John's Gospel, chapter 14, and
let me begin reading in verse 1. If you need a Bible, we've
got some in the pews or someplace if you'd like to follow us. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. In my Father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you,
and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be
also. And where I go, you know, and
the way you know." Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not where
you go. How can we know the way? Jesus
said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man
comes unto the Father but by me. If you had known me, you
should have known my Father also. And from henceforth you know
Him and have seen Him. Fill up Seth unto Him. Lord,
show us the Father. That will satisfy us. Jesus said
unto him, Have I been so long with you? And yet hast thou not
known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen
the Father, and how sayest thou, Show us the Father? Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me. or else believe me for
the very works sake. Let not your heart be troubled. Look at this with me this morning.
Let not your heart be troubled. Man that's born of a woman is
a few days and full of trouble. Has that been your experience?
Yes. Surely as a man is born into
this world, he's born into trouble as sure as the sparks from a
fire flies upward. You ever started a fire and see
which way the sparks went? They go up. Job said, that's
just as sure as man is born into trouble. Few days and full troubles. David said, I found trouble.
I tell you, we find trouble or trouble finds us. Always in trouble. I'd love to see the Lord save
some poor sinner, fill him full of joy, give him peace in his
heart, make him happy, and let him live all of his days that
way, and take him to heaven at last. But that's not my experience,
and that's not your experience, and that wasn't the experience
of these men here that the Lord Jesus Christ was talking to.
What's the most difficult trouble that you and I can have in this
world? What's the trouble a Christian often suffers? Heart trouble. Let not your heart be troubled. I'm telling you, if your body
is sick, if your members are afflicted, but if your heart
is quiet, if your heart is restful, all is well. But if you've got
quietness in your members, you're not afflicted, you're not sick
in your body, all your outward circumstances are peaceful. But if your heart's in trouble,
nothing's well. A heart's the critical part of
us. It's the essential part of us.
Keep your heart with all diligence. Why? Out of it. is the issues
of life. It's the essential part of us. This little statement here, the
Lord Jesus tells us, let your heart be not troubled. The Lord Jesus shows us here
that He is indeed concerned with the spiritual part of us. The
world is concerned with physical things. The world is caught up
with outward circumstances. The world is caught up with what
can be seen, but the Lord Jesus Christ goes right to the root
of the matter. He deals with the heart. Let
not your heart be troubled. That's the essential part of
us. And our Lord is not only concerned
with the heart trouble, but He's concerned with that which troubles
the heart mostly. What were these men getting ready
to be troubled with? Well, look in chapter 13. There
was two things that was going to exceedingly trouble the heart
of these disciples. And let me see if you can relate
to this. Here in chapter 13 and in verse 33, the Lord tells His
disciples that, a little while I am with you, And you shall
seek Me, and as I said to the Jews, whither I go, you cannot
come. So now I say to you." And then
he goes over here in verses 36 and look what he says. Simon
Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? And Jesus said, Where
I go, thou canst not follow Me now, but thou shalt follow Me
hereafter. And Peter, Loved the presence
of the Lord Jesus so much, he esteemed his physical presence
to the point that he said, Lord, why can't I follow you now? Look
what he says there. I would lay down my life for
you. That's how much this man esteemed
the presence of Jesus Christ. But the Lord said, I'm leaving
you. I'm leaving you. And right now you can't follow
me. These disciples had been with the Lord for three and a
half years. They had looked upon Him. They
had handled Him. They ate with Him. They sup with
Him. He instructed them, protected them. And now the Lord Jesus
is telling them the most troubling words that they've ever heard.
I'm leaving you. I'm leaving you. And Peter said,
I'll die first. I'll die first. How much do you
value the presence of the Son of God? They had His physical
presence. You and I have His spiritual
presence. God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our
hearts. Christ is with us in even a more
intimate way than He was with His apostles. He is within us. And I'm telling you, when He
hides His presence, when He goes for a while and doesn't manifest
Himself, isn't it troubling to your heart? Moses said, Lord,
if You don't go with me, if Your presence don't go with us, don't
lead me up into battle. I'm not going. David said, don't
cast me out of Your presence. Don't take Your Holy Spirit from
me. I'm telling you, brothers and
sisters, the most troubling thing sometimes that you and I can
experience is for the Lord to hide Himself from us. To not
manifest Himself to us. There was a time these apostles
never valued the presence of Christ. Just like there was a
time in your life when you didn't value His presence, because you
didn't know Him. He'd never been made real to
your heart. He had never revealed Himself
to your understanding. He wasn't abided in your heart. But I'm telling you, when He
finally comes in, you finally know His saving presence. You
can't live without Him. Some man said, I'd rather be
in hell with Him as to be in heaven without Him. Ain't that
the way you feel about Him? Remember the little Shulamite
woman in Psalms of Solomon chapter 5? Her beloved came and knocked
on the door and says, let me in, my love, my dove. But she
hesitated. And he stuck in his hand by the
hold of the door and unlatched the door. And she saw his hand,
and she was awakened. And she got up and ran to the
door, and her hand felt the sweet smell and murmur. He had left
his scent on the door. And she said, I opened the door,
but my beloved had withdrawn himself. Oh, then her suffering
began. Then her affliction began. And
she said, I called upon Him, but He didn't answer me. I sought
Him, but I couldn't find Him. And she ran out in the streets
and said, Have you seen Him whom I so love? Have you seen Him? I've lost Him. I've lost His
presence. I tell you, that's a heart troubling
thing, isn't it? And there's but one that can
comfort that. And that's Jesus Christ Himself.
Let not your heart be troubled. But there's something else here,
and you also find it in chapter 13, here in the context. And here's something that was
to trouble these men, especially Peter. He says here in verse
38, Peter, will you lay down your life for me? Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, the cock, the rooster shall not crow till thou
hast denied me three times." Three times. Not just once, Peter. Not just twice. Three times you're
going to deny me. You're finally going to curse.
You're going to swear. that you've never seen Me, that
you don't know Me, that you've never talked with Me, that you're
not acquainted with Me. You're going to warm yourself
by the enemy's fire, and all of you are going to forsake Me."
Oh, sin! Sin! Peter sinned this very night
until his heart was so troubled and broken, the Scripture says,
that he went out and wept bitterly. Three days and three nights.
This man wept bitterly. Isn't sin a heart troubling thing? Haven't you found that to be
so? Sin against the God who made you? Sin against the God who
loves you and upholds you? Sin against the Christ who died
for you to redeem you? Sin against the Holy Spirit who
calls you and comes into your heart to teach you and to seal
you? Sin is called such things as
present evil. Evil is present with me. It's
called wounds that stink. It's called a burden that you
can't bear. My sins have gone over my head
as a heavy burden. They're too heavy for me. And right here in the midst of
this trouble, This is real trouble, isn't it? The loss of the presence
of the Son of God in the very presence of my sin to deny the
Son of God, to swear and take an oath that I don't know Him
in the very midst of this. Let not your heart be troubled.
Can you imagine that? Heart trouble. This kind of trouble. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ
says, let not your heart be troubled. What does this tell us? It tells
us that the Lord Jesus Christ, He seeks to secure the comfort
of His people in the midst of the most difficult trials where
nobody else can. Where nobody else can. Who else
can comfort the heart? Who else would comfort the heart?
I tell you what, you curse and you swear you don't know Me,
you forsake Me in My trouble. If I've got the ability, I may
not take the time to comfort you. But here is the One that
they were to sin against, forsake and swear they never knew Him.
And here is the One that seeks to secure their heart's comfort. Someone says it's easy to be
a commanding officer when the troops are assigned to a secure
base. I think I can handle that, don't
you? But you'll find Jesus the Captain
of our salvation when you're out in the muddy trenches, when
the enemy is advancing, when you're pinned down in the foxhole
and the martyrs are blowing dirt upon your head. That's where
you'll find the captain of your salvation. It's easy to be a
patriot, someone says, when everybody loves the country. But Jesus
will stand by you when the country is full of aliens and traitors. He's no summer soldier. He's
no sunshine patriot. He's a present help. He's a great
Savior. He's a comforter in time of heart
troubles. Paul said, at my first answer,
no man stood with me, but everybody forsook me. I pray God it be
not laid to their charge. And then he made this wonderful
statement. Nevertheless, the Lord stood with me. The Lord
stood with me. When everybody else forsakes
you, the Lord will stand with you. When you've sinned against
Him, He'll not forsake you. When He's seemingly forsaken
you and it breaks your heart, He'll finally come and comfort
you. The Lord stood with me and strengthened me that by me the
gospel may be clearly known. The Lord Jesus never called these
disciples who had followed Him earnestly and honestly for three
and a half years, now to forsake them when trouble was to come. He's not like that, is He? He's
not like that. He called them to endear to the
end. And He called them to do it with
a measure of joy and satisfaction. Let not your heart be troubled. I tell you, I think all of us
have gone through deep, dark places in our life. Deep places,
dark places. I remember one time in particular,
years ago in my Christian life, when I was in a hole, I was in
a valley that was so dark, I remember exactly my thoughts at that point
in time. I thought to myself, I'll never
get out of this. Despair, darkness had covered
me, and I remember saying it so well, I will never get out
of this. I'll never arise from this place. But here I stand. And not only
do I stand before you this morning, I stand here with a measure of
confidence and peace and rest in my heart. And it's all owing
to the faithfulness and the goodness and the ability of the blessed
Son of God who spoke peace to my troubled heart. Oh, he went
on to tell these disciples, I've told you these things. and trouble
has filled your hearts, but you'll see Me again, and your hearts
shall rejoice. And your joy no man will take
from you." I tell you, the Master deals with the heart, brothers
and sisters. He goes beyond what the world sees. He gets down
where we're at, where we need comfort, where we need help.
He deals with the heart. And when the heart's right, everything
else is well. Let not your heart be troubled. And look at this. You believe
in God, believe also in me. You read the commentators on
this verse, and you'll probably come away as confused as you
can be. But let's look at it like this this morning. Do you
believe in God, Peter? John, do you believe in God?
Of course you do. Of course I do, Lord. I believe
in the everlasting God. I believe in the eternal, holy
God. The Holy Spirit, I believe in
Him. God is the Spirit, the Creator and Sustainer, Life-Giver, the
Judge, the Everlasting God. I believe in Him. Yes, Lord,
I do. You believe in me the same way. You believe in me the same way.
There's but one way to believe in God saving me, and that's
by Christ. There's one way to know God savingly,
and that's by knowing Christ. Look here what he says. Look
here in verse 7 again. Look at this. See if this ain't
so. If you had known me, you should
have known my Father also. And from henceforth you know
Him, and you have seen Him. Now look at that. You've seen
Him. Philip said unto him, Lord, show
us the Father, and that satisfyeth us. And he said, Have I been
so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He
that hath seen me hath seen the Father." What is he saying? He is saying, I am the Father.
There is no God but me. And look what he proceeded to
say. And how saith thou, show us the Father. Believest thou
not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words
I speak unto you I don't speak of myself, but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Now let me ask you this
question. The Father dwells in Christ. How much of the Father
dwells in Christ? God the Father dwells in Christ. How much of God dwells in Christ?
Colossians chapter 2 verse 9 tells us this. In Him dwells all the
fullness of God in His body. You see Christ, you see all of
God there is. If you've seen me, you've seen
the Father. There is one God. Three Persons. God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Ghost. But one God. One God. And if you see Jesus Christ,
you see the Father. You believe in Jesus Christ,
you believe the Father. I tell you, here's a lesson the
Lord taught His disciples in the deepest part of their trouble.
When their heart was troubled, here's a lesson. If they never
knew it before, they knew it now. I am God. And I tell you, a lesson that
you taught in your deep trouble, you'll never forget it. Have
you noticed that? It was about three days later
when the Lord Jesus had raised from the dead, and He appeared
to His disciples and said, Peace be unto you. Thomas wasn't there. And they said, Thomas, we saw
the risen Christ. He's alive. He's raised from
the dead. And Thomas said, if I don't put my hands into the
prints of those nails, If I don't thrust my hand into that hole
in that side, I'll never believe it. Eight days later, the Lord appeared
to him again and said, Thomas, reach here your hands, fill these
prints. Put your hand in my side. And
remember what Thomas said? He didn't say you're Jesus. And
then there's God. He didn't say, you're Jesus,
and then the Father is somewhere. You know what He said? My Lord
and my God. He never forgot it, did He? He
never forgot it. When the Lord teaches us these
deep, precious truths, He usually teaches us effectually in the
time of our heart trouble. But when He does, you don't forget
it. You don't forget it. If you saw
me, you've seen the Father. And you know something? When
the children of God get to heaven, you know who they'll see there?
They'll see God. And you know what He'll look
like? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. And we'll bow down
before Him who is in the midst of that throne, and we'll worship
the eternal God in the person of His Son. Do you believe in
God? Then you believe in me. He believed in me. Look what he says in verse 2. In my Father's house are many
mansions. Now, you just keep this in the
context because here he was speaking to some troubled hearts. He was
speaking to some hearts that was getting ready to do some
terrible things. Unless you think forsaking the Son of God is not
something evil, and denying Him is not something evil. But He
takes these same men, and now He speaks to them of heaven.
Heaven. In my Father's house are many
mansions. God is everywhere. Brother Larry
quoted that to us this morning in Psalms 139. But He has one
place where He's there in a special way, and that's His house. That's
where He lives. Heaven is my throne. That's my
house. You know why I like this heaven
called the Father's house, in my Father's house? When you think
of a house, you think of the family, don't you? That's where
the family is. And when you think of heaven
as the Father's house, that's where the Father is. That's where
our elder brother is. That's where our brothers and
sisters are. That's where the family is. The Father's house. When a believer leaves this life,
when his breath leaves this body, you know where he goes. He goes
home. He goes to his Father's house.
Why should you be afraid of dying? You're going home. You're going
to the house, the Father's house, where your Father is and your
brothers and sisters in Christ are. house. But Bruce, listen, there's a
lot of people that's gone up there already. A lot of people. You think there's room there
for me? Well, listen to what the master of the house says.
In my Father's house, there are many dwelling places, many mansions,
many residents. What he calls many here, John
calls a number that no man can number. That's a big place there. When he said he was asking John,
during Revelation 7, how all of these got here. And John began
to look, and I'm telling you, heaven was populated. And John started trying to count
them, I guess, and he'd just give up. And he said, this is
a number that no man can know. And they'd come out of every
kindred, every nation, every tribe, every tongue, and all
of them got there the same way. They washed their robes and made
them white. And there was many of them. You know heaven is a
place that you can't measure. I just about measured. You can't
measure. God can measure. But you can't
measure. It's immeasurable. And God has
purpose to fill it up. Now how many people do you think
would fill up a place that's immeasurable? I think it's more
than 144,000, don't you? I think so. You know, in the
whole scheme of things, how many is 144,000? That's not many,
is it? That's a few. That's a very few.
But Lord Jesus said many. He was giving us a parable one
day, one of the most precious parables, about a man making
a great supper. And he sent his servant out at
supper time to say to those who were bidden, many were bidden,
Come. Everything's ready. Come. Come
to the supper. And they went out and bade many.
And they began to make excuses. Remember that? I married a wife.
I bought some oxen and all this land and all of these things.
Make excuses. And the master of the house was
angry. The master of the house was angry. And he sent his servant
and he said, Here's what you do. You go into the lanes of
the city. And you bring in here the crippled,
and the maimed, and the blind, and the halt, the hungry, the
thirsty, the naked. You bring them in here that my
house may be filled." And they went and did that and came back
and they said, Lord, we've done as You've told us to do. And
yet, there's room. There's room. And he says, here's
what I want you to do. I want you to go out on the highways
and the hedges where the criminals are hiding, where the crooks
are hiding out from the law, and the slaves are out there
in the field working. I want you to go out and compel them
to come in that my house may be full. Brothers and sisters,
the Father in heaven has a large house, and He's determined And
whatever God's determined to do, you bet He's going to do
it. And what's He determined to do? Fill His house up. Fill
it up. Who with people just like us? You feel like a leper this morning?
You know there's some lepers in heaven? You feel like an old
criminal with one foot in the grave and the other foot in hell?
You feel that bad? You know that man's in the Father's
house this morning? Do you feel like you're a cripple
that you can't take one step if He don't enable you? Do you
feel like you're so blind you can't see one spiritual thing
if He don't open your eyes? There's people just like that
in heaven. He's populating heaven with those kind of people. You
think you know everything. You're establishing your own
righteousness. Those people have no place in the Father's house.
It's these kind of fellows. Let not your heart be troubled.
Now, ain't it a strange thing, brothers and sisters, here in
the midst of this context, that he's talking to these men about
heaven? He should have been talking to them about hell. Huh? Threatening them. Hell is waiting
you guys if you don't get your act together, boy. I ain't talking
to you about heaven. You don't need to be hearing
about heaven. I'm so angry with you fellas. That's not the Lord
Jesus. No sirree. His promises aren't
disannulled because His poor people have trouble. Heaven doesn't cease to be theirs
because they've fallen into some awful sin and they're heartbroken
about it. No sir. Heaven is just as sure
for you, dear child of God, when you're down as it is when you're
up. Let not your heart be troubled. In my Father's house are many
mansions." Do you believe that? Do you believe that? Do you believe
there's a world beyond this world? Do you believe there's a heaven?
Do you really believe that in your heart? Do you believe that God is there?
The Father? Do you believe that is where
Jesus Christ ascended to and sat down? Do you believe there
are holy angels there? Do you believe when a saint dies
that they ascend there to the Father's house? Do you believe
that? Do you believe in heaven? We say we do, but do we? I think we need to get a firmer
grip on this thing about heaven. How beautiful heaven must be!
The home of the happy and free. These truths in God's Word He
has written. How beautiful heaven must be. How do we know that? How do we
know about heaven? How do we know it's the Father's
house? And how do we know all of these dwelling places are
there? How do we know there's room there for people just like
you and just like me? Well, we find out here in verse
2. If it were not so, I would have told you. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
some politician that's going to promise you a bunch of stuff
he can't provide. He's not like that. If heaven
is a little place, I'd have told you. If heaven is a place just made
for a few, the prophets and the holy apostles and a few select,
eminent saints, I'd have told you that. And he would have, wouldn't he? If these disciples were thinking
too highly of heaven, he'd have stopped them and corrected them.
If they'd have put too high a steam on the place, right here would
have been the time to say, now listen, I don't want you to get
your hopes up. Heaven is not really that great
a place. He's not like that. I tell you
what, He'll not have His people hoping for such a glorious rest
in such a heavenly place and disappoint them at last. If heaven
wasn't everything I've told you, I've never told you. I remember
one time I was looking for a pickup truck. I knew the kind I wanted. I knew the year I wanted and
everything. I was looking in the paper one day in the ads
and there it was. There it was. Truck advertised. Just the year I wanted and everything.
Didn't have a picture in it. Call this number and I called
the number and I said, buddy, you still got that truck? I've
still got it. Well, what kind of shape it's in? It's a good
ways out there where you live. Oh man, you'd have to see it
to believe it. You'd have to see it to believe it. Well, listen,
I'm headed that way now. Don't sell it till I get there."
I drove all the way to where that man lived. Finally found
his house. Drove into the driveway, and
I'm telling you what, I've never seen such a wreck in all my life. You'd have been afraid to drive
it down the street. You could have fell out of it or fell through
it. A rust bucket. You think the Lord Jesus is that
way? You think He's going to write
this about in His Father's house or many mansions? A place of
rest, a place of glory where He is seen face to face, where
He's gloried in, where you're free from sin, where you wipe
all tears from your eyes, and you'll never know any more pain
or sorrow. You think He's going to build
up your hopes just to get there and be so disappointed? I don't
think so. I think what everybody is saying
there is what Queen Bathsheba said about Solomon's kingdom.
The half has never been told. How beautiful heaven is. How
glorious. How glorious. In my Father's
house, there is many mentioned. Many. If it wasn't so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
receive you unto Myself that where I am, there you may be
also." I go to prepare a place for you. There's two things about
heaven. In our entrance there, in our
resurrected body, before we can be resurrected in our bodies
and ascend into heaven physically, two things has to take place.
One, heaven has to be made. Heaven has to be prepared. Well,
that's already prepared. That part of it has already been
accomplished. Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you. When? Before the foundation
of the world. That's finished. The Lord's not
up there making mansions and creating rooms and places. It's
already there. But there's something else that
has to be prepared. Jesus Christ and His humanity. has to be raised from the dead.
See, He can only get there from the dead. He can only get there
by the way of the cross, that bloody cross, and the tomb, and
being raised from the dead, and ascend there in our humanity. Heaven is a place not just for
our souls. Heaven is a place for the whole
human person. And before any of us could raise
from the dead and ascend into that place, Jesus Christ had
to go there first and take possession of the place on our behalf. He's the firstfruits. Nobody
raised from the dead and ascended to heaven until after He did. And now He's prepared because
He's there. And He's there for us. The forerunner. And His entrance into that place
assures every one of us who are in Him that we'll enter that
place. It's now prepared. Everything
is ready. Everything is ready. And when
He comes again, when He comes again at the last day, and He
speaks to the dead, and they raise, they'll be changed, and
you know where they'll go? Soul and body as well. To the
Father's house. To the Father's house. And old
John Bunyan said, that'll be complete salvation. That'll be
when you're really saved. Soul and body. A purchase of blood. And lastly
is this. Look at this right quickly. Verses 4-6. Now look at this.
And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said
unto him, We know not where you are going. How can we know the
way? But listen, did Thomas know where he was going? Yes, he did. The Lord Jesus said, Thomas,
you may not realize it, but you know where I'm going. I'm going
to my father's house. And you may not know it, Thomas,
but you know the way. You know the way. Thomas was
just so confused. His heart was so troubled. Look
at this. Jesus said to him, Thomas, I
am the way. Thomas, do you know me? Yes,
Lord, I know you. You're the Son of the living
God. I know you. Then you know the way. You know
the way. Thomas, do you know me? Yes,
Lord, you're the Son of God. I know you. Then you know the
truth. You know the truth. Thomas, you know me. Lord, I
know you. I know you. And I tell you what,
you know the way of life. And you know all about the resurrection
because I am the resurrection. I'm the life. Ain't that wonderful? Because
you know me. You just think you don't know
anything, but you know everything if you know it. I am not skilled
to understand what God has willed, what God has planned. I don't
know everything about this, but this one thing I do know, at
His right hand, is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His
word and deed. Christ died for sinners, this
I read, and in my heart I find the need of Him to be my Savior. That He should leave His place
on high and come for sinful man to die? You count that strange? So once did I before I knew the
Savior. It's not strange anymore. Why?
I know the Savior. Do you know Him? Do you know
the Savior? Then you know the way, don't
you? You know the truth. You know something about the
resurrection and life. And boy, he ends it with this.
And this is a mystery. No man comes unto the Father
but by me. He just taught him that he was
God. You've seen me, you've seen the Father. And now, look what
a lesson he teaches. I am the mediator between you
and God. Ain't that a mystery? Ain't that a mystery? The world
says, oh, that can't be. At the same breath, he says,
I and my Father are one. He said, I'm also the mediator
between God and man. I'm God and I'm the mediator
between God and man. Nobody comes. Nobody comes to
the Father here to be saved except they come by me. There is no
favor of God that will save a man. There's no mercy of God that
will save a man except it's in Christ. And there's no heaven
for any man. I don't care who he is. He may
be the greatest Baptist preacher ever lived, or any Pope that
ever lived, or some of our dear soldiers that's dying in war. No man can go to heaven except
it's by Jesus Christ the Lord. No other way. I was reading an
article by Kathleen Parker. Maybe some of you read about
her. She's a columnist for the Washington Post. And she had
a column in our paper this week. How many ways is there to God? How many ways is there to God?
You know, there's a big debate about that now in our country,
in the theological realms, among fundamentalist people. And she said that this woman
had been participating in this study, where this group of doctors and
scientists and so on had wired people up, had wired their brains
up. Of these different sets and different
denominations, Islam and Baptists and Presbyterians, all these
different people agreed to have their brains wired up while they
prayed. Ain't that amazing? They weren't a single Christian.
When a single child of God participated in that study, you can bet on
that. You're going to let them wire up your brain while you
seek the eternal God. That Pharisee in the temple,
he'd want them to wire him up. But that publican, he'd have
put a knot on somebody's head if they tried to wire him up
while he prayed. And Mrs. Barker said they reached
this startling conclusion I mean, a conclusion now. They reached
this startling conclusion that everybody was praying to the
same God. They probably were. They probably
were. Isn't that strange though? I
mean, that's a startling conclusion. I wonder what kind of activity
The brain would have produced, out of those prophets of Baal,
when they had been cutting themselves and screaming. The poor deceitful heart. We've
got the Word of the Eternal Son of God, and here's what He said.
You come to the Father by Me. You come by Me. You come honestly
and earnestly by Me, and the Father will receive you. He'll
justify you. He'll forgive all your sins.
He'll save you. And when you leave this world,
He'll send His angels, and they'll bury you there to the Father's
house. You don't come by Me, and you
won't see nothing from My Father but His frown. And you won't
feel nothing from Him but His awful wrath. Christ Jesus, Mary's
Son, Jesus of Nazareth is the only way to God and the only
way to heaven. And I rejoice in that, don't
you? Let's pray.