All right, if you wish to follow
along, turn to Exodus chapter two. Exodus chapter two. Now, as I
began to near the end of the book of Genesis, I was wondering
whether I should go on to the book of Exodus or not, but I
also was wondering if maybe I ought to just go all the way back to
Genesis chapter one and just start all over again and do Genesis
again. Because as I listen to different
messages, I think, man, I missed that. Not so much missed it,
but I didn't take time and spend on that. Exodus chapter two,
now before I read my specific text for this morning, think
about this. Now, we have no reason to believe
that the title to the book, the second book of Moses called Exodus,
was actually inspired. I don't know that Moses wrote
those words. I have reason to suspect he did
not. Men have put that there, but it's still ordained of God
nonetheless. It is, without question, the
second book of Moses. And the order in which we have
this Bible is in the order God Almighty ordained before the
world began for us to have this. It's there for a purpose. Now
the word exodus, that is at least in the Greek, if you looked at
the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Old
Testament Hebrew Bible, the word exodus means a going out. It
means a departure. But scripturally, it's much more
than the word defines, just as the definition of the word is.
Here's what exodus actually means. And you'll find it mentioned
in chapter 12 of Exodus. and verse 51, and it came to
pass the selfsame day, and God willing we'll look at this later,
and it came to pass the selfsame day that the Lord did bring the
children of Israel out. This is not just the children
of Israel departing Egypt, this is the Lord causing them to depart
Egypt. And they did it on the exact
day God had ordained that they would walk out of that city,
that place, that country. But it's much more than that.
The book of Exodus chiefly, if you summed it all up, you could
sum it up along these lines. The book of Exodus is this, it's
redemption. Redemption by blood and by power. Now, let me make this clear.
Everyone here probably already knows this, but if you don't,
I'm gonna say it as plainly as I can. And for anyone who may
hear my voice on the TV, I'm gonna say this as plainly as
I can. The God that I preach is not the same God that most
so-called Christian preachers out here are preaching today. The God I am preaching is the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. the absolute sovereign of all
that there is. This God has never wanted anything. And Joe mentioned this. This
God doesn't ask us to do anything. He commands us to do everything. When he gives it, it's not a
suggestion. It's a commandment. But our God is in charge even
over man's rebellion. You see, that's what lets me
lay my head down on the pillow at night and go to sleep, when
I look at myself. When I look at myself. I don't
even have to look at you, I have enough trouble looking at myself. Now I look at you, and I no doubt
in my heart criticize you. God forgive me. But my problem's
not you. Your problem's not me. Our problem
is ourself. My problem is that face I see
in that mirror every morning when I get up and I brush my
teeth and I shave my face. Right there in that mirror, that's
my problem. God, what he redeems, he absolutely
redeems. God doesn't offer, he didn't
offer Israel redemption. He brought in redemption by blood
and power. The Jesus that I preach is not
the same Jesus that most out there are preaching. And let's
get this clear. We're not trying to get along
with everyone. We're not believing different
things about the same God. You either believe the truth
of who God is or you don't believe God at all. You may believe the
figment of your own imagination. You may believe the lies that
religious men tell on God and set that up in your own heart
and mind as God, but that's not God. The foundation of the whole
book of Exodus, the foundation of it, the truth of it is redemption
by blood and power. But here we're gonna see the
foundation of it. Exodus chapter two, just three verses, verse
23. And it came to pass in process
of time, and everything that comes to pass comes to pass because
God Almighty ordained it to come to pass. No matter how corrupt and wicked
it is, if it happens, God Almighty ordained it to happen. And no
matter how beautiful and glorious and righteous it is, if it comes
to pass, God Almighty ordained it to come to pass. When we read the book of God
and we start with the beginning, You start with Genesis and you
begin to read the book of God. If we could get rid of all of
our preconceived notions and our indoctrination by religious
liars, if we could get rid of that, we would begin to see who
God really is. But my problem is right down
in here. My problem, the obstacle to me seeing God as he is, is
my own evil, wicked heart. and it came to pass in the process
of time that the king of Egypt died. That is, this Pharaoh,
the one who wanted all the male children slaughtered, at first
he wanted all the male Hebrew boys to be slaughtered. Two midwives
said, we're not gonna do that. Pharaoh says, well, why didn't
you obey my command? They said, well, you're Egyptian
women, they're kind of puny. They need our help. These Hebrew
women, they're strong. They're delivering their babies
before we can ever get there. I don't think they were telling
the truth. Other than the fact that the Egyptian women were
probably a little too dainty. And the Hebrew women were tough.
They were slaves. They were slaves. But God Almighty
had ordained that these slaves would go free, and go free they
shall. Why didn't God kill this Pharaoh
before? God's business. And another pharaoh comes up
and does the same thing with maybe even more gusto than the
first pharaoh who knew not Joseph. Remember the pharaoh that God
sent on Lord Brown in the Red Sea was the second pharaoh that
didn't know Joseph, not even the first one. This first one
died a natural death as far as we know. It just came to pass
in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. and the children
of Israel side by reason of the bondage. You see, God's salvation
is glorious when you see where God's brought us from. This salvation
that's being proposed to men and women, well just walk an
aisle, pray a prayer, tell God you're a sinner. It's all meant
to let man still feel pretty good about himself. rather than
God Almighty sending men to preach, and He does send some, thank
God. He sends some to preach the truth, just as Joe did to
us this morning and say, here's what you really are. I gotta
have a Savior. I gotta have a Savior. I need
a God who can be both a just God, Joe, as you said it, and
a Savior. And let me tell you something,
until God brings you into bondage, you will never know the deliverance
of salvation. Now, you're in bondage, but you don't know it
by nature. You see, all men are sinners
by nature, but not all men know they're sinners by nature. It
takes the work of God Almighty, the Spirit of God, to reveal
to a man or a woman, I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. They sighed by reason of the
bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason
of the bondage. And God heard their groaning. Listen to this phrase, and God
remembered. And God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. Think of it, this
is not based upon merely their groaning and sighing. Though
their groaning and sighing comes up unto God. This is based upon
the fact that God Almighty has a covenant. He remembered his
covenant, and God looked upon the children of Israel, and an
amazing statement, and God had respect unto them. Remembered? God remembered? Yeah, that's what it says, doesn't
it? God remembered. The title of my message is this,
God remembered his covenant. And if you're saved today, or
if you're ever saved, it'll be because God remembers his covenant. That's why. God remembered, yeah. The Hebrew would put it this
way, God marked so as to be recognized. Some people's gonna see this.
His covenant in action. his covenant in action. He is
going to redeem these people with blood and power. And all of Egypt's gonna be glad
to get them out. Think of it, here they were now
slaves. Here they were now slaves under
these two pharaohs. And when they left, The Egyptians
said, here's some gold. Here's some silver. Here's some
beasts. Take whatever you need and leave. Why? Because God Almighty had
a covenant. Four quick things. Who brought
Israel to Egypt? God did. We've looked at it. There is no doubt. God brought
these people into Egypt. He could have fed him in the
Canaan land, in the promised land, had he been so desired. But God's gonna manifest his
glory. And that's what God does when he saves any sinner, whether
it's one sinner or whether it's a thousand at one time. It still
takes blood and power. It takes the blood of God and
the power of God. God is not offering men and women
salvation. God Almighty is saving some men
and some women. Remember, God told Abraham this
was gonna take place. 420 years before it even did
take place. And then when you look at the
account of Joseph, there is no question, God's setting the scene.
Isn't it? God's setting the scene. Secondly,
who ordains all Pharaohs? God does. God does. If there is a Pharaoh, God put
him on the throne. If there's a king, or a queen,
God put them on the throne. If there's a president or a senator
or a house of representatives or even a local mayor, God put
them in that place. Paul put it this way, Romans
13, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Why?
Because God put them there. Now if they tell you to disobey
God, then you obey God. Just like the midwives, you obey
God. But you don't say, well, they're
just mere men and women. I don't obey them, I obey God.
You obey God when you obey them. Look, let every soul be subject
unto the higher powers, for there is no power but of God. The powers
that be are ordained of God. You see, God may use your vote,
or God may use the electoral vote. Or God Almighty might use
passing down through the bloodline to raise up a king or a queen.
But God Almighty's the one that determined it. He's the one that
determined it. We've elected men to office and
they didn't even last their four years. Why? Because God Almighty
is in charge. Now, men and women hear that. They hear it in Sunday schools
and they're probably taught that. but they're not taught the force
of what this means. These two pharaohs, the one that
started this bondage, okay, this servitude, God put him there. God was the one that put the
prior pharaoh there that loved Joseph. Was he not? He loved
Joseph, respected Joseph, held Joseph in high esteem, but another
king arose in Egypt that knew not Joseph. Who put that king
there? God did. Who killed him? God did. Who put the next one
there? God did. And God said to that
one, for this same purpose I raised you up, that I might make my
name known. And think about it, here we are,
some possibly 3,000 years later, we're still sitting here talking
about it. And God drowned Pharaoh in the Red Sea with his armies
because God determined to show his power. That's why. Now, they deserved
God's judgment. And God does not bring condemnation
upon men and women simply by sovereign fiat. But he by sovereign
fiat decreed that sin must be punished. And God determined
who he's gonna punish, either in his son or who he's gonna
punish in themselves. And that's just who God is. And today, sadly,
most men and women that are attending Easter services are not going
to hear that God preached. They're not. You see, Israel's
exodus, their deliverance, was both literal and it was spiritual
as well. And it also is a lesson to us,
that's number four. To us, it is scriptural hope. Paul put it this way, again in
Romans. And it's Romans chapter 15. And listen to how the apostle Paul
puts it. Romans chapter 15 and verse four,
for whatsoever things, that means all of it. For whatsoever things
were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Let me tell
you, when you read about the deliverance God gave to Israel
out of Egypt, that gives this sinner some hope. I know that this is a God business,
not a Walter business. Because I'm a slave. I'm in bondage
to my sin. I can't quit sinning. I can't quit. These people that
tell you when you become a Christian, then you don't see it anymore,
they are liars. As I told you before, they're
the ones that hides their liquor bottle instead of having it right
up on the shelf and offering you a drink when you come to
see them. Yeah. They're liars. They lie about
God and they lie about themselves. I'm a sinner of the deepest dye.
I am no better today than I was in my hatred against God and
rebellion in my early teens. The heart that rebelled against
God then is still the same old wicked heart that's in this man
right here today. And I actually see a lot more
of it now than I did back then. But look, now the God of patience
and consolation grant you to be like-minded. Somebody, well,
we ought to be like-minded. Yes, we ought to be like-minded,
but God's got to grant it to us, because it don't come to
us naturally. I wanna believe what I want to
believe, and you know it, and you want to believe what you
want to believe. It takes an act of God to make me believe
the truth. The God of patience and consolation grants you to
be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus. There's
my hope. You see? That ye may with one
mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. wherefore receive you one another
as Christ also received us to the glory of God. Now I say that
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. And let
me tell you something, what's happening today is not a gap
and it's not a parenthesis. I've said that before in the
past, but that ain't right. The New Testament church is no
gap and it's no parentheses. It's exactly what God ordained
to be done and it's stated so in the Old Testament. When somebody
tells you the New Testament church was not known in the Old Testament,
that's balarkey. Look, and that the Gentiles might
glorify God for his mercy as it is written. Written where?
Not in Acts. Not in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or
John. That's not what he's talking about. It's written in the Old
Testament. Now look, and that the Gentiles
might glorify God for his mercy as it is written, for this cause
will I confess to thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy
name. Now I don't care if he just says
it one time, that makes it so and makes it revealed. Now one thing that may not have
always been clearly revealed was we were gonna be fellow heirs,
joint heirs with the elect Jews that were brought to faith in
Jesus Christ. but that is actually taught in the Old Testament in
types and symbols. Look, and again he saith, rejoice
ye Gentiles with his people. And again, praise, this ain't
just one isolated little place. And again, praise the Lord, all
ye Gentiles, and aloud him, all ye people, and again, Esaias,
or as Isaiah saith, there shall be a root of Jesse, and he shall
rise to reign over the Gentiles, and in him shall the Gentiles
trust. You see the salvation that God
gave the Jews back there in Egypt and delivered them out? That's
the same God that's saving men and women today. And it's this
same covenant. It's the same covenant. Now,
there are the covenants. Paul makes that clear. But let me
tell you, every covenant is based upon that everlasting covenant
made not between God and men, but between the Father and the
Son. And they, as it were, I don't know exactly how it transpired,
Joe, but they, as it were, shook hands. And the Son said, you
gave me a people, I'll go save them. And bless God, that's what
he did. And that's what he's still doing
today. And he's still delivering by blood and by power. And I thank God for it. There
are people that get mad about that. You know why? Because they
really don't see how much bondage they're really in. Remember the
Jew, these Hebrews are mightier than us. Isn't that what that
Pharaoh said? Why didn't they just revolt?
Because you don't save yourself by your own efforts. God must
come down and God must save you or you won't be saved. You'll
die right there in that bondage. Maybe not even knowing you're
in bondage. What happened to Israel wasn't,
listen to me, this is not about social issues. This is not a
lesson about slavery is right or wrong. I despise I despise
some men's perception of slavery. I despise it. I see the self-righteousness
of it down in my soul. To think I'm superior, that I
would think, Joe, I'm superior to another man or woman? No. But this ain't about social
issues. This ain't about monetary hope.
Yes, these Jews went out and they went out, it says they spoiled
the Egyptians. and they didn't even have to
do anything to get it. God Almighty came down and killed little babies. Now hear who God is. God Almighty came down and killed
little babies and grown men. If they were a firstborn, God
Almighty killed them if there wasn't blood on the two-door
post and the lentil as God passed through Egypt. And even in the
house of Pharaoh, death reigned because there was no blood there.
And that's when God broke Pharaoh down. And he said, get out. And they got out. Spoiled the
Egyptians as they left. And then after it all happened,
Pharaoh said, what did I just do? You did what God Almighty
said you're gonna do. But there's still more God said
you're gonna do. You're gonna chase them right up to the water's
edge. And they're gonna cross over
on dry ground, and you're gonna attempt to cross that dry ground
just like God's people. And you know what happens? God
calls that wind to cease and that water flooded in and killed
Pharaoh and all of his horsemen and army. This ain't about emotional hope.
Let me give you something. We care far more about our ease
than God Almighty does. The God that's preached today
is this weak, effeminate old man. It even bothers me to have
to say this. That's up in heaven wishing men
would let him have his way. David says of the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, our God is in the heavens. He hath done
whatsoever he hath pleased. Even an old heathen king called
Nebuchadnezzar, when God put him to eating grass like a wild
beast for seven years, his fingernails grew and God gave him his mind
back. Let me tell you, God can take your mind. The mind you
got, you better thank God for it, because he can take it from
you in a heartbeat. And he said, after that was over
and his reasoning returned back to him, he said, I praise and
extol the king of heaven. Those that walk in pride, this
old heathen king, he said he is able to abase. So if I'm walking
in pride and I'm not abased, it's only because God, Joe, has
been pleased to lead me where I'm at. But if you're walking
in pride, let me tell you something, if he's pleased to abase you,
he will bring you down. And you can't stop him. You can't
stop him. This ain't about social issues
or monetary issues or emotional issues. Exodus is hope. Hope, but not wish. It's real
hope, because I see what God did for these people. I see God
intent on doing this for these people. If he's intent on doing
something for me, then Christian, bless God, it'll happen. And
all the minions of hell will not be able to stop God. They'll
just be performing his sovereign purpose, even if they don't know
it. Exodus is hope based upon God's
preceding act of covenant remembrance. God remembered his covenant.
Now you're getting somewhere. God remembered his covenant.
And you remember, this book as it starts off, starts off with
this Passover blood. Does it not? Passover blood. And Paul makes it clear, 1 Corinthians
5 and 7. Jesus Christ, our Passover, is
sacrificed for us. So, Roy Junior, it's not just
the sacrifice, it's the whole blood and power thing, right? The kind of salvation that God
wrought for these Hebrews down in Egypt is the kind of salvation
God is working out for his people. It's the exact same thing, blood
and power. You see, God's glory and our
greater good, when I say greater good, I mean our spiritual good.
If God rips everything from me today, if I'm in Christ, I still
got everything. That is anything. If I'm in a
car accident today and I lose my mind and I become, Mac, a
vegetable laying in a hospital, If I'm in Christ, I still got
everything that is really worth anything. That woman back there,
I love her, but one of these days, our relationship as husband
and wife will cease. It'll cease. And it'll be either
death or eternal glory that'll start that. One or the other.
You see, everything we hold dear to in this world means nothing
other than what's written. in this book. As Henry Mahan used to say, everything
you hold on to in this world, you best hold on to loosely.
Because if God's determined to take it away from you, he'll
break your fingers to do it. And that ought to make us thank
God for what he does let us hold on to. Every relationship we
have, we ought to thank God for it. because we don't deserve
it. We don't deserve it. The Bible
puts, we're like the beast of the earth. And were it not for
God Almighty being merciful to all mankind in a general way,
we'd be like the beast of the earth and we would devour one
another. Total chaos would rule if we had our way. You know that, you know that's
true down here. The first time somebody cuts
me off in traffic, I would pull back the hammer and pop if God
let me have my way. Just over somebody cutting me
off in traffic. How evil and wicked we are. Exodus is hope. God's glory and
our greater good is always superior to our temporal ease. God don't
save anyone. until God causes them to feel
the bondage of Egypt. And that bondage of Egypt is
down in here, in what I am and what I do. You see, no, dare
I say it? Yes, let me go ahead and say
it. There's not a good person in heaven. Everybody in heaven, other than
Jesus Christ himself, is a sinner, saved by the grace of God. Mm, God's going, look at, when
I go read it, go back and consider Exodus chapter one all the way
through verse 22. Think of all that transpired.
This man wanted babies drowned. Didn't he not? He said, drown
them little boys. Right? Two women said, no. No. This was in a day when a
woman didn't have much say so. Do you understand what I'm saying?
This was in a day she didn't get to go to the ballot box.
She was nothing more than a piece of property just like you would
if you owned a cow. Now do you hear what I'm saying?
And yet these two women said no, we will not do this. Yet
God ruled. Did he not? God ruled. And one
of the very baby boys Pharaoh wanted dead ended up being his grandson.
in his own palace. Now you think about that. Our
God rules. The minions of hell can't spit
lest God says so. That's the God we worship, not
this man be made up God that men talk about today. We're talking
about the Lord God of glory that said about this whole universe,
be, and it was. He said, let there be, and there
was. And that's the same way God saves
a sinner. Let there be life. You know what happens? When God breathes on you, Mac,
bless God, life comes in. Life comes in. God ruled when
one Pharaoh loved Joseph and God was still ruling when another
Pharaoh rose up and didn't know Joseph. He was still on the throne,
was he not? Still on the throne. You see,
God ruled when one pharaoh died, and another rose up and discontinued
the bondage. God ruled when two midwives feared
him. Oh, God help me to fear God.
And this is not just some slavish fear. Now listen, God Almighty
has the right to destroy both body and soul in hell. Jesus
told his disciples, you fear that God. but he's also my father. Oh, wait a minute, he's more
than that if I'm one of his. Joe Galusik, he's my papa. He's
my papa. That's what the book says. We
cry by the spirit of God, the spirit of adoption says, papa,
father. Papa. God was ruling when one man married
one woman and they had one kid. And they said, that's a goodly
child. They hid him long as they could. And then they put him in that
ark of bulrushes, set him out, and then there was one sister
out there hiding in the weeds, watching. You remember? Go back
and did you read it? And guess what? By luck, Pharaoh's daughter decides to
go take a bath down there in that river. This ain't luck.
She hears some crying, but now she's Pharaoh's daughter. I'm
not going out in that water to find that thing. Go find, I hear it,
I hear it crying. You know what? She fell in love
just like that with that little baby boy. And that was Moses. One of those circumcised Hebrew
children. And guess what? Miriam pops up
and said, I got a woman that can take care of that baby for
you and feed it. So then here Moses is sucking on his own mama's
breast. And he's the son of Pharaoh's
daughter. And raised up in Pharaoh's house.
And Joseph was a sinner. Joseph. Moses was a sinner. Did
I say Joseph a minute ago? I meant to say Moses. Moses was
a sinner just like you and I. Guilty of what? Murder. You feel pretty good about yourself
because you're not locked up for murder. Don't we? Let me
tell you, I've seen some of, it ain't a pleasant thing. But
let me tell you, other than by the grace of God, that's where
I would be. I don't know how many people I've killed down
in here. I told you I've killed Elvis and buried him in the woods
in the leaves. I know he's dead. Of course, I just dreamed, I
woke up and I thought, thank God I didn't kill Elvis. I would be in jail. I mean, I
woke up and I was sweating. Because I killed, did I say Moses
again or somebody? Because I killed Elvis. But let
me tell you something, we dream dreams like that because that's
what's down in here. It's only God and his sovereign
providence that restrains us. One, always one, one man, one
woman, one daughter, one Moses. Any human will here in all this
chapter one? Oh, there's a lot of human will
there. Some of it good, some of it evil. But God Almighty
was in control of all of it, wasn't he? You see, God Almighty
was in control of all of it. God controlled even Moses. Moses
killed that one Egyptian, remember? Buried him in the sand. Next
day he went out and he seen two of his brothers, Hebrew brothers,
fighting. Moses thought he was covered. He looked around, didn't
see anybody. Buried that Egyptian in the sand. When these two Hebrew
brothers began to strive together, they said, what are you gonna
do, kill us like you killed the Egyptians? Moses said, whoa. Somebody was
watching. Now why was somebody watching?
Because God put them there. Moses was looking everywhere,
but he didn't see them. But they seen Moses. And what's God then
do? Drive him into the wilderness
to prepare him for the job that was coming. An old murderer. Now folks, that's the facts.
Religion wants to cover it all up. That's the fact. God saves
sinners. If you're not a sinner, he ain't
gonna save you. If you're not a sinner, he ain't gonna save
you. He didn't even send his son to save you if you're not
a sinner. Christ Jesus came into the world to save what? Sinners. Sinners. And Paul said, I'm one of the
worst of them. One of the worst of them. Anybody here that knows
real bondage? These Hebrews knew real bondage.
Do you have a little taste of that in your soul? Does that bondage make you sigh?
Does it make you cry out to God? Does it make you groan? If it
does, it's because God's remembering his covenant. That's why. You
see, I know the old song, but they don't sing it today. The
old songwriter said, a sinner is a sacred thing. The Holy Ghost
had made him so. And there are people, what? Yeah,
if you don't understand what that songwriter's saying, then
you've never been delivered out of your Egyptian bondage yet. and see what God does? What does
he do? He comes to pass in the process
of time. Everything falls into place just
like God ordained it. Why? To bring deliverance to
his people. Why? Because he made a covenant.
He made a covenant. And see, God respected. People, anytime the mention of
election, well God's no respecter of persons. They got no idea
what that's even saying. It's actually saying the opposite
of what they think or trying to use it to mean. They said
that means God can't choose one and not the other. Oh gosh. It means God looks at you and
sees nothing in you to be respected. I don't care how high you are
in society or how low you are in society. I don't care if you're
the king on the throne or whether some guy pumping out septic tanks.
God looks at your person and has got no respect to it. But
yet God had respect under these people. I wanna be one of them,
don't you? Not because they deserved it.
Why? Because of a covenant. Because
of a covenant. To respect, to know, to have
God know me. Now he knows all about me, but
to have him know me like Adam knew Eve. Now you know what that
means. Adam, New, Eve, to have God know me, to care for me. The old Hebrew, they say, and
this is the way it's translated in some places, God was a kinsman
to. That's what it means to respect. God was a kinsman to. Now I'll
read you this one. I read it, I don't know, a few
Sundays ago, but it's Isaiah chapter 66. I just love this
passage. It's kind of, stuck in my crawl
and I can't get it out, so I may quote it to you about every Sunday,
I don't know. Isaiah 66, thus saith the Lord, the heaven is
my throne. I prop my feet up on the earth.
Isn't that what he says? The earth is my footstool. In
other words, God is at complete ease. The heaven is my throne. The
earth is my footstool. Where is the house that ye build
unto me? And where is the place of my
rest? God's resting on his throne. The one time when we see God,
God the Son, not sitting on the throne, was when one of his own
was being assaulted by the enemy. And Stephen, it says, I see Jesus
standing at the right hand. Let me tell you, God takes note
when people hurt his people. God takes note. But look, for
all those things have my hand made, and all those things have
been, saith the Lord. But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and
of a contrite spirit. Most of the people walking the
aisles, there'll probably be hundreds of them today will walk
aisles. And there's probably very little poor poverty and
contrition of spirit in there. To him will I look, even to him
that is poor and of contrite spirit, and trembleth, trembleth
at my word. You see, for God's people, if
you're saved, this book right here, now I'm not talking about
the leather and the paper and the ink, but I'm talking about
this book right here. The truth means more to you than anything
else in this world. It does. Because this is the
only truth that there is. There are a lot of facts. But
this book is the truth. And if God ever shows you the
difference, you'll rejoice in that. Father, oh God, thank you
for your mercy and grace. Thank you for your blood and
your power. Lord, deliver thy people. Deliver us. Show mercy and grace
and compassion because of your covenant in Christ. I thank you
in Christ's name, amen. Let's stand up and sing number
304.