Pleasure to be back with you.
Privilege, honor. I'm delighted to see you again. Been a long time, and I'm grateful
to be here. This church has been a blessing
to me. Your pastor and his wife have
been a great blessing to me for so many years. We were just reminiscing
with Claire last night about the beginning of this church. It was, I think it was in your
apartment, Paul and Leanne, was it? Okay, well, Mindy and I came
down, 1982 you said, and it was just you two and us and Paul
and Leanne, that was the church. And Todd preached to us that
it was a great blessing. And how the Lord has blessed
this church since then, hasn't he? My, my. What a blessing it
is to have a church, true church, God's true people, the truth,
the gospel. What a blessing, the greatest
blessing of all. a man to preach that gospel like
you have. Faithful gospel preacher who's
a blessing to you and a blessing to so many. And this church has
been a blessing to so many other churches too. And I want to commend
you for that. As Paul did other churches, your
faith is everywhere spoken of, your charity toward others. And
I commend you and I bless the Lord for you. I really do. Thank you for everything. Claire and Annie for rolling
out the red carpet to us. Thank you. You know, scriptures
talks about a man named Obed, when the ark was not in its permanent
place. David sought a place to put the
ark, and he prepared a place for it. And the house of Obed,
Edom, said, we'll take it. And the ark stayed there how
many months? Yeah, a long time. And it says
the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Edom because the ark was
there. And those who house those who
preach the gospel and do what you do for the cause of Christ,
the Lord will bless that house and how he's blessed this house.
Go with me to the book of Numbers chapter 6. Numbers chapter 6. I'm talking about the blessings
of the Lord, the blessing. That's the title of this message.
The blessing of the Lord. Here in Numbers chapter 6, a
sister in the church sent me a birthday card and just put
this passage at the bottom of the card like we often do. I went and read it and it was
a great blessing. Look at it, verse 22. The Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his son,
saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel,
saying unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord
make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace. And they, these priests, shall
put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. The Lord bless thee. The Lord
spake to Moses, it says, and he spoke to Aaron, and he spoke
to his sons, who in turn spoke to the people. The Lord spake,
saying, say this, You're going to bless the people and this
is how I want you to bless them. Speak to them. You tell them
what I tell you to tell them. The Lord spake and said, you
speak and you will be a blessing. You will be a blessing to them.
The chief blessing of the Lord is what you have in your laps
right now. The word of the Lord. The Lord
said in the revelation, the first chapter, he said, blessed are
they that read the words of this book. So few people. Read, actually
read God's Word today. I have a copy of it, but very
few people read it. You are so blessed if you read
it. We've already been blessed tonight to read it several times
together, haven't we? Wasn't it a blessing? Isaiah
61 and Psalm 46, that was a blessing, a blessing. And Psalm 67, a blessing. We're so blessed to read this.
If we have a desire to read it, you're blessed. Just to read
it. Then he went on to say, blessed
are they that hear the words. We're even more blessed if we
hear it preached. Because faith cometh by hearing
the word preached. God chose by the foolishness
of preaching to save them. How blessed we are to hear the
word. Not little sermonettes about
social things and so forth. We hear the word of God preached,
don't we? How blessed we are. And he went
on to say, blessed are they that keep the words of this book.
That is, they lay hold of these words. They believe it. They receive it. How blessed
we are if we read this word, if we hear this word preached,
and if we lay hold of it like words of life. Like Peter said
to the Lord, Lord, you have the words of life. I need to hear
what you have to say. Blessed, blessed. The Lord said
this to his people. He said in Psalm 147, he said, He shows His word to Jacob. The Lord shows His word. And
His statutes and His judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt
so with any nation. God gave His word to His people,
not any other nation. And as for His judgments, they
have not known them. They don't know them. Praise
the Lord. Praise the Lord. The blessing.
The blessing. So He says to Moses to tell Aaron,
to tell his sons, to tell the people. Now, there are men in
here who do some preaching, or if you feel like I do, you attempt
to do some preaching. But if we want to be a blessing,
and we do want to be a blessing, don't we, to the people, how
are we to bless the people? Well, this is what the Lord told
Aaron, Moses, to tell Aaron to tell his son how to bless the
people, through his word. You want to be a blessing, Preach
the Word. That's what Paul told Timothy. Preach the Word, Timothy,
in season or out of season. Preach the Word. And you shall
bless, he said. You shall be a blessing. Look
at it there in verse 23. On this wise you shall bless
the children of Israel. Whether you think you've succeeded
or not, when you stand up here and preach God's Word, preach
the Gospel, how you feel has no bearing on it. That's it,
Brother Todd. If you preach the word, God said,
my word won't return void. And he will bless it. It will
accomplish what he sent it to do. And you shall bless. That's
a promise. It's a command. You bless the
people with these words, and it's a promise. And all we're
doing when we preach is merely relating or repeating what the
Lord has already said. We don't have anything new to
say. Your pastor will be glad to hear that, that I don't have
a new revelation for you tonight. Nothing new. Same old story. Seeing you know these things
before. All right? Here it is. He said in verse
23, Speak unto Aaron and unto his son, saying, On this wise
you shall bless the children of Israel. On this wise you shall
bless them. Now, you read with me and you
did not see one material thing mentioned, did you? Did the Lord
speak about anything in this world as being a blessing? Not
one material thing was mentioned. Not food, not raiment, not the
things that the world thinks of as blessings. Because scripture
says, blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings. in heavenly places
in Jesus Christ. What a blessing if you know that
the blessing of God, that all the blessings of God are in knowing
the Lord Jesus Christ. They're all found in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Most people think of material things as blessings,
and they are. The Lord does give us these things,
all things richly to enjoy. It's not sinful to enjoy them,
but these aren't the blessings of the Lord. We can be blessed
with them or we can be blessed without them. In fact, it is
a curse if we are rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. It's a curse. That's what the
Lord said about the church at Laodicea then. And know not that
we're wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. We can have
many things, great riches. and there'd be a curse to it.
So these aren't necessarily the blessing. Did not our Lord begin
being the high priest himself? These are the sons of Aaron. These are the priests who he
said blessed. Our Lord came, the great high
priest, and how did he begin his ministry? Blessed. He began by blessing the people.
And he ended it that way. When he left, in Luke, the last
chapter of Luke, he left, it says he lifted up his hands and
blessed them. But he began by saying, blessed
are the poor. Blessed are they that mourn.
Things that the world doesn't think of as blessing. Blessed
are those of hunger and thirst. Well, you know what that means,
don't you? Many of you in here, if not most, perhaps, are poor
in spirit. mourn over your sins, hunger
and thirst after the Lord Jesus Christ. What a blessing. What
a blessing. Job blessed the Lord when he
lost everything, didn't he? He lost everything. He said the
Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of
the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So it can be a great
blessing if the Lord removes these things. Some of you in
here knew a man named John Housel. And most of you do not. But John Hassam was a member
of the church in Ashland, 13th Street. But years and years before
that, he was a young major, I believe, in the Air Force, moving up the
ladder, being promoted, gifted young man. He was involved in
design of airplanes. Very gifted, brilliant man. And he was married and had a
young daughter, very young daughter, four or five years old. Well,
the Lord gave John multiple sclerosis. I said that right. The Lord gave
it to him. And his health began to deteriorate. He lived in Ohio at the time.
He was stationed in Ohio and his health began to deteriorate.
until he was wheelchair bound. His wife left him, took their
young daughter and left him, and he did not see her for about
20 years. And one day he was sitting at
home watching the television, and on that TV was a preacher
named Henry Mayhem, and he heard him preach the gospel. And the
Lord revealed himself to John Haslam. And John sold everything
he had and moved to Ashland to sit under the preaching of that
gospel. And he sat there till the day he died, didn't he? And
what a faithful man. What an example he was to everyone. And he said this. He said this. He said, I thank the Lord that
he gave me multiple sclerosis. He said, if he had not, I would
not have heard the gospel. So the blessing of the Lord are
not in things, but it's in a person. Revelation of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now look who he says to bless in verse 23. On this wise you shall bless
the children of Israel. The children of Israel. Psalm
3 says salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Thy blessing shall
be upon thy people. God's people. His elect, so if
you hear this word, if you're blessed by it, if you believe
the truth, you must be one of His elect. You're one of the
blessed. How blessed you are. You must be a son of Jacob. Say
unto them, verse 23, say unto them, the Lord bless thee, verse
24. The Lord bless thee, the Lord
bless thee, the I am, the great I am, the living and true God,
the God who is God. Sovereign, reigning, ruling,
God in whose hands our breath is, the Lord, Jehovah, the Lord
Jesus Christ, whom God has given all things into His hands. Tell
them the Lord blessed them. The Lord blessed them. If He
does not bless us, we won't be blessed. The blessing of the
Lord is in His hands. It belongs to Him to bless whom
He will. The Lord blessed them. Now the
word bless I looked it up, and it's used many times in scripture. And the basic and common meaning
of it is to kneel. or to bend the knee to. That's what the word actually
translates to. We bless the Lord. Scripture
says bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me. Bless his holy name. We bless
the Lord by kneeling to him, don't we? By bowing down to him,
by worshiping him. We bless him. Well, he blesses
us by condescending to us. by bending his knee, coming down
where we are, by bending his knee. The Lord blesses us by
stooping down where we are. What is man that he is mindful
of? Or the son of man that he would
visit us? Why did God's son come to this
earth? to bless his people. And he had
to condescend to do it. He had to condescend. He had
to come down from his glory to this place that the scriptures
call this present evil world in order to do something for
us that we could not do for ourselves. Oh, bless the Lord for that.
This is the blessing of the Lord. He blesses us by stooping down. The Lord blessed a woman one
time who was guilty, caught in the act of adultery, and the
Lord, it says, stooped down to where she was. If the Lord does not bless us,
we won't be blessed. The Lord must bless us. And if
the Lord blesses us, and He said that in that last verse, He said,
I will bless them. and they shall be blessed." Who
was it? It was Isaac when Jacob and Esau
wanted the blessing from their father. And Esau came back, and
Jacob had already had the blessing, didn't he? Jacob had already
got the blessing from his father. And Esau came back and said,
Father, bless me. Undo this. Remember that? And
the father said, no, I've blessed him, and he shall be blessed.
It can't be undone. It won't be undone. What I've
said goes. The Lord bless thee if he blesses
you. How does he bless us? How does he bless us? Look at
verse 24. The Lord bless thee and keep thee. Keep thee. The
Lord come down to you through the preaching of the gospel.
The Lord stoop down where you are and speak to you through
the preaching of the gospel and tell you he's come to keep you.
He's come to keep you. He's come to preserve you. That's
what the word keep means. The word keep means to retain,
not to lose. The word keep means to preserve,
not to throw away, not to cast out. The word means to defend,
to watch over, to keep from harm. The word means to provide for.
The Lord keep thee. If the Lord keeps you, you'll
be kept. If the Lord doesn't keep you, you won't be kept.
You can't keep yourself. You can't save yourself. The
Lord keep that. The Lord save you. The Lord not
cast you out. You know the scripture says the
Lord's going to fold up this earth like a vesture and cast
it out? That there's going to be a multitude
of people that he's going to cast out of his presence, but
he's going to keep a multitude of people, he says, as his own
peculiar treasure. I'm going to keep these. Why? Are they worth keeping? Is there something in them that's
special that he is going to keep them? No. That's why he calls
them a peculiar treasure. I don't know why he'd want to
keep them, except to the praise of the glory of his name. It's
peculiar. Some he's going to keep. Some
he's going to keep. Some of them are keepers. Any
fishermen in here? Your dad's a fisherman. He can
understand that. But when you go fishing, Do you keep the little ones?
What do you keep? Keep the biggest ones, don't
you? If you don't get any, you go back and talk about the one
that got away. But we don't keep the little ones, do we? They're
not worth keeping. Say, he's a keeper. Well, who's the Lord
keep? Who's the Lord going to save?
You see your calling, brother? the nothings and nobodies, the
nothings, the small ones, worthless worms, dead dogs, that's who
the Lord say, dead dogs, like Mephibosheth, that's who he keep
because they're going to be to the praise of the glory of his
grace. They're going to give, the Lord's going to give all
the glory for keeping such a one as that. I know I've told you
every one of my dog stories, but some of you haven't heard
it, and I can't think of a better illustration for this than this
story. But I went to the dog pound one
time, determined to get a dog, and every one of these dogs were
scheduled to be euthanized the next morning. They were a dying
dog. They were as good as dead. The dog's worthless anyway. And
I didn't need a dog, but I just determined to have one. And I
went to the dog pound, and they're scheduled to die. And I went
down the row of cages there and looked at them, and there's some
kind of pretty and some kind of big and, you know, some kind
of this and that and the other. Some seem to have some pedigree.
Well, would you like to guess which one I chose? It was the
very last cage that I came to. The last was my first choice.
Wasn't the biggest, wasn't the prettiest. In fact, it was one
of the ugliest. She was a pitiful little thing. but I chose her
and named her Annie. I loved her Annie, but I named
her Annie, a little black dog, and I took her home. Before I
took her home, the people at the dog pound told me, you're
going to have to pay for her. Pay? You're going to kill her tomorrow,
right? Yeah, but you've got to pay for her. I paid good money
for a dead dog. Okay. I paid them, I forget what
it was, $29.95. Too much. And then I started
to go, I said, hold on. You've got to sign an agreement.
You've got to sign these papers that you'll promise not to abuse
her, that you'll promise not to even give her away, that you
promise to keep her. I said, are you kidding? Okay,
I'll sign that agreement. And I did. I paid money for her. I redeemed her. I bought her.
She was mine. I named her. I bought her. I brought her home.
I taught her. She was mine. And Drew, I kept
her till the day she died. I kept my promise. Who's the
Lord gonna keep? Not many that are first shall
be last, and the last shall be first. For nothing's in a nobody's.
Oh my. It means to save. The Lord keep
thee. The Lord save you. The Lord keep
watch over you. The Lord protect you. The Lord
defend you. The Lord keep you from harm.
He's the only one that is able to keep us. The Lord is thy keeper. Scripture says that. He never
slumbers or sleeps. The Lord keep that. The Lord
keep you from harm. The Lord keep you from sin, its
consequences, its rule. The Lord keep you from Satan,
the God of this world who has this world in his captivity.
The Lord keep you from being overcome by the world. If the
Lord doesn't do that, we won't be kept. The Lord keep that. The Lord keep you. He's able to keep you. And we're
kept by the power of God. Kept by the Gospel. Kept by His
Word. is our shepherd. The Lord keep
thee. The Lord provide for you. The
Lord do all things necessary for you. Any horse people in
here? I used to have horses and horse
people would talk about a horse being an easy keeper, meaning
it didn't require much care, didn't require much food or maintenance
or whatever. I wonder how you men would respond
if I asked you that about your wife. Is she an easy keeper?
Well, the fact of the matter is, none of us are easy keeper,
helpless, hopeless, worthless, can't do nothing. Christ said,
without me, you can't do nothing. The Lord keep you. The Lord provide
for you. The Lord do all things necessary for you. The Lord provide
everything that you need. We're dumb. We need wisdom. We're
unrighteous. We need righteousness. Lord,
it's His. We're unholy. Lord, give us sanctification. Food, raiment, all these things.
The Lord keep you. The Lord provide for you. The
Lord, and if He's your shepherd, you shall not want. You shall
not want for these things. The Lord keep you. Look at the
next thing. The Lord make His face shine upon you. be gracious
unto you. The Lord make his face shine.
Turn with me to 2 Corinthians 4. Some of you know that I have
to go here in light of that verse. The Lord make his face to shine
upon you. The Lord, the Lord God whom no
man hath seen nor can see. The Lord Jesus Christ said this,
he said, this is the will of him that sent me that everyone
that seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life. The Lord must reveal the Lord
Jesus Christ to him. He must reveal the light of the
glory. We'll look at it. 2 Corinthians
4 verse 3. If our gospel is hid, it's hid
to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them. But we, we preach not ourselves
but Christ Jesus Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake.
For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath
shined in our hearts his people is elect to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light. Upon them hath the light shined.
To those that fear His name, the Son of Righteousness arises
with healing in His way. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God the Lord make His face shine upon you. That's
the Lord Jesus Christ. That's who that's talking about.
The Lord revealed Jesus Christ to your heart. Make His face
shine upon you. When old Saul of Tarsus didn't
know God, did he? He thought he did. He had a zeal
for God. He didn't know God. He didn't know Christ. He didn't
know God because he didn't know Christ. Well, one day he was
walking on the road to Damascus and it said suddenly a light
shone round about him. The Lord Jesus Christ revealed
himself to the Apostle Paul and made his face to shine upon him. Paul didn't know, he thought
he knew the law, he thought he knew what salvation was, he didn't
know anything without the light of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
And the Lord revealed Christ to Paul and now he knows All
things, like He said to the Corinthians, we know all things in light of
the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord make His face to shine
upon you and be gracious unto you because Christ is the grace
of God, the unspeakable gift of God. The grace of God is the
Lord Jesus Christ. The gift of God is eternal life
and this life is in His Son. This is the record that God has
given unto us, eternal life and this life is in His Son. Christ is the grace of God. Christ
is the gift of God bestowed upon the objects of His love, the
object of His electing grace. Christ is the grace of God. The
Lord make His face shine upon you and your children. He has
to do it. He has to reveal Himself to us
and our children. And if He does, He's been gracious to us. So
gracious. So gracious. Oh my, if only he
will. If only he will. And he has to
do it. That's why he says, you say that the Lord must do this.
The Lord. We call upon the Lord. We want
the Lord to reveal himself to Those we love, those we know,
and we can't do it. But He can, and He does, and
He must, and so we say, the Lord bless you. May the Lord reveal
Himself to you, reveal Christ to you, and be gracious unto
you. Look at verse 26. He said, the Lord lift up His
countenance upon death. When you're angry with someone,
when you're angry about something, When you're displeased, your
countenance is falling in. And you frown. You frown. And scripture says God is angry
with the wicked every day. It is not what the world is saying.
Smile, God loves you. God is not smiling on this world.
God is angry. That's a fact. The Lord said, scripture says,
in the days of Noah, And he said, as in the days of Noah, so shall
the coming of the Son of Man be. We are in those days. I'm
convinced of it. But as in the days of Noah, the Lord looked
down upon the earth and he said, behold, it was corrupt, meaning
the whole earth. He said all flesh had corrupted
his way, his truth, everything about God. And he said, the end has come.
He said, I will destroy. I will destroy. God frowns. God is angry. But Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. The Lord smiled on Noah. Why? Because Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord. Because the Lord did. Because
it pleased the Lord to do so. Noah was no different than anyone
else was. Noah was a sinner, but he was saved by grace. And
the Lord smiled on Noah. And he smiled on everyone in
that ark, Dwayne. Everyone in that ark. Had there
been a bumper sticker, it would have been on the inside, wouldn't
it? Smile, God loves you. God's smiling on his people.
Those in Christ. That ark represents Christ. If
any man loved not the Lord Jesus Christ, God said, let him be
accursed. God is angry with him. God doesn't smile on people that
doesn't love his son, do you? No, you don't. You don't love
those that don't love your own. Neither does God. Many men love
not the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, let him be a curse.
Let him go to hell. And he will. God will send him there. They
don't have any need for his son. He doesn't have any need for
them. He's angry because they have no use for his son. They've
trodden underfoot the blood of his son. Don't care. Nothing
to you, all you that pass by, he said. But those who do love his son,
God loves. God smiles. Went down to visit
Brother Donnie Bell a year or so ago and he has a little great,
great granddaughter. Great granddaughter, mind you.
Riley is her name. Cute as a button. And he couldn't
wait to show her to me. I hadn't met her yet. And he
was telling me all about it. And so she came over, and Brother
Don brought her in the room. He held her, had Riley in his
arms, looking at me, watching my reaction. Okay? And I smiled. And boy, Donnie
smiled too. You love Riley. I love Riley,
so he loved me. If I didn't, I'm out of the house. And that's a fact. Any man loves not God's Son,
God doesn't love him. But if any does. Our Lord said
this. He said, The Father himself loveth
you, because you love me. Because you love me. Where is
the love of God? It's in His Son. Those that are
in His Son. And He said, The Lord lift up
His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. Give thee peace. Christ said to His chosen disciples,
He said, Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Peace
I leave with you. Peace with God. Peace that the
Lord Jesus Christ obtained by the blood of His crop. That Christ
made by the blood of His crop. The chastisement of our peace
was laid on Him, the scripture said. The wrath of God was poured
out upon God's Son. that we might have peace with
God. We don't make peace with God. Jesus Christ made that peace. Every one of God's people know
that, and they thank Him for that. He made peace for us by
the blood of His cross by being made sin for us. That's where
we get this peace. And He said, peace I leave with
you. I obtained this peace with God by suffering the penalty
of your sin. I obtained it. Peace I leave
with you. Peace that I obtain. And He said,
My peace I give unto you. My peace. There's peace by believing
Christ, by looking to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no peace
to be found anywhere else. Only by looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ. You look to Christ and you'll have peace. Look to your
sin bearer and you'll have peace. Look to Christ and Him crucified
and you will have peace. No matter how sinful you are,
you look to Christ on that cross and you will have peace. He said
so. My peace I give unto you. There's
no peace to be found anywhere else but in Christ. There's peace in belief. Peace.
The Lord lift up His countenance and give thee peace. Give thee
peace. Oh my, that's the blessing of
the Lord. If you see your need of Christ, if you see who Christ
is, see what he's done, you see your need of him, that's the
blessing of the Lord, isn't it? Everything else pales in comparison
to that. If you have that, you have it
all, because Christ is all. Then he says in closing, he says,
and these preachers, these priests, they shall put my name upon the
children of Israel, and I will bless them and put my name on
them. God is the father of some people. He's not the father of all mankind. Children of the promise, they
are the seed. God's people are his chosen,
his elect, and he's called their father. I was blessed to have
a wonderful earthly father. Most of you, many of you know
my father, and I was so blessed to have him as my father. The
Lord blessed me in putting me in his home and giving me his
name, and I still bear his name. And I was so blessed. Well, the
scripture says, Behold, what manner of love that the Father
hath bestowed upon that we should become sons of
God. And we don't rightly know what
that means. We really don't know what that means. The privilege
afforded, the privileges afforded, the blessings, the blessing of
being a son of the Most High God. Oh, man. Christian. I hate
the fact that the world, the religious world, has so abused
that term. Don't you, John? Don't you hate
how that they have thrown that around to where it means nothing
anymore to anyone? Oh, it's a blessing. You're getting
ready to take a man's name. You're going to be one with him. And you'll be honored to have
his name, won't you? That's why you'll take it. And
those who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom he has
revealed himself to, whom he has come for as his bride, whom
he loved and who loves him. What a blessing, what a great
privilege it is to be called a Christian. Maybe that's how
we ought to say it. Are you a Christian? I don't
want to be ashamed of that, do you? I'm ashamed of what they
call it today. Oh, don't let me be ashamed of
him. Let me be called that. If by that you mean, maybe we
should answer them, if by that you mean do I believe that Christ
is all, that Christ is my salvation, that Christ is my Lord, that
Christ is my wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification, that Christ
is all my salvation, that Christ is all my hope, that Christ is
my peace, that Christ is my acceptance with God, is that what you mean
by Christian? Well, again, well, yes, I am. Do you mean do I love
the Lord Jesus Christ, love His holy person, love His work, love
His salvation, love His name, fear His name, zealous, jealous
for His name, love His glory, love His message, love His gospel?
Is that what you mean by Christian? Yeah, then yes, I'm a Christian.
Put my name on it. What a blessing to bear that
name. And He says, you do that, You
tell them what I told you to tell them. You speak the word
and I will bless them. I will bless them. You want to
be a blessing? You want to be blessed? Hear what the Lord has to say.
You men that preach, you want to be a blessing? Preach the
word. Preach Christ and him crucified.
Christ said if I be lifted up, I'll draw them to me and I'll
put my name on them and I'll marry them. and we'll live happily
ever after. Okay. The Lord bless you. Okay.