We're going to be in the book
of 3rd John, if you'd like to turn there. John, in writing to Gaius, is
addressing him regarding a man named Diotrephes. We'll learn
a little bit about him in just a minute. But he's warning Gaius,
and he says these words in John 3, verse 11, I'm sorry, 3 John
1, verse 11. It's only got one chapter. Beloved,
follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that
doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen
God. Now, when someone who doesn't
know who God is hears this, they'll say, well, that means I need
to start doing more good and stop doing less bad or evil. That's what men come to the conclusion
of naturally. That's what our flesh believes.
that which, follow that which is not, that which is evil, but
that which is good. You've got to follow after good
more. You have to do better. You remember when the Lord talked
to the Pharisees, speaking to the Pharisees one time, and he
says, you're whited sepulchers, but inward, you're dead man's
bones. They had cleaned up the outside. They had polished up
the outside really good. They had pressure washed with
bleach the outside of the tomb, but they were still dead on the
inside, full of dead men's bones. But that's the natural, conclusion
that men come to and women come to is that it's time to clean
up our lives. I've got to follow after good.
I have to do good things. Men will do humanitarian things
and thinking that's their righteousness. And I'm not against humanitarian
efforts. Don't misunderstand. We should want to be giving to
our fellow man. But not for righteousness. That's
the point, isn't it? That's not for righteousness.
not what John is saying here. He's not saying that we need
to bleach the sin white. As a matter of fact, John, not
only is John not saying this, you won't find that anywhere
in scripture that you have, you need to clean up your life, that
you need to, uh, wash away the sin of your life by doing better.
That's not in the scripture. That's contrary to what the Lord
says. Now this hour, I hope the Lord gives us clarity on this
subject, encourages us. The Lord would be merciful. He
would encourage us as our prayer to follow after good. Follow after good. What does
it mean to follow here, first and foremost? That's what I've
titled the messages, follow after good. What does it mean to follow
the definition? Well, it means to imitate. and accept, imitate and accept. Now accepting means that you
would accept something that's evil and we know the gospel is
good. We accept the gospel and we don't
accept a false gospel. We don't accept that. We don't
go after that. But evil mentioned here is of
a bad nature or a bad mode of thinking. It's troublesome and
it's injurious, causes injury. That's what the word evil here
means. There is nothing more evil. than to go back to what
we just said a minute ago, thinking we can whitewash the sepulcher
and God will be pleased with it. There's nothing more evil
than that. That is the lie. That's the lie from the very
beginning. It's the lie that you have the power to wash your
sins away. You have the power to become
like God. That was the lie in the very
beginning that Satan told Eve, wasn't it? You shall not surely
die. God knows that the day that you
eat of this tree, you'll be like gods. That's the same word for
the singular God and the plural God there, the plural gods. It's
the same exact word. He said, you're going to be just
like God. And that's what men believe by nature. They can fix
the problem. That's evil. That's evil. It's robbing God of his glory.
And he tells us, he says, don't follow that which is evil. And
this statement was actually prompted by Diotrephes, as I mentioned
just a moment ago. Now, Diotrephes was a man that was in a position
of authority. And it's believed that he would have been the pastor
at the time. And John wrote a letter to this church, this beloved
church. And Diotrephes got the letter, he wouldn't let the church
read it. At this time when the apostles would send forth letters,
you remember it in some of Paul's writings, it says at the end,
to be read to the church. Well, that was the whole point
of writing the letter. It wasn't just to one specific person,
it was to that specific group, that church. Diotrephes says,
no. No, I'm not gonna read the apostles'
letter. I want them to hear what I have to say. No, I'm the man,
I'm in charge. And we look here, if you want,
in verse number nine, if you wanna follow along. I wrote unto
the church, but Theotrophe, who loveth to have the preeminence
among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will
remember his deeds, which he doeth, priding against us with
malicious words, and not content therewith. Neither doth he himself
receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth
them out of the church. He loved to be seen. He loved
to be heard. He loved to have the preeminence,
insomuch that he was spreading false information about John. He was spreading false rumors
about John. Malicious words is what he called
them there. He accused John falsely, and John says that's evil. You
know what this stems from? Pride. If a man desires glory,
He is full of pride. If a woman desires glory, she
is full of pride. And that's what deatrophies had
a problem with, was pride. But it's in our heart from nature,
just the same as it is deatrophies. We're no different, but for the
grace of God, there go I. We can't say, well, I would never
do such a thing, or I wouldn't do that, or haven't done that.
No, that's not our righteousness, is it? No, no, no. What did Peter
say? Lord, these others may forsake
you. This is pride. Peter was proud of what he felt
at that moment. He was prideful. He said, the
others may forsake you, but I'm never gonna forsake you. What
did the Lord say? Get behind me, Satan. He's full of pride,
wasn't he? He said, but Satan hath desire
to sift thee as wheat. I prayed for you, Peter. There's
the difference. There's the difference. The Lord prayed for his people. The Lord loves his people. The
Lord keeps his people from themselves and from their pride. You imagine the arrogance of
him, of this deatrophies, rejecting the apostle John's letter. Now,
John would have been one we know throughout scripture. He wouldn't
even make mention of his own name. That's the humility that
the Lord gave him. He said, one whom the Lord loveth.
He would never draw attention to himself. You wouldn't even
know John wrote the books that he wrote. Had it not been for
the Lord making his name known, we would have not found John
didn't write about himself. In the first person saying, I,
John, that didn't happen. It didn't happen. It's amazing
how the Lord gave such humility to this man. And then he writes
a letter in love, writes a letter in love. And Dr. Fee says, I
ain't reading that. As a matter of fact, if you try
to read it, I'm going to throw you out of the church. That's
what he was saying. What are you saying? It was, it was the
word. So what does John do? He writes a letter to Gaius,
who would have been another beloved brother in that church and says,
listen, when I come, I'm going to remember his actions. I will
remember his words. And I'm going to say, we'll make it, I'll set
it straight. We'll make it right. But it was all about pride, wasn't
it? They called Deatrophis to do this. Now, Everything, our evil that's in
us, our sin, we can all see that it just stems from pride and
all about self in so many ways. I want this, or that's pride.
I haven't done this, or I haven't done, that's pride. In everything,
and you see in false religion, pride's predominant. Those Pharisees,
they thought they were something else, didn't they? They paraded
around with their garments and their ceremonies. They said,
look at me. Look, that's what pride does,
is it says, look at me. But you know what humility gives?
When the Lord gives humility, humility must come through and
by the Lord. It's a gift. It's a gift. It's part of salvation
for his people. You know what humility says?
Truth, Lord. I am a dog. I have no pride left. I'm a dead
dog sinner. I see that now. You've made me
to see that. You've given me repentance. You've given me faith
to see that Christ is all and he gets all the glory. And not
only am I perfectly fine with that, I glory in the fact that
you get all the glory. I'm so thankful that you get
it all. The seven things the Lord hates,
scripture says, is one of pride. A proud look, says, I hate it.
The Lord said, I hate it. Why? Because it stems from the
heart of man. It's not of the Lord. Pride's not of the Lord.
It's for self-glory. Pride is all about self. There's
great evil in pride. John says, beloved, follow not
that which is evil. Don't follow after the pride
of your heart, but follow that which is good. Follow that which is good. There's no room for pride at
the foot of the cross. No, God's not a respecter of person. If
you want to come to Christ, the foot of the cross is level, isn't
it? There's nobody that sits higher at the foot of the cross
than the other. Everybody's the same exact level, completely abased
with no hope of self, no self-righteousness, no self-worth, nothing to present,
in my hand no price I bring, simply to Christ I cling. If
we desire to come to Christ, we must come abased, or not at
all, or not at all. Scripture says, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Do you know why?
Because he gave the humility. Everything God requires, He must
provide. If the Lord's looking to you to be humble, if the Lord
demands that you have to be humble in order for Him to exalt you,
if He's saying that you have to be humble in order for you
to obtain salvation, He's gonna have to give it. He's gonna have
to give it. There's no way we can be humble enough to cause
Him to do anything, to force His hand to do anything. It's
not possible, is it? We cannot constrain or restrain
Him in any way. Only those given humility by
the grace of the Lord. And the most amazing part is
the humility comes by his grace, but with that same grace, that's
what repentance and faith is given with. And by that same
grace, we're able to cry out, have mercy on me, the sinner
can't even lift up my eyes. No, at the foot of the cross,
we're all just face down, aren't we? We're all just clinging to
his precious nail scarred feet. That's what we're doing. Just
clinging to him, just clinging to him alone. It's grace that
causes anyone to become that, to become a mercy beggar. Turn
with me to Mark chapter eight. Look at verse 34 through 38,
Mark chapter eight. And when he had called the people
unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, whosoever,
whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, take up
his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life
shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake
and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit
a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange
for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of
my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also
shall the son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of
his father and with the holy angels. If you want to come to
Christ, you have to deny yourself. And the only way that a man or
a woman will deny themselves is if the Lord reveals what we
are by nature. In revealing what we are by nature,
a sinner, we will realize we have no hope in ourself and we
will deny ourself. We will deny affiliation with
ourself. Think about that. That's what this word deny means.
It's literally affirm to have no acquaintance with yourself. That doesn't make any sense to
the flesh, does it? Not at all. How can I affirm that I have
no acquaintance to myself? Well, you affirm that you have
no self-righteousness. That's what you do. That's what
the Lord does by repentance and faith. You have no self-righteousness.
You affirm that, don't you? It's impossible to do except
by grace. But that's what it means to follow after good. Deny
yourself. Don't look to your righteousness.
Follow after good. Well, who is good? Well, if it's good,
it can't be of me. And it can't be of you. The goodness
of the Lord is what leads men to repentance. What is that goodness?
Is it not the Lord Jesus Christ himself? He is good. He is good. How do we follow after good?
Is it what we do? No. Look to Christ. It's the
same message. It's the same message we hear
over and over. It's Him that's good. It's not us. We follow
after Him, and thereby we follow after righteousness. We follow
after Him, and thereby we follow after peace. We follow after
Him, and thereby we follow after joy. But how can a dead man follow? Well, he says live, and he says
look, and he says hear, he says seek, and we do just that. He
gets all the glory, doesn't he? He gets all the glory. Lord said
if you want to come to me, you're gonna have to deny yourself.
You're gonna have to forget yourself. Forget yourself, look to Christ.
Don't look to yourself, forget yourself. Most of our society
is all about their own agenda. Their own agenda, not the believer. I'm all about his agenda, aren't
you? His will, his glory, his purpose. Those are the words
we use properly. That's what we're after. In Luke,
the Lord told Luke 14, 11 said, he that humbled himself shall
be exalted. And he that exalted himself shall
be abased. Man, here's that. This is, he
heard John say, follow after that, which is good. Not which
that is evil. They'll say, okay, I have to humble myself. The
only way that we'll humble ourself is if the Lord humbles us, gives
the grace to do so. You remember in the Old Testament,
whenever Pharaoh was standing with Moses, Moses was interceding
for the people and God, and he said, let my people go, and it
says, Pharaoh hardened his own heart. But you know how many
times it said, God hardened the heart of Pharaoh? God hardened
the heart of Pharaoh. He was raised up for the singular
purpose of God getting all the glory before Egypt, before the
children of Israel, and before the world. God did that. This
leads us to the conclusion by what the Lord has taught us in
his precious word, Lord, give me humility. Lord, give me humility. Cause me to look to Christ alone. Cause me to be completely, lay
completely down before your gospel, before your truth. Cause me to
cling to nothing else but that truth. When he does that, Christ becomes
the singular desire. He becomes the one thing needful,
doesn't he? He's the one thing needful. Ask any believer. Next,
Mark says, take up your cross. And I remember in false religion
that that meant that it's time to get to work. What have you
done for Jesus today? Anybody ever heard that before?
I heard it many times. That is not not what Mark is
saying. To take up your cross is to bear
the reproach of the gospel of the cross. That's what it is.
Bear the reproach of the gospel, never forsaking it. Somebody
comes up to you and they say, what do you believe? Do you try
to find a common ground or do you tell them what you believe?
Christ is all, Christ is seated, Christ, the father did the electing,
the son did the redeeming and the spirit does the regenerating.
That's what we believe. When they hear that, you're not gonna
be friends for very long unless the Lord gives grace for them
to hear as well. They're gonna hate you for it. Now, it may not become
a predominant hatred where, but the flesh hates those words.
The flesh doesn't like God getting all the glory. The flesh rears
up in pride every time. Only those who are given humility
says truth, Lord, and I don't want it any other way. You've
changed my want to. Lord, you've given me a new want
to. I don't want it to be about me anymore. I want it to be about
Christ Jesus and him alone. That's what it is to take up
your cross. How do we do this? Looking to Christ. Look, we bear
the reproach of the cross by looking to him. Lord orders and
provide for our good and for his glory. No matter the cost, no matter the
cost, we can't, can't deny the gospel, can we? Can't do it.
No matter the cost. That's how we follow after that
which is good, looking to Christ. Ephesians 5.1 says, be you therefore
followers of God as dear children. In another place, Paul said,
as you have received the Lord, so walk you therein. How did
we receive him? As babes, just as babes. We were made alive
with complete dependency upon him, complete dependency. That's
how we walk in him as well. That's how we do that which is
good, looking unto him, not looking to ourself, looking unto him. Now look with me if you will,
Philippians chapter three. Philippians chapter three. Paul said this. Philippians 3.13,
Brethren, I counted not myself to have apprehended, but this
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,
that That is doing that which is good. Pressing toward the
mark, reaching for the pride. Who is that? What is that? That's
the Lord Jesus Christ himself. This is a motion forward towards
him. How do we do that? Ever looking
to him, not looking to ourself. Am I heading in the right direction?
You are if you're looking to Christ. If we're looking to the
Lord Jesus Christ, we're pressing towards him. Certainly we've
forgotten about ourself, haven't we? Certainly we've denied ourself.
We're looking to him alone. Christ is the pride for his people.
Ask any follower of the Lord, ask any one of his children,
ask anyone that's confessed the Lord Jesus Christ as their all,
and they'll say what Paul says in verse eight and nine. Look
back at verse eight and nine. Yea, doubtless, I count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do
count them but dung, that I may win Christ and be found in him,
not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which
is of God by faith. Is that your confession? Counted
all things but loss. Said all things, another place
he says, all things but done, that I may know him and the powers
of his resurrection. I may know him. That's the whole
point, isn't it? I got to know him. I don't need
a message that makes me feel good about myself. I don't need
to be built up in the flesh and saying, you're doing a very good
job because you're doing this and you're doing this and you're
doing this. And that means you're a believer. No, I don't want
to hear that. I have no confidence in the flesh. I've counted all
that but done that I may win Christ, that I may know him.
And the only way that you can be made, another way you can
do that is if we're made to do that with the eyes of faith that
he gives to us. That's what he just said, the
righteousness which is of God by his faith. If your confession,
if your hope is to be found in him, not having your own righteousness,
not having your own righteousness, then you're following after that
which is good. You're following after that which is good. You're
following him. That's where all righteousness is found. That's
where all goodness is found. Turn with me back to our text
in John chapter three. God's standard is much different
than man's standard. Man says doing will equal salvation. God says doing will equal damnation.
That's what he says. It's iniquity and he hates all
workers of iniquity. Man says, if you try a little bit harder
and you do your part, God will do the rest. God says, if you
try to touch it, he says, I'll have no part with you. Depart
from you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. This is what
John is mentioning here. Whenever he says in verse 11,
beloved, follow not that which is evil. About the flesh is evil,
every bit of our pride is evil, but that which is good, follow
after that. He that doeth good is of God. What does it mean
to do good? Follow after the Lord Jesus Christ.
Follow after him through the eyes of faith. Through the eyes
of faith. He that doeth good is of God,
but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. He that doeth evil hath not seen
God. You know what that means? That means seeing the Lord Jesus
Christ is salvation. Seeing the Lord Jesus Christ
is salvation because life has been given, because faith has
been bestowed. We see him. That means we have
life. Only they that are of the truth
can know the truth. Only they that are born in the
truth can see him and rest in him alone. Seeing him as salvation. To do good, brethren, to do good
is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's to do good. That's
what to do. It's commanded. It's commanded,
isn't it, of the Lord. God, by His Spirit, enables every
elect child of God to believe because He commands it to do
so. He makes His people willing. Do you know that verse? He makes
His people willing in the day of His power. We're willing,
willing to follow after good. We desire to follow after good.
We desire to follow after Him. We no longer confess that it's
what we do. That's evil. We no longer have
pride in salvation. We know that we have no righteousness.
We have no pride in our own righteousness. That's evil. No, we follow after
that, which is good. We follow him, confessing him
alone because he's made us willing in the day of his power. Now in closing, I'm going to
give us an allegory and I'm going to have us turn to Revelation
for one more verse, but I've learned not to close my Bible
too soon yet. I keep doing that, open it back up, and then it's
a big distraction for me, so I'm gonna leave it open. The
book of Genesis 24, we read a story, beautiful allegory of the Lord
making his people willing. Abraham was well stricken in
age, and he calls his eldest servant, the scripture calls
him, the one that was over everything he had, the one that was over
all the possessions that he had. The word he used was ruled. He
ruled over all of it. And he tells him, swearing to
me, swearing to me that you will go and you will retrieve a wife
for my son Isaac, not from the Canaanites, not from the heathens,
but go to my kindred, go to my brethren and retrieve a wife
of me. And the servant's response would
be our response. What if she won't come with me?
What if I can't get her to come with me? Do you want me to take
Isaac down? Abraham said these words, if
the woman will not be willing to follow you, then thou shalt
be clear from this, my oath only bring not my son through there
again. Don't take him down there. God's going to send his angel
before you. God's going to send his angel before you. You won't
have to take Isaac down there. And upon the arrival of our,
uh, upon the departure of the servant, it says this for all
the goods of his master were in his hand. All the goods of
his master were in his hand and he was charged with bringing
the father a bride for his son. What a picture of the covenant
of grace that the Lord's shown us. Lord said, I'll elect them. The son will redeem them and
the spirit will regenerate them. The spirit will bring them. This
is a picture of the father sending the spirit to collect one of
the Lord's elect. And he goes down having all the
possessions of the Lord, everything of the Lord in his hand. Most
amazing thing happens whenever he arrives down to where Abraham's
kindred is, Rebecca meets him instantly. That doesn't give
a space of time where she's not already there. She's already
exactly where she needed to be for him to meet her. And at the
appointed time, brethren, no matter where you are, no matter
what you're doing, when the gospel is declared, the spirit of God,
when he chooses to, according to the predetermined counsel
of God, you will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He will say,
live, and you'll believe. We can rest in that, can't we?
Not by works of righteousness we have done, not whether we
want to or don't want to, but at the moment he's appointed,
we'll believe. And that was what happened here. This woman happens
to be, and I love that it happens who she is, happens to be Abraham's
brother's daughter. He wanted a wife of his brethren,
that's what he wanted. So what happens? Well, they go
into the tents, everything's made ready, the camels are taken
care of, and the servant begins to tell, begins to express of
his mission, his purpose, his aim and goal. And he says, Abraham
has sent me to retrieve a bride for his son, Isaac. He said he
didn't want it from all the Canaanites where we're at. He didn't want
it from the heathen. He wanted it from one of his brethren. And the scripture
says these words, and she was willing to go with him. She was
willing to go with him. Now that's exactly what the Lord
does to his people. In following after goodness,
he makes us willing to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You
never saw him. They didn't have pictures back then. They didn't
have any. In matter of fact, the scripture doesn't even say
that he described what Isaac looked like to her. He could
have been an ugly guy. I mean, seriously, think about it. Why
would she follow this man to a stranger like that? because
God gave her the faith to believe God, to believe God. This was
purposed. This was purposed in order for
the lineage, it goes back to the lineage of Christ, doesn't
it? It goes back to Rebecca had two sons, didn't she? Jacob and
Esau. We know what a picture of the Lord's election and Jacob
have I loved, Esau have I hated. This is the Lord's doing. She
was willing to go with him. Now, sometimes we, I know you
and I are the same in so many ways. We grieve over our loved
ones that are lost, but just remember this. If they're the
Lord's, they will be made willing at the appointed time. Rest in
that. Now it was 600 miles from where they were back to where
Abraham was. A camel can go about 20 miles a day. give or take,
and I'm sure there's somebody that'll, not in this congregation,
but somebody's going to try to split hairs over that. I don't,
that's just what the internet said. And you believe everything
on the internet, 20 miles a day. So maybe they were overburdened.
It was less, maybe they weren't, it was more, but if you could take
600 divided by 20, you get 30, 30 days, 30 days of traveling
on a camel on the desert. And what do you think their conversation
would have been the whole time? What's on Rebecca's mind? Is
it about how nice the camel is or the nice scenery or what do
you think is on her mind? Tell me more about Isaac. I want
to know more about him. What color are his eyes? What
color is his hair? What color, what does he smell
like? What's his favorite things to do? She wanted to know about
Isaac. She was willing to follow the
servant and she learned more and more about Isaac. And when
she arrived to where Isaac was, the scripture says she lighted
off of her camel. She looked at the servant and
said, because Isaac had come out into the field, she said,
is that him? Who is that? And he said, that's
him. And she lighted off her camp
and she wrapped her face. She veiled her face. She said,
I'm not worthy to look at him. Isn't that the picture? That
one day when we see the Lord face to face, the half's not
been told. You didn't tell me the half of
what his glory is, how marvelous he is, the salvation for his
people. The half's not been told of what
he's done. This is what the Lord does for his people. He makes
us willing to seek after the Lord. To seek after good, the
Lord Jesus Christ, by His Spirit. Him saying, seek you my face,
over and over again. We just seek after good. The
good that's only found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Do we not hide our face every
time we see Him? In the Gospels declared, do we
not hide our face? We see our sin. He gives us repentance
again and again. Woe is me. I'm the man of unclean
lips. I'm the man that sinned against
the Lord. That's repentance. I'm hiding my face again, confess
my sin before him again. So how are we able to follow
the Lord? How are we able to follow good?
Well, we're made to follow in the day of his power. commanded
to. In 1 Timothy chapter 6 he says,
follow after righteousness, follow after godliness, follow after
faith, follow after love, follow after patience, meekness, follow
after meekness. How can we follow after all these
things? We follow after Christ who is our righteousness. We
follow after Christ who is our godliness. We follow after Christ
through the eyes of faith that he's given us. We follow after
love. Christ is our, he's love. We follow after patience. We
struggle with patience a lot, don't we? Not when we're looking
to Christ. We're waiting on the Lord then, aren't we? We are.
We follow after him who is due with all things well. Lastly,
he said, follow after meekness. Truth, Lord. Truth, Lord. I want
to follow after you. I want to follow after you. We
follow the lamb, don't we? I said we're gonna turn to one
place, so we will, Revelation 14. Look at verse one through five.
And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and
with him a hundred, forty, and four thousand, having his father's
name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven,
as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder,
and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. And
they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before
the four beasts and the elders. And no man could learn that song
but the 144,000 which were redeemed from the earth. These are they
which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are
they which follow the lamb wherever he goeth. They follow the lamb
wherever he goeth, withersoever. These were redeemed from among
men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their
mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before
the throne of God." What does it mean to follow good? Follow
the Lamb. Follow the Lamb. God's elect are able to sing
a new song. That's what 144,000 means there. That's representation.
That's a derivative of 12. That represents the 12 tribes
of Israel. That's God's elect. They sing a new song that no
man can learn. That's what he said. No, you
can't learn it. You can't learn it unless you're his. You know
it. That's what he's telling you. You know Christ is all.
Christ, what's gonna be the song? Redeemed. I've been redeemed. That's the song. No man can learn
it. But those who've been bought
by his own blood, the blood of the Lamb. How does God's people
follow after good? We follow after Christ. We follow
after the Lamb, whithersoever he goeth. Withersoever he goeth,
when? Right now, and right now, and
right now. We follow after Isaac, our Isaac. We try to hear a little bit more
about him. Tell me a little bit more about
Isaac. Tell me a little bit more about how redemption was wrought
on the cross of Calvary for wretches, for sinners, for dead dogs. Tell
me a little bit more about how he really redeemed his people.
Tell me a little bit more about how that God resurrected him
from the dead, being satisfied with his sacrifice. Tell me a
little bit more about how he seated ruling and reigning as
the sovereign creator and sustainer of the universe. Tell me a little
bit more about my Isaac, my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Tell me
a little bit more about the successful Redeemer of His people. That's what it is to follow after
good. That's what it is to follow after good. Tell me more about
Him. Follow Him. Let's pray. Lord, cause us to
follow after You in all things which is good. In Christ's name,
amen. I had a song written down, but
let's sing that redeemed. If you find it before I do, let
me know.