Chapter 7. I want to make a few comments on
these 13 verses about our Lord Jesus Christ. What it says in verse 5, chapter
7. For neither did his brethren
believe in him. He had brothers and sisters after
the flesh. He was the son of God. But his
mother and father had lots of children. Mary and Joseph had
lots of children. And they was raised in the same
home he was raised in. And yet they didn't believe on
him. His brethren. His brethren. Verse 1, after these things. And when he says after these
things, he's talking about after all the things that happened
in the previous things that our Lord did. And one of the things
that he said was back over there in verse 60 of chapter 6. It
says, many therefore of his disciples when they heard this said, this
is a hard saying. Who can hear it? He said some
things that they said, this is just too hard. What he means
is, it's too strict, it's too narrow. Who can believe that? Who can
take heed to that? Who can possibly say, that's
what they said about our Master, these are hard sayings. The fact that you got to have
him as your life, his flesh, his body that was broken, his
blood that was shed. And he has to be that bread which
came down from heaven. And if anybody tries to live
on any other kind of bread, they die. And then he told them, no man
can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me drawing. They
said, that's too hard. And many disciples went back
and walked with him no more. You going to go away too? It
got so hard that they said, we can't follow this man. We can't
follow this man who's got all this power. We can't follow this
man who's so strict in his sayings. We can't follow this man who
wasn't, will not adhere to the law by saying that Moses is,
that they're not gonna, he's gonna dishonor the Sabbath and
he's gonna heal people on the Sabbath? He gonna pick corn on
the Sabbath? And he says that he's the one
that come to fulfill the law? Oh my! And his disciples went
back and walked with him no more. And the question that's asked
is this, will you also go away? Will you also go away? And oh my! Look what Simon Peter answered
in 68 and 69 of Chapter 6. Then Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we go? To whom shall we go? Lord, thou hast the words. The words. What you say, these
hard sayings to other people, is words of life to us. These things that other people
walk said we're not walk with you anymore. He said these are
words of life for us And he said and we believe and
are sure I mean, there's no doubt about it We believe and are sure
that there aren't the Christ the son of the Living God And
so it says there in verse 1 after these things Jesus walked in
Galilee And that word walk means that he was walking. He was walking
around in Galilee. What does that mean? That he
was publicly manifesting himself for the last time in Galilee.
He walked around in Galilee. Where he was raised at. Born
in Nazareth, raised in Galilee. And for the last time he's publicly
manifesting, walking around in Galilee. And many went back and
walked with him no more. But oh, what grace! What grace
instead of saying, you don't want me? I'll just walk away
and leave you to yourselves. But he stayed right there and
publicly manifested himself and walked among those people. And
what grace to continue to walk among people who will not walk
with you. Who will not believe you. Will
not follow you. That says your sayings is too
hard. And then it says, look what he
says there, and he would not walk in Judea. Judea means going
down into Judea where all the leaders of the Jews were gathered.
And it says that the reason he didn't because the Jews sought
to kill him. They sought to kill him. How
would you like somebody being on your trail wanting to kill
you? Well, that's what they were. They decided long ago that they
were going to kill the Lord Jesus Christ. And when he talks about
the Jews here, he's distinguishing the Jews from the common people.
From the religious people. And those Jews were so religious,
our Lord Jesus even called them hypocrites. White as sepulchers. graves that really look wonderful
on the outside but you get down under the ground and you're dead
bones mens and rotten stinking corruption he said that's what
they were they were orthodox also orthodox they wouldn't do
anything on the sabbath they loved to pray they loved to go
to the synagogues they were the leaders and look what it says
down here in verse 11 Now this is there, when he talks
about the Feast, he talks about the Feast of Tabernacles, we
will get to it in a minute. Then the Jews saw him at the
Feast and said, where is he? Where is he at? All the Jews and all the religious
people, if he's somebody, why isn't he up here with the rest
of us? And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him.
Some said he's a good man, others said no, no, no, no, he deceives
the people. And listen to this, and yet no
man spake openly of him because they were afraid of the Jews.
Nobody that there was anybody believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
They all turned thumbs down on him. And look over here in John
8, 48, look what it says. They said about our Master. What
they said about our Master. Our Lord Jesus. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not
well that thou art a Samaritan? That's an awful thing. That's
why his own disciples said to him, What are you doing talking
to a Samaritan? The Jews have nothing to do with
Samaritans. That's what the woman at the
well said. What are you talking to me? Jews and Samaritans don't
have anything in common. And say we not well that thou
art a Samaritan, and that you've got a devil? Tell the Lord Jesus Christ he's
got a devil You see it was the Jews Who cast out the blind man
out of the synagogue because he said this man Jesus all I
know is that he told me that I could see and I did It was
the Jews who took up stones to stone him look in John 10 just
a moment just John 10 31 Look what he said over here Our Lord Jesus said in verse
30, I and my father are one. Then the Jews took up stones
again to stone him. And Jesus said, there are many
good works. Oh, I've done lots of good works.
Have I showed you from my father? Which of these works are you
going to stone me for? What have I done? What work have
I done that you're going to stone me? I've healed the sick, I've
cleansed the lepers, I've gave sight to the blind, I've raised
three dead people. I've healed the sick, they've
come to me and touched me, they've just come to me and pissed by
the droves. And I've healed them. And I've
done for them, I've done nothing. Tell me what good work, tell
me what good work have I done that's so upset you that you
will stone me? Huh? The Jews answered him saying,
for a good work, we're not going to stone you for that. We're
all for good works. We like good works. We really
believe in good works. But for blasphemy, because thou
being a man, Make us thyself God. That's what got them. If you're who you say you are,
what's going to happen to us? You say you're the son of God.
You say you're one with your father. If you're really God's
son, do you know what that means for us? We can't stand that. That's really a hard saying.
But for blasphemy, because thou being a man, make us thyself
God. I thank God he is God. And then,
oh my, it was the officers of the Jew who took Jesus and bound
him. It was through fear of the Jews
that the Joseph of Arimathea come and beg the body of Christ
to bury him. And the Jews sought to kill him.
Look over John 5, 8, 15 with me. Just look at how hated our
Lord Jesus Christ was. And He still is. He still is. The one that they know, the one
that they preach, the one that they believe, the average preacher
believes, and the people in this county and any other county,
the one that they believe, has no offense. He does not offend
them, does not offend anybody. There's no hard sayings in what
they say about our Lord Jesus Christ. When they present Him
as an option, they present Him as a bargain. They present Him
as somebody you can vote on. They present him as somebody
that he cannot do nothing for you unless you let him. There's
no offense in that. There's no offense in telling
men and women that if you believe on Christ, then you'll be born
again. There's no offense in saying
that if it's up to you to accept Him, it's up to you to come from.
Raise your hand for Jesus. There's no offense in that. There's
no offense in accepting Jesus and then mixing your faith with
Him. There's no offense in accepting Jesus and mixing your good works
with His. There's no offense in that. There's
no offense in free will. There's no offense in good works. There's no offense in accepting
Jesus. But there's offense in Christ
accepting you. There's offense in Christ having
all the power. There's offense in Christ being
sovereign. There's an offense in telling
men and women that you sit there and God's the one that's going
to decide. God's the one who chooses. God's the one who makes
the choice. God's the one who gave his son.
Christ is the only way you'll ever approach God. And you sit
there and listen to what he has to say. It's not your acceptance
of him, but will he accept you? Oh boy, I'll tell you what. Here
in verse 15, look what it said. I think that's where we was at,
John 5, 15. The man departed and told the Jews that it was
Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute
Jesus, and listen to this, and sought to slay him, because he
had done these things on the Sabbath day. On the Sabbath day. And alright,
let's go back over to our text now. Back over in John 7. Verse 2 it says, Now the Jews
feast of Tabernacle was at hand. What's the Feast of Tabernacles?
Well, right after the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement
was the day that they had two goats that they brought before
Israel. And the high priest done everything
that day. Everybody else stood there. The
high priest, he took a goat in and he offered it as a sacrifice.
He laid his hands on the head of the goat and he offered it
as a sacrifice for all of Israel. Only Israel. People hate election,
and they hate particular redemption. God only did things for Israel. And so, okay, then he laid his
hands on a goat, a scapegoat, and he'd put his hands on that,
and a fit man would take him off into the wilderness. And
then after a while, he'd come back, and the goat would be gold.
Showing that not only were sacrifices made, but the sins were taken
away. Well, Six months after that, they had what they call
the Feast of Tabernacles, right after the atonement. A festival
of thanksgiving when the harvest came in, and they bring the first
fruits of the harvest. And then God says, you all got,
build you some booths, and because you're strangers, He said, you
live under them booths. And you offer sacrifices, and
so they would go to this festival of thanksgiving, festival of
booths, and blowing the trumpets and then pour, take water out
of the pool of Siam and pour it out as a memorial of water
out of the rock. And it had been six months from
the Passover to this Feast of Tabernacles. Now look what he
says about this. This is astonishing to me. Now
listen to what his brethren said. His brethren. We don't know who
they was. One says that the book of Jude
was written by his brethren. that Jude was a brother to the
Lord Jesus Christ. His brethren, therefore, said
unto him, Get on away from here. Go on,
depart, and go into Judea. Go where all the Jews are. Go
that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth
anything in secret, And he himself seeketh to be known openly. If
thou doest these things, show thyself to the world, for neither
did his brethren believe on him. Leave here and go into the dead.
So when you get up there, everybody can see your works. Everybody
see your works. And what they're saying is, is
that you won't ever, you say you do these things in secret.
Nobody does anything in secret. Then they don't want everybody
to know it. They want everybody to know, well I've done this
in secret. Sure enough, if you let somebody do something nobody
else knows about, it won't be long until they tell you what
they did. That's just human nature. If they do something and they,
you know, let not your right hand know what your left hand
does, well I tell you what, if you do something with your right
hand, you're going to let everybody know what your left hand did too.
That's just human nature. Very few people, very few people
can do anything without blowing their trumpet about it. Very
few people can do something for somebody else and do it in secret
and do it only because God moved them to do it and not blow their
trumpet about it. And that's what they said about
our Master. Said, you got all these works that you do, you
do these miracles, you do these wonders, go up to Judea and let
everybody see it. You know that you want people
to praise you. You know that you want people
to brag on you. You know that you want to seek
the limelight. You know that's what you want
to do. You know you want to seek recognition. You know you're
looking for a high public office. And what they did is they accused
our Lord Jesus Christ of having fleshly motives. Motives like
they would have. Motives like you and I'd have. If your works are genuine, if
they're real, if you do these things, leave these small towns,
leave these little old villages, go to Jerusalem, show yourself
to the world, show your works, show your miracles, if thou doest
these things, if thou doest these things. Oh my, oh what pride
of life. his own brethren had. What pride
of life. And why? Verse 5, neither did
his brethren believe on him. This is an astonishing statement
here when you read that. Here is people, brothers and
sisters, they were raised with our Lord Jesus Christ. Raised
in his home. They saw his character as a child. When he was 12 years old, he
debated the Jews and the lawyers and the doctors and confounded
them. When he was 12. They were raised with him. They
saw his sinlessness. They saw his submission, his
love for his parents. They saw his submission to his
parents. They saw his submission to everything
that was right. They saw his perfection. They
said, you know, this idea that our Lord Jesus Christ, when he
was a child, you know, he may have hurt himself, he may have
stubbed his toe, he may have cut himself doing this, that
and the other. There was never anything that our Lord Jesus
Christ did wrong any time in his life. He never stubbed his
toe. He never broke blood out of himself
until he was crucified. I'm telling you that man was
our Lord Jesus Christ from the moment he was born. He was the
Son of God, come through the womb of a virgin, and he lived
every day of his life perfect, sinless, holy, glorious. And they was raised with him.
And they said, we don't believe on
him. They don't believe, we don't believe on him. Huh? Oh my, why didn't they believe
on Him? Look over here in John 6, 64. What our Master said here in
John 6, 64. But there are some of you that
believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were that believed not. And who should betray? You think
you surprise the Lord Jesus Christ because you don't believe on Him? Here's the opposite of that.
He knows who don't believe on Him. He knows everybody in this
building today who does not believe on Him. He knows them. And the opposite of that, He
knows everyone who does. He knows who don't and he knows
who does. And now look at what else he
said now. And this is those things that we're talking about. And
he's therefore said unto, therefore said I unto you that no man can
come unto me. No man. No man can come unto me. Well how are you going to get
to him? How are you going to get to Christ? How are you going
to come to Christ? Except it were given unto Him. Faith, repentance, and life is
given unto you through my Father. By my Father. And oh, I tell
you what, I want you to see this. I know I'm having you look at
some scriptures, but look at Psalm 69. And verse 7 and 8 with me. Psalm
69 verse 78. This is what, it was prophesied
of our Lord that it would be this way. And how many people, how many
preachers are out today talking the same thing? Jesus can work all these miracles. And why don't you come up here
and let me work a miracle on you? But look what he said here
in verse 7. Because for thy sake I have one
reproach. His own brethren reproached him
here. His own brethren said they didn't believe on him. His own
brethren mocked him about his works. Shame hath covered my
face. Now listen, I must become a stranger
unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. To
my own brethren, my mother's children. Now look what our Master
answers them back over here in John 7. Look what our Lord answers. Then Jesus said unto them, My
time is not yet come. My time has not yet come. My
time has not come to go to Jerusalem. My time has not yet come to be
delivered in the hands of sinful men. My time has not yet come
to be crucified. My time has not yet come to take
the cup from my father's hand. My time has not yet come. But your time is always ready. I tell you what, listen, you
take it this way. Our Lord Jesus Christ, my time's
not yet come to die. My time's not yet come to suffer. My time's not yet to be delivered
into the hands of sinful men and be crucified. My time's not
yet come. But he says, your time is always
ready. I mean, your time could be before
the day's out. And you know you say, well we
hear that all the time. But it happens. It happens. Doctors do their
best to save a person's life, but they still go. They get the best medicines,
but they still go. And that's what our Lord said.
My time is not yet here. But I tell you, your time is
always ready. You don't know when it is. And that's why our
Lord Jesus Christ said, you know, listen, the only way in the world
a man can be ready to leave this world and leave it with any comfort
and any assurance is to know the Lord Jesus Christ. And I
mean if you know Him. Not know about Him. Know Him.
Know Him. Know who He is. Know who He is. The Eternal Son
of God. Know why He came. To become a sacrifice for sin. To put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself. And when he did that, that he
satisfied God once and for all and put away sin once and for
all. And if you know him and that
he was buried and he rose again the third day and sits now at
the right hand of God, you can go into eternity with some assurance
and comfort in your heart for yourself and for those you know
that trusted Christ when they left this world. You can say they didn't die,
they passed into life. They left this body behind and
went to be with the Lord Jesus. My time has not yet come, but
yours is. Oh, our Lord was subject to the
will of God, to the purpose of God. I came not to do my will,
but the will of Him that sent me. He would not go or say anything
but what was according to God's will. And when they talked about
him seeking a reputation for himself, do you know what he
said? He made himself with no reputation. But humbled himself. And became obedient under the
death of the cross. And oh my, your time is ready.
You can go when you want, come back when you want. Seek the
applause of the world, be popular with the world. But I tell you
what, it won't amount to nothing when it's all said and done.
And then look what he says. When they told him, show yourself
to the world, look what he said in verse 7. The world can't hate
you. The world can't hate you, my
brethren. The world can't hate you. Why can't it hate you? Because you're of it. You're
part of it. It can't hate you. They don't
know anything about me. or you and what you are, you're
part of the world. But me, the world hates. The world hates. And I, you know,
people say, I don't hate Jesus. The one you know you don't. But the one who said, I've got
power over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as thou
hast given me, that's the one they hate. I couldn't tell you
the times that preachers and church members has come and talked
to me and say, you say you're the one preaching the gospel.
You're saying that Jesus doesn't love everybody and that God didn't
die for everybody. I have a fellow come into my
office one day and said, a woman quit church on account of what
you wrote in a newspaper article. God don't love everybody. I said,
well, here's a Bible, here's a Bible, show me where I'm wrong. Show me where I'm wrong. One
come in and said, well, you preach and nobody believes the gospel
but you. I said, well, show me where I'm
wrong. He said, well, it says, you know,
that the grace of God has appeared to all men. I said, well, if
that's true, this means you're going to knock on the door right
across the road right here. And let's knock on the door and
ask that fellow if the grace of God has appeared to him. You know who the grace of God
appears to? Every man that God chose in Christ. Because it says
the next thing is that the grace of God that brings not offers the grace of God that
brings salvation. They leave that part off. Oh, they leave that part off.
Now, I tell you, our Lord says, you know, listen, the world hates
me. Why do they hate me? Because
I tell the truth about the world. There's nothing good in the world.
There's not a good man good in the world. There's not a soul
in this world that's not evil that don't know me. He said the
world out here is evil. They won't talk about good men,
good women. No, they're good people. They
know they're fine folk. God, Christ says they're evil. You say, well, I'm not evil.
If you don't believe on Christ, He says you're evil. You're in
the world. You're of the world. Am I telling
the truth here? The works are evil. The world hates you, but I testify
that the works thereof are evil. Your works Your good works, the
thing that you think is good, the thing that's going to make
you acceptable to God, the thing that's going to make the world
love you. He said, Christ said it's evil. Even His religious feasts are
evil. Our Lord Jesus, one time He went
in and cast out all the money changers. Then He turned to a
bunch of people and said, you know, This is a condemnation. Light, light, light, light has
come into this world. But you know what your problem
is? You love darkness. You love darkness. Here's light. Anybody like to
be in the dark? When your electricity was off
last week, did you like being in the dark? You live in a house
for 40 years and when the lights go out and you can't see nothing,
you'll bump into stuff that you've walked around all your life.
Nobody wants to be in the dark. Except people it's dark. And oh my, you go up to the feast. He said, I go not up yet. I go
not up yet, he said in verse 8, because my time has not yet
come. And when he said these words, he stayed in Galilee. Then watch what happens. And he said these words in verse
9, but when his brethren were gone up, when they went up to
Jerusalem to go to this feast, he went up there not openly,
but as it were in secret. What in the world is this made?
Well, what it means is that he went up there and he didn't go
up there with a great big group of people. He didn't go up there
with a big entourage. He didn't go up there with a
bunch of people following him. He let everybody else go on up
to the feast. And they come up there in caravans
and great groups of people go up. They'd come from all over
Jewry and all over Judea and come all over out of Israel.
And they'd come down there. He waited till everybody got
there. Then he went up by himself. He didn't go up there and say,
listen, I'm Jesus of Nazareth. I'm that one you hate. I'm that
one you despise. I'm that one you're seeking to
kill. He didn't go up there and do that kind of stuff. Did he
go up there and do it, you know, just not openly because he was
afraid? No, he waited till everybody else
was there. Everybody arrived. Then he went up. Then he went
up. They said, oh, you want to be
seen openly. He didn't want to draw attention
to himself. You know why? Because my time
is not yet full come. That's what he's saying. My time
is not yet full come. Then, look what happens here
in verse 11. Look at the attitude of people
towards our master now, toward our Lord. Then the Jews sought
him at the feast. They were looking around for
Him. They figured He'd come up there and make a big splash.
Come up there with all these disciples and be a big group
following because they always did. And they went looking around
for Him. Where's that Jesus in Nazareth
at? Where's that one who claims to be the Son of God? Where's
that one who says, I'm my Father's one? Where's He at? Why ain't
He up here? And said, where is he? Where
is he? We want to see him. We want to
know what's going on. And listen to this now. And there
was much murmuring among the people concerning him. Much talk
about him. Much talk about him. He's off
in the conversation. Oh listen, Jesus is off in the
conversation. This is the truth. I was in a
funeral one time, and I took care of this man's funeral. This
young man had blown his own brains out. He was drunk and didn't mean
to do it, but he did it. We didn't do eternity like that.
Well, they asked me to take care of his funeral. Well, I did. And when we got out to the graveyard,
I said a few things at the graveyard. And this fellow, this fellow,
when I was walking away now, I was walking away from the grave
and going back to my car. This fellow hollered and said,
Don't think he's lost. Don't think he didn't know Jesus.
He said, Him and I talk about Jesus all the time. When we was
together and smoking pot and drinking beer. Just the fact that there they
talked about Jesus. They'll be talking about Him
today. Everybody's talking about Jesus. I accepted Him when I
was that time. I accepted Him when I was 14.
I know Jesus. I know Jesus! Yeah, everybody
knows Jesus, but who knows Jesus Christ the Lord? As old Barnard
used to say, don't tell me who your Savior is, tell me who your
Lord is. And oh my, I must talk about
Him. But what people say about Him reveals what's in their hearts.
It certainly does. Oh, he's a good man. That's the
first thing they said. He's such a good man. He's a
really good man. In fact, he's one of the best
men that's ever been. But he's a good man. Others said,
oh, no, no, no. He's not a good man at all. There's
nothing good about him. You know what he is? He's deceiving
people. He's not really good. He's deceiving
everybody. He's deceiving everybody. He's a false prophet. That's
what they're saying about Him. And you know what our Lord said,
don't think that I come to send peace, but I come to bring a
sword. I'm going to put this fellow against that fellow. I'm
going to put this mother against that daughter and this father
against that son. He said, oh listen, people are
going to be debating for the rest of time on who I am and
what I've done. And then look what he said. Oh
my. They had this reason. They had
this discussion. What's right about him? What's
wrong about him? Who's right? Who's wrong? And he may be the
subject of the month, but he must be the sovereign of the
heart. He must be the one who sits on
the throne of the heart. He's got to be the one that the
mind and the heart and the will and the affections and everything
that you are owns him to be all you have and all you want. You remember it in Bunyan's Holy
War. The gospel come and it was started
on irrigate, bombard and irrigate. That's where the gospel comes.
Faith cometh by hearing. Hearing by the word of God. And
he started bombarding Irrigate with the gospel. Well, the first
thing that went was all these things in a man's mind and heart
and things like that. He began to argue and debate
with the things he was hearing. But after a while, he heard and
he heard and he heard. And understanding finally said,
Oh my, that's Emmanuel they're talking about. That's Immanuel. And it says here, know that Immanuel
walked down the avenue, the avenue of that man's soul. And they said, oh, how he didn't
walk so princely, so kingly, so gloriously. And he walked
up and he ascended the throne of that man's heart. And that's what happens. Christ
ascends a man's throne of his heart and sets down in a man's
heart. And you know what? He said, even
so come Lord Jesus. Huh? Oh, my. And we submit to the righteousness
of God. And here they are. They aren't
receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. They're judging. They're judging. Making decisions and everyone
they made was the wrong one You know, the only people know anything
about him is those that the father gave him to Huh? Ain't that right? And then in
verse 13 No man spake openly of him. Why? Because they're
scared to death of what religion is going to say to them Oh, they're
scared to death of what the Jews would do. Huh? And I'll tell
you why. Here's the thing, and this is
the long and short of it. You either identify him as he
is, identify with him as he is, or you don't identify with him
at all. He said, he that's for me is
not against me. And are we afraid? of anybody in this world concerning
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, of His person, His power,
His ability, His righteousness, His particular redemption? Are
we ashamed of that to speak about Christ and His blessed blood
only for His elect? Are we afraid to tell men and
women that Christ has power over you to save you or damn you?
Are we afraid to tell people that man is utterly and absolutely
depraved? And that he cannot do anything
to please God and under any circumstances, saved or lost, he cannot do anything
to be accepted of God. That the only acceptance with
God is through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God will not speak
to nor be spoken to except through His blessed Son. That's why old
Scott used to say God wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole.
He said, if He's going to speak to you, and you're going to speak
to Him, there's only one way you're going to do it. That's
through His Son. And you're going to have to believe His Son and
everything there is about Him. I mean, beloved, you're going
to embrace Him. You're going to love Him. You're going to take Him as He
is, not the way you want Him. But the way He is. And you're
going to be saved the way He saves a sinner or you won't be
saved. We talk about being sinners.
Listen, that's not just, that's not just rhetoric to us. We are. We really truly are. And you
know the only people that needs a Savior is sinners. The only people that needs acceptance
is people who have nothing of themselves to offer to anybody. In my hands, in my heart, in
my mind, in my soul, in my understanding, I have nothing that I can bring.
The Lord God in heaven I bring. I bring what you yourself provided. Your blessed Son. I come in His name. I come in
His righteousness. I come in His blessed power. I come in His blood. Worked in
His blood. I come because He satisfied you. That's the only way I'm coming. We're going to speak openly about
Him, ain't we? We're going to confess the truth
about Him. No matter what anybody else says
or believes, we're going to confess the truth about our Master. About our blessed Master. Our Father, in the precious,
precious Name, of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your abundant
mercy and grace given us in Christ before the world ever began.
Thank you for the gospel. Thank you for your people. Thank
you that there's people here who never believed, but yet they
hear it. And Lord, it's in your hands to give them faith, to
give them repentance. It's in your power to give them
life. And we pray that you will, for
Christ's sake. God, bring glory to yourself
through us, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. He's the Savior of my soul. Jesus, my Jesus. He's the Savior of my soul He's
the Savior of my soul Jesus Jesus Jesus He's the Savior of my soul
He's the Savior of my soul Say the night six o'clock God willing