Greetings, friends, and welcome
to another broadcast of the Old School Primitive Baptist with
Elder Don Martin, Sr. Stay tuned for another Gospel
message of God's free and sovereign grace. Well, I greet you in that beautiful and that wonderful
name above every name, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, of
whom we have heard often this day amongst the fellowship of
the brethren and also in the preaching of the gospel as we
have heard it thus far from Brother Michael's efforts, of which we
rejoice in what was spoken in regarding the glorious gospel. I'm not going to stand long but
attempt to share with you a couple of thoughts. I was up with a
brother of mine at Grace Chapel and shared some thoughts out
of Isaiah's writings. After driving for two hours and
coming into church and kind of half-sleepy-headed from the driving,
Attempted to share a couple thoughts, but didn't have the clarity of
mind to say too much, but I thought maybe I would take the same scripture
and start with it and look at a couple aspects of it regarding
the Word of God. If you've got your Bible and
you want to join with me at the 46th chapter of Isaiah. Isaiah
chapter 46. A verse that's felt to be real
common to we who, by God's mercy and loving kindness, have been
caused, now I say caused, to believe in his absolute and unconditional
sovereign and free grace, love, and mercy. To an undeserving lot of people,
chosen out of all of mankind to be his elect children, appointed,
chosen, called, and ordained to be those of whom God the Father
had determined to be called out in time by His Holy Spirit, those
of whom were given to Christ Jesus even before the foundation
of the world, whose names according to the Bible were written in
the Lamb's Book of Life. And so what a glorious thing God has had a people even before
the foundation of the world. And possibly even before the
sun had its round and its beams even shone forth throughout the
universe as we know it. God has had a people. And he
has chosen them, not of any narratives, because he loved them, just as
he chose Israel. Not because they were the largest
of people or the greatest nation among the nations of the world,
but because he loved them. And he chose them to be his people. He, in this dispensation of time,
in this New Testament era, and New Covenant time, has got a
people as well. And they are the Israel of God.
Out of every continent or a nation, he's got a people. They're out
there in the islands of the sea, and upon every continent along
the face of the earth, he's got a people. And he's called them
out as he pleases in the generations of time. And they come by way
that they knew not. They come by way that they didn't
look for. In my own experience, I didn't
look for God. God is the one that comes to
seek and save sinners. The lowly sinner don't go out
seeking to be saved. And the only way that he will
do so is if God has already quickened his heart and mind and made him
awaken to the pains of the spirits, regenerating his heart and mind,
and then causing his new birth to come about, that he might
be that heir of grace and see has become his only hope and
help in the time of need and regarding his sin condition. And because of the depravity
of the human nature of all mankind, ever a born of woman, through
Adam's fall, there is none righteous, Paul declares in Romans, no,
not one. For all have gone astray, and
there's none good, no, not one. And so therefore all have sinned
and come short of the glory. And that glory is, as far as
I'm concerned, interpreted the perfection. All have fallen short
of the glory, the perfection of God. And the wages of the
sin that all are guilty of is death. But there is that blessed
hope that Jesus Christ is pleased to have favor on you, that are
given ears to hear the truth of the gospel and believe it
in the heart and mind, till the transformation of one's person,
and may the new creation The Bible says, Paul writes to the
Corinthian church, if any man be in Christ, and I'll use the
gender also, if any man or woman be in Christ, they have become
a new creature. Behold, all things are passed
away and all things become new. That means that priorities have
changed. Thought patterns have changed. interests, desires, priorities
have all been changed. Old things have passed away.
Now reading to you from the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and then the
46th chapter in verse 10, listen to what Isaiah has to say. He
says, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient
times the things that are not yet done. Now he's talking about
God, because in the verse above it says, remember the former
days of old, for I am God. God is giving this revelation
to Isaiah to prophesy to God's people and to say that I am God
and there is none like me. There are many gods in this world,
but there's none like this God. This is the Lord God Jehovah,
who became Jehovah Jireh, who became Jehovah, just to send
you, who became Jehovah Jesus, who is Elohim Yahweh, the God
of Israel, the God of the Holy And the Bible says that, he says,
I am God, I have declared, and declaring, that declaring to
me is an ongoing thing. He could say, I have declared,
and he said, I'm declaring the end from the beginning and from
ancient times of things that are not yet done. I'm declaring
things." Now, he didn't say, as many say, well, God knows
all things. I've heard so many preachers
say, well, we know that God knows all things, and because He knows
all things, and He's omniscient in that characteristic, therefore,
upon what He has known down through the ages of time and the corridors
of time, He has determined to choose That is a lie of the devil. That is a heresy, and that is
not the truth of the matter. Our God, the God of the Bible,
has declared to end from the beginning the ancient times of
things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand,
I will do all my pleasure. And his pleasure is, is to choose
the people, as I told you about earlier, who it's not because
he looked down through time and saw that they would be good candidates. They would be a good person who
would have a good talent and eloquent skill to have a nice
church and go out and just tell people that it's just a matter
of trying to be good enough to please God and that's all you
need to do. No, he chose the people that
were I remember this, when I was first
brought to knowledge of my sin, at the age of 27 in 1971. And God began to deal with my
heart. And the gospel was shared with me by a young man, and I
was given a Bible by this young man. that he demonstrated, I took
the Bible as a gift and I took a poem. And it wasn't too long
after that, you've heard his testimony, I believe, Brother
Jerry. But I took that Bible home and a few weeks later, I
took it in the solitude of my home and in the quietness of
the evening and my little daughter was in bed and my wife was at
a Tupperware party. I just remember that just as
clear as a bell. I took that little blue Gideon
Bible, I opened it up and began to lift it. through the pages
of it. And it had a Roman's Road in the front of it that we're
all familiar with from being involved in churches in the past
that were those that were out soul winning and trying to take
and persuade people to become Christians. And I read in there
about how the Bible said that all have sinned and that all
have fallen short of the God's glory, as I mentioned earlier.
There's none righteous, no, not one. But the gift of God was
eternal life through Jesus Christ. Now, I had been to Sunday school
as a young boy when I was probably from about four to the time I
was eight years old. And that was about the end of
my church history. After that, my mother and father
divorced, and we moved away from where we lived. And I lived with
my mother, and church life was not part of our life. But now
here I am, 27 years old, been married, and got a small child,
a daughter, and a friend to give me this little Bible book. And
here I am reading this in God's divine timing, in the solitude
of my home this particular night, as God had determined to be,
as He has declared here. I'm talking to you about one
of those things he was talking about right here. I took that
little book and read it. My heart was overwhelmed with
the fact that Jesus Christ would be the one that would give me
life eternal and sins forgiven. And I fell down on my knees and
began to weep. And I said, Lord, I said, God,
and I never have prayed a prayer other than Lord, if I should die, you know,
the old prayer that mommas say usually with their children.
That's the only prayer I ever knew. And I hadn't said that
so long that I even forgot what it even was about. But this particular
night, I got on my knees and I began to weep. And I said,
Lord, if this be true, if the Bible be really true, And then
I ask you God to have mercy and forgive me, because I didn't
have any problem that particular night. of knowing that I was
a sinner. Anytime before that time, Brother
Jerry, I was satisfied with my life. I was going through life. I had a good job. I was doing
fine. I had hobbies I was satisfied
with. I thought that I had a handle
on life. But this particular night, God
stopped me in my mad pursuit of the way I was living and arrested
me in my path. I called out unto Him as Father
for the first time in my life. I addressed God of this book
as Father. I said, Father, if that be true,
forgive me of my sins. And I began to weep like a baby. And there was a weight that was
lifted off of my body, heart, and soul like I've never experienced
before. And I am persuaded that the Holy
Spirit of God that had got my attention and had regenerated
this inward man and made a new creature in here by putting His
Holy Spirit and caused me to be born of the Spirit that night. Now I know not everybody We're all unique in God's determined
purpose. of the things of God. We don't
all agree and know the things that we've been taught by God
along the way. We can agree on the most part,
but there's things that you've been taught, Brother Jerry, and
had a handle on, that God may not have been revealed to me.
So Christian maturity is unique in itself, and a preacher of
the gospel needs to be aware of that when he tries to minister
to people. that in my 38 years of trying
to look at this book and gain something from it, and I trust
the Holy Spirit has given me some revelation of it, I know
that everybody here has not looked at it possibly that long and
come to an understanding of all the things that I seem to have
have come to the same place. But there is one thing for sure,
we have come to a place to know that God is the only one that
can transform the heart and mind of an individual. He's the only
one that can deliver one from the tragedy's curse. He's the
only one that can do as he pleases in the armies of heaven, and
he rules the reigns among them and also among the inhabitants
of the earth, and there's no man that can say unto him, Why
dost thou thus or so? We know that he's the only one
that is the true potter that takes out of one lump of clay
and makes one vessel for his glory and honor and another vessel
for destruction, if it so be, his will. We do know that. We
do know that he's an almighty God. So this little group here
together has come at least to that point and agreed that far
because our Bible says that this same God who declared the end
from the beginning, And from the ancient times, the things
that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand, I will
do all my pleasure. There's not anything that God
has determined, decreed, and ordained to do that he will not
bring to pass. He will do all his pleasure. No man, no human creature, nothing
on earth or in heaven shall circumvent his work of grace. There's not
enough demons in hell, or demons to be destined for hell. There's
not enough demons in the realm of the angelic host. And the devil himself can uphold,
sir, the works of God's grace, mercy, and loving kindness towards
his elect children chosen in Christ Jesus. Now, in saying
that, that God has declared these things, and that His counsel
is going to stand, and He's going to do those things in the future
that are not yet done, I want you to go to the New Testament
with me. I want to take you to look at John chapter 9. I'm going
to look at two occasions that God had declared in His determined
purpose to bring to pass that is supernatural and is beyond
the understanding of the human intellect. In chapter 9 of John's
Gospel, I'm reading chapter 1, and Jesus, he passed by, he saw
a man which was blind from his birth. Now Jesus was going about
his public earthly ministry, and he passed by this certain
area. And he saw this man which was
blind from his birth, the Bible says, and his disciples asked
him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind? The disciples, they were really
puzzled about this man. How come he was blind from his
birth? Was it his sin? Or was it his parents' sin? What's the cause of this man's
impermanence? And look what happened there.
Jesus said, and Jesus answered, Now, we know that there's no
man that is exempt from sin. Now, what Jesus is saying here
when he said, neither has this man sin, he's saying that neither
is it the man's sin that caused the problem of his imperfect
day, and he says, nor his parents, but that the work of God should
be made what manifests in him. Now listen to me, this man that
was declared in Isaiah's prophecy This is something that was not
yet to be brought to pass in Isaiah's time frame, but yet
down 700 and some years to come. This is one of those things that
was declared to come about for the glory of God Almighty. This
man was made blind for God's divine purpose, and before it
says Jesus there, for this man was made blind because that the
work of God should be made manifest in him. He was made blind that
Jesus taking the clay and putting it
upon his eyes and going and washing his eyes and he would be able
to see for the glory of God and to determine that Jesus Christ
is God. And that he has the power of
God and that he is deity and that he is the He is a God-man. He is Immanuel, which prophesied
also from Isaiah. He said that he's going to be
called, his name shall be Immanuel, the everlasting Father. That's
Jesus Christ we're talking about. What's Immanuel mean? The interpretation
of Immanuel is God with us. The Emmanuel, God with us, said
that this man did not become blind because of his sin, nor
his parents' sin, but God Almighty caused him to be born blind,
that in time, in the time that God had determined, declared,
and decreed, he would be made able to see, that people would
see the signs and wonders brought about by the God-man Jesus Christ. text tells you here, he went
through a whole chapter here of 41 verses trying to persuade
the Pharisees exactly what happened here. They asked him, I don't
know, I think like about two or three times, they asked his
parents. They asked the man. Who did this? The man didn't know at first.
And then they asked the parish, and the parish said, I don't
know. All I know is that our son, he was blind, but now he
sees. I'm telling you, something happened
here, brothers and sisters. There's a miracle happened here.
God Almighty got a hold of him. and told him what to do. And
he went and he watched. And he did what he said the Lord
Jesus told him to do. And he says, and when I did this,
he says, my eyes were opened. I was able to see. Well, they
just kept on. They kept on. And the Bible said,
let me go on down here. It says, verse 37, And it says, And Jesus said unto
him, well, let's go to 35. Jesus heard that they had cast
him out of the temple when he had found him. He said unto him,
Dost thou believe on the Son of God? And he answered, and
he said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus
said unto him, Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talketh
with thee. He opened this man's eyes, and
now he's got him to the place where he's introduced himself
to him, and he is the Son of God. The Son of God is the one
who has made you able to see. And it says here, and he talked
with him, and in verse 38, he said, and they said, Lord, I
believe. Let me tell you something. If
you were born blind from the time you were born, and God had
made you able to see, and then God, the God-man Jesus had come
to you and told you, who he was, let me tell you something, it
is by the sovereign grace and love and mercy of God that this
man was made able to know who Jesus Christ was. And he was
caused, you hear the word caused to believe, for he says, he says,
I believe, in the next sentence, and he worshipped him. Let me tell you something, that
is one of the first things that occurs when a man or woman, boy
or girl, is caused to believe on the person. Savior of sinners. They worship
Him. They don't worship another. They
worship Him. And the Bible goes on to say,
And Jesus said, For judgment I come not unto this world. For
they which see not might see, that they which see might be
made blind. Oh, He comes to open blind eyes
spiritually. Even one like myself in 1971
who was spiritually blinded. and couldn't see the truth and
wasn't looking for the truth. But he opened my blind eyes,
Brother Jerry, that I could see that Jesus truly was my only
help and hope at that time. And he came and delivered me
from the dread curse of sin and death that was brought upon me
by the path of his curse. And to everyone that believed
it, that even is sitting here tonight. The Bible goes on to
say, and some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these
things and said unto him, Are we blind also? And Jesus said
unto them, If it were blind, if you were blind, you should
have no sin. But now ye say, We see, therefore
your sin remaineth. They didn't see nothing. They
just thought they saw because they were Jews. All they saw was their religion. All they saw was Judaism. All they saw was the law, the
ordinances, the statutes. And that's all they knew. And
they figured if that's what they did, and that's what they sought
to pursue to be justified before God, that they was able to see. But Jesus said to them, Now you
say you see, but you don't, you're blind. You're blind in the back. And the only way that they're
ever going to be made to see, as some were in time throughout
the writing of Acts as the gospel was preached, as God opened their
eyes. Look at Lydia. A cellar of purple. And the Bible says that God had
opened her heart. Now let me tell you something.
Unless God Almighty opens the heart of an individual to attend
to the things that are preached in the gospel of Jesus Christ,
no man, no woman, shall ever be able to perceive it and understand
it. Lydia, a seller of purple, it
says in the book of Acts, God opened her heart that she would
attend to the things that were preached regarding the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and she believed upon the gospel. She believed what was being said. Just like the Ethiopian eunuch.
He looked in the book of Isaiah. He was coming through there. I don't know what you're reading."
He said, well, I really don't. I'm kind of confused here. Is
this man here, Isaiah, that wrote this, is he talking about himself
or is he talking about another? And the Bible says that Philip,
he preached unto him, who? Jesus! That's the only one that
can save sinners. That's the only message that
can help anybody. Now, I want to go over to the
11th chapter, John. We know what that chapter is
about, don't we? It's about another situation. It's about one who
was the brother of Martha and Mary. The name was Lazarus. And
he was sick, and he died. Now, the Bible says that a certain
man sick named Lazarus, verse 1, chapter 11, Bethany, the town
of Mary and her sister Martha, down in verse 4, when Jesus heard
that he was sick, he said, This sickness is not unto death. Now
let me show you a couple of things here, if God gives us a minute.
He said here that this sickness is not unto death, but for the
glory of God. Isn't that interesting? Can you
be sick for the glory of God? Absolutely you can, baby! I can
show you many scriptures in the Psalms where David said, many
are deflections of the righteous, but the Lord shall deliver them
from them all. Let me read you just a couple
up here. I think in probably about the
119th Psalm, there's quite a few of them in there. For instance,
listen to this now. It says in Psalm 119, in verse
71, It is good for me that I have been afflicted But David said, it was good that
I was afflicted. Now, how many would say it's
been good that I've been sick or afflicted with this infirmity
of my body, that I'm not murdered by statues? Only by grace can
a man say such a thing as that. We find over in the 119th Psalm,
verse 107, I am afflicted very much, O quicken me, O Lord, according
to thy word. We find that in the 153rd verse
of the 119th Psalm, consider my affliction and deliver me,
for I do not forget thy law. David was afflicted. And you say, well, you mean to
tell me God, who back in Isaiah 46 had declared these things
to come to pass? Yes, He did in David's life,
and all those around the times of the prophets, and even 700
and some years up to today. God is causing His children,
as He pleases, to be afflicted for His glory and His honor.
He'll lay me down in a hospital bed tomorrow, and He's going
to get the glory out of it, and for a divine purpose. And I'll
lay there and I'll suffer through it, and because God has promised
that he'll never leave me or forsake me, I can be assured
that I'm going to endure it to the end. Even at the end be this
moral body laid to rest awaiting the resurrection. That's what
it takes, Brother Jerry. That's what it's going to take,
as simple as that. But no, the Bible says that Jesus Jesus said that this sickness
is not unto death in verse 4 of chapter 11. But over here in
chapter 11 verse 13, it says, How did Jesus spoke of his death? But they thought that he had
spoken of taking of rest and sleep. But listen to this now.
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. He said over here, he says that
this sickness is not unto death, but to the glory of God. But
over here he says, Lazarus is dead. Now was he not dead or
was he dead? He was dead. He was dead. Jesus said he was. And he goes
on to say, in verse 25, After they had rolled back the opening
to the tomb, of which Martha and Mary said, oh, wait a minute,
no, we don't want to do this. He's been in there three days.
He's stinking. And they rolled it back. In verse
25, Jesus said unto her, after he said, he said unto her, he
says, that I am the resurrection. and the life. He that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Now we're waiting on a resurrection
of our mortal bodies to be transformed into immortality and incorruption. That's only going to happen by
one way, and that is by Jesus Christ He is not going to do
it in any other means or manner other than himself, son. And the Holy Spirit, which is
the one that's with the Father and the Son, that's going to
quicken the dead and the great and the small and bring them
all in that general resurrection out of the sea even and out of
the graves in that general resurrection time. Yes, the Bible goes on
to say, he says that, in verse 15, I am glad for your sakes
that I was not here. Jesus said to Martha and Mary,
he said, look, now keep in mind that he loved Martha and Mary, and
he loved Glassman. But he says, you know, he says,
I am glad for your sakes that I was not here, to the intent
You may believe, nevertheless, let us go unto him." And that's
when they said, oh, well, we don't want to go there. And oh,
but about ten of them, he'd been dead three days. He said, let
us go over there. He said, I'm the resurrection
and the life. He said, he that believeth on
me, though they were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever
liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? He answered the question. And
she said unto him, yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ,
the Son of God, which shalt come in the world. Man, that's all
that's necessary, is that profession of faith. Yes, I believe that
Jesus is the Christ, that he is the Son of God, which had
come into the world. One that says that with the heart
and mind and soul, by the work of God's grace, is certainly
giving evidence that they're a child of God. Okay, we go on
to say, and now we find that Jesus said that, I'm glad I wanted
to hear, but now we find that there's a transition in the feelings
of the God-man Christ. He went by saying, I'm glad I
wasn't here to the extent that you may believe. Now, that's
kind of an interesting text right there, because we find over here
in the shortest verse in the New Testament, in verse 35 of
John 11 here, were two words. He had feelings. He has the same feelings we have. He's been touched with the infirmities
of our flesh. That's why the Bible says that
we don't have a Savior that cannot identify with our physical problems,
our mental anguish. Let me tell you something. If
he can't identify with my mental anguish, my anxieties, My panic
attacks that I had been known to have in times past, and what
in the world was he doing, sweating as it was, drops of blood in
the Garden of Gethsemane as the God-man? Let me tell you, he
can identify with us. You talk about some sort of a
post-traumatic stress syndrome, brother, he had one in the Garden
of Gethsemane. He knew what was coming upon
him. He knew the cross was going to come and just round the corner. He knew they were coming to come
after him with stoves and knives and they were going to take him
and cause him to carry that cross to a certain distance until Simon
came. He knew that he was going to
be nailed there and those spikes driven through his palms and
through his feet and that his stomach was going to be sliced
open and blood and water would be running out of his body. And
he would shed his blood on that cross in behalf of the elect
of God that was chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of
the world of which we said about earlier. But Jesus wept. And he didn't weep for Lazarus'
sake, he wept for Martin Mary's sake. He was sad that they were
sad. They were crying, brokenhearted,
they were distraught, they were in despair. And Jesus went because He loved
them. Let me tell you something. We've
got a God tonight, a Savior, that's seated at the right hand
of God the Father, making intercession for us perpetually. That means
without end and is not stopping. He's continually making intercession
for us and He knows everything that we're faced with and everything
we're going through. I don't care what it is. He knows
about it, and as a child of His, He shall be faithful to see you
through it and cause you to persevere in it. And Jesus wept, because Mary
and Martha, they were weeping, and others were, the Jews were
weeping. It says in verse 33, but it goes on down to verse
39, and it goes on to say, Jesus said, take away the stone and
Martha, the sister of him, That was dead, and I said to them,
Lord, oh, by this time he's going to stink. It's been how many?
It's been four days. Jesus said unto her, I say unto
thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou wouldest see the glory of
God. Didn't I say to you a few days
ago? Do you believe you see the glory of God? Didn't I say it
to you, Martin? Didn't I say it to you, Mary?
Then stand by. Hang on, folks. Just listen up,
because here's what happened here. Then they took away the
stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted
up his eyes, and he said to the Father, I thank thee that thou
hast heard me. Oh, Jesus, lift up. And he said
to the father, he said, I am thankful, my father, that thou
hast heard me. And he goes on to say, he said,
I am thankful, Lord, that you have heard me. He says in verse
42, and I knew that thou heareth me, how many times? Always. And he says, but because no,
because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may
believe that thou hast sent me. He said that prayer to the Father.
and express what He did to the Father, that those that were
around about standing there by that tomb, Martha, Mary, and
other Jews and friends and folks around there, they listened to
Jesus pray, and He did it on purpose that they would hear
Him pray, and that they would know who He was. Jesus came to
do these signs and wonders for a purpose. It wasn't just to
be a Benny Hinn Jr. He came here to be the authentic
God's man. He came to come here and do signs
and wonders to express his deity to these unbelieving Jews and
Gentiles alike. and to express the fact that
God had come, Emmanuel had arrived, Isaiah's prophecy is now being
fulfilled in this aspect. Now this is just two things about
the blind man and about Lazarus. There's all the other signs and
wonders he did and all the apostles and disciples did in the preaching
of the gospel in the early church and in the Acts of the Apostles
were all part going to come to pass, because
I've declared it. We go on to say here, the Bible
says, after he said that, I said what I've said, God has sent
me to say this. And when he had thus spoken,
he cried with a loud voice. He didn't say, oh, blasphemous,
go forth. He cried with a loud voice. He spoke with authority. Because
when God spoke, they were always with authority. When God spoke,
listen, on the Mount of Transfiguration, it is so called, Peter, James,
and John was up there, right? Okay? And there was Jesus. And there was Moses and Elias. Okay, there's a representative
of the law, Moses. There was Elijah, the classic
representative of the prophets. They're there and they stood
there. And the Bible says that as they stood there talking with
Jesus, that God spoke from heaven. audible, the voice of God, saying
that this is my beloved son, hear ye him, and that voice slew
them to the ground. Jesus said this, rise, rise up,
and the Bible says, the Bible What that was indicating was,
Law, the Moses, the prophet Isaiah was moved out of the picture,
removed out of the way. And that no man now is to hear
anything except the Son of God and what he has to say. Jesus
only. That Jesus only is what we preach. This is what the message is about.
We don't preach a law or gospel. We don't preach about the prophets
gospel. For the Bible says John said
that the law and the prophets ended with John the Baptist.
fulfilled what he had to do when he baptized Jesus, that was the
end of the prophetical work of the prophets of old, and there
have been no prophets since then. There's not been no new prophecies
since that time, except the only ultimate grand prophets for the
potentate, the only almighty one, Jesus Christ, who has come
to prophesy those things which are yet to come and has given
revelation to the Apostle Paul as he writes to the Thessalonian
church and said that the Lord himself is going to come back
again. And he's coming back. And the
way things look around this world, and around our even little civilization
here in North America. It's looking like it may be sooner
as well. Concluding, the Bible says, Jesus
cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth and look
what happened here. And he that was dead, he wasn't
sleeping, He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
grave clothes, and his face was round about with a napkin. And
Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Now let me tell
you something. If he was merely sleeping, as
some assume, and try to justify how this occurred, How could
you have gray clothes wrapped around your head and a napkin
over your face and be able to breathe? You can't. He was dead! And the Bible says that Jesus
said, come forth, and he came out of there. And the Bible says
in verse 45, than many of the Jews. which came to Mary, and
hath seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. That is
why God had declared seven hundred and thirty some years before
these things to come to pass in John chapter nine with a blind
man born from his birth. and from one who is sick unto
death, to be raised from the dead for the glory of God. It's all for the glory of God.
Is there anything in this book that ain't for the glory of God?
Jerry, we have spent such precious time speaking and fellowshiping
with the brethren here this day and since we have arrived here
about that this whole book contains nothing that is all of God, and He does
as He pleases, as He has decreed, determined, and predestined,
fulfilling His will and purpose in all things, for the glory
and the praise of His holy name. And I'm telling you that Christ,
this same Jesus, all He knows, all that we go through in this
life, Take heed, dear saints. He knows our problems. He knows
our heartaches. He knows our infirmities. And
those things that have been determined shall manifest Christ's glory
and praise in the end result. I can assure you of that. To
God be the glory, and I thank you for your kind attention.
God bless you.