If you'll turn back with me to
the book of Titus, I want to talk to you a little
bit about what Paul is talking about here, saying to those who
are believers, those in whom the Lord God has done a work
of grace, changed some things. Things have been changed around. I was talking to our folks this
morning about what Peter said. He said, save yourselves from
this untoward generation. If they're untoward something,
they're going the opposite way. They think they're walking in
the right direction, but they're going the opposite direction.
They think they're looking in the right direction, but they're
going the opposite. When God does a work of grace
in a person's heart, they begin to see things the way it is.
They begin to see themselves as the Bible declares they are. They begin to see Christ as God
has set him forth. Not like religion sets him forth,
but like God has set him forth. And salvation is for sinners. That's what Paul's telling these
folks. Search for some of you, he told the Corinthians. And
then here in Ephesians, he said, and for we, in verse 3, for we
ourselves also were sometime foolish. That's why we have compassion. They don't foolish men, because
we ourselves were sometime foolish. Salvation for sinners. Our Lord
said to the Pharisees, the whole had no need of a physician. They
don't have any need of Him. That's why they're not seeking
Me, He said. need not the physician, but they
that are sick." Now, he said, you go learn what this means.
I'll have mercy and not sacrifice. For I'm not come to call the
righteous. I'm not come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. So don't think it strange when
sinners surround me, because that's who I come to call. That's
who I come to save. And the very first work of God
in the soul is to convince the sinner of his sin, to show him
what he is by nature. That's why he's seeking God.
That's why he's seeking Christ, because he sees himself as he
is. Reality has set in now. Now,
he saw himself at one time maybe not as bad as other men. He compared
himself with others. He compared himself with his
neighbors and compared himself with those that are in the newspaper
that you read about every week. Well, I'm not like Charles Manson. I'm not that bad, you know, and
I'm not like this guy down here or this fellow over here. I'm
in pretty good shape compared to them. And have you ever noticed
when men and women compare themselves, natural man, when he compares
himself with others, he always finds those that are way down. And then he goes, I'm not so
bad, you know, compared to them. The first work of God in the
soul is to convince the sinner of his sin. And I'm not talking
about the watermelon he stole one time out of farmer Brown's
passion. I'm not talking about some things
he hid in his lunch bucket and brought home from work. I'm talking
about what he is by nature. God ever revealed to you what
you are by nature? By nature, a child of wrath. That's what he says in Ephesians
2. And he's talking to believers who were saved. Saved men and
women. And he said at that time, at that time, You was a child
of wrath even as others. By nature, by nature. Our nature's like a prison. Did
you ever think of it that way? It's like a prison. Men talk
about free will and free choice and freedom of worship. Man's
not free, he's in bondage. He's in bondage to his nature.
You go down here, these prisoners, they're all free inside the cell. You can walk north, south, east,
and west, but you can only go about 20 feet. That's all the
further you can go, and then you run into a wall. You can't
go any further. Most of those jail cells just
have one window. You can just see one direction.
That's the soul. The very nature of man is a prison
house. And he's free within the confines
of his nature. He can walk all around in his
imprisonment, but he can't break free. He can't break free. He's not free. He's in bondage.
He's free only within the confines of his nature. And like a prisoner
in a cell, he can go this way a little bit and then that way
a little bit. He can change direction, he just can't go very far away.
You've seen men change direction, you've seen them change their
habits and change this and change that, but they don't go very
far with it. They can't. They're confined within their
nature, and in that cell there's just one window, but it's filled
with darkness. Our Lord said, if that light,
that word is window, if that window that's in you be darkness,
how great is that darkness? If you've just got one way to
look out and everything you see out there is darkness, then how
great is that darkness? Being in this nature of sin,
there's none righteous. None. I don't care what you do.
There's none righteous. There's none that understandeth.
There's none that seeketh after God. There's none that doeth
good. Destruction and misery are in their ways. They're all
gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable.
But no fear of God before their eyes. You hath equipped them
who were dead in trespasses and sins, and you walked according
to the course of this world. You walked according to the Prince
of the power of the air, the Spirit. that now worketh in the
children of disobedience, among whom we all had our conversation,
our behavior in times past, in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others, bound in chains of darkness."
That's where the angels are. Those angels that sinned against
God, for whom no mercy was ever given. No way of escape was ever
given. No Redeemer ever provided. Those
angels, he tells us over in the book of Jude, are reserved in
chains of darkness unto everlasting damnation. And I'm telling you this, you
can sit and talk to a fish. We went out to a seafood place
the other night, and up in the front they had an aquarium. And
those little kids were talking to those fish. But none of them
fish answered anything he said. They just sat there. You know
how they pucker their little mouth and swim around. And that's
all the sinner does. He don't hear what you're saying.
He just keeps right on puckering his little mouth and swimming
around in his depravity. He can't hear what you're saying
about the grace of God. He can't hear what you're saying
about these things until God gives him ears. And what it takes
to turn this man, what it takes to do this work in this man is
a new creation. He has to be given the very life
of God. That's what's going to change
him. Then he's going to hear what you say. Then he's going
to have some things to say to you. Then God's going to show
him some wisdom. Bound up in His nature. Walking
the same course that every son of Adam walks. He's a sinner
by nature and He cannot of His own power escape from His prison. And when Christ announced His
appointment as a preacher, listen to what He said. He said, I come
to preach deliverance to the captives. Not to the free people. To the captives. Captives. I come to set the captives free. Old Noah preached to the spirits
in prison. Isn't that what the Bible said? Spirits in prison, locked up. Oh, if you can see yourself bound
in the nature of sin, unable to break free from its chains,
you'll cry out to God and you'll despise yourself. You'll despise
yourself. You can't break free. You can't
change I told them this morning, those of them that were raised
in religion and raised for all they're doing and going and talking
and sacrificing and all that they did, they had no peace.
No real peace. No lasting peace. They had no
hope before God. It takes a work of God in you. And when He does that work, you'll
cry out. He'll show you what you are.
You'll hate yourself. You'll hate yourself. Our Lord
said, no man can serve two masters. He'll either hate the one and
love the other, or else he'll hold to the one and despise the
other. Paul cried out, O wretched man
that I am. You think about that. We're talking
about an apostle of Jesus Christ. We're talking about a man who
was not one whit behind the chiefest of the apostles. And this man
crying out to God, old wretched man, not that I used to be, but
I am. Sin is a nature. And it permeates
our mind and our thoughts and our motives and our affections. And sin, it's a nature. Paul
said, for I know that in me dwelleth no good thing. Sin is a nature,
and sin, when it's finished, bringeth forth death. Spiritual
death, physical death, everlasting death. Have you ever been brought
by the Spirit of God to see yourself as you are? Titus 3, verse 3, For we ourselves
also were sometimes foolish, Disobedient, deceived, serving
divers lusts and pleasures, and living in malice and envy, hateful,
just hateful, and hating one another. That's where God finds
the sinner. He finds him where he is, in
the hogwallow. He finds him in his foolishness.
We ourselves were sometimes foolish. Foolishness. How do you recognize
foolishness? Well, the preaching of the cross
to them who perish is foolishness. All these things. We come here
and worship God and we sing these hymns and we pray. We close our
eyes and we pray to a God that we can't see and nobody else
can see. And we talk to Him about saving
us and saving our relatives and saving our loved ones and saving
our neighbors. And we talk to Him about saving
His elect. We talk to Him about preserving
us and all these things. And here sits the natural man,
and to him it's foolishness. It's just foolishness. The natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. It's foolishness
unto him. Preaching's foolish. You mean
you drive all the way over Mississippi to preach? Yeah, I sure do. Boy, that's foolishness, is it? Is it? It is to those who are perishing,
foolishness. Listen to this, the fool has
said in his heart, there is no God. Now that's not talking about
an atheist here. Let me read this to you the way
it reads in the original. The fool has said in his heart,
no God for me. God's not going to reign over
me. God's not going to decide my destiny. I'll decide mine. But isn't that exactly what Satan
said in his heart? God told him that his son was
going to sit on the throne over the kingdom. And he said, oh,
no. He said, I'll sit. I'll sit over
here. Not a man. Not a man. I'm the prince of angels. I'll
sit in that seat. No, you won't. No, you won't. The fool has said in his heart,
no God for me. Fools despise wisdom, Solomon
said. Fools make a mock of sin, David
said. God finds His people where they
are in their foolishness. Professing salvation in a decision,
that's foolishness. Professing salvation in an experience,
that's foolishness. Professing salvation by their
works, that's foolishness. Professing salvation by an act
of their will, that's foolishness. Foolishness. We ourselves were
sometimes foolish, ignoring the Word of God, ignoring the means
of God, and ignoring the messenger of God. It's just foolishness.
That's where God finds His people. And disobedience, He said. That's
the story of every believer's life, just disobedience. God found him in disobedience.
Disobedience defines our whole past, does it not? And then he
says we're deceived. One time we were just like that.
We were foolish and we were disobedient and we were deceived. All the
unregenerate men and women are deceived. Listen to them talk
about God. They don't know who God is. They've
got God changing His mind. They've got God compromising
His nature. They've got God showing mercy
to sinners upon request without any act of propitiation whatsoever. They've got a God who's not all
wise. He gets taken by surprise every
week. Well, he didn't know this was
coming. That changes everything. No, God's unchangeable. Deceived. Paul said sin, taken occasion
by the very commandment of God, deceived me. Satan deceived him,
made him to believe that this commandment of God, that he could
keep it, and in the keeping of it, he could be righteous. It
deceived him. Sin convinces us that we can
produce a righteousness by our own obedience to the law, and
when it does, it deceives us, and just like Paul, it slays
us. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived. God found us exactly where we
were, deceived. And then fourthly, He found us
serving divers' lusts and pleasures. What's He talking about there?
Sexual perversions? Possibly, but not altogether. He's just talking here about
the love of pleasure. The love of pleasure. You know,
I get pleasure out going to the lake, don't you? Sure you do. You get pleasure out of fishing.
I get pleasure out of this, pleasure out of that. But I don't serve
those things. But I did at one time. I did
at one time. I lived for those things, man.
Oh, I wanted to go do that. That's how I want to spend my
every waking moment. Out on the lake, out in the park,
up on the hill, hunting, fishing. Serving divers lust and pleasure. I work with men who go down to
the bars on Friday night and spend a whole week's wages on
Friday night. Saturday morning broke, no money
to buy food for the family. Serving, divers, pleasures. And then the same thing can be
said of a man who's deceived, who finds his pleasure in religion,
who lives for it. It's like a drug to him. He has
to have it. And then fifthly, he said, we
live in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. Miserable
wretches, every one of us. Every one of us. But by the restraining hand
of God, we've been worse off than we were. Isn't that right? Sure it is. Prevenient grace. Grace going before grace. Oh,
my soul. Of Him, John said, have we all
received. And grace for grace. That's provenient grace. Do you
know, provenient grace is all that God did to bring you to
Christ. That's provenient grace. That's
all those things. The working of His providence.
The working in the heart of that preacher, the preparing his messages
in his study. I don't know who I'm going to
preach to when I come over here. There's familiar faces in here
that I see about every time I come over here, but occasionally there's
some strange faces here. I don't know who I'm going to
preach to. And I try to let the Lord pick out my text and try
to be by Him guided in what to preach
over here when I come over here to preach because I don't know
who I'm going to preach to. Grace before grace. God does
these things on purpose and He does these things because He
knows who His people are. Now, I know who they are When
that work's done in their heart, and I can begin to see some things
like Paul, I can have a good hope through grace. I can have
a hope that I know your election of God by different things that
you do. But till then, I don't know who he's elected on. But
he does. He does, and he works things
around, and oh, we just hang our, oh, I can't imagine. Why
would that happen to him? Happened on purpose. That's why
it happened to him. I was telling them this morning,
those old Jews despised Christ. They despised God. They were
ungodly men. They were the enemies of God.
And what did God do with them? Did that slow down His purpose
of grace and saving His children? Not one bit. He just used it. They went and found that harlot
in the very alley and took her. Took her out of that room. Where
did they take her? Right down to the feet of Christ. It didn't slow Him up one bit.
He just used that stage. And He does. He uses ungodly
men to accomplish His purpose. Those very men who despised Him
and went around and tried to get all Israel to vote for Him
to be crucified and stood there and yelled out, Crucify Him!
Crucify Him! He tells you right over there
in Acts chapter 4 that they did what God's hand and God's counsel
determined before to be done. It didn't slow Him up one bit.
He just used them. Prevenient grace. Now look here
at verse 4. Titus chapter 3 verse 4. But
after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man
appeared. When was that? When did the kindness
and love of God toward men appear to you? In the preaching of the
gospel. Isn't that something? When it
appeared. Here you were using foolish, deceived, hateful, hating
one another, envious, all these things just like everybody else.
But, but, after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward
man appeared, when God burdened a man's heart
to preach it, When the Holy Spirit gently led you to hear it and
affectionately applied it to your heart, not by works of righteousness,
which we've done. That's not why He did it. But
according to His mercy, He saved us by the washing of regeneration
and the renewing of the Holy Ghost. And that's what I want
to talk to you about tonight. I want to talk to you this evening
for just a little while about the work of the Holy Spirit of
God. And there's five things that
are taught in these four verses about the work of the Holy Spirit,
and I'll just be brief on them. First of all, his work begins
with a revelation of the kindness and love of God toward doomed
and damned sinners. You'll never learn anything until
you learn you're sinners. But as soon as He convinces you
a sinner, just as soon as He convinces you a sinner, He'll
reveal to you. You'll cry out, and when you
do, He'll reveal to you that love of God, that kindness of
God, that long-suffering of God. Peter talked about that with
salvation, that long-suffering. You know what that word means?
Putting up with. God put up with us because His
intention is to save us. A race not running around free,
waiting for some distant judgment to bring upon them this judgment
of God. But in Romans 5.18, it said,
by the offense of one, judgment came. It's already come. Already
come. Condemned all men to condemnation. By one man, sin entered into
the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all
men. And if left to ourselves, we'll all perish. If left to
ourselves, we'll not see life, but the wrath of God will abide
on us. When the angels, which kept not
their first estate, left that habitation, God reserved them
an everlasting chance. No representative, no high priest,
no mediator, no gospel, no regeneration, nothing but darkness, just chains
of darkness. But toward man, toward man, In
the midst of man's peril, in the midst of his darkness and
dooms, came a man. Came a man, a promised man. A
man, but more than a man. He was the God-man. He took not
on Him the seed of angels, but the seed of Abraham. When the
fullness of the time was come, God's time, Paul said, He came
forth made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were
under the law. He didn't come to judge. Man
was already judged. He came to save. He came not
to condemn, but to save, to preserve as a man. Let me tell you something. When you condemn somebody, you
don't have to become a man. He could have stayed in glory
and condemned man. He did after all that. But he can't save man that way.
To save man, he must become a man. He must become a man. And He
came to save. He came to establish a righteousness
for those who could not produce one of their own. He came to
put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. He came to redeem
those who had a debt they couldn't pay. And His appearance gave
hope to the hopeless. And so it is that He's revealed
to the sinner in the Gospel. He's like a light out of darkness.
That's how He is to the sinner. When the Holy Ghost works within,
He brings to chosen sinners the manifestation of the kindness
and love of God to the unloved. The sinner can hardly believe
it. He can hardly believe his ears. You mean God loved me? You mean God chose me? How can
that be? That song we sang, and can it
be? Huh? Can it possibly be that the Lord
of glory came down here and suffered all that he suffered for me?
He can hardly believe his ears. He reads it in the Word of God,
and he sees it, and he hears it from the preacher, but it's
just so hard to believe. So hard to believe. Oh, by an eternal union with
His Son, He quickened us together with Christ while we were yet
dead in trespasses and sin, and raised us up together with Him,
and made us sit together with Him in the heavens, already possessing
life in Him. And He did that that in the ages
to come, this is Ephesians chapter 2, that in the ages to come He
might show the exceeding riches of His grace, now listen, in
His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. And then secondly,
the Holy Spirit of God teaches us that salvation is not by works. Listen to this, Titus 3, 5, not
by works of righteousness. which we have done, but according
to His mercy He saved us. The work of God, the Holy Spirit,
is not brought about as the result of something we do. I was taught
that when I was a child growing up in Nazarene religion. They
taught me that if I do this, God will do that. If I draw near
to Him, He'd draw near to me. And they were telling me all
this thing with no mediator. They weren't telling me anything
at all about the work of Christ. just talking to me about my work,
my work, what I could accomplish, what I could do. The work of
God the Holy Spirit is not brought on us as a result of something
we do. It's brought on us in spite of
what we do. The work of God the Holy Spirit
is not brought about as a result of something we do. It's 100%
by the free and sovereign grace of God. And our Lord said, you're
going to learn what that means. I'll have mercy, not sacrifice. Man in his natural state has
a mind which is enmity against God. He receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God, their foolishness to him. Man in this kind of condition
cannot produce anything which God will accept. God the Holy
Spirit comes Strictly according to His mercy and grace. By grace
are you saved through faith. That's how that faith got there,
by the grace of God. By the grace of God, you heard
the truth. By the grace of God, you were
convinced in your heart of your sin, convinced in your heart
of the righteousness of God, convinced in your heart that
judgment satisfied. By grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. And then thirdly, his work results
in a washing and a renewing. What is this washing? It's a
cleansing of nature. That's what it is. It's a cleansing
of nature. Everything in this old nature
is filthy. Listen to the Scriptures. Isaiah
said, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rag. We're filthy. Filthy before God. False prophets preach for filthy
lucre. He said they're vexed with the
old block went down into Sodom and was vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked. And then old Job said, Behold,
he putteth no trust in his saints, yea, the heavens are not clean
in his sight. How much more abominable and
filthy is man who drinketh iniquity like water. Filthy. Filthy. Oh, he said, what is
man that he should be clean? The washing of regeneration is
the birth of a new man within. And just as that old man dictated
all that you thought and all that you said and all that you
did, so this new man of grace overcomes the old and he washes
away those old thoughts. And he instills the truth in
their place. I had a Jehovah's Witness. It's
not an unusual thing. They come by here so often. But
this guy came by and he said, he didn't tell me who he was.
He just had a little pamphlet, you know, and a little picture
on the front of Christ and a sheep or something and a shepherd there.
And he handed it to me and he said, we're having a meeting
down at Civic Center Saturday. He said, we'd appreciate it if
you'd come. And I opened the thing up and looked, and I saw
Jehovah's Witnesses. And I closed the back, handed
it back to him. I said, I'm not interested. He said, you're not
interested in the Word of God? I said, oh, yeah, I'm very interested
in the Word of God. Well, you're not interested in
salvation? I said, oh, I've got a lot of
interest in salvation. But I said, let me tell you something.
I've been studying this book for 30 years. And I don't believe
what you preach, not any of it. Not a single point of it. I don't
believe anything that you preach. And I don't want to hear what
you've got to say. And I don't want the people I
pastor to hear what you've got to say. And I don't want my unsaved
neighbors even to hear what you've got to say. And I don't want
to debate about it. I'm not going to argue about
it. And I'm not trying to be rude. But please leave. I'm not
interested. Twenty-some years ago, I might
have thought a little different. I might have said something a
little different. I might have been kind to him. I might have
invited him into the house and sit down and discuss things for
a little while. But since then, there's been a washing. You follow
what I'm saying? All these old ideas and philosophies
and all these old junk that was in your head through religion,
this new man washes that. This regeneration washes that. He said, I'll put a new heart
in them. I'm going to fix the old one.
I'm going to take the old stony heart out. I'm going to give
him a heart of flesh. He'll know me. Oh, he'll know
my law in his heart. He'll know it and love it. Our
Lord put it this way, when a strong man armed keepeth his palace,
his goods are at peace. But when a stronger than he shall
come upon him and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor
wherein he trusteth. and divideth his fault. He takes
it away. That's that washing. That's that
renewing of the Holy Ghost. And when the Holy Ghost comes,
He creates within us a new man, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And this new man gives us a new
mind. We have the mind of Christ. That's
what Paul said. Oh, wretched man that I am, who
shall deliver me? Who shall deliver me? Oh, but
he said we have the mind of Christ. I ain't got that old mind anymore.
I have the mind of Christ, and I have a new heart, a heart to
love Him and trust Him and worship Him and sing His praise. John
said, greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world. If greater is He that's in you
than he that's in the world, then you ought to see more of
Him that's in you than you do of Him that's in the world, shouldn't
you? Doesn't that make sense? There's a washing, there's a
renewing. There's a washing of worldly principles and philosophy,
a washing from worldly religion and ungodly doctrines, a washing
of habits and fellowship with Christ and His people. There's
a washing, there's a renewing that takes place, giving us new
and clear and true revelations of ourselves and of our God. And then fourthly, when the Holy
Ghost comes, He shows us Clearly the means. Look here in verse
6 of Titus chapter 3. Here's the means, which He shed
on us abundantly through Christ Jesus. Being justified freely
by His grace, listen, through the redemption that's in Christ
Jesus. That's over in Romans chapter
3, I think, verse 24. It's not just the Holy Ghost
coming that washes and renews. It's the Holy Ghost revealing
Christ to the heart. He said when the comforters come,
He's not going to speak of Himself. He's not going to glorify Himself.
He's going to take the things of mine, and He's going to show
them unto you. You find a church out here somewhere
with apostolic on its sign, and they're jumping around talking,
the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost. They don't know
the Holy Ghost. Find a church over here that's
preaching Christ who has nothing to say but Christ. He preaches
Christ every time he gets up. That's where the Holy Ghost is.
Because He'll speak of me, Christ says. He won't speak of me. He'll glorify me. Because it's
in the purpose of God that He be preeminent. And both the Father
and the Holy Ghost are going to glorify the Son. And in glorifying
Him, they're glorifying themselves. It's not just the Holy Ghost
coming and washing and renewing, but it's the Holy Ghost revealing
Christ to the heart. It's not just preaching that
fulfills the Word of God, but the preaching of Christ crucified.
And I'm going to tell you something, a man can't be washed and renewed
by the Spirit of the living God except through Jesus Christ our
Savior. That's how He does it. If He
ever does a work, that's how He's going to do it. He'll do
it in Christ. He said, if we have received
Christ Jesus the Lord over in Colossians, He said, now walk
in Him that same way. Walk in Him. And then fifthly,
He declares here the end of the work. Verse 7, that being justified
by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life. And I'm telling you this, nothing
cleanses the soul like the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ. He said,
if we walk in the light as He is the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us
from all sin. And nothing cleanses the soul,
nothing washes the man like that substitutionary work of Jesus
Christ. He said, I come to do Thy will,
O God. In the volume of the book, he
said, it's written to me. By the which will we're sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And by that one offering He hath perfected forever them that are
sanctified. Are you listening? Here's the
next verse after those. That was verse 10 and verse 14,
Hebrews chapter 10. But listen to this verse. Nobody
ever quotes this. Here is the verse that follows
that. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness unto us. What does he witness? That one
sacrifice. Who does he talk about? He talks
about that man in whom the whole book was written. That he came
to do the will of God. The Holy Ghost reveals that to
our heart. And in so doing, we are washed.
We are washed. And we're renewed. Old things
have passed away and behold, all things have become new. Back
there, Your Honor, we didn't have any hope. We didn't have
just, I hope, I hope, I hope. That's not the hope of the Bible.
But we have a good hope through grace. Our hope is in Christ.
Christ in you. The hope of glory. We didn't
have any hope back then, but God renewed us and now we have
a hope. And that's my hope for every
sinner. Everybody I preach to ever hear that assembles to hear
me preach, that's my hope. God will do a work in him. God's
Spirit will renew him and wash him and change him. And if he
ever does, I don't care how simple you preach, he'll understand
what you're saying. God will give him an understanding
and he'll understand. I've got children in our church
who understand what I'm saying. And they go back to the school
and these coaches and different people that are religious and
try to mix that stuff into the sports and stuff, they say, whoa,
wait a minute. No, we don't believe that. I don't want to do that.
I don't want to be partaker of that. No, y'all go ahead. Y'all go ahead. And most of the
time, they'll quote them scriptures and those guys will just be standing
there babbling. They don't know what to say.
Where did this little kid learn that? That's when the Lord gives you
an understanding. That's what that is. That's an
understanding. God help us, you and me both,
to see these things, believe these things, and embrace the
Lord Jesus Christ.