Dear friends, Pastor Paul Mahan, Rocky Mountain,
no, Central Grace Church in Rocky Mountain, Virginia. I was gonna
say Rocky Mountain Central Church. Central Grace Church in Rocky
Mountain, Virginia. I was talking to somebody today,
a member of years and years and years ago, standing up there
in the meeting, and you came to the motel room, we started
talking about preaching, how you know you'd be called to preach,
and we talked about that. We still ain't learned much that
way. I have, but let's put it that
way. But Brother Paul, you come, and you bring the Lord's message
for us tonight. Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It's a precious ointment,
and it comes down from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He's
responsible for all of this, isn't He? I appreciate that song, Matt,
Matt, Matt, Matt. I do. I remember the man who
wrote that song years ago. Amazing grace. Oh, that we will
never cease to be amazed by God's grace. Such a joy to be with you again. I'm so thankful for this congregation. I love you dearly. We go back
a long ways now. Brother Donnie and I, as he said,
I think it was 1980 or 81 or somewhere around there that we
first became acquainted. You came up to the preacher school,
didn't you? And like you said, we talked
about it and I asked, how do you know? I called every man
I know, how do you know? They all said, you'll just know. That wasn't good enough for me
at the time. I hope so by now. If not, I better
get out of here. But we go back a long way, back
all the way back to Faith Chapel, school building. Brother Don,
he's been such a faithful preacher and pastor to you. I know you
people here love him dearly and thank the Lord for him. I do.
He's been such a friend to me, such a brother to me. Even when
I was a young, smart-aleck, self-righteous preacher, critical of others, I've since
learned to esteem these men so much higher than myself. faithful
man who can find. My dad, I came down here the
first time with him over there to that faith chapel. And y'all were
just fresh out of Pentecostalism, weren't you, Mom? And everyone
that I've talked to in here has asked about my dad and my mom,
and I appreciate that so much. I know you love them dearly,
as I do. And you esteem him as your pastor. He's my pastor. But you ask about
him and he's he's almost well. Every day. I think this is it. I do. He's getting very feeble.
And so many times he gets so far down. And I think this is
it. And I'm dreading for me when
my mother calls. But it'll be wonderful for him. But he doesn't preach anymore,
yet he preaches by example. If he's able, he's in every service.
I mean every service. And he's the best listener I
have. He hears the gospel like he'd
never heard it before. He rejoices in the gospel now
as much or more than ever. In fact, every sermon I preach,
he says it's the best he's ever heard. He'll say things like,
I never preach like that. Yeah, right. But he loves you, and thank you
so much for thinking of him. My mother's doing very well.
She's been given great health. So turn with me to Matthew 22.
Matthew 22. This glass here, our cup runs
over. This glass was running over right
before the service. I went and dumped some of it
out, and James Elmore filled it back up again. That's us. We can't exhaust God's
grace or God's people. They love to fill us up. The Lord spoke in parables. He
spoke this parable here. In chapter 22, verse 1, the Lord
answered and spake unto them again by parables. I'm so glad
the Lord spoke simply, aren't you? In a way that we can understand.
He could have spoken in a language that no man could understand.
And yet he spoke very simply, very plainly, things that we
can understand, relate to, earthly stories that tell us heavenly
truth, parables. And the moral, if you will, of
this story, the lesson that he's teaching us in verse 14, he ends
this parable with verse 14 by saying, for many are called,
but few are chosen. Many are called, but few are
chosen. All are called. In fact, all
are called. Paul said, have they not all
heard? Yes, verily. This is one of the reasons I
believe we are in the last of the last day. In Matthew 24,
when our Lord said, when the gospel is preached in all the
world, in every nation, then the end shall come. And that's
now isn't it, Brother Greg? Every church is on the sermon
audio, and there's not a There's not a tribe, kindred, nation,
tongue under heaven that's not hearing the gospel now. So all are called. There's a
general announcement or bidding. That's what bidding means, not
invitation. It means an announcement, a pronouncement. All are called. Hear ye, hear ye. Thus saith
the Lord. Hear ye, hear ye. That there
will be a marriage. That's what this parable is all
about. There's going to be a marriage.
There's going to be a wedding of the king's son. He's going
to have a bride. Make no doubt about it. He's
not left up. And here's the good news. He's
not left up to the bride to come. He's going to bring her. He's
going to bring her. Many are called, but few are
chosen. All here, don't they? But all
reject. All turn away. All we, Everyone
in here at one point rejected the truth to him. We heard it
and we rejected it. We turned to every man to our
own way to him. But bless God, there are some who are chosen.
Few, but few relative to the population at that time, but
yet God is so merciful. He has a people which no man
can number. He says there is the stars of
the sky and the sand of the sea. He's so merciful. A great people. And those few chosen, they hear,
they receive, they believe, and they come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
They are elect according to the foreknowledge of God. They've
been chosen by Him. And I may quote this verse four
or five times before this message is over, but blessed is the man
whom thou choosest and causes to approach on the day. We won't
come unless He calls. I love how these men have been
bidding people to come, and we do, don't we? We bid men to come
every time we preach the gospel. Come to Christ. No. Come to Christ.
We want people to come to Christ. But no matter what we do, we
can't make them come. But I know who can. And he gets
all the glory. If anyone comes, he gets the
glory. To the praise of his glory. The glory of his fetching great,
bringing great. Now salvation. Salvation is to
be chosen, called, gathered, and brought to the Lord Jesus
Christ. See His beauty. Salvation is not an invitation,
but it's a command. Don't you like what David said
in the psalm? Thou hast given commandment to
save men. Or as the psalm says, Almighty
love, arrest that man. If God has set His love and affection
on you, you are coming. That's hope. That's our hope
for our lost loved ones, our neighbors, isn't it? That's our
hope. We don't have a wish. We have a good hope, don't we?
Their hope is the same as our hope. The only reason we came
is God called. And if they're one of God's,
you'll call them too. That's our hope. Aren't you glad? Ask
old Mephibosheth why he ended up at the king's table, eating
as one of the king's sons. He'll tell you, somebody fetch
me. I couldn't have come if I wanted
to. Why, Mephibosheth, were all of your brothers killed, but
you found grace in the eyes of the king? He said, it's for Jonathan's
sake. That's what Christ said. And
he fetched man. Verse two says, the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for
his son. Kingdom of heaven. There's a
kingdom, an unseen kingdom, a spiritual kingdom, an eternal kingdom that's
vast and glorious, a kingdom of God, it's called, a kingdom
of heaven, a kingdom of his dear Son. And there's a certain king
over this kingdom. He is king. There's only one,
and he is king. One Lord, one God, one king.
And he most certainly is reigning right now. Reigning and ruling
over everyone and everything, as Barnard used to say, everything
that writhes or wriggles. He's reigning and ruling among
the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. And
everything is in His hand. Aren't you glad? Your very breath
is in His hand. Your soul is in His hand. Oh,
that's where I want mine to be. And He's calling out His subjects
right now as I speak. As we speak. Amazingly, this
is what He uses. The preaching of the gospel.
To call out His subject into this unseen kingdom. Call out
his subject into his kingdom. He's a king. He's the king of
kings, and he's the Lord of lords. And I'm so glad that everything
is in his hands. Even the king's heart is in his
hands. I'm more glad now than ever that our king's heart is
in his hands. Think of Israel of old. It was
under so many bad kings. And we had an Ahab several years
ago reigning, and then now we have a Manasseh, and we're soon
to have a Jezebel. But it'll be all right, won't
it? It'll be all right, because he's the one that sets up, doesn't
he? That's right. That's our comfort. That's our comfort. He made a
marriage for his son. Our Lord and our God has one
only begotten well-beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the apple
of His eye. He was with the Father from the
beginning. Scripture says He was daily His
delight. With Him from, when was the beginning? loved his son, and for his honor
and his glory, he determined, he predetermined to have a bride
for his son, a wife, that's the church, a people for his son. He purposed for his son to marry,
and he betrothed Every one of those wives to his son. He betrothed them all. He chose
his bride. He arranged this marriage and
everything about it. There's nothing left to chance.
I have a wonderful son-in-law, as you know. And Brother Marvin
and I arranged that. We did. He and Gabe and Hannah knew each
other from children of Stonikers and Mindy and I and Hannah used
to go on vacations with them. And Brother Marvin and I decided
back then, oh yeah, we did. Well, it happened, didn't it? It did. Marvin calls us, he says
we're pastors-in-law now. Marriage is a wonderful thing.
Isn't that a wonderful thing? God, the first man, the first
woman he married. A marvelous thing, a wonderful
thing. If it's of the Lord. Marriage is honorable in all,
and to be it undefiled. But in the Lord, between two
believers, it's a wonderful thing. True marriage is really made
in heaven. It really is. And you young people, you seek
out a mate who knows and loves the Lord. You first, you seek
out the Lord yourself. Ask Him to marry you. And if
your maker becomes your husband, then you seek a believing mate,
and you'll have a happy union. You have to be pulling together,
won't you? Be yoked together. You can't be unequally yoked
with an unbeliever. You'd be pulling in two directions.
But both of you seeking the Lord, both of you seeking His glory
and His honor. And if you marry, young ladies,
you marry a young man that loves Christ, he'll love you like Christ
loved the church. Yes, he will. So you seek a believing
maiden. And this marriage that we're
talking about was made in heaven long ago. Christ left His Father. Paul said, I speak a great mystery
concerning Mary. I speak of Christ and His church.
how that Christ left his father. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother and cleave unto his wife. The two shall
become one flesh, never to be divided. And that's what Christ
did. He left his father and came to
this earth to win his bride, to redeem his bride, to lay down
his life for his bride, to redeem her soul by his precious blood,
his beloved bride. And the two became one, never
to be separated again. Even death won't separate them.
It will unite them forever. Marriage is a wonderful thing.
This is the greatest marriage of all. This is the only one
that's gonna last. In heaven there's no marrying
or giving in marriage. Everybody's gonna be the bride
of Christ. I often wondered why Solomon
had so many wives. I think that's the only reason.
Because he's such a type of Christ. that they're all content, they
all feel unworthy, but they're all so glad that this one glorious
man, this king, would be their husband. And everybody in heaven
feels the same way. Well, he sent his servant, verse
three, he sent his servant to call them that were bidden to
the wedding. He sent his servant. Our Lord
called out his apostles and he said, as the Father has sent
me, so send I you. And he's not left himself without
a witness today. He still is sending his servants. He has his servants everywhere.
There are servants in here this morning. Thank the Lord. He calls
them. He equips them. He chose them,
and he sends them where he will, his preachers of the gospel.
How shall they hear without a preacher, Scripture said? And how shall
they preach except they be sent? And then it says how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel. The gospel, oh how
beautiful, oh my. Esteem your pastor high, your
preacher high. They're sent to call. They're
sent to call, they're sent to announce, they're sent to proclaim.
God's preachers are not beggars. God's preachers don't ask people
anything. They're making an announcement.
They don't plead with people. We don't go door-to-door. We're
not selling a product here. People need to come to this door.
They're not pleading with me. They're not trying to bribe God-haters. We're sending out a call, and
this is a high calling, the Scripture says. It's a holy calling. It's a glorious calling. It's
a heavenly calling. It's the highest honor and the
most undeserved privilege known to man to hear this gospel. We
don't deserve to hear it. We don't thank people for coming
to hear this. We thank God for bringing us
to hear it. Oh, it's not only a privilege
to hear the gospel, but if you come and are married to the altogether
lovely son of God, what an honor. What an undeserved privilege!
What grace! What mercy! Because none of us in here, none
of us received Him at first, did we? Verse 3 says, He sent forth His
servants to call, and they would not come. The King says, Come,
I have an only begotten Son. I have a well-beloved Son. And
I've determined, I've purposed to have a marriage for His honor
and His glory. Come. He's altogether lovely.
He's full of mercy, full of grace. He is the truth. Come. He well deserves the praise.
Come. You're in His hands. You receive everything from Him.
He's girded you. He's clothed you. He's provided
for you. He's kept you all the days of
your life. His tender mercies over all His work. He's done
all things. Everything's in His hands. And
you've received from His hands everything. Just come and worship
Him. That's reasonable, isn't it? And they wouldn't come. They would not come. Who wouldn't
come? Nobody would come. Nobody came
to the job. They all rejected to come. No man can come, Scripture said,
except the Father which sent Christ draws them, right? And I would not come, and you
would not come. You and I, we ask people all
the time to come, don't we? Come hear the gospel. We do. I hope you do. I do. We've got
a neighbor, young man. I like him a lot. He likes us.
And he'd do anything for us. I'm sure you have neighbors like
that too. And we've talked to him. We've talked to him and
his wife about the gospel very plainly and asked him to come. He just won't come. He just will
not come. And I thought about that one
day. I thought, you know, why won't he come? Why won't people
come? Well, a couple of reasons. Number
one, they don't need saving. If you ever find out you need
saving, you come. And most people don't want saving.
They don't want saving. They're happy. They're satisfied
the way things are. I was at a place somewhere recently
and I'd been in there before and this lady was outside the
business smoking a cigarette. And I went up to her and I said,
she knew me, but didn't know what my occupation was. I said,
Peggy or whatever her name was, I said, how you doing? She said,
fine. I said, do you know what my occupation is? She had this
cigarette smoking, and I said, I'm pastor of a church here in
town. She went. I said, I said, I'm not here
to make you quit smoking. She said, that's gonna save me
from a cigarette. People don't want saving. Do
they? They're happy. Like it just fine. That's right. Lovers of pleasure
more than lovers of God. That was me. That was me. God's not in their
thoughts. They think about a lot of things.
God's not one of them. Not thankful. It's called an
evil heart of unbelief. It's not just ignorant. It's
an evil heart of unbelief. Don't need God. Don't need Christ. They see no beauty in Him that
they should desire Him. Now God says that's evil. And
such were some of you, huh? All of us at first. But here we are. Here we are. Here I am. Why? one reason you're bound to give
thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto He called you
by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus
Christ. If you love the Lord Jesus Christ,
if you see your need of Him and you want to be married to Him,
you've already been glorified. Do you know that? If you see
His glory, you've been glorified. And that's gonna be glory, that
they may behold His glory. Oh, man, have you not enjoyed
what you've heard thus far? Verse 4, the king says, tell
them that they're bid me hold. I have prepared my dinner. My
ox and my fat one are killed, and all things are ready. Come
unto the Mary, but they made light of it. Here's the gospel,
isn't it? Salvation is of the Lord, by
the Lord, to the Lord, for His glory. It's His works, not ours.
It's His righteousness, it's not ours. It's His blood, not
our works. It's all been provided. Isn't
that wonderful? It's all been provided. You need not bring a thing. Don't
bring a thing, just come. Ask and you'll receive. Seek
and you'll find. Knock and it'll be opened unto
you. The door of mercy, come on in. They lied to him. They said,
no, we like our righteousness better. And we like our sin better. That's right. They lied to him.
Some, he said, in verse 5, go to their farm, another to his
merchandise. You know, the Lord set aside
a day of the week to worship him. And I'm so glad, aren't
you? And we got 168 hours in the week.
And one hour. One hour. Worship the Lord. Thank
Him for everything He's done for us. That's reasonable. But
they won't come. Won't come. Got to go to Walmart. That's how foolish he is. Seriously.
I can't worship God. When we talk about depravity,
here's depravity. This is what angers God. This
is why God's gonna destroy this place that hates His Son. You
can put up a sign, yard sale, junk for sale. Spaghetti dinner. Bluegrass singers. Worse than religion is. The worst
way religion, in the name of God, hides their, you know, their
hypocrisy. Bluegrass gospel singers. Spaghetti
dinner. Family fun. That's it. Family
fun. Come. Family fun. And you'll
get a crowd, won't you? But then just announce, just
proclaim, we're going to preach the unsearchable riches of Jesus
Christ. We're going to preach the glories
of the Son of God, the beloved Son of God, the glory of the
Son of God. And nobody comes. And you think
God loves this place? You got another thing coming. God's anger, it says in verse
7, the king was wroth and he took his servants and entreated
them spitefully, slew his servants that were sent with such a blessing,
such a mercy of the king to the people, slew those servants,
and every prophet they slew and every apostle, and if it were
lawful today, they'd slay the men that preach the truth today,
wouldn't they? And the king was wroth and says he sent his armies
and destroyed those murderers, burned up their city. You know,
the Lord did that very thing, actually did. This is not just
a parable, this actually happened. The Jews rejected all the prophets,
didn't they? And God sent the Syrians and
the Persians to wipe them out time and again, didn't He? Sent
the Romans, put them under Roman rule. Christ came, they rejected
him then, didn't they? Jerusalem was leveled, wasn't
it? What about us Gentiles? God bless
America, we said. And I wish he would. But the blessing that America
needs is the gospel in it. Most turn their way of their
ears from the truth, from the gospel. I don't believe this
is one nation under God at all. I believe it's one nation under
the wrath of God. King's Wrath. King's Wrath. But God. Verse 8, He said to His servant,
The wedding is ready. Everything's been determined.
But they that were bidden were not worthy. None of them are
worthy, are they? None of them are worthy. And He says, There's
going to be a wedding. I've determined it. There's gonna
be a bride for my son and none will come, but somebody's gonna
come. King said. Verse nine, he says,
go ye therefore in the highways. You go and find them. Don't wait
on them to come, you go out and find them. In the highways, go
find them. And Luke's gospel in chapter
14 says you go out quickly. You know, today is the day of
salvation. It's an urgent message. Whenever
we preach the gospel, it's urgent. There may be no tomorrow. Go
out quickly and tell them. Go out into the highways and
the hedges. He said, go out into the streets of the cities and
bring in. Bring them in. Bring them in. Bring in the poor, he said. The
poor. You see, the poor have nothing
to bring. Like Brother Gabe said, bankrupt.
They have nothing to bring. They can't afford a wedding garment. They'll appreciate everything
given to them. He'll appreciate it. Bring in
the maimed, he said, the ugly. You know, the only bride our
Lord chooses is an ugly one. You know the story of Hosea and
Gomer, don't you? Hosea was told by the Lord, go
and marry a woman of whoredom, a harlot. And she never was faithful
to him, was she? Oh, but he was faithful to her.
He gets all the glories. He brought in the maimed, the
ugly bride to a beautiful husband, and bring in the halt. Halt!
That's people are lame. They can't come if they want
to. They'll be happy if somebody brings them. See, the Lord brings
this gospel to people that need it, and he makes them need it.
He creates this need. That's what Brother Donnie prayed,
didn't he? Oh, Lord. Make people see their
need. Blind, blind. Blind can't find
a way. They don't have a clue. They
don't know where to start looking. He said, you go out and bring
them. They'll be grateful. They'll appreciate it when they're
brought in. He said, you go out into the
highways. You go out into the highways. You know what's out
on the highway, don't you? Runaway. That prodigal. That prodigal's out on the highway,
wasn't he? Running away from home. I know I've told this here before,
but maybe someone hadn't heard it. And maybe the rest have forgotten
it. But back in 1973, an 18 year
old boy raised by loving parents, godly parents, believing parents.
Had enough and, you know, like teenagers are, I want to get
out on my own, get away from my parents and make my way. And so he put everything he owned
in a sack on his back. And he stuck his thumb out and
hitchhiked to Florida. And ended up in Apopta, Florida.
And it was there for two or three years, and like that product
of wasting his substance on riotous living. And one day, a friend
of his came to visit him, and the two of them took off down
into the Keys for a time of, you know. And they ended up down
there, Key West, the southernmost island down there, Key West.
And after an all night spree, that boy couldn't find his way
back to where he was staying and laid down on a bench and woke up the next morning.
It's a true story. Woke up the next morning and
the inscription, there was a sign on that bench that he was laying
on and it said, I think it's still there, This is the southernmost
point of the United States of America. He didn't know it at
the time, but he was as low as he could go, both geographically, but mostly
spiritually. He was low as he could go. Well,
Lord brought that young man to himself. brought him to himself,
brought him to hear the gospel. If the Lord hadn't brought him,
he wouldn't have come. Brought him to hear the gospel,
sat him down under a faithful gospel preacher, broke his hard
heart, sat him down, clothed him in his right mind, and that
boy is standing before you right now telling this story. If you come, it's because he
brought you. He says in verse 10, he says, you go into the highways
and the hedges, he said, you bring both the bad and good.
Now, my sister, on the other hand, and one sister, the Lord
took her several years ago, she was a role model. She was a model
child, an obedient child, just never caused my parents a moment's
trouble, nothing but a joy from day one. I was, I tormented her. But she was so good to me. Just
a role model. You know it takes the same grace
to teach someone like that they're a sinner. To convince someone
like that they're a sinner. Show them their need of Christ
as it does a prodigal son. Same grace. Same grace. And so he said the wedding was
furnished verse 10, the wedding was furnished with guests, but
yet Luke said, there's still room. There's still room. Barnard said, every seat's gonna
be taken. Every seat's gonna be taken, but there's still room.
Explain that. Well, I don't know. But the Lord,
you know the Lord doesn't bring us, He doesn't bring, we don't
come kicking and fighting. He makes His people willing.
He woos them. He breaks the hard heart to see
their need of Christ. That's an altogether lovely one.
I never saw any need of Christ. I never saw any beauty in Him
that I should desire Him. I do now. And they come willingly,
and they ask, and they seek, and they ask the Lord, will you
marry me? And you know what He'll say to
every one of them? I will. I have. That's why you're here. Oh man, drawn with cords, cords
of love. The love of the Father that sent
Christ. And it's the love of God for His people that brings
us. But now look at that. Verse 11.
When the king came in to see the guest, he saw there a man
which had not on a wedding garment. You know, every wedding has a
protocol. Nearly every wedding, I guess.
It's mostly that way. It's dress required, isn't it?
Bridesmaids are given certain dress. It's all alike. They're
all dressed alike. The groomsmen, is that what you
call them? The groomsmen, they're given tuxes all alike. They're all alike. They're all
given this, aren't they? They don't pay for it. They're provided
for. Well, there's a wedding dress,
and that is the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
righteousness of sight that he provides. Now, we don't sew it
up ourselves. This is the work of the king's
fingers, the wrought gold of the king's work. It's the righteousness of Christ.
We don't bring our own dress. Well, this fella did. Look at
verse 12. He said to the king, he didn't
have on a wedding garment. He said to this fella, friend,
how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? Now
you dress like that. Maybe this fella thought what
he had to wear was better, didn't he? I'm sure he did. Lots of
people do. Lots of people do. Many people
go about to establish their own righteousness. You think of that.
What took the Lord Jesus Christ a lifetime to establish perfect
righteousness? They think, I got something to
add to that. It took nothing less than the
blood of the Son of God to put away every sin that people say,
no, I got something to say about that. Do you think God loves
everybody? And his anger is mostly directed at religion, like this
fellow. Are not all our righteousnesses
filthy rags in God's hand? Yes, they are. There's one righteousness
that will be accepted, and that's the righteousness of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Why was this fella here? Well,
maybe he wanted a free meal. Maybe he's looking for a singles
meeting. He wanted to find a wife. He
wasn't there for the king's son, he said. He wasn't there for
the king's son. Everybody at the wedding is there
for the glory and the honor of the king. That's why they're
there. No other reason. This fella wasn't there for the
kings. You know, modern marriages are indicative of modern religion. I guess modern religion made
marriages what they are, where they make over the bride, don't
they? They make over the bride. Here comes the bride. I used
to sing a song when I was a boy, but I won't finish it, but here
comes the bride. They all make over the bride,
while the groom's standing over on the side, hoping she'll say
yes. Hoping she'll say, I do. Isn't
that it? Isn't that what religion, how religion has made the Lord
Jesus Christ standing outside? Oh, but here comes the bride.
He wants you so bad. Like Larry said, he can't be
married without you. There's no you in marriage. Isn't
that true? Here comes the bride. Oh, not
in this marriage. Everybody makes over the groom.
Everybody makes over him. He gets the honor and the glory,
and they're all there for His honor and glory. What if you
had a marriage, but you're only begotten, and some fella came
in that wanted to draw attention and say, hey, what about me? Bind him hand and foot and cast
him out. This is all about my son. Bless God, everybody in glory
is there for his son. They're there because his son
brought them and redeemed their soul. He said in verse 13, there'll
be weeping. He said, cast him in outer darkness,
there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth, because many are called.
A few are chosen. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest. and causes to ocean you see your
name of the lord jesus christ you want to be in that marriage
will be wedded to him home Austin Grover, Cody Grover's
son married Sarah Williams. Where's Sarah? Where's Rick? Married area. Married Sarah Williams
and Mindy went to that wedding. I couldn't go was on Saturday
and I had to stay home and preach and but he was on live streaming. And so I sat at home was Saturday
afternoon. I watched that I watched that
on screen. And I looked, and there was the
bridegroom that I loved. Austin. The bride I loved from
a child. My bride. I saw her walk in there,
and all my brethren were there. People I know, Todd and Cody,
were doing the ceremony. And I wasn't there. I can't tell
you how that made me feel. and i don't want to be left out
of it i don't want to be left out of that great marriage do
you? oh my draw me and i'll be drawn oh bless him blessed be
his name lord bless you in the name of his power his
people are made willing Listen, let's take about