A message on the attributes of
seven attributes, glorious attributes of God. And God had appeared
to Moses, revealed himself to Moses, and it says there in verse
six, that he proclaimed the Lord, Jehovah, the Lord God Almighty,
sufficient. Exodus 34, 6. His merciful, one
attribute, merciful, gracious, second one, long-suffering, the
third one, Abundant in goodness, the fourth one. And truth, the
fifth one. Forgiving mercy for thousands, seventh one. Sixth one. Forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sins. Seven attributes that God
gave them. And now I tell you, and I read
this tonight, where God said, I'll have no gods before me.
Make ye no foes in God. Don't worship, don't let your
sons, your daughters marry unto other people, you go into a land,
or the people come into your land, and you go in there, you
destroy their altars, destroy their God, destroy their images,
because if you don't, you'll end up going horn after them.
You'll end up taking them to be your God. Now, God is light. 1 John 1, 5 says God is light,
and in Him is no darkness at all. And John 4, A says God is
love. Romans 11.22 says, Behold the
goodness and the severity of God. Now, how can God be light,
and whom is no darkness at all, and also at the same time be
love? How can He be just, and how can He be merciful? That's
another way of asking it. Behold His goodness over here,
and His severity over there. And as God deals with men, we
see both of these blessed sides of His character. And he, we
saw his goodness. He gave everything in that garden
to man. Told him it was one thing not
to do. He did that. It was the goodness of God that
created man. Put him in that garden. Made him lord over everything. And yet when he fell, behold
the severity of God when he drove man out. And then, behold the
goodness and severity of it, he drove man out, and then at
the same time that he'd done that, he gave us a promise that,
behold, the seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the
seed of the serpent. Gave us the promise of a Redeemer.
And God is love. He provided the ark for Noah,
saved eight souls. And but as light, he destroyed
all the rest of the world. by a flood. Behold the goodness
and severity of God. God's goodness sent angels to
take hand by the lot, and lot by the hand, and deliver him
out of Sodom and Gomorrah. But as light, iron brimstone
fell down and destroyed both those cities of the plain. As
love, God preserved His people when the blood was applied on
the doors in Egypt. But as light, he slew all the
firstborn in Egypt for their rebellion and hatred for him.
As goodness, God spared the whole nation of Israel because of Moses'
intercession, but his severity called for the sword to be upon
him." Let me show you that over here in Exodus 32. Look in Exodus
32, just a minute. You know, Moses came down off
the mountain. And it says in verse 25, Exodus 32, And when Moses saw
that the people were naked, for Ed had made them naked under
the shame among their enemies, then Moses stood in the gate
of the camp and said, Who is on the Lord's side? Let him cometh
unto me, and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together
unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and
go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay
every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every
man his neighbor. And the children of Levi did according to the
word of Moses. And there fell to the people that day about
three thousand men." Three thousand men. Why? Because God was up
there saving them and just sparing them. and got out of their sight
for 40 days, and they automatically start worshiping other gods. So, praying the sword. And let
me tell you, sit back over in our text, in the incarnation
of our Lord Jesus Christ, we also see the two sides of God's
character. Life and love. He was full of grace when Christ
came, incarnate, God incarnate, He was full of grace. And we
received grace for grace, but he was also full of truth, absolute
truth. The truth of God may manifest
in the flesh. So you see these two sides. And
our Lord Jesus Christ, as grace, and the grace of God, he was
a friend of publicans and sinners. But also, as the truth of God,
he was an enemy of the self-righteous hypocrite and the Pharisee. As
the grace of God manifested in him, and he was moved with compassion
as those having no shepherd, but he was also angry at them
for the hardness of their hearts. And full of grace, he wept over
Jerusalem and said, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how awful I have gathered
you. But also he got a scourge, and
he drove all of the money changers and all of the defilers of the
temper, and drove them out with a scourge. because he was angry
with them. And he turned one day and blessed
his disciples, and in the blessing of his disciples, he turned right
around and cursed a fig tree. Grace and truth. He pronounced
in Matthew 5, blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are they
that mourn. Blessed are the meek. Blessed
are the peacemakers. Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness. Blessed, blessed, blessed. And
then in Matthew 23, he just pronounced one woe after another woe, after
another woe, after another woe, upon those of the religious leaders
of the day. And beloved, we have the love
of Christ which passes understanding, and yet we have those who say,
Hide us from the wrath of the face of the Lamb that setteth
on the throne." And that's what he says there in Exodus, here
in Exodus 34, 7, it says this, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgressions
and sin, and they will by no means clear the guilty. Visiting
the iniquity upon the fathers, upon the children, upon the children's
children of the third and fourth generation. Now look over Psalm
89.7 with me for just a minute, for a moment. Let's look at this
together. Psalm 89.7. See what the Lord says here.
And if we don't see God in both characters, full of grace and
full of truth, God is light in whom there is no darkness at
all. And that's the first thing of the gospel message that we
preach. That's the first point of the Christian message. God
is light. God, there's no darkness about
Him. He's holy. He's righteous. He's just. There's no darkness in Him at
all. And if we say that we know Him and walk in fellowship with
Him and union with Him and communion with Him and turn around and
walk in darkness after other gods and other idols, and compromise
the gospel of the grace of God, the truth of God, he says, we
do lie. That's what he says, we do lie.
Psalm 89.7 says this, God is greatly to be feared in the assembly
of the saints. And what's this, and to be had
in reverence of all them that are about him. Oh my, keep in
mercy for thousands. to be greatly feared and to be
had in reverence? Oh my, I want to have him in
reverence. Let's look back over here in
our text. So God revealed himself to Moses. Proclaimed the name
of the Lord before him. And look what it says there in
verse 8. And Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the
earth and worshiped. Oh my, that's what happens to
men who seek God. That's what happens to men who
God passes by. That's what happens to men and
women that God proclaims His name. That's what happens to
God who men shows himself merciful and gracious and long-suffering
and kind and good and gracious and yet will by no means clear
the guilty. And all this is the effect. He
bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. This is the effect
of God's blessed revelation of Himself. And once He said He
made haste, His worship was spontaneous. He didn't plan anything when
God spoke. He just got down quickly, spontaneously. God before the Lord. He worshiped
and bowed to the earth. Oh, his heart was deeply affected
at the presence of God and the revelation of God. You know,
when God appeared to Abraham in Genesis 17, the first thing
Abraham does when God spoke to him, he got down. He got down. And that's what happens when
God comes in our midst, our hearts bow down. Oh, we humble ourselves. We reverence him and we bow.
Oh, my. We're like Joshua, the king,
when the captain of the Lord of Hosts appeared unto him. He
said, I'm the captain of the Lord of Hosts. That was the Lord
Jesus Christ. And he understood that quickly
and he bowed himself to the earth and says, Whoa, speak for thy
servant is down. And all of this generation don't
want to get down, they want to get up. They don't want to have no reverence
for God, they want to have reverence for everybody else reverent but
God. I ain't fishing to call no man
reverent. I don't care if he's black, green, yellow, white,
how many colors he's got, how many degrees he's got. I'm not
going to call him reverend. Huh? And oh, and I'll tell you
something, God didn't resent God's ways. He worshiped when
God says that He kept mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgressions, and thereby by no means cleared the guilty.
And He turned around and says, I'll keep mercy for thousands,
but all at the same time, I will. visit the iniquity of the fathers
unto the children, unto the children and the children's children.
I'll do that for thousands of generations." And Moses said,
he didn't jump up and say, now that ain't fair. That's what
Paul says, you know, when he says, you know, that God loved
Jacob and hated Esau. And the children not being yet
born, that the purpose of God according to election might stand.
Not of him that willeth or worketh, but him that's called of God,
that their purpose and call of election might stand. And Paul
all the night just said, is there unrighteousness with God? Because
that's the first thing somebody says. Moses didn't say, God,
that's not fair. You've got to give everybody
a chance. You've got to make it possible for everybody to
be saved. You said He is love. He said,
I'm also light. If you take a people that want
a strange God, God said, I'll let you have one. Somebody wants to be a Catholic
all the life, God said, go ahead. Worship the Pope. Worship Mary.
I don't go ahead and do that. I'll send you a strong delusion
that you'll believe that all the days of your life. You want to believe that all
the power is in your will and in your rights and in your ability
and in your power, you go ahead and believe that. I'll let you
believe that. The only difference that I'll
make is that if there's any difference made, I'll be the one to make
it. It won't be you that make it. If I save you from being
a Catholic, it'll be by my grace. If I save you from being a free
will, it'll be by my grace. If I save you from being an independent,
fundamental Baptist, it'll be by my grace. If I save you from
being a self-righteous Pharisee, it'll be by my power, not by
yours. And Moses, he's understood that.
He just shut his mouth and fell down. You ain't gonna worship
a God that they can bargain with and that's equal to. And oh,
look what he says now. He worshiped. He didn't resent
God's way. He says, went on down there,
watch what he says now. Verse 9, he said, If now I have
found grace in thy sight, O Lord. If I have found grace in thy
sight, O Lord, my Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us.
Oh, my, go among us. Where do we go? Go among us.
Just please go among us. And ain't that what we want?
Oh, God, be among us. Be among us. We're in the wilderness. We're traveling. Dry, desert
land. Miserable place to be. Mountains
to climb, rivers to cross, valleys to go through. Families to bury. Oh, they buried
family member after family member after family member. Children
to bury. Parents to bury. Wives to bury. Husbands. Oh, God, go among us. Please go among us. And Moses,
please, his relationship with God for the good of others. His
heart and life is bound up with his people. And he says, go among
us. He didn't say, go with me. Come
among us. And oh, bless God that He came
among us in the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The tabernacle of God comes and
dwelt among us. The Word was made flesh and came
and dwells among us. And that's what He done. He identified
Himself with His people. And He says, come among us. And
then look what he says, look what he said about them. He said, for instance, didn't
that people? He didn't dress them up. He didn't dress them
up. You know, when Christ came here,
you know what he said? I didn't come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repent. Why do you define master Republicans
as sinners? I'll have mercy and not sacrifice.
You're going to learn what that means. Don't bring me your works. Don't bring me your goodness.
Don't bring me anything. I'll have sacrifice. The sacrifice
that I'll have is my own. You're going to learn what that
means. And, oh, beloved, and he said, it's the stiff-necked
people. Now, listen to me. It was their
need that Moses persist to the Lord. It's because they have
a need. Go among us. These people, if
you don't do something for them, Lord, they'll die like this.
And he appealed to the grace of God. Lord, you said you're
merciful and gracious and long-suffering and abundant in goodness. And
this is a stiff-necked people. And oh, Lord, they need your
grace. They need your mercy. And none
but the Lord can bear with them. Nobody but God could. Look over
here, keep that and look over in Exodus 32, in verse 9 with
me, just a minute. Let's look at this together.
Exodus 32, in verse 9. And the Lord said unto Moses,
I have seen this people, and behold, it's a stiff-necked people. He's on and up to it, Moses is.
And how, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against
them, and I'll make a soothing, and I'll make a bid, great nation."
What's what Moses does? Oh, like our Savior did for us,
like He done for Simon Peter. Simon, you're going to deny me,
but oh, listen, I'm going to pray for you. Let your faith
fill you. And Moses besought the Lord his God and said, Why
doeth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty
hand? Wherefore should the Egyptian speaker say, For mischief did
he bring them out to slay them in the mountains, to consume
them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and
repent of this evil against thy people. Remember I, Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom you swear by yourself.
Oh, so you see Moses goes over here when he's pleading. He's
birthed the ball. He identifies himself with them.
Christ identified with us. Christ didn't dress up our...
You know, it's said over in John 2.15, it says, He needed no man
to testify of man. Why didn't He? For He knew what
was in man. And nobody had to come tell Him
what this fellow's like or what that fellow's like or that other
fellow. No. That's what people do, you
know. People do that all the time.
They say, if you knew that fellow like I did. Everyone they do,
they say, that fellow there is a pretty good fellow. That fellow
over there, I wouldn't trust him as far as I can speak. Then Christ
said, you don't need to tell me about any man on the face
of the earth. For I know what man he is. I know what's in him. And that's what Moses is doing
here. He pleads their need by saying, this is a stiff neck,
only God, Lord, only you can do anything for it. Moses acknowledged
what God charges against him. He already said there's a stiff-necked
people. But in faith, he turns it into
a plea for him to go among us. Lord, they are stiff-necked,
so please go among us. What hope is there for them?
What hope is there for them now? And then look what else he says
in verse 9 again. For it is a stiff-necked people,
and pardon our iniquity. And our sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ so identified
with us that He was made to be seen for us. He says, My iniquities
are more than the hairs of my head. That's what Christ said. I'm a worm and I'm no man. speaking for the transgression
of my people. Our iniquities, our transgressions,
ours. And that's what Moses says, forgive
our iniquities, our sins. And watch this. And oh, what
a plea. Take us for thine inheritance. Take us for thine inheritance.
Why in the world would I want you? Well, God says, you know,
I'll make up my jewels. I'll take you. You've got to
see. Look over at Ephesians 1.18.
Oh, take us for thine inheritance. Why does God need inheritance?
For the earth is the Lord's and the fullness of the earth. Why
does He need an inheritance for? We're the ones that need an inheritance.
But take us for thine inheritance. Ephesians 1.18. Oh, take us for
thine inheritance. Oh, we're the ones that need, but
oh, he said, take us for thine, take us to be your inheritance.
What in the world would he want us for an inheritance? We ain't
got anything. No, we don't, but Christ has everything. And if
we got Him, You know, if Christ is the One, He inherits all things.
He's the Son, and as the Son, He's the heir of all things.
And if we're joint heirs with Christ, then that means that
we inherit also, too. But oh, look what it says here
in Ephesians 1.18. The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His
calling, and watch the riches of the glory of His inheritance
in the saints. God, the riches of His glory,
of His inheritance, were at, in the saints. In the saints. Oh my, bless His holy name. Let
me look in Psalm 33, just a minute. Let's just look at that. Psalm 33, in verse 12. Oh, this is another one of those.
Make us for Thine inheritance. He identifies Himself with these
people, these sinning people. Take us for Your inheritance.
And oh, Christ so identified with us that God regards us as
one. If we understood the union that we have with Christ, that
God, that everything He did, we did in Him. And everything
He is, we are. Everything we are, He became.
So that everything He is, we might become. We were so regarded
as one. God views us as one. There's
only one body. Only one body. And God reviews
us as one. When God sees me, He sees the
righteousness, He sees me in Christ. He regards me as righteous
as Christ and as acceptable as Christ. I'm seated right now,
and you are too, together with Christ in heavenly places. Because
wherever the head is, the body's got to be. And they say, talk about chisms in
the body of Christ. There ain't never been a chism
in the body of Christ. No, never has. There's nothing
wrong. You know, Christ said He's a
glorious body without spot, without blemish, and without blame. And that's why we're complete
in Him, and we're perfect in Him, and sanctified in Him, and
outside of Him there's nothing. And that's why Moses identified
himself with these people, and God accepted Moses and all them
people for Moses' sake. Look at Psalm 33 and verse 12.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom
he hath chosen for his inheritance. What a gracious God! No wonder
He's merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness, and
Moses made haste and bowed down in worship. Now, let's go back
over to Exodus 34, just to make a few comments here as we go
to the end. In verse 10, He says this, He
says, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people, I'll do
marvels. such as have not been done in
all the earth, nor in all the nation, or any nation. And that's
what he did for Israel. Oh my, he done things for them
he'd never done for any other nation. So, and then he goes
on and says, that all the people among which thou art shall see
the work of the Lord. For it's a terrible thing that
I do, will do with thee. I mean, everything God does,
he does in a wondrous way, and he done it for this nation of
Israel. And all the wonderful works he did for them. Gave them
water out of a rock. Gave them manna from heaven. Gave them a cloud by day, fire
by night. Gave them a land. Gave them houses
that they never built. Gave them vineyards that they
never planted. Gave them olive trees that they never planted.
Moved him into a house, moved people out of the... People dipped
him, James said, here one time preaching. He told them what
kind of people there was, and then he said, but here are these
people over here, said, they're just like you, but I'm going to move
them out, destroy all these nations, and put you in their houses.
And the only difference is that I made it. And that's that one
God done for us. Here we are. We're no different
than anybody else. We're stiff-necked, high-minded, rebels, false idolaters,
and God moves everything out and puts us even. We enjoy the
bread from heaven. We didn't do anything to get
it. We get that water out of the
rock, we never smoke it. God did. Oh, and that's what
he talks about here. Now watch what he just goes on
to say. And the covenant He made here is that I'll make it with
you. He didn't say He'll make it with you, but I'm just going
to do all these marvels. Observe that which I command
thee this day, because I'm going to drive out before you this
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites. And oh, and take heed. Listen
now to what He says. Take heed to thyself. Take heed to thyself. Lest thou
make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest
it be a snare in the midst of thee." Don't you go in there
and join hands with a bunch of rebels. Don't you go in there
and join hands with a bunch of people that don't know God. Don't
you go in there and make a covenant with them, you know, to get on
their good side and they want to be on your good side. Just
to impress folks and make folks feel comfortable. But he said,
you'll destroy their altars. Break down their images and cut
down their groves. See, they'd set up a bunch of
trees, and they'd go in those groves, set up all the things
up there, and in the high spot, and they'd all go up. Now watch
this, for thou shalt worship no other god. You know, there are gods many,
and lords many, but there's only one Lord God, only one Father,
God, Word, Jesus Christ. For the Lord, whose name is Janus. Janus? He says His name is Janus. It's a jealous God. Oh my, what
in the world's he mean by jealous God? Jealous? Well, he's not jealous
like you and I call jealousy. Jealousy's cooler than the grave. But he's jealous for his character,
he's jealous for his attributes, he's jealous for his nature.
He's jealous over his son. You know, you mistreat his son. He said, he that honors the son
honors the father. He that don't honor the son don't
honor the father. He that has the father has the son. He that
bleeds the son bleeds the father. He that bleeds the father bleeds
the son. He ain't gonna let no, he ain't gonna bring no rivals
for his son. None. And that's what he means
by jealous. He said, And that's why, you
know, the only reason anybody gets jealous is somebody else
is taking somebody's affections away from you. You know, if you see somebody
trying to take the affections of somebody you love and see
somebody you love, their affections going after somebody else. They
want somebody before me. They want somebody else besides
me. They want somebody else's affection besides mine. They
want somebody else's love. That would make you jealous.
And that's why God sent you. All your affections, all your
love, all your worship, all your adoration, all your reverence
ought to be towards Me. Lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land, and they go awry after other
gods. First, He says, thou shalt worship no other god beside Me.
No other. Don't do it. He told one place,
now we'll get to it in a minute, he says, but don't you even make
an image. That's why we just don't make no images. He said,
oh, don't make no images. God is the Spirit. And he says, lest you go whoring
after their gods, do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call
for thee, and thou eatest of this sacrifice, this idolatry.
God is, first of all, He's jealous for His own glory. He says, I
will not give my glory to another. I will not do it." And he says
this, he said, he chose the foolish things to compound the weak things
to compound the mighty, and the foolish to compound the wise.
And right here's a very instance of that. He chose Moses, a man
who couldn't even talk, to be his representative. He chose
a nation down there who was nothing but a bunch of slaves. And there
was this mighty nation. He chose the weakest bunch out
of that nation to compound that mighty bunch. And then that people
took them through on dry ground and destroyed the mighty. Look
how foolish you look. There's no way in the world people
walk through on dry ground. If God says they are, they will.
And if you want somebody weak, look at what he done for you.
He chose you. How weak are you? And you find people in religion,
you find anybody weak in religion? No. No, I wasn't weak when I
was in religion. I was strong. Everybody else
was the one who had something wrong with them. That's right, all you've got
to do is just, you know, here I am, I'm nobody. And they ask
you, what degrees do you have? What school do you go to? What
seminary did you go to? And if you didn't go to one of
them, they'd say, well, that's what they want to know. If you
ain't got one of them, you ain't nobody. That's what that sin about our
master said. Where did he get this learning? Where did this
man get this learning? He never went to none of our
schools, our synagogues. And oh, God's jealous for His
own glory. And he says, and these things
are written, that no flesh should glory in his presence. If a man
glory, let him glory in this, that he knows me." Amen. And God is jealous for the affections
of his people. Now, you look with me over in
Colossians chapter 3, just a minute. God's jealous for the affections
of his people. Colossians, you know, he's jealous
for the affections of his people. If you're jealous for the affections
of your husband or your wife or your kids, how much more would
God be jealous over the affections of you? And that's why it says,
have no God before me, Colossians 3, verses 1 and 2, look what
it says here. If you then be risen with Christ,
seek those things above. things, holy things, glorious
things, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Now, set
your affection, not affections, words, singular. Set your affection,
your minds, your hearts, set your affection on things above,
not on things of the earth. Oh, God's For our affections,
for the affections of His people. No wonder He said, Simon Peter,
loveest thou Me? Lovest thou Me? Lovest thou Me?
That's all that matters. Do you love Me? I know you fail.
Do you love Me? I know you're a sinner. Do you
love Me? I know you're nothing, but do you love Me? I know you
have no guilt. Do you love Me? That's all that matters. God
knows our hearts. And then he's jealous for his
people. Not only jealous for the affections of his people,
but he's jealous over his people. He said, he that touches you
touches the apple of my eye. That's why David would not slay
Saul. He went, that one time, went
in the cave and got his water, walked down, stood up there and
said, hey, look what I could have done to you. Is that you,
David, or is it me? Went in another time and took
and cut Took his skirt off him, took it out of there with him,
and took his spear. He walked up there and had his spear in
his purse. He said, boy, you know what I could have done?
And everybody comes sliding to the earth. He said, God said,
touch mine anointed. And God had anointed him. And
oh, he was an enemy and meant to destroy David. David said,
I will not lay no hand on the Lord's anointed. Ah, boy. And that's why God says,
if you touch one of my children, it's just like you're sticking
your finger in my eye. Yeah. And I mean, that's the way we
feel. You know, people do about what they want to us, but when
they start bothering our kids or our wife, that'll get us stirred
up quicker than anything. Say what you want to about me.
Do what you want to about me. But boy, when you start bothering
your children or your wife, now that'll get you stirred. And
that's what stirs God up. Yeah. You want to get God turned
up, you start bothering His children. Then look what He says in verse
17 there, verse 16. And thou take of their daughters
unto thy sons. Be not unequally yoked together.
Here in verse, Exodus 34, 16. Don't you take their daughters
unto your sons. You know what happens when that
happens? That's why we say, marry believers,
marry believers. Because their daughters will
go whoring after their gods. You know you marry them, next
thing you know, you're going to be going to the same church they
are, believing the same thing they are, doing the same thing
they do. Just to get along. That's why it says, be not unequally
yoked together. What communion hath light with
darkness? What fellowship hath Christ with
Belial? And this is the very reason why. That's the very reason why. And their daughters go whoring
after their gods and make their sons go whoring after other gods. And to do otherwise, to do that
would be spiritual adultery. That's what he's saying. Then
he says, make no molten gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten
gods. But oh my, they make molten gods. They made all kinds of molten
gods. You know, people wonder why there's
such suffering in so many places. I'm going to tell you the reason
why. You take India, for instance. They have got more gods over
there than you can possibly count. And them people live in abject
poverty. They get in rivers full of trash and nastiness. They
go to one river to wash in, because if you wash in that river, it
washes your sins away. They worship snakes, they worship
monkeys, rats, and they've got a God that's got so many heads,
and so many, you know, and they've got Rama, they've got Shiva,
they've got Krishna, oh, they've got Vishnu, they've got every
kind of God you can imagine. And you go to China, it's the
same way. It's the same way. And that's what God says, I'll
visit the iniquities of the children, under the children, under the
children, under the fourth, fifth generation. Now, they make molten gods. When
I was in Vietnam, there was Buddhas everywhere. There was temples
everywhere. You go to Mexico, and those guys
driving those trucks through those mountains, They've got
every single saint that you can imagine stuck up on those dashes
of their trucks. Got them glued on there. Got
them stuck on the front of the bumpers. Got them struck on the
front. And every little old winch stitch
you'll go in there and build a little old house like this
here with Mary and three or four saints set up in it and candles
burning in it. And people flock to those things. Because they do it. And you go
down there and tell them they're wrong like when Walter Grimmel
first went down there and started telling them. They tried different
times to waylay him. They cut trees down and tried
to waylay him and try to hurt him. Hide in trees, go jump out
on him. Because he says, Gabe, thou shalt
have no gods before me. You don't want to have the free
will God? You don't want to have the fundamentalist God? You don't
want to have the legalist God? You don't want to have the morality
God? You don't want to have the sincere
God? We're not going to have the God
that I'm doing the best I can? We're not going to have the God
that when you get into baptism will pull the worst of sin away?
No other God before me! And oh my! They make them out
of cement, they mold them, chisel them out. Some they made out of gold,
some they made out of silver. But God says, don't you do it.
I'm a jealous God. And I certainly don't want God
to chastise me. You know, is He not worthy of
us, of our whole being? Were the whole realm of nature
mine that were present far too small? And may God give us, may God
give us, as His people, a single eye to see nothing but Him, look
to nothing but Him, not let nothing else come in and give us a single
heart. And not be led astray after others.
A single heart after Him, after His glory. Because He's a jealous
God. And I don't want, I don't want
to go after anything. Anywhere. Well, be easy to do
with it. You can see how easy it is to
do. Easy to do. Our Father, in the blessed, glorious
Name of the Lord Jesus Christ,