I didn't finish it. It got carried
away, my first two points. And I'll try to finish it this
evening. But it talks about here in chapter 2 and verse 20. And you're built. You're therefore
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and household of God. and are built upon the foundation,
the saints' foundation, built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
in whom all the building, fitly framed together, framed together
in Christ, Christ puts us together, brings us into His body, puts
every person in His body and everybody in His church as He
fitly frames us together, just like a building. This building
was framed together. It's all framed together. To
have all the material out here, somebody knows what to do with
it. They put it all together. Well, God has a people from before
the foundation of the world, and every one of them that He
chose in Christ, every one of them that He elected, every one
that He calls by His blessed grace and saves by the Holy Ghost
and regenerates, he puts them in this body and he just fitly
frames them all together. And then look what it says, grow
us together into a holy temple in the Lord. Now, some people
the Lord takes only, there's always somebody else to go in
there and be put in that temple. In whom also you are building
together. All the saints of God are building
together for a place for God to dwell through the Spirit.
God dwelt in the tabernacle. God dwelt in the temple. And
here he says God dwells in his people, the saints of God. Now, Paul called himself a wise
master builder. He said a wise master builder.
And he says no other foundation can be laid than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ. And let me just review just a
few things. First of all, it says in verse
20, we're built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
When he talks about the foundation of the apostles, there's what
they call the apostles' creed, and that's what the apostles
taught. And if you want to, and Brother
Barnard used to say all the time, if you want to find out what
you have to preach today, and what the men preached, go to
the book of Acts and find out what those fellows preached.
And you go to the book of Acts and see what did Peter preach
on the day of Pentecost. What did he preach after they
brought him Out of jail. What did he preach when he preached
to that fellow that healed him at the gate called Beautiful?
Why did he preach when he went to Cornelius' house? Why did
he preach when he stood before the Sanhedrin? Why did Paul preach
when he stood before Griffith? Why did Paul preach when he went
up to Rome? Why did Paul preach when he preached
before his worst enemy? Why did he preach when the mob
tried to kill him? You find out what them fellows
preached, and that's what we're built on, that foundation of
what those men believed and preached, what God taught them. What God
taught them. And secondly, build upon the
prophets. The prophets. What prophets?
Moses. Moses wrote of Christ and spoke
of Christ. Built upon Isaiah, Jeremiah. Built upon Daniel. On all the
prophets. To him, all the prophets give
witness. Hosea, Zechariah. To him, all the prophets give
witness. And then we're built on Jesus
Christ Himself. That's who the apostles preached,
and that's who the prophets pointed to, and then Jesus Christ Himself
is that chief cornerstone with whom all the building, and in
Him, is fitly framed together. Now, you're talking about a foundation
for you to stand on in this world. What the apostles preached and
taught, what the prophets preached and taught, and what they taught
about Christ, and then on Christ Himself, to whom they all pointed. That's a foundation, ain't it?
That's a foundation to stand on. And I'll tell you, beloved,
and I know this much about it, and I'll not go through what
I said before, but this is one thing that I do know, and I will
remind you of this, that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only
one, the only person in this universe that has ever, ever,
ever, Please God, and He's the only one in this universe from
creation until God comes again that God will accept anything
from. He will not accept a prayer. He will not accept an offering.
He won't accept a praise. He won't accept a word. He won't
accept anything that a man does except through Jesus Christ.
Our Lord says, No man comes unto the Father but by Me. He says,
No man can come unto the Father Except the Father which hath
sent me, draw him. And every one that hath heard
and learned of the Father, he comes to me." And our Lord Jesus
faced those Pharisees and said, except you believe that I am
He. Who am I? When He said, I am
He, who's He talking about? I am that I am. That burning
bush on the mountain that told Moses, take your shoes off, you're
standing on holy ground. You go down and deliver my people.
God sent me Christ. You saved my people. I'll give
them to you. I'll give them to you in a covenant
of grace. But I charge you to be their
surety. I charge you to take all their
obligations and all their responsibilities, all their sins, all their obligations,
and I'll charge you to relieve them of all of them, and I'll
give them to you, and you do whatever's necessary to satisfy
me, honor me, and bring glory to me, and I'll save every single
one of them that I give to you when you bring them to me. You know, God will not, I'm telling
you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, God will not speak to, as
old Scott said, speak to nor be spoken to, except through
Jesus Christ. Nobody else. There ain't no other
prophet. You don't pray in a prophet's
name, do you? You don't pray in a pope's name, do you? You
don't pray in a saint's name, do you? You don't pray in somebody that's
a good person's name, do you? If you want God to hear you,
if you want God to accept you, if you want God to receive you,
if you want God to have any dealings with you, you're going to come
the way he said to his blessed son. This is my son, he said.
Hear him. Hear him. And so you see, beloved,
we're only accepted in him. And I'll tell you, beloved, in
our foundation, God gave us it to Christ in a covenant of grace.
And to go on to my next point is this. Our foundation built
upon the apostles, the prophets, and Jesus Christ because of this
blessed covenant given to us, God gave us in Christ. And the
Scripture says, and you know, somebody asked somebody the other
day, said, why in the world does God pass by some and save others? I believe it was you told me
this, James, you said, He did it to the praise of the glory
of His grace. To the praise of what? He saved
you and not somebody else. To the praise of the glory of
His grace. He works all things after the
counsel of His own will. That's the only way that it's
empty. And how do you know that somebody is preaching what the
apostles did? Preaching what the prophets did?
preaching what Christ did and built upon this foundation. I'll
tell you how you know. Paul says no other foundation
can be laid than that which is Christ. The foundation's been
laid. We're not going to start another foundation. But if you're
a man that's preaching the gospel, what he is doing is he gives
God all the glory. And if you ever find a preacher
that gives you one thing to do, one thing, I don't care what
it is, If He gives you anything to do in your salvation, God
didn't send Him. You say, well, God won't save
you if you don't pray. God won't save you except for
Christ's sake. And if He ever saves you in Christ,
then you'll pray. People are told all the time,
pray the sinner's prayer. That's the only kind of prayer
you can pray. You don't have to be taught how to pray that,
do you? Alright, let me get on. This
foundation that we have is firm because of the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ. You know, this is where our Lord
Jesus Christ ratified, ratified that covenant of His blessed
grace. Look over with me in Galatians, back over to your left, Galatians
chapter 6, in verse 14. This is where Christ ratified
that covenant. This is where that covenant was
fulfilled. This is where salvation was accomplished. This is where our Lord Jesus
Christ said, it is finished. But in Galatians 6.14, look what
it says here, talking about the cross, God
forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ. What does he mean by that? Does
he mean a wooden tree upon which Christ was crucified? No, he
means what that tree symbolized. That's why we don't wear crosses.
That's why we don't have wooden things out here at Easter time
with the purple robe around it and all that kind of stuff. It's
because it's not a piece of wood that Paul said, I glory in. It's
not a piece of wood. He said it's what was accomplished
on that cross. what was done on that cross,
who was on that cross, the blood that was shed on that cross,
the sin that was put away on that cross, God's justice satisfied
on that cross. If the cross is not His self,
it's what took place, God forbid that I should glory, save Him,
the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and what He accomplished on that
cross. Not a piece of wood. If you can, people searching
all the time for the ark and the cross. And this year, a thing
they call this, Turing, Turing, what do they call that thing?
That where they got a travel Turing. Listen, if you found
the ark, would it change your faith? If you found part of the
wood, make toothpicks out of it. If you found the cross, make
toothpicks out of it, because people would worship a stiff
piece of wood. We don't worship a piece of wood, we worship Christ
who was on that cross. It's what was accomplished on
that blessed cross. And that's why Paul says, God
forbid that I should gloat or boast in, rejoice in, except
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what's this? By
whom the world is crucified unto me. When Christ died on that
cross, the world was crucified unto me. When Christ was died
down, the world was saying, we don't want you. We don't want
you. We don't want nothing to do with
you. We don't like your holiness. We don't like your message. We
don't like your sinlessness. We don't like your claims to
be God. We don't like your claims that you're the only Savior.
We don't like your claims that nobody can approach God except
through you. We don't like your claims that
you're the king. We don't like the fact that you
say you're God, manifest in the flesh. We're done with you. The
world said that. And that's what he says about
us when we identify with the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It's our own help. I was crucified under the world.
The world wants nothing to do with this blessed gospel of the
grace of God in Christ. And oh, beloved, look what he
goes on to say. And he said, and I was crucified
under the world. I died. You know, not only the
world died of me, but I died dead. I died dead. What in the world has the world
got to offer us? What does the world, what does
the religious world have to offer us? What does the political world
have to offer us? What does this world have to
offer us that's worth having? We're going to leave everything
that we know, if we can touch it, if we can taste it, if we
can handle it, we're going to leave it all behind. We're going to leave wives behind,
we're going to leave husbands behind, we're going to leave
children behind, and children are going to leave parents behind.
Nothing in this world is worth anything except that God then
blesses us to enjoy it. And then look with me over in
Colossians, back over to your right. Oh, what a blessed foundation. Colossians chapter 2 and verse
13. Oh my, He went to the cross.
Our Lord Jesus went to the cross, not for Himself. Not for Himself. He had no sin. He had no sin. He had no guilt. He had no shame. So why in the world did He go
to the cross? Why did He die on that cross? Oh, for those that God gave Him
in a cognitive grace. Look at verse 13. Colossians
2. And you, being dead in your sin,
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, the filthiness of your
flesh, hath he, hath Christ, quickened you, given you life
together with him, having forgiven you all your trespasses?" Blotting
out. I'll blot out all the time. Maybe
I'll be writing something and I'll go, I have to do that all
the time. I keep a bottle of white out
on my desk all the time, so it won't look so bad. I have to
wipe that out, you know, and I start all over again. But I
have to blot something out all the time. I have to do that all
the time. My writes are bad. And I'll blot that out. Yesterday
I was doing something and Mary said, there you go, you're blotting
it out. Well, God blotted some things out on the cross. You
know why He blotted it out? The handwriting of ordinances
that was against us. People want them Ten Commandments
in their yard. I don't want that handwriting.
God wrote on those Ten Commandments. Wrote it on those tables of stone.
Christ said He blotted them out. Huh? Blotted them out. And look here. And that was against
us and they was contrary to us. Oh my. God said love me. We said I love myself. God said, don't lie. We lie to
ourselves if we don't lie to anybody else. God said, don't
cut it. But oh, I sure do like what you've
got. And on and on and on and on.
So all these things are contrary to us. And look what He says.
He took it out of the way. What did He do to it? He nailed
it to His cross. Oh, bless His holy name. And
oh, beloved, And here's the thing, back over in Galatians chapter
2, just a moment. You know, oh, what a foundation for us to be
built on, on Christ and His blessed cross. When our Lord went to
the cross, I said already that He didn't go there for Himself.
He had no sin of His own. He had no guilt. He had nothing. that caused him to go to the
cross other than what he took upon himself willingly, voluntarily,
and that obligation that God put him under. And he willingly
done that. He went to that cross for those
that were given to him. And Paul said here in Colossians
chapter 2 and verse 20, listen, He said, I'm crucified with Christ.
Where was he crucified with Christ? We're talking about the cross.
I was crucified with Christ. Where was we crucified with Christ?
Where he was. We are so identified with Christ
that what he did, we did. He said, Paul said, I'm crucified
with Christ. Paul wasn't at the cross. I wasn't
at the cross, but I was crucified at the cross. And that's what
he says here. Nevertheless, I'm living. I'm dead, but I'm alive. I've died with Christ, nevertheless
I live. How can you live? Christ lives. Yet not I. Here's how he says it. Christ
lives in me. I just got through Saddam. Christ
built it, frames us together for God's will. Now, Christ lives
in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh, in this body, In this Adamic nature, I live by the
faith of the Son of God. Now listen to it. Who loved me? When did He love us? When did
He start loving us? When we repented? When we believed? When we came to the cross? No,
He loved us and that's why we did come to the cross. That's
why we did have faith. That's why we did repent. Because
He loved us with an everlasting love. There never was a time
that He didn't love us. And there will be a time that
he won't love us. We cannot make God love us anymore.
Can't do anything to make him love us any less. He was what
he was when he did love us. People, and I remember going
through that back years ago when I was a fundamental legalist.
I thought all the time, I said, oh, when I've done this, God's
going to get even with me. And old preachers told me, they
said, you know, if you didn't pay your tithes, if you didn't
pray enough, and you didn't witness enough, then you know God's going
to get even with you. God's going to take it out the
back door, you know. He's going to get even with you.
You could never have any peace. But oh, look what he says. I
found out he loved me. I couldn't do anything to make
him love me. I can't do anything to stop Him from loving me. His
love depends entirely on Him. His love for me depended on Him
because He loved me before I ever existed. Paul said, He loved
me. Paul was a rebel. Paul was a blasphemer, persecutor,
injurious, and he says, yes, He loved me. Not only did He
love me, but He gave Himself for me. gave himself for me. For me. Now, this is what I wanted to
get to right here. I do not frustrate the grace
of God. That word frustrate means to
make void. You know, when you void a check,
You know, did you cancel a check? Boyd that thing. That means nobody
can ever do anything with it. He said, I am not going to make
Boyd the grace of God. Now listen to it. If righteousness
come by any law, by anything you or I ever did, then Christ
on that cross' death was absolutely vain. So the next time somebody tells
you, you've got to do something, faith wasn't crucified for us.
Repentance wasn't crucified for us. Living good wasn't crucified
for us. Not any work we could do wasn't
crucified for us. Not any tears we ever shed wasn't
crucified for us. Not any sincerity we had wasn't
crucified for us. You know who was crucified for
us? Christ was crucified for us. And what we say, dear beloved,
that if we try to bring anything besides Christ And what He did
on that cross, Paul said, that's what I'm glorying, that's my
boast, that's my rejoicing. That's my rejoicing. Now look
over in Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Oh my, on
this cross. Hebrews 10 and verse 16. On this cross, He went there
to redeem us, to put away all our sin. I remember years and years ago,
of course, you know, you all know that my marriage is lost. But I remember years and years
ago, when we first made a profession, of course, we was lost as a white
goose in a snowstorm. And they was telling us back
then, you know, if the Lord come, we'd be raptured. But if you
didn't have any sin, you wouldn't get off the floor. He said, you
know, in the Lord's time, He's going to take you up into glory,
but if you had any sin, you couldn't go. Well, Mary asked this question
then, why in the world are we saved for if we don't get to
go to be with the Lord? You know, if all it takes is
a cigarette to keep Christ from saving you, nobody would be saved. If all it takes is a little unbelief,
sometimes after you're a believer, nobody would ever be saved. If
it takes perfect obedience, if it takes a good work, if it takes
a certain amount of tears, if it takes anything other than
what Christ did, nobody would ever be saved. And if you don't,
you know, if you have any sin, what in the world did Christ
save us from if He didn't save us from our sin? These fellas talk about the rapture.
I'll tell you, I enjoy ratcheting with the Lord Jesus all the time.
I'm just waiting for Him to come one of these days, and it won't
be no secret coming. He's going to come sneak in here
and sneak us out. The Scripture says the whole world's going
to see Him. And they shall look upon Him whom they pierced. They'll
have to face the fact that they nailed Him to a cross. And they
say, we did that. We crucified the Lord of Glory.
And then they're going to say, hide us from the face of Him,
the wrath of Him that sits on that throne. He said, never I
shall see Me. Even they that crucify Me shall
look on Him whom they pierced. Oh my, I tell you, look here
in Hebrews 10, 16, talking about this blessed cross of our Savior.
This is the covenant. that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord." What days? The days of the law. The days of people backsliding and being
not able to keep the law and God's judgment upon them. I'll
put my laws into their hearts. What laws? The law of faith.
The law of sin. the law of the scriptures. And
in their minds will I write them, and listen to it, and listen
to it now, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no
more. Wait a minute. You can't go if you've got sin.
What did I just say? And those sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. God said that now. That's what
God said. Now, listen. Now, now, now, where remission
of these is, where these sins are paid for, there is no more
offering for sin. If sins are paid for, you don't
never need another offering. You don't need to bring anything
else Sins are put away. What else could you bring? And
then he says, oh, sin. There's no more offering for
sin because they're all gone and God don't remember them anymore.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness, liberty, confidence to enter
into the very presence of God, the holiest, where only the high
priest could go. By the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way. But she consecrated us through
the veil, that is to say, His flesh. Alright. Now I want to just show you a
couple of things out of Psalm 22 and then I'm going to move
to my next point and be done. Look in Psalm 22 with me for
just a moment. Talking about this cross. That's the cross. You know, the cross, the cross,
the cross, what took place at the cross, who was on that cross,
what was accomplished on that cross, who it was accomplished
for. There on that cross we can see
how God could be just and justify ungodly sinners like ourselves.
Look at Psalm 22. This tells us, it's called the
psalm of the cross. I said, what our Lord Jesus said
on the cross, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Why
art Thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my
roaring, he was roaring, he wept and cried and said, O Father,
if Thou be any other way, save me, but nevertheless, not my
will but Thine be done. And, O my God, I cry in the daytime,
And now here's not an end of night season. And I'm not sorry,
but this, he says, but God, you're holy. You're holy. That's why I cry so many, because
God's holy and you inhabit the praises of Israel. Now, listen,
our fathers trusted in thee and they trusted and you did deliver
them. They cried unto thee and they were delivered. They trusted
in thee and were not confounded. Listen to what our Lord said
now. If this wasn't in this blessed book, we'd be ashamed and afraid
to say it. We would never say this about
Christ, but this is what he said. But I am a worm. I am a worm and no man, a reproach
of men and despised of the people. I am a worm and no man. That's
what our Lord Jesus Christ said. That's why you left me here.
Why did He do that? He said, O thou worm Jacob. He became what we were in order
for us to become what He is. It was a perfect exchange. He
got our sin, our death, our guilt, Our justice, our judgment, God's
wrath. And He died with all that on
Him. And He roared day and night. And then, beloved, His obedience,
His sinlessness, and His righteousness, and His perfect life, His obedience
in everything He is. That's what we get. He got dead,
we got life. He got cursed, we got bled. He
died, we got life. He became our sin bearer, we
got his righteousness. And that's why I said, I'm a
worm and no man. And they said, they all see me,
laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip, they
shake the head. And that's what they did. He trusted on the Lord
that they would deliver him. You know what I said? He said
he saved others he himself couldn't save. Let him deliver him. See, he's delighted in Him. Delighted
in Him. And then look what he says down
in verse 14. I am poured out like water, and
all my bones are out of joint. Can you imagine what it's like
to have all your bones out of joint? My heart is like wax. It melted in the midst of my
bowels. When that Roman soldier took that spear and thrust it
in his side, blood and water came out because his heart burst
inside his chest. From the agony and pain he went
through. My strength is dried up like a punctured. My tongue
cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust
of death. For dogs have compassed me the
assembly of the wicked, having closed me. They pierced my hands
and my feet. I may tell all my bones, they
look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them,
and cast locks upon my vesture. Look down in verse 20. Deliver
my soul from the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog. And
then look what happens after all this. He says in verse twenty-two,
I will declare thy name unto my brethren. What? After all this, he said, I will
declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation.
I will praise Thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praise
Him. All ye that seethe of Jacob,
glorify Him, and fear Him. All ye that seethe of Israel."
And we do. We do. Bless His name. Now, let me finish with this,
our next point, last point. Oh, what a foundation we have
because the Lord Jesus Christ promised, promised, to come back
and get us. Promise to come back and get
us. I look forward to that day. In one sense, I do. In another
sense, I want to be here just as long as the Lord would have
me stay here. I want to be here. I want to
see my great-granddaughter grow up, if the Lord would be pleased.
I want to stay right here and preach as long as I'm able to
do it. Henry Mahan's birthday is today. Preached at the same place for
over 50 years. Preached all over the world. And now he's not able to preach. Came here at thunder. And he goes to bed every night
and says, Lord, let this be the night. Let me wake up with you
in the morning. I mean, he's six years old today.
Let me wake up with you in the morning. Lord, come and get me. Come and get me. Got a picture
of Floyd laying on his porch. He's laying there and his belly
all swelled up, and he's just grinning like a pop. He's just
as happy and laughing. Anybody who listens to him, he'll
tell them about Christ and what a blessed hope he had in Christ,
because he had the promise. Christ is coming to get me, coming
after me. Let not your heart be troubled.
And there's lots of things that would trouble our heart. Let
not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. For in my Father's house there
are lots and lots, many mansions, many mansions. If it were not
so, I would have told you, but you know what I'm going to do
for you? I'm going to go and prepare you a place. I'm going
to go prepare you. And He went to that cross and
prepared us a place. And then He came back and He
said, I'll declare thy name among my brethren and sing your praises
among the congregation that you give Me. And He did and we believed
Him. And He said, you know, I'll tell
you what I'm going to do after I prepare that place for you.
I will, I will, I will come again and receive you unto Myself.
That's where I am. You can be, too. Look over with
me at 1 Thessalonians 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Oh, there's been some people
that glorified God. Oh, my. We want to stay as long as the
Lord has us to stay, but at the same time, beloved, there's People
say, I get homesick. You've got to have a home before
you get homesick, don't you? And look what he said here, verse
13, 1 Thessalonians 4. He said, But I would not have
you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep.
That's what he calls about, about dying, going to be with Christ,
just going to sleep. You know how blessed it is to
be able to go to sleep, have a good long sleep, not be interrupted
in your sleep? He said that's what it is. You're
at the end of your day, your day's done, your labor's done,
and you're going to sleep. I don't want you to sorrow, not
even as others which have no hope. Oh my, it's awful to go
to somebody's funeral, go someplace and people have no hope. It's
just horrible. For if we believe, that Jesus
died and rose again. I believe that, don't you? I
believe Jesus Christ died. We talked about the cross. I
believe He rose again on the third morning. And He says, watch
this, even so them which sleep in Jesus. That's where you fall
asleep at, in Christ. You're crucified with Him, you're
chosen in Him, you live with Him, and now you sleep in Him.
Will God bring with Him? For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not prevent, shall not hinder them
which are asleep." Now listen, the Lord himself, oh bless his
holy name, for the Lord himself, we talk about himself, the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven. And what's he going to do? He's
going to come with a shout! You think a preacher makes a
lot of noise. You wait till Christ comes with that shout. And you
know how loud it's going to be? It's like outside Lazarus 2.
Lazarus! Come forth! He never stayed,
came forth. And the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel. And
then there'll be a great trumpet blow. And watch this, "...and the dead
in Christ shall rise first." Do you know how many graves are
going to bust open? Do you know how many people are
going to come out of the ocean? How many saints are going to
come out of the ground that were burned at the stake in England?
That there was nothing but dust and bones left? All the people
that were fed to the lions? They're all, wherever they was,
Christ knows where every single one of them. And He's going to
bring the dead in Christ. They're going to come out of
graves. They're going to come out of the sea. They're going to come
out of the dust. And they're going to come in
the body. They're going to rise. That don't sound
like no sneaking in the middle of the night, slipping us out
of here, does it, Gary? Huh? Then, then, those of us that
are left here, if you Christ come to life, We which are alive
and remain, watch this now, we shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord. Does that mean we've got
to be outside? No. If a grave won't hold them and a grave won't
hold them, you'd think this building would hold us if Christ came
back. And you know why it says clouds?
Because when He comes, it's going to be broad daylight. Everybody's
going to see Him. Everybody's going to know Him.
And He says, you'll see the Son of Man coming in power and glory. And them clouds are going to
be glory with Christ coming down on them blessed clouds. And oh,
beloved, and then what it says, we'll rise up together with Him
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. That don't sound
like coming here to set up a kingdom to me. We'll meet Him in the
air. And this is what I like. And so shall we ever be with
the Lord. Ever be with the Lord. And Paul
said, every time you think about this, every time you know somebody's
going on, he said, you all come from one another with these words. That's comforting words to me.
That's comforting words to me, to go be with somebody that knows
Christ. Oh, what joy, what joy to be
with Him. And our Lord's going to come
and change these foul bodies, make them like unto His own body,
and He'll take us to a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness
dwells. Christ is the light of that place
and the glory of it. Won't even need a sun there.
Won't need a moon. It'll be perpetual day. Christ
is the light of that place. You don't need no sun if you
have one. It can never be night. John said, Amen. Even so, come,
Lord Jesus. Even so, come. And you know,
this is what's so glorious about it. When you get there, you're
going to know everybody's there. You'll recognize Abraham, because
it says we'll sit down and eat with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
So we'll recognize Abraham. Peter, John, and James recognized
Moses and Elijah. Never had seen them before. How
did they know it was them? And you're going to recognize
your wife. You're going to recognize your husband. You're going to
recognize your children. But it won't be wife, husbands, and
children there. It'll just be all new. The flesh will never enter into
it again. It'll be perfect relationship,
perfect life, glorious heaven, glorious life. And who will not
be long before the Lord Jesus Christ come again? And I'll tell
you something else about it. When you get there, and them
people that you saw, When you saw them in their casket, or
you saw them before they left this world, with their little
old frail bodies, and their weaknesses, and their infirmities, and all
that was wrong with them, when you see them there, they won't
have them infirmities. They won't have them weak bodies.
They won't have them frail bodies. We'll have a body like our Lord
Jesus Christ had when he came out of the grave. Touch me. Handle
me. And we'll be able to eat. He
said, give me some fish. Give me some bread. Oh, we got to talk about future. I can just almost, I'm just thinking
about it. What a blessed future we have. Oh my, what a future
we have. And it's all because of what
Christ did. That's what Christ did. Oh, I
wish I could make folks see that and understand that's what Christ
did.