The Seven Seals

We think on these verses and chapters we've been reading here, and we are reminded that the day of God shall appear even as it has appeared. You know, we think of days as measures of time, and to us, surely they are. To us, a day is 24 hours. To the Lord, a day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years is as a day.

So time is simply a product of the Lord that he has given to men. We're creatures of time. We're not anything else. God's eternal. That's the great separation between God and man. God is holy. That means he's set apart. He's not like man. He has made man. And we're creatures of time.

Everything that you think about is time. When you think of eternity, you think of it in terms of time. It's impossible that you should think of it in any other way. Because we cannot fathom the concept of that which has no beginning and has no end. It's a concept that's beyond the realm of man's comprehension. But yet that's wherein God dwells. And he's not bounded by time in any way.

So when we read about the day of the Lord, we're not thinking about a particular 24-hour period, but we're thinking about the fact that his presence has been made known. This is the day of the Lord. This is the day of the Lord, and we will rejoice in it. This is the day of salvation. This is it. There's not coming another day of salvation. This is the day of salvation. Jesus Christ to come into the world to manifest the day of salvation. When he came, it was the day of God. When he comes again, it will be the day of God. What a glorious thing. And, you know, we're overwhelmed, really.

I am. is I think of how little I comprehend of all the things God has done, and how little understanding we have of even the minutest things. You know, we mentioned, I mentioned a few weeks ago about a peanut, and every time that I eat a boiled peanut, and I marvel at that, that that little, peanut grows inside of that shell from what men would consider nothing. I mean a flower comes on that peanut and then that tendril goes down in the ground and a peanut's made. How can that be? How can that happen?

And yet the foolish wise men of the earth tell us that it all just somehow occurred, and that it's even occurring now. You know, the peanut, and if the world asks another two, three thousand, five million years, whatever amount of time they figure it takes, you know, the peanut might be a plum tree or something. I mean, how foolish is all of that?

And yet men sit back and think that they know things. We don't know anything but what God's pleased to show us. And, you know, we need to be mindful of that as we seek to teach men from the word of God and be tender-hearted and mindful of our own ignorance if we should seek to teach somebody else.

And the Lord gives us all different blessings and understandings of things as we go through life. And I appreciate it. I appreciated Brother Tim's message today and how the Lord showed him those things in the scriptures. And as the Lord showed Brother Al things in the scriptures. And they don't know these things. The Lord shows them to them.

How do you learn? How does somebody learn something? You can't teach somebody anything. I mean, you can tell them what this is, but I mean, until the Spirit of God opens their understanding, they can't receive it. They can't know it. It's just like with children. You know, you can teach them all day long, but until the power of God applies those things to their heart, it won't be of any use.

Now, that doesn't mean we don't seek to teach, because that's what we've been sent here to do. and to declare the unsearchable riches of Christ. But we know that no man can see these unsearchable riches if the Lord doesn't open his heart and mind to receive them.

And so as we look here in the book of the Revelation, we understand that this is an unfolding. It is the revelation which God gave to Jesus Christ. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him. That's how the book begins. Now, if you never got any further into this book than that, you would know what this book is about. It's about the unfolding of the glory of God in Jesus Christ.

Just like I believe Brother Tim said this morning about the angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord. Who is the messenger of Jehovah? Jesus Christ. He is the messenger of Jehovah. There's no, you can't know anything about God except in Jesus Christ. He is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He's the manifestation of God to men. No man has seen God at any time. Jesus Christ, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

So if you would know God, You must know Jesus Christ. And that's what the Lord told the Pharisees. He said, if you'd known my father, you'd know who I was. See, they didn't know who he was because they didn't know God. And we can't know God except we know him. But he is pleased to reveal himself to men. What a glorious thing. Just think what, you know, men think they can learn about God. Unless the Lord reveals himself to you, you'll never know anything about him. The glorious thing is that he does. That he does.

And he doesn't reveal himself to those that are fine, upright citizens. He reveals himself to sinners. And there's no other way that a man can approach unto God except as a sinner. to come any other way is to be sure to be cast away. The Lord has not revealed these things to the wise and the prudent, but he has revealed them unto babes.

What a glorious thing. And so we've been looking here for some few weeks in the fifth chapter, which I believe is the pivotal chapter in the book of the Revelation. And as we began, there's more about this book that I don't know, have any idea about than there is what I do. But I do know what this book is about because it begins The very opening verse tells us what it is.

It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. the glory that surrounds him. The triumphs that he has and manifests in the earth. It is not a chronological tale. It's not wrapped up in this age and that age and this is gonna happen and that's gonna happen and then this is going to take place. This is a book about showing the triumph of Jesus Christ as the victorious, conquering, hero, if you want to use that word, the Lord of lords, the King of kings in the earth. It's the manifestation of it.

And so we see the Lord Jesus Christ pictured as that one who took the book from the hand of him that sat on the throne. Now we know that the one who sits on the throne, as it's speaking about here, is God, God Almighty. And in order for someone to take the book from the hand of the one sitting on the throne, he has to be God. I mean, nobody can take anything from God. God must give the things that He gives.

And so we see Jesus Christ taking the book. What is the book? I believe it's the purpose of God. It was sealed. We couldn't have known anything about God had He not shown Himself to us. And the manner in which He has been pleased to reveal Himself in the earth is through Jesus Christ.

And so Jesus Christ has taken the book, a sealed book, written, and this is a scroll. You know, we think of a book, we think of something like this, and it has an inside, a front, and a back, but the scroll has something written on the inside and something written on the backside. And so when it's rolled out, you can see what was and what is.

It's everything rolled out, but it's rolled up and it's sealed until the Lord Jesus Christ comes and takes that book and opens that, those seals, seven seals. And so we're seeing here in the beginning of chapter six, the beginning of the opening of the seals. And I'm, you know, sometimes people put, they just go into all kind of explanations and all of this stuff about the seals and the significance of each individual seal and all that. The seals are merely those mysteries that are opened up by Jesus Christ. And so it is here. He says, and I'm going to read the chapter six, and we'll go back and look at some verses, but let's look at the whole thing.

And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see. And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow." That's like a bow in air, not like a bow in your hair.

And a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red. And power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

And power was given unto him over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said unto them that they should rest, yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell into the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll, when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great... and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

Now, the salvation of God's people begins with God and it ends with God. We say that it ends, he's the beginning and the end, yet he has given to us eternal life, the scripture says, which has no end. But in the time frame of man, again, we can't comprehend that. So we think of things as having a beginning and having an end, and so it is that he shows himself to us. He's the finality is what it means. It means there's nothing else. He's the end. You can't go any further than that. I mean, that's it.

Now, that's a comforting thought. Now, you know, people, I heard someone say one time that the reason that The theory of evolution appeals to men is that they don't have to face the end. Because if God created the world and it belongs to him, then he will take account of it and those who are in it must ultimately answer to him.

Men don't like that idea. We don't want to think about that given account. Even the smallest child doesn't want to face his errors. If somebody gets cookies out of the jar, it wasn't him. And that's the way we are, that's our whole life. We expect somehow or other to escape. We hope to. See, when a man's convinced of his sin, that's what brings him down to a place of great terror in his mind and heart, is that he knows he must face God, and yet he has nothing wherewith to answer. He's coming with empty hands. He can't bring anything. Now, the righteous men of the earth, they got plenty. They come say, well, Lord, here, look what I did. I was obedient. I was faithful. I went to church nearby every Sunday unless I had something more important to do. Lord, I've just done my best all my life. That's not good enough. And see, when the Lord shows you what you are by nature, you that's not good enough. We know it's not good enough.

Christ alone, the perfection of Christ, is only that which is suitable before the Lord. As Isaiah said, our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in his sight. Very best you've ever done. I mean, if you just took the five best days you've ever had in your life, the days when you did the best you could do, and everything went great, and you was just as kind and nice, never had a cross word and all that, and you add them all up, and the Lord said, I won't look on it. It's unrighteous. But see, Christ, He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.

And that is the standard. Who shall enter in to the hill of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. Now, there's people that say, oh, well, buddy, I'm going good. When you read that, if that doesn't take away all hope that you have, then you've not seen and understood. what you are by nature. But when you read that and you say, he that hath clean hands and a pure heart, I'm doomed already, because I don't have either one.

But Christ does. Christ does. And see, he's entered into the presence of the Father in the behalf of his people. And so this is what we're reading about here, is the triumph of Christ, the Redeemer. of sinners. Now I believe it's pretty easy to see that when he comes here and he opens the seal and he says, behold a white horse and he that sat on him. And I believe it's fairly straightforward, especially as you look at, I think it's in the 14th chapter, we read again of Christ sitting astride a white horse.

Christ, this is who we're speaking about. This is the first seal. This is the beginning of all things. Christ is the beginning. And he's sitting on a white horse. He's righteous. He's true. And he comes into the earth as that one who is conquering and to conquer. It says here, he sat on him, had a bow. He had a means of warfare. He came. He said, did he not? I didn't come to bring peace into earth. I came to bring a sword. Christ is the one who exacts. justice in the earth. He conquers. See, the word conquer is the same word as used in the scripture for overcome. He's the overcomer. He's that one who overcame the saints of God. Overcome by what? The blood of the Lamb. That's our overcoming.

People talk about, oh, I'm trying to overcome this sin and overcome that, and I'm working at it real hard and endeavoring and all of that. And I'm not saying that you don't need to strive to overcome the sins in your life. That's not what I'm saying at all, but I'm saying at the end of the day. You're gonna come down, if the Spirit of God has taught you, you're gonna come down and say, Lord, I failed.

I didn't overcome anything. I was overcome. I didn't overcome, but see the hope of the children of God is that in Christ we have overcome. See when Christ sees us, he sees us as perfect. There's therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

That's how he sees his people. Why? Because he made them to be his people. And he paid the price for their sin. And he justified them with his blood. And there's therefore now no condemnation to them. They can't be destroyed because they belong to him.

Now, if you looked at them, you'd say, man, these people, who do they think they are? I mean, they go around here talking about being the children of God and they act just like everybody else. We know the Spirit of God works in the people of God and He constrains God's people. And He does make a difference in the lives of His people. But when all's said and done, we're not any different than anybody else. There's not a thing in the world we can claim before God and say, well, Lord, you saw me do that. What good was that? None. And so we see Christ as the conqueror.

A white horse, he that sat on him had a crown was given to him. And he went forth conquering and to conquer. The Lord gives crowns to his children, but they don't wear them. They cast them down at his feet. Because he's the only one worthy to wear a crown. And he went forth conquering and to conquer. And so keep that in mind. This is the picture, that Christ is that conquering Lord of all. He came into the world with a purpose.

He didn't come here to try something. Now I know that it is a popular thing, especially in our day and time, though it has always been people that have held this concept. that Christ has come and he's trying, he's hoping to save as many as he can. And some of them's gonna slip away, but he's just doing the best he can. He's just got his nose to the grindstone every day. But Christ Jesus came into the world for a purpose. He came into the world to redeem those which were given to him from before the foundation of the world.

Now that's not a popular doctrine. And you don't hear it preached very much. But I'm telling you this, Christ does not fail to do what he set out to do. When the angel told Joseph what he was gonna call, what he was to name the baby that was gonna be born of Mary, He said, thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. He's not gonna try. He's not gonna hope to. He will do it.

And so we don't have any doubt that everyone for whom Jesus Christ died shall indeed receive that for which Christ purchased them for. Because he set out to do that. And that's why anybody, doesn't make a difference who it is, nobody's saved apart from the electing grace of Almighty God.

Who maketh thee to differ from another? Only the Lord. You didn't make yourself different. You didn't believe. You didn't come up with a way to believe while somebody else didn't. Why do you believe? Why do you believe what you believe? There's only one answer. It's because God showed it to you.

Scripture says not all men have faith. But where did those that have faith, where did they get it? They got it from him who's the giver of faith. They didn't work it up. They didn't learn it. But they got it from him who gives. That's what the Lord said to Nicodemus. He said, Nicodemus, except a man be born again, shall not see the kingdom of heaven. Can't see it. Can't comprehend it. Can't enter into it. It's foolishness to you. except a man be born again." Well, how can a man be born? Can he enter back into his mother's womb?

No. Nicodemus, the spirit of God, just like the wind blows where it lifts and you can't tell where it came from, but you hear the sound thereof. He said, there is a manifestation of that. And the manifestation of that is when men confess their sin before Almighty God and repent and fall on their faces before Him, believing.

Who made them to differ? Spirit. Remember when Elijah, or not Elijah, Ezekiel, was, the Lord brought him to view a valley of dry bones. And the Lord said, Ezekiel, can these bones live? And he said, basically what he said, well, no, I don't think so, but you know, if you say so, Lord, whatever you say. And a wind blew.

The Lord's breath came upon those bones, and those bones came together, and they lived and was raised up a mighty army. And you see, that's a picture of how the Lord raises up His people. out of the earth. We're all like a bunch of dead men's bones scattered at the mouth of the tomb and we're, you know, the dogs and the animals have come and scattered our bones and our ribs are over there and our backbones over here and we're in a mess. We can't put ourselves back together. But God, who's rich in mercy, you see, he breathes upon those dry bones and they live.

That's what he said in Isaiah. He said, I saw you. He said, when you were cast out to the loathing of your flesh. He says, your mama didn't even love you and she just cast you away. And your father, he was nowhere to be found. And you were just a mess of blood, dead, cast out.

But he said, behold, I looked upon you. And he said, it was the time of love. And he said, I cast my skirt over you. And I said to you, while you were yet in your blood, live. And you did. See, that's what happens when the Spirit of God comes to a sinner. He calls him to live. And he conquers him. See, we're creatures. The Lord gave us a will.

And you could, in some measure, say we have a free will. Now, of course, you know, what men think about what free will is, well, you can just choose anything you want to. Well, you can't choose to be 10 foot tall. There's limitations to your will. And your will is bounded by your nature. And you won't choose a thing that your nature does not allow you to choose. A mother who's in her right mind, she does not have the free will to take a knife and stab it into the heart of her child. She can't do that. Now, she's free, is she not? Yes, she is. But she's bound by something that's greater than her will. And that's the nature that God put within a mother to love her child. And you see, we're creatures of the dust. We inherited our nature from our father, Adam, and it's a nature of sin. And we can choose sin all day long.

And you will. You will. Oh, not me, you might say. Oh yeah, you will. Before the day is out. Before the day is out. Because you see, sin's not what you do, it's what you are. Sin is the nature that you have. David said, cleanse me. See, we need a cleansing, not just a smack on the hand or a correction. We need a cleansing. And that's what the new birth is. It's bringing a man from darkness to light. And that's what Christ came to do. He came to conquer his people.

And so we talked free will, but you see, a man won't choose the Lord. He'll choose also, oh, he'll choose religion. See, sometimes religion sounds real good. I mean, when I was a kid and they told me if I didn't join up to the church, I was gonna go to hell, I said, man, I don't wanna go to hell.

And they said, well, all you got to do is just You know, say you believe and come over here and get baptized and man, you got it. I mean, you're good to go. I said, well man, that sounds easy enough to me. That sounds like a good deal. I think I'll take advantage of that.

But you see, I didn't love the way of God. I just went on my way. But God, who's rich in mercy, Some place and some time and some way caused me to see what I was by nature and to realize the foolishness of all the things that men seek to try to do. You know, I can't tell you the number of times that I've prayed what they call the sinner's prayer.

You know, you're asking the Lord to save you, and just over and over and over. Because you think that there's something, you're gonna do this magical thing, and it's just gonna make you, and it can't, it never happens. But you see, when the Spirit of God moves on your heart, you can't help it. You can't help it.

Now, do you always know that the Lord has saved you? Do you always know that the Lord brought you out of darkness into the light? Do you always act like you ought to know? But you always know the Lord. If you don't save me, I'm gonna perish. And Lord, I wanna follow you. I wanna go your way because you see, the Lord conquers his people. and he moves us from one place to another, and he changes our nature. Now, your flesh will always be with you, but you see, God's people are no longer in bondage to the flesh.

The man who is without Christ, he's in bondage to the flesh. And the difference is that the man who's in bondage to the flesh, he goes on about what he's doing and don't have a worry in the world. It's just what he figures he wants to do and that's what he's gonna do. And he doesn't care if it offends God or if, he's not into, he's fine with it. Because he's in bondage to it. And he doesn't even know it. See, if you went out here and asked a man, are you in bondage to sin, he'd say, no. I can stop doing that tomorrow if I want to."

Well, why don't you? Why does your anger overrule you sometimes? Why do you have such a hard time taming your tongue? Why do you say things that hurt people? Why do you do that? Because of the flesh. It's because of what you are. Now, the man who's out here in the world and is in bondage to sin, he might have some remorse every now and then for hurting somebody's feelings or doing something that, you know, he says, yeah, well, I probably shouldn't have done that or this, that, the other. He might feel bad. Doesn't mean he doesn't have regrets.

But see, there's a difference between regret and repentance. Everybody has regrets, but only those who are born again by the Spirit of God are given repentance unto life, desire to turn from what they are. Lord, create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me, See, God's people fear that they should be cast out from the Lord.

The man who's in bondage to sin, he doesn't care. He's just going on his way. The mercy of God, the conquering nature of God that conquers the very nature of men and constrains them to love. Why was I made to hear thy voice and enter while there's room when thousands make a wretched choice and rather starve than come? "'Twas the same love that spread the feast, "'that sweetly drew us in.'" And of course, the songwriter actually said, "'Sweetly forced us in, "'lest we should still refuse to taste "'and perish in our sin.'" Oh, what a glorious, conquering Savior He is. He goes forth to conquer. He's conquering now. He's sending forth his word even now throughout the earth. He sent his word.

And it might be, you know, the messengers of God's word are very imperfect people. Many of them are in error about many things. I mean, I say that every one of us is in error about something. I mean, nobody knows all the ins and outs of everything in the scripture. There's more things here that we don't know than that we do, and we're wrong about more stuff probably than we're right. But by the grace of God, By the grace of God, He causes us to know the one thing that's needful. See, you can be wrong about everything.

And you'll be all right. But there's one thing you can't be wrong about. And that is that Jesus Christ is the Savior of sinners. And to be without Him is to perish. And if you miss that, you have missed everything. Doesn't make a difference what else you know. You know everything the world has. You can be the smartest man that ever lived, but if you miss Christ, you've missed everything. But if you're the poorest man that ever lived, the most ignorant man, one who doesn't even know how to tie his shoes, yet if he knows that Jesus Christ is his salvation, he knows everything. Because you see, Christ conquers men. He draws them to himself. And as the psalmist said, thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. It is the power of God that causes men to will to follow him. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the beast, the second beast, say, come and see.

Now what we're looking at here is what's sometimes called the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And I think, of course, that is primarily a, designation that's given by those that hold certain prophetic tendencies and they see things in this differently than what I'm telling you about here. These four horsemen are not necessarily horsemen in the sense that they represent a particular time, a particular person, but they are As the Lord alluces seals, what's he doing?

He's showing us the purpose of God. Now the primary purpose of God is in the first seal that's open. And we see that one riding on a white horse. Now these other seals, they are the unfolding of the purpose of God as well. Because you see, everything that happens in the world is to the purpose of God.

Now, we look at things and say, well, I don't see how that could be to the purpose of God. You know, we see families killed in a car wreck going away to church. We don't know why that is. Well, we do. We just don't know the details about it. But you see, it is in the purpose of God. How do we know that? Paul wrote these words, and we know that all things work together for good to those who are the called of God, called according to his purpose. See, the Lord works all things together for the good of His people.

And everything that transpires in the world, whether I see it or I don't see it or I can't comprehend it or I think it's the most terrible thing that ever happened in the history of mankind, it's all been for the one purpose. And that's unfolded right here before us.

Because those things, what he's gonna talk about, he said, when I opened the second seal and the second beast said, there went another horse that was red, and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword. Now I believe that this is a picture of the purpose of God in the spread of the gospel. Because the Lord said, when he came into the world, he said, I did not come to bring peace. Now we know that he does bring peace. He said, my peace give I unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you. Because Jesus Christ is our peace.

See, I mean, You can sign all these peace treaties and all of this stuff over there in Iran. I mean, we see this stuff before us all the time. You can get the Arabs and the Israelis and all those people sat down together and they can write out all these truces and stuff. And you know what it's worth?

It's not worth the papers written on, because there's no peace. You can't have peace among people that hate each other's guts. It don't make any difference what you do. There's not gonna be any peace of that kind. Now, I don't have the solution to all that. I don't know any way. I wouldn't want the job. You know, if you ever hear that I want the job of being the president of anything, of any nation, you take a gun and shoot me. Just get rid of me because something's gone crazy haywire in my mind. No, I don't know anything about any of that.

I don't know anything about having, trying to deal with these different things. But I know this. that the Lord has a purpose in all of these wars and famines and troubles and all of this stuff that takes place. And it's unfolding. There's not anything happening. Nothing's happened in Iran that hadn't been according to the purpose of God. Nothing happened anywhere in Venezuela or whatever. Doesn't make any difference. But because the purpose of God is being unfolded, and his purpose is to bring his people out of darkness and into the light.

And one of the ways in which he does that is by sending these famines and troubles into the world to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another. There was given unto him a sword. The sword's in the hand of God. He said, I kill and I make alive. I, the Lord, do all these things. He says, I make peace and I create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things. Now, sometimes men get a little upset with that idea. But you know, an absolute sovereign God, he's absolute sovereign God. Nothing happens outside of the realm of his purpose.

And I believe that's what we see as the unfolding of this, and specifically as this is unfolded for the purpose of manifesting the glory of Jesus Christ in the unfolding of the gospel in the world as he calls his people unto himself. That's what I believe all of these horses have to do with.

Now, when we get through with all of this, will we know any more than we did when we started? Probably not a whole lot, but at least, at least we'll know who the one is that directs all of this. See, these things don't just happen. A lot of people think that the Lord has just kind of like wound the world up like a toy. and it's just kind of running its course, you know, and this happens, and he might, you know, he gives a little correction every now and then. Well, that's not working out just like I want it to, so he'll cause this to happen. No. He knows the end from the beginning.

He's directing all things according to the good pleasure of his will. He's bringing it to pass. And primarily what he's doing is manifesting his glory. in the redemption of his people. Because he loved them. The scripture says from before the foundation of the world, he loved them. And he's given himself for them. How glorious. What a wonderful savior he is.

Do we hear his voice? Do you hear him? He said, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart. That's our Savior. He saves sinners. I believe he'll save every sinner that ever lived. Not every man's a sinner. Hard thing to do to find a senator. You can find some folks that'll agree they sinned every now and then. But you see, a senator knows there's nothing good within him. He says, oh God, be merciful to me, a senator. Just like the old publican.

The Seven Seals

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