Please know my gratitude to God
for bringing you into my life. And my gratitude to you for your
concern and prayers for me, for God's servants in this generation,
for our assembly in Danville. Please know that. And let's turn
together to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1. Every Sunday night and Tuesday
night, we worship on Tuesday nights at home for a midweek
service so I can be free to travel. But before each service on Sunday
night and Tuesdays, most of the men in our congregation meet
with me in my office. They've built me a large office
so I can have plenty of room and we have scripture reading,
pray, sometimes talk about the weather, sometimes talk about
hound dogs, and sometimes talk about football. that we have
prayer and scripture reading together. And one of the older
deacons, Brother Bob Pontzer, read this first chapter of Colossians. And when he got done reading
the chapter, as we closed our Bibles and started to pray, one
of the other deacons, Brother Merle Hart, said, what a great
Savior. Brother Tim has just preached
to us about the necessity and the blessedness of looking to
Christ. If God the Holy Spirit will allow
me to show you something of the greatness of our Redeemer from
this blessed passage, Colossians chapter 1, maybe we might be
encouraged a little more to look to Him who is worthy worthy,
worthy to be trusted by us. The pastor of this church at
Colossae was a man about whom we know very, very little. But
we know all about him that really you need to know about any preacher.
Paul calls him a faithful minister of Christ. God make me that. And you can forget my name, it
will be all right. A faithful minister of Christ. One of the men came down here
and asked Brother Tim and I a little bit ago about something, and
some preachers told him. And Tim and I said almost in
unison, they're all wrong. You say that, folks look at you
and say, well, surely you can't make that judgment. Don't you
think these preachers and folks who deny the gospel of God's
free and sovereign grace are sincere? No, I don't. No, I don't. They're con men, con artists,
cheats, liars, thieves. Can I think of something worse
to say about them? No. Religious hucksters have been
around throughout the ages. Do you know for over 250 years
the Jewish priesthood faked it just to keep their salaries going? just to maintain their status
quo, just to hold their thumbs over people. I mean, they faked
everything. They faked everything. In Solomon's temple, in the second
temple, they didn't have any continually burning light. They
didn't have any Ark of the Covenant. They didn't have a mercy seat.
It wasn't there. But they'd go in every year on
the Day of Atonement and they'd Fake it. I guess they'd go in,
sit on the floor and smoke a cigarette. I don't know what they did. There
wasn't anything in there. There was nothing in there. Wasn't
in there. But they pretended. So all the people would think
they were going through the ceremonies, keeping the rituals just like
God required them to keep them. I sure would like to have seen
that fellow's face when that veil went open from top to bottom,
wouldn't you? I'd love to have seen his
face. I'm going to one of these days.
This man was a faithful minister of Jesus Christ. He was the pastor
of this church at Colossae, but while Paul was a prisoner at
Rome, Epaphras had also been thrown in jail. And while they
were both prisoners at Rome, this man Epaphras told Paul all
about his dear family at Colossae. Though he told Paul plainly of
his fears for them, You may not know this when your pastor and
I, Brother James and I, Brother Bird and I, and other pastors,
Brother Crabtree, we get together, we talk about y'all. We talk
about y'all. It's always good. I'm not joking. It's always good. That's the way men talk about
his family. Weaknesses, you know, folks ask
me about my grandchildren. I don't know why folks ask me
about my grandchildren. You'd think I'd love to talk about them.
They ask me about my grandchildren. I don't remember ever telling
a bad thing about either one of them. I do know one or two
things, but I don't talk about them. It's family. I love them. I love them. Well, we also talk
about our fears. We've seen some Horrible things
happen with churches once sound, solid, firm, live long enough
to see a good bit. The pastor shared his fears with
regard to this congregation at Colossae, and he prayed earnestly
for them, that they might stand perfect and complete in all the
will of God. That's what we want for you.
That you might stand perfect and complete in all the will
of God. And yet, he spoke of his brethren
in glowing terms. Glowing terms of love and adoration. He talked to Paul, you can look
at this a little more closely, I want to get to my passage I
want to deal with in a minute. But he talked to Paul about how
the Word of God came to these men and women in power, bringing
forth fruit to God in their lives. We see it in verse 6. He spoke
in verse 4 of their faith in Christ and their love to one
another, and love to all God's saints. And then in verse 5,
he said, Paul, I wish you could see these folks how they love
each other, how they care for God's calls around the world,
how they're concerned about the things of God in this world,
and I wish you could observe them as they walk before God,
looking to Christ in hope. Walk before God in hope, standing
on the tiptoe of faith, looking for the Redeemer. You know, that's
how we ought to live every day. Every day. People these days,
you know, prophets, profiteers, prophecy profiteers, they, every
time somebody, some new towel head over in Iraq or some fella
in Israel does something strange, they think, oh, this is it. And
they write a book, sell a million copies, it doesn't come to pass.
And they come back next year and the same fools listen to
them, write another book, sell another million copies. But nonsense. Oh, signs of the times. Our Lord
never told us to look for signs. He told us to look for Him, and
look for Him every day. Oh, He's coming. I want to be
found looking for Him. He spoke of their hope, and He
spoke of their faithfulness. They stand on the tiptoe of faith,
looking for Christ all the time, and they labor like He might
never come again. They're faithful people. And
Paul was so overwhelmed by a papyrus report concerning the saints
of Colossae that he fell in love with them too. He started praying
for them. And he wrote to them one of the
most blessed, robust, instructive portions of Scripture to be found
in all the Word of God. Here, this epistle of Colossians. And he began to pray for them.
Look at verse 9. For this cause we also, since
the day we heard it, since the first time we heard about you,
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you may be
filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding, that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto
all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing
in the knowledge of God." What's all that mean? Having heard so
much about them from Epaphus, Paul prayed for these folks,
and he says, this is what I'm asking God to do for you. I'm
asking God to Fill your hearts and minds with the knowledge
of His redemptive purpose, with the knowledge of His Word, the
Holy Scriptures, and with the knowledge of His will concerning
you. Do you know what God's will concerning
you is? Let me tell you. Good. Just good. Just good. There shall no evil happen to
the just. O child of God, walk every day
in this blessed peace. God is doing me good. I don't care who hits me in the
jaw. He's doing me good. Be filled
with the knowledge of it. That you might walk worthy of
the Lord unto all places. Pastor James just told us how
to do that. Look into Him. Look into Him. My dear wife, I am told frequently
whenever I'm preaching or I'm somewhere in a crowd, now you
might not understand this, just sits and looks adoringly at me. And you know she does. She does,
because her affections are set on me. And she honors me by her
adoration of me, and by continually looking to me to take care of
everything that regards her and our family. That's a pretty good
picture of what she's been saying, isn't it? Looking to Him. Walk worthy of the Lord. How
do you walk worthy of Him? Believe Him. Brother Tim got done preaching
and I said to him, oh how I pray God teach me to believe Him. I struggle with nothing like
I struggle with unbelief. And I know nothing is more dishonoring
to my Redeemer than unbelief. And nothing so honors Him as
believing Him. And then in verses 10 through
13, we're given Paul's description of faith as he prays for these
saints. That you might walk worthy of
the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work.
That's what it is to walk worthy of Him, looking to Him. Faith
in Christ brings forth fruit. in good works, works of love
and commitment and devotion to Christ and to His people, and
increasing in the knowledge of God. It's amazing how much you
learn about the Savior by looking to Him, how much you learn about
God by trusting Him. Strengthened, strengthened. Where does your strength come
from? by your weakness, looking to Him who is strength, strengthened
with all might according to His glorious power, unto all patience."
Yeah, looking to Christ will teach me patience and longsuffering. It will teach me to suffer long
with things that cause me pain. That doesn't mean just putting
up with it. Look at it with joyfulness. If I know myself a little bit,
I don't have too much difficulty with putting up with stuff and
even being patient with difficult circumstances. But man, I have
a tough time doing it with joy. With joyfulness? Not joyful because
of the pain, not joyful because of the heartache, not joyful
because of the trouble, not joyful because this fellow did that
or that fellow said that, but joyful because my blessed Savior,
my God, is He who has ordered this difficulty as well, giving
thanks. Now when you can rejoice in the
Lord and in its trouble, you can give thanks to him. Giving
thanks unto the Father, and watch this, which hath made us meet
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath
delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Now why is it you said you
shouldn't be thankful? Paul breaks out into thanksgiving. As he was writing to these Colossians
about their, about faith in Christ and about God's goodness and
mercy, he breaks out giving thanks to Him. His heart wells up with
gratitude, not only for what God has done for them, and he
prayed God would do for them, but what God has done, now listen,
what God has done, are you listening? For every sinner saved by His
grace, no exception. He's made us meat. Meat. The word is worthy. Joel, you are worthy to go to heaven. That's the word. That's the word. If you're in Christ, as worthy
as you will be when you're seated around the throne. Is that what
the word means, Pastor? Fit for glory, meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light, because God's delivered
us from the power of darkness. He's translated us into the kingdom
of his dear Son, in whom, in whom we have redemption. Oh, what a word. Sometimes it's
translated deliverance. Sometimes it's translated elusive. It is sometimes translated redemption,
speaking of deliverance. loosing, setting free by the
payment of a price. And that's what redemption is.
We have been loosed from sin, loosed from the curse of the
law, set free from death, set free from damnation, delivered
into the glorious liberty of the sons of God by His precious
blood. Now, give thanks. Give thanks. And Paul moves from thanksgiving
to praise. Verse 15. Who is the image of
the invisible God? No man's seen God at any time.
Anybody tells you they've seen Him, they don't know what they're
talking about. No man's ever seen Him. No man.
Christ is the image of the invisible God. the firstborn of every creature. For by him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him and for him. Looks to me like
he's telling us that Jesus Christ, who is the image of the invisible
God, is the one who created all things in the beginning, and
yet there seems to be a continual act of creating, for it speaks
about thrones and dominions and principalities and powers that
had nothing to do with original creation. He's continually creating
every circumstance, continually creating every event, continually
creating every power exactly as He will, and uses it as He
will for your God, for your everlasting salvation, for His glory. They were created by Him and
for Him. Brother Tim said it so well a
little bit ago, if you want to know what God's purpose is in
a thing, look at the result. And the result is everything
going to praise Him, everything going to honor Him, and His people
are going to sit with Him in the perfection of His glory and
His righteousness perfect in Him. But He don't. And He is
before all things. And by Him all things consist.
He's the glue that holds it all together. You mean we don't have
to worry about global warming? Nah. Don't have to worry about
the ice age? Nah. What about the ozone layer? Brother Donny Bell said, buy
you a case of aerosol spray, just spray the air full of it. You mean you're not concerned
about those things? I hope you understood that. No, I'm not
concerned about them. At all. He's the one who makes
everything hold together. And you know how long he's going
to hold it together? Until he gets done with it. And this is
going to make it all new. And he is the head of the body,
the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he might have the preeminence. Now when the
Scripture says here that Christ is the image of the invisible
God, this is what it means. He is that one in whom God is
known, by whom God reveals himself. When it says he's the firstborn
of every creature, that does not mean that he is the first
creature of God. Mormons would have you to believe
they give a great honor to Christ when they tell you that he is
God's first and greatest creature. That's to blaspheme and utterly
dishonor him, declaring that he himself is not God. What does
this mean then? He's the firstborn of every creature.
Revelation 3.14 will tell you. He is the beginning of the creation
of God. He is the firstborn from whom
everything springs. He's the creator of all things,
the beginning of all things, and the ruler of all things.
Christ is eternal. He is before all things. And He's the head, the head of
everything, the head of His body, the church. And He's the firstborn
from the dead. That is, He's the beginning of
the resurrection. In essence, this is what Paul's
telling us. God Almighty Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God Almighty,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Triune God, has put all things
in the hands of His Son, Jesus Christ, as our Mediator. That in all things, look at verse
18, He might have the preeminence. And when we talk about the Father,
or the triune God putting things into the hands of the Son, we're
talking about God giving things to the Son, we're talking about
the Son asking for things from the Father. Please understand,
please understand, in all such passages and in all such references,
we're not speaking of Jesus Christ as the second person of the Holy
Trinity. But rather we're speaking of
Him who is God the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, as
the God-Man, our Mediator, our Covenant Trinity, whom the Father
trusted from all eternity, with all things, as our Mediator. You remember what He prayed?
Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son
also may glorify Thee. Restore unto me. He didn't say,
give me. He said, restore unto me the
glory that I had with thee before the world was. The mediatorial
glory of that covenant suretorship and the accomplishments of redemption
for all his people before the world was. Now here's the reason
for all that's been said. Verse 19, For it pleased the
Father, it pleased God, that in Him, in this covenant surety,
in this God-man mediator, in this man who is God in the flesh,
in this one who in the fullness of time would not just assume
our nature, but the Word was made flesh. I'm so tired of theologians,
ancient and modern. Cutting everything up, so we
don't want to say this thing wrong. God did not become a man. I beg your pardon. The Word was
made flesh. What the book says, isn't it?
That's good enough. That's good enough. It pleased
God that in Him who is the man God and the God man, all fullness
dwell. Now I want to camp right there
and milk it for all I can for the next few minutes. Whatever we get from God, whatever
we get from God, be it mercy or judgment, whatever we get
from God, particularly as his own elect, as the sons and daughters
of the mighty God. Whatever we get from God, we
get it from the infinite, never-diminishing fullness of Christ our Mediator. All of it. John chapter 1, turn
there if you will. Don't lose your place in Colossians.
Verse 14. John told us, in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
Verse 14. And the Word, the Word. I've been preparing this message.
I had some thoughts in my mind, and I want to communicate them
to you. And the way I communicate the
thoughts of my mind, the passions of my heart, is with a Word. Jesus Christ is made wisdom to
us. He is the Word by which God communicates
to us. And this Word is God. But the Word that was God was
made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full." See that
glass right there? It's nowhere near full. It's
nowhere near full. It's about 30. Full. Right there. Full. He who is the infinite God, made
flesh, is full. But Tim illustrated this thing
so well, he created the universe as a span. And that's lowering
things. That's condescending. Infinity, we can't begin to imagine
what we're talking about when we speak of infinite. Jesus Christ,
the God-man, a man with a body just like this, a man whose body
is limited just like mine, a man of physical space just like I
am right here, is the infinite God dwelling in human flesh. And He's full. What's He full
of? Two things, grace and truth. Grace and truth. He is truth,
and He is grace. All things are His, for all things
are created by Him. Did you notice how often Paul
uses this word, all? It's a very little word, but
he says, all things were created by him, all things were created
for him, he's before all things, by him all things consist, the
Father hath given him preeminence in all things, all things shall
be reconciled to God by him. For it pleased the Father that
in him should all fullness dwell. This is the first thing I want
you to see. fullness dwells in Christ. What a word of comfort for us
poor, empty, bankrupt, worthless sinners. And that's what you
are. Poor, empty, worthless, bankrupt
sinners. That's all. By nature, we're
nothing but emptiness and vanity. Christ is all fullness. In me,
there is an utter lack of merit before God, a total absence of
power to gain merit with God, and a complete absence of will
to obey God, even if I had the ability to do so. But with Christ,
there's all Are you dead? Christ is life. Are you sin? Christ is righteousness. Are you naked? Christ is clothing. Are you hungry? Christ is bread. Are you thirsty? He's the living
water. Are you dirty? He's the fountain
open for cleansing. Are you blind? He's light. Are
you weary? He's rest. Are you a debtor? Christ is ransom. Are you helpless? Christ is strength. Are you guilty?
Christ is pardon. Are you a prisoner? Christ is
liberty. Are you condemned? Christ is
deliverance. Are you emptiness? Oh my God. Most of my days, I
live with a conscious awareness of deadness and emptiness. People talk about living on a mountain underneath
a starry sky, but walking on a higher ground, No matter higher
life, if I know when God began to deal with my soul in saving
grace, it's been 40 years, 40 years
since God saved me by His grace. 40 years since first He gave
me faith in Christ. And the valley has never been
lower and never been darker for me. To Him I live constantly with
a deadness in my soul, an emptiness in my heart, a barrenness that
I cannot see. And it's good for me to be there. I can't stand it and I wouldn't
be anywhere else. Because out of my emptiness I
look to Him for fullness. Out of my deadness, I look to
Him for life. Out of my barrenness, I look
to Him for quickness and quick quickening and the bringing forth
of fruit. When I am weak and find myself
nothing, then I'm strong for Christ is all. Do you understand
what I'm talking about? And as soon as you start to get
a little full, as soon as you start to Oh, now, now I'm living. As soon as you start to think,
oh, now I'm strong. I pray God will put you back
in the valley and spread darkness over you. And He will continually
give you that messenger, Satan, to beat you in the face lest
you be exalted above measure. Christ is all fullness. Of course, you know, your pastor
told you he's all the fullness of all the Old Testament, all
the types and pictures. He's not the foretaste, he's
the real thing. He's reality, not just a picture. He is all fullness in the Old
Testament. We won't turn back there and
look at it, but read Leviticus 6, just to give you one picture.
On the Day of Atonement, the high priest would take a a lamb
without spot, without blemish. And he'd bring another lamb without
spot, without blemish. And he'd cast lots on those two
lambs. And one of them is called the Lord's goat, and the other
one is called the scapegoat. And he would take the Lord's
goat and lay his hands on the head of that goat, press it,
and confessing over that goat all the sins of Israel as the
representative of the nation. And while he is confessing their
sins, he gets a knife and slits his throat, and takes the blood,
sprinkles on the altar, goes into the Holy of Holies, sprinkles
it on the mercy seat, the covering of the ark, housing the broken
law of God. And God would show His glorious
approval. And then He'd come out and put
on His gorgeous apparel again. And He would take this other
goat, the scapegoat, and He'd lay His hands on that scapegoat
and confess over that goat all the sins of all the people as
their representative. And he put a leash in the hand
of a fit man. And all the congregation would
watch as that fit man walks out until they could just see two
dots going over the horizon. In a little while, here comes
one dot back over the horizon. Just that fit man. And when work
of the day was done, Aaron would lift his hands and say, The Lord
bless thee. On the basis of all this, will
you hear me now? Christ is the priest, and Christ
is the paschal lamb, the Lord's goat, and Christ is the scapegoat,
and Christ is the fit man, and Christ is the mercy seat, and
Christ is the God who accepts the sacrifice. It's all Him. It's all Him. The Lord Jesus
Christ bear our sins. in his body on the tree. And this fit man who is God took
our sins away. And we see him going away into
the tomb, this fit man with guilt cast into the tomb. And it comes
out again, no sin, because he put away our sins by the sacrifice
of himself. And that's what all the Old Testament
pictures were about. That's what they were all about.
That's just one of them. Every sacrifice, every ceremony,
every event, every picture given in the Old Testament, every piece
of history written in the Old Testament is designed to teach
us one thing. Jesus Christ is the Savior of
His people by the sacrifice of Himself. He puts away their sins
and brings them a life everlasting by the merit of His blood and
the power of His grace. Christ is all the fullness of
the law. All of it. The law. We hear so
much talk about the law. I just soon hear a fellow cuss
and hear most preachers talk about law. Do, do, do. Anybody who's all the time telling
you to do, his religion is manure. I'm telling you the truth. I
won't be so plain you can't possibly misunderstand me. I was preaching
in England a while back. I was talking about resting,
sat down. I talked about Christ our Sabbath. I said, as long as you try to
keep the Sabbath day, you can't keep the Sabbath. As long as
you try to rest on Sunday, you can't rest in Christ. A fellow
said, how can you say I'm not saved, not resting in Christ?
I said, I didn't. You did. You did. Christ is the E-N-D
of the law. Anybody know what that means?
Y'all know where the end of the room is? I'm pointing to the
background. Is there any child in this building
who doesn't know where the end of that room is? Well, I know. How come folks can't figure out
that Christ is the end of the room? He's the end of the law. That
is, this is how far the law goes, no further. Or what does that
mean? Carry it just as far as you can
carry it. You mean the Ten Commandments? I said as far as you can carry
it. You mean the laws of dietary laws? As far as you can carry
it. You mean the political laws,
the civil laws? As far as you can carry it. He's
the E.N.D. I took time to look the word
up. Do you know what that word E-N-D is? You find it in John
19, verse 30, when the Lord Jesus cried, It is finished! The very same word. What did He finish? Everything
He came here to finish. What is Christ? He is the finishing
of the law. Are you saying Christ destroyed
the law? Of course not. He fulfilled the law. You folks
who are preaching that you ought to keep the law, destroy the
law. Let me say that again. You folks who teach that you
ought to keep the law, destroy the law. Christ fulfilled it. Christ fulfilled it. He's the
end of the law. Preaching in England a few weeks
ago, wife and I took one train ride from down in southern England,
a place called Honiton. We were going up to London. I
was going to preach a couple of nights up there. And the folks
got us a ticket, put us on the train, said, you'll get off at
Waterloo Station. Now, just the fact that it's
named Waterloo Station, I ought to have known what that meant. But
I said, how will I know when I get to Waterloo Station? He
said, when the train bumps the wall, you're there. Will you hear me? Christ is the
place where the law bumps the wall and I get off. I get off. This is the end. He fulfilled
the law for us. And all who go about seeking
obedience to the law are seeking to save themselves by the law
by contributing their obedience to His obedience for the fulfilling
of the law that they can never fulfill. Not only that, the Lord
Jesus Christ is the fullness of the triune God. Look at Colossians
2 verse 9. Now I've been off more than I
can chew. I realize I have now. I've got
to quit in a minute. But verse 9. In Him, in this
man, now look here. Look here, you're looking at
a man. Average, well, average height, I won't say average size.
Just average show. Here I am. Jesus Christ, the
man, in a body just like this. Just like this. In Him resides permanently all the fullness. of the triune
God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All of it. All of it. He is our God and Savior. In Him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, inner body. And you are complete in
Him. You are full in Him which is the
head of all principality and power. What fullness? All the fullness of truth. I'll deal with that first. With
reference to God. For He is made of God unto us
wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Will you hear me now? Oh, God
help you to hear me. Everything you need before God,
Christ is. Everything God requires of you,
Christ is. Everything you needed yesterday
or 30 years ago, and everything you need right now, Christ is. What's that? Wisdom, and righteousness,
and sanctification, and redemption. You mean by the darkness, no
place for anything done by us? Well, I must preach that pretty
good. That's exactly right. And all the fullness of grace
for us from the triune God dwells in Christ. I say to you, saints
and sinners alike, everything your soul requires, Christ is. We can with confidence sing,
Thou, O Christ, art all I want, more than all in Thee I find. Oh, but Brother Dodd, I need
a new heart. Christ is the one who gives it. But I need a broken
heart. They shall look on me whom they
have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him. If I just had
faith, Christ is the one who gives it, and He gives it to
all who look to it. But don't we need to repeat it? Christ
is the one who performs it and gives it. Oh, but I need life. He is life. But I just, I don't
know if it'll last or not. It won't. Depends on you. But
Christ is preservation. He keeps us. All right? Every now and then, there's a
fella out in Tempe, Colorado. He was a golf pro. And had an
accident, lost his right arm. Now he makes peeing golf clubs. And God saved him a few years
back. I hear from him every little
bit. Little Jim Jensick. Every letter I've ever gotten
from him, every letter I've ever gotten from him, this guy signs
it. In his grip. That's where I am. In his grip. Christ is all. What mortal tongue
can express this infinite bounty? He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him freely
give us all things? Reckon why I can't believe that?
Word bright. You were asking me last night
about the story you heard about me talking to my son-in-law.
Here it is. Doug and Faith got married. Came
over and asked for a hand in marriage. After making him uncomfortable,
which is the prerogative and responsibility of a father, I
finally consented, and I performed the ceremony. Sent them off on
their honeymoon, and while they were on their honeymoon, I got
papers together and keys. First time Doug was back at the
house, I handed him papers, card and insurance, the only thing
we got, and keys to the house, keys to
both vehicles, keys to the garage, keys to the toolbox, keys to
the gun cabinet, and I said, This is yours. Take it and use
it however you want to. Anything you need, it's yours.
You don't even have to ask permission. Just let me know where it is,
that's all. It's yours. Take it and use it however you
want to. You mean you gave him everything? Wayne, I had given him the most
precious thing. I'd given him my daughter. Think
I wouldn't give him a monkey wrench? He who spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all. What? How shall He not? Well, that's the most reasonable
thing on this earth to expect, isn't it? How shall He not? With Him also. Listen to it. Freely. You don't have to beg
for it. Freely give us all things. fullness in Him. All of it. So that, like that woman who
went to her barrel, and as long as she kept going to that barrel,
getting a little meal, she kept finding more meal in that barrel.
As long as she kept going to that cruise of oil, getting more
oil, she kept finding oil in that cruise. Christ is full,
my brother, for you. full for you. Preachers want
to be priests, about all of them do, so they try to have counseling
sessions. You don't need me to be your
priest. When you need comfort, you need to take it to Him. Now
let us share your burdens and share your joys, but I can't
do anything about either. Not a thing. He can. Whatever you need. Keep going
to this great, overflowing, gushing barrel and cruise and fountain
and draw water, sweet, sweet waters out of the well of salvation. Believe Him. Now believe Him.
Believe Him. Look to Him. Look to Him right
now. Look to my brother and my sister. Whatever you need, look away
to the Savior. And you who came in here, hovering
over the brink of hell, look to Him. And when you go home,
you'll go home with all fullness forever.