Deuteronomy chapter 15. I won't read the passage yet, but
my text is Deuteronomy 15, the last part where we left off from
last week. It will be this morning, verses
19 through 23, as most of you are probably already aware of
it. Listen to this. Let me give you this as a way
of introduction and beginning. The opening of the 117th Congress
in 2021 was led in a prayer. And the prayer ended with some
words, and I'm going to quote you. This is not hearsay. I went
online, I hit the little arrow, and I listened to the whole prayer.
Some of the prayer was quite good. And I will not dare say that
the prayer was not sincere, because I do not see the heart. I do
not see the heart. But let me give you the last
few words of that prayer. It was the opening of the 117th
Congress. Of the monotheistic God, Brahma,
and gods known by many names by many different faiths, a man
and a woman. Now, the religious talking heads
made much to do with the phrase amen and a woman. Now I'm not speaking for this
person who prayed the prayer. He spoke for himself. He spoke
about it later. And others spoke about it. But
some were so tore up about amen and a woman. I don't care what
the reason is, it is a mockery of God Almighty. But there's
something worse than that here. that nobody touched of the monotheistic
God. He was praying that there's one
God. But let me say, God is not a
monotheistic God. God is God. We ought to be the
monotheists. God is one. He is God. And he is not monotheistic. We
should be. But it continued, of the monotheistic
God, Brahma. Brahma is not God's name. Brahma is not God's name. Deuteronomy chapter 15 reads
this way, verses 19 through 23. And all the firstling males that
come of thy herd and of thy flock, thou shalt sanctify unto the
Lord thy God. males only. No females. Now I'm adding that,
but this is still the truth. No females, period. Period. Thou shalt eat it before
the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall
choose thou and thy household. So this ain't just for one person
or one group of people, this is for who? All. All of God's
people. All of Israel. Specifically in
this day in which it was given, it was given for a bunch of Israelites. A bunch of Jews. And if there
be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have
any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy
God. Thou shalt eat it within thy
gates. The unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike as
the roebuck and the heart, only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof, thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. That is,
the blood, is vital, it is significant, it is important, even if it's
the blood of a heart or a roebuck, which were never even offered
in sacrifice to God. So even in your everyday food,
you take great reverence for the blood. As a matter of fact,
there's a sense in which he's, not a sense, he is telling them,
you don't partake of the blood, The blood's for somebody else. Now Christ's blood was shed for
sinners, but it was offered unto God. And the blood is God's. Now, every man, and I mean by
that, male, and you are either a Male or a female, according
to your, and forgive me if I got the wrong word, but I think chromosomes,
am I not right about that? I don't care what you do to your
body outwardly, you will never change your chromosomes. Your
chromosomes will remain the same no matter what you do to your
human body. I know there are certain things
as mutations and genetic defects and that kinds of things amongst
people, and it's got to be mind-blowing for those who were born that
way. But you understand what I'm saying. Every male or every
female, I don't care what your skin color is. of every generation
since time ever was, every man, woman, boy, girl, child, black,
white, greed, it does not matter, from the first one to the last
one, will bow down to God's man. Henry Mayhead said once of Rolf
Barnard, Rolf was a great preacher, but he was very unpredictable. I asked my wife, when I sent
you all that title, I said, bow to God's man. I said, did you
think I was talking about me, the preacher? No, no. The reason Henry said
that about Rolfe is because Rolfe came to Henry after one of the
conferences that Henry used to have every year at 13th Street.
Rolfe, and I won't get these words exactly right, verbatim
of course, but Rolfe basically told, Henry was the young preacher,
about early 20s, Rolfe was way on up there. And Rolfe told Henry,
he said, you need to assign these young preachers messages because
they just get off in left field every which way and something
along that line. So Henry took it to heart and the next time
around he assigned everybody, all the preachers, a passage
or a subject or whatever it was. Well, he assigned Rolfe one too. And Rolfe got up and said something
along the line, there's one thing I hate is to be assigned what
I got to preach on. But since I've been assigned
to preach it, and I know it's in this book, then I'm gonna
preach on it. So Henry said Rolfe was really unpredictable. Rolfe
wasn't meaning for Henry to assign him a subject, all these younger
fellows he assigned. But when I say bow to God's man,
I'm talking about Jesus Christ. I'm talking about God Almighty
manifest in the flesh. Now you listen to me, you hear,
you listen too, but you out there, anybody hears this later on tape,
I don't care if you're a Muslim or a Methodist, you will bow
to Jesus Christ. You will bow to Jesus Christ.
Muslim or a Methodist. I don't care if you're a Buddhist
or a Baptist, you will bow to Jesus Christ one day. And I'm
sure that the Methodist and the Baptist don't like to be linked
to the Muslim and the Buddhist, but you're all lost. You're all
sinners. We're all guilty before God.
It's just like, I forget, I don't know if it was, that wasn't Jack
Shanks, but one of the preachers from out of Texas, and he'd go
to the prisons, may still be alive, they still do it, go to
the prisons and preach. Well, you know, you all would
have the prisoners would be over here, and then some of the employees
and the wardens, some of them would be over here, and that
preacher said to all the employees and the warden and all the big
wheels, you sinners come over here and sit with these sinners
while I preach to all of you, because you're all sinners. I'm sure that went over like
a hair in the soup. But I'm telling you that every
man, woman, boy, girl, skin color, you will bow to Jesus Christ
one day. Hear God's sovereign declaration.
You don't have to turn there, but I know you've heard it before.
Especially a lot of us used to hear it at Christmas a lot. But
it's a valid message for far more time than just Christmas.
Here's what it says, Isaiah chapter nine, the prophet writes, for
unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given. You understand that, right? The
child was born, but the son wasn't born. The son wasn't born, he
was given. But it's a, now listen to me,
it's a son, S-O-N, male, child. males of thy flock. Look at it. And the government
shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. God is not our mother. God is our father. Anyone who would mock that, belittle
that, is nothing more than blaspheming God Almighty. They can pray all the prayers
they want, they do. Men will do what they want to
do. I'm not here to stop everybody and make everybody pray right.
Because you're not gonna pray right if you don't believe right.
And you're not going to pray in reverence to God. Reverence
to God, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. And you're not going to do that
sincerely unless God Almighty broke you down and humbled you
at the feet of his S-O-N, son. of the increase of his government
and peace, there shall be no end upon the throne of David
and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the
Lord of hosts will perform this. Six things, briefly. God demands
continual worship. Chapter 15, first part of verse
20. Thou shalt eat it before the Lord. That is this sacrifice
before the Lord thy God year by year. Now listen to me, there
are a lot of people that think because they've done some one
time thing that they're all fixed up. Thousands do. Now they vary on
the thing or the one thing or a couple things. I was sprinkled
when I was a baby. And people rest in that, don't
they? Or I came forward and I prayed the sinner's prayer. And I am
not saying that these people are not sincere when they do
that, but that is not salvation. It is not salvation. It just is not. Peter said in 1 Peter 2 verses
one through four, but let me just give you the one phrase,
to whom, C-O-M-I-N-G. If you don't keep coming to Christ,
you never have yet come to Him the first time. You don't get fixed up by something
you do back yonder. You're fixed up because you do
it every day of your life. You come to Christ, you come
to Christ, you come to Christ, you come to Christ. And pray
God you die in that face. because of that great, in Hebrews,
that great list of people who believed God by faith, they did
this and did that. It says these all died in faith. And he that endures unto the
end, endures how? By coming to Christ, coming to
Christ, coming to Christ. He that endures unto the end,
the same shall be saved. If we continue in the faith,
the book says, does it not? Well, preacher, I thought you
believed in once saved, always saved. It's according to what
kind of salvation you got. If God saved you, it'll be forever.
If you saved yourself, it ain't gonna last. And you gotta keep
doing it over and over. But we don't keep coming to Christ
so God'll keep saving us. We come to Christ because God
has saved us. We got nowhere else to turn.
We got nowhere else to turn. Number two. God demands the place
of worship which he chose. Verse 20, thou shalt eat of it
before the Lord thy God every year, year by year, in the place
which the Lord shall choose. It ain't up to us. Well, I don't like the way you
preach. I don't care. I mean, if you're gonna be that
way, I'll be that way too. I don't care. But what I'd like
to see is God Almighty conquer your pride and bow you down in
humility to the feet of Jesus Christ. And I want to see God keep doing
that to everybody that's here that he's already done it to.
That he's already done it to. Philippians 2 puts it this way.
Because of who Jesus Christ is, 2 verses 5 through 11, I'm not
gonna read it. 2, 5 through 11, because of who
Jesus Christ is and what he did, wherefore God hath also highly
exalted him and given him a name that is above every name, that
in the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And God will
either bow you down to Jesus Christ now, and you'll be saved
forever. You'll be saved forever. Or he'll
bow you down to judgment and you'll be damned forever by that
same man, Jesus Christ. Because he's the judge we will
all stand before. He's the judge we will all stand
before. Number three, God's chosen place
is a male. M-A-L-E. Verse 19, all the firstly
males And I'm gonna just say period.
Period. Period. Let me tell you something. You're gonna bow down to a circumcised
male or you'll perish. You're gonna bow down to a man
that is a Jew or you'll perish. I don't care if you're a Methodist
or a Muslim. You're gonna bow down to a circumcised
Jew A circumcised Jew right now sits at the right hand of God
the Father, making intercession for all for whom he died. That's
the way it is. If you're a woman and you don't
like that, that's because you're in rebellion against God. And
if you're a man and you don't like that, it's because you're
in rebellion against God. and you're going to bow down
to a circumcised Jew. If God ever saves you in bowing
down, because many will bow, all will ultimately bow. You're
gonna bow down and you're gonna love him too. You're gonna love
him too. And remember, this circumcised
Jew is the one that's called by Paul when he wrote to Timothy,
1 Timothy 2, 5-6, he's the only, the only mediator between God
and men. That is the M-A-N. A circumcised Jew. Preacher, you don't have to keep
emphasizing that. I do as long as men are rebelling against
it. Until they take my tongue or God takes my tongue, Joe,
I'll keep trying to say it. You're gonna bow down to a circumcised
Jew, because that circumcised Jew is God's son, God manifest
in the flesh. Christ is the second Adam. He
ain't the second Eve. I don't like that, I know you
don't, I didn't at one time either. But God conquered my heart. And
I'm glad for that now. I never, oh I knew he was born
of Jewish, but I didn't realize, Walter Pendleton, you're gonna
bow down to that circumcised Jew or you'll perish. Mason,
I brought up in religion in a Baptist church and had no idea about
that true fact. You're gonna bow down at the
feet of a circumcised Jew? You Gentile dog. You proud male of the human race,
you're gonna bow down to that man. God's man will not be honored
as one among many honorees. He is preeminent. Why? Because it pleased the Father.
It pleased the Father. We have a mother. It's called
Jerusalem which is above. We have a mother. And it's actually
the grace of God manifest in His people. That's what it is. Number four. This one man did
all the work of redemptive sacrifice by himself. Verse 19. All the firstly males that come
of thy herd, of thy flock, thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt do no work with the
firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy
sheep. In other words, it ain't you
and him working together. It ain't me and Jesus getting
this thing figured out. He as the sacrifice does all
the work. He does it all. Hebrews one,
one through three is summed up this way. When he had by himself
purged our sins. He sat down, why? Because he
was tired? Nah, he was in a new body now.
He was tired before. Wasn't he? He had to sleep before,
didn't he? He don't have to sleep now. You
best be glad he don't sleep now. Because if he closed his eyes
for a moment and you went off into eternity with sin on your
hands, you'll be a goner. You'll be a goner. He did all
the work, and he did it how? By himself. Now do you believe
him? That one. What about all of us, male and
female? We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
There's none of us that understands, no, not one. God didn't put a
male as the pastor because males are smarter, it's just because
God wasn't gonna burden the women with the difficulty of that ministry. God wasn't gonna lay that on
your back. And if you think it's easy, there
are times when I wish I could let some women get up here, but
I've not seen one yet that preached the truth of God, not one. the
closest one I can even think of, and they say, she's a woman
pastor, and she's smart. But they say, right there you
go on their website, we do not deal with controversial things.
Jesus Christ is controversial. He's a circumcised Jew, and God
the Father says, you bow down to him, I don't care what you
are, who you are, where you are. You think that's not controversial?
Go talk to a Palestinian. See if that wouldn't be controversial. Go talk to a Presbyterian and
see if that ain't controversial. The gospel is an equal opportunity
offender because it says you can't save yourselves. God's
got to do it all or it won't get done. You got to be saved,
you can't get saved. And I'm not gonna hinge a man
or a woman's actual salvation on saying, well, I got saved. But let me tell you, you never
got saved. You don't get salvation. You have to be given salvation.
You have to be saved. You have to be converted. You
ever heard people, I converted to Judaism. I converted to Christianity. Whoop-dee-doo. You got to be converted, our
Lord said. except you be converted and become
as little children, you ain't even got a place in the kingdom
of God. Isn't that what he said? Be converted. For, like I said,
this one man did all the work of redemptive sacrifice by himself,
by himself. Number five, you will partake
of God's one man or you will perish. Verse 20, thou shalt
eat it before the Lord. And then he says, don't ye eat
of the blood. Isn't that what he says? And then this circumcised
Jew comes along and says, and it's recorded for us in John
chapter six, verses 48 through 58, but I will bring it down,
except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood. That was offensive
to those Jews. Right? Because even the blood
of a roebuck or a heart, you pour it up on the ground, you
show respect unto it, right? The life's in the blood. And
who sustains that blood? God does. God does. But Christ said, you're gonna
partake of me or you've got no life in you. And how do you know
if a man or a woman really has spiritual life? They feed on
Jesus Christ. You're not gonna be around to
belong. I'm not saying that we talk about Christ every moment
of the day. That's a bunch of bunk that people think that.
But let me tell you something, it ain't long when you're around
a person who truly has partaken of his flesh and blood, they
gonna, his name gonna come up. His person's gonna come up. His
work's gonna come up. His word's gonna come up. His
people's gonna come up. And they want to be around that
kind of situation. That's who they were. They'll
support it. They'll support it. I don't care if it's a dollar
a month. It'll be like that widow. And
she just throwed in, what is it called? Two bites, am I right?
Two bites, I don't even remember what that means. It was very
little. It wasn't much money. Maybe like a couple pennies.
Today, a dollar. But you know what our Lord said
about that woman? She gave more than all these others that gave
in their abundance. Why? Because she gave all she
had. Got to tell you, I got to remind
you again, remember what O. A. D. Mews said about giving,
don't you? He said, if you tithe, you're a legalist. If you don't,
you're a rebel. I just like that. I really like
that. If you tithe, you're a legalist,
if you don't, you're a rebel. Now figure that one out. That's a place where you can
say like Christ said, now go learn what that means. But if
you're thinking about it while you're real, God's people give
cheerfully and liberally, and it's not the amount, it's according
to God's blessing. Somebody's making minimum wage
compared to what I make, God doesn't expect him to give the
amount that I give, but they may give more than me when it
really comes down to it. They're giving maybe far more
sacrificial than mine in my abundance. You will partake of this one
man, this circumcised Jew. I wanna keep saying that over
and over. I'm gonna start saying that more to people. You ever
tell people he's a circumcised Jew? I mean, that's gonna cut every
which way but loose. The feminist will be ticked at you, the macho
male will be ticked at you, right? They ain't bowing down to no
circumcised Jew. Yes, you will. One day you will. I pray God it's in this life
and not at the judgment. Number six, let's wind this thing
up, I'm getting hungry. This one man's blood is to be
honored in everyday life, not just at church. The blood of the heart and the
robe was poured out on the ground. Why? Because it was God's. It
was God's. You see, most people think, being
a Christian, as you go to church, either Saturday or Sunday and
Sunday night, and it may be a Wednesday or at least a Thursday or two,
something, You gotta get that middle week one in there too.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm not making fun of people
who do. But why don't you meet every day of the week? You ever
had people say, we only meet once a week, but we have three
preachings. We got more gospel in one day than y'all got in
three times in the week. Now do we not, that most folks,
You here, although we only meet once a week on Sunday mornings,
and that's not because we think that's the way you gotta do it,
it's because most of us live so far away. It's hard, it's
tough. I told one person not too long
ago at a, it was a shower, baby shower. I said, you're a preacher. Yeah, I'm a preacher. And he's
like, oh Lord, here it comes. But fortunately, nothing adverse
happened. They even asked me to pray. So
you know what I prayed? I prayed that God save that little baby
that was coming along. That's what I prayed for. And I meant
that. When I told that person, every Sunday morning we have
three preachers, she just looked at us, what? I'm sure she thought,
I can't hardly stand the one I go to now on Sunday morning.
Y'all do three? Now don't you think that's what
most folks are thinking? Three preachers? My God, Sunday school
and preaching itself, bad enough, it's tough enough to get through
the two hours of it. But when you love Christ, you
like to hear him talked about. And every one of us wish we could
talk about him more if you really love him. Now don't you? You ever knew you should have
said something? Now I know God's in sovereign control, but that
don't excuse us for our slack. Have you ever thought, I wish
I would have said something and you didn't, and you're just so
disappointed? I mean, you got that wife or
that husband or that little baby, that child, and somebody brings
up that subject, you're glad when it comes up, ain't you?
I mean, if you like football, aren't you glad when somebody
else comes along that likes football? You can know the plays and what
they're called and how they're run. You enjoy that, why? Because you love it. And when
you love Christ, you like to be around people that talk about
Him. That circumcised Jew. I'm about to preach a message
and put the circumcised Jew. So this man is to be honored
all the time, not just at specific religious times. Attack God's people? Yeah, we're
easy targets. sinners saved by Christ, that's
all we are. And I'm sure if you broke down
my message in the light of a thrice holy God, you could find it shot
full of hell and problems. Something I said the wrong way,
a wrong attitude I had, and I figure probably the attitude that most people
think I got is probably the right one. You see, if you don't like me,
at least you ain't gonna be looking to me to save you. Now are ya?
Huh? If I can make your skivvies get
up in a twist so you ain't gonna trust me, that's all the better.
But if I could preach up, even in Joe the slightest way, if
I could preach up my Lord and you see him, you'll have it all.
You've got it all. So attack God's people, yeah,
we're easy targets. Even Christ was once assaulted
and crucified. Was he not? Yeah, they tortured
him. They would have tortured him
to death before he even made it to the cross. Had Roman law
not stipulated, he has to go and die on that cross. And God's
sovereign purpose had decreed he'll die on that cross. Mason,
they would have beat him to death in that hall. I mean, before he even got to
the cross, he was so badly marred by what they did to him, you
couldn't tell who he was. They tortured him and hung him
on a cross. But God's one man is now exalted. Never to be assaulted again. Never! Build your Tower of Babel
and see if you can get to him. I dare ya. Get Donald Trump on your side
with all these millions and build you a big tall building. God'll
blow it up. His son is seated at his right
hand and he's a circumcised Jew. Bow down rebels! Right here,
I'm talking to these rebels. Bow down rebels! Bow down rebel. Bow down rebels! You either bow now or you will
bow later. You will bow later. You'll bow
at the judgment or you'll bow in your heart to him in faith
right now.