In the fifth chapter of Acts,
we read of the works of the apostles. They're preaching the influence
it had upon the people and the reaction of the religious world
to them. In verse 12 we read, by the hands
of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the
people. And they were all with one accord
in Solomon's porch, and of the rest thus no man joined himself
to them, but the people magnified them. And believers were the
more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, insomuch
that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them
on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter
passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude
out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick
folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits, and they
were healed every one. Then the high priest rose up,
and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees,
and were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles
and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by
night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said,
Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of
this life. Go stand and speak in the temple
to the people all the words of this life. Now the apostles as
we see in this chapter and elsewhere knew this life they both knew about this life
found in Jesus Christ known by his gospel but they knew also
the reality of this life They were just men like you and I,
who were once dead in trespasses and sins, once blind to the things
of God. Unto whom Christ came, and unto
whom Christ spake, and in the darkness of their lives, in the
darkness of their world, in the darkness of their sin, the light
of God shone forth. God's light and God's word came
into their hearts. God spake unto these men and
they lived. God spake through his son Jesus
Christ and these dead men lived and they came to know this life
and they came to know the words of this life and Christ sent
them forth to preach the words of this life. And what we read
in this book of Acts is how they went forth following Christ's
death, following His resurrection, following the finishing of the
work of salvation, how they went forth from Jerusalem to preach
unto the people all the words of this life. And we see the
impact that these few people had. They were nothings. They weren't greatly esteemed
in the eyes of men. These weren't those who had reached
the top echelons of power in this world. They weren't the
great intellects. They weren't the great leaders
of religion in the day. They were ordinary men, just
sinners. upon whom God set his love, upon
whom God set his grace, and in whom God brought forth life. He spake unto their souls and
they lived. He spake in the power of the
gospel to these who were dead, and by the Spirit of God they
lived. The blind came to see, the deaf
began to hear, the lame stood up and walked, the dead lived
and those who were brought to life went forth at Christ's command
into the four corners of the earth preaching the gospel, preaching
all the words of this life. and the impact that they had
upon the people was profound. We read of how they came and
how they preached and how the people came unto them because
they recognised something in the speech of these men and in
the impact of that speech upon others they saw the mighty work
of God. They saw how these men had come
to life and they saw how others came to life. They saw how those
who were sick were healed both by Jesus himself when he was
on this earth and by these disciples and apostles that Christ sent
forth. They were given power by Christ
to heal the sick as a demonstration at that time, at that time, not
to be continued, but as a physical demonstration of the power of
God in the Gospel. These signs and wonders were
performed by them to demonstrate that here was something entering
the world with their message. which could make those who were
dead to live, which could make the sick whole. And it served as a purpose, as
a sign to all the people at that day that this was a reality. Now the reality that continues
to this day is the effect of the message, the words of this
life in bringing the dead, the spiritually dead to live. We
have no need for the signs and the wonders. that inaugurated
the entrance of this message. But it was evident to those who
heard and those who saw the preaching of the apostles at that time
that God was at work. For here were men who were once
dead but now lived. By the hands of the apostles
were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. And they were
all with one accord in Solomon's porch. And of the rest, a snowman
joined himself to them. But the people magnified them,
and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both
of men and women. They heard their preaching, and
they believed. Yes they brought the physically
sick and they saw them healed but it wasn't that that they
believed. They heard the words of the life
that the apostles preached which was found in Jesus Christ and
they as sinners recognized that they needed to be healed not
just of physical ailments but they needed their real condition
to be healed, their sin. They needed to be healed of their
iniquity. They needed their sins to be
washed away. They needed to be brought to
life. And when they heard the words
of this life, many at that time believed. The apostles knew this life.
And when they preached, we see the reaction of the people to
the words of this life. These were a people who had a
need. There came also a multitude out
of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folk,
and them which were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were
healed every one. They had a need. They were sick. They were vexed with unclean
spirits. They were blind, they were deaf,
they were lame. They were sinners and they knew
it. They had a need. And the needy
will be drawn to this message. They'll be drawn to the gospel. Those who have a need and know
they've got a need will come to the words of this life. They'll
come to those who preach it. They'll want to hear it and they'll
have a hunger and a thirst for it. They'll have a hunger and
a thirst for righteousness because they know they have none. They're
needy. The people that came unto the
apostles here were needy. Now many don't come. And many don't care for this
message. And you might not care for this
message. You might not care for the Gospel
and the things concerning Jesus Christ. You might say it can
wait for another day. And if you do, it's because you
don't have a need. You don't recognize the condition
you're in. You don't recognize how sick
you are, or how blind you are, or how deaf you are. You don't
recognize the sin that's within, and the sins which you've committed,
and the guilt. which is all over you, and the
condemnation of God and the sentence of God which is written against
you. You blissfully wander through
life, growing older, day by day, living as though you will live
forever, walking towards death backwards, as though it will
never come upon you, and as though it will never affect you, you
blissfully walk through life, multiplying sins, increasing
condemnation, and acting like there will be no answer to it. acting like the day will never
come that you must answer for your state and many walk backwards
over the precipice of death they fall over the cliff as it were
when their day comes and they've never truly considered their
state they shut their eyes to it they shut their ears to it
and one day they wake up before a holy god and they have to answer
unto Him for all that they have done, fought and said in this
world and they've got no answer. They shut their ears to the words
of this life, they shut their ears to His voice and His message,
they shut their ears to those whom He sent forth as messengers,
they shut their ears to the truth. They did not care for it, they
did not want it, they saw no need of it. And then when they
stand before Him, and His sentence rings in their ears and the great
horror of what is before them enters into them and the realisation
that there's no return to this world no return to this life
in this world no return from the condemnation of outer darkness
and hellfire that stands before them when they realise that it's
too late It's too late, there's no return to that gospel day
in which they once dwelt, but unto which they shut their ears.
Is it too late for you? Will it be too late for you?
Will one day you get up in the morning and walk out thinking
that you will live forever and you will be knocked down by a
bus or knocked down by a car or struck down by disease or
simply your heart fails to beat because of old age? Will one
day death come upon you? and put its hand upon your shoulder
and pull you the other side of the grave and you'll wake up
stood before God and it's too late and will you look back and
think I did hear the gospel or I could have heard the gospel
I knew there was a thing called the Bible I heard of messages
from its book I heard that there were preachers or I heard those
preachers and I didn't care and I didn't think and now it's too
late and all that they said and all that I heard was true. Will
it be too late for you? Is it too late today? What is
your reaction to the words of this life? Have you got a need? Well if you never see your need
you'll never come like these did. And if you do come you'll
come in animosity and you'll contend against the message and
you'll disparage the message and mock it and slander it and
seek to silence it but you'll have no care or desire for it. Well these people came and these
that believed had a need and they knew their need. And if
you're going to know your need God will show you your need. He'll make you hungry. He'll
make you thirsty. All that you eat and drink of
the pleasures and the riches and the ambitions and the desires
of this world will run dry. like the prodigal son who left
home and went off to fill himself up and everything ran out and
then he became hungry he was eating with the pigs all that
he sought ran out his money ran out and then he came to his need
he came to himself we read God will show you your need he'll
make you hungry and when you have a need then you'll hear. Has God shown you your need of
salvation? Has he shown you the depravity
within your heart and the sin within your heart and the condemnation
that's over your head? Has he shown you that there is
a message of salvation declared by his apostles who come preaching
all the words of this life? Has he shown you that you are
dead and you need to live? That you are dead and you need
this life. What is your reaction? We see
the reaction of the people there. We then in verse 17 see the reaction
thirdly of the religious world to the words of this life. and
those that had this life and the preaching of this life. We
see the reaction of the religious world. Then the high priest rose
up and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the
Sadducees, and were filled with indignation and laid their hands
on the apostles and put them in the common prison. That's
the reaction of the religious world to these men and their
message and that life. They hated this life. They hated the words of this
life. They hated those that declared
this life. They hated their master Jesus
Christ. They put him to death when he
walked in their path. And they hated those that followed
him with the same message. They hated this life. This was
the religious world and not even just religion in a general sense. This wasn't the religions of
the world alone being opposed to Christ. This wasn't Islam
and Buddha and all the other religions in the world. This
was God's people at that time, supposedly. These were the Jews. And these apostles were Jews
of the same country. These were in those days the
supposed professing Christian church. In our day these would
be the Christian church or the professing Christian church and
its reaction to the words of this life. These that should
have known the truth, these that had the scriptures, these that
had heard, these that should know when they heard the words
of this life from these men were filled with indignation. Now
the apostles were preaching truths which were found in the scriptures
that the high priest and the Sadducees had. They weren't coming
with something novel. They weren't coming with some
new revelation. They weren't coming with some
message that they said they'd been told by some prophet, unheard
of. They didn't come with words that
Jesus had told them, which were sort of outside of the experience
and the knowledge of the religious world of that day. Everything
that they came with was in the scriptures that the high priests
and the Sadducees had. The religious world in that place
at that time had the scriptures which prophesied of the coming
of Christ, which prophesied of Messiah, which prophesied of
his death, which prophesied of his salvation, which prophesied
of his resurrection. All that the apostles preached
were in the very scriptures that the high priests and the Sadducees
had before them. and all that their counterparts
today preach, all that believers preach that God sends forth with
the words of this life are in the same scriptures, the same
Bible that the vast majority of the professing world of Christendom
has access to. All that we preach in this gospel
of the words of this life are in the scriptures. And if you're
religious, if you profess to be Christian, if you profess
to follow Christ, you can pick up your Bible and you can read
everything. that we preach in this gospel
of free and sovereign grace. You can read everything that
the apostles preached in this gospel and you can verify it
and see that it is true. It's not novelty. It's not as
the apostles write elsewhere, cunningly devised fables. All that they came preaching
unto this people at the time was written in the scriptures.
But the reaction of the religious world, the high priests and the
Sadducees was that they were filled with indignation. It wasn't
how they saw the Scriptures coming to their fulfilment. It wasn't
how they interpreted the Scriptures. And today you get the same reaction. When we preach Jesus Christ and
Him crucified, the religious world rises up with indignation
and says, that's not the Jesus we know. That's not the message
we hold to. And they're filled with indignation
like you're coming at them with something novel and new. when
in reality you're preaching the truth of the true Christ, the
true Jesus who's revealed in the scriptures and not the novelty
and the tradition that they have embraced. Whether it's some new
Jesus or some old Jesus, but it's always a false Jesus. When
you come preaching the true Jesus, the true Christ and the true
words of this life, the religious world that's embraced the lie
rises up in indignation. Now what's your reaction to the
message of the gospel? What's your reaction to the message
of grace? of electing grace, of a sovereign
God who saves whom he will, of a Christ who came to save his
people from their sins and nobody else, of a God who chooses who
will be saved and brings that people to here and makes them
willing in the day of his power. What's your reaction to a God
that saves by his decree and not by the will of man? for the
religious world today will tell you that we are saved when we
make a decision that God is there wanting everybody to be saved
that Jesus died for everyone And He wants everyone to know
Him. He wants everyone to come into
a loving relationship with Him. God wants everyone to come to
know His Son. He's there with open arms pleading
everyone to hear and to come under His Son. And yet most don't. and most die in their sins and
most reject. Yet that's what they preach.
They preach this God and this Christ who wants everyone to
be saved but he fails constantly because so few receive him, so
few love him, so few accept his overtures of love unto them.
They don't care for him. But then some do, some accept,
some receive him. And the reason they do is because
they chose to do what everyone else failed to do. Therefore
who gets the glory, God or them? They do. Because they made a
decision that everyone else didn't. They chose to follow Jesus when
everyone else didn't care. Oh how good they are. That's
the message which this religious world preaches. Salvation by
the decision and the works of man, which is exactly what the
high priests and the Sadducees preached in their day. Live by
the law of God, live this way and you will be saved. They lived
a certain way and the common people didn't. And they, the
priests and the scribes and the Pharisees and the religious were
a cut above everyone else because they were so zealous. They would
be saved surely because they were walking in God's ways when
everyone else didn't. So they made salvation dependent
on what they did and they had the glory. And when the apostles
came with a message that said, no, you won't be saved by your
works because God finds your works wanting, because God finds
even your best keeping of the law wanting, you're full of sin,
you're full of pride. You think you'll be saved by
your own works and will, it's just pride and God hates the
pride of man. When the apostles came preaching
that it's God who's saved. God will save in spite of you. God will save despite your arrogance
and your pride. He'll choose if you're to be
saved and he'll bring you down humble before him and show you
that your works are nothing. Show you that your will was always
set against him. Show you that you're dead. show
you that you're only going to live if he saves you and brings
you to life, show you that salvation is of the Lord. When they came
with that message, that salvation is of God by grace alone, the
religious world was filled with indignation. Now when you heard
the gospel, of a sovereign God who comes to save His people
through His Son whom He offered up as a sacrifice freely for
them. A God who wrought their salvation
from start to finish. A God who takes everything into
His own hands to deliver a dead people from their sins. When
you heard that message, what does it fill you with? Does it
fill you with indignation? Does it fill you with wonder
and awe? Do you have a need and you come crying out yes Lord
have mercy upon me I deserve thy wrath I deserve thy judgment
I deserve to be left in blindness and deafness and darkness and
death but Lord have mercy upon me. Would you rage against this
God who does it all who's in control who's on the throne who
won't let you have your will and your choice, who won't praise
you for your works and your ways. What's your response to this
message? The religious world hated it. They hated this life. And their response to the apostles
was that they laid their hands on them and put them in the common
prison. The religious world's response
to this life, and to the words of this life, and to the messengers
who come with the words of this life, to the preachers of the
gospel, the religious world's response to the preachers of
God's gospel, is to put them in the common prison, is to take
them away, is to silence them, is to take them out of the ears
of the people. They say, don't go and preach. They commanded them not to preach
in the name of Jesus. Don't go out and preach to people. They shut all the doors to them. And it's the same today. That's
what the religious world does. It puts the people of God in
a prison as it were. It seeks to silence them. It
locks them up. It shuts every door to them.
So you will never find this religious world opening the doors of their
churches and inviting the true preachers of God to come and
preach unto their people. They have their meetings. They
have their congregations. They gather every Sunday morning.
and they have people stand up and talk but they won't have
those that God sends with his gospel. They'll invite every
preacher and every teacher of any colour, any style, but they
won't invite those that God sends. They're filled with indignation
at them and their message, they're filled with indignation at the
words of this life. and they shut the doors to them.
They will never invite them, they will never have them back
if one of them ever comes in their midst and happens to stand
up and speak before the people they'll rage against them and
they'll never have them back and they'll say go away we don't
want to hear this. Just like the religious here
did. When the disciples, the apostles went into the temple
and preached to the people and the religious saw the impact
that they had upon the people They raged against them. They
did everything they could to silence them. They put them in
the common prison. They shut them up. They hated
it. And that's what they do today.
They'll shut us up. They shut all the doors of their
pulpits to this message. They'll never invite you to come
and preach. They'll hold their meetings and their conferences
and all that they do, all their entertaining meetings, but they
won't have the gospel preached at it. And they won't have God's
preachers come to it. They say they live, and yet they
are dead. They hate the words of this life. They say they live, They talk
about their own meetings and they talk about them being lively. Oh that's such a good meeting.
Oh that church. Oh they're really growing there.
They're very lively. They're not like that dead old-fashioned
place across the road. They're not like those old-fashioned
meetings where they're old-fashioned hymns and their old-fashioned
bible. Oh they're so dead there. Oh
no we've got the life. And by this they mean They dress
modern, they speak modern, they use modern versions translations
of the Bible, they speak in the manner of the world to entertain
the world. and they have entertainment in
their meeting that everybody loves because the world loves
its music and the world loves its entertainment and the world
loves its jokes and they take what is life in the world what
the world thinks is life which is actually a living death they
take what the world thinks is lively and they bring it into
their so-called churches and they say this is a lively meeting
it's not, it's a place of death There's no spiritual life there. There's the flesh making a show
and an appearance. There's the flesh of man in his
natural state being entertained and many will come into such
means. It's just like many will go to
the disco, many will go to the nightclub, many will watch this
program on the television, many will go to this place of entertainment
or that sport and event. People will go to what entertains
them in this world. in the ways that they think are
living, but there's just death in all of it, and there's death
in these churches. There's no life in this, this
isn't lively, this is dead. It slays you. And in so advocating
what they call liveliness, and so shutting the door to the message
of the gospel, the words of this life, They silenced the apostles,
they silenced their message and they shut them and their message
up in the common prison. That's what they seek to do with
us. Get out of the way, don't come to our meetings, don't trouble
us here. And you're cast out, you're an
outcast if you know this message. They did it to the apostles,
they did it to those that follow them today. They raged against
them, they were full of indignation. This is what religion and its
law does to us. It condemns. The religious world
condemned them for preaching of the life that they discovered
through Jesus Christ. These apostles were once dead
men, just like them. Just like these religious Sadducees.
Just like the high priests. They were once dead in their
sins, just like the rest. But Christ had come unto these
apostles, Christ had spoken unto them, Christ had shown unto them
what they are by nature. They'd been shown of God their
great need of salvation and Christ had spoken in his grace and in
his love and in his mercy to them and life had entered into
their souls. They'd heard the words of this
life and they lived and they went forth unto other dead people
like they once were preaching of the wonders of God's grace
and the wonders of God's salvation through Jesus Christ. They said
once we were blind but now we see. Come unto a man, come see
a man that told me all that ever I have done, all that I am. Come
hear of Christ. He showed me what I was, He showed
me how dead I was and He made me to live. Come hear of Christ. I was dead in my sins and He
loved me and He came and He died for me. He took my sins. He took my sorrows. He took the
wrath of God against my sins and he bore it for me. He took
it away that I might live and I might be made righteous. In
him I am the righteousness of God. He made me live. Come hear
this message. And the religious world raged
against it when they heard these men so speak. I've been born
again they said, born again of God, born again of the Spirit
of God. And they said don't talk to us
about a new birth. We'll get to heaven by living
as God tells us we should. We've lived pretty well, we're
moral, we don't do this and that, surely God will honour that.
I don't know about your new birth and your new life and your gospel,
but I know that God wants us to live a certain way. I'm living
this way and I'll go that way. and they turn from the truth
and they reject the truth and they're filled with indignation
and they try to silence it they say stop preaching those things
you're just troubling people you're making them feel guilty
because of their sin when all they want to do is come and worship
and be happy You're making people feel convicted of their sin through
your gospel preaching when we want them here on a Sunday at
our worship meeting singing our choruses and having a wonderful
time. We want to rejoice in a God of
love that loves everyone and wants us all to be part of his
family and you come with this message of sovereign grace and
of deliverance from sin and of total depravity by nature and
it gets everybody gloomy and condemned. Go away, you're making
everybody troubled. Don't tell them that they're
sinners. Don't speak of hell and judgment to come. We just
want to know the good things. So it shuts up the message of
the truth. It silences it, it puts it in the common prison.
And you believer will be put in the common prison like the
apostles were, if you speak the words of this life. And if you
go onto religion and hear its law and hear its message, all
it will do to you is condemn you, lock you up and put you
in prison. In fact, that's all the priests,
the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees could do. They came
with the law of God. They came with a letter. and
all it can do if it's truly heard by us will condemn us and it
will lock us up not just in front of men but before God and we'll
be shut up needing, needing salvation needing the words of this life
so they silenced the apostles and they put them in the common
prison and in the common prison we read fifthly that the angel
of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them
forth and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people
all the words of this life. The angel of the Lord by night
opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said go stand
and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this
life here's one that delivered these apostles from the prison
He came unto them by night, he opened the prison doors and he
brought them forth. He brought this life. Now who is this angel of the
Lord? He's the same angel of the Lord,
the same messenger of God that had come unto these apostles
in the past when they were brought to life, when they heard the
gospel and when they were sent forth to preach. The same angel,
the same messenger that saved them, comes again unto them here. He comes again for their deliverance. Although man will continually
respond to them and keep putting them in prison and keep silencing
them, their saviour, the angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, will
keep coming to them. wherever they be, even though
man puts them back in a prison, he'll come unto them and he'll
lead them forth and he'll say again unto them, don't worry
about what men say. Go back to the temple. Go and stand in the temple and
speak to the people all the words of this life. He's the one that
brought them life. He's the one that keeps bringing
them life. He's the one that keeps bringing
them forth. He's the one that keeps sending
them forth. He's the one that is their life. He's the one that sustains their
life. He's the one that declares their
life. He's the one that through them made others to live. And
they could do nothing but keep going forth and keep speaking
the words of this life. This angel. who came unto them
by night was Christ himself and there was a day in history, an
hour in history when he came into the darkness of this world
he came unto his people by night and he came into this world the
Son of God Born a man, taken into unity with his Godhead,
taken into unity with his divine person, humanity. He came, he
was born a man and he came to head to the cross. He came by
night. And he came into the common prison
where his people were found. Locked up by sin. Locked up by
the world. Locked up by religion. Locked
up by the darkness of the religion of this world. He came unto his
people in the prison. And he opened the prison doors. at the cross they nailed this
angel to the cross they nailed this prince and saviour to the
cross the religious world tried to slay him and at the cross
the hours of the day passed, and the sun became darkened,
and night came upon all the world, and the Son of God, the Angel
of the Lord, this Prince and this Saviour, bore the sins of
His people in the darkness. in the night. He bore them. He bore the judgment and the
wrath of God against those who were dead in trespasses and sins. He bore it for hours on end until
all God's wrath against that sin. had been poured forth, until
all had been suffered, until every penny, every price had
been paid. He suffered under God's wrath
in the night, in the darkness, in the prison where he found
his people. And when he'd suffered to the
end, there was no more judgment to be paid, no more prize to
be paid, no more cup of God's wrath to be drunk. He'd done
it all, he delivered them, he saved them, and out of the prison
he led them forth, he brought them forth. He took his people
through death with him. He came and met them in the common
prison. He met them at the cross and
led them through the hours of darkness in the cross and brought
them to that morning of the third day when they rose again with
him. Resurrected. Resurrected in glory. Resurrected in righteousness.
And he led them forth and brought them forth and said unto that
people, go stand and speak into the temple. to the people all
the words of this life that's where Christ found his apostles
on the day he rose again that's where Christ found his apostles
having ascended unto glory in Jerusalem when he came unto them
and said gather in Jerusalem and wait for me to come and he
came down upon them and sent them forth and said go and preach
all the words of this life He opened the prison door at the
cross in the darkness when he delivered his people from their
sins. Did he go through the darkness
for you? Did he come to the common prison
where you were? and bring you forth. Has he brought
you forth? Has he brought this life unto
you? Has he said unto you, go stand
and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this
life? Go stand and speak in the temple
to the people. Sixthly, the temple. This temple
is where this life was made known. This temple is where this life
is made known. This temple speaks of Christ
himself. Destroy this temple and in three
days I will build it up again. They took Christ and they slew
him. The religious world, the scribes,
the Pharisees, the high priests, the Sadducees took Christ and
slew him. and in three days he rebuilt
that temple that they'd set at nought and all his people were
found within him all for whom he died in the darkness were
found in Christ in the temple and he says unto that people
from that day forth go and stand and speak in the temple speak
in me to the people all the words of this life stand in me and
in me alone stand in christ and in christ alone stand in the
temple resurrected built again on the third day stand in this
temple not the temple of men not the temple of the Jews which
was brought to nothing not the churches of this world the buildings
of men the trappings of religion not their temples and their meeting
places and their houses but stand in the temple stand in me stand
in Christ, stand in the everlasting temple of God, stand in the truth. and speak to the people all the
words of this life, for the life is only found and only heard
within this temple. It's only heard and found in
Christ. He's the foundation. He's the
chief cornerstone. There's the foundation of the
apostles and the prophets, the truth of God, the words of this
life. That is what the people of God
are built upon. The people of God are built up
as the church of Christ upon Christ and this foundation, together
they are one, together they are the temple and you will only
hear the gospel in their midst, you will only hear the gospel
from their lips, you will only hear the gospel as Christ speaks
through them. You won't hear this gospel in
the meeting places of this world. You won't hear this gospel in
the Catholic churches. You won't hear this gospel in
the Church of England steeples. You won't hear this gospel in
the buildings of men. You'll hear this gospel in the
people of God as they speak in Christ. You'll hear this gospel
in the temple. Speak stand and speak in the
temple in Christ to the people all the words of this life you
can only speak the words of this life if you are in this temple
in the church in Christ as one of those one of those whom he
loved for whom he died and whom he saved and seventhly he says
go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of
this life this life is preached it's spoken the words of this
life if you're to live if you're to be delivered out of the condemnation
of God against your sins if you are to be healed of your sicknesses
if you're to live and not live like the world speaks of living
and not live like the silly religious world speaks of living in their
lively meetings but if you're to live forever with eternal
life and with everlasting righteousness, you will and you must hear this
gospel of a Saviour who is sovereign, a Saviour who is the Son of God,
a Saviour who came and suffered and died for his people, A people
chosen of God the Father, given unto the Son, whose names were
written upon His breastplate, written upon His heart. A people
for whom He suffered, each and every one individually. A people
whose sins He bore. A people whom He delivered in
the darkness, in the night, when He came into the common prison
where they were. and opened the prison doors and
brought them forth. Have you heard this life in this
gospel? Has this angel of the Lord come
into the common prison where you are? Has he brought you forth
and has he said unto you and does he say unto you today, go
stand and speak in the temple to the people All the words of
this life. For if he has, and if you know
this life, and if you've heard this life, and if you are in
this life, if you know Christ who is the life, if you've heard
him, if you love him, if you know him, then you can do nothing
but go, stand, and speak in the temple to the people all the
words of this life. Man will keep putting you in
the prison. Man will be filled with indignation. The religious
world will hate you. the world outside will mock you
but those who are given a need those who are given a need those
who are shown by God their sin will come and will hear and will
hear what you say of Christ and will know the life and will receive
the life and will believe as these believed have you been
brought to this life does Christ say unto you this day this day
go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of
this life this life amen