And he said unto them, These
are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law
of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms concerning
me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the
scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus
it behoove Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day. and that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning
at Jerusalem and you are witnesses of these things and behold I
send the promise of my father upon you but tarry in the city
of Jerusalem until you be endued with the power or with power
from on high and he led them out as far as to Bethany and
he lifted up his hands and blessed them And it came to pass, while
he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into
heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with
great joy, and were continuing the temple, praising and blessing
God. Amen. Our Father, O our Father, our
Father, our Father, Lord, we, being evil, know how to give
good gifts to our children. How much more that you give unto
your children. How much more good, gracious,
tender, and blessed things you give to yours. You give us life. You give us the Holy Spirit.
You give us faith. You give us hope. You give us
forgiveness. You give us righteousness. You give us your love, unconditional,
undying, never dying love that you give for us. Regardless of
our standing or state in this world, regardless of what condition
we're in, Lord, your love never wavers, never changes. No matter
how good we seem to think we are, your love never changes.
And oh, we bless you for that. And Father, we've gathered here
this evening to worship and be filled with joy as your disciples
was. Oh, they were glad, filled with
joy, and they worshiped you. And we come here with joy in
our hearts to worship you. And I pray we leave with joy
in our hearts because we did worship you. And our Father,
we pray for those among us who have great fight of afflictions,
who have great trials, great burdens to carry at this time
of year. God, give them grace. Give them
strength. Give them abundance of grace.
God, uphold them by your Spirit. Continue to bless Kathleen. Lord,
that she come worship with us. And oh Lord, we'd ask that you'd,
again, we bring our children and our grandchildren Oh, Lord,
they're absolutely helpless and hopeless, absolutely unconscious
of it. And, Lord, I was unconscious
too. But, Lord, you made me conscious. And, oh, Lord, all those that's
here, so our Father, make them conscious of their great need.
Trouble them, trouble them, trouble them, till they can only find
rest in our blessed Savior. We ask that you'd be pleased
to cause the gospel to run well here tonight to the glory of
our Lord Jesus Christ and the good of His people. In His name
we bless you. Amen. Luke 24. I want to get my subject
out of verses 44 through 47. And he said unto them, these
are the words which I speak unto you. You know, we use words and
words express thoughts. Words have meaning. And our Lord
said, the words that I speak unto you, they're not mine, but
him that sent me. And I spake unto you while I
was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the
Psalms concerning me." Then he had to open these scriptures,
the law of Moses, the prophets, the Psalms. Then he opened their
understanding that they might understand the scriptures, the
things in Moses, the things in the prophets, the things in the
Psalms concerning him. And he said unto them, Thus it
is written, and thus it behoove Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission
of sin should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem. Now our Lord Jesus Christ, he
came into this world with a message. He came into this world with
a message. He came with words. He came with things to say. And the things that our Lord
Jesus Christ said, of all the things that were said in the
New Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ preached more, said more
than anybody else in the New Testament altogether. And John
was the last of the Old Testament prophets. And they asked him
what his message was. What are you preaching? And he
said, I preach repentance. And then You have baptism to
prove that you repented and the baptism is an evidence of your
change of heart and mind. But his main purpose, John the
Baptist's main purpose for coming and preaching was to be the forerunner
for our Lord Jesus Christ. He said he came as a voice in
the wilderness to make straight paths to make the crooked straight,
to make the hills down and the valleys up, prepare the way of
the Lord. In other words, He said, I am
the one that's pointing men to Christ. When the Messiah comes,
I'll tell you who He is. And we'll not be mistaken about
who He is when He comes. And so when our Lord Jesus Christ
came, He said, I was not that light. I was just sent to bear
witness of that light. He says, that's coming one after
me. And He's preferred before me because He is before me. He
said, I baptize you with water. But when He comes, He'll baptize
you with the Holy Ghost and fire. And John said this about himself,
I must decrease and He must increase. He must increase. And then he
identified the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God. And his own
disciples turned and quit following him and started following the
Lord Jesus Christ. So John pointed him to Christ,
preached the Lord Jesus Christ, and told people who he was when
he came. But our Lord Jesus Christ came
with a message. And the word spoken of the largest
body of pre-teaching and preaching by anyone in the New Testament
is by our Lord Jesus Christ. And the Holy Ghost came upon
him in the day of his baptism. And here our Lord Jesus Christ
tells us what his message was. Tells us what his message was.
And it was there in verse 45. Then opened thee our understanding
that they might understand the scriptures. And then he said,
Thus it is written. Two times he said, Dear, the
things which were written be fulfilled. And then he said unto
them, Thus it is written. And thus it behooved Christ to
suffer. It had to happen. And it was necessary not only
that he suffer, but that he rise from the dead the third day.
And that because of this resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we
go forth preaching repentance in His name. Preaching the remission
of sins in His name. And we don't just do it wherever
we get, you know, we do it all over the world when the doors
are open and everybody takes the gospel all over the world.
So our Lord Jesus Christ, the first thing He did, He declared
Himself to be the fulfillment of prophecy. That's what He did. He declared Himself to be the
fulfillment of prophecy. Look down here in verse 27 of
Luke 24. He declared Himself to be the
fulfillment of prophecy. And beginning at Moses and all
the prophets, He expounded unto them and all the scriptures the
things concerning Himself. What He said was that I personally,
me coming here and preaching to you and teaching you, I am
the fulfillment of all Old Testament prophecy. I'm the one that Moses
wrote about me. Isaiah wrote about me, Jeremiah
wrote about me, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, Zephaniah, Haggai,
Malachi, Moses did. Moses started with me in the
garden. And so you see, and the start
of his ministry, you know what scriptures he used when he started
preaching, when his ministry started? In Nazareth, when he
stood up and took the scroll of Isaiah, you know the scriptures
he used? From Isaiah 61, the Spirit of
the Lord hath anointed me to preach the gospel. And he went
through a whole litany of things. And then he closed the book,
handed it back to him and says, this day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears. And nothing else. They said,
Isaiah, when he was talking, he was talking about me. And
today, that scripture is fulfilled in your very presence and in
your hearing. So you see, he declared himself
to be the fulfillment of prophecy. It's like that woman at the well.
She said, when our Lord Jesus was talking to her, she said,
I know that when the Messiah comes, He's going to tell us
all things. You know what our Lord said to
her? I that speak unto thee, am he." And then he began to tell her
her whole life. She said, oh listen, she said,
go call your husband. Oh, I don't have a husband. Oh,
I know that. You've told the truth. She said,
you've had five. And now the one you got now,
you're just living with. And our Lord told her everything
about herself. And she threw her water pot away
and said, come see a man. Come see a man. And I tell you,
beloved, these claims of our Lord Jesus Christ to be the anointed
one of Old Testament prophecy was enormous. Absolutely enormous. You think about somebody coming
into the world and started preaching and teaching and saying, I'm
the fulfillment of everything that you find in this Old Testament.
Rush Limbaugh's brothers wrote a book. It's called the Emmaus
code and what his premise is and now he just discovered something
and he thinks everybody else don't know nothing about it but
he uses this thing on the Emmaus road and goes to the Old Testament
proving that Christ is the fulfillment of so many prophecies in the
Old Testament. He's a nail aiding a dollar short for the rest of
us. He thinks he's got some kind of special code. But that's what
our Lord Himself said. If we can't find Christ in Genesis,
we wouldn't find Him in Matthew. If we couldn't find Christ in
Deuteronomy, we couldn't find Christ in Revelation, or Romans,
or any place else. And so you see, and I'll tell
you what, some believed that they told the man, he said, Who
do our Lord send to His disciples? Who do men say that I, the Son
of Man, am? Oh, you're John the Baptist,
you're Jeremiah, you're one of the other prophets. Some of them
say you're Elijah. Then he said, but who do you say that I am?
Well, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. But look
what the rest of them said over here in Luke. Some that didn't
believe. Look in Luke 4 with me just a moment. Luke 4, 23.
Oh, some said, we believe that thou art Christ, the Son of the
living God. We believe you're just exactly
who you say you are. And I tell you what, here's the
thing about it. We cannot prove We cannot prove to anybody that
we have spiritual life. You can't see it. You can't hear
it. You can't express it. You can't... No, we cannot...
You know, we look, you're sitting here, we all... I cannot tell
by looking at you and the way you act that it'd be me that
we have spiritual life. The only person who knows we
have spiritual life is ourselves. But how do you express that?
How do you tell that? How do you tell what this life is? Well
that's what our Lord Jesus Christ said and that's what they said.
We know that thou art the Christ. How do they know that? He said
you're blessed Simon Barjona. Flesh and blood didn't make you
know that. But my Father which is from heaven, He came down
and made you understand that. And I tell you, you can tell
anybody all they want to, but until God comes down and says,
this is the Christ, the son of the living God, he's no more
than a baby in a manger like he is right now. But look what
he said here in Luke 4.23. Now, he's in Nazareth now. This
is where he starts his public ministry. And he said unto them,
you'll surely say unto me this proverb, physician, heal thyself.
In other words, work here among your own people. Whatsoever we've
heard done in Capernaum, do here in your country. Heal your people.
Do something for your people. Charity begins at home, you know.
That's what they're saying. And he said, I'm telling you,
no prophet's accepted in his own country. Elijah wasn't accepted. Elijah wasn't accepted. They
hated and despised him. Isaiah ended up being sown into. Moses, I tell you what, they
said they was going to stone him one time. Jeremiah spent a lot of his ministry
sitting down in a muddy pit with ropes tied around his armpits. And they'd drop down a little
bread and water and let him reach in there and get it one time
because they despised him because he would face them truth in their
presence. And oh, look what he says now.
But I tell you of a truth, many winners were in Israel in the
days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six
months, when great famine was throughout the land. But under
none of them was Elijah sent, say, under Sarepta, city of Sidon,
under a woman that was a winner, a Gentile woman. And many lepers
were in Israel at the time of Elisha, the prophet. And none
of them was clear, save in Naaman the Syrian. And when they all
in the synagogue heard these words, he just talked about electing. Election. He just talked about
how God can send His prophet and do what He wants to, with
whom He wants to, and where He wants to. Oh, I love this thing
of election. I just rejoice in it. That God
saved the leper. God saved the widow and her son
that was going to die and starve to death, but God saved them.
And you thought, boy, they would have jumped up and down and said,
oh, bless His name. But all instead of that they
heard these things and were filled with wrath. And rose up and thrust
him out of the city, led him out into the brow of the hill
where the city was built that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst
of them went away. Said, die with the Christ. Others said,
oh my, we ain't gonna listen to this kind of preaching. And
I tell you what, he not only declared himself to be the fulfillment
of prophecy, but he declared or preached himself by claiming
that he was the I am that I am. When Moses, God told him to go
down and tell Pharaoh to let my people go. Moses says, well,
when I go down there and I talk to the elders of Israel, and
I talk to Pharaoh, who am I going to tell them that sent me? You
tell them, I am that I am. I exist, I'm self-existent, and
I'll always be that I am. I'll never be was, I'll never
be few, I'm always I am. I'll never be I am. Is there
never a time God isn't I am? He was I am when he created the
world. He was I am on the mountain.
He's I am today. And when we say, who sinneth,
we'll say, Thou am'st sinneth me. And our Lord Jesus Christ,
He declared Himself to be that I am. There's seven, seven of
them. And seven means perfection. Seven
means perfect. Seven means completion. And our
Lord had seven I am's that He claimed Himself to be. He said,
I am the bread of life which come down from heaven. Eat my
flesh, drink my blood, you'll have life. He said, I am the
light of the world. Now what did He mean that I am
the light of the world? Does that mean that He's the
Son? No. Does that mean that everybody
that comes into this world, that they see that Christ is the light?
No, no. He's light to the world of His elect. And they sit in
darkness until He comes and turns on the light. And He's the light
of the world to His elect. He's the light of the world to
the people that He purposes to shine the light on and give the
light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Is
that not right? Have people sitting in darkness.
Preachers are out preaching tonight. They're talking, they're having
all these people act like, I heard somebody the other day talking
about, you know, baby Jesus. We love baby Jesus. We don't need a baby in a manger.
We need somebody that can save us and has saved us. And then he said, I am the door.
I am the door. If anybody goes in and out, you
got to come by me. You ain't getting in unless you
come through this door. There's a door coming into the
presence of God. There's a door where there's
salvation. There's a door where there's life at. There's a door
where I'll meet you. And he said, I'm that door. Ain't
that what he said? And then he said, and oh, I love
this one. He said, I am, I am the good shepherd. And you know
what I do as the good shepherd? I give my life for the sheep. Give my life for the sheep. Oh,
bless his name. And then he said, oh Mary and
Martha Lazarus had been dead. No, our Lord Jesus come there.
Martha was just wailing and Mary was crying. And they said, Lord,
if you'd have been here, you'd never died. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
listen, Martha, I am the resurrection and I'm
the life. Thy brother shall live again.
Oh, I know it will at the last day. He said, Martha, you didn't
hear what I just said. I am the resurrection and the
life. Dead can't live around me. I do what I did for Lazarus. I do for everybody I know. I
call my sheep by name. And then he says, and I am, I
am the way. There's no other way to God. I am the truth that shall set
you free. I am the life of God himself
in a man's soul. And it's by me and me alone that
a person may approach God. I am. the way the truth and the
life and then he said in John 15 he said I am the true vine
and my father is the husband now you know they know exactly
what our Lord Jesus Christ was talking about and look over here
in John 8 56 with me John 8 56 could there be any clear testimony
of himself of what he said about himself Then I am, seven I am's
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And people who know Him, people
who know Him, all the disciples, and we know now, we know now,
and people have known when God makes them know that the one
that was on that mountain in that burning bush that told Moses,
I am that I am, we understand that our Lord Jesus Christ is
that I am. Revelations 118 said, I'm Alpha
and Omega. I'm the beginning, I'm the end. I'm he which was, I'm he which
am, and I'm he which shall be. In other words, I've always been
and always will be. Now look what he said here in
John 8, 56. Look what our Master is telling
these people. Your father Abraham, oh you like to be identified
with Abraham. Your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day and he saw it and oh it made him so glad. Made
him happy. Then said the Jews unto him,
Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast thou seen Abraham?
And it wasn't, they weren't expecting him to answer that. They were
saying, boy, you must be a fool to think that you, you're talking
about Abraham seeing your day and you mean to tell us you've
seen Abraham? Listen to what our Lord Jesus
Christ said. Verily I say unto you, before Abraham was, there
he is again. I am. Oh, boy, you thought, man,
oh, man, this is wonderful. But what happened to him? They
took up stones to cast at him. Why? Because he made himself
the I am again. Oh, my. And I tell you, our Lord
Jesus Christ, you look at our Lord and how he declared himself
and what he declared himself to be. You take the Sermon on
the Mount. That's the longest sermon in
the New Testament. The longest sermon in the New Testament.
And our Lord Jesus Christ, when he sat down and preached this
message, our Lord Jesus took the very law that everyone was
trusted in, and all the sayings that the Pharisees never taught.
And he said, you have heard it said. You've heard this is what
they've taught you. And he would even quote the law
itself. And you say, but now this I say
unto you, I say unto you. You go ahead and listen to that,
but this is what I'm going to tell you about what this means.
And he did that on seven different occasions in the Sermon on the
Mount. Another perfect, complete understanding of everything that
happens. And our Lord Jesus Christ, He
said, I say unto you, I say unto you. But in conclusion of this
Sermon on the Mount, look with me in Matthew 7. In the conclusion
of it, when he got to the end of it, look what he said about
himself. Look what he said about himself
when he got to the end of it. Oh, how many times, you go through
that sometimes when you, you know, just read the Sermon on
the Mount and see how many times our Lord Jesus Christ said, you've
heard it said, but I say unto you. He said he set himself down
as the final authority. as the one who had authority,
as the one who understood, as the one who really knew how the
law was to be interpreted and applied. Now look what he said
here in Matthew 27, 24, and he got to the conclusion of it now.
And here's what he says, now of all the things that I said
unto you in this Sermon on the Mount, he said, this is what
I want you to understand. That therefore, whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine, doeth them a liking unto a wise man
which buildeth his house on the rock. What did he just say? You
hear these sayings of mine, not the Pharisees, not the Mormon,
not religion. He that hears and pays attention
to what I'm saying, He's like a wise man who built his house
on a rock. Now, oh my, that said, what he
said is, you need to listen to what I got to say. And then he
said, he goes on to say it another way like this. And then he said
in verse 26, and everyone that heareth these sayings of mine
and doesn't do them, he's like a fool. He's a fool who builds
his house on sand. So you see, he said, if you hear
these sayings of mine, a storm will come and your house will
stand. If you don't, I mean, you don't stand a chance. This
first storm is going to come again and down your house is
going to come. That's what he ends up saying.
My sayings, hear my sayings. And he said, you've heard it
said, but I say unto you, you hear these sayings of mine. And
let me tell you, beloved, the whole of a believer's life, the
whole of a believer's life, the whole of true Christianity is
based upon these sayings of mine. Now, ain't that right? My salvation,
my eternal destiny, and my whole life is hanging on these sayings
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life. And He makes it clear there in
Matthew 7, 21. He makes it clear that calling
Him Lord, Lord is not enough. Oh, calling me, saying unto me,
Lord, Lord, and not doing these sins of mine, that's not enough.
Calling Him Lord, Lord, that's not enough. Oh my, look in Matthew
5.21. Just a minute, just a minute.
I won't take you but just a few seconds there. No more than a
minute if I can help it. But look what he said here. This
is what our Lord is talking about. He said, You have heard it was
said by them of old time. Matthew 5.21. You've heard them
said by the old timers. by people that's passed it down
generation after generation that thou shalt not kill. And that's
true. That's why they say thou shalt not kill. But it also says
where thou shalt not kill that if you kill a man by accident
then you're free. If you're out working with a
fellow and the axe head comes off and hits him in the head
and kills him, you didn't murder him. As an accident, the judges
will let you go. Somebody tried to break in your
house, steal from you, according to the scriptures, you could
deal with them. But if you just walk up and you kill a man, then
you've killed him, then you're in danger of the judgment, then
you're in danger of the judgment. But listen to what our Lord,
and listen now, here's His saying about it. But I say unto you,
now listen to this, this is what He's talking about, killing somebody
now. I say unto you, whosoever is angry with his brother without
a cause." People say, oh listen, don't kill. Don't kill. That's what John said in 1 John.
He said, oh my, he that hates his brother is a murderer. He's
a murderer. That's what he said. Look what
else our Lord goes on to say. If you're just angry with his
brother without a cause, without having a just cause, without
having a reason for doing it, shall be in danger of judgment.
And whosoever say to his brother Rachah, that is vain fellow,
shall be in danger of the council. But whosoever shall say, you
fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. You've done past judgment
on him. You say, you're going to perish. And that's what I
mean. Our whole Lord said the same
thing. He said, you know, you've heard it said that thou shalt
not commit adultery. I'm going to take it just a little
farther. If you let your eyes fall on a woman to lust after
her, you've committed adultery. He said, and I tell you what,
you know, if everybody says give unto them that give to you, he
said, I'm going to tell you something. If you see a man and you got
two coats and you give, you see a fellow that one, you give him
one of yours. And if a fellow wants you to go a half a mile
with him, go a mile. He said, I'm telling you that
the law is not sufficient. I'm telling you that you hear
these sayings of mine and does them, you're a wise man, built
your house on a rock. Now that's some pretty style
stuff, ain't it? That's some pretty style stuff. That is for
me. And oh, let me show you something about the parables. Our Lord
Jesus Christ used the parables to speak of himself. Speak of
himself. In Matthew 13, 13. Matthew 13, 13. You know, this
is the parable, so many parables in Matthew 13. He said, here's the reason I
speak in parables. This is why I preach in parables.
A parable is used in an earthly illustration to tell of a heavenly
thing, a spiritual thing. They first speak God to them
in parables because seeing, they see not. They see everything
around them. They see everything that everybody
else says. But they still see it and hearing. They don't hear
anything. They don't understand. That's why I speak to them in
parables. I can use the birds of the air and they don't get
it. I can use the lily of the fields and they don't get it.
I can use the flax and the wheat growing out there. It's going
to be gathered in the barn and in the garden. Some are going
to be taking... I can talk about fish in a net and they don't
get it. They don't understand it. I can talk about sowing seed,
falling on good ground, hard ground, thorny ground, rocks. They don't understand it. They
don't understand it. And that's why he said, that's
why I speak to them that way. And you take the parable of the
vine dresser in Luke 20, you don't have to look at it. But
I tell you, the master that let out the vine, let out the vineyard,
and he said, sent a servant to collect his money, collect the
rent, take what was his. Well, they killed him, and they
beat him, and they throwed him away. They sent another one,
another prophet, another preacher, somebody to give for him, another
servant. And they beat him, and stole him, and sent him away.
And they went on and on. That's talking about how they
treated the prophets. And our Lord said, and finally he said,
I'll send my own son. I'll send my son this time. They'll
reverence him, they'll respect him, and they'll treat him right. Well, the son come, to get what
was his in the vineyard. It was his vineyard. It belonged
to him. Then he let it out to these people.
And he says, now send my son and they'll love him, they'll
reverence him, they'll respect him and they'll treat him right
and he'll bring home what's mine. And when the son got there, they
said, oh my, this is the heir. This is the heir. If we let him
come in here and take over, I said, boy, this won't be ours anymore.
And you know what they did to him? They killed him. They killed
him. And then there's the parables
of the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the way
they done him when he come into this world. Jews despised him.
And there's the parable of the talents. He gives out talents.
And when he comes, he wants his back. And there's the parable
of the wise and foolish virgins. That's the coming of Christ.
There's the parable of the sheep on the left and the sheep on
the right and the goats on the left. All of them talk about
the same coming of Christ. And our Lord Jesus, talking about
Himself. You know, there's three things
in Luke 15. You know, there's the shepherd.
He starts out as the shepherd seeking his sheep in the wilderness.
And he finds that sheep, that lost sheep, brings it, puts it
on his shoulder and brings it back. And then there's that parable
of that lost coin. That woman, she just, oh my,
I've lost it all. I've lost it. I've lost what's
valuable to me. She searches, she searched, and
she searched until you found it. And that's the way our Lord
is. He's going to find what's valuable,
what's real. And then there's the parable of the father, the prodigal coming
home to the father. And that father looking out at
him, rejoicing to see him falling on his neck. But that's all of
how Christ saves sinners, all three of them. And then he's
the merchant who gives all he had for the one pearl at great
price. And then back over here, let
me show you this in verse chapter 13. You still there? You still
in Matthew 13? And look what he said about this
business of his disciples. And disciples came and said unto
him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answers said
unto them, because it is given unto you, given to you to know
the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. I'm going to make
you to understand the way that I work in this world. I'm going
to give you to understand what it means to sow seed. I'm going
to give you to understand what it is to be the shepherd finding
the sheep. I'm going to give you to understand
what it is, the parable of the... I'm going to give you to understand
all these parables. You're going to understand these mysteries. But it's hid from these other
folks. Hid from them. Hid from them. And then back
over to Luke 24, and then I'll quit. Luke 24. Luke 24. Let me quit. Well, our Lord said here, He opens their understanding
there in verse 45. Then opened he their understanding
of the scriptures. Opened their understanding of
the scriptures. That's the same thing as making them to know
the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Opened them. Opened them. Make them understand.
Make them grasp. Teach them. What did he do? He
opened their understanding. And what did he open their understanding
for? That they might understand the
scriptures. And this is what he wanted them
to understand in the scriptures. Thus it is written. That's what
he wanted. Everything that was written was
written about me. Of why I suffered. And then he
told us what message we were to preach. And he says, and you
go, and that repentance and remission of sins, the putting away of
sins, the payment of sins, should be preached in His name. Not
doing something to get your sins remitted, but that your sins
are remitted, that sins have been paid for, remission's been
paid for them, and should be preached in His name among all
nations, and you start right here in Jerusalem. And that's
what we're preaching, huh? And I tell you, the Old Testament
looked forward to our Christ, to our Lord Jesus Christ and
His work. That's why I said, it is written.
It is written. It is written. It is written. And that's what
we do. That's what we say. It's written.
How many times did the apostles and Acts and through the epistles
say it? And the scriptures say it. So
it is written. Or again, the scriptures. And the only scriptures
they had, was the Old Testament. They didn't have a New Testament,
they just had the Old. And that's what, Lord open my understanding
to understand the Scriptures. Please open my understanding. Our Father, O God, this message
is in your hands to do with it as you will. And I know that,
I know that. The Word of God is in your hands
to do with it as you please. And so, Lord, I really have to
practice what we preach. That is the Lord. Let Him do
what seemeth good in His sight. Keep and preserve Your people.
Bring glory to Yourself through us. Create in our hearts a great,
great love for You and a great, great love for one another. We
ask these things in our Lord Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Let's see, what's that hymn? Jesus Christ is made to me, all
I need, all I need. He alone is all my plea He is
all I need Wisdom, righteousness, and power Holiness forevermore,
my redemption full and sure, He is all I need. And He is. He really is. See
you Sunday, God willing.