Let's turn in our Bibles to Isaiah
chapter 66. Isaiah chapter 66. After hearing what Brother Marvin
just read, I believe I'm going to preach from this passage. If you could sum up this passage
I'm going to read to you, this is everything that Christ is
doing since He redeemed His people
and ascended to the Father until He has finished the work of calling
all His people. In other words, this is all the
work Christ is doing throughout these last days, this gospel
age from the time He came until He's finished calling all His
people. I'll read you this one text, one verse, and then we'll
go through the passage together. Verse 21. Isaiah 66, 21. He says, I will also take of
them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. Now what we're
going to see here is what our Lord Jesus, our great High Priest,
is doing in the hearts of His people and with His people that
He's called by His grace. He makes us kings and priests
under God. The Scripture says they sang
a new song and they said, Thou hast redeemed us by Thy blood. You've shed Your blood and redeemed
us and has made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall
reign on the earth. That's what every blood-bought,
regenerated child of God is and is doing right now by the grace
of God. We're priests unto God and we're
reigning with Christ on this earth. And we shall from now
forever, even when this heaven and this earth is passed away.
Now, back up in verse 17. This is speaking of old Israel.
It's speaking of Israel after the flesh, natural Israel, those
that Brother Marvin just read about. He said, verse 17, They
that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens,
behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination
in the mouth, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. For
I know their works and their thoughts. God has finished using
that nation Israel. He has completed the work for
which he gathered that nation and used them. He used them to
set forth a picture of Christ. He gave the oracles and he gave
the temple and he gave the lamb and the high priest and all the
things he gave in that tabernacle were all glorifying Christ. But natural men did what natural
men do. They took the things of God.
and tried to use those things God gave to make themselves righteous
and holy before God. God said they sanctify themselves.
Even though many came to the temple, just like those that
didn't. They went out to the gardens.
He's saying here they sacrifice in the gardens. They try to come
their way rather than through God's temple, through Christ
the temple. through Christ the High Priest, through Christ the
Lamb. Even those that sat in the temple, rather than worshiping
Christ and rather than seeing Christ in the lambs and in the
offerings, they worshiped their worship. And he said they tried
to sanctify themselves and purify themselves and he says they will
be consumed together. I know their works and their
thoughts. And so God's done with natural
history. He's done with it. And then he
began to say this right here in In the second part of verse
18, he said, It shall come that I will gather all nations in
tongues and they shall come and see my glory. Now go to Acts
chapter 2 with me just a minute. He said, It shall come that I
will gather all nations in tongues and they'll come and see my glory. In Acts chapter 2 on the day
of Pentecost, the Lord told them, His disciples, to wait for Him.
And when He poured out the Holy Spirit on His disciples, they
went to stand up there at the Day of Pentecost at Jerusalem
to preach. And look who was there at Jerusalem
when they stood up to preach. It says in verse 5, Acts 2, 5,
There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. Now look down at verse, you see
there it says, Jews devout out of every nation under heaven.
He said, I'm going to gather all the nations. Now look down
here at verse 6. There were Parthians and Medes
and Elamites, the dwellers of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappacia,
Pontus, Asia. It goes on through that list
showing there were some there from Rome, Jews, Cretes, Arabians,
and they heard them speak the wonderful works of God. They
heard them in their own tongue speak the wonderful works of
God. God began this work, our great high priest, our great
redeemer, when he ascended on high, having redeemed his people,
he began this work he's talking about here at Jerusalem. He began
it when he walked this earth. He began calling out the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. And when he ascended, he continued
doing this work. It's not like when he ascended
and sat down, he stopped working this work in the midst of his
church. He's still the head of his church. He is the head of
his church. He is the high priest. He is doing this work now in
the midst of his people. You wake up in the morning, you
see the sun come up in the east. The apostle John said in Revelation,
he said, I saw an angel ascending from the east. And that commanding
angel that ascended from the east, he said, don't touch anybody
in this earth till I've sealed them. Till I've sealed them.
And that's Christ, the Son of Righteousness, arising with healing
in His wings. He arose in the East. He started
this work in the East, in Jerusalem. And He said His command was,
don't touch this earth, don't touch this world in judgment
until I have called out all mine elect and sealed them by my Holy
Spirit in regeneration, giving them faith to trust Me for all
salvation. And He began that work in Jerusalem.
And Peter stood up there and he said there in our text in
Isaiah 66, 18, he says, I'll gather all nations in tongues
and they shall come and see my glory. The glory of God is the
Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son. And Peter stood up and he didn't
preach man, he didn't preach man's works, he stood up and
he preached the Lord Jesus Christ. And he made sure they knew what
he was talking about. He said, Jesus of Nazareth, whom you have
crucified and slain, God has raised up. And he said, because
it was not possible, it was not possible that he could be held
by death. Why not? Because, just what Brother Marvin
read, he came forth, and He established judgment in the earth. He established
justice. He's pleased for His righteousness. He fulfilled the law. He honored
the law. He magnified the law. He declared
God just and the justifier of all those that believe in Jesus.
He is the one who did that and He's the glory of God. All the
glory that Moses saw when he was in the cleft of the rock.
Whenever God puts His child in Christ the Rock, He makes you
behold all His glory in Christ, the fullness of the Godhead body.
And that day He stood up, Peter stood up, and through the preaching
of the gospel, He declared the glory of God. And what did God
do? He says here now in Isaiah 66,
19, and I will set a sign among them. When He did that, when
He began to preach that word, the Scripture says they were
pricked in their heart. They were pricked in their heart.
How was a sign set in their heart, being pricked in their heart?
Remember Simeon? When they brought the Lord Jesus
to the temple, Simeon held Him up and he said, this one right
here is set. The Lord said, I'm going to set
a sign in their midst. He said, this one is set for
the fall and rising again of many in Israel. He is a sign
that's going to be the revealer of the thoughts of many hearts.
Everything that's determined about what a man's really thinking
in his heart is determined by what does he think of Christ.
You preach Christ to him, take all the glory out of a man's
hand, take all the work out of a man's hand and declare it's
all accomplished by Christ. And you'll find out what's in
a man's heart. But when he preached that gospel and he declared Christ
risen, because it wasn't possible that he could be held by death,
he declared him to be both Lord and Christ. And when he declared
that, God set this sign in the hearts of 3,000 people that day
and they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know who
did that work? Peter didn't do that work. Those
men that were preaching there in the languages they had never
learned to all those different nations represented there, they
didn't do that work. Peter said, let it be known to
you that that Lord, that Christ, He shed forth this which you
now see in here. And He's the one that pricked
them in their heart. He set that sign in their heart. He sent
that sign, and a little while later, by 5,000, He did that
for them. And He continued to add to the
church daily such as should be saved by having His glory declared
through the preaching of the Gospel, and by regenerating His
people through the Holy Spirit, and setting this sign in their
hearts. Christ Jesus, the sign. When
he did that, he told them now, he said, now go forth into the
world preaching me. Go forth preaching my name to
all the world. But they kept staying there in
Jerusalem. They stayed there and wouldn't go forth. So the
Lord, our Redeemer did this. Our Redeemer sent persecution. He sent persecution for a purpose,
to scatter them into all the world. And they went forth preaching
the gospel. Yet they still went forth just
preaching to the Jews. But then one day, he says, he
sent the Spirit and he told this man named Cornelius to go to
Peter. Send some men to Peter to come
down and preach. Cornelius was a Gentile. And he told Peter,
he let down a sheep from the heaven and it had all these different
unclean animals in it. And he said, Peter, arise, lay
and eat. Peter said, not so, Lord. I've
never eaten anything common or unclean. And the Lord said, You've
misunderstood what that law meant, Peter. Let me tell you what it
meant. Don't ever call that common which I have cleansed. And that's
what that law was given for. God said it when He gave that
law. He said, I have severed you from all of the people. I've
sanctified you. I've purified you. That's what
He was showing by that law. And so He told Peter, as soon
as He taught Peter that lesson of what that scripture meant,
there came a knock at the door. And there was those men. Peter
went down there and preached the gospel and God poured out
the Spirit on them and he saved some Gentiles that day. And Peter
said, now I know. God's got some people among the
Gentiles too. And then he called Paul and he
sent him. And Paul went forth preaching
to the Gentiles. Why did he do that? What Brother
Marvin just read is he said, I'm going to declare before what
I'm going to do and then I'm going to do it. And you're going
to see it. If I told you what was going to happen, tomorrow.
And it came to pass. If I said it's going to happen
tomorrow and I'm going to do it, and it came to pass, you
would think, that has something. You would think, but you know,
that might have just, I don't know for sure, He did that. But
if I told you what I'm going to do tomorrow, and I told you
how I'm going to do it, and then I did it exactly like I told
you I'm going to do it, now you'd say, He did it. And that's what
God does. And here's what He said, now
watch. Isaiah 66, verse 19. Once He had called those from
Israel, He said, and I will send those, verse 19, I will send
those that escape of them by His grace, by His calling, by
His power, I'll send them to the Gentile nations. To Tarshish
and Pul and Lud that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the
Isles afar off that have not heard My fame, neither have seen
My glory, and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. That's what they went forth doing.
That word, fame, means the report. Who hath believed, I report.
That word, glory, they went preaching the same thing Peter did. Christ
and Him crucified. And they declared it among the
Gentiles. And he says this, verse 20 now.
Here's what's going to happen. What's Christ doing now that
this gospel is going forth into all this world? Verse 20. And
they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord
out of all nations. That's priest language, isn't
it? They're going to bring them for an offering. Look down to
the last part of that verse. As the children of Israel bring
an offering in a clean vessel unto the house of the Lord. That's
what the priest did. That's what the priest did. The
children of Israel brought the offerings and the priests brought
those in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. He said,
when I send forth my church that I've called and I've redeemed
and I've made priests unto me, starting at Jerusalem, starting
in the east and going west like the sun does, when I've called
my people and I've sent them forth amongst the Gentiles to
declare my glory, He says, they're going to bring my people through
my gospel, through the gospel of God's grace, through the work
of Christ working in their hearts. He said, they're going to bring
all my people as an offering. Just like they bring an offering
in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. He's saying that
he's made those that he called priests. And you know what a
priest does? A priest serves our high priests.
That's what the lesser priests serve the high priests. The lesser
priests and the Levites, they weren't concerned with things
outside of the tabernacle and outside of the temple. While
the rest of the world was concerned with that and with politics and
getting caught up with who they were going to vote for next political
season and getting twisted and turned by all that mess, his
people had their focus on one thing, the temple and the offerings
and pointing the people to the temple and the offerings. And
what he's saying is here, that's what I make my people to do.
I make my people to be taken up with my house and my glory
and my gospel and calling forth my people through the preaching
of this word. Now you know we don't call them. We don't bring
them. But in the sense that he uses
us to preach the word and does the work in the hearts of his
people, he says we bring them. We bring them. I've heard men
that'll hear something like that and they'll say, you're giving
too much glory to men to say something like that. I had this
man I worked for one summer. Wealthy, wealthy, wealthy man.
And he had plenty of employees working for him. He had every
position covered, every job covered. He didn't need anything done
whatsoever. He didn't need anybody else to
hire anybody else. But he hired me. and gave me
a job, and I worked for him that whole summer. You know why he
did it? For my benefit. He didn't need me. He just did
it for my benefit. God don't need us. He could do
this work, but he's chosen to do it through the preaching of
the gospel. And that shows his glory even
more. It's just like that deal of him saying, this is how I'm
going to do it. And because He's able to do it
that way, now you look at Him and say, man, I've got something
else. Because He is. And I remind you,
the God I'm talking about is that same God-man that walked
this earth. You see, the glory of His ascension
and the glory of Him going back, having accomplished the redemption
of His people, He went back as the God-man. There's a man seated
in glory who is God. He knows everything about us.
He knows our feelings, our infirmities. He knows everything that we face
because He faced it all and He faced it infinitely more. We
face things and we think they're bad, but all we are is sin and
all we know is sin. Imagine facing the things we
face and being spotless and without sin and yet having to deal with
all the sins of the people He encountered and the trials and
the things, the infirmities He had to deal with. So He knows
everything about us. So you know what? This Gospel
and His grace, you know what He's able to do through this?
Look at this. Look at this. In verse 20. Isaiah
66, 20. He said, I'm going to bring them
out of all nations. He's talking about His people,
His elect, His redeemed, those He purged with His blood. I'm
going to bring them upon horses and in chariots And then coaches,
that's what that word litters meaning. Coaches and upon mules
and upon swift beasts to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the
Lord. What is that? What does that mean? All these
horses and chariots and coaches and mules and beasts. What is
that? That's all modes of transportation. It's all modes of transportation.
Our gospel, the gospel of Christ in crucifixion, the grace of
God, His power working through that gospel by sprinkling the
conscience of His people with His blood and by teaching the
hearts of His people and rebuking and exhorting and admonishing
as He only knows. He alone knows what needs to
be done. And you preach Him and you preach
His glory and you preach His power and our Lord Jesus Christ
will do the work in the hearts of His people. And this gospel
is the transportation. This is the vehicle that has
taken us through this wilderness, out of the nation, separating
us out, bringing us out of darkness into light, and it's going to
carry us all the way to His holy mountain in heavenly Jerusalem.
This is the vehicle that's doing it. And the significance here
of these different types is because of this. He's saving all kinds
of sinners. He's saving all kinds of sinners.
And you see here, a horse is a strong beast. Our gospel is
strength. Our gospel is able to take the
weakest of the weak, poor sinner, and put him on him and carry
him all the way. You got here, you got a chariot. That's for battle. You go into
a battle in a chariot. Christ is the captain of our
warfare. He's accomplished the warfare of His people and He
can go forth conquering and to conquer, and He shall not fail.
He shall, till He set judgment in the earth. Not only judgment
at the cross, which He has done, declaring God just and justified,
but He's going to set judgment in the hearts of His people too.
Making us to know the truth, the way, the truth, and the life.
And He won't fail. He's the strength of our gospel. And then He talks here about
these coaches. Coaches for comfort. Y'all gonna
have to look when you go out there. Brother Don's got a mighty
nice coach. But a coach is for comfort. This
gospel is the comfort. He says, Comfort ye, comfort
ye my people. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem
and tell them their warfare is accomplished. This is the vehicle
that's carrying us through all our sorrow and all the times
of mourning is this coach that he's carrying us in. And then
you got these other two couple of things here. You got these
mules. Mules. You know a mule is slow. And it's not necessarily something
that you, you know, if you were a king and riding and want to
show off, you wouldn't exactly ride on a mule. But it's slow
and it's steady. And there's a lot of folks, God
saves, every one of us, that are proud and ashamed of lowly
things. and moving too fast in this world
and trusting things and running here and there and got our minds
set on a thing. You know what this Gospel does? It slows you
down when you need to be slowed down. And it's steady to carry
you the whole way and it makes you to be not ashamed. He said,
My people will not be confounded. They will not be ashamed. You're
not ashamed of the Gospel. You're not ashamed of Christ.
I'm content to get on this mule and ride it all the way to glory.
And then there's these swift beasts. Sometimes just the opposite. Sometimes we're in too big a
rush and sometimes we just lollygag around. And we need something
that will get us there. Swiftly, quickly. And that's
what this Gospel does. Because Christ will see to it
that He meets every need that His people have through this
Word. That's what it does. Now look, he said, I'm going
to send forth, now he's sending these folks forth as priests
and Levites from Jerusalem, those he's called out. He sent them
forth to the Gentiles and he said, and I'm going to call out
my Gentiles from among them. They're going to bring them to
my house. And look what he says about the
Gentiles he calls out. Verse 21, And I will also take
of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. This new priesthood
is eternal. And this new priesthood we're
talking about is made up of Jew and Gentile. It's His elect that
He's called out from among the Jew and the Gentile. And there's
no more Jew and Gentile. We're one in Christ now. There's no more distinctions,
male and female, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. All
those things, all those things are things that you and I take
and use in our flesh, our sinful flesh, to try to exalt one over
the other. And He takes all that out. When
you're all just a maggot, you can't very well exalt yourself
over another maggot. And He makes you see what you
are in your flesh, and He makes you see your completion in Him,
so that He makes us bear with one another's burdens and bear
with those things, because those things aren't the important things.
And we want to have this gospel. We don't want to split and divide.
We want to have the gospel. Because we need it. It's life.
It's Christ ministering to us. Doing this work for us. And we
need Him. We need this work. We need it. Now priests, I've talked about
priests a little bit. They served the high priests.
And they had their hearts set on high priests. And the Levites,
they were the brethren. They were the brethren who did
everything to support those priests and that tabernacle and everything.
All of us are Levites. We're priests and Levites. Those
He's called and redeemed, we're priests and Levites. And we're
providing for His house. We're seeing to it the Gospel
goes forth. Providing for His people and anybody that needs
our help amidst His people and the preachers for the Gospel
go forth. That's what He made His people.
Now what's He going to do? Why does He do this? Why does
He do this? Verse 22, Because as the new heavens and the new
earth which I will make. Now he's talking in future tense
there, but when Christ came and did his, accomplished the redemption
of his people and sent him back to the Father, that new heavens,
new earth has already started. It's already begun. You know,
it's not circumcision that avails, it's not uncircumcision that
avails, it's a new creature, a new creation. And he makes
his people a new creation. And behold, all old things pass
away. That old covenant, that old law,
and that old way of worship, and that old way of exalting
ourselves, He took that out of the way and nailed it to the
cross because that's what made the Jews exalt themselves over
the Gentiles, the law. You try to come to God in the
law, that's what you're going to use it for. Just like those
other distinctions, you're going to try to say, I've done this
a little bit better than you. He took it out of the way. He
fulfilled it. He fulfilled it. So that now we can't use that
to try to exalt ourselves in any way. He took it out of the
way to make His people one in Him. You find it in Ephesians
2. He took it out of the way that He may make of two, one
new flesh. And He'd come and preach this
gospel to us, and by one Spirit now we both have access to the
Father. Access to the Father. Now that's
the new heaven and new earth. He said, and just like that new
heaven and new earth is that which I will make. You notice
all through here, this is all the Lord saying, I will, I will,
I will, I will. This works, He is beginning and
end. I will, I will. You read out 1 Corinthians 1.21. He said, After that in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that belief. God showed
us from Adam all the way to Christ came. He showed from Adam up
until to Abraham's day that men can't find out who God is and
come to God by their will and their works or anything about
it. He showed it from Abraham till He created Israel. He showed
it all through Israel's day. And when Christ came now, He
said, now in the wisdom of God, He showed it. We by our wisdom
can't find out God. So from then on, He said, now
I'm showing you, this is my wisdom. I'm calling my people through
the gospel, through the preaching of the gospel. And it's so wise.
What else could have brought you here without exalting yourselves
over one another, into this building right here to sit here and hear
the gospel preach and keep you doing that. Week in and week
out, season after season, overlooking one another's shortcomings and
trying to help. What else could they do? See,
it's the way He keeps His people together. He fitly frames us
together in like a body. Every joint, you need every piece
of that body to nourish, to minister nourishment to every other piece
of that body. And He's working in every part to minister to
every part. So one can't say, I don't need
you, and the other one can't say, I don't need you. We need
each other! And when He teaches you this,
that's what, That's what makes you fulfill the law of Christ.
The law of Christ is to love one another. It's to bear the
burdens of one another. That's the only thing to do.
The more you see how much you need Christ, the more you won't
get offended when you don't get your choice of what color blinds
you picked out. So look here. He says, He said,
just like this new heaven and this new earth which I will make
shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed
in your name remain. You see, the reason He's doing
it this way, this is how He's going to make all His children
be born, all the holy seed be born, which are our spiritual
offspring, our true seed, our sons and daughters. He's going
to make them all be born that way. and make our name last forever,
which is His name. He's going to make His name last,
and His children be saved. He told those Pharisees, He said,
you don't believe because you're not my sheep. And He said, I
lay down my life for my sheep, and my sheep hear my voice, and
I know my sheep, and they follow me, and nobody's going to pluck
them out of my hand. And nobody's going to pluck them
out of my father's hand. You see, this is the way He's
showing us from these last days when they started, all the way
through to the last chosen, redeemed child of God is called out. This
is how I'm going to make it keep going. He's not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And
if He's not willing, it ain't happening. He's going to make
sure they all come to repentance. This world's held in store by
the Word of God. What word is that? Don't you
touch them until I've sealed them in their forehead. And this
judgment will not fall until He's regenerated every chosen
child of God and brought them to Him. It has to be because
the same justice that demanded Christ go to the cross and lay
down His life for us, that same justice is satisfied. And that
justice is our friend, brethren. Because that justice demands
they must be called, they must be given life, and they must
be brought to glory. So they're going to remain. So
look here now, verse 23. He says, And it shall come to
pass that from one new moon to another, that is from one season
to the next, and from one Sabbath to another, that is from one
week to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith
the Lord. We had that old covenant life.
He took us from that life to another life. We had that old
covenant rest. He took you from that old covenant
rest to what it pictured, Christ our Sabbath Bread. And He takes
you from that glory to this glory, and He takes you from one week
to the next week, and from one season to the next season. And
one day, He's taken us from this heaven and this earth, and it's
going to pass away. And then all that's going to
be... I started to say He's going to take us from this one to the
next one, but this one's just going to pass away. And all that's
going to remain is everything Christ created in righteousness
and holiness because it cannot be shaken. It must remain because
Christ built it and it can't be shaken. And that's what He
started in His people now. That's the new heavens and the
new earth when we're there. We won't need the light of the
moon then. He'll be the light of the moon. And a lot of folks
now don't know that we don't need a Sabbath day. We don't
need a Sabbath day. He's the Sabbath rest. And we
worship Him every day. And when you get to glory and
you read about that day when we'll be with Him and how we
won't labor and we won't toil and we won't have any tears and
we'll be able to rest, it's not because we'll be observing a
day. It's because it says the Lamb shall be among them and
He'll wipe away all their tears. He's our rest. Now look, here's
a warning now. Here's a warning. They shall
go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed
against Me, for their worms shall not die, neither shall their
fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh."
Right now, right now, you and I, we can look back at natural
history. We can read about it, we can
look back on it, and we can see that God's judgment of natural
Israel was just. It was just. Christ came and they said, we
will not have this man reign over us. It was just. Right now, you can go forth to
this place and sadly, you can go forth and we see this world.
We see what's going on in this world. And you can see the madness
that's happening. It is utter madness, don't you
think? I'm sure every generation has thought that, but boy, some
things have happened so fast lately that I just think, oh,
this is just utter madness. And you can look on, you can
see what God's doing is just. It's just. It's just. I'll tell you this, one of these
days, one of these days, we're going to be in glory with God
and He's going to bring forth everybody to bow the knee to
Him. And everybody is going to bow
the knee to Him. Everybody is going to confess that everything
that was told them was true. Everything that was written was
true. Everything they denied was true. And every knee is going
to bow and every tongue is going to confess He is Lord of lords
and King of kings to the glory of God. And when He casts out
the rebels, We don't see it now like we will then. We don't know
it now like we'll know it then. But we're going to see how right
and how just it is. And we're going to rejoice in
it. We'll rejoice in it. But you
see, Christ says here, and for those He casts out that have
transgressed against Me, their worm shall not die and their
fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be abhorring unto
all flesh." Why is it? Why is it that you and me, who
are no different than the worst rebel in this world, how come
you and I have been called and delight and rejoicing in this
message and will rejoice in this message for all eternity? How
come is that? Because when Christ was made
sin on the cross, He killed that worm for us. And
He quenched that fire for us. When He became a worm and no
man, when He bore our sin in His body on the tree and bore
the just judgment of God on that cross, He put an end to our judgment. And it's only by the grace of
God that you and I are made to differ. Only, only by His grace. I pray that God would make every
one of us that know Him, know Him more, and rejoice in Him
more, and seeing what He's going to do. One of these days, you
watch that sun come up, you watch it do its work, it spreads its
rays all through the day, and it does its work, and it sends
light everywhere light needs to go, and when it's done, the
day's over. and He's called the last one,
the day's over. I pray, seeing what He's shown us that He's
going to do, He shall not fail. And seeing what He's shown us
He's going to do, that ought to make us want to go forth as
the priests of God and spread this gospel everywhere we can
spread it. And just watch God manifest His
glory, snatching men out of the jails of hell and breaking down
their gates and bringing them out. And I pray that if you don't
know Him, I pray He'll strike that warning to your heart and
make you see that's what you deserve. And make you see this
comfort and this joy and this rejoicing that His people have
in Christ to make you come to Him and bow to Him. Amen. Thank you, brother. The gospel is always and has
always been about Christ. It's not just about doctrine.
Don, we talked about that Sunday. Doctrine can be as dead as the
soul itself. And apart from Jesus Christ,
it is. It is. God has to make this real
to you. And when He does, Clay, oh, it's
a glory. It's a glory.