Let me start reading again in
verse 8, or just start looking again in verse 8. But the voice
of my beloved, the voice of my beloved. It says in verse 1 of
chapter 1, this is the song of songs of Solomon. This is the
songs of songs, which is Solomon's. A lot of folks find this book
is eight chapters, to be too mystical, too spiritual, and
find no help from it, and don't have any interest in it. But
what it is, it's a song of love. It's a song between Christ and
His church, between the bride and the bridegroom. It's a song
of love, very intimate, very close, very powerful, love affair
between Christ and his people, his church. And that's a great,
wonderful story about the love that Christ has for his people,
his church, and a great, great love that his church has for
him. And that's the two leading personalities that you'll find
throughout this book, the bride and the bridegroom. And the language
is pretty intense. We read there that he doeth embrace
me with his right hand, puts his left hand under my head and
embraces me with his right hand. Verse two, I think it is, in
verse chapter one, it says he kisses me with the kisses of
his mouth. Kisses me, just ravishes me with
a, and his love is better than wine. It'll make me feel better
than wine does. White wine could, white wine
will. And it reveals deep, tender feelings they have, the Lord
Jesus and his people have one toward another. And the first
to speak is the bride here in this place that I'm looking at
today, this morning. And she started talking about
him in chapter one, and she's the one talking about him all
the way down through here. And then the Lord Jesus begins
to talk back to her. Nor is it that you're the fairest
among women. But I want you to know that our Lord Jesus, in
His infinite, eternal love, has won our hearts. He's won my heart. I pray He's won your heart. And
He conquers us, and He conquered us not by power, just sheer power. but by His love, by His character,
by the very force of His personality. He has a character and a personality. And when I think of the Lord
Jesus, I think of a person. I do not think of things He did,
but I think of a person. And the only thing that makes
His worth, I mean His work, anything at all, is because it who is
did the work. And so here we go, let me show
you this. Look in verse 8. Now look what
it says, the voice of my beloved. See that exclamation point? She
is excited about this. She exclaims, exclaims, the voice
of my beloved! That's how she would say it.
With such an exclamation point. She hears His voice. What kind
of voice is it? Well, it's a voice that's precious. It's a voice that's powerful.
It's a voice that's blessed. It's a voice that manifests the
love of God in Christ. That it manifests itself in blessed
words. He uses words. God speaks to
us in His word. And here he says, you know, he
speaks blessed words. And then he has these wonderful,
wonderful actions. It's one thing to say you love
somebody, but to actually manifest that love, and show that love,
and overcome with that love, and move in a person's heart
with that love. And then look what he says about
him. No, here's the voice, he exclaims, she exclaims it. I
hear a voice. Who is it? It's the voice of
my beloved. That's the voice I'm listening
to. How do you know? Listen, I hear him. I hear him.
And then look what happens. It says, behold, he's coming. Not everybody hears his voice,
but he's coming. Behold, he's coming. He's coming. Oh, here's the situation. The
great distance. which separated us and Him. Great
God fixed. Great God, we can't go there,
so He has to come here. And behold, He cometh. And this
great separation between us and Him, between that Lord Jesus
Christ and His people, can only be bridged by Himself. And that's
why she said, I hear the voice of my beloved, and He's coming.
He's coming. Our Lord Jesus Christ came. That
means that He was somewhere before He ever came. He came through
the womb of a virgin. He came as a baby wrapped in
swaddling clothes. He was a baby that was laid in
a manger. He was 12 years old when he was
confounded in the doctors. And then at 30 years old, he
entered the ministry. At 33 and a half years old, he
was crucified. But he had to come to do that. And behold, he said, I heard
his voice and now, and then that's why we hear about him. We hear
about that he came. that He came. We didn't sin,
nobody sinned after Him. We didn't even know we needed
a Savior. We didn't even know we needed Him to come. But He
came. Behold, He coming. And I'll tell
you what, when He came, when He comes, He comes powerfully.
So powerfully. Look what it says there in verse
8 again. He comes powerfully. He's leaping
above the mountains. I tell you, he, when he talks
about leaping, he'd step from one mountain to the next. You know, we go, you ever flew
over the Rocky Mountains, you ever been in the Rocky Mountains?
Or ever, ever, you know, you look at them Rocky Mountains,
and I mean, there's lots of them, 13, 14,000 feet high, and some
of them higher than that. He can just step from one to
the next, and step from one to the next. And then you talk about
the Alps? One after the other. I tell you,
when He comes, He comes with power. He ain't skipping along
like a kid playing hopscotch. He's not doing that. He comes
powerfully. He comes over every mountain.
You know there's mountains that separate us between God and Christ.
And there were a lot of mountains just before us. He'd step on
that mountain. He'd make a mountain down and
bring it right down to nothing. And I tell you, that's what these
mountains separated us between Him and the one that we love.
But He conquered them mountains, came after them mountains. And
He came beneath Him. Let me show you something in
Luke 15. You need to see that. I could quote this, and I was
going to quote it. I just started to quote it. I said, no, no,
let's look at it. Luke 15. Look in Luke 15, talking about
our Lord Jesus. He comes powerfully. He comes
powerfully. Look what it said here in verse
three. Luke 15, three. And he spake this parable unto
them, saying, What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he
lose one of them, and doeth not leave the 99 in the wilderness,
and go after that which is lost until he found it? And that's
what he's doing. He's going through these mountains,
going through these wilderness, going through these obstacles
that's in the way. And when he has found it, he
lays it on his shoulders and he's rejoicing. And then when
he gets home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors.
Saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I found my sheep, which
was lost. So he comes leaping over them
mountains. Now look back over here again
in our text at verse eight. Not only does he come powerfully,
but look what it says. He comes joyfully, joyfully,
skipping upon the hills. He comes joyfully after us for
the joy that was set before him. He endured the shame, despising
the shame, endured the cross despising the shame. He came
joyfully. Our Lord Jesus Christ, it was
said of him in Psalm 40, he said, I delight to do thy will. Oh God, I delight to do thy will. He came into this world, the
only time our Lord Jesus rejoiced was over people coming to His
blessed Son. And the only time that He rejoiced
was over His people. And I tell you, He comes joyfully.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, He comes with joy in His heart. You know,
he didn't come with his teeth gritted and he didn't come, you
know, just all with his face just so sad because he had to
come and what he had to do. He come into this world delighting
to do what he did. Delighting to save his people.
Joyfully coming into this world. He looked at that cross and said,
I despise that shame that goes with that cross. But yet I come
with joy to save my, if that's the way it is to save my people,
that's what I'll do. He came joyfully, joyfully. And
then look what it says here in verse nine now. Talks about what he's like. He's
like a royal young heart. He's youthful, he's vigorous,
he's vital, he's got incredible, he's youth, always the dew of
youth is on his brows, what the scripture says. And look what
it says, behold, he stands behind our wall. He stands. Where's he standing at? Behind
our walls. What in the world does that mean?
Why does he stand behind our walls? There's no wall can keep
our Lord Jesus out, there ain't. But we all have our walls. We
have our walls. Some of them got them up right
now. And you know what kind of walls that we have? First, we
have a wall of unbelief. Oh, what a wall of unbelief.
Every time we complain, every time we worry, every time we
fret, every time we question, every time we say, oh Lord, why
is this? Why is that? Why don't this happen?
Why don't that happen? Oh Lord, why did you know? And
every time we complain or wonder or find fault with whatever's
going on in our life, you know why that is? That's unbelief.
Can that wall keep him out? No, no. What about our wall of
indifference? I've had plenty of them walls.
Oh, I've had a wall of indifference. You just, if I told you the truth,
you'd just, you'd say, no, go home, Donny, we don't want you
here no more. But oh, the wall of indifference.
Well, should I or shouldn't I? Should I go or shouldn't I go?
Should I stay home or shouldn't I stay home? And then we have
this wall of indifference. Do I need to do this or should
I do that or shouldn't I do this or shouldn't I do that? Wall
of indifference. But will that keep him out? No. No, no. And then there's that wall. There's
a wall of cold-heartedness. And my soul, that's one of my
biggest walls. Oh, my heart gets so cold and
it's like a mountain. It's just like a huge, huge wall. But you know what he does? He
comes over that wall. And by his gospel, by his word,
and by his spirit, he starts warming it up. He starts warming
it up, like he did on the mass road. He'll start warming it
up. We'll come in here sometimes so cold, come in here so indifferent,
and then God, what he does, he starts going over that wall. Keep coming over that wall. He
keeps coming over that wall. And then there's that wall of
presumption. that wall, that well, God's going to bless me,
I mean, He's got to bless me, Lord, you know, I know I'm right,
I'm right about this and that. No, no, there's not a wall, not
a wall we've got that He can't get over. Not a wall, not a wall. And blessed be His name, He condescends
to stand behind the wall, and here's the question, here's the
question, Can you see him? Huh? Do you want to see him? Do you want him to come over
that wall? Do you want him to come over and get over all the
walls that you've got built up around him? And oh my, but he's standing
behind that wall. Lord, come over! In Bunyan Pilgrim's
Progress, Christian and faithful was walking along, they was talking.
And they met a lot of people on their pilgrim journey. And
as they're walking along, here comes, there's a big wall over
here. Here comes a fella, he leaped over the wall. He jumped
over the wall. And our Lord said, you know,
if a man don't come in by the sheepfold, he's not a, don't
come in by the door, he's not one of the sheep. And he jumped
over a wall. And they said, where'd you, he said, where'd you come
from? And he said, well, I jumped over
this wall. And he said, well, how did you,
why'd you come over the wall? You know, we had to start way
back here under that straight gate. We had to start back there
where it's straight and narrow. We had to start way back there.
How did you come up here? He said, well, I just come up
here and I found a place to get over and I've caught up with
you. And they started questioning him. And you know, he, he didn't
have no answers for nothing. But I tell you what, our Lord Jesus, he tears down
all the walls and he says, listen, Bless his name. Now I tell you,
then look what else he does here now. He stands, and then look
what else he does there in verse nine. He looks in the windows. He looks in the windows. Oh my. Let me see what's going on in
that heart. Let me see what's going on in
that mind. Let me see what's going on with
those thoughts. Let me see what's going on with
their intent. Let me see what's going on with
their motives. Let me see what's going on in
their lives. And that's what he does. You
know, you have a glass. Shirley said, we're going to
wash windows tomorrow. I can't. I'm going to be gone.
But she said, her intention is for us to wash windows tomorrow. Had to wait till I get back,
babe. But that was her intent, to wash windows. Well, Christ
don't need the windows washed to see. Huh? He can see right where we are.
He can see us. I mean, where's the most clearest... I pat my glasses on the other
day, I said, Shirley, have you seen my glasses? She said, you
got them on. They must have been really clean.
I've done that a couple of times, but what I'm saying is the Lord
Jesus, when he looks in the window, he looks in here, he looks in
here, he can look into our emotions, he can look into our motives,
he can look into our desires, he can look into our thoughts,
he can look into everything about us. And that's what's so wonderful
about the grace of God. That's what's so wonderful about
the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, if we could open our
heart and souls to Him, which is what we'd do. Lord, open up
and look in there. That's what David said, Lord,
search me, know me, try me. And if there be any wicked way
in me, Lord, save me from it. And that's what he looks for.
He looks in there, and then he'll expose it. And as he exposes
it, we say, oh Lord, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for that thought. I'm
sorry for those motives. I'm sorry for that desire. I'm
sorry for what I thought and what I felt and what I did. And
all because he's looking, he's looking. And here's the thing
about it. He can see everybody at the same
time. He can see everybody at the same
time. He looks into our hearts, our affection. And I tell you,
he looks into our excuses. And here's one thing that he
does, he looks into our needy souls. He looks into our souls
when they have the greatest need and when they're needy, he always
meets the needs of our souls, always. And here's the thing,
no one loves, loves us like he does. No one cares for us the
way he does. And when he looks in the windows,
what does he see? What does he say? And then look
what it says now. Here in verse 9 again. He reveals
himself. Look what it says. Showing himself
through the lattice. Oh my. He's looking. He's behind
the lattice and it says there he reveals himself. Showing himself. Showing himself. Oh my. Not only does he stand, Not only
does he look, but he says, now look at me. Now look at me. He shows himself. And you know what it says in
the margin there? Shows himself through the ladders. Shows that
he's flourishing. He's flourishing. And oh, what
a blessed redeemer. You know, our Lord, talk about
him flourish. We're saying the little of the
valley. Everything about our Lord is
flourishing. His sovereignty flourishes. Grace
flourishes from Him. Mercy flourishes from Him. Holiness
and righteousness and justification, forgiveness, everything we need
flourishes, comes out in abundance from Him. And you know you got
to see Him for you know that. And what a blessed, gracious
lover of our souls to show himself to us. Show us the wealth of
his character. Oh, how blessed is his character.
And no wonder they said, what manner of man is this? What manner
of man is this? What kind of man is this? And
when he confounded the law, he goes, what's this young man know? And then he comes and he causes
us to flourish. Causes us to flourish. Without Him, you know, He's the
vine, we're the branches. Without Him, we ain't got nothing.
But in Him, He's ordained. He says, no you're not, you've
not chosen me, but I've ordained you that you should go forth
and bring forth fruit. And listen, He causes us to flourish.
He causes us to flourish in His grace. Causes us to flourish. You know, He said, I've come
that you might have life and have it more abundantly. And
what an abundant life we have in Christ. And you know what
it means to have the abundant life in Christ? It just means
to have Him. When you have Him, you have everything. Because the scriptures tell us
that Christ is all and in all. Huh? We're complete in Him. Perfect in Him. And then look
what He says. And then He speaks. In verse
10. Then He speaks. My beloved spake. He stands. He looks, he reveals
himself, and then he speaks. Go talk, go speak. And all she
has no doubt whose voice this is. It's like the sheep, you
know, he said, my sheep. I lay down my life for the sheep.
My sheep hear my voice. And when they hear my voice,
they follow me. No wonder she said, I heard the
voice of my beloved. And now he's speaking, he's speaking
to her. She knows his voice when she
hears it. And I tell you, God's people know the voice of
Christ. They know it when they hear it in the gospel. They know
it when they hear it in his word. They know it when they see it
in other people's lives. And what other voice, what other
voice has such power? What other voice has such sweetness?
What other voice has such compassion? What other voice has the power
to speak to the heart? What other voice has the power
to conquer the will? What other voice can do for us
what His voice does? We come to services, oftentimes
say, oh Lord, speak to me. Please speak to me. Please speak
to me today. Don't leave me like I am. Please
speak to me today. Oh my. Zacchaeus heard his voice. Zacchaeus,
come down. I don't think I will. Come down Zacchaeus. come down. He said, you know
why I called him Zacchaeus? Because that was his name. How'd
our Lord know his name? You know the scripture says,
Jesus knowing what he would do. Our Lord came into this world
knowing what he would do. And he knew who he'd do it for,
and he knew why he would do it. And here's the thing, you know,
Zacchaeus, he said, you know why I call Zacchaeus down, you
know why? Because as quick as he got on
the ground, he said, today, I'm going home with you. He didn't
wait for an invitation. He didn't wait for him to ask
him to come home. Today, I'm going home with you. I must abide
at your house, and salvation is coming to you. That's the
kind of voice we're talking about. Lazarus heard his voice. Lazarus! Dead men don't hear voices, especially
if they've been dead and they're stinking. When Christ's voice
speaks, he do. Lazarus, come forth! I love it. Me and James loves it. You know,
and the dead, He that was dead, he that was dead came forth. Paul heard his voice on the Damascus
road. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Who
are you? I'm Jesus. Oh my. Oh, what were you asking
me to do? Oh my. John was just a voice
crying in the wilderness. Have you heard his voice? Heard His voice. Have you heard
it? Oh my. Let me tell you something. If
you're going to hear His voice, you know where you're going to hear
it? You're going to hear it through some preacher. You go through this book, and
everybody that God done something for, He done it through somebody
telling them the truth. Whether it was Ezekiel, whether
it was Genesis, where you start in Genesis, and you go to Revelation. And God is speaking to people
through His Word. He said, take this little book,
take this little black book and eat it! And I tell you, listen, if you're
interested in your soul, if you're really interested in your soul,
your relationship with God Almighty, don't depend upon yourself, don't
look to yourself, don't reason things out, Don't try to figure
it out. Just come and hear and listen
and listen and listen and listen and listen. If you're interested
in your soul, come and hear what God has to say. Not just what
the preacher has to say. Oh, to hear what God has to say.
God sent Cornelius and sent Peter over to Cornelius. He said, we've
gathered here to hear what you have to say about God and about
His Word. And listen, if you ever want
to hear the voice of God, you're not going to hear it Out somewhere, peddling around
somewhere. You're not going to hear it while
you're making excuses why you don't want to go to church. You're
not going to hear it while you're making excuses about I'm as good
as anybody else. You're not going to hear it while
you're thinking about, well, I'm living a good whole. I'm
living as good as I possibly can. I don't see how I could
be any better. Well, being better ain't good
enough. I was preaching a funeral. You all might have remembered
it. And somebody hollered out, I said, how good do you have
to be? And somebody hollered out, pretty good. I said, pretty
good ain't good enough. If you're going to be saved, you're
going to be as good as God. You're going to be as perfect
as God. And the only way you can be as
good as God and as perfect as God is for God Almighty to put
you in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you can't do that. He's gotta
put you in Christ. He's gotta give you a new heart.
He's gotta take you from the, save you from the top of your
head to the sole of your foot, from the inside of your heart
to the outside of your flesh. And he's the one that's got to
do it, not the preacher. But I'll tell you one thing,
if you ever hear from God, you're gonna hear from a preacher. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them, they believe. Come hear preaching. Now, I tell you, there's no telling
how many people that a preacher somewhere today is going to give
an invitation, and I tell you, there's going to be lots and
lots of people going to come forward today because of the
way they sung a song, or somebody begged and pleaded, or they had
the music just right, and they're going to make a profession. When
I tell people, come and listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, And if you have hard of hearing,
go get you some hearing aids. And that's what he said. Then
he spake. He spake. You want to hear the
voice of God, you're going to hear it through his word, through
a preacher. And then look what he says to
her. He says, rise up, all my love. My fair one, Where'd you
get that fairness out? Has made comeliness through that.
Your beauty is made perfect through my comeliness. And look what
else he says now. And come away. What he's saying is, get up,
follow me. Get up and follow me. He always
calls them to himself. Come away. Come away from the
world. Come away from yourself. Come
away from your self-righteousness. Come away from your self-confidence.
Come away. Come away from your false profession.
Come away. Come away. And oh my, you reckon,
could they have refused such a compelling voice? It was the
voice of one that loved her and loved her. He's come to take
her to himself. Come away. Come away. Come away
from all that harms us. Come away from all that hinders
us. Come into His ways. Come to Him and come to His Word. Come away to peace. Come away
to power. As sinners, we go to Him. As disciples, we learn from Him. As friends, We go with him, huh? Oh, and then look what an encouragement
here. I've got to hurry. Look what an encouragement here
in verse 16. Or excuse me, yeah, verse 11. Verse 11, watch. Then look what he says, when
you come away with him, when you follow him, look what happens. The winner's passed. This, and the rain is over and
gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing of
birds has come, the singing of the voice of the turtles heard
in the land, the fig tree puts forth leaves, green figs, and
the vines have tender grapes. This is the picture of spring
mentioned here. And these are just metaphors
of the new life that we have in Christ. Christ, when he brings
this life, His new life in the soul. The Son of Righteousness
has arisen over our cold, our God. All the blessings of the
new life come from here. Here's the gospel. Look what
he says, the winter's past. I love it when winter's over.
I love it when it gets 72, 74. Love it when the sun shines. The winter's past. Coldness is
over. All the trees are lifeless. Grass
is all dead. There ain't no flowers. He said, now that's over and
done with. Oh, He brought us from death unto life, from the
winter of the coldness and depth of dead to the warmth of grace
and mercy in Christ. And then He says the rain is
over. And that rain represents judgment. And the judgment's
gone. It's over. Judgment's been done
on the Lord Jesus Christ. It's like Noah. That rain that
fell on the old world, God said, I'm going to destroy it with
a flood. And there was only 8 souls saved. And when Noah come out
of that ark, He stepped out on a new world and a new life and
a new age for Him. He stepped out into a new world. And our Lord by His death on
the cross brings us into newness of life. Newness of life. No condemnation to them that
are in Christ. And let me ask you, let me ask
you, there's no way in the world that you could possibly have
this new life of Christ in you and not know it. It'd be impossible. It'd be impossible. And let me
ask you, have you experienced this newness of life? There's
a winter going over. Let me give you another illustration.
You know when You know these leaves, they stay on the trees,
you know, old dead leaves will stay on some trees all winter
long. And then we've had wind, and wind, and wind, and more
wind, and more wind, and there's been still leaves on the trees. You know when them leaves will
come off them dead trees? When a new leaf pushes it off. And you know when all the deadness
comes off of us? It's when Christ pushes it off
and springtime comes. I've got a little tree behind
me and it's just covered up in leaves. But you know when them
leaves will be gone? When all the new ones pushes
them off. Huh? And that's the way it is for
us. And then look what he says there in verse 12. And then it
is flowers appear on the earth. The flowers. Flowers of promise. Boy, when you see them flowers
start blooming, that's a promise. Oh, this beauty, this glory that's
in those flowers and all those beautiful flowers that come.
And they appear on the earth. And that's the flowers of promise.
They promise a beauty and a glory and a flourishing. And I tell
you what, all the promises of Christ are yea and amen. Because
of what our Lord Jesus Christ did by His life, Because of what
he did by his death. Because of what he did by his
resurrection. Because he did what he did by
his ascension. The promises of God, they appear
like flowers to us, beautiful. And I tell you, he's a sweet
savor. Smells like a beautiful flower to us. He said he was
the lily of the valley. Oh my. Fragrant manifold. Manifold. And then look what
else it says in verse 12. The time of singing has come. The time of singing has come.
And that means the time of praise has come. Praise Him, praise
Him, tell of His excellent glory. Greatness. We sang a new song. He said He
hath put a new song in our mouth. He set us on a solid rock, put
us out of the mighty clay and set us on a solid rock and put
a new song in our mouth, even praise unto our God. Huh? Oh my. Praise unto him. And we offer the sacrifice of
praise continually to him. Oh my. And the scriptures tells
us to sing and make melody in our heart to the Lord. Y'all,
I know you go around singing, you'll get a verse on your mind
or something on your mind, you'll go around singing a hymn or a
spiritual song and you'll just delight in it. You're delighted. I heard a song coming over the
road back the last time I come from Bruce's and it was a song
that said, I'm not alone. And it was about this believer. I'm not alone. When I go through
the fire, I'm not alone. When I go through the river,
I'm not alone. When I go through the judgment,
I'm not alone. When I go through all these things,
I'm not alone, I'm not alone, I'm not alone. And not only that,
but He went before me to prepare the way. I'm never alone. And
that's what we're talking about here. I tell you what, it's praise
Him, praise Him, praise Him. Tell of His excellent greatness.
Bless His holy name, bless His holy name. And I tell you then
what it says, the voice of the turtle, Now when he's not talking
about turtles that's got shells on them, that's not what he's
talking about. I ain't never heard a turtle sing and I've
seen lots of turtles. He's talking about turtle doves,
turtle doves. Have you ever heard these turtle
doves sing? They, you know, I've got a nest, I've got one that's,
I don't know how many young she raised last year, right by, right
outside our front door. She's sitting on a nest right
now. And I've got doves around there, and they just, and you
know, they make this beautiful cooing noise. And I think they're
one of the most beautiful birds it ever was. And he says, you
know, the voice of the turtle dove is heard in the land. And
I tell you what, the voice of the turtle dove is the voice
of truth. That's what we're talking about,
the truth. It's heard in the land. When our Lord Jesus Christ
was baptized, it was a dove that descended upon him. And when
When Noah wanted to know if the flood was over, it was a dove
that left out of the ark and came back with a branch in his
mouth and sat down there and said, it's over, it's over. And
I tell you, when we talk about the voice of the turtle, we're
talking about the voice of the Holy Ghost, the voice of the
Holy Spirit, heard in the gospel, heard in our hearts, heard to
be our guide. And then let me give you another
one. Look what else it says here now. It was that when he comes and
we go away and follow him, look what seasons of fruitfulness.
Look what it says in verse 13. The fig tree puts forth her green
figs. Oh, the fig tree, he got figs
on it. And then he says the vine, the
vine is, and the vines was tender grape, give a good smell. Oh
my. Our Lord Jesus Christ, He gonna
have fruit from His people. He gonna have it. He said, a
good tree brings forth fruit. Now how much fruit we're talking
about? All I know is the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, and there
ain't no law against that. Huh? And all He said, without
me, you can do nothing. And then look what happens then
in verse 13. In the last part of the verse,
he repeats this. Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away. He repeats that. He says, follow
me now. He comes to win our hearts. Arise,
my love, my fair one. Come away. Come away from your
worries. Come away from your fears. Come
away from your disillusionment. Come away from your self-reasonings.
Come away from the false promises you've made yourself. Come away. Come away, my love, my fair one.
Come, enjoy the Lord Jesus. You know, when Eleazar went down
to get Abraham a wife for Isaac, when he went to Rebekah, and seen all that Isaac had,
and all that wealth that he had, and all the glory that he had,
and all the wealth that he had, and all the garments in gold
and silver. And Eleazar said, will thou,
his family asked him, said, will thou go with this man? We want
you to stay a while, but will you go with this man? She said,
I'm going. I'm going. I'm going. And that's what I'm doing. Come
away. Come on. Come on. Our Father, in the blessed name,
precious name, glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I thank
you for your grace and mercy given us today in Christ. Lord,
I thank you for your gospel. Thank you for the truth. I pray
that you'd take what's been said today and cause it to be a blessing,
cause it to be an encouragement, cause it to be light in our minds,
in our hearts, in our souls. And oh, you're the only one that
can do it. I'm just a voice today like John. And all I tell is
what I hear, what I see. So Lord, bless it to the glory
of your blessed son, the good of your people, salvation of
sinners for Christ's sake. Amen. I heard the Savior say, thy strength
indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and
pray. Find in me thine all in all. Jesus paid it all. to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Amen. You know why?