I want you to go to Romans chapter
5 and then in the book of Jonah chapter 1. But I want to read
this because my subject today is Jonah, the first and second
Adam. Jonah, the first and second Adam. I told you, I think it was last
week, that there was no book in the Old Testament that set
forth such a beautiful picture of salvation by representation. Salvation by substitution. And
that's what I want to look at again this morning. In Romans
chapter 5, just three verses of Scripture. Verse 12. Romans
chapter 5 and verse 12. I want you to notice how the
apostle says this. Wherefore, as by one man, That
was Adam. By one man. Sin entered unto
the world. And death by sin. Death came
to Adam. And so death passed upon all
men. For that all have sinned. We
all sinned in Adam as our representative. We've all sinned in ourselves.
We know that. And look here now in the same
chapter in verse 18. Therefore, as by the offense
of one, that's Adam, judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon
all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience,
that was Adam, by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, So by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Now I want
you to turn over into the book of Jonah, the little book we've
been going through very slowly. And I have asked your patience
with me while I just repeat some of this, but I can't get away
from this subject this morning. In the book of Jonah, here in
chapter 1, verses 12 through verse 15, This is where the storm had came.
Jonah was down in the belly of that ship asleep. They thought it was going to
be broken up. They thought they were going to die. And here in
verse 11, Jonah said this unto them, Then said they unto him,
What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?
For the sea rocked, and was tempestuous. And he said unto them, Take me
up, and cast me into the sea, so shall the sea be calm unto
you. For I know that for my sake this
tempest is come upon you. Nevertheless, the men rode hard
to bring it to the land, but they could not. for the sea wrought
and was tempestuous against them. Wherefore they cried unto the
Lord, and said, We beseech Thee, O Lord, we beseech Thee, let
us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent
blood, for Thou, Lord, hast done as it pleased Thee. So they took
up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased
from her raging. Then the men feared the Lord
exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows."
Now, because of Jonah's disobedience, we're told here in verses 3 and
verse 4 that this storm came. In verse 3 and verse 4, it says
that Jonah fled from the presence of the Lord. And he did not do
what the Lord commanded him to do. And therefore, in verse 4,
the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a
mighty tempest in the sea so that the ship was like unto be
broken. In verse 12, I read to you that
Jonah acknowledges this was his fault. He sadly acknowledges
that. I know that for my sake, because
of what I've done, this tempest is upon you. Now, I want you
to use your imagination this morning. You know that I'm one
that uses his imagination when I read the Scriptures. My imaginations
are not inspired, but they make sense. When you read the Scriptures,
I think the Lord gives us liberty to imagine these things. You
know, we go ahead in what the Scripture tells us. If the Lord
put everything in you, my goodness, we couldn't carry the book around.
So we read between these lines and imagine these things. So
I want us to imagine this morning and think how this tempest affected
these men. For my sake, this tempest has
come upon you. Well, look how it affected them
in a most adverse way. In verse 5, for instance, they
had to throw over the cargo into the sea. They lost their whole
cargo, their merchandise of what they were carrying. Now, let
me ask you this question. How would that have affected
this situation? How would that have affected
their lives? Well, who was responsible for
this cargo? It would probably have been the
captain of the ship, wouldn't it? If they threw over all the
cargo, who was going to be responsible for that? What was the effect of losing
this cargo? This poor captain may have well
lost his ship. Did you ever think of that? And what did these poor mariners
lose? Maybe they lost their jobs. And
how did that affect their family? Well, that very could have affected
the food that they put on the table, the clothes that he bought
for his children, the house that he lived in. Just think how this
one thing affected these men. It had a ripple effect, their
livelihood and their families. What was this cargo? Think about
this. What if it had been a ship full
of medicines? for sick people. My goodness,
look at that ripple effect. How many people were sick and
waiting on this ship to get there? Now they're going to be sicker
and perhaps die. What if this ship was loaded
with food going to poor people? What if it was some kind of machinery
they were going to use in their industry? What if it had been
some kind of weapons that some depressed city was waiting to
defend off some tyrant's attack? The cargo was lost. Why? The cause of Jonah's disobedience. And notice how this affected
them inwardly, their disposition. In verse 5, we're told that the
mariners were afraid, not only for their livelihood, but for
their lives. Verse 6, they came to Jonah,
the captain did, and said, Don't you know that we may perish?
Don't you know that this ship may break a piece and all of
us are suddenly going to go down into these dark waters? One of
the things that these men feared when they were out on the ocean
concerning these storms was sometimes these waves got so violent it
just broke the ship to pieces. Remember Acts 27 when Paul and
his crew was out on the Mediterranean Sea and it finally broke their
ship and some of them got to shore on those broken boards? That's what they were afraid
of. They said, we're going to perish. Call on your God. And Jonah acknowledges that all
of this can be traced to his disobedience. For my sake, this
tempest has come upon you. You've lost your cargo because
of me. All these fears and doubts are
perishing because of me. Because of me, this has come
upon you. And here in verse 5, this tempest... Now think of this. Think of this. This is amazing. This tempest
provoked these men to worship a false God. They said, Arise
and let every man call on his God. They were praying to a God
that could not save. But why were they praying to
that God to start with? Because of this tempest. Even
their false religion could be indirectly or maybe directly
related to Jonah's disobedience. Now here is what I am saying.
This is an accurate picture, a beautiful illustration of original
sin of Adam and its consequences upon the human race. Listen to this. As by one man,
sin entered into the world. There was no sin in the world.
And by one man disobeying God about one thing, Eden of that
tree, sin entered. And what was the consequences
of that sin? Death came. Death came to Adam. But it didn't stop with Adam,
did it? Jonah's disobedience not only affected him, it not
only got him in a storm, but it got everybody else in a storm
too, didn't it? But listen to this. Because of
sin, death came, and he said this, and it passed upon all
men. That's the consequences of Adam's
sin. In Adam all die. In the day that you eat thereof,
you shall surely die. But here is the clincher. Not
only he died, But everybody else died in Him. Everybody else died
in Him. He died a spiritual death in
that day that He ate. The day that you eat, you shall
die. But a few hundred years later, He died physically. And
look at the human race now. He died a spiritual death, and
when we step outside of our mother's womb, we're dead in trespasses
and sins already. Ain't that amazing? And then,
what happens after a few years? We die. Why? In Adam, all die. What a beautiful picture Jonah
is of original sin. And then he went on to say this,
By one man's offense, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. Judgment came upon Adam and it
condemned him. But listen to this, it came upon
all men. That's a storm, isn't it? Boy,
you've got condemnation in your conscience. You know what a storm
that can be. There ain't no storm like a conscience storm. And
why are we condemned? You know, I didn't have to wait
until I was 12 or 14 years old and personally sinned against
God before I was condemned. I was condemned in Adam. Judgment
came upon Adam and that condemned me. Somebody said, how does that
work? I just know it works. I've experienced it. You experienced
it. When I was just a little kid,
before I ever went to school, made such an impression upon
me, I never forgot it. Standing outside an old log house
in Tennessee where we was raised, and I looked up in the air, and
the sky was all red, and boy, the thought came into my conscience,
you're a sinner against God! You're condemned against God.
I didn't have the knowledge of anything I'd done wrong. But
I knew this, I stood condemned before God. And it wasn't until
later on I learned why. I was in Adam. He was my first
father. And when he sinned, it not only
condemned him, but boy, it sent this storm raging in my conscience. And listen to what he said in
verse 19 of Romans 5. By one man's disobedience were
many made sinners. Many were made sinners by one
man's disobedience. Many were made sinners. We find
this in the book of Psalms, don't we? I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me. I don't understand this. I really don't. But I believe
it to be so. Every child that is conceived
in his mother's womb is a sinner. They are little sinners. And
they come forth from their mother's womb, Psalm 58, verse 3, speaking
lies. Why is that? How could that be?
One man back there sinned and it passed upon everybody. That's why we can't be saved
by works. We can't go back and undo what He did. He couldn't do it, and we can't
either. It must be another way of salvation. I want you to think of this for
just a minute like this. Look at Adam and Eve as they
leave the garden. We've seen little drawings and
little paintings of this, haven't we, where they came They come
out of the garden and they've got these skins on that the Lord
made them. But boy, their countenance has
fallen. And they're looking somewhat fearful. And they're glancing
back at an angel with a sword drawn there at the gate that
they can't get back in there. And he's going out into a world
that's now cursed. And he can't imagine what he's
seeing. As he lives a few days, he begins
to see these trees wielding up and dying. He begins to see thorns
coming up out of the ground where there never was before. He begins
to see ponds of water stagnated. He begins to see these animals
fighting and killing and eating one another. And Eve, his wife, conceives
with a child. And they have no idea what's
going to happen. But she comes down to deliver that child and
he thinks she's going to die. She's screaming and she's bleeding.
And he's wringing his hands and she says, what in the world is
happening? Why am I in so much pain? And
she delivers the child. And then she conceives again.
And it's worse. And those two little boys grow
up. And one of them so hates the other one that he kills him.
He murders him in a vicious way. And then Adam looks out over
humanity and he sees the rapes. He sees the murders. He sees
the sodomy. He sees the defrauding. And as he looks out over humanity,
as it grows worse and worse and worse, here's what he says. It's because of Me, it's because
of Me that this has happened to you. I can't imagine how he must have
felt, can you? He lived for hundreds of years.
He saw the world populated and he lived to see it filled with
violence. and every kind of ungodliness.
He saw men worship devils. He saw them worshiping of idols,
calling upon these strange gods. And he says, it's for my sake.
It's for my sake that this storm has come upon you. Do you know why we have so much
false religion today? Do you know where false religion
had its rise? back in the garden after the
fall. You know where this whole business of saved self come from? It came from Adam when he sowed
fig leaves and tried to cover the shame of his nakedness. And
why did he do that? His conscience was afflicted
in him because he saw that he was naked. And that saved self
religion has been around ever since. Why do men feel it necessary
to pray and it doesn't matter who they pray to? They get their
own criteria for what's right. For how to worship God. Why do
they even want to worship at all? It's because of the conscience.
They're in this storm. They know that things aren't
right. They need something. They just don't know what. So
they worship. They know not what. You know
where that came from? That came from Adam's fall. There's
a tempest in the world, isn't there? And that's why men are
praying. That's why the churches are full
today. True or false? They're full. Because of Adam's sin. He's brought us under a tempest,
hasn't He? Adam could not calm the tempest.
and none of his descendants can, in spite of all of the salt remedies,
and in spite of all the labors and the cost that's been entertained,
all has been to no avail. The tempest is still raging." Man, look at the labor. Look
at the thought. Look at the expense that's gone
into trying to remedy the storm that humanity finds itself in.
And they can't remedy it! I was reading a little article
one time about how man has gone about to bring peace in the world. And the little article said in
World War I that the Great War, when it was over, they said,
never again! Never again must we allow this
to happen. So they assembled the League
of Nations. And they said, this will do it.
This will do it. Just a few more years, what happened?
World War II. The war to end all wars, isn't
that what they said? This is going to finish the war
among the nations. So they assembled the United
Nations. And then what happened? A few
years later came the Korean War. And what did they do there? NATO.
Let's get the European nations in on this. So they got NATO. Then what happened? The Vietnam
War. Then Desert Storm and Desert Shield and all the other wars.
And they tell us now we're probably looking at World War III just
over the horizon. What is the problem? Why does
the storm continue to raise? Man don't have the answer. Man don't have the remedy. He
don't even know what the storm is about, does he? He chases
it to causes. He don't know where the effect
is coming from. He's trying to steal the tempest. He knows nothing about what caused
the tempest. or who caused the tempest. Adam's race is under the judgment
of God because of sin. And Adam's fig leaves and Jonah's
cellars rolling ever so hard cannot appease the tempest. It's not the tempest that has
to be appeased. It's God who sent the tempest. We are not what we used to be,
are we? Humanity is not what it was back in the garden before
the fall. What is the trouble with humanity? Folks, the judgment of God is
up on it. The cause of one man's sin. Something happened 6,000 years
ago, and this world is still feeling the dreadful effects
of it, and in and of ourselves. We have no remedy for the sad
and fearful situation we find ourselves in. Every child that is born into
this world faces this awful dilemma. At birth, we are put on this
tempest of life, and the voyage cannot be reversed. The voyage
cannot be cancelled. We cannot return to the port
and anchor the ship until the storm is over. Once we are born
into this life, we cannot escape it. We cannot be unborn. That's the dilemma we find ourselves
in. If we were a dumb animal, If
we were a horse or a worm, we could live out our short and
miserable existence and be annihilated and forget about it. But we're
not beasts. We have immortal souls. And if
we can't find the remedy, if we can't find the calm in the
storm, then we just leave this tempest, this storm, for a worse
one. That eternal storm. We're in
an awful dilemma, aren't we? And the world don't even know
it. They don't even recognize it. All of us are in the same
dilemma. The storm! We're in the midst
of it! And we can't even get ourselves
out of it. Is there a remedy? Is there a
remedy for this storm? Yes. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. Thank God there is. But listen,
the remedy is found outside ourselves. The remedy is found in the wisdom
and the grace and the power and the love of God that's revealed
in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior. There's the remedy. Jonah said here in verse 12,
take me up. and cast me into the sea, and
so shall the sea be calm unto you." Now, somebody is going
to say, Bruce, that was the person who brought the storm to begin
with. No, this is the second Jonah. This is not the disobedient Jonah. This is not the first Adam. Now,
this is the second Adam. This is the obedient Adam. The first Adam brought the storm. Here is the second Adam telling
them the remedy. Take me up and cast me into the
sea and the sea shall be calm unto you. Listen to my text again
in Romans 5. By the offense of one, judgment
came upon all men to condemnation. Even so, just like that, The
righteousness of one man. By the righteousness of one man. Dear soul, if nothing else sinks
into your heart this morning, listen to this. By the righteousness
of one man, the free gift came upon all men and to justification
of life. All men in Adam are condemned. All men in Christ are justified. By one man's disobedience, many
were made sinners. So, by the obedience of one man,
shall many be made righteous." What a wonderful truth. Salvation
by representative is what that stillness is. By the first man's
disobedience came sin and death, and by the second man's obedience
came righteousness and life. He has reversed everything that
the first Adam did. What we see in Jonah being thrown
overboard, what do we see in it? This appeased the source. This didn't just appease the
storm. It appeased the source of the
storm. The Lord sent The storm. And when Jonah was
thrown overboard, the Lord was appeased. That's who we've got
to be worried about, isn't it? Find the source of the storm. By His knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. My righteous servant. My righteous
servant. That's what it takes to appease
God. Somebody that's righteous. My righteous servant, the raging
sea can only be calmed when the source of the tempest is appeased." I wonder how this affected these
sailors towards Jonah when they threw him overboard and suddenly
there was a calm. And they knew why. They knew
why their lives were saved. I wonder how that affected their
hearts, their adoration towards Jonah, how thankful they were
to him. Any man that had any character
at all about him would have never forgotten this man. I'm telling
you, they didn't forget Jonah by the time they got to shore.
I bet you they lived the rest of their life thinking, that
man saved our lives. We were ready to perish on that
wild sea. And when we threw him overboard,
that saved our life. Imagine the book of Jonah being
published, and they rushed to buy a copy of it to find out
what happened. They had no idea what happened
to it. They threw him overboard, and the sea was calm. What happened
to it? Jonah writes this book, and they
go get a copy of it. And then they come here to chapter
2 and they read in verse 2 this. And Jonas said, I cried by reason
of my affliction. And I bet you the tears begin
to flow. Oh, we knew that He suffered
for us. We knew that He had to suffer. But now we're reading
about it. And what do we read? That he
was afflicted to the point that he cried. He cried. You know, when the Lord first
saved me, all I knew was that Christ suffered for sin. I knew
that. I knew that He had paid the penalty
for sin. But you know, I never realized
how He suffered until I began to open this book and read in
it. And then I found out what it cost Him to settle the controversy
between me and God. You can read about it in different
Psalms. Psalms chapter 22, Psalms chapter 40, Psalms 69, Isaiah
53. All of these places talk about
Him suffering. And chapter 2 here, you read
that He went down into the bottom of the mountains. The seaweeds
were wrapped about His head. He was in darkness, cast out
of God's sight. And these men read that and they
said, we had no idea what this man was willing to suffer. Oh,
how he must have loved us. If I'd have been in that boat,
and I knew that I was going to have to be thrown overboard to
save these fellows, these heathens, you know what I'd have said?
Fellas, row as hard as you can. I'll help you. I'll help you.
And you get tired and your muscles ache and you run and look over
the side in the deep water. Fellas roll harder, roll harder.
Wouldn't you have did that? How it seems like this man had
changed, doesn't it? He refused to go preach to the
heathen. Now he's willing to die for the
heathen. And he represents to us these two men, Adam the disobedient
one and Christ the loving Savior. willing to go under such extreme
suffering to save sinners. And I tell you this, when He
saves you, you'll never get over it. And sometimes when you start
reading the Scripture about how He suffered, tears will well
in your eyes, and you'll bow your head and you'll say, Lord,
I had no idea What is that old song? How does that old song
go? None of the ransomed ever knew the depths of the waters
crossed, or how deep the night the Lord passed through, or He
found His sheep that was lost. What did He suffer to redeem
us from our sin? Oh, He went down, didn't He?
He went down deep, deep. You'll notice here in chapter
1 and verse 12, Jonah says, you take me up and you cast me into
the sea. And verse 15 said they took Jonah
up. They did and cast him into the
sea. But in chapter 2 and verse 3, Jonah says this to God, Thou
hast cast me into the midst of the sea. Now the Holy Spirit
is going to teach us something here. He's going to teach us
something here. God Himself smote His Son. God delivered Him up. He was wounded of God. He was
bruised of God. Afflicted of God. Now, God knows
how to punish you, bud. He knows how to punish you. And when He punishes a man, that
man knows he's punished. And Hebrews chapter 5 tells us
something about when the Lord Jesus felt the afflictions from
God, His Father. And He says that He lifted up
supplications and prayers with strong crying and tears. You know what that darkness is
about on the cross. That tells us that something
was going on there between the Son and the Father that you and
I could not enter into. And that's why you read throughout
the book of Psalms, the Lord Jesus was saying things like
this, Rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot
displeasure, for your arrows stick fast in me, your hand presses
me sore, all your billows and your waves have gone over me.
God became angry and His wrath fell upon His dear, lovely Son. It's you that's forsaken Me. Ain't that what He said? That's
to teach us that God had to be satisfied in the atonement of
our sins. And the only way for God to be
satisfied is for Him to punish sin Himself. And that's what
He did in the person of His Son. Dear soul, dear child of God,
the reason sin is not held against you, and the reason it can never
be held against you, here are at the judgment. God has punished
your sins. He's punished. He's punished. That's the first thing that this
teaches us. I can face God if I know that God has punished
every evil thought that I have, every wicked motive, every hateful
word, every ungodly deed that I've ever committed. If I know
that He's punished them, that the court of heaven is satisfied,
then I'm not afraid to face God. And He's done it. Through one
man. Just one man. And then we're
to learn something else. When He says here to them, you
take Me up, and you cast Me into the sea. Take Me up in your arms,
and you cast Me into the sea. Here's the way we must apply
Christ to our situation. We must take Him up, as it were,
in the arms of our faith. and cast him into the midst of
our raging sea of guilt and trouble and fears and doubts." Now, you'll
understand what I'm talking about, won't you? Our forefathers used
to use a term. We don't hear it used today.
We think today it's an awful term to use, but they used it
in a right way. They said, we must use Christ. We must use Him. The Father hath
given Him to us to use Him. And here's the very thing they
were talking about. When we have a sense of this
guilt, take Jesus in your arms of faith and throw Him, cast
Him right down in the midst of your guilt. When you're filled with doubts,
Take Jesus up in your arms, and cast Him down into the sea of
your doubts. When you have trouble in your
daily life, take Jesus up in your arms of faith, and cast
Him into the midst of your trouble, and see if that doesn't calm
the rager. The Scripture tells us such things
as this. Our forefathers would probably
call it using Christ. The Scripture says looking unto
Jesus. Looking. That's a continuous
act, is it not? Looking. Looking unto Jesus. Paul said, the life that I live,
I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself
for me. The Scriptures would say, to
whom coming are trusting in the Lord with all your heart every
day, every moment, are leaning upon her beloved, are cleaved
to the Lord with purpose of heart, cleaving to Him. If we walk in the light as He
is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the blood
of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust in Him, and He shall bring
it to pass. Rest in the Lord. See what he's
saying. This is the way we use Christ.
Look unto Him. Come unto Him. Cleave unto Him.
Wait upon Him. Trust in Him. Watch against sin. Watch against
willful sin. Watch against yielding to the
flesh and its sinful pleasures. I tell you, it will be difficult
to take Jesus up in our arms and cast Him into the midst of
the trouble if we go about willfully falling and bringing trouble
to ourselves. I was reading a little book Brother
Baker gave me. I think he got it from Free Grace
Broadcasters. But I like something that Thomas
Brooks said here, and let me close by reading this. And I
think it helps us to realize what I'm trying to say. One thing that you and I have
trouble doing, and it's not easy to do, is live upon Christ. We think sometimes we threw Him
into our initial troubles. The conscience, all the conviction
we had, and fears of standing before God, and we were finally
able to cast Him over, to apply Him as you would. But now, now,
we don't want to keep Him in our arms and keep throwing Him
overboard in our troubles. We want to try to solve our troubles
some other way, don't we? Listen to what Thomas Brooks
said. The infinite wisdom and power of dear Jesus in reconciling
the law and the gospel in this great mystery of justification
is greatly to be magnified. This righteousness presents us
in the sight of God as all fair. Songs of Solomon 4-7. As complete. Colossians 2-10. Without spot
or wrinkle. Ephesians 5.27, "...and without
fault before the throne of God, holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in His sight, O happy and blessed, the safety and glory of those
precious souls who in the righteousness of Jesus Christ stand perfectly
righteous in the sight of God." Now we love that, don't we? But
we don't stop there. We don't stop there. Because
we're still out on this ocean. And sometimes a storm stirs up. What do we do then? He's going
to tell us. Listen to this. Know for your
comfort that this imputed righteousness of Christ will answer all the
fears and the doubts and the objections of your soul. How
shall I look up to God? How shall I, a poor sinner, look
up to God? The answer is this, in the righteousness
of Jesus Christ. How shall I have any communion
with a holy God in this world? The answer is, in the righteousness
of Christ. How shall I find acceptance with
God this very day? The answer is in the righteousness
of Christ. How shall I die? The answer is
in the righteousness of Christ. How shall I stand before the
judgment seat? In the righteousness of Christ.
Your sure and only way under all temptations and all fears
and all conflicts and doubts and dispute is to by faith remember
that Jesus Christ, who was your righteousness, is still your
righteousness. And He that was thrown overboard
to appease God and His wrath upon our sins. still must be
lived upon in every storm to come it. He's our representative. He's
our representative. And just as God saved us by representative
when He first saved us, He continues to save us by representative. I was watching the little documentary
that Greg gave me. And the Lord had opened Martin Luther's
heart, and he had believed the Gospel. And one of his fathers,
one of the priests that was over him, began to question him. And
he said, Martin Luther, If you take all the relics from God's
children, you're going to take the candles, and you're going
to take the heads of John the Baptist that we preserved, and
you take all of these away, what's going to replace them? Anybody answer that question?
Christ. Christ. It may seem somewhat confusing
and impossible to take him up in your arms and hold him there
and embrace him and cleave to him and throw him overboard too. But that's the way we do it.
That's the way we do it. Bring him right down to where
you live, brothers and sisters. I don't care what you're doing.
I don't care where you work at. I don't care what your occupation
is. When you leave here this morning,
take this blessed Jesus with you and bring Him right down
into your daily life. In whatever you face in your
life, inward or outward, inward doubts or family problems, bring
Him right down in the midst of them and see if He don't even
calm those storms. Do you know what our daily problems
are? They're nothing but the effects of that first man. The storms of our family trials
and trials at work and trials in our body, they're the very
effect. They're the storms that come
because of disobedient Adam. So bring this obedient Christ
down, this atoning Christ, into all your troubles. I don't care
what they are. coming to me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden." About what? Well, we're going to buy a dog.
We don't know which one to get. Is it bothering you? Bring Jesus
down unto it. You say, Bruce, you're crazy.
Well, you may get a battered dog. I'd bring Him right down
into the messed up. It's worth doing. It's worth
seeking Him about. Is it not? I tell you, we can take little
problems that turn out to be big problems if we don't bring
Jesus down and live upon Him by faith. And He replaces everything. God, replace it all with Him. Let's pray.