should in her recovery, so just
pass that along. All right, Wayne Kendall is going
to come and read scripture for us and lead us in prayer to start
the second service. If you would please open your
Bibles with me to Psalm 33. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous,
for praise is comely for the upright. Praise the Lord with
harp. Sing unto him with a psaltery
and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song. Play
skillfully with a loud noise, for the word of the Lord is right,
and all his works are done in truth. He loveth righteousness
and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness
of the Lord. By the word of the Lord were
the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of
his mouth. He gathers the waters of the
sea together as an heap. He layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For
he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord bringeth the counsel
of the heathen to nought. he maketh the devices of the
people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth
forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed
is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath
chosen for his own inheritance. The Lord looketh from heaven,
he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation,
he look upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their
hearts alike. He considereth all their works.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host. A mighty
man is not delivered by much strength, and horse is a vain
thing for safety. Neither shall he deliver any
by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is
upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy to
deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord. He is our help and our shield.
For our heart rejoice. Our heart shall rejoice in him
because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord,
be upon us according as we hope in thee. Let's bow together in
prayer, please. Our great God and Heavenly Father,
we thank you for bringing us to this place this evening. Thankful
for the message we just heard. Strengthen us. We go about doing
our daily activities, strengthen us, increase our faith in Christ.
Cause him to be our only hope. Let us not look to ourselves,
but have him be our only hope of salvation. So thankful for
his broken body and shed blood. Thankful that you've shown mercy
to sinners in grace. increase our faith in him each
day. Leave us not alone, but anchor
us, anchor us on him. Father, we continue to ask that
you bless this time this evening and the rest of this weekend.
Bless each one here with the preaching of the gospel. Give
us clear minds to receive the messages prepared. Let the Lord
Jesus Christ, his name and his work be magnified in this place. Father, we think of nothing better
to do this weekend but be here to hear your gospel preached.
We're thankful for these men that you've brought. Be with
them each time they come and stand. Preach the gospel. These things we ask and pray
in Christ's name. Amen. Okay, if you would, turn in your
hymnals to song number 359 and stand as we sing My Faith Looks
Up to Thee. My faith looks up to Thee, Thou
Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine. Now hear me when I pray, Take
all my sin away, O let me from this this day be wholly thine. May thy rich grace impart strength
to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire. As thou hast died for
me, O may my love to thee Pure, warm, and changeless be the living
fire. While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide. Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe
sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray from Thee aside. When in life's transcend dream,
When death's cold, solemn stream Shall o'er me rise, Savior, then in love, fear, and
distrust remove. Oh, bear me safe above a ransomed
soul. Chris is going to Cunningham's
going to preach for us twice, and he and Vicki have agreed
to sing us a special this evening. So you come sing for us if you
want. Who hath believed after hearing
the message? To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? He shall grow up As a plant new
and tender And as a root out of a barren field He was wounded
for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed. He was despised and by all men
rejected. A man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief. He was cut off. from the land of the living. He suffered alone with no relief. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with his stripes we are healed. Like as a lamb he was brought
to the slaughter. Speechless as a sheep to the
shearers was led. Smitten by God, forsaken For
our transgressions Our Calvary bled He was wounded for our transgressions
He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed. And with his stripes we are healed. That was so good. Oh my, thank
you. Our last speaker this evening,
Don Bell, pastor of the Lantana Grace Church. I first met Donnie
in the early 1980s, and we're still friends. If somebody had
known me that long, and we're still friends, I really appreciate
you. Donnie is such a gifted preacher of God's gospel. Donnie,
you come and bring the message God's given for you. Genesis 24. Genesis 24. It started that song, who hath believed
our report. I did. I believed it. I believed it. If I had a creed,
it would be Isaiah 53. A lot of people got a lot of
constitutions and bylaws and all that stuff to try to govern
a church. But oh my, Isaiah 53, bless the
Lord's name, wounded for my transgressions, bruised for my iniquity, chastisement
of my peace was upon me, wounded for my transgressions. I hope the Lord will be pleased
to enable me to say some things tonight. I want to bring a message
called Bride for Isaac. A Bride for Isaac. And let me
read the first five, six verses and hopefully
start from there. And Abraham was old and well
stricken in age. The Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things. And Abraham said unto his eldest
servant of his house that ruled over all that he had, put, I
pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and I will make thee swear
by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that
thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites among whom I dwell, but thou shalt go unto my country
and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant
said unto him, Peradventure, or perhaps the woman will not
be willing to follow me into this land. Must I not bring thy
son again unto the land from whence thou camest? And Abraham
said unto him, Beware that thou bring not my son there again. You know, this is one of the most beautiful
gospel stories of God's love and electing grace in God's Word. It's very easy to follow, very
simple. Abraham is the type of the Father.
Isaac is the type of the Son. The Servant is the type of the
Holy Spirit. And Rebecca is the type of the
Son. You reckon they'll all get to
the same place they're supposed to be? The first thing I want you to
notice about this, it was the father's will and purpose that
his son have a bride. The father said, I will that
my son have a wife. I want him to have a wife. I
want him to have a bride. And you know, that's the way
it was with us. The father purposed before the
world ever began to call a people unto himself And one of these
days we're all gonna sit down at the marriage supper of what?
The Lamb. And you know our Lord God of
Heaven, He called us and saved us according to His purpose and
grace given us in Christ before the world began. And you know
God's purpose, the only place it's ever manifested is, in all
ways, is always in His Son. And this Father, loved his son,
and he said, now I want you to go get me a bride for my son.
And you know, that's the way God does things. He does things
on purpose. That's the way God taught me
the gospel, when I finally found out that God does things on purpose.
You know, I preached for a while, and everybody'd make these professions,
and they'd last six or eight months, and they'd be gone. So
I started asking God, what in the world's the matter? And God, in his sovereign mercy,
opened the gospel up to me with that word purpose. God who has
saved us and called us, called us with a holy calling. That
mean he can only call with a holy calling. He's a holy God and
he can only call holy people. Make them holy. Not according
to any works we ever done. Before our conversion and after
our conversion. Not then according to any work,
but according to his own purpose. Purpose. and grace that was given
us in Christ Jesus before the world ever began. Oh my, I tell
you what, a king, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a king
who made a marriage for his son. You know, God said, as I've out-purposed,
so shall it come to pass. Come to pass. And I want you
to know something else what God said here now. Down in verse
four. I want you to go to my country.
Go to my country. Where in the world is God not
his country? You know, God's Lord, heaven
and earth. Where can you go that God don't
own? Where can you go that God has
set his foot? Where can you go that God don't
rule and reign? You know, the earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof. Known unto God are all his works,
from the beginning of the creation. And I'll tell you what he says,
go to my country. Where can you go where it's not
God's country? You know, people, you know, we
own property, and we have it surveyed off, and we put our
names on our mailboxes, and we make a real nice home and all
that, but all we're doing is just occupying something that
God gave us, and you know, God gives us, and he can take
it away just that quick. But it's my country. You know,
people say this, you know, I live in God's country. There ain't
no place you can live that's not God's country. Huh? Where you gonna go that's not
God's country? Huh? Oh my, look what else he said.
And go to my kindred. Go to my kindred. You know what? We've always been God's kindred. We've always been His kindred. We belong to Him. Go to my kindred. We've always been God's people.
Paul was a, he was a rebel. He hated Christ. He hated everything
the Lord stood for. He hated Him, despised Him. God
put Him down on the Damascus road, and after God done something
for him, you know what He said? He said, when it pleased God,
who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. He told Jeremiah, before you
was ever formed in your mama's belly, I knew you, I ordained
you, and I set you apart. Oh, that prodigal son. When he left his father's house,
he was as much a son when he left his father's house as he
was when he come back. He was a rebel. He was lost. He went out there in the world
and wasted everything, done like we did, lived like a heck. Well, we did bad. Really, we
did. But oh, my. When we understood
that we come to want, and that's the only way you'll ever come
to want, is you go out there and waste everything that you
got and you come to nothing. Come to nothing. And you ain't
got no place else to go. You ain't got no place else to
go. Oh, listen, I believe I'll go
back to daddy's house. I said, the servants over there
are treated better than I'm treated out here in the world. And I
was in the world. Listen, I spent 18 months in
hospitals. And I never had, I had all kinds
of friends when I was out in the world. Not one of them ever
visited me when I was in the hospital. Not one of them ever
come to me and told my wife, said, listen, we need to buy
you some groceries maybe. Can I do something to help you?
Not one of them did. The world, people said, how's
the world treat you? Never treated me good. Treated
me like a stepchild. Treated me like a dog chained
to a bumper somewhere in a junkyard. The world does not treat you
good. The world never has treated anybody good, and it never will.
And until you become a want, and then you go to your father's
house, and the father's standing there looking. He knows who you
are. He knows where you are. He knows
when you're coming. That's my son. That's my son. We've always been the Lord's
kid. For whom he did for, no. What does that mean? For loved
him. For loved him. For loved him. And I want you
to know something else. Look what he said. Down in verse
five. The servant said, just maybe
that woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land. Do I need to bring your son down
there and see what people, how they'll treat him and what they'll
do with him. See if they'll like him, see if they'll approve of
him. Go down there, go down there and auction our son off. Go down
there and see how popular he'll be. See how they love him. See
what he amounts to. See if they care anything about
him. And you know what the father said? Don't you dare. Don't you
bring my son down. Don't you bring my son down.
He's high and lifted up. Don't you bring him down. Don't
you bring him down in any way. Don't you belittle him. Don't
offer him to man. Don't make him something that
they can accept or reject. Don't make him to be something
he's not. Don't take him and offer him
to accept or reject people. Don't have him knocking on people's
hearts door. Don't have him doing that. Don't
tell men and women that they got the free will, that they
can accept him. Don't do that. Don't take my
son down there. Don't take my son down there and walk down
the aisles and up and down the highways and say, anybody want
to be the bride of my son? Anybody want to be married to
my son? No. Don't you take him down there.
Don't you belittle him. Don't you do it. And oh my. Now look about the son. Look
what the son's position is. Y'all know the story, how that
he went and met Rebecca and went to their house and asked for
water and didn't know that that was the one that was supposed
to do it. And look what the son is. Now look at his position
over here in chapter 30. 34 I am Abraham's servant Notice
he didn't say anything else about himself I'm just a servant just
to serve and the Lord hath blessed my master greatly and he is become
great and he has given him flocks and herds and and silver, and
gold, and men's servants, and maid's servants, and camels,
and asses, and listen to this, and Sarah, my master's wife,
bear a son to my master when he was old, and unto him hath
he given all that he has. Everything my father has is mine. Father was wealthy, give it all
to the son. Father's got all the wealth,
give it to his son. Father's got all the power, give
it to his son. Father's got all the will, give
it to his son. Whatever God is, he gave it to
his son. And oh my, the father sought
all for the son. The father's purpose is fulfilled
in the son. But I want you to, you keep Genesis,
and I want you to look with me over in Colossians. I want you
to look in Colossians, something about our master, about our Lord
Jesus. You know, there's just something about
him that just, in Colossians 1, verse 16, look
with me here. You know, the scripture says
we're complete in him. Daniel said, I saw one like unto
the son of man, and unto him was given dominion, and power,
and authority, over everything on this earth. Daniel saw him. Daniel saw him. Look what it
said here in verse 16. Talking about the Son of God, how the
Father gave everything into his hand. The Father loves the Son
and given all things into his hand. For by him, I want you
to notice, by him were all things created that are in heaven and
that are in earth, visible and invisible. where the thrones,
dominions, principalities, powers, and all things created by him,
listen to this, and for him. Everything was about him. And
he is before everything that ever was. And by him, everything
consists. And he's the head of the body
of the church. Oh my, by him, everything. By him, everything. God, the scripture said, God
gave him power over all flesh. All flesh. that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. You know our
Lord Jesus Christ, God who at sundry times and in divers matters,
spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last
days spoken unto us by son, by son. And when he by himself purged
our sin, sat down on the right hand of God, the heavens. And
I tell you, beloved, God gave him all power The son, and back
over in our text, now look, go back over here with me. I want
you to look in Genesis 25 five. The son's position, the father
took everything he has and he gave it to his son. Everything
he has. The father sought everything
for the son. And the father's purpose is fulfilled in the son.
Look what it said here in verse five of Genesis 25. And Abraham
gave all that he had. Unto Isaac. Oh boy. Could you imagine people
saying, I lived it up to man to do something about that. It's
just unimaginable. Just unimaginable. Now I want
you to, you know, and I'll tell you something else God gave him.
He gave all things unto him. He also gave him a name. A name
that's above every name. A name that every knee is going
to bow and every tongue is going to confess one of these days
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
That's going to happen. Men that hate Him are going to
bow. Now look at the bride's prospect.
Go back over here in verse 4. but thou shalt go unto my country
to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son." Now, he's already
purposed to have a wife, gonna have a bride for his son. She
didn't know anything about it. She did not know anything about
it. She didn't know it. She didn't have any idea that
she's gonna be a bride, and who was gonna be her husband. She
didn't know. She didn't have any idea what
it was. She didn't know it. She didn't know before she's
going to be a bride of the son and join heirs with him. She
didn't have an idea. I didn't know I was God's child
and didn't know I was a sheep until I heard his voice. I've
always been a sheep, but I didn't know it. I just lost one. Only
two kinds of sheep in this world, lost and found. And this bride, she did not have
any idea that the father was purposing to have a bride for
her son. And she was way off in a far
country. She didn't know Abraham, she
didn't know Isaac. Somebody hadn't even talked to
her yet. Somebody hadn't come by her yet. But oh my, she's
off in a far country in another country. And oh, our Lord Jesus
Christ, bless His holy name. You know what? Before we ever
were. When I was in my granddaddy's
loins, in my great granddaddy's loins, God Almighty, I did not
know it. I did not know it until I was
way up in my twenties. I did not know it. That God had
a will, God had a purpose to join me to Christ and make me
one of his blessed children. To make me one of his bride.
You know, he said this, he said, I lay down my life, I give my
life for the sheep. God chose us in Christ before
the foundation. You think about far off. Scott
Richardson used to say about a man so far off, he cannot get
back. Somebody's gotta go where he
isn't bringing back. You know, how many people's ever
been in the woods and got lost? I mean, really get lost. And
you can't find your way out. You talking about panic. It's
panic, especially if it starts snowing and you can't see anything.
You talking about panic. You start looking, you say, I
think I went this way, I think I went that. When you really
get lost, you panic. You panic. And I tell you what,
When you get lost and visit a far country, all that the Father
gives me. When did he give it to us? In
Christ before the foundation of the world. Why did he give
us? Because it pleased him. When
did he do it? Before the foundation. Who did
he do it for? His elect people, his bride.
And all that the Father gives me. What did he say? They didn't
know it. All of them shall come to me.
And him that comes to me, He's gonna do like David, but I'm
not gonna cast him out. He's gonna do like Simon Peter,
but I'm not gonna cast him out. He's gonna do like me, but I'm
not gonna cast him out. Oh, listen. That's the way it
was. She didn't know that way over
there. We didn't know it either. Our Lord Jesus said, you know
what? He said, I pray. People say all the time, we need
to pray for the lost. We need to pray for the lost.
I pray for my lost children. I pray for your lost children.
Pray for, my wife's lost children. We don't, but here's the thing
about it. We don't pray for the world.
Christ didn't pray for the world. He didn't die to save the world.
He said, I pray not for the world. Who you praying for, Lord? For
them thou gavest me out of the world. Them you gave to me. That's who I'm praying for. That's
who I'm praying for. He said, and I pray not only
for them, but you know them that's gonna believe them through thy
word. I'm praying for people that one
of these days they're gonna hear the word of God and they're gonna
believe. That's what he said. And like I said, that good shepherd, you know, when they said if a
man has 99 sheep, more of them go astray. The shepherd leaves
the 99. You know why he can leave them?
Because he's faithful. He don't have to, you know, he
ain't, they ain't not gonna leave. They're not going nowhere. You
can't run a sheep off. A goat, he'll just hit him between
the eyes. Burt, Burt, Burt, Burt. Feed,
throws anything out in the sheep, an old goat will eat on that,
but boy, only sheep will eat sheep food. They're safe with
Christ in that fold. And as one goes astray, And the
scripture said he goes into the wilderness. He goes into the
wilderness. And he searches, and he searches,
and when he finds that lost sheep, guess what he does with it? Puts
it on his shoulder. Puts it on his shoulder. Let
me tell you something, how great our Lord is, how blessed our
Lord is, how glorious he is. He got sheep on one side, and
the world on this side, The government's on this shoulder,
and the sheep's on this, and he can carry both. He don't give up the government,
and he carries all of his sheep. That's how glorious our Lord
is. That's how glorious Christ is. How can you not worship someone
like that? How can you not bow to someone
like that? How can you not submit? Someone
like that. That's carried you. He said over
in Isaiah, he said, I carried you from the womb down to your
old age. And I never set you down. I carried
you. Our Lord, listen, I don't know
about you all, but I have to be carried. I'm like a baby. I'm like a baby. All I can do
is make a mess. And if Christ is not the one
that cleans it up, it'll never be cleaned up. Oh, and this bride,
he finds that shepherd, he finds that sheep and he brings it back.
And all of them safe, all of them safe. Oh, that bride didn't
know what was happening. That bride didn't know what was
happening. Oh, I don't know how many times I've seen folks, all
of a sudden their eyes light up. I see it. I see it. I finally got it. I'll
tell you a story, a true story. I may have told you this before.
My father-in-law was 75 years old. He'd come to all of our
meetings. He loved the preachers and he
loved to visit with them. And then his wife died. Several years later, he started
coming to all the services. He started coming to all the
services. He always sat in the second pew. I got through preaching
one day, and the message was, thou is coming and thou is when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
hear shall hear. He had been coming for a couple,
three years, 75 years old. He stood up. I was getting ready
to step down out of the pulpit. He stood up. He said, Donny,
Donny. I just stopped. He said, I heard his voice today.
I heard that voice today. Oh, I tell you, everybody in
that church just fell down, just weeping and roaring, 75 years
old. Died when he was 92, never missed
a service. Love Christ, that's what, you
know. He didn't know he was one of
them bride till somebody told him. He didn't know. He heard
that voice. Now look what the servant, look
at the servant's mission, the Holy Spirit's mission. Start
down here in verse 31. First of all, I want you to know
that he had all authority in the house. He said, you know,
Abraham said, I've put him over all my house. He had authority
in the house. And the second thing about Him
was the Father was the one that sent Him. The Father sent Him. He didn't say, well, I'm gonna
go and talk about Jesus. No, He didn't. The Father sent
Him. The Father sent the Holy Spirit. And what did He send
Him to do? He sent Him in the name of the
Son. And our Lord Jesus Christ says this. He said, when He,
the Spirit of truth has come, He shall not speak of himself,
but he shall take the things of mine and show them unto you. That's what, if we can't see
Christ in the Bible, it's because we just don't have eyes. But
that's what the Holy Spirit comes and takes the things of Christ
and shows them unto us. He is sent in the name of the
Son. And I'll tell you something he did. He declared the Father's
promise. Look down here in verse 31. I told you 31, didn't I?
Let me go down through here and comment on these things. All
right, he's at Laban's house, and verse 31, it says, come in,
thou blessed of the Lord. Why are you standing outside?
I've prepared the house and room for your camels. And the man
came into the house and ungirded his camels, gave straw and provident
for the camels, water to wash his feet, and the men's feet
that were with him. And they sent meat before him
to eat. But he said, I will not eat.
I will not eat until I've told mine Aaron. I gotta tell you
what I'm doing here. That's the first thing I gotta
tell you. I got nothing else to say. I don't want no food.
I don't want nothing until I tell you what I'm sent for. And look
what he said. I am Abraham's servant. I love that. And the Lord had
blessed my master greatly. gave him flocks and herds of
silver, gold, menservants, maidservants, said my master's wife, bear a
son to my master when she is old. And unto him hath he given
all that he hath. That's what he's doing. He's
talking about Christ. He's talking about the son, not
talking about himself. And look what happens. And my
master, My master, he's talking about what the father sent him
to do, what he is sent to do. My master said, thou shalt take
a wife to my son of the daughters. Thou shalt not take a wife to
my son of the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I sit.
But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred and take
a wife unto my son. So he said he'd come there to
do one thing. I don't want nothing to eat.
I got to tell you what my master wants me to say. He said, my
master's got a son. And my master loves my son. My
master wants a wife and a son. And I'm just his servant, and
I got to tell you what, before I say anything or do anything,
tell you what I'm doing here. And ain't that the way we are?
And I'll tell you, he did never ever speak of himself. He never,
he always spoke of his father, the master, and he talked of
his master's son, and he talked of the master as well. He did
not speak of himself. And oh, look what happens down
in verse 53. Look what he said in verse 52. And it came to pass when Abraham's
servant heard their words talking about Rebekah, willing to be
a wife, heard their words, he worshiped
the Lord, bowing himself to the earth. And the servant, now listen
to this, the servant brought forth jewels of silver, jewels
of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah. This is just a taste. This is
just an indication of what you're gonna have one of these days.
Oh, I want you to know, I want you to know, you know how wealthy
my master is. And I tell you, he revealed the
things of Isaac to her. You know what, silver in the
scriptures always means redemption. When they built the tabernacle,
they built those silver sockets out of redemption money. And
they built them out of, silver means redemption, that's rich.
And then he gave him gold. That speaks of the deity, the
Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ. And look what else he gave her.
He gave her a raiment. I've got to provide you clothes.
You can't come into my presence with what you've got. You've
got to have some good clothes. You've got to have some clothes
that I've provided for you. I don't want you to wear the
ones you've got. I sent some clothes just for you. Now ain't
that the most wonderful thing? That the Lord clothed us. When
that prodigal son got home, he said, bring forth the best robe. The best! And he said, give it to my son,
let him put it on. He said, put it on him. He didn't
have to do a thing. Put some shoes on his feet. Put
a ring on his finger. And that's what he said, here's
you some silver. Here's you some gold. And look
at this beautiful garment I've got for you. Look at this beautiful
garment. You know, in Bunyan Pilgrim's
Progress, When they got to the cross, and
the burden fell off, and they was clothed with this beautiful
garment that was white and glistening. An old Christian looked at, faithful
and looked at him and he said, oh my goodness, you're beautiful.
You're just absolutely beautiful. That's the most, you're just
gorgeous. Couldn't see that in himself, but he saw that Christ,
that beautiful garment, that other, that Christian faithful
had on. And Christian faithful looked
at him and said, oh, you're the beautiful one. And that's the
way it is. You know, we don't see it in
ourselves, but we can see it in somebody else. But yet we
have to be clothed by somebody else. We can't clothe ourselves.
Oh, my. And I'll tell you something else
he did to her. Look down here in verse 61. Now this is the Holy Ghost doing
that. We're talking about the Holy
Ghost, the Spirit of God. And Rebecca rose in her damsels,
and they rode upon the camels and followed the man. He took
them all the way home. He took them all the way, they
followed that man all the way home. All the way home. And the
Holy Spirit's the one that comforts us, has fellowship with us, makes
known the character of the father and the son. He didn't go down
the street going down through that town saying, oh, listen,
my father's got a son. All of you come out here and
let me tell you how fine he is and see who wants to be his bride.
No, he didn't do that. Then look at the power of the
message. Look at the power of the message down in verse 58. Well, excuse me, let's start
back here at 58. And they called Rebekah and said,
Hunter, will thou go with this man? She said, I'll go. Because
her brother, look what happens here now. They tried their best
to keep her at home for a while. And her brother, 55, look in
verse 55. Her brother and her mother said,
let the damsel abide with us a few days, at least 10, after
that she shall go. You reckon anybody could have
kept you from Christ? Huh? Anybody kept you from Christ? Oh, these preachers tell people
all the time, said, boy, it's up to us whether people go to
heaven or hell. If it's up to me whether anybody's saved or
lost. If anybody goes to hell by what
I preach, or anybody goes to heaven by what I preach, then
I've missed it by a country mile. It's the message, and that's
what happens here. Look what happens now. And he
said unto them, he told them, he said, now hinder me not, hinder
me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way. Send me away,
that I might go to my master. And watch this, look what they
said. They said, we'll call the damsel and quiet her mouth. And
they called Rebekah and said, will thou go with this man? And oh, I love what she said.
I'll go, yeah, I'll go, yeah. When we're leaving, I'll go,
I'll go. Oh, in the day of his power,
his people are made willing. And you know, the message that
he told was, was talking about the Father's purpose and the
wealth and glory of the Son. That's all he ever talked about.
And he showed that to Rebecca. And look how it attracted Rebecca.
He didn't have to do no pleading. He didn't have to do no begging.
He just made a proclamation. And it was the goodness and the
glory of the Father and the Son that won her. She wasn't afraid
of anything. Oh, when she saw the glory of
the Father and the glory of the Son, she said, I want to go.
I want to go there. That's what I want to do. Oh,
they tried to get her to stay longer. Oh, stay just a little
while longer. No, no, she is ready to go. She's ready to go. Oh, she said,
will you go? Yes, I'll go. And guess what
she did? When she left, she left mama,
she left daddy, she left her brother, she left her sisters,
she left everybody for Christ. And I don't have any confidence
in anybody don't give everything, if they don't leave everything
for Christ. If the gospel, if the message
does not save them and the message does not keep them, they're not
gonna be saved and they're not gonna be kept. And I'm sorry,
I hope I didn't speak out of turn here. But I've seen too
many people make too many professions. And I told folks, I said, listen,
I'm getting tired of baptizing professing sinners. I'm getting
tired of making them come out wet and don't do anybody any
good. And then they come and hear the
gospel. Oh, that's the most wonderful
thing I ever heard and everything. They'll sit around for a year
or two and then they go. But Rebecca said, Mama, I gotta
go. Stay, darling, please stay just
another day or two. I gotta go. Daddy, Daddy said,
please, honey, stay. I got to go. His brothers and sisters come
out there and they all call on him, just cry, cry, don't, please
don't go, don't go. Stay just a little while longer.
I got to go. I got to go. And oh, blessed
is the man whom thou choosest and causes, causes to approach
unto thee. Oh my. And why did she do it? For the glory that was revealed
unto her of her son. Oh, because of the riches of
the son. And I'll tell you something else she did. She trusted everything
to Abraham's promise. Abraham made a promise that what
he's gonna give to his son and give everything to his son. So
she had to take everything by promise and she accepted it all
by faith, all by faith. And I'll tell you, that's what
we do. We accept everything by faith. There's so many things
I can't explain, but I can believe it. But now look what happens
now. Just go back up to verse 61 and
I'll be done. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels,
and they rode upon the camel, and followed the man. And the
servant took Rebekah, and went his way. And Isaac came from
the way of the well Laharoi, for he dwelt in the south country.
And Isaac went out to meditate, or to pray in the field in the
evening. And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw, and behold, the camels were coming. And oh, Rebecca lifted
up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she jumped off the camel. For she had said unto the servant,
what man is that that walketh in the field to meet us? And
the servant said, it's my master. Abraham's not the master now,
Isaac's the master. And look what he says. And therefore
she took a veil and covered herself. Isaac saw her coming, she said,
who is that? That's the man you're gonna marry.
That's your bride, that's your husband, that's your groom. And
the servant told Isaac, verse 66, all things that he did, and
oh, listen to this now. She found a husband, her true
life, and oh, look what it says here now. And Isaac brought her
into his mother's tent, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife,
and listen to this now, and he loved her. He loved her. And Isaac was comforted after
his mother's death. Oh my. He found all he wanted
in her, and she found all she needed in him. And we found all
we need in our Lord Jesus Christ. We're not looking for anything
else. Huh? And that's the power of the message.
I never will, I'm gonna tell y'all a story and then I'm gonna
quit. Years and years and years and years and years and years
and years ago, I hadn't even learned the gospel yet, but I
met Brother Henry a time or two, and I was preaching a meeting
up in West Virginia, Chapmansville, West Virginia, And I drove down
to talk to Henry and visit with him a while. And I sat across
the desk there and I said, I know it's the gospel soaked in our
tears. Just like that. Just like that. It's just the gospel. Whether
you shed a tear or nobody sheds a tear, it's just the gospel
and you better learn that. I did. He scared me to totally
to death. I couldn't even drive back. I
had somebody else to drive for me. I was shaking like this.
But that's what, that's what, that's all it is, just the power
of the man. That man didn't cry when he got up there. He never
went out there hollering, will anybody accept him? He just went
and told the father's purpose, declared who the son was, and
told, showed all that the son had, and will you go? Let's get
started. Let's get started. That's enough,
ain't it? Yeah. Oh, what a Savior. What a Savior. What a blessed,
blessed Savior. What a Lord. I just, it just,
I can't, it just, I just don't know what to say other than I
hate to be done. You know, you're just full. You're
just so full. Christ just fills your heart
with such joy, such peace, such happiness, and such delight that
you just don't want to quit talking about him. You just don't want
to, do you? I've got to. I've got to. Thank
you, Frank, for having me. Appreciate y'all's good attention. I love how God saves sinners.
And I love to hear it. Donnie, thank you for telling
me one more time. That's how God saves sinners. That thrills
my heart. Tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock,
we're going to hear two more times how it is God saves sinners. Brother Chris Cunningham and
Todd Nyber will be bringing the messages for us. And after that,
we'll have some dine, have a time of fellowship. Sean's going to
lead us in singing a closing hymn. And Pastor Eric Floyd's
here. My dear friends, you come home.
As we're singing the last stanza of this, you come up and lead
us in prayer when we're done singing it, would you? All right,
Sean. If you would, turn in your hymnals
to song number 449. And we'll stand and sing to God be the
glory. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done. So loved He the world that He
gave us His Son. Build up his life and atone not
for sin, And open the life-gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. O perfect redemption, the purchase
of blood, to every believer. the promise of God, the vilest
offender who truly believes that moment from Jesus the pardon
receives. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Great things He hath taught us,
great things He hath done, and great, how rejoicing, through
Jesus the Son, but pure. and higher and greater will be
our wonder, our transport when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice! O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Let's pray. Our God and Father in heaven,
Lord, how we thank thee for thy word. How we thank thee for thy
son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we thank you for this message. We thank you that you and your
mercy would be pleased to save sinners. Lord, bless thy word. Bless it
to the hearts of your people. Lord, cause us to see our sin.
Above all things, cause us to see the Lord Jesus Christ and
rest in him and him alone. Lord, bless this time. Lord,
bless these men whom you've called to this place to preach your
word. And Lord, again, we pray you
bless the preaching and hearing of thy word. Bless us for Christ's
sake, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen.