While you're turning to 1 Kings
chapter 2, let me tell you the story leading up to our text. Just before his death, David
made Solomon king in Israel. But Solomon's elder brother,
Adonijah, coveted the throne and tried to steal it. Joab,
the captain of the Lord's host, And Abiathar, the priest in Israel,
preferred Adonijah to Solomon. And they joined in the rebellion
in the plot by which they hoped to steal the throne for Adonijah. The whole scheme fell like a
house of cards, and Adonijah was terrified. So he fled to
the house of God. Adonijah feared Solomon and arose
and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar. And Solomon
allowed Adonijah to find sanctuary there and forgave him. He said
if he proves himself a worthy man, he can abide in his house
and live. But Adonijah still wanted to
be king and began plotting very soon to take the throne. So Solomon
had him executed. You see, justice won't even spare
your elder brother. The kingdom is more important
than the king's own family. Joab knew that he was next. Conscious, stricken, guilty.
This mighty captain in Israel, the last man you would think
of as being terrified by anything. This man who had led the armies
of Israel in battle after battle after battle. But this man whose
hands were covered with blood, even innocent blood. If Joab
ever came to shake hands with you, you'd be wise to grab both
hands. Otherwise, you'd get a dagger
under the fifth rib and drop dead with your blood dripping
on his feet. Joab was conscious stricken and
terrified. He knew he was next. So this
mighty captain in Israel fled to the tabernacle and he took
hold on the horns of the altar as Adonijah had done, probably,
hoping that since Adonijah had found refuge on the horns of
the altar, since Adonijah had found sanctuary at the horns
of the altar, Since this refuge had proved sufficient for Adonijah,
then he could take hold on the horns of the altar and be spared
as well. Surely Solomon will not send anyone in here to kill
me. But that's not the way it happened.
Read our text with me beginning at 1 Kings 2 and verse 28. 1
Kings 2 and verse 28. Joab took hold. on the horns of the altar, hoping
for mercy at the altar of God. Then tidings came to Joab, for
Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle
of the Lord and caught hold on the horns of the altar. And it
was told King Solomon that Joab was fled into the tabernacle
of the Lord. And behold, he is by the altar.
Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, go,
fall upon him. Benaiah came to the tabernacle
of the Lord and said to him, thus saith the king, come forth. And Joab said, nay, but I will
die here. And Benaiah brought the king.
word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. My subject this morning is the
horns of the altar. The brazen serpent was the place
of sacrifice in the Old Testament, the only place of sacrifice by
which men and women might draw near to God. There was no approaching
God. no coming to the holy place,
no acceptance with God, no worship of God, except you come by this
brazen altar that's set at the very opening of the tabernacle
once you entered the tabernacle dwellings. This brazen serpent
was a magnificent thing, about seven and a half, perhaps eight
feet square, made of shit and wood, overlaid with brass. It
had on it four horns. indicating the four corners of
the earth, pointing to north, south, east, and west, an altar
with four horns of strength and power by which God typified our
blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our altar, the
only true altar. And those horns representing
his merit, his power, and his efficacy. reaching to the four
corners of the earth by the power of his blood under the saving
of chosen redeemed centers scattered throughout all humanity in the
various parts of the world. I want to show you three things
from our text this morning. First, understand that there
is but one altar by which we may draw near to God. That will
be the bulk of my message. But understand this. It will
be damning to your soul to turn to any carnal altar and try to
come to God in any carnal way. And then third, Christ Jesus
being the true altar, you must flee to him. All right, here's
the first thing. I want you to see at the outset
of my message, there is but one altar by which sinners may and
must come to God. One altar. Since the fall of
our father Adam, when God drove Adam out of the garden, men have
since that day come to God, worshiping him by an altar. Wherever men
were found worshiping God, when they would come to worship God
in any public way at all, they would erect an altar of stones,
offer a sacrifice, and come near to God by the sacrifice upon
the altar. Even in those earliest days,
men who believed God understood that there is no way for a sinner
to come to God and be accepted by Him except through the blood
of an innocent victim. There's no way for a sinner to
come to God and be accepted by Him except through the blood
of an innocent victim. Only through the blood of the
Lamb can sinners come to God Almighty. Only God's darling
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our Redeemer, could atone for
sin and give us acceptance with God by the merit of His blood
and His righteousness, the pouring out of His life unto death on
our behalf. Then the Lord God called Moses
To the mount and when he called Moses up to the mount he showed
him the whole picture of redemption When you read that God showed
Moses the pattern for the tabernacle Alan that pattern was Christ
That pattern was the crucified Redeemer that pattern was the
word you were talking about this morning that pattern was Christ
Jesus crucified he said now build the tabernacle to picture this
and then he gave him specific instructions as to how to build
the tabernacle and One of the first words of instruction was,
make me an altar. Make me an altar of shitterwood,
overlaid with brass, and place it at the front of the tabernacle.
That altar being placed in the tabernacle was the only altar
of sacrifice by which men could come to God. Men would come on
the feast days, they'd come morning and evening and bring their sacrifices
one after another unto the Lord God. They would bring the paschal
lamb and there the blood would be spilt and the blood put upon
the horns of the altar and the sacrifice burned and consumed
upon the altar. As the typical offer, typical
sacrifice in the legal dispensation, this altar was alone the way
to God. So Jesus Christ our Lord our
true altar the only true altar even then Don just coming to
that physical altar didn't amount to anything Just Joab proved
that Just coming to that material altar amounted to nothing. A
man must come to that altar understanding what the altar represented. It
represented there's only one way to God, and that way is Jesus
Christ the Lord. He's our altar, He's our sacrifice,
and He's our priest. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
13. Hebrews chapter 13. I want you to look at verse 10. I recall years ago, my dear friend,
Charlie Payne, was sitting on an airplane chatting with a fellow,
and the fellow was religious. Charlie got to talking to him,
and he said, he said, I don't understand the book of Leviticus,
all those sacrifices and things. And Charlie said, read the book
of Hebrews. That's what it's all about. The book of Hebrews
is God's explanation, particularly to Jewish believers, of what
was involved in the worship of the Jews in the Old Testament.
Now watch what it says, Hebrews 13, 10. We, we who believe, Jew
and Gentile, we who are born and taught of God, we have an
altar. We have an altar. Don't envy
those folks who have a material altar. Don't envy those folks
who have their ornate structures by which they think they feel
spiritual and come to God. We have an altar, but it's not
one you can see. We have an altar, but you can't
touch it with your hands. We have an altar, but you can't
come to it with your feet. We have an altar, whereof, now
watch this, they have no right. No power, no authority, no right. to eat. Nobody can eat at this
altar which serve in the tabernacle. What did he say? What did he
say? Did he say that Christ, our altar,
cannot be enjoyed? His benefits cannot be known?
His benefits cannot be received by those who worship in a carnal
way at a carnal material altar. I believe that's what he said.
We have an altar whereof they have no right, no power, no authority,
no right, no ability to eat which serve the tabernacle. The altar
sacrifice in the tabernacle was altogether Temporary and it was
all together given for a typical reason to portray Christ and
his sacrifice His person and his work his merit is that acceptance
that we have before God Almighty Our altar is in heaven Our altar
is in heaven Look here The effects are back there and I would almost
happen to move the camera. We don't have any altar down
here We don't have an altar down here. That's not by accident. When we were building this building,
I specifically instructed I want nothing here that could ever
be used for an altar. We don't have any altar down
here. How come? Because our altar's in glory!
Our altar's a spiritual altar. You can no more come to God by
walking down an aisle in a Baptist church to a Baptist altar than
a heathen papist can come to God by crawling on his knees
before his unholiness, the Pope, and climbing the staircase to
kiss the Pope's wreath. You cannot come to God in a carnal
way. We are the circumcision. We worship
God in spirit and in truth and have and rejoice in Christ Jesus
and have no confidence in the flesh. We must have a mediator. We must have a sacrifice. We
must have an altar, but not a material one. And to substitute the material
for the spiritual is damning. You cannot come to God in a carnal
way. You cannot come to God with your
feet. You cannot come to God by repeating a prayer. You cannot
come to God by touching something. You can only come to God by faith
in Jesus Christ through the sacrifice on the altar that God alone has
ordained and God alone accepts. Do you mean, pastor, no one has
ever been saved coming to a material altar? Well, let me see if I
can say this again. No. Well, that's how I got saved. Let me tell you something. Two
things. Folks don't got saved. And you don't got saved coming
to an altar materially. God saves sinners. And when God
saves the sinner, he saves you right where you sit. When God
saves the sinner, he saves you without you doing anything. And
his salvation causes you to come to Christ who has come to you.
You come to him with your heart, with faith. In the Old Testament,
I repeat, there was only one altar of sacrifice by which men
could come to God and approach him. That was a ceremonial coming
and a ceremonial approach. And that one altar finds its
fulfillment only in our Lord Jesus Christ. All physical, carnal,
ceremonial altars in our day are instruments of idolatry.
There are many who think that the cross on which our Lord was
crucified is an altar. I've heard folks say Christ laid
down his sacrifice on the altar of the cross. No. Christ was
the altar as well as the sacrifice and the sacrificing priest and
God who accepted the sacrifice. What's the cross then? It was
a piece of torture. It was a piece of torture. You
will observe that we don't have any crosses hanging up back here.
I would no more wear a cross on my lapel pin, or as a piece
of jewelry, or have one sitting up in my house, let alone in
the house of God, than I would take a dagger that someone used
to stab and rape my wife and wear it on my belt. What a repugnant
thing for folks who call themselves Christian. to make something
reverent out of the cross. The cross on which our Savior
died was a piece of worthless wood used by men to torture our
Redeemer to death. It's not to be exalted or venerated.
Sometimes men talk about having their heart for an altar to God.
That sounds sweet, doesn't it? And I know what folks mean. It means we must be sincere to
come to God. No question about that. Sincerity
is required. Without sincerity, there's no
faith. Without honesty, there's no coming to God. But our hearts'
sincerity will not atone for sin. Your heart's sincerity will
not satisfy divine justice. You must have an altar of sacrifice
by which justice has been satisfied to find acceptance with God.
And that's Christ the Lord. In many churches, the table on
which we set the Lord's table, is looked upon as an altar. I
recall in the place we rented for our daughter's wedding across
town several years ago, we put the wedding cake in their smaller
chapel. And the cake was sitting, we
were about to sit it there, and somebody came up to us and said,
oh, you can't use that. I said, why? He said, well, that's
their altar. That's the wrong thing to say.
I said, at $1,000 for the afternoon, I'll do what I want to on the
altar. Stand back and watch. Altar? No. That table is not the place
of our Lord's crucifixion. The bread and wine served on
the table represent the Lord's crucifixion. That is not our
Lord's crucifixion. That is not our Lord's sacrifice. That is not our altar. Our crucified
Redeemer is in heaven. And tonight we'll have the bread
and the wine on this table to remember it. Nothing more. Perhaps
the most deceptive of all things is the idolatrous notion that
there is an altar of salvation at the front of the church. Of
course, in these days, that's the front of the, what do they
call them, family worship centers and whatever the nonsense is
folks do, stadiums or whatever, and folks plan it out in the
congregation so that when the preacher's done preaching after
he's told his last tender story and got you to be as heartbroken
as you could to feel sorry for Jesus and they'll start to play
the organ and folks will start to come up front. And they start
to come up front. I'm not making this stuff up.
I'm telling you what I know to be so. They start to come up
front so that other people will feel compelled to do something.
And they'll come up front. And they'll come up front time
repeat after me now bless God you're saved don't let anybody
tell you otherwise what contemptible disregard for
God what contemptible base idolatry cloaked in our day and in our
society with the name of Christ crucified and Christ crucifies
not around Turn back to Exodus chapter 20. Exodus chapter 20. I repeat, there is but one altar. That one altar is the only place
of salvation. And that one altar is Christ
the Lord. He is God's salvation. The only place where God meets
sinners is in the person of His Son. Oh, God help you to hear that.
The only place where God meets sinners is in the person of His
Son. Look at Exodus 20, verse 24.
An altar of earth Thou shalt make unto me, and
shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings,
thy sheep, and thine oxen. In all places where I record
my name, I will come unto thee and bless, I will bless thee.
If thou wilt make an altar of stone, if thou wilt make me an
altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, for if
thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither
shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness
be not discovered. Why such specifics about the
altar? Have you ever seen the altars
that men make? Have you ever stayed up late
whenever it is they have, I think they have it on before Ash Wednesday
or whatever supposedly Holy Day is when folks put dirty ashes
on the forehead and sanctify themselves. Have you ever seen
the surface at the Vatican and the altar? Man, that thing's
pretty. It's impressive. It's high. And the whole world is gaga over
there. Listen to learned, educated Harvard
graduates. Talk about that. Oh, what a spiritual
holy service. God ain't around it. God ain't around it or any other,
any other. No, no. If you come to God, you've
got to come on an altar of earth. Well, that doesn't look so pretty.
That's not very impressive. The Lord Jesus is an altar of
earth. He. Came to us out of the earth.
His body made of the earth. His body made not by man, but
by God, specifically created by God in the womb of the Virgin,
by the Holy Spirit. The altar. It's made of stone,
but not hewn stone. Stone just as you find it as
God puts it in the earth. Because if you put your tool
on it, if you, if you do something, if you do something, It doesn't
matter what that something is. If you do something by which
to make yourself accepted with God, by which to make an altar
on which you can come to God, God says you polluted it. And
he won't have it. He won't have it. Christ is the
altar of stone, the altar of God's making. And Christ is the
altar with no stairs for men to climb. No stairs for men to
climb. All forms of carnal worship,
all forms of physical things that men call holy, all attempts
to place any merit of any kind or any reverence of any kind
on material things is base idolatry. I hope you hear what I'm saying. I hope everybody who hears this
message understands what I'm saying. Reverence of material
things is base idolatry Well, isn't that a holy desk? No, it's
just piece of wood It's just piece of wood. If we get done
with if you want to use a piece of furniture, you have to be
alright If you want to take it to the barn is that K on it'd
be alright. It's just piece of wood. We used to have a pews
sitting up here. Other pews out there. They've
been here a long time. Some of you wanted them for decoration
in your house and in your patio. So you took them and cut them
up and made smaller pews. Got one sitting back in my office.
Got one at the house. And they're not very comfortable
and they'll keep guests from staying very long. That's all
they got to sit in. But they look pretty good. But aren't
those things holding? No, no, no. They just would. This building's
not a holy building. Now, all of these things we dedicate
to holy purposes. All of these things we use for
holy purposes, but the building's just a building. I regret it,
and I'm guilty. We say, well, I'm going over
to the church. I tell my wife, every morning I'm going to the
church. I try to say go into the office now, because we tend
to think this building's a church. This is not a church. It's not
a church. It's just a wooden and brick
structure. That's all it is. Just like that
one over there, that one down there, just like the one back
here behind us. It's just a wooden brick structure
in which God's church gathers to worship him. Turn to Exodus
chapter 27. Look at the instruction God gave
to Moses concerning this altar. We won't read the whole section,
let's just pick up at verse one. Thou shalt make an altar of shittum
wood, five cubits long and five cubits
broad, a cubit about 18 inches. The altar shall be four square,
and the height thereof shall be three cubits. For thou shalt
make, and thou shalt make horns upon it, horns of it upon it,
Of the four corners thereof His horns Isn't that amazing? Looks to me like Mark that ought
to read it's horns But it reads correct his horns his horns His
horns shall be of the same and thou shalt overlay it with brass
The altar of sacrifice typified our Lord Jesus in many things
You remember what our Lord said concerning the altar? He said
it's not the gift that sanctifies the altar. It's the altar that
sanctifies the gift. In our prayer a little while
ago, I asked God. To accept our worship. Our gifts. Our songs of praise,
our prayers. Our every effort at worshiping
him. Well. Wouldn't God accept those things
only exactly as I prayed through Christ, our altar turned his
first Peter, chapter two. First Peter, chapter two. You
see everything we bring to God, we bring the polluted hands and
polluted hands, pollute what it touches. First Peter, chapter two, verse
five, he also as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house
and holy priesthood, watch this, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Again, there was but one altar,
one altar for all the people, one altar for all their sins,
one altar for all their sacrifices. One altar by which sinners come
to God is Christ Jesus. That altar bore the violent,
furious heat of God's wrath. They brought an innocent victim
there, slit his throat, caught the blood in a bowl and put a
little blood on the tip of each one of the altar and laid the
sacrifice on it and burned it with fire. And the fire, continually
burning at the altar, burned until it had completely consumed
the sacrifice. So our Lord Jesus Christ, when
he was made sin for us, God's fire fell on the altar. But this sacrifice consumed the
fire and there's therefore now no condemnation to them that
are in Christ Jesus. The altar was a place of refuge. What else can a guilty man do
but take hold on the horns of the altar? What else can you
do but flee to Christ for refuge? This altar had those four horns. Speaking of the fact that Christ
Jesus has redeemed the people, this sacrifice of Christ made
at Calvary was for people in every nation, kindred, tribe
and tongue scattered in the four corners of the earth. Horns imply
power. Power. Our Lord Jesus Christ
and his sacrifice gives to God and to us a sacrifice of infinite
power. Merit and efficacy his blood
and his righteousness avail with God for everything they want
His blood and his righteousness avails with God for the salvation
of his people the four corners of that altar Might well represent
to us the powerful grace of God the efficacious merits of our
Redeemer the indescribable blessedness of God's promises and and God's
command to come to him. Turn to Isaiah chapter 45, chapter
43. Let me remind you of just one.
Isaiah 43. Verse 25. I, even I am he that blotteth
out thy transgressions. for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins." Now, now. Lay hold on the horns of the
altar. Lay hold of Christ Jesus by faith. Put me in remembrance. Lord God, this is your sacrifice.
This is what you've required. This is what you command. This
is what you bid me do. Let us plead together Declare
thou. Declare what? Christ died for
my sins. Christ is my only hope. Christ
is my only Redeemer. Christ is my only salvation.
Declare thou. Confess your sin clinging to
the horns of the altar that thou mayest be justified. The altar portrays our Lord Jesus
Christ in all his person and work, in all the fullness of
redemption completely accomplished by the shedding of his blood.
The blood upon the altar is the declaration that justice is satisfied. All right, here's the second
thing. Turn to 1 Kings chapter 2 again. Joab's use of this altar, this
carnal material altar, like Adonijah's, was altogether carnal. There
was nothing spiritual about it. There was nothing spiritual about
it. Look at verse 30, the last part of it. Joab fled unto the
tabernacle of the Lord and caught hold on the horns of the altar. Now, listen to me. Joab had the
right doctrine. He had come to the right place.
He was certainly in the right church. This part of the country,
lots of folks spell Baptist with a big B and think they're the
only one. Well, Joe, that would have been a big B Baptist. He
was in the right church. He was in the right church. But
he didn't have any blood. And he had no right at the altar.
Because only God's priest would offer sacrifice there. He had
no right at the altar. God didn't call him to the altar.
And he had no mediator, no priest. So the second thing revealed
in our text is this. It will be damning to your soul to carnally flee to a carnal
material altar. Joab's guilty conscience made
him flee. He was terrified. I've told you this many times.
Just about the first year I was here, it might have been the
second, I can't remember for sure. All the churches in town got together
and at Boyle County High School they had a movie. Oh, it was
a spooky thing. It was a spooky thing called
The Burning Hell. And I reckon I was the only preacher
in town, I don't know for sure, that didn't participate. And they asked me why. I mean,
folks went over on Saturday night and made professions of faith.
Every child, young person just about in town over there and
they all got saved. Hogwash. And why didn't you participate? Because you can't scare the hell
out of folks. Can't be done. Can't be done. Joab was terrified. And he went
to an altar. And he laid hold on the altar.
But it was all carnal, all physical, all manipulated by a man. God
wouldn't in it and Joab died with his refuge in his hand Look
at verse 30 first Kings 2 Benaiah brought the king word
Again, he told what Joab said verse 31 and the king said unto
him do as he has said fall upon him verse 34 so Benaiah The son
of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and slew him and he
was buried in his own house in the wilderness. Now, Joab was
not executed. He was not executed because of
plotting to overthrow Solomon. He was not executed because he
had followed Adonijah. We're told plainly that Joab
was executed because, in verse 31, he killed Adner and he killed
Amasa. Innocent blood was shed by him. And the law demanded blood for
blood, life for life. When Solomon demanded that Joab
be executed, he was but answering in obedience to God's holy law,
sacrificing the life of him by whose hand a man's life had been
sacrificed. Oh, how blessed, blessed, blessed,
how delightful, how sweet for the guilty, distressed, poor
sinner to learn that Jesus Christ, God's darling son, has satisfied
all the law in our room instead. And now sinners find acceptance
to God by him. But back to Joab's actions. Many
there are like Joab who run to external religious things and
seek refuge in external religious things and perish. holding their refuge of lies. If you rest in external religion,
you're going to hell. As I prepared this message, I
thought of the many of you who hear my voice Sunday after Sunday,
some of you two, three times a week, and you feel very good
about yourselves. Come to church. You even come
to a church like this, listening to a preacher like this one. You attend church and you, oh,
we're not as other people are. We're very distinctive, mother
folks. And here you sit. And if you were to be involved in an accident on
your way home, in the hospital at the point of death, you'd
call for your preacher. And I'd call. Mr. Spurgeon, during the cholera
epidemic, was once called in the middle of the night to come
to a young man's bed. The young man was dying and he
knew it, so he called for the preacher to come by his bedside
and pray. Spurgeon said, when I got there,
he was already unconscious. And there was no Bible in the
room. He was never interested in coming to hear the gospel.
Never interested in the things of God until he was about to
die. And then he called for the preacher as if the preacher could
do nothing. And all I could do was stand
there and watch the boy die. The ordinances of the gospel,
ordinances of divine worship prescribed by God, specifically
I speak of baptism in the Lord's Supper. Our ordinance is for
believers only. If you partake of these things,
without faith in Christ, you eat and drink damnation to your
souls. We don't practice what men call
infant baptism. It's not really baptism. Sloshing
a little water on a baby's face is not baptism. But we don't
practice that. And here's the reason why. Some
of you were baptized as infants, sprinkled or had a little water
poured on your, maybe somebody rubbed it on you, I don't know.
And all your life you thought that you were Christian, saved,
good folks, good folks. That's how you were raised, isn't
it? That's how you were raised. Because you see, the baptism
gives the presumption of regeneration. Nothing on this earth is more
damning to the souls of men than infant baptism. Folks joining
up with the church who don't have faith in Christ, adults
or infants, folks participating in the ordinances of believers
who have no faith in Christ, because with the continual exercise
of religion, your heart's continually heartened. get scared, so they
come to church. They start reading the Bible.
They start going to prayer meetings or Bible study. They start spending
time reading their Bibles and reading good books. Now, all
those things may be good in their place, but there's no salvation
there. Salvation is found in Christ alone. Brother John, what do you want
us to do? Make a profession of faith? Oh God, make this preacher honest. I have absolutely no interest
in getting you to make a profession of faith. I have absolutely no
interest in keeping a tally of the number of folks I baptize
or the number I baptize in a week or a month or a year. I have
absolutely no interest. A profession of faith won't do
you any good. Moral sinners have got to come
to the Savior. You got to come to the Savior.
With the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Now, understand
what that means. It doesn't mean you find somebody
out on the road, they're fixing to die, they've been in a wreck,
their neck's broke, their head's split open, and you say, do you
believe in Jesus? Yes, I believe in Jesus. You
want to go to hell, do you know? Well, confess Jesus. I confess
Jesus, you're saved. It's got nothing to do with such
nonsense. No, sir. With the mouth, confession is
made with reference to salvation. We who are safe confess that
Christ alone is our Savior. The confession doesn't get you
saved. Salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus. If you cling to a false refuge,
the Lord God will lay your refuge in the dust before you. Either before you leave this
world or in judgment. I pray that he will lay it in
the dust now. Folks, think that dreadful fear, delightful feelings,
dreaminess, despondency, all these things are salvation. No,
no, no. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. He's the only altar. He's the
only altar. Cast yourself on him. Got to do something. I'm getting skinny, in case you
haven't noticed. Last time I was a doctor, I think he weighed
294 pounds. Man, I'll be down to nothing
for a long. What do you think? You reckon
that thing will hold 294 pounds. You reckon it will? I believe it will. That's not
believing. That's not believing. Well, let's see. I believe it will. That's not
believing. No, I still got some more support. See my feet here? See there? Oh, bless God, I believe it will. To believe on the Son of God
is to kill.