Open your Bibles tonight to Genesis
chapter 1. Normally, when Duane asks for
a title for a message I'm going to preach, I have to hesitate
and think about it and so forth. Well, this one was pretty easy.
The title of this message is Revelation, versus imagination. I think you'll see why it has
that title. I recently came across some photographs,
old photographs of one Christmas. I suppose Luke was about three
and a half or four years old and he had gotten a set of Superman
pajamas complete with a red detachable cape. And having no idea what
I was about to create, I said, do you want to fly? He said,
yeah. And I put my hand under his little
chest and got him right about the knees and lifted him up and
said, here we go. I mean, this quick he went, in his imagination, He was flying. He was flying. And he just about
killed me that Christmas. Flying him all over the house.
Well, the next photo I came to was one of my mother had, with
her sisters, been to Hawaii. And she had brought Luke and
Carrie gifts. And among those gifts were some
grass skirts. Now, Carrie in the picture has
her little grass skirt on and in her imagination, buddy, she's
on the beach in Waikiki and she's a hula dancer. Luke in his little
grass skirt is standing there as if somebody had just handed
him a raw buzzard sandwich and said, this is going to be your
dinner and it's really good. His little look is just... In his imagination, this is the
most humiliating picture in his life to that date. And you know,
we think flights of imagination in children are cute, don't we?
Now, there comes a point, however, at 13 and 14 when they're imaginary
friends, it's not so funny anymore, is it? And Brother Gene Rutledge
back there is in his seventies. I tell you what, if he came through
the door tonight in a Superman suit and said, I can fly, we're
ready to put you in the loony bin, Gene. So you see how imagination, the
perception of it, changes over time. By definition, imagination is
a form of mind work. Digging a ditch is physical work. It's a form of body work. Thinking
is brain work, working the mind. Let me show you where the word
comes from. Genesis 1, if you've got verse
26, this is the first time it's used in the Scripture. The root
word, image. God said, let us, now that's
the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit,
they're one, and the three of them as one said, let us make
man in our image, after our likeness. Now down verse 27, so God created
man in his own image. In the image of God created he
him, male and female, created he them. Adam was a man created
of God, a figure who represents all men. Adam was a representative
of every man that would ever be born, and woman. God made
man as a representative figure. And God is Spirit. And as such,
now try to follow me here with this, God needs no body. He can be who he is without a
body. He needs no muscles to accomplish
his work. He merely speaks and a thing
is done. You say, now, wait a minute,
you know, the skeptic who goes, hey, that's just ridiculous.
Well, I could understand a couple hundred years ago if somebody
said that, but how many of you have one of these little black
boxes now, and you do this, and you go, call Paul Wamsley for
me. Hello, this is Paul. You speak, and it is done. Now, if God can give men this
power, can He not have that power? He just speaks, and the universe
was created. The millions of stars were just
cast out into space. He needs no muscles to accomplish
His work. God, He thinks, and a thing,
it comes to pass. It's done. He just thinks it.
Man, although he was made in the image of God, and please
hear this, man, though he was created in the image of God,
is not God. Man is a representative figure
made by God in the image of God, in the likeness of God, and that's
what he is. When God imaged man, like everything
God does, man was created perfect and upright in the image of God. And it's only when man disobeyed
God, when man sinned, when man decided that he would be God,
He would be as God if he ate the fruit. But man's image changed. It got twisted. It became evil. Turn over a few pages to Genesis
5. Here's where the word went from
image to imagination. When Adam sinned, his mind didn't
work properly anymore. He no longer could think right.
Man became a creature of imaginations, or twisted, untrue, inaccurate
thinking. Look at Genesis 6 verse 5, "...and
God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
every imagination..." of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually." Now, if I read that right, it says it's not
that we have a few moments or an occasional day when we think
evil twisted things. No. Every moment, every thought,
all day, every day is evil. That's all we do. Left alone, every man, all men,
all women, we come forth. I saw something recently that
was amazing. They now have a machine they
can put on an expectant mother's tummy and they can see the infant
in there, the unborn infant. Well, this thing was of twins
in there. And you know what they were doing?
They were having a kick, fist fight. I mean, they were banging
each other and kicking one another. And the funny thing about the
story was like, can you believe these poor little innocent things
are fighting? They've never obviously read
the Bible. We come forth from our mother's
womb speaking lies, hatred, venom. It doesn't surprise me they were
fighting. It's a miracle they hadn't killed
each other in there. We go to the grave speaking lies.
Why? Why would somebody be that way
or do that? Because the thoughts and therefore
the words and the deeds of all men and women are twisted. Our
whole head is sick. It's full of twisted thoughts.
Let me give you the sum total on imagination. Here it is. Everything we imagine about ourselves
in a positive way I tell you, it's not nearly as
good as we think it is. The minute I removed my hands,
Luke would have found out how well he flew. When we're feeling really good
about something we did, it's not nearly as good as we think.
There's always a motive. When we look in the mirror and
go, man, I'm looking good tonight, it's not nearly as good as we
think. The truth is, you see, that anything
positive that we think about ourselves is a lie. It's twisted. It's just an imagination. And
if any of us ever do anything that can be called good, it's
only because we've been born again and Christ is in us and
he's doing the good in us. The flip side of that is everything
we imagine about ourselves in a negative way, what we imagine
It's not nearly as bad as the truth is about us if it were
known. Oh, it's a lot worse than we think. When we just casually
slander somebody and later think, you know, that wasn't very nice
of me. It's a lot worse than that. And God said, you just
murdered that person. When we whine and complain about
ourselves and our circumstances, We think, I'm fine and fault
with God's providence. It's just a lot worse than that.
We think we'd be a better God than God is. Think we know more
than He does. Turn over to 2 Corinthians 5
with me. 2 Corinthians chapter 5. So, as the Scriptures teach,
God has chosen from the children of men a people whom He determined
from the foundation of the world to save, what does He do with
their twisted minds and their imagination? What does He do
with it? Well, I don't know how many of
you have ever been fishing, but there's several kinds of fishing
rods, but one of them is called a bait casting rod. And you crank
it like this and the reel goes around, the line comes in, and
when you throw it, you put your thumb on it and you throw it
out there, but now as soon as it hits the water, Paul, you
better put your thumb back on it, right? Because if you don't,
it just goes And it creates a bird's nest,
a backlash. Now, occasionally you can get
it out of there, but most of the time, you do it bad enough,
you know what you've got to do? You've got to cut the whole business
off and start over. You know what God does with our
twisted minds, our imagination, if He intends to save us? Look
here in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17. Therefore, if any man be in Christ,
he's a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. God doesn't fix the old man,
the old imagination up. No, He doesn't fix the old heart. He doesn't fix the old mind.
No, He's going to do surgery. There's got to be a replacement
made here. God saves a sinner not by fixing
the old twisted heart and mind. No, God replaces him with a perfect
heart and a perfect mind. You say, that sounds like surgery.
Well, it is of sorts. Remember, God doesn't need a
body. He doesn't need hands or eyes
to do surgery. He can do it simply by speaking,
and it's done. by using His Word, the Spirit
of a God, to perform surgery on a person. I'll give you an
example of this back in Acts 16. The way God does this is
He sends a preacher to speak His Word, to replace a twisted heart and
mind with a perfect heart and mind. And here's a clear example
of this surgery in Acts 16 verse 14. There was a certain woman,
and by the way, you notice it doesn't say all women. There
was a certain woman. This was a child of God, one
in whom He determined to do surgery. A certain woman named Lydia. He knew her by name. She was
a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, and she worshipped
God. And you know how she got to doing
that? She heard." It says right there, she heard. "...whose heart
the Lord opened." There it is. He'll do surgery. "...that she
attended unto the things which are spoken to Paul." And when
she was baptized, that'll be the first evidence that somebody's
had this heart and mind surgery, is they'll want to tell everybody.
They'll want to get in that pool and declare before God, I know
I had the surgery. I know it. You did it. And her
household heard and was baptized, and she besought us, saying,
If I have judged him, judge me to be faithful to the Lord, come
to my house and abide there. And she constrained us." She'll
want to abide where the Word is preached. Now, find Matthew
23. Whenever someone has this surgery,
for that matter, when somebody has any kind of surgery, there's
always some result. Someone has a bad knee and they
have surgery in hopes that they can walk without pain. Somebody
has poor vision and they have LASIK surgery in hopes that they'll
have 20-20 vision. Now, with men surgeons, you know,
surgeries don't always go exactly as they're planned. Sometimes
a person having simple knee surgery winds up crippled. A person with
Lasix winds up blind. Or they can die from these surgeries.
You know why? Men aren't perfect surgeons.
They're not. And religious surgeons are little
more than butchers. Look what they do in Matthew
23. I want to give you this warning. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees."
These are the religious surgeons. They're hypocrites. For what
you do is you compass sea and land. You look high and low to
make one person who will let you do surgery on them. And when
he's made, when you've done it, you've made him two-fold more
the child of hell than you were. You killed him. Killed him not
just in this life, but eternally. False preachers promise life,
yet they deliver only death, double death. Christ, on the other hand, in
the Scriptures, is called the Great Physician. How many surgeons
do you think He's botched? He gives life. He gives two-fold
life. He changes your life in this
life, and then He gives eternal life. All his surgeries are perfect.
They turn out just like they're planned. I had an interesting
conversation with a man who sells medical things to surgeons and
he told me that every surgeon he's ever met starts an operation
with plan A. This is what they're going to
do. But just in case it doesn't quite go the way he thinks, he's
got plan B. The fallback. He said he even
met a surgeon once who had a plan C. I don't know if I want that
guy cutting on me or not, but The true and living God has one
plan. It's the same plan for each and
every surgery. It always goes just as He planned
it. It's always successful. There's
always complete recovery. No, it's even better than that.
When the Spirit of God operates, the results It's not like, well,
he looks like he never was sick. You walk right now, you don't
even look like you ever had surgery. It's not like that. No, no. You
never had it. You never were sick. God's people,
when they get to glory, you can look at them any way upside down,
any way you want to, they never were sick. Because the Lord Jesus
Christ was never sick. He was born, lived perfectly,
and died, and you and I, if we're in Him, we're perfect too. You say, how's that happen? I
don't pretend to understand it fully, but I fully believe it.
How does that happen? I don't really know, but by faith
I believe. And all God's people, the surgery
will give you a heart that believes and a mind that understands to
some extent that Christ is all and in all. If you got Him, you
don't have any other problems. You don't need to imagine anything.
Nothing you can imagine can be as good as this. Look at Luke chapter 10 with
me. Every new heart patient of God
believes what by faith has been revealed to them. The new heart
and mind no longer depend upon imagining things, though the
truth, the reality of things is revealed. Man's religion is
all about imagination. They're just making it up as
they go. It's twisted. Look here at Luke 10. Here's
the simple truth of it. Luke 10, verse 21, we read, "...in
that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, I thank Thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these
things from the wise and the prudent." You know who the wise
and the prudent are? They're the Pharisees and they're the
religious people. That's who's... they think they're
smarter than the rest of it. They think they know more than
the rest of us. They just have more vivid imaginations. "...I thank Thee, O Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent and has..." What's this word? Revealed. Revealed. The truth. "...revealed them
unto babes." Babes? Yeah, His children. His little
children. Aaron, you and Jamie got two
babes downstairs. They're your children. You want the best for them? You
wouldn't lie to them? You wouldn't deceive them? You
wouldn't do anything to bring them eternal harm, or even harm
in this life, if you could help it? Well, God can help it. And therefore, everything He
shows His children is the truth. He reveals who He is, what He's
done, why He's done it, and where He is now. You see here verse
22. The reason for it, it says, Father,
so it seemed good in Thy sight, verse 22, all things are delivered
to me of my Father, and pay attention here, no man knows who the Son
is. Aren't you glad there's not a
period there? Now it goes on. No man knows who the Son is but
the Father. The Father knows who the Son
is. And then it says, and who the Father is, nobody knows who
that is but the Son. Aren't you glad there's not a
period there? And then there's the word, and. And. You know who else knows who the
Father and the Son are? He to whom the Son reveals Him.
If we're going to learn who God is, instead of depending on our
imagination as to who He is, God's going to have to reveal
Him, and Christ is the one who's got to do it. Now, where are
you going to hear about Christ? Where are you going to hear from
Christ? Where two or three are met together, I'll be in your
midst. It's where I want to be. He to whom the Son will reveal
Him." Turn to Ephesians chapter 1. Revelation is not only superior
to imagination, revelation is essential. Let me give you a few things
about revelation. Revelation is not about a what? It's not a bunch of facts about
this book and facts about places, the Holy Land, and it's not a
bunch of information about our catechism and stuff. No, Revelation is purely, completely,
absolutely, and only about the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If it doesn't have anything to do with Him, don't worry about
it. I don't care if you're a nuclear physicist and you can divide
atoms and do all this stuff. That's worthless information
in eternity. All we want to know is who Christ
is, what He's done, why He did it, and where He is now. It's
about who. We can understand and acknowledge
all the facts. He must be revealed to a sinner
in order for salvation to occur. And here in Ephesians 1, look
at verse 15. Wherefore, I also, after I heard
of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints,
cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in
my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom, and what's
this? Revelation. And the knowledge
of what? The knowledge of where he was
born, the knowledge of how many kings were there, the knowledge
of who was the Pharaoh. No, in the knowledge of Him.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may
know what is the hope of whose calling? His calling. and what
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints." You
see, it's about a person. Follow this. What's the exceeding
greatness of whose power? His power. To usward who believe
according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought.
Where's all this? It's in Christ. when He raised
Him from the dead and said, Him at His own right hand in the
heavenly places. For above all principality and
power and might and dominion and every name that's named,
not only is this in this world, but also in that which is to
come. And it's put all things under whose feet? His feet. And gave who? Him, to be the
head over all things to the church, which is whose body? His body. The fullness of who? Him that
filleth all. Revelation's all about a person.
That's all it is. Turn quickly to Romans chapter
10. How is Christ revealed? That's a good question. Well,
the Apostle Paul said, when it pleased God. When? It pleased God. When is it? When
it pleased God. When will He reveal? When it
pleases Him. It can be old or young or in between, but whenever
He does it, I don't care much about the when, I just want it
to happen. To me and to my children and
to the Beloved and all God's people. Don't care when. Just pray that the Lord will
reveal. Paul said, when it pleased God to separate me from my mother's
womb, separate me from my imaginations. He called me by His grace to
reveal His Son in me, that I might preach the gospel among the heathen. How is Christ revealed? Romans
10 verse 14, How then shall they call on Him in whom they have
not believed? And how shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? It's just that simple. You want your children to get
this revelation? Ready? Every time that door opens, have
them here. Have them here. Now, he may be
pleased not to reveal himself to them, but if he does, I promise
you where it's going to be. It's going to be right here.
Most likely it's going to be right here. Alright, look at
Philippians 2 and let me show you some evidence that this revelation
has occurred. And I'm just going to read a
portion of Scripture here and then point out the obvious evidences
in Philippians 2. Verse 1 begins, "...if there
be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of
love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any vows of mercies,
fulfill you my joy that you be like-minded, having the same
love, being of one accord, of one mind." All God's people get
the same revelation. I'm sorry, we do. We see Christ. Now I understand some get gifts
and have more discernment and this kind of thing, but I tell
you what, we all got revelation. Let nothing be done through strife
or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind. Let each esteem other
better than themselves. Look not every man on his own
things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
and made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. and being found
in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath
highly exalted and given him a name that's above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in
heaven and things on earth and things on the earth, and that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
of God." Evidence of revelation, folks, number one, bow to the
Lord Jesus Christ in everything. Number two, we'll confess Christ
before God. Amen. They'll go in the pool.
We'll be baptized. Evidence is that we will show
mercy as we've been shown mercy. In regard to love, we'll both
give and receive love. Fellowship will be sought with
God and with God's people. Joy will be found in the gospel
and with God's people and less with the attachments of this
world. And we don't do these things to prove that we've had
the revelation. No, we do these things because
we've had the revelation. Does that make sense? We don't
try to behave like good church-going people. We do, but we're not
doing it so God will save us. The only way we do it is if God
has saved us. Turn to Revelation 21. If you
want to put a little mark there in Philippians 2, hold that.
We're coming back to that in a minute. I want to show you
one other thing there. But in the meantime, turn over to Revelation
21. And I want to show you how far afield this whole business
of imagination can take us. Natural man lets his imagination
run wild and has no real interest in the revelation of God. And
the evidence of that, if you're going to have a conversation
with somebody about heaven, and usually it goes through, well,
I know I'm going to see mommy there, I'm going to see daddy, or I'm
going to see somebody that's gone before them. But if you
ask them, you know, what do you know about heaven kind of thing,
I suspect most of the time you're going to hear, oh, there's streets
of gold. And many of us may think, well,
that's maybe what I know best is streets of gold. Now, that's
not total imagination. That's based in some fact. But
let me show you what the real truth about that is. Turn to
Revelation 21, verse 21. And it says, John said, I was
there, and he said, I saw 12 gates that were 12 pearls. Every
several gate was one pearl. And what he's saying there is
there's a pearl there big enough to make a gate. That'd be something
to see, wouldn't it? But look what next it says. And the street of the city was
pure gold as it were transparent glass. I'd never seen this. There's
no S on street. There's not high streets and
low streets. There's not ghetto streets and
gated community streets. There's not rich streets and
poor streets. There's one street in glory. You know why that is? We're all
the same. We're all the same. We just need
one street. There's only one place to go
to the throne of glory. Who wants to veer off that street? Everyone lives on the same street.
We're all in Christ the same. We're perfect in Christ. And
God's Word reveals this about gold in heaven. You know what
it's worth up there? Apparently about the same thing
that concrete, asphalt, gravel, and dirt is worth down here. Just pave the roads with it.
Now it must be beautiful. But there's a reason why gold
has no value in heaven. You know why? There remains for
those who are there nothing they want to buy. Nobody's mining
gold up there. Nobody's putting back money.
Nobody's coveting what you got, because it's the same as I got. You see, folks up there already
have all. They're in Christ. Got it all. And the Lord Jesus Christ—here's
why there's nothing up there to buy. The Lord Jesus Christ
bought all we need already with His precious blood. He's given each and all of them
up there redemption and salvation. He gave His life that they might
have that life. He lived that they might not
have to die. What's money or gold compared
to that? Just pave the streets with it. The revealed Christ
is all God's people need or want. 1 Corinthians 2. Let's not be too hard or upset
with folks who can't see these things. We didn't see them either
at one time. But here's a Scripture that plainly
declares that they can't see In 1 Corinthians 2 verse 9 we
read, "...but as it is written, the eye of natural man hath not
seen, nor the natural man's ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of those men the things that God has prepared for them
that love Him." Folks, they can't see. They're blind. They're deaf. They're dumb. They cannot see
Christ and therefore all they have is their imagination. They
have no revelation. But now look at the next verse.
But God hath revealed all these things unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
yea, the deep things of God." And when folks are left in the
imagination, let me give you just a few examples of where
it finally winds up. Left alone. Some folks' imagination
is that they're going to have a mansion one day full of Vestal
Virgins. Another group thinks there's
144,000 real special people up there and they get the good stuff.
There's another group that thinks, well, the atheist imagines that
there is no God so he doesn't have to worry about it while
he's down here. The Arminian imagines good work so he has
more crowns and a bigger mansion and glory. A Catholic imagines
purgatory, that's a place where you go if you weren't really
quite good enough, and you go there because you were just medium
bad, not real bad, and folks here can pray you out of that
place if they pray a real, real lot. That's imagination and not
the Word. And isn't it sad and heartbreaking?
Listen, you and I were in that place. I remember being taught
as a 15-year-old to walk down the aisle in front of the procession
carrying a cross. Thank God He revealed Christ
to me and delivered me from the imagination that I was doing
something good or holy, that it might help me in some way.
God's people don't depend on imagination. We have revelation. And the Spirit of God reveals
Christ to His people. How? By the preaching of God's
Word and the power of God's Spirit. Now, go back to that Philippians
2 Scripture. We're just about done here. Go back to Philippians 2. Let me summarize something for
you. This is really profound. I don't think I ever say much
that is profound, but I pray this is by the Spirit of God.
The book of Genesis and the whole Bible teaches that man was made
in the image and likeness of God, but we destroyed ourselves. We sinned and we brought condemnation
on ourselves. The whole Bible teaches that
Christ, who is God, listen to me, was made in the image of
man. that we might not die eternal
death and that we might be made perfect. Do we see the absolute
perfection and balance of God's plan? He made man in the image
of God and we messed it up. We introduced sin and therefore
our image became imagination. God made His Son in the image
of man to do what we couldn't do. He lived perfectly. Never once did He imagine a thing. His image was perfect in the
sight of God. And therefore, when you and I
get there, we got a perfect image. We're righteous and holy before
God. And then He let these men over here, who were twisted and
warped and out of their minds, lay their hands on His Son and
kill Him. Why? Because that's what we had
coming. And He put it on His Son. And
we go free. That's why we can go to glory
and we don't need anything else. Not a thing. And let me show
you this in Philippians 2 verse 5. Maybe you noticed it the first
time I read it. You see here in verse 5, it says, "...let
this mind," not imagination, "...let this mind be in you,
the mind of revelation, which was also in Christ Jesus." See,
we get His mind. who being in the form, and you
know what that word is? Being in the image of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God, because He is God. but made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the image of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of men." Do you see
how this is? What a beautiful plan this is.
Salvation is perfect. Let me back that up with one
other Scripture quickly, Romans 8. Let me show you the consistency
of the Scriptures of this revelation. There's a double confirmation
of what we're talking about. Romans 8 verse 1 says, "...there
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus."
He's put away the sin. "...who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. The law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending His own Son," look at this, "...in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin unto flesh."
that the righteousness of law might be fulfilled in us who
walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." The Lord Jesus
Christ was so much a man that He could be us. And God punished
Him in our place. He was so much a man that when
He lived perfectly and we're in Him, we do too. We see the
beauty of that, of God's plan from the beginning. And we'll
close with Matthew 11. Turn over to Matthew chapter
11. Folks, this is not imagination,
it's revelation. Natural man cannot conceive of anything,
cannot imagine anything this wonderful. But once God reveals
it to a person, there's nothing more amazing or wonderful or
glorious In Christ Jesus our Lord, once He's revealed to us.
He's our Savior. He is living, He lived for His
people, and He died for His people. And follow this just a minute. Our imagination is a tremendous
and terrible burden. I mean, we look at something
and it gets all out of focus and out of whack. What's wrong?
My imaginations come into play. It's cute when they're little
kids and think they can fly. It's not funny anymore when we're
placing our entire eternal life on that information, on what
we think. God, help us. It's a terrible burden. No wonder
that men who wrote great songs go, do I know the Lord or no? That's why we've got to keep
coming back here, and somebody stand up here and reveal all
over to us, tell us again, it's not your imagination. Get back
on the track here. Our imagination confuses us,
it wearies us, it misleads us, and there's a terrible end to
it all. The Scripture says, come to Christ, and here's the Scripture,
Matthew 11, verse 27. All things are delivered unto
me of my Father, and no man knows the Son, but the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son. Here again, aren't you glad there's
not a period there? and He to Whomsoever the Son will reveal
Him." Now, you know who He reveals Him to? Look at this. He says,
you want that revelation? Verse 20, He says, come to Me.
Come to Me. All you that labor and are heavy
laden, is your imagination driving you crazy, bearing you down,
wearing you out? Come to Me and I'll give you
rest. He said, Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am
meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest in your souls.
My yoke is easy, my burden is light." Being without Christ
is hard work. It's heavy labor. It's tough.
Come to Christ and you can sit here and just bathe in His glory. It's the good way. It's the way.
All right.