Last Sunday night, after preaching
at Dudley for our friends there for three days, Sunday afternoon,
Shelby and I flew to Belfast, and then Russell Smith and Brother
Sam McCollum picked us up at the airport and drove us up to
Ballymoney. And by the time we got to the
motel and got checked in, it was about 11 o'clock. And on the
way in, I saw a fellow go in and he was carrying a bottle
with him, said, I got to have breakfast in the morning. And
it looked like he had had breakfast all day that day. But I went
outside after we checked in, sat down, relaxed, smoked my
pipe a little bit before we went into bed. And he came out and
was chatting. after a bit asked me why I was
there and I told him what I was doing. And he said with an angry
scrowl, why are you coming here preaching to us? And I knew he
had been in a fight already because he had a shiner as big as my
fist on his eye there and I didn't want to get involved in anything
like that, but I told him why I was there, preaching the gospel
of God's grace, then asked to come over there. And he paused
a minute and said to me, what do you think about the Roman
Catholic Church? And I thought, well, it's coming.
I said, it's Antichrist. And he looked at me fiercely
angry. I said, don't be too angry. I
said, so is every other religion. that make salvation depend on
you. It's Antichrist. I'm here because
this world is engaged in the practice of Antichrist religion. And this message was born of
that conversation. Christian or Antichrist, that's
my subject. Christian or Antichrist. want you to read several passages
of Scripture with me for this message. Let's begin in 1 John
chapter 2, 1 John chapter 2. I want you to follow with me
through the Scriptures and I want you to see what the Scriptures
say. A fellow who does preaching made
a comment in my presence after I had said something with regard
to the The Gospel of God's Grace, there's folks asking about it.
He said, well, he had to say that, believe in what he does.
Now, you please hear me. I don't have to say anything. I don't have to say anything
because of what I believe. What I preach to you, I show
you every time I preach to you directly from this book. It is not a part of a religious
system. It is not forced on me because
it's logical, because I believe something else. If that's the
case, I urge you, walk out that door and don't ever come in again.
I don't have to say anything. I don't have to say anything.
I wouldn't go across the street, let alone around the world, to
convince an Arminian to become a Calvinist. or to convince a
Methodist to become a Baptist. My interest is in you knowing
God, knowing Jesus Christ, God's Son, believing Him, trusting
Him, being saved by His grace. And what I've got to say to you
comes directly from the book of God. Let's see, 1 John 2,
verse 18. Here the Apostle John is talking
about believers and unbelievers. He's telling us how to distinguish
the one from the other. 1 John 2, verse 18. Little children, it is the last
time. It started with the coming of Christ this last time, this
last time. I know we live in this day of
prophecy nonsense and everybody's concerned about days and weeks
and months and years and trees and bears and signs and wars
and all the stuff prophecy fools get engaged in. This is the last
tick of the clock. This is the last day God speaks
to man, this gospel age. And you've heard, you've been
hearing that antichrist shall come, even now, even now. Now John's writing in the middle
of the first century. Even now are there many antichrists
already going out. They've already gone out, whereby
we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, these
preachers and these believers, these professed believers, these
who said they were part of us. They went out from us, but they
were not of us. For if they had been of us, they
would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out that
they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. but
ye have an unction, an anointing from the Holy One, an anointing
from the Lord Jesus Christ, God's darling Son, God's Christ, the
Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because
you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie
is of the truth. Who is a liar? Who is a liar? But he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ. He is antichrist that denieth
the father and the son. First John chapter four, verse
one. Here the apostle John is talking
about preachers. Specifically, he's talking about
preachers. He shows us how to distinguish true gospel preachers
from false prophets. How to distinguish the servants
of Christ and the servants of Antichrist. First John chapter
one. I'm one of the other. There's
no in between ground. I'm either a servant of God,
the servant of Christ, or I'm the servant of the devil, the
servant of Antichrist. There is no in between ground.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits. You try
what this preacher says and try what you hear any other preacher
says by the word of God, whether they be of God, whether they
are of God, because many false prophets are going out into the
world. Hereby know ye the spirit of
God. This is how you know. This is
how you know when a man's speaking the truth, every spirit, confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every
spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh
is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof
ye have heard that it should come and even now already is
it in the world chapter 5 verse 1 Here God the Holy Ghost assures
us of that which characterizes all who are born of God. All
who have this unction, this anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ by the
Spirit of God. All who know the truth. Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Now that characterizes
every true born child of God. They believe that Jesus is the
Christ. Second John chapter one. Or second
John verse seven. I'm sorry, verse seven. Here
the spirit of God shows us the one thing that identifies and
characterizes all anti-Christ religion. By this one thing,
You can identify all Antichrist religion. For many deceivers
are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist. Now John uses over and over again
this business, this phrase, confessing that Jesus Christ, that Jesus
is the Christ that has come in the flesh. Or denying that Jesus
is the Christ that has come in the flesh. What's he talking
about? What does it mean to deny that Jesus is the Christ? To deny that Jesus is the Christ
is to deny that Jesus of Nazareth actually accomplished all that
God in Holy Scripture in the Old Testament said that Christ
would accomplish. That's what it is to deny that
Jesus is the Christ. It is to deny. that Jesus of
Nazareth, that man who lived in this world for 33 and a half
years and claimed to be the Messiah, that one who was identified by
preaching the gospel to the poor, by healing the lame, the blind,
the halt, causing the dead to be raised up, and that one who
gave life to the dead. He is that one who was crucified
at Calvary. He says, I am the Christ. By this you know it. I fulfilled
all that the law and prophets said. To deny that Jesus is the
Christ is to say he didn't really do everything the prophets said
Christ would do. And you know what? I've never
met a professed Christian who openly said that, have you? I've never met one. But almost
everybody I know who claims to be Christian denies that Jesus
of Nazareth actually did what the prophets said he would do.
They say he tried to do it. They say he offered to do it.
They say he made it possible for it to be done, but they deny
that he did it. What does it mean to confess
that Christ is come in the flesh, that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh? To confess it is to acknowledge
and confess that everything written in the Old Testament regarding
the person and work of the Messiah, the Christ, meet in and was accomplished
and fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth. It is to confess that Jesus of
Nazareth actually accomplished all that God in the Old Testament
Scriptures asserted that the Christ must and would accomplish. What is it then to believe that
Jesus is the Christ? What does that mean? Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ, he's born of God. To believe
that Jesus is the Christ is to trust the crucified man seated
in glory, Jesus Christ the Lord. To trust him alone as my Savior. We are the circumcision which
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. We are in Him who of God has
made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. To confess that Jesus is the
Christ is to believe on Christ thy Savior. God requires righteousness. He's all my righteousness. God
requires holiness, he's all my holiness. God requires atonement,
he's all my atonement. God requires redemption, he's
all my redemption. God requires satisfaction, he's
all my satisfaction. Christ is all to my soul. To believe on the Lord Jesus,
to confess that Jesus is the Christ is to commit your life to commit your entire being to
the Christ of God, who is the King, the woman's promised seed,
the King, the Lord of heaven and earth. That's what faith
in Christ is. You remember in John 2, there
were many who believed on him, but Jesus, we're told, did not
commit himself to them. Same word. He didn't commit himself
to them, because he knew what was in them. Believers. are people who trust in Christ,
bow to Christ, surrender to Christ, give up the rule of their lives
to Christ. And that's the issue, that's
the issue. To confess Christ is to bow to Him. This commitment
of faith, this commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb
of God, the Lord of glory, the entire commitment of my being,
Now in the light of these things, I ask you a question. Is your
religion Christian or Antichrist? Are you Christian or Antichrist? Turn to Daniel chapter 9 and
we'll see. Daniel the 9th chapter. Obviously we cannot in one message
look at everything the Old Testament says Christ must accomplish. But by the things recorded here
in Daniel chapter nine and this one verse, Daniel chapter nine
and verse 24, we see things given here that show us precisely who
the Christ is. There's no question about it.
These things show us exactly who the Christ is and show us
who is Christian and who is anti-Christ. Here's a prophecy concerning
the Christ of God, the Messiah, of whom all the law and prophets
spoke throughout the Old Testament. And here are six things God,
the Holy Ghost, tells us the Christ of God must accomplish. Are you there? Daniel 9, 24.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy
holy city. Number one, to finish the transgression.
Number two, and to make an end of sins. Number three, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity. Number four, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness. Number five, and to seal up the
vision and prophecy. Number six, and to anoint the
most holy. Now in Daniel nine, we have Daniel's
great prayer, which he offered for himself, to the Lord God
and for the children of Israel as he spoke to God in prayer,
confessing the sins of the people, extolling God's greatness, his
majesty as God and seeking his mercy. And then the man Gabriel
appeared to Daniel and assured him of the coming of Christ.
Daniel's praying for God's mercy. And the man Gabriel comes and
stands before Daniel and assures him, mercy is coming. He speaks of Christ Jesus, the
mercy of God. Christ, God's salvation. And
it tells Daniel what the Christ would accomplish. Let's begin
reading in verse 20. Daniel says, and whilst I was
speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God, for the
holy mountain of my God, that is I'm praying, confessing my
sins, the sins of my people, and I'm asking the Lord God to
visit his holy mountain, his church. Yea, whilst I was yet
speaking in prayer, Even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen
in the vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening oblation. Now you
ought to mark that. And he informed me and talked
with me and said, oh Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee
skill and understanding. I'm gonna show you all things.
At the beginning of my supplication, the commandment came forth. At
the beginning of thy supplications, the commandment came forth, and
I am come to show thee, for thou art greatly beloved. Therefore
understand the matter and consider the vision. When God sends his
Spirit to show you and give you understanding in all things by
his Spirit, it is because you're greatly beloved. Now watch what
he told Daniel. 70 weeks are determined upon
thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression,
to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity
and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and
prophecy and to anoint the most holy. Now, let's look at these
six things given. But notice specifically the time
in which this word came to Daniel. It was at the time of the evening
oblation, about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sacrifice
was made every evening. There is an obvious reference
to the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, who at about three
o'clock in the afternoon, After he had cried, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? When he who has made sin for
us was abandoned by God in his wrath, and it was darkness over
the earth for the space of three hours. Then about three o'clock
in the afternoon, he cried, it is finished. And laid down his
life for us, having obtained eternal redemption for us by
the sacrifice of himself. Now, he who saves after this
sort, he is God alone. He who saves after this sort,
he is the Christ and no other can be. All right, let's look
at these six things. First, Gabriel told Daniel that
when Christ appeared, when the Messiah was cut off, crucified
and slain at Jerusalem in the midst of the 70th week, he would,
by the sacrifice of himself, finish the transgression. Finish the transgression. Bring it to a complete stop. Finish the transgression. That's
precisely what our blessed Savior did. When our transgressions
were laid on him and born by him in his own body on the tree,
he carried our transgressions away in the stream of his precious
blood when he made sacrifice and satisfaction for justice
by the sacrifice of himself. Those sins he carried away. Those sins he finished. Shall never be brought up again. Never brought up by God. Rex Bartley, I thank God you
can't forget those transgressions. I pray you can't. God can't remember
them. How come Christ finished the
transgression? What does that mean? You'll understand
when you read the second thing. The Lord Jesus came here in our
flesh to make an end, almost the same word, of sins, transgressions,
transgressions. If you walk up to a property
line, you're out hunting, and you walk up to a property line,
they've got a fence up, and got signs posted every 10 to 20 feet. No trespassing, no trespassing,
no trespassing, no trespassing. And you take you some wire cutters
and cut the fence and walk over there and tear down the sign
and go on anyway. That's transgression. You kicked
over the fence and stepped on property where you don't belong.
That is to deliberately, willfully violate God's law because you're
a rebel, a God-hating rebel. Sins, sins. These are acts of
iniquity, inequity, failure to measure up to God's requirements. The Lord Jesus came here to finish
the transgressions and came here to make an end of sins. And that's what he did. Our dear
Savior abolished our transgressions. I can't think of a word strong
enough to express what scriptures teach. He abolished the sins
of his people forever. When he paid in full the price
of our ransom with his own blood. What does this mean? He made
an end of sins condemnation. He made an end of sin's curse
upon us. He made an end of sin's judgment. He made an end of sin's consequence. He made an end of sin's guilt.
He made an end of sin's death. All these things that come upon
men as the result of sin, when Christ made an end of sins, He
made an end of these things. He made an end of sin. all sins, past, present, and
future. Before they were ever committed,
Christ made an end of sins. Before ever you transgress God's
law, Christ made an end of the sins of all who trust him, of
all his elect, of all for whom he died. He made an end of sins. He made an end of sin's existence. Now, I know I'm talking stuff
that is totally contrary to reason, totally contrary to logic, totally
contrary to any capability of our puny, depraved brains to
get hold of. But while we live, Larry Brown,
with the constant awareness and experience of the corruption
that's in us and done by us, Christ already made an end of
it. He abolished it, he put it away.
Do you remember how Nathan came to David and told him about,
told him that parable, and David said, the man did this thing,
I'll kill him. I'll kill him. Show him who I'm, I'll kill him.
And Nathan said, you're the man. And David said, oh, I have said. And Nathan's next word to David
was, The Lord hath put away thy sin. Oh, God help you now to confess
your sin. And I'm here as God's Nathan
to tell you, as you confess your sin, Christ has made an end of
sin. He put it away. You know he was
manifested, we read in 1 John chapter three, to take away our
sins. and in him is no sin. Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,
came down here and became one of us and he took our sins and
made them his own so that he lifts his head to heaven with
his heart broken and he cries, oh my God, thou knowest my guilt. My iniquities are not hid from
thee. They're more than the hairs of
mine head. They cannot be numbered. And
he being made sin for us was punished until justice wore out
its sword upon him and justice was fully satisfied. And now, He who was buried is raised from
the dead and seated yonder in glory. See him there? In him
is no sin. It's not in him! It's not in
him! Find me some! It's not in him. Are you in him? Are you in Christ? Of Him are you in Christ Jesus. In Christ. God put us in Him. God gave us life in Him. God
put Christ in us. And in Him is no sin. Oh, wonder of wonders, this sinner
rejoices to hear God say, Christ has made an end of sin. No charge can be brought against
us. No curse of the law can reach us. No sentence of the law can
be executed upon us. No punishment can be inflicted
on us. We're entirely and completely saved from all our sins and all
the evil consequences of our sins. When he had by himself
purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. Listen to this. It's written
in Numbers 23, spoken by a man by the name of Balaam, probably
the greatest false prophet who ever lived. And sometimes God
forces false prophets to tell the truth. Balaam said, God hath
not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness
in Israel, The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a
king is among them. He's made us more than conquerors
through Christ Jesus. Surely there is no enchantment
against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.
According to this time, it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel. Oh, what hath God wrought? Oh,
what hath God wrought? He has finished the transgressions
and made an end of sins. Third, back here, Daniel 9, 24.
The Son of God came into this world to save his people from
their sins by making reconciliation for iniquity, by making blood
atonement for iniquity. That's what the word reconciliation
is. Some folks object to the fact that in Romans 5, verse
11, the Apostle Paul writes to us in our King James Translation
and reads, by whom also we have received the atonement. And people
get all bent out of shape. That's an Old Testament word.
The word should be reconciliation. Well, poor souls, they just don't
know any better. The two words are the same. The
two words are the same. Atonement means at one with. At one with. God was in Christ
making the world of his elect at one with himself. Making reconciliation
for the people. Not making the people in themselves
to experience it. That comes in the new birth.
but making His people one with Him. How was that? When He made
His Son to be sin for us and punished Him for our sins. Now,
by blood atonement, we are at one with God through Christ who
is the propitiation, the justice satisfying sacrifice for our
sins. God made the Ark of the Covenant
And they said, Moses, you put that in the Holy of Holies, and
that's where you'll sprinkle blood once a year, the blood
of the Passover lamb, and I will meet you on the mercy seat. I will meet you on the mercy
seat. I'll meet you on the mercy seat
between the cherubs, where the mercy seat, covered with blood,
covers God's broken law, and there God and man meet as one,
and the Shekinah glory of God is revealed. Christ has himself
made reconciliation for our iniquities forth. Our dear Savior came here to
bring in everlasting righteousness for his people, to restore that
which he took not away, by which he magnified the law and made
it honorable. This righteousness is the righteousness
spoken of by the apostle when it says, he who knew no sin was
made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. So that in precisely the same
way that Christ was made sin, You and I who believe God, all
for whom he died, are made the righteousness of God in Christ
and shall be rewarded for righteousness. That means that as Christ really
was made sin, God really makes us righteousness. As Christ being
made sin, fully deserved all the holy fury of God's wrath. We fully deserve all the holy
beauty and bliss of God's goodness, mercy, love, and grace. God's
salvation. As Christ. received what he deserved
because God is just. In Christ, God's elect, his redeemed
ones receive what we deserve because God is just. And we are
justified, justified right with God. I don't know of a better
way to describe that justification than what I've given you in the
past. Here is the right-hand margin.
Used to be I'd write bulletin articles and Shelby would type
them out and I knew exactly how I could write an article. It'd
be one and one-half notebook pages. I remember it well. Wrote
a bunch of them. And Shelby would type them out
and then she would go back and take a straight edge and mark
this side because it'd all come out jagged. It just didn't look
pretty. And she'd count the spaces. And then she'd go back and retype
the thing on a stencil, spacing it out and justify the right-hand
margin. Now all you got to do is hit
control J and it's done. This is what that means. When
you justify the right-hand margin, it's exactly equal to the left-hand
margin. Here's the left-hand margin.
Here's the right-hand margin. See that? Exactly the same measure. Oh, now I got to help you to
hear me. Kid, here is God's holy law, God's righteousness, God's
character, God's demands, God's holiness, God's sanctification,
everything God demands of you. Do you trust the Son of God?
If you do, here you are. Exactly, exactly, exactly equal
to God's requirements. With His spotless garments whole,
I am as holy as God's own Son. This righteousness was earned
by our Savior's obedience, purchased by His blood. It is bestowed
by His grace. It is received by faith. It is
everlasting righteousness. I just got to say this because
I'm warned all the time not to. Preachers who think they're gonna
teach me better. I'm a hard case, I know that. This is righteousness, Mark Henson,
that you can't mess up. This is a robe of righteousness
you can never dirty. This is a robe of righteousness
you can never put a reekle in it. This is a robe of righteousness
on which you will never put a spot. The prodigal son came home to
his father, and his father said, kill the fatty calf, put a ring
on his finger, put shoes on his feet, bring the best robe. Bring a robe better than what
Adam had in the fall. Bring a robe better than the
angels of God are watching this. Bring here the robe, the garments
of salvation, and put it on him. The one I prepared just for him,
just for him. I went over to Logan's in Lexington,
bought this suit years ago, Shelby did. And this, you go over there,
me and Shelby, it's not like going to K-Mart. You go to K-Mart
or Wal-Mart and you find you something, you try it on, you,
nah, don't work, try something else on. That fella walked over
there, pulled this thing off the rack. And he walked over
and put it on me. All I was just standing there
with my arms out, he put it on me. I'm talking about I didn't
even know it was there. He kind of just pushed it up over my
arms, standing there, and put it on me. And there it is. 52 long, perfect fit. because the tailor made some
adjustments, cut the arms a little shorter, tuck in a little bit
here and there, and let some out here and there. But a perfect
fit, made just for me. The robe of God's righteousness,
performed by God's Son. found in God's Son, the Christ
of God is righteousness. He didn't make possible. Righteousness,
he performed and brought in and gives to sinners. Fifth, by his
obedience unto death and his resurrection from the dead, our
Lord Jesus Christ sealed up the vision and prophecy. God wrote so much history in this
book. It begins with, in the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth. And then he starts talking
about the history of creation, and the history of man, and the
fall of man, and man's transgressions, and man's iniquity, and the flood,
and God saving Noah and his family from the flood, and God sending
them forth to replenish the earth, and Noah and his sons replenishing
the earth, Shem, Ham, and Japheth scattering over all the earth,
and the Tower of Babel, The history of the children of Israel under
Jacob going down to Egypt. Joseph in Egypt taking care of
them. All those things. What's that
all about? What's it all about? Redemption by Christ. And then
he talks about Israel coming up out of Egypt. Legends have
been teaching us out of Exodus, their deliverance out of Egyptian
bondage. Going through Canaan 40 years.
All those wars. What's he talking about? Redemption
by Christ. And gave laws to Moses, written
in the books of Exodus and Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Laws that you
look at them and you think, why'd he do that? Why did he require
that sacrifice? Why on this earth did that priest
have to wear those kind of garments? Why did he change clothes when
he went to make sacrifices and change clothes again when he
came back out to bless the people? What's the meaning of that turtle
dove? What's the meaning of that lamb? What's the meaning of that
ox? What's the meaning of that scapegoat? What's the meaning
of that Passover sacrifice? Why that tabernacle? Why that
rather large pup tent? that's not very attractive to
look at, and not anything about it appealing to the flesh. Folks
walk by and say, that's where y'all worship God? What kind
of peanut God must he be? Oh, but they couldn't see anything
inside. It's all glorious within. Everything gold. No place like
it on earth, inside, where the eye couldn't see. What's it all
about? Christ redemption. Salvation by the crucified Christ. And then you read of all the
kings in Israel, the judges in Israel, and their fall and their
rising, their fall and their rising, their fall and their
rising, their fall and their rising. They're brought down
and brought up, cast off and brought in. What's that all about?
Redemption by Christ. And then you read in the scriptures
about that book of wisdom and Proverbs. And that wise, wise
word from the preacher, Ecclesiastes. And that beautiful, beautiful
song of love in the Song of Solomon. And those songs, the hymn book
of God's church. You read those days, oh, what's
that all about? Redemption by Christ? And then
you get to the minor prophets. You got those major prophets
in all the history of Israel, and the minor prophets in the
Babylonian captivity, and all the things involved in that terrible
bondage for 70 years in Babylon. God just uttered desolation to
the temple in Jerusalem, and then the rebuilding of that temple,
and then for 400 years, God didn't speak. Malachi closes up. Figure it out. And nobody figured
anything out. And then the messenger of the
covenant came. The Lord Jesus Christ, and he
said, the spirit of the Lord's on me. He's anointing me to come
tell you it's all done. Here it stands. He finished it. He fulfilled it all. He fulfilled
all the law, all the prophets, all the types, all the commandments,
all the sacrifices, all the ceremonies. Christ did it all. He didn't
just make it possible. He did it. He sealed up division. One more thing. Now watch this.
Here's the sixth thing Christ came to accomplish. 70 weeks
are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish
the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation
for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up
the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. Christ came here to anoint the
most holy. What on earth is that talking
about? Not to anoint the most holy place. People have the idea
that over there in Israel, let's go visit the holy land. I'll
tell you what, I'm fully convinced of. That land over there doesn't
grow grass any better than this land here does. It doesn't smell
any better. It doesn't look any better. It's not holy. land. What idolatry. May as well worship
a stump or be a papist. What idolatry. Holy land. No,
no, no, no. He didn't come here to make that
land holy or to make the temple in Jerusalem holy. He didn't
come to anoint the holy place. He came to anoint the holy people. The holy people, people sanctified
by him, in him, and with him before the world was. People
sanctified by his blood when he brought in everlasting righteousness.
People chosen of God, the most holy people. The people who are
his ransomed ones, God's elect, his church. Poor, ruined, wretched
sinners like you and me, here called the most holy. God Almighty calls us, washed
in Christ's blood, robed in His righteousness, sanctified by
His Spirit, in union with Him, the most holy. Oh rejoice, oh
my soul, this Christ is mine and I'm His. I know because He's
anointed man. I have an unction from the Holy
One. Well, what is that? I read again
this past week about the beginnings of the Pentecostal movement in
this century, and it did begin in this century. It's new. It's a new fabrication, a new
madness, a new insanity, a new religious foolishness. But folks
had the idea that this anointing, oh, this is when you fall down
an aisle, roll around, spit, and slobber, jump up and down,
and dance, and act like an absolute, act like somebody in bed with
them. And then you have some kind of a gibberish and talk,
oh, Brother Don, you ought to talk like that about people.
I'm trying to tell you the truth. I'm trying to warn you of these
perilous times. and I don't know anyway to do
except speak plain. It is just madness, a satanic
delusion. Well, what is this unction then?
What is this anointing? It's expedient for you that I
go away, the Savior said. For if I go not away, the Comforter
will not come. But if I go away, I'll pray the
Father, and he'll send you another Comforter, and when he's come,
he'll convince you of sin. your sin, because you don't believe
me. Read Leviticus chapter four,
the scripture speaks about unknown sins. Somebody please tell me,
when you ever committed an unknown sin? When you were committing adultery,
you knew what it was, didn't you? When you were committing fornication,
you knew what it was, didn't you? When you told a lie, you knew what,
I'm talking about when you're a little boy, you lied to your mama, you
knew what you were doing wrong, didn't you? when you have lust
in your heart. You know what it is, don't you?
Anybody question those things? Who ever committed an unknown
sin? Who? Everybody here, because nobody
had a dream that not trusting Christ is sin. He'll convince you of sin, because
you believe not on me. And when he convinces you of
your sin, you believe him. You find yourself believing.
And of righteousness. Of righteousness, because I've
gone to my father. If I hadn't brought it in, like Daniel said
I did, or I would, I'm not the Christ. I'm not the Messiah. I couldn't go back to my father.
And no judgment. Judgment finished. Because the
prince of this world is judged. Christian or Antichrist, which
are you? This I tell you. Believe on the
Son of God. And you walk out this door Christian. I'm just sick and tired of folks
talking about Christian this and Christian that and Christian
the other. Oh, he's such a fine Christian boy. She's such a fine
Christian girl. Oh, they worship God down there
at that pagan temple or synagogue. They're fine Christians. Fool
yourself with that if you want to. Now, walk out the door trusting
Christ. You walk out the door Christian.
Walk out the door trusting another, your Antichrist. Oh, may God
give you faith in his dear son, this unction from the Holy One,
so that you'll go home knowing everything. It has something,
knowing everything. everything you need to make you
wise unto salvation. Amen.