Good evening, let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 187. 187. Blessed be the tie that binds
our hearts in Christian love. The fellowship of kindred minds
is like to that above. Before our father's throne we
pour our ardent prayers. Our fears, our hopes, our aims
are won, our comforts and our cares. We share our mutual goals
Our mutual burdens bear And often for each other flows The sympathizing
tear When we asunder part, it gives
us inward pain. But we shall still be joined
in heart and hope to meet again. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
326. More about Jesus would I know,
More of His grace to others show, More of His saving fullness see,
More of His love who died for me. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of His saving, foolish seed. For of His love who died for
me ? More about Jesus let me learn
? More of his holy will discern ? Spirit of God my teacher be
? Showing the things of Christ to me ? More ? More about Jesus
? ? More, more about Jesus ? ? More of his saving fullness see ?
? More of his love who died for me ? Or about Jesus in His Word Holding
communion with my Lord Hearing His voice in every line Making
each faithful saying mine More, more about Jesus More, more about
Jesus More of His saving fullness see More of His love who died
for me For about Jesus on His throne
Rages in glory all His own For of His kingdom's sure increase
More of His coming, Prince of Peace. More, more about Jesus. More. Acts 15 Acts 15 Read the first 11 verses. Told you last week that those
fellas was fixin' to come into some real fight, and they're
gonna have one right here. Starting at verse one, down through
the 11th verse. and certain men which came down
from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with
them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other
of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders
about this question. And being brought on their way
by the church, they passed through Phenicia, Samaria, declaring
the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy unto
all the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem,
they were received of the church and of the apostles and elders,
and they declared all things that God had done with them.
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
believed, say, that it was needful to circumcise them and command
them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and elders came
together for to consider of this matter. And when there had been
much disputing, Peter rose up and said, Men and brethren, you
know how that a good while ago God made choice among us that
the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and
believe. And God, which knows the heart,
bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost as He did unto
us. and put no difference between
us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore,
why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples
neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe
through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved
even as they." Our Lord and our God, our Father
and our Savior, our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ our
Lord, we come into your holy and blessed presence with thanksgiving
for joy and blessed so greatly of you in our hearts and in our
souls, blessed to know the gospel, blessed to understand the gospel,
blessed to know the difference between law and grace, Blessed
to know the difference between works and grace. Oh Lord, we're
so thankful that we know the difference. And you taught us
the difference. You taught us we didn't come
to it of our own will, our own power, our own understanding. You taught us, you brought us,
you saved us, and you're keeping us saved. And you shall keep
us saved by your blessed grace. Lord, we've gathered here to
Look into your word and we ask you to, as we sung tonight, more
about the Lord Jesus Christ would we learn. And Lord, let us learn
of him this evening. Let us learn of our precious
Savior, of his wondrous grace. And Lord, we pray for your blessings
upon this congregation tonight. Those who aren't with us through
sickness of body, weakness of body, God bless them. and meet
the needs of your people who ask these things in Christ our
Lord's name. Amen. Hymn number 483. 483. There is a name I love to hear,
I love to sing his word. It sounds like music in my ear,
the sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus Oh, how
I love Jesus Oh, how I love Jesus Because He first loved me 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 had in store for every day. And though I tread a dark stone
path, he'll sunshine all the way. Oh, how I love Jesus Oh,
how I love Jesus Oh, how I love Jesus Because He first loved
me Tales of one whose loving heart
Can fill my deepest woe Who in each sorrow bears a part That
none can bear below I'm gonna turn this on so I can
tell my time. I've got several notes. But now look here again with
me in Acts 15. And the first verse says, And
certain men which came down from Judea, now they were at Antioch
in Syria. Remember, they came back to where
they started when they went off preaching. Now they're in Antioch
of Syria. And certain men came down and
taught the brethren. taught people that these preachers
had preached to, that had been converted, and said, except you
be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.
And the difference here is, and the argument that they're having,
is the same one that they've had since Cain and Abel. You're
gonna be saved by law, or you're gonna be saved by grace. You're
gonna be saved by works, or you're gonna be saved by grace. And
the hardest thing, the hardest thing for human nature to grasp
is salvation by grace alone. Human nature just cannot get
it unless God himself teaches it to you. If God saves you by
grace, then you'll believe grace. Until that, you won't believe
it. You'll believe everything else. And there's these people,
and you know, they want to add something to, anything to Christ. and salvation by grace, but if
you add anything to Christ and the salvation by grace by Him,
then you nullify it. You make it void. It's useless. It's empty. That's why Paul said,
I do not frustrate the grace of God. I'm not going to frustrate. I'm not going to aggravate. I'm
not going to make it something that just aggravates you. He
said, if Christ, if righteousness come by the law, then there was
no reason in the world for Christ to die. And that's what he said,
if righteousness come by the law, then Christ, there's no
reason for him even to die. If you could be saved by your
righteousness, what in the world, there's no reason for Christ
to die. And that's why he said, we're not going to frustrate
the grace of God. We're not going to make Christ to be useless.
We're not going to do that. And I tell you what, those who
are doing this, and I mean they don t know Christ, they don t
know grace, they certainly don t know themselves. And you know
He says, We believe through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
there in verse 11. Grace is not a cooperative effort.
God doesn t give you grace, and then when He gives it, if you
ll cooperate with it, then you can be saved. It's not more you
don't get nor grace by being baptized. You don't get more
grace by having a deep religious experience or doing a work no
matter how good it seems. And just like since the first
two brothers, Cain and Abel, men have been debating this issue
ever since then. How are you saved? How are you
saved? How is a man saved? And that's
the issue they're dealing with right here. And I tell you, that's
the issue. Salvation by grace or salvation
by law? Salvation by grace, or yeah,
they said, Yes, you can trust Christ. Yes, you can trust Christ. You can believe Christ, BUT you've got to be circumcised,
BUT you've got to keep the commandments, THOUGH you've got to keep the
law. And that's what they wanted to
do. So they got together They had their first, I guess you'd call it conference
or council, whatever you want to call it, and I'll tell you
what, they held the first church council here to settle this issue. The first believers were Jews. They grew up in the Law. They
grew up in rituals. They grew up in their traditions. And there were certain things
that they had to be done in order to be saved by the Jews, by nature. Paul said, we which are Jews
by nature. I know three or four men that
are Jews and they're Jews by nature. They don't care a thing
in the world about God, they don't even read a Bible. But
they have their rituals, they have their ceremonies, they have
their Passover. They have their names that they
name things after when they go to do something. They're Jews
by nature, and that's what he said, and these men are Jews
by nature. And I tell you what, here's the issue, let's go through
these first five verses, the issue. And certain men which
came down, they came down from Judea, came down to Antioch in
Syria. And they said, and taught the
brethren, now I want you to understand that these are God's people they're
talking about. except you be circumcised after the manner
of Moses, you cannot be saved." Well, I tell you what, Paul and
Barnabas, they said, Listen, I don t believe a word of that.
I do not believe that, I m not going to have anything to do
with that. And it says in verse 2, When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small, that means that they really had an argument with
them, dissension with them, and disputed with them, And so what
happened was they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain
other of the brethren should go up to Jerusalem. Now you've
got to go to Jerusalem now. They're going up to Jerusalem.
They came down from Jerusalem and they're going up to Jerusalem
unto the apostles and elders about this question. What question?
You can't be saved unless you're circumcised and keep the law
of Moses. Now, me and you know better than
that, but these folks didn t, and that s the issue. And so
here they go, and they ve been brought on their way. The church
said, Listen, you fellas go on, we ll take care of you, we ll
see that you re taken care of. And being brought on their way
by the church, they passed through Phenicia, Samaria, and when they
was going on their way down there, they was DECLARING preaching
the conversion of the Gentiles, the salvation of the Gentiles,
and everywhere they went, they caused great joy unto all the
brethren. And then when they got down,
and when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church,
and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things
that God done for them. But oh my, look what happens.
But there rose up a certain sect of the Pharisees, which believed,
saying that it is needful, necessary to circumcise them and command
them to keep the law of Moses. So they're telling a man can't
be saved unless you do this, that, and the other. And when
they talk about being circumcised and commanded to keep all the
law of Moses, they're talking about every jot and tittle of
the law. They're talking about ALL of
it. They're talking about all the ceremonies, all the rituals,
all the dietary laws, all the things that they could and couldn't
do. And the issue wasn't whether the Gentiles could be saved or
not, but HOW they could be saved. HOW they were saved, yes, but
you've got to have this other thing added to it. And when you
talk about circumcision, when you were under the old covenant
and bring yourselves under the law to observe it, you know what
Peter called it down here in verse 2? He says 10, excuse me,
verse 10, Now therefore why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the
neck of their disciples, which neither our fathers, we or our
fathers, were able to bear? And you know what Paul told the
Galatians? He said if you seek to be circumcised,
he said Christ will profit you nothing. And if you go under
the law, the blood of Christ is no effect to you. Now that's
what he's telling these people. If you want to go back to circumcision
and law, and you want to go back to holy living and clean living
and all the things that people tell you to do, he said if that's
where you want to go, he said Christ will profit you nothing
whatsoever. And the blood of Christ has no
effect for you. It won't wash away your sins.
He won't purge your conscience. He won't do any of those things.
And they said it's necessary. They said it was necessary there
in verse five, necessary to circumcise them and command them to keep
the law of Moses. Oh my, and here's the thing. There's lots of people still
believe this. They really, really truly do. You know, people, they
want to be saved, and they want to go to the law, they want to
go to works, but they want to pick and choose what they call
the easy parts. There IS no easy parts! There's
no easy parts! There's no easy parts to work!
There's no easy parts to law! It's either DO and LIVE, or be under the curse. No middle
ground. If you're going to go that way,
going to be saved by your works, going to be saved by your goodness,
going to be saved by your merit, going to be saved by keeping
laws, then he said, listen, you got to do that and if you don't
do that, you can't live. And if you try it and you fail,
you're under a curse. Oh, I'll tell you what, and if
it was necessary for Gentiles to keep the law, and necessary
to keep the law of Moses, if that's true, then Paul and Barnabas
was false teachers, false teachers. They preached and taught the
Gentiles, and this by itself, that salvation's by the work
of Christ alone. They said, Be it known unto you,
therefore, men and brethren, that through this man, this man
that was raised from the dead, this man that was crucified,
this man that is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin, and
by him, by him you can be justified from everything that ever was. The law of Moses can't justify
you in no way. And I tell you what, they stood
their ground on that. And I, I tell you what, they
didn t preach going to the cross for your acceptance, go to the
cross and get your sins forgiven and please God there, and then
if you REALLY want to please God and REALLY be acceptable,
THEN go start doing works, THEN go start keeping the law. Go to the law for your sanctification. You want to be holy, go to the
law! And I tell you what, and I tell you it was a yoke of flesh
that they were unable to bear. And look what it said down here
in verse 21. Oh my. For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him. You know, there's still plenty
of people, a lot of preachers still preaching Moses. A lot
of them still preaching Moses. Being read in the synagogue every
Sabbath. There's lots and lots of people
still preaching Moses. I don't know, I've had folks
come here and accuse me of being antinomian because I didn't believe
in any law whatsoever! And I'm going to tell you something,
if you see REFORMED in front of any church, Any church, I
don't care if it's a Baptist or a Presbyterian, if you see
REFORMED in front of it, if you go there, I bet you a dollar
and a half to a cow and a calf that they'll put you under the
law. I've talked to too many of them.
Talked to too many. They cannot help themselves.
Oh, I know you say, but If you're saved, why put any buts to it?
Either you're saved or you're not. Either you're in Christ
or you're not. You're under grace or under law.
There's no middle ground. And that's what these apostles
are saying. And there's still plenty of people preaching. And
I'll tell you this, if a fellow wants to be saved by works and
most law, there's lots of places he can go and hear that. Lots
of places, even here in Cumberland County, Tennessee, you can go
and hear that. If you want to be brought under
law, you can go. If you want to be a salvation
by works preached to you, you can find a place for that. But
if you want to be, like Peter said here in verse 11, but we
believe, we believe that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. Now, who's he talking
about, we shall be saved? Us Jews, us apostles. We're gonna be saved. Now, how
you gonna be saved? The same way God saved them Gentiles,
by grace, through the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, my. And I tell you, if it was necessary
for Gentiles to keep the law of Moses to be saved, then faith
is not enough. When Paul told the Philippian
jailer, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's what he
told him. He didn't say, believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and do the best you can. Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and accept the exercise you will. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and go back under the law. He said,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Oh, you say faith is not important.
We've got to do something else, and I've had several folks tell
me that over the years, but let me show you something. Look over
here in Romans, back over in Romans chapter 3. Oh, faith is important. I mean,
you know, faith is necessary, yes, but we've got to do something
else. You've got to add something to
it. But look what it says here in Romans 3, 26. Paul, this is talking about the
Gospel. He said in verse 26, I'm declaring,
I declare to you at this time God's righteousness, how righteous
He is, He's a righteous God, and that He might be just, stay
just, stay holy, stay righteous, and the justifier of Him which,
watch this now, which believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, not
circumcised, not keeping the law of Moses, no, no. Well, if
we're in the world, there's boasting then. Well, if you say that,
fellows, we got God's just and justified to save us, well, what
in the world, what we got to do? Listen, we got to boast about
something, we've got to accomplish something, we got to have something
to add to our faith. And they said, well, what in
the world, where's our boasting in? We ought to be able to brag
about something. He said, Well, boasting's excluded.
Well, what makes it to be excluded? Law? No, no. Works? No, no. No, but the law, the
principle of faith. Therefore, we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Now, look
there in the last verse. This is something that I always
really blesses my heart. Do we then make void the law
through faith? Paul said the law is just, holy,
and good. Do we make void the law through
faith? Do we just say God's law is really not holy, just, and
good? No. God forbid. Do you know what
we do when we believe on Christ? We magnify the law. We honor
the law because we say we can't keep it. There's no way in the
world we can keep it. We're not going to try to keep
it. We don't want to keep it. But we go to Him who did keep
it. We go to Christ who is the end
of the law for righteousness to them that believe. And so
we honor the law and magnify the law by coming to Christ and
believing on Him. That's the only way it can be. If the Law of Moses is necessary
to be saved, then all the Gentiles through history, present and
future, will not be saved if it's necessary for them to go
to the Law of Moses and be circumcised and necessary to be saved. Oh
my. And all the places they went
and preached, were those people not Christians when they trusted
Christ? Huh? And I tell you, there's
people, I'll probably preach this myself
in my life, but it says if, you know, if you, when Christ comes
and you have one sin in your life, then he's going to leave
you behind. I guess every one of us is going
to be left behind. Just one. Just one. That's works. That's works. Oh, my. But these men met, and
let me tell you something, these men met not to try and work out
a compromise. They weren't trying to work out
a compromise on this issue. The lines was clearly drawn.
It says here in verse 6, And the apostles and elders came
together to consider this matter. What matter? Whether you have
to be circumcised and keep the law of Moses or you cannot be
saved. And they troubled these brethren.
They came together, not to compromise. No, no, the lines are drawn.
Oh my. And Paul stands for Christ. He
said, oh my. He said, we're not gonna bow
to this at all. So down to Jerusalem they went.
And oh my. And then the conclusion they
came to. Look in verse seven. They came together here. And
then they had been much arguing. I mean you've got all the apostles
there, and a whole bunch of men there, and a whole bunch of believers
there, and a whole bunch of Jews there, a bunch of law keepers
there, a bunch of disciples of Moses there, it's a great crowd
of people there, and they're arguing, they're having a real
argument. And Peter stood up and he says, Men and brethren,
listen to what I've got to say. You know, you know this, how
that God A good while ago, and I love this right here, made
choice. He made the choice. God made the choice of what? Among us that the Gentiles, by
my mouth, and listen to this, should hear the word of the gospel,
and watch what he says, believe, believe, believe. And listen to the next verse
now. And God which knows the heart. Oh my. God which knows the heart. He knows the heart. He made the
heart. And God, which knows the heart,
now listen to this one right now, which knows the heart, bear
witness. Now, well, if God bears witness
to you being saved, God bears witness to you believing Christ,
God bears witness to you trusting Christ, that's a pretty good
witness, ain't it? And you know how he bear witness
to it? He gave them the Holy Ghost just like he did us. And
I love it right here, listen to what he says now. and put
no difference. God's no respective person. Put
no difference between us, us Jews, and them Gentiles, purifying,
listen to this, purifying their hearts by faith. Heart, a pure heart. Without
a pure heart, no man shall see God. Well, here's some folks
that had a pure heart, and they saw God. And oh, Simon Peter
goes on now. He didn't mention circumcision.
God made the choice. God made no distinction. Jew
or Gentile, God didn't do it. And look what he said, and he,
and now therefore, why tempt ye God? That's what he's calling
it, a temptation. You're gonna tempt God Almighty.
God's always, how was Abraham saved before the law was given?
How was Noah saved before the law was given? It was 400 and
something years after Abraham before the law was ever given.
So how was Abraham justified? How was Abraham saved? That's
the question people ask when they say, Works, works, works,
works. Well, how in the world was Abraham
justified when there was no law then? But anyway, he goes on
to say this, Why tempt ye God? You remember when we was going
through exodus, although God gave them the law and told them
to do all this, and they said, Oh, we'll do every bit of this
stuff. We'll do it. That's no problem with that.
We'll all do it. And three days later, there's
cussing God and murmuring and complaining. And God was going
to kill a whole bunch of them. Moses said, Oh Lord, please,
please don't do that. Don't do that. Let me stand in their place.
Just like Christ did us. And oh my. And then he said,
put a yoke. Put a yoke upon the neck of the
disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear. We couldn't bear the law. We
couldn't bear the ceremonies. We couldn't bear the dietary
laws. Our fathers couldn't and we're
not able to either. You know, there's two yokes in
the scriptures. This one here tempts God, and nobody's able
to bear it. But our Lord says, take my yoke
upon you. My yoke is easy, and my burden
is light. This burden, this yoke right
here is a heavy one. You can't bear it, that's what
he said. And all my, and then he goes on to say, and I'll preach
on this maybe next Wednesday night on the Apostles' Creed,
but we believe, Who believes? Us apostles, we believe that
salvation is through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. There's
no other way God's gonna ever save a man. And then he puts
himself in such a position that he says that we, us Jews, me,
the apostle Peter, me and James and John, and Andrew and Philip,
all of us apostles, and everybody in this room that we're preaching
to, we believe that we'll be saved by the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ, like God saved them, he's gonna have to save
us. Now he put his self right there, right there. Oh my, we
shall be saved. Saved without law, saved without
circumcision, saved without anything. Now, let me hurry up and give
you a couple other things here. Look what it says then in verse
12. When he got through saying that, standing up, look what
happened. Then all the multitude kept silence. The gospel shut their mouths. And then gave audience, Paul
in Barnabas, Utah. And Paul and Barnabas declaring
what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles
by them. Oh, they started telling about
all the things that God had done, all the people that were saved,
all the miracles and all the conversions and all the work
that God had done. And after they held their peace,
James answered. Now, James was the pastor there. James was the preacher and the
head of the church in Jerusalem, and saying, Men and brethren,
listen to me, Simon hath declared how God at the first did visit
the Gentiles, I like this here, to take out of them a people
for His name. God visited us to do what? Take
out a people for His name. Huh? For their name? No, for
His name, for Christ's name, for God's name, for Christ's
name. And then look what else He goes on to say. He said, you
think this is just our idea? You think it's just something
we come up with? And to this agree the words of the prophets.
The prophets agree with this as it is written. And what, you
know, they use this for the millennium, but it's not. And after this,
I will return and build again the tabernacle of David, which
is the fallen down, and I'll build again the ruins thereof,
and set it up." Now, what is he talking about the fall of
David and the ruin of David? Going to build it again. He's
talking about the spiritual house of David's son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. that s what he s talking about,
the tabernacle, the place where David dwelt and the place where
God was worshipped and has fallen down. I m going to build the
ruins again, set it up. Christ is where people s going
to go, not to David. And that the rest of men might
seek after the Lord, and listen to this, and all the Gentiles
which upon my name is called, saith the Lord that does these
things." He said, now the prophets tell about these Gentiles being
converted. And then he says this, known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. You
think this is something that just come up? You think God didn't
know this was going to happen? God knows, he said, known under
God are all his works, everything he's gonna do before he ever
started this world and everything that's in it. And also he says this, and let
me hurry, he says this, and my sentence is, so they've had
this conversation, they've settled the issue, and so James says
this, my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among
the Gentiles are turned to God. But this is what we need to tell
them, that they have stained from pollution of idols, don't
have you no idols, don't have no idols, and from fornication,
and from fates strangled, and from blood, keep yourself from
blood, don't drink blood. For Moses of old time, if you
wanna hear Moses and his, what he, how he, you know, you go
there. And look what it says then, and all of a sudden, then
it pleased the apostles and elders with the whole church to send
chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas,
Judas surnamed Bessabbas, and Silas chief men among the brethren. Now, how did the world, when
this letter was sent out, how did the Gentiles react for it?
How did the Gentiles react? Well, look what it says in verse
30. So when they were dismissed,
they came to Antioch, and when they had gathered the multitude
together, they delivered the epistle. They read the epistle
to them, which when they read, they rejoiced for the consolation,
for the comfort that that brought them. We don't have to fool with this
old law. We don't have to fool with Moses.
We don't have to fool with works. We're going to be saved. We've
been saved by grace. And that's all I've got to say
about that. That's all he said. That's all
we're going to say about it. And they rejoiced over it. And
you know, you remember how comforting it was. when you realize really,
really deep in your heart when God blessed you to say, well,
I'm saved by grace. I'm saved by grace. I had nothing
to do with it. I can't keep myself saved by
grace. I can't continue. I wasn't saved
by any other way. God saved me by his grace. And
grace became so precious and so powerful and so blessed Oh,
so precious, precious, precious. And it comes through, by, and
because of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Father, oh, our Lord and our God, in
the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you, oh,
blessed be your name, for these precious truths that we have
been taught We won't let no one come in and start telling us
about laws and works that we must do. No, no, no, Lord. We're going to stand fast in
the liberty we're with you have made us free in Christ. You made
us free by your word. Your truth set us free and we're
free indeed. We're not going to let ourselves
or anyone else that we preach to be brought under bondage in
any way. So Lord, we thank you that he
taught us these things. You told us we shall all be taught
of God, and Lord, you've taught us, and I pray you've taught
us, and we'll never let nothing interfere with our relationship
with Christ. Nothing come between us and Christ.
Nothing come between us and the salvation by the grace of God
through Christ our Lord. Meet the needs of these dear
saints. Meet the needs of them that are watching and listening
tonight. who are not here because of weakness and frailty of the
flesh. God bless them for Christ's sake. Amen. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation, so rich and free. I'll see you Sunday,
God willing, and Cody's gonna be here preaching Sunday morning.
I'll preach Sunday night, but I am certainly, certainly looking
forward to hearing somebody else preach. I get so tired of hearing
my own voice. I know you have to get tired
of it. He made choice. Take out a name. Take out a name. I am too. And
I ain't going to let nobody make me do it. Nothing else but him. Hey, there's all kinds of stuff
in that refrigerator back there. Nuts and chocolate and cool whip
and all kinds of stuff. If somebody needs to go back
there and get it and use it.