The Name That Saves

Now, this message that I'm bringing
this morning is entitled, The Name That Truly
Says. The Name That Truly Says. And as I bring this message, I don't want you to think for
a moment that I'm speaking in excitement or off the top of my head, or as some preachers do when
they get carried away with a particular thought. What I'm going to say
in the message that I'm preaching today, I have thought out very
carefully and I hope prayerfully. And I pray that God will give
me the grace to preach it kindly and with compassion. But let's
turn to Acts 2 for the first scripture. We're going to read
quite a bit of scripture. And you're familiar with the
background of this scripture in Acts 2. This is Pentecost. This is the
sermon of Peter at Pentecost. And as he closed this message,
in Acts 2 verse 38, Peter said unto them, Repent,
repent, change your mind, and be baptized every one of you
in the name, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of
sins, and you shall receive the of the Holy Ghost. That doesn't mean just the gifts
of the Holy Ghost, it's the gift of the Holy Ghost which is eternal
life, the gift of God, the unspeakable gift, the gift of the presence
of God, the gift of the indwelling God. For the promise is unto
you and to your children and to all that are afar off, even
as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words
that are not recorded here, did he testify and exhort saying,
now listen, save yourselves, deliver yourselves, come out
from among them, deliver yourselves from this untoward. And that
word is perverse. That word is wicked. That word
is crooked. Deliver, come out, deliver yourself,
save yourself, don't go down with the ship, abandon ship. Don't die drinking poison water,
dig a new well. You see what he said? Don't go
down with the ship, there's no virtue in that, abandon ship. Don't die drinking poison water,
fill that well up and drill a new well. Come out, save yourselves,
deliver yourselves individually. Deliver yourselves from this
wicked, perverse, crooked, religious generation. That's what he's
saying. You see the people, note this, to whom is he preaching? Well, look at Acts 2 verse 5. This will identify the folks
that were there. I tell our young men who preach,
I said, Preach the gospel, but preach to the people who are
there. Don't preach to the people who are not there. Design your
message to fit your congregation. And Peter designed his message
to fit his congregation. Verse 5 of Acts 2 says, There
was dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation
unto heaven. These are devout men, religious
men, out of every nation unto heaven. They'd come there for
Pentecost. They'd come there for a religious
holiday. They'd come there to observe their religious duties.
Everybody, everybody to whom Peter was preaching in this vast
throng and multitude were religious people from everywhere. This
was the capital conference. This was one of the great high
points. Pentecost. And he looks out over that crowd
and he tells them they rejected the Son of God. They crucified
the Lord of Glory. And you better save yourself
from this generation of religious lost people. That's exactly what
he said. You see, religion, in that day, that day in which Peter's
bringing this message, religion in that day, and the so-called
worship of God in that day, was totally apostate. Totally apostate. Beyond repair. Peter says, let's
all get together now and save Judaism. He didn't say, let's
all get together and save our beautiful temples and restore
true worship. He says, get out of them. Leave
them. He didn't say, now I've got a
responsibility here to save this system for God. He said, come
out of it. Come out of it. Save yourself. Don't go down with them. Don't
go down with it. That's what Isaiah was saying.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? Why do you
keep supporting these things? Shut them off. Why do you keep
giving? I look at these monuments to
idolatry around our town where there's steeples reaching heaven
and people just shelling out money to keep them going. Shut
them down. Shut them down. If a well's not
producing the clear water of life, fill it up and dig a new
one. Why do you labor for that which
satisfies not? Save yourself. I'm going to. I'm going to save myself from
this perverse, wicked, crooked religious generation. I don't
want anything to do with them. What was needed here and Peter
was calling for it was a reformation. Peter was calling for, he was
calling for regeneration. Peter was calling here for a
new direction. Not the same old thing, the same
old program, the same old tradition. Come out, he said, save yourself
from this wicked generation. Desert the old wells and let's
dig some new ones. I meant to say that. I planned
to say that. I planned to say this. Now listen.
It will come as no surprise to most of you. but I'm desperate
and I'm depressed. Today's organized religion, and
I'm talking about Ashland, Kentucky, Boyd County, Kentucky, I'm talking
about the USA, the good old USA, apple pie, mom, and all the rest
of it. Today's organized religion is
as foreign to God Almighty and as foreign to the word of God
Almighty and as steeped in error and superstition and tradition
as religion was in the days of Peter, speaking right here. The people to whom he was preaching
didn't see it, and the people mostly around this town, some
of you do, to whom I'm preaching don't see it. They're so taken up with it,
and their mamas and daddies and brothers and sisters and husbands
and wives and kinfolks are so involved in this religion, this
tradition, this superstition, this entertainment and emotionalism
in the name of God Almighty, that nobody can really see the
poison that's being fed to our people. Poison. Take this Channel 5 out here,
61. That's poison. That's poison. And people who
give to it and support it are giving to it and supporting poison.
That's exactly what it is. Oh, that they sing some good
old country songs. I'll tell you, this is the way
it was when our Lord visited this earth. He was in the world
and the world didn't know him. They spit in his face and nailed
him to a cross. He came unto his own, his own
temple, his own priesthood, his own scriptures laying around
on the table, and his own received him not. Our Lord looked at him
and he said, You don't know me nor my father. And when the Lord
of glory, the King of glory, the Son of God marched down that
road to Calvary's cross, there wasn't anybody walked with him,
nobody. And there were preachers and
teachers and rulers and Pharisees and Sadducees so thick you couldn't
stir them with a stick, just like in this day. And I know this is true, my friends.
This is true. I don't care who denies it. I
know this is true. There is not in the national
spotlight today, there is not in the national spotlight today
in this country, One single preacher. Not one. Not one prophet of God. Not one in the national spotlight. Now, there's some boys out here
down the road here in the country and over the hill yondering,
back in the back streets and down yondering in little towns
that are preaching the gospel and telling the truth about God,
but there's not one nationally known preacher. Not one. You name me one. They're cowards,
they're compromisers, and they're covetous, and they're greedy
dogs. There isn't one national figure. And if you support a man like
Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swigert, or any of the rest of
them, you're supporting poison. So you shouldn't talk like that.
God's prophets always talked like that. Peter did. Isaiah did, and our Lord did. There's not one who speaks for
God. There's not one, not a one who presents truth of God. I'm
talking about God in His majesty. You haven't heard a sermon on
God in His majesty and sovereignty and power and might and glory
fall from any preacher's lips that's in the national spotlight.
They may talk about a fall, but they won't tell you what happened
in that fall. They won't tell you the consequences of sin,
the conclusion. They won't tell you the inability,
impossibility. I read about that new bishop
down in Louisville of the United Methodist Church yesterday. He
said God can do such great things if we let Him. That's another
God. It's another God. It's another
God. I tell you it's another God.
They're not in the last days. perilous times shall come, me
and even preachers who speak in the name of God will be lovers
of themselves more than lovers of God. And that's the day we're
in. Not one. There is not one. There
is not a prophet of God on the horizon. There's not one preacher.
Has God left us desolate? I believe so. I believe here
and there and yonder. in the woods, in the back streets,
in the little towns, here and there and yonder, there is a
preacher, there is a man telling the truth. And some of God's
sheep are here in Helman coming to Christ. But I believe the
broad spectrum and the great cities are gone. I believe this
country is gone, as far as God is concerned. And
people today, people in our town, people in our town, And people
all over this country are victims. They're victimized by these self-appointed
religious leaders. And he comes and says, I speak
for God. Who said so? Well, I do. What are your credentials? You know the credentials that
John said a preacher will have if he really speaks for God?
He'll tell the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ. He said try
the spirits, whether they be of God. If any man, if any spirit,
any messenger, any preacher confess not that Jesus Christ, Jesus,
his name of humiliation, Christ, that appointed name, Lord, his
sovereignty, if he confesses not and preaches not that that
Jesus Christ the Lord, omnipotent, eternal God, according to his
own will and purpose to redeem his own people, came into this
world in human flesh and obeyed the law that we might have a
righteousness, and died that justice might be satisfied, and
was buried as our scapegoat and rose as our justifier, and ascended
to the right hand of God, where he ever liveth to make intercession
for his own, triumphantly expecting till his enemies become his footstool.
He's a false prophet. That's what he said. That's his
credentials. His credentials are not that
he went to a college and a seminary. His credentials are not that
he felt some strange mystical call to preach. I don't know
anything about that. I never heard a voice. I was
put into the ministry, forced into the ministry. And I beg
every young man here, don't get into the ministry unless God
puts you there, forces you there. Don't volunteer for this job. And these self-appointed religious
leaders and organizations are more interested in keeping their
traditions alive than they are in the glory of God. That's so.
They're more interested in our denomination, in our traditions,
in our way, in our catechisms, in our doctrines than they are
in the word of God, the glory of God, and the souls of their
poor victimized heroes. They prey on people's ignorance
of the Word of God. That's what these preachers do.
And you know what they do? The Baptists, the Catholics,
the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Church of Christ, the Nazarenes,
and everybody else. Their self-appointed leaders
and self-appointed organizations and self-appointed preachers
and prophets of God keep people in fear. In fear of being without
a representative before God. I've got to stay a friend of
the church if I'm going to be a friend of God. That's what
people think. I can't make a preacher mad at
me or he'll condemn me, he'll damn me. You can't get married
without him, you can't get married without him. You can't get saved without him,
you can't get healed without him. That's going to make them
mad. That's going to offend them. You go to the door and there's
a little girl and a little boy standing at the door and they're
selling cookies for the church. You're afraid not to buy it because
it's a church. Don't want to make God mad. That's right. I've got a representative before
God. I've got an intercessor. And
I don't need that funny looking fella in the funny looking hat
in Rome. I'm not an Ian Paisley fan, but
bless his heart, he stood up in the world parliament. Did
you read about it? Just two weeks ago. When we was over in Ireland,
we saw him. Remember Doris? We drove by his church and he's
standing out front. Ian Paisley. He ran for Prime
Minister of Ireland one time. He's a Presbyterian preacher
in Belfast, Ireland. We drove by and he was standing
out front with two of his men. a big, fine-looking man, knows
some truth. He's a strong grace preacher.
He served in Parliament. And a couple or three weeks ago
he was in the World Parliament in France, whatever it was in
France, of religious leaders and people who were interested,
and the Pope was there. The Pope was there, popping off. And he and Paisley stood up. and declared, I renounce you
as an imposter and an antichrist. Boy, that brought the house down.
But he did it. Would to God. We had some men
in this country with that kind of backbone that would stand
up when these preachers lie on guard and say, I renounce you
as an antichrist. As an antichrist. We wouldn't
do that, though. We're scared. We're scared we
won't have a friend with God. We don't want to offend the Church.
Don't want to offend the Church. But I'll tell you, Luther, Martin
Luther and those Reformers 500 years ago, they saw religion, they saw religion
as it is, as it was in the days of when our Lord came to earth. in the days of the apostles,
that he saw, Luther and those men saw it like it is. And they
saw it like it is in this day. It's corrupt. It's given over
to entertainment. I got amused last night watching
some of those long-haired preachers. I remember 20 years ago all the
preachers were condemning long hair. And now everybody else
has cut theirs and they've let theirs grow out. They're always
20 years behind time on things. Always 20 years. The Pentecostals
and Nazarenes are acting like the very things they condemned
20 years ago. All this make-up and entertainment and emotionalism
and bands playing and flashy clothes and all that. Isn't that
right, Gerald? And now they're all dressing like that. It's
a charade, my friends. It's a money-making charade.
And Luther saw it, and those men cried out three things. And
I cry out these three things today, for you and for me. It's the scriptures alone, not
opinions and not traditions and not thoughts. It's what does
God say. Well, do you dare stand on that
platform? What does God say? I don't care
what the Baptist denomination says. I wish that name could
be taken down out there. For some reason or other, I'd
like to do it. We didn't have our stationery
and all that printed and everything else. Because confusion, it doesn't
mean a thing anymore. It's not, what do our fathers
believe? What my fathers believed could
be totally wrong. It's, what did God say? It's
not, what does our church believe? What does our catechism teach?
What does God say? That's what Luther said. What
does God say? And they chased him all over
Germany. Tried to kill him. Tried to put him out of business
because all he wanted to do was teach what God said. John Bunyan was put in prison
and stayed there 13 years for one crime. He wanted to preach
what God said. The Scriptures alone. Secondly,
grace alone. I'm saved by grace alone. Not
by works of any sort. Not by works of law works, church
works, or good works. By grace alone. Last night on television, I tell
you this thing, it's like a creeping plague. Last night, they're trying
to push unity and the ecumenical movement, and if you love God,
you'll get along, and we'll work together, and we'll build a great
kingdom, and we'll do all these things. Last night on television,
they had three of the top religious leaders in this nation. They
had a Jewish rabbi. The rabbi, the biggest Jewish
worship place in this country. They had the pastor Protestant
of the Colgate Memorial Church. Colgate, what's the name of it?
Colgate something. Marble Collegiate Church or something. Then they had the priest from
one of the biggest Catholic churches. And those fellas got together,
put their arms around each other. They said, this is what the whole
nation needs to do. Hang what you believe. Let's
get together in the name of God. Which God? Which God? The God of the Bible? Which Jesus? And this sounds good, my friend.
This sounds good. But let me tell you something.
Salvation. And you look at that and you say, well, they're feeding
the poor, and they're clothing the naked, and they're healing
the sick. Well, man, that's good. Sure,
that's good. Oh, bless your heart, would God
that we could help clothe more naked people. But the nakedness
that needs to be clothed is the nakedness of sin in the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. You clothe all those people and
they still go to hell. They still perish. They're still
naked before God. And it's not right to convey
to them that clothing their bodies and clothing each other's bodies
makes us acceptable before God. It doesn't. We're still lost. With God we could feed all the
hungry, but let me tell you what my soul needs feeding. The bread
of life, the water of life. You can feed me chicken and steak
and biscuits and all these things and I'll fatten this body and
still perish. I'd be better to live five years
with Christ than fifty years without him. on this earth, and
you can heal my, take, you know, these, I think the shriners,
Hospitals for Crippled Children is wonderful, wonderful. But the organization itself is
pagan before God. Does that make sense what I'm
saying? Let's heal little boys and girls,
the fire victims, the burn victims. I'm not condemning those things.
Believe me, humanitarian works and efforts are wonderful. But we're saved by the grace
of God. We're saved through the blood
of His Son. A man cannot meet God except
on the basis of Christ's righteousness and shed blood. That's just so.
And we must not succumb to these sayings. Our Lord said they'll
come in the latter days and deceive the bare elect if it were possible. Don't be victimized by these
men. If they speak not according to
the word of God, it's because there's no light in them. It's the scriptures alone. It's
grace alone. We're saved by the grace of God,
the grace of God, the grace of God. And it's Christ alone. Now, cast me out, do what you
will. Our Lord said that in the last days they'll cast you out
of the synagogue, and he that killeth you will think he does
God a service. They'll excommunicate you, they
won't have anything to do with you. Let me tell you something. There isn't a preacher in this
town that'll have anything to do with what this church believes
or what this spiritual preachers. You know that? Not whatever flavor
he is, you have nothing to do with it. We're cast out of religion,
we're cast out of the common religious movement. You ask somebody
else, well, you go to church, you say 13th Street, they'll
say, oh, you know that. But do what you will. I'm telling
you this, Christ is my mediator. Christ is my king. And Christ
is my gospel. And Christ is my salvation. He's
not a Jew which is one outwardly. He's not a Jew just because he's
accepted in the Jewish community. He's a Jew which is one inwardly.
And circumcisions of the heart. And I still know, as Paul said,
we are true Israel who worship God in spirit. And I tell you, sometimes I wouldn't
care if we didn't have such a commodious and comfortable building. I'd
just soon be out there, out there where we started, at Armco Park,
under a shelter house, worshiping the living God, without any of
the fanfare and visible aids and visual aids of religion.
Just calling on God like David, who sat on a rock and sang, the
Lord is my shepherd. We don't need these organizations.
We don't need these things that appeal to the flesh. We just
need him. We worship God in spirit and
we rejoice in Christ Jesus. And we have no confidence in
this flesh, none whatsoever. I wonder, what are we afraid
of? Why do these men intimidate us? Why do these fellows in their
religious costumes, you're down at an air depot, an airport,
And here comes a fella, and he's got a collar on backwards and
a black suit, and some of these little penguins with him. They're
dressed up, you know. I like what that little boy said
to that nun. He helped her cross the street.
That old nun, he helped her cross the street. And she turned and
said, Son, I sure appreciate that. He said, Any friend of
Zoe Rose is a friend of mine. You said preachers shouldn't
do that. See what I mean? They got you intimidated. Their religious dress has you
intimidated. You make fun of a clown, that's
what they are. But you know what, here comes
one of those fellows, and you try to look, you know. I was
up in Fairmont, West Virginia one time. I had a black suit
on, and I put on a turtleneck white sweater. And they were
having a Catholic convention up there, and I came out of my
room like this, holding my coat. It was cold. The wind was blowing.
And a girl saw me and she went... Don't criticize this preacher.
I hear these television preachers, you may commit the unburnable
sin if you criticize me. Isn't that what they're saying? Touch not God's anointed. I may
be a covetous fool, but don't touch me. I'll touch him. I'll
tell you this. Let a man preach the glory of
God and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I'll love him, and I'll support
him, and I'll pray for him, and I'll follow him. But if you let
him come to me in the name of religion and his tradition, I'll
denounce him and rebel against him. John said this. If they come
to your door not bringing the doctrine of Christ, then don't
you let them in. And don't you give them a quarter,
and don't you bid them Godspeed. Now they're imposters, that's
what they are. And I'll tell you this, you businessmen, I
feel for you, if somebody comes in your place from a church,
you've got to give them a discount because it's a church. Who said
so? Now who said so? Don't be intimidated by these
people. I have a friend in business down in North Carolina, and they
come in, he says, all these church people come in, and they all
want a discount. They all want it for nothing
is what they want. Preachers are just as bad. What will that
cost the preacher, if anything? And he said, I'll tell them this,
I don't give discounts, especially to churches. And boy, that does
upset them. I tell you, they're practicing
voodoo religion. You know, Mr. Bush talked about
Reagan voodoo economics. Well, this is voodoo religion.
With crosses, holy water, this is voodoo religion. Have you
ever seen these voodoos? They'll be able to dial. You
want to stick a pin in it? It's the same thing. Put your hand
on the TV. That's the same thing. It's the
same thing. When you sprinkle water, that's
voodooism. What's that water doing? What
good, Dan, I stand here and throw water at you? You people think
about this. But you go to one of these so-called
Catholic funerals and you watch them doing all this voodoo. And the Baptists are doing it
and the Presbyterians are doing it. I went to a wedding and here
this preacher did all this stuff you know about how he's What
good is my hand over the head of that couple going to do? And I see them on TV waving their
hands, and Paul Edgar and I were talking the other day, I tell
you where our hands ought to be, over our mouths. That's where
Job put his when he saw the Lord. He didn't wave it, he said, I'll
put my hand over my mouth. I tell you some other place for
these waving hands is to smite on our breasts and cry, God be
merciful to me, the sinner. He said, but you're down on your
generation. I'm down on my religious generation because it's phony. And I'm in the same position
that these apostles were back here. And I'm crying out to our
people, deliver yourselves from this perverse generation. Be
done with it. Be finished with it. Don't you
let them intimidate you. Don't you let them trouble you.
You can measure them by the gospel they preach. That's how you measure
them. It's not by the size of their building. It's not by the
size of their denomination. It's not by how many years they
did in the seminary. It's not by their outward clothing.
It's not by the antiquity of their system. It's what do they
preach about Christ. There you are. Find out. And
if they don't preach the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ,
tell them. Don't be afraid of them, tell
them what O. Ian Paisley said, I renounce
you as an antichrist. And they won't bother you for
discounts no more, will they? Turn to Mark 7, let me show you
something here, what our Lord said to this outfit. Mark chapter
7. Preacher, that's strong, you're
talking. I ask you, what would happen if one of these national
TV preachers would get strong and tell people the truth? Now,
just tell me what would take place. We'd choose upsides, wouldn't
we? Like Barney said, we'd spit on
our heads and choose upsides, and I'd love it. You would too. Mark 7, 5. Listen, then the Pharisees
and the scribes ask him, why won't not thy disciples according
to the tradition of the elders? But they eat bread with unwashing
hands. And he answered and said to them,
our Lord answered and said, Well, hath Isaiah prophesied of you
hypocrites? Boy, our Lord was playing with
them, wasn't he? As it is written, This people honors me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me. How be it in vain do
they worship me? They teach for doctrines the
commandments of men. And watch this now, three times
he says this, laying aside the word of God, laying aside the
doctrine of God, laying aside the commandment of God, you hold
the tradition of men as the washing of pots and cups and many other
such like things you do, all these things you do. Where do
you get anything for this? Your sprinklings and all these
other, where do you get this? That's what he's saying. And he said unto them, full well
you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition.
That's it, Dan. That's our day. For Moses said, honor your father
and mother, and whoso cursed his father and mother, let him
die of the dead. But you say, you're going to turn that around.
You're going to turn that around. And you say, if a man say to
his father and mother, it's corban. That is to say, it's a guilt. By whatsoever thou mightest be
profited by me, he shall be free. You know what Christ is saying?
You twist this thing. You don't let it say what it
says. You interpret it to fit your tradition and to fit your
convenience. And you suffer Him no more to
do all for His Father and Mother. Verse 13, you make the Word of
God of none effect through your traditions which you have delivered in many
such like things you do. Now you see that? All right,
now watch verse 14. Now he says that to the religious
leaders. And then verse 14, he called
the people, all the people, the poor people, the poor misused,
misguided, abused people, mistreated by these religious
leaders, victimized. He called the people and said
to me, hearken unto me, every one of you. Every one of you
understand what I'm saying. There's nothing from without
a man that entering into him can defile him. Nothing. I don't need any water sprinkled
on me. I don't need any crosses made over me. I don't need any
priest kissing something and laying it on my forehead. I don't
need any man baptizing me. I don't need any man putting
his hand on my head and praying for me. I don't need anything
external or from without, nothing, nothing. I don't need to wash
my hands before I eat, nothing, absolutely nothing from without
can help a man or defile him, can save him or damn him, nothing
from without. But the things which come out
of him, those are they that defile the man. There's where the work
needs to be a hard work. See what I'm saying? See what
he's saying? Here's where it is. Here's where it is. It's a hard work. It's a hard
work. It's a hard work. It's a relationship
with Christ. A relationship with Christ. I
wish, if there's one thing, turn to Acts 4, and I'll wind this
up, Acts chapter 4. If there's one thing I could
get across to everybody over television, these tapes, here,
wherever I preach, if there's one thing I could get across,
It would lie right here in what Peter said to all Israel. In verse 10 of Acts 4. All the organizations and all
the promotions and all the religions are not going to help me. I've
got to know Christ. Individually, personally, I've
got to know Christ. You've got to know Christ. It's not my acceptance or rejection
by them. It has nothing to do with it.
It's not even, it's not my outward form. It's not whether I kneel
or bow or whatever I do. It's my relationship with Him
in here. Lord God, I'm a sinner. I've
sinned and come short of your glory. Your law will not and
cannot change. Your justice must be satisfied.
Let thy blood be propitiation for me on the mercy seat. I bow to, confess, and own Jesus
Christ to be my Lord and Savior. And I worship him from my heart.
I love him from my heart. The things that I do outwardly
are to be motivated by a love for him from my heart. Right?
And that's what he says here in verse 10 of Acts 4. Be it
known unto all, and to all the people of Israel, That by the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God
raised from the dead, even by Him, let this man stand before
you whole. This man standing right here,
and that man out there. It wasn't by any hocus-pocus,
hand-shaking decision, walking an aisle, being baptized, being
on good terms with the Church, being a Catholic, Protestant,
Jew, or Baptist. What made me whole? The name
of Jesus Christ. That's what, that's this man
standing before you whole, by that name. And this is the stone
which was set at naught of you religious builders. You're trying
to do his work without him, which has become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none
other name unto heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved." Come out from among them. Before God, before God honestly,
sincerely before God, I want to know Christ. I want
to be found in Him, don't you? I want you to know Christ. I
want to worship God. You know, it's like I was talking
to somebody last week. I said, you know, sometimes I think I'd
love to maybe have a service on Saturday night and Sunday
night. Just preach on Saturday night and Sunday night and skip
Sunday morning or vice versa. Two or three times in one day
is hard on everybody. Whoo! Boy, you wouldn't do that.
Don't cross the tradition. I mean, we're supposed to be
here on Wednesday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night. That's
a three-star Christian. Tradition. How much of this is tradition? You know what I'm talking about?
Tradition. Form. Ceremony. You do it this way
because it's always been done this way. Our modern funerals,
man, I despise them. These weddings, I despise them.
But you don't break the tradition. I can think of a lot of ways
to honor God in marriage and burials better than what we do
it. But nobody lets you buck the tradition. But here's one. I believe there's
some more out there. that my eyes and the eyes of
my heart turn to Him and Him alone. And let's just don't be bound
up by all this stuff. Don't worry about it. I hope I made myself clear on
these things. I hope that it's been wisdom. That's what I want, some wisdom.
But let's sing. Let's sing a song, Mike. Let's
close the service with number 63. Number 63.

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