your bibles to 2nd Samuel chapter
23 and just hold your prayer for a few minutes 2nd Samuel
chapter 23 when Noah was an old man he stepped
out of the judgment of God and began a new life He stepped out
of the ark and the Lord God pointed, as it were, his hands to the
heavens above and to the earth beneath and to the sea. And he
said to Noah, I've given you all things. I've given you all
things. And then the Lord set his bow
in the sky and said, now, Noah, Look here, whenever there's a
cloud that appears in the sky, you look on this bow and remember
my covenant that I've made. And I'll look on the bow and
remember my covenant. But the only time you'll ever
see it is when there's a cloud in the sky. You step outside
today and try to see the rainbow, you can't. Everything bright,
shiny and clear. Only time you'll see the bow
is when I put a cloud in the sky and I cause darkness to overshadow
you, then you look on the bow and remember what I've said.
And I'll look on the bow and remember what I've said. I've
given you all things." Next event, Noah is horribly shamed by his
son. and his sons are scattered over
the earth. And Noah's new life begins. Trouble and darkness and heartache
and trial for 350 years. Trouble and darkness and heartache
and trial with a constant reminder, Noah You are but flesh, but I've
given you all things. In 2 Samuel, David has come to
the end of his life and he knows he's dying. He's about to meet
God Almighty whom he loves, whom he trusts, whom he knows loves
him with an everlasting love. And I can just imagine as David
lay there on his dying bed, how he must have looked over the
years of his life. What a checkered life it was. What a checkered life. Our lives
are just that way. We like to think things move
in a direct path, but our lives are a checkered life at best,
just one step forward, two steps back, maybe three or four sideways.
Checkered lives. David was chosen of God as just
a teenage boy and anointed to be king over Israel above all
his brethren. He was selected by God as the
choice object of his grace, as the choice one to be exalted
king over Israel. He was imminently Perhaps David
as a man was the most imminent type of our Lord Jesus Christ. He certainly is used that way
more often in scripture than any other man. He was imminently
a type of Christ, our great king, our redeemer, the Messiah, our
Lord, our good shepherd. As a matter of fact, he's called
by the name David. David was a man who who wrote
the book of the Psalms. He's the sweet singer of Israel. He's the man to whom we owe the
song book of God's church as it is given in the book of the
Psalms. David taught us how to sing God's praise in the midst
of darkness as well as in the midst of light. in the midst
of sorrow, as well as in the midst of joy, in times of great
anxiety and fear, as well as in times of great confidence
and assurance. But this man, David, was hated
by Saul. Saul tried to kill him. Why? Just because he was David, that's
all. No other reason that David loved Saul, David faithfully
served Saul, but Saul knew that David was God's choice and he
was not. Saul knew he was under God's
judgment and David under God's blessing. So Saul wanted him
dead. David breathing the air was a
constant reminder to Saul of his eternal, everlasting reprobation
and his just judgment by the hand of God. David was married,
as you know, to Saul's daughter, Michael, as he worshipped God. And at his height, David is leaping
and dancing before the Ark of God. He's he's worshipping God,
perhaps as he had never worshipped God before, leaping and dancing. And Michael despised him. As
I go home to that at night, she despised, despised him because
she despised his God. David. Shamed himself in the matter
of Uriah. His son, to show God's displeasure for what
David had done, was killed in infancy. God gave him another
son, his name Solomon. This one to remind David that
he's beloved of the Lord. And God gave him a son by the
name of Amnon. Amnon raped his sister. In Absalom, Amnon's brother David's
son was enraged and murdered his brother Amnon. And then Absalom
rebels against his father and seeks to destroy both David and
the kingdom, a checkered life. That's what I call a troubled
life. Those are just a few of the things
we know about David's character and his life, his pains and his
pleasures, his joys and his griefs, his happiness and his heartaches. And still the greatest, David
in his pride, numbered Israel. And as a result of David's sin
and numbering Israel, 70,000 men were slain by God. Now, hear David as he speaks
his last word. 2 Samuel 23, verse 5. He dies as he thinks upon all
the way the Lord led him, and he says with sweet composure,
although my house Be not so with God. Yet he hath made with me. An
everlasting covenant. Ordered. In all things. And sure. For this is all my
salvation and all my desire. Although he make it not to grow. David. dies with sweet, unexplainable
peace, confidence, joy, and assurance. Not because his good deeds outweighed
his bad deeds. They didn't. And he knew it.
But because the Lord God made with him an everlasting covenant
before the world began. And that covenant That covenant
made with the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world in
whom David was from eternity accepted of God. That covenant
which consummately ends in David's everlasting salvation was ordered
by God in all things. God said, I'm going to save David.
And he predestinated everything that comes to pass in time to
accomplish that salvation. And all the days of David's life,
he sovereignly ordered all the affairs of the universe for David's
salvation. He's out to die in peace. Ordered
in all things and sure, this is all my salvation and all my
desire. Those two words. All things are
my subject this morning. Nothing, nothing is more comforting,
more sustaining, more strengthening, more delightful to our souls
when we can find delight nowhere else, when our hearts are heavy,
when trials come one after the other, when we just find emptiness
in our souls that can't be explained, when we find evil rising up within
us that we despise. Nothing is more comforting than
the blessed assured knowledge of God's salvation in Jesus Christ
and the arrangement and order of all things in divine providence. Now, this morning, I'm going
to have you turn to 19 scriptures, or at least jot them down and
listen. I've got a message with 19 points, and I promise I'll
be done in 45 minutes. 19 points, 45 minutes, that means
I'm not going to do much preaching. I'm just going to read the scripture.
I'm just going to read the scripture. All right, here's the first thing.
Let's start in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 18. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 18. These two words, all things,
are used so commonly in scripture, used together, and almost always
they're used in reference to God, His grace, His salvation,
His providence. Look at what Paul says in 2 Corinthians
5 verse 18. And all things are of God. Well, if you get hold of that. Oh, if you get hold of that.
Let me put that another way. If that get hold of you. All
things are of God. All things in creation. All things
in providence, all things in grace and salvage, all things. How far do you carry that? Oh,
just as far back as you can in your mind's imagination, reaching
back through the ages of time to the days of your life and
the days of this world back to when God said let there be light
and there was light back to when in the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth and go forward until the Lord God
Almighty our dear Savior lifts his hand to heaven and says time
shall be no more and everything's done all things are of God everything
in heaven everything in hell and everything in between Everything. All things are of God. All good things and all bad things. All pleasant things and all painful
things. All things that appear to us
to be righteous and all things that appear to us to be evil. All things of light and all things
of darkness all things of peace and all things of turmoil all
Things are of God Oh Brother Don, I've got a problem
with that. Well, you've got a problem You've
got a problem Because all things are either of God or all things
out of control All things are either of God or there is no
God. All things are either of God
or your faith is but a good luck charm. All things are either
of God or you've got nothing to trust and your religion is
just an opiate by which you soothe your guilty conscience in times
of trouble. All things are of God. All things
particularly in the salvation of our souls are of God. He chose
me. He redeemed me. He called me
by his grace. He snatched me from the pit of
destruction. He stopped me in my mad rush
to hell. Gave me life and faith in his
dear son. And he keeps me. He keeps me. Though I fall a thousand times
a day, he raises me up and keeps me. He keeps me. That's all. He keeps me from performing the
evil that's in me. And when I perform it, he raises
me up. And he will at last bring me
to glory. All things are of God. That means,
Ron, he gets all the praise, all the glory, all the credit,
all the honor. Well, what about you? Well, you know what you deserve. What is it that you're going
to pop your suspenders about when you stand before God? Oh, but I wasn't like so and
so. Well, I'll tell you what, you're going to hell. You're
going to hell. I'm not as bad. Well, you don't
know God. It's just that simple. It's just
that simple. You see, you and I, Bob Duff
and Don Fortner, are just exactly like every other human being
in hell or out of hell. Just exactly like them. There's
no difference. No difference, except the difference grace has
made. No other, no other. And that's
not a difference made in what we are by nature. That's a difference
in what we are by God's grace in Christ Jesus. All things are
of God. All right, turn to Proverbs 16.
Proverbs 16, verse 4. The Lord hath made all things
for himself. Well, what all does that include? Read the rest of the sentence. Yea, even the wicked for the
day of evil. He made all things for himself.
even the wicked for the day of the evil they perform. He made Satan. Satan is not some hideous being
that popped up in God's creation without God's order. He made
it for the day that he tempted our mother Eve and drew away
our father Adam into destruction. He made him. And He made all
wicked men for the day of evil they live upon this earth, using
them as He did Satan, and as He still uses men and still uses
Satan in the day that He ordains, only to do that which He has
purposed, to bring about good, overruling evil for good on behalf
of His people. You mean, Brother Don, God's
even in control of the devil and hell and demons and wicked
men? Yeah! Yeah! Aren't you glad? You're
not! He is in absolute control. The Lord made all things for
himself, yea, even the wicked, for the day of judgment. Because
you see, you who are rebels against God, who will not bow to our
Redeemer, That doesn't mean you're not going to honor God. Oh, no. Oh, no. You're not going to get
by with a thing. You're going to bow. And you're going to acknowledge
that Jesus Christ is the Lord. And you're going to acknowledge
that he by right sends you to hell while you blaspheme his
name, acknowledging that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of
God the Father. Is that what the book teaches,
David? It's exactly what the book teaches. The Lord made all
things for himself. Paul, when he writes in Romans
chapter 11 and summarizes the whole of God's providence. And
he begins in the 8th chapter, talking about God's purpose.
And he gets into chapter 9, talking about Jacob and Esau, vessels
of wrath and vessels of mercy. And he talks about the Jews in
chapter 10 being cast away because they sought not righteousness
by faith, but sought to establish a righteousness of their own
and would not submit to the righteousness of God in Christ. So God cast
them off, he tells us in chapters 10 and 11. Chapter 12, chapter
11, he comes to the end of the chapter and he says, for of him
and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory both
now and forever. Ephesians chapter one. Ephesians,
the first chapter. Now, please, if you have trouble
finding these texts, just drop them down, look at them later.
I want you to hear what they say. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 10 Here the Holy
Spirit informs us That all things are disposed of by God in time
Exactly according to his purpose of grace in eternity in divine
predestination Ephesians 1 verse 10 That in the dispensation of
the fullness of times that is when everything's done He might
gather together in one All things in Christ gather everything up
in one big heap of history in Christ Jesus, both which are
in heaven and which are on earth. Everything. Everything. Even
in him, that is in Christ, in whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,
And this he does to the praise of the glory of his grace. Everything
that comes to pass in time was predestined by God in eternity
is brought to pass exactly according to God's purpose and disposed
of exactly as he will. No enemy exists that God didn't
raise up He has no arms that God doesn't control. He has no
evil intent that God doesn't rule. He has no power that God
doesn't absolutely manipulate. He does nothing that God has
not ordained. And when God's finished with
him, he cast him to hell. All things purposed. Brought
to pass and disposed of by God. Now I'm talking about God. Not
this little pygmy that men call God. Not an old man upstairs. Not God who's like a Coca-Cola
or Pepsi-Cola, the real thing. I'm talking about God. I'm talking
about God. Look at Hebrews. Now we turn
to John chapter 3. John chapter 3. Let me read to you a passage
in Hebrews 2. All things have been put into the hands and under
the feet of our blessed Lord Jesus, the God-man, our mediator.
Paul says, thou hast put all things in subjection under his
feet. David spoke those words. Paul
quotes them here in Hebrews chapter 2. Put all things in subjection
under his feet. That is under the feet of man.
Put everything under his feet. under the feet of man. God told
Adam everything was under his feet, and it appeared that it
was, but Satan messed that up. And then after the Lord destroyed
the earth, God told Noah he put everything under his feet, and
he caused all beasts and fowls and creatures on the earth to
fear man. But it doesn't look much like
things put under man's feet. Everything under your feet? Man, nothing's under my feet.
Nothing. Oh, but we see a man. A man whose name is Jesus. Our
representative. And God Almighty has put everything
under his feet. Everything. Look here in John
chapter 3. Our Lord Jesus says, The Father
loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. Now, in his eternal deity, the
Father gives him nothing. But as our mediator before the
world began, as our covenant surety before the world began,
the triune God put the reigns of the universe in the hands
of a man who was to come in time, Jesus Christ, our mediator. The Lord Jesus said, Father,
the hour has come. Glorify thy son. Give me the
glory that I had with you before the world was. So that after
our Lord's resurrection, when he ascended on high, the Lord
God manifestly put the world in his hands. But the world's
always been in his hands. Why stress this? Rejoice, O my
heart, rejoice. He who loved me and gave himself
for me holds the universe in his hands. He holds the reins. He is at the helm. He controls
everything. Lindsay, if I could just half
believe that, I would live in absolute ease. In absolute ease. Go back to 2 Corinthians again.
This time, chapter 4. Verse 15. Watch this. for all things are for your sakes. It's not just that they turn
out all right for you. It's not just that they, well,
you get some benefit from it. It's not just that everything
is going to be okay. That's not it. Everything that
comes to pass in time, Bob Potts, Everything God does it just for
you Just for me David said The Lord
performeth all things for me. Look at what Paul says. Remember
now This is this is not just the writing of a man. This is
the writing of man inspired by God's Spirit All things are for your sakes
that the abundant grace of might through the thanksgiving of many
redound to the glory of God. I look at this congregation here,
no more people than there are sitting right here in front of
me, and no more than I know about your life than mine. And just
from what I know, what you've told me, what you've let me in
on, it looks to me like everybody
here I believe every one of us has reason to just put our faces
in the dust before God and rejoice in His goodness, recognizing
how that God has overruled so much in our lives that we meant
for evil to do us good. Let alone what others meant for
evil, what we meant for evil. That the abundant grace you experience
might be down to the glory of God. All right, I've been working
my way to Romans chapter 8. Turn there. There's a very, very familiar passage. Verse 28, all things work together. Let's look at the text one word
at a time. We. We. You who are born of God. You who are taught of God. We
know. We don't have to prove it. We
know. And we have proved it. Again and again and again. We know. We know with confidence
that no science can give. We know. We know by the authority
of God's word. We know by the teaching of his
spirit. We know by the sweet experience of it. That all things,
all things. Everything. Every molecule, every
atom, every particle of dust, all things, all things work together like one huge piece
of machinery. Every gear and cog working in
perfect symmetry. Ezekiel saw it as wheels, wheels,
inside wheels. All things work together for
good. Only good. Spiritual good. Eternal good. Not good for just
one person or another, but for good to every one of God's elect
individually and the whole Church of God collectively, not only
in this day, but in every day. All things are sovereignly manipulated
by God. You mean God manipulates men?
Even the batting of your eye. Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't like that. Well, you've
got a problem. You've got a problem. God rules. All things work together
for good to them that love God. Who's that? Brother Lindsey showed
us this morning very plainly, none by nature. Everybody by
nature hates God, you too. Your children and mine, your
wife and mine, your husband and my wife's husband, all by nature
hate God. We despise it. We teach our children
to sing, oh, how I love Jesus, and teach them to lie with every
word. No, no, man by nature hates God. Well, he says, here all
things work together for good to them that love God. Who's
that? Them who are thee called. according to His purpose. If
there has somehow been created in you a love for God Almighty,
it's because God called you by His grace. Because God called
you. All things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called, according
to His purpose. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter
3. Verse 21. Therefore, let no man glory in
men, for all things are yours. This is God's Word to you. If
right now, if right now, you'd believe on the son of God. Listen
to me. I don't care how old you are,
how young you are. I don't care where you've been,
what you've done, what you've experienced. If right now you
believe on the son of God, if, if just this God Almighty drops his grace
in your soul, reveals Christ in you and causes you to believe.
This is God's word to you. All things are yours. All things yours. All things yours, not just for
your sake, but yours. All things temporal are yours
to use and enjoy for the glory of God. All things people won't
For Everest want me to set rules, tell folks what they can or can't
do, what they can or can't use, not me. This world, God told
Noah, I've given all things to you, all things. That means use
and enjoy the whole of the world temperately, moderately for the
glory of God as you see fit. Wow. That turns everybody loose. That's what I intended to do.
That's what I intended to do. You mean you're not going to
set rules? No. No. If you love Christ, do
what you want to. Is that all right? If you love Christ, use things
as you see fit. And I won't say a word. And anybody
who does, I'll get on them for it. If you love Christ, live
as you will. So I don't understand that. If
you ever come to love Christ, you will. All things heavenly,
the angels of God, the throne of God, the son of God, all are
yours. The righteous shall lack nothing. All things eternal. All of heaven,
all the glory, all the bliss, all the honor, all the majesty,
all the dignity, all the joy of heavenly glory is yours. Now, I want you to hear this,
turn to Matthew 22, verse 4. Here is a text designed specifically
for the benefit of you who are yet under the wrath of God. Here, the Lord Jesus commands
saved sinners to declare to lost sinners that all things are ready. Again, he sent forth other servants
saying, tell them their bidding. Behold, I prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fatling are killed
and all things are ready. Come to the marriage. come right now and be wed to
the Son of God. Be wed to Jesus Christ, but don't
bring a dowry. If you bring anything, you can't
come. Everything in this marriage is provided by the bridegroom
and the father of the bridegroom. Here, this marriage is a robe
of perfect righteousness. Here, this marriage is the gift
of complete pardon. Here, this marriage is perfect,
complete restoration. Here, this marriage is acceptance,
everlasting acceptance with God, unconditional salvation and acceptance,
everlasting security. Acts chapter 13, verse 39. Acts 13, verse 39. By Christ, all that believe are
justified from all things. Justified. Oh, it's a good word. I don't know of a better way
to describe it than what I've given you in the past. For years,
you see how your he and me is on the front page of your bulletin,
inside page? The left column is perfectly
straight. The right column is all out of whack. Nothing measures
up. Because this column, or this
side, is not justified with this side. Look at the other page. Isn't that marvelous? On the
computers, they have a little button. It's called justify.
highlight a paragraph and hit the button, and there it is.
This side is just exactly what this side is in measurement. Exactly. Shelby used to type
it three times to get it that way. She'd type it out, and then
she'd count the spaces, and she'd measure it, and type it again. I'm sorry, twice. Type it again
on the stencil. If the stencil didn't get messed
up, she just had to type it twice, and justify the margins, because
it makes it look pretty. Makes it look pretty. Listen
to me. Listen to me. Every sinner who
believes on the Son of God is justified. Here is God's holy, righteous,
perfect character as set forth both in the law of God and in
the obedience of the Son of God. Here it is. Perfect, straight. No error, no failure, no spot,
no wrinkle, no infirmity, no darkness, no corruption. Here
it is. And here I stand. Watch this
now. Watch it. Real pretty in God's sight. Perfect before God without seeing
before God, just before God, righteous before God. And God
justifies me in my own conscience, giving me faith in his son, Matthew
19. Look at verse 23. Jesus said
to his disciples, verily I say unto you, after this rich young
ruler went away, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the
kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it's
far easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Now you read some folks who talk about this that say, well, around
Jerusalem's wall there was a hole in the wall called the needle's
eye and that's where the Camels have to get down and crouch down,
they crawl through it with great difficulty, hogwash. It's easier
for a camel with both humps on his back, loaded down, to go
through an eye of a needle you can't get a piece of thread through.
That's exactly what it means. That's exactly what it means.
Than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. The disciples looked at the Lord
and said, If this rich man couldn't be saved, this rich young ruler,
good as he is, he didn't just have gold in his pocket, he thought
he had gold in his heart. If he can't be saved, who then
can be saved? Look at it. When his disciples
heard it, they were exceedingly amazed saying, who then can be
saved? But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, with men,
this is impossible, but with God, All things are possible. Well, I just don't believe he'll
ever be saved. I wouldn't be so quick. There's no filth the
blood of Christ can't cleanse. No spiritual deformity the grace
of God cannot correct. No nakedness of soul the righteousness
of Christ can't cover. Turn back to Mark, Mark chapter
9. Verse 23. Here's this man who
brings his demon-possessed son to the master. Jesus said unto
him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth. And straightway the father of
the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. Long time ago, Brother Rex Bartley,
back in the office, was leading us in prayer. I don't often write down what
men pray, but I wrote this down. I haven't forgotten it. Let me
read to you exactly what he said. Lord, never once in your word
do we find a sinner seeking mercy for himself who did not get it. Never once do we find any who
sought mercy for his child who did not get it. So we bring our
lost children to you and ask that you'll be merciful to them
for Christ's sake. That's what his father did. He dared to believe Jesus Christ
would heal his son if he'd bring him to him. And he did. And he did. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. You
don't need to turn there. I'll be very quick. I've got
to hurry now. If any man be in Christ, He's a new creature. Old things are passed away, and
behold, all things are become new. In Christ, God's given us a new
nature and a new record. And soon, he will bring us into
a new world. He declares, behold, I make all
things new. Oh, what shall it be? to enter
into God's new creation with a new body, raised, immortal,
incorruptible, spiritual, like our Savior changed from this
vileness into his incorruptible body, to live upon God's earth
where there's no trace of sin, no slime of the serpent, no hint
of a curse, or even the possibility Romans 8, 32. He despaired not
his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not
with him also freely give us all things? Freely give us all
things. I've told you this so many times,
but I like to tell it. It makes me look so good. Faith and Doug came home from
their honeymoon. First time they came to the house, I gave him
keys to everything. cars, garage, toolbox, showed
them where my guns were. Gave them keys to the safety
deposit box downtown. We got life insurance papers. Gave them
keys to everything. And whatever I've got, show it.
You use it as you want to. And I tell our store folks, you
didn't really do that. Darvin, I gave him my daughter. I gave him the apple of my eye.
I gave him what I cherish. You don't really think I wouldn't
give him a saw blade. Oh, no. Thank God gave us his
son. But what have you lacked? Well,
what do you think you're going to lack? He will freely give
you all things. Turn to Proverbs eight or 28,
rather. I do want you to see this. The wise man declares by God's
Spirit, they that seek the Lord understand all things. Look at
this. Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek
the Lord understand all things. We understand the origin of all
things is our God. He's the source. He's the one
that brings it to pass. And the end of all things is
the salvation of God's elect to His glory. The nature of everything
here is temporal. The nature of everything in the
world becomes eternal. We understand all things. We understand not necessarily
how this or that right now presently is best. Don't understand that. Don't pretend to. Don't pretend
to. I can't explain to you when you're burying one you love how
this right now is best for you. I can't explain to you the best
for him. I can't explain it to you. I
can't explain to you when you're going through great pain how
that pain is best for you. But I do know the nature of everything
and the source of everything. And I know the end of everything.
I recall 30 years ago when Tony had to have his head operated
on, we knew his condition. I said to Bill and Vicki, what a blessing. What a great
blessing God's given you. What a great blessing. What a
privilege. God's given you the privilege
of raising one that you can be absolutely certain one of his
elect. Oh, what about all those long
days waiting in the car while you're in school in Lexington?
What about all the trips back and forth? I can't explain all
that, but I know this. I know this. This is God's doing,
and it's good. It's good. Ephesians 520, giving
thanks always for all things unto God. When I was just a young believer,
I'd been going through some difficulty, and I thought the world was caving
in. You know, when a child falls and stumps his toe, he thinks
the world's coming to an end. I was just a child, and I stumped
my toe, and I thought the world was coming to an end. But to
the child, it's real. And the Lord directed my attention
to 1 Thessalonians 5, he said, in everything, give thanks for
this. Whatever it is, this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. If it weren't, it wouldn't
be. If it weren't, it wouldn't be. There's a time coming, we're
told in Acts chapter 3 verse 21, called the time of the restitution
of all things. The laws of restitution, remember
in the book of Leviticus, they weren't designed to teach you
to live a morbid life and teach you how to go get yourself in
prison if you robbed a bank before God saved you. That wasn't what
they were designed for. They were designed to teach us
that God Almighty will restore all His creation to His glory
with interest. Everything that men have attempted
to rob God of, God shall have. And it'll be to His praise and
glory. More to His praise. More to His
glory. that it could have been had there
been no fall, and the world had never experienced all that it's
experienced. Then we're told in Revelation
chapter 3, or Revelation 21, he that overcometh shall inherit
all things. All things. See yonder on the throne. sits a man who
earned the right to possess everything. David Bradley, does Jesus Christ
rightfully possess everything? Does it? That's yours. As surely as you're one with
Christ. He that overcometh shall inherit
all things. You mean won't be any degrees
of reward in heaven? I just sit here and preach purgatory
to you. That's nonsense. No, no. He that overcomes shall
inherit all things. And then Peter says in first
Peter four, seven. The end of all things is at hand. Now that's good. That's good. The end of all sorrow, and all
heartache, and all sickness, and all pain, and all death,
and all sin, and all concern, all trouble. The end of all things
is at hand. Now, let me show you this one
glorious passage in Mark chapter 7. I'll wrap it up. Mark chapter
7. when we come to the end and when all things have been
restored in God's creation to our Redeemer. Everything showing
forth his glory as we look over the day of time through which
we pass and have some much clearer understanding
than we have now. Like these folks at the end of
this day of miracles were beyond measure astonished saying, he
hath done all things well. So, when God gets done, we will say as now we cannot
even imagine. He hath done all things well. Amen.