My message this evening is, what
did Jesus preach about Himself? Did Jesus preach Himself? Did
Christ preach Himself? Did Christ preach Himself? Here
we have in verse 45, Luke 24, 45, Then opened he their understanding,
that they might understand the Scriptures. And oh my, he's the only one
that can. He's the only one that can, and thank God he does. Bless
his name that he does. And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it was written to Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead to the third day, and that repentance and remission,
a sinner, should be preached in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem, and you are witnesses of these things. So what was the message that
our Lord Jesus Christ Himself preached? Now John was the last
Old Testament prophet. And all the preachers who preached
from Pentecost on, they all preached when the Holy Ghost came upon
them. They began to preach the Lord Jesus Christ, His person,
His work, what He accomplished, not only for our salvation, but
the satisfaction of the holiness of God. But John was a last Old
Testament prophet. And if you ask him what his message
was, his message of course was the Lord Jesus Christ. A lot
of people say, you know, he comes thundering, he preached repentance.
And he did. He told men to flee from the
wrath of God. He preached baptism and repentance and remission
of sins and baptism as the evidence of that. Evidence of that. And you can find that in Luke
chapter 3. But his main purpose as God raised him up and caused
him to be born into this world was to be the forerunner of our
Lord Jesus Christ. To be the one heralding his coming. to point him out, to distinguish
him when he came. You see, he said he was not that
light, but he was sent to bear witness of that light that should
come into the world. And he says, there's one coming
after me. I'm hearing that there's one
coming after me. He is preferred before me because
he was before me. He was before I ever was. Before
I was ever in my mother's womb, he was. Talking about the pre-existence
of the Lord Jesus. And he says, oh I do, I baptize
you with water. But there's one coming after
me, that when he comes he'll baptize you with the Holy Ghost
and with fire. And he said not only that, but
said he must increase and I have to decrease. You want to come
to me and hear what I got to say, well I'm going to tell you
about him and as I tell you about him, I'm coming down. And he
identified in the thing that he did, Well, it stands out above
all things that he said and did. One day he saw the Lord Jesus
Christ coming to the shore from Jordan to be baptized of him. And he says, Behold the Lamb
of God, pointed at him. Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world. And then his disciples left him
and started following the Lord Jesus Christ. So John preached
the Lord Jesus Christ. But what did the Lord Jesus himself
preach about himself? Now the words that he spoke,
the words that he taught, the words that he preached, make
up the largest body of teaching and preaching by anyone else
in the scriptures. You can read what Paul had to
say, you can read through the book of Acts what a particular
preacher said, but our Lord Jesus more words are written down that
came forth from his mouth came right out of his mouth more than
any other person in the scriptures. And the Holy Spirit came upon
him at his baptism. But what did he preach concerning
himself? What did he preach? Well, I'm going to give you several
things to show you that he preached himself. First of all, he declared
himself to be the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. Of
all the prophecy concerning the Old Testament. That's what he
said here in verse 45 and 46. Then opened he their understandings
that they might understand the Scriptures. Now the thing that
we call the Scriptures, and what they called the Scriptures, was
strictly the Old Testament Scriptures. They didn't have the New Testament
written in. And he pointed out to them thus it was written.
In the Old Testament, it was prophesied of me that it behooved
me to suffer and to rise from the dead, the third day, and
that repentance and remission should be pushed in my name,
beginning at Jerusalem. Now look down here in verse 27.
On the Emmaus road, as he started here on the Emmaus road with
these men here, and beginning at Moses, in all the prophecy
expounded unto them in all the scriptures of things, What? Concerning himself. He pointed
him even to himself. And look over here in Luke chapter
4 with me, just a moment. Look with me together, look together
in Luke chapter 4. Luke chapter 4, at the start
of his ministry, what happened when he started his ministry?
Thirty years old, been baptized to John, started his public ministry,
preached for a little over three years, and then was crucified
and here it says in verse 17 and that was delivered unto him
he was in the synagogue in Nazareth where he was raised and there
was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah and when
he had opened the book he found the place where it was written
and it's from Isaiah 61 the spirit of the Lord is upon me now this
is a prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus Christ hundreds of
years before he ever came and he said the spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor, to preach deliverance He asked Him to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering the sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach
the acceptable year of the Lord. And He closed the door, gave
it again to the minister, and sat down. And everybody was watching
Him. Every eye in that place was fixed
on Him. And He began to say unto them
as He stood there, This day is the scepter fulfilled in your
ears. He preached himself that day,
the first day of his public ministry. What I just read to you is fulfilled
here this day right in your eyes, fulfilled in your ears. This
prophecy was concerning me, it was written six, seven hundred
years ago, and right here I am today telling you that it was
about me. You think they misunderstood
what he said? And when he came to the woman
at the well, the Samaritan woman, and he began to tell her and
expose her sin, go call your husband. I had no husband. You
rightly said, you had five, but the one you have now is not yours.
Oh my, I said, I know that when the Messiah comes, he'll tell
us all things. Tell us all things. And the Lord
Jesus said, I who speak unto you am he. She knew that the
Messiah was going to come. She knew that the scriptures
taught that Christ was coming. And then he stood there and told
her, I that speak unto you, that's me. I'm that Messiah. So he declared
himself and preached himself to be the fulfillment of prophecy. And all these claims to be the
anointed one of the Old Testament prophecy, you just imagine the
claims and how it shocked people and how it stirred people up
when he would claim to be the anointed Christ. That's what
they said about John. Are you that Christ? No, I'm
not Him. I'm not Him. But then the Lord
Jesus comes right after him and said, I am that Christ. I am
the Messiah. And some believe. Some believe. They're like Simon Peter when
he said, Lord, we believe and know that thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. We believe that. But here in
Luke chapter 4, look what happens. Down in verse 23. And he said
unto them, you'll surely say unto me this proverb, physician,
heal yourself. In other words, We're all the
people around you. You're sick and you're in your
own neighborhood and your own people. We've heard you about
what you've done over in Capernaum. Well, do here among us. Heal
your own people. And he said, Verily I say unto
you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. Now watch this.
But I tell you the truth. There were many winners in the
days of Elijah when the heaven was shut up. Three years and
six months. But under none of them was Elijah
since they've under-surrected the city of Sidon unto a heathen
woman now. A woman that was a winner, just
won. He's preaching election, his sovereignty, his right to
do what he will. And many lepers were in Israel,
showing the distinction that God's got the right to make the
distinction. Many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha,
the prophet. And none of them was cleansed
save in Naaman. He wasn't a Jew. He was Assyrian. Oh my, how do
you think they reacted? They showed their hatred, their
animosity, and then all day in the synagogue when they heard
these things were filled with wrath. rose up to cast him off
the hill. So you see, beloved, when he
declared himself to be the fulfillment of prophecy, some believed and
some didn't. And I tell you, and that's what
we got to believe, that's what we believe today, that when we
read the Old Testament, I can find Christ in the Old Testament.
We'll do that later in another message. But I can find Christ
in the Old Testament in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1. And verse
2, and verse 3, and verse 4, and verse 5. That's right. And I can go to
Genesis 3 and I can find Christ. I can find Him preached in Genesis
4. I can find Him in Genesis 6 and
preach Him from there. And I can go to Isaiah and use
the very words that he used out of Isaiah 61 and 1 and I can
preach that he's the fulfillment of every one of those things.
Then right here we said it's evidence that he, he came, he
was anointed with the Lord. to set us free. He was anointed
of the Lord to give sight to the blind. He was anointed of
the Lord to heal our broken heart. He was the one come to set us
in liberty to preach deliverance to the captives. And he set us
free. We were captives and he set us
free. So we see the fulfillment. And then he declared a priest
himself by claiming him to be the great I am that I am. Oh,
he wasn't ambiguous about that. I mean, he didn't speak in generality. He just said, I am that I am. And they understood that about
him. You know, there are seven I am's that our Lord spoke concerning
himself. Seven I am's. You know, when
Moses was on the mountain, and God said, you go down and tell
Moses to let my people go. He started down and he turned
around and said, but who am I going to say sent me? You know, I just
can't go up to Pharaoh and say, Pharaoh, let my people know. Well, who am I going to tell
them who it is? It's my people. He said, you
tell it, I am that I am sent you. Well, our Lord Jesus said,
I am. Seven different times. First
of all, he said, I am the bread of life, which came down from
heaven. I am the bread of life. Oh, there ain't nowhere in the
world that you can have any light. He that eateth me, he that eateth
my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath light. And then he said,
I am the light. I am the light of this world.
He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
the light of life. I am the light. And oh my, when
he talks about I being the light, everything outside of him is
darkness. Everything outside of him is death. Everything outside
of him is blindness. And then he says, I am the door
to salvation. I am the door by which a man
enters in. There ain't no other door. No
other door. The door is not the church. The
door is not the preacher. The door is not the altar. The
door is not In our works, the door is not our law keeping.
The door is the Lord Jesus Christ. I am the door. And I tell you this much, you
can't even turn the knob. And you can't open it. And when
you get in, you can't shut it and open it and go back out.
He said, I'm the door. And then he says, I'm the good
shepherd. I am the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. And he says, I am the resurrection
and the life. He that believeth on me know
he were dead, yet shall he live. Oh, I know they were on the last
day. Our Lord said, I am the resurrection and the life. Now,
Not in the future, not in the past, right now! Oh my! And then he said, I am,
I'm the way, I am the truth, I am the life, and it's by me
alone that a person, a soul, may approach God. No man comes
unto his Father but by me. And then he said, in John 15,
verse 1, I am the truth I am, and my Father is the husband. And all beloved, look over here
in John chapter 8, just a minute. Put your John 8 with you just
a minute. Could there be any clearer testimony that our Lord
Jesus Christ gave of Himself in these statements? I am. They understood that when He
said, I am. They understood that. Look here now. What He says in
John chapter 8, verse 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews
unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham? Now watch this now. Jesus said
unto them, Verily, verily, or truly, truly, I say unto you,
before Abraham was, Oh, did Christ preach himself?
What was his message? What was his message? In fact,
he told the Pharisees, who had their religion from the top of
their head to the sole of their foot, inside and outside, carried
their scriptures on their forehead and on their arms, stood making
long prayers. You know, you go to a resting,
you see all these people drawing hands and going and making a
short prayer. That's the way they were. They
wanted everybody to know that they was religious. Wanted everybody
to know that they knew God. And our Lord said, I'm telling
you except you believe that I am He, you'll die in your sins. Dying my sins after I've been
in the synagogue all my life? Dying my sins after I've read
the Bible? Dying my sins after I've prayed
on the street corner? Dying my sins after I've paid
my tax? Dying my sins after I've been
related to Abraham? Dying of my sin, doctor, I don't,
I dress right and then, oh, dying of my sin. Except you believe
I am healed, you'll die in your sin. Oh my, did he preach himself? Oh he did. And then he preached
himself in the Sermon on the Mount. Now the Sermon on the
Mount is the longest sermon in the New Testament. And oh my,
this is, you need to read that yourself. But he placed himself
in the Sermon on the Mount. And let's look over here, just
a minute, Matthew chapter 7. Turn over there, let me say this
while I'm saying that. That our Lord Jesus Christ, seven
different times, seven different times He said, you have heard
it said of an old time. But I say unto you, Now if I say something that don't
carry a lot of weight, then when I say something, I say unto you,
we better sit up and listen. He said, you've heard it said.
This is what you've been taught. This is what they taught you
in Sunday school. This is what they taught you
at the church. This is what they taught you in your tarot kingdom
class. This is what they taught you at the synagogue. But I'm
telling you, I say unto you, And he done that seven different
times. And he dealt with seven different
aspects of people's lives in every way. The first thing he
done, he began to describe a believer. Not what a believer ought to
be, not what a believer is going to be, but what a believer is. That's the first thing he started
out. And then he began to say, I say
unto you, But here, when he comes down to the conclusion of this
message, the Sermon on the Mount, he sets forth himself in a clearest
way, and he says here in verse 24, Matthew 7, 24. Therefore, whosoever heareth
these things of mine, what sayest? What he just got to preach. What
I say unto you, what you heard, and what I say unto you. Therefore,
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will
liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
Well, who is that rock? That's himself. And the rain
descended, the floods came, the winds blew and beat upon that
house, and it fell not. Why? Found it on a rock. What
is the rock? These sayings of mine. Right? And everyone that hears these
sayings of mine and doeth them not, he hears them like everybody
else, but he don't do them. He'll be like unto a fool, which
built his house on the sand. And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and
it fell, and great was the fall of it. So what our Lord Jesus
is saying here, whosoever hears these sayings of mine, when I
say unto you, ever you go through this, Sermon on the mount and
you say this is what Christ said. Well, that's what I'm going to
do He said you've heard it said that doctor might commit adultery
I say unto you You don't have to take another man's wife you
don't have to do that I say if you in your heart look on another
woman and desire her instead of your own you've already committed
adultery Ain't that right? He said, I,
you've heard it said, thou shalt not commit murder. Don't get
your gun, don't get your hat, don't get your club, don't get
your axe, and don't you commit no murder. That's what you've
heard it said. But I say unto you, if you just
get angry with a man, if you hate a man, you despise a man,
without cause, you just get angry at a man without cause, and you're
in danger of hellfire. See, you know what I'm talking
about? He said, he that heareth these sayings of mine, and does
them. See, men don't, the outward form, everybody keep that. But he said, I'm telling you
that this goes to the heart. This goes to the heart. And oh
my, I ain't never killed anybody. No, but you ever been so mad
at somebody you wanted to hurt them real bad? You ever been mad at somebody
without a real cause? That's what our Lord said. And
then you know, don't covet. Don't covet. You've heard it says that thou
shalt not covet. He said, I'm saying unto you,
not only not do that, but if a man asks of you to walk with
him a mile, you go too. Not only don't want what he has,
but you give back twice what he wants. If he asks, give to
him. If he wants to walk a mile, go
to him. If he wants you, give him your
cloak also. Oh, that's what he said. That's
a wise man. He said, he that hears these sayings of mine and
builds his life on what I say, not what somebody else says,
not on our opinions, not on our carnal reasonings, not on what
we think or what we feel is right. but on what I say. And he said,
it ain't enough to even call me Lord. It's not even enough
to call me Lord. Many shall say unto me in that
day, Lord, Lord. And he's going to say, depart
from me you workers of iniquity, I never knew you. Why call you me Lord and do not
the things which I say? So you see, he said, therefore,
as the final authority and as the only hope for a soul in this
world to be saved and to have a house that will stand when
this world and everything is coming down. You see, he preached
himself. Do you see what I'm saying here?
Oh my, the whole of a believer's life, the whole of true Christianity
is based upon these sayings of mine. these sayings of mine oh
my he that hears and does that's what he said ain't that
what he said he that hears these sayings of mine and doeth them
doeth them so he preached himself oh my ain't you thankful aren't
you thankful in your heart of hearts that we have something besides ourselves and
our feelings and our reasonings and our opinions and the world's
dictates to go by other than ourselves. We have an infallible
root, we have an authority and that authority is the Lord Jesus
Christ himself. Do you want your house on the
rock? Oh, I want it on the rock. Well, and whether we like it
or not, we're living a lie, ain't we? And oh my, everything about
this, he preached himself. And then by the way, Brother
Larry, the senior, said he loved to read Matthew because of all
the parables in it. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ preached
himself in the parables. He pushed himself into parables.
You know, in Luke chapter 20, there's a parable of the vine
dresser. He said, you know a man built
a vineyard, planted a vineyard. And he went off into a far country.
And he turned it over to these men. And then after a while he
sent a servant, he sent a preacher, he sent a prophet. And they beat
him and stole him and run him off. He said, I'll send another
one. So he sent another prophet, another
preacher. They stoned him and they beat
him and they run him off. Killed him. And they said, I'll
tell you what, they'll receive my son, my beloved son. They'll
treat him right. So he sent his son. And they
said, here's the son. He's the heir. Let's kill him. And that's how the Lord said,
this is what they're going to do to me. This world and everything
that's in it, and the Jews particularly, they're the vineyard of my planting,
and I've pruned them, and I've kept them, and I've met every
need. But every prophet I've ever sent
them, they stoned. Every prophet I've ever sent
them, they hated. Every prophet I've ever sent
them, they said, we don't want you. And I'm going to send my
son. And what are they going to do to him? He's there, let's
kill him. to show that they would murder
the son of God himself. And then also many about his
second coming. That's the parable of the talents.
When he left, he left his servants one ten talents, one five talents,
one two talents, another one talent. Then when he comes back,
what did you do with my talent? Also many of his second coming.
Then about the wise and the foolish virgins. Oh, don't be like the
foolish virgins. The wise had their lamps trimmed
and their lights burning, so when the bridegroom come in,
and then if it's midnight, when they knock, they can rise up
and let him in. And oh my, about a second coming,
the sheep on the right and the goats on the left. Every parable
was about himself, you see. You know, the strong men aren't.
Who is the strong man armed? Who defeats the stronger than
the strong man armed? Who spoils his good? Who is that?
Who is that who gave everybody a penny and gave the last as
much as he did the first? Who is he? Who is he that called us? Who
is he that gave all of us the same? Well, there ain't gonna
be no rewards. Every one of us gonna receive
the same. All of us receive Christ. All
of us receive salvation by grace. You receive it when you're 75
years old and you come in at the 11th hour. Or you start it
when you're 17 years old like some of you kids have. And you
start at 17 and you gonna labor all your life. But you get to
be old. And that man that come in at
75, come in at 11, he's going to go to glory before you. He's going to receive his pity.
He's going to receive his reward. And when you get there, after
you've borne the burden here today, you're going to get the
same thing he did. And you know what? It ain't going
to make you mad. Is it not lawful for him to do
what he will with his own? Oh my. And then you read Luke
15. The Lord Jesus Christ is the shepherd, going into the
wilderness and finding his sheep, and when he found it, lays it
on his shoulders and carries it home. He is that woman who
searches throughout that house until she finds her lost coin.
He is the everlasting Father who is standing on the roof looking
for the prodigal son and welcomes him home when he comes home.
Oh my! He is the merchant man who found
that one pearl of great price which is the church, his blessed
people. He is that merchant man who gives
all that he has to buy that one pearl of great price. Sold all
that he had, everything he had to purchase us. calls us a pearl
of great price and the great price was himself and all every
parable look over here in Matthew 13 with me a minute every parable
either directly or indirectly presents the Lord Jesus Christ
to us in his person or in his blessed work and reveals unto
us the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ he had just been speaking
the parables here's the parable of the of the seed sower and
the sowing seed and then he says in verse 9 who hath ears to hear
let him hear and the disciples came and said unto him why speakest
thou unto them in parables why are you using parables why are
you using earthly temple illustrations things of the earth and things
that happen on the earth such as sowing seed the different
types of ground different ways in which it fell and the different
kinds of fruit. But for why are you speaking
unto them in parables? He answers said unto them, because
it is given unto you to know the business of the kingdom
of heaven. But to them it's not given. They
don't understand. They don't get it. But I understand
it. I understand it. Why? Because
it's given unto me to say that. He said, Many kings and prophets
and righteous men have desired to see what you see, and have
not seen it. Blessed are your eyes. Blessed
are your eyes. And Bill, let me show you this,
back over here in our text tonight. In Luke 24. This is my last point. But you know, why did our Lord
Jesus Christ preach? He preached Himself. He preached
Himself. Didn't He? Oh, I know. You know that's why he says,
come unto me. Come unto me. Now if I stood here and said,
come unto me and I'll try to help you and I'll try to do the
best I can by you, that don't matter to me. But when the Lord
Jesus Christ says, you, come unto me, here you'll find salvation. Here you'll find strength. Here
you'll find life. Here you'll find hope. Here you'll
find forgiveness. Here you'll find righteousness.
Here you'll find justification. Here you'll find God himself
coming to me. And oh my, look what he says
here now then in Luke. You see in the Great Commission.
He preached himself in the Great Commission. Revealed himself,
preached himself. Then he opened their understanding.
Verse 45. that they might understand the Scriptures. He has to open
to understanding. We wouldn't understand the Scriptures.
How long did we read them? How long did we preach from them
and never seen Christ as the message of it? Oh my! Instead of seeing His
righteousness, I saw me trying to establish my own righteousness.
For a long time. Instead of seeing his work, I
saw scriptures that encouraged me to do my work. And all of us have been there
at one time or another. I wanted folks to know how good
we was, how good we was living, how well we was living. But he
opens our understandings one day and the scriptures begin
to unlock. They begin to fall into place. Start having light
coming out of him. And then he tells them why that
he had to come into this world to suffer. And why he had to
die. And why he rose again from the
third death. And then the results of that.
That's the message for us to preach. Because we're witnesses
of these things. And that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in his name. Whose name? Go out and tell men about me.
Tell them to repent. And that repentance and remission
of sins is through my name, through my power, through my work, through
my person, through my blood, through my righteousness. And
that's what he's saying here. You go and tell men about me.
Huh? And that's what he says. You're
witnesses of these things. And do it where you want to do
it at. Do it in all nations, wherever you go, wherever you
go. And that's why believers, we
do, we have a worldview. We're not just stuck here in
Tomlin County. We got people we know in Flint.
We got people we know in Mexico. We got people we know in England. And we see the world in the view
as a believer sees it. People that need to be converted.
People that need the gospel carried to them. People that need to
hear about Christ. so you know we view the world
not just as what we can do here and I look forward no more we
see the whole world in need of salvation every nation black
and white and yellow and green and east coast west coast north
and south and wherever you go we see that men need Christ and
that's why we catch his name and witness of His power, and
His glory, and His salvation, and His death, and His burial,
and His resurrection as the only hope for us sinners. Huh? Where do we go? We don't change
our message when we go to Russia, don't change when we go to Mexico,
we may not speak their language, but we don't change our message.
Ain't he the same gospel? I tell you, if you're in the
middle of Africa, or you're in the middle of Chicago, it's the
same message. Ain't it, Jerry? But oh my, you
see, the Old Testament looked forward to Christ, and His Word,
because He said, it's written. The Old Testament was pointing
to Him, and saying, He's coming. And let me show you this in Matthew
28, and then I'm through. Matthew 28, just a minute. Matthew
28, 18. You know, he preached himself
even in the Great Commission here. He says in Matthew 28,
18, And Jesus came and spake unto them. There he
is, he's speaking unto them, saying, All power, all authority,
all might is given unto me, both in heaven and in earth. So since
I've got all power and all authority, I'm telling you what I'm going
to have you do. You're going to do this. Go ye therefore and
teach all nations. And you look in the margins,
that word teach means make disciples. Make disciples. And you know
making disciples is something that's a lifetime experience. Teaching them. teaching them. You're not made a disciple just,
you know, we've converted, we're saved, but oh my, we're in a
new world. Have you arrived yet? Have you learned Christ yet?
The way that you ought to want to learn Him? Are you as faithful
and as generous and as gracious and as loving and as forgiving
and as strong a witness As you'd like to be? That's what's called
making a disciple. One that's a follower. One that's
a learner. And He makes disciples of all
nations. And what's this? Teaching them. What's what He
says? In verse 20. Teaching them. To do what? To observe everything
that I command. I love that. Teaching them the
things that I commanded. I like that. Oh boy. Well, we're going to start Catechism
Classes. We're going to teach you what the church standing
on this thing is and that other thing on eschatology and sonorology
and ecclesiology and If I can think of another, I'll
give it to you, but I can't think of another. There's a whole bunch
of homologies. But He says, you teach them not what the church
says, but what I say. Ain't that what He said? Teaching them all things that
I command. You. And all He says, and this
is Him. And I'm going with you. Wherever
you go, I'm going to be right there with you. I'm going to
never leave you. I'll never leave you. Ain't that
what he says? Even to the end of the age. How
can we do this? How can we go and do this? And
when we do this, this is the only thing that we can do, is
to preach our Lord Jesus Christ in His glory, in His fullness,
as the Savior, as Lord, as King, to preach our Lord Jesus Christ
in His saving work, and the glory of His power, all authority is
given unto me. It ain't would you please come
and let Jesus into your heart. It isn't will you please accept
Jesus. It isn't please Jesus stands
wanting to save you. All power and authority is given
unto me. Bow. Submit. Give up. Throw down your weapons. Surrender to the Lord of glory. Huh? Oh, my. Did Christ preach himself? He did. He did. Our Father, thank You for allowing
us this wonderful privilege together to speak of You again. O Lord
Jesus, We just skirt the issues, skirt the hem of the garment.
There's so much to say, so much to learn, so much we want to
know. And our cup runs over. But Lord, we still cast ourselves
upon you to teach us to instruct us, to enlighten us, and as you
open their understanding to the Scriptures, open our understanding
to your Scriptures. Would you do that, please, Lord
Jesus? O Holy Spirit, come and open our understandings to the
Word, to the Scriptures. We bless you and praise you in
our Lord Jesus' name. Amen.