The Most Important Word

Peter was called on the carpet there, why did you go to the Gentiles? And after he explained to them what had taken place and they had the authority of God and the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, they said, wow, God has dealt with the Gentiles too.

The very next thing that we find in this chapter then is a continuation of what happened after the murder of our brother Stephen. Now, many people may feel sorry for Stephen because he entered into glory in such a terrible way, but on the back of your bulletin is an article that I'm not going to read it now.

You read it on your own. Thomas Brooks, I believe, is the author, isn't it? Thomas Brooks wrote an article on dying and what the saint will have as a result of it, and I concur. The closer we get, the more inviting it becomes. And there will be no strain or stress or there will be no sin to be dealt with and we'll see him as he is. But Stephen went there and you know what? Given the opportunity, he would never come back. He was so pleased to be in the presence of him who had saved him by the grace of God.

Well, we notice here now in verse 19, now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen, traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, and notice what they were doing, preaching the word to none, but unto Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they had come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. Then tidings of these things came into the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch." Well, we're going to stop there and we'll spend some time on this passage of Scripture as the Lord gives us help. There is a passage of Scripture over in the Old Testament that I love to look at with regard to passages just like this.

You know, the Lord, nothing happens by chance. or luck in this world. Nothing happens by chance or luck. It is always, always purposed by a holy God. Things that take place are on His purpose, and what happened to Stephen was on purpose. Stephen died a martyr s death. No one can question that, and a martyr means a witness. He was a witness of the saving grace of God, and religion came up against him and took him out and killed him, murdered him in the front and the eyes of a young man by the name of Saul of Tarsus. Now, that happened, and as a result of that, there was a great persecution that broke out, and many people left Jerusalem out of fear for their lives. And yet, behind this all, we see Almighty God working because of what they did when they left.

But turn with me, if you would, over to one of the books of the Old Testament, the Song of Solomon. The Song of Solomon. I've used this a couple of times in our studies in the book of 1 Samuel on Wednesday night. But here in the book of the Song of Solomon, chapter 2 and verse 9, we read these words. Chapter 2 and verse 9.

We know what a lattice is. It doesn't completely block off everything, but it blocks off some things. It may be for the sun, it may be from the wind, it may be, but we know what a lattice is. You can go over here to Home Depot and buy a 4 by 8 piece of lattice, wood or plastic. You can see part of it. Now notice this, as God speaks here through Solomon, Song of Solomon, chapter two and verse nine. My beloved is like a roe or a young heart.

Behold, he standeth behind our wall. This is the church talking about the Savior. This is the church talking about the one who runs this world. This is the church talking about the one that is over all things. It says here, looking forth at the windows, showing Himself through the lattice. Now, we may not be able to see Him in every capacity, but my friends, when we look here at the book of Acts chapter 7, as we look at chapter 11, we see the Lord Jesus Christ behind all things that are taking place.

Yes, Stephen did die. Yes. There was great mourning about the death of Stephen. Yes. He was a wonderful preacher Yes, he was faithful. Yes. He was a deacon Yes He did all these things for the Lord and yet the Lord saw fit to take him out of this world in that way and then he pushes those people who come under the persecution of the religionists and he pushes them out and tells us exactly where he's going to push them and What they did when they went there They didn't leave their religion behind. God had given it in their heart. There was Christ in their heart. They had been born again by the power of God, and this was what they carried with them.

As we go back over to the book of Acts chapter 11, we notice this as God shares it with us, that nothing happens by chance or by luck, and the benefits of the persecution that arose as a result of Stephen are many, because many were scattered abroad.

Going back to the book of Acts chapter 11, we read again these words, chapter 11, and beginning with verse 19 and 20, it tells us there in those verses of Scripture, Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that rose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch. Now comparatively speaking, that is not a great distance away. Part of this is just the coast north of what we know as Israel, and we know Cyprus is an island just off the coast there in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and Antioch is not that far away, but they were pushed into these areas, and they preached the word to none but the Jews only, except we find in verse 20 they were preaching the Lord to the Grecians. In verse Chapter 2 and verse 47 of this book of Acts, we find out some great information. Chapter 2, verse 47. These people understood that as they went preaching, that the results were not up to them. They were not looking for proselytes. And they were not looking for church members.

I remember when I spent that little time of my life down in Dallas, Texas at a Bible school. I got more out of it than I ever thought I would. All of it was what not to do. But there was a guy there that had a missions conference. Now, we had a preacher here from back in Kentucky that was out at our camp one time, and he was in a Bible school, and the professor was saying, you cannot find Christ in the Old Testament. And Brother DJ said, I was lost, but he was loster. I was lost when I heard this, but this man was loster.

You know, he was a missionary going to New York. And you know, when asked, what are you going to do when you go to New York? His goal was not to preach the gospel. His goal was to create independent Baptist churches. I thought, he's loster than I am. That's not the goal of a missionary is to create a church, a following. The goal of a true missionary is to preach Christ and Him crucified. The goal of a real missionary is to preach the gospel as we find these folks going out preaching the gospel at one place only to Jews, in another place to some Grecians. And God was pleased to have the gospel preached out to them.

They understood this, as we read here in the book of Acts chapter 2, verse 47. Chapter 2 and verse 47. Praising God and having favor with all the people. Now notice the last sentence of that verse. and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. It was the Lord that added to the church. It was the Lord that saved. It wasn't the people that went out and preached. It was the Lord that did this activity.

He's the only one that can save His people from their sins. He's the only one that can do that. We can't talk anybody into it. We're talking to dead people. You know, the only people that Jesus Christ ever saves are dead people. Dead in trespasses and sin. They're incapable of hearing the truth of the gospel until God gives them a new heart in regeneration.

And then they agree with what God has to say. So it's not talking anybody into anything. That's not the business of a missionary, and that's not the business of a preacher, and that's not our business, is to talk somebody into a profession of faith so we can tell somebody about it. Well, these people, God sent them out, they preached the gospel, and the Lord was good to them, and he saved many of them as we find. You know, as we think about this, the Lord added to the church. When we get to looking at the word church in the Bible, Jesus Christ used the word church, the Greek word ekklesia, twice in the gospel.

One time he said, upon this rock, I will build my church. He uses that in a universal sense. He uses that of all the elect from before the foundation to the end of this world. All those in there, I'm calling out into the church. They are my called-out assembly. We read that in the Book of Romans, whom He calls, they come. When God calls, they come.

Now the other sense that he used, it was found in two chapters later, in chapter 18, he uses the word church in a local sense, like this. Where people gather together to hear the gospel, to fellowship in the gospel, and to thank God for some place we have outside of this world that we can be together. So it wasn't a great big thing. It's more important Like the thief on the cross, that he would gather that man into the church that he's building than to ever have that man in a local assembly, because he never was.

Now I'm going to look for a place where I can go to church. You know, that has crossed my mind. Where would I go? Because I'll tell you, I cannot sit and listen to somebody tell me that I'm in charge of my salvation. When I know what the Bible has to say, there's one greater than me that's in charge of that. That's the Lord of glory. They traveled to Phenicia. We can go over there. We can look on a map and find out where they were. We find out, in fact, that Tyre and Sidon was part of Phenicia, and the Lord went to Tyre and Sidon. And he mentioned in the book of Matthew chapter 11, woe unto you Chorazin, woe unto you Bethsaida. For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you and I may ask the question, then why didn't he take the gospel to them? Because he chose not to. He's in charge. He didn't send a missionary there. Why? Because there were only goats and there were no sheep. You know, settle it down. That's what it is. God has only had that.

All right, now, as I was thinking about this, we find out that these folks were taking the gospel, they were preaching the gospel, they were preaching Jesus Christ, and we find in the book of Luke, chapter 1, a wonderful verse of scripture that helps us with this passage of scripture here in the book of Acts.

Acts, in the book of Luke, chapter 1, verse 1, Theophilus, said, for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth an order, a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us. when these guys went out with the gospel, they were taking out the same gospel that was being preached by the saints in Jerusalem.

They were not modifying it because they were going to be speaking to Grecians. They were not modifying it because they were going to be speaking to some more Gentiles or to Jews. They were not modifying the gospel This gospel that they were preaching, this word of the Lord that they were preaching, was exactly the same word that we find Jonah preached when he went into Nineveh.

It's the same gospel that any of the Old Testament prophets ever preached, and all of the disciples of the Lord Jesus, even Judas. What he had to say was hollow. But he went out two by two, and 70, and did something, and he never had anybody coming back and say, there's a strange guy with me today. I don't know what he was saying, but I know this, the gospel is not a separate gospel for different people. We do not need to know what religion people are in order to tell them the gospel of Jesus Christ.

What we need to know is that they're lost and without help and without hope and without God in this world, and the only thing that can change them is the preaching of the gospel and God being pleased to take that. So the things that were surely believed among them, they were preaching the same thing. Throughout all the biblical history, they were preaching the same thing. Old Testament, they preached Messiah. New Testament, they preached Christ.

Same word. Now, I asked myself last night as I was going over this, what is the most important word? And then I had to modify it, theme. What is the most important theme or word in the entire Bible? Now, I could go downtown and ask people and probably get a lot of different answers. Oh, the Bible's about love. The Bible's about salvation, about heaven, eternal life. It would be as long as the people we ask, what is the most important word of the Bible? What's the most important theme?

God. God is the most important theme in all the Bible. It starts with God and ends with God. There is no in between where God is not involved. And the Old Testament is filled with passages of scripture that's shared with Israel and shared with the Gentiles that God saved, that this is the God that God is. He is almighty. Would you turn with me to a few verses of scripture here in the Old Testament that shares with us about this God that is the most important word, most important theme in all the Bible.

You know, what is the most important thing that we do? I ve had preachers, the most important thing you can do is go out and tell somebody about Jesus, and that s not true. The most important thing that the church can do is be faithful to God. That's the most important. To take away that faithfulness to God is wrong. And most people take away, they think this is the most important and that's the most important. Faithfulness to God is the most important thing. And what He has to say and what He has to do and how He leads us is the most important thing because it's God doing it. I think of the Apostle Paul whose heart yearned to go to the eastern part of this world and preach the gospel. And who shut him off? It wasn't Paul. The Holy Spirit shut him off. He wanted to go north. Who was it that shut him off? The Holy Spirit shut him off. And then in a dream, he had a man said, come over here.

Preach to us and you know what the door opened wide and broad and Paul went to Europe and Preached the gospel and people were saved. What about all those faith folks up north? What about all those folks in the east? You know what God said to Saul of Tarsus when he didn't let them go Someone else is going to go or there's nobody there to preach to That's what it boils down to nobody will hear you nobody, there's no elect people in all that area, or I'll send Timothy.

All right, turn with me, if you would, to the book of Genesis as we think about God has given himself many names in the Bible. This is not the translators. This is God Himself giving different names about Himself. He is the most important theme in all the Bible.

If we have a handle on Him, if we have been given some information about Him, it will change our life. We will not be the same person. We will depend upon Him. We will wait on Him. We'll look to Him. That's the important thing. Don't get in the way. Here in the book of Genesis chapter 14, would you join me over there in the book of Genesis chapter 14 as we think about this great God that is listed in the Bible by many, many different names. You can go online, get a book. I've got a Bible. It's the Names of God Bible. Go through it.

So many different ways God represents Himself in the Bible, and here it tells us in Genesis chapter 14. Genesis chapter 14, and there in verse 18, we read these words. Genesis chapter 4, verse 18, And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he is the priest of, what?

The Most High God. That's who He's a priest for. He's a priest for the Most High God. Oh, there's lots of gods. The word Elohim, we find in the scripture, is translated gods of this God and that God, human gods, all kinds. But this name Jehovah is never mentioned about other gods. And when we find out Him describing Himself as the Most High God, there's no God above Him. He is the God that created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then in that same chapter in verse 22, it says, And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the most high God. The most God had revealed himself to Abraham as the most high God.

There's nobody higher. I've heard of people, and I used to have a friend that used to do this. He'd go in because he'd get mistreated and he wanted to see the manager. And once he got a hold of the manager, he wanted to see the owner. I want to talk to the top one. I want to talk to the man in charge, the woman in charge. I want to talk to them. Well, when you are praying to the most high God, you're talking to the highest.

And that's how He reveals Himself. And that settles so much when we get into how God saves His people. He's the Most High God. And He dictates Himself how people and who, what people, will be saved. Turn with me to the book of Genesis chapter 21. Genesis chapter 21. One more time, God shares with us the most important word in all the Bible is God Himself. Now, the rest of that's important, but the most important, this is who God reveals Himself.

This is who those two groups of people are going to be preaching. They're going to be preaching to the Jews, and they're going to be preaching to the Gentiles, a God that is most high. A God that rules over all things. Nobody can bend Him. Nobody can do anything but bow to Him. In fact, every knee shall bow to this God. And every tongue shall confess to this God, the Lord Jesus, to the glory of God the Father. Everyone. Because He is the Most High. All right.

Genesis chapter 21. And there in verse 33, and Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba. Now, Mike and I this morning, we looked at that word, I brought up that word, because that word grove is in the book of 1 Samuel quite a bit. And it's in the book of 1 Kings quite a bit, about tearing down groves, different word. This is just a place to show I've arrived.

And call there on the name of the Lord, now notice how he describes himself here, the everlasting God. My goodness, not only is He the God Most High, but He's the Everlasting God, from eternity past to the eternity. I cannot describe it. It is not in my vocabulary to be able to describe that, but God has left us this information about Himself. He is the Everlasting God. Before Him, there was no God. And after Him, there'll be no God. He is the God. What a statement he makes to Abraham, and this is the God that those folks are going to be preaching when they preach Christ, when they preach the gospel. They're not going to be preaching a mealy-mouthed peanut God.

I've shared with you about being called to visit a man one time. He wanted to have me come over and visit him and talk about our church, and I knew this was not going to go well. And I sat down, and he started talking. He says, Norm, we've been all over this town, and we're trying to find a place where God isn't in a wheelchair. Well, I ll tell you what, my eyes got that big and I just pulled my Bible out and we started going through what the Bible has to say about the God that s in the Bible.

He s not in a wheelchair, never has been, never will be. He s the Lord God Almighty. He s the everlasting God. He is the Almighty God. Back up just a little bit here in the book of Genesis chapter 17. Genesis chapter 17, we read here in verse 1, And Abraham was 90 years old, 99 years old. Talk about a God that is almighty. He's going to be dealing with a man that's 99 and his wife is 90.

And he's going to tell her, you're going to have a baby. Oh my goodness. You're going to have a baby. And you know what she did? She laughed. I'm well past the age. Aren't you glad when we get to the book of Hebrews chapter 11 that laugh is never brought up?

It is by faith. That's what the Almighty God can do for us. That's what the Lord God Almighty can do for us. That's what God Most High can do for us. Notice here, and Abraham was 99 years old and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him, I am. What? The Almighty God. He's not the Lord almost. He is the Almighty God. I cannot comprehend that, can you? I read about a God that by His own power, He opens up the earth and swallows a whole bunch of folks.

I hear about a God that can go up to the Red Sea and open it up and have people walk through dry shod. They didn't get a bit of moisture on their feet. They had no mud on their feet. And don't you think for a moment that the Red Sea didn't have mud on the bottom of it. I read about a God that walks up to a graveyard, up to a tomb, and speaks by His own power, and a man comes out of that tomb alive, and he�s been dead four days. I read in the Bible about a God that causes a woman who is 90 years old to have a baby.

We find out this God, as it's recorded here, the all, I am the almighty God. There is nothing about me that is not mighty. Almighty. We could put it as two words, and I'm sure it was in its original form, A-L-L, space, mighty. We have it as it's brought up to this point. Turn with me to the book of Joshua, the book of Joshua chapter three.

As we think about the most important theme in all the Bible, once we get this, it will change our hearts. It will change our minds. It will change our thoughts about God and about mankind. We will have most of the problems of our life removed from us. to find out that this Almighty God is a driving force in the lives of His people, that He's the one that puts His hands on the back of us and pushes us along through this life towards Jesus Christ. Thank God Almighty, He loses none.

Here in the book of Joshua 3, verse 13, Join me there in Joshua chapter 3 and verse 13, and we read this, And it shall come to pass, as soon as the souls of the feet of the priests that bear the ark, this is crossing the Jordan River, going into the promised land, that bear the ark of the LORD of Jehovah, the LORD of all the earth. Did you notice that?

He s just not Lord in America. He s Lord in Zimbabwe. The Antarctic, he's the God over all things. Not a creature is not under his control. Everything in the ocean, everything in the air, and I'll tell you what, he rules among the mosquitoes. I've often asked, Lord, why did you allow those mosquitoes on the ark? His ways are not my ways. As far as heaven is above the earth is His ways above my ways.

It tells us right here, the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above, and they shall stand up in a heap. One more time, God's great act of God's grace to Israel is mentioned here in this passage of scripture. Turn with me, if you would, to the book of Isaiah chapter 40. What's the most important word that we can come to?

Oh, thank God in the new birth He gives us a view of God that we never had before. We find out that all the rules and regulations that were passed upon us and given to us by those that were religious in our lives are generally just nothing but a pure lie. that this God is not waiting for things to happen.

He makes things happen. He is not waiting. He's proactive. He's active, doing. He was not surprised when Adam disobeyed him. He was not surprised when Cain killed his brother. He was not surprised when that king of Egypt rose up and says, we're going to put these guys in prison. He'd already told Abraham they're going to be in jail, not literal jail, but they'd be in slavery for 400 years. It's no surprise. God was not surprised by that act. God was not surprised by the act that he'd produced to let his people go. And when they went, Israel was going, bye. All right, book of Isaiah chapter 40, verse 28. We read these words about this God, the most important word, most important principle that we'll ever get out of the scriptures. Isaiah chapter 40. And there in verse 28, we read these words.

Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary, and there is no searching of his understanding. You cannot come to the conclusion about what he's thinking. What's it say there? Three times, that the everlasting God, the Lord, Jehovah, the self-existing one, the I am that I am, the creator of the ends of the earth. Faintest not. You know what?

He created every volcano, every earthquake, every cloudburst, every tornado, every hurricane, every tsunami. Everything has been created by Almighty God. He leaves nothing to someone else, nor to chance. He is in charge of all things. This is His earth and He rules and reigns over it according to His eternal purpose and for the salvation of everyone that is written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. All of these things have fallen out for the furtherance of the gospel.

In the book of Isaiah chapter 49, we again read another passage of scripture that shares with us the most important theme of the Bible, the most important word of the Bible, God. Verse 26 of the 49th chapter of the book of Isaiah, verse 26, And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. And all the flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." Three different statements about who this God is. I am the Lord, Jehovah. I am thy Savior and thy Redeemer. He's the one that paid the price that we could not pay. We all owed a debt we could not pay. And He paid a debt He did not owe. But that debt paid for the sins of all His people for time and for eternity. And now we can hear the Bible say to our ears, they shall all be presented spotless.

Oh, I don't know if you ever had to go to church when you were a kid. And your mom says, let me see your ear as we're traveling to church. Let me see your ear. It's okay, Mom. I bathed last night. We did Saturday night baths. That was it. To have a shower every day, my goodness, that's a miracle. Saturday evening, all of us. And then on the way to church. She said, let me see your ear. And she turned around and I turned my ear and she said, oh my goodness. You know what she did? She pulled out a handkerchief and stuck it in her mouth and cleaned out my ear. Both of them. Said there's enough in there to plant potatoes. Won't it be glorious to stand before this God that we've been reading about and be declared without spot? Let me check behind your ears. No spot. Let me check your ears. No spot. No blemish because of the greatness of this God.

He is called the Lord of hosts. The Lord of Hosts the first time is mentioned in 1 Samuel 1 and verse 3. They went to sacrifice unto the Lord of Hosts. This particular three words put together appears 244 times in our Bible. And the word host is a translation of the Hebrew word sabbaeth.

I don't know if I pronounced that correctly, forgive me. Which generally translates to armies. Lord of armies. As a name of God, it emphasizes the absolute sovereignty over all earthly powers, including angels. You know, it's interesting. The Lord said there to Peter, he said, don't you know, I could call 12 legions of angels. If you look that up, you'll find out that that's about 92,000 angels that have billion times more power than you and I have. But he said, we must go the way that was determined in the Scriptures. I must go to the cross.

Lord of hosts. You know, the king found over in the book of Daniel. Would you turn with me to the book of Daniel? Daniel chapter 4. King Nebuchadnezzar makes this statement, and thank God the Holy Spirit had it written down. It's just one of those places where I get to go as often as I want to read about this God that is the most important word in all the Bible.

His ways are past finding out. We can see it revealed to us. Somebody one time asked me, what's my plans for the day? And I says, I don't know. The phone hasn't rang yet. It just happens. All right. Notice with me here in the book of Daniel chapter 4. It says, verse 34, And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes into heaven.

Just remember, he's been turned out to pasture for seven years. And I've had the theologians and carpetbagger commentaries say he really wasn't turned out. The Bible says he was turned out to pasture for seven years and ate grass, and his fingernails and toenails grew like claws. Now, that's just pretty figurative, isn't it?

You can see that in your head. All right, after he comes out of that, he says, and I bless the most high, and I praise and honor him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his will, Notice this, in the army of heaven. What's the Lord of hosts mean? Lord of armies. He doeth his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no one, no matter how powerful, how influential, or how rich, can say, can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou?

We find in the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah was taken down to a place where they made pottery. And he says, I have a lesson to teach you. I wanna take you down to the potter. The apostle Paul was led by the Holy Spirit to pick up on that from the Old Testament and bring it to the book of Romans. It says, does not the potter have power over the clay? And it's obvious, yes, the clay is dead. The potter is the one that makes the beautiful ore. He mars it and throws it away. Alright. So we have here that the Lord Himself gives us these words about Himself in the Bible about the God that those people went to preach.

Now they're going to deal with a group of people that at the moment don't think they're dead. I don't think there's anybody I've ever met that will admit I'm dead. They may say I'm dying. I'm going to die sometime. But by nature, we just have trouble admitting that we're dead. That we're dead in sin. We're dead because of sin. We fell in Adam. We just don't have that in us.

We're doing okay. My religion should... I heard this morning, and it's so common, people get about ready to die. I hope my good deeds outweigh my bad deeds. It's not going to make any difference. Not our deeds that make any difference at all. It's the deeds of Almighty God. All right. They're going to be dealing with people that are dead. What can I do for them? Nothing. What could Peter, James, and John do for a bunch of dead people? Nothing.

The only thing that God ever asked them to do is declare that there is somebody that can do something for you. that He is the Savior, that He's the Lord God Almighty, that He is the Savior of His people, that He's the raiser of dead. Now my time, I've got one minute, and we'll just say this. There's a passage in Scripture where God demonstrates both of these principles in one passage. Now there are many found out through the scriptures, but in this one passage in the New Testament, we find out that the Lord God Almighty said something and a dead man came out of the tomb. And that's in the book of John chapter 11 with regard to Lazarus.

How much capability did he have, did his sisters have, did the preacher have, did the Jews have over raising him? You know, there's one thing about faith healers, you'll never find them at the mortuary. No, can't do it. Finally they admitted something that they can't do.

But this God, this everlasting God, this God of all the world, the God of creation, this God can do something just like he did there with Lazarus. He called him. He called him. And what was the response? Lazarus came forth out of that tomb. All the decay was taken care of in an instantaneous manner. All the worms that were in him were gone instantly. He was a new creature, if you please. How God in his greatness does his business. You know what? There were some people that came to Jesus and said, there's a man over here that's sick.

That's all they could do. And finally, he said to those with him, he's dead. And they could do nothing. And when it was over, he did everything. Because he's the Lord God all mighty. That's who we deal with. That's the most important word in all the Bible. We'll stop there and pick this up next time the Lord willing.

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