If you would, please turn to
Mark chapter one. Mark chapter one. And I want
to begin reading in verse 40. Mark chapter one, verse 40. And
there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down to him,
and saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus moved with compassion,
put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will
be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. And he straightly charged him,
and forthwith sent him away, and saith unto him, see thou
say nothing to any man, but go thy way, show thyself to the
priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded
for a testimony unto them. But he went out and began to
publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter insomuch that
Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without
in desert places and they came to him from every quarter. What I want to speak to today
is if thou wilt. Three wonderful words. Three wonderful words that the
world doesn't get and the world doesn't use. But my question
here, at the start of this, what I want to point out is what Christ
was doing here. A lot of religious people, and
pretty much all of the secular world, do not pay much attention,
any true attention, to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. A lot
of them want to focus on the healing, Some of them wanna focus
on the miracles. Others like to focus on the casting
out of devils. And yes, he did all that. He did. However, we find here
in Mark chapter one, we find Jesus actually said that he came
here to preach. Now I didn't read that part,
but we'll get to it. Verse 15, back it up. Mark 1 verse 15 And saying Well, sorry verse
14 now after that John was put in prison Jesus came unto Galilee
preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and Saying the time is
fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and
believe the gospel Now, I have a question here. This is a, I don't know, Walter,
can you have a pre-planned rabbit track? Is the gospel of the kingdom
of God the same thing as what is known as the gospel of grace?
Okay. This bothered me for a long time,
and this is why I wanna do this. I'm not gonna take a lot, it's
not gonna go into a lot of detail, but here's the answer. Yes and
no. Yes, it is different. No, it's
not a different gospel. Because you can't preach the
gospel of the kingdom of God, you can't preach the kingdom
of God as at hand without preaching the king. And the king is the
same. John the Baptist said, behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus
Christ, Walter preached it a while back, just a little while ago,
he came to call sinners to repentance. And what did our Lord preach
here? Repent ye and believe the gospel. The kingdom of God is at hand.
That's what he preached. The king of kings and lord of
lords was speaking to them, preaching this kingdom. Now, if you would,
just for a minute, as a way of a little bit of explanation,
go to John chapter three. It won't take long, I hope. Jesus answered and said unto
him, this is verse three, John three. Talking to Nicodemus,
verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ was preaching the
kingdom of God. This is the same time period. Also, verse five, verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit,
he can't enter, what? The kingdom of God. Now, we use
these verses here now, and properly so, to show that a man must be
born from above, and a man must be born by the washing of regeneration
and the renewing of the spirit to enter the kingdom. You gotta
be born again before you can see it. You have to be born of
the water and the spirit to enter. Now, that's as true as in Mark
1. The gospel is the same, yet it's different. That's the only difference. The
gospel is Jesus Christ. Look at verse, well, John 3,
16 through 18. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son that whosoever, what, believeth
in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God
sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him
is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. What does that mean? That's the
same thing as believing the gospel. You can't believe the gospel
without believing the king. And you can't see that gospel
without being born from above. And you can't enter that gospel
without being born of the Holy Spirit. That was my rabbit track. Because
that always bothered me. Because there are those out there,
and if you look, you'll see them. There are those out there, well,
we're no longer under the kingdom gospel, we're under the gospel
of grace. No, there's only one gospel. We say that and we mean
it. There's a difference in time
frame. The king is coming, and the king is here. And Paul's
saying, the king was here, and he's now seated at the right
hand of the father. But it's all the same in this.
If you're not born from above, you're not going to see the kingdom
of God. And if you're not born of the water and the spirit of
the renewing, the washing of regeneration and the renewing,
the making new of the spirit, you're not gonna enter. And that's
as true here when Jesus Christ preached as it's true right now.
Okay. Verse 38. And he said unto them, this is
the words of Christ again, let us go into the next towns that
what I may preach there also Therefore came I forth. Jesus Christ said he came forth
to preach. His words are imperatives. His words are essential. We can't do anything without
the words of Christ. We can't know anything without
the words of the Son of God. That's what this whole book is
based upon, is the Word of God. That's what this book is, the
Word of God. And that's what we try to preach
here, is the Word of God. And when he's here, manifest
in the flesh, men ought to pay attention to what he has said. Because therefore, I came forth
for this purpose. The word of God who was with
God and who was God came to speak to men. And the world won't have him.
Here in Mark 1 and 39, we see that Jesus preached in Galilee.
And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast
out devils. And then something happened that
Mark recorded here for us. Verse 40, and there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down
to him and saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
clean. First of all, a leper came to
him. A leper's not supposed to come to anybody. That was the
law. A leper is supposed to be outside
the camp. Now, we're in Galilee, so we're not in Jerusalem. But
you understand, lepers aren't supposed to come near anybody.
They're supposed to cry out, unclean, unclean, and give people
a chance to run away if they want to. First thing I want to point out
here, there's only one leper that came here. There may have been
more in other places, I think there were. But here's the thing,
Jesus was preaching all throughout Galilee, going to different towns,
you can read it. A leper came, a leper came. The leper is the epitome, the
apex, the top illustration of being unclean. Because there's
a thing about lepers. They're unclean, and their uncleanness
is contagious. Now, we know a lot more about
it now, and I'll go into that a little bit later than they
knew back then. But all they knew is that somebody sometimes
who had been near a leper, or been touched by a leper, or been
bled on, or spat on, or whatever, they became a leper themselves.
And according to the law, they had to cleanse themselves if
they'd been near one, much less touch one. This leper, this unclean
man, came to Jesus Christ. Well, after he preached. It's
what it says. It's what it says. And he came
to him, beseeching him. begging him, entreating him,
asking him. Here's the key part, one of them.
Kneeling down to him. Kneeling down to him. He came
to him, he beseeched him, and he kneeled down to him. Now,
I looked at Gil's commentary, and it's kind of cute. It says,
he kneeled down as a token of submission. It wasn't a token. It wasn't a token at all. You'll
figure that from his words. It wasn't a token of submission.
He kneeled in submission. There's a difference. Now I'm
not saying anything bad about John Gill. I think it was just
a poor choice of words. He knelt down in submission to
him. He came to him. He beseeched
him. He kneeled to him. He had a purpose. He was only going to see one
man. He had disciples by now. He calls
them in between here. There's a lot of time period
past here in the first chapter of Mark. He didn't stop at the
disciples. He didn't talk to the disciples.
He went right to him, to Jesus. And he knelt in submission to
him. You don't kneel to an equal. There are men out there, I don't
kneel to any man. And I don't really have a problem
with that. Because what good is one worm kneeling to another
worm? OK? I used to say, even when I was
Catholic, I wasn't going to kiss the Pope's ring. I was just going
to walk up, shake his hand, and say, how's the wife and the kids? Yes, I was a good Catholic boy. Hey, the depravity extends even
to my pride. And I had it as a 10-year-old
boy. And it ain't gone anywhere since. You only kneel to those who you
know or you feel are your superior. You had to kneel to the king. You didn't have to be a subject
of that king, but if you had an audience with that king and
you were before him sitting on his throne, you were supposed
to kneel now. Because this is where he rules. which is with
Christ, wherever he is, he rules. And you will kneel in submission
to him in your head if nothing else. But here this leper came
to him in fact in the flesh and he knelt to him in submission
to this man. And that is an important thing
that the world doesn't know. I remember you talking about
people coming down to Billy Graham's thing, popping their bubble gum
and chewing, you know, and just skipping and hopping down to
the front, you know. You come to Christ, you're going
to be on your knees. You're going to be on your knees.
You're going to be concerned. This leper was concerned. He
was beseeching. He prostrated himself before
Jesus Christ. And that is the only place to
be in front of Jesus Christ. Because if you're not on your
knees before Christ, you ain't met him. You don't know him. You don't know who you're dealing
with. But he didn't stop there. He came to him, he beseeched
him, he kneeled down, and he said, he called on the Lord Jesus
Christ. This leopard did. This unclean
man knelt down and said, but first of all, let me point this
out again just a little bit, all of this was to Jesus personally. No one else. Because here's the
thing, if you're unclean and, a really big and here, you know
you're unclean, There's only one person to go to. And that's it. He came to him, he beseeched
him, he knelt to him, and he said to him, every single individual action
of this unclean man, this leper, is directed toward the Lord Jesus
Christ. You don't come to the preacher.
you come to the Lord. You don't have to kneel to the
preacher. And don't kneel to any priest, because there ain't
none now. You don't have to kneel, but
you do have to kneel to Christ. You do have to beseech Christ,
and you will come to Christ. If you're unclean, and you know
you're unclean. Like I said, equals don't kneel,
they shake hands. or high fives or something, you
know? Now you bump fists so you don't have to shake hands, so
you don't have to wash your hands after shaking hands with somebody
who might be unclean. But these are the actions of
an unclean man who knows he's unclean and who is repentant. What's he preaching? Repent ye
and believe the gospel. That's what he's preaching. That's
what he was preaching in Galilee. That's what he preached everywhere.
And guess what? An unclean leper believed and
came to him. How did that happen? I think
I just talked about it. You're born from above and you're
born of the water and the spirit. This is a perfect illustration
of both physical and spiritual Salvation. I love this. But what did the leper say? This
is how you know that he meant what he did. He came, he beseeched,
he knelt, and he said, if thou wilt. Man, those are three good
words. Those are three good words. Those
are three good words, because in these three words, there are
many, many things to be seen. But I'll tell you this, I'm gonna
start here. Sometimes it's really nice to see what's not in that
statement of if thou wilt. What's not there? There is no
demand in those words. In that statement, there is no
claim made. In that statement, there is no
worthiness espoused or declared. And in that statement, there
is no self-esteem. I'm not against self-esteem comparing
worms to worms. When you start talking about
self-esteem with Jesus Christ, you ain't got nothing to talk
about. You're not gonna come to him
if you got self-esteem. He'll take that from you. And if he
hasn't taken it from you, you still got it. And that's your
problem. These three little words lay
everything on Jesus Christ. And that's where everything is,
on Jesus Christ. The first word is if. Two letter
word, if, if. But on this word, everything
else hinges. Because without this word, the
whole statement falls flat. The leper knew he had a need. And the leper knew he needed
a cure. And the leper knew he didn't
have the cure. He couldn't do it. And he may
have been to the priest and did all the things they were supposed
to do. Christ tells him to go do that later. Why? Because Christ kept the law.
He wasn't gonna say anything against the law. He came here
to honor the law of his father, to perform the will of his father. But that didn't help this leper. Because this word, if, is full
of possibilities. There's a possibility of yes,
but there's a possibility of no. There's a possibility of
compassion. So there's a possibility of being
totally ignored. There's a possibility of acceptance
and a possibility of rejection. And this word, this one little
word, lays all that at the feet of the Lord of glory. And that's
where it is. In the Old Testament, he put
it this way, I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy. I'll
have compassion on whom I'll have compassion. It ain't up
to you or me, and it wasn't up to this leper. It's up to the
one he was talking to, the one he kneeled before, the one he
besieged. That's the only one who can take
care of this. That's what it says in that little
word, if, if, if, it's all there. Yes, no, there ain't no maybe
with God. Acceptance, rejection, it's all with Jesus Christ. And
that's where this unclean man laid that word at the feet of
Christ. And the next word is thou. Thou, because all the possibilities
acceptance or rejection, yes or no, lie with thou. Thou, thou. He came to him, he
besought him. He kneeled to him and he said
to him, thou has the power. If thou, this is the one that
the leper entreated and begged. This is the one he kneeled to
in submission, not in token of it. And this is the one that
the leper was calling upon, thou. Thou art the one and there's
only one. There's only one who is the message
of the gospel. Of the kingdom and the gospel
of grace. There's only one king. There's
only one king and this man bowed to that king and said, if thou,
thou, this is totally personal, if
you want to use that word, singular between this leper and Jesus
Christ. There is no other mediator. There is no priest to go through. He's the high priest. He's the
priest. This man's going exactly where
he needed to go. He may not have known it, but he went exactly
where he needed to go. Lepers are to go to the priest.
He's talking to the high priest now. If thou. Man, that's good stuff. I like
that. Thou art the one, the only one,
and thou art the one. If thou. And the last word is
wilt. if thou wilt. What do you see here? Well, it's
the will of Jesus Christ that matters. And that's all. That's all. I
can stop there. I'm not going to, but I could
stop right there because it's the will of Jesus Christ that
is supreme. People talk about free will this
and free will that. They got no idea who they're talking about. Should I do the red maggot thing
now? That's what we are. What is the
will of a red maggot to the will of God? That's who he compares
us to. I am the Lord thy God, Therefore,
you sons of Jacob aren't consumed. And you ain't nothing to me but
a bunch of red maggots. And I told Walter outside, he
told me to go ahead and use it. That's an insult to maggots,
not an insult to men. Because maggots have a purpose. And maggots aren't evil. And
we are depraved, fallen creatures. The will of Jesus Christ is supreme. My will, okay, my will is laughable. Don't take it back, I mean your
will is laughable. Because your will is just like my will, it's
subject to this rotten old heart that I got in here. And this
rotten mind that I have here. You read it, you know? When you're tempted, you're led
away of your own lust and entice. God doesn't tempt anybody, we
tempt ourselves. Paul wrote in Romans 7, there's
a war in my members. That's now after conversion. I don't care, I know a lot of
people say, that's not the way a believer lives. Well, they
don't know what they're talking about. And I know some good people,
some preachers who've said some wonderful things that thought
that. They're wrong. I'm not gonna
disown them. I'm not gonna cast them out because
they know some other stuff, but they get this part wrong. Yes,
there's a reason you have to mortify your members every day.
Because they need mortified every day. It's not rocket science,
people. They need mortified. This is
the way I am. My will turns with my heart,
and my heart turns, I don't know, sometimes. I know sometimes I
feel like an idiot because I am an idiot. Sometimes I feel pretty
smart. And that's when I'm deluding
myself usually, but that's okay. It's okay. Jesus Christ came to do the will
of his father. Now, if thou wilt. What's that mean? That means
Jesus Christ is going to do the will of his father. Again, it's not rocket science.
It's not that hard. But people won't look at Christ
this way. They won't look at a teacher,
they won't look at a miracle worker, they won't, they like that guy
that cast out devils. Oh, they like the power. And
Christ is power. and Christ always has all power. And the devils were subject to
them, and guess what? They still are. The devil, Satan
himself, is subject to this man right here talking to this leper.
Fixing to give this leper some good news. Oh my. Here's another thing. that he
does, when he was talking about I came to do the will of my father,
he said that the father quickens whom he will. Guess what? The son quickens whom he will. If thou wilt. Then he threw it in, what he
wanted. He called, he came, he beseeched,
He knelt and he said, thou, if thou wilt, if thou wilt, those
three words, thou, same thou, canst make me clean. You can. There's no sense coming
to Jesus if you don't think he can help you. Is that too simple? I'll tell
you, you're not gonna come to him unless you think he can help
you. Unless you think he's got the
cure, you're not gonna bring your disease to him. He's got
the cure. Whether we're too dumb to know
it or not, that's a whole other thing. This leper came to him. And he said to him, thou canst
make me clean. And he was right. I like that. I can't make myself clean. That
leper said that by saying this. I need to be clean, but I can't
make myself clean. The priest couldn't make him
clean. The law of Moses couldn't make him clean. All it showed
was that he was dirty. The law doesn't change anything. The law doesn't help. I was reading one of these men
that I like and he said the law is like a flashlight. I think
he said a lamp because he was really old. in the 1800s, but
the law's like a flashlight. You shine it out there, you can
see the holes that you don't wanna step in, you can see the
roots you don't wanna trip on, but it doesn't move a one of
them. But thou canst make me clean. I don't need the law, I need
the man. I don't need the law, I need thou. And that's the place
to be. to know him that much and to
know yourself that much. And you can't know one without
the other. Ability's not questioned here
at all. Not at all. Because there is no question
of ability with Jesus Christ. Because if I am to be made clean,
you, thou, will have to do it. If thou wilt. He can, he can. He has all power over all things
and all things by him consist. And guess what, that means leprosy. Oh boy, it's time to quit. And
Jesus moved with compassion. I will say this, the world thinks
Jesus has compassion on everyone. The Bible says different. That's
what it's I mean, that's just the way it is, you know, I'm
mercy on whom I will I'll have compassion on what on whom I
will now My justice is gonna go on every one of you right
either on you or in Christ, but the justice is on everybody But he put forth his hand and
he touched him you're not supposed to touch lepers Because it makes you unclean
if you touch a leper You can't make the Lord of Glory
unclean. You can't make Jesus unclean. They want to make him just like
us. There are those who preach him all around us, you know?
I remember Kenneth Copeland's goofy wife. Jesus was just a
man filled with the Holy Spirit. You're an idiot. I'm sorry. And if I met her face to face,
I'd say it there too. Because that's all that is, that's sheer
idiocy. Jesus Christ is God. Remember I told you a little
bit about that guy, Origen, the other day. Origen thought God
was God, Jesus was the power of God, and the Holy Spirit was
dependent. I'm thinking one of them verses
he might have took out was these three are one. You understand,
Jesus is God. He's not just a man, he is a
man. But he is man and God together,
complete. But he is power incarnate, manifest
in the flesh. Even here, talking to this leper
somewhere in Galilee. But Jesus laid his hand forth
and touched him. And said, I will be thou clean. I will. One of the possibilities
is yes. I'm going to tell you something. If you come to him, beseeching
him, kneeling to him, and saying to him, if thou will, thou canst
make me clean, there's real good odds. That ain't no odds. It's not a chance. Because if
that's truthfully where you are, He put you there. Born from above,
born of the water and the spirit, the washing of regeneration and
the renewing of your mind. This is where He put you. He's gonna say, I will be thou
clean. Because it was His will that
brought you here. Or you wouldn't come. You will not come to me that
you might have life. Jesus said that too. But some
do come to him. Yeah, but it ain't their will.
It's his will. If thou wilt, thou canst make
me clean. Ah, I like this stuff. But I got a little something
right here, point out where it says be thou clean. That's three words translated
from one Greek word. And I think it's a little bit,
probably good in old English, but in our English, it's not
quite correct. This is an imperative verb. That means it's a command. Okay. But it's also passive because
it says be thou clean. So the subject is thou, the verb
is clean and you are passive. but you are clean. It's an imperative.
I like that. It's a command, but you're passive.
But the other thing is, this is in the past tense. Right here
when he said it. Literally, it translates, I will,
one word, cleansed. Cleansed, past tense. And he
said to him, I will thou art cleansed. If you want to put
it that way, there's nothing wrong with it. Be thou clean. But realize he said it in the
past tense. And it can be passive there because
it's already done. You are totally passive in being
cleansed. You need to be cleansed. You
want to be cleansed, but you're totally passive in being cleansed. And as soon as he had spoken
immediately, the leprosy departed him and he was cleansed. As soon as he had spoken, he
said it in the past tense, he touched him. As soon as he had
spoken, this man speaks, And this happened. This, Jesus Christ,
is the voice of God. Whatever he says happens. And it happens as soon as he
had spoken it. Mark put it, immediately. Immediately. Immediately. He already said
as soon as he'd spoken. Immediately, just in case you
weren't sure. But immediately, two things happened. This is two things. The leprosy
departed from him and he was cleansed. That's two things. It's not just one thing, it's
two things. Now, it is an instantaneous event. where two things happen
at the same time. And these two things are, oh
man, these things are glorious. I'm gonna tell you something. Excuse me. The leprosy, the uncleanness
departed. That's one thing. That's one
thing. Wonderful grace, yes. Miraculous grace, yes. Back in those days, there was
no cure for leprosy. There is now, I'm gonna get into that
just a little bit. We're gonna be late, Walter. The uncleanness departed. It's no longer there. But that's
not all. He was cleansed. See, there's something about
leprosy, we know a lot about leprosy now, and I did look some
of it up. It's an infection, leprosy is an infection, okay? And it can be in you for up to
20 years before you show symptoms, or maybe longer. Here's the thing,
you can be unclean for years and not know it. What's that a type? That's not
a type, that's a reality of what we are. You're unclean all the
time. You have been unclean since you
were born. But guess what? For years, you may not have known
it. You may not have known it. But what leprosy does is it damages
the nerves in the body. It's an infection. And it attacks
the nerves in the body. And it causes lesions on the
skin. Sometimes the skin to turn white. But here it is. It causes
nerve damage, and this is why you used to see people missing
fingers and toes and parts of them. I mean, leprosy itself
doesn't make your nose fall off. I mean, that's a myth. But the
thing is, you get yourself hurt and you don't know it. You can
cut your hand and get an infection from that, but you don't know
that your hands hurt because the nerves are dead. The disease
has killed the nerves. So guess what? In that uncleanness,
you can't feel anything. It damages you and you damage
yourself. And you can't feel the damage.
You hurt yourself and you don't know it. Now, does that sound
like us or what? Now there's a cure for leprosy
now. Antibiotics are the cure. Now
I'm sure there's certain antibiotics that work better than others.
I didn't go into that. I don't care. But antibiotics will kill
the infection in your body. They say the better, the earlier,
the better. Because here's the thing. Those
antibiotics, when I say it's a cure, what I mean is it can
stop the leprosy. It can make the disease depart. Man can make leprosy depart.
But the reason the earlier the better is, however your nerves
are damaged, they're going to stay damaged. Right. There you
go. Because man can't cure that.
Right. Not even on the physical scale. Right. Forget the spiritual
scale. I'm not talking about that. But
on the physical scale, man can't cure that. We can't regrow nerves. That's why they say the earlier
the better, the less damage to your body. But you can have it
for years and not know it's on you, not know it's in you. You can be cured of the leprosy,
but your nerves still be dead. And part of your body, parts
of your body still be damaged. Because the disease being gone
is good, but it doesn't make you clean. That's why I said
there's two things here. The disease being gone is good,
the leprosy departed him. Jesus Christ said, and he was
cleansed. The damage was undone. You understand? He doesn't put us in a neutral
state. You gotta have both things. It
happened both at the same time to this leper. But Mark here,
very nicely, wrote both of them down for us. You gotta have the disease depart,
but you gotta have the cure. You gotta be cleansed. Jesus could do that, and he did
do that for this leper right here. When he says, I will, and
he touched, cleansed. The leprosy was gone, and that
man was cleansed. We have to be clean every whit. Every whit. We gotta be whiter
than snow. That's it. And he, he has not,
was not only made sin for us. That's true. And he took it away
and my unclean is my leprosy is gone, but he is made unto
us righteousness. That's the great imputation.
If you want to, That was imputed to me. But it says, he is my
righteousness. And he is the righteousness of
every one of his children. Not only has the uncleanness
departed, you're clean. You're clean. And you gotta be
clean to stand before God. You have to be clean to stand
before God. You don't have to be clean in yourself. Because
our cleanness, our righteousness is in Him. We gotta be disease-free and
clean. And we are. If thou wilt. If thou wilt. Last thing is this. If you think
you've gotten past, if thou wilt, you ain't never known if thou
wilt. Because it hasn't gone anywhere.
It has not gone anywhere. There are some who think they're
on a higher plane now. Once you become a believer, once
you learn a few things. But there's no getting past this
statement, if thou wilt. If that's not the way you pray,
you're praying wrong. You need to pray according to
the will of the Father. What is it? Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven. It is done on earth as it is
in heaven, and that's the way we, if thou wilt. Not only thou canst make me clean,
thou hast to keep me clean. We are kept by the power of God
through faith, and that not of ourselves, it's a gift of God. Because believers never forget
those three words, if thou wilt. Because there is nothing, and
I mean this absolutely nothing, and no one above or beyond the
will of God. And if you don't know that, you
don't know anything. If you're not, see, Everything
and everyone is subservient to the will of God and to God. Believers
are submissive to God and to the will of God. What's the difference? Well, subservient ain't always
submissive. Submissive is always subservient. But subservient is not always
submissive. If people all around us are under
the will of God, whether they know it or not, it's better to
know it. I can just pretty much guarantee
you that. But you can't teach it. I can't
preach it into you. But these are the words, if thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean. And guess what? If he will, he
can make you clean. Amen. Our father, we are thankful again
for this time in this place. Most of all, we're thankful for
you and for your will, which has brought us to this place. This time we are in given us
your son, our Lord Jesus Christ. and revealed him to us. Thank
you, Lord. We don't deserve any of it, but
we are thankful in his name. We pray. Amen.