I'm reading this morning from
the book of John, the first chapter of the book of John. Verses 6
and 7. Now, here's the title of the
message, The Preacher, The Preacher. I wish that I had in my audience
this morning every preacher in the United States, for that matter,
the whole world, because I believe that I have something to say
that we preachers need to hear. The title of the message is The
Preacher and His Message. THE PREACHER AND HIS MESSAGE.
NOW, I'M READING FROM JOHN 1, VERSE 6 AND 7. THERE WAS A MAN,
A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN. THE SAME MAN, THIS
MAN, JOHN, SENT FROM GOD, CAME FOR A TO BEAR WITNESS OF THAT
LIGHT," CAPITAL L-I-G-H-T, THAT LIGHT. HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT. HE WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS OF
THAT LIGHT, THAT ALL MEN THROUGH HIM, THAT IS, THROUGH THAT LIGHT,
CHRIST MIGHT BELIEVE. JOHN, BEAR WITNESS OF CHRIST. JOHN, BEAR WITNESS OF CHRIST.
NOW, IT'S CLEAR FROM THIS SCRIPTURE. IF YOU READ IT CAREFULLY ENOUGH,
IF YOU LISTENED WHILE I WAS READING IT, It's clear from this scripture
that John's one mission, John's sole purpose of existing, was
to preach Jesus Christ. I'm convinced of that beyond
a shadow of a doubt. You cannot account for John except
by looking to Christ. There's no accounting for John.
The one reason for John's existence, the one reason for John's office,
as a preacher, the one reason for John's office as a forerunner,
the one reason for John's ministry was to bear witness of Jesus
Christ. There was a man sent from God
whose name was John. This same John came for a witness. That's why God sent him. That's
what he came to do as a sole purpose for his existence, for
his office, for his ministry. Now, I don't quite know how APPLY
THIS TO ALL MEN, EVEN ALL BELIEVERS. BUT I DO KNOW HOW TO APPLY IT
TO THOSE WHO PREACH AND THOSE WHO PASTOR. I'M SAYING THIS,
WE PREACH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED, AND THAT'S OUR MISSION. And that's
our objective. And that's why God sent us. Paul
said that to the city of Corinth. He said, I am determined. I'm
determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. Now, I know that there are nations
to be governed. I'm aware of that, but I believe
God has given men gifts for that task, to govern nations. I know
there are laws to be made and laws to be enforced. I know we've
got to have police. We've got fires to put out. We've
got to have firemen. I know there's children to be
educated. We've got to have school teachers. I know there's sick
people to be healed. Got to have doctors. I know there
are multitudes to be fed. Somebody's going to have to grow
some corn and some cotton and some potatoes. I know that there
are houses to be built and there are wars to be fought, but God
has given men gifts to care for these necessities. But the business
of those who preach is not to educate children and build houses
and heal sick folks. It's to preach Christ. Now the
business of those who preach and who pastor is to preach the
Word of God. That's what Peter said over there
in the book of Acts. WHEN THEY WERE HAVING ALL THAT
TROUBLE BETWEEN THE WIDOWS OF THESE DIFFERENT TRIBES AND NATIONS,
AND THE APOSTLES WERE BEING... THEIR TIME TAKEN UP WITH TAKING
CARE OF THESE NECESSITIES, HE SAID, WHY DON'T YOU FOLKS APPOINT
SEVEN MEN, FAITHFUL MEN, GODLY MEN, SAVED MEN, AND PUT THEM
OVER THIS BUSINESS, AND WE WILL GIVE OURSELVES TO PRAYER AND
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD. NOT BE TAKEN UP WITH THIS BUSINESS.
GOD HAS GIFTED OTHER MEN TO TAKE CARE OF THIS BUSINESS. AS A PREACHER
OF THE GOSPEL, OUR BUSINESS IS CHRIST. THERE WAS A MAN SENT
FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN, AND HE WAS SENT TO WITNESS, TO
BEAR WITNESS OF THE LIGHT. AND I'M SAYING THE ONE REASON
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A PREACHER, THE ONE REASON FOR THE EXISTENCE
OF A PREACHER, OR FOR HIS OFFICE AS A PASTOR, OR FOR HIS MINISTRY
AS AN AMBASSADOR OF JESUS CHRIST, IS TO GIVE HIMSELF, LOCK, STOCK,
AND BARREL, TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY, AS THE FISHERMAN SAID, HOOK,
LINE, AND SINKER, TO THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL OF THE SON OF GOD.
THAT'S HIS BUSINESS. AND WHEN HE TRIES TO DO ANYTHING
ELSE, HE'S AN EMBARRASSMENT TO HIMSELF AND TO EVERYBODY ELSE
AND A SHAME TO GOD. A prophet is a prophet is a prophet
and his business is to preach the prophets Lord in 2nd Corinthians
5 18 Paul said all things are of God All things are of God
who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and had given
to us the ministry of reconciliation we are ambassadors of Jesus Christ
and We're not ambassadors of the government. We're not ambassadors
of capitalism. We're not ambassadors of democracy. We're ambassadors of Jesus Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, God himself speaks to you by us. And he that heareth
you, Christ said, heareth me. And he that despiseth you, despiseth
me. Now, not he that despiseth you
over your politics. not he that despiseth you over
your sectarian views, not he that despiseth you over your
prophetical views, not he that despiseth you over your cantankerousness,
not he that despiseth you over your legalism, but he that despiseth
you over the gospel of substitution of God's grace. of God's mercy
in Christ Jesus, he despises me. Oh, that if the preachers
today would be about their father's business, if they leave other
people's business alone and get busy with their father's business.
I believe God would bless. I believe we wouldn't be in the
famine that we're in. You say, we're in no famine,
not of bread and water, but of hearing the Word of God. Five
years before that great old soldier Charles Spurgeon died, he made
the following statement to that great metropolitan tabernacle.
He said, HE WAS THEN 53 YEARS OLD, BEEN PASTOR THERE SINCE
HE WAS ABOUT 18 OR 19. HE SAID, BRETHREN, I DESIRE TO
BE LIKE JOHN THE BAPTIST. I DESIRE TO HAVE AS MY THOUGHTS
AND MY MINISTRY AND MY EXPERIENCE I desire to have as my everything
Jesus Christ and His gospel, my mind concentrated on Him,
on His sacrifice, on His death, on His resurrection, on His mediatorial
office, and on His blessed return. And during the little time that
I may be allowed and spared to lift up my voice in this wilderness,
I would bear witness to the Lamb of God. THE YEARS MAY BE SHORT
IN WHICH I MAY PREACH TO THIS CONGREGATION." THERE WERE JUST
FIVE OF THEM LEFT. BUT HE SAID, THE YEARS MAY BE
SHORT, BUT HE SAYS, AROUND THE CROSS SHALL BE TO ME THE PLACE
OF GREEN PASTURES, AND FROM THE SACRIFICE OF MY LORD SHALL FLOW
THE STILL WATERS. NOW MANY OTHERS IN OUR DAY ARE
INVOLVED IN OTHER THINGS. I LEAVE THEM TO DO THEIR BEST
OR THEIR WORST, BUT AT LEAST ONE, determines to be separated
to the gospel of God. I know no salvation except by
substitution, and I know no substitute except Jesus Christ." That's
my message, and that's the sum of my ministry. Oh, my brethren,
basically, this is what the Scripture's all about. This is what the Word
of God's all about. You want me to give you just
briefly a shortcut to some comprehension or understanding of this great
book, this great Bible of 66 books, Old Testament, New Testament.
Let me tell you what it's all about. Let me tell you. I'm not
being facetious. I'm being honest with you. Let
me tell you what it's all about. The Old Testament, 39 books in the
Old Testament. The Old Testament says someone's
coming. Someone's coming. The four Gospels,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John say, somebody has come. That's
what they say. Somebody has come. And the epistles
of Paul and Peter and all the rest of them, you know what they
say? Somebody's coming again. That's what they say. Did you
hear that? The Old Testament says somebody's coming. He's
coming. He's coming. It says it in promise,
in prophecy, in picture, in type, in symbol, in every way. Somebody's
coming. And the four Gospels say somebody's
already come. He's here. And the epistles tell
me somebody's coming again. Now, I want you to look at that,
those three things. First of all, the Old Testament. The Old
Testament says somebody's coming. That's right. Someone's coming.
Acts 10.43 says to him, give all the prophets witness to that
one who's coming. All the prophets. I'm talking
about Moses who wrote the first five books, Job, whenever he
wrote, David, the Psalms, the major, minor prophets, Isaiah,
Ezekiel, Jeremiah, all these prophets. They give witness to
him who's coming. After man failed, God created
man, put him in the Garden of Eden. and made him a covenant
of works with him, and man broke it, man fell, man sinned. But
right after he fell, God began to reveal His purpose to save
sinners. Right after man fell, I don't
know, but shortly after man fell, God began to speak concerning
a Redeemer, to speak concerning a Savior, to speak concerning
a Messiah. God Almighty began to reveal
His purpose to save men by His free grace. THROUGH A COMING
REDEEMER. HE'S CALLED IN THE SCRIPTURE
THE BRANCH. HE'S CALLED THE ELECT. HE'S CALLED THE CHRIST. HE'S
CALLED THE MESSIAH. HE'S CALLED THE KINSMAN REDEEMER.
HE'S CALLED THAT PROPHET. HE'S CALLED A PRIEST. HE'S CALLED
THE KING OF SALEM. HE'S CALLED ALL THESE DIFFERENT
THINGS. BUT GOD SETS FORTH THROUGHOUT EVER SINCE MAN FAILED. GOD HAS
BEEN SAYING HE'S COMING. FOR 4,000 YEARS HE SAID HE'S
COMING. HE'S COMING. SOMEONE'S COMING.
Someone's coming to lift us out of our darkness. Someone's coming
to lift us out of our spiritual deadness. Someone's coming to
restore what we lost in the fall. We lost the way, the truth, and
the life. And somebody's coming who will be to us the way, the
truth, and the life. God was pleased to set forth
His coming in promise, in prophecy, in picture throughout the whole
Old Testament. GOD SAID THIS, THE VERY FIRST
PROMISE, GENESIS 3, HE SAID, THIS ONE WHO'S COMING. NOW, YOU
SEE, THE BIBLE TAILORS A GARMENT THAT WILL FIT ONE MAN. IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT WHO THE
MESSIAH IS, WHO THE CHRIST IS, YOU TAKE THE OLD TESTAMENT. And
you study that garment. It's tailored to fit one man.
One man will fit every dimension, every picture, every prophecy,
every type, one man, and only one. And God said, first of all,
he'll be born of a woman, but not just any woman, not an ordinary
woman, a virgin. That's right. In Genesis 3, 15,
he said, this Messiah, this one who's coming, is going to be
the seed of woman. Not the seed of man, the seed
of woman. And he'll bruise the serpent's
head. He said in Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, he said, the Lord
himself will give you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bring
forth a son. He said in Isaiah 9, 6, he said,
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. AND HIS GOVERNMENT
WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDERS, AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL
COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE
OF PEACE. SO HE'LL BE BORN OF A WOMAN.
ACTUALLY, WHEN EVE HAD THE FIRST MAN CHILD, WHEN CAIN WAS BORN,
SHE SAID, I'VE GOTTEN A MAN FROM THE LORD. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE
SHE SAID, I'VE GOTTEN THE MAN. WELL, SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE MAN.
SHE HAD A MURDERER ON HER HAND. SHE HAD NOTHING BUT A SINNER,
JUST LIKE HIS FALLEN DADDY. BUT SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD THE MAN.
BUT SHE KNEW THE MAN WAS COMING. GOD SAID HE'S COMING. HE'S COMING. NOT ONLY WILL HE BE BORN OF WOMAN,
BUT HE'LL BE BORN OF ABRAHAM'S SEED. HE'LL BE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM.
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT GOD SAID HE'LL BE THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. THE SCEPTER
SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH UNTIL SHILOH COMES. HE'S COMING. SHILOH'S
COMING. AND HE'LL BE OF THE FAMILY OF
JESSE. And he'll be of the house of David. And God said, I'll
tell you where he'll be born. He'll be born in Bethlehem of
Judea. You see, all that is about the man. Someone's coming. But
he says he'll be a prophet like Moses. Moses wrote and said to
the people, he said, one of these days God will raise up from among
the people that prophet like unto me, him you shall hear.
Him you shall hear. That's what our Heavenly Father
said of His Son. He said, This is My Son. Hear
Him. Hear Him. Him you shall hear. He'll be
a prophet like Moses. He said He'll be a priest like
Melchizedek. Having no beginning of days or
end of days, no mother or father, no lineage, no heritage. like
unto the Son of God. Yes, sir. He'll be a priest like
Melchizedek. Oh, Aaron's a type of Christ.
Aaron's priesthood and the sons of Levi and all these fellows
who went about the tabernacle offering sacrifices, but they're
not a real good type of Christ, just a pretty good type. Melchizedek's
a good type of Christ. Study Melchizedek. He'll be a
prophet like Moses and a priest like Melchizedek and a king like
David. A king like David. And do you
know something? NOBODY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT EVER HAILED THOSE
THREE OFFICES. WE HAD PROPHETS, WE HAD PRIESTS,
AND WE HAD KINGS. BUT WE NEVER HAD A PROPHET, PRIEST,
AND KING IN ONE. WE GOT ONE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD SAID HE'LL BE A PROPHET,
PRIEST, AND KING. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE'LL FULFILL
EVERY OLD TESTAMENT TYPE. WHEN THEY PUT THE BLOOD ON THE
DOORPOST IN EGYPT, CALLED IT THE PASSOVER. CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER. Whoever this Messiah is, whoever
this Christ is, whoever this one is who is coming, he'll be
our Passover. And then the rock in the wilderness,
that rock's Christ. when it was smitten and gave
forth water. He was smitten on the cross and
gave forth life, the living water. The brazen serpent lifted up.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on Him
should never perish but have everlasting life. The manna,
the bread from heaven, He said, Moses gave you that bread, but
you had to gather some the next day and the next day and the
next day. I'm the living bread. He that eats of this bread will
never hunger again. Just one feast. And then he's
the tabernacle. A body hast thou prepared me.
He tabernacled among us. Moses wrote of him. Abraham saw
his day. All the believers of the Old
Testament look for him who's coming. And they died in faith,
not having received the promise, not having seen His coming, but
believing that He would. But they were ever once saved
by looking to Christ. That's what the Old Testament
says. It says it in prophecy. It says it in promise. It says
it in picture and type, in the Passover, the tabernacle, the
scapegoat, in the atonement, in the priesthood, in the prophetical
office, in the kingly reign of David and wise men. He says,
somebody's coming, who will be all these things in one, who
will meet all our needs by one offering, who will satisfy all
of God Almighty's law and justice and honor by one obedience. He's
coming. Somebody's coming. And I'll tell
you, you can watch old Abel go to his altar and put the blood
on the mercy, on the altar there, and he's saying somebody's coming.
Somebody's coming. Well, then we turn to the four
gospels. And the four Gospels, what do
they say? They declare that someone has come. someone has come. Old John the Baptist, he was
the last of the Old Testament prophets, somebody said, and
he was languishing down there in prison. He'd had a short,
brief ministry. He'd pointed out Christ and he'd
said, that's the Lamb of God. I saw in bare record, this is
the Son of God. I saw heaven open and a dove
of sin, the Holy Spirit of sin in the form of a dove. And I
said, that's the Christ, that's the Messiah. But he's sitting
down there in prison and he had his doubts. His mind began to
doubt. He said, this is not just working
out like old human logic thinks it ought to work out. And so
he sent two of his disciples down there to where the Lord
Jesus Christ was. And he said, now you go down
there and ask him, and tell you what you ask him. You ask him
this, are you he that should come? The whole scripture says
someone's coming. Are you that someone? Are you
he that should come? Or do we look for another? How
do we look for another? Well, John, John, lift up your
ears. Let the angels of God answer
that question. Are you he that should come?
Are you the Messiah? Are you the someone? The angels
of God came to Mary and whispered in her ear and said, you're going
to have a son. She said, I don't know a man.
They said, you're going to have a son without the aid of a man.
The Holy Ghost will come upon you. The power of God will overshadow
you, and that holy thing born of you shall be called the Son
of God. The same angel went over there to Joseph and said, Don't
be afraid to marry Mary. She's with child of the Holy
Ghost, and you'll call His name Jesus. He's Emmanuel, God with
us. They went out there to the hillside
and spoke to the shepherds, and they said, Go down there and
Bethlehem unto you is born this day in the city of David, the
Savior, Christ the Lord. Let the father himself answer
you, John. The father spoke from heaven
on two occasions and said, This is my son. This is my son. This is someone. This is he who
should come. Let the works that he does answer
you, John. The blind see, the deaf hear,
the lame walk, the dead are raised. Be not faithless, but believe.
Let the scripture answer you. He died for our sins according
to the scriptures. He was buried and rose again
according to the scriptures. IF THOSE WITNESSES ARE NOT ENOUGH,
JOHN, LET NATURE ANSWER YOU." THE WIND STOPPED AT HIS COMMAND,
STOOD OUT THERE ON THE BOW OF THAT LITTLE SHIP WHILE THE WIND
WAS HOWLING AND DASHING AGAINST THAT SHIP AND LIFTING THE WAVES
FIVE AND SIX AND EIGHT FEET HIGH, AND HE SAID, YOU BE STILL. AND
THAT WIND LAID DOWN AT HIS FEET LIKE A SHEPHERD DOG OBEDIENTLY.
THE WATER HELD HIM UP WHEN HE WALKED ON IT, AND THE FISH BROUGHT
A COIN TO PAY HIS TAXES. I LIKE THAT. Our Lord was gonna
pay his taxes, and he told one of the disciples, said, go down
there and pull a fish out of the sea, and he'll have a coin
in his mouth and go pay my taxes. That fish had kept that coin
for our Lord's taxes. And then the bread, he touched
the bread, and it multiplied, and he fed 5,000 people with
five loaves and two fish. The sun refused to shine when
he hung on that cross, and when he died, the rocks shook, and
the earth shook, and the graves opened. And even his own grave
opened, death, and the grave couldn't hold him. Up from the
grave he arose with a mighty triumph over his foes. He arose
a victor over the dark domain, and he lives forever with his
saints to reign. He Let Simeon answer you. Simeon said, I've seen thy salvation.
Let Thomas answer you. And all the doubting Thomases
of many years, my Lord and my God, tell it here, tell it there,
tell it wherever God gives you an ear, someone has come. Someone has come who meets every
jot and tittle of those prophecies and promises and types which
say someone's coming. someone's coming. And I'll tell
you this, whatever Messiah you follow, whatever Messiah you
worship, whatever Messiah in which you trust, He better fulfill
every testimony, every prophecy, and every picture. Our Lord was
talking to the woman at the well, and she finally just broke down.
She couldn't handle the things He dealt with and the things
He asked her, and finally she just broke down, and she said,
well, the Messiah's coming. And when he comes, he'll tell
us all things. And our Lord looked at her and
he said, I that speak to thee am he, I am. And he said on another
occasion, he said, if you believe not that I am he, you'll die
in your sins. My friend, that's my message.
That's my message. someone's coming that's what
the whole old testament says that's what it's taken up with
that's what it's all about someone's coming and the four gospels say
he has come he has come all right let me close this message with
this the epistles declare that someone will come again after
our lord died on that cross and was buried and rose again he
gathered his disciples about him and he blessed them And then
he was taken up, as they watched him, taken up into heaven, ascended
back to the Father. And while he went up into heaven
and they stood there looking and gazing, those men in white
apparel stood beside them, angels of God, and they said, Ye men
of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same
Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come
in like manner as you've seen him go. He said that to him before
he was crucified. He said to him, Let not your
heart be troubled. You believe in God? Believe also in me. I
am God. He that hath seen me hath seen
the Father. I and my Father are one. I go to prepare a place
for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again
and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there ye may
be also. Hebrews 9 speaks of three appearances
of Christ for believers. It says in verse 26, three appearances. It says in verse 26, once in
the end of the world hath he appeared in the flesh as a man,
tempted in all points under the law, all these things, to put
away sin by the sacrifice of himself. He appeared on the earth
in the flesh to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Verse 24, Christ is now entered into heaven itself. Now. TO APPEAR IN THE PRESENCE OF
GOD FOR US AS OUR FORERUNNER, AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE, AS OUR
SURETY, AS OUR MEDIATOR, AS OUR ADVOCATE, THE ONE ADVOCATE BETWEEN
GOD AND MEN. NOW WATCH VERSE 28, CHRIST WAS
ONCE OFFERED TO BEAR THE SIN OF MANY, AND UNTO THEM THAT LOOKED
FOR HIM SHALL HE APPEAR THE SECOND TIME WITHOUT SIN UNTO SALVATION. HE'S COMING BACK. LORD CAME THE
FIRST TIME AS THE LAMB." BOTH OF THESE COMINGS ARE TAUGHT IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT. BOTH ARE... AND THAT'S HOW THE JEWS GOT THEM
MIXED UP. TALKED ABOUT HIS COMING AS A
LAMB AND COMING AS A LION AND COMING AS A SERVANT AND COMING
AS A KING, AND THEY HADN'T EVEN SEEN HIM COME THE FIRST TIME,
AND THEY JUST GOT ALL CONFUSED ABOUT IT. BUT HE CAME THE FIRST
TIME AS A LAMB TO PUT AWAY SIN. HE WILL RETURN TO THIS EARTH
AS THE LION. I CAN'T TELL YOU WHEN HE'S COMING.
A MAN WOULD BE A FOOL TO TRY TO DO THAT, ONLY THAT HE WILL.
I CAN'T TELL YOU THE EVENTS SURROUNDING HIS COMING. I DO NOT KNOW. I
DO KNOW THIS. I DO KNOW WHEN HE COMES, TIME
WILL END. I DO KNOW WHEN HE COMES, THE
DEAD WILL BE RAISED. AND WE WHAT ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN
SHALL BE CHANGED IMMEDIATELY. WE SHALL ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL
ALL BE CHANGED. THERE'LL BE A NEW HEAVEN AND
A NEW EARTH. I KNOW THAT, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND I
KNOW THAT CHRIST WILL REIGN FOREVER, AND WE'LL REIGN WITH HIM. AND
I KNOW THE WICKED ARE GONNA BE JUDGED, AND THEY'RE GONNA BE
PUT WHERE THEY CAN DO NO MORE HARM. AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
MUST REIGN UNTIL HE PUTS EVERY ENEMY UNDER HIS FEET, AND THE
LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH IN ANY FORM, IN WHATEVER
FORM. THERE'S GOING TO BE A NEW HEAVEN
AND A NEW EARTH. THERE'S GOING TO BE A NEW HEAVEN
AND A NEW EARTH. AND I KNOW THIS MUCH. I KNOW THAT GOD ALMIGHTY
HAS DECREED AND DETERMINED THAT THAT SOMEONE WHOM HE SAID WOULD
COME, AND THAT SOMEONE WHO DID COME, AND THAT SOMEONE WHO'S
COMING AGAIN SHALL HAVE ALL PREEMINENCE. all preeminence, and one day
in heaven, earth, and under the earth," if that means hell, wherever,
but in heaven, earth, and under the earth, every knee of angels
and men and demons, every knee will bow, and every tongue will
confess, THAT HE'S LORD TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER. AND
THAT'S MY MESSAGE TO YOU. MY FRIEND, LET ME TELL YOU THIS.
I HEAR PREACHERS SAYING, WHY DON'T YOU MAKE JESUS CHRIST YOUR
LORD? WELL, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THAT
TO YOU BECAUSE HE'S ALREADY YOUR LORD. GOD BEAT YOU TO IT. HE'S
EVERMAN'S LORD. HE'S LORD OF THE DEAD AND THE
LIVING. HERE'S THE QUESTION. THE QUESTION'S NOT IF YOU'LL
MAKE HIM LORD, IF YOU'LL CROWN HIM LORD, IF YOU'LL BOW TO HIM
AS LORD. THE QUESTION'S WHEN. WHEN. either now, in submission, in
faith, in surrender, in receiving Him, or wherever, in heaven or
hell, whatever needs going back, He's Lord. Now we have two messages
on this tape. I preached one last Sunday on
how to recognize God's elect. And then this one this morning
on the preacher and his message. Send $2 donation, we'll mail
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next Lord's Day, may God bless you, is my prayer.