Good morning. Let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 452. 452. We'll save the chorus
for last. Hymn number 452. I stand amazed in the presence
of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how He could love me. A sinner condemned unclean. Verse two. For me it was a burden. He prayed not my will but thine. He had no tears for his own griefs,
but sweat drops of blood for mine. In wonder, in wonder, angels
beheld him. And came from the world of light
To comfort him in the sorrows He bore for my soul that night
He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His very own. He bore the burden to Calvary
And suffered and died alone When with the ransomed in glory His
face I at last shall see, T'will be my joy through the ages, To
sing of His love for me. How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be How marvelous, how wonderful Is my
Savior's love for me Be seated we'll sing hymn number 314. 314.
? I am thine, O Lord ? I have heard
thy voice ? And it told thy love to me ? But I long to rise in
the arms of faith ? And be closer drawn to thee Draw me nearer,
nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast
died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. Consecrate me now to thy service,
Lord, by the power of grace divine. Let my soul look up with a steadfast
hope, and my will be lost in Thine. Draw me nearer, nearer,
nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to thy precious Queen. O the pure delight of a single
hour, that before Thy throne I spend. With an eel in prayer
and with Thee, my God, I commune as friend with friend. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding There are depths of love that
I cannot know till I cross the narrow sea. There are heights of joy that
I may not reach till I rest in draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding side. Mark chapter 6. We'll finish
this chapter of today, start in chapter 7 next week. I'm just gonna start reading
in verse 53 down to the end of the chapter, just five verse,
four verses. And when they had passed over,
they came into the land of Genesaret and drew near to shore. And when
they were come out of the ship straightway, they knew him. and
ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry
about in beds those that were sick where they heard he was.
And whithersoever he entered into villages, or cities, or
country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him
that they might touch, if it were but the border of his garment.
And as many as touched him were made whole." Our great and glorious and blessed
God and Father in heaven, thou who the heavens is your throne
and this earth is your footstool, and Lord, we're so blessed to
be on your footstool, gladly set as your footstool. And Lord,
we bless you that you gave us this day, that you woke us up
this morning still clothed in our right mind, Still with a
desire and a will to come and worship you. And Lord, we want
this worship to be true, want it to be from our spirit, want
it to be from our heart, want it to be from our souls. Oh Lord,
we want your presence in our midst this morning. Of all the
things we need today, we need your presence this morning. Need
your presence for me. Oh, I need your presence. Oh, to get up here and try to
declare the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ without you would
be, oh, just be a misadventure. And Lord, these that's gathered
here, they need your presence. They need your presence that
they can hear, that they can rejoice, that they can be touched
by the spirit of God, that salvation can be made known, that Christ
may be exalted. that our Lord Jesus Christ may
open a heart and enter in and sit on the throne. Oh, to sit
on the throne of that heart. Oh, what a blessing it would
be. And Father, we thank you for how you've blessed us and
how you've met every need. Lord, there's not a thing in
this world that we've ever needed that you haven't given us. And
Lord, we thank you for it. God bless the gospel today. Save
you people in this place. And Lord, be merciful to our
families, our sons, our daughters, our grandchildren, husbands and
wives that don't know Christ. Oh God, for Christ's sake, meet
the need today. In his holy name we pray, amen. Hymn number 226. 226. I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know that
His right hand is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His word indeed. Christ died for sinners, this
I read. For in my heart I find a need. of Him to be my Savior, that
He should leave His place on high and come for sin. For man to die, you count it
strange. So once did I, before I knew
my Savior. And though that he fulfilled
may see the travel of his soul in me, and with his work contented
be, as I with my dear Savior. Yay, living, dying, let me bring
my strength. My soul lives from this spring. Let he who lives to be my king
once died to be my savior. Let's all stand together as we
sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. so Sons of God, redeemed by blood,
raise your songs to Zion's God. Made from condemnation free,
Grace triumphant, sing with me. Calvary's wonders let us trace. magnified in grace. Mark the crimson streams and
say, thus my sins were washed away. Divine, no more we dread. Vengeance, Lord, our surety's
head. Legal claims are fully paid. ? Christ hath paid the dreadful
debt ? ? Lamb of God, thy death hath given
? ? Pardon, peace, and hope of heaven ? Here is finished, let
us praise, songs of gratitude and praise. Be seated. Mark 6, Mark 6. Todd and I were talking the other
day and we both talked about in our experience that the scriptures
has got deeper and it's just hard to, you know,
You have to really take your time reading the scriptures now
and really pay attention to what you're reading. You know, when
you read the Bible, you're not reading, you're reading what
God has to say. And you need to take your time
to see what God has to say. Don't rush through it. I know
folks that try to read the Bible through once or twice a year,
and there's nothing wrong with that if you can do it. But oh,
to take your time and find out, just like this morning, four
verses, four verses. These four verses have so much
gold in them, so much silver in them, so much truth in them,
so much power in them, so much gospel in them. There's four
verses. A lot of times you just deal
with one verse. You know one verse, you know
Romans 1.16. I'm not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ. Why? Because therein, in that
gospel, is revealed the righteousness of God. To who? Them who believe. Just one verse. Stay there for a while. Stay
there for a while. But if you find it difficult
to understand the scriptures, don't despair. Don't despair.
They're spiritual. It's a spiritual book, and only
the Holy Spirit is the only one that can teach you that book.
Only the Holy Spirit can interpret it and give us the power of it,
give us the understanding of it. You know, our Lord Jesus
Christ, when He had spent three years with His disciples, and
after He resurrected from the dead, so many things happened
that they did not know, didn't understand at the time. And when
they were gathered together after they got through eating, the
scripture says that He opened, in Luke 24, He opened their understandings,
and that s what has to happen. He has to open our understandings. Open it up, open it up, and I
hope He ll do that for us today. And oh, my, well, let s look
at these verses here today, you know, and remember what s happened
the last couple of weeks. First of all, our Lord fed a
multitude over about 10,000-12,000 people with five loaves of bread
and two fishes, and they had got in a ship and went over there,
and that s when He done it. Well, after they was in that
ship and He got out and He fed that multitude, He sent His disciples
back out in the ocean to out in the sea and said, You go to
the other side, and they were heading towards Gennesaret. And
remember our Lord came walking to them, walking upon the water,
walking on, and this scared those people to death, scared those
men totally to death. But yet Simon Peter got out of
the boat and came to him, walking to him. And remember this, you
know, I was telling Todd this other day, he had never seen
it before, but I said, you know, I said, when Peter was going
down, the scripture said the Lord caught him. The Lord caught
him. May the Lord catch us again today. May he catch our hearts. May
he catch our understandings. May he catch our attention. May
he catch our hearts. May he catch our souls. May he
catch our minds. May he catch us today. Oh, may
he catch us today. All right, let me show you the
first thing that we see here. In verse 53. And when they had
passed over, now those fellows' hearts was hardened because they
forgot the miracle of the loaves. And when they had passed over,
and the Lord got back on the boat with them, and everything
just calmed right down. And that's what happens when
Christ comes to us, everything calms right down. And when they
had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret and drew
to the shore. They got to the shore, and look
what happens. And they got out of the ship,
Got out of the boat, got out of the boat, come up there and
got out of the boat, got out of the ship, and look what it
says, straightway they knew Him. That's what I want to talk about.
They knew Him. They knew Him. What happens when
you know Him? How can you possibly know Him?
And they knew Him. It didn't say they knew about
Him. It didn't say they had heard about Him. But they knew Him.
They knew Him. They knew who He was. They knew
everything. You know, He was more than the
carpenter's son to these people. He was more than Mary and Joseph's
son to these people. And you know there's a knowledge
of Him. And how in the world can you know Him? The only way
you can know Him is by revelation. He's got to reveal Himself. Let
me show you that over here in Matthew chapter 16. Look in Matthew
chapter 16. You know, if you're gonna know
Him, it has to come by revelation. Everybody wants to try to figure
out and think, a lot of people think they have faith, they just
need to exercise it. You can't exercise faith if you
don't know someone, and you gotta know Him, and because these people
knew Him, they went to Him, and they brought other people to
Him, they knew Him. And look what it said here in
Matthew 16 and verse 13. When Jesus came into the coast
of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, Whom do men say
that I, the Son of Man am? Now, right now today, right down
today, there's a lot of people talking about Jesus today, all
over this world, all over this world. And they're talking about
Him, and they got a lot of things to say about Him. But he asked
him, he said, I want to know what you say or what everybody's
saying about me. And there's lots of folks say,
well, I tell you, he loves people. He loves people. Oh, he loves
sinners. He loves everybody. Oh, he's
got to love everybody. Oh, he's not a respective person.
He's got to love everybody. And I tell you what, if you'll
just open your heart and let him in, he'll come in. Give him
an opportunity to knock at your heart's door. Oh, He s a, He
s a, He s a WONDERFUL TEACHER! He s the most GREATEST EXAMPLE! FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS! FOLLOW
HIS EXAMPLE! BE AS GOOD AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY
BE! Oh babe, people see Jesus in you! Well, let me tell you,
Scott Richardson says they couldn t see Jesus in Jesus, so they
ain t gonna find Him in you either. They ain t gonna do it. But oh
my, they said, Who do you say I am? The Son of Man am. They said, some say you're John
the Baptist. That's remember when Herod said,
you know, John the Baptist was raised from the dead after he
cut his head off. And others said, well, Jeremiah or Elijah,
you know, Elijah, and Elijah was the one that could call fire
down from heaven. And others said, Jeremiah, he
was the weeping prophet, the one that's so despised and put
down in the pit, or one of the prophets. And then he asked them
point blank, said, who do you say I am? I ask you this morning,
who do you say Christ is? Who do you say He is? And look
what our Lord answered. Look what Simon Peter, Simon
Peter answered, Thou art the Christ, the anointed one of God
Almighty. You're the Son of the living
God. Now, how did he figure that out? How did he know that Jesus Christ,
Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God? And our Lord
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon bar Jonah, son
of Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which art in heaven. That's how you know Him, by revelation,
by revelation. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
salvation begins with knowing Him. That's where salvation starts,
that knowing Him. And how can you know Him without
Him being revealed? You know, it s like when Philip
in Acts chapter 8, Philip was was a eunuch coming back from
Jerusalem. He d been up there to religion, he d been up there
and had a big time in religion, and he was just as empty when
he went there and as empty when he left. And he was going along,
he was a very wealthy man because he had a scriptures with him,
and he was reading from Isaiah 53. And Philip, the Lord told
Philip, said, Go join yourself to that chariot. Climbed up in
that chariot, he said, and he looked where the man was reading,
he said, Do you understand what you re reading there? Do you
understand what you read? No, how can I except some man
guide me? How can I except some man guide
me? And that s what has to happen, and the only person that can
guide a person is the Holy Spirit of God, and if you know Christ
just like that man, he read the Bible, he d been up to Jerusalem
to worship, He had been to the temple, he had been there to
worship, he had seen sacrifices, he went thousands of miles to
get there, great expense, really dedicated, and bought him a Bible
to go home with. But he did not know a thing in
the world about Jesus Christ until Philip told him. He said,
he started right where he was reading. He said, listen, is
this man, is he speaking about himself or some other prophet?
And he started right there and preached unto him the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then the first thing he said
when he come up to some water, he said, what doeth him to me
from being baptized? He said, if thou believest with
all thine heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe! Get
in that water then. Get in that water. Oh my, you
can't know Him, you know, to know Him, salvation starts with
knowing Christ. And let me tell you something,
beloved. Saving faith, saving faith is found upon knowing Christ
and understanding some things about Christ. Oh, let me show
you that in Romans chapter 10. I'm gonna take my time today.
I'm gonna take my time. Don't have to come back tonight.
I don't know. You know, this will be it for
me today. But oh, look what he said here
in Romans. You know, I'm saying saving faith is founded upon
knowledge. You got to know something. And
I'm not talking about Calvinism. I'm not talking about five points.
Look what he said here in Romans 10, 13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. Boy, that's so, ain't
it? I called on the name of the Lord
and the Lord saved me. But look what happens next. How then shall they call on Him
in whom they have not believed? How you gonna call on someone
you don't believe on? And then how in the world shall
you believe in Him if you've never heard of Him? And that's
what we're talking about here. How you gonna know Christ without
somebody you knowin' Him? You gotta know Him. You gotta
know Him. You gotta know Him. And look
what else it goes on to say. And oh, how shall they hear without
a preacher? I tell you, you can't trust,
men can't trust an unknown or unrevealed Christ. They can't
do it. They can't do it. You gotta know Him. He gotta
be revealed to you. And I, and there's a lot of,
I've said this so many times, there's a lot of misinformation
about him. The only information, true information,
they talk about going around looking for this historical Jesus.
They've done a big documentary looking for the historical Jesus.
They wanted to go through history and see if he really existed,
see if what things really happened and all this, that and the other.
But listen, I don't want, I want the Jesus Christ of revelation,
not this story. I want the one that God sent
into this world, that God sent him to be a sacrifice, that God
sent him to be a sin offering, God sent him to be a savior,
God sent him to be a mediator. I wanna know him, and that's
what they're talking about here. They knew him. Can I ask you,
do you know Him? Oh, then you gotta know Him.
You gotta know Him. And I tell you, He's got to be
revealed. He's gotta be revealed. Oh, my. People say, well, did
you come to the front? Christ's not in the front. He's
at the right hand of the Father on high. They can look for Jesus
until the cows come home, until the world comes to an end, but
they're not gonna find Him in a book and done in pictures.
They're gonna find Him from pictures they can put on the wall and
calendars they can hang up. They're gonna find Him. When
they find Him, they'll find Him sitting at the right hand of
God. And the only way you can know Him is for Him to reveal
Himself. And the only way you can get there is by faith. Oh, listen, I'll tell you, they
knew him. When they got out of that boat,
that's him. That's him. Oh, that's him. That's him. Oh, my. That's him. Oh, you'll quit being a church
member when Christ saves you. Look what happens now. Oh, the
Lord Jesus. Let me tell you this before you
go back. The Lord Jesus is not a myth. I never realized how
many people hate God, hate the gospel. There's a lot of folks
hate the gospel. A lot of people hate Christ.
And they hate those who trust Christ. They make fun of you.
Oh my. Now he's not a martyr. People
say he was martyred. No, no. He is not a mystical
figure from history. He's not just someone to influence
us in our life. He's not an ideal or an idealistic
teacher. He's not just an example and
not even an example, but a person. And the scripture said that we
know that the Son of God has come and given us an understanding. Why? That we may know Him that
is true, the Son of God. That's why He comes, gives us
an understanding. I want to say a couple of things.
When's the last time you heard anybody talk about conviction
of sin? Conviction of sin. You know it
says there, do you know what kind of people they brought to
Him? People that had to be carried,
couldn't get there by themselves. People that were sick, laid the sick in the streets,
besought Him, and you know, everybody that would come to Him, something's
wrong with them. They was in bad shape,
couldn't get there by themselves. Couldn't get there by themselves.
But now let's talk about conviction. Conviction. You know, if you
ever see Christ, you'll be convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
you need Him, and you're a sinner, and you're sick, and you're weak,
and you can't come on your own, somebody else gotta bring you.
And that's what exactly has to happen. When you see Him, you're
convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, there's something bad
wrong with me. Conviction is something people
don't know anything else about. You know, people get out of jail
and say, well, he's a convict. What does that mean? That means
he is convicted of a crime. Well, God convicts you, convicts
you, and the scriptures convicts you of being a sinner. From the
top of your head to the sole of your feet, from the inside
of your heart, soul to the outside of your skin. You can't do nothing
without having sin in you. You can't think without sin.
You can't speak without sin. You can't pray without sin. If
you weep and cry, repent over your tears because they need
to repent it over. Sin is not something we do, it's
something we are, and that's something you'll find out. You'll
repent of things you've done, but when Christ shows you and
convinces you of what you are, you know what you'll do? You'll
start remorning and groaning and repenting and turning from,
oh God, how could God have anything to do with me? How could God
look on me and have mercy on me? Wretched, miserable sinner
that I am, how could he possibly have anything to do? We're like
Mephibosheth when he come and David said, bring Mephibosheth
over here. And Mephibosheth got down before
David. Why lookest thou upon such a
dead dog as I am? It's bad enough to be a dog,
but be a dead dog. Oh, conviction of sin. And I
tell you, when you'll repent and when you turn from your sin,
you don't repent and then turn from your sin. Repentance is
all kind, always over what you are. Once you start repenting,
you never stop. Once you start believing, you
never stop. It's a principle that God puts
in us. And I tell you, if you get faith,
it'll be because you know Christ. You know Christ. Oh, Paul said, I know whom I
have believed. You remember that blind man that
was born blind in John chapter 9? The scripture says, you know,
that he is born blind. They said, who sinned, this man
or his mama? His daddy. He said, neither one,
but for the glory of God. And oh, they opened his eyes
and them folks got upset, religion got upset, the Pharisees got
upset, and who tell us who done this, who done this, who done
this for you? Well, Jesus of Nazareth. And boy, they throwed
him out of the synagogue, throwed him out of the church, as you
know, because they said, well, you messed up, you mixed up bad.
And oh, the Lord Jesus come to him and said, Dost thou believe
on the Son of God? He said, who is he? And this
is the first word out of his mouth. Who is he, Lord, that
I might believe? He said, I am. You know what
he said? I believe. I know, I know, whereas I was blind,
now I see. Who did it? The Son of God. Oh my, all right. To know Christ
is to trust Him. Seek Him, seek Him, seek Him.
And then look what happens now. Look at all the kind of people.
Over in Matthew 14, it says the disease were brought to Him.
But oh, when they knew Him, that's the thing, know Him, know Him. Salvation's in a person, not
in a doctrine, not in the church, not in the preacher, not in JOINING
A CHURCH, NOT EVEN PRAYING THROUGH NONE OF THOSE THINGS, SALVATION
IS KNOWING A PERSON, AND TRUSTING THAT PERSON. IF YOU EVER KNOW
HIM, AND HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU, YOU WILL TRUST HIM. BELIEVE ME, YOU WILL. And oh
my, look what happens now. And they ran, because they knew
Him, they ran. They didn't know how long He
was going to be there. They didn't know how long they were going
to stay in that one particular place. And look what it says, and they
ran throughout that whole region round about. They went everywhere. You run over there and get your
brother. I'm going to run over here and
get my mama. I'm going to run over here and get my cousins.
I'm going to get my grandpa. I'm going to get my baby. I'm
going to get my crippled child. I'm gonna run and get this one,
I'm gonna run and get that one. What are you gonna do with them?
They ran, they ran because they didn't know how long he was gonna
be there. And began to carry about. These folks couldn't walk,
they couldn't get there. They said, let's go get the ones
that can't get there by themselves. And they carried them. Picked
up their beds. Carried them. Had to carry them. You know how many places it says
in the scriptures where they carried them in their bed? You
remember that time that they took the roof off of a house?
Took the whole roof off of a house. Because a fella was in his bed,
and they couldn't get in the house for the crowd. Well, I
tell you, he's got to get to Christ. I tell you, we'll get
him there. They tore the roof off the house and let him down.
And they were right there with the Lord Jesus preaching in that
house, and all of a sudden there's a man let down right in front
of him in the bed. So they carried about these people
in the bed. You know why people have to be
carried about in beds? The same reason you have to be
brought to Christ by the Holy Spirit. You can't get there. You don't have the ability. Somebody's
got to carry you there. And oh, they carried them about.
And oh my, they carried them about in beds. And look what
it says, they were, that were sick. Those that were sick. Oh my, you know over in Matthew
14 says diseased. I don't wanna, I don't wanna. You know what God treats sin
as? As a disease. By his stripes we are healed. Man wasn't always like this.
God made man upright, but he sought out many evictions. Man
wasn't created with this disease. And God regards sin as a disease. With His stripes we are healed.
Sin takes away all the power from the soul. Man doesn't have
the power or the will to come to Christ, yet he'll believe
a lie like that. Believe a lie like that. I remember,
this has happened to me twice. I was with a fellow one time,
And he was an older man, an older man, and he had been attending
church for years and years and was affiliated with the Campus
Crusade for Christ, and he told me about how many people he had
led to Christ, and you know, he'd go in, and if he was in
a motel room or something, and the maid came in, he'd lead her
to Christ. You know, he was really a soul
winner. Well then he got to tellin' me, he says, you know, he said,
I have had back problems for three years, and he said, you
know, he said, I prayed for the Lord to heal my back, cause the
scripture says by your stripes you're healed. And I asked him
point blank, I said, was there anything wrong with the power
of Christ and the stripes that he had to keep you from takin'
you three years to get healed by him? He didn't have the power,
or did you not have the faith? He said, oh, I got the faith.
Well, then the fault's in Christ then, ain't it? He backed up
and said, oh, I never thought of that. I said, if Christ, if
healing's in the stripes of Christ, and those stripes are talking
about the 39 stripes that was put on his back, if his stripes
were for our physical healing, there wouldn't be a sick soul
in this building today. But if His stripes were for our
spiritual healing, for our disease of sin, and let me tell you something
about sin. Sin is hereditary. Did you know
that? Sin's hereditary. You know where
you got it? From your mom and your daddy.
You know where they got it? From their mom and daddy. We
pass it on every time we have a child. We pass it on. Pass
it on. And I tell you something else
about sin, it's a terminal disease. It ends in death. It ends in
death. Without Christ, it'll end in
death. Oh, my goodness. And I tell you what, it's such
a disease, you can't stop it. You can't go to the doctor and
get a pill for it. You can't go to the church and
get it. Christ is the only one. He's the one that's got the stripes.
By stripes we'll heal. And if men don't come to Christ
with this disease, it'll bring forth death. Oh my. I'll tell you something about
sin. Not only is it hereditary, it's incurable. I can't cure
it and you can't cure it. But I'll tell you what, they
keep trying to cure cancer and they keep trying to cure all
kinds of diseases. But there's diseases that's absolutely
incurable. Incurable. Oh, my. I was telling
somebody the other day, when we was going up here to Dr. Davidson's,
and there was a big, strong man come in there. And he'd been running cattle for
years and years, running a stock barn, and had a bunch of feedlots,
big old stout Husky cowboy. And he come in there because
he had pancreatic cancer. And inside of three months, three
months, he went from being this great big man to being almost
skin and bones. Three months. You say, that's
awful disease. That won't hold a lot to what
sin will do to you without Christ. That don't hold a light to what
sin will do to you without Christ. Huh? Oh my. You know when Paul wanted to
describe what sin is, you know what he said? It's exceeding
sinful. Exceeding sinful. Death will
end all bodily pain, but it won't end this awful disease. Christ
is the only one that can do that. And oh my, these men knew it. These men knew it. And they brought,
they started bringing people to the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Lord Jesus Christ. And look what it says now. And
oh my, they ran through that whole region round about and
began to care about in beds those that were sick. Our Lord Jesus
said, I didn't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. And oh my, He said, you know,
When he talked about people being good, he said, There's none good,
no, not one, no, not one. And oh, my, they laid him, and
listen to what it says, they brought him in at six where they
heard he was, where they heard he was. You
know where they said, He's over there, let's go over there, let's
take these six folks over there. And that's why you want to bring
people to hear the gospel, because this is where Christ does the
work. He does the work where the gospel's at. And oh, they
heard where He was, and that's where I want to be, where He
is, don't you? And listen, He's as much in our house as He is
right here. He's as much in your home, He's
in your heart, He's in your soul, He's in your mind. Our Lord Jesus
Christ is everywhere. Everywhere you can go where he
is any time any place under any circumstances if you know him
If you knew and because they knew him and they heard where
he was they started running getting everybody They could possibly
get him out there where Christ is get him where Christ is and
then look what happens now and whithersoever He entered into
villages wherever he went wherever he went, in the villages or cities
or out in the country, look what happens, wherever he went, oh, my, bless his name, ain't
you glad he goes places? Ain't you glad he goes places?
You know, he'll come to where you are. He'll come to where
you are. And he said, I'm going to go
to this village over here today. I'm going to go into that city.
I believe I'll go out in the country. And oh, my. And look what happens. Wherever
he went, they laid the sick in the streets. Laid the sick in
the streets. You know, they done Simon Peter
the same way. They laid sick people in the
street, just so Simon Peter's shadow would pass over them,
and they'd be healed just by a shadow, just by a shadow. And oh my, laid them out, laid
these people out, and oh my, and besought Him, they asked
Him, they asked Him. They didn't make no demands,
they didn't say, Lord, you've got to do this for me, because
I've done that for you. Lord, I'll serve you if you'll
do this for me. If you'll save me from this mess, I'll serve
you. And oh, they besought Him, they asked Him, and this is what
they asked Him, this is what they asked Him, look what they
asked Him, that they might touch, if it were but the border of
His garment. They don't have to touch you, if I can just touch
the border of your garment. They didn't ask for much. If
I can just touch the hem of your garment, the border of your garment. There ain't no bargaining here. No, no. And look what it says. You know, why did they say touch
the hem of his garment? Why did they do that? Oh, my. Why did they do that? Why did
they say touch the hem of his garment? Oh, my. Why did he do that? Because he's
the only one that can save them. And I tell you, it's not disease
that keeps men from coming to Christ. It's the fact that you're
healthy, that you're good, that you're moral, that you're righteous. People say, well, I haven't done
this thing, I haven't done that thing, done some good, done some
things. Well, I'll tell you what people's
healthy in. They're healthy in pride, healthy in self-righteousness,
healthy in religion, healthy in traditions. That's where people's
healthy at. But these folks here said, Lord,
I don't ask for much. If I can just touch the border
of your garment. And what does his garment, what
does his garment represent? His robe of righteousness, his
robe, his robe. Oh, His garment, may we may touch
the border of Your garment. With His spotless garments on,
I'm as holy as God's own Son. Oh, and I tell you what, this
is God's measuring stick of righteousness in blessing His Son. And let
me just say something about self-righteousness. I hope I'm not preaching too
long. Let me tell you something about self-righteousness. You
know what self-righteousness is? You're fine in the face of
God Almighty and said, I can stand in your presence by myself
without Christ. I'm good enough. I'm righteous
enough. I'm clean enough. I'm pure enough
that I can come in your presence by myself. Now, let me tell you
what that would be like. That'd be like you taking the
lid off your septic system, stepping down in your septic system and
crawling out and say, boy, don't I smell good? Don't I look good? You ever seen any prettier clothes
on this person than what I've got on right now? I'm the best
looking fella out of, listen, I'm gonna go downtown and let
everybody see how good I smell and how good I look. That's what
self-righteousness is in the sight of God. He said it's the
stink in my nostrils. So you, oh my, self-righteousness,
woo! I think that's the worst sin
in the sight of God than anything else, self-righteousness. God
provided His Son to be our righteousness, and to claim one, you got one
of your own? Oh, my! Well, look what happens now,
that's it, that's it, oh, my, this self, oh, where's the hem
of His garment? I said, as we can touch the border
of His garment, where's the border of His garment at? Is that His
feet? Is that His feet? Oh, my! And it says, and look
what it says, and as many as touched him were made whole. He can lay a fellow in his bed,
lay a fellow, here Lord, here's a person. Just touch him. Just touch the
border of his garment. Where's his garment at? Border.
At his feet. At his feet. Oh my. And I tell you, oh, he said,
get down at his feet. Oh, they came down. They had
to come down to touch him. Oh my, that woman, she was at
his feet. That woman come and washed his
feet with her tears, wiped them with the hairs of her head. And
Simon the Pharisee said, if this man knew what kind of woman this
was, she wouldn't let him touch him. He's a sinner. I said, this woman, this woman's
a great sinner, but oh my, she done what she could for me, but
oh my, she said all her faith, which is many, many, but look
what it says here now. And as many as touched him were
made whole. What does as many as mean? That's
a certain group That means that everything or everybody who belongs
to a certain group. You know how many times it says,
as many as? As many as received Him, to them
He came the power to become the sons of God. He gave Him power
over all flesh that He might give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given Him. You know how many people were
ordained to eternal life? As many as were ordained to eternal
life. As many as. I'm one of them as
many as. I don't know how many other as
they are around here, but I'm a many as. I'm one of them as
many as. I'm in that group. I'm in that
group. Are you in that group? Oh, let's get down and touch
the hem of his garment right now. Let's get down there and
touch the hem of his garment. Come on down. Come on down. Come on down, get down there,
down there where you can touch the hem of His garment. And you
know what? When you touch Him, you'll be
made whole. Your heart will be made new.
You'll be born again. You'll have a new nature. You'll
have a new look. You'll have new desires. Oh,
when he made these folks holes, they got up out of their beds.
They all went back home perfectly, perfectly whole, not part whole. I mean perfectly, completely
whole, whole, whole, whole. I'm going to tell you this, and
then I'm going to close. Years ago, when I was, I think I was
20, I was in a hospital. Been there for six months. Been
there for six months. Didn't look like I was ever going
to get out. In Chillicothe, Ohio. And this woman came to me. She was,
I'll admit, she didn't know Christ. She didn't know anything about
Him. You know, which I found out later. But anyway, she came
to visit me. She came to visit me. And she
told me this, sitting out there in the visiting room, waiting
room. She told me, she says, don't
you give up hope, Donny, because there's hope in Christ. That
done something in my heart. Just like that. Don't give up
hope. There's hope in Christ. And that
turned a little bit of light on inside me. And that light
was never extinguished. until Christ brought me to himself.
But that gave me, that done something for my mind, my heart, my soul,
that I can't tell you. Just that little thing. There's
hope. Don't give up, Donny. Don't give
up. Don't give up. There's hope in Christ. And boy,
I tell you what, that just, that something happened inside my
heart and soul. Oh, I can't tell you. And I tell you now, not
only do I have a hope in Christ, I have a blessed hope in Christ,
and I have a good hope in Christ. How did I get it? Through grace.
Through grace. Our Father, oh, our blessed Master,
our great and glorious God, our Lord Jesus Christ, your God over
all and blessed forever, Oh, I thank you for this blessed,
blessed privilege. Oh, the privilege you give us
that you allowed us to come here this morning and to worship,
to take your holy name upon our lips, to take your holy name
and be able to speak of you and tell of your glory and your power
and your majesty, to tell of the awful, awful disease that
men have. But tell them, oh Lord Jesus,
where there's a cure for their disease. There's a cure for their
sickness. There's a cure for their inability. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ
himself. Oh Lord, may someone be brought
down today to touch that border of his garment, that border of
his garment. Oh, bring glory to yourself through
Christ our Lord. And Lord, we're going to gather
to eat here in a little while. And I pray you bless our fellowship
together, that we'll spend some time together and enjoy one another's
company. And Lord, thank you so much for
the food that's been prepared, for the love and care that went
into preparing it. I know that they do it because
they love to do it and they love to be together. Thank you, Lord. God save you people in this place
for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. All hail the power. What number
is that? 118 or what? All hail the power. How much? 42. Let's stand together and
sing this and then them ladies can go put what they got on the
table. Let's stand together and sing
all hail the power. All hail the power of Jesus'
name Let angels prostrate fall Bring forth the royal diadem
and crown Him Bring forth the royal diadem
and crown him Lord of all. ? Ye chosen seed of Israel's
race ? ? Ye ransomed by the fall ? ? Hail him who saves you by
his grace ? ? And crown him Lord of all ? ? Head him on ? him. Let every kindred, every tribe
on this terrestrial ball To Him all majesty ascribe and crown
Him To Him all majesty ascribe and
crown Him Lord. Oh that with yonder sacred throne
we at his feet may fall we'll join the everlasting song and
crown him Lord ? We'll join the everlasting team
? ? And crown Him Lord of all ? All right, when these ladies
open that door, you can go back there and get you something to
eat. Until then, hang loose. He's from Franklin. He works
at that time.