Well, good morning. If you would
open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 10, that's where our lesson will
be taken from this morning. Matthew chapter 10. Glad to have
Sheila back with us. Feeling better, I hope. Let's
bow together in prayer before we begin. Our Father, which art
in heaven, holy and reverent, is your awesome matchless name. Father, we've met together this
morning in your name, the name of your son, our Lord Jesus Christ. And father, we pray your blessing
upon us. We pray that you bless us with
your spirit, that we might be enabled to worship you this morning
in spirit and in truth. Well, I praise your word is open
to us, that you'd give us a heart that would believe it, would
receive it, cling to our Lord Jesus Christ. And everything
that is said and done here this morning, let it be done to the
praise and the honor and the glory of the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Let us know his precious name
that we might know him whom to know is life eternal. Father,
I thank you that you've given us another opportunity to meet
together and thank you for your blessings to this congregation
for many, many, many years, how you blessed us. Father, I pray
that you give us the grace and the wisdom not to take this blessed
privilege of worship for granted. But Father, cause us to approach
these worship services carefully, prayerfully, always seeking your
face, seeking a blessing from your word. Father, we pray for
our class this morning. We pray for our children's classes.
going on right now, Father, that you'd bless our teachers, that
you'd bless our children. Make this a time where you would
plant the seeds of faith in the hearts of our young ones. Father,
for those who are sick and afflicted, we pray for them. We pray you'd
heal and comfort. We pray you would speak to their
hearts, comfort their hearts until such time as you provide
a way out. And we're thankful for the Good
report we've had on on many. Thank you for bringing Sheila
back to us and pray your continued blessing be upon us. All these
things we ask and we give thanks in the precious name of your
Lord Jesus, your son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Bless us for his
sake. Hear us for his sake, we pray.
Amen. All right, John, Chapter 10,
I've titled our lesson this morning, The Lord's Preacher School, and
I call this chapter of the Lord's preacher school, because it's
in this chapter the Lord calls his 12 disciples who later on
will become the 12 apostles, with the exception of Judas Iscariot.
We ended the lesson last week where the Lord says, pray you,
therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers
into his harvest. And now the Lord shows us he
is indeed the Lord of the harvest. He chooses out the laborers that
he will send out into his harvest. Now, the Lord chose these men.
He's going to call these men. He's going to teach them. He's
going to equip them to be his preachers. These men are going
to go out into the world and turn it upside down. Lord's going
to teach them and equip them to do that. In this chapter,
the Lord gives them and all his preachers, he gives them their
mission, their mission, and he gives them the message. He tells
them what different things they're going to face and how to handle
those situations when they come up. Brother Don Fortner calls
this chapter the first ordination service that was ever preached
and the Lord preached it. So I believe we'll get a blessing
from studying it. And the first thing I want us
to look at is the men who the Lord called into the ministry.
We'll come back to verse one, look at verse two. Now the names
of the 12 apostles are these. The first Simon, who is called
Peter and Andrew, his brother, James, the son of Zebedee and
John, his brother. Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas
and Matthew, the publican, James, the son of Alphaeus and Labaius,
whose surname was Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite and Judas Iscariot,
who also betrayed him. Now we can learn a lot about
who the Lord calls to be his preachers from looking at these
men. Now it's obvious, but you should point this out, that the
Lord calls men to be his pastors and elders. And no amount of
modern quote-unquote advancement will ever overrule that. No amount
of modern advancement will ever overrule the ancient scriptures.
The Apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 2 verse 12, I suffer not a woman
to teach, nor do you usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. That does not mean when we meet
together, women cannot speak. It doesn't mean that at all.
It means that they're not to preach. Now, women can teach
other women, women can teach children, and it's probably best
women teach small children. They got the skills for that
probably more than most men, but they're not to preach to
the general congregation. And that does not mean that women
are less intelligent or less spiritual. It just means that
this is God's order for his church. This is who he calls to be his
preachers. And these men, the Lord called,
they're common, ordinary men from different walks of life.
They're working men. Several of them are fishermen.
Now, I don't know a whole lot about commercial fishing, but
I do know this. It's hard work. I mean, you've
got to get up early. I mean, it's hard work. Well,
here's why the Lord called these men to be his preachers. God's
preachers have got to have a good work ethic. I mean, they've just
got to be self-motivated to work and study. It's hard work. So
they can study to show themselves approved unto God, a workman,
a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth. And these men were sinners. Matthew,
when he writes about himself, always calls himself Matthew,
the publican, Matthew, the publican. Matthew never could get over
God's grace to such a sinful person as him. He just couldn't
get over it. That's who God calls to be his preacher, that they're
sinful men. And you know what? That's exactly
the man I want to hear preach the gospel. Wouldn't you? Because
to that man, grace is not going to be a doctrinal theory he read
about in the book. A man who's been saved by grace,
I mean, he's a sinner. A sinner can tell you about the
experience of God's grace, that God does indeed save sinners.
And he's going to be able to give hope to a sinner like me.
Some of these men became famous in God's church. Everybody here
knows the names, Peter, James, John, Matthew. We don't know
anything at all about several of these men. The only thing
we know about them is their name. Bartholomew, Simon the Canaanite, Lebeus. The only things we know about
these men is this is the only time their names are in the word
of God, when the Lord called them. We don't know anything
that they did. But you know, that doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter to us, and it doesn't matter to them either. I've never
met these men, don't know anything about them, but I can promise
you this, they're God's preachers. They don't care you don't know
their name. They just don't care about it at all. They were messengers
that went where God sent them. And they preached to God's people
where God sent them. And the world may know nothing
about them, but the people to whom they preached, they were
blessed by their preaching. These men want you and want the
people that they preach to, they want you to know the name of
Christ, not their name, not their name at all. That's a true preacher.
And these men had the Lord called at different personalities. John
and Peter are two very, very different men. Their actions
show that you read their writings. You can see these are men at
two very different personalities. And that holds true today. God's
preachers have very different personalities. But with those
different personalities, just like John and Peter, they had
different personalities. They wrote of the same Savior.
They wrote the same gospel. They preached the same gospel.
Men with different personalities preach the same message. They
preach the same Savior. And I would warn you that you
not try to copy the personality of a preacher. You may have a
preacher that is your favorite, your pastor that you hear all
the time, whatever, but don't try to copy them. Don't try to
serve the Lord like you're copying him, because I tell you what
you what you'll do if you do that, you'll copy their bad traits.
You just won't be able to help it. You'll copy their bad traits.
Serve the Lord as yourself with your personality, because the
Lord uses different personalities to in his kingdom to serve his
kingdom and to preach his gospel. And then these 12 men, you look
at them as a group. They're a pretty good picture
of the church on earth, different personalities, different talents,
different gifts. But Judas Iscariot's in there
too. You know, not everyone who's on the church roll knows the
Lord. And not everyone who sets himself up as a preacher is saved
either. Judas Iscariot is among this, this group. There's a tear
among the wheat and he's going to betray the Lord. And he is
among these believers on earth, which is exactly why the apostle
John tells us in first John chapter four, Try the spirits. You try. You test the preachers. You don't
just take what they say at face value. Go look in the Word of
God and see if these things be so. Test a man by his message. If his message matches the Word
of God, you'd better listen to him. Because he's speaking for
God. He's God's preacher. And if his message does not match
the Word of God, you'd better not listen to him. I don't care
how nice he is, how good he is, how moral he is, what nice things
he does for, you know, shut-ins and the elderly and the sick.
I don't care. If he doesn't preach according to the Word of God,
you better get away from him. He's not God's preacher. You test
a man by the Word of God. And then these men all had faith. They all had faith in Christ.
But it was often weak faith. Peter. and Thomas, they both
showed us that. We should not expect God's preacher
to be a perfect man, because he's not, he's not. Look at Titus
chapter one. God's preachers are not perfect
men, far from it, but they are faithful. Titus chapter one, verse five. Paul says, for this cause left
I the increed that thou should have set in order the things
that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed
thee. Now here is the qualifications for an elder, a pastor, an elder.
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, one wife at a time,
having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly. For
a bishop must be blameless as the servant of God. not self-willed,
not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to
filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good
men, of good things, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast
the faithful word, being faithful to the faithful word as he has
been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine, both to exhort
and to convince, the gainsayers. And the way you do that, the
way you exhort God's people, the way you convince the gainsayers
is by faithfully holding to the faithful Word of God. Look at
1 Corinthians chapter 4. The apostle talks about this
faithfulness again. God's preachers have faith in
Christ. They preach that faith in Christ and they're faithful
to it. They're faithful men. They must be faithful to preach
the Word of God. 1 Corinthians 4 verse 1, let
a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards
of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required in stewards
that a man be found faithful. God's preachers must be faithful. One might not be able to speak
as smoothly and eloquently, you know, as someone else, but that's
not the issue. As long as we preach Christ,
here's the issue is the man faithful. He must be faithful. And these
men were faithful. And these men that the Lord called,
they're far from perfect men. But you know what they were?
They were followers of Christ. They followed our Lord everywhere
He went for three and a half years. Now, it's just obvious. It's just obvious. God's preacher
has got to be a follower of Christ. He's got to be. How can he lead
you to Christ if he's not following Christ? He's got to be a follower
of Christ. And God's people are to follow their pastor as he
follows Christ. These men followed Christ and
he taught them for three and a half years. That's something
else a preacher's got to be. He's got to be taught. Any man
who's going to preach the gospel has got to be taught of God first.
That's one of the reasons where to lay hands on no man suddenly,
besides, you know, the fact that you lay hands suddenly on a young
man, you know, his pride, his flesh, you might not be able
to handle this as easily. But here's another very important
reason. Don't lay hands on a man suddenly.
Don't suddenly put a man in the pulpit. Give him time to learn. Give the Lord time to teach him
something to say before he opens his mouth. If we're going to,
you teachers, You had to go to school, learn how to teach. You
got to learn what you're going to teach for, you can teach it.
Same thing's true of God's pastors, God's preachers. God's got to
teach them first. And that's what the Lord did
with these men. So that's the men that the Lord calls. Now,
secondly, look back in our text, Matthew 10 verse one. Here's
the mission of God's preachers. And we had called unto him his
12 disciples. He gave them power against unclean
spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness.
in all manner of disease. Now the Lord gave apostles and
others in the early church. He did give them the ability
to perform these miracles, miracles of healing and casting out demons.
It's not mentioned here specifically, but the speaking of tongues.
The Lord gave people these gifts in the early church and they
were real. They weren't pretending. This was a real thing. And the
Lord gave them these abilities, not so we'd be impressed with
them. That's not why the Lord gave them. He gave them these
abilities so that people would know this man speaking for God,
no man could do these things except God be with them. They
would, that's why the Lord gave these gifts. Now at this point
in history, people had seen signs and wonders and miracles before.
This was a commonly known thing, especially in Israel about signs
and wonders and miracles. But they hadn't seen anything
like what the apostles were doing. Moses worked miracles and signs
and wonders, didn't he? Oh, many of them. Think about
it. Every miracle, every sign and
wonder that Moses worked was judgment, wasn't it? It brought
judgment. All the plagues in Israel brought
judgment and destruction. They showed God's wrath against
sin. Well, you know why that is? Moses
is a picture of the law. And that's all the law can give
us is destruction, damnation, judgment, the miracles the apostles
worked. They're healing all manner of
diseases. They're casting out demons. I
can't imagine how miserable it would be to be demon possessed.
Can you? Oh, how comforting, how soothing,
how wonderful that was for a person. One of these apostles could cast
that demon out. all manner of painful sickness
and disease, the apostles could heal it. That brought comfort
and life and peace and joy to the people's lives. Well, the
apostles did that. The apostles did what? Preach
grace. Preach grace in Christ Jesus.
That's the message of the gospel. The gospel brings comfort and
life and joy and peace to the hearts of God's people. Now,
the day of miracles, the day of people working miracles is
over and it's over, not because God changed. It's not like, well,
this is one dispensation and God changed and now he does things
a different way. No, God didn't change. We don't need people
to work miracles anymore. We simply don't need that. What
was the purpose that the Lord enabled these men to work miracles?
The purpose. So people would know they were
sent from God. That's the purpose. Well, today, we don't need somebody
to work a miracle to tell if they're preaching the gospel
or not. Somebody doesn't have to work miracles in order for
us to know, oh, this man sent from God. Because we have the
completed word of God. See, while the apostles worked
those miracles, Matthew was writing this. People couldn't open their
Bibles and read the gospel of Matthew. Matthew was still writing
it. We couldn't open it and read 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians,
Philippians. We couldn't read those things.
Paul was still writing them. The Word of God was still being
completed. So up until the time the Word
of God was completed, these men worked miracles. After the Word
of God was completed, miracles ended. Signs and wonders, those
things ended. Now we can tell if a man is preaching
the gospel or not by being like the noble brains and comparing
his message to the Word of God. You know, the Ephesian elders,
the Apostle Paul, as he was leaving them, Those Ephesian elders knew,
the apostle Paul, he was an apostle. They knew that he was sent from
God. They knew that he preached the
gospel. And the apostle told us why that's
so as he was leaving them. He told them, now you know me,
you know my ministry, you know I have not shunned to declare
unto you all the counsel of God. He didn't mention the miracles.
He said, I preached unto you all the counsel of God. And the
apostle Peter told us, That today, in 2020, we have a more sure
word of prophecy. Peter was on the Mount of Transfiguration.
He saw the Lord transfigured. He saw the Lord pull back the
curtain of his flesh and the glory of his deity shine forth. Peter audibly heard the Father
speak from heaven. He audibly heard that. You and Peter, I mean, every
one of us would like to see that. I mean, we just can't help it.
Our flesh, everyone wants to do that. You know what the apostle
Peter told us? We have something better. How
often have you thought about opening up your Bible and thought,
wow, wow, that's awesome. Peter said, we have something
better, a more sure word of prophecy, the word of God. You think about
miracles, this word, is more sure, it's more important than
seeing miracles preached. Miracles, miracles could be done
by another spirit. Couldn't be. Brother Charlie
Payne is famous for saying that one time he spoke in tongues.
He said, I did. He said, it wasn't gibberish,
I spoke in tongues. And it wasn't by the Holy Spirit,
it was by another spirit. Miracles could be done by another
spirit, couldn't they? To get you to look away from
Christ. Could be. This word can only come from
the Holy Spirit. It'll never lead you wrong. Paul called it
the faithful word. It'll never lead you wrong because
it can only come from God the Holy Spirit. You see, now that
Christ has come, that which is perfect has come. Well, that
tells me the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is that which is
perfect. That's far better than miracles and seeing miracles
in them. And anybody who lies and says they perform miracles,
I guess, unless another spirit enables them to do it, they're
lying. Or someone says, I just, I got to see miracles. I want
to see miracles. So I know this thing is true. They're saying
something very, very, very serious, very serious. The apostle Peter
said, we have a more sure word of prophecy. If someone insists,
I've got to see miracles to know this thing. So they're saying
the Bible is not enough. They're saying Christ is not
enough. They're saying the gospel is not enough. And that's all
God's servants have to preach is the word of God. And that's
all God's people need to hear. God's people need to hear the
word of God. They hear it and they say, that's
it. They believe it and they're saved
by it. Now the day of miracles and of healings and casting out
demons, that's over. But the mission of God's preachers
is still the same. Our mission is the same. The
mission that the Lord gave the apostles is a picture of the
mission that he gives all his preachers. This is the mission
we have today. The mission that God's preachers
have been given is the spiritual healing of God's people. It's
the healing of men's souls. We're not just dealing with men's
bodies. We're dealing with their souls.
with their hearts and the souls of God's people are healed through
the preaching of Christ the Great Physician. It's through preaching.
Preaching. The casting out of the unclean
spirit. What's that unclean spirit represent? It represents our
flesh. Our flesh is unclean. It's sinful. It's unclean. And it's powerful. It's powerful. We don't have
the power to reign it in and control it. We don't have the
power to quit sinning, but the power of our flesh is cast out. I mean, cast out when Christ
is preached and the Holy Spirit enables us to believe. What is
the power of the flesh? The power, the strength of flesh
of the sin. The power of it is it stops us
from being able to believe Christ, from being able to see him, from
being able to love him. You can't make yourself do it.
Because the flesh is too strong, it can't. You just can't. But when Christ comes in power,
you can't not believe. What happened? The gospel came. Christ came and cast the power
of Satan out. Now you believe and you can't
not believe. Christ has the power to cast Satan out because he
crushed Satan's head at Calvary. He's got the power to do it.
And it's the gospel of Christ. All it takes to cure every sin,
sickness, blindness, deadness, coldness of heart, just name
them. The gospel of Christ is all it
takes to cure it. We don't need to use psychology
and, you know, kind of teach people how to manage their life
better. The gospel of Christ is all it takes. Spiritual blindness,
darkness is cast out when Christ is revealed. Now you have light.
Spiritual deafness, where you heard the gospel, you understood
the ABCs of it, you understand what the Bible says, this happened,
this, you know, here's how God saves sinners. But you can't
hear it. You can't believe it. You don't
enter into it. That's spiritual deafness. That
spiritual deafness is cast out. It's healed. Christ is revealed. He speaks. You'll hear. Spiritual
deadness is cast out. Spiritual deadness where we cannot
come to Christ. We cannot believe Christ because
we're dead. Spiritual deadness is cast out
when Christ who is our life appears and gives us life in Him. How
does He do that? How does He do all that? It's
always through the preaching of the gospel. Always, always
and only. The mission of God's preachers
is to preach Christ. I mean, that's our mission. That
is our sole mission on this earth, is to preach Christ, because
that's how God's elect are going to be given life. That's how
the souls, the hearts of God's elect are going to be healed,
how they're going to be comforted, how they're going to be fed,
how they're going to be given everything they need spiritually, is through
the preaching of Christ. And that's our mission. And if
you find a man that's got a different mission than that, Get away from
him, he's not God's preacher. All right, thirdly, I want us
to see this, the people to whom God's preachers are sent. God
sent his preachers to his elect. Verse five, Matthew chapter 10.
These 12, Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying, go not
into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans,
enter ye not. But go rather to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel. Now, you know, this does not
mean they were only to preach to natural Jews. If that was
the case, nobody should have been preaching to anybody in
this room. I don't think anybody in this room is a natural Jew.
Also, we know this, and you know, one scripture does not contradict
another scripture. The Lord commands us to go into
all the world and preach the gospel, not just to that nation
Israel, but to go into all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature. We also know this, the Lord saved
a lost sheep of the house of Israel who was not from Israel. He went to Samaria and saved
the one by the well in Samaria. So he obviously does not mean
that. This is what the Lord's saying.
It has never been the Lord's will to save every son of Adam.
That's never been God's will. God's will is to save his elect,
his people that he chose from all of eternity. And in the Old
Testament, God chose the nation Israel to give us a picture of
God's people, a picture of spiritual Israel. Just like He gave them
the law and the ceremonies, which were all pictures of Christ.
All the nation Israel was is a picture of spiritual Israel.
Now, the gospel did begin to be preached to the Jews first,
wasn't it? Our Lord came as a Jew. He came unto His own. His own
received Him not. And when they rejected it, God
sent the gospel into all the world. And he did that not just
because the Jews rejected the gospel. He sent the gospel then
into all the world because God has a people from all over the
world and he's going to save them. He's going to do it through
the preaching of the gospel. So we go preaching to all people.
We go preaching everywhere the Lord gives us an opportunity.
Now we go where the Lord sends us, where the Lord sends us. You know, the Lord sent me here,
Hurricane Road, nowhere else. Nowhere else. The Lord sent Todd
Nyberg to Lexington and nowhere else. That's where he's supposed
to be. We go where the Lord sends us and we preach to the people
that the Lord gives us. But we preach to everybody the
Lord gives us an opportunity to preach to. But I can tell
you this, the only people that are going to hear it, the only
people are going to believe it, the only people are going to
love it are God's elect. spiritual history. They're the
only people that Lord's going to give ears to hear is God's
sheep. See, God's preachers are on the
trail of God's sheep. I'm trying to find some sheep.
I don't know who they are. I mean, they look physically
just like everybody else. We're on the trail of God's sheep.
We have good news for God's sheep. If you're God's sheep, God's
forgiven your sin. Christ died for you if you're
one of his sheep. Your redemption is accomplished
and God's going to give it to you freely if you're one of God's
sheep. That's what God's word says.
See, we're on the trail of God's sheep. Now, we know it's Christ,
the great shepherd. He's the one who comes. He finds
his lost sheep, doesn't he? He goes out and finds it. And
when he finds it, he puts it on his shoulder. He brings it
home, right? But the means that the Lord uses to do that, to
bring his sheep home, is his preachers, the under shepherds,
the preaching of the gospel. And we preach, we're looking
for God's sheep. Now, how do we know we find one? How do we
know we find one of God's sheep? They believe the gospel. They
believe it. They're baptized and they live
following Christ. That's the people that God sends
his gospel to. All right, lastly, here is the
message of God's servants in verse seven. He says, And as
you go, preach, saying, I love this. He tells me this is what
you say when you preach. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now, the message of God's servants
is the gospel, the gospel of Christ. And here the savior calls
it the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. This is the message
that the Lord told us to preach. And you know what? He preached
at first here. He taught his disciples the message
to preach because they listened to him. Preach it. Look back
up here in chapter nine, verse 35. As Jesus went about all the
cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every
disease among the people. See, the disciples saw this is
what this is supposed to look like. This is what the gospel
is supposed to sound like. They heard the Lord himself preach
the gospel of the kingdom. And now he tells them, now you
go out and preach the gospel of the kingdom of the kingdom
of heaven and the gospel of the kingdom. It's the gospel that
declares Christ the king. Christ is the king of his kingdom.
And if you would be saved, you must bow to, you must submit
to, you must believe King Jesus. He's the king. You must bow to
him. The gospel of the kingdom declares
that Christ is the sovereign savior. And the sovereign savior
simply means this. He saves whom he will, when he
will. The king does not owe it to us
to give us a chance to be saved. If he gave us a chance to be
saved and that's all he gave us, none of us would be saved.
He didn't. The king doesn't give us a chance
to be saved. He doesn't owe it to us. The king shows mercy on
whom he will show mercy. And someone will say, well, that's
not fair. I want my chance. I want my rights. Really? Really? Really? Do you want God to give
you what you deserve? Do you? Or you want mercy? The
gospel of the kingdom declares Christ a sovereign savior who
gives mercy to whom he will. So the gospel of the kingdom
is good news and ought to be preached as good news because
it's good news to sinners. This is the only gospel that
can save a sinner. The gospel of Christ does not
declare a savior that tried to save anybody. The gospel of the
kingdom declares Christ the king came and he saved his people
from their sin and their sin is put away. The gospel of the
kingdom does not tell us things that we must do in order to make
ourselves righteous. The gospel of the kingdom declares
Christ the king already came and accomplished righteousness
for his people by doing for them what they could never do, obeying
the law for them. Now you bow to him, he's the
king. The gospel of the kingdom fits the needs of all sinners
from all different walks of life. The Lord healed all that needed
healing. Every different kind of disease,
every different kind of sickness, the Lord healed it. The gospel
does that for sinners from all different walks of life. You
see, the gospel of the kingdom says you don't have to be good
enough to be saved. You don't have to be able to
jump through a bunch of different hoops in order to be saved. The gospel
of the kingdom says salvation's already been accomplished by
Christ the king. Now you trust him. You trust
him. You bow to him. And sinners say, that's good
news. The gospel of the kingdom also declares a kingdom that's
at peace. It's at peace. There is peace
with God through the blood of Christ the king. And there's
never going to be any threat to his kingdom because it's a
kingdom of peace. There's never any threat to it
because who the king is, Christ is the king. Now you come and
you rest in him. That's the message of the kingdom
that God has given us to preach. And the Lord here tells us specifically,
tell them the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom of heaven
is right here, right now. Today is the day of salvation. The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Christ is here. Now you bow to him. I mean, right
now, you bow to him. Don't wait till this afternoon.
Don't wait. Right now, you bow to him and believe him and enter
into salvation. And that's our message. And Lord
tells us now, this is the message to preach. Don't get off on a
tangent. Just preach. Just preach Christ. Because Christ
is the only thing that matters to our souls. All right. I hope
the Lord bless that to you.