Well, let's get to our text this
morning in Romans chapter 1. I'd like to read, beginning with
verse 19, I'd like to read down through the 25th verse. Because
that which may be known of God, what can be known of God is manifest
in them. That is in the creation that
God has made for the invisible. Look at verse 20. For the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
You know where Paul got this was out of Psalms chapter 19
verses 1 through 3. But he says, for the invisible
things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. because that
when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful but became vain in their imagination and their foolish
heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds
and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore, God also gave
them up to uncleanness, through the lust of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Now there are many things in
these verses, some of them I'll not be able to spend very much
time on. But I do want to try to get the
main part of this message to you this morning. Now, the Scripture
overwhelmingly supports the truth that it is better not to know
and not do than it is to know and not do. The Master's wrath,
the wrath of God, seems to me, according to the testimony of
Holy Scripture, to be against those who sin against light,
those who sin against knowledge, those who sin against understanding. Now to be blessed of God and
to sit under the message of the gospel, as the gospel is set
before you, then for you to sit there and scoff at the message
of the gospel, I believe to be a very dangerous and disastrous
thing. I believe for men to have the
privilege of hearing the gospel, hearing how God reconciles and
how God saves sinners, how God brings sinners out of darkness
into light, how that He brings them out of eternal death into
eternal life. I think it's a glorious privilege.
but for an individual to hear the message of the gospel, the
pure, unadulterated message of the gospel, and to sit and to
scoff. My friend, I say to you, it is
a dangerous and a disastrous thing. When the truth of God
is revealed, sin then becomes willful, sin then becomes intentional,
and woe be to that person who abides in that position. God's
dealings with men, I believe, are different before Revelation
than it is after Revelation. The God of the Bible is a merciful
and gracious God. He's not going to save anybody
apart from His gospel. But I do believe that God, in
mercy, allows people to hear the gospel over and over and
over again. But once the truth of the gospel
comes home to your heart and you hear it, with hearing ears,
my friend, it's time for you to own that gospel and to make
it clear to others that you stand with the Master, with the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now the Bible teaches that no
man can claim clemency on the basis of his ignorance. We read
here, were there without excuse. Paul tells us that God has revealed
enough of himself that all men as they stand naturally or without
excuse. The heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament shows forth his handiwork. The language
of this creation is clearly understood in all places. Beloved, I know
that there are people who think they know God. They think they
know God. but they do not know God in truth
as he's revealed in Holy Scripture. I remember hearing a woman one
time say that she believed she understood God's sovereignty
and God's grace. She said, I believe it means
that if my son goes to hell, it's God that caused it. It's God that sent him there.
It is not God's fault that any sinner goes to hell. Let me explain
what I mean, why, and that's because God has revealed enough
of himself today that any sinner in the state of Montana is without
excuse. God has revealed enough about
himself in creation to stir up the heart of any man who's looking
for light, to stir him up to seek light, and the more light
that is sought, the more will be revealed. We're told by those
who want to make an argument for the lost, well, preacher,
what we need is education. If people knew about God so they
could understand him, then they would believe. All they need
is a little more education. They need to be able to understand. If we could make it plain, preacher,
if you ever make it plain, folks will worship God. If it could
just be made plain. Well, my friend, it's not a matter,
you know, of the heart not being right, they say. It's not a matter
of the heart not being right. It's just that they can't understand. They cannot understand. They're
confused. One old preacher down south said,
I don't confuse anybody by my preaching. They're confused already. They were confused when they
were born. They were confused about the truth. People have
good hearts, they say. But they just don't understand
you preachers. You don't make it plain enough. Well, I do not believe, brother,
sister, that the Bible will support that view. I make this indictment
against all of us and against the whole human race that there's
not a one of us who lives up to what light that we do have.
Not a one of us. Don't we make things nice? Aren't
we charitable when the lost are our fathers and mothers, sisters
and brothers? Don't we be very charitable toward
them when we're talking about them? It's difficult to call
people we love after the flesh, unbelievers. It's difficult to
call them rebels. It's difficult to say that they're
blind spiritually, that they're dead spiritually. It's difficult
to tell them that. You know, I overheard a conversation
many years ago between a preacher and one of the members of his
church, one of the sisters in the church. And she was talking
to the preacher about her sister. And the preacher said, well,
is your sister a believer? Is she a believer? Well, she
said, I wouldn't say she was, and I wouldn't say she wasn't.
Well, what is she? Well, it is difficult to say
really what she is. Well, old Jim there, is he an
unbeliever? Oh, yes, he's an unbeliever.
He doesn't know the gospel. Well, again, what about your
sister? Well, I don't know how to answer that. She's a believer,
but she just doesn't understand. She needs for it to be made plain
to her. She just doesn't understand.
She works, you know, and when she's off, she's tired, you see.
And fact is, her mother would come, but she's 75 and still
works around the house every day. And on Sunday, it's difficult
for a woman her age to get out. You understand, preacher. You
understand. It's just simply, well, we make
all kinds of allowances for folks, our folks after the flesh, when
they're without excuse. They're without excuse. There's
not been revealed. God is not a God who is in any
way, shape, or form fixed it so that he is hiding from men. He's not hiding from anybody.
He's revealed himself in the Word, in the Scriptures, in creation,
and men are without excuse. Well, let's see if that will
hold water. Let's see how plain we can make
it. Let's see how simple we can present
the gospel. Let us always labor to do that. Make it as plain as we can. Let
us see how deliberate we can preach the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us see. Just let us see what
the problem is. Is the problem really with the
preaching? Is it with the Word of God? Is
there a problem in creation? Has God pulled the window blind
over creation so that nobody knows anything? He's keeping
everybody in the dark. Well, let's see if it's just
a matter of the head, or let's see if it's a matter of the heart.
Beloved, I know a whole lot of people who never could read and
write. I've known of them who knew the gospel, had a hope in
the gospel, had a hope that their souls were saved. And they had
to mark an X for their name. They couldn't read it. They were
not able to read, but yet the gospel was revealed to them and
they obeyed the light of the gospel and they were saved. Let's
see if we need to turn our churches into universities where we're
teaching people about God. The Bible said in our text, when
they knew God, when they knew God in verse 21. So in verse
21 it presupposes that education had taken place, that these people
had come to know some things. Verse 21 says that all that men
tell us that needs to take place, that it had taken place. They
knew God. So we now ought to be able to
say that if it's education, and education has taken place, then
why do these people not bow down to the Lord? Why did they not
worship Him? Why did they not adore Him? Why
were they not praising Him? Why were they not loving Him?
The Bible says, when they knew Him. They knew if they already
got the education, but they did not revere Him. But the Bible
says that they glorified Him not as God, even though that
they got the message of creation, even though they got the message
that God had made all these things and had created the world, and
that God was the architect of all that we're able to look at
with our eyes. They still did not revere Him. They did not ascribe any honor
to Him. It's time, beloved, for us to
stop being sympathetic toward this culture, to stop spreading
tulips around the unbelievers, to stop making allowance for
religious quacks, to stop courting and pitting these various religious
movements around the world, and to tell the truth. It's not that
they didn't know. I remember a preacher in Indiana
that I spent some time with. I tried to explain to him the
doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty. Tried to talk to him about the
attributes of God. Tried to talk to him about God's
purpose in election and salvation, showing that salvation was of
God from the beginning to the end. I never will forget what
that preacher said. He looked me in the face and
he said, human intellect? will not let me believe that. It is not logical to the mind,
and so he would not believe it. Well, there was no awe in their
hearts, no awe in these people's hearts. They knew God, but there
was no awe. What I see in religion today
is not awe, but what I see is awful, if you please. It is awful. Well, glorified, this word glorified,
they glorified him not as God. Now in the Greek that word means
they had no good opinion. And John Gill says what Paul
is saying here is that when they knew him, when they recognized
him, they had no good opinion of him. They had no good opinion
of God. I'm talking about your ancestors. I'm talking about your kinfolk
back down the line. I'm talking about human nature.
I'm talking about men that stand in a state of nature in the flesh. They recognized him not. They
had no good opinion of God, even though they had him revealed
to them in creation. Now, in the Hebrew it means weight,
substance, dignity. When they knew Him, they ascribed
to Him no substance. There was no weight to Him. They
did not revere Him with any dignity. Can you imagine? But anywhere
you find the people of grace, anywhere you find the people
of God, the chosen people of God meeting together, they have
a good opinion about God, don't they? They have a very weighty
opinion about God, their substance to the God that we believe in
and that we serve. We ought to ascribe to Him some
weight, some substance, some dignity. Well, next, their vain
imaginations are mentioned. Rather than see Him and glorify
Him, they formed an empty image God, that is an image that is
diametrically opposed to the God of weight and the God of
substance. They themselves created an image
in their own mind, in their own imaginations that was vain, that
was empty, without substance, without weight. They would rather
worship that than to worship the living and the true God. Now human nature, fallen nature,
fallen men and women would rather worship anything or anybody rather
than the God of the Bible, than the God of creation. That is
an indictment, but I stand behind it. Men by nature left to themselves
would rather worship anything than the true God of the Bible.
Next, professing themselves to be wise. I guess you know that
a grace preacher is an ignorant man, don't you? I guess you know
that. These people profess themselves
to be wise. If you heard one of them, they
say you heard them all. They say if you hear one of them,
you've heard everything they've got to say. A man told Henry
Mahan, and some of you have his commentaries, but when Henry
was writing these commentaries, there was a man that told him,
said, you've got no right to write a commentary, a Bible commentary,
because you're no scholar. You're no scholar. Well, you
know, they say Charles Haddon Spurgeon, that he was no trained
man. He said there's no need talking
up Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He never went to college. They
said he never went to seminary. Well, they say he wasn't even
ordained. And the truth is he was not ordained.
Old Charles Haddon Spurgeon was ordained of God. He was never
ordained of men. He said it was empty hands being
placed on empty heads in most instances, and I suppose he's
right. I suppose he's right. But these
folks were wise people. They professed themselves to
be wise, and men by nature, you see, professed themselves to
be wise in their own mind. They drank, you see, from other
streams than what natural or ordinary people do, streams of
wisdom and culture. They were philosophers. They
spoke of mystic things. They spoke of stars and rocks
and wonders they gloried in themselves. They were brilliant in their
own eyes. They spoke of great things of
the universe. They knew the distance of the
stars, and they spoke mystic language. They were the brothers
of those on Mars Hill. They were wise professors. They
spoke the language of the Stoics and the Epicureans. These people
were very wise. I remember one time a fellow
talking about hearing a doctor of religion, and he said he was
very deep. And so the question was asked,
well, so what did he say? And, well, he said, I don't know
what he was saying. He was talking stuff nobody knows. And that's many, many times the
case. People, you know, that are wise and the world and the
ways of the world and all of that, they talk stuff that nobody
knows. Next, how did they handle this
glory of God? Did they walk away from it? No!
The Bible says they changed it. They changed it. That's what
they did. Now there's a long list here of what they changed
it to, but look at what is number one in verse 23, and they'll
do it every time. Men will do it every time. Made
like to corruptible man. They thought that God was altogether
such a one as themselves. That's what they thought. And
so they changed the glory of God into the image of corruptible
man. Now you can build a big church,
my friend, if you teach men to worship a man. If you can find
a man Just a certain man, and teach men to worship that man,
you can build a big church. But you cannot build a big church
teaching men to worship God. No, sir. Because men would far
more worship a man than they would worship Almighty God. Then they become more degenerate,
and they go down to birds, four-footed beasts, creeping things, snakes,
snails, and anything, listen to me, anything but God. Anything
but God. Well, what happened to them?
Listen to this. People say God made something
horrible out of these people. God made something horrible out
of them. No, you read it again. He gave them up, all right, but
to the lust of their own hearts. All God needs to do is to turn
you loose to what is already in you, my friend. That's all
God needs to do. He doesn't have to make something
horrible out of you. He doesn't have to make you anything.
There was an old preacher that was preaching on the doctrine
of depravity. And I don't know, some people
may feel that I'm a little bit, you know, a little bit off center.
But the doctrine of depravity, I love the doctrine of depravity.
I do. I love it. The reason I love
it is because it has made me, my understanding of it, my understanding
and my grasp of it, it has made me love the Lord Jesus Christ
more than I could have ever loved Him before. It makes me appreciate
the gospel of the grace of God. It makes me understand the great
covenant of grace, and to be able to enter into it, and rejoice
in it, and to be glad in it. And so the doctrine of depravity,
my friend, it don't scare me any, but I love that doctrine
because of the effects it has in my heart. But it's a true
doctrine. The old preacher was preaching up depravity and a
fella came up to him and said, I can't swallow that depravity
business. I can't swallow it. And he said,
you don't have to swallow it. It's already in you. It's already
in you. It's not something you gotta
swallow. You're depraved. All men by nature are depraved. They're all lost. And they're
not as bad as they can be, but they're all bad at any given
time. God gave them up to the lust
of their own heart. He turned them loose to what
was already there. What was already there. Now don't tell me I'm making
men and women out to be something that they're not. I'm telling
you what they are is what they already was and God just turned
them loose to be what they are. He just turned them loose to
it. You don't need God to make you a monster. You already want
by nature. Anybody in this building that
knows their own heart knows how bad they really are. Nobody here
knows how bad they really are. We're falling in Adam. You say,
I don't ever remember being in Adam, preacher. No. Well, you
remember a few times that he's been in you, don't you? You probably
remember a few times that old Adam's been in you. Well, my
friend, by nature, you don't need God to make you a backbiter. You don't need for Him to make
you an inventor of evil things. You don't need for Him to make
you to be a hater of other men or to be deceptive in your practices. You're already like that. You're
already like that by nature. The only reason why you haven't
gone to the full extent, all God has to do is take away the
restraining grace, and you go and you do all the dirt that
anybody else has ever done. The only reason. And you young
people here, you got a lot to be grateful for. Most of you
have very good parents. And you have parents that have
restrained you. That's the grace of God. That's
what it is. It's the grace of God. If your
daddy takes a hold of your shoulder and says, son, you're not to
do this, this is not the thing to do, you quit looking at it
like it was your dad in the flesh and look at it like it was the
grace of God. That's what it is. Because he's
trying to lead you right, trying to steer you right, trying to
make you go in the right direction to keep you on course. as long
as he possibly can. And your mothers, most of you
have good mothers. And how blessed you are that
you've got these good families because they've keeping you in
the way. And thank God that he hadn't turned you over. Thank
God he hadn't abandoned you. Thank God he hadn't just given
you up to what you could be in your heart this very day. Well, next thing in verse 25,
we have to hurry here because Well, why? Why did God give these
people up? Verse 25, was it because they
stuck their tongues out at God? No. Because they called him a
bad name? Because they wouldn't come to
church? No, that wasn't the reason. Well, I want you to get this.
They tampered with his truth. They changed the truth of God
into a lie. That's what happened. They changed
the truth of God into a lie. And God won't stand for this. He won't take it. Why they say
preacher quit nitpicking and quit dotting every eye and crossing
every teeth. We don't have to be so strict. We don't have to be so precise.
Well, the truth of God may not be important to you, my friend,
but it is to God. His truth is important to Him. I've been preaching now for nearly
50 years. A long time ago, I come across
some books. You can buy them. You can still
buy them. All you have to do is go to the
family Bible bookstore. You can buy books. It's full
of sermon outlines. Two hundred in some of them.
Five hundred in others. Three hundred in others. And
you can preach them. If you've got a lick of sense,
you can preach them without a bit of trouble. But is there any
truth in them? No. No truth in them. No truth. No truth. Well, my friend, the
truth is what is to be adhered to. We're to find the truth,
and these people, they change the truth of God into a lie,
and they worship what God had made more than God the Creator. Only God is blessed forever,
and He's the fountain of all blessing. He's the blessed eternal
one, and they would worship what He made, but they would not worship
Himself. They don't want the truth. They
hate men who preach the truth. I'm talking about this generation
of religious people and this generation of people that's never
been touched by the finger of God and by the pure revelation
of the gospel in the very heart of their soul. They ask, where
did you come up with this new stuff that you've got? New, my
friend, new. This is the old, old story. If it's new, it's not truth.
If it's truth, it's not new. Make a note of that. If it's
truth, it's not new. The Bible is the record of God's
grace. The Bible is the record of God's
glory in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not a new thing.
That is the truth. This is the same story that the
apostles turned the world upside down with. Well, Calvinism is
older than John Calvin. It's older than Augustine. It's
older than John Knox. It is older than the Apostle
Paul. It was born, I believe, in the bosom of God. The truth
of God's saving grace through a substitute, the truth of how
that God in Christ reconciled all of his people unto himself
through the blood of the cross is an old truth. It's God's glory. It's his revelation. How old
is God? Well, the Bible says from everlasting
to everlasting He is God. Well, that's how old the truth
is. It's as old as God is. They changed
the truth. Now look at this. To tamper with
the truth is to alter history. It's to alter His story. Let
me show you how serious this is. To alter history. is to move
the fastened glory of God. God's glory is fastened down
in some places, and to alter the truth, to tamper with the
truth, to change the truth, to go back and to turn what has
been settled, is to change His story. His story. History. And that's to unfasten the glory
of God that's already fastened down in His story. Well, God
got some fastened glory, don't you think, when he made a dry
path in the Red Sea? Oh, he did. He got some glory
when he opened up the Red Sea and the children of Israel went
over dry shot. He got some glory. There's some
fastened glory there. Stand still, was what the Lord
said to old Moses, and see the salvation of the Lord. Now, the
liberal and the modernist is going back in history in these
theological institutions and seminaries around the country,
and they're trying to build a bridge over the Red Sea. trying to build
a bridge over the Red Sea. Now if they were successful,
they would cancel out the glory of God in opening up the Red
Sea. See what I mean? When it's changing
the truth, changing the truth, where God will not stand for
any man to build a bridge over the Red Sea. He'll keep it just
like it is. His glory is fastened down Right
there. God got the glory. They sung
a song unto the Lord. A song of glory and praise because
God had gotten himself with his strong right arm. He had gotten
the victory and his glory was fastened down right there. Next
they're going back now in theological institutions and trying to kill
Goliath with a heart attack. With a heart attack. Well, not
so my friend, not so because the glory of God is fastened
to the stone that old David used in that sling when he slung that
rock at Goliath. and killed him dead. The glory
of God, I believe, flew in that stone, don't you? I believe it
did. Now you say you're a little bit
war preacher. I believe the glory of God flew in that stone. The glory of God to catch that
stone out of the air and to remove David and to kill Goliath some
other way is to rob God of His glory. The stone must fly because
it is to the glory of God and God's glory is fastened down
right there. These people would change the
truth of God into a lie. They say in a book that I've
been acquainted with that is out now that the soldiers when
they march over a bridge that they're supposed to fall out
of rank because if not, it will destroy the bridge. And they
say that this is how we explain away the falling down of the
walls of Jericho. Now we know in Joshua chapter
6 that the children of Israel were commanded to march around
one time a day for six days. On the seventh day, you march
around on the seventh day seven times, and you're blowing that
ram's trumpet, and you're to make this great noise, and God
said them walls are going to fall down. But my friend, why
the attempt to explain it away and to say that it was the walking
on the ground that caused them, them walls were wide enough to
have chariot races, to have six or seven chariots running on
top of them. And it wasn't nobody, no million
people or two million people marching around the walls on
the outside that was going to make them walls fall down. What
it is, it's an attempt to change the glory of God. God knocked
those walls down. He knocked it down. God did,
and His glory is fastened down there. I give Him praise. I give
Him glory, because it was a magnificent show of the strength and wisdom. There wasn't a human general
in all of the world at that time, or even in this time, that would
advise the children of Israel to conquer Jericho that way. Nobody, nobody that had an ounce
of military sense would have believed it would have happened.
But God glorified himself by leading the children of Israel
to do this, and it was the way that God intervened. to get the true bread, the true
bread, I'm the true bread, and I came down from heaven, and
that nanny in the wilderness, it was kind of like a surprise
lily, I guess, I don't know a whole lot about that, but there was
a cookie-like thing that fell off of this plant, and the Jewish
historians had no word for it, so they called it bread from
heaven. bread from heaven. And this was
a type of Christ. And this is the way that God
fed the Israelites in the wilderness with the manna. Day by day the
manna fell and they were able to sustain life on that. Somebody said, well you mean
to tell me that two million people were sustained with that kind
of stuff in the wilderness? That's exactly what I'm here
to tell you. I'm telling you that the glory of God is fastened
right there in the manna from heaven. And then, you know, there's
an attack always upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer that
was born of a virgin. Ah, this is one of their places
where they want to change the truth of God into a lie, because
they say, that'll never work. That can't be, that can't be.
And I realize that only a child of God or an idiot would believe
in the virgin birth. I realize that, but my friend,
the glory of God is there. The glory of God is there. If
you could prove that Jesus was not virgin born, if you could
prove that his father was Joseph, Then our gospel is a rope of
sand. We have no gospel. We have no
deliverer. There is no redeemer out of Zion. There is none that can be called
truthfully the Lord our righteousness because he would have a nature
like ours and he would have sin and he would not be spotless
and without blemish. He is God. He is the God-man. And it's through this man, not
the man in the pulpit, but the man in the book, that forgiveness
of sin is preached unto us. So they must attack the very
heart of God, the incarnate Word of God. They must attack Jesus,
the crucified one. Well, the next thing, and I'm
hurrying because we need to get through here. After they had
crucified him, remember they crucified the Lord of glory. And then, after they crucified
him in Matthew chapter 27, let me share this with you. Matthew
chapter 27, if you have your Bible, turn there quickly. And
it begins with verse 57. When the evening was come, there
came a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph, who also himself
was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate and begged
the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body
to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his
own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock. And he rolled
a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and he departed."
And then, let's go down to verse 63, saying, Sir, the next day that followed, according
to verse 62, The chief priests and Pharisees came together to
Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while
he was yet alive, after three days I'll rise again. Command,
therefore, that the sepulcher be made sure until the third
day, lest his disciples come by night, steal him away, and
say unto the people he is risen from the dead. So the last error
shall be worse than the first. So Pilate said to them, you have
a watch. Go your way. Make it as sure
as you can. So they went, and they made the
sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting a watch. Now at the
end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn in chapter 28, toward
the first day of the week, came Mary to see the sepulchre. Behold, there was a great earthquake. For the angel of the Lord descended
from heaven, came and rolled back the stone from the door,
and sat upon it. Do you believe that? His countenance
was like lightning, his reign as white as snow. And for fear
of him the keepers did shake and become as dead. And the angel
answered and said to the woman, Fear not ye, for I know that
ye seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen.
As he said, come see the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly
and tell the disciples that he is risen from the dead. And they
departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy. And they went to tell his disciples,
behold, Jesus met them. And they came and they held him
by the feet and worshipped him. Verse 10, Then said Jesus unto
them, Be not afraid, go tell the brethren That they go into
Galilee and there shall they see me verse 11 now when they
were going Behold some of the watch came into the city and
showed him the chief priest all the things that were done now
listen to this cover-up when they try to change the truth
into a lie keep right on doing it and when they were assembled
with the elders and taking counsel they said hey I to those soldiers. We'll give you an Easter bonus.
We'll give you a big Easter bonus here. They gave large money into
the soldiers saying, say ye his disciples came by night and stole
him away while he slept, while we slept. And if this come to
the governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you so
they took the bonus and did as they were taught. And this saying
is reported as commonly reported among the Jews until this day. And so they said, seal up that
tomb, don't let him out. They knew that they did not have
a truth in that tomb, that they had the truth that Brock was
talking about in his verse this morning. He's the truth, the
lie. They didn't have a truth in there.
They had the truth. And they knew that the most important
The devil was to make, was to keep the truth from coming out
of that tomb. He had to keep that from happening. Hold him
in there. Watch that tomb. Anything moves,
kill it. Please don't go to sleep on the
job because if that tomb is open and that man walks out, the kingdom
of hell has got trouble and the kingdom of hell is defeated. I said, we're going to change
this. We'll cover that up. If the truth
ever gets free, it'll start setting the captives free. If the Son
shall set you free, it shall be free indeed. Glory to God.
Well, early, as we read, the devil tried to buy him some more
time. One more attempt. But my friend, he was not able
to do it. The Lord Jesus Christ came out of that tomb. God brought
him up and delivered him. Let the world say what it wants
to. I believe, I believe the old song, for we serve a risen
Savior. He's in the world today, I know
that He is living, whatever men may say. I see His hand of mercy,
I hear His voice of cheer, and just the time I need Him, He's
always near. Oh, He lives, He lives, Christ
Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with
me along the narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation
to impart. You ask me how I know He lives? I know He lives, He lives within
my heart. That's how I know that he lives.
Thank God that there is a revelation by the Spirit that brings sinners
to where they're willing to accept the truth of God. They will not
attempt to change it. They will not attempt in any
way, shape, or form to cover it up. They will stand for it,
believe it. They'll stand for the fastened
glory of God. God's glory is wrapped up in
all of his truth. May we not look, as we said earlier,
at this world through rose-tinted glasses. Believe what the Word
of God says. Know that God has put a difference
between you and them. It's us and them, my friend,
and we need to believe that with all of our hearts that we'll
stand firmly and squarely on the truth of God. I invite the
deacons to come and we're going to have the Lord's Supper. Mike
and