look here with me in this started
verse 23 read a couple verses here Exodus 15 23 and when they came to Myra they
only been three days in the wilderness when they came to Myra they could
not drink of the waters of Myra for they were bitter therefore
the name of it was called Myra That means bitterness. And the
people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And he cried unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which
when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. Therefore
there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he
proved them. You know, this chapter starts out with a song. They
sang a song unto the Lord. They sing a song unto the Lord.
And then three days later, they're murmuring. Sometimes it's not
much between our songs and our sorrows. They sing that new song
and then they turn around and murmur against Him. And that's
the way it is. We'll have a great blessing and
then we'll get a trial. And then when the trial's over,
God blesses us. And this our Lord Jesus Christ,
he was right after he was baptized. And the Holy Spirit came upon
him. That's when he was tempted of the devil, 40 days and 40
nights. And down here in verse 27, look
what it says. Up there, they didn't have anything
to drink. The water was bitter. And they came to Elam, where
12 wells of water, three score and 10 palm trees, and they encamped
by the waters. Sometimes our malrus, our bitter
water, and elims are not far apart either. We'll sing a joyful
song of victory, and then comes malrus, then comes bitterness.
Scriptures tells us plainly that our faith will be tried. It must
be tried. God's going to see that it will.
But blessed be the Lord. Bless His holy name. There's
a tree. The Lord showed him a tree. There's
a tree. And it's the tree of life. And we can see the gospel in
this tree that God showed to Moses. And it's that tree of
life, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified. Crucified. That makes the bitter sweet.
Now these folks have a great, great, very real, very great
need. It says there in verse 3, 23,
that they could not drink of the waters. They couldn't drink
of them. They couldn't drink of them.
They had a great need. And that's why they asked Moses,
they said, what shall we drink? Where shall we find satisfaction
here? Who's going to show us any good here? Who's going to
show us any good? And Moses, it says there in verse
25, he cried unto the Lord. Cried unto the Lord. And God
provided a remedy. The cross, the tree of life,
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he cried unto the Lord, and
look here, and the Lord showed him a tree. A tree. You know there was a tree of
life in the Garden of Eden? There was a tree of life in the
Garden of Eden. Before the cross, before our Lord Jesus Christ
went to the cross, there was a tree of life in the garden
of Eden. Turn to Genesis 2. Genesis 2. Let me show you a
couple of things here. There was a tree of life in the
garden. And there's two trees in the
garden. One was forbidden, and one kept, God kept them from
partaking of it. Here in Genesis 2 and verse 9,
look what it says. And out of the ground the Lord
God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and
good for food. The tree of life also was in the midst of the
garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. There they
both were, tree of life, of good and evil. Then look in Genesis
3, verse 22. Two trees in the garden. And look what he says here. And
the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to
know good and evil. God, all he knows to do is good.
He'll never mistreat anybody. And now let us put forth, lest
he put forth his hand, and listen to this now, and take also of
the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. If he ate of that
tree of life, he'd live forever as a fallen human being. As a
man that could have never ever had fellowship with God. Now
watch what happens. So blessed he take his hand and
eat of the tree of life and live forever. Therefore the Lord God
sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
which he was taken. So he drove out the man. Now
watch this. And he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned
every way To keep, now watch this, not to keep people from
the way of tree of the life, not from the tree of life, but
to keep the way to the tree of life. In other words, God's fixed
it, that he's only one way you're going to get to this tree. There's
only one way you're going to get to this place. Only one way
that you'll partake of the tree of life. And God fixed it to
keep the way of the Tree of Life. People don't stumble into salvation. People don't stumble into finding
Christ. People don't just make a decision.
Here's something, beloved, God said, lest they take of the Tree
of Life, I'm going to make a way that nobody can mistake the way
to the cross, that nobody can mistake the way to get to the
Lord Jesus Christ. And when we talk about the Tree
of Life, It says that our Lord Jesus Christ, he himself, bear
our sins in his own body on the tree. Now on the tree, and Isaiah
53 tells us how that he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised
for our iniquities, chastisement of our peace was upon him. And
it pleased the Lord to bruise him. And you know in Acts 5 when
Peter was standing before all that Sanhedrin and they wanted
him to quit preaching, he says this, he says, We're going to
obey God. But you all took the Lord Jesus
Christ, whom you slew. You slew Him. And you hanged
Him on a tree. And that's what He's talking
about. And that's what this sword's going to do. That's what God's
going to do. He's going to keep the way to the tree of life.
And I tell you, a sword, He's going to let it... He keeps a
sword going. And that's what He uses. You know what the sword
is? The Scriptures? The Word of God? Hebrews 4.12 says, For the word
of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing asunder soul
and spirit. So God uses the Gospel, uses
His Word to hem the way. He's got the way hemmed up. And
the Gospel shows us that there ain't but one way to get to Christ.
Only one way to get to that cross. One way! And God's fixed it that
you can't mistake the way. You'll have to deliberately say,
I'm not going to go that way. Oh, I tell you, I thank God that
He won't let me go any other way. The sword's going to be
used for two things. The sword, God uses it to protect
the way there, and He also uses it against people, and sword
of justice goes against people who refuse to come God's way. refused to come his way. And
he took that sword also. Away goes sword against my fellow,
against my shepherd and smite the shepherd. And oh my! So the Lord showed him a tree.
The Lord showed him a tree. And I want you to see this also.
A tree was pointed out by the Lord. And the Lord showed him
a tree. You know what that means? Nobody
could have found this tree on their own. If the Lord hadn't revealed it,
they'd have never seen it. Huh? They'd have never revealed
it. If God had, do you know that?
I don't know if a tree was laying down. I don't know if it's standing
up. I don't know. But I do know this,
that the Lord showed him that tree. And that's the way the
gospel is. If God don't show you, if God
don't open your eyes and God don't reveal it to you, you'll
never see it. Our Lord is a gift. And Jesus Christ himself is a
revelation from God and a revelation of God. He said John 1.18, no
man, no man's ever seen the Father. Save the only begotten Son who's
in the bosom of the Father. And He come out from the Father,
and He told out the Father. There's no way you can see our
Lord Jesus Christ and not see the Father. And no way you can
see the Father and not see His Son. They're one and the same.
There's a revelation. Look over here. Keep this now. And I want you to look with me
over here in Matthew 11. Matthew 11. Look what our Master's
doing here. Matthew 11. look what our master says here
verse 27 now Lord is praying here and
he said all things are delivered unto me and my father now what
do you reckon it means when everything is delivered unto me and my father
that means that all flesh Heavens the earth things under the earth
and everything in the sea and the deep places everything in
this universe God delivered into his son to do with it what he
will He said give you power over all flesh to give eternal life
to as many as thou has given all things are delivered unto
me of my father But now listen And no man knows the son No,
man No, man There's a no man's land
in the scriptures. It's a no man's land. Well, how
do you get out of no man's land? Somebody's got to bring you out
of it. Look what he said. No man knows the Son, but the
Father. The Father knows who the Son
is. Neither knoweth any man the Father, only the Son. Now watch
this. And he to whomsoever the Son
will reveal. God appears as a revelation.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, in John 6, verse 44, He says, no man,
here's another one again, another no man. He says, no man can come
unto me except the Father which hath sent me drawing. And that,
when He draws him, He said, when He draws him, He'll take, He'll
reveal him and He'll make him to know who I am. And he, everyone
that, they shall all be taught of God. They'll all be taught
of the Father. And everyone the Father teaches, you know what
He said? He'll come to me. Got to be taught. It's a revelation.
And that's why God gave him a revelation. And if God don't give a man a
revelation, he'll never see anything. And you know how he draws a man
and how he gives a man sight? It's a miracle. It's a miracle. I'll show you that. And how does
he draw him? He draws him by his cross. He
draws him by his gospel. Our Lord told Nicodemus when
he wanted to know how a man would be born again. And our Lord said, as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up. And then he'll draw all men unto
himself. And that's how he does it, through
that blessed cross. As Moses lifted up that serpent,
he said, I'll be lifted up. And when I'm lifted up, men will
be drawn to me. Men will be drawn to me. And
I tell you, God set the Lord Jesus Christ forth. Set Him forth. Set Him forth in the scriptures.
Set Him forth on the cross. Set Him forth in the tomb. Set
Him forth in His resurrection. Set Him forth in His ascension.
Set Him forth in His throne. Set Him forth in the gospel.
And beloved, you'll not, and this, this is, I know this. This is so, this is it. A man
will not know Christ unless Christ, God reveals it to him. I'm going
to show you something else here, but I just thought of it. Look
over here at Matthew. I believe it's 16. I think it's
Matthew 16. Yeah. Yeah, this is what I want. Look here. Verse 13. When our Lord came
into the coast of Caesarea, Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying,
Who do men say that I, the Son of Man am? And I tell you what,
everybody's got something to say about the Lord Jesus Christ
now. They say some awful things about Him. They use His name
as a byword, as a curse word. And they say, some say you're
John the Baptist. Some say you're Elijah and others
Jeremiah or one of the prophets. Then he turned around, draw the
rest straight, but that pointed at them and said, but who do
you say? Who do you say that I am? Who
do you say? It's like Christ looking at me
and say, Donnie Bell, who do you say that I am? Who do you say I am? What do
you know about me? What do you believe about me?
What do you know about me? Who do you say I am? You think
I'm just a prophet? You think I'm Elijah that called
far down from heaven, went to heaven in a chariot? You think
I'm Jeremiah like a weeping prophet? Who do you say that I am? I'm
asking you. And he looked at me and said,
Who am I? And Simon Peter answered. And
said, Thou art the Christ. the son of the living God. And I, Lord answered, said unto
him, O Simon, Simon, you're so blessed. You're so blessed. How's God? Flesh and blood didn't
reveal that unto you. Some preacher didn't teach you
that. Oh, flesh and blood didn't reveal
it unto you, but watch this, but my Father which is in heaven. And oh, if you know who Christ
is and you believe Him and you trust Him, I'm telling you, you're
talking about a blessed man. You are indeed a blessed man.
That's why God said, this is my beloved Son. And I'm well
pleased with Him. I'm well pleased with Him. And
oh my, and when then, when was this tree revealed? It says there
in verse 25 again, when was this tree revealed? When Moses cried
unto the Lord. When Moses cried unto the Lord,
and the Lord showed him a tree. Now I'm gonna, you see these
people had a deep, deep, deep need. And you and I had an awful
deep, deep need that we didn't even know we had. Had not God sent his blessed
son into this world and revealed Christ to us. And he wasn't revealed
to us because we prayed. We prayed after he was revealed
unto us. A dead man don't cry. Only people
cry when they got life. And what he's telling us is here
when Moses cried unto the Lord, Moses was as a mediator. And our Lord, we don't, God don't
answer our prayers and save us because we pray. We pray because
he saved us. And here's what I'm saying is
that a mediator cried out to God for them. They said, what
shall we drink? He cried unto the Lord and the
Lord provided them something to drink and provided a means
for them to drink. And I tell you what, this is
the way it is that, you know, unless we mistake that we cry
unto the Lord and then he saves us. That's not the way it is.
Lazarus was dead this morning. I was dead. You was dead. And
you can't hear the voice of the Son of God until He gives you
life. The hour is coming and now is
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And
they that hear shall live. And you know when we start crying
out to the Lord? When He shows us something. Baby don't cry in the womb. It may move around and the seed
is sown before that baby is born, nine months after the seed is
sown. The baby's got life and the baby
grows in that womb and God plants the seed and the seed begins
to grow in the heart and mind and soul of a person. And then
when it springs forth life, that's when they start crying. They don't get life because they
cry. They cry because they get life. And Moses was the mediator. And we've got a mediator between
us and God. And who is that mediator between
us and God? The Lord Jesus Christ. And He's
the one that cried out for us. He's the one. Father, I've given
them thy word. And they believed it. They believed
that you sent me. And that I come forth for you.
Then my sheep hear my voice. And then after that he gives
them life, I'm telling you. So it's not our praying that
causes God to do anything for us. It really isn't. And our
Lord has to, if we see anything, if we see anything at all, Christ's
got to show it to us. I'm going to show you something
here. Look in Genesis 21. Genesis 21. I don't know if you all remember
Hagar, you know, she had Ishmael. And that was because Sarah, you
know, wanted a child real bad, and then she got jealous. She
said, this bond woman and her sons got to go. Can't be there
with my son Isaac, and they can't. And here in verse 14, look what
happens now. Abraham rose up early in the
morning, took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar,
putting it on her shoulder and the child, and sent her away.
And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Now this is what happens to water when men give you water. It's
just water that man gives you. You know, you make a profession.
Somebody told me this morning that they made a profession the
first time they made it in the last two weeks. And that's the
way most of them is. You know, I tell you, the only
person I ever know that never had a false profession, never
had a false profession, was my father-in-law, Herman. He said
he never had a false profession in his whole life. Never ever
did make a profession when he was a kid or nothing. He didn't
have a clue what was going on until God saved him when he was
75 years old. And then he stood and said, Lord,
I heard that voice today. But oh my, that's all that happened. The man gives you a bottle of
water and some bread. And if the man gives you the bread and
the man gives you the water, look what happens. And the water
was spent in the bottle. The bottle would go empty every
single time. The man gives you a bottle of water. That's all
religion's got is the bottle. Yeah, a bottle. And watch what
he says. She went, set out, she took that
baby and put him over, the child, he wasn't a baby, he was a child,
set him over here under some bushes and she went over there
and set out. She said, I don't want to see my child die. And
she started weeping and crying. Now listen here, God heard the
voice of the lad and the angel of God called to Hagar out of
heaven. Now you tell me who can speak
from heaven other than the Lord Jesus Christ. And said unto her,
what aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard
the voice of the land. And listen here now, in verse
19. And God opened her eyes. She
sat in there fixing to die, and didn't want her baby to die.
And watching dying, God opened her eyes, and she saw a well
of water. Well, it'd been there all the
time. You know, God didn't make a well appear out of nothing.
I mean, the well was there, but she could not see it until Christ
gave her up. And that's the way it is with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Men will, they'll do it, take
any kind of water they can get other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, my. And it's like Abraham.
When Abraham took Isaac up on the mountaintop, draw back the
knife fixing to lay the knife to him. God told him to stay his hand. I see now Abraham that thou fearest
me. And he turned around and God
showed him a ram. Paul may have said the guy had
a bunch of sheep down here at the bottom of that mountain And
he said one of the rams got out and wandered around running around
wandering around got up there on top that mountain Just so
he would be there when Abraham saw it He looked around and there
was that ram he took that ram and put it in the stead of Isaac
That's why He can say, I and the lad are going up yonder to
worship, and we're coming back. We're coming back. And how did
He know that ram was there? God said, turn that He saw a
ram caught in the thicket. Oh my. And I tell you what, beloved,
God's gotta show us. God's gotta show us. And I tell
you what, sirs, what must we do to be saved? You've got to
have a mediator. You've got to have a revelation.
And then look what else was going on here. He said the Lord showed
him a tree. The Lord showed him a tree. That
tree was near. That tree was at hand. That tree
was growing, laying nearby. I don't know what it was. But Christ is as near as that. As near as that. You know what
Romans 10 says, salvation is always near. Today is the day
of salvation. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not at midnight tonight. Today. Right now. And Paul says this,
the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth. The word of faith
which we preach, which is what? If thou shalt believe in thy
heart, Jesus that God has raised him
from the dead and that Jesus Christ is the righteousness of
God and you believe in your heart that he is righteous and he's
the only righteous you have that should be saved and that's why
we preach we preach to you the word of faith that you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved that the word
is not your what word the word of faith the word of believing
the word of embracing Paul said I know whom I have believed And
that's why, even when we're preaching the gospel, me and Shirley's
talked about this, me and Todd, me and Brute, when I'm sitting
here and somebody preaches the gospel, I have more assurance
while somebody's preaching the gospel than I do at any other
time. Don't you? I mean, right while you're hearing
it, you said, you agree with everything Spirit said, yeah,
oh my, it just, it just enjoyed me, you know, blessed are the
people who know the joyful sound. And that's what we preach. It's
the Word. It's the Word of Faith. The Word is nigh thee. What's
the nigh thee? Sirs, what must we do? What must
I do to be saved? And he says, listen, if there
would have been any other way, Paul, when that Philippian jailer
asked, if there would have been any other way? He said, well,
I tell you what, you know, that Philippian jailer, Paul and him,
the prison opened up and he's going to kill himself. He says,
sir, don't do yourself no harm. Don't do yourself any harm. But
sirs, what must I do to be saved? And he said, now if there had
been any other way for a man to be saved, any other way, any
other time, he said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. And I'm telling you, if we preach
Christ the way he is, And that's why we tell people just keep
coming here in the gospel, just keep coming here in the gospel.
Because I tell you what, if you see Jesus Christ as He is, and
as God makes Him known to a person, you will believe Him, you will
trust Him, and you'll go to your grave trusting Him. And you cannot
not trust Him once you start trusting Him. You cannot not
trust Him. Can you? Don't trust Him anymore. I can't. Don't look to Him anymore. I
can't. Don't worship Him anymore. I
cannot do that. I can't. Why? Because the Word's
in my mouth. I've heard that word of faith.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And
we're talking about the Lord. Holy, sovereign, eternal, immutable. Jesus, the humanity, the man
Christ Jesus. And then Christ, the one that
God himself sent. Oh my. And that's why, you know,
John told them this, he said, John the Baptist told them, that's
one standing among you. It's just like this tree. It
was there. Moses didn't see it and Israel
surely didn't see it until Moses saw it. And I'll tell you, he
said, there's one standing among you, you don't even know. Huh? Oh my. You don't know where he's
at. You don't know him. He's standing
among you and you don't know him. And I'll tell you something,
that's what has to happen. The tree's there. Christ is there.
He's always there. It's like I told you about Mary
this morning. She went to the tomb. Everybody
else come and looked in at Peter. John crawled inside the tomb. Got on his hands and knees and
went in there. That's what Scripture tells us. And Mary went back looking for
him because he wasn't in there. He wasn't in the tomb. And she
was around there crying, crying, crying, and the Lord Jesus Christ
standing right in front of her. Just like that tree was there. And these folks standing there
murmuring, they're crying, what are we going to drink? And Mary
said, oh, she thought he was the gardener. This is just, this
just shows us that Christ is there, but oh, sometimes, and
he says, Sir, show me where you've laid him. Oh, if you've moved
him, if you've put his body somewhere, show me where you've put him.
And he says, Mary. And immediately she saw him.
And that's the way this business of salvation is. Immediately. He's always there. And that's
the way that it was. I'm going to show you something
else. Look here in John 9. Look in John 9. Let's look at
this together. Let's look at this together.
Talking about a tree's near. Christ is near. Christ is always
there. And folks looking for some big
experience or something like that. I'll tell you what. You
know, everybody don't have a big experience. You know, I know
a lot of truth. I know an awful lot of truth
and I preached enough truth just to get me in trouble. But I tell
you what, until I completely and entirely trusted Christ and
His righteousness alone for my salvation. Now when that exactly
took place, I don't know. I don't know. I know that everything I've said
up to that point was dumb. I do know that. I didn't have
no earth shattering experience. I just knew, I just knew that
everything I believed and everything I hoped in until I heard the
gospel. And see, you know, I would mix
it up until I actually heard the gospel. And somebody told
me that you know there's only one way that God saves a man
and He don't send nobody to lie on, don't send nobody to confuse
anybody. This is Jesus Christ in free
grace. And when I seen that and laid
hold on that, my world turned, I mean you talk about it, but
I didn't have no worthshaking experience. When did you start
believing? Somebody said, I've been Christian
all my life. Well, I tell you something, if you've been Christian
all your life, you've been one too long. Ain't that right? And I tell you, that's it. And
it don't make no difference when we was. I trusted Christ today.
I've done A yesterday's bread. I've done A yesterday's manna. I've got to have some new. Got
to have some new. But look here what happens in
John 9 in verse 35. When they cast the Lord, they'd
cast this blind man out because Christ opened his eyes. And they
didn't like that. In verse 35, Jesus heard that
they had cast him out. And when they had found him,
you notice this, that Christ found him. Christ went to where
he was, and when he had found this man, he said unto him, Dost
thou believe on the Son of God? Do you believe on the Son of
God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe
on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou
hast both seen him, And it is he that talketh with thee. Now
watch this. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. Christ
was the one to open his eyes. But he didn't know who he was
until Christ found him and told him who he was. That's what has to happen. All
right. Let me hurry on here and give
you another point. Oh, there's a tree right there. Oh, Christ
is there. He's always there. And then look,
you know, look what Moses did. And when the Lord showed him
a tree, he cast it into the waters and the waters were made sweet. Moses took the tree and cast
it into the waters. Now this is what most people
would have done. Well, what kind of tree is it? Is it a poplar? Is it a hickory? Is it a willow? Is it a white oak? Red oak? Pin
oak? What kind of tree is it? I better
look at this thing before I put it in there. Might be something
wrong with it. Might have a rotten spot in it. Huh? We need to examine
this tree. Make sure it's okay. I'll look
at the tree. I'll really examine this thing
before I put it in that water. No, no, no, no. But I do know
this, that that tree had to come in contact with that water before
that water is ever going to be made sweet and fit to drink.
And Christ, we have to partake of Him before He'll ever sweeten
our lives. Huh? It ain't going to do no
good to stand around and look at Him, examine Him and think
about Him. Oh my, and it could not meet the needs of these men
and need in their water needs except that tree was put in the
water. And I tell you something else,
man did not provide this cure. They all said, well listen, I'll
get me a little piece of tree for myself and I'll put it in
there. I'll carry me a piece of that
tree around with me. That's what Sue told us about
a rabbit's foot. She said, you know they got these
rabbit's foot and people carry some luck. He said, that's the
rabbit how lucky he is. And that's the way, you know
that's what people would do. I mean you know if they found
a tree that was going to do something miraculous, they'd cut them a
little piece of it off and carry it around in their pocket. And I've said this before, they
searching for the Ark all the time over there in Turkey on
Mount Ariat. They just look for that thing
all the time. And I tell you this, if they
found the Ark, Noah's Ark, or if they found any part of the
tree that our Lord was crucified on, destroy it, get rid of it,
burn it, do anything with it, because men would make a God
out of it. And I wouldn't care to use it
for a toothpick to tell you the truth. The cross itself didn't
save me, it was who was on the cross that saved me. It's not
how much blood was shed on that tree, it was whose blood that
was shed on that tree. And it was God that was satisfied
before you and I ever know anything was going on. And oh my, that's
what has to happen. That tree, you got to come in
contact with it. And I tell you, these fellas
didn't know anything about it. And it's like that woman with
the issue of blood. These people had need and she
couldn't heal herself. She went to all these doctors,
spent all this money. And boy, she said, if I can just
touch the hem of it, I don't have to touch him, just the hem
of his garment. The sinner's got to come in contact and Christ
got to come in contact with the sinner. And she said, if I can
just touch the hem of his garment, I'll be made whole. Boy, that's
some pretty good confidence, ain't it? And she did. There's a crowd around him and
she just got down in that crowd and pushed around, pushed around,
pushed around, got down there and went... Christ stopped. He said, somebody touch me. All these crowds around you and
you say somebody touched you. He said somebody touched me.
He felt that virtue go out of him into her. That's what you're
talking about this morning. Touched with the feelings of
our infirmities. For our sicknesses. And our infirmities. And he looked
around at that woman. Looked at her. And you know what
she said next? She told him all the truth about
herself. She said, it's me, it's me. And
I was sick, now I'm whole. Oh my. I tell you, our faith,
the healing power, and I'm going to say this, and you know exactly
what I'm telling you. The healing power is not in our
faith, but it's in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we trust. Huh? As many as received him,
to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, which
were born, not of flesh, not of will of man, nor of blood,
but of God. All right, let me finish up with
this last point. He showed him that tree and he
said he cast it into the waters and the waters were made sweet. oh boy all that bitter water that life gives us sometimes
our Lord Jesus Christ our Lord Jesus Christ bless his name his
precious precious cross on which he shed his blood his glorious
glorious death and that blood shedding They put him in that
tomb and he rose again. Forty days later he ascended
into glory. And now he sits on the throne
and he makes intercession for us. And oh how he sweetens our
life. Oh how sweet he's been today.
Ain't he been sweet today? Oh my. You know when he feeds
us he don't put just a little dab on the plate you know. He
fills it up. He fills it up. He sweetens our
life. He sweetens our hearts. Sweetens
our souls. Sweetens our trials. Oh my. And I'll tell you something else.
This tree will never rot. This tree they put in that water,
you'll never rot it. And I tell you what, our Lord Jesus Christ, He don't never get old. Gospel
never gets old. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith. The same today, yesterday, and
forever. Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to take Him at His word. Oh my! He showed him a tree. He showed me a tree. And it sweetened my life. It's 257. Let's stand together
and sing that. It's so sweet to trust in Jesus. Oh, He sweetens our life. You know, He sweetened my life
with you. That's one of the ways He sweetens
my life with people like you. Oh, how it sweetens my life.
You folks sweeten my life. Is it? Yep, that's it. It is so sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to take Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him,
how I prove Him o'er and o'er. Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus. For faith to plunge beneath the
hip. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him. How I've loved Him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus. Oh, for grace to trust Him. Just from sin and self to seize
Just from Jesus simply taking Life and rest and joy and peace
Jesus, Jesus, have mercy I learned to trust Him. Precious Jesus, Savior free. And I know that Thou art with
me. We'll be with you. We'll be with
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