It is good to be with you again
this morning. Good to see your faces. I cherish friends, especially
old friends. Brother Allen Rowe and his wife
Betty have been friends for a long, long time. They probably wouldn't
want me to tell you they were around back when the United States
was first founded. They've been friends for a long
time. They've driven down from Sydney. Their son and daughter-in-law
brought them down. And it's so good to see you again.
So good to see you. This is life eternal. This is life eternal. Anything other than this is not
life eternal. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou
hast sent. Life eternal is to know God. Life eternal is to know God. To know Jesus Christ, the sent
one of God, who has fulfilled all that was written in the scriptures
concerning the accomplishment of redemption by the Messiah,
the Christ, the sent one of God. This is life eternal. that they
might know thee the only true God, the only true God and Jesus
Christ whom thou hast sent. Now I want you to seriously,
oh God help you, to seriously consider this question. Do you
know God? Do you know God? Read it. Read it. Do you know God? What is it about
God that distinguishes him as God? What sets him apart from
all the imaginary deities of men recorded in the annals of
history, the imaginary deities of men that today gather in various
places and pretend to worship God? What is it that separates
God from all creatures and all creation, identifying him alone
as God? The only true God. I stand before
you today either as the messenger of God or the messenger of the
devil, and there's no in-between ground. I've either come to you
with a message from God in heaven or a message from hell from Satan
himself. There is no in-between ground.
That is true of every man who stands to speak to eternity bound
men and women in the name of God. Our Savior said, he that
is not with me is against me. There's no in-between ground.
It is written. Woe is unto me if I preach not
the gospel. In another place the apostle
says, though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be forever damned. Let him be accursed. If I don't
preach the gospel, the gospel that Paul preached, The gospel
that Peter preached, the gospel that the Lord Jesus preached,
the gospel that Moses preached. If I don't preach the gospel,
a curse hangs upon my head. That puts me in a position of
awesome responsibility. If I don't preach the gospel,
a curse hangs over my head. No wonder the old prophets spoke
about the message they carried and the responsibility of delivering
it as the burden of the word of the Lord. God's servants,
our brother mentioned to us last night, are set upon the walls
of Zion as watchmen over the souls of men. Watchmen responsible
for the welfare of the city. They're responsible for the faithful
instruction of eternity bound men and women in the way of life
and salvation by Christ. As we hear the word from God's
mouth, so we must speak to the law and to the testimony. This book. to the law and to
the testimony. If they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. We must add nothing to it, we
must take nothing from it, we must not seek to adorn it, we
must not try to find a way to make men like it, but rather
it is written, he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. He who dares stand in this place
to speak to you, who soon must meet God face to face, must be faithful to God's word,
to God's glory, to your souls, to the truth of God. Faithfully
declaring the word for the glory of God, faithfully proclaiming
the gospel, I call on you who hear me, hear me now, and who
will hear me tomorrow, and who will hear me when I've gone back
to the United States and you listen to messages that you get
by whatever means. I call on you who hear my voice. You compare everything I say
with this book. Everything I say. Everything
I say. If what I say is not according
to what's written in this book, don't hear me again. Do not listen
to me. You do so at the peril of your
own soul. And if what I say is according
to this book, don't hear someone who speaks contrary to it. You
do so to the peril of your souls. This is not an optional thing. We're not here to build up the
Baptist Church, or to build up Reformed folks, or to build up
Calvinistic folks. I'm here to cause you, by the
preaching of this book, to know God. This is life eternal! That they might know Thee, the
only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. And I make
you this promise. That which I preach to you, that
which I proclaim to you now, tomorrow, or any other day, is
that which God Himself has inscribed upon my heart in the experience
of His grace. I don't come here with theories
and notions and ideas and thoughts. I don't come and offer you my
opinion about something. I don't come to tell you what
I think about something. I come here with that which God
Almighty has taught me in the sweet, blessed experience of
His grace. And I ask you who know God to
pray as you hear the word that He may speak through this empty,
dirty pipe, to your heart by the power of His Spirit, and
to the hearts of these here who do not know God. Oh, Spirit of
God, come upon us today. Speak by Your Word to these immortal
souls with life-giving power in the knowledge of God. This is life eternal, that they
may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou
hast sent. I don't care about getting you
to make a profession of faith. You will have no pressure put
on you to make a decision for Jesus. You will have no pressure
put on you to join this church to be baptized. You will have
no one to ask you to fill out a form so we can call you tomorrow
and see if we can't get you to sign up with our group. It's
not going to happen. I want you to know God. I want you to know God. There
are certain things about God's character We call them the attributes
of God. Certain divine attributes that
distinguish God as God. Certain things that everyone
recognizes to be true of God. Without any of these things,
he is not God. Take away any one of them, and
he's not God. God is spirit. God doesn't have
a body. He said, whenever the Scriptures
talk about the eyes of the Lord, or the heart of God, or the mind
of God, or the hand of the Lord, or the arm of the Lord, all of
those things are simply human terms by which God condescends
to make Himself known to human beings. And all of those things
are made manifest and revealed in the God-Man, Christ Jesus
the Lord. The God Spirit, incomprehensible,
eternal Spirit. So that God has no material parts. He can't be affected by anything
outside himself. He's God. God is spirit. God
the spirit is holy. He's wise. He's good. Everyone by nature understands
that. God is holy. God is wise. God is good. The Word of God plainly declares
so. To suggest that God is not holy is to deny His being. To
deny Him being God. To suggest that God is not wise,
infinitely wise, in deep wisdom itself, is to deny that He's
God. To suggest that God is not good. Good in all his being,
good in all he does, good in all he purposes is to deny that
he's God. God is omnipotent, omniscient,
omnipresent, all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere present at one time.
God never learned anything and never forgot anything. God is
omniscient. God doesn't go anywhere. He is
everywhere. God doesn't have ability. He is omnipotence. All power is His. All power is His. Any power you
have, any wisdom you have, any abilities you have are derived
by divine gift from God Almighty. Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. God is just. He can't do wrong. He's true. He cannot lie. He's faithful. He cannot contradict
himself. He cannot deny himself. God is
love. God is merciful. He delighteth
in mercy. God is gracious. God is long-suffering. God is forgiving. Oh, what wonderful,
wonderful characteristics, descriptions of God. But these characteristics
of God, these attributes of His being, these characteristics
of His nature, are things that all religious people, to one
degree or another, recognize and understand. They're things
that all the religious world applauds. Everybody. Catholic,
Baptist, Buddhist, not where I'm thinking about the Buddhists,
forget that. Mormons, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, They were all
recognized. These saints are so. These are
true attributes of God. And they'll sing, oh how I love
Jesus. And they'll sing, a mighty fortress
is our God. And they'll sing amazing grace.
Sometimes they'll have tears in their eyes when they sing.
But there is another attribute of God. One that few people have
any understanding of. But this attribute of God is
that by which God most commonly, throughout the scriptures, identifies
himself. This one attribute of God that
most people have never heard of. Well, they sort of heard
the terms, but they had no comprehension of it. That this is the thing
when God says, beside me there is no God. To whom will you liken
me? How are you going to compare
any of your little peanut gods to me? The one attribute of God
that stands out above all others, that God uses throughout the
scriptures to identify himself as God alone, is absolute sovereignty. Absolute sovereignty. Read Isaiah
chapter 40 and go right on through into chapter 54 and hear how
God identifies himself. Over and over and over and over
and over and over again, he declares, I am God. And beside me there
is none else. I make light and I create darkness. I make peace and I create evil. I the Lord do all these things. I am God. And anything that doesn't
create light and make peace, create peace or make light and
darkness and create peace and create evil is not God. I'm God. I have all power, all
control, all sovereign, absolute dominion over all things in heaven
above, in the earth beneath, and in hell beneath the earth.
You mean, preacher, God rules everywhere all the time? Nothing ever comes to pass except
by God's decree, God's will, God's pleasure. Let's see if
this is what the book says. Turn to Psalm 115. Psalm 115.
He who truly is God is totally sovereign. The God
of the Bible, the one true and living God. The God we worship,
trust and love. The only God anyone will ever
worship. The only God anyone will ever
worship, I mean worship, you fall down before Him and kiss
His feet like a whipped dog kisses the hand of his master. The only
God anyone will ever worship is God on His throne. If He's not on His throne, He's
not God. Psalm 115, verse 1. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truth's
sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? Where is now their God? I recall
as a young man shortly after God saved me, I was in a church
building, and the church had for years had a painting on the
back, behind the back of the street, one of these paintings
of that little, you know, light in the loafers, effeminate looking
thing they call Jesus. And there was a fellow visiting
with us from India, an Indian, sitting beside a friend of mine
who had asked him to come to church, and he looked up and
said, oh, that's your God. And Charles understood immediately,
this thing needs to come back. Where is now your God? I can
see my God, see him hanging on the wall. I can see my God, see
him on this dick. I can see my God, see him in
my pocket. I can see my God, where's your God? Where's your
God? But our God is in the heavens. What's this? He hath done. Oh, bless His holy name. He hath done whatsoever He hath
pleased. Look back over all of history. As far back as your mind will
carry you. As far back as the records from
all accounts given from in the beginning. He hath done whatsoever
he hath pleased. Simon, that's our God. That's
our God. Look at Psalm 135. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye
the name of the Lord, praise Him, O ye servants of the Lord,
ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the
house of our God. Praise the Lord, for the Lord
is good. Sing praises unto His name, for
it is pleasant. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob
unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. For I
know that the Lord is great, that our Lord is above all gods. How come? How can you say that
David? How can you say the Lord's great?
How can you say He's above all gods? How can you say that Dagon
and Ashtaroth and Baal and all the stumps and the Jesuses and
the spirits and the gods that people call gods, how do you
know your God's above all gods? Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that did He in heaven. and in earth, in the seas, and
in all deep places. There's nothing that has ever
breathed or wiggled in heaven, earth, or hell that does not
breathe and wiggle exactly according to God's will. Exactly according
to God's will. I want to know the will of God,
read the paper. Read the paper. We were talking this morning
at the breakfast table about this buffoon we have in the White
House in the United States. And I'm choosing my words as
delicately as I possibly can to describe the man. And I made the statement, he's
God's devil. And when God's done with him,
he'll take him off his position of power. Now I don't like him,
but he's God's devil. And I will live with perfect
peace within me where God's put him. God put him there. God put
him there. Contrary to my will. Contrary
to what I know to be that which is morally, ethically, politically,
socially right for the nation. Is that the right answer? I know. I know it's all contrary to no
sense. Everything the man's done, everything
he has in mind is totally contrary to everything that is morally,
politically right for freedom. I know that. But it's best for
you. And it's best for me. God does what he will with everybody
all the time. What's his will? Whatever has
been, is, and shall be. That's his will. Whatever has
been, is, and shall be. That's his will. Lucifer said,
I will exalt my throne to the throne of He huffs and puffs and tries
to blow God's house down. And the Lord God says, oh no,
what am I going to do? No. Do you remember what God's
response is? This is the purpose that is purposed
in all the earth. This is the purpose that is purposed
in all the earth. My Heavenly Father controls the
thoughts of your puny brain. And it doesn't matter whether
your name is Satan, or your name is God, or your name is Satan. My Heavenly Father controls the
thoughts of your puny brain. Doesn't matter whether you are
His creature in heaven, His creature in the earth, or His creature
in hell. My Heavenly Father controls the
thoughts of your puny brain. And you cannot even think, let
alone do, what He has not ordained. Now if that won't sail your boat
through troubled waters, I don't know what will. My father rules
you. My father rules this universe. I'm just a man. Just a puny piglet
like you. Just a man. But I'm gonna tell
you something. If that woman right there, or
my daughter, or my son-in-law, or either of my two grandchildren,
if they thought, if I could somehow convince them that everything
is under my control, everything. I mean everything. I mean, you
can't even cross your legs like that in a cycle. Cross them for
you. If I can convince them, if I can convince them, let's
live in peace all the rest of their lives. Cause they know I'll give them
nothing but good. Now hear me, sons and daughters
of God Almighty. Our Father sets on His throne
and nothing in hell moves but by His decree. Nothing on earth
but by His decree. Nothing in heaven but by His
decree. Brother Don, do you really believe
that? Whatsoever the Lord pleased. That did he in heaven and in
earth, in the seas and in all deep places. Anything less is
not God. Anything less is not God. If what you call God, I don't
care what name you use. I don't care if you call Him
Adonai or Jehovah or Jesus or the Holy Spirit. I don't care
what name you use. If your thoughts of God are beneath
total sovereignty, your thoughts of God are atheism. Your thoughts
of God are but idolatry. God rules. And a God who doesn't
rule is not God. It's just a religious good luck
charm. Do you folks have rabbit foots
down here? Most people, when I was growing
up here, they had little rabbit's foot. Now they didn't really
believe in rabbit's foot. They didn't really believe in
rabbit's foot. But if tough things come around, it's if I'm reaching
pocket full of rabbit's foot. Now, you don't really think something
worship rabbit's foot, do you? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hell, no. That's how most people use God.
God is for them nothing but a good luck charm just in case really
there is such a thing as heaven and hell. I'll do the best I
can to get myself lined up in the right order of things and
if things get going tough, then I'll pray to God. I'll pull up
my rabbit's foot and I'll go to church and I'll read my Bible
and I'll say my confessional and I'll repent of my sins and
I'll join the church. The God of this generation no
more resembles God than the rabbit's foot. Folks carry it in their
pockets. Just as useless. For he's in control of nothing
and in control of no one. Not the God of this book. When
I assert that God is sovereign, I'm simply declaring he's God.
The Almighty, He has the right and the power, the authority
because He's God to do what He will, when He will, with whom
He will, as He sees fit, and He always does. Modern religion is well described
by the Lord God when He says, they pray unto a God that cannot
save. The God of this apostate religious
age is anything but sovereign. The religious generation in which
we live is well described by those words I just quoted to
you from Isaiah 45. They pray unto a God that cannot
save. You see, modern religion has
set aside God's sovereignty for man's sovereignty. What is Antichrist? What is the
apostasy? The great falling away described
by the Apostle Paul that describes this generation in which we live.
They shall set man up in the house of God, demanding that
he be worshipped as God. Go down the road tomorrow. Go
down the road. Into the churches, wherever you
find them around here in the section of All Straight. Wherever
you find one. Just go and listen to what they say about man. and
what to say about God. Man has the power over God. Man determines what God does
or doesn't do. Man determines whether God says
or whether God doesn't say. And man is set in the house of
God and worshiped as though he were God. This is the Antichrist,
the apostasy that the apostles spoke of in 2 Thessalonians.
Today, men everywhere deny the sovereignty of God's will in
order to exalt the imaginary freedom of man's will. So that
God's hands are tied behind his back and shackled by man's will. Omnipotence controlled by your
will. Your will. My brother, he was
preaching for me in Louisville, Kentucky, and he said to me,
he said, isn't it strange that man takes that which is the weakest
part, the weakest character, the weakest attribute of his
nature, and makes it his God. What's weaker than your will? Back home when I was a young
man, oh, I guess it's been 30 years ago or more, 35 years ago,
Lay's Potato Chips ran a commercial. It was a great commercial. It was a great commercial. Do
y'all like potato chips? Nice, salty, crisp, fatty potato
chips. Mmm! Gettin' it bad. Ah! You know what they did? Bet you
can't eat one. Bet you can't eat one. Did you
ever try to eat one in the picture? Bet you can't eat one. Why? Well,
well he's got willpower to eat one. Your will? Your will can be broken in a
heartbeat. Your will? Your will will change before
you get out the door. Your will? Your will is, your will is more
fickle than water. Your will, there's nothing about
you weaker than your will. Your will. And yet man says that
his will controls God. I laugh at your God. I'm as serious as I can be. Elijah
was on Mount Carmel. I was reading just a little bit
ago. And there was 450 prophets of Baal. And they're screaming
and hollering and cutting themselves and dancing and crying for Baal
to do something. Oh, Baal hear us. And Elijah
said, maybe he's asleep. Scream a little louder. He said,
he said you may have had to go to the bathroom. Go knock on the door and let
me know you need him. Maybe he's on a long journey.
He'll be back after a while. Scream a little louder. What
was he doing? He's laughing at their God. He's
laughing at their God. I mean laughing at Him. It's
high time you start to laugh at the God of this age and declare
Him to be what He is. Utterly useless. Useless. Let me see if I can be clear. The God of this enlightened 21st
century church is as weak, helpless, frustrated, effeminate, and idle
as the world has ever known, and commands no one's respect.
Fancy you've been all your life in places where men make gods
out of stumps. And the God of First Baptist
Church right down the road is worth less than the stump. At
least you can burn the stump. I can't be more serious. I'm
not here having fun. I'm trying my best to make you
understand who God is. We're told that God loves everyone. But what can be wrong with that?
This book doesn't say so. In fact, this book never declares
to anybody that God loves them. Nobody. We bring our children,
boy, the Lord loves you. You're lying to that child. You've
got no right to do that. You're deceiving that child.
The love of God's revealed in Christ. And no one has any right
to imagine that God might pretty please love them, except they
believe His Son. There's no knowledge of God's
love apart from that. If God loves everyone, In the
basement, when folks walk into a church door, they check the
brains of the door and they fall for anything. If God loves everybody,
of what benefit is God's love? Of what benefit is it? If some
folks go to hell, they didn't have it. What benefit is there in that?
If God loves me and I go to hell, I didn't have it. You take a
little baby and you've got a hot fire in the stove in the living
room in the wintertime. And the little baby is crawling
out toward that fire. And he says, now son, don't get
too close to that. It'll burn you. And he just keeps
crawling toward the fire. He says, son, now stop! And he's
getting close all the time and he's about to reach out and grab
hold of that hot stove. Son, now please don't touch that!
It'll hurt you! And the fellow said to him, son,
well, why don't you pick him up? God loves you too much to interfere
with his will. We put you in the thunder fire. And we'd lock
you away. And throw away the tea. That
man's lost his mind. But that's how folks tell us
about God. God loves you too much to interfere with your will,
so he'll let you go to heaven and to hell. That means that
God's love is worthless. It's worth, it's just, it's not
worth spit. That means that God's not worth spit. And that's the
reason people speak of God and treat God as they do in churches
all over the world. Because the God they pretend
to worship is not worth spit. His love's meaningless. It's
meaningless. Jesus died for everybody. Jesus suffered the wrath of God
for everybody. Jesus died to redeem everybody.
But some people go to hell anyway. On Sunday night, years ago, when
I was out of Danville, I don't recommend you to listen to religion
on television or radio, but when I want to get pumped up, I'll
turn it on. And I was tired. It was late.
So I turned on Pastor First Baptist Church, Danville, Kentucky. His
name was Al Giesler. I hope he hears the sermon. I've
been trying to get him here for years. And he made this statement. I had to shove it right down.
I said, I don't want to forget this. And he pretended to cry
because you could hear him on the microphone get that close
to him. Oh, wouldn't it be a shame? Wouldn't
it be a shame to be so many people in hell for whom Jesus died? I said, it sure would. To him. To him. If I try to do something
that fails, that's your fault. If I try to do something and
I can't accomplish it, the blame goes to me. If I make an effort
to do something, I cannot succeed at it. It's my fault. I bear
the shame. I bear the reproach. Understand
the book of God. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
shall never be discovered in this territory. He redeemed people
who didn't try to redeem them. He put away sin. He didn't try
to put away sin. He saved his people from their
sins. He didn't try to save them from their sins. And to talk
about a Jesus who tries to redeem and fails, who tries to save
and fails, is to talk about a Jesus whose blood is meaningless. His
sacrifice is meaningless. It doesn't count for anything.
It doesn't amount to anything. It doesn't accomplish anything.
Everything depends on Him. Everything depends on Him. I
had a preacher sit in my office one day. He's an insurance salesman,
real estate salesman. He came by and wanted to sell
me something. Insurance, real estate, something.
And he found out I wasn't buying. He said, I want to ask you a
question. He said, what's the difference between what you believe
and what I believe? What you preach and what I preach?
What's your church believe and what my church believe? And I said, no,
the governor of Iowa. He said, yeah, I got dressed
this afternoon. So I spent about four and a half hours telling
him what the difference was. And I asked this question, and you
correct me if I'm mistaken. If I understand you correctly,
you believe that when Jesus Christ died at Calvary, He made it possible
for all men to be redeemed and saved and justified, made it
possible for all men since to be put away and forgiven, but
He did not actually accomplish anyone's redemption or salvation
or justification or forgiveness. He just made it possible and
man, by his faith, makes the blood of Christ effectual for
his own redemption and salvation. I said, that's Daniel here, I
said. You're a lost man. You don't
know God, or I don't. One of the two. One of the two.
That's what I'm talking about. Christ is no failure. Jesus Christ
is not a mock God. Jesus Christ is not a good luck
charm. Jesus Christ is not an effort
at trying to do you good. Either He is Savior altogether
by Himself, or He is worthless. Altogether worthless and a mockery
to yourself. We're told in this day that God,
the Holy Spirit, tries to get everyone to believe. We know that a man can't be saved
unless God draws him. God's got to draw him in. I've
seen the Lord's drawing him. I can't tell you how many times
I've had folks say, you didn't give people a chance to get saved
this morning. Since when do folks get saved by chance? You didn't give an altar call.
I saw a group in the back of the building. The Lord was drawing
them. Do any of you fellas ever draw
water out of a well? Anybody? Well, I'm gonna give
you a lesson. This city boy will give you the
country boy a lesson. When I was growing up, my grandparents had
wells in places. And they'd send me out to draw
water. And I never dreamed that they meant for me to do this.
Go get your bucket and walk over to the well and say, oh water,
oh water, won't you please jump in my bucket? Water, water, get in my bucket,
or when I go in, they're going to whip me. Water, water, please
get in my bucket, I need some water. If you saw me doing that, you'd
put me in the funny fire. Even as an eight-year-old boy.
Well, that fellow's lost his mind. He's popped a cork. Something's
wrong. When God the Holy Spirit comes
to draw us in, the omnipotent hand of sovereign
mercy. He draws from the inside and
causes sinners to come to the Savior. So that you come to Christ willingly, joyfully, by faith,
receiving Him, Because He's already come to you and caused you to
have Himself. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causest to approach unto thee. Thy people shall be
willing in the day of thy power. The Spirit of God doesn't try
to get sinners saved. When He, the Spirit of Truth,
has come, He will convince the world, the world of God's elect,
of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. When God, the Holy
Spirit, comes in saving revelation of His grace, He will convince
you of your sin. Of your sin. I can't do that. I can't, many of you have never
been convinced of that. Did you ever cheat on a test? Yeah, but
that's not what I'm talking about. Did you ever steal a watermelon
out of a watermelon patch? Yeah, but that's not what I'm
talking about. Did you ever commit adultery? Yeah, but that's not
what I'm talking about. Did you ever tell a lie? All
the time, but that's not what I'm talking about. That's not
what I'm talking about. Did you, when you were growing
up, did you do stuff you really didn't want mom and daddy to
know about? Oh yeah, yeah. But that's not what I'm talking
about. That's not convincing sin. To convince you of sin is
to convince you what you are in the very essence of your being.
That dear little girl right there, you know I love you. I love her. And that dear little girl right
there, I love her. Your heart and her heart and
my heart is as vile as any harlot in hell. As vile as any harlot in hell. As vile as any rapist, pedophile,
homosexual murderer in hell or out of hell. You and me. Oh,
not me. Not me. Well, maybe one of these
days God will come to you in his grace and make you know who
you are. Who you are. See? Just see. with no ability for anything
but sin. No possibility of anything coming
up inside you except sin! And He'll convince you of righteousness. Not your own. For the first time in your life,
you'll find that you've gotten on. He'll convince you that righteousness
is finished by the obedience of Jesus Christ as the sinner
should, because I go to my Father. He came down here to bring you
everlasting righteousness, didn't He? That's what He came down
here for. And He couldn't go back as Jehovah's righteous servant
until He finished the job. And when Christ, by the sacrifice
of Himself, had put away our sins and brought in everlasting
righteousness, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit,
I come at home. He finished His work. And when
God the Holy Spirit creates faith in you, He'll convince you that
Christ is righteousness. That Christ brought in righteousness. That Christ is your righteousness. Your righteousness. Oh, bless
God, I have righteousness before God. Righteousness with God. Righteousness that is God's. Righteousness that only God can
perform and only God can give. And they'll convict you of something
else. Are you listening? I'll judge you. I'll judge you. I'll judge you. I had been in Danville just a
few months. It's been 32 years ago. All the churches got together.
All of them. The liberals and the conservatives,
the independents and the southern baptists and the catholics and
the pentecostals and the baptists and the presbyterians. They all
got together. There was only one in town that got together. And they had a big youth meeting
at the high school. And they showed a movie called
The Burning Hell. I never saw the movie, but I
know what it's all about. They showed that movie and scared
the hell out of everybody. That was their intent. That was their
intent. And the churches were full of folks the next day making
professions of faith. You said on Saturday night? I
mean full of folks the next day making professions of faith.
Got to be that type right now. Whoa, whoa, hell, I'm convinced
of judgment. Hey, you were born convinced
of judgment. I'll tell you what, you go to
bed tonight and try to forget it. You lay down and try to forget
it. Try to forget eternity. Try to
forget judgment. Try to forget God's righteousness.
Try to forget justice and truth. Think about it for just a minute
and try to forget it. Now you were born convinced that
you're going to meet God in judgment. But what's this made them convinced
of judgment? Because the prince of this world has changed. Christ, the woman of seed, has
gone. and crush the serpent's head. Now is the judgment of this world,
and the prince of this world is cast out. And I, if I be lifted
up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." When the Spirit of God comes,
He doesn't try to get you to believe in Jesus. Brother Ed
Goffey convinces you that judgment's over. Did you hear me? Judgment's over
for somebody. Judgment's over for somebody.
Christ has borne all the fury of God's holy judgment. Until
God says to Jacob, fear me, he is not he. Now watch, watch me. Oh God help you to hear me. He
that believeth on the Son of God is not condemned. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. I know what people tell you.
I've got to answer questions before they answer. You've been made to think all
your life of religious nonsense. This is what that means. There's
no condemnation to them that believe in Jesus and really live
a good life. You used to drink and cuss and
smoke and chew and run with the girls who do, and now I don't
drink or cuss or smoke or chew and I don't run with the girls
who do. Oh, now I'm a proof of condemnation. No. No, that's
nothing but a mixture of works and grace. To walk in the Spirit
is to live continually, believing on the Son of God, trusting Christ
Jesus. As ye therefore receive Christ
Jesus the Lord, what's the book say? So walk ye in Him. How did you receive Him? Naked,
filthy, hell-bent, hell-deserving. Wretch of humanity, unfit for
God, unfit for man, fit for nothing but hell. How did you receive
it? How did you receive it? Nothing
in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I claim. Here I am, after 45 years. Oh, thank God this is so. After
45 years, there's no improvement in John 49. There's no improvement. Did you
get that, brothers? There is no improvement. No improvement. I have the same hope now. I have
been first to receive Christ Jesus the Lord. of Him, or ye
of Christ Jesus, whom God has made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption. Come to Christ, and the salvage
is yours. Come to Christ. Right where you
are. Don't close your eyes. Don't utter a prayer. Don't repeat
after me. Certainly don't come down here.
You just well go to a Catholic. A Catholic confessionist come
down here in the morning and they hit you. That's not going
to do you any good. You can't get to God with your feet. You
can't get to God by something you do. Right where you sit.
Come to Christ. Believe on the Son of God. And
it is written. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. Our Savior said, him that cometh
to me I will in no wise cast out. Come to the Savior and go
to glory. Amen.