the thirteenth chapter of Luke's
Gospel. I want to read to you the first
nine verses. This is one of the most solemn
words of the Lord Jesus, I think, that I am familiar with in the
Scriptures. There were present at that season
some that told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled
with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans,
because they suffered such things, I tell you nay, but except you
repent, you shall all likewise perish. Are those eighteen upon
whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them? Thank you that
they were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem, I tell
you now, but except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. He spake also this parable, a
certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, And he came
and sought fruit thereon, and he found none. Then said he unto
the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come
seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why cumbereth it the ground?
And he answered and said unto him, Lord, let it alone this
year also, till I have digged about it and dunged it, And if
it bear fruit, well, and if not, then after that thou shalt cut
it down." Now, in verse 1 here, something dreadful had happened
to a group of Galileans. This was widely known. I imagine it was a terrible incident
that had taken place. There had been a group of Galileans
that had gathered there in the temple or someplace in the synagogue,
and they were offering these sacrifices. No doubt they had
a priest. They gathered there to worship
in a worship service. And Pilate, for some reason or
another, had sent his soldiers, and we don't know why. I'm sure
if we had access to history, it would tell us why Pilate was
angry with these people. Some have given different reasons.
They attempted to overthrow the government. They refused to pay
taxes to the Roman government. But for some reason, Pilate was
angry with these people. He sent soldiers in there, and
they slaughtered these worshippers, these religious people. And their
blood was mixed with their sacrifices. What an awful, awful sight that
was. And these people who had came
here to the Lord Jesus Christ, they reminded Him of this incident,
and I don't know why. I don't know what their motives
were in bringing up this incident that had happened. Maybe it was
to have the Lord to sympathize with the families of these Gadareans. with their mothers or dads or
brothers or sisters or neighbors that this awful thing had happened?
Would you give some sympathy to these families that knew these
people? Or maybe it was for the reason
to turn the Lord Jesus' heart against Pilate, to make Him angry
with Pilate and to accuse Him of being the evil governor that
He was. But it seems the context here,
they brought this incident up out of reproach for these Galileans. They were saying, is this not
proof that these Galileans are sinners above all the other Galileans? Since this awful thing had happened
to them, surely they must be exceedingly wicked people. That
seems to be the reason they brought this up, because here in verses
2 and verse 3, the Lord answers this inquiry like this, Do you
suppose that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans? Because they suffered such a
thing as this, such a fate as this? I tell you no, but except
you repent, you shall all likewise perish. It seems that they were
saying, what an awful group of people this must have been. And
the Lord Jesus said, they were no worse than you. These weren't
open and profane men. They were just like you, no better,
no worse. And the Lord Jesus said of these
men here in verse 3, that they perished They were participating in a
religious service. They were offering sacrifices. They were violently killed. And
then the Lord says they perished. He wasn't speaking about any
temporal death. It wasn't a temporal perishing,
but an eternal perishing. These perish. And then in verse
4, he himself brings up this incident that happened here at
Jerusalem. There was a pool. We read about
it in John chapter 9. People often went here to wash.
The Lord Jesus sent a man here to wash his eyes after he had
put clay upon them. People often came here to wash
and bathe themselves. And there had a tower built either
over the pool or next to the pool, and this tower had fell
in the pool and slew 18 people. You and I would call that an
accident. I have no trouble with calling that an accident. Something
dreadfully happened and killed these 18 people. And these were
those who dwelt at Jerusalem. So we have two classes of people.
We have those in Galilee that often people look down upon as
just being common people, sinners above all people. But the Lord
said here were those who dwelt at Jerusalem. They were Jerusalem
sinners. But He said they were no different
than those up in Galilee, the Galilean sinners. They were no
better and no worse than anybody else. He was probably telling
this to the Galileans. They're just like you folks.
And he says the same thing to them in verses 4 and verse 5,
and closes it like this, Except you repent, ye shall all likewise
perish. And probably just about everybody
in this congregation, I would imagine, was familiar with these
incidences. I don't think you would have
had such a slaughter up in Galilee of a group of people in the worship
service in such a violent manner with that word of this spreading
everywhere. And if you were there in Jerusalem
and a tower fell into the Pool of Siloam and crushed 18 people,
the word of that would spread. Everybody was familiar with these
incidences. They could go into detail. Maybe
some of them were neighbors of them that had been killed or
crushed with it. But Jesus of Nazareth reveals
something concerning those who died there that nobody else could
know but Him. He reveals that He has a knowledge
of these people that no mere man could have. No mighty man
could have or no prophet could have. But someone who was divine,
someone who was a divine person, he not only had knowledge of
their hearts and their lives while they lived in this world,
because he said they were just like you. In their hearts they
were no worse and no better than you are. They were sinners just
like you. How does he know that? How did
the Lord Jesus know what was in their hearts? Because He knows
the hearts of men. He knows the thoughts of men.
But here, He said, not only did He know them while they were
living, but notice this, that He has knowledge. He has knowledge
of them after they leave this world. He has knowledge of their
condition and their state they're in after they leave. this world. You and I hear people dying. We can't know for certain where
they go when they die. We can't know if people go to
hell, if people go to heaven. We can say that the lost go to
hell and the saved go to heaven. The unregenerate perish, and
those who are in Christ go to heaven. We know that, but we're
not able to distinguish who's saved and who's not. We're not
infallible. We have our hopes when we see
people suffering and we see them depart this world. But we also
have our doubts, do we not? Don't we have our fears as well? It's because we don't know. What
knowledge we have is usually what we gain by associating with
people, but we can't see their hearts. And when they die and
leave this world, we have no idea what happens to them. We
don't know if they go down into ruin or up into everlasting glory. But this man, Jesus of Nazareth,
is not like us. Here he was talking to these
people about these incidences and how these people were in
their hearts and how they lived. And said he knew how they died.
But he goes beyond that. And he said, listen, I know their
condition now. I see the state that they're
in now. I have perfect and effectual
and infallible knowledge of these men now. except you repent, you also shall
perish." And He's simply saying there, these people have perished. I cannot say that. You cannot
say that. But He can. Here He stands. And to look upon this man, there
was nothing exceptionally about him. He had no fondness or comeliness. If you ladies looked upon him,
you wouldn't say, my, what a handsome man. There was no beauty in him
that you would desire him. He was a poor man. He had no
place to lay his head. He was often tempted, despised
by many. Rumors spread on him like wildfire. He was no exceptional man according
to all outward appearances and his outward circumstances. But
here was a man, Jesus of Nazareth, that had infallible knowledge,
that had intimate knowledge, that had heart knowledge, not
only of people who lived in this world, but people who died and
went off into eternity. He knew them thereto and what
they were exposed to. The Lord Jesus tells us a story
in the 16th chapter of this book of Luke about these two men. And some call that a parable,
but it's no such thing. It's not a parable at all. He
said there was a certain rich man, and there was a certain
beggar, and he told us about the life that they lived in this
world. But if you could have looked
upon them, you could have known that. The rich man fared sumptuously
every day. He had it easy. He had it made.
And the bagger was full of sores, and dogs came and licked those
sores. That's the only comfort that
he had. But the Lord Jesus' knowledge
doesn't stop with men in this world. He said they both died,
and there's as far as you and I can go. But the Lord tells
us something about those two men that only He could know. Intimate knowledge of them. He
saw as the angels swooped down with their arms of grace and
bore that poor beggar into heaven itself. Into Abraham's bosom. He saw that. And he made this
wonderful statement about this man. He said, now he's comforted. He knows that about him. How
could he know that about him? Jesus of Nazareth is no mere
man. He's the Son of God. He's God the Son. He can be no
less than that. And he told us about that rich
man who died, and he said in hell he lift up his eyes, being
in torment. And he knew some things about
that man. Knew what he was going through. He knew that he lift
up his eyes. He must have saw that. But how
could he know that? How could he see that? He knew
that his tongue was tormented. He knew that he was in a flame.
He knew all that about him. You know what the Scripture says
about the Lord Jesus Christ? And this tells us the kind of
man that He is. In Hebrews chapter 4, verse 13,
this is what is said of Him. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in His sight. For all things, all things, things
temporal and things eternal, things seen and things that are
not seen, fleshly things and spiritual things. Everything
is meted and opened in the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. We're naked. Our thoughts are
naked. Our hearts are naked. Hell is
naked and heaven is naked to the eyes of the Son of God. And
we have to do with it. We have no choice. We have to
do with Him who has this perfect knowledge of us. in this life and in that life
which is to come. This is a great comfort to the
believer. He takes great solace in this, but this is torment
to the guilty sinner. He dreads this. He dreads this. I used to think as I read this
passage here, especially in verses 1 through verse 8 and 9, that
our Lord was somewhat stern. that he was even indifferent
to the plight of these people, because he spake of it with such
ease, and seemingly offered no sympathy. How would you have felt if you
had been the mother of one of these men that was slaughtered
by Pilate? How would you have felt if you
had been a mother standing there, and you had heard the Lord Jesus
say, your son has perished? How would you have felt if you
had been the brother of one of those upon whom the tower in
Siloam fell and crushed him, and you heard the Lord Jesus
say, your brother has perished? He seemingly offered no sympathy
for it. He spake of it with such ease. And I used to read that and I
thought how stern the Lord Jesus is. Even how indifferent He could
be. But you know it's not sternness
at all. It's surely not indifference.
But you know what it is? It simply shows us a man, the
Son of God, in whom is no guile. There's no guile with Him. He
is brutally honest and open with us. He's not out to spare our
feelings. He will not spare our feelings.
Not even the feelings of dread and torment that we feel concerning
the world to come. He will not gloss over the reality
of what you and I as humanity is facing at the end of our lives
if we die lost. There is a hell to shun, and there is a heaven to gain.
There's a place of torment that has enlarged its borders to accommodate
those who are going there. If the Lord Jesus was hard-hearted,
if He delighted in the damnation of the souls of men, if He merely
intended to frighten us, that would not change the truth of
what He said. It's true. It's true. He knows the state and condition
of men who die lost. But much more should you and
I take His Word seriously when you and I remember that He is
meek and lowly in His heart. We read of the gentleness of
Christ, do we not? The compassion of Christ, the
love of Christ, He doesn't confront us with the
seriousness of our situation because he's stern and because
he's indifferent, but he confronts us with it because it's the truth. It's the awful truth of what
humanity is facing when it leaves this world. Either a place of
torment where there's no rest, Day or night, forever or eternal
bliss in the presence of God and Christ and of the holy angels. That's the truth of the seriousness
of our sinner generation. You consider what the Master
said here about men perishing. And one of the things that we
see from His words is this. There's all kinds of people who
perish from all walks of life. all ages. He tells us here of these Galileans. Who were those people? Mainly
common people. This is where the Lord Jesus
was raised up at, around Galilee and these cities. Most of them
were just common people. You and I would know them. We
could identify with them. You probably had a single mother. whose husband had died. And she
had raised the children. She had worked hard and labored
doing so. And now she was old. And she
had raised her children. And they turned out well thanks
to her. And she died. And she perished. Somebody was thinking, surely,
if there's anybody in heaven, it's this widow woman. She was
just a common person who lived up in Galilee. But she raised
her children and she worked hard. But the Lord Jesus said, No! No! Being a widow lady and loving
your children and supporting them will not stay the awful
judgment of God. You have this group of people
that the Lord Jesus tells us about. And they were gathered
here in this place of worship, and they were offering their
sacrifices. And suddenly, suddenly, these
soldiers came in and cut their throats, and cut their wrists,
and opened up their bellies, and their blood began to gush
out. It was an awful, horrible sight. And somebody said, surely
those men who were in there worshiping are now in heaven. And the Lord Jesus says, no,
no. Participating in a worship service,
going through these rituals, going through the motions, offering
outward sacrifices, where Christ is not in the heart, will not
stay the judgment of God. This place of Galilee was near
Nazareth where the Lord Jesus was raised. Nazareth was in Galilee. Capernaum was in Galilee. Chorazin,
Bethesda, all these places were in Galilee. This is where the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ was commonly used. He may well
have been a household name in Galilee. The Scripture tells us the common
people heard Him gladly, and that's so. But you know something,
brothers and sisters, there was a lot of common people who didn't
hear Him. How do you know that? Because you're some that perished.
Here's some common people that you and I knew and we had a fellowship
with. They were our neighbors, just
like us, no better or no worse. And the Master says they perished. Here is where the Lord Jesus
preached. And Nain, just a few miles from Nazareth, is where
the Lord Jesus raised that widow son. His name and His works were so
familiar around Galilee. And yet, here is the sad fact.
Those who had often heard His name, and many who had seen His
miracles, died and perished. Ain't that an awakened thought?
That's an awakened thought to me. Here I am participating in
a worship service. Here I am opening the Bible and
preaching. And here you are hearing, you
open your psalm books, and you sing and cleanse red, and we
have prayer. We're participating in a religious
worship service. Here were some more people that
did that, and yet they died and they perished. It's not coming
here and participating in a religious worship service that will stop
us from perishing when we die. What an awakened concept. God save us. God save us from
a sinful familiarity with the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They heard His name. They were
familiar with His name. But it rang as a cold bell in
their ears. They were so familiar with it
that His name and His work meant nothing to them. It meant nothing
to them. And therefore they died and they
perished. Woe be to those who hear the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ And yet their wills are never
bent to give themselves up to follow Him. They hear it often,
but it has no effect upon them. They have got so familiar with
it that they can come and sit under it and go home unaffected
by His name and His gospel. Woe be to those who experience
no heart gratitude when they hear of the sufferings of the
Savior. Woe be to that heart that feels
no warmth when he hears of the dying love of Jesus Christ for
miserable sinners. Woe be to those Galileans who
have become so familiar with hearing the name of Jesus of
Nazareth. that it has no sanctifying influence
in their hearts and in their lives. That's what the prophet
was complaining of, Glenn, that you told us about this morning.
Lord, who's believed our report? We have preached, and men have
come, and women have come, and they've listened to us, but they've
left unchanged. They come and they've got so
familiar with Christ's name and us proclaiming the works of Christ,
and even speaking of heaven and hell, the life to come, and yet
they've become so familiar with these things, it means nothing
to them anymore. They're Galileans. Our Lord tells us here in verses
3 and verse 5, The only thing that will stay
the judgment of God from the soul. There's one thing, brothers
and sisters, that will stay the judgment of God from the soul.
And he tells us here in verse 3, I tell you, nay, these weren't
sinners above all. They were just common people.
But except you repent, You shall all likewise perish. And he tells
us again in verse 5 concerning those Jerusalem sinners. They
weren't sinners above all that dwell in Jerusalem. They were
just like you and like me. And that's where you and I have
to take this and apply it to ourselves. We may have open and
profane people. We may have religious people.
We may have educated people. Brilliant people. Bankers and
lawyers are common people like us. But there's no difference. There's no difference in us. These things, who we are, and
what we've done, and what we're doing, cannot stay the judgment
of God from us. And then the Lord comes here
and tells us the only thing that will. And look here what He says.
Except you repent. Except you repent. And what's He saying there? He's
saying this. Repentance must be the beginning
of our relationship with God. Repentance is the beginning of
our walk with God. It must come before everything
else or everything else is useless. It's sinful. Don't talk about
faith apart from repentance. Don't talk about being saved
and accepted apart from repentance. Repentance must come before everything
else. It's repentance that sets the
heart right with God and nothing else. It doesn't matter who we
are, how we live, where we live. We stand in danger of perishing
if we die without repentance. Why is repentance necessary to
salvation? Except you repent, you shall
perish. It must be for this reason, because repentance is the beginning
of an honest and true walk with an honest and true God. Repentance is the beginning of
an honest and true relationship and walk with God who is an honest
and true God. How can two walk together except
they be agreed? And what is repentance but coming
in agreement with Him? And that agreement begins with
this, I have not been in agreement with you. I often tell you, I've told you
before about a pastor that told me one time that he had this
in his mind, that he and God was walking parallel. And someday
all he had to do was step over in God's path and everything
continued as it was until he found out that he was walking
contrary. God was in this path and he was
walking this way. It wasn't a stepping over, it
was a turning from. It was coming from being in disagreement
with God and rebellion against God and into agreement with God. How can two walk together except
they be agreed? God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all. And our whole problem, brothers
and sisters, is this. We're in darkness. God is light. We're in darkness. We walk in
darkness by nature and by practice. And repentance is a turning from
this darkness into light. And God cannot and will not have
fellowship with darkness. Neither will He fellowship with
us while we're in darkness. He cannot and He will not. Look
here in chapter 12, just back over to your left one chapter.
The Lord Jesus is preaching to this multitude of people. The
sermon begins here in verse 12, and it goes through our text
that we're reading in chapter 13. But you notice here what
he says about these Pharisees who would not repent. They were
unrepentant people. And notice how he describes them. In verse 1 he says, "...in the
meantime there were gathered together an innumerable multitude
of people, insomuch that they trod one upon another, and he
began to say first unto his disciples, Beware ye of the leaven, beware
of the doctrine, beware of the life of the Pharisees," look
at this, which is hypocrisy. What is the characteristic of
an unrepentant heart? Hypocrisy. Insincerity. Dishonesty. And look what else
he says. For there is nothing covered. What is the characteristic of
a non-repentant heart? Cover up. A cover up. Hiding things. And look what
else he says. There is nothing covered that
shall not be revealed, neither hid. There it is. Covering things
up. Hiding things. Hypocrisy. Therefore whatsoever ye shall
be spoken," look at this, in darkness, "...shall be heard
in light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear," in closets,
secret things. Could God have fellowship with
a heart like this? A heart of hypocrisy? A heart
that covers things up? A heart that hides things? A
heart that loves darkness? A heart that says one thing and
does another? If I regard iniquity in my heart,
if I walk in darkness in my heart, if I'm a hypocrite in my heart,
if I cover up things in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Your
sins have separated between you and your God, and your iniquities
have hid His face. that He will not hear you. Unrepentant
sin will hide God's face. That's why repentance is absolutely
necessary. It opens up the door. What is repentance then? Well,
the Lord Jesus would tell us here, it's a turning from our
hypocrisy to honesty and truthfulness and sincerity. I could get up
here and say repentance was turning from this sin and repentance
was turning from that sin, but repentance is turning to honesty,
to truthfulness, to sincerity. You can't be saved and be dishonest.
You can't be saved and try to deceive God. You can't be saved
and cover up your sins. You can't be saved without acknowledging
and without confession and owning up to it to the Lord. Repentance
is clearing the way. It's bringing yourself to God
and exposing yourself to Him. Here's what I am. Here's what
I've been. Here's what I've done. I don't
hide any of it. It's without guile. It's without
hypocrisy. You and I are sinners by nature
and by practice. We're hypocrites by nature. We
hide. We deceive ourselves and others. And before God, we must acknowledge
this and confront it and open up our hearts to Him in a full,
unconditional confession. God doesn't save hypocrites.
He saves them from their hypocrisy. God doesn't save those who cover
up their iniquities and want to own them. He saves them from
that. That's why repentance is necessary. It's the first step
of being right with God. It's a turning to Christ alone who is able to save us from ourselves. Repentance. Repentance. Look back over one more time,
just for a minute, just for a minute longer, in our text, in Luke
chapter 13. One of the things that I long
to see in our day, I saw it in myself and I long to see it in
others, and that's a brokenness, a misery sets up in the heart
that we're not right with God. That it's not enough for me to
come to a worship service. It's not enough for me to merely
profess and do religious things and pay tithes and read a chapter
occasionally. I want to be right with God. And there's a breaking up. There's
a confession. There's an opening up the soul
to Him. To quit hiding it. to quit deceiving
yourselves and others. In fact, we're deceiving God.
Repentance is necessary. It's absolutely essential. Except
you repent, you cannot walk with God. You cannot be right with
God. Our Savior goes on here in verse
6. Let me just mention this quickly and close it. If you and I, and
if you used to think, maybe if you think now as I used to about
our Lord being indifferent or stern concerning what I've been
saying and the knowledge that He has of lost people and how
freely He talks about it as if He's indifferent to it. Here
we see He's not indifferent at all. And this parable He gives
us here of the vineyard and the fig tree. It shows how faithful
He is. It shows how concerned He is.
And brothers and sisters, I tell you this, if I had to come to
this pulpit, and if I had to witness the lost man, and I could
not believe that Jesus Christ Himself was concerned with their
situation, then I would almost throw up my hands in despair.
I come here to you this morning even to you who are lost, and
I can earnestly say this, that Jesus Christ Himself is the only
One that is standing between you and eternal misery." And this parable proves it. This certain man, and this is
God, he had a fig tree, that's a professor, professor of religion,
and it was planted in his church. That is His vineyard. And He
came and sought fruit thereon, and He found none. See what God
does? And people do not realize this.
They say, I want to profess the Lord in water baptism. I've trusted
Jesus Christ as my Savior. And then they don't realize that
God is going to examine, God is going to search the heart
to seek that soul. He comes looking for fruit up
on that tree. And here's a tree that had been
planted in his vineyard. It had made a profession of faith.
And he says, three years I've come and I've searched this heart. There's been no fruit of humility. There's been no fruit of repentance.
There's been no fruit of faith and love and joy and knowledge. There's been a cover-up. It's been hypocrisy. Hiding things. Playing with the things of God. That's what they've been doing.
And God was somewhat angry about this. And He comes to the dresser
of the vineyard. And we know who that is, don't
we? That's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the mediator between God
and man. He dresses the vineyard. He fertilizes
it. He keeps the weeds out of the
vineyard. And here God says to the dresser of the vineyard,
there's a tree there, I want you to cut down. It's just taking
up space. It's no good. I didn't plant
it. I don't know how it got in there,
but I didn't plant it. It's fruitless. Cut it down. Cut it down. If men and women
who made a profession of Christ and yet lived in hypocrisy and
insincerity realize that the justice of God is calling for
their eternal overthrow, they'll think twice. And who was it that stayed the
hand of justice? Here the Lord Jesus, the blessed
mediator. Here He says, let it alone. One
more year. One more year. It deserves to
be cut down. It deserves to get under the
roots and pull it all out and cast it to the fire. That's what
it deserves. But leave it alone this year
also. Oh, he's not indifferent. He's not indifferent to the plight
of lost people, not even false professors. He's not stern and
cold and hard. No, He's a faithful mediator.
He's the only one that stops the awful wrath of God from falling
upon the unregenerate person. Let it alone this year also.
Let me dig about it. Let me fertilize it. I don't
know what all that includes. You go out this time of year
and we're hoeing our gardens, aren't we? We take our tomato
plants and we hole around and we put a little fertilizer and
pile it up. We get all the weeds out. We
watch over that plant in particular. We want the best for it. We want
the fruits of it. This is what the Lord Jesus was
doing. I don't know what all this means. Let me take that
person from where they are now and the ministry they're sitting
under now and let me set them under this other ministry. Let
me afflict them. Let me take one of their children
from them. Let me lay them on the bed in
the hospital. Let me make them think about eternity and death.
Let me dig about it. And notice this awful word that
he says. And if it bear fruit, well, Well, that's wonderful. That's wonderful. If the heart
is finally broken up with a bitter waffle cup, if they finally come
to the end of themselves and they're sick of their hypocrisy,
they're sick of their sins, they're sick of their insincerity, they're
sick of playing with the things of God, and they become serious and honest
and broken, And you hear that groan down in the soul. God be
merciful. Forgive me of my hypocrisy. Save me. Save me. Well. That's well. Oh, I tell you, the Son of God
knows when it's well with the soul. And when repentance sets
up in the soul, that's well. But if not, But if not, here's
how honest He is with us. It's not that He takes delight
in making us afraid. He can do nothing else but be
brutally honest with us. If not, if after I have digged
about it, if after I have dunged it, fertilized it, and dealt
with it, and it still is not brought to repentance, Cut it down. Cut it down. When the mediator says cut it
down, it's gone forever. Because there's nobody else to
stand and plead for the soul but Him. When repentance is not
forthcoming, finally, When mercy is despised and the name of Christ
has become so familiar that when you say, and hear His name, you
go on saying, I want nothing to do with Him. Until finally the mediator says,
not Mary. Not Mary. Oh, Christ has given
up. I read this in a book. I read
this in a book. Sometimes Christ gives up on
men and it's left up to Mary. Ain't that blasphemous? When
Christ says cut it down, it's gone. If Mary has anything to
do about it, she's sending us an Amen. Amen. Amen. Oh, brothers and sisters, it's
my hope this morning. It's my hope this morning. that the Lord Jesus Christ not let any of us die unrepentant. That we'd be brokenhearted, not
only forsaking it, turning from the darkness, but hating it,
and hating ourselves because of it. Giving up on ourselves
and our lives, and say, I'm sick of hypocrisy. I'm sick of seeing. And come and get under this fountain
that's open for seeing and uncleaning.