All right, if you wish to follow
along, turn to Leviticus chapter 23. Leviticus chapter 23. I was going to premise this by
saying I will not be too long this morning, but God's word
itself says, let God be true and every man a liar. So if I
tell you I'm going to be short this morning, I'm probably lying
to you. I will not deal, chapter 23, if you've had time to read
it, well you oughta had time to read it, it's been about a
month since I've been here. But if you've had time to read
Leviticus chapter 23, you know this is true. There are feasts
mentioned here, feasts, feasts, that's the crux of Leviticus
chapter 23. And let me just read the first
couple verses because it says this to us. And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying, remember, they're still at Sinai. They
haven't moved out yet. And I don't know if this happened
daily, Joe, or every other day or so, but ever so often, God
was speaking to Moses and telling Moses, tell the children of Israel
these things. And Mason, I am persuaded, though
we're not told it directly, that Moses is writing this stuff down
too. I mean, this book was compiled by Moses. I know that, because
Christ said so. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the Lord, do you see it? Concerning
the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, even these are my feasts. And of course then
it goes on to briefly, briefly describe the feasts. Now there's
another passage, turn to Psalm 116. And I hope I can make good with
what, or God will enable me to make good with what I'm trying
to get at this morning. The psalmist's writing, and we're
not told specifically in the book of the Psalms who the writer
of this psalm was, and I never even checked to see because there
may be some writers who have some ideas. I don't know. Mason,
that's not absolutely vital, or we'd have been told who wrote
it. But here it is, Psalm 116. And
this phrase is repeated by the Apostle Paul under the inspiration
of the Spirit of God in the New Testament. What I'm going to
read to you is Psalm 116, verse 10. You can look at it. And Paul
quotes it, being moved by God to quote it, in 2 Corinthians
chapter 4, verse 13, the first part of verse 10. I believed,
therefore have I spoken. Now this is the psalmist writing
these words. I believed, therefore have I
spoken. Now my title is this. Rest and
feast one person. Rest and feast one person. All of the rest spoken of in
Leviticus 23 is fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. And
all the feasts, all the feasts are fulfilled in one person,
Jesus Christ. And having said that, that's
my title and subject, but I'm not going to deal with the feasts
per se or the rest in any particular detail because I'm just not going
to stop to take time to do all that. I will but skim the surface
when it comes to rest and feasts. Now these feasts, and of course
I'm sure you understand this, so I don't mean this to be condescending
in any way, but these feasts were not big meals that they
had together. We think of a feast as having
a big meal together, right? Well, one of these feasts did
have a meal. One of these feasts did have
a meal, but the feast here doesn't mean meals per se. These feasts were times appointed
by God for particular worship. Now we're to worship God according
to the law all the time in our whole being. Mason, we don't
pick out a certain day to worship God. Even the Sabbath day, that
was Friday evening at sundown, if I remember correctly, to Saturday
evening at sundown, so it changed as far as the hour was concerned,
but from dark Friday evening to dark Saturday evening was
the Sabbath. That was not a day of worship.
It was a day of rest. But it was still a day of worship.
But God didn't ordain the Sabbath just for worship. Every day,
God is to be worshipped. So I hope I'm making some sense. These feasts, and they were Passover,
unleavened bread, first fruits, the Feast of Weeks, or as we
read later, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of the
Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. All were intertwined, and what
was amazing is I read this. Now if I sometimes say seven
feasts or if I say six, don't be angry with me. Some men say
it's seven, some say it's six, and they argue about whether
it's seven or six. That don't matter. Now I will mention six
feasts, but I'm putting Passover and unleavened bread together.
So I didn't name it seven feasts because I don't need to be bombarded
by how I was wrong that there's only six. But you understand,
men will argue over stuff like that rather than try to delve
into what does this tell me about Jesus Christ? So here we have
seven or six feasts. But the amazing thing is I read
this was this. Let's say there's seven feasts
for the sake of argument. There's 10 prohibitions against
any servile work. Now there's only seven or maybe
six feasts, but Mason, there's 10 prohibitions against any servile
work during one of these feasts. And you know why that's so? Because
we're told in Romans chapter 11 that the election of God is
absolutely, purely, unadulteratedly by free reigning grace. You can't work to get God's favor. You can't even believe God enough
to get God's favor. You can only believe and work
if God's already shown you favor in His Son before the world began. and in time sends his blessed
Holy Spirit to regenerate you by his sovereign fiat and then
present to you the proclamation of the gospel that will then
conquer your heart. Paul says in Titus chapter three
verses one through seven, we were just like everybody else,
hateful and hating one another. And that's what we're, we put
on a good facade. We put on a good facade. The people we love the
dearest, by nature, are usually the people we hate the most,
because we know the most about them, and we know how hateful
they are, and how hateful we are. Isn't that the truth? Some
of you all talked about Stalin, and I'm not denigrating the people
who suffered under, but I don't got, it don't matter to me about
Stalin. I don't have great hate in my heart for Stalin. I'm sure
there are some people in Russia still today probably do, but
I never knew the man, never dealt with the man. But I'll tell you
this. I will tell you this, the people I have the most trouble
with is me and those directly around me. And you know what
Paul said to Titus? We're saved by God's grace. Not by works of righteousness,
which we have done, but by his own, what is mercy, his compassion,
and his grace. He shed it on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Lord. You see the reprobate. And I've
said this before, I think most everyone here this morning understands
this, but there are some who may see this online or later
on TV, I don't know, that's God's business. But when I talk about
the reprobate, when this book, more importantly, talks about
the reprobate, it's not what most people think about being
reprobate. Most people think the reprobate
is that old drunk living under the bridge. living on a piece
of cardboard with a tore up blanket and several empty wine bottles
around and a couple half full ones in his fist. He may be reprobate. He may not be reprobate. He may
be one of God's elect. Reprobation is not a scriptural
statement about our personal character. Reprobation is an
act of God. Reprobation is where God rejects
a man or a woman. Or yea, better, I should more
truthfully say, Mason, has rejected in eternity a man or a woman. And we know that God rejected
Esau. He was a reprobate. And it had
nothing to do with any good or evil done by Esau. And that's what the book says.
Does it not? So the reprobate What's the opposite
of the reprobate? Those elected by grace in Christ
Jesus before the world began. They come into this world just
as fallen as the reprobate. But God bestowed his favor upon
these people before the foundation of the world. But the reprobate,
think of it, amongst Israel. That is the, they're not non-elect,
they're reprobate. But those who were not elected
amongst Israel, they always insulted God in the very things that God
was using to let them know someone's coming. Someone's going to accomplish
something on behalf of God's people. And the reprobate amongst
Israel would tarnish these things every opportunity they got. Turn
to Isaiah chapter one and we'll read God's statement about this. Now things had And it's probably
not even the word itself had digressed. Mason, there's probably
a better, stronger word. But by Isaiah's time, things
had digressed so much. Listen to what God says. Look
at it. Isaiah chapter one, and for the
sake of time, let me just begin in verse nine. Except the Lord
of hosts, He's talking about, this is Isaiah, speaking under
the direction of God Almighty about Israel. Except the Lord
of hosts had left us a very small remnant. That's the elect. This
book's clear on that. That's the elect. Unless he had
left us a very small remnant, we'd have been just like the
Sodomites. We'd have been just like the
Sodomites. God would wipe us out. Do you see that? That's
a heavy statement. Look, hear the word of the Lord,
ye rulers of Sodom. So what's God saying? You are
just like the Sodomites in here. Hear the word of the Lord, ye
rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of your
God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me? Wait a minute, I thought God
said to offer them. He did. He did, but when you
distort the meaning of those things, they are a stench in
God's nostrils. To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me? Sayeth the Lord, I'm full, and
that's not satisfied. It's like I've become sickened.
That's what he's talking about. I'm fed up with it. I am full
of the burnt offerings of rams and the fed of fed beasts, and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats."
He's just now told them this is not the end game. Has he not? He's just told them that all
these sacrifices are not the end game, because if they were,
why are not the sacrifices enough? It's because they were not enough.
They were pointing to something, or more appropriately, someone
else. And I'm here to say, because
that's why I read to you Psalm 116 verse 10, they should have
known this. But they didn't. Look what goes
on. When you come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand? Well, I thought God did. But you're treading my courts. Do you see it? To tread my courts. Bring no more vain oblations,
incenses and abomination unto me. The new moons and what? Sabbaths. The calling of assemblies. That's
these feasts. Mason, that's these feasts. The
calling of assemblies. I cannot away with it is. Iniquity, even the solemn meeting,
your new moons and your appointed feast, my soul hateth. Can you imagine being Israelite
and having this old scraggly prophet start preaching this
out in public? And I'm sure he did. We have
it written for our benefit. I'm sure he preached these very
words to the people that were directly around him when he received
this. Your new moons and your appointed
feasts, my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me. I
am weary to bear them. Just like the reprobate amongst
Israel did and defiled these things in their true meaning,
we have men and women who pack the church today, who distort
everything that's in God's word when it comes to the truth of
the person and work of Jesus Christ. As the reprobate amongst
Israel did back then, so it is with men and women today. Our
so-called churches are filled with hordes of unregenerate people
amongst professed Christianity. I'll go so far as to say this.
I would say that the majority of so-called churches are filled
with and dominated by unregenerate men and women. And the reason
I know that is because the doctrines to which they hold. I'm not talking
about how immoral they are. I'm talking about how they depend
on their own morality and flush Christ down the toilet. He's
just there to help me out in a hard spot. No, he's my all
in all. He's my all in all. So as with people back then,
so it is today. And the writer of Hebrews said
this very thing. You don't have to turn, but Hebrews chapter
four, And this is what he says, let us therefore fear. Let us
therefore fear, lest the promise being left us of entering into
his what? That true rest. All of that Sabbath
keeping that we see in Leviticus 23 was pointing to faith in Jesus
Christ. Entering into that rest by faith,
but look, Let us therefore fear lest a promise be left us of
entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to come
short of it." That is somewhat frightening to me. But look,
for unto us was the gospel preached. as well as unto them. Well, those people didn't know
the gospel. They were preached the gospel. They rejected the
gospel just like men and women reject the gospel today. For
unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the
word preached did not profit them. And I'll tell you why.
This is a paraphrase because God Almighty didn't give them
faith. But God wasn't responsible for their unbelief. They rejected
God in unbelief, and God said, just like God told the Israelites,
you won't enter into my rest, he tells men and women today,
you reject my son, you will not enter into rest. Matter of fact,
the writer of Hebrews says, this thing about rest, it's been prepared
from before the foundation of the world. I think this was a
grace man. I think this was a man who didn't
have any problems with the election of grace. As a matter of fact,
I know this man loved who God is and the way God does things. Just like men and women in Israel
did back then, men and women in so-called Christianity today,
they ignore or they obfuscate, or that means they obscure it
like a smoke cloud. or kick up a bunch of dust. People
love kicking up dust, don't they? They ignore, or they obfuscate,
or they reject outright Christ as the fulfillment. Christ is
the one person that all these things spoke about. Everything
that we see, when they cut 10 Prohibitions against servile
work is for what reason it is to declare to us that rest is
in Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ only So true Sabbath rest is
believing the gospel of Christ And that's what Hebrews 4 is
clearly saying Christ is the feast now. We'll skim the surface
Passover and unleavened bread What's the one main thing that
stands out with Passover? and unleavened bread. God said,
now listen, I hear people say it. I hear men preach it from
pulpits and turn right around and deny it. They'll quote the
Bible and then deny what God said in this Bible. God said,
when it come to Passover, when I see the blood, I will pass
over you. And that's a good place to be.
That's a good place to be. I've talked about the reprobate,
the non-elect of being passed over. Oh, I was ever so wrong.
Because God owes us judgment. God owes me condemnation. The
wages of sin is what? Death. And I earned every dime
of it. But God's been pleased to pass
over some people. And who is it that he passes
over, and why is it that he passes over anyone in judgment? In death,
in condemnation, it is when God sees the blood. And Paul then,
when he refers to this, and it's recorded if you want to read
it later, 1 Corinthians 5, verses 6, 7, and 8, he said, Christ,
our Passover, is sacrificed for us. You know what the truth of
that, when you put those two things together, that is when
Christ shed his blood, There's some people that God Almighty
showed favor to because He saw that blood. That blood made peace. It's not an attempt at peace.
That blood made peace. That person reconciled some people
to God by his death. That person sanctified and perfected
a people by what he did at Calvary. And preaching that is preaching
the gospel. And preaching anything less than
that is not the gospel. God didn't offer his Passover
to Israel. He said, you either partake of
it or you perish. Think of it, those under the
blood feasted on what? The roasted lamb and the bitter
herbs and the wine that they had with that meal. And Paul says it this way, Christ
our Passover sacrificed for us, let us therefore keep the feast. Is he talking about a literal
keeping of what we read in Leviticus 23? No. Keep the feast in sincerity
and truth. Truth. What about firstfruits?
Paul is clear. First Corinthians 15, 20, 21,
22, and 23. Christ is the firstfruits. Is
he not? The firstfruits of them that
slept. And I thought about that. Christ
was not the first man who was ever raised from the dead. But
he is said to be the first fruits of them that slept. Why? Because
he's their representative. He's their federal head. He's
their surety. The very fact that God seen his
blood and God raised him from the dead is absolute proof to
faith. absolute proof to faith that
I have been accepted of God. When you look at yourself, you
will not see the blood. You will see you. And I know
we criticize, even warn, don't look within. I understand that
admonition, I do. Don't look within, but God's
gonna make you look within sometime. God's gonna remind you throughout
this sojourn of what you and I really are so that we continue
unto the end to trust Christ. He that endures unto the end,
the same shall be saved. That's not talking about enduring
in the choir. That's not talking about enduring as a Sunday school
teacher. That's not talking about enduring just coming to church.
It's talking about you believe God till the end. Firstfruits,
firstfruits. And then James comes along and
says of those in Christ, they are converted by the gospel of
Christ. He said that we should be a kind
of what? Firstfruits of his creatures. Here's the third thing. Weeks
of Pentecost. Briefly, what is it? The New Testament makes it
clear. That's when the Holy Spirit, Mason was literally given to
dwell within, in an abiding way, the people of God. He had regenerated
for hundreds of years and dwelt with those people for hundreds
of years. But once he was given on Pentecost,
he now dwells in those people abidingly. Abidingly. And Paul makes it clear in Galatians
3, 13 and 14 that the promise of the Spirit might be given
to those that believe. And you know who that promise
was made to? Abraham Go back and read it sometimes Galatians
3 13 and 14 and then me and think of Abraham is just walking around
in some days Believing some religious things about some God up in heaven.
Mm-hmm Christ said of Abraham he saw my day I'm quoting that
wrong way Abraham somebody help me here. He said he rejoiced
to see my day. He saw it and and was glad. Abraham told his son when they
were going up Moriah, when his son said, Lord, we got the fire,
we got the wood, we got all of it, where's the lamb? And Abraham
said it this way, my son, God will provide himself a sacrifice. You see, Abraham fully intended
to kill that boy. But Abraham also knew God would
have to raise him from the dead because God had promised the
seed to him. That's what Hebrews says. So Abraham knew this was
far more than that boy. Did he not? Did he not? The Feast
of Trumpets. Trumpets. What's the trumpet?
Gospel proclaimed. Is that not the main thing of
the trumpet? And Paul says, if you got a trumpet, 1 Corinthians
14, 6, 7, and 8, it needs to make a certain sound. You know, you look at some of
the old military movies, especially Civil War, they had certain tunes
they blew on them horns. One might mean tuck, tail, and
run, boys. One might mean charge. You don't
want to think charge when the boss man's saying tuck and run.
And you don't want to be the one tucking and running when
the boss man says charge. Now do you? That that could be
as bad as charging face first into the enemy mm-hmm The Apostle
Paul puts it this way God Almighty by his gospel will conquer some
people He'll conquer the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty hell through God to thee and I just love that phrase
pulling down of strongholds. And that takes me back, I think
of, wasn't it Joshua? The children of Israel marched
around, right? What brought them walls down? God did. But what
were they told to do when God was going to bring them walls
down? March around and do what? Sound the hoose trumpets. The Feast of Trumpets, the Day
of Atonement. Why is the Day of Atonement any different than
the Passover and Unleavened Bread? Here's the one thing that the
Day of Atonement, now there's more, I'm skimming the surface,
but here's the one main thing that the Day of Atonement added
to this testimony of the personal work of Christ. On the Passover,
every individual family took a lamb and made sure the lamb
didn't go to waste. If your family was too small
to eat the whole lamb and the herbs and all the unleavened
bread, you bring in another family. There is to be no waste. So Mason,
you had all kinds of lambs being slain on that night, didn't you? But think about the Day of Atonement
was what? One special man approaching God on the behalf of others.
Wasn't it? You know what the Day of Atonement
is? Lambs were still slain. Blood was still necessary, but
there's a big change, there's a big difference between the
Feast of the Day of Atonement and the Feast of the Passover.
Here, only one man dare take the blood where the blood needs
to be. Yes or no? Just any old Tom,
Dick, and Harry out of Israel couldn't march into that tabernacle.
I don't care if he had the incense and the blood, God would have
killed him. God killed two boys just for bringing the wrong coals.
Day of Atonement and according to the writer of Hebrews Hebrews
1 verses 1 through 13 talking of Christ when he had by himself
purged our sins Jody he did it by himself He
didn't need your help He don't want your help, and it's an insult
to him to offer your help. I Believe Him. He said He did it by Himself.
Believe Him. He said He took care of the deal.
Believe Him. And what did He do? Purged our
sins. And then did what? Then He sat
down at the right hand of God the Father. So what's the gospel
then? Jesus made it possible for your sins to be purged if
you do something? Mm-hmm the gospel is this Jesus
Christ purged sin and sat down now. Do you believe him? Do you
take God as his word? Do you trust what God said Jesus
Christ accomplished when he come into this world and that is not
what so-called preachers are preaching today To me, I say
it now and it's like, Walter, why do you keep saying it? Because
there are people who still believe in this. People still preaching
this. God's done all He can do. Now
it's up to you. That's a lie. That will send
you to hell quicker than drinking will. You hear me? You can quit drinking and believe
that, that God did all He could do and that's up to you, and
you can quit your drinking and your doping and your promiscuity,
and you can quit all those things and still perish and go to hell.
Because you will not, you cannot dare insult God's Son and expect
to get away with it. And God said of His Son, He did
the work, how? By Himself. Now, tabernacles. Tabernacles,
or booths. What were these booths? They
were branches. What were they? They were temporary
dwelling places. I thought about this. Jesus Christ
came in flesh, and his flesh is not temporary. His flesh is
everlastingly real now. Based on occasion, he appeared
in human form back during Old Testament time. But when he was
born of the Virgin Mary, he took upon himself flesh for evermore. But I'll tell you what, he did
temporarily dwell right here on this earth. Have you ever
really thought about that? Mason, this ain't a bedtime story.
Jesus came to spend a little time with us. Know the God of
all glory. As our pastor Earl Cochran used
to say, confined himself to a virgin's womb for nine months and was
born in pain and sweat and blood and was made flesh and did what? Dwelt. Taber-dackled. Boothed among us. And he was
here for, they say, 33 and a half or so years. Joe, he was really
here. But you know what? He ain't here
now in that capacity. He is here now in the person
of the Spirit. And if you got the Spirit of
God dwelling in you, you have Christ dwelling in you. But where is the Son in His capacity
now? He is seated at the right hand
of God the Father doing what? What's one thing we know? There's
a few, but what's one thing we know He's doing? Expecting. until his enemies be made his
footstool. And I declare to you that this
book says they shall. He shall either make you his
footstool now and conquer your heart, mind, and soul now, or
he will do so in condemnation at the great white throne. But
one way or another, you will be under the boot of Jesus Christ
the Lord. So then, There I've just given
you six or seven feasts, all wrapped up in about 10 minutes.
But as I said, I have but just scratched the surface. But here's
what I want to get to and wind it up quick. I've only scratched
that surface, but someone says, preacher, do these really point
to Christ? You see, I was taught that when
I was young, the phrase, but then I was never taught that.
You understand what I'm saying? They said the words, these things
pointed to Christ. But then what I was taught was
Israel was saved by keeping these sacrifices. That's what I was
taught. Now I was told in words, these
things pointed to Christ, but Jews were saved like this back
then. And since they rejected Christ now and his kingdom now,
well, whatever Jews and Gentiles would let God save them will
be saved by Christ now. Then again, one day, God's gonna
turn Israel back to these sacrifices and they will be saved. Israel
has never, ever, ever lost one sin by one animal sacrifice. Never, never have and never will. But here's more important. Did
these people understand anything about these things point to the
Messiah? I say yes. The problem is we
look at men like the apostles, especially the 11, and we see
how ignorant they were, and they were ignorant of some things,
were they not? I'm not denying that. They were ignorant of some
things, but we think everybody had to be like them. Don't we? Was Simeon like them? Remember
that old priest? Simeon held that little bitty
baby in his arms and he basically told Mary, who this little child
is, it's gonna rip your heart out. And this little child will
be for the fall and rise again of many in Israel. He knows more
than most preachers behind pulpits today. And then a woman named
Anna comes right along behind him and basically said, here's
the redemption of Israel. Huh? She was preaching it. Now
go chew on that one for a little bit. Those that look for redemption
in Israel, she said, there he is. Jordan had a little swaddle
of clothes wrapped up there in them diapers or whatever. Here
he is. Think about David, King David himself. Peter says, I'm
not gonna read it, Acts 2, 29 through 36. He said David was
a prophet. And when Peter quoted David,
he said, you folks, you know David is dead. His sepulcher
is with us unto this day. But David prophesied that God
would not allow his Holy One to see corruption. Who was he
talking about? The psalmist said, I believed,
therefore I spoke. You see, David wasn't just there
going in some spiritual trance and writing down things and saying,
well, I wonder if that means me or if that means the Messiah,
hmm? Peter's quite clear he understood
that David knew what he's talking about. Now turn to the Psalms,
and I'll give you one specific psalm. Listen to what? And our Lord
used this psalm on more than one occasion, but on one specific
occasion. Psalm 110. The Lord, that is Yahweh, Jehovah
God, the Lord sent unto my Lord the Supreme Master. The Lord
said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thy
enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Mason, he understood this Lord was sovereign. And
he gonna rule not just amongst his friends, but even in the
middle of his enemies. Look at it, this is what David
knew. He believed it, that's why he spoke it. Huh? Thy people
shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of
holiness From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of
our youth. This is all about the Messiah
Not the person who's going to be made willing but the power
of the one who makes them willing Then look at what he says Here
is David who knew what it was like not to do things according
to God's own ordained way. Remember the, they recovered
the ark? Remember he'd taken that ark back? They decided we
were gonna build a new cart. Now God had said, the Levite
priest, they got to carry that thing. But David figured, I can
just see it now. Here's a brand new cart, couple
oxen that never even had the yoke, and that's probably not
the smartest thing to do, but you got a two ox, two big strong
oxen pulling that thing, and it stumbles and rocks, and that
one guy wretched up and just touch it, just to touch it, just
to steady it, God killed him dead. Now you think David, the
king, didn't have respect for the Levitical priesthood after
that? I guarantee you he did, didn't he? But that same man
wrote this, the Lord has sworn and will not repent, thou art
a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. David believed,
therefore he spoke. And he knew there had to be a
greater priesthood than that of Aaron and the Levites. You see, these folks looked for
Christ. I can see Jacob. You remember
old Jacob up there dying? Remember? He says, just this
thing, until Shiloh come. He's looking for the Messiah.
The Messiah. You see, the regenerate of all
ages looked for and looked to God's Christ. And that's just
all there is to it. They believed, that's why they
said what they said. That's why they wrote what they
wrote. Don't you think that Isaiah knew a little something about
what he meant when he wrote? Behold, a virgin shall conceive. Now did he understand it all?
Did he comprehend how it would all work? Probably not. But what
had God taught him? And he believed it because God
taught him. Therefore he wrote it down. What? A virgin shall
conceive and bear a son. And you're gonna call his name
Emmanuel, the everlasting father, the mighty God, the prince of
peace, the government's gonna be on his shoulders. He knew
something about this man who would later be called or known
as Jesus of Nazareth. Here's the question. Do you see
him in those feasts? Do you see him in that rest?
And that's the only answer. Mason, would you close us in
prayer, please? Thank you, holy Father, God of heaven and earth,
sovereign Lord. Thank you for allowing us to
meet together. Thank you for the words of these
servants that have brought forth to us thy truth. Heavenly Father,
seal it to our hearts and to our souls In Jesus' holy name, amen.