Being a preacher, I feel like
I'm just getting started. I know it gets bigger, but I also
know it's the highest calling that God can give a human being
on the topside of this earth. I'd have to step down to become
the President of the United States of America. And I'd rather, and
as I have done many times over the years, preached to a handful,
as to be the President of the United States. I love the gospel. I love the Lord's people. There's
nothing more encouraging than to meet new saints of God, to
the saints here in Rescue, California, those who come from Minnesota
and here yonder about. You know God's people are precious,
precious people. They're delightful. I love them.
I enjoy being with them. I enjoy the gospel. And it does
something for me and it does something for you that nothing
else in this world will do. It just, it just, it just, we
know that God gave it because it just does something for us
that nothing else in this world will do. Ain't that right? Well,
here I'm not going to read this whole chapter, because there
are 61 verses, or 67, I believe, in it. But I've titled my message
this morning, A Bride for Isaac. A Bride for Isaac. And I'll read
these first ten verses, and then come back, and hopefully the
Lord will be pleased to bless us this morning. Abraham was
old and well-spirited in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things. And Abraham said unto his eldest
servant of his house that ruled over all that he had, Put, I
pray thee, thy hand under mine thigh, and I will make thee swear
by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that
thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites among whom I dwell. The vow shall go unto my country,
and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant
said unto him, Peradventure, the woman will not be willing
to follow me unto this land." That's always a tough thing. Maybe they won't be willing. Maybe they won't be willing.
And then he says this, Must I these bring thy son again
unto the land from whist thou comest? Must I these take him
down? I need to take him and bring
him down. If they don't like him, they
don't want him, am I supposed to bring him down to third level,
bring him down to where he can be had at any price or any way? And O Abraham said, Beware that
thou bring not thy son, bring not my son there again. And the
Lord God of heaven, which took me from my mother's house, and
from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land.
He shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife
unto my son from thence. And if the woman will not be
willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be cleared from this
my own. Only bring not my son there again. And the servant put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham his master. and sweared to him concerning
that master. And the servant took ten camels
of the camels of his master and departed, for all the goods of
his master were in his hand, and he arose and went to Mesopotamia
under the city of Nair. Now, you at your own leisure,
you can read this whole chapter. And here in this chapter, which
most people see as just a historical story, something to teach children
maybe. We have one of the clearest and
fullest and most blessed revelations of God's electing love and grace
that you'll find anywhere in God's holy Word. Incredible,
incredible revelation, picture of our Lord Jesus Christ getting
His bride. The sinner, and how that sinner's
brought to the sunset. Maybe she won't be willing. Well,
we're going to see how they're made willing. We're going to
see how they're made willing. Four types in this chapter I
want us to look at. Abraham, first, he's a type of
the Father, God the Father. Isaac is a type of God the Son. Eliezer is a type of the Holy
Spirit who goes and does the Father's bidding. And, of course,
Rebecca, the bride, she's typical of me and you. And I believe,
I hope this will be a blessing to you. It's always been a blessing
to me. But now, first of all, let's look at the Father. Let's
look at the Father. Now, the Father's purpose. He said, I want a bride for my
son. And this was the Father's purpose. The Father's purpose
was in that. Look what he said here in verse
4. But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son Isaac. You see, it was the Father's
purpose. And it was the Father's will that the son have a bride.
It originated with him. It didn't originate with Isaac.
It didn't originate with Rebekah. It didn't originate down in there.
It didn't originate in Canaan. It started with the father. And
the father, before the world ever began, he had a purpose
to have him a bride. He had a purpose to bring glory
to his blessed son. And look over at me over here
in Isaiah. Keep Genesis down. Look in Isaiah
14 with me, just a moment. You know, it says that the kingdom
of God is like unto a king who made a marriage supper for his
son. And you know, God's eternal purpose
is in His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything about
God is eternal, and His purpose is eternal. And you know, it
works all things after the counsel of His own will. And the thing
that God used more than anything to reveal to me, the gospel.
was that everything God has ever done and ever will do is always
done on purpose. I began to search the Scriptures
in light of that word, purpose. And oh my, you're talking about
changing the way you think. No accidents, no chances, no
misfortune, no lady luck, none of that. But look here in Isaiah
14, 27, talking about God's purpose. The Lord and host has sworn,
saying, Surely as I have thought, shall it come to pass, and as
I have purposed, so shall it stand." And so God had a purpose, and
the Lord Jesus Christ, He had a purpose to have a bride for
His Son. And Abraham said, Go get a wife
for my son Isaac. And it was God who saved us,
and called us with a holy calling, not according to our words, but
according to His own purpose and grace which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world ever began. And all beloved,
so go down there. We know that all things work
together for good to him that I love God, and I'm called according
to His purpose. Now, we think that purpose happens
means after we're converted, everything's for our good. But
from the time we're born until God takes us home, everything
in our lives is according to God's purpose, and it's good.
And it's good! It's good. You know why it's
good? Because God said it's good. And it's on purpose. I was born
where I was born on purpose. I was born to the parents I was
on purpose. I went through the life I went
through on purpose so that when God would bring me to Himself,
then I would see that I saved on purpose and made me abhor
my sin, and brought all my sin I take for myself, but all the
grace I give to Him and all the glory." Then what else he said
down here in Genesis 24 and verse 4? That he said, "...but thou
shalt go unto my country and to my kingdom." And take a wife. Now what in the world do you
reckon that means? That means, he said, go to my country. The
earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Is there any place you
can go on this earth that don't belong to God? The cattle on
a thousand hills is mine. The gold is mine. The earth is
the Lord's and the fullness thereof. So this whole country is His.
Everything about it belongs to Him. And then he says, go to
my children. Let me tell you something about
that. He says, you go down to where my people are. God's always
had a people. He says, you go to my children.
And that's why he means God's not ashamed to be called our
God. That's why Paul says, When it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace. He told
Jeremiah, Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and
I ordained you to be a prophet. And you see, beloved, for whom
He did foreknow. It's He. He also predestinated. Whom He predestinated, He called,
He justified, He glorified. And so you see, God's always
had a people. And He goes and gets His people
from out among His people. You may be out here in the world,
but it's God's world and wherever you're at, if you want to hear,
somebody's coming after you. Ain't that right? Somebody's
coming after you. The servant's coming to get you.
And you may not know nothing about it. You know, that's what's
the one. We're on the trail of God's sheep. I'm not looking
for no goats. I'm not trying to separate the
sheep from the goats. I'm just on the trail of God's
sheep, and I'll tell you that, and listen, they're going to
be found. I don't find them, God finds them. But that's why
he says, you go to my country, go to my kingdom. Now, also,
a bride for Isaac was started with the Father's purpose. Now,
look at the Son's position over here in verse 35. Just look at
the Son. Typical of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Just look at Him. You see, the Father sought everything
for the Son. The Father's purpose is to be
fulfilled in the Son. And the first thing that Eliezer
said was this. He said, I am Abraham's servant.
Now watch it. And the Lord hath blessed my
master greatly. Everything belongs to God. And
he has become great. And he hath given him flocks,
and herds, and silver, and gold, and men's service, maid's service,
camels, and axes." Now, watch this, "'And Sarah my master's
wife, bear a son to my master when she is old, and unto him
hath he given everything that he's got.'" The Father said, Oh, everything
belongs to my Son. Everything that I've got, I've
given to Him. Everything, my whole purpose,
my whole will, and all my goods, everything, I've given over to
Him. And the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things
into His blessed hands. You know, look at, you keep this,
I want you to see Colossians with me, just a moment. This
is, you're going to, if you're like me, you're going to love
this. And over in Colossians chapter 1, you know the Father
sought everything for the Son. He loved the Son, and all His
purposes fulfilled in the Son. He had given all things unto
the Son. All things belonged to Him. And
you know, when our Lord Jesus prayed in John 17, He says, Father,
I pray not for the world, but for them that thou hast given
me out of the world. Everything God has, Christ gave
it. In all of it, our Lord Jesus
Christ, God loved Him. He's the heir of everything.
Everything. God made Him the heir of the
world and everything in it. Now look here in verse 16. I
want you to see this. I want you to see two things. For by Him were all things. By Him were all things. Now watch
it now. Go down to the bottom of that
verse. All things were created by Him for me. He is before all
things, by Him all things. Everything's by Him, for Him,
because of Him. Oh, that's what the Father's
will and purpose is. Everything's in the Son, by Him,
for Him, because of Him, through Him. Oh! And if you've got the
Son, you've got everything. What He's got, you've got. I
told you the other day about that preacher, you know his daddy
left him millions. Millions. Millions. Now he's got to be running around
trying to figure out what he's going to do with all his money.
What he's going to put here, what he's going to put there.
And I told that fella, I said, man, I've got more than he's
ever dreamed of having. I said, I've got everything God has.
I've got his son and everything the son has, I've got. The son
has had everything. And guess what? I'm enjoying it with Him. I'm
His brother. He's not ashamed to call us brethren. And I'm His brother. So everything
He's got, I've got. He inherits glory. I've got glory
with Him. He has speech of gold. I walk
on speech of gold. He's got walls of desperate.
I've got walls of desperate. He's got eternal glory. I've
got eternal glory. He has access to the Father.
I have access to the Father. All the silver and gold in the
hills is here. That's my silver and gold. That's
two years ago. I said, old boy's down home.
He had a good old country store. I stand there in his parking
lot. I looked out over Spitzer Mountain. There in Tennessee. Big old huge
mountain as far as you could see. Big old valley. Just beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. And I stood
there and I said, oh, just to thank. My father owns every bit
of this. I'm just talking to myself. And
he said, what in the world are you talking about that your father
owns all that? He said, I don't know who owns
that land. It ain't your daddy. I said, it's my father too. You just don't know. That's the
truth. You just don't know it. My daddy
owns it all. I can't trespass nowhere because
it all belongs to him. Ain't that right? That's what
our Lord Jesus said, all things, all things, by Him and for it.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, in times past,
spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last
days spoken in the Son, by whom He appointed heir of all things,
after He by Himself purged our sins. Sit down, if the right
hand of the Baptist be on I. And I went that affair with Him
the same. It don't look like I'm sitting down, but I am. I'm
resting. Believe me. And as He gave Him
a name that's above every name, all the fullness of the Godhead
dwells in Him. He has an everlasting dominion. Everlasting dominion. Eternal
dominion. Now, there's the Father. There's
the Son. Father's purpose in the Son. In the Son, the Father's
made Him heir of everything. Now, let's look at this bride
just a minute. Just look at this bribe. It says again in verse
4, Now don't you take my son down
there. And that's what we're not, by God's grace, we're not
going to take the son down. Me and my wife were talking the
other day, and most folks, I'm telling you, they view the Lord
Jesus Christ as a doormat. He's a doormat. The only time
they want Him and need Him, is whenever they get dirty some
way, they get in trouble, they get sick, get jailed, have marital
problems, have trouble with their boyfriends, girlfriends, financial
problems, well, I know what I'll do. I'll go to Jesus. And they'll
come in there and they'll just wipe their feet off of them,
get good and clean, get all jazzed up, and get right back out there.
But that's not the way the Lord's people is. Now look what this
bride prospect was. It says there, and now she'll
go unto my country, unto my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. Now I want you to understand
this. She had no clue that this conversation was going on. She was totally unaware of it.
She didn't have a clue what was going on. She didn't know anybody
named Abraham. She didn't know Isaac. She didn't
know that they was up there in that other country. She didn't
know that anybody knew her. Didn't know where she was, what
she was doing, what she was like in any way. She was totally,
absolutely unconscious of anything going on in the Bible. But before
she knew it, before she was told, before that servant ever went
after her, She's going to be the bride's son's bride. She's sitting down there, well,
she's going on about her business. But God already has somebody
on her trail. She don't know nothing about
it. Oh, that blesses my heart. I
can't tell you what it does for me. Ah, shit, that's really my
thumbs, this. Like a blind hog, couldn't even
find an acre. And then the Lord Jesus had His
affection set on me. Had His affection set on you.
He loved you with an everlasting love. They took that infant and
threw him out in the field because he was lame and crippled. And
that was wrong. We never washed him. But God
came by and said, it's the time of love. And He washed him, and
He swaddled him, and spread His skirt over him. Why? Because
He loved him. And not only did she not know
that she was going to be the bride of the Son, but she was
going to be joined in with Him and have everything He did. I'll
tell you something else about this bride. She was far off in
another country. She was way off over yonder.
How are you going to get her from there to here? That wasn't
my problem. That's Eliezer's problem. That's
the Father's problem. Huh? And oh, you reckon you can
get her over there? Lord Jesus said, I lay down my
life for the sheep, and there's other sheep which are not of
this fold, them also I, I sure hope I can get them there. I'm
going to do my best. I'm going to work at it. I'm
going to beg. I'm going to plead. I'm going
to entice. I'm going to do all I can. No, no. He said them also
I must. Must. Oh, must bring. I'm going to tell you something
about this. You know, people say God don't
get you by the nap of neck and bring you. If he don't get you
by the nap of neck, you ain't coming. Folks don't like, you
know, like free will, you know what I mean? They despise that.
But if God don't reach and get you, you ain't coming. Do you
know when Peter drew that sword to cut off Nafus's ear? That's
the same word that he uses to bring us. He reaches and gets
hold of it with an unseen hand, but you know where you're coming.
Ain't that right? I'm telling the truth now. Oh,
listen, we're off in this far country, but all that the Father
giveth me. What are they going to do? They're going to come
to me. And we were already saved and called with the Holy Calling
in Christ before God ever made this world. And, oh beloved,
now the calling was with God, but we had to be called in time,
and that's what happened to this bride. She's down there, she's
unconscious, but the call has went out. Who sent it out? The
Father did. Who did He send to get her? The
Holy Spirit to get her. You reckon He's going to get
her? Yeah, He's going to get her. You know the Lord Jesus Christ,
It says, you know, if a man has ninety-nine sheep and one of
them be lost, or a hundred sheep and one of them be lost, he goes
into the wilderness. And Christ comes into the wilderness.
The Holy Ghost comes into the wilderness, the wilderness of
faith, the wilderness of religion, the wilderness of tradition,
the wilderness of customs and all. And He comes and He finds
that sheep, and He finds that lost sheep. He picks it up, lays
it on His shoulder. Lays it on His shoulder. And
I'll tell you something, beloved, He never sets it down once He
picks it up. And this is what's so glorious
about our Savior. He can carry all His sheep all at the same
time. And never lose a one of them.
Ain't that right? You know, we do this. And Bill
was talking about it yesterday. We raise our kids to be independent
when they grow up. I've failed very bad at that.
I'm not very independent. But see, we raise them to be
independent. And to walk on their own. But
that's one thing God never does. In fact, He does just the opposite.
He teaches us to be dependent. Dependent. Dependent. Lean. I carry. At this moment in time,
the Lord Jesus Christ has me on His shoulders. And you know
when it talks about the government being on His shoulders, it don't
say shoulders, it says one. He only needs one to carry the
government. He's got all the sheep on the other. I mean, our Savior
is glorious and great. Oh my, you know Eve. Eve was
in Adam the moment he came out of the dust. But God had to take
her out of there. And we were in Christ from the
foundation of the Word. Ain't that right? God took His
bride out of Him. Now, let's see what this preacher
is going to say, this servant. And the servant, I told you,
is typical of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at what he's going
to do now. First up here in verse 2. He had authority in the house. Abraham sat under his eldest
servant in his house that ruled over all that he had. See, he
had authority in the house. He is the one that Abraham says,
you do this. And so here he is, he's the one
with authority. And the Holy Ghost, he's the
one with the authority. I have no authority to confer.
I have no authority to give anybody any assurance. None of these
would you do. Only the Holy Ghost does. And then, look what it
says, and he was sent by the Father. The Father is the one
who sent him. Our Lord Jesus says, you know,
another, the Holy Ghost, the Comforter will come, whom my
Father shall send unto you. He'll send him to you. And oh,
beloved, what did he do? He was sent in the name of the
Son. I want you to go and tell about
my Son. You go and he takes the things
of Christ and reveals them unto us. He takes the things of Christ
and makes us to know Him and to show them unto us. Now, look
over here in verse 32. What does he do? Well, he comes
and declares the Father's purpose. Never speaks of himself. And
the man came, in verse 32, into the house, and he ungirded his camel and
gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash
his feet and the men's feet that were with him. And there sat
meat before him. Now, here's how the angel said
it. They sat some meat before him. But he said, I'm not eating.
I'm not going to eat. until I told you what I'm here
for. I've got one reason to be here.
I'm not going to eat. I'm not going to do nothing.
I've got to tell you what I'm here for." Look what he says
now. The first thing he said, I'm
Abraham's servant. He didn't speak of himself. He never pointed
to himself. You can always tell a false preacher
is not preaching Christ because where the Holy Spirit is at,
he's always testifying of Christ. He's not speaking in unknown
tongues. He's not calling people to get wild eyed and water in
the floor. He's not calling people to sway to and fro and clap their
hands and all that. He is speaking of the Lord Jesus
Christ wherever he's at. You can always tell a man's ministry,
if he's called of God, he's going to be speaking of Christ. The
Holy Spirit speaks of Christ. And think what he said. Now,
I'm just Abraham's servant. And what does he begin to talk
about? He begins to talk about the Father. talk about Abraham. They said, what the Holy Spirit
begins to talk about the Father. The Lord has blessed my master
greatly. He's become great. God's given him silver, gold,
men's service to nature. And then he talks about the Father's
will, the Father's purpose, the Father's glory. And then he says,
but you know the Father has all of his eggs in one basket. And
he said, and Sarah, my master's wife, bear a son to my master
when she is old, and I've given unto him. All things. He talks about the father, then
he begins to talk about the son, everything being given to him.
Now watch what he goes on to say, And my master made me swear,
Don't take a wife to my son of the daughters of the kingdom,
I should do gladly not dwell, but you shall go unto my father's
house unto my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. And all he was true to his message,
true to his purpose, true to what he was sent to do. Oh, let
me show you something over here in verse 53, just a moment. And this servant began to take
the things of Christ and show them unto her. Now, what did
he begin to say? He said, Now the Father hath
given everything to the Son. And the servant brought forth
jewels of silver. Now, he's with Rebecca. We'll
get to her in a minute. And he began to show her the riches
of Isaac, and all that Isaac has inherited, and all the wealth
he has, and all the glory he has, and all the power he has,
and all the majesty he has. And the servant brought forth
jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to
Rebekah. What in the world does this mean?
Silver is redemption. Wherever you find silver in the
scriptures, it's redemption. Here's the Father's redemption
purposes in the Son. And then the gold. Showed Him
the gold. That's His deity. That's His
power. That's His glory. That's His
wealth. That's His riches. That's His deity. And then Raymond!
Oh! Look at this glorious garment
here. This is going to be yours. This silver, this gold, this
redemption, this kinship, this engraving, this garment, this
glorious, wealthy garment, this robe of life, it's going to be
yours. It's going to be yours. Oh, you see what's going on here.
Ain't that something? And, oh, but I remember what
it says. And he gave him to Rebecca. gave them to her. Just gave them
to her. Said, here, here's the silver,
here's your redemption, here's his deity, here's his righteousness,
here's his glory, here's his power, it's all yours. And oh,
beloved, and listen, when this servant starts home, guess what
he does? He's responsible to get the bride
all the way back. Well, we're down to verse 61. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels,
and they rode upon the camels, and watch this, and followed
the man. Followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah,
and went his way. And I'll tell you something,
beloved. He guides all the way home. He's going to see to it
that we get all the way to glory with our Lord Jesus Christ. You
know, the Holy Ghost cannot comfort us, cannot have fellowship with
us, until He makes known the character of the Father and the
Son. And then when He makes that known
to us, then we have His comfort, then we have His service. He's
going to make known the Father and the Father's purpose. He's
going to make known the Son and the riches and the power and
the glory of the Son. All of God's purpose is fulfilled
in His blessed Son. And I'll tell you something else,
when He went down there to look for her, something He didn't
do. He didn't go down the street and say, Hey! My master's got a boy up here,
a son up here, and he's wanting somebody to please be his bride. He wants somebody to be willing. Oh, anybody want to be his wife? He never went through there,
hollering and yelling and carrying on, would you? Who wants to do
it? Anybody like to do it? He went to one person. He's dealt
with that one person, revealed to them that one person. And
that's why we're not, that's why we don't have invitations.
God knows where they are. He's going to get them. Ain't
he, Don? Yeah, you may not know that,
but God does. He went after a particular person.
That's why we're not out here begging and pleading and cajoling
folks and asking them if they will and won't and all this.
I know what people do. They will not come to Christ.
Nobody else would have come either, but he was sent to one. And oh,
when she began to look at that silver and gold, she said, this
man, he's somebody. He's glorious. And all that this
man has done is went down and told about Abraham and told about
Isaac. That's all he's done. Never told about anything else.
Well, you know, remember he says, what if she's not willing to
come? What if she's not willing? Well,
let's look here and see what made her willing. Down in verse
58, that's why I say you need to read this whole chapter to
get the gist of this whole thing. And it says down in verse 58,
They called Rebekah and said unto her, Will thou go with this
man? What did she say? I will go. I'll go. Oh, I'll go. Oh, the gospel is the power of
God unto salvation. To them which are being saved,
Christ is the power of God. Christ is the wisdom of God.
Oh, bless you. When we preach Christ, and folks,
Don said it last night, sitting there at the table, he says,
you know, when you see the Son, you know, he's talking about
when he was a young boy, And he looked up at that solar eclipse,
and he saw the sun, he seen sunspots in his eyes forever, for a long
time. He said, and that's the way it
is, he said, when you look at the sun, if you ever are blessed
to see the sun, the sun of God, you'll have sunspots the rest
of your life. That's all you'll ever see, is that sun. Huh? And all the sun of righteousness
who arises with him in his way. But oh, look how it attracted
Rebekah. There was no pleading. He never
said, would you please. Are you willing? I would like
for you to. Would you open your heart? No,
he just went and told her the situation, told her about Isaac,
told her about Abraham, told her about the purpose, told her
about the gold, told her about the silver, told her about the
raiment. And it was the goodness. and the glory of his Father,
and everything he had, and the blessed Son, and all that was
given to him, that won her heart to Isaac, even without sin, whom
having never seen, we love and rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory." Now watch what happens now. Look back up
here in verse 55. And her brother and her mother
said, let the damsel abide with us just a few days. Let her stay
at least ten, after that she can go. Don't go, honey, don't go. Don't go. We want you to stay
just a little while longer. Don't go with that man. Oh, my. And the servant said unto him,
Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath passed my way, send me away,
that I may go. Oh my, mama said don't go. Brother
said, oh honey, stay just a little while longer. And that's why,
you know, Paul said, we don't confer with flesh and blood.
When you hear the gospel, when you hear some truth, don't go
ask granny where the sword is. Don't go ask granny. No, no. Don't go to anybody. Don't go
to your neighbor. You know what he's going to say? You better
not go back up there. Stay away from that place. In
fact, here recently, I was gone, but they said some woman comes
and she calls several churches asking for a place to go. She
said, where you go here, you go there, you go there. But there's
a church out on Lantana Road. Don't, whatever you do, don't
go out there. Today I've got a strange belief. That woman said, I got to go.
Everybody she talked to said, go anywhere and go there. They told me when I got home
about that, you know. But anyway, it must have been
strange. She ain't been to heaven. Oh, me. But here she goes. And
they said, oh, my. They brought the woman in. Don't
you dare go in the park. You just keep coming and listening. You just keep coming in here.
Don't go ask mama, don't go ask daddy, don't go ask your aunt
or uncle or nobody. You just keep coming. And watch
what happens then. They said, we'll call Vanessa.
Let's call her and see what she wants to do. Let's see what she'd
like to do. And oh my. They said to her,
will you go with this man? I'm ready to go. Let's go now. Let's go right now. If he's ready
to go, I'm ready to go. I'm going. Mama, oh, Mama, I'm
going. I'm going. Well, I don't know
about you. I'm going. Oh, darling, please.
I'm going. Ah, listen, you're going to have
to walk away and leave everything if you come to Christ. You've
got to come for yourself. You can't come for your husband,
your wife, your children, nobody else. You've got to come for
yourself. And, oh, she left all behind. Why? For the glory that
had been revealed to her when he began to tell about Abraham
and his blessed person and purpose. How that the father had sinned,
and then he began to take the riches of the sun, the silver,
and the gold, and the raiment, and began to describe them to
her. And oh, listen, if I asked you to describe the Lord Jesus
Christ, how would you describe Him? You would not describe a
physical person, would you not? You would say, well, I think
he's 5'9", probably weighs 165 pounds, probably got dark hair. No, you do not describe a physical
person. You describe a personality. You
describe someone, and you begin to describe his attributes. You
begin to describe his will. You begin to describe His power,
and His glory, and His love, and His grace, and His wisdom,
and His purpose, and His clothes, His righteousness, and His justification. You begin to describe a person,
and all that He's done, and all that He is to you. And oh my,
the half ain't been told yet. And I'll tell you, beloved, I
want you to look with me at 1 John chapter 5, just a moment. I'll
be done in a minute. You know, she trusted everything.
to Abraham's promise. Now, Abraham said, I'm giving
everything to the Son. She hadn't seen the Father. She
hadn't seen the Son. So she accepted everything by
faith before she ever got there. Ain't that right? Ain't that
what we do? We accept everything by faith. Look here in 1 John
chapter 5, and that's what you've got to do. And oh, God helped
you to do it now. If you're not a believer, God
helped you to believe at this moment. I've tried, and I know God has,
and Milton has, we've tried to describe Christ and His glory
and His power and His majesty and His love and His grace and
His righteousness and His eternal purpose and all of mine. You say, well, you reckon God
would have anything to do with me? He will in His Son. Well,
look what it says here in verse 9, 1 John 5, 9. And I'm stood here in witness
to you, and these men are witness to you, Gene's witness to you,
we witness to you. We tell you what we know, but
the witness of God's greater. We're just telling you what God
said. And this is what God bears witness to. What does God witness
to? God's testified of His Son. That's what Abraham, that's what
he's interested in. I want a bride for my son, because
I've got everything vested in my son. All of my wealth, all
of my power, all of my glory, the promise, everything's in
my son. Now, what's this? And he that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. You don't
need me to witness whether God has done something for you. You
don't need the church to witness if God has done anything for
you. You've already got the witness. Oh, my. How do you have the witness? God gave it to you. God bore
witness to your heart. And he that believeth not God
hath made him a liar. He said, well, I just don't believe
what God has said. I just don't believe that's true. Because
he believeth not the record that God gave of his son. And that's
what Abel Israel went down there. He bore record to the son and
what the Father told him to tell him. And this is the record.
This is it. This is what God records. God
recorded in eternity. God recorded in His Word. He's
recorded in my heart. This is the record that God has
given to us. Watch this. Eternal life. Given
it to us. Just like He gave Rebekah those
things of Isis. And this life is in His Son. It's in His Son. Oh, now listen. He that hath the Son, and with
Rebekah, She said, Oh my, she took the things of the Son, and
he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath the Son of God
hath not life. And I write these things to you,
that you may believe on the same name of the Son of God. All right,
let's go back over here and finish this up. Look here now in verse
62. Excuse me, verse 63. Isaac went out
meditating in the field at evening time. walk around in the field. I do that at home, but we live
on a farm, and I go out walking around in the evening, late in
the evening, walk around the pond and things. And here he's
out walking around in the field this evening. And watch this.
And he lifted up his eyes. What did he see? And he saw some
camels coming. Isaac saw her coming before she
ever got there. The father said, Oh, there's
the son we all come to. And there he sees her coming,
and, oh, beloved, look what happens now. In verse sixty-two, Rebekah
lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she jumped off
that camel. My, that's what caused it. Here's why she done it. She was
standing on a serpent. What man is this that walketh
in the field to meet us? Who is this man? She'd never seen him before.
Oh, boy. And the servant said, it's my
master. It's my master. Boy, she's not like us. She covered
herself. She covered herself. She'd come
in humility. She'd come submitted. And she
covered herself. Oh, my. She found a husband. She found a true life. She found
everything she needed in him. And all beloved, she come and
she covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all
things that he had done. Now watch this. And Isaac brought
her unto his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became
his wife. And listen, and he loved her. He loved her. And you know, she
come home to a home that she didn't even know existed. Came
to a man she didn't even know. And she fell head over heels
in love with Him before she got there. And you know, one of these
days, that's what's happening to us, that we've got the message.
Christ has come and told us, and He prayed in John 17, 24,
Father, I will that they whom Thou hast given Me be with Me,
for I am. And guess what? We will. We will. Lord bless you.