! May he say unto you, Ephathah,
be open for your ears, be open for your eyes, be open for your
hearts, be open, be open. May he say that to you, be open. And then look what happens. Oh,
what a sudden change. And straightway his ears were
opened. He just said, be open. What happened? He's open! Whatever was stopping
His ears up, it just stopped just like that! Straightway His
ears were open! Straightway! Oh my! Our Lord is successful! Whatever
He does is successful! Oh, He never fails! He speaks
and it's done! It's just like in creation, and
He's the author of creation, you know that? He's the Creator!
Christ was the Creator! BY HIM ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE
WERE MADE. HE CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BY
HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. WHEN GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT,
CHRIST WAS THAT LIGHT. AND CHRIST WAS THE WORD THAT
GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT. WHEN GOD SPEAKS, WHEN CHRIST
SPEAKS, THINGS HAPPEN. HE SPEAKS AND IT'S DONE. HE COMMANDS
AND IT STANDS FAST. And oh my, our Lord's successful,
nothing He ever did. And His Word never returns to
Him void. You reckon if that fellow, now,
you know, you see these healers all the time talking about people
and laying hands on folks and they get laid out in the Spirit
and they fall down like they're dead or something, you know?
And I tell you what, when our Lord Jesus Christ did things
like that, He just spoke, be open! And I don't know, you know,
he might've just said, be open. Might've just whispered at him.
Just be open. Just got up and whispered in
his ear, be open. I don't know how he done it,
but he might've done it that way. Just walked up to his ear
and whispered in his ear, be open. Be open. You ever heard anybody whisper
and you could hear everything they said because their whispers?
Well, our Lord, when he whispers, he can just whisper, be open. That might have been what he
did. But don't not care how he done it, but straightway his
ears were open. How long did that take? Just
for him to say it? Spoke two words, be open. That
quick. Then look what else happens now.
And look what it says, the string of his tongue was loosed. You
know, we all got these little strings under our tooth. My little brother, Jimmy, he's gone now. But anyway, when
he was born, he had to have that thing under his tongue clipped.
so he could speak and his tongue could move. He had, I don't know
what they called that, but they had to cut his tongue so his
tongue could move. It had to just all the way out.
But anyway, that's what this fella does. His tongue, it says
here his tongue was loosed. His tongue was loosed. It was loose. Do you know, you've
heard about folks who got too loose a tongue? loose with her
tongue. I don't know anybody like that. I don't know anybody that talks
very much. But this fellow's tongue was
loosed and he He's got something to say now. He's never been understood
all his life. He ain't heard all his life,
and he couldn't be understood all his life. But his tongue's
loosed, and now you're talking about something to say. He's
got something to say. And a person that their tongue's
been loosed by Christ, they got something to say. And the first
words out of their mouth, blessed be the Lord, O my soul. Oh, praise the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, for He done ALL THINGS well! Oh my! The tongue was loosed, now He
s got something to tell, and oh my! James says, No man can
tame the tongue, Christ can! Oh, they spake with other tongues,
it says over in Acts chapter 2, but look what it says now. He says, His tongue was loosed,
He had, he could, he could, something happened to this man.
Something miraculous, supernatural, supernatural. And look what happens
next. And he spoke plain. You can understand him now. He was able to speak plain. Oh,
now I can hear and now I can talk. And when he opened his
mouth, everybody understood what he had to say. He spake plain. Oh my. When a man knows what
he's talking about, he'll talk plainly. And oh my. You know, Abraham declared plainly
that he was looking for a city and maker who was God. Oh my. Our Lord Jesus, our Lord told
our Lord Jesus Christ, They said, if thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. He said, I told you, but you
believe not. Why don't you believe? Because
you're not my sheep. Paul said, we use plainness of
speech because we got such hope. And beloved, I tell you, plainness
of speech, plain speech is easy, easy to be understood. And then
look what happens. Oh, his ears were opened, the
string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. You could
understand him now. You could understand him now.
I mean, you talk about a man's life changing. I mean, he's brought
to the Lord Jesus Christ, deaf, deaf as a post, could not talk
where you could understand him. And I mean, just in a minute
or two, HOWEVER, HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR OUR LORD TO GET HIM
OFF TO HIMSELF, STICK HIS FINGERS IN HIS EARS, SPIT ON HIS TONGUE.
IF IT TOOK THREE MINUTES, TWO MINUTES, FIVE MINUTES, I DON'T
KNOW, BUT THE THING IS THAT HE WAS, THERE'S SOMETHING MIRACULOUS. HE COME TO CHRIST ONE WAY AND
LEFT CHRIST ANOTHER. AND WHEN CHRIST COMES TO US,
HE COMES TO US, FIND US ONE WAY AND WE LEAVE BEING SOMETHING
ELSE. That's what you call being a
new creature in Christ. Oh my, and look what it says
now. And he charged him, said, now
don't go out here and talk about this. This is when our Lord said
he made himself of no reputation. That's what this means here.
He made himself of no reputation. He said, now don't tell, just
keep this to yourself, go home, keep this to yourself. And the
more he told him not to tell it, the much more a great deal
they were telling me. I was deaf. I'm hearing. I couldn't talk. Now I want to
tell you something. I want to tell you who did it.
I want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you what happened.
And oh, my. And I'll tell you what. And they
were beyond measure astonished. You know, every time I look at
things like this, I'm astonished. I am really astonished at how
our Lord Jesus Christ does things. And it's, you know, and you don't
really see it till you start looking at it. And like I told
you before, I've got to where I read so slow, I may read only
10 or 12 verses in a chapter. trying to make it all make sense
to me, just like if I was going to talk to somebody about it,
I want to say, this is what I'd say about that, say about this
here, but this is the thing about it. I'm astonished when I see
how Christ does things in this world. He's done that for a multitude
that no man can number. There's not a soul in this building
that's a believer that Christ didn't speak to you through your
ears. THERE IS NOT A PERSON IN THIS
BUILDING THAT CHRIST DIDN'T LOOSE YOUR TONGUE AND GIVE YOU THE
ABILITY TO PRAISE HIM AND BLESS HIM AND GLORIFY HIM WITH YOUR
TONGUE. NOT A PERSON IN THIS BUILDING
HE AIN'T DONE THAT FOR. THAT'S A BELIEVER, AIN'T THAT
RIGHT? HAVE HE OPENED YOUR EARS? HE DID MINE. YOU KNOW WHAT I
USED TO HEAR? FUNDAMENTALISM, LEGALISM WORKS. Then all of a sudden He got both
of my ears and said, Grace, grace, grace, and more grace. Christ,
Christ, Christ, and more Christ. Christ is all and in all. And
that's when He opened your ears, that's what you hear. And oh
my, well, and they were beyond measure astonished. And listen,
He hath done all things well. And look what it says, He maketh
both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. Huh? No wonder what a wonderful Savior
is Jesus our Lord. What a wonderful Savior to me.
Let's sing that. I think that's 258. Is that 258? Yeah, he hideth my soul, yeah.
He hideth my soul. Let's stand together and sing
this, and we'll get through it this, you're liberty to go. ♪ A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord ♪ a wonderful Savior to me. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock where rivers of pleasure I see. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock That shadows a dry, thirsty land He hideth my life in the depths
of His love, and covers me there with His hand, and covers me
there with His hand. ♪ A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord ♪ He taketh my burden away ♪ He holdeth me up and I shall
not be ♪ Giveth me strength as my day
♪ ♪ He hideth my soul ♪ ♪ In the black of night ♪ Yes, bless his name.
♪ And shadows of the thirsty land ♪ He hideth. ♪ In the depths of His love ♪ And
covers me there with His hand ♪ And covers me there with His
hand ♪ With numberless blessings each
moment He crowned ♪ And filled with His fullness divine ♪ I sing in my rapture, O glory
to the Father for such a Redeemer as mine. He hieth my soul in the cleft
of the rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. my life in the depths of his
love and covers me there with his hand and covers me there When clothed, I rise to meet Him in the clouds,
clouds of the sky, His perfect salvation, His wonderful love, I'll shout with the millions
on high, Amen. Sing. In the cliff to the rock
that shadows a dry thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of His love, and covers me there with His hand, and covers with
his hands. See you tonight, six o'clock.
God willing.